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THE MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY
COVER Pre-Prom celebration for the Class o f 2005 at the home o f an M KA family in Montclair BACK COVER Commencement 2005 CONTENTS From the Headmaster........................................ 1 Growing Good Citizens and Scholars: Teaching Social Studies and History at M KA.......................... 2 From the Board o f Trustees............................10 Notes Around M K A .........................................11 Commencement A w ard s.............................. 16 Newest Alum ni................................................. 18 From the Alumni Association/Athletic Hall o f Fame X ......... ................................................20 Distinguished Alumni Award.........................21 Career Day 2005..............................................22 On the Road......................................................24 Alumni Golf................................................... 26 Cougar Sports...................................................27 Class N otes......................................... !............29 REVIEW EDITORS M arsha Kleinman Judy Polonofsky CONTRIBUTORS Debbie Kozak Laurie Hoonhout M cFeeley '76 PHOTO CREDITS Phil Cantor Greg Corbo, The M ontclair Times Steve Frantz David Hollander Dan Katz Nick Kelsh Andy Kiss Debbie Kozak Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley Mike Peters Ray Piela Steve Tober
The MKA Alumni Association is an organization o f all men and women who have attended the Upper School. Its purpose is to make known to MKA the ideas, interests, and concerns o f alumni and to inform alumni o f the accomplishments and objectives o f MKA. The Alumni Council is the governing Board, a representative group elected at the Association's annual meeting to sponsor events and activities linking alumni with their alma mater.
ALUM NI ASSOCIATION COUNCIL 2005-2006 Chris Bellapianta '97 LaRhonda Boone '87 Daniel Carson '83, E xecutive Vice P resident Dana M .T.Cestone '79, N etw ork Vice President David DeMatteis '95 Chris DeStefano '90 Lawrence Duca '79 Janine Garland '82 Joanne Pundyk Goldberg '87 Richard G. Jenkins '77, Treasurer India Hayes Larrier '80 Dara M armon '91 Cheryl McCants '82 M ark Politan '91 Joshua H. Raymond '89, P resident Keisha Trotman '92 Thomas W. Nammack, Headmaster Judy Polonofsky, Director o f External Affairs Marsha Kleinman, Alumni Director Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley '76, Director of Alumni Giving and Planned Giving
ADVISORY COUNCIL Robert Cottingham, Jr. '84 Lori W indolf Crispo '78 Kristine Hatzenbuhler O'Connor '83 J. Dean Paolucci '73 Patricia Shean Worthington '74
BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2005-2006 Linda D. Almeida, Secretary M errick G. Andlinger Elisa Spungen Bildner Timothy J. Bozik Karen A. Dias-Martin Michael P. Frasco, Treasurer Alice M. Hirsh Richard G. Jenkins ' l l Michael V. Johnson Peter S. McMullen 'l l Thomas W. Nammack, Headmaster Eric F.S. Pai '79 Keith D. Phillips Daniel R. Placentra Joshua H. Raymond '89 Marisabel R. Raymond Michael L. Rodburg, Vice P resident Margaret S. Santoro Rudolph G. Schlobohm '74 Newton B. Schott, Jr., P resident Jolinda D. Smith Robert L. Tortoriello David L. Turock, Vice P resident Denise G. Wagner John T. Weisel HONORARY TRUSTEES Aubin Zabriskie Ames '54 John E. Garippa Susan H. Ruddick James S. Vandermade '35 ADVISORY TRUSTEES Andree J. (Penny) Finkle Barry W. Ridings '70 M ember Alumni Program Council o f Independent Schools (APC) Council for Advancement and Support o f Education (CASE) National Association o f Independent Schools (NAIS) New Jersey Association o f Independent Schools (NJAIS) MKA complies with all state and federal anti-discrimination laws.
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From the Headmaster
Thomas W Nammack, Headmaster, in his MKA office
I write these words for the fall edition o f the M KA R eview in the midst o f an intensive personal and professional research project about the people, mission and programs o f the Academy. As I work, read, listen and talk about MKA, I am seeking insights and information, and I am striving to formulate a coherent view o f this school and the people in it.
Getting to know our school is an exciting and complex task, but one which is marked by a warm welcome for those who are new and by the pride o f those who have been here for MKA’s mission and accomplishments. Every year, the MKA community welcomes hundreds o f new people into the school: students, faculty, parents and staff. These new faces serve as the most visible reminder o f how change and continuity balance one another to promote a vibrant and focused school.
teaches students how places, people and events relate to one another, and how to discover these relationships on their own. M ost striking in the Upper School history courses is the emphasis on research as a tool for making sense o f the world. Like my current efforts to know our school w ell,J|see love o f subject matter, respect for complexity, and the essential importance o f understanding differing points o f view as hallmarks o f the Upper School program. Finally, as is so often the case at MKA, great effort and planning have been given to creating a program that is distinguished by continuity, a proper level o f challenge, and respect for our students as learners. For this and many other reasons it is a keen source o f pride for me to be a teacher and a learner at MKA. With all best wishes, Thomas W. Nammack H eadm aster
M y current effort, to become more literate about all aspects o f MKA, brings me back to the words in the school seal: Knowledge, Vision, Integrity. Our integrity depends upon what we do with our knowledge to fulfill our vision o f how the world should be. Our integrity also depends upon how we respond when w hat we see does not cohere with what we know. The quality o f excellence is nothing more or less than the proper interplay o f knowledge, vision and integrity. The lead article in the fall Review tells the story o f our social studies and history curriculum from pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade. In the primary grades our program is exceptional in helping students appreciate the complexity o f truth, in equipping them with geographic literacy, and in fostering their understanding o f a citizen’s shared responsibilities in our schools, hometowns, nation and world. In Middle School we seek to develop the depth o f every student’s understanding o f what we study so that each may know the confidence that comes with the mastery o f a subject and its organizing concepts. The Middle School program
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Growing Good Citizens and Scholars! Teaching Social Studies and History at MKA Bridget Looney - Brookside/Primary School Social Studies Coordinator MGK: W hat are some of your favorite examples of contrasting cultures or perspectives from the curriculum?
B ridget Looney - B rookside/P rim ary School Social Studies Coordinator
Over the years, the magazine has published profiles o f all Pre-K to 12 departments, with the exception o f the Social Studies/History Department. By interviewing the three campus leaders o f this program - Bridget Looney (Brookside/Primary School); Lynn Salehi (Middle School); and Geoffrey Branigan (Upper School) - we hope to address some o f the MKA community's questions about how this discipline is taught at our school. Here are excerpts from those three interviews, by Marsha George Kleinman, Alumni Director and Review Editor.
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BL: I have two favorites. In third grade, around Columbus Day, we read two versions o f the Christopher Columbus story. We start out with the traditional version o f the story, which is a happy rhyme portraying Columbus as a bold adventurer. Then we read Encounter, by Jane Yolen, a grim tale told from a young Arawak's point o f view. The point o f the lesson is not to teach the children that the happier version o f the story is not tru e-it's to point out that the truth can be complex, and that it's usually the more powerful who get to tell their story. Another unit o f study that I really like is a Core Works Kindergarten unit, Yeh-Shen, a Cinderella story that comes from China. The Kindergarteners compare Yeh-Shen to Cinderella and to another character from Korea, and it not only helps the children develop cultural and historical empathy, it makes them aware o f the distinctions between Chinese and Korean traditions. The Kindergarten teachers have also integrated the study o f Yeh-Shen into a study o f Asia, because they feel it is important for the students to understand the differences between neighboring countries in Southeast Asia. MGK: How has the teaching of geography at Brookside evolved over time? BL: The newest element in the teaching and learning o f geography is a focus on maps; there are maps or globes in every classroom, including the music room. There is a tremendous amount o f exposure to maps in this building, but explicit teaching o f map skills begins in first grade where the children begin to learn how to read and create maps using a legend. First graders learn about the family; they make observations about the unique culture and roles within their own families, and then they locate their immediate and extended families using maps. Later in the year, the first graders map the primary school building. This allows them to explore concepts o f relative size, scale, and the relationship o f a whole to its parts: the school as a system. It's all about interdependence. Second and third graders continue to build their map reading and making skills; by third grade, students are learning to identify different types o f maps and to make inferences about a place or a region based on physical features or location. Beginning in Kindergarten, the children learn about geographic boundaries by noticing and distinguishing between the parts o f their classroom, and later in the year, they learn more about boundaries by studying animal habitats. Second graders learn the difference between a village, a town, a city, a county, etc., and then third graders go into more depth about the differences between natural boundaries and political boundaries. The big ideas that come up over and over are that there are reasons for boundaries, and that people have to adapt, or they have to change their surroundings to survive where they live.
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G eography Twister a t Brookside MGK: How are some o f the Core Works integrated into your curriculum?
qualities they would need to overcome those challenges. It's not an easy task!
BL: I already discussed one o f the Kindergarten Core Works, and in third grade, we have two good examples. The students study the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution by 'unpacking' and analyzing it at the start o f the year and using it as a model for a class vision statement. Later in the year, they reflect on the principles listed in the Preamble during a study o f the Civil Rights movement. In addition, the third grade has worked really hard this year to integrate a unit on American tall tales, a new Core Work. It's not only a Language Arts/Social Studies unit but a technology unit as well, because the end product is an e-book, an electronic book made by writing and illustrating text on slides using PowerPoint. Every third grader gets to write her or his own tall tale, and as the children read selected tall tales, they learn the genre elements. They learn that tall tale heroes embody specific American values that abounded during the late 1700s and through the 1800s. They learn that, back then, it was all about progress and invention, clearing the land to settle it, and improving transportation. Americans valued being strong and determined in the face o f tremendous obstacles. I love using the tale o f Paul Bunyan to take the class on a 'finger walk' across the map o f the U.S. and discuss the physical features Paul Bunyan either destroys or creates as he plows through. W hen the children write their own tall tales, they have to think really hard about w hat challenges they face in life, as eight or nine-yearolds, and they have to come up with the extraordinary human
MGK: Are you able to make natural connections to the Character and Ethics program in this unit?
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BL: Definitely, and we do. Responsibility and confidence are the most apparent character expectations in American tall tales. Just making sure that you do your job, no matter how difficult and strenuous, and knowing that by doing your job well, everyone else benefits. The children have a great opportunity to reflect on their own character as they write their tall tales. Most children seem to wish they had more confidence—it really comes through in their stories. They wish they had the courage to stand up for themselves more often. MGK: How do you integrate the Citizenship Core Curriculum into your units o f study? BL: Now almost all grade levels start off the year with a citizenship unit that focuses on building community and democracy in the classroom. At the beginning o f the year, the children have to make a lot o f adjustments. They ju st want to socialize and get used to their new classroom, but we have to show them that they also have to spend time getting organized as a group. The children are given classroom jobs. Some classes design job charts and will take turns while in other classes the children apply for jobs and keep them all year. Teachers also
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lead their classes in designing some kind o f class vision statement. Some grades call it their class constitution. The teachers let the children share responsibility in deciding what the rules are and how things are going to go in their classroom. Second grade uses MKA's Our Common Purpose as an exemplar while third grade uses the Preamble. It's a way o f introducing the children to document-based government. Instead o f teaching the principles o f the founding documents - a program that extends from Pre-K to 12 as part o f the Citizenship Core Program - we focus on the MKA Character Expectations here. It seems logical that the children need to understand fairness and responsibility before they can understand justice or equality. In some units o f study, the character expectations are taught explicitly, but in others they're more implicit. Pre-K and Kindergarten teachers spend a lot o f time explicitly teaching character expectations. MGK: How do young children understand an abstract concept like justice? BL: To understand what justice is, children have to first understand that it's hum an nature to form groups and that groups have to decide on rules to live by rules that apply to all members o f the group. Having jobs and sharing responsibility in the classroom, and then seeing how nice it is for everyone when the room is well taken care o f helps them understand equality. Being equitable in the way we, as teachers, treat them helps them understand equality, also. We allow the children to experience how much better it feels to come to consensus when they're working in groups instead o f having one student trying to decide everything. Well, that still happens, but at least they know they have the right to complain about it. MGK: There is a research strand that begins at Brookside, through various skill-building projects, and continues through the other divisions. Could you explain how and when the students engage in the research process?
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BL: W hat I love about involving the children in research projects is that they're so motivated to find the answers to their questions that they don't even seem to realize that they're reading. They just want the information. It's a great confidence booster for our more self-conscious readers. In order to do an inquiry, the children have to be fluent readers and writers. M ost children are fluent by the end o f second grade, and this is when they do their first inquiry project in the library. Second graders choose a topic that they'd like to become an expert in. Third graders each choose a topic that allows them to go more deeply into the early colonial period—they do a whole-class study o f Jamestown and Plymouth beforehand. The reading skills are taught primarily in the classroom and the research skills are taught primarily in the library. The classroom teachers collaborate with the librarian when doing inquiry projects. All teachers involved agree on how all parts o f the project are going to look and what the expectations are for the students. Some skills, like paraphrasing on notecards, are taught by the classroom teachers while other skills, like using multiple sources or using the Internet for research, are taught by the librarian. Once a skill has been introduced, all teachers reinforce or reteach the skills to individual students when needed, and the final product is agreed upon, i.e., a formally written piece or a PowerPoint presentation. MGK: The inquiry projects are a culmination o f the students' rhetorical skills, but it is not just speaking skills that you are working on, it is listening skills, and true discourse, listening and then attributing ideas to another person. How are you teaching these skills? BL: This is something that I am passionate about. I find m yself interrupting people all the time when I'm in a conversation, and I'm really trying to stop doing that. I think most people would rather express their own point o f view than really listen to someone else's. And when people won't share their point o f view, I think it's because they're afraid someone will try to argue them down. I would like my students to be good
listeners and to learn that just because they are listening to another opinion it doesn't imply that they agree or that, in the end, they have to agree. There doesn't have to be a winner when the conversation is over. I like to hear other points o f view because even if it doesn't cause me to change my mind, it helps me become surer o f my own position. Public discourse, as we can all see when we follow political campaigns, is a weak skill in this country. There are polite ways to handle oneself in a discussion, and I think children should learn this early on.
Lynn Salehi - Middle School Social Studies Department Chair MGK: M ost people think that history teaching has to have a strict chronological approach, but you seem to combine a chronological approach with a thematic approach; could you explain that? LS: The overarching format for the Middle School is the Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions that we use in grades four through eight. In the earlier grades, kids are more interested in talking about cultures from the perspective o f what life was like - what it was like to be an Egyptian, what it was like to live in Rome - so we do more o f a cultural study: daily life, government, farming, those kinds o f systems. We do move forward in history from 6th grade through 7th grade fairly chronologically, although there are places where we have to loop back because we can't look at the whole world at one time. So for example, in the 6th grade we move forward in history for a period o f time, then we stop, back up, and say, okay, what was going on in another part o f the world at the same time? So that's one o f the reasons why it's not strictly chronological. As we get to the 8th grade, in preparation for the Upper School, things become much more chronological, and the study really shifts from social studies to history, so that kids are set up to go on to Upper School history courses. MGK: It seems as though different
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legal codes and some o f the Core Works are integrated nicely throughout the social studies curriculum; could you give some examples? LS: A large part o f our program is connecting to the Citizenship Core Curriculum and to the founding documents, so a lot o f what we are doing is looking at the things that were the predecessors to our own founding documents. It even starts as early as 3rd grade with The M ayflow er Compact, and getting kids to start thinking about the idea that you have to have a common agreement on what the rules are for living together. W hen we talk about H am m urabi's Code in grade 5, which is a Core Work, we connect it to the Code o f Conduct at MKA, the Honor Code, and even the dress code. Why do we need to have these rules; why is it important for them to be written down? Because prior to Hammurabi, m ost o f the time the laws weren't written down. It's important for kids to understand this so that by the time they get to 8th grade U.S. History and the U.S. founding documents, they understand that this didn't come out o f a vacuum, that all o f these things were founded on what came before, things like the 12 Tables o f Rom e and the M agna Carta. MGK: How is geography taught in the M iddle School? LS: Primarily, we use the five themes approach for geography: location, place, region, movement, and human/environment interaction. Whether we are doing social studies or history, we're always looking at where things are taking place, w hat is the climate like in those regions, how do people interact with their environment, how do they adapt their environment, how do they adapt to the environment, how do they use its resources, how do they move from one place to another and influence each other? And recently we have made a really concerted effort to increase our students' knowledge o f the world, and specifically that location piece, so we've introduced a program o f actually committing to memory certain regions o f the world. The fourth grade works on the oceans and the continents, and also the eastern states in
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the United States, because that connects to their study o f the American colonies. The hope is that | by the time a student moves through the whole Middle School - we're not covering the whole world, we are missing some significant chunks they are going to have a pretty good 'world sense,' so that when they study things in class or see things on the news and have conversations about world events, they will have a mental map that they can refer to. MGK: Could you explain the progression o f grade-level appropriate research skills and requirements that your department has established for grades 4-8, and how it is tied to what is done at Brookside and the Upper School? LS: In their research in the 4th grade, students are still learning how to use an index effectively, and we are teaching them this at the same time that they are learning from the librarian to do the same thing in the library and on the Internet. Organizing the information you find is essential in the early grades. How do you decide where to put things in a report that has a lot o f factual information? In the 5th grade, students have to develop a thesis with an angle, or an approach to an issue that they really want to address. So they are collecting information with that in mind: how it supports or refutes my thesis. By the 6th grade, we really are almost looping back again, because what we are asking them to produce is more sophisticated, so now they need to dig deeper in their research. That's a tough thing for them to realize: that when you use multiple sources you are going to get the same thing over and over again and you are digging for that one little new nugget that you didn't get before. The products in 6th grade include posters, PowerPoint presentations, and Alphabooks, all o f which require careful organization o f ideas. In the 7th grade, there's a more formal oral component, so now you're not only worrying about presentation in a written format, but you're going to have to make an oral presentation. So how do you put that
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The library/technology program is structured to instill an awareness and understanding o f information literacy. The research process is scaffolded to meet the needs o f individual grade levels and students, and a new rubric and continuum has been designed and implemented to better assess students' information literacy skills at both Brookside and the M iddle School.
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Maurine Toth Brookside Librarian and Technology Coordinator Page 5
M iddle School Students enjoying their R evolutionary War reenactm ents together so that you're not simply reading what's on your chart or what's in your report, so that it enhances your presentation and really gets into the synthesis o f data?. That leads us up into the 8th grade, where we are doing lengthy historical papers. Again, the issue o f looping back: now you're writing a twelve-page paper instead o f organizing something that's two pages long, and that's a very different task, so there's a return to an emphasis on organization. And an emphasis on avoiding plagiarism, because as the material gets more complex, it becomes more challenging for the students to express it in their own words and make sure they are doing original work, and not ju st recycling things they've read. So that sets them up, we hope, for the Upper School and the kind o f original thinking that they're going to need to do in their history writing there. On the Brookside end, they've done a fantastic job with the 3rd grade Colonial Research; I'm amazed at the work that the
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third graders do. In note-taking and even in citing their sources - they are meticulous about keeping track o f where all their information came from everything supports what we are asking them to do in the M iddle School. MGK: If the research strand can be considered part o f an effective building of skills that carries over from Brookside to the M iddle School, has it been your experience that the 8th grade leaves ready for the challenges o f the Upper School? LS: Absolutely. I think that is true, especially if you look at the final papers, really all o f the 8th grade research papers. Those are at least what they are expected to do in the 9th grade. N ot only are they well researched, but there is a lot o f work put into making sure that they are well written - those two things do not always go hand-in-hand - and that is something our 8th grade teachers do particularly
well. They are interested in solid, effective research, but it has to be presented in a way that is clear and articulate and readable. That, together with the issue o f avoiding plagiarism making sure that they are citing things accurately and consistently - puts them in a very good place for 9th grade. MGK: W hat are some of the goals that you set for the department this year? LS: We are taking a hard, analytical look at how we try to move kids in terms o f advancing their critical thinking skills. We're looking at not only are we asking them to do that, but how do we explicitly teach those higher level critical thinking skills? Some o f this is simply developmental: when the kids are ready to do it, they can do it. But we try to push them along that continuum by modeling it in class. That's really what our curricular 'Essential Questions' are about - having those big questions as the focus o f each
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unit o f study from the very beginning. In fact, they start to work with those questions in the 3rd grade, at the Primary School. By the time they come to us, they can start to think about things from the long view. Every culture that you study, you can talk about these same issues, because these are questions about the human condition. In the 4th grade, you have to lead them to a lot o f those conclusions, but that's the scaffolding you provide. You bring them right up to the edge o f that and they can make the small leap. And then by the tim e they are in the 6th or 7th or 8th grade, you don't have to bring them as far along and they are able to make bigger leaps independently. So we try to stretch them to do that next task, and a lot o f the tasks that we ask them to do - the essays, the projects - are pushing them along that continuum o f higher level critical thinking. It is not just understanding the information; it is what you do with it, how you make sense o f it in a more sophisticated way. That's how we're trying to move the students from grades 4 to 8, and prepare them for high school. Obviously, there is still a knowledge base that you have to have, but the knowledge is always in service o f the more analytical thinking that you want to be able to do.
cover and what you choose not to cover. Our feeling was that kids have to understand the m odem world; we would be reckless if we let them get out o f here without understanding that. They will be picking up a newspaper, and they need to understand European news; maybe not all the details, but an understanding o f why Europe is the way that it is and how the United Nations functions. Part o f what we are trying to do is prepare them to be good, informed, active citizens, and we can't leave these huge gaps. Part o f being a good, informed citizen is understanding the American Revolution and the founding principles, but to weigh that off against whether a student understands the ins and outs o f the War o f 1812 versus Vietnam - that became a clear choice for us. Any history department faces that...when I was in high school, it was fine to finish with the Korean War. I don't think it is anymore and the question is, where do you fit all o f those things in? So we had to reconfigure everything and ask some real questions about M KA as an institution, and our approach, and where we started our program and where we ended our program. MGK: Are you able to allow enough
tim e in the curriculum for current events, so that both teachers and students are satisfied? Have you been able to quickly adapt your syllabus to accommodate an unfolding event? GB: Right now it's extraordinarily easy to do with our curriculum and that's one o f its strengths. Our whole move toward curriculum change gained enormous momentum in November 2000, when we were teaching courses that couldn't deal adequately with the historically significant election o f 2000. To me, that was tantamount to malpractice. I f that wasn't tantamount to malpractice, September o f 2001 absolutely was tantamount to malpractice, because there again, with what we were teaching and how we were going about it, you dare not stop for more than a day to talk about 9/11. It was so stark because these kids sat in their desks and watched it happen, and yet within 48 hours, it was old news as far as the classroom was concerned. This fall, we have Christie Todd Whitman coming to speak, and if we were still teaching AP History, we dare not stop the day after to discuss what happened. History is a discipline that demands retrospection, and time. And we needed to create a
Geoff Branigan - Upper School History Department Chair MGK: In the past few years, your department has made a concerted effort to bring more courses up to the modern world. Could you elaborate? GB: Teaching has changed in those years; when I started here in the fall o f 1988, if I was teaching U.S. History and mentioned the Cold War, the kids had an implicit understanding o f what I was talking about. They understood the post WWII world just because they were alive. Kids today through no fault o f their own; they were bom after the fall o f the Berlin Wall - have no sense o f that time period, they just don't understand it. We also realized that we couldn't continue to graduate kids that had no knowledge o f how m odem Europe was formed. To me, the real challenge o f any history department today is the question o f coverage: what you choose to
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curriculum that can do that. Now, if we wanted to-stop for a couple o f days or a week and deal w ith a topic as important as some o f those I mentioned, we can do it. We can do it because we can adjust, and those adjustments are more within our control now than in the control o f the College Board. I feel completely confident doing it because I am fortunate enough to have as colleagues extraordinary people who can thoughtfully put together curriculum and make these kinds o f decisions as we go. MGK: W hich Upper School courses are continuations o f courses at the Middle School, and which courses do some revisiting of specific areas o f study? GB: Basically, in the 7th grade they are focusing on European History through the Reformation. Our 10th grade class picks up from there and tries to get through the fall o f the Berlin Wall - you get as close as you can. The 8th grade deals with American History through the Civil War, so our 11th grade picks up with Reconstruction and moves forward from there. The 9th grade probably covers some topics that have been covered before; it deals with some non-Western, but we tend to focus on India and China, and they focus on Japan and areas o f Africa. That's how the continuum works; that's how we came to terms with the question o f overlap. MGK: In the reconfigured 11th grade Modern U.S. History course, you are able to get to the Vietnam War. Which topics from the last 50 years do our students find the most compelling? GB: Civil Rights is one that they really enjoy. They gravitate towards cultural topics, particularly the '50s and '60s... They w ant to learn about Vietnam, and I think they enjoy Watergate - anytime you can give these kids a good scandal. The whole broad expanse they see as something they find more relevant; they are ju st so thrilled not to have to go back and talk about Andrew Jackson again. And we see those topics in some o f their research papers, and that kind o f cultural history research is difficult, but they can relate to the music and the icons and all o f
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a sudden you're in the age o f television. So those are the kinds o f things that they tend to gravitate towards. MGK: Have you gotten any feedback from parents about the change in their children's dinner table conversations? GB: In the beginning o f the year in my Political Theory classes I tell the parents to expect these conversations. And I love doing this when we start Vietnam: just go home, and at the dinner table tonight, just ask your parents, what did you think o f Robert McNamara? I'm surprised I don't get more calls from parents asking, why did you let him mention that name in my house? It's so important to me that whatever we are doing in class finds its way to the dinner table. Suddenly, their education becomes not so much about remembering what happens in class, but about being able to relate to their parents in ways that are good and healthy and really important. MGK: As the History Department Chair, you made the bold decision two years ago to drop the AP courses - a hotly debated issue on the national level - and establish an intensive research paper in the junior year. You've already discussed some o f your reasons for curricular changes, but did you have a consensus on this issue within your department? GB: There was 100% support within the department, and people were excited about it. They were excited because it was an opportunity to really do what we knew in our hearts was best to do, and anytime you can do that for the kids, to any teacher - that's exciting. The rationale for doing it is complex, but some o f the key elem ents.. .First o f all, we were taking our best kids and racing them through American History in a fashion...consider this, we were going to start in Colonial America, Jamestown, 1609 and we were then going to cover almost 500 years o f history in less than 100 classes, because o f when the test occurs in something like 84 classes. Divide that up - that's two days a decade - how do you do that? I don't know how to do that. If you take from 1800-2000, two days per decade,
that's 40 days, there's half your curriculum on the [19th ] and 20th centuries, you don't have half your curriculum to spend on this, so it's less than two days.. .It made no sense whatsoever in that regard. That's also if you took no time out to spend on current events and the PAMKA programs and the ethics curriculum ...all o f those things had to go by the wayside just to get through the material that you had to get through. On that level, we knew that we could do better. We were racing through and not doing the level of research that we felt that we needed to do. Our best students were graduating from here without ever having done any kind of significant research, which we know is part and parcel o f the field o f history. This is what historians do; this is what they are going to have to do in college, and yet we weren't accomplishing it. And because o f those time constraints, looking at those 84 days, there's no way you could jam it in there. We'd do a quick little research paper with them early in the year and have them use the Jefferson papers to write a four or five-page paper. That's good practice, but it's not what we felt we needed to do. Those were some o f the reasons that we decided to do it. To some degree, what we teach now looks very much like an AP course on the second h alf o f U.S. History, instead o f doing the whole expanse. We still do documentbased questions, we still cover the basics o f the material, but we can go further and do the research. Instead o f saying, everybody is going to step down and take M odem U.S. History, we've said, everybody is going to step up and take a M odem U.S. History class that looks like - skills-wise, requirement-wise, and standards-wise - what you would find in a high level curriculum. Finally, I think that on the part o f the institution, it takes enormous courage, and it speaks to the real wisdom o f the idea and the best educational practice. By the time we finished collaboratively writing up the proposal, we realized there is no way anybody cannot sign on to this because it makes such enormous sense educationally. To say no to this is to say we are going to do a second rate job educationally in order to maintain this thing we call AP History. MGK: Now that you've experienced a
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second group o f juniors writing what a senior this year at graduation called "the mother o f all the research papers," have you found ways to fine-tune the process? GB: Yes, we've made some changes, and a lot o f it has been just fine-tuning - what type o f work we ask for up front, the ways we arrange the research stages so that it makes more sense. We ask them to present a preliminary thesis later in the process now than we did in the beginning; we had them presenting much earlier in the beginning. We have them writing annotated bibliographies m uch earlier in the process to make sure that they are immersing themselves in their resources before they come to any kinds of conclusions. It helps them to work with evidence in a healthier way. We also this year required that a full draft be submitted about a month prior to the final draft so they had something to w ork with, well in advance, before spring break, and they could take it with them. The year before, we found that kids waited until spring break to get going on it. We do a lot more peer review o f each other's work, something that we w ant kids to get more used to. One thing that made it easier on this year's class is that there was a senior class in the building who had already gone through the process - "Don't worry about it, we got through it, you'll get through it." The first year was the land o f the unknown, but as time goes on, it will become a regular part o f the rhythm o f what we do. I'm going to send out a letter to juniors and their parents to start thinking about topic areas now, so that they can start doing some reading over the summer and hit the ground running in the fall. I'm not saying that they will have to turn anything in in writing, but give this forethought, because kids who pick topics that are viable and that they like, generally do much better. MGK: Do you find some small measure o f satisfaction in the growing pattern of elite colleges either not giving AP credit at all or only for scores o f 5? And what about their contention that students taking AP courses are actually less prepared for the challenges of upper level college courses? GB: I absolutely agree, and it's strong justification for what we do. I do find satisfaction in the fact that that is the w ay colleges are moving, and some o f our rationale was based on knowing that colleges were moving in that direction; we knew that on the front end. The problem is that there is an enormous disconnect between college faculties and college admissions offices. W hile they may not use them for placement or giving credit, sometimes the 'less-committed' admissions officers fall back to rely on them because it's easy. It makes life easy for the people m aking these decisions because they say here's a 4 and here's a 5; take the 5. They don't have to really think about who this kid is. That's an advantage for us because one o f the really great things about a school like MKA, in particular, is the personal attention our kids get from the College Counseling Office. Colleges don't have to rely on just that number. MGK: W hat would be your hopes for a graduate of MKA? GB: That's tough, but I'm going to stay very general - good, happy people. I was extraordinarily fortunate to be raised by parents who valued education above all else and yet never, ever put pressure on us to be a particular thing or achieve a particular thing. It would not be a problem for me if students chose not to go to college and chose to travel instead; if that's what made them happy, then that's what I would want them to do. Those who do want to go to college, to have the courage to choose based on what's important to them, and not others around them. And finally, to have the courage to do the best that they can; that's what it takes.
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From The Board Of Trustees As I begin another year as President of the Board of Trustees of The Montclair Kimberley Academy, I wish to thank all who served with me this past year, with special thanks to the Committee on Trustees and its Chairman, Alice M. Hirsh, for their outstanding work in the nomination process. We are pleased to welcome three new Trustees: Elisa Spungen Bildner is President of RLB Food Enterprises/Freshpro. A former attorney and professor of journalism and law, Elisa Spungen Bildner graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and received her law degree from Columbia University School of Law. Active in the Jewish community at a national level, she is a member of several boards and is a former national vicepresident o f the American Jewish Committee's National Board of Governors. Ms. Spungen Bildner is currently a member of the Yale University capital campaign's executive committee and was a trustee of the Montclair Public Library. Last year, at MKA, Elisa served as an affiliate member on the Educational Policy Committee. She and her husband have four children: a daughter Elana '02 who will be a senior at Yale University, Ari '05 a freshman at Yale University, Rafi in grade seven and Eli in grade twelve at MKA. Timothy Bozik is President and CEO o f Prentice Hall Higher Education, a division of Pearson/Prentice Hall publishing. A graduate o f the University o f Notre Dame, he is an active member of the Presbyterian Church of Upper Montclair and of the MKA community. Last year, Tim served as an affiliate member on MKA's Buildings and Grounds Committee. He and his wife have two sons who attend the school: Edward in the fifth grade and Charles a freshman at the Upper School. Daniel R. Placenta is a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley & Co. He received a bachelor's degree from Villanova University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dan served as an affiliate member on the Buildings and Grounds Committee of the Board of Trustees, last year. He and his wife have three daughters, all of whom attend MKA: Cara will be in tenth grade, Laura in eighth grade and Dana in fifth grade.
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Elected to serve another term are: Alice M. Hirsh, Newton B. Schott, Jr., Robert L. Tortoriello and Denise G. Wagner. Andree J. (Penny) Finkle and Barry W. Ridings 70 were elected to serve another year as Advisory Trustees. The Montclair Kimberley Academy Foundation Board of Trustees Officers for 2005-2006 are: President, Newton B. Schott, Jr.; Vice Presidents, Michael M. Rodburg and David L. Turock; Treasurer, Michael P. Frasco and Secretary, Linda D. Almeida. Retirements: The Board wishes to acknowledge with thanks the experience, dedication, and commitment to MKA of the Trustees who are retiring this year. Trayton M. Davis joined the Board in 2002 and has served on many committees including Strategic Planning, Educational Policy, Development and Technology. Dr. Edwin J. Delattre served as an Advisory Trustee since 1996. Dr. Delattre was always available as a consultant on educational matters. He read all publications and materials from Trustee meetings. He served as a counselor for Dr. Greer when there were complicated issues to be addressed. J. Clarence Morrison served as a Trustee since 1994. Clarence was involved in every aspect of MKA's Board. His committee assignments included Executive Committee, Finance, Strategic Planning, Building and Grounds and Chairman of the Investment Sub-Committee. His knowledge and expertise in many areas will be missed. Last but not least, our former Headmaster, Dr. Peter R. Greer, served on our Board from 1992 through 2005. Peter's outstanding leadership was instrumental in creating an extraordinary period in the history of MKA. His influence will continue to be felt and we will miss him. Effective July 1, 2005, Thomas W. Nammack started his time as Headmaster. Prior thereto, he and Peter Greer worked on a smooth transition that involved, on Tom's part, several trips to MKA and many meetings. Tom, a talented, experienced private school educator, was the clear favorite choice o f our Search Committee and has positively impressed those at MKA whom he has already met. We look forward with anticipation as he leads us in the years ahead. Newton B. Schott, Jr. President, Board o f Trustees
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Daughter-in-law Suzy Greer and Terry Greer at the fabulous luncheon given in Terry's honor, the first o f twtmTies that Bind’events held at Pleasantdale Chateau.
Springtime symbolizes rebirth and renewal, and in anticipation of that transformation for Dr. Peter R. Greer, we celebrated, but it was often bittersweet. Here are some scenes from our ‘Greer Spring:’ Peter R. Greer From speech by Richard Sunshine Everyone here already knows what we have accomplished in the last thirteen years, so I will not tell you again. Instead, I will give you the ‘inside stuff’ of what it is like working closely with Peter. I8* flashback - When we were going through the search process, Austin Koenen went around the room and everyone gave their input.. .mine was - he has great credentials, but he will never stay. I guess I do not have a future as a palm reader. ->nd flashback - Once it was decided that Peter would be our next headmaster we had to get the transition started, so he tells Terry to get the bal|«|g rolling and contact the school, and she says, “How nice that they have a nickname for their business manager, they call him Mr. Sunshine.” Terry, you do not have a future in forecasting either.
A fam ily affair: Son-in-law Mark Gabor, Terry's sister Nancy D'Ambrosia, son Tucker Greer, Terry Greer, daughter-in-law Suzy Greer, daughter Becky Gabor, and Peter Greer at the spectacularly successful evening auction, part two o f the annual fundraiser. Bill Bennett spoke at MKA on “The f Education o f Character*’ as part o f the spring PAMKA Academy Forum. Dr. Bennett gave a warm and admiring tribute to his friend andformer colleague in the Reagan administration, Dr. Peter R. Greer.
3r<^ flashback - Our first Administrative Council retreat, now get this: his opening salvo is giving us 47 PRG characteristics. 47! I should have known right then what we were in for! Let me run through some of them for you: Will seek advice, but move at a rapid pace; attentive to detail; picky; competitive - must be part of the best; up early, not good after 7 p.m.; love sports, hate litter (I can’t tell you how many emails I have received on those two subjects); conservative but not crazy (says who?); here is one of my favorites - will check on items assigned and drive you crazy; believes in traditions; and the best one was the last one, if I move too fast, stop me. What he neglected to say was, this car had no brakes! Peter, you do have a future as a forecaster! 4 ^ flashback - Terry’s important role to the school: keeping Peter in check; bringing him back down to this stratosphere; and allowing Peter to give so much of his and your time to the school. When the school hired Peter, it really scored on a two-for-one sale! 5 ^ and final flashback - Peter’s unrelenting devotion to the school, to tradition, to continue to push even the most self-motivated people to higher grounds, and for his friendship, for allowing people to speak their minds even when he disagreed. For coming to the school at its most difficult time, the school owes you and Terry a debt of gratitude. If coming to a place and leaving it better than you found it is the measuring stick, you hit a grand slam. Because you love tradition so much and you restored pride in the seal, I would like to present to you - in Masters style fashion - the MKA blue blazer. Good luck to you and Terry as you embark on the next ’.chapter of life’s journey- we will miss you.
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As part o f the Cougar Pride Day celebration in April, Upper School students created a sculpture o f Dr. Greer. Other activities included a Dr. Greer look-a-like contest and a ‘D raw Dr. Greer ’contest. On a beautiful Sunday in May, fam ilies and friends joined Newton Schott and the Board o f Trustees under the tent at the Middle School to wish farewell to Peter and Terry Greer. Jim Buckley was among several retiredfaculty members who paid their respects to the departing Fleadmaster.
Peter and Terry Greer at the final meeting o f the school year.
Dr. Peter R. Greer, in hiffla trademark Boston University regalia, enjoying a last moment with a graduate o f the Class o f 2005.
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The Headmaster is Very Proud to A nnounce... National M erit Scholars Nicholas David Karl Eber
Lifers This year, the group o f students known as “Lifers” included those who attended M KA from Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st grades through graduation. They gathered at the Headm aster’s house in June for a special breakfast in their honor. 1st row: Tesia Ciechanowski, Elizabeth Moses, Heather Lamb, Alexis Randall. 2n<* row: Alexander Manevitz, Antoinelle Szwed, James Blake, Ari Bildner. 3r<^ row: Rich Zymroz, Edmund Kozak, Kristen Rode, Alexandra Jensen, Chase Morrison, Chris Gregory. Standing: Karl Eber, Johnny Chase, Patrick Cedrowski, Rebecca MacGregor, Amanda Bennett, Cori Moscowitz, Marissa Koggan, Julia Roth, Carter Smith (blockedfrom view), Paul Cuneo. Missing from photo: Jaimie Higgins
Founders’ Cup 2005 award has been given by the school’s Alumni Association, and in making the presentation, MKA alumna and current parent, Lori W indolf Crispo ’78, noted, “This year’s recipient will stand tall among the rest. Among her peers, she has been described as the epitome o f a Founders’ Cup teacher... She has upheld the highest ideals o f teaching, has trained students and the MKA community to see the world in different ways, and is truly representative o f MKA’s tradition o f excellence.”
“One o f MKA’s quiet treasures.” “Always challenging us to go beyond the limit.” “She inspires and nurtures equally.” Just some o f the words used by parents, alumni, students and faculty peers in nominating Montclair resident Barbara DuRant, art teacher and coordinator o f the Fine and Performing Arts Department at The Montclair Kimberley Academy Primary School, to be the recipient o f the 2005 Founders’ Cup for Excellence in Teaching at MKA. This is the thirteenth year that this
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DuRant, who joined the MKA faculty in 1996, is a practicing artist whose work is represented at the Amos Eno Chelsea Gallery in New York. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University o f Florida, Gainesville, a m aster’s degree in museum studies from the Bank Street College o f Education, and studied painting at the Ringling School o f Art and Design, FI., and the Arts Studio League. A t the Primary School, where art is considered an essential, meaningful part o f the educational experience, DuRant has created a sophisticated visual arts
curriculum that includes intensive study and understanding o f three Core Works: Paul Klee in Pre-K, Frank Lloyd Wright in second grade, and African Masks in third grade, as well as skill building in drawing, painting, ceramics and design. Recognized for her “consistently high level o f teaching,” parents constantly marvel at the environment she has created. As one nomination described: “the art room is a sanctuary and a place o f infinite possibility. Every child, regardless o f their natural aptitude, comes to feel success and the thrill o f creativity. They are made comfortable enough to take risks, push themselves and meet challenges they are unlikely to have ever believed themselves capable of.” But for someone who has described teaching art as being “a bold and inspiring adventure,” perhaps the greatest accolade came from one o f her former students, who, when explaining why DuRant was her favorite teacher, wrote: “in third grade she was the sun and she shined on me and shined on me until I was all grown.” ’
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Caitlin Lehmann ’01 Memorial
2005 M OCK TRIAL TOURNAM ENT The M KA Upper School M ock Trial team earned another county championship this year by defeating Kushner Academy, Livingston to take their fifth Essex County title. Along the way, MKA’s team o f ten (six seniors, two juniors, and two freshman) beat teams from Newark Academy, M illbum High School, Seton Hall Prep and, in the semi final round, M ontclair High School. “Training for M ock Trial is not unlike training for an athletic championship,” notes team advisor and history teacher Ron Wolfson, “the kids practice everyday and some weekends for three months. However, whereas a sports team might play 24 games, the M ock Trial team is only guaranteed two matches before single elimination begins, and you only find out which game plan you will be using before the contest starts.”
In May, fam ily, friends, andfaculty gathered to dedicate a memorial area to Caitlin Lehmann ’01. Toiff remember Caitlin, they dedicated the 2000 Girls Swimming season to her: that girls ’team won the County, Prep A, and State Championship. Caitlin was not only the high point scorer that year, she was the inspirational leader o f the team. The dedication is an area at the bottom o f the stairs leading into the pool, with a plaque, a trophy case with all the trophies from that year, and some o f C aitlin’s personal belongings. .
John H. Rabke Memorial Garden Colleen Rabke ’96, the niece o f form er faculty member John Rabke, honored her distinguished uncle in a remarkable manner. Instead o f giving favors at her wedding last summer, she had her landscaper design this memorial garden o f reflection, accented with plantings that w ill bloom from early spring through late autumn. The cobblestone walkway w ill include engravings that describe John in his roles as coach and teacher, in the varied languages that marked his career.
The acclaimed March production o f Lionel Bart’s O liver at the Upper School was the culmination o f three years o f sustained effort on the part o f director Dominique Gerard to restore the luster to the MKA Winter Musical. Mr. Gerard (an Upper School history teacher) was well aware o f Marilyn Faden’s legacy, and how her legendary shows in the ’70s like South Pacific, Oklahoma, and The M usic Man, and West Side Story in the early ’80s, were the talk o f the town, playing to SRO audiences. In the following commentary, the director describes the creative process as well as the product: When I came to MKA three years ago, I was charged with “making the musical special again.” My process for each o f the three shows - How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Boys From Syracuse, and O liver - was to find something that would stretch the talents and abilities o f the student body but would still produce a polished and exciting finished product. While I would like to take credit for the production, it really was the unique coming together o f a very special cast of students at just the right moment in time. The contributing efforts o f students in this particular production were extraordinary. We had approximately 100 kids involved in all aspects o f production, and a 15piece orchestra, 50% o f which were student musicians. We had kids who showed up on Saturdays to build, kids who signed up to sell tickets, kids who stopped by and hung lights for seven hours - it was truly a community effort. I think that the word is out that we are doing good things here. I hope that tradition continues in years to come, and that this program continues to grow. The shows cannot get any bigger (we had 60 people on that stage, and it was bursting at the seams), but they can always get better. D om inique Gerard
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Lithuanian Visitors MKA hosted a delegation o f 16 Lithuanian educators, including the country’s Secretary o f Education, in the spring. The educators were charged with the task o f researching Am erican schools that have effectively integrated the teaching o f ethics and character education into the curriculum . In a rem arkable coincidence, one o f the delegates, E nglish teacher A lgim anta Pranckeviciene (pictured here w ith Dr. P eter R. Greer), is the m other o f an exchange student who spent a yea r a t M KA from 1996-97. That student, A rnoldas Pranckevicius, is now a national p o licy advisor to the P resident o f Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus.
The 13 M KA students in Boston, in fro n t o f the C ivil War M em orial o f the 54™ R egim ent o f M assachusetts.
Dodson ’07), and was delighted by the tremendous turnout o f interested parents and students. Debra Greene ’99, in her final year o f a M aster’s in Public Health at Boston University, helped to chaperone and tailor the tour for the M KA students.
BANI College Tour 2005: Boston
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This March the BANI (Black Alumni Network Initiative) College Tour escorted 13 students to Boston area schools, a record number o f participants. Organized by Paige Cottingham-Streater ’79 and Bob Cottingham ’84, and ably assisted by India Larrier ’80, the group began planning the trip at the home o f M aureen and Herman Dodson (Herman Dodson ’04 and Blair
Bob Cottingham ’84 writes: “BANI is comprised o f black MKA alumni who live, work, and study in cities from Atlanta to Boston, and who meet regularly to pool their talents, identify areas o f need and develop programs to support M KA students. They focus their efforts on networking and mentoring, helping students explore career options, develop personal and academic goals, and identify ways to achieve those goals. BANI alumni attended varied colleges, universities, and graduate programs and have distinguished themselves in a variety o f professions, and can offer information, guidance, and support from a unique perspective.”
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Retirements A t the y e a r ’s fin a l fa cu lty m eeting, N ew ton Schott, P resident o f the B oard o f Trustees, thanked the fa cu lty and s ta ff fo r another outstanding year. H eadm aster P eter Greer gave a heartfelt, fin a l state-of-the-school address, and w ished retiring colleagues w ell in their next endeavors. Richard Rodin From speech by George H rab I f you didn’t have the privilege and pleasure o f knowing D ick Rodin then you truly missed out on being associated w ith MKA’s own version o f kindly Mr. Rogers. I ’m sure that all o f D ick’s many, many students always had that wonderful soothing and comforting feeling of being welcomed to the neighborhood whenever they went downstairs into the physics area basement o f the Upper School. And no m atter that Dick m ay have been preparing some experiment or demonstration with chemicals that could possibly have blown up the entire school - no, no - Mr. Rodin’s Physics room was always that neighborly haven o f quiet, calm, and serenity. And it became such a haven prim arily because o f D ick’s expertise, knowledge, and assurance derived from forty-two years o f teaching experience. Dick, your lifetime o f commitment to excellence in teaching, your caring, gentle manner, and your passion for learning have left a m ark on MKA and on all with whom you have been associated in your long and dedicated career. We all have become the richer for having known and worked with Richard Rodin. George Berry From speech by D avid Flocco After committing almost forty years o f his life to education, George is not retiring, but instead (as he puts it), he is “re-branding.” He is re directing his life towards other pursuits - that’s the kind o f guy he is. Never one to get stale or “old” in his job, George will simply be moving in a different direction. His plan is to move back to his hometown o f Pittsburgh, study the wine business and come back to M ontclair and open a wine shop. For all o f us who know and love him, we can only hope that he comes back because spending tim e with George makes us all better people. M KA Review • Fall 2005
For the past 23 years, George has been devoted to MKA. A teacher o f English, former advisor to Stylus and former tennis and golf coach here at MKA, George is committed to getting the most from his students. A trusted advisor, good friend, and excellent teacher, George is what good teaching is all about. He understands that education goes far beyond the classroom - it’s on the fields, on the stage, in the literary magazine. Education to George is creating the atmosphere that allows his students to thrive and flourish. His impact is far-reaching. As is fitting, I would like to finish this with a toast to George: George, thank you fo r a ll you have done to m ake MKA a better place and our lives m ore m eaningful. M ay you continue to live a life o f peace, happiness, and love - and so m ay we all!
Jean Siudmak From speech by P a t Parke Those who were at Jean’s retirement dinner know that she received a very prestigious award for her ability to cure a myriad o f medical maladies with a cough drop, a band-aid and an ice pack. That same night she was also named as Secretary o f Transportation, due to her incredible work with buses over the years. Today I want to show the extent to which Jean Siudmak touched every aspect o f our school day. How to do that? What four word sentence is used most often at Bookside? Can’t guess - I ’ll demonstrate. W hen a child says, “I forget how I’m going home!” we respond, “Go see Mrs. Siudmak!” When a teacher feels tense and needs some time with Jerry, the masseuse, she will “Go see Mrs. Siudmak.” W hen a child says, “I think my tooth is loose?” We say, “Go see Mrs. Siudmak.” W hen a child hands us a form we have no idea what to do with, we say, “Go see Mrs. Siudmak.” W hen a teacher wonders if recess is inside or out we send a child to ...“Go see Mrs. Siudmak.” And, when a child is feeling sad and needs a little t.l.c., we say, “Go see Mrs. Siudmak.”
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Commencement Awards
Ethel M. Spurr Award
Rudolph H. Deetjen Award
for cooperation, responsibility, service and citizenship
for athletics and academic achievement
Jacqueline Araneo
M ichael Weiss
George Brady
M arjorie Winfield Easter Award
The Robert C. Hemmeter Memorial Award
The Peter R. Greer Character Award
for sportsmanship, self-discipline and behind-the-scenes service
for intellectual curiosity, love of books and sports, and enthusiasm for living
for the habits of truthfulness, honesty, kindness, and promotion of mutual trust and friendship
Nicholas David
Abigail Cohen
Cassandra Kornblau
Cum Laude
Dr. Peter R. Greer gave the Cum Laude address to this year's inductees. Top: Manav Lalwani, Ivan Loughman-Pawelko, Paul Cuneo, Ari Bildner, Karl Eber Center: Elizabeth Frasco, Stacey Chung, Alexandra Mendes, Jasmine Gadhavi, Kristen Rode, Jaime Higgins, Nicholas David, Taylor Deehan Front: Jacqueline Araneo, Elizabeth Moses, Michelle Kabler, Valencia Harriott, Mara Herrmann, Sunjoo Choi, Emma Nagle
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Awards Night 2005 THE BARRAS PRIZE IN EN G LISH
Alexandra Mendes Nicholas David
K LEIN AWARDS FO R AC H IEV EM EN T IN ATHLETICS AND SCHOLARSHIP G RA DE 12: Cara Landolfi
Joseph Walter
M O D ER N LANG U A G E PRIZE IN FREN CH
Elizabeth Moses
G RA DE 11:
Gregory Harbeck Lisa Vouno
GRA DE 10:
Carly Ferguson James Ruzich
GRA DE 9:
Joseph Correia Lindsey Moran
M O D ER N LANG U A G E PRIZE IN SPANISH
Emma Nagle LANG U A G E PRIZE IN LATIN
Jasmine Gadhavi THE N A ZA R IA N MATHEMATICS PRIZE
Ivan Loughman-Pawelko THE W ILLIAM H. M ILLER SCIENCE PRIZE
Karl Eber THE G A . DO W N SBRO U G H SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP
Nicholas David THE M A RG A RET JENKINS OSBORNE SCIENCE PRIZE
Jasmine Gadhavi THE A L STAPH AWARD
Julia Roth T H E HISTORY PRIZE
Edmund Kozak THE JO HN RA BU SE HISTORY AWARD
HEALTH A N D PH Y SICA L EDUCATION DEPARTM ENT PRIZE
Emma Nagle THE SCO TT M. JO H N SO N ’93 M EM O RIAL AWARD
Manav Lalwani THE FR A N K “PO N C H O ” B R O G A N ‘72 M EM O RIA L SCHOLARSHIP
William Wagner ‘06 THE R EN SSELA ER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE M EDA L
Andrew Davis ’06 THE M O N TC LA IR SO CIETY O F ENGIN EERS AWARD
William Watts FACULTY SCH O LA R AWARD Elias Bildner G RA DE 11:
Kathleen Dantzler Andrew Davis
William Wagner ‘06
Nicholas Murlo William Wagner
CO M M U N ITY SERVICE AWARD
Kristen Rode
G RA DE 10:
Ellen Dunn Jason Flood
Owen Jennings Jonathan Reichstein
G RA DE 9:
Charles Gephart Emily Hart Danielle Rode
Christopher Thomson Michelle Uranowitz
BU D M EK EEL M EM O RIA L SCHOLARSHIP
Gianina Jean-Baptiste THE JO HN RABK E M EM O RIAL AWARD
Elias Bildner ‘06 FIN E A N D PERFORM IN G ARTS PRIZES
Visual Arts: Rebecca Beyer & Eryn Lefkowitz Music-Instrumental: George Brady Vocal: George Brady & Carolyn Hart Communications: Michelle Kabler Dance: Manav Lalwani
M A R Y K . WARING SCHOLARS FO R 2004-2005 (A and A-) Sunjoo Choi GRADE 12:
Ivan JLDer Ivan Loughman-Pawelko GRADE 11:
Andrew Davis Michael Giuliano Ann Hiat David Prentice
Gregory Harbeck Lisa Radosti Sabrina Schmidt
GRADE 10:
Elizabeth Bershad Jason Flood Owen Jennings
Laura Green Brian May Molly Stoller
G RA DE 9:
Kelsey Deenihan Charles Gephart Lindsey Moran
Christine Patterson Danielle Rode Christopher Thomson
THE M ARILYN FADEN AWARD FO R EXCELLENCE IN THEATRE ARTS
Acting - Drama Award: Alexandra Mendes Maxwell Eddy THE ELIZA BETH O ’N EIL FE A G LE Y CREATIVITY AWARD
Kathleen Dantzler ’06 T H E JA M ES D. TIM M O NS SCHOLARSHIP
Paul Cuneo THE M A C V IC A R PRIZE
Elias Bildner ‘06 Michael Giuliano ’06 William Wagner ‘06
AVERY BARRA S D ISTIN GUISHED SCH OLARS FO R 2004-2005 (A ll As) G RA DE 12: Jacqueline Araneo
CO M M U N ITY SERVICE AWARD
G RA DE 11:
Alyssa Farrelly ’06 John Rodriguez ’06 Alana Sivin ’06 Laura Robbins ’07 Parinitha Sastry ’07
G RA DE 10:
Jessica Colmenares
G RA DE 9:
Eamon Almeida Stacey Burns
H E A D M A STER ’S AWARD
Elizabeth Moses ;
Kimberly Bleicher Kathleen Dantzler Nicholas Murlo William Wagner
Andrew Hearst Laura Jackson Michelle Kabler Edmund Kozak
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Welcome to Our Newest Alumni... The Class of 2005
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From The Alumni Association Dear MKA Alumni, Family, and Friends, The Alumni Association has continued many great traditions. This past spring, the Alumni Council members and the Alumni Office have coordinated Career Day; regional receptions in Naples and Sarasota, Florida, and New York City; Senior Breakfast; the BANI College Tour in Boston (please see the article); the Athletic Hall of Fame; the BANI picnic and softball game; and the Fifth Annual Golf Outing. All of these events are tremendous examples of the Alumni Association’s efforts to reach out and connect with fellow alums. In addition to the “old” traditions like Homecoming - please join us on SEPTEMBER 24 - the Alumni Office continues to sponsor varied networking opportunities, such as the Alumni/Student Hockey Game in the late fall, and the Winter Break Young Alumni Luncheon, held at the Upper School. Finally, and most importantly, last year the Alumni Council committed itself to informing alums of current events taking place at MKA and alumni events, and reconnecting alumni to one another. It is with great pride that I am able to inform you that the The Cougar Chronicles has
been distributed three times over this past year to over 2,000 alums via electronic mail. If you are not currently receiving the The Cougar Chronicles via email, I encourage you to contact Alumni Director Marsha Kleinman so that your name can be added to our ever-growing email contact list. As a result of The Cougar Chronicles, alums have reconnected with one another on a personal or BANI Picnic and Softball Game professional basis, and reconnected at Eagle Rock Reservation with their alma mater. I encourage each and every one of you to get involv ed, stay connected, and reach out to your alma mater and your fellow alums. Thanks to the exemplary leadership of Dr. Peter R. Greer, MKA’s reputation for dedication to its students, faculty and alums is outstanding. We, as members of the Alumni Association, thank Dr. Greer for his thirteen years as Headmaster, and for his dedication, hard work and commitment to our school’s traditions. The Alumni Council looks forward to the upcoming school year as we begin working with Tom Nammack, the new Headmaster. We look forward to improving on our communications with alums and sponsoring new events that will soon become MKA traditions. Very truly yours,
Seniors signing their t-shirts, a gift o f the Alumni Association
Senior Breakfast 2005
Joshua H. Raymond, ’89 President, MKA Alumni Association
Athletic Hall of Fame X: Decades Of Achievement Decades o f Achievement: Liza Boutsikaris ’99 —fencing; John Pellecchia ’84 —baseball; Nancy Tiernan Swenson ’42 — tennis
Christopher Swenson, who lives in Montclair, presented his extraordinary mother.
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Jim Powers, legendary MKA fencing coach, proudly presented Liza Boutiskaris ’99, the youngest athlete to be inducted in the Hall o f Fame.
May is a time o f celebrating great achievements, and the tenth group to be inducted into the Athletic Hall o f Fame held our school to a high standard. Spanning the decades from the 1940s to the 1990s, these fine athletes - Nancy Tiernan Swenson ’42, John Pellecchia ’84, and Liza Boutsikaris ’99 —proved themselves to be exemplars o f their sports, above and beyond their years o f playing for MKA. The day before, two o f the inductees addressed students at a special assembly. John Pellecchia ’84 spoke o f the huge step up from high school to college level sports (greater than from college to the pros), and Liza Boutsikaris ’99 told o f the need for adapting one’s approach when facing new challenges from college competitors. With his customary eloquence, faculty member and former baseball coach George Hrab brought tears to everyone’s eyes. Alumni Council Vice-President and former teammate Dan Carson ’83 was part o f the group that came to celebrate John Pellecchia’s induction.
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Distinguished Alumni Aw; Ross Zbar ’84 In recognition o f an extraordinary humanitarian, the M KA Alumni Council is proud to present the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award to Ross I.S. Zbar, MD, Class o f 1984.
In addition to his surgical work, Dr. Zbar is a member o f many professional associations including the American Society o f Plastic Surgery, the American College o f Surgeons, and the Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association as well as a committee member o f the Education Committee and the Webster Fellowship Board o f Interplast. He has published articles in journals such as P lastic R econstructive Surgery, H um an M olecular Genetics, Genome Research, O tolaryngology and H ead and N eck Surgery, and written book chapters about bums and bum surgery, skin cancer, vocal cord paralysis in infants and current therapy in otolaryngology.
As a senior at MKA, Ross was valedictorian o f his class and went on to receive his BA in Biology from Harvard University magna cum laude. He received his M D from the Yale University School o f Medicine where he was named a Farr Scholar in 1990. A residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University o f Iowa Hospital and a residency in Plastic Surgery at the University o f Texas Southwestern M edical Center in Dallas completed his training. During his Dr. Ross Zbar ’84 at Career Day Otolaryngology residency, he spent 6 months in W hen asked why he chooses to travel around 2003 Madras, India leading a team which researched the world volunteering with Interplast, Dr. Zbar deafness in remote Indian villages. In July 1999, Ross was the commented, “You get the satisfaction o f helping someone who first recipient o f the Jerome Webster Fellowship in is incredibly poor. After the operation, they can get a job, get International Pediatric Plastic Surgery from Interplast, a non married, function in society.” Ross is an incredible role model profit organization that sends medical teams around the world and an inspiration for M KA students today and was a Cum to perform reconstructive surgery, mostly on children. As the Laude Society speaker at M KA in M ay 2001. The MKA first Webster Fellow with Interplast, Ross visited 18 countries Alumni Association is proud to honor him with the in South America and Asia, performing surgery on Distinguished Alumni Award. impoverished children and adults as well as instructing local surgeons in reconstructive techniques. Currently, he travels for Interplast once a year, treating children in impoverished Dana M.T. Cestone ’79 countries around the world, as well as performing m any charity Janine Garland ’82 surgeries in hospitals throughout northern New Jersey. Distinguished Alumni Committee Co-Chairs Dr. Zbar is known for his work in plastic and reconstructive surgery, especially on children. He is a plastic surgeon in private practice in M ontclair, but is often found travelling around the world to help others. He spent last spring treating children in Peru and has worked with surgeons in Ecuador,.; Bolivia, Brazil, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and helped establish Web-based training that allows doctors from around the world to interact. They can email and consult online about difficult cases. After completing surgeries, he has stayed on to train local doctors one-on-one in follow-up procedures and specialized surgical techniques. Dr. Zbar has authored several manuscripts in national journals regarding local surgical empowerment in the developing world and the transfer o f surgical skills. Dr. Z bar’s work has been cited in the ongoing fight against medical colonialism. Dr. Ross Zbar in 2004 with a mother and her baby in Peru
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Career Day 2005: Doubling Our Assets
Paul Josephson ’83 spoke about law, government, and politics, and Alumni Council Vice-President Dan Carson (l) ’83 covered two sessions on construction, design, and engineering.
Claudia Ocello ’84 is the Curator o f Education and Director o f Exhibitions and Programsfo r The New Jersey Historical Society, and David Schwartzbard '86 is the Director o f Financial Services at The Bank o f Nova Scotia.
Alumni Council member Chris Bellapianta ’97 with classmate Joe Felice ‘97 provided a more youthful perspective o f the working world.
Friends from '89 entertained themselves and the students: musician George Hrab is a perennial favorite and screenwriter Ali Dvorin had the kids laughing about a pitch-gone-wrong in Hollywood.
Jeremy Selenfriend ’96 impressed the students with his incredible display o f monster masks usedfo r film and television. Page 22
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The organizers o f this y ear’s Career Day broke new ground by allowing the Upper School students to register for two back-toback sessions instead o f a ju st one. The revised morning schedule not only gave the students twice as much exposure to a wide range o f world experiences, it also maximized the use o f a most valuable asset: our alumni. The alumni presenters made better use o f the time taken out o f their busy schedules (not surprisingly, two popular presenters had to cancel due to unavoidable, work-related issues), and we were able to offer twenty sessions, an increase o f 25% over last year. Even more impressive is the fact that the indefatigable Career Day CoChairs, Yanni Fotiadis ’82 and Lauren M oses ’98, were able to bring in twelve new presenters, representing a broad swath of career directions. New fields this year were Marketing, (Cheryl
McCants ’82); Political Activism & Presidential Campaign Strategy (Joe Felice ’97); Psychology (Marc Gurtman ’90); Real Estate (Chris Bellapianta ’97 & Dave DeMatteis ’95 for commercial and Gary Kramer ’80 for residential); Recruiting (Marc M cCloud ¡jf9); Screenwriting (Ali Dvorin ’89); and Special Effects Make-Up Artist (Jeremy Selenfriend ’96). Deepening the traditional fields o f education, law, banking, and medicine were new presenters Claudia Ocello ’84, Paul Josephson ’83, David Schwartzbard ’86, and Charles Read ’76, respectively. It’s hard for anyone to keep up with Peter M cM ullen’s popularity and numbers (his seventeenth consecutive Career Day!), but Dr. Marc Gurtman ’90 spoke to one hundred students between his two sessions!
W / Cheryl McCants ’82
Dave DeMatteis ’95
Peter McMullen '77
James Castiglia ’70
Dr. Marc Gurtman ’90
Dr. Giovanni Campanile ’75
Lauren Moses ’98
Marc McCloud ’79
Dr. Charles Read ’76
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Jim Windolf ’82
Gary Kramer ’80
Banking................................ .David Schwartzbard ’86 Construction & Engineering .............. Dan Carson ’83 Education............................ .......... Dr. Peter R. Greer Educator & Museum Curator ........ Claudia Ocello ’84 Investment Management . . . ..........Lauren Moses ’98 L aw ........ ............... : . . ; : .. ........James Castiglia ’70 Law, Government & Politics ........Paul Josephson ’83 M arketing............................ . . . .Cheryl McCants ’82 Medicine (Cardiology) .. .Dr. Giovanni Campanile ’75 Medicine (Critical Care) . . . .. .Dr. Charles Readffió Music .................................. ............ George Hrab ’89 Political Activism & Presidential Campaign Strategy ..................Joe Felice ’97 Psychology .......................... . .Dr. Marc Gurtman ’90 Real Estate (Commercial) .. .. .Chris Bellapianta ’97 . . . .Dave DeMatteis ’95 Real Estate (Residential) . . . .......... Gary Kramer ’80 Recruiting............................ . . . . .Marc McCloud K 9 Screenwriting...................... . .Alexander Dvorin ’89 Special Effects Make-Up Artist . .Jeremy Selenfriend ’96 Sports Administration.......... . .. .Peter McMullen ’77 Writing & Journalism .......... ............ Jim Windolf ’82
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Naples, Florida MKA held two alumni receptions in Florida during theimonth o f February. Dr. Greer and the External Affairs crew traveled to spectacular Naples for a Friday evening, February 11th alumni party at the home o f MKA Trustee Michael Rodburg and his wife, Elba - former MKA parents. Many MKA alumni and friends who live in the Naples area attended and everyone soaked in the beautiful ambiance and terrific MKA conversation and ¡nostalgia. A wide variety o f alumni years were represented, our most senior guest a member o f the class o f 1936, and the youngest ¡alumna hailing from the class o f 1996.
Sarasota, Florida On Saturday, February 12th, a cocktail party was held at the home o f alumnus, Bob Hoonhout (MA ’71) and his wife, Kathy in sunny Sarasota. The MKA camaraderie was contagious, and former, longtime faculty member Ken Mansuy made the trek across Florida to join in the fun. MKA would like to host more Florida receptions in the future and would especially appreciate volunteers from both coasts for our future gatherings. Please contact Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76 if you’d like to be involved. Call (973) 509-7939, or email lmcfeelev@montclairkimberlev.org.
Naples hostess Elba Rodburg, with Percival Hill MA ’43 and Helen Curran
Pat Gallagher, Florence Johnson Jacobson TKS '46, and Robert Brightman MA ’36
Paul McFeeley ’76 and Jill Rodburg Dellanno ’96 ■
Udo Schmid and Pat Dordelman Schmid TKS ’62 with Director o f External Affairs, Judy Polonofsky
Dick Lewis, John Clark, Kathyrn Teaze Clark TKS ’45, Audrey Maass Lewis TKS ’50. Kathryn Clark writes: “My love o f music began with Miss Bauer and Miss Carpenter [o f Kimberley]...I think o f them when 1 hear Beethoven’s 6th. ”
Director o f External Affairs Judy Polonofsky with Sarasota hosts, Kathy and Bob Hoonhout ’71
Winter Break Young Alumni Luncheon Classes of 2004 and 2005 - MKA’s Alumni Association cordially invites you back to school on January 4,2006 for its second annual young alumni mini-reunion luncheon in The Cougar Dining Hall. Come and catch up with fellow alumni, former teachers, and chat a bit with upperclassmen about your experiences at your respective colleges and universities. Please RSVP to Laurie McFeeley ’76 at lmcfeeley@montclairkimberley.org. Page 24
Sally Alice Unkles Diller TKS ’60 and Wayne Diller with Dr. Peter R. Greer
Tammy Williams, Ken Mansuy (former faculty member, retired and living in Florida), Donald Williams ’76, and Dr. Peter R. Greer. Don Williams writes: "...the sanctuary that was found at MKA, where I was protected, loved and allowed to grow...it has been a privilege to have graduatedfrom the Academy. ”
Join us for HOMECOMING 2005: SEPTEMBER 24 Reunions for classes ending in 5 and 0 For more information, please contact the Alumni Office (973.509.7940) or Alumni Director Marsha Kleinman fmkleinmaniaimontclairkimberlev.orv) MKA Review • Fall 2005
New York City M ay 25th had a bit o f an autumn feel this year, but it didn’t stop MKA’s NYC alumni reception held at Dr. Howard Beilin’s (MA ’53) magnificent townhouse from being a smashing success. The cool weather was conducive to guests being greeted by a welcoming fire in the hom e’s gracious ground-floor reception room. It was then off to the third floor where the party took place, but a little exploring encouraged by our host revealed 5 amazing floors o f living space. Forty-five M KA alumni, trustees, and friends (plus senior faculty m ember George Hrab - always a “hit” at these events) enjoyed delicious food and drink while reminiscing. Alumni years represented spanned from 1951 to 1999. The evening had a bittersweet edge with Headmaster Peter R. Greer giving his final state-of-the-school talk ju st weeks before his June 15th retirement. All present bid Dr. Greer and his lovely wife, Terry, a fond farewell. If you live in M anhattan and are willing to host a NYC alumni event in the future, please contact Laurie Hoonhout M cFeeley at (973) 509-7939, or email lmcfeelev@montclairkimberlev.org.
Morgan Weiner ’99, Alex Joerger ’95, Ami Shah ’95, Jason Tepperman ’94, Jessica Gerstein ’99
Rob Newman ’72, Trustee and current parent Rick Jenkins '77, and Ruth Perretti ’79
Our active Alumni Council: Joshua Raymond ’89, Dara Marmon ’91, David DeMatteis ’95 and Carmen DeMatteis, and Chris Bellapianta ’97
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Faculty member George Hrab and Rob Hubsmith ’77
Oscar Mockridge ’55 and Host Howard Beilin ’53
Victor Bernstein ’65, Peter Stern ’65, Tom Isenberg ’75 and Director o f and Alumni Director Marsha Kleinman Alumni Giving Laurie McFeeley ’76
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Alumni Golf Open M K A ’s 5th A nnual G o lf O uting was held on June 21s* am id spectacular sunshine and com fortable tem peratures. Thirty-seven golfers h it the newly renovated Glen Ridge Country Club course, jo in e d by additional alum ni and frien d s fo r cocktails, dinner, and the awarding o f m any terrific prizes. The ‘70s contingent was once again out in force, with 17 participants burning up the links. A n ‘80s foursom e, new to the event, boasted one o f the o u tin g ’s two top prizew inners. A lso in attendance were several fa cu lty m em bers who are recipients o f M K A’s F ounders ’ Cup, an A lum ni Association aw ard that recognizes excellence in teaching. M any w onderful sponsors ensure the success o f this “frien d ra iser ” each year, and the Alurpni Council hopes to fie ld an even larger group o f golfers fo r its 2006 event next June.
Garry Merkle ’83, Ken Vostal ’84, Alumni Council Vice-President Dan Carson ’83, Marc Spiotta ’86, and Anthony Michelotti ‘85
(W6ers - Paul McFeeley, Ray Knox, Director o f Alumni Giving Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley, Warren Waters, David Hughes, faculty member George Hrab, and John Urga
80s crew: Don Cussen ’83, Harris Podvey ’84, Ed Conlin ’84, and Bunker Davis ’83 The young lions: Hugh Leoni, Dennis McNeil ’95, David DeMatteis ’95, and Chris Bellapianta ’97
Glen Ridge Country Club host J. Dean Paolucci ’73 and Peter Redpath ’73
A seventies foursome: Bill Crawford ’72, Louis Gioffre ’72, J e ff Carrie ’73, and Henry Talbot ’72
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS Our sponsors make this day possible by helping us defray the costs o f running a g o lf outing. They sponsor g o lf holes, the reception and dinner, and the attendance o f faculty members. They also donate merchandise. The Alumni Association is indebted to the follow ing group o f sponsorsfo r their generous support o f this event:
Lowenstein Sandier PC Michael Rodburg, Trustee
Lori Windolf Crispo '78 Parent
A ccenture John W eisel, P arent & Trustee
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Mark Donatiello '79 (father o f 3 MKA students!) and Larry Duca ’79 (father o f incoming Middle Schooler) with faculty members Ralph Pacifico and Geoff Branigan MKA Review • F all 2005
Cougar Sports By Todd Smith, Director o f Athletics, and the Varsity H ead Coaches 2005 Spring Season The Varsity Baseball Team finished with a 19-11 record, winning a share o f the Colonial Hills Conference with Bayley Ellard. The Cougars started eight underclassmen and will lose only one senior to graduation. The team also advanced to the semifinals of the non public State B Baseball Tournament. Bright spots for the Cougars were Greg Harbeck (Jr.), who finished the year with a 7-2 record, and Jimmy Ruzich (So.), who hit .476 with 12 home runs including a 3 home run game against Newark Academy. The Cougars had impressive wins vs. Livingston High, Montclair High, and Newark Academy. Long time coach, Ralph Pacifico (14 years), feels that the young Cougars are built for a four-year run and that they will be one o f the teams to watch in both Essex County and the state. The MKA Varsity Golf Team finished the year at 15-10. With only 3 returning lettermen, our depth chart filled in with 4 first year letter winners, including 3 freshman: Jake Konner, Andrew Kingsley, and J.C. Egbert. Senior Justin Jackson, headed for the University of Richmond, played as solidly as he has for the past 3 years. Junior Joey Gottlieb placed 10th at the CHC tournament and 5th at the Parochial B state sectionals. While MKA placed 3rd in the CHC, it was the tournaments where we made our mark. We placed 2nd at the Essex County Tournament and missed upsetting Seton Hall Prep by 1 stroke. At the State Sectionals we placed 2nd behind Oratory Prep, but this qualified us to play in the Tournament of Champions. At the T of C we placed 2nd to state powerhouse Bishop Eustace. We would not have had this success without our captain, Mike Weiss. Mike is also headed for the University of Richmond. He had one of the greatest years of any MKA golfer. He was an All State selection and first team Parochial B. He was the Essex County Champion and the Sectional Champion. He finished 9th at the Tournament of Champions, 2nd in Parochial B, 4th at the CHC tournament, and was the CHC Player o f the Year.
finishing second in the Rizk Division, and advancing to the second round o f the State Championship tournament for only the fourth time in the history of our program. Led by an incredible group o f 11 Seniors, our team exhibited a selfless attitude and tremendous intensity and determination. The pinnacle of our seasSn was defeating Glen Ridge 6-5 in overtime in the first round of the State Tournament, avenging a double overtime loss to the Ridgers earlier in the season. As a result of our team’s success, several o f our players were recognized for individual awards. Alex Gephart, Thomas Alati and Nick Andlinger were selected the first team All Rizk Division. They were joined by second team selections Nick Galasso, Tim Hirsch, Nolan McGarrity and freshman Rob Fortunato; and honorable mention Sam Walter. We return our top 5 scorers and will count on many from our outstanding Junior Varsity team that compiled a 7- 4 record. For the first time ever, MKA fielded a freshman team. The MKA Girls’ Lacrosse season saw a successful, winning season after last year’s rebuilding session. The season ended with a record of 11-9, winning a berth into the State Tournament. The season had many memorable moments with big wins over Columbia High School (Group IV), 10-9 with one minute left in the game to secure a semi-final spot in the Essex County Tournament, and a defeat over higher division team, Madison, 6-5. The team
The 2005 season was another successful campaign for the MKA Boys’ Lacrosse team. We completed our season with a 13-7 record,
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showed promise from the beginning of the season with another nail-biting win over Montville (2n^ game of the season 10-9), and then handily defeating them a second time later on in the season to show growth and strength. Individually, it was a season for records to be met, broken and re established. Eleanor Amari, junior right attack wing, first achieved her lOO^h career goal and then set a new all-time season scoring record of 86 goals. Seven players have made honors, being placed on AllEssex County Teams. Eleanor Amari and Julia Roth made 1st Team All-Essex, Devin Almeida and Kara Shepard placed 2n<^ Team A ® ? Essex, Amanda Bennett and Liz Miller made 3rt* Team All-Essex, with Honorable Mention going to Hannah Gill. The MKA Softball Team won the NJ Parochial B State Championship.. .again! The team finished with a 21-8 record and cemented themselves once again as one of the top teams in Essex County and the state. Congratulations to Head Coach Meaghan Asselta, Assistant Coach Nikki Childress, and the Girls’ Varsity Softball Team for capturing the Parochial B State Championship. For Seniors Jackie Araneo, Mara Herrmann, Jamie Piela, Alexis Randall, and Lhenee Riddick, it capped a remarkable four-year run where they captured 3 Parochial B State Championships, 3 North Parochial B Sectional Championships, 3 Colonial Hills Conference Championships and 1 Essex County Championship. Araneo (Princeton), Piela (Sienna) and Riddick (St. Peter’s) will all take their games to the Division I level next year as they head off to college. The 2005 campaign was a season for the ages and one that w ill' certainly go down as one of the greatest and most decorated fouryear runs in MKA sports history! With a group of six underclassmen leading the way, the Boys’® Varsity Tennis Team started its season playing one of the toughest schedules in the state. They ended the year with a 16-8 record, but six o f those losses were to teams that finished in the top ten in the state. The team was led by Senior Patrick Cedrowski and his brother Brian Cedrowski (Fr.), who anchored the top two singles positions. The highlight of the year was when the team went to Blair Academy to compete in the NEMA Tournament where teams from all over the Northeast were invited. They finished fourth out of twelve teams. The Cougars also had a hard fought 3-2 win over cross town rival Montclair High this year as well. With all but one player back next year, the young Cougars look for bigger and better things in ’06! The Boys’ Track and Field Team finished another successful season under Coach Tom Fleming. Once again, MKA was led by distance runner extraordinaire Nicolai Naranjo (Jr.). Backing up Naranjo has been Senior Noah Sacco, who set personal bests throughout the season. Scoring points for the Cougars throughout the season were long jumper Brandon Bullock (Jr.), Chuck Chiemelu (So.), and Seniors George Brady and Will Watts.
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Sophomores Luke Damiano, Adam Canton and Anthony Benigno also established themselves as young up-andcoming throwers in the Colonial Hills Conference. The Girls’ Track and Field Team was led by sprinter Lindsay Earle (Jr.), “alleverything” Lisa Vuono (Jr.), and long distance phenoms Carly Ferguson (So.) and Katie Gelnaw (Jr.). Earle set school records this past season in the 100m and 200m and has established herself as one of the premier sprinters on the NJ Prep scene. Vuono has become one of the top athletes in her class and has earned points wherever Coach Iverson has needed her. Gelnaw and Ferguson were often asked to compete in 3-4 running events every meet to score points for the young Cougar squad. BREAKO U T ATH LETE O F THE YEAR: F rank Herrmann, MKA Class o f 2002 By ALEX MCPHILLIPS Provided by Harvard University’s Sports Information Office', published on Thursday, June 09, 2005 The recruit stayed in Cambridge but for a fleeting afternoon - time enough, in other words, for Harvard baseball coach Joe Walsh’s brief glimpse of the future. “He drove up from Jersey and was here for about three hours,” Walsh recounts of his first encounter with Frank Herrmann, then a junior at New Jersey’s The Montclair Kimberly Academy, “and then Frankie drove back to football practice.” “We hit a couple of one-hoppers to him out in right field and he threw a couple of one-hoppers to the plate,” Walsh says. “And I said, ‘We’re going to get that boy on the mound some day.’” Four years later, Walsh’s prescience came full circle. Now a Harvard junior, Herrmann, the strapping 6’4, 220-pound bulldog of the Crimson pitching staff, blew Ivy League hitters away during his breakout 2005 campaign. Key to his offseason metamorphosis was a summer stint in the 13team New England Collegiate Baseball League. Relying on steady control and improved velocity, Herrmann finished second on the Berkshire Dukes - the team run by former Red Sox GM Dan Duquette - with a 2.49 ERA. More importantly, he honed his approach on the advice of players from around the country. Early on, Herrmann wowed coaches and teammates in throwing sessions. But he didn’t surprise himself. “I knew how hard I worked,” he says. Walsh, for his part, saw visions of success. “I tell you what,” Walsh says now, “in the gym, it was earlier in the year, and I pulled him over. I said, ‘You just went from being a suspect to a prospect.’” “He was bringing it,” Walsh adds. On the field, Herrmann remains dogged. It is commonplace to see the broad-shouldered pitcher - Walsh once reported that Herrmann could play a passable linebacker for football coach Tim Murphy pop his glove with a growl after striking out a batter to end an inning. “He wants the ball,” Walsh says. “He’s a bulldog. Nothing’s going to bother him. He’s a team leader.”
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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, and the deadline is May 1. 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, and the deadline is January 1. 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 or e-mail to your class secretary or to the Alumni Office anytime (mkleinman@montclairkimberley.org). We keep ongoing files for each class and we welcome family photographs. 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 chair, is absolutely essential to the vitality of the school. Please consider it. MA - Montclair Academy TKS - The Kimberley School
TKS Charlotte Fitch 24 Cape Bial Lane, P. O. Box 45 Westport Point, MA 02791 Josephine “Jodie” Fobes Carpenter ’35 writes: “My sister, Mary Ann Williams, is in Mount Vernon, Washington in a retirement home. We keep in touch by phone.” 0 MA Mr. C. Irving Porter Box 2750 Quaker H ill Road Unity, ME 04988
TKS Mrs. Albert Frell (Irene Burbank) 580 Admiralty Parade Naples, FL 34102
3 TKS We send our deepest sympathies to the family
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of Jean McGraw Gillett Brookfield. Jean was predeceased by her daughter, Marian Newell Gillett, and is survived » her sons, E. Kendall Gillett III, Jonathan Newell Gillett and Charles R. Gillett as well as seven granddaughters and eleven great grandchildren.
5 TKS Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) Crane’s Mill, Apt. 249 459 Passaic Avenue West Caldwell, N J 07006 Updating us on the Class of 1935, Josephine “Jodie” Fobes Carpenter writes: “J u s fl| before Christmas, Jean Black Jennings went on a... trip to the Indian Ocean, Madagascar and Seychells. Wasn’t she lucky to do it before the tsunami. Her oldest son, Don, lives with her in Idleyld Park, Oregon. Jean plays tennis twice a week. Sara Roh’s husband, Dr. Charles Roh ’33, wrote that Sara has Alzheimer’s type dementia and is in a local dementia unit in West Hartford, CT. Nancy Fiske Milne lives in an assisted living facility in Lebanon, NH. In 2003, she fell and moved into Harvest Hill for massive nursing care. Ruth McCord Alexander travels a lot and went to Alaska with her family and Arizona last winter for a month. Ginnie Bell Winters is back in her apartment at Riderwood after falling and having a hip replacement. Stewart and I are still involved here at Crane’s Mill with bridge and the Gift Shop. I write the monthly notice for the Gift Shop. My sister, Mary Ann Williams, ’29, is in Mount Vernon, Washington in a retirement home. We keep in touch by phone. Please send news!” MA Mr. John Graham 1129 K ing’s Ranch Road Bandera, TX 78003 Having not heard from any of his classmates recently, Class Secretary, John Graham, composed and sent us the following poem just to “keep our ’35 news column from being empty:” No news is good news, You all must think But to your classiscribe It drives him to drink So Dave and two Franks Tom, Eddy and Geoff To Jim V and Boggie And whoever’s left
When I write you next year With impassioned plea Think of something to say And send it to me
6 TKS Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) 118 Heron Point Chestertown, MD 21620
TKS Mrs. William Young (Peggy Klotz) The Village at Duxbury 290 Kingstown Way, Apt. 253 Duxbury, MA 02332 Peggy Klotz Young sends this update: “Ruth Duff Eager writes, ‘So far our health allows us to carry on life pretty much as usual even if it takes a little longer to complete tasks and we make increasing use of the medical profession. If nothing drastic happens, George and I will be celebrating our 60™ wedding anniversary in October! It’s, been a long and wonderful ride.’ A very happy anniversary to Ruthie and George! Margaret Richards Chapman was the first to answer my appeal for news. Just before Christmas 2004, she took the bus from New London, N. H. to Boston. It was a bad travel day and the bus was 1 hour late, but Janet Gaylord Newsome with her 2 daughters a n 9 son-in-law waited to meet her. They all enjoyed a delicious, long lunch and a great visit. Janet looked marvelous and it was a delight to see her family again. Janet and her daughter, Julie, left for Paris the next day. The bus was late returning to N. H. - it was all-in-all a 9-hour trip but so worth it. As Margaret says, ‘Old friends from your youth are the dearest.’ She and Curt are exceptionally well. Janet Gaylord Newsome also wrote about the good visit. She had gone to Boston for her granddaughter, Kathryn Romer’s, wedding. She went to Paris with daughter, Julie, for a week’s visit with Julie, Jerome and grandson, Eric. Janet is going to move to a ‘retirement set-up’ in Ottawa in July. Jean Hamlin Noyes talked to Virginia Kracke Leavitt in Maine recently and said Ginny was doing really well. I am the proud great-grandmother of twin boys, bom February 2 8 ^ to my grandchildren in California. I’ve only seen pictures but they are identical!”
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Sally Bausher Littlefield recently sent this update to Peggy Klotz Young: . .still on the gojg- back in Florida for the winter and playing golf, bridge... and generally enjoying life - My older granddaughter, Amy, is heading to Brown University in the fall. Younger granddaughter, Alison, is on the high school baseball team and into riding.. .Took a trip on the Great Lakes last summer that was great...This winter, a five day elderhoSel to the EvergladesE very good!” MA Robert Livesey writes1that he is “still working full time at our (Educational) Publishing Co. Also active - tennis and skiing. Our youngest... Sebastian, is a sophomore at Georgetown.” Robert also sees Ruth Russell Gray every couple of years.
9 TKS Class agent: Mrs. Saul Serota (Cornelia Carswell) 6891 Wilson Road Marshall, VA 22116 MA Our sincere condolences go to the family of Ralph M. Heintz, Jr. who passed away recently.
TKS Mrs. Alfred D. Williams (Joan Bayne) 15 Piper Road, Apt. K310 Scarborough, ME 04074 Class agent: Mrs. Iris Flournoy 900 Hollinshead Spring Road, G203 Skillman, N J 08558 Ed. Note: The following is from a telephone conversation with Class Secretary Joan Bayne “Baynie” Williams in April: The indomitable Class of 1940 has decided, based on feedback from their own survey, that they don’t want to wait for a 7 0 ^ Class Reunion, so they have begun planning for a get-together this year instead! They are having trouble finding a mutually convenient spot, however, as they are typically far flung. In the process of calling and writing each other, the Kimberley alums have made lots of new connections, as well as rekindled old ones. Joan’s daughter went to a convention in Nashville this year and visited Joan’s dear friend, Harriet Palmer Pickens; she later told her mother that she could understand exactly why they had been such close friends as young girls! Joan also mentioned that they are exploring the possibility of putting a book together, a “Where Have you Been?” type of compilation, in order to reestablish old friendships, and, to that end, she would like
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to stay in contact year-round. Joan may be reached at the above address from November to April (she described the lovely retirement home in Scarborough, ME as being like the “Ritz on the ocean”), and from May to October, she will be at the “rustic cabin in the woods” in Belgrade Lakes, at the following address: Mrs. Alfred D. Williams (Joan Bayne) P.O. Box 2 0 H Belgrade Lakes, ME 04918 (207) 495-2617 (May to October) Joan also reports that Harriet Palmer Pickens has had knee surgery but will be back in New Jersey by the summer. Barbara “Bobbie” Kluge Deming’s summer plans include a huge family reunion —over 40 of the extended clan - in Ashville, NC. MA Our sincere condolences go to the family of David J. Jacobs. David was a football star during the time he attended Montclair Academy and was inducted into the MKA Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999. He is survived by his wife, Josephine; his daughter, Janet Lynn Graham; sons, Craig Jacobs ’72x, Glenn Jacobs ’74x, and eight grandchildren.
TKS Mrs. James F.C. Hyde Jr. (Enid Griswold) 5402 Duvall Drive Bethesda, MD 20816 MA Mr. David Baird Jr. 9 Parkway Montclair, N J 07042 Class agent: Mr. Lewis Townsend 2801 New Mexico Avenue, Apt. 303 Washington, DC 20007
2 TKS Helen Jones Gordon writes of the wonderful Christmas 2004 that she spent with all of her children and grandchildren, two of them in their 20s and three ranging in age from one to eight years. Barbara Bonney ’74x, the daughter of Audrey Gates Bonney ’42, recently performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Barbara sang Hadyn’s “Scena di Berenice” and Barber’s “Knoxville of 1915.” MA Mr. Richard L. Charlesworth 121 Cherry Brook Road Weston, MA 02493 DIKNAN@dol. com
Richard Charlesworth reports: “Condolences are due Howard Kimm who lost his daughter, Cathy, last fall. However, happier news also comes from Howard who married Mildred Lewis on December 30 in Charleston, SC. Jim Ritchie reports contacting Robert Dickson who was a classmate in the early years of the Lower School. They are two real veterans of 1942. Bill Walker celebrated his 62n<*wedding anniversary in 2004 in North Carolina. Bill still enjoys golf and his woodworking hobby. He is blessed with a suspected class record of six great-grandchildren! Dan Emerson and Sam Hall both survived the two terrible hurricanes that struck Vero Beach. They suffered great anxiety and inconvenience, but escaped without personal harm and relatively minor property damage.” Our heartfelt condolences go to the family of George “Walt” Connell of Spring Lake Heights. George served in the Coast Guard in World War II from 1942 to 1945 and was enrolled in the Coast Guard Academy when the war ended. He was predeceased by his wife, Cathleen. Surviving are his son and daughter-in-law, Peter and Laura Connell, his daughter and son-in-law, Cathleen and Stanley Pasternak and granddaughter, Mary Cathleen Connell.
3 TKS Miss Lucile G. Mason 142 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, N J 07042
TKS Our sincere condolences go to Patricia Lamborn Kolbe on the loss of her brotherin-law, Landon Peters. MA Mr. Winterford J. Ohland 39A Cambridge Court Lakewood, N J 08701-6225
TKS 60th REUNION SEPTEMBER 24, 2005 Anne Feagley Wittels (Mrs. Jerome L.) 2116 Via Alamitos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 wittels@worldnet. att. net Anne Feagley Wittels writes: “First of all, we would like to extend the sympathies of the class to Judy Shearer Turnbull on the death of her husband, Bob, during the Autumn of 2004. Leigh Berrien Smith has been keeping in touch with Pat Driver Shuttleworth. Pat and Ted are planning a move, but to-where and as-of-when have not yet been divulged.
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Leigh and Judy ‘chat on the phone periodically’. She also reports that Jeanne Talbot Sawutz and Susan Ailing Miller keep traveling - where? wheiVLalso not said. Anne Gerhauser Buchbinder sent a Southwestern style holiday greeting, but nothing more. Katie Tease Clark says that, ‘there is not much news from John and me except that we are selling our house in CT and have moved here (Naples, FL) permanently.’ They had a good time at the MKA ‘do’ in Naples and add they are ‘sorry to say good-bye to Dr. Greer.’ Josephine Murphy Rayermann phoned (as usual) on her (Josie’s) birthday. Josie is still active in the garden club. Other than that, she and Ed ‘spent a quiet past year; just a few health issues claiming a good deal of their time and energy - nothing dramatic, just inconvenient.’ Their two sons and assorted grandchildren are all doing very well. Verna Rudd Trimble Kenvin called. They are out of ‘box city’ and have but few details left to do in their new digs. She and Roger had a great trip in September 2004 by train, ship (Great Lakes) and Erie Canal. August 2005 will find them in Boston (celebrating a 53r° anniversary), then by ship to Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, back to Boston and then home to CA. Peg Odell Overholser did not actually send news, but since I’m part of it, I’ll tell. One of her sons lives about 20 minutes from me (Note: People living in Los Angeles don’™8 speak of ‘how far’ places are. We speak in minutes, not miles.) She and Ed visited Matt in July, 2004; Peg and I met for lunch. What a time we had! Talk about catching up; well, we made a good job of it. But more! Peg and Ed returned in December. What with one circumstance and another, we spent almost a whole day together. Another wonderful time! Phyllis Harder Reininger writes of travels in the Western states to FL and OH to visit family, to 35th reunions at Skidmore and Colgate. She also told of Barmen, the service dog they raised as a trainee for ‘Canine Companions for Independence’ in CA - the facility which was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Charles “Peanuts” Schultz. Sad to say, Bannen flunked; glad to say, Phyl and Dick are ecstatic to have him back with them. As for us it’s mostly ‘same old.’ (Thanks be!) For Jerry, tennis and music and helping the H.E.L.P. organization. For me, various art media and photography. One new and wonderful event: a new granddaughter was bom in January. We saw my sister, Sheila Feagley James ’43, and David both in San Francisco and here. I’ve talked with my cousin, Hayden O’Neil ’46, and Pat a couple of times, in between their frequent trips.” Leigh Berrien Smith writes that Susan Ailing Miller traveled to Egypt and Jordan in the fall of 2004 and that congratulations are in order for Anne Reighley Ferguson, whose son, Neil, was married last September. Pat Driver Shuttleworth is moving to a senior residence called Peconic Landing in Class Notes • Fall 2005
Greenport, L.I. from her home in Quogue. Leigh also shares the sad news of the loss of Landon Peters; he is survived by his wife, Florence Lamborn Peters, sister, Lorna Peters Garron ’53, his sisters-in-law, Patricia Lamborn Kolbe ’44 and Audrey Carroll McBratney ’50, four sons and five grandchildren. Mr. Peters had just celebrated his birthday in Texas. Our sincere condolences go to the Peters family. MA Mr. William B. Grant 7330 Westmoreland Drive Sarasota, FL 34243 grantwb@tampabay. rr. com Bobbie and Richard Hopkins visited his sister this past winter on Anna Maria Island, and we had a great seafood luncheon together. This summer, Richard and Bobbie are taking a river cruise from St. Petersburg, Russia to Moscow, and in the fall, a bicycle trip through Provence, France. Bob Nebergall again spent last winter in Key West and again sped north without stopping by Sarasota. Pat and I will be taking a bus trip down through Mexico this summer, our first trip to Mexico City and south thereof.
MA Dr. Peter B. Lawrence 4802 Olympic Lane Wilson, NC 27896
TKS Mrs. David Hannegan (Louise Rudd) 49 Canterbury Lane Lakeville, CT 06039 weezieh@msn. com Louise Rudd Hannegan writes: “I’d like to begin with a short tribute to Jeannie Frey Drake who died last November. She was so lovely and sparkly and full of fun, and I can’t think of anyone who enjoyed our 50th reunion more than Jeannie. Our husbands, too, were enchanted by her. Until her last few months she was the cheerful, charming May Queen of ‘47. Lila Rappaport Landau keeps fit by skiing in Colorado and cycling in good weather. (She was to bike in the Flat Land Century 101 miles - for the 4th time last May. Her newest activity is learning jazz piano and loving it. She and Walter had an interesting trip to Antarctica in January. Lila mentioned our 60^ - are we getting ready? Kathy Crowell had two trips to Utah for family ‘dos’ and is thinking about another Elderhostel trip this fall. She keeps busy with volunteer work, church and workouts at
a fitness center. Patty Cox Mansfield still enjoys her real estate career, some travel and their favorite times in Cataumet where the whole family (19) gathers under one roof! She sees Joan “Cookie” Cook in Wenham when they visit son Tim and family. Patty and Peter attended Jeannie^ services in Brookside during a huge blizzard. I guess they represented the rest of us. Katy Watt Cangelosi writes she almost sold her house in the country, but changed her mindSy emphatically on a lovely fall day and went out and got herself aescued dog for company! Both her daughters are on the West coast - Leslie with 4 children and teaching Ifivv. and Cynthia with 2 little girls growing organic produce in Oregon. For ‘kicks’, Katy line-dances once a week with a bunch of old ladies! She is still hooking, too! From Bar Nash Hanson comes news that she and Herb have sold their home in Reno, moved out last November during a nightmarish snowstorm. They’ll be in their desert until they rent for the summer in Lake San Marcos. No trips are planned for the summer. Bar keeps in touch by e-mail, (wonderful!) Dave and I had a good winter in Floriaveda. Garret and Amy added Spencer Rudd Hannegan to the fold last December. We visited to celebrate Holley’s 2nd birthday - and myi®5th - in February. We popped out to Boulder to see that gang in April -played golf on Saturday, had a blizzard on Sunday! Everybody’s fine. I talk to Cookie frequently. She’s well and is pleased to have Cleve and Hunt and their wives nearby. I hope she’ll visit Lakeville again this summer. While in Florida we had Cynthia Overton Blandy and Gray Blandy come for a week, had a ball, never stopped talking. (They and family are also fine.) Never stopped talking in a delightful visit Cindy Youngman Adams and I had on Longboat Key with Teeny Redfield Sander. Cindy and Dave are looking forward to going to Egypt in September as they had regretted not getting there when they were in the MidEast. Their son Peter’s daughter, Laura, will be the 4th generation of Adams to attend Princeton in the fall. Sue Harrison Schumann is the best correspondent I know! She has a new dog, Stan (goes with Ollie), to bring Corgis back to six in number. Plus she has two miniature horses to help keep her busy. Sue forwarded newspaper articles sent to her by Jay Smith Hague about the sale of the old Kimberley building on Plymouth Street (Gibbs has moved to Livingston) and the demise of the old Haynes store AND of the Marlboro Inn where some of us have stayed for reunions. Oh, well. It was Teeny’s last winter in Florida as she’ll be moving to North Carolina in September (near son Jim) from New Canaan. She had a great trip to England last October with Bob Forsberg and sister Jane Redfield Forsberg - London and Devon and Cornwall. Hope to connect before she moves. Now, Cookie, how’s that for a ‘no ailments’ column?! Oh God, she’ll kill me. Cheers, dear ones!” Weezie Page 31
“Gail Robertson Marentette ’51 and Joan Wynne, aka, West Orange Pair [Who] Attack Litter”
TKS Mrs. Sibyl Lewis Lotterie 4360 E. Burchell Drive Hayden Lake, ID 83835-8148 sibstoy@mymailstation. com
(excerptfrom the January 26, 2005 Star-Ledger article by Jonathan Casiano)
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wim TKS Class agent: Mrs. William Brooks (Dorothy Redfield) 1 Thelbridge Street Madison, CT 06443
ISO 55th REUNION SEPTEMBER 24, 2005 TKS Class agent: Mrs. Richard Lewis (Audrey Maassj)M 4551 G ulf Shore Blvd. N, Apt. 804 Naples, FL 33940 Audrey Carroll McBratney writes, “It has been a down-sizing year. I moved 10 miles to a smaller house with my dog, Sam, and we really enjoy where we are. I have two guestrooms.”' ■■ Our condolences go to Audrey Carroll McBratney and her family on the death of her brother-in-law, Landon Peters. Our sympathies go to the family of MaryAnne Treene Evans. She is survived by her husband of 51 years, Clifford Evans, three children, Stuart, Leisa and Pam and their spouses and eight grandchildren. MA Mr. Rudolph Deetjen Jr. 17 King’s Cove Lane Brooksville, ME 04617 Class agent: Mr. Jay Bitting 299 River Edge Drive Chatham, N J 07928 Rudolph “Rudy” Deetjen, Jr. sends the following update: “Patty and I continue to love our life-styles in Maine (in spite of taxes) and are fortunate enough to have son, Leif, and his wife, Christine, nearby in the Blue Hill area. Cliff and Kim are also thriving in construction and design in Burlington, VT with our grandsons, Alex and Ben, who are five and three. Music continues to be a favorite hobby for me, having composed six new numbers on Maine themes which are being performed locally. Cheers and send news, guys®It’s our 55^.”
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Retirement is a time for hobbies. Some fish, others knit. Gail Marentette, 71, and Joan Wynne, 72, pick up trash. Heaps of it. All over town. For the past year and a half, the two grandmothers have taken to the streets of West Orange on a campaign against litter. As often as twice a week, they load the back of Marentette’s Volkswagen station wagon with rakes and brooms and set out in search of the crumpled candy wrappers and coffee cups they believe are keeping their hometown from reaching its full potential. Occasionally they’ll even rake people’s front lawns if they feel the yards are too unkempt to represent West Orange to the world. “My husband was a lawyer and he used to tell me, ‘Don’t go on people’s lawns, it’s trespassing,’ ” said Marentette, a former real estate agent. But I will get to the litter.” “We live in the most beautiful place in the world and we want to see more businesses come and want it to be thriving,” Marentette said. “It doesn’t cost anything to have something look nice. It just takes a little effort.” Among the women’s more unusual finds was a steel lock box they uncovered along side an off-ramp [of Route 280] a few months ago. Inside was an original birth certificate, letters of commendation, a baseball card collection, and four silver spoons. “It was somebody’s whole life story,” Marentette said. The women turned the box over to the authorities - as they do whenever they find credit cards, checkbooks, and other valuables - and police traced it back to a Bergen County man whose home had been robbed earlier in the year. Our deepest sympathies go to Claire Konner and her family on the death of her husband, Michael Konner. Our sincere condolences go to Clifford Evans on the death of his wife, Mary-Ann Treene Evans ’50.
TKS Mrs. Lloyd Marentette (Gail Robertson) 93 Glen Avenue, Llewellyn Park West Orange, N J 07052 MA Mr. Ernest F. Keer III 459 Club Drive, P.O. Box 1030 Bay Head, N J 08742
IS2 TKS Mrs. Clark Moran (Martha Gilbert) 8011 StrauJfRoad Baltimore, MD 21204 mmoran@iopener. net MA Class agent: Mr. Charles Sage 435 Welch Avenue Ames, IA 50014
\53 TKS Sincere condolences go to Lorna Peters Garron on the death of her brother, Landon Peters. MA Mr. Peter Cockshaw 1264 Oakmont Court West Chester, PA 19380 pcockshaw@rcn. com Our thanks to Philip L. Fradkin who donated a copy of his latest book, Great Earthquakes and Firestorms o f1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself, to the MKA Upper School library. Published in April, this is Mr. Fradkin’s third book about earthquakes. He writes: “I will have another book published next year, also on the 1906 earthquake and fire, and then it will be about three years until Knopf publishes my biography of Wallace Stegner —a western writer, teacher of writers and conservationist.” Our heartfelt sympathies go to the family of Arthur R. Ramee, Jr. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Lesch Ramee, two daughters and five grandchildren. Hobart “Hoby” Van Deusen ’54 was kind enough to notify us of the sad news.
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THE LATEST FROM PHIL FRADKIN < (Ed. Note: The following is an excerpt from the April 7, 2005 San Francisco Chronicle article by Jim Doyle) "FROM VIGILANE KILLINGS TOWOW IN A HOLE, A LOOK AT 1906 QUAKE” Fradkin’s book is his third on earthquakes. Here, he delves into the mistakes made in fighting the fires that swept San Francisco after the 1906 temblor, the suspension of civil liberties and shootings of civilians, and the rampant hate crimes against minorities. He also examines the natural disaster’s aftermath - how the power elite sought to suppress news reports that a quake had occurred, and how the events unleashed a fury of political power shifts, with the purging of public officials and kingpins through vendettas and graft trials. Fradkin said his research left him surprised by “the foolishness, the greed and the inability to learn the lessons of continuing disasters in this region and state.. .We, and I include myself, are as ripe for a disaster of that magnitude as were the people of 1906,1868 and the people who were living in San Francisco during the six great fires that swept the city in the Gold Rush years. Fradkin rebukes the Committee of Fifty, a self-appointed group of city leaders whose first official order was to “kill anyone suspected of a crime.” “That illegal action allowed vigilantes, special police, National Guard and regular troops to kill innocent civilians.. .San Francisco destroyed itself, physically and morally, in what transpired afterward,” Fradkin said. “The hate spread, not only to Japanese and Chinese, but through the purging of people through graft prosecutions. The legal system went out of control.. .People went after each other with political, social and economic vendettas in mind. It was as if the furies had loosened.” He tells of how San Francisco was rebuilt to the benefit of banks, businesses and residents - but not necessarily with safety in mind. “I do have a passion for history and what it tells us... It tells us that we’re vulnerable,” said Fradkin, “And it’s not necessarily the force of nature that makes us vulnerable, but our own actions or lack of actions.”
\54 TKS Ms. Georgia Carrington 38 Silver Spring Lane Ridgefield, CT 06877 carrgeo@aol. com Georgia Carrington writes: “News has been slow coming in after the wonderful outpouring for our 50th last fall. I did hear from Dawn Ramhurst Ballmann, though, and she and Ev are particularly enjoying their grandchildren in Fargo and in Colorado Springs. They continue to work with refugees, preparing them for their citizenship exams. Ev teaches classes in Minnesota for 10-week sessions, and Dawn works individually with students who need more help. Dawn said again how much it meant to be at Reunion and what exceptional hosts our classmates in the area were!!! I also had some E-Mail from Mary (Casey) Case Durham who now has an apartment on Manhattan’s East Side!! She plans to spend much of the summer there, so hopefully some of us will have a chance to visit with her at a more leisurely pace. (I did try to see her on a trip to NY, but the fates decided otherwise.) Casey’s daughter is an actress and has been in aiplay in Philadelphia, but at the time of this writing I am not sure if it is still in production. Caroline does have an apartment in the city also, so I am sure we will one day see her name on a marquee. Then the most
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recent news came from Vicki Wendt West Peek; she and Walter had returned from a month long South American cruise. ‘Going through the Panama Canal was fascinating!’ On a sadder note, she made mention of the number of friends and family they have lost in the last year, ‘Is it our age or just that time of year?’ Her husband, Walter, turned 78 this winter and they celebrate their 5th anniversary on April 29th, so Congratulations to the Peeks! I talked with Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden who was anxiously awaiting the arrival of daughter Alexis’s first child!!! Alexis and her husband are both professors at Connecticut College. Adrianne continues to be ‘too’ busy with all of her graphic design work and Arthur fills his time with all kinds of guest teaching spots and lectures!! (Truly a family of educators and artists!) Adrianne’s delightful mother is living nearby, but has recently had a fall, resulting in a broken hip. We wish her a speedy recovery! And I still feel very fortunate to make my way around paddle and tennis courts and in the yard and garden. Every now and then I toss in some golf or hiking or biking, but lots of time has been spent volunteering. One of my latest tasks involves sorting and packing donated books for the town library book sales. It is amazing the books that are turned in!! I have spent more time in doing some promotional activities and visits for Heifer International, even had to give a sermon one Sunday!”
Our deepest sympathies go to the family of Maree Callahan Currey. She is survived by her husband, Richard C. Currey, two daughters and two grandchildren. Our sincere condolences go to Cynthia Mann Treene on the death of her sister-inlaw, Mary-Anne Treene Evans ’50. Our deepest sympathies go to Janet Cook Phillips on the death of her husband, John Phillips. MA Class agent: Mr. Sheldon Buck 51 Cornell Road Wellesley, MA 02181-7408
55 TKS 50th REUNION SEPTEMBER 24, 2005 Mrs. Susie Forstmann Kealy 550 N. Kingsbury, Apt. 603 Chicago, IL 60610 sfkealy@sbcglobal. net Susie Forstmann Kealy updates us as to the “goings on” of the class: “I have had a busy year remodeling in Chicago and moved into a bigger house outside Santa Fe. Lucky to have my daughter in Chicago and my son in Santa Fe. Trips have been to Sicily and the Hudson River Valley. Nancy Joyce Buckley and her husband are finally building their dream house in Vermont. She had visited with Diney Brown Donaldson in Penna. and Cecily Wilson Lyle in Md. who is also building her dream bam on her daughter’s property. Ces will be in touch about our September class reunion. She has visited Barbie Ives Riegel. Pris Cole emails that she has 8 grandchildren, ranging from a few months to sixteen years old. Retirement includes golf, bowling, family and friends. Carol Cloke Wildhaber’s retirement will include a trip to Hawaii and enjoying grandchildren and their sports. Terry Ash Rose is active with seniors in her Jewish Community Center in San Francisco. Her son is with a rock group ‘Beck’ which was on ‘Saturday Night Live’. Her daughter has three children and is in nursing. Let’s all come to our 50^ Reunion!!!” Barbara Ives Riegel sent us the following news: “Oldest daughter, Laura is in Aspen, CO, teaching golf and [working as a] ski instructor, specializing in children. Second daughter, Ashley, is Director of Admissions for Rippowam-Cisqua School in Bedford, NY where she and husband, Ted Harrington, live. Teddy is with Greenwich Country Day School. They have three children, ages 11,7 and 4. Our son, Dick, and his wife, Amanda, live in Bedford Hills, NY and have two children, ages 8 1/2 and 6 and Dick is President and CEO of AIRSTREAM.
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Amanda works for a diamond broker in NYC. Daughter, Alex, and husband, Richard Mellon, live in Ligonier, PA. Alex is into horticulture and is an artist. Richard owns RAM TRANSIT, a trucking company. I’ve just retired from working for Sotheby’s. We vacation in summer at Fisher’s Island and also own a casa at Enchantment Resort in Sedona, AZ.”
He and his wife, Norma, have been married for 30 years and have four grown children. She is a science teacher (Chemistry and JAVA) at a private school in Charlotte, North Carolina. Bruce volunteers at the local hospital (he’s the ‘Walmart greeter’ at the emergehcy room), plays a lot of golf and some bridge, and enjoys every minute of retirement.
Carol Hanschka Traenkle writes :K‘My husband and I still live in the same house (44 years) and will celebrate our 4 5 ^ wedding anniversary this September. We have two wonderful children, Wendy and Scott, and five beautiful granddaughters. Jeff is retired, and we enjoy traveling, golfing, tennis, among many other activities. I have sung in a choral group for 26 years, (thanks, Mr. Coursin), jog, ski and swim. Not too bad a life! If circumstances permit, I would like to attend Homecoming on September 24."
Marilyn and Paul Nejelski, who are retired in Bethesda, Maryland, have just published their 20^ travel article, on Salzburg. Their grandchildren (five and three years old) are a delight. Their daughter, Nicole, her husband, and the children live nearby in Baltimore, so they visit back and forth several times a month. Paul had a cochlear implant operation three years ago, which was a success and gave him improved hearing and stability. They enjoy the opera, theater, and art museums in Washington and were to visit Europe once again in August - Vienna, Bad*w Ischl, Salzburg, and Munich.
Mary Gail Smith Buermann writes: “When my husband retired from his law practice in Upper Montclair in 2002, we moved permanently to our home in Longboat Key, Florida, a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Sarasota. The island has now acquired the nickname of ‘Lucky Longboat’ as ft was relatively untouched by all four hurricanes in 2004!” MA Mr. Lawrence Martin P.O. Box 1058 Lexington, VA 24450 Class agent: Mr. Robert Brower 131 East 6 6 ^ Street New York, N Y 10021 Lawrence Martin sends this update: “Anne and Oscar Mockridge are happily retired and living in Montclair. They have five grandsons, thanks to son Owen (three boys) and daughter Kendal (two). His retirement from the ministry notwithstanding, Oscar continues to volunteer for his church and with the Montclair Historical Society, of which he was on the board for eight years. He is on the Advisory Committee for the Historical Society’s current research on the AfricanAmerican population in Montclair. Oz had bypass surgery five years ago and last summer underwent radiation treatment for throat cancer, with positive resultKf ‘ Bruce (John B.) Mackenzie graduated from the Virginia Military Institute with a BSEE andrhinors in Math and in Physics. He was commissioned and served in the Air Force for three years. While working for Hughes Aircraft in Los Angeles he earned an MBA from UCLA and spent time as a noncombatant in Vietnam. After working for a number of companies, he became his own Manufacturer’s rep in automation (robotics) and is now in his fourth year of retirement.
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Robert Carleton ‘Chip’ Dallery wrote: ‘After earning a master’s degree at Harvard Divinity School studying Religions of the World (and not just World Religions), I held a variety of jobs and volunteer posts around Boston, and in 2002 started as a professor at Won Institute of Graduate Studies near Philadelphia. We offer one program for American working professionals, mostly in health care, and one program for Koreans aspiring to become priests in the Won Buddhist order. Jesse is professor of psychology at University of Florida, and Jennie is working and living in Los Angeles.’ Mike Ludlum wrote: ‘I’m shorter and chubbier than I was in 1955, and I no longer dance the Charleston—but I’m in pretty good health. NYU has appointed me to another five-year term as a journalism professor so retirement is not in my immediate future. This summer I’ll be spending six weeks in London administering a journalism program for NYU. It should be fun.’ ” Dick Moskowitz sent this update: “Traveling to Berlin to give address to International League of Homeopathic Physicians at 250™ birthday of Samuel Hahnemann, M.D. Topic: ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: the role of Vaccines in Chronic Disease’. Giving 3™ voice recital May 29, 2005 at 3:00 p.m., St. Paul’s Church: Handel, Bellini, Rossini, Brahams, Ibert, Ravel, Jerome Kern, and Cole Porter. All invited: admission free; refreshments.”
TKS Mrs. Lawther O. Smith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive Doylestown, PA 18901 lsmith6071@cs. com Gail Zabriskie Wilson writes: “Aubin and I lost both our wonderful parents within 18 months, at 92 and 94. We know how lucky we were to have them live such long lives but do miss them. One daughter in Pasadena, one in Telluride, but third daughter and son in CT. We are on the go a lot but still maintain some involvement in Greenwich. Love our condo. Love our 5 months in Maine!” MA Mr. Eric Jaeckel P.O. Box 20153 Boulder, CO 80308-3153 efaeckel@hotmail. com Class agbnt: Dr. Larry Nazarian 29 Surrey Place Penfield, N Y 14526 Eric Jaeckel sends greetings from Boulder, Colorado: “.. .1 hope you are alive and well; I plan to see you at our 50^ REUNION in 2006 - please plan now to attend. I am about to complete my 2 0 ^ year of National Ski Patroling at our local area - Eldora Mountain Resort. Each year I say I am going to retire and then in the fall I re-up for another year snow conditions in the Rockies are the best in the world. I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of grandchild #2 to be bom in Moscow, Idaho - remember, if you can tell me where Moscow is, you will be receiving a special award at our Reunion (excluding Hobbins). My best, Eric Jaeckel.” Seth Barton sends this update: “By the time the summer issue goes to print, my wife and I will have returned from a 25 day excursion to New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii. The stop in Hawaii has a special meaning in that we will have visited all 50 states. We will also be preparing for our second trip to Alaska, this time to visit the Yukon Territory, Dawson City, Skagway and Whitehorse and ride the White Pass & Yukon Railroad, revisit Mt. Denali (McKinley) and a few other side ventures (remember Sargent Preston and his dog, Yukon King?). Can you imagine it has been 45 years since we graduated!!! Anyone interested in playing a round of golf, give me a call at (609) 298-7748.” Jim Newman writes: “After 2 years in West Africa with Peace Corps and 30 1/2 years teaching in Newark, NJ, I am living in Martha’s Vineyard. Active in politics as Chair of the Board of Selectman in Aquinnah and board member on Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School - travel and professional photography fill out my busy, stimulating schedule.”
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MA Class secretary and agent: Dr. Edward T. O ’Brien Jr. 3376 FerncliffLane Clearwater, FL 36421 eob!0727@msn. com John Allen sent this update to Edward “Ted” O’Brien: “A message from the -not dead yet -Bohn Allen. For a 66 year old, I guess I am as overactive as ever. I have ‘retired’ from both parish ministry and being a motorcycle mechanic - which means that I still take lots of Sunday services and sit on committees and that I only do computer work for the motorcycle shop. I just had supper with our bachelor son. My wife (of nearly 40 years), Ursula, is in Mansfield, MA with our other son and his wife helping them take care of their 14 month old and their newborn, both girls. I do more church work that I had anticipated at retirement. I serve as a volunteer naturalist and gardener for the local Audubon center, and do some committee work with them and the local hospital. In a word, I am enjoyingjj>most of the time - a very active retirement. Ursula has retired from her job as administrative assistant of an annual gathering of scholars of the Middle Ages. In the summer, she is extremely active, taking care of 4 or 5 gardens. In the winter, she does and teaches pottery and helps with church activities. We like to travel and have been to a number of European countries and South Africa. We do our traveling mostly in the rate autumn, after the fall foliage is gone, and would welcome visitors in the summer and early autumn. We live in a lovely part of New Hampshire, the Lakes Region. Thanks for riding herd on us.” Ted also adds the following news: “Thank you, John ‘Jack’ Hardman, who wrote stating he has rebuilt a pipe organ for the last five years. Harold Cohen called and is now in Naples, Florida. Doing well at golf game.” Ted’s final note to his classmates: “I am waiting for the rest of you to send something. You must be doing something...Would appreciate being replaced as class secretary for the class of 1957. Will stay on if there are no takers.”
58 TKS Mrs. Diana Bethell Little 246 Franklin Street Bloomfield, N J 07003 Nancy Adams Scherer claims: “I guess 65 must be a magical year. I have heard from Diana Bethell Little, Linda Almgren, Marjorie Brown Vulgaris, Mary Ann Lawrence Decker, Betsy Barney Gill. Those who haven’t been in touch, let the rest know how all are doing.” C lass N otes • Fall 2005
MA Class secretaries: Mr. Henry Agens 86 Eagle Rock Way Montclair, N J 07042 Mr. David Stroming 33 Mt. Prospect Avenue Verona, N J 07044 Hy Agens writes: “ ‘...A nddon’t be so gloomy...After all, it’s.not that awful you know what the fellow said: In Italy fo r 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years o f democracy and peace, and what did that produce? - The cuckoo clock? ” Hmmmmm. John Van Der Veer Judd reports that he continues to work (since 1968) for the New York State Education Department in the Office of Cultural Education. For many years, Van was Assistant Director of the 20 million volume New York State Library at Albany. Now, he serves as Director of Program Management. As such, he coordinates activities for the State Museum, Library, and Archives. Currently, his office is developing plans for a new Research and Collection Stewardship facility. In addition, Van is a representative of his department to the State Emergency Management Office; which, as the name would imply, helps coordinate t provision of necessary resources in emergency situations. Yes, Van was quite busy on 9/11 and immediately afterward. 1 Van and his wife, Janet, have been happily hitched for 42 years. They met as undergraduates at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. For the last 30 years or so, Janet has been the Librarian at the high school and middle school of the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake School District. During this period, they’ve resided in upstate New York in fashionable, gorgeous Saratoga County. Van also has been a dedicated, long time, volunteer critical care technician with the BH-BL Emergency Services. We might remember, despite being voted ‘Class Chatterbox’ in the ’58 Senior poll, Van was affectionately known as a man of a few words. When he spoke, he was invariably worth listening to. For example, a fellow went up to Van and said, ‘Look, I just bet a friend a hundred bucks I could get you to say at least three words. How about it?’ Van replied, ‘You lose.’ (If you believe that last part, I’d like to make you a good deal on the Brooklyn Bridge, which I own.) These days, Dr. Bob Haney and his wife, Sylvia, can often be sighted fishing and
tooling around in their 21 1/2 foot Bay Liner among the coves and crannies of the waters of the St. Mary’s River and nearby Atlantic Ocean. They now live in St. Mary’||w hich is the southernmost town along the Georgia coast above Florida. Bob says they love it there. 1-95 is about 10 miles west. Bol^B received both his B.A. and Masters degrees in Psychology from the University of Alberta in Canada at Edmonton. He met Sylvia there while they were undergraduates and married *1963. Sylvia is a nurse. They have two children, David and Keith. David has a son, Ben, aged 9. Later on, Bob earned his PhD from the University of Mississippi at Oxford. In the early seventies, he taught briefly in Pensacola, worked at the U-S. Aerospace Medical Research lab there, and then spent most of the seventies and eighties teaching psychology at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. He also maintained a psychology practice in town. In 1987, Dr. Bob, in a major career change of direction, joined the Central Intelligence Agency as a member 'o ^ | their Office of Medical Services. He was primarily responsible for support of their various missions, both in the states and abroad. I think we would agree, the good Doctor has had an interesting, varied life. The Munchkins said follow the yellow brick road, Robert Frost chose the path less taken, and Yogi said, ‘When you come to the fork in the road, take it.’ To say that Peter Grieves loves to play golf is like saying Donald Trump loves to fire people. Peter’s passion has taken him all over the world to Australia, Morocco, Scotland, the Caribbean islands, Hawaii. In Pro-Am’s, he’s partnered with the likes of Jack and Amie and Chi Chi. Peter graduated from Rutgers, worked for a time at American Can Company and in the family travel business. He was an U.S. Air Force Maintenance Officer stationed in Florida in the late sixties and early seventies and stayed in the reserves until 1988. For over 30 years, Peter has owned and run World Wide Travel in Upper Montclair. He’s married to the former Donna Littlefield, who is a teacher. She teaches pre school children at a private facility in Upper Montclair. Their children, Melissa and Peter, are, respectively, a lawyer and a computer controller. They have a grandchild, Sydney (1 year old). Jerry Roth flew back east from Sacramento for a visit in January. Dave Stroming and I suggested to Jack that a dinner was in order. Ultimately, the four of us partook at the Tick Tock out on gritty Route 3. We had, to coin a phrase, a lot of laughs. Jack, to my amusement and amazement, has memorized many of the late Rodney Dangerfield’s jokes and bits. He delivers them (‘I don’t get no respect’) just as the great comedian would have. Very Zelig, very funny. I told him he should be on the Page 35
Sheila Albright Hogan sends the following update: “Still owner/manager of Lake of the Woods in Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona. We have 33 cabins, mostly log that many guests from the Tucson and Phoenix areas stay in. We are open year round for guests to enjoy the mountains and being in the Ponderosas. I am looking forward to Fran getting married March 19®. Then all four children are married. I have six grandchildren with another due in July.” Jack Roth ’58 and Jerry Roth ’58 stage. ‘Really!?’ he said. ‘Sure’, I said, ‘therellone about to leave.IZ, Answer to last issue’s Mensa-Strength Trivia question: The name of ‘The Captain’ in the play, Mister Roberts, is Morton. It’s either his first or surname. Professional-Strength Trivia Query: The quote above that began this piece is from what mid-20th Century film. What famed actor wrote and spoke those words in it? Until that time, feel good and keep punchin’,’’ HyAgens
TKS Ms. Jarvis Reilly Nolan 15612 Via Marchena San Diego, CA 92128 jarvisno@aol. com The following is from a letter to Dr. Peter R. Greerfrom Lily Solmssen M oineaux regarding her upcoming photography exhibit: “Today I enclose the announcement about my exhibition this March where I have been invited to show Rescue and Resettlement o f Disabled Refugees at the Larchmont Public Library, New York. This resulted from my exhibit at the Upper School Library in October 2004.1 was moved by your letter of October 18, 2004 in which you mentioned: ‘Our students will see and attempt to understand a culture rarely, if ever, taught in schools.’ I always feel very lucky that my husband and I worked together with the United Nations and its specialized agencies and had such unique opportunités.” Jarvis Reilly Nolan was kind enough to notify us that Carolyn Buell Talbott passed away. Our heartfelt condolences go to her husband, Richard, and their children. MA Mr. Michael Baker 100 Via Condado Way Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418-1700
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Susan Conroy LaCasse writes: “My husband, John, and I are living in Augusta, ME. Our oldest son and his family are in Colorado, and our younger son and his wife are in Boston, MA. I do divorce mediation for the state court system, and we ski most weekends in winter.”
61 TKS Ms. Christine Keller 1702 Church Street Galveston, TX 77550 Class agent: Mrs. Suzanne Scannell Hardy 47 Bartlett Parkway Winthrop, MA 02152
62 TKS Mrs. C. D. Creed (Barbara Bywater) 1769 Forest View Avenue Hillsborough, CA 94010 MA Dr. John J. Farrar 1066 Bodine Road Chester Springs, PA 19425 sharknose@starband. net Ed Note: The following are excerpts from a letter that Class Secretary, John J. Farrar, sent to the Class o f ’63 in February. “.. .Whenever we go to Jacksonville, I try to find time to drop in on Doug Donald who lives just down the road in Orlando. Knowing I was coming, Doug made arrangements for Barry Nazarian and Bob Schmitt to also be there so that we could have another reunion to debate the virtues of sobriety .. .A few years back Doug (Donald) while walking out of the retirement home where his Mom lives, passed a vaguely familiar older man who was walking into the home. Doug stopped, did a double take thinking that this elderly gentleman looked a lot like our senior English teacher. Doug approached the man,
Acclaimed poet Bruce Guernsey ’62 publishes Soldier’s Home Kindly giving hope to the publishing dreams of English teachers and students of all ages, Bruce Guernsey inscribes his latest collection of poetry: “For Marsha Kleinman and all MKA alumni, now, once, and soon-to-be”. His writing is breathtaking, and choosing just one poem was a struggle; the following opens Soldier s Home, and provides a context for its organizing vision: On First Looking into Fagles’ Homer Nights I awaken in his mapless world and search with him for sunrise, just one beam; in dreams, across my ceiling like a screen, have seen him wandering some distant field, my father who was never found, I’m told that handsome soldier in the photo, s e e ? ^ ^ | and now his voice some say they hear in me I hear in Fagles’ Homer, rhythmic, bold: I tell you now my father is alive. He stands right here before you, home again, the man he’d meant for me to be, to try: this young Odysseus, this man like him, his arms in mine and ifrine in his entwined, silent, in these stout words: father, son. Dr. Bruce Guemsey’62, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, recently retired after 25 years of teaching at Eastern Illinois University. He had received the Distinguished Faculty Award, multiple Faculty Excellence awards, and the Illinois Board of Governors Universities Distinguished Professor Award. Guernsey also received two Senior Fulbright Lectureships, to Greece and Portugal, and is a nationally published essayist and poet. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The AtlantuffThe American Scholar, and many of the quarterlies; among his collections of poetry is January Thaw from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Soldier’s Home is published by Water Press and Media and has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Letters.
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asked him if he was Frank Brogan, and received an affirmative response. After all those years, our Mr. Frank Brogan also recognized Doug almost immediately.. .a dinner was arranged for all of us to be held at Frank and Maia’s [Frank’s wife] apartment. I have to tell you it was really wonderful seeing and talking with this man, again. To think that 42 years had elapsed since I last saw him was a bit staggering. I think most of us were pretty much in awe of him 42 years ago - certainly I was, and those old memories almost brought me to addressing him as ‘Mr. Brogan’ when he greeted us at the front door. Frank and Maia are both 81 years of age. Maia said they were in the same high school class together, ‘friends, but not sweethearts’. Frank is still physically fit, has an intellect and wit as sharp as a tack, but is not as intimidating as he was back at the Academy. In fact, his demeanor has softened and mellowed quite a bit (sort of the kinder and gentler Frank Brogan). We shared old times and Frank recounted his days as a U.S. Marine in the Pacific theater during WWII. With an interesting mix of pride and modesty, he would refer to the person in the various war photographs as ‘Frank Brogan’ rather than using the first person, almost as if the young marine who won the Bronze Star was someone else. Frank also told the story of hearing a Robert Frost lecture...[he] had entered college but didn’t really know what he wanted to do. Frank emerged from the lecture walked up to Maia and said ‘Now I know what I want to do with the rest of my life.’ As Barry, Doug and I left the apartment, I said to myself, ‘Now there is a role model for aging gracefully.’”
63 TKS Ms. Sharon Livesey 81 Grand Street, $5, New York, N Y 10013 MA Mr. Bronson Van Wyck Arrowhead Farms Tuckerman, AR 72473
64 TKS Mrs. Frank Henneman (Lynn Ritter) 3920 Mariners Way, Unit 321 Cortez, FL 34215 lynn. henneman@unisys. comp Class agent: Ms. Ardath Blauvelt P.O.Box 73 Hollis, NH 03049
65 TKS 40th REUNION SEPTEMBER 24, 2005
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Mrs. James Wright (Susan DeBevoise) 1 Tuck Drive Hanover, NH 03755 susanwright@dartmouth. edu Reunion Class Agent: Ms. Marilyn “Lyn ” Schultz Blackwell 37M9 Center Road RR1, Box 63 East Montpelier, VT 05651 MA R. Victor Bernstein sends the following update: “Our daughter, Laura, graduated from the University of Virginia in May, 2005. Our son, Benedict, graduated from St. Mark’s School in June, 2004 and took a gap year, working as an intern for the Kerry campaign in the fall of 2004 and then as an intern for Congressman Tim Bishop in D.C. for the spring. He starts at Wesleyan in the fall of 2005.1 myself am retired, working on art and my body. [Mike Fink - where are you?].”
66 TKS Mrs. William E. Crawford (Francine Onorati) 421 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02115 francine. crawford@verizon. net MA Mr. D. Carter Fitzpatrick 49 Bell Rock Plaza Sedona, AZ 86351 Class agent: Mr. Craig Cameron 11 Bay Point Drive Ormond Beach, FL 32174
67 TKS Ms. Margot Escott 1818 Imperiai G olf Course Blvd. Naples, FL 34110-1010 escott@naples. net MA Class agent: Mr. Craig Perry 3467 Pinestream Road Atlanta, GA 30327
68 TKS Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 10 Knolls Road Williamstown, MA 01267 akalker@aol. com MA Mr. Burton M. Webb Box 29 Free Union, VA 22940
Megan Deehan '03, Gregg Deehan '68, and Taylor Deehan '05
69 TKS Phyllis La Touche Rawlins PO. Box 1423 Bridgehampton, N Y 11932., Phyllis La Touche Rawlins writes: “I was deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend Barbara Fox McWilliams on October 24, 2004. Barbara and I became fast friends when we arrived at Kimberley in 1963, and we stayed friends for the next 41 years. Barbara was diagnosed with leukemia in the fall of 2001 and put up a valiant fight for three years. Lynn Ehrhardt, Anne La Voy and I spoke at her memorial service in Pinehurst, North Carolina last fall. Lisa Schultz also attended. It was a moving service albeit a very sad occasion. Following is a letter I received from Barbara’s daughter, Mary Devon Me Williams: ‘Barbara Fox McWilliams was a woman of creativity and compassion. She spent her life helping and inspiring others. As a child, Barbara was full of energy and was always talking. She was known for her long brown hair and her contagious smile. She loved Kimberley, and it held a special place in her heart. Despite the itchy uniforms and ‘strict’ rules, Barbara treasured her experiences. From cheerleading to water ballet to field hockey and lacrosse to just hanging out with friends, it was the place she grew to love. She went on to Elmira College for a bachelor’s degree and to Boston University for her MSW. Barbara married Charles Me Williams in 1976 and had two children, Brant and Mary Devon. Speak Deeply Listen Deeply Think Deeply Feel Deeply Live Fully Barbara Fox McWilliams Barbara and Mary Devon maintained a web
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site throughout Barbara’s illness which Mary Devon has kept open. You may visit it at www.caringbridge.com/nc/barbaram.’|||1 MA Dr. Edward A. Griggs Jr. 32 Courseview Road Bronxville, N Y 10708 eagriggs@optonline. com
35th REUNION SEPTEMBER 24, 2005 TKS Ms. Leslie Bryan 844 East Morningside Drive, NE Atlanta, GA 30324 lbryan@dsckd. com Class agent: Ms. Kim Kolbe 38 Kent Drive Roseland, N J 07068 Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner updates: “I am entering my last year of law school this fall (’05) and will finish this spring ’06. I’ll take my bar test in July of ’06. It seems like just yesterday that I started. Right now I’m interning in [the] Connecticut Attorney General’s office. Christy, my daughter, is now 11 and is in 6“ grade. She has celiac disease, a type of wheat allergy, so she is on a special diet. Tom and I are celebrating our 3 1 st wedding anniversary in January ’05. He’s doing well and still looks great at his ideal weight. I’m forever dieting, trying to lose those extra 20 lbs. Maybe by reunion time, I’ll get close. My best to all!” MA Mr. V. James Castiglia 3 Lark Lane Oak Ridge, N J 07438 Class agent: Mr. Garret Roosma 12175 Upper Heather Avenue N Hugo, MN 55038
72 TKS Class agent: Ms. Kate Curtin Lindsey 12630 Three Sisters Road Potomac, MD 20854 MA Class agent: Mr. Peter Perretti 86 East Bracebridge Circle The Woodlands, TX 77382 perrdoc@msn. com Our deepest sympathies go to Craig Jacobs on the death of his father, David J. Jacobs ’40.
TKS Ms. Susan Read 38 College Circle Staunton, VA 22401-2375 Class agent: Mrs. Edward Skibiak (Ellen Wahl) davis@intelos. net 56 Hamilton Drive East North Caldwell, N J 07006 MA Mr. Gregory Lackey 138 Paupukkewis Trail Medford Lakes, N J 08055 Class agent: Mr. Thomas C. Galligan 6933 Old Kent Drive Knoxville, TN 37919 galligan@libra. law. utk. edu Rudy Schlobohm sends this update from Edward “Ed” Force: “My mid-life crisis came in 1998 when I left New Jersey and moved to West Palm Beach, FL. Leaving behind a long tennis career, I reinvented myself as a Yoga Instructor, bought a home and sparkling red Mazda Miata to properly transplant my newly minted self. And that’s not all - married a woman of childbearing age - nature took its course - and now I drive a Ford Taurus! I miss my old classmates! Look me up if you’re ever in Palm Beach Court or call to say hi.”
TKS Class agent: Ms. Erin Cuffe Crawford 102 Buckingham Road Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Barbara Bonney recently performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Barbara sang Haydn’s “Scena di Berenice” and Barber’s “Knoxville of 1915”. MA Mr. Rudolph Schlobohm 78 Montclair Avenue Montclair, N J 07042 rudyschlobohm@hotmail. com Anthony Celentano sent us this update: “I am closing out my fifth year back in New Jersey after a brief hiatus in Connecticut, and my fifth year as a school counselor at Pope John XXIII High School in Sparta, New Jersey. In addition to the usual school counseling stuff I am the department computer geek, so I am heavily involved in scheduling and running reports. I also have conducted workshops on military academies and ROTC scholarships for counseling organizations and was even quoted in US News and World Reports! I also keep up with my music as the organist
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and choir director of the First Presbyterian Church in Succasunna. One of my college roommates had that job way back when we were in college. I guess it is destiny that I am here!” Our sincere condolences go to Glenn Jacobs whose father, David J. Jacobs ’40 passed away.
75 30th REUNION SEPTEMBER 24, 2005 Class agent: Mr. Paul Zukerberg 1779 Lanier Place NW Washington, DC 20009 Lizabeth Newman updates: “I have been living in and loving Delray Beach, Florida for 16 years. I now sell residential real estate for Coldwell Banker. Real Estate is booming here right now as it is in many places. This is paradise. My office is one block from the ocean.” William Baker writes: “Not too much new, really. My son is in the Army Reserves in the Middle East. My three daughters gittin’ along well. I hope to make it to the reunion. Heck, it has only been thirty years.” Jeffrey Schiffman writes: “I’ve just won my third Best Sportscast in PA here at WSB AAM York. Now have awards for 2000, 2001 & 2004 from the Pennsylvania Assoc. Press. Here is the official announcement: SPORTSCAST First Place: WSBA, York ‘Sportscast 2/9/04’ Reporter: Jeffrey Shiftman Jim Horn & Dennis Edwards, hosts of York’s Morning News The regularly scheduled sportscast from 2/9/04. Judges’ Comments: ‘Strong, conversational delivery. Nice mix of local and national stories with good use of audio. Major market stuff!’ Been a very hectic year with Lynne and I sending our oldest off to college (yikes). Ben is a Chemical Engineering major at University of Delaware. He will be spending the summer at UD doing research for a department professor on improving strength of Kevlar vests for the military...he’s excited...we are proud. Our other son is about to finish 8th grade. Hope is all well in North Jersey! Saw the pictures of the Upper School addition to the Arts wing. About the only place to expand the building I guess.” Sally Apgar has been living in Hawaii for eight years and works as a reporter. She has a wonderful 11 year-old son who keeps her laughing with comical Austin Powers imitations.
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classmates still in the NJ area, and I ant ■ looking forward to our 3 0 ^ a S B Brad Scott checked in with Laurie thislp winter. “All of Brad’s children were in the throes of swim season. Here’s the roster: Ashley (15) - sophomore, Christie (14) freshman, Noelle (12) - 71^ grade; Sam (9) 4 ^ grade; Ryan (8) - 3r^. They also have custody of a Russian orphan, Max (8) who has 01 (brittle bone disease). They are getting him medical treatment at Shriner’s Children
Mini reunion at McFeeley's: Susan Cole Furlong '78, Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley '76, Joe Sullivan ’77, Karen O'Connor Dunnigan '80, David Hughes '76, Darcel DeVito Collins '76, Paul McFeeley 0$6 disabilities specialist in the Program for Advancement of Learning (PAL) at Curry College in Milton, Mass. As for me, I tried Mrs. Paul McFeeley (Laurie Hoonhout) to continue my MKANews experiences by 238 Devon Road working as a reporter and editor after Essex Fells, N J 07021 graduating from Wesleyan. But within 8 or so Class agent: Dr. Charles Read years it became apparent that I could not 1918 N. Daniel Street succeed as an editor without Laura Scher by Arlington, VA 22201 my side. So now I am a media, intellectual property, and employment lawyer Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley writes: (management-side, if you can believe that); I “Charles Talbert checked in from Chicago was a partner at Hill & Barlow in Boston after being out of touch pretty much since until it died unceremoniously in 2003, and graduation. He plans to attend the class of then I moved my practice to Prince, Lobel, 76’s 30*^ reunion in 2006. Charles has Glovsky & Tye in Boston — clients include worked for the same law firm in Chicago for Boston magazine, Philadelphia magazine and 21 years, and has been the director of Human occasionally The New York Times, Resources at the firm for the last nine years. Associated Press, Boston Globe and others. I He graduated from Roosevelt University in love my work more than any lawyer I know. Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in Even more, though, I adore our two sons: organizational communication, and is Josh (16) is a rock-climbing, thespianic, currently working towards his master’s in guitar-playing mensch with a heart of gold; training and development with a Jeremy (13) is a baseball fanatic (spectator concentration in E-learning design and [Red Sox] and pitcher [Little League]) who curriculum. Charles has a 14-year old son just survived his Bar Mitzvah. Yes, Bar who, like most 14 year-olds, is giving him a Mitzvah. (I converted about five years ago.) run for his money. Charles is also an officer My mother and brother still live in New in his church, giving of his time as chairman Jersey, so maybe I’ll see you around. With of the Adopt-A-Student ministry for four this paragraph, I send out a challenge to the years. He has remained active in his college Hal Goodtrees/Greg Ungaros/Laura fraternity, moving up the ladder over the Schers/Frances Mills/Susan years and holding either a national or regional Stantons/Richard Brandts/Metiner office for most of the last 15 years. He is Kimels/Joe Orrs of the world to send a currently the International Director of paragraph of your own. If I can do it, anyone Publicity and a member of the local Chicago can! And I utter a silent prayer in memory of chapter. Charles is looking forward to Robin Towner.” reconnecting with classmates at reunion, commenting that he has ‘missed so many Ana Rincon Gold writes: “Here’s what’s people’ over the years. It’ll be great to have going with me. Healthy and happy, married him back in the halls on Lloyd Road once with two kids (Dan 15, Sarah 13) and living again, with his inimitable smile and in Randolph, NJ. My husband, Jonathan, and contagious laugh.” I own Oak Crest Day Camp in Somerset, NJ. Luckily he does all the work, and I’ve got Robert “Rob” Bertsche sends the following time to do my own thing - I’m the editor of update: “When the class of ’76 hits the big onlinebusiness.about.com and owner of On three-oh, my wife, Lynn Abrahams and I will Target Internet http://www.ontarget hit our two-oh. Lynn works as a learning intemet.com/. I’d love to hear from any other
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Ward Dannemiller recently sent this update to Laurie: “.. .My two daughters, Beth and Laura are at the University of Maryland and my son, Edward (the fourth) is 12 and doing very well in school. Count me in for attending the 30^ reunion and give Paul a hello from Draw Rellimennad!“ Eve A. Wood emailed Laurie: “I am presently living in Tucson, Arizona with my husband, Rick, and four children, Ben (17), Gabe (14), Shira (9) and Glory (7). Iam associate clinical professor of Medicine in the University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine and am practicing psychiatrist* author, speaker consultant. My first book, Medicine, Mind and Meaning: A psychiatrist’s guide to treating the body, mind and spirit, has recently won the following awards: Finalist: 2005 Benjamin Franklin Award ‘Best New Voice (Non-Fiction)’; Finalist: Nautilus 2005 Book Award: ‘Psychology/Self Help’; Finalist: Nautilis 2005 Book Award: ‘Small Press’ —honorary category; Finalist: ForeWord Magazine’s 2005 Book of the Year Award: ‘Health’; Finalist: ForeWord Magazine’s 2005 Book of the Year Award: ‘Mind/Body/Spirit’; Finalist: ForeWord Magazine’s 2005 Book of the Year Award: ‘Psychology’; Finalist: Foreword Magazine’s 2005 Book of the Year Award: ‘Self-Help’; Honorable Mention: 2005 Writer’s Digest International Award: ‘Inspirational’. My website, www.DrEveWood.com has a lot of additional information about what I have been and will be doing...”
Mr. Andrew Pedersen 1 Washington Avenue Rumson, N J 07760 pedera@nytimes. com Class agent: Mr. Robert Hubsmith 16 Warren Road Maplewood, N J 07040 Ronald Spivak sent the following update: “I will be playing the title role in ‘Man of La Mancha’ this summer at the Lees McRae Summer Theater in Banner Elk, North Carolina.”
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Ed. Note: Former faculty member and head o f the Arts Department, Mari-Louise Esselstyn was recently featured in an article by Teresa Akersten in the Arts section o f the December 23, 2004 edition o f The Montclair Times. Thefollowing are excerpts from the article:
■ ‘Artist creates holiday cards that defy cliché” If you are fortunate enough to be on MariLouise Van Esselstyn’s mailing list... then each year about this time you receive a mintreasure in the mail. At age 83, the Montclair artist annually continues to create an original holiday greeting card, with recent themes including a landscape of richly detailed animals in a “Peaceful Kingdom” as well as scenes from “The Twelve Days of Christmas” such as pipers piping and maids milking. Van Esselstyn’s studio takes up a nook of her sunny room in the Montclair Inn, where she works with ink on paper on her original designs...Once she completes a drawing, she runs off copies on colored paper and folds
them in three for an accordion effect that allows the card to be placed upright. Next, they are mailed to 40 or so family members and ftiendk; She used to send them to many more, she said, to members of her and her brother’s Montclair High School classes - B after their 50-year reunions, that is. From her comer room.. .Van Esselstyn can just see the Manhattan skyline in the horizon, a fitting view for a woman whose work “The Escalator” (1943-44, egg tempera on masonite) is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York... “When I was a child, what I wanted most was to have a painting at the Metropolitan or a New York museum,” she said. On achieving that dream, she said. “I’m happy, but I’m not surprised.” Bom in Brooklyn, Van Esselstyn moved to Montclair when she was 2, attended Montclair High and was accepted to Yale University School of Fine Arts through an accelerated program during World War II. By the time she was married to Norman Peterkin, she had established herself as an artisfi For this reason, and because her mother-in-law was a noted watercolorist, she
decided to continue to use her maiden name professionally. Van Esselstyn taught at The Kimberley School for girls before and after it merged with the boys’ Montclair Academy, retiring in 1979 as head of the co-ed school’s Art Department... As she flips through a scrapbook on her twin-size bed filled with images of her work, clippings from newspapers and catalogs from exhibits that she has been in, she finds a photograph of “Love in a Revolving Door,” an abstract painting of a woman chasing the man of her desires around a revolving door. Whether she gets him or not, Van Esselstyn said, she doesn’t know. It’s her “favorite.” But still it is “the Escalator” and a cityscape from the same era titled “The Mole” that have captured the attention of the art world. “They are trying to appeal to a group, not to an individual,” she said about the museums’ selections. Van Esselstyn is aware of how, for artists, recognition doesn’t come overnight.' “You have to wait to see what’s going to take,” she said.
Remembering Tony Daur Ed. Note: Mr. Tony Daur was a highly regarded history teacher and coach in our school community in the mid-1970s and early ‘80s, and sadly, he lost his battle with cancer in May, 2005. After ten years o f teaching here, Tony went on to teach 20 years at Morristown-Beard. On the day o f his funeral, the school was closed and all athletic events were canceled, so that the members o f the community could attend his service. Tony’s fam ily asked that in lieu o f flowers, donations be made to the Anthony Daur Life Camp Memorial Fund, c/o Sharon Daur, 16 Marlborough Avenue, Middlesex, N J 08846. Tony came to Montclair Academy in 1972 or 1973, and taught primarily at the 7th and 8th grade levels (except for a course on Russian history), therefore when the merger occurred in '14-15 he went to the Middle School campus. Tony was involved in a lot of Middle School coaching responsibilities, from football to basketball to baseball, and he also worked for some summers in our Brookside Day Camp. Tony originally left MKA because he was offered an opportunity on Long Island, an opportunity that he thought he could not pass up, but after two years there he became disenchanted and decided to come back to New Jersey. He received an offer from Morristown-Beard School, where Philip Anderson was the Headmaster, and Philip had hired Tony originally to MA. That’s how Tony ended up at Mo-Beard. He was, first and foremost, an avid and rabid Russophile, and he organized MKA’s first trips to the Soviet Union. I was
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able to take advantage of those trips and was one of his chaperones. We also had set up a course of history and language that the kids planning to go on the trip had to take in the evenings in order to prep them for the experience. These trips occurred during the height of the cold war, when Reagan called the Soviet Union the “evil empire,” and the trips were quite an experience for our students! They could always be proud of the fact that they were among the few people in the free world who had seen that “evil empire” first hand, and this was all because of Tony ’s endeavors. George Hrab I got to know Tony when I came to MKA in 1974. Tony was old school, very disciplined in the classroom and on the athletic field when coaching. He was outgoing, easy to talk with, began each class with “Here we are, sports fans,” and had real passions for Russian History, ice hockey and community service. Money was never important to him and this was reflected in his dedication to the summer camp he ran for inner city kids. Tony left MKA to run a school in Oyster Bay, Long Island and then returned two years later to NJ teaching and coaching at MorristownBeard. Always the competitor, we had many exciting football games and coaching against him, whether winning or losing, was always fun. I will always remember him as a person who was comfortable with himself, loved kids, and loved his family. Tony had a great smile, great handshake and would always listen (might not agree and would let you know), but respected everyone’s opinion. He
was someone you could always count on for help. He was a man of great faith and really loved life. I will miss him. Sandy Lonsinger Tony remains one of the most formidable figures I’ve met in teaching. For both good and bad, Tony made a difference. His was a presence that demanded and got respect. I remember as a first year teacher at MKA, Tony took me to Tierney’s and more-or-less lectured me on what he considered the key value in education: commitment. He must have assessed me as a fly-by-night neophyte, who wasn’t worth a whole lot of salt. Whether he had the authority or not, Tony took it upon himself to straighten me out. In another example, the Middle School’s Williamsburg Project -sy although it was started by Jack Rabuse [and others] — owes its form, substance and staying power to Tony Daur, who pretty much re-invented it and installed it forever into the 8th grade curriculum. In those days, Tony 9 - 1 don’t know how he got away with it — demanded kids write ten 10-page papers, one 10-page paper a week. Even after Tony left, his presence filled the Middle School’s hall. Just mentioning his name at the faculty lunch table could spark a fiery discussion or rhapsodic reminiscences years after he’d moved on. You either respected and admired Tony, or you didn’t. Tony cared passionately about his work and like the name of the painting company, which he and Dave Love formed, Tony Daur was a “titanic” figure who commanded respect. Peter Ebling
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Ms. Pamela Zeug 250 Mercer Street, D502 New York, N Y 10012 Class agent: Ms. Jane Lugaric Burkhard 299 Crown Road Kentfield, CA 94904
79 Dr. John Brink 1290 Beech Valley Road Atlanta, GA 30306 Mrs. Carlos Ortiz (Shawn Mahieu) 2163 Gilbride Road Martinsville, N J 08836 Laurie McFeeley received the following update from Erden Kimel: “I’ve been working at the Herald-Tribune since May 2000 ... so I’m in Sarasota pretty much all the time. These days I technically work out of the Port Charlotte- Englewood bureaus as the ‘community news editor’ though since the Sarasota community news editor left I’ve been handling that job too.”
\80 25th REUNION SEPTEMBER 24, 2005 Class secretary and class agent: Mary L. Cole, Esq. 1 Ferrous Court Chester, N J 07930 marycolel 2@hotmail. com Our deepest sympathies go to Betsy Bacot Aigner on the death of her father.
Class agent: Ms. Hyla Ames Bauer 240 East 82nd Street, Apt. 7J New York, N Y 10028 Laura Reisch Itzkowitz writes: “I will be singing at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank on May 15^ [2005], I will be the soprano soloist in Orff’s ‘Carmina Burana’ with the Monmouth Symphony and the combined choirs of the Arcadian Chorale (NJ) and the Richmond Chorale Society (NY).”
Cheryl McCants 377 S. Harrison Street, Apt. 71C East Orange, N J 07018 Thomas Robbins 6 Bradford Terrace Newtown Square, PA 19073 John Fotiadis sent this update: “.. .1 have joined the firm of Costas Kondylis and Class N otes • Fall 2005
Partners in New York City. Mr. KondylisM office is a very dynamic environment which is presently producing some of the most innovative and cutting-edge architecture in Manhattan_(www.kondylis.com) ...I will be facilitating the design process of the office and hope to make a more detailed announcement about my position in the near future.. .I’ll be updating my own portfolio very soon with some projects that are presently under construction. One of particular interest is the new lobby for 32-02 Queens Boulevard. The project is moving briskly through the construction phase and should be complete sometime in April. You can see that project here: www.fotiadis.net/arch7MANA. Jim Windolf ’82 Has ‘The Force’ (Ed Note: For those o f you who didn't catch the February, 2005 issue o f ‘Vanity Fair ’, the cover article on the upcoming Star Wars movie was written by our own Jim Windolf. Thefollowing is from the ‘Contributors’section o f that issue: On page 108, contributing editor Jim Windolf goes behind the scenes with George Lucas and the cast of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge o f the Sith. “Some critics have argued that Lucas is more interested in selling tickets and toys than anything else,” Windolf says. .“But I think the Star Wars movies are heartfelt. He’s in the same league with other directors of his generation who are taken more seriously, like Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola.” As a kid, Windolf saw the first Star Wars movie four times during its first theatrical run, in the summer of ’l l . “ Nobody rented videos back then, so my friends and I went back over and over. We did the same thing for Tommy, Jaws, and Young Frankenstein. Also Earthquake, but that was mainly for the ‘Sensurround’ - this special effect that shook the seats.”
Ms. Amy Felber 229 Cardinal Road M ill Valley, CA 94941-3618 Ms. Maureen Towers Natkin 5 Riverview Road Irvington, N Y 10533 motowers@aol. com Class agent: Mr. Walter J. Davis 66 Oakwood Drive New Providence, N J 07974 davisteam@comcast.net
¡Bili Class secretary and class agent: Mrs. Jennifer JonSLadda 110 Glen Rock Road Cedar Grove, N J 0700 Ed Note: The following is an excerptfrom Maria Rabb’s personal reflection on her 20™ reunion in October, 2004'. “.. .Petia Morozov is an environmental architect who teaches at Columbia and is married to Jose, also an architect/designer (I think he teaches at Pratt). They visited us here [in] upstate NY in January with their little boy, adorable Niko, hoping for snow and skiing.. .My daughter had fun playing on the inflatable jump things and doing various crafts, and my mother picked her up very tired mid-afternoon. She kept asking me questions about football Hwhy are thgge guys wearing headsets, who are they talking to, what is going on, etc.etc. I really had no idea. I kept asking Bob[Cottingham] or Ed[Conlin] or whomever could explain it to us. Not much later I went home to my mother’s and straight up into the attic (my room in Roseland is very much the same as it was in highjphool - weird!) and found my yearbook, and old MKA newspapers, Stylus magazines, etc. I took them over to the golf club and it was fun to look at them...It is interesting to read what some people wrote in my yearbook: Doug Keh: ‘the art of our necessities is strange that can make vile things PRECIOUS’...Seth [Antiles]: ‘If it wasn’t for you I would be the most insecure person, but because you’re more gullible than I am I feel much more at ease’...M aja Kastler [Dubrul] wrote (in German): ‘What would I have done without your laugh, your postcards, your German, your friendship! Don’t carry the weltschmertz (pain, or weight of the world), let others who are not so sweet and good-hearted and lebenswillig (?? full of life??) as you are’.. .When I forwarded this email to Alex Lee I also wrote a bit about myself (and Brown, since we both went there)...it has really been a reunion kind of fall. The Brown reunion was 200-300 people, a whole weekend and great fun. Neat to see people from other eras and not only from your class. I got to give a speech about the 80s. Strange to think of it as a decade; the way we made fun of the 70s they now make fun of the 80s. .. .We are living in Ithaca and thinking about Budapest. We moved here in 2001 so my husband Tivadar could get an MBA at Cornell; he now works in New Jersey (Englewood Cliffs). I tried New Jersey but had a severe allergic reaction - 1 prefer this small town life with 2 kids, now aged 10 (Balazs) and 7 (Zsofi)...So my husband commutes, driving down every Monday and back every Thursday. Life here is less expensive, more laid back and surprisingly diverse. I love the outdoors and closeness of nature.”
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L-R: Michelle Kessler Sander ’85 with son, Vaughn; Edie Szakacs Prescott’85 with son, Hemy; and Rosie Ahkami Whitworth ’85 with son, Kevin at Henry Prescott’s 2nd birthday party. Our sincere condolences to Susan Bacot on the death of her father. Our deepest sympathies to Carla Stanziale on the death of her grandfather, Peter Rodino, who died on May ||J2005. A 20-term Democrat, Mr. Rodino was the House Judiciary Committee Chairman in 1973. 8 5 _______ ■ - ■
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Congratulations to Susan Cundari Ende who has a one-year-old daughter, Samantha, and is expecting her second daughter in February. Susan Ciccone O’Donnell sent us the update.
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20th REUNION SEPTEMBER 24, 2005 Class agents: Mr. Jeffrey Schackner 1435 Lexington Avenue, Apt. 3E New YorkAew York 10128 Ms. Alexis Polonofsky Zebrowski 33 Glen Road Verona, N J 07044
Congratulations to Gina Maria Goldberg who writes that she is expecting her first baby, due July 7, 2005.
Lori Jackson Rosenblum updates: “My husband and I live in Concord, MA with our twin girls, Zoe and Isabella. They will turn 3 in November. I am a school psychologist but am on extended leave until the girls go to school.” James T. Rothwell writes: “Not much news. I practice law in New York City and live in Westport, CT with my wife, Susan, and two
L-R: Rosie Ahkami Whitworth ’85 and her son, Ryan; Edie Szakacs Prescott ’85, Corinn Thompson ’85, Gail Szakacs ’91 holding Henry Prescott; Robin Schwartz ’85 and Jack Capitelli with children Ava and Alex; Sherry Ahkami ’86 with daughter, Sophi; Donna Bizub ’84 and Tim Rizuh '’85 with children, Caroline, Joe and Jack; and Negi Ahkami ’88 with nephew, Cyrns (Sherry’s son), celebrating the arrival o f Rosie Ahkami Whitworth’s 2n“ baby in a photo from September, 2003.
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STATE AMATEUR CHAMPION MARK McGOWAN ’85 (The following is an excerptfrom the June 9, 2005 Star- Ledger article by Mike Moretti. Mark McGowan ’85 was inducted into the MKA Athletic Hall o f Fame in 2000fo r football.) As his 45-foot downhill, speeding birdie putt slid into the cup on the par-3 16^ hole yesterday, Mark McGowan of Montclair flashed back to another major moment in his athletic career. “I had a vision of scoring the winning touchdown with under a minute to play against Lafayette back in 1987,” said the 37-year-old McGowan, a two-time AllAmerica quarterback at Lehigh University during the 1980s, , * The 45-footer at the Mountain Ridge Country Club in West Caldwell put McGowan on the verge of his finest day on the golf course. Two holes later, he wrapped up a 75 for a 72-hole total of 4over-par 288 and won the 104*^ New Jersey State Golf Association Amateur Championship. McGowan, who had taken a four-stroke lead into yesterday morning’s third round and extended it to seven with a 72, won by three strokes over clubmate Michael Deo and by four over the 53-year-old defending champion, Allan Small of Fairmount. It was Small’s brother, Hank, who, as head football coach at Lehigh, inserted McGowan as the starting quarterback four games into his sophomore season in 1986. As a senior, McGowan propelled Lehigh to the No. 1 offensive ranking in the nation. “My coach said you’ve got to deliver, and to do it you’ve got to envision yourself winning and, when you do, act like you’ve been there before,” McGowan said. “But if that putt didn’t hit the heart of the cup, it was into the pond.”... McGowan, who this summer will try to equal the Montclair record of eight club | championships, found his confidence for the major championships two years ago when he competed in the National Club Champions tournament on Kiawah Island, S.C. and reached the semifinal round of the match-play event. “That opened the door for me where I finally felt I could compete,” said McGowan, who was a qualifying medalist for the 2004 U.S. Mid-amateur. “The last couple of years, my mindset has changed. My short game is better and I’m more ■patient.”... McGowan played a patient game in the final, using the driver only twice. “Sometimes, with a big lead, you can play protective golf and lose a tournament,” said McGowan. “But the last five holes, I finally played aggressive golf, especially Nos. 14, 15 and 16 (in one under par), and that got me the cushion I needed to win.”
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kids, Alex (4) and Zach (2). Regards to all my old classmates.” Edie Szakacs Prescott updates: “It isH amazing that 20 years have passed! I have been lucky to still be in touch with so many MKA friends after all of these years. I have lived in Colorado, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia and now Connecticut. I will be married to my husband, Darrin, for 12 years this May, and we have two beautiful boys: Henry, 2 1/2 and Gordon, 12 weeks. I look forward to seeing everyone this fall!” Janet Phillips Conner writes: “...husband, Jon, and 3 boys, Griffen, Andrew and Caleb and I have been living in Geneva, Switzerland since August. Jon is a private banker with Citigroup. This is our 4 ^ country to be living in and experiencing a different culture. It was great fun to see Mrs. Polonofsky here with my mom. She is a great friend who came along this year to see me and the boys.”
Mr. Dennis Rodano 14 Wayland Drive Verona, N J 07044 rodanod@ix. netcom. com Class agent: Ms. Andrea Schackner 192 Piermont Road Norwood, N J 07648 Cynthia Johnson Lippe updates: “Graduated Bucknell University in 1991; graduated Seton Hall Law, 1994, attorney in NJ; married Peter Lippe in 1998 and have two children, Eric, age 4 and Brooke, age 2.” Rich Stanton writes: “I’ve gotten my NJ real estate license and expect to be working full time for Stanton Company Realtors this summer. The company focuses on residential real estate sales in Montclair & vicinity and was founded in 1992.”
On a sadder note, our condolences to Janet and her family on the death of her father.
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Ms. Sherry Ahkami PO. Box 3187 Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067 Ms. Jennifer Remington Knodel 24 Wakefield Place Caldwell, N J 07006 Class agent: Mr. Damon Zeigler 403 Third Street Oakdale, PA 15071-1250 Carla Lopez Lane checked in recently: “I attended MKA from Pre-Kindergarten (Leigh Smith was my teacher) through sixth grade. I ended up going to MHS (class 1986) after that, but MKA holds a huge place in my heart. My mom still lives in Montclair and I am back quite often from Los Angeles. I went by Carla Lopez in those days, now I’m Carla Lane. Just wanted to stay in touch with my favorite school!!!” Christopher Bellapianta ’97 recently heard from Joseph Yudin who writes: “I am an MKA alum from the class of 1986. I graduated Boston University with a BA in Middle Eastern History in 1990. I traveled throughout the Middle East for the next two years settling in Israel and becoming a citizen. I was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in November 1992 where I became a sergeant in the IDF Paratroop Corps. I did1 ' my tours in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank and after my discharge I studied towards a MA of History at the University of Haifa and founded a business focused on specialized tours of Israel. Today I live on a farm in the Jezreel Valley with my wife Meirav and two daughters, Geffen (age 4) and Dekkel (age 2).”
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Class agent: Mr. Alec Schwartz 97 Palmers Mill Road Media, PA 18063 alec@cmcservices. com Congratulations to Andrea Safirstein who writes: “My husband, Adam Bernstein, and I welcomed our second daughter, Piper Safire Bernstein into our family on October 6, 2004. She joins Isabel Rose.”
\89 Mr. Louis Lessig 141 Thunder Circle Bensalem, PA 19020 Class agent: Mr. Josh Raymond 303 Kensington Lane Livingston, N J 07039
\90 15th REUNION SEPTEMBER 24, 2005 Ms. Meredith McGowan Zengo 383 Middlesex Road Darien, CT 06820 mczengo@aol. com Ms. Lorelei Muenster Leia9sioux@aol. com Congratulations to Meredith McGowan Zengo and her husband, Mark, on the birth of their baby, Peter William Zengo, on September 25, 2004.
Congratulations to Claire Acher on her engagement to Drew Sterling. Claire writes: “I’m delighted to announce that I’m engaged! I will be marrying Drew Sterling this coming October in Manhattan, where we both live, and we’re busily planning our wedding. On the job front, I’ve been working at The Foundation Center, a philanthropy resource library, since 1998, developing Web sites for foundations and helping to make the Center’s Web site accessible to people who are blind and visually impaired. I also recently chaired a taskforce responsible for launching special programming and Web content oriented toward funding for nonprofits in the health arena. On the side in recent years, I’ve been a staff member of a nightclub, a singer in a synth-rock band, and a model for several art portrait photographers. My photos h a v lrr appeared in Life magazine, Time Out New York, Art in America, and one is currently on exhibit at PS 1 in conjunction with the Museum of Modem Art as part of their ‘Greater New York 2005’ exhibition. I’m looking forward to catching up with my classmates at our reunion in September!” Congratulations to Steve Stark and his wife, Rebecca, on the birth of their baby girl, named Mina. Leah Napolitano Ortiz updates: “We just moved back to the area, into Ridgewood, NJ. We have 2 girls - Isabel Rose, 4 yrs. and Abigail Grace, 18 months. I work with my father in his practice as family physician. Robert is an attorney in Teaneck, NJ.” Congratulations to Alexis Hughes Magna and Jason Magna ’91 who welcomed their second daughter, Grace Hughes Magna, at the end of last year. Allison Smith Fernandez writes: “I am working part time in real estate sales in Summit, NJ. I am a mother to Campbell (21 months) and still involved with horses. In 2004,1 competed at the National Horse Show in NYC. I still am close friends with Leah (Napolitano Ortiz), Jamie (Reif) Taylor, and Tiffini (Kriegel) Haley. We MKA girls stick together!” Brittany Lee updates: “After six years in the magazine publishing industry, I decided to pursue a new career in education. I attended Columbia University Teacher’s College during 2004, received my M.A. in English Education in February, 2005, and am currently enjoying teaching at Vanguard High School in Manhattan.” Angela Price is the Director of the Annual Fund at a small private school in the Adirondacks. She and her husband, Matt, are expecting their first child this summer.
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eneblett@yahoo.com Ms. Tamar Safer Radfar 86 Frost Court W yckojf.NJ 07481 tsafer5400@aol. com Class agent: Ms. Anne Marie Verdiramo 2030 South Street, Unit D Philadelphia, PA 19146 amverdiramo@hotmail. com
Warren True Roth, son o f Ben Roth ’94
Ms. Dara Marmon 127 East 30th Street, #15A New York, N Y 10016 wackohead@nyc. rr. com Class agent: Mr. Luke Sarsfield 400 Chambers Street, PHG New York N Y 10282 Dara Marmon sent us the following update: “Shannon (Fry) O’Hara announced the birth of her first child, a boy. On November 24, 2004, Shannon welcomed Sean Morgan O’Hara. Shannon works as the Controller and IT Manager for a lumber company in Langhome, PA.” Congratulations to Alexis Hughes Magna ’90 and Jason Magna on the birth of their second daughter, Grace Hughes Magna, at the end of last year. Our sincere condolences to Jessica Wu Tsai who’s father passed away last winter. She writes: “These past few years has been filled with many ups and downs. Sad news first, my father, who’s been the biggest inspiration in my life, passed away this past January. Luckily, I had the support of my wonderful friends and family, husband Patrick Tsai (previously went to MKA) and our 2 year-old son, Brandon, who brings us the greatest joy. Currently I am a Design Manager at Toys ‘R’ Us designing plush, dolls, toys and baby items. I keep in touch with Jacqueline Kearney Bladek who has the most adorable 1 year-old son, Andrew. For those that I have lost touch with, please feel free to contact me:jessicawutsai@gmail.coni?’
Tami Safer Radfar heard from Anne Marie Verdiramo recently. Anne Marie updates: “After getting my RN I moved to Rochester, Minnesota, where I lived for 3 years and worked at the Mayo Clinic as an RN in the Neurosurgery ICU. After that I moved to Philadelphia, where I have been living for 5 years. I got my Master’s Degree from the University of Pennsylvania as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. I am currently working as a Nurse Practitioner for the Department of Neurosurgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. For this job I take care of all of the patients in our Neurotrauma ICU. This April I am giving a lecture at the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses National Convention. I have been active in research initiatives where I work, and have had several publications in medical journals, as well as having presented at several medical conferences,” In other class news, Tami writes: “Jim Cirello is living in North Carolina. He and his wife, Justine Scheuermann Cirello ’93, recently moved back East from Orange County California. They have been married since 2000. He and a friend started their own firm - Mihaly- Cirello Landscape Architecture and Planning. He stays in touch with Adam Ertel who is living in San Diego and is a buyer for Petco. Jim would like to encourage the Class of 1992 to add their email and contact info to the Alumni page. There are many of you that he’d like to say hello to! Stacey Honstedt Polanskyj lives in Upper Montclair, NJ with her husband, Pete, and their daughter, Cassandra. Neighbors include Melissa Fitzgibbon Newman and her husband as well as Cliff Finkle and his wife. Jennifer Lonsinger Rutherford is happily living in Estes Park, Colorado with her husband, Matthew, and their children, Maya and Elliot. Congratulations to Melissa Roedel Johnson and husband, Jeff, on the birth of Owen Tyler Johnson in January, 2005.
Congratulations to Gwen Parker and Eugene Mazo who wereBarried in Palo Alto, CA on April 17, 2005. Their wedding was featured in the Styles section of the April 24, 2005 edition of The New York Times -(www.nytSes.com). Their story is inspiring.
Congratulations to Alison Krouse Morello and husband, Gianluca, on the birth of Eva Isabella Morello in March 2005.”
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Ms. Renee Monteyne 10 Lookout Point Trail Totowa Borough, N J 07512 monteyne@yahoo. com
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Egan Davson ’94, with daughter, Laila Mr. Brian Wecht 150 River Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Class agent: Mr. Damien Vena 240 E. 27th Street, #4B New York, N Y 10016 venad@yahoo. com Christopher Bellapianta sent us the following update on Joanna AndriopoulosDodd: “I own AP Motion Dance Studio in Watchung, NJ, which opened in September of 2002i We offer classes in Ballet, Modem, Tap, Jazz, Choreography, and fitness classes, and we have a professional Modem performing company that performs in various venues in the area. If you need any more info please email: APMotion@aolcom.” Our sincere condolences go to Maria Stanziale on the death of her grandfather, Peter Rodino on May 7, 2005. Mr. Rodino was a 20-term Democrat and the House Judiciary Chairman in 1973.
94 Ms. Dana Fiordaliso 1909 Spruce Street, Unit 4 Philadelphia, PA 19103 djfiordaliso@yahoo. com Class agent: Mr. Jason Awerdick 215 East 95^ Street, #296 New York, N Y 10128 Dana Fiordaliso was the Regional Director for Voting is Power, a national organization whose mission is to register individuals to vote. Dana ran the Southeastern PA operations and was in charge of three offices located in Philadelphia, Reading and Lehigh Valley. The organization registered over 50,000 residents of Pennsylvania to vote. In January, Dana began working at City Year Greater Philadelphia as Deputy Director of Development. City Year, a member of the Class N otes • Fall 2005
Congratulations to Leanne Gattie Scott who married Eric Scott at The Rittenhouse Hotel in Philadelphia on August 28, 2004. Congratulations to Emily Ehrenberg Blumberg who married Michael Blumberg on October 9, 2004.’fflB
1994 MKA alums at Jodie Cabe Farrell’s wedding: L-R: Gillian Sheeran, Jill Finkle, Jodie Cabe Farrell and Kiki Drukker
Anand Pathuri writes: “M l still get my fix on stage by performing to raise ftmds for charitable organizations. Asha for Education (http://.ashanet.org.nycnj/).is an organization that I have been working with since graduating college. I have performed a few times on stage for them in front of crowds ranging from 800-1200 people, and my last involvement was running the Philadelphia Marathon in 2003.1 am due this year for another stage performance.#^
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10th REUNION SEPTEMBER 24, 2005 Ms. Rita Papaleo 31 Fernwood Terrace Nutley, N J 07110 ritapap@aol. com
Dana keeps us updated with news of the Class of ‘94: “Congratulations to Becky Strentz on her engagement. An October, 2005 wedding is planned. Becky lives in Bloomfield, NJ.
Class agent: Mr. Matthew Drukker 230 E. 48th Street, #3D New York, N Y 10017
Austin Koenen is graduating from Duke Business School in May, 2005. Following graduation, Austin plans on moving up to NYC in August to start work at Lehman Brothers. Gillian Sheeran has been working at UBS Financial Services as an institutional bond salesman in the Municipal Securities Group for the past 6.5 years. She lives in the West Village in NYC. Congratulations to Ben Roth and his wife on the birth of their son, Warrren True Roth. He was bom on January 7, 2005. They reside in West Orange. Congratulations to Egan Davson who was married in May, 2002 to Casssandra, a graduate of Blair Academy and Lehigh University. Egan and Cassandra welcomed their beautiful daughter, Laila, to their family on October 1, 2004. The Davson family currently resides in Newark, NJ. Congratulations to Jodie Cabe Farrell who was married this past November to Mike Farrell. Kiki Drukker, Jill Finkle and Gillian Sheeran were in Jodie’s wedding. Mike is a chef and Jodie is a realtor at Schweppe Burgdorff in Upper Montclair. Please feel free to get in touch with Jodie if you are in the market for some real estate.
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Alex Joerger sends the following update: “I live in Chelsea and work in SoHo as a Wine Manager for Best Cellars, a wine retail company with several stores on the east coast (New York location at 86th & Lexington). This summer I gave a presentation on the US wine retail market at a conference in Portugal and will be traveling to Argentina and Chile this fall. I was recently awarded the Advanced Certificate with Distinction from the London based Wine & Spirits Education Trust (WSET).” Rita Papaleo writes: “After 4.5 years in the investment research world, I have left to pursue a Masters in International Educational NYU, focusing on Cross-Cultural Education and Training. The program has brought me to Shanghai and Beijing, China for a month and London, England for study and research opportunities. I have also continued to travel with former classmate, Thora Westock, including trips to various places in Ireland, London, England and Seville, Spain.” Erica Wolf Turzak updates: “I had a really wonderful, busy couple of years. On June 12, 2004,1 married Eric Turzak in Sonoma Valley wine country. It was a beautiful wedding, and, after a honeymoon in Big Sur, we returned to our new house in Bloomfield, NJ. Just prior to the wedding, I graduated from Notre Dame with an MBA, and I am currently working for Babies ‘R ’ Us as a Manager for New
Brooke Travis, and Scott Travis '05 Ventures in the corporate offices. I would love to hear from old classmates. My email is turzake@toysrus.com.”
Ms. Tanya Barnes JiMelrose Place Montclair, N J 07042 tbames@fas. harvard, edu Ms. Debbie Haight 115 DeWitt Avenue Belleville, N J 07109 deh27@columbia. edu Class agent: Mr. Lee Vartan 700 First Street, Apt. 17P Hoboken, NJ 07030 Congratulations to Bryan Becker on his marriage to Michelle Joy Izkowitz on May 7, 2005 in New York City. \
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Class agent: Ms. Jennifer Fink Gelboim 225 West 83rd Street, Apt. 11-0 New York, N Y 10017 Jennifer Fink Gelboim updates: “After graduation from Miami, Claudio Kawecki moved back to Clifton, NJ. He currently works for ICAP North America with government securities in Jersey City.”
98_____ Class secretary and agent: Ms. Gemma Giantomasi 170 Devon Road Essex Fells, N J 07021 Lauren Moses will he moving to Boston to attend Harvard Business School this fall. She was previously in Princeton, NJ where she worked for Goldman Sachs in the investment management division.
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Roxane Esposito writes: “...took a sabbatical and am now continuing my education closer to home at Felician College...also am working for the port of NY/NJ at the passenger ship terminal in Manhattan and am enjoying it very much. Get in touch if you’re planning a cruise in the future!” Kristen Pugno updates: “I am working at Douglas Lane & Associates as an investment advisor in New York City. I will be working in the trading room.”
Celia Cohen '02 and Abigail Cohen '05 Since Lauren is leaving the Garden State for an educational hiatus in Boston, she is also retiring from the Alumni Council. Lauren started her service to MKA’s alumni as a student representative in ’97 and ’98. She has been an active member of the Council since 2002, and has served as the Career Day Co-Chair. Lauren sets the standard high for all those who follow her, and she will be greatly missed!
Richard Unis graduated from Ithaca College, NY in 2004. He is attending the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, England (2004-05) in a one-year master’s program. Sylvia A. Ardeljan writes: “Graduated from Ithaca College in May, 2004 with a B.S. in Clinical Exercise Science & and a minor in Nutrition. Now I am pursuing my Master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics (with a specialization in Sports Nutrition), at New York University. I am also enjoying life in New York City, now that I’ve officially moved there!”
Class agent: Mr. Alex Holz 154 East 29th Street, Apt. 11C New York, N Y 10016
Lauren Hooper booked a small role on the TV show, “Third Watch.” She also got to play the role of Sarah in “Ragtime,” the musical.
Congratulations to Pam Servidio on her engagement to Chris Schiesl. We wish them all the best.
Duncan Currie is currently an editorial assistant at “The Weekly Standard,” publishing over 32 pieces between the magazine and the Website. In addition, he interviewed on BBC television and was recently on ‘Special Report’ with Brit Hume.
We thank Allison Platt for her years of service as Class Secretary. Is anyone else interested in the position? If so, please contact Marsha Kleinman at 973.509.7940 or mkleinman@montclairkimberley.org.
00 5th REUNION SEPTEMBER 24, 2005 Mr. John Garippa 30 Wayside Place Montclair, N J 07042
\01 Ms. Dana Pisacane 3 Finley Lane Wayne, N J 07470
Ms. Anna Labowslcy 5 Highview Court Wayne, N J 07470 Class agent: Ms. Ashley Griffin 1205 Holly Lane Cedar Grove, N J 07009
Lauren Stefanchik, ’01 (Ed. Note: The following was published in the May 24, 2005 Star-Ledger; compiled by Garrett Morrison.) “MADE IN JERSEY” LAUREN STEFANCHIK: ’01 No. 9, Harvard University College Softball, OF HONORS: Stefanchik, who ranks ninth nationally in batting (.442), was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-Northeast Region team and the ESPN The Magazine/ CoSIDAAcademic All-District team. As a leadoff hitter, she led Harvard in batting, on-base percentage (.461), runs (16) and stolen bases (16). CAREER: The four-time All-Ivy League selection holds Harvard’s record for career stolen bases (71) while also ranking among the school’s other alltime leaders in on-base percentage (4 , .403) batting (5^, .370); runs (5 , .94); and hits (5 , .168). MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY: As a senior in 2001, Stefanchik was named The Star-Ledger Player of the Year after setting national records for stolen bases: career (295), season (91) and consecutive (164). She finished with a .711 career batting average.
Class agent: Ms. Lindsay Braverman 484 South Parkway Clifton, N J 07014 Steven J. L. D’Amico received the prestigious Michael K. Davis award for excellence in debate. The award is presented to the graduating college senior for career accomplishments in policy debate. His career achievements include being named AllAmerican debater, 9 top speaker awards and 7 tournaments championships. He plans to attend The George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management in Washington, D.C. next year.
Ms. Melissa Fortunato 40 Holton Lane Essex Fells, N J 07021
Anna Labowsky will be a second-year medical student at UMDNJ'^ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Class agent: Ms. Lauren Tortoriello 112 Heller Way Upper Montclair, N J 07043
Ashley Griffin updates: “...living in Boston, working at a marketing company before going back to get a Masters in Social Work...deciding among NYU, Columbia, BU and BC.”
Jonah Kruvant, who attends Skidmore College, is busy making a weekly comedy TV show. Lindsey Mazur '02 and John Mazur '05
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Jonathan Bruno '02 and Jacqueline Bruno '05
Cionna Almeida '03 and Devin Almeida '05
Edmund Kozak '05 and Assistant Director o f External Affairs Debbie Kozak
Mike Zagariello, Abigail Zagariello '05, and Associate Dean o f Studies/Middle School Technology Coordinator Jenny Zagariello
Lhénee Riddick '05 and Parent/Alumni Coordinator Debbie Allen
Dagmara Jastrzebska will soon graduate magna cum laude from New York University this spring, majoring in International Relations and History. After graduation, she plans to continue working for the United Nations Foundation before going back to either graduate school for an MA in International Affairs or law school for a ID, or maybe both. Melissa Fortunato worked hand-in-hand with the Elite Athletes, traveling from Kenya, Ethiopia, Japan, and Italy to compete in the Boston Marathon this past April. Before returning to Boston College for her senior year, she will work at ESPN in New York City this summer. Frank Herrmann, who attends Harvard University, won the baseball Beanpot this spring, competing against colleges such as Boston College, Boston University, University of Massachusetts, and Northeastern in the famous Fenway Ballpark.
Ms. Judith Ferreira 819 Clifton Avenue Newark, N J 07104 Class agent: Ms. Melanie Braverman 484 South Parkway Clifton, N J 07014
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Marriages 1942 1991 1994 1994 1994 1995 1996
Howard Kimm and Mildred Lewis Eugene Mazo and Gwen Parker Jodie Cabe and Mike Farrell Emily Ehrenberg and Michael Blumberg Leanne Gattie and Eric Scott Erica Wolff and Eric Turzak Bryan Becker and Michelle Itzkowitz
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In Memoriam 1933 1939 1940 1942 1947 1950 1950 1953 1954 1959
Jean McGraw Gillett Brookfield Ralph M. Heintz, Jr. David Jacobs George Connell Jean Frey Drake MaryAnne Treene Evans Michael Konner Arthur Ramee, Jr. Maree Callahan Currey Carolyn Buell Talbott
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Faculty, Former Faculty, Staff, and Trustees Anthony M. Daur
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Edwin D. Etherington ’42 - President, American Stock Exchange; President, Wesleyan University Lewis Douglas T 2 - U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (194|§-50) Fairleigh S. Dickinson ’37 - President of Becton, Dickinson & Co. James S. Vandermade ’35 - President, Sowerbutt Quarries, Inc.; MA Trustee Gustave E. Wiedenmayer ’25 - President, National Newark and Essex Banking Co. Richard B. Scudder ’31- Publisher, The Newark Evening News Howard Van Vleck ’22 - Landscape Architect, Academy Trustee Spruille Braden 10 - U.S. Ambassador to Colombia (1939-42), Cuba (1942-45), Argentina (1945) Dallas S. Townsend Jr. ’36 - CBS News Journalist Arthur A. Goldman ’25 - Hotelier, owner All Seasons Hotel & G olf Club S. Barksdale Penick Jr. ’21 - President, S.B. Penick Co., New York Roger B. Etherington ’41 - President, American National Bank & Trust Co.
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Elizabeth Jones ’53 - Chief Sculptor-Engraver, U.S. M int Joseph E. Wiedenmayer ’24 - Career diplomat, advocate for the Deaf James A. Courter ’59 - U.S. Congressman, military expert Aubin Zabriskie Am ea|54 - Quintessential volunteer Philip L. Fradkin ’53 - Author, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas G. Stockham Jr. ’51 - Electrical engineer; » in v e n to r digital recording Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner BO - Founder, Lyme Disease Foundation Michael S. Yamashita ’67 - International photographer Ellen R. Malcolm ’65 - Founder, EMILY’s List Rudolph H . Deetjen ’50 - Educator Herbert H. Tate Jr. ’71 - President, N.J. Board of Public Utilities Doris Keller Hamlin ’36 - Pioneering environmentalist Peter V. K. Funk ’39 - Author, lexical semanticist Robert L. Clifford ’42 - New Jersey Supreme Court Justice William H. Cook ’30 - Aeronautical engineer, Boeing Aircraft James E. Johnson ’79 - Undersecretary of the Treasury for Enforcement Parker B. Armstrong ’37 - Vice Admiral, USN, ret. Laura Scher ’76 - Pioneering entrepreneur; Working Assets Funding Service Barry W. Ridings ’70 - Investment banker; Lazard Freres’ Restructuring Group Virginia Hamilton Adair ’29 - Poet and educator Ross Zbar ’84 - Surgeon and humanitarian
The current Montclair Kimberley Academy Distinguished Alumni Award was inspired by its predecessor, the Montclair Academy Outstanding Alumnus Award. The purpose of the award is "to bestow recognition and appreciation for outstanding achievement." The award is a meritorious reflection on the school and provides inspiration and encouragement for our young people. CRITERIA: 1. The recipient should be a graduate of The Kimberley School, Montclair Academy, or The Montclair Kimberley Academy. 2. The recipient should have achieved distinction in some field of endeavor, or through outstanding character or dedication been of special service to humanity. 3. Race, creed, sex or contribution to the school should have no bearing on the choice of the recipient. Nominations must be submitted via mail (Marsha Kleinman, Alumni Director, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ, 07042), fax (973.783.5777), or e-mail (mldeinman@montclairkimberley.org ), and include the information on the form below. The nomination form is also on the MKA website, www.montclairkimberley.org, under Alumni Awards. Nominee
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Mr. Eric Jaeckel '56 • Mr. Paul Tiranno '89 • Mrs. John L. Kidde
Back To Basics The Heritage Society w as established to recognize and honor those w ho have provided for The M ontclair K im berley A cadem y in their estate plans. G ift com m itm ents m ay b e m ade by bequest intention in a w ill or living trust, as w ell as in a variety o f w ays that provide tax benefits and incom e for life to the donor. Membership in The Heritage Society is an im portant w ay to ensure the future o f the school through a philanthropic gift, w hile receiving m axim um tax and estate benefits th at enhance y o u r financial w ell being. Heritage Society m em bers recognize the im portance o f grow ing M K A 's E ndow m ent in order to provide the highest level o f support for all aspects o f an M K A education. A lso o f great im portance, and in need o f critical funding, is M K A 's Faculty C om pensation E ndow m ent - a resource providing for the continued hiring and retention o f a superb, dedicated faculty. M em bership is granted to those w ho have chosen to m ake a plan n ed gift to M K A in one or m ore o f the follow ing w ays: • A b equest intention o f cash, securities, closely held stock, real estate, or tangible property • Life incom e gifts such as: • C haritable G ift A nnuities • C haritable R em ainder U nitrusts or A nnuity Trusts • C haritable L ead Trusts • P ooled Incom e F und C ontributions Your gift w ill provide support for M K A and dem onstrate your com m itm ent to ensuring th at the school w ill continue to educate students and equip them w ith the tools n ecessary for success in college and beyond. In years to com e, incom e from y o u r gift w ill be directed w here it is m ost needed and can do the greatest good. I f you have already m ade a provision in your w ill for The M ontclair K im berley A cadem y, w e hope y ou w ill share those plans w ith us. We w elcom e the opportunity to assist you in evaluating other options o f deferred giving w hich b est suit your needs and intentions.
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