Collection Magazine, Fall 2016

Collection T HE MAGAZINE OF FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE | FALL 2016

ALL IN A DAY’S

WORK

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INTRODUCING JAY GOLON

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JOSEPH TOWNSEND’S REVOLUTIONARY VISION

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BIRDMAN PETER KAESTNER ’71

FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL

Friends, THIS EDITION OF COLLECTION MAGAZINE offers glimpses of the past, present and future of Friends School. There are articles on significant figures from our history who dedicated their lives to Friends and helped to build the foundation upon which our School now stands. The “day in the life” cover story will allow you to walk in the shoes of some of our current students and experience the joyful and vigorous rhythm of their days. And, as we look to the future, the dazzling photos of the newly transformed Forbush Auditorium will provide the opportunity to imagine the spectacular performances that are sure to take place on that stage, while the interview with Jay Golon, our new Middle School Principal, will offer a preview of the exciting possibilities that lie ahead as he assumes the leadership of that division.

In contemplating the 232-year history of Friends School, I’m always struck by the deep and abiding consistencies that abound, even amidst the inevitable changes brought by time. The enduring principles that have always guided our School can be found in this issue’s profile of my earliest predecessor, Joseph Townsend, and in the tributes to more recent but equally consequential figures such as Lois Forbush, who nurtured several generations of Friends School students, and John Carnell, who, in a variety of roles across his career at Friends, helped the School grow and evolve over four critical decades of its history. Through each of these pieces, the themes of service, humility and a desire to make the world a better place are common threads. This profound sense of purpose and the Quaker principles on which the School was founded are woven deeply into this community and shape the unique environment that comes through so clearly in the vignettes you’ll find of daily life at Friends in 2016.

Our long history, and the enduring values that have shaped it, are also a source of confidence as we consider the exciting new developments highlighted in this issue. They affirm us in the knowledge that the renovated performing and visual arts spaces will be employed with the same objectives as our earlier facilities on Aisquith Street in the late 18th century, on Park Avenue through the 1920s and here on Charles Street to the present day; providing our students with the opportunity to find their voices, express themselves and work collaboratively towards common goals. And they give us reason to believe that as new leaders arrive on our campus, they will be inspired, as their predecessors have been, by our shared belief that the world needs what our children can do.

As you enjoy these snapshots of the past, present and future at our School, I hope that they will resonate with your own Friends experiences, and will evoke your enthusiasm and aspirations for all that lies ahead.

Best wishes,

Matthew Micciche

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M AG A Z I N E

Published annually by Friends School of Baltimore

Heidi Blalock Editor, Director of Communications

MISSION STATEMENT Founded in 1784, Friends School of Baltimore provides a coeducational, college preparatory program guided by the Quaker values of truth, equality, simplicity, community and peaceful resolution of conflict. By setting high standards of excellence for a diverse and caring community, Friends seeks to develop in each student the spiritual, intellectual, physical and creative strengths to make a positive contribution to the world. Recognizing that there is that of God in each person, the School strives in all its programs, policies and affairs to be an institution that exemplifies the ideals of the Religious Society of Friends.

Kate Maskarinec Director of Alumni Relations & Engagement Stephanie McLoughlin Director of Marketing & Communications Ashley Principe Director of Development Members of the Development Offi ce staff

SEND ADDRESS CORRECTIONS TO: Friends School of Baltimore 5114 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21210 Attn: Heidi Bichler-Harris hbichler-harris@friendsbalt.org Design Mid-Atlantic Media Printing J.H. Furst Co. Cover photo Karl Connolly Photography Heidi Blalock, Rick Lippenholz, Laura Prichett, David Stuck, Justin Tsucalas and members of the School community.

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FALL 2016

CONTENTS

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2. F E A T U R E All in a Day’s Work Learning takes many different forms, from daring playground feats to experiential social justice and balancing chemical equations

13. Ready for His Close-Up Our Middle School Principal Jay Golon is all about community

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F R I E N D S G L O B A L

The French Connection

I n Russia, a flood of hospitality, kindness and mayonnaise

16. Joseph Townsend’s Revolutionary Vision

BY JAMES GOLDSBOROUGH

BIGWOOD ’08

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23. Run, Quakers, run!

31. “Oh, the Spaces We’ll Show!”

Friends wins its first-ever Cross-Country championship

Friends’ fabulous celebration of the newly transformed Forbush Building showcased our talented students and the innovative learning that’s happening campuswide

BY JOHN HAMMOND ’70

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D IVERSITY NOTES

BY PRIYANKA RUPANI

25. P A R E N T S

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A S S O C I AT I O N

It’s true: Friends parents make everything we do here possible

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DEVELOPMENT

NEWS

Friends in the City, Children of Alumni and Commencement 2016

36. Birdman U.S. Diplomat and world-class birder Peter Kaestner ’71’s life is one great adventure

Standing Ovation!

The historic Setting the Stage campaign receives a standing ovation, as do all who supported this communitywide effort

28. Matchmaker, Matchmaker Three challenge matches and an extraordinary planned gift inspired this year’s record giving

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WEEKEND 2016

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CLASS NOTES

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MILESTONES

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CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

18. Night of the Arts combines

best of visual arts and dance

20. From the MakerSpace A compendium of STEAM studies from across the divisions

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S P O R T S U P D A T E A look back at the spring 2016 season

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ATHLETICS

All in a day’s

WORK The sun comes up, the bell rings

and the day begins for some 800 Friends students who, over the next several hours, will be challenged to acquire the fundamental knowledge and the critical skills, creativity and resilience that a modern-day education demands. To the casual observer the campus runs like a well-oiled machine. But look closer: Learning is, by definition, messy. We celebrate the outcomes but it’s the process — the challenges, disappointments and triumphs — that motivates all we do. In this issue, Collection takes readers on a “day in the life” tour into the classrooms and studios, the playing fields and quiet corners to get a sense of the wide range of educational experiences and serendipitous moments that happen each day in this busy and productive community. Lace up your walking shoes, your tour begins now.

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8:I5 am Unleashing the power of “why?”

Genius Time inspires student-led research

From left, Laya Bubshait ’25, classmate Khadejah Allen and Librarian John Scott use the Library’s resources during Genius Time.

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become of the homeless men and women who had lived there. Barney couldn’t provide a simple answer (there isn’t one) but connected the girls to Adam Schneider, director of community relations at Healthcare for the Homeless who responded to that question and 12 others they sent him about homelessness in Baltimore. Such curiosity and enthusiasm are at the heart of Genius Time, a student-led learning initiative that engages 3rd and 4th graders in researching a topic of their choice and then demonstrating their knowledge through a variety of service projects. With the support of the Lower School, Laya and Alexandra held a “crazy jeans” day on behalf of Healthcare for the Homeless and collected more than $400. In a follow-up letter, Schneider wrote to Barney:

“If we’re to have any chance at addressing the problems we face as a community, society and world, we will need thoughtful and committed young people, like Laya and Alexandra.”

The girls’ project was but one of many Genius Time efforts the students put forth this spring. Others included raising awareness and monies for the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Cardiology Department, and collecting cleats and shin guards for the nonprofit organization Soccer without Borders. Albert Einstein once said: “Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

By prompting students to keep asking questions, Genius Time guides their quest for solutions to life’s pressing challenges.

Move over, Miss America

In Middle School, beauty pageants for French, Russian landmarks BEAUTY PAGEANTS bring to mind women with gleaming smiles dressed in evening gowns or perhaps a dirndled Sandra Bullock playing hapless Miss New Jersey in “Miss Congeniality.” For 8th grade Russian and French students, however, the spectacle is all about landmarks; specifically, the towers and castles, monuments and rivers of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Paris. “The Landmark Pageant integrates research, artistic expression and writing,” says French teacher Terry James of the unit she and her Russian language counterpart Shannon Johnson annually teach.

Students choose from a collection of monuments, such as le Panthéon in Paris, St. Basil’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg and the Bronze Horseman in Moscow; they then research the landmark, its history and

architectural details, write a poem in the target language and create a costume, reinterpreting their monument’s structural elements in a wearable art form. “This is the ‘evening gown’ portion of the event,” says James, who counts the Rose Window of Notre Dame and the Vendôme Column as among the year’s best. “And I loved the Louvre,” she says, “because when he lifted up the roof, there was the Mona Lisa!”

Like all beauty pageants there is a talent portion during which students perform an original song. Recalling this year’s Russian acts, Shannon Johnson smiles, exclaiming, “The River Neva played piano in his costume!”

For all of its playfulness, the learning sticks, according to James. She discovered this while catching up with former student

Zaria Dancer ’20 models her St. Basil’s Cathedral costume for classmates.

Max Jacobs ’17, who shared highlights from this year’s French 4 and 5 language immersion trip to Lyon, France. “He told me ‘The landmarks seemed so familiar in person because we had worn them in class!’ For me, seeing everything come full circle like that is a gift.”

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ECP students tailor educational experiences to suit their interests UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS now have an opportunity to explore an area of academic interest in ways that extend beyond the traditional course of study through the Extradisciplinary Certificate Program (ECP).

Launched in 2015, ECP capitalizes on the movement toward collaborative student-directed learning by allowing students to “bundle” different learning experiences — including academic course work, club involvement, lecture series, service and other capstone projects — within one of seven areas of interest: STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics), Sustainability; Global Studies; Social Justice, Diversity and Equity; Artistic Expression; Renaissance Scholars (a mix of history, English, foreign language and the fine and performing arts); and even Design Your Own Certificate. Successful completion of the two-year program, which is voluntary, earns students a transcript designation for their sustained participation and effort during their Upper School years.

While still in its infancy, ECP is gaining the attention of sophomores and juniors, who’ve been meeting with program director and Upper School history teacher Josh Carlin to begin formulating their plans. “[ECP] is

Health Suite by the Numbers “Every day brings a new challenge, and there is never a dull moment in the Health Suite,” says Friends School Nurse Lynne Anonye.

On a random day this spring, Anonye, who joined the School in 2010, recorded the following daily stats for Collection:

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Ariane Sharifi ’18 meets with ECP Coordinator Josh Carlin to plan her course of study.

offered to everyone,” according to Carlin.

That said, not everyone’s going to be accepted, nor will everyone receive a certificate. “We want to see inspiration, passion,” he stresses. Carlin is impressed with the work his young ECP cohort has produced thus far and offers Ethan Greenberg ’17, a STEAM certificate candidate, as one example. “Ethan is an inventor. He’s already designed and built his own espresso machine,” he says.

ECP is the newest example of studentdirected learning in the Upper School, but it’s hardly the first. Other offerings — including the popular University Partnership Program (UPP), ongoing STEAM, Social Science, Public Health, MakerSpace and Business Speaker Series and Senior Work Projects — are also providing Friends students with meaningful experiences that will profoundly shape their educational journey.

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i0:00 am “It’s a step and a hop” Teaching skipping to the young (and the young at heart)

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HEN was the last time you thought about skipping? Not skipping a meeting or skipping lunch, but the “Skip to My Lou” — locomotor movement of childhood lore. Director of Physical Education Anne McGinty thinks about it a lot. “Skipping is fun and it’s an easy way for young children to travel,” she says.

It’s also something all Friends students must learn … eventually.

“A skip is a step and a hop,” she explains. “What we do is break the two movements down. You have to teach the kids how to incorporate those two things together — it’s actually training the brain.”

For some kids it’s not that easy. “You have to physically hold their leg up and then have them hop.” Recalling one student, a recent graduate who as a young child had significant visual depth perception issues combined with low muscle tone, McGinty says, “It took me a whole year of manipulating her leg, walking with her while holding her hand ... Then all of a sudden one day she did it!

It’s something I’ll never forget.”

Skipping is the starting point for more complex movements, such as the zigzag maneuvers football and soccer players use to fake opponents. “It’s good for building agility,” McGinty explains. With its brain-training and aerobic benefits, not to mention sheer joy potential, it’s worth asking: Shouldn’t we all be skipping? “Absolutely,” says McGinty. “Everyone should skip.”

“Miss Anne” works on skipping with Caden Metzbower ’28.

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I0:45 AM Preparing tomorrow’s scientists Passionate chemist Kate Hindes brings depth to the classroom

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HE UPPER SCHOOL science curriculum follows a well-trodden path, beginning in the 9th grade with environmental science, followed by biology in 10th, general chemistry in 11th and, finally, physics or calculus-based physics in 12th. For certain rising seniors, however, a passion for scientific investigation, often combined with a desire to impress college admission officers, inspires the decision to supplement their course load with what many perceive as the School’s most challenging science elective: advanced chemistry.

Whether the year-long elective’s daunting reputation is deserved or not will be left to conjecture. (Alumni who took the course under beloved chemistry teacher Dr. Ken Drews may wish to weigh in!) One thing is for certain, however: Kate Hindes, who took over for Drews after his retirement in 2012, is passionate about teaching chemistry and wants to instill that same spark in her students. Witness the fireworks project, where students independently design and

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build their own pyrotechnics under a fume hood in the classroom. “I give them the safety rules and then I say, ‘Go for it,’” says Hindes.

“A lot of them are nervous at first, but once they start mixing, they realize ‘I can do this, and it’s fun!’”

Hindes’ class covers general chemistry (“primarily physical and inorganic”) during first semester, followed by organic chemistry in the third quarter and biochemistry in the fourth. “I really like to cover biochemistry because that was my focus in grad school,” says Hindes, who earned a master’s degree in protein crystallography from the University of Pennsylvania.

While she has taught Advanced Placement (A.P.) chemistry in the past, she is heartened that Friends does not follow the curriculum. “A.P. is fine but it’s a survey course,” she says, “so you basically cover the same topics you covered in general chemistry.” Advanced chemistry is a topic-based course, according to Hindes, and while the class covers fewer topics than the A.P.

Lab partners Evan Hoffman ’16 and Eden Anonye ’16 investigate chemical reactions.

curriculum, “we go into super depth,” she says. “They’re able to do college sophomore-level material with organic chemistry, and it’s really interesting.”

Even if a student does not choose to pursue a chemistry major, Hindes says her goal is “to make it easy for them to take what they’ve learned and be successful in the college setting.” Such was the case for Dylan Coiro ’15, a sophomore mechanical engineering major at Vanderbilt University who reluctantly enrolled in the class his senior year at Friends. “I didn’t think I’d need chemistry in college, but when I got there and realized it was required, it was easy for me. I was helping other kids in the class.”

From despair comes hope

Micah House residents change 7th graders perceptions about homelessness

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THE MIDDLE SCHOOL YEARS are a notoriously tender time for children as they juggle newfound freedoms and responsibilities against the rapid cognitive, physical and emotional changes that occur. The same vulnerabilities that define early adolescence, however, may also make it fertile ground for imparting lessons in empathy, according to geography teacher Erika Smith ’93, who, as part of a 7th grade social justice unit, coordinates monthly lunches for students and tenants of Micah House, a permanent residential facility for people who’ve

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experienced homelessness. The experience is a powerful one, as the residents, many of whom grew up in poverty, speak openly about their circumstances. Some say they dropped out of school to support their families, others admit to making wrong-headed decisions that compounded over time. “We make assumptions about people — that if they’re homeless, then they must have substance abuse problems,” says Smith. “I think it opens the kids’ minds and builds empathy when they realize what people are really experiencing.”

Every student visits twice with their Micah House friends. Recalling his group’s discussions with a resident named Tyrone, Luke Rollfinke shared, “It was interesting to hear his stories. There are a lot of things that can make you homeless.

Everyone there works hard to get out of that situation.”

Smith follows each visit with class reflection. “You hear a lot of ‘that could be my uncle,’” she says. Students also write letters, sharing with the residents how their stories altered their views about homelessness.

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Calculating risk, and succeeding, on the playground Empowering young children through play

BY MEREDITH SCHLOW, PRE-K ASSOCIATE TEACHER

“WATCH THIS, MS. SCHLOW, WATCH!” I turn toward the source of the excited voice: a Pre-K student, standing at the top of the slide on the Pre-Primary playground. Once sure she has my undivided attention, she begins her descent — not on her bottom, but upright, on her feet; first slowly, then faster, until she’s running down the slide. Dismounting with a great leap, she lands cat-like on all fours and turns to me, a triumphant grin on her face. “Fabulous!” I say, my hand on my chest, as if to reassure myself that my heart is still beating. “You have excellent balance!”

Less than two years ago, my reaction to this child’s daring use of the slide would have been different.

I most likely would not have praised her agility or creativity, but rather reminded her that the acceptable way to use the slide at school is sitting down, on your bottom, feet out front, by yourself. No sliding down in groups, no climbing up the slide and certainly no running down it. Unconventional use of the swings or climbing equipment was similarly discouraged.

And then I heard about the Land.

An adventure playground in Wales since 2012, the Land, with its overturned boats, makeshift wooden shelters and metal garbage cans, looks more like a junkyard than a playground. But it’s in this decidedly unmanicured space — and similar ones around the globe — where children have an opportunity to engage in the type of “risky” play that in this age of structured play dates and extra-curricular activities is often lost. And that, experts say, deprives children of the chance to test their limits, to be in charge and to make their own decisions about the levels of

risk they want to take. The playground, research suggests, is where children hone their skills — emotional, physical and social. It’s where they prepare for life.

Last year, New Day Films released a short documentary about the Land, which many of us screened during a professional development day.

As we watched children swing in construction tubes, saw flimsy pieces of cardboard and even light a fire — all under the watchful eyes of Land staff, who rarely intervened — many of us were reminded of our own childhood days, when we spent countless unstructured hours playing outdoors, unsupervised, alone or with friends; days when we tested our limits and learned boundaries.

Needless to say, my Lower School colleagues and I won’t be breaking out the saws, hammers and lighters on the playground any time soon. But recalling my own experiences as a child, along with the support of child development experts, enables me to see how stifling some of our old rules were, no matter how well intentioned. Yes, safety is paramount. But these days I spend much less time saying “no” and much more time saying, “Aren’t you proud of yourself?” I am more likely to assist a child who wants to jump from a piece of equipment than I am to discourage him from doing it at all. I am more likely to bite my tongue and watch when a child tries her hand at sliding down one of the dinosaur legs for the first time. And I am far more likely to see the brilliant smile of accomplishment on the face of a 5-year-old, who takes a calculated risk and succeeds.

Seventh graders listen intently as a Micah House resident talks about his life as a homeless person.

The Quaker educator Stephen G. Cary once said: “There is no curriculum for values.

They gradually emerge over time through students’ interactions with their fellows and through the impact of their environment and their experience, until their values become part of them, and they feel them in their bones.” By opening themselves up to Friends’ middle learners, Micah House and its residents are helping to prepare the next generation of compassionate allies in the struggle to address homelessness in our region and our world.

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The Doctor is in

In science class, grand rounds with 6th graders

La’Mya Flowers ’22 offers insights into her patient’s Lyme disease.

“CAN THIS PATIENT BE CURED?” This is the question science teacher Andy Spawn poses to 6th graders at the conclusion of a four-week infectious diseases unit, during which students research ailments ranging from anthrax to yellow fever. One by one the lab coat-cloaked doctors engage in grand rounds-style presentations detailing their assigned patients’ history, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment plans before their colleagues. Friends benefits from an abundance of physician-parents who happily sit-in during the presentations, asking probing questions and providing helpful feedback.

Spawn pulls out all the stops to build students’ confidence, draping a stethoscope around each child’s neck before they begin; but it’s the actual research that steals the show. As part of their training for diagnosis, students use a Center for Disease Control-designed iPad app called “Solve the Outbreak,” as well as websites for the Mayo Clinic, the World Health Organization and an extensive collection of books from the Middle School Library.

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Civil War unit brings history to life

Fifth graders walk in soldiers’, civilians’ shoes

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T’S WELL PAST SUNRISE, but in 5th grade hall, strains of reveille fill the air as 40 students, err, soldiers, armed with notebooks and pencils, set up camp. Sporting a Union army jacket and a salt-and-pepper beard grown expressly for this unit, teacher Bill Hardy calls the troops to order: “Attennntion!” Immediately the students jump to their feet, forming six straight lines. Before the hour is up, each will have stepped into character and back in time, to learn about the Civil War from those who lived it, on the battlefields and at home.

Part history class, part team challenge, the Civil War curriculum flows from daily dispatches that arrive via telegraph and set the scene for the various players representing the North and the South. In addition to a field identity, as soldier, each student is assigned a home identity, as one of his relatives. The two personas, solider and civilian, write letters back and forth, describing their individual circumstances during wartime.

Students earn, or lose, points for their contingents and, ultimately, for the North or

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the South, by doing their homework, completing assessments (“Battle Jeopardy, anyone?”) and arriving prepared. In that regard, it’s possible for 5th graders to upend history, according to Hardy. “We’ve had instances in the past Teacher Bill Hardy (left) reads the day’s telegraph as John Copeland, when the Confederacy retired 5th grade teacher, checks students’ work wins at the end of the learn?” A dozen hands shoot in the air. entire unit,” he says. Wait “I learned that one civilian died in ... What? “They know which side won the the battle,” says one child. Who was it? war,” teacher Jennifer Schultz reassures.

“Ginny Wade!” a chorus of voices cries out.

“They’re learning the content of the war The hour winds down and the soldiers, through the game.” having removed their uniforms — a collection The students remain remarkably engaged of matching bandanas, bracelets and throughout the period. A big part of the neckties — are students once more. reason is Hardy, who, on this day, has Tomorrow will bring new challenges for transformed himself into the 16th president. both sides of the war but for now the Wearing a black suit and stovepipe hat, his students disperse to the playground for beard neatly coiffed into a Lincoln-esque version, he queries the class about their recent some well-deserved R&R. field trip to Gettysburg: “What did you

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I2:00 PM LUNCH! Ms. Korea dishes out the smiles “HAVE A BLESSED DAY!” With these cheery words Dining Hall cashier Korea Rollins sends students and faculty on their way, feeling glad not only for the turkey on rye but for the extra helping of kindness. “We all need lifting up,” says Rollins, an employee of FLIK Hospitality Group, which manages the School’s food services. Bless you, Korea.

FLIK employee Korea Rollins keeps close tabs on Friends students.

I2:45 PM Making time for Meeting

Teaching students to center down

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TWICE EACH WEEK, Lower School students quietly fill the benches in the Stony Run Friends Meeting room and, for the next 30 minutes, settle into silence. For some, it’s a struggle. Legs kick, seats wiggle. Slowly, the energy shifts and a gathered stillness fills the room. Sometimes the silence is broken by a teacher who reads aloud a thoughtful passage or a poem. Other times it may be a child who feels moved to share about an important person or event in their lives. As they transition to the Middle and then Upper School, the duration and quality of time spent in Meeting will grow and enrich, as the students’ trust in the process, and in one another, strengthens. Until that June afternoon of senior year when, upon their graduation, they gather for Worship one last time and the silence renders heartfelt stories of friendship and gratitude for their time at Friends.

Olivia Prichett ’26 gathers with her classmates and teacher Steven Rookwood for Meeting.

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I:05 PM Alternative visions Spacious new labs stoke creativity

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DVANCED PHOTOGRAPHY students may now build on their knowledge of digital and traditional silver gelatin printing through a new semester-long course in alternative processing. Led by Upper School art teacher Erin Hall ’98, the class introduces students to such methods as Vandyke brown, cyanotype, gum bichromate and salt prints, techniques that allow them to take their photographs in new creative directions.

“This used to be a small component, an add-on, to the end of an exercise in Photo 2, but it was very clumsy,” says Hall, referring to the cramped conditions in the previous dark room on the fourth floor of the Upper School. “I knew when we added this new space that I wanted to expand on that learning.” The new photography suite features two dark rooms with 12 work stations, plus a spacious classroom equipped with areas for editing, printing, drying and displaying photos.

So far Hall has taught two alternative processes — cyanotype and Vandyke — although there are many more. “I wanted to see whether the kids could handle it,” she explains. “Some of these are very labor intensive, fussy processes. It takes patience and a lot of trial and error.”

She’s reassured by what she’s seen. “The students seem hungry for it.

They want to do more.”

Next spring she’ll add gum printing to the schedule, a process in which watercolor pigments are added to the light-sensitive solution at various stages, creating layers of color for a painterly effect. “It offers the most flexibility with expression because you can choose your palette,” she says. “I can’t wait to see what they do with it.”

TOP: Lucy Meigs ’18, foreground, shares her contact sheets with teacher Erin Hall ’98. BELOW: Jack Connors ’18 processes images in the dark room.

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John Gifford, offering feedback to guitarist Andrew Ayers ’18, puts the Jazz Ensemble through its paces.

I:35 PM The M stands for music

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TO THE UNINITIATED, the description sounds more prison-like than private school (“Let’s meet at L Block!”). But to the students and faculty who follow it, Friends’ unique 10-day schedule is a marvel for its ability to make time for students to pursue what they love — be it the arts, participation in one or more of the Upper School’s 67 clubs (the Middle School offers 12, with eight in the Lower School) or any number of academic or co-curricular interests.

M Block occurs each day from 1:35 to 2:15 pm, and is an especially popular time for music making. Approximately 70 percent of Upper Schoolers participate in a music ensemble, including 52 students in String Orchestra, 134 in Concert Chorale, 30 in Chamber Choir, 32 in Wind Ensemble and 16 in Jazz Ensemble.

Describing the scene when his enthusiastic but unwieldy Upper School Concert Chorale arrives at the choral room for rehearsal, choral music teacher Michael McVey says, “It’s always a mad scramble to get everyone in there on time to warm-up. We work like crazy on the music and have a ton of fun for a short 35 minutes before I get everyone back out the door and on to their next class.”

Selecting pieces for ensembles is an exercise in balance, according to Kirsten Walsh, Friends’ Orchestra Director.

“There are lots of variables based on the experience of the group, which changes from year to year,” she says. John Gifford, Music Department Coordinator, looks for “quality stuff in a variety of styles. It also has to fit the kids we have in terms of balance of sections.”

Friends has a longstanding history of music appreciation and performance. Through M Block, our students and music teachers, carry forth that legacy one joyful 35-minute block at a time.

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They had us at “hello” Toddlers add sweetness to the school day

Babies enrolled in Little Friends enjoy a sunny stroll through campus.

WHEN OUR LITTLEST FRIENDS come toddling through campus, or rolling along in their triple strollers, no matter where we’re headed or how late we’re running, the urge to pause is hard to resist. Such is the effect that Little Friends, the School’s full-service day care center, has had on us since its opening in 2004. Janelle Schmidt ’96 and Melanie Ferger oversee the staff of 15 full-time teachers, who gently guide the center’s 44 children, ages 6 week to 4 years, through a range of school readiness activities, outdoor exploration and “anything where they can get messy,” says Schmidt, the School’s Director of Child Care and Extended Day programs. Like the big kids, Little Friends children benefit from dedicated class time with Friends faculty. As for the rest of us? We’re just happy to watch them grow.

3:I5 PM Honoring the flag “YOU HAVE TO take it down at the end of the day unless you have a spotlight on it at night,” says Salvador Mendoza, a member of the School’s Maintenance staff. A native of El Salvador, Mr. Mendoza gained U.S. citizenship in 2013, which makes the late afternoon ritual especially meaningful.

4:I5 PM Sports!

AS IT HAS FOR GENERATIONS of Friends

3:30 pm School’s Out! (Or is it?)

students, interscholastic athletics plays a major role in the Friends School experience for Middle and Upper Schoolers.

(See p. 22 for a wrap-up of the Upper School spring athletic season.)

Afternoon pick-up

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LIKE A CAREFULLY orchestrated minuet, afternoon pick-up in the Lower School follows a precise routine that begins the moment a student’s parent or guardian pulls up to the curb. Teachers armed with walkie-talkies identify families, and one by one, the children are summoned from the Library, where they gather their belongings and head for home.

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5:00 PM Making beautiful music, family-style

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THE SCHOOL DAY HAS ENDED but Mathew Lane and Rebecca Rossello ’92, who teach private piano and voice lessons on campus after school, are just getting warmed up. Accomplished musicians in their own right, Lane and Rossello, who are married, each have “day jobs”: He is the School’s official accompanist and also serves as adjunct faculty at Goucher College; she is music teacher at First English Lutheran Preschool and also teaches a handful of adults during daytime hours. Collection spoke with the couple about teaching, making music and raising a musical family.

How did the two of you meet?

Lane: We met at church in 1990.

Rossello: I sang with the adult choir, and Mathew had a job turning pages for the organist.

Lane: We were friends for several years before we dated. We got married in 1998.

What do you love most about teaching music?

Rossello: Working with preschool students reminds me that music is originally and

forever about experiencing and expressing joy through sound. I introduce the kids to different kinds of music, dance, rhythm and tons of songs, which I love.

Lane: For me, there is real magic in introducing the piano to a beginner. Music goes from being something that other people do to something that they do themselves, and I get to witness that.

Are your children, Ana [’22] and Nicholas [’27], both musical?

Lane: They are, but we really don’t push music at home. That being said, Ana literally sings all day long. I have to laugh, because I know that if I made her formally practice singing, it would entirely ruin that.

Rossello: Ana’s starting to teach Nick violin, ukulele and guitar. She’s a great teacher, and he loves it!

Lane: Nick also memorizes all the pop music he hears in the car. When my 7-year-old suddenly starts singing all the words to a 21 Pilots song, it’s both awesome and hilarious.

Rebecca Rossello ’92 and Mathew Lane make beautiful music together and with their students.

6:00 pm The Late Show “Oklahoma!”

The cast performs “The Farmer and the Cowman” on the Forbush stage.

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EACH SPRING SOME 75 Upper School students immerse themselves in staging the spring musical.

Tech week is especially hectic, when students balance five-hour mandatory dress rehearsals on top of homework, after-school sports, music lessons and other activities. In the end, of course, it’s all worth it, as anyone who saw this year’s production of “Oklahoma!” will attest. The show, which ran for three sold-out performances May 13 to 15, drew raves — as did the new Forbush Auditorium. FS

WELCOME TO FRIENDS

READY FOR HIS CLOSE-UP: Jay Golon is Friends’ new Middle School Principal

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eated in his office amid smiling photos of his toddler son Jamie and wife Devra, Friends new Middle School Principal Jay Golon feels very much at home. Or at least he will feel at home, once the students arrive. It’s August and Golon is antsy for the pitter patter of pre-teen feet. “I can hardly wait to have them back,” he says, beaming, his 6'3" frame concealed behind his desk. Golon has spent his professional career in middle schools, most recently at The Dalton School in Manhattan, where since 2008 he has served as a history teacher, house advisor, department chair and, for the past five years, assistant director for curriculum and teaching and also dean of students. Additionally, he’s held teaching, coaching and administrative positions at Trevor Day School in Manhattan and The Epiphany School in Dorchester, Mass.

Since joining the Friends community, Golon has immersed himself in School culture, listening to parents and teachers’ stories about why they chose Friends, and learning about their hopes for the school year — for their children and for him. Pulling a spiral-bound notebook from his desk, he reads aloud a few pearls from these informal conversations. “One parent said ‘there’s a sense of safety in risk taking here.’ Another one shared that the faculty is ‘an incredible mix of wisdom plus experience plus openness to growth plus excitement for kids.’

That’s really nice.”

An alumnus of the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s School Leadership Program, Golon earned a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he double-majored in American studies and theater. “What I realize now about my theater background is that it was more an education in how to be an effective community member than it was about actually performing. In schools, as in the theater, you have a group of people coming together, bringing very different talents, different expertise to ultimately put out a certain product. In theater, it’s a show. In schools, it’s a class, or a trip or a team,” he says.

Golon is admittedly biased when asked what draws him to this age group.

“Middle school sees the greatest developmental range in the shortest amount of time, and that makes for an interesting and challenging learning environment.

Also”, he adds, “as my colleagues will attest, middle schoolers are stunningly honest. At least once a day, usually more, I laugh from my soul because of something a kid does, or says. For me that’s one of the most wonderful restorative things ever.”

While he’s new to Quaker education Golon readily sees its parallels to 21st century pedagogy, particularly the use of guided questioning in the classroom by trusting expert adults. “I have a deep and abiding love for creating a challenging and innovative academic journey, but I’m also someone who very much believes that if we’re not putting equal energy into developing excellent people then we’re not doing our job right.”

Doing so depends on building healthy relationships, with the students, the faculty and the families. “It’s so important,” he stresses. “We have a strong program and a ton of caring adults here, but the rough patches of middle school from a developmental point are just built in. This is hard work we do, but I’m really excited to be here.” FS F RI E N DS SCHOOL |

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Class of 2016 alumni Anna Dorsey, Claire Qiao, Addison Thompson, Maria Graham, Samuel Todd, Séamus Woods and Madalynn Holland pose before the Louvre Pyramid.

THE FRENCH CONNECTION OR, HOW MY HOME-STAY CHANGED MY LIFE Nineteen Upper School French students in March fl ew to France for 15 days of language and cultural immersion. After spending their fi rst three days in Paris, where they engaged in a chocolate-making class with a chocolatier and explored such iconic sites as the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Quartier Latin, Beaubourg and the Arc de Triomphe, the group took the high-speed rail to Lyon to begin the home-stay portion of their trip. “The home stay is the most challenging and yet rewarding aspect of the students’ travel experience,” says French teacher Christine Koniezhny, who, with colleague Erica Curtis, accompanied the group. In this refl ection, Max Rollfi nke ’17 explains why this is so.

After living the life of a Lyon resident for 10 days, I feel like I’ve been missing out on the city life. Every day, I took the metro to school with my host brother Francesco. I became so familiar with our route that I could perfectly recite the lines echoed over the loudspeaker as we arrived at each stop. I’ve never taken the Baltimore metro anywhere, and when I take the light rail, I have to wait 20 minutes for a train.

I was amazed by the efficiency of the European system.

At school I soon realized the disadvantage of speaking English as your native language. Every time Francesco had a study hall, I went to English class for 6th and 7th graders, where I spoke in front of the class and provided, in English, details of my life. The students almost always understood what I was saying and asked insightful questions.

One class was even assigned homework to write a paragraph about my life. There is no way I could write a comprehensive biography in French when I was in the 6th grade. Part of French students’ proficiency comes from their media exposure. American culture permeates French life deeply. French kids, including Francesco, listen to

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American music and watch American movies, shows and YouTube videos constantly. Americans, on the other hand, rarely speak French or even encounter the language outside of a classroom setting.

There are certainly many benefits to speaking English, but to us English-speaking Americans it can also be a disadvantage — at least in terms of learning a foreign language. As my French host mother said: “English is the universal language.”

More than anything, the trip helped me realize that I want French to be a major part of my life. It is an awesome feeling to be able to communicate with people of another nationality in their native tongue. Whenever teachers would address me in English, I would surprise them by responding in French. I can’t wait to visit my host family when I return to France, possibly in college, to show them how much my language skills have improved.

From left, Eden Anonye ’16, Andie Gasparovic ’17 and Isabel Cooke ’16 enjoy a hands-on workshop with a Parisian chocolatier.

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FOR RUSSIAN LANGUAGE STUDENTS, A FLOOD OF HOSPITALITY, KINDNESS AND MAYONNAISE Ask any two of the 18 junior and senior Russian students where the most valuable learning occurred during the 18-day trip to St. Petersburg, Russia in March; you’ll likely get very different responses. That’s because, by design, their experiences involved many different components. Students lived in pairs with host families. On most days, after breakfast each pair was met by their Russian teacher (often a woman in her 20s) with whom they would usually spend over three hours in experiential lessons. At the outset these lessons focused on performing such daily life tasks as using the metro, exchanging money and buying items in stores. As their comfort grew the students took turns leading their teachers and partners on cultural excursions to sites of their choosing, which they had researched in the weeks leading up to the trip. Afternoons brought structured free time in pairs or small groups after which the full group would gather for singing, folk dancing or other activities before students returned to their host families for dinner, conversation and homework. The days were packed and the learning was intense, as each student signed a pledge to conduct

The students, with teachers Lee Roby and Shannon Johnson visit St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow.

themselves at all times in Russian. For some, the greatest takeaways were in the connections made with their teachers or their hosts. For others, they were in the huge strides they made in their language growth or their cultural knowledge. Still others experienced the life-changing personal growth they needed to meet real-world challenges outside of the traditional

WALKING ALONG THE SIDEWALK on the way to the Russian bathhouse, or banya, we stopped in front of a dirty, imposing brick wall topped with barbed wire.

Not exactly a welcome mat. Once inside we were greeted with a long table stockpiled with delicious traditional Russian foods. It was around 3 o’clock and we had yet to eat lunch. We sat, ate, talked and learned from our host Timofey about the history of the banya and its importance in Russian life. Sitting in the steam room — sweating profusely, feeling my nostrils burning with each inhale, and being beaten with branches to release toxins from my system — was one of many memorable moments from the trip. Looking back, the banya excursion symbolized much of what I’d experienced in Russia. The exterior was intimidating and scary, but once the surface was cracked, a flood of hospitality, kindness and unforgettable stories emerged.

— Annie Blalock ’16, Middlebury College ’20.5

classroom. Which learning is most valuable?

The answer depends on the individual student.

That is what Middle School Russian teacher Shannon Johnson and I value most in nurturing our students along their individual paths during the Russia trip.

— Lee Roby, Upper School Russian teacher

AT THE CENTER OF RUSSIAN CULTURE and life, lies the kitchen table: It is a place of food, friendship, family, discourse, arguments, art and so on. Two kitchen traditions are central to the Russian people — the cooking and eating of Salat Olivier and the multi-hour discussion that ensues. I had the pleasure, and metabolism, to participate in both. No party is complete without a giant bowl of Salat Olivier — a time-consuming behemoth of potatoes, eggs, peas, sausage, green onion and several other ingredients all held together by mayonnaise … a lot of mayonnaise. For one of our lessons Kyle and I were tasked by our tutor, Svetlana, with helping her to prepare Salat Olivier. We chopped, shredded and boiled the ingredients and threw them into a bowl, learning all of the vocabulary as we went. Afterward, Svetlana poured an indescribable amount of mayonnaise into the bowl. I had never seen that much mayo in one place before. She mixed up the bowl, tasted the salad and, after deciding “not enough mayonnaise,” proceeded to squeeze the rest of it into the bowl.

The experience taught me a lot about Russian cuisine and culture.

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— Eli Loeb ’16, Pomona College ’20

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enerations of students, parents and teachers have passed by the Friends School sign on their way to and from campus, but how many of us have ever stopped to ponder the significance of the simple phrase occupying its lower corner?

“Founded 1784.”

In its subtle way, the message hints at something obvious: That the history of Friends School, in essence, corresponds with the history of our nation. Like the nation, Friends School was also born out of warfare; an inescapable irony that, on the surface, seems to fly in the face of its Quaker identity but actually affirms it.

When the members of the Baltimore Preparative Meeting met in the Old Town Meetinghouse at the corner of Aisquith and

in Townsend’s memory, as well. The battle had provided the British a crucial and decisive victory that allowed them to occupy the City of Philadelphia, and it happened more or less in Townsend’s back yard.

Though his Quaker values precluded his participation in the armed conflict, Townsend’s eyewitness accounts of the battle have long been regarded by historians as among the most significant.

By the spring of ’77 the war had been going for over two years, and the British army controlled the isle of Manhattan. With its sights set on Philadelphia, in August, the invading fleet arrived in the Chesapeake Bay, carrying 12,000 English troops under the command of General Howe, and 5,000 Germans — or Hessians — under the

soldiers to the area, Birmingham Meeting — the one that Townsend attended — was taken over by the Continental Army and turned into a makeshift field hospital, forcing Friends to hold their next meeting at a wheelwright shop in nearby Sconnelltown.

On the morning of September 11, 1777, as Townsend and his brother William convened with fellow Birmingham Friends for first-day Meeting, they caught sight of the British army coming out of the woods with bayonets fixed that “shone as bright as silver.”

The group, including the Townsend brothers, dispersed and ran to their homes to secure their belonging in the event that the British troops followed them. When the soldiers did not arrive, the Townsend brothers set out to get a better view, passing through the British

Joseph Townsend’s Revolutionary Vision JAMES GOLDSBOROUGH BIGWOOD ’08

Fayette Streets (then known as Lloyd and Pitt), on January 29, 1784, they did so with the intention of forming a school that would provide a “guarded education” for the Quaker children of Baltimore. This was a crucial time in American history: The colonies were barely five months removed from the signing of the Treaty of Paris — the document that officially ended the Revolutionary War — and their future was now more uncertain than ever.

Joseph Townsend, a 28-year-old Pennsylvania transplant, was chosen as Friends’ first schoolmaster. Just six years before moving to Baltimore Town from his native West Chester, the young schoolmaster had witnessed The Battle of Brandywine in person, and it had left a permanent mark — not only on the Pennsylvania countryside, but

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command of General Knyphausen. They landed at the Head of Elk (present-day Elkton), and continued their march northward into Pennsylvania.

According to Townsend, “The news of their landing soon spread throughout the adjacent country, and some were of [the] opinion that a general devastation would be the consequence.” General Washington was aware of the British forces’ arrival, and was trying to position his army so as to arrest the enemy’s progress on its march toward Philadelphia. To that purpose, he ordered a breastwork to be thrown up on the side of Brandywine creek, which helped to bolster his position.

Since the presence of Washington’s forces brought a fair number of sick and wounded

camps, where lower ranking soldiers questioned their presence. Joseph Townsend was determined to see more, so he walked to a fence on a hill, which provided him a sweeping vista of the entire spectacle. He found himself looking into a neighboring field where many of his acquaintances had gathered; only then did he realize that these soldiers were no ordinary rank and file, but rather, the principal officers of the British Army, General Howe included. “As I stood alongside,” Townsend said, “while the officers were in consultation, and we viewing them together with the smoke issuing from the cannon and musketry, we heard a tremendous roaring of cannon and saw the volume of smoke arising from the field.” How unnerving it must have been for Townsend, watching

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Townsend had the ability to recognize that there really was “that of God” in everyone.

as Howe’s army routed Washington’s — standing just a few feet from General Howe himself! And yet, how strangely fitting, that Friends School’s first schoolmaster would have had a front-row seat, as George Washington and his forces went head-tohead with the established power — the fate of a nation hanging in the balance.

It was what Townsend did in the aftermath of the Battle of Brandywine, however, that resonates with everything that Friends School stands for. He and many of the members of Birmingham Meeting went through the field and, one by one, interred all of the casualties who had been left where they fell. “It would be difficult to describe the many cases of horror and destruction of human beings that came under our notice in this undertaking,” Townsend said, “but we accomplished it, though in many instances of a most disagreeable and unpleasant nature.”

During a time of war, when the public divided itself into two categories, labeled solely as “friend” or “foe,” Townsend had the ability to see straight through those labels, and recognize that there really was “that of God” in everyone.

This is the humanity that Townsend took with him wherever he went. He brought it to Baltimore Town in 1783, and passed it onto his students at Friends starting the very next year. In 1789, when he founded the “Maryland Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and for the Relief of Free Negroes, and Others, Unlawfully Held in Bondage,” the first anti-slavery society in Maryland, the fourth in the country, and the sixth in the world — he championed a humanitarian stance at a time when few did, simply because it was the right thing to do.

Friends School’s first schoolmaster left his mark all over the city. Quite literally. Any

building bearing a plaque with two shaking hands and the year ‘1794’ is covered by the Baltimore Equitable Insurance Company — also founded by Townsend. As a city commissioner, during the 1810s, he helped to lay out Baltimore’s modern-day street grid system, to ensure that its expansion would be uniform. He even served on the city’s Board of Health during the terrible yellow fever epidemics of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

But Townsend’s selflessness was not limited to society or board positions. In an apt reprisal of his role at Brandywine, while the citizens of Baltimore were celebrating the city’s expulsion of the British in September of 1814, following the successful defense of Fort McHenry (which inspired Francis Scott Key to pen our “Star-Spangled Banner”), the aged Townsend rode out to the battlefield at North Point and performed his solemn duty of interring the dead once more.

Just a few days removed from the anniversary of the Battle of Brandywine, it must have been on his mind. And now, more than two centuries later, the date of September 11th has taken on a new significance to Americans — one which Townsend never, in his wildest dreams, could have imagined. But like the country as a whole, the strength of the Friends School community endures. We are all a part of a lineage that stretches back to the birth of a nation, and one man’s revolutionary vision. FS James Goldsborough Bigwood ’08 is a research archivist and is Co-Chair of the Friends School Alumni Association Board.

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The 8th grade dance class choreographed and performed a modern piece signifying the Quaker testimonies.

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NIGHT OF THE ARTS COMBINES BEST OF VISUAL ARTS AND DANCE PERFORMANCES Friends families turned out in numbers on April 27, 2016 for back-to-back events celebrating students’ achievements in the visual and performing arts. Billed as Night of the Arts, the evening kicked off with an opening reception for the All-School Art Show.

Featuring works created by students in Pre-K through 12th grade, the annual tour de force engages dozens of faculty, students and parent volunteers who transform the Gymnasium complex into a jaw-dropping gallery space. Families then proceeded to the Forbush Auditorium, where the new stage and lighting effects created a perfect back drop for the Spring Dance Showcase, featuring modern, ballet, jazz and hip-hop pieces by Middle and Upper School dancers and choreographers. FS

The Upper School student-faculty Acoustic Music Club, led by science teacher Bill Hilgartner, once again entertained Art Show visitors. From left, Kirsten Walsh, Renée Audette ’18, Eli Henslee ’17, Lucas Orta ’19, Madison Moore ’17, Dr. Hilgartner, Julianne McFarland ’17, David Heath, Erin Hall ’98 and Shannon Johnson.

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Food trucks, including UpslideDown Dave, the Jolly Pig and Hula Honeys Shave Ice, kept guests happy and well-fed.

Advanced dance students created a dramatic tableau.

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1. Alexei Zehr ’27 and his mom Olga check out the 5th grade family heritage projects.

2. Kennedy Stokes ’24 shows off her work to mom Anikka Stokes.

3. Genesis Williamson ’17 and Mallory Higgins ’17, with Kayleigh Ford ’17 in background, explore artists’ journals.

4. A group from Little Friends Early Learning Center tours the exhibit with teacher “Miss Dee” Nedd-Macintosh.

5. Sakile Nash ’24 and Linda Derengowski take in 4th graders’ watercolor works.

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FROM THE MAKERSPACE The Maker Movement is in full force at Friends, with students and faculty in each division rolling up their sleeves and designing creative solutions to STEAM-based challenges. “This is messy, hands-on, trial-and-error learning,” says MakerSpace Program Coordinator and Upper School art teacher Ramsay Antonio-Barnes. “The level of engagement is high because the students are overseeing each step of the process.” Barnes is collaborating with colleagues across the divisions, including Lower and Middle School Librarians John Scott and Tracy Thompson, science teacher David MacGibeny, Technology Integrator Andy Hanes, art teacher Evan Gifford and others, to integrate STEAM and maker studies into the curriculum and to connect Friends with other schools and organizations in the maker community. Here Collection offers highlights from a year of design thinking, tinkering, experimenting, collaborating, retooling and refining.

The Friends School Destination Imagination Stars celebrate their 6th-place fi nish at States.

DI Stars TAKE 6TH IN STATES After winning 1st place in the North Central Regional Tournament, seven 4th grade girls and boys took 6th place in the April 9 Destination Imagination State Tournament at UMBC. Destination Imagination is an educational nonprofit that fosters creativity, courage and curiosity through open-ended academic challenges in the fields of STEAM and service learning. For their challenge, the “Friends School DI Stars” Working after school, DI Stars prepare researched the 1849 California gold rush, studied for the State competition. the properties of gold compared to pyrite (fool’s gold), and then wrote, produced and performed a mystery story with three different endings. Look for more Destination Imagination teams to crop up in 2017 as students catch the maker fever. New this year: Following in the footsteps of the Upper and Middle divisions, the Lower School now has its very own MakerSpace equipped with all manner of fabrication materials, woodworking tools and audio-visual technology to support their learning across the disciplines.

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Middle Schoolers are using programming and design skills to create a variety of objects, such as this 3-D print of a student’s head.

“LUKE, I AM YOUR FATHER” Middle Schoolers continued to use their time in the MakerSpace experimenting and creating with the lab’s assorted 3-D design and fabrication tools. Once students have gained proficiency with a particular device, they share their learning, and their goofs, during class presentations. This spring Librarian Tracy Thompson engaged students in a 3-D printing challenge in honor of Star Wars Day on May the 4th — as in “May the forth (force) be with you.” Get it? Middle School humor. We love it.

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Students build gray water fi ltration systems in the MakerSpace.

BE OUR GUEST, MAKERS! This spring the Upper School welcomed four distinguished innovators to campus, including MARY MATTINGLY (pictured in black dress, above), a contemporary artist whose newest installation, Swale (swaleny.org), a collaborative floating food forest, is currently traveling through the five New York City boroughs. During her visit Mattingly led a gray water filtration building session for Upper and Middle Schoolers.

ALUMNUS TOM PRICE ’70 led a series of

work sessions on the science, design and mechanics of building a functional boomerang. A veteran craftsman and teacher at the United States Naval Academy, Price has a fine arts degree and shared his unique perspective on how the arts can merge with engineering. FS

Interested students explore artist and musician Neil Feather’s creations.

NEIL FEATHER, whose experimental

musical instruments earned him a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, performed for Upper School students and then held a cross-divisional jam session in the MakerSpace for students and faculty to explore and play some of his music-making inventions.

Ben Jones ’09 puts a whole new spin on Tic-Tac-Toe.

Game designer and alumnus BEN JONES ’09 spoke at Upper School Collection about the methods and logic used in game design.

Afterward he held a Tic-Tac-Toe workshop where students designed, prototyped and tested a new expanded version of the game with over 20 new rules.

Students test their handmade boomerangs with Naval Academy instructor Tom Price ’70.

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ATHLETICS

A WINNING SPRING Friends athletes proved their mettle on the playing fields, courts and links this spring, competing in the girls’ I.A.A.M and boys’ M.I.A.A. Conferences with distinction. The fall 2016 Athletic Season is well underway. View our Varsity, J.V. and Middle School team schedules at friendsbalt.org/school/athletics and join us on the sidelines. GO QUAKERS! Varsity Golf completed an undefeated 8-0 season to claim Friends’ first conference championship in the sport. Speaking on behalf of fellow coach Bill Raitzyk, Paul Levine said, “We are so proud of the players for their efforts all season and for bringing home the championship.” Top: Micah Manning ’16 tees off.

Working under coach Jon Hilzendeger, Varsity Tennis (1-4) developed throughout the season while competing in the challenging A Conference. J.V. tennis (0-7) focused on building fundamentals and discovering individual strengths. Right: Paul Miller ’16 serves.

The Badminton program, under the direction of coaches Tom Buck, Jessica Mateer and Terry Morgenthaler, annually draws high numbers of athletes, and this year was no exception. Fifty-five young women participated at the A Conference Varsity (5-5), J.V. (3-7) and Third Team levels. Far right: Maeve Duke ’16 stretches for an opponent’s shot.

The Baseball program had a challenging season at both Varsity (0-11) and J.V. (1-9) levels. Coaches Brett Linnenkohl and Will Marbury look to build on progress made throughout the season. Pictured at bat, Josh Brooks ’17.

Varsity Softball (3-7) worked hard throughout the season, improving with each game to claim its share of victories. Anna Dorsey ’16, pictured with coach Ken Zalis, heads for second base.

Boys Lacrosse had a strong showing in the B Conference with a 6-3 Varsity record under coach Tom Marechek and a 3-2 J.V. record under coaches (and retired faculty) Rich Seiler ’68 and Randy Cooper. Left: Varsity midfielder Tres Conaway ’18 faces off against a Park School opponent.

With a burgeoning roster, the B Conference Girls Lacrosse program happily fielded both a Varsity (10-6) and a J.V. (4-1) squad led, respectively, by head coaches Mandy Hudson and Judy Turnbaugh. Right: Varsity midfielder Carli Freeman ’18, with back-up from Charessa Crosse ’19, outpowers an I.N.D. opponent.

G O T S P I R I T ? Stay connected to all of your favorite teams by following @Quaker_Nation on Twitter.

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Varsity Cross-Country runners (clockwise from top left) Jack Lubin ’17, Sam Little ’17, Alex Darby ’16 and Dakota Allis ’17

FRIENDS WINS FIRST-EVER CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP

BY JOHN HAMMOND ’70 IN THE MID-1960S, which seems like a lifetime ago, Friends School physical education instructor Ed Morse looked at us 7th graders and said we were going for a run.

Eddie had a distance course in mind. None of us knew much about long runs or pacing; at that age we had one speed setting, which was “all out.” Nevertheless the assignment was given and we set off, exiting the School at Charles Street and flying down Wyndhurst Road — until we hit the steep climb toward Roland. I still recall the agony. Struggling for breath, our legs like jelly, somehow we completed the course. Although we were not on the clock in the 1960s, each of us started out with the intent of completing the route as fast as we could.

Flash forward to November 4, 2015, and a slightly different viewpoint of time dominated the thoughts of the Boys Varsity Cross-Country team: specifically, one hour.

That was the measure of time between when the Quakers completed the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association’s

championship course at Stevenson University, and when the final results were announced, awarding them Friends’ first cross-country championship. “That was the hardest hour of my life — not just of the season,” said Alex Darby ’16, a co-captain of the team. “Cross Country isn’t like other sports where you have a live, updated scoreboard going at all times,” he explained. “You’ll finish your race and you have no idea whether you won or not.”

Jack Lubin ’17, the other co-captain, felt the same anxiety. “It was so close, we couldn’t tell,” he said. Friends’ top runner, Dakota Allis ’17 was also on edge. “I remember I didn’t run that race as I was expected to and when I finished I was nervous — we were all nervous,” he said.

Coach Ken Fowler, a past Maryland State High School individual cross-country champion and former D-I runner at Villanova University, thought the team had potential to take it all. Reflecting on last fall’s pre-season roster, he noted a lot of strong seniors who had returned for the 2015 season;

he soon saw the ability of two new runners who had joined the team. “When I saw how well they could run I thought we’d really have a good shot,” he said. Those runners, Allis and Sam Little ’17, gave the team an even stronger presence at the finish line along with Darby and fellow senior Eli Loeb, Lubin ’17, Nate Vandiver ’17, Ben Sherbakov ’18 and Alex Prichett ’19.

As in all sports a competitive edge is necessary to win titles, yet with this team, the camaraderie also played an important factor.

“Just being with these guys made it easy to want to do well this season,” Lubin said. “It wasn’t ever like, ‘this is going to be so hard.’

We were all there motivating each other. It was a good feeling.”

Allis agreed. “We all pushed each other to do better,” he said. “We weren’t just teammates, we were friends.”

As for the possibility of the school winning back-to-back championships, Fowler says he thinks they can do it — with the help of his returning runners. “If they keep together like this year, if they stay motivated, it should be a really strong season.” FS

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DIVERSITY NOTES

BY PRIYANKA RUPANI

Cyrus Miceli ’16 was actively involved in diversity work at Friends well before I joined the community last fall as Director of Diversity, Equity and Social Justice. A member of the School’s Diversity Council, he was also a Friends School delegate at last year’s NAIS Student Diversity Leadership Conference in Tampa, Fla. So when Cyrus approached me this winter with the idea of serving as my associate director for his Senior Work Project in May, I was naturally excited.

Neither one of us knew exactly what the work would entail or how meaningful it would end up being for us both. Early on, we decided that Friends would host and help facilitate the first annual Middle School Diversity Conference for private and public schools in the Roland Park area. We also determined that, while I would support him in his efforts, this would be Cyrus’s project. From day one, he proved to be an inspirational voice and a leader.

Cyrus Miceli ’16 and peers from area high schools facilitate a break-out session during the Middle School Diversity Conference.

Here, in excerpts from his journal, you’ll see why the world needs what fair-minded and dedicated young people like Cyrus can do.

I spent my third week as Associate Director of Diversity, Equity and Social Justice figuring out logistics for the May 20 Middle School Diversity Conference. With Ms. Rupani’s help, I finished my 12-page facilitator manual; it includes community norms, core cultural identifiers, ice breakers, facilitator tips and FAQ’s. On the day of the conference,

I was a little nervous; I’d never planned anything on this scale before. The students talked honestly about topics like gender fluidity, racial prejudice, and privilege. More importantly, I could see them listening to each other and challenging their own beliefs.

Giving these middle schoolers the means and vocabulary to talk about race, gender and equity was so important and rewarding. I also saw growth in myself: I had organized ideas, communicated with students and professionals and facilitated conversations. I had learned to lead. A year ago, I was too scared and ignorant to get involved. Now I can proudly say that I have worked with social justice advocates, planned a conference and become a student leader of diversity in my community. This work has become my passion and I am excited to see where it takes me. [Editor’s note: Cyrus is enjoying his freshman year at Tufts University, where he plans to remain engaged in diversity work in the community.] FS Middle Schoolers engage in constructive discussions about gender, race and privilege.

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JOIN THE CONVERSATION

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

Friends School hosts Diversity Council meetings four times a year, where parents, faculty, alumni and Upper School students may gather for honest and respectful dialogue, with an emphasis on strengthening community and increasing our cultural understanding.

An Equity and Inclusion Committee meets seven times a year. If you are interested in joining that work please reach out to Priyanka Rupani at prupani@friendsbalt.org or by phone at 410.649.3289.

Diversity Council meetings take place on Monday evenings, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. A light supper is served and childcare is available upon request.

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FRIENDS SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION NEWS THE FRIENDS SCHOOL PARENTS

MLK DAY OF SERVICE 2016 Nearly 400 parents, students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends participated in 15 different service activities during this year’s MLK Jr. Day of Service.

ASSOCIATION continues its legacy of

stewardship on behalf of students and families. Under the leadership of board Chair Peggy Angelone and Vice Chair Laurie Haas, the FSPA in 2015-16 raised approximately $60,000 for academic enrichment, community building and financial assistance for Friends students. The organization is also working to fulfill its $200,000 multi-year commitment to the Setting the Stage campaign in support of the Friends School Mission Fund endowment.

Fundraising, of course, is just part of the FSPA equation. By mobilizing hundreds of parent volunteers, the association helps to smooth the transition for families new to Friends through its Family to Family program; and provides hands-on support for families experiencing crisis through its Family Support Network.

With the 2016-17 school year well underway, the FSPA has a full line up of family-friendly activities for the entire School community. Check the School’s website for a recap of the October 8 Scarlet & Gray Day festivities and look for upcoming information about the 13th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and the FSPA’s signature spring fundraiser, Festival of Friends. FS

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2 1. Middle School parent Bobby Blackwell was among those making cards for patients at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital.

2. Several volunteers painted bowls for the St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore Empty Bowls benefit.

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3. From left, Matt Haas, David Blalock, Sam Haas ’19, Charlie Lebowitz ’19 and Ed Derengowski helped prepare and serve lunch at My Sister’s Place Women’s Center.

4. Sophia ’21, Abby ’21, Jennifer and Adam Rosenberg made blankets for Ronald McDonald House, which provides temporary housing for families of children receiving treatment at area hospitals.

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FESTIVAL OF FRIENDS With a hip downtown venue and a fun Preakness theme, this year’s Festival of Friends on May 21 drew more than 200 parents, alumni, faculty and staff for an evening of live music and dancing. Guests enjoyed delicious fare and an open bar while bidding on live and silent auction items, including one week at Hilton Head Island, a behind-the-scenes private tour at The Walters Art Museum, dinner for six at renowned chef Spike Gjerde’s Parts & Labor, plus such popular Friends School exclusives as Lower School “Librarian for a Day,” student artwork and guitar lessons with Paul Yutzy. FS

Second Chance, a nonprofit building deconstruction and retail outlet, provided an eclectic backdrop for the evening’s festivities.

From left, Bonnie Aubuchon, Clare Berrang, Brigid Peterson and Dave Holmes

From left, Paul Sabundayo, John Evermann and Lydia Dibos

Raggs and the All Stars had the crowd on their feet.

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Standing Ovation SETTING THE STAGE CAMPAIGN INSPIRES RECORD GIVING

THE SUMMER OF 2011: NASA launched the final shuttle of the space program, Hurricane Irene hit the east coast and Friends School began the most ambitious capital campaign in its 227-year history. With an initial goal of $18 million, Setting the Stage focused on three priorities that would allow Friends to grow our endowment, create a performing and visual arts center, and sustain our educational programs through robust annual giving.

From the very beginning, the response from our community was overwhelming:

By June of 2013 we had surpassed our financial aid endowment target and subsequently raised our goal to $20 million;

By December of 2013 we began construction on the Forbush Building one year ahead of schedule and, again, we raised our goal — this time to $23 million; In November of 2014 we received $2.1 million — the largest gift in Friends’ history — from the estate of beloved alumnus Anne Homer Martin ’37; In October of 2015 we announced two matching challenges totaling $1 million from The Brown Family Foundation and from Ozzie and Joe Cowan ’64, allowing us to raise our goal to $25 million; And finally, in 2016 Stephen and Cary Achuff made a $2 million planned gift to Friends that pushed the Setting the Stage campaign over the finish line!

With the campaign’s completion on June 30, 2016, we would like to thank once again the hundreds of dedicated volunteers who helped us to reach and surpass our campaign goal. Look for our final campaign report later this year outlining the community’s generous support to the Setting the Stage campaign. We look forward to sharing our success stories with you. FS

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CHALLENGE MATCHES SPARK RECORD GIVING The second year of the Setting the Stage campaign’s Community Phase was blessed by three extraordinary fundraising challenges. Together, these three efforts motivated our community to answer the call and surpass our $25 million goal. We are forever grateful for the inspiration and generosity of our Board of Trustees and the Brown and Cowan families, whose commitments to match every gift in the 2015-16 school year amplified the impact of over 3,000 donors. “This campaign has proven that when we band together as a community to accomplish something worthwhile, truly remarkable things occur,” says Board of Trustees Chair Trish Backer-Miceli ’83. “Thank you to everyone who participated in our success!”

ACHIEVED

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BROWN FAMILY CHALLENGE

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHALLENGE

We were honored that Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown, through The Brown Family Foundation, issued the first fundraising challenge of the campaign, matching $1 for $1 up to $500,000 gifts directed toward the new Forbush Performing and Visual Arts Center or toward unrestricted annual giving. Additionally, the Browns issued a special $2 for $1 match for alumni from the Classes of 1984 and 1987, of which their daughters Tonya Ingersol ’84 and Jennifer Bunkley ’87 were members, and for families of the Class of 2025, of which their grandson Ben is a member. Hundreds answered the Browns’ call, ultimately generating $1 million in new support. We are grateful to the Brown family for their exceptional commitment Friends.

The third giving challenge came from the Friends School Board of Trustees during the final days of the campaign. The challenge was especially significant because it represented additional financial commitments from Trustees on top of that which they’d pledged early on in the campaign. Every new unrestricted dollar was matched $1 for $1, up to $75,000. The response to the challenge was overwhelming, generating $175,000 for the campaign as old friends and new leaders helped push Setting the Stage across the June 30, 2016 finish line.

ACHIEVED

THE OZZIE AND JOE COWAN ’64 CHALLENGE In November of 2015, Ozzie and Joe Cowan ’64 issued a remarkable $5-to-$1 challenge, matching all gifts up to $500,000, for a scholarship named in memory of classmate Ronald A. Friedberg ’64. Garnering over $100,000, the match was achieved with the generous support of 46 alumni, friends, faculty, current parents and several family members. The newly endowed fund will provide annual scholarship assistance to one or more students of financial need who show promise in theater and the performing arts. Thank you, Ozzie and Joe!

FINAL CURTAIN! This year — indeed, this entire campaign — has been successful beyond our wildest dreams. We reached out to the Friends community for financial support and, time and again, you answered the call. With responsibly renovated educational spaces, a strong and growing financial aid endowment and healthy annual giving, our students are reaping the rewards of your generosity each and every day on our campus. Thank you.

— Ashley Principe

THE GIFT OF A LIFETIME Cary and Steve Achuff supported Friends throughout their children Jeannie Achuff ’96 and Charles Achuff ’99’s educations and continued to do so long after their graduations. Cary, a longtime associate manager at the Quaker Closet, has developed close relationships with many of the parents who volunteer their time at the popular campus bookstore, and she enjoys working with the students who regularly come in to shop and browse or just to chat. With an extraordinary gift of $2-plus million established through a revocable trust, she and Steve have achieved their goal of ensuring that future generations of students will benefit from a Friends School education, just as their own children have.

“We have seen the results of a Friends School education in our children and their friends and we wanted to express our gratitude in as constructive and helpful a manner as possible.

By including Friends as part of our estate planning, we help the School maintain its uniqueness within the independent school community of Baltimore.”

Join the Achuffs and families like them who are including Friends School in their estate planning.

For more information, contact Jocelyn Kehl, Director of Major and Planned Giving, at 410.649.3316 or jkehl@friendsbalt.org.

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PLACES EVERYBODY! Forbush Building renovation elevates educational experience, community life at Friends IN JANUARY, FRIENDS flung wide the doors of its $9 million Performing and Visual Arts Center to the delight of students and faculty who have since made the spaces their own. FS

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STUDENT LEARNING 1. The new center includes two spacious studios, where students study and practice drawing, painting and printmaking.

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2. Ilana Wolchinsky ’18 and art teacher Erin Hall ’98 review proofs in the new photography classroom. The photography program benefits from two labs — one for traditional silver gelatin printing and one for alternative processing.

(See article, p. 10) 3. The new Auditorium features a spacious scene shop and tension grid.

4. The Upper School orchestra, directed by Kirsten Walsh, performs during the May 18 All-School Orchestra Concert. Audiences enjoy excellent views from every seat.

5. Upper Schoolers in the American Government elective conducted a mock election in the Forbush lobby in advance of the April 26 Maryland Primary election.

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COMMUNITY BUILDING 1. As they have for generations, Upper School students and faculty still gather daily in the Auditorium for Collection.

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2. This year’s 5th grade class had the honor of celebrating its promotion on the new Forbush stage.

Here, Elliott Whitman ’23 accepts her certificate from Principal Michelle Holland.

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A TIME TO CELEBRATE The Friends School community celebrated the opening of the new Forbush Center with a January 10 ribbon-cutting ceremony followed, on February 6, by “Oh, the Spaces We’ll Show!” — a Schoolwide celebration featuring musical performances by student ensembles, a “science fair”-style open house with tours of the new spaces and an outdoor party with live music and dancing.

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JANUARY 10, 2016 THE DEDICATION 3. Eddie and Sylvia Brown, with daughter Jennifer Bunkley ’87, son-in-law Darrell Bunkley and grandsons Ben ’25 and Darrell Bunkley, Jr., pose for a family photo.

4. Head of School Matt Micciche delivered his remarks to a standing-room-only audience. Among the seated was Honorary Campaign Co-Chair Shiny Evans ’54, second from left, with grandson Kiefer Yost ’19, son Middleton and daughter-in-law Kristie Evans.

5. Three generations of Forbushes — Norman ’78, Ned ’21 and Byron ’47.

The building’s original dedication plaque to Bliss Forbush, Sr. appears in the background.

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6. Friends School Trustee Barbara Katz and longtime supporter, parent and grandparent Joan Klein.

7. Jane Lancaster ’95, daughter of Gayle L. Latshaw H ’12, in whose memory the building’s lobby is dedicated, with husband Jim and their daughters, Eleanor and Gayle.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2016 “OH, THE SPACES WE’LL SHOW!” 1. From left, Dean Alexander and Donna Schaefer with Technology Integrator Andy Hanes play with some of the user-friendly 3-D design and programming tools available to Lower Schoolers.

2. Katherine Johnson ’16 shares how students in the Upper School automotive physics class build motorized bicycles.

3. Sparkling lights created a festive setting on the Upper School plaza.

4. The Quaketones added their a cappella harmonies to the program.

5. Julia Weinberg ’18 guides guests through the advanced photography exhibit, “LOOK,” in the Katz Gallery.

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PRE-PRIMARY

LOWER SCHOOL

GENERATIONS AT FRIENDS Children and Grandchildren of Alumni 2016-17 Samuel Barber ’17 Natalie Barber ’22 Kathleen Standiford ’81

Michael Deering ’29 Andrea Deering ’82

Logan Hand ’17 Lucy Williams Hand ’80

Scout Latshaw ’27 Scott Latshaw ’87

Henry Blanchard ’24 Diana Fleischer Schofield ’62

Sullivan Farvolden ’28 Adelaide Farvolden ’30 Margo Lauterbach ’93

Eli Henslee ’17 Julia Henslee ’22 Anne Friedlander Henslee ’88

Samuel Little ’17 Sarah Little ’19 Joan Sullivan Little ’82

Benjamin Bunkley ’25 Jennifer Brown Bunkley ’87

Carter Feiss ’18 Christopher Feiss ’80

Zöe Jones-Cohen ’20 Maxfield Brennan ’26 Marcie Jones Brennan ’91

Read Carter ’24 Read Carter ’90

Edward Forbush ’21 Norman Forbush ’78 W. Byron Forbush, II ’47

Charles Mallonee ’20 William Mallonee ’22 Audrey Mallonee ’26 Charles Mallonee ’89

Kyle Christoff ’20 Allison Jensen ’88 Reco Collins ’29 Tiffani Sterrette Collins ’00 Alexander Corvera ’19 Joseph Corvera ’89 Baylee DeSmit ’21 Doug DeSmit ’80

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Lila Frost ’22 Elisa Shorr Frost ’88 Allison Goldbloom ’18 Bradley Goldbloom ’84 Henry Griffith ’20 John Griffith ’81 James Hardin ’23 Amy Margolis Hardin ’82

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Jacob Kahl ’29 Sarah Barr Kahl ’95 Noah Klein ’19 Joseph Klein, III ’79 Joseph Klein, Jr. ’49 Kayla Kurtz ’21 Susan Rugemer Kurtz ’58 Ana Lane ’21 Nicholas Lane ’27 Rebecca Rossello ’92

Mason Marchetti ’20 Julian Marchetti ’21 Robert Marchetti ’81 Alexandra Miceli ’18 Trish Backer-Miceli ’83 Daniel Millspaugh ’17 Nicholas Millspaugh ’20 Rachel Millspaugh ’23 Sarah Johnston Millspaugh ’88

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MIDDLE SCHOOL

Katherine Monk ’24 Harrison Monk ’29 Gage Monk ’92 Linda LaMonica Monk ’63 William Mortimer ’17 Mary Charlotte Mortimer ’20 Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer ’87 Henry Mortimer ’58 Charles Ney ’21 Melanie Jensen Ney ’85 Peter Ney ’85 Annabelle Ward ’20 Ben Pollak ’99 Alexander Prichett ’19 Zachary Prichett ’21 Olivia Prichett ’26 Stephen Prichett ’87 Alice Riley ’23 Reed Riley ’80

Helena Saunders ’19 David Saunders ’89 Axel Scheidle ’29 Claude Marbaix Scheidle ’92

UPPER SCHOOL

Anthony Smith ’23 Benjamin Smith ’23 Mary Adolph Smith ’82 Hope Haggett Adolph ’43

Jacob Schindler ’17 Susan Bradford Schindler ’83

Asuman Smith ’25 Amar Smith ’30 Ali Smith ’94

Sander Schulhoff ’20 Sevien Schulhoff ’23 Stephen Schulhoff ’84

Tara Smith Wallace ’24 Brayden Smith ’28 Erika Smith ’93

Nicholas Shay ’18 Constance Naden Shay ’82

Max Steinbach ’25 Samuel Steinbach ’86

Benjamin Sherbakov ’18 Elias Sherbakov ’20 Thora Johnson ’88

Zeke Texter ’18 Eli Texter ’23 John Texter ’83

Gabrielle Sklar ’20 Brandon Sklar ’22 Ellie Goldbloom Sklar ’87

Margaret Valle ’22 Josh Valle ’89

Jackson Roberts ’17 Philip Roberts ’81

Zachary Smith ’19 Quinlan Smith ’22 Burck Smith ’88

Paige Saudek ’22 Mark Saudek ’85

Sarah Smith ’20 Evelyn Luebbers Smith ’54

Anna Wallengren ’22 Susanne Schoppert Wallengren ’89 Elie Walsh ’23 Axel Walsh ’28 Lucien Walsh ’88 Bo Whiteford ’21 W. Craig Whiteford ’87 William Whiteford ’57 Keelty Wyatt ’18 Ben Lucas, II ’59 Winslow Yost ’17 Kiefer Yost ’19 Sally Evans Yost ’77 Anne Black Evans ’54

SEE THESE PICTURES AND MANY MORE!

Visit Friends’ Flickr page at flickr.com/photos/friendsbalt.

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The Friends School of Baltimore Alumni Association welcomes its newest members … the Class of 2016

THE CLASS OF 2016 COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES AND MATRICULATIONS University of Alabama Alfred University (2) Allegheny College (2) AMDA - College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts* Arcadia University University of Arizona (2) University of Baltimore Bates College (2)* Bay State College Berkeley College NYC Midtown Location Berklee College of Music* Boston College (3)* Boston University (3)* Brandeis University University of British Columbia Brown University* Bucknell University (2) University at Buffalo University of California, Berkeley (3)* University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles University of California, San Diego University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz Carleton College Case Western Reserve University (3)* The Catholic University of America* Chapman University College of Charleston Clark Atlanta University (2)*

Clemson University Coastal Carolina University* Colby College Colgate University College of William and Mary* University of Colorado at Boulder (4) Colorado College* Columbia College Chicago Connecticut College University of Connecticut (2) Cornell University Davidson College (2)* Dean College* University of Delaware (7) Denison University University of Denver (2)* Dickinson College* Drexel University (2)* Duke University Elizabethtown College Elon University (7)* Emerson College Emory University (2)* Fisher College University of Florida Fordham University (2) Franklin and Marshall College (2)* George Mason University The George Washington University (2)* Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology University of Georgia Gettysburg College (3)* Gonzaga University Goucher College (2)* Hamilton College High Point University*

Hobart and William Smith Colleges Hofstra University (2) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Indiana University at Bloomington* Ithaca College (4) James Madison University (4)* Johns Hopkins University (4)* University of Kentucky (2)* Lawrence University Lewis & Clark College LIM College (Laboratory Institute of Merchandising)* Loyola University Maryland (3) University of Maryland, Eastern Shore University of Maryland, Baltimore County (6)* University of Maryland, College Park (18)* University of Massachusetts, Amherst McDaniel College (2) McGill University* University of Miami (4)* Michigan State University* University of Michigan (3)* Middlebury College (2)* University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2) Morehouse College* Morgan State University * Mount Saint Mary’s University* Muhlenberg College (2) University of New Hampshire at Durham University of New Haven* The College of New Jersey

New York University (2)* University of North Carolina at Asheville University of North Carolina at Wilmington (3)* Northeastern University (11)* Oberlin College Oberlin Conservatory of Music* Occidental College Ohio University University of Oregon Pace University, New York City Pennsylvania State University (2) Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg University of Pennsylvania (2)* University of Pittsburgh (2)* Pitzer College* Pomona College* Purdue University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2)* Rice University University of Richmond Rider University Rochester Institute of Technology University of Rochester (4)* Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick Saint Mary’s College of California Saint Michael’s College Salisbury University (5)* University of San Francisco (2)* Santa Clara University Sarah Lawrence College (2) Seattle University Skidmore College (2)* University of South Carolina (3)* Southern Methodist University*

St. Lawrence University St. Mary’s College of Maryland (3) St. Olaf College Stony Brook University SUNY Fredonia Susquehanna University* Syracuse University (6)* The University of Tampa (4)* Temple University The New School (2) Towson University (5)* Tufts University (3)* Tulane University Ursinus College* Vanderbilt University University of Vermont (10)* Virginia State University Wabash College Warren Wilson College Washington and Lee University Washington College Washington University in St. Louis University of Washington Webster University Wesleyan University* West Virginia University Wheaton College (Mass.)

Whittier College (2)* Widener University College of William and Mary* University of Wisconsin, Madison (3)* The College of Wooster York College of Pennsylvania

(#) indicates number of seniors accepted, if more than one. * indicates that a Class of 2016 alum is attending

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GENERATIONS AT FRIENDS Included in the Class of 2016 were five legacies, students whose parents or grandparents attended Friends School. Pictured from left are Class of 2016 alumni Paige Shephard, with her dad, Michael Shephard ’79; Manuel Binford, with his mom, Dahira Lievano-Binford ’81; Jordan Ball, with his dad, George Ball ’82; Alexandra Whiteford, with her grandfather, Bill Whiteford ’57, and her dad, Craig Whiteford ’87; and Julia MacGibeny, with her mom, Lisa Lott MacGibeny ’85, grandmother Clarinda Harriss ’56 and Clarinda’s partner Tom McClain ’56. FS

COMMENCEMENT 2016 The 93 members of the Class of 2016 accepted their diplomas on Tuesday, June 7 before a joyful audience. Carol Sieck H’16, newly retired after 27 years of teaching at Friends, delivered the commencement address. “You are under the impression that you know exactly what will come next,” she told the class. “You are wrong, or at least I hope you are.” FS

Awaiting the start of the ceremony are, from left, Sonya Zejmis, Eden Anonye and Tilly Cornblatt.

Josef Zeller receives his diploma from Head of School Matt Micciche.

From left, Séamus Woods, Mark Johnson, Micah Manning, Kevin Oestreicher, Ryan Gomes, Cyrus Miceli and George Porter.

The graduates process from the dais.

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Birdman

FOR PETER KAESTNER ’71, LIFE IS ONE GREAT ADVENTURE

BY PETER KIRCHGRABER

PETER KAESTNER ’71 is a biologist at heart

and a diplomat by profession, a rare bird who has deftly woven two of his consuming passions — public service and ornithology — into a long and distinguished career at the State Department, traveling the world in the service of his country, while building an ever-growing list of more than 8,500 bird species that he has seen in the wild. In the process, he’s become one of the world’s top ten birders, and has even had a new species of bird named in his honor: Grallaria kaestneri, which he discovered in 1989.

Born in Baltimore, Peter was the selfdescribed “black sheep” of a family steeped in lacrosse: His father was a Lacrosse Hall-ofFamer, and three of his brothers — Hank ’63, Reed ’66 and John ’68 — were AllAmericans. (Hank is also in the Lacrosse Hall of Fame). Peter played, too, and captained his freshman team at Cornell, but his abiding interests lay elsewhere. He was a science guy from the word “go.”

Peter credits his Friends School education with instilling habits of mind that have guided his work as a diplomat and conservationist.

Early on, Peter hung around the chemistry lab after school, making himself useful while he waited to catch a ride home with his backdoor neighbor, Bliss Forbush, Jr. ’40, who chaired the Friends School Science Department. In 5th grade, he became so proficient at the “unknown chemicals” test

that Mr. Forbush kept him out of the lab when it was administered to juniors and seniors.

His Middle School science teacher was another early mentor. “Mr. Bush worked hard to develop my interest in science. I still have the college ornithology textbook he gave me when I was in 7th grade: The Life of Birds. He was a fantastic example of what you want to see in a teacher.”

When Peter graduated from Cornell in 1976, biology degree in hand, he considered going on for a Ph.D. in ornithology, or finding work with an international company, so he could travel the world and add to his life list. Instead, he spent two years in northeastern Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) as a Peace Corps volunteer, training science teachers and volunteering in the lab at the local hospital, just as the first Ebola cases were emerging.

It was a pivotal experience: “In the Peace Corps, I realized that I wanted to live overseas and get paid for it, and I liked the idea of helping people. It goes back to the Quaker values of caring for others and their welfare.”

Peter joined the Foreign Service in 1980, and immediately put his science background to work, negotiating the Migratory Bird Treaty, an effort to balance the interests of American recreational hunters with those of First Nations people in the Canadian Arctic, for whom hunting was a way of life. The groups had been at odds for years, their differences seemingly irreconcilable. Peter’s international reputation in the birding world gave him credibility in both camps, and helped him break the logjam. With Peter’s scientific input, the team, led by the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Molly Beatty, devised a framework to preserve wild bird populations for the use of both groups.

Since then, Peter has represented U.S. interests in India, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Colombia, Malaysia, Namibia, Guatemala, Brazil, Egypt, Afghanistan and Germany — and learned 13 new languages along the way. He credits his Friends School education with instilling habits of mind that have guided his work as a diplomat and conservationist. “They were never enumerated this way when I was at Friends, but the light went on in my brain when I saw a poster in the Upper School, listing five habits of mind that are foundational for the School: curiosity, creativity, empathy, resilience, and reflectiveness. That’s Quaker education in a nutshell, and I’m grateful to have had the experience.” FS

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More than 600 alumni and guests returned to Friends May 5-8 for Alumni Weekend. The renovated Forbush Building provided the backdrop for the festivities, which included Reunion gatherings for class years ending in 1 and 6.

Visit fl ickr.com/friendsbalt and click Albums to see photos from Alumni Weekend 2016.

THURSDAY, MAY 5

Thursday, May 5 ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTION Alumni Weekend kicked off inside the Forbush Auditorium with the 12th annual Friends School Athletic Hall of Fame Induction.

Mike Lurie ’81 served as master of ceremonies, as 22 individuals, one coach and two teams — 1945 and 1985 Varsity Football — were officially welcomed into the Hall of Fame’s Class of 2016.

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1. Members of the 1945 Varsity Football team 2. Jonah Haas ’16, Regina Easley and inductee Phil Merrill ’81 3. Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer ’87, inductee Katie Hearn ’81 and Natalie Santos Ferguson ’90 4. David Holder ’91’s family and friends accepted his award in his memory 5. Members of the 1985 Varsity Football team on stage

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THURSDAY, MAY 5

Thursday, May 5 ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTION (CONTINUED) 2016 INDIVIDUAL INDUCTIONS John P. David ’56

Gretchen Dickinson

James E. Smith ’56

Ann B. Canedy ’66

Katherine A. Hearn ’81

C. Reed Kaestner ’66

Philip J. Merrill ’81

Stephen L. Lynch ’66

Kathleen N. Standiford ’81

Julia A. Metcalf ’66

Dawn L. Feliciano ’91

Arnold J. Capute ’71

David L. Holder ’91*

Douglas B. Pfeiff er ’71

Polly Breyer Kimberly ’91

G. Henry Entwisle ’76

Kyle C. Swann ’91

Perry M. Reifl er ’76

Daniel Muñoz ’96

Steven B. Stuart ’76

Claire Mikolayunas

Keith D. Tabatznik ’76

Trimble ’76

Sandrock ’96

The 1945 Football team

2016 TEAMS 1945 Football Team

Roger W. Hughes ’86

Charles P. Blackburn ’46*

John W. Johnson ’87

stepped up to share memories of the 1945 Football Team. Here, we share excerpts from those heartfelt remarks.

Robert W. Catzen ’46

Wendell B. Leimbach ’88

John E. Cremeans ’46

Robert S. Lewis ’86

I am the self-appointed representative of a group of fun-loving 17- and 18-year-olds from 70 years ago. In 1945, you cannot imagine how improbable it was that we would be participating in this [sport]. Starting with the basics: Eleven players are needed for a football team. The Class of 1946 included 33 seniors, of which nine were boys. Of the nine, just seven were big enough to play football. That meant the team had to be filled out with juniors and sophomores, which it was. Coed Friends schools in Baltimore and Washington were outliers in an all-boys league.

Further, ours was not a physically big high school team; compared to the public high school I had transferred from, our team was small. Other than Mead, Blackburn and Santmeyer, I doubt any of us weighed over 165 pounds. In those years, each player had an offensive and defensive role and was expected to play the entire game. With a bench of two Varsity players, and a couple JV for backup, there were few substitutions.

Nevertheless, we won all of our league games against all-boys teams, beating Severn 21-6, Landon, St. Andrews, Tower Hill, St. James, Tome and coed Sidwell Friends. It was a time of leather helmets, no face masks, high-top shoes and one uniform; a gray jersey with red numbers.

To our knowledge, all of the team that is still living is here today except Sonny Ness. On behalf of those teammates still standing, I will close by thanking the selection committee for this invitation and by quoting from the great World War II comedian Bob Hope’s theme song: “Thanks for the Memories” — thanks for bringing us and our families together at Friends School for one more proud moment under the lights. Thank you so very, very much. FS

Franklin S. Fiske ’47*

Leland S. MacPhail ’87

W. Byron Forbush ’47

Charles E. Moylan ’86

William P. Geary ’47

Daniel P. Moylan ’88

John M. Jones ’47

K. Richard Pfrommer ’86

Charles P. McCormick ’46

Christopher M. Preston ’86

Henry T. Mead ’46

Jonathan W. Sacks ’87

Hal M. Ness ’46

Jonathan D. Siegel ’86

Alvin Santmyer ’46*

Wilbur T. Simmons ’86

Guy S. Shipley ’48*

Shawn P. Turner ’86

Henry R. Trapnell ’47*

Jason J. Underwood ’87

ONE OF THE EVENING’S HIGHLIGHTS came when Bob Catzen ’46

LaVeda Devone ’87 1985 Football Team

Matthew S. Baum ’86

Bob Greene (Coach)

Timothy R. Dietz ’88*

Thomas P. LaMonica ’67

George N. Dimitri ’86

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John W. Ester ’87 Troy D. Gordon ’88 John B. Graybill ’86 Michael S. Hoff man ’86 Rodney B. Hughes ’86

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FRIDAY, MAY 6

Friday, May 6 ALUMNI WEEKEND CRAB FEAST The first Annual Alumni Weekend Crab Feast attracted some 200 guests who gathered to crack crabs and pay tribute to Randy Cooper and Carol Sieck, this year’s Honorary Alumni. FS

From left, Ethan Cohen ’86, Joe Corvera ’89, Tom Binford, Nico Binford ’13, Melissa Feliciano ’86 and Nina Feliciano

From left, 2009 pals at the Crab Feast: Kelly Dayton, Kurt Herzog, Ben Gilstein, Paula Senft, Marrio Davis and Chris Holter

From left, Nicole Runde ’06, Katie Minton ’06, Tom Minton, Mary Jo Minton, Jeb Cook ’06, Owen Baron ’06, Dan Mesa, Kaitlin Boswell ’06 and Harry Boswell ’70

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Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7 MILESTONE 50TH AND 25TH REUNIONS 50th Reunion The Class of 1966 gathered at the Zamoiski Alumni Center on Friday, May 6 for a celebratory dinner, where they presented Head of School Matt Micciche with their class gift — a check for more than $19,000 for the Setting the Stage campaign. Jac Knust ’66 served as the evening’s master of ceremonies. The festivities continued the following night with dinner at the home of Bruce ’66 and Suzie Bell Manger ’67.

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The Class of 1991 gathered for a photo on Saturday evening, May 7 during the cocktail reception at Friends. Afterward, the 25th Reunioners took the festivities to their old hangout, Ryan’s Daughter in Belvedere Square.

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Saturday, May 7 HALF-CENTURY SOCIETY BREAKFAST Fiftieth and post-50th Reunion alumni gathered in the Zamoiski Alumni Center for a cheery breakfast and casual conversation with Head of School Matt Micciche. FS

Above: Kathy Harlan Yeager ’66, Pat Draisey ’66, Nina Lasagna Patry ’66, Jac Knust ’66 and Julia Metcalf ’66 Left: Bruce Manger ’66, Bob Heaton ’56, Ann Heaton, Patricia Hurrelbrink Michel ’66 and Mary Patternotte Sully ’66

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Saturday, May 7 BACK TO THE CLASSROOM Guests chose from three different educational sessions — a birding expedition led by National Reunion Co-Chair and nationally recognized ornithologist Peter Kaestner ’71 and Upper School science teacher Bill Hilgartner; an interactive chocolate lesson with Lower School teachers Carol Sieck and Judy Sandler; and an infectious diseases exploration with Middle School science teacher Andy Spawn. FS

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4. Brothers Peter ’71 and Hank ’63 Kaestner get ready to spot some birds.

ALUMNI OF COLOR GATHERING Alumni and students of color gathered at the Head of School’s House to reflect on and compare their Friends experiences and to explore future opportunities for engagement and dialogue.

Above: Janelle Milam Schmidt ’96, Justine Alger Forrester ’98, Shelley Coates Stein ’87, Mabel Miyasaki ’56 and Tom Layton Left, from left: Frank Bond ’69, Madalynn Williams ’16, Emily Diehl ’06, Ouranitsa Abbas ’06 and Chinezi Ihenatu ’11

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Saturday, May 7 29TH ANNUAL ROBERT A. “MR. NICK” NICOLLS BULL ROAST The annual Mr. Nick Bull Roast featured a delicious buffet followed by award presentations to Tim Hearn ’78 and Suzy Katzenberg ’64, recipients, respectively, of this year’s Distinguished Alumnus and Alumni Service Awards. National Reunion Co-Chairs Mabel Miyasaki ’56 and Peter Kaestner ’71 addressed the crowd and presented Reunion giving awards to the Class of 1956 for highest participation and to the Class of 1981 for the largest gift to Friends. FS

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5. From left, Dee Hammer, Jack Hugg ’46 and Steve Lynch ’66 6. National Reunion Co-Chair Mabel Miyasaki ’56 speaks passionately about her beloved alma mater 7. Members of the Class of 1981 were presented with the Reunion Gift Fundraising cup. From left, Mabel Miyasaki ’56, Rob Patterson, Head of School Matt Micciche, Katie Hearn, David Buschman and National Reunion Co-Chair Peter Kaestner ’71

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REUNION RECEPTION This year’s Alumni Weekend Cocktail Reception drew a record crowd of more than 275 guests for fellowship, light fare and class photos followed by the Distinguished Alumna Award presentation to Dr. Deborah Frank ’66. FS

A group of ’96ers smile for a shot on Saturday evening.

2016 Distinguished Alumna Award recipient Deborah Frank ’66 and her niece, Rebecca Berkowitz ’06, who presented the award, with Head of School Matt Micciche

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Alumni gather to watch Deborah Frank receive her award

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F R I E N D S S C H O O L 2 0 1 6 A LU M N I A S S O C I AT I O N AWA R D S The Alumni Association recognized five individuals during Alumni Weekend for their outstanding contributions to the School and to the greater community. award to Cooper along with Middle School colleague and longtime friend John Watt.

Carol Sieck

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The accolades began on Friday, May 6 with a crab feast, where retired faculty Randy Cooper and Carol Sieck were named Honorary Alumni.

DESCRIBING CAROL SIECK as a “servant leader, who shares herself with her students,” Head of School Matt Micciche inducted the 27-year veteran Friends teacher as an honorary member of the Class of 2016 to the cheers of many families, students and colleagues, past and present. So sought after was Sieck among parents of rising 3rd graders, Micciche quipped, that even he vied on his children’s behalf for a seat in her homeroom. “Some people think I convinced Carol to stay an extra year so that she could teach our daughter.” Her admission to the rolls of alumni puts Sieck on equal footing with her husband Clay ’68 and their three sons, Will ’95, Dan ’99 and David ’01, all of whom are graduates of the School.

FORMER MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHER AND COACH RANDY COOPER was set to receive the Honorary Alumnus Award in May 2015, a tribute that coincided with his retirement from the School after 44 years of service. When Alumni Weekend festivities were moved to October and Cooper was unable to attend, the Alumni Office proposed that he accept his award alongside the 2016 Honorary Alumna, Carol Sieck. Cooper leapt at the opportunity as it marked the 40th Reunion of the Class of 1976 – the very first class he taught; anywhere! Cooper joined the Friends faculty right out of college. “I still remember my interview with Byron,” he told the audience.

“He asked two questions: ‘Will you coach?’ and ‘Will you go camping?’ I answered yes to both and I was hired!” Fittingly, Steve Stuart, a member of the Class of ’76, presented the

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remarked, naming the Baltimore Community Foundation, the Associated Jewish Charities, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Goldseker Foundation and the House of Ruth, as just a few of the worthwhile organizations she supports. At Friends she has served on the Board of Trustees’ Finance Committee since 1993, has established the Susan B. Katzenberg Fund for Girls, and has been instrumental in the success of Setting the Stage, mobilizing classmates and others to support the effort.

The presentations continued on Saturday, May 7 as Dr. W. Byron Forbush, II ’47, Friends’ Headmaster from 1960 to 1998, presented the Distinguished Alumnus Award to Tim Hearn ’78, and Head of School Matt Micciche presented the 2016 Alumni Service to Suzy Katzenberg ’64.

“MY TIES TO TIM HEARN GO BACK TO HIS DAYS AS A STUDENT and especially as an athlete,” Dr. Forbush told the audience. “I’ve seen him go from the athletic field to the board room and in every instance, wherever he went, he brought excellence.” A senior managing director of Jones Lang LaSalle, Hearn was most recently CEO of Colliers International in Baltimore and, prior to that, was a longtime partner at KLNB. His professional honors include “Commercial Realtor of the Year” and “Unique Transaction of the Year.”

But it’s how he has used his professional success to benefit others that speaks to his character, says Forbush. “Tim has a fundamental belief in giving back to one’s community and he has done so admirably.” Hearn serves on numerous boards, including those of Sheppard Pratt Health System, the Maryland Hospital Association, Stella Maris and his alma mater, Friends, where his contributions to the Development and Finance Committees, and his leadership on numerous capital campaigns, including its most recent, have helped secure the School’s future.

A LIFER AT FRIENDS WHO ATTENDED THE SCHOOL FOR 13 YEARS, Suzy Katzenberg ’64 credits her community activism to Friends’ strong tradition of service and the fact that she’s a “self-proclaimed child of the ’60s.” “Essentially, Suzy has served on every board of trustees in Baltimore that you can imagine,” Matt Micciche

Dr. Deborah Frank ’66

The final presentation took place during the evening reception, when Rebecca Berkowitz ’06, whose class was marking their 10th Reunion, introduced her aunt, Dr. Deborah Frank ’66, to the gathering.

A CLINICIAN, RESEARCHER, MENTOR AND ADVOCATE, DR. DEBORAH FRANK ’66 has built a career addressing food insecurity and the economic and social challenges facing the very young during this critical stage in their cognitive and physical development. Founder and principle investigator of Children’s HealthWatch, Frank is also Director of the Grow Clinic For Children at the Boston Medical Center, and a professor of child health and well-being at Boston University School of Medicine.

Frequently called to testify before federal and state legislators on the effects of food insecurity in children, her accolades include the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps Embracing the Legacy Award (2014), and the Congressional Hunger Center’s Leadership Award (2014), to name but two. Gathering with her class earlier in the day, Frank spoke openly about how Friends reinforced her parents’ message to serve others. FS

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REGIONAL ALUMNI GATHERINGS Alumni, faculty and friends gathered in Baltimore, New York, Boston and D.C. to reconnect, share memories and learn about what’s happening at Friends School.

BALTIMORE Local alumni gathered at The BoatHouse Canton on November 12, 2015 1. From left, Amy Iwota Darrow ’84, Joe Corvera ’89, Chris Vaughn ’89 and Jen Asplen Little ’89

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2. From left, the Class of ’14’s Michael Latman, Iman Said and Ugochi Ihenatu

WASHINGTON, D.C. On May 22 Alumni enjoyed a VIP tour of the Newseum with museum producer Frank Bond ’69.

Frank Bond ’69 leads the group.

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Friends alumni gathered at Beth Lewand ’89’s Brooklyn shop, Eastern District (not pictured), and at The Gander in Manhattan.

Alumni gathered in Beantown on May 24 at Gather Bar From left, Terry Hunt, Gale Pyles Hunt ’70, Bill Forbush ’75 and Head of School Matt Micciche

1. From left, Nick Silbergeld ’04, Kate Koppelman Callahan ’04, Caki Zamoiski Halprin ’02, John Levin ’00 and John Lovejoy ’00 at The Gander 2. John Maclay ’86, left, and Rob Berman ’88

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Henry Trapnell. Another wonderful highlight of the weekend for the Class of 1946 was Saturday’s Mr. Nick BBQ. There was a nice showing of the class for a group photo and a fun afternoon of catching up.

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Save the Date! Alumni Weekend 2017 and 75th Reunion Celebration: May 4-7, 2017

What a treat to see members of the Class of 1946 back at Friends! This was a special year for the 70th Reunion class, as several members were a part of the 1945 football team, which was inducted into the Friends School Athletic Hall of Fame during Alumni Weekend. Bob Catzen, a member of the team, was instrumental in encouraging attendance among his classmates and Friends’ friends and also made memorable remarks on behalf of the team. Many thanks to Bob! The audience in the auditorium cheered as the following members of the 1945 team were acknowledged: Bob Catzen, Jack Cremeans, Byron Forbush ’47, Bill Geary ’47, Jack Jones ’47, Buzz McCormick, Henry Mead, Hall Ness and, posthumously, Pete Blackburn, Franklin Fiske ’47, Alvin Santmyer, Guy Shipley ’48 and

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1948 Dan Peacock passed away this spring. Longtime friend John David ’56 wrote to share some memories about Dan and his family, with whom John was close. “When I was in the ninth grade and Danny Peacock was at Duke, I lived for a while with his parents, Larry and Junie.

They put me up in Danny’s bedroom, and I immediately noticed the unusual adaptation that had been built into his bed area. The room side wall was notched and two stacked bunk beds had been inserted accordingly. The

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BOB CATZEN ’46, who recently retired from his windsurfing hobby, caught a wave in Avon,

N.C. just before his 81st birthday!

end of the bed notch was a common wall for Danny’s closet. As Danny grew taller he was no longer able to fit into the space provided in the notch, and his feet began to hit the closet wall at the end of the bed. So, in a pragmatic move, his parents had a rectangular hole cut into the closet wall and boxed in. When I arrived on the scene, there was Danny’s bed with a six-inch extension box built into the closet wall to accommodate his feet. I thought it was a hoot. His mother had a framed photograph of him in the living room.

He was posed in a bathing suit with a fierce scowl on his face and his arms crossed over his chest. His head had been shaved down to his scalp on the left and right sides, and running through the center of his scalp, front to back, was a tuft of hair that made him look like an Indian brave on the warpath. The night before D-Day, Gen. Eisenhower interviewed members of

the 82nd Airborne who were about to jump into Normandy on June 6. There is a famous picture of the general smiling and talking with those young men before they boarded their planes, and they all had the same Mohawk haircut Danny was displaying in his picture.”

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1952 Susanne Davis Emory vermontsue@aol.com Save the Date! Alumni Weekend 2017 and 65th Reunion Celebration: May 4-7, 2017 Clay and I had a fabulous trip to Australia and New Zealand this past winter. We were in Sydney for Australia Day, which is like our 4th of July. (It also happened to be my birthday.) The day was glorious with dancing, shows and food, topped off with fireworks.

Then we had a similar event in New Zealand for Waitangi Treaty Day. Featured were the Maori people with their 100 manned canoes, dancing on the beach and a 21-gun salute from a warship in the harbor. I had to keep reminding myself that I was halfway around the world. I hope everyone enjoyed their 60th college reunions.

Our 65th Friends Reunion is next year, the first weekend in May.

1953 This class needs a secretary.

If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.

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1954 This class needs a secretary.

If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.

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1955 Pat Peake Tisdale glent24@aol.com Twice a year, I have the greatest pleasure of reconnecting with everyone in the class who has an email address known to Friends School. As I type my request for your news, I think about you, our time together at school and the memories we share of those halcyon days before adult responsibilities set in. It’s great fun on my part, and many thanks to you who have responded. Page Singlewald Williams checked in during the Maryland blizzard in January, concerned about conditions and survival mode in the Mid-Atlantic. It’s

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just the best that she is still on our class roster, and thanks to Pat Fiol Morrill for inviting her to our 50th Reunion. Page celebrated her 78th birthday in April and is probably the youngest in the class. She has two sons, lives in Houston and hopes to “age in place” in her one-story home.

Lynn Bahlke Mills and I keep in touch with her phone calls and my emails.

Glenn and I tracked her down in the Mills’ charming townhouse in Abbottsford, Canada when we were on the West Coast 11 years ago. Lynn and Barry celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this May 18 with their three daughters in Vancouver. (She must have been the first one in the class to marry. I recall going with Ellie Johnson Dubblede to the Baltimore train station to see her off with her father to meet Barry in Pensacola, Fla., for the May wedding.) Lynn writes, “I feel incredibly fortunate to have found the love of my life at such a young age and treasure the long and interesting life we have enjoyed together. In reflecting back, I am also reminded of my good fortune in having attended Friends School from third to 12th grade. What a wonderful educational experience.

I keep up my lap swimming and am into my seasonal project of gardening with about 50 containers on my deck and tutoring special education students. Our girls are good. Tracey, an extremely successful Interior designer and house-staging consultant in Vancouver, recently won a trip to the furniture convention in High Point, N.C. She and her husband David were in Paris for several weeks in June, and

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daughter Shannon and her husband Dov love living in Nanimo, Calif., where Shannon juggles three jobs — as a librarian, in sales for computer GPS and as a private school teacher. Carolyn is a top sales person as a design associate at Country Furniture in a busily trafficked area of Vancouver.

She and Tracey often work together with clients.” Lynn has five grandchildren, four living in Canada and one granddaughter recently married to an American and living in Seattle. I have enjoyed my contacts with Gil Cohen over the years. He and I share a very fond connection to the Class of 1955.

Gill writes, “My third grandson graduates from the University of Maryland in May and heads for Romeoville, Ill., to become a distribution supervisor for Amazon. Wife Pat celebrates her 65th birthday in June, and we leave for the U.K. in May to be with family and friends. Then, it’s on to Belgium for a few days of our own. In late June, we leave for Wimbledon for three days, then on to Italy (our favorite) for 14 days. In December, we are off to Australia. Sort of a bucket list item, as many people we have known have had health issues recently, so it is time. My family is doing OK, and I’m still working full time when I’m not traveling. This being Pat’s special year, we are trying to shove it all in.

Best wishes to all classmates.” Pat Fiol Morrill continues to direct the ladies ’55 class monthly lunches as she has done since our 50th Reunion. She, Robin Biddison Dodd, Lolly Crowther Schorrek, Iris Windsor McFaul, Ginny Pearce Mitchell and I, along with

Diane Lee ’56, meet somewhere for lunch, year after year. Pat writes, “Bill and I are being kept extremely busy with lacrosse season upon us. Six of our eight grandchildren play lacrosse, and one plays tennis. We are trying to see as many of their games as possible, even as far away as Connecticut.

Next year, we will have grand kids at Georgetown, Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. I guess we will be doing a lot of traveling. We also have gotten a puppy. What were we thinking? I had forgotten how much work and patience it takes to raise a puppy.

We call him Charlie; he is a delight and makes us feel 10 years younger. I have gone back to Matt Zoll’s Art School to continue oil painting. It feels good to get back to my favorite pastime. Bill still plays tennis several times a week and has lunch each week with his ‘old lacrosse buddies.’ We send our best to all of our Friends classmates.” I have enjoyed email contacts and working with Bob Kriel on reunions for our class. He, like Gil Cohen, is a great supporter of 1955. Bob says that he and Linda are doing fairly well. Linda had her second total knee replacement. Added together, our class has four new knees. We have recently returned from a week in Port Aransas/ Corpus Christi, Texas, where we had joined a group for bird watching. It is a fantastic location for this time of year.

With the help of the group leaders, we saw 140 species of birds, including the whooping cranes. I have added another volunteer activity: helping to teach inner-city children how to read. For me the biggest challenge is redirecting

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their distractible behavior. The experience certainly gives me an even greater appreciation for our teachers.

The last time I caught up with Al Seivold, he was moving between two houses, one in the Adirondacks and the other in Murrells Inlet, S.C. I know both locations and was interested in how he was finding the annual migration. He writes, “Cathie and I have sold our log home in the Adirondacks and are now year-round Murrells Inlet residents. We finally gave up on the long winters and shoveling snow. We seem to have settled into a laid-back lifestyle of gardening, reading novels and watching TV sports and Netflix.

We walk two to three miles a day for exercise and still travel occasionally to visit our children and grandchildren.

For our 50th anniversary last fall, we took a cross-country road trip to see many historical and natural sights, including the Arch in St. Louis, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse memorials, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.”

Al also says, “I hope that there will be enough of us still standing for our 65th reunion, but I’m not looking forward to it because the slower the time goes by, the better for all of us. “ As I send off the class news to Friends, Glenn and I are planning our half yearly move to Cape Cod, where we enjoy a decidedly slower pace in a truly beautiful natural setting. This has been our delight for the past 10 years.

1956 Lorinda Rugemer McColgan lrmccolgan@verizon.net The Class of 1956 had a great Reunion during the May 2016 Alumni Weekend with 24 classmates traveling from nine states, including California, Oregon and Florida, to attend at least one of the gatherings. In spite of the rain on Friday evening, everyone enjoyed an informal dinner at the home of Lisa and Nick Badart. The cocktail party on Saturday at Friends was attended by almost everyone who came back, and we had a chance to see Frank Shivers and his family. Mr. Shivers was recalled fondly by everyone, and he was persuaded to join in our class photo. Our Saturday evening gathering was held at Broadmead, and many thanks to Ann and Bob Heaton for making the arrangements. The dinner was terrific: good food, good

fellowship and plenty of room for everyone to visit and catch up; therefore, no new news for this column!

Additional thanks to Ann for serving as the class bartender! By the time you read this column it will be fall, so I hope everyone had a great summer.

1957 Nancy Hearn Aronson nharonson@gmail.com Save the Date! Alumni Weekend 2017 and 60th Reunion Celebration: May 4-7, 2017 Liz Cochran De Lima says that winters are quiet on the Cape, but she had a good visit with Marion Jones Phelps from Santa Fe. Bill Hammond and his wife Jean are enjoying life in San Diego, but they get back to Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Albany to visit family. Betty Hutzler Friedman visits her mom, now 98, at Roland Park Place. Art, her kids and grandkids are still a big part of her life. She’s really gotten into bridge and gets around between Maine, Connecticut, Michigan and New York. Sadly, Nancy Noble Driver, as many of you know, passed away Nov. 21, 2015. Carol Harrington Fitting has written a short article that she will send along to our classmates. Nancy Hearn Aronson and her husband just returned from a trip to Great Britain. “I’d always wanted to see Stonehenge, and that was on the itinerary this trip.”

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O’Brien and Alex cruised the eastern Mediterranean last November for an extended stay in Istanbul, visiting the Turkish mosques and the lovely Bosphorus. Next on the agenda was Greece, where they visited the island of Santorini; then on to Montenegro and Croatia, where they met native families and toured their vineyards, wineries and olive orchards. They had an extended stay in Venice for an enchanting visit during which they met many gracious people who shared meals and guided them on their trip.

In August, Barbie’s friend Mingming from China is coming to visit. She is an English teacher in Xi’an, where Barbie volunteered to teach nine years ago. Then in September, Alex and Barbie will go to Xi’an to teach at the university level. Barbie is proud of her granddaughter who just graduated from James Madison University with a degree in physics and will be working for Northrup Grumman. She says with good health, she keeps rolling along and loving her life. Susan Rugemer Kurtz says that she and her family, along with Marty Bald Huyette, vacationed in Hawaii over the Christmas 2015 holidays. Carl and I just returned from a trip to France, including five days in Paris in a small, eclectic Latin Quarter apartment, followed by a river boat cruise down the Seine to Honfleur, in Lower Normandy, France.

Among the highlights on the Seine were charming French villages, Rouen, Normandy and Monet’s house and gardens. Afterward, it was back home to weeds, piles of mail and emails.

Susan Shinnick Hossfeld shossfeld@comcast.net Kandi Foell Slade shares, “Two of my granddaughters recently graduated from college. They both have teaching jobs and will remain in the South, where they attended school — one in Mississippi and the other in South Carolina. Mac Price writes, “I have joined the board of the Towson Y, which is keeping me pretty busy. I have also been asked to join the vestry at my church, Trinity Episcopal in Towson.

I‘ve made several trips to Virginia and North Carolina to see my sons. My two youngest grandsons are finishing their third and first years of college at William & Mary and Elon.” Jean Morrill Owings reports that she and Jim are planning to go to Northern Italy for a week In May. Barbara Long

1959 Anne Carter Bowdoin abowdoin@mac.com Many in our class have been busy this year with traveling to Florida and other warm places. The most important news sadly is that Jim Bird passed away in February. He was stricken with an illness suddenly last November and did not recover. Jim and his wife Jandy lived in Sanibel, Fla. and had been active members of the community and at their church. Jim was well known on the island for his portrait paintings and his work was in much demand.

He will be missed. Nick Stoer sends some memories of Jim to the class. “In 10th and 11th grade, Jim and I were on the wrestling team together. Because

we were about the same size, we were usually matched to throw each other around the practice mat several times a week. Since I had joined the class in 10th grade, Jim kept reminding me to simply think of the mat as my welcoming mat at Friends.” Bill and I met with Martha Kegan Graham and her husband Jack for our annual breakfast in Sanibel this February and enjoyed a two hour visit catching up with each other. Martha and Jack have sold their house on the island but will be renting the same place next winter. Not a bad deal. Frank Grant writes that he and his wife visited the Galapagos Islands last October and loved it. Ann Green Slaybaugh had a wonderful trip to Mexico this year on a trip run by Roland Park Country School. She loves to travel and hopes to do more. She and her daughter Valerie went to Florida for Mother’s Day this year. I thought the class might be interested in a 2008 newsletter article about Robyn Rudolph Cole that was shared with me. I’m not sure everyone knows that during her 40year career at Bethany College, Robyn taught English composition, writing for business and industry, linguistics and drama. She served for two years as chairman of the English department prior to her retirement in 2008.

Martha Kegan Graham is still making handmade artists’ books and won two first prizes this year. She continues her oils group every week with a new series of farms called “drive-by.”

This fall, she is having a gallery show with her daughter, who is a pastel artist. Recently, I asked who had attended Friends School the longest and received many responses! Karl Pfrommer, Bob Feild and Jay Stott started in nursery school. Karl thinks he remembers that Dorsey Christhilf LeCompte was also at Friends then.

Meredith Felter and Frank Bernstein began in Kindergarten. Robyn Rudolph Cole wrote that she began in 1st grade but went to Friends Kindergarten for one or two weeks. She asks if anyone else remembers Bill, the bus driver and Dorothy, the aide? This has been a heavy travel year for me with two major trips. In December Bill and I sailed on the Seabourn from Singapore and toured Malaysia and Burma. And in March we traveled to Australia and New Zealand. In May we moved to RiverWoods Retirement Community in Exeter, NH.

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1960 Mary McElroy mem2008@comcast.net Sandy Cochran celebrated the birth of his eighth grandchild, Maria Cochran, on Oct. 24, 2015. Maria is the daughter of his middle son Richard and his wife Astrid, who live in Austria. Sandy has four grandchildren, two boys and two girls, ages 21, 16, 3 and now 6 months.

He and his wife had a fun visit from Brad and Sylvia Pope while they were visiting the area in early 2016. They also visited Boston in June for some recitals and birthdays, then again in August for a vacation at the family home in Orleans, Mass., on Cape Cod. Howard Jones is stepping down as chairman of the OB/GYN department at Vanderbilt Medical School in September. He will continue to see patients and do minor surgery on a limited three-days-a-week schedule.

Cathie Felter reports on a wonderful children’s program in which she and others from Stony Run Friends Meeting are currently involved. Adopted for the after-school program at Baltimore City public City Springs Elementary/ Middle School, the curriculum teaches children how to work together to improve their communities and to view violence as a social problem that can be reduced. One activity was to create 20 bags of useful items for homeless people, each with a note from the student to let them know “I care about

you.” Cathie says the school is pleased with the outcome and plans to use the program again. Michael Jackley reports that he has recovered as much as possible from his brain trauma injury several years ago. He is fully functional now, except for the challenge of multitasking. But there are many of us at our age who have that challenge!

He is happy with his new life, serving as senior ombudsman at an assisted living facility in Leesburg, Va. Michael visits other brain injury patients twice a month at Fairfax Hospital, and he is active at Sommerset, the independent living facility where he lives and leads a discussion group on Saturday mornings. “I drive management nuts on a regular basis, and this helps keep me on my toes!” Mike has a daughter finishing up her master’s degree in Seattle, where she teaches at an inner-city school. Steve Levinson has had a year of ups and downs. On the up side: He has a new building under construction, and his daughter, who is expecting, is getting married and will be giving Steve a new granddaughter soon. On the down side, Steve suffered a heart attack last spring and also lost his mother this past year. Brad Meyer sent the following news. “I’m pleased to announce the births of my fifth and sixth grandchildren, realizing full well that I’m coming into this numbers game very late. Norah Lucille Meyer was born to son Nick and his wife Michelle on Feb. 6; including Norah, that makes

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four people in the family with the same birthday. On April 21, daughter-in-law Rosamond Pope Meyer gave birth to Mateo Augustus Pope Meyer, who at 8 pounds, 11 ounces was big enough to carry all those names.” Brad took a 10-day motorcycle trip through central Cuba in the spring, “a country whose people are friendly and whose economy, while it manages to keep even the poorest of its citizens from going hungry, is almost entirely dysfunctional.” He says the weather was hot and the old architecture mostly crumbling, but occasionally magnificent, adding, “The 1957 cars that so fascinated me when new, as he spotted them from Rhino’s bus on the way to school, are alive and amazingly well down there.”

Diane Howell Mitchell took a river cruise in France with friends in June.

They started in Nice for three days before the cruise and finished with three days in Paris after the cruise.

SANDY COCHRAN ’60’s new granddaughter, Maria

This was her first trip to France since 1965. Lynn Hoehn Patton says it’s been a good year. Both she and Alan are well, although suffering the various aches and pains all of us have as we get older. She has six “grands,” two in North Carolina, three in Maryland and one in California. Lynn still loves her career in porcelain painting, and that is also going well. She is up working in her studio by 5 each morning! She teaches twice a week and has given four seminars this year so far with several more scheduled through October, including two in coastal North Carolina and others in Virginia, Georgia and Alabama. There was an article about her work in a spring issue of the international magazine The Porcelain Painter. She very much appreciates all of the people who attended her show and sale last year at Stony Run Friends Meeting. She will be there again on Saturday, Oct. 29,, 2016. Jeannie Downs Pohlhaus was married Jan. 12, 2016 in Fort Meyers, Fla., to Bob Miser.

He is a 1956 graduate of City College, where he was a lacrosse and football star. He graduated from West Point in 1960 and was named best lacrosse attackman in the country. He’s in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. They met at a Mount Washington Lacrosse Club reunion in 2012, where they were honoring Jeannie’s late husband Neil.

So after a lifetime of being a Navy fan, she is now rooting for Army! She says she is getting used to it. Her real

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would love to have FS classmates visit. That’s all for now. I will endeavor to get out a list of emails to the class.

If you have not had an email from me recently, please send me yours so you can be included in the mailing.

1962 Eleanor Blake Fuller eaerobic@hotmail.com Save the Date! Alumni Weekend 2017 and 55th Reunion Celebration: May 4-7, 2017

BARBRARA ENSOR SENA BRIZZEE ’62 in her Kawasaki Teryx

estate business is good, and work is getting a little easier with a new young partner working with her. Susan Huff Schmitt continues to enjoy life at Shell Point, a vigorous life-care community in Fort Myers, Fla. Susan DeHoff Montgomery comes to visit every year, and Susan’s sister Sally Huff Leimbach ’64 and her husband Wendell have purchased a home there and have their kayaks ready.

Community life is enhanced by friends and flowers. She now has a passion for watercolor painting, which must be fun with all the colorful flowers around!

I am in the process of closing my bead-crafting business so I can concentrate more on family genealogy.

Sadly, I lost my youngest brother Bill to brain cancer in May.

1961 Linda Brecht Stevens lindabstevens@aol.com Our 55th Reunion was a delightful fun-filled fellowship over two evenings during dinner at the Peppermill on Friday and on Saturday at Basta Pasta. On Saturday afternoon, Friends hosted a delicious cocktail party on campus, where Head of School Matt Micciche unlocked the Upper School doors so we could have a nostalgic tour while we recalled various stories at each room. Of course, the Library conjured up those detention times — Jane remembered Saturdays as being the most fun! Has it really been that long ago? We just do not seem older than 45! We missed many of you who had other obligations or infirmities.

I would ask that you hold in your

thoughts: Barbara Turnbull Davis, Mary Ellen Price McLaughlin, Muff Woodman Miller and Janice Henderson Darrell as they deal with health issues. Friday’s dinner was such fun. From Washington State, Nora came for the weekend. She is involved with bridge, golf, Zumba and tennis. Happily, both of her sisters, Sue and Jean, now live nearby. Bob Dalsemer traveled from western North Carolina, where he is enjoying retirement with nature hikes, birding and kayaking. Jeannie Wright Meyer and her husband Glenn were able to join us Friday; Saturday, they had chaperoning duties at Mt. St Joe, where Jeannie teaches Spanish and French full time. Those boys must keep her looking so young! It was so good to be with Mary Hannah Sands Arnot as well. She enjoys keeping up wither her children and grandchildren. Lee and Jane Benson Timberg were able to come both nights, and what fun to be with them. They enjoy their home built on the lot where her parents had their summer cottage years ago. On Saturday, Carol Greif Sandler joined us at the cocktail party and our walk around campus. We all enjoyed being with her and hearing about her family. That evening, Skip and Janice Henderson Darrell met us at Basta Pasta for dinner. Skip continues to tutor at St. Paul’s and ideally would bike for three hours a day. In the past, Janice has biked with him in many countries and states and now enjoys visiting with the many friends they have. It was such an enjoyable weekend, re-establishing friendships.

In other news: Don and I are enjoying a busy life in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and

Linda Kardash Armiger and her husband Buck are doing well. Their boat of many years was sold, and her new owner is enjoying the Chesapeake as they did for many years.

There should be a bountiful crab harvest this year. Well, Linda, I (Eleanor Blake Fuller) am jealous.

Both Pennsylvania and Florida do not know what good blue crabs really are!

Linda and Buck spent the winter in South Carolina again. Their youngest daughter Tara garnered another certification teaching award. Since Tara retired her horse, they did not fully participate in the Middleton Place Hunt, but they did attend the soiree at the end of the season at an antebellum mansion home in Charleston. They also sponsored a hunt breakfast for 70 people. Linda’s specialty is chili “with all the fixins’” and it’s now an annual request from the hunt members. Tara will be married in Hawaii in July. She and her future husband are building a home bordering a golf course in South Carolina. Their other daughter, Kelly’s daughters Logan and MacKenzie continue with basketball, softball and horses. Logan is the 4H western rider, and MacKenzie enjoys English, hunt seat and equestrian shows. When the granddaughters visit this summer, MacKenzie will join an equestrian camp, and Logan will help Linda recoup from reconstructive surgery on her left thumb. Linda wishes good health to all. Barbara Ensor Sena Brizzee and husband Bob have gotten off-road on the many trails around Phoenix with their 2016 Kawasaki Teryx side-by-side and have seen some beautiful scenery. Now that it’s hot outside, they will head north toward the mountains. They are still in their RV at the RV resort. They sold the Harley in April, as it was “too insane” riding on the freeways where

they are now. Barb has been working part time doing books for a couple of horse friends since December, as she finds total retirement really boring.

Moving on from the horse people, it looks like Chris Sherman Raywood actually stayed home for a while. She has had some very large tours at the Flagler Museum this year, and is glad when some of the smaller groups come in. Of course, she has been playing bridge and will have visited New York City for a week in May for a change of scenery. She has not been there since the summer of 9/11, so it will be good to visit with a dear friend again. She and her niece Becky also planned a long weekend in NYC to do some shopping and see “Finding Neverland” on Broadway. She planned to return to Baltimore this summer and maybe go back to Europe in the fall — especially since the knees are good now! Carol Davidson Methven’s son John, a captain in the Navy and the deputy commander of Carrier Air Wing 7 on the USS Harry S Truman in the Persian Gulf, completed his 1,000th landing on an aircraft carrier in March 2016. There have been over 175,000 pilots in the Navy since its inception in 1911. Her son is only the 378th to make 1,000 landings. Carol is so proud of him and his sacrifices while fighting ISIL abroad. He received a plaque with the actual hook point from the jet he was flying, and his name will also be engraved on a plaque in the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla. Carol and her family spent several weeks in Montana and another week in Colorado last fall. They saw lots of wildlife due to the warm weather, including grizzly bears, wolf pups and moose. They just love Yellowstone and the Tetons! They have booked a house for this fall also. Additionally, their nephew has a rental home in Evergreen, Colo., which he lets them use. Their godchildren live in Denver, so they can also visit with them. In June, they spend a week at Seabrook Island near Charlestown, S.C., where three of their grandchildren will join them, which will be fun. Emily Holman has been on an 18-day safari tour in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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the guests, and it was awesome! They also visited some local villages, rode elephants and took a helicopter ride over Victoria Falls. Her 50th reunion at Gettysburg College is in June, and she will be home for most of the summer until her next trip in October. A mellow 2016 is how Bruce Goodwin and wife Lucy describe this year. They have a couple of excursions planned: one to the Mt. Rushmore area and another in the fall to the Hudson River Valley in New York. In between, there will be a few visits with grandchildren in Phoenix, Ariz. Lucy is now officially retired, and Bruce is very close as well.

Nick Nicolls and his wife Robin visited Florida again in January and connected with my husband Cliff and me. We fortunately found a great place where their rescue dog Dixie could join us for lunch. Nick and Robin are still trying to sell their home on the Eastern Shore in order to move back to Baltimore to be near family and friends. There is not much interest, because people are saying that there are too many steps down to the water.

They know that, so they are looking for some younger people who might be open to that. Robin and I compare notes because she is the class secretary for Roland Park Country School and, as she says, she also has to drag information out of her classmates. At press time Gina and Jim Hammond were busily engaged in preparations for the annual Hunt County Stable Tour. Hard to believe that Paula and John Slingluff had a quiet spring, but they are watching the grandkids play soccer, lacrosse, baseball and ice hockey. Jen’s UNC

women’s lacrosse team defeated Maryland to win the NCAA D-I women’s lacrosse national championship, and she won the ACC Coach of the Year award. John and Paula are looking forward to summer. Rehoboth Beach has had the pleasure of Colette and Wayne Sutherland living in its lovely beach community for three years. They are enjoying their new grandchild Penelope, who just turned 1 in May. She is a joy to be around, as their next youngest is already 10 years old. Last fall, they did a road trip to Western Maryland and Pennsylvania.

They stayed in a quaint B&B in Connellsville, Pa., and toured two Frank Lloyd Wright houses — Kentuck Knob and Fallingwater, which they declared were amazing — and several wineries. Later, they spent several days at Deep Creek Lake, hiking and enjoying the scenery. While in Pennsylvania, they also toured Shanksville, site of the Flight 43 memorial for the 9/11 crash victims. It was amazing, breathtaking and a somber tribute to those heroes back in 2001. Wayne’s grandson Zack was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes several years ago. He is now 13 and is improving, but the condition is not totally regulated. The entire family is involved with the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and participated in a Type 1 Walk this spring, raising quite a bit of money on top of the family’s $3,000 contribution. Wayne hopes to see many of us in 2017. Mary Ellen Fischer and Emily Holman are preparing for their 50th college reunion. Mary Ellen is trying to figure out if our 50th at Friends feels like yesterday, or

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10 years ago. I’m voting for yesterday, since maybe it would seem as if we are not getting older faster, or maybe I really have that backwards! Over the past decade, while living in Sarasota Springs, N.Y., Mary Ellen has often had to correct people when they say, “Saratoga Springs … Oh, Florida!” to which Mary Ellen patiently responds, “No, New York!” Since they spend every other winter in Sarasota, Fla., sometimes they even get the names wrong themselves! Their permanent base is Saratoga Springs, N.Y., home of Skidmore College, the Saratoga Racetrack, the Saratoga Casino and the summer home of the New York City Ballet and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In Sarasota, Fla., Mary Ellen and Eric continue with their subscriptions to the Sarasota Orchestra and the chamber orchestra, opera and ballet. Alternating winters are spent in Hawaii, both Kauai and Maui, where they have timeshares, with beaches and sun but little music, except for various Hawaiian stringed instruments.

Mary Ellen says that anyone wishing to visit should come to Saratoga Spring, N.Y. I am going on a fun trip to the Galapagos Islands and hope to be able to pass along some of the highlights very soon. I am enjoying the grandkids, both in Pennsylvania and in Florida. My daughter Meredith and her husband just purchased a camper and are, at this writing, enjoying some time at Disney’s Ft. Wilderness Park. They report that it was a grueling 24-minute ride from their home near the Orlando airport! Well, my grandson Max, 7, is currently being home schooled. That’s

why this can happen. Did any of us get to go to Disney in May? No way.

Friends School had us for longer than May. But that’s OK. We all survived, I think. My motto, as always, is: Stay healthy and enjoy!

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Chick Fetter Deegan deeganchicke@aol.com In April, Joane Knight Schumacher, Gail Moran Milne, Barbara Nolte Kearney, Anne Skinner White, Marge Rowe Felter and I met for lunch and, as usual, had a wonderful time. We looked at Joane’s latest painting, talked about the possibility of a 55th Reunion, volunteering, retirement and our lifetime learning classes, exchanged book and website recommendations and found ourselves happily engaged for two-and-a-half hours. The email alumni received this spring mentioned a current Friends School production of “Oklahoma!” and set off a lengthy online discussion about the Mixed Chorus’ production of “Oklahoma! “in 1963. Many of us were in the show and had a great time talking about it over 50 years later. Cast pictures were exchanged, and Steve Greif, Trudi Feinberg Cohen, Dave Phillips, Lary Jones, Lily Kok-Forbush, Chuck Harlan, Judy Klingelhofer O’Mara, Marge, Barbara and Donna chatted about the production, the song lyrics and the dance sequences. Then we discussed the earlier musicals

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SAVUTRI GAUTHIER ’64, Suzy Katzenberg ’64, Doug Fambrough and Sue Grathwohl Dingle ’64 all together

performed by the Mixed Chorus and settled on “Brigadoon” and “Kiss Me Kate” as being our favorites. A few of our classmates traveled in the spring: Chuck Harlan and his wife Mary Dell Gordon Harlan ’65 went to Europe, where they spent time in Amsterdam, took a Viking river boat cruise to Budapest and then flew to Prague, where they finished their trip. Coincidentally, along the way they crossed paths with Ken and Carol Cohen Derow ’65 in Passau, Germany. Carol and Ken were on another Viking river boat tour. The four of them attended an organ concert in Passau at the St. Stephen’s Cathedral (featuring the largest cathedral organ in the world) and met for dinner in Budapest at the end of their trips. Joan Shinnick Kreeger led a three-island tour to Hawaii for a group from Women Traveling Together. Joan lived in Hawaii for 32 years before relocating back to Maryland, so she arrived a week early and stayed a week after the tour to catch up with longtime friends. She said that Hawaii is her second home. “Hawaii no ka oe! It’s the best!” After she returned, all her children and grandchildren came to Baltimore from the Kansas City area and Los Angeles to celebrate her 70th birthday. In May she was off again, leading a WTT Pennsylvania tour to Philadelphia, Lancaster’s Amish country and Gettysburg. She said it was quite a change from Hawaii but that she loved the history, thanks to our Friends School history teacher, Mr. Nick! Lily Kok-Forbush toured Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Incan citadel in the Peruvian Andes. She traveled by train from Cusco and then rode a bus up the mountain, complete with harrowing hairpin turns on the steep ascent. “It was a mystical experience

TAKE 1! The Class of 1966 at the 50th Reunion dinner in May

and the trip of a lifetime!” she said.

Steve Greif is continuing to work and walk/run half-marathons, and in April, he ran a half-marathon in a snowstorm. The fact that his daughter was also there running may have inspired him to keep going, but to his credit, he completed the course. Soon afterward, he and his wife Maggie traveled to California, where they did some touring and reconnected with an old college friend of Steve’s. He said the high and low points of their trip were, respectively, Yosemite and Death Valley! Lin Parker has been enjoying watching his grandson play lacrosse and reflected on the role that lacrosse has played in his life since the 7th grade, when Larry Peacock taught a “whole mob of boys” to chase a lacrosse ball around on the ground, “killing snakes.” The culmination of his Friends School lacrosse experience came five years later when the boys’ lacrosse team won the Maryland state championship. He said the win left permanent pictures in his mind, and he believes the 1963 team was certainly one of the best, if not the best, high school team in the country!

He has subsequently spent 33 years in lacrosse, coaching hundreds of players in over 400 games and has passed the game down to his son, who played and coached lacrosse.

Since his retirement, it has been a special pleasure for him to watch his grandson Jake’s lacrosse progress, from the first grade to the seventh

grade. He said that some of the boys on Jake’s team already have real skill and that his grandson is definitely not just “killing snakes!”

1964 Susan Grathwohl Dingle S123dingle@aol.com In April, Sally Huff Leimbach and husband Wendell celebrated 50 years of marriage. It was the first wedding in the Class of 1964, so it’s nice to know that all these years later they are still celebrating. Congratulations, Sally and Wendell! At Alumni Weekend, Suzy Katzenberg was honored with the Alumni Service Award in a ceremony held at the Mr. Nick Bull Roast.

Before Head of School Matt Micciche introduced Suzy, there was a loud and long cascade of bells from the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, leaving some in the crowd to wonder if the divine Ms. K’berg wasn’t about to be at least glorified, if not canonized! On hand were Savitri Gauthier and spouse Doug Fambrough, Greg Neumann, Nicholas Young and yours truly.

Kathy Benesch, Marianne Benson and Annie Nichols Haendiges were there in spirit, acknowledging Suzy with flowers and notes. Then we had a chance to tour the new auditorium and be dazzled by all the wonderful facilities now available, as the dress rehearsal for “Oklahoma!” was going on. As I stood onstage and looked out

over the banked, cushioned seats and the state-of-the-art tech booth, I thought how blessed today’s students are … and how blessed we were too. Greg Neumann is planning the itinerary for a class trip to India/Nepal in late October-early November. While there, we are considering volunteering or contributing to a local group and welcome your participation. Please be in touch with Greg if you are interested: gregory.a.neumann@nasa.gov.

(Remember, Greg’s NASA team successfully landed the rover on Mars.)

1965 This class needs a secretary.

If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.

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1966 Nina Lasagna Patry npatry@verizon.net The Class of 1966 celebrated our 50th Reunion this May. Among the highlights: arriving Thursday evening to see Steve Lynch, Julie Metcalf and Reed Kaestner already together and about to get on the stage to be inducted to the FS Athletic Hall of Fame. I was especially happy to see

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STEVE HEAVER ’66, founder of Hill Press, had a visit from a Friends printmaking class

this spring.

Steve and Julie, as I think this was Steve’s first class Reunion ever, and I believe Julie had only attended once, maybe twice, before. Reed is a trouper, and I believe has made the long journey several times. I loved sitting in the audience with Carol Foutz Stephens, Jac Knust, Bunny Paternotte Sully and just being back on campus with classmates, some of whom I’ve probably omitted here.

Friday night dinner was another highlight. The energy of all those hellos, smiles and hugs! Then the drinking and eating (great food!)and sharing of stories past and present began, with lots of laughs and lots of caring. Huge thanks to the Friends School staff, to Jay Biddison ’64 on keyboards and to Jac Knust on the mic. Jac didn’t want the job of MC, but somehow we convinced him to do it.

LOL, as we type these days. Who else would have come up with the things Jac did? At my table, Dan Wing won the best story /best storyteller award, entertaining us with the tale of he and Debbie Frank driving the copy for the “Quaker Quill” downtown to be printed. Of course they were in Dan’s woody, and of course, it broke down; you have to get the rest from Dan. Dev Slingluff touched everyone with his tale of seeking out Mr. Nick to talk to when Dev had been off the battlefield in Vietnam for just 48 hours.

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long-lost member of our class, Stuart Sands, attended and was happy to see everyone. The Meeting for Worship in remembrance of Tom Lewis, Linda Dermott Bork, Duncan Smith and Bobby Benesch was special; a fairly small group, quietly (though not without some laughs) shared thoughts and memories of those no longer with us. Peter Kaestner ’71’s birding class/walk was amazing. Within three minutes of getting outside, Peter had pointed out 11 species, including a bald eagle being chased by a red-tailed hawk.

Peter is a walking encyclopedia of knowledge about all things feathered.

Plus, I know he put a lot into the overall effort on the entire Reunion.

Congratulations to Debbie Frank! It

was such fun to cheer on Debbie as she received this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award on Saturday night. Now, for a few additional updates: In May, Steve Heaver was visited for a second time at Hill Press by Friends School printmaking students. Steve has also seen a few Friends groups this year at the Fire Museum. Bruce Manger shared an update: “Sustainability and entrepreneurship mark the Mangers’ news themes. Encouraged always by daughter Kate’s Manger ’92’s example, we embrace our net-zero electricity solar array benefits (the first residential installation in Baltimore).

Bruce incorporates sustainability in his architecture practice, including three LEED-certified projects with more on the way. He has also pioneered a form of higher education planning, called Vision Integrated Planning, and has service-marked the process with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

After her retirement from Baltimore City Public Schools last year — and between visits with her mom Mary Beidler VandeWeghe ’44 in Chestertown — Suzie co-founded Early Birds, a preschool serving children in East Baltimore. Kate’s own start-up, Broke Down Palace/Fix Up by Kate, takes its name from the Grateful Dead tune. As for Whitney Manger Fine ’95, a children’s book designer in New York … well, look for more news from her soon. She and her husband Mike Fine ’95’s daughters, Riley and Blakely, are our best reasons to visit them regularly in Queens.”

1967 Jane Thursby mejanemd@gmail.com Save the Date! Alumni Weekend 2017 and 50th Reunion Celebration: May 4-7, 2017

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1968 Arlene Dannenberg Bowes adbowesdmd@gmail.com Tim Pitts’s book, “Taming Your Tiger Mom,” part autobiography and part self-help book for students and parents about life choices, was published in January 2016. It is available on Amazon—where all reviewers, including one of Tim’s brothers, rated it five stars. I read a prepublication version and found the book a delight and well written.

1969 Frank Bond, Jr. fbondini.bond@gmail.com Two themes that seem to resonate with the Class of ’69 are retirement and grandparenting. Christine Ramsey says that retirement makes her feel as though she won the lottery!

She calls her bounty “the luxury of time and choice of activities.” But wait, because upon further inspection, Christine is tutoring and also volunteering at a Philadelphia school.

Helen Blumberg retired two years ago. She and her husband Bob did

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Barbara and Betsy shared that after a long struggle with Lewy Body Dimentia, it is comforting to know that Bob is no longer suffering. Let’s all continue to hold Bob’s family in the Light. Please send me your news for next time, everyone!

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THE CLASS OF 1971 celebrated together at Alumni Weekend 2016.

some traveling last fall. Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga. were on the itinerary. Then, in April, they welcomed their second grandchild into the world.

James joins big sister Madelaine, and the proud parents are Pete and Liz Yeager Guarnieri, both Class of 2000.

Louise Wagner spends some of her newly found free time working with a canine neurologist to help her golden retriever, who suffers from epilepsy.

Terry Halle is also preparing for grandchild No. 2. The arrival is expected around the end of August. Terry and wife Wendy will then have two grandchildren less than 22 months of age. That will keep a couple of grandparents young. You might say that Rebecca Love is celebrating a retirement of sorts. It’s from the world of tuition and life carved up into semesters.

Rebecca writes: “My youngest child has graduated from Colorado School of Mines in Golden with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry. That makes 2 B.A.s, one B.F.A., one B.S., one M.S.L.I.S. and one M.F.A. I think I’m done with school now.” Graham Yearley helps to care for his father, who just marked his 101st birthday!

Graham is right in the midst of concert season. He sings with two gay choirs and his church choir. Another singer among us is Mosie Lasagna, who is still using her voice quite well in southwest Iowa, a place she calls home and “the land of quiet beauty.”

And her singing is going to take her places … such as Carnegie Hall in January! Julia Frank shows no sign of slowing down, but she has made a change. Leaving George Washington University, Julia joins the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where she notes, “I started as a candy striper 50 years ago!” Ron Kovach is officially our class

globetrotter. He and his partner Chad logged a cruise from Miami to Los Angeles via the Panama Canal. The trip gave them the chance to visit Mayan ruins in Tikal, Guatemala.

A trip to Napa Valley was mellow.

Attendance to the Turner Classic Movie Film Festival in Hollywood brought them face-to-face with some “vintage” movie stars. This summer, they’ll visit Provincetown on Cape Cod. In September, Capri, Italy.

Bon Voyage! Vicky Nelson won’t be retiring anytime soon. She and husband Dave have some traveling of their own to do. Their son Tom is in Norway working on his Ph.D. Well, that certainly calls for a visit. The first is scheduled for September. Their son Dan is working on earning a B.A. in environmental science on his way to becoming a park ranger. JoAnn Jones has just completed her second year at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York.

She has one more year ending with graduation in May 2017. JoAnn is now a candidate for Holy Orders in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, and expects to be ordained by year’s end or sometime next year. Pete Thanhouser calls himself “based in the ‘burbs outside Chicago.” He doesn’t go downtown every day, but he has lots of excitement in the pipeline, as both of his children are to be married this summer. Son Max goes first, sometime in June. Then, daughter Carly in September. Bill Sherman is still involved with investment real estate banking. He and wife Nancy are about to get a bit more deeply involved with the next generation, as all three daughters have returned to Baltimore to start their families. Right now there are three grandchildren: Grant, Ben

and Ellie. Deborah and Bob Decker have three grandchildren, are planning their daughter’s wedding, and life is good. Deborah writes, “Bob and I work, eat and sleep and spend time with our kids and grands, and that’s about it!” Bob is again working with brother Bill Decker ’62 in the family business, Furst Brothers, so family ties are strong up and down the age ladder. I am in my 17th year at The Newseum. In May, I led a group of Friends alumni through the facility for a special tour.

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The class celebrated its 45th Reunion in May. Steve Frenkil recalls that the weekend may have seen the best class turnout (at least in his memory!).

There were 18 classmates and about a dozen spouses and companions. It was great to see everyone!

1972 Beth Peacock Holcomb bethholcomb54@gmail.com Save the Date! Alumni Weekend 2017 and 45th Reunion Celebration: May 4-7, 2017 Reflecting on the life of the late Mohammed Ali, Gregg Mace wrote to share that he had a chance to meet the boxing great back in 1981 at Deer Lake, Pa. What a memorable moment for Gregg.

Lisa Mitchell Pitts lpitts@friendsbalt.org Hello to all! It was nice catching up with some of you this spring. Not much news to share this time around, but we were all so very sorry to learn that our classmate Bob Robinson passed away on May 21. Bob’s sisters

1973 Sarah Schulz O’Loughlin somohopo@comcast.net Marty Peacock LcLaughlin writes that turning 60 has been momentous for her. Her father, Dan Peacock ’48,

GREGG MACE ’72 with Mohammed Ali in 1981 at Deer Lake

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passed away on April 2, and their family planned to unite this summer in Maine to celebrate his spirit. Her job teaching students at the Waldorf School of Baltimore and tutoring privately is challenging and rewarding, but she was looking forward to spending much of the summer with her mother and other family members in their beloved Maine home.

Marty saw Janney Woods in March, when Janney’s mother Betty Woods passed away. Marty and Rob Preston attended her memorial service at Old St. Paul’s Episcopal Church downtown. John Waters was there, and he said some nice words about Betty at the gathering after the service. She starred in one of his movies, “Female Trouble,” and the Christmas tree scene is his most viewed movie clip every year. It was great to see Janney, her sister Pirie, brother Joe and all of their children. Margo Halle is happy to be living back in Baltimore. She enjoys visiting Jan Goldsmith Braun at her successful clothing consignment shop, ReDeux. Margo recently got together with Meg Catzen-Brown while she was in town visiting her parents.

During their first spring in Baltimore, Margo and her husband consulted with landscaper Ann Eliasberg Betten, and Margo reported that her garden looks great.

LOTTCHEN SHIVERS ’76 with parents

Frank and Lottchen Shivers

1974 Sally Slingluff Sallykslingluff123@gmail.com In between Christmas and New Year’s, Celeste Hutchins Diamond, Scott Nevin, Gay Ossman Rudow and I got together for an enjoyable afternoon. We thought it would be fun to try and meet at least two times a year. Keep an eye out for updates on our Facebook group page, “Friends School of Baltimore Class of 1974.” I will also send out emails, as I know not everyone is on Facebook.

1975 This class needs a secretary.

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DONNA ANDERSON RYAN ’76 and husband Rick with sons Lance and newly minted

Maryland graduate Jonathan.

CLASS OF 76’s Phil Stewart, Keith Tabatznik, Steve Stuart and Doug Ball at the Friday night

get-together for their 40th Reunion at Alumni Weekend 2016.

1976 John Humphries jehriver@aol.com Our 40th Reunion in early May this year was a great success. In attendance were Jean Alexander Barnett, Donna Anderson Ryan, Doug Ball, Rob Belcher, Dante Beretta, Angela Booth, Debbie Brown, Bryan Carpenter, Lisa Chang Mason, Charles Cohen, Lisa Corinne Davis, Dennyse Eckert Gunts with husband, Bucky Gunts ’68, Hank Entwisle, Scott Frenkil, John Humphries, Winston Hutchins, Cinnie Klein Goldberg, Stewart Lyons, Jim Pappas, Perry Reifler,

Rick Rosenbloom, Mike Saxon, David Scher, Julia Schulz, Lottchen Shivers, Hugh Stevenson, Phil Stewart, Steve Stuart, Keith Tabatznik, Wendy Weinberg Weil and myself. Werner Kohlmeyer, who was with the class of ’76 from 1st through 7th grade, also made an appearance. The Friends School Athletic Hall of Fame inducted Hank Entwisle, Perry Reifler, Steve Stuart, Keith Tabatznik and Gretchen Dickinson Trimble on Thursday. The following evening we had an informal get-together at Alonso’s on Cold Spring (now a tradition), then Saturday’s events included the reception on campus with class pictures (including one with Frank Shivers), followed,

CLASS OF 76’s Lisa Chang Mason, Debbie Brown and Jean Alexander in town for their

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THE CLASS OF 1976 gathered for a group photo at Alumni Weekend 2016.

most importantly, by the party at Hank and Amy Entwisle’s home. (Thanks to them both for hosting an outstanding event!). Also spotted at Hank’s were Steve Balser, Nick Fessenden, Randy Cooper H’16, Carl Ortman, Betty Disney, Ed Morse, Evan Gifford, Michal Anne Morse, Frank Bond ’69, Rich Seiler ’68 and Donna Seegar-Sedmak. To see more reunion pictures, please go to: https://www.flickr.com/ photos/friendsbalt. Donna Anderson Ryan reports that her son Jonathan graduated this spring from the University of Maryland with degrees in film and communication! Donna enjoyed the moment with her son Lance and husband Kevin. Please consider joining your classmates on the “Friends School of Baltimore — Class of ’76 Alumni” group on Facebook.

We have 42 members already!

1977 This class needs a secretary.

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1978 Doug Stevenson dougstevenson@hotmail.com

1979 Anne Burton Hockett annehockett@me.com Stephen Pocock reports, “Well, I’m still in Oakland and am the salumiere

at Boccalone, making those tasty salted pig parts. I also have a little side deal going, Damn Fine Bacon, which makes, you guessed it, damn fine bacon. My kids, Henry and Charlotte, are finishing ninth grade. Charlotte is in the creative writing program at the School of the Arts in San Francisco, and Henry plays tennis at Balboa High School. My lovely wife Jill Cohen works as a senior programmer at Autodesk. We all went to New Zealand for an amazing trip last December. It was great to see all my cousins and their kids (who remembers that I was born there?).

Let’s see, I just had my shoulder replaced, so that’s my second new joint. Not that kind of joint. Sheesh! I

love being connected with so many of you all on Facebook. I miss David Bowie, Merle Haggard and Prince.”

Alison Ball says, “I am still dancing and performing professionally. I just graduated with an associate of science degree as a physical therapy assistant in order to get a steady job with benefits. I have my master’s, bachelor’s and now associate’s degree. Working backwards, I plan to start high school next year. Actually my amazing son Carl graduates from high school so we are on the college tour. We are busy and happy boogie dancing in the kitchen.” An update from Paul Stephenson: “Just a quick note about me. I’m a professor in the biology department at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. My wife Helen and I just celebrated the graduation of our oldest son (we have three) from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!). I keep in touch with Alex McClung frequently, and we’ve been doing a lot of snorkeling and kayaking at local Florida Springs. Hope all is well. Best wishes.” James McDonald writes, “After 24 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, I closed my business and returned to the East Coast. I am now living in Richmond, Va., and working as the executive banquet chef at a small, off-premise catering company.

After so many years away, I had forgotten the simple joys of hot sticky summer nights and shoveling three feet of snow at 6 a.m.! If you make it down South, stop and say hello.”

Sharon Brown says, “I have been living in Minneapolis since 1987 and ended up marrying a Minnesotan with a 6-year-old daughter. Dave and I

CLASS OF ’76’s Julia Schulz, Lottchen Shivers, Debbie Brown, Lisa Corinne Davis,

Keith Tabatznik, Lisa Chang Mason and Jean Alexander reminisce at their 40th Reunion during Alumni Weekend 2016.

RANDY COOPER H’16, Carl Ortman, Bucky Gunts ’68, Rich Seiler ’68, Steve Balser and Frank Bond ’69 reconnect during Alumni Weekend 2016 at Hank Entwisle ’76’s house.

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Stephen Pocock ’79 and his family

mater). Chuck’s son Chad bought his first home and married. His other son Mark graduated from the College of Charleston and works for a company that opened an office in Richmond. My daughter Holland is working on prerequisites for a science degree through a community college and is enjoying her first apartment. Life is good!” An update from Natalie Standiford: “I’m living in New York, as I have since college, and I still love it. I write books for children and young adults and am working on a novel for adults at the moment (though I have no idea if it will ever see the light of day). My most recent middle-grade novel, “The Only Girl in School,” came out in January. It’s set on a fishing island in the Chesapeake, the only place I could think of small enough for a girl to realistically be the only girl in her entire elementary school. I got married (for the second time) in February 2015 to Eric Weiner, a writer and TV producer. I have two cats and three stepchildren, and so far I’m

finding life more fascinating and more fun the older I get.” Natalie also made a trip to Friends in March, where she visited Connie Naden Shay ’82’s second grade homeroom to talk about her 1989 children’s book, “The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto,” which the children read in class.

Melissa Hulse wrote me a note: “It has been so nice to catch up with you and everyone on Facebook. I love that Barbara Shulman-Kirwin came to visit you in Bali, and it was wonderful seeing all the pics from her trip. I would love to do one of your retreats someday. It’s on my bucket list! My last child graduated from college in 2015.

To celebrate the ‘raise’ we got from having no more kids in college, we took an amazing National Geographic cruise to the Galapagos Islands this past February. I became a master naturalist a few years ago, so this was an epic trip for me. I had a blast! I still work at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, where my center works on connected and automated vehicles

ALISON BALL ’79 and son Carl at their

BILLY RUDOW ’79 enjoying the

favorite camp in Northern California

climbing wall

NATALIE STANDIFORD ’79 visits Connie Naden Shay ’82’s 2nd grade classroom in March.

ANN RAMSEY ’79 and her family celebrate her daughter Hannah’s graduation from the University of Pennsylvania.

have been married almost 17 years, and my stepdaughter Alicia is now 23, graduated from college and working as a computer programmer—a chip off the old block from her dad, who is a software engineer. Dave and I have a 12-year-old son, Spencer, who seems to have inherited Dave’s math/ analytical gene—certainly not from my side of the family. I studied social work and art but then shifted my focus to coaching and health and wellness. I have been working as a health and tobacco cessation coach for the last 10 years.” This July, Paris Ashton will celebrate 25 years working with the office of graphic communications for the Virginia Department of General Services. Paris says, “I have designed the administration logo and inauguration pin for four governors and the official stationary for four first ladies, was a member of the governor’s office executive committee for the Civil Rights Memorial events on Capital Square, designed the Virginia quarter, a National Guard medal, two significant books for the Library of Virginia and a myriad of logos, brochures and other marketing materials on topics that include early intervention for infants with disabilities, Virginia laws for teens, gang prevention, child abuse and neglect,

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HIV and STD prevention and Medicaid fraud. I am thankful that my responsibilities as creative director, graphic designer and public servant have brought me a lifetime of rewards, learning and creativity. On a personal note, I sold my home and moved in with my boyfriend of 14 years, Chuck Zalesiak, to start this next chapter of our lives together. This past year, every member of our immediate families moved; our children are grown. My son Ashton Bressler graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University (mine and my father’s alma

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PARIS ASHTON ’79 and Chuck Zalesiak celebrate the wedding of Chuck’s son Chad to wife Sarah.

and infrastructure. Not really much else to report. I hope you are doing well. The next time you are in Virginia or nearby, please let me know.” Caryl Connor writes, “It’s hard to believe it has now been 20 years since I made the move back to Baltimore. I am still teaching fourth grade, with a specialization in reading and language arts. As much as I love my students, I am starting to count down the days until retirement! My daughter is now 27 and working at Johns Hopkins Bayview while also pursuing her M.B.A. We travel as often as our schedules allow. When not working or traveling, you will usually find Ken and me exploring various restaurants in and around the city.” From Tom Gomprecht: “Not much to report. Very boring … I’m living in the Baltimore area with my three girls, Kate (my wife of 20 years), Charlie and Sophie. Both daughters are ‘lifers’ at McDonogh (am I hearing boos?). I have been in the wireless industry for about 20 years, DEBBIE BROWN ’79 and family

prior to that, an English teacher in the Baltimore County Public School system. Funny how marriage and change of career seem to coincide!

Ricardo Vestuti is reported to be a famous professional designer.” Billy Rudow says that his work life and that of his wife Jill is status quo as attorneys. He reports: “Our daughter Alex graduated from Hamilton, spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan teaching English as a second language and created, from scratch, a soccer program for her students.

She’s now in D.C. working for a company that raises funds for politicians. My son Michael is a junior at Penn. I still play with gymnastics but in a seriously reduced manner, and occasionally I coach it. I have also been getting into climbing.” Jenny Freeman writes, “On the day my older kid went to college, I gave up the freelance life and started earning a real paycheck as a science writer at Environmental Defense Fund. I mostly

write about defending the climate, expanding clean energy and the business case for sustainability. I also write for a NOAA website called climate.gov. My two boys are in college; the younger one is studying philosophy and science and society at Middlebury, and the older one is a chemistry major at Harvard. With lots more time on our hands, Walker and I are doing whatever we please. Which includes hiking in the Alps this summer and seeing more of Natalie Standiford, who has moved to the Upper West Side.” Erik Weinstock wrote to say, “I am currently 12 times zones from the East Coast of United States. I have a lot of posts on Facebook, since I’ve been here for over two months. As they say, ‘Malaysia Truly Asia!’” Ann Ramsey wrote to me as the school year was wrapping up. “I am completing my 33rd year as a middle school history and theater teacher, the past 16 of which I have been at the Agnes Irwin School here in Villanova, Pa., (think RPCS or Bryn Mawr School.). I happen to think it’s the best job and I think back on our own teachers and adventures daily. It definitely keeps me young! I will celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary in September to David Grossman, my best friend and an all-around wonderful human being.

We are the parents of two adults now, which is crazy. Hannah just graduated from the University of Pennsylvania NATALIE STANDIFORD ’79 and husband

Eric Weiner

(my alma mater) with a degree in psychology and will move to NYC in August (after traveling a bunch and visiting yours truly, Anne Burton Hockett in Bali, lucky girl!) to work with an executive search firm. Daniel has finished his sophomore year at Franklin and Marshall College as a history and Spanish major, and he will spend his fall semester in Valparaiso, Chile next year. This empty nest has allowed me some time to dabble in theater on my own this year; I am lucky to have a wonderful community theater in my town, and I was able to begin and end the season this year with great character roles in ‘Noises Off!’ and ‘Hairspray.’ It was an absolute treat to have Barbara “Babs” Shulman-Kirwin and Anne Burton Hockett in the audience for the show in September. So, we are healthy, busy, happy, and blessed. I am on Facebook and love the opportunity to keep up with many of you through that window. My email is annlramsey@ gmail.com, and I am in Swarthmore, Pa., close to Philadelphia, if you all are ever in the neighborhood!” As for me, I am sitting here celebrating my 29th wedding anniversary with my first husband! He and I have lived, loved, worked and traveled extensively in Asia. It’s odd but true that we left the U.S.A. more than 30 years ago! We live in paradise (aka Bali) and have two daughters who graduated from the Green School and are now both in university in the United States. Maddie has finished two years on scholarship at University of Puget Sound and has just returned from her semester abroad in Central America. She’s appropriately incensed with politics, corruption and white privilege. Becca finished her first year at Colorado College and is the happiest person I know. She has her own radio show, ANN RAMSEY ’79 with Anne Lenhard Sayles ’79, Anne Burton Hockett ’79 and “Babs” Shulman-Kirwin ’79

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A FANTASTIC GROUP of ’81ers celebrate at Alumni Weekend 2016.

FSB FRIENDS gathered in Portland, Oregon: Mark Whiteford ’83, Staige Davis Hodges ’84,

Susan Millhauser ’84 and Atif Zaman ’83

writes for the paper, has a heap of great friends and loves learning!

I’m still working as a healer (youhealing.org) and could not love what I do more. I’m referred more and more “terminal” clients who are living better than ever! I’m however fatiguing with the reality of pulling very sick people out downstream and am now envisioning ways of reaching them earlier upstream. Excited! I’m hoping to be doing some fabulous retreats together with Babs in the U.S. and in Asia. And eager to host a class reunion out this way! This past year, I’ve been lucky enough to see this bunch several times. We had a reunion at the beach this past summer. Babs and I spent 10 days in Atlanta taking a course about forgiveness! While there, we celebrated her birthday with Anne Lenhard Sayles. Then Babs and I drove to Philly in August to see Ann

Ramsey star in a theater production.

We’ve laughed, cried, philosophized and enjoyed a lot of wine together. I want more! Nancy Sexton Greenia is in Detroit making solar-powered cars and looks fabulous, according to Caryl Connor who just saw her. Ellen McDill is in Montreal serving as our French ambassador. Kate Leibson is living in London, we think, writing a book about the Queen’s love of yellow. Rumors have it that many of our class are leading lives too exciting for words.

We’ll hope to hear from them for the next update.

FROM LEFT, DEANA CARR-DAVIS FRANK ’99, Karen Dates Dunmore ’82, and Tiffani

Sterrette Collins ’00 at a Links, Inc. luncheon in April

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1982

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Joyce Jennings joycejen@berkeley.edu

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Dahira Lievano-Binford

Shawn Dorman

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The Class of 1981 had a great time celebrating together at Reunion! The celebrations kicked off on Thursday night, when Katie Hearn, Phil Merrill and Kaki Standiford were inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame.

Congrats to these three! A few classmates were there at the event to cheer them on. The class enjoyed weekend festivities at Friends and a special Saturday night party at Kaki’s house.

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1984 Staige Davis Hodges sdhpdx@gmail.com

Robert Spencer-Strong robertstrong@hotmail.com Send us your news!

THANKS TO WADE WILSON ’84, Deana Carr-Davis Frank ’99 and Cassie Motz ’89 for sharing their time and advice with the Class of 2016 during Senior Seminar this spring.

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CHARLEY CASE ’86 and his family on the

slopes in Aspen

IT WAS GREAT TO SEE the Class of 1986 at Alumni Weekend 2016!

1985 Sharon Buckson Stewart ladystewart1234@hotmail.com Send us your news!

1986 Roger Hughes reosavvy@yahoo.com It was such fun to see members of the Class of 1986 on campus in May for Alumni Weekend and our 30th Reunion celebration! In addition to all of the festivities at Friends, the class enjoyed a special gathering at Lisa Weisfeldt Strouse’s house on Saturday night. A highlight of the weekend was the induction of the 1985 football team to the Athletic Hall of Fame.

Several members of our class, including Matthew Baum, George Dimitri, John Graybill, Michael Hoffman, Rodney Hughes, Roger Hughes, Robert Lewis, Karl Pfrommer, Chris Preston, Jonathan Siegel, Tom Simmons and Shawn Turner played on that team and fondly remember coaches Tom LaMonica ’67 and Bob Greene. Three cheers! In other news, Charley Case writes, “Greetings from Aspen, Colo. Life is good. I have been the innkeeper here at the Annabelle Inn for 11½ years now. My little girl Charlotte, 5, is not so little anymore.

Sorry I missed Reunion and the induction of the 1985 football team; well done, my friends.” Emily Haas Katzen reports, “I live in Wilmington, Del., and am fortunate to have had my children

attend Wilmington Friends School.

My daughter Sara graduated from WFS in 2013 and is now a junior at the University of Delaware. My son Jakob has committed to play lacrosse and attend McDaniel College in the fall.

His twin brother Miles will be attending the University of Delaware in the fall. Also, my nephews, Jonah Haas ’16 and Sam Haas ’19 attend Friends School of Baltimore (Jonah just graduated this year). I have been employed with Christiana Care Health System for five years as a senior social worker.

Finally, I have been married to my husband Seth for almost 25 years.

I had a wonderful time at our 30th Reunion in May, which does not seem possible I graduated that many years ago!”

1987 Shelley Coates Stein Shelley.stein@gmail.com Save the Date! Alumni Weekend 2017 and 30th Reunion Celebration: May 4-7, 2017 Lawrence Himelfarb says, “It’s been nice to see Melissa Feliciano ’86, Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer, Ellie Goldbloom Sklar, and Lisa Weisfeldt Strouse at various JV and Middle School lacrosse games at Friends School.” Alex Salkever just got his dream job: He is now the vice president of marketing at Mozilla. His job is making the Internet a better place for everyone, and he still gets to ride the ferry to work every day across

beautiful San Francisco Bay. Grace Yannakakis and family have moved to the Jersey Shore (Fair Haven). Everyone is really happy. Grace is the head of lower school at Rumson Country Day School. Running, yoga and martinis are favorite pastimes. Her husband David traded in a car commute on the D.C. beltway for a ferry ride into NYC, where drinks are available and naps are possible. Eldest daughter Zoe, 19, just finished her freshman year at Ithaca College. Livi, 16, is the artist of the family and also enjoys theater and running cross-country. Youngest Delilah, 9, loves coming to school with her mom and bouncing on the new trampoline in the back yard. Kelly LeCompte Sparta got married to Jeffrey Scott Brandon on Sept 27, 2015.

He’s a business banker at Citizen’s Bank and attended culinary school in his earlier years, so she says they eat very well indeed and are blissfully happy. I had a terrific time volunteering at Alumni Weekend and seeing ’86 grads, including Ethan Cohen ’86, Mark Guthrie ’86, Chris Preston ’86, Lisa Weisfeldt Strouse, Melissa Feliciano and Debbie Engerman ’86 and also meeting recent grads and some from as far back as 1956.

1988 Angelo Valle gelovalle@gmail.com Ted Davis was the first in the class to submit an update for this edition of Class Notes. He is associate general

counsel to the Maryland Public Service Commission, the agency that regulates electricity, natural gas, telephones and transportation in the state. Ted recently acted as counsel of record for the Maryland Commission and Pennsylvania’s counterpart in a proceeding that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. That case — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) v. Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA) — raised the issue of whether FERC possesses jurisdiction over demand response, a resource that Ted mentions provides critical competitive pressure in FERC’s wholesale markets and acts as a valuable substitute for high-cost and emissions-producing generators.

He must have been right because his side won the day. Rob Berman figured he would weigh in with a few updates. “It’s been a busy year with three Broadway openings, the most exciting one being ‘Bright Star,’ written

by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell.”

Rob is the musical director and vocal arranger. “We just got nominated for a Tony Award for best musical. No one stands a chance against ‘Hamilton,’ of course, but it’s nice for the show to be acknowledged. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever worked on. It’s a special show, and it’s been so much fun working with Steve and Edie. Not sure how long we’re going to make it, but the cast recording is available, and it turned out beautifully!” Another show Rob has worked on is “Tuck Everlasting,” which features another Friends graduate in the cast, Pippa Pearthree ’74.

Rob said he had a great time seeing Andrea Freudenberger Butler at the last NYC Friends alumni gathering, where he also caught up with John Maclay ’86. “It had been way too

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ELIZABETH HOLDER ’88, Rob Berman ’88 and Gant Powell ’03 backstage at Cort Theatre after a performance of “Bright Star”

long since we had seen each other,” he said. Elizabeth Holder was lucky enough to take in a performance of “Bright Star” in late April and catch up with Rob backstage. Not surprisingly, she reported, “It was wonderful. I was so proud of Robert for all he’s accomplished. And to see it live was just amazing!” Thayer Young was happy to report that his wife Elisabeth is steadily getting back to normal after months of chemo and radiation for breast cancer.

She is stage 0 now. Woo hoo! He definitely does not recommend the experience, if it can be avoided.

Thayer was also happy to report that he turned away his first client the other day, as he is already writing three grants for the coming year. His Cicada Systems GIS Consulting business continues to grow. He does spatial analysis and Web mapping projects for environmental and land conservation nonprofits. Christianne Myers was the last of us to send in an update with an exciting deadline beater. She continues to call Ann Arbor, Mich., home with her husband Dave and their rising fourth-grader, Rowan. “Looks like it will be home for the long haul as I just learned I’ve been promoted to associate professor with tenure at the University of Michigan.” As for me, I’m working my way back into the classroom at the other end of the educational spectrum. I have found myself at my third Quaker school over my lifetime, Cambridge Friends School, a small PK-8 school, where I have been substitute teaching at all levels and in various disciplines. My experiences at Friends School of Baltimore and Friends’ Central School have helped

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settle me in quickly, and I have enjoyed being among Friends again.

1989 Meghan Stern Cochran meghan@stern.net Meghan Stern Cochran took a new job last year managing the digital experience for the hair color company Madison Reed. “My son Axel is 4 years old and deeply, emotionally engaged in the Golden State Warriors’ postseason experience. My dad is turning 70, and it makes me feel grateful that we’ll be able to celebrate that, but also a bit old. Here in San Francisco, weekends continue to feel like vacations. All is well.” Heather Deering Crosby writes, “Life is good. I am living the suburban dream — married, three kids (ages 5 to 10), in a small town in Rhode Island.

Professionally, I continue to run an investment advisory firm. It’s been a great platform for me to both have an office in Rhode Island, but also travel to New York and other big cities on a regular basis. My husband is in a similar(ish) business, also happy with his gig. Our kids attend the local public school. Their activities are all fairly close and relatively relaxed, which is nice. At some point, their lives will ramp up, but right now we are in that happy stage between diapers and cell phones!” Joaquin Feliciano switched jobs at UC Davis in March 2015 and now serves as an analyst in the compliance and policy unit, working on Title IX issues as they relate to sexual violence and sexual harassment response, prevention, education,

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reporting and tracking. He says, “I ran my first 50K trail race in Mendocino this past April and managed to not come in dead last, though it was pretty close.” Jen Asplen Little is working as the associate head of advancement for alumni relations at McDonogh School, where she’s been for 11 years. Her daughter Mary will be going into eighth grade in the fall, and her son Cole will be a sophomore at Loyola Blakefield.

Amy McDougal is expanding her company CLEAResources from the D.C. suburbs and raising two teens solo.

“Good times ... occasionally,” she says with characteristic humor. Amy travels quite a bit for work, to NYC, Anchorage, Nashville, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Denver, Orlando ... and loves it when work brings her home to Baltimore.

Jon Sherman has a 2-year-old with the wonderful name, Cosimo, and is, as he says, “rolling along in Brooklyn.

I do have a couple interesting tidbits that have happened recently. I joined the board of advisors for the Brooklyn Museum, and my wallpaper company, Flavor Paper, just won Best of NYC x Design and Best of ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair) in the wall coverings and fabrics category!”

Christopher Vaughn writes that things are well. “Bo just turned 8, Chase just turned 7. They want to play football for Leicester City or baseball for the Orioles. The way kids’ sports are these days, Julie and I feel like they already

do. We keep reminding them — finish second grade and kindergarten first!

Julie continues to build her financial wealth management practice in alternative assets, so if any alumni out there want to invest the remainder of their family or foundation’s 2008 assets, this is a cheap pitch to call her.”

Christopher was offered a spot to join the U.S. Foreign Service last year as a lawyer in the Africa Bureau of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

He writes, “Essentially, we make sure that USAID programming folks use tax-payer dollars for humanitarian relief (think Syria), global health efforts (think Ebola and Zika) and economic development (think Power Africa) in keeping with the president and Congress’ foreign policy wishes. Great stuff. Our family’s been posted to the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, West Africa, and we’ll depart later this year. It’ll be a great chance to contrast West Africa against East Africa when I was Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya in the mid-1990s. Don’t know if the boys are ready to trade in Leicester City for the Ghanaian Black Stars just yet, but something tells me living in the throes of Africa’s love for footie and seeing the 2018 World Cup in Accra will help them develop a unique affinity for Black Star football.” Christopher is able to keep in touch with other Friends alumni, including Phillip McIntyre and Plato Heironimus (Plato has joined

CHRIS VAUGHN ’89 cheers on the Orioles with sons Bo and Chase.

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NATALIE SANTOS FERGUSON ’90, Firmin DeBrabander ’90 and Mimoza Cejku ’98 chat

with the Class of 2016 during a spring Senior Seminar at Friends.

the Foreign Service at USAID too!) and Eli Balser. He also sees Joe Corvera, Burck Smith ’88 and Leslie Belgrad Finton from time to time.

sons Eli and Reed accepted the award on his behalf. Three cheers for the Class of 1991 and 25 years of being Friends alumni!

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Jahan Sagafi

David Knowles

jahan@post.harvard.edu

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Save the Date! Alumni Weekend 2017 and 25th Reunion Celebration: May 4-7, 2017

1991 Jeff Dinger jeff.dinger@gmail.com The Class of 1991 gathered at Friends this May to celebrate its milestone 25th Reunion! Those who made the trip enjoyed a weekend of festivities at the School, including a very special Thursday night celebration. Four members of the class were inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame this year: Dawn Feliciano, Polly Breyer Kimberly, Kyle Swann and David Holder, who was certainly there in spirit as his family watched on and his

After a three-year sojourn to Portland, Ore., Dabney Neblett Bowen and her family are back in Fairfield, Conn. She is grateful that they got to experience the Pacific Northwest. The best part was living near Jamie Schumann and getting to know her children. Last year, I made a career change: I left the Corn Refiners Association after seven years to pursue a dream that had been rattling around in my head for years. I started a business called Lord of the Pies. We operate out of a commercial kitchen in Washington, D.C. and supply to grocery stores, restaurants,

THE CLASS OF 1991 gathered at Alumni Weekend 2016 for its milestone 25th Reunion.

JAMIE SCHUMANN ’92 and Dabney Neblett Bowen ’92 in Portland, Oregon in 2015

caterers and whoever needs pie. It’s exhausting but a lot of fun and very rewarding. I’m hoping that we can get a big turnout for our 25th next year.

Please keep it in mind and spread the word to our classmates!

1993 Carrie Mallonee Huebner carolinemallonee@gmail.com Our class had no news to report in the last issue of Collection, so I reached out to many members of the Class of ’93 from near and far to get an update for this installment. Many of us turned 40 this year, and I asked how everyone celebrated. Some people traveled for their birthdays, and many had parties in the city where they live.

Blakely Mikula Hamilton had a contra dancing party in Santa Monica, Calif. I went to New Orleans. Karen Hudson Burd celebrated with a party at her new house in Federal Hill in May and

then with a combination birthday and 10th wedding anniversary trip to Italy in October. She says life is good. She returned to work full time as a clinical social worker on the Retreat at Sheppard Pratt this year, and both her kids are in school now, which she called a “game changer.” John Miles reports that he and his wife Julie still live in the mountains of North Carolina, where Julie is busy with her art and John is in his 14th year as CEO of What’s Next at Integritive. com. He recently launched a business advisory/coaching business called Mindful Business Associates, which offers leaders and business owners the opportunity to improve their performance and work-life balance.

John and Julie’s daughter Ada, 11, is into theater, and their son Palo, 8, is into hockey and lacrosse. He invites anyone passing through Asheville to give a call to catch up and grab lunch.

Lest you fear that we have forgotten each other over the years, let me assure you, many memories have endured! There was a pretty hilarious thread on Facebook about a certain middle school math teacher and the shenanigans he put up with. It seems lots of seventh-grade math is still fresh in our minds! (Thanks, Matt Fogelson, for reminding us.) Sarah Standiford reports that she is still enjoying life in Maine. She spends most of her time on the road as deputy national field director with Planned Parenthood Action Fund, working to defend access to health care and participating in what has become a very interesting and exciting presidential election.

Sarah’s husband Jeff is starting his 10th year at Friends of Casco Bay in Portland and is still enjoying that work.

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Standiford residence on Upnor still has the seventh-grade Friends School directory by the phone, so I know how to find you all. Or, at least your parents.”

(To this comment, Jessica Harrison Belzberg and Emily Marr Johnson started rattling off phone numbers that our classmates had in high school. Impressive! I guess those two don’t need the directory.) Sarah and I caught up over Thanksgiving with Elise Pittenger Rocha (who lives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, but spent this year in Charlottesville, Va., with her husband and two daughters), Elizabeth Leonard Clifton (who was visiting from Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), and Frannie Hochberg-Giuffrida (who lives in Washington, D.C.). Elizabeth has a new job as music therapist at two special needs preschools.

She is also starting a new position as director of an after-school choral education program for elementary-aged kids under the auspices of Cappella Festiva, the choral arts organization she sings with. They are building the program from the ground up, and she is thrilled to be a part of it! Christopher Baughman reports that San Diego is still sunny and 70 degrees. He is still teaching sixth-grade humanities at a charter school. His wife Holly is now vice president of development at the American Heart Association, San Diego. (Chris says his dad is smiling from above.) “Son Sam is studying bugs in first grade and brought his mealworms home for us to care for ... joy. Loving life!” Jennifer Ellis Wright and her husband are “enjoying our little ones turning into little people. Avery just turned 6 and Owen is 3. Still happy in San Diego!” Vanessa Coe in December presented daughter Isla, 2, with a new baby brother, James. Johanna Shear Swanson says, “There’s not much to report here other than that we are keeping busy with our two kids who

are 5 and 20 months now. We are still in Parkton, Md., and are about to get a boxer puppy this weekend, as we lost both our dogs in the last couple years and are missing having a four-legged friend in our home. I am still in the pharmaceutical industry working with blind individuals, which is much more rewarding than my previous company.

Other than that, we are all healthy and happy and anticipating the warm weather.” It’s fun to bump into Friends School alumni. I know Del Thornton did some traveling, because we had seats next to each other on a flight to Mexico in January. I heard that Jessica Harrison Belzberg was in Washington, D.C., with her family recently and ran into Frannie Hochberg-Giuffrida on the street. I spotted Nick Bentley at the Shops at Kenilworth over the holidays.

He was there to see the trains with his sister Lija Bentley Hogan ’92 and her daughter. I was there with my two boys, Henry, 4 and Atticus, 2, along with my dad, my brother, my niece and my two nephews. Our class does get around! Luke Lord Davis went to Japan and Brazil this year as part of his work as director of a student exchange company that places and manages foreign students in high schools. Lisa Jacobson says that she is moving to New York City and would love to connect with New Yorkers, so give her a shout if you’re there. Esther Moran Hamm writes that she and her husband moved to Boise, Idaho in August and are settling into Western life. She says it’s a nice change from Brooklyn and that their daughters Eva, 4, and Iris, 2, love it. Those of you who haven’t updated us in a while, be in touch! Where are you living? Where are you working? What do you have planned for your 41st birthday? Keep us posted!

MICHAEL TEMCHINE ’94 shared his expertise with members of the Class of 2016 during his visit to Senior Seminar in April.

MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1996 pose for a photo at Alumni Weekend 2016.

1994 Rich Santos Richie1124@gmail.com Send us your news!

1995 Trevor Soponis tsoponis@gmail.com

Taylor Smith taylor.c.smith@gmail.com Send us your news!

1996 Andy Dale Andrew.Dale@tdameritrade.com Several members of the Class of 1996 enjoyed a fun 20th Reunion weekend at Friends. One of the highlights was the special class gathering at 13.5% Wine Bar in Hampden on Saturday night. It was also a treat for those who were able to attend the Athletic Hall of Fame Induction on Thursday night to cheer for Dan Muñoz and Claire Mikolayunas Sandrock as they were officially inducted.

1997 Claire Cherlin Kosloff clairekosloff@yahoo.com Save the Date! Alumni Weekend 2017 and 20th Reunion Celebration: May 4-7, 2017 Hello everyone, and hope you’re all doing well! Can you believe that next year will be our 20th Reunion? My how time flies! All happy news to report this go-round: Erica Steed Winters

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reports that she and her family bought a house in Texas, and she is about to become a NICU nurse. Amazing, Erica!

Rebecca Leonard McWilliams reports, “We moved to Birmingham, Ala., in February after living in New Orleans for almost nine years. We loved living in NOLA but moved to be closer to family support — Thomas’ family is all in the area. Thomas is working in a supply chain for UAB Medical Center, and I am continuing my career in the nonprofit world as executive director of the Birmingham Chapter of Girls on the Run. Jack, 4, and Lida, 2, do a great job of keeping us on our toes, and our house is in a constant state of chaos.” Good luck in Birmingham, McWilliams family!

I’m sure it’s going to be fantastic.

Melissa Ciesla shares, “I can hardly believe Mark and I celebrated our firstt wedding anniversary on May 31. And this year, we will spend our anniversary in Venice as part of our ‘second honeymoon’ whirlwind tour of Europe, during which we’ll also see London, Rome, Paris and Berlin. Off we go! This year was very kind as far as creative work. I was lucky enough to be cast on ‘Criminal Minds,’ ‘Jane the Virgin’ and in the feature soon-to-bereleased ‘A Week In London.’ Mark received an Independent Arts Award for his composition in the Web series, ‘Hollywood Wasteland’ and continues to regularly compose for commercials, trailers and independent film. Our pup Chewie keeps us plenty busy as well, so life in sunny Los Angeles is pretty good.” You’ve come a long way from “The Butler Did It Singing,” Melissa!

And now for a flurry of babies! First up, Vanessa Harbin Sacks reports, “My daughter Georgia Harbin Sacks was born on Nov. 7, 2015. I’m sending a

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CAROLINE INSLEY-PRUITT, daughter of

JACOB DELACY, son of Charla

Jen Insley-Pruitt ’97

Platt-Doble ’97

picture, because what Friends School baby doesn’t need her picture in Collection?” My daughter Alexandra had the pleasure of cuddling Georgia at Christmastime, and let me tell you firsthand, that girl has the most gorgeous head of hair of any baby ever born! Katie Stricker Gilligan shares, “I married Sean Gilligan Oct. 24, 2014.

He is a West Point grad, retired as a captain in the Army and works now as a police officer. He has a 5-year-old daughter named Cailyn who lives with us, and my son Jack is now 10 years old. Sean Patrick Gilligan Jr., ‘Patrick,’ was born on April 1, 2016 (huge April Fool’s joke since he was due on May 6!). He weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces, was 19½ inches long and is happy and healthy. I also would like to point out that we are not old enough to be having our 20-year Reunion next year!”

Congrats, Katie and Sean, and let me say, I wholeheartedly agree. But wait,

there are more babies to report. Jen Insley-Pruitt writes, “Caroline Keller Insley-Pruitt was born on Sept. 28, 2015, super happy and healthy. She enjoys rolling around on the floor, giggling at her big brother Oliver and snuggling her stuffed narwhal. Other than that we are chugging along.

Matt and I continue to practice law. I went back to work in February after a five-month maternity leave, and Oliver will start kindergarten in the New York City Public Schools in the fall. Time has flown!” So far that’s two girls and one boy. Time for another boy to even things out. Charla Platt-Doble and her husband John welcomed Jacob Alden DeLacy (Charla writes, “No, he is not getting a triple hyphenated name, ha ha!”) on Dec. 29, 2015.

He was 7 pounds, 15 ounces and 21 inches. Many congrats to Charla and John! Pete Levin shares, “My wife Jen and I invited Edgar Moritz Levin into

CLAIRE CHERLIN KOSLOFF ’97’s kids Alexandra and Ellis meeting their baby brother Rory

at the hospital.

GEORGIA SACKS, daughter of Vanessa Harbin Sacks ’97

the world on Nov. 18, 2015. He likes house cats, swimming and rice cereal.

As for me, I’ve been continuing to animate and direct spots for television and commercials. One of the most rewarding clients I have is the Orioles, for whom I’ve been creating stop-motion scoreboard crowd prompts since 2010.” The last baby that will tip the scales is mine. Rory Benjamin Kosloff joined big sister Alexandra, 6 ½, and big brother Ellis, 4½, on the evening of March 9, 2016. He is a sweet and calm little guy, who happily gazes at his older siblings while they play with big-kid toys. It’s wonderful to watch them all interact. Adam is working hard building his Web content business, and I am taking a few months off from producing television to be with the baby. And ostensibly to help Adam with the business, except Rory is making that a little difficult. Here’s hoping the summer treated everyone well, and I can’t wait to see one and all at our Reunion next year.

1998 Justine Alger Forrester jalger1@yahoo.com Hello, friends! I am compiling and submitting our notes a week past deadline and while in the midst of assembling final report cards, boxing up my entire classroom for the summer and preparing for a two-and-a -half-week solo trip to China, all coming to a head in the next eight days. Things are busy, but never too busy to check in with my former

classmates and share news with the Friends community! It was good to receive word from Rob Copeland, whom I haven’t been in touch with since he, Lauren Faulkner-Bond and I planned our class’s 10-year Reunion together. Rob is now working at JHU Homewood campus as a network administrator and Crestron audio visual designer/integrator for Kreiger IT. I am not sure exactly what that entails, but it sounds interesting, complex and very “Rob.” I am also glad that Lauren Johnson wrote in, because I have been following her achievements on Facebook and am duly impressed and eager to share on her behalf. Mostly it appears that she is gallivanting around the world, learning and teaching and making friends everywhere she goes, but it turns out she does have a home base here in the U.S. as an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of North Georgia. She greatly enjoys teaching undergraduate social foundations of education courses and online graduate courses for the school’s M.A. program. This summer, Lauren will participate in the Japan Studies Institute Fellowship program for academic faculty in San Diego prior to heading to New Zealand through a UNG Presidential Summer Grant to research the incorporation of Maori culture into the education system.

I look forward to the next update!

Closer to home — in fact, back on campus — I had the opportunity to catch up with Mimoza Cejku in person at the Friends School first annual Alumni Weekend Crab Feast (a really

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DURING ALUMNI WEEKEND 2016, members of the Class of 2001 gathered at Cosima on

Saturday night.

WILSON TALIAFERRO ’99 visits Friends’ Pre-K Class with one of his chickens, which

hatched at Friends!

great event — I hope to see more of you there next time). Mimoza writes, “This last year has been really exciting as I’ve transitioned in my career from helping people getting their first homes to educating and helping people in executing tax diversification plans for retirement, college planning and wealth accumulation. I’m really excited to be working with one of the highest-rated companies in the business and have an amazing team that provides so much support. I am still living in Pikesville, Md., with my dog Griffey. I will be continuing my love of travel to different places around the world sporadically throughout the year. It was such an honor to be invited to speak to the Friends’ Class of 2016, and it has been great being more involved with alumni events and catching up with classmates and other alumni. I look forward to everyone’s updates and I’d love to catch up!

Email me at mcejku@nyl.com.” Janine D’Adamo and Alec Heuisler ’99 are enjoying parenthood! Their baby boy Niko turned 1 in August. When Niko arrived last summer, Carla Perry Paisley ’92 and Emily Leffler-Schulman ’94 helped welcome him into the world as doulas. Janine says, “It was like a high school reunion in that delivery room!” Niko is having a great first year hanging with his many aunts and uncles: Erin Hall, Deana Frank, ’99, Marc Broady, Jamie Hubbard, and Ben Baker-Lee ’99.

Niko was super excited to attend Ben Pollak ’99’s wedding to Lauren Beck this June and hang with their baby boy Max on the beach this summer.

Maggie Beetz is having a good year.

“I’m about to begin my fourth season with Center Stage. The theater’s building is being completely renovated so it’s an exciting time to be involved.

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I’m living in Hampden with my husband Jesse Whyte, and we’re planning a big vacation to Scotland and England.”

We’ll get to hear more about Maggie’s trip in the next issue! Thanks to those of you who were able to get a note in this time around, and I will check in with everybody again soon!

1999 Kelly Vaughn kellyscruises@yahoo.com On May 13, Shanna Tellerman was honored by Carnegie Mellon University as an alumni association award recipient. The award ceremony opened CMU’s commencement weekend and celebrated alumni for their professional achievements and service to the school. Shanna is a 2003 graduate of the College of Fine arts at CMU and received her master’s degree from the Entertainment Technology Center in 2005. Congratulations, Shanna!

JOE FLEURY ’00’s son Tripp

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2000 Sammy Williamson slwillia@gmail.com Peter and Liz Yeager Guarnieri celebrated the birth of their second child, James Bennett Guarnieri, on April 23, 2016. James joins his big sister Madeline who is almost 3.

2001 Carrie Runde Paddock carrie.runde@gmail.com Hello, Class of 2001. It was great seeing some of you in May for our 15-year Reunion! We had a small, but spirited group, and I really enjoyed catching up with all of you. I can’t believe that 15 years have passed since we walked the halls. To those of you who are no longer local, the next time you visit Baltimore, you should take a walk around the Friends campus to see all the impressive changes since we were students. To those of you who missed this year’s Reunion, I hope to see you in five years at the 20-year event. At Reunion, I was excited to catch up with Alex Koppelman, who lives in Brooklyn. He and his wife are expecting their first baby in the fall.

Expecting their second baby in the fall,

Phil Ghassemieh and his wife Susie Peterson ’00 moved from their house in Federal Hill to Baltimore County to make room for their growing family.

James Clark recently moved back to Baltimore and is living in Bolton Hill with his girlfriend. James works for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) as a program analyst. Jamie Pitts is living in Hollins Market and was working hard to recruit those of us who also are in Baltimore to move to the area. Mark Grzanna is a high school science teacher and lives with his wife in Baltimore’s Cedarcroft community. I ran into them picnicking at Sherwood Gardens when the tulips were in bloom. Also at Reunion were Steven Silvia, who is in Baltimore working as a project coordinator in the construction industry, Uriah Moore, who is putting his musical gifts to use as a music teacher and music consultant for Baltimore County Public Schools, Rachel Tranter and Jennifer Tufaro Nolley. Jennifer and her husband just welcomed their second baby, Kathryn Marietta Nolley, and are moving from Canton to Ruxton. She’s been hard at work on the redevelopment project at White Hall Mill in Baltimore. Rachel was not able to join us at the Reunion but is living in Baltimore and working in nonprofit development. Molly Kastendieck

2001ers GATHER FOR A PHOTO on Saturday night at Alumni Weekend.

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JASON BERMAN ’02 celebrated his

MERET ERNI GEARE ’02, husband Nate

production, “The Birth of a Nation,” at Sundance Film Festival with: John Cooper (director, Sundance Film Festival), Nate Parker (film director, writer, producer and star) and Trevor Groth (director of programming, Sundance Film Festival).

and baby Brixton

moved from D.C. to Claremont, Calif., where she is enjoying traveling and outdoor activities. My husband and I are living in Federal Hill and are kept busy with 1-year-old-daughter Ella.

Please continue to email me your news and let me know when you are in town.

2002 Camille Powe Camille.powe@gmail.com

Christopher Wright cswright@gmail.com Save the Date! Alumni Weekend 2017 and 15th Reunion Celebration: May 4-7, 2017 Karleena Tobin recently reached one of her life-long dreams. She is a WNBA basketball official. She is also a basketball official for the NBA development league and a number of NCAA Division 1 women’s basketball conferences. She had her first WNBA game on May 15, 2016 at Madison Square Garden, which she found to LAURA MCCOMB DIPESA ’02 and James Yolles ’00’s new baby William

be an amazing experience. Laura McComb-DiPesa and her husband James Yolles ’00 recently welcomed their baby boy, William John Yolles. He was born on April 27, and they are still living in Brooklyn, N.Y., and adjusting to their new addition to the family.

Meret Erni Geare and her husband Nate just had their baby boy, Brixton, who was born on Feb. 28, 2016. They are living in the Bay Area, and she is working as a recruiter. Jason Michael Berman produced Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation,” starring Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Jackie Earle Haley, Gabrielle Union and Penelope Ann Miller; it is about the true story of the Nat Turner slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831. The film premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded the U.S. Dramatic Jury Award and the U.S. Audience Award as well as the festival’s top honors.

Fox Searchlight purchased it for a festival record-breaking $17.5 million and will release it nationwide on Oct. 7. Congratulations Jason!

“BABY PUCA” - Jacki and Ben Pittman ’03’s newest addition, Luca

BEN PITTMAN ’03 with wife Jacki and two of their three kids, Jose and Nico

me that her daughter Sarah Berkowitz has moved to Charlottesville, Va., and is about halfway through a Ph.D. in English. Ben Pittman and family have moved back to Baltimore after spending seven years in New Orleans and one year living abroad in the south of France. Ben has taken a job teaching seventh- and eighth-grade French and Spanish at the Calvert School.

He and his wife Jackie also recently welcomed their third kid. The newest member of the Pittman family is Luca; he joins siblings Nico and Josie. Ben also reports that he would love to get together with any local alums sometime soon. On a pretty nonlocal note, Steve Sauder tells me that he’s living in Toronto with his wife Kim (they married in September 2014) and their dog Pickles, who has an adorable Instagram page. Steve is working for the Center for Global Engineering on the “Re-Invent the Toilet Challenge,” which

is part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s challenge of the same name initiated in 2011. In June 2015, I was fortunate enough to see Lily Mendelson marry her awesome husband Jesse. Also at the wedding were Cari Whitney, Dorothy Williams Cook ’02 and, of course, Jake Mendelson ’06. Lily and Jesse live near Patterson Park with their dog Fibi (the second love of her life) and their cat Teddy (a distant third). She’s working as a nurse on the pediatric burn unit at Johns Hopkins, where she hopes to never see any of us. Sarah Pitts has submitted an update that I’m just going to include pretty much verbatim. After losing a knife fight to a frozen burrito (and nearly cutting her finger off!), Sarah decided to take a break from her fast-paced job as legal director of a nonprofit in Philadelphia. She has been clerking since January and only sometimes misses having clients. Although Sarah has loved spending the last few years in Philadelphia’s thriving public interest legal community, she is preparing to move to New York with her calmer

SARAH PITTS ’03 with boyfriend Stephane Essama at his graduation

2003 Emily Lamasa selamasa@gmail.com Hi, Class of 2003! I was so glad to hear from at least a few of you to contribute to this issue of Collection.

Please keep the updates coming!

Friends always appreciate hearing about your big life events, and I know (from checking up on everyone on Facebook) that a lot of you aren’t reporting back even when you have big news to share. I ran into Emily Frank ’71 at alumni weekend who told

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TIM WRIGHT ’04 with wife Carol on their

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half, Stephane. They just celebrated Stephane’s graduations from Penn Law and Wharton with a J.D./M.B.A. Sarah is looking forward to traveling to France with Cari Whitney this spring and to being able to see her more often once Sarah moves to New York.

Speaking of Cari, she recently passed the New York bar (her second, the first being Maryland) and was admitted in April. She lives with boyfriend/partner Evan List and her cats Pancake L. Whitney and Jemima Listney in Bushwick, Brooklyn, which she reports has the second-best chocolate chip cookie in NYC. Eli Bauman is also living in New York City, but he’s in the East Village.

He’s working at a small investment group covering energy companies.

Eli expressed his regrets that his update wouldn’t be super interesting because he doesn’t “have kids or live in Indonesia or anything cool like that.”

I totally disagree and was really glad to hear from him. Gant Powell, another

SAMMIE CUSACK ’04 with husband Julian

and son George

’04 ALUMNI Justin Coe, Doug Vahlkamp, Lehn Robinson, Ian Morton, Rob Summers, Peter

Weitzman and Nick Nelson at Ian’s wedding

bankruptcy judge, where I also hope never to see any of you. Congrats are due to basically everyone who wrote in for this update and everyone else who I know has really cool stuff going on due to the above-mentioned recreational Facebook use but didn’t write in to share with the class! I hope to hear from more of you in the future, and if you didn’t get at least one email from me bugging you about notes, feel free to update your email address with Friends so I can get you next time.

AN FSB CREW at Abigail Seiler’s wedding: back row, from left, Rob Stromberg ’05,

at Friends. Hannah Stern has recently moved to London and is working on the global sales strategy for the pet care portfolio of Mars, Inc. The move enables her and her boyfriend, Henning, a German national, to be closer to his home. Liz Gilliams reports that she completed her internal medicine residency in Atlanta in June, and this summer she and her boyfriend Adam and dog Billie moved to Seattle to start an infectious disease. During past visits to Seattle, she was fortunate to have Jackie Small Parashar act as her unofficial Airbnb. After many years of study and training in Baltimore and Philadelphia, Danielle Waranch is living in Federal Hill and working as a dentist, which I could not be more excited about. Finally, I’m living in Baltimore with my newish husband Andrew and my cat Poppy (maybe one time we will have an update just for the cats of 2003), working as a law clerk for a

Amira Mahammedosman ’04, Katie Ray ’04, Lindsey Syropoulos ’04, Rich Seiler ’68, Bucky Gunts ’68, Dennyse Gunts ’76 and Holter Graham ’90; front row, from left, Shruti Kumar ’04, Abigail Seiler ’04, Kathleen Gorman ’04 and Caitlin Garman ’04

’04 GUYS HIT THE SURF IN SAN DIEGO: John Fisch (friend of the ’04 grads), Mike Levin, Alex Broekhof, Alexei Pfeffer-Gillett and Steven Carlson

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NYC classmate, has been living with his boyfriend Daniel for about a year, which he says is great. He has a new job in the bedding and home products industry as a designer with InDecor, a division of the Bentex Group. Gant was promoted really soon after starting full time and is now in charge of all design. They make bedding, bath, pet and other home products for a variety of stores, including Burlington, Bed Bath and Beyond and JCPenney. He says it’s a lot of fun and really exciting.

Rachel Naumann also wrote to let me know that she’s been working at Connections Education, an online public school, for the past two years.

Rachel and Greg Murphy were recently engaged while on a cruise in the Caribbean, and are planning a wedding for this November. You lifers may remember from our earliest years

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2004 Abby Seiler aseiler8@gmail.com News from ’04’s new mamas! Sammie Cusack Freeman and her husband Julian welcomed their son George Nixon Freeman on Jan. 14 of this year, and Carolyn Coombs and her

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CATIE BLACK MCDONALD ’05 at her August 2015 wedding with, from left, Annie Kruger Payne ’08, Lindsay Grau ’05, (Catie), George Benson, Hargot Hecht ’05 and Drew Black ’06 GARY WILLIAMS ’04 with wife Christina and son Julian

husband Matt are expecting their first baby this fall. Carolyn also expanded her San Francisco Pilates studio, Keep It Classical Pilates, last August. Gary Williams is working with B’more for Healthy Babies to mobilize communities in East and West Baltimore around reducing the infant mortality rate in Baltimore. He’s also serving as board chair of the Young Nonprofits Professional Network Baltimore and working on getting a Realtor’s license.

His son Julian is almost 2 years old.

Sarah Goldberg received her Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian cultures from Columbia University this May and wore the funny cap and puff-sleeve gown and everything. She says she feels smarter and more respectable already. Congrats, Sarah! Katie Ray is also living in New York City and recently crushed the Brooklyn half-marathon in two hours flat. Emma Bartlett Guzowski and Brian Guzowski tied the knot on Dec. 12, 2015 at the Franklin Park Conservatory here in Columbus, Ohio with several Friends

friends in attendance. Tim Wright married Carol Clifford, a St. Paul’s ’08 grad, in October. They met at their first job at T. Rowe Price and are now living down South in Charlotte, N.C. Charlie Totten has been living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for seven months and married Lauren Marks ’07 in September of this year. Lindsey Syropoulos Wedekind and her husband Russell took a two-week trip across Europe this past spring to celebrate turning 30 and also their second wedding anniversary. They had an amazing time in Ireland, England, Germany and the Netherlands and met up with Lauren Goode ’05 for the Netherlands portion, making it extra awesome. Kathleen Gorman adopted a baby kitten last year and this spring adopted a second baby kitten, officially becoming a crazy cat lady.

She’s also completed her residency at University of North Carolina Medical Center and is moving to Washington, D.C., in order (I presume) to be closer to me but also to take a fellowship at

National Children’s Hospital. I’m still in D.C., and recently began working at Food & Friends, which provides meals and nutrition counseling to those living with serious illnesses. I also got hitched in September to Kevin Gilliagan, surrounded by multiple generations of Friends alums.

2005 This class needs a secretary.

If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.

Congratulations to Catie Black, who was married to Rob McDonald last August, in the presence of many Friends friends!

2006 Nicole Runde nicole.runde@gmail.com We had an amazing turnout for Alumni

Weekend this year for our 10-year Reunion. It was surreal and magical to see so many classmates back in the Quad again. Robert Janey and Josh Thomas traveled all the way from China! I loved meeting and hearing about all the new jobs and children and marriages and girlfriends and partners and kittens. If you didn’t make it to reunion, you were missed!

XO! An update from Brian Penza: Brian has developed an interest in high-speed driving since earning his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2010. His hobby began as a few innocent autocross events, dodging cones around a parking lot, but that has since expanded to driving on closed circuit tracks. He’s even shared this addictive pastime with his father, Jeff Penza. Together, the two of them spend occasional weekends at racing venues around the country and push their dedicated track cars to the limit.

They both enjoy the high-adrenaline

BRIAN PENZA ’06 and father Jeff Penza together in their race car

LINDSEY SYROPOULOS WEDEKIND ’04 and husband Russell are joined by Lauren

Goode ’05 in Amsterdam.

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welcomed baby Teddy in April.

fun times spent together. For the past five years, Brian has been working at Honda R&D in Columbus, Ohio, which has provided some incredible opportunities to strengthen his passion for motorsports and racing, including serving on Team Honda Research: Rally, which competes in rally-cross and stag-rally events. His recent claim CLASS OF 2006 PALS Laurel Black, Nicole Runde, Kaitlin Boswell and Katie Minton pose for a few funny shots at Nicole’s June 11 wedding reception.

A GREAT TURNOUT from the Class of 2006 at Alumni Weekend 2016.

to fame was co-driving in the B-Spec Honda Fit, where he was awarded first place in Rally America B-spec and second place in National 2WD Overall for the 2015 season. Their THR Rally team has also built a Honda CR-Z for stage-rally competitions, which they take turns driving at events. Brian and his father share more hobbies than just motorsports. During the winter months, they meet up at a new ski resort each year for a week of hitting the slopes and enjoying the local cuisine. They do this through ISFR, a small group of Rotarians who help offer adaptive skiing programs for handicapped skiers. He says it’s a great opportunity to make new international friends while keeping in touch with family.

NICOLE RUNDE ’06 and Zach Adams at their wedding on June 11

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2007 Lauren Marks lmarks617@gmail.com Save the Date! Alumni Weekend 2017 and 10th Reunion Celebration: May 4-7, 2017

CARLYN TROUT ’07 and husband Karl Miller at their June 2015 wedding

Hey, Class of 2007! How is everyone doing? It’s so good to hear from some of you and get updates about your interesting and meaningful lives. Holly Heller writes, “After living in D.C. and teaching at a charter school for four years, I am moving to Charlottesville, Va., with my boyfriend Brian, where I will be working at Southern Teachers Agency, a teacher recruitment company. I am excited for the change of scenery and to try out a new job.”

Good luck, Holly! Carlyn Trout Miller married her longtime partner Karl Miller in June 2015. After teaching at North Country School in Lake Placid, N.Y., for four years, she and Karl have relocated to Greensboro, N.C., where Carlyn is completing her M.S. in agriculture

education at North Carolina A&T. Best wishes, Carlyn! Laura Shingleton is completing her first year of medical school at UNECOM in Maine and will be volunteering and doing research in Bolivia this summer. Keep up the good work, Laura! Molly Moses is starting at the Smith College School for Social Work and will move to Seattle with her partner Jen this fall for her first field placement. I think it’s amazing that the Friends School Class of 2007 has produced so many social workers and soon-to-be social workers, in addition to Molly Moses, Samantha Winer, Emma Ross and I are also in the field.

If there are others out there, please let us know! In addition to living in Mexico since November 2015 and enjoying the adventure that brings, Charlie Totten ’04 asked me to be his partner in life. We were married in San Miguel

LAURA SHINGLETON ’07 and her parents at her white coat ceremony last fall

LAUREN MARKS ’07 and Charlie Totten ’04 celebrate their engagement.

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CHRIS HOLTER, JR. ’09 talks with members of the Class of 2016 during a spring

DECLAN MEAGHER ’12 and the Occidental College Glee Club

Senior Seminar.

de Allende in September with many Friends School alums alongside of us.

We couldn’t be more thrilled!

2008 Jasmine Powe jasmine.powe@gmail.com Miranda Gordon-Zigel wrote to share a photo of herself with Jen Schmidt and Liza Herzog ’10 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine gala.

“Liza just finished her first year of medical school. Jen and I just graduated from medical school. Jen will be continuing her training in internal medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, and I will be continuing my training in family medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.”

2009 Leah Koenig lkoenig14@gmail.com Charlotte Heyrman enjoyed a summer road trip through the South before starting law school at NYU. Ellen Mehring started travel nursing this past November. Her first stop was working in the ICU at Baylor University Medical Center in Texas for three months. She’s now living in Redondo Beach, Calif., where she works in the ICU at Little Company of Mary Hospital. She says she loves West Coast life and that she and Sallie Robinson get together whenever they can.

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2012

Joey Peyton

Lauren Riley

jpey92@gmail.com

Rilelp12@wfu.edu

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Save the Date! Alumni Weekend 2017 and 5th Reunion Celebration: May 4-7, 2017

2011 Ashley Geleta ageleta@fandm.edu Members of the Class of 2011 recently reconnected at our Five-Year Reunion, with events including the Alumni Weekend Crab Feast, the Reunion Cocktail Party and the class gathering at the Ropewalk Tavern in Federal Hill. It was really great to hear how many of us are graduating, entering the workforce, heading back to school and traveling the world. Congratulations to all of our recent graduates, and thank you to everyone who came to Reunion!

This past year, Declan Meagher and the Occidental College Glee Club, of which he is a member, traveled all the way from Los Angeles to Baltimore during its tour. In addition to performing at Grace United Methodist Church, the group came to Friends to put on a special performance for students on the new Forbush Auditorium stage.

2013 Sam Enokian samanthaenokian@yahoo.com Cedric Charlier spent his junior semester in Jordan living with a great family and taking courses in English and Arabic. He wanted a Middle

THREE CHEERS to the many 2011ers who returned to campus for their first Alumni Weekend!

JEN SCHMIDT ’08, Miranda Gordon-Zigel ’08 and Liza Herzog ’10 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Gala

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HOLDEN MARSHALL ’14, Chandler

CEDRIC CHARLIER ’13 outside of the

Ramallah Friends School in Jerusalem

Eastern perspective on their history and the issues that confront us today.

While there he was able to visit Ramallah and also see Palestine, to witness life in that region. On April 27, Jack Angelone was awarded Earlham College’s Len Holvik Award in Music.

The award is given each year to a student whose talent and capacity for musical growth are outstanding and whose joy in making music with others contributes to the good life of the community. Congratulations to Jack!

Fall 2016

Walters ’14 and Zach Loewenberg ’15 at February’s St. Mary’s College of Maryland vs. Washington & Lee University game

2014 Amelia Merrill amerrill@skidmore.edu

2015 This class needs a secretary.

If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.

RANDY COOPER H’16, John Watt, Jonah Haas ’16 and Finnian Meagher ’16 caught an O’s

game together this summer in Baltimore!

sports in Division III athletics this year sent St. Mary’s College of Maryland to Lexington, Va., to play Washington and Lee University in a three-game set.

This paved the way for three Friends School alums — Holden Marshall ’15, Chandler Walters ’14 (who had transferred to St. Mary’s last fall) and Zach Loewenberg ’15 to make their collegiate baseball debut against one another.

2016 This class needs a secretary.

If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.

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In an ironic quirk of the “scheduling gods,” the opening weekend of spring

Milestones

Please send all Milestones to alumni@friendsbalt.org.

Marriages

Lily Mendelson and Jesse Ruffes June 20, 2015

1960 Jeannie Downs Poulhaus and Robert Miser January 12, 2016

1987 Kelle LeCompte Sparta and Jeffrey Scott Brandon September 27, 2015

Melissa Ciesla and Mark Catalano May 31, 2015

2003 Steve Sauder and Kim Keitner September 13, 2014

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Emma Bartlett and Brian Guzowski December 12, 2015

1997

Catie Black and Rob McDonald August, 8 2015

Katie Stricker and Sean Gilligan October 24, 2014

1993

Abigail Seiler and Kevin Gilligan September 12, 2015

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2006 Nicole Runde and Zach Adams June 11, 2016

2007 Carlyn Trout and Karl Miller June 4, 2015

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Jen Insley-Pruitt and Matt a girl, Caroline Keller, September 28, 2015 Vanessa Harbin Sacks and Dan a girl, Georgia Harbin, November 7, 2015 Charla Platt-Doble and John a boy, Jacob Alden, December 29, 2015 Claire Cherlin Kosloff and Adam a boy, Rory Benjamin, March 9, 2016

Katie Stricker Gilligan and Sean a boy, Sean Patrick, April 1, 2016 Pete Levin and Jen a boy, Edgar Moritz, November 18, 2016

1999 Maron Deering and Sandy Mayson a girl, Sterrett Kathryn July 16, 2015

2000 Liz Yeager Guarnieri and Peter a boy, James Bennett, April 23, 2016

2001 Jennifer Tufaro Nolley and Dawson Nolley, a girl, Kathryn Marietta, June 22, 2016

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REMEMBRANCES Lois Dambach Forbush H’00, 4th grade teacher (1954-1986) Former 4th grade teacher Lois Forbush died on December 18, 2015. The wife of longtime Upper School math teacher, Bliss Forbush, Jr. ’40, and the mother of Biff Forbush ’63 and Wendy Forbush ’65, Mrs. Forbush touched the lives of hundreds of students over her 32 years at Friends. One of these was Jennifer C. Galambos ’84, Ed.D., Upper School director at The Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, who shared news of Mrs. Forbush’s passing with her community. Here are excerpts from that message: Over winter break I saw in the Baltimore Sun that my 4th grade teacher, Lois Forbush, had passed away recently. She was 93 years old, so news of her passing should not have stunned me, but it did…She was one of the best teachers I ever had, and when I became a teacher in my early 20s, I often asked myself “What would Mrs. Forbush do?” whenever I found myself in a difficult situation in my classroom. I am sure that many of you have also experienced a teacher who impacted your life in such a positive way that you too thought that maybe they were just a bit magical.

2000/2002 Laura McComb-DiPesa ’02 and James Yolles ’00, a boy, William John, April 27, 2016

2002 Meret Geare and Nate a boy, Brixton, February 28, 2016

2003 Ben Pittman and Jackie a boy, Luca, May 7, 2016

I arrived in Mrs. Forbush’s classroom after a hard experience in third grade. I was a sensitive child with a penchant for worry and Mrs. Forbush slowly but surely helped me to believe in my academic ability.

She shored up areas in which I was weak and made school a safe place for me again. Physically, she was not an imposing figure, but for me she was larger than life.

As I drove to Mrs. Forbush’s memorial service in early January, I wondered whether it might be a small group of people…But when I entered the Quaker Meetinghouse I found a room bursting with people of all ages. Adults in their 40s, 50s and 60s stood one by one to share a memory of being a student in Mrs. Forbush’s classroom. Each story was slightly different but with a similar thread: Mrs. Forbush was firm but kind, steady and predictable, knowledgeable yet approachable.

She believed in her students and she strived to bring the best out in each of them.

John E. Carnell, former Assistant Headmaster for Finance John E. Carnell, Friends’ former Assistant Headmaster for Finance, died on November 9, 2015. He was 84. Mr. Carnell joined the School in 1956 as an 8th grade teacher and, the following year, was named its Business Manager, a position he held until his retirement in 1996. In an interview with the Baltimore Sun, former Headmaster W. Byron Forbush, II ’47 praised his former colleague as “the consummate assistant headmaster,” noting that, “John always had balanced budgets. I think he was the most outstanding business manager of indepen-

In Memoriam 1935 Louise Gawlis Wylie December 24, 2015

1936 Martha Eastwick Carroll June 25, 2015

1938 Donald H. Wilson January 10, 2016

2004

1941

Sammie Cusack Freeman and Julian a boy, George Nixon, January 14, 2016

Mary DeMuth Gordon June 3, 2011

2006 Courtney Barry Dabrowski and Drew a boy, Theodore Joseph, April 12, 2016

1943 Janet Rossman Lundvall January 9, 2016

dent schools in the state of Maryland.”

In addition to managing the School’s finances, Mr. Carnell also founded the School’s planned giving program, known as the Circle of Friends, which today includes more than 200 members.

Mr. Carnell in 1997 joined the Sheppard Pratt Foundation and Health System board and served as its vice chair from 2006 until his retirement in 2014. Quiet and reserved, he was known on campus for his dry sense of humor and penchant for bowties. Long after his retirement, he stayed connected to the School, attending with his wife, former Trustee Sue Carnell, the many Grandparents Days, arts exhibits, athletic competitions and musical performances of his grandchildren — Caitlin Carnell ’07, Matt ’12 and Sarah ’13 Lambros, and Atticus ’14 and Alice ’18 Carnell. In addition to his wife and grandchildren, Mr. Carnell is survived by his four children, Dr. Eric Carnell ’77, Cristin Carnell Lambros ’79, Rachel Carnell ’80 and Kevin Carnell ’84.

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1949

Mary Biedler Van de Weghe June 9, 2016

Brent Paris April 22, 2016

1946 Ruth Tucker Lochner October 12, 2013

1947 Elsie Tollefson Carter March 19, 2016

Peter Parker January 16, 2016

1951 Duane R. Bolgiano October 3, 2015

1957

Shirley Miller Krug September 10, 2012

Nancy Noble Driver November 21, 2015

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1970

George P. Dix January 19, 2016

Robert A. Robinson May 21, 2016

James D. Peacock April 2, 2016

1983 David M. Basoco August, 2016

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1947

Jacob Epstein**

W. Byron Forbush II and Betsy Forbush

1927 Howard Buffington**

1948 Anonymous

1928 Alan J. Harper** and Florence Harper**

1929

1949 Joseph Klein, Jr.**and Joan G. Klein Shirley Cox Seagren** Richard A. Simon

Caleb R. Kelly, Jr. ** and Adine C. Kelly

1950 1930 William R. Kahl** Nancy Hill Salisbury** and Arthur Salisbury**

G. Frank Breining Joel D. Fedder**

1951 Anonymous (2)

1931 Anthony G. Rytina** and Theodora R. Rytina**

1952 Anonymous Janet E. Mules**

1934 Florence G. Oldham**

Ann Burgunder Greif Harold A. Ricards, Jr.** and Eleanor Connor Ricards ’37**

Anonymous Jane Whitehouse Cohen Sara R. Kellen E. Laird Mortimer Virginia Kelly Mortimer

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1954

Carmian Forbush Davis** and Carle M. Davis** Marion S. Hayden**

Anne Black Evans

1935

CIRCLE OF

Friends

The Circle of Friends recognizes alumni, parents and friends who have provided for the future of the School by including Friends in their estate plans or by establishing an endowed scholarship or fund.

Becoming a member of the Circle of Friends is easy.

• Simply name the School in your will or as beneficiary of a qualified IRA; • Make a life income gift such as a charitable gift annuity; or • Establish an endowed fund with a current gift of $25,000 or more.

Learn more by visiting friendsbalt.plannedgiving.org.

Questions? Please contact Jocelyn Kehl at 410.649.3316 or jkehl@friendsbalt.org.

1937 Dorothy B. Krug Anne Homer Martin** Harold A. Ricards, Jr. ’35** and Eleanor Connor Ricards**

1938 Ethel Kegan Ettinger** Emma Belle Shafer Wagner** Donald H. Wilson, Jr.** and Marion Wilson

Elizabeth Lamb Buck** Daniel S. Greenbaum**

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Robin Biddison Dodd Robert L. Kriel Mary Allen Wilkes

1956 Albion Bacon Clarinda Harriss Robert B. Heaton and Ann H. Heaton Martha F. Horner Mabel T. Miyasaki Linda Windsor Siecke

Marcia Smith Clark Carol Harrington Fitting and David H. Fitting♦ J. Henry Riefle III

1941 James G. Kuller** Dorothy Eastwick Seaton**

1942 Anonymous**

1944 David R. Millard**

1945 Harry L. Hoffman III**and Mary Louisa Hoffman

Gisela Cloos Evitt

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1958 Anonymous Elizabeth Banghart Bratz Susan Shinnick Hossfeld Henry L. Mortimer J. McDonnell Price Ronald H. Renoff Frank A. Windsor and Ann McAllister Windsor ’60

1959 Robert S. Patterson and Barbara Patterson Dan Reed and Claire Reed James B. Stott

providing for our future 1960

1969

1989

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

M. Louise Wagner

David Henry Jason Innes Gregory Moody

1961 Elizabeth Grason New Cohen Joan Yeager Cromer John L. Dashiells, Jr.** David M. Evans** Sylvan J. Seidenman and Sandy Seidenman E. Donald Stevens♦ Linda Brecht Stevens♦

1970 Katherine M. Cox A. P. Ramsey Crosby Susan Byrnes Koerber** Lisa Mitchell Pitts and Toby Pitts Carl B. Robbins

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

1974

Mary Ellen Fischer James A. Hammond Emily C. Holman James Byron Willis, Jr.

1975

1963

Cynthia Klein Goldberg Winston W. Hutchins

Katherine Benesch Joseph W. Cowan and Ostella S. 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

1965 Gretchen Garman Mary Dell Gordon Harlan and Charles W. Harlan ’63 Frederick W. Moran

1966 Steven G. Heaver, Jr.♦

Robin E. Behm Katherine E. Bryant

1976

1977 Alison Nasdor Fass and Andrew Fass F. William Hearn, Jr.

1978 Norman D. Forbush Timothy R. Hearn

1979 Philip B. Gould Joseph Klein III and Judy Sandler Cristin Carnell Lambros

1980 Christopher Holter Amy Gould John and Andrew John

1981 Anonymous David H. Alkire Philip S. Boling♦ Eileen S. Goldgeier Katherine A. Hearn Diana Price Matthews James M. Matthews

1983

John H. Mears III♦ Alan B. Rosoff

Louis T. Hanover Edwin H. Remsberg Sean R. Sweeney

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1985

1967

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

** Deceased ♦ New

1991 Sherri Shubin Cohen

David R. Blumberg

1964

Will and Sandy Rubenstein

1972

1962

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

1990

Evan C. Shubin Katherine G. Windsor

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

Parents, Grandparents, Faculty, Staff, Friends and Trustees Anonymous (2) Cary and Steve Achuff♦ Jeanette W. Achuff** Virginia Lee Ault** Nancy H. Berger Robert K. Berger** Deborah and Howard M. Berman Karen Birdsong and Carl Roth Heidi and David Blalock Patricia H. Blanchard Gerritt H. Blauvelt Karen Bleich Tom Brooks Anne R. Brown Sharon C. and D. Perry Brown Helen E. Bryant** Dr. and Mrs. Michael R. Camp Dr. Oscar B.** and Lorraine Camp Sue and John Carnell** Alice Cherbonnier David S. Cooper, Jr. and Kryssa J. Cooper 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 Nick and Brigitte Fessenden Susan and William Filbert Sarah Finlayson and Lindley DeGarmo Lora and Greg Gann Jeff and Ann Gonya Julie Fader Gilbert and Gordon Gilbert Ann C. Gordon Vincent L. and D. Iveagh Gott Stanley B. and Joan Gould Eleanor H. Gross** Nina Guise-Gerrity♦ David M. Heath Mary E. Scott and Gary E. Heinlein Eleanor W. High** 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

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Deloris Jones Barbara P. Katz Adine C. Kelly Michael and Narindar Kelly Joseph Klein, Jr.** and Joan G. Klein Ferne K. Kolodner Cartan B. Kraft** Eleanor Chisholm Landauer Gayle Layfield Latshaw** Howard and Karen Loewenberg Otis E. Mace** and Eleanor Dilworth Mace** Susan P. Macfarlane John and Joyce Maclay Garvin S. and Pamela M. Maffett W. Berkeley** and Eleanor Mann** Diana R. McGraw Elizabeth A. McKennon 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 Catherine G. Motz** Gerry Mullan and William J. Sweet, Jr. Lee S. Owen S. Opie Owen C. E. and Joan Partridge Dorothy H. Powe Anne and Roger Powell Helen M. Reich** Wayne and Janet Ries♦ Stephen Rives Marylynn and John Roberts Mary S. and Paul E. Roberts Jean B. and John V. Russo Mary Ellen and William Saterlie Amy and Alan Schmaljohn Carole French Schreck Esther Sharp Barbara and Gordon Shelton The Shubin Family Daryl J. and Sandra J. Sidle Lisa and Alfred L. Singer Jerome Smalley Lynne Tryon Smalley William Smillie Turner B. and Judith R. Smith Phillip Snyder Joan S. Stevenson Deirdre Stokes Mark C. Stromdahl♦ Audrey W. Taliaferro** Norma C. Tinker** Marilyn and David Warshawsky John G. Watt Mark and Sherri Weinman Bill and Blair White Thomas E. Wilcox and Elizabeth Whitney Ransome

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