Class of 1971 - 50th Reunion Book

CLASS OF 1971 50th Reunion Book Presented on Alumni Weekend 2021

May 2021 Dear Members of the Class of 1971, I dearly wish that we could have gathered on campus this May on the occasion of your Fiftieth Reunion. It speaks to what a great class you are, having worked together to overcome this year’s challenges, both by organizing a great virtual celebration and by making a truly meaningful class gift. I would like to especially recognize the members of your outstanding Reunion Committee: Nancy Zbikowski Gifford, Judy Hurst Loane and Jeff Miller.

While I am impressed, it shouldn’t surprise me, having read the autobiographies that many of you have shared. I am in awe of the ways in which you have “let your lives speak.” You have notched many different kinds of achievements, overcome setbacks, built families and contributed to your communities. It makes me proud to lead MFS, where you spent some of your most formative years.

You also fill me with a sense of gratitude. By creating the significant Class of 1971 Endowment and meeting your ambitious goal of raising $71,000, you are paying forward the benefit of your MFS experience for future classes down through generations. Thank you for recognizing the teachers, coaches and staff members who had a long-lasting impact on you by establishing this special new endowment.

Flipping through the pages of the 1971 Cupola, the turbulent times you grew up in remind me very much of today. Many of the poems, song lyrics and sentiments next to your photos would not appear out of place in this year’s Cupola. I hope the Class of 2021 will meet the future with the same fortitude and success that you have shown.

Thank you for making the most of your milestone reunion, despite the circumstances. I look forward to seeing you at your Zoom Reunion and also being able to host you back on campus in the not-too-distant future, and congratulating you in person then.

Warmly,

Julia de la Torre Head of School

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Nan Barclay Bragg 50 years since MFS. Wow, that went fast!

After graduating from college (including time in Europe) with a major in Anthropology, I did not land my dream job as a photographer with National Geographic traveling around the world. Instead, I went to plan B, moved to Maine full-time, and was grateful to land a variety of wonderful jobs: Landscape Architect Intern, Hospitality Organizer, Purchasing Agent, Graphic Artist, Advertising Director, and University Honors Coordinator.

In 1978 I married Reginald Durgin, a long-time friend from Maine. Unfortunately, a year later I found myself in New Jersey recuperating with the help of family and friends, from a tragic car accident. Reggie did not survive. It was during that rehabilitation time in NJ that I was introduced to Aquatic Therapy, and I started swimming with children born with Cerebral Palsy. It was therapy for me too.

After several months in NJ, I started another chapter and was back in Maine.

A few years later, I married Dale Bragg and have been for almost 40 years!

Being involved with various business enterprises with him has been exciting and rewarding. He also introduced me to the challenging game of golf. We have a charming, successful daughter, Julie, who is 35, married and works and lives outside of Boston. As a family, it has been fun to travel, ski, hike, boat, and camp.

Because I have spent a good part of my life boating, swimming, and enjoying bountiful seafood in Maine’s Casco Bay, 11 years ago I became involved with an organization that focuses on environmental issues in the Gulf of Maine.

Although winter sports have been wonderful, Maine winters seem to get longer. When Dale and I are both fully retired, we hope to spend winters in the south. I continue to be involved with Aquatic Therapy and as a Water Reporter for areas of concern in Casco Bay. MFS-confidence, inclusion, friendship, community, environment Teachers: Miss Levesque and dissecting frogs, Mr. Tenney and eye-opening experiments, Mr. Green and his wonderful voice, Mrs. Lindes and her gentle way, Mr. Hartman his dry sense of humor and his blackboard, Mr. Fenimore creating a unique chorus (music from Hair and the Messiah), Mr. Price with his pleasant manner, 4

Nan Barclay Bragg Mrs. Kennedy making Geometry interesting, Miss Cowperthwait and her love of a quiet library, Mr. Shelly calmly advising shop projects, Mrs. Ricketts and her enthusiasm for literature, Mrs. Bobbe and Miss Bruden emphasizing the importance of working as a team. These are just a few of the many teachers who impacted my life. I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to attend Moorestown Friends.

At the time of our 50th zoom reunion in May 2021, I was celebrating with my 96-year-old aunt, Betsy Barclay Wales, MFS class of ‘42, who had been isolated in Assisted Living since March 2020 due to Covid. She was ready to be outside no matter the weather.

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John Donnelly Fifty years since Graduation. What have I been doing? It’s funny how time slips away. This request to write about fifty years passed seems to have a subtext, like, “Surely you must have done something worth talking about.” I might have if I can only remember it.

MFS Graduation and the after-party are a blur, but the riproaring case of Poison Ivy that followed I remember very clearly. In the dark, it’s hard to tell which little plants have three leaves. That was followed by undergraduate school at Penn which in some ways was not much of an improvement.

From freshman year I recall classes with 600-plus students (before I graduated, one undergrad course hit the 1000 student mark). One good thing happened: I learned that Biology majors who had taken all their required courses could take graduate courses their senior year, so I worked on getting my requirements done early to free up some time.

Sophomore year I joined a fraternity and lived in their house; we supported each other but unfortunately in both our bad and good habits. That year I won my only undergraduate award, the “Jack Daniels, Breakfast of Champions” award from the Pennsylvania Delta Chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon. In my junior year, things improved a lot. A part-time lab job developed into a series of independent research projects. I moved out of the fraternity and into High Rise North, a student apartment building. In the lounge on the 14th floor, I met a nice Sophomore girl who was taking Organic Chemistry which I had done the previous year. She rashly accepted my offer of help without first asking what my grade was. And, on November 30, 1973, we went on a date (Loggins and Messina at the Spectrum). Spoiler alert - Betsy and I were married on December 30, 1976, and with no credit to me, we are still married, the best thing that has happened to me in my entire life, bar none. Senior year I started taking courses in Penn’s Immunology Ph.D. program and on the strength of that secured admission to the Ph.D. program and a spot on their training grant. Science was not my only motivation for sticking around since Betsy was not due to graduate for another year.

During my Ph.D., I worked closely with an English veterinarian who headed a department at Penn’s Vet School.

As I was graduating he was recruited to be head of the Vet School at the University of Cambridge, and he invited me to come over and spend some time with him as a Postdoc. I took maybe five seconds to think it over and of course said yes, and Betsy and I ended up spending two great years in Cambridge. The people we met were amazing and the friendships we made (over horse entrails in the lab and pints of beer in the pub) endure to this day. After the postdoc ran out, we headed back to the US where I was able to get a postdoc at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. We had a great time in Baltimore but to my amazement a year later I was recruited back to my former lab at Penn as Assistant Professor. I stayed there for five more years, and we welcomed our two wonderful children, Ann in 1984 (now a costumer for Broadway and living in 6

John Donnelly Jersey City) and James in 1987 (now a computer technician and living in the Bay Area).

In 1984, as a starving Penn assistant professor on soft money with a baby on the way, the Reagan military buildup offered direct commissions in the Army Reserve to people with science backgrounds. The draw was the ability to volunteer for 180-day active duty tours which could provide an emergency paycheck if I needed one. It turned out to be a good fit since science education teaches nothing about organizing work or managing and leading people, while the Army is all about that. I think it helped prepare me to survive in the corporate world. There was a little payback for that education, mainly deployments to Operation Desert Shield / Desert Storm (1990-91) and Iraqi Freedom (2004-5). I wrote a book about my Iraqi Freedom experiences (“Center of Mercy: Caring for the Wounded in Operation Iraqi Freedom 2,” available from Amazon). In 2014 I retired from the Army with 30 years’ service. It was often a challenge to juggle two careers but well worth it.

Meanwhile, as I slowly climbed the NIH grant ladder, I got frustrated by the limited potential for academic research to be translated into advances in patient care. I started looking at pharma industry jobs and through a fellow student in my old lab, who had been hired there, I found a position at Merck Research Laboratories in West Point, PA. There, I worked on the clinical development of vaccines as well as on discovery research on nucleic acid vaccines. These latter have made the papers recently. It took longer than my working lifetime for them to get from discovery research to products, but I think it was time well spent.

After 10 years at Merck, my boss there was recruited to Chiron Corporation in Emeryville, CA, and she invited some of us to join her. At Chiron, we worked on vaccines for bacterial meningitis and also on more basic research for nucleic acid vaccines, mostly for HIV. In 2006, I was asked to go to Chiron’s R&D and manufacturing facility in Siena, Italy to help with the clinical development of more meningitis vaccines. Betsy and I spent three wonderful years in Siena, where we were able to connect with the Italian side of my family, learn the language, travel, make more friends and do lots of fun stuff.

In 2009 we moved back to the US so Betsy could return to her job in the Bay Area. Unfortunately for me, Chiron by then had been taken over by Novartis AG, a Swiss company, and my old research lab had been moved to Cambridge, MA to be near the other Novartis labs. So I ended up as a geographic bachelor in Cambridge still working on the same vaccines. I lasted through two years of that and in 2011, politely took my leave by “retiring.” I went back home to the Bay Area, set up shop as an independent consultant, but ended up being hired three months later by my first client, the international NGO, PATH.

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John Donnelly At PATH we were funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the US Department of Health and Human Services to provide vaccine manufacturers in lower-income countries with technical assistance in clinical development and manufacturing so that they could make vaccines at very low cost for distribution in low-income countries. I worked mainly on vaccines for influenza and polio with manufacturers in China, India, and Vietnam. The work was fun and hugely rewarding, but the travel demands were intense. After three years on the road, I started looking for something local, and I was introduced by a colleague to a very small nonprofit called Global Healing, which matched volunteer US doctors and nurses with doctors and nurses in medical facilities in low-income countries to provide them with onsite training and technical assistance. I spent three years as their CEO, working pro bono since they really did not have any money to spare, and made more wonderful friends, and I think helped a few people. After three years I “retired” again and moved back to independent consulting in vaccine R&D, which I am still doing.

What a long, strange trip it’s been! I most value my family, the many friends my wife and I made along the way and the people who advised and helped me. I started out knowing absolutely nothing and ended up more or less the same; their support made all the difference. I hope I have been a help to others as they helped me.

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Jay Emmons Oh shit (sorry Mrs. Ricketts!), a homework assignment. I thought I had outgrown those but THEY’RE BACK! I SO much prefer retirement - no stress, no elevated heartbeat, no BP 200/100. No A, B, C sections. It’s why I retired for goodness sake. But, oh well, here goes. Since MFS, I dropped out of college, found a career selling Buster Brown shoes somewhere in the Southwest, got married five times (and divorced each time - don’t worry I still have morals leftover from Mrs. Lindes), have more kids than savings… You get the idea.

No, none of that is true - I just really don’t want to talk about myself other than to say that I have been blessed with more than I deserve. Forty-five years ago a wonderful young woman came into my life and wonder of wonders she has stuck around. I can honestly say (that Quaker influence again) that we are happier than I almost can imagine since that day we met in 1975.

We have three children (35, 31, and 22) who I can never get enough of, two daughters-in-law who stole our sons’ hearts and Bonnie and mine as well, and so far two grandchildren who have completely mesmerized me.

I had a wonderful career in Boston at one investment company for 40 years analyzing companies for our clients. I got paid to learn new stuff every day. Wouldn’t change two milliseconds of those 40 years. But I LOVE being retired!!

OK, that’s it for what I’ve done since 1971. I would like to talk now about what has stuck with me from MFS and our lives together from those foundational years. So many vignettes of my seven years with so many of you. The old elementary school building with a slide for a fire escape. That cozy, creaky-floored library where you could sit in the window seats, close the curtain, and escape into a book. Mrs. Caughey telling us stories about her years in Africa helping educate folks. There are some teachers that I remember so well and still value so highly - Jerry Delameter (the wonderful short story “Clothes Make the Man''), Mr. Price (that cool globe-making project in 7th grade), the gentle math teacher Mrs. Kennedy, Mr. Hartman the world-class math genius, and of course Mrs. Ricketts who was always “the best of times.” Do you all remember the Friendship Fair? So weird to be in school at night and having fun! Classrooms turned into game rooms, sucking on lemons through those sugar straws… And in our final act for that Fair putting on a fashion show (!!!???) senior year. Nehru jackets and bell-bottoms! Our parents must have been so proud???!!!

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Jay Emmons afterward. So much fun. Coming in from baseball practice one day and standing on the sidelines of a Women’s Varsity lacrosse game and about to toss the ball back onto the field when it went over the out-ofbounds line and getting run over as I did by Francie, Nan, and Donna. Learned a really valuable lesson that day about lacrosse!

I could write a whole paper on how important sports were to me at MFS, how they contributed so much to my education, and how they taught me so many life lessons. Suffice it to say that I made friends for life playing soccer, basketball, and baseball. I won’t name names but you know who you are!

But of course of course of course the highlight of my years at MFS was being together with all of you. I really didn’t appreciate all that we went through during those years, but now at 67, I am so grateful for our friendships, for our shared experiences. Those years are so full of so many emotions that are so hard to deal with. But for me, my memories and my lessons learned are full of the kindness, decency, humor, acceptance, and yes, goofiness that we all shared and showed toward each other. They and you will always be with me.

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Louis Eni June 1971, 50 years ago! We couldn’t even dream of 2021 when we were 18 years old! However, here we are celebrating our 50th reunion and it seems just like yesterday. I spent 14 years at MFS beginning in prekindergarten. The only school I knew was Moorestown Friends before college, so needless to say MFS was an important influence on whom I became as a person.

After graduating from MFS, I attended Ursinus College and graduated with a degree in business and economics. My college experience was rather ordinary; plenty of studying and weekend parties - some of them difficult to remember!!!!

My aspirations were to graduate and join the family business, which is exactly what I did in June of 1975. No summer off, no vacation, I just jumped right in and started my job. I was working the week after graduation!

I am not complaining, I joined my family’s business with enthusiasm! I knew I had much to learn, and I was excited at the prospects of growing the business. At the time, Dietz & Watson was a small local brand. Today it is a national brand, well known in most markets coast to coast. My brother Chris and my sister Cindy joined the company a few years after me, and together we took a small family business and grew it into a company with national distribution; all while preserving the vision of quality that my great grandfather established in 1939. I am very proud that today members of the 4th generation of our family, all of whom were MFS educated, are now involved in the business! The education myself and my family received at MFS definitely prepared us with leadership skills that have been crucial in our careers.

In 1981, I met the love of my life Nina and we were married in 1983. The 40 years we have been together have been the best years of my life. We have raised two children together, traveled the world, and spent our summers in Ocean City, NJ. We have always enjoyed boating, and that hobby has led to my recent passion of deep-sea fishing. There is nothing more exhilarating than catching a large blue or white marlin and bringing it to the boat, to be released, of course, to fight another day! This is how I like to spend much of my free time.

Our daughter Lauren was born in 1985 and our son Michael in 1991. Both attended MFS. They began in pre-K and graduated from MFS, classes of 2004 and 2010. Lauren attended Barnard College at Columbia University and Michael went to Lehigh University. Both of my children went on to pursue graduate degrees from Drexel University, Lauren an MBA, and Michael a Law degree. I am proud and honored that they have both decided to work for the family business, each applying their individual interests and knowledge to continue to pursue growth for the company.

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Louis Eni Lauren got married in July of 2019 on one of the hottest days I can ever remember! Last April, face mask and all, she delivered our first grandchild. A beautiful little girl named Avery, who has quickly become the joy of Nina’s and my life. We spend as much time as we can with her, and I look forward to spoiling her! Michael is getting married on May 1st of this year.

Moorestown Friends School was very influential in my life, and I know the education and personal values MFS instilled in me gave me the head start to a successful and joyful life so far!

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Robert “Rob” Farr After I graduated from Moorestown Friends School, I attended Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA, 60 miles north of Pittsburgh. Predictably, I struggled both academically and socially much as I had at MFS. But in a roundabout way, it prepared me for my career in ways I didn’t understand at the time.

After an ill-fated attempt at majoring in Science, I switched to Speech and Drama, which encompassed both Theater and Radio. I got a part-time job at a Sharon, PA country-western radio station, spinning discs under my radio name, “Rob Nichols,” for $2 an hour.

At college, I acted in plays, wrote film reviews for the college newspaper, and worked at the student radio station, learning that the long version of Alice’s Restaurant was ideal whenever I needed a bathroom break. When I applied to grad school about ten years ago, I looked at my Westminster College transcript for the first time in 35 years and was appalled that NONE of these activities were reflected in my final GPA. As far as the college was concerned, they were all non-credit electives.

Midway through my otherwise lackluster college career, I discovered that if I made a Super-8 film in lieu of a term paper, it would almost guarantee an A, if for no other reason than novelty value. This led to my first career ambition: film director. When I told my advisor about my calling, he guffawed for a full minute before ushering me out of his office, still chortling.

Undeterred, I was accepted to the University of Denver’s MFA program in Film. Having no way to pay tuition, I took a job as a university security guard, hoping to break into local film or TV. I had five wonderful years of Rocky Mountain living but no real career breakthroughs. I also got to hang out with Jeff Miller.

My next move was to Dallas, Texas, if only because the state was recession-proof in the early 1980s. I fell in with Dallas Cable Public Access, a loose collective of videomakers, years before anyone heard of Wayne’s World. We came up with the idea of making a monthly art news magazine called ArtsEye. It was so successful that the concept and even the name got picked up by the Dallas PBS affiliate. Unfortunately, they had the crazy idea that their own staff was more qualified to produce the weekly series than a bunch of scruffy public access types (Copyright? What’s copyright?).

As I approached age 30, I was desperate for a real job rather than the hand-to-mouth existence I was leading. In one of those weird coincidences that changes lives, one of the paid staffers at Dallas Cable watched me teaching television production to new members of our collective and thought I would make a good public access outreach staffer. This was my first real job and set the course for the rest of my career.

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Robert “Rob” Farr Public access TV, then and now, was always threatened with cutbacks and layoffs. So rather than re-join the ranks of the barely-employed from which I had so recently escaped, I found a job in Glendale, Arizona as a TV producer for the city. Government access cable is like a hyper-local version of C-SPAN, and I covered city council meetings and made documentaries about civic life in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale.

My parents in South Jersey were getting older, and I thought it was time to move closer to them after living in the West for over twelve years. My next job was executive cable TV producer with Arlington County, Virginia and I stayed for 33 years, retiring this July.

While living in Arlington, my Quaker background re-emerged and I began attending Friends Meeting of Washington. I joined the Young Adult Friends social group even though I was on the wrong side of age 35.

There I met the love of my life, Kathy Lipp, and we were married under the care of FMW in June 1996.

Kathy is a school social worker who traveled extensively in her younger days, working with an NGO in Thailand, helping to repatriate refugees from Cambodia who were displaced by the Khmer Rouge.

Complicating matters, the refugee camp had been in operation so long that many of the teenagers born in the camp had no memory of Cambodia. Her travels throughout Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Europe ignited a love of travel that we hope to rekindle when we both retire later this year. Kathy has been a social worker for over 35 years, which I have learned, is like being a “normal” employee for 50 years.

Marrying late (age 43) was a surprise, especially since I had given up hope of finding my soulmate. We have similar personalities who mesh perfectly in good times and bad. Symbolically, our 25th anniversary will be this June, just two weeks before we are scheduled to retire. We’re looking forward to the next stage of our journey together.

In 1997 our son Nicholas was born, followed three years later by Katie. They are now amazing young adults, Nicholas pursuing a career in aquaculture and Katie in early childhood development. They are both navigating the scary new world of launching a career in the midst of a global pandemic and recession, facing challenges I never dreamt of. It is frustrating not to be able to do more to help them get a foothold on adult life.

Along the way, I developed a fascination with film history, doubtless born of the MFS field trips I took to the Bandbox Theater in Germantown. The Bandbox was a classic repertory theater, showing foreign films, silent films and the kind of fare you see today on Turner Classic Movies. Throughout my adult life, I collected films and wrote about film history. I started the first film festival devoted solely to silent and early sound comedies, called The Slapsticon. The festival received worldwide press when we re-premiered a “new” Charlie Chaplin film, re-discovered and unseen since its first release in 1914.

Having my film writing published in specialized academic journals and doing some DVD commentary tracks led me to pursue my long-deferred master’s degree in Film and Video Studies at George Mason University in 14

Robert “Rob” Farr Fairfax, VA. I wasn’t even halfway through my program when one of the older film history professors took sick and I was asked to take over the class as an adjunct. I’ve been at George Mason ever since and will teach two classes this Fall, one on world film history and a special topics class called Laughing Matters: 100 Years of Film Comedy.

As I approach retirement, I look forward to traveling the globe with Kathy after COVID derailed a planned trip to Spain. I am looking forward to the publication of my first book, a joint biography of silent film comedian Sidney Drew and his two wives, all of whom acted under the name, “Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew.” Drew was a member of the Barrymore clan by marriage and Drew Barrymore is his great-great niece and namesake (if any of you know Ms. Barrymore personally, I’d LOVE for her to write the forward to my book).

To paraphrase The Grateful Dead, what a long, strange trip it’s been. Luckily there have been many more Ups than Downs. I’ve enjoyed renewing my friendships with old MFS classmates and in some cases, starting new friendships with classmates who I barely knew at the time. And I miss old friends whom we’ve lost, particularly Richard Abrams, whose friendship never abated after graduation.

Every five or ten years when we mark the anniversary of our graduation together, I am grateful for those four years at Moorestown Friends School, and most especially, keeping our friendships alive for over half a century.

Fun Footnote: At our 40th reunion, my then eleven-year-old daughter saw the old section of MFS and declared, “It’s Hogwarts!” Similarities to and differences from the Harry Potter universe will be discussed in my 60th reunion essay.

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Nancy Zbikowski Gifford I lead an interesting life! Since leaving MFS, I graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in three years and went on to Drexel University to earn my MBA in Finance. At that point, I wanted to do something different, so I worked for three years in conjunction with Spectacor and Electric Factory Concerts.

What an experience working with the Rock and Roll greats: The Beach Boys, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Yes, and The Grateful Dead. As fun as it was, I had to grow up and earn a living but not before being on stage with the Dead on the drum stand with Bill K for the whole four-hour concert.

Teaching accounting and business law, while more lucrative, just paid the bills. I was offered an opportunity to enter the world of student financial aid. Not knowing much about it, I accepted the job. No one enters the world of financial aid realizing it is the entryway to public/customer service, my life’s professional passion.

I have been in financial aid since 1980, spending the last 32 years in government service at the US Department of Education, Federal Student Aid. My division has compliance responsibility for roughly 600 institutions in six states. It is an immensely rewarding career of which I am very proud.

Personally, I married for the second time to my college sweetheart, Bill Gifford, in 2007. Kurt Klaus walked me down the aisle. Judy Loane was my best woman. Donna Zucchi was at the wedding party. Denis McDaniel gave the toast. Friends forever. I was an only child that chose them to be my family.

Bill and I keep busy with Bill’s children and their spouses. We have one grandson with a granddaughter on the way. My other passion is my two golden retrievers, Teddy Luke and Matt Dillion. Teddy and I compete in Rally and Canine Freestyle. Matt is still a pup but learning each day.

I am so grateful that my parents had the resources to send me to MFS. Here I made lifelong friends, and the guidance of Harley Armstrong, Fran Bobbe, and Jean Ricketts molded me into who I am today.

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Nancy Zbikowski Gifford

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Carol Henry Following graduation I attended Skidmore College, initially majoring in physical education. Deciding that was not the path I wanted to be on, at the end of sophomore year I looked at my second-most concentration of credits and English literature won. That naturally (?) led to a job offer from Chemical Bank in NYC to join their management training program. I ultimately landed in a lending group that, due to its location, specialized in garment and film finance.

Having a facility for deciphering arcane film contracts (thank you, English major!), I specialized in independent and studio film financing, ultimately moving to California to work for one of our clients, Lorimar Productions, best known for the tv series “Dallas.”

I held various positions at Lorimar as it grew, including Treasurer, VP Investor Relations, and SVP Corporate Development. It was a great company that ultimately stumbled due to overreach. The final year I spent revamping the operations of an acquired subsidiary which was a textbook case of why management autonomy might not be a good idea. I left Lorimar following its acquisition by Warner Bros. and spent several years consulting. And yes, to a degree in my case “consulting” is a euphemism for looking for a job.

Ultimately I was fortunate enough to be hired in 1992 as the CFO of director James Cameron’s company, Lightstorm Entertainment. The past 28 years as a full-time then part-time employee have been incredibly challenging and a lot of fun. Jim Cameron does not do small movies and thrives on complexity and innovation. A small core group of employees, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox, has facilitated the making of two of the most successful movies in history, “Titanic” and “Avatar.” The company is currently working on two sequels to “Avatar” in Los Angeles and New Zealand, with two more to follow.

On the personal front, I have a terrific 24-year-old son, Nick, and a two-year-old grandson, Merrick (an incredibly smart and darling child)! After 35 years in the Los Angeles area, I relocated to Bend, Oregon in 2016. It is a perfect location for working remotely and has a great dog park within walking distance for my two huskies. Life is good.

I have had the honor of serving on the Head’s Council since 2015. MFS thrived under the stewardship of Larry Van Meter and continues to do so under Julia de la Torre, who is doing an incredible job in the currently challenging environment. We are very lucky to have her. I am so grateful for the education I received at MFS but most of all, for learning how to think. It’s held me in good stead in many ways over the years.

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Caroline Howard Greetings!

It is hard to believe it has been 50 years since we graduated.

At our tenth reunion, I remember looking at the fiftieth reunion class and thinking they looked absolutely ancient.

How time flies and perceptions change!

Of course, life is so much more than can be expressed in a few paragraphs. I have been blessed in the years since MFS. After high school poverty convinced me of the value of education so I went to FDU undergraduate and continued for an MBA from Wharton, and Ph.D. from UC, Irvine. Since then, I have worked as an educator, consultant, and author. My exhusband, two children, and I moved around the country a lot, living in New Mexico, California, Colorado, and Georgia. I was a traditional professor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and Emory University, before transitioning to being a virtual professor about twenty years ago.

I live next door to my daughter and her husband. She seems to like having children during this pandemic and gave us a granddaughter last April, is expecting her second in September and is working on her doctorate. My son is a Software Engineer at Google and engaged to a wonderful woman.

Thanks again!

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Kurt Klaus Since leaving MFS, attended Penn 1971-1973; dropped out; worked landscaping in Brigantine, NJ 1973-1976; attended SSC, captained Soccer Team; married and divorced three times from 1975-1988; graduated from NSU law school in Ft. Lauderdale, FL 1979; have practiced mainly Criminal and Family Law as a solo general practitioner since 1980.

Worked at University of Florida agricultural research station in Davie, FL during law school; became expert in palms.

Became Master Gardener in 2011. Married for the fourth time to Clara Mejia 11/10/90; two children Katrina Samantha, 6/17/91; Kurt Guillermo 11/24/93. Continue to enjoy gardening, boating, friends, family, drinking, smoking, eating the diversity of Miami. We reside in the Agricultural Area of Miami-Dade County, FL which continues to shrink, concerned about climate change, grows native plants and plants for wildlife. Thankful for all the blessings in my life.

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Alex Knisely Living in Hungary near her western border, commuting to Graz (Austria) two days a week to read liver-biopsy specimens for the paediatric-hepatology / transplant-surgery groups in Innsbruck. Not to cut it too fine, I've become the paediatric hepatopathologist for Austria . . . A Hungarian lady has taken me under her wing, and, to continue the avian metaphor, clucks at me when I need it ("You are NOT going out in that shirt!"). Very endearing, very enjoyable. Her daughter is to be married from my house, where the Hungarian lady now also lives, this May. I think that although the language is impossible and the politics fascist, in moving to Hungary I have landed on my feet.

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Steve Levin Since leaving MFS, I attended C.W. Post College for my bachelor's degree in Biology (minor in English), continued my master's studies at Baylor University where I did research in Diabetes, and wrote a thesis on pancreas degeneration. I continued toward my Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry which was cut short by personal tragedy. Came back to the South Jersey area to care for my mother and run an outdoor advertising business. Just before coming to South Jersey, I married Sheryl Stern and we transplanted to Voorhees, NJ. I subsequently re-entered the Biology field at Temple University where I was a Lab Manager at the Microbiology/Immunology department for 11 years. I took a Lab Manager/Adjunct Prof. position at Drexel University where I continued my education with a Master's in Education. I was riffed from Drexel when I began teaching High School Biology in Hamilton Township where my teaching modules won many grants and an Emmy. [See New Jersey classroom close up, under videos, search "Whodunnit" and my final video "Science geek."] I retired from High School teaching after 18 years and presently working part-time at St. Joseph’s University as an adjunct. I am the proud grandfather of a beautiful 2 year old granddaughter. I have had both vaccine shots and am looking forward to traveling the world when safe.

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Judith "Judy" Hurst Loane Looking back over the last 50 years since leaving MFS, I’m left with an incredible sense of gratitude for the idyllic time we spent there. Those years offered unparalleled opportunities for developing life-long friendships and strong academic habits along with enjoying the gift of learning from incredible teachers and administrators, all of which have forever shaped my life.

From time to time I think about the Robert Frost poem, “The Road Less Traveled,” that I read from the podium at our graduation, never knowing that I would travel many different roads after stepping down from that platform, roads that would come together as the beautiful mosaic I call “life!” After graduating, I tested those roads of life in many different ways from college to marriage and finally to careers and family.

Emory in Atlanta was my first stop academically, starting as pre-med. After my dad lost his job at RCA in Camden, when they closed the broadcast division of which he was a part, I ended up attending and paying for my own education at Rutgers University’s Camden Campus, graduating in 1978 with a Bachelors in English (but not before getting married to Husband One).

After graduation, I moved first to Richmond, VA, then to Atlanta, GA, and finally back to Oreland, PA, outside of Philadelphia. With all of those moves came trials down different career paths, all focused on sales, much to the dismay of my mother who had envisioned a “professional” career for me in medicine or law. The jobs ranged from selling in-office coffee services to selling Smurfs. Yes, I was actually the number one Smurf salesperson in the world, traveling across the country peddling those little blue people who lived in the mushroom village. I also “legitimized” my sales career with a stint for Kimberly-Clark Corporation, and after leaving there, sold Real Estate for a few years.

In 1988, I seemed to finally land on a career path that suited me. At the urging of my father, I investigated the “new world” of personal computers and landed a sales position with a software reseller. Then, after having worked with the reseller for 10 years, I secured a position with a large software developer. The lucrative world of technology allowed our family to purchase and pay off our home in Cherry Hill, NJ then build a completely new home on the site of my in-laws’ summer cottage in Mount Holly, NJ. It also gave us the ability to travel, offering our daughter Katie a glimpse at a wider world and cultures (she had her passport by the time she was five!) But more about Katie later…

It was during my technology career that I met my current husband, Paul, at my 10th college reunion. As Director of Alumni Relations, Paul was running the event and looked quite dashing in his tux, red tie and cummerbund. If you’ve read this far, it may be of interest that Paul was an older fraternity brother of my first husband. He wasn’t particularly close to my first husband, but graciously concluded that I may have had 23

Judith "Judy" Hurst Loane had temporary insanity during that period of my life and decided to date me anyway. Since I was told he was a confirmed bachelor, my plan was just to enjoy his company for a while, since I knew he would never marry.

However, that encounter with Paul at my college reunion led to what is now a 30-year marriage. He confessed before we tied the knot that he was still keeping his first and second wives: his lifelong collecting of Civil War artifacts and his Revolutionary War reenacting. Even with time devoted to those two other “wives,” we gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Katherine Elizabeth Loane, “Katie,” in 1993.

Katie attended MFS, Class of 2012, and after her graduation, tackled a five-year program in Social Work at Rutgers, receiving her Master's Degree in Social Work in 2017. Now at 27, she is a Clinical Coordinator of the Transit Homeless Outreach Program at Bowery Residents Committee (BRC), one of the largest and oldest nonprofits that provides housing and services to the homeless in New York City. She has lived in Brooklyn for the last three years with her FDNY boyfriend, Chris, and their eight-year-old adopted pit bull, Elsie.

But back to 2008: That year the market crash led to the end of my 20-year career in technology but took me down yet another road: serving others. This started at the NJ Department of Labor, where my presentation and sales skills enabled me to run a program that helped many job seekers obtain employment.

Grant-funded, that job eventually ended, and the trajectory sent me to work with FEMA for a couple of years as an Individual Assistance Associate, helping people to file claims in the aftermath of declared disasters. Eventually grant money returned in NJ and I found a permanent position with the NJ Labor Department in Trenton, helping develop a website for job seekers and managing a large grant to NJ Libraries that enabled them to assist the unemployed find work. I finally retired from New Jersey State Government service in 2018, after 10 years of combined part and full-time work.

I now work part-time as a pastor’s assistant at one of the largest Methodist churches in NJ—truly my best job ever.

It’s been a journey down many roads for me after having left MFS, and never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined where some of these by-ways would lead. I’m so grateful to have traveled them all since these combined experiences have formed me into the person I am today; hopefully a little wiser and a little more thoughtful—and as my Quaker education taught me—a little more reflective.

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Denis McDaniel It is awkward to write about the past, I suspect, because we are wired to look forward and dream of our hopes and plans for the future. There comes a time to look back. Life comes with no guarantees and plenty of surprises. When I was in my late teens, I expected that after years in that stainless steel back brace I might barely be able to walk by age 40.

That never happened and in fact, I was able to play soccer competitively into my 60’s, although after a few “retirements.” I expected to lose most of my hair by 40 but still retain a reasonable density up top. I knew that there was one business I did not want to enter and that was my Dad’s trucking operation. Nothing but problems, it seemed.

After graduation from MFS, the next four years would be busy. The next four summers, along with holidays, I found myself employed in the airline catering business. I drove those trucks that pull up to the aircraft and then lift the body up to the galley. I enjoyed the work and met lots of nice people, including the stewardesses (before they became “flight attendants''). The pay was quite minimal so I was always ready to work overtime. One day I arranged to “hitch a ride” to Orlando, only to find out that I was too young to rent a car when I arrived. I, of course, informed the agent that I was a truck driver and the airline had arranged a waiver for me. It worked, I got the car, and met my friend in Disney World.

My four years at Cornell started with tryouts for the soccer team. While I had indeed been in touch with the coach for about eight months, I was not a recruit and found myself competing with recruits for a place on the team. I survived the cuts and was thrilled to get into some games that year, but found myself in the infirmary for 10 days with mono and missed the last month of the season, and was challenged to keep up with academics, having missed so much time. I never did get my conditioning back to that level and converted my athletics to the extensive intramural programs at Cornell, where our team won the “all sports trophy” and continued for three years. Of course, Cornell Soccer went to the Final 4 the following year, led by our keeper, Bruce Arena, the future Hall of Famer. The other matter that arose Freshman year was the draft. Having reviewed my status with Neil Hartman, I learned that I did not qualify as a CO unless I could renounce all war, not just that horrible one in Vietnam. A ’52 baby, my lottery number was in the ’60s and that resulted in reporting to the Burlington Armory between Christmas and New Years', 1971. A brass band greeted about 80 “inductees” at 5 AM, followed by a brief speech and into the buses for a trip to Philadelphia and a complete physical. I received a complete physical and reviewed my records with the staff physician, who classified me as 4F, temporarily deferred for my old back troubles. It was a lonely ride home on a mostly empty bus as they kept most of the guys. I never heard any more from them.

Academically, I pursued a rigorous schedule of science classes, majoring in biology, which ended with a 25

Denis McDaniel concentration in neurobiology. Simultaneously I had begun taking psychology courses, learning that both disciplines overlapped, one with a behavioral approach and one biological. I went to both departments to arrange credits from the other toward my major. Denied by both. This brings me back to sports, where I liked to play “pick-up” basketball games during the day. It must have been my first game that I went in for a layup and was hacked. I called a foul. Understand the other players were mostly New York City guys who played on their high school teams. The player who fouled me was happy to tell me that this was not a foul where he comes from and proceeded to “educate” me as to the definition of a foul. I accepted this perspective, adjusted my style, and enjoyed playing often by these rules. After the games, I would go to the steam room to warm up before going out into the Ithaca winters. It was here that I often conversed with Dean Alfred Kahn about the world. I spoke to him about my dilemma with my major courses and he suggested an independent major. Went to the Dean’s Office the next day and formalized the process. Now there is a complete Department of Neurobiology and Psychology at Cornell, but I must have been the first one.

My soccer journey has been an unlikely one. I have been asked how this continued until I was 66 years old so here goes: Our best high school team was Junior year with Coach Bob Johnston (Mr. J). We only lost one game that year and that only due to a penalty kick and team collapse in the final few minutes of a game we led 1-0. Some of us teamed up with the Public School guys and formed the Moorestown United team for Junior and Senior winter seasons, where we had great success. I was never the most skilled guy out there, but always prided myself on hustle and defense and nobody was going to get past me and if he did, I would catch up to him and steal the ball. We covered the Cornell years and then it was on to the Moorestown Field Club team for a few years. I retired after a bad ankle injury about age 30. A few years later my wife had gifted golf lessons to me, but I never could hit that little ball straight. Spotting an ad for tryouts for the Tabernacle Masters team, I thought this could be my escape from the driving range. Made the team, won a championship and played there for a few years, but they cut back on my playing time, so I formed a new Masters team, Northern Burlington in 1998, age 35 and up. Unfortunately, the League wouldn’t admit us so we joined the Mercer league which was age 30 and up, showed up for the first game, and challenged the ages of a couple of the opponents. Only then did we learn about the “2 player exemption.” And these guys were good. So, at age 48 I found myself lined up against 20-year-old guys. That was fun but we got skunked. Finally, the South Jersey League admitted us and placed us at the bottom of Division 4. Thus began my 20 year run in the League, as Founder, Manager, Coach, player. In 2018 we finally worked our way to the top and won Division 1, best in South Jersey of 32 teams. I have played every position on the field, which has been part of my value to the team, as some players stick to their positions. I’ve managed a few yellow cards in my time, but never a red. I’ve played with a lot of good guys and some good teams, but that team Junior year at MFS has always been my favorite and I tip my hat to Mr. J for helping us develop as men, as well as athletes.

At 23 and a year out of college, in June of ’76, Jeff Miller and I hatched a plan to hire a “banana boat” and work our way down to Australia and explore life down under. I actually quit my job, loaded up my old car, and headed west to hook up with Jeff in Denver and leave from there. Making a brief stopover in Ithaca, New York to visit my college friends, I received a distress call from home. Dad’s partner had just suffered a bad heart attack and brother Lee’s employee on the Maryland farm had perished in a car 26

Denis McDaniel crash. Both occurred that Saturday night. They needed my help “temporarily.” Australia would have to wait.

After two weeks of planting corn, it was time to help with the trucking operation for “a couple weeks”. After a couple years in the business, it occurred to me that the business could be improved by securing ICC rights that are granted by the federal government. Traditionally these rights were “impossible to get.” I began to research the matter and found that, coincidentally, my old friend, Dean Kahn, was now serving as President Carter’s “Economic Czar” and was promoting deregulation. The timing was perfect. We proceeded to apply for the rights and soon were successful. I have been there ever since, although I have transitioned more into a pure logistics provider to the sweetener industry, along with some marketing ventures in facilitating sweetener distribution. The past 45 years have brought me in contact with virtually every sugar company in the U.S. and many worldwide, as well as many of their industrial customers. I meet with my west coast business ally annually where we go to a fine dinner and he always says that “you won’t make much money in the sugar business, but you’ll eat well.”

Through my 20’s and into my 30’s I was living the bachelor life, with the customary ups and downs. I had my share of falling in love, out of love, getting dumped, making bad choices, wondering what I was doing, etc. In the long run, I suppose I learned enough to know that when I met the love of my life, Denise, I knew that she was the one. We were married in the Moorestown Meetinghouse and proceeded to grow a family, blessed with three children in the next four years. Zach, Lana, and Jeffrey are all now in their 20’s and getting a start on their respective careers. It truly is a miracle to be a parent and somehow see these new creatures grow, evolve, and somehow develop into the good persons and independent adults that they have become, each with a different personality and all of them different from their parents. While we were a younger family, our busy schedules, me with work, the kids with activities, and Denise with her artwork, our vacations were limited mostly to annual ski trips to destination mountains. In the last few years, we have tried to catch up on traveling. Because Denise is a Docent at the Princeton University Art Museum, we have been privileged to travel with the Museum experts on several journeys themed around art history, including Mexico and several European countries. We were scheduled to visit China in 2020 until the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Hopefully, 2021 will allow a resumption of the travels. We are truly blessed that, for the most part, the family has been healthy, so far, and carry our love for each other.

As a long-time resident of Springfield Township, I had been involved in a few local organizations, such as Rotary, Recreation, and had founded our Master's soccer club. Apparently, I had gained enough notoriety that I was asked to run for office, a Charter Study Commission. I was elected and then named Chair. Our work led to a referendum for a new form of our local government requiring a less autocratic Mayor, followed by a referendum that passed by a 2-to-1 margin. Simultaneously there had been a contentious local battle related to land use issues and decency in government. I spoke up often enough and found myself elected to the Township Council and now am serving my 21st year, with 12 as Mayor. Before expanding on my work there, I must acknowledge that all of my efforts there have been as a part of a talented team of public servants, certainly not a one-person show. Our efforts have focused on preserving the township as a rural community, with agriculture as our primary industry and way of life. To keep our 30 square miles of land in agriculture would take a well-planned effort and some capital.

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Denis McDaniel One early battle was concerning 660 acres in the middle of town-owned by Charles Kushner (yes, Jared’s dad), the famous real estate developer who had donated more than a million dollars to our then Governor McGreevey’s campaigns. The Kushners were accustomed to getting their way and sought to bring a huge development to our town. We could easily have folded our cards, but we stayed firm and after years of the battle, Kushner wound up in prison, McGreevey resigned, and Burlington County bought the land and created the County Fairgrounds, home to the annual Farm Fair, a reasonable use in an agricultural community. In the meantime, we have focused on environmental considerations, managed growth, and redevelopment of blighted properties, rather than bulldozing cornfields for developments. None of this comes without the recognition of an obligation to structure land-use laws that still allow for affordable housing. Some of my MFS classmates may remember that in our senior year we had some involvement with the Springville section of Mt. Laurel and their housing issues. That very location exploded as an issue, rightfully so, and led to the well-known Mt. Laurel Supreme Court decisions that tried to formalize local obligations. The statewide battles continue regarding the implementation of the obligation. With pride, we recently were recognized by the NJ Housing & Community Development Network for our creation of homes in partnership with Habitat for Humanity. This work continues and Affordable Housing seems to have become my primary focus these days.

Other highlights during my time as Mayor include working directly with Governor Christie during Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, and visiting Congressman MacArthur, and almost getting onto the House floor. Then there’s the Obama story: As Mayor of a host community, and having worked closely with the Joint Base leadership and particularly Air Force General Gina Grosso, I was invited to attend Obama’s speech on base in 2014.

Apparently, I was the only Mayor who attended, the resulting “tongue-in-cheek” remark being that I was “the Mayor of New Jersey.” As such, I found myself seated with three Congressmen, Senators Menendez and Booker, whom I knew from his days as Newark Mayor, and Christie. Following the speech, I met Obama, we exchanged a firm handshake, I wished him “Merry Christmas” and he wished me the same. A few years later, I was honored to be inducted into the New Jersey Mayors Hall of Fame.

The work continues.

I look forward to hearing the other stories of the members of the great MFS Class of ’71.

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Diane P. Michelfelder If someone had told me when I was graduating from MFS— You know, 50 years from now you’ll find yourself living in Minnesota, close to the banks of the Mississippi River, and having had in your life two dogs who were research subjects in the Missyplicity Project (an experiment to clone a dog)—I would have said “What!!!! Surely you are miss-taken!” But that’s how things turned out, in a journey filled with much good fortune.

After MFS I headed to Bryn Mawr for college. One semester I signed up for a philosophy course at Haverford on Heidegger’s Being and Time. I have a vivid memory of the professor asking, "How is the way you are in the world different from the way that this pen is in my pocket?" This question prompted two thoughts. The first was: I haven’t the foggiest idea. The second was: That is like the coolest question I have ever heard. From then on, I was hooked on philosophy and I never looked back. After I graduated from Bryn Mawr, I applied to grad schools in philosophy. In the mid-1970s, getting an acceptance letter from one of these schools meant getting a second letter from the main American professional society in philosophy with a head’s up: Congratulations on getting into graduate school! We need to tell you that if you go to graduate school, your chances of getting a job are really small.

I decided to take a risk. Setting that letter aside, I headed off to UT-Austin. My first job was at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California. I taught there for sixteen years, long enough to get married to a mathematician, have a sabbatical in The Netherlands where I learned enough Dutch to get by in casual conversations and to read a newspaper, get divorced, and fall in love with my second husband, Bill Wilcox, who is also a philosopher by trade and disposition, and also quite fond of dogs, cats, and wildlife. When we decided to get married, we rolled the dice and went to Las Vegas. This summer, we’ll be celebrating our 27th anniversary.

A teaching highlight of the time I was at Cal Poly was the opportunity to put together a course on the ethics of the Internet. At the time it was one of a handful of such courses in the country. But designing cool new courses didn’t compensate for a heavy and largely repetitive teaching load. I decided I’d change lanes to academic administration and see where that would lead.

In the next ten years, that decision took us first to Logan, Utah, then to Indiana, and finally to St. Paul, Minnesota. While in Utah, we lived in a very small town with no stores or mail delivery, situated at the base of the beautiful Wellsville Mountains. We were surrounded by wildlife, including pheasant, flocks of turkeys and the occasional moose. From there, we moved to Terre Haute, a faded but resilient city on the banks of the Wabash River. We were there for three years before moving to Macalester College in St. Paul—me first 29

Diane P. Michelfelder as a dean and later as a member of the faculty; Bill as a “visiting” professor for close to sixteen years before retiring at the end of last year.

Even though we live within the city of St. Paul and are less than ten minutes away from the MSP airport, where we live has a bit of a suburban feel. In our diminutive growing season, our yard is rambunctious with peonies and perennials. A diversity of wildlife passes through our yard, including deer, raccoons, opossums, coyotes, and red and gray foxes. Right now I am teaching Animal Ethics; our cat Coco often comes to the Zoom class, much to the students’ delight. I feel fortunate to be able to combine my love of pets and urban wildlife with my teaching and research. And, my ongoing interest in the philosophy of technology and engineering has allowed me to go back to the Netherlands on a number of occasions, where I get to use my ever-rustier Dutch and to enjoy Indonesian food. On my last visit, I even went to a cat café in Delft. It’s been such a blessing to be able to weave parts of my personal life and professional life together, and I am deeply grateful to MFS and the values it stands for which continue to matter to me.

Along with the Netherlands, my professional travels have taken me to a number of great destinations, including Morocco, Japan, Shanghai, Barcelona, and Sweden. But sometimes on my brief 2.5-mile commute, I turn on E-Street Radio on Sirius XM; and I find myself wondering: I wonder where I can get a good cheesesteak tonight?

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Jeff Miller I’ve always believed three critical elements have shaped my life: where I live, what I do, and those who have influenced me.

Until I was 18, that meant living in Moorestown, being a student at MFS, and being molded by so many wonderful people, including (but not limited to) classmates Norna, Denis, Carol (H. & M.), Kurt, Doug, Chris, and practically all of my teachers and coaches.

Now, looking back on life since leaving MFS, I realize those three elements of my last 50 years have all stemmed from one event during my MFS years—my hitchhiking trip with Doug through much of the West. It was the summer of 1970 and Simon and Garfunkel had told me to go look for America, so I did, with one of the best hitchhiking partners I could have ever imagined.

When we reached Colorado, I realized I could have a summer without humidity—what a radical concept! And when I first hiked the glorious Rocky Mountains, I knew I would live in Colorado for the rest of my life.

Harry Price had a different idea—he wanted me to apply to Brown as my “dream” school with numerous backups. I applied for early admission to one school, the University of Denver, and got in. Mr. Price said it was a “party school” and shook his head; I couldn’t wait to get there.

On the first day at DU, September 18, 1971, I met Susan Burdick.

After 10 years of chasing her— “Someday you’ll marry me!” —she finally agreed to go out with me. We’ve been together ever since and happily married since Oct. 1, 1983. As my dedication in my latest book states, Susan is “my north star, my inspiration, my friend, my one true love.”

During that first year at DU, I also took a creative writing class from Professor Joe Nigg, hoping to become a great fiction writer.

I quickly learned I wasn’t a very good fiction writer, but I also came to the happier conclusion that I wanted to be a journalist.

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Jeff Miller was starting, I hired Joe. Now in his 80s, Joe is still one of my dearest friends who mentored me into the writer I am today.

During the last few months of my senior year at DU, I developed the idea for The Denver Review, a biweekly metro magazine in a city that had none at the time. While the magazine was a small, short-lived affair, it taught me that I loved being a publisher, editor, writer, production coordinator, typesetter, layout artist, sales manager, and distribution carrier. (I wonder if I have control issues?)

It was the first of a total of six magazine startups and being editor-in-chief of five inflight magazines during a rather crazy career that has zigzagged down a mountain path I never could have imagined.

Following three years as a manager of a bookstore, I was hired to start, produce the first issue, and find a permanent editor for a magazine aimed at young Hispanics. The first issue had a front cover that included a young Geraldo Rivera.

I then started a national magazine to objectively cover the real estate industry for a barely off-the-ground company—Re/Max of America. I was 27 and my office had a wet bar—life was good!

After the real estate market tanked in the early 1980s and I nearly bankrupted Re/Max, I was hired by TeleCommunications Inc. (TCI), the largest cable company in the U.S. to start a cable TV magazine. During the first year, every month I was in town for two weeks, on the road for two weeks. When my dog started forgetting who I was, I knew it was time to change jobs.

During the bookstore and magazine startup days, I also spent six years researching and writing my first book, which was published by a regional publisher in 1983. Stapleton International Airport: The First Fifty Years was the first history book of a major U.S. airport.

By 1986, it was time to try fiction writing again (stupid me!). I took two years to research and write a historical novel, Honor Bound, about WWI’s Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB), which was the largest food relief program the world had ever seen, and one that my beloved grandparents had been involved in. My long-winded 800-page tome got a few nibbles from book publishers and agents but nothing happened.

In January 1988, with one carry-on bag each, Susan and I took off for four months of traveling to New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, and Tahiti. When we got back, Susan returned to teaching as an elementary school librarian—to give us a steady income and health insurance—while I embarked on a new career as a freelance travel writer— to provide us with a way to travel more.

For the next 13 years, we rode the crest of an incredible wave that took us all over the world. I specialized in Australia, and for 10 years we spent at least a month each year exploring nearly every part of that phenomenal continent.

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Jeff Miller We also were lucky enough to experience two teacher exchange years, where Susan taught in an Australian school and an Aussie taught in Susan’s U.S. school. We spent 1993 in a small coastal town, Coffs Harbour, and 2000 in Melbourne. During those exchange years, we each learned an invaluable lesson: Susan found she could do well when thrust into the spotlight; I discovered the world doesn’t revolve around me.

During the travel writing years, I came up with an idea for a health book for men. I got my GP, Dr. Gordon Ehlers, to be my coauthor and found an NYC agent. My agent found an NYC publisher to give us anice advance and, after two years of research and writing, Facing Your Fifties: Every man’s Reference to Mid-life Health was released. It was one of only three health books that Publishers Weekly included in its Best Books of 2002.

The travel-writing wave finally ended for me in 2002 when it crashed on the shores of the Internet (which has devalued certain kinds of creativity), and the horrible aftermath of 9-11.

Re-entering the workforce, I became the director of communications for AAA Colorado, supervising its magazine, website, public relations, public affairs, and traffic safety. It was great to discover that ideas that had worked for me during my magazine startup days 20 years before were heralded as brilliant new concepts.

I left AAA Colorado in early 2008 because years before Susan had been diagnosed with a rare non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and had been told in 2002 that she had 8 to 10 years to live. I didn’t want to be working 60–70 hours a week during what we thought would be her last years.

So, we took off to travel the world one last time and were pulled up short by the crash of 2008, and my diagnosis in February 2009 of stage 4 throat cancer. What followed was a horrendous year of surgery, five different chemos, seven weeks of daily radiation, a stomach tube, and not being able to swallow even water for three months.

Happily, by the end of 2009, I was declared cancer-free. Even better, in 2013 Susan—after enduring seven years of biological chemo—was declared cancer-free.

With Susan retired, I’ve spent the last 10 years researching and writing three non-fiction books about WWI’s CRB. I selfpublished the first two, with both of them becoming Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year: 1. Behind the Lines in 2014, “An excellent history that should catapult Miller to the top tier of popular historians” (I’m still waiting for the catapult!); and 2. WWI Crusaders in 2018, “A tour-de-force history. . . gripping historical narrative. A magnum opus that celebrates the qualities of compassion, honor, and humanitarian virtue.” The third one, Yanks Behind the Lines, 33

Jeff Miller was released by international publisher Rowman & Littlefield in October 2020. Kirkus Reviews stated: “This is a powerful work of history, as informative as it is dramatically gripping. An impressive blend of painstaking historical scholarship and riveting storytelling.”

Lastly, in the most profound aspect of life, there have been numerous deaths that have impacted and altered my life in immeasurable ways, including a college roommate cousin at 21, my incredibly supportive parents in their 80s, and my best-friend sister, Claire Miller Zimmerman (MFS ’73), at 59.

Even with such devastating losses, it’s been a hell of a ride and I’m thankful that I can still say what I hope to say with my last breath: “What a grand adventure it’s been.”

And to think it all started with MFS and a hitchhiking trip with Doug.

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Carol “Kiyo” Moriuchi Kiyo: What have you done since leaving MFS? I guess I never really left!

Wilmington College in Ohio was a good place for me to land an easy familiar step into another Quaker academic institution. The academics were shockingly easier for me than at MFS - a testament to the preparation my less than stellar MFS performance would have foreshadowed. The academic school year and working on the farm and for Agricultural Extension in the summers - seemed a familiar rhythm.

Small adventures - riding my 10-speed bike from Moorestown to Wilmington, Ohio and a bigger one travelling around the world after my Junior Year Abroad in Japan [1974.] Living in Japan with a fantastic host family and later in a Zen temple while doing pottery helped me both appreciate Japan and realize how ‘not Japanese’ I am. A backpack, passport & open dated airline ticket allowed me to meet people in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Israel, and France. Everywhere people were generous, gracious, curious & hospitable.

After being warned that a single woman travelling 3rd class in India was terribly dangerous, I remember a dark railway station in the middle of the night. The small hand of a young street urchin reached through the railway car window & put a small bag of peanuts on my lap. Before I could ask him how much … he vanished into the night.

I’m not sure if an adventure like that is still possible, but it certainly did help shape my worldview.

Working at the William Penn House (1976) the Quaker seminar house in which our MFS class had stayed during our MFS Washington, DC trip - proved a pivotal year for me after graduating from Wilmington. The quiet persistent power Quakers have witnessed over the centuries came more into context. The work of the Friends Committee on National Legislation was our public Quaker voice. The private voice and power of Friends often came from the many quiet, determined women like Sally Cory for whom I worked at WPH and powerful women I knew in Moorestown Meeting. It was an old-school model - the men out front & the women holding everything together behind the scenes making it happen. Of course, things were changing & women were taking their place in the lead. I felt no constraints.

The most important event for me in DC was meeting Bill Guthe (October 1976) who was working as an intern at FCNL. Bill & I explored and made full use of ‘free’ Washington. Everything was open, unlocked and available - The Capitol Building, Smithsonian, George Washington University music practice rooms, etc. It was great fun. Bill continues to be the most supportive, kind, smart and loving person I have been lucky enough to 35

Carol “Kiyo” Moriuchi share this life with and has been the single most important person in my life. We married in 1979. Bike trip honeymoon in Europe – seeing Peter Hohage MFS Exchange student.

Academics was never my forte, but my work for Agricultural Extension in Integrated Pest Management - a management practice that uses an ecologically based approach to the whole orchard system - pointed me to graduate school. Bill was also looking for a graduate school in geography. October 1977 found us driving across country to Davis, California in my little orange pick-up truck. We camped & visited National Parks and friends along the way. It was the last time I saw Rita in Lincoln, Nebraska.

California (Oct 1977-Aug 1981) was amazing. Colleagues, family friends and Friends at Davis Meeting made us feel quickly at home in that then small, bicycle-centric, green academic town. I had never encountered a large University, so my academic career at UC Davis had its ups & downs, but I made it out with an MS in Plant Protection & Pest Management - Winter 1981. Bill with his genetically programmed academic abilities easily completed his MS in Geography –Spring 1981. We could easily have stayed.

Driving back across country - same orange pickup - found us in Philly by September and spending a term (Sept - Dec 1981) at Pendle Hill - a Quaker retreat center. I wanted to take some time to purposefully think about ‘returning to the farm’ and let Bill decide if he could ‘deal’ with all the Moriuchis. Bill decided in the affirmative and worked in Philadelphia, Trenton and is still happily working at Princeton University as a GIS (Geographic Information System) specialist. I worked on the farm from 1982-1994 with my Dad & brother.

From 1984 on is sort of a blurrrrr - a happy, crazy mostly being Mom sort of blur. Our 3 great kids were born & graduated from MFS as follows: 1984 Grace Emiko Guthe MFS 2002; 1986 Gregory Kazuo Guthe MFS 2005; 1991 Geoffrey Yasuo Guthe MFS 2010. Watching them grow through their childhoods & MFS gave me an adult understanding of my experience. We also had 2 MFS Exchange students – Hanna Moriyama & Maria Hohage.

Our involvement in MFS and Moorestown Meeting deepened as Bill became an integral part of the community. Understanding the roles of the School Committee/Board, the school leadership, faculty, staff, parents and fundraising gave me insight in the importance of each component to really make education work for the students.

Watching each baby grow into a full adult was a privilege and a huge responsibility to make sure I didn’t get in the way. Each child had a different path & I learned something about myself watching each of them. Our third child, Yas, had a variety of learning differences. The more I learned about his struggles with learning, it became obvious where those learning differences came from - me! A friend with a similarly challenged child asked me to help her start a school. Orchard Friends School opened on 9/9/1999 to serve children with language-based learning differences.

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Carol “Kiyo” Moriuchi community, urban planning, community building, living in a community, how the built environment enhances community interaction all grew from that seed.

Going to marches in DC with MFS teachers & Meeting members continues in my social justice activism and the Meeting’s Anti-Racism Committee. Interest in people & cultures around the world continued with trips to South Africa (2011) & India (2015) & hopefully more travel.

One interest- Drama - was sparked by All School Plays starring our teachers Cully Miller & Neil Hartman in Inherit The Wind, director Jean Ricketts, my brother’s senior play - Teahouse of the August Moon, School for Scandal, and of course May Day - more specifically costuming. In fact, our class’s less than stellar rendition of Wizard of Oz has bookended my costuming efforts. I was enticed back into MFS Drama seeing my nephew, Naoji in Pippin and in 1995 to ‘help’ Richard Marcucci with Wizard of Oz. I’ve worked for 5 Directors (so far).

Basically, I haven’t left.

Looking forward I hope to be granted the time & energy to tidy things up. I hope to help: Finish the Master Plan for the renovation of the Meetinghouse Organize & leave the MFS Costume Collection & costume shop ready for the next generation of MFS costumers Contribute to making Moorestown a more diverse, equitable community for all its residents.

Create the next CCRC iteration to grow old in with my friends & family.

Keep in contact with MFS ‘71 & do a REAL in Person Reunion What have I learned? ✔ Tak & Yuri were pretty amazing – Parents get better with Time. ✔ Peace Begins at Home ✔ Growing up is different than maturing - Family is important ✔ Learning who I am & how much MFS, MMM are part of me ✔ Commitment & Doing & Kindness are important ✔ People & Nature are what matter ✔ Bill is pretty amazing

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Walter "Eric" Nissen Well since graduating MFS in 1971 a lot has happened. I’ll try and just update you on some of the highlights and general information.

I received my BA in Psychology from the University of Virginia in May of 1975. I then continued my education receiving an MBA from the College of William & Mary in May of 1977.

In 1980 I met Sandra and we were married in June of 1982.

It’s been a wonderful journey.

After school, I returned home to New Jersey and worked in several jobs in the office equipment field but soon settled into my “career” field in Consumer Electronics. I worked with Philips, the giant Dutch electronics firm for the next 23 years.

Positions varied but were always in Sales or Marketing. Soon after starting with Philips, we moved from the NJ branch office to take over a territory in Virginia, living in Charlottesville, my old college town. My wife was working at Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monticello, so it was hard to leave when I received an offer to move to the company's US headquarters in Knoxville, TN. We spent a wonderful 8 years or so in Tennessee but the company decided to move the headquarters to Atlanta. We’ve been in the Atlanta area ever since in several homes and as it turns out several new jobs after Philips downsized out of the Consumer Electronics business. I also worked with JVC and ended with Westinghouse Digital until my retirement in 2014. The electronics business was fast-paced, exciting, and innovative. I had the opportunity to work on such new technology introductions as CDs, Plasma TV, LCD TV, and car navigation systems. It involved a fair amount of international travel with visits to China, Taiwan, Japan, The Netherlands, Germany, and Austria. Needless to say, I had a lot of Delta miles when I retired!!

Outside of work my wife and I have shared some interesting activities. We both are car enthusiasts and in the late ’80s became very involved in the BMW Club. Lots of great friends and driving activities. Both Sandra and I became high-performance driving instructors with the club. This involves instructing students in their cars at race tracks from New Hampshire to Florida to Texas. We continue that today but Covid has put a crimp in it for sure. After instructing for a few years we both moved into full racing. We built a 3 series BMW race car that we raced for almost 20 years until retiring from that in 2019. I had the good fortune of winning six National Class Championships in the BMW Car Club Race series. It was a tremendous experience in terms of learning how to really push my personal comfort envelope. Sandra managed to do very well, also finishing second in the class nationally several times. As I said we were car enthusiasts and at our peak, we had six cars, a truck, and a trailer. We’ve scaled that back since retirement and now are down to three cars and a truck. Much simpler!

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Walter "Eric" Nissen Our other big involvement is our dogs. We have two Basenjis. If you’re not familiar, they are an ancient African hunting breed. Small dogs ranging from about 20-25 pounds. The real distinguishing feature is they do not bark. They can make a noise like howling but it's infrequent. They are very active and we’ve run them in obedience classes, rally classes, and agility classes. They are a handful but an integral part of our home.

I retired in 2014 and Sandra in 2015. She was a ceramics instructor at a local Arts Center since we moved to Atlanta. She continues her work in ceramics in her home studio. Since retiring we’ve taken numerous trips in the US and two trips to Europe (Germany, Austria, Italy, France, and Switzerland) and one trip to Nova Scotia. We’ve got lots of plans for more travel but of course, that’s Covid dependent right now.

All in all, we are enjoying retirement and looking forward to the years ahead. I hope all is well with the rest of my classmates and I hope to hear from you soon.

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Francie Bobbe Pearce Fifty years! Is it possible? (It is indeed...) Highlights since '71: I went to Oberlin College, graduating with a double major in art history and classical archaeology. While working for Gordion Publications at the University Museum in Philadelphia, I had the opportunity to help excavate the chapter house at St. Albans cathedral in England. During this time, I also coached J.V. girls basketball and 7th and 8thgrade field hockey and lacrosse at MFS. I also began a mouthful of a master's degree (psycho-social aspects of skill performance) in the P.E. department at Temple University. While I should have been writing my thesis, I returned to Oberlin to coach women's lacrosse for one season. I then became OC's Sports Information Director, working three years before becoming SID for women's athletics at the College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia. I held that dream job for four years, at the very end of which I met my husband Al, who worked for the daily newspaper in nearby Newport News. We've been married 33+ years, and have one daughter, Annie, who's a social worker in Christiansburg, VA. In 2002, after earning my license, I became an art teacher. In 2015, I finished a master's degree (Master's of Interdisciplinary Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts)! I taught for 15 years at Carver Elementary School before retiring in 2018. Ever on the Grandma Moses track, I'm working to become a better artist. While I don't play tennis or golf (the two sports "you can play for the rest of your life"—one of Mother's mantras), I run and walk, do yoga, and go to the gym once a week. I spend way too much time being a Presbyterian and would love to attend Friends Meeting instead if there were one here (where the Friends churches are not the silent sort).

We have been privileged to travel a great deal over the years, just not in 2020. A sportswriter, who's still covering NASCAR for AutoWeek magazine, Al and I have never spent so many consecutive days together as we have during the pandemic! My Dad lives in a continuing care community here, and at 95 is still an independent living resident. My younger brother David, who attended MFS his first 3 years of schooling and went to Flying Moose, is retired from the Merchant Marine, and living with his wife in Maine. My younger brother Peter, who had Mrs. Hobart for pre-kindergarten and also went to Flying Moose, teaches high school English in Burnsville, North Carolina, where he lives with his wife. We feel very fortunate in so many ways. I am grateful for the foundation MFS gave me.

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Lisa Silverman Pickard After high school, I went to Syracuse University where I got a BS in Education and an MSW. I then lived in the DC area where I married Don Pickard (an Engineer) in 1979. We met living in the same house at SU -- very convenient. We moved to the Boston area in 1985.

I had a long, rewarding, and fun career at the United Way in Washington DC and Boston where I was responsible for community investments in children and youth programs, quality improvement initiatives, public-private partnerships, collaborative public policy campaigns, research, and social media campaigns produced by local TV stations, among other things.

Don and I have two children that grew up in Sherborn, MA, and both went to Colorado College. Our daughter lives in Kauai where she is an Ayurvedic Postpartum Caregiver and Personal Chef. Our son is a geologist and is the General Manager of a gold mine in Honduras.

We retired in 2015 and moved to the Utah mountains to be ski bums and enjoy the summer wildflowers. We spend the off-seasons in Kauai where we are building a small family farm.

Reading this, it all seems so hunky-dory. Like everyone else, there were ups and downs along the way. Looking forward to hearing from others.

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Janet Hinds Pilvalis Greetings Classmates!

A little background… I was raised in Erlton, near the Ellisburg Circle. Some of you may remember a few Halloween parties in my basement or jumping on the trampoline. I came to MFS after graduating from Haddonfield Friends’ Sixth grade. Frank Adler, Ed Bowman, Tracy Southworth, Susan Croft, and Maryann Reis came with me. I liked attending MFS. Some favorite teachers of mine were Mrs. Lindes, Mrs. Hedges, Mrs. Messing, and our chemistry teacher (but his name escapes me). I managed girls’ hockey and basketball teams, worked on a few school plays, and helped with our yearbook. My brother Larry was in the class ahead of us, as was Michael Raymond, my “adopted brother.”

I graduated from MFS and headed to NW Ohio where I happily attended Findlay College and Bowling Green State University. I graduated with a degree in elementary education and additional certification in special education. I joined Delta Zeta Sorority. I traveled abroad for two study trips: the Middle East and India. I loved my time in Ohio and made many friends with whom I’m still in contact.

For two summers in high school and three in college, I worked for Shulman Air Freight (Hi Marcia!). I was a Teamster. I worked with many nice people in the accounts payable department.

Once I graduated from Findlay, I was thrilled to be hired by Delran Public Schools. I worked with Joan Klaus (Hi Kurt!). I taught First Grade, Pre-First, Special Needs, and Fourth Grade. For most of those years, I produced yearly musicals. I worked with wonderful colleagues who became close friends.

After 34 amazing and wonderful years, and after being named Teacher of the Year twice, I retired. A good transition to full retirement was teaching as an Adjunct Professor for RCBC, (previously Burlington County College) for seven years. I taught Intensive Reading and thoroughly enjoyed working with more great people and teaching at the college level.

I met my husband under unusual circumstances. In 1978, the teacher next door to me, Mrs. Pilvalis, lost her husband. I went to his viewing and met her son, Frank. We got married in 1979. It was hard to explain to First graders, that I, too, would be called “Mrs. Pilvalis.” One of my boys grimaced “Are you marrying her husband?

Don’t you think he’s a little too old for you?” First graders tell it as it is!

Frank and I had a daughter, Lynne. We worked hard and enjoyed our family life. We ate dinner at the table, together, every night. We took yearly spring trips to Florida and spent many summer days in Ocean Beach, Lavallette, NJ. Throughout the years, we bought and managed investment properties.

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Janet Hinds Pilvalis We are trying to retire from that “hobby” now. We enjoyed being with our parents and were able to be with them as they got older and needed us. Our daughter, Lynne, attended MFS for the 10th and 11th grades. She missed her Lenape friends and returned to Lenape for her senior year.

Larry moved to Florida when I was in Findlay. Eventually, my folks bought a house in Florida, and now you’ll find Frank and me in SW Florida during NJ colder months.

Frank and I are retired and our daughter is married, living in Marlton. We are now the parents of two sweet black and white boy cats. I am a member of the Moorestown Meeting but usually attend Mt. Laurel Meeting. I like being able to walk to Meeting.

I’m a “people person.” I enjoy numerous activities: writing, reading, cooking, walking, biking, and recently returned to knitting.

I have always had music in my life. I play several instruments. I recently learned to play the mountain dulcimer and have a harp I look forward to plucking. Frank plays the guitar. He writes music and sings… he’s actually pretty good. You can see him on Francis Pilvalis on YouTube.

I look forward to reading your stories in our class booklet, I hope you are well and happy.

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Susan "Susie" Ransome Wow, it’s been 50 years since graduating from Moorestown Friends School. Recapping the last 50 years will be exciting and crazy to think that I can replay my life after being in high school. Well here goes to the best of my ability and of course the good old memory. I am going to recap in 10-year increments.

1971-1981: My mom passed away right after graduation.

Attended William Woods College. Majored in Physical Education with minors in Secondary Education and Math.

Moved to Florida after graduating from college. Worked at a private school with a few varying jobs like maintenance, book store and drove the kids back and forth from the two campuses they had. Taught PE at another private school for a couple of years. Got married to my first husband Jon in 1978. We moved to Maryland and I had my first child in 1979 (Mindy). We lived on my family farm on the eastern shore of Maryland from 1979-1980. Left my husband in 1980 and moved back to New Jersey to live with my parents and daughter.

1981-1991: Purchased my first home in Palmyra while raising my daughter Mindy as a single mom. Worked at Giles & Ransome, my family’s company. Worked many jobs during my stay at G&R. (Payroll, oil lab, mailroom, service secretary). Active with my daughter Mindy’s life with all her activities. Met my second husband Rick, dated for a while, and were married in 1986. Had my second child Lindsay in 1987. Worked part-time at my cousin Betsy Ransome's (class of 1969) business Broadleaf Nurseries. Worked at Westfield Friends School as a substitute teacher and also the after-school program. Moved to Florida to live in paradise in 1990.

1991-2001: Got into riding horses when I moved to Florida. Both of my daughters rode also. I ended up riding competitively in hunter-jumper competitions. The horses I owned were named Clayborne, Mai Kai, and Wiley.

Had my own business running a horse tack shop at the barn I rode at. It was called Susie’s Mane Stop.

Divorced my second husband during this time, which made me a single mom raising two daughters. Became a grandma to two grandkids: Mackenzie born in 2000 and Dalton born in 2001. Some crazy times during this period of my life.

2001-2010: This period of my life was a rough one but then it turned the corner with good things that happened. Landed a really good job working as a technical assistant for Gallagher Bassett Services which was a work comp office. Ended up acquiring the responsibility of raising my two grandchildren due to the choices that their mom and dad made. At first, I felt I wasn’t capable of taking on this job as a single grandma but it became a blessing instead. Had both kids in different activities like all-star cheerleading, karate, t-ball, tennis, cub scouts, etc. This certainly kept me young. I could have not been able to do this without my faith and really 45

Susan "Susie" Ransome good friends. I ended up enjoying the scouting program that my grandson was involved in and I still continue with it after he decided to leave scouts. I became a den leader, went to many training programs and now I hold a position as commissioner for three units in our council.

2011-2021: Retired in 2016 after working 17 years at my job which was the longest period of working at any job. Had a rough patch where I had to make a decision to relinquish custody of my granddaughter to the State of Florida foster system due to her choices and it was difficult for me to handle her choices. Was diagnosed with COPD due to my choices of smoking back in the day. I am on oxygen 24 hours a day but that doesn’t keep me down. I keep on trudging along with a good attitude and a lot of support. I became a greatgrandma in 2019 to a girl Alina Faith. Right now both kids are young adults 20 and 19. Can’t believe they have grown up to be fine young adults. Looking forward to the youngest moving out so I can begin the next chapter of my life.

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Mary McVaugh Shannon Hi everybody. Wow, 50 years went by pretty fast, but when I look back, it seems like some of those events were in another lifetime!

After MFS, I attended Guilford College for a few years, then went to about six other schools, and changed my major about eight times! I ended up getting married, moving farther west, and ending up in Western PA, north of Pittsburgh in a rural area (yes, I am now a Steelers fan!). We had a son and twin girls, then we both went back to college. I ended up going into nursing, working in various settings, and then went back to two different universities for my Masters, and then a Doctoral degree in nursing. I have worked as a nurse practitioner, specializing in wound care since 2003 and traveling to over 20 nursing homes in Western PA. In 2008, I started my own consulting practice with those homes. It was very rewarding and empowering to be able to have my own medical practice. Recently I sold my practice and am working part-time now, easing into retirement.

We spent a lot of time raising the children while going to school and working. Many of you know that one of our twins, Katie, was diagnosed with a terminal illness at age two. That was a very dark and scary time for us, with multiple hospital stays. In 1982 she was one of the first children in the country to have a liver transplant, at age four. She went on to have a happy life growing up, going to the beach, playing soccer, working in a nursing home, and having a million friends. I started the soccer program at the local high school (no field hockey or lacrosse out here!), and coached the girls' team for a few years, taking them all the way to the state semifinals—very exciting!

One summer day in 1997, Katie was driving home from a friend’s house to change into her bathing suit to work as a lifeguard when she crashed her car and died a mile from the house. We found later that she had developed a large aneurysm, related to her multiple surgeries, that had ruptured while she was driving. I am still so thankful for my MFS friends that rallied around us and made such a wonderful donation to MFS in her name. Our faith, friends, and family help us to continue on.

Our daughter is married with two children and is an attorney practicing in Philadelphia, and our son is married and living in Rochester. He has a Ph.D. in Material Science, as does his wife, and they conduct research for Xerox, developing 3D printers.

My husband Don and I love rural life. I have two horses and trail ride a lot with friends. We raise chickens and do a lot of gardening. We have a beach house in Barnegat Light (where we met), and also have a camp in the PA mountains where we love to fish and hike.

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Mary McVaugh Shannon As many of you have also found, life has its ups and downs, but we have found the strength to keep going and look forward to new adventures. I loved my career, and am still thinking of ways to stay involved in my field, but I am also excited to see what tomorrow brings! Happy 50th anniversary everybody!

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Tracy Southworth In these days of COVID, I am a presumed COVID survivor who caught the worst cold you can imagine. Currently, I'm helping several young people who cannot find work and affordable housing and were left out from the stimulus checks.

My career was fun, I helped build the internet and stuff. It's funny but the photography hobby was the most valuable education I had, besides learning how to learn at Muhlenberg, and I learned darkroom work from Cully Miller at MFS. Later I was a graphic artist for a newspaper in Massachusetts, then went into computers and got married.

Being skilled in both fields launched me into the publishing industry in Manhattan, which was very cool. After that, I went into networking in a university medical library, a manufacturing company, and finally an international bank where I maintained security on thousands of servers in the data center.

My family wasn't so lucky, my loving wife passed from cancer several years ago and since then I had to cut back and retire. I was studying acting and making simple jewelry before the pandemic hit and I am starting to get back to that now that I'm feeling better.

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Margaret "Margy" Taylor '71-'72 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH. '72-'75 Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA. '75-'80 Wilderness Ranger, U.S. Forest Service, OR and WA. '81-'87 Landline Surveyor, U.S. Forest Service, WA. '87-2015 Wildlife Biologist - Spotted owl research, central WA. Married, no children. Retired in 2015. HAPPY! Staying put in our old house where we've been since '89 in rural east, central WA where the forested landscape meets the shrub-steppe. It's a 1.5-hour drive east over Snoqualmie Pass from Seattle.

Interests: Ski touring, hiking, birding, gardening, sewing, reading.

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Donna Zucchi I grew up in a comfortable household with a grandmother who started a regional restaurant sensation called the Hawaiian Cottage. Trader Joe’s commemorates this restaurant with a mural in its new Cherry Hill store. Were it not for Moorestown Friends School, I assert that my journey in life would have looked very different. A journey that I enjoy no matter the circumstances and for which I credit MFS in what it provided for a formative fourteen years of my life: pre-K through twelfth grade. I devoured MFS’s healthy balance of academic and athletic opportunities and benefited from its intelligent, caring, learned teachers who assisted me in navigating life.

The world became expansive, engaging, and enlightening, even during those periods when it was heartbreaking.

After college, I worked for the ACLU — then for a not-for-profit domestic financial company, TIAA-CREF — and ultimately became an executive at an international company, AIG, retiring earlier than the norm having achieved my goals financially and professionally. Afterward, I discovered my passion for helping others achieve their personal and professional goals and started a coaching and consulting company, DMZ Consultants. The name of my company got me into a little trouble when I applied for a visa to North Korea because they thought I was a consultant for the demilitarized zone. Now I am semi-retired, traveling less at the moment because of COVID, enjoying my son’s family, two grandchildren, and feeling blessed to be living the life I am living while continuing to make a contribution to the lives of others.

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Additional Members of the Class of 1971

Edmund (Ed) Bowman

Roberta Cowell

Bruce Franklin

Douglas (Doug) Leonard

Anne Barclay Bragg

Marcia Shulman Doering

William (Bill) Harris

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Patricia (Pat) Caughey

Seth Cohen

Norna Fairbanks

Christine Hornberger Falker

Ingrid McHale Kozmin

John Langston

Dale Muggleworth

John (Jack) Paul

Additional Members of the Class of 1971

William (Bill) Penick

Daniel (Danny) Silberstein

Michael (Mike) Poliakoff

Nancy Blair Rabin

Sheila Gin Spagnola

Rick Urbanelli

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Babukar "Pa" Saine

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 lives.

We know their stories and they enrich the fifty-year history of the class of 1971.

Richard Abrams

Frank Adler

Frederick (Fred) Beall

Stephen (Steve) Berger

Stephen (Steve) Harding

John (Jay) Hatfield

David Kaigh

Mark Kelemen

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In Memoriam

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In Memoriam

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In Memoriam

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The Early Years

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Middle School

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Upper School

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The Class of 1971

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