Class of 1966 Reunion Book by Moorestown Friends School

Class of 1966

50th Reunion Book Presented on Alumni Weekend 2016

May 2016 Dear Members of the Class of 1966, Congratulations on your 50th Reunion! In recent years, these milestone reunions have taken on added meaning for me, as I can well remember classes in this era moving through the school just ahead of mine. I was a lowly Sophomore when you were mighty Seniors! Paging through the 1966 Cupola, it’s fun to skim the advertisements in the back of the book and remember the Moorestown of fifty years ago. With places like the Jersey Fruit Cooperative and Locust Lane Dairy, Burlington County still had a rural feel. Many beloved institutions – like Matlack’s Dairy Bar and Peter Pan Bakery– are long gone. While South Jersey and the MFS campus both have changed significantly since you graduated, the traditions and values students absorb as part of their MFS experience have not. It’s also a pleasure to recognize all of you as I leaf through The Cupola. The 1966 yearbook has helped remind me of the teenagers you once were, as I have read with interest your 2016 biographies. It’s gratifying to see how many of you referenced your MFS education as an important influence – our former teachers would be proud. Your class is a fine example of how Moorestown Friends gives graduates a strong foundation on which to build full and productive lives. A group of your classmates has put a great deal of time into this reunion, which looks like it will have a strong turnout – well done! I would like to acknowledge in particular Martha Sawyer DeLuca, Kenn Arning, Caroline Brunt Moriuchi, Dave Nelson and Debbie Ohler Bowman My appreciation also goes to Ellen Doak Winslow who served for many years as Alumni Class Representative, before passing the baton to Martha last year. Finally, special thanks go to the DeLucas and the Moriuchis, both of whom are hosting the class at their homes over the weekend. Margaret and I are looking forward to welcoming you all back to campus on Alumni Weekend. I hope you will have a great time! With all good wishes,

Larry Van Meter ’68 Head of School 3

Betsy Ward Alexander I’m grateful to find myself in my 60s in good health and surrounded by loving friends and family—circumstances that feel like a reward for all the years of tumbling about, improvising on the fly, and making do; in other words, normal life. At age 17 I went to Earlham College, majoring in fine arts; learned about a lot of new things, mostly not academic. Left after three years, lived in Cambridge and then San Francisco. My future husband and I began meditation, t’ai chi and basketball with a teacher there, who then moved to New England. We followed him, got married, and joined a residential meditation community in Canaan, New Hampshire. Fifteen years and four children later, we left the community to live on our own as a family for the first time, then divorced in 1996. I worked at Dartmouth College from 1975, in administrative positions including Asian studies, music and art history, and retired in 2014. I played and sang plenty of music in college, then started a choir in the meditation community. Membership was mandatory, so at age 25 I was teaching basic music theory and singing to beginners, making it up as I went along. In my 40s I took my first-ever voice lessons and performed in some recitals, and have been singing in community groups since then. When the nest was empty I started a small business making herbal body care products, which is dwindling but still continues. Spring through fall, I’m drawn outside to the large garden where I grow vegetables, flowers and herbs.

Betsy Ward Alexander

Kenn H. Arning Fifty years summarized into one page should be fun. I graduated from Rutgers College with a degree in Political Geography with a minor in German literature. I realized later that I was deeply influenced by National Geographic Magazine with a fascination for remote islands and little known cultures. I spent six months traveling in northern Europe after leaving New Brunswick with a month in Norway and a two month job teaching American English in a German boarding school. I had met Ellen Johansen while we were at Rutgers and we explored Europe together. We returned to New Jersey and got married in Moorestown Meeting in 1971. I had become a Quaker thanks to the subtle religious influences at MFS. Neil Hartman was my favorite teacher of my life, I liked his stern style laced with his warmth and moral conviction. Ellen and I became the Directors of Quaker House in Fayetteville NC. This was the ending of the war in Vietnam and I was successful as a conscientious objector counselor. Ellen and I got divorced and I moved to the Life Center in Philadelphia in 1974. For the next three years I was an activist in the Movement for a New Society. I was a co-founder of Men Against Patriarchy that did consciousness raising for men in support of the Feminist Movement. I was involved with Celia, a Quaker from New Zealand. I moved to Seattle in 1977 because of the natural beauty of living between two mountain ranges and surrounded by lakes and ocean. I have had the same address and phone number for 38 years. I have been the apartment manager where I still live across from a beautiful old city park. I have been the manager of the mail room at Harborview Medical Center since 1980. It is a large regional trauma center and part of the University of Washington. In my first year there I discovered Paul Sirotta, MFS class of 1965 as a co-worker! I was married to Rebecca Perry for four years in my early 40`s. In Seattle I co-founded Men Against Rape, that raised awareness for men on sexual assault and respecting womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights. I have been an activist ever since I did Weekend Workcamps with MFS`s Dave Richie in 11th grade. MFS taught me the importance of helping others less fortunate in a variety of ways.

There are now 40,000 Somali refugees living in Seattle and I speak elementary Somali language. I have spent the past 24 years being a mentor and friend to hundreds of Somali people living in Seattle. My passion for African people and their history began with Conrad Lehfeldt in our senior year in high school. Conrad and I would quiz each other on the capital cities of all nations in 1966. I stayed friends with Conrad a few years after Rutgers, he has lived in St John, Virgin Island the past decade. I maintained a close friendship with Cathie Bellak (Katz) until she died in 2001. She was a writer and authored several books on nature and Florida beach creatures.

Kenn H. Arning I stayed close to Margot Glendenning for thirty years after MFS graduation and I visited her in Honduras in 1980. I was close to Julie Forsythe during our college years, I lived at Locust Lane Farm the summer of my college sophomore year and I have stayed in touch with her family the past 50 years. I had one visit with David Beittel 20 years ago when he lived near Seattle. My real passion has been foreign travel over the years. I am fortunate to have visited 66 countries since most of you last saw me. Since 1990 when I got divorced from Rebecca I have taken a 3 to 4 week trip to a new destination every year. I have visited 6 continents seeking adventure like I saw in National Geographic Magazine. My favorite place is Madagascar for its people, special animals and variety of landscapes. Some of my favorite places have been Zanzibar, Namibia, Galapagos, Bali, Grenada, Yemen, Mongolia, Croatia, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Mozambique and Cuba. I have been into skin diving since I lived in Ocean City 1956. Many of my trips involved scuba diving on remote islands where I knew no one and I love adapting to new cultures. I have not been back to New Jersey since 1990 when my parents died. I am very excited to join our 50th reunion.

Sultanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place, Yemen 2007 Ifaty, Madagascar 2011

Kenn H. Arning Baobab trees, Madagascar 2006

Riding Bactrian Camel, Mongolia 2013

North Cascades Park, Summer 2006

Mongolia 2013

Camel at Dragonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blood Tree, Socotra Island 2007

Marjorie Ann Lief Balmages After graduating from Peabody I taught voice and piano privately for many years. My husband (Fred) and I travel to Europe where he performs concerts. Our son Brian is a conductor, clinician and composer whose music is selling worldwide.

David Beittel David graduated in 1966 from Moorestown Friends School and received two B.A.’s, one in English and one in Art at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. In his freshman year, he won the Hobart College Art Prize for his painting “Errata”. This encouraged him later to pursue a career in art. In addition to his undergraduate work, David received a New York State Teaching Certificate in 1970. He taught high school at Midlakes High School, Phelps, New York for one year before pursuing his M.F.A. David received his M.F.A. in Theatre Administration from the University of Georgia in 1973 and studied under Dr. Leighton M. Ballew, then head of the Department of Drama and Theatre. During his stay at UGA he was a full-time employee of the State of Georgia and worked as Dr. Ballew’s administrative assistant. In 1973 David served as Assistant Director of Missouri Repertory Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri and Assistant Professor of Theatre before being named Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of MissouriKansas City in Kansas City, Missouri in 1974. While at Missouri Repertory Theatre he worked with Dr. Patricia McIlrath, Director of the Theatre and theatre department at the time of the greatest expansion of the Missouri Repertory Theatre to its new facilities. In 1978 David joined Hallmark Cards, Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri and worked there for fourteen years rising from entry level artist to Design Director, travelling extensive in Europe and Asia.. During his tenure at Hallmark Cards he had the pleasure to work with its founder, J. C. Hall and the Sr. Vice President of Creative, George I. Parker. These two men had a significant influence on his career. In 1992 he joined a small company in Seattle, Washington called “The Paper Company.” There, he took the company from #4 to #1 in wholesale sales of imprintable stationery. In the fall of 1993 David was recruited by Ed Fruchtenbaum, the President, and Irving Stone, the Founder, of American Greetings, in Cleveland, Ohio. Serving initially as Vice President of Creative Retail he worked in various positions in Product Management and Creative and finished his 12-year career as the first Senior Vice President of Creative of the, then, largest publicly-owned greeting card company. David retired to Palm Springs, California in 2005 where he lives with his two dogs, Pepper and Woody. In addition to enjoying the warm weather and visits from friends and family in Palm Springs, he is restoring a forest cabin in nearby Angelus Oaks, California and writing a novel based on extensive family tree information. 10

Cynthia Coe Belcuore Greetings, classmates. My fondest memories of my six years at MFS were of the weekly meetings for worship, my twice-weekly trips to the Lower School to be an elementary assistant, chorus rehearsals and performances, weekend Work Camps, and Young Friends Movement gatherings in Philadelphia. I took my Quaker faith and my love for teaching to Elizabethtown College – the perfect place to support my need to develop and express my beliefs through political and social action, and graduated with a BS in Elementary Education with dual minors in English Literature and Science. The teaching staff at Elizabethtown College allowed me to supplement their regular curriculum with independent study and project-driven courses so that I could focus my teaching preparation for work in low-income urban schools. After graduation, I headed to Washington, DC, where I fell in love with the city, its diverse communities, and my husband. During my first 3 years of teaching, I attended Hood College’s master’s program where I studied Urban Planning. I married Al in 1973, and taught in Phoenix, AZ for two years while my husband was a legal clerk in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. When we returned to the Washington, DC area, I continued to teach until our children were born. When both children were in school, I updated my teaching skills and re-entered the work world as a Children’s Librarian for ten years, and then as a Reading Specialist and a Literacy Coach in the DC Public School system. I retired in August 2013 just in time to use my love of young children in my new “job” – being a grandmother. I care for my granddaughter two days a week, tutor DC students after school, tend to my garden, and am an avid reader. Cynthia (Coe) Belcuore cbelcuore@comcast.net 336 Constitution Ave., NE Washington, DC 20002

Deborah Ohler Bowman “Quite a ride!” was the comment from a colleague about our careers working in the Amherst County Public Schools in Virginia. The comment is just as true for all of my 50 years since graduating from MFS. Yes, there have been the low points and struggles all the way through, but the overarching feeling for me is gratitude for the relationships, experiences-flubs, crashes, hurts, treasured moments and laughs. I feel so fortunate to have been born to parents who valued faith, education, growth, equality and respect. Haddonfield and Moorestown Friends and all of you shaped me forever. And I find I’m using all my foibles and experiences, before I forget them, in a lot of different ways. Relationships are the most important part of my life-family, friends, children (other peoples’, I don’t have any of my own). My women’s groups, individuals and their families have been terrific supports and provided hilarious experiences. Nine years with four friends every week, what happens at Gayle’s stays at Gayle’s. Since the seventies the Girlz, who have scattered but can be herded, as well as the Well Seasoned Women have been a presence in my life. There have been mentors and precious friend influences who have given me more chances than I could have hoped for. Where do I start in telling about all these wonderful, challenging, joyful, heartbreaking experiences? I really think when I see you or talk to you would be better, but here’s a selection to start. Some of the most formative events were the death of my mother in ’72 and my father in ’74. They left Nancy, my sister, and me with a firm backbone and faith. Unfortunately I also had a good bit of emotional immaturity. Nevertheless Nancy and I have chugged on personally and professionally with their wisdom at our core. As for me, ignoring or overriding the wisdom at times and then learning from that. Mother is laughing from above. I didn’t realize the effect my Sweet Briar College experience had on me until, just as the song says, “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” But in this case, we didn’t lose it; we are Vixen sisters. At one point Nancy said to me, “I’ve been around the world; you’ve been to Virginia Beach.” She definitely was right, and so I started travelling with friends. Santorini is my favorite, so far! (Paris is a close second.) I have been blessed with friends who want to take wonderful vacations, and relatives who live in great places. Three short term mission trips to Jamaica with the regional Methodists here and one trip with Habitat to Humanity to Guatemala were special experiences of visiting a very different part of the world.

Deborah Ohler Bowman Work history has been pretty straightforward after the basic summer and vacation jobs (WT Grants, Olga’s, a pizza place, Cape Cod), some funny stories from those. Two months for two summers at Ancora, a year at the Central Virginia Training Center as a psychologist’s assistant (with the understanding I would go to graduate school in psychology, I was not enrolled by the last month of my stint) shaped my professional future. The chief psychologist at the Training Center had other plans for me. I went to graduate school and had an assistantship and a Virginia scholarship (received after riding a wrecker truck to the interview in Richmond). I became a school psychologist and worked for the Amherst schools and then became their supervisor of special education. I got certified as a special education teacher and as a reading specialist because I needed to know more to help the teachers. When that position became so administrative, and I must have been whining, someone finally said to me, “But you’re a school psychologist, why are you doing this?” I returned to school psychology when I got a position with the Lynchburg City schools. I loved working with the children, staff and parents. Nineteen years later when a buyout offer came to us in 2009, I dithered a bit over the decision at first, then retired. The deciding factor for me was when I realized my father was ready but never got to retire. I continue to do some contract work teaching individuals convicted of drunk or drugged driving for an agency here, and I have met incredible survivors in that work. On the other hand, my personal life was not straightforward at all. Two marriages and two divorces came very early after college. Fortunately there are good resolutions to both of them. I’ve had a number of amazing relationships with beaux since then, some long-term. Volunteering consumes a lot of my time now. Some of my main efforts are: CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate for children who have been abused or neglected); Stephen Ministry (trained lay caregiving); volunteer doing whatever no one wants to do at Sweet Briar College in Admissions, and the same job description at Rush Homes, a non-profit providing housing for life for individuals with disabilities and low income. I continued to be privileged to support people who are traveling on the cancer journey. I don’t have children of my own, and when the school job ended I wanted to work with children, so I co-teach children at Community Bible Study. People loan me their grandchildren and even flew me to FL to babysit one. It isn’t over, and I know that each of us has stories to tell. I’m eager to reconnect and hear about your fifty years.

Martha Sawyer DeLuca In the fall of 1966, I headed off to college at Emerson College in Boston, full of anticipation. Probably not the best of choices, but I was looking for something different from the small, closely contained environments of Westtown & MFS. I found it, but didn’t handle it well. The highlight was being there when Henry (the Fonz) Winkler was there. There were many lowlights as well, too numerous to mention, which is why I returned home after 2 years, a degree uncompleted, small town girl didn’t make it in the city. In 1972 I married the eldest son of a large, loving, Italian family, and Peter and I are celebrating 43 years this summer. We have no children, but friends and family have been very generous in sharing. One friend in particular who had lost his own parents, asked us to be surrogate grandparents for his kids – something quite special to us. My Dad is still active at 95, gardening & riding his bike/trike around Medford Leas where and he and my stepmother, also 95, enjoy the many activities offered there. My mother Ruth Sawyer, whom you may remember, passed away in 1981 and the Quaker Studies section of the new library is dedicated to her memory and service as teacher at MFS. I have led a rather conventional life, having worked as a bookkeeper for a variety of companies including several banks, the gasoline companies on the NJ Turnpike, a credit union, an HVAC contractor, an association for innkeepers and B&B owners and a liquor store. I like to read in my spare time, write and do puzzles on the computer and be creative by making greeting/birthday/sympathy cards for friends and family. I also make a variety of candy at Christmastime, sew occasionally - including my wedding dress (very simple) and a prom gown for a niece (not as simple), a Bill Blass Couture 3-piece suit for my brother-in-law to wear for his wedding (not simple at all) and some other gifts as inspiration strikes. Peter is a real estate appraiser with his youngest brother, and I sometimes help him, travelling all around South Jersey. For such a small state, there is a lot of territory to cover!! There have been a few exciting points of interest in some exotic traveling – the inside passage of Alaska with my husband for our 19th anniversary, a business trip for him (and a pleasure for me) going to Australia and New Zealand where I met my Kiwi cousins for the first time. I went to London with a friend and she and I have also gone to Boston, up the Hudson River to see the ‘castles’, as well as several other shorter regional jaunts. My Dad took my sister and me on a plane, boat, bus & rail trip through Scandinavia & on to St. Petersburg, Russia, and later he & I went on a cruise on the Queen Victoria from NYC to San Francisco through the Panama Canal. This was courtesy of my NZ cousin who was 3rd in command of the ship – a sort of friends and family deal – and quite an experience!

Martha Sawyer DeLuca

2008

Antoinette DeNardis I spent many years living and working in many places in the States. I lived in Boston, Cambridge, Martha’s Vineyard, Charlottesville, VA, and Denver. In each place I worked with children. It all began with day care, then private preschools, and ultimately early intervention with developmentally disabled little ones. In 1978, after completing a two year Waldorf training, I moved to Europe where I lived for ten years. Initially, I again worked with physically and mentally disabled children and adolescents, ages 6-18 years old. I “waddled” out of my school six weeks before my first daughter was born in 1981. I then stayed home and raised my four girls. In 1988, we moved back to the States. I raised the girls, as a single mom, in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of MA. We lived in “paradise” for over twenty years. When my youngest was nine years old, I returned to finish my undergrad degree in Art History. I graduated Magna Cum Laude at the ripe old age of fifty-one. After that I worked with adolescents-at-risk for many years. They had had horrific childhoods and were sent by the court to residential facilities. I was an English/Social Studies teacher for girls ages, 14-18 and then with boys, ages 14-19. I LOVED the kids and the teaching. I did not appreciate the settings and the penal system consciousness. I returned to school and received my masters in English from UNH. After completing my degree, I was recruited to teach on the Big Island in a little Waldorf school. I have lived on the Hawaiian islands for over nine years. I moved to Honolulu where I taught at the Waldorf high school. There I was an English teacher, Learning Support Coordinator, ESL teacher (another masters), and the College Counselor. One often wears many hats in private school. :))) This past June I moved to Kauai. A group of parents asked me to begin a Waldorf-inspired first grade. I am now self employed, which has its interesting moments. I will be completing a masters in Literacy in May. I have been thinking about getting a doctorate, but I think my daughters may go ballistic!!! 16

Antoinette DeNardis My oldest daughter, Lara, lives in NZ. She and her husband work with autistic boys in a residential setting. She home schools her children. My second, Julianna, stayed in our home town of Great Barrington. She also has a lovely family and is a nutritionist. My third daughter, Chantal. lives on the Big Island and works, with her husband, as a landscape artist. My youngest, Michal lives and works in NYC as a stylist. I hope my story is not too lengthy, but a lot of time has passed since 1966. I want to end by saying how very grateful I am for having attended MFS. I learned so much about care and compassion, about what learning can offer, as well as a deep sense of the importance of giving back. Thank you all for being a part of my biography. Be well and enjoy our 50th Reunion. I am definitely there in spirit!!! Much love, Antoinette

Patricia Drake

Judy Ostrov Edell

Susanna Lewis Ferry

Barry H. Ford Married 39 years to my first wife Kathy, the good Lord gave us three children: Barry Jr, Tabitha, and Cherish, and three grandchildren: Aiden, Dylan, and Shiloh, who are keeping me alive by constantly dragging me out of my comfortable chair to play basketball, baseball, hide and seek, tag, etc. (I just finished chasing four-year-old Shiloh around the house trying to get my cane back. I needed help.) At the risk of sounding annoyingly religious, I feel compelled to tell you that 40 years ago I met my best friend (yes, even better than Rex) through my future wife Kathy. He has transformed my life by teaching me to exchange my selfishness for kindness, my anger for joy, and my despair for eternal life. But, I must admit, class has not yet been dismissed. You know His name; it’s been lightning rod of controversy for the past 2000 years and today more than ever. Tabitha is our special needs child. Now 35, Tab arrived with an inert, but inoperable, brain tumor. Though not life-threatening, it has greatly affected her life. Apparently, the tumor scrambles messages to the frontal lobes, which results in unpredictable, antisocial, and sometimes violent behavior. I’ve discovered that Jesus is using Tabitha to teach me desperately needed lessons in patience, tolerance, and love. This class is also still in session. Through this, I also learned that God gave me a much stronger and braver partner than I deserved. Now retired (actually laid off) 7 years from a very enjoyable career as a technical writer, I’m now looking around again for some work. (Both the doctor and the financial counselor agree that I’m likely to outlive our resources. Over the years HE has provided generously, even during the times when our circumstances otherwise seemed bleak.) If you’re reading this, then you have probably contributed more than you know to my happiness and growth during my adolescent years. Thank you. I hope to be able to join you at our 50th. But if I can’t (or even if I can), may God richly bless you and yours, Barry Ford Barry Ford and Dave Nelson 21

Julia Bell Forsythe Name: Julia Forsythe Address: 7 Small Meadows Lane City: Putney State: VT Zip: 05346 Phone: 802-380-5229 Email: juliabforsythe@gmail.com 1966-2016 Standing on the stage at graduation, it never occurred to me that I would be writing to all of us 50 years later. I left MFS for Oberlin, and into the heart of the 1960’s. For me it was an intensely political time, demonstrating in Washington, DC and working against the war in Vietnam in as many ways as I could. Somehow that included a year of dropping out and working in South Philly in a settlement project in the Devil’s Pocket. I went back to finish up at Oberlin, then on to Pendle Hill for a year before the Life Center in Philadelphia. Pretty soon I was in Vietnam working for AFSC in the Quang Ngai Rehabilitation Center. Most of my education was not in school for sure, although I am thankful to have had the grounding that I got at MFS and Oberlin. I met my husband Tom Hoskins in Vietnam when he came out to join the team as the doctor. These were amazing years, working in the center, creating arms and legs for people injured by the many land mines everywhere in the landscape. Tommy and I married in Hong Kong on the way home in 1975 and quickly decided to join up with my siblings and their spouses in buying an old farmhouse and 70 acres of land in Putney Vermont on the Earthbridge Community Landtrust. Amazingly we are still here. The first 10 years were devoted to rebuilding the house from the sills up, and since continuing to tighten and finally solarize. Our family burgeoned. Cookie, Ellen, Molly Forsythe and Gail Haines and spouses/partners lived here together for the early years. Quickly we had nine kids all together and it was quite a wonderful mad house. Molly moved to Canada, Cookie eventually to Brattleboro VT, but the Red House was a lively scene for many years. Gardens, community activity, peace action, and participation in Putney Friends Meeting, including building a meeting house. Tom set up a medical practice and I worked with him for about ten years while the boys were little. At some point in all this our younger son Noah entered Kindergarten and I went to graduate school. I got a Masters in Education. I taught every grade from Kindergarten though college, ending my career with 10 years at Landmark College, a college for students with Learning Differences, especially ADHD and eventually Asperger’s/Autism. Our children Davis Forsythe and Noah Hoskins are happily married. Davis, Lauren Silas (4) and Walter (2) live in Denver, Davis litigates for the EPA and is a Clean Water Act defender. Noah and his wife, and daughter Suzanna live near by on the beautiful Bunker Farm. Noah is also a history teacher at the Putney School and loves the balance of classroom and out of doors. 22

Julia Bell Forsythe Now retired, I spend as much time with grandkids as I can. Find time for volunteer work with seniors in Putney, work for the Landtrust. My greatest passion has been a 20 year plus practice and study of Tibetan Buddhism which blends seamlessly with Quakerism with a practical and rigorous philosophical stance which has been so helpful in my spiritual development. To you all there are not nearly enough jokes or admissions of wrong doing in this little review. There have been plenty of both. We have played merrily in our family. Many glorious celebrations including this past Christmas when 33 of the 34 of us sat down to Christmas breakfast. Believe it or not we have not been able to convince the kids to like scrapple. What would the grandparents say? Sorry not to be able to join the festivities for our 50th. I will be joining my meditation teachersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; annual gathering as I have done for a number of years now. I will certainly be thinking of us all and look forward to reading and hearing from all of you. Love Julie

David Fuller

Margot E. Glendenning My parents gave me much, the most of which came from their wise approach; mentoring me with their tremendous intelligence and critical thinking. They sent me out the door and off to school with a basket full of unconditional love, values, and a sense of self-worth that I believe MFS and my MFS Class of 1966 nurtured and enhanced. Some of you individually but all of you collectively, participated in making a lasting, positive imprint on my life. Your intelligence, achievements, talents and interests were delightful and appealing to me. Your academic skills were invigorating. I admired the selfassuredness you all had in reaching out and grabbing on to the dramatic societal [if not traumatic] changing late 60’s and approaching 70’s. Certainly, I had an independent spirit but I was excruciatingly shy and it seems to me, I vicariously began processing my survival in the “real” world through you. You’re all often on my mind and without teetering, have remained at the top of my “valued” pile. In the early 1970’s I graduated from a business school in New Orleans … witnessed some of the oddities of desegregation … married my first husband … continued to hide shyness behind life-long love of literary reading, theater, the arts, music and I loved to dance. I remember some of us dancing at our homes … how enjoyable were those times … I still love to dance!!! The “arts” makes me think of Mrs. Ricketts. I loved her and cherished her artistic enthusiasm. She took us to Basil Rathbone’s reading of Annabelle Lee … stunning … but the show stealer was in her eyes … a mountain high – high. Our Chinese class play, Lady Precious Stream … her energy perfecting it. The night before the play I confessed to Leslie and Joan (67) that I darkened my hair because I was the only blond in my family … next I’m leaning over the sink and they’re bleaching my hair light-bulb-bright-blond. One look - and Mrs. Rickett’s threw her head down on her desk, burying her face. Really, I think I made her cry. Also early in the 70’s we moved to the Caribbean north coast, La Ceiba, Honduras. Dole’s plantation HQ. My life was idyllic … I enjoyed a loving and sophisticated Honduran family. The country was pristine, beautiful; the lifestyle simple but elegant and enriching. I taught English at a girl’s Catholic school and served the Honduran Red Cross. Inadvertently became a liaison for other American wives who moved to Honduras with Dole … many wonderful friendships and moving experiences … lived through military Coups … the first when heavily armed military collected my father-in-law; took him to his radio station to “announce” precisely what he was told to announce about the new command. Tons of MFS memories … Craig’s Million-Dollar smile ... turned any blue day into bright and sunny … Kelemen’s fear of less than an 100% SAT score … Corky’s great advice from his mom … “store your panty hose in the freezer – makes them last longer” … it’s true – it does … getting a speeding ticket for TWO miles over the speed limit with Kenn - after a trip volunteering no less. I was devastated … the crime of the century … thought I’d lose my license and my car over it … going to Elizabeth Arden’s with Cathy & Toni 25

Margot E. Glendenning on 5th Avenue … our harshness with Peter over that [!@?*] NYC deli. Our unkindness was appalling … but I most remember how he graciously endured the beating(s) … then shut it down with a shrug; coupled with a chuckle and, “I didn’t say it was a good place to eat – I said it was the only place I knew.” I remember Art Class too … but not so sure I remember it as implied … every few years I peruse our yearbook … each time another string of entertaining nuances surface about who we were - or thought we were. I miss Bernie and his charming smile that always presented with an unuttered message … I feel for the families of our classmates who lost loved ones --- much too soon. In the 1980’s my marriage fell apart. I returned to the States with my children, Leonardo Isaiah and Catherine Genevieve … this was difficult and hard on us …. Yes, culture shock exists. Those of you who were raised up beginning- to-end at MFS exhibited the greater of comfort level with who and what you were and had greater academic prowess than the rest of us – you exuded it. I admired it and wanted to experience it through my children. In 1966 When I flew down the steps of MFS armed with my basket full of education, life-skills and fond memories I expected to go to college … do whatever … then return “home” … raise a family … send them to MFS “since they were babies.” Instead, I came to Wyoming after my sister asked me to “drive her out here” when she moved to Casper … no explanation for pitter-pattering away from the east. I went through the paralegal program at Casper College. I’m a certified paralegal, civil litigation specialty … love my job … plan to retire in four years. Married Dan whose great-grandparents settled the base of Casper Mountain. Six years ago my mom died. It broke my heart … the pain “brought me to my knees,” as they say. I brought my mom’s little Pronto garden shovel back … my Linus blanket … and through a cold, windy, snowy, cabin fevered Wyoming winter, dug holes in my frozen back yard … bawling my way through the winter … by spring I had a bunch of holes in the yard whereupon Joan of Arc rose up … kicked the defeating pain out of me and created a quite impressive flower garden and patio … night and day … amended soil … built rock gardens … pathways … ostensibly it’s a 17-year-old seasoned garden - whipped into being in barely 4 years … lots of patio parties … weddings … my garden has made its place in the hearts of many. 26

Margot E. Glendenning My greatest joy - my grandchildren - Antonio Collins (11), Amanda Kate (7) and Audrielle Eliza (5). They love “Grandma’s Garden” and visit every summer filling my heart and it with happiness. I spent almost a month in Cancun with them this Christmas. It was time enough to assimilate as a family versus “ArriveVisit-Leave” and thus most meaningful to me. Did someone say regrets? Yes, I have mine – some at a dear price never to be repurchased … but not without happiness and accomplishment … I hope you’ve had happy lives … I’ve wished that for you. I’m not into the “Bucket List” thing - that stated - you all are on mine. I’m coming home and hope to see many - all of you. We shared an intense amount of personal space during the finality of our childhoods … perhaps a little opportunity to connect-the-dots. I’m attaching a few photos – essentially my beloved Grandchildren and my Garden. I miss you and relish the thought of seeing you soon! Most Lovingly, your friend and classmate, Margot Elizabeth (MFS Class of ’66)

Bill Hess If my wife and I were close in New Jersey, we would show up and “boy” have I missed all my old time friends. All the names of past school mates gives me alot of old time memories. Up to the time of my early 10th grade attendance, alot of good things have happened for my wife and family. We now have twelve grandchildren to our three girls, and one boy. Since moving to Florida in early 1972, I have changed my faith of Quaker and my wife faith of Catholic to born-again Christians. We now live together with her parents in Greensboro, N.C. They are elderly and need our help. He is 90 and she is 88 years of age. We moved from Concord, N.C. to a wonderful apartment which we love alot. Since the ’66 graduation I went to a boys school in North N.J., then a school of business art for advertising. I worked with jewelry art and went to driving trucks – off and on to finance a family of four children and wife. I switched to the final job of Italian car parts distribution. Well – I injured myself (big time) and the past 15 years I came to have severe Krohn’s. I had three operations and long hospital stays. Now I’m holding my own. Please know I have many memories of MFS and my old time friends. I haven’t seen any since MFS. Also, please excuse me for not making the trip. We, my wife and I, are constant caregivers and we all cannot go far.

Jim Johnson After graduation from MFS in 1966, I attended Pheiffer College in North Carolina where I met my first wife. After the end of my second year we were expecting our first of 2 children. And we returned to Riverton where I took a job with Acme Markets. With a young family’s needs, I changed jobs to do electrical engineering with PSE&G for the next 10 years. Stone & Webster contacted me with a need for engineers with benefits and salary increase so I made a job change again. Through the years there were several more job changes while the children grew but my marriage didn’t. In 1984 I met and married my present wife Kathy who has been working for PSE&G and will retire in a few more years. I am now retired from my last job, where I was working at various sites in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware as a boilermaker. In the years since my return to Riverton, I served as Councilman in Riverton for six years. I was active with the Jaycess, the March of Dimes, the Riverton Fourth of July Committee, the Riverton Historic Society, and Public Television in Philadelphia and New Jersey. Since my retirement we have been traveling in the U.S.A, Canada, Mexico and England. My daughter attended Beaver College as an Art major and has her own family. Our son Glenn graduated from MFS in 1991. Now 44, has finished his BA and is preparing for a master’s program in Library Science and Technical Information Processing.

Edel Kaiser

John P. Klauder John P. Klauder ‘66 1020 Grand Concourse, Apt 12 – J Bronx, NY 10451 – 2633 I’ve had a fortunate life, and academically it began in 1952 in pre‐kindergarden at MFS. In 1962 (8th grade) my parents transferred me to a college prep, boarding school in CT. Following graduation from prep school I joined the Army and after infantry and engineer training, spent a year in Vietnam. After leaving the Army in July of 1970, I spent the remainder of the summer in a memorable trip hitchhiking and freight train hopping to the West Coast and back. Then I began working and attending college part time and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. During my college years, I also was active in Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Gay Activist Alliance. A weekend trip in 1977 took me to NYC to visit a sick friend (he had a cold). I’ve been an NYC resident ever since. While attending Penn, one of my jobs had been for a pipe organ company. I’ve always liked pipe organ music and was fascinated by the mechanisms that operated them. Once I moved to NYC, I began working with a pipe organ company, and in 1984 I began my own pipe organ tuning service. I’ve continued in this business to present and feel I have a hobby that pays. In 1986 I met Vincent Taylor and fell in love. We dated for six months and then moved in together. With a NYC law change in 1996, we became domestic partners, and with a New York State law change, we married in 2015. I’m grateful to Betty and Lou Klauder for sending me to MFS and to the teachers, coaches and staff who taught me. I look back on my MFS years with fondness.

Bill Leonard

Jim Lovett Name: James Lovett Address: 3949 E. 1000 N. City: Rushville State: Indiana Zip: 46173 Phone: (765) 645-5517 Email: lovettbusiness@hotmail.com June 1966 I arrived at Valparaiso University. 1972 earned a B.A. in Psychology 1975 earned my B.S. in Education 1975 began teaching at Adams Central in Monroe, Indiana 1978 received my Masters of Science in Education from Indiana University 1979 married Mary Jo Gordon and moved to Bangor, Maine 1980 we moved to Rushville, Indiana, and I taught for the Fayette County School Corporation in Connersville until retirement in 2010 Mary Jo retired from IU Ball Hospital. She was a pediatric physical therapist for 43 years We have two children, Benjamin and Zachary and four grandchildren 1990 became involved in Boy Scouts Both Ben and Zach earned their Eagle Rank while in Boy Scouts Ben graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Masters in Mechanical Engineering Zach graduated from Indiana State University with a Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Professional Aviation

Gary McAfoos III 1966-1970

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1992-2001 Administrative Law Judge for NJ office of Administration Law, Utility Cases 2001-to-date US Administrative Law Judge, Hearing Social Security Disability Cases Married 1970, 1988, 2003 took 3 times to get it right One Daughter Dara, who made me the proud Grandfather of twin boys in 2014 US Army Reserves 1970-1988 Did not make General as my yearbook Character shows but did make Colonel. Spent time in Germany, Italy and Egypt and served in the First Gulf War Hobbies: Reading Military History, model plane building same as 50 years ago. Love to travel with my wife Tricia of 14 years. Plan to retire when I am 70! I remember our MFS family fondly and look forward to seeing you all! Gary, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mooseâ&#x20AC;?, Lou 34

Bill McDaniel, Jr. William K. McDaniel, Jr. – 856 Priestford Rd. – Darlington, MD 21034 •1966 – 1970: Attended Cornell University and worked about 20 hours per week at WVBR-FM, America’s best student-owned and operated radio station! Was disc jockey, Sales Manager, and summer General Manager. I probably spent more hours at the station the last three years of college than in classes and studying. But that didn’t stop me from getting into Columbia Business School, where I majored in Marketing, and graduated in 1972. •1970-78: In the first draft lottery on 12/1/69 my ‘43’ draft number guaranteed me a ticket to Vietnam, so a creative solution was in order. I found a two year ROTC program at City College of NY, taken at same time as my Columbia MBA. This entailed “summer camps” at Fort Knox and Indiantown Gap, PA, followed by three months active duty for training as a Quartermaster Officer at Ft. Lee, VA. Then, six years in a Reserve unit in the Bronx. •1971: Married Judith Holtman, a fellow Columbia grad student. Son Chris was born Dec., 1972. •1972-1977: Account Exec. at SSC&B Advertising, NYC on the Lipton and J&J accounts. Lived in Yonkers, NY and Larchmont, NY. •1978-1985: VP/Account Supervisor at BBD&O Advertising, NYC on the Scott Paper, Pillsbury, Quaker Oats, GE, and Pepsi accounts. Daughter Melissa was born in 1979. We lived in Rye, NY. •1985-86: I became frustrated that the job of account exec was taking a back seat to the “creative product,” and I wanted to make more use of my business and marketing skills. I became Pres./CEO of Halley’s Comet Watch ’86, Inc.(!) Despite the comet being barely visible in North America, it was actually a great “learning experience” in starting and running a business. •1987-1989: VP at the Healthcare Division of BBD&O on several accounts. •1989-1990: The entrepreneurial bug bites again! I opened Consumer Health Marketing, the first consulting firm in the country in the “new” field of Direct-to-Consumer advertising of prescription drugs. I was a perhaps a year or two early to secure major clients and to capitalize profitably on what has become an enormous segment of consumer marketing and advertising. •1990: I shut down the consulting, and took a position as Marketing Director with U.S. Sugar Co., Inc. in Buffalo, NY. As they say, “the rest is history”. By 1991 I was President and CEO, and I ran the company for the next 24 years until I retired in January, 2015. We built this small regional packaging company into a much larger operation with national distribution, adding a second plant in Arkansas in 2010. I moved to Little Rock in 2008 to get the plant built, and stayed there until 2012. I remain a significant shareholder in U.S. Sugar. 35

Bill McDaniel, Jr. •On the personal side, our third child, Katherine, was born in Buffalo in 2000, 21 years to the day after her older sister was born! Sadly, our marriage ended in 2010, and I moved on to a new relationship. My “significant other” then developed multiple health problems and passed away in December, 2015. •Now retired, I reside at the family farm in Maryland. Many may remember the Senior Class picnic at this beautiful 850 acre site. It hasn’t gone anywhere, I’m happy to say! •I’m proud of my three children. Chris is 43 and a commercial real estate banker in NYC. Like me, he obtained an MBA from Columbia. Melissa is 36, and a veterinarian in CT. She gave birth to our first grandchild, a baby girl, last August! Katie is 15 and living with her Mom in Little Rock. •I keep busy with reading, gardening, and catching up on all the “projects” that have been on the back burner for 40 years! I’m now dating for the first time since college! I’ve been all over the U.S. as part of my work for the past 40+ years, and I look forward to foreign travel and new leisure activities in retirement. •Here in Maryland, I am now closer to my brothers and their families. Lee, MFS ’68 (Cornell Class of ’72), runs the Maryland farm. Denis, MFS ’71 (Cornell Class of ’75), has a third house here as his family’s weekend and summer getaway. My mother, Dorothy, is a resident at the Quaker-run Medford Leas retirement community. It’s nice to be back “at home” in the NJ/MD area.

Jane E. McGibbeny O.K. I’m 68 years old. Then I think: I’m out of high school 50 years. Oh my goodness that’s a wow. Dear fellow classmates can you believe it? Before we graduated we were saying “Can’t wait.” Then that night we were all in the big gym and I remember tears, “I can’t believe it;” “I may never see you again” and so on. I do remember Mr. Hiatt…O yes I do… “Jane, why don’t you apply yourself?” He was a good man and we had a lot of good teachers. I moved around a lot. South Carolina, 4 years in Minnesota, back to South Carolina. In 1970 Cathie came to visit a couple of times. The second time we were at dinner and she said; How soon can you pack up and move to Lauderdale by the Sea? My dad was the first to speak and he said “I’ll check my calendar and you’ll want your bike.” We had an efficiency a block and a half from the beach and about 4 blocks from Toby and Jules. We had a good time – beach and bikes. I fell in love with Florida. My husband and I were married in 1972 and thought family more important. So in 1974 we moved to rural Lancaster County, PA. We raised 2 great boys there but 34 years later the winters and our love for Florida brought us back to Vero Beach. (We miss the Dodgers at Dodgertown) by the crow flies 6 miles from the beach. Sleepy town. Some dirt roads and the lights flash from midnight to six. Rick graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He works for Providence College in R.I. as a graphic designer and does a lot of freelance. Tim graduated from Ithaca College and works for a printing company in Portland, OR. (I’d like to see him do more with his photography major but that’s me being a mom). I was trained to work with the public and one of my most favorite things was seeing parents come into the hotel and restaurant (Willow Valley) with their kids and then those kids bring their kids. Watching them all grow was fantastic.

Jane E. McGibbeny I do not have any grandchildren but I get my fix from my friends. Such fun! My pastor and his wife had a calling to come back to Vero. Pillar Community Church has just celebrated five years. At last count we have 40 kids! Even though my marriage dissolved, I am busy and happy. I have to laugh…I have two friends that don’t drive anymore, one 87, one 95, so I do. These ladies keep me on my toes. There is nothing wrong with their brains. Such fun! Well, that’s it in a nutshell. Love, Jane McGibbeny atboardwalkgirl@gmail.com 3605 16th Street, #19 Vero Beach, FL 32960

Caroline Brunt Moriuchi It seems not that long ago that we were standing in the New gym after graduation in our receiving line! But it has been fifty years! It has been quite a journey for me. After graduation from MFS I went to Jefferson Medical College (now Thomas Jefferson University) for nursing. I received my diploma in September, 1969 and a week later I was at University of Virginia working in their neonatology unit and going to school.I received my BSN in May, 1972. I returned to Philadelphia as a clinical instructor at University of Penna. diploma school. In the mean time Fred and I began dating after he graduated from Bates and we were married in September, 1972 and I moved to the farm. There I started my second career as a bookkeeper doing the payroll, paying the bills and even filing income taxes. All I can say is thank you Mr. Carr for general math my senior year at MFS! In 1995 I went back to nursing as a school nurse at Friends Select School in Philadelphia. I remained there for seven years until I started doing child care at home for a faculty member at MFS and it grew from there. I did that for ten years and then retired. I am now back to doing bookkeeping for our mulch business. Fred and I had four children, Takashi, Naoji, Seiji and Akemi. They were very active in sports both at school and in the community. I spent many hours in the car and on playing fields and gyms for soccer, basketball, baseball and lacrosse. Fred and I spent a lot of time at MFS. We are blessed with a wonderful family. Takashi is married to Mey-Yen. They have two children, Kenji age 13 and Miya age 10. He is a partner in an asset management company and Mey-Yen teaches at LaSalle College. Kenji and Miya go to Germantown Friends. Naoji is married to Michelle. They have two children, Mina age 8 and Naomi age 6. They are the fourth generation of my family to go to MFS. Naoji works for Keller Williams, a national real estate company and Michelle is a project manager for Comcast Business. Akemi received her MEd from Columbia three years ago in physical education and returned to Philadelphia to teach at The Philadelphia School. It is a PreK through eighth grade school. They appointed her Athletic Director her second year. She is very busy with her job. She also has become very involved with Crossfit. Unfortunately Seiji died from sudden death syndrome in June, 2014. He was our son who loved the land. He started our mulch business which we continue today. He also was assistant boys basketball coach at MFS. He loved working with the boys. We miss him and think of him everyday. I hope all our classmates are doing well in all of their endeavors and I am looking forward to seeing those who return in May.

Caroline Brunt Moriuchi

Gail Wilson Murray

Dave Nelson Dave Nelson - 2 False Heather Way - Medford, NJ 08055 1966: Accepted at University of Miami – major was marine biology – studied marine life in the Florida Keys, surfed major spots along Florida’s eastern coast. Later I transferred to Anderson University in South Carolina. 1967: Attended Anderson University majoring in biology. That summer I took a road trip across country to California on my way to Hawaii taking the northern route to California stopping at as many National Parks and other points of interest as possible. The trip took a week, visited relatives in California, surfed famous spots in southern Calif. and then drove into Mexico for a few days of surfing. Took my surfboard and left for Oahu and surfed Oahu and Kauai. On my return from California I drove the southern route stopping at all major points of interest. I ended up in Myrtle Beach, S.C. where my future wife was vacationing and I gave her a surfboard that I bought in Calif. 1969: Married Mary Fowler of Anderson, S.C. in December. Honeymooned in Fripp Island, S.C. and then moved to Palmyra, NJ. Transferred to Drexel University in Philadelphia where I studied architecture and engineering for four years. 1969-1973: Worked for Catalytic Engineering Co. in Philadelphia. 1974 – 1978: Worked for Royal Par Engineering in Cherry Hill, NJ. 1978 – 1996: Worked for Stone & Webster Engineering in Cherry Hill, NJ. During the early 1980’s my wife and I travelled extensively throughout the US, Canada and Caribbean. 1987: Over Christmas and New Year we spent two weeks with friends in Germany. 1988: Returned home with wonderful news of pregnancy. Our son David William was born in September 1988. 1993: Moved to Medford, NJ and are currently living in a house that I designed, drew the construction drawings and wrote the specifications. (Prior to 1993, lived in Maple Shade, NJ, Moorestown, NJ, and Berlin, NJ) 2001: My mom Charlotte died in July. The Charlotte Nelson Endowment Fund she established provides financial resources to help MFS for scholarships, professional development for faculty, and educational missions, and more funds for now and in the years ahead. 42

Dave Nelson 1996 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2016: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m currently with Jacobs Engineering that has more than 200 offices in more than 25 countries. I am a Project Engineer in the Mt. Laurel, NJ office that chiefly performs design, engineering, and technical services for the petroleum and chemical industries. I am enjoying being with my family: Traveling, spending time with friends, the Delaware beaches, the Hawaiian Islands, boating, fishing, photography, music (especially Blues, Bluegrass, Folk, Country, Cajun, and Disco), cooking, landscaping, and college & pro sports.

Dave Nelson

Barry Ford and Dave Nelson

Linda Harrison Novak Before being asked to take a leave of absence from the University of Vermont due to academic insufficiency I moved with my parents to Bangkok, Thailand at the end of my sophomore year. While in Bangkok I spent time teaching English to young adults and trying to stay out of the heat and humidity. After one year it was my earnest desire to go back to college and “apply “ myself to studying. So a year late and newly married I graduated from Vermont, moved to Hartford, Ct., and found a full time job in retailing. With no children and dissatisfaction with a career in retailing, what to do but try for the career which enticed me as a child. It was to nursing school in Hartford next and don’t you know that during the second (and last) year of nursing school our oldest son was born. With inherited wanderlust our little family moved to Texas where our second son was born. Finding Texas too far from the East coast and family we moved back to South Jersey and found it was not where we wanted to be. Onward to Georgia and our family found a place to call home. But no, when the nest was empty where would we retire? So we built a home on a barrier island off the coast of S.C. and did not retire. Both of us still work, Peter out of an office in the house and me two shifts a week at the local hospital. Don’t know what the future holds!! Linda Harrison Novak

Miles H. Overholt Dr. Miles H. Overholt is the Principal of Riverton Management Consulting Group. His professional work focuses on writing and applying the principles of management learned at the intersection of his work as a consultant, organizational systems researcher and clinical psychotherapist. He has over 29 years of consulting and research expertise in strategy execution and organizational design, coaching and executive development, as well as in guiding change for organizations, teams, and individuals. He is the author of Building Flexible Organizations: A People-Centered Approach and has written numerous articles on strategy execution, change processes and organizational alignment. His articles have appeared in such journals as Executive Excellence, Human Resource Planning, Information Systems Management, Information Strategy, The Executive’s Journal, Personnel Journal, and the Handbook of Business Strategy. His most recent contributions are in Strategic HR Review on using metrics to guide change and in two white papers for the American Management Association on organizational change and alignment. As a consultant, he leads companies, groups, and individuals through self discovery, organizational redesign and guided change. As a coach, his ability to integrate professional development with personal growth, personal growth with team development and team development with strategic change, enables him to develop the individual executive and impact the organization’s strategy execution. His recent clients include Toshiba Electronics Europe, the United Nations World Food Programme, QVC and Vanguard. Former clients include MCI, Johnson & Johnson, the McDonalds’ system, and Coopers & Lybrand. He is a Certified Management Consultant. As a researcher, he and his colleagues have developed MAPP® (Measuring the Alignment of People and Processes) a unique measurement tool that

Miles H. Overholt assesses a company’s strategic and operational alignment. MAPP enables executives to readily identify areas of misalignment and develop interventions to realign their core capabilities. With Dr. Elena Granell, he conducted the Human Resource Planning Society’s State-of-the Art (SOTA) 2002 project which defined how corporations’ best support customer intimacy. He also is the co-developer of the Customer Focus Culture Index, and developer of the Organizational Flexibility Profile® and the Organization Behavior Database®. The Organizational Flexibility Profile® measures alignment, congruency, employee behavior, and organizational performance, and the Organization Behavior Database® is used for benchmarking and research. As a therapist, he guides individuals toward a deeper understanding of their mind, body, and soul. In addition to a variety of traditional approaches, he uses a systems approach to creating change. By looking at the whole he helps change the individual and by changing the individual he helps shape the whole. His undergraduate degree is from Lafayette College and he earned his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nancy K. Roberts Nancy Roberts, Class of ‘66 Further education: Middlebury, B.A., Biology, 1970 Pace University, M.S., Nursing, 1975 Family Never married, no children Career Started out as a nurse on a medical unit at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, NY. After 4 years joined a project to customize functionality for the institution’s first Hospital Information System, better known as the EHR (electronic health record) these days. Liked the puzzle-solving aspects and the hours (better than working nights or evenings every other month). Stayed with it in the maintenance group as functionality evolved over the years. Looking forward to retirement in the next year or two. Interests Over the years have enjoyed skiing in Europe, Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, and the US, Colorado, Utah, California, Idaho, New England. Developed an interest in dance performance (as a member of the audience) in the 70’s and 80’s that has continued, although I no longer try to see every dance company that appears at the larger venues in New York. My favorite company is New York City Ballet. Also attend New York Philharmonic concerts on a regular basis. Interested in personal development. Have done programs with Landmark Education, T. Harv Eker’s Peak Potentials Training, and Barbara De Angelis among others. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion. 49

Lesley Rowe Robinson After graduating from MFS, I attended Fairleigh Dickinson University and majored in art education. I received my degree and sometime later received my Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree from Massachusetts College of Art. I lived in Boston for 2 years, during which time I took a teaching job in Methuen, MA, where I met my future husband Gerry. We had two children, Casey and Bret. Bret lives with his wife Danielle and daughter Lucy in Niskayuna, NY. Casey lives with his fiancĂŠe Tunmise in Baltimore, MD. My husband and I taught in Methuen, MA for 22 years. We moved to New Milford, CT, after Gerry took an administrative job in the local system. In the meantime, I secured a teaching job in Waterbury, CT. We both retired (yea!) after 42 years and now live in Brewster, MA, on Cape Cod. This always has been the place where we wanted to spend our retirement. We have been fortunate to fulfill our passion for travel by visiting Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, Mexico, Cuba, many Caribbean Islands, and driving across country (tenting all the way!). We take advantage of what the Cape has to offer: beautiful beaches, rustic woodlands, and secret trails. My husband and I volunteer weekly to assist the homeless in Hyannis. We also take advantage of the cultural life offered here: museums, galleries, lectures, and classes. In addition, we savor the local color of the Cape by eating our share of fried seafood and lobsters. Feel free to visit if you come to the Cape.

Lesley Rowe Robinson

Charles “Corky” K. Scott Bio, for what it’s worth. Went to Nasson College for one year in Springvale Maine, flunked out there. Was willing to not go to college at all then as I really didn’t seem to understand the point. My parents were horrified and found a college in Atlanta Georgia, Oglethorpe, and I spent 4 years down there eventually working full time as a framing carpenter and finishing classes part time. Visited home during Christmas my last year down there and my father told me to not unpack as we were headed to Stowe Vermont to visit my sister there. I enjoyed the visit so much I decided to leave Georgia in the spring and head back to Stowe. Saw three springs that year, one in Georgia, NJ and then Vermont. I met my future wife at the Toll House Lodge where we both worked as ski bums. I decided to go back to school to learn to be an auto mechanic and spent one year in Rhode Island doing so. I had a focus now and excelled in the classes. We left Rhode Island in ’74 and moved to South Strafford VT where my father had some property and sold us 5 acres. We built a kit log house during the summer of ’75 and moved in Thanksgiving day. My wife’s brother stayed with us that summer to help with the building. I worked as an auto mechanic in the White River Junction area for 9 years before deciding to leave the auto mechanic profession. It’s a tough profession to be in, hard on the body and not as much pay as I’d anticipated. I shifted across the Connecticut River and worked at Dartmouth College Library for the next 25 years until being laid off during the economic crisis of 2008. At that point I had to retire, no one would hire me for any job for which I applied. In the meantime I had a shop attached to our house in which I built an airplane and two cedar strip canoes, as well as various pieces of furniture for the house, several of which we brought with us to California. I did not finish the airplane, but did complete my flying lessons after beginning when I was 16, and earned my pilots license in 2005. I don’t fly anymore though, too expensive. Rossmoor has a really nice woodshop and the supervisors asked me to join them so now, twice a month, I work there as a supervisor. I also get to use the shop anytime I wish and am in the middle of making a mahogany slat top entry bench. Life here is good. Everyone is very friendly and there’s so much to do that we are busier than we ever were in Strafford, Vermont. 52

Pete Small Dear Classmates, Here I sit at my trusty old computer, trying to come up with a “bio” for you folks to read. Well, I was never one to write pithy essays and the skill still eludes me. I have enjoyed many fine adventures since graduation, and hope for many more in my retirement (if my wife lets me). My time at Boston University was especially rich in the experiences it offered. The people, the places, the excitement of the times, all still remain with me and are a part of my cherished history. I will confess also to setting out on a life-changing cross country road trip that caused me to truly see the Light before coming back home to Moorestown. It was so good to be back to my family, and then, by some miracle, met the love of my life (in a bookstore). Over the years I have pursued several career paths before settling in on IT, which has been good to me. At this point in my life I am cutting back on my professional work to explore more creative outlets that I am strongly drawn towards: writing poetry, reading, gardening, and baking bread. I have ended up living in a very old farmhouse (which we have named “Birdwood” in honour of a Scottish ancestor), which also consumes much of my time. Thankfully my wife and I love to putter around the place and it grows dearer to us with each day. I am also delighted to be a Grandfather to a brilliant and astonishing Kindergartener. He is always a source of wonderment. I may not have done everything I thought I would, but I have done enough to look back in grateful thanks for what I was able to do and for what was given me. Very truly yours, Peter MacKenzie Small (Laird of Birdwood)

Brian G. Smolens

Craig L. Stark Well, I guess I do have a unique story to tell and add to our class portrait. I now live in Washington, DC, one of my most favorite cities. My “partner” Mark is the most loving guy I have ever met. Professionally I’m an architect who has built projects throughout the world. I am a proud single-parent dad. I have my health; no prescriptions or medications. I am still working but looking towards retirement in the future; perhaps a complete change of interest; working more from the heart than the intellect. I count my blessing every day and there are many. I’m also the only Black face in our class (smile). My God, it’s been fifty years. Can we please take time to remember that we are the class of JFK assassination, ’64 Civil Rights Bill, the ’65 Voting Rights Act, and the age of segregation in the South. At Friends, like many of us, I was just the beginning of myself; the same person I am today but really just the beginning and for me the period of civil rights shaped me in many ways. I certainly realized how I was different from you, my classmates. I could have fun but it could not be a detraction from life goals and academic success; a real “feet on the ground” focus even in high school. Make no mistake, I enjoyed the genuine friendships I had at Friends. And for that I am truly grateful. You may not realize that my relationship with our headmaster was tense. Just prior to graduation I was pressured to go to Earlham College. He treated me almost as if I was a “currency” to be spent where he wanted. Weird. It felt like he was limiting my choices. Thank goodness I had parents who said, “You go where you want to!” I really had had my fill of Thursday meetings. I went to Hobart and William Smith-four years of a beautiful lakeside campus, great education, and cold, cold winters. I was a Math/ Physics major- Imagine. Graduating with a strong GPA, dean’s list, etc. I then went on to Harvard Graduate School of Design in Architecture-graduating in four years with my Masters. My impression of Harvard is there are a lot of really smart people at Harvard so it was “hard” work again. But with pride and parental mantras firmly implanted in my head, I realized I could out-work smart people. So there I’ve said it, I may not consider myself smart but I am always a hard worker; graduating in the top fifth. At Friends you get a great solid education, one that I have had to rely on throughout my adventures in Academics- again truly grateful. I love architecture- the beauty and the craft. I earned my license in 1975 and I have enjoyed a career as a designer, project manager, construction manager, owner, and now business development leader. I lived in beautiful downtown Boston for 10 years-loved it. I had an 11 year marriage and divorced. My now ex-wife and I just grew apart over a dozen years; competing professional careers and different life goals. My belief, looking backwards, is marriage is not for the young, at least not for me. Maybe it’s different for different people. What I did take away from my marriage was that family is important. So even as a single person I recognized my bounty and within five years adopted my son as a single parent; best decision I ever made! 55

Craig L. Stark Truly! I’m a believer that while you bestow many blessing on our kids; they make you a better person. My son John is now 33- a chef in downtown DC, cooking for Jose Andres- world renowned chef. Not aware if you remember, I’m a military “Brat” and lived throughout the world prior to coming to Friends. It’s a pattern I continued throughout my professional career and leisure time. In Boston, I worked in small and large firms and moved on to Miami to open my own architectural firm for 10 years. What do I design and build? Well, the portfolio is aviation, higher education and colleges, sports stadiums, hospitals, and corporate offices. I sold my firm and joined a large international firm (Hispanic owned) and started my international career traveling to San Paulo, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. Miami is exciting and beautiful. I immediately took Spanish lessons with a private tutor and at Berlitz. The amazing thing about Miami is you are out at restaurants and the background noise is many different languages and nationalities. It was also the time of the Miami Sound Machine- can we all remember Gloria Estefan- Rhythm of the Night/ Conga? Please feel free to add your own sound track. All my new cities were not always glamorous. I lived in Detroit for three years. That was a tough assignment. Visually it was dreary and cold. At the time there was little infrastructure downtown and it was not a thriving city. I oversaw a school construction program for the city and accomplished a lot and I truly I had to finally find my replacement and move on. I could take no more. My city of choice was DC. I’ve enjoyed amazing vacations and will always continue to do so- Egypt (a 7 day cruise down the Nile-It can change your life. Egyptians have a concept of time rarely found elsewhere) Greece (emerald seas and the Birth of Western Civilization 101, Santorini and the Minotaur), and Spain (the food, Frank Gehry’s Bilbao museum, the elegance of a bullet train from Madrid to Seville, and finally the city of Barcelona-WOW). I’ll also run off to Hawaii any time you want to-somehow I have a connection there. After thousands of frequent flyer miles, and years in the air, you do reevaluate your life and I realized the time away was stressing my family. I won’t go into some of the horror stories but, I can write a whole book about the supervision which teenagers need-can’t we all-but my choice for my son was eventually boarding school- the English have resorted to it for years. It worked! With so much travel, you do lose your family credibility. For example, as the family is planning the next family reunion or holiday and in unison everyone turns to you and they say, “Craig you won’t even be here!” Or after three years in a row, you are again in an airport the Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving, and they are selling off seats on your flight and you are worried about getting 56

Craig L. Stark home. But the job I had (construction management) required a move almost every three years, find the next project opportunity, run the job, find your replacement, and move on to the next client. So I have now gotten smarter and made a change and work for a small minority-owned firm, firmly ensconced in Washington and plan to limit my business travel to perhaps day trips by car. I am enjoying the cultural richness of DC- the Kennedy Center several times a month and our National Gallery- now you walk through there on your way home from work and that will refresh you; perhaps with a cocktail or two. My next career will be as a painter (Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pretty good at it) or perhaps a graphics designer. I do love the way the written word sits on the page and there is great software available out there now. Classmates this is beginning to feel more like a memoir- not a snapshot so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll keep this brief and sign off with my blessing to you all.

Ellen Doak Winslow Having been class rep. for so many years, most of you are up to date as to what I’ve been up to. For my junior and senior year at MFS, Dad and I resided in a beautiful apt. on Washington Square, in Philadelphia. I took the bus to school each day. My tiger cat, Piston, lived with us. After graduation from MFS, I attended the University of Pennsylvania, secretarial school and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. To this day, I take art lessons each week. I married at age 22, and divorced Bob at age 25. I’ll spare all the details. During my 30s, I lived in McLean, VA and Georgetown, D.C. This is when I was given the honor of designing a 13’ Xmas Tree for the National Museum. I also designed a tree for the Four Season’s Hotel there. I moved into this 200 yr. old carriage-barn in 2000 with my cherishable cat. In 2003, I met Joseph Jaczko at a neighbor’s Xmas party. We dated happily till he passed on 3 years ago. God never created a kinder soul than Joe. While living in DC, I studied voice at Georgetown University and spent many years performing. Unfortunately, now I have asthma so am unable to stay on key. If I had my preteen and teen years to relive, I would try to “bring us all together.” I’m grateful to frequently see Judy Ostrov Edell, her mom Gerri, Judy’s sister Shira and Roz Novack ’65. I’m so much looking forward to seeing you in May.

XXX, Ellen

Ellen D. Winslow 2 Cottage Avenue Beverly, NJ 08010

Nancy Horner Additional Members ofSjostrom the Class of 1966

Beverly Werst Dixon

Thomas Hendren

Rex Horan

Scott Kelemen

Harriet â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sueâ&#x20AC;? Rushen Kenny

Conrad Lehfeldt

Jane Mason aka Surran Pyne

Dave Myers

Non Grad Members of the Class of 1966: David Atkinson David Drew Robin Medd Houston Jonathan Kriebel Jack Nickolson Albert Williams Paul Strasser IV

In Memoriam As we come together to renew friendships and recall our days at Moorestown Friends, we remember our deceased classmates. Although some of their biographies are unwritten here, we celebrate their lives. We know their stories and they enrich the fifty year history of the Class of 1966.

Bern Ferg

Peggy Grovatt

Catherine Bellak Katz

Sally McVaugh

Douglas Searle

Bill Wright

Class of 1966

Nancy Horner Sjostrom 45th Reunion 45th Class Reunion

Jim Johnson, Nancy Roberts

Judy Ostrov Edell, Ellen Doak Winslow

Caroline Brunt Moriuchi, Debbie Ohler Boman, Dave Nelson Caroline Brunt Moriuchi, Nancy Roberts

Ellen Doak Winslow

Nancy Horner Sjostrom 45th Reunion Lesley Rowe Robinson, Caroline Brunt Moriuchi

Martha Sawyer DeLuca, Gail Wilson Murray

Nancy Roberts, Debbie Ohler Bowman, John Klauder

Jim Johnson, Martha Sawyer DeLuca

John Klauder, Fred Moriuchi

Fred Moriuchi, Gail Wilson Murray, Caroline Brunt Moriuchi

Martha Sawyer DeLuca, Nancy Roberts

Nancy Horner Sjostrom 45th Reunion

Dave Nelson

Debbie Ohler Bowman, Judy Ostrov Edell, Caroline Brunt Moriuchi

Nancy Roberts, Debbie Ohler Bowman, Caroline Brunt Moriuchi, Jim Johnson, Martha Sawyer Gail Wilson Murray, Jim Johnson Debbie Ohler Bowman, Leslie Rowe Robinson

Nancy Horner Sjostrom 45th Reunion

Jim Johnson, Peter DeLuca, Scott Kelemen Sue Stapler Kelemen, Scott Kelemen, Martha Sawyer DeLuca

Fred Moriuchi, Judy Ostrov Edell, Jim Johnson

The Early Years 1. Dave F. 2. Pat D. 3. Miles O. 4. Sue L. 5. Conrad L. 6. Gail W. 7. Julie F. 8. Debbie O. 9. Martha S.

The Early Years 1. Scott K. 2. Toni D. 3. Ellen D. 4. Cindy C. 5. Bill M. 6. Margie L. 7. Dave B. 8. Harriet R. 9. Dave M. 10. Craig S.

The Early Years 1. Sally M. 2. Cathie B. 3. Jim L. 4. Tom H. 5. Bev W. 6. Nancy R. 7. Edel K. 8. Linda H. 9. Caroline B. 10. Kenn A

The Early Years

1. Margot C. 2. Dave N. 3. Jane McG. 4. Corky S. 5. Gary M. 6. Betsy W. 7. Rex H. 8. Lesley R. 9. Jane M. 10. Bern F.

The Early Years

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Class of 1966

Commencement

Class of 1966: Commencement