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Naturopathic Medicine: Primary Healthcare’s New Frontier?

EarlyAmericanist Philip Gould ’79 on the View from the Loyalists’ Side Friends Welcomes Upper School Principal Steve McManus Baltimore City as Chapter and Verse RETHINKING THE SCHOOL DAY

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from the head of school

Dear Friends, In reviewing this issue of Collection, I’m struck by the rich mix of talents and accomplishments among our profiled alumni, from professor and author Phil Gould ’79, to naturopathic doctors Jeannie Achuff ’96, Gwenn Rosenberg ’00, and Carrie Runde ’01, to film producer Jason Berman ’02. These men and women of diverse interests and backgrounds share a common thread: each was profoundly shaped by their Friends education, and nurtured in a community that celebrated equally the gifts of girls and boys.

It’s easy to overlook gender when considering the many forms of diversity Friends seeks to honor in our community. Like the Quaker testimony of Equality, in which it is grounded, coeducation has been a hallmark of a Friends education since the School’s founding in 1784. Our students may take for granted the relative ease with which they move throughout the school day. Yet it is precisely this sense of community, and the mutual respect that is cultivated in the classroom and in Quaker Meeting, that speaks to the strengths of our coeducational program.

In Baltimore, of course, coeducation is not the “default mode” found elsewhere. The number of singlegender schools in close proximity to Friends requires that we think deeply about our commitment to coeducation. Just as we appreciate differences among race, culture, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, we realize that gender molds and shapes the way we see the world and that these differences, when shared in an atmosphere of trust and understanding, can lead to new truths.

Coeducation is also rooted in our deeply held belief that the world needs what our children can do. We are keenly aware that our students someday will be working in a world that is increasingly varied—one that is most definitely not segregated by gender. We can best prepare our students for this certain reality by educating them in an environment that includes the full range of human experience and perspectives they will encounter in the dynamic and exciting world beyond our campus.

The value of this approach touches my family’s life on a very personal level. Our son, Peter, is in the first grade here at Friends. As he talks to us about school and as we see him developing his first friendships independent of us, I can’t imagine denying him the richness that comes from creating those relationships with girls as well as boys. My wife and I value so much what he learns and integrates into his own sense of the world from his female classmates. Sharing this formative time with girls as well as boys we know will make him a well-rounded person later in life. This same advantage will be true, as well, for his younger sister and brother when they become Friends students.

What I have seen borne out in my time at Friends is that in a Quaker school, children experience the best of both worlds. The pervasive sense of safety and security that flows naturally and powerfully from our School’s guiding philosophy provides students with the space to discover themselves and develop the confidence that they will be honored and respected for who they are. We need only read the engaging profiles of the handful of accomplished alumni featured in this edition of COLLECTION to see the benefits of our approach.

Best wishes,

About the cover: Able to leap tall trees in a single bound? Not exactly.

Rebecca Edelman ‘11 produced this image in Upper School art teacher Ben Roach’s digital photography course. To learn about the surrealism assignment and see similar student works, go to page 8.

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2 Changing Hats

Friends Welcomes Upper School Principal Steve McManus

21st Century Education

3 Teaching & Learning at Friends School of Baltimore

Baltimore City as Chapter and Verse

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Rethinking the School Day — New schedule provides space, time for innovation

5 Diversity Notes — Felicia Wilks latest column is titled, “On Privilege”

6 Athletic Directions — Parents add value to Friends’ athletics

Alumni News

9 English Man

Phil Gould ’79, noted author, examines the American Revolution from the British Loyalists’ perspective

10 Natural Born Healers

Three alumnae are on the forefront of a growing healthcare movement 14 The Sisyphus of Cinema Film producer Jason Berman’s ’02 is coming to a theater near you 15 Remembrance — Joseph “Jay” Katz ‘45 16

Generations at Friends — Our annual photo spread of legacy alumni children

Development News 19 Rising to the Challenge

Joe Klein ’49 Inspires our Board of Trustees to Join the Circle of Friends

FSPA News — “Taste of Friends” spring fundraiser a great success

20 A Bountiful Fall

Friends’ donors establish five new endowment funds 22 Class Notes, Milestones & Circle of Friends

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Changing Hats Friends Welcomes Upper School Principal Steve McManus For Steve McManus, the journey to becoming Friends’ Upper School principal began six years ago, when he and his wife Meg were researching pre-schools for their son Owen ‘18. “We visited the campus and learned about the School’s Quaker values,” he told COLLECTION. “It felt like the right place for our son. We immediately felt at home.”

McManus, who is presently middle school principal at Garrison Forest School, was a finalist for the Upper School principal position last year. He accepted the position in October, and on July 1, 2011 he will succeed interim principal Amy Schmaljohn, who will return full-time to her classroom teaching.

“The thing I’m most excited about is this convergence of my professional goals as well as our personal goals as a family,” he says.

Drawn to the Jesuit ideal of being “a person for others,” McManus sees connections between his Jesuit university education—he completed a post-master’s program in administration and supervision from Loyola College of Maryland—and Friends’ Quaker philosophy. “Quakerism is lived in the real world. It’s not merely contemplative, it’s faith in action,” he says. “That has really resonated with me throughout my career—that what you learn has to have purpose.”

New Upper School Principal Steve McManus

His transition to Friends has the added benefit of simplifying the family’s routine: Steve and Meg’s daughter Fiona, presently at Garrison Forest, will enter Friends’ third grade in the fall, joining her brother and father on the campus.

McManus brings to Friends a unique combination of professional qualities and personal experience. In his ten years as a Garrison Forest administrator, where he served as middle school dean prior to becoming principal, he chaired a cross-divisional think tank, designed curriculum for new courses, and worked with the school’s board of trustees on a range of strategic initiatives.

Throughout these duties he has taught—a practice he intends to continue at Friends. “That’s something that as an administrator has always guided me,” he says. His 16 years of classroom teaching experience includes three years in the Baltimore City Public School System. He also spent two years in the Peace Corps, where he served 2

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in Senegal. In addition to his post-master’s certificate, he has a bachelor’s degree in international affairs from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in teaching from Towson University.

Being appointed to his new post early in the school year has given McManus ample time to prepare for a smooth transition to Friends. He has been meeting regularly with Head of School Matt Micciche and Upper School administrators, faculty and students. Two open forums that the School hosted, in February and in April, were well attended.

In addition to learning names and faces, McManus has also been familiarizing himself with the School’s new Teaching & Learning paradigm (see p. 4) and the ways in which the new model—with its three-way focus on critical skills, habits of mind and knowledge—is being used in the classroom. “Academic excellence will always be in demand,” he says. “An ability to write, to be creative, to think critically, to collaborate is important. But there has to be a content basis. Kids have to be grounded in the basics. It’s really affirming for me to see that core knowledge is still an essential leg in that stool.”

Equally important, he believes, is Friends’ commitment to ongoing professional development, to help faculty meet the educational goals outlined in the model. “A learning curve for kids will always be on the upslope, and I think it has to be for adults, too,” he says. “A sustainable teacher is someone who is committed to collaboration, understands that there’s a moral purpose to the work we do with kids, and is committed to his or her continued growth and professional learning.”

While drawn to the School’s Quaker philosophy, at first McManus questioned whether he could effectively lead a Quaker division with just a parent’s perspective. A two-day retreat at Pendle Hill—a Quaker study center in Wallingford, PA that prepares adults for service in the Religious Society of Friends and in the world—gave him

“Quakerism is lived in the real world.

It’s not merely contemplative, it’s faith in action,” says Steve McManus. the confidence he needed. “It was transformative,” he says of the experience. “Quaker practice requires discipline,” he observes. “It’s not just a two-day workshop and I’m done. But being present in a roomful of Quaker educators felt like, ‘This is where I am, finally, at home.” n

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21st Century Education Upper School Course Features Baltimore City as Chapter and Verse ning with Cross Street Partners executive Bill Streuver, and a meeting with Baltimore Community Foundation president and CEO (and former Friends Trustee) Tom Wilcox to hear about that organization’s work on behalf of Baltimore City Public Schools.

Formerly offered as two separate courses—“Literature and the City” and “Sociology in the City”—Berkeley and Head of School Matt Micciche, who co-teaches the class with her, collaborated to combine them into a single class that meets during two back-to-back blocks.

Aside from the obvious benefits of more time for offcampus field explorations, the combined course provides a unique opportunity to “blur the lines between the disciplines,” according to Berkeley. “The concrete nature of our city planning discussions complements the more abstract, thematic discussions of the literature,” she says.

At the same time, she notes, characters and narratives presented in the poetry, short stories and essays help to “personalize” such city planning issues as social isolation.

Friends seniors Joshua Mandell, Taylor Rutstein, Etosha Lankatilleke, Erin Goldstrom, Ani Wong, Hannah Gartner, JD Robinson, Isabel Swicklik, Sam Krimmel and Jon Schmidt in front of the historic Patterson Park Pagoda.

On a gray Thursday afternoon in Patterson Park, on the city’s East side, seniors in Helen Berkeley’s “Sociology and Literature of the City” class gather near the park’s historic Pagoda and listen carefully as their teacher orients them before sending them off to explore. “Fells Point is that way,” she says, pointing beyond the Greek Orthodox Church domes to the west.

“The Harbor stretches out in front of us, and Highlandtown is over there,” she adds, pointing eastward.

As the students meander through the 155-acre city park, past the duck pond and playing fields, Berkeley challenges them to draw from their readings in Jane Jacobs’ classic urban planning critique, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. “Think about what makes a city park safe and healthy,” she says, calling upon them to offer their observations. “It’s used by a lot of different people all the time,” offers Hannah Gartner. “It’s well maintained,” adds Etosha Lankatilleke.

This field trip is one of many these students will take this semester as they examine city life in all its facets. Other ventures will include a tour of the newly restored American Brewery Building, where they’ll discuss city plan-

The teachers have worked hard to incorporate elements of the School’s new Teaching and Learning model into the curriculum, using content as a vehicle to foster critical skills, and developing a wide variety of assessments to cultivate creativity, curiosity and empathy. One course component, “New Baltimore Experiences,” sends the students out each week, individually or in groups, to discover (or in some cases rediscover) unique corners of their hometown. “We all got together in class and wrote ideas on the board of cool places we wanted to visit,” says Ani Wong ’11. One such outing included a trip to

“Deepening our students’ understanding of the city’s issues, its challenges, its strengths, and its complexity is an important step in affecting positive change,” says Matt Micciche. the tourist-mobbed fudge factory in Harborplace. “I don’t go to the Inner Harbor very often,” she admits.

Aside from deepening students’ understanding about cities, their role in society and in the lives of those who live and work in them, the new course also serves to remind them of their civic responsibilities, according to Matt Micciche. “I believe that with this increased awareness and participation in urban affairs, our students will be increasingly drawn to the kind of work that will impact Baltimore City for the better.” n

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Rethinking the School Day Friends to Unveil New School Schedule in 2012–2013 Readers of COLLECTION are by now familiar with the “Teaching and Learning at Friends School” diagram. The model provides a clearly articulated set of educational outcomes for Friends

The new schedule is still in draft stage, but will go into effect at the start of the 2012-13 school year. students in the 21st century. What it does not provide, however, is time—time for our teachers to collaborate on interdisciplinary courses, explore new technologies, and develop dynamic learning assessments. And time for our students to reap the full benefits such an enhanced educational program provides.

Enter the Scheduling Committee. Formed last spring, this faculty group is charged with developing a school schedule “to make possible the kinds of educational experiences that will nurture in our students the qualities articulated in the Teaching and Learning model,” says Head of School Matt Micciche. Specifically, the schedule must meet four objectives: 1) Configure the school day in the way that best facilitates the powerful learning aligned with our goals.

2) Afford greater coordination between divisions, so that cross-divisional learning experiences can happen more easily on our Pre-K-12 campus.

3) Provide significant time for adult collaboration and professional development, so that faculty can build skills and coordinate programs that foster academic excellence.

4) Improve the pace and quality of life for our students.

“Time is among the most precious commodities in education,” explains Micciche. “The task of the Schedule Committee is straightforward; to develop the schedule that makes the best possible use of the time we have with students to achieve the goals we’ve identified in the Teaching and Learning model.”

The new schedule is still in draft stage, but will go into effect at the start of the 2012-13 school year, leaving

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faculty and administrators ample time for professional development and programming during 2011-12. The Schedule Committee’s efforts have been highly collaborative, with members providing updates and seeking input from their colleagues.

While no final scheduling decisions have been determined, one of the possibilities under consideration is to extend the school day from 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. for students in grades 1-12. (The Pre-Primary day would also be extended by 30 minutes, ending at 3:00 p.m.) Under the initial proposal drafted by the Schedule Committee, changes to Upper School programming would be the most pronounced, with certain courses gaining up to 50 minutes of class time—ideal for off-campus learning and hands-on investigations. In the Middle School, where instructional teams frequently collaborate on projects that incorporate content and concepts from many subjects, classes may gain 20-30 minutes. The Lower School program will benefit from the addition of a foreign language component to the curriculum.

Friends will continue to keeps its families informed about the proposed new School schedule. Look for more information in upcoming communications. n

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Diversity Notes — On Privilege The notion of privilege has expanded considerably since Peggy McIntosh wrote her landmark 1988 essay, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.”

McIntosh’s idea is that in our society, certain groups experience advantages simply because of the groups to which they belong. Members of these groups don’t have to do anything to earn the advantages they experience; systems within our society are simply set up to be in their favor.

In explaining this concept, McIntosh gives several examples of white privilege. One example is, “I [a white American] can be certain that if I ask to talk to “the person in charge,” I will be facing a person of my race.” Since her writing, others have followed the path she forged by writing about other types of privilege. It would be easy, for instance, to insert “physical ability,” “sexual orientation,” “gender” or “religion” into the space where McIntosh has written “race.”

Last fall, faculty, staff and members of the Board of Trustees met in groups to discuss different types of privilege. Though the adults in our community entered these conversations with undeniable openness, discussing privilege can be difficult for a number of reasons. Many of us have seen or experienced instances when being in a privileged group

referring to the original meaning. By the end of our discussions, many students started to see that there is a connection between the negative connotations these words have taken on in popular culture and the power or privilege experienced by those who are not included in the groups to which these words refer.

Felicia Wilks, Friends School Diversity Coordinator (front and center) with Upper School students (l.-r.) Stella GordonZigel ‘11, Nicky Smith ‘11, Eric Brooks ‘12, Rohan Makle ‘13, Bruce Boswell ‘12 and Keiana Greene ‘12.

has worked against us. As one teacher shared, being the only white teacher in an otherwise all African American school certainly didn’t feel like a privilege when she experienced it.

In our society, many of us experience privilege in some aspects of our lives and disadvantage in others. I, for instance, don’t experience white privilege or male privilege, but I do benefit from straight privilege and Christian privilege.

In addition to talking to adults about this concept, I have also been meeting with seventh and tenth grade students as a part of their Group classes. Over

three days we discuss casual use of the words “gay,” “retarded,” “lame” and “ghetto.” I ask students to consider what they mean when they use these words or what they believe their peers mean whenever they use them.

Students had no trouble admitting that these words have negative connotations when they are used informally. Saying “That’s so gay/ghetto/retarded/ lame” means “That’s so stupid or bad.” Some students struggled, however, with seeing how these terms could be hurtful.

The argument they gave was that when they use these words, they are not

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Having these discussions helps all of us—adults and children— to think more clearly and consciously about the ways in which we can make things better for everyone. Thinking about our own privileges and disadvantages, and the privileges and disadvantages of others, is really an exercise in empathy—one of our 21st century Habits of Mind.

Though it can be difficult and even painful, looking at ourselves and our communities honestly can lead to important discussions and even change. There are many opportunities throughout the school year for you to get involved in these discussions. Friends’ Diversity Council meetings and Parent Affinity Gatherings are places where members of our community can engage in thoughtful dialogue about a wide range of diversity issues. n — Felicia Wilks, Diversity Coordinator For more information, contact me at fwilks@friendsbalt.org or call 410-649-3289.

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Athletics

Athletic Directions —Parents add value to Friends Athletics Two weeks ago, Friends’ Athletic Advisory Committee convened for its third meeting since the start of School. This group of eight parents with students in grades five through 12 serve as a sounding board and source of ideas on ways to strengthen our program. For an Athletic Director who’s logged just ten months on the Friends campus, their input is invaluable.

During a recent gathering, one member, speaking on behalf of the group, asked, “What can we do to support the Athletic Department?”

provide our students and teams with the best possible Athletics program—one that strengthens their bodies, sharpens their minds, and lifts their spirits.

n “The Fighting Quakers” We’ve all shared a chuckle over our School moniker.

“Can a Quaker school really be competitive in sports?” we’re asked. Friends consistently fields competitive teams in high-level play against some of the toughest teams in our conferences. Our players and coaches are widely-praised for their mettle and sportsmanship.

n Fill the stands with positive voices Even if you don’t have a child on the team, come to a game—Middle School, J.V., or Varsity, girls’ or boys’ —and cheer on the players. Friends students invest hundreds of hours in practices, scrimmages and competitions each season. They are deserving of our praise.

n Become a team parent Athletic Director Greg Whitley (center) with eighth graders (l.-r.) Dori Chaput, Noah Hirschbein, Taylor Garrison, Samuel Ko, Caitlin Donovan, Morgan Ball, Uma Scharf and Emma Mutascio.

That offer spoke volumes about this School’s belief in the value of athletics as an integral part of our students’ educational experiences. For the many Friends families who have encouraged their children’s athletic pursuits, driven far afield to attend an away game, or enrolled them in a sports clinic to sharpen their skills—this column is dedicated to you. On behalf of the Athletic Department, here are three ways that you can help us

These volunteers support the coaches by serving as a communications link to the other families. They also help build community, often creating rosters for distribution at games, and securing volunteers on occasion to bring post-game refreshments.

Serving Friends School and working each day with our athletes, teachers and coaches is a privilege. I invite you to stop by our new Athletic Offices to say hello.You may also reach me by phone at 410.649.3212 or e-mail gwhitley@friendsbalt.org. See you at the games! n

Save the Date!

7th Annual Friends School GOLF OUTING

Golf foursome (l.-r.) Andy John, Chauncey Winbush, Dan Hart and Rick Matthews.

Saturday, September 24, 2011 Morning tee-off (time TBD) Compass Pointe Golf Course Pasadena, MD

(l.-r.) Dan Motz ‘95, Chris Vaughn ‘89, Read Carter ‘90 and Joe Corvera ‘89.

For more information, contact Joe Fleury ’00 at Joe.Fleury@susquehanna.net Proceeds will benefit the Friends School Athletic Department and Athletic Hall of Fame.

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Friends Welcomes Tom Marechek Friends is pleased to announce that Tom Marechek will join the School next year as a physical education teacher and Varsity Boys’ Lacrosse coach. Presently at Glenelg Country School in Ellicott City, Maryland, where he has served in a similar capacity for 15 years, Marechek is a resourceful educator who can teach Tom Marechek at any level with ease, according to Greg Whitley, Friends’ Director of Athletics.

“We’re thrilled to have Tom and we think he’ll be a great addition to the Friends community,” he said.

Marachek is praised for successfully managing migration of the Glenelg boys’ lacrosse program from the MIAA C to the highly competitive MIAA B Conference. Under his guidance, ten players have enrolled in NCAA Division I lacrosse programs and 24 have moved on to Division III programs.

A 1992 graduate of Syracuse University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in political science, he was a four-time NCAA All-American in lacrosse. During his time with the Orangemen, he played on the 1989 and 1990 NCAA Championship teams and was captain of the 1992 NCAA runner up team. He was a 2008 inductee to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame and its Baltimore Chapter, and was named All-World Attack and Top Scorer in the 1998 World Games, which were held in Baltimore, Maryland. n

Spring Sports at Friends —Fields, Courts and Diamonds

Friends’ Varsity Baseball team reached the semifinals of the inaugural President’s Cup Tournament, which brought together public and private school students.

Friends attackman David Magdeburger ’12 scores against Annapolis Area Christian School.

(at left) Varsity Softball pitcher Alexandria Johnson ’12. (above) Top-seeded Varsity Boys’ Tennis player Josh Leiner ’14.

Varsity Girls’ Lacrosse midfielder Lucy Klein ’12 goes for goal against a Park School defender.

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Telling a Fantastical Tale Students Explore Surrealism through Digital Photography For his digital photography course, Upper School art teacher Ben Roach instructs students to build on their visual story-telling skills. “Telling a story through a picture is different than through text,” he explains. “There’s no beginning, middle and end. Instead, you have to think about the conflict inherent in the story and capture the subject around that critical moment.”

For their surreal photo assignment, the students are tasked with telling a fantastical story. They use Adobe Photoshop, an image editing program, to explore such

themes as gravity and scale. Mastering the program is a process, according to Roach. “There’s no Photoshop ‘button’,” he says, referring to the commonly held idea that the program itself instantly transforms images.

Rather, the artist must engage in “meticulous tweaking,” sometimes at a pixel level, to acheive the necessary lighting, shadows and angles. “It’s not enough to make something small, or big, or float,” adds Roach. “To be effective, the viewer has to be left asking that question: ‘Is it real?’” n

Tree—Rebecca Handa ‘13; Sink—Jesse Rosenstein ‘11; Tulips—Jen Macko ’11;

Rock—Sydnee Lasky ‘12; Flying Boat—Paul Clark ‘12

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ALUMNI NEWS

English Man —Literary historian Phil Gould ’79 is twisting the perspective on early-American studies “What I do is academic and is written for the tribe, but academics is tribal,” observes Phil Gould ’79. Reached by phone from his home in Providence, RI, where he lives with his wife, Athena Poppas, a physician, and their three children—Nick, 18, Sophia, 14, and Alex, 11, the Brown University English professor and early-Americanist is finishing his fifth book. It’s a literary history of the American Revolution, but one that’s viewed from the Loyalist side. “I call it my ‘book of the losers,’” he quips.

Phil Gould ’79 with his wife, Athena Poppas, and two of their children, Nick, 18, and Sophia, 14, during a recent vacation to St. John.

Literary and cultural studies of the Revolution, especially those written over the last two decades, have focused primarily on Patriot writers and figures, like Jefferson and Adams. “I’m trying to twist the perspective and ask ‘What does the Revolution look like, and what does literature look like, if you were—as probably a third of Americans were at the time—loyal to the King and wanted to stay in the British Empire?’” says Gould.

Such an approach represents a new model in early American literature, one in which the focus has shifted from the Colonies, and how they became a nation, to literature that’s written by people who see themselves as English, but are living somewhere else. “It’s really fascinating to see a Colonial perspective with these writers,” he says. “They’re aware of themselves as being in Annapolis or in Baltimore, Maryland, but they’re also very aware of being firmly within this thing called the British Empire, and of being ‘civilized’ because of it.”

This new perspective demonstrates the surprising dynamism of 18th and 19th century literary criticism. “When I started, Colonial American studies meant studying the New England Puritans and Ben Franklin and maybe John Smith,” says Gould. “It’s amazing what’s happened in just 20 years. Some of the best poetry written in America [during that era] wasn’t even published.

Instead, it was circulated in manuscripts among social groups that would write and read for each other.”

Technology, and the ability to access primary texts online, has also dramatically shaped the field. “Thirty years ago, you’d have to apply for a research grant or a fellowship and then travel to various archives,” says Gould. “Now a college freshman can go to the university website, hit a couple of links, and be reading 17th century material.”

Gould entered the field of early American literature at a fortuitous time, when historical methods and historicists’ criticism of literary studies was gaining popularity. “I got lucky in some ways by being a historian who went into literary studies,” he says. Still, his decision to pursue a life in academia did not come naturally. “Going into an academic training ground was kind of brutal at first,” he admits. “It’s something I struggled with.”

A graduate of Brown University, where he received a degree in history, Gould taught at Moses Brown, a pre-K–12 Quaker school in Rhode Island, before moving to Madison, WI to enroll in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. He credits the university and “a couple mentors who hung with me,” including noted Colonial New England and Puritan studies’ scholar Sargent Bush, Jr., with pulling him into the profession; and he’s grateful to his Friends School teachers for laying the groundwork. “I don’t think the trajectory of my professional life would have happened the way it did without its foundations at Friends School, and I mean that genuinely,” he shares.

I don’t think the trajectory of my professional life would have happened the way it did without its foundations at Friends, and I mean that genuinely.

Asked if he has advice for Friends graduates who are considering careers in academia, Gould is circumspect.

“You have to be prepared to take rejection and be able to move on,” he offers. Recalling a challenging time at the outset of his teaching career, when the pressure to “publish or perish” was intense, Gould says he wrote several essays, each of which had been rejected by notable journals “five, six, seven, eight times—sometimes in the same journal” before they were eventually published.

“Just realize that you will fail a lot in life,” he says. “If you keep at it, you’ll be okay.” n

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Natural-Born Healers Friends alumnae on the forefront of a healthcare movement Amid the din of TV prescription drug ads and the ongoing health care reform debate, an emerging field of highly trained naturopathic physicians is joining the ranks of this country’s primary health care providers. Three Friends alumnae—Jeannie Achuff Morrow ’96, Gwenn Rosenberg ’00 and Carrie Runde ’01— are among the estimated Dr. Jeannie Achuff is a 5,000 licensed N.D.s praclicensed doctor of naturoticing in North America pathic medicine. today—a number that has more than tripled over the past 10 years. Groomed for pre-med as undergraduates, each considered entering medicine through the traditional, or allopathic, route, but something happened along the way. A desire for a more personalized approach to patient care and a clear-eyed look at conventional medicine’s limitations led them to seek another path— one that entails, much like their Friends education, a search for Truth, even in fields of controversy.

“There’s a strong connection between what is special about a Friends School education and the practice of natural medicine,” says Gwenn Rosenberg ’00.

First practiced in the U.S. in 1900, naturopathic medicine is a form of primary care that focuses on wholepatient wellness and emphasizes prevention through diet, lifestyle changes and cutting-edge natural therapies, rather than relying primarily on prescription drugs or surgery. Its physicians attempt to find the underlying cause of a patient’s condition instead of focusing on symptomatic treatment, and base their practice on six principles of healing (see sidebar). “One of our professors reminds us that when we have a pathology, naturopaths don’t think of that pathology as something separate from the body; rather it is our body adapting to whatever stresses it has been under and communicating with us about how our physiology has gotten off course,” says Dr. Achuff, a licensed private practice N.D. She recently relocated with her husband from Berkeley, CA 10

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to Vancouver, B.C. (She was on maternity leave at press time.)

The foundation of naturopathic medicine rests on six fundamental principles:

“There’s a strong connection between what is special about a Friends School education and 1. Do No Harm the practice of natural medicine,” says Gwenn 2. Treat the Cause Rosenberg, who’s pres (tolle causum) ently in her fourth year of 3. Support the a five-year naturopathic Healing Power of program at the National the Body College of Natural Medi4. Treat the Whole cine in Portland, OR. Person “Beginning with the fact 5. Doctor as Teacher that naturopathic medi (docere) cine is focused on support6. Prevention as Cure ing and encouraging the body’s own ability to heal, my Friends education was focused on supporting and encouraging each student’s ability to learn, as opposed to just teaching them things.”

Cooperation is another shared theme. “Both in terms of the doctor-patient relationship and the patient’s physiology, the focus is much more on cooperating with the patient’s normal biochemistry and physiological reactions, as opposed to controlling those pathways and stepping in with other substances. That’s really important to do sometimes,” Rosenberg adds, “but the first step is always to try to work with the patient’s body systems in a cooperative way.”

Carrie Runde ’01 checks a patient’s vision during a 2008 service trip to Nicaragua. She serves on the American Association of Naturopathic Physcians board.

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Alumni NEWS association’s spokesperson told the Times.

“From an M.D. perspective, the claim that we do not have the training to diagnose and treat disease is simply untrue,” says Achuff, who notes that the course loads for N.D. students are almost identical to those of M.D. students. In nearly every biomedical science, N.D. students are required to complete as many credits as M.D. students, if not more than. “It takes four to five years of 50 to 70 hour work weeks to complete our training.

While there are some discrepancies in credit hours, the gap is not huge,” she adds.

Gwenn Rosenberg ’00 is in her fourth year of a five-year naturopathic program at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon.

N.D.s may spend 60 to 90 minutes with a patient during an initial visit and 30 minutes for a follow-up—time frames almost unheard of in the allopathic healthcare system. “N.D.s want to make a patient feel better, but we want to get at the root cause of disease, and that takes time,” says Carrie Runde, who will graduate in June with an N.D. from Bastyr University School of Naturopathic Medicine, near Seattle, WA. She serves on the board of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians.

“Here in Washington, I’m recognized as a primary physician and have prescriptive rights. We’re reimbursed by insurance,” she says. “In Maryland, I don’t have these rights.” (Maryland does not grant licensure to N.D.s.)

Runde admits being initially concerned that getting an N.D. would limit her scope of practice, but after shadowing naturopathic doctors in Washington, D.C. and in Boston, those fears were allayed. “I come from a sciencebased background,” she says. “I come from research.

Once I learned naturopathic medicine is a legitimate, science-based way of practicing medicine, I realized this was the route for me. I have no hesitations about it, and I have no doubts about being successful.”

Naturopathic medicine has its critics; licensing is a particular concern. Presently, N.D.s are granted licensure in just 15 states*, as well as in Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and in five Canadian provinces.

A recent New York Times article on the licensing battle between the Colorado Medical Society, an allopathic professional association, and the Colorado Association of Naturopathic Doctors brought these frictions to light.

“They want to diagnose medical conditions, and we don’t believe they are qualified and that they have the education to do that,” Diana Protopapa, the allopathic

(The Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges presently comprises seven accredited North American schools, all of which meet federal and academic standards.)

Such concerns from the allopathic community are misplaced, according to Achuff, who asserts licensed naturopaths view their field as a complement to, not a replacement for, conventional medicine. “I believe there can be an incredible marriage between naturopathic medicine and traditional medical care,” she says. “Part of that is just having clear communication. We share the same basic language—the same physiology, biochemistry, all those things. It’s just that our treatments and philosophy are different.”

“I come from a science-based background. I come from research,” says Carrie Runde ‘01. “Once I learned that naturopathic medicine is a legitimate, science-based way of practicing medicine, I realized this was the route for me.”

Rosenberg concurs. “I’d like to see more possibilities for working together, and I’d like to see M.D.s embrace naturopathic medicine, just as I will be using pharmaceutical agents appropriately.”

At a time when health care and its delivery are at a crossroads in the United States, all three N.D. physicians share an unflagging optimism about their chosen field. “I know that things are going to change,” says Runde, “because there’s so much of a need for this kind of medicine and there’s so much of a demand for it.” n

* Currently, these U.S. states, territories, and the District of Columbia have regulatory laws permitting naturopathic doctors (N.D.s) to practice: Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Countdown to Commencement: 3rd Annual 100 Nights Dinner The Alumni Board hosted its third annual 100 Nights Dinner on Sunday, February 27, 2011, marking the 100-night countdown to Commencement. The Class of 2011 enjoyed a catered dinner, followed by a Friends trivia game and congratulatory gifts from the Alumni Association.

Sam Chase, Dan Kaufman, Alex Preslan and Amit Sharma.

Bealela Donnelly, Nadia Tavassolie and Chinezi Ihenatu.

Anna Fass, Dana Davis and Katie Baker.

Chicago-area Alumni Event While attending an annual conference in January 2011, the Friends Alumni Office hosted a group of Chicago-area alumni at the Marriott Downtown.

Kim Freeland ’91, L. Stanley Davis ’70, Jake Fisher, Emily Santos Fisher ’96 and Sateria Venable.

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New York-area Alumni Event A great crowd of New York City-area alumni gathered at the AIA Center for Architecture in the West Village on February 9, 2011. Faculty members Tom Binford, Tom Buck, Randy Cooper, Evan Gifford, Terry James and John Watt made the trip to the Big Apple, which is always a popular event.

Rob Berman ’88 and Dasha Snyder-Chase ’88.

Rich Santos ’94, Ben McCormack and Trevor Soponis ’95.

Jen Insley-Pruitt ’97, Ed Chen ’97, Sima Fried ’00 and Shruti Kumar ’04.

Los Angeles and San Francisco-area Alumni Events Head of School Matt Micciche and Alumni Director Amy Langrehr headed West last fall to visit alumni in Northern and Southern California. Los Angeles-area alumni gathered at the Santa Monica home of Blakely Mikula Hamilton ’93 on November 7, 2010. Bay Area-alumni gathered at the Nob Hill home of Ashley Bastinelli ’01 on November 9, 2011.

Elizabeth Holder ’88, Adam Green ’01, Claire Cherlin Kosloff ’97 and Matt Micciche.

Vincent Lim ’89, Ryan Reed ’95 and Christian Ciscle ’91.

Ashley Bastinelli ’01, Colin Teubner-Rhodes ’99, Josh Pollak ’97 and Matt Micciche.

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The Sisyphus of Cinema Film producer Jason Berman ’02 is coming to a theater near you “Rolling the boulder up the hill, that’s what I do!” jokes Jason Berman ’02. Reached by phone in Florida, where’s he’s been with the PGA Tour promoting the feel-good golf movie “Seven Days in Utopia,” he spoke with COLLECTION while awaiting a flight to Berlin, where another film he executive-produced was being screened at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.

Common. “It’s a total Baltimore City story,” he says.

Later this spring, he’ll begin work on “Along the Highways,” a script based on a short story that ran in The New Yorker, featuring Zooey Deschanel. “Hopefully with all those projects I’ll be busy through next summer,” he says.

“Most of what I do, and what I’m really good at, is packaging projects,” Berman explains.

“Finding the material, getting a Film producer Jason writer attached, getting the acBerman ’02 excels at tors attached, getting it set up “packaging products.” in a studio—putting an entire project together, and then…rolling the boulder up the hill.” Or, in his case, make that several boulders.

Berman speaks with the confidence of a seasoned veteran, yet without a trace of bravado. After graduating from USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2006 with a degree in film theory, he spent three years learning the business side of the industry as an assistant to a studio head, a talent agent, and a writer-director before becoming an independent producer. At 28, he’s become adept at managing movies while managing his career and is poised to make the leap from smaller independent films (he’s produced five in the past two years) to some larger budget projects.

“The thing about being in this industry is that you’re always trying to get the next thing going, but you don’t know when the next paycheck is coming,” he says.

Scheduling down time is tricky. “The best time to take a break is after you’ve just finished a movie and you know you’ve got your next one lined up.” In addition to “Seven Days in Utopia,” which will premiere in Atlanta at the PGA Championship on August 8, 2011, Berman produced “Jess + Moss,” a coming-of-age story filmed in rural Kentucky, “The Dry Land,” about an Iraq War veteran struggling with PTSD, and “The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best,” a dramedy shot entirely in Maryland, due out in 2012. (Both “Jess + Moss” and “The Dry Land” were Sundance Film Festival selections, respectively, in 2011 and 2010.)

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While the majority of Berman’s time is spent lining up deals, securing financing and “taking” meetings, it’s the art and creativity of filmmaking that draws him in.

“What I most like about it is that you are working with creative people and you’re helping them to realize their vision and their dreams,” he says. Diagnosed with dyslexia as a young child, Berman attended Jemicy School through the eighth grade. Upon entering Friends Upper School, he quickly connected with teacher and mentor David Heath and, with the School’s support, soon helped establish a state-of-the-art digital audio-visual program.

“He loved coming up with weird things and he was always pushing himself and others,” Heath said. Recalling an episode of the “Friends Eye,” a video news magazine produced by his AV production students, Heath said, “Jason and the class decided to add a weather report to the show…but it had to be live. It took the kids like six hours to set up a live remote on Charles Street, even though they could’ve just opened a window and reported on the weather!”

Berman’s grateful to Friends for providing the academic challenge and creative freedom to pursue his dreams.

“The environment was so different, you were really pushed,” he recalls. In October, he returned to campus with cast and crew members from “The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best” to speak at Upper School Collection, an experience he described as “amazing.” The students were equally awed, and afterward several described the presentation as one of the best they’d seen.

“For everything that I do, it’s always been about the collective—collaboration, working with others, inspiring others.”

It is that aspect of Friends—its emphasis on community—that resonates most clearly for Berman. “For everything I do, it’s always been about the collective— collaboration, working with others, inspiring others,” he says. “That’s why I wanted to start a film program at Friends. I knew it would benefit me and my passion, but it was equally, if not more, about sharing it with others.

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Remembrance – Jay Katz ‘45 Entrepreneur, business man and Friends School champion Joseph J. “Jay” Katz ’45 died on January 26, 2011, after a long illness. He was 83 years old. A former president of Martin Gillet & Company, he purchased the

“There was not one person at Martin Gillet he didn’t teach, or whose life he didn’t touch in some way.”

Rebecca Katz 144-year-old Baltimore tea company in 1955 from the founder’s great-grandson and, over the next four decades, transformed it into a thriving food service enterprise that specialized in producing salad dressings and condiments, including the popular Our Family Recipe brand. The company, which was sold in December 1998 to Ralcorps Holdings, was credited in 1985 with developing parmesan pepper salad dressing, an industry mainstay.

“My father was larger than life,” says Rebecca Katz, a chef and author of The Cancer Fighting Kitchen. A former marketing director at Martin Gillet in the 1990s, she was inspired by the compassion with which her father treated his employees. “My dad wanted to inspire others to be the best they can be. There was not one person at Martin Gillet he didn’t teach, or whose life he didn’t touch in some way,” she said.

competed on the School’s Varsity football, basketball and lacrosse teams. In a 1998 COLLECTION interview, he recalled an interscholastic golf tournament in which he was “drafted” as a participant. “Somebody had to!” he cheerfully declared, noting that Friends did not have a golf team. “I played 36 holes, carrying my own clubs,” he said. “It felt like I was there for a week!”

Katz maintained his zeal for athletics well into his 70s.

He enjoyed a weekly tennis game with Bill Heller, a longtime friend, who described Katz as “a lovely guy,” noting, “With Jay, the conversation was often better than the tennis, particularly as the years went on.”

In April 1945, weeks before his Friends graduation, Katz was drafted into the U.S. Navy and served until the following June. He later entered the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, from which he graduated in 1950. Soon after, while attending the wedding of his friend and fellow alumnus Joe Klein ’49, Katz met his future wife, Barbara Pollock. The couple, married for 57 years, have three children—Jeff, Deborah and Rebecca—and two grandchildren. n

The recipient of the 2000 Outstanding Alumnus Award, Katz was a stalwart School benefactor who gave generously of his time and treasure. He served on the Board of Trustees’ Development Committee, where his keen insight was invaluable in planning and implementing the 2002 capital campaign, according to Assistant Head of School Gayle Latshaw. “Over time, Jay and (his wife) Barbara found themselves very much aligned with the Friends School mission,” she said.

The couple made significant contributions to the School’s last two capital campaigns, contributing major gifts in 1996 and then again in 2002, when the Middle School Art Studio was named in Katz’s honor. Five years later, they established the Jay Katz Art Fund in celebration of Jay’s 80th birthday and their mutual appreciation of the arts.

As a student in the 1940s, Katz embodied the principle of balance that today is a hallmark of a Friends School education. In addition to his lifelong passion for creating visual art in its many forms—including drawing, painting and sculpting—Katz was an avid sportsman and

Barbara and Jay Katz ’45 (center) with (l.-r.) son, Jeff, granddaughter Amelia, daughter Rebecca and their grandson Harry.

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GENERATIONS AT FRIENDS

Children & Grandchildren of Alumni Pre-Primary Ashley Applefeld ’14 David Applefeld ’83 Natalie Barber ’22 Samuel Barber ’17 Kathleen Standiford ’81 Jordan Ball ’16 George Ball ’82 Manuel Binford ’16 Nicolas Binford ’13 Dahira Lievano Binford ’81 Gray Blanchard ’18 Diana Fleischer Schofield ’62 Timothy Bricken ’15 Holly Catzen Bricken ’73 Benjamin Bunkley ’24 Jennifer Brown Bunkley ’87 Kathleen Butler ’13 Jean Young Butler ’81 Arnold Capute, III ’12 Arnold Capute, Jr. ‘71 J. Atticus Carnell ’14 Alice Carnell ’18 J. Kevin Carnell ’84

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Kyle Christoff ’20 Allison Jensen Christoff ’88 Haley Connor ’18 Denise Galambos ’80 Ella Cooper ’12 Andrew Cooper ’73 Baylee DeSmit ’21 Daniel DeSmit ’16 Douglas DeSmit ’80 Carlos Domacassé ’20 Anne Marie Rafky Domacassé ’88 Joseph Dye ’20 Samuel Dye ’22 Rachel Dye K Elizabeth Gohn Dye ’93 Anna Fass ’11 Alison Nasdor Fass ’77 Suzanne Hoffberger Gross ’53 Nancy Whitehouse Fass ’49 Ned Forbush ’21 Norman Forbush ’78 W. Byron Forbush, II ’47 Nathaniel Foster ’11 Louise Foster ’14 Mary Louise Flowers Foster ’74 Julian Frost ’19 Lila Frost ’22 Elisa Shorr Frost ’88 Justin Garcia-Bunuel ’14 Jake Garcia-Bunuel ’18 Martin Garcia-Bunuel ’83 Elizabeth Williams Garcia-Bunuel ’83

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Jackson Gibb ’11 Mary Vogel Gibb ’80

Michael John ’11 Amy Gould John ’80

Allison Goldbloom ’18 Matthew Goldbloom ’15 Brad Goldbloom ’84

Zoë Jones-Cohen ’20 Marcie Jones Brennan ’91

Grace Hand ’14 Logan Hand ’17 Lucy Williams Hand ’80 Eli Henslee ’17 Julia Henslee ’22 Anne Friedlander Henslee ’88 Lewis Hibbs ’14 Abigail Hibbs ’16 Susan Gann Hibbs ’83 Alex Howard ’14 Carmen Jaramillo Howard ’80

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Lucy Klein ’12 Noah Klein ’19 Joseph Klein, III ’79 Joseph Klein, Jr. ’49 Kayla Kurtz ’21 Susan Rugemer Kurtz ’58 Matt Lambros ’12 Sarah Lambros ’13 Cristin Carnell Lambros ’79 Ana Lane ’21 Rebecca Rossello Lane ’92

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Sam Little ’17 Sarah Little ’19 Joan Sullivan Little ’82 Emily MacGibeny ’12 Julia MacGibeny ’16 Lisa Lott MacGibeny ’85 Clarinda Harriss ’56 Charlie Mallonee ’20 Willie Mallonee ’22 Charles G. Mallonee ’89 Mason Marchetti ’20 Julian Marchetti ’21 Robert Marchetti ’81 Theodore Mattheiss ’15 David Mattheiss ’68

GENERATIONS AT FRIENDS

Middle School Christopher Shephard ’15 Paige Shephard ’16 Halle Shephard ’18 Michael Shephard ’79 Benjamin Sherbakov ’18 Elias Sherbakov ’20 Thora Johnson ’88 Gwen Sieck ’11 John Sieck ’73 William Sieck ’40 Gabrielle Sklar ’20 Brandon Sklar ’22 Ellie Goldbloom Sklar ’87 Anthony Smith P1 Benjamin Smith P1 Molly Adolph Smith ’82 Sawyer Smith PK Quinlan Smith ’22 Zachary Smith ’19 Burck Smith ’88

Upper School

Tara Smith Wallace PK Erika Smith ’93 David Socolar ’12 H. Chace Davis, Jr. ’45 Isabel Taeger ’11 Frances C. Wood Wierum ’19 Margaret Valle ’22 Josh Valle ’89 Eddie Van Dyke ’14 George Van Dyke ’85 Claire Vernon ’13 Donald Baker ’52 Isabella Voshell K Suzanne Benson ’96 Julia Walker ’16 Ann DeVito Walker ’82 Alice Walker ’12 Lucy Walker ’15 Susan Russo Walker ’79 Duncan Walker ’78

Alexandra Miceli ’18 Trish Backer-Miceli ’83

Abigail Preston ’12 Robert W. Preston ’73

James Robinson ’11 Court Robinson ’73

Elie Walsh P1 Lucien Walsh ’88

Daniel Millspaugh ’17 Nicholas Millspaugh ’20 Rachel Millspaugh KP1 Sarah Johnston Millspaugh ’88

Alexander Prichett ’19 Zachary Prichett ’21 Stephen Prichett ’87

Michael Rudow ’12 Bill Rudow ’79

John Whiteford ’16 Ham Whiteford ’18 Tom Whiteford ’85 William Whiteford ’57

Bennett Remsberg ‘12 Emma Remsberg ’13 Edwin Remsberg ’83

Kailie Saudek ’15 Jake Saudek ’18 Paige Saudek ’22 Mark Saudek ’85

Anna Mortimer ’13 Will Mortimer ’17 Mary Charlotte Mortimer ’20 Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer ’87 Henry L. Mortimer ’58

Alice Riley KP1 Reed Riley ’80

Sander Schulhoff ‘20 Stephen Schulhoff ’84

Lauren Riley ’12 Lee Riley ’78

Charles Ney ’21 Peter Ney ’85

Jackson Roberts ’17 Philip Roberts ’81

Sam Shapiro ’14 Jennifer Smelkinson Shapiro ’80

Katherine Monk K Gage Monk ’92

Madison Yost ’15 Winslow Yost ’17 Kiefer Yost ’19 Sally Yost ’77 Anne Black Evans ’54 Alexander Young ’11 Nicholas Young ’64

Madeleine Shay ’15 Nicholas Shay ’18 Connie Naden Shay ’82

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Full Court Press is On for 2010–11 Annual Fund With the June 30, 2011 deadline FAST approaching, Friends needs every member of the School community to support the 2010 -11 Annual Fund. As of DATE, the School has raised $1.3 million, or 87 percent of this year’s goal of $1.5 million. “We are closing in on our goal, but it’s going to take everyone pulling together to reach that number,” says Meg Whiteford, Annual Fund Director. “Our parents have been incredibly responsive,” says Whiteford. “Faculty and staff participation is strong, as is alumni giving—thanks in part to this year’s Alumni Challenge.”

The Annual Fund is critical to School operations: monies raised during the 2010-11 campaign will support next year’s budget and will positively impact our students’ educational experience—from the academic program, to arts and athletics, professional development and financial aid. Gifts to the Annual Fund are tax deductible and may be made in the form of cash, checks, major credit cards and gifts of stock. Use the enclosed Business Return Envelope to make your gift or give online using our secure website: www.friendsbalt.org/giving. Thank you for your support! n

Seventh graders show their spirit and rally around the Annual Fund-ometer.

Calling all Friends School Alumni!

Announcing the 2010 – 2011 Alumni Annual Fund Challenge The Friends School Annual Fund receives approximately 800 gifts from alumni each year. In the spirit of “many hands make light work,” a generous Friends alum seeks to push that figure over the 1,000-donor mark by issuing the following challenge: For each alum who makes a gift (in any amount) to the 2010-2011 Annual Fund, the anonymous donor will

contribute $100 to Friends School. As of May 11, 650 alumni have made gifts. Help us reap the full benefit of this year’s challenge. Make your gift today at www. friendsbalt.org/giving.

Need more information? Not sure when you made your last gift? Contact Meg Whiteford, Annual Fund Director, at 410.649.3282 or mwhiteford@friendsbalt.org. n

“Why I give to Friends School”

Friends School’s secure online donation form makes giving to the Annual Fund easier than ever. Visit the link at friendsbalt.org/giving/online. While there, share with us your reasons for giving to Friends using the form provided. Here’s what these donors had to say: One of the strengths of Friends School is its diversity. Scholarship support will help ensure that the School is enriched by qualified students of all economic backgrounds. — Erika Schon, senior parent, parent of alumnus With each passing year, I realize more the positive impact of a Quaker education. I am a more patient, thoughtful and inquisitive person thanks to Friends School — Molly O’Connor ‘99 No single institution may impact the lives of our children more. We credit Friends School with their generosity of spirit and open hearts. — Wanda Sitzer, former Trustee, current parent

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Rising to the Challenge Joe Klein ’49 Inspires Friends’ Board of Trustees to Join the Circle At age 80, Joe Klein brings passion and expertise to two of his favorite subjects: financial planning and Friends School. The Class of ’49 alumnus, parent, grandparent, and former Trustee worked nearly a half-century in the estate planning field. When he sets his mind to it, there is no one he cannot convince of the wisdom of planning a deferred gift to Friends. “If you’re a parent or grandparent at Friends School, you have a vested interest in the School,” he told COLLECTION in a 2008 interview. “For you to help guarantee the School’s future…that’s not charity, it’s self-interest!”

Klein has long believed that, as one criterion of Board membership, each Trustee should join the Circle of Friends, the School’s planned giving society, by making a deferred gift. “When an organization’s constituents step up to the plate and adopt a ‘do what I do, not what I say’ approach, that’s leadership,” he pointed out.

Last September, Klein issued a challenge to the Board’s 25 members: if the School’s governing body achieved 100 percent participation in the Circle of Friends, then he, in turn, would substantially increase his own planned gift to Friends. He gave the Board just one month to complete the challenge. By late October, 16 Board members joined the nine members who had already made planned gifts.

Klein and the Development Office are jubilant. “This gesture on Joe’s part and the commitment of the Board are most heartening and speak volumes about our

Joe ’49 and Joan Klein.

leadership’s commitment to Friends,” says Eleanor Landauer, Director of Major and Planned Gifts. She encourages other parents, alumni, faculty and staff to do as Joe Klein and our Board members have done and make a deferred gift to Friends. “We have planned gifts that range from $500 to well over a million,” she says.

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Taste of Friends —Spring Fundraiser a Great Success More than 200 guests attended the Friends School Parents Association’s “Taste of Friends” on April 9, 2011. Featuring wines from around the world and culinary offerings from such noted restaurants as

Friends’ own Chef Bob Whitehead serves Lower School parent Laura Prichett.

Woodberry Kitchen, Restaurant Sabor and Pizzazz Tuscan Grill, the benefit raised over $5,000 to help fund educational enrichments for the School. n

Chef Roddy Domacassé, owner of Restaurant Sabor and a Lower School parent, serves up empanadas.

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A Bountiful Fall Friends’ donors establish five new endowment funds

(l.-r.) Lorraine and Dr. Oscar Camp, Mindy Camp Tillez and Dr. Michael Camp.

This fall brought an unexpected but much-appreciated bounty to Friends, with donors establishing five endowed funds to honor the memory of beloved classmates, educators and family members.

The new funds, which total over $160,000, include the John G. Griffith ‘81 Fund for Student Outreach, The Thomas P. LaMonica ‘67 Scholarship Fund, The David L. Holder ‘91 Scholarship Fund, The Frances H. Bartley Fund, and The Dr. Oscar B. Camp Scholarship Fund.

They are remarkable not only in their coincidental timing, but also in the support they will provide to Friends students in the coming years.

David Holder ’91, between sons, Eli and baby Reed.

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“It really is serendipitous that all of this has happened at the same time,” says Gayle Latshaw, Assistant Head of School for Development. “On a deeper level, however, it shows that our message is being embraced—that establishing an endowment fund is a way to directly benefit our students while helping to ensure the longterm financial health of the School.”

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Three of the new funds—those honoring David Holder ‘91, Tom LaMonica ‘67, and Dr. Oscar Camp—will provide financial aid to academically-talented Friends students who demonstrate significant financial need.

(Friends presently provides $3.315 million annually in financial aid, 15 percent of which is drawn from the endowment.)

The Holder fund, established by the David L. Holder Education Foundation and augmented with gifts from family, friends and classmates, reflects David Holder ’91’s commitment to mentoring inner-city youth, and is intended to benefit a student who’s transferring to Friends from a Baltimore City Public School.

The LaMonica fund, established by the Class of 2011 as this year’s Senior Family Gift, will benefit a scholar-athlete who plays two sports annually. The Senior Family Gift Committee, in conjunction with the Development Office, is encouraging support for the fund throughout the School community this year as a way to honor the veteran teacher and coach’s commitment to excellence in the classroom and on the playing fields.

The fund honoring Dr. Camp, a noted healthcare pioneer and philanthropist, was established by his wife, Lorraine Camp. Dr. Camp’s younger son, Jonathan, a member of the Class of 1974, died during his senior year at Friends. In 2005, Dr. Camp and his son, Dr. Michael Camp (parent of Nina ’89 and Ben ’00) funded

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DEVELOPMENT construction of the Jonathan M. Camp Science & Mathematics Wing. Several years earlier they had jointly established the Jonathan M. Camp Memorial Scholarship Fund, which has provided financial support to numerous Upper School students.

The other two new funds—those honoring John Griffith ’81 and Frances Bartley—are not scholarships, but rather are directed toward specific educational programs.

In the case of Dr. Griffith, a physician whose medical missionary work in Central Mexico “grounded him in the core Quaker principles,” according to his wife, Liz, the fund will support Friends students’ outreach and service activities, with a particular focus on serving international communities. Members of the Class of 1981 announced the fund last fall in preparation for their 30th Reunion this May. In addition to contributing their own donations, the classmates have invited their parents, many of whom knew Griffith, to contribute.

The fund honoring Frances Bartley, established by an anonymous donor, recognizes the woman who singlehandedly led Friends’ Upper School choral music program in the 1950s and ‘60s, and will support Friends’ musical theater productions and student choral and instrumental music performances.

Making a planned gift of any amount to Friends’ endowment—either individually or as a collective of donors, and adding to the fund slowly over time—is a gratifying effort.

The five new funds augment the School’s endowment, which, as of December 31, 2010, had a closing market value of $21,166,991, and move Friends closer toward an important goal of its 2007 strategic plan: raising an additional $10 million in scholarship endowment by

Tom LaMonica ’67.

2014. Such an increase will enable greater economic diversity among the student population. “It’s something we take very seriously,” says Eleanor Landauer, Director of Major and Planned Gifts, who works with Reunion classes, individual alumni, parents and friends in establishing and stewarding such funds.

Friends’ constituents need not wait for the death of a loved one or a milestone Reunion to make an endowment gift. Donors may establish a named fund with a gift of $25,000 or more. “It’s easy to do, and people find that it helps them with their long-term financial planning,” says Latshaw.

Making a planned gift of any amount to Friends’ endowment—either individually or as a collective of donors, and adding to the fund slowly over time—is a gratifying effort. The Class of 1956 established such a gift in 1996 in memory of Florence Weiss Jeziorski ‘56, on the occasion of their 40th Reunion. Though it is not yet funding a full scholarship—their initial goal—the memorial scholarship has been providing significant support to a deserving student since 2006. The classmates routinely acheive over 90 percent participation in contributing annually to the fund.

Generations of families will attest that a Friends education is arguably the most valuable investment one can make in a child’s future. The cost is substantial, but the return—not just in the mastery of academics, but in the development of character and intellect, in the transmission of essential human values, and in the lived Quaker belief that there’s ‘that of God’ in every person—is far greater. Gifts to the School’s endowment, such as the five that fortuitously arrived at Friends’ door this fall, help to strengthen and preserve that experience today and in the years to come. n

John Griffith ’81.

For more information about making a deferred or current endowment gift to Friends, contact Eleanor Landauer at elandauer@friendsbalt.org or call her at 410.649.3316.

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Dr. Howard Jones ’27 celebrated his 100th birthday in Denver surrounded by his entire family. Dr. Jones and his late wife Georgeanna were the “parents” of in vitro fertilization in the United States.

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Ric Ricards writes, “I fought eye problems and a pinched nerve successfully, but Ellie’s and my ailments prevented us from summering in Maine, which had become an annual event. Slowed down on writing my WW II history, but will resume that project. In November, I received the Johns Hopkins University Heritage Award. The dean of the engineering department and faculty members traveled to Houston to present the award.

We are still driving many miles and busy with activities. The Lord has blessed us.

Ellie Connor Ricards writes, “I’m looking forward to 2011 as a better year. Last year, I fractured my spine, and then had a knee replacement.

I’ve recovered nicely and am absolutely fine now. I keep busy with a myriad of organizations here in Houston—art museum, Gamma Phi alumni club, English Speaking Union, congregational church, etc.

I expect to be back in Baltimore this spring for my 70th Reunion at Goucher. I still keep in touch with Dottie Krug, Jeanne Shreeve Wolf and Bernie Burgunder. We

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were saddened by the news of the death of Elizabeth Wasson Olufson late last year. By happenstance, Ric and I had a closer relationship with Liz than most other classmates. We well remember in the late 1930s the elegant Christmas parties at her home across Charles Street in Homeland. Illness forced her to drop out of Goucher. After marrying George, Liz moved to Chicago. And in the 1970s, my husband Ric worked in Chicago where he saw Liz and took her to dinner. In the 1980s, she moved to her native state of Texas, where she kept horses at her home. Ric and I were exhibiting and later breeding Quarter horses in nearby north Texas. Liz frequently attended our horse shows and we would often visit. Once her health problems reoccurred, she spent many years in a wheel chair. It was all a long time ago but not so in memories.

1943 Lila Andrews Heitzler, who lives in Hampstead, MD, recently enjoyed dinner in Timonium with Jack and Lois Hicks Burkley. She writes, “Great reunion! Thanks to Friends coach Benny Millard’s great inspiration, I’m still playing tennis at age 85. My two daughters, son, and four grandchildren all love the game, too!”

1951 Carol Lee Fordyce May carollee.may@gmail.com

We missed all of our classmates who did not make it to Reunion. We had gracious and generous gathering. Please send your news to Friends School at any time of the year.

1941 Carolyn Rudolph Nevitt writes, “I still keep in touch with Mary DeMuth Gordon, who lives in London, Ontario.

I am the aunt of two Friends alumni—Eric Rudolph ‘58 and Robyn Rudolph Cole ’59.

Dottie Eastwick Seaton ’41.

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Friends alumni at their annual holiday gathering (l.-r.) Bo Hearn ‘48, Ellie Jennings Hearn ‘49, Evans Johnson Taylor ‘49, Bob Taylor ‘51, Dottie Snodgrass Goldsborough ’48 and Les Goldsborough ’47.

1952 Susanne Davis Emory vermontsue@aol.com

Alison Herriott Wilder writes, “Our news is that we have moved to a retirement community in Rochester, NY. Downsizing is not easy, but it’s better to do it while you still are physically able. We have two bedrooms and baths, a den for the computer, a frog pond behind our home and sunny flower beds in front to dig in —a nice change from our former shady yard. Frederick ‘Buzz’ Hodous is packing again for France, This time the Dordogne region, according to his wife, Joan. “We’ll be biking some, exploring the prehistoric caves, St. Emilein, Bordeaux etc. “During winter months, we are still in Key West, where I recently moved 65 of Joan’s paintings to the Museum of Art and History for her one-woman show. I’m playing backgammon like a champ and would love to play more! So call me if you’re good at it—ha!”

friends below to my e-mail requests. There are many missing e-mail addresses, so if you did not have a prod from me or the School, we do not have a cyber-contact for you—or what we do have does not work. It has been a grand go at trying to keep up with ’55 over the years, and it would be great to know what’s what with everyone. Please send your e-mail address to me or to the Friends Alumni Office. Since our 50th Reunion, Bill Putt has a new grandson, Sampson,

age 1 ½. Bill writes that he has been to China several times looking at telephone factories and real estate developments.

“It is quite a different place than when I began going there in the early 1980s. No more soldiers with machine guns on the border, but huge new cities and new roads. I serve on the public service leadership committee at MIT and some nonprofit boards. I am thankful that I do not need to look for a job. These are very difficult times to find work, especially if you are over 50. I visit my farm in Vermont a couple times a month. The only thing I raise there are trees, but I have cut trails through the woods, which are quite beautiful.” Chris Tabor writes that he has been living in South Burlington, VT for more than 28 years, and retired from the U.S. Forest Service where he was a plant physiologist.

During all of those years, he was involved in a great variety of volunteer roles and learned a lot. “Recently, I made an adjustment to allow more time for personal interests and

projects that were on the back burner too long. My daughter and her husband are electrical engineers in Silicon Valley, and my granddaughter will begin college in the fall. After living and working in different parts of the country, I am very content to remain in Vermont.” Robin Biddison Dodd and her husband Paul were featured in a great article in Loyola University of Maryland’s magazine in December 2010. Here is a link: http:// magazine.loyola.edu/issue/ december10/1566/a-littlesomething. Congratulations, Robin! From Peter Block, a note saying that he’s working at Emory University Hospital as an academic interventional cardiologist, where he replaces heart valves through a catheter, closes holes in hearts that are open, and creates openings in those that are closed. Peter says his three children and four grandchildren, flung from Baltimore to Seattle, are not visited enough, although two live in Baltimore, allowing him to pass by Friends School and have flashbacks of being un-

1955 Pat Peake Tisdale glent24@aol.com

As the collector of the news for our class, I appreciate very much the responses from our

Class of ‘51’s Carol Lee Fordyce May, Sam Miller and Jean McClure Mudge.

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prepared for his tests. Further, he says “I’ve had three lives in cardiology: the first was at Massachusetts General in Boston, then in Portland, OR at the St. Vincent Heart Institute, and now at Emory in Atlanta, GA—finally in a place where the winters are supposed to be warm, but I think that someone forgot to tell Mother Nature this past winter. I have developed a passion for turning wood hollow forms, which makes spare time an irrelevant misnomer; fortunately, I have a day job so I can eat.” (Editor’s note: Peter sent an attachment of photos of the wood turnings which are amazing and stunning creations.) Ellie Johnson Dubbelde writes, “Arizona seems now one of the only places to be in the U.S. in the winter. The weather is fabulous in theValley of the Sun. All the snow is in north-

from Berlin (where Peg was born!) living with the family until June. I enjoy speaking German with her, what little I can remember, and we all enjoy the desert, where we climb small mountains and eat a lot of crazy food. I stretched a large canvas before the holidays, and know what I would like to do—now all that is left is starting it!” Kitty Roberts Merrifield and husband Eric have lived in Seattle for many years and are happy in the Pacific Northwest. Kitty writes that they still enjoy their cabin in Sequim, WA, which includes golf, gardening fishing and gathering some things from the sea. “We do some traveling—had a great trip to China last spring, will spend some time in California with our daughter, and will also take a short trip to a reunion in NYC this spring. Our son

that’s fairly rare. We still love our beach home in Bethany Beach, DE. Bill plays tennis and I take art classes. I’m passionate about my art. We enjoy our eight grandkids, and going to their athletic games and school functions. They keep us young. In October, we had a wonderful week in Bermuda with the Dave and Roz Carlson, Rob and Wynelle Seiler and our mutual friends Charlie and Carolyn Brooks. We all have been getting together for mini-vacations for the last couple years. The Carlsons’ time-share was luxurious—like a five-star resort. Next summer, we will be back with the group in Bethany Beach. After Bermuda, it might seem like ‘slumming,’ but we enjoy lots of reminiscing and Mexican Train, a board game that we play every night.”

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Hap Mortimer ’58 teaching a class of Friends Lower School students about the horseshoe crab.

ern Arizona and lots of other places. I am enjoying playing lots of tennis and being on a team called Loose Strings.

It is very different being on a team and learning to become competitive! In the winter, I spend a lot of time sprucing up the yard and learning about Southwest plants and foliage.

Right now, I have numerous large pots of petunias blooming away. My daughter Peg has a German exchange student

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Ric works at Microsoft and has published a business management book. He and our grandson live close by and we enjoy seeing them regularly.

A visit with Dave and Roz Chenowith Carlson in Seattle last summer was great fun.”

Pat Fiol Morrill writes, “Our biggest news is that in August 2010, Bill Morrill and I celebrated our 51st anniversary and we still love being together.

By today’s standards, I guess

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Mary Grafflin is teaching G.E.D. and high school diploma courses two mornings a week to inmates at the San Francisco City and County Prisons. For the past six years, she’s also taught current events, and ethics and law to teens at the local juvenile detention center. On top of that, she sings in a gospel choir and takes care of five cats. Joel Mindel states that his granddaughters are all geniuses. (If they’re half as smart as Joel, then he’s right.)

Estelle Stephens Knapp writes, “My grandson Andrew studied photojournalism at Ohio University and he now lives in NYC, where he freelances for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

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gram.” Estelle has picked up a paintbrush and now paints oil-on-canvas portraits of 18th century clipper ships, having been inspired by a portrait of one in Rhode Island. Janet and Bill Patterson will become great-grandparents at the end of May 2011. The couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last August. John David returned to online college this year and is studying for his paralegal certificate.

After 18 years up north, he will leave Ely, MN next December and return to Baltimore. After he completes his studies, he hopes to specialize in litigation preparation. Clarinda Harriss is overjoyed to say that one half of her FS alumni children—Andy Lott ’89 is back in the northern hemisphere for a while. And the other—Lisa Lott MacGibeny ’85—is still nearby. She wishes she could say that suddenly being professor emeriti is giving her a lot more leisure, but, alas, she can’t. She’s excited to be hosting a Class of 1956 Reunion party this Alumni Weekend. While reading the October 2010 issue of Tidings, News from the Waterfowl Festival, I discovered that Martha Filbert Horner was honored this past year as one of the “2010 Stars on the Mid Shore” by the American Association of University Women. This award was in recognition of Martha’s volunteer work for the Waterfowl Festival.

1958 Susan Shinnick Hossfeld shossfeld@comcast.net

Frank Windsor writes, “Ann and I continue to enjoy life on the Oyster River, a tidal river on the New Hampshire seacoast. Surrounded by nature, with not a house in sight, we take time to savor this inspiring backdrop. We are also active

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in the community. Ann is a Trustee for the Durham Public Library. For several years she has chaired the board’s development committee, coordinating the annual fund campaign and other fundraising activities. Currently she is working on the capital

both Kate ’85 and Andrew ’90 live within driving distance. We see them often, but not enough. All of their five children are active in sports, so we have the opportunity to see them play. Henry Mortimer writes, “In the fall, I visited the Friends Lower School to teach

ago.” Susan Stott Dugan recently moved to a condo and loves it! She suffered a fall in October and broke her hip; by January 2011, she had moved from a walker to a cane. She hopes to visit the Caribbean later this year. Susan Rugemer Kurtz’s granddaughter

Victorian houses in bright, cheerful colors, and then on to Silverton, Durango, Moab, (Canyonlands National Park) and Grand Junction to see Colorado National Monument.

We love the West and the national parks, especially in the winter!

1959 Ann Green Slaybaugh friends59@comcast.net

Susan Huff Schmitt ’60 and Sally Huff Leimbach ’64 at Shell Point, Susan’s life care village in Ft. Myers, Florida.

campaign to raise money for a new library facility. Her previous experience as a Friends School of Baltimore Trustee has been a great help to her. In addition, for the past five years she has also been a CASA/GAL (court appointed special advocate; guardian ad litem) representing abused and neglected children. I spend my time fishing, playing golf, skiing, reading and trying to exhaust our two Labrador puppies. We like to travel. This past year, our 50th anniversary, we went to St. Maarten, took a cruise to Alaska, and spent Christmas week in Paris. The best part of our life is spendingtime with our children and grandchildren. Fortunately,

a class on the horseshoe crab as a volunteer for the Department of Natural Resources.

My grandchildren were there.

If the School administrators from 50 years ago were looking down from heaven, I am sure they were thinking that Friends School was about to go out of business. The thought of ‘Happy’ Mortimer teaching anything at the School would have set them laughing in the teachers’ lounge. My name never appeared on the Honor Roll but it did appear on ‘other lists.’ Thanks to the efforts of Dilly Mace and Robert Nichols I turned out okay. It was a thrill for me to teach a second grade class where I had been a student nearly 60 years

Kayla Kurtz ’21 was featured on the front of the fall 2010 issue of the Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine. Not only was she on the front cover, but she was also featured inside the magazine. You can see the cover by going to http:// eng.jhu.edu/wse/magazinefall-10/. As for me, Carl and I just returned from Colorado, where Carl skied for a week with the International Rotarian Ski Club, while I helped out with a silent auction to benefit the Adaptive Ski Program.

After the week in Aspen, we went on to Ouray, the home of ice climbing facilities. (We did not try ice climbing!) The next day we went to Telluride, a town with beautiful quaint

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Members of the Class of ’59 continue to enjoy our lunches and would invite all the locals who haven’t joined us to come out so we don’t have to talk about you. Anne Carter Bowdoin sent a nice card with her new address.

She has sold her farm in New Hampshire and moved to the outskirts of Boston, where she is now closer to her daughter and grandchildren. Lorna Gardner Hurley suffered a bad fall recently and broke her hip. Let’s keep in touch.

You can send me news at friends59@comcast.net. Hope to see many of you at our next class lunch.

1960 Mary McElroy mary.mcelroy@comcast.net

Last December, Howard and Gayle Rummel Jones III ’65, his sister Georgeanna Jones Klingensmith ’62 and brother Larry were in Denver with their seven children and nine grandchildren to celebrate their father, Dr. Howard Jones Jr., ’27’s, 100th birthday. (He was also feted in Baltimore at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center, where he was a long time faculty member.) Dr. Jones and his late wife Georgeanna, who died in March 2005, were the “parents” of in vitro fertilization in the United States. He

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remains very active and has written two books in the past seven years—Legal Conceptions: The Evolving Law and Policy of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, which he co-wrote with Susan Crockin, an expert in reproductive technology law, and War and Love, a poignant book he self-published in 2004, documenting his years as a World War II surgeon and his correspondence with Georgeanna.

He lives in Portsmouth, VA but spends several months a year at his other home in Denver.

Susan DeHoff Montgomery retired this winter from A.T. Kearney, a global management consulting firm. She loves her newfound freedom and enjoys going to movie matinees, knitting bear rugs for her grandchildren, traveling (she and her daughters Joanna and Camilla visited New Orleans for a weekend) and reading—she recently joined a book club for the first time.

Jeannie Downs Pohlhaus lost her husband Neil last summer. They were married for 33 years. He was a 1945 graduate of St. Paul’s School, where he coached lacrosse with George Mitchell for 30 years and was also a 1950 graduate of Johns Hopkins. Between them they have six children

and 12 grandchildren. Jeannie and Neil volunteered at Paul’s Place Outreach Center and helped them grow and develop over the years. The center is now serving meals and providing after school activities and tutoring for children among other services. That work inspired Jeannie and her son Ty to start a company that renovates low income housing for people in Southwest Baltimore City. Susan Huff Schmitt continues to appreciate her new life in Shell Point Retirement Community where every day is filled with classes and events. “It’s kind of like college without the exams!” she says. Of recent interest are the alligator and the five white pelicans, newly coexisting nearby. Susan DeHoff Montgomery visited in February. Coyd Walker and his brother Terry ’62 recently gifted to the School the 1981 Pushkin Medal awarded to their mother, longtime Friends faculty member Claire Walker (1911-2008). Mrs. Walker was the first American to receive the prestigious award in recognition of her excellence in the dissemination of the Russian language. As for me, I had my best year ever with my beaded jewelry and accessories

sales at the winter craft shows!

I spent the month of February taking the first inventory of my thousands of beads—not a fun job. Recent travel includes trips to North Carolina in January to visit my sister Ann, Chicago and Albuquerque in February to visit friends, and Portland, OR in March to visit family. In May, I will be back in Baltimore to visit family and some Friends School friends.

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If you are interested in learning more about this volunteer job, please contact Amy Langrehr.

Martha Welch Taylor writes, “I am still working as a psychotherapist in private practice and I also cover psych emergencies at the local medical center emergency room. I have much gratitude for my health and life and good fortune. I’m a five-year lymphoma survivor, and enjoy spending most of my free time with friends, family and traveling. I’m very sorry to say that my ex-husband Donald Taylor died suddenly about 16 months ago.

Paula and John Slingluff ’62 with their grandchildren at a summer 2010 family gathering.

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1962 Eleanor Blake Fuller eaerobic@hotmail.com

Wayne Sutherland says, “I can’t believe it’s been almost 50 years since we graduated.

My wife Colette and I have been together for almost 12 years and married for almost three. She is a saint. We are in the process of updating our circa 1970s bathroom. Last September, we spent a week in Bath, ME and had a wonderful time. We may even look for a location there for our retirement as home prices there are very reasonable.”

Wayne believes Lindley Parker lives just north of Bath. (Earmuffs for you, Wayne…I’m still going for the sandals!) In October, he and his wife spent four days in NYC, where they ate at a great French restaurant, visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and sampled pizza at a cool little joint in Brooklyn.

They loved seeing the musical, American Idiot with the amazing work by Green Day. The grandkids are fine. Wayne picks up his son Josh’s kids from school once a week and takes one of them to the bus if there’s a snow delay, which is quite common. He looks forward to seeing many of his classmates at the 50th in 2012.

Bruce Goodwin and his wife Lucy enjoyed great holidays in Phoenix with their daughter Kelly’s family and learned that they will be adding a grandson to the mix of three granddaughters in May. “It was lots of chaos, but lots of fun,” he says. As of this writing, they are watching the events in the Middle East with great interest as Bruce has a conference in Istanbul scheduled for late October and he and Lucy have planned an add-on trip to Egypt and Jordan afterwards.

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Bruce is also looking forward to seeing everyone next year.

Emily Holman has had another busy year. In February, she returned from a threeweek trip to Myanmar and Thailand. Last January, she visited Slovenia and took a small boat cruise on the Adriatic, stopping in the ports of Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia. In March of last year, she led three other deacons from the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey to Quito, Ecuador to visit ministries and present a workshop on exploring the vocational diaconate. “They’re now beginning to plan their own diaconal program,” says Emily. In November, she traveled to South Africa with a group from her diocese and found it interesting to see what had changed since her first visit in 1996. While there, she visited Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela had been imprisoned for 27 years, and the Apartheid Museum, which presents graphic reminders of that horrible period in South African history. She reports that living conditions have improved in the black townships and in the countryside, which is as beautiful as ever.

When not traveling, Emily continues her local ministries and involvement in two diocesan committees, and works occasionally as a substitute librarian for the Ocean County, NJ system. On a sad note, her mother died in September at age 94. Her dad is still plugging along at 95 and is involved with the Fairhaven Chorale and chapel activities.

Diana Fleischer Schofield is still working as a supervisor at Montgomery County Protective Services but is planning to retire in the fall. She will continue to work part-time in her private practice. Her husband Larry is still teaching math and coaching volleyball at Centennial High School in

Howard County. His team made it to the state semifinals but was beaten by Towson.

I think it must be Diana’s home town revenge or my mother’s high school revenge.

Yes, my mom went to Towson High and skipped eighth

college’s 45th reunion. Carol continues to attract chaos like a magnet, long since retired from a 30-year career teaching children of all ages with every identifiable special need. She began a new career editing other writers for fun and profit,

Dan is a sports marketing agent. Another daughter, Laura lives in Kensington, MD with her two children—CJ, 3, and Savannah, 1. Laura is a real estate agent and her husband Collin is a computer network expert working near

Linda Kardash Arminger ‘62’s granddaughters, Katherine, Logan and MacKenzie.

grade, too! Diana’s grandson, Gray, whom many of us met at the 45th Reunion, is at Friends and doing well. She says, “It is fun to get back to school for the events like Holly Fest, winter concerts, etc. In some ways, the School has not changed much and, in other ways, it’s very different. I would still like the uniforms to come back.” I am in agreement with her on that one.

Diana is still very involved with her latest craft—rug hooking, and she loves it. As I remember, Diana always loved knitting so this makes sense to me. She can’t wait to retire to spend more time on leisure activities. Carol Geyer Furtwangler apologizes to Mr. Peacock that she could never add and almost forgot that our 50th is coming up.

She is the class rep for her

too often to the exclusion of her own creative writing. Of Carol and her husband Zan’s four children, two remain in Charleston, SC. Daughter Elizabeth remarried in September, increasing her family to six, with her two children, Hannah, 14, and Nicholas, 9, and her husband Robert’s two, Ashton, 10 and Jackson, 8. Her son Robbie graduated from the College of Charleston in December 2009 and is currently continuing with literary pursuits. John Slingluff says he and Paula are doing well, as are his kids.

Daughter Jen is in Chapel Hill, NC coaching the UNC women’s lacrosse team—she’s in her 16th year. (I still have my lacrosse stick in the closet minus a gut or two.) Jen has three children—Ryan, 9, Alec, 7 and Kate, 4. Her husband

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DC. Daughter Becca is on Kent Island with her three children—Johnny, 9, Charlie, 6, and Taylor, 2. Becca’s fourth child is on the way. She’s a science teacher at the Kent Island High School. Becca’s husband Matt works with John.

John’s youngest Kathleen lives in Gaithersburg. Her son, Sean, is almost a year old.

She’sa research scientist, managing a national repository for DNA and cell samples; her husband Adam works with the Army developing training games. He also has an Irish folk group which often plays in the area. John says, “Life is never quiet, but always fun.”

Linda Kardash Armiger reports that she and Charles have enjoyed their usual visits with the kids and grandkids during holidays and family celebrations. During summer

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visits they bring the kids to their local beaches to shell. In October they celebrated with their son Keith and his wife Heather’s wedding. The wedding preparations and celebration weekend made for a busy fall. Linda and Buck visited their granddaughter Logan’s new prep school kindergarten in Westminster, MD in November and were very impressed with the curriculum the children were tackling at that age. They then accompanied Logan to her horseback riding lesson and, again, found it hard to believe the equine ability of such a young child! Both grandchildren will resume riding lessons in the spring. I think they obtained their riding energy from Linda. Her horse Tinker, as I think I recall, was very special to her. Their marina community was busy with a full calendar of events this year, beginning with Super Bowl weekend. Linda is serving on several committees once again and enjoys the participation. They are planning a summer visit to Saratoga Springs, NY and surrounding spots for their 20th anniversary and while there hope to visit the racetrack for several days of racing. Linda says, “Hello to all!” Chris Sherman Raywood visited Paris at Christmas for five days and then took the Eurostar to London for New Year’s. She thinks she may be the only foolish woman who ever flew into Heathrow three days after the worst snowstorm in Western Europe in 100 years.

Airports were closed everywhere, but fortunately she got the only flight to Paris before the airport closed again. Paris itself was beautiful even when overcast with snow flurries.

She had a great time and wonderful meals, especially Christmas Day at Le Procope,

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a restaurant opened in 1689, where Ben Franklin used to dine. She saw two wonderful museum exhibits and also a delightful Gershwin performance one night before returning to Florida. Chris is proud she has finally joined Facebook. As for me, Eleanor Blake Fuller, thanks all of you who pass along great updates.

It’s great to hear about kids, grandkids, trips and anything else going on in your lives. I still travel back and forth between PA and FL (I’m presently in Florida) trying to keep our little business going.

The best thing about Florida is that my daughter and her family are only two hours away in Orlando. My grandson Max turns two in March and has met Mickey Mouse and Goofy quite a few times already in his short life. He has two surgeries down: one to remove an extra kidney last year and the other to remove a hernia this year, so now he is so good to go. My daughter is still working in real estate in Orlando and hoping the market will soon improve.

Her husband has been fortunate: even after he had heart surgery and the airline he worked for went out of business, he got a job as a pilot with Jet Blue. Our son Jeff is in

business with us in PA, where he has two daughters, 17 and 14, which means one will be heading off to college next year. Finally, Courtney, our daughter in California, is continuing in real estate in the Palm Springs area, where she’s also waiting for the market to improve. To those of you that have not been receiving e-mails from me a few times each year, please, please send me your e-mail address at eaerobic@hotmail.com.

Remember, the 50th is coming up in May 2012, so mark your calendars! It will be so much fun to see tons of you and catch up. That means you on the West Coast and in England, too! I wish you all health and a great 2011.

1963 Donna Hasslinger dhassli@aol.com Elizabeth Fetter Deegan deeganchicke@aol.com

Jeb Felter and Marge Rowe Felter report that they love retirement, although Marge misses all the great people at Friends School and working with prospective families.

They’ve been taking more trips to see grandchildren in

Judy Hamburger Goldthorp ’65 at one of her 2010 retirement parties. Judy worked as a nurse for 41 years, the last 23 of which she spent doing hospice care.

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Philadelphia, PA and Lyme, CT. They also returned to Maine for a cold week in October. Steve Greif and his wife are traveling to Scarsdale, NY whenever possible to see their grandson. Steve is “20% retired,” working a 32-hour week, and still trying to figure out what to do when he is fully retired. He completed his second 100-mile Seagull Century Bike Ride with his son in October and is looking for any avid (but not too skilled) golfers who might be interested in a game from April to October.

Chuck Harlan and Mary Dell Gordon Harlan ’65 travel to Atlanta frequently to visit with their son Chad, his wife Julie and their two boys. Their daughter Heather and her husband John live in Baltimore and also have two sons. They call their four grandsons the “quad squad.”

Joan Shinnick Kreeger and her friend John spent a couple of weeks in Australia touring and sailing around the Whitsunday Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Her favorite experience was the Penguin Parade on Philip Island where they watched thousands of penguins return from a day of fishing, marching up the beach and across the rocks to feed their babies. In March, Joan returned to Hawaii to lead a tour and cruise the islands. In the spring, she will be day-tour guiding from DC to Baltimore to Philadelphia. Ellen Taylor Lyon sends her regards to our classmates and writes that she enjoys our updates and memories from high school days at Friends. When she and her family moved back to New York after the tenth grade, her new school only had intramural sports. She really missed playing on the girls’ hockey, basketball and tennis teams as she had done at Friends. Gail Levinson Shawe reports that her oldest son, Tony, and

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his wife have two kids—a son, 1, and a daughter, 7 months.

He is the head of the middle school at Holton-Arms, an independent school in Washington, DC. Her son

annual vacation to warm and sunny Florida. Alice Reid, her husband Mike, and their two dogs moved to an island near Beaufort, SC two and a half years ago after having

it with their family heirlooms and antiques, and handling the design and planting of the estate’s three gardens.

Chick Fetter Deegan, Joane Knight Schumacher and I

Class of 65’s Jane Royston Anderson, Bob Ullrich and Molly Dunker Buchanan.

Alex also lives in DC and is general counsel for the KIPP DC Charter Schools. Her daughter Annie lives in San Francisco and is working in a high school while getting a master’s in marriage and family counseling. Gail had lunch with Anne Kay Joyner and Judy Klingelhofer O’Mara in February when Anne was in town visiting her mother. Gail volunteers at a Baltimore City Public School and is involved in several nonprofits. Dave Phillips is enjoying serving as the executive director of the Stoughton Chamber of Commerce, a community just south of Madison, WI, where Dave and his wife Susan live. He is involved in economic development, community building and business advocacy, and he works with local government, businesses, school administrators and developers to make a positive impact in the community. His family will soon be traveling to North Captiva for their

a vacation home in the area for several years. They have two sons—one of whom lives in Baltimore and the other in Colorado with his wife, their six-year-old daughter, and three-year-old son. Alice and her husband also have a house in Colorado where they spend summers. Rob Wiltshire, a classmate for many years until his family relocated after the seventh grade, is a retired U.S. Army Colonel who later spent years in international trade finance and was the COO of a high-tech company in Washington, DC that specialized in artificial intelligence. Rob moved 37 times in a span of 25 years. He and his wife Margie met when they worked at the National Science Center; they have five children and 11 grandchildren. In 1996 they bought Chipping Lambourne, the historic Cheyney family estate in Chester County, PA, with its and have spent four years restoring the seven-bedroom home themselves, filling

had lunch in Baltimore last fall when Chick was in town from Dallas visiting her mother.

We hope to arrange another luncheon for our classmates in the spring.

1964 Sue Grathwohl Dingle s123dingle@aol.com

At our 40th Reunion in 2008, I volunteered as class secretary. Lest I appear too eager, I have waited until now to come forward. We are a transitional class—some of us are into social networking on Classmates and Facebook, some have unlisted phone numbers, and only half of us report e-mail addresses! Are we geezers, or what? So our challenge is to discover the best way to connect—and get that we really are still there for each other.

At Reunion, swapping stories about wearing uniforms, sitting in detention and trying not to laugh in Meeting, we were

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truly sisters and brothers who once seemed so different, now revealing what we had had in common all along. In some ways we haven’t changed —Betsy Knoche Wilhelm is still a gracious hostess with deliciously infectious laughter, Joe Cowan and Downie McCarty are still handsome, charming and full of good humor. Indeed, dear friends, no longer the defiant beatnik bound for Broadway, I am now the impossibly perky Class Secretary bound for Broadway, practicing “Stand-Up Therapy” and “EnLIGHTtainment” in local venues. Stay tuned, as I try to catch up with you! Here’s our news so far.

Marilyn Miller Thomas sent a picture from a holiday brunch at Betsy’s at which Greg Neumann, Betsy Wagner, Keith Korschgen, Annie Nicholls Haendiges, Bill Curry, Lyn Gault Ingram, Suzy Katzenberg, Edie Hoffmaster Bradt, Joan Mattheiss Thompson, Betsy Knoche Wilhelm, Patti Koenig Worthington, Downie McCarty and she were all in attendance. Greg Neumann is still doing NASA things, having lots of fun working on four projects— one going to Asteroid Vesta, one project currently at the moon, one ready to go the moon and the other ready to go into orbit around Mercury.

His children Willy and Anna are both in Baltimore City middle schools, where Greg’s wife Maryann is a language consultant. His mother, Doris Neumann, longtime Friends faculty member, is 91 and still living in Timonium. His ‘thirtysomething’ son George lives in San Francisco, working for Monster. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree! Pat Parran is continuing to meet her heath challenges on a journey to well-being…with an amazing sense of humor. ”Some people

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Charlie Gibson ’65.

depend more on their brain than others!” Still a storyteller par extraordinaire! And, Avijit Chatterjee reports, “I’ve enjoyed the fond memories of friends, teachers and Friends School. I’ve worked as a chemical engineer for many years and am now freelance consulting. I’m interested in safety, occupational health, environmental issues and small business incubation and management. Hope to link up with old friends!” Thanks, everyone—I look forward to speaking with you all soon!

1965 “MR. PEPYS’ DIARY” Submitted by a classmate

Before we have some fun with our diary, we must remember our passed classmates; Lance Corporal John Yeager, Laverna Bauer, Julia Warner, Kenard Knust and Bessel Kok. We also remember those spouses, siblings and children of our classmates who have passed including Jane Vandora, Jim Frankos, Joey’s husband, Mary Lou Cole, Diane Boulden, John Keratzes, Jane’s husband, 30

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Chuck Collins, Dave’s brother, John Dashiells, Nancy’s brother, Norman Owens Jr., Michael’s brother and his son, Glynn, plus others, undoubtedly. We purposely exclude our parents’ names, as that is the natural order of things. We mourn them also, of course.

Our hearts are heavy because of all these losses. If you do not know by now, the Reunion was great. Miss Michel must have prepared the food at the school celebration. The Tuna Surprise hit the spot, as usual.

We are dismayed to report that someone took two desserts.

Mary Dell, Holly, Jane and Gretchen did a great job rounding us all up. Mary Dell and her Class of ’63 husband, Chuck, plus Holly and husband Tom, threw a great post game party. There was nary a leaf on the lawn and the silver was shiny-just perfect. On the night before the bash, Teela and Gary accepted HOF plaudits for their exploits on the playing fields and courts. Gary brought three generations of his family.

Teela left her three children and seven grandbabies at their respective homes in Virginia.

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Hetrick used to say. We are so proud of both of them. On our actual Reunion celebration day, Fred K., Joey, Russell, Marshall, Mary Dell, Holly, Molly, Carol C., and Susan H. all showed up for what may have seemed to them like the 100th time in a row. Fred, who owns most of the Eastern Shore, was wise enough to bring his beautiful wife and high school beau, Sharon.

Otherwise, none of us would have talked to him. Interest-

ingly, they plan to sail to Alaska (and back) next summer after they are sure that the ship they are building in Wash. state floats. He also brought Joey, a neighbor, who owns the rest of the Eastern Shore. Besides her duties as the grand poobah of her insurance/investment agency, she sings, dances, entertains and mugs for the photos of her that often appear in the local paper.

Russell is the go to guy for stage and location lighting east of the Mississippi. Although he recently talked someone into buying his business, he still consults and is still the go to guy for lighting. Our “hostess with the mostest”, Mary Dell, grandmother/baby sitter of the year, is retired from Talbot’s, leaving her customers and expertise to Molly, who can still swing a tennis racket. She was musing at the reunion that she just hated having to dust all the trophies. She would rather be in NY with her baby at Goldman Sachs or substituting at the nursery school where her other baby works. Holly, who had the distinction of living closest to school but still wanted a ride anyway, runs a kindergarten/nursery school program in Baltimore.

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Knowing what we all know about little children, there was mass amazement that she had not one gray hair or facial wrinkle. Talk about being youthful, Marshall is taking it seriously. His heart is strong, his muscles stronger and his family growing. He works out all day to keep in shape and is having a grandbaby soon.

Connection?? Carol and husband Ken are living the good life splitting time between the Jersey Shore and Philadelphia. Carol insists that she has the answer for women who “don’t have anything to wear”.

Check out www.onewomanonedress.com. Their daughter posted it on YouTube. Susan spends a lot of her time under water—no, not her house note—but with a tank, flippers, mask and a great deal of curiosity about reefs, fish and other underwater potpourri. She has retired in Annapolis after serving as a legislative aide for a liberal Maryland legislator. Her warm, constant smile leads us to the next paragraph. Our part timers, those who attend occasionally, seemed just pleased as punch to see their classmates. Karin, who evidently returned to Baltimore recently, flashed her usual great smile. She has been in nursing for years and obviously cured her patients with the love in her heart and the aforementioned smile.

Her Facebook page tells a bigger story and has a great picture of her smiling. Lynn Edwards came the longest distance to join the frivolity.

Under the smile category, she has not lost hers either. The trip from Seattle, where Lynn practiced and is now into high tech medical records, might have been long and boring, but the smile was still there when she arrived. She must have been thinking about her great new-old (1926) house she is

restoring with her new husband/friend. He sloshes around in the swamps of Washington looking for ecology when not hammering and sawing. Debby Langworthy who lives on St. Michael’s had the greatest news. Her son David owns a company that performs headlight restoration at Hooters. If he has any openings, all the guys in the class want to apply. Wait.

Perhaps she just said headlight restoration without saying Hooters. Our bad. Her other two babies just do normal things like saving souls and building buildings. Talk about more great smiles, Wendy returned for her first (we think), as did Karin, and it was as if she comes every year. She

and could not attend our parties. She has a hero who was just back from deployment at the time of the Reunion and one who is committed to teaching our youngsters.

Perhaps she should get together with fellow Beantowners, Wendy (actually New Bedford) and Nancy for a mini-reunion. Bob is close by up the road in NH and would probably join the party. Our Southernmost classmate, Jane, lives NEAR Naples but has traveled enough, especially to California to see her son, to write a book. It is NOT true that the oil spill avoided the West Coast of Florida so as not to incur Jane’s wrath.

She remains a soft-hearted, philanthropist devoid of wrath who is active in the Naples

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lives near Boston, probably a Red Sox fan. We can almost forgive her for her baseball allegiance because she spends a whole lot of time helping others (surprise, surprise) in the Bay State as a premier therapist. Wendy rode to the festivities with Nancy who came with her four talented “hounds” from Massachusetts also. As we often see, pets have a way of taking over our hearts without asking for anything but love in return. Nancy gives it back in spades. Ann Swanson had a pow-wow with Apache Indians out west

area non-profit community and in mentoring youth. Heck, she would probably join the party in Beantown too. What a gal! Marian was kind enough to bring her husband, Tom, who enjoys taking pictures.

Well, it looked as if he enjoyed it, but what else can you do as a spouse at a Reunion?

Marian, who drove the three hours from near Richmond, manages the soccer refs in her area and is a Silver Beaver, the highest award for service in all of scouting. She’s the mama of an Eagle Scout and a den mother for her scouting unit.

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Mary Lou won the contest for changing the least over the last forty-five years (female division.) A rumor appeared on her Facebook page that she attended a wedding in Las Vegas (sure), stayed a few extra weeks and came back home looking like an 18-year old.

Talk about Las Vegas, Joey also traveled there allegedly to look at some property (sure, again.) She also dined with Mike Jackson, another first timer like Karin. Jay has been painting the town and half the country red (and other colors) and doing it well. Like Russell, he is the go to guy in his industry when it comes to designing and executing motifs for casinos, restaurants, retail businesses, grocery stores and large homes. Because of his nationwide calling, he has more frequent flyer miles than Neil Armstrong. It is surprising that Jay and Susan have never met at the bottom of the sea as he is an avid diver. Just look at his Facebook page. Along with Mary Lou, the male who changed the least was Bob Ullrich. Bob celebrated his election with a ride on an elephant while in India. Call me Bwana. Bob may be our northern or eastern-most classmate, but the cartographers will have to decide. Like Russell, he talked someone into buying his food service business but still remains a champion in that industry with his consulting assignments far and wide. We think Bob mentioned that he was the best man in Sam’s wedding. He liked the wedding idea so much he married his drop-dead, gorgeous fiancée the very next year. Talk about weddings, there is another prize in the offing, this one for matrimonial longevity. Linda Ihrie was married when she was ten, she says, and is now fixin’ to celebrate her 45th anniversary this summer in her new home

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in South Carolina. She always looked so young. Her new environment in the Low Country will keep her looking young for years. The runner-up, as we calculate, is Chris Windisch in Santa Fe (permanently for now.) Chris still charms everyone with her melodious voice as the head diva of the New Mexico Chorale. Residents of Santa Fe often talk about her singing while hiking, skiing and in her garden, all things she enjoys.

She just does not look old enough to have a grandbaby.

We understand that Judy Hamburger and Judy Miller plus Bob are also in the top three. Judy M. has been married to a banker for about 41 years. That is a long time to put up with a banker, Judy.

Judy H. lives in the Fort Worth area of Texas. She wins the “biggest heart award” from the judges. It seems that her whole existence, like Wendy’s, Cynthia Knust’s, and Karin’s, is devoted to caring for others.

Judy retired recently as a hospice nursing supervisor but she continues to reach out to others in her retirement-kind of like Marian. Judy is a good knitter, crochet, or whatever, who uses those skills to continually help others. (See her art work on Facebook.)

Her love of baseball will draw her into working for the Rangers, ushering folks to the exit after they get too rowdy.

Lou Decker motored up from Atlanta to be with our group.

She is loving the Southland and the state of Texas, where the rest of her family lives. She and husband Bill tear up the Atlanta-Houston air route constantly. There must be, and is, a grandbaby involved. Lou also joins our over 40-year marriage club. Although we did not dance the night away, our right-handed goalie, George, has taken up the sport/avocation of ballroom

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Michael Jackson ’65 and his wife Joyce.

dancing. Only George can tell you, and he will, how much sport and avocation are involved. George still keeps in contact with many of us including Michael Owens who has had a lot of experiences in the last forty-five years. He has lived on two borders, Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, and has settled in Annapolis where his father lived in his formative years. Surprise, surprise, Michael is involved in the boating business. Perhaps he should call Susan H. and compare notes as Susan is also an avid sailor. Michael has the unusual distinction of having spent time with Kenard for four years in the Little Gym, as they were partners during wrestling team practice. His yacht, the Rapscallion, is moored in Annapolis Harbor, just down the Chesapeake Bay from Bobby’s second home on the water. Bobby fought for our freedom and has mentored inmates in the prison system in Pennsylvania all his working life as the chief hearing officer.

Audiology? He also has undying faith that Bloomsburg State could win the national football championship over the Packers or the Steelers. Faith is good. Our left-handed goalie, David Boulden, also fought for our freedom, retired and Friends School of Baltimore

started a successful career fighting for lawyers. He is married to the prolific author, Kennedy Barrows. Mr. Shivers would have been so proud.

Dan fought for our freedom too. Dan has also been dueling with the local politicians in Washington, DC because they would not allow him to build a kitchen in his renovated period home. The word is that his dear wife Deeney may have provoked the altercation and sided with the politicos. She did not have to cook for over a year. As you can see on Dan’s Facebook page, he has a beard.

He recently removed it, but the boss in the house insisted that he grow it back or he would not get any food. His grandson Danny does not know what to think. Fred Moran, another freedom saver, has everything down pat. He lives in Wilmington, DE and worked in Bel Air, MD at Harford Day School. There are two bozos with February 19th birthdays.

Fred is one, Sam the other.

He could not stay long at the afternoon Reunion party because he needed to be home to intimidate his daughter’s prom date. Fred looks great on his Facebook page. And, he is not a bozo, just a great guy.

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We have three and a half classmates that moved there.

Gayle and Larry make up 1.5 of that group. Larry is the owner/manager of an investment firm in Denver. He and Gayle have lived there a long, long time. Perhaps we should know how long they have been married. Oh, 40+ years. They are close to the runners up for longevity. Our lovely couple is expecting to double their stable of grandbabies in April with twins. Our 1965 Kenny Stabler look alike, Joe Cohen is always strumming his guitar in his law office, on the back of one of his horses, a la’ Gene Autry, or onstage with his band somewhere in Denver. Who the heck is Kenny Stabler?

QB for Alabama and then Oakland. Perhaps Kenny Rogers is a better one to compare Joe to. No kidding, look at Joe’s Facebook page.

This man is a geological attorney. Why not write him to find out what that is? Kathy Hutman is our class bag lady.

She owns and runs a company that makes environmentally safe shopping. Her Boulderbased business is the right thing at the right time. Check her out on Facebook and buy a bag from her company. Talk about high or tall (see above), Phil Buck is doing what Fred M does – runs a school.

However, Phil lives and works in the same town. He has four or is it five gorgeous daughters, all of whom, luckily for them, look just like his wife, Betty. His youngest baby is headed for a life in caring for others in her ministry. Another high (tall) guy, Dave Collins has hightailed it to Florida, not that far from Jane. After Dave’s career as the voice of the Florida Gators, who lost to Ole Miss on their way to a national championship, he now produces a great reality cooking show while he runs

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their public relations firm.

Actually he does everything wife Peggy tells him and she is gracious enough to give him all the credit he deserves.

Charlie (call me Chuck) is another tall guy. He also thinks that his team should win the national championship, kind of like Bobby. His team, da Bears could not. Perhaps they could play Bobby’s team.

Charlie is a farmer in training, as is his much younger and delightful bride Heather. They have the thrill of paying for two weddings within one year.

How ya gonna keep ‘em down of the farm? Check out Charlie in his Packer colors in his Facebook picture, taken at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

The discussion of Colorado with its streams and mountains should not end with just 3.5 graduates. Richard could not attend our Reunion. Richard, as we all remember, had the greatest parties at his folks’ home. For all we know, the parties are still going on. There are a few classmates who wonder why we are still in the land of the living, except for the long, protective arms of the Lord, after driving home

years. She has become the communications master of the power grid for San Diego Gas and Electric. On her off days, she hangs at the Del Coronado Hotel (where the movie “Some Like it Hot” was shot) looking to replace Marilyn Monroe in the sequel. She would be our first choice. She is hot. Marsha was sweet enough to procure Padres tickets for a few folks on their first San Diego visit.

Robert Wang and Betsy Markert also live in California but we have not heard from them yet. Robert is a gerontologist (old folks’ doc) in L.A. He ought to come to the next Reunion and set up shop. We have it on the best authority that they are getting together to disprove the Pythagorean Theorem Something to do with triangles. Betsy, Robert, come see us, please. Besides Bob U or Lynn, the most Northern living 65er may be Phil Hoffman. We hear that Vermont is a beautiful state after the snow finally melts in June. Phil, surprise, is an engineer and still has deep loyalty to the Ma and Pa RR, or not, ha, ha. Both of his babies (one married recently)

Gayle Rummel Jones ’65 and her brother Larry Jones.

from those get-togethers.

California is another state populated with some 65ers.

Marsha has been in the San Diego area for a number of

work on Wall Street but live in Brooklyn. Cynthia Knust, one of our honorary classmates, continues her nursing career in Raleigh. She has committed to

attend a future Reunion. She is active on Facebook – nice story. Mary Cohen, also an honorary, did join us in May. We were glad to see her as she wants to host the post game party next time and pick up the airfare and hotel rooms for all of the out of towners (just kidding about the air and hotel.) Mary will be setting up a table at our next get-together to show off her psychoanalytical skills. She must feel that there are plenty of prospects.

Thanks, Mary. Who else has drifted? Two mid-westerners, Linda Dawe, a Hawkeye in Iowa and Janet Kennedy, a Hoosier in Indiana have been out of touch. We would love to catch up with both of you. We also missed Joe D who is plying his medical wares in Baltimore.

Alan Gebhart, as we all knew he would be, is hugely successful in the real estate business. From orchids to real estate is a natural progression.

Steve Cole lost the love of his life late in 2010. Understandably, he had to miss the Reunion. Steve works for a non-profit. Of his two children, one has taken the road south to Atlanta. Gretchen knows the work involved in gathering information, especially with a fairly private group. Private means uncooperative, perhaps.

However, she knows everything about everybody and we thank her as a group for her work over the years. We have rewarded her with a professional portrait, suitable for framing, of herself taken at the Reunion. Perhaps that will convince her to take only a one year hiatus from this noble work. Please forgive us, ladies, for using maiden names. It works so much better for us.

Our 50th is in 2015 – start saving now. But, don’t be a stranger. Life is too short. Talk to and visit each other before our next official meeting. We went to school with great folks.

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Dick Scholz was installed as president of the Baltimore County Medical Association in April and recently joined the board of the Johns Hopkins Club. John Hammond retired in February after a 20year career with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. During that time, he handled public relations and developed media awareness campaigns for the AIDS Administration, served as deputy director for the department’s office of public relations and was communications chief for the behavioral health and disabilities unit at DHMH. John will continue writing part-time and will expand his interest in photography. You may even see him on the Friends School sidelines covering high school sports for a local on-line news service.

Brad Marshall continues his efforts to transform his Maryland-born sons, Skylar and Luke, into Californians.

His most recent effort involved the boys’ skiing Big Bear in the morning and then driving down the mountain to the Encinitas coast and surfing just before sunset. Brad’s wife has just completed filming her first leading lady role as detective Jill Jones in an indie feature film titled “The Kult,” based on the book by the same name. Brenda Bodian writes from Zoagli, Italy, where she and her husband are nudging along construction projects.

She notes that things are picking up a bit in the commercial real estate business, which may be an early sign that the economy is regrouping. But, given that it is slower than normal, she and her husband decided to take a long trip to Australia and New Zealand

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scheduled to visit Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Spain and Portugal. My wife Kimberly is working at the e-Diplomacy office of the State Department, helping find innovative ways to achieve our goals. The family is living in Falls Church, VA and enjoying the changing seasons and snow.”

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Lisa Mitchell Pitts ‘70’s grandchildren, Hatcher and Lavinia, born in September 2010.

last fall. After spending a few days in Sydney adjusting to the time change (“What a great city!”), they joined 63 other members of their sailing club in the Whitsunday Islands, sailing around in 10 boats and touring part of the incredible Great Barrier Reef nearby. They then flew to Christchurch in the south island of New Zealand to start a grand camping tour of this spectacularly beautiful country (“from fiords to glaciers, seas to mountains, pastures with deer, sheep and cows, to vineyards as far as the eye can see, all while driving on the left side of the road.”) Next, they crossed to the north island to see Wellington, and then, Auckland, where Brenda’s niece is in medical school. It was her summer break, so the three of them celebrated Thanksgiving and spent about a week exploring her city and the thermal areas around Rotorua. With visits to museums along the way, they got a feel for the history and cultures of a young country with a unique mix of people and strong connections to the sea. Brenda highly recommends seeing it one day.

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the 25, 2010. I’m dividing my time between trips to DC to spend time with them, doing marketing and sales for Natural Concerns – a wonderful landscaping company started by a student I taught during my first three years after college, helping my parents who are now living at Roland Park Place, and working in my own garden. Being involved with family spanning four generations and 85 years, being able to collaborate with adults, and getting my hands dirty feels like an ideal mix and balance right now.

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Thomas LeGrand writes, “After resisting it for years, I became chair of the Demography Department at the University of Montreal in June 2010. Sounds glorious, but is a lot of administrative work and trying to cajole professors to do their work well. That, combined with teaching and work travel (Brazil, France and Korea in the next three months) is exhausting. My daughter Anna (from China, now 14) keeps me going, as does my wife, Marie-Helene, and our schnoodle, Sophie.”

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Peter Kaestner writes, “After 13 years living overseas in a series of assignments with the U.S. Foreign Service, we returned home in the summer of 2009. I have been working in the Office of Inspector General of the State Department, inspecting our U.S. embassies.

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Lisa Lasagna says, “I still live in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia with my husband Rob Zacharias. Our two daughters have flown the coop—Alison still lives in Victoria and is studying fine furniture-making, and Kari lives in Vienna and works as an aeronautical engineer.

Rob and I are happy and healthy. I continue to enjoy singing in a choir and studying Italian. We’ll be making our third trip to Italy this spring to reconnect with my Italian cousins. In the summer we love to kayak. Hello to all my

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far-flung classmates.” Rand LeBouvier is still living in Kingston MA (near Plymouth) and writes, “We need guests to come visit! The unmanned underwater vehicle world is really taking off, so I spend a lot of time overseas, just like the Navy. Our oldest daughter Tara just returned from two years in Italy, where she and her submariner husband enjoyed La Dolce Vita. They are heading to Hawaii next. Our son Chris, the Navy SH-60S pilot, is getting ready to deploy with his helo detachment to the Middle East. He lives in Virginia near Lynnette Young, who was our favorite family dentist in addition to being my personal diva idol— she is awesome. Our youngest, Julia, is graduating from Bryn Mawr in May, when she will continue her career as a starving artist (budding sculptor, welder, and queen of the forge, i.e., why I am still working) and rugby player—like her Dad, but more coordinated. Hope all are well. If anyone is ever in the Boston area, I will hunt you down if I find out you did not call or stop in! Julie is an amazing cook and baker. I am also waiting for David Hughes to ask me to sing in his band.”

Lee Peterson Baker writes, “I'm living in Afton, MA, a small village on the St. Croix River, about 30 minutes outside the Twin Cities. My work days (part-time) are divided between doing marketing communications consulting and helping students with learning disabilities transition from high school to college. I love what I do, as well as the flexibility it provides. And that flexibility becomes important with two boys still at home.

Our older son, Ross, is a high school senior this year, and will be heading East or West for college to a school that’s near the mountains. Throughout school, he’s been juggling aca-

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demics and alpine ski racing and wants to be in a location where he can continue to compete. Our younger son Peter is in seventh grade and is following in his brother’s footsteps (or ski tracks) to pursue ski racing.

Winter flies by as we chase our kids around the Midwest and other areas of the country for slalom, giant slalom, super G and downhill races.

The speed events aren't my favorites when I watch my kids throwing themselves down the course at speeds between 60 and 70 mph! But they sure have fun and have had some fabulous experiences.

Ross has been lucky enough to train in Austria, Canada

home and enjoying down time!

Hope all is well with all of you.

I have some cousins living in California, but no family in the East, so Maryland isn’t on my usual list of destinations (especially since there aren’t any ski areas there), but I’d love to get back to Baltimore for the next Reunion. Keep me posted!” Chuck Mitchell writes, “I am currently living in the Stoneleigh neighborhood of Baltimore with my fiancé Jani and her two kids, George and Twyla. My older daughter Shelby just graduated from Missouri with a degree in English. She is looking for a job in publishing, so anyone with contacts let me know!

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Bart Walter ‘76’s sculpture, “Wild Imaginings.”

and Chile! My husband “Bake” is an architect at a firm that specializes in corporate headquarters, health care and higher education. When our family isn’t at school, at work, or on a ski slope, we are sailing on Lake Superior, hiking and whitewater rafting in Whitefish, MT, or just hanging out at

basis. Sally Slingluff, Gay Ossman Rudow, Scott Nevin and I get together several times during the year to indulge in a night of fun— usually at a venue featuring our favorite bassist, David Hughes. We’re always looking for others to join us! And during the summer, some combination of Jim Snyder, Mickey Greenbaum, Cam MacLachlan, David Lentz, Rick Rosenbloom ’76 and I occasionally get together for a round of golf. Never as often as we intend, but if we played more often we would run out of excuses for our level of play. Hughey and Harry Goldberg have threatened to join us, but so far we have been spared their errant drivers. But the invitation is always open to anyone who would like to join us. It makes it easier to find a day when at least three or four of us can play. Still working at the old Westinghouse, now called Northrop Grumman. Never in my wildest dreams did I think my first job would be more than a two year hitch, but here I am some 32 years later. Like Rand, my job is currently naval related, but instead of unmanned underwater vehicles (we usually call them “lost”), we’re developing ballistic missile defense radar for surface ships. Just trying to keep y’all alive! So life is good in Charm City. Would love to see any and all of you when you are in town!”

My younger daughter Kelsey is in her sophomore year at Cornell majoring in biological engineering. Jani’s kids are both in middle school, so my empty nest syndrome has been deferred by quite a bit. One advantage of living in B-more: I do get to see some of our classmates on a semi-regular

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Jeff Cohen writes, “I had a new play open off Broadway in New York called The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller in February 2010, which was a New York Times “Critics Pick”

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when it showcased in September. One of my previous plays, Men Of Clay, about the Druid Hill Park tennis courts in the 1970s was selected “Best New Play” of 2005 by the City Paper.

In other news, I have joined the faculty of the Pace University Lubin School of Business and am helping to create a program in producing for the theater and management for the arts program, which will bring together students in the university’s business and theater schools.”

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Louise Cannon writes, “Considering I was the first member of the class of ’76 to become a parent, I feel it’s safe to assume I am also the first to become a grandparent. My husband Marty Murtagh and I were overjoyed with the arrival of our granddaughter, Fina O’Keefe Murtagh, daughter of our son Troy and his partner Eliza Ann Newman in March 2008. We have subsequently discovered that parenthood is simply the means for achieving the ultimate happy outcome of becoming grandparents.” This year marks Carolyn Alkire’s fifth in southern California since escaping DC winters and crowds, a move made possible when she finally completed her Ph.D. from George Washington University in 2003 (it only took 10 years part-time). She and her daughter Keli, 11, live in the small coastal beach town of Carlsbad Village and consider themselves lucky to be able to walk to the beach at sunset.

Although Carolyn was unable to transfer to California’s Wilderness Society office from her economist position with their Washington, DC research department, she continues to consult for them as well as

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other conservation organizations. She is hoping to retire from her job with the San Diego Association of Governments next year to devote more time to enjoying life and part-time consulting.

Keith Tabatznik has been inducted into the Virginia/ DC Soccer Hall of Fame.

Debbie Brown is working at Georgetown University in the International Programs office and her husband, David, is running his own computer consulting business. Their 11-year-old twins, Emily and Donny, are sixth graders at Westland Middle School in Bethesda. Bart Walter has been a sculptor for 30 years with many prominently placed sculptures, including one on the Friends Upper School plaza. He also has pieces at the Maryland Zoo, including Hunting Lioness, Running Ostrich, Grooming and Reclining Cheetahs, Mountain Silverback, Polar Bear and Toads. Last September, Wild Imaginings was placed in ront of the Westminster Public Library in Carroll County. In this sculpture, a boy is reading a book while nestled against the side of a large male lion, speaking to the power of reading and imagination both of which have always been intrinsic to Bart’s life. Lastly, our Friends School of Baltimore Class of 1976 Facebook Group now has 34 members with the recent addition of Jim Pappas and Lisa Chang. Please let me know if you need assistance in joining.

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be pushed academically but will also be able to pursue her talents in dance and performing arts. My younger daughter Becca, 14, and husband Steve will remain in Singapore. We'll commute as a family back and forth. Our new motto is “One family—Two locations.” Once Maddie is settled, I'll resume my private practice in complimentary medicine and bring the meditation and fasting retreats here! Bali has been an island paradise for us for more than 20 years...and now it is our second home. Wish us luck and if ever in Bali, look us up!”

a living and invest in alarm clocks and scheduling software!

We spent a lovely holiday season in Vail, CO with some ‘epic’ powder days (but also -20 degree weather) so we have made a pledge to pursue spring skiing! Of note, my brother Erik Weinstock ’79 was featured in the January/ February edition of WebMD the Magazine—the leading and fastest growing health mag in America with over 10 million readers per issue—and will also be featured in our March/ April edition.”

ficially met as a class five years ago, some of us have new spouses, begun and ended careers, bought vacation homes, sent a kid off on prom night and even off to college. Some have discovered or nurtured their love for travel, teaching, painting, speaking foreign languages, charity work, therapy, performing, even rapping.

One example is our own Nell Smith, who now works as a therapist in Connecticut and is able to utilize her growing skills as a rapper (think Run-DMC’s Sucker MC’s) to

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Nan Weinstock Forte writes, “In September 2010, WebMD celebrated its fifth year of being public on NASDAQ. Our stock in those five years grew faster than Google. We’re boasting a monthly audience of over 80 million people and a stock price over $50 a share.

In addition, I am busy raising three teenage girls with my husband Steve Biale in Franklin Lakes, NJ and NYC. It was wonderful to see classmates at the Athletic Hall of Fame and Reunion Weekend. Peter Hawley gave me great advice at the time in trying to get our youngest daughter Olivia into an elite private school. It happened! So now we have children at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, The Storm King School in Cornwell on the Hudson, NY, and The Masters School in Dobb’s Ferry, NY. Between the combined tuitions and the daily commute—I go to my NYC Chelsea office everyday and also have offices in Atlanta, GA and Laguna Beach, CA— we are continuing to work for Friends School of Baltimore

David Buschman ’81, David Alkire ’81, Katie Hearn ’81, Martin Garcia-Bunuel ’83 and Justin Garcia-Bunuel ’14 at the Tom LaMonica 5K Trail Run in November 2010.

1981 Dahira Lievano-Binford baltimorenbinfordbunch@ verizon.net

Greetings Class of ’81! By the time you read these class notes, the snow piles, chilly winds and heavy coats and gloves will have finally vanished, the flowering trees in Sherwood Gardens will be resplendent in hues of pinks, whites and purples, and we will have already celebrated 30 years since our graduation. It is hard to believe that so much time has passed, although many of us have the grey hair, wrinkles and debt to prove it. Yes, since we last of-

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help the underprivileged boys she serves develop more selfconfidence, self-discipline and humility. She has performed in Baltimore, along with her locally famous brother Larry Smith ’83 and his band Release, rapping a number of songs as well as reciting some Monty Python sketches.

I was one of the faithful back at Friends who reveled in her gift of impersonating all the actors from Monty Python every week, along with Paula Russo, Carol Drobisz, Morrie Ruehsen and others. That brings back some hilarious memories, Nell! Phil Merrill has gone out to watch Nell perform a few times. Nell,

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1982 Karen Dates-Dunmore kdates@friendsbalt.org

Phil Boling ’81 and his family on vacation last summer at Yellowstone National Park.

let us know early enough next time and we’ll try to get a big group of us together to hoot and holler for you! In other news, I’m still Class Secretary, as you noticed, and have accepted this as my lifelong duty, since no one else has volunteered. Mike Lurie sent me a notice that he has moved from UMBC to a position as media relations/web manager in the University System of Maryland Office of Communications in Adelphi, MD. Thanks for checking in with me, Mike. In the fall of 2010, a number of Friends graduates gathered to celebrate the life of Tom LaMonica ’67 who, as you know, passed away suddenly at the beginning of this school year. A 5K race was held in the fall at Genesee Valley and many people who had admired and learned so much from their time with Tom, both at School, on the wrestling mats and on the farm, participated. Katie Hearn, David Buschman, David Alkire ran in the race, as well as Martin Garcia-Bunuel.

If you would like to read some funny and moving tributes to

Tom, you can go to the Friends School website. Here is a link: http://www.friendsbalt. org/lamonicatribute/. I was also happy to hear from Phil Boling that he and his family are doing well. Phil wrote in that he, Sarah and their sons are still living in Towson and that he continues to work for Zurich Insurance. “We are in the midst of the college search and getting a drivers license for our oldest son Blake, a junior at Loyola Blakefield. Our son Matt is a freshman at a Loyola and is near attaining the Eagle Scout rank in Boy Scouts. Our fourth grader Jack is loving parochial school, NOT! The past summer included a vacation to Yellowstone National Park. We recently were visited by classmate Tim Goodell and his wife Marianne. Family time is spent climbing at a local gym, rock climbing, camping and backpacking. We are looking forward to the 30th Reunion.” That’s all for now except to say that many of us are already posting photos and news on our Facebook page (thanks Katie!) called Friends School of Baltimore Class of

’81. Keep posting, guys, even beyond our Reunion date.

There are some wonderful photos that are helping to jog my memory of those “old days,” since I was not a diary or journal writer, as was Nell, and have forgotten a lot of details. Oh, well. Hope this finds all of you in good health. Let’s stay in touch via Facebook and encourage those who haven’t joined our page to do so!

Jonathan Krome writes, “My family and I continue to live in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies.

We moved here nearly two years ago after I took a job with BHP Billiton Petroleum.

Living abroad has truly been an adventure for the whole family—Trinidad is part of the developing world with many social, economic, and political challenges. And of course, there is no Wal-Mart, McDonald’s or Starbucks! We will likely be here for another six to 18 months. And my oldest daughter is anxiously awaiting her college application responses—didn’t we just finish those ourselves?”

1983 Shawn Dorman McKenzie dorman.shawn@gmail.com

In an enthusiastic display of Friends School spirit, Larry Smith initiated and hosted the Class of ’83 Midway Reunion Party at his Timonium home in October. The idea came

Class of ’83 alums at their 27 ½ year Reunion last fall at the home of Larry Smith; (l-r) Beth Fitzgerald, Shawn Dorman, Trish Backer-Miceli, Abe Hollander, Lisa McKissick, Martin Garcia-Bunuel, David Applefeld, Larry Smith, Edwin Remsberg, Liddy Garcia-Bunuel, and Louis Hanover.

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Cody Walker ‘85 and Polly Rosenwaike’s daughter, Zia Rosenwaike Walker, born in October 2010.

up at our last Reunion, as we all remembered what a nice class, what a nice group of kids we have. And so, the idea of a gathering before another five years passed was born. As Larry said afterward, “There was a lot of catching up and a reaffirmation of how lucky we were to have each other then, and to still have each other now!” Christian Hillabrant shares some big news about coming home. “I’ve accepted a new job and am moving the family—Clare, Grace, 9, Pierce, 6, Clark, 6 and Violet, 4, plus Angel the dog and Dallas the cat—back to the DC/ Baltimore area after 15 years of corporate relocations from Florida to Texas to New York, San Francisco, New Jersey, and finally back home. I’m looking forward to reconnecting with friends and family.” Welcome back to Baltimore, Chris! In June 2010, Andrew Feng and his family relocated to Hawaii.

He says he’s “doubtful I’ll have any former Friends School grads as resident trainees way out here, but I guess you never know. Drop a line/e-mail/ Facebook message if you’re in the area, we’d love to see you!

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great place for reunions.” Well, that sounds like an invitation to me! How about we all show up there for the Class of 1983 Three-Quarter Reunion? Abe Hollander is doing well, and writes, “If no news is good news, then I have good news.

I’m happily chugging along in Ellicott City with wife and 2.4 kids in the requisite colonial.

I’m still working at Medicare,

Davis’ and Chris Hillabrant’s posts, and certainly better than nothing, but damn if I still don’t miss Tom Greenman.

I think Larry should have a party more frequently (would go with his political ambitions, right?), and more people should come.” Congratulations to Tom Greenman, who got married this past summer! He writes that “2010 was pretty darn good. I got married on Memorial Day to Sabrina, who some of you met at the last Reunion, traveled to Brazil to meet the family, and ran the New York City Marathon (can now check that off the ‘ol Bucket List).

And I qualified for the Boston Marathon! 2011 is looking promising… I got the lead in a short film, and am heading to Patagonia for two weeks. After that, it’s all gray and fuzzy.

Anyone ever in NYC, certainly give a holler.” Larry Smith writes from his new job as military liaison/policy analyst for Congressman Andy Harris, R-MD. “I decided to leap into the political stream when

Cary Anderson ‘85 (left) with Robert Picardo on the set of “Chad & The Alien Toupee,” A Funny or Die short film.

still watching the kids grow— still don’t see much of Denis and Kindall Rende, but it’s always nice when we do. Great time last summer with Gordon Haldeman and his extended family up at Lake George! I find Facebook a funny thing… it’s easy to comment on Mark

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much and very much enjoy being paid to stay smart on issues so I can discuss them with constituents. Back to part-time reserve duty on the military side, but I’m participating in Combined Exercise “Key Resolve” in South Korea — didn’t see that one coming. Also mourning the loss of (fitness king) Jack LaLanne. However old he lived to be was going to be how long I planned to live… so it looks like it’s 96 for me! Anyone who wants to visit me in the Capitol, just take the Washington, DC, Metro to Capitol South. Our office building is right there.”

Take care, everyone, and don’t forget to write.

1985 Amy Chen ajochen@sbcglobal.net

Kate Windsor writes that the past three years have been quite full as she and her family transitioned to Connecticut when she became Head of Miss Porter’s School. In May, she graduated from Penn with a doctorate in organizational and educational leadership and has enjoyed being able to continue her research voluntarily as a member of the Center for the Study of Boys’ and Girls’ Lives, instead of facing the deadlines inherent with being a student. Kate continues to enjoy spending time with her husband Jonas and their two boys, Jack and Mac. Cody Walker and Polly Rosenwaike welcomed their first child, Zia Rosenwaike Walker, this past October. Cody says “Zia’s great. In fact, she’s funny and wise and perfect.” Congratulations Cody and Polly! Paul Armstrong was recognized at a ceremony on October 21, 2010 by the ARC of Prince George’s 2010 Celebration of Excellence Awards. Paul was chosen for promoting oppor-

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Dave Knowles ’92 with his wife Wendy and daughter Kaitlyn last September at Chicago’s Wrigley Field.

tunities and positive change for people with disabilities.

Family and co-workers were in attendance to support Paul’s well-deserved honor. And then in February, while skiing in Utah, Paul managed to get 30 stitches when he cut his face. “I am going to look so cool from my facial scars,” he boasts, adding, “I didn’t miss one day of skiing during my week long vacation!” Cary Anderson wrote and produced a web series comedy pilot that airs on Will Ferrell’s website Funny or Die. The pilot is called “Chad and the Alien Toupee.” It stars Robert Picardo and Tim Russ from Star Trek: Voyager. He also wrote and directed a short film starring Nikki Ziering from American Pie and another starring Joe Lando, former People Magazine’s “sexiest man alive” and star of Dr. Quinn. (Oh, the C list name dropping!) Cary writes, “Presently, I am working on another short with Krista Allen—I can’t stop name dropping!” Outside of that, Cary is looking for financing for two feature scripts that he’s hoping to direct. So if anyone needs a tax write-off in 2011, he will send you a business proposal. Contact Anderson_ Cary@hotmail.com if you are interested. Here is the link to “Chad and the Alien Toupee”: http://www.funnyordie.com/ videos/eeb6f78374/chad-and-

the-alien-toupee. Outside of the Hollywood hustle, Cary is currently teaching a couple of classes in screenwriting at Towson University.

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Michael Hoffman is again running the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards with YouTube: http://www.youtube. com/nonprofitvideoawards.

These awards recognize the best videos that promote causes. This is the fifth annual awards and they are sponsored

by Michael’s company, See3 Communications.

1988 Angelo Valle gelovalle@gmail.com

The saddest news that I have had to report in my time as Class Secretary is the loss of the first member of our graduating class. Several members of the Class of ’88 reconnected via Facebook with my former carpool buddy, Tim Dietz, and knew that he had been doing a great job of fighting colon cancer. Tim’s battle

had been going on for about a year before we were shocked that he took a sudden turn for the worse and ultimately succumbed on December 1, 2010. Tim’s sister, Sharon Dietz Chand ’91, informed me that “he really enjoyed reconnecting with classmates through Facebook and has always remembered the days at Friends with a lot of joy.”

Our thoughts go out to the Dietz family. On the brighter side of class news, before I could get settled into the new year, I was pleasantly surprised that Colleen Barry e-mailed me what appears to be her first update over the years. “I think this is the first time for me, but I love reading the updates of our classmates...I have kind of returned to Baltimore. Last

year, I accepted a faculty job at Johns Hopkins in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. I live in Philly with my husband Andy Epstein, a Penn faculty member, and commute to Hopkins a couple days a week.

One of the nicest parts of my new job is being able to see my dear Friends School friends, Nellie Power and Elisa Shorr Frost, much more often.” Andy and Colleen’s son Sammy was born on November 16, 2009. “He is a joy and very cute—just ask Elisa or Nellie—they will vouch for his cuteness.” More good news arrived at the beginning of the year from Christina Long, who had much to celebrate last year. She writes, “2010 was a wonderful year for me. I got married and gave birth to a

On Sunday, December 19, 2010, Christine Lynne Guthrie ’89 passed away. Christine attended Friends from 1985 to 1989 and during that time began to foster the ideals of service and spirituality. A graduate of the University of Rochester, where she majored in psychology and Spanish, Christine earned a master’s degree in public health at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and dedicated her professional life to helping those with behavioral and mental health issues. Choosing a professional path of service that reflected her deep love and concern for humanity, she counseled low-income women in Salinas, CA, and later joined the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, where her compassion and insight guided her approaches to innovative therapies and policies. Her spiritual journey took her to India, where she explored religious, psychological and interpersonal pathways. Renowned for her masterful yoga teaching, she used her practice to connect to the goodness in others. Christine is remembered by her family, including her spouse, Rita Etter; her parents, Janet Guthrie, John and Stacey Guthrie; her brothers, Mark Guthrie ’86 and Jeff Ward; and her sister Laura (Jim) Ragonese. She will be profoundly missed by all whom she touched with her spirit.

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the to Hesse. Last year I taught at Earlham College—it was nice to be back at a Quaker institution for a while, although I prefer northern California to anywhere in Indiana.”

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Class of ’93 alums (l.-r.) Dana Kerley Jimenez, Blakely Mikula Hamilton, Carrie Mallonee Huebner, Eric Huebner, Frannie Hochberg-Giuffrida, and Carmina Valle pose for portraits following Carrie and Eric’s wedding. (Photo by Shane Carpenter.)

baby girl in October. She is a fat and happy three month old now. We still live in Manhattan and I still work as an architect.

For the past three years, I was working on a new law school building for Stanford University, but now that construction is almost complete, I will be working on a different project when I return from maternity leave in February.” The last update that I received for this batch of notes came from Katherine Leatherwood Brakman, who, after 17 years of owning her own production company, Fiat Lux Films, is moving to the other side of commercials: advertising. “I am taking a full time position as senior producer at The Martin Agency. I will be working in their in-house post production facility, Running with Scissors, on accounts, including Morgan Stanley, Discover Card, GEICO, WalMart, Hanes, Pizza Hut and Tylenol. While this marks a dramatic change in my life (and a slightly frightening loss of autonomy), fortunately it does not require relocating. I 40

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will remain in Richmond, VA with my husband Eric and our two children, Stella, 6, and Nora, 4.” Although Katherine is staying put, my family and I moved from central New Jersey to Arlington, MA in December as my wife Lindsay took a new job. The Boston area welcomed us with quite a lot of snow, as one might have predicted, but we are enjoying the area and hope to be settled fully when this goes to print.

Feel free to contact me if you are ever in the area!

1989 Meghan Stern meghan@stern.net

Jon Kallen is still living out in the heartland, Des Moines, IA, working as an environmental and regulatory attorney for an energy company. “I’m married with three boys under the age of six. In my spare time, I have been getting involved in local politics, ending my first term as an elected city council member in Johnston, IA (population 17,000.) I am up for re-election Friends School of Baltimore

in November so send me some campaign contributions!”

1991 Tricia Merson Harding bittersweet49026@ yahoo.com

Rachel Kurzweil Dvoskin writes, “After doing a post-doc at the University of Florida, I’m back up North (woo hoo!), living in Takoma Park, MD, working at the Genetics and Public Policy Center in DC. Our one-year-old son Ike is adjusting well to being ripped out of sunny, 80 degree Gainesville after being deposited into DC in the dead of winter. I’m happy ​to be back in the area and can’t wait to see old friends more often.” Christian Anderson writes, “I’m a visiting professor of German and film studies at Connecticut College. In March, I was awarded a Ph.D. in German from the University of California, Davis, with a dissertation that analyzed transcendental discourses in the Bildungsroman, from Goe-

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David Knowles writes, “My wife Wendy and I live in Severna Park with our daughter.

I work in Washington, DC as the director of communications for the Corn Refiners Association, where I spend my days working on an advertising and public relations campaign to counter the widespread misinformation about high fructose corn syrup.” Chris Henry is living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, working in urban planning by day as a project manager with AECOM. He is also an editor with the newly launched cycling magazine, Peloton.

Chris is engaged to his fiancée Marisa and will be married in Brooklyn in September.

1993 Elizabeth Leonard Clifton elizclifton@gmail.com

Hello, friends! Things have been a little quiet in the Class of 1993 news department, but the news we have to share is joyous. First, we have a birth announcement from Karen Hudson Burd. She and her husband Travis Burd welcomed their first child, Carly Cousart Burd, on November 24, 2010. Karen is taking some time off from being a social worker to be a mom and plans to open a private practice in the coming months. Emily Pelton Watson has been a doula in the Baltimore area

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since 2002 and has enjoyed being a childbirth instructor at Mercy Medical Center for the last three and half years. She has had the pleasure of teaching and/or serving as a doula for several Friends School alums. Last fall, she started Baltimore Family Beginnings, a full-service peri-natal company with doula services, childbirth and parenting education, a new-moms’ support group, lactation support and more. Find her at http://www. baltimorefamilybeginnings. com or on Facebook. That’s it: short, sweet, good news! I’d love to hear from more of you with news, photos, or just a hello: elizclifton@gmail.com, or find me on Facebook.

1994 Steve Peterson oxenstjerna@yahoo.com

Hey, Class of 1994! I’m filling in for Rich Santos. His witty ripostes will be sorely missed this time around. Liz Bowman and her husband Trey welcomed Miles Alexander Popp to their family on January 28, 2011. Miles joins big brother Noah, who is almost three

entertain talk of a sister, and cut us off if we were to begin discussing girl names. Hooray for brothers!” Brandon Elhai lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Kelly. He teaches math for the Loudoun County School System. The Elhais are at present in the process of adopting a baby from Korea!

Brandon says, “We should be picking up the little guy in April or May.” Matt Bonds married Molly Norton (cousin to Lou Rouse) this past April in a really lovely ceremony down on the Miles River, near Easton, MD. Many Friends alums were in attendance, including Ryan Bader, Andrew Geison, Jamie Johnston, Myles Perkins, Lou Rouse, Rich Santos, and Adelle Waldman, among others. Matt and Molly are living in Rwanda these days.

They recently built a house out of earth block in Rwinkwavu, a village next to the hospital campus of Partners in Health, a nonprofit group that provides health care options to the poor.

Matt reports that the house is not quite habitable yet, but will be soon. Andrew Geison writes, “After a huge day in Atlantic City, where I hit the

Marika Holland Knight ‘94’s children, Roland and Charlotte.

years old! Liz reports, “Noah is delighted that the baby turned out to be a boy. During my pregnancy, he would not

jackpot, I went on a ski trip to Vermont. While there, I broke my leg, but was nursed back to health by a toothsome young

Rich Santos ’94, Emily Santos Fisher ’96 and Natalie Santos Ferguson ’90 at Emily’s September 2010 wedding to Jake Fisher. (Photo by Louis Rouse.)

lady. We bought a new house and got married. She questioned whether I would be able to provide for my new family, so I began my new career as a world-famous businessman.” And you all thought he wouldn’t amount to anything.

Seriously, though, Andrew is the head coach of men’s lacrosse at DeSales University in Pennsylvania. He makes his way down to Baltimore quite frequently—Baltimore is apparently some kind of amazing font of lacrosse talent: who knew? Brian Hamilton has two children, a baby girl, Abigail, who is five months old; and Dylan, who is three and a half. Hopefully a heck of a soccer player, too! Ham says, “We’re living it up in Philadelphia. Wishing the Friends community all of the best!”

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few years. She writes, “I am just starting the dissertation phase of my doctorate. I'm still teaching at Friends Academy on Long Island (mainly geometry and calculus), and I have two small children (Charlotte, 4, and Roland, 20 months.)”

The life of a math teacher is never dull! Asim Khan married Fauzia Akmal on December 25, 2010 in California.

They held a traditional Valima (marriage banquet) ceremony on January 1, 2011, in Cockeysville, which was attended by yours truly and Steve Travieso. Alex Maloney is living in Montreal and working in the physics department at McGill University. He and his wife Bekah have spent the last year getting to know their beautiful, hilarious and all around wonderful daughter, Emilia. Alex says, “Emmy has just started walking and

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now spends her afternoons chasing the dog around the living room.” Amy Kremen lives in Montreal, too, and she, her husband Bos, and son Isaac attended Emilia's first birthday party recently. Ian Parrish is the president of Investors United School of Real Estate Investing (http:// www.investorsunited.com), which has grown by leaps and bounds over the last ten years. Ian writes, “After school I devoted myself full-time to managing my real estate investments. Lately, I have been lecturing at area universities and professional organizations to help investors understand the challenges and potential of real estate investment. The most rewarding thing I’ve done recently was an urban redevelopment project that involved the renovation of a city block of buildings. I had the opportunity to help change them from broken-down shells into homes and shops where people now live and work. I live on a farm in Northern Maryland where I spend a lot of time working with my hands, and as I write this e-mail I notice that I still have not been able to get all the grease out from under my fingernails.” Tolya Pfeffer-Bacon Stonorov lives in a small town in Alaska, where she and her husband run an architecture firm (http://www.stonorovworkshop.com). They’re presently building two houses in the area. Their little boy Nico is three years old, and their family is rounded out by a blue heeler (Australian cattle dog), Oscar. Dan Ray has been living in Brooklyn since 2005.

He works in the appellate division of the New York State Court System. At Christmastime, Dan and I tried to get together in Baltimore while he was down visiting family, but the monster CHRISTMAS DAY BLIZZARD forced

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us to cancel our plans. Lou Rouse lives in Brooklyn and works as a photographer. He shoots for publications such as Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and Marie Claire. He recently began shooting and producing video content for national and international print media, which are expanding their digital presence. Lou has an awesome website for anyone who loves good photography and art in general: http:// www.LouRouse.com. Tina Sader Kazan is married to Marwan Kazan and lives in Lebanon, where she works as an interior architect. Tina and Marwan have a son George who is almost three years old.

Rich Santos is living in Brooklyn, still works in advertising, and continues to write the popular “Sex and the Single Guy” dating blog for Marie Claire magazine (http://www.

York Times, and other papers from around the globe. He has opened a studio at Clipper Mill and does a lot of portraiture and wedding photography as well. Adelle Waldman married Evan Hughes in July 2010. Both Adelle and Evan are writers (oh, to be a fly on the wall in THAT apartment!).

Adelle has let me know that Evan’s book, Literary Brooklyn: An American History in Stories, is being published by Henry Holt this coming August. The book is a story of the lives and works of writers from Walt Whitman and Henry Miller, to Arthur Miller and Richard Wright, to today’s writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and Jonathan Safran Foer.

Adelle told me that she’ll soon have details about Evan’s Baltimore book party. Isaac Van Wesep is living with his soul mate Maja and their daughter Eden in Watertown, MA,

Cary Pirone, Emily Santos Fisher, Sara Hubbard, Madeline Franklin and Susannah Gust Holmberg—all Class of ’96—at Emily’s wedding.

marieclaire.com/dating). He sees Ryan Bader quite often, which is wonderful because that Bader is a stand-up guy.

Michael Temchine married Eliza Feller of Baltimore in March 2009. After living in Washington, DC for 12 years, he and Eliza recently moved to Baltimore’s lovely Mount Washington neighborhood.

Mike works as a freelance photographer, mainly doing work for The Washington Post, The New

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just outside of Boston. Isaac recently left the venture capital fund where he was working to pursue woodworking and furniture making full-time. He blogs about his work at http:// idvwdesign.blogspot.com, and has a website devoted to his line of wine storage solutions at http://wineondeck.com.

Bobby Williams has moved with his wife and son to NYC, where he has taken a position with the United Nations

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Secretariat. His first posting is in the Office for Disarmament Affairs. And finally, I, Steve Peterson, live in Mount Vernon with my girlfriend Sarah. I am teaching special education at an elementary/ middle school in southeast Baltimore, right by the soonto-be-defunct Baltimore Travel Plaza. It’s not really that much like The Wire, but it has its moments. Writing and reading take up much of my free time, but I’m getting a piano soon and Sarah and I are going to Panama for a week in April.

As Garrison Keillor says, “Be well, do good work, and…keep in touch!”

1995 Trevor Soponis tsoponis@gmail.com Taylor Smith taylor.c.smith@gmail.com

Alison Bomgardner Miller writes, “This has been a year of big changes. My husband Travis and I moved back to the Baltimore area and shortly thereafter had our first child, Reid Lewis Miller, on February 13, 2010. I opened my private practice in psychology in July in Lutherville and am slowly building my business. Check me out on the web: www.dralisonmiller.com. I was back on Friends’ campus to meet with the counselors in the fall and it was a wonderful experience to be back as a colleague. I’m really enjoying being a mother and an entrepreneur!”

1996 Andy Dale atdale@gmail.com

Fifteen years! The class of ’96 is celebrating its 15-year Reunion in 2011. In one sense it feels like it was just yesterday that we were going to classes, the Meetinghouse,

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Claire Mikolayunas Sandrock ‘96’s baby—Owen Sparra Sandrock, born, December 2010.

playing sports, performing plays and musicals, making artwork, pulling pranks (moving [Upper School Principal] Clint Wilkins’ entire office into the hallway), hanging out in the courtyard, parties… In another sense, it feels like it’s been that long. Many are married or getting married, having babies, succeeding in careers, finding happiness in life. It’s a nice time and the class of ’96 continues to strive to do great things. A Class of ’96 couple, Chris Wilson and Stephanie Hanes, are moving to Andover, MA together in June.

Chris has accepted the head of school position at Esperanza Academy in Lawrence, MA, which is an independent, tuition-free middle school for girls that is part of the Nativity Miguel Network, just like St. Ignatius, where Chris worked in Baltimore. Stephanie is going to continue her international reporting projects from their home base in New England, and will continue to work on her book project on environmental and development issues in southern Africa.

Emily Santos married Jake

Fisher in October on the North Fork of Long Island, NY. Her siblings, Rich Santos ’94 and Natalie Santos Ferguson ’90, and Susannah Gust Holmberg were in the wedding party. Other attendees included Sara Hubbard, Maddie Franklin and Cary Pirone; Brooklyn-based Lou Rouse ’94 who photographed the wedding. Emily and Jake opted for an untraditional honeymoon—an around-the-world trip starting in the Philippines and ending in Spain. Prior to the wedding they both left their jobs in New York and are in the process of relocating to Chicago. Weddings are a big part of our class’ activities these days. Maddie Franklin is marrying Kai Gross in March at the Greenbrier and I’m looking forward to seeing some Quakers there, not sure which ones will make it yet, but I will report in next time on what is sure to be a fun weekend. I know that Jeannie Achuff Morrow can’t make it to Maddie’s wedding because she is pregnant and is due right around the wedding date. Jeannie’s husband Ernest finished

his master’s and they recently moved from Berkeley, CA to Victoria BC. Dan Munoz is marrying Kelly Schlendorf in July in Baltimore. Dan and Kelly met in their residency program here at Hopkins and are both cardiology fellows. I have the honor of serving as Dan’s best man and just one week later, Dan will serve as mine when I marry Lauren

Lipcon in Danvers, MA. Lauren and I are really excited and looking forward to this summer. I’ll report on all the summer weddings next time!

Another physician, Simone Stalling, is finishing up her internship at Temple this year, then heading to Pittsburgh to start a dermatology residency in June. She also reported that her older sister, Chelsea Stalling ’95 was expecting her first baby in February. Claire Mikolayunas Sandrock and her husband Tate built a small house over the summer on their new farm in Wisconsin, bought a small flock of ewes and welcomed a baby into the family. Owen Sparra Sandrock was born December 22, 2010 (5 lbs., 15 oz.). Claire has also started a new position with the University of Wisconsin as the small ruminant (sheep and goat) extension specialist for Wisconsin. Dan Kahn, aka Dank, e-mailed me that he has finished his M.B.A. and got his GISP (geographic information systems professional) certification and wished he had more exciting news. Alli Coppel reports that she is the social responsibility manager

Friends School alums celebrated the wedding of Mather Preston ’97 and Anne Charlton in November 2010 at the Admiral Fell Inn in Fells Point. Pictured left to right: Jim Nicholas ‘97, Mehul Parekh ‘97, Jennifer Preston, Pete Levin ‘97, Steve Meredith ‘97, Ilse Levin ‘92, Mather Preston, Chris Preston ‘86, Jon Yeager.

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in Chile for the Canadian mining company, Teck. She lives in Santiago, Chile with her husband, Gonzalo, and their daughter, Gabriela, 1 ½. Finally, Alec Hawley continues his work as a landscape architect in San Francisco, but told me that he’s recently added another rare bird to his incredible rare bird collection. He is now the owner of a Siberian Crane named Edgar. Edgar has flowing white feathers and an oblong white beak. Edgar joins Alec’s already flourishing bird collection including a Scarlet Banded-Barbet named Quincy, a Eurasian Curlew named Regina and a YellowCrested Helmet-Shrike named Nikko Rivers. Alec continues to operate his side business selling animal pelts and Canadian syrup on the Internet. You can’t make this stuff up. Hope everyone is well, and I will report back next time with news from the aforementioned weddings and our 15th Reunion!

married in Florida in November. Also completed my master’s degree in real estate development from University of Maryland College Park and I’m vice president of Mid-Atlantic Properties, Inc. in Lutherville.” And Jon Yeager reports, “I am living in Reston, VA with Stout, my trusty Puggle. I am working as the registrar for K-12 International Academy and George Washington University (GWU) Online High School.

The International Academy is a fast-growing online international school with students in 60 countries. GWU Online High School just started this last school year. I also am playing golf on the NoVA Skins Tour in April, and am

some good news from Carrie Maylor DiCanio. She and her husband Mike are excited to announce the birth of their baby boy, Ian Anthony DiCanio, born January 24, 2011.

Congratulations, Carrie! Mike Malin also reports that his family is doing great. Mike and Cathy’s son David turned one year old on March 13, 2011, and thankfully Mike’s “health continues to improve beyond the hopes of my neurooncologist.” Ed VanWesep shares the happy news that he is engaged to “a wonderful woman, Fern Braun.” Fern will begin her master’s degree in urban planning in the fall.

Maggie Beetz has news of her own. “I’m now the editor for Baltimore’s Gay Life

1997 Claire Cherlin Kosloff clairekosloff@yahoo.com Garrett Smith garrettmichaelsmith@ gmail.com

Pete Levin writes, “I spent a good chunk of last year in the island city of Florianopolis in southern Brazil, working as an animator on a stop motion feature film. I also animated on a Christmas special for the television show Community. I did get a chance to go back to Baltimore and was honored to perform two wedding ceremonies for close friends, Mather Preston and Yuri Zietz ’98.

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Ed Van Wesep ‘98 and Elmar Trust ’03, who’ve connected via business school at UNC Chapel Hill.

hoping to qualify for the RE/ MAX World Long Drive Championship. Last year, my first year of competing, I made Regionals with a drive of 358 yards to qualify.”

1998 Justine Alger Forrester jalger1@yahoo.com

Hello to the Class of 1998!

Hope this issue of Collection finds you well and enjoying the spring. We start with

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newspaper. I’m living in the Lutherville/Timonium area with my husband Jesse Whyte and we’re planning a trip to Ireland in June.” Hopefully we’ll see some pictures next time around! Mimoza Cejku wrote in about her career developments, as well. “I am still working in the mortgage industry but now we have joined forces with American Bank, based out of Greenbelt, MD. My focus is to really assist people in reducing their insane mortgage payments, spe-

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cifically on FHA loans or VA loans, but I do my best to help anyone I can. I am currently

Mike Malin ‘98’s son, David.

working on a project to expand our business into purchasing so if any of the readers are real estate agents, do contact me as we have a brand new free software program that we’ll be launching by April. I’m very excited about it because it is unlike anything that already exists. I may be reached by e-mail at mimoza@lowestpymt.com. Outside of that, I plan on traveling some more this year, and focusing on my other passion for bringing folks together through Tastefully Simple. For more information please visit my website at www. tastefullysimple.com/web/ mcejku or email me.” Other than that, Mimoza says that she has been enjoying life, her dog, and looking forward to spending more quality time with friends and family this year. Amanda Lower Bakaian has had a busy year!

This year she graduated from pharmacy school, married Justin Bakaian and they bought an old farmhouse up in Maine.

“We are loving the beautiful area and I am enjoying working as a pharmacist. We had lots of fun skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling around our property this winter and look forward to spring and planting a huge garden and raising

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chickens.” That’s it this time around. We look forward to more of your updates to come in the fall!

1999 Rosalie Parker rorosalie@gmail.com

Greetings, again from your “newish” Class Secretary. I’ve been happy and lucky to see so many of my classmates over the past six months. After much consideration and a huge family dinner, I decided to go to the famed Wednesday before the traditional Thanksgiving get-together at Brewer’s Art, where I ran into John Cronin, Brian Valle, Tim Donahue, Lucia Treasure, Amanda Bates Park and Will Terrin. John Cronin continues his studies in Ireland—it was a treat to have him in town! Lucia carries on her great work with the Maryland Film Festival (with Rob Dietz’ dad, Jed), and also works with the Cusacks at the Senator Theater. Tim Donahue is currently living with his girlfriend Keri in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, NY while traveling back and forth to L.A. each month for work. He’s currently an editor for a web series that he co-wrote called “Video Game Reunion” that was bought by Comedy Central last year and was set to debut in March 2011. Following the launch he’s very much looking forward to working as an assistant editor for Saturday Night Live. In January, Kate Erwin and I went to Alec Heuisler and Janine D’Adamo’s house for the unveiling of their recent renovations. It looked amazing—a brand new kitchen and refinished floors. Kate, my old partner in crime, and I saw FSB alums, Marc Broady ’98, Lauren Johnson ’98, Erin Hall ’98,

Ben Baker-Lee, Sanjay Seunarine and Andrew Gohn ’95 there. Kate and I also went to Deana CarrDavis’ housewarming party in January, and saw Friends School alums, Kelly Bouxsein, Anna Carroll, Suzannah Murray, Dan Sieck and Mary Beth Stricker Sieck, and her neighbors, Alec Heuisler and Janine D’Adamo.

Mary Beth told me, “Dan and I took a trip to Rocky Gap in Western Maryland in October for our first wedding anniversary, which was October 24, 2010. We went horseback riding, canoeing and mountain biking—very adventurous!

Savannah is in pre-school at Gods Little People, located at St. Michael the Archangel Church in Overlea. She is in the four-year old program and will be off to kindergarten next school year.” Kelly Bouxsein is “finally reacclimated to Baltimore, at Hopkins finishing up my master’s in public health, and about to turn around and (hopefully) join the working world again in May! Since my life is mostly studying, I don’t have anything more exciting to report but that it was so fun catching up with everyone at Deana’s party!” After begging everyone for news, even if it involved animals, I got a few. Meagan Ciesla is finishing up the second year of her Ph.D. program in creative writing and literature at University of Missouri. She’s busy teaching yoga, reading for her comprehensive exam and taking Stella, her three-legged wonder dog, on adventures in the woods. Her short story, “Incubator Baby, World’s Fair 1939,” will be published this spring in Kenyon Review Online. This May, Matt Sherman will finish his master’s degree in sport and exercise psychology and in June he will finish his certification as a holistic and nutrition coach. A

trip to Peru is in Matt’s future in May, when he goes to visit a shaman’s house to learn about ancient healing methods and foods. Continuing with the animal theme, Matt recently rescued a bulldog/Jack Russell mix named Hugo. Kate Erwin and her boyfriend Desmond are also raising a little baby pit bull named Uni, like the sea urchin. In other news, I’ve gotta give props to our former Class Secretary Chris Condlin who reports, “I’m living in NYC and working as an attorney. I got to see a few guys from the Class of ’99 when we flew out to St. Louis to surprise Will Terrin for his 30th birthday, where he’s in medical school. My son Nikita will be with me in the U.S., visiting from St. Petersburg, Russia, for three months this summer. I won’t be working, so if anyone is up for taking a trip or doing something fun, let me know!” Another world traveling classmate, Ben Bodnar, is living in New Haven, CT in his second year of residency in the combined medicine and pediatrics program at the YaleNew Haven Hospital. He just

returned from a one-month trip to Ghana, where he was working in a teaching hospital in the capital, Accra. Speaking of travels, I have to give it to Matthew Merrick for being the farthest from Baltimore.

He says, “I’m enjoying life in Okinawa, Japan with my wife Sayuri. I teach English at an elementary school and Sayuri is studying to become a midwife. I miss Baltimore, but Okinawa is a lovely place to live and the people here are wonderful.” On to the baby news. On October 14, Wilson Taliaferro and his wife Anne had a baby girl named Elizabeth Bear Taliaferro; they’re calling her Eliza. They’ve survived the initial sleep-deprivation stage and are now having fun as she begins to interact with the world around her. Wilson says, “It’s truly an amazing experience and we are having a great time.” Kelly Vaughan is enjoying motherhood, and her second daughter, Ava Virginia Edwards, who arrived on May 10, 2010. Her older daughter Caile recently turned three and loves being a big sister.

Friends gather for a photo at the wedding of John Levin ’00 in December 2010. Back row (l.-r.): Billy Flook ‘00, Peter Guarnieri ‘00, Zach Wilcock ‘00, John Levin ‘00, Geoffrey Greif ’67, Christine Ramsey ‘69. Middle row: Caki Zamoiski ‘02, Rachel Zamoiski ‘00, Liz Yeager Guarnieri ‘00, JoAnn Early Levin ’69, Craig Hollander ‘00, John Lovejoy ‘00. Front row (l.-r.): Patrick Baron ‘02, Mike Levin ‘04.

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Kelly says, “Ava arrived just in time for my brother Ryan’s wedding at the Fountain Bleu in Miami Beach, FL. Matt Sherman and Marc Broady attended the celebration and it was amazing! I also had a play date with Temika Britton and Johanna Howe—they both have adorable sons!”

Johanna and her husband Peter’s first son, Cameron Angelo Howe, was born on September 18, 2010. Johanna says, “We have enjoyed play our play dates with Temika and her baby Caeleb. We also saw Mary Beth Stricker Sieck and her daughter Savannah, and Kelly Vaughan’s and her daughters at Cameron's baptism ceremony. We plan on getting together soon, since we discovered we live right around the corner from each other! It’s funny how we grew up in the same neighborhood and now we live in the same Towson neighborhood!” As for me, in October, I celebrated my 30th birthday with many Friends Schoolers, and some other characters! Those attending the starry night-themed party (complete with Lite Brites) included Kate Erwin, Lucia Treasure, Amanda Bates Park, Shannon Early, Adam Meister ’94, Steve Travieso ’94, Marc Broady ’98 and Steve Peterson ’94.

2000 Sammy Williamson slwillia@gmail.com

I am sad to admit that this issue’s notes are rather on the light side, but hopefully that means everyone is enjoying a mellow 2011. Mazel tov to Lisa Logan Rawlinson, who let me know that she and husband Bob welcomed twin daughters—Riley Barrick and Olivia Ruth—in October.

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parents to twins!” Ben Camp finished up his second degree at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. He writes that since taking over the school’s Songwriter’s Club, he has “increased its membership from 300 to 800 members, created several contests and concerts for students to showcase their original songs, and instituted a weekly lecture series to promote student learning.”

He also composed music for a commercial airing on ESPN & BET, and had a song placed “on hold” for Britney Spears’ upcoming album. He was heartbroken to hear that Max Martin took his spot on the record, but says that he will absolutely keep writing, and hopes to be on Billboard by the end of the year. Ben invites any Friends alum to send him a message and some original music on Facebook, as he is always looking for new material.

Rob Lower passed on a cute ad in the City Paper announcing Geoff Graham’s engagement to his girlfriend Cricket, with whom he traveled to Antarctica. Congrats to both! I was amiss to neglect to mention two important marriages in my last installment. Craig Hollander married the lovely Jeni Steinhardt in July 2010 in Baltimore. They are a wonderful complement to each other, and I wish them all happiness.

John Levin also recently wed his long-time girlfriend Emily Breza. Craig also let me know that Billy Flook recently married Kathleen Miller. I’m sure he would heartily object to me bragging about him, but Matt Hellmann was accepted to a fellowship in oncologyhematology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering for next year.

I am living in San Francisco for my intern year in internal medicine, and trying to explore the city and Northern California as much as possible before my move to Nashville

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in the summer. I’ve been lucky to see Priya Shashidharan in town, and also had a fun visit from Lesley Wojcik and Dave Richman-Raphael ’99.

That’s all the news that’s fits to print for now. Until next time!

2001 Carrie Runde crunde@alumni.upenn.edu

Hello and happy 10th Reunion to the Class of 2001! Last June, Theresa Naumann married Ben Robertson, from Altavista, VA. Many Friends Schoolers were in the wedding party, including Rachel Naumann ’03 (Maid of

in Federal Hill. Susie is in her second year of residency at Hopkins. Dusty Kluttz has been living in China for the past year, where he works as an English teacher in Inner Mongolia. Last July, he moved to Chongqing City, the fastest growing city in the world, where he attends Chongqing University’s Chinese language program. This year he purchased a house in Chongqing and will be starting the M.B.A. program at the university in the fall. Emily Kleeman is finishing her master’s in social work with a specialization in management and community organization and clinical therapy in mental health for

Friends alums at Theresa Naumann ’01’s wedding to Ben Robertson. Back row (l.-r.): Sadiq Zaghab ’01, Talle Selhorst ’01, Rachel Naumann ’03, Theresa Naumann Robertson, Marie Graf ‘01, Charlie Bowie ’04, John Bowie ’01. Front row (l.-r.): Ben Robertson, Chris Shavers ’01 and Claire Zietz ’01.

Honor), Sadiq Zaghab, John Bowie, Charlie Bowie ‘03, and Chris Shavers. Claire Zietz, Talle Selhorst, and Marie Graf also attended the wedding. Theresa and Ben recently bought their first home in Richmond, VA. She works at the Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired as a certified therapeutic recreation specialist. Phil Ghassemieh writes that he and his wife Susie Peterson ’00 bought a home

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children and families. She’s been interning with Main Street Housing, Inc., a nonprofit organization providing affordable housing for people with psychiatric disabilities.

Emmy has also been working at the ARC of Baltimore as a supported employment coach for adults with disabilities. She will graduate in May and plans on continuing her career in social work in Baltimore or DC. She enjoys living in Baltimore, as she has reconnected with

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Class of 2003’s Emily Weinman, Mariel Oquendo, Andrew Arceci and Hannah Stern had a mini-reunion at Juilliard’s new Alice Tully Hall, where Andrew performed a concerted.

Friends Schoolers and spends her free time volunteering for the Jewish Association. Jennifer Tufaro is marrying Dawson Nolley in June. The couple met while working together on a Baltimore film. Jennifer is taking interior design classes at Corcoran College and started a historical rehab project on an old mill in Hampden. She continues to enjoy helping at the Maryland Film Festival each year. Lizzy Brooks is in Zanzibar for one year on a Fulbright grant, making an art film/photography series about women and spirit possession.

Friends can follow her travels on her website and a blog www.LizzyBrooks.org/blog.

Lastly, your class secretary has had a busy four years and is thoroughly excited to be graduating from medical school in June! Last year was exciting as I was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (www.naturopathic. org), an organization that I have worked closely with since my first year of school. I am excited about the positive change I will be able to bring to the healthcare system, while furthering the opportunities for naturopathic physicians in the U.S. On a fun note, I was lucky to go on a surprise vacation to Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia last September!

Please continue sending me

your news and updates as our class fearlessly enters our second decade of post-high school life.

2002 Camille Powe camille.powe@gmail.com

Becca Fogel Erwin, Carter Erwin ’03 and their six-month -old son, Auden started the new year in a new city. They are now living in Boston, where Carter works for a Tufts University biomedical research lab and also as a software engineer/ designer for kWhOURS, an energy efficiency software company. Becca is seriously enjoying being a mother and driving her new “mom car” and is planning on attending graduate school next fall.

Jordy Alger writes, “My wife, Marisa Galvan Alger, and I got married in sunny St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands on November 26, 2010. It was a small ceremony on the beach with our families and some of our closest friends, including fellow Class of ’02 alums Nick Hirai, Ryan Major, Zac Shapiro and Andy Posil. Such great memories!

Now we’re back in Boston and we couldn’t be happier!”

Dorothy Williams lives in Baltimore and loves her job as a pediatric occupational therapist at Kennedy Krieger.

She enjoys keeping up with friends in the area and being able to see Caitlin Bouxsein’s and other Friends alums’ participation in local theater productions. Irene Donnelly, who also lives in Baltimore, is the new museum assistant at the Contemporary Museum. As a member of the museum’s select staff she is involved in every aspect of museum operations including marketing, development, installation, curating, fundraising, event-planning and more.

Irene is very much enjoying her new job! Arielle Goldman is living and working in Richmond, VA. Over the summer, she planned a fundraiser in response to the BP oil spill. The event was a benefit concert called Gulf Give RVA. Arielle and her group raised over $8,000 in primarily small donations ($10-$15). Kudos Arielle! Kat Waller writes, “I’m living in New Orleans and I recently joined the Big Easy Roller Girls (a roller derby team). My skate name is Clawed Monet and my team is the Marigny Antoinettes.

I’m really excited about it!”

Lauren Smith writes, “I am currently residing right outside Boston where I have been for

over five years. It is amazing here in Boston, especially now that my family is here, too. I am so close to the mountains that I can go snowboarding in the winter. I currently work at Massachusetts General in pediatrics where I research cognitive disabilities, including autism, which is my specialty. I feel very fortunate for where I am today. Hope to see some of you soon. Keep in touch.”

Celia Heath writes, “I was hired in October 2010 to be the special events and alumni relations coordinator at Chandler School. Chandler is a K-8 independent school in Pasadena, CA, located right above the historic Rose Bowl Stadium. I love it!”

Laura McComb-DiPesa and James Yolles ’00 are engaged! They will be married this June in the Baltimore area. Of note, in a continuing string of domination, Zach Shapiro beat Matt Peters for a second year in a row in a Friends School Fantasy Football League. As for me, I am finishing medical school at Harvard this spring and will start my residency in internal medicine. I enjoy hearing from all of you, so keep sending your news!

Andy Posil ‘02, Nick Hirai ‘02, Justine Alger ‘98, Jordy Alger ‘02, Marisa Galvan Alger, Ryan Major ‘02 and Zach Shapiro ’02 at Jordy and Marisa’s wedding in St. Thomas last November.

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2003 Jessica Vanderhoff jessicavanderhof@aol.com

Time flies. Congratulations to those of you who got married this year, and to Carter Erwin and Becca Fogel Erwin ’02, who now have a son! If you haven’t already found it, there’s a Facebook group for our class where I send out reminders for notes.

Search “Friends class of 2003.” Kate Meyer Jakuta writes, “I am still working on getting my master’s degree from UMBC in intercultural communication, but am now just a part-time student because I got a job. I am working for a nonprofit organization called Education Based Latino Outreach (EBLO), which is located in Fells Point in Baltimore. I just started the job in December and so far it's great. Also, I married George Jakuta in December.

We dated since the summer after my sophomore year in college. Now my name is Kate Jakuta—I’m still getting used to that!” After graduating from Oberlin College in December 2007, Benjamin Bor worked as an assistant director for the Columbus, OH office for Grassroots Campaigns, Inc., a progressive political consulting firm specializing in on-the-ground field operations

Ben Bor ’03 in Bora Bora in January of 2010.

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and door-to-door fundraising for the Democratic National Committee during the 2008 presidential campaign. Since then, he has been playing saxophone, flute, guitar and singing aboard various vessels for the Holland America Cruise Line. He has traveled to some of the most exotic destinations in the South Pacific, Hawaii, Alaska, the Caribbean and South and Central America. He is now working as an intern for Congressman Chris Van Hollen’s (D-MD 8th) district office in Rockville, MD, while preparing to attend law school in September 2011.” Emily Weinman, Hannah Stern and Mariel Oquendo recently attended a concert for our fellow alum Andrew Arceci at Juilliard’s new Alice Tully Hall. “The event was part of a week-long series of concerts focused on modern Polish composition. Andrew was a featured performer at the event (and got us some great up close seats!), playing the viola da gamba, a string instrument first played in the 15th century. Crazy! After the concert we were invited to come say hello to Andrew and he informed us that the piece he had played, “Canzona,” had just been performed for the first time and that the composer herself had flown in from Poland to see it.” Andrew was pictured in the New York Times music review! Noah Jacobs writes, “I’m at University of Maryland working on my master’s degree in higher education leadership policy.

I’m also working as an advisor in the School of Engineering. Also, I’m getting married this July to Brittany Dorsey.

Brittany and I met during a 15-hour unplanned layover during an airport workers’ strike in Paris on the way to a music festival in Alba, Italy four years ago.” William Sale says, “I’m happy to report that

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in October, I married Kinsey Morrison, my girlfriend of almost seven years! Afterwards we spent two weeks honeymooning in Vietnam, which was incredible. Kinsey is also from Baltimore, and went to RPCS. We live and work in NYC and are enjoying the continuing migration of fellow Baltimoreans to the area.

Gant Powell writes, “This

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The most exciting news comes from Andrea Smillie, who writes, “I don’t normally send in updates, but this time I actually have news. Ben Brown and I got engaged! Ben is finishing his time as a Peace

Will Sale ’03 wed longtime girlfriend, Kinsey Morrison in Baltimore on October 23, 2010.

past year I illustrated Clinton Kelly’s book, Oh No She Didn’t, and started my graduate thesis.

People can watch my thesis develop at http://gantpantsgaylife.blogspot.com/. Courtney Carlson says, “I will be in Bogota, Colombia for the rest of 2011 working as a translator!” Benjamin Pittman writes, “I am still loving New Orleans. I am in my third year of teaching, this year as a middle school Spanish teacher for KIPP Central City Academy. I recently moved into a beautiful new home in the Bayou St. John neighborhood, which is within walking distance of City Park and the famous Jazz Fest! I am also a proud new uncle of Ezra Simon Pittman, who was born in December.”

Lilian Mendelson is living in DC and working with teen parents at the Latin American Youth Center. “I’m excited to see news from other people!”

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Corps volunteer in Namibia and I’m working on getting a master’s in education at Teachers College, and then we’re getting married in September.” Congratulations Ben and Andrea! Laura Zager writes, “I’m currently working as a medical assistant in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Mercy Medical Center here in Baltimore. I’m starting grad school in June at Towson to get my master’s in physician assistant studies. I’m very excited that I’m going to be a PA!” Similarly, Alexandra Nelson reports that she works at University of Maryland Medical Center in the outpatient Cardiology Department as a medical secretary and medical assistant. She is going to physician’s assistant graduate school in a year and a half. Alanah Webb took two years off after college to do cardiovascular research at Johns Hopkins

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University. She writes, “I’m now in my first year at University of Maryland School of Medicine with fellow Quakers Randall Cooper ’05 and Amy Rouse ‘02. I’m serving as a student representative for the Medical Alumni Association and will be on the executive board of the Student National Medical Association.” Eli Dresner floated the following message in a bottle: “Although we haven’t had the snow of last winter, this season’s cold temperatures proved too much for some 2004 alums in Baltimore. Seven alums, including Throop Wheeler, Alexei Pfeffer-Gillett, Charlie Totten, Peter Heller, David Craine, Greg Russell and myself headed south to the British Virgin Islands in January to spend a week in the sun aboard a catamaran. We enjoyed sailing around the beautiful islands.” Across a different ocean, Alex Broekhof started a Ph.D. program in the U.K. studying “a novel type of generator for wind turbines.” “Never far from Friends, I caught up with Lelia Chaisson ’05 and

Eric Dang ’06 at the superb Thanksgiving celebration they hosted in London.” As for me, Alex and I met up in Istanbul this year and celebrated the change from 2010 to 2011 in that amazing city. I work to implement the Governor's policy goals in Annapolis. I am handing over the Class Secretary reigns to Abigail Seiler. Abby completed an M.A. in anthropology of food at the University of London and currently lives in DC, where she’s pursuing an M.A./ Ph.D. in rhetoric and political culture at the University of Maryland. She says, “I miss all my Friendly School pals immensely!”

2005 Class Secretary needed!

If you are interested in learning more about this volunteer job, please contact Amy Langrehr.

Catie Black writes, “I graduated in May 2010 with my M.A. in teaching from James Madison University. I am now teaching at Kennedy Krieger High School in Baltimore and

Class of 2004’s Peter Heller, Alexei Pfeffer-Gillett, Charlie Totten, Eli Dresner, David Craine, Greg Russell and Throop Wheeler on a sailing trip to the British Virgin Islands in January 2011.

I love it!” Charlotte Baldwin reports, “I am very excited to be teaching part time at Little Friends. Also, I was very lucky to be able to visit the Magical World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios’ Islands of Adventure last summer, a month after it opened!”

2006 Nicole Runde nicole.runde@gmail.com

Brian Penza graduated from Case Western Reserve in May 2010 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He took the summer to be with family and friends before starting a position as a design engineer at Honda R&D, just outside of Columbus, OH. “I’m working on new and upcoming models in the Honda/Acura lineup and have enjoyed seeing new technology and crash tests firsthand. During my last couple years of college I became a budding car enthusiast, and five months in my new job have done nothing but encourage that interest!” On the side, he’s been spending a considerable amount of time in the shop working on cars for the Team Honda Research Rally team, with whom he plans on attending several races this upcoming season. Brian writes, “Life is good!” Natalie West writes, “I’ve been in Nepal for five months now as a Fulbright English teaching assistant. I’m living with a Nepali family in Lamatar, a village in the southern part of the Kathmandu Valley, and teaching English in grades six-10 at a small government school. The Nepali educational system is pretty different from the American one, so it’s been a bit challenging. I’m still working on introducing students to American teaching styles in a way that won't confuse them too much!

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so I had time to travel around Nepal a bit and do things like take an elephant-back jungle safari, see the birthplace of the historical Buddha, and go paragliding with the Himalayas as the backdrop.” Sarah Palmer lives in NYC and works as a design assistant at G-III Apparel Group which manufactures all sorts of fashions. Specifically, Sarah works on design and development for Jessica Howard and Eliza J dress lines which are sold at Nordstrom, Macy’s, and Dillard’s! Emily Diehl graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in December after spending her last semester abroad in London. Abe Davis is a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at MIT, where he has a Mathworks fellowship and specializes in computer graphics, computer vision, and computational photography.

Abe co-authored his first publication last year and is waiting to hear if his second will be accepted! Owen Baron is currently working for McCormick & Co. He plans to apply to the University of Maryland to study nuclear chemistry.

Laurel Black is shaping the future in Austin, Texas by teaching tenth grade science at Del Valle High School as part of the Texas Teaching Fellows program. So far, Mr. Binford’s Spanish classes are proving to be more useful on the job than her Vanderbilt biology degree!

Jeb Cook is excited to begin law school next year at the University of Maryland. In the meantime, he’s enjoying a position as an assistant teacher to Kindergarten classes at Walker Jones Education Campus in DC. Ouranitsa Abbas has been working since September as the legal/administrative assistant at Immigration Legal Services, part of Esperanza Center (previously the Hispanic Apostolate), where she

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worked for her Friends School Senior Work Project. The Esperanza Center, overseen

by Catholic Charities, is an immigrant integration center that offers immigration legal services, health services, referrals, and English and computer classes. Ouranitsa writes, “I’m pretty much the go-to person for the entire center, plus being the legal assistant to our lawyers. I’ve learned so much about immigration law, office management, budgets, grants, accounting, and supervising volunteers that it’s been an overwhelming experience, but I love working here! It’s also made me realize how important the workplace environment is; the relationship you have with your coworkers is very powerful and can influence your day greatly.

I’m grateful to be working with generous, kind, and patient staff, and I’m also happy to be practicing my Spanish (and a little bit of Arabic too!) on a daily basis.” Also, Ouranitsa is still belly dancing. She’ll be traveling to Ocean City, MD in March to perform with her troupes, Egyptian Sun and Barakaat. Os Cole sent in his update from Malawi in southern Africa, where he is working with the Peace Corps.

He’ll be working as a community health advisor in an area known as Thembani, about 3 km. from the border of Mozambique in the southern district. Os is learning to speak Chichewa, the national language. After his first two months in the country, Os had already met both the president and Malawi’s biggest celebrity, William Komkwamba, the author of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind! Fellow Peace Corps Volunteer Katie Minton, is keeping a blog of her experiences in Djangoa, Madagascar.

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including developing a community health worker training guide for future PCVs! As for yours truly, I am back living in Baltimore. I spent the sweltering summer and chilly fall playing fast and slow pitch softball on teams with Jackie Murk and Sarah Dixon, with guest appearances by Laura Green ’07. In November, I started a job as a full-time furniture designer at David Edward, a Baltimore-based, family-owned company that manufacturers their product in the USA.

through March 4, 2011. After graduation, I hope to work in a similar setting, developing and coordinating exhibits for larger institutions.” As for me, your new Co-Secretary, Lauren Marks, I am graduating from George Washington University in May (a year early!) with a major in sociology—looking for a job in Baltimore, DC, or somewhere else more exciting: Chicago, Austin or Cali. I’m looking forward to starting a career, but will miss college life. Still good friends with my friends from Friends: Eileen

Natalie West ’06 with her host sisters and cousins in Nepal.

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Butler, Laura Green, Roz Kreizenbeck, Anne Laterra, Chiara Olivi and Holly Heller—and hoping to keep it that way.

Carlyn Trout carlyn.trout@mymail. champlain.edu Lauren Marks lmarks617@verizon.net

2008

Roz Kreizenbeck writes, “I will be graduating in May from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with a B.A. in history and an art history minor.

I have spent my senior year interning at the Boyden Gallery on campus, developing the exhibit ‘Facing Fences,’ which was co-curated by The Smithsonian Institution. The exhibit examines the positive and negative roles of literal as well as intangible divisions that exist in our culture. The exhibit ran

Jasmine Powe jpowe@elon.edu

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Brittany Davis is a medicinal …chemistry major at Towson University and is excited to have been admitted to University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Pharmacy! She begins her work to earn her doctor of pharmacy degree (Pharm.D.) in August 2011 as a part of the Class of 2015. Brittany congratulates her brother, Jon, on his pend-

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ing graduation from Friends School as part of the Class of 2011. Daniel Feinberg writes, “I had an amazing fall in Woods Hole, MA, studying environmental science, and now I’m back at Hamilton where I’m majoring in biology and playing a little music.

Looking forward to hearing about everyone else!” Charles Graves writes, “I’m getting ready to graduate from Hampton University a year early in May 2011. I’m planning to do a dual master of divinity/J.D. after graduation.” Charles delivered the sermon at the HU Memorial Chapel on February 20th. Bradley Kolodner has been playing music with his father, Ken Kolodner ’72, and they recently released their first studio album, “Otter Creek,” featuring traditional Appalachian music. They recorded it last summer at Mobtown Studios on Charles Street, Friends alumna Emily Leffler Schulman ’94 and her husband Matt’s company. Look for it on iTunes.

Annie Kruger is studying Social Work and Leadership at University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She is a second-year resident assistant in a freshmen dorm, an office assistant for the Campus Activities Involvement Center, and she also volunteers at an elder day care center. She just ran the New York City Marathon, with a finishing time of 4:07:46! Elaine Kwon writes, “I just got back from a sixmonth study abroad in Brazil.

I mainly stayed in Sao Paulo, but also spent weeks traveling in such cities as Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, and Florianopolis.

I even made enough time to visit Alex Margolick ’07 in Buenos Aires in December. I’ve just been elected president of my sorority and look forward to spending a semester studying and working in Philadelphia.” Rachel

class notes

manager at the student center, play on and serve as secretary of the women’s club basketball team, and I’m also the public relations chair of our chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi, the professional business fraternity on campus. Currently, I am applying for internships for the summer. Please continue to send your updates. I loved hearing from all of you!

2009 Class of 2007 alums Lauren Marks, Eileen Butler, Laura Green, Roz Kreizenbeck, Anne Laterra, Chiara Olivi and Holly Heller at their annual holiday party in 2010.

Lupien is studying geology at Amherst University and is currently studying abroad in New Zealand. Doug Miller is currently a junior at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in philosophy, politics, economics (concentration in globalization) and environmental studies (concentration in sustainability and environmental management). During the past year, he founded a green business certification program that creates incentives for local Philadelphia stores to ‘go green,’ was the only student to deliver a presentation about an environmental impact label he designed at The Economist magazine’s Carbon Economy Summit in Washington, DC, and is currently developing a business plan for a Wal-Mart sustainable business competition. He worked as a research assistant with the chair of the Environmental Studies Department in Puerto Rico for a study on the impact of urbanization on tropical streams and with a Wharton Business School professor for a study on the effects of observed inventory levels on sales. Doug serves on the executive board for the Penn International Sustainability Association, Penn Environmental Group, and the

Dean’s Student Sustainability Advisory Board. Additionally, he is a starting defensive midfielder for the Penn Club Lacrosse team (finished in the top-16 nationally), taught himself German, was a recipient of two scholar honors, and is a Dean’s List student. Rachel Pologe is studying radiotelevision-film at Northwestern University, and was one of 12 students accepted into a twoyear screenwriting program called creative writing for the media. She recently produced Red Daisy, a $3,000 film grant from the University, which will premiere in June. Kathryn Stanley is in College Park, MD, studying psychology and creative writing. She’s a teacher’s assistant for a psychology course this (spring) semester and a research assistant in a Couples Abuse Prevention Program; she also tutors University of Maryland’s athletes during the evenings. Otherwise, she spends her time drawing, painting, and making clothes. Jill Tessman-Heath studied law in Australia for six months, where she met her boyfriend. She recently visited him over winter break. As for me, I am currently studying marketing and psychology at Elon University. I am a facility

Leah Koenig lkoenig@wesleyan.edu

This is a big decision year for the class of 2009, with many of us declaring majors and preparing to study abroad.

Teonna Woolford’s dream of meeting Michelle Obama came true in September when they met to discuss Teonna’s

work with sickle-cell activism!

Alexa Ercolano is studying professional writing at Champlain College. In addition to her classes, she is kept very busy working with the college's publishing initiative, volunteering at a local elementary school, and keeping up her blog for young adults living with lymphedema. Alexa is planning to study abroad next year. Catherine Rosenberg spent winter break traveling to India with friends from Skidmore. As for me, I am in in my busiest semester at Wesleyan so far, and love seeing Charlotte Heyrman regularly for dinner! Also see Ted Nichols, ’06, as he is now in graduate school. Last year, we sang together in our a cappella group, and this year I see him occasionally.

Jill Tessman-Heath ’08 with her boyfriend Lee McCloughan and dad, Upper School math teacher David Heath, at Newcastle Beach in Australia.

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MILESTONES

Marriages

Births

In Memoriam

1988

1985

Cody Walker and Polly Rosenwaike; A daughter, Zia

Rosenwaike, October, 2010

1936

Constance Forbush Davis

April 30, 2010

Christina Long to Bruce Strong August 7, 2010

1994

Matt Bonds to Molly Norton

April 17, 2010

Asim Khan to Fauzia Akmal December 25, 2010

Michael Temchine

to Eliza Feller March 22, 2009 1996

Emily Santos to Jake Fisher

October 2, 2010

Adelle Waldman to Evan Hughes July 31, 2010

1997

Mather Preston

to Anne Charlton November 10, 2010 1998

Amanda Lower Bakaian

to Justin Bakaian

August 7, 2010 2000

Billy Flook to Kathleen Miller

November 13, 2010

Craig Hollander to Jenifer Steinhardt July 4, 2010

John Levin to Emily Breza December 4, 2010

2001

Theresa Naumann

to Ben Robertson

June 26, 2010 2002

Jordy Alger to Marisa Galvan

November 26, 2010 2003

Kate Meyer to George Jakuta

December 17, 2010

Will Sale to Kinsey Morrison October 23, 2010

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1988

Colleen Barry and Andy Epstein; A son, Sammy, November 16, 2009 1992

Sunee Claud and Spencer Reisinger; A daughter, Satya Vadhana, February 25, 2011 1993

Karen Hudson Burd and Travis Burd; A daughter, Carly

Cousart, November 24, 2010 1994

Liz Bowman and Trey Popp

A son, Miles Alexander,

January 28, 2011 1995

Alison Bomgardner Miller

and Travis; A son, Reid Lewis, February 13, 2010 1996

Claire Mikolayunas and Tate Sandrock; A son, Owen,

December 22, 2010 1998

Carrie Maylor DiCanio

and Mike; A son, Ian Anthony,

January 24, 2011 1999

Wilson Taliaferro and Anne

A daughter, Elizabeth Bear,

October 14, 2010

Kelly Vaughan Edwards and Jonathan; A daughter, AvaVirginia, May 10, 2010

Johanna Tassone Howe and

Peter; A son, Cameron Angelo, September 18, 2010 2000

Lisa Logan Rawlinson

and Bob; Twin daughters, Riley Barrick and Olivia Ruth, October 30, 2010

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Richard Hutzler December 31, 2010

Elizabeth Wasson Olufsen December 10, 2010

1941

Carolyn Landon Parker May 3, 2009 1942

Dorothy Eastwick Seaton November 27, 2010 1943

Helen Willier Disser

December 3, 2010 1948

Veronica Cloos Evering November 1, 2010 1950 James Cutler February 22, 2009 1957

LaVerne Schorreck Peyton October 9, 2010 1958

Benton Mullikin

December 4, 2010 1959

Anne Hoke Humphrey November 23, 2010 1966

Barbara Benesch March 31, 2010 1967

Tom LaMonica September 2, 2010 1988

Tim Dietz

December 1, 2010 1989

Christine Guthrie

December 19, 2010

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Circle of Friends The Circle of Friends recognizes individuals who have made a deferred or current endowment gift to Friends School. These gifts will help ensure the future.

It is easy to join. You may simply name the School in your will, or as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy or a qualified IRA; make a life income gift, such as a charitable gift annuity; or establish a current endowment gift of $25,000 or more.

1952

1964

1983

Anonymous Janet E. Mules

Louis T. Hanvoer Edwin H. Remsberg* Sean R. Sweeney

Anne Black Evans

Joseph W. Cowan Peter Paul Hanley Susan B. Katzenberg Sally Huff Leimbach Harry D. McCarty Marilyn Miller Thomas Elizabeth A. Wagner Donald H. Wilson III Faris L. Worthington Patricia K. Worthington Carl W. Ziegaus

1955

1965

David Henry Jason Innes Gregory Moody

1953 Anonymous Jane Whitehouse Cohen Sara R. Kellen E. Laird Mortimer Viginia A. Kelly Mortimer

1954

Robin Biddison Dodd Robert L. Kriel Mary Allen Wilkes

1956

Gretchen Garman Hampt Mary Dell Gordon Harlan and Charles W. Harlan ’63 Frederick W. Moran

1967

Florends G. Oldham

Albion Bacon John P. David Clarinda Harriss Robert B. Heaton and Ann H. Heaton Martha F. Horner Mabel T. Miyasaki Linda Windsor Siecke

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1957

1969

1927 Howard Buffington

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Ann Burgunder Greif

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Marcia Smith Clark J. Henry Riefle III

Eleanor Hatch Brooks

1958

1937

Elizabeth Banghart Flaherty Susan Shinnick Hossfeld Henry L. Mortimer J. McDonnell Price Ronald H. Renoff Frank A. Windsor and Ann McAllister Windsor ’60

Dorothy B. Krug Anne Homer Martin

1938 Ethel Kegan Ettinger Donald H. Wilson, Jr. and Marion Wilson

1941

1959

Alan B. Rosoff

1968 Jay E. Boyd Melinda Burdette Robert L. Mackall W. Berkeley Mann, Jr. David A. Wilson Louise Wagner Gibson

1970 A. P. Ramsey Crosby Lisa Mitchell Pitts and Toby Pitts Carl B. Robbins

1972 Stuart S. Hutchins Laura Ellen Muglia Judy F. Strouse

Robert S. Patterson and Barbara Patterson Dan Reed and Claire Reed

1974

Anonymous

1960

1944

Elizabeth Beatty Gable Diane Howell Mitchell Joseph C. Ramage Ann McAllister Windsor and Frank A. Windsor ’58

Robin E. Behm Katherine E. Bryant

James G. Kuller

1942

David R. Millard

1945 Harry L. Hoffman III and Mary Louisa Hoffman

1946 Gisela Cloos Evitt

1947 W. Byron Forbush II and Elizabeth Forbush

Alison Nasdor Fass and Andrew Fass F. William Hearn, Jr.

1979

1962

Norman D. Forbush Philip B. Gould Joseph Klein III and Judy Sandler Cristin Carnell Lambros

1963

Joel D. Fedder

1951 Anonymous (2)

Cynthia Klein Goldberg Winston W. Hutchins

1977

1949

1950

1976

Elizabeth New Cohen Joan Yeager Cromer Sylvan J. Seidenman and Sandy Seidenman

Anonymous Joseph Klein, Jr and Joan G. Klein Shirley Cox Seagren Richard A. Simon

1975

1961

Mary Ellen Fischer Emily C. Holman James B. Willis

1948

David R. Blumberg

Elizabeth F. Deegan and Michael J. Deegan, Jr. Charles W. Harlan and Mary Dell Gordon Harlan ’65 Gail Moran Milne Alice Smith Reid Barry S. Stott

1980 Christopher Holter Amy Gould John

1981 Anonymous David H. Alkire Eileen S. Goldgeier Katherine A. Hearn James M. Matthews

1985 Evan C. Shubin Katherine G. Windsor

1988 Thora A. Johnson* Wendell B. Leimbach, Jr.

1989

1990 William M. Rubenstein and Sandy Rubenstein

1991 Sherri Shubin Cohen

Parents, Faculty, Staff and Friends Anonymous (5) Nancy H. Berger Deborah and Howard M. Berman Karen Birdsong and Carl Roth Heidi and David Blalock Patricia H. Blanchard Gerritt H. Blauvelt Karen B. Bleich* Tom Brooks* Anne R. Brown Sharon C. and D. Perry Brown Helen E. Bryant Lorraine Camp Dr. and Mrs. Michael R.Camp John and Sue Carnell Alice Cherbonnier David S. Cooper, Jr. and Kryssa J. Cooper Rebecca and Bruce Copeland Albert R. and Margaret K. Counselman Connie C. Covington and Wally Covington III Dr. and Mrs. Chi V. Dang Anthony W. and Lynn R. Deering Pieter and Phyllis DeSmit Jeffrey H. Donahue Claire K. Ebeling Martha Elliott Christina B. Feliciano Susan and William Filbert Sarah Finlayson and Lindley DeGarmo Lora and Greg Gann Julie Fader Gilbert and Gordon Gilbert Irvin R. Gomprecht Ann C. Gordon Vincent L. and D. Iveagh Gott

Stanley B. and Joan Gould David M. Heath Mary E. Scott and Gary E. Heinlein Charles O. and Ann Holland Laura Holter Mrs. C. Raymond Hutchins Grant L. Jacks and Margaret S. Jacks Sanford G. and Ann Jacobson Joyce Johnston Deloris Jones Weldon A. Jones* Adine C. Kelly Michael and Narindar Kelly Ferne K. Kolodner Cartan B. Kraft Eleanor C. Landauer Gayle L. Latshaw Howard J. and Karen M. Loewenberg* Susan P. Macfarlane John and Joyce Maclay Garvin S. and Pamela M. Maffett Diana R. McGraw Elizabeth A. McKennon and Peter E. Bancroft* Mary Ellen McNish and David Miller Frieda M. A. and Douglas L. McWilliams Matthew Micciche John and Beverly Michel Douglas J. Miller, Sr. Sheri B. Miller-Leonetti Lee S. Owen C. E. and Joan Partridge Dorothy H. Powe* Anne and Roger Powell* Stephen Rives* Marylynn and John Roberts Mary S. and Paul E. Roberts Jean B. and John V. Russo Mary Ellen and William Saterlie Carole French Schreck* Esther Sharp Barbara and Gordon Shelton Dr. and Mrs. Charles Shubin Daryl J. Sidle Lisa and Alfred L. Singer Jerome Smalley Lynne Smalley William Smillie Turner B. and Judith R. Smith Phillip Snyder Deirdre Stokes* Mark C. Stromdahl Gerry Mullan and William J. Sweet, Jr. Marilyn and David Warshawsky John G. Watt* Mark and Sherri Weinman* Bill White* Thomas E. Wilcox

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