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M O N TC LA IR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY In This Issue: MKA’s Global Experience Faculty, Student and Alumni Perspectives Future Forward: The Campaign for MKA Graduations and Commencements Awards, Celebrations, MKA on the Road and MUCH, MUCH MORE...

Profiles in Giving The Cherry Family The Cherry family has been a valued member of the MKA community since their eldest son, Myles, a 6th grader, entered Pre-K as a member of the Class o f 2020. Two years later, Bryce, a 4th grader, joined Myles at the Primary School in the Class of 2022.

Tom and Jennie found in MKA a school environment that combines the expanded educational opportunities of Tom’s private boarding school experience in England with the community spirit of Jennie’s small-town Ohio public school. “We value MKA’s forward-thinking leadership that supports our efforts to be engaged parents,” says Jennie.

Both Tom and Jennie are active in the parent community; most recently Jennie was a member of PAMKA’s Nominating Committee and they both especially enjoyed hosting the 5th grade Parent Social last year. They embrace the school’s community building initiatives such as PAMKA’s Captivating Conversations program and the social norming approach of MKA’s Anti-Bullying Program.

The Cherry family is very excited about MKA’s sustainability initiatives. They are strong supporters of MKA’s commitment to reduce, reuse and recycle in its

dining halls, building projects and classrooms. As the CEO of MY ECO, a start-up company with the goal of inspiring the next generation o f shoppers to decrease the use of disposable bags that endanger the environment, Tom met with the Middle School’s Environmental Club last spring.

Together, they worked to produce a video explaining the company’s reusable bag system. They also discussed the Club’s own reusable water bottle fundraising project.

Both Tom and Jennie have been long-time supporters of and volunteers for the school’s fundraising initiatives.

Jennie, a practicing attorney, volunteers for Annual Giving and Tom has volunteered for Future Forward: The Campaign For MKA. This commitment stems from their view that “great teachers have a great impact.” They are committed to supporting Annual Giving in part because it provides funding to send faculty members for advanced study in curriculum development, as well as to supporting PAMKA, which awards Faculty Trust Grants for fieldoriented courses. The fact that over 90% of MKA faculty and staff participate in Annual Giving supports Tom and Jennie’s decision to remain financially as well as socially involved with MKA. MKA is lucky to have the privilege o f counting Tom, Jennie, Myles and Bryce as part o f our community and is grateful fo r their support.

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MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY M ISSIO N STATEMENT

Montclair Kimberley Academy is a Pre-K-12 coeducational day school with an exceptional college preparatory program unified by the concepts of our school motto: Knowledge, Vision, Integrity. An MKA education is defined by the following commitments: KNO W LEDG E

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Photo Credits: Doug Allen, Gretchen Berra,

Rod Bolton, Phil Cantor Photography, Steve Frantz, David Hollander, Debbie Kozak, Karen Parker Photography, Claudia Placenta, Tom Ruddy, Steve Tober, Keith Wiggs Contributers: Tracy Kuser, Dr. John Jacobs,

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MKA complies with all state andfederal anti-discrimination laws.

alumni news Letter from the President Athletic Hall o f Fame Alumni Games Day 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award MKA On the Road: NY, Philadelphia, Montclair & Greenwich CT

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The Cherry family has been a valued member of the MKA community since their eldest son, Myles, a 6th grader, entered Pre-K as a member of the Class o f2020. Two years later, Bryce, a 4th grader, joined Myles at the Primary School in the Class of 2022.

Tom and Jennie found in MKA a school environment that combines the expanded educational opportunities of Tom’s private boarding school experience in England with the community spirit of Jennie’s small-town Ohio public school. “We value MKA’s forward-thinking leadership that supports our efforts to be engaged parents,” says Jennie.

Both Tom and Jennie are active in the parent community; most recently Jennie was a member of PAMKA’s Nominating Committee and they both especially enjoyed hosting the 5th grade Parent Social last year. They embrace the school’s community building initiatives such as PAMKA’s Captivating Conversations program and the social norming approach of MKA’s Anti-Bullying Program.

The Cherry family is very excited about MKA’s sustainability initiatives. They are strong supporters of MKA’s commitment to reduce, reuse and recycle in its

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and“*Tom has volunteered“Tof Future Forward: Tfie Campaign For MKA. This commitment stems from their view that “great teachers have a great impact.” They are committed to supporting Annual Giving in part because it provides funding to send faculty members for advanced study in curriculum development, as well as to supporting PAMKA, which awards Faculty Trust Grants for fieldoriented courses. The fact that over 90% of MKA faculty and staff participate in Annual Giving supports Tom and Jennie’s decision to remain financially as well as socially involved with MKA. MKA is lucky to have the privilege o f counting Tom, Jennie, Myles and Bryce as part o f our community and is grateful fo r their support.

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Montclair Kimberley Academy is a Pre-K-M coeducational day school with an exceptional college preparatory program unified by the concepts of our school motto: Knowledge' Vision, Integrity. An MKA education is defined by the following commitments:

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• To engage each student intellectually and personally with the world • To graduate students who will excel in college and in their lives beyond MKA • To recognize complexity and value empathy • To strengthen each student’s intellect, character, and confidence • To promote each student’s full and active citizenship and leadership • To secure a life-long sense of honor through academic, athletic, and artistic achievement With traditions dating back to 1887, MKA was formed by the merger of Montclair Academy, Brookside School, and The Kimberley School in 1974.

Cover: This design is a “wordle” - the final product of an activity given to all 9th graders on the first day of their Global Studies Class last year, in answer to the question “What does global mean to you?” Read more on Page 7.

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Rod Bolton, Phil Cantor Photography, Steve Frantz, David Hollander, Debbie Kozak, Karen Parker Photography, Claudia Placentra, Tom Ruddy, Steve Tober, Keith Wiggs Contributers: Tracy Kuser, Dr. John Jacobs,

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MKA complies with all state andfederal anti-discrimination laws.

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At MKA, we promise to prepare our students “to meet the real world challenges ahead.” Over time, the world has become more interconnected and more complex, and the need for better understanding between people of different cultures has never been more important.

In 2007, when Tracy Kuser was interviewed to teach Spanish at MKA, she and her husband, Brian, were finishing up a two-year teaching commitment in Thailand. In fact, Tracy’s MKA interview was conducted via Skype, and the required sample class for teacher candidates was recorded on video at Ruamrudee International School in Bangkok and then sent to MKA for our own review. There were other clues that Tracy just might have the passion for cultural immersion and travel that would shape MKA’s Global Programs. After graduating from The Colorado College in 1998, Tracy spent twelve months traveling in eighteen different countries on three continents.

MKA’s foreign trip program has gone global and is now integrated into and sustained by the curriculum. The vision is of a program that provides a broad range of domestic and international opportunities for service, for travel and exposure to different cultures, and for extended immersion experiences. The results include Global Programs in France, China, Chile, Ireland, Spain, Canada, Guatemala, the United States, England and Italy. The vision also includes guaranteeing accessibility for all MKA students to these opportunities through careful trip design that controls costs and allows students to plan several years in advance; a range of opportunities in terms of timing, duration and cost; and the provision for financial assistance and aid when needed. Through Tracy’s leadership, the work and initiative of many faculty trip leaders, and the enthusiastic support of the Board of Trustees, MKA has developed a unique, varied and accessible program of global experiences for its students.

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MKA’s Board of Trustees has always exercised a vigorous oversight role in the review and approval of international and domestic trips. The requirements for trip proposals that are reviewed by MKA’s administration and Board o f Trustees are detailed and exacting with a focus on safety, and include such due diligence as school funded site visits by trip leaders to assess the quality of accommodations, emergency services and transportation before a trip is approved. In addition to the satisfactory completion of the trip proposal applications, there are nine specific Board of Trustees mandates that must be met by the trip leaders. The Board of Trustees has brought both tremendous enthusiasm and measurable commitment to the development of MKA’s Global Programs. The Board-approved budget of financial assistance and aid to support trip participation means that every student has access to at least one of these exceptional experiences during his or her time at MKA. MKA’s Global Programs are the result of a team effort among the faculty, administration and Board of Trustees, and our students are the beneficiaries. In the spring of 2012,1 had the privilege of accompanying this year’s Founders’ Cup recipient, Upper School history teacher David Hessler, and ten members of the Class of 2012 on a fascinating and superbly organized trip through Beijing, Xian and Chengdu. In addition to all of the work and planning that preceded the trip, Mr. Hessler’s depth of knowledge and experience meant that there was not a wasted moment. Our students’ courtesy, curiosity and engagement with everything and everyone around them left me proud of them and of a school that could take its students so far and so deeply into the world.

In the pages ahead, you leam not only about the vision, content and impact of MKA’s Global Experience program from faculty, students and recent alumni but also about the remarkable stories of some MA, TKS and MKA alumni Hincluding this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award recipient - who forged the path. You may find yourselves looking for your passports.

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The MKA Board is comprised of a group of extremely thoughtful, dedicated and capable volunteers. Please join me in thanking them for their service to MKA. On behalf of the Board, I would like to welcome new Trustees 1* David Crichlow, 2. Carolyn Everson, 3. Luke Sarsfield ’9 1 ,4 . Linda Sterling and 5. Jeffrey Szilagyi.

David Crichlow received a BA from Hofstra University and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Partner in the New York firm of Katten Munchin Rosenman LLP, and he and his wife, Rhonda, have two children who attend MKA, a son in 11th grade and a daughter in 8th grade. David also serves on the boards of the New York Legal Aid Society, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Carolyn Everson received a BA from Villanova University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions for Lacebook and returns to Montclair from a recent posting to London. Carolyn is active in the Free the Children organization and enjoys golf, tennis and skiing. She and her husband, Douglas, have twin daughters in 5th grade.

Luke Sarsfield III, MKA Class of 1991, received his AB from Harvard and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs & Co, and a former Board Chair of Literacy, Inc. He and his wife, Jodi, have a son entering second grade and a daughter entering kindergarten in Manhattan.

Linda Sterling received a BA and an MBA from Duke University and is an active volunteer for numerous organizations including MKA (having chaired the Spring Fundraiser, Internship Auction and College Counseling Office Liaison) and TEAM Academy, the Montclair Art Museum and other arts organizations and cancer research charities, including the Dana Farber Cancer Institute for whom she annually cycles 300 miles in the Pan Mass Challenge. Linda and her husband, Brian, have two children —a daughter in the Class of 2012 and a son who is a senior.

Jeffrey Szilagyi received both a BS and an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a Partner and quantitative strategist with Blue Mountain Capital, LLC, an investment management company. He enjoys running and coaching soccer. Jeffrey and his wife, Kathleen, have three children - their two sons are in MKA’s third and seventh grades.

It is also with tremendous appreciation that we say farewell to three Trustees: Denise Wagner for a remarkable fourteen years of service, Rick Jenkins for nine years of service and Hank Uberoi for four years of service.

There have been few Trustees as tireless and dedicated as Denise Wagner. Over the course of her tenure, she has held almost every leadership position on the Board and has chaired numerous committees including Development and the Committee on Trustees, as well as sitting on the Search Committee tasked to find MKA’s new Head in 2005. Denise’s work as Chair of the Annual Fund has been

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instrumental in elevating the fund’s goals and successes, and she and her husband, Ira, have been among the school’s most loyal supporters. The parent of two graduates in the Classes of 2006 and 2011, Denise has now replaced her full-time volunteer work for MKA with a full-time paid position as Rutgers University’s Douglass College Director of Development, and we wish her every success.

Rick Jenkins, a member of the MKA class of 1977, has served on the Board in various roles since he joined in 2004, most recently as Secretary and a member of the Finance and Facilities Committees. Rick was an important member of the Strategic Planning Committees and has also served as an executive member of MKA’s Alumni Council. As the parent of an MKA alumna in the Class of 2012, as well as twins in the Class of 2018, Rick has been an active member of the MKA community for many years. We can’t thank him enough for all of his hard work on the school’s behalf.

Hank Uberoi has been a valued and highly respected member of the Board since 2009, sitting on the Finance, Student Life and Educational Programs and Policies Committees. Hank was a valued member of the Campaign Leadership Committee during the early, formative stages o f the campaign. As the parents of a current senior and an MKA alumnus in the Class of 2012, the Uberois have been active members of the parent community, and we look forward to one more year in their company.

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W ith children spanning thirteen years o f graduation classes at M KA, President o f the Board o f Trustees M ichael Johnson enjoys the day with his w ife M ary and sons W illiam ’10 and M atthew ’08 and daughters Annieim.9, Sarah ’06 and graduating son M ichael H enry ’13.

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T H E C A M P A IG N F O R MKA April 18 saw the launch of Future Forward: The Campaign fo r MKA at a very special reception to celebrate the future of the school.

Over 100 guests, drawn from the Board of Trustees, parents, alumni, volunteers, faculty and administration, had the opportunity to view plans for facilities enhancements for Middle and Upper School Academic Centers, Muenster Field and the Primary School before hearing words from President of the Board Michael Johnson, Headmaster Tom Nammack and Kimberley School Chair Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54.

Announcing that a remarkable $15.4 million towards a Future Forward Campaign goal of $30 million had already been raised, Johnson noted: “Today is a very special day for MKA. Today marks a monumental ending and a historic beginning. Today marks the culmination of a massive planning effort and Leadership Phase of the Campaign, as well as the launch of the public phase of the Future Forward Campaign He then thanked those in the audience who had already pledged their support, before announcing the members of the Campaign Committee to be chaired by Eric Pai ’79, a Tmstee and parent of an MKA alum and two current students. Nammack then outlined the scope of the Campaign, which in addition to facilities improvements, includes an enhanced endowment and increased Annual Fund support.

Associate Director of Development Keith Wiggs shows former Middle School Campus VP Angela Privitere plans for the proposed Middle School Academic Center.

Concluding the program, Ames, a graduate of The Kimberley School, a member of the Board since 1974, President of the Board from 1977-80 and the parent of three alums, concluded: “Each generation builds on the past generations. The students today are the beneficiaries of improvements and advances that were made ten, fifteen, twenty years ago. Now, it is this generation’s turn to follow by doing their part.”

Below: The evening’s presenters, 1-r Tom Nammack, Aubin Zabriskie Ames and Michael Johnson.

Thirteen current and former trustees were among the parents o f seniors in the Class of 2013. This remarkable group assembled, together with their graduating children, prior to the Commencement ceremony.

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China: Tradition and Culture

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Jewels of Central Europe: The Art, Architecture, & Music of Berlin, Prague, and Vienna

Jewels of Central Europe: The Art, Architecture, & Music of Berlin, Prague, and Vienna

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9th Graders respond to the question: What is Global Citizenship?

At the end of the Global Citizenship class, 9thgrade students were asked to reflect on the question “What is global citizenship?”

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Global Learning: Global Experience Tracy Kuser, Director of Global Programs, Upper School Spanish While the power of seeing the Mona Lisa in person at the Louvre or standing on the Great Wall of China can certainly not be underestimated, perhaps it is even more instructive to watch how the French conduct themselves at the local café or experience that moment of “What have I done?” pr “How am I going to do this?” when you board the overnight train from Beijing to Xian. We feel connected to a past when we climb the Aztec pyramids in Teotihuacán, and we marvel at the awe­ inspiring architecture of the Pantheon in Rome. But, beyond this, we appreciate the moments wherePwe simply get to sit in the local plaza and listen or pause at the insight we gain about daily life somewhere during our time living with a local family.

MKA’s Global Experience attempts to prepare students to live, learn and work in the 21st century world as intellectually and personally engaged global citizens.

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from and expand upon the curriculum, students come to understand that becoming an informed, effective, engaged and sensitive member of a global community requires a constant process of inquiry, action and reflection. There is the need to understand oneself and to act meaningfully, both in relation to one’s own community and in relation to a greater global community. Both classroom and international experiential learning are essential in enabling students to build bridges between communities, countries and cultures, to gain knowledge and to develop empathy.

As a result, all members of the MKA community now strive to answer an Essential Question: “How can I be an engaged member of a global community?”

We hope that for many students, the answer to this question begins to take root during the 9th grade year, when in our new, required Global Citizenship class, freshmen wrestle with content and questions related to international current/ events, ethics and information literacy. Or, perhaps ' ^students begin to question their worldview upon listening to stories from one o f our young alumni during an annual Global Round Table that bring young alumni and professionals working in an international arena back to campus.

In addition to on-campus opportunities, travel is essential to developing a sense of self as a citizen o f the world. What MKA encourages in the many travel opportunities it offers is a chance to push yourself beyond where your self-perceived comfort zone is, to participate in a crucial process of introspection and to assess one’s worldview, continuously and purposefully. Each year, many of

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our students return from their adventures with a more sincere ability to wonder about the world around them as well as a greater sensitivity to the differences between people, not as a means to judge, but rather as a means to understand and celebrate. Students often return bright­ eyed and with a visible fire in them as they begin to make connections between what they do within the walls of MKA and what happens outside of them. I like to think that MKA will graduate students who agree with Daniel Boorstin when he says, “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search o f people, o f adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.

He goes 'sight-seeing.'” . Perseverance,, problem-solving, independence and respect, all cornerstones of MKA’s , educational philosophy, are skills consistently learned and practiced through Ii h m ii h h i travel. Travel teaches information and connections, but perhaps more than this, it can become meaningful and life-changing for what it teaches us about ourselves and even more, when it surprises us by creating opportunities for us to be our best selves.

The past school year was an exciting one for MKA’s Global Experience. In addition to the successful completion of the first semester of the new 9th grade Global Citizenship class and our second Global Round Table, more than 100 MKA students and faculty took

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MKA’s Middle School spring trip to Spain for and 8th ,, graders was a success, with 30 students participating: At the 'Upper School, MKA sent 65 students ' together with MKA faculty to. Québec for Winter Camavak Guatemala to help build homes, Italy to experience the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and Chile for a fourweek language and cultural exchange with Institute Abdôn Cifuentes in San Felipe. As part of our Chile Exchange Program, MKA hosted five students from IAC for five weeks during the winter of 2013. In response to the Board of Trustees’ commitment to MKA’s Global Experience, the Board granted financial assistance for travel to 12 Upper School students this past year. In the

coming year, we look forward to a Middle School trip to France and Upper School travel opportunities to Taiwan, Guatemala, England, France, Chile, China, Germany and Austria. In the coming years, we hope to travel with more than 130 students each year from both the Middle and Upper School campuses.

The integration of exchange programs into our Global Experience initiative has been rewarding and eye­ opening because it has allowed many different faces of

our community to participate, from faculty who teach the exchange students to families who host them to all of the students who don’t host but develop a personal connection and a lifelong friendship with an exchange student. Because of this, the Program’s impact is more far-reaching than one might suspect. As our Chile Exchange Program has evolved over the past four years, we have also developed a second exchange for our French students with Centre Madeleine Danielou, a private all-girls school situated on the outskirts of Paris.

MKA is grateful for the great support and generosity that the parent and family community has shown to these programs by hosting dinners or students or afternoon excursions for our exchange students.

As you peruse the following pages and read the stories of some of our students, faculty and alumnae who have had unique experiences in the world, I hope their stories will inspire you, as they have me, and perhaps encourage you to ask yourself that large, looming question that we are all trying to answer, “How can I be an engaged member of a global community?”

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas Of living.” - Miriam Beard

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Past and Present in Italy Dr. John Jacobs, Upper School Latin

As we took the narrow road from Cuma to Bacoli and then turned off the road to head up to the villa, the memories suddenly came rushing back to me. For everyone else on the Italy trip this past March, this was the first time they had ever been to the Villa Vergiliana, a grand palazzo overlooking the azure blue waters of the Bay of Naples. For me, however, this was much more. Half a lifetime ago, during the summer of 1996, I stayed at the Villa, operated by the Vergilian Society as a center for students and scholars, in the course of a trip to Italy between my sophomore and junior years of high school. Now, sixteen years later, I was finally back—this time, as both student and scholar.

It was during my first stay at the Villa that I discovered my own passion for all things Greek and Roman.

During this second stay, I was equally excited to be able to share that passion with everyone else as we explored the ruins o f ancient Cumae, hiked up Mt. Vesuvius, walked along the streets of Pompeii, scaled the heights o f Capri and enjoyed some real pizza in Naples. Throughout the journey, we all took turns playing the roles o f teacher and student with the discovery of each new building, each new artifact, each new inscription. By the end of our (all too brief) time at the Villa, we had shared many memorable moments together and become a tight-knit group of intrepid explorers— and just in time for the second leg of the journey, our adventures in Rome!

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Reflections on Teaching Global Citizenship Andrew Prince, Upper School History Department Theory too far removed from reality is useless. This is a sentiment I heard repeatedly in college, despite the fact that I majored in Political Theory and minored in Moral and Political Philosophy. And although I don’t think we would ever admit it to the political science “statjunkies-_” it’s true. For any number of reasons, the place of theory is usually to help us make sense of our reality.

This is one of the reasons that I was excited to teach the new Global Citizenship seminar. With this seminar, students could potentially consider a given topic through three different academic lenses. And what I secretly hoped was that students would have the opportunity to consider the facts of an issue in another strand, and I would be able to take up the relevant theory in ethics.

decided that a brief look at the Syrian conflict and possible genocidal events would be a good way to end our studies. I mentioned this to Alden Basmajian, who had many of my students for Global Issues, and by the time I next taught my classes, many of my students had discussed the facts of Syria after looking at a related news article. As a result, my class had time to talk about the pressure for the US to intervene and theories about capable countries having a “responsibility to intervene”.

Some students agreed with the idea that US military involvement was an ethical responsibility and used the theory to better articulate their position while others adamantly disagreed and used the theory to clarify the nature of their opposition. And I was thrilled to see the confluence of theory and reality mixed in just the right proportions to create the kind of class that leaves teachers and students alike intellectually fulfilled.

Stepping back for a moment, the Global Citizenship Seminar is a unique opportunity for our students whether or not it provides the “proper conditions” for philosophical musings. The seminar format and varied expertise of the Global Citizenship team gives students the freedom to explore a number of interesting topics as they come up. One of the units we developed specifically for this year called for students to conduct formal debates in pairs, in the spirit of the Presidential A 9 th G rader re sp o n d s to th e q u e stio n : debates. And as one pair of students began to discuss wealth redistribution, members of the “audience” began W h a t is G lo b a l C itiz e n sh ip ? to chime in. Seeing that this was a topic of interest, I reorganized the class into two teams, and a spirited debate ensued that consumed the rest of the period. We did not get to a number of other topics I had hoped to cover nor did we * It means being a Global Citizen. look specifically at the theories for or against That means that we wealth redistribution, but the students were inspired and their debate was informative for are just a piece of the whole. ^ all parties.

That being said, on the occasions that my classes were able to take up a theory related to a topic that was previously discussed in another strand, the results were incredible. The Syrian Civil War was a daily news item as we neared the close o f the Holocaust unit, and the members of the ethics strand

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Global Round Tables: Mexico, Guatemala, Bahamas, Bermuda, Paraguay, Iceland, Ireland, Portugal,-Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Switzerland, Morocco', Israel, Jordan, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Macau and the Philippines plans on spending his third year at Cambridge in Russia.

“Oh the Places You’ll Go” Regular Global Round Tables that invite recent alumni and professionals to share their experiences and perspectives of living and studying abroad with current Upper School students are an increasingly popular component of the Global Experience Program.

In May, five young alumni' - three in person and two via* Skype - met with over 25 students’to discuss what they had learned in countries that span the world. Conversation ranged from a discussion of stereotypes^® whether confirming American stereotypes (the English indeed “are excessively polite and do drink tea”) or illustrating those of others (such as South Americans who believed all Americans were blonde haired and blue-eyed) to first-hand experiences of gender inequality (none personally experienced in Paris or Russia, more observed in Latin America) and from differences-in media reporting (from the sensationalism of the US press to the censored media of China) to aspects of cultures that alumni came to value - whether the more relaxed work days of France, the intimate extended families of Chile, China’s cultural pride or the freedom given to young Americans.

Chelsea Strickland ’10 is studying International Studies, Hispanic Studies, and Business Management at the University of Pennsylvania'. She has traveled, lived and worked in a variety of Latin American countries including Paraguay, Mexico, Argentina and Pern. Chelsea also spent a semester in Santiago, Chile, experiencing five months of direct immersion in Chilean culture and Spanish language.

Jessie Chase ’l l is a French major at Columbia University, ~ Barnard College. For her MKA May Term, she went to Paris and worked for the French fashion house A.P.C. She has stayed with the company and continues to work in their West Village retail store. Over the summer, Jesse studied abroad at the Columbia Reid Hall Campus in their Intensive French Studies Program.

1-r: Chelsea Strickland ’10, Olivia Vicioso ’12 and Jessie Chase ’’l l

These brief bios'of the five participants give some insight into the depth and range of the international experiences now enjoyed by many of our alumni, and for their young audience, the benefits and rewards of such travel became even more apparent.

Rachel Weller ’09 (via Skype) was completing her final weeks at Skidmore College before graduating with a B.A. in Spanish and a double minor in English Literature/Religious Studies. She has traveled to Guatemala, Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Amsterdam and Israel and spent six months in Spain last year, studying in Madrid. Rachel’s senior thesis focused on drug trafficking in LA and the Chicano narrative, and, more specifically, the investigation of the border relationship between Mexico and the US. Jake Perl ’10 (via Skype) is reading Modem and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University, having previously studied at McGill University and spending a year abroad studying in Russia. Also taking non-degree classes in Ukrainian and Kazakh, he is heavily engaged in the Cambridge Central Asia Fomm and has been asked to found a Tajikistan Society. Jake, who has also traveled to

Olivia Vicioso ’12 is an aspiring International Relations Major and Philosophy and Asian Studies Minor at Mount Holyoke College. Her family is from the Dominican Republic, and she visited Chile and China while at MKA, returning to China for two months this summer., If you would like to be included as a contributor to future Global Round Tables, please contact Program Director Tracy Kuser at tkuser@mka.org.

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Alum ni Go Global While today’s students and recent alumni are benefiting from a: comprehensive Global Experience program, MA, TKS and MKA alumni have a rich tradition o f embracing other cultures and forging successful lives in the international arena. Here we meet three alumni who have built fascinating careers and personal lives fa r from their New Jersey roots: Dr. Richard Colfax ’68, a Professor at the University o f Guam, Gwendolyn Bove-Jones ’79, a leading fine arts conservationist based in the Netherlands and Douglas Keh ’84, Chief ofS taff at the United Nations.

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on sustainability in the world o f today and tomorrow entitled Global Engagement: Management and HRM Futures. It was a “hybrid” course with approximately 40% of the interactions with my students being online.

About two years ago, I was assigned a new role as the Graduate Faculty Coordinator. This was a new job at UOG and it gives me a chance to interact with every graduate program on campus and to have an influence in the graduate studies experience. I also get to attend, ask questions and make suggestions at thesis proposal defenses and final thesis defenses and have to review and make decisions regarding applications for graduate school as well as helping to resolve issues students have with their graduate studies.

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Can you tell us a bit about yourself?

My family consists of my partner and wife of 39 years, Toyoko, our three children, Richard, Michael and Christine, their partners and their pets.

Our children are bi-cultural and all speak Japanese fluently. Toyoko is Japanese and I met her while stationed in Japan in the Navy. We married when I was completing my undergraduate degrees at Sophia University in Tokyo.

I’m currently a tenured full Professor of Human Resource Management and Management at 'the University of Guam, where I have taught since 1994.

I teach and work in the School of Business & Public Administration.

UOG has approximately 3,500 students and is located on one o f the most beautiful sites in the world, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Marianas Trench. As a senior member of the faculty, I wear a number of hats, including undergraduate instructor,1 graduate program instructor, Graduate Faculty Coordinator and Promotion & Tenure Committee Chair. The primary undergraduate classes I teach are Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior courses. This past semester I created and piloted a course that focused

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I am also involved with the Pohnpei Student Organization, a social interaction group. Our members are from the State o f Pohnpei that is part o f the Federated States of Micronesia. These students provide me with a chance to learn about a very different island culture.

During our Charter Day, they built a native hut from natural materials and conducted some cultural activities such as the “sakau ceremony.”

H ow did someone from N J end up in Guam?

Following graduation from Montclair Academy, I attended Susquehanna University for a year. I then joined the US Navy and completed my training to become a Navy Hospital Corpsman and was stationed at a Naval Hospital in Japan for about a year. I completed my Navy enlistment in 1971. In 1972,1 was accepted to Sophia University in Tokyo. I got my visas, packed a couple of bags and climbed on a plane. O f course I was totally on my own, so I had to work as well. After about six months, I landed a job as a business consultant and editor/rewriter for a consulting firm in Tokyo'. There I worked with some of the biggest Japanese firms and government organizations such as Nissan Motors, Hitachi and the Japan Treasury. I worked full-time and went to school in the evenings. I studied economics ,. and comparative literature and on July 4, 1976, graduated with a BS in Economics and Comparative Literature. After graduation, I continued to work for the same company for about two more years, when I accepted a position as a stock analyst for a Japanese brokerage. There I continued to develop my Japanese language skills as I focused on spécifie industries and companies.

During this time, I completed my NJ teaching certification.

In 1979 I accepted a teaching position at St. Maur International School in Yokohama, Japan. I stayed there teaching American Literature, IB & AP English until 1987j when I was accepted into a doctoral program at the Fielding Graduate University, teaching parttime at a couple o f Japanese colleges as w e ll. as beginning a business consulting practice. In 1992,1 received a second Masters in Human Development and then in 1993, my Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems from the Fielding Graduate University.

In 1994, as a family, we looked at opportunities and options. One was an offer to teach business at the University of Guam. Initially we planned to move on to

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the US mainland after a few years, but having children in school, as" well as my career at UOG and my wife’s work as a language trainer made that difficult. So almost 20 years later, here we still are on Guam.

What is it that you most enjoy about living overseas?

Living overseas in Japan was great because I was able to learn a new culture from the inside. Having a wife who is Japanese gave me opportunities and insights that visitors and tourists never have. I also experienced being an “outsider” in a generally homogeneous society. This has given me a great respect for diversity and differences. It has also taught me the value o f not being ethnocentric.

Rather, I have been able to learn and adapt to other cultural practices that seemed odd to my “Jersey” upbringing.

Living overseas is an adventure. It is very different from visiting. Visiting means you get to go “home.”7-Living overseas means you are home in a place that is not where you were originally from. To be successful living overseas, learn about the cultural adaptation cycle. Like a marriage, there is the honeymoon period followed by a cold dose of reality that many have difficulty handling. Finding the little wonders and joys of the location you are in can really help. Also being open to new experiences and ideas is big help. Unfortunately, some expatriates clam up in little conclaves with others like themselves, never facing the challenges, joys and adventures of trying to learn and live in their host country.

For us, living in Japan and then in Guam has remained an adventure. We look for different things to adapt to and even adopt as our own. Different food experiences like keleguaen, finadene sauce, pickled papaya and local fiestas make every day more enjoyable.

What do you miss m ost about not living in the m ainland US? Guam is where America’s day begins. The sun of every new day rises first on Guam (and sets on Hawaii). However Guam is not typically American because the island culture and lifestyle is a blend o f many cultural practices and traditions. Guam is first Chamorro and then Micronesian.

Then add in strong Spanish and Filipino influences.

Japanese, Korean, Chinese and other Asian flavors dominate as well. The impact of Micronesian islanders who live and work here is very powerful. And finally the “US” undertones are always felt.

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So what do I miss most about not living in the US? It’s the time and distance from family, friends and familiar places that is felt most. It is challenging because we are so far from the US mainland. It takes approximately 18 hours flying time to get “back” from Guam. What I personally miss: most is the ability to get in a car or on a train and travel. But we have all the major food and store chains here. In fact, we have the K-Mart branch that has the largest sales volume in the US. There’s also McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, Taco Bell, Dunkin Donuts and even a Home Depot.

Were there ways in which MA prepared you fo r the life you now lead?

Montclair Academy offered me courses and chances to learn from teachers with different perspectives than I would have experienced elsewhere. I was challenged to think outside traditional boxes and see the world for its opportunities. This really helped me to adapt to the many different environments I have been in over the last 45 years since leaving Montclair. MA also gave me confidence to be different. I was a “black sheep” when I started at MA in 8th grade. Some truly patient instructors, counselors and administrators allowed me the room to develop. From there I was able to find myself in sports and the Glee Club among other things.

What are some o f your favorite memories o f your school days?

They have to include the original “old building” with all its leaky windows and condemned rooms. I also have great memories of the “bam”E the gym with cold showers and little heat in winter as we practiced. And the windsprints up the “hill” were killer! Also, beating Newark Academy in football for the first time in 13 years in 1967! And our “revenge” in beating King School.

Probably the best memories are the little ones that meant the most in the long run. Things like a teacher’s praise for a good presentation or performance, sneaking into the kitchen as a senior on break to help the staff prep lunch (and getting fed specials), being trusted by a teacher enough to be sent off-campus on an errand, finding a subject (Trig & Asian studies) that excited me and the morning assemblies.

Do you have any advice fo r today’s students?

I doubt I can add anything new to what MKA students hear all the time. However I’ll give you my two-cents worth and suggest three things to keep in mind: 1) Take the challenge: Try something new and different so that you stretch and learn; 2) Admit your mistakes: Own up and leam from errors, just

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don’t repeat them, and 3) Make your family proud: You ’should not do things you would be ashamed to tell your family (biological and MKA) about.

Gwendolyn Bove-Jones 7 9

Can you tell us a bit about yourself?

For my final year of graduate school at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, I came to the Netherlands to work at the Van Gogh Museum in the Conservation and Restoration Studio. That was in 1991. For the last 22 years I have lived in Wassenaar in the Netherlands, married a Dutchman, Jeroen Boeve, and now have two sons, Tristan 19, and Ryan, 16. After having. worked for various museums - mostly the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, I started my own Restoration and Conservation atelier in Wassenaar about 13 years ago. I have been very fortunate and have been able to work on fantastic projects including famous paintings by Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko and many Dutch Old Masters such as Jan Breughel and Meindert Hobbema. At Redivivus, my studio, we have a team that usually numbers between 6-10 people depending on the projects we are working on. We work mostly in the Netherlands but also regularly for the last five or six years in Istanbul, Paris and Qatar, for both private collectors as well as museums.

To get away from work and family and clear my mind, I go riding with my horse, Jelle. Usually we do simple dressage exercises or go out along the dunes or through town about four times per week these last 15 years. I used to walk with our wonderful dog, Pip, who is no longer here, except hopefully in spirit. Wassenaar is a city bordering on The Hague - i t ’s rather like living in a big city, but there is a lot of greenery, many parks and horse paths. It has been a fine place to raise children. Cooking is certainly one of my favorite daily experiences; it allows me to be creative, not to mention providing the pleasure of eating a delicious meal. Both my sons enjoy cooking as well, and the kitchen is the heart of our home. And then, not to sound to retro- 1950’s-ish, I love gardening as well! Living in Europe has the benefit of enabling us to travel and experience the many different cultures within easy reach, either by car or flying. We particularly love being in Italy; although we’ve been all over Europe and a bit in Africa and the Middle East. So, although I never would have imagined in high school that I would live in the Netherlands, here I am, with no intention of leaving.

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What set you on the path to a career in conservation?

I came to a career in conservation by a . somewhat circuitous route,_but it undoubtedly had to do with my interest in the arts, both in terms of studio work as well as studying Art History, ■for which I received a Bachelor’s Degree in 1983 at Skidmore College. Then, after spending about a year and half on Martha’s Vineyard after graduating, I moved to Boston. There, I got a job at Harvard University at the Fogg Art Museum Library. This led to my first significant contact with conservation.

After quickly realizing that this what I wanted to do with my life, I moved upstairs to the top floor of the museum for a job at the Harvard University Art Museums Conservation Center in the Administration Department. This not only gave me an introduction to working with amazing people but also allowed me to take the required two years of chemistry that I needed to apply to graduate school and still be involved, even tangentially, to conservation. I had never even taken chemistry in high school, so this was no easy task for me! But eventually I made it to the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University that was a great place to be.

What is the most rewarding aspect o f your work?

Restoring works of art, be it very famous ones or beloved family heirlooms, is a huge responsibility. I suspect that the importance of the preservation of our cultural heritage is well understood by the students and graduates of MKA, so I’m sure I do not need to explain this fundamental aspect of the work. Rather, I could say that while we painting restorers/conservators are taught to be objective in our decision making, in fact we are faced with subjective decisions all the time that affect the look of paintings. After all, paintings are in principal meant to be appreciated and understood by being seen. Therefore, every aspect concerning the look of the painting is essential to its meaning. This is something often on my mind.

A nd what is the most challenging?

Each painting is a challenge. For example, we just finished a monumental work by Anselm Kiefer - in my mind one his masterpieces: “Wohin wir uns wenden im Gewitter der Rosen is die Nacht mit Domen erhellt”, 1998. Having worked on two other large scale Kiefers, I felt able to tackle this one, which was not only an intellectual and practical

challenge but also a physical one as well. Dealing with an artwork 3 x 9 meters made of canvas, oil, acrylic, wood, sand, metal barbed wire and a dried rose branch is quite a different experience from restoring an old master oil on an oak panel by, for example, David Teniers or Jan van Goyen.

Were there ways in which TKS and MKA prepared you fo r the life you now lead and do you have any favorite memories o f your school days?

Looking back on the early years at Kimberley and then MKA, I am grateful that I received a good education, had nice friends and, all in all, had a very positive experience.

Team sports were also important. A nice memory is doing water ballet at Kimberley in the old pool - 1 loved it. I guess I must have been about 10 years old. But most of all when I think of those years at school, I am grateful that my mother, Jeanne Perdue Jones, a fantastic art teacher, was there in her classroom and that I could always rely on her for being first of all, my best friend, and second of all, always supportive with her amazing intellect and good advice. Some of my favorite memories from high school would certainly be the great laughs I had with friends like Karen O’Conner Sullivan ’80, Carol Baird Rich ’79, Barbie Kluge Hickox ’79, Amy Pariseau Waller ’79 and high school sweetheart Rob Cerfolio ’80. And singing in Mr. Bicknell’s classes.

And, and, and .... O f course there are lots o f memories!

English Literature with Mr. Bull was also great, although Ethan Frome for so many months was probably a bit too much of a good thing. I am, fortunately, still an avid reader!

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Do you have any advice fo r today’s students?

I can only give advice in so far as to say that I followed my heart like my parents told me to. After being a bit of a party-girl in high school and college, I learned to work very, very long and hard to be able to follow my passion. I am thankful that with the help of inspirational teachers and outstanding mentors along the way that I could achieve what I have so far, a never-ending fascination for my work and the honor of working on great paintings. I certainly recognize that by living abroad, I have missed aspects of family life and of being an American like my forefathers centuries before me. Yet, in a way, I feel that I have completed a circle, or maybe it’s better seen as an outwards moving spiral, by moving back to Europe after several hundred years of Perdues and over a century of Joneses in the United States.

Douglas Keh ’8 4

Can you tell us a bit about yourself?

I have worked with the UN since finishing grad school and am currently the chief of staff to the head of the department that handles peacekeeping missions. UN peacekeeping is a new area for me, having just returned to New York after spending nearly five years in Sri Lanka as head o f the UN Development Program’s Country Office in Colombo.

Just before that, I was in New York from 2001 -07, except for some time in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, immediately after the Tsunami in 2004. I also spent seven years in Vienna, Austria, from 1993-2001, including a stint with the International Atomic Energy Agency as the speechwriter to the head of the nuclear watchdog agency.

As I write this, I’m about to leave for Mali, where we are launching a new peacekeeping mission that is likely to face Al-Qaeda elements in the northern part of the country. I’ll be there for a few weeks this summer, then off to South Sudan for several more weeks before returning to New York in August.

One of my proudest achievements is having a close-knit family. I met my wife, Giorgia, when studying at grad school in Italy. When we first met, she had an ItalianEnglish dictionary, and I had an English-Italian dictionary.

We’ve just celebrated our twentieth anniversary! I am very

proud that, despite all this transiting from one part of the world to the other, despite quite stressful jobs for both of us, we’ve maintained a tight-knit family. We have three kids - Oliver is 16, Greg is 13 and Camilla is 11. They all go to the UN International School in NYC and, like me, are still missing Sri Lanka.

What set you on the path to the UN? Education and luck. I studied English literature at Cornell, and in my third year, went to London for a year to study Shakespeare. It was the pivotal event that changed the direction of my life. I learned a lot about international life in that one year, and I realized I liked being abroad, liked being an outsider looking in, and I liked mingling with the natives.

When I went back to Cornell, I shifted most of my coursework towards international relations and was lucky to get into Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), which offered its first year in Bologna, Italy (I just wanted to go abroad again!) I deferred admission there for a year to participate in a teaching program in Japan (88-89), where I worked in a high school teaching English. O f all the places I’ve lived, Japan is still the most “distant” from life in the US, but it was fascinating.

In between two years of grad school, I ended up doing an internship in Sierra Leone, in West Africa, with UNICEF, and one contact led to another. After I got my M.A., I ended up writing speeches for the South Korean mission to the UN at New York headquarters during Korea’s first year of membership 5 my literature and international relations degrees had given me some useful skills as a speechwriter. That skill-set brought me to Vienna in 1993 to continue speechwriting with the UN over there.

What is the most challenging aspect o f your work?

Right now, it’s getting accustomed to the work in NY in contrast to the work “in the field.” Here at HQ, it is more “political” in every way, and you are much farther away from the real work and impact of the UN. The UN gets a lot of bad press, but it is doing really important things in places like Africa and Asia, through its humanitarian, development and peacekeeping work. In NY, there is a lot more focus on planning, negotiating and consensus — building — there’s a lot more paper and a lot more running around.

What is the most rewarding aspect o f your work?

The UN is a place where you can at least fool yourself into thinking that you are doing something worthwhile. It’s a nice feeling to know that your work is part of a broader effort to make the world a better place. You’ll never become a millionaire, but you can at least aspire to making a difference in a positive way.

So far in my career, I have been able to spend considerable chunks of time in many fascinating places before moving on 9 it has been a very gratifying experience, to have several years in a place before moving on. In Sri Lanka, my job as Country Director was to leam about the country to the point where I could offer useful advice on how its government could reduce poverty - it was so interesting being there just as the civil war ended and be able to help the country to recover after 27 years of. conflict. I mean, who gets to do that? And get paid for it?

What do you miss most about living in the US, and what do you enjoy most about living abroad?

Aside from family and friends, I miss all the nice things you can get in the US. When you live abroad and return to the US, what hits you is how much choice there is. The availability of so' many things: like nice golf clubs, peanutbutter flavored Cap’n Crunch Cereal, Tropicana orange juice (with Pulp or None) and Hebrew National hot dogs! I wish Americans realized how good they have it.

What amazes me most about the US is its culture of change. Many people from other countries say only halfjokingly that the US has no real culture, but I feel strongly that there is a culture - a culture that prioritizes -change, innovation and dynamism and finding new ways to do things better, new systems. That problem-solving “can do” attitude is refreshing.

What I like most about living abroad is the straggle to understand what’s going on around me and of discovering new ways of seeing the world. I like the feeling of disorientation and of having to reinvent the wheel, to have to find out how to get the clothes washed, or what side of the road people drive on or why this ethnic group hates that one. Also, wherever you live and work, over the years, all of us accumulate what I call the “Hello People” - people you’ll never really have a conversation with or get to know but for whatever reason, you say “Hello” to when you pass them in the office corridor or in your apartment building or at the kids’ school. I like changing places every few years because you get to wash the slate clean: you can say “Good­ bye” to the “Hello” people, and that’s just one of the many ways one keeps life simple when living abroad!

Were there ways in which MKA prepared you fo r the life you now lead?

Yes, in two critical ways. First, academically, I got a strong foundation to build on. You realize how fortunate you were to get such an education only years after you leave.

It was great training - a “college preparatory” experience indeed. Not many kids back then, or today, have the privilege'to get such rigorous training, with so many dedicated top-flight teachers being so accessible. And secondly, through sports. Lacrosse and ice hockey taught me about the importance of working in a team, and that concept has deeply colored my approach to getting things done in a bureaucracy like the UN.

Can you share some favorite memories o f your school days?

Our 1984 lacrosse team (inducted into the MKA Athletic Hall of Fame!) was a great team and a great bunch of guys - really good friends actually —with a great coach in Doug Alsofrom. My linemates included Rob Iverson and Bob Cottingham - it was good stuff. My athletic career came to an end when I ended up going to a Division I, academically demanding college, but at least I got to participate at MKA!

Do you have any advice fo r today’s students?

Study hardHbut don’t lose your soul doing it. We place so much emphasis on academic achievement today that we de-value “emotional intelligence.” Being sensitive, being able to read people and being able to listen to others and understand where they’re coming from are crucial abilities that don’t always get fostered in a purely academic-only environment. And if you want to succeed at the international level, good writing, communication and listening skills are essential.

Also, get out and see the world! Don’t just travel as a tourist: try to live abroad for a while - the junior year abroad is the catalyst that changed my direction in life. I would recommend that for every college student today -I and not just for a semester. Tomorrow’s world will be even more interconnected than today’^ S those who know it, or know how to navigate it, will have a big advantage.

Lastly, do something about climate change, please. The world, in 30-40 years, is going to be hotter and more crowded and angrier, especially in the. developing world which will be disproportionately affected by rising temperatures, more drought and higher sea levels. We need to find alternatives to carbon-based fuels sooner than later.

It will fall on today’s students to do so and fast.

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graduated from MKA in 2010 and went to McGill University in Montréal for one year. /■ Then, I did a year abroad in Moscow and also traveled from Moscow to Kazan, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Novokuznetsk. While in Russia, I was m i accepted to the University of Cambridge and decided to drop my R u s s i a fe studies at McGill (where I was still enrolled at the time) and a move to the UK. I have been here at Cambridge since last I October, and I am loving every minute of it. My degree title is Modem and Medieval Languages (Russian and Spanish), and I also am taking non-degree classes in Ukrainian and Kazakh. I am heavily engaged in the Cambridge Central Asia Fomm and have been asked to found a Tajikistan Society, which I am in the process of creating. Needless to say, my greatest passion is language, but I am Jm S also exploring my love for politics, economics and linguistics, . especially concerning market liberalisation and language contact among Turkic and Persian speaking peoples and regions. I plan on spending my year abroad (my third year at Cambridge) in Kazakhstan, .

Tajikistan, Tatarstan or back in Moscow. Here is a list of the countries to which I have travelled:

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an MKA senior, I was afforded the opportunity o f a lifetime: to travel with 12 classmates on the annual May Term trip to China. Our 11 -day adventure included a rich and varied itinerary encompassing three major, yet incredibly diverse cities (Beijing, X i’an and Luoyang) that provided our group with ample opportunities to experience the country’s rich history, society and culture. As I had never before ventured outside North America, I was eager to treasure every moment of the trip by journaling my experiences daily and documenting them with myriad photos since I had no reason to believe that I would set foot in China again. I never entertained the notion that my first travel experience to China would end up changing my life’s trajectory, defining my dreams and offering me a boundless wellspring of inspiration for the future. , ,

While learning about the country’s rich 5000-year history by engaging in extraordinary visits and tours in each city, as well as illuminating discussions and enriching activities, I became enthralled by China and captivated by the vitality that pervaded its distinctive culture, art and society. My spirit reveled in the richness of this remarkable world that felt so incredibly different from my own. This unfamiliar, brilliant land enraptured me completely and instilled within me the desire to learn directly from the most valuable asset of any society: its people. I wanted to converse with the Chinese people about their personal experiences, beliefs and perspectives, yet the prospect of achieving such an exchange felt tantalizingly out of reach. A traveler’s ability to speak only English could not serve as a gateway to human interaction on this foreign soil. I was entranced by the opportunity to observe the beauty of Chinese society, but utterly thrown by how my native tongue confined me to the role of a passive observer, incapable of building a tangible connection with even the passersby on the street. Standing in the peaceful shade of the Longmen Grottoes, under thousands of breathtaking Buddhist statues carved into the cliffs of limestone mountains in the sky above, I listened to our faculty leaders impart to us the challenge of studying the Chinese language and felt my heart swell with sudden clarity and resolve. I returned home with the determination to commit to the lifelong goal of achieving fluency in Mandarin Chinese, and I began this

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Since my initial global travel experience with MKA in 2010, subsequent trips to China have occurred in my life with surprising, yet inspiring regularity. True to my heart’s resolve, I enrolled in Mandarin classes as a freshman and have continued my language studies for the past three years. During the summer of2011,1 returned to Beijing for an intensive nine-week language immersion program offered by Harvard, during which we studied the equivalent of a year of classroom Mandarin and pledged not to speak a word of English while abroad. An invigorating, weeklong social study trip to Inner Mongolia marked the halfway point of the program and served as a welcome respite from the grueling demands of the classroom environment, which pushed our language levels far beyond those that we ever dreamed to achieve. For three weeks in January 2012,1 traveled to Henan Province to participate in a volunteer program run by Harvard China Care at an orphanage for abandoned children with significant physical, emotional or mental disabilities, fulfilling the roles of their teachers, tutors, playmates and friends. Referred to affectionately as their older “’sisters” and “brothers,” we did everything within our power to stimulate and educate them while bringing smiles to their faces and letting them know they were loved. My final undergraduate trip to China will occur in August of this year, when I will travel to Shanghai to serve as a Seminar Leader at the Harvard Summit for Young Leaders in China (HSLYC), a program aimed at fostering scholarship and leadership in top Chinese high school students. I will teach a curriculum on visual neurobiology (my primary area of study) and serve as a mentor and role model in an engaging environment designed for cultivating the students’ personal and intellectual growth. .Collectively, these varied adventures have further energized my passion for mastering Mandarin and have helped to solidify my dreams of r-jT-’V integrating China into my future career plans in health and medicine.

On each trip, I have been fortunate to establish interpersonal, cultural and emotional ties that I would not relinquish for the world. I marvel at how the MKA China trip impacted my life so indelibly that I cannot envision my future without reflecting back upon it's lasting impression on me.

For MKA students who encounter an opportunity to travel globally or study a new language, my advice to you is this: no matter what stage in life, never be afraid to break free from your cultural comfort zone and venture out into the global unknown. A single global experience can wield the power to broaden your horizons, open your mind to fresh perspectives, and instill within you the passion to pour your heart and soul into something new. Immersion in our global world will lead you on a powerful journey to self-discovery that will enable you to reach the highest level of personal fulfillment and to most fully embrace life’s great adventures.

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thing I’ve gleaned from my years taking Spanish and traveling to Spanish speaking countries is that if there were one word to describe Latin American-culture and people, it would be warmth.

Along with the actual warm temperature, there’s a loving and genuine friendliness to family, friends and strangers, and my experience in Guatemala was certainly not devoid of warmth. There was a warmth and a loving camaraderie among all of us: the team, our Houses to Homes friends and the families and townspeople.

Though our languages were different, we communicated with a humanness, with a smile or a point, a handshake and a hug. ... We shared so much laughter together, despite language barriers of all different shapes ... After completing the Ounobnongt final touches on the home for our families, when we dedicated it to them, their heart and gratitude I will always keep. You didn’t need to speak any language to feel the warmth of their thankfulness, and I am so grateful to have experienced that.

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main reason I participated in the Chilean Exchange Program was because I was not confident in my speaking ability in my Spanish classes. The moment the teacher —^ would turn towards me and direct a question in my general direction, my throat would tighten up, and I would immediately feel my mind shudder to a standstill. For me, traveling to and spending a month in Chile was an opportunity to expose myself to an entirely new culture, as well as an eye-opening experience that helped solidify my confidence in my own ability and myself.

Communication is a necessity, and living with a family who did not speak my language forced me to talk, and to essentially come out of my shell. I could not afford to be shy. This was probably the biggest lesson that I took away from the trip, and it has completely changed my perspective; I am no longer unwilling to share my opinions in the classroom, and I can now relax enough to sit down and have a conversation without worrying about making a mistake. New friends, and the general warmth and kindness that every single person I met emulated, made the trip even more memorable for me. When I look back on it now, I realize that Chile was a shock to my system, and it sparked my love.of Spanish. Because of that one life-changing month spent in San Felipe, I have decided to minor in Spanish in college, and I am hoping to participate in more exchange programs in the future.

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Italy trip will probably be one of the defining moments of my junior and high school career. The chance ___ / n e to not only leave the country, but also to go to a place that I had learned so much about, really allowed me to see everything in a new light. For instance, I always imagined the Forum would be much larger than it actually was, and many of the customs of Italy were strange and interesting to witness. I am just really thankful that I was able to take this trip because after studying a people, culture and a language for so many years, it only feels appropriate

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that I would be able to experience these things firsthand and make my own judgments of them rather than only viewing them through the eyes of an author. I, wish that my camera was working, because I really want to be able to cherish and remember these memories for the rest of my life, but I have a feeling that this experience will be able to stay with me for a very long time.

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// Italy trip for Latin students was one of the best MKA experiences I have ever had. Not only was it informative —/ r and taught me a lot about the topics I have been studying vigorously in Latin, but it also was a b last... Pompeii was much bigger and was a lot more intact than I expected. We were able to see the structures and layout of all of the Romans’ homes and shops. Walking on the same stone that some of the most well-known men from 2,000 years ago have walked on was beyond extraordinary. Also, seeing how the Romans lived gave me'a much better understanding of the material I have been studying ... The M i .third day of the trip was my favorite because we visited the beautiful island of Capri.

Words do not even describe the beauty of the island ... it was breathtaking. In Capri, we hiked up the Villa Jovis, Tiberius’s summer hom e.... We traveled into Rome ... Dr. Jacobs and Ms. Verrone explained the • significance of all the buildings and did a wonderful job of laying out where we were standing and what we saw relative to the Romans .. .We visited the Pantheon, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Forum and the ■ ktf ■pr j J Colosseum. The Colosseum was nothing like I imagined it.

Just like Capri the Colosseum was indescribable and breathtaking. I could just imagine the events and the gladiators of Roman times. Overall, Rome was fantastic.

Also, the food in Italy is to die for, especially the seafood along the coast. Molto buono! I can honestly say I benefited from the trip in more ways then I could imagine, and came home -m with a whole new group of best friends.

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you had told me when I entered high school that I would be spending my summers in Latin America or organizing my college search around programs / in International Affairs and Latin American Studies, I would have been surprised. But I guess you never know where an education might lead, for this is the path I am on, and it is a direct result of the Spanish and history curriculums at MKA and the Global Experience Program.

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In the fall of my sophomore year, Ms. Janelli announced a Chilean Exchange Program open to students in Spanish 3. Right away, this struck my parents and me as an excellent adventure, both to host a student and to make the trip myself to South America. Ms. Kuser’s close ties to the Instituto Abdon Cifuentes (IAC), the partner school in San Felipe, Chile, gave us confidence that the exchange would be safe and welcoming.

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I am really glad that I was able to participate in both halves of the exchange. For six weeks last winter, MKA families hosted five Chilean students. My family hosted Rodrigo Gonzales, who joined our family seamlessly. Making this trip was a dream come-true for Rodrigo, and he was incredibly open to seeing everything and to engage with everyone he met. It was really interesting to travel with him and to see big American cities like New York and Washington through his eyes; both cities express their own version of the United States, importance and strength. That June, I was one of five MKA students who embarked for Chile with Ms. Kuser as our guide for the first week. After sightseeing with Ms. Kuser, we joined our host families--in San Felipe. F stayed with Rodrigo on his family’s farm. We attended school at IAC each morning and did community service in the afternoons at a small school with special-needs children.

I found it hard to learn the language-the Chilean accent is quite strong and it was truly uncomfortable to be so slow in learning to communicate. I really couldn’t keep up with the high school lessons in Spanish. Thankfully, around the third week, I found that I was finally able to comprehend most of the Spanish I heard. My speaking wasn’t fluent yet, but my understanding had made a huge leap forward. Those first few weeks were sometimes a struggle, but it was worth it, as my language skills are now so much stronger. I spent the last ten days of my visit traveling around Chile with Rodrigo and his dad. The country is beautiful. The Andes mountains are breathtaking, especially when the tallest peaks emerge from the clouds. The Pacific coast is also dramatic with a rocky coastline and the deep blue sea. It’s nothing like the Jersey Shore.

This summer, I am headed to Matagalpa, Nicaragua, for six weeks of volunteer work organized through Amigos de Las Americas. Amigos has been sending youth (including a number of MKA students and faculty) to perform service throughout Latin America for over 65 years. I am very excited that Amigos selected me for Nicaragua. I wrote my sophomore research paper in history about the Sandanista Revolution and its eventual defeat in the face of hard economic sanctions imposed by the United States. Nicaragua is now the second-most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere behind Haiti. Interestingly enough, Daniel Ortega, the Sandanista President ousted by the US, is now back in power. I am really excited that I will get to live inside a country and an unfolding story that I’ve been studying.

In Matagalapa, we Amigos volunteers will partner with a local Nicaraguan nonprofit agency engaged in community development. They will help us work with the people in my host'corhmunity in selecting and completing a project that will make a difference to them. Last year, Amigos volunteers in the Matagalpa area worked with various local communities to create a school book exchange, repair a roof of a school and clean out and repair a water-pumping station. I don’t know yet what our project will be; my job is to find what will inspire the community into action. In addition to our community-based initiative, I will spend each afternoon with the local children teaching lessons in Spanish and organizing extracurricular activities. Although the Amigos NYC Chapter has been training me for the task ahead, I admit I don’t really know what this is going to be like. I expect that it will be rather challenging at times; living conditions are very simple, and this will be full immersion with only one other English speaker with me in the community. Without a doubt it will be an adventure and I am sure my Spanish will improve. More importantly, I hope that I am able to make a connection with the people in my community and that together we are able to launch and complete a project that helps them in a meaningful way. That will be the true challenge of my time there.

I am grateful for the preparation given to me by my Spanish teachers, for the research demands of the history department and for the opportunity to travel with the Chilean Exchange Program. All three have sparked my interest in this part of the world. I do not believe I would be on this path were it not for MKA. W illiam B ator 74

with MKA abroad was an empowering experience.

1 discovered that, by working with Habitat For (j Humanity in Guatemala and building houses for families in need, I experienced an event in my life that I would never forget. I formed a genuine bond with the families and children that I met because I was able to fully understand the situations that many o f these families face on a

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day-to-day basis. In my opinion, building houses for these families went far beyond simply work or community service.

Having been granted the ability to reconstruct a community and help a family in need was a reward within itself.

Traveling and working in Guatemala also allowed me to reflect upon my own position within a global community.

In addition, I believe that my travels to Greece have greatly influenced my overall identity. I visit Greece every summer to see my family, especially my grandparents who live there. By traveling to Greece, I believe that I have developed a strong connection to my culture and heritage that goes far beyond any knowledge received through books or stories passed down. Visiting Greece allows me to gain a personal bond with my ancestry that has shaped who I am as a person today. In general, traveling to other countries has allowed me to embrace the differences between many different cultures and gain a greater understanding of the diverse world we live in today.

Photeine Lam bridis ’14

through the snow, gaping at the majestic ice palace, hurtling down hills at 100 miles per i n ÿ hour Hor some moderately quick speed - H and much more! The Quebéc trip was an amazing opportunity to experience new culture, spend time with friends and simply have a good time on a long weekend. Part of what «% made the trip so wonderful was that it was filled lilt — 'HI _____ with a variety of activities but didn’t feel rushed.

One of the most exciting attractions was the ice palace. The mere idea o f a hotel constructed from QUEBETb frozen water was astonishing in itself, but the meticulous e be c NçmiscauAÎifcKsi architecture that complimented this concept was truly jÓubougiifnauJ mesmerizing. From the intricacies on the walls, to the . \ r > '.V.is-.v.mlpr functioning ice drums and music speakers, the palace was just unbelievable. Another exciting activity was snow tubing. As someone who seeks thrills, I i'.ROuynyN'otaiwo lgMe-MMt was thoroughly satisfied with this portion of the V r*. ManiwdKTi '¡JT&MKemHg ” V.ftyV-ÇgutonQt ,V trip. The hills on which we rode repeatedly " 'I f supplied me with twenty-second rushes of adrenaline that sent me running back up the hill once more. However, the park accommodated all comfort levels of thrills with its various terrains, which allowed everyone to enjoy him or herself. Aside from the trip’s planned aspects, the trip offered a great opportunity to create memories. While it might sound cliché, these memories will stick with me for a long time. In addition, I was able to further my old friendships and begin new ones. Since the group was not very large, I was able to really spend quality time with a lot of great people. Eating, playing and learning with people for five straight days brings people together. This connection allowed me to really get to know and connect to new people and made the trip even more enjoyable. Details like this can’t be captured in writing; to truly experience the wonders of Québec, you must go visit! a

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The schools were located in an urban, suburban and rural setting, and it was interesting to see the differences and similarities between them. The students loved having us there and were excited to show us around. Needless to say, I now have several Taiwanese friends on Facebook! The trip was organized and led by teachers who grew up in the area. It gave me the opportunity to enjoy the traditions of a culture that was completely new to me, practice my Chinese and learn words pertinent to daily life, as well as make new friends!

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was one in a group of 30 MKA Middle School kids who had the amazing opportunity to travel to Spain for a week over spring break. The whole little city of Salamanca that we stayed in was beautiful, fun and felt very safe. This trip was my first experience of studying abroad, and I loved it! The school in Spain was a very nice and different version of what I was used to. The teachers were incredible, they were all young and interesting, but the best part was that they spoke little to no English, which challenged us to use all the Spanish we knew We visited little towns as well big cities that we got to learn about and experience the culture in ways that many others might never be able to. The teachers from the school in Spain showed us around the places we visited during the day and at night the school would treat us to dinner in some very nice restaurants in Salamanca We were kept busy everyday whether it was learning how to.salsa or going out for tapas. I had an amazing time on this trip and hope to never forget everything I learned and all o f the memories that were made.

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Saturday, October 26 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Reunion Luncheon celebrating years ending in ’3 and ’8.

Special recognition of 50th Reunion year alumni of Montclair Academy and The Kimberley School, Classes of 1963.

Distinguished Alumni Award ceremony honoring Paige Cottingham-Streater ’79.

Saturday, October 26 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Pre-dinner cocktail parties for those celebrating 5, 10,. 15, 20, 25 and 30 year reunions at off-site venues. Tierneys,® Halcyon and 12 West, prior to the All-Years Dinner Dance at Mayfair Farms.

Friday, October 25 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Reception and unveiling of new MKA Veterans Memorial plaque honoring those who served valiantly during 20th century wars and acts of terrorism.

Saturday, October 26 10:00- 11:00 a.m.

Tours of Kimberley and MKA campuses.

Saturday, October 26 6:30 p.m. - Midnight All-Alumni Dinner Dance at Mayfair Farms.

Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame induction of Dr. Wiemi Douoguih ’88 and Caitlin Lehmann ’01 (posthumously).

Sunday, October 27 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

A limited number of tickets for the matinee performance of the Tony award winning revival of Pippin on Broadway will be available for purchase.

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Career Day Returns March 6 saw the return of 16 alumni and one MKA friend to

Representing the careers below were the following alumni:

enlighten, educate and advise juniors and seniors on a wide range of

Advertising: Joshua Lite ’96, Account Director at Next Street; Architecture: Dr. Frank Godlewski ’76, curator, restoration, designer and historian, Smith Marin LLC; Education: Dr. Alison Thomas-Cottingham ’84, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Rider University and Alyson Waldman ’99, Director of Admissions, Gr. 1-8, The Dwight School; Engineering/lnformation Technology: Michael Ehrenberg ’75, Microsoft Engineer; Entertainment: Jennie Sutton ’07, Talent Assistant at The Late Show With David Letterman; Entrepreneurs: Lubna Khalid ’92, Real Cosmetics and LeRoy Watkins ’99, Founder, MyBike, Viking Sports Camp; Fashion/Retail: Anthony Lilore (brother of Craig B Lilore ’90) RESTORE Clothing; Finance: Sharif Siddiqui B ’96, Citadel LLC and Tanya Barnes ’96, Managing Director, W B Goldman Sachs; Law: Jake Elberg ’96, Assistant United ^ States Attorney; Marketing: Cari Roberts ’05, Brand Manager, babyGap & Gap Kids Global Marketing; Medicine: Dr. Adam Hauser ’86, Child Psychiatrist and Dr. Naveen Ballem ’90, Head of Bariatric Surgery, Clara Maass Hospital; Publishing: Amanda Englander ’04, Assistant Editor, Grand Central Publishing and Real Estate: Bryan Becker ’96, Founding/ Managing Member, Becker Brothers LLC. J o "T 1 / x B

careers at the Alumni Association’s ever-popular Career Day. Spanning years of graduation from 1975-2007, the presenters - some veterans of the day and some attending for the first time - enjoyed catching up with one another, as well as finding out more about life at Classmates from 1 9 9 6 , 1-r: Josh Lite, Jake Elberg, Sharif Siddiqui and Tanya Barnes

MKA today from their student hosts.

Career Day is one of the rare occasions that alumni and current students have the opportunity to interact. All the sessions were well attended and received rave reviews, such as this from senior Carlie Till: “I thought it was an amazing day and very well done. I was a host to Cari Roberts ’05 and was so impressed with her and her presentation. She gave me such good insights on marketing and really increased my interest in the area.” Many of the presenters echoed Jennie Sutton ’07’s comment that: “It was a true honor to be able to give something back to the MKA community.”

Representing the ’80’s, Alison Thomas-Cottingham ’84 and Adam H auser ’86

M embers o f the Class o f 1999, Alyson W aldman and LeRoy Watkins

The next generation! From the ’00’s, 1-r: Jennie Sutton ’07, Amanda Englander ’04 and Carrie Roberts ’05

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May Day Celebrates Traditions Old and New

On May 1, MKA’s second grade performed their traditional Maypole Dance in front of some very special guests.

At the year’s final event in honor of the School’s 125th anniversary, local alumni from The Kimberley School were invited to watch the performance - the dance, together with the crowning of a May Day Queen - had been a highlight of The Kimberley School experience from 1909 onwards, and in addressing the audience of parents and Primary School students and faculty, MKA Honorary Trustee Aubin Ames ’54 humorously recalled just how hard it was to dance it successfully.

Following the picture perfect performance, Ames and fellow alumnae guests Susan McIntosh Awerdick ’68 (a Pre-K teacher at Brookside), Carol Schmitz Callahan ’68, Gail Robertson Marentette ’51 and former TKS and MKA faculty member Judy Nesbit enjoyed a breakfast reception in the library with Headmaster Tom Nammack and members of the Alumni Office that featured video of an original Kimberley Maypole celebration, as well as Kimberley artifacts including a graduation gown from the early 1900’s.

Notes Alumni Director Lois Montorio, “Many alumnae wrote that they were disappointed to be unable to join us but were so pleased that the tradition continued and that we invited them. We are planning to make this an annual event.”

One of the respondents, Cecily Wilson Lyle ’55, wrote in with her personal memories of the Maypole Dance and Queen - see page 67 for more!

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1st Annual Headm aster’s Golf Scham ble Humid conditions did not deter the 76 enthusiastic golfers who signed up for the First Annual Headmaster’s Schamble Golf Outing at the Montclair Golf Club on June 18. Ably organized by current MKA parents Kevin Rendino and Cliff Finkle ’92, the enthusiastic group of parents, alums, faculty and staff were joined later in the day by additional guests for cocktails and dinner. In addition to receiving special MKA commemorative golf jackets and towels, there were contests and tee gifts for all.

A. Event organizers Kevin Rendino and C liff Finkle ’91 B. The only ladies foursome Primary School parents Tina Jordan, Allison Hegarty, Alexis Finkle and Stacy Polanskyi ’92 C. Headmaster Tom Nammack lines up a putt D. M arty Torjussen ’90, Naveen Ballem ’90, M eredith McGowan ’90, Bryan Becker ’96 and David Becker ’90

E. Darryn Glenn ’03 and Christopher Glenn ’04 joined their father Leonard Glenn on the putting green.

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Graduation 2013: In Their Own W ords Third graders...my wishes fo r you are to continue to dream and feed your passion fo r learning and taking on new challenges. Support the causes you believe in. This is your world, and sustaining itfo r future generations is your charge. Remember to work hard, but have fun...do not ever lose the ability to laugh. Enjoy every day to its fullest and continue tovherish your friendships. You are the future high school graduates o f 2022. Even though it sounds so fa r awaySjt will go fast. - Ginger K riegel, Head o f Primary School

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I t ’s essential that you take control o f defining yourselves. I t ’s in your power to determine who it is you become as a person. To determine what it is that defines you, and that should be a task you embrace fully.

You certainly shouldn’t allow yourself to be defined by what y o u ’ve done in Middle School - or in this 8th grade year - 1 don’t think too many o f us adults would like to be defined by who we were at age 13.

You aren’t defined by the grades you earned in 8th grade. Your mistakes this year - small or substantial - those w on’t define you; your star turns athletically or on stage in Middle School don’t define you. All that may inform you —but not define you.

- Dr. Randy Kleinman, Head o f M iddle School

I can now say I ’m not scared, because I know everything is going to be all right, because I was scared entering Brookside, and it was all right. I was scared entering the Middle School and that was all right. And I ’ll probably be scared the first day o f high school, but I know it will be all right - because the future is just the past that hasn’t happened yet. I ’m sure we ’re all going to be terrified to enter the next set o f doors that await us, but I know we ’re up to the challenge. It has been said that to whom much has been given much is expected. Heads up class o f 2017, much is expected. - Will Higgins ’17

As we move to our future, our academics are going to be more challenging, our athletics more rigorous and our arts will have more depth. Even though the work is going to be very different compared to this year, our class still has the ability to take on whatever is to come. I f everything were easy, would that make any o f it worth it? Aren’t the experiences we work hard to get the ones we treasure the most? We will go, make mistakes, learn from them and live life to the fullest. ...So take in this moment fo r it will only happen once. This is it. Now it’s time fo r a new beginning with new experiences. The best is yet to come, and no one wants to miss that. - M ariam A bukwaik ’17

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Seniors, I have taken time over the past few weeks to read and reflect on each o f your Yearbook p a g es.... What has impressed me is the sense that I get, fo r each o f you, o f the family you brought with you to MKA and the family that you have built while you have been at MKA. In combination, these are your companions fo r the life you lead from here... I urge you to look through the Yearbook again, at every page, let perseverance lead you to take a fresh look at every classmate and let doubt remind you that there is so much more to the complexity o f the lives o f your classmates than a Yearbook page can reveal, and then be grateful fo r the entire family that you take with you from MKA. - Thomas W. Nammack, Headmaster

In a moment, you will hear the Mastersingers perform For Good from the Broadway play Wicked. Not only is it a fitting selection fo r a ceremony such as this, but it also befits this Class particularly well. The song speaks about the meaning o f relationships and the potential o f what we can bring to other s lives. Listen to the lyrics: “So let me say before we part, so much o f me is made from what I learned from you...I do believe I ’ve been changed fo r the better, and because I knew you, I have been changed fo r good. ” Yes, Class o f 2013, you have changed us fo r the good. Just like you have learnedfrom us, we have all learned from each o f you and owe you a debt o f gratitude fo r all that èach o f you has brought to our lives. - Dr. David Flocco, Head of Upper School

The roadfrom college freshman year to senior year is a blank page fo r all o f us right now - and we hold the pen. Blank pages are opportunities. I say be creative and try to put as much on that page as you can... D on’t hold on to how you think things are going to be —because that really never holds up. Try to stay open to new ideas or situations you may not have dealt with before. D on’t be defined byjust one aspect ofwho you are. Take advantage o f all the great opportunities that will be on all o f the campuses where we are going. Be engaged - try the thing you hadn’t even thought of. There will be struggles and mistakes to overcome, but it is ok to make some wrong turns as long as we keep movingforward. - Edward Bozik ’13

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Richard K. Loveland It is with great sadness that MKA learned of the death of former Headmaster of The Kimberley School, Richard K. “Dick” Loveland, from cancer on December 8, 2012.

Mr. Loveland was bom on January 10, 1930 in Scranton, PA and spent most of his childhood in Cranford, NJ where his father was a Latin teacher at Cranford High School. He was a member of the Princeton University Class of 1951, an institution for which he held a lifelong love, attending every major reunion until he was too ill to attend his 60th.

After graduation, Mr. Loveland served as an Army First Lieutenant artillery officer in Korea, and before leaving for duty, he married his high school sweetheart Margot Gilbert, with whom he enjoyed 60 years of marriage.

Mr. Loveland’s entire career was dedicated to education. He earned his M.A. from Trinity College and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He began his career at Avon Old Farms, CT becoming Chair of the History Department, then moved to Buffalo Seminary in New York, where he served as Assistant Headmaster. He then became Dean of Students at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC before accepting the job as Headmaster of The Kimberly School - a position he held from 1965-1973.

These were pivotal years, both in the history of the school and for society as a whole, and colleagues and students respected Mr. Loveland for his clear and calm leadership. Truly a student-centered Headmaster, Mr. Loveland was distinguished by his thoughtfulness, love of history and of the outdoors. He fulfilled ambitious goals for both program innovation and the addition of new facilities for TKS that included a capital campaign to build the now recently refurbished Penick Center. An advocate for single-sex education for girls, Mr. Loveland stepped down from his position as Headmaster at TKS just prior to the implementation of the merger in 1974, and went on to serve as Headmaster at Crystal Springs School for Girls, where he remained until 1989.

“I had the privilege of a visit from Dick Loveland and his wife Margot early in my time here,” said MKA Headmaster Tom Nammack, “and since then I’ve been greatly appreciative of their continued interest in and support of MKA. The qualities of innovation, integrity and consideration for others that marked Dick Loveland’s time at TKS are a treasured legacy in our school today.”

MKA extends its deepest condolences to his wife, Margot, their son, Ward, daughter-in-law, Patricia, and grandson, Christopher.

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R o sa lin d Chase It was with great sadness that MKA learned of the death of former faculty member Rosalind Chase on September 14, 2012, two weeks short of her 99th birthday. Mrs. Chase taught Kindergarten and music at both The Kimberley School and MKA from 1955-1978. She was also very involved with Upper School theatre productions and worked closely with her good friend Marilyn Faden, who she actually referred to MKA. Mrs. Chases’s son, Alan, informed Tom Nammack that, just prior to her death, his mother “was living independently in northern California in excellent health, driving and quite active.” He recalled that, “She always had a fondness for the school and stayed in touch with a number of people that she had worked with and/or taught over the years.”

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Her last year at MKA coincided with Ginger Kriegel’s first. Now Head of the Primary School Campus, Ginger remembers Mrs. Chase “being very nice with a great sense of humor!” while veteran Brookside teacher Pat Parke recalls her as “being very sweet with the students, fun loving and always having a big smile on her face!” MKA extends sincere condolences to Alan Chase and to the rest of the family.

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Dr. M artin L. Sorger It is with great sadness that MKA learned of the death of former trustee Marty Sorger on May 5, 2013. Marty served on the Board for a remarkable 13 years, from 1980-1993, working with four Board Presidents and two Heads of School, and was a familiar face to many MKA athletes who needed his expert services as an orthopaedic surgeon.

In writing of his retirement from the Board, then-President Austin Koenen wrote: “Marty tried to retire, but after a year, we needed him back. He has served on the Educational Policy Committee since 1980. For several years, he was also on Auxiliary Operations, which he chaired in 1984. Marty was on the Executive Committee for several years as Vice President of the Board. He served on the Student Life Committee since 1987 and was chairman in 1985. Marty has long been the favorite physician for MKA sports teams and a popular speaker at Career Day.” “Working and getting to know Marty both as an individual and as a trustee was a wonderful experience,” notes MKA’s Assistant Headmaster and CFO Richard Sunshine. “He represented everything that is good about MKA and our surrounding community. He was a kind, caring and considerate man. He always greeted you with a smile and had a great sense of humor. He was the kind of husband, father, grandfather, physician and volunteer we should all hope we can be. He and his family have long time ties to MKA, which are now carrying through to the next generation.”

The MKA community extends condolences to Marty’s wife Susan, sons John ’92 and Andrew ’88 and daughter Marissa Tracey, and six grandchildren, including current MKA Primary School students, Max ’20 and Samantha ’22.

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Senior Breakfast An MKA tradition continued as seniors began their last formal day of class by gathering together for a Senior Breakfast, compliments of the Alumni Association.

After being officially welcomed into the MKA Alumni Association by Alumni Director Lois Montorio, the students enjoyed Alumni Association President Rich Stanton’s presentation of this year’s Honorary Alumni of Distinction Award to Mr. Elvoid Christmas (right).

Created to honor those members of the MKA family who have had “an easily recognizable impact upon the MKA community and its students.” Christmas, who has worked at MKA since 1966, was a unanimous choice of the Awards Committee. One of the few pre-merger employees still active at MKA, his role expanded from housekeeping at The Kimberley School to supervising housekeeping and security at all three campuses of Montclair Kimberley Academy. Today, as a member of the school’s security team, Christmas warmly greets all who enter the Upper School with a welcoming smile. In his acceptance remarks, he noted that MKA’s

Character Standards (Respectful, Friendly, Responsible, Confident, Temperate, Fair, Informed and Honest) hanging behind his desk at the Upper School are actually eight commandments for success in life, and that, for him, “MKA students are successes waiting to happen.”

Through the wonders of technology, the benefits of being a member of MKA’s Alumni Association became evident to the seniors as Alumni Giving Associate Gretchen Berra demonstrated the Evertrue app that enhances alumni networking capabilities, not only through locating fellow alumni close by in any area of the world but also finding alumni working in a particular field of interest. Within days of the breakfast, 50% of the graduating class had signed on!

Headmaster Tom Nammack concluded the formal part of the program, reminding students that, wherever their lives take them, they will always find a fond welcome at MKA. “Bags of swag” that included an MKA laundry bag for college and a special commemorative T-shirt for signing were then distributed before the seniors dispersed for their May Term studies.

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Fine & Performing Arts Awards John Philip Sousa Band Award: Anant Singh Louis Armstrong Jazz Award: Zachary Yanes

Senior Awards The Rudolph Deetjen Award fo r athletics and academic achievement: Dana Placentra, Robert Pannullo The Ethel M. Spurr Award fo r cooperation, responsibility, service and citizenship: Diana Arena The Marjorie Winfield Easter Award fo r sportsmanship, self-discipline, ' and behind-the-scenes service: Carlie Till The Robert C. Hemmeter Memorial Award fo r intellectual curiosity, love o f books and sports and enthusiasm fo r living: Alexa Bieler The Peter R. Greer Character Award fo r the habits o f truthfulness, honesty, kindness and promotion o f mutual trust and friendship'.

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Senior Department Prizes 12th Grade Avery Barras Distinguished Scholar (All A’s): David Reading 12th Grade Mary K. Waring Scholars (A’s and A-’s): Alexa Bieler, Will Cerf, CJ Geering, Emily Lauffieremy Moses, Julia Perlmutter, Jeffrey Smith, Carlie Till

The MacVicar Prize: Madeline Colbert, Kaila Fleisig, Kelsey O’Connor, Jonathan Rubenstein

Communications: Lainey Bukoweic

John Rabuse History Award: Ryan Kashtan

Marilyn Faden Award for Excellence in the Theatre Arts: Drama: Sarah Finn Musical Theatre: Dana Placentra Technical: Timothy Tse The James D. Timmons Scholarship: Zoe Ferguson The Bud Mekeel Memorial Scholarship: Olutola Ebunlomo The Scott M. Johnson Memorial Award: Nicholas Picinic The A1 Staph Award: Jonathan Kingsley

Downsbrough Science Scholarship: Ian Wilson

The John Rabke Memorial Award: Carly Pickett The Elizabeth O’Neil Feagley Creativity Award: Anna Lane Klein Awards Grade 11: Gina Guccione, Ryan Fennelly Grade 10: Erin Ducca, Joseph Amato Grade 9: Olivia Vaughn, Erik Zeug

Head’s Awards: Elijah Adderley, Elizabeth Amato, Kira Farris, Bridget Velez

Gold Award for Community Service Hours Grade 11: Quinn Buchan, Helen Wilson

Gold Award for Community Service Hours: Lindsay Reich

Bronze Award for Community Service Hours Grade 11: Teddy Burns, Kaila Fleisig, Ryan Kashtan, Kelsey O’Connor, Aaron Stagoff-Belfort, Carly Pickett Grade 10: Ike Osbun, Nicole Romola

Bronze Award for Community Service Hours: Claudia Carcamo, Rowen Diano, Michaela Mclnerney

Foreign Language Prize in Latin: David Reading

William H. Miller Prize in Science: David Reading

The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal: Elliot Furbert

12th Grade Klein Awards: Allison Bond, Nicholas Picinic

12th Grade Community Service Award: Lindsay Reich

Foreign Language Prize in Chinese: Emily Lau

Nazarian Prize for Mathematics: Dennis Kelly

The Frank Brogan Memorial Scholarship: Alexander Levy

Faculty Scholar Awards Grade 11: Kassandra Fotiadis, Elliot Furbert, Tanner Gill, Nicholas Harris Grade 10: Benjamin Rapsas, Joseph Sierotko, Benjamin Wallach Grade 9: Nisha Bhagwat, Morgan Booker, Vikash Dodani, Ana Lucia Espinosa-Dice

The Everett Glenn Memorial Scholarship: Elijah Adderley

Barras Prize in English: Jeremy Moses

Foreign Language Prize in Spanish: Anna Sheinaus

Awards for Underclassmen

Vocal Award: William Dudek Dance Award: Danielle Charpentier

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Avery Barras Distinguished Scholars for 2012-2013 (All A’s) GradeHl: Elliot Furbert, Alexander Levy Grade 10: Benjamin Rapsas, Madison Rivlin, Benjamin Wallach Grade 9: Ana Lucia Espinosa Dice, Lauren Yagoda

Mary K. Waring Scholars for 2012-2013 (A’s and A-’s) Grade 11: Madeleine Colbert, Maggie Dancy, Binoy Desai, Kassie Fotiadis, Gina Guccione, Genevieve Hughes, Ryan Kashtan, Justin Minion, Carly Pickett, Nadia Uberoi Grade 10: Evin Henriquez-Groves, Nikita Israni, Megan Massey, Heather Milke, Alexander Pai, Nicole Romola, Joseph Sierotko, Sarah Weiswasser, Danie Yanes, William Zaubler Grade 9: Nisha Bhagwat, Morgan Booker, William Bromley, Vikash Dodani, William Hughes, Audrey Lane, Leah Murphy, Julia Randall, Paige Robinson, Conor Wight

Additional Accolades to Members of the Class of 2013 - Congratulations to: Jasmine Cole: Essex County Player of the Year (field hockey), Essex County Female Athlete of the Year, Men of Essex Scholar-Athlete Award Zoe Ferguson: Honorable Mention (Writing) Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Justin Gonsalves: Essex County Male Athlete of the Year, Men of Essex Scholar-Athlete Award Nicholas Pai: NJSIAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award Robert Pannullo: Men of Essex Scholar Athlete Award Nicholas Picinic: Men of Essex Ice Hockey Outstanding Athlete Award

Margaret Jenkins Osborne Prize for Excellence in Science: Alexa Bieler History Prize: Jeffrey Smith

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Duncan Currie, MKA Class of 2000, speechwriter and senior policy advisor for U.S. Senator John Comyn (R. Texas), the Senate Republican Whip, was the keynote speaker, and with his parents and sister and MKA Upper School Science teacher Alison Currie ’02 present, he delivered personal and heartfelt advice: “If you hope to achieve perfect balance, you’re bound to be disappointed. Searching for perfect balance in life is like searching for the

Fountain of Youth. And as we discussed earlier, only Mr. Hrab knows where the Fountain of Youth is ... But here’s the thing: It’s the sacrifices you make for the people you love that will bring you the most enduring and meaningful happiness and satisfaction. In the words of Harvard psychiatrist George Vaillant, ‘... The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.’ If you keep that in mind, you’ll be okay.”

The Cum Laude Society, established in 1906, is modeled on the Phi Beta Kappa Collegiate National Honor Society and recognizes the scholastic achievement of secondary school students. It is the highest academic honor bestowed on members of the graduating class.

The student inductees are: Top row 1-r: Zachary Yanes, Noah Makow, Alexander Amari, W ill C erf Middle row 1-r: David Reading, Jeremy M oses, Jason Kwan, Kristin Morisseau, Emma M ontoya, Emma Randall, Julia Perlmutter, Zoe Ferguson Front row 1-r: Jeffrey Smith, Nicholas Pai, Alexa Bieter, Carly Sibilia, Danielle Charpentier, Olutola Ebunlomo, Emily Lau, Lainey Bukowiec, Sarah Finn

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2012-2013 Cougar Athletic Honors & Awards Winter Congratulations to Jayson Kleinman ’13, Captain of the Boys’Fencing Team and recipient of the Winter Captain’s Award

Boys’ Basketball Head Coach: Tony Jones (13th Year) Record: 16-12 Matthew Lane ’13 1st Team All-Liberty Division, SEC Max Nelson ’14 Honorable Mention All-Liberty Division, SEC Jonathan Rubenstein ’14 MKA Coaches Award Kevin Brown ’15 MKA Coaches Award; 2ndTeam All-Liberty Division, SEC Josh Chery ’15 MKA Coaches Award; 2nd Team All-Liberty Division, SEC; 2nd Tm All-Soph/Frosh Essex County, Star Ledger

Girls’ Basketball Head Coach: Jessica Bishop ’04 (1st Year) Record: 13-12

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Boys’ Fencing Head Coach: Kerry Verrone (9thYear) Record: 1-9 Jayson Kleinman ’13 MKA Coaches Award; MKA Winter Captain’s

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Prize Recipient Ian Wilson ’13 MKA Coaches Award

Girls’ Fencing Head Coach: Kerry Verrone (9thYear) Record: 0-10 Alexa Bieler ’13 MKA Coaches Award; 2nd Team Sabre, All-Tri County Fencing League Claudia Carcamo ’13 MKA Coaches Award

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Congratulations to the Team: 2013 NJIHL Mclnnis Division Champions, 2013 Montclair Cup Champions C.J. Geering ’13 Honorable Mention All-Northern Division, NJIHL; MKA Coaches Award; 2nd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger Nicholas Picinic ’13 MVP Player of the Year All-Northern Division,

Boys’ Indoor Track & Field Head Coach: Tom Fleming (14thYear) David Kabrt ’13 MKA Coaches Senior Award

Girls’ Indoor Track & Field Head Coach: Tom Fleming (14thYear)

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Lyndsi Ross-Trevor ’14 MKA Coaches Performance Award; 2nd Team All-State, Star Ledger; 1st Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger; 1st Team All Non-Public, Star Ledger Kathryn Correia ’16 MKA Most Improved Athlete Award

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NJIHL; MKA Most Valuable Player Award; 1st Team All-State, Star Ledger; 1st Team All Non-Public, Star Ledger; 1st Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger; Essex County Player of the Year, Star Ledger John Buckley ’14 Honorable Mention All-Northern Division, NJIHL Robert Jaworski ’14 1st Team All-Northern Division, NJIHL; 2nd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger Brendan Pepe ’14 Honorable Mention All-Northern Division, NJIHL; MKA Unsung Hero Award Devin Pepe ’16 Essex County Rookie of the Year, Star Ledger

Morgan Smith ’15 MKA Most Valuable Player Award; 2ndTeam All-State 500 Free, Star Ledger; 1st Team All-Essex County 200 Free, Star Ledger; 1st Team All Non-Public 500 Free, Star Ledger; 1st Team 500 Free, All-SEC Ana Lucia Espinosa Dice ’16 MKA Rookie of the Year Award; 2nd Team All-Essex County 50 Free, Star Ledger; 2nd Team 500 Free, All-SEC

Spring Congratulations to Robert Pannullo ’13, Captain of the Baseball Team and recipient o f the Spring Captain’s Award

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Head Coach: Ralph Pacifico (22ndYear) Many congratulations to “Coach P " on achieving his 400th win this season!

Record: 11-16

Congratulations to the Team: 2013 NJISAA Prep B State Champions Andrew Barrett ’13 MKA Most Valuable Player Award; Honorable Mention All-SEC

Girls’ Swimming Head Coach: Patrick Collins (5th Year) Record: 4-6 Joanna Zak ’14 Honorable Mention All-SEC

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Joseph Amato ’15 MKA Defensive Player of the Year Award; 1st Team All-Prep B; 1st Team All-Liberty Division, SEC Conor Nolan ’16 MKA Rookie of the Year Award; 2nd Team All-Prep B; 3rd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger

Softball Head Coaches: Jessica Sarfati (3rdYear) Record: 12-12 Gina Guccione ’14 2nd Team All-Prep B Nadia Uberoi ’14 MKA Coaches Award; 2nd Team All-Prep B; Honorable Mention All-Liberty Division, SEC Morgan Katona ’15 Honorable Mention All-Prep B Kayla Magee ’15 MKA Most Dedicated Player Award Sophie Silberman ’15 MKA Most Improved Player Award; 1st Team All-Prep B; 2nd Team All-Liberty Division, SEC; .

3rd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger Isabella Calandra ’16 2nd Team All-Prep B Isabella Mendez ’16 1st Team All-Prep B; 2nd Team All-Liberty Division, SEC Emma Pacifico ’16 Honorable Mention All-Prep B

Ryan FenneUy ’14 Honorable Mention All-Waterman Division, NJILL; 2nd Team All-Prep B; 3rd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger; 3rd Team All-Junior Team, Star Ledger Thomas Fusco ’14 2nd Team All-Prep B Max Hall ’16 2nd Team All-Prep B; MKA Most Promising Newcomer Award Stephen Schaeffer ’16 MKA Most Improved Player Award

Girls’ Lacrosse Head Coach: Fay Lonsinger (3rdYear) Record: 7-14;

Congratulations to the Team: 2013 NJISAA Prep B State Champions M \

Boys’ Lacrosse Head Coach: Paul Edwards (11th Year) Record: 9-11 Jonathan Kingsley ’13 MKA Alumni Outstanding Teammate Award Matthew Lane ’13 1st Team All-Waterman Division, NULL; 1st Team All-Prep B; MKA Most Valuable Player Award; USILAHigh School All-American, US Lacrosse; 1st Team All-State Non-Public, NJILCA; Gil Gibbs Senior All-Star Game; 1st Team All-New Jersey, MSG Varsity; 2nd Team All-State, Star Ledger;lTst Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger; Essex County Player of the Year, Star Ledger Mark Phillips ’13 2nd Team All-Waterman Division, NJILL; 1st Team All-Prep B; MKA W. Noll Klank Award; Honorable Mention All-New Jersey, MSG Varsity; 2nd Team All-Essex County, Star Ledger

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Alexa Bieler ’13 HS Academic All-American, US Lacrosse Allie Bond ’13 1st Team All-Prep B; MKA Most Valuable Offensive Player Award; 1st Team All-Liberty Division, SEC; 1st Team All-Freedom North Division, NJIGLL; Prep B Player of the Year, Star Ledger; All-Prep B Team, Star Ledger Ali Fotinopoulos ’13 2nd Team All-Liberty Division, SEC Emma Layton ’13 MKA Most Valuable Defensive Player Award; 1st Team All-Liberty Division, SEC; 2nd Team AllFreedom North Division, NJIGLL Michaela Mclnerney ’13 HS Academic All-American, US Lacrosse Carly Sib ilia ’13 HS Academic All-American, US Lacrosse Bridget Stanton ’14 2nd Team All-Liberty Division, SEC

Jessie Wallace ’14 Honorable Mention All-Liberty Division, SEC Erin Duca ’15 1st Team All-Prep B; MKA Coaches Award; 1st Team All-Liberty Division, SEC; Honorable Mention All-Freedom North Division, NJIGLL; All-Prep B Team, Star Ledger Monty Nelson ’15 1st Team All-Prep B; 2ndTeam All-Liberty Division, SEC

Girls’ Track & Field Head Coach: Tom Fleming (14thYear) Record: 3-5 Dana Placentra ’13 2nd Team PV All-Independence Division, SEC; 3rd Team PV All-Essex County, Star Ledger Lyndsi Ross-Trevor ’14 1st Team PV All-Independence Division, SEC; 3rd Team PV All-State, Star Ledger; 1st Team PV All-Essex County, Star Ledger; 2nd Team PV All Non-Public, Star Ledger Madeleine Fleming ’15 Honorable Mention All-Independence Division, SEC Kathryn Correia ’16 1st Team 1600m All-Independence Division, SEC

Jason Kwan ’13 2nd Team All-Liberty Division, SEC Jeffrey Smith ’13 Honorable Mention All-Liberty Division, SEC Vineet Champaneria’15 MKA Coaches Award; 1st Team All-Liberty Division, SEC Karan Juvekar ’15 2nd Team All-Liberty Division, SEC Alexander Pai ’15 MKA Most Valuable Player Award; 1st Team All-Liberty Division, SEC; 3rd Team Doubles All-Essex County, Star Ledger Jack Ross ’15 MKA Most Valuable Player Award; 1st Team All-Liberty Division, SEC; 3rd Team Doubles All-Essex County, Star Ledger

Boys’ Track & Field Head Coach: Tom Fleming (14thYear) Record: 4-4 Will Dudek ’13 1st Team 1600m All-Independence Division, SEC; 1st Team 800m All-Essex County, Star Ledger Naaman Jackson ’13 2nd Team Dis. All-Independence Division, SEC David Kabrt ’13 2nd Team IH All-Independence Division, SEC Drew Crichlow ’15 2nd Team 1600m All-Independence Division, SEC; 3rd Team 1600m All-Essex County, Star Ledger Ike Osbun ’15 1st Team PV All-Independence Division, SEC; 3rd Team PV All-Essex County, Star Ledger Billy Hughes ’16 Honorable Mention All-Independence Division, SEC

Boys’ Tennis Head Coach: Val Azzoli (8thYear) Record: 19-6;

Congratulations to the Team: 2013 NJISAA Prep B State Co-Champions, SEC Liberty Division Champions Joel Battsek ’13 2nd Team All-Liberty Division, SEC

Golf Head Coach: Jeff Beer (7thYear) Record: 14-1; Congratulations to the Team: 2013

NJISAA Prep B State Champions, SEC American Division Co-Champions Gregory Hulse ’14 1st Team All-American Division, SEC; MKA Most Improved Player Award Ian Notkin ’14 Honorable Mention All-American Division, SEC; MKA Outstanding Tournament Play Award Luke Polizzi ’14 2nd Team All-American Division, SEC; MKA Most Valuable Player Award

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Faculty Shout-Outs Six M KA faculty members saw their own children graduate from M KA this year.

From left to right, Dr. Randy Kleinman, H ead o f the M iddle School, with wife, M arsha Kleinman, Head o f the Middle School English Department and their son, Jayson; Upper School science teacher Laurie Smith and her son, Jeffrey; M iddle School Foreign Language teacher Renee Amirata and her son, PJ; Emma M ontoya and her mother, M iddle School Science teacher Penny Weissman; Upper School H istory teacher David H essler and his son, Kieffer; and Zoe Ferguson and her mother, Upper School

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Congratulations to Alicia Cuccolo, MKA’s Upper School Fine and Performing Arts Department Chair and sculpture teacher, who was awarded a four-week summer Fellowship to the renowned Jentel Artist Residency Program in Wyoming. Jentel is a retreat for artists and writers to work and achieve personal artistic goals in creative and communal surroundings.

Selection for the program is rigorous, and Cuccolo’s application, with supporting artwork, was reviewed by a panel of arts and literary professionals prior to her acceptance. She used her fellowship to create sculpture installations that evolve from being at the site and using materials found there. The American West has long been a source of inspiration for Cuccolo, who received a PAMKA Faculty Grant in 2011 to travel there to study prominent site-specific outdoor sculptural projects and create video lessons for her students.

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Congratulations to Toni High, MKA’s Tri-Campus Nursing Director and Middle School Nurse, who was named ‘School Nurse of the Year’ by the Northern New Jersey and Rockland County Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. High, who has herself had type 1 diabetes for more than 40 years, came to MKA in 2005, and was nominated for this prestigious honor by Kenneth Stier, a 7th grade student. In the letter of nomination, High is described as having “a fantastic attitude, an infectious smile and tremendous patience,” and giving the students the “confidence to handle the disease, the skills to selfmanage the disease, and the compassion to make everything okay.”

Congratulations to MKA Upper School English teacher Dr. Eric Salehi who was one of only 16 teachers selected to attend a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities five-week summer seminar on Dante’s Divine Comedy to be held in Siena, Italy. The seminar “immersed participants in studying Dante’s Divine Comedy in its historical, political, theological, philosophic and artistic contexts, under the direction of William Stephany (University of Vermont) and Ronald Herzman (State University of New York at Geneseo). The seminar will be especially beneficial to Upper School students taking Dr. Salehi’s “Romance to Reality” course that focuses on the European Middle Ages.

Congratulations to Upper School history teacher Andrew Prince who was awarded a Klingenstein Fellowship and attended Klingenstein’s intensive two-week Summer Institute held at the Lawrenceville School. This highly prestigious national designation is awarded to young teachers in their 2nd-5th year of teaching and is designed to encourage their continued growth.

Congratulations to MKA’s Athletic Director Todd Smith who was selected as the “Essex County Athletic Director of the Year” by the Essex County Athletic Directors’Association. He was formally recognized at the Association’s annual Scholar-Athlete Banquet held at Mayfair Farms on May 7. In acknowledging this honor, MKA Headmaster Tom Nammack noted: “Todd has provided significant leadership to the Super Essex County Conference and has done a great deal of good work on behalf of MKA as we have made our way in the Conference. This is a well-deserved honor from his peers.”

Congratulations to Director of Educational Technology Reshan Richards who continues to be a thought leader in the field. In April, he was selected for the prestigious Apple Distinguished Educator Program that recognizes “the most innovative educators in the world - part of a global community of over 2,000 education leaders recognized for doing amazing things with Apple technology in and out of the classroom. They explore new ideas, seek new paths and embrace new opportunities to bring the freshest, most innovative ideas to students everywhere.”

Richards was also a guest speaker at TEDxNYED — a New York City-based TEDx event focused on education with the theme of Inside-Outside, a discussion about education from both inside and outside school classrooms. Independently organized by local educators, the event featured live speakers and TED Talk videos to spark discussion and connections through the sharing of insights and inspiring conversations about the future of education.

Congratulations to Music Director Randall Svane who traveled to Tübingen, Germany this July for the world premiere of his Violin Concerto, performed by the Tübingen University Orchestra on July 24. There will be an opportunity to hear the work performed by the Orchestra at the MKA Upper School on Tuesday, October 8 at 7:30 p.m., as part of their American tour.

Congratulations to Upper School F&PA faculty member J.C. Svec who wrote and directed MKA’s 2012 Spring Movie Alone that garnered a total of eleven professional awards. Alone was the tenth original movie to be produced by the Upper School and was co-produced by two seniors and featured a student cast and crew.

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Retirements, Thank You’s and Welcomes the 125thAnniversary Committee and has been an integral part of the Upper School community, known for her warmth, enthusiasm, joie de vivre and devotion to her students.

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MKA bids a fond farewell to two remarkable retirees: Upper School Health and Physical Education Department teacher Jan Peterson (left) retires after spending a remarkable 38 years at MKA. She has taught PE and Health, (together with Driver’s Ed) at both the Middle - where she was a former Department Chair - and Upper Schools. She has been an advisor, coach and Director of MKA’s Wellness Program for faculty and staff and was the driving force behind the recent curricular changes to MKA’s Upper School PE program. In acknowledging her legacy in the Academy News student newspaper, Jan was recognized as being: “Essentially a legend” and as someone whose “warm motivation and encouragement will be missed.”

Upper School history teacher Carol Spencer (right) began her teaching career at MKA in 1990. In addition to teaching history and ethics to countless students, she has has been an advisor to both students and to clubs, including the Key Club and Amnesty International. Carol was a senior member of the Executive Council, represented the Upper School on

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Michelle Bloom (Director of Academic Support Pre-K-12), Catherine Crowley-Delman (Middle School English), Alexis Denn (Kindergarten), Steve Frantz (Systems Technician/Associate Dir. Communications), Connor Frost (Middle School Chinese), Julie Kim (Middle School Science), Brian Kuser (Upper School Math), Stefania Lambusta (Middle School Math), Suzanne Oratio (Primary School Learning Specialist), Gary Pacheco (Middle School Math), Jason Ruff (Middle School Art), Kristen TepfenhardtFreund (Assistant Dir. Communications/Middle School English & Social Studies) and Sue Tummarello (Primary School Science & Technology).

And welcomes: Michael Alexander (Tri-Campus Systems Technician), Patricia Bartolomeo (Primary School Learning Specialist), Dr. Carrie Flyer (Upper School Biology), Joelle Francht (Middle School Art), Nathan Gardner (Middle School History), Crystal Glynn (Primary School Science), Nate Green (Upper School History), Jennifer Haakmat (Upper School Learning Specialist), Susan Hansen (Middle School Science), Marshall Hatcher (Middle School English), Gary Kaufman (Middle School Math), Jean Lee (Upper School Math and Computer Science), Kim Saunders (Associate Director of Communications), Laura Treadaway (Upper School Math) and Fangzhou Zhang (Middle School Chinese).

Thanks to Susan Ciccone O ’Donnell ’85, class secretary and current MKA parent, who passed along the following note from former MKA physics teacher andfootball coach Kevin Monahan: I just received the MKA Review, and it has brought back some great memories. Please pass on this information: I am now teaching and coaching in Naples, Florida; I have been here for 16 years. We have had great success with football and placing our kids in Division 1 scholarship schools throughout the country.

The memories and friendships that were developed at MKA with faculty members and students from 1983 until 1990 are the most important and fond memories of my career. I stay in touch with many of the ballplayers and have followed their careers. I have also followed the continuing careers of many faculty members that I was lucky enough to work with and who taught and with great patience gave me guidance along the way. I often think how great it would be to still be a member of the MKA family. I have made many different stops along the way and have taught many great young men and women, but my best memories will always and still are the ones I shared with so many people at MKA for seven great years.

Thanks to all of you. I am lucky to have been part of a great family.

As ever, Kevin John Monahan

Founders’Cup 2013 Congratulations to Upper School history teacher David Hessler who was named the recipient of the 2013 Founders’ Cup for Teaching Excellence. Presented annually by the Alumni Association, the Founders’ Cup is based on nominations from all MKA constituencies and honors a full­ time faculty member who exemplifies the highest levels of teaching and who contributes to the well-being of the MKA community, both in and out of school.

Hessler, who received his bachelor’s degree from Davidson University and a master’s degree from the New School for Social Research, has taught at MKA since 1993. In addition to teaching, Hessler was active in the Outdoor Club for many years, is the Director of the Hemmeter History Lecture Series and the leader of Upper School May Term trips to China.

Alumni Council President Richard Stanton ’87 presented the award at the end of year faculty meeting, reading from many of the nominations from students, alumni, parents and peers received on Hessler’s behalf, among which were the following: “Mr. Hessler taught me respect and responsibility both inside the classroom and outside. 1 “His passion fo r learning is apparent in every lesson taught, and he teaches students to love learning. ” “The most important lesson Mr. Hessler taught me was to believe in myself. ” “Mr. Hessler gave me the courage to see beyond the possibilities o f high school, to embrace the marvels o f learning by doing. ”

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Anniversary Gala “Simply spectacular!” was the resounding verdict on this year’s sold-out PAMKA Spring Fundraiser - the 125thAnniversary Gala - held at the Pleasantdale Chateau on April 13.

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Under the dedicated leadership of Gala Chair Bianca Bator and her talented committee of parents, the night celebrated the past and successfully built for the future. The Silent Auction enjoyed an exciting new twist with the advent of mobile bidding, while paddles were held high for a spirited live auction that saw the return of favorite items such as a special catered ‘Dinner with the Headmaster’ and the offer of new ones that included rare house seats to a Beyonce concert and a wine-tasting trip to Napa.

Opening the dinner portion of the evening, PAMKA President Lori Yanes acknowledged the legacy of support from senior parents attending their last PAMKA fundraiser, and further remarks from Headmaster Tom Nammack and Bianca Bator set the tone for a celebratory night of bidding.

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“I did not dare to hope for anything this marvelous; we surpassed all expectations,” commented Bator.

Admiring the prize in the Jewelry Raffle “Our guests knew it was a special night my committee found beautiful, beautiful things for them to spend on, and they did, generously.”

The Spring Gala is PAMKA’s largest single fundraising event, and over $320,000 was raised to support Future Forward, MKA’s faculty endowment, campus “Wish List” items and Faculty Trust Grants PAMKA-funded travel opportunities for teachers to pursue their academic passions around the world.

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Under perfectly blue and cloudless skies, an estimated 1,000 members of the MKA community - students, parents, faculty and friends - came out to enjoy a spectacular Cougar Pride Day. Under the expert leadership of event chairs Margot Macdonnell and Marcy O’Dell, parent and student volunteers organized a myriad of activities to help celebrate 125 Years of Cougar Pride. From arts and crafts to the climbing wall and a LAX clinic; from booths supporting community service to sustainability efforts; from the MKA jazz bands to karaoke performances; and from food options ranging from the festive (cotton candy) to the gourmet (courtesy of the Fine Dining Club) there truly was something for everyone!

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PA M K A Sends Faculty Across The World MKA’s Parents’Association plays a significant role in ensuring that faculty members are also encouraged to pursue global experiences by applying for PAMKA Faculty Trust Grants. These grants, designed to enrich both teaching and personal learning goals, are awarded annually, and over the past summer, five recipients traveled at home and abroad as the beneficiaries o f grants totaling $27,800.

Upper School English teacher Paul Cunningham toured the Ireland of James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Oscar Wilde and Jonathan Swift; Upper School history teacher David Hessler fueled his passion for Chinese philosophy and the religion of Taoism by traveling to Beijing to study with the Deputy General Secretary of the Chinese Taoist Association; Upper School English teacher Patty Forbes “walked in the footsteps of the writers and artists of the Lost Generation — from Paris to Provence, from Provence to Pamplona, from Pamplona to Madrid and from Madrid to San Sebastian” following the lives of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; Middle School science teacher Amy Fossett (above left) explored the geology of Iceland on a National Geographic tour titled “A Circumnavigation of Iceland” and finally, Primary School assistant librarian Karen Schifferdecker (above right) took a two week “children’s literature tour” experiencing the environments that inspired authors and illustrators such as Natalie Kinsey Wamock, Mary Azarian, Barbara Cooney and E. B. White. Schifferdecker perhaps best describes the value of the grants: “This trip allowed me to continue to be inspired, in a very authentic way.”

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2013 Athletic Hall of Fame MKA is honored to induct two remarkable alumni to the 2013 Athletic Hall of Fame.

Wiemi Douoguih ’88 The epitome of an MKA scholar-athlete, Wiemi played varsity lacrosse his junior and senior years, varsity soccer his junior year and varsity football his senior year, when he was selected to NJISAA (independent school) AllState First Team B Division and All-Prep Conference First Team for that sport. This athletic success was even more remarkable given that Wiemi battled moderate to severe asthma throughout his childhood and high school years.

At Washington and Lee University, Wiemi was named an All-American lacrosse player and is in their lax record book with eight goals in one game vs. VMI and 50 goals that same season. In addition, Wiemi participated in national and international Judo competitions - in college and beyond - and won a national championship title in 2001.

An orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Douoguih is the Medical Director and Head Team Physician for the Washington Nationals (MLB). He is an Associate Team Physician for the University of Maryland athletics (NCAA) and a consultant to the Baltimore Ravens (NFL). This follows prior positions as assistant team physician to the LA Lakers, LA Dodgers, LA Kings, Anaheim Angels and Mighty Ducks and the teams at Loyola Marymount University. He also serves as Co-Medical Director of MedStar Sports Medicine. He specializes in arthroscopic treatment of the shoulder, elbow and knee and has published multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as lecturing internationally on various sports medicine topics.

Interviewed for the Review in 2004, Wiemi said, “My involvement in sports is what piqued my interest in orthopedic surgery because I thought orthopedics would be a great way to stay in touch with sports even after I was no longer able to participate as an athlete.

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Caitlin Lehmann ’01 When Caitlin tragically died from an aggressive cancer at age 19, former MKA Athletic Director Dr. Mark Boyea summed her life up as having been about truth, strength, humility and love. As hard­ working and strong a student as she was an athlete, Caitlin was an exemplar for her class and for her team, and left an indelible impression on all who had the privilege to know her.

Caitlin came to MKA in 1999, and her impact on the Upper School swim team was almost immediate. She broke a school record in her first dual meet of the season and went on to break four more individual records, as well as being part of all three relays that broke school records that season. She led MKA to two Essex County and Parochial B State Championships and to one Prep A Championship.

She graduated holding seven school records, and three of those records (50 Free, 100 Backstroke and 200 Relay) still stand today. Caitlin won four County and Prep titles in individual events in 2000 and 2001 and was named the 2000 Star Ledger Essex County Girls Swimmer of the Year. In two years of competition at the Eastern Interscholastic Swimming Championships, Caitlin scored in the top 12 in four individual events and in four relays, led MKA to its highest finish ever at the 2000 Easterns when they finished 5th and was a two-time 1st Team All-County and All-Parochial selection. And all this was accomplished while she was suffering from an undiagnosed soft tissue sarcoma that, by March of her senior year, had metastasized to her lungs, chest and back.

In presenting the 2001A1 Staph Award to Caitlin, Dr. David Flocco, Head Varsity Swim Coach at the time, said: “The danger and fear that accompanies this disease have only made her more resilient, more determined and more focused to win this race. It is this optimistic attitude that makes her who she isE and who she is, is a wonderfully positive, unassuming, funny young woman who has touched the hearts and minds of more people than she’ll ever know.” alumni

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Although a tropical storm left the baseball field unplayable, the 8thAnnual Klank Klassic and 3rd annual Field Hockey game went ahead as scheduled on June 15.

The Klank Klassic commemorates the life of MKA lacrosse coach William “Noll” Klank who passed away suddenly in 2003. Noll’s wife Sandy, daughters Kristen ’95 and Tracey ’97 and their families were present, cheering both alumni and current student players. At halftime, Varsity Coach Paul Edwards recognized some of this year’s players for their outstanding seasons, including Mark Phillips ’13, who received the W. Noll Klank Memorial Award, Matt Lane ’13, for being named to the All American All Star Team - Matt’s 321 career points now put him a t # l on the all-time Essex County Boys’ Lacrosse list and Jon Kingsley ’13 who received the 2013 Alumni Outstanding Teammate Award.

Earlier in the day, Varsity Field Hockey Coach Injoo Han assembled stellar, competitive teams of alumni and current students, ranging from the Classes o f2000 - 2016, for the third, and increasingly popular, alumni field hockey game.

Players from both teams, along with parents, children and friends, enjoyed a post-game reception at Tierney’s catered by Steve Raab ’97, owner of Local Smoke Barbeque.

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Back Row: Coach Injoo Han, Rachel Hegarty ’15, Gina Guccione ’14, Kerry Fusco ’l l , Emma Pacifico ’16, M olly Peek ’14, Jane Stanton ’09, Caroline Richardson ’07, Cait DeRuggerio ’06, Elise M cM ullen ’08, M allory M cDonagh ’10. Front Row: M arion Nam m ack ’10, Kelsey Palmisano ’14, Bridget Stanton ’14, Allie Bond ’13, Jasm ine Cole ’13, Jazmin Shah-Dutta ’15, Fran De la Torre ’00, Bridget Blake ’08, Angela M cCafferty ’06, Kate G elnaw ’06, Hilary Matson Trevenen (former coach), Zandi Nammack (former coach)

Back row 1-r: M organ Roberts ’16, M att Lane ’13, Ryan Dancy ’18, Kyle Duca ’l l , Peter Dancy ’82, Craig Schweitzer ’12, Rick Kitts (former coach), Jack Strain ’l l , Jon Kingsley ’13, Stu Harwood ’07, M ike DeVita ’l l , M ark Phillips ’13, Ryan Fennelly ’14, CJ Geering ’13, Paul Edwards (Head Coach), M ichael M iller ’15, M ark Fortunato ’03, M ike Strader ’06, M aurice Walsh ’12, Brian M cFeeley ’08, Cam Brazill ’12, E rik Zeug ’16, Charlie Gephart ’08, Pat Karole ’12, M ichael Borges ’12, Nolan M cGarrity ’06, Ernie M osca (coach) Front row 1-r: Rob Fortunato ’08, Ed Bartleson ’08, M att M etzger ’08, John K ubinak ’12

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T h e 2013 D istinguished A lu m ni A w ard nephew and niece, current MKA students Bobby and Alison, and granddaughter Allaire Streater, a Pre-K student at the Primary School. She and Bob were the founders o f MKA s Black Alumni Networking Initiative (BANI), and she is a familiar face to the many MKA students and young alumni who have benefitedfrom BANI’s organized trips to college campuses.

What was your first interest in international relations?

In recognition o f her distinguished career in law and international relations, the MKA Alumni Council is honored to present the 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award to Paige Cottingham-Streater ’79. Paige received a B.A. from Connecticut College and a J.D. from The George Washington University National Law Center. In her career, she has served as Counsel and Legislative Assistant in Congressman Donald Payne’s office, been a fellow on the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET), a sta ff attorney at the U.S. Department o f Treasury, a law clerk at the U.S. Department o f Justice and Deputy Director o f the Mansfield Foundation.

In 2004, she received the Japan Foreign M inister’s Commendation in recognition o f her long-standing work to strengthen US-Japan relations and in 2011 was appointed Executive Director o f the Japan-US Friendship Commission that provides grants fo r research, training and exchange with Japan, the USJapan Bridging Foundation and the US-Japan Conference on Cultural Exchange, a bi-national advisory panel to the US and Japanese governments.

Now living in Washington DC, Paige is a frequent visitor to Montclair and MKA, visiting brother Bob Cottingham ’84, his wife Alison Thomas-Cottingham ’84, her

Two experiences come to mind: First, was a family trip to Osaka, Japan to attend the World’s Fair when I was in elementary school. Second, was participation in the Model United Nations program. During high school, Congressman Donald M. Payne encouraged me and a group of friends to participate in a Model United Nations program, offered at the Newark YMCA. The Model UN introduced me to the field of international affairs and helped me develop strong analytical, public speaking and leadership skills. I became a regular and active participant and enjoyed learning about other countries and the issues they faced. I advanced to national level competition and met students from across the United States with a shared interest in politics, diplomacy and international relations. I vividly recall intense discussions about how nations on the continent of Africa would negotiate with each other and decide how to achieve their national and international objectives.

What did you want to be when you grew up?

From an early age, I knew I wanted to be a lawyer. I enjoyed watching reruns of Perry Mason — a courtroom drama from the 1960’s, and admired Perry Mason’s problem-solving and oral argument skills. At the time, I thought I could use a legal education to right wrongs and

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help people. In preparation for the academic work that lay ahead, I took Latin when I entered the Upper School in order to help build my vocabulary and gain a better understanding of legal terminology. I entered Connecticut College as a freshman intending to be a French and Government major. I thought the French I had been studying since the 6th grade at The Kimberley School would serve me well if I decided to pursue an interest in international law. I ended up declaring Asian Studies and Government as my major course of study.

MKA has a Global Program. What are your beliefs about seeing the world through a global perspective?

I was so pleased to learn about MKA’s Global Experience Program because the world we live in today is so diverse and countries are so interrelated; it is crucial for the next generation to know, not only about the United States but also about other parts of the world.

When you leam about another country’s history, language and culture, you also reflect on your own country and reexamine traditions, practices and even consider new approaches to old problems. MKA does a great job of teaching empathy from as early as Pre-K, and I have found in my own work how important it is to .appreciate another way of considering an issue and approach to a problem. When I participate in international meetings, it is not uncommon for the people with whom I meet to speak more than one language and to have lived in more than one country.

Sometimes, when I am working with a team of people from different countries I need to understand possible sensitivities, reasons why an obvious solution to a problem may not be so obvious to my counterparts or the implications of different courses of action. MKA students will be well-served to develop these skills early in their academic lives.

What did you enjoy most about getting to know Japanese culture?

I most enjoyed living in the city of Tsu in Mie Prefecture, Japan, where I taught English for one year to Japanese high school students as a participant on the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET). Up until that point, with the exception of my family vacation to Japan, my education about Japan had been primarily academic. I studied Asian Studies with Mr. Bay Bigelow at the Upper School and became an Asian Studies major at college. After graduating from the National Law Center at George Washington University Law School, I studied the Japanese language in evening classes. As a

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JET Program participant, I was able to immerse myself in Japanese culture and get to know my colleagues and my community in a way that textbooks did not offer. At times, I was frustrated by gaps in communication and occasionally impatient with what felt like a painfully slow decision making process. But I learned so much through these firsthand experiences about Japanese communication styles, decision-making processes and the importance of maintaining harmony within the group. I traveled across the country and enjoyed great food, gained an appreciation for the importance of the aesthetic in food, landscape and daily life. My time in Japan motivated me to become a bridge between Japan and the United States to help both countries strengthen and improve their longstanding relationship. I also wanted to provide Americans and Japanese with opportunities to leam about each other through personal experiences. Because of the kindness, patience and hospitality of my community in Mie-ken, I have been able to fulfill my personal and professional goals. The Japanese language, cross-cultural communication and problem-solving skills I developed living in Japan served me well as a congressional staff person, public policy program director and agency head. In these positions, I have had to research complex issues, negotiate international agreements, advocate for U.S. government interests, build bilateral public diplomacy programs, moderate policy dialogues and coordinate binational initiatives.

What is the most challenging aspect of your work?

Reminding and informing Americans about the importance of the US-Japan relationship that has matured since my family and I traveled to Japan in 1970.

The U.S. and Japanese economies are interrelated, and our national security depends on a strong alliance. Yet, a strong China and unstable Korean Penninsula have captured the attention of political leaders, policymakers and students. My responsibilities as Executive Director of the US-Japan Friendship Commission, an independent federal agency whose mission is to support the US-Japan relationship, are to focus on the importance of the bilateral relationship and ensure its stability in the future.

In a time of limited resources and numerous global challenges, I look for new ways to demonstrate and explain the relevance of the U.S.-Japan relationship and support Japanese studies, bilateral exchanges, policy dialogues and artistic and cultural activities.

Another challenge is building consensus between US and Japanese stakeholders on ways to support and strengthen the bilateral relationship. As Secretary-General of the

Conference on Educational »and Cultural Interchange (CULCON), a binational advisory panel promoting people-to-people exchanges, I work closely with Japanese counterparts to identify policy recommendations to improve educational and cultural exchanges between Japan and the United States. Identifying issues, setting priorities and proposing recommendations can often times be a slow process that requires patience, diplomacy and perseverance. Thankfully, I had many opportunities to develop these skills as an MKA student.

Was there anything about MKA that prepared you for the path you have taken?

MKA supported my intellectual curiosity and prepared me academically to seek knowledge, become a critical thinker and be goal-oriented. I learned about other cultures through French, Latin and Asian Studies classes. The rigorous curriculum helped me to develop good study habits and organizational skills and trips overseas, such as ski trips to France and Switzerland, exposed me to the challenges and excitement of international travel. As a seventh grader, I learned that I could travel independently with a little bit o f French and a lot of preparation. Due to an unexpected problem with my passport, I was not able to travel with the MKA group that had signed up for a week of spring skiing in Leysin, Switzerland. My parents agreed to let me travel on my own from JFK airport to Leysin, where I would meet the group. I flew to France and took a taxi from the airport to the train station where I purchased a ticket to ride from Paris to Leysin. When I saw my group standing on the platform, I could not have been more proud. I had used my limited language skills and my strong desire for an international experience to reach my destination. I applied the same focus and determination to my undergraduate and law school studies and have maintained my interest in learning about other cultures and finding ways to work together to pursue common goals.

What is your favorite MKA memory?

When I play back the seven years I spent at MKA, the common theme is the importance of relationships. I had terrific friends with whom I played and studied, and we made each other laugh. I was described as “spirited” and enjoyed being able to balance a rigorous academic curriculum with active participation in MKA’s school life. Fond memories of my Middle School years include lunchtime games in the auditorium and a synchronized swimming performance to the music of The Sound o f Music in The Kimberley School pool (which no longer

exists). At the Upper School, I developed friendships with volleyball and track and field teammates. I also had meaningful relationships with several teachers. To this day, I am especially grateful to the teachers who saw my potential for excellence and expected nothing less.

In particular, Madame Schiomanda and Mrs. Gregory made studying ancient and modem language and culture fun. Visiting the suite of offices they shared usually guaranteed a warm greeting and words of encouragement. I still practice Madame Schiomanda’s remedy for late afternoon fatigue. She was a firm believer in the importance of a “nap” kin — today probably referred to as a power nap. And if I were to think of a single memorable event, it would be spring break ski trips in Europe. Travelling with friends and classmates Beth Kindler Lloyd-Thomas, Anita Sims Rainford and Tracy Green Frager was exciting and educational.

What advice would you give today’s graduates who might be interested in a similar career?

I would encourage anyone interested in a career in law, diplomacy, public policy or international affairs to arm themselves with as many experiences as possible that will give them the opportunity to research, problemsolve and write. I believe foreign language study and overseas experience are critical to be competitive in today’s globalized society. The ability to speak a second language, have empathy for another culture and work comfortably with diverse groups of people is important.

I also encourage young people to do internships to gain experience and an understanding of their skills, likes and dislikes. My summer earnings came from lifeguarding, but I learned how to function in an office environment and be a team player from high school and college internships. Connecticut College alumnae were generous to me in offering internships during several winter breaks. In turn, I have offered short-term internships both to MKA students and Connecticut College undergraduates interested in international affairs.

It is also important to be an excellent communicator.

Although the Internet and social media enhance our ability to share information quickly, face-to-face communication is invaluable.

I encourage students to leam how to communicate well, both orally and in writing. And finally, it may seem obvious, but it is worth saying that respectfulness, kindness and open-mindedness are important personal characteristics to nurture.

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New York City Thanks to the sponsorship of Ray Knox ’76, Headmaster Tom Nammack, members of the Development Office and alumni representing a range of years from 1953-2007 enjoyed a spectacular, early spring evening at the New York Athletic Club on Thursday, April 4.

Joining us from The Kimberley School was Mrs. Elizabeth Glaeser ’53, with Montclair Academy represented by Dr. Howard Beilin ’53, R. Victor Bernstein ’65, Marc Kirschner ’60 and Alan Hirsh ’69. There was great representation from many decades, but the ’90’s clearly won the contest with 13 in attendance including Alfredo Bequillard ’97, Ulysses De La Torre ’91, Gregory Decter ’97, Christopher Giampapa ’93, Serena Godwin ’92, Barry Janay ’96, Dara Marmon ’91, Lauren Moses ’98, Erin Ness ’97, Benjamin Parker ’96, Jessica Simpson-Cook ’99, E. Peter Tiboris ’98 and Seth Traum ’91.

Philadelphia MKA hosted a regional cocktail and dinner reception for alumni living in the Philadelphia area on Thursday, May 9 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Headmaster Tom Nammack and members of MKA’s Development Office hosted an intimate gathering of approximately 20 MA, TKS and MKA alumni representing classes ranging from 1970-2003.

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It was wonderful to see alumni connect and reconnect with one another. They were also excited to leam about the new projects that are underway, as well as those planned for the future, from Tom Nammack. The largest numbers of alumni were from the class of ’81, including George George, James Habron, Richard Moskowitz and David Newman. Other attendees included Leanne Scott and Dana Martin both from the class of ’94, Michael Hnatow and Louis Lessig from the class of ’89, as well as Dr. Brunno Manna ’70, John Murphy ’72, Catherine Hippie ’74, Francesca De La Torre ’00 and Julie Fierro ’03.

Montclair The MKA Alumni Council held their Annual Spring Social at Van Vleck House and Gardens on May 15 where over 75 alumni representing a span of classes from the ’60’s - ’00’s gathered for an exciting and fun-filled evening! The night featured an array of delicious hors d ’oeuvres and signature cocktails of all-natural fruijB liqueurs and ciders from Warwick Valley Winery and

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Distillery, compliments of alumni owners Jason Grizzanti ’96 and Jeremy Kidde ’96. Council hosts Jessica Simpson Cook ’99, Klaudia Pyz ’98 and Jaclyn Spediliere ’00 led an incredible Tricky Tray consisting of baskets donated by fellow members, including golf lessons, Broadway tickets, state of the art digital equipment, premium wines and gym memberships. All guests had an unbelievable time reconnecting in their hometown and enjoying themselves on a gorgeous spring evening!

Greenwich, CT Much like the USPS motto - “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night...” the June 13 Alumni Regional Reception in Greenwich, CT was not about to be cancelledBfor a second time no less - due to severe rain and wind (the first cancellation was due to a mere 21 inches of snow!). Unfortunately, some of our expected guests were unable to drive through the torrents of rain, but those who lived nearby were treated to a wonderful evening hosted by Ray Knox ’76 in the spectacular home of Sandra Hill, a dear friend of MKA. The graduation years of those in attendance spanned the decades from the 1950’s through the 1990’s. Enjoying the evening and visiting with other alumni were Karen Bodner ’90 and David Devejian ’88, Pam Bolton ’78, Georgia Carrington, ’54, Margie Hollander Nash ’76, Barry Janay ’96, Andy Levine ’76, Lily Solmssen Moureaux ’59, Andrea Sporer Simon ’65, Camilla Galesi Solari ’91, Gail Zabriskie Wilson ’56 and Meredith McGowan Zengo ’90.

The Alumni Relations team of Lois Montorio and Gretchen Berra joined Director of Development Geoff Branigan who shared news from MKA including some of the college destinations of our newly minted alumni.

He also extended an invitation to all to visit campus whenever they are in the area even promising to treat all to lunch in the Middle School Dining Hall.

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1 - From the early ’90’s, 1-r: Adrienne Phillips ’92, Uylsses De la Torre ’91 and Seth Traum ’91. 2 - Enjoying each other’s company, 1-r: M ark K irschner ’60 with Elizabeth G laeser TKS ’53 and Howard Belin ’53. 3 - Still firm friends, Caitlin Di Ruggiero ’06, Taylor Breit ’07 and Angela M cCaffrey ’06

PHILADELPHIA 4 - Louis Lessig ’89, Bruno M anno ’70 and M ichael H natow ’89. 5 - Justin Boyer and his wife Francesca de la Torre ’00 with Tom Nammack. 6 - ’94 classmates Leanne Scott and Dana Martin.

MONTCLAIR 7 - 1-r: Dave D e M atteis ’95. 8 - Sapna Lalla, Veejay Lalla ’93, Steven H obson, Shirley Simpson, Jared Cook ’01.

9 - 1-r: Clifton Davis, Pamela D'Am ato Davis ’89, Joseph Alessi ’68 and Diane Alessi.

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10 - 1976 classmates and friends Andy Levine

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Class Notes E d i t o r ’s N o t e

The deadline for news for the FALL Review is Ju n e 1 and the deadline for the SPRING issiSl is Jan u ary 1.

News can be submitted to the Alumni Office at any time on the back of Annual Fund remittance envelopes, via mail or email to the Alumni Director (lmontorio@mka.org), the Editor (dkozak@mka.org) or your Class Secretary. We keep ongoing files for each class and welcome photographs in digital or hard copy.

If your class does not have a Class Secretary listed, please c ^ sid e r volunteering for the position! It is a great way to re-establish contacts with old friends, does not require a great deal of time and is essential to the ongoing vitality of the school.

Thank you.

M A —Montclair Academy TKS —The Kimberley School M KA—Montclair Kimberley Academy

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Mrs. Alfred D. Williams (Joan Bayne) 15 Piper Road, Apt. K310 Scarborough, ME 04074 Summer Phone Number at Belgrade Lakes (May-September) 207-495-2617

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Mrs. James F. C. Hyde Jr. (Enid Griswold) 5402 Duvall Drive Bethesda, MD 20816-1872 MKA sends deepest condolences to Susan O ’G orm an K arlin whose spbuse, John E. Karlin, passed away on January 28, 2013.

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Our deepest sympathies go out to the family of N an cy T h om p son B u ttfield who passed away on December 30,2012.

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MKA sends deepest condolences to the family of D an iel B ushn ell who passed away on March 26, 2013.

Mr. Richard L. Charlesworth 27 Whipple Farm Lane Falmouth, ME 04105 diknan@maine. rr. com

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MKA sends sincere condolences to the family of E lizabeth G racy K en n y who passed away on March 28, 20B | B| MKA sends sincere condolences to the family of M ary H ayw ard D avis who passed away on March 3, 2013.

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Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) Crane's Mill, Apt. 2205 459 Passaic Avenue West Caldwell, N J 07006

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MKA sends deepest condolences to the family of Jaq u elin e Isaacs W ithington who passed away on February 5, 2013.

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Miss Lucile G. Mason 142 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, N J 07042-2350

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Mrs. Leigh Berrien Smith 847 Franklin Street Vineyard Haven, MA 02568 lbsmithl5@yahoo.com L eigh B errien Sm ith writes: It’s always a treat for me to reach Sally D u B ois M ob erg

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know where. The lucky lady has great grandchildren, and has hopped on a plane to see them in Virginia where her son’s branch all live. Home in NJ, Sally is near her sister Jane and daughter Sarah and her family.

Jan e H agan F arno, in Florida in winter and

on Cape Cod in summer, has son Clay, a teacher nearby in Florida who migrates with her summers. Son Eric and his wife are nearby when she’s in Harwichport. She claims to play lots of bridge these days, was looking forward to another golf game when we last chatted.

This calendar year sadly began with the loss of two classmates we all admired, both of whom spent countless hours working for their communities: Susan A ilin g M iller and A n ne R eigh ley F erguson. Susan had four children when she served on the Board of Education in Montclair; education was always important to her: college admissions work when living in Weston, MA and working for the U.N. School in NYC after Tony’s death. Anne and Eric, (who survives her) moved to Darien, CT soon after marriage and became parents of three children. Anne always spent time volunteering for her church, the Community Chest and other groups. When on vacation in Florida or Nantucket, she was regularly involved with fundraising events. We were lucky to have known Susan and Anne, and of course extend every sympathy to their families.

In May, I reached P hyllis H ard er R eininger at her retirement community in Redmond, WA and enjoyed a catch-up conversation with her and husband Dick. Their big news was that their son Fred’s daughter had made them great grandparents about one month earlier. Their four sons and daughter all have remained in that area where they grew up. Eldest son Rick has three children including twins; other sons are Craig and Chuck, daughter is Sharon, and grands number seven in all. They sounded like a happy family, indeed. (The only sad note was learning Phyl’s sister, Joan n H ard er W oodw ard, a Kimberley ’46 had died in March this year.)

When I called “P ete” L am b orn P eters, I found her Vineyard summer vacation had begun with a visit from son Christopher who lives in Texas. As they were about to enjoy oysters at a late dinner, I agreed to arrange our summer reunion later. I am grateful she gets to the Vineyard where she has had lifelong connections.

A n n e F eagley W ittels and Jerry expected

guests momentarily when I called,Sut she promised to share any tidbits she felt newsworthy when she had a minute to think about that. (My timing isn’t always great.)

Those Kimberley ’45’s I haven’t yet pestered

by phone, please send your news; others will appreciate it, as will I! Daughter P am ’74 kindly handles email for her Luddite Mom, so my email address is now listed. Happy news from me is that she is exchanging her Boston area condo for a small house near me on the Vineyard (her idea, but I’m delighted). She and I had a great Amtrak trip west in March; 12 days including 2 nights each in Seattle and San Francisco, and one in Denver - a lifelong wish for me, and she’d never been to Seattle.

We sawISlot in a short time and traveled the Golden Gate Bridge with one of my 5 grandsons (daughter Alison’s son) who arranged to be out there then. I’m feeling very lucky.

L eigh B errien Sm ith was unable to attend May Day but she sent in her recollection of May Day songs. “The following words and the tunes are in my head —“Come lasses and lads, get leave o f your Dads, and away to the Maypole hie-”

(The rest of that one is a blur!) But two verses of: Now is the month o f Maying When merry lads are playing Fa la la la la la la la la, Fa la la la la la la.

Fie then why sit we musing Youth’s sweet delights refusing Fa la la la la la la la la Fa la la la la la la.

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Mr. William B. Grant 7330 Westmoreland Drive Sarasota, FL 34243 grantwb@cfl. rr. com Bill spoke to R ob ert N eb ergall and writes: “In a happy reminiscence with Bob who has just moved to an assisted living facility in Charleston, Bob talked fondly about the stories P roctor Sm ith shared with us during his shore leaves between his dangerous voyages as a merchant mariner during WWII.” Proctor later married L eigh B errien, our Class of ’45 Kimberley agent.

Bill also reports that while in Washington in the Spring of 2013 for the Annual Heritage Foundation President’s Club Dinner, he got together with a few Washington friends including our former headmaster Dr. Peter Greer. Peter told us that of all his exciting jobs including Deputy Secretary of the Department of Education under Reagan, the most satisfying job he had was as headmaster of MKA.

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Mrs. Eleanor Helm Ketcham 4 White Oak Elon, NC 27244 ellieketcham@aol.com Deepest sympathies go out to the family of Joan n e H ard er W oodw ard who passed

away in March of 2013.

H eid i A m es T roxell reports as follows: Nearly eleven years ago (gulp!), Tom and I moved to Fairhaven, a fine CCRC (Continuing Care Retirement Community)®? about twenty miles west of Baltimore. Tom’s cancer got him about two years later, but I am still happily here in my spacious, quiet, comfy cottage, with many, many new friends of varied interesting backgrounds: far more varied, actually, than folks in that Manhattanoriented Montclair! And every amenity one could wish. I cannot speak strongly enough in favor of such a move; it has been a lifesaver for me. Our four children (all MA, TKS, and MKA graduates) are all over the country: outside of Boston, in mid-New Jersey, Seattle, and southern California. Two now retired (gulp! again). Equally scattered are all of our seven grandchildren. But despite geography, we still stay close and see each other more than one might expect. I’m still remarkably healthy, driving, etc. and enjoying my life here. Could of course wish it was twenty or thirty years ago, but we all know better than to wish that, right?

And Joan D en n ey C arlisle tells me that she moved to Chatham on Cape Cod more than twenty years ago with her husband Rob. Rob Carlisle had a distinguished career as a writer for all the TV networks but especially PBS. From Cape Cod, he free-lanced, active till his death three years ago. Joan says he was always creating and never retired. Joan stays active in a walking group on the Cape and enjoys the proximity of her son Malcolm and his wife and children, nearby in Orleans.

Both children are competitive skaters in their middle and late teens; one of them is taking a gap year before college to focus on skating.

Joan’s other three sons are in Princeton (working for Firestone Library), Connecticut and southern Maine. G ordon ’69 (in Maine) is an artist, specializing in murals, while his wife is a performing artist, specializing in monologues. Joan welcomes classmates to come visit her when they are on the Cape.

She is in the phone book or people can call or email E lean or “E llie” H elm K etcham for specific contact information.

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Dr. Peter B. Lawrence 4802 Olympic Lane N #D Wilson, NC 27896-9148

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Mrs. David Hannegan (Louise Rudd) 49 Canterbury Lane Lakeville, CT 06039 weezieh@sbcglobal. net L ou ise R u d d H ann egan writes: Always one of the first to write was Joan “C ook ie” C ook.

She had a couple of bouts with pneumonia and bronchitis last fall and winter and was in and out of Mass General and rehab; this spring, she finally moved into Rosewood Nursing & Rehab in West Peabody, MA. Her

nephews are close by and have helped her every step of the way. I talk with her frequently to keep her out of trouble, but she also has many close friends in t h e ^ B who visit and take her out for lunch and/or rides (with her portable oxygen). She keeps up with garden club, a book club at church, is an avid fan of Charlie Rose, tennis, golf, PBS, the Red Sox and Great Decisions. She says, “We’re very lucky to live in a time where there are so many resources available to older people.”

She would love to hear from you at her new email: yjmcookl@gmail.com.

She heard from K at M an sfield with an update on her children, and of P atricia “P atty” C ox M an sfield , who has been doing a lot of traveling with family and friends.

Cookie anticipates a lunch with them both.

A u b in “T een y” R ed field S an d er’s son, Jim

Bryan, emailed me at Teen’s request. She is still living at Galloway Ridge in NC, but is now in an assisted-living apartment so she can get the help she needs. She has had two minor strokes in the last five years with the negative result being no sight. She can see just enough to get around and is still very active, going to the gym, lectures, on bus trips to the symphony and the like. Always an avid reader, she now consumes many books on tape provided by a service from the Library of Congress. Jim is there often enough to read and/or send email, so don’t hesitate to write to meemalas@nc.IT.com.

B arbara “B a r” N ash H an son said she was

still in the desert in 106 degree heat, waiting for allergy season to be over before going to San Rafael where she summers. She goes to her fitness center three times a week, which is the extent of her going out. She is feeling good, but uses a walker and sleeps with oxygen (as opposed to Robert Redford!).

K athryn “K ath y” C row ell was kind enough

to send me an article about the demise of our beloved Pal’s Cabin. As a reunion class we had some great dinners there, but way long ago it was a favorite hangout. Mayfair, where some of us went after graduation, will stay as is. Kathy continues to sing in the church choir and take care of its library, and walks as often as the weather allow ^ffi Before moving to Ft. Lauderdale, Sh irley H op k in s lived in NYC, working for the bank which is now JP Morgan Chase, running their food operations, including Chase’s Waldorf Towers Suite with lots of entertaining - long hours, but Hots of fun meeting all the famffis and non-famous.” She took early retirement, moved to FL and loves it. Shirley travels a lot in her car, says her health is good and she still volunteers for the Republican Party.

M argaret “P eggy” S ou cek W eissenborn

told me to “just make something up.@ Dave and I enjoyed seeing them a couple o f times while in Florida. One thing Peggy and Tom did do was take their three kids to the Bahamas for a week. We’re hoping to meet in class

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New York this fall to catch up and perhaps take in a show.

Court and M arjorie “M id g e” B eth ell C ross celebrated their 61st anniversary last January with a trip to Antarctica —“a fantastic experience.” They’re both in good health, able to play tennis and stay involved in community activities. Six of their eight grandchildren live in New England so they see them frequently.

The two oldest have produced a total of three great-grands; another has asked to have her wedding at Midge and Court’s on Lake Sunapee this August, which means a busy summer. The other two grand-kids live in L.A., but they do get together at least once a year.

And so that’s it except for the Hannegans who are chugging along to their 60* in September.

We sold our condo in Florida so spent the time there sorting and packing —not my idea of fun. But it’s done; and we won’t have the hassle of forthing and backing except for maybe a month renting somewhere. As of this writing, w e’re about to leave for Boulder and #2 grandson, Christopher’s graduation from DU. (Last year it was Taylor at St. Olaf in Minn.) Our Indiana grand-kids are only 10 (Holley) and 8 (Spencer), so we have a ways to go for their college! They are both very good students and are now into basketball and

baseball. Garret will be joining us for Chris’s graduation and ALL the family will be here in July for various lengths of time. Dave and I go to exercise almost every day, trying to stay fit.

It’s harder for me; I’m loaded with arthritis bummer. I had a part in a staged reading of “The Oldest Profession”, playing the madam.

I still get a bang out of being on stage!

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Mrs. Sibyl Lewis Lotterle P.O. Box 3254 Hayden Lake, ID 83835-8148 sibstoy@icehouse. net

The Alumni Office had a chance to catch up with George recently and learned that his interest in collecting began when he was eight years old and his uncle (who was off to fight in The Battle of the Bulge) gave him his general worldwide stamp album. “I thought that it was pretty neat; so many countries that I had never heard of.” He attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and he says he forgot about stamps for 20+ years. “When I was about 33 and my son Andy was about 8 ,1 saw an advertisement for a stamp show-we went. He wasn’t turned on, but my interest was rekindled. I collected U.S. stamps for awhile, and one day I acquired

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F ay T aft F aw cett ’52 notified the Alumni office that her sister in law, P olly F aw cett R edfield ’51, died in the early hours of May

Mr. John Henry Leonhard 51 Fromm Court Mawah, N J 07430 nhandjhleonhard@aol.com

21 after a courageous 10-year battle with emphysema. All her children, sons-in-law and grandchildren were with her, and she died peacefully in her sleep.

MKA sends condolences to the family of Joh n A . S ch affer who passed away on April 2, 2013.

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Mrs. Clark Moran (Martha Gilbert) 8011 StraujfRoad Baltimore, MD 21204-1834 mmoran@iopener. net some covers of Wells Fargo Express of the 1860's. That to me was ‘history.’ Over the next few years, I sold all my stamps and have not collected any ever since - so I own NONE. Instead I started collecting the mail of the West; that kind of tied into the development of the telegraph in the late 1840's onward into the 1870’s.” He also developed a collection and exhibit which traced the development of the U.S. mails from Revolutionary War times through to the completion of the Transcontinental RR in 1869.

Congratulations to G eorge K ram er ’54 who received the 2013 Sm ithsonian P hilatelic A chievem ent A w ard in May. Given annually to two major figures in the world of philately, George was the only American to be so honored this year.

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The most valuable item in his collection is a letter that he has given to the National Postal Museum/Smithsonian. This is a letter dated “July 4, 1776” to John Hancock in Philadelphia. After September, it will be on permanent display there in Washington.

The Kramer family is one of MKA’s treasured legacy families including sons L arry ’78 and A n drew ’80 (his daughter Susan also attended for a few years), and now his grandchildren, twins Isaiah and Hannah, are members of the Class of 2016.

The proud grandfather is pleased that they have the opportunity to avail themselves of a superior education and hopes that they extract “the juice.”

Reflecting on his Montclair Academy days, George credits the remarkable faculty and curriculum with teaching him how to think, an invaluable lesson. He once turned in a “blue book” for a quiz to his favorite

teacher, William Avery Barras (English).

The question was “In one paragraph tell blahblahblah”; George researched and wrote what he thought was a fabulous answer but got an “E” or “F”. Stunned, he asked why? Mr. Barras replied “You answered in three paragraphs, I asked for one.” “I learned to LISTEN TO THE QUESTION.” While at Montclair Academy he participated in many extracurricular activities including baseball, track and drama. Despite the 65 years that have passed since leaving the halls of Montclair Academy, he still manages to occasionally keep in touch with R . Jake Jacobus and Joel W echsler.

George has been one of our most loyal and generous donors to the MKA Annual Fund, and he says he donates to help the institution thrive. He hopes that his donations will provide fhnds to support leadership and to teach students HOW to think, not just to get facts across.

George and his second wife, Barbara, enjoy playing bridge, golf, dancing, watching ballet, traveling and spending time with their families. Combined, they have six children, ten grand wizards and two dogs.

To read more about his award, visit http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/ museum/1h_awards. html.

May Day Memories from Cecily Wilson Lyle ’55

Dan Read, Charlie Sage and Bob Kim attended their own belated 60th Class o f ’52 reunion. The trio, accompanied with wives (not shown), “rendez-vous’d ” in Georgetown, SC, on March 11"' fo r the event and had a wonderful time recollecting old adventures at MA, much to the chagrin o f their wives.

MKA sends deepest condolences to Jean Brisbane Boveroux whose husband, George L. Boveroux, passed away on May 12, 2013.

MA Class agent: Mr. Charles Sage 435 Welch Avenue Ames, IA 50014-7302 csage@iastate. edu

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----------- 1954----------TKS Ms. Georgia Carrington 38 Silver Spring Lane Ridgefield, CT 06877-5604 carrgeo@aol. com B arbara H obart Valbuena lives in Cokesbury Village, a CCRC community. Busy with Colonial Dames, DAR, book groups, chorus and walking in Longwood Gardens.

MA Class agent: Mr. Sheldon Buck 51 Cornell Road Wellesley, MA 02181-7408 sheldonbuck@comcast. net

----------- 1955----------TKS Mrs. Cecily Wilson Lyle 433 Wright’s Neck Road Centerville, MD 21617 ceci@dvm. com MA Mr. Lawrence Martin P.O. Box 1058 Lexington, VA 24450-1058 martin@intelos. net

I was charmed to see the invitation to the Maypole celebration on May 1st at the Brookside campus in Montclair. I especially loved seeing the older photograph showing the maypole, the girls in their postwar longish skirts and saddle shoes, the guests seated on folding chairs, (and out of sight, but reigning in glory, the May Queen and her attendants.) How well I remember those maypoles: in and out, over and under, the skipping dancers clutched streamers during weeks of rehearsals. The cotton streamers were then carefully washed and ironed by our mothers and reattached to the poles for the big day.

Each class was given a color to wear, and I remember that for several years our mothers had to make us special chintz skirts for the occasion. They matched the streamers on the Maypole. We also performed Morris Dances, did tumbling, Scottish sword dances and more.

"It’s like a wedding without a groom," somebody once said as the May Queen prepared to step out o f her carefully guarded anonymity onto the playground.

All the classes were lined up to create a pathway to where she and her court would sit, and a murmur of delight arose from the crowd when at last her identity was revealed. It can’t always have been a sunny afternoon, but sunny afternoons are all I can remember.

I was never a May Queen myself, but I was in her court on May Day in my senior year.

Gathered by the door of the music room in what was then the school on Valley Road, the May Queen prepared to make her entrance, exquisite in a long white dress with a wreath of flowers in her hair. Our usually dour French teacher, Mme D ’Auria, wept freshets of tears as we straightened the organdy train, fluffed up the veil and prepared to follow our queen across the hockey field to her throne in the bleachers.

As I recall the first years I was at Kimberley, the opening chords of the familiar Morris dance - 1 can still hum it would ring out on the tinkly piano —no

amplification in those days —energetically pounded by Miss Bauer, who with her fellow music teacher, Miss Carpenter, constituted the demiurge of Kimberley May Day. A whole book could be written about that pair, and although they did once get a yearbook dedication, too few of us ever were able to properly thank the two women who were responsible for the musical enlightenment of hundreds of girls. One of their annual projects, starting in the sixth grade, was the painstaking creation of bamboo pipes, one for each girl. Every pipe perfectly attuned to the others by means of tiny reamers wielded by Miss Bauer and Miss Carpenter. We worked on those pipes for weeks and then were taught to play them in harmony and in unison.

The next year we made alto pipes. All those pipes tootled away at the May Day celebration and we always sang traditional English folk songs as well. All this was accomplished alongside an annual Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Christmas Vespers at the Congregational Church near the old school and a spring concert. In music class we learned to identify a number of orchestral works and all of us could read music by the time the two ladies retired.

When wonderful Mr. Coursen took over the Music Department, I think he found a very receptive group of students who had no trouble finding Middle C. When did May Day stop happening? I suppose it must of been when the two schools joined up. It seems wonderfully old-fashioned and not really very PC these days, but I’m glad you are doing the Maypole part once again. (Editor’s note: The Maypole Dance has been performed by second grade since 1992.)

Memories, memories ... I wrote this down as I am trapped in the house by an unseasonable snowstorm and I’ll send it to you for no particular reason except to say that the little card with the Maypole dancers obviously struck a chord in my heart. Wouldn’t it be nice to hear some May Day memories from other alumni?

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Class agent: Mr. Robert Brawer 131 East 66th Street, Apt. IOC New York, N Y 10065-6129 rereadclassics@aol. com MKA sends sincere condolences to the family of P eter M . Sm ith who passed away on June 14, 2012.

June, I am traveling to Turkey and Greece.

This is a part of the world I have never been to, so I am really looking forward to the trip!

I hope all is well with everyone! Remember you can always drop me a line, so I can share your news with the rest of the class.

MKA sends deepest condolences to L ynn e K en n y Scott whose mother, Elizabeth Gracy Kenny, passed away on March 28, 2013.

regularly flying to Port-au-Prince, as well as El Salvador, to perform significant volunteer dentistry for the impoverished, native Haitians.

Steve has two sons, Sean and Josh, and several grandchildren. He says, “Life is good!” Steve’s enjoying his reduced work schedule and is playing more golf now. He’s an experienced pilot and still flies.

Mr. David Stroming 82 Halsted Drive Manchester, N J 08759 KStroming@aol. com

From Bend, OR, D ave B lack tells me that he and Marie spent the month of March on a fantastic cruise that started in Sydney, Australia and concluded in Tahiti. In between, they visited Melbourne, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, the Kingdom of Tonga, Bora Bora and a number o f other ports of call. Dave mentioned that he and Marie were most impressed by the albatross colony in the city of Dunedin on the coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Dunedin is the country’s oldest city and the colony is the world’s only mainland albatross colony. After their cruise, Dave and Marie traveled to Simsbury, CT to visit his son Peter and his three sons, Hunter, Craig, and Charlie. The three boys are all accomplished lacrosse players. Hunter, a Simsbury High School senior, was accepted at the University of Vermont, which just happens to be Dave’s alma mater. Craig is a junior, and Charlie is an eighth grader.

Mrs. Thelma “Tam” Miller Knight 3001 Linton Boulevard, No. 201C Delray Beach, FL 33445 tknightl 15 @aol. com

Mr. David Will 184 New State Road, Apt. 33 Manchester, CT 06042-7945 dave. willl @sbcglobal. net

Dave continues to extol the unique attributes of Bend, OR and the quality of life there. He told me, however, if he were younger and starting out, he would relocate to New Zealand.

MKA extends deepest condolences to the family of S ally D en n ison M acK ay. Sally passed away on February ljjj 2013.

H en ry “H y ” A gen s writes: By now, most of

M ik e C h o d o rco ff and his wife, Jean,

us are aware that 2013 marks the 55th anniversary o f our graduation from Montclair Academy. 55 years! Double nickels! No matter how you slice it, that’s a lot o f years, a long time. On Saturday, October 26th, MKA will have its annual alumni luncheon, dinner and special events at the main campus on Lloyd Road. Naturally, I would like to believe that, to use Lincoln’s phrase, “the mystic chords of memory” are sufficiently strong to compel us to duplicate the turnout and enthusiasm of our SO“1in 2008, when seventeen o f us, along with the great Frank Brogan, returned to the scene of the sublime.

Let’s all try to make it!!

continue to be active with no real plans to retire soon. Mike is associated with Benefit Foundation of America and Jean is still a broker. Mike has two sons, Bill and Brian, from his first marriage as well as Jean’s daughter, Maria. Maria and her husband, Seth, have a 5 and a half year-old son, Cole. Bill and his wife, Leslie, live in nearby Essex Fells and have 9 year-old, Katherine, and 7 yearold, Sarah. Mike’s other son, Brian, lives in Orlando, FL and is a musician.

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Mrs. Carol Barnard. Ottenberg 1420 41st Avenue, E Seattle, WA 98112-3804 ottenbergc@aol. com MA

Mr. Eric Jaeckel P.O. Box 20153 Boulder, CO 80308-3153 effaeckel@hotmail. com Class agent: Dr. Lawrence Nazarian 29 Surrey Place Penfield, N Y 14526-1221 LFredN@aol. com

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M arth a B eery R eam wrote from China. She

is fine and was thoroughly enjoying her trip through that country!

L ind a B aldanzi wrote that she graduated from

Drew University with an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. We are proud of her!

G eorgia Sh erm an G lick wrote that life is good for both her and her husband! They are enjoying retirement and have been traveling in California visiting cousins and friends. They plan to spend the summer in Massachusetts at their summer home. They have four grandchildren, ranging from age 10 to 3, three bojsjand a girl.

Jean B on n ell G oodrich visited Vero Beach and Joan W allace B ryan t in March.

Unfortunately, I was sick, so I was unable to join them. Both gals are fine and also enjoying retirement!

Ju d y Slifkin K ap lan has a beautiful home on

the Delaware River in North Jersey. She is really out in the country!! She loves sitting on her porch watching the golden 'eagles!!

As for me, Tam , I may be retired from $Job, but I sure keep busy with volunteer work! In

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Mrs. Diana Bethell Little 1-K Buckingham Rd. West Orange, N J 07052-2703 littlecorp@verizon. net MA

Mr. Henry Agens 86 Eagle Rock Way Montclair, N J 07042-1629 hymelee@earthlink. net

What a pleasure it was to speak to our classmate, Steve H eller, in June. For a number of years, Steve has lived in Shenman, CT. He was married to his wife, Linda, four years ago.

(Steve lost his first wife, Marline, in 1997.) The couple spends half the year in the Nutmeg State and the other half in Sarasota, Florida. Steve retired from his dentistry practice ifflj 1987.

Because of his avid interest in American Crafts, he and Marline opened a gallery in Peterborough, New Hampshire. “The North Gallery” became quite successful, employing, at one time, nine associates. During this same period and for years afterward, Steve became involved with the Haitian Health Foundation

In late May, my wife, Melee, and I flew to Denver to attend the graduation of our granddaughter, Alta Melee Agens, from Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, CO. Alta, who turned 18 on July 6th, will attend Mills College in Oakland, CA this fall. Her older brother, Henry Riter Agens III (known as “Trey”) graduated last year and now continues his studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango.

Trey and Alta are the children o f our late son, H. Riter, Jr., who died in 1998. Betty June Huffman Agens, our wonderful daughter-inlaw, hosted the family celebrations in Pine, CO and at Mt. Princeton Hot Springs Resort and Spa. Our other two sons, Glenn and Dana, joined us along with Glenn’s two sons, Van Taylor Agens (17 yrs) and James Riter Agens (11 yrs.).

Well, that’s a wrap, and I hope to see y ’all at our 55th reunion on October 26th. Until that time, keep punchin’.

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Class secretary: Ms. Jarvis Reilly Nolan 15612 ViaMarchena San Diego, CA 92128-4420 jarvisno@aol. com

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Class agent: Mrs. Mary Anne Coursen Doty 21 Juniper Drive Queensbury, N Y 12804 MKA sends deepest condolences to T. “F red ” K enny, whose mother, E lizabeth G racy K en ny, Class of 1934, passed away on March 28, 2013.

------------1963----------50th R E U N IO N - O C T O B E R 26, 2013 MA

Mr. Bronson Van Wyck Arrowhead Farms 2141 Highway 224 East Tuckerman, AR 72473 K en n eth S tu fko says that he is retired as VP

of Sales from Pretium Packaging (formerly PVC-Novapak Corp) as of February 15, 2011 and formed KAS Consulting specializing in “packages, packagers, and packaging”....

“Finally have time for personal travbl and have visited Egypt and China on last two excursions; next comes Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Our six grandsons keep us “on the move” and just gl£d we are Wle to participate and enjoy their formative years.”

discounted tickets] over Homecoming weekend. Peter is also associated with the production of the new musical Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet o f 1812 which opened May 16. The'Show has received nothing but rave reviews, including one which appeared on the front page of the Weekend Arts section o f the New York Times.

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MKA sends sincerest condolences to the family of A n d rea O degaard A llen , who passed away.

MA

Mr. D. Carter Fitzpatrick 70 Eastern Vista Sedona, A Z 86351-9085 fitzlaw@sedona. net Class agent: Mr. A. Craig Cameron 11 Bay Point Drive Ormond Beach, FL 32174-2203 ccameron@cameronhodges. com

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F red G urtm an writes that he is a

Mrs. Winifred Sage Wilson 13819 Vidal Place, NE Albuquerque, NM 87123-4729 wmsw98@msn. com

dermatologist now practicing part-time; a full time golfer; continues to attend adult education classes at localB lleges; and issa^, greyhound club volunteer and owner.

Class agent: Mrs. Suzanne Scanned Hardy 47 Bartlett Parkway Winthrop, MA 02152

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Ms. Margot Escott 1818 Imperial G olf Course Blvd.

Naples, FL 34110-1010

MKA sends deepest sympathies to David Carrad whose sister K ath ryn "A nn" C arrad Schaffn er, passed away on June 19, 2013.

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Mrs. C. D. Creed (Barbara Bywater) 1769 Forest View Avenue Hillsborough, CA 94010 bcreed@truckerhuss. com MA

Mr. Doug Donald 10156 Rivers Trail Drive Orlando, FL 32817 DlDonald@aol.com 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient B ru ce G u ern sey notified us of his latest publication Mapping the Line: Poets on Teaching. “The book contains twenty classroom-tested exercises, written and used by some of America’s best teachers and writers of poetry. Meant for the student and teacher alike, Mapping the Line is also meant for those who have never been in a poetry writing class but have, perhaps, been writing on their own or have been wanting to. This collection is a good place to begin, and to

contmufeSiLi

Kenneth Stufko Class o f 1963

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Mr. John Benigno johnbenigno@hotmail. com

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Ms. Marilyn “Lyn ” Schultz Blackwell 3779 Center Road East Montpelier, VT 05651-4103 lblack@ezcloud. com MKA sends sincere condolences to the family of K ath ryn "A nn" C arrad S chaffn er who passed away on June 19, 2013.

P olly Sm ith has worked for the Jim Henson

Company since she was brought on board to create costumes for The Muppet Show in 1978 and continues to design for Sesame Street. In the years in between, she has designed costumes for many of the Muppet film and television projects produced by the Jim Henson Company as well as the costumes for several other children’s television programs.

Smith received Emmy nominations for her designs for The Jim Henson Hour (1988) and Muppets Tonight (1996) and has received three Emmy awards for her designs on Sesame Street. Smith also co-designed costumes for the TV series The Story Teller (1986-88) which won a BAFTA award for Best Costumes in 1989, and The Story Teller.

Greek Myths (1989) which received a BAFTA nomination for Best Gostumes in 1991.

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Congratulations to P eter Stern who has had a hand in backing two blockbuster Broadway productions this past fall - Pippin, playing at the Music Box Theatre and Matilda, playing at the Shubert Theatre. Both received rave reviews, and Peter has graciously facilitated an MKA theater trip to see Pippin [with

Class agent: Mr. Craig Perry 3467 Pinestream Road Atlanta, GA 30327 Many apologies to M ich ael Y am ashita - the Spring issue of the Review inadvertently referred to his latest book, Shangri-La (Along the Tea Road to Lhasa) as his third

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publication, when it fact it is his thirteenth!

This is his fourth book about China and his tenth "coffee table" style publication.

MKA sends sincere condolences to M ichael Joh n son , whose mother, Georgia Turner Johnson, passed away on May 2, 2013.

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Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 10 Knolls Road Williamstown, MA 01267 akalker@aol. com A vie C laire K alk er writes: L eigh B. Sm ith

’45 took the time to find us, sending an enthusiastic note and a newspaper clipping about K ath y A p p en zellar H ancock.

The Theater reviewer of the MVTimes (Marthas Vineyard Times), Gwyn McAllister, tells about an original musical, “Lighthouse Point”, presented as a reading May 16, 2013H at the MVMuseum (Vineyard Haven, MA).

Kathy (known as Kate Hancock in Mass) and her husband Fred have been fairly mum about their own summer theater and their history as Stage Managers.

The play contains 10 original songs with lyrics by Kathy! Pretty cool!! Leigh Smith raved about the performance (with 8 actors), adding that Fred “did a great job, too, with an Irish accent.”

MA

A m y N u ssb au m M a ck writes: We’re living

Mr. V. James Castiglia 3 Lark Lane Oak Ridge, N J 07438-9171 vjc@vjamescastiglia. com

on beautiful Vashon Island in the Puget Sound, WA with Mt. Rainier right across the water from us. Alums in the Seattle area are welcome to come visit!

Class agent: Mr. Peter Webb Mile Slip Farm 48 Mason Road Brookline, N H 03033-2203 pwebb@winerbennett. com

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Miss Philippa Bowles 39 Orts Road Hamburg, N J 07419 wvbond60@gmail.com MA

Reunion Chair: Mr. Anthony Vitale 10 North Wood Avenue, Apt. 601 Linden, N J 07036 Tony. Vitale@TVOD.com

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Ms. Barbara Flessas 140 Lorraine Avenue Upper Montclair, N J 07043 akisister@aol. com Ms. Deborah Peck, Esq. 128 Victoria Bay Court Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418-5764 dcpl 1@hotmail. com Class agent: Mrs. Linda Finney Williams Box 1446 6 South Pasture Lane Nantucket, MA 02554 czarina@nantucket. net

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Mr. Burton M. Webb Box 29 Free Union, VA 22940 bmw@freeunities.com

C h ristop h er S chu lz writes: Living in Orange

County, CA; married for 26 years (may be a state record); 2 great kids. I am the publisher of a portfolio of luxury hotel magazines and luxury lifestyle magazines.

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Ms. Susan Read 38 College Circle Staunton, VA 22401-2375 MA

Mr. Gregory Lackey 138 Paupukkewis Trail Medford Lakes, N J 08055-1310 gregory. lackey@usps.gov Class agent: Mr. Thomas C. Galligan 504 Main Street New London, N H 03257-7818 tgalligan@colby-sawyer. edu MKA sends deepest condolences to J. C h ristop h er F u llem whose father, L. Robert Fullem, passed away on February 7, 2013.

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Class agent: Ms. Erin Cujfe Crawford 102 Buckingham Road Upper Montclair, N J 07043-2307

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Ms. Christine Hannon 97 North Street Northhampton, MA 01060-3213 channon@smith. edu MA

Dr. Edward A. Griggs Jr. 8 Yates Boulevard Poughkeepsie, N Y 12601 eagriggs@optonline.net

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Deirdre Newman Class o f 1974 D eird re N ew m an wrote: Moved to Jersey

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Ms. Leslie Bryan 844 East Morningside Drive, NE Atlanta, GA 30324-5223 lbryan@dsckd. com Class agent: Ms. Kim Kolbe 38 Kent Drive Roseland, N J 07068-3707 -70-

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City. I love it! On a beautiful park and I have a private garden to grow, grow, grow! My son, Lee, is living in Brooklyn and working for the Bank of New York and rock climbing with his friends, including Henry Fandel. My daughter, Hester, is an organic farmer apprenticing at the best farm on the planet. It’s in Maine, Four Season Farm run by Eliot Coleman. I am

doing my decorative painting work and giving tours of community gardens in NYC to benefit City Harvest. Also ride my bike, hike and walk constantly!

MKA sends deepest sympathies to A n n e Joh n son A n sp ach , whose mother, Georgia Turner Johnson, passed away on May 2, 2013.

----------- 1975-----------Class agent: Mr. Paul Zukerberg 1790 Lanier Place N W Washington, DC 20009-2118 pzuk@speakeasy. net

----------- 1976----------Mrs. Paul McFeeley (Laurie Hoonhout) 3014 Ringwood Meadow Sarasota, FL 34235 laurie. mcfeeley@gmail. com

----------- 1977----------Mr. Andrew Pedersen 1 Washington Avenue Rumson, N J 07760-2013 andrewpedersen8@aol. com

Like father, like son: Trustee Eric Pai ’79 enjoys the graduation o f his oldest son Nicholas, together with wife Judy and other children Samantha ’16 and Alexander ’15. Nicholas will be following in his fa th e r’s footsteps and attending Princeton University this fall.

Class agent: Mr. George Reimonn, Jr. 199 Winter Street Hopkinton, MA 01748 GeoReimonn@gmail. com MKA sends deepest condolences to R ob ert F u llem whose father, L. Robert Fullem, passed away on February 7, 2013.

Class agent: Mr. Robert Hubsmith 16 Warren Road Maplewood, N J 07040-1814 robert. hubsmith@mountsinai. or g

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Ms. Pamela Zeug 60 W. 57th Street, #15F New York, N Y 10019 pzeug@downinggroup. com Class agent: Ms. Jane Lugaric Burkhard 299 Crown Road Kentfield, CA 94904-2711 janeburkhard@comcast. net

----------- 1979 — Dr. John Brink 1246 Beach Haven Rd. Atlanta, GA 30324-3842 drjack2020@aol. com Mrs. Carlos Ortiz (Shawn Mahieu) 2163 GilbrideRoad Martinsville, N J 08836-2235 csaortiz@optonline. net

----------- 1980— Ms. Mary L. Cole, Esq. 1 Ferrous Court Chester, N J 07930 Mary_Cole@wellsfargois. com

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----------- 1984--------Mrs. Jennifer Jones Ladda 110 Glen Rock Road Cedar Grove, N J 07009 laddafam@optonline. net Class agent: Mr. William Stone 99 Larch Road East Greenwich, R I 02818-2205 bstone@outsidegc. com

Class agent: Mrs. Laura Itzkowitz (Laura Reisch) 37 Nottingham Road Manalapan, N J 07726-1834 howardandlaura@optonline. net

MKA recently learned that John B irn b erg passed away on April 7, 2006 and sends belated condolences to his family.

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Mrs. Susan Ciccone O 'Donnell 9 Andover Drive N. Caldwell, N J 07006 snmodonnell@aol. com

Ms. Cheryl McCants 7 Holly Court Bloomfield, N J 07003-3004 cmccants@eimpactconsulting.com Mr. Thomas Robbins 6 Bradford Terrace Newtown Square, PA 19073-1903

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Ms. Amy Felber Trapp 229 Cardinal Road Mill Valley, CA 94941-3618 amy@jhevents. com

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----------- 1986--------Ms. Sherry Ahkami PO. Box 3187 Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067 shirin@lajollaspine. com Ms. Jennifer Remington-Knodel 44 Hamilton Drive East North Caldwell, N J 07006-4629 jenremknodel@aol. com

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Ms. Maureen Towers Natkin 5 Riverview Road Irvington, N Y 10533 motowers@aol. com

Mr. Dennis Rodano 14 Wayland Drive Verona, N J 07044-2331 rodanod@verizon. net

Class agent: Mr. Walter J. Davis 66 Oakwood Drive New Providence, N J 07974 davisteam@comcast.net

Class agent: Mrs. Lynne Y. Krest (Lynne G. Yellin) 7408 East Main Street Lima, N Y 14485

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----------- 1988---------25th R E U N IO N O C T O B E R 26, 2013

Ms. Susan Bartlett Rankin One Barbaree Way Tiburón, CA 94920 srankin@microsoft. com MKA sends deepest sympathies to A n d rew Sorger, whose father, Martin Lawrence Sorger, passed away on May 5, 2013.

MKA sends sincerest condolences to D avid M cG rath , whose father, J. Paul McGrath, passed away on July 9, 2013.

----------- 1989---------Mr. Louis Lessig 2009 Morris Drive Cherry Hill, N J 08003 llessig@brownconnery. com Class agent: Mr. Josh Raymond 33 Oak Place North Caldwell, N J 07006 jraymond@trenklawfirm. com

MKA sends deepest condolences to John Sorger, whose father, former Trustee, Martin Lawrence Sorger, passed away on May 5, 2013.

multicolored flowers, both real and artificial, to symbolize the eight children killed by gun violence each day in the United States..

MKA sends deepest sympathies to R obyn M cG rath, whose father, J. Paul McGrath,

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passed away on July 9,2013.

MKA sends its sincerest condolences to the family of C arl H u d ig, who passed away on July 2, 2013.

----------- 1993----------20th R E U N IO N , O C T O B E R 26, 2013

Mrs. Renee Ciccarella (Monteyne) 43 Veranda Avenue Little Falls, N J 07424 rmonteyne@yahoo. com Class agent: Mr. Damien Vena 385 Grand Street, #L906 New York, N Y 10002 venad@yahoo. com

----------- 1994----------Ms. Dana Fiordaliso Martin 102 East 9th Avenue Conshohocken, PA 19428-1504 dfiordalisomartin@gmail. com Class agent: Mr. Jason Awerdick jasonawerdick@gmail. com

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Jaim e B edrin ’94, a New Jersey chapter leader

Class secretary and agent: Ms. Meredith McGowan Zengo 383 Middlesex Road Darien, CT 06820-2518 mczengo@aol.com

of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, helped to organize and participate in a pre-Mother’s Day walkathon in Verona, NJ, to honor youngsters killed during weapon-mi related incidents. As reported in the Montclair Times, participants held a variety of

----------- 1996----------Ms. Tanya Barnes tbarnes@fas. harvard, edu Ms. Erica Hirsch 10 West 15th Street, #902 New York, N Y 10011 ehirsch 77@yahoo. com Class agent: Mr. Lee Vartan 700 First Street, Apt. 17P Hoboken, N J 07030 ldv@alumni.princeton.edu MKA sends its deepest sympathies to V ivien H u d ig, whose brother, C arl H u d ig ’95, passed away on July 2,2013.

----------- 1998----------15th R E U N IO N O C T O B E R 26, 2013

Ms. Lauren Moses laurenmoses3@yahoo. com Class Agent: Ms. Gemma Giantomasi gemmagiantomasi@gmail. com

Ms. Lorelei Muenster Leia9sioux@aol. com

----------- 1991---------Ms. Dara Marmon 52 Park Avenue, Unit 14 New York, N Y 10016 wackohead@nyc. rr. com Class agent: Mr. Luke Sarsfield 105 Franklin Street, Apt. 4 New York, N Y 10013 luke.sarsfield@gs. com

----------- 1992---------Mr. Enrique Neblett 718 Ainsley Court Durham, NC 27713 enrique. neblett@gmail. com Ms. Tamar Safer 816 Chippewa Trail Franklin Lakes, N J 07417 tsafer5400@aol. com Class agent: Ms. Anne Marie Verdiramo 302 Timberbrooke Drive Bedmnister, N J 017921 amverdiramo@gmail. com

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The Decter clan 's trip to England - pictured are center, Ryan, Class o f2025, with Greg ’97, Mr. Decter and Mitch ’94.

Professional Soccer Player, Tim Howard and Ryan Decter, Class o f 2025.

M itch D ecter ’94 wrote with exciting news

lived in North Brunswick, he essentially lived at our house during the week, and would go home on the weekends. Tim was a freshman my senior year, and I have incredible memories of playing soccer with him at MKA. I’ve kept in touch with Tim over the years, and he invited us over to England to see him play. Needless to say, it was an INCREDIBLE experience for all of us! After the game, Tim brought Ryan into the locker room where he met the entire team. Tim even gave Ryan the jersey that he wore during the match.”

of an unforgettable trip he took to the UK in April: “My son Ryan (Class o f 2025), my brother Greg (Class of 1997) and my dad and I travelled to England to see Tim Howard play. As you may know, Tim currently plays professional soccer for Everton in the English Premier League, and he is the goalkeeper for the US National Team. Although Tim did not graduate from MKA, he did spend one year there from 1993-4, and still speaks very fondly of his short stint at our school. Because Tim

Jaime Sommerhalter '13 surrounded by parents Roy and Patrice and brothers Robert '12 and Roy ’07.

An MKA fam ily! Enjoying the graduation o f their youngest son Mark ’13, form er trustees Keith and Shelly Phillips with Derek ’OM and Katherine ’09.

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Ms. Sandra Tritt 29 Brookfield Road Montclair, N J 07043 sandratritt@gmail.com

Class secretary: Mrs. Melissa Fortunato Slomienski 40 Holton Lane Essex Fells, N J 07021 fortunme@mac. com

Class agent: Mr. Alexander Holz 538 E. 85th Street, Apt. 2A New York, N Y 10028 alexbhlz@gmail. com

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Mr. John Garippa 8157 Madison Lakes Circle South Davie, FL 33328 oceanhut@aol. com Ms. Anna Labowsky 5 Highview Court Wayne, N J 07470-6271 anna_labowsky @yahoo.com Class agent: Mrs. Jaclyn Latzoni Spedaliere 58 Burnham Parkway Morristown, N J 07960 jaclynlatzoni@yahoo. com

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Miss Emily Santangelo 27 Woods Road Little Falls, N J 07424-2010 emilyannesantangelo@gmail. com Class agent: Mrs. Lauren Tortoriello Ertel lauren. tortoriello@gmail. com

Class agent: Mr. Edmund Kozak 14 Manor Road Verona, N J 07044 973-748-7016 e.g. kozak@gmail. com

----------- 2006----Ms. Natalie Azzoli 60 Lloyd Road Montclair, N J 07042-1729 nat6888@aol. com Class agent: Ms. Angela McCaffrey 93 Rensselaer Road Essex Fells, N J 07021 angelamccaffrey@gmail.com

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Ms. Judith Ferreira 819 Clifton Avenue Newark, N J 07104-3211 jferreir@pratt. edu Class agent: Ms. Melanie Braverman 484 South Parkway Clifton, N J 07014-1243 mel. braverman@gmail. com

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Ms. Dana Pisacane dana.pisacane@gmail. com Class agent: Ms. Lindsay Braverman 340 East 34th Street, Apt. 5A New York, N Y 10016 Ibravermanl @gmail.com B ryan B ish e notified the Alumni Office that

he just finished his doctoral dissertation in Biology at the University o f California, San Diego, and is now a PhD. He studied the cellular and molecular biology o f hepatitis C virus. The title of his dissertation was "The Role of Phosphoinositides in the Secretion of Hepatitis C Virus."

----------- 2004--------Ms. Kate Santoro 333 River Street, Apt. 539 Hoboken, N J 07030 kate.santoro@gma.il.com Class agent: Mr. Brendan McCaffrey 345 East 5th Street, Apt. 1C New York, N Y 10003 brendan. a. mccaffrey@gmail. com

----------- 2005--------Mr. Manav Lalwani 132 Blue Heron Drive Secaucus, N J 07094-2391 201-617-5312 manav. lalwani@gma.il. com

Sean Finn ’06 returns to campus fo r his sister Sarah’s graduation, together with proud parents Jack and Wendy.

----------- 2007— Mr. Brian May 22 N. Bayard Lane Mahwah, N J 07430 bmay88@gmail. com Class agent: Mr. Harry Raymond 120 Ridgewood Avenue Glen Ridge, N J 07028-1121 raymond. harry@gmail. com

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Jonathan Kingsley ’13 with proud parents Scott and Gail and brothers Matt ’1l x and Andrew '08

----------- 2008-------5th R E U N IO N O C T O B E R 26, 2013

The Placentra girls gather fo r the graduation o f youngest sister Dana, l-r: Dana ’13, Laura ’10 and Cara ’08.

1950’s musical re-imaging o f A Midsummer N ight’s Dream.

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Ms. Cara Placentra 125 Upper Mountain Avenue Montclair, N J 07042 placentra@bc. edu

Ms. Jane Stanton 240 South Mountain Avenue Montclair, N J 07042 jrs670@aim. com

Class agent: Mr. Matthew Metzger 707 East Saddle River Road Ho-Ho-Kus, N J 07423 metzgemb@bc. edu

Class agent: Mr. Brian Purcell 89 Davis Avenue Bloomfield, N J 07003 prephockey98@aol. com

Big sister Georgina Ellison ’09 with brother Edward ’13

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Ms. Devon Barrett 109 Llewellyn Road Montclair, N J 07042 dlbarret@princeton. edu Class agent: Mr. Matthew Palmisano 51 Grover Lane West Caldwell, N J 07006 nbovals@att. net Congratulations to Ashley Yancy who wrote to us with news of her selection as a Martindale Student Associate at Lehigh University. Applicants are chosen based on their academic records, the quality o f their application essays about business and economic problems and an interview process.

O f the 200 applicants, only 12 are ultimately selected. Ashley and her fellow Associates had the opportunity to travel to Slovinia to meet with scholars, bankers, economists, public officials and business executives to enhance their understanding o f that country first-hand. She credits Upper School economics teacher Tom Carroll for much of her success: “I came to Mr. Carroll for advice

Shayna Schmidt class o f2008 Shayna Schmidt sent news of her offBroadway appearance in The Mad & Merry Theatre Company’s production o f Wendy Wasserstein’s Uncommon Women and Others at The Connelly Theatre in March this year.

Shayna, a member of the Saving Teens through Arts Resources Company, also performed in VirtualArts TV’s Wired Arts Festival —a live-streamed performing arts festival broadcast all over the world to enable young people in schools without the funding to stage live theatre to enjoy live performances. She is also working on recording for a new female pop/R&B group.

More recently, Shayna is also staring as Hermia in Open Hydrant Theater Company’s production o f “FOOLS IN LOVE’f ia -74-

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Trustee Tim Bozik and wife Elizabeth celebrate two graduations - that o f youngest son Edward ’13 from MKA and oldest son Charles ’09 from George Washington University.

Trustee and proud parent Kate Logan with husband Edmund Rung and sons Jonathan ’14 and Joshua '13

for one of my application essay questions as I took Economics Honors with him my senior year of high school, and I have the utmost respect for him as an educator. He is one of the most knowledgeable people I know and has truly laid the foundation for my interest in economics ... and helped me come to understand its important concepts ... When completing this application, I immediately thought o f him and knew he would be a great person to go to for guidance.”

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Mr. Seth Bynum 32 High Street West Orange, N J 07052 sefaref22@gmail. com Class agent: Ms. Carina Wong 9 Deer Trail Road No. Caldwell, N J 07006 carinamwong@gmail.com The MKA Alumni office recently heard from R afi B ild n er about an article he wrote and recently had published in the Hufflngton Post regarding sustainable agriculture/the local movement. "It was a project I had worked on for quite a while, and I was excited to see the article published in such a public venue.”

Here is the link to it: http://www.huffington post.com/rafi-bildner/lessons-from-the-fieldth_b_3005668. html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Congratulations to MKA thespian Ed Rosini ’12 who was selected fo r the cover o f Tufts University Admissions magazine highlighting the University’s theatre program.

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Ms. Casey Musicant 573 Farmdale Road Franklin Lakes, N J 08417 casey. musicant@gmail. com Class Agent: Mr. Ed Rosini 32 Edgemont Road Montclair, N J 07042 erosini32@gmail.com Congratulations to P at K arole (University of Denver/Mens’ Lacrosse)... Pat helped lead his Denver squad to the NCAA Final Four with a huge comeback win over UNC-Chapel Hill.

Denver was down 0-6 after the 1st quarter and came back to win 12-11 with a goal 13 seconds left in the game.

2013 Class agents Lizzie Amato and Ed Bozik

----------- 2013----------Class agent: Ms. Elizabeth "Lizzie ” Amato 64 Forest Way Essex Fells, N J 07021 ljamato420@mac. com Class agent: Mr. Edward Bozik 326 N. Mountain Avenue Upper Montclair, N J 07043 bozik@me.com

We’ve Doubled the Fun on Th an ksgivin g Friday!

Please join us on Friday, November 29,2013 for: Ice Hockey 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. at Carey Anderson Arena Basketball 4:30 at the Upper School Gym Reception to follow at Tierney’s 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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In M e m o riam 1929 1934 1934 1936 1942 1942 1946 1948 1951 1955 1957 1966 1984 1995

Daniel Bushnell Mary Hayward Davis Elizabeth Gracy Kenny Jaqueline Isaacs Withington Nancy Thompson Buttfield Robert Dittloff Joanne Harder Woodward John A. Schaffer Polly Fawcett Redfield Peter M. Smith Sally Dennison MacKay Andrea Odegaard Allen John B. Bimberg Carl Hudig

March 26, 2013 March 3, 2013 March 28, 2013 February 5, 2013 December 30,2012 March 6,2013 March 2013 April 2, 2013 May 21,2013 June 14, 2012 Feburary 12, 2013 April 7,2006 July 2, 2013

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Profiles in Giving Joseph Bograd ’52 If you live in North Jersey, there is a high likelihood that at least one piece of furniture in your home, or in your neighbor’s home, is from the legendary Bograd’s Fine Furniture store, co-owned by Montclair Academy alumnus Joseph Bograd ’52. And, like many long time patrons, you may have been saddened to leam that Bograd’s, after 82 years in business, was closing its doors forever. Well - rejoice fine furniture lovers! During a recent visit with Joe and his son Mark, President of Bograd’s, I was assured that the family is not quite done with furniture sales.

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Starting with an Amish manufacturer from Ohio who makes fine furniture with great style, the Bograds have added partnerships with a number of other quality manufacturers from around the world. Though smaller, it will continue to promote fine furniture and the same high level of personal service associated with the Bograd name. Once the current store is Sold, the new one will move to a more intimate, but equally convenient, location in our area. Building on Joe’s solid foundation, son Mark hopes to create a revolutionary new business model with American furniture manufacturers and retailers working together.

In addition to his role as an industry leader, Joe Bograd served as President o f the Greater Paterson Chamber of Commerce and for nine years as president of the Great Falls Development Corporation. He also served the City of Paterson as a member of its Urban Renewal Agency, the M ayor’s Transportation Committee and as a founding member o f the Paterson Restoration Corporation. Joe has been recognized frequently for his proud service to the community and for his business acumen. Among his many accolades, he was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Home Furnishings

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M K A Board of Trustees 2013-2014 P resid en t ............................... Michael V. Johnson V ice P r e s id e n t .......................Evelyn M. Colbert V ice P r e s id e n t .......................Tracy E. Higgins T reasurer .............................. Steven C. Milke S e c r e t a r y ............................... Michael P. Friezo

Looking back fondly on his years at Montclair Academy, Joe credits the small class sizes and structure imposed on and expected of students as having contributed to his successes in college, business and most of P a r tic ip a tio n in A n n u a l G iv in g su p p o rts th a t hat

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Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 John E. Garippa Alice M. Hirsh Susan H. Ruddick Newton B. Schott, Jr. A d v i s o r y T r u s te e s

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Alexandra Aldea ’95 Bryan Becker ’96 Lindsay Braverman ’01 Casey Breslow ’03 Jared Cook ’01 Pamela D ’Amato Davis ’89 Amanda Englander ’04 Angela Garretson ’94 Lauren Hyman Kaplan ’93 Andrew Kyrejko ’05 William Martini ’98

Cheryl McCants ’82 Michele Mucci ’84 Chris Noble ’84 Diane Ridley-White ’84 Amanda Shortall ’03 Jaclyn Latzoni Spedaliere ’00 Lee Vartan ’96 A d v is o r y

J. Dean Paolucci ’73 Dan Carson ’83 J. Kent Walker ’80

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Profiles ill Giving Joseph Bograd ’52 If you live in North Jersey, there is a high likelihood that at least one piece of furniture in your home, or in your neighbor’s home, is from the legendary Bograd’s Fine Furniture store, co-owned by Montclair Academy alumnus Joseph Bograd ’52. And, like many long time patrons, you may have been saddened to learn that Bograd’s, after 82 years in business, was closing its doors forever. Well - rejoice fine furniture lovers! During a recent visit with Joe and his son Mark, President of Bograd’s, I was assured that the family is not quite done with furniture sales.

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area. Building on Joe’s solid foundation, son Mark hopes to create a revolutionary new business model with American furniture manufacturers and retailers working together.

In addition to his role as an industry leader, Joe Bograd served as President of the Greater Paterson Chamber o f Commerce and for nine years as president of the Great Falls Development Corporation. He also served the City of Paterson as a member o f its Urban Renewal Agency, the M ayor’s Transportation Committee and as a founding member o f the Paterson Restoration Corporation. Joe has been recognized frequently for his proud service to the community and for his business acumen. Among his many accolades, he was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Home Furnishings

Association of Greater New York. Also, he was the first recipient of the Gallagher Award presented by furniture sales representatives in recognition o f Bograd’s longevity and position among industry peers and received the Howard Liveright award, the highest award granted by the furniture industry association in New Jersey. In 2005-06 William Paterson University recognized Joe and wife Marcia with the Legacy Award for their many contributions to the University community.

M K A Board of Trustees 2013-2014 P resid en t ............................... Michael V. Johnson V ice P r e s id e n t .......................Evelyn M. Colbert V ice P r e s id e n t .......................Tracy E. Higgins T reasurer .............................. Steven C. Milke S ecretary ............................... Michael P. Friezo

Looking back fondly on his years at Montclair Academy, Joe credits the small class sizes and structure imposed on and expected of students as having contributed to his successes in college, business and most of P a r tic ip a tio n in A n n u a l G iv in g su p p o rts th a t margin of all, as a parent. He also acknowledges the excellence th a t d is tin g u is h e s a M o n tc la ir K im b e r le y outstanding and memorable faculty who A c a d e m y ed u c a tio n fr o m a ll o th ers. R o b u st g iv in g s ig n a ls helped shape his experience HWilliam Barras, whose English class provided the fundamentals an en g a g e d sc h o o l co m m u n ity , d ed ic a ted to im p ro v in g our of writing, William Miller, who happened to teach c h ild r e n ’s liv e s an d in c r e a sin g th e v a lu e fo r e v e r y o n e .

Thomas Edison’s son at one point in his career as P l e a s e p l e d g e y o u r s u p p o r t to d a y a t m k a .o r g /g iv in g . well, and Claude Monson, who inspired a lifelong affection for Latin. Joe’s extra-curricular activities included serving as managing editor o f the 1952 Yearbook and as business manager of the school M em bers newspaper, The M ontclair News.

Richard G. Stanton ’87 Joe and Marcia Bograd have been loyal and generous donors to MKA Annual Giving that provides direct support for teaching and learning on all three campuses. They believe in the school’s mission and vision for the future, and they make it a priority to support financially those organizations that embody their values. As Joe explains: “I contribute to MKA because I appreciate what it did for me when I was a student there, and I hope that my contributions will help current students have a similar experience.”

Alumni Council 2013-2014 P resid en t ................................Richard Stanton ’87 E V P ......................................... Jessica Simpson Cook ’99 T r e a s u r e r .............................. Dennis Rodano ’87

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