1970 The Class of 1970 needs a class correspondent. If you are willing to take on the job, please contact Amy Caplan in the alumnae/i office at acaplan@footeschool.org.
1972 Class Correspondents: Amy Estabrook Ross 1625 Ridge Road North Haven, CT 06473-2937 203-248-2173 e-mail: heyamo@snet.net Cathy Hosley Vo V uwie 22 Bennett Street Manchester, r MA 01944-1453 978-526-8085 e-mail: chv79@hotmail.com
Tom Kligerman writes, “Everyone at T home is doing well — we are away for the summer in Rhode Island like every year. r The summer here is slower for me as I am not as heavily involved in running the yacht club and have decided to take a break fr f om racing to relax with the family more. College in the near future for our eldest, Rebecca. Yikes. Our book Houses came out, which has me running around the country doing talks. So my travel schedule is crazier than usual. Planning to go to Ireland this fall with Kristin to relax and take in the scenery and stately homes … can’t wait.”
1973 Class Correspondent: Peter Hicks 65 High Meadow Road Hamden, CT 06517 203-288-4044 e-mail: phicks@websterbank.com John Persse 115 Deepwood Drive Hamden, CT 06517 203-562-5680 e-mail: john921@juno.com
Justus Addiss writes, “Aft f er 26 years at the same address, we’ve moved. OK, we moved 2.5 miles, but it’s a Summer 2010
Building Blocks for Creativity Thomas Kligerman ’72 “Even now, almost 40 years after I left Foote School, there’s seldom a week that goes by when I don’t think about the things I learned at Foote,” says Thomas A. Kligerman ’72, principal of Ike Kligerman Barkley, the prominent New York and San Francisco-based architectural firm he founded with John Ike in 1989. By the time he arrived at Foote, Kligerman, who enrolled in third grade in 1965 and remained at the school for the next five years, was already on his way to becoming an architect. “When I was in nursery school at the Yale Child Development Center my teachers were concerned about me,” he recalls, smiling at the memory. “They told my parents, ‘All Tom wants to do is build buildings with blocks.’ The fact is, for as long as I can remember I have loved beautiful things, but especially beautiful things that are also functional — elegant cars and machines and buildings.” Though he had lived in England before he arrived at Foote — and would subsequently visit and live in such far-flung locations as France and New Mexico — it was at Foote that he first found the world of opportunities for expression of the creative urges that accompanied his aesthetic world view. At Foote he participated in the creation of everything from a documentary film to a floating bicycle. And it was here, in seventh grade art, that the idea of a career in architecture actually began to take form for him. (Tom’s sister Valli Kligerman Budestschu ’73, is also in a creative profession. She hosts a weekly public radio program in Paris.) At Columbia College, where he did his undergraduate work, “All that stuff from Foote came back to me in class after class,” he remembers. “I realized what a tremendous grounding my Foote education had been.” After earning his master’s degree from the Yale School of Architecture, he joined Robert A. M. Stern Architects, where he met Ike. Today, their award-winning firm employs 25 architects and focuses primarily on residential architecture that synthesizes historical precedent with contemporary vision. Many are showcased in the book Ike Kligerman Barkley Houses, published earlier this year. Tom and his wife, Kristin, also an architect, have three daughters and live in New Jersey. — Jim H. Smith
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