’68 45th Reunion We hope you will join us on campus for Alumni Day on Saturday May 11! Details can be found on the AFS website. Registration required.
’73 40th Reunion We hope you will join us on campus for Alumni Day on Saturday May 11! Details can be found on the AFS website. Registration required.
1975 Sindy Paul and five of the ponies (Chantilly, Moon Comet, Farnley Hi-Li, Squeaky and Crepe Suzette) she rode while at AFS were featured at the United States Hunter and Jumper Association Wheeler Museum Exhibit on “Ponies Through the Decades.” Her pony Chantilly, is a 2013 nominee for the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame.
Sindy Paul on Chantilly, the pony nominated for the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame.
Dave ‘Daggit’ Thomas is completing his 25th year as a 5th grade science teacher at Friends’ Central School. His wife, Deb Will, also a teacher at Friends’ Central, and he are celebrating their daughter Amy’s first year as a lead teacher of pre-Kindergartners at the Langley School in VA. Twins Rebecca and David are pursuing computer science studies at Harvey Mudd College and supervising at the Ardmore Peace-a-Pizza, respectively. Dave writes “Neal Goren visited with us when he and his family came east for Thanksgiving. It was great to see a close AFS friend again! Best to Everyone!”
1976 After completing graduate degrees in Communications, and Film and Video, Heidi Levine Morein taught a range of college classes, settling just a few miles from AFS to raise sons Julian and Aaron with husband Jonathan, a PR and marketing professional. Heidi has built a fairly high-profile life in community and public service, has been appointed to serve on several boards, and has served as judge and inspector of elections. Tapped by the local Democratic party, she ran for Commissioner in Cheltenham’s 7th ward, losing by only 28 votes (1.8% of votes cast), against a highly entrenched 16-year Republican incumbent. Heidi and Jonathan’s older son Julian
celebrated his bar mitzvah at the home of Marci Abramowitz Goldshlack, surrounded by family and friends. Marci also hosted one of Heidi’s political fundraisers, at which former Congressman Admiral Joe Sestak was a guest and supporter. To the Goldshlacks’ and Moreins’ delight, he lingered long into the evening to chat. The event was put together in part with help from Jared Solomon ’97. The Moreins’ younger son Aaron (poised for his own bar mitzvah this fall) was nominated by his teachers at the Elkins Park School for honors programs in science at Johns Hopkins, and with the Congressional National Young Leaders Conference. Both boys are in Cheltenham’s Cedarbrook Middle School, with Julian to attend Cheltenham High School in the fall. Julian and Aaron both volunteer at the polls, and Julian, dubbed “The Human Phone Bank” at the Elkins Park HQ led by Dan Siegel ’06, distinguished himself by making 1,200 phone calls for Obama and knocking on 100 doors. Heidi stays in close Facebook chat contact with classmates Amy DiMarco, Pat Scott, Lisa Kaplan O’Brien, Judy Rosenau Schwartz, Leeanne Rebic Hay, Andrew Pritzker ’78, among others, and sees Debra Pawluch ’78, Margo Smith ’77 and Peter and Bonnie Schorsch ’75 with some regularity, as well as Marci Goldshlack. Anne Hanson - who attended AFS along with elder sisters Alex Hanson ’74 and Karen Hanson ’72 - visited in December, from Boston. Heidi loves to hear from fellow classmates, and can be found on Facebook, LinkedIn and at waterofleith@aol.com.
’78 35th Reunion The Mighty Class of ’78 happily reunites on May 11 for a boisterous evening romp. For any and all classmates, and for those who knew us well, please join the fun. Contact Andrew Pritzker at qikfingers@aol.com for details.
’75 Melissa Friedman and Sindy Paul at the United States Hunter and Jumper Association Wheeler Museum exhibit “Ponies Through the Decades.”
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CLASSNOTES
Nelson File writes, “As some of you might remember, I chose education as my career path after graduating from Hopkins in 1982. I taught Upper School at Friends’ Central for a couple of years, joined the Peace Corps serving in Nepal, got married, earned an MAT at Brown, returned to Friends’ Central