Spring 2008 MKA Review Magazine

THE MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY

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IN THIS ISSUE: From the Headmaster: The work of A/fkA Trustees Book Fair 2007: Celebrating 12 Years of Leadership School Memories from /VIA '43 & TKS '58 Solving Real-Life Problems: Math through the Campuses Homecoming & Reunions 2007 Unsung Heroes from the Senior Class

COVER: Homecoming 2007 BACK COVER: It’s never too soon to support MKA and get together with your Class!

This adorable photo was sent to us by Richard Catena ’93, and shows (from left to right) Samuel Berk, son of Peter Berk ’93, Kaitlyn Pietrucha, daughter of Stephen Pietrucha ’93 (the photographer!) and Joseph Catena.

CONTENTS From the Headm aster:..................................................................................................1 The Headmaster is Pleased to Announce........................................................................3 Around MKA: Book Fair 2007: Celebrating 12 Years of Leadership.................................................... 4 Stress Down, Spirit Up: Changes at the Upper School.................................................. 8 Math Around the Campuses...............................................................................9, 15, 20 The All-School Gathering.............................................................................................10 Homecoming and Reunions 2007.................................................................................12 Student News: Senior Sampler: Unsung Heroes...................................................................................16 Cougar Sports and Snapshots....................................................................................... 22 Faculty News: In Memoriam: Remembering Daniel Jennings and Lois Riley.................................... 26 Faculty Laptop Project................................................................................................. 27 Faculty Snapshots..................................... ....................................................................27 Alumni News: Letter from the Alumni Association President............................................................. 28 School Memories from Helen “DuBois” Veltkamp ‘58x and A1 Soria ’43..................29 MKA On the Road in New York City.......................................................................... 30 Encore Weekend........................................................................................................... 31 Alumni Hockey Game.................................................................................................. 32 Young Alumni Luncheon.............................................................................................. 32 Class Notes.................................................................................................................. 34 REVIEW EDITOR Debbie Kozak, Director of Communications ASSISTANT EDITORS Geoffrey Branigan, Director of Development and External Affairs Diane Lundy, Class Notes Secretary Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley’76, Alumni Director Judy Polonofsky, Director of Special Events and Projects CONTRIBUTORS Dr. Denise Brown Allen Margaret Gonzales Debi Gordon Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76, Alumni Director Thomas Nammack, Headmaster Todd Smith A1 Soria ’43 Helen “DuBois” Veltkamp ’58x

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PHOTO CREDITS Steve Frantz David Hollander Nick Kelsh Debbie Kozak Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76 Stephen Pietrucha ’93 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COUNCIL 2007-2008 Keshia Trotman-Amaldy ’92 Christopher Bellapianta ’97, Treasurer Geoff Branigan, Director of Development & External Affairs Michael Braun ’01, Network Vice President Lindsay Braverman ’01 Daniel Carson ’83, President Mitchell Decter ’94 David DeMatteis ’95, Secretary Christopher DeStefano ’90 Larry Duca ’79 Design: Gemini Studio, Inc. i: West Caldwell, NJ Printed on recycled paper

Clifford Finkle ’92 Barbara Flessas ’72 Janine Garland ’82, Executive Vice President Joanne Pundyk Goldberg ’87 Bret Hirsh ’00 Jonathan Hirsh ’95 Cheryl McCants ’82 Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76, Alumni Director William Martini ’98 Thomas Nammack, Headmaster MarkPolitan ’91 Jessica Simpson ’99 Richard Stanton ’87 Lee Vartan ’96 Jay Wecht ’83 ADVISORY COUNCIL Lori Windolf Crispo ’78 H Dean Paolucci ’73 Joshua Raymond ’89 Board of Trustees 2007-2008 Alice M. Hirsh, President Michael V. Johnson, Vice President Denise G. Wagner, Vice President Michael P. Frasco, Treasurer Richard G. Jenkins ’77, Secretary Members Linda D. Almeida Merrick G. Andlinger Joesph Amato Elisa Spungen Bildner Timothy J. Bozik Daniel Carson ’83 Karen A. Dias-Martin Reginald Hollinger Peter S. McMullen ’77 Philip W. McNeal Steven Milke Thomas W. Nammack Eric F.S. Pai ’79 Keith D. Phillips Shelley E. Phillips Daniel R. Placentra Rudolph G. Schlobohm ’74 Newton B. Schott, Jr Robert L.Tortoriello David L. Turock John T. Weisel Honorary Trustees Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 John E. Garippa Susan H. Ruddick Advisory Trustees Barry W. Ridings ’70 Michael L. Rodburg

When I first learned to drive, my family members were amused by the fact that I could not keep my eyes on the road while having either a radio playing or a lively conversation taking place in the car. Both were just too much distraction for my newfound mastery of clutch, brake, accelerator and steering. I insisted on (but rarely was granted) silence. Fortunately, these new skills became routine and a more normal car culture soon asserted itself, or I might have found myself riding in the trunk. I am sometimes struck by the variety of roles and responsibilities that we accumulate as adults - by all the “co-processing” that we really are Headmaster Tom Nammack, President of the Board of Trustees Alice Hirsh capable of managing. One experience and Board Treasurer Mike Frasco review Strategic Planning documents that we share as adults is how we prior to a monthly Board meeting. surprise ourselves with the number of responsibilities that we can successfully undertake. responsibilities. Our Board includes teachers, investment bankers, doctors, lawyers, inventors, I offer this point of view as an introduction to what entrepreneurs, corporate executives and builders.

I have learned about a remarkable group of people Many are current MKA parents, some have at MKA - The MKA Board of Trustees - who children who have graduated from MKA, a few are exemplify that ability to successfully manage many MKA graduates themselves, but all of our trustees are highly successful people who have included an impressive level of voluntarism and philanthropy among ®pT the roles and responsibilities that they H khk have accumulated as adults. i|m BÉH Somehow, they have learned to take M i the wheel at home and at work and still have enough time and attention for the responsibilities and leadership required of a trustee.

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The Board of Trustees 2007-08: (standing l-r) Dan Placentra, Eric Pai ’79, Reg Hollinger, Steve Milke, Phil McNeal, Joe Amato, Tim Bozik, Dan Carson '83, Shelley Phillips, Karen Dias-Martin, Keith Phillips, (sitting l-r) Bob Tortoriello, Newton Schott, Tom Nammack, Alice Hirsh (President), Michael Johnson (Vice President), Mike Frasco (Treasurer), Michael Rodburg (Advisory Trustee). Missingfrom photo: Trustees Linda Almeida, Rick Andlinger, Elisa Spungen Bildner, Rick Jenkins ’77 (Secretary), Peter McMullen 77, Rudy Schlobohm '74, David Turock, Denise Wagner (Vice President) and John Weisel, Honorary Trustees Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54, John Garippa and Susan Ruddick, and Advisory Trustee Barry Ridings.

The greatest change in my working life when coming to MKA was that I moved from a job as an Upper School Head in which I had one boss, the Head of School, to a new level of responsibility as Headmaster in which I report to a Board of twenty-five trustees. Certainly, much of their direction and communication for me are channeled through the Board’s President, but during the course of the

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I offer this point of view as an introduction to what I have learned about a remarkable group of people at MKA -

vote at any committee meeting but not within a full Board meeting.

Former colleagues on the MKA Board of Trustees (left to right) Jodi Smith, Anne Muenster and Honorary Trustee Aubin Zabriskie Ames ‘54 were reunited at this year’s All-School Gathering. year, I work for all twenty-five trustees. As a result, I want to offer up some insights and provide recognition for a leadership group whose strength and values are inspiring and among the most enduring of school influences.

Our Board is led by a President, whose time in office is measured in successive two-year terms.

There are four other officers —two Vice Presidents, a Secretary and the Treasurer - the latter whom also serves as the Chair of the Finance Committee, one of the most demanding roles among all trustee responsibilities. The whole Board meets monthly from September to June and is then sub-divided into eight committees that meet in separate sessions anywhere from three to six times per year. The committees of the Board of Trustees are comprised of: Finance, Educational Program and Policy, Committee on Trustees, Development, Student Life5,?1 Technology, Facilities and Strategic Planning. In addition, a leadership group of committee chairs and senior trustees is identified as the Executive Committee.

It just so happens that Trustees donformal regaliafor M K A ’S Headmaster is also special occasions such as considered a member of the Commencement, and as shown Board of Trustees. I have a here on Denise Wagner and Michael Johnson, for Investitures.

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At MKA, all trustees serve on at least three committees. In combination with attending the monthly meetings of the Board, that represents an enormous commitment of time. MKA’s Board also believes in homework and virtually every meeting, Board and Committee, is preceded by reading assignments of materials that fit a full range of description between fascinating, and necessary but deadly. Also, like our students, we post much of our meeting material, minutes and discussions on Moodle.

It was MKA’s trustees who co-chaired each of the nine Strategic Planning subcommittees that convened between September of 2006 and March of 2007, and virtually all served on these subcommittees as well. Our trustees are the first to step up to attend significant school events such as plays, concerts and championship games, and the first to set the standard for our Annual Fund and our capital fundraising. It is our trustees who must advise the Headmaster, and then hold their breath when a risk is taken, knowing full well that the consequences of my decisions and actions may be laid at their feet in social and professional settings.

As I once described regarding the school-parent relationship, we must trust one another and be worthy of one another’s trust. Such is the basis for working relationships that can transform institutions. At Commencement, it is a source of great confidence for me to look just beyond the joyous and hopeful countenances of our seniors and newly minted graduates. Directly behind them, and for the moment visibly part of the MKA life which they do so much to sustain, sits the Board of Trustees. In that setting, our partnership is made manifest.

The Committee on Trustees governs the selection of trustee candidates who are recommended to the President of the Board for nomination. MKA, in fact, has a farm-team system called “Affiliate Trustee.” A wise and productive construct, appointment as an affiliate gives the affiliate and the Board an opportunity to consider whether nomination as a full trustee really is the right commitment for the individual and for the Board. Nomination as a trustee is an enormous compliment, but it is not a reward.

A common quality among MKA’s trustees is that they bring their “A” game to the role of volunteer. Trusteeship is hard work, and it requires each person to forge a new bond of responsibility with the school, one that transcends the role of parent, alumni or donor.

Our trustees are built over time, through the selflessness of voluntarism, by an increasingly sophisticated attitude regarding their own philanthropy and that of others, and in the crucible of the school experiences they have undergone as students, parents and now guardians of an educational institution.

If we return to the analogy with which I began, from time to time, every Trustee will find him or herself significantly influencing the direction of the school and the welfare of all who are in it. Such opportunities are usually unbidden, and in fact, rarely come to us when we are well-rested, clear-eyed and completely rational. More likely in that moment, is that there is someone in the backseat yelling about a grading policy that seems unfair, a team that did not appear to live up to its promise or a Headmaster who is slow to respond to an email. In addition to this distraction, and most compelling of all, it may be the trustee’s child who is sitting next to him or her, temporarily but deeply out of love with

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Co-Chair (with Denise Wagner) of the Development Committee John Weisel explained MKA’s Annual Giving program to new parents at the New Parent Dinner. the MKA experience. In the midst of such compelling distraction, we are blessed with a Board culture in which trustees keep their eye on the road and think and act on behalf of the whole school.

Mike Frasco, Board Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee delivered good news about holiday bonuses tofaculty and staff at a November in-service day.

With gratitude and warmest regards,

Thomas W. Nammack Headmaster

The H e a d m a ster is Pleased to A n n o u n c e ...

National Achievement Participants Referred to Colleges Melanie Brady National Merit Finalists John Dantzler Christopher Thompson National Merit Commendations Eamon Almeida Edward Bartleson Samuel Bieler

Stacey Bums Sam Finkel Charles Gephart Thomas Goulder Michael Mastakas Brian McFeeley Matthew Metzger Christine Patterson Danielle Rode Shayna Schmidt Joy Turock Greg Zorbas

Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholars Eamon Almeida Darrin Bedol Samuel Bieler Stacey Bums Charles Gephart Lindsey Moran Christine Patterson Danielle Rode Christopher Thompson

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Book Fair 2007: Celebrating Twelve Years of Leadership “Having writers like Jack Gantos or Walter Dean Meyers or E.L. Konigsburg speak to children about journal keeping, about writing about what they know, what they see, what they do, is invaluable and can’t be experienced in another way that is comparable. To listen to a 5th grader ask a writer, ‘How do you know when what your writing is ‘good enough’ to continue and to become a book,’ is priceless.” ~Middle School Head Randy Kleinman In this, her final year as an MKA parent, we honor Judy Newman MacGregor, mother of Rebecca ’05 and John ’08 who, together with her right-hand co­ chair Abigail Metzger, mother of Matthew ’08, helped to transform a normal school Book Fair into the largest Scholastic School Book Fair in the country.

The roster of internationally acclaimed children’s authors MacGregor has brought to MKA is too long to list - J.K. Rowling, Walter Dean Myers, Cornelia Funke, Jerry Spinelli, Paula Danziger, Tomie dePaola, E. L. Konigsburg, Jan Brett, Henry Winkler, Carl Haaisen, Jack Prelutsky, Jon Scieszka, Marc Brown, Ann Rinaldi, Anthony Horowitz, Mary Pope Osborne, Christopher Paul Curtis, Jack Gantos and Rachael Vail to name just a few.

For the students and faculty of MKA, MacGregor’s contribution has been inestimable. Children have been exposed to the greatest living exponents of their craft. They have learnt first­ hand what it is to conceive, write, re-write and have edited a piece of fiction. They have been privy to the number of rejections, disappointments and frustrations that successful authors meet Providing shelterfrom the Book Fair along Blizzard, the reading nook proved to be a popular spot.

and they have been mesmerized, year after year, by presentations that spark the imagination and ignite the love of reading.

Congratulatedfor her ceaseless work behind the scenes in twelve years of Book Fairs, Abigail Metzger stands with President of the Parents ’Association Shelley Phillips and Headmaster Tom Nammack.

In acknowledging the contributions of “this most generous volunteer and professional” at the Book Fair Luncheon, Tom Nammack talked about “the extraordinary culture of Book Fair that Judy Newman MacGregor has created at MKA,” noting that “Our seniors who have gone all or most of the distance here can take full measure of twelve Book Fairs. For them and many others, they are an essential, expected and integral part of life at school - a community celebration as joyful as our All-School Gathering, as intellectually exciting and worthy as our class trips to Williamsburg or Washington D.C., and like Cougar Pride Day or Homecoming, an event for everyone - parents, faculty, alumni, staff and students.”

“The Book Fair was SO exciting! Bringing the authors to MICA made me pick out books I never would have picked out if the authors hadn’t come!” ^Natalie Ellison, MKA

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A round MKA “I am confident that I speak for all when I say how fabulous, how uplifting, how inspiring and how much just plain fun this Book Fair is.” ~Middle School Secretary Judi Solomito

A Flags waved and the Weiss Auditorium resembled a political convention center as comedian and New York Times best-selling author Stephen Colbert took to the stage.

A Pam Munoz Ryan with a youngfan.

:k Gantos was a great inspiration to my writing. I now w how to plan a great detailed story with no problem, /viso, my writing grades have taken a huge step forward.” ~Sabriyyah Muhammed, 6 ^ grade visitor from TEAM Academy.

►Prize-winning author Jack Gantos mesmerized the Middle School with his presentation onjournal writing.

A Jane O ’Connor delighted her audience at Brookside.

A The Book Fair hosted this year's Caldecott Medal winner Brian Selznick, whose best-selling The Invention of Hugo Cabret proved to be a huge hit at the Middle School.

A Brookside had a special shopping opportunity with their annual Pajama Night.

Book Fair 2007 Following this year’s record-breaking Book Fair Blizzard, Judy Newman MacGregor sat down with the Editor to answer some questions: What first sparked your love of children’s literature? Did you ever have the opportunity to meet famous authors when you were a child?

I have been in love with children’s books as long as I can remember. I read the most books—125—in the Newton Free Public Library summer reading program when I was ten years old in Newton, Mass.

My parents used to take us to this huge book store called ‘New England Judy Newman MacGregor: MKA Mobile Book Fair ’ every parent, EVP and President of year when we got Scholastic Book Clubs. promoted to the next grade, and we got to pick out whatever books we wanted. I think that was probably the beginning—that wonderful ritual o f spending hours among the stacks o f books getting to choose whatever we wanted and then spending all summer reading them. I also wrote a novel when I was in fifth grade, Danny Sompedia Around Town in which Danny is orphaned on page 1 after his parents perish in a horrible car crash and he and his dog are left to fend for themselves. * I was tremendously applaudedfo r this work by my fifth grade teacher at the John Ward School, and I think that her validation also contributed to my love o f children’s books and their power to help children express themselves.

I didn ’t meetfamous authors per se (they weren ’t reallyfamous celebrities back then, remember!), but Ifeel as if I was surrounded by many icons of children’s literature. For example: I spent a lot of time in the Boston Public Gardens which was the stage for Make Wavfor Ducklinss. And we would act out all kinds o f children’s books in our backyard.

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*This, by the way, is one o f the most common themes in any children’s writing contest we ever run. I was not particularly original, it turns out.

Can you tell us, as a full-time working parent, what prompted you to get involved in the PAMKA Book Fair?

Because I was a full working parent, I wanted to make sure there was some way I could stay involved with PAMKA: know what was going on in school, meet the parents o f my kids ’friends (make some friends myself), and make a contribution to MKA. Fortunately, the Book Fair was an opportunity that coincided with my day job at Scholastic. One o f the first years I was at the school, when my children were at Brookside, there were some problems with book delivery at the Book Fair, and I stepped in and helped. That was the beginning fo r me.

What many PAMKA volunteer parents don’t realize is that they are intimidatingly competent to working mothers. They have such a better grasp over what works in daily classroom life and, as a rule, make infinitely better class mothers and can do a lot o f the regular PAMKA jobs much better than working parents (at least from my point o f view). So, as a working parent, I was very grateful to have the Book Fair as a way to get involved with PAMKA. I have always encouraged working parents to volunteer for the Book Fair because the Book Fair can accommodate all kinds o f flexible schedules.

We can take as many—or as few—hours as you can give. Through the Book Fair, working parents will have an opportunity to get involved, meet other people and have some fun.

How has it been possible to attract leading authors to the School?

Over the years, we built a reputation as being one o f the best schools in the country for authors to visit. First, Dr. Greer, and now, Mr. Nammack and all the MKA administration have been hugely

A round MKA supportive and have allowed the Book Fair to turn the school schedule upside down to accommodate authors ’ needs. The faculty are amazingly receptive and the parent volunteers act like professional celebrity “handlers ” so authors ’ every needs are met. But best o f all, the response from the students is thoroughly validating to authors. I promise authors that, in addition to receiving VIP treatment from the adults, they will meet a student body who will ask thoughtful, interested questions, and who will be genuinely engaged, respectful and very responsive to the authors ’ books. The authors have never been disappointed. Everyone at MKA is highly motivated to deliver a completely successful author visit, and it shows to the authors, so they want to keep on coming! Plus, once you have names like J.K Rowling, Marc Brown, Kevin Henkes, Cornelia Funke, Brian Selznik, Jan Brett and Henry Winkler on your author roster, everyone wants to get on board.

What are some of your personal favorite Book Fair author memories?

There are so many. Obviously, having J.K. Rowling drive from the Valley Road entrance to the Penick Lobby in my Volvo so she could walk through Platform 9 3/4 that the students and faculty had built, and then having her readfrom Harry Potter and answer questions - and then during High Tea in the Library Annex write an enthusiastic, spontaneous “A+ ” on a student‘s drawing o f Harry Potter (which now hangs in Brookside) was unbelievable. I still smile when I think o f Henry Winkler hugging every single child in the Middle School. I loved the lines o f children greeting Jan Brett with umbrellas and Marc Brown with a full size Arthur at Brookside. The celebrity visits from Madonna, Tiki Barber (who drove himself in his own car), and The Moffats (and their everyone-isstanding-on-their-seats-in-the-packed-MiddleSchool-auditorium concert) spiced things up. Also: Ruby Bridges ’first MKA appearance when she showed the footage o f the white supremacists screaming at her as she walked into the Frantz School in 1960; Nora Ephron’s luncheon speech; when Boobie Miles came on-stage at the Upper School to answer questions about Friday Night Lights with Buzz Bissinger; and when Jon Scieszka

asked the Middle School boys who o f them enjoyed reading ‘Little House on the Prairie ’?

Can you share what being involved in PAMKA has meant to you?

For 12 years, being involved in PAMKA has been a huge part o f my life. It has been the third leg o f my triangle: family, work, PAMKA. Seriously, those have been the three anchors o f my life for the time my children were in school. I made great friends through PAMKA, learned a lot about the amazing power o f volunteering, and had a very privileged opportunity to be involved in MKA. It is because o f PAMKA that the Book Fair team (with special mention to parent volunteer Abigail Metzger and Debbie Kozak in External Affairs) has been able to build the greatest Book Fair in the country. I can already feel, as I start to transition out o f MKA, that my lack o f involvement in PAMKA will be a huge hole in my life. I am wondering how open Vassar (John '12) or Wheaton (Rebecca '09) will be to a parent sponsored Book Fair?!

What would you like to think has been your legacy to MKA? O f course I am gratified that we have built the greatest Book Fair in the country on all measures: we sell the most books, we involve the most volunteers, we get the most and the best authors and we get the most kids reading! I love to hear that the other independent schools are jealous of our Book Fair and that we can use the Book Fair to showcase the school. I am satisfied to know that we started this great library-building program with TEAM Academy and that TEAM students get to hear authors. But my greatest thrill still comes when I hear a student in the halls (usually at Brookside or the Middle School, but increasingly at the Upper School as well) talk about how excited they are that the Book Fair is coming! If, through the Book Fair, we have created great memories for MKA students around a love o f authors, reading and books, that makes me very happy.

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Stress Down, Spirit Up: What's New at the Upper School revert to the old habits of teacher-directed instruction and students rushing through their homework the night before it is due,” ,.

Is it possible to change the tone and tenor of an institution? With the goals of decreasing stress, improving teaching and increasing spirit, two profound changes have taken place at the Upper School this year.

Following four years of extensive research culminating in a doctoral thesis, Head of Campus Dr. David Flocco led the faculty in moving from a six-day rotation with seven 50-minute classes daily to an eight-day rotation with four 75-minute classes daily. “What I was interested in examining was if the daily schedule could mitigate student stress while maintaining academic rigor.” Statistics revealed that longer teaching blocks reduced academic stress, increased standardized testing results, contributed to a slower pace of the day, led to a reduction in lost class time and improved the quality of homework. Faculty received extensive and ongoing training to maximize the opportunities for more creative teaching and, in this case, the statistics did not lie. Students, parents and teachers are uniformly delighted with the change. A survey of faculty and staff taken in November revealed a 96% student satisfaction rate with the new schedule and a 91% satisfaction rate among faculty. Remarks such as “My child now has the time to eat dinner with us” and “I don’t even notice that the classes are longer” are common. Seeing large numbers of students working quietly on homework in the library is the rule rather than the exception, and the faculty has done a remarkable job of varying their teaching strategies and delivering more student-centered instruction.

“The success of the new schedule has exceeded my wildest expectations,” notes Flocco.

“Our challenge now is to maintain the energy and enthusiasm around this change and ensure we don’t

M Student Body Vice President Andrew Culbreth introduced the new house system and The Montclair Kimberley Academy House Cup at a special assembly in September.

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While the new schedule has effectively reduced stress and helped create a classroom environment more conducive to individual and autonomous student learning, a new House system has been equally effective in increasing school spirit.

Thanks to an Upper School Student Government initiative and responding to results from surveys indicating the need for more community building activities, every student, faculty and staff member now belongs to one of four houses. Familiar to most students through Harry Potter’s Hogwarts, this system, based on the centuries old British private school tradition, is designed to encourage healthy competition, foster friendships across the grades, create a greater sense of community and build lasting memories of MKA. Named for the original buildings that housed Montclair Academy, Brookside and The Kimberley School, the Upper School community now owes their allegiance to Bradley (gold and red), Walden (red and black), Monjo (black and purple) or Strong (purple and gold). The concept of “Four Houses, One School!” has met with an enthusiastic response. Students meet by house at least once a month, inter-house competitions and activities (ranging from window decorating to spam sculpting to points for the most participants at a School event) take place regularly and new friendships are being forged. At the end of the year, points gained by each house will be tallied and the victorious house will receive The Montclair Kimberley Academy House Cup and a celebratory party.

A Students, faculty and staff demonstrate loyalty by wearing their House T-Shirts.

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-For many Review readers, memories of learning math at school may include rote memorization of times tables, using a slide rule or wrestling with algebraic formulations that seemed far removed from everyday life. In this issue, we provide a glimpse into the modem math curriculum as experienced by today’s MKA students, a curriculum that, while retaining extreme rigor (culminating with the highest levels of calculus) has become increasingly practical in its applications and proves that there is more than one way to solve a problem.

Problem Solving at Brookside.

The math curriculum for MKA’s youngest students grows richer each year.

Based on the Everyday Math Program, a research-based foundation for student achievement in math, additional components have been infused into the program to enhance and support student learning.

From the use of math websites on laptops to basicskills practice, the Brookside math program meets the needs of different learners and prepares them for the 21 s*- century in exciting, engaging and effective ways.

One component that has been successfully integrated is the Exemplars Problem Solving program. This program presents real world problems that young students can relate to delivered through classroom and homework tasks.

They allow teachers to gain tremendous insights into a student’s mind, enabling them to both assess what students actually know and to plan instruction accordingly.

Exemplars problems include explorations in geometry, multiplication, fractions and patterns. Students enjoy working in groups and using manipulatives to further their understanding. Many of the problems are open-ended and have more than one correct answer. Not only are the problems interesting to students, they require a good dose of persistence and diligence. The following Exemplars problem, set for third graders, illustrates the level of student understanding of multiplication and represents just a small portion of the challenging and meaningful thought that is going on in the realm of problem solving.

►3rd grade sample Emma Pacifico

Breakfast with Grandmother It takes Kathy 4 minutes to walk to her grandmother’s house, and 4 minutes to walk home. Kathy walked to her grandmother’s house every morning for 2 weeks to have breakfast with her grandmother, and then she walked home. How many minutes did Kathy spend traveling to and from her grandmother’s house during those 2 weeks?

Although Emma did not write the multiplication number model, 8 x 14 a 112, her work clearly shows that she understands the problem. It also demonstrates that she understands the underlying concepts of multiplication because she uses repeated addition to arrive at the correct answer. Student A’s communication skills are strong. Her work is accurately labeled and she explains her thinking articulately. The problem requires students to apply social knowledge as well as mathematical understanding. For example, the student explains that she knows that “there are 14 days in 2 weeks”. The problem cannot be solved if a student can’t recall how many days there are in a week and use the information to solve a problem. Student A’s work also shows planning and foresight. She selected an efficient strategy to solve the problem by making a table to keep track of the data. Since Emma’s work was so detailed, she was able to easily check her answer.

Margaret Gonzales Math Coordinator, Brookside

All-School Gathering As 1046 students and 230 "The first day of Kindergarten I was dropped off late and everyone friends and employees of had already made friends. Two kids came up to me when I was all The Montclair Kimberley alone and asked if I wanted to play legos with them. They are still Academy joined together some of m y best friends!"

- A Senior's memory for the annual MKA AllSchool Gathering, the possibilities ... you never give up, you make things mood was festive. Master of ceremonies happen and you surprise us again and again and Headmaster Thomas Nammack welcomed students, again.” Coaches of the Year Paul Edwards (boys’ faculty, friends and guests, including Montclair’s lacrosse) and Val Azzoli (girls’ tennis) were also Mayor, Ed Remsen, and set the scene for a morning honored. that “honors individuals and recognizes the talents and accomplishments of our students.”

In what has become a new Gathering tradition, Seniors and Kindergartners exchanged their Performances from the third grade Bellringers, the memories and wishes for one another. Senior Cara combined Middle and Upper School Jazz Bands and Placentra read the Seniors’ Kindergarten memories Strings Orchestra, together with performances from B their favorite was naptimeB and third grader the Upper School Mastersingers and Dance Ensemble Betsy Zaubler read Kindergarten’s ideas for how provided artistic entertainment, while the MKA Seniors can make the world a better place - taking Cheerleaders and Step Team boosted school spirit. care of their country came high on the list. This exchange was followed by the handing out of Among the highlights of this year’s Gathering was a special MKA Beanie Babies to the Class of 2020 presentation to Ginger Kriegel, Primary School Head from the Class of 2008. of Campus, for her thirty years of service; described by Nammack as being someone whom “it is a privilege and a joy to work with” and who is “loved and respected” by her students. The Presidents of MKA’s Board of Trustees, Parents’ Association and Alumni Association each addressed the students, and The Founders’ Cup for Teaching Excellence was officially presented to Brookside Spanish teacher Sonia Tyson.

Individual students received the MKA Sweater for outstanding artistic, academic and athletic accomplishments and contributions, and in recognizing MKA student athletes who had an unprecedented season last year with seven teams winning State championships, Nammack noted, “You have a gift for creating

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President of the MKA Upper School student body Matthew Metzger gave the final address, and the Gathering closed with Madison Green, the youngest member of the Class of 2020, ringing the old Montclair Academy bell to officially start the new school year.

"Throw gum in the garbage not on the floor, plant trees and flowers, keep our country clean!"

- Kindergarten advice

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Homecoming & Reunions 2007 Once again, the weather cooperated for Homecoming and Reunions as members of the MKA community, past and present, enjoyed a full day of activities under cloudless skies. The weekend kicked off with a spirited Upper School Pep Rally, with competitions being won by houses rather than grades (see pg .8 for more on the new house system). MKA’s varsity teams played hard, supporters were loud and proud,

TAll tied up at the Pep Rally.

and MKA apparel was in evidence everywhere! This year also saw the inception of some other new traditions, with the induction of Athletic Hall of Fame recipients Jeff Podesta ’35 and Lauren Stefancik ’00 being celebrated at the Reunion Luncheon, and the induction of Distinguished Alumna Melissa Cohn ’78 being honored at the Reunion Dinner.

▲ The men of ’62, Doug Donald, John Farrar, Bob Gerst and Bob Schmitt.

▲Matt Brown '03, Dana Meranus '00, and Director of Development Geoff Branigan

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▲ President of the Alumni Association Dan Carson ’83 congratulates Jay Greene ’82 on traveling thefurthest distance (from Seattle) to attend the Homecoming Luncheon.

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A round MKA "I learned a lot of life-lessons from being on a team that I still use in m y day-to-day life today ...that's why I'm so happy that I attended MKA. A special place with special people ... you might even call it a big team. And I'm proud to say that I'm an alumna of this wonderful school, an alumna of team MKA." -Lauren Stefancik '00

A Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees JeffPodesta ’35 and Lauren Stefanchik ’00.

A Showing cougar spirit werejuniors Blair Bell and Alyse Amato.

A An enthusiastic crowd cheered on thefootball team.

A Bursting through! Thefootball team started the Homecoming game with their traditional run through a banner created and held by the Cheerleaders.

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Homecoming & Reunions 2007 "What does community mean? It is defined as fellowship, something shared by all or many. It is a noun of quality. MKA defines just that.

It is a community of quality, and it was m y first real community in life. And I was, and you are, privileged to be part of such a great place to start your life."

-Melissa Cohn 78

A This year 's Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Melissa Cohn addressed an Upper School assembly prior to her induction.

A Kimberley Class of ’72friends, Barbara Flessas David, Linda Finney Williams and Barbara Peto Kilnapp.

MHal Cohen and John Hardman, friends from the Class o f1957, enjoy reminiscing together.

►It’s a mother and child reunion as Fay Taft Fawcett TKS '52 and Pam Fawcett Hynes ’87 enjoy the day together.

A Michael Labowsky ’67 with wife Lillian and MKA graduates from 1997, Geraldine Nelson and Meena Untawale. ►2002 Classmates Melissa Fortunato, Emily Santangelo and Kathryn Kolodziej.

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A Former recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award, the Hon. Robert Clifford '42 and Michael Yamashita ’67 enjoy each other’s company.

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Real-Life M ath at the Middle School Ip Problems 9 and 10:

Come into any Middle School math class and you will most likely hear at least one student ask, “When are we going to need this in real life?” During their years in the Middle School, we continue to teach students how to apply the mathematical skills and logical reasoning they are exposed to in class to the world around them.

In the fourth grade, students continue learning how to use estimation and rounding to help them come to reasonable answers. One of the most useful attributes of knowing how to properly estimate is being able to use it anywhere - no need for a calculator, pencil or paper.

Rounding large numbers into more manageable numbers is a useful skill that almost everyone uses everyday as well. During the fall, around the time of the World Series competition, students look at the attendance of different baseball parks around the country and round the attendances to more manageable numbers so that they can compare attendances and look for trends.

When is the last time you thought about long division and remainders? It was probably not as long ago as you might think. Fifth grade students further their study of long division. They explore how division applies to real life situations and discuss the role of the remainder. The remainder can cause a quotient to be rounded up or down or even split further.

The last time you balanced a checkbook or thought about how much the temperature drops during the night, you have thought about negative numbers and unknown quantities. Sixth graders continue their learning of integers, positive and negative numbers and applications to the world in which they live. Learning how to identify an unknown is difficult, and working with negative unknowns makes the problem even more complex.

However, sixth graders learn how to do so in relation to real situations that they can easily relate to their own lives.

Graphing linear equations and solving the quadratic equation may not seem to have many real world applications. However, most of us use these concepts more often than we realize. Seventh grade algebra

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5th grade sample - Peter Shin students learn how linear equations relate to ticket sales, how to purchase the most amount of food with the money in your pocket, to record changes in measurement of various objects and even the changing value of stocks.

Using logical reasoning is also a part of interpreting mathematical information.

The use of geometry is all around us and is very apparent as we witness the effects of “urban sprawl” as new buildings are constantly being constructed around our town. What many adults remember about their experiences with geometry is something called “SOH CAH TOA”, but have no recollection of when or how this acronym was used. Geometry students learn how to predict the measure and the height of buildings, depth of rivers, angles of shadows and distances of objects using sine, cosine, and tangent calculations.

Although the Middle School does not follow one curriculum, the math department works together to smooth out the transitions between courses. This is done by teaching common concepts that are applicable in each course, such as solving real life problems and relating the math students learn in class to the world in which they live.

Debi Gordon Math Department Chair, Middle School

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Senior Sampler: Celebrating Some Unsung Heroes In this issue, we celebrate the achievements of some behind-the-scenes heroes; those seniors whose quiet hard work and dedication ensures that the MKA Upper School is a better place for everybody.

Jen is seen here in a selfportrait assignmentfrom her photography class.

Jennifer Crowley What would a Yearbook be without photographs?

The Class of 2008 is especially fortunate to have among its ranks one of the most dedicated Yearbook photographers in living memory. Whatever the event, be it a game, a visiting speaker or a house contest, Jen Crowley and her camera are there.

Hometown: Montclair Has attended MKA since: Kindergarten House: Strong Favorite subject at school: “French, because I really like being able to communicate in a different language and learn about a different culture. It’s awesome to randomly hear or see French somewhere and be able to understand it. Not to mention that it sounds really pretty.”

Favorite movie: Singin ’In The Rain Favorite food: Scrambled eggs with peppers, onions and tomatoes.

“I got my first digital camera in 8^ grade. Once I got to high school, I kept up my interest and took photography classes. I absolutely loved them, which apparently was known by the faculty advisor for the Yearbook, Mr. Cunningham, so when he offered me the chance to take pictures for the Yearbook, I seized it. I love how the role forces

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me to take pictures. It gives me a reason to get in people’s faces, something that I didn’t have the guts to do before. Taking pictures of various school events also combines my passion for photography and my appreciation for the school. I end up going to more school events, and I really enjoy having a reputation for taking pictures. The greatest challenge is in knowing the shot you want before it happens, because otherwise it’s too late.

Plus, you always have to be ready and aware, because you just never know when something’s going to happen!”

Achievement I’m proudest of: “Having the reputation for being the girl who’s always with a camera.”

Dreams for the future: “To be either a photo editor at a magazine or a handwriting analyst —it’s really fascinating how you can tell so much about a person just by the way they move their pen.”

Dwight Jackson Dwight Jackson has dedicated a large part of his high school career to participating in athletics, not in order to pursue a college athletic career, but simply for the love of the game. While hemay not be the biggest, fastest or strongest athlete at MKA, he has helped his teams (soccer, ice hockey and golf) achieve some remarkable victories.

Hometown: Montclair Has attended MKA since: Sixth grade House: Bradley Favorite subject at school: “History - 1 find it interesting learning about what has already happened and why, and seeing that a lot of what goes on today is a direct result of what has gone on in the past.”

Favorite movie: Mystery Alaska Favorite food: Pancakes

Student N ews Joy Turock Most of MKA’s seniors are involved in some aspect of community service, and in addition to being one of the most dedicated volunteers at TEAM Academy, MKA’s partner school in Newark, Joy Turock has taken community service to new heights E- literally —from the cockpit of a helicopter.

Hometown: Summit Has attended MKA since: First grade House: Monjo Favorite subject at school: Computer Science and Calculus

“I have been playing sports my whole life. I think it started when my parents took me to The Mighty Ducks movie, and I’ve been playing non-stop ever since. Hockey was my first true love. It’s the combination of speed, violence and intensity that I continue to enjoy each and every time I tie my skates. The challenge of trying to stop such a small puck in comparison to such a huge goal is really exhilarating, and every save is really important. At MKA, the guys on the hockey team are like brothers. I love being able to play on teams with all my friends, as well as playing for a school that is becoming a known powerhouse among New Jersey high schools. As for golf, although it’s a calm and relaxing game, it can also drive you crazy! You can always improve your game, and that’s what drives me to play as much as I can. All three of the teams I’m part of play against very tough competition which is an obvious challenge, as is juggling three sports, my schoolwork and a job (I work at the Nonstop Hockey store).”

Achievement I’m most proud of: “Receiving the MVP award for soccer last year. We were State Champions for the first time in MKA’s history, so being named MVP that season was a real honor.”

Dreams for the future: “I’d like to work in public relations and see more of the world like my Mom does.”

Favorite movies: Apollo 13, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Star Trek - really any comedy or sci-fi movie.

Favorite food: I like everything!

“I started at TEAM Academy in 9 ^ grade, and I’ve continued there throughout all four years of high school. I’ve probably tutored 15-20 kids in that time, and my experience with all of them has been

wonderful. TEAM students are smart and dedicated. I’m now working with Brittany, a 5 ^ grader, whose favorite subject is history although she needs some help with math. She’s one of the most energetic, fun, nicest people I’ve ever met.

One of the challenges tutoring at TEAM is that the kids learn using different methods than I did, which can lead to confusion for one or both of us, but

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U n su n g H eroes after four years, I’m now used to the TEAM methods! I also record the Sunday service at our Church onto DVD and put it online for those who can’t make it. I get to work with all sorts of video and sound technology which is great, because I love technology. I have my student helicopter pilot’s license, and every year, I fly (as co-pilot) a mission transporting “Santa Claus” and his elf to a local hospital’s cancer ward. The best part is watching the kid’s faces as we fly by their windows to land.”

Achievement I’m proudest of: “Getting into Johns Hopkins. I love it there and am very excited for this August!

Dreams for the future: “I want to do a dual degree in computer science and computer engineering and then maybe go on to grad school, but I don’t like to plan too far ahead. I’m just going to take life as it comes, and see what I want to do then!”

Alexander O ’Kane Every successful theatrical production needs an army of backstage helpers, and in many ways Alex O’Kane has single-handedly provided that. From designing costumes to stepping in for a sick director, Alex has immersed himself in the world of MKA theatre and in so doing, has helped to create some memorable productions.

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Hometown: Montclair Has attended MKA since: First grade House: Walden Favorite subject at school: Social History through Art. It’s insightful and interesting, is taught by a superb teacher (Mr. Gerard), and everyone in it is different and unique and brings something new to our conversations.

Favorite movies: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (because it’s

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funny and true), Garden State (because it’s home) and Life is Beautiful (because it’s beautiful and it hurts).

Favorite food: I would have to say chocolate - you can never go wrong with a tiny piece of chocolate!

“In my sophomore year, I had a part in Little Shop o f Horrors; then last year I worked on sound and costumes for Cabaret, and this year I’m doing technical direction and am the assistant director for Urinetown. I really like the energy of it all.

During a show, the atmosphere is always so tense and active; everything is happening at once, problems are arising, the show is starting, people are missing, things aren’t working and you have to handle it all at once, while making sure the audience doesn’t know what’s been going on behind the scenes. I find that to be really exciting and a challenge - if it’s not a challenge, what are you going to learn from it?”

Achievement you’re proudest of: “I don’t know that I’ve done anything yet to be that proud of. I guess I am proud of the person I am becoming, or at least am trying to become.”

Dreams for the future: “However sappy it may sound, I want to make a change in the world and do something worth living for. It’s idyllic, I know, but isn’t it better to be young and foolishly hopeful than not?”

Esra Yarar Need to start a club? Ask Esra. Need a team manager? Ask Esra. Need a-reliable, responsible member of the Class? Ask Esra. Need a student to lead a discussion? Ask Esra. Esra Yarar is one of the most involved members of her Class and someone that faculty and students alike have come to rely on.

Hometown: Wayne Has attended MKA since: Eighth grade House: Walden Favorite subject: “Definitely history. I dropped

Student N ews underclassmen, and we were presenters at the Freedom on Our Terms conference at Hunter College where I talked about the work of Girls Learn International.”

Achievement I’m proudest of: “Speaking Spanish for eight weeks in Panama last summer.”

Dreams for the future: “I’d really like to become an ambassador to a Middle Eastern country and leam Arabic. I’d also like to leam to cook like a pro and leam French.:”- ■

Esra is seen here with her Panamanian host “brother" Miko. math this year just so I could take two history classes. I really love learning about the past - 1 know it sounds cliché, but learning from the past can really help us change our future (for the better, of course).’4- * Favorite movie: Pride and Prejudice (with Keira Rnightley).

Favorite food: Penne Vodka “I first became involved with Habitat for Humanity as a freshman, because someone lured me to their table and offered me some delicious brownies after I’d signed up! But to be honest, I really wanted to start doing some community service and have been active with Habitat ever since. I also joined the Model UN club as a freshman, because I’m really interested in international affairs, and I think it was because I baked some delicious cupcakes for them that I was the only freshman allowed to go on the club’s trip to Harvard! That trip really inspired me to get more involved. In my junior year, I came across an article about Girls Learn International, an organization that encourages schools here to support a sister school in a foreign country where it is difficult for parents to send their children because they do not have enough money. Mr. Kelly (Dean of Student Life) encouraged three of us to start a club at MKA, and it’s been pretty exciting so far. Our club is comprised of mostly

Lincoln Peek According to his College Counselor, if anyone from the Class of 2008 was stranded in the wild, the person they would need by their side is Lincoln Peek. Pivotal to the leadership and success of the MKA Outdoor Club, an experienced hiker and a championship skier, Lincoln leads by quiet example.

Hometown: South Orange Has attended MKA since: Eighth grade House: Monjo Favorite subject at school: Definitely history, because I love a good story, and history is full of good stories. Also, I tend to get better grades in history than in other classes, which is always a plus.

Favorite movie: Old School Favorite food: A dish called Yellow Tofu - tofu with some special spices, turmeric I think, that makes it yellow.

“Skiing is something I’ve always done. When I was little, my family lived in Vermont and I learned to ski when I was three. When we moved to Washington D.C., we didn’t ski much, but as soon as we moved to New Jersey we started again.

When I was in seventh grade, I started racing for the Killington team. As for hiking and climbing, my Dad would take me out occasionally, but I didn’t really get into it until after freshman year.

The summer of 2004,1 took a NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) course in Wyoming.

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Unsung Heroes climbing too. Since then, I have been a leader in the Outdoor Program and have gone on to hike the Long Trail.”

Achievement I’m proudest of: “Hiking the Long Trail (see photo of Lincoln on the Trail). The Trail stretches from Massachusetts to Canada through Vermont. It is over 270 miles long and is astonishingly beautiful. What makes me so proud is not so much the fact that I hiked it, but more that I planned it without any adult help, and hiked only with one other friend my age. I learned a lot of things the hard way on that trip, but it was totally worth it.”

It was a fantastic program and really taught me the skills I needed to hike and camp on my own. I enjoyed it so much that, as soon as I got back to school, I emailed Mr. Hessler to ask about the MKA Outdoor Program, which I joined in my sophomore year. I went on all the trips that year and loved them and finally started to enjoy

Problem Solving at the Upper School 1 1 ' .......1 /1 .5 GETTING A SQUASH COURT At 8 a.m. when the phys-cd centre opens, people start to line up to book squash courts for the following day. At 8:10 the sheets come out, and the line-up starts to move at the rate of 6 people per minute; that is, it takes each player 10 seconds to sign up for a court. n At the right is a graph of the total number n of people who have arrived to sign up for a court by t minutes past 8.

For example, the height of the graph at

l - 30 is n - 200. That means that the 200th person arrives at 8:30.

Show how to interpret on the graph: (a) the length of the line at 8:30, and the time the line-up disappears. (b) the time at which the line is the longest. (c) the length of time the 120th person to arrive has to stand in line. (d) the arrival time of the person who stands in line the longest. (e) There are 120 “prime-time” courts and these go to the first 120 people to arrive. Suppose you want to get one of these, but spend the least possible time in the line. At what time should you arrive?

Dreams for the future: “I’m sure that I will always do outdoor activities. In particular I would love to someday summit Denali, the highest mountain in North America. Besides that though, I just want to go to college and get a job that will allow me to travel a lot. I would love to return to Nicaragua someday.”

“Getting a Squash Court”, a challenging problem found in Canadian author Peter D. Taylor’s text, Calculus: The Analysis o f Functions, was assigned to our students taking Advanced Placement Calculus BC. To tackle this problem, students must draw on their learning from previous courses —Algebra 1 through Calculus 1 - and think outside the box. Most importantly, students must have the confidence in their ability to ultimately find the solution to this problem despite attempting several solutions that may lead to a dead-end.

We work to create a learning environment where students are willing to take risks, by encouraging students to put “wrong” answers on the board or to share different approaches to a problem. Students often collaborate on solutions during group work in class or, in the case of the Squash Court problem; one half of the class was assigned the problem (the other half was assigned a different problem) as well as responsibility for explaining the solution to their classmates.

Student N ews To be successful in Calculus (and mathematics in general), students need more than strong computational skills, they must develop strong analytical and critical reading skills; The study of Calculus provides the foundational skills for the continued study of economics, computer science, engineering and the sciences. Our mathematics curriculum offers four levels of Calculus, which enables more than 80% of our students to complete a Calculus course before graduating. We are proud of our stats -more than 95% of our students complete 4 years of math and nearly 15% double up in math during their senior year.

To analyze this problem, students draw on their understanding of graphs, coordinate planes, slope, rate, time and height - topics first introduced in pre-algebra and Algebra 1. Interpreting the labels for variables and numbers as well as the Arrival Function Departure conversion of units (data is presented in both seconds and minutes) are concepts reinforced in Algebra 1 The curve in the problem, which we’ll call the “arrival function,” may remind students of the logarithmic or square root functions, two fundamental parent functions presented in Advanced Algebra (Algebra 2). The graph may also be reminiscent of the model of projectile motion, first seen in Algebra 2 and again in Physics, which plots distance or height against time. Precalculus students may recognize the graph as a logistics function, one of many unconventional graphs students become familiar with in preparation for the challenging work of Calculus.

Since we are told in this problem that the queue moves at the rate of 6 people per minute, students may see that a line that crosses the x-axis at time=10 with a slope of 6 can be added to model departures from the queue and create a system of equations (see below). So, the equation of the departure line will be n-0=6(t-10) or n=6t-60. The construction of lines and line segments was learned in Geometry, while finding equations of lines and solving systems of equations graphically or algebraically are Algebra concepts perfected in Precalculus. Finally, in Calculus, students learn to approach rate of change functions

graphically and through the use of derivatives.

So, the “simple” answers to this problem? a) At 8:30 we know the 200™ person has arrived and looking at our departure function we see that about 120 people have departed [n=6(30)-60=120]. Therefore there will be 200-120=80 people in the queue. Again using our graph, we see the point where the arrival and departure functions intersect, at approximately t=50 or 8:50, represents when the queue disappears. b) The queue is the longest where the difference between the arrival function (the curve) and departure function (the line) is the greatest. This maximum distance is at approximately 170-78=92 people. (We’ll skip the explanation of the construction of tangent lines to get the exact point.)

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c) We see from our graph that the 120™person arrives at around 8:17 and departs at 8:30, which means he spends about 13 minutes on line. d) We learned in Part b that the queue id the longest where the difference between the two functions is the longest or when the 170^ person arrives. According to our graph the 170™ person, the person who happens to stand in the queue the longest, arrived at 8:23. e) In order to get one of the 120 prime-time courts and spend the least possible time in the queue, following the approach outlined in Parts b and d, we look for the point where the difference between the arrival function and departure function is the smallest (an n is less than 120).

This difference is the smallest about the time that the 2527™ person should arrive which is about 8:07. (To arrive at an exact number a horizontal line from the curve to the line can be constructed and the minimum distance found.)

Dr. Denise Brown-Alien Assistant Head of Upper School, Head of Math Department

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Fall 2007 Athletic Awards & Honors

Congratulations to John Dantzler '08, the recipient of the first MKA Fall Captain’s Award, which is awarded to a fall team captain who demonstrates leadership, a strong work ethic and is a role model for their team.

Boys’ Cross Country Coach: Tom Fleming (MS 4th Grade teacher) Record: 7-ÎÉÊ Eric Casella ’08 - MKA Senior Captain’s Award Lance Barnard ’l l - MKA Most Improved Runner Award Girls’ Cross Country Coach: Tom Fleming (MS 4th Grade teacher) Record: 3-8 Emily Naranjo ’09 - 1st Team All-CHC; 1st Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger; 1st Team All-Prep; 2nd Team All Non-Public, Star Ledger; Qualified for the Meet of Champions, MKA Most Valuable Runner Award.

Field HockeyCoach: Injoo Han (Assistant Director of Athletics) Record: 9-10-2 Congratulations to the team for qualifying for the States for the first time since 2001.

Bridget Blake ’08 —1st Team All-CHC; Honorable Mention All-Essex County, ECCA; Honorable Mention All-Prep; 3rd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger Lauren Dana ’08 - 2nd Team All-CHC; 3rd Team All-Essex County, ECCA; 3rd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger; MKA Points Leader Award Brigid Frey ’08 - Honorable Mention All-Essex County, ECCA Elise McMullen ’08 - 1st team All-Essex County, ECCA;, 1st Team All-Prep; Honorable Mention All-CHC; 2nd Team AllGroup 1, NJFHCA; Senior All-Star Game Player, NJFHCA; 2nd Team All-Essex

County, Star Ledger; 3rd Team All Group 1, Star Ledger Paige Barrett ’09 - Honorable Mention All-CHC Mallory McDonagh ’10 - Honorable Mention AllCHC; Honorable Mention All-Essex County, ECCA Katie Arena ’1 0 - MKA Most Improved Player Award Meredith Moran ’l l - MKA Rookie of the Year Award Football Coach: Tony Lambert (Upper School Spanish teacher) Record: 3-7 John Dantzler ’08 - All-Essex County Football Team, ECCA; 1st Team Defense, All-CHC; 2nd Team All-Essex County Defense, Star Ledger MKA Fall Captain’s Award, MKA Most Valuable Defensive Player Stuart Hinds ’08 - 1st Team Offense, All-CHC;

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Student N ews MKA Most Valuable Offensive Player Matthew Moore Alameda ’081 1st Team Offense, All-CHC; MKA Most Improved Player Jabari Sinclair ’08 - 2nd Team Defense, All-CHC David Trabka ’08 - Honorable Mention, All-CHC; MKA Joseph J. Weiner Award Jacob Weary ’08 - 1st Team Defense, All CHC John Meyer ’09 - 2nd Team Offense, All-CHC Tre Jenkins TO - Honorable Mention, All-CHC Boys’ Soccer Coach: Huey Ferguson Record: 12-9 Congratulations to the team for being the NJISAA Prep B State Champions Joseph Christovao ’0 8 - 1st Team Hills Division CHC; 1st Team All-Prep B; MKA Most Courageous Player Award Thomas Goulder ’08 - 1st Team Hills Division CHC; 3rd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger; MKA Most Valuable Player Dwight Jackson ’08 -Honorable Mention Hills Division CHC Mark Smuckler ’08 - Honorable Mention Hills Division CHC, MKA Most Dedicated Player Award Girls’ Soccer Coach: Todd Smith (Director of Athletics) Record: 8-10-2 Congratulations to the team for ¡ÌKHKilii qualifying for the States for the first ^ m time since 2004 Cara Placentra ’08 - 2nd team Hills sk ìsu su ?s [fs§ Division CHC; Honorable Mention All-Essex County, ECCA Jessica Gonzalez ’09 - 1st team Hills Division CHC; 1st Team All-Essex County, ECCA; 3rd TeamAll-Essex County, Star Ledger; MKA Points Leader Award Page Harbeck ’09 - 2nd Team Hills Division CHC

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Miranda Saylor ’09 - 2nd Team All-Essex County, ECCA; MKA. Most Improved Player Laura Placentra TO - Honorable Mention Hills Division CHC; 2nd Team All-Essex County, ECCA Stephanie Tramutala TO- Honorable Mention Hills Division CHC; Honorable Mention All-Essex County, ECCA Alana Carpenter ’ll - 1st Team Hills Division CHC; 2nd Team All-Essex County, ECCA; MKA Rookie of the Year Girls’ Tennis Coach: Bill Wing Record: 22-4 Congratulations to the team for being Colonial Hills Conference, Hills Division Champion - the team’s sixth CHC title - and to Coach Wing for being named Colonial Hills Conference Coach of the Year.

Darrin Bedol ’08 - 1st Team Doubles All-CHC; 3rd Team Alltg Essex County, Star Ledger; MKA Coach’s Award Stacey Bums ’081 1st Team Singles All-CHC; 2nd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger

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Alisha Bhatia ’1K- Honorable Mention All-CHC Adriana Calandra ’ll - Honorable Mention All-CHC Carina Wong ’ll B 1st Team Doubles All-CHC; 3rd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger

Chrissy Patterson ’08/- 2nd Team Doubles, AllCHC; 1st Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger; 2nd Team All Non-Public, Star Ledger Nicole Viola ’08 - 1st Team 2nd Singles All-CHC; 3rd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger Melissa Wong ’09 - 1st Team Singles All-CHC, MKA Most Valuable Player Laura Polding ’10 B2nd Team Doubles All-CHC; 2nd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger; 2nd Team All-Non-Public, Star Ledger

Volleyball Coach: Mike Tully Record: 24-4 Congratulations to the team for being Colonial Hills Conference Co-Champions, for being finalists in the Essex County Tournament and for reaching the quarter-finals of the States.

Melissa Schlobohm ’08 - Honorable Mention All-CHC Blair Bell ’09 - 1st Team All-CHC; 3rd Team All Non-Public, Star Ledger; 2nd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger; MKA Player’s Player Award Leah Cerf ’09 - 1st Team All-CHC; 1st Team All Non-Public, Star Ledger; 1st Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger Kelly Froelich ’09B Honorable Mention All-CHC Kheri Freeman ’l l —2nd Team All-CHC; 3rd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger

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Annual New Jersey Alumni Reception & Golf Outing Thursday, June 19 at the Montclair Golf Club Golf and lunch for players Cocktails and dinner for all Contact Laurie McFeeley ' 76 for reservations & more information at " at lmcfeeley@montclairkimberley.org

For the latest in MKA Sports Flews, go to www.montclairkimberley.org/home/athletics

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The MKA Middle School Boys’ Basketball Team takes on Roosevelt Middle School in West Orange.

The back story: We have not defeated this team in 19 years or so (maybe an exaggeration). That is roughly 38 games. We played them our first game of the year and lost in our gym by 6 points.

Tonight’s rematch has been circled on all of our calendars since that day.

The game was amazing. The boys played inspired basketball: jumping, running and diving their way to a 10 point lead at the half. We knew that the Roosevelt team was talented and that we would need to play a great second half to win. Roosevelt came out with a huge run and took the lead in the fourth quarter. Our boys bent but did not break.

Every time we needed a rebound, a steal or a basket, they responded. They had all the opportunity in the world to give the game away, but they didn’t. They kept their poise and executed the directions given by their coach. The game was tied with a minute left to play. We shot the ball with 32 seconds left. It danced around the rim, pausing several times for added drama. It didn’t go in. One of our most talented but least confident and least trained kids positioned himself perfectly for the rebound. He made a tremendous play, battled for the rebound, and powered it back in to give us a 2point lead. We were able to stop their last shot for the victory. The boys, parents and coaches jumped around like we had won the Superbowl!

After the game, the Roosevelt coach commended our boys on not only the tremendous game they had just played, but also on the sportsmanship that our boys always show. He called our kids “quality people.” He also told me that it was the first game they had lost in their gym in 4 years! Needless to say, I am extremely proud of our guys.

Kyle Chapman, Fourth Grade Advisor and Middle School Coach

MKA Boasts Proud Tradition of Scholar Athletes A recent article by MKA Athletic Director Todd Smith revealed a remarkable trend. While the national average for high school students going on to play four years of NCAA Division I, II, III or NALA college athletics runs at 4%, the number of MKA students playing for college teams has run close to 10% for each of the past four years, with current college acceptances indicating that the Class of 2009 will be no exception. As Smith noted, “MKA athletes are recruited to highly competitive Division I and III schools confident that they will be able to handle a challenging college academic load together with a rigorous athletic practice schedule, because they have already experienced something similar at the Upper School.

At MKA, students learn not only what it takes to be a successful student athlete, but also how to succeed at the next level. They learn essential time management skills, and are given leadership opportunities to lead their teams on and off the field. As members of the NJSIAA and the NJ Prep League, MKA’s athletes have the opportunity to compete against the very best throughout the county and the state, and if they have the desire and drive to play at the next level, the school helps provide them with a platform to get there.

Successful MKA athletes consistently display talent, demonstrate heart, determination and, perseverance and refuse to settle for mediocrity from either themselves or their teammates.”

To see the list of current MKA athletes playing at the college level, go to www.montclairkimberley.org/home/athletics.

Making the News for Service to Others The Upper School Boys’ Basketball Team also made the news (Star Ledger, December 18, 2007) not for their athletic record but for their commitment to community service. Each week, team members visit The Children’s Institute, a local school for autistic children, and help the young students hone their basketball skills.

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In Memoriam Daniel O.S. Jennings: "A man to whom we are greatly indebted." (Dedication in the 1960 Octopus) Assistant Headmaster of Montclair Academy from 1957-1962, Daniel O.S. Jennings, died of a heart attack on January 8, 2008 at the age of 92.

A graduate of Wesleyan University Class of 1936 and a passionate supporter of his alma mater (in 1996 he received the Wesleyan Service Award in recognition of his 60 years of extraordinary involvement), Jennings came to the Academy from the Hebron School in Maine.

At the Academy, in addition to being Assistant Headmaster, Jennings taught U.S. history and was a college counselor.

Possessed with a “booming voice” Jennings loved to sing, and is remembered by his daughter Deborah (who attended Brookside and The Kimberley School from grades

4-8) as “an enthusiastic and demanding teacher of American history and a stem disciplinarian.” While he may have had a reputation for being strict, he was highly respected among the students, and in dedicating their Yearbook to him, the Class of 1960 described Jennings as “a man who has greatly assisted us in our search for a suitable college, and who has inspired us with his guidance and judgement, and to whom we can all look back upon in the future as our true friend... He has helped to run the school, in his position as assistant headmaster, with firm and wise decisions; and his great school spirit, exhibited by his ever present vociferous cheering during our athletic contests, has endeared him to us forever.” Jennings left Montclair Academy to assume the Headship of the Laurel School for Girls in Cleveland, OH, and while formally retiring from teaching in 1977, continued to assist a friend at Providence Country Day School.

In addition to his daughter Deborah Jennings Minsky, Jennings leaves daughters Sally Jennings TKS ’61 and Mame Jennings Hodgin (who attended TKS through 10th grade), five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

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"It is (i man’s voice."

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Lois Riley: "A very dear friend, professional colleague and fun loving lady.'

(Jane Smith, Brookside music teacher) Past faculty member Lois Riley, one of the lyricists of Oh MKA, died from cancer on November 19,2007.

A long-serving member of the faculty, Mrs. Riley taught music at both the Primary and Middle Schools before teaching 5 ^ grade when debilitating arthritis forced her to give up to playing the piano. She retired in 1993, making a return visit as an honored guest to the 1997 Gathering.

While at the Middle School, Mrs. Riley was famed for directing the Faculty Choms and composing new lyrics to old songs to be performed by them at Eighth Grade Graduation.

Notes former colleague Linda Stark, “One of my fondest memories of Lois is of the time she organized a faculty can-can routine for the end of year Faculty Follies (a revue faculty put on for students). She convinced me, Joan Grevatt, Tommy Brayboy and

others to kick up our heels and go for it! We brought the house down!”

Middle School Dean of Students Scott Coronis recalls how Riley was an exemplar in both his private and professional life. “I will never forget how Lois opened up her home to me and my young family at Thanksgiving when we were new to MKA. They provided a great, old-fashioned Thanksgiving celebration which represented an act of kindness that my own family have, in turn, tried to extend to others over the years.” As a former member of her department, Coronis remembers Riley as a consummate professional; “She ran a very tight ship, ensuring that a number of dynamic personalities all worked in the same direction to create a really tremendous department.

While it was a great thing for the students, it was a terrible loss to the F&PA department when Lois moved into the classroom full-time.” And perhaps the last word should go to a student, quoted in Tommy Brayboy’s retirement speech in honor of Riley; “Mrs. Riley always made me feel good about myself. She built up my confidence and helped me write.”

Faculty N ews Faculty Laptop Project In November 2007, 200 brand new MacBooks equipped with wireless networking capabilities, video-conferencing cameras and the latest suite of educational software were delivered to MKA teachers on all three campuses. Rather than simply being a great professional perk, delivery of these laptops represented the latest stage in an evolving professional development initiative that began in 2000. Recognized in 2004 as being in the forefront of technology use, MKA’s Faculty Professional Development program won a coveted National Association of Independent Schools Leading Edge Award. By 2006, approximately 85% of MKA teachers were using laptops, and ongoing training and support continues to be offered in professional development sessions throughout the school year.

The provision of new laptops for all has enhanced MKA’s environment of professional collaboration as teachers explore and share new ways to use technology in the classroom.

“We are now at a point,” says Karen Newman, Director of Curriculum and Professional Development, “where our faculty have the tools to teach the students we have today in the best possible way. We have engineered a true marriage between curriculum and technology, enabling our faculty to plan, instruct and assess effective student learning, and most importantly, to help our students learn better.”

Not only is the Laptop program providing faculty with a new palette of tools and resources to enhance student learning, it is redefining what it means to be a teacher at MKA. As Upper School ethics and history teacher Kerry Verrone notes, “As a teacher, I am always looking for more effective methods to encourage student involvement in the course material, and I recognize that the students are naturally drawn to such tools and resources as online journals, forums and wikis, and iMovie.

Ultimately, the Faculty Laptop program is all about our students B at MKA we are becoming more versatile teachers to create more versatile learners.”

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Facultyfrom Brookside and the Upper Schooljoined together to participate in the annual Susan G. Komen Racefor the Cure in Central Park at the start of this school year. Seen herefrom left to right: Second Grade Coordinator Regina Elberg, Upper School Dean of Student Life and English teacher Brian Kelly, former Brooksidefaculty member and current parent Susan Dunn, Brookside Spanish teacher Sonia Tyson, First grade teacher Donna Blanes, Upper School Admissions Assistant Marianne Traina and Upper School Assistant Head of Campus and Chair of the Math Department, Dr. Denise Brown Allen.

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Getting together as MKA alumni at the New York City Alumni Reception were past classmates and currentfaculty members (left to right) Sandra Tritt ’99 (Director of Extended Day), Karson St. John ’98 (Upper School drama), Leon _ Shade '98 (Middle School PE) and Stefania % Lambusta ’98 (Middle School math).

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From the Alumni Council Dear MKA Friends and Family, Back in December, Fleadmaster Tom Nammack relayed to alumni via email and letter that MKA’s Goals For Strategic Planning, approved by the Board of Trustees, are available to read online on the school website (www.montclairkimberley.org).

Vital to these goals is a commitment to strengthen the relationship between the school and its alumni community. That is, and has always been, the mission of MKA’s Alumni Council, and its reason for inviting alumni back to school throughout the year for a myriad of exciting and informative events and reunions. Your participation is highly prized - for instance, the recent Career Day in March provided an ideal time for alumni to return and talk to students about their careers and paths taken leading towards particular fields of endeavor, and I thank those of you who participated.

The Council continues to help out with regional alumni receptions. The charter event for our NYC young alumni “happy hour,” held at the 79th Street

Boat Basin Café in September, was attended by upwards of 70 alumni, faculty and friends of MKA. Spring will see MKA on the road to Washington,® D.C. (April 18th) and headed to Boston on May 8th. Please be in touch with Laurie McFeeley lmcfeeley@montclairkimberley.org to R.S.V.P. and get more details on these enjoyable evenings.

Finally, Homecoming 2007 in October was a tremendous success, with over 225 alumni returning for the reunion luncheon and 175 guests at dinner Saturday night. Old friendships were rekindled and some classes vowed not to wait the requisite five-years between “official reunions” to meet-up again. Please don’t miss your class’s milestone reunions over the years. You will not be disappointed as Homecoming weekend is always a blast!

The Alumni Council needs new members each and every year, so please consider volunteering and working with fellow alumni on behalf of MKA. Sincerely, Dan Carson MKA Alumni Council President

JCrnk mi (¡on AduHUti Heceptum coming to an area near you soon!

Friday, April 18: Washington D.C. Thursday, May 8: Boston Contact Alumni Director Laurie McFeeley ’76 for reservations & more information at lmcfeeley@montclairlimberley.org

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A lumni N ews School Memories Many thanks to those o f you responded to the Editor’s request to hear about your school day memories. We hope to make this a regularfeature in the Review, and start with excerpts from Helen “DuBois ” Veltkamp, Kimberley School Class o f 1958x and Al Soria, Montclair Academy Class o f 1943. Given the relatively short time that both these alumni attended their respective institutions, their strength o f sentiment is remarkable, and serves as a moving testament to the two schools.

I came into our class as a Freshman in the 1955-56 year. The most memorable event of class life occurred the night of the Spring Prom in 1956 when we were sophomores. My parents had a dinner party for our Class just before the Prom.

My date left his car in our driveway, and I believe Daddy drove a bunch of us to school. Half way through the Prom, the skies began to sprinkle the atmosphere with snow. By the time the Prom was over and we were headed home, three of us couples stopped off at Anne Bobst’s home, and then, because the sprinkle turned into a full blast storm (which never did quit till Monday morning), all three couples, Anne’s, Penny’s (Winner) and my date, were forced to all fit in my Grandma’s bed for the night. Penny and I were tucked up in my room.

It was the night of our lifetime, never to be forgotten. Al spent most of the morning digging his car out while I kept plugging away at my homework. Actually I think there was still no school Monday morning because nothing was moving.

I have NEVER stopped mourning the fact that I could not graduate with my Class, and I have cherished you in my heart all the days of my life since. Nothing and no one will ever replace the sense of fellowship we had in those years.

My email is helen_veltkamp@yahoo.com Love, Prayers and Blessing Always, DuBois

I immigrated from Italy in March 1940 due to Mussolini’s fascist regime and political philosophy.

My father did not agree with it and was advised to leave the country. I, being 16, followed him. At that time my knowledge of English was, at best, poor; however in September 1940,1 was admitted to the Montclair Academy sophomore class with the understanding that I would have to pass the IQ test (required at that time for admission to the Academy) within 3 months. With the help of the teaching staff, and particularly Mr. Barras and Mr. Miller, who spent many hours improving my grammar and vocabulary, I succeeded in passing, and thus became an official member of the 1943 class.

I consider my three years at MA as wonderful, happy and productive ones, where I made many good friends with my classmates and teachers. Due to their efforts, I was able to attend Columbia and graduate in 1948 with a BA in chemistry. They were years that taught me how to be an American, and I will always remember Mr. Miller saying: “Soria, you are getting Americanized too soon!!”H It may be of interest to know that in September of 1943,1joined the Ski Troops, 10th Mtn. Div. and fought in Italy to help liberate my native country from fascism and the Germans, and in doing so, I was wounded not too far from my home town of Torino.

My email is albertesoria@aol.com, and I plan to attend my 65th reunion this year.

Al Soria

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MKA On the Road in New York City New York’s Upper West Side Boat Basin Café was the site of one o f the most successful MKA Alumni Receptions to date. On September 19, over 80 alumni from the classes o f 1994-2003 mingled happily, catching up on news, networking and reminiscing about their school days.

A George Hrab gets together with Mary Malabanan and Talia Ortega from the Class o f2000.

A Headmaster Tom Nammack meets members of the Class o f2001, Mike Braun (Alumni Council member), Danielle Claudio, Lindsay Braverman (Alumni Council member) and Ricardo Riethmuller.

Friends from the Class of2002, left to right: Erin Culbreth, Sarah Miller, Sofia Tome and Tory O ’Kane.

A With one of the largest showings of any Class, the girls of

’98 posedfor the camera. Clockwisefrom top left: Courtney DiStefano, Rachel Roth, Karson St. John, Priscilla Pellecchia, Erika Bickoff, Olivia Kaplan, Lesleigh Gennace, Sharon Skettini, Whitney DeLear and Kathryn Levy. ►Head of Upper School Campus Dr. David Flocco with Priya Krishana and Jessica Gerstein.

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Alumni N ews Encore Weekend September’s second annual Encore Weekend was a rousing success. Organized by faculty member J.C. Svec, the event showcased a new Deetjen Theatre production and recognized MKA theatre alumni who had been involved in past productions.

This year’s play, Lilly’s Room, written and directed by Svec, starred alumni and faculty member Karson St. John ’98, Brandon Uranowitz ’04, and seniors Kelley Stanley and Michelle Uranowitz.

Prior to the Saturday night performance, several alumni returned to honor the 1998 production and cast of A Piece o f My Heart.

George Hrab once again played the Master of Ceremonies, and accepting the “Deetjen’s Most Memorable Award” for that production was Kristen Connolly ’98 who, together with Amanda Dickey ’97, recalled the profound impact that both Svec and that production had

on their lives. Dealing with women involved in the Vietnam War, the play had special resonance for cast members who were able to visit the Vietnam Memorial on their Junior Trip to Washington D.C. Others who returned for Encore Weekend were Trevor Barnett ’02, Liza Boutsikaris ’99, Melanie Braverman ’01, Steve Digaetano ’00, Danielle Gitkin ’98, Eric Gruber ’98, Marguerite Plekhanov ’02, Robyn Pruzansky ’99, Jessica Schneider ’00, Stephanie Schriber ’07 and Jon Zweifler ’97, as well as past faculty members Marilyn Faden and Judy Nesbit.

Kristen Connolly ’98 accepted this year’s Deetjen s Most Memorable Award on behalf o f the cast and crew o f A Piece o f My Heart.

▼J. C. Svec is reunited with Amanda Dickey ’97 who traveledfrom California to attend the Encore Weekend.

A. Fellow actors Karson St. John ’98 and Michelle Uranowitz ’08. ▲ Eric Gruber ’98 received his award from Master o f Ceremonies George Hrab.

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On the chilly Friday after Thanksgiving, MKA hosted its annual Alumni Hockey Game at Clary Anderson Arena. This always-popular event found 20 alumni and coaches hitting the ice to take on the 2007-08 varsity team. Alumni participating were Charlie Kaplan ’95, Alex Voinov ’96; ’97 grads Jake McKee, Adam Wartski, and Sean Duffy; David Kreizer ’98; Gary Murphy ’99; 2000 alums Duncan Currie and John Martin; ’02 alums Goalie Brett Allcom and Anthony Gray, Matt Brown ’03; Will Boss ’04; 2005 grads Nick Galasso and Brian Thompson; Sean Gaffney and Mike Pierri of ’06 fame; Coach Ken Smith and son Danny, who

Hockey players past and present gathered fo r a group photo.

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attended MKA for many years; and current Coach Michael Good. The alumni put up a good fight, scoring 5 goals with Brian Thompson putting up two for the old guys. But the varsity was just too powerful and prevailed with 8 goals, thanks to smooth skating senior John Ciardi scoring 2 goals and one assist. Other scorers for the varsity were seniors Ed Bartleson and John Dantzler, juniors Robert DeVita and Brian Purcell and Coach Good and Dan Smith with a goal apiece. Next year, we hope many more alumni players answer the call and revisit their glory days on the ice!

Members o f the alumni team prepare to go out on the ice.

On January 8, Antonia Amico and Vicky Schalk from the Class of 2006, together with seventeen members of the Class of 2007 returned to enjoy lunch in the Upper School Dining Hall with faculty and friends. In addition to those shown below, attendees from the Class of 2007 included Dan Allen, Holly and Matty Battsek, Kurt Beyer, Chuck Chiemelu, Rob Meyer, Matt Ingolia, Jessica Ireland, Sophia Farrara and Andrea Lubinsky.

Alumni Awards 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award Nomination Form NOMINEE _ CLASS _ ACHIEVEMENTS___________ — (Please include additional information or resume on a separate sheet.)

Submitted by: NAME _ CLASS _ ADDRESS _ TELEPHONE _ Detach and mail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 or email lmcfeeley@montclairkimberley.org NOMINATION FORM FOR MKA ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME NOMINEE _ CLASS _ SPORTS _ ACHIEVEMENTS _ (Please include additional information or resume on a separate sheet.)

Submitted by: NAME _ CLASS _ ADDRESS _ TELEPHONE _ Detach and mail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 or email lmcfeeley@montclairkimberley.org DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD CRITERIA To all alumni, parents, trustees, faculty, staff and friends of The Montclair Kimberley Academy: The Distinguished Alumni Award Committee is hereby accepting nominations for the recipient o f the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award.

The recipient should have achieved distinction in some field of endeavor, or through outstanding character or dedication made a special contribution to humanity.

Race, creed, sex or contribution to the school should have no bearing on the choice of recipient.

The purpose o f the Distinguished Alumni Award is “to bestow recognition and appreciation for outstanding achievement.” This award will be a meritorious reflection on the school and will provide inspiration and encouragement for our young people. It is hoped that the recipient will come to MKA and address a gathering o f alumni and o f students. You may nominate more than one alumna/alumnus. There will be one Distinguished Alumni Award recipient each year; all nominations will be maintained in confidential files for consideration in following years.

MKA ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME AWARDS CRITERIA The Montclair Kimberley Academy Athletic Hall o f Fame was founded to honor those who have made telling contributions to the school’s athletics. Its purpose is to perpetuate the memory of those persons who have brought distinction, honor, and excellence to Montclair Academy, The Kimberley School, The Brookside School, and MKA in athletics,. ; .

• Nominee must have been an outstanding varsity athlete, coach, Athletic Director, trainer, or major contributor (financial and/or participant) at MA, TKS, Brookside, or MKA and/or brought distinction to the school through related and subsequent athletic accomplishments.

• Student nominees must have attended MA, TKS, Brookside, or MKA for at least two years, and have graduated from MA, TKS, Brookside, or MKA. Student nominees must have graduated at least five years prior to the year o f nomination.

• Nominee must have conducted his or her life in keeping with school standards and in ways which reflect positively on MKA. • The nomination can be a posthumous award.

• Nominees may nominate themselves, be nominated by alumni or others.

• Each year, a minimum o f one qualified male and one qualified female will be selected. Nominations will be kept on file for subsequent years’ review.

• A team may be inducted.

Class Notes Editor’s Note

We recently learned that Frank Kireker died on September 6, 2006. We send our deepest sympathies to his family.

We use one “official” yearly mailing to obtain news that then appears in the FALjLjy 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 emails to the Alumni Office, and the deadline is January 1.

TKS Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) 118 Heron Point Chestertown, MD 21620

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 email news to your class secretary or to the Alumni Office anytime (lmcfeeley@ 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 those 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

8 TKS Virginia (Gina) Stoutenburgh Svigals contacted Review Editor Debbie Kozak to let everyone know that she’s still enjoying an active life in Connecticut, managing to get out and about half a dozen times a day to walk her great companion, her brown poodle Mocha.

TKS Mrs. William Young (Peggy Klotz) The Village at Duxbury 290 Kingstown Way, Apt. 253 Duxbury, MA 02332 Peggy Klotz Young sends the following news: Ruth Duff Eager and husband, George, are still at home in a house in Upper Montclair. George isn’t as well as he used to be - no golf - and Ruthie is a busy “caretaker.”

Virginia Soutenburgh Svigals ’28 holds great granddaughter Alden Martinelli.

TKS Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) Crane’s Mill, Apt. 249 459 Passaic Avenue West Caldwell, N J 07006 MA Mr. John Graham 1129 King’s Ranch Road Bandera, TX 78003

Jean Hamlin Noyes writes from Texas that all is going along well for her. She especially enjoys the Kimbell Art Museum in.Fort Worth.

Teppy Holton Sjolander lives in Kendal, a retirement community in Kennett Square, Pa. and enjoys life there with “concerts, lectures and good friends.” She had a great cruise on the Delta Queen on the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to St. Louis.

I received a lovely Christmas card from “Cozy” Noyes Lathrop with a good photo of her with her family.

9 TKS Miss Charlotte Fitch 24 Cape Bial Lane, P.O. Box 45 Westport Point, MA 02791

TKS Mrs. Albert Frell (Irene Burbank) 580 Admiralty Parade Naples, FL 34102 L-R back: Chuck Borbone, Nicolas Podestà, Karen Borbone, Bobby Borbone ’14 and Johnny Borbone ’08. L-R front: Betty Podestà, AHOF inductee Gerard "Jeff Podestà, Sophia Podestà and Teff Podestà ’67.

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Margaret Richards Chapman writes that she is quite healthy but is being treated for wet macular degeneration. She can still read and helps Curt (her husband) to hear! She talked to Janet Gaylord Newsome who was going to Connecticut to her daughter Nancy’s for Christmas. Janet lives in Ottowa.

I also received a Christmas card from Jane Rinck. Her handwriting looks as though writing is difficult for her, and there was no news. She lives in Vermont.

I had lunch with Sally Bausher Littlefield during the summer and enjoyed catching up with her. She is very active - golf and bridge especially. She sees Helen Hodgson McLellan, who lives near New Orleans, when she goes to Florida.

I am quite well - on oxygen all the time - for COPD and very happy to be in such a fine retirement home with lots of friends and very near Manomet where son, Mason, lives and other sons come in the summer. I’d love to hear from anyone who will write or phone me!

Love, Peggy Ruth Russell Gray writes: I had to give up a wonderful trip for major heart surgery last summer: triple bypass, new aortic valve and pacemaker. Feeling OK now.

We send our deepest sympathies to the family of Betty Pierce Harding who died on December 2, 2007.

MA Our heartfelt condolences go to the family of Robert Buckalew who died on December 20, 200»

TKS Our heartfelt sympathies go to the family of Grace Currie Mitchell who died on November 9, 2007.

0 TKS Mrs. Alfred D. Williams (Joan Bayne) 15 Piper Road, Apt. K310 Scarborough, ME 04074 Summer Phone Number at Belgrade Lakes (May-September) is 207-495-2617 Class agent: Mrs. Iris Flournoy 900 Hollinshead Spring Road, G203 Skillman, NJ 08558 Joan Bayne Williams writes: The class of ’40 continues to be in touch (thanks to the alumni office for the extensive coverage in the news!!!! Several friends from other classes have caught up also, and our class now uses our “book” as a current address/phone reference. We are sorry to hear of the death of Barbara Kluge Deming’s and Nancy Kluge Rumery’s brother, Willard Kluge ’42. He hosted the New England group for our 60™' Frances Johnson Ames reports: I sustained a major cardiac arrest on August 26^ but am recovering nicely except for the shingles which I have now had for 6 years.

TKS Mrs. James F.C. Hyde Jr. (Enid Griswold) 5402 Duvall Drive Bethesda, MD 20816 Mildred Wright Dorland writes: I have just restored a small house on my granddaughter’s property in Troisereux, France and am

looking forward to moving in at the end of November. I had a nice visit with Enid Griswold Hyde last spring.

Jane Hinton Smith ’49 recently notified us that Jane Williams Bauermeister ’49 died in 2006. We send our deepest sympathies to Jane’s sister, Nancy Williams Brundage.

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 Charles Holmes writes: Still leading discussions of Great Decision essays on foreign policy with a group of senior citizens.

William Hall reports: Six grandchildren are college grads and five in college: Harvard, Indiana (2), Michigan and Mount Ida. One married. No great grandchildren. We both still have our wits and ability to walk, so all’s well.

Our sincere condolences go to the family of William Schoonover Decker who passed away on August 9, 2007.

'2 TKS Grace Aldrich Andersen writes: I’m still able to live in my home. Ann Adams Beetle was just here for 8 days to visit me on her way to Texas to visit one of her four daughters.

We send our heartfelt sympathies to Sarah Burton Nelson whose sister, Mary Burton Blakney '45, died on May 23, 2007.

MA Mr. Richard L. Charlesworth 27 Whipple Farm Lane Falmouth, ME 04105 DIKNAN@aol. com

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65th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2008 TKS Miss Lucile G. Mason 142 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, N J 07042 MA Mr. Edward S. "Ted” Olcott 23 Argyle Court Summit, N J 07901 mertedolcott@yahoo. com '42 MA & TKS L-R back: Robert Dittloff Daniel Emerson, William Walker, Hon. Robert Clifford. L-R front: Cheryl Dittloff, Helen Jones Gordon, Peggy Krout Taylor, Frances Furlong Johnson.

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Ted Olcott recently heard from former Class President Frank Sweeney who writes:

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.. .Here’s a personal history covering the 64 years since we graduated from good old MKA. I managed to squeeze in my freshman year at Georgetown before enlisting in the Navy (our side) early in 1944. Spent most of the time a Signalman aboard a Destroyer Escort in the Pacific. Found out wartime was not all that much fun. Made it back safely and returned to Georgetown where I graduated in 1949.

Worked in the textile business for the next 45 years during which time I met and married my fabulous wife, Gloria. We were blessed with two great kids, F.J. (my namesake) and Peter. Both are married, and Peter has two beautiful girls, ages 3 and 1. It’s great to have them close by.. .Aside from Ted Olcott, Dan Emerson ’42, the late Frank Jacobs and the late Gerry Youngman, the only other classmate I have seen is Percy Hill who lives in Naples, FI. Had lunch with him a few months ago when he came back to N. J. to see his daughters.

Have been blessed with enormously good health over the years, and when the weather permits, I still play golf about 3 times a week.

Best regards, Frank Our heartfelt condolences go to the family of William Polhemus who died on May 19, 2007; See pg. 29 of this issue to hear from A1 Soria.

TKS Patricia Lamborn Kolbe reports: Had a wonderful trip to London in October with my older daughter Tricia Coward Post ’69.

MA Mr. WinterfordJ. Ohland 39A Cambridge Court Lakewood, N J 08701-6225 We send our deepest sympathies to Peter Blakney whose wife, Mary Burton Blakney ’45, passed away on May 23, 2007.

winter. Stay warm up there!

Anne Feagley Wittels writes: It is with great sadness that I report doubly sad news. Our class has lost two fine members this year.

Jeanne Talbot Sawutz died on July 27™ while vacationing in the Adirondacks. Judy Shearer Turnbull died in the Winter Haven (FI.) Hospital on October 11^follow ing a broken hip suffered in September. Both of these classmates are remembered for their cheery smiles and good nature, a little scrappiness on the hockey field, and giggles while slurping Awful Awfuls afterward. Each had enjoyed a marriage lasting over fifty years (before becoming a widow), and each had experienced the joys of parenthood and grandparenthood. We remember them fondly.

The MKA community extends its sincere condolences to both the Sawutz and Turnbull families.

MA Mr. William B. Grant 7330 Westmoreland Drive Sarasota, FL 34243 grantwb@tampabay. rr. com William Grant writes: A phenomena that is increasingly prevalent amongst Florida’s seniors: Returning north to live near their children. Our classmate, Bud Tietje, has moved to Falmouth on the Cape to be near his 5 children and 9 grandchildren. Bud spent his working days as a builder on the Cape and running the Crab Trap Restaurant and his Woods Hexpress passenger only ferry service.

Sarasota, FL, America’s winter artistic Mecca, has a hectic winter season with opera, ballet, symphony, theater, museum art exhibits, economics and other fascinating lectures, boating, fishing, etc. For an overview of same, Bill Grant (grantwb@tampabay.rr.com) invites any forties MKAer’s to contact him when coming to Sarasota, be it this season or next.

Bob Nebergall is staying in Bill’s home on Feb. 19, 2008 on his way to his annual tour of one of America’s historic coastal forts. Bob writes: I’m off to Key West, Florida for the

MA Dr. Peter B. Lawrence 4802 Olympic Lane N #D Wilson, NC 27896-9148 Andy Schneidewing Walker writes: Mac and I are hanging in, as the saying goes - he as a Hospice volunteer plus his marvelous support group for people in job transition.

I’m still dancing madly with people half my age, a mind, body, spirit thing! - and arranging flowers for the New Canaan Inn, a residence for people just a little older than me.

William Brown Jr. writes: “The Wiz”, for which I wrote the libretto, closed in Holland October 9, after a 13-month run (it was performed in Dutch). It’s due to open in San Francisco (in English) September 2008.

m TKS Mrs. David Hannegan (Louise Rudd) 49 Canterbury Lane Lakeville, CT 06039 weezieh@sbcglobal. net MA Andy Davlin writes: Have 5 great kids and 7 grandchildren. My wife, Doris, passed away in 2004. I keep busy handling stock portfolios and doing corporate deals. Classmates headed for Boulder City, Nev., please call.

We send our sincere condolences to the family of Edward Le Master III who passed away in November of 2005. We only recently heard from Edward’s daughter, Katie Le Master, who informed us of the sad news.

We send our heartfelt sympathies to the family of Thomas P. Kehoe who passed away on April 17, 2007.

TKS Anne Feagley Wittels (Mrs. Jerome L.) 2116 Via Alamitos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 wittelsMcox. net Our heartfelt condolences go to the family of Mary Burton Blakney who died on May 23, 2007.

We send our deepest sympathies to the family of Jane Bamford Taylor who died on December 26, 2007.

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’47 TKS L-R: Jay Smith Hague, Louise Rudd Hannegan, Joan Cook, Kathryn Crowell.

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60th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2008 TKS Mrs. Sibyl Lewis Lotterle 4360 E. Burchell Drive Hayden Lake, ID 83835-8148 sibstoy@icehouse. net

149 TKS Jane Lockwood Scovil reports: All doing well in the sunny South. Health good and I’ve got a horse I’m retraining and enjoying riding. Dick plays golf, so we both like the outdoors. Keeps us young!

Our sincere condolences go to the family of Jane Williams Bauermeister who died in 2006. Jane Hinton-Smith was kind enough to notify us of the sad news.

We send our heartfelt sympathies to the family of Joan Duffy Murray who passed away on November 5, 2007.

150 TKS Class agent: Mrs. Richard Lewis (Audrey Maass) 4551 Gulf Shore Blvd. N, Apt. 804 Naples, FL 33940 MA Mr. Rudolph Deetjen Jr. 12 Ledge Road, Cottage 74 Blue Hill, ME 04614 Class agent: Mr. Jay Bitting 299 River Edge Drive Chatham, N J 07928

m TKS Mrs. Lloyd Marentette (Gail Robertson) 93 Glen Avenue, Llewellyn Park West Orange, N J 07052 Gail Robertson Marentette sends the following news: The Class of 1951 gets together frequently. We graduated with thirty in the clasfP- five have died from cancer, a few have gotten lost along the way and the rest of us really enjoy seeing one another.

Some of us are still employed, many do volunteer work and some play tennis and other sports. Bridge is popular, as is Mahjong! We love our children and grandchildren and those who are lucky enough to still have husbands love them too.

Almost all of us travel and see the world.

Betsy Smith Bergquist and Bruce work with couples to improve their relationships; ==it’s never too late! ‘They are thrilled to be back in New Jersey.

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Jane Gassaway Bonner loves her home in Basking Ridge. She’s taking classes, playing tennis, enjoying her dog and having visits from various relatives. In August, Jane had a mini-reunion in Maine at the home of her cousin, Bud, who resides in Center LovelflM Attending were Barbara Cronin Lovell ’50, Dave and Joan Jacobus Miller and George and June Crowe Croonquist.

Tom and Judy Frost Costikyan have moved to a retirement community outside of Philadelphia. Their three children live in the East, and they were recently in Maine visiting a daughter. The Costikyan’s loved living in Beaufort, South Carolina prior to their move.

George and June Crowe Croonquist divide their time among three homes —Hackensack, the Poconos and Maine. Their four children live nearby and visit frequently. George isffit being honored by his investment firm for being on Wall Street for fifty years. The Croonquists travel a great deal and love cruises.

Gerrie Lockerty Hendricks is in Chatham and has two daughters and one grandchild.

She visited Nancy Jones Trescot in Florida this past summer.

Ted and Miriam Eustis Irwin go on the most exotic and glamorous trips imaginable. In March, they’ll depart for Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and India. They’ll then go through the Suez Canal. Miriam keeps an extensive diary. We were both in Ireland this past summer at different times but saw the same castle. I couldn’t recall the name but,voila.. .Miriam instantly looked it up and refreshed my memory! The Irwins have 6 children (two in Maine, three in New Jersey and one teaching in Mexico) and seventeen grandchildren. We see each other often; how nice for me to be near an old friend whom I’ve known since we were eleven!

Anne LaBastille is in the process of selling her farmhouse in Westport, N.Y. She has a dog and three cats and is looking forward to traveling to Guatemala to look at birds.

Pat Overton Lee is looking after Jim and his injured back. She plays bridge with Nancy Ehrhardt White and stays involved in her community of Manchester, VT. Brownie Cleaves has lived in Eagle, Wisconsin for many years and is still working.

David and Joan Jacobus Miller divide their time between Chicago and Maine. They love the city action in the winter - volunteering, painting classes for Joan and visits from children. This past summer, the Millers took their thirteen-year-old granddaughter on an Elderhostel trip to Greece with other

grandparents and grandchildren. The journey was a terrific success, and the Millers then spent the remainder of the summer in Maine.

For this summer, they are considering a bicycle trip to Sicily or a trip to Russia.

(Dave will have knee surgery in December to get ready for the bicycling.)

Nancy Jones Trescot and Suzie Bailey Twyford went to San Francisco in September for a Wellesley reunion. They were wined and dined, visited the St. Francis Winery and loved being with old friends. Nancy then went fishing with son David. Suzie couldn’t wait to get back home to Virginia to see her three grandchildren.

Nancy Ehrhardt White loves her life in Vermont - cross-country skiing, lots of bridge and volunteer work. When her house in Normandy Beach isn’t being rented, Nancy and her family are there. Her grandchildren range from pre-school to college age, including seven-year-old twins.

Nick and Ruth Ransom Wilson love Princeton. Nick is very involved with the University, particularly his class. Ruth plays tennis, bridge and does volunteer work that includes the Garden Club and Morven Museum and Gardens. Their four sons lead interesting lives.

Judy Smith Gentry now lives in a nursing home in Texas, suffering from memory problems. Baxter and the children are very attentive.

I love being back in Llewellyn Park and my life here. We had the 150^ anniversary celebration of the Founding Park in June 2007, and I was the chairperson for the weekend. We had three days of parties and events Slots of old friends came. Included among the guests were Lisa Landon Hewett ’50, Margaret Parsons Parker ’50, Judy Merck Buechner ’50, Andrea Schneidewing Walker ’46, Linda Scheerer Tiernan ’43 and Mary Lois Scheerer Babcock ’45.

I was in Beaufort, S.C. in May for a wedding and visited Doug and Audrey Carroll Bittner ’50. What fun we had! My children live in San Francisco, Michigan and the British Virgin Islands. My grandchildren are 4 and 3. They love school, and I love them!

Friends are important and life is good.

Fondly, Gail Robertson Marentette Linda Herbert writes: I miss Montclair very much. I also miss seeing all my old friends.

However, I moved here (Peabody, Mass) from California to be close to my family.

Nancy Ehrardt White reports: Traveled across Canada by train this fall —the foliage was lovely. Swam in Hot Springs at Banff The Rockies were spectacular!

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MA Mr. Ernest F. Keer III 459 Club Drive, P.O. Box 1030 Bay Head, NJ 08742 Ken Crowell reports: I am Past President and still active on Deer Isle, Maine.

Mark Hanschka writes: I live in Sunriver, a resort community in the foothills of Oregon’s Cascade Mountain Range. I use a bicycle as my primary mode of transportation in my community, eight or more miles on most days; I also walk or run 20 plus miles every week. I write letters and emails to support many environmental organizations and women’s reproductive rights and still work once a month as an MD at a local Planned Parenthood clinic. Feel less provincial when traveling outside the U.S. about once a year.

Our heartfelt condolences go to the family of Richard Wentz who died on December 29, 2006.

TKS Mrs. Clark Moran (Martha Gilbert) 8011 StrauffRoad Baltimore, MD 21204 mmoran@iopener.net We send our deepest sympathies to Carol Burton Biggs whose sister, Mary Burton Blakney ’45, died on May 23, 2007.

MA Class agent: Mr. Charles Sage 435 Welch Avenue Ames, IA 50014 We send our heartfelt sympathies to the family of Robert Hughes who passed away on October 25, 2007.

Our sincere condolences go to the family of Matthew Kartch who died on December 14, 2006.

55th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2008 MA Mr. Peter Cockshaw 1264 Oakmont Court West Chester, PA 19380 pcockshaw@comcast.net

TKS Ms. Georgia Carrington 38 Silver Spring Lane Ridgefield, CT 06877 MA Class agent: Mr. Sheldon Buck 51 Cornell Road Wellesley, MA 02181-7408

55 TKS Cecily Wilson Lyle 432 Wrights Neck Road Centreville, MD 21617 ceci@dvm.com MA Mr. Lawrence Martin P.O. Box 1058 Lexington, VA 24450 Class agent: Mr. Robert Brawer 131 East 6 6^ Street, Apt. 10C New York, N Y 10021 Robert Brawer writes: My wife, Catherine, and I were finalists in the senior amateurcouple category of the New Jersey State Open Ballroom Dance Competition in October.

We send our deepest sympathies to Oscar Mockridge III whose sister, Alyce Jane Mockridge, died on August 16, 2007.

’52 MA & TKS L-R back: David Kelly, Clare Moran, David Kerr, Skipper Gilbert Moran, Jean Fairgrieve Granum, Gail Tomec Kerr L-R front: Nancy Booth Kelly, Anne Aveson, Jane Redfield Forsberg, Fay Taft Fawcett.

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MA Mr. Eric Jaeckel P.O. Box 20153 Boulder, CO 80308 efiaeckel@hotmail.com Class Agent: Dr. Lawrence Nazarian 29 Surrey Place Penfield, NY 14526 LFredN@aol. com Carol Barnard Ottenberg writes: I am still making trips east 3 to 4 times a year to visit my mother (Louise Stauffen Barnard ’27) and see other family including sister-in-law Doris Krebs Barnard ’54.

Linda Lovell Smith recently heard from Betsy Hasbrouck Cole. The following are excerpts from Betsy’s letter: .. .about two years ago, we sold our beloved “Rockwell Ridge” and moved to a townhouse in New Canaan.. .At the end of 2005, Bob retired, and White Oak Capital Management, the company that Bob and a partner had founded in the late 80’s, closed its doors after a very happy and rewarding time. Soon thereafter, however, Bob was told he was in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease.. .Fortunately, it is in the early stages, and we are pleased that he has connected with an outstanding neurologist in NYC. Last May, I had both knees replaced at HSS, also in NYC. Throughout this whole time, our family has been extraordinarily supportive, and Bob has been the best nurse possible.. .Last spring we also sold our condominium in Vero Beach and purchased a very comfortable and happy house belonging to some dear friends of ours. .. .Carolyn has sold her personal training business for Fairfield County high school students and teams and is now doing personal training in people’s homes.. .Along with two friends, Susan has completed writing a book on motherhood that will be published by McGraw-Hill next spring... Watch for their book tour coming to your area! Hugs.. .Betsy and Bob

’57 MA L-R back: Rev. John Allen, John Hardman, Hal Cohen L-R front: Ursula Allen, Mildred Hardman, David Marrocco.

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MA Class secretary and agent: Dr. Edward T. O 'Brien Jr. 3376 Ferncliff Lane Clearwater, FL 33761-1411 eobl0726@msn.com

111$$ 50th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2008 TKS Mrs. Diana Bethell Little IK Buckingham Rd. West Orange, N J 07052 littlecorp@verizon. net Elizabeth Ayres Cole writes: I am actively engaged in the development of a pre­ conference on Third Age Life Planning which will be held at Eckerd College in December 2008 in conjunction with the First Positive Aging Conference.

Helen Veltkamp is looking for a copy of the 1950’s Student Hymnal or the music for the TKS version of “God of Our Fathers Known of Old.” If anyone has a copy or knows where Helen could locate one, please contact Alumni Director Laurie McFeeley (973-5097939 or lmcfeeley@montclairkimberley.org) Please see pg. 29 of this issue to hear more from Helen.

MA Mr. Henry Agens 86 Eagle Rock Way Montclair, N J 07042 Mr. David Stroming 33 Mt. Prospect Avenue Verona, N J 07044\ I know you will never entirely comprehend this, R....., but you must believe I did not know it would be you. I served them. I fought fo r them. I ’m to a point o f winning fo r them the greatest foothold they will ever have in this country. And they paid me back by taking your soul away from you. I told them to build me an assassin. I wanted a killer from a world filled with killers, and they chose you.

Because they thought it would bind me closer to them. But now we have come almost to the end. One last step. And when I take power they will be pulled down and ground into dirt for what they did to you and what they did in so contemptuously underestimating me.

Well, we’re off and running. How do you like that opening? I need a good attention grabber to start.

Here we all are in 2008. Simply said, with no real attempt at profundity, the 50th anniversary of our MA graduation is upon us.

It is my hope that all of us in the Class of 1958 will be motivated by this milestone to

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gather, if only at least for this time, and enjoy each other’s company again. Really. Let’s do it!*

We send our heartfelt sympathies to Peter Grieves whose brother, Donald Grieves, died on December 26, 2007.

The 50th reunion is set for Saturday, October 25th. You’ll be receiving more specific information in the mail, etc. in order to make your plans to be there.

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In addition, I am pleased and very proud to announce that our great senior English teacher, Frank Brogan, will join us in October as our Guest of Honor. Mr. Brogan and his wife Maia live in Winter Park, Florida. Both of them are in their mid-eighties now and in good health. They are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary this year.

Jack Roth and I spoke on the phone recently.

He and his wife Rita are fine and living in Hamburg, New Jersey. Jack became a grandfather again, he tells me. His son, James, and his wife Becky had a son on December 13, 2007. His name is Jarrett Tate Roth. They have another son, Mason, 20 months old. James is a civil engineer and does government consulting work, currently with Homeland Security. Jack says that December is the best month to have a child.

You get the tax deduction for the whole year!

TKS Ms. Jarvis Reilly Nolan 15612 Via Marchena San Diego, CA 92128 jarvisno@aol. com

TKS Class agent: Mrs. Mary Anne Coursen Doty 21 Juniper Drive Queensbury, N Y 12804 Sally Alice Unkles writes: My winter home on the Intercoastal Waterway in Palm Beach, Florida has been featured for its Christmas decorations in the Palm Beach magazine called Grandeur. The byline read: Passionate collector Sally Alice Unkles welcomes the winter holidays in a sunny home filled with treasured objects and decorations. I welcome classmates to knock on my door in Florida or at my summer home The Waves (the John Russell Pope house) in Newport, Rhode Island.

Fred Kramer reports proudly that his son, Jonathon Kramer, has a part in Tom Hanks’ latest flick, Charlie Wilson’s War, Jonathon has been an actor for some time, having graduated with a Theater Arts Degree from the University of New Hampshire. He also studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC. In LA, he was a student in a Master Class on Acting at the Ruskin School. Sir Anthony Hopkins was his acting teacher.

Fred says that he plans to come to the 50th reunion. Fred lives in North Palm Beach, Florida.

Answer to the last Professional-Strength Trivia query in the Fall ’07 issue: Quemoy and Matsu are two small islands just off the coast of mainland China. Whether or not to defend them was the subject of heated discussion between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon during a couple of their television debates during the Presidential campaign of 1960.

New Industrial-Strength question: What actress spoke the chilling words, quoted at the outset of this missive, in an early 60’s film based on a well known novel? What was the name of the movie? Enough already.

Until that time, keep punchin’, keep those cards and letters coming, and don’t fire until you see the whites of their eggs.

Signed, Scrambled Agens

TKS Mrs. Winifred Sage Wilson 13819 Vidal Place, NE Albuquerque, NM 87123-4729 wmsw98@msn. com Class agent: Mrs. Suzanne Scannell Hardy 47 Bartlett Parkway Winthrop, MA 02152 We send our deepest sympathies to Sally Jennings Teague and her sisters Deborah Jennings Minsky and Marne Jennings Hodgin whose father, Daniel O.S. Jennings, died on January 8, 2008. Mr. Jennings was Assistant Head of Montclair Academy and a member of the History Department from 1957 to 1962.

On November 6, 2007, Thelma B. O ’N eill passed away. A woman with broad and deep connections to the school, Thelma was the mother o f Stephen O’Neill ’61, Jack O’Neill ’68 and Elizabeth O’Neill Perry ’72; and the grandmother o f Colin O’Neill ’82, Blake O’Neill ’82, Darrin O’Neill ’84, Jason O’Neill ’85 and Caitlin Coopersmith ’98. The MKA community sends its sincere condolences to the family.

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4 5^ reunion. Seeing Doug Johnson and Bob Gerst for the first time since 1962 was a blast. Bruce Guernsey suggested we all come back for the 46 , so look for us next year.

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45th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2008 MA Mr. Bronson Van Wyck Arrowhead Farms, Box T Tuckerman, AR 72473

TKS Ms. Marilyn “Lyn ” Schultz Blackwell 3779 Center Road RR1, Box 63 East Montpelier, VT 05651

Miniature evergreen hung with sterling silver ornaments and surrounded by extensive collection of Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls grouped on an antique quilt at the home of Sally Alice Unkles ’60.

See pg. 39 in this issue for more information.

TKS Mrs. C. D. Creed (Barbara Bywater) 1769 Forest View Avenue Hillsborough, CA 94010 MA Dr. John J. Farrar P.O. 114 2069 Warren Creek Road Ovando, MT 59854 sharknose@starband. net John Farrar writes: Had a great time at our

MA Mr. D. Carter Fitzpatrick 49 Bell Rock Plaza, Suite A Sedona, AZ 86351 Class agent: Mr. A. Craig Cameron 11 Bay Point Drive Ormond Beach, FL 32174 Jan Shaw writes: My son, Sgt. Elliot Partin, USMC, returned from his 3rc*deployment to Iraq. He plans on attending the University of Washington next fall. My husband, Randy Partin, retired last year. I continue to scuba dive here where it’s warm. I’m still an OR nurse.

Ms. Margot Escott 1818 Imperial Golf Course Blvd.

Naples, FL 34110-1010 MA Class agent: Mr. Craig Perry 3467 Pinestream Road Atlanta, GA 30327 Reunion Chairs: Michael Labowsky labowsky@diamondproductionsinc.com Mr. Joseph Marino jamaresq@aol. com Joe Marino and Mike Labowsky did a terrific job of rallying the troops for their 401^ reunion last October. Both Joe and Mike are current MKA parents, with daughters Ali Marino and Mary Labowsky attending MKA’s Upper School in 10th and 11th grades respectively. Coming back to join Mike and Joe were classmate and 1992 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Mike Yamashita, Keith Morton, Jeff Podesta, Rick Sheldon and CJ Steggles.

68 40th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2008 TKS Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 10 Knolls Road Williamstown, MA 01267 akalker@aol.com We send our deepest sympathies to the family of Ann Lowry who died on November 3, 2007. Phyllis LaTouche Rawlins ’69 was kind enough to notify us of the sad news.

MA Mr. Burton M. Webb Box 29 Free Union, VA 22940

TKS Phyllis La Touche Rawlins PO. Box 1423 Bridgehampton, N Y 11932 Phyllis LaTouche Rawlins sends this update: Virginia Munson Vassallo has two sets of twin grandchildren! Her daughter Heather Shilale gave birth to a twin boy and girl on December 4, 2007. Newborn twins Holly and Casimir join 6-year-old twin sisters, Chloe and Noelle. Congratulations, Virginia!

’62 MA & TKS L-R back: John Farrar, Jan Farrar, Bob Schmitt, Barry Nazarian, Doug Donald, Stephanie Bobst Vanden Heuvel’s grandson. L-R front: Penny Schmitt, Stephanie Bobst Vanden Heuvel, Bob Gerst, Jim Donald ’60.

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Susan Lowry writes that she and her husband, Michael Cothren, have lived in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania for 27 years.

Michael is a professor at Swarthmore College. They have two daughters, Emma

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’67 MA & TKS L-R back: Patricia Sheldon, Rick Sheldon, Mike Yamashita, Joe Marino, Jeff Podestà, Mike Labowsky, Keith Morton, Christine Churchill, CJ Steggles, Lillian Labowsky.

L-R front: Abigail Adler, Kathy Mustacchi Samman, Linda Pasternack (Feinberg), Jane Kimball. who graduates from Barnard College this year, and Nora who is a freshman at Smith College. Susy spent her working career in non-profits, most recently as executive director for an organization that developed theatre pieces advocating for social change.

Sadly she lost both her mother and her sister Ann Lowry ’68 in 2007. Her mother died in July and Ann died in November on November 3, 2007. We extend our deepest sympathy to her. [The MKA community extends its sincere condolences to Susan and her family.]

Congratulations to Lynn Ehrhardt Gildea who writes: Chip and I are the proud grandparents of Tom and Ali Gildea, bom March 3, 2006 to our son, Brian, and his wife, Mary. We are very lucky that they live only a mile away!

The MKA community extends its heartfelt condolences to Virginia Munson Vassalio whose aunt, Edith Roche, died on December 15, 2 0 0 » Edith worked as a Registrar at The Montclair Kimberley Academy from 1968 1976.

MA Dr. Edward A. Griggs Jr. 25 North Drive Dobbs Ferry, N Y 10522 We send our heartfelt sympathies to Dutch Vanderhoof whose mother, Ruth Vanderhoof, passed away on December 20, 2007.

70 TKS Ms. Leslie Bryan 844 East Morningside Drive, NE Atlanta, GA 30324 Class agent: Ms. Kim Kolbe 38 Kent Drive Roseland, N J 07068 Leslie Bryan sends this update: Over the weekend of June 7, 2007, 13 of the 31 members of the Kimberly Class of 1970 met

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on Martha’s Vineyard at the homes of Leslie Bryan and Heidi Sanders Bryan.

What a wonderful occasion. Unfortunately, at the last minute, Deborah Von Hoffmann Lanzone and Barbara Dixon were unable to join us H and we missed them and talked about them fondly. Pat Vilas Brown was unable to attend - all the way from Seattle® but she sent pictures, so she was with us in spirit. We had Madge Huber Henning, actively working with Planned Parenthood, join us from Washington. Liz Conzen Zellner came from Lynchburg where she will be an empty nester come fall as her youngest leaves for boarding school. Her older daughter is a rising junior at the University of North Carolina. Susie Buttel O’Brien, sporting a beautiful engagement ring, came from New Jersey where she works with Special Ed students. Kim Kolbe also came from New Jersey. Kim recently lost her dad and is looking forward to retirement from the Giants. Retirement how does that make us feel? On the way home, Susie and Kim took along Karen Braeder Conniff and Barbara Sloane.

Karen’s husband, Dick, is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an expert in evolution and global warming.

Karen stays busy with her daughter (who will be heading to Bard in fall 2007) and her real estate business. Barb continues to live and work in New York and maintains her wonderful wit. Alison Smith Driscoll and Betsy Kimball joined us Saturday.

Alison was being married the following week and came to the island for her wedding dress fitting - where we all joined her so we could take a group photo. She and Richard are moving to Delaware where Richard will be joining DuPont. While excited about the new opportunity, Alison has never lived outside of New England, so this will be quite an adventure. Betsy continues to practice as a lawyer for the state - protecting coastal zones. Thanks Bets! Georgia Buckner came from Vermont. Her oldest daughter is in New York, starting a career, and her youngest is

headed to the Haverford in the fall. Georgia had quite a tale to tellH but you will have to email for details! Anne McIntyre Graves came from New Canaan. Her daughter, Erin, is also starting a career in New York. Her younger daughter, Whitney, is finishing school in California. Anne and Otto are supervising the reconstruction of their Nantucket home. Austin continues to do well and is working in Wilton. Heidi had recently arrived on the island for the summer and I was trying to spendHfor the first time ever - the entire month of June in my new house. On Friday evening, we were joined by four other Kimberly alums Kit Eavenson Sanders ’41 (Heidi’s Mom), Debby Sanders Lewis ’67 (Heidi’s sister), Terry Appenzellar ’66 and Kate Appenzeilar Hancock ’68. Terry and Kate, Heidi’s cousins, are both living on the island pretty much full-time as is Debby Lewis.

Katharine Powell Cohn writes: I’ve been working at the Stowe Visitors’ Center since June doing central reservation and giving out information to tourists. It’s wonderful to be speaking French on almost a daily basis with all of the Canadian and European visitors. We’ve had snow on the ground since mid-November and hope for a terrific and profitable holiday season as compared to last year when the snow didn’t fall until late January. It did last w eK n April, though.

We send our deepest sympathies to Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner whose mother, Ruth Vanderhoof, passed away on December 20, 2007.

MA Mr. V. James Castiglia 3 Lark Lane Oak Ridge, N J 07438 Class Agent: Mr. Peter Webb Mile Slip Farm 48 Mason Road Brookline, NH 03033

72 TKS Class agent: Mrs. Linda Finney Williams Box 1446 6 South Pasture Lane Nantucket, MA 02554 Reunion Chair: Ms. Barbara Flessas akisister@aol.com Amy Nussbaum Mack writes: My son, Jeremy was married on July 30, 2006 to Lauren Goldstein, and they are expecting their first child at the end of October.

They live in San Mateo, Calif.

MA Class agent: Mr. Peter Perretti 86 East Bracebridge Circle

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’72 TKS dinner Kate Curtin, Jackie Collier, Barbara Peto, Linda Finney, Barbara Flessas, Denise Chezek, Debbie Peck, Brewer Doran, Lillian Leung (Standing). Sitting, Judy Nesbitt and Lillian’s husband.

The Woodlands, TX 77382 perretti@sbcglobal.net Henry Talbot reports: My son, Alexander, is now 4 years old, and my wife is expecting our second child in November.

35th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2008 TKS Ms. Susan Read 38 College Circle Staunton, VA 22401-2375 billdavick@aol. com Class agent: Mrs.Edward Skibiak (Ellen Wahl) 56 Hamilton Drive East North Caldwell, N J 07006 eskibs@optonline.net

MA Mr. Gregory Lackey 138 Paupukkewis Trail Medford Lakes, N J 08055

Class agent: Mr. Thomas C. Galligan 504 Main Street New London, NH 03257-7818 tgalligan@colby-sawyer. edu

Class agent: Ms. Erin Cuffe Crawford 102 Buckingham Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 erincrawford@comcast. net

Tom Galligan reports that he and Susan (Stokes Galligan ’74) are doing well and that the Colby-Sawyer College campus they call home is a winter wonderland. Son Patrick graduated from Bates in May 2007 and daughters Sarah (junior) and Aisling (freshman) are enjoying life at Dartmouth.

Their youngest daughter, Jenny, is a sophomore in high school.

MA Mr. Rudolph Schlobohm 78 Montclair Avenue Montclair, N J 07042 rudyschlobohm@gmail. com

William Kovacs writes: Our son, Billy graduated from Lehigh this past spring with honors in mechanical engineering. He has taken a job with JB & B in NYC as an engineering consultant. Our daughter, Lauren, is continuing as a medical student at N.J. Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J.

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Class o f 1975 reunion in N ew York City (front, l-r): Leigh Royer, Janet Kluge Wiggin, Kassig)Canter, Alison H unt Noger, Lisa Irwin Keane, L iz Newman, K ay Towner-Stallé, Lucie D u H am el and Anna Crawford, (back l-r): Sally Thompson, Katherine Ripley, Karen K elley M oriarty and K atie Grover.

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'72 TKS L-R back: Judy Nesbit, Denise Chezek, Susan Huang, Tony Kane with Shelley, Linda Finney Williams. L-R front: Barbara Peto Kilnapp, Brewer Doran, Barbara Flessas David.

We send our heartfelt condolences to Ann Robinson whose father, John S. Robinson, died on December 10, 2007.

Class agent: Mr. Paul Zukerberg 1790 Lanier Place NW Washington, DC 20009 Lisa Irwin Keane writes: On the weekend of May 5, thirteen TKS girls from the class of ’75 got together at the Kimberly Hotel in N.Y.C. to celebrate being 50 and gorgeous. It was as if we had never left each other!

Mini '76 reunion at the home o f Hilary Hoffman Fandel in July 2007.

Gathering and reminiscing were: (Front (l-r): Susan Stanton, Sara Close, Frances Mills Wonell, Liz Bruns Johnson and Mary Lou Guttman (Back l-r): Arleen Sapienza McDonald, Lisa Aufzien, David Hughes, Alumni Director Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley, Hilary Hoffman Fandel, Frank Godlewski, Dale Frederick Home and John Urga.

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'77 MKA table: L-R back: Pat Berry, Jennifer Hendrian, Rob Hubsmith L —R front: Susan Rogers, Jared Randall, Rick Jenkins.

76 Mrs. Paul McFeeley (Laurie Hoonhout) 238 Devon Road Essex Fells, N J 07021 lmcfeeley@montclairkimberley. org Class agent: Dr. Charles Read 1918 N. Daniel Street Arlington, VA 22201 Our sincere condolences go to the family of David Williams who died this past September.

Mr. Andrew Pedersen 1 Washington Avenue Rumson, N J 07760 andyp@worth. com Class agent: Mr. Robert Hubsmith 16 Warren Road Maplewood, N J 07040 robert. hubsmith@mountsinai. org Cheryl D 'Alessandro McMullen, Reunion Chair Beverly Hall writes: Because we are involved with the N.I.L.E (Northern International Livestock Exposition) in Billings Montana, and Leah, my oldest

Beverley Hall '77 with daughters Libby (12) and Kelly (14) at the Pepsi Center in Denver.

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'77 MKA candid. L-R back: David Kerr, Joe Sullivan, Bill Langstaff, Frank Godlewski '76, Chris Brenner, Jared Randall, Michael Werksman, Peter McMullen L-R front: Paul Hastaba, Jason Apter, Andy Read, Jennifer Hendrian, Rob Hubsmith, Nancy Cohn Dainesi, Steve Cowles, Pat Berry, Cheryl McMullen, Brad Protas, Barry Centanni.

daughter (14), is showing some calves, it will be hard for me to get to NJ [for the reunion], but it doesn’t mean I am not thinking of you guys.. .Kelly played the National Anthem on her trumpet in front of 17,000 people before the opening of a professional lacrosse game.

(My brother, Billy is involved with the Colorado Mammoth team.).. .Wish I could be there. It would be really fun to see everyone again!...

We send our deepest sympathies to Robert Williams whose brother, David Williams ’76, died this past September.

Our sincere condolences go to the family of Virginia Lo Biondo, who died on November 19, 2007. Mrs. Lo Biondo was the mother of Donna Lo Biondo ’77 and faculty member Joan Weller. She was also the grandmother of faculty member and alum Dan Weller ’01 and of Alena Weller ’98, Rachel Weller ’09, Alicia Ponzio ’92 and Marc Ponzio ’99.

Robbin Gordon-Cartier debuted with The North Jersey Harp Ensemble at an outdoor concert at the Fort Lee Community Center on August 15, 2007. Robbin has performed at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in NYC and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

A teacher in the East Orange School District, Mrs. Gordon-Cartier directs the harp

program, one she originally created for the Elizabeth School District. Robbin released a CD, Just As I Am, in 2004.

We send out sincere condolences to Peter Valentine whose father, Richard Valentine, died on July 9, 2007.

78 30th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2008 Ms. Pamela Zeug 250 Mercer Street, D502 New York, N Y 10012 pzeug@msn. com Class agent: Ms. Jane Lugaric Burkhard 299 Crown Road Kentfield, CA 94904 Former Athletic Hall of Fame recipient Rick Doerr is in the running for one of the more prestigious sailing honors, the Rolex Yachtsman of the Year Award. Rick won the gold medal in the Sonar Class at the 2007 IFDS (International Association for Disabled Sailing) qualifying the USA for the Paralympics in 2008.

As follow-up to that performance, Rick went on to win the Paralympic Trials in Newport, R.I., October 3-14, 2007 to earn the right to

Rick Doerr '78 in the final race at the IFDS World Championship,

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L o ri W in d o lf C rispo - W om an to W atch

(Editor’s Note: MKA alum Lori Windolf Crispo ’78 was named one o f 50 Women to Watch in the July 30, 2007 issue q/Business Insurance. Following are excerpts from the article.)

Lori Windolf Crispo joined her family’s Short Hills, N J., insurance brokerage, Bollinger Inc., in 1985 and spent the next three years in a training program learning about personal lines, commercial lines and employee benefits. When Bollinger secured an exclusive sports accident and liability program with CIGNA Coip. in 1989, Ms. Crispo was tapped to manage Bollinger’s new amateur sports division. Today, the sports division has grown to 22 employees and generates in excess of $5 million in revenues annually for Bollinger. As senior executive VP, Ms. Crispo is responsible for operations and sales management of the division and is considered a leading female authority in amateur sports insurance and risk management. She has authored a number of risk management manuals for her clients and their members as well as a number of in-depth studies on sports safety. She also has created insurance and risk management Web sites for clients, was a featured monthly columnist for Lacrosse Magazine on insurance issues and recently launched a blog on sports safety, www.sportssafetyiq.com.

represent the USA at the Paralympic Games in China, September 2008. Betsy GeLenitis Alison ’77 will accompany the Paralympic Sailing Team to Quingdao, China in its quest to bring home Gold from the Paralympic Games as Head Coach.

Marc Lippmann writes: I am a Program Manager at Sawis, which is the second largest computer hosting and managed services company worldwide. I’ve been in New England since 1979, first in Massachusetts, then in New Hampshire since 1990. After MKA, I went to Worcester Polytechnic Institute for Electrical Engineering, then went straight from there into the computer field.

Dr. John Brink 1246 Beach Haven Rd. Atlanta, GA 30324 Mrs. Carlos Ortiz (Shawn Mahieu) 2163 Gilbride Road Martinsville, N J 08836 Congratulations to Andrea Meschkow Schneider who was married to Todd Schneider at the Wigwam Resort and Spa in historic Litchfield Park Ariz. on November

18, 2006. Nellie Matjucha ’l l attended the wedding. Enjoying living in Arizona immensely, Andrea and her husband have purchased a lot at the foot of a mountain near Virgin Desert and plan on building a home there in the coming years. She spends a lot of time at Arrowhead Country Club and also paints; her parents have retired to Arizona and are also enjoying all aspects of life out west.

Anita Sims Rainford writes: I have been enjoying the summer at my home in Sag Harbor. One of the more memorable moments was meeting Hillary and Bill Clinton at a cocktail reception hosted in the home of my neighbor Alma Arrington Brown (widow of Ron Brown, former Chair of the Democratic Party).

Lisa Godlewski Westheimer writes: ... I sold my business/retired in Feb ’06 and am in my last year of obtaining my masters in studio arts (ceramics) at Montclair State University. I had a boqtwith breast cancer this year and am happy to say that I am fully recovered from my treatments as of a month ago. It’s been a busy year but,, despite all this, I was able to hook up with lots of alumni - Dana Cestone, Jack Brink, Leslie Coleman DeGeorges, Tina Celentano Trout, who gave me horseback riding lessorisj and I’ve bumped into Jimmy Johnson a couple of times at Raymond’s.

It’s fun living here and seeing so many faces from back in the day! My husband, Bill, and I are very involved in the arts. We are assisting in the redevelopment of the abandoned factories straddling the Orange, South Orange and West Orange borders into what will be called The Valley Arts District.

Bill is on the board of an arts incubator that will be installed in a building in the West Orange section and many of the factories will be converted to artist live/work units, condos and retail.

We are also funding a program in the West Orange public elementary schools that uses critical analysis of artwork to promote communication skills and analytical thinking which will impact on all disciplines, as well as foster a respect for the opinions of others.

180 Mary L. Cole, Esq. 1 Ferrous Court Chester, NJ 07930 Mary_Cole@wellsfargois.com Class Agent: Mr. George Reimonn, Jr. 199 Winter Street Hopkinton, MA 01748 George@cadso. com We send our deepest sympathies to Daniel Timmons whose grandmother, Mary Poe Timmons, passed away on October 27, 2007.

Class agent: Mrs. Laura Itzkowitz (Laura Reisch) 37 Nottingham Road Manalapan, NJ Pamela Berkowsky writes: Returned to politics in January 2007 as Deputy Chief of Staff to the newly elected governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands. My husband, Adam, kids Benjamin (7) and Zara (4) are still loving life in paradise!

Anita Sims Rainford '79 withformer President Bill Clinton in Sag HarqOr last summer.

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Congratulations to Jeffrey Pellecchia and his wife, Jennifer, on the birth of their daughter, Josie, on May 14, 2007§¡¡Jef£fey is working at Prudential Financial in Roseland, N. J. as a Team Lead.

Edie Szakacs Prescott writes: My third, beautiful boy was bom in April 2007. His name is Walter Gage Prescott. Big brothers Henry (5) and Gordon (3) are very proud. I hope everyone out there is well.

We send our heartfelt condolences to Sean Timmons whose grandmother, Mary Poe Timmons, passed away on October 27, 2007.

'82 MKA L-R back: Janine Garland, Jay Greene, Steve Eisner, Scott Silodor, Peter Dancy. L-R front: Cheryl McCants with Courtney, Michelle Silodor, Andy Rod '79, Randy Pickelny Rod.

\82 Cheryl McCants 7 Holly Court Bloomfield, N J 07003 cmccants@eimpactconsulting.com Thomas Robbins 6 Bradford Terrace Newtown Square, PA 19073

\83 25th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2008 Ms. Amy Felber Trapp 229 Cardinal Road Mill 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

Tom Cole was named a new Principal at Basile Baumann Prost Cole and Associates, Inc. on July 1, 2007.

We send our deepest sympathies to Christopher Riley whose mother, former faculty member Lois Riley, died on November 14, 2007. Please see pg. 26 in this issue for more information.

\84 Mrs. Jennifer Jones Ladda 110 Glen Rock Road Cedar Grove, NJ 0700 Class Agent: Mr. William Stone 99 Larch Road East Greenwich, Rhode Island 02818 bstone@outsidegc. com

» 5 Class agents: Mr. Jeffrey Schackner 1435 Lexington Avenue, Apt. 3E New York, New York 10128 Mrs. Alexis Polonofsky Zebrowski 33 Glen Road Verona, N J 07044

’87 MKA L-R back: Lisa Babic, Andrea Schackner Maline, Glenn Cademartori, Wayne Marston, Tara Frenkl Diem. L-R front: Marie Eberle-DeMassi, Jerry Savoy, Kirsten Cademartori, Mina Kang Kim.

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86 Ms. Sherry Ahkami PO. Box 3187 Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067 Ms. Jennifer Remington-Knodel 44 Hamilton Drive East North Caldwell, NJ 07006 Class agent: Mr. Patrick Sweeney 1750 Scarlett Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15241 p Sweeney @ml.com

Mr. Dennis Rodano 14 Wayland Drive Verona, NJ 07044 rodanod@verizon.net Class agent: Mrs. Lynne Y. Krest (Lynne G. Yellin) 7408 East Main Street Lima, N Y 1448?’ f Reunion Chair: Mr. Richard Stanton richardgstanton@yahoo. com Congratulations to Rich Stanton and his wife, June, who welcomed daughter Brigit Hope, on December 15.

’87 MKA L-R back: Fred Gerson. Peter Tuomey, Sabino Rodano, Joy Booth Roussel, Ida Boodin Ladner, Andrea Schackner Maline, Dennis Rodano. L-R front: Glenn Cademartori, Sloan Wiesen, Meredith Safirstein Bergmann, Suzi Criqui, Pam Fawcett Hynes.

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Tara and Amanda Sproha, daughters o f Sarah Lane Sproha ‘89.

Former trustees Anita and Jim Timmons with son JJ ’87, his wife Jamie and granddaughters Amy Claire (in J J ’s arms) and Mary Elizabeth (on grandma’s knee).

Our sincere condolences go to James Timmons ’87 whose grandmother, Mary Poe Timmons, passed away on October 27, 2007.

On a happier note, former trustees Anita and Jim Timmons sent in the beautiful family photo (above). Anita and Jim are the parents of Dan Timmons ’80, Sean Timmons ’85 and James (JJ) Timmons and grandparents of Dan’s sons, current 5“1 and 7™ graders Douglas and Matthew Timmons.

20th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2008 Ms. Susan Bartlett Rankin 721A Liggett Avenue San Francisco, CA srankin@microsoft. com Class agent: Mrs. Hillary Johnston (Hillary Windolf) P.O. Box 35 New Vernon, N J 07976 hillaryjohnston@mac. com Jody Booth writes: ...Just had my second son, Payton, who joins big brother Griffin, only 13 months his senior! Looking forward to getting back to auditions after the writers’ strike ends.

Mr. Louis Lessig 141 Thunder Circle Bensalem, PA 19020 Class agent: Mr. Josh Raymond 303 Kensington Lane Livingston, N J 07039 jraymond@trenklawfirm. com John Blesso recently published Sharehouse Confidential, a comedic memoir, and is

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currently considering film and TV options.

Sarah Lane Sproha writes: ...la m still living in Wyckoff with my husband Jeff (who, yes, took me to my senior prom) and our two daughters, Amanda (8) and Tara (4) who will be starting Kindergarten. I am still the CFO of Suburban Auto Seats and love my job. Jeff still owns his landscaping company but is looking into changing careers in the near future. I really have had absolutely no contact with anyone from school, but life has been good to Jeff and me.

Geoffrey Krouse reports: Grace and Caroline are three-and-a-half and are anxiously awaiting a new sibling.

90 Class Secretary and Agent: Ms. Meredith McGowan Zengo 383 Middlesex Road Darien, CT 06820 mczengo@aol. com Ms. Lorelei Muenster Leia9sioux@aol. com David Rudder sends this update: After enjoying the Silicon Valley boom of the 90’s, my family and I moved out to Denver where I got a job working for the company that makes the phone books. [Eventually] I quit, cashed in my 401K’s, begged, borrowed and, on a few occasions, stole to finance my own company - Reliable Response Notification —a solution for companies who need to contact a mobile workforce.

We have many clients including FEMA with whom we’re working on a project to help them better track their trailers and to better prioritize hospital usage during

Class o f ’87 grads Ida Boodin Ladner, Pamela Fawcett Hynes, Suzi Criqui Mueller, Meredith Safirstein Bergmann and Joy Booth Roussel gather at their 20™ reunion last October. emergencies, and a roofing company to enable them to create quotes and work orders straight from their cell phone while on a customer’s roof.

My software is nice, but the strength of my company is that we’re able to translate customer needs into actual solutions quickly. These are the skills I picked up from my good education at Montclair Kimberley.

Congratulations to Steve Manning and his wife who welcomed their second son, Zachary.

91 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 Class agent: Ms. Anne Marie Verdiramo 2030 South Street, Unit D Philadelphia, PA 19146 amverdiramo@hotmail. com Bill May earned an MBA from Georgetown University in May of 2007 after returning from Afghanistan where he had been deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from February 2004 to February 2005.

Congratulations to Mary Lynn Murphy Roedel and her husband, David, who welcomed their second child, Lindsay Katharine Roedel on September 17, 2007.

She joins big sister Reilly who turned two in August.

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'92 MKA L-R back: Jennifer Lonsinger Rutherford, Scott Weiner, Alexis Finkle, Cliff Finkle, Roger Componovo. L-R front: Amy Bressler, Lauren Napolitano Strobeck, Tami Safer Radfar, Jennifer Blaines Componovo.

Congratulations to Mark Politan and his wife, Olivia, who welcomed their second child, Cooper Charles, on June 19, 2007.

Mark writes: Big sister Sienna could not be more excited. I was elevated to member at Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, PA, where I practice primarily in the Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization Department.

Mr. Enrique Neblett 212 Taylor Run Parkway Alexandria, VA 22314 enrique. neblett@gmail. com Ms. Tamar Safar Radfar 876 Aztec Trail Franklin Lakes, N J 07417 tsafer5400@aol. com Class Agent: Ms. Anne Marie Verdiramo 2030 South Street, Unit D Philadelphia, PA 19146 amverdiramo@hotmail. com Congratulations to Saurabh Agarwal and his wife, Linda, who welcomed their second child, Neela, in April 2007. Neela joins her 3-year-old brother, Sohan. Saurabh’s sister, Parul Agarwal ’94, notified us of the happy news.

93 15th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2008 Ms. Renee Monteyne 10 Lookout Point Trail Totowa Borough, N J 07512. monteyne@yahoo. com Class agent: Mr. Damien Vena 385 Grand Street, L#90 New York, N Y 10002 venad@yahoo. com

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Dana Fiordaliso wedding to Mac Martin included MKA alums Rita Ross '94 and Leanne Gattie Scott '94 (seated, 2nd and 3rd from left) and Joe Fiordaliso '91 (standing and from right).

Congratulations to Lauren Hyman Kaplan and her husband, Doug who welcomed daughter Lola Ruby Kaplan on July 16 .

Lola was 7 lbs., 11 ounces and 20K/4 inches long.

Laura Caprario sends this update: I finished my residency in Internal Medicine at TuftsNew England Medical Center in June of 2006 and am now pursuing a fellowship in Hematology and Oncology there.

Congratulations to Jamie Streit Decter and Mitchell Decter ’94 who welcomed their second child, Ryan Michael, on May 14, 2007. Ryan’s big sister is Morgan Hannah.

94 Ms. Dana Fiordaliso Martin 102 East 9 ^ Avenue Conshohocken, PA 19428 djfiordaliso@yahoo. com Class agent: Mr. Jason Awerdick jasonawerdick@gma.il.com

Maniscalco, who was bom on June 25, 2006.

[The MKA community sends its congratulations.^® Jaime Bedrin reports: I’m doing a lot of on-air work for the NPR affiliate, WNYC. You can hear me many weeknights from 7p.m. - 12a.m. I’m also filling in during the mid-day shift from 9:00 a.m.H 3:00 p.m. I’m also doing freelance stories for Marketplace, out of Los Angeles. I really love working in public radio and I’m enjoying the freelance lifestyle. I’m happy to be back in the Big Apple.

Congratulations to Jill Finkle Worth who writes: Last January, I was married to Carter Braxton Worth in New York City at The Brick Church on Park Avenue. Carter is the Chief Market Technician at Oppenheimer & Co., where we met. Our bridal party included several MKA-ers: Kristen Drukker Allan, Jodie Cabe Farrell, Gillian Sheeran and Clifford B. Finkle IV ’92.

And it was great fun to spend time with Brian Hosay, Brian Frank, Jared

Dana Fiordaliso Martin sends the following update: In March 2006, after 5 years in equity research at CitiiLiz Osur left the sellside to join a hedge fund based in Midtown called Vicis Capital. She is now following the entire consumer sector, which she is really enjoying. Liz noted that she misses her friends at Citi but is working with a great bunch of people at Vicis Capital and really like the small-company feel. She resides on the Upper West Side and tries to get out to run and play tennis when she can. Liz has a mixed doubles game that is always looking for Sunday night subs if anyone is interested!

If so, feel free to drop her an email at eosur@hotmail.com.

Becky Strenz Maniscalco and her husband, Matthew, reside in Bloomfield, NJ and are proud new parents of Connor Anthony

Alexandra MariaVictoria Go-Miranda, daughter o f Genie Go '94.

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1994 MKA alums Gillian Sheeran, Kristen Drukker Allan, Jill Finkle Worth and Jodie Cabe Farrell celebrate Kristen’s wedding.

Lustbader, Becky Strenz Maniscalco, Peter Benedict ’92, Chris Burchell ’92 and Dr. and Mrs. Peter Greer. We are finally winding down from the wedding madness, enjoying our summer at the beach and preparing for the newest member of our family - a baby girl due in October. Carter and I will continue to reside on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Joshua Rozan reports: I am happily living in Chapel Hill, N.C. and will be celebrating my 3™ year of marriage in August. I would be very happy to see any classmates who happen to be visiting my part of North Carolina.

Congratulations to Kristen Drukker Allan who was married to Joshua Allan on June 30, 2007 in Maine. Jill Finkle Worth was her matron of honor and Gillian Sheeran and Jodie Cabe Farrell were bridesmaids.

Kristen and her husband moved to Maine from Boston this past spring.

Congratulations to Christa Roedel Norman who welcomed twins Aiden Conor and Addison Mae on July 10, 2007. Christa recently moved to North Carolina.

After graduating from college in 1998, Jeff Kessler worked as an elementary and middle school teacher in California and Montana.

He was a substitute teacher at Brookside in 2001. After teaching in California, Jeff then went on to graduate school in Montana and is now Admissions Director and middle school teacher at Missoula International School in Missoula, MT. The School was founded in 1995 as a pre-school Spanish immersion program. It has experienced rapid growth over the last five years and now serves students in Pre-K through eighth grade.

Congratulations to Genie Go and her boyfriend, Bill Miranda who welcomed daughter, Alexandra MariaVictoria GoMiranda on June 18, 2007. Genie is the Editorial Manager for Altum, a

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Jill Rodburg Dellanno ’96 with daughter Catherine.

pharmaceutical advertising agency located in Parsippany, N.J. Congratulations to Rita Ross who married to Steve Brunner in February. The couple reside in Brooklyn, N.Y. Lisa Ramos-Hillegers sends this update: I am working as a middle school English teacher at Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy in Harlem, N.Y. I will be receiving a master’s degree in EducationLiteracy Specialist in May 2008 from Fordham University. I live in Manhattan with my husband, Bram Hillegers.

Congratulations to Mitchell Decter who writesjgJamie (Streit Decter ’94) and I had our second child, Ryan Michael on May 14, 2007. Ryan’s big sister is Morgan Hannah.

Congratulations to Adam Destefano who was married to Elizabeth Mangum ’96 on September 24, 2005.

Congratulations to Dana Fiordaliso who married Mac Martin on August 17, 2007 on Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H. Parul Agarwal sends this update: .. .1 work for McKinsey & Company in New York and recently got engaged to Robert Harley. We will have a celebration in Rob’s hometown of Dublin, Ireland followed by a traditional Hindu ceremony in New Jersey.

95 Class agent: Mr. Matthew Drukker 230 E. 48th Street, #3D New York, N Y 10017 mdrukker@yahoo. com Alexander Joerger and Martha Lieberman of Westport, Conn, were married on Saturday, September 15th in New York City at the Little Church Around the Comer on East 29th Street. Charles Kaplan and Hanzy Herrera were groomsmen. The newlyweds spent two

weeks on honeymoon in South Africa before returning to their apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The couple met at Gatsby’s Bar in SoHo in October of 2002.

Alex currently works as Wine Director of Best Cellars, Inc. and Martha is an attorney at Bryan Cave, LLP.

Ms. Tanya Barnes tbarnes@fas. harvard, edu Erica Hirsch 10 West 15th Street, #902 New York, NY 10011 ehirsch 77@yahoo. com Class agent: Mr. Lee Vartan 700 First Street, Apt. 17P Hoboken, NJ 07030 ldv@alumni.princeton. edu Assistant US attorney Jacob Elberg made the news recently and was quoted in the January 11, 2008 Newark Star Ledger regarding a case involving the sale of stolen rifles and shotguns.

Bells have certainly been ringing for the class of 1996. Liz Mangum who was married to Adam Destefano ’94 on September 24, 2005, sends this update on recent weddings: Lori Feinsilver married David Steinfeld ’97 on September 24, 2006. The couple lives in Hoboken, N.J. Juli Peterson married Jason Hibbard on November 11, 2006, and they reside in North Plainfield, N.J. Kelli Kessler married Jack May on March 25, 2007. She and her husband live in Portland, Ore. Vivien Hudig was married to Pablo Velasquez on August 4, 2007. The couple also lives in Portland, Ore.

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Amy Urband sends greetings to the class o f 1997 from her home in Montana.

Benjamin Love Vose, son o f Abbe Love '97.

’97 MKA L-R back: Naimah Al-Amin, Holly McCrary Tennessee, Alea Brummell Riley, Faleena Ragnauth Andujar. L-R front: Keri Joi Taylor, Geraldine Nelson, Meena Untawale.

The MKA community congratulates all of the happy couples.

Kristen Connolly graduated from the Yale School of Drama in June 2007. She shares an apartment with her brother, Jimmy ’01, in Greenwich Village.

Reunion Chair: Mr. Gregory Decter gdexitl 45@ya.hoo.com

Arnoldas Pranckevicius reports: I am currently working at the European Parliament in Brussels where I am responsible for relations with Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Congratulations to Alea Brummel Riley who was married to Lawrence Adams Riley Jr. on May 28, 2006. The couple honeymooned in St. Maarten. A 2001 graduate of Spelman College, Alea is a National Advertising Consultant for Verizon Wireless in Alpharetta, Ga. Puja Krishana reports that she is a controller at Landman Corsi Ballaine & Ford PC, a civil litigation firm, in Newark, New Jersey.

Amy Urband couldn’t make her 10™ reunion but sends her best from scenic Montana.

Omni Kitts, a member of The Donna Scro Gentile/Freespace Dance Company, performed at the Dance Theater Workshop in New York City in June of 2007 as the Company opened its fifth season.

Class agent: Mr. Alexander Hoh 151 North 3rd Street, Apt. 16 Brooklyn, N Y 11211 alex@thatfleetingworld. com

On May 6, 2007, Ali Platt and Noah Silverman were married in Waterford, Connecticut. We send our congratulations.

Congratulations to Kimberly Trabka on her engagement to Brian Kilfoyle. An August 2008 wedding is planned.

Mike Trainor writes: I am currently a staff writer for NY1 News and a stand-up comic. More information on what I’m up to can be found here: www.MikeTrainor.com Liz Wells received a nice surprise when the MKA External Affairs Office notified her that someone had called the office after discovering her MKA class ring on a beach in Rockaway, N. Y. The, ring had been stolen from her apartment in 1999.

Congratulations to Abbe Love Vose and her husband, Thomas, who welcomed their son, Benjamin Love Vose on July 1, 2007.

Congratulations to David Steinfeld who was married to Lori Feinsilver ’96 on September 24, 2006.

10th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2008 Class secretary and agent: Ms. Gemma Giantomasi 170 Devon Road Essex Fells, N J 07021 gemma.giantomasi@shearman. com Congratulations to Parag Butala who was married to Nisha Mehta on September 3, 2006. Parag graduated from Brown Medical School and is doing his residency at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Nisha is a radiology resident at NYU.

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MKA alums gather at the Platt/Silverman wedding, (l-r)); Morgan Weiner ’99, Priya Krishana ’99, Emily Berman ’99, Renie Kirkland ’99. Jessica Gerstein ’99, Ali Platt Silverman ‘99, Neil Grabowsky’99, Steph Platt ’02, Sylvia Mosser ’99, Jen Platt ’97, Emily Santangelo ’02 and Elliot Platt ’04.

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Mr. John Garippa 8157Madison Lakes Circle South Davie, FL 33328 Ms. Anna Labowsky 5 Highview Court Wayne, N J 07470 anna_labowsky @yahoo.com Class agent: Ms. Ashley Griffin 114 The Fenway 4 l l Boston, MA 02115 ashleygriffin 1@gmail. com Ashley Griffin sends this update: ...la m out of school, thankfully, and yes, gainfully employed. I have received my license in social work, so I am an LCSW and am doing individual therapy in a mental health clinic.

I am also working there as a clinician in an after school program for kids with severe emotional/behavioral/fmancial problems. I LOVE it! I am still in Boston and got a puppy when I graduated.. .1 will try to make it to the Boston event in May. [Invitations will be sent closer to the event. See pg. 28 for more information.] After 8 years as Class Agent, Ashley is ready to pass the baton to another member of the 2000. If anyone is interested in the position, please contact Alumni Director Laurie McFeeley ’76 at lmcfeeley@montclairkimberley.org.

Whitney Brown writes: I’m finishing my master’s degree in animal science studying equine behavior at Auburn University and will be starting veterinary school at Auburn this fall. I’ve started a homemade soy candle company and have just bought my first home!

’02 MKA L-R back: Marguerite Plekhanov, Quinn Leslie, Sofia Tome, Erin Stutz, Funmi Akinyosoye, Corrine Gaby. L-R front: Morgan Fraser, Dana Fleishman, Alyce Harriott

Congratulations to Kimberly MarinellaSmith who was married to William Scott Baker in Columbia New Hampshire on July 14, 2007.

Ms. Dana Pisacane 3 Finley Lane Wayne, N J 07470 dana.piscane@gmail. com Class agent: Ms. Lindsay Braverman 484 South Parkway Clifton, N J 07014 lbraverman@gmail. com

Medical Center. [Evan had hoped to join fellow alumni at the September young alumni gathering at the Boat Basin Café, but got hung up at work. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 2005.]

After working on Senator Jim Webb’s election in Virginia, Steve D’Amico is returning to his home state as Campaign Manager for New Jersey’s 4™ District Democratic challenger Josh Zeitz.

Kevin Devine graduated Mortuary School in 2007 and passed his National Boards. He will be in the 2008 calendar Men of Mortuaries.

It’s a fundraiser for KAMM Cares (cancer).

He will do a yearlong internship in New York and after that, Florida.

Evan Sarti writes: Currently, I’m in my third year of medical school, doing my student rotations at Newark Beth Israel

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Class Secretary: Ms. Melissa Fortunato 40 Holton Lane Essex Fells, N J 07021 melissa.fortunato@gs. com Class agent: Ms. Lauren Tortoriello 112 Heller Way Upper Montclair, N J 07043 let2009@columbia. edu Melissa Fortunato sends the following news: Emily Santangelo has graduated summa cum laude from the American Academy Mcallister Institute of Funeral Service and is set to become a licensed funeral director as she carries on her family’s funeral home, Santangelo Funeral Home, in West Paterson, NJ. Congratulations to Kara Ross and Sean Colon who were married recently.

Dagmara Jastrezbska is in her second year at Fordham Law School and plans to become a finance lawyer in Manhattan upon graduation.

Kevin Devine ’01 in the 2008 Men o f Mortuaries Calendar.

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(l-r): Dan Smith, Andrew Kingsley ’08, Derek Phillips '07 Kimberly Marinella-Smith Baker ’00, Mark Phillips ’13, Jonathon Kingsley ’13, Matthew Kingsley ’ll, Katherine Phillips ’09, Becky Smith ’l l and Stas Konstantinov ’07 gather at Kimberly’s wedding.

Marguerite Plekhanov writes: I’m an actress since graduating from Ohio State. So, I’m in and out of New York all the time.

Recently I got background work on CBS’s Guiding Light and did a few short scenes with Josh Lucas on a film coming out in 2008. So, my real employment is looking for a bartending position!

03 5th REUNION OCTOBER 25, 2008 Ms. Judith Ferreira 819 Clifton Avenue Newark, N J 07104 Class agent: Ms. Melanie Braverman 484 South Parkway Clifton, N J 07014 Trevor Haughton recently graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Colgate and was third in his class. He had a double major in music and history.

William Connolly graduated from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts in May of 2007. He is now at Yale School of Drama in his first year of a 3-year graduate program in acting.

\04 Ms. Kate Santoro 364 Highland Avenue Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 santorok@lafayette. edu Class Agent: Mr. David Endo P.O. Box HM 3302 Hamilton BERMUDA H M P X david. endo@trincoll. edu We send our deepest sympathies to Oliver Mosier whose father, Jerry Mosier, died on January 27, 2008.

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MKA Athletic Director Todd Smith and Sami Hirsh ’06.

05 Mr. Manav Lawani 132 Blue Heron Drive Secaucus, NJ 07094 201-617-5312 mlalwani@princeton. edu Class Agent: Mr. Edmund Kozak 17 Summit Street Glen Ridge, N J 07028 973-748-7016 ekozak@comcast. net Alex Manevitz (currently at Trinity College) had his article “Undermining Authorship: The Implications of the Editor’s Notes in Nausea” published in the Fall 2007 edition of the scholarly journal Interventions.

Natalie Azzoli 60 Lloyd Road Montclair, NJ 07042 nat6888@aol. com Reunion Chair: Miss Angela McCaffrey angelamccaffrey@aol. com Congratulations to William Wagner who was the recipient of a Princeton University Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence. This prestigious award, given

by Princeton President Shirley Tilghman to about 30 freshman and sophomores in recognition of high academic achievement during the previous year, is based on recommendations from faculty, residential college staff and the Dean of the College.

selected by a group of professors comprising the Prize Committee of Yale’s English Department.

Alexis Levengood writes: In my 2n^ year at Connecticut College, I’m a member of the women’s Varsity Swim Team and a double major in Environmental/Coastal Studies and Marine Biology. After swim season this year, I’ll be traveling to Belize in March to study the tropical environment for several weeks.

Keara McCarthy reports: As an English major at Lafayette College, I played Lydia Languish, the lead in the Restoration Comedy “The Rivals” in the spring of 2007.1 interned with Cosmopolitan magazine and traveled to Seville, Spain in the summer of 2007 and will be traveling to Australia and New Zealand this winter for Geology coursework.

MKA Athletic Director Todd Smith ran into Samantha Hirsh at the Soccer Hall of Fame Kickoff Weekend in Oneonta, N.Y. in August 2007. Samantha is currently the goalie for women’s soccer at Syracuse University.

Mr. Brian May 22 Bayard Lane Mahwah, NJ 07430 Class Agent: Mr. Harry Raymond 120 Ridgewood Avenue Glen Ridge, NJ 07028-1121

Eli Bildner has received the McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Freshman Composition at Yale University. Chosen from many submissions, Bildner’s essay entitled “Peter and Hannah” explored his relationship with his cousins and was

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Andrea Meschkow and Todd Schneider Kristen Drukker and Joshua Allan Dana Fiordaliso and Mac Martin Alexander Joerger and Martha Lieberman Lori Feinsilver and David Steinfeld ’97 Vivian Hudig and Pablo Velasquez Kelli Kessler and Jack May Elizabeth Mangum and Adam Destefano ’94 Juli Peterson and Jason Hibbard Alea Brummer and Lawrence Riley, Jr. Parag Butala and Nisha Mehta Ali Platt and Noah Silverman Kimberly Marinelia and William Baker

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Frank C. Kireker Betty Pierce Harding Robert Daniel Buckalew Grace Currie Mitchell William Schoonover Decker Jr. William D. Polhemus Mary Burton Blakney Jeanne Talbot Sawutz Juliet Shearer Turnbull Thomas P. Kehoe Edward Le Master III Jane Williams Bauermeister Joan Duffy Murray Richard Wentz Robert L. Hughes Matthew Kartch Ann Lowry

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Faculty, Form er Faculty, S ta ff and Trustees

Daniel O.S. Jennings Doris Overholser Clair Scharfenberg Pahl Lois Penner Riley Edith Roche

January‘8, 2008 May 2006 July 18, 2007 November 14, 2007 December 15, 2007

'Where can you find news of old Classmates, see photos of school plays, follow the scores of your favorite varsity team, catch up on the latest editions of MKA newsletters, hear from the Headmaster, get up to the minute news and generally find out more than you ever thought possible about today's MKA? T

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Her Memory W ill Lure On, A t MKA I had the pleasure of meeting Helena Van Cortlandt Burrill TKS ’42 several times through my work in alumni relations at MKA, and on each occasion she dazzled me with her charm, intelligence and quick wit. Helena loved a good laugh, and felt bound to and proud of her Montclair roots and her Brookside and Kimberley educational experiences. Her family home on Christopher Street backed up upon the home of Kimberley classmate Frances Johnson Furlong TKS ‘42, and their escapades growing up were a constant source of joy and laughter.

Helena was, in every sense, a Renaissance woman. As a girl, she was an athlete at Kimberley, and tennis became a life-long passion. She had also tried to bring girls’ lacrosse to the school, but at that time, there was no funding for a new girls’ sport. Helena’s strong Dutch and Scottish roots' were of great importance to her, and she enjoyed traveling the world, getting to both Antarctica and the Arctic in the 1980’s. Helena also loved the arts. She was an accomplished singer, having taken lessons for many years, and she volunteered

at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and for the New York Philharmonic, two of her favorite causes in the city.

What made Helena special was that she never lost sight of her connection to TKS and MKA. As much as she enjoyed looking back to her school days, she also cared deeply about the present and future of the school. She routinely attended her milestone reunions and was a regular and loyal donor to the Annual Fund. In her later years, Helena paid MKA the ultimate compliment by utilizing estate planning and leaving a bequest to the school that meant so much to her. She took pride in knowing that a more significant gift would enhance the lives of today’s students and future generations after her passing.

KA is fortunate indeed to have had an alumna such as Helena Burrill as part of its rich history, ensuring that the school continues to thrive and remain a remarkable place for students to study, grow and find their voices.

Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76, Alumni Director

A ll benefactors who make Planned Gifts to MKA are members o f The Heritage Society. There are many vehicles that can become a part of your overallfinancial plan, benefiting you now and helping MKA in the future. For more information about Planned Giving, including bequests, charitable trusts, and gifts to the Academy’s Pooled Income Fund, please write the MKA Ojfice o f External Affairs, 201 Valley Rd. Montclair NJ 07042, or telephone GeoffBranigan, Director o f Development and External Affairs: 973-509-7940.