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From the Headmaster “You got the spirrrrrrrrit?! Let’s hear it!” How many times in our lives have we heard that chant from cheerleaders? At times, the response from a crowd is less than enthusiastic and borders on indifference - but not here. There is sufficient evidence at MKA these days that there is considerable spirit; it is almost palpable. A few pieces of evidence include: 1. Please look at the three photos on this page. One photo shows Cougar spirit at Homecoming; another captures three of our Pep Band students enjoying a special moment. Our Pep Band gets better and better each year, and would be really terrific except so many of the musicians play sports that conflict with the Pep Band schedule. Athletes and musicians - you have to love our students! Look at the third photo. It shows three students studying (cramming?) for their Semester Finals. But wait, they are wearing the same plaid flannel pants! Actually, almost two hundred and sixty of those flannel pants were purchased at the time of the Exams. Perhaps they are lucky pants. Perhaps they are a cry for a school uniform (I am dreaming). For sure, they are a signal of good, clean spirit and fun during a most stressful time in January. 2. Recently, my wife Terry and I sat next to a very large contingent of students who were cheering loudly and passionately at a basketball game. Most of the students had stopped by from Track, Fencing, Swimming, Clubs, and other activities. They were joined by faculty, administration, and staff who had stayed to catch a few minutes of the game. All wanted to show the varsity team spirited support, if only for a few minutes. The wild cheering would stop at the moment the other team shot free throws. It was an eerie and very sportsmanlike silence. When our team shot free throws, the other team’s fans chanted and attempted to disrupt the shots with other distractions. One of MKA’s loudest student cheerers was overheard saying sternly, but politely, to the other fans, “It is not good sportsmanship, you know, to yell when free throws are being shot.” He received a look like he was from Mars, but I was proud of him. The crowds at basketball games this year are the largest and most spirited I have witnessed in a long time.
Our cover this issue of REVIEW also shows a lot of spirit, again the spirit of older students taking care of the young. A few seniors asked if they could protect the younger students from the rain as the youngsters came off buses to join our famous Gathering. Our main story this issue is about the spirit of generosity from an alumna whose largesse was turned into startlingly excellent faculty study that will impact in extremely positive ways on our students in the classroom and also on students and teachers elsewhere - as you will learn from the article. “We’ve got the spirrrrrit!” Believe it. With gratitude, Dr. Peter R. Greer Headmaster
3. There is evidence of other spirit not associated with athletics. Laura Phillips, PAMKA President, offered sets of books including those about Ruby Bridges and Jackie Robinson (most of which were signed!) to the Teach For America teachers and program director who were at MKA to learn from and share ideas with several of our faculty. Our new friends from Teach For America were extremely grateful. This spirit of giving and sharing with a new educational friend is exemplary. 4. A parent told me recently that the senior swimmers on his freshman daughter’s Varsity Swim Team (Essex County Champions for the fourth straight time) have made his daughter and other swimmers feel welcome and truly part of the team. That is the spirit of the older students taking care of the young. Stories like this lift my spirits! MKA Review • Spring 2003
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M K A -M a il To the Editor: When I finished reading the fall Review about what’s happening at MKA and what my classmates are doing, I was just so proud of my school and our alumni. Jack Roth ’58 I always enjoy [the Review], both for its reviving of memories and occasional news about my fellow students in the late ’40s, and for its news of current developments at school. Growing up in Montclair, I received the gift that all parents of teenagers should value highly, the presence in my life of two highly respected and caring adults who believed in me before I had learned to believe in myself. One of the two was William Avery Barras, “Uncle Willie.’’ The influence of such a teacher is lifelong enrichment. Clark McKercher Simms ’49 Author, English teacher, administrator To the Alumni Office: A number of us from our class [Kimberley 50th reunion] went to the Middle School and had a good tour with a darling fourth grader and her mom [Erin Furlong and alumna Susan Cole Furlong ’7 8 jlrm glad we went. What a great facility those kids have! Susan Sanders ’52 The reunion was simply wonderful! We all had a marvelous time, and in fact are getting together again in New York City next month....Our homecoming #60 (!) was so memorable. Frances Johnson Ames ’42 Dear Dr. Greer,® What a delightful surprise to receive your card regarding our reunion chat about updating your track records board. It is refreshing indeed to see a Headmaster note and respond to such a minor issue. I am certain that you teach that crucial
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philosophy to your students, namely that commitments and disciplines in minor issues invariably lead to commitments and disciplines in major issues....My Class of 1962 classmates and I had a great time at Homecoming, including an outstanding, informative tour [of the Upper School], We are very proud to be part of this splendid tradition, and are very pleased to see the powerful performance and direction of MKA. Doug Donald ’62 In response to a note from Headmaster Peter Greer to Nien Cheng, author o f Life and Death in Shanghai, telling her about the photographs o f MKA s distinguished speakers in the Presidents ’ Conference Room at the Middle School: Dear Dr. Greer, I feel half thrilled that I am joining the famous and distinguished, and half frightened because I know I am just a very ordinary old woman. The Chinese have a proverb that says: The higher you climb, the heavier the fall. As I was reading your e-mail, these words came into my head. But I am grateful and I thank you and all those concerned. Nien Cheng
To faculty member Linda Stark, editor of Moral Conversations: My name is Alyson Rosenthal. I attended MKA from 4th grade to 12th grade, and graduated in 1999. I am a senior at Hofstra University, majoring in elementary education and psychology. I have spent the past three years observing in 2nd and 4th grade classrooms. I [just] read the MKA Ethics Newsletter. It was interesting to hear about all the different programs and ideas that MKA has been bringing to the community. As a future educator, I can appreciate everything that MKA is doing for the Primary, Middle and Upper schools. I read about the 8th grade buddies, the character expectations and how the Primary School is now teaching languages! I was particularly interested in David Flocco’s speech to the Upper School [on the Code of Honor]. I feel very proud to say that I am an MKA alumna. Alyson Rosenthal ’99
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To Caroline Murray, Teach for America, forwarded to Dr. Greer: I just came back from my visit at MKA. Totally amazing! I’d love to give you feedback and my thoughts on how you’re going to implement MKA with TEA. Thanks for opening up this opportunity. It definitely was a great experience. It’s just the “umph” I need to go back to the classroom on Monday after break. Susan Asiyanbi, Teach fo r America teacher
Alum nae in the Homecoming invitation, a photo from the archives, were identified as Georgia Sherman Glick ’57 and Penny Gray Wheeler ’57. The scene is from a Kimberley M ay Day.
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Operation Tribute By David Flocco Assistant Head o f the Upper School “One of the most important things we can do is pay our respects to members of this community who have served their country in the armed forces or paid the ultimate sacrifice - their lives - in defense of democracy and our nation’s honor. It is important that we never forget the extreme sacrifice these soldiers and peers made to protect the freedoms and liberties upon which our country was built and which we enjoy to this day. In November of 2000, we introduced ‘Operation Tribute,’ a fundraising program whose goal is to raise the necessary funds to erect a memorial on campus to the Academy veterans of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the conflict in Vietnam and the Gulf War.” I read that statement to the MKA community on September 7, 2001 - the Friday before the 9/11 attacks on our country. Due to the outpouring of support from this community toward the victims and the victims’ families of 9/11, we decided to put the fundraising efforts of Operation Tribute on hold until the beginning of this year. In the meantime, we have used the money raised thus far to procure an architect’s drawing of the project. The memorial design concept has several components: • The area for the memorial will be a patio-type setting with separate areas for reflection and tribute. The commemorative structure will sit on a circular base of interlocking stone tiles representing the overlap of individuals and years that have forged the history of our country. A small, continually illuminated American flag additionally serves as a focal point for the tribute. • The first major section of the memorial will be six raked tablets atop a raised semi-circular parcel of land. This section will depict the initial ideal of proper recognition for departed soldiers. The concept originated with the frontier, where the deceased, whenever possible, were buried in a uniform native to their MKA Review • Spring 2003
garrison, their grave marked by a wooden board with a rounded top. • The grass-covered raised plot stands for the worldwide soils that Americans have fought on to elevate the concept of a universal freedom. • Each tablet will commemorate the six major conflicts of the past Senior John Thompson shows Ingrid R am os ’92 p lans f o r the MKA century when members of Operation Tribute w ar memorial at Homecoming. The Montclair Kimberley Academy community gave of their time, efforts and lives in defense of freedom and human rights. These tablets will be constructed of specific materials used during that period in history (World War I/white marble, World War II/bronze, Korea/gray granite, Vietnam/black granite, Persian Gulf/sandstone, War on Terrorism/steel). The rendering gives us a visual of the ' project. Contributions from the last three graduating classes, Performance Workshop productions, and all the proceeds from J.C. Svec’s War’s End have been used to pay architect fees to this point. Many other alumni, faculty, and student donations, both in terms of money and time, have been given to this project. Now comes the difficult p a rt^ H raising the $ 100,000 it will take to build this memorial. Alumni support is critical to this endeavor. This is our opportunity to come together as a complete community and work toward a common goal. Every penny counts. If you have ever had a dream, you can understand how important this project is to the Board of Trustees, school administration, and students. I encourage you to make this a dream of your own.. .a collective dream that will one day become a reality when we finally recognize those members of this community who gave their lives so that we can remain free. Won’t you please help us?
Illustration o f the MKA Operation Tribute war memorial
Questions about the project may be directed to J.C. Svec, member of the Upper School Fine and Performing Arts Department; or David Flocco, Assistant Head of the Upper School; Feel free to call either of us at 973-7838300. Please send donations (payable to The Montclair Kimberley Academy) to: MKA Upper School Memorial Campaign c/o David C. Flocco, Assistant Head of the Upper School 201 Valley Road Montclair, NJ 07042
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A Defining lYlomcnt B y Dr. P eter R. Greer, H eadm aster
It is very difficult to describe our MKA these days. How does one convince those who are not regularly on the campuses about M K A’s high spirit, intensity, caring nature, distinguished faculty, and considerable success? There are moments, defining moments, that help us to clarify and describe MKA well. You know what a defining moment is. Think about Captain von Trapp dancing with Maria on the veranda in The Sound o f Music. Remember Marshall Kane in the town church when he realizes that no one is going to help him face the bad guys who are coming in at high noon (and his wife of a couple of hours is leaving town on that same train). More recently, dwell upon that moment of realization by the teacher in The Emperor’s Club when he knows he has made extremely bad judgments with the Senator’s son and that he has wronged another student. We have had such defining moments this year - signals of a healthy Independent Day School — that provide insights about MKA and that affirm good feelings about our splendid school. These moments are significant because they combine a generous donation by an alumna and by parents with outstanding faculty who are willing to engage in hard academic study and to address important curriculum matters. Add to that engaging mix a strong sense of service to the Essex County community. As a final and telling piece, imagine the positive impact on students.
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The defining moments to which I refer are, first, the generous donation by alumna Ardath Blauvelt ‘64fr a former teacher herself — that enables MKA faculty to complete serious and rigorous study on curriculum and then to do service in area public and parochial schools. This program is called the Blauvelt Professional Study Advancement Program. It is funded for fifteen years, through 2016. Faculty members apply to one of three sub-programs - called MeVicar, Waring, and Barras (after early revered faculty members) - and each year approximately ten faculty members are selected to do professional study. This rigorous study must include MKA’s Ethics Program, Core Works Programs (English, history, arts, mathematics, foreign languages), the sharing of expertise where the majority of students are underprivileged, and the application of these studies in the classroom. These studies are normally accomplished during the summer months. Faculty members are already preparing applications for selection to Year Two of this program, and, if they are successful, continuing their academics during this summer of 2003. Second, there is the Parents’Association of MKA (PAMKA) program, the Faculty Trust Program. In this program, faculty members are encouraged to dream. They are encouraged to identify a place of study anywhere in the world where they can do research that will enrich their classrooms upon their return. The Faculty Trust Program underwrites the entire experience, which normally takes place during the summers. Up to eight faculty members are selected each year for this program by a panel consisting of PAMKA representatives, MKA administrators, and prior Faculty Trust awardees. Does this sound good to you? Imagine the renewed spirit of our faculty - imagine your renewed spirit - if you studied and swam with dolphins in
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Even Frank Lloyd Wright began with measurement. Faculty member Barbara DuRant and third-grade architects prepare to measure Brookside.
Frank Lloyd Wright in Third Grade Hawaii, wrote and produced an original play that was later performed, studied grizzlies in Montana, walked historic trails in Spain, lived in a Buddhist monastery, climbed a major rock face, walked in the footsteps of Shakespeare, listened to the premiere of your own music composition in an Italian church, or studied cathedrals in France and England! You can imagine the payoff in the classrooms if you were the students of these teachers. This year, the awardees and their dreams are: • Bridget Looney (3rd grade, Brookside campus, Outdoor Education assistant), who will take a 31-day National Outdoor Educator Mountaineering course in the Pacific Northwest; •Patricia Parke (1st grade, Brookside), who will spend a week in London exploring museums, libraries, and bookstores that specialize in children’s literature, both past and present; •Sonia Tyson (Spanish, Brookside), who will visit Madrid, Barcelona, and Bilbao to reacquaint herself with current Spanish culture and literature; •Sharon Stephens (Fine & Performing Arts, Middle School), who will travel to London to visit the Laban contemporary dance center, attend several London theater productions, and travel to Paris to explore art galleries, museums, and historic buildings; •Jane Zagajeski (7th/8th grade science, Middle School), who will travel to the Pantanal region of southwestern Brazil to take part in an EarthWatch field research project that will directly benefit the hands-on research undertaken by her students.
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One Blauvelt awardee, Brookside art teacher Barbara DuRant, taught a demonstration class at a local primary school. This demonstration was not the usual “art-in-acart” enrichment lesson by a parent volunteer! Barbara taught a class of twenty-one 3rd grade students and used the Backward Design model for her teaching. The lesson revolved around an introduction to the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. She taught the students how to read a floor plan and exposed the young students to design terms. She also spoke about Wright’s career and some of his innovative ideas. She showed the students a short videotape about the masterpiece Falling Water, and then the 3rd graders explored the concept of cantilever balance by creating their own buildings, using various sizes of wood pieces and glue. According to the observer, “The results were extraordinary. The children exhibited creativity, craftsmanship, and a genuine joy for the new experience. The room was vibrant and full of energy. The students were motivated to perform beyond their own expectations. The models they created went home to be shared with their families.” Barbara reported later that the lesson went pretty well, but time and pace had prevented her from integrating an ethics lesson she had worked on and she was disappointed with that one aspect. Those 3rd grade students sure weren’t disappointed! They will remember that lesson for a long, long time.
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“Those faculty members were altogether more grateful fo r the awards than appropriate fo r a group that worked so hard, took on so much, and achieved that and more. They have established a fin e benchmark that future awardees will be challenged to match. You have a superb faculty but that was the point o f the program, was it not? ” -
Ardath Blauvelt ’64, benefactor o f the Blauvelt Professional Study Advancement Program, speaks with faculty members at a luncheon last fall.
Study Shared How do these two programs become defining moments at our MKA? What are the signals we should spot? The enthusiasm of the faculty to apply for these programs and to be diligent in thenstudies signal a willing faculty, Pre-K to 12, who believe in and who live the life of the mind. Aristotle alerted us that there can be no happiness without reflection. MKA faculty members participate in the Blauvelt and Trust programs in ways that make them extremely happy and that enable them to flourish. Past awardees report a renewed feeling of enthusiasm for their careers,, a strong sense of increased competence in their teaching, and the joys of adventure. In fact, reported findings from recent Trustee/faculty focus groups clearly indicate that MKA faculty members are happy to teach at MKA because of the school’s emphasis on faculty study. There is the signal of a faculty who desire to become even better teachers - to become even more competent in their subject areas and in the distinctive “signature programs,” Ethics and Core Works, that MKA provides for its students. As Ms. Blauvelt observed upon meeting the first year’s group of awardees at a special luncheon, “Those faculty members were altogether more grateful for the awards than appropriate for a group that worked so hard, took on so much, and achieved that and more. They have established a fine benchmark that future awardees will be challenged to match. You have a superb faculty - but that was the point of the program, was it not?” There is another signal that MKA faculty members have become so well versed in content and the craft of teaching that there is a
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growing national reputation. Happily, Teach For America, the vaunted program for young teachers graduating from the country’s finest liberal arts colleges to teach in needy inner city schools, has asked MKA faculty, especially Blauvelt awardees, to work with TFA teachers and their leaders in service to others. Both Blauvelt awardees and other teachers have offered their services. The TFA teachers are in their first or second year of teaching and in the words of a TFA executive, “are hungry for meaningful development opportunities.” MKA faculty hosting TFA teachers include those at Brookside (1st grade, science, art); Middle School (4th grade, writing, science, foreign languages, mathematics, English); and the Upper School (history, English, and science). What do the other areas studied by Blauvelt awardees tell us about the potential impact on MKA students, MKA colleagues, and students and teachers at area schools? Again, imagine you are an MKA. student in a classroom with faculty who have recently completed rigorous study and are excited about sharing what they know with you. Join me in examining the study areas of Year One of the Blauvelt awardees: • Cynthia Lassiter (Kindergarten) studied several versions of Aesop s Fables and moral lessons related to the virtues of respect, friendship, responsibility, and confidence; Jennifer Brown and Elizabeth Zug (4th grade) worked with two national scholars on Emma Lazarus’ poem, The New Colossus. This duo created a structured unit, complete with a pre-assessment tool, daily lesson plans, a technology component, an ethics component related to fairness (justice), and post-assessment tool. Their students will
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The fir st Blauvelt awardees. Top: Linda Stark, Ken Bishe. Third row: Dominique Benson, Barbara DuRant, Boni Luna. Second row: Laurie Smith, Jennifer Brown, Cynthia Lassiter. Front row: Erica Budd, Catherine Walsh, alumna Ardath Blauvelt '64, Libby Zug.
learn about immigration, the sonnet, and symbolism. • Ken Bishe and Linda Stark (7th grade English and history) focused on an MKA Core Work, The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories. They studied how oral tradition both reflects and affects the cultures of the Western Sudan. They also explored C.S. Lewis’s Illustrations o f the Tao, which helps students to discover how the messages of stories from Africa relate to universal human insights. Ken and Linda designed ways to apply differentiation of instruction techniques to stimulate the breadth and depth of students’ responses. • Dominique Benson and Boni Luna designed a grades 4-8 Core Works program in French and Spanish. This included translation of original texts to match the abilities of students, language goals for each unit, and components related to ethics. The Core Works are Impressionism and The Legends and Folklore of Latin America. • At the Upper School, Laurie Smith (Biology) developed an instructional unit, complete with a Power Point presentation, that focuses on Galileo, two texts that address discovery, competition, and collegiality - Oxygen and The Bourbaki Gambit - and the ethical dilemmas faced by scientists. Erica Budd (Latin) did academic work based on the AP Latin Core Work of Vergil’s Aeneid. Erica reread this work thoroughly in English and identified the specific passages that must be emphasized in a lesson plan. She incorporated technology into the revised lesson plans that determine the overarching understandings in the Aeneid. She has also put together a compelling classroom web site
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for her students. Catherine Walsh (Latin, history) investigated a possible Core Work for Latin II. She examined the mosaic depicting Alexander the Great in Pompeii, Italy, which meets the requirements for an MKA Core Work (timelessness, originality, and influence). She researched the mosaic itself, met with a scholar and went to a museum to further her study, and learned how and why mosaics were created. Catherine also studied Alexander the Great and how he exhibited (or didn’t) the character expectations related to temperance, fairness, and confidence. Students will certainly gain an edge by studying with these MKA faculty members, who are themselves excited by learning. There is the signal that there are MKA alumni and parents who know where funding will do the most good: at the pre-collegiate level - the MKA level - and that this funding, unlike funding at colleges and universities that already enjoy huge endowments, is even more beneficial during the formative years. Back to Aristotle. He tells us, “The magnificent man is like an artist, for he can see what is fitting and spend large sums tastefully....The result should be worthy of the expense, and the expense should be worthy of the result, or should even exceed it... .The magnificent man will spend such sums and will do so gladly and lavishly.” (Nicomachean Ethics, IV, 2) The results are worthy of the expense provided by Ms. Blauvelt and by our wonderful parents. The results ensure that MKA students will receive superior instruction from faculty ready to teach and about topics that are worth being taught. That is a defining moment in any school worthy of the name.
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Notes Around M K A The Headmaster is very proud to announce.... National Merit Finalists Bonnie Gill Amy Klein National Achievement Semifinalists David Satterwhite Masamba Sinclair Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholars Shuchi Agarwal Jaime Braverman Bonnie Gill Amy Klein Nithya Nathan Blake Spence Elizabeth Spragins Monique Wolkoff • Congratulations to senior Amy Klein, who was a winner in the National Council of Teachers of English competition, one of only 600 in the country. • Seniors Arielle Green and Fiona McCarthy were accepted into the juried show of photography at Drexel University. This was a nationwide competition for high school students; Drexel received more than 2,500 submissions and hung 140. • Upper School faculty member Amy Bonnici has received a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Spain.
Randy Kleinman, H ead o f the M iddle School Campus; R obert W. Parsons Jr., President o f the Hyde & Watson Foundation; and fa cu lty member Wendy H all at the dedication o f the Hyde & Watson Foundation Science Room in September.
• Upper School faculty member Judy Nesbit had an item published in the October 2002 issue of Mathematics Teacher. It seems that she assigned a project in her Precalculus class (on graphs and equations) that resulted in a bulletin board entitled “Can You Match?” Nesbit’s letter to the editor and photo of the Math Department bulletin board were published for math teachers all around the country. This spring, Nesbit will speak at the 81st annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in San Antonio. • Nineteen students attended the Model U.N. competition at Brown University, the largest group ever for that MKA club. Ron Wolfson is faculty advisor.
• Administrators Karen Newman and Dr. Robert Sinner gave a workshop on Assessment for Learning at the NJAIS fall conference, and have had many follow-up questions and requests for information. • Faculty member Richard Rodin completed a three-week summer institute called “QuarkNet” at the Rutgers University Serin Physics/Astronomy facility. • Upper School faculty member Stephen Valentine was a finalist in Technology and Learning magazine’s Ed Tech Leaders of the Year program, which recognizes the diverse ways educators advance teaching and learning with technology. He also contributed to two presentations at the National Association for Gifted Children, and will present at the 2003 Texas computer Education Association convention. • Faculty member Randall Svane received a 2002 Composer Award from the American Society for Composers, Authors, and Publishers, in part for performances of his works in New York, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe.
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• Yearbook Yearbook. The 2002 MKA yearbook Tracker is featured in Taylor Publishing’s yearly book that highlights the best yearbooks in the nation. • Dr. Ronald Herzman, mentor to MKA faculty and leader of the annual National Endowment for the Humanities seminar on Dante in Italy, has submitted faculty member George Berry’s Dante essay to academic publishers. • The 2002 spring movie, Not Dark Yet, continues the tradition of its MKA predecessors in gamering national recognition. It has received four awards: a 2002 Communicator Award of Distinction for Creativity/Art Direction and a Communicator Crystal Award of Excellence for Video/Grades K-12. Not Dark Yet also received honorable mention in the Video Division and a special recognition certificate for its DVD package in the Print Division at the 50th Columbus International Film and Video Festival. • Three of the four actresses in faculty member J.C. Svec’s original production The Bedsitter in New York last fall had
MKA connections: sophomore Ali Mendes and alumnae Sara Shaning ‘95 and Karson St. John ’98. Senior Annelise Cohon was rehearsal stage manager/lighting master. Svec, who
received the MKA Founders’ Cup Award for teaching excellence last year, wrote and directed the play.
Learning the M arket Trustee Eric Pai ’79, managing director of Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management Division (and parent of three children at Brookside), spoke to students in Dr. Louise Maxwell’s economic class. ||H e talked about investment strategies, what kinds of data one should consider, how to gauge the economy, etc.,” says Maxwell. “Students who were absent that day actually came to me to ask for his handouts, something that rarely happens. He made a big impression on them.” Pai’s visit enhanced a 13-week online stock market simulation contest by a company called Stock Trak. Students are given $100,000 to invest in the market, and over a period of 13 weeks, they buy, sell, and short sell stocks. At the end, whoever has the most money in his/her portfolio wins. Participating MKA students even consulted Pai about his work with hedge funds.
Gathering X The Roman numerals keep growing on one of MKA’s thriving traditions, the all school Gathering that brings together students, faculty, and staff from all three campuses. Held in early September, the Gathering highlights student and faculty accomplishments, and serves as a theater for performances by talented people not shy of poking fun at themselves, and an audience open to celebration.
former mayor of Montclair, and now local businessman. As is traditional, little thirdgrade Bellringers closed the day with “God Bless America” and Headmaster Peter Greer rang in the new year with a bell dating to 1887 and the founding of the Academy.
Faculty "Cougar Tones ’’ sin g in harmonyi
Each campus sent a lip sync team; cheerleaders and step teams strutted their stuff; there was faculty/staff line dancing and “The Mikado” by Upper School singers. MKA Strings and Jazz groups played. Numerous banners representing 2001-02 athletic championships were unfurled to oohs and aahs from the crowd. Gathering X ’s featured speaker was alumnus Robert Jackson ’73, a graduate of Princeton and Harvard universities,
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Robert D. Jackson ’73 speaks to tri-campus guests.
Faculty members George and M yra Hrab get into their line dance.
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Grandparents’ Day First grader Kelsey O’Connor is surrounded by grandparents from both sides of her family: former Trustee Richard Hatzenbuhler [1982-88]; William O’Connor; Maureen O’Connor; and Marilyn Hatzenbuhler, who served on the Kimberley Home-School and PAMKA boards for 13 years. She was president during the merger and from 1976-78. Kelsey’s mother, Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ’83, attended Kimberley and MKA Pre-K-12 and served as president of the MKA Alumni Association and Alumni Trustee, 1998-2000. More than 300 guests came to Brookside’s Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Day in November.
Rem em bering Caitlin The MKA varsity girls’ swim team - with a new coach, having lost nine swimmers on last year’s championship team, and still reeling from the death of their former captain and mentor Caitlin Lehmann ’01 to cancer - entered the Essex County Swimming Championships as underdogs. But, freshmen to seniors, they gave it their all, and won their fourth consecutive championship by one point. “Every time we swim, we swim for her,” senior Jenna Sakolsky told a reporter. Lehmann’s inspiration has extended beyond the pool: Sakolsky (pictured on the Review cover) recently donated her hair to Locks of Love, the charity that makes wigs for cancer patients. She has also helped organize a swim-athon at school to raise money for cancer research. •Middle School faculty member Sharanya Naik gave a wellieceived workshop entitled “Using Our Stories to Bridge the Gap Between I/Thou” at the People of Color Conference in Chicago in December. “It was about taking a fresh look at how we teach in our classes about issues of diversity,’’’says Naik. HBrookside faculty member Cyndy Weldon-Lassiter has begun a five-year term as an educational consultant for Book Links magazine, which connects books, libraries, and classrooms. Lassiter will critique each issue as an informal advisor, one of just two non-university consultants to serve. • A new club has been bom at the Upper School, the Thespian Society, under the direction of faculty member Dominique Gerard. They have elected officers, planned events and fundraisers, and started the laborious process of calculating points students have earned working on MKA theater productions. “Honor Thespian” status is accorded anyone who earns over 60 points.
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Trustees Alice Hirsh; M ichael Rodburg; Newton Schott, President o f the Board; and Honorary Trustee John Garippa at the opening o f the MKAVerona Track lastfa ll. The state-of-the-art track - located at Verona’s H.B. Whitehome M iddle School - is an unusual public/private partnership, sharing management, finances, and use by both schools.
COLUM BIA Charlaine Charlton, Head o f the Upper School Campus, spoke to the students at an assembly after the space shuttle tragedy. From her remarks: After years of successful missions, how easy it was to forget that these missions are dangerous, and to take for granted the success and safety of these bold scientific explorers. But as one commentator noted, ‘The space shuttle is like a butterfly bolted to a bullet’ - an image that to me captures the essence of the challenge of exploration of outer space so fragile, yet so daring. As we grieve for the loss of seven from the nation’s and the world’s best and brightest, let us .share a moment of silence in tribute to lives cut short.... We remember these astronauts as pioneers who belong to an elite group from mankind who believed in pushing the boundaries of science and exploration, who undertook this assignment with excitement and commitment to the search for knowledge beyond the boundaries of our planet.
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The Coolest Lunch “Nutrition Rules!” is the title of an eight-page nutrition booklet produced by MKA parents, administration, faculty, and students that kicked off a school-wide effort to improve students’ eating habits. The booklet made Jane Brody’s column in The New York Times [September 24, 2002] and brought more than 120 e-mails and orders from around the country. “A few states and scattered schools around the country have begun to realize that good nutrition should not take a back seat to other kinds of learning,” •Brody’s column begins, “if students are to be at their best both in and out of the classroom.” The booklet offers “Quick Six” rules about nutrition awareness, exercise, snacking, counting calories and energy, caffeine, and balanced meals, delivered by Betty, “the world’s coolest lunch lady.”
member of the MKA Mock Trial team serves as advisor. • MKA has an exchange student with the American Field Service this year - Merve Erdinc, 16, from Istanbul, Turkey. Merve, a junior, was inspired to join AFS by her older MKA Review • Spring 2003
“Our rules take aim at common pitfalls of teen eating behavior,” says MKA parent Dr. Susan Bershad, who spearheaded the project. “The kids told us that they don’t like being lectured to and being told ‘don’t do this and don’t do that.’” Bershad, an adolescent dermatologist with a degree in nutrition, collaborated with another MKA parent, Mary Hickey, an editor at Parents Magazine, to present information in colloquial, positive form.
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attended a very formal school that requires students to wear uniforms and to stand up when a teacher enters the room, the collegial atmosphere of MKA has been a real but positive change. “Here,” she says, “teachers are more like friends.”
Polytechnic Institute (RPI), spoke to Warren Marchioni's Biology o f Behavior classes in January. This was the second in a series o f seminars on the brain and behavior, and it centered on artificial intelligence.
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MKA Really Loves to Read MKA’s Book Fair - which dates to Brookside School in the 1960s - has morphed into the largest school book fair in the country. The multi-day/over-the-weekend project involves thou sands of books and hundreds of volunteer hours on all three cam puses. There even has been an added component the last three years: the PAMKAKE breakfast on Sunday morning. This year’s PAMKA Book Fair broke all records, with close to $100,000 in sales. It began with a special faculty recognition tea, whereby faculty mingle with colleagues, enjoy refreshments, and select books for their classrooms and “wish lists.” On Sunday morning, an estimated 200 families enjoyed pancakes (served by dads and students) and live music, provided by MKA sophomore band EightBall and hip hop legend Doug E. Fresh, followed by shopping for books. Authors Fresh and Betsy Howie autographed books.
Judy MacGregor, M KA parent and consultant to the PAMKA B ook Fair, with Headmaster Peter Greer. M KA s 2002 book fa ir was the largest scholastic book fa ir in the country.
During the week, children visited the book displays and authors visited their classrooms. On Monday, Mark Teague delighted children at Brookside and popular author Avi visited the Middle School. On Tuesday, Jon Scieszka [The Time Warp Trio series, The Stinky Cheese Man] enthralled his 2nd-7th grade audiences and kicked off his national “Guys Read” project. Author Lucy Frank spoke at the Middle School, and Cheryl and Peter Barnes (a.k.a. Woodrow the White House Mouse) delighted Brooksiders. Dan Gutman, Sarah Weeks, and Suzy Kline captivated children on Wednesday. For the first time in many years, the Upper School held its own onsite fair and hosted best-selling author Alice Hoffman. The MKA Book Fair is so successful that children’s authors request to be invited. This year’s theme, “MKA Loves to Read,” followed prior themes Any Time is Book Time, Books Go Everywhere, Everybody Needs a Good Book, Get Caught Reading, and For the Love of Reading. Judy MacGregor, Senior Vice President, Scholastic Book Clubs and an MKA parent, served as consultant.
A uthor M ark Teague autographs books at Brookside.
Based on an article in The PAMKA Press
A young fa n takes a moment to read.
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Hip hop artist and author D oug E. Fresh.
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L oo k O u t World, Here We Com e Second in a series o f alumni profiles, examining various career paths. Herewith, three young alumni from the Class of ’98, ju st out o f college.
Kristen Connolly - The Proverbial Break They say actors are “discovered” by happenstance as much as hard work. MKA’s Kristen Connolly, just out of college, landed her first role - in a film with Julia Roberts no less - because her family’s house in Montclair was seen by location scouts. But Kristen was ready. She majored in theater at Middlebury, appearing in studentand faculty-directed plays of Chekhov, Shakespeare, and contemporary playwrights. (She had appeared in dramas all four years at MKA.) After graduation, Kristen spent last summer with the Potomac Theater Project in Olney, Maryland, where she received good reviews for Scotland Road (Jeffrey Hatcher, director). She took those reviews for auditions. “J.C. was a huge help in making decisions;tfjsays Kristen, referring to Upper School faculty member J.C. Svec. “He kept in touch with me throughout college and his guidance afterward was incredible.” When location scouts visited the Connolly home, her mother learned that the casting was not yet complete, that they were looking for various parts, particularly college girls. Kristen fit the description, so she sent her resume, head shots, and reviews to the casting director, who called her for an audition, then another audition to meet director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral). Kristen landed a small principal role in Mona Lisa Smile, as a student in art history class. It was filmed in Glen Ridge, Yonkers, and Queens in December and January - with Kirsten Dunst, Marcia Gay Harden, and Julia Stiles, in addition to Roberts - and will be released in November. “It was a very small part, but a cool way to see how professionals work,” says Kristen. “So different from theater. The hours are more focused. We might shoot just one moment all day.”
Matt Waldman - The Boy of Summer All-Ivy League pitcher Matt Waldman of Columbia University spent four months in Sweden last summer, playing professional baseball with the Rattvik Butchers in an eightteam league. His team won the national championship.
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It was “basically a free vacation.. .a chance to get away after four years of the hard work and torment of college baseball,” Matt told the West Orange Chronicle. He also spent time touring various cities in Europe. He was a four-year starter at Columbia (career 115 strikeouts vs. 104 walks, 5.53 ERA in 167 2/3 innings pitched), and had two shutouts. He was named to the 2002 Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division I All-America team and an Ivyleaguesports.com pitcher of the week. MKA baseball coach Ralph Pacifico remembers him as “a talented lefty.” Now back in the States, Matt - who majored in history at Columbia - works for OMD, a media marketing firm in New York City. In a marvelous irony, his account is Sony, and his project is a baseball game for Sony Play Station 2 coming out this spring.
Lauren Moses - Honors, con’t. Lauren Moses ’98, who served as student rep. to the Alumni Council for two years while at MKA, was honored by Duke University with an Angier Biddle Duke Memorial Scholarship, one of the most prestigious four-year merit awards in the country. She spent a summer in England, where she studied Victorian fiction and poetry at New College in Oxford. Duke’s confidence was merited: Lauren graduated last May magna cum laude with high distinction in economics. She won the economics department’s Allen Starling Johnson, Jr. Prize for the best honors thesis of the year, as well as the English department’s Anne Flexner Award in Fiction for a short story. She spoke at the commencement ceremony for the economics department. “Economics was a broad lens through which to investigate the world,” Lauren writes. “It was more than the study of a firm or even a country’s economy....Economics also spoke to individual decision-making and the trade-offs of everyday life. I liked acknowledging complexity.” She wrote her award-winning senior thesis on the institutional economist Thorstein Veblen. While an undergrad, Lauren worked as a teaching assistant for a macroeconomics course for two years, studied piano, and helped out with Fuqua’s [business school] Black and Latino MBA organization. Sophomore year, she won a Goldman, Sachs & Co. scholarship for excellence, which included a summer internship in New York. That led to a job offer after graduation. She spent last summer training in New York for their analyst program, and now works in Princeton with Goldman’s hedge fund strategies group. Lauren has rejoined the Alumni Council as a real alumna, happily greeting alumni and former faculty at Homecoming and calling speakers for Career Day.
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By Todd Smith, Director o f Athletics As the new Director of Athletics here at The Montclair Kimberley Academy, I couldn't wait for the fall season to get started. It would be my first "official" season heading up the Athletic Department and I couldn't wait to work with our coaches, athletes, and parents to ensure that we are providing the best program we can for all of our student athletes. I was excited to see our upand-coming Middle School teams battle their way to successful seasons, and I always looked forward to seeing our Junior Varsity teams in action as they gave it all that they had every day and solidified their foundations for their future Varsity careers. Our parent support for the fall athletic teams at all levels (Varsity, JV and Middle School) was second to none as we always had the "12th man" on our side. Whether it was the Gatorade they brought at the beginning of games or the support they gave us on the sidelines, we couldn't have done it without them. The 2002 fall athletic season was extremely successful as the Cougars brought home Colonial Hills Championships in Boys' Soccer, Boys' Cross Country, and Girls' Tennis. In addition, 41 of our fall Varsity athletes were recognized for various all-star teams in the Colonial Hills Conference, Essex County, Preps, or Parochial State divisions. Coach Tom Fleming (twice winner of the New York City Marathon) saw the Boys' Cross-Country team continue to make strides. They have clearly established MKA as one of the top teams in the state, finishing the season with a 6-1 dual record and winning the CHC Hills Division for the third consecutive year. Junior Oskar Nordenbring achieved All State Honors (2nd team) again, and repeated as the Essex County (twice) and CHC Champion (three times). He ran one of the fastest times at Holmdel Park at the Shore Coaches Meet in early October, and was ranked #1 for most of the season by the Star-Ledger newspaper! MKA had three boys make All-County and AllConference Honors ... Oskar and seniors Mike Dulong and Cooper Knowlton. One nice surprise this year was the emergence of freshman Nicolai Naranjo as the Essex County JV X-c champion! He trained hard all season with "our big three," and his improvements came at the right time to help MKA finish in fourth place in the State NJSIAA Meet in November. The Girls' Cross-Country team (4-2) was led by senior captains Denise Sarkor and Meridith Mikulich. Although the team did not have any place winners at the county or state championships, first-year head coach Gillian Giufffa was extremely pleased with their work ethic and attitude throughout the season. Although the Varsity Field Hockey team did not have a winning record, the girls learned about what it takes to have a winning attitude, the importance of working together to succeed, and being both mentally and physically prepared for every game. Led by 1st team All-Essex County goalie Randi Sunshine, the Cougars fought hard every game and battled to the end. Seniors
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Cionna Almeida, Precious Eboigbe, and Amy Klein were named to various post-season teams and led the spirited Cougars throughout the season. Our seniors will be missed but the young Cougars are sure to be a team to watch next year. The 2002 Cougar Varsity Football team continued their remarkable turnaround as the team finished with a 5-6 record and qualified for the state playoffs for the third year in a row. Getting to the semifinals of the Parochial State Championships was a superior effort for our players. Beating Immacuate Conception for the first time ever and a win over Whippany Park also were great achievements for our squad! The highlight of the season was easily their come-ffom-behind win against Whippany Park when the Cougars won on a two-point conversion as time expired. Coach Fisher's squad also won a thrilling game at Pingry, 7-6, in the first round of the state playoffs. It was a cold and rainy day but the weather did not bother the Cougars as they advanced in the playoffs, only to lose to an overmatched Pope John juggernaut in the second round. Earning All-League honors were Justin Ashenfelter, Larry Canales, Taylor Cassidy, Frank Giantomasi, Vincent Grossi, Masamba Sinclair, Phil Petrucelli and Razzaq Manley. The Varsity Boy's Soccer team had an outstanding season, winning the Colonial Hills Conference and reaching the final of the Prep B Tournament. The team finished the season with a 143-2 record, which helped the Cougars gain the #1 seed in the State Tournament and the # 3 seed in the Counties. The team will return 10 starters in 2003, including Colonial Hills Conference Player of the Year Angelo Amato. Receiving All-League honors were Amato, Drew Jennings, Tom Beach, Donny Gaby, and David Endo.
Co-captain Dan Monica ’03.
The Girls' Varsity Soccer team finished the year with a 13-7-2 record, and with only one starter graduating should be on the verge of big things in 2003. Led by Captains Fiona McCarthy (senior) and Evyn Cameron (junior), the team came together and fought hard throughout the year. Although the Cougars were young, they established themselves as one of the top teams in the Colonial Hills Conference, as well as Essex Comity. Earning All CHC honors were Cameron, McCarthy, Ali Alati, Heather Lamb, Rachel Pelosi, and Samantha Hirsh. Cameron, Lamb and Alati earned All-County distinction. Look for big things from this team in the near fiiture!
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Sophomore Chisako Sugiyama.
Alumni Hockey Game A revamped Alumni Hockey Game over the holidays pitted Alumni against the current Varsity and recent grads. Turnout was good, fun was had by all, and the “old guys” won, 8-2 - proving that hockey can be a lifetime sport of exercise and camaraderie (or that old age and wisdom overpower callow youth). Standing: coach Blake O'Neill ’82, Jake McKee 797, David Steinfeld ’97, Sean D u fy ’97, John M artin ’00, Gary Murphy ’99, Alex Voinov ’96, Bryan Lonsinger ’90x, Tim Cook ’02, Anthony Gray ’02, Joe Egan '89, Duncan Currie '00, M att Nielsten ’01, Brian Dempsey ’01, varsity coach J e ff Moore, Peter Schiffenhaus '82, Darrin O'Neill ’84, Jim Cannell ’81, Brad Bershad ’01, Peter DeCandia ’89. Front: coach Ken Smith, varsity players M att Brown, John Chase, M ichael Grillo, Peter Niles, Brian Thompson, Will Widen, Sander Porcelli, Will Connolly, B ill Boss, Henry Widen, H all Garrity (rear), M ichael Perl, Justin McCarthy, Jason O'Neill ’85.
One of the MKA athletic highlights this fall was certainly the Girls' Varsity Tennis team, who finished the year with a 20-1 record. As you can see, their team and individual awards were numerous and they even knocked off perennial state power Newark Academy three times this year. Anchored by one of the top doubles teams in the state (Nicole Pugno and Lauren Newman) and a sophomore (Chisako Sugiyama)/ freshman (Brittany Berckes) duo at 1st and 2nd singles, the Cougars were one of the top teams in the state throughout the year. Earning various first team honors were Sugiyama, Berckes, Pugno, Newman, Anjali Saxena, Jaimie Higgins, and Marissa Koggan. With their top two players returning, the Cougars are aiming for the state title next year!
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The Cougar Girls' Volleyball team was one of the most pleasant surprises and took the league and County by storm. Although we lost 11 seniors last year, the Cougars finished with one of their strongest seasons in years. We were seeded 13th in the State Championships, third in the conference, and were the only team in the conference to have two players who made the first team (Jenna Sakolsky and Mallory Singer) and one in the second team (Jenna Willis). Volleyball finished with a record of 17-9 and with almost their entire lineup coming back, promises to be one of the strongest teams in the County next year.
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MKA has established itself as one of the top independent school athletic programs in the state, thanks in large part to the work and effort that my predecessor, Dr. Mark Boyea, brought to us. It is a trend that I plan to continue as we move forward into 2003 and beyond. Our mission is simple: to create an athletic program where players want to play, coaches want to coach, and that parents and alumni will be proud of. I look forward to working with all of our athletes, teams, and coaches as we enter the winter and spring seasons. Go Cougars!
Alumni Athletic Records MKA's early athletic records are incomplete. If you made or held some record at the time, please inform the Department of Athletics (Patty Sullivan, Assistant Director of Athletics) with documentation, so we can consider it in compiling our school records. We particularly need track and cross country stats.
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Athletic Hall o f Fame V i l i The eighth “team” will be inducted into the MKA Athletic Hall of Fame at the Awards Luncheon on May 10. They join a distinguished group of athletes from many sports and many eras whose talents and achievements are displayed in the Upper School gym lobby, near a barrage of current banners. These individual athletes and teams “set a standard high” [School Song!] for today’s students.
G loria Evans Dodd ’43 Tennis and Platform Tennis
I truly believe that sports represent life in miniature. One learns to overcome nerves in challenging situations, how to fig h t back when down, how to win gracefully, but perhaps most important, how to accept a loss as simply a momentary loss, and not a failure. Every time we go out onto the court or field, or into a critical life situation, we "put it bn the line.” Gloria has spent a lifetime with sports. While at Kimberley, Gloria - president of the Athletic Association - was undefeated in tennis. She was Eastern Clay Court Junior Champion, #8 in National Junior rankings, and had a USTA National Women’s ranking of #15. At Swarthmore College (B.A.) - again captain of the tennis team - she was the Middle States Intercollegiate tennis champion and Philadelphia Invitational badminton champion. She was appointed as alternate to the Whiteman Cup team in 1946. Gloria spent two years teaching phys. ed. at Kimberley, primarily as a tennis instructor. She inaugurated and chaired the Kimberley Invitational Tennis Tournament for private schools, Philadelphia through Massachusetts. While raising her two daughters, she kept playing competitively, to such achievement that she was a two-time USTA National Senior Women’s (40 and over) Tennis Champion. She was also American Platform Tennis Champion three times. Gloria organized a paddle instruction clinic held every weekend for 50 kids ages 8-18 at Montclair Golf Club, and several became national junior champions. She worked as executive director of the American Platform Tennis Association for four years, and as director of promotional marketing for the New Jersey Devils hockey team for four years. She retired as a sports marketing consultant for Coca Cola USA in 1989. Now a “happy grandmother” to four grandchildren and seven step-grands, Gloria enjoys teaching them sports. She serves on several charitable boards and continues to play tennis and golf.
Gerald Jones ’77 Track
Gerald was an outstanding threesport athlete at MKA, earning letters in football, basketball, and track and induction into the Varsity Society. He was undefeated in the 400m in senior year, and held school records in lOOy (10.3), 100m (11.1), 400m (51.0) and 440y (51.0). At the College of the Holy Cross, Gerald compiled a stunning list of achievements, while being pre-med in his studies. He was twice captain of the track team, MVP, and won the Intercollegiate Athletic Achievement Award as the most outstanding senior in all minor sports. He still holds indoor and outdoor records in the 400m that he set in 1981. Gerald held records in the 100m, 200m, and 400m dashes and for the most points scored in Holy Cross track history. He also long jumped and was on the record setting distance medley relay team. He was named All-New England in track. After college, Gerald continued running with Nike sponsorship from 1981-84, and qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 200m in 1984. He has competed in various master’s events, earning All-American (age 30-34) in 100m and 200m, and Empire State and Garden State Games championships. Along the way, he earned a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (D.P.M.) degree from New York College of Podiatric Medicine in 1989. He did a residency in podiatric orthopedics at the Brockton/West Roxbury Veterans’ Administration. Now Dr. Jones has a private practice in Verona. “All that I am is primarily because of my family,” says Gerald, “particularly my parents.” His three brothers also attended MKA, and Sean ’80 and Max ’78 preceded him in the MKA Athletic Hall of Fame for football. Gerald and his wife, Donna, have three children.
Solomon Johnson ’87 Football
“Solo” - as Solomon Johnson was I affectionately called by fans and teammates - was one of MKA’s great I running backs. As a freshman, he was JV MVP; as a sophomore, Offensive Player of the Year; as a junior - his best statistical year - he led the state in points scored. He was MVP and All-State on the team that won a share of the League title. His senior year the team was weaker, but the co-captain/MVP says, “It was the most fun I had playing, because we knew we stunk and simply played because we loved football.”
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freshman year, told Solo that he reminded him of some professional players he had seen in his time and that Solo had the “best hands” he’d ever seen. That was later reiterated by a former NFL/CFL quarterback when Solo contemplated a pro career.
Whitney. He also plays forward on the ESPN ice hockey team (he is a fanatic Rangers fan). His most life-changing experience, however, is “Having a child!” Wayne and his wife, Lauri, have two children, Will, bom in January, and Pierson, 2.
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Solo went on to Columbia University, where he had “limited team success and early personal success.” He was named MVP of the University’s first and only undefeated freshman football team in 1987, the leading scorer and rusher. They called it the “Soloffense.” As a sophomore, in 1988, he was the Ivy League Rookie of the year, the first Columbia player ever. It was Solo who scored the winning touchdown that broke the nation’s longest collegiate losing streak (44). After that, there were “a couple of highlight plays on ESPN and a few EAAC Player of the Week awards,” but Solo and his teammates never realized their goal of winning an Ivy League Championship. He held the Columbia leading rushing record for many years. The University’s former director of sports information, Bill Steinman, says, “Solo was one of the most exciting players I ever saw.” Now Solo is in New York City, “a very happy independent movie maker, music video director, editor, recording engineer, graphic artist, web designer, songwriter. If it deals with art and media, I’m there.” He credits his life to his father, “not only a brilliant thinker and scholar, but the first coach I ever knew,” and “the ambrosia of MKA that helped to mold me.”
Wayne Elliott ’88 Tennis and Soccer
Wayne played #1 singles varsity tennis all four years at MKA, and was captain and MVP in 1988. He also earned three letters in soccer. The leading scorer, he was twice named 1st team All-State, as well as captain and MVP in 1988. In college, at Clark University, Wayne concentrated on tennis and played varsity all four years. He played #1 singles and #1 doubles for three years, and by his senior season (12-4 record singles, 15-3 doubles), he ranked #6 in New England and #48 nationally. Having helped turn the team around, he led Clark to its highest ranking ever as captain in 1992, despite playing a tough schedule. In 1992, Wayne was awarded the Fred Hebert Trophy for the most outstanding contribution to Clark athletics. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and honors in studio art, and began an outstanding career as lead graphics designer, and now creative director, with ESPN. Wayne designed the World Cup Soccer and Winter Olympics logos for ESPN in 1994, and received a Sports Emmy Award for NFL Gameday best studio production. His ESPN Up Close logo design won the 1995 BDA Design award, and his total package design for Sunday Night Football won the 2002 BDA International Design Gold Award. Since college, Wayne has been leading scorer as center forward with the ESPN football club (i.e. American soccer); he notched a hat trick to win the championship game 3-1 against Pratt & MKA Review • Spring 2003
Starting five: Keeton Arnett ’55, A1 Brummerstedt, Roland Jacobus, Michael Cohen ’55, Stanley Traymore; James Addy ’55, Philip Donlin, Joel Kaplan, Robert McClintock ’55x, Richard Moskowitz ’55, Peter Smith ’55. Coached by the legendary Ed Van Brunt, the 1954 men’s basketball team went 16-0, the first undefeated slate in Academy history. They won the New Jersey Ivy League Championship for the second time, and were the only private school invited to the powerful Essex County Tournament. The team was led by forward Stan Traymore, the first Academy player to score 1,000 points, and according to the Newark StarLedger at the time, the only “active New Jersey schoolboy” to do so in his basketball career. [The “big scoring ace” finished with 1,233.] “We worked around his offense,” recalls guard Jake Jacobus. In an era of the set shot, Big Stan had a Jordanesque jump shot. Called the “hilltop dribblers” by the press, the team also had top rebounding center Mickey Cohen, who went on to lead the ’55 team to a 32-game unbeaten record with his accurate foul shot (.739 percentage). Guards Jacobus and Brummerstedt, “the ace ball handler,” were deadly from the outside, and Arnett was a three-year veteran forward. “It was fun setting up the good players,” writes substitute Dick Moskowitz, “occasionally stealing the ball for them or scoring a few outside shots.” “The rest of us just chipped in and played good defense,” says Phil Donlin, who was inducted into the MKA Athletic Hall of Fame for football in 1997. The team of ’54 all excelled in two or three sports. They went on to noted colleges and universities and became doctors and lawyers, businessmen, and teachers. Two are deceased (Addy and Brummerstedt). Page 17
Honorary Trustee Aubin Zabriskie Am es ’54, who received the Distinguished Alum ni Award in 1988, chats with fa cu lty member Sandy Lonsinger.
Sixtieth reunion chairmen Frances Johnson Furlong and D ick Charlesworth.
Dean o f Studies Karen Newman (second fro m left) with fo rm er students Renee Delphin, Amanda Dickey, and M eena Untawale from the Class o f ’97.
Homecoming io o i “When you think ’5 0 years’ it sounds like such a long time, bu t when you m eet up an d discuss old times, it does not seem long a t all. ” Charles Sage ’52 returns a vintage M ontclair A cadem y banner to Headmaster Peter Greer 50 years after it disappeared fro m the campus. It seem s the victorious ’52 baseball team was so thrilled by winning som e championship that they celebrated in New York City, parading the banner up and down the avenues. The banner has been in Sage's attic in Iowa fo r the last 40 years.
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Pat Shean Worthington ’74, President o f the MKA Alum ni Association, presents the greatest-distance award to Elizabeth Greene ’77, who came from Seattle fo r her 25th reunion.
Dave M arrocco and John Allen o f the Class o f 1957.
Classmates o f ’52 Roger Webb, Terry Wing, and 50th reunion chairman George Lucas.
Senior fa cu lty member Judy N esbit and fa n s: Yanni Fotiadis ’82, Dan Carson ’83, a nd Ron Spivak ’77.
June and Rick Stanton ’87 showed their kids his MKA campus.
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Katie a nd Peter Dancy ’82, who have two children at Brookside, with Randi Pickelny R od ’82 and A ndy R od ’79.
at the list o f ’42 Kimberley classmates coming to their 60th reunion.
Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 and D ave Kerr ’52x at their 50th.
Ruth and Jim Ritchie ’42 came from Dan Emerson ’42 came fro m Florida fo r their Academy 60th reunion.
Rob Kramer ’82, his son D anny - a third grader at Brookside - and Peter E dge ’82.
Naimah Al-Amin, Latha Ballem, a nd Judy Phruksaraj, all ’97, returned f o r their fifth reunion.
Class agent Barbara Pendleton Donnell and reunion chairman Fay Taft Fawcett present the Kimberley Class o f 1952 s gift to Headmaster Peter Greer.
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A cadem ic Dean D eb Jennings with two o f her form er students, Enrique Neblett ’92 and Laura M amchur ’92.
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Bette and R obert Kim ’52 came fo r his 50th reunion. Dr. Kim had never been back since his Academy graduation.
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From the Alum ni Association Dear MKA Family and Friends, I hope by the time you read this, the weather has gotten a little warmer than our current frigid 5 degrees and that you too are looking forward to spring. First, an update about the fall, before we look ahead. We had our usual absolutely wonderful Homecoming. There was a terrific turnout for the Reunion Luncheon and beautiful fall weather for all the club and athletic events. The highlight of the luncheon was the honoring of the 2002 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, Laura Scher ’76. Laura spoke of her experiences building a very successful communications company that also conducts significant philanthropic activities. She captivated both alumni at the luncheon as well as Upper School students the day before. The Homecoming tradition continued with a wonderful Reunion Dinner at the Montclair Golf Club, complete with dancing. Many MKA alumni staffed the phones dining the Alumni Phonathon week in November, working to help the school raise needed funds for its operating budget. Thank you to all who have donated and supported our school.
Standing: fo rm er fa cu lty member Sally Bailey Burkat; Headmaster Peter R. Greer; Terry Greer; Laura Scher ’76, recipient o f the 2002 Distinguished Alum ni Award; Frances Scher; Newton Schott Jr., president o f the Board o f Trustees.
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Seated: Karen VanderhoofForschner ’70, recipient o f the 1991 Distinguished Alum ni Award; Pat Shean Worthington ’74, president o f the MKA Alum ni Association; and fa cu lty member Judy Nesbit.
Also in November, we had a post-Thanksgiving “coffee klatch” for young alumni and current seniors at a new local gathering spot, discussing the ins and outs of college life. In January, the Alumni Association hosted a “networking” night for local young alumni in a popular nightspot in Hoboken, and a Night at the Theater at the award-winning musical Rent in New York. We were delighted to donate a few tickets for the play to the Faculty Ticket Pool. We are also in the planning stages for Career Day, A Night With the Devils, Senior Breakfast, our third annual Alumni Golf Outing at the Glen Ridge Country Club in June, and a family-oriented alumni event for later in the summer. We really hope you can join us for one or many events. It is always wonderful to see old friends and to meet other alumni as well. You can contact the Alumni Office to reserve a space for any of the activities or just to get information about what’s going on. We hope to see you!
A Thanksgiving coffee club brought together alumni in college and current seniors: James Parke ’00, D ana M eranus ’00, M elanie Braverman ’03, Lindsay Braverman ’01, Trevor Haughton ’03.
I am honored to be serving as the President of the MKA Alumni Association and hope that during the next two years we can reconnect you to MKA. It is truly a wonderful place.
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Warm W ishe|gp Pat Shean Worthington ’74 President, MKA Alumni Association
Diana R eiter ’01 and Nicole Kessler ’01.
Come Join Us! Alumni Events April 3 - A Night With the Devils, Meadowlands
May 18 - Alumni reception in Boston
April 10 - Alumni reception in Washington, D.C.
June 17 - Annual Alumni Golf Outing, Glen Ridge Country Club
Alumni Office: 973-746-9800 • caustin@montclairkimberley.org or lmcfeeley@montclairkimberley.org
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Class Notes 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 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. The Review will accept “alumni-reunion” photos, but regrets it cannot print individual wedding, baby, or family photos. To those without a class secretary, how would you like to volunteer? The job has been simplified to the point that you will probably enjoy it immensely. The position of alumni class secretary, like that of class agent and reunion chairman, is absolutely essential to the vitality of the school. Please consider it. MA - Montclair Academy TKS - The Kimberley School
Labor Troubles Miss Waring was on sabbatical in England in 1926, the time of the General Strike. As she was not going to be on hand for Commencement, she sent a cable to the graduating seniors that included the Kimberley motto [Labor, Amicitia, Inspiratio\. Her hotel in London became all agog because she was the subject of an investigation by Scotland Yard, who were informed that she had gone to Cambridge. They tracked her down there, causing a sensation in that hotel also. Some overzealous censor had been alert to the word “Labor” - not being aware of its Latin pronunciation - and suspected “Amicitia, Inspiratio” to be code for some evil plot. When Miss Waring and “a nice young man from the C.I.D.” got together over tea in Cambridge, it was all straightened out and both had a good laugh.
Troxell ’76, Emily Troxell ’78, Heidi Ames Bauer ’81, Mark Ames ’86, and David Ames ’89; and 13 great-grandchildren.
[23 TKS _________________________ Our condolences to the family of Barbara Zimmer de Jurenev Borden. She is survived by her daughter, Nicole de Jurenev, who graduated in the Kimberley Class of 1956, and two stepsonsjf" Our condolences also to the family of Isabel Gallie Gassaway. She is survived by her daughter, Jane Gassaway Bonner ’51.
TKS _______________________ Our condolences to the family of Carolyn Jones Ferguson. She leaves two sons.
Charlotte Fitch ’29 From MKA Alumni News, Fall 1987
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\20 TKS ________________________ _ Our condolences to the family of Anna Lincoln Ames, who died just short of her 100th birthday. She is survived by her daughter Heidi Ames Troxell ’46, and two sons and then families, including daughter-inlaw Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54. Among her 11 grandchildren are MKA alumni John Troxell ’72, Sara T. Winokur ’74, Matthew
Virginia Stoutenburgh Svigals writes, “Hanging in there with two children, seven grands.”
Ì29 TKS _________________________ M iss Charlotte H. Fitch, Box 45 24 Cape B ial Lane, Westport Point MA 02791 Dorothy Minsch Hudson spent Thanksgiving
Lewis Douglas, 1894-1974 Lewis W. Douglas is the politician o f the class. He is the class orator, the “Arizona Knight "...The greatest o f all these accomplish ments] is his ability to tell yarns o f the faro ff West.... Many have been the great events in the school career o f this youthful prodigy. From YeYearBooke, 1912, M ontclair Academy In spring 2002 Persimmon H ill, the magazine of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, ran a profile of one of its Western Heritage Awardees, a man who graduated from Montclair Academy in 1912 - Lewis Douglas,
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who later became Ambassador to Great Britain. After the Academy (a boarding school in those days), Douglas graduated cum laude from Amherst College, then left MIT to serve during WWI with the 91st Division in Argonne and Flanders. He received a citation for valor from General Pershing and was decorated by both France and Belgium. Douglas then studied law at Harvard. His father persuaded him to return to the family mining ventures in Arizona (“not as an executive, but as a mucker on the 1,700’ level”). In 1922, Douglas was elected to the Arizona State Legislature. After one term, he was elected as the state’s sole representative to Congress, “a post he held until President Franklin Roosevelt appointed him director of the budget in 1933.” He and his growing family returned to Arizona as often as possible. In 1942, Douglas was appointed the war shipping administrator and managed
the enormous plan of shipping materiel to Great Britain during the war; he later became one of the designers of the Marshall Plan. President Truman appointed him Ambassador to Great Britain in 1947, a post he served with distinction until an eye injury prompted his resignation in 1950. Queen Elizabeth made him a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1957. In 1963, Douglas was the second alumnus to receive Montclair Academy’s Outstanding Alumnus Award - predecessor of today’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Lewis Douglas spent his final years back on his ranch in Arizona, serving on numerous corporate boards and philanthropic foundations. He died in 1974. [Ed. note: The Persimmon H ill article was sent by another Academy alumnus, Bruce Swenson ’3 9 |B
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with her son Nelson Bond Jr. ’53 and part of his large family. She reports happily that her daughter, Nancy Bond Sayre B 8 , lives near her in Florida and Cape Cod. “How lucky can I be!”
30 TKS From the Smith College alumnae newsletter: Dorothy Minsch Hudson celebrated her 90th birthday in December 2001 with a grand party, including her 12th great-grandchild, named Dorothy after her. Her husband, Jim, who had suffered from Alzheimer’s for years, died a week later. Our condolences. Dorothy’s family still visit “Gran’s motel” in Orleans, Mass, every summer.
MA_________________ :_________ Mr. C. Irving Porter Box 2750 Quaker H ill Road, Unity M E 04988
TKS _________________________ Mrs. Albert Frell (Irene Burbank) 580 Admiralty Parade, Naples FL 34102
32 TKS _________________________ Mary Harrsen Van Brunt wrote that her grandson, whose mother is Carol Van Brunt Rasic ’56, was married last August, and that her granddaughter enjoys her press job with Governor Pataki of New York.
M A______ Cedric Jaggard sent comfort to John Newberry on the death of Bettie, his wife of 60 years. (Cedric and Jean Dale Jaggard will celebrate their own 60th anniversary in June.) He recalls “leisurely walks with John and others down the long Bloomfield Avenue hill to South Park Street and the Wedgwood Cafeteria. There were exchanges of ideas on topics serious and otherwise.” He recalled a Scottish plaque in Old English letters at the lunch counter that said “.. .the Lord be thanket’IW Ced continues recollections of “school day friends of high calibre and the memories r both valuable and whimsical - they’ve left me. I say, ’the Lord be thanket.” ’ . Later John wrote to MKA that he had a great phone visit with Cedric, whom he had not seen or heard from for 70 years.
35 TKS _________________________ Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) Crane’s M ill, Apt. 249 459 Passaic Ave., West Caldwell N J 07006
M A________________________ Mr. John Graham 1129 K ing’s Ranch Road, Bandera TX 78003
TKS Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) 118 Heron Point, Chestertown MD 21620 Our condolences to the family of Elizabeth Van Wie Penick Schmitz. Evie received a B.A. and Doctor of Humane Letters from Bloomfield College in 2001 in recognition of her humanitarian, educational, and philanthropic contributions. She is survived by her husband, Herman Schmitz; two daughters, Jenny Penick Young ’67 and Meg Penick Federico ’73 and their families; stepchildren, 19 grandchildren and 13 greatgrands. .. Our condolences also to the family of Cecilia Degolyer McGhee. Cecilia was hostess at two embassies HTurkey and Germany - when her husband was ambassador, and later served on the board of the National Symphony in Washington. She founded the symphony’s Annual Concert for Children. Cecelia is survived by her husband of 63 years, three daughters, two sons, five grands, and one great-grandchild. James and Betty Rhoades McCabe moved to a “retirement nest” in Palm City, Fla. Please note that class secretary Jodie Murray Schmid has moved to Maryland, to be near her youngest daughter.
M A___________________________ Our condolences to the family of William Mattes III. Bill, who graduated from Temple University, served as a pilot with the 451st Bomb Group in Italy during WWII, and received two Distinguished Flying Crosses and six Air Medals. He served as a captain with Eastern Airlines from 1950-78. Bill, a Mason, received the 33rd degree and membership in the Supreme Council. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, two children, and three grandchildren.
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TKS ______________________ Mrs. Willard Dixon (Betty O ’Gorman) Crane’s M ill, Apt. 199 459 Passaic Ave., West Caldwell N J 07006
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Mrs. William Young (Peggy Klotz) The Village at Duxbury 290 Kingstown Way, Apt. 253 Duxbury MA 02332
Lifetime Achievement Congratulations to Ruth Duff Eager ’37, who was given the Volunteer Lifetime Achievement Award from Mountainside Hospital, for 40 years of service and more than 20,000 hours. Sally Bausher Littlefield had a hip replaced last June and is back on the golf course in Florida, and hoping to take trips. Curt and Margaret Richards Chapman had a good year, and “with glasses and hearing aids we passed our driving tests at age 84!” Margaret drives “old people” to their medical appointments in Hanover or Concord, N.H. She is also church secretary and is on the house committee for their retirement community. She talked to Janet Gaylord Newsome on her birthday, and I spoke with Janet too. She was in Connecticut for Christmas at her daughter Nancy’s; daughter Julie was there from France. Teppy Holton Sjolander is busy at Kendal with many activities and good friends. Her granddaughter, Erica, has joined the U.S. Army at 18 and passed basic training. Teppy still misses our monthly luncheons in New Jersey. Jane Rinck visited part of her family in California, four generations in one house in Silicon Valley. She enjoyed San Francisco, . too. Jane keeps busy at home in Vermont with her church, plays the violin in nursing homes, writes, and feeds her wild birds. She is “far from completion” of her second book, but working on it. George and Ruth Duff Eager celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary in October. In September Ruthie was honored by Mountainside Hospital for her lifetime of volunteer service. I had a delightful five-day trip to Prince Edward Island last summer with a group from The Village. It is a beautiful place and I had been wanting to go there, but bus trips are a bit too hurry, hurry for me. I had cataract surgery in both eyes in November, two weeks apart, and am enjoying seeing more clearly. Please write to me or MKA; we all love to hear from you! Peggy
TKS _________________________ Class agent: Mrs. Saul Serota (Cornelia Carswell) 6891 Wilson Road, M arshall VA 22115 Ann Dixon Curtin reports a great Elderhostel trip to France last May and winters in Vero Beach, Fla. Maryl Riter Walker who very graciously spoke with MKA students as she was inducted into the Athletic Hall of FameH reports she is still active in the horse show world, as is her
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entire family. In September Maryl celebrated 21 years of singing in her church chancelpSI choir. One granddaughter celebrated her first wedding anniversary; another is an art major at New Paltz College; and her grandson is in first grade.
MA___________________________ Mr. C.R. Lyle II 435 Mountain Rd., P.O. Box 394 Jaffrey Center NH 03452-0394 Ed. note: Sincere apologies to Bruce Swenson for misnaming him “Bilibin the fall Review, and to ’39 classmates and Nancy Marchese for any misunderstanding with the ambiguity of the report of Bill Marchese’s demise. Bruce sent in an article about Montclair Academy’s Lewis Douglas ’ 12, Ambassador to Great Britain, that he spotted in the magazine of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum of Oklahoma City. [See box.]
\40 TKS _________________________ Mrs. Alfred D. Williams (Joan Bayne) 15 Piper Road, Apt. K310 Scarborough ME 04074 Our condolences to the family of Jean Downes Fisher.
MA___________________________ Our condolences to the family of Frederick D. Little. Fred, Director Emeritus of Pine Crest Prep. School in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for many years ran a small gift shop in Londonderry, Vt. He was a loyal Academy alumnus and left a generous bequest to MKA. Fred is survived by his wife, two daughters, and three grandchildren.
41 TKS _________________________ Mrs. James EC. Hyde Jr. (Enid Griswold) 5402 D uvall Drive, Bethesda MD 20816
MA___________________________ Mr. David Baird Jr. 9 Parkway, M ontclair N J 07042 William Hall and “beautiful Ann” have “five well married kids, 11 grandchildren, none married.” Their daughter Betsy is about to get her Ph.D. in Freudian analysis. Bill is partially blind with macular degeneration but otherwise in good shape.
The Class o f 1942, 60th reunion. Standing: Grace Aldrich Andersen, Anne Adams Beetle, Sandy Brown, Dan Emerson, Dick Charlesworth, Jim Ritchie. Front: Helena Burrill, Frances Johnson Furlong, Bob Furlong, Ruth Ritchie, Claire Brown.
Johnson Furlong for inspiring a heartwarming return and to Eleanor Watt Shull for her time and care in compiling a commemorative reunion booklet. Our condolences to the family of Joan Trimble Smith. Joan was a nationally known teacher and painter whose portraits of justices, university presidents, and dignitaries hang on many hallowed walls. Her portrait of Nathan Clifford (a justice of the Supreme Court from 1858 to 1881) hangs in the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Joan also won prizes for her pastel landscapes. Known as the class wit, she served as Kimberley class secretary from 1975 until her death. She set up a fund at Bentley College, the Joan Trimble Smith Aspiring Artists Fund, as she always felt that if business people learn about art, they are likely to be the ones to support the arts. She leaves her husband, a daughter, two sons, four grandchildren, and her sister, Verna Rudd Kenvin ’45. Condolences also to the family of Jean Jeffers Hill. Charles and Kit Eavenson Sanders enjoy retirement on Martha’s Vineyard. They are often visited by grandchildren (10 plus some spouses) and one great-grandchild. Two more greats were “in the ovens” when they wrote. Audrey Gates Bonney has a new greatgranddaughter, Natasha, born on Martha’s Vineyard. (News spotted in the Vineyard Gazette.)
MA___________________________ Mr. Richard L. Charlesworth 121 Cherry Brook Rd., Weston MA 02493
Our condolences to Carl Eisen on the death of his wife, Edith Loasby Eisen ’47.
Many thanks to reunion chairman Dick Charlesworth, who not only rallied the troops, but also compiled an interesting reunion booklet. He reports: A small but dedicated group of 1942 classmates returned to MKA for the 60th homecoming/reunion in October.
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Distance honors were clearly won by Ruth and Jim Ritchie, who traveled from Santa Fe, and by Dan Emerson, who came up from Vero
Many thanks to reunion chairman Frances
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Beach. Others traveling from afar were Claire and Sandy Brown, and Dick Charlesworth from Massachusetts. Joining them were locals Jack Kelsey, Fred Calder, and special guest Connie Ritchie DuHamel ’46. It was a delightful day of renewed friendships and memories of vibrant years at the Academy. I .I D ick
From the Archives It seems that some of the Core Works now taught to MKA students had a precedent in the “old” Montclair Academy and Kimberley School curriculum. From a 1942 issue of the M ontclair News: This year the English Honors Course is again successfully under way. The class is under the able leadership o f Mr. [William Avery] Barras, who has had great success with ... this special course. ’ The class meets with Mr. Barras every Monday evening from seven until nine. [They] are now in the process o f reading the “Divine Comedy” by Dante, and later in the year they plan to read either Plato’s “Republic" or Aristotle's “Politics.” The boys have been permitted to choose the books fo r reading, last year’s group having-. read the works o f Shakespeare. ...The English Honors course, in keeping with the Academy’s policy o f doing everything possible to assist its students, gives the more advanced boys an excellent opportunity to further their study o f English. Of the ten “boys” in the class, four are now deceased, three came to their 60th reunion in October, and one, Justice Robert Clifford, received The Montclair Kimberley Academy’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Another classmate, the late Edwin T. Etherington - former president and CEO of the American Stock Exchange and president emeritus of Wesleyan University - was the first recipient of the Academy’s Outstanding Alumnus Award.
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Mrs. David Hannegan (Louise Rudd) 49 Canterbury Lane, Lakeville CT 06039 weezieh@email. msn. com Many thanks to reunion chairmen Joan Cook, Louise Rudd Hannegan, Aubin Redfield Sander, and Jeannie Frey Drake for organizing a terrific reunion and gift to the school. Weezie’s report:
55th reunion, Kimberley Class o f 1947. Standing: David Hannegan, Louise Rudd Hannegan, Peter Mansfield, Patricia Cox Mansfield, Kathryn Crowell, Jdan Cook. Seated: Jay Smith Hague, Mary Cronin, Aubin Redfield Sander, Lila Rappaport Landau, Barbara Nash Hanson. Missingfrom photo: Tom and Margaret Soucek Weissenborn.
Jim Prescott wrote that he and Joy took a cruise to New Zealand and Australia and summered at their home in Maine, where they chatted with Dick Charlesworth in Boothbay Harbor.
M A ______________________________ Mr. William B. Grant 7330 Westmoreland Dr., Sarasota FL 34243 Bill Grant and Bob Nebergall were working on a class reunion on the fields and slopes of Vermont, at the home of Bill’s daughter Susan.
60th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2003
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M iss Lucile G. Mason 142 North Mountain Ave., M ontclair N J 07042
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Congratulations to Lucile Mason, wh<|& with her sister, Janet ’48 - received an Applause award from the New Jersey Theatre Alliance. They also completed two successful capital campaigns, for the renowned Presby Memorial Iris Gardens and the Neighborhood Child Care Center of Montclair. [News from the Smith College alumnae newsletter!]
M A ____________________________ _ Mr. Richard R. Angus 38 Hinchman Avenue, Denville N J 07834
44 M A ______________________________ Mr. Winterford J. Ohland 4 A bler’s Lane, Blairstown N J 07825
The Vineyard Gazette welcomed Nancy Lockerty Hoffmann back from California as she returned to help her son John, of Hong Kong, arrange his annual Asian Art exhibition. Ed and Nancy Anne Rudd Eddy enjoy living in the same Conn, town as her sister, Weezie Rudd Hannegan ’47. The Eddys are involved with support services for battered women, and she has joined a writing group at Hotchkiss School. The clan was gathering for the wedding of Arthur’s son at Christmas. Her son and his wife visit from NYC many weekends. Our condolences to Hyla Ames Troxell on the death of her mother, Anna Lincoln Ames ’20. Heidi and Tom have moved to Fairhaven, a retirement community in Sykesville, Md., west of Baltimore. They have a “pleasant cottage with enclosed sunporch - interesting co residents, health care, dinner, etc. in the midst of lovely rolling country.”
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Anne Feagley Wittels (Mrs, Jerome L.) 2116 Via Alamitos Palos Verdes Estates,. CA 90274
Dr. Peter B. Lawrence 4802 Carriage P I, Wilson NC 27893
Our condolences1to Rudd Trimble Kenvin on the death of her sister, Joan Trimble Smith ’42.;. Condolences, also, to Jeanne Talbot Sawutz on the death of her husband, George, in November.
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“Ancient mariner” Philip Cheek is no longer towing any more floating hotels around, but has stayed grounded in New Zealand for several months, where he is working on a*' book about the childhood experiences of British wartime evacuees.
How did I ever acquire three hats - secretary, reunion co-chair and scribe? In reporting on our 55th, it seems ages ago. Cookie, Teeny and I had good fun in the planning, and it was great to have so many responses truly regretting not being able to attend, namely Katy, Cindy, Shirley, Janet, Cyn, Sue and Dede. Dede’s news was the most serious lung cancer which spread to her brain so she was undergoing x-rays, CT scans, etc. She said her family and her sense of humor have kept her hanging in. God bless. Those who were in Montclair for all or part of the celebration were Cookie, Teeny, and Dave and me, along with Bar, Lila and Walt, Jay (who took some wonderful pictures), Kathy, Patty and Peter, Mary Cronin (after all these years - hurray!), Jeannie, and Peggy and Tom. Friday night found us at Pal’s for drinks and dinner, at the same table we had five years ago, passing around photos of long ago and trying to catch up on everyone. The pleasure of being together was obvious. Saturday morning five of us went to Plymouth Street to the “old Kimberley” and were given a tour of present-day Katie Gibbs. Much has changed, but it was still a treat. The study hall is the same. Computers everywhere. The music box is now used for storage, alas. Driving to the Upper School was nostalgic as well. We had a delicious lunch and looked at yearbook and other photos displayed around the room. Saturday night was the gala at the Golf Club where we had a chance to see members of other reuning classes. I hadn’t seen Jimmy Ritchie ’42 in 50 years! Sister Connie [Ritchie DuHamei] ’46 was there and Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 who was about to move out of my old house on Gordon Place. After dinner several of us went back to the Marlboro Inn (still going), and in Teeny and Bar’s room Dave and I did a short one-act about OLD people we’d done for a benefit in Lakeville. Pretty- soon we’ll be older than the characters. Sunday morning was fond farewells. I/we/everyone is gungho for our 60th. Stay in touch. Bless us all in 2003. Weezie Ned Reade (son of the late Florence Hofmann Reade) had a summer art exhibition on Martha’s Vineyard.
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Cynthia Youngman Adams reports a new grandbaby, her 10th. She had a mini-reunion with Kay Watt Cangelosi at Lake George in the fall. Our condolences to the family of Edith Loasby Eisen.
M A __________________________ Joe Hammond, checking on the status of the MA reunion, reported that the last of his seven children was married this year. He has 12 grandchildren.
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TKS _________________________ Mrs. Sibyl Lewis Lotterle 4360 E. Burchell Drive Hayden Lake ID 83835-8148 sibstoy@ mymailstation. com Congratulations to Janet Mason, who, with her sister Lucile, received the New Jersey Theatre Alliance Applause Award. [See ’43 notes.] They were cited for being “cheerleaders with a creative and investigative energy.” Janet has a B.A. from Smith College and a master’s in theatre from Stanford. She has been an editor o f Life magazine and a television producer and director. In January Helen Montgomery-Drysdale had a solo exhibition of her photographs from China at the Del Mar (Calif.) Artistspace. According to a curator, Helen captured "a culture within a culture... in a compelling combination of textures, grains, and angles we never quite noticed before."
MA___________________________ Pam and A1 Murray have retired permanently to Naples, Fla. He is still active as a basketball official observer after 47 years of officiating college and high school ball. He plays with the 70-plus softball team from Venice, Fla. that has won six national titles in the past three years.
MA__________________________ TKS _________________________ Class agent: Mrs. William Brooks (Dorothy Redfield) 1 Thelbridge Street, Madison CT 06443 Susan Inglis Chapman, widowed last year, has moved to a Hyatt retirement community in Glenview, 111. Nancy Eavenson Copp, who has a new address in Tennessee, writes of many plans involving church and teaching. Mary Ann Nebergall Denny and Audrey Maass Lewis ’50 ran into each other at a golf outing at Vineyards club in Naples, Fla. last spring.
MA___________________________ Clark McKercher Simms has just published a psychological suspense novel, Beyond Eden, “which explores the reactions and relations of idealistic pacifists when a family member is threatened.” The book is available on line [Trafford Publishing], through bookstores, or from Mac (call the Alumni Office). A retired English teacher and school administrator, Clark and his wife, Chase Crosley, live in rural Columbia County, N.Y.; their four children are scattered across the U.S.
Class agent: Mr. Jay Bitting 299 River Edge Dr., Chatham N J 07928 Cliff Evans plays tennis three times a week and “tries to understand the digital world.” [See Kimberley notes.]
57 TKS _________________________ Mrs. Lloyd M arentette (Gail Robertson) 93 Glen Ave., Llewellyn Park West Orange NJ 07052 Our condolences to Jane Gassaway Bonner on the death of her mother, Isabel Gallie Gassaway ’23. Mrs. Gassaway at 97-plus was one of the oldest Kimberley alumnae and may have been the last living mother in the TKS ’51 class. Gail Robertson Marentette is now an honorary member of the Class of ’52 [see notes],
MA___________________________ Mr. Ernest F. Keer III 459 Club Drive, P.O. Box 1030 Bay Head N J 08742
TKS _________________________ Class agent: Mrs. Richard Lewis (Audrey Maass) 4551 G ulf Shore Blvd. N, Apt. 804 Naples FL 33940 Clifford and Mary Anne Treene Evans have “stabilized” at eight grandchildren, ages 6 to 16, from their three children. They were all together for a week in San Diego to celebrate the Evans’ 70th birthdays and again for skiing and Christmas at Lake Tahoe. Mary Anne sings in a barbershop chorus.
The Kimberley Class o f 1952, 50th reunion. Standing: Susan Sanders, Gail Tomec Kerr, Doris Ruprecht Carlisle, honorary member Gail Robertson Marentette ’51, Barbara Pendleton Donnell, Steady Ailing, Jean Fairgrieve Gramm, Wain Koch Maass. Seated: Daphne Driver McGill, Jane Redfield Forsberg, Nancy Booth Kelly, AnneAreson Milne. Front: Jean Brisbane Boveroux, reunion chairman Fay Taft Fawcett, Skipper Gilbert Moran
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Mr. Rudolph Deetjen Jr. 17 King ’s Cove Lane, Brooksville ME 04617
TKS _____________________ . Mrs. Clark Moran (Martha Gilbert) 8011 StrauffRoad, Baltimore MD 21204 mmoran@iopener. net
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Class agent: Mrs. James Donnell (Barbara Pendleton) . 9468 No. Florence Rd., Pittsburgh PA 15237 Many thanks to reunion chairmen extraordinaire Fay Taft Fawcett, Babs Pendleton Donnell, and their dedicated helper
The Class o f 1952, 50th reunion. Standing: Guest David Kelly, Terry Wing, Nancy Booth Kelly, Charles Sage, Roger Webb, Patty Lucas, reunion chairman George Lucas. Seated: Robert Kim, Bette Kim, Joan Wing, Dan Read.
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Business in The Bahamas Since 1996 Kelly has been on the Board of Trustees of the Lyford Cay Foundation, which raises monies for scholarships for Bahamian students to attend colleges in the United States and Canada, and for local charities. She was co-chairman of the drive that by 2002 had raised $5.2 million for the College of Bahamas scholarship endowment. She serves on the Board of the Govemor’s-General Youth Award, and is chair of the Crimestoppers Foundation, among numerous civic organizations.
In recognition of her "sustained contribution to the development of The Bahamas and its people," The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce awarded Nancy Booth Kelly ’52 the 2002 Outstanding Businessperson of the Year Award. The Chamber lauded her "creativity, business acumen, and hard work," at the family-run Kelly’s Home Centre in Nassau, which employs more than 200 people full time. It noted their faith in the long-term future of the Bahamian economy and her contributions in merchandising and employee benefits. It also praised her contributions to civic and charitable organizations. from the Class of ’51, Gail Robertson Marentette, for their calls and organization that resulted in a fabulous reunion, generous gift to the school, and fascinating commemorative booklet. Skipper Gilbert Moran writes the summary: What a wonderful reunion! So many came back from faraway places. O f course, we all looked twenty years younger. Stearly Ailing Holt from Iowa; Doris Ruprecht Carlisle, Atlanta; Babs Pendleton Donnell, Pittsburgh; Jane Redfield Forsberg, suburban Boston; Jean Fairgrieve Granum, Maryland; Nancy Booth Kelly, The Bahamas; Wain Koch Maass, Vermont; Daphne Driver McGill, Williamstown, Mass.; Anne Dwyer Milne and Jean Brisbane Boveroux from New Hampshire. Closer were Fay Taft Fawcett, Sue Sanders, and Gail Tomec Kerr. Many thanks to spouses Jim Donnell, David Kelly, Dave Kerr, George Boveroux, and my own Clark Moran for putting up with a gaggle of women for the weekend. Friday night was a déjà vu dinner at the nationally famous Pal’s Cabin. Did you know that “Pauli,” a Soprano “made man,” takes his > elderly Ma and her cronies to Pal’s for lunch? , Saturday was a tour of the old Kimberley on Valley Road and lunch at the Upper School. The dinner dance at the Golf Club that
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She received Rotary’s Paul Harris Fellowship Award in 2002 and the Zonta Women’s Club’s first Living Legend Award in 1999. She is on the board of governors of Lyford Cay Club. Kelly graduated from Smith College with a B.A. cum laude, honoring in economics, and spent junior year in Geneva, Switzerland. After a career in New York retailing, she married David Kelly in 1963 and moved to the Bahamas. They have three sons, all of whom work in the business. Bahamian newspapers noted thaw she began her community service while growing up by collecting newspapers and tin foil for the war effort, and that in 1965 she helped found the Princess,Margaret Hospital Volunteer Association, or "Yellowbirds."
50th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2003
TKS _________________________ Sally Maxson Jones writes that they still spend winters in Florida where they frequently see Stephanie Miller Gray and occasionally Suzette Armitage Whiting. Margaret McVay McCombs is thoroughly enjoying retirement in Alaska and looking forward to reunion. She and Bryan were taking their annual escape from cold weather and earthquakes to Hawaii in January and February. Her children and grands are fine. “I’m really going to miss Peter and Lois [Creighton] Lindsay at reunion,” she wrote. Our condolences to the family of Joyce Helium Reddick ’53.
MA__________________________ _ Mr. Peter Cockshaw 1264 Oakmont Court, West Chester PA 19380 pcockshaw@rcn. com Peter Cockshaw and Dave Connolly have been working on the 50th reunion since May 2002, they are so eager to see everyone. An “Ex” of the class, Phil LaZier, has such fond memories that he contacted the Alumni Office in July to inquire about reunion. Phil is a “retired USAF career officer (fighter pilot, navigator), licensed marriage counselor, elementary teacher, and now professional grandpa.”
evening was a big success - so many familiar faces from K.S. and M.A. days of yore. On Sunday, Gail Robertson Marentette hosted brunch at her beautiful home in Llewellyn Park. Our thanks to Gail for her hospitality and her hard work on the 1952 reunion book. Fay and Ned have moved to a townhouse in Pennsylvania near daughter Pam ’87 and two grandchildren, Brian and Katie. They spend five months in Nantucket near their other daughter, Ashley ’85. There is no one left in Montclair; Fay was the last. Jean Fairgrieve Granum reports a new grandchild, Hayley Elizabeth, joining Connor and Mackenzie. I’ll give you more news next time. Skipper
MA___________________________ Class agent: Mr. Charles Sage 435 Welch Avenue, Ames IA 50014 Many thanks to reunion chairman George Lucas for his hard work rallying the troops, and to Charles Sage for his priceless tale of a pilfered Montclair Academy banner, which found its way “home” at the 50th reunion.
Memories I would like to thank John Cone, English instructor in the mid-fifties, for the many things he did for me and our class. I can still hear Ravel’s “Bolero” playing during study hall, and resulting in all of us banging away rhythmically throughout lunch period. And much more. Phil LaZier ’53x
54 TKS _______________________ _ Ms. Georgia Carrington 38 Silver Spring Lane, Ridgefield CT 06877 carrgeo@aol. com Our condolences to Aubin Zabriskie Ames on the death of her mother-in-law, Anna Lincoln Ames ’20, who was the first of three generations of Kimberley/Academy/MKA alumni. Many thanks to C.Y. Treene for organizing a neat reunion on Cape Cod this fall, to Anne Van Vleck Webb, who hosted at her vineyard en route, and to others who brought scrapbooks and photos of things old and current.
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A September reunion on the Cape brought together longtime friends from the Class o f ’54. Standing: Georgia Carrington, C.Y. Mann Treene, Anne Van Vleck Webb, Aubin Zabriskie Ames, Pixie Cole Pendergast. Middle: Dorie Krebs Barnard, Nell Fisk Hamlen, Jean Olmstead Witherington. Front: Marian Miller Castell, June Hayward Foster, Fluffy Fergusson Winner.
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Class agent: Mr. Sheldon Buck 51 Cornell Rd., Wellesley MA 02181-7408 Congratulations to the members of the legendary 1953-54 men’s basketball team for their upcoming induction [May 10] in the MKA Athletic Hall of Fame!
55 TKS ____________________________ 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
M A ______________________________ Mr. Lawrence Martin P.O. Box 1058, Lexington VA 24450 Class agent: Mr. Robert Brower 131 East 66th St., New York N Y 10021
living in four time zones, we are constantly on the go,” Gail writes. Our condolences to Nicole de Jurenev on the death of her mother, Barbara Zimmer de Jurenev Borden ’23.
M A ______________________________ Mr. Eric Jaeckel P.O. Box 20153, Boulder CO 80308-3153 lsmaith6071@cs. com Class agent: Dr. Larry Nazarian 29 Surrey Place, Penjield N Y 14526
TKS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ms. Linda Baldanzi 2 Greenview Way, Upper M ontclair N J 07043
Carol Barnard Ottenberg writes of spending two months in Maine last summer, and bumping into Gail Zabriskie Wilson at the hardware store “but never quite managing to get together.” In October, after Simon had returned to Seattle, Carol drove back - “3,058 miles of pure pleasure, great scenery, and visits with friends en route.” Peter and Gail Zabriskie Wilson, ensconced in a condo after 30 years in the same home, now have a granddaughter (son Peter’s child) after four grandsons. “With kids/parents/us
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TKS ____________________________ Ms. Jarvis Reilly Nolan 15612 Via Marchena, San Diego CA 92128 Marianne Doran Steinhacker retired as dean of the College of Mathematics and Professional Studies at the University of Maine last year. She spends winter in the Florida Keys and the rest of the year in Maine, and has three grandchildren - two boys and a girl. From the Smith alumnae bulletin: Judy McConnell works for nonprofits, managing federal and state grants. She has a first grandchild and was looking forward to two family weddings. Our condolences to Harriet Fischer Stanphill on the death of her husband, James, and to Betsy Garretson Vanderbilt on the death of her mother.
M A ______________________ Mr. M ichael Baker 729 Windermere Way West Palm Beach FL 33418-7105 Class secretary Michael Baker has packed it in and retired to Florida.
M A ______________________________ Class secretary and agent: Dr. Edward T. O 'Brien Jr. 3376 Fem cliffLane, Clearwater FL 36421 eobl072720@ msn. com
TKS ____________________________ Mrs. Lawther O. Smith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive, Doylestown PA 18901 lsmith6071@cs.com
C la ssB ^eta ry and agent: Dr. Robert R. Haney 525 Cardinal Circle E., St. M ary’s GA 21,558 rrhaney@net-magic. net
45th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2003
TKS ________________________ Class agent: Mrs. M ary Anne Doty 21 Juniper Drive, Queensbury N Y 12804
M A __________________________ Mr. George A. Bleyle 2259 Weir Drive, Hudson OH 44236 orion@gwis. com
TKS ____________________________ Mrs. Judson Breslin (Wendy Worsley) 44 Lake Drive, Mountain Lakes N J 07046 Mary Ann Lawrence Decker is still teaching second grade, but considering retirement. She bought a tiny house in Falmouth on Cape Cod and spends as much time there as possible. “Family well.” Helen Bryant Perry reports two grandchildren: a girl, Carlyn, bom to her son Christopher ’82x; and Jay (almost 3), son of Ashley Perry Kineon ’85x.
6 1 TKS __________________________ Ms. Christine Keller 1702 Church Street, Galveston TX 77550 Class agent: Mrs. Suzanne Scannell Hardy 229 Woodside Ave., Winthrop MA 02152
M A ____________________________ Mr. David L. Bruck 12 Pond View Lane, Titusville N J 08560
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impressive race record on the Internet under “New Jersey Bicycle Racers; OVER FIFTY CLASS.” How time passes. John
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TKS _______________________ Ms. Sharon Livesey 81 Grand St., #5, NewYork N Y 10013
MA_________________________ Mr. Bronson Van Wyck Arrowhead Farms, TuckermanAR 72473
The Classes o f 1957 and 1962. Standing: Charles Weston, Nancy Kraus Rothchild, John Allen WJ.,:Dmg'Monald, guest Jan Farrar. Seated: Reunion chairman Barry Nazarian, David M aripccoW LBob Schmitt, John Farrar.
Class agent: Mr. Arthur S. Gurtman 11 Sunset Drive, North Caldwell N J 07006
TKS ________________ TKS _________________________ Mrs. C. D. Creed (Barbara Bywater) 1769 Forest View Avenue Hillsborough CA 94010 Suzanne Wright Klein reports a wonderful lunch in San Francisco with Barbara Bywater Creed and Patti Doran Schaum. “So good to see people from Kimberley.” She and Barb also visited with Betsy Sigler Roman. Holly Harrison Gathright has retired as executive-assistant to the president of a Catholic university in Louisville; Ky., according to the Smith College alumnae newsletter. She is enjoying time with her grandson and husb.arjd’s' mother.
imaging for facial recognition. As with any successful entrepreneurial enterprise, Bob’s company was scarfed-up by a larger competitor, but Bob remains an employee.
Mrs. Frank Henneman (Lynn Ritter) 3920 M ariners Way, Unit 321 Cortez FL 34215 Lynn. henneman@unisys. com
John and his wife Jan live in Pennsylvania. They both recently retired after 30-year research careers with NIH and pharmaceutical/biotech companies, and are moving to a ranch in Montana. Chuck and his wife run a specialty travel agency in Philadelphia.
Class agent: Ms. Ardath Blauvelt P.O. Box 733, H ollis N H 03049
Barry owns and operates a painting business in Montclair, writes an occasional novel (several have been published), and spends his “leisure time” training and competing in bicycle races. You can find him and his
MA___________________________ Dr. John J. Farrar 1066 Bodine Rd., Chester Springs PA 19425 jfarrar@ 6ns.com
The weekend started at Barry’s house Friday night in Montclair. The rumor of Mike Mekeel’s demise was refuted when he walked in. He lives in Essex Fells, is active as an industrial graphic artist, and is a proud grandfather. Doug had flown in fro m S Orlando, Fla. where he runs a successful legal consulting business. .Bob and his wife Penny live in southern New Hampshire. He was one of the founders of the company ,to use digital
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MA___________________________ Hon. John Sheldon Diamond Cove, Gt. Diamond Island ME 04109 Class agent: Mr. Peter C. Mayer 133 Woodfield Road Washington Township N J 07675 John Benigno, a serious photographer when not selling Philadelphia Main Line real estate, has donated a work from his White Flower series, “Callas and White Vase,” to MKA. It is also in the Rosemont College and Lancaster Museum of Art collections. He donated it in memory of his parents, and notes that he was the only one in the class to attend MA all 12 years.
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Welcome, new class secretary John Farrar. His first assignment, reluctantly condensed for the m agazin||g| Twenty-two percent of the surviving members of our 1962 graduating class showed up for the 40th reunion in October: Doug Donald, John Farrar, Mike Mekeel, Barry Nazarian, Bob Schmitt, and Chuck Weston. Sadly, but with some wonderful recollections, we toasted the memory of Mike Noone, who died of cancer in June.
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TKS _________________________ Class secretary Susan DeBevoise Wright ’65 and classmate Ellen Malcolm, founder of the political action group EMILY’s List. Susan, former Dean of Students', is now “First Lady” of Dartmouth College as her husband is President. She reports, “Ellen returned to Dartmouth after the November elections, meeting with students in a day-long visit to campus. She regaled a receptive audience in inimitable ’Ellen’ style. Sharing an insider’s perspective, she spoke for an hour without a note (or a pause) and with provocative political insight and sidesplitting humor. The students loved her.” Ellen received MKA’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1993.
Mrs. James Wright (Susan DeBevoise) 1 Tuck Drive, Hanover N H 03755 susan. wright@dartmouth. edu Sally Poor Owen e-mails from Denver (Aurora, to be exact) that she’s lived in Colorado ever since she went to Colorado Women’s College. Following in her father’s footsteps, she works in education as a reading teacher to lst-5th graders at an inner-city school. Harry is a full-time civilian colonel in the National Guard; daughter Heather has postponed senior year to spend this year in Germany; and son Scott, 29, manages a snowboard shop at Copper Mountain. Sally’s sister, Joan Poor Clarke ’66, also lives in Colorado and is head registrar at a large middle school. I had regular reunions in 2002. Kate Bonniwell and Bill Liebovitz, a Dartmouth
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graduate, came to a Dartmouth Club reception in NYC. Jim and I were delighted to meet Bill at long last and to see Kate again. They’re the proud parents of Alex, about 5.
Class agent: Mr. Craig Cameron 11 Bay Point Drive, Ormond Beach FL 32174
Chuck and Louise Brundage Lynch stopped by en route home from Montreal, which they and daughters Carrie, Darcy, and Alexis had visited. Louise now chairs the southeastern regional soup kitchen network while also continuing various community projects.
John Hawley wrote that he’s taken up rowing again for the first time in 35 years and loves it; he’ll be at the San Diego Crew Classics in April 2003. Daughter Elnora is a freshman at Principia College in Illinois, and Emma was the lead in “Dracula” last fall. She wants to go to Tisch at NYU.
A week later Ellen Malcolm turned up to speak about EMILY’S List to interested Upper Valley residents. Lynn Schultz Blackwell came from Vermont to hear Ellen, whom she had not seen in years, practically since we left Kimberley. And Jim finally got to meet Ellen - he’d met her mother but never her.
Craig Cameron practices law in Orlando, Fla. There are 24 lawyers in his firm, with four offices; “two partners have become judges, two new partners added.” He and Pam have been married 30 years, and their “kids are out of the nest.” His golf handicap is holding steady at 5.
I do a double take whenever I see a senior I know. She is the spitting image of Kitty Haines, except for the color of her hair, and she talks like and is nearly as funny as Kitty. Please e-mail your news and at least we’ll have a class reunion in cyberspace and via this magazine. Don’t forget the alumni listing on the MKA web site, www. montclairkimberley. com. Susan
TKS _________________________ Mrs. William E. Crawford (Francine Onorati) 421 Beacon Street, Boston MA 02115 francine. crawford@verizon. net
67 TKS _______________________ Ms. Margot Escott 5135 Cobble Creek Court #101 Naples FL 34110 escott@naples. net
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Best wishes to Florian and Shelley Brightman Walchak on their wedding.
MA___________________________ Dr. Edward A. Griggs Jr. 32 Courseville Road, Bronxville N Y 10708 eagriggs@ optonline.net A couple of summers ago, while on a trip to Alaska, I met the family of Peter Schroeder ’66 [deceased 1984 -edllW e were on the same boat cruising the fjords - his mother, brother, and two of three sisters. It was fun talking about the Academy in the Sixties. My daughter, Claire, 16, is off to boarding school at St. Mark’s in Mass. MKA is just a little too far for a daily commute. Ed
Class agent: Mr. Craig Perry 3467 Pinestream Road, Atlanta GA 30327
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Randy Bean is in her eighth year of working at Stanford University, and is managing her third project, a co-production with a local PBS station. She was looking forward to her yellow Lab Polly having puppies.
Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 10 Knolls Road, Williamstown MA 01267 avie. kalker@ verizon.net
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Mr. Burton M. Webb Box 29, Free Union VA’22940
Mr. D. Carter Fitzpatrick 49 Bell Rock Plaza, SedonaAZ 86351
TKS _____________________ Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Ehrhardt) 46 E. Saddle River Road Saddle River N J 07458 lgildea@aol. com
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Class agent: Ms. Kim Kolbe 38 Kent Dr., Roseland N J 07068 Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner is attending Quinnipiac University School of Law, specializing in health advocacy. The revamp of her book Everything You Need to Know About Lyme Disease is due in March.
The Nobel Prize
Lillian and Michael Labowsky ’67 with Nobel Prize laureate John B. Fenn, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for chemistry, at the ceremony in Stockholm in December.
.mass spectroscopy that earned the prize. Michael subsequently patented with him the first successful electrospray in 1985 (U.S. patent 4,531,056). As Professor Fenn put it in the PBS interview after the Nobel Prize announcement, “We made elephants fly.” The electrospray technology enables scientists to measure macromolecules such as proteins and has been used by research universities, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies in AIDS research, drug formulation, and recently cancer detection. It was the first time the prize in chemistry went for the work done in chemical engineering.
The Labowskys - who met as research scientists at Yale in Fenn’s labHconsider Dr. Fenn to be their mentor, matchmaker, and friend. (The professor gave a traditional matchmaker speech at their wedding.) Their daughter Anna, who graduated from MKA in 2000, is studying molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale. Another daughter, Sarah, graduated from MKA Middle School, and their daughter Mary is in sixth grade at MKA.
Michael was Fenn’s first graduate student at Yale to work with him on the electrospray
In another unprecedented event, Michael was asked to give the Nobel laureate chemistry
“The whole Nobel experience was like a fairy tale,” says Lillian.
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talk at Sweden’s University of Uppsala on December 13th when the professor fell ill. Michael has been working with Professor Fenn on research problems of mutual interest for nearly three decades. Their last paper, “A Continuum Model for Ion Evaporation,” was published in Analitica Chimca Acta in 2000.
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In the Footsteps o f Marco Polo wrote much of the insightful text that accompanies his photographs, maps, and Marco Polo’s original diary from the 13th century.
Congratulations to photographer Michael Yamashita ’67 on the publication of his breathtaking book, Marco Polo: A Photographer’s Journey [White Star Publishers, 2002; U.S. distribution, Barnes & Noble]. The 504-page volume chroniclesMichael’s two-year odyssey retracing Marco Polo's route, part of which was in three National Geographic articles in 2001. He
Katharine Powell Cohn is in her 12th year as a data collector/interviewer for Battelle Centers for Public Health Research & Evaluation in Baltimore. Erica is a sophomore at Connecticut College; Peter a junior at St. Paul’s School, Brooklandville; and Betsj$fr'!' freshman at Roland Park County School in Baltimore.
As the press release states, "The book captures the thrill of discovery and the rigors of traveling under tough and often dangerous conditions. Where Marco worried about bandits and illness, Yamashita had to contend with land mines and car breakdowns. He traveled often via horse or camel, from Venice through Iran, Iraq and war-ravaged Afghanistan and on into China.. .he journeyed along the route of the ancient Silk Road from the Pamirs to Xanadu, and into Sichuan, Yunnan, and Tibet, and returned to Italy via Polo’s route through Sumatra, Indonesia, and India." The book was published in Italy with an unprecedented advance sale of 72,000 copies.
Our condolences to A1 Thrower on the death of his father.
TKS _________________________ Ms. Janis Moorhouse 12 Presidio #2, M ill Valley CA 94941
Our condolences to Madge Huber Henning on the death of herlaother.
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Class agent: Mr. Guy Della Penna 141 Ogden St., Sarasota FL 34242
Mr. V James, Castiglia m O l Berkshire Valley Rd., P.O. Box 311 Oak Ridge N J 07438 Class agent: Mr. Garret Roosma 12175 Upper Heather Ave. N Hugo M N 55038
Kathy and Bob Hoonhout have relocated to sunny Sarasota, Fla. Congratulations to Bob, who passed the Florida Bar on his first attempt.
Michael was asked to promote/enhance it with photo exhibitions in Beijing in February and in Rome and Marco Polo Square, Venice in March. In the fall the peripatetic photographer went to the DMZ in Korea on an "Axis of Evil" assignment, plus "A Day in the Life of the Military" shoot. His story on the Great Wall of China was in the January 2003 Geographic. Michael Yamashita received the MKA Distinguished Alumni Award in 1992, when it was noted that for all his expertise, the most remarkable aspect of his career is that he is self-taught. (He majored in Asian history at Wesleyan University.) His work hangs in museums, national galleries, and corporate spaces, and he has won numerous awards. His prior books include In a Japanese Garden and Mekong, A Journey on the M other o f Waters. When not on assignment, Mike is a frequent speaker and instructor at photographic seminars, including MKA’s own Career Day.
Another relocation: Bruce Downsbrough has moved back East to become head of development and external affairs at the American Boychoir School in Princeton, which, he says, is a perfect position as it combines his personal love of choral music with his professional side. Louise and Kevin Basralian have been married eight years and have three children, Luke, 5; Charles, 5; and Grace, 3. They live in Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J. Herb Tate has joined the law firm Wolff & Samson in Roseland as counsel.
72 TKS _________________________ Class agent: Ms. Kate Curtin Lindsey 12630 Three Sisters Road Potomac MD 20854 Many thanks to reunion chairman Barbara Flessas for her efforts to bring back the class. Those who attended came just for dinner so missed the official class photo. Robin Silver sent regrets from the West Coast. She works as a radiologist and lives at the north end of San Francisco Bay near Napa Valley (“yes, I have developed a taste for good wine”). Robin is “a little older, a bit chubbier, forgot to findja husband and have kids, but am happy, healthy, and have a busy social life.”
Paul Dackow ’72 and RickMaggio ’72 attended the reunion luncheon and thus got their picture taken. The rest o f the class attended dinner at the Montclair Golf Club but the photographer wasn’t there.
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Rudy Schlobohm ’74 and Mai O ’Hara '73 with M ai’s son Drew at an apple orchard in upstate New York last fall.
Our condolences to Grant Huber on the death of her mother.
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MA___________________________ Class agent: Mr. Peter Perretti 86 East Bracebridge Circle The Woodlands TX 77382 perrdoc@msn. com Harlan Gibbs, M.D. has been medical editor for Lifetime Television’s “Physician Journal Update,” and writer and editor for AMA educational videos and the CBS “Eye on Health” series. He has been spotted on the “Oprah Winfrey Show,” and was the medical reporter for the KCBS morning news, where he wrote and produced more than 1,000 medical news pieces. He received an Emmy Award in 1999 for medical reporting. Harlan - certified in both internal and emergency medicine - practices at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in California, whose Web site was source of this information. He graduated from Tufts University magna cum laude and Tufts Medical School, and did a residency through Harvard. Paul Dackow is senior principal engineer at Intersil Corp. in North Branch, N.J. David Dollar is research manager for the macroeconomics and growth team at the World Bank in Washington. According to Peter Perretti, David co-wrote a notable paper two years ago in The Economist magazine that examined the impact of free trade on poverty in developing countries. Peter observes that David - who has a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Dartmouth and a Ph.D. in economics from NYU - got his start in economics at MKA with Ken Gibson.
30th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2003
TKS _________________________ Ms. Susan Read 38 College Circle, Staunton VA 22401-2375 davick@intelos. net Class agent: Mrs. Edward Skibiak (Ellen Wahl) 56 Hamilton Drive East North Caldwell N J 07006 Ellen Wahl Skibiak’s daughter, Allie, is in the 4th grade at MKA, the 13th member of the Wahl family to attend. “She is thrilled to be there and comes home excited each day about the opportunities and challenges MKA provides!”
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 A1 Van Eerde on the death of his father. ATs daughter Christa is a freshman at MKA.
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Formerfaculty member Sally Baily Burkat caught up with herform er students from the Class o f 1976: Laura Scher, Moira Uskokovic Bogrov, Lisa Aufzien, and Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley at reunion luncheon, when Laura received the 2002 Distinguished Alumni Award.
TKS _________________________ Class agent: Ms. Erin Cuffe Crawford 102 Buckingham Road Upper M ontclair N J 07043 Mary Lathrop Will is program administrator with the International Academic Partnership, along with Phillips Academy. Mary told the Smith College alumnae bulletin, “I organize and publicize our programs and make logistical arrangements that bring together an amazing group of teachers.. .to improve their teaching and learning of economics, English, mathematics, and science. We hold most of our workshops in Asia and Africa, and I enjoyed visiting schools, students and teachers in the latter....Events...have made so clear the necessity of equipping and educating all children to live in a pluralistic society, where each can look forward to being accepted and making valued contributions.”
MA___________________________ Mr. Rudolph Schlobohm 78 M ontclair Ave., M ontclair N J 07042 rudy@thecastlecompany. com Learned at alumni phonathon: Mark Lucyk is in private psychology practice in West Hartford, Conn. He is looking forward to reunion next year.
Class agent: Mr. Paul Zukerberg 1901 Wyoming Ave. NW #75 '■ Washington DC 20009
Mrs. Paul McFeeley (Laurie Hoonhout) 238 Devon Road, Essex Fells N J 07021 Class agent: Dr. Charles Read 1918 N. Daniel St., Arlington VA 22201
After many years living “the Dolce Vita in Italy, while it existed,” Frank Gerard Godlewski has moved back to Montclair to “live in a serene environment” and be closer to family. He has a lot of books to write; the Corriere della Sera has appointed Frank to be their New York correspondent for their Saturday home section; and the Montclair Historical Society asked him to be the tenant and collaborator on the historic Evergreens carriage house on North Mountain Avenue. Michael Lipkin was mentioned in the New York Times write-up of the semifinal bridge matches concluding the New York Eastern Regional Championships, “as exciting as any in the 72-year history of the event.” In response to an inquiry, Mike modestly wrote, “I have the distinct pleasure of working with and knowing far better bridge players than me. (Some of my friends are national champions.)” Susan Stanton has made a job switch from Wall Street to teaching - “the toughest thing I’ve ever taken on.” She is in baptism under fire, teaching fifth grade at PS 46 in the central Bronx to students whose reading level is 2nd to 4th grade “and none can multiply very well or divide at all. They are wildOly unfamiliar with any part of the world other than the Bronx or their place of origin. (I’ve arranged to have pen pals with a 4th grade in California, and they thought that was another country!)” Susan is in a two-year program and will receive a master’s in education. Class kids: Twins Henry and Phillip Fandel, sons of Hank and Hilary Hoffman Fandel, are freshmen at MKA. Brian McFeeley, son of Paul and Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley, started 7th grade this year. Congratulations to Sadie and Rob Pariseau, whose son Hank was accepted early at Wake Forest U.
Mr. Andrew Pedersen 1 Washington Ave., Rumson N J 07760 pedera@nytimes. com
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The Class o f1977, 25th reunion. Standing: K evin, Steven, Nick, and Pat Cane Donahue. Seated: Guest Susan Rogers, Jared Randall, Elizabeth Greene.
Class agent: Mr. Robert Hubsmith 16 Warren Road, Maplewood N J 07040 The 25th reunion of the Class of 1977 was a shorter, quieter affair compared with the more raucous 20th reunion. Perhaps it is reflective of the ages we have reached and the ever increasing scheduling of events and commitments in our lives. Or perhaps, as some of those present suggested, “Pedersen, you did a lousy job of organizing this reunion!” To which I respond, “The truth is somewhere in the middle, neither white or black, but gray, gray as the few hairs remaining on my ever-receding hairline.” Those in attendance included Rob Hubsmith, Bob Post, Dave Kerr, Peter and Cheryl D’Alessandro McMullen, Michele Saucy Mitchell, Jon Grevatt (Clarke), Alan Deehan, Jason Apter, Barry Centanni, Pat Cane Donahue, Pat Berry, Paul Finney, Michele Cristello Whiteman, Bill Langstaff, Jared Randall, Ron Spivak, and Nancy Cohn Dainesi. Liz Greene got the long distance award.
The Class o f1977, 25th reunion. Standing: M ichael Platt, faculty member George Hrab, Ron Spivak, M ichele Saucy Mitchell. Seated: Alumni Council member Josh Raymond '89, Barry Centanni, Sheryl Centanni.
Meanwhile, Jason left the Montclair Golf Club and went home to bed leaving Gerald alone at Tierney’s. Mingling around the bar in the after-hours at the club were Jon Grevatt, Cheryl McMullen, and some other prior-year MKA alumnus who downed a few drinks while strolling down memory lane. The food was delicious, the music was good, and the dinner conversation was interesting as ever. At our table, Alan Deehan kept the jokes flowing. In all, it was a nice evening out, with a good chance of catching up with people who we used to spend a lot of time with and see too infrequently these days. See you at the 30th in 2007. Andy Congratulations to Colette and Steven Mahler on their wedding. Steve is a pilot with Southwest Airlines, and they live in Hanover, Pa. Congratulations also to Linda Haviland Conte for publication of her book of poems, Slow As a Poem [Ibbetson Street Press].
Michele Saucy Mitchell is controller of New England Wholesale Hardwoods, in Pine Keith Ridings, a stalwart attendee in years Plains, N.Y. (Hudson Valley). past, had a huge family reunion, thus forcing Our condolences to Ed Healey on the death his non-attendance. Peter Valentine, after of his mother. doing the math on his promise to repay survival shop debt with interest, chose not to mmmm ■ ¡ H attend and has changed telephone numbers. Peter Adubato at the last moment was called h 8H 89 m«K out of town. Ed Healey was a no-show. 25th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2003 Another huge no-show was Joe Sullivan, who Ms. Pamela ZeuaH went from organizing a band and party at the 250 M ercer S t.,C 418, New York N Y 10012 football game to being a no-show. Mike Platt, M r LawrenceJSqrrigan A. was spotted at lunch and the football game but 6103 Ox BottonYMtmor Drive by dinnertime was winging his way back to '-----Pdlahassee PL 32312____ ' Beverly Hills.
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Class agént: Ms. Jane Lugaric Burkhard 299 Crown Road, Kentfield, CA 94904
Gerald Jones phoned in during dinner and waited for what he claims was two hours at Tierney’s for Jason Apter to show.
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Condolences to Wendyfflhrower on the death of her father.
newspapers, turned three. She and her partners completed a second round of venture funding, expanded office space, and added new people. Lisa is also “soccer mom” to Courtney, 12, and Eric, 10. Tom and Susan Felber Durkin have three boys, 12, 12, and 6, and enjoy a good life by the sea in Massachusetts. Kristen Neill Andrews is a senior customer affairs specialist with Novartis Pharmaceuticals in East Hanover.
79 Dr. John Brink 1290 Beech Valley Rd., Atlanta GA 30306 Mrs. Carlos Ortiz (Shawn Mahieu) 2163 Gilbride Rd., M artinsville N J 08836 Anita Sims Rainford sent news of the wedding of Paul and Karen Gibson Ciambruschini ’80, where she also saw India Hayes Larrier ’80 and her new baby. Robert Paige is managing director at Falkenberg Capital in Evergreen, Colo.
Class secretary and class agent: Mary L. Cole, Esq. 1 Ferrous Court, Chester N J 07930 marycolel2@ hotmail.com Best wishes to Paul and Karen Gibson Ciambruschini on their wedding. Anita Sims Rainford ’79 and India Hayes Larrier attended. Congratulations to John and India Hayes Larrier on the birth of Kendall Lorraine Wilma in July. She joins siblings Sydney, 6, and Arrin, 4.
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20th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2003 Ms. Amy Felber 10 Una Way, M ill Valley CA 94941
Congratulations to Douglas and Carolyn Stanton Calnan on the birth of Amy Elizabeth, sister to Scott and Christian.
Ms. Maureen Towers Natkin 5 Riverview Road, Irvington N Y 10533 motowers@aol. com
David Newman struck out on his own last year by forming 3sixT, “a creativity in business consultancy.” He helps clients bring “soul, passion, and creativity” on six common challenges facing businesses and businesspeople. He and his wife, Vanessa, live in Bryn Mawr, Pa. with two children and two cats.
Class agent: Mr. Walter J. Davis 66 Oakwood Dr., New Providence N J 07974 davisteam@home. com
Many thanks to reunion chairman Peter Schiffenhaus and agent Peter Dancy for rallying the troops to MKA for lunch and Montclair Golf Club for dinner. A great time was had by all; those who returned to hallowed grounds got their picture taken. Carrie and David Greenbaum had a son, Adin Bryce, in April. David reports a great time at the 20th reunion - “great to see Milt Robinson, Jay Dixon, Peter Dancy, Peter Edge, et al” and notes that Lena Corbo lives down the street from his business. Peter Edge reported that Bill Hall went to Maryland to assist in the selection of the Under 19 National Lax squad, and while there had dinner with the Edge family. Thomas Robbins writes, “Carolyn and I and three daughters 5, and 2 - are having a great time in Newtown Square, Pa.” He runs a financial planning business with American Express. Not too far away, in Wyomissing, Pa., Bob Carson is managing partner with Hope Tower Associates.
Congratulations and best wishes to Nicole and Craig Sudol on their wedding. Craig works in retail management for Brave New World, Point Pleasant, N.J. Best wishes also to Jodi and Paul Josephson on their wedding, which received a long HowThey-Met writeup in the New York Times [at the office party]. Paul is chief counsel to Gov. James McGreevey of New Jersey. Congratulations also to Whitney and Dan Carson on the birth of daughter Montana in July. All came to MKA at Homecoming when Dan helped the Alumni Council greet reunion alumni. Our condolences to Alan Wilzig on the death of his father.
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M r 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 Rosaline Ahkami Whitworth reports she’s enjoying motherhood with Ryan Kelly Whitworth, bom in May. Lovey Cerfolio lives in Boston and works for Partners Healthcare in their business':r< development office. After getting her Ph.D. [Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, I l l i ‘I decided I liked the business of healthcare better than the practice of psychology, and so I attained my M.B.A. [Babson College] and am now helping Partners - Mass. General and Brigham and Women’s hospitals - do deals with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.”
Class secretary and class agent: Mrs. Jennifer Jones Ladda 110 Glen Rock Road, Cedar Grove N J 07009 Congratulations to Andrew and Laura Dancy Wilson on the birth of Nathalie Grace in July, joining brothers Charlie and Nicholas. They live in Toronto. Congratulations also to Helen and Chris Noble on the birth of daughter Sabrina, also in July. Her brother Wyatt, 5, began kindergarten at Brookside in September. “This third generation of Nobles at MKA
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Ms. Sherry Ahkami 4386 North Talmadge Drive San Diego CA 92116 Ms. Jennifer Remington Knodel 24 Wakefield Place, Caldwell N J 07006 Class agent: Mr. Damon Zeigler 403 Third St., Oakdale PA 15071-1250 Best wishes to Beth Cohn and Sergio Sperati on their wedding. They were married in Camogli, Italy, in June, and live in NYC in the same brownstone in the West Village as Penelope Kent. Beth is VP of merchandising for fashion house Prada. Karestan Koenen Soliz finished her post doctorate at Columbia in June, and is working at Boston University Medical Center and the VA Hospital as a clinical psychologist. Her specialty is post-traumatic stress disorder. Patrick Ciccone is principal of Lincoln Elementary School, Hasbrouck Heights. He received a master’s in business education from Caldwell College in 2002. P.J. and his wife, Jennifer, live in Verona.
The Class o f1982 poses fo r a 20th reunion photo. Standing: Robert Kramer, Peter Edge, Randi Pickelny Rod, Peter Dancy, Kelley Smith Mongeau, M ilton Robinson, Pam Reisch Lasher, Linda Cammerano Yiannou. Front: Ed Amirata, David Greenbaum, James Dixon, John (Yanni) Fotiadis.
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Congratulations to Damon Zeigler, who completed his M.B.A. at U. of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business. He was promoted to VP, operations at Lender’s Service Inc.
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Congratulations to Drew Goldman and his ' bride, Dana Farrington, who were spotted in the October issue of Town and Country. They were married at Harbour Island, the Bahamas. David Haight is senior associate director of development at Muhlenberg College. He is working on a master’s (M.P.A.) in nonprofit administration at N.Y.U. Jim Garino also has a new job, as VP of the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League, in charge of sales, marketing, finance, scheduling.
The Class o f 198% 15th reunion. StandirigfGuest Dan Bensimhon, guest Geralyn Rodano, reunion chairman D em is Rodano, June and Rich Stanton, form er faculty member M arilyn Faden, Sabino Rodano. Front: Pamela Cohen Bensimhon, Lynne Yellin Krest and baby, guest Randy Blandin, Sloan Wiesen.
Welcome alumni babies: Congratulations to Amrita and Adam Hauser on the birth of daughter Asha, their second child. Adam has just started a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Harvard U. School of Medicine in Cambridge. John and Jennifer Remington Knodel welcomed daughter Laura Remington in September' j
Mr. Dennis Rodano 14 Wayland Drive, Verona N J 07044 rodanod@wè. netcom. com
Best wishes to our newlyweds: Andy and Lauren Green Krebs live in Basel, Switzerland, whereH “having spent the last several years working on an M.A. in international relations, I am now teaching English.” She is also taking an intensive German class. Lauren attended Lisa Babic’s wedding to Craig Duke in June and says it was a blast. Best wishes. (Lisa is keeping her name.) Exchange student Andrea Borio works in nuclear research and does some teaching at the University of Pavia, a short distance south of Milan, Italy. He is still in touch with faculty member George Berry.
Class agent: Ms. Andrea Schackner 118 Palmer Ave^ Tenafly N J 07670 Many thanks to Dennis Rodano for his great, efforts to rally the troops for reunion. Dennis, and Geralyn made it to all the events, despite their imminent due date. Congratulations on the birth of their daughter Julia Claire, “the first member of the class of 2021.” (Dennis gets extra credit for putting their MKA rocking chair on the baby’s Web site.) Pam Cohen Bensimhon, a pediatrician, is taking a maternity leave from a peds hematology/oncology fellowship at Duke, to be mom to twin boys. Congratulations to Peter and Laura Baczko Andrews on the birth of Caroline Elizabeth in July, joining brother Ben, 2. They live in California. Kurt Hilberth graduated from The Citadel, then lived in Budapest for a while. He returned to the States and went to law school in Florida!; He is an attorney in Hollywood, Fla. and keeps busy with scuba, golf, tennis, and a horse. “As a result of my time in Budapest, I have some business ties there that get me back several times a year,” he writes. “I am engaged to a Hungarian girl and the wedding will be in Budapest in May.”
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15th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2003 Ms. Susan Bartlett Rankin 4540 51st Ave. NE, Seattle WA 98105 srankin@microsoft. com Class agent: Mr. Alec Schwartz 46 Plymouth Road, Springfield PA 19064 alec@cmcservices. com Welcome, alumni babies:
“Still acting!” Jody Booth writes from L.A. She was the female lead in an indie film, Throttle, that headed up the First Glance film festival. Jody also played a nun in an episode of American Dreams on NBC (Sundays at 8 p.m.).
89 Ms. Suellen Bizub 247 West 87th St., 6D, New York N Y 10024 sbizub@exchange. ml.com Mr. Louis Lessig 141 Thunder Circle, Bensalem PA 19020 Class agent: Mr. Josh Raymond 213 Vista Drive, Cedar Knolls N J 07927 Best wishes to Jay and Meredith Fisher Bushman on their wedding, which took place in North Salem, N.Y.; Louis Lessig, Meryl Griff, ’88 and Roberta Griff ’91 attended. Jay and Meredith went to Vietnam on their honeymoon and now live in Los Angeles. Best wishes also to Erin Koenen and Charles Samuels on their wedding, which was in Boothbay Harbor, Maine in October. Several MKA alumni attended [See photo.] Josh Raymond - very active with alumni activities - learned at phonathon that David Zweifler works in the research group of Burston Marsteller, a PR firm, in NYC, and is engaged. In December Josh came back to talk with the Middle School mock trial team, and discovered that his picture is in a mock trial photo with Bob Hemmeter in Within These Halls. History!
Spencer Hepburn McNeill Schwartz, son of Alec Schwartz and Joyce McNeill, in December. He joins sisters Abigail Sarah, 2, and Rachel, 12. Alec works tirelessly for the MKA Alumni Council as treasurer and ideas promoter.
Natalie Page is a partner at Ross & Ross, aka Bucks County Dry Goods, an emporium in Lambertville N J. selling clothing and home furnishings.
Isabel Rose, daughter of Andrea Safirstein and Adam Bernstein, in June. Andrea works at Columbia U. as an adjunct assistant professor and clinical supervisor.
Jeff, Sarah Lane Sproha, and daughter Amanda, almost 3, are well. She is CFO/Office manager, but with a new job closer to home in Wyckoff.
Luke, son of Chris and Karen Muenster Fanning, in December, joining sister Madyson, almost 2. The Fannings have bought a house in Montclair.
Joe Egan and Peter DeCandia suited up in hockey gear and helped the “old guys” beat the varsity at the revived Alumni Hockey Game in December. Peter and his wife Alessandra had a daughter, Allegra Rose, in June.
Connor Mason, son of Marc and Susan Barlett Rankin, in January.
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Patrick and Danielle Katz Malone were also married in North Carolina (Cary) in August. Danni is a systems analyst at Trimeris in Durham, and they live in Raleigh. Rebecca and Stephan Stark were married in October in Virginia. Antony Brydon and Stephanie Stark Mascia were in the wedding party. Kristy Scanlan Agard, Meridith Dorner Gansler, Naveen Ballem, and Alison Schwartz ’92 attended. Retired faculty member Normie Dickerson also attended, did the bride’s flowers, and baked for the wedding, and the Rev. Park Dickerson did a reading.
MKA alumni at the wedding o f Erin Koenen ’89 and Charles Samuels in October. L to R: Donna Zanjanian ’89, Nilie Pajoohi ’89, Karestan Koenen Soliz ’86, Austin Koenen ’94, John Boeckel ’89, Pamela Fraser ’83. Seated: bride Erin Koenen ’89. Charry Godwin, who was named SVP at Fleishman-Hillard, a PR firm where she works in broadcast communications. Amy Lorentzen packed up and moved from California to London, England, where she is a massage therapist. With most of her clients on the European Golf Tour, she is often traveling to tournaments. About 250 people attended George Hrab’s concert with his seven-member Geologic Orchestra in Bethlehem, Pa. in November, including Louis Lessig, Natalie Page, and Jenn Russell. The band - “musicians .. .good enough and willing to be under the maniacal thumb of this crazy drummer” to quote George - played George’s own music. He has a second CD out, called “Vitriol.” For anyone in the metropolitan area, you must go see his band PFA (Philadelphia Funk Authority). I went when he played in NYC at Le Bar Bat, where I ran into Geoff Krouse. George really gets the crowd moving. He sure has come a long way from his days as an Ocelot! Suellen
Ms. Meredith McGowan Zengo 3 Gull Road, Rowayton CT 06853 mczengo@aol. com Ms. Lorelei M uenster Imuensterl @yahoo. com Class agent: Ms. Regina Chi Clancy 790 Riverside Dr., #11D New York N Y 10024 Congratulations and best wishes to our brides and grooms! Michael and Stephanie Stark Mascia were married in North Carolina a year ago, with Alison Schwartz ’92 and Danielle Bergamo Alviggi as bridesmaids. They have relocated to Cambridge, Mass, while Mike is in business school. Stephanie graduated from Wake Forest School of Law magna cum laude, order of the coif; clerked with a judge for a year; and then practiced general litigation law with a firm in Greensboro, N.C. where she met her husband. She passed the bar in Virginia, North Carolina and Massachusetts!
Mark and Meredith McGowan Zengo were married in October in Darien, Conn. Mark McGowan ’85 and Merle Pear were in the wedding party; Tiffany Kriegel Haley, Heather White, Kristy Scanlon Agard, and Cliff Finkle ’92 attended. Angela Price, who attended MKA in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, wrote with nostalgia, “So many of my current interests were shaped by classes, teachers, and friendships I had during my middle school years.” Angela and her husband live in the Adirondacks on a 600-acre farm, future home of National Sports Academy (Lake Placid). She works in development and her husband is dean of faculty there.
91 Ms. Dara Marmon 127 East 30th Street, 15A New York N Y 10016 telldjm@aol. com Class agent: Mr. Luke Sarsfield 275 Greenwich Street, Apt. 8M New York NY 10007 I Marc Hauser is associate general counsel for Equity Group Investments, L.L.C., a private investment fund in Chicago. Marc received a B.A. and J.D. from Northwestern U. Matt Blesso is principal of Blesso Properties, which specializes in investment and development of residential real estate in NYC. Dana Holwitt, M.D. is on the surgical staff of Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Camilla Galesi, a lawyer, is engaged to a Georgetown U. classmate, George Solari III.
M r Enrique Neblett 2780 International Drive if522C Ypsilanti M I 48197 eneblett@yahoo. com Ms. Tamar Safer Radfar 86 Frost Court, W yckoffNJ 07481 tsafer5400@aol. com Meredith McGowan Zengo ’90 and Merle Pear ’90 at Meredith s wedding in October.
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Bryan Becker ’96 (left) was best man at the wedding o f brother David Becker ’90 last year.
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The Class o f1992, 10th reunion. Standing: Guest David Gershman, Adrienne Phillips, faculty member Barbara Mamchur, Johanna Augustyn, Sharon Most, Enrique. Neblett. Front: Janet Rosen Gershman, Ingrid Ramos, Jason Late '91, Daniel Liu.
The Class")if1992, 10th reunion. Standing: Jennifer Blanes Componevo, reunion chairman Tomi Safer Radfar, guest Monte Radfar, guest Eric Schuffler, Amy Bressler, M arie D 'Amato, guest Gianluca Morello. Front: guest Jeffrey Johnson, M elissa Roedel Johnson, Laura Mamchur, Alison Krouse Morello.
Class agent: Ms. Anne M arie Verdiramo 2030 South Street, Unit D Philadelphia PA 19146 amverdiramo@hotmail. com
graduated cum laude and received her law degree from Duke. They have moved to Tampa, Fla, where she works at Hill, Ward, & Henderson.
Many thanks to reunion chairmen Tami Safer Radfar and Anne Marie Verdiramo for inspiring a good return for the 10th. Everyone looks great. It was nice to see, at one time or another, Joanna Augustin, Amy Bressler, Liza Boglivi, Jenna Blanes Componovo, Marie D’Amato, Amos Elberg, Sari Ehrenkranz Gallinson, Janet Rosen Gershman, Jeff Glasser, Serena Godwin, Melissa Roedel Johnson, Jason Late ’91, Dan Liu, Laura Mamchur, Bianca Soprano Michelis, Alison Krouse Morello, Sharon 3S®ost, Doug Munson, Enrique Neblett, Melissa Fitzgibbon Newman, Doreen Oliver, Adrienne Phillips, Stacey Honstedt Polanskyj, Marla Wuebbens Quinn, TampW Safer Radfar, Ingrid Ramos, Nicole Silver, John Sorger, Scott Weiner.
Alexis and Clifford Finkle were married in July and now live in D.C. where he is studying for an M.B.A. at Georgetown U. They met at Lehigh and both worked as analysts with Goldman, Sachs in San Francisco.
Best wishes to our newlyweds. Gianluca and Alison Krouse Morello were married on the Cape last summer, and many of his family came from Italy. Both are lawyers; Alison
Doreen Oliver and Ayo Akinnuoye were married in August at Old First Church in Newark, after her graduation from Stanford Business School (M.B.A.). Dimitri and Bianca Soprano Michelis were married in July; Sara Paul ’93 was a bridesmaid and Liza Boglivi attended the wedding. Bianca, who graduated from Boston U., received a J.D. from New York Law School. A member o f both the New York and New Jersey bars, she is a senior attorney at Manhattan Supreme Court Appellate Division. Cheryl Sinner lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and works at a pediatric therapy group as a speech therapist.
Laura Mamchur is director of the critical care unit of a paramedic company in Boulder, Colo., the one that sent personnel to Columbine. She sets policy and trains critical care nurses, and works in an ER one day a week. Laura reportedly loves the Colorado outdoors, ice climbing, snowboarding, etc.
10TH REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2003 Ms. Renee Monteyne 10 Lookout Point Trail Totowa Borough N J 07512 Mr. Brian Wecht 3891-D Miramar St., La Jolla CA 92037 Class agent: Mr. Damien Vena 240 E. 27th St. #4B, New York N Y 10016 venad@yahoo. com Congratulations and best wishes to our newlyweds. MKA couple Fenwick and Jennifer Wahl Garvey — voted “most likely to get married” back in the ’93 yearbook — were married at Highlawn Pavilion and stopped by MKA for a photo. Fenwick is attending Robert Wood Johnson Med School and Jen is working on a master’s in educational technology leadership. Best wishes also to Evan and Sara Paul Manes on their wedding; Bianca Soprano Michelis ’92 attended. [See photo.] Margo Hirsch and David Strahlberg were married in June, and her sisters Erica ’96 and Zoe ’04 were in the wedding party. Darione and Cayce Cummins Hassell were married in August. Cayce, who has an M.A. in education/administration, teaches 2nd grade in Newark.
Classmatismm92 on Lloyd Road: reunion chairman Tami Safer Radfar, Alison Krouse Morello, M elissa Roedelwwhnson. Doug Munson, Serena Godwin, Scott Weiner. Front: Amy Bressler, M arie D'Amato, Jenna Blanes Componevo, ■i;
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Nina and Richard Catena were married a year ago, with Peter Berk and Ed Seugling as groomsmen, Melissa Auriemma ’94, Raghu Kunamneni, and Fenwick and Jen Wahl Garvey in attendance? Rich, who graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in film
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Montana during a trip out West last summer. (“Daniel and his sister Amy stayed with me for a couple of days while I was living in London in 1999, and I thought three years later to meet up on the other end of the world might be appropriate.”) Dan was leaving that morning to attend flight school in Arizona. John is in his second year of law school at Columbia. He sent news of other classmates: Alex Mangili is a second-year med student at Tufts U. in Boston. Alex reportedly loves it and is considering a career in neurology. Dimitri Michelis, Bianca Soprano Michelis ’92, Sara Paul Manes ’93 and Evan Manes at the Manes ’wedding. and television, is a freelance video editor. He edits promos for cable networks, and has done short documentary pieces about Boston and work for the White House. “I edited several videos that ran during the White House Millennium Lecture series hosted live from the East Room of the White House,” Rich writes. “I got the opportunity to meet both the President and Mrs. Clinton; they were both extremely gracious.”. After graduating from NYU Law School last spring and surviving the bar exam, Liz Wells took a long trip to Ireland and Scotland before joining the New York branch of the firm Arnold & Portes.
Gregg Tully is working on a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology at the U. of California/ Santa Barbara. “Specifically, he’s studying the way a sub-set of bugs communicate with each other through vibration of the tree leaves upon which they live. He loves it, particularly because it affords him the opportunity to be outside in the sunny California hills often.” Chip Del Collo just opened his own Web design and graphic design business on the Commons in Ithaca, N.Y. He has composed a CD of electronic music, and produces CDs and live concerts for local bands; his company is called Ancient Wisdom Productions (Web site). Michael Dore will graduate from the U. Virginia School of Law in May. He spent last summer as an associate in Los Angeles, and is engaged. Our condolences to Laura Clemente on the death of her father.
Ms. Monica Fernand 37 Garden St., Boston MA 02114 Ms. Dana Fiordaliso 514 2nd Street SE Washington DC 20003 Dana_fiordaliso@ labor.senate.gov Class agent: Mr. Jason Awerdick 215 East 95th St. #296, New York N Y 10128
95 Ms. Rita Papaleo 31 Fernwood Terrace, N utleyN J 07110 ritapap@aol. com Class agent: Mr. Matthew Drukker 400 E. 57th ST., #15C, New York N Y 10022
while working on the special effects production team of X-Men 2. “Taking flying lessons and enjoying the sun.” Congratulations to liana Safer, who graduated cum laude from Georgetown Law School in May 2002. Dennis McNeil is attending law school at the College of William & Mary. He received his B.A. there too.
Brandy by the Hudson A young MKA alumnus toils with production of the world’s oldest liquor, one that originated with monks in France. Jason Grizzanti ’96 is producing New York State’s first brandy at Warwick Valley Winery, Orange County, where the Catskills kiss the Hudson. Jason - who graduated from Cornell University with a degree in pomology (the science of fruit growing) - received a $50,000 grant from Grow New York to develop distilled spirits. Jason began working his first crop of apples at age 14, according to the M ilford Magazine [April 2002], and marketed the cider. The cider has been named one of the top five in the country by Food & Wine magazine. Warwick Valley Winery’s 65 acres (www.wvwinery.com) - on the Shawangunk Wine Trail - now produce Riesling, chardonnay, port, cabernet franc, and “Black Dirt Red” in addition to apples (30 varieties), pears, cider and spirits. Jason has been joined in the venture by MKA classmates Jeremy Kidde and Matt Iversen, Jeremy as director of sales and Matt in charge of operations. The winery has become a mecca for weekend visitors, who enjoy winetasting, apple/pear picking, and the music series.
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A M emorial Day barbecue turned into an MKA mini-reunion o f several members o f the Class o f '93. Standing: Raghu Kunamneni, Ed Seugling, Fenwick and Jen Wahl Garvey, Rich Catena, and Peter Berk. Front: Gary Schwartzbard and Steve Pietruchia.
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Carleton Pote is back at MKA as - what else H assistant hockey coach! The team is having a great year, <: Bill McCormack works for US Trust in NYC.
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The Class o f 7fm & ith reunion. Su n il Ayyagari, A lea Brum m ell, B rookside Campus head G inger K njfgel, U pper SchopJ. Campus head C har C harlton. Seated: D ana Jacobs, Jennifer Brown, Jennifer P latt.
The Class o f1997, 5th reunion. Standing: Justin Sarma, Brian Holz, Meena Untawale, Keri Jbp Taylor, Amanda Dickey. Seated: Latha Ballem, Judy Phruksaraj, Naim ahAlAmin, Alexis Ring.
Nikki Martinez, who graduated from Boston University in 2000, works as assistant director of the Staples child-care center in Framingham, Mass. It is a national child-care model that houses up to 216 children, 6 weeks to 6 years, and has 33 teachers, according to Businesstoday.com. Nikki joined after graduation and was made head teacher in less than a year.
5th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2003 Class secretary and agent: Ms. Gemma Giantomasi 5 Kensington PL, Roseland N J 07060 Congratulations to Leon Shade, who was elected captain of Rutgers University’s baseball team.
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Class agent: Ms. Ashley Griffin 55 Afterglow Ave., M ontclair N J 07042
Matt Waldron, who received a B.A. in history from Columbia, spent four months in Sweden as pitcher for the team that won the Swedish national championship. “It was like a free vacation,” says Matt.
Congratulations to James Parke, who was elected tri-captain of Hamilton College’s men’s soccer team. He is a defender, a starter sophomore and junior years, on a “great team,” according to the coach. James was also named a New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) All-Academic Pick.
Ms. Jennifer Platt 904 Pompton Ave:, B2, Cedar Grove N J 07009 jepla2001@ aol. com Class agents: Ms. Jennifer Fink 225 West ¡33rd St., Apt. 11 O New York N Y 10017 Ms. M elissa Schlachter 32 Larsen Lane, Lincoln Park N J 07035 ’Twas nice to see so many of the class back at reunion! News of a few: Keri Joy Taylor graduated from Howard University, worked at the Smithsonian for a year, and is now attending U.S.C. film school in Los Angeles. Emily O’Dell, finishing her M.F.A. at Brown, is teaching playwriting there. Her play, What the Eunuch Saw, had its New York debut in August at the New York International Fringe Festival. She planned to return to Egypt for an archeological dig in December and January. Dana Jacobs graduated as a mechanical engineer from Stevens Institute of Technology. She is an engineer for PSE&G. Jonathan Zweifler is creative assistant and director of design at the advertising agency OgilvyOne Worldwide in NYC. Jennifer Fink, who graduated magna cum laude with honors in Spanish, is an associate buyer at Lord & Taylor, NYC. She is engaged to a fellow Penn alum.
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Kristen Connolly, B.A. in theatre from Middlebury, had the proverbial actress’ break with her selection to be in a film with Julia Roberts, no less. ■ Lauren Moses is back at MKA, serving on the Alumni Council. She graduated magna cum laude from Duke with high distinction in economics, and works in Princeton with Goldman, Sachs. Sarah McCormack is a special ed teacher at Kennedy Day School in Cambridge, Mass.
Ms. Alison Platt 904 Pompton Ave., B2, Cedar Grove N J 07009 Class agent: Mr. Alex Holz 992 Valley Road, Franklin Lakes N J 07417 Adam Berg is taking a year off from Haverford College to work on several political campaigns in Pennsylvania. Leroy Watkins is captain of the Northeastern U. soccer team. He is in the fourth year of a five-year program. Jenevieve Duron is a U.S. history and Spanish lit major at Columbia U., and works part time as a guide at the Tenement Museum
in the Lower East Side. She spent junior year abroad in Seville, Spain.
Mr. John Garippa 30 Wayside Place, M ontclair N J 07042
Ed. note: Apologies to Candice Watkins, who is captain of the women’s crew at Northeastern University, not Boston U. as erroneously reported in the last issue. Congratulations again on the achievement.
Ms. Dana Pisacane 3 Finley Lane, Wayne N J 07470 Joan Kubicek performs in the SIKOS, an improv. group at Smith College. She is also president of an a capella group, the Smithereens. Melissa Branco transferred from NYU College of Arts & Sciences to Carleton College in Minnesota. She is majoring in behavioral psychology, and doing lots of traveling, “taking digital photos along the way.” “Living and studying in NYC is perfect,” writes Danielle Claudio. “Had summer work in L.A. as marketing intern - job was good, but L.A. is not my kind of city.” Danielle, majoring in European studies at Barnard, is off to France next year.
Class Notes • Spring 2003
Laura Brown is part of the Housing Outreach Action Program at Haverford College, whereby students travel to construction sites during spring break to help build affordable housing. Laura went to Kentucky last year and to Alabama this year.
Our condolences to Michael Fortunato on the death of his father. Ms. M elissa Fortunato 40 Holton Lane, Essex Fells N J 07021 Class agent: Ms. Lauren Tortoriello 112 Heller Way, Upper M ontclair N J 07043
Marriages
Networking, Inc.: Emily Santangelo did a summer internship in Morristown at the advertising agency DVC Worldwide, whose president, Sue Furlong ’78, spoke on advertising at Career Day!
In M emoriam
1969
Shelley B rig h tm an an d F lo rian W alchak
1977
Steven M a h ler an d C o lette M axw ell
1980
K aren G ib so n an d P aul C iam b ru sch in i
1983 1983
Ja n u ary 2, 2003
1920
A n n a L in c o ln A m es
M a y 13, 2002
1923
B a rb ara Z im m er de Jurenev B orden
S eptem ber 28, 2002
1923
Isab el G allie G assaw ay
Paul Jo sep h so n an d Jo d i B ouer
Ja n u ary 1 3 ,2 0 0 2
1926
C arolyn Jones Ferguson
C raig Sudol a n d N ico le D rib er
O cto b er 4 ,2 0 0 2
1936
W illiam M a tte s III
D ece m b e r 3, 2Q pJ|jf July 11. 2002 S eptem ber 6, 2002 S eptem ber 2002 N o vem ber 1 0 ,2 0 0 2
1986
B e th C o h n an d Sergio S perati
Ju n e 20, 2002
1936
C ecilia D eG olyer M cG hee
O ctober 9, 2001
1987
L isa B a b ic an d C raig D uke
June 30, 2002
1936
E liza b eth V an W ie P enick Schm itz
A u g u st 1 0 ,2 0 0 2
1987
L au ren G reen an d A n d rew K reb s
1988
D rew G o ld m an an d D a n a F arrington
S eptem ber 2001
1940
Je an D ow nes F isher
A u g u st 7 ,2 0 0 2
S u m m er 2002
1940
F re d erick D. L ittle
M a rch 14, 2002
E d ith L o asby E isen
1989
M ered ith F ish er an d Jay B ushm an
Ju n e 29, 2002
1941
1989
E rin K o en en an d C h arles Sam uels
O ctober 26, 2002
'1 9 4 2
Je an Jeffers Hill:
1990
D an ielle K atz an d P atric k M alo n e
A u g u st 10, 2002
. 1942
Joa n T rim ble S m ith
Ja n u ary 16, 2003 A u g u st 14, 2002 S eptem ber 7, 2002
2000
1990
M ered ith M cG ow an an d M a rk Z engo
O ctober 5, 2002
1942
V irg in ia N ew ell W igg
1990
S tep h an ie S tark an d M ic h ael M ascia
July 2 8 ,2 0 0 1
1953
Joyce H eliu m R eddick
1990
S tep h an S tark an d R eb ecca M ax w ell
O cto b er 12, 2002
1992
C lifford F in k le an d A lexis O hls
Ju ly 2 0 ,2 0 0 2
Faculty, Former Faculty, Staff, and Trustees
1992
A liso n K ro u se a n d G ian lu ca M o rello
Ju ly 2 7 ,2 0 0 2
A udrey G eisten
1992
D o reen O liv er an d A yoola A kinnuoye
A u g u st 31, 2002
1992
B ian c a Soprano an d D im itri M ich elis
July 21, 2002
1993
R ich a rd C aten a an d N in a M on aco
1993
C ayce C u m m in s an d D ario n e H assell
1993
M a rg o H irsch an d D av id Strahlberg
1993
S ara Paul an d E v an M an es
M a rch 7 ,2 0 0 2
D ece m b e r 2 1, 2002
Ju n e 2001 A u g u st 3, 2002 Ju n e 23, 2002 A u g u st 18, 2002
1 9 9 3 ,1 9 9 3 Je n n ifer W ahl a n d F enw ick G arvey
O cto b er 6, 2001
Alum ni A ssociation Council Ballot Election for Alumni Council members will be held at the Annual Meeting of the MKA Alumni Association on May 12, 2003. Meeting place will be at the Middle School Library Annex, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey. Time: 7:00 p.m. If you do not expect to be present at the meeting, please sign the proxy below and return it to the Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042. Upon election of the proposed slate of nominees*, the Alumni Council for 2003-2004 will consist of the following: T E R M E X P IR IN G 2 0 0 4 D aniel C arso n '83 R ob ert C o ttin g h a m Jr. '84 Yanni Fotiadis '82 Susan C o le F u rlong '78 Janin e G arlan d '82 L auren M oses '98 Patricia Shean W o rth in g to n '7 4
T E R M E X P IR IN G 2005 D a n a M . T. C esto n e '79 E rin C uffe C raw ford '74 Law rence D u c a '79 Alex Joerger '96 Alec P. Schw artz '88 K eshia T ro tm an '9 2
T E R M E X P IR IN G 2 0 0 6 * R ichard G . Jenkins '7 7 ^ India H ayes L arrier '80 D ara M a rm o n M a rk M cG ow an * 8 ^ ^ Joshua H . R aym ond '89
A D V ISO R Y L ori W in d o lf C rispo '78 M a rth a B onsai D a5 » 4 K ristine H atzen b u h ler O 'C o n n o r '83 J. D ean Paolucci ' 7 ^ H
The following persons presently on the Alumni Council have been nominated to serve as officers of the Alumni Association for 2003-2004. These officers will be elected by the Alumni Council at its annual meeting on May 12, 2003: President. ..............................Patricia Shean Worthington ‘74 Executive Vice President.........................Joshua Raymond ‘89 Vice President.................................... Susan Cole Furlong ‘78
Secretary Treasurer
India Hayes Larrier ‘80 . . Alec P. Schwartz ‘88
The undersigned hereby appoints Patricia Shean Worthington '74 Proxy to vote FOR AGAINST____the election of the proposed members of The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Council at the annual meeting to be held May 12, 2003 as set forth in the spring issue of the MKA Review magazine.
NAMH
Class Notes • Spring 2003
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A ttention A lum ni 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@montclairkimberley.org
A dvice! Internships! Jobs! It’s Alumnet Alumnet, formerly known as the Office of Career Services, serves as a liaison between recent alumni and established alumni, parents, faculty, and friends of 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 McFeeley at 973/509-7939 or at lmcfeeley@montclairkimberley. org
Presentations! Slide Shows! D iscussions! 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 thenown 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@ montclairkimberley.org
Thank You Thank you to this new class secretary for volunteering: 1962 John J. Farrar (If your class has no secretary, why not volunteer? Call the Alumni Office at 973/746-9800 for further information.)
MKA Chairs
Lost Your Yearbook? T h e M K A A lu m n i O ffic e h a s so m e ex tra y e a rb o o k s in inventory, av ailable fo r $5 p o sta g e a n d h a n d lin g ch arg e. P le a se ca ll firs t to se e i f e x tras are av ailab le fo r y o u r y ear (9 7 3 /7 4 6 -9 8 0 0 ). I f y o u no. lo n g e r w a n t y o u r y ea rb o o k , p le a se c o n ta c t th e A lu m n i O ffice; ex tras are g ra te fu lly accep ted . T h e a rch iv es h av e a t le a s t o n e c o p y o f ev ery y e a rb o o k p u b lish e d ex c e p t 1902. W e also
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Wonderful gifts or graduation presents! MKA chairs are antique black with maple arms and bear the official MKA seal in gold. Each chair sells for $325; a rocking chair version isavailable for $350. Please add $30 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
It's W ho You K now Please tell us in detail about your outstanding classmate or coach for magazine profiles or "to bestow recognition and appreciation for outstanding achievement." Do not assume someone has already been nominated for the Athletic Hall of Fame or Distinguished Alumni Award. Nomination forms for the 2004 Athletic Hall of Fame and 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award are available on the MKA Web site, www.montclairkimberley.org or by calling the Alumni Office, 973/746-9800.
Class Notes • Fall 2002
Our Privilege, Our Challenge, Our Responsibility “As a family who has been involved with the school for many years, we are glad to know that future generations of MKA students will benefit from our gift,” says alumna Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54. Aubin and her husband, Lincoln Ames, share a very long and distinguished history at The Montclair Kimberley Academy. The Zabriskie and Ames families are an important part of three generations of MKA’s heritage. Their family trees read a bit like a Who’s Who at MKA, as their relationships within the MKA community include a parent, two sisters, three children, and a number of nieces and nephews. “We decided to join MKA’s Pooled Income Fund* several years ago because it was a way to set aside some money for MKA,” Aubin continues, “while at the same time, continue to receive income from the fund during our lifetimes. It has been good for us, and good for the school to know that eventually the money will go to them. While surprise bequests are always wonderful when they are received by the school, the Pooled Income Fund vehicle for giving gives MKA assurance of gifts it knows about and can count on.” In 1988, Aubin received MKA’s prestigious Distinguished Alumni Award. She remains the “quintessential community volunteer,” and her devotion to family, MKA, and the community remains as strong today as it was decades ago. During the 1970’s, upon the sudden death o f the Principal, Aubin, as President of the Board of Trustees, helped guide an interim head and played a vital role in keeping the school on track while the transition to new leadership took shape. Her words then eloquently sum up the Ames’ belief in the importance of supporting MKA now and in the future: “It falls to our generation not only to build buildings, but to build endowment. The task is for us to make certain that MKA is accessible to this generation and to those that follow. It is our privilege, our challenge, and our responsibility.” *The Pooled Income Fund is a convenient, ready-made vehicle for donors to make gifts to MKA while retaining a life income interest from the shares in the Fund received for their gifts. For as long as they live, donors and/or their designated beneficiaries receive all of the income generated by their shares in the Fund and, upon their death(s), the donor’s share reverts to MKA. The basic concept is for donors to “pool” their gifts into a single fund which, because of its size, can be managed economically and invested in a diversified portfolio.
Aubin Zabriskie Ames '54 and Lincoln Ames.
The Heritage Society recognizes benefactors who have made planned gifts to MKA. Please consider making a commitment that w ill help to guarantee the future financial security o f the school. There are many vehicles that can become a p a rt o f your overall financial plan, and can benefit you now and help MKA in the future. For more information about Planned Giving, including bequests and charitable trusts, please write to the MKA Office o f External Affairs, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, N J 07042, or telephone Judy Polonofsky, Director o f External Affairs, at 973-746-9800.
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