Class of 1965 Reunion Book

Class of 1965

50th Reunion Book Presented on Alumni Weekend 2015

May 2015 Dear Members of the Class of 1965, Congratulations on your Fiftieth Reunion! Each year, as we welcome back the class celebrating its “golden” anniversary at MFS, I am reminded that my own class’s milestone is getting closer.

Paging through the 1965 Cupola, it’s great to see photos of a pantheon of the memorable coaches, staff and teachers of that era -- people like Harley Armstrong, Floss Brudon, Toddy Carr, John Caughey, Neil Hartman, Gerry and Carolyn Hedges, Bob Johnston, Herm Magee, Harrie Price, Chester Reagan, Jean Ricketts, Ruth Sawyer, Vicki Starr, Warren Shelley, Harry Stevenson. Even though Cully Miller is not in your yearbook, having taken time to work in industry, of course he also was an important teacher of our era.

More importantly, the 1965 Cupola highlights the accomplishments of your class as individuals and as a group.

While Moorestown and the MFS campus have changed significantly since you graduated, the traditions and values students absorb as part of their MFS experience have not.

I have enjoyed reading your biographies to see where life has taken you since leaving MFS. You have had interesting lives personally and professionally and have contributed much to your communities. It’s gratifying to see how many of you referenced your MFS education as formative. Regardless of the field (law, medicine, nursing, business, agriculture, education, social work, etc.), your class is a fine example of how Moorestown Friends School provides a strong foundation for building a full and productive life.

Several of your classmates have put a great deal of time into planning this reunion as well as organizing a Class Reunion Gift. I would like to thank in particular Linda Hyatt Lee, Rosylnne Novack, Mary Beth Schultz Hempel and Merrill Weiss for planning the reunion and this commemorative book, and Art Abramowitz and Linda Stevenson Kimball for spearheading reunion giving. Your support will not only help MFS now, but in the future.

I am looking forward to welcoming you back to campus.

Cordially,

Larry Van Meter ’68 Head of School

Lynn Jefferis Abelson Hi Everyone, It’s hard to believe that it’s been fifty years. Here is my bio for the reunion.

After graduating from Wilson College in 1969, I moved to Boston to attend Boston University School of Social Work where I received an MSW in 1971.

I met my husband Hal when the Princeton Band came to Wilson my freshman year of college. He also moved to Boston after graduation to attend MIT. We married after the first year of graduate school and will celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary this May. We have lived in this area ever since and have lived in Newton, MA, a suburb of Boston, for over thirty years.

I have worked for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health in various roles since 1971. Currently I am the director of training at the Boston Juvenile Court Clinic and am in charge of training MSW students and Psychology Interns for the clinic. We perform court ordered evaluations of kids and families involved with the Suffolk County Juvenile Court. I am primarily working with an immigrant population of kids and families from El Salvador and Honduras. I have been here for twenty-two years and am starting to think about retirement.

Hal earned a PH.D. in math from MIT and has been working there ever since as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He consults to Google on the side.

Our daughter Amanda is a board certified veterinarian in emergency/critical care and anesthesiology and is an assistant professor at the Cummings Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine. She is married to Glen Matlock who is currently a stay-at-home dad. They have two children, Rory (girl) who is 2 and Connor who is 4. We are very much enjoying our grandchildren (and spoiling them).

In thinking back to my years at MFS I think that the reason I became a social worker is directly related to the social justice issues I learned about in school and the exposure to poverty and racism I was exposed to in the Weekend Work Camps that I attended my junior and senior years at MFS. The values I learned at MFS have continued to shape and influence my life and I am very grateful that I had the opportunity to attend such a wonderful school.

Have fun at the reunion.

Lynn Jefferis Abelson lynn@mit.edu

Arthur J. Abramowitz When I think about the phrase, “50th year reunion,” one word comes to mind- “old.” When I think of a two word description, I think of “very old.” Upon further reflection the word, “lucky” comes to mind.

Roberta and I have resided in Cherry Hill forever. Roberta taught AP Biology in the Cherry Hill School System for approximately 30 years and retired recently. One of the benefits of her retirement is that we are no longer confined to traveling exclusively in the summer months or over school vacations. We have been fortunate to travel extensively and hope to continue to do so in the future.

Our daughter Adrienne is a doctor in psychology and deals with Post Traumatic Syndrome, Alcohol and Drug Abuse with the VA Hospital in North Jersey. Adrienne is married and lives in Jersey City. Our son Adam is a consultant in the field of hospital reimbursement and works for CBIZ in central New Jersey. Adam resides in Philadelphia.

I am now in my 43rd year of practicing law. From 1972-1999, I was a shareholder in the law firm of Davis, Reberkenny & Abramowitz. In 2000 I moved from a 25 person law firm to a 500 person law firm when I joined Cozen O’Connor, where I was co-chair of that firm’s bankruptcy department. In 2013 I left Cozen and joined the Moorestown, New Jersey law firm of Sherman Silverstein as a partner.

My legal practice has focused primarily on business reorganizations (Chapter 11 bankruptcies), business workouts and commercial litigation. I have been involved in a number of high profile cases, including failed casinos, national chains, and various businesses. As living proof of the adage that, “you can fool a lot of people a lot of times,” I have served as President of the Bankruptcy Section for the New Jersey Bar Association, President of the Federal Bar Association for the State of New Jersey, President of the Camden County Bar Association and President of the Greater Cherry Hill Chamber of Commerce. I was also elected as a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, selected for inclusion to the Best Lawyers in America in the field of Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights for over 25 consecutive years and have been named as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in New Jersey.

Looking back, I am grateful. I am looking forward to the reunion and renewing old acquaintances and friendships. I hope to continue enjoying piano, banjo, golf, baseball, reading and summers on Long Beach Island.

Art Abramowitz

Susan Haydock Connell After graduating from the Universiy of Delaware with a BA in Biology, I taught 10th grade biology for 5 years in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, just south of Baltimore. While teaching, I earned a MS degree in Corrective Reading at Johns Hopkins School of Continuing Studies and got married. At the end of two years of teaching remedial reading to 9th graders, I retired to start a family. Roger and I have two children, Wes and Melanie.

While staying at home with the children, I built a private tutoring business, first alone, then in association with 3 other tutors. This continued for 17 years. Alas, the marriage did not last that long.

Moving on from the tutoring business, I experienced a very challenging five year period of underemployment and unemployment while single parenting two teenagers. Then I reconnected with my college sweetheart, John Connell and we married.

John was a product development rep for Uniroyal Chemical Co. covering 13 midwest states, so I picked up my life and moved from Maryland to Bloomington, Indiana, to a whole new world, marriage, and an instant five year old son to rear. John and I have been married almost 19 years now. Andy, the five year old, is now 24 and a senior English major at Indiana University. Son Wes is now 38, single, and an MFA candidate at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Daughter Melanie, now 35, has two teenaged boys by her first marriage, Bastian and Connor, and is married to Bryan, a wonderful man. They live in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

John lost his first wife to glioblastoma. He has two older children whom I think of as my own. Emily is the Librarian at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Emily is married to Shaun Rafferty and they have one son, Desmond. Jack is the Executive Chef at Plumpjack’s restaurant at Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, California and is single. It is no surprise that Jack loves to ski, as do John and Andy.

We are both retired, and busier than when John was working and I was bringing up Andy. I keep busy with volunteer work at church and other organizations in town, quilting and reading. John teaches skiing, coaches middle school hurdles, teaches sailing, sails our S2 7.9 sailboat and his Hobie 16, directs the RAIN Ride Across Indiana (a one-day 160 mile bike ride in July), teaches occasional home bread-baking classes, and serves on the boards of several organizations, making me look like a slouch.

Moorestown Friends taught me too many things to list, but two stand out. First I learned that serving others is incredibly important which directed my career choice and retirement choices as well. Second, I learned to seek out the goodness in everyone and to value the contributions of all, embracing the diversity and the commonality of everyone. We were so blessed to be at MFS during the height of the civil rights movement.

Susan Haydock Connell Nowhere else could I have learned so easily about the equality of all. Not everyone can brag that their social studies teacher (Cully Miller) was front and center on the cover of Ebony magazine in front of the Washington Monument in the March on Washington.

I look forward to seeing everyone at the reunion. The last one I attended was the 20th-1990. I still wear my sweatshirt several times a winter. Friends ask who are all those signatures from.

Sue (Susan R.) Connell BA Biology MS Corrective Reading mother, stepmother, grandmother, step-grandmother volunteer

Alan H. Cooper Family: I was married for a time, then divorced but have been with my partner, Kathy, for 23 years. From my marriage, I have two children, Alan (a CFO) and Jane (a lawyer).

Personal: It can take some time to deal with the personal issues to which we are all subject in the course of our lives. The psychological and physical problems, known or later discovered, dictate major portions of life and their resolution or acceptance colors much of what we do. I’ve had/have my share and, in the spirit that life is a journey, I am continuing on those paths to some sort of conclusion. Then again, it is the human condition to go through such things for in that process we learn, we grow and most importantly we finally feel true empathy for all around us. On a happier note, we enjoy cruising in the Caribbean, spending summers in the 1000 Islands and finding time for a margarita on occasion.

Career: Teaching – I taught Latin and various histories and social sciences in private high schools, with some sojourns into elementary and college work, for forty years. Most recently, I retired from MorristownBeard School in Morristown, NJ, where I had been for 29 years, but shortly thereafter the school rehired me to create the school archives and now to be the editor of the publication celebrating the school’s 125th anniversary in a couple of years. Part time work is a boon for the psyche and a nice infusion of cash. And let it not be forgotten that the values, ethics and role models I had for my career all centered on our teachers at MFS and the ways they exhibited these qualities, hardly ever explicitly, but always through their conduct to the lasting betterment of their students.

Archaeology – Having excavated in Greece, Italy and Cyprus and having been selected for a Fulbright in India, I’ve had numerous excavations in West Virginia, Connecticut and New Jersey, centering on Indian and Revolutionary War material. All of these digs have been public archaeology projects, often sponsored by park commissions or other such agencies, and a few hundred people have learned the basics of field archaeology on sites of local importance.

Alan H. Cooper A final thought:

There’s a hole in the ground somewhere Where a house once stood Where people were born, aged and died Where happiness and sadness And love and hate Rattled about its rafters

There’s a hole Where a well once stood And watered Never asking, never questioning But giving to all Its rocks rung by a pail There’s a hole in the ground somewhere Where dirt and debris collected Where a house once stood Where children played And music spread out its rhymes And in the dust there is laughter.

Harold P. Coxson Fifty years! How can one modestly and succinctly put into words fifty years of one’s life, without boring the reader with “too much information” or sounding like a eulogy? Well here goes my best try: My life since graduation from MFS in 1965 has been rewarding, but not without its challenges. I am happily married to my beautiful bride Mimi. For nearly fifty years we have lived in or around Washington, DC where we have raised three wonderful kids all of whom are now independent and successful. As with many of you, our lives have revolved around our children and grandchildren.

Chris and his wife Nicole and their two teenaged daughters, Chloe and Drew, live in Chatham, NJ where Chris practices labor and employment law with my firm, Ogletree Deakins. Our two granddaughters are both very accomplished student-athletes: both are on the honor roll, Chloe plays varsity field hockey and Drew swims, plays basketball and lacrosse for her school and community travel teams.

Amy and her husband Chris are happily married and recently moved from Manhattan to an island off of Charleston, SC. Amy recently left an outstanding career with Coach, the leather company, where she was in charge of Coach Brand Worldwide, meaning that she hosted store openings with runway parties and other special events all over the world, and where she became friends with celebrity entertainers at events such as the Sundance Festival. She is now opening a consulting and event planning business from South Carolina.

Her husband Chris, a native of South Carolina, is a Partner with Ernst & Young.

David, his wife Jessica and baby son Charlie recently moved from Brooklyn back to Washington, bought a home, and are both hardworking architects. Charlie Coxson just turned one and is the love of our lives, as are our other two grandchildren.

Mimi and I currently live in Chevy Chase, MD and on Cape Cod in Chatham, MA. Mimi is an accomplished artist and I’m still practicing labor and employment law with Ogletree Deakins, which now has over 800 lawyers in 47 cities across the country and in St. Thomas (USVI), Europe and Mexico. I am a Shareholder practicing traditional labor law and the chairman of the firm’s Government Relations Practice Group.

I often think of the lessons I learned at MFS. One example where I put those lessons in practice was for many years, I served as the U.S. Employer Delegate to the annual tripartite (governments, unions and employers) U.N.-sponsored International Labor Organization (ILO) Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, where I cross-examined government representatives from around the world in simultaneous translation regarding their government’s failure to implement ratified ILO standards and human rights conventions which had the legal force and effect of treaties. I was often contacted by Amnesty International which supplied me with information about particular human rights abuse cases where the government witness I was cross-examining was not fully forthcoming.

Harold P. Coxson It was a fascinating experience with many tense, but sometimes humorous, exchanges - such as being called the “Great Satan” by the Iranian government representative I was cross-examining or excited shouting, fistpounding-the-desk responses from the Cuban representative.

As with many of my fellow classmates, life has not been without its challenges, including several life threatening experiences the most serious of which involved a knife-to-the throat mugging and beating, resulting in a ruptured and bleeding brain aneurysm which left me blind in my left eye. But I survived, so who’s complaining!

I join my classmates in mourning the deaths of Joe Brown, Eileen Schneider, Harry Price, Rolf DeCou, Jennifer Miller, and recently Fred and Caroline’s Seiji Moriuchi. We will remember them at our upcoming class reunion.

I look forward to seeing you all there!

Hal

In Memory of Rolf DeCou In Memory of Rolf DeCou: Last October 2014, Rolf suffered a massive stroke and died on the 18th, five days after being taken off life support. There was a wonderful Memorial Service for him on October 25th in the Moorestown Meeting House. Rolf ’s children, Josh and Erin, his ex-wife, Wendy, and devoted friend, Suzanne Posner, attended. Also in attendance were his five surviving brothers and sisters and their families, along with many friends from Woodstown, New Jersey and Philadelphia. Many spoke to Rolf ’s sincerity and thoughtfulness as a friend to many with whom he worked and associated. He had many interests which he pursued with typical enthusiasm.

On the 17th, while Caroline and I spent time with Rolf ’s children, sister Tina, friend Suzanne, ex-wife Wendy, nephew and sister-in-law, many stories were shared. Josh and Erin, graduates of Wilmington Friends School, were especially interested in his time at Moorestown Friends.

I told them that Rolf and I started at Moorestown Friends School at the same time. Mrs. Stiles was our teacher in the Second Grade room in the old Elementary School Building which has since been demolished. That room was memorable because of the sliding board which we used for fire drills. I need a classmate from that year to confirm my memory from that spring when Mrs. Stiles tied “Bobby S” to his chair with clothesline that she retrieved from the closet behind her desk and gagged him so he could not talk. Another memory is of Bert Williams taking an early leave from school and causing turmoil because he could not be found.

Beth, Bob M…were these memories real or imagined?

Not to be forgotten was the time in fifth grade when Rolf and I were sent by Mrs. Borton to Mrs. Clawson’s office. We were reprimanded for selling fireworks to classmates that the older DeCou brothers had brought home.

I remembered that it was always fun to be at Hilltop Orchards which included hours of playing catch, hide and seek, trying to ride ponies that only wanted to run away when they were saddled, drinking cold cider on tap in the packinghouse, watching the older DeCous and cousins and friends play vigorous games of basketball, volleyball and playing tag in the swimming pool After College, Rolf worked in Mexico for the American Friends Service Committee and later he was in Honduras with Save the Children. Rolf became fluent in Spanish while helping these two groups. Next he lived with me on Fellowship Road while he raised corn and other vegetables for sale to local stores. I remember his enthusiasm while he bought his equipment, seed and started to plant, irrigate and harvest from his farm on Kresson Road. I stopped by once while he was cultivating his corn and he showed how good it was by snacking on the raw corn while we spoke about his marketing plan.

Rolf left a few years later and started farming in California. I visited with Rolf while on a search for fruit grading equipment. He ended up near Santa Cruz raising apples. It was impressive climbing in his hillside orchard which would have qualified as a ski area in the East.

In Memory of Rolf DeCou Turning around there was a beautiful view of Half Moon Bay on a beautiful, sunny, warm California day. An occasional redwood tree obstructed our panorama. I wondered how anyone would ever leave the area.

In the late 1980’s, Rolf, Wendy, and their children relocated to Woodstown, New Jersey. Rolf refurbished homes and worked on his older brother’s fruit farm in Shiloh. Rolf started to farm on his own and had a peach farm in that South Jersey area; short crops and hailstorms were disastrous for this endeavor.

Rolf and Wendy separated but continued to be business partners in remodeling homes in Philadelphia and keeping some as rental properties. They continued to be close friends after their separation. Rolf also worked for a large rental group to maintain properties.

Rolf had a winding spiritual trip which continued throughout his whole life. He enjoyed life and was always a good friend.

- Fred Moriuchi Rolf was a loving, selfless, joyful guy who would no doubt claim his two children, Erin and Josh DeCou, as his greatest achievements. Following the tradition set by his parents, Tom and Wilda, he was an excellent farmer who grew many different fruits but was most proud of his incredible peaches. Besides that, he was a skilled contractor and a dedicated student of Landmark Education. Rolf traveled extensively over the years, serving in Mexico as a Conscientious Objector for the American Friends Service Committee during the Vietnam War; he also traveled to Europe, Hawaii, Honduras, Canada, Jamaica, and was especially fond of river-rafting with his family in Utah. He was a graduate of Earlham College and a standout on their soccer team.

Rolf was genuinely touched when anyone took even the smallest moment to have a short conversation with him or to do him a favor. He never hesitated to give of his own time and expertise. One phone call and he would arrive as soon as possible in his rickety old pickup truck, there to save the day by blowtorching frozen pipes, installing light fixtures, or fixing leaky roofs. He was an incredibly dedicated worker—relentless, tireless, determined, and resourceful—whether he was farming, repairing apartments, or building houses. He was also an endlessly loving and supportive father to Erin and Josh, who miss him dearly.

He leaves behind several brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and countless friends who will remember him for his brute strength and toughness, but also for his gentleness and humble chivalry.

- Josh DeCou

Nancy J. Denbo Who’s that poor soul? OMG, it’s my reflection in the store window! If you can relate, and I imagine most can, then I greatly look forward to seeing you at our 50th!

I still live in Cherry Hill. I am a psychiatrist, a greyhound rescuer, a recovering crazy cat lady, and have never been without a turtle. I have worked in a variety of settings---adult, child, hospital, out-pt., and residential treatment. But this past year has been far and away the most interesting, least stressful, all around best thing of all. You won’t believe it. I never would have believed it myself. Short term temporary coverage in the PA state prisons! Right now I am at Muncy---women’s max--looks like Bryn Mawr with bars.

See you soon!!

Martha Spangler Garrigues After MFS I continued my education at the University of Delaware (BA in English) and the University of Maryland (MLS in Library Science).

I then returned to South Jersey where I worked for several years as a librarian at the W. Leslie Library in Pennsauken. There I met Glenn Garrigues - a wonderful guy! We were married in 1974 shortly before his IT job was transferred to a West Coast office. We then moved to San Jose, CA and had a wonderful life. Our two children, Wendy and Joel, were born in, and grew up in, San Jose.

Glenn passed away very unexpectedly in 2009. Wendy had married Damon Jenkins and moved to Baton Rouge, LA only a short time before his death. Joel was living in San Jose. This left me alone in a big house in Roseville, CA near Sacramento.

Wendy and Damon, bless their hearts, packed up and moved back from Baton Rouge to Roseville to keep me company. Shortly thereafter, Joel also moved here from San Jose. My home once again is a happy, bustling place! It is in fact overflowing with activity. Damon is finishing up his engineering degree at Sacramento State. Wendy is an artist. Her work is available on etsy.com and her website: WendysJoy.net. She specializes in water colors and can apply her illustrations to many media: clothing, metal signs, glass cutting boards, etc. Joel is an IT guru at Paratransit, a special bus system for the handicapped.

I am retired and am enjoying life. I have 2 rescued Dalmatians for company and a household of young folk who keep life interesting!

If you are ever in the Sacramento region, I’d love to see or hear from you!!!

Shelley Katz Greenwald Since leaving MFS, I earned several degrees, married my college sweetheart, lived in three states, had more than one career, raise two sons, and traveled the world. I’ve been a college student, a graduate student, a post-graduate student, a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an Interior Designer, a volunteer, an art docent, a bridge player and an art-lover.

After high school, I attended Douglass College. Four years later, I graduated with a degree in Psychology, a minor in Art History, and a wonderful husband. I met Rick on a blind date at Princeton in the fall of my Freshman year. We married during the summer of 1968.

In 1969, Rick and I moved to Manhattan so he could continue medical school and I could further my education at Yeshiva university and The Rockefeller Institute. Once I earned my Master’s Degree in Experimental Psychology, I worked in the market research field. Rick did his Internal Medicine training at Mt. Sinai. We had five enjoyable years in NYC. Plus, our first son Brian was born there.

That same year, we moved back to New Jersey. My husband became an army physician at Fort Monmouth.

His two year stint was followed by a move to South Florida, where our second son, Michael, was born.

When Rick completed his Gastroenterology Fellowship in Miami, we settled in Boca Raton, where he set up his practice and we reared our sons. Sixteen years later, we moved to Highland Beach. It was time to live by the beach and put our boat in the backyard. No doubt, it will be very difficult to leave this beautiful paradise. Perhaps we never will.

Once our boys were in school, my second career began. I earned a degree in Interior Design and became a member of ASID. I helped with the completion of multiple doctor offices, clinics, homes, etc., before deciding “to retire.”

Volunteering had always been important in my life. For years, I was active in the service league of our community hospital. I also continued to share my love of art history as a docent at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. My favorite pastime is playing duplicate bridge. I enjoy accumulating master’s points under the guise of keeping my mind active.

Our sons now have their own families. The oldest is a History Professor at Gallaudet University. He lives in Annapolis with his wife and two boys. We love visiting them on the banks of the Severn River and having them with us to enjoy fishing and the beach.

Our younger son is an attorney (as is his wife) in Boca Raton. This provides ample opportunity to be with our seven-year-old granddaughter. Thanks to her, we attend a lot of dance recitals and soccer games. Being a grandparent is a truly wonderful career move.

Shelley Katz Greenwald Rick and I have always enjoyed traveling and have been fortunate to have been to innumerable places worldwide. There is no end to the countries to encounter or revisit. After each adventure, our bucket list seems to grow. It is a wonderful “problem.”

It’s been a long, adventurous journey from Moorestown Friends School. I am truly looking forward to seeing everyone at our 50th!

Shelley Katz Greenwald MFS 1965

Carl Harnischfeger Hello to everyone!!

About three years after leaving MFS I joined the Navy to ‘see the world.’

And that’s exactly what happened. Courtesy of Uncle Sam, our taxpayer dollars at work, I was fortunate to visit Spain, Majorca, Italy, Malta, Greece, France, as well as the Philippines, Japan, China, Thailand and Vietnam. I also had the opportunity to see much of the western US. I must say that the time I spent in the Navy was an unforgettable and worthwhile experience.

After the Navy I got married and joined my dad in the real estate and insurance business. Lots of father/son business ventures don’t work very well...clash of personalities. But I was one of the fortunate ones who got along great with my dad. During this time my wife Susan and I had two sons, Toby and Stephen. Unfortunately, the marriage didn’t work. I sold the businesses shortly after my dad passed away, and opened a couple of video stores down near (and on) Long Beach Island. As the video business wound down with the advent of streaming services I decided to try a little something different: casinos. I began in Atlantic City, working in four different casinos. Soon enough, with the casino business beginning to boom I packed my bags and moved to Iowa. Very nice folks in Iowa! I helped open a casino there and worked as an instructor/supervisor/ pit boss, which seemed to suit me pretty well. I’ve never been a gambler, but I found the energy in the gaming business exhilarating. As the casino business moved west, I did, too. From early 2001 until the fall of 2013, I continued in the gaming business, assisting in the opening of one of the largest casinos (at the time) in southern California, located in Rancho Mirage (Palm Springs). I have no complaints with the California lifestyle (except the earthquakes-this area sits virtually on top of the San Andreas Fault), and retirement has afforded me the opportunity to take several road trips around the west, from Deadwood (SD) to Cheyenne (WY) to Dodge City (KS) to Tombstone (AZ), as well as get in a little golf. There are over 100 golf courses here in the Coachella Valley.

I have also been fortunate to have my sons and their families keep close in touch. Toby and Kate have two children, Noah & Hannah, and live in Moorestown at the moment. They’re between homes, biding their time until they find just the right home. Toby is an electrical technician with PSE&G and Kate is a teacher in the Delran system. Stephen and Stacy have one son, Owen, and live in Westampton. Steve is a teacher in the Burlington City system and Stacy works for a large national charitable organization. All of my grandchildren are under four years old, and all are quite a handful.

Now that my family is expanding it’s time to relocate once again, this time back to New Jersey. Although the weather in NJ isn’t as nice for riding motorcycles as it is here in SoCal, it’s where I call home.

My very best to you all, and circumstances permitting, I’ll see some of you soon.

Ned Harnischfeger surfc@aol.com

Mary Beth Schultz Hempel Do I write a resume or do I tell the story of how my life has emerged from my great loves? I think the latter. At the point of graduation I left with three sureties, my Quaker faith, my love for teaching, and my love for my now husband, Walt. During the summers in college, I worked in a school for children of seasonal and migrant laborers.

I had done a paper on migrant laborers while at MFS. This job was a natural extension of seeds planted during those developing years, compassion with standards.

I obtained a BS from Elmira College in Elementary Education and married Walt in the same month. I secured a position as a third grade teacher at Chesterfield Twp. Elementary School. After a year in this position, I taught a multiply-handicapped program for 6-9 year olds.

This was a Burlington County Pilot program. I simultaneously worked on an M.Ed. at Trenton State College.

Walt and I started our family. I left full time teaching, continued my master degree study and became very involved in meeting life. We had two sons, Matt and Ben. From the beginning they were immersed in our life in the community and meeting. Walt and I worked together in our community and in meeting life. Walt served on the School Board, President of the Community Assoc. and Asst. Fire Chief and I supported his endeavors by cooking for various events surrounding these duties. I headed the First Day School and Walt guided the Young Friends Group. Walt pounded the piano for opening exercises and we all sang along.

Such was our life during our children’s early years.

I always embraced how my faith informed my MFS education and how my MFS education buttressed my faith. I would say that I was a strong advocate of Friends children and believed that our meetings are strengthened by our students attending our Friends schools. After Matthew became of school age and Ben of nursery school age, I joined the School Committee of MFS. This tenure was brief because my true love of teaching was calling. I turned to teaching at MFS in a primary class (6-7 yr. olds). I knew I could not return to public education. I had substituted during an illegal strike in a school district near our home. I learned of teachers unions at their ugliest. Teachers sabotaged their equipment, hid materials, and left no information on their students or what they were learning. One of my students had not had reading the entire school year (it was January). The aide said that the teacher had personal problems so she couldn’t get to it. State police were at the school daily. We could not stay late because the state police removed their protection at a certain time. One day I thought a car was following me. My first instinct was to drive to the state police barracks. I did not follow that instinct and drove home. That evening I was phoned at home and asked to stop teaching. I did not. The strike was finally ended and my little boy asked what would happen to his reading. I left the teacher with a week’s worth of lesson plans and hoped with all my heart he continued having reading.

I taught at MFS for five years. I loved the academic freedom and true committment that is fostered in our old alma mater.

Mary Beth Schultz Hempel I, at times, was a thorn in the side when it came to accepting more Quaker children, but Alex put up with me. Quaker schools provide a fine education for others. Why shouldn’t our own be a part of that? Both our boys attended MFS. Their exposure to the arts while there had a lasting effect as they moved through their educational experiences.

Walt was transferred to the US Attorney’s Office in Boston and so we all moved to a lovely historical town by the sea, Duxbury. Both boys attended public school. Matthew graduated from Duxbury High School. He played tuba in several music groups in addition to doing extra-curricular work with the fire department.

Ben, dissatisfied with his middle school education, and seeing his much-loved art program once more under the gun for cuts, asked to go to boarding school. His choice was Tabor Academy. There he was able to blossom in art and find a new love, sailing on a 92 ft. schooner. Each of these boys turned their new found loves into careers. Matt is now a Lt. in the evesham Twp. Fire Dept. and Ben is a deck officer on a Chevron Tanker.

After a year in Duxbury, I began as a student teaching supervisor in the undergraduate school at Lesley College, Cambridge. Following one semester in this position, I became part-time faculty, teaching education courses and supervising student teachers. Eventually, I became the Undergraduate Coordinator of Student Teaching. During my tenure at Lesley I served on many committees, worked to develop a professional school relationship with the Quincy School District, and served on the Executive Board of the Massachussetts Association of Teacher Educators. My driving force was to help students achieve excellence, to strive for high standards, and to passionately pursue their profession in hopes that our students would not fall into the adversarial and self-serving attitude I observed during the teacher strike years earlier.

Serendipity often has its way of pointing us in new directions. I happened to see an ad for an elementary school head at a Friends school in PA. I mentioned this to Walt and said that I would like to apply. I could see no reason not to apply. Walt traveled 34 weeks that year, Ben was in boarding school, and Matt was in college. He encouraged me and stated that I had tailored my career around him and that it was my turn.

The rest is history. I became the Head of West Chester Friends School. I was back in my milieu. West Chester had the feel of MFS when we were in elementary school, small, intimate and sure of its Quaker roots. Quaker values and Meeting for Worship were explored in the classroom and as a way of being. I was delighted with the quality of teachers with whom I worked and their abilities in trying newer methods.

Their dedication was boundless. I worked there for eight years and commuted home to Duxbury when I had free weekends. I loved my job. It was truly the capstone of my career, but all good things must come to an end. My heart was willing, but my body said, “Enough!” Walt was scheduled for mandatory retirement so we decided that it was a good time for us both to retire. That was in 2001.

Walt retired Labor Day Weekend. The following week was 9/11. Walt was one of five called back to service, initally as the Eastern Region Anti-Terrorism Coordinator. Again, he was gone from home, but he was serving his country in uncharted territory. For two years he served and retired again. He was later called to serve on the 9/11 Commission as a subject matter expert. In addition to helping to write the 9/11 report, he and his team co-authored a book, Terrorist Travel. He lived in DC for seven months while I kept the home fires burning. Walt kept working in consulting and intelligence work until a year ago. I began to develop my niche in retirement as executor of home remodeling, hospice volunteer, gardener, babysitter for grandchildren, and second soprano in the Snug Harbor Chorus.

Mary Beth Schultz Hempel As you see, I mentioned grandchildren. Both boys married. Matt and his wife, Suzanne, reside in Marlton with their 15 year old son, Colby. Suzanne’s 22 year old daughter, Savanna, has flown the nest and lives in Lumberton. Ben and his wife, Amy, reside in Plympton a nearby town, with their children, Noah (9), Cole (5) and Taylor (4). Watching our sons grow and become giving husbands and fathers is so gratifying.

We now do a great deal of traveling. We are trying to squeeze as much in as we can before we can travel no longer. In the years since my retirement we have traveled to every continent except Antartica. Life has been good to us. We have worked hard, overcome obstacles, and appreciated the rewards. We live by the motto, “When life gives you lemons, make pie.”

-Mary Beth Schultz Hempel

Christine Fay Henry 50 Years. Well, before I start, I want to say that I loved Moorestown Friends.

Only two years after graduation, I married Bill Henry. I lived at home and went to school while he served in the Navy during the Vietnam War, except for one year living in Norfolk, Virginia. Upon our return, I completed my B.S. in Business Administration and minor in Business Education at Drexel. I taught business subjects at Shawnee High School for five and a half years and went to night school for an M.Ed. at The College of New Jersey, also teaching part-time at BCC. Then I was a stay-at-home mom for seven years before starting to work at our family business, The Jet Pulverizer Co., with my parents, husband (Mechanical Engineer, Drexel), brother (Drexel), and sister-in-law. My parents passed away in 1986 and 1990, and we took over the business. At our plant in Moorestown, we manufacture mills for grinding powders used in the pharma, cosmetic, nutraceutical, and chemical industry and sell internationally. We also custom grind powders for companies that do not want to buy the mills. Some of the interesting products we have worked on are rocket fuels for the space shuttle, aluminum oxide to polish computer discs, eye glasses, contact lenses, telescope lenses, bismuth tribromophenate used in bandages, lithium for batteries, polymer used in bone scaffolding, temperature sensitive inks, and cool things like diamonds, shark cartilage and cow bones. We are very proud of the label “Made in the U.S.A.” Probably the highlight of my career was working with the World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia by promoting the benefits they give businesses in international trade. Last year we were honored at a gala event at the Art Museum and received the New Jersey Business of the Year Award. I gave the acceptance speech.

We just sold our business on February 6th and are working with the buyer for several months before retiring.

We have two children. Our son, Jeff, has a degree in agri-ecology and runs the 100-acre family farm in the Poconos, the first farm in the county to receive the coveted designation “Animal Welfare Approved.” He has 60+ goats and makes the most delicious goat cheese you have ever tasted. I get to bottle feed the baby goats each spring! Look up Cranberry Creek Farm for some fun pictures. Jeff ’s fiancée makes high-end baby carriers, Cranberry Creek Kids. He and Mary-Jean have a 22 month-old son and daughter due in July.

Our daughter, Jennifer (MFS ’95), has a B.S. and M.S. from Drexel (my father had one of the first Drexel engineering degrees). She has worked with autistic children, taught at the Moorestown Upper Elementary School, and joined Jet Pulverizer three years ago. She will be a partner in the new business, along with raising her six and eight-year old boys and one-year old daughter with her husband, Jeremy Lundgren. I never would have guessed I would have five grandchildren!

We have lived in Moorestown for over 30 years. Every other weekend of the last 40 years we have driven to the Poconos to help on the farm. We have found time, however, to travel in the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Europe, and enjoyed scuba diving in many beautiful places in the Caribbean. Once we dove with sharks; I had to remind myself to breathe!

Christine Fay Henry We took up golf five years ago and look forward to spending more time traveling, playing golf, and enjoying the farm and our Florida home on the back bay of Fort Myers Beach. This year we have two trips, Tauck’s Culturious Provence and a river cruise from Switzerland to Amsterdam. Retirement should be fun.

I wish you all many more happy and healthy years.

Chris

Letitia Raymond Kelley I look back fifty years ago, and remember myself as the shortest in the class, blending in the shadows, and observing life passing through MFS halls. Life skills were part of the building blocks of my life taught and demonstrated by MFS faculty and staff. I dedicate the following outline to Miss Armstrong whose outlining gift to me organized my thoughts for future writing, teaching and speaking.

1. Career -Graduated from Geneva College with a BS degree in Elementary Education -Taught Pre-First (All Day Kindergarten) ’69-’75 & First Grade ’75-’78 -Substitute Teaching in Hainesport School ’89-present & some private schools

My teaching career fulfilled my goal set in First Grade! I have taught preschool through adults in schools, Sunday school/VBS, and conference workshops.

2. Family

-Married 1975 to Greg Kelly

-Greg is a Computer Programmer

-Hobby - Drag Race Car Driver (I still can’t tell a Ford from a Chevy, but I’ve towed trailers

and I bleed brakes!)

-Owns MotorSports Innovations (Business combines racing and computer programming) -Children -Mark Thomas

-Married 2005 to Melissa Marie Wilkins

-One daughter, Emily Madison in 2011

-Owns Mark’s Stump Removal - a tree cutting business

-Melissa is a stay at home mom and waitresses when their daughter is in Preschool -Sharon Ruth

-Married 2011 to Moses Correa

-One son, Moses Joshua in 2015

-Graduated from Rider University

-Teached Middle School Language Arts in Hainesport

-Moses is a personal trainer I believe communication is vitally important for families. Our family life has been enhanced by time spent together. When the kids were younger, we traveled to races all summer. Now that they are older, we gather every Monday for “Monday night dinners.”

3. Community

-Member of the Hainesport Township Land and Use Board Fall 1997-Present

Letitia Raymond Kelley

-Chairman of the Hainesport Township Environmental Committee 1998-Present

4. Faith

-Active member of the First Presbyterian Church of Mount Holly

-Various Bible/Prayer Study groups, including a couples small group

-Women’s sewing ministry, presently sewing dresses for Africa -Deacon

-While I’m not presently on the board, I continue to help prepare and serve Funeral

Luncheons and aid with Backpack and Thanksgiving baskets (Yes, I still bake!)

-Music -Choir -Began at age 3-present

-Have sung in choirs from 10-1,000 voices

-Praise Band at church

-Began 8 years ago - present

-Have done some solo work

-Lay Pastor’s Ministry International

-This ministry began in the Midwest to aid pastor’s in caring for their congregations through

lay people using P.A.C.E. - Prayer, Availability, Contact, Example - to care for local families.

-Sheperd in First Presbyterian 30+ years

-I work with the Northeast Region Team of Lay Pastor’s Ministry helping to support

about 8 churches in their ministry.

Faith is the foundation of my life. Faith is my personal saving relationship with the Lord Jesus and I enjoy my time Bible reading, praying, and fellowshipping with other believers.

5. Future

-Caregiver for Grandchildren

-Docent at Smithville It’s been interesting reflecting on the last 50 years of my life since leaving MFS. My life accomplishments have been woven with sorrows and disappointments. Yet if I had to describe my life with one word, it would be blessed. I’m thankful for the last 50 years!

Letitia Raymond Kelley

Linda Stevenson Kimball I graduated from Russell Sage College and went right on to graduate school at Boston University receiving my MSN in Maternal-Child Nursing in 1970. I worked for a year at Mass General Hospital and then was invited back to Russell Sage to teach pediatric nursing. While teaching I met my husband, Bill, at Albany Medical Center. We married in 1975 and then relocated to the Boston area for him to do his residency in Anesthesiology. During his residency, I taught at Mass General School of Nursing, and then when the school closed I began staff nursing (no work to bring home). I started to do part time staff nursing, 24 hours/week when my second child was born.

I have now been at Mass General for 39 years (same as my husband) still working in Pediatrics as a staff nurse. I’m still not ready to give it up.

We raised two children, Julia and Andrew, who both live locally. Julia is a reading specialist for autistic children and Andrew teaches Spanish and French. Julia is married and has a seven month old daughter, Claire, whom I care for one day a week. Fifty years have certainly flown by; I’m looking forward to the reunion!

As for MFS memories…

All the “no’s” on my geometry homework by Mr. Hartman…

Dave Anderson running down the hall yelling “Kennedy has been shot!” I was in Trudy Ranieri’s French class at the time…

Sword dance taught by Mr. Hartman for May Day celebration…

Senior play and the black dye not exactly coming out clean that we used on our hair…

Silver dollars we used to get for prizes for 7th/8th grade dance lessons…

The notes we passed in Senior Social studies class that were totally oblivious to Sam Steinruck…

The traditional Senior Class Trip to NYC that never was for our class…

Our senior prom held at Ivystone – the first prom held “off campus”…

Junior Public Speaking Contest (George Powell should have really won!)…

First date with Harrie Price IV (and Jennifer and Rolf); taken to see “Around The World In Eighty Days” in Harrie Price III’s Model T Friendship Fair…

Linda Hyatt Lee 50 years to recollect? Oh my, I am feeling a bit daunted by such a project, but we are all in the same boat with this assignment. Here's my geographic approach: NY/MA- Went to William Smith College in Geneva, NY and then on to Boston College for my masters in Special Education. I lived in a junior high girls' dorm at Perkins School for the Blind that year. It was a great learning experience. Linda Stevenson was at BU then, living on Beacon Hill, so we had fun getting together.

FL- Taught at the Florida School for the Blind in St. Augustine, FL, then taught blind/partially sighted kids and non-verbal children who were not accepted into public schools at that time in Ocala, FL. I solo camped out West in my VW bus and discovered Mesa Verde, Arches and Great Sand Dunes. A super adventure! Met by husband, Bill, while taking courses at the U of F in Gainesville in 1975 and did a bigger camping trip, meeting up with Bill, who flew to San Francisco. We backpacked and camped our way back to FL. WA- Moved to the Colville Indian Reservation in WA state where Bill took a VISTA job as an attorney representing individual tribal members. I worked at the tribal school (Paschal Sherman Indian School), where I started their Special Education program. (PL 94-142 was now in effect.) We were there 5 years (during the Mt. St. Helens eruption) and our first child, Corinne, was born on the reservation in 1981.

ME- Moved to Maine so that our daughter would get to see her relatives! My sister, Bonnie, and her family lived in Skowhegan, ME, so my parents were already visiting up there. Bill's family lived in NH part of the year. Leaving the wide open spaces of the eastern WA with unlimited backpacking, white water rafting and cross-country skiing made ME seem like the best fit.

Settled in Waterville ME in 1982 and have lived there ever since. It was a great place to raise a family (and camp, backpack and cross country ski with the kids). We had our second daughter, Andrea, in 1984. Bill worked as the City Solicitor, in private practice, then he and a friend started their own general law practice.

I was the first director of the rape crisis center for the area and worked there for 10 years. Then I taught in Title I programs and started the Title I Math program in the 3 elementary schools in the district.

My parents moved from NJ to ME to be near Bonnie and me and our families. My father died in 2002 and my mother died in 2008. At that point, Bill was able to work remotely, so I retired from teaching in 2009 and we started living in FL for 2 months to be near both of our daughters. We have continued this lovely break from the Maine winter, which was especially sweet this year! We kayak, bird & play pickleball in both ME & FL. I really enjoy seeing photos, but since I am currently in FL, I do not have access to many. Also, I am the picture-taker in the family, so there aren't many of me. I have included this pic so folks at the Reunion can recognize me and those who don't make it have some idea of what I look like now, 50 years older. Egads!

Linda Hyatt Lee

Beverly Boogar Lovejoy “Alas how swift the moments fly! How flash the years along!“ - John Quincy Adams Four years after leaving MFS I graduated from Beaver College (now Arcadia University) in June 1969 with a B.S. in Elementary Education and married Bruce Lovejoy (B.A. Biology from F & M) later that month.

We both taught school for several years, I in Cherry Hill & Haddonfield and Bruce in Moorestown.

I then worked in retail at the Blum’s Store in Moorestown while Bruce attended Temple University pursuing a graduate degree and certification in school psychology. In 1978 our daughter Jillian was born. The 1980’s were filled with child rearing and much volunteering: P.T.A., library assistant, drug alliance representative and child care provider for friends’ children.

The 90’s brought new challenges with aging parents who required increasing assistance. As an only child I was kept quite busy with visiting, transporting, running errands, coordinating doctor appointments and arranging for health care providers.

During the years 1977-2006 Bruce was working as a school psychologist and Director of Child Study Team & Related Services for the Burlington County Special Services School District. After retirement from full time work he then spent 5 years as a consulting psychologist at the Burlington County Institute of Technology.

Jillian graduated from Muhlenberg College in 2000 with a B.A. in English. She worked in publishing in Manhattan for Warner Books for two years before returning to New Jersey to a position in public relations with a nonprofit mental health organization. She has been working as Director of College Communications at her alma mater Muhlenberg College for the last 11 years.

Another important aspect of our lives has been our involvement at Trinity Episcopal Church in Moorestown. Beginning in the 70’s we have led youth groups, taught confirmation and Sunday school classes, coordinated neighborhood and newcomer groups, canvassed for stewardship campaigns and participated in many various study groups. For the last year and a half, we have been practicing centering prayer and mindfulness meditation, an experience which takes me back to our weekly Meeting for Worship.

It most certainly helps quiet a restless, chattering mind and puts me in touch with the divine within. In stillness there can be found a clarity of purpose and a transformative sense of peace. Finally, during the last two years, we have been volunteering at the local food pantry in Moorestown; it is a rewarding feeling to know that you are doing something to help those in need.

In retrospect my most meaningful “take away” from my time at MFS has been to respect the dignity of all and to contribute in incremental ways to help create a better, more compassionate world.

Looking forward to seeing you all in May.

Fred T. Moriuchi Friends, I am looking forward to hearing from and/or seeing everyone at our reunion at Moorestown Friends School.

After Bates College I got my MBA in Professional Accounting from Rutgers University. I was able to complete the program before I fulfilled my two year obligation as a conscientious objector. As everyone remembers there was a lottery for those that were draft eligible. Since my birthday was number one in the lottery, the only one where I have ever been the top draw, I worked for two years at the Extension Experimental Fruit Farm of Rutgers University as a technician.

for many years.

On September 2, 1972 Caroline and I got married soon after I started working with my father on our apple and peach operation. Long hours with successes and difficulties associated with farming kept me very busy

As time went on, in order to increase production, we looked to South Jersey to buy land. Caroline and I did not have to move because we were able to buy the farm in Moorestown in 1974. This was the perfect place for us since we wanted our children to attend MFS: moving more than an hour away would have made that difficult. A house that was on the property became our home in 1976, after replacing all of the mechanical and electrical systems, the plastering, painting and refurbishing the kitchen and other living areas. The farmhouse was built in 1823 and very few changes had been made during the intervening years. It is now time to start over and refresh the whole house.

Over the years we farmed in Cherry Hill, Marlton, Voorhees, Mount Laurel, Delran, Lumberton, Vincentown, Springfield and Moorestown. Sod and field crops were raised but the emphasis was on 650 acres of fruit. Our production varied from 70 to 140 trailer loads of apples and 40 to 100 trailer loads of peaches annually that we nurtured, harvested, refrigerated, prepared for fresh market and distributed thoughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Caribbean. We could not have done this without a workforce of up to 125 men and women.

An enterprise to expand our marketing base was a distribution company that was the first to introduce and supply packages of premium fresh fruit and produce to BJ’s Wholesale Club and SAM’s Wholesale Club in stores throughout New England, south to Virginia, west to the Mississippi River and into Minnesota.

I was a member and officer of many farm related state and national groups. They were involved in marketing and delivery of our fruit to market, propagation of new and improved apple and peach varieties, assuring fair market pricing of chemicals and supplies to the New Jersey Farm Bureau Members and annual educational meetings for all involved in agriculture in New Jersey.

One of the community focused services I enjoyed was being an elected member and officer of the Board of Fire Commissioners, Moorestown Fire District #1 for twenty-four years.

Fred T. Moriuchi The Board assured that the all-volunteer Fire Department had adequate funds for safety training, maintenance of equipment and stations, administrative support and purchase of proper equipment.

From 1971 to 1996 I served on the West Jersey Hospital System, Board of Trustees as a member and officer.

This system is now known as VIRTUA and serves communities in Camden and Burlington Counties with four hospitals.

As the Moorestown area started to change it became more difficult to move equipment around and the farms and labor became harder to obtain. Several forays into land development included a section called Peach Tree Pointe where George Powell bought a home and became a neighbor. A later project involved building a golf course on several pieces of land contiguous to our farm. The difficult process of obtaining approvals from 10 plus different local, State and Federal governmental bodies and loss of funding forced abandonment of the project just before the financial expansion of the general economy after 1995. In hindsight, several decisions with this project would have been different and would have prevented the financial disaster.

Looking at the bright side of our circumstances raising our family in the Moorestown area was the best decision Caroline and I made. Being part of the Moorestown Friends School community has molded our children to become academically able, sensible, confident leaders and very self-sufficient. What more can you ask for your kids?

Takashi met his wife, Mey-Yen, while both were students at University of Pennsylvania and they have a son Kenji Manuel who is twelve and a daughter Miya Alicea who is nine. Both will be attending Germantown Friends School next year. Naoji is married to Michelle whom he met while working at a software company in Mt Laurel. They have Mina Sofia who is almost seven and in 1st grade and Naomi Grace who is almost five and in pre-kindergarten, both enrolled at MFS. Caroline is proud to count them as the fourth generation of her family to attend MFS. Both sons have been active on the committees of the MFS School Committee.

Our youngest, Akemi, graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 2008. After teaching and coaching at Wilmington Friends School she received her Masters Degree from the Teachers College of Columbia University. Presently she is a teacher and Athletic Director at The Philadelphia School. It is a pre-school through eighth grade independent school in Philadelphia.

We are glad all the children live close to us so we can continue to be involved in their lives and the lives of their children. The family has been a great source of support and solace especially during the past year.

I know that MFS informed most of you of the death of our third son, Seiji, this past June 30th. So many of you responded and sent us your condolences which the entire family immensely appreciated. Seiji was thirtyfive and in excellent health but the autopsy with complete and exhaustive blood and tissue samples could only conclude “sudden cardiac death.” Though Caroline and I are so very sad not to have him with us, we were able to appreciate who he was and where he was going as an adult.

Seiji’s schoolmates were a great source of support and help at that time and continue to see us regularly. Tall and lanky, if you can believe it, he was an excellent outdoorsman and athlete who was appreciated by all as a friend. All who met Seiji whether socially or through agriculture, landscape or construction contacts, have sought Caroline and me out to express their sadness and support.

Fred T. Moriuchi This past basketball season the boys’ varsity basketball team at MFS dedicated their season to Seiji. He was assistant coach for seven years at MFS and worked with many students who continued to keep in touch after they graduated. As the assistant he preferred to work with the players and left dealing with parents to the Head Coach. He would have been pleased with the effort and record of the team this year.

So welcome back to MFS which is a better school than when we knew it. It prepares its students to succeed.

I am most proud of the time that I served on the School Committee from 1971 to 1995. During the last seven years I served as Clerk (or Chairman) of the Committee during a crucial time of transition that helped MFS become recognized as a strong independent school.

It does not seem possible that we are celebrating our Fiftieth Reunion. Time has flown by but I still cherish the life we had together at MFS. It became a strong foundation that allowed us to move forward.

Christmas 2013

Rosylnne G. Novack 50 years is a long time, unimaginable in 1965!

We graduated MFS as the “60’s” were really just beginning. It is hard to think back that far and truly capture the “feeling of the times.” At this point, it feels like we are merely a TV series narrated by Tom Brokaw. At the time, it was the height of intensity.

MFS shaped my life in many ways. I attended American University, School of International Service, naively thinking that through analysis and research I could bring an end to the war in Vietnam. It did not work out quite that way, although I did see many of the events that are now standard fare for 60’s documentaries, among the most notable, Allen Ginsberg trying to levitate the Pentagon.

Convinced that I needed to prepare myself for the least practical career possible, I entered a PhD program in history at Rutgers in the fall of 1969. After five wonderful years as a graduate student, I noticed that full-time tenure track positions in geographically acceptable locations were at a minimum. In addition, I realized that I did not enjoy spending time in un-windowed basement archives doing research. So, after completing my oral and written exams, and a third of my dissertation, I accepted a job as an Associate Education Director for the now defunct Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, one of the last “social unions.”

I spent the next five or so years based out of St. Louis, providing education programs to 22,000 mostly women garment workers in eleven states, including Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, and other places like that.

I served on various boards for organizations like the Missouri Committee for the Humanities, organized conferences on jobs and the environment and other legislative issues, and was political action director.

Among the central issues then, some forty years ago, were health care, racial equality, equal educational opportunity, affordable housing, and a living wage for working people. Makes one think.

After a two year stint as Program Director for the New School for Democratic Management in San Francisco, a subsidiary of Mother Jones Magazine, I made a more practical career choice and returned East to attend law school at Rutgers, becoming a lawyer in 1984. I spent the next twenty five years as Counsel to the New Jersey State Board of Education and Director of the State Board Appeals Office. I have spent the past few years in private practice with the firm of Campbell & Pruchnik, based in Red Bank, New Jersey, and specializing in education law.

I have a daughter, Ava Dawson, who lives in Manhattan. She graduated from NYU and did her graduate work at Columbia. She is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner employed by Long Island University Hospital to establish a school-based health clinic at a high school in Queens. She is married to Joe Terranella, whom she met in French class at NYU, and who is in “media management,” which I think has something to do with “apps” and on-line media.

I live in Moorestown and have shared the last fifteen years of my life with Garth Davidson, who is an artist and a poet, and definitely not a lawyer.

Rosylnne G. Novack

Robert B. Null and Andrea Evoy Null It does not seem possible that fifty years have passed and Bob and I have been married for forty-six of them. We have two children, Rebecca and Alex. Rebecca lives in center city Philadelphia with her husband, Jim, and two daughters, Mary Cate, who is four, and Sloane who is one. Becky has her PhD in Educational Psychology and is a Behavioral Analyst with Washington Township Schools. Jim works for Keystone Insurance in Philadelphia. Our son Alex lives in Marietta, Georgia with his wife Sarah and son AJ who is nine and daughter Riley who is six. Alex is a Senior Vice President for Sun Trust Investments in downtown Atlanta. Sarah tutors children in their home.

Bob spent most of his career at CIGNA starting right from college at the old INA. We did have the opportunity to live in Arvada, Colorado for five years which was wonderful. We then returned to Voorhees and stayed there until 2004. I started working after returning to New Jersey and became the Director of Administration for a local law firm where I stayed for twenty-five years. Bob retired in 2004 when we purchased our present home in The Villages, Florida. I retired three years later and we became Florida residents.

We have had our health issues through the years but currently all is well. We enjoy playing golf, swimming and volunteer work. Best wishes to everyone, and enjoy the occasion.

Bob & Andi

George W. Powell I graduated from Bucknell University in 1969 and, being commissioned an Army Second Lieutenant, spent eight years on active duty in the United States and abroad. Diane and I moved to Ocean City, NJ in 1978 and remained there for 10 years when we moved to Moorestown.

While in Ocean City, I chaired the municipal planning board and was responsible for overseeing development of the first Ocean City master plan. After Diane and I moved to Moorestown, we relocated our real estate business from Ocean City to Marlton and continued to service all of South Jersey from our new location. We remained as active in politics in Moorestown as we did in Ocean City, and Diane served on the Township Council for four years. Our son Michael graduated from Moorestown High School and the University of Pittsburgh. We moved to Naples, FL in 2006 where Diane continues as a real estate broker with Berkshire Hathaway in Old Naples. I have been practicing real estate law since 2002 and am the managing partner of the Naples office of Akerman LLP, Florida’s largest law firm. Michael is the leading salesman at Mercedes Benz of Naples and gets to play with the really cool cars. In what spare time we have, we play golf!

Thomas Roberts After leaving MFS, I attended Earlham College where I studied Chemistry for four years, realizing however that I did not want to work for the next forty years as a chemist. During my alternative service, spent half at Arthur Morgan School in Celo, N.C. and half at Camphill Village, Copake, N.Y., I discovered how rewarding it was for me working and living with developmentally-disabled adults. In Copake, I met my first wife. We married and our son was born before we left in order to study curative education for three years at Camphill Special School, Beaver Run in Nantmeal, PA. Afterwards, we worked for the next year and a half as houseparents in Mourne Grange, a Camphill village setting in northern Ireland, before returning to Copake in 1977.

In Copake we were given a house with seven developmentally-disabled grownups to look after. At first I was given charge of the wood workshop and later of the garden, always working with a team of developmentallydisabled helpers. We brought up our three children, George, Ellen, and Claire in a household of thirteen consisting of our family of five and the seven developmentally-disabled residents as well as various young co-workers, many from foreign countries, each of whom remained part of our family for about a year. It was a rich and joyful time for which I remain grateful.

In 1992, after 21 years together, my wife and I separated, divorcing a year later. Thus began a more difficult period in my life. In 1997 I moved to Camphill Liebenfels near Klagenfurt, Austria where I spent the next seven and a half years, meeting my present wife, Barbara Harrison, in 2003. In the summer of 2004 I moved into her apartment in Stuttgart, Germany. At first I tried working there as a day care father, but after several months I gave that up and was then out of work for about a year before finding short-term employment near Nurnberg, Germany.

The following October Barbara and I moved to Seewalde, a village setting for the developmentally-disabled near Neustrelitz, north of Berlin, where I was put in charge of one of their houses. We moved again in December 2008 to Franziskus, a small home for developmentally-disabled adults in Hamburg, where I spent the remaining years of my career before retiring in 2012.

We are continuing to live in our apartment in Franziskus where I now jump in as a substitute for night duty or individual care if one of the regular co-workers becomes ill or goes on vacation. I also work in violence prevention which means that if someone experiences violence they report it to me and I usually end up having talks with the people involved in which we seek a solution acceptable to everyone concerned. In addition, I take active part in the Christian Community Church nearby, also singing in their choir.

Life remains rich and full and very busy. In looking back over my life, I am most grateful to have become part of the Camphill movement for 24 years and to have discovered Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophie and the Christian Community, all of which have made a tremendous difference in my life and my way of looking at the world.

Thomas Roberts

Elizabeth Schellenger After graduating from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, I married and took a graduate assistantship at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. In the summer, I began working for the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service as a “Summer Assistant,” then became the Director of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program. When my husband finished his graduate degree, we moved to the NW Chicago suburbs. I worked for the U of I as an Extension Advisor in Lake County, then became a Multi-County Specialist. Our son, Victor “Buddy,” was born in 1974.

We moved to Freeport, Illinois in 1978- the year my daughter Kelly was born. Freeport is a big town of 26,000 surrounded by farmland in every direction. It is one hour east of the Mississippi River and two and a half hours west of Chicago.

I worked in my husband’s dental office for 17 years. When we divorced after 31 years, I was fortunate to get a job working for an Internet Service Provider. Initially I taught classes on computer software applications, web construction, internet and email, then worked in technical support, troubleshooting, developing online and paper instructional support materials and manuals, setting up domains, configuring broadband and VOIP equipment, etc. After 11 years, I was laid off when my department was closed.

My next adventure was as a Regional Coordinator for a 501C3 nonprofit in Northern Illinois. I administered a Department of Labor Employment and Training program for low income individuals with barriers to employment, such as low or no English language literacy, homeless, previous incarcerations and lots of individuals with no computer skills. I created jobs for participants with nonprofits and units of government, and supervised the training of 156 individuals in three offices, in eight counties.

One of the things I learned after leaving MFS is that the Midwest is noticeably devoid of an ocean. So my East coast beachcombing morphed into rockhounding. I’ve been in many states collecting minerals, gems, fossils and geodes. I have been active in my local geology club and was the first webmaster for the Midwest Federation of Mineralogical and Geological Societies for seven years. Over the years I have given numerous geology programs in schools, youth groups and other clubs. I suspect I have thousands of geodes in my basement and garage.

I have enjoyed taking classes: Spanish, computers, graphic design, woodworking, gardening and teaching fun classes like food garnishing, fossils, geodes, computers, Microsoft Office, Corel and other software, calligraphy and gardening. I also enjoyed being on the Executive Board at the YMCA where I taught racquetball and participated in tournaments for years and was also a soccer coach for many years. Yes, I was the only female in the Midwest that understood soccer.

Elizabeth Schellenger I have been active in my church as an elder, Sunday School teacher and Chairman of Christian Education.

As a family we enjoyed spending weekends camping and boating on islands in the Mississippi River but now I enjoy the Indiana Sand Dunes on Lake Michigan each year which feels like the ocean but without the sharks.

I hope everyone has a wonderful time at the reunion. Please visit if you are ever out here or find me on Face book.

Elizabeth Schellenger, Class of 1965

A calcite geode

With my ten year old dog, Missyten minutes outside of Freeport

Recognize anyone here? These are all MFS gradates at the wedding of my niece, Suzann, and her husband, Durell Bouchard, in Maine. Back row: L To R Tom Hagstoz, Dick Casey, Jon Ingersoll, Will Bouchard, Steve Ellis. Front row: Elizabeth Schellenger, Kristin Bromley Fitzgerald, my brother Ned Schellenger, Suzann Schellenger Bouchard, Durell Bouchard, Jen Totis, my nephew Edward Schellenger

Elizabeth Schellenger Geode Opening Party with neighborhood kids

A large ten inch wide quartz geode

S. Merrill Weiss Upon leaving MFS, I attended Carnegie Institute of Technology to study electrical engineering, which had been my goal for a number of years.

When I arrived at Carnegie Tech, I quickly got involved in the campus radio station, ultimately spending nights and weekends there, sleeping in and cutting classes. It took about a year and a half before the school finally said I should go home and think about whether I belonged there – the operative words being “go home.” Fortunately, when I was 15, I had gotten a couple FCC commercial radio operator licenses, which were needed to work in engineering at radio and television stations, among other things. The day after arriving home in February, 1967, I went into Philadelphia to several stations, getting hired on the spot at the third place I walked into (WIP Radio) and starting the next day. That was the beginning of a career that continues today. It turned out that I was something of a mixed-up kid at Carnegie Tech, and it took some time to figure that out.

In spring, 1968, I moved to WHYY, the public radio and television stations in Philly. There, I got into designing broadcast systems and learned about the technology of television. It didn’t take too long before I decided that I wanted to move into broadcast engineering management. I was self-taught in electronics, having started down that path at about age 7. Now, I realized that I needed to go back to school if I wanted to progress, and I had to decide whether to take electrical engineering again or to learn about the business side of management. Deciding on business and since I was working full time, I needed an evening program. I started at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in fall, 1970. This time I was not going to repeat my mistakes of five years before. I had to prove to myself that I could have done the work if only I had applied myself to it, as I had been telling myself and others that I could have done. I made sure to do all of the necessary work and came out at the top of my class, finishing an 8-year evening program in 6 years.

The combination of engineering and management turned out to be a fortuitous choice as the years went on.

About a year after moving to WHYY, I started dating a girl whom you might say I had known for a while, as the adjacent picture shows. Carol Rubin and I had run into each other a few times since being neighbors in Paulsboro as toddlers. The last had been at ages 16 and 15, when I had turned her off by being able to talk only about ham radio when we met at a barbeque. It took some persuasion by her mother, a friend of my parents, to get her to go out with me at all at ages 21 and 20. As things turned out, we became engaged 10 weeks later and were married in April, 1970.

During my time at WHYY, I developed some new technology for the radio station and helped convert the TV station from black-and-white to color. In 1972, I moved to Westinghouse Broadcasting Company and KYW. I started there by helping to build a new KYW Radio studio facility at Independence Mall. After we got the station on the air, my time in radio there was devoted to designing and building specialized equipment for all-news broadcasting.

Future Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Weiss, ages, 2½ & 1½

S. Merrill Weiss It was a rewarding experience because much of what I designed helped the station become and maintain its position as the number one station in the market. This was one of the few times in broadcasting that engineering could be seen to make a direct contribution to the success of a station.

In 1976, just around the time I graduated from Wharton, I moved from radio to television at KYW and also moved into management. The benefits of my education became apparent immediately when, two weeks after my transition to management, there was a lockout at a Westinghouse station in Boston. All of the other engineering management personnel were sent to Boston to keep the station there on the air, and I was left at KYW to run the entire engineering operation. The schooling in management that I had just completed really paid off. Once things got back to normal, I divided my time at KYW-TV between designing updates for the station’s systems and supervising the crew that staffed the Mike Douglas Show, which was produced at KYW at that time.

Early in 1977, I received an invitation that opened many doors for the rest of my career. It was a request to join a committee of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) that was working on a standard for the use of digital methods in television. It took special permission from my employer to participate because people at my level normally were not involved in such things. Fortunately for me, my boss made an exception and allowed me to join.

Also in 1977, our first daughter, Elizabeth, was born. In 1972, we had bought a new house in Mt Laurel, not far from MFS, planning ahead for a family. We got to live there with Elizabeth all of 9 months, until early 1978, when we moved to Concord, CA, near San Francisco. I had been offered the opportunity to design and build a new television studio facility for the Westinghouse station in San Francisco, KPIX, which was the largest CBS station not owned by the network. KPIX turned out to be a career-making position, as I was able to develop a number of innovations in television broadcasting that were adopted as standards and permeated the industry. Our second daughter, Judy, was born in 1980, while we were in California.

The new KPIX studios went on the air two years and one day after I arrived to start work on them. They embodied many innovations in the use of computers, control methods, digital displays, communications and construction. They served as a model for the industry for about a decade, with many visitors coming to see what we had done when they were building new facilities for other stations. In 1981, the new KPIX studios also served as the location for a very significant experiment that I helped to conduct to determine the fundamental characteristics of the first standard for digital television. The experiment was conducted jointly by SMPTE and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The results were quite successful and led to a new SMPTE standard and a related standard from the International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations treaty organization. All subsequent digital television standards worldwide, including those for High Definition Television (HDTV) and for Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV, also called 4K), which is being developed now, derive from that work at KPIX. I left KPIX in 1984 and helped found a startup company that was intended to design and build a very advanced form of video editor. There were other companies in the market space, but we had a much better solution. By the time we had a prototype of our product ready to go, it had become apparent that the market wasn’t as big as we thought. solving their problems.

S. Merrill Weiss We couldn’t last until they did. It turned out that we were so far ahead with our technology that it didn’t appear elsewhere for another 10 -15 years. A number of very expensive lessons were learned in the process.

One thing that also happened was that we thought about moving the company to Toronto, where one of my partners who was funding much of what we did was located. That opened our (Carol’s and my) thinking about the possibility of moving back east.

Shortly after we arrived in California, there had been a referendum on what was called Proposition 13, which sought to reduce property taxes for property owners who had been there a long time while keeping the rates higher for late-comers. The result was to cut the funding available to government in the state quite substantially. It wasn’t too long before both local governments and the state were forced to start cutting back on their expenditures. They were not about to start cutting police and fire services, so what suffered was education. California had been number one in public education, and college had been free to anyone who qualified. Both of those characteristics changed dramatically in a short time, and we could see the schools plummeting in their educational performance. We had our children in what was called an “alternative school” – one that was run by the local school district but did not use the “California curriculum.” It was a “back to basics” program, and we were told that the program ran about a year ahead of the California curriculum.

As we saw the public schools going down and having been liberated to think about the possibility of moving back east, we made the decision to do so. At that time, I had standing offers from the big three networks and Sony that, if I was willing to move either to Los Angeles or to New York, they would have a job for me.

I did not want to go to Los Angeles, so we focused on New York. We decided to pick a place mid-way, in time, between New York (work) and the Philadelphia area (family). The benefits would be better schools and our kids having grandparents for more than a week a year. I contacted those who had made the offers at the networks and ended up deciding to go to work for NBC. We selected Edison, NJ, as the place to settle. When we got our kids into school, it turned out that they still were about six months behind, despite the 12-month advantage of the back to basics program. That told us that the regular California curriculum students were about 18 months behind those in New Jersey.

I moved back and started work at NBC in the fall of 1985. My family followed in early 1986. I worked at NBC for six years, until early 1991. For the first three years, I was responsible for systems engineering for the NBC facilities at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York and for the facilities in Burbank. It was like running a captive technical design and construction company with over $50 million a year in projects to deliver. We started with the organization delivering only about $34 million a year in projects, with almost every one of them late and over budget. Three years later, we were at the $50 million mark, with everything on time and on or under budget.

After getting the systems engineering organization working well, I was given the chance to work on HDTV for NBC. This let me extend my work on technology and contribute to the development of HD itself and the standards for it. I had responsibility for all NBC development of HD and participation in an industry group that was working on ways to transmit HDTV over the air for broadcasting. At that time, it was believed to be impossible to transmit HDTV digitally, but that changed in 1990, when a plausible scheme for digital transmission of HDTV was presented publicly. During that period I began thinking about turning to consulting once the HDTV standards were adopted.

S. Merrill Weiss It had become clear that broadcast HDTV would be digital, and I had a lot of expertise in that area. I started involving myself in all of the activities relating to implementation of digital HDTV, with the idea that a few years later I could help broadcasters make the conversion from analog to digital and from standard definition to high definition.

I stayed at NBC until early 1991, when a high-level decision was made to drop work on HDTV as being irrelevant to the future of the business. This resulted from the General Electric and Jack Welch approach to doing business; General Electric had taken over RCA and NBC five years earlier. It turned out to be the biggest favor they could have done me. While I otherwise would have waited a few years and might never have made the jump, I started consulting immediately. I had my first two consulting assignments within a week. For the first year, I looked for another job; I had four job offers. Each time, I had trouble finding a way to transition from consulting to working for the company that made the offer, in a way that was acceptable to the company. After a year, since consulting seemed to be going well, I decided to stay with it as long as there continued to be work. It is now 24 years, and there hasn’t been a day without enough work and most days too much. At this point, I have my own consulting group.

Consulting has offered many opportunities to be in the thick of the technological changes that are taking place in the electronic media landscape. Over the years, I have helped develop the technology that finally was adopted for the high definition digital television broadcasting service that we have today; I have helped develop the technology for the next step of television – Ultra HDTV (4K); and I am working on the step after that, which will replace our original, now 20-year-old, digital television transmission system with a much more advanced system.

In the early days of my consultancy, rather than advertising, I spent time writing articles for a trade journal to help explain the workings of advanced digital television technologies to the industry. I did so for almost 4 years, and the time spent was my marketing budget. It proved to be a good investment as I have never had to advertise or even to seek business. Somehow, whenever a project is coming to an end, another project seems to materialize. All that work seems to have arrived at my doorstep as a result of the visibility I gained with my original marketing approach, which keeps paying dividends. Another dividend from the writing of the articles was that I got to publish a book out of it. After quite a few occasions on which engineers in the industry came up to me, opening briefcases containing copies of all of the articles in my series and asking when I was going to turn them into a book, I finally had to do so. It was the second book that I wrote and the more popular of the two. Later, I served as series editor of a book series focused on media technology professionals. There ended up being a dozen or so books in the series.

Another area of interest for me has been using multiple broadcast transmitters on a single channel to improve the service of television stations. I recognized the potential as soon as the first digital television transmission system was described and started work on the idea in 1991. I submitted numerous inputs to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the subject. Finally, in 2000, when a client really needed to apply the method to solve a problem, I helped it get an experimental license from the FCC to permit use of the technique. On seeking equipment to build the network that the station needed, there was none available, and manufacturers said that what I proposed could not be done. Never one to shrink from a challenge, I invented the technology necessary to support multi-transmitter operation and patented it. I now have five patents related to that particular system – three in the U.S. and two internationally.

S. Merrill Weiss In 2008, the FCC finally adopted rules to permit regular use of the solution for which I had developed the technology. There currently are 29 television stations in the U.S. that have applied to the FCC for authorization to use the system. I also have one other patent on broadcast transmission technology that never went anywhere.

Our daughters are now off on their own. Elizabeth graduated from George Washington University in International Relations and took an interest in labor rights. She stayed in Washington, worked for Human Rights Watch and then spent nearly a year in India on projects to help women form businesses. She came back to get a Master’s Degree at Columbia, followed by stints at Interfaith Worker Justice, the Center for American Progress, and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee of the U.S. Senate. She now is working at the Labor Department. Judy graduated from Boston University with a teaching degree, taught for a little while and decided she didn’t like teaching. She has a love of animals and decided to become a veterinary technician, which she has been doing successfully ever since.

So far, it has been a challenging and fun time since leaving MFS. My consulting practice is known for taking on projects that other consultants won’t or can’t do. I remain deeply involved in the development of new technology and the writing of standards for it. Much has been due to fortunate happenstance; when things seemed like they might be going off the rails, they turned out well. As my mother used to say, things have a way of turning out for the best. Also, you make your own luck by being prepared when opportunities present themselves.

To this day and publicly on numerous occasions, I credit MFS with the preparation that has let me be successful in my own way. I learned the fundamentals there: how to express myself, how to write in a coherent way, how to think through a problem, how to get along with others, how to understand and respect others who are different from me or have different points of view, and how to continue learning on my own.

I use those skills every day and hope to continue doing so for some time to come.

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou

Thomas H. Wickes 50 years gone? Already? Wow! After MFS my life has taken many different paths. I moved to Southern California in the late 60’s where I worked in Banking and raced sports cars in the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) events. In the early 70’s I moved to Colorado to ski bum. That “Career” was short lived as I met and married my wonderful wife, Jennifer. Throughout much of the 70’s I worked in the Automotive Industry in Colorado.

In 1980 we moved to Southern California with our 2 young children, Justin and Sarah. Again, I worked in the Automobile Industry for a time.

In the mid 80’s I began yet another career path working in Insurance related industries. In the mid 90’s the company where I had worked for the past 10 years as the VP of Claims and later VP of Operations began the now infamous “Re-engineering process” of that era, laying off 6 of the 7 company VP’s.

In 1995 my wife and I, along with a partner, started a new company in a related Insurance field. During the next 12 years we were able to grow the company from our kitchen table to over 100 employees servicing Fortune 100 & 500 companies nationwide. In late 2007 we sold our company to a NYSE publicly traded company.

Following the sale of the company in 2007 we moved to Durango, Colorado where we have retired to our 4 acre mini ranch. We have several horses, a dog, a cat, a tractor, other assorted farm implements, and lots of deer who frequent our front yard. Jennifer and I have ridden our Harley over 70,000 miles in the last few years and we have been to the East Coast, the South West, and to the North West US. This year we are planning a pilgrimage to Sturgis, SD for the granddaddy of all motorcycle rallies. And, we still have NO Tattoos. I’m also still trying to finish building a 1928 model A Ford Hot Rod that I bought 6 years ago!

As we approach our 43rd wedding anniversary, Jennifer and I feel very fortunate to have our son Justin, his wife Lori and their 2 teenage daughters, Emily and Avery living within 20 miles of us on their 6 acre ranch. Justin is a Captain, Paramedic, and Instructor with the Durango Fire & Rescue Authority and Lori is a retirement / 401K specialist. Our granddaughters are both “A” students, working hard at anything animal related. Emily recently qualified for the International Equestrian Association (IEA) Finals.

Our daughter, Sarah, her husband John, and their children, son Kendall and daughter Madison live literally across the road from us. Sarah runs her own business on their 6 acre property, training horses, giving riding lessons, and coaching the IEA riding team of 3 high school and 3 middle school students. John works for a company that investigates mortgage fraud. Kendall started Kindergarten this year and Madison is in Preschool.

Do you see a horse theme here? All started by my loving wife.

The best to everyone and we hope to make the reunion!

In Memoriam As we come together to renew friendships and recall our days at Moorestown Friends, we remember our deceased classmates.

Although some of their biographies are unwritten here, we celebrate their lives. We know their stories and they enrich the fifty year history of the class of 1965.

Joseph Brown Rolf DeCou Jennifer Miller Harry Price, IV Eileen Schneider

Nancy Horner Additional Members ofSjostrom the Class of 1965

James D. Annett

Mary Richardson Bossen

Lillian Burkett Bush-Dezan

Linn W. Cassedy

Frank “Jay� Cheney

Thomas Coriell

Thomas Deacon

Martha Mechling DuPont

Susan Forsythe Dyson

Laurentine Richards Fromm

David Giffen

Julie Ross Hegelein

Carlyle Hill, III

Marion Bowman Hunt

Seth Kane

Brenda Kirkland

Nancy Horner Additional Members of Sjostrom the Class of 1965

Frances Wheaton Lambert

Robert Metzer

Ronald Perozzi

Elizabeth Reagan Preston

Pam Weatherby Rhodes

Paul Sirotta

Ulrike Weist

Howard D. Wildman

Myra Kleiner Pustelny

Thea Tyburkski Reed

Bridget Eisenhart Starri

George P. Taylor

Non Grads Stephen Darnell Karl Shelley

Nancy Horner Sjostrom Previous Reunions

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Class of 1965

Class of 1965 in the Meeting House

Senior Class Officers

Class of 1965

Class of 1965

Commencement

Class of 1965: Commencement

Class List Lynn Jefferis Abelson 126 Sumner Street Newton Centre, MA 02459-1957 Home: (617) 332-3793 Email: lynn@mit.edu

Linn Cassedy 1420 Cedarmore Rd. Baghdad, KY 40003 Home: 502-747-5965 Email: cassedy@dcr.net

Arthur J. Abramowitz 2004 Queen Ann Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08003-2846 Home: (856) 795-7015 Cell: (609) 458-1129 Email: aabramowitz@shermansilverstein.com

Frank “Jay� Cheney 12446 Modena Bay San Antonio, TX 78253 (unconfirmed address)

James D. Annett 215 Esther Street New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169-2517

Susan Haydock Connell 4520 E Blackstone Court Bloomington, IN 47408-3160 Home: (812) 339-8768 Email: suerconnell@gmail.com

Mary Richardson Bossen 911 Lincoln Avenue Palmyra, NJ 08065-2007 Home: (856) 829-9055 Email: mary@richcap.com

Alan H. Cooper 17 Forest View Drive Long Valley, NJ 07853-3110 Home: (908) 876-9343 Email: acooper814@aol.com

Lillian Burkett Bush-DeZan 1105 Gay Street Dandridge, TN 37725-4722 Home: (865) 397-7993 Email: lbushdezan@hotmail.com

Thomas R. Coriell 185 12th Street Arcata, CA 95521-5900

Class List Harold P. Coxson 7205 Bybrook Lane Chevy Chase, MD 20815-3162 Home: (301) 656-3991 Cell: (202) 306-1680 Email: hal.coxson@ogletreedeakins.com Stephen Darnell 31 Meadow Lake Drive Shelton, CT 06484-2975 Home: (203) 924-0080 Email: steve.darnell1@comcast.net (non-graduate) Thomas J. Deacon 429 Lincoln Avenue Collingswood, NJ 08108-1625 Home: (856) 858-8513 Nancy J. Denbo, MD 412 Kings Croft Cherry Hill, NJ 08034-1103 Home: (856) 482-8493 Email: Spensernjd@aol.com Martha Mechling du Pont 2307 Saymoure Road Wilmington, DE 19805-2812 Email: martydup@hotmail.com

Susan Forsythe Dyson 510 Rutgers Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081-2418 Home: (610) 328-3011 Laurentine Richards Fromm 30 Summit Street Philadelphia, PA 19118-2833 Home: (215) 248-0938 Email: drlaurie@yahoo.com Martha Spangler Garrigues 173 Valleywood Drive Roseville, CA 95678-1085 Home: (916) 783-3278 Email: martygarrigues@comcast.net J. David Giffen 5252 Mountain Top Road E New Hope, PA 18938-5441 Home: (215) 794-3479 Shelley Katz Greenwald 4308 Tranquility Drive Highland Beach, FL 33487-4218 Home: (561) 276-4666 Email: SKG1@Bellsouth.net

Class List Carl Harnischfeger 80577 Hoylake Drive Indio, CA 92201 Email: surfc@aol.com Corinne Parry Havers 719 Lincoln Avenue Palmyra, NJ 08065-2003 Home: (856) 829-8099 Julie Ross Hegelein 603 Bowling Green Moorestown, NJ 08057-1659 Home: (856) 235-8792

Carlyle Hill, III 4133 Bridgewood Lane Charlotte, NC 28226-7107 Home: (704) 542-6238 Cell: (704) 578-4014 Email: Carlyle4Safety@aol.com Marion Bowman Hunt 440 Liberty Lane Marlton, NJ 08053-5343 Seth Kane 836 Henniger Place Oradell, NJ 07649 (unconfirmed address)

Mary Beth Schultz Hempel 185 Meetinghouse Road Duxbury, MA 02332-4405 Home: (781) 934-6879 Email: hempelmb@aol.com

Letitia Raymond Kelley 525 Lumberton Road Hainesport, NJ 08036-2716 Home: (609) 261-1326 Email: tishkelley75@hotmail.com

Christine Fay Henry 729 Mill Street Moorestown, NJ 08057-1803 Home: (856) 235-7923 Cell: (609) 923-5837 Email: chenry@jetpul.com

Linda Stevenson Kimball 97 Highland Avenue Winchester, MA 01890-1413 Home: (781) 729-4757 Email: wkimball@comcast.net Brenda Kirkland 1091 Alta Cresta Palm Springs, CA 92262-1247 Home: (856) 428-0500

Class List Frances Wheaton Lambert 342 Heritage Road Sewell, NJ 08080-4302 Home: (856) 468-3259 Email: franlambertmk@verizon.net

Roslynne G. Novack 633 E Main Street Unit A8 Moorestown, NJ 08057-3027 Home: (856) 235-4481 Email: roslynnenovack@gmail.com

Linda Hyatt Lee 151 Western Avenue Waterville, ME 04901-4631 Home: (207) 872-6003 Email: lhlee47@hotmail.com

Robert and Andrea Evoy Null 611 Hartley Place The Villages, FL 32162-1636 Email: nboomerspad@comcast.net

Beverly Boogar Lovejoy 27 Merion Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08002-1334 Home: (856) 663-6841 Email: bevlovejoy@comcast.net Robert Metzer 2185 Westminster Drive Sidney, OH 45365-1955 Home: (937) 492-0807 Email: rmetzer@embarqemail.com Fred T. Moriuchi 333 Borton Landing Road Moorestown, NJ 08057-3828 Home: (856) 866-1422 Cell: (609) 417-6808 Email: ftmoriuchi@comcast.net

Ronald Perozzi 11 Tamwood Lane Sewell, NJ 08080-3325 George W. Powell 2950 Tiburon Boulevard E Naples, FL 34109-3603 Cell: (239) 784-7591 Home: (239) 449-5562 Email: gwplaw@yahoo.com Elizabeth Reagan Preston 124 Old City Falls Road Strafford, VT 05072-9750 Home: (802) 765-4442

Class List Myra Kleiner Pustelny 9 Carolyn Lane Schenectady, NY 12302-4403 Home: (518) 399-8982 Email: drib1113@yahoo.com

Karl Shelley 111 Pinehurst Lane Moorestown, NJ 08057-2732 Home: (856) 234-4628 (non-graduate)

Thea Tyburski Reed 3695 Fenelon Street San Diego, CA 92106-2017 Home: (619) 223-1551 Email: seareed@attglobal.net

Paul S. Sirotta 329 Springdale Circle Diberville, MS 39540-3732 Email: paul.sirotta2@va.gov

Pam Weatherby Rhodes 527 N. Kent Street Chestertown, MD 21620 Cell: (215) 534-4987 Email: trhodes@macro.com Thomas Roberts Op’n Hainholt 88A 22589 Hamburg, GERMANY Elizabeth Schellenger 1222 W Lincoln Boulevard Freeport, IL 61032-4847 Home: (815) 233-5139

Bridget Eisenhart Starri PO Box 3451 Aspen, CO 81612-3451 Home: (970) 544-0456 George P. Taylor 32758 NW Bella Vista Drive Scappoose, OR 97056-2914 Home: (503) 543-8178 Email: gtaylor@teleport.com S. Merrill Weiss 25 Mulberry Lane Edison, NJ 08820-2908 Home: (732) 906-0999 Cell: (908) 705-5752 Email: merrill@mwgrp.com

Class List Ulrike Weist Wilhelm Ziegler Strasse 11 6450 Hanau, GERMANY Thomas H. Wickes 55 Animosa Circle Durango, CO 81301-7192 Home: (970) 385-1846 Cell: (970) 903-4800 Email: tom.wickes@gmail.com Howard D. Wildman PO Box 381 New Lisbon, NJ 08064-0381 Joseph Brown - deceased Rolf DeCou - deceased Jennifer Miller - deceased Harrie Price - deceased Eileen Schneider - deceased