Fall 2001MKA Review Magazine

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The Montclair Kimberley Academy

C over Honorary Trustee John Garippa; Ken Gibson, senior member o f the facultyU and students Tori O’Kane and Lood Olibrice on the newly rebuilt Van Brunt Field.

Back cover: Cougar and fan at Cougar Pride Day.

C ontents From the H eadm aster............................. 1 M K A -m ail...............................................2 The Nobel V isitor................................... 3 Trustees - New Board, Farewells......... 4 Once Upon a Place ............................... 5 Thoughts on Teaching: Then and N o w ........................................ 6 Notes Around M K A ............................. 10 Alumni Reflections............................... 16 Cougar Sports........................................ 18 Athletic Hall of Fame V I......................21 From the Alumni A ssociation.............23 Distinguished Alumni A w a rd .............28 Class N otes............................................ 29

R e v ie w E d it o r s Christie Austin Judy Polonofsky

C o n t r ib u t o r s Debbie Kozak Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76

P h o t o C r e d it s Christie Austin Stanley Batan Philip Cantor Jeff Goldman David Hollander Dan Katz !

F Debbie Kozak Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76 Steve Tober flj Published twice yearly by: The Montclair Kimberley Academy 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042 973/746-980Q. FAX: 973/783-5777 www.montclairkimberley.org 1 1 Entered as third class matter at Montclair NJ 07042 Design: Gemini Communications, West Caldwell, NJ Printed on recycled paper

The MKA Alumni Association is an organization o f all men and women who have attended the Upper School. Its purpose is to make known to MKA the ideas, interests, and concerns o f alumni and to infonn alumni o f thé accomplish­ ments and objectives o f MKA. The Alumni Council is the governing Board, a representative group elected at the Association’s annual meeting to sponsor events and activities linking alumni with their alma mater.

A l UMM M ^O CIA TlOhf C o u n c il 2001-2002 Lis£%S. Aufzien ^76 TobyBizub ’83 ■ DaniellCarson ’83 > Robert Cottingham Jr. ’84"'"" Erin Cuffe^Crawford ’74 Lori Windolf Crispó ’7&, President Ralph DeLouis ’02 Lawrence P. Duca ’79 Susan Cole Furlong ’78, Vice President Janine Garland ’82 Richard G. Jenkins ’77 Alex Joerger ’95 India Hayes Larrier ’80 Dara Marmon ’91 Mark D. McGowan ’85 Eric F.â. Pai ’79 Joshua H. Raymond ’89, Secretary Scott Rumana ’83 Denise Sarkor ’03 Alec P. Schwartz ’88, Treasurer Patricia Shean Worthington ’74, Executive Vice President Peter R. Greer, Headmaster Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs Christie Austin, Alumni Director Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76, Director o f Alumni Giving and Planned Giving

A d v is o r y C o u n c il Martha Bonsai Day ’74 Peter S. McMullen ’77 Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ’83 J. Dean Paolucci ’73

B o ard o f T rustees

2001-2002 Linda D. Almeida Lori Windolf Crispo ’78 Karen Dias-Martin ^ A .J . (Penny) Finkle Michael P. Frasco Peter R. Greer, Headmaster Alice M. Hirsh, Vice President Michael V. Johnson Peter S. McMullen ’77 Eiac F. Pai ’79 jfClarence Morrison, f Secretary , Anne E. Muenster Marisabel R. Raymond Michael L. Rodburg, Treasurer Rudolph G. Schlobohm ’74 • Newton B. Schott, Jr., President Jolinda D:. Smith, i Vi,ee President Robert L. Tortoriello David L. Turock DenisC G. Wagner John T. Weisel

H o no r a r y T r ustees Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 John L. Garippa Susan H. Ruddick James S. Vandermade ’35

A d v is o r y T r u s t e e s Edwin J. Delattre Keith D. Phillips Barry W. Ridings ’70 Herbert H. Tate Jr. ’71

M em ber: Alumni Program Council of Independent Schools (APC) Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) New Jersey Association of Independent Schools (NJAIS) MKA complies with all state and federal anti-discrimination laws.

IN M EM O R IA M ^ s the Review is on the press, The Montclair Kimberley Academy community has been rocked by the terrorist tragedies of September 11, 2001. The day touched everyone, from alumni to current students, their families, faculty, and friends of MKA. We could see the smoke o f the Twin Towers from the Upper School.

We know we have lost members of our community, and send our heartfelt condolences to their families and friends. We will memorialize them in the spring magazine.

In sorrow, Dr. Peter Greer, Headmaster

D ear F riends o f M K A , T his sum m er one o f our visiting scholars com m ented, “G ood things cry o u t to be shared, a n d th a t is th e essen ce o f g o o d teaching. ” T hat com m ent rem inded m e o f one o f m y fond m em ories o f college, art history courses. A fter sitting through a stirring explanation o f a G iotto or a G oya painting, I w ould leave class searching for a friend w ith w hom I could share m y new know ledge about art.

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L e t’s pretend that the cover o f R eview is a Newton Schott, President o f the Board o f Trustees; Business Manager Richard Sunshine; and Trustee Peter w ork o f art. A llow m e to be your McMullen ’I f contributed indefatigable efforts behind the scenes to make the renovation o f Van Brunt Field a reality. professor and to explain w hat that art piece depicts. P erhaps y ou w ill be stirred to its com m unity o f learners. In this issue o f R eview , K en by the hidden m eanings as you look closely at tw o studenttells us stories about the A cadem y as he has lived it. athletes and tw o adults. T here is m uch to be explained.

T he backdrop is our new ly renovated Van B runt Field. The H onorary Trustee John G arippa, form er President o f the original field had becom e w orn - it had to be reseeded each B oard o f Trustees, represents those parents and alum ni w ho y ear and a com bination o f rain and play w ould turn the have thought about M K A fir s t as the place to contribute field into a bog. M K A could do m uch better b y its players. needed funds for w orthy program s and facilities for our T he new field is w ider, the end zones no longer go uphill, students. John w as the driving force behind the concept and the new bleachers are m ore spectator-friendly. The and fundraising for the new Van B runt Field. H is reasoning “tu r f ’ is A stroplay, n o t A stroturf. It is fa u x grass, rubber is sim ple: others in the p ast contributed so that his child grass w ith a safety pad and a unique drainage system w ould have a superior education; it is n o w tim e for current underneath. T here can be four inches o f rain and the parents and alum ni to give back so th at our children and players can play or practice the very n ext day. T he Corps future students w ill b e the recipients o f special program s o f E ngineers at W est P oint ju s t decided on the sam e field at and facilities. In th is light, the new Van B runt Field you their distinguished site. are looking at as an art piece represents the m agnanim ity o f several o f our parents and a few alum ni. A ristotle w as T he tw o student-athletes represent the scores o f athletes convinced th at the “m agnificent m an” w as like an artist, w ho w ill use th e new field each year for football, b o y s’ and “for he can see w hat is fitting and spends large sum s g irls’ soccer, and b o y s’ and girls’ lacrosse. N o longer w ill tastefully.” th ey have to m iss practices or to have gam es rescheduled because o f an unplayable field.

T he tw o adults represent the best o f M K A . K en G ibson is beginning his 36th and final year at M K A as a pow erful teacher o f history and econom ics. K en has coached and been a loyal spectator at athletic events at Van B runt Field.

K en stands for those faculty m em bers w ho have m ade M K A their career and hom e. K en represents all the M K A faculty on w hose backs the school thrives. T he B oard o f T rustees has determ ined that this year the m ajor funding focus is faculty com pensation endow m ent and benefits.

This is n o t ju s t another funding cam paign. T he pool o f quality teaching candidates continues to shrink around the nation. In addressing the challenges associated w ith increased public and private school com petition for the sam e teachers, M K A m ust be given the edge to retain its excellent faculty and to attract new and outstanding faculty

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M K A is n o t a college or university w ith an endow m ent o f billions o f dollars. M K A is a superb and steady independent day school th at m ust flourish at a tim e o f our co u n try ’s educational confusion and upset. M K A students are w orth the efforts o f John G arippa and those w ho w orked so h ard behind the scenes pictured on this page.

M K A students are fortunate to b e tau g h t and m entored by the likes o f K en G ibson. We m ust ensure there are m ore K en G ibsons w ho are attracted to our classroom s. I ask th at you becom e an eager contributor w hen the cam paign for faculty com pensation endow m ent gets underw ay later in the fall.

T hat is our painting.

W ith best w ishes, Dr. P eter R. G reer H eadm aster

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M K A M ail Dear Dr. Greer, H ere I sit just having cut 900K from my budget because o f the economic crisis, wondering w hat it will take to teach Turks to plan, take attendance, keep to the daily schedule, not schedule games and rehearsals during the class d ay .. .and I get this gorgeous school magazine with a great cover and article about a scholar-athlete....

Alan Fraker, Director o fEnka Schools, Istanbul and Adapazari, Turkey [bilingual, independent schools] Thank you for the latest issue o f the Review . I was delighted to note that the school's leadership in character education was recognized w ith a Blue Ribbon Schools Special Emphasis A w ard... .Less celebratory was the news that you have now reached the age where you are easily outrun by an 8th grade g irl.. .1 was sent to the Principal's office on many occasions ju st for running in the hall!

John Silber, Chancellor, Boston University The 7th grade production o f M acBeth was fabulous. [Director] Christian Ely is extraordinarily talented and is a great asset to MKA; w e are so fortunate to have him w ork with our kids. I think the Shakespeare project exemplifies the best qualities o f an MKA education: Every kid is involved; they learn in depth about Shakespeare from many perspectives; they have fun doing so; and they do high-quality work. In our case, our children have developed a deep appreciation o f Shakespeare as a result o f participating in the project.

To the Editor: Question: Do you have any courses directed at film and/or photographic history? I am very troubled by the fact that so m any young people have no conception o f history, let alone film and the arts.

Helen Drysdale ’48x, photographer I am happy to say, yes, w e do have a full-year, 6-credit course called A rt and H istory o f the Am erican Film , w hich “surveys the history, evolution and criticism o f the A m erican film fro m the turn o f the century to the present. The course exam ines the social, p o litica l, technological and cultural fo rces that exist in the film industry. ” Casablanca and G ardner’s Home o f a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg, July 1863 are required study in the U pper School as p a rt o f our Core Works. M KA also offers courses in M ass Com m unication, M edia R oundtable, M edia Production D esign, and P hotography I and II, and this year, L earning to See, w hich is a distance-learning offering taught by B oston U niversity faculty.

Editor’s note: In response to the “Fourth Generation Legacy ” article in the spring Review, Janet Cook Phillips, Class o f 1954, sent her fam ily 's four-generation lineage: Janet Simpson Scott Cook Kimberley 1928 - mother

Rob Bildner, parent

Janet Cook Phillips - Kimberley 1954

Dear Mr. Kleinman [Head o f Campus, Middle School],

Her children at MKA -

The effort to offer a chess program is rewarded in an obvious way when the team brings home a large trophy. B u t.. .in the day-to-day routine o f school life, theEseeds” o f chess interest have taken root.

A s I w aited for [my childrenjgutside school, I overheard two young students talking chess on the swing set. They were reviewing the position o f a knight on the board in a past game.

This is harder than you might think, remembering a position days or weeks later, and attempting to analyze it without the aid o f the board and pieces. It seemed such an “M KA moment.”

Wendy Schacher Finn, parent

Know Your Latin

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An alum na is a female who has attended or has graduated from a particular school; two or more o f them are alumnae. A n alum nus is a male who has attended or has graduated from a particular school; two or more are alumni.

John B. Phillips Jr. ’78 Charles M. Phillips ’8 lx Janet S. Phillips ’85 Douglas C. Phillips ’90x

Grandchildren currently at MKA John B. Phillips III ’09 Margaret H. Phillips ’10

We are delighted to learn o f this uninterrupted four generations o f one fam ily to attend the school.

Janet Simpson Scott Cook ’28 is thus fa r the greatest known progenitor o f TKS/MKA students and alumni.

When we need an adjective to describe their activities, it m alum nal. Now to what is considered m agni m om enti esse: males and females who belong to a coequal alumnal organization are called ALUMNI. But remember (to even things up), everyone’s school is his or her Alm a M ater\ From the June 1975 MKA Alumni News.

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M K A R eview • Fall 2001

The N obel Visitor This spring’s distinguished guest for the PAMKA Lecture Series was internationally renowned statesman Lech Walesa, former President o f Poland, leader o f the Solidarity w orker’s movement, and recipient o f the N obel Peace Prize in 1983.

So many people attended the lecture that M KA opened an adjoining room with television screens to accommodate the overflow.

Walesa was a charismatic speaker, mixing humor with impassioned rhetoric. Though he spoke through a translator, many in the audience understood his Polish. His theme was that the global marketplace is upon us, like it or not. N o longer does land give wealth; technology has opened a whole new era. Borders should be open - both in Europe and on other continents.

He also referred to his place in history.

Walesa, once a shipyard worker, did not intend to become a politician, but conditions under Communism forced him to a leadership role. He might have become a priest, he told the audience. “I came from a God-forsaken place. I only had two beliefs - belief in God and belief

in w hat I was doing.” Then he observed wryly, “For the same thing [beliefs], I was put in jail. For the same thing, I was president. For the same thing, I lost the election.”

The school hosted a reception in his honor beforehand at the H eadm aster’s house, including M KA students and families o f Polish descent. The students prepared for Walesa’s visit by studying Polish history and formulating questions to ask during the lecture. “I wish everyone could have understood him in Polish,” said junior Dagmara Jastrzebska. “H e’s such a powerful speaker.”

Lech Walesa was on a university lecture tour when he came to MKA. In a “small world” note, the evening before, he had spoken at Dartmouth College, whose President’s wife, Susan DeBevoise Wright, is a Kimberley alumna (1965). “I got a kick out o f hearing that the next stop for President Walesa was MKA!” she wrote.

Solidarity Blooms From B ruce Goodman, parent o f E m ily (grade 9) and L ane (grade 6)

Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize recipient andformer President o fPoland, spoke at MKA this spring.

From a letter to H eadm aster P eter Greer fro m ju n io r D agm ara Jastrzebska .. .Having the former President o f Poland

.. .W hile purchasing plants from rareFINDnursery in Jackson, N.J., I was admiring a beautiful plant, named “Solidarity.” The owner, Henry Schannen, treated m e to the story o f its naming.

and a N obel Peace Prize winner come to M KA to speak to the community and being able to talk with him personally at the

... .When he hybridized the plant, he planned to name it for his mother, Wanda Pipchinsky, an émigré from Poland. W hen she learned o f his idea, however, she believed that no one would ever be able to spell it correctly. She asked him to name it in honor o f the Polish labor union, Solidarity. Her comment, “tough people tough plant.”

As I listened to the story I immediately thought o f MKA’s recent speaker from Poland, Lech Walesa. W hen I mentioned that Mr. Walesa had visited M KA in April, Mr. Schannen volunteered to donate a plant in honor o f Mr. Walesa and his mother. I hope it brings the M KA community as m uch visual pleasure as it has brought Mr. Schannen and his family.

N ote: The “Solidarity ' rhododendron has been p la n ted in the Upper School garden.

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dinner reception was very exciting.

The entire evening was an educational and memorable event for my mom and me. In preparing a few questions prior to the day, I read and learned much about Lech Walesa and the state o f Europe, which helped me catch up on my Polish history education! M y m om was also very happy to m eet him and speak Polish with him before his speech presentation. We were certainly very proud that evening.

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From the Board o f Trustees A s I look forw ard to serving another year as P resident o f the B oard o f T rustees o f T he M ontclair K im berley A cadem y, I th an k m y colleagues for their support, h ard w ork, and dedication to our school.

Dr. K aren A. D ias-M artin, E ric F.S. Pai ’79, and Jo h n T. W eisel w ere elected new m em bers o f the class o f 2004.

E lected to serve another term w ere L inda D. A lm eida, A ndree J. Finkle, M ichael P. Frasco, and P eter S. M cM ullen ’77.

Dr. Karen A. Dias-Martin

H onorary T rustees are A ubin Z abriskie A m es ’54, John E. G arippa, Susan H. R uddick, and Jam es S. V anderm ade ’35.

A dvisory T rustees for 2001-2002 are Dr. E dw in J. D elattre, B arry R idings ’70, and H erbert H. Tate ’71.

Welcome New Trustees

EricF.S. Pai

John T. Weisel

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D r. K a r e n A . D ia s -M a rtin is an O B /G Y N practicing in M ontclair. A graduate o f W illiam s C ollege, she studied m edicine at the U niversity o f C incinnati C ollege o f M edicine and com pleted h er residency at L enox H ill H ospital. In addition to being a m em ber o f the M edical Society o f N ew Jersey, the A m erican M edical A ssociation, the A m erican C ollege o f O B /G Y N , and a fellow o f the A m erican B oard o f O B /G Y N , D ias-M artin is a m em ber o f the Jack and Jill o f A m erica N o rth Jersey Chapter. She and h er husband, A lan, have tw o children, one o f w hom , L auren, attends second grade at M K A .

E ric F.S. P a i, an M K A alum nus, Class o f 1979, is a M anaging D irector in the A sset M anagem ent D ivision o f D eutsche Bank. H e graduated Phi B eta K appa, sum m a cum laude from P rinceton U niversity, and received an M B A from H arvard B usiness School. Pai is a m em ber o f the M K A A lum ni Council.

H e and his w ife, Judy, have three children; sons N icholas and A lexander are in first grade and P re-K at Brookside.

J o h n T. W eisel is a p artn er at A ccenture m anagem ent consultants. H e received a b ach elo r’s degree from W estm inster C ollege and an M B A from the U niversity o f M aryland. A certified public accountant, W eisel is a m em ber o f the B oard o f T rustees o f W estm inster C ollege and a trustee o f the M ontclair H istorical Society. H e and his w ife, JoA nn, have tw o sons at M K A , T hom as in th ird grade and P eter in sixth.

Honorary Trustee F or th e first tim e in 12 years, M K A added a new H onorary Trustee. John E. G arippa w as elected in June in w elldeserved recognition o f his outstanding service to M K A for m any years. John, a T rustee for 12 years and the only threeterm P resident o f the B oard, w as a tireless fundraiser and w orker on the D evelopm ent Com m ittee. H e w as also a significant contributor on the Finance and L ong-R ange Planning com m ittees.

We are pleased th at John has accepted this new role, w hich m eans that his skills and services w ill alw ays b e available for MKA.

Retirements G e o rg e W . E g a n w as a m em ber o f the B oard from 1995 to 2001. H e served on m any com m ittees, including Finance, B uildings and G rounds, and L ong-R ange Planning; h e chaired the A uxiliary SubC om m ittee and the Investm ent SubCom m ittee. T he B oard jo in s m e in thanking G eorge for his service to M K A .

K ev in G . Q u in n jo in e d the B oard last year and served diligently on the B uildings and G rounds, E ducational Policy, Finance, and L ong-R ange P lanning com m ittees. K evin resigned from the B oard because he and his fam ily are m oving to the N ew Jersey Shore. We w ill m iss him and w e w ish the w hole Q uinn fam ily w ell on their m ove. N ew ton B. Schott, Jr.

M K A R eview • Fall 2001

Once U pon a Place

by Dr. Bruce Guernsey '62 A year ago last April, I had the mythic experience o f trying to go home again. I was invited back to M ontclair Academy to teach some classes and read some o f my poems to students and faculty.

The school is now, o f course, The M ontclair Kimberley Academy, and I was curious among other things to see w hat coeducation had done for my alma mater. I also couldn’t help wondering on the drive out from Illinois if I would have been the same guy were there girls in school with all us boisterous boys back in the late fifties.

I was flattered to have been invited and looked forward to coming.

1999-2000 was a sabbatical year for me, and I had done a lot o f traveling already, Greece to Alaska.

But they couldn't compare to the excitement I felt about going back to Montclair. After all, it was nearly forty years ago that I lived there.

Would I know my w ay around?

W hat would it be like to drive up Bloomfield Avenue and not see the old Academy building? And from the baseball field would I still hear Coach Van Brunt telling me to “get on my horse” with that yodeling yell o f his, to catch a ball h e’d whacked out o f sight?

Academy are the m ost vivid o f my life, made so by the people who inhabited those now-missing places. Rena Nagelski and M ary Block, John Wellington and Carmen M am ell - how could anyone forget such teachers, or someone like Mr. Jennings and his baritone voice as he sung out, “Take paper, babies,” his zany but dreaded w ay o f announcing a history quiz? I became a teacher m yself because o f people like these, my substitute parents during those years - men like the Phils Stackpole and Smith, wizards o f math and words, respectively. Or that quiet, patient man, Townsend Rawlins, now somewhere in Heaven, I ’m sure, conjugating Latin verbs among the saints.

The Academy building itself had its own ghosts back then, and the groans from that quirky old structure were their many voices. M y friend Jimmy always claimed that the late and legendary Mr. Barras was trapped in the basement and that it w as he tapping for help as the failing radiators banged away all winter, but I didn’t believe him. I do now, however, because those voices without place speak from the noisy halls and busy classrooms o f my memory: like the rising, dramatic voice o f a legend very much alive to all juniors back then. How w e trembled hearing Frank Brogan from that hallowed senior English room at the top o f the stairs, knowing we were next. W hat we didn’t hear, o f course, was how quiet that voice could also be, how like a whisper, a touch.

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The memories got more and more vivid as I drove the interstates east, and for much o f the trip I was back in seventh grade, nervously tying and retying my tie those chilly fall mornings w hen I first started at the Academy. The chill I felt was mostly inside, so small I was among the tall and deep-voiced seniors. They were so confident and I was so scared. A s I drove, I could almost smell the sulfurous odor o f coal that permeated the plaster walls o f the tumbledown classroom building. To this day when I smell it, I get anxious and afraid, just as I did back then, worried I ’d be late for school or maybe do poorly on a test. It w asn’t until I became one o f those seniors m yself that some o f that nervousness w ent away, and some o f it never has.

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But now that old building is gone, as are the rickety gym and Walden House where Mrs. W right and LeRoy M onroe greased our plates at lunch or during recess sold us peanut butter crackers I learned to call “nabs” because the older boys did. W ithout those actual places, how will I connect to my past, I wondered? There’d be no building to revisit, no obvious w ay to measure my own growth, no w ooden stairs to speak again, no cloakroom where a thousand hands had smudged the walls.

Those actual places are no longer out there, but they are certainly in: I could w alk blindfolded through those doors again and find my w ay to Mr. Sharp’s biology lab or Duncan Sinnock’s scribbled blackboard, alive w ith lines and angles. M y six years at M ontclair

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M y trip to M ontclair not only allowed me tim e to dream, but it was also taking me past the place in Pennsylvania where my parents are buried. Thinking this, I suddenly felt that chill again, the little guy in the big school. So easily I ’d added that “s” to “parent,” so without thinking. “But, Mom, how can you be dead?” But it's true, she is: she died the millennium year. A ll that I’d done these special months, all that was coming up on this magical trip to my alma mater, nothing, absolutely nothing was more mysterious, more confiising, than her passing, old and infirm though she was. She’s buried with my father who died many years before, and this would be my first visit to the grave they share.

M y parents exist now only in images, like alumni in the pictures I expected to find on the walls o f the new Academy building. But like those wonderful teachers I had at that original school, they also live on in me as voices, these two best teachers I ever had. So, driving along, I gave them a call. W ho needs a car phone for such conversations? I asked them how they were and they wondered w here I was off to this time.

“H ome,” was all I had to say.

Bruce Guernsey, Professor at Eastern Illinois University, has received the Distinguished Faculty Award, multiple Faculty Excellence awards, and the Illinois Board o f Governors Universities Distinguished Professor Award. Guernsey has received two Senior Fulbright Lectureships, to Greece and Portugal, and is a nationally published poet and essayist.

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by Kenneth D. Gibson, Senior member o f the MKA faculty

I began at the M ontclair Academy on September 1, 1966 as a science master (teacher) with economics as an extra course. I was hired by Philip Anderson, who had recently been appointed Headmaster. People often ask w hy my office is in the science area, not realizing that 35 years ago I started as a science teacher.

M y duties w ent beyond basic teaching. In those days w ith few exceptions every master was expected to coach two sports. All extracurricular w ork was considered part o f one’s basic contract.

This meant that even in the years when I taught six classes, coached two sports, advised the UN club and had an advisor group, it was under my basic contract. For m y first year in 1966-1967,1 received $5,700. It took m any years to reach the peaks o f $10,000 for a year. No one ever thought about the cost o f living or any o f those niceties. In fact new masters to the Academy could not go on the pension program until they had finished their third year.

andcNo The Academy was different in many other ways as well. In 1966 the Academy was a boys’ school for grades seven through twelve.

Brookside was part o f the M ontclair Academy Foundation and was co-ed up through the sixth grade. After the sixth grade, a girl would have to transfer to The Kimberley School while the boys in the class would go on to the Academy. In those days there was little tolerance for young m en who did not follow the rules. I can remember teaching in the Deetjen Science Lecture Hall (now the D rama Lab), and if a student got out o f hand, there was a high stool and a dunce cap in the front left comer. It may not have been PC but it worked. Jacket and tie were required attire unless it was the hottest o f days. That dress code was true for all masters and boys. There were no exceptions for anyone, whether going to class or traveling to a sports event miles away.

Between coaching, teaching, clubs, and advisor groups, masters got to know the boys very well.

Within these halls...

The Academy was a very different place in those days. One tends to forget that the Academy (the Upper School Campus o f today) was constructed in units. In 1966 the science building had just been completed. In fact, when I arrived, they were working to get the chemistry equipment out o f the alcove at the end o f the humanities building, where chemistry had been taught since moving up the hill to the new campus. They were in the process o f getting the offices and all the new labs set up for the school year.

The new gym and the art center were still to come. Inside, the A cadem y was physically more open than it is today. The lounges o f the offices were open to the hallway; there were no walls closing them in and on either side o f the offices were open rows o f study carrels.

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The school was much smaller, with fewer than 300 boys and about 30 on the faculty.

School started after the 15th o f September, which m eant that w e got our first paycheck before we had taught even one class, but the shock o f how little you received came through regardless o f when you received that first check. The students came together each morning for announcements, a Bible reading, a hymn, and the last verse o f A m erica. It is hard to forget (Rev.) John N oble’s attempt to kill the heavy religious aspect o f morning meetings, as he read day after day through each o f the plagues suffered by the Hebrews before leaving Egypt. The school was becoming more diversified all the time, yet the boys had to buy the P ilgrim H ym nal. Lunch was served family style with a m aster at the head o f each table.

After Ed Van Brunt said the prayer, the master served the dishes to his table. The students rotated to different tables every few weeks, so by the end o f the year, every master had had the opportunity to m eet and talk with every student. I remember one lunchtime when the students were unhappy with the arrangement and one young m an spoke up that he liked our family-style luncheons as they were the only meals o f the w eek that he did not eat alone. The table quieted down as that sank in.

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The Academy w as blessed with many fine sports programs. For example, soccer, under Coach Ian M ost o f the boys took part in Naismith, was another strong some aspect o f the sports fall sport that had done very program. In those days we well for a number o f years. only played other private In the winter, swimming, schools, and there was a wrestling, basketball and greater understanding o f the fencing were very strong. reality o f having mid-year The wrestling mats would be and final exams and ending Ken Gibson with daughters Heather ’84 and Elizabeth Gibson Boyer '82 in June, spread out in the gym and when the Class o f2001 dedicated their yearbook to him. Ken received the by the first o f June. We had a that year under Coach Barry Founders ’Cup Award in 1994for excellence in teaching. full w eek between each Nazarian, we won 10 out o f season so the boys had a time 11 duel matches. This was to get themselves together also a year with a basketball and maybe catch up on some game between Kimberley and the Academy with the boys having to work. Classes beginning later in September meant that the sports w ear boxing gloves for the game. Even with the game played program had a real pre-season. under girls’ rules, which were very different in those days, the M y first day at the Academy, I headed for the “Bam ” or “Sports boys’ varsity team came out on top. Baseball under Coach Ed Van Palace,” the old gym, to start m y first day o f football practice as Brunt and tennis under Coach Bob Hemmeter had many years o f one o f Carmen M am ell’s assistant coaches. To this day Carm en is excellence. For a heavily amateur coaching staff, the Academy did an inspiration to many o f us who had the privilege o f working very w ell and the boys got a solid experience in athletic under him for so many years. The coaches met every Wednesday competition. night with the Football Fathers for films. They were a strong group The Academy was more than academics and sports. Wonderful who helped the boys have the little extras the athletic budget could fine arts activities were held each year, many in conjunction with not handle. As a football coach, I will never forget game day that the Kimberley School. In writing o f the past, I owe an apology to started with toast and eggs, except for before the N ewark game the many fine and excellent teachers and wonderful students who when w e got stea k and eggs. In 1967, spirits ran high before the attended The Kimberley School. Our students had far m ore contact annual N ew ark football game. In the dying days o f the old Bam with Kimberley than most o f the masters did. Each year, from well the entire roof was covered with graffiti instructing our teams to before m y time, there was the K-A play, later to become the winter “Kill Newark,” “M aul ’em,” “Beat N A ,” and “N ail Newark.” After musical. M y first year the play was “D irty Work A t The the Bam was ripped down, students used the old shed to express Crossroads” with a lot o f melodrama done with a flair. M any a their emotions. N o tim e more so than the night Bob Hemmeter fine production came from the direction o f Bob Hemmeter and died and the words “We V U Hemmie” faced heaven from the roof M arilyn Faden. They traded o ff the role o f director for a number o f the shed. o f years, putting out one fine play after another. The two glee In the spring, I had some good years coaching the field events clubs got together for the Annual Kimberley-Academy Glee Club (later as head coach) w ith the track team. M any trips to the Concert under the direction o f N ixon Bicknell and Wallace Coursen Fieldston School and the N ew York School for the D eaf along with - certainly a joy to lift the spirits around the ides o f M arch after a practices in Brookdale Park kept us on the road m ost o f the time. long winter. Charles Goetz, o f the English Dept., for a number o f There were m any stories from the track meets at Fieldston, years put on outstanding “personal” interpretations o f some o f including the time we sent the manager to Burger King with Shakespeare’s best. Joe Kemer, fresh back from the Robert separate little envelopes for each player’s order and the cashier Academy in Turkey, put out a summer reading list like none seen fled, or the night the bus broke down as w e were leaving and, before or since, how m uch it represented the best o f the current much to the despair o f Nixon Bicknell, key members o f the choms avant-garde literature. N ancy and I looked forward to his list each arrived only in tim e for the last song o f the Spring Concert. year, and read all the assigned literature.

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The family Between coaching, teaching, clubs, and advisor groups, masters got to know the boys very well. Masters were invited at different times to the homes o f various students to have dinner w ith the family.

Being a smaller school, there was a rather strong working relationship with many o f the parents, even o f boys you did not teach.

Then as now the Academy was blessed w ith a wonderful and loving faculty. In my first year at MA, w e had a variety o f countries represented on the faculty w ith masters from Scotland, France and The Netherlands as w ell as a number o f Latin American countries. On January 24th there was a Robert Bum s night with one o f the students, Keith Morton, piping in the Haggis. Bob Hemmeter was History D epartment Chair. M aybe it was because Bob was such a great educator, but more likely because he was such a wonderful person, w e developed a strong and lasting friendship that continued right to the end o f his life. (Thank you Gordy [Carlisle] for your talents that allowed Hemmie never to leave the Academy so long as his picture hangs in our front hallway.) Many top-notch teachers came on board during my first few years. George Hrab came to us from Dwight Englewood bringing much more than his talents in PE and on the athletic fields. Here is a true Renaissance man with interests and abilities in music, art, drama, and literature. Can anyone forget him after hearing his morning meeting announcements? A nother was Dr. Blair, who signed Fidel Castro’s high school diploma. One could hear him ranting down the hall from the history-language lounge how any educated student could be so ignorant as to not know the Spanish writer Unamuno.

M ore wonderful faculty came later. I can still remember the gloomy day Bob Hemmeter and I attended the N ew Jersey Association o f Independent Schools meeting at Rutgers Prep. It was late in the afternoon but we decided to stay and hear a talk by a young man ju st back from Africa who had been in the Peace Corps. He was telling about his experiences and showing a number o f artifacts he had brought back with him. N ear the end o f the talk, Bob and I nodded to each other and as soon as he was done w e asked him if he would be interested in a job teaching at a north Jersey school. As they say, the rest o f the story is history, w ith the years o f service John Rabke has given to the Academy.

The faculty was, as it is, very close. At Christmas tim e the traditional party was held in the library with the lights o f N ew York City in the background. After the flaming plum pudding had been served in the darkened room, Bob Hemmeter would move to the piano and Calvin M atzke or Tom Adair would start the singing.

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male. A t that tim e w e had a “w ives’ club” w hich met fairly regularly and this brought our children together for parties, swimming and other activities. M y daughter Elizabeth still has the Ukrainian egg that M yra Hrab helped N ancy to create for Easter many years ago. Even though the children from that era are now grown up and spread out in every direction, there is still a bond that comes from those early years together.

I personally cannot express in words w hat the faculty o f the Academy has m eant to m e through good times and bad over my years both at M A and MKA. I once described my family as an Academy family as at the tim e my daughters Elizabeth and Heather had graduated from MKA and my wife N ancy was the librarian at Brookside. Time has moved on, but the A cadem y’s service to youth has never changed.

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W hen I arrived at MKA in 1990, teachers like K en Gibson were approaching a quarter century o f service to the school. I remember the opening faculty meeting that year. I was in awe when N ixon Bicknell and John N oble were honored w ith a standing ovation and a commemorative clock for having completed their 25th year o f service to MKA. I couldn’t imagine surviving my first year o f teaching, so I certainly couldn’t imagine spending 25 years teaching in one place. Twenty-five years seemed like a lifetime.

Now, as I enter my 12th year as part o f the MKA community, a number o f my colleagues have also passed that remarkable quartercentury mark, including K en Gibson, o f course, and Joan Grevatt, George Hrab, Judy Nesbit, Calvin M atzke, John Rabke, Vivi Greenspan, Elvoid Christmas, Bob Sinner, Pat Dancy and Sandy Lonsinger. Still more will celebrate that milestone at the opening faculty meeting this fall. Indeed, it seems impossible that I ’m almost halfway to that quarter-century m ark m yself (and still considered a relatively new member o f the M KA community!).

It was June when M KA hired me. The Upper School was still reeling from the death o f the beloved Bob Hemmeter at the beginning o f May. I filled in a last-minute opening in the English Department. I had never taught before and felt lucky that they couldn’t ask me to teach a demonstration lesson because classes w ere already out for the summer.

I began teaching at MKA as a newlywed, barely married two months. The honeymoon ended early. W hen I w asn’t preparing a lesson, talking to a student, or working with the newspaper staff (my extracurricular commitment that seemed like a second job), I was grading papers. Grading papers was a morning, noon and night activity; it ate up weekends. Sunday nights were often

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'A m , A sleepless, as the creative tension and adrenaline for the coming week generated insomnia (my conversations w ith Calvin Matzke assured m e that this was not ju st a “new teacher” phenomenon that I would soon outgrow).

I was committed to being w hat the vast majority o f my high school teachers were not - dedicated. M y husband soon began to wonder whether I had married him or MKA. Surviving on an M KA teacher’s salary was another part o f the challenge. My starting salary did not have the benefit o f MKA’s recent efforts to improve faculty compensation. Indeed, my decision to teach was something I could not discuss with m ost o f my high school and college friends who had gone on to be doctors or lawyers or business gurus. They saw no logic in m y seeking a teaching job. They obviously did not understand the intangible rewards o f teaching.

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planning tips to medical advice (the first year o f teaching is like entering D ante’s Inferno when it comes to germs and sickness!). In fact, the willingness o f all o f the department members, new and veteran, to talk about teaching and to share ideas made the school special. I have also watched that sense o f collegiality grow cross-campus as MKA has cemented its identity as a unified school composed o f three distinct campuses.

In addition, M KA has made an unusual commitment to faculty development.

W hen I was first hired, I was told that MKA would be sending me to a summer workshop on how to teach writing.

Karen Newman is Dean o f Studies. She received the W hen that workshop was canceled, they 1997 Founders ’Cup Award. sent me to a weeklong workshop on curriculum design, led by a national expert. I attended with Barbara Mamchur, a truly master teacher, and discovered only upon arrival that the rest o f the participants were department chairpersons and other administrators from diverse schools across the country.

Rewards N eedless to say, I felt a little out o f place with only one year o f teaching behind And, at MKA, there are so m any intangible me, but that workshop marked the rewards. The daily w ork with motivated and beginning o f my interest in curriculum enthusiastic students is reward in itself. and curriculum design. M KA is Sharing in students’ inspirations and aspirations certainly committed to keeping teachers on the cutting edge o f their fuels M KA teachers’ passions for teaching. A nd former students disciplines and pedagogy, and has invested in faculty development who share the successes o f their adult lives give us the spirit to face by offering workshops on campus and funding outside study each new challenge. W hen a former student calls to say that he opportunities. In addition, thanks to PAMKA, faculty members can ju st opened his medical school acceptance letter, or that she is explore other interests that enhance their professional growth graduating as valedictorian o f her college class, or that she has through the Faculty Trust Grants. decided to pursue a career in acting, or that they are publishing A s I look toward my son entering Brookside as a Pre-K student articles in E bony and N ew sw eek, no jo y could be greater than next year, I know ju st w hat a special community he w ill become a celebrating with them. A nd when a former student ju st calls to say part of. He will have some o f the finest teachers in the country “Hi,” well, that’s every bit as motivating. teachers who have given up the alluring public school salaries and pension plans because their passion is teaching and they find true O f course, the collegiality that M KA fosters also makes it a great fulfillment for that passion at MKA. place to teach and to grow, both personally and professionally.

W hen I arrived at MKA, teachers no longer received their course I have no doubt that M KA will continue to attract wonderful and room assignments and had to make great things happen teachers. As I watch some o f my best and brightest students without any further guidance or support. I was lucky enough to choose careers in education, I hope that some will come home to enter during the more enlightened years when new teachers were MKA. Perhaps some day my children will be lucky enough to assigned mentors, as they are now. I relied on my mentor, Patty have them as teachers, too.

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Notes Around MKA A t the y ear’s final faculty meeting, Newton Schott, President o f the Board o f Trustees, thanked the faculty and staff for an outstanding year. Headmaster Peter Greer gave a state-of-the-school address and thanked departing and retiring faculty and staff, wishing them good luck in their next endeavors.

Retiringfaculty member Bill Brown with daughter Laura ’01 and his wife, Debbie, at 2001 Commencement.

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The Headmaster is very proud to announce....

•Jessica M oses ’03 placed fourth in the discipline o f behavioral science at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in California in May, at which hundreds o f secondary students from all over the world presented their scientific investigations. Jessica won $500 and the offer o f a scholarship in recognition o f her efforts. She and M KA faculty member Warren Marchioni w ent all expenses paid for representing N ew Jersey. Marchioni reports, “It is especially rewarding that in ju st the third year o f the Independent Research Study program at MKA, w e had one o f our students reach this level o f achievement.”

•A m y Klein ’03 won the medicine/health category at the N ew Jersey Academy o f Sciences Fair in April. Her project was !si‘The correlation between a runner’s stride technique and speed.” She will represent the state at the American Association for the Advancement o f Sciences meeting in Boston in February.

•Phelps Lambert, who graduated in the Class o f 2001, was senior author o f a full paper in the serious journal o f U M D N J’s M edical School, Research Com m unications in M olecular P athology and Pharm acology. Rare for a high school student to publish, the paper was deemed so outstanding that the school’s Sigma Xi Society (scientific honor society o f colleges and universities) inducted Phelps into membership at the M.D./Ph.D. Class Day exercises in May. Phelps com pleted a second full paper at Mt. Sinai M edical School during MKA’s M ay Term.

•K erry Bishe ’02 w ent to the National Speech Tournament for the second year in a row, this time to Oklahoma City. Kerry was N ew Jersey state champion in Dramatic Interpretation (an 8-10 minute monologue) and made the first cut to 60 o f 213 students at the national tournament.

Steve D ’Amico ’01 placed sixth in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the States.

From address by Pat Dancy, Assistant Head o f Campus, Middle School Bill is MKA’s Renaissance man mathematician, scientist, philosopher, psychologist, educator, gentleman, and friend. Bill has taught every level o f math from 5th grade through algebra If, relating to nine-year-olds as well as those who are sixteen. He also spent years teaching 4th and 5th grade science and designing curriculum for the classes. Over the years [since 1 9 8 l||B ill has taught hundreds o f children, mentored colleagues, and taught us. He has a gift for making mathematics understandable and, yes, even fun for those who fear it or who can see no humor in manipulating numbers and shapes....H e makes math relevant: he exposed students to the ways [building projects, scale drawings, stock market] that their learning can be translated into life beyond the schoolroom.

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"Lifetime ” students - who attended MKA from kindergarten orfirst grade through senior year - were honored by Dr. Greer at a special breakfast in June.

Standing: Jared DeMatteis, Douglas Wall, Phelps Lambert, Joshua Weissglass, Craig Hirsh, Peter Benigno, Kevin Edwards.

Third row: Nicole Kessler, Laura Brown, Heather Abramson, Bryan Bishe.

Second row: Dan Weller, Dana Pisacane, M elanie Endo, Erin Cain, Jason Schwartz.

Front: Alexa Kaiser, Danielle Claudio, Lauren Abramson.

M issingfrom photo: Peter Ebling.

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• The spring 2000 movie, Voices From a D istant P lanet, has w on yet more awards, making a grand total o f six. Voices received two Videographer Awards o f Distinction, for Video-Educational Institution/Grades K-12 and Creativity/Art Direction. The poster even won a 2001 Communicator Award.

• Gil K ruger ’02 won first place in a short scriptwriting contest sponsored by Drexel University. High School juniors from all over the country submitted 10-page screenplays - romantic comedies, psychological thrillers, adventures, dramas. “The best o f the bunch,” states the university Web site, “displayed a firm understanding o f how screenwriting differs from other kinds o f writing, a good sense o f story, and a knack for creating interesting characters.” K ruger’s entry, “Loverboy,” received the first-place $5,000 scholarship to Drexel, plus professional notes and feedback. Faculty member J.C. Svec is credited as his teacher.

•T he Junior League o f Montclair-Newark presented this y ear’s JLMN Community Service Award to Abigail Raymond and Alexandra Seidenstein, both o f MKA’s Class o f 2001.

•U pper School faculty member George Berry was selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities to attend the prestigious annual six-week Dante Seminar in Siena, Italy this summer.

Berry, who teaches D a n te’s Inferno as a Core Work to juniors and seniors, is MKA’s in-house Dante expert. He received the 2000 Founders’ Cup in recognition o f his teaching excellence.

•U pper School faculty member Amelia Audette received a Dodge Fellowship Award. She also completed the very hilly Boston Marathon in under 3 hours and 45 minutes! She qualified by running the Burlington, Vt. and Philadelphia marathons.

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... [Kurt Masur] held a defiant composure, which made him someone to be afraid of, yet respect at the same time. He listened to us patiently, and one could almost see the gears turning in his head as he analyzed our voices. Then he asked us to sing again, yet with more passion. “Kyrie” was a song to God, and as he explained this he also spoke o f Mozart’s life. He had the group relate to the music not through Kurt Masur, Music Director o f the New York Philharmonic, gave a dynamic, “brilliant’’ lecture on Beethoven s Symphony No. 9, an MKA Core Work, to seniors, faculty, staff, and parents in April. The Maestro requested that the MKA Mastersingers perform a short workfor him.

notes, but through emotion, and we tried

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again and again to perfect the intense emotions that seemed necessary.... As we finished our final note o f the measure, we provoked a smile from him and a feeling o f worthiness swept over me. I have never

•M iddle School faculty members M yra Hrab, Jeff Moore, and Ken Smith and their students raised $3,500 for the American H eart Association during the “Jump for Your H eart Day” in January.

Finn placed 15th and 36th respectively in the K-8 tournam ent o f almost 400 players.

The M K A team o f Molner, Finn, M ichael Mastakas, John Ciardi, and Bora Goekbora placed 11th o f the teams.

•Faculty members A nita Rossi and Laurie Smith w ere nominated in a Johns Hopkins program by former students as teachers who have had a lasting and positive effect.

In June then-seventh graders Sean Finn and M ackenzie M olner placed second and third at the N ew Jersey Junior Open, w hose participants are predominantly high school students, according to the M KA master, M ichael Khodarkovsky.

• Abby Kaboth ’02 and Kate Klimczak ’02 were chosen to attend the G overnor’s School this summer, Abby for science, Kate for the environment.

•A t the annual Foreign Language Poetry Recitation Competition at William Paterson University, freshman Lizette Carter received a medal for honorable mention in the Beginner Spanish division, and junior Kerry Bishe w on a “spectacular trophy” as first-place winner in Advanced Spanish.

•K ansas City 2001 Supem ational Chess Tournament: M KA Middle School students M ackenzie M olner and Sean

•N ew Jersey M athematics League: MKA seventh and eighth grades each were second in Essex County in the 2001 math contest. Kassie D anzler and Andrew Davis tied for third in seventh grade; and M ark H oward tied for first in eighth.

•Fifth grader Justin Bass broke the Junior World Record for catching an American shad at the Delaware Water Gap in May. His essay, “W hy I w ant to Learn How to Fly Fish,” w on an essay contest and appeared in the program o f the N ew York M etropolitan Outdoor Press Association annual dinner.

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Founders’ Cup 2001 The ninth F ounders’ Cup Award for teaching excellence w as presented at the y e a r’s final faculty m eeting to D onna B lanes, first grade teacher at Brookside. Incom ing T rustee Eric Pai, alum nus o f the Class o f 1979 and parent o f tw o children at B rookside, presented the award.

For the second year, students in the MKA strings program gave a recital at Carnegie Hall. They are shown here performing in April with Dimitri Hadjipetkov, Director o f the program.

H e quoted nom inations from parents: “T he first grade y ear is an extrem ely im portant transition year at the elem entary level. D onna’s intelligence and experience shine like a beacon as she helps each child to achieve his or her potential,” and [her] “skills create enthusiastic group participation and dem onstrate the ‘jo y ’ o f learning.” She received nom inations over several years.

B lanes has taught at B rookside since 1986. She is the G rade L evel coordinator and a highly regarded m entor o f young faculty m em bers. Two o f h er children, Jennifer Blanes Com ponovo ’92 and Justin Blanes ’95, are M K A alumni.

The A lum ni C ouncil, w hich adm inisters the aw ard, has received 300 nom inations for 98 individuals over the last nine years. N om inations com e from alum ni, parents, students, and colleagues on the faculty and staff.

In April MKA &fourth grade performed a concert o fpatriotic music by the flagpole at the Statue o f Liberty. The class, who were visiting on a field trip, got the last Park Service permit availablefor the day. They sang several songs, including The Star-Spangled Banner, America the Beautiful, Sing Songs of Joy, and the school song, Oh MKA.

Brian Witmer ’01 and Laura Brown ’01 visited Brookside and Pre-K at Union Congregational Churchfor dinosaur presentations this spring. Here Brian talks about dinosaurs and the bones MKA students had dug on site in Wyoming last summer. The children preparedfor their visits by visiting a museum, “digging” turkey bones in a sandbox, and studying dims.

The Upper School Women’s Issues Group sponsored the Clothesline Project this spring to raise awareness o f the plight o f victims o f rape and violence. They also sold T-shirts to benefit local battered women’s shelters.

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Teacher Appreciation Day

Operation: Tribute

Brookside style, as reported

by Bridget Looney

The beginning o f the end o f War lies in Remembrance.

As a culmination of two Veterans’ Day assemblies at the Upper School, MKA has initiated a project to bring recognition to all veterans of The Montclair Kimberley Academy community who served in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf War. An area of reflection will be created at the Upper School Campus “dedicated to the honorable men and women who, as members of the MKA community, gave in each generation their time, endeavors, and lives to the struggle for freedom and human rights.”

Money to fund this memorial garden will be raised through fundraisers, events, and activities that promote the idea that “every penny counts.” Posters and T-shirts will proclaim, “Lest we forget.” At press time, drawings and plans for the memorial were being finalized and a final financial goal established.

MKA community support is paramount to realizing the goal of erecting this memorial in the fall of 2003. The 2001-2002 school year is the initial fundraising campaign. Questions about the project may be directed to J.C. Svec of the Fine and Performing Arts Department (jsvec@ m ka.pvt.kl2.nj.us or directly at 973-509-4585) or David C Flocco, Assistant Head of the Upper School (dflocco@ m ka.pvt.kl2.nj.us or at 973-783-8801).

PAMKA came up with the sweet idea of asking parents to send their children to school with a flower for their teacher. Children in other classes went about it very well, handing their teachers flowers with smiles and thank-yous.

My kids walked in with flowers clutched in their fists, howling, “Miss LOOney! I don’t know what this is for, but it’s going to DIE if it doesn’t get some water!” Another child walked in, saw all the flowers, and gasped, “We were supposed to bring those TODAY?! When IS teacher independence day?”

Quartet ___________________________________ _ The world-renowned Borromeo String Quartet will present a benefit concert for MKA at Merkin Hall in New York City on Saturday, October 13, at 8 p.m. Their program includes Beethoven’s Quartet in E fla t, Op. 127; the Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 by Debussy; and the world premiere of MKA Music Director Randall Svane’s Quartet No. 2. Proceeds from this concert will benefit the music program of MKA. A reception will be held at 7 p.m. in the Gallery at Merkin Hall for MKA parents and alumni. Please call the External Affairs Office (973/746-9800) for reservations.

Tickets are priced at $25 and may be purchased by calling the Merkin Hall Box Office at 212/501-3330. Merkin Hall is located at 129 West 67th Street in New York City.

Cougar Pride Day_______ Scenes fro m Cougar P ride D ay in May, including the PAMKA p arent/faculty dance the evening before.

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Commencement Awards

E thel M. Spurr Award

R udolph H. D eetjen Award

for cooperation, responsibility, service and citizenship

for athletics and academic achievement

B ud M ekeel M emorial S cholarship

Lauren Stefanchik Daniel Weller

Margaret Dziadosz

Joshua Berg

M arjoie W infield E aster Award for sportsmanship, self-discipline and behind-the-scenes service

Raven Ali Laura Brown

for a worthy senior

T he R obert C. H emmeter M emorial Award for intellectual curiosity, love of books and sports, and enthusiasm for living

C ommunity S ervice Award for positive action which shows unselfish concern for the larger community beyond school

Alexandra Seidenstem

Steven Jacobs

Cum Laude 2001 Dr. Ross Zbar '84 gave the Cum Laude address to this year's inductees.

Top: Matthew Nielsten, Andrew Murphy, Joshua Berg, Jonathan Leifer, Steven Jacobs, Brian Bishe, Louis Waldman (partially hidden).

Center: Faculty member James Buckley, Margaret Dziadosz, Diana Reiter, Kathryn Auw, Laura Brown, Lauren Stefanchik, Jennifer Woschinko.

Front: Lindsay Ferstandig, Jared DeMatteis, Daniel Ursu, Alexander Dunham.

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Reflections O nce in aw hile the MKA com m unity is p rivileg ed to hear extraordinary speeches a t annual events. This yea r there were two, both by alum ni, that received much acclaim and m any requests to publish so that the words m ight live on.

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By Diana Reiter ’01 In the April 2001 cover story o f The A tlantic M onthly, D avid Brooks presents an unflattering portrayal o f students at an elite university and, more generally, o f our generation. In the article, entitled “The Organization Kids,” Brooks describes our contemporaries as being achievement- and goal-oriented and self-absorbed, with little time or energy to devote to friendships, and with little passion for anything beyond resume building. According to Brooks, our generation fails to take other than a few moments to enjoy the small pleasures that are so enriching in life.

I only wish that Mr. Brooks had the opportunity to visit with students at MKA, because I believe that he would have left with a very different picture o f our generation, indeed. I have truly been blessed to be a member o f this student body. I have been impressed, and at times, intimidated by your achievements - in the classroom, on the athletic fields, on stage, and elsewhere at MKA and in our community. W hat has impressed m e the m ost about you are the other values that you have exhibited and shared with me, a passion for caring about others, friendship, and an interest and willingness to take time out to “stop and smell the roses.”

In a school that has so much talent, it would not be surprising if jealousy and resentm ent were common among us. That has not been our experience at MKA. Unlike the students in [thffll article, who in their self-absorption pay little attention to the community around them, w e do share in our peers’ successes and feel truly happy for each other’s accomplishments. I have

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found that our student body has an incredible loyalty to one another; w e all share in the excitement w hen an MKA team wins an important game; w e feel genuine happiness when a student receives an award; and we offer heartfelt congratulations w hen one o f our friends gets into the college o f his or her choice.

A t the same time, w e have together been saddened w henever one o f our classmates has been disappointed in some w ay or has suffered an injustice o f any kind. Brooks describes students who are so complacent and self-satisfied that they give little thought to issues that do not touch their lives. By contrast, M K A students feel passionately about issues beyond the confines o f our small community. The overwhelming turnout o f the MICA community at the Kids Helping Kids charity soccer game this past M arch is ju st one example o f our class’s compassion.

U nlike the students portrayed in The A tlantic M onthly article, we have developed an appreciation for life that goes w ell beyond achievement and goalorientation. N ear the end o f w hat is surely one o f the m ost seminal works in the Western Canon, F erris B u eller’s D ay O ff, the title character delivers a memorable line: “Life moves pretty fast. I f you don’t stop to take a look around once and a while, you could miss it.” M any o f us do strive to achieve our goals, and once we have achieved one goal, we move on to the next. After MKA, w e strive for our college graduation or first job, then our next job, then our retirement. But by then, w hat do w e have left? We will have spent our entire lives continually looking to the future, disregarding the present.... We must allow ourselves to slow down and enjoy the individual moments o f the present as they come.

Although M KA students are motivated and talented, I do not believe we are the generation Brooks describes. Instead, we are passionate and compassionate; we are loyal to each other and like to see each other succeed; we appreciate the different things that each member o f this student

body has to offer; w e care about issues that transcend our community; w e have wonderful friendships deeply rooted in love and devotion; and we share an appreciation for life. All o f these qualities have been developed with the support o f the M KA community.

Our challenge now, as we graduating seniors step away from the safe confines o f MKA, is to carry these values into the next phase o f our lives. We will be presented with an important choice: will we compromise our values, passions, and friendships in order to achieve all o f our goals? Or will we continue to follow Ferris’s advice by allowing ourselves to live day-by-day and to enjoy those things which, in the end, are truly more rewarding? I, for one, am counting on the latter.

D iana Reiter, who graduated Cum Laude, w ill atten d Yale University.

Happiness The Cum Laude Address 2001 Rossi. S. Zbar, M.D. ’84 DATELINE: INDIA - The sun rises. You open your eyes. Through the slats of the thatched hut, you see the early rays of dawn dancing through the soot and haze. You roll over in your straw bed hoping to avoid the day. In the middle of the dirt floor are the remains of last night’s fire. Embers glow dimly as your four children shiver in the morning dew. You rise and gather wood. You light the fire, using kerosene to ignite the wet wood. This fire provides both heat for warmth and heat for cooking. You boil tea before heading off to the fields for a day’s labor. The oxen stomp in anticipation of the morning’s activities. You wonder, you hope, you question: What is it to be happy?

DATELINE: NEW YORK - The sun rises. You open your eyes and see the light bouncing off the glass buildings and dancing through the slats of your Versace window treatments. You roll over in your king-sized bed, hoping to avoid the day. In the middle of the floor gurgles the hot tub you had installed. Your overweight dog yawns and gives a stifled shiver. Your assistant comes in and gathers your

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Sothes for the day, laying them out for you to select. Your tea sits brewed just as you like it next to your desk. Your assistant paces in anticipation of the morning’s activities. You wonder, you hope, you question: What is it to be happy?

Being a surgeon has given m e a profound glimpse into the workings o f the human mind. I have had the privilege o f helping people during their neediest times, when they are m ost fearful. Rushing into the ER with a major w ound or injured extremity, patients turn to me. Will I help? Can I help? I am not special; no, in fact, I am only a human. This is in fact a burden at times, as w ell as a gift.

W hat have I discovered? That as humans, we are all alike. W hether rich or poor, right- or left-handed, ugly or beautiful, male or female, white or black.. .we all desire the same thing. W hat is this THING we all search for? W hat is this elusive dream people spend their money, time, and life trying to achieve? I think it is called happiness.

It is not the happiness o f owning a fancy car; it is not the happiness o f marrying a sexy spouse; it is not the happiness o f arriving at a destination via first class; it is not the happiness o f attending an Ivy League college. It is the happiness o f fulfillment. It is the happiness that when you fall asleep each night, that - should you fail to awaken the next morning - you have the confidence that when they cart your body away, you have led a life o f fulfillment.

W hat does that mean? W hat is “being fulfilled”? Happiness stems (actually grows) from fulfillment. Fulfillment comes from following your internal principles. You are happy when things “feel right.” These internal principles or values are w hat drives you. W hen everything is in alignment, you live your life following your principles, then you achieve this happiness. W hy are so many people so unhappy? Because they are not truthful, especially to themselves. You m ust approach each and every problem on a daily basis using your principles; only

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Every day, every action is a reflection o f who we are and what we are. then can you lead a happy life.

Values are a guide to your choices and actions. Every day is a test o f character.

Do I cheat on that exam? Do I lie about running that red light?: Do I misfile my taxes? Do I shave a couple o f years off my age? C haracter is how yo u behave w hen no one is looking.

There is no such thing as a small lie. Any lie (I did not have sex with that woman) is simply ju st that: a lie. And when we lie, we go against our values. W hen we go against our internal values, w e lose happiness and find only confusion and strife. Lying is an act o f self-abdication since you fake reality; lying also insults those to whom you lie, therefore it creates conflict. H onesty recognizes that the unreal has no value. An honest man means w hat he says and knows w hat he means.

Two thousand years ago, a brilliant Roman Emperor, M arcus Aurelius, stated: Your duty is to be a good m an .. .with kindness, modesty, and without hypocrisy. Let me repeat it in m odem terms: Your duty is to be a good person.. .with kindness, modesty, and without hypocrisy. This is pretty much it.

M arcus Aurelius also stated: Do not anymore discuss at large w hat the good m an is like, buf be good. W hat we have here is a road map to happiness. Being tm e to one’s morality leads to happiness.

Every day, every action is a reflection o f who w e are and w hat w e are.

N otice that I have not outlined what consists o f moral behavior. As mature young adults, you are all capable o f forming an ethical standard. As freethinking, rational beings, you can each decide w hat is right or wrong. You have a consciousness, so use it. I f I were to outline right and wrong then I would be

lecturing. Rather, I am challenging you. I challenge you to evolve a moral compass and passionately follow it. W hether you follow Ayn Rand, Che Guevera, Jesus, Mohammed, Moses, Buddha, or Shiva - be passionate. Fight for w hat you believe is right. Know w hat you feel.

Your emotions - jo y or suffering - are barometers. Things that give you jo y are harmonious with your values, whereas things that bring you pain represent conflict. Listen to this internal barometer.

Emotions are like a computer, programmed by your subconscious and based on your values. Things that bring you jo y are in alignment with your values: earning money raises your self-esteem (joy), excelling at sports celebrates your personal ability (joy), being inducted into the Cum Laude Society recognizes your hard w ork (joy).

The pride that you have at this very m om ent is recognition by your emotions o f the value o f your achievement. Continue to seek those rational things that bring you

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W hy do I travel halfway around the world to operate on the poor? It brings me joy.

It also challenges me. A ny situation that takes me away from the things I usually do, from the life I normally lead, rejuvenates. W hen you return, you see your home with new eyes. You also struggle with your fears and limitations; you are reminded who you really are.

I have absolutely no recollection o f who spoke at m y Cum Laude induction. I am sure you w ill have no recall o f m e in 18 years. But I ask you this: M ap out today your moral course. Live every day from here on out consistent w ith your beliefs and values. That is the w ay to achieve happiness.

Dr. Zbar, a p la stic surgeon, spent a yea r traveling around the w orld as a volunteer w ith Interplast, operating on im poverished children a n d instructing local doctors in third-w orld countries. H e continues to volunteer fo r the nonprofit m edical organization several weeks a year.

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Sports Awards: 2000-2001 Cougar Athletic Awards and Honors CHC= Colonial Hills Conference NJIS= New Jersey Independent Schools NJILL= New Jersey Interscholastic Lacrosse League

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WINTER 2000-01

Abigail Kaboth ’02

BOYS' BASKETBALL 13-11 State Prep B Finalist

Erin Stutz ’02

Eric Wolf ’01 Frank Herrmann ’02

2nd Team, Hills Division, CHC 1st Team, Hills Division, CHC; 1st Team State Prep B Richard Cunningham ’03 Honorable Mention, Hills Division, CHC

Carla Franciose ’03

GIRLS’ BASKETBALL 20-4 State Prep A Runner-up; State Parochial B Runner-up

Jenna Sakolsky ’03

Jennifer Woschinko ’01 Jeanne Lehmann ’02

Allison Currie ’04

Jessica Bishop ’04

Honorable Mention, Hills Division, CHC 1st Team State Prep A; 1st Team Hills Division, CHC; 3rd Team All-County, SL Honorable Mention State Prep A

WRESTLING 13-6 State Tournament Qualifier

ICE HOCKEY 1-16-3

Jonathan Bruno ’02

BOYS’ FENCING 9-3 NJSIAA District Sabre Champion

Brian Picillo ’03

Brian Bishe ’01 Jared DeMatteis ’01 Bryan Witmer ’01

SPRING 2001

1st Team All-State Foil, SL 1st Team All-State Sabre, SL 2nd Team All-State Foil, SL

GIRLS’ FENCING 10-3 Cassandra Frey ’03 Precious Okungbowa

2nd Team All-State Sabre, SL 3rd Team All-State Epee, SL

INDOOR TRACK CHC Champion Douglas Wall ’01 Michael Dulong ’03 Oskar Nordenbring ’04

1st Team, CHC; 2nd Team All-Essex County 1st Team, CHC 1st Team, CHC; 1st Team All-Essex County; 2nd Team All-State

BOYS’ SWIMMING 5-2 Steven Jacobs ’01 Kevin Quinn ’01

Kevin Devine, Jr. ’0 |

Scott Crystal ’04

Ist Team All-County 200 Free Relay, SL; Ist Team All-County 400 Free Relay, SL 2nd Team All-County 50 Free, SL; Ist Team AllCounty 200 Free Relay, SL; Ist Team All-County 400 Free Relay, SL; Ist Team All-County Medley Relay, SL Outstanding Swimmer NJSIAA; 2nd Team All­ state 100 Fly, SL; Ist Team All-County, 100 Fly, SL; Ist Team All-County 200 Free Relay, SL; Ist Team All-County 400 Free Relay, SL; Ist Team All-County Medley Relay, SL Ist Team All-County Medley Relay, SL

Ali Roberts ’01

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1st Team All-County, 100 Free, SL; 2nd Team AllCounty 200 Medley Relay, SL; 2nd Team AllCounty, 200 Free Relay, SL; 2nd Team All-County 400 Free Relay, SL 2nd Team All-County, 200 Free Relay, SL

1st Team 160 lb. All-CHC; 2nd Team 160 lbs. AllCounty, SL 2nd Team 125 lb. All-CHC; 2nd Team 125 lb. AllCounty, SL

BASEBALL 19-Ü 1st Team, IB, Hills Division, CHC 1st Team All-Prep B, Catcher; 2nd Team Catcher, Hills Division, CHC; 3rd Team All-Essex County, SL 1st Team All-Prep B, OF; 1st Team, OF, Hills Frank Herrmann ’02 Division, CHC; 3rd Team All-County, SL Christopher Jackson ’02 1st Team All-Prep B, OF Honorable Mention All-Prep B, Honorable Mention Frank Araneo ’03 Hills Division, CHC 2nd Team All-Prep B, IF; 2nd Team, IF, Hills Laurence Canales ’03 Division, CHC Richard Cunningham ’03 2nd Team All-Prep B, OF; 2nd Team Pitcher, Hills Division, CHC Honorable Mention All-Prep B. Andrew Powers ’04

Christian Carmona ’02 Anthony Gray ’02

SOFTBALL 27-2 CHC, Hills Division Champion; Essex County Champion; Prep B Champion; Parochial B Runner-Up; SL Essex County Team of the Year Jessica Nelson ’01

Laura Stefanchik ’01

GERLS’ SWIMMING 7-2 Parochial B State Champion; Essex County Champion Caitlin Lehmann ’01

3rd Team All-County, 100 Free, SL; 2nd Team AllCounty, 200 Free Relay, SL; 2nd Team All-County 400 Free Relay, SL 1st Team All-County, 200IM, SL; 2nd Team AllCounty 200 Medley Relay, SL; 2nd Team AllCounty, 200 Free Relay, SL; 2nd Team All-County 400 Free Relay, SL 3rd Team All-County, 200 Free, SL; 2nd Team AllCounty 200 Medley Relay, SL; 2nd Team AllCounty 400 Free Relay, SL 2nd Team All-County, 100 Butterfly, SL; 2nd Team All-County 200 Medley Relay, SL 2nd Team All-County, 100 Backstroke, SL

Jennifer Woschinko ’01

1st Team All-Prep, Catcher; 1st Team All-County, ECADA; 1st Team, Catcher, Hills Division, CHC; 1st Team All-State Parochial, Catcher, SL; 1st Team All-Essex County, IB, SL 1st Team All-Prep, OF; 1st Team All-County, ECADA; Player of the Year, Hills Division, CHC; 1st Team All-State Parochial, OF, SL; 1st Team AllEssex County, OF, SL, State Player of the Year, SL; 1st Team All-State, SL 1st Team All-Prep, OF; 2nd Team All-County, ECADA; 1st Team DH, Hills Division, CHC; 3rd Team All-State Parochial, OF, SL; 1st Team AllEssex County, OF, SL

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Dana Beringhelli ’02

Gianna Lopreato ’02

Karinna Sjo-Gaber ’02

Kristin DiMeo ’03 Kristin Masino ’03

1st Team All-Prep, IF; 1st Team All-County, ECADA; 1st Team IF, Hills Division, CHC; 2nd Team All-State Parochial, IF, SLfflst Team AllEssex County, IF, SL 1st Team All-Prep, IF; 2nd Team All-County, ECADA; 1st Team IF, Hills Division, CHC; 3rd Team All-Essex County, IF, SL 1st Team All-Prep, Pitcher; 1st Team All-County, ECADA; 2nd Team All-State Parochial, Pitcher, SL; 1st Team All-Essex County, Pitcher, SL; Essex County Pitcher of the Year, SL 2nd Team All-Prep; 3rd Team All-County, ECADA; 2nd Team OF, Hills Division, CHC 2nd Team All-Prep; 2nd Team All-County, ECADA; 1st Team Pitcher, Hills Division, CHC; 3rd Team All-State Parochial, Pitcher, SL; 2nd Team All-Essex County, Pitcher, SL

GOLF 20-2 Parochial B North Champion; CHC Champion; George Berry-Conference Coach of the Year Kevin Quinn ’01 Drew Mersinger Cary Eggleston ’03

Michael Roth ’01

Adam Kessler ’02

Thomas Beach ’04

Erin Culbreth ’02 Victoria O’Kane ’02 Lauren Sunshine ’02 Nicole Pugno ’03

Louis Waldman Joshua Weissglass ’01

1st Team Waterman Division, NJLCA; 2nd Team All-State, NJCLA 2nd Team Waterman Division, NJLCA; Honorable Mention All-State, NJCLA 3rd Team Waterman Division, NJLCA; Honorable Mention All-State, NJLCA

Honorable Mention All-Prep; Honorable Mention Stars Division, NJGLA 2nd Team Stars Division, NJGLA 1st Team All-Prep; 1st Team Stars Division, NJGLA Honorable Mention All-Prep; Honorable Mention Stars Division, NJGLA Honorable Mention All-Prep; 2nd Team Stars Division, NJGLA

BOYS’ TENNIS 23-8 Todd Smith - Coach of the Year, Hills Division, CHC

Evan Sarti ’01

1st Team All-CHC 2nd Team All-CHC Honorable Mention All-CHC

Honorable Mention Waterman Division, NJLCA; Honorable Mention All-State, NJLCA; AllSophomore Team, SL All-Freshman Team, SL

GIRLS’ LACROSSE 8-9 Alexander Amari ’02

Whitney Mishler ’01

BOYS’ LACROSSE 11-9 Prep B Runner-Up Matthew Nielsten ’01

William Widen

Scott Simon ’02 Daniel Bleicher ’04

2nd Team 1st Doubles, Hills Division, CHC; 2nd Team 1st Doubles, All-Parochial, SL 2nd Team 2nd Doubles, Hills Division, CHCShenil Shah ’01 2nd Team 2nd Doubles, Hills Division, CHC 2nd Team 1st Singles, Hills Division, CHC 2nd Team 1st Doubles, Hills Division, CHC; 2nd Team 1st Doubles, All-Parochial, SL 2nd Team 3rd Singles, Hills Division, CHC 2nd Team 2nd Singles, Hills Division, CHC

GIRLS’ TRACK AND FIELD 3-6 Belle Koven ’02

2nd Team All-Essex County, High Hurdles, SL

BOYS’ TRACK AND FIELD 6-1 Michael Dulong ’03 Oscar Nordenbring ’04

3rd Team All-Essex County, 800m, SL 1st Team All-Essex County, 1600m, SL

Sports Notes

The Department o f Athletics regrets that the following honor was inadvertently omitted from Cougar Tracks and the spring Review.

TENNIS LAUREN NEWMAN ’03 2nd Team 2nd Doubles, Hills Division, CHC The good news is that Lauren Newman has two more years to play for MKA.

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• Lauren Stefanchik ’01 was selected as the 2001 Gatorade N ew Jersey High School Softball Player o f the Year, making her a m em ber o f the Gatorade Circle o f Champions.

• Liza Boutsikaris ’99, nam ed “Fencer o f the Century” by The Star-Ledger last year, finished her freshman season at Notre Dame by placing 16th in foil at the NCA A Division I championship meet. The team finished third o f 30 teams.

• M KA track and field coach Tom Fleming - a noted runner him self who won the N ew York, Tokyo, Cleveland International, and Los Angeles marathons - was nominated by an alumnus to be a torchbearer in the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Torch Relay.

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A Century o f Sports on Van Brunt Field MKA’s Van Brunt Field is one o f the oldest prep-school fields in the country. Early M ontclair Academy yearbooks indicate that football was played on the field as early as 1892.

A t the turn o f the century, the field was used for football, track and field, and baseball - in addition to that popular spectator sport, military drill, as the town turned out to watch M ontclair Military Academy cadets parade on the field.

Over subsequent decades, Academy athletes practiced and played on the field, and instituted the tradition o f writing slogans on the field house roof. The field was named in 1969 in honor o f Edwin Van Brunt, a beloved coach and athletic director at the Academy from 1934-1970.

The old Montclair Academyfield, academic building oh left, gym in center, Walden House on right.

Since the merger w ith Kimberley in 1974, girls’ sports have shared playing tim e and space. The field has been the scene o f girls’ and boys’ lacrosse and soccer, field hockey, and cross-country - in addition to traditional football.

Girls ’lacrosse - the last game on the “old" Van Brunt Field.

1969. Headmaster Philip Anderson, Muriel Van Brunt, land Coach Edwin Van Brunt at the dedication o f the field, October 1969. Van Brunt spent 36 years at MKA as teacher, coach, athletic director, business manager, and alumni 'director.

2001. Headmaster Peter Greer isflanked by Carol Van Brunt, granddaughter o f the legendary Coach Edwin Van Brunt, and her mother, Allean Van Brunt, at Van Brunt Field. They camefrom California to visit MKA and thefield named in his honor, which was under construction this summer.

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Celebrating M ore Than Awards: Athletic Hall o f Fame VI “The environment was part of the story,” says a former coach. “There was an overwhelming spirit in the room.”| The Cougar Dining Hall resounded with warm reunions, laughter, and reminiscences of teammates, coaches, classmates, and families, as MKA held the sixth Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in May. Lori Windolf Crispo ’78, President of the Alumni Association, greeted guests, and Dr. Mark Boyea, Director of Athletics, served as Master of Ceremonies. The athletes’ sports and eras represented a range of accomplishment, and their individual presenters included former coaches, colleagues, and students.

Swimmers, classmates, andfans: Standing: 1996Athletic Hall inductee Scott Schulte '77, Bruce Clark, Bill Dioguardi '76, Bob Rento, John Baran.

Front: Tony Fleischmann ’74, inductee Mark Baran ’74, Academy swim coach Charles Faurot, Luke Baran (John’s son, a swimmer).

Former coach Bob Calcagno and Jan Peterson, Assistant Director o f Athletics. Bob called the induction ceremonies and reunions “incredibly moving. ”

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Athletic Hall o f Fame VI. Standing: Jeremy Kahn ’93, fencing; Bill Hall '82, lacrosse. Seated: Judy Dixon '67, tennis; and Mark Baran '74, swimming. Kimberleyfield hockey coach Betty Logan was inductedposthumously.

Former colleagues Carmen Marnell - coach and athletic director, who was inducted into thefirst Athletic Hall o f Fame in 1996 -faculty member Ken Gibson, andfencing coach extraordinaire Tom Boutsikaris, who coached many o f MKA’s championfencers.

Former lacrosse teammates Peter Dancy ’82 and inductee Bill Hall ’82 with their coach, Bob Pilot.

On The Road With MKA: Bedminster, NJ On a glorious day in May, with sun shining and flowers abloom in the countryside, MKA held a reception in bucolic Bedminster, New Jersey, at the home of Helen Jones Gordon ’42.

Alumni from several eras attended, but those from the early Forties made it a veritable class reunion.

Several Kimberley alumnae planned an entire weekend and came from as far away as Maine and Massachusetts.

They began on Friday and finished with brunch at the Montclair Golf Club on Sunday, still chatting, reminiscing, and catching up on sixty years of their lives.

Host Helen Jones Gordon ’42 (center, dark blouse) greets longtime Kimberleyfriends Frances Johnson Ames ’40, Jean Girdler Grinnell ’40, Jones, Barbara Kluge Deming ’40, Joan Bayne Williams ’40, and Nancy Williams Brundage ’4L

Judy Polonofsky, Director o f External Affairs (left) with Terry Greer and host Helen Jones Gordon. Gordon, an outstanding equestrienne, was inducted into the MKA Athletic Hall o f Fame in 1996.

Joe Sullivan 77, David Hughes ’76, Paul McFeeley ’76, Tricia and Dean Paolucci ’73.

Helen Hanau Breen ’41, Randall Gritzan ’43, Connie Ritchie DuHamel ’46, and Iris Fox Flournoy ’40.

B ill Kluge '42 and Trustee Rudy Schlobohm ’74. .

Sisters Florence Johnson Jacobson ’46 and Frances Johnson Furlong ’42.

Janet Kluge Wiggin ’75 and David Hughes ’76.

Morgan and Joan Duffy Murray ’49.

Trustee Robert Tortoriello and Margaret Tortoriello.

Jean Girdler Grinnell ’40 and Richard Benson ’39.

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Headmaster Peter Greer talks about the state o f the school.

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From the Alumni Association From the President Dear MKA Family and Friends, In my view, the m ost important function o f the Alumni Association is to help reconnect alumni with MKA. This spring and summer we have brought M KA alumni back in many different ways.

In March, the Association sponsored another successful Career Day at the Upper School. Twenty speakers presented their views to M KA students on a wide range o f topics, from Financial Services to Professional Dance, from Manufacturing to Fashion Design and many other engaging subjects.

Over M arch Break, the Black Alumni N etw ork Initiative (BANI) sponsored a highly acclaimed trip to Washington, D.C. (see photo). We hope this is the first o f many successful trips to come!

The month o f M ay was a busy one for the Alumni Council. We welcomed our newest alumni, MKA’s graduating seniors, at the annual Senior Breakfast. Members o f the

Alumni Council were happy to participate in the M KA Athletic Hall o f Fame and the alumni social at the home o f Helen Jones Gordon ’42 in Bedminster, N.J. In May the Council also voted on the 9th recipient o f the Founders’ Cup Award: first grade teacher Donna Blanes.

Student Alumni For several years, the MKA Alumni Council has been enriched by the participation of student representatives. The students offer valuable insight into the life of the school and take alumni perspective back to their peers.

We wrapped up this year’s activities on a high note on June 26th with the first annual M KA Alumni G olf and Tennis Open. It was so good to see so many faces, new and old (or not so old, as the case may be).

Lastly, thanks and farewell to departing Council members Crystal Elliott ’88, Holly Jervis Felber ’83, Andrew Rod ’79, Sabino Rodano ’87, and Alexis Polonofsky Zebrowski ’85 and our student rep, Lindsay Braverman ’01.

I am very glad to be involved with such an active, productive group o f alumni. I hope to see you all at Homecoming on October 20th.

—Lori WindolfCrispo ’78

Lindsay Braverman ’01

Senior Ralph Delouis working with little ones at Brookside summer camp.

L indsay B raverman ’01

Lindsay, who graduated with the Class of 2001, enthusiastically participated in alumni activities for two years, from calls at Phonathon to candid opinions during discussions. Even her May Term project had an alumni connection: she worked at an internship at Carolina Herrera sponsored by Holly Jervis Felber ’83.

Lindsay - who received the Headmaster’s Award and the Marilyn Faden Award for Excellence in Theatre Arts (Acting) at Awards Night - danced and sang in every winter musical while she was at the Upper School.

She was a cheerleader and a peer leader, and served on the college hosting, academic program, and senior class “spirit” committees.

She will attend Barnard College, where she plans to major in American Studies and minor in theater or dance.

R alph D elouis ’02

Sunny Wang and Chip Bell look at Class o f2001 laundry bags at the Senior Breakfast.

The Black Alumni Network Initiative (BANI) led a group o f 11 MKA students to Washington, D.C. during March break. They are shown here with chaperones Paige Cottingham Streater 19, Frederick Coles III ’80 (front row, left) and India Hayes Larrier ’81 (front row, right). For three days they toured memorials, visited universities (Georgetown, George Washington, Howard), toured the Capitol and Supreme Court (where they played basketball on the roof), and met alumni, law clerks, congressional aides, and even a Senator and aformer Governor on Capitol Hill.

Ralph, a senior, continues his second year on the Alumni Council, which he calls "very interesting." He serves as vice president of the Student Action Committee, formerly known as the Student Council, and as president of Shades of Color, formerly known as OBS - both elected positions.

Ralph is tri-captain of the basketball team and runs track in season (noting proudly that he was fourth in the county in high jump). He is a peer leader for freshmen and an Academy guide for admissions. As his favorite subjects are history and French, Ralph plans to study international affairs, with the goal of being a diplomat.

“It was a great opportunity and experience," wrote a student. "The college visits were very informative and helped me tofocus on the things that I want in a college. ”

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Career Day 2001 : Been Here, Done That Representing a range o f fields and eras, alumni returned to M KA in M arch to discuss their careers and offer advice and perspective to current students. The alumni were greeted and introduced by student hosts, and proudly welcomed back by many o f their former faculty.

Career D ay is the cooperative production o f the Alumni Council (under chairman M ark M cGowan ’85), the Alumni Office, and Upper School sta ff administration, and students.

Com puters

Alec Schw artz ’88

C ounseling Psychology

A ndrea Safirstein ’88

E ducation

D r. P e ter G reer

E ngineering

V ic to rT u p i ’84

F ashion Industry

L isa L agasi W a rd ’80

F inancial Careers

G eoffrey Close ’71 M ark M cG ow an ’85 P au l M cFeeley ’76

G overnm ent

B oh C o ttin g h am ’84 S co tt R um ana ’83

Journalism

C arm en F leetw ood P a u l ’80

L anguages

Alex Joerger ’95

Law

Jennifer R em ington-K nodel ’85

M anagem ent

A n ita Sims R ainford ’79

M anufacturing, M arketing

K aren R obinson ’88

M edicine

Ross Z b ar ’84

M usic

B arry C entanni ’77

P erfo rm in g A rts

A lison Schw artz ’92

P ublic and Investor R elations

T im W allace ’72

Paul McFeeley 76, Mark McGowan ’85, and Geoffrey Close 71 presented different aspects o f financial careers.

Classmates Karen Robinson and Andrea Safirstein ’88. Karen drove all the wayfrom Detroit to speak at Career Day.

PhD.; and Bob Cottingham, lawyer and Olympicfencer.

The brother and the sister: Alec ’88 and Alison Schwartz ’92. Alec is treasurer o f the Alumni Council.

Scott Rumana ’83 chats about government with his host, Ralph Delouis.

1980 classmates Carmen Fleetwood Paul and Lisa Lagosi Ward.

S p o rts A d m inistration P e ter M cM ullen ’77

AlexJoerger ’95

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Trustee Peter McMullen . 7Mhas spoken at 13 MKA Career Days.

Tim Wallace 72 is parent o f three MKA students.

Anita Sims Rainford 79

Jennifer Remington Knodel '86

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Alumni G olf & Tennis The MKA Alumni Association held its first annual Golf & Tennis Open at the Glen Ridge Country Club in June. The weather was perfect, the prizes were numerous and generous, and “a good time was had by all.”

Peter Schijfenhaus '82, Mark McGowan '85, Eric Pai 79, and Bob Hoonhout, 71, former president o f the Alumni Association.

Alec Schwartz '88, Chris Kruse '88, and George Kruse '87.

Ray Knox 76, Erin Cuffe Crawford 74, and Mark McGowan '85, event co-chairman.

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The planning behind the outing: Alumni Council members Mark McGowan '85 and Eric Pai 79, co-chairmen; advisory member andformer president J. Dean Paoluccim3; Lori WindolfCrispo 78, president o f the Alumni Association; Rick Jenkins 77, prize provider extraordinaire; Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley 76, Director o fAlumni Giving; and Josh Raymond '89, secretary o f the Alumni Association.

Josh Raymond '89 andfaculty member Ken Bishé.

Lori WindolfCrispo 78, president o f the Alumni Association, and Alumni Director Christie Austin welcome Eric Hoonhout.

Judy Pai and Rick Jenkins ' | | | Both have children atBrookside.

Peter Gibson’82 and Peter Dancy '82.

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Welcome to the Newest Alumni... The Class of 2001

* Heather A bram son...........

................. Cornell University

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. . . . University o f Maryland

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Massachusetts Institute .......................o f Technology

Alexander Kanegis

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............... Smith College

Alexandra Seidenstein

George Washington University

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.......................... Boston College

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. . . Syracuse University

Lauren Stefanchik . . .

....................Harvard University

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. . New York University

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........... University o f Michigan

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................. Cornell University

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, . . Johns Hopkins University

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............New York University

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Michael Braun....................

.................... Boston University

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Lindsay Braverman............

...................... Barnard College

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. . . . Northeastern University

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Steven D'Amico..................

. . . . University o f Rochester

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Jared D eM atteis................

............Columbia University

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......... University o f Michigan

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................New York University

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............Pepperdine University

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........................Boston College

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Peter Ebling.......................................H obart & William Smith College JoanK ubicek.................................. .................................. Smith College Kevin Edwards..................................................................................LehighUniversity Phelps Lam bert.............................. ........................... ComeU Universily Inga Em igholz.................................................... University o f Delaware Melanie E ndo.......................................................................... Middlebury College Christina L arsen........................... ...............Montclair State University

Alvin Bell..............................

Jonathan Leifer

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. . . . Stetson University

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........................ Oberlin College

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. . . Dartm outh College

. . . . Johns Hopkins University

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. . . . Temple University

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. . New York University

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. . . . Hamilton College

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......................Lafayette College

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Sacred Heart University

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................. New York University

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. . . Villanova University

Joshua Weissglass . . .

.......................... Union College

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, . . . Syracuse University

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................. New York University

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................. Bates College

Edward Williams . . .

......................Lehigh University

Matthew Reichstein.

........... Amherst College

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............... College o f Charleston

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..............Yale University

........... University o f Michigan

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. . New York University

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......... Susquehanna University

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......... Lehigh University

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......................Lehigh University

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. University o f Michigan

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...........................Loyola College

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. Wake Forest University

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Vice Admiral Parker B. Armstrong ’37 Some have called them the “Greatest Generation.” In this spirit, the Alumni Association is very proud to present the 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award to the distinguished Vice Admiral Parker B. Arm strong (Ret.), who served his country in an outstanding w ay for more than four decades.

Parker Armstrong graduated from M ontclair Academy in 1937 and early from the U.S. N aval Academy on December 19, 1941. Immediately following graduation, he reported to the cruiser B rooklyn for four years o f active duty in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean.

The B rooklyn, a light cruiser that provided convoy escort to the convoys carrying troops to Europe, was in constant danger from German submarines.

Vice Admiral Parker B. Armstrong '37

A fter World War II, Parker returned to Annapolis and received his master's degree in electrical engineering from the U.S. N aval Academy Post Graduate School in January 1948. During his N avy career, he commanded a destroyer, an escort squadron, a destroyer squadron, a light cruiser, a destroyer flotilla, and the Services Forces, United States Pacific Fleet. During his career, Parker was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, a Department o f Defense Meritorious Service Medal, a N avy U nit Citation plus various campaign medals recording service in WW II, Korea, and Vietnam, and fo u r Legion o f M erit citations from the Secretary o f the Navy.

In the late 1960s and 70s, during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, Parker was based in Washington, working in engineering and research and development. He was w ell versed in the needs o f the N avy at sea and was able to draw on his strong academic background to w ork in Antisubmarine Warfare. One Legion o f M erit citation said, Rear Admiral Armstrong's exceptional ability to guide and motivate military and civilian experts, scientists and industrialists to concerted effort resulted in the construction o f sound, coherent and complementary N avy programs for the development o f future antisubmarine warfare weapons systems, which will encompass every feasible technological innovation.

The expeditious construction o f these diverse, complex programs for aircraft, ships and submarines reflects the brilliant personal qualifications which Rear Admiral Armstrong devoted to this task, which, in itself, is a major contribution to the shaping o f a U nited States defense posture adequate to contain the formidable undersea threat.

During this period, Parker also reportedly became the m an the N avy sent to Congress to obtain funding because o f his command o f all o f the facts (his testimony was apparently impossible to contest). His last assignment w hile on active duty was Director o f Research, Development, Test and Evaluation within the Office o f C hief o f N aval Operations. He retired as one o f only eleven three-star admirals in 1978 after 38 years in the Navy.

In retirement, Parker has been active in many church programs in Ponte Vedrà Beach, Florida, working to provide clothes, food and shelter for the homeless, building homes for single mothers with child care problems and for single parents. Parker has also worked with local schools to find suitable faculty and student candidates for grants and scholarships. He and his wife, the former Jean Carol Bulick, have two daughters, one son and three grandchildren.

The Alumni Association is pleased and honored to present the 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award to Parker Arm strong ’37 for his lifetime o f service, compassion for the community, and - to quote a citation - “outstanding leadership, breadth o f vision, intellectual competence and inspiring devotion to duty.”

E rin C uffe Craw ford '74 P at Shean W orthington '74 D istinguished A lum ni A w ard Com m ittee

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Our condolences to the family of Victor Engstrom. He lived in Clearwater, Fla.

Editor’s Note 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 email 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 o f class agent and reunion chairman, is absolutely essential to the vitality of the school. Please consider it.

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Miss Charlotte H. Fitch, Box 45 24 Cape Bial Lane, Westport Point MA 02791

I f l & Ä # ________________________ Dr. VardyLaing 228 Valley Ridge Heights NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3B 5T3

________________________ Chara Church Phillips lives in a continuing care community, caring for her husband, who is ill with Alzheimers. Though on oxygen 24 hours a day herself, Chara continues with her painting and enjoys pleasant friends, children, grandchildren, and great-grands. She gets out with portable tanks.

MA ________________________ Mr. C. Irving Porter Box 2750 Quaker H ill Road Unity ME 04988

MA - Montclair Academy TKS - The Kimberley School i m s m _____________________________ Mrs. Albert Frell (Irene Burbank) 580 Admiralty Parade Naples FL 34102 Karolyn Greene Cole is content and wellcared-for at the Orleans Convalescent Home on Cape Cod. She loves to go out for lunch or for a ride, and always has a pile of books beside her; she gets The New York Times daily.

Visits from daughters Sue and Linda (Linda Cole LeStage ’56) and son John sustain her, as well as visits from grands and four greatgrands who live within driving distance.

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Dorothy Ayres Holt, at 91, keeps busy in a “wonderful retirement community” in Connecticut. She recalls her past at Kimberley and says “I was always in trouble because I dreamed of crazy things. I drove Miss Waring and Miss Jordan nuts but they loved me anyway.”

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David Stanley and his daughter, Mary Stanley Feinberg, enjoyed a trip to the Copper Canyon and other interesting sites in Mexico last winter.

Zaida Jones Dillon reported a new address, in La Jolla, Calif. She is in touch with Nikki Burbank Frell, who looked wonderful at the MKA alumni reception in Naples last winter.

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Mrs. Willard Dixon (Betty O ’Gorman) Crane’s Mill, Apt. 199 459 Passaic Ave., West Caldwell N J 07006 Margery Atwater Crane died in February at her daughter’s home in South Freeport, Maine.

Margery was the principal activist in having the Crane House moved to its Orange Road site and converting it to a historical museum.

She was instrumental in saving the Lackawanna train station from demolition and in creating the Church Street Mall, just to name a few of her volunteer achievements for the Township of Montclair.

She leaves her daughter, Margaret Crane Morfit ’62; two sons, Thompson and Philip Crane ’68; and six grandchildren.

Our condolences to the family of Rockwell MacCubbin. He lived in Cape Coral, Fla.

Barbara Spadone Haviland reports that her youngest daughter, Linda Haviland Conte ’77, is a published poet doing well in the Boston area and o f course making her mother proud.

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Elizabeth Gracy Kenny is on the mend from a fractured hip. TJiree granddaughters live in the area and visit frequently, being helpful and often taking her out to lunch.

\Skmm_________________ Our condolences to the family of Helen Devine Currie. She was a founding member of the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Lexington, Mass. Helen leaves her husband, son, daughter, six grandchildren and four great-grands.

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From a slate of 11 candidates, only five to be elected in May to the Board o f Directors at Crane’s Mill, two of your classmates, Mary Hoermann Vreeland and I, Betty Dixon, were the only women who won out of five who ran, along with three out of six men. We were surprised and happy - perhaps another proof of the good start we got at TKS! Betty

John J. Newberry, widowed last October just after their 60th anniversary, enjoys visiting his son and daughter-in-law in Colorado several times a year. “Health is fairly good considering the years,” he writes.

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ìj® # Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) Crane’s Mill, Apt. 249 459 Passaic Ave., West Caldwell N J 07006 Last November Josephine McNair Schutt moved from Coral Gables to Village on the Green, a retirement community in Longwood, Fla. near her sister Ann McNair Scharadin ’38. Josephine finds life there “not only pleasant but interesting, and I am making many new friends.”

Our condolences to Ruth McCord Alexander, whose husband, William, died in April on the very day of their 52nd wedding anniversary.

MA ________________________ Mr. John Graham 1129 K ing’s Ranch Rd., Bandera TX 78003 Frank Kireker writes that he still lives in HoHo-Kus, a short drive from where he lived while attending M.A. He has been active for many years in banking and investment management, coupled with numerous charitable activities, including church trustee and treasurer, hospital and YMCA trustee, Red Cross and United Way director, and Little League. (Our 1935 yearbook referred to Frank as “the life and death arbitrator of all matters athletic.”)

interpretive biography, The Lady Elizabeth Percy. In 1998, Evie published Our Own Business: S.B. Penick & Company, which chronicles the botanical drug firm founded by her father-in-law, Sydnor Barksdale Penick.

An alumna of Wellesley College, Evie has been active in child welfare and literacy causes.

_________________________ Class agent: Mrs. Saul Serota (Cornelia Carswell) 6891 Wilson Road, M arshall VA 22115

w s r _________________________ Mrs. William Young (Peggy Klotz) The Village at Duxbury 290 Kingstown Way, Apt. 253 Duxbury MA 02332 Our deepest sympathy to Janet Gaylord Newsome, whose husband, George, died in February. They had been married 58 years.

Bill and I were in their wedding as was Margaret Richards Chapman.

George and Ruth Duff Eager met Charlie and Virginia Kracke Leavitt in a shop in Upper Montclair in April and had a nice chat with them. Ginny said they were thnking of selling their home in Montclair.

My sister-in-law, Sally Young Shertzer, had a second great-grandchild, a little girl, last summer. I’d love to hear from more classmates! Peggy

Another fine letter from Eddy Davis Palmer.

He reports all goes well, has two great grandchildren, and still makes daily visits to the hospital, “mainly to bother people by telling them how we used to do things.”

Gil Klein lost his wife of 60 years about a year ago, and moved to South Carolina to be near one of his children.

From your secretary’s standpoint, at 85 I thought an ex-MA hockey player could still cut it on ice, so I went with my church youth group, and to my embarrassment could only make it around the rink with two young mom chaperones, each holding a hand and tugging me along with them. Oh well, I went out as I had come in: at age 5, two “big” Kimberley girls held my hands and dragged me with them until I could solo! John

nearby, so she can see her seven grandchildren often. “One of them made me a great­ grandmother in August 2000,” she writes.

Maryl Riter Walker has a big year, with a grandson graduating from college and her granddaughter Dana, daughter of the late Caryl Walker Greisenbeck ’65, getting married in August. On the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, Maryl (and the Upper Montclair Presbyterian Church choir) sang in a 300-voice choir at Carnegie Hall.

The late Betsy Krichbaum McAlister and her husband, Edgar, and their two youngest children lived in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona for many years, and their land has become part of a Tucson City Park that features nature walks. They were “enthusiastic members” of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum that lies northwest o f Tucson. Mr. McAlister wrote, “Her fine education was a joy to us all. I profited by it numberless times over the years, as did her children and grandchildren. We thank The Montclair Kimberley Academy for its part in enriching our lives.”

MA ________________________ Mr. C.R. L yleII 435 Mountain Rd., P.O. Box 394 Jaffrey Center NH 03452-0394 Our condolences to the family of Barbara Bailey Hoey. Barbara was a longtime member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and of Scottish clan associations, and was active in genealogy. She leaves a husband, son, and two grandchildren.

Ruth Sylvester Elliot has four children living

Over the past year, Jean and Ted Van Buren sold their homes in Greenwich and Marco Island and moved to Bentley Village retirement community in Naples, Fla., with all amenities within walking distance. They celebrated his 80th with a family cruise in the Caribbean; children and spouses plus four

________________________ Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) 9 Brandon Lane, Bishops Cove M ystic CT 06355 Elizabeth Van Wie Penick-Schmitz was awarded an honorary doctorate from Bloomfield College in May. She is the author of several books for young readers, and of an

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Six decades. Five MontclairAcademy alumni had luncheon last September at the Nassau Club in Princeton, the first time some had seen each other since graduation. L to R: B ill Marchese '39, Bruce Swenson 39, David Jacobs '40, Perry Swenson '41, and Jack Kelsey '42x. “I had a great time recalling good days and goodfriends,” Swenson wrote.

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grandchildren had a wonderful time on ship and shore. They planned to travel this summer to Scandinavia and New England.

Our condolences to the family o f Geoffrey Crook.

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Mrs. A lfred D. Williams (Joan Bayne) 10 Foxglove Court, Yarmouth ME 04096 For the umpteenth time four New Englanders have sighed, “That was the very best weekend!” We weaseled an invitation to a New Jersey reception for MKA alums. It was a memory book come alive, a trip through the past, nostalgia, affection, and above all, a reaffirmation of the pride we all had for our school years in Montclair. Jean Girdler Grinned, Bobbie Kluge Deming, Nancy Williams Brundage ’41 and I drove in easy stages (for me, 1086 miles round-trip).

Leaving Maine Friday morning, I picked up Jean in Massachusetts, Bobbie in Connecticut, and that evening we talked. Saturday morning we stopped for Nancy and had lunch in beautiful Oldwick, N.J. with Bobbie’s brother Bill Kluge ’42x, then went to the reception at Helen Jones Gordon’s ’42 in Bedminster.

Helen was outside with Christie Austin and Laurie McFeeley from the Alumni Office and Frances Johnson Ames to greet us and hug us and make us feel as though we had never left.

Iris Fox Flournoy drove up from Princeton (we hope to have more time to visit in Maine this summer). The office had made up huge posters of “This is Your Life” at Kimberley for us - how special can they make it!!! On Sunday morning we toured Montclair looking at our old homes, all still intact, the old school - now Katherine Gibbs College - and the gorgeous, huge new Academy with massive improvements under way on the football field on Lloyd Road. Frances had planned a luncheon at the Montclair Golf Club and Helen Gordon and Libby Gracy Kenny ’34 joined us.

We drove north stopping for another night at Bobbie’s. At Jean’s we continued our trip down memory lane with her scrapbooks and old programs from the Montclair Mounted Troop horse shows. I was home Monday afternoon but my mind and heart are still reliving the entire event. I urge you to go any time, anywhere, whether invited or not.

retirement home in Florida.

Bobbie Kluge Deming was in Mexico once more for the holidays; she felt she had just returned from her granddaughter’s wedding there. She is busy with tennis, plus “clubs, book groups, widow get-togethers, volunteer things, and lunching, I love lunching!”

Jean Downes Fisher sent news of her ever­ growing family. She and Ann Cochran Nooner both live on Hilton Head Island.

“Cockie” has a very up-to-date passport that is well used. She and Tom have traveled widely overseas this past year; her children are in New England and Virginia, all doing interesting things.

Nancy Kluge Rumery has the ideal lifestyle: winters in Pinehurst, N.C. and summers in Sunapee, N.H. where they have family reunions. She is involved in the garden club and volunteers at the visitor’s center for their horticulture gardens. Her youngest grandchild (her emphasis) is 16 and her brother is a freshman at the U. of Illinois. Nancy sees Helen Jones Gordon, Cozy Noyes Lathrop ’37 and Betty Perry Gleason ’39x in Carolina.

Nancy Taylor Craw planned to be in Basin Harbor, Vt. in May. Her busy schedule of teaching gardening to 5th through 8th grade school children plus “still painting and writing” and now tackling the computer makes a stay on the shore of Lake Champlain a wellearned rest. Personally I don’t think she knows what that word means. Baynie

MISS PRUDY Charles Ailing, brother of the late Prudence Ailing ’40 and Joan Ailing Wuerth ’41, has written a book of his experiences as a World War II fighter pilot. Ailing, the lead pilot of a B -17 Flying Fortress in the 8th Air Force, flew 27 missions with more than 220 hours over enemy territory in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and France. When he went to war in 1945, he named his plane Miss Prudy after his sister who died at 21 in 1944, and he had her picture painted on it. The book is dedicated to Prudence, for the family always felt she protected her brother throughout his flying career.

Other news: Harriet Palmer Pickens called before we left to say hello and misses us all. She was getting ready to go to the family compound in Schooley’s Mountain, N.J.

Mrs. James F.C. Hyde Jr. (Enid Griswold) 5402 D uvall Drive, Bethesda MD 20816

Sis Underwood Gregory was also going to be north for family events - Wedding?

Graduation? She and Russ are happy in a

Happily the majority of our classmates have survived to this, our 60th reunion year. I hope that all will salute the memory of beautiful

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young girls in long white dresses at our longago graduation.

Adeline Pope MacConnell (with three sons and four grands), who lives in Denver, reports that she continues to backpack and hike in the Rockies and wherever, plays tennis, and took one 13-year-old grandson to Alaska last summer. Adeline writes articles for publication in periodicals, and has just started a major computer course so that she can create a family history for her children and grands with pictures. She has also taken up the piano and is planning to play ragtime and jazz. She has visited with Enid Hyde in Denver and in D.C. Anne Thompson Knapp writes that she has been married 55 years. She does volunteer work at the Bennington, Vt. Museum, and goes to Vero Beach, Fla. in the winter. Her four children are scattered around the country.

Bill and Eleanore Strohm Leavitt travel a lot.

Last year they went from Valparaiso to Buenos Aires, to Scandinavia, and later to England where their son Ted and his family live, as

Travels With Our Alum Enid Griswold Hyde ’41 turned a onetime request into a lifelong career.

She runs four or five trips abroad each year for museum groups, as well as some domestic trips (New Orleans, Natchez, Charleston, and California in 2001). She has led art and architecture trips to France to visit pilgrimage churches, to Spain to see the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and to England, Russia, Morocco and Tunisia. She once lectured on the Royal Viking Sun as it went from Australia through the Indonesian islands to Hong Kong.

As an art historian, Hyde taught various art history courses for 25-plus years at a branch of the University of Virginia and other colleges (“this with a degree from Smith College and an M. A.”). Many years ago, UVA asked her if she WQuld mind running a trip to France (she was teaching a course in 18th century French painting at the time and knew the country well).

“Thus was bom a career track that has continued and will continue on,” she says.

She is Washington regional chairman of the Friends of Vielles Maisons Françaises - an organization that helps restore historic buildings in France (chateaux, churches, abbeys). Her son is a diplomat in Brussels and her daughter runs the Amalfi Music Festival in Italy, to which Hyde takes a group for several weeks each summer.

She notes that Washington, D. C. is “a fabulous art center, with many, many art museums and working artists.”

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well as daughter Eleanor and Domenico DeSole, who is CEO of the Gucci Group.

Another daughter lives in Washington, D.C. Barbara Tryon Thompson reports that she has been married 59 years, has three children, six grandchildren, and five great-grands (ages 12 1/2 to 1 1/2). What a record!

Selma Aiello McCausland writes that after Bill retired, they lived on a farm in Virginia for many years, then in Hilton Head, S.C., and are now in suburban Atlanta. They have eight grandchildren and two great-grandsons who live nearby. Enid

MA _________________________ Mr. D avid Baird Jr. 9 Parkway, M ontclair N J 07042 Randolphe (Perry) Swenson wrote about the Academy luncheon hosted by Jack Kelsey last fall [see photo], and notes, “Dave Jacobs was surely one of MA’s finest athletes and gentlemen!” [Jacobs ’40 was inducted into the MKA Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000.]

Dick Carrie continues his enviable lifestyle with much traveling and residence in a gated community in Vero Beach, Fla., where he is active in Amherst alumni affairs. While in New Jersey, he and son Jeff Carrie ’73 saw “those two glorious Giant victories over the Eagles and Vikings. The Viking shellacking took place on my 78th birthday!”

Dave Caldwell sends his best from Cupertino, Calif.; he “only” went to Tucson, Ariz. last year.

Dale and Howard Dodd celebrated their 50th anniversary by taking a 14-day cruise around the western Caribbean and Panama Canal.

Howard is reportedly trying to cut back on volunteer work with Sons of the American Revolution and Connecticut historical buildings.

Perry Minton keeps in touch with classmates on the east coast, and notes that he and Dick Carrie collaborated on a pictorial review of their 55th Amherst reunion, “which turned out well and well over budget.”

Our condolences to the family of Philip Nelson Lawes. He served in the Air Force in WWff, and retired as a broker in the shipping business. He leaves his wife, five children, three stepchildren, and 13 grands.

Condolences to Charles and Kit Eavenson Sanders on the death of his sister, Sally Sanders Appenzellar ’42.

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Lyric poet Harriet Bell Barrett donated a copy of her book of poetry Memories, to the MKA Alumni Collection. The book, which is in several Carolina churches, libraries, and Hospices, is now in its third printing. Harriet lives in Greensboro near two daughters and six grands. She says she often thinks of faculty member Margaret Dallery at Kimberley.

Jean Jeffers Hill has had some wonderful trips as one of four women who travel together. Last fall they went to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She works three afternoons a week at the extended day program at the Moses Brown School in Rhode Island. “After I retired, I missed teaching, so have been doing this for years.”

Our condolences to the family of Sally Sanders Appenzellar. She had a lifelong devotion to volunteering for community and church, even after retirement to Martha’s Vineyard. Sally was named an honorary deacon of the Federated Church in Edgartown after years as a deacon and on various committees. She is survived by her daughters

O ne o f th e G reats Edwin D. Etherington ’42, the first recipient of the Montclair Academy Outstanding Alumnus Award, 1962, died in January. “Ted” Etherington was president emeritus o f Wesleyan University and the former president and chief executive officer o f the American Stock Exchange.

Etherington served as president of Wesleyan during the difficult years from 1967 to 1972, and oversaw the transition from an all-male institution to coeducation. He supervised a campus expansion plan and created a community scholarship program. Prior to Wesleyan, Etherington spent five years as president and CEO of the American Stock Exchange and five years at the New York Stock Exchange, where he was instrumental in expanding opportunities for minorities and women.

After serving in the Army during World War II, he received a B.A. with honors, distinction in creative writing, and Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan, then an L.L.B. from Yale Law School. He later received alumni awards and honorary degrees from several universities. “A man with a true belief in public service,” read the university release, Etherington served as director and trustee for numerous companies and foundations.

His wife, two sons, a grandchild, and brother Donald Etherington ’50 survive him.

The Montclair Academy Outstanding Alumnus Award was the predecessor of the MKA Distinguished Alumni Award.

Terry Appenzellar ’66 and Kate Appenzellar Hancock ’68, and brother Charles Sanders ’4L

MA ________________________ Mr. Richard L. Charlesworth 121 Cherry Brook Rd., Weston MA 02193

TK§br____________________ Miss Lucile G. Mason 142 North Mountain Ave., M ontclair N J 07042 Our condolences to the family of Nancy Munoz Horn. Nancy and Jim had moved to Arizona hoping it would improve her health, according to her good friend, Letitia Robinson Failor, who sent the news.

From Betty Brown Ward: “I send warm hellos to all our class. Dick and I are doing well here on our North Georgia mountain. I keep busy volunteering at a local food bank, as well as continued enjoyment of small-scale gardening, quilting, and some water coloring.”

While in Boston visiting one child and grandchild, en route to another child and family in London, Sheila Feagley James wrote of “the essence of foreign excitement and adventure that Mile. Pons brought to the French classes at TKS.” Sheila visited France twice in fall 2000, on a two-week tour and workshop for art museum docents, and on an Elderhostel program followed by visits to the Dordogne and Paris. On return she took an adult ed. course whose teacher “taught French a la Mile. Pons, as well as being a combination of Inspector Clouseau and Yves Montand.”

My sister Janet Mason ’48 and I were pleased to have planned and executed two successful capital campaigns for local organizations. The $75,000 goal for the Presby Memorial Iris Gardens was topped before the gardens’ 75th anniversary in 2002. We also reached the goal for funding new playground equipment for Montclair’s Neighborhood Child Care Center.

Two classmates mentioned a 60th reunion....

Lucile

MA _________________________ Mr. Richard R. Angus 38 Hinchman Avenue, Denville N J 07834 Our condolences to Dick Angus on the death of his brother, Duncan '44.

Condolences to the family of Mary Smythe Coley. Dr. Coley was a psychiatrist for children and adolescents in the Hartford,

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Conn, area, an early woman in the field.

Bill and Patricia Lamborn Kolbe travel extensively, and planned to cruise the Baltic in June and the Dalmatian Coast/Greece in September. He still practices law when they’re home.

MA _________________________ Mr. WinterfordJ. Ohland 4 A hler’s Lane, Blairstown N J 07825 Best wishes to Beverley and Lawrence Soule Jr. on their wedding. He wrote that last January his sixth grandchild, a boy, was bom; the breakdown is four girls and two boys. His wife has a daughter as well, so “now I have a step-daughter.” He sends greetings.

Our condolences to the family of Robert Duncan Angus. He spent most of his time in Prescott, Ariz., but liked to tree farm in Iowa.

He leaves his wife, three daughters, and several grandchildren.

Peter Hofstra checked in from Rogers, Ark., where they have lived on the shores of Beaver Lake for 22 years. Two years ago they sold their house and moved into a smaller one next door. “I’m retired but putter with a little real estate,” he writes. They spend about five months wintering in Surprise, Ariz., and bought the villa next door for a guesthouse.

“We don’t have time to do anything because we are too busy. I do walk some and toy with the idea of walking across the Grand Canyon again, but that may be unrealistic. The last time I did it was in 1996 at the age of 70.”

On the interesting observation that two members of the class settled in Arizona, Peter wrote that he had a business in Prescott and ranched in Cape Verde for many years. He now dabbles in Republican politics and is the Asst. Treasurer of U.S. Senator Hutchinson’s campaign, the first Republican elected to that office since the Civil War. Peter also writes, “I don’t expect to get back East at any time soon, but if I do I’ll try to look up the old school. I only had the privilege of one year there but it was a good one.”

1K W ____________________________ Anne Feagley Wittels (Mrs. Jerome L.) 2116 ViaAlamitos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 wittels@ worldnet.att.net More or less in order of receipt: John and Katie Teaze Clark go back and forth from Florida to Connecticut each year, flying now instead of driving, “so no great side trips any more.” Their children and grands are a joy.

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Roger and Rudd TVimble Kenvin had a fabulous trip, 90 days going round the world on the QE2, stopping at 29 different ports.

“By the time we took the train across country with a stop to visit our youngest daughter, Heather, her husband Tom, and grandson Kyle, we had traveled 40,000 miles. It was the dream of a lifetime come true. Probably the most interesting port was Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Fantastic architecture and totally changed lives for the people, [oil] bringing education, water in to the homes, health services and all.”

For those who may not know, Rudd and Roger wrote a book, Necessary Ports: A Travel Memoir. Mostly they have traveled, not as you and I as tourists or day-trippers, but by living abroad. Theirs is a fascinating story, a collection of letters to friends and family.

Ed and Josie Murphy Rayermann spent three weeks on a ranch in Arizona followed by a month’s stay at their house in Sedona. In September they attended a Change of Command ceremony in Dallas, when their younger son Richard, who flies for American Airlines, became head o f his Naval Reserve Unit. In Texas this is a very big deal indeed, and older son Patrick also attended. Then Patrick invited them to see the launch of a communications satellite he’d worked on at Cape Canaveral, a spectacular nighttime launch. That trip included four days at Cocoa Beach, a tour of the space center, and visit with d-i-1 and two grandchildren. Back down to earth, Josie keeps garden-clubbing - on the board again this year - and involved with the Women’s Club.

While in Florida, Josie called Judy Shearer Turnbull. She and Bob are about the same as usual. Josie and Ed also see the Kenvins for dinner occasionally.

Leigh Berrien Smith reports “no news here” except they had the pleasure of seeing Landon and Pete Lamborn Peters when they were at their Vineyard home in February. Leigh attended Sally Sanders Appenzellar’s memorial service in January on Martha’s Vineyard, “fondly recalling that Sally had been student council president when we were 9th graders.”

Leigh forwarded Phyllis Harder Reininger’s “Millennium Christmas 2000” letter. Phyl and Dick flew to New Zealand and Australia in February for a 7 1 /2-week trip. October was also special: they celebrated their 50th anniversary and Dick celebrated his 75th birthday. “Friends and relatives from everywhere attended a gala party.” In the spring they took the Starlight train from Washington down the coast to Del Mar to visit Phyl’s sister, Joanne Harder Woodward.

Ann Gerhauser Buchbinder’s holiday card was a photo of part o f their patio - flowers, cacti and a prancing-horse statue wearing a Santa cap and sunglasses. Very Arizona!

George and Jeanne Talbot Sawutz have moved to Storrs, Conn., which they love.

“Four miles from our youngest daughter. We spend the winters in Sun City, Ariz.”

Jerry and I had a busy year. Our daughter was married a year ago in June in Yosemite Valley at an outdoor ceremony, with a spectacular view of the Sierras and Bridal Veil Falls serving as backdrop. Gorgeous! Our biggest, late-breaking news is the birth in May of their son, our third grandchild. During the year we also visited our son and his family several times. My sister, Sheila Feagley James ’43, and David visited briefly in October. We continue with our favorite activities: tennis, music and video for Jerry; art, writing, photography and origami for me. Anne

m a # ________________________ Constance Ritchie DuHamel reports travels from Rome to New Mexico, where she visited her brother Jim Ritchie ’42 and his wife and nieces and nephews. Connie does “a few volunteer things” and spends the summer in Rhode Island where children and grands love to come.

MA _________________________ Dr. Peter B. Lawrence 4802 Carriage PL, Wilson NC 27896 Our condolences to the family of J. Elliott Hague. “Buff” spent years in the publishing industry and achieved renown as a golfer. He competed in the British Amateur Champion­ ships three times, and was Montclair Golf Club champion twice and senior champion three times.

Art Hyde, chairman/president and CEO of Beacon Trust Co., reports that they just moved into their own 15,000 sq. ft. building in Madison, N J. He also says they are “finally grandparents, two boys and a girl. What fun!”

Bill Brown’s new musical review, The Nutley Papers, opened in Springfield, Mo. in June to rave reviews. Two writers approached Bill to do the book for their show about long-lost letters of the titans of classical music, Bach to Strauss. Bill never met or spoke with the writers until dress rehearsal; the whole thing was done by e-mail. They are now trying for an off-Broadway production.

Peter Lawrence and his wife spent two months in England, over and back on the QE2.

They walked all over London, toured, did theater, and visited Manston Air Force Base, where he’d been stationed years ago. They met some “old timers” and report that everyone was very friendly. Larry is looking forward to seeing many classmates at reunion.

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Mrs. D avid Hannegan (Louise Rudd) 34 Monadnock Drive, WestfordMA 01886 weezieh@msn. com

Class agent: Mrs. William Brooks (Dorothy Redfield) 1 Thelbridge Road, Madison CT 06443

Barbara Nash Hanson writes that they had “a grand day” with Dave and Cindy Youngman Adams in Sanibel, Fla. in March, and she was looking forward to a visit with Teeny Redfield Sander. The Hansons winter in California and summer in Nevada!

Morgan and Joan Duffy Murray live in Morristown but spend five months on Nantucket, where they built a house 14 years ago. Five of their six children are married and they enjoy 12 grandchildren. As Morgan is retired, they spend time traveling and planned to go to Alaska in June.

Our condolences to Jay Smith Hague on the death of her husband, J. Elliott Hague ’46.

M A _________________________ “Lost” alumnus Edward LeMaster was found

by Kimberley alumna Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 while on a cruise of the Panama Canal!

Edward and his wife, Harriet, live in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. where he does resort development and management.

Our condolences to the family of Edward Y. Gerding.

Mrs. Stanley M iller (Frances Lane) 462 SW 27th Ave., Delray Beach FL 33445 William and Anita St. Germaine Broas were married in 1949, and lived in several places before bringing up nine children in Convent Station, N J. Their five sons and four daughters have given them 28 grandchildren!

All are on the East Coast, except for a daughter in Holland. Anita says, “As you can see, I’ve been busy childrearing.” They traveled a lot while William worked for Warner-Lambert, and have settled in Williamsburg, Va. for the last ten years.

Discovered in the Smith College alumnae news: Julie LaZier Noyes’ husband died in 1995. She moved “off boat and into condo” in Connecticut. Julie plays tournament bridge as well as teaching bridge and traveling. Her children and grands are “all growing up, busy and successful.”

Nancy Rudd Eddy has been in touch with Ellie Helm Ketcham “concerning her dear mother who passed away after celebrating her 100th birthday.” Nancy reports that she will soon be living near sister Weezie Rudd Hannegan ’47 in Lakeville, Conn, in newly built houses. Nancy’s son Theodore and his wife Leslie plan to build there also. She continues to write her memoirs and poetry, and has been published three times in Cape Cod Community College publications.

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Our condolences to Susan Inglis Chapman on the death of her husband, Wheeler, while they were vacationing in Arizona in February.

________________________ Class agent: Mrs. Richard Lewis (Audrey Maass) 4551 North Shore Blvd. N, Apt. 804 Naples FL 33940 “I’m so glad to have renewed contact with MKA via 50th reunion and Review,” writes Edith Hoisington Miller. She and Michael enjoy their three little grandchildren since their move to be near them and son Andrew.

Son Joel will marry his jazz musician/ composer partner Christine in August.

MA _________________________ Mr. Rudolph D eetjen Jr. 17 K ing’s Cove Lane, Brooksville ME 04617 Class agent: Mr. Jay Bitting 299 River Edge Dr., Chatham N J 07928 Bunny and Bill Rowe and two kids cruised the Leeward Islands in May on a Bennetean 55 for his 70th.

Patty and I enjoyed spectacular scenery and lovely folks of Australia and New Zealand for a month in February. Rain forest treks, fjord cruises, and glacial helihikes will live in our memories forever. If you haven’t, do it soon!

Rudy Ed. note: Many thanks to Bill Ricketts, who sent several copies o f M ontclair News, 194750, to the alumni archives.

Attention Alumni A uthors MKA has a growing Alumni Collection in the Avery Barras Library of the Upper School.

Donations of 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>

«T th REUNION OCTOBER 20,2001 T K S _________________________ Class secretary and reunion chairman: Mrs. Lloyd M arentette (Gail Robertson) 476 Lakeland Ave., Grosse Pointe M l 48230 Here we are with our fiftieth coming up. I can’t believe w e’re old enough to have this happen.

Nancy Ehrhardt W hite’s daughter Alicia had twins in November, a girl named Georgia and a boy named Max. Nancy is enjoying trips to D.C. to visit them.

Baxter and Julia Smith Gentry are planning to come to reunion from Houston.

Suzie Bailey Twyford is also looking forward to reunion. Her son Rob, computer engineer, is getting married in August, and daughter Holly Twyford was nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for the best resident actress in Washington, D.C. This is her fourth nomination, and she received the award in 1998 for Romeo and Juliet.

I’ve been busy working on my mother’s house and getting ready for my daughter’s wedding in June. I’m very involved with a conservation group; we do a one-day cleanup of Lake St. Clair in May. Hundreds of people work on this. Look forward to seeing everyone at our fiftieth. Gail P.S. from the Alumni Office: Our condolences to Gail on the death o f her husband, Lloyd Marentette, in May.

MA _________________________ Mr. Ernest F. K eer III 459 Club Drive, P.O. Box 1030 Bay H ead N J 08742 Reunion chairman: Dr. M ark Hanschka P.O. Box 4536, Sunriver OR 97707 mrhans@cmc. net Reunion agent: Mr. Frank A. Fiore 6825 G u lf o f M exico Drive Longboat Key FL 34228 Though retired to central Oregon, Mark Hanschka still does GYN clinics and volunteers for environmental organizations.

He recently obtained a commercial pilot rating to take sightseers from the local airport. Mark keeps in shape by jogging, biking and so on “so I can still go on backpacks and mountain climbs.” Last October he led 24 from the Oregon Hiking Club on a trip to Kauai, Hawaii, for 11 days of various activities, including hiking, snorkeling, kayaking, and feasting at a luau!

By mid-summer the energetic Mark had rallied a great group to reunion.

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Mrs. Clark Moran (Martha Gilbert) 8011 StrauffRoad, Baltimore MD 21204

Our condolences to the family of John L. Kidde. John, who served as an MKA Trustee, had three sons who graduated from MKA: Jonathan ’94, Jeremy ’96, and Jason ’99.

Class agent: Mrs. James D onnell (Barbara Pendleton) 9468 No. Florence Rd., Pittsburgh PA 15237 Gail Tomec Kerr and Nancy Booth Kelly were headed to Smith for their 45th.

Clark and I had a nice visit with Nancy and David, who was in Baltimore for his 50th at McDonough School. [We learned from the Smith alumnae bulletin about Nancy’s award.

She was honored as one of 20 Living Legends for Volunteerism and Civic Work by the Zonta Club of New Providence, Bahamas, for her work on the Leyford Cay Foundation board of trustees. She received the Governor General’s youth award and is co-chair of the multimillion-dollar drive for the College of the Bahamas scholarship endowment fund, while being VP o f the Kelly mercantile empire.]

Dave and Gail Kerr still love living in Bay Head, especially in the winter when everyone leaves.

Bill and Wain Koch Maass divide their time between Venice, Fla. and Vermont; sounds like the good life! They have 10 grandchildren.

Fay Taft Fawcett’s daughter Ashley ’85 is getting married in October. Other daughter Pam ’87 and husband Chris are the parents of Katie, 2, Fay’s pride and joy. Fay keeps in touch with Susan Sanders, who is still in the Big Apple.

Sad news to report. Anne Dwyer Milne’s husband, Norm, died in January. Anne is staying busy, skiing in Colorado and taking trips to Germany and Prague. She says her friends and classmates have been a huge support.

Yours truly went on her annual visit to daughter Peyton and grandkids in Hong Kong. The third arrived on her birthday in May; that makes two boys and one girl. I am hoping to see Daphne Driver McGill at our 45th at Vassar.

Hope to see all o f you next year at our Fiftieth. Skipper

MA __________________________ Class agent: Mr. Charles Sage 435 Welch Avenue, Ames IA 50014 Our condolences to Robert Hughes, who was widowed in December. He is enjoying his three children and five grands and Camille’s five children and three grands.

Bob still summers in Lavallette.

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Suzette Armitage Whiting reports “a great time in Florida with classmates Steph Miller Gray and Sally Maxon Jones.” [See Spring Review article on the MKA alumni reception in Palm Beach Gardens.]

MA _________________________ Fred Porter wrote from North Carolina, “Grandpa is patiently awaiting the latest!”

Philip Fradkin’s eighth book, Wildest Alaska; Journeys o f Great P eril in Lituya Bay, was published in June; his ninth, on Wells Fargo and the West, will be published in January 2002; and he is working on his tenth, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Phil teaches a California history course at Stanford U. and is consultant to the Bancroft Library at the U. o f California, Berkeley. One reviewer called Wildest Alaska “a gothic tour de force by America’s finest environmental journalist.” Another wrote, “Philip Fradkin is a master storyteller - and his stories are full of adventure, primordial beauty, violence, and dread....His is a compelling voice, warning us never to take the earth and its elemental forces for granted.”

MPKS I _______________________ Ms. Georgia Carrington 38 Silver Spring Lane, Ridgefield CT 06877 carrgeo@aol. com How nice to hear from a few more o f you than usual.

Julian and Barbara Hobart Valbuena travel a lot: Thanksgiving in Jamaica for all ages, Christmas in New York with daughter Vivian, Madrid this spring, then San Francisco.

Barbara belongs to two book clubs, and with Julian’s retirement they are entertaining more.

She and cousin Hobart Van Deusen are planning a joint family reunion with all the assembled cousins and kids and grandkids.

Travel keeps Lynn Towner Dodd “in the friendly skies.” One family is in North Carolina, another in California, and one down the road from me in Greenwich. Lynn had a super trip with one family to Disney World and did a trip/tour to New Orleans (“fascinating, fun, and food-driven!”). Lynn sees many of the class who live nearby, Tillie

Jo, Aubin, CY, Marion, and also Maree Callahan Currey.

Andy and Tillie Jo Beatty Emerson are also on the travel circuit. “China in June (2000) was truly a lifetime experience. Thank goodness Andy speaks Chinese; got us through a few airports.” They sailed in the Juan De Fucas in the fall and saw daughter Cathy in San Francisco.

Line and Aubin Zabriskie Ames, though involved in volunteer activities, are “also in retirement mode and do our share of traveling, trying to play golf, and enjoying family and friends. Our big trip was to the Galapagos in November to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. Took all our kids and had a most wonderful time. It is a beautiful, unspoiled environment, and we were very impressed with how the Ecuadorian government tries to keep it that way.” Aubin’s parents live in Naples, Fla., so they go there a bit and spend much of the summer in Little Compton, R.I. “Jack and Pixie Cole Pendergast [also] have a place there, but we seem to rarely see them - everyone is so busy!”

Mimi Evans Winship is into a new venture called Find Every Child. She has her own website. “Last spring I taped one o f my TV shows at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children here in Virginia. I was so impressed with the work they do, I decided to try and help. When I asked if they had any TV ’missing child moments’ and they said no, I decided to take that on.” Mimi got in touch with her congressman, who gave her an aide, as there is a Missing Child Caucus in Congress. She had a board o f advisors meeting in the U.S. Capitol, with three congressmen, a state senator, criminal lawyer, philanthropist, Alexandria’s vice mayor, a corporation consultant, the mother of a missing child, newspaper editor, and a TV commentator.

Nell Fisk Hamlen did get down for a brief visit with Mimi.

Adrienne Onderdonk Dudden is busy as ever and could use a bigger staff. Alexis continues to have honors heaped on her as well.

As for me, I feel very fortunate to be able to play, travel, volunteer, and so on. In June I will go with a good friend from Baltimore to the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota for a weeklong service project. I have always been fascinated by the Native American culture, so hope to learn a great deal.

Do come to the 65th birthday bash this fall, and start gearing up for our 50th reunion.

Maybe we can set a record with our class gift!!! Georgia Ed. note: Janet Cook Phillips is the second o f an uninterrupted four-generation lineage to attend Kimberley/MKA. See MKA-Mail,f. page 2.

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MA __________________________ Class agent: Mr. Sheldon Buck 51 Cornell Rd., Wellesley MA 02181-7408 Roland Jacobus has a new business partner in the Florham Park office o f Salomon Smith Barney - and it is an MKA alumnus, Kenneth Vostal ’84. They are “excited about their partnership in continuing to help clients manage and attain their financial objectives.”

Donald Karp was spotted in the weekly Business News New Jersey. He is vice chairman of Independence Community Bank in Newark, and holds several corporate memberships, including trustee o f the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

M K M r ____________________________ Mrs. Susie Forstmann Kealy 550 N. Kingsbury, Apt. 603, Chicago IL 60610 Class agent: M iss Carol Turtle 13300 Indian Rocks Rd., #505 Largo FL 33774-2009 Our condolences to Carol Turtle on the death o f her mother. Mrs. Turtle had lived near Carol for many years, and remained alert and active till the end. She signed a college petition and attended a concert four days before her demise.

M A __________________________ Mr. Lawrence M artin P.O. Box 1058, Lexington VA 24450 Robert McClintock sent in a new address in Texas, noting that he has been with Paine Webber for 3 5-plus years.

wedding to be in 2002; and Vicki and Raoul are doing well in Maine.

Lilia Emetaz McDonald reports being a grandmother, “Nonna,” for the first time, with son Malcolm’s daughter Kaidlyn Alexis, bom in November. The McDonalds went on a cruise to Alaska and the Mexican Riviera last year. Lilia keeps up with swimming and community volunteer work like the League of Women Voters, hospital, and city recreation committee.

Carol Barnard Ottenberg also writes from the West Coast, “We’re clicking along in Seattle, having survived the earthquake with no damage, just a lot o f picture frames askew.

I’m working part time as a research interviewer, playing tennis, re-leaming bridge, and getting the backyard chicken house ready for this year’s trio of hens.”

“The request for class news seems to come more frequently each year, or are the years getting shorter?” writes Molla Kaplan Reisbaum. Molla enjoys work as a sales and marketing associate for Coldwell Banker in Wyckoff, and still maintains her stationery and invitation business out o f her home. She also plays bridge and golf, and “have the very best time when I am with my three grandchildren. Fortunately they all live locally.”

“My favorite time o f our 40th was our informal chat at Valley Road,” writes Janet Rodman Koskoff. “Those who keep in closer touch with MKA may have made the transition to Lloyd Road, but it will never feel like ’home’ to me.”

Sally Bever Zwiebach retired from teaching in 1999, the year her mother died. Sally’s connection to New Jersey was severed with the sale of her home. Burt retired this year, and they spend much time in their East Hampton cottage. Son Peter is an attorney in NYC and Michael, a Ph.D. from U. Cal/Berkeley, will teach at Amherst next year.

Sally keeps busy with community and statewide organizations, theater directing, part-time teaching and traveling.

I K S _______________________ __ Mrs. Lawther O. Smith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive, Doylestown PA 18901 lsmith6071@ cs.com “Cheers to my dear classmates on our 45th!” writes Nicole de Jurenev. “Can you believe we got so old, so fast? Sorry my health prevents me from being with you in person, but I’m there in spirit.”

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Sue Crook Ferdinand lives in the Lake George, N.Y. area at her family house. She is office manager for a REMax real estate office in Glens Falls.

Catch up on more news in October at reunion!

From the Alumni Office: Many, many thanks to those who answered the reunion appeal for “lost” alumnae.

MA _________________________ Mr. Eric Jaeckel P.O. Box 20153, Boulder CO 80308-3153 efjaeckel@ hotmail. com Class agent: Dr. Larry Nazarian 29 Surrey Place, P enfield N Y 14526 Brenda and Robert Fischbein are still practicing dermatology, albeit part time.

Their daughter Suzanne gave them “a gift of a new granddaughter, Grace” in January. She is baby sister to Noah, in kindergarten. Their daughter Emily received a master’s in urban planning and is pursuing that field.

Lawrence Nazarian’s third grandchild (middle name Lawrence) was bom in February; two more were expected this year, joining Lila, 3, and Charlotte, 1. Larry still practices pediatrics and edits Pediatrics in Review. He and Sharon spend as much time as they can with their children and grands, and enjoy walking, gardening, singing, and traveling, this year to Washington and California.

David Black checked in from Bend, Ore. but sent no news.

Jim Newman retired several years ago to their home in Martha’s Vineyard, and notes, they “keep abreast o f culture with a place in the West Village of NYC.” I’m now in Colorado after a 25-year hiatus.

Boulder is okay but Denver and Colorado Springs have big urban/suburban sprawl. If you come out here, I suggest wearing a helmet when you drive. I ’ve skied more than 25 days in sunshine, and am now into tennis.

Dick Hobbins looks just as he did in 1956.1 visited him while visiting my son, Brad, his wife, and my first grandchild, Avery Louise, in Wyoming. Eric

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Bob and Nancy Prescott Ward continue their communications business, but take time for traveling, this winter to Australia and Tahiti and a drive across the U.S. in June.

Their son Rob graduated from U. Maryland in December; Jennifer, deputy director of Queens Botanical Garden, is engaged,

Anne King Franges still practices law and has an office in the Crane building in Montclair. “I see Janet Kokoff about once a year at a plant sale or seminar at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum. We both seem to be dedicated gardeners.”

Class secretary Eric Jaeckel ’56, right, visited Karen and Dick Hobbins ’56 at their home in Wilson, Wyoming, summer 2001.

Ms. Linda Baldanzi 2 Greenview Way, Upper M ontclair N J 07043

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Class agent: Dr. Georgia Sherman Glick 21 E liot Rd., Lexington MA 02421 Penelope Gray Wheeler wrote in late winter, “Hello from Peacham [V t], 86 inches of snow, no thaw, so w e’re up to the roof with snow. Can’t see out o f any downstairs windows. I am looking forward to spring; unfortunately mud season comes first. I hope everyone is well.”

MA _________________________ Class secretary and agent: Dr. Edward T. O 'Brien Jr. 3376F em cliffL ane, Clearwater FL 36421 eobl072720@ aol. com

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Mrs. Judson Breslin (Wendy Worsley) 44 Lake Drive, M ountain Lakes N J 07046 Louise Alford Dillon is administrative assistant to four managers of the Linux Technology Center group at IBM/Austin, Texas. Though her husband, Jack, is retired, she plans to work several more years. Their daughter Pamela and her husband were expecting their first child, Louise’s first grand; daughter Holly and husband Chris are in NYC; son Jim works in Boulder, Colo, for an environmental company. The Dillons love Georgetown/Sun City, and Louise says, “Spring has been glorious with all the wildflowers blooming in pastures and along the highways. Lady Bird Johnson’s project still is flourishing.” Louise continues to be active in DAR. Helen DuBois Veltkamp also loves Texas; she lives in Cedar Hill.

“It was a big honor for Lily, because only the top artists in any area (painting, photography, sculpture, music) are invited to show there.

The National Arts Club is in an ornate mansion on Gramercy Park, started in the 1800s. The opening was packed with top photographers, and Lily introduced me to some of them, which made the experience even more exciting. A couple of them were top photographers for Life magazine in its heyday. Lily seemed to know most of the people there, so I’m sure it was networking heaven for her.”

Congratulations also to Joan McConnell, who has been appointed professor at the new Faculty of Foreign Studies at Bunkyo Women’s University in Tokyo. She will be teaching in English, since one of the purposes is to prepare young women who are linguistically and culturally fluent in English.

Joan has been doing much writing, and had a paper on the Cultural Dimension of Language Learning presented at the WACRA [World Association for Case Method Research and Application] international conference in Sweden in June.

She will be a speaker at a conference on Asia at the U. o f Central Oklahoma this fall. Joan managed to spend three weeks in Italy, including Carnival celebrations in Venice: “I am able to spend time in all the worlds that I love - New Jersey, Italy, and Japan.”

MA _________________________ Mr. M ichael Baker 10 H ighland Dr., North Caldwell N J 07006 Our condolences to the family o f Merrill Gitkin. He leaves his wife, Nancy, and two daughters who graduated from MKA, Stephanie Gitkin Hawk ’87 and Danielle Gitkin ’98.

MA _________________________ Class secretary and agent: Dr. Robert R. Haney 525 Cardinal Circle E., St. M ary’s GA 31558

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Ms. Jarvis Reilly Nolan 15612 Via Marchena, San Diego CA 92128 jarvisno@ aol. com Marybeth Bass Lareau reports on the opening of the Photographic Administrators Photography Exhibition at the National Arts Club in February, where Lily Solmssen Moureaux had several photos exhibited.

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MA __________________________ Mr. George A. Bleyle 2259 Weir Drive, Hudson OH 44236 orion@ gwis.com George Bleyle has been on a whirlwind of trips all over the world as captain for United Airlines (in one three-week period, he flew to 23 different cities). As he is an instructor captain in the Boeing 777, he anticipated trips on their new Chicago-Beijing route.

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T K S __________________________ Ms. Christine Keller 1702 Church Street, Galveston TX 77550 Class agent: Mrs. Suzanne Scanned Hardy 229 Woodside Ave., Winthrop MA 02152 Congratulations to Claire Coles, who was promoted to full professor at Emory U. School of Medicine, department of psychiatry/pediatrics. She was also appointed to the Federal Advisory Board of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome National Task Force.

Claire traveled to Moscow, Russia to do research in orphanages, and toured southern England with daughter Allison Coles and her children, Carter and Christian.

Christine Keller loves being retired in Galveston, Texas. She is planning to come to reunion.

James Zager specializes in cardiovascular medicine in Downey, Calif.

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Mary Beth Bass Lareau '59 and Lily Solmssen Moureaux '59 at the Photographic Administrators Bi-annual Photo Exhibit at the NationalArts Club in New York City this winter. Moureaux, who has extensive experience as a photographer andphotojournalistfor the United Nations, had severalphotographs at the exhibition. [Photo: Harry Amdur]

“Retirement is great,” writes Daphne Betheil McCarthy. They love living on Cape Cod (Falmouth). Daphne sings lead in the Cranberry Shores Chorus o f Sweet Adelines International, though she plans to give up her board position and travel more. She and John took their three children, their spouses, and two grandchildren to Ireland last summer, a reunion celebrating their 35th anniversary.

They were off to Hawaii this March.

MA __________________________ Mr. D avid L. Bruck 12 Pond View Lane, Titusville N J 08560

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D is tin g u is h e d F a c u lty Bruce Guernsey ’62 received the 2001 Distinguished Faculty Award from Eastern Illinois University. The award honors one who excels in teaching, professional development, and service, and the selection was based in part on letters submitted by colleagues. He has received multiple Faculty Excellence awards, has been selected for Fulbright Lectureships in Greece and Portugal, and received the Illinois Board of Governors Universities Distinguished Professor award. Bruce is a nationally recognized poet. He spent two days as visiting scholar at MKA last year. An essay about his “coming home” is in this issue of Review.

This summer he again taught on the Semester at Sea voyage, from Greece to Russia. “Imagine!” he writes, “Vodka with Dostoyevsky, or better, Anna K.”

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Lynn Sanders Pizzirusso’s daughter and s-i-1 visited in May, then they went to D.C. for son Jamie’s graduation from George Washington U. Law School. The whole family was together at Christmas - 28 for a sit-down dinner at Martha’s Vineyard.

Nancy Finn Kuper continues her work at church (she is a Deacon), coaches gymnastics, and judges all the high school gymnastic meets in the area. She was in the throes of wedding plans as oldest son, Art, was getting married in May in their church; daughter Sarah graduated from Michigan State in May, and youngest daughter Wendy finished her freshman year at Ferris State U. Nancy’s husband has started an Edward Jones office for investments.

“I hate the fact that we are moving further forward in the surviving classes, making room for the younger folks just graduating,” writes Cindy Smith Gaw. She and Kevin have been in Atlanta for 13 years with her sons, Todd and Colin. Todd is engaged.

Cindy works for a local optometrist “helping all the baby-boomers become sighted again.”

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E-mail has made it fun and easy to be class secretary. When it’s time to put together the class news, I pull out our yearbook, flip through the pages, and for a little while, I am 18 again.

Dick and Randi White McGinnis still live in the old fraternity house they have occupied for more than 30 years. Their children are off, coast to coast; in May they went to Charlie’s graduation from Northwestern.

Ariel is the last in college; she finished freshman year at Stanford. The McGinnises traveled quite a bit in the states, England, and Africa on safari during Dick’s sabbatical year.

Randi planned to start an educational consulting business, and hoped to entice Connie Bruck from L.A. to speak to Bucknell classes and her book club.

Judy Hesse Grace, who had been widowed in 1995, married a wonderful man she met in church choir, Jo Grace (“Mr. Coursen’s positive influence lives on forever!”). They moved to a home in Londonderry, N.H. Judy continues the company that she and her late husband started (patents on measuring intracranial pressure non-invasively).

Daughter Laura is 23 and studying early childhood; Christina, 19, is pre-med at George Washington U. in D.C. Our condolences to Judy on the loss of her father last year.

Barbara Mahler Markussen works as stacks supervisor at the RPI library in Troy, N.Y. Her husband, Carl, is with the U.N. in Sierra Leone, Africa as chief o f air operations. They see each other only every five months or so - the good news is that Europe (Greece, Germany) is halfway between Africa and USA. Son Jeff works near Barbara and keeps her company at home; daughter Kris lives in New Jersey.

Barbara sent news of Helen Jean Heller Cogan, who works at the U. o f New Mexico at Roswell as a division chair of liberal arts (Helen has a Ph.D. in fine arts). She supervises nine full-time and 60 adjunct faculty. “The campus is the old military base, and the hangar where the military supposedly brought the alien body in 1947 is across the street. It is strange to live in a town whose claim to fame is an alien landing. Once a year the true believers descend on Roswell.”

There are also a symphony and two art museums. Helen has two children, a married son, 25, and a daughter, 22. Her husband Dennis’ two boys are both married - between them they have “almost 4 grandchildren.”

Susan Herbert Kyle has been visiting her dad, now widowed, in Florida about once a month. Son David works for a dot-com in Boston, and Kevin finished sophomore year at U. Maine. Susan and Bill enjoy the contrast of “working hard at our respective businesses and our weekend escapes to Nantucket.”

Carolyn Wilson Ward’s house “is very quiet and fairly empty” with children away: Robert at college in Florida, James Jr. in Dallas, and Beth in San Jose, Calif.

Lynn Buttel McElroy has worked at American Liver Foundation in Cedar Grove for 10 years as an information specialist for the 800 number. “I get questions that would curl your hair,” she writes. Son Jeff, a police officer, was getting married in July, and Eric is a PE teacher in Paterson schools. Lynn’s parents are doing well. Husband Bill, after 30 years at a bank, manages Mt. Hebron Cemetery.

Very best wishes to Debby Pines and Carl Perchonock on their wedding, which was held at their home outside Philadelphia in a very personal ceremony. Sandy Brett attended and helped the bride. This spring Debby visited friends in New Zealand and went to New Orleans for the American Psychiatric Assn.

Frank and I are now official residents of Florida. He retired from Unisys after almost 34 years; management okayed my working from our Cortez condo. (I am Mid-Atlantic district manager for Global Network Services.) It’s great to be able to watch the pelicans in Sarasota Bay or swim during lunch hour. All six o f our children have been to see us in the Henneman Hotel. Hope to see classmates that either live in Florida or are visiting. There is much to see and do.

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MA _________________________ Hon. John Sheldon P.O. Box 96, Paris ME 04271 Class agent: Mr. P eter C. Mayer 133 Woodfield Road Washington Township N J 07675

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6 6 _______ Mrs. James Wright (Susan DeBevoise) 1 Tuck Drive, Hanover N H 03755 susan. wright@ dartmouth. edu

Mrs. William E. Crawford (Francine Onorati) 421 Beacon Street, Boston MA 02115

We’re collecting e-mail addresses for a class e-mail address book. Please send it if you’d like to be part of our directory accessible to classmates.

“The new century has been both wonderful and challenging,” writes Randy Bean. She was promoted to executive producer of the video and television production group at Stanford, and their documentary “Becoming Stanford: The Making of an American University” won an Omni Award for writing.

Sadly, her beloved yellow Labrador, Grade, died in February, but Randy has adopted another “wonderful” lab named Polly.

You may still be reading news of several classmates in the spring magazine. Since then, I’ve heard from Jane Kuzmick Izod’s twin, Jim, who graduated from the Academy.

Jane and her husband live in Street, Md. We also have poignant news from Caryl Walker Greisenbeck’s mother [Maryl Riter Walker ’39]. Caryl died in a terrible accident in 1981. Her daughter, Dana Greisenbeck, is to be married in August. We miss our beloved classmate, Caryl, very much. Her infectious love of horses and riding is as vivid today as it was at Kimberley. I can just see Caryl in her jodpurs and riding helmet - and all those trophies.

A voice from the “lost” column: Cheryl Calmenson Graff called from Toronto, Canada. She has been selling residential real estate there for 20 years. They have three children, two boys and a girl; the oldest boy is married and has a daughter, making her a “grand.”

Page Paterson received a master’s in acupuncture in 1989 and has been in private practice ever since. She remarried in 1992, to Charles Robbins. She has two grown children: Dylan, 25, and Allison, 20.

An editorial by Ellen Malcolm on the 2000 election was spotted in the Boston Globe (Jan. 23, 2001). As you know, Ellen is president and founder of EMILY’S List, and the article was about the progress women have made in the electoral process; they are now “power players.”

By the time you read this, summer will have come and gone. In July w e’ll take three of our six grandchildren to the Big Apple Circus when they’re in Hanover for their annual visit. If you’re inspired, please write with your current happenings. Susan

M A __________________________ Judy and Jim Kuzmick have been married 30 years, and have lived in Great Falls, Va., for the last 15. Jim heads a consulting company that works primarily on defense programs. They have three daughters, Elizabeth, 24, who was getting married in June; Katie, 22, a senior at Drexel U.; and Mary, 19, in her first year at Pratt Institute.

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MARCO POLO The May, June, and July issues of National Geographic featured a historic series called “In the Footsteps o f Marco Polo.” It was beautifully photographed by Montclair Academy’s own Michael Yamashita ’67 over a two-year period. Michael and the writer, Mike Edwards, traveled from Venice to China and back via Sumatra and India, gaining access through hostile territory in Afghanistan and Iraq and to Buddhist monasteries in Nepal.

He reports, “Afghanistan has basically gone back to the Dark A ges.. .Donkeys are the main form of transportation.

There is no water or electricity.. ..The lack of infrastructure makes it look biblical. It was great for getting pictures, but working there was a different story.”

He got photos o f everything from masked women in Iran and Bedouins riding camels across the dunes to monks in yellow hats.

Legacy: Sari Kramer ’66 and daughter Sasha Kramer ’01 at the Class o f 2001 Commencement in June.

MA _________________________ Mr. D. Carter Fitzpatrick 49 B ell R ock Plaza, Sedona A Z 86351

Michael received the MKA Distinguished Alumni Award in 1992.

When the Marco Polo series appeared, he was on three-month assignment for two more Geographic specials, “The Great Wall o f China” and “Tokyo Bay.”

Class agent: Mr. Craig Cameron 11 Bay Point Drive, Ormond Beach FL 32174 “Hello to the two people at MKA that might remember me,” writes Bill Beckley. “I attended the Academy in 7th through 9th grade. I am currently Exec. VP for Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee, Wis., married, two boys ages 12 and 14. Life is good.”

John Hawley and his daughter Elnora were to attend the National Junior Classical League convention at Tulane U. in July. That is his eighth consecutive convention and her fifth.

John teaches Latin at the Harker School in San Jose, Calif., and is the modem and classical language department chair.

“I’m getting a bit tired o f long winters after 3 1 years in Vermont,” writes Peter Orgain, “but I’m enjoying my life. Career, marriage, family, and health are all thriving. Happy. I miss old MKA friends, especially Bob Hemmeter.”

Ms. M argot Escott 5135 Cobble Creek Court #101 Naples FL 34110 escott@ naples.fiet Margot Escott was a contestant on the ABC game show, “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,” in March. She found the selection process challenging and interesting.

She flew to New York for the taping, and reports “It was really fun. The sets looked like something out of Star Trek... .It was a good learning experience. It gives you an idea of life’s possibilities if you just give things a try.”

In real life, Margot is a licensed clinical social worker. She was photographed and quoted in an article on the therapeutic benefits of laughter in an article in the New Jersey Star-Ledger in March. Margo gives many sessions for elderly residents in Naples, Fla., retirement communities.

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M A _________________________ Class agent: Mr. Craig Perry 3467 Pinestream Road, Atlanta GA 30327 Joseph Marino is a partner in the new firm o f Marino & Gebeloff, LLC in Verona, N.J. He is a certified creditor’s rights specialist.

Joe serves as a member o f the boards of Governors of both the American Board of Certification and of the Commercial Law League of America. His daughter Alexandra will enter MKA’s fourth grade in the fall.

Douglas and Craig Perry’s oldest, Crane, 11, enters the Westminster School in the fall, and Charlotte, 9, attends The Schenck School.

They continue to love Atlanta after 10 years, but Craig reports he has lost most of his Northern accent.

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MA __________________________ Mr. Burton M. Webb Box 29, Free Union VA 22940 Alan Yamashita was coming back to New Jersey a couple o f years ago after living and raising a family over 15 years in Asia, but got the proverbial “offer you can’t refuse” from Hong Kong. “So I reenlisted for another tour o f duty.”

He runs a special practice managing the global investments of one large Hong Kongbased client. Alan reports that the business requires a lot o f travel around the world, so he comes back to New Jersey not infrequently. He even shared lunch with old math study partner and fishing buddy Dave Moir the last time he was in New York.

“The most frequent MKA traveler to Hong Kong has been Rick Sheldon ’67,” Alan writes. “We catch up on MKA stories at my favorite Cantonese restaurant over roast goose and tea. Rick consults on how to fix up dot com supply chain businesses now that the bubble has burst, and extols the virtues of Maine where he lives. All MKA survivors who pass thru Hong Kong are welcome to join our Joy Luck Club.”

Class agent: Mr. Garret Roosma 12175 Upper H eather Ave. N Hugo M N 55038 ^ B K S # _____________________________ Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Ehrhardt) 46 E. Saddle River Road Saddle River N J 07458 Andy Goddard reports that business is good, and expanding. Chestertown [Md.] “has become the darling of the B&B and the weekend house in the country sets, which is the perfect market for me. That may even include some of my old classmates?”

Shelley Brightman Runyan is getting ready to make some big changes. She is wrapping up 15 years o f working at Detroit Country Day School and hopes to move on to either a doctoral program at the U. o f Michigan or a teaching position at the university level. Her 24-year-old son is engaged and her 20-yearold-son is at Michigan State. She had a nice card from Angela Steggles Nevius, who is living in eastern Pennsylvania and raising two sons. They hope to get together after 25 years!

M A __________________________ Dr. Edward A. Griggs Jr. 32 Courseville Road, Bronxville N Y 10708 Our condolences to the families of Walter Kuhlmann and Robert Rowbottom.

George Downsbrough’s daughter Melissa is a freshman at U. of Nebraska, shooting on the rifle team. The team was second in Air Rifle at NCAA championships. Daughter Lea, 15, is a swimmer for high school and YMCA. Our condolences to George on the death of his mother.

Alan Hirsh’s second son, Craig, graduated this year in the Class of 2001. Son Bret Hirsh graduated in 2000. Alan looks just as youthful in this year’s Commencement “legacy” photo as the one in last year’s Review.

M K A # ________________________ Ms. Leslie Bryan 844 E ast M om ingside Drive, NE Atlanta GA 30324, lbryan@ dsckd.com Class agent: Ms. Kim Kolbe 38 Kent Dr., Roseland N J 07068

MA ______________________ Mr. V. James Castiglia 5701 Berkshire Valley R d , P.O. Box 311 Oak Ridge N J 07438

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Garret Roosma “doesn’t have any news but his sons do.” Colin graduated from Lafayette with a B.A. in economics and mathematics in May, and will be an analyst for Accenture.

Ian will be a freshman at DePauw U. this fall.

James Brothers has four children, from entering sophomore at Wellesley, high school junior, 7th grader and kindergartner. Jamie continues his work in things historical - his specialty, the early iron industry —and archaeological projects.

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MA _________________________ Reunion chairman: Mr. Robert Hoonhout 62 Stocker Road, Essex Fells N J 07021 Reunion agent: Mr. Guy D ella Penna 141 Ogden St., Sarasota FL 34242 Reunion is inspiring reconnections and findings o f “Losts.”

Tony Vitale surfaced in NYC, where he works for Church Publishing, the arm of the Episcopal Church that handles the prayer book, hymnal, and clerical directory and various liturgical materials. “It’s a long way from Montclair,” he writes. Tony and John Guttman plan to attend reunion.

Tony notes that Michael Wolff is the famous author of the bestselling NetGuide, one o f the first books to introduce the Internet to the general public, and NetBooks, the 30-title series o f Internet guides. Burn Rate is about his experience as a pioneer/entrepreneur in the industry. He writes for numerous newspapers and magazines.

Herbert Tate resigned after seven years as president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, and is now a professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is an Advisory Trustee of MKA. Jim Bryan was promoted to president of Fairystone Fabrics, Inc., a manufacturer of warp knit fabrics. He was also elected to the board o f directors o f T.D. Sales, a “virtual vertical” sales and marketing company that supplies specialty fabrics to the outerwear, industrial, apparel and automotive industries.

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Class agent: Ms. Erin Cuffe Crawford 102 Buckingham Road Upper M ontclair N J 07043 Mary Rowbottom McCluskey ran into Sue Widmark Ridgway at the Exeter (N.H.) skating rink. “We live fairly close to each other now and look forward to spending some time together.”

M A __________________________ Legacies and “Lifers": Lisa andAndrew Abramson 71 with their daughters Heather and Lauren, who graduated in the Class o f 2001, and Carly, afifth grader. The twins attended MKA for all 13 years.

Our condolences to Bruce Downsbrough on the death of his mother. Bruce has been working busily behind the scenes to help find our M.I.A.s.

Come to reunion to learn about everyone else!

After two happy years in England, Kathy and Peter Perretti have moved to Texas, where he is chairman of the history department at the John Cooper School in The Woodlands (outside Houston). It is a Pre-K-12 school very much like MKA. They did a lot of traveling on the continent and went on safari in Africa en route back to the States.

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Mrs. D avid Kilnapp (Barbara Peto) 15 Fairway Lane, Pembroke MA 02359 Class agent: Ms. Kate Curtin Lindsey 12630 Three Sisters Rd, Potomac MD 20854 “2001 has brought on two ’life cycle events’ that I am trying to get used to,” writes Barbara Flessas. “ 1) My oldest son, Nick, enters the Upper School in September (where did the time go?) and 2) I got those dreaded reading glasses.” Barbara spoke to MKA students about law at Career Day last year.

Brewer Doran is Dean of the School of Business and Information Technology at Lasell College, Boston.

Amy Nussbaum Mack lives in NYC and practices landlord-tenant law. Her son Jeremy attends Brown University.

MA __________________________ Class agent: Mr. Peter Perretti 86 E ast Bracebridge Circle The Woodlands TX 77382 Jeffrey Kindler is Executive VP and General Counsel to McDonald’s Corp., which was recognized by the American Bar Assn, for outstanding pro bono legal service.

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MA __________________________ Mr. Gregory Lackey 138 Paupukkewis Trail M edford Lakes N J 08055 Class agent: Mr. Rudy Schlobohm 78 M ontclair Ave., M ontclair N J 07042 Our condolences to the family of Timothy Miller, who died unexpectedly o f a heart attack. He leaves his wife, Judy, and two high school-age boys.

Mai O’Hara writes that Rudy Schlobohm is now a part-time resident o f Warren County.

“He was recently elected president of the Crystal Lake Senior Citizens Association.”

Jeff Carrie has been promoted to Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI, with 21 special agents and an operations assistant under him involved in such matters as organized crime, white collar crime, foreign counterintelligence, and other classifications.

Mr. Rudolph Schlobohm 78 M ontclair Ave., M ontclair N J 07042 rudy@ thecastlecompany. com Congratulations to Mark Baran, who was inducted into MKA’s Athletic Hall of Fame in May and whose record in the pool held for 27 years until this spring. Mark is still competitive in M asters swimming.

Glenn Jacobs writes he has a lot o f fond memories of MA, even though he didn’t graduate with the class. He has two children and is busy with coaching baseball, basketball, and soccer. “You can tell you’re getting old when you look forward to spring in order to plant the tomatoes in the garden.”

After three years working as a counselor in a Connecticut boarding school, Anthony Celentano returned to New Jersey to take a similar position at Pope John XXIII High School in Sparta. He received an M.A. in counseling from Seton Hall in 1995. He is still involved with music, and plays the organ at Saint Virgil Church in Morris Plains.

Robert Powell enjoys his position in the “disaster recovery” department o f a major data processing firm. He is working toward designation o f Certified Business Recovery Planner. He is enjoying digital photography.

Daughters Fiona, 6, and Michaela, 4, enjoy Irish dance.

The undersigned employed a cheap trick in soliciting news for this issue’s Notes, offering MKA Bookstore merchandise in return for the best stories of mid-life crises. The unanimous choice of the judges was Ben Thompson, whose three self-effacing stories of presbyopia and the vanity of eternal youth win him a blue-and-white-striped MKA golf umbrella (which can also be used as a skin cancer shelter). Rudy

Class agent: Mr. Paul Zukerberg 1901 Wyoming Ave. N W #75 Washington D C 20009

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Many thanks to David Soule for his lengthy tour as class secretary. He has a new position as Senior VP of Human Resources for Coach USA in Houston, Texas. The bus company operates in 38 states - he notes they transport 30,000 people into NYC every day!

Diana Utech, who works with the American Red Cross in L.A., is an active member of The Maltose Falcons, the oldest homebrewing society in the U.S. They make their own beer, wine, cider, and mead and enter competitions around the country.

Retired faculty member Marilyn Faden spotted a photo o f Whip Hubley and Olympia Dukakis in a New York Times review [May] of the TV series Tales o f the City.

Congratulations to Doug Hamilton, who was recently tenured and made chairman of the department of biology at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y. Congratulations to Jeffrey Schiffman, who received 1st Place for Sportscast in the Pennsylvania AP. His station, WSBA-AM, won seven AP awards and was named Station o f the Year. Jeffrey, who has been there 10 years and is assistant program director/sports director, says it has been interesting covering the Super Bowl Champion Ravens as well as the Orioles, with Carl Ripken's imminent retirement.

Richard Steenland announces the birth of his third child, Sarah Kate.

He was last on the east coast while at tax school at NYU in 1994-5. Metiner lived in southern California for several years before moving back to Yakima, which, he says, has decent skiing 45 minutes away, outstanding fishing in all directions, and a big wine region. He is in general practice business law, plus tax planning.

Hilary Hoffman Fandel is back at MKA, now as a parent, with twins Henry and Philip in Middle School.

Michael Rosenberg is a literary agent in Texas; his company, The Rosenberg Group, has a website (see MKA email list). They had a big book by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Donald Murray coming out in May. Chip Read is director of critical care medicine at Georgetown U. Medical Center.

He personally raised $31,000 for AIDS services by participating in 1999 and 2000 AIDS rides, biking 350 miles (each time) from Raleigh, N.C. to Washington, D.C. Frank Godlewski Gerard has been designing a winery/hotel in Sicilian countryside, “and staying in a monstrous hotel in nearby Canicatti’ (which in Arabic translates into ’mudpuddle’)....W hen I’m in Montclair I feel like Rip Van Winkle because the landscape is the same but the people have all gone on to other lives.”

Come to reunion and fmd out about those other lives.

Our condolences to Harry Nimmergut on the death o f his mother.

The Princeton Alum ni Weekly did a thoughtful obituary of Paul Olowacz that was noted by several MKA alumni. “He was a well-loved fixture at Princeton Inn College, renowned for knowing every song lyric of the previous 20 years.. .Lately he was a frequent guest DJ on WZBC radio, near Boston.. ..A liberal arts major, his camaraderie with engineers and physics majors made him a natural for his jobs on the staffs o f several computer magazines, lastly as an editor at PC Week."

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Mr. Andrew Pedersen 226 F air Haven Rd., F air Haven N J 07704 Class agent: Mr. Robert Hubsmith 16 Warren Road, M aplewood N J 07040

Karen and Bill Kovacs’s daughter Lauren is following her dad’s tracks, to Lehigh for engineering. Son Billy is a junior at Pingry; both children are avid soccer players.

Kevin and Pat Cane Donahue have a new child named Steven, 8, who arrived last March from a Russian orphanage. Pat teaches eighth grade science and coaches the Science Olympiad Team. This summer the Donahues ran a Summer Miracles Program for Kidsave International, which brings older Russian orphans to the USA to live with host families, and perhaps fmd an adoptive home.

“We need donations and host families,” she writes. “Visit www.kidsave.org to learn more.”

Jennifer Hendrian and Steve Spaulding had a son, Justin, in June 2000. Jennifer is taking time off to enjoy the baby, and still runs the local Girls Inc. Jonathan Grevatt, aka “Jonathan Clarke” on the air, hosts “Ground Zero,” a new 10 p.m.

Sunday music show featuring new releases and unsigned local bands. The show debuted in March on Q104.3 (104.3 FM), “New York’s Only Classic Rock Station,” and Jonathan was dubbed “the perfect guy to blend new music from unsigned local artists with new releases from record labels.”

Jonathan encourages MKA-area student and alumni bands/artists to send him their CD. In April Betsy Alison did a trans-Atlantic crossing with “Team Adventure,” a 110’ catamaran that had raced non-stop around the world in “The Race.” Betsy did the delivery back from Spain to Georgia, retracing Columbus’ voyage of discovery. Fans and educators could check their progress daily on the Web site, and learn history, geography, biology, and practical sailing facts from the floating classroom. Betsy hosts a weekly TV show called “Boating Today,” seen on Fox Sports, and has embarked on an Olympic campaign in a new sailing discipline for 2004 H women’s keelboat class.

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M5tMBUNION 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 Reunion is bringing in news of “long-losts” and friendships rekindled. Metiner Kimel has the best excuse for not coming to reunion: He is getting married in August and the reception/party is scheduled for October 20. Metiner lives in Yakima, Washington (he might have gotten the Long Distance Award).

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An alumni reunion at an award dinner, when Dr. Robert Rento received a Distinguished Physician Award at the Waldorf, NYC. L to R: David Rento '84, Thomas Rento ‘80x, Mark Baran '74, Joseph Rento ‘82x, Dr. Richard Rento '78.

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Mr. Lawrence Garrigan 6103 Ox Bottom Manor D rive Tallahassee FL 32312

Reunion chairmen: Ms. M argaret Johnson 200 Mt. Pleasant Ave., A pt A-5 West Orange N J 07052 margaret.johnson@ officeteam. com

Class agent: Ms. Jane Lugaric Burkhard 299 Crown Road, Kentfield, CA 94904

Mr. Steven Chambers 72 Appleton St. #4, Boston MA 02116

Congratulations to Julie and Daniel Groisser on the birth of Sarah in April. Their son Sam will start Brookside this fall - the MKA Class of 2015 ! Dan has moved his dermatology practice to Verona and has added a third partner.

Class agent: Ms. H yla Ames Bauer 240 E ast 82nd Street, Apt. 7J New York N Y 10028

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Mrs. Carlos Ortiz (Shawn Mahieu) 2163 Gilbride Rd., M artinsville N J 08836 After almost five years in Treasury’s Office o f Enforcement, James Johnson “hung up my spurs and retired my badge” as Undersecretary. He hung out his shingle as a partner in the NYC office of Morrison & Foerster. He planned to relocate to Montclair at the end of the school year. James was named to the board of Hale House in New York.

The upcoming reunion has inspired a plethora of news: Alex Sox-Harris writes, “After working as a wilderness guide and instructor for 12 years [mostly in Alaska], I’ve been doing stuff like getting graduate degrees in statistics and counseling psychology, getting married, and doing triathlons. The latter necessitated starting to swim again. If anyone is in the Bay area, send me an e-mail.”

Another “call if you’re in the area” request is from George George, who is assigned to the Presidential Protective Division of the Secret Service. George now protects President Bush and his family, and reports, “Travel is exciting and the work is challenging.”

Daughter Katie is 7 and Kevin is 2.

Anne Morey works for Texas A&M University.

Dede Swanson Montgomery is a stay-athome mother of Alexandra, 8, and Victoria, 6.

The girls attend Rye Country Day School, which, Dede says, “reminds me very much of MKA, in all the good ways.”

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Laura Reisch Itzkowitz was involved in a production of the musical Sweeney Todd in Spring Lake this spring. She sings with the Arcadian Chorale, doing solo and group work; they were to sing at a concert at Carnegie Hall in June. They registered their daughter for kindergarten.

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Class secretary and class agent: M ary L. Cole, Esq. 1 Ferrous Court, Chester N J 07930 m arycolel 2@hotmail. com Julia Hendrian lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she is a certified financial planner.

She reportedly loves the outdoors and has been refereeing and playing a lot of lacrosse.

Julie and Peter Dodd are involved in volunteer activities and much paddle tennis in Greenwich, Conn. Their children are Stephen, 8, and Kelly, 6.

Last October Karen Marnell relocated back to New Jersey after seven years in Atlanta.

She works for Volt, a national staffing service.

Joanne Wallace relocated from North Carolina back to Montclair. She works in finance for JP Morgan Chase Union, and is getting back into tennis.

Monty and Emily DuHamel Brower and son Gabriel, 2, live just south of Boston, and love the area with proximity to all things outdoors.

She found a photo from a seventh grade class trip to Sturbridge Village.

Harry Heist has been in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., since 1989 and has a law firm there. “I can look out the office window and see the Gulf of Mexico!” Harry is married, no kids, and travels a lot to Caribbean and Central

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American countries. He still has the antique car that appears in his yearbook picture!

Rosanne Pennella left law for photography in 1996, and has done great things ever since.

In the last few months, she has been on assignment to Costa Rica, Malaysia, Morocco, and China (for the China Tourism Office). Rosanne has worked on a web site with images from exotic places like Bali, Kenya, and Mali.

Alexandra McManus works as an office manager for a firm in Livingston.

Our condolences to Karen Boyle on the death o f her mother. After years in Africa, Karen relocated to Florida.

Michael Dobbin is director of administration o f R.G. Vanderweil Engineers in Boston, a 600-person firm. He co-authored a policy and procedure manual titled “Plan For Success.” Michael received an M.B.A. from Boston University, and has two children.

Peter Pollack is a police officer in Fairfield; he is doing well with a wife and new child.

Reunion queen Margaret Johnson, who garnered most of the above news, has been senior staffing manager for headhunter Robert Half Inti, for three years, after being a banker in NYC for seven years. She is back in the Montclair area and volunteers as marketing director o f her church’s credit union and as co-director of the junior development tennis program of her club.

Margaret raised $4,700 in the Rock-N-Roll marathon for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in June.

See you October 20.

Ms. Cheryl McCants 730 Northwest N atio Pkwy; Unit E24 Portland OR 97209 Mr. Thomas Robbins 6 Bradford Terrace Newtown Square PA 19073 Jay Greene is business correspondent for Business Week. He covers Microsoft in the magazine’s Seattle bureau. He and his wife have two children.

That news came from James Windolf, who is a senior editor at Vanity F air in NYC. One of Jim’s pieces was spotted in The New Yorker by retired faculty member Marilyn Faden.

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T a il s o f t h e C it y Tails of the City: 125 celebrities, artists, and “big cheeses” creatively interpreted Microsoft mice for a charity auction to benefit Destination Foundation this spring. Hope Hasbrouck ’83 joined other serious artists, celebrities including Lily Tomlin, Mr. Rogers, Judge Judy, plus “tattoo artists, design gurus, and welders.” Her “Appalachian Tail” mouse was the basic mouse added to a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) o f the Appalachian Trail, then output as contours and cut to produce a topographic relief mode, according to the auction Web site. She received a Judges’ Choice Award.

Hasbrouck is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Harvard Design School, where she teaches studios and courses on the application of digital technologies in the study and practice of landscape architecture. She received a master o f landscape design from Harvard, an M.A. in architecture from the U. Virginia, and a B.A. from Washington U. Her interest in architecture began at MKA in architecture and mechanical drawing courses with Calvin Matzke, who recalls helping her put a portfolio together for college admission.

Hasbrouck has spoken to MKA students at Career Day.

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Ms. Am y 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: Mr. Walter J. Davis 66 Oakwood Dr., New Providence N J 07974 davisteam@ home. com Nancy Cambria and husband Jeremy Kohler welcomed their first child, Samuel Thomas, in March. Both Jeremy and Nancy are journalists with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Mary and Walter “Bunker” Davis welcomed third son Nolan in December, joining Ryan, 9, and Patrick, 3. “I will never have to worry about filling out my foursome again!!” he writes.

Paul Josephson continues his work political: He served as Senator Jon Corzine’s general counsel last year, and has been appointed gubernatorial candidate Jim McGreevy’s treasurer and general counsel this year.

Stephen Pineda is an orthopedic spine surgeon in Rochester, 111. He is married to Dr. Lucy Christopherson, a neuroradiologist.

Best wishes to Kiris and Gary Powell on their wedding. Gary notes that though no MKA alum was present at the wedding, he proposed to Kiris in New Jersey last year. He is assistant professor o f instructional technology at Wayne State U. in Michigan; Kiris is an instructional technologist with Spherion Corp.

Marlene and Marshall Hendrian and daughter Lara, almost 5, live in Glen Ridge.

Marshall runs the family insurance brokerage and Marlene teaches.

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Class secretary and class agent: Mrs. Jennifer Jones Ladda 110 Glen Rock Road, Cedar Grove N J 07009 Best wishes to Richard and Meg Lugaric Schick on their wedding. They live in Los Angeles, and both are in the TV/film industry. He does special effects and Meg can be seen in seven or eight Budget rent-acar commercials.

Congratulations to Alison ThomasCottingham, Bob Cottingham, and 2-yearold Bobby, who welcomed Alison Josephine in March. Little Alison would be in the Class of 2018!

Congratulations also to Mark Pineda and Corina Gonzalez on the birth of Olivia Marie in April. Mark works at National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. He received an M.S. in environmental science and a second M.S. in biotechnology, both from Johns Hopkins U. Corina is a pediatrician at NIH.

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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 Best wishes to Jeffrey Schackner and Allison Wiener on their wedding. His sister Andrea Schackner Maline ’87 attended.

Jeffrey is a VP at Salomon Smith Barney.

Christopher Smith is finishing his doctoral dissertation while on leave from his position as director of primary research for Ruder Finn, Inc. in NYC. He is the Ann Plato Fellow in American Studies in Hartford, Conn. In December Chris threw a party for his fiancee Salaam, and several dear MKA friends - “all laXmen” - were able to join the celebration. Chris reports they missed David Lockett.

Congratulations to Paula and David Tessler on the birth of their first child, Jacob Nathan, last August.

Patti McConnell returned to Ogilvy and Mather as an executive producer.

Ashley Fawcett is engaged to Donald Greene, to be married in October. Ashley graduated from Colgate U. and is a consultant with The Public Consulting Group in Boston.

Melissa Bradley’s business, BHC/New Capitalist, provides on and off-line education and training in the areas of entrepreneurship, business economics, and financial literacy; strategic services to for-profit and non-profit businesses; and management experience to investors.

Carolyn and Bill Stone and son Benjamin have moved back to the East Coast, to Warwick R.I. Marc-Andre Buenger is director of European equities at UBS Warburg in Paris.

Tale of two alumni: Ken Vostal has joined Academy alumnus Roland Jacobus ’54 as a business partner in the Florham Park office of Salomon Smith Barney. Ken returned to New Jersey after 15 years in Virginia; he, his wife Sarah, and son Joseph live in Summit.

MKA laXmen reunion: Peter Edge ’82, Roger Brown ’85, David McCants '87, and Christopher Smith ’85 at Chris’ engagementparty.

Diane Ridley, M.D., is an anesthesiologist at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y.

Katie and Toby Bizub welcomed Thomas J. Bizub III (“T-3 for short, perhaps a future rap star?”) in June.

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M UmlWliiiHon October 20,2001 Ms. Sherry Ahkami 4386 North Talmadge Drive San Diego CA 92116 Ms. Jennifer Remington Knodel Park Glen #1602, 105 Roseland Ave. Caldwell N J 07006 Class agent: Mr. Damon Zeigler 403 Third St., Oakdale PA 15071-1250 Best wishes to Erica Lubetkin and Kenneth Drake on their wedding. Dr. Erica is an assistant medical professor at the City U. of New York Medical School. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown, received her medical degree from U. Penn and a master’s in public health from Columbia U. She did her residency in internal medicine at New York Hospital-Comell and a fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian.

Adam Hauser is a psychiatrist practicing at the Brown U. School o f Medicine in Providence, R.I. He and his wife, Amrita, have a year-old son named Sameen. Adam’s colleague in the psychiatry residency program is Jody Underwood ’83.

Elyse Decker Fenerty has three children: Conlan, 6; Hannah, 4; and Aidan, 2.

Jodi Schneider Scherl, with two-plus children, was looking forward to catching up at reunion.

Mario LaCorte has her own business, an entertainment public relations firm, Silverman/LaCorte Group. They promote the arts in Chicago, including theater and music.

Her husband, Riley Minster, is halfway through his pediatric residency; their daughter, Sarah, is 2.

David Weston checked in from San Francisco, where he is an account executive with EMC2 (“Where Information Lives”).

Congratulations to Shawn and Lynne Yellin Krest on the birth of Kayla Rose in December. They moved to a small town near Rochester, N.Y. near his family; Lynne works remotely for First USA Bank.

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Congratulations to Pat and Meg Allen Coyle on the birth of Olivia Josephine in April. She joins brother Liam, 2. They live in San Francisco.

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 Best wishes to Theodore and Deborah Chun-Moon on their wedding. They were married last September on Glacier Point at Yosemite National Park. They live in Sierra Madre, Calif. Dr. Deborah, an OB/GYN, is a partner o f the Southern California Permanente Medical Group.

Best wishes also to Robert and Stephanie Gitkin Hawk on their wedding. They were married in Palm Beach, Fla., and her sister Danielle Gitkin ’98 was maid of honor.

Stephanie has lived in McAllen, Texas for the last six years, working in manufacturing management in Mexico. She earned an M.B.A. from the U. of Texas in 1998 after a B.A. from Lehigh. Our condolences to Stephanie and Danielle on the death o f their father.

Marshall and Meredith Safirstein Bergmann and daughter Emery, 1, live in the West Village, NYC. Meredith works in healthcare marketing. She reports seeing Joy Booth, Sonya Mohuchy ’88, Hillary Windolf ’88, and Jonathan Schwartz ’88 at various get-togethers, and says everyone looks great.

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Class agent: Mr. A lec Schwartz 46 Plymouth Road, Springfield PA 19064 alec@ cmcservices. com Very best wishes to our brides and grooms: Craig and Hillary Windolf Johnston were married in May at her parents’ home, with sister Lori Windolf Crispo ’78 and brother Jim Windolf ’82 in the wedding party. Negi Ahkami, Andrea Safirstein Bernstein, Gretchen Cook ’93 and Sigrid Cook Morgan ’87 attended. Craig and Hillary both work at her father’s company, Bollinger, Inc., where her sister and her husband work.

Larry and Wendy Rosenblum Plummer were married in Reston, Va., with a large MKA contingent (see photo). The newlyweds have moved to Westminster, Colo., where Wendy is practice manager for Arbor Family Medicine.

MKA couple David Devejian and Karen Bodner ’90 were married in May, but sent no details.

Corey Weinstein ran into Jane Ainbinder ’87 when Jane was the cinematographer on a film shoot that was using Corey’s home as a set. Corey is a media producer in the Bay area - film, video, Web, print. She is also in a band that records, “so I guess that makes me a music producer on some level as well.”

Patrick Sweeney checked in from Pittsburgh, where he is VP of sales for BEA Inc., an electrical engineering company that produces sensors and sensing equipment. He travels a lot internationally, mostly to Europe or South America. Patrick sends greetings.

Yvette and Matthew Hendrian have a new house in Durham, N.C., with a few acres where they have constructed a building for Yvette’s softball pitching lessons. (She was the star pitcher for the UNC Heels’ softball team.) Matt celebrated his fifth year with Midway Airlines.

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Many MKA alumni celebrated the Virginia wedding o f Larry and Wendy Rosenblum Plummer.

L to R: Louis Lessig ’89, Lauren Polonofsky Garfield ’88, bride Wendy Rosenblum Plummer ’88, Michael Rosenblum ’86, Hayley Silver ’88, and Philip Rosenblum '85.

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Wendy Dorner moved to Orefield, Pa., where she is supervisor of the sales audit department of Party City Corp. She and Richard Pursell were engaged on Christmas day; the wedding is planned for November.

Wiemi Douoguih finished his fourth year of orthopaedic surgery residency at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Md., and is now on a one-year fellowship in orthopaedic sports medicine at the Kerlan-Jobe Clinic in Los Angeles. “We are responsible for taking care of the LA Lakers, Dodgers, and Kings,” he writes. Wiemi has returned to competitive judo and has qualified for the national championships and all domestic international events. Last fall he won a silver medal at the U.S. National Ladder Championships, giving him status as an elite US judo athlete. He has been living near his sister, Macaya ’90, who finished her second year of family practice residency at the U. of Maryland.

Anne Fetherston has moved back to Baltimore, where she works at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in psychology. She hopes to start their cognitive neuroscience Ph.D. program.

Small world: Craig Stark has been lured from sunny San Diego to be a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Johns Hopkins U. and head the lab research into the neural basis o f human memory. He and his wife, Shauna, moved to Baltimore this summer. Craig and Anne had lunch when the Starks were househunting.

Welcome, alumni children: Congratulations to Chris and Karen Muenster Fanning on the birth o f daughter Madyson in March.

Mami and Andrew Statmore’s daughter Maya Jordyn was 18 months in May “and is absolutely amazing!”

Angela and Marc Klein celebrated the birth o f their first child, Adam Robert, in April.

Marc is a partner at Thompson & Knight L.L.P. in Dallas, Texas, and practices employment and employment-based immigration law.

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Nilie Pajoohi and another attorney have gone on their own to form Pajoohi & Tooma, LLP in New York City. Their practice is limited to immigration law.

Ryan Schinman is president of Platinum Rye Entertainment in NYC. They do entertainment consulting and placing athletes in commercials.

David Ames made a career change and is teaching at Brookline High School outside Boston.

George Hrab was in training this summer for a triathlon in New Hampshire in August.

He ran the Poconos Marathon last October in 3:29.

Keisha Johnson Williams is human resources coordinator- Division of University Programs at George Washington U., D.C. Jeff and Sarah Lane Sproha and Amanda Mitzi, 1, are happily ensconced in Wyckoff, not far from either set of (babysitting) grandparents. She reports, “Life has been good to me,” and they celebrated their seventh anniversary. Sarah now works in Paramus as office manager/bookkeeper for a computer training school called Track On. Welcome, alumni children!

Keith and Deborah Hemsley Schultz welcomed Lauren Elyse in January. She joins big sister Emily, 2. Deb says that they had an eventful winter with frequent N or’easters in Boston in addition to the baby.

Amy and Peter Fusco’s second child, Emily, was bom in January.

Francesca and David Allen welcomed Giorgiana in March. David finished his master’s in international business at Columbia U., and the three have moved to Rome, where he will work for the U.N.

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Ms. Lorelei M uenster Lm uensterl @yahoo. com Class agent: Mrs. Regina Chi Clancy 339 West 88th St., #9, New York N Y 10024 Best wishes to our brides and grooms.

Isabelle and Ranjeev Krishana were married in New York. Ranjeev, who graduated from Brown U., received a master’s in public policy from Harvard in June. He is a manager in the state and local government strategy group at Accenture, a management consulting concern in NYC. Brendan and Tiffini Kriegel Haley were married in Montclair in June. Leah Napolitano Ortiz, Janna Weinstein, Cara Smith ’98, Joya Smith ’93, and freshman Carter Smith were in the wedding party, and Ginger Kriegel, Head o f Brookside Campus, was proud mother o f the bride. Robbin Gordon Cartier ’78 played harp at the church. Tiffini, who graduated from U. Virginia, is VP of marketing at Morgan Stanley, NYC. Best wishes also to MKA couple Karen Bodner and David Devijian ’88, who sent no details.

Richard and Michelle Santoro Lomuscio bought a pre-war apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and are renovating it.

Michelle is a design student and does freelance book production for Simon & Schuster.

Richard and Margaret Irwin Yenco are building a home on an island off the coast of Maine. She has taught high school Spanish for three years.

Macaya Douoguih is beginning her third year of residency in family medicine at the U. of Maryland. She graduated from Brown U. with a B.A. in visual art, worked as a healthcare researcher, and graduated from U. of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School. She often saw brother Wiemi Douoguih ’88 when he was doing an orthopaedic residency in Baltimore.

Congratulations to Bruce and Emily Ertel Nisbet on the birth o f son Connor Cameron in March.

Lorelei Muenster is a certified massage therapist and health educator, focusing in sports massage for extreme sport athletes. As a licensed skydiver, “Leia” earned her Coach rating in the U.S. Parachute Assn. She coaches at her home drop zone in the San Francisco Bay Area and was planning to spend the winter skydiving season in New Zealand and Australia. She is active in animal rights and vegan lifestyle issues.

Pablo and Kimberly Charlton Bedetti were married in Montclair in June. Kim is the curator o f manuscripts at the New Jersey Historical Society in Newark. She received a B.A. from Cornell and a master’s from New York University. They met at Cornell.

Charlaine Charlton, Head o f Campus at the Upper School, was proud mother of the bride.

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OCTOBER 20,2001 Ms. Dara Marmon 127 E ast 30th Street, 15A New York N Y 10016 telldjm@ aol. com

Joe Fiordaliso, discovered at his job as an aide to Sen. Robert Torricelli, is now assistant director of government affairs for Princeton U. in D.C. Come to reunion and hear news of everyone else!

Congratulations to Michelle Pflumm, who graduated from the U. California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology.

She was applying for post-doc positions on the East Coast. Michelle moved to the Bay Area in northern California after receiving a B.A. in chemistry from Haverford College.

Best wishes to Christopher and Jacqueline Kearney Bladeck on their wedding.

Jacqueline’s brother, John Kearney ’92, and Jessica Lerner were in the wedding party.

Jacqueline teaches fifth grade in Paramus, and they live in Lincoln Park.

Mr. Enrique Neblett 40 Highview Terrace, Bloom field N J 07003 eneblett@ yahoo. com Ms. Tamar Safer Radfar 1 14th Street #807, Hoboken N J 07030 Class agent: Ms. Anne M arie Verdiramo 2804 Second Street SW #118 Rochester M N 55902 Congratulations and best wishes to all our newly wed and newly engaged couples!

MKA couple Lauren Napolitano and Mark Strobeck were planning a July wedding. She is studying clinical psychology at Widener University, Philadelphia; Mark is in the department of cardiology at U. Penn.

Jessica Wu and Patrick Tsai ’92 also attended the wedding and are engaged.

Jessica works as a graphic/product designer at Russ Berrie & Co.

Amy Bressler, who is studying law at Fordham U., is engaged to Eric Shuffler.

They plan a November wedding.

Jessica Lerner, Esq. moved to Manhattan and works as Interactive Communications Manager at NYU School of Law; i.e., she runs the law school’s Web site.

Kimberly Cohen, who received a B.S. from Syracuse U., is supervisor o f accounts receivable with Westgate Financial in Hoboken. She is engaged to Jared Lubitz; a September wedding is planned.

Dr. Jeffrey LaGrasso is in his third year of surgery residency at New York Hospital.

Amy Custode, finishing an M.B.A. at Columbia, is working at JPMorgan/Chase.

She lives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Captain Bill May is stationed in Fort Shafter, Hawaii. He and his wife, Rachel, live in Honolulu and have three children: identical twins Thomas Michael and Anthony Vincent, 2, and daughter Maria Niamh, bom this January. (Sleepless in Hawaii?) Bill earned a B.S. in civil engineering from Duke U. and a master o f engineering management from the U. Missouri-Rolla.

Jamie Lenis is doing graduate work in education at U.Massachusetts/Boston. She spent two weeks in Hawaii this spring with Bill and Rachel May, and reports that their children are beautiful.

Our condolences to Seth Abbey on the death o f his father.

Ulysses De la Torre is traveling around Latin America “until the money runs out.” He has some friends in the private air freight industry in Colombia he planned to see regarding some professional opportunities.

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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. Luke Sarsfield 275 Greenwich Street, Apt. 8M New York N Y 10007 Reunion chairman: Mr. Joseph Fiordaliso 16 7th St. NE, Washington D C 20002 jafiordaliso@ att. net

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Class agent: Mr. Damien Vena 1359 M agdalena Ave. Cond. San Jose #401 San Juan PR 00907 Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Wolf, who graduated from the medical school at the U. of Vermont in May. He is doing a residency in ophthalmology at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y. Congratulations also to Dr. Jordan Safirstein, who received his M.D. from U. Chicago School of Medicine. He is doing a residency in internal medicine at EinsteinMontefiore Medical Center, NYC. Jen Wahl and Fenwick Garvey, voted “Couple Most Likely to Get Married” in the ’93 yearbook, are getting married! They plan a fall wedding.

Lisa Gittleman is an account executive in online marketing for the SPI Group, public relations, in Upper Montclair, responsible for writing and maintaining Web site copy.

Ed. note: Apologies to Margo Hirsch, whose name was misspelled in the spring Review (the “c” was left out). Margo, a lawyer, is already impressively accomplished.

Scott Weiner and Sara Wolk are planning a January 2002 wedding. Scott was promoted to VP at Lehman Brothers in NYC. He is in touch with Ari Terry, who is studying business at Harvard.

Stacey Honstedt and Peter Polanskyj were planning an August wedding. Stacey works for IBM as a consultant in their mergers and acquisitions department.

Addendum to the report in the spring Review o f Jenna Blanes Componovo’s wedding last summer: her brothers Joseph and Justin Blanes ’95 were ushers. Jen is attending Columbia Business School.

Ms. M onica Fernand 7 Josephein Ave., Somerville MA 02144 Ms. Dana Fiordaliso 514 2nd Street SE, Washington D C 20003 danaJiordaliso@ labor.senate.gov Class agent: Mr. Jason Awerdick 72 Sunset Ave., Verona N J 07044

And welcome alumni baby: Monte and Tami Safer Radfar welcomed son Jeremy to the world in May. In addition to managing the Bill T. Jones Dance Co., Alison Schwartz is co-founder and producing director of Darrah Carr Dance.

Their appearance at the prestigious dance venue, Joyce SoHo, in February received excellent reviews in the New York Times.

Alison spoke at Career Day this spring.

Christopher Pisacane ’94 and sister Dana ’01 at Commencement. Dana is class secretaryfor the Class o f 2001.

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Emily Ehrenberg graduates from Emerson College in August with an M.S. in speech/language pathology. She plans to stay in the Boston area.

Parul Agarwal works in strategic consulting for McKinsey & Co. in NYC. Melissa Auriemma works M l time in a law firm in Hackensack, while attending Pace U. Law School at night. She will graduate next year. Melissa is engaged to Hohn Hefferon and they plan to marry in fall 2002.

Melissa Arcoleo works for an IT consulting firm called Answerthink, where she is a senior consultant in the business application group.

Candace Messinger lives in NYC and works for the corporate treasury department of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Ben Roth graduated from Stanford Law School in May. He planned to take the New York Bar exam this summer and join the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s corporate group in the fall.

After two years as business assurance associate at PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Jillian Lutzy is attending Harvard Business School.

John Saroff is starting Columbia Law School this fall.

Tabish Rizvi received a B.S. in economics from U.Penn’s Wharton School. He worked as an analyst with energy conglomerate Enron Corp. in Houston, and now is in NYC with The Capital Markets Co. (“Capco”), a management consulting company for financial services.

Chris Pisacane works for Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco; he graduated from Colgate U.

Marcy Shapiro earned a master’s in social work from NYU, then traveled to Japan with colleagues and friends.

Amy Yamner taught sixth-eighth graders in a bilingual classroom in Oakland, Calif, for two years with Teach for America. She plans to remain in the Bay area.

Kori Pirouz lives in NYC and works at a law firm in the World Trade Center. Kori and Rita ran into Eva Gabel one night, crossing the street, somewhere in the West Village.

Eva works at Scholastic downtown.

Though she lives in NYC, Jennifer Goldman teaches Pre-K at a public school in Greenwich, Conn. She earned a master’s in education last year from Columbia Teachers College.

Matt Ebling attends culinary school at Johnson & Wales in Providence, R.I. to become a chef. He sends greetings to all.

Alex Joerger went back to MKA to speak about languages at Career Day. He is an account manager at Translations.com in NYC. Alex and I both lived for a year in Seville, Spain, during our junior year; though on different programs, we even ended up having a class together. What was weird was that o f the 20,000 students, most were Spanish, not other Americans. Rita

Jth «BUNION OCTOBER 20,2001 Ms. Tanya Barnes 7 M elrose Place, M ontclair N J 07042 tbames@ fas. harvard, edu Class secretary and reunion chair: Ms. D ebbie H aight 115 DeW itt Ave., B elleville N J 07109 deh2 7@columbia. edu Class agent: Mr. Lee Vartan 54 Hamilton Ave., Kearny N J 07032

Ms. Rita Papaleo 31 Fem w ood Terrace, Nutley N J 07110 ritapap@ aol. com Class agent: Mr. M atthew D rukker 400 E. 57th ST., #15C, New York N Y 10022 Best wishes to Erica and Nick Stephenson on their wedding. They were married in Seibert Hall at Susquehanna University, where they met. Nick works as a recruiter for the university.

For the past year I have been working at Sanford C. Bernstein, LLC in the institutional sales department. I’m enjoying NYC and travel.

I often see Thora Westock. She is an editor for the Official Hotel Guide of Cahners Travel Group. She is engaged to Bryan Wagner, whom she met at Susquehanna U.

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Sharif Siddiqui lives in San Francisco and works for Merrill Lynch.

Dawn Dolden earned a master’s in education from Clark Univ.

Kelli Kessler “had a great time at Colorado College” and is living in Boulder, doing a yearlong apprenticeship to become certified in Pilates-based work. Pilates is a movement system for alignment, strength, balance and flexibility.

Kira Levy graduated from Oberlin College with an outstanding honors thesis. She worked in Africa and now is a U.N. liaison with C.A.R.E. disaster relief, which sent her to East Timor and India.

Sisters Lauren ’97 and Lindsay Ferstandig ’01 at Commencement. Both graduated Cum Laude.

Ms. Jennifer P latt 904 Pompton Ave., Cedar Grove N J 07009 Class agents: Ms. Jennifer F ink 154 Upper M ountain Ave. M ontclair N J 07042

A F ace o f A m nesty Jennifer Platt was featured in CC, the Connecticut College magazine, in “The Faces o f 2001: Seniors who transformed their alma mater.” Jen was also the featured student on the college Web site one week in May, which profiled her involvement in Amnesty International. Jen joined AI her freshman year at MKA and continued in college; by sophomore year, she was president o f the college chapter. In 1998 she was asked by Amnesty to be the death penalty abolition coordinator for the state o f Connecticut. That led to her giving workshops in New England and in N ew Jersey. “One o f the things I say to .. .students is that there’s a definite difference between the action somebody takes and how we respond,” she says.

Jen, who majored in international relations, plans to go to medical school, and her long-term goal is to work in health and human rights.

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Ms. M elissa Schlachter 32 Larsen Lane, Lincoln Park N J 07035 Congratulations to those alumni who graduated from college this year. News of a few, from proud parents and university press releases: Jonathan Zweifler graduated from Northwestern U. with a B.S. in speech. He has an extensive list o f experience with media, particularly in production of Webbased sites. He has joined OlgilvyOne in a special associate program in NYC to explore four disciplines within the direct marketing and interactive departments.

Jennifer Fink, who graduated from U.Penn, is working as a buyer for Lord & Taylor, NYC. Melissa Schlachter received a B.A. in political science from Muhlenberg College and is headed to law school.

Lisa Yamner graduated cum laude from Middlebury College with highest honors in Spanish and honors in history. She is moving to San Francisco.

Brooke Travis earned a B.A. in journalism from Lehigh U.

Chad Dinzes, who completed his junior year at U. Maryland, is keyboard player for a band called “Southbound Suarez.” They perform at clubs in Baltimore, Silver Springs, and D.C. Last summer they were side-stage opener for Sting at Nissan Pavilion in Virginia. Chad traveled to Israel in January.

Our condolences to Danielle Gitkin on the death o f her father, Merrill Gitkin ’59x.

Jonathan Stone is a Centennial Scholar at the U. Rhode Island. He was inducted into Phi Eta Sigma and National Society of Collegiate Scholars.

Lauren Hooper has a dual major at the U. Michigan: a professional training program in musical theater, and psychology. She is a member of a student theater company, The Project.

Craig Fleishman played in eight games with Bucknell U ’s Division I lacrosse team, which made it to the NCAA tournament.

Reportedly, “life in rural Pennsylvania is an adjustment.”

Ms. Alison Platt 904 Pompton Ave., Cedar Grove N J 07009 Class agent: Mr. A lex Holz 992 Valley Road, Franklin Lakes N J 07417 Congratulations to Neil Grabowsky, who placed first for Enhancements and second place overall at Rensselaer Polytech’s Intelligent Robotics Contest last fall. He competed against upperclass engineers and math whizzes.

George Saj earned a B.S. in computer science from Bucknell U.

A walk-on freshman year, Candace Watkins has been given a scholarship for crew at Northeastern U. Liza Boutsikaris placed 16th in foil at the NCAA. Division I championship meet. Her Notre Dame team finished third o f 30 teams.

Roxane Esposito had a great freshman year at Moravian. She played varsity soccer as a defender on the Moravian Greyhounds. By coincidence, she has a greyhound at home.

The new and improved alumni e-mail listing on the MKA Web site is thanks to Steve Digaetano, who spent the summer on campus working with Webmaster Bill Stites and came up with a new way to set up the search.

Mr. John Garippa 30 Wayside Place, M ontclair N J 07042

Class secretary and agent: Ms. Gemma Giantomasi 5 Kensington PL, Roseland N J 07060

Ms. Anna Labowsky 5 Highview Court, Wayne N J 07470 Class agent: Ms. Ashley Griffin 55 Afterglow Ave., M ontclair N J 07042

Ms. Dana Pisacane 3 Finley Lane, Wayne N J 07470 Congratulations and welcome, Class of 2001, to your own alumni column!

Matthew '98 and Louis Waidman '01 at Commencement.

Louis graduated Cum Laude.

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Danielle Claudio '01 is surrounded by herfather, Fernando Claudio, and mother, Middle School language teacherAnna Claudio.

Longtime faculty member Joan Weller is flanked by her family,fifth grader Rachel, Daniel '01, Alena '98, and nephew Marc Ponzio '99. Daniel, President o f the Senior Class, gave the welcome at Commencement.

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Scenes from Commencement!

Faculty members Carol Spencer, Dick Rodin, John Rabke, and George Hrab at Commencement 2001.

Marriages 1944 1983 1984 1985 1985 1986 1986 1987 1987 1988, 1990 1990 1990 1991 1991 1995

Lawrence Soule and Beverley Baum Gary Powell and Kiris Wardlaw Meg Lugaric and Richard Shick Wendy Rosenblum and Larry Plummer Jeffrey Schackner and Allison Wiener Matthew Hendrian and Yvette Davis Erica Lubetkin and Kenneth Drake Deborah Chun and Theodore Moon Stephanie Gitkin and Robert Hawk

May 20, 2000 April 28, 2001 March 25, 2000 May 12, 2001 April 21, 2000 September 11, 1999 December 17, 2000 September 23, 2000 April 21, 2001

David Devejian and Karen Bodner Kimberly Charlton and Pablo Bedetti Tiffrni Kriegel and Brendan Haley Jacqueline Kearney and Christopher Bladeck Ranjeev Krishana and Isabelle Fisher Nicholas Stephenson and Erica Weaver

May 12, 2001 June 1, 2001 June 23, 2001 August 2000 June 17,2001 September 20, 2000

In Memoriam 1931 1932 1932 1934 1938 1939 1942 1942 1943 1944 1944 1946 1947 1952x 1959x 1969 1969 1973

Rockwell MacCubbin Helen Devine Currie Victor E. Engstrom Margery Atwater Crane Barbara Bailey Hoey Geoffrey Crook Sally Sanders Appenzellar Edwin D. Etherington Nancy Munoz Horn Robert Duncan Angus Mary Smythe Coley J. Elliott Hague Edward Gerding John L. Kidde Merrill Gitkin Walter Kulhmann Robert Rowbottom Timothy H. Miller

Faculty, Former Faculty, and Trustees Margaret M. Downsbrough

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February 14, 2001 April 22, 2001 July 1, 2000 February 3, 2001 November 8, 2000 January 7, 2001 January 25, 2001 January 8, 2001 November 2000 April 26, 2001 March 14, 2000 May 11,2001 October 18, 2000 July 27, 2001 May 14, 2001 September 28, 1998 February 8, 2001 April 5, 2001 October 22, 2000

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M KA Bulletin Board Alumni Dates To Remember MKA Benefit Borromeo Quartet NYC October 13

Homecoming 2001 Reunions for classes ending in 1 and 6.

October 20

Alumni Phonathon Nov. 5-8 Career Day March 6

Senior Breakfast May 2

Athletic Hall of Fame May 4

Alumni Golf & Tennis Outing June 18

MKA Chairs 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

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Advice! Internships! Jobs!

It's Alumnet Young alumni looking for career opportunities, internships, resume help, or career advice have a resource at MKA Alumnet, formerly known as the Office of Career Services. Alumnet serves as a liaison between recent alumni and established alumni, parents, faculty, and friends o f the school.

To make Alumnet work for you, or if you are willing to offer career advice or opportunities, please call, write, or e-mail Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76. We would like to expand the network into major cities, such as Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Contact: Laurie McFeeley at 973/509-7939 or at lmcfeeley@ mka.pvt.kl2 . nj. us.

Presentations! Slide Shows!

Discussions!

Any alumni, parents, or friends of the school interested in bringing their enthusiasm and expertise into the classroom at any of the three MKA campuses should contact the Bank of Community Resources. Faculty will then use this bank 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 encouraged and appreciated.

Contact: Joan Brennan Monico at 973/509-4594 or at jmonico@ m ka.pvt.k l 2. nj. us.

MKA IRELAND TOUR 2002 -GIBSON’S LAST STAND T f

Join MKA families, alumni, faculty, and friends on a nine-day, five-star Premier tour of the Emerald Isle. Discover the West and Southwest of Ireland - and help to celebrate the retirement of Ken Gibson (who is retiring after 36 years at MKA) at a medieval castle banquet.

An ideal opportunity for a family getaway or to catch up and spend time with alumni, friends, and senior faculty! Led by history teacher extraordinaire Geoff Branigan, who leads the senior May Term trip to Ireland.

June 21-29, 2002 Visit: Dublin, Connemara, The Lakes of Killamey, The Dingle Peninsula, and much more...

Cost: $2650 per person (based upon double occupancy and minimum subscription) includes: Airfare, private MOKA coach and driver/guide, premium accommodations, three dinners (including medieval banquet), all breakfasts, tour book, and travel pack.

Deposits must be received by November 15, 2001. Space is limited and reservations will be guaranteed on a first-come, first-served basis. For information, reservations, and detailed itinerary, contact gbranigan@mka.pvt.k!2. nj. us or call 973/746-9800.

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Alumni Awards 2002 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD NOMINATION FORM NOM INEE___________________ ______________CLASS_____________________________ ACHIEVEMENTS

(Please include additional information or resume on a separate sheet.)

Submitted by: NAME

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ADDRESS

TELEPHONE_________________________________________________ Detach and mail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD CRITERIA To all alumni, parents, trustees, faculty, staff and friends of The Montclair Kimberley Academy: The Distinguished Alumni Award Committee is hereby accepting nominations for the recipient of the 2002 Distinguished Alumni Award.

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

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

The purpose of the Distinguished Alumni Award is “to bestow recognition and appreciation for outstanding achievement.” This award will be a meritorious reflection on the school and will provide inspiration and encouragement for our young people.

It is hoped that the recipient will come to MKA and address a gathering of alumni and of students.

You may nominate more than one alumna/alumnus.

There will be one Distinguished Alumni Award recipient each year; all nominations will be maintained in confidential fdes for consideration in following years.

NOMINATION FORM FOR MKA ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME NOM INEE__________________________________CLASS___________________________ SPO RTS______________________________________________________________________ ACHIEVEMENTS

(Please include additional information or resume on a separate sheet.)

Submitted by: NAME

____________________________________CLASS_________

ADDRESS

TELEPHONE_________________________________________________ Detach and mail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042

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MKA ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME AWARDS CRITERIA The Montclair Kimberley Academy Athletic Hall of Fame was founded to honor those who have made telling contributions to the school’s athletics. Its purpose is to perpetuate the memory of 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 of 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 of 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.

there was a wonderful woman who loved a school so itinued to support it for fifty years. She never herself, but she was so grateful for her daughter’s it on special occasions like birthdays and ;ave a gift to the school “in honor o f’ that birthday or anniversary. She also hosted her daughter’s classmates for brunch or dinner whenever they were back for their reunions. woman was Mary K. Robertson, and the school was Kimberley. Mrs. Robertson died last year. Her daughter’s classmates from fifty yea rs ago came from all over the East Coast to the memorial service, held at the home that had been the scene of so many happy Gail Robertson Marentette ’51 with her mother, Mary K Robertson

The daughter, Gail Robertson Stroh Marentette, is class secretary and reunion chairman for the Kimberley Class of 1951. Gail has established a fund in memory of her mother known as The Mary K. Robertson Endowment Fund for Teachers’ Salaries. “Even though mother wasn’t a Kimberley girl, she loved all of you and really enjoyed being part of our many class reunions,” she wrote her classmates.

Endowment for teachers underpins the most important part of education, the teachers who impart lifelong lessons. The endowment is, in a sense, acknowledgement of and gratitude for those who taught the Kimberley girls of 1951.

The Montclair Kimberley Academy’s Heritage Society honors those donors who, like Gail, make a commitment to guarantee the future financial security of the school. These generous donors arrange bequests, establish trusts, and make gifts to the Academy’s Pooled Income Fund.

If you have included the school in your estate plan, whether with a bequest or other planned gift, please let the Office of External Affairs know so that we may honor you as a member of the Heritage Society.

For further information, call or write: Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs, The Montclair Kimberley Academy, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042 (973.746.9800).

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