THE MAGAZINE OF FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE
SUMMER 2014
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Measuring the value of a Lower School education
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Forbush Auditorium takes its curtain call
Tewaaraton Tête-à-Tête:
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Three Cheers for Chocolate Cacao beans, Aztec masks fuel student inquiry
Collection MAGAZINE
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SUMMER 2014
Published twice a year by Friends School of Baltimore.
Matthew Micciche Head of School Bonnie Hearn Assistant Head for Finance and Operations Ashley Principe Director of Development Karen Dates Dunmore ‘82 Director of Admission and Community Outreach Eleanor Landauer Associate Director of Development Heidi Blalock Editor; Director of Communications
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Amy Langrehr Alumni Director
A Friends education may be the best investment of all, says Lower School parent Martha McLaughlin
Meg Whiteford Annual Fund Director Mary Pat Bianchi, Heidi Bichler-Harris, Jenna Murdock, Kate Maskarinec, Lisa Pitts ‘70 Development Office Staff
IN PR AISE OF LOWER SCHOOL
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CHOCOLATE CENTERED The third grade pilots an International Primary Curriculum unit with sweet results
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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. If this issue is mailed to a son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please notify us of the new address by emailing alumni@friendsbalt.org or by calling 410.649.3208. Thank you! Printing J.H. Furst Co. Design Clipper City Media, Ian Potts Cover photo David Stuck Photography: Rick Lippenholz, David Stuck and members of the School community.
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING:
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Partners in Research From immigration trends to public health, Friends students are collaborating with thought-leaders in higher education
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SP ORTS School spirit abounded this spring on the playing fields and courts
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Groceries, taxes and rent … Oh my! Business unit teaches sixth graders why math matters
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DEVELOPMENT NEWS
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Automotive physics class explores the science behind the “vroom!”
A Capstone Experience Upper Schoolers this spring tested their language skills during trips to Russia and France
Peru for Beginners Middle School teacher Shannon Johnson “walks the talk” with a language immersion trip to Peru
Spotlight on the Arts: Alumni and students share their Forbush Auditorium memories of shows great and small
ALUMNI NEWS
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Tewaaraton Tête-à-Tête An interview with Joe Cowan ’64 and Kyle Harrison ’01
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Generations at Friends Our annual roundup of children and grandchildren of alumni
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Friendly Gatherings The School hosted events for alumni in New York City and Greenwich, Conn.
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ON THE COVER
Third graders display Mayan-inspired masks created as part of a chocolatecentered curriculum.
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FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL
DEAR FRIENDS, ONE OF THE GREAT GIFTS OF OUR heritage as a Quaker school is our deep-
To achieve our goals, we will relentlessly cultivate these qualities within our community of professionals:
seated commitment to continuing revelation. A constant focus of our reflections and revelations is, of course, the educational experience we provide to our students. The development in 2010 of the Friends School Teaching and Learning Paradigm (pictured) focused on the critical task of articulating the qualities we seek to develop in our students and determining the focus for our efforts. Over these past several years, our talented and innovative faculty have reimagined many
• Continual inquiry, reflection, assessment and innovation of our curriculum and our pedagogy. • Openness to new structures, systems and experiences. • Awareness of best practices in the profession and of the latest research in pedagogy, brain science and related fields. • Disciplined and focused use of resources and optimally effective practices for hiring, supporting, evaluating and developing a skilled, dynamic and adaptable faculty and staff.
important elements of our curriculum to align more fully with this list of essential traits. The next stage of our ongoing work is focused on exploring and developing the pedagogical approaches that will best help us to reach the objectives we’ve set for student learning. The changes that we envision will give our students an even more powerful, relevant and meaningful education, because that is what they deserve and what the world they will live in demands. At this particular moment in Friends School’s 230-year history, we have the opportunity to stake our claim to a distinctive learning experience that, as a Quaker school, we are uniquely positioned to provide. We owe it to our students, our families and the long-term health of the School to move boldly toward a future state in which teaching and learning at Friends School will, increasingly:
• Be highly experiential. • Encourage multiple means of demonstrating mastery and offer opportunities for design and production. • Develop, assess and track mastery of fundamental academic skills. • Provide authentic audiences and assessments. • Allow student choice to the greatest extent possible. • Use the Baltimore community as a learning space. • Align fully with our Teaching and Learning Paradigm.
In recent years, we have made important incremental strides and have laid the foundation for this next stage of our evolution. To help develop a common understanding of and vocabulary for the growth and change that we foresee, all faculty will be reading “Creating Innovators” by Tony Wagner this summer. (Wagner’s “The Global Achievement Gap” was an important catalyst for our thinking as we developed the Teaching and Learning Paradigm.) I encourage our parents and alumni to read it as well, so that you can be informed about and actively engaged in the dialogue around this latest stage of the School’s development. Copies of the book will be available at Friends for those who are interested, and there will be a variety of sessions scheduled in the 2014-15 school year to discuss the book and its implications for our School. In our continual efforts to make a Friends education truly outstanding, we have benefited enormously from our School’s dedication to continuing revelation and the intolerance for complacency that accompanies it. We will make the most of these precious qualities as we continue to strive toward our goals. I invite you to be an active part of this process, so that we can continue to develop young women and men who are well-prepared to do the work that our rapidly changing world will need from them. Best wishes,
Matthew Micciche Head of School
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Seniors Isabel B., Chloe F. and Caroline H. at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Friends students collaborate with thought-leaders in higher education, gain real-world experience
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Archivist Valerie Addonizio works with students.
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FOR HISTORY TEACHER JOSH CARLIN, it all began in 2011, when he and two Upper School colleagues traveled to Duke University to meet with professors Laurent Dubois and Deborah Jensen, co-directors of the university’s Haitian studies lab. That trip resulted in a new senior elective, “Haiti Lab: A Collaboration with Duke University,” in which Friends students assist Duke undergraduates in tracing the roots of Haitian slaves back to their original African homelands while learning about Haitian history, the African diaspora and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Since that time, Carlin, who also serves in Friends’ Admission Office, has helped broker more than 26 such university partnerships — and he’s just getting started. The School’s
newly appointed Coordinator of University Partnerships (he now has three professional titles), Carlin is charged with finding opportunities for Friends students to partner with educators and students in higher education. “Helping our students learn what research entails at a major university is a passion of mine,” he says. Readers may recall three such partnerships spearheaded by Upper School faculty Sujata Ganpule, Bill Hilgartner and Principal Steve McManus (Collection, Fall 2013), including two STEM-related opportunities led by researchers from Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland and the Space Telescope Institute; also a year-long Business Workshop taught by David Grossman,
a Friends parent and professor of international business and marketing at Goucher College. In this issue, we examine three more: “Immigration and Citizenship,” “Roland Park Archives” and “Introduction to Public Health.” All three are senior-level electives.
are gathering and coding data, looking for patterns in legislation.” Lewis Hibbs ’14 had initially enrolled in the course for just the fall semester but stayed on so that he could continue his research. “Learning about political science on an international scale has sparked my interest in continuing my studies in college,” he says.
IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP
Developed in collaboration with Dr. Erin Chung, a political science professor at Johns Hopkins University and a Friends School parent, this history class provides an overview of international immigration and global citizenship, including broader trends and historical developments, while engaging students in preliminary research for a book project Dr. Chung has started on the subject of ethnic democracies. History Department Chair Molly Smith ’82 and Josh Carlin lead the class, which students can take for a semester or an entire year. During the first phase of the course last fall, students working in groups researched the ins and outs of permanent, long-term and temporary residency requirements for foreigners seeking citizenship in some 25 different countries in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. From those cases, Dr. Chung selected approximately 15 countries for students to study in greater depth. “Not just the laws,” says Smith, “but demographic issues, news and current events surrounding immigration, the economic situation. All of those background pieces that help explain where the laws fit in.” Students debriefed each other as they completed their individual assignments, comparing and contrasting policies of all the countries in Dr. Chung’s investigation, not just their assigned regions. “It’s complicated, demanding stuff,” says Carlin. “The students
Dr. Erin Chung discusses her research with Upper School students.
ROLAND PARK ARCHIVES
In this semester-long collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, Friends seniors last fall helped process the trove of correspondence, ledgers, photographs, meeting minutes and more contained in the Roland Park Company collection. Johns Hopkins acquired the collection, which dates from 1865 to 1970, four years ago from Cornell University. Working alongside professional archivist Valerie Addonizio, students researched and wrote secondary source supplements about some of the prominent figures and businesses referenced in the Roland Park Company Papers. “So now when scholars want to look up key people and facts in Roland Park’s history,” explains Josh Carlin, “they will be reading Friends students’ work.” Again, Carlin, who co-taught the course with Addonizio and Friends School Librarians John Scott, Paula Montrie and Jessica Garman, was instrumental in making the connection with the Sheridan Libraries. “I reached out to [the libraries] years ago to see if our students could use their primary sources for research projects,” he says. “The relationship grew from there.” “As someone who has lived in the neighborhood my whole life, it was incredible to see how much history resides in Roland Park,” says Eliza Harris ’14. “Although some of the work could
sometimes be painstaking, it gave me newfound respect for the people who devote their lives to preserving our history.” INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH
The four seniors enrolled in this spring elective assisted Wendy Davis, a senior manager of the Johns Hopkins University’s Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the mother of three Friends alums, in organizing and planning CFAR’s second annual data fair on April 1, 2014. The event is designed to promote collaboration among AIDS prevention researchers and connect graduate students in the School of Public Health with senior researchers engaged in ongoing studies in the Baltimore community and globally. Working with Davis and her colleague Nancy Leonard, the seniors designed promotional materials and a slide presentation for the event, learning new information about the deadly virus and its transmission in the process. “We created an HIV/AIDS glossary to help us learn terminology, such as ‘vertical transmission,’ and acronyms like IDU (injected drug users) and MSM (men who have sex with men),” explains Isabel Blalock ’14. “On a quantitative level, this team of Friends School students helped us push through an impressive level of technically challenging, detailed product,” says Davis. “On a qualitative level, they helped us improve the clarity and visual appeal of the material we were sharing with a large, diverse and very busy audience. Ultimately, their help was central to the success of this event.” CAPITALIZING ON CONNECTIONS
The fact that most of these University Partnership Projects are being spearheaded by Friends School parents who work in higher education is not a coincidence. Two years ago, School administrators hosted a networking event for Friends parents who are employed by Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions to explore opportunities for our students to engage with their researchers. That meeting is bearing significant fruit, according to Carlin. “Our goal is to build and sustain these interdisciplinary, experiential offerings so that all Friends students will have the opportunity to participate in at least one university partnership before they graduate.” FS
For more information about Friends’ University Partnership Program, contact Josh Carlin at 410.649.3312 or jcarlin@friendsbalt.org.
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Number crunching: Sixth graders engage in real-life budget balancing as both business owners and consumers.
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Oh My! Business Unit teaches sixth graders why math matters BY JOHN WATT
Middle School math teacher
THIS WINTER, AS THEY HAVE EACH YEAR SINCE 1987, sixth graders broke from their regular class schedules to balance checkbooks, calculate auto loans and plan healthy, affordable meals as part of the Business Unit. The brainchild of former Friends teachers Chris Walsh, Aggie Vandergrift and Martha Barss, the two-week session is designed to provide students with real-life mathematical applications, such as using percents in budgeting and calculating interest payments. Students are randomly assigned a consumer identity — professional skater, dentist, veterinarian, exterminator, mayor or fitness instructor, to name a few — and are asked to make a preliminary budget with a major emphasis on how they will provide housing, food and transportation for their families. For her consumer identity, Olivia Nengel ’20 played a teacher with two kids and a monthly salary of $2,400, while Rachael Freeman was an oil lobbyist with four children and a monthly salary of $8,100. Each student spends half the morning as a consumer, purchasing goods and services, and the other half running a small business. Sticker shock is a common occurence, particularly when the students buy groceries.
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Instead of making actual purchases, shoppers affix stickers with the prices of food items (scanned from weekly store circulars) onto their grocery lists. The students’ food purchases are tied into the nutrition unit in science class, where they learn about healthy diets and why certain foods may or may not be a smart addition to the Olivia calculates her client’s family’s weekly monthly mortgage. grocery budget. Parents tell us that their kids come home with a new appreciation for how difficult and costly it is to provide for a family. At the end of the unit, students prepare consumer reports, including bar and pie graphs on how they spent their money and how closely they followed their preliminary budgets. Katrina Brazhnikov ‘20, assigned the role of a police officer with three children, “bought a house first and paid a bigger down payment, so I had a lower interest rate,” she explained. “Some kids ran out of money because they went to the mall first.” FS
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EEP IN THE SUBTERRANEAN SPACE beneath the Upper School Library, surrounded by bicycle frames, engine parts, wrenches and screwdrivers, Upper School faculty members Ramsay Barnes and Shelly Watts have spent the last year hammering out the details for a new course they’ll be soon be offering: “Automotive Physics.” Their elective, open to juniors and seniors, will give students hands-on experience in assembling an engine, which the teens will ultimately use to motorize a bicycle. “I’ve never built an engine, so I’ve learned a lot of new skills while developing the course,” says Watts, a physics teacher. Adds Barnes, an art teacher, “For the School to invest time, money and space and basically take a risk on this course, is very gratifying for me as a teacher. It makes me want to be better at what I’m doing.” The idea for the course started with Barnes, who joined the Art Department faculty three years ago after teaching at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). A longtime Vespa enthusiast, Barnes launched a student club to restore and rebuild the vintage scooters — a club that became wildly popular. Barnes found that Friends students really enjoy having the opportunity to “work on engines and get their hands dirty” solving mechanical challenges. Then last spring came a call for Friends faculty to collaborate across departments and across divisions to develop new courses and approaches to teaching through the Summer Curriculum Grant program. When Barnes approached Watts with his idea for the
course, she immediately saw opportunities to incorporate the study of physics principles such as velocity and aerodynamics. The duo submitted their proposal, and it was one of 24 initiatives that received funding last summer. Once they got the green light, Barnes and Watts began to develop the curriculum and structure for the course. “We coordinated our free blocks so that we Physics teacher Shelly Watts and art teacher Ramsay Barnes. could meet twice each cycle,” says Watts. Ultimately they decided that the hands-on course would have students working in pairs over the course of a semester to connect a motorized two-stroke engine to a manual bike. The class will include daily journaling (“to reflect on what did you accomplish today? What went wrong? What’s the next step?” says Barnes), visiting lecturers and a primer on bike safety (since the ultimate goal is to have the students tooling around campus on their motorized bikes). The two faculty members also plan to capitalize on the School’s new 1:1 iPad Initiative by incorporating instructional video clips into the curriculum and by documenting student progress throughout the semester to create a video “construction log” for each student pair. The teachers anticipate that their students will hit plenty of roadblocks along the way — and that’s actually part of their plan. “This won’t be a ‘cookbook lab,’” says Watts. “The students will experience frustration [when things don’t work as planned], but these setbacks will really build their critical thinking skills — and prepare them well for conducting research in college.” FS
Students restore a vintage Vespa.
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A Capstone Experience Home-stay in Aix en Provence Authentic, experiential learning at its best TWENTY-ONE UPPER SCHOOL FRENCH STUDENTS, ALONG WITH Principal Steve McManus and French teacher Christine Koniezhny boarded a plane to France on March 15, 2014 for 15 days of full language and cultural immersion. The group spent its first three days in Paris, mastering the metro while exploring such important sites as the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Quartier Latin, Beaubourg and the Arc de Triomphe. They then took the TGV to Aix en Provence, home of the painter Paul Cézanne, where students were greeted by host families and quickly swept up into the rhythm of daily French life. The home-stay is by far the most challenging and rewarding aspect of the trip. This reflection, written by Weezie Foster ‘14, brings into clear focus the reasons why this is so.
TTE N DI NG SCHOOL WITH MY HOST S I STE R Louise was the most stimulating and memorable part of the trip. We would arrive at school a few minutes before 8 a.m. and sit with her friends until the gates opened. Students flooded in on buses and motorcycles, furiously sucking the last few puffs of their cigarettes and kissing each other on the cheek. Louise’s group of friends, comprised of boys and girls, was extremely close and jokingly referred to themselves as a cult. For the first few days I was shy around them. I stood next to Louise like a passive observer and listened to them all talk. This was difficult at first. I didn’t have the ability to keep up with their conversation, and I wasn’t bold enough to introduce a topic. I could understand most of what they were saying, but by the time I had thought of a phrase and conjugated the verbs in my head, they had moved on to another topic. If they wanted to ask me a question they would suddenly turn to me, slow their speech and use large hand gestures to ensure that I understood. I tried to imagine what I seemed like to them, quiet and creepily ever-present. The exchange student. This all changed on the afternoon of my second day of school. Louise had a free period and we met up with her friends Adrien and Luic in the library. Luic and I talked for a few minutes, and I think he was surprised to find that I did, in fact, speak French. We realized that we both were interested in studying history in college, and he jumped up
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and pulled a world history book off the shelf. We flipped through it and compared our schooling. Did you study this? How old were you? Do you know him? What do the French think of this event? What do Americans think of that war? Luic was infatuated with Napoleon and vowed that he would someday reinstall the French monarchy, appointing himself as king. The conversation slipped into politics and foreign policy. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I could say. I had been so worried about making a mistake that I wasn’t giving myself the opportunity to try. From then on, I spoke as much as possible and began contributing during class. In political science I was asked about the lack of bipartisanship in American politics. In economics, the professor invited me to share my opinion about ObamaCare, and in philosophy, I was asked a host of questions I had no idea how to answer, but attempted nonetheless. The whole class would shift in their seats and stare at me as I formulated the best response. Soon Louise’s friends started asking me everything and anything they knew about American culture. I dispelled stereotypes and generalizations and asked them similar questions about France. It was a fun role to play. On my last day of school, Louise’s friends surprised me with a goingaway lunch. All 17 of us packed into a burger joint and shared greasy French food. In that moment, I truly felt like a high schooler in Gardanne, France, out to lunch with my friends. FS
To have another language is to possess a second soul. — Charlemagne
Everyday Russians are the best teachers of all ASK ANY OF THE 19 JUNIORS AND SENIORS WHO PARTICIPATED in the 18-day trip to St. Petersburg, Russia this March where their most valuable learning happened, you’ll likely get very different responses. For some, the greatest takeaways were in the connections made with people — their teachers or their home-stay hosts. For others, they were in the huge strides they made in their language growth or their cultural knowledge. In his reflection, Sam Dusman ’15 shares how engaging with everyday Russians helped him to conquer his fears and find his voice.
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Y FIRST FEW DAYS IN RUSSIA WERE QUIET. I spoke a lot of Russian with friends and teachers, but whatever stranger I encountered would only receive a few short bursts of speech. I was nervous. Unaccustomed to so many public interactions and becoming increasingly aware of how foreign I sounded, I started to use the phrase “I’m sorry, I’m an American” as a sort of safety net to force my way out of tricky dialogues. Although it garnered a smile or laugh from whoever I was talking to, this expression often stunted any further communication or, worse yet, resulted in changing the conversation from Russian to broken English. I hated any situation From left, Katrina ‘15, Emilia ‘15, Caleb ‘14, Max ‘15, Sam ’15 and Maggie ’15 enjoyed that led to English meeting in a cafe for lunch during free time. with a native. It brought nothing but discouragement and frustration, but I couldn’t help it. I needed that phrase. As the days progressed, complicated scenarios began to arise in which it was essential to not only speak Russian, but to understand it and to respond. After multiple uncomfortable cafe or shop excursions, my excitement began to plummet. I was playing the American card every day, too nervous to contemplate and respond to any Russian I heard, and terrified that my linguistic ability was to remain at a low for the entirety of the trip. These thoughts were racing through my mind one night after our fourth day in Russia. It was snowing, with big wet heavy flakes that stuck to your clothes and weighed you down. It was the first snow we had had in Saint Petersburg. My partner and I were making the short walk home to our apartment from the metro. Visibility was pretty low, despite the streetlights, and every person who passed seemed to be a blur as they disappeared down the wide never-ending street. As we continued our walk, an image of a woman and a child appeared in the distance ahead. As their features became clear, they did something that I didn’t expect. They made eye contact and headed straight for us. Stopping us, the woman softly asked a question. Unable to hear, tired and still feeling glum, I unconsciously asked the woman to repeat herself. It turns out she was asking the simple question
On the beach during a day trip to Novgorod.
— “Where’s the metro?” — hidden among slightly complex vocabulary. I answered, pointing in the direction from which we came, and continued on my way. After a brief pause, I realized that the small accidental conversation I had just had was my fear all along. She didn’t deride me for my accent, I understood her despite my limited vocabulary, and I was even able to respond helpfully. Something about the serenity of the snow and the blatancy of the event that occurred woke me up. I was thinking too hard. The years of time and effort spent learning the Russian language weren’t for naught. I had the ability and the knowledge within me the whole time, I just had to sit back and let it flow out of me like a language should, instead of fretting over my inexperience. After that night, I became relaxed and even opened up a bit to try new things. Cafes and shops became easy; conversation became an everyday activity that I enjoyed, and I felt better alone in my pair than off with a large group. Though we had many adventures through museums, culture classes and historical tours, I feel I learned the most just by wandering around. The people of the city were my teachers, unknowingly guiding me through Russian language and culture. Had I not gone on the trip, I would continue to learn Russian vocabulary and would practice speaking in structured contexts in class, but there is no way in a classroom setting to force one to take risks with strangers, to become entirely comfortable with the ever-flowing stream of unrehearsed speech that must flow in and out in order to effectively communicate. And, most importantly, I never would’ve learned to relax into a situation and find confidence and joy in my ability to work something out in the moment without the brakes of frustration taking over. I learned a lot more than Russian on this trip, and for that I am thankful. FS
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Middle School Russian and Spanish teacher
WHEN I FIRST CHOSE PERU AS THE DESTINATION
for my summer sabbatical, I knew it was the home of Machu Picchu and the departure point for travel in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, 13,000 feet above sea level. I knew the people there speak Spanish and eat guinea pigs. I knew I would get to wear sweaters — since it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere during our summer. And I knew I wanted to speak Spanish, a language I added to my repertoire and began teaching in 1998, three years after joining Friends as the Middle School Russian teacher. Although I had traveled previously to Spain, Peru would be my first immersion The author on an experience, and I was nervous. ascent to Ausangate, in the Willkanuta mountain Would my host family like me? range of the Andes. Would we eat guinea pig for breakfast? How would I find my way downtown to the school? My fears were absolutely unfounded. From the first moment she welcomed me, Rosa, my Peruvian “mom,” treated me with endless kindness and care. On my first day, her husband, Hugo, was fixing the curtain in my room and he asked me if I spoke Spanish. “Yes,” I said, “do you?” He answered that he did. “What luck!” I responded. We laughed and traded constant jokes from then on. I also had a host sister, Lucia, a medical student volunteer from Spain, who took me under her wing, showed me how to get downtown and introduced me to her friends. When we were both free, we visited museums or met each other in the family dining room, where the WiFi signal was strongest.
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Like Friends students during their overseas homestays, I attended classes while in Peru. My private Spanish teacher, Maria, lived near me in El Magisterio, and we rode to school together on the large vans, with names such as Zorro and Batman, that constitute a major part of the public transportation system. At school we would begin our lesson by talking about whatever was on our minds — a question I had or something that Maria had seen on the news; afterward, we would get coffee in the school café and take a walk around the city. My favorite day was when we went to the La Virgen del Carmen festival in Pisac, a nearby village. The festival included a church service, a procession with specially decorated statues of the Virgin Mary and groups of dancers, many of whom had been preparing their dances and costumes all year. La Virgen del Carmen festival figured into my homestay as well. The festival is celebrated throughout Peru, but the largest celebration is in the town of Paucartambo, a few hours from Cusco. Paucartambo is the hometown of Hugo, my host dad, and he returns there every year to celebrate with his family, members of whom travel from Lima and beyond for a reunion before heading off to the festival. I got to experience a typical holiday dinner with the family and spend an afternoon listening to them sing and catch up with each other. It was magical, and, like most magical moments, completely unanticipated. In March, as I have every other year since 2008, I had the pleasure of accompanying our Upper School Russian students to St. Petersburg, Russia for their 15-day home-stays. Watching my former students in their immersion experiences felt especially meaningful this time because of my own immersion experience in Peru. My time with Rosa and Hugo provided lessons in empathy for my students and a fresh perspective on what culture shock feels like. Engaging firsthand with another culture, living in a strange place, eating different foods, grasping at unfamiliar words in your brain requires you to use all your wits, your charm, your strength and whatever sense of humor you can summon. As Fellini observed: A different language is a different vision of life. Being open to that vision is a gift that Friends School cultivates in its students and its teachers. FS
IN PRAISE OF
Lower School A second grade parent shares why, for her family, a Friends education may be the best investment of all
Did you know we are all connected?” This is the question my son Henry asked me as were driving home after school one day last spring. “Yeah?” I responded. “How so?” “WELL,” HENRY SAID, PAUSING, “LIKE this road …Without the road, we couldn’t be here driving on it. Our car wheels touch the road. The wheels are part of the car. We sit in seats that are part of the car …” Henry’s reflection, I later learned, had emerged from something he and his first grade classmates had discussed that morning during worship, a time that Lower School teachers set aside for quiet reflection. This is my family’s second year at Friends, and the practice of daily silent worship continues to amaze me. There is no forced dogma, nothing to memorize. Instead, guided by a trusted teacher and the philosophy that there is “that of God” in each of us, children are invited to do something way more challenging: to go inside and see what, or who, is in there. The benefits of practicing mindfulness and sitting in silence are well documented and extend to every aspect of our lives in terms of improved physical health, cognition, relationships and stress levels. It is a challenging practice, especially for adults. The mind takes time to settle; to let go of its busy-ness; to be still. But over time, with daily repetition, quieting the mind can become second nature. At Friends, the Quaker tradition of sitting in “gathered” silence builds trust and a sense of community among the children. It is not a solitary venture. All are there together, equal, listening for
The benefits of Quaker Meeting extend beyond worship and into the classroom.
the spirit and the truth that is in each of us. This spirit-building discipline creates a sense of safety, and it is from this place of safety and trust that connected learning can occur. Friends students explore discrete subjects throughout the day — science, math, reading, music and art; yet the curriculum is intentionally fluid. This is at the heart of the Lower School educational model. In Spanish class, Henry wrote math equations to learn to spell the numbers in Spanish and to reinforce math facts. When he was learning about Kenya in social studies, his art class created spool figures, dressed them in wraps and learned about clothing from a functional, utilitarian perspective as well as an artistic approach. This is how learning should be. We don’t confront the world in terms of subject matters; it comes to us in its wholeness. As we made our way home from School that spring afternoon, Henry’s reflection about our connectedness to everything extended well beyond our vehicle and the street on which we were driving. “… We’re in Baltimore,” he continued, “which is in Maryland, which is in North America, which touches the Atlantic Ocean.” That time in silence during morning
worship ended up being a time for Henry to reflect on being a part of a whole, in ways both concrete and abstract. Daily worship, then, was a learning tool. The space and silence helped him integrate information — experienced and learned. In the silence and the stillness, his mind was free to make its connections. There was carry-over from the time he spent in morning worship into the academic part of his day and beyond. Some might say that all elementary schools are pretty much the same or that an independent school education is more advantageous during the high school years, when academics become more challenging and a private school credential might look better on a college application. I would argue that the opposite is true: That being part of a thoughtful, caring community where learning and spirit-building disciplines are integrated from the beginning of one’s academic experience forms the bedrock upon which all future learning will be built and sustained. That a school where children have the opportunity to consider all aspects of themselves, in a safe yet academically rigorous environment, provides the beginnings of critical thinking and connected learning. This is certainly what our family has found at Friends. FS
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Third grade pilots an International Primary Curriculum unit with sweet results
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uick! Think of something you learned in third grade! Can’t? Good! That means your third grade teacher succeeded in teaching you the investigatory skills you would need the rest of your life, without impeding learning by requiring burdensome memorization of extraneous facts, i.e. “When was Rhode Island
founded?”An ideal curriculum teaches students the skills they need to seek, discern and retain facts selectively and to disregard unnecessary details. Such learning allows students to get a quick picture of a body of information and whets their appetites for more knowledge. Mark Miazga, a Baltimore City College English teacher and winner of the 2013-14 Milken Educator Award, attests to this pedagogical method. “I’m much more focused on
building skills than teaching content,” he told a Baltimore Sun reporter, noting that his teaching has evolved “from a teacher-centered approach to learning to one of empowering students to take control of their own education.” This was the thinking behind the third grade team’s decision last year to retool the curriculum toward skills development. Knowing how to access large bodies of information, even at the global level, how to develop quick overviews of that material and to take notes from printed sources as well as websites are practices our students will need, as they seek to find answers to real-world questions. We believe the time to begin this kind of learning is in third grade. “In a world that is information overloaded, we need students who can find information that accurately and efficiently meets their needs,” says John Scott, Lower School Librarian. “We want them to understand that information comes from lots of different places.” Enter: “The Chocolate Unit!” The third grade team learned about this International Primary Curriculum (IPC)-based program from colleagues at nearby St. Paul’s School, who enthusiastically shared their experiences with it during an Association of Independent Maryland Schools (AIMS)-sponsored professional development exchange. Used by schools in more than 87 countries around the world, the IPC is designed “to ensure rigorous learning but also to help teachers make all learning exciting, active and meaningful for children,” according to
the International Primary Curriculum’s website greatlearning.com. After a visit to St. Paul’s to observe the chocolate curriculum in action, as well as multiple conversations and email exchanges with their teachers and our own School administrators, Carol Sieck, Suzanne Whitney ’72 and I decided we wanted to pilot the curriculum and use it as a means to better equip our rising fourth graders with the skills they’ll need: collaboration, connection, information literacy, note-taking. We launched the unit in early January, on our first day back from winter break. The unwitting third graders reported that morning to a darkened library where music was playing. Suddenly, the lights came on, and Mr. Scott, dressed as Willy Wonka and singing “The Candyman” appeared! The students were immediately engaged and curious about their chocolate-centered learning and asked excellent questions: “Where does chocoate come from?” “Where do cacao beans grow?” “What is the difference between dark chocolate and milk chocolate?” “Who made the first chocolate bar?” “Is chocolate good for you?” “Why am I allergic to chocolate?” Such inquiries would lead them down exactly the paths we wanted to go. We continued our inquiry with a scientific “tasting.” In several small groups, we answered such questions as, “If chocolate smelled like onion, would we still like it?” and “Does our
Chocolate studies extend to art class, where students create Aztec-inspired masks.
Steeped in chocolate-infused lessons, third graders expanded and enriched their information literacy skills over the next several weeks. class prefer sweet tastes, such as chocolate, or savory tastes, such as cheese?” Tally charts were kept for each group, and later, during math, the data were collected and made into bar graphs. The experience was a perfect example of how this curriculum teaches the basic investigatory skills we want to reinforce while moving across disciplines effortlessly. In a single day, the students had collaborated, used their research skills to gain knowledge, kept a tally chart, organized data in a group and produced a final product of a cumulative bar graph for each question. Steeped in chocolate-infused lessons, third graders expanded and enriched their information literacy skills over the next several weeks. With the expert help and advice of our Library and Information Technology team of Jennifer Robinson, Andy Hanes and Mr. Scott, the students researched such questions as “What is fair trade?” “What and where are rain forests?” “What is slash-and-burn deforestation?” and “What does a cacao tree look like?” In science class, teacher David MacGibeny worked with the students to complete a bean-to-bar illustrated chart with explanations about how a cacao bean becomes a chocolate bar. In art, teacher Beth Weiss showed the children how to create traditional Aztec masks, while back in the social studies classroom we used iPads and grade-appropriate books to research the
history of chocolate for annotated and illustrated timelines. Guest speakers, including School Nurse Lynne Anonye and parent Kara Carlin, an avid runner, shared health- and nutrition-related information about chocolate, including portion sizes, its food energy quotient and how hard you would have to work in order to “burn off” a Hershey bar. Finally, the third grade made a visit to the Baltimore National Aquarium’s rainforest exhibit, where Andy, one of their expert horticulturists, talked to us about cacao trees, pods and how many years it took to grow the giant tree we had gathered around. The IPC Chocolate Unit provided the spark we were looking for, as we sought to update our curriculum. “The curriculum develops an expanding global awareness,” said Carol Sieck. “We were able to look at different geographical areas to help us enrich and expand our program.” Call this process “21st century skills.” Or global thinking. Or cross-curricular instruction. In the end, it’s good teaching and learning; and it’s how we need to prepare our Lower School students to succeed. FS
Judy Sandler has taught third grade at Friends since 2006. She is a chocolate lover, the mother of two Friends alumni and a current seventh grader and is married to an alumnus, Joseph (Skip) Klein, III ’79.
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Growing Up L
Friends Little Friends childcare expands
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ITTLE FRIENDS, THE SCHOOL’S full-service, state-licensed childcare center, in December opened a new facility on Charles Street, just south of the Friends campus. With a full-time staff of dedicated child development professionals providing year-round care for children ages 6 weeks to 4 years, the program is a valued addition to the School and the local community. Friends launched Little Friends in 2004, using space the School leased from Stony Run Meeting to serve a dozen 2- to 4-year-olds. The School opened Baby Friends the following year in a separate facility located next to the Pre-Primary building, adding nine children, ages 6 weeks through 2 years, to the rolls. The new location consolidates and expands those operations to accommodate 44 children. “It’s amazing to think I will get to see a child we had at 6 weeks old go on to graduate from the Upper School!” says Janelle Milam Schmidt ’96, Friends’ Director of Childcare and Extended Day Programs. For more information about Little Friends, visit friendsbalt.org/about/LittleFriends or contact Janelle Schmidt at jmschmidt@friendsbalt.org.
Diversity Notes
SCHOOL NEWS
African-American male mentoring club flourishes BY FELICIA WILKS
Director of Diversity
It’s 8 a.m. on a Wednesday, just two days after the end of winter break and 20 or so African-American boys in grades 6 through 12 head toward the Zamoiski Alumni Center for their monthly African-American Male Mentoring Club meeting. They know they could be at home right now, sleeping late. After all, that’s what many students do on the first Wednesday of the month when Friends teachers meet from 7:45 until 10 a.m. for PLUSS Day professional development. Instead, these young men choose to gather, grateful for the sense of community, support and encouragement they receive from mentors who have carved out time just for them. STABLISHED IN THE FALL OF 2012, the African-American Male Mentoring Club (FAAMC) seeks to empower young African-American men at Friends to help bolster a segment of our School community that is often on the receiving end of negative stereotyping in the media. “Our main goal is to further develop a sense of self within these young men,” says group leader Al Holley, Friends’ Upper School Varsity Basketball coach. “It’s important for them to know that they are all different — they come from different experiences and have different views on life,” adds Holley. “But in the outside world, they will often be viewed as a group. We don’t want this to limit them. We want to graduate young men who are confident in themselves and what they have to offer. These are the men who will find success no matter what life hands them.” The mentors are a mix of parents, current faculty members and alumni from our School and other regional Friends schools. Chris Jeffries, a Sidwell Friends alum, has been a mentor since the club’s inception. “I would have benefited from a club like this at Sidwell,” he says. “I’ve had wonderful mentors in my life, and I appreciate the opportunity to offer what I know to someone else.” Likewise, Reginald Flowers, an alum of Wilmington Friends, mentors because he never had AfricanAmerican male mentors at school. “I often felt alone,” he notes. “I had to stumble and figure out how to navigate my journey myself. I hope I can help this next generation of Friends students avoid the pitfalls I encountered.” Bobby Blackwell, a Lower School parent and founding leader of the group, says he gets as much out of being a mentor as he gives: “I look forward to meeting with the students each month. Empowering them by sharing my
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Patrick Redrick, Sr. and Al Holley (seated), Bobby Blackwell (center) and Kyle Harmon (standing, fourth from right) offer guidance and leadership lessons to Middle and Upper School students in Friends’ African-American Male Mentoring Club.
experiences is very fulfilling. They have no idea how much I learn from them.” In addition to the monthly meetings, club members have traveled together to colleges in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. The strength of the program lies in the connections the students make — with each other, with the mentors and with guest speakers who visit the program. “Over the past two years, I have met several interesting and successful black men who have exposed me to different mindsets and strategies for success,” says freshman Patrick Redrick, Jr. “The media today depicts black people in a way that is less than flattering for the most part, and seeing the complete opposite in our mentors helps to remind me and the rest of the group that these negative stereotypes are not always true.” For Rossano Jones, also a freshman, membership in this group has provided what he sees as much-needed preparation for the future:
“The mentors teach me about the things I will face in life and what is expected of me as a young black man. Their encouragement makes me want to change the world.” Holley has noticed a deeper connection among the young men over the course of this year. Students who didn’t know each other because they were in different grades or divisions now interact outside of the meetings. This sense of a community within the larger Friends School community is empowering. Years from now, we hope the students involved in this mentoring program will feel a connection to the School “Hopefully, they will grow into an understanding of the power they have as a collective to uplift each other and to positively influence their community,” says Flowers. “Ideally, they will also pay it forward to the next generation of young men coming up behind them.” FS
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ITH MORE THAN 280 athletes in grades
Spring AT H L E T I C
6 through 12 competing on 18 different Middle School, J.V.
and Varsity interscholastic athletic teams in the sports of badminton, baseball, golf, lacrosse, softball and tennis, Quaker spirit abounded this spring. Here’s a sampling of the teams and players who made us cheer: GO QUAKERS!
Led by seniors No. 1 singles Adrienne Jankowski, No. 2 singles Bonnie Salmeron and the No.1 doubles team of Paige Rohde/Jana Ventura, Varsity Badminton tied for third in the highly competitive I.A.A.M. A Conference with Jankowski and Rohde/Ventura making it to the semifinals of the conference tournament, Friends settled for a close third in the team standings. Here, No. 2 Varsity doubles player Maggie Matsui ’15 returns a serve.
Led by a strong group of freshmen, the J.V. Baseball team battled injuries and inclement weather but remained positive and showed improvement throughout the season. Of the 11 scheduled games, Friends took the field only five times but showed “a ton of heart, as they worked through the rust,” says coach Will Marbury. Here, Seamus Woods ‘16 heads for home.
The Girls Varsity Lacrosse team capped off an inspiring 17-1 season by winning the I.A.A.M. B Conference Championship. Led by senior co-captains Abby Corkum (pictured), 56 goals and 32 assists, and goalie Rose Woolson (55.5 percent save average), the team boasted a balanced offense, with most games posting six to eight different scorers, and the defense holding opponents to 131 goals-against.
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FROM QUAKER TO MIDDIE: ELIZA HARRIS ‘14 TO PLAY SOCCER FOR NAVY
Fielding one of the youngest teams in recent memory, with seven freshmen and six sophomores, the 16-member Varsity Softball squad showed tremendous improvement, winning five of its last eight games, including an opening-round walk-off against Oldfields in the I.A.A.M. Playoffs. Jane Murphy ‘16 (pictured) provided solid pitching the entire season.
With two seniors, Augie Calabresi and Danny Kahn, three sophomores, Evan Hoffman, Phil Harder and Paul Miller, and three freshmen, Sam Sheusi, Rhett Dawson and Nate Vandiver, the Boys J.V. Tennis team battled its way to a .500 mark, losing a couple of heartbreakers. “We have talent,” says coach Jon Hilzendeger, who predicts a “bright future” for Quaker tennis. Pictured, Nate Vandiver ’17.
Eliza Harris ’14, a First Team All-State soccer player who last fall led the 14-1-5 Quakers to an I.A.A.M. B Conference championship, knew from early on that she would one day play for a Division I college; it was just a matter of where. A midfielder for the Bowiebased Maryland United U-18 club team, she had already fielded offers from Dartmouth and Wake Eliza Harris ‘14 Forest, where her brother Andrew is the starting goalie, when in spring 2012 she visited the Naval Academy — “kind of on a whim,” recalls her father, Ned Harris, an academic dean and assistant soccer coach at Gilman School. “She was hooked after that.” “I wanted a different kind of college experience,” explains Harris, who finished her Friends career with 70 goals and 44 assists, setting a School record for both. “Everywhere else I looked, it all seemed kind of the same. The people I met at the Academy are all so driven. I am drawn to that kind of leadershipbased program.” Although the application process is somewhat different for athletes, it’s no less grueling. Harris completed separate applications for Vice President Joseph Biden, Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski and Congressman John Sarbanes, interviewing with all but the Vice President. She obtained her nomination from Senator Cardin and, in March, received official notification of her admission to the Academy. Since then, Harris has ramped-up her training in preparation for soccer season and Induction Day on July 1.
QUAKER SPORTS: 140 CHARACTERS AT A TIME
The Boys Varsity Lacrosse team finished with an 8-5 M.I.A.A. B conference, 9-7 overall record. The team was young, with just four seniors, but showed great improvement as evidenced by their fivegame winning streak at the season’s close. Despite the momentum, the Quakes lost to Gerstell Academy, 11-9, in the conference quarterfinals. Coach Tom Marechek looks to build on the up-andcoming squad’s success next season. Pictured, left, No. 26 Devon DeFilippi ‘15 and (opposite page) No. 3 Lee Edelstein ‘16.
From its first tweet on October 16, 2013, rallying fans to come out and support the Varsity Field Hockey team, Quaker Nation, Friends’ social media-savvy sports reporting club, has garnered followers and interest from fans and would-be sportscasters alike. “It’s the wave of the future,” says advisor Rich Seiler ’68, who credits club head Jonah Haas ’16 with much of the program’s success. “He’s getting students involved and excited about covering games and keeping the community informed.” The brainchild of Upper School Principal Steve McManus, Quaker Nation includes the aforementioned Twitter account — @Quaker_Nation — as well as a YouTube channel and an Instagram presence. “Spring is a little tougher because so many of us play sports then,” says Jonah Haas. “But we have big plans for the fall.” Quaker Nation’s Jonah Haas ’16 and Rich Seiler ‘68
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FSPA NEWS
Second Annual
Festival of Friends hits the mark
Among the coveted silent auction items at the Festival of Friends: an opportunity to serve as Librarian for a Day! Here, Chloe enjoys checking books out for her classmates.
THE FRIENDS SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION hosted the second annual Festival of Friends on Saturday, April 12. Approximately 200 Friends parents, faculty, staff, alumni and guests enjoyed food by Ceriello of Belvedere Square, an open bar and performances by the Friends School Jazz Band and other student musicians. Silent and live auctions, featuring student and faculty artwork, a wide array of gifts and services and week-long vacations to such locales as Hilton Head, N.C., and Spain’s Costa Blanca raised more than $15,000 for the School. Many thanks to event chairs Melissa Greenhouse, Amy Gjerde and Jessica Dorsey and to all who came out for a fun and memorable evening.
FSPA ANNOUNCES BOARD SLATE FOR 2014-15 The Friends School Parents Association Board will welcome several new members in 2014-15: • Chair: Peggy Angelone • Vice Chair: Laurie Haas • Treasurer: John Barrett • Volunteer Chair: Beulah Sabundayo • Board of Trustees Rep: Peter A.R. Wilson • Pre-Primary Chair: Mariann Escoe • Upper School Chair: Betsey Todd • Member at Large: Beth Schelle • Additionally, the Board is also welcoming a representative from Little Friends for the first time:
From left, FSPA 2014-15 Chair Peggy Angelone, Member-at-Large Beth Schelle and Vice Chair Laurie Haas
Olga Braverman
Our new Board members will join these dedicated members who will continue in their roles next year: • Petronella James, Recording Secretary • Lauren Madsen, Communications Chair • Melissa Greenhouse, Fundraising and Events Chair • Marcie Jones Brennan, Representative to Stony Run • Bobby Blackwell, Representative to the Diversity Council • Anita Sampath, Lower School Chair • Brenda Ciccarone, Middle School Chair
The Board gratefully acknowledges Kris Culp, former Treasurer, Heather Gange, former Representative to the Board of Trustees and Norine Andrew, Upper School Chair, who served with the Parents Association for 12 years.
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Norine Andrew, whose son Andrew will graduate from Friends this year, leaves the Parents Association after 12 years of service. Thank you Norine!
Development News SPOTLIGHT ON THE ARTS
I F T H E S E WA L L S
could talk
FIFTY-FOUR YEARS, HUNDREDS OF PERFORMANCES AND COUNTLESS COLLECTIONS
have transpired since May 8, 1960, when the School community gathered to dedicate the Forbush Auditorium. As Friends prepares to transform this vital space into a facility befitting the high-quality of our student productions, faculty and alumni share their memories of shows staged, voices raised and the moments that have shaped our School’s collective lore.
Tom Buck IF I EVER CAME OF AGE THEATRICALLY, it was between ‘69 and ’73, working in low-budget spaces at Washington University in St. Louis, where I attended college, and the Ice House Theater in Hannibal, Mo., a no-frills facility worthy of its name, where I did a season of summer stock. On its worst days, the Forbush Auditorium compared favorably to the brokendown Wash U. lecture hall where we performed main-stage shows. For that matter, Friends’ Lower School Assembly Room, where I’ve directed dozens of Upper School theater workshop shows, reminds me of some of the storefronts and a recycled ROTC building where I acted in student-directed pieces in St. Louis. Because of my low-budget theatrical roots, I was right at home directing for 25-plus years in an aging Auditorium with lighting that resembled disco balls. Of course, I was aware of its shortcomings, especially acoustically, and am delighted that my good friend Michael McVey and future directors will have an appropriately appointed space. But in the Forbush Auditorium, like the Lower School Assembly Room, there were so few bells and whistles that what mattered was what the kids on the stage could make the people in the audience feel. On good nights in the old Auditorium, that was pretty special, to me anyway.
English Teacher & Drama Director
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Development News SPOTLIGHT ON THE ARTS
Music Department Coordinator
PEOPLE TEASE ME BECAUSE I AM always wearing gloves when I move equipment, even if it’s 90 degrees. One night, right before a concert, I got on stage to putter with the percussion section. When I went to move the xylophone, a platform fell on my hand and cut my finger. Badly. I bandaged it but couldn’t get the bleeding to stop. As a result, during the first number I was flinging blood on the flute players. I guess if it was a Halloween concert, that may have added dramatic effect, but it wasn’t.
NATALIE SANTOS ’90 — I remember the Middle School mixers, always with the boys on one side of the Auditorium and the girls on the other. I was so painfully shy around boys I didn't dare dance. In Upper School, I remember my first Collection in ninth grade, sitting in alphabetical order, all the way in the back. I was filled with nervous energy even though I had been at the same school for 10 years. It was fun to see who was sitting where and also to look around and see the new faces who had joined our class. For the 10th grade talent show, Jenni Corrigan, Sarah Farrant, Sarah Engels, Jaime Lee (all Class of ’90) and I lip-synced “Leader of the Pack.” We practiced for weeks and thought we were very cool.
DR. JAY BIDDISON ’64 — I was one of the few honored students who was asked to play the now defunct organ for Collection and School events. I quickly learned most of the hymns and Friends School songs, especially since the Headmaster would occasionally announce a different song that was not on the list I was given. I recall happy conversations with many students who sat on the organ bench when I was practicing after school. One of them, Sue [Hetzner (’66)], would later become my wife. Fifty years later it is time to say goodbye to old places and make new spaces. May the next generation of Friends School graduates have happy memories of their years on North Charles Street.
TERRY JAMES, MIDDLE SCHOOL, FRENCH, SPANISH & ENGLISH TEACHER Even though the Auditorium was a difficult space to work with, it really forced us to live up to that “show must go on” adage. I served as director of Middle School Dinner Theater and later Dragonfly Theater from 1984 to 2006. The first three years I was director, producer, house manager, makeup artist … you name it, I did it. My favorite memory was actually a dress rehearsal disaster that ended up OK. Way back in 1988 when we did “Peter Pan” with Shawn Peterson (’92) as Peter, Evan Gifford had rigged up a pulley system to “fly” Peter out the window in the nursery scene. Of course, we used upright flats for the nursery walls. Well, Evan and his assistant got Peter to fly out of the window for every rehearsal except for our final dress rehearsal, when Peter missed the window and careened into the wall! He fell to the floor and, just like dominoes, all of the flats collapsed on top of him. I yelled out, “Oh my God! You’ve killed Peter Pan!” We all quickly rushed to lift the flats, when up popped Shawn laughing, only to ask, “Can we do that again?” Needless to say, all of the other performances went off without a hitch.
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Rich Seiler ’68 Upper School history teacher
FIRST OF ALL, I REMEMBER
the Auditorium when it was a bare hillside. Bucky (Gunts ’68, who lived in what is now the Admission Cottage) fell into a construction pit and needed to be rescued by Gary Wedeking (’65), who found him there. One of the first Upper School shows I was in was “Arsenic and Old Lace.” I played an officer. In my senior year I was Tony in “West Side Story.” Bucky was Riff. Clay Woodman (’68), who was the son of our biology and wood shop teacher, played Bernardo. For the gang fight scene, we were all wearing Weejun loafers and khakis. (Laughs) We were the most clean-cut gang you ever saw.
Michael McVey Upper School Choral Music Director IN THE WORLD OF MUSICAL THEATER, THERE ARE, “A” shows, “A-,” “B” shows, “B-”… Or, a show would have an A+ Rodgers and Hart score that is just perfect, but the book is horrible. But with “West Side Story,” (2012) all those things were perfect — the book, the choreography, the score, the source … It was Shakespeare! It was destined for awesomeness. Both “Fiddler(s) …” — ‘98 and 2011 — are also up there, because those were some stellar performances; again, it’s an “A” show — great book, great score, great production values. “Oliver” (1992) was my fourth show. That was special because we did an unprecedented thing: We cast 14 Middle School boys for the urchins and for the title role … That was cool. And it was one of the only times, that I know of, when two divisions merged for one show — which is something we should think about doing with the new theater.
Cecile Audette Middle School Choral Music
USUALLY ABOUT TWO weeks before a [Dragonfly Theater] show, I don’t sleep at all because it’s never going to come together. The first day after Presidents’ Weekend is the worst of the worst — even though we tell them to go over their lines and music. It’s a long weekend; they come back to School tired, spacey. But it turns out that it’s in them. By that Saturday, we’re running the show and we can’t believe it because we were all pulling our hair out.
Molly Doyle ’07 Actor, Director WHENEVER ACTORS NEEDED TO GET TO THE OTHER side of the stage, instead of being able to stealthily creep behind the set, they would literally have to leave the building from the backstage door, run around the back of the building, through the Lower School blacktop and multipurpose room and then re-enter the stage from the Upper School side door. I remember one time, during “Hello Dolly” (2006), when it rained. You can imagine: We had all of these umbrellas by the door to keep the costumes dry.
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Kirsten Walsh Orchestra Director
I’LL NEVER FORGET THE FIRST All-School Orchestra Concert in 2001! When we played “Simple Gifts” for the first time I got the biggest thrill. There were kids everywhere because we didn’t all fit on the stage. Every grade of string players was playing together and it was such a feeling of unity, vastness. It was something bigger than all of us in such a small, incompatible space.
BRAD MEYER ’60 — My own memorable moment came in a skit written by Tom Baker (’60) when, having been announced as a grown-up former student of Mrs. Hetrick's Latin class, I walked out from the wings in a sheet wrapped as a toga. Eli Renn (’60) rushed up to me in great distress, wanting directions to the hospital. To this request I replied by giving him the Latin derivation of the word, continuing with further lore in that vein as he ever more frantically sought my help and then finally gave up in anguish and ran into the wings in search of a sane person. Being the only one left on stage, I bowed solemnly before I walked off, to strangely but wonderfully thunderous applause.
BILLY NOBEL ’00, PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN — Having started in music as a classical piano player, the Forbush Auditorium was a venue in which I was able to take this solo skill set and evolve it into a collaborative one. Musicals, Quaketones performances, winter and spring concerts, Summer Stock, even accompanying faculty members on occasion—all of these performances required hard work among a collection of individuals, and these performances almost always took place in the Forbush Auditorium. To this day I am still relying on my abilities to collaborate with others in order to further my musical interests and opportunities.
CAROLINE MALLONEE HUEBNER ’93, COMPOSER I have so many happy memories of that room … Sitting on the windowsill watching the Upper School musicals; I can still remember the feeling of the cold stone. Getting to be in the band (I had to learn the trumpet for it) in “Carousel” (1988); Robert Berman was amazing! I also loved Collection. Visiting speakers would always remark upon the hush that swept over the student body at the start of Collection. We had such a great variety of visitors. The man who invented Prince tennis rackets … the Hare Krishnas, who sang and served us strange but yummy food … When “Sir Pulp,” Mikey De Lara’s (’94) band, played, “My name is Jack. I hurt my back. Gotta call my … chiropractor!”
SUE GRATHWOHL DINGLE ‘64 — The Forbush Auditorium is where I first experienced a relationship with an audience. I played Mrs. Anna in the “The King and I,” and the monologue in which Mrs. Anna complains about her boss was the first time I’d ever been onstage by myself. It was amazing to feel the unconditional love an audience can have for a performer. The Friends School environment was such a safe place, because everyone in the audience loved you … We got standing ovations both nights. Of course, the most important thing I learned on the Friends School stage was that we're all in this together, and no one can do it alone. Our experience of being the Mixed Chorus was our being “one for all and all for one.”
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ALUMNI NEWS
PRACTICING PEACE
On a Global Scale BY CHRISTINA FORSTING ‘05
If you think you know everything about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I can assure you that you know nothing. If, however, you feel like you know nothing, then you are starting to get it. THESE ARE THE WORDS OF FATHER IYAD TAWAL, a priest of the Latin Patriarchate and one of the featured speakers at the 2014 OneVoice Delegation, which took place from March 30 to April 4 in locations across Israel and Palestine. As a grants officer with the OneVoice Movement, I participated in the Delegation, traveling throughout the region with our representatives as well as other key stakeholders and thought-leaders to advance OneVoice’s mission of promoting a negotiated, comprehensive and permanent agreement between Israel and Palestine. OneVoice is an international grassroots organization founded in 2002 to help amplify the voices of mainstream Israelis and Palestinians and mobilize them — and their elected officials — toward the two-state solution. It is one of the most politically influential movements of its kind in Israel and is the second-largest youth movement in Palestine, with over 32 chapters and three regional offices operating throughout Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The 2014 OneVoice Delegation itinerary included meetings with top officials on both sides of the conflict as well as tours of historic and politically sensitive sites and presentations by such noted speakers as Gabi Ashkenazi, former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of General Staff, Dr. Mohammad Shtayyeh, former Palestinian negotiator, and David Grossman, a prize-winning author and political activist. Throughout our five-day visit to the region, the severity of the geopolitical situation between the Israelis and Palestinians played out in the background: Negotiations that were started in July 2013 by Secretary of State John Kerry and that were supposed to conclude in April 2014 had suddenly collapsed. (I actually got stuck behind Secretary Kerry’s entourage as he was shuttling into Jerusalem for a
The author with youth leaders at a rally in support of a two-state solution.
last-ditch effort to save the talks from complete breakdown.) Among the places we toured as part of the Delegation was a Kibbutz, where we met with a gentleman who had lost his daughter when a rocket launched from Gaza landed on the family’s house. Despite his grief, he explained that he did not take the path of anger or blame, choosing instead to channel his energy into a two-state solution because he believes it is the most likely path to peace. Our group also visited the Separation Wall from which we could see into Gaza. OneVoice has an office in Gaza run by one man, Ezzeldin Masri, who, in working to promote OneVoice’s mission, puts his life at risk each day, all in the hopes of creating a better future for his children. Ezz lives in that situation by choice — although he is Palestinian, he holds U.S. citizenship through his American wife. Few current topics incite more passion, frustration or misinformation than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I am frequently asked why I have chosen to work on this issue. I’m not Jewish. I’m not Muslim. I’m not Arab. To the best of my knowledge I do not have a messiah complex. I do, however, believe in the Quaker tenets of peace and equality and that the fundamental rights of all peoples — like Ezzeldin Masri and the father we met in the Kibbutz — should be respected and observed. Though a combination of factors drew me to the Movement, what drives me in my work is a belief I learned through my days at Friends: that there is that of God/a higher power/whatever you choose to call it … in all of us. We are not nearly as different from one another as we desperately would like to believe. It is perhaps because of this simple truth that I know that peace is possible. To learn more, please visit onevoicemovement.org. FS
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TEWAARATON
Tête-à-Tête
JOE COWAN ’64 and KYLE HARRISON ’01
on life, lacrosse and childhood heroes WHEN COLLECTION LEARNED THAT FRIENDS ALUMNUS Joe Cowan ‘64 had received the Tewaaraton Legend Award last May, we thought who better to interview him than 2005 Tewaaraton Award recipient Kyle Harrison ’01? The Legend Award was established in 2011 to honor those players whose performances would have earned them the Tewaaraton — considered the Heisman Trophy of men’s and women’s lacrosse — had the award existed when they played. Getting these two men together was no small feat; both are extremely busy — Cowan is president of Baltimorebased Cowan Systems, LLC, a full-service transportation and logistics company with operations across the U.S.; Harrison is a professional lacrosse player on the LXM PRO Tour (Team STX), of which he is a co-founder. He’s also on the U.S. Men’s National Team, was drafted No. 1 in the MLL/LXM Waiver Wire draft to the Ohio Machine and has partnerships with both Nike and STX, including his own equipment line, K18. It took a few months, but here, at last, is their conversation.
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KYLE HARRISON: First of all Joe, congratulations on receiving the Legend Award. What an incredible honor. Let’s talk about that first. What was it like? JOE COWAN: It was humbling, but it wasn’t all about me; it was really a reflection of the great teams I was on at Hopkins. We won or tied for the national championship three years in a row. In those days they didn’t have the NCAA but we were, in my humble opinion, the best team in the country for three consecutive years. What made it significant and exciting for me was that, prior to those championships, Hopkins hadn’t won it in about 10 years. At that time Navy was the best team in the country and maybe the next best team was Maryland. Our group was the turnaround class. To be part of a team that was rejuvenating a great lacrosse tradition at Hopkins was really special. KH: My father introduced me to lacrosse at an early age and taught me the fundamentals. He was, and still is, my lacrosse hero. How about you? Who were your lacrosse heroes growing up? JC: When I was in the fourth grade there was a math teacher named Larry Peacock. He coached the little guys; we were called the Friends School midgets. We showed up with a helmet and a stick and he taught us the game. We played maybe four games against Gilman, Mt. Washington’s youth team, Rolling Road… and somehow we always won. When I was in the fifth grade, we played another midget team in an all-star game before the North-South College AllStar Game, which that year was played at Johns Hopkins. I’ll never forget walking on Homewood Field — I mean, that was like going into Yankee Stadium as far as I was concerned — playing in that little midget game. Of course, Larry was our coach, and I think we tied the game, 2-2, but the exciting thing for all of us Friends School boys was watching the North-South game afterward. There happened to be the first Tewaaraton winner, a famous football player named Jim Brown, who played lacrosse for Syracuse. At the time he was preparing for the NFL draft. Physically he was a man playing with boys. He would run down the field and people couldn’t stop him. He’d shoot with one hand, he scored and it was effortless. Watching him play in that North-South game, I became hooked; I fell in love with the game. On weekends, a bunch of us little guys would always watch the club teams play in Mt. Washington. There was one player I really admired, the Mt Washington goalie, Jim Kappler. I loved watching him direct the defense. I used to stand behind the goal next to Bud Kaestner (’39), who was a great lacrosse player at Hopkins (and the father of Hank Kaestner ’63), and he would give me some tips. I learned a lot about the game just standing back there.
KH: How has the game changed since your playing and coaching days? JC: The most important thing is the stick. Back in my day I had a wooden stick, and it would break. The advent by STX of the lacrosse stick was in my opinion the most significant factor in the enormous growth of lacrosse. Now you had a stick that wasn’t nearly as brittle. I worked with STX in the development of the stick and used the first artificial lacrosse stick in my junior year at Hopkins when I played in a game against Penn. That was the beginning of it, and as you can attest, Kyle, it has just taken off like a rocket ship. KH: You played both lacrosse and football for Hopkins. Were you recruited for both? JC: I was recruited to play lacrosse, but I knew I would also play football in college … I love football. KH: You were going to play in the NFL, weren’t you? JC: I was drafted by the Colts in ’69 when they were coached by Don Shula. At that time, Johnny Unitas was the quarterback and Tom Matte was the running back and those guys were all my idols. After the first month and a half, Don Shula came to me and said, “Joe, you need a year to develop.” I was a punter and a wide receiver. I was just getting out of college, and I was just married. And to be honest, my dad died when I was a senior in high school, and I had always dreamed of going into his business. I decided to hang up the cleats. As it turns out, I think I made the right decision. KH: I didn’t play football, but I played basketball, lacrosse and soccer at Friends and loved every minute of it. I am 100 percent convinced that I am the lacrosse player I am today because I played other sports. Today’s athletes tend to specialize in one sport. How do you feel about that? JC: I loved playing football, but then when it was lacrosse season, I loved playing lacrosse. The variety was really healthy. I have a 12-year-old grandson who is a lacrosse player and goes to St. Paul’s. I find it unbelievable that in two years he’s going to be recruited [by colleges] when he’s in the eighth and ninth grade. There’s something wrong with all this. What has occurred is that parents realize that college coaches are looking at these kids, and they worry that if their children are not concentrating in lacrosse then they’ll be out of the running for these college scholarships today, which are astronomical … It’s a lot of pressure for these young men and women, and it’s not for everybody; but for quite a few, it creates opportunities that would normally not be there.
KH: During my time at Hopkins we only lost to three teams in four years: Syracuse, Virginia and Princeton. To this day, I try to avoid orange. How many colleges had lacrosse programs when you played at Hopkins and who were your rivals? JC: All the Ivies played, and Maryland and Navy and Army. Syracuse wasn’t the juggernaut that it is today. Winning the national championship always boiled down to how you were going to do against those teams. There are so many great athletes playing lacrosse today, and the game is growing unbelievably fast. It used to be just an East Coast program. Now it’s a national game. KH: Amen to that! Joe, I know you’ll always follow Hopkins lacrosse. What other teams do you like to watch? JC: I follow the women’s game. I had two daughters who were great players, and I think watching the growth that’s occurred in the women’s game and the athleticism of the players is phenomenal. One of my daughters played for UVA, and her teams there won the national championship two out of her four years. Her teammate Jenny Slingluff Levy, whose dad John Slingluff (’62) was a Friends School grad, is now the head coach at University of North Carolina. I have watched Jenny develop their program, and last year they won the NCAA championship for the first time. FS
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Generations at Friends Children & Grandchildren of Alumni 2013-14
Ashley Applefeld ‘14 David Applefeld ‘83
Alexander Corvera ‘19 Joseph Corvera ‘89
Jordan Ball ‘16 George Ball ‘82
Baylee DeSmit ‘21 Douglas DeSmit ‘80
Samuel Barber ‘17 Natalie Barber ‘22 Kathleen Standiford ‘81
Carlos Domacassé ‘20 Anne Marie Rafky Domacassé ‘88
Manuel Binford ‘16 Dahira Lievano Binford ‘81
Joseph Dye ‘20 Samuel Dye ‘22 Elizabeth Dye Gohn ‘93
Robert Blanchard ‘18 Henry Blanchard ‘24 Diana Fleischer Schofield ‘62 Timothy Bricken ‘15 Holly Bricken Catzen ‘73 Benjamin Bunkley ‘25 Jennifer Brown Bunkley ‘87 Jonathan Carnell ‘14 J. Kevin Carnell ‘84 Kyle Christoff ‘20 Allison Jensen ‘88 Haley Connor ‘18 Denise Galambos ‘80
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Edward Forbush ‘21 Norman Forbush ‘78 W. Byron Forbush ‘47 Louise Foster ‘14 Mary Louise Flowers Foster ‘74 Julian Frost ‘19 Lila Frost ‘22 Elisa Shorr Frost ‘88 Justin Garcia-Bunuel ‘14 Jacob Garcia-Bunuel ‘18 Elizabeth Garcia-Bunuel ‘83 Martin Garcia-Bunuel ‘83
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Matthew Goldbloom ‘15 Allison Goldbloom ‘18 Bradley Goldbloom ‘84 Grace Hand ‘14 Logan Hand ‘17 Lucy Williams Hand ‘80 Eli Henslee ‘17 Julia Henslee ‘22 Anne Friedlander Henslee ‘88 Lewis Hibbs ‘14 Susan Gann Hibbs ‘83 Alexander Howard ‘14 Carmen Jaramilo Howard ‘80 Zoë Jones-Cohen ‘20 Marcie Jones Brennan ‘91 Noah Klein ‘19 Joseph Klein, III ‘79 Joseph Klein, Jr. ‘49 Kayla Kurtz ‘21 Susan Rugemer Kurtz ‘58 Ana Lane ’21 Rebecca Rossello ‘92
Scout Latshaw ‘29 Scott Latshaw ‘87 Samuel Little ‘17 Sarah Little ‘19 Joan Sullivan Little ‘82 Julia MacGibeny ‘16 Lisa Lott MacGibeny ‘85 Clarinda Harriss ‘56 Charles Mallonee ‘20 William Mallonee ‘22 Audrey Mallonee ‘27 Charles Mallonee ‘89 Mason Marchetti ‘20 Julian Marchetti ‘21 Robert Marchetti ‘81 Madison Menefee ‘14 Angelica Schaefer Menefee ‘86 Alexandra Miceli ‘18 Trish Backer-Miceli ‘83 Daniel Millspaugh ’17 Nicholas Millspaugh ‘20 Rachel Millspaugh ‘23 Sarah Millspaugh Johnston ‘88
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Samuel Shapiro ‘14 Jennifer Shapiro Smelkinson ‘80
Tara Wallace Smith ‘24 Brayden Smith ‘29 Erika Smith ‘93
Madeleine Shay ‘15 Nicholas Shay ‘18 Constance Naden Shay ‘82
Max Steinbach ‘25 Samuel Steinbach ‘86
Christopher Shephard ‘15 Paige Shephard ‘16 Halle Shephard ‘18 Michael Shephard ‘79 Benjamin Sherbakov ‘18 Elias Sherbakov ‘20 Thora Johnson ‘88 Middle School
Katherine Monk ‘24 Gage Monk ‘92 Linda Monk LaMonica ‘63 William Mortimer ‘17 Mary Charlotte Mortimer ‘20 Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer ‘87 Henry Mortimer ‘58 Ona Neumann ‘18 Gregory Neumann ‘64 Charles Ney ‘21 Melanie Jensen Ney ‘85 Peter Ney ‘85 Alexander Prichett ‘19 Zachary Prichett ‘21 Olivia Prichett ’26 Stephen Prichett ‘87
Gabrielle Sklar ‘20 Brandon Sklar ‘22 Ellie Goldbloom ‘87
Rebecca Remsberg ‘15 Edwin Remsberg ‘83 Alice Riley ‘23 Reed Riley ‘80 Jackson Roberts ‘17 Philip Roberts ‘81 Kailie Saudek ‘15 James Saudek ‘18 Paige Saudek ‘22 Mark Saudek ‘85 Jacob Schindler ‘17 Susan Bradford Schindler ‘83
Zachary Smith ‘19 Quinlan Smith ‘22 Burck Smith ‘88 Sarah Smith ‘20 Evelyn Sinwell Luebbers ‘54 Anthony Smith ‘23 Benjamin Smith ‘23 Mary Adolph Smith ‘82 Hope Haggett Adolph ’43 Asuman Smith ‘25 Ali Smith ‘94
Ezekiel Texter ‘18 John Texter ‘83 Margaret Valle ‘22 Joshua Valle ‘89 George Van Dyke ‘14 George Van Dyke ‘85 Lucy Walker ‘15 Susan Russo Walker ‘79 Duncan Walker ‘78 Elie Walsh ‘23 Lucien Walsh ‘88 Alexandra Whiteford ‘16 W. Craig Whiteford ‘87 William Whiteford ‘57 John Whiteford ‘16 Thomas Whiteford ‘18 Thomas Whiteford ‘85 William Whiteford ‘57 Madison Yost ‘15 Winslow Yost ‘17 Kiefer Yost ‘19 Sally Evans Yost ‘77 Anne Black Evans ‘54
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Sander Schulhoff ‘20 Sevien Schulhoff ‘23 Stephen Schulhoff ‘84
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FRIENDLY Gatherings Greenwich Village and Greenwich, Conn. were the backdrop for spirited alumni receptions this winter. Closer to home, Friends grads gathered at Union Craft Brewery in the restored Clipper Mill development in historic Woodberry.
New York City Approximately 40 New York City-area alumni gathered at the Half Pint in Greenwich Village on March 10. This annual event always has a great turnout, and this year was no exception. Faculty members Tom Buck, Randy Cooper, Scott Harrington and Steve McManus made the trip from Baltimore and enjoyed reconnecting with their former students
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1. Chris Henry ’92, Rich Santos ’94 and Randy Cooper 2. Wendy Dopkin ’00, Gant Powell ’03, Trevor Soponis ’95 and Lauren Dopkin ‘97
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Baltimore Approximately 40 guests joined Friends for a tour and tasting at Union Craft Brewing in the historic Woodberry community. 1. Union Craft Brewing founder and brewer Jon Zerivitz gave alums and their guests a “Brewing 101” primer.
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Phil McIntyre ’89 hosted a small reception of regional alums at his office at The Brand Gallery in Greenwich on March 9. Head of School Matt Micciche updated the group on the latest Friends School news, including the upcoming Forbush Auditorium renovation.
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1. Clockwise from top left: Nell Smith ’81, Phil McIntyre ’89, Ellen Heyman McKay ’78 and Gen Moody Distance ’84 pose for a “selfie.”
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Here at Friends, we recently heard from Elizabeth “Betty” Born Little. She sends her regards to the present Friends School and its students and faculty. Though she was unable to attend Alumni Weekend, this year Betty celebrated her 85th Reunion from Friends! Betty, we were so glad to hear from you!
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Mara Donovan Dudrow maradudrow@gmail.com I received a lovely email from Gail Wilder Beutel recently. She writes that she has traveled extensively and has also enjoyed painting for many years. Some of her works were even exhibited at Bergdorf Goodman in NYC until the store’s gallery closed. She lives on four acres in Connecticut, where she gardens “a ton” and enjoys spending time with her eight grandchildren, who range in age from 14 to 24. Gail says she and her husband had four children together and relocated many times over the years before divorcing in 1979 after 21 years of marriage. Her life is busy, and yet she still manages to have “lots of energy.” Go Gail! I had a chance to speak recently with Frances Derby Childrey. She has moved from Ohio and is now settled with her sister Helen Derby Swartz ’54 in Menno Village, a continuing care retirement community in Chambersberg, Pa. She says they are now “roomies,” doing well and enjoying their time together. We look forward to a visit with them. Louis and I moved about two-and-a-half years ago to a cottage at Homewood, a retirement community in Frederick, Md. This enables me to be outside in my garden for many hours, which I really enjoy. We have a very large and continuously expanding family with 11 children, 20 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren! We enjoyed many years of traveling in our RV but now enjoy more quiet times with our new and interesting friends in
Homewood. I would love to hear from more classmates or, better yet, get a visit if you are ever near Frederick. I think so often of my wonderful years at Friends. At our 60th Reunion, we only saw Frank Breining. We hope to see many more at our upcoming 65th!
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Carol Lee Fordyce May carollee.may@gmail.com Last year, I went to Xian, China, where I saw the terracotta warriors, visited Beijing and experienced walking on the Great Wall. This spring, Jean McClure Mudge and I are going on a Stanford Dutch Waterways barge trip. Jean has been busy editing and preparing her late husband Lewis’ book. She has produced many books and films herself. I have recently been to a Yale mini-reunion for the Class of 1955 down in La Jolla, Calif. While there, I spent time with my son and his wife, who were also in California for the week of Chinese New Year as they now both live and work in Hong Kong. I’m on to Amsterdam! More travel updates to come.
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Susanne Davis Emory vermontsue@aol.com Dear Friends friends, I have no news to report this time. What a sad state of affairs! It’s been ages since I have heard from some of you. Buzzie Hodous promised a dinner at his house this year for all of us, so I am working on that. If that should happen, you’ll want to be there. Aside from seeing everyone between Reunion years, his and Joan’s house is an unforgettable feast for the eyes. Clay and I have traveled to Germany and Costa Rica this year. Soon we are off to Portugal, Spain and Northern Italy. We have the travel bug. Hope everyone survived this unusual winter weather. A treat for me was watching our grandchildren ski in Vermont. My email address is above, so please use it!
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Pat Peake Tisdale Glent24@aol.com These recent Maryland winter storms that have kept me inside and dumped massive amounts of snow during January, February and into March provided me a grand opportunity to personally contact everyone in the class by email. So if you did not hear from me, then I do not have your email address. Please send it as that is the best way to maintain our class connection. Kitty Roberts Merrifield and I traded messages one day, which was great fun. She and husband Eric love condo living on Lake Washington and still enjoy their cabin in Sequim, Wash., right on the
Strait of Juan de Fuca with lots of fresh clams and Dungeness crabs. Kitty and Eric celebrated their 50th anniversary last summer with a wonderful trip on the Baltic. In January, their son Ric remarried, expanding their family and adding two stepgrandsons to their clan for a total of three grandsons. They are very proud of Seattle and their Super Bowl-winning Seahawks and the current bestseller book, “The Boys in the Boat,” a wonderful true story about the University of Washington crew team winning the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Kitty mentioned infrequent visits to Baltimore, and she still has family and friends in Maryland, including Gretchen Sause Redden ‘54 and Evie Leubbers Sinwell ‘54. Ginny Pearce Mitchell and I enjoy the monthly Class of ‘55 lunch group, which Pat Fiol Morrill has continued to orchestrate since our 50th Reunion. Over four days between Christmas and New Year’s, Ginny and Fred took their family of 16 to Seven Springs Resort near Pittsburgh, where the eight adults and eight grandchildren skied, snowboarded and snow tubed. She says even the grandparents went tubing (as well as wining and dining!) and were by far the oldest on the slopes. Their grandchildren are ages 14 to 24, with Tiffany working in sales,
GINNY PEARCE MITCHELL ’55 and her family during a December 2013 holiday
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FRIENDS GRANDPARENTS and alumni from ’50, ’56, ’57 and ’58 came out to support the Varsity Boys Lacrosse team this spring.
Megan set to graduate from UCLA, Kristina finishing her freshman year at Muhlenberg College, Joel, Rebecca and Scott all graduating in June from high school and Parker and Emily still finishing high school. It is always a delight for me to pick up the phone and have Lynn Bahlke Mills on the other end, often around Christmas. She and her husband Barry and their three girls and their families live in the Vancouver area. Lynn said that in her local library, she recently found a Barry Levinson novel titled “Sixty-Six” about growing up in Baltimore. In it, he talks about the “gravitational pull of Baltimore, my universe, the cradle of my youth ...” and Lynn recalls being “taken back in time.” She says, “He mentioned the Flower Mart, which my aunt chaired at one time. I could taste the traditional peppermint stick in a lemon. I love where I live in British Columbia, Canada. However, Baltimore will always hold a special place in my heart.” Lynn described her 11th-grade granddaughter, Leah Katz, who had just come home from a three-day Model U.N. Conference, where she won the coveted Best Delegate award, an honor normally reserved for more experienced conference participants, and was also given the conference gavel. Lynn said that Leah, who was chosen to represent Israel, prepared for weeks doing tons of research, including a mock “midnight crisis” where she was pulled from bed to negotiate. Leah was interested in hearing more about her grandmother’s visit to the United Nations during a Friends School field trip. (I had forgotten about that trip, which must have been in conjunction with Miss Dilly’s history class.) It is always a pleasure when Bob Kriel responds to my request for news. He says, “Our health has been good, and much of our work and recreational activity remain the same. I am still working part time in
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the Center for Orphan Drug Research, active with a project managing spasticity that has recently received significant funding from a national foundation. I am still teaching at the Raptor Center, and volunteering with Habitat for Humanity and Como Conservatory. Linda and I continue to enjoy our lake home and manage to be there almost 30 days a year. My greatest joy is singing, and I continue to take voice lessons and sing occasional duets and solos at church, where we both are active in the choir. Our daughter Helena is working as a health counselor for Cigna Health in addition to coaching yoga at her home. She has the company of a Great Pyrenees dog named Winston, who, for now at least, feels comfortable with me (or perhaps I finally feel comfortable with the enormous canine). This has been a pretty busy year for travel. In April, we had the pleasure of joining an Audubon Society trip to Big Bend Park in Texas, where we saw a lot of unusual birds. In June, we had a great week visiting my brother and family in Baltimore and also made it to my Johns Hopkins Medical School 50th reunion. We traveled twice — in January and again in December — both medical missions to the West Bank, Palestine. It was wonderful to have our daughter Helena with us on the second trip, where she coached yoga classes for women. We were grateful to see that a number of the recommendations that we had made for the rehabilitation facilities had been followed.” Gilbert Cohen writes to say, “Details about me and my family are somewhat thin. I still work full time and, in fact, just signed another five-year ‘lease.’ I am seemingly in decent health, but we all know how that can change in an instant. Ditto for my wife Pat. I have three grandsons in college, two of whom are at Maryland and one at Michigan. In June of 2015, if all goes well, two of them will graduate (now
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there is a wake-up call!). My two granddaughters are still in high school, although the eldest goes to college this fall. As for travel, which is the yearly highlight for Pat and me, we visited Portugal and Italy last year and were away for 24 days. Portugal was a real surprise, and we are headed to the Azores and mainland Portugal again this June through July. Tennis has become a passion for Pat, and I am also still playing (at which level, I won’t disclose). Our interest in the game has risen so much that, in addition to attending the U.S. Open in August in New York every year, we went to the French Open last year, and are going to Wimbledon this summer. My children are good, and I cringe sometimes thinking I have a 51- and a 48-year-old. My son is doing business coaching and consulting, and my daughter is completing her 23rd year of teaching home economics in Long Island, N.Y., which is where she has lived since marrying. My daughter-in-law is a psychotherapist and my son-in-law is an attorney in New York, specializing in wealth management law. No one is on the horizon to take over Cohen’s [Clothiers], so I’ll do it until I fade or something unexpected shows up. Saw Bob and Wynelle Seiler two weeks ago, and we mentioned 2015 and our 60th Reunion. I will help in any way and the Seilers echoed that as well. I hope all of you are well. I’m anxious to see the remaining classmates again, and I do hope we can spend a little extra time with everyone this year. Who knows who will be around by 2020? Regards and love to all of you.”
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Lorinda Rugemer McColgan lrmccolgan@verizon.net As I sit at my computer in 20-degree Baltimore, I realize that soon it will be spring and I will forget the cold and
snowy winter. I think everyone has been hibernating, as the only response I got to my emails was from Clarinda Harriss, who says, “Well, I don’t have anything momentous except something I may already have mentioned: My eighth book and first collection of short stories, ‘The White Rail,’ came out at the end of 2013. Tom and I just bought snorkeling gear for a forthcoming family trip to a place in Mexico famous for its reefs (and NOT for being Party Central). John David and Penny Nichols Watts recently dined at my house on lobster mac n’cheese, the lobster having been flown in from Maine by John. (How’s THAT for momentous — LOL!).” A bit of sad news: In response to my letter to Louise Schell Cate, I received the following note from her daughter, Susan Shine: “I’m sorry to tell you that my dear mom, Louise Cate, passed away on Jan. 4, 2014. She had been challenged by cancer for the past year and a half, and, unfortunately, it spread to her lungs and she became terminally ill in December. She died peacefully, with my sister Laura and me by her side. She loved Friends School and always spoke fondly of her time there and all of the friends she made. Take care and God bless.” If anyone wants to send a note to Louise’s family, I have an address for her daughter Susan. Hope everyone in the Class of 1956 has a great spring and summer ahead.
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Nancy Hearn Aronson nharonson@gmail.com Carol Harrington Fitting and yours truly both visited our adult daughters in Hawaii, where we had hoped to connect but couldn’t as we were on different islands. Carol took an adventurous mule ride to the former
NANCY HEARN ARONSON ’57 enjoys a
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leper colony on Molokai, going down the steep precarious terrain via 26 hairpin switchbacks.“I developed a sincere respect for mules,” she wrote. As for my trip, my husband Jules and I spent February on Oahu, hiking, swimming and watching our granddaughter Sophie’s water polo matches. We hiked up to Makapu’u Lighthouse and were rewarded with some great sightings of the migrating humpback whales. Bill Hammond has relocated to San Diego. You can find him, along with Carol and me, on Facebook! We might even “friend” you!
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Susan Shinnick Hossfeld shossfeld@comcast.net Susan Kurtz writes from Roland Park Place that she enjoys her lovely apartment and spends time doing all sorts of “little things.” She stays busy, as she was accustomed to doing in her “old” life; she stills volunteers at the Friends School library and spends time with her sister, something she was not able to do in the past, and enjoys getting together with her Friends School and Hood College friends. Near the holidays, those of us living in the Baltimore area and those who were in town visiting relatives joined Betsy Banghart Flaherty along with Sandy and Dick Jeanneret for lunch. A fun time was had by all. I think the restaurant staff thought we would never leave! Carl and I just returned from Winter Park, Colo., with a side trip to Rocky Mountain National Park, in the Estes Park area. We just beat the major Feb. 13 snowstorm by flying back a day early, arriving hours before the storm hit. In a few days, we are heading off with our two boys and grandchildren to Snowmass, Colo. — with a side trip to a gold mine for the grandchildren — for their spring break. Later this spring, we will travel to northern Spain for a tour, and then we’re renting a car to travel through the Pyrenees Mountains, ending up in Toulouse, France.
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Ann Green Slaybaugh Friends59@verizon.net Many of our classmates gathered at Friends at the beginning of May for Alumni Weekend — and to celebrate our 55th Reunion from Friends School! Those who attended had a wonderful time and enjoyed one another’s company once again. No news to share this time around. Please make sure to email me your news for the fall edition of Collection.
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Mary McElroy Mem2008@comcast.net Tom Baker joined Bruce and Betsy Beatty Gamble on a visit to Monhegan Island as part of Tom’s visit to his cottage in Maine. Perhaps this is a new tradition! He also made visits to see his sons in Virginia and New Hampshire. He enjoyed having time with his grandchildren, Monterey “Monty,” 6, and Delphine, 6 months. Tom has returned to his piano, practicing daily, a love he had while at Friends. We all remember fond times at the piano with Tom. Catherine Felter is very active with a group, mostly from Stony Run Friends Meeting, working on violence prevention. They are creating workshops for children in elementary through middle school and developing a curriculum based on the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights and using resources from American Friends Service Committee. Alice Morse Mellin reports that she and Peter are slowly transitioning from work to retirement. They spend time with their 11 grandchildren, have traveled to Argentina with college friends and traveled to Medellin, Columbia to visit friends who have retired there. Like many of us, they have had joints fixed; Alice has new hips, but she is now ready to ski and sail again. As are many of us, Alice is getting ready for her 50th college reunion. She is remembering and missing her friends at Friends and hoping some will visit her in Maine. Dellie Strickland James says that her brother Guy Strickland ‘60 is a new grandfather; his oldest daughter Katie had a baby girl named Victoria on Feb. 18, 2014, joining her brother Charlie, 3. Dellie is very involved with the Baltimore American Indian Center and has just been elected vice-chair of their museum board. Her son Strickland is now a president at Washington Talent Agency. He has 13-year-old triplets. Steve Levinson had a heart attack last December but is much better now. He recuperated in Florida before returning to Baltimore in late March. Mary McElroy has started a busy year of travel. She just returned in early March from her annual trip to see family in Portland, Ore. This year’s visit included a side trip to Seattle to visit the Chihuly Glass Museum (“fantastic!”), the Space Needle and a fun visit to the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery. In June, she plans to attend her 50th college reunion in Beloit, Wis., and in early September will go on a Road Scholar cruise up Alaska’s Inside Passage — a trip that has been on her “to do” list for many years. She continues to make jewelry and had a
LINDA KARDASH ARMIGER ’62 and Eleanor Blake Fuller ’62 spent time at Eleanor’s
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very successful craft show last November. Her sister-in-law occasionally sells Mary’s sterling nautical pendants and earrings to friends in Maryland. Aside from her jewelry making, Mary has also been busy serving on committees and helping to organize materials in preparation for the Woman’s Club of Newton Highlands’ fall craft fair. We have both sad and happy news from Brad Meyer. His beloved wife Melissa died at the beginning of last October after a yearlong illness. Betsy Gable, Eli Renn and Mary McElroy attended the beautiful memorial service in a packed First Parish Church in Lincoln, Mass. The happy news is that in February, a boy with the impressive name of Ezra Ignacio Pope Meyer was born to Brad and Melissa’s son Jake and his wife Rossie. This is Brad’s fourth grandchild. Susan Huff Schmitt continues to enjoy life at Shell Point, a life care community in southwest Florida. She is visited each year by Susan DeHoff Montgomery. Susan reports that amusing white pelicans have settled into the lake by her apartment building, and Pat Clouse Epifanio ’61 turned up in a knitting class recently! Susan invites all her classmates to come and visit and enjoy her view of Sanibel, Fla.
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Barbara Turnbull Davis akitabay@gmail.com I recently heard from Bert Taylor up in Western Canada. It sounds like his winter has been as bad as ours here on the East Coast! He is now left with lots
of firewood from his damaged trees. His wife keeps him busy with her addition of a third horse, a Connemara (a wonderful Irish breed), and more fencing issues to be addressed. Bert is still busy helping to redraft his island community’s constitution and is hoping to increase his leisure time, get his 25-foot sailboat in the water and enjoy his French novels. Maybe he can help Jean Derioz with her French teaching as well! Again, Bert asks that we keep in touch with him, so just email me for his address.
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Eleanor Blake Fuller eaerobic@hotmail.com Diana Fleischer Schofied is doing just fine more than year after her kidney transplant. She is working part time in Baltimore County for an outpatient substance abuse clinic, handling two groups and a couple of individual clients. It is just enough to keep her busy. She says she is still working on her leg muscles at the gym but has most of her energy back. Her Friends School grandkids are doing well. Grey Blanchard ’18 is now 14 and is on track to complete all of the math he can take at Friends by junior year. Friends is working on having him take courses at Johns Hopkins University for his junior and senior years, and his parents are also considering a boarding school in Connecticut. Of course, Diana is rooting for Friends. I say a lot of the smart genes come from you, Diana! Henry Blanchard ’24, 8, is also
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doing well and loves the pretty girls. When he is around Diana’s husband Larry’s girls volleyball team, he always manages to get included in their drills. Larry still enjoys teaching various math courses in Howard County and is not ready to retire just yet. Bruce Goodwin is still traveling in Mexico and Central America with his hotel consulting practice but says he is cutting back in favor of more trips to Phoenix to see grandchildren and more “bucket list” trips with his wife Lucy. They are planning to travel mostly within the U.S. this year. Their oldest granddaughter Michelle graduates from high school in May (“Wow!”). Their youngest grandchild Aiden is nearly 3 and already setting swimming records. He hopes to see more classmates when he returns to Maryland in the fall to visit with his sister. Jim Hammond reports that he has been elected to the board of directors for Virginia Diocesan Homes, which oversees the Episcopal Churchaffiliated continuing care retirement communities. He brings firsthand experience since they moved into a Diocesan facility this past August. Sounds great, Jim! My recollection is that Bruce Goodwin, David Foutz, Emily Holman and I all attended pretty faithfully that little Episcopal church in Ruxton for most of our Friends School years. I received an email back from Jim Willis: “Eight feet of snow so far. Part of why I moved to Montana. Yea!” I’m glad Jim is so happy there. I personally would be happy to visit you Jim, but it would probably be in August. I am so glad that I have a fellow class secretary in Nick Nicolls’ wife, Robin! She has served in that role for her Roland Park class for many years and knows (as Jim Willis, a dentist, would know) that getting some of you to respond is like pulling teeth. Thanks, Robin, for your input on Nick’s behalf. Nick and Robin recently lost their yellow lab to cancer but have adopted another lab from a rescue group in Annapolis. She was in a South Carolina shelter about to be euthanized but was then rescued with a lot of other dogs and brought to Maryland. Because of her Southern roots, they named her Dixie. It’s truly amazing what they do to find homes for these animals. Nick and Robin enjoyed a visit from Stockton Buck and his friend, Linda, who were in town from California. It was fun to catch up with them. Nick is taking a break from his painting but still avidly collects model trains, and both he and Linda volunteer at Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge. Nick has a new granddaughter named Ryann who was born last fall. That totals four
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grandchildren, ranging in age from 4 months to 19 years. So, where did Chris Sherman travel this time? Most recently, she has been to the “knee doctor” for a double knee replacement in February. As of this writing, she is doing physical therapy but is looking forward to getting back to her normal activities in a month or so. She did travel to France, back in September and to Baltimore for Christmas. Hopefully, by the time we read this, she will have made another trip to France as it is planned for late spring. Good luck, Chris! Barbara Ensor Sena Brizzee still dons her riding hat in Texas and still works for the City of Aubrey. Of course, she is still riding horses but says that both of her horses are for sale. She and her husband Bob want to buy a Harley. OK Barb, hop on that Harley and come East to visit some of us soon! Carol Geyer Furtwangler tells me she is always behind and was afraid she missed the deadline but I got her in. South Carolina has really seen some historic winter moments never to be forgotten this year. Carol’s every winter hope of seeing snow falling and decorating the landscape for a whole day was happily fulfilled. They stayed home during the ice events and did not attempt to navigate the bridges that surround them. Carol has a favorite snow and ice memory of risking life and limb sledding down a back lane in Homeland the dark winter night unable to stop before Tunbridge Road and her first ride on a motor scooter perched behind John Littleford. She says her jazzy power chair provides almost as much fun. Her oldest son Stuart remains happily in Denver, Colo., while Will is in Austin, Texas and Robbie lives in an apartment near her and frequently visits. She spends much of her time with her grandkids, which now includes the newest family member, Ryan Elizabeth. She is grateful that her daughter Elizabeth and her family live 10 minutes away. She sends love to all. Linda Kardash Armiger and her husband Buck have had some health issues with their youngest granddaughter, Laurel, 18 months, who has had multiple surgeries to address congenital digestive and urinary tract issues. Linda reports that her most recent surgery went well. Hope all is OK now. I remember my grandson having kidney and ureter-related surgeries, so I know it is very worrisome as a grandparent. Her daughter Kelly and her girls are doing well. Linda and Buck thoroughly enjoyed their trip to Saratoga and Lake George, N.Y., and at this writing were looking forward to Orioles spring training in Sarasota. Anita Baker-Lampe met
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CAROL DAVIDSON METHVEN ‘62 at her 70th birthday party with all four of her sons, (from left) Robert Methven, Jeff Methven, Jon Bixby and David Bixby.
Louise Lowe Kittredge for lunch recently at a Greek restaurant in Chevy Chase, Md., while Louise was visiting Washington, D.C., in February. They spent a delightful couple of hours reminiscing about all the fun they had at Friends. They barely had time to catch up on 40-plus years, as they both needed to run off and get ready for one of the many snowstorms in Anita’s area. When Anita was cleaning up her office recently, she found copies of the 1961-62 “Quaker Quill” that included those great articles that Louise had contributed, and she gave a few to Louise. If anyone is interested in receiving copies of the “Quill”, let Anita know! Carol Davidson Methven and her husband Steve headed to Montana and Yellowstone, Wyo., for their annual trip in October, but the government decided they really didn’t want to go to Yellowstone and closed it on them. So they had a very quiet two weeks, watching TV, reading books and enjoying the Bozeman area. Two of their sons and their families joined them for a long weekend; they were fortunate to have lots of snow for the four grandchildren. Yellowstone opened up the day they left, so they were still able to see it on their way to Jackson Hole and Evergreen, Colo. Carol decided to face her seventh decade head-on with a birthday bash at their golf club. All four of their sons attended as well as family and friends from Virginia, Florida and California. Chris Sherman was doing her knee rehab so was unable to attend. Carol says, “It was great to welcome the ‘Seventies Club,’ which should get lots of new members in the upcoming months!” Thanks for the reminder, Carol. I don’t want our classmates to pass out but I need to tell you that I have write-ups from both Stockton Buck and Lane Williamson, so here goes: No snow where Stockton is but he has had
drought. He has been researching the government’s definition of “wetlands.” It seems that overwatering your lawn can allow you to be “encumbered by a myriad of restrictions to include mowing,”he shares, adding, “and try building a barn next to one!” Stockton has four dogs that he takes to the beach every day and has three grandkids, who he says are all a delight. “Who would have guessed?” He is still hiding-out in a town in California with no signs called Bolinas, which is “slowly being done in by GPS.” He hopes that Lane Williamson and Don will visit this spring on their way down the coast to visit Lucy and Bruce Goodwin, and he hopes to check up on Nick Nicolls and Robin near Chestertown, Md., in June. We are so glad that Stockton decided to keep in touch after our 50th. Lane Williamson reports that Eliza, her first child, a poet and early childhood professional, is currently the nanny for her other daughter Kate’s second child, Bee, 3. Bee can recognize the song of a chickadee and a cardinal and could be the world’s funniest wee person. Lane spends one day a week with both daughters and Bee, making art (or snow angels, this winter), building birdhouses and wondering how she got so blessed. Painting work continues to go well, and she wants to update her website. She is also helping the local high school with their permaculture program and helping to establish a community garden at the middle school. Lane and Don are taking a six-month permaculture certification course, making them the world’s most interesting people only to those interested in sheet mulching. I have to say that I had no idea what Lane was talking about until I Googled it. She plans to spend time with Stockton Buck and Lucy and Bruce Goodwin in California this fall. Lane wants anyone from our class traveling to Maine to
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MEMBERS of the Class of 1963 enjoyed brunch in Annapolis with classmate Keiko Hashimoto Kishimoto and her husband Hachi, who were visiting from Japan during Reunion weekend.
HANK KAESTNER ’63 and wife Josie with Lin Parker ’63 at the Parkers’ home in Maine.
please stop and visit! Thanks to Bruce Goodwin and John Slingluff for informing the class more about John Mordecai’s wife Mindy Mordecai’s ECAN work. You can read the article online at baltimorebusinessjournal.com. In the search area, type Mindy Mintz Mordecai and the article will come up. I, Eleanor Blake Fuller, continue my trips from Pennsylvania to Florida and back, eight to 10 times a year. I wish I had a really good answer as to why, since I would be happy in Florida permanently. I went on a fun mini-cruise in October to celebrate a friend’s birthday. (Carol Davidson Methven was also part of the celebration.) Cliff and I got together with Linda Kardash Armiger and Buck while they were in the area for Orioles spring training. They stayed on Siesta Key, which is only a short distance from Longboat Key, where my dad had his motel. Thanks to all who came through with some great notes. It’s so much fun to hear from all of you and I know those who read Collection enjoy catching up. Keep up the good work. Stay healthy and happy.
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Chick Fetter Deegan deeganchicke@aol.com We had such a wonderful time at our 50th Reunion that Trudi Feinberg Cohen challenged our classmates to get on the road and visit each other — and we have been doing just that! Keiko Hashimoto Kishimoto and her husband Hachi visited Linda Lamonica Monk and her husband Harrison in November. Together, they joined the Monks, Judy Klingelhofer O’Mara and her husband Jack, Marge and
Jeb Felter, Lily Kok-Forbush, Anne Skinner White, Gail Moran Milne, and yours truly for a wonderful Sunday brunch in Annapolis. Marge, Jeb, Lily, Gail, Keiko, and Hachi returned to Linda and Harrison’s home for tea and a longer visit. Afterwards Keiko and Hachi visited Sally Taylor Carter in Oregon on their way back to Japan. If we had an award for determination to get to the 50th Reunion, albeit a little late due to a severely broken leg, would definitely go to Keiko! Hank Kaestner and his wife Josie have taken several road trips and visited classmates. They went to Nova Scotia to visit some of Josie’s relatives, and on their way home to Vermont, they dropped by Penobscot, Maine and visited Lin Parker and his wife Anne at their home on a lovely, secluded lake. Hank and Lin started together in the first grade at Lida Lee Tall Elementary School and then both came to Friends School in the seventh grade. Lin had promised classmates who visited him that he would serve them lobster for dinner, and he was a man of his word. We also noticed the stone work on the house in one of the pictures Hank sent. It certainly looks like the home that Lin built is scarlet and gray! Then Hank and Josie traveled to Florida in January for their annual winter escape to the Lago Mar resort, where they have been vacationing during the winter for 30 years. While in Florida they had dinner with Anne Kay Joyner and her husband Bill on the patio of their beautiful home on a canal in Fort Lauderdale. Hank said it took the 50th Reunion to inspire them to make plans for a get together. While Hank and Josie were in Florida, Lin and Anne spent a few weeks on the road, including their first trip to Charleston, S.C., where they plan to spend a month or more next winter. Steve Greif and his wife
Maggie have also been on the road meeting their newest grandson last November and visiting their two older grandchildren in New York on their birthdays in February. Marge and Jeb are still enjoying retirement, concentrating on their “3 Gs”: grandkids, golf and gardening. They take trips to Philadelphia and Lyme, Conn., for grandkid “fixes” fairly often. Their daughter Liz Felter Farrell ‘88 and her husband Bill, along with their two sons, Colin, 6, and Jonathan, 3, are successfully farming on their 12 acres in Lyme, N.Y, surrounded by vegetables, fruits, some grains, cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, maple sugar and honey bees. They have a large greenhouse, a sugar shack and a barn with a solar roof and are close to being fully self-sustaining. Their son Wilson Felter ‘90, his wife Jeanne, their two sons, 12 and 7, and daughter, 10, still live in Philadelphia, and he is deeply involved in the education field. Wilson will begin a new job in July as director of the middle school at Penn Charter Friends School, while Jeanne works for Philadelphia University, where she has created a graduate program in trauma-based counseling this past year. Marge and Jeb are grateful to have seen so many classmates at our 50th Reunion in 2013, and they send their best wishes to everyone! We also have some news about some of our talented offspring: Joe Albert’s daughter Piper Albert sent along a link to son Jagger Clark’s latest video on Irocku.com, where Jagger plays with the Rolling Stones’ famous keyboardist, Chuck Leavell. It’s just wonderful to hear Jagger and to realize he has the attention of such luminary among rock musicians. Grandparents Joe Albert and Button Browne Howard must be very proud! We shared a video of Joan Shinnick
Kreeger’s son, Doug Kreeger, who was interviewed on “Broadway Live” about his life in the theater, co-writing a musical, recording and performing and how he got started. In the 15-minute segment, he talked about his current projects and then he finished with a song. It was touching to learn that he credited his mother, one of the stars of the 1963 Friends School production of “Oklahoma,” as his inspiration. Trudi’s son Adam is quite a musician as well. He has his master’s from Juilliard, lives in California, has three sons and composes music for the TV series, “Psych.” He also composed and orchestrated music for a two-hour live show, “Psych: the Musical.” Trudi sent us links to videos of Adam playing a four-handed piano concert with his friend Susan, another Julliard graduate. She also shared that her other son David, his wife and their three children, have left Vermont and are spending a year in Peru, where David is doing business/financial consulting and enjoying some “serious mountain biking.” We all know that Lily Kok-Forbush is a wonderful singer, but we recently learned that she also plays and teaches both piano as well as the recorder in addition to her other artistic talents. We shared a video of Lily and two of her friends playing their tenor recorders and accompanying a singer and keyboard player during a performance. Despite all of the traveling by our classmates, I have to admit I have been staying close to my home outside of Washington, D.C., and enjoying the theater and ballet. I recently attended a luncheon for retirees from the National Geographic Society and caught up with a few former colleagues. Now I’m back to class for the spring semester at the Johns Hopkins OSHER Institute for Lifetime Learning in Rockville, Md. We hope to see many of our classmates at our next class lunch.
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Susan Grathwohl Dingle s123dingle@aol.com The Class of ‘64 update led off with a note from the Class of 1961. We apologize for the error. The Editors Responding to a last minute request for news, once again the Class of 1964 came through! A quote from Einstein sent by King Seegar sums up our class: “People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.” In the Class of 1964, we also keep our balance by looking ahead! King Seegar writes, “I’m a physician — God knows how — probably an equal measure of genetics, persistence and luck. I live in a small mountain enclave in West Virginia with my family (near neighbor Dan Taylor), where sanity still reigns. I believe in universal healthcare and a one-payer system. I often wonder how Hollywood found its way to the East Coast. I write a blog and am versed in the use and nuances of computers but firmly believe in face-to-face encounters. I would welcome a visit from anyone who reads this. To find us, just Google ‘King Seegar.’” King will be out of the country for our 50th Reunion, but let’s take him up on the invitation! Paul Newbury is recuperating from a serious auto accident back in November. He has been in physical therapy for several months but reports that he is at home, glad to be alive and walking again, albeit with a certain amount of pain. He is still interested in putting together a 50th Reunion yearbook and would love to hear from, and get pictures from, classmates. Email him at paul.newbury@gmail.com or contact him through our Facebook group: FS1964YB50, and yes — God willing —
spend half the year in Montana, where Bob and I enjoy gardening and fishing. We drive out to Charlo in the early spring and return to Baltimore in late fall, about 2,500 miles each way. We feel privileged to see this beautiful country, visit new places and have new experiences along the way. If the route happens to take us through Colorado, then our good friends Rich and Candy Nichalson Vandekoppel warmly welcome us to their lovely home in Littleton for a stop-over visit that always includes good food and great conversation. Charlo is an agricultural community located in the Mission Valley, in the northwest quadrant of the state. It is part of the Flathead Reservation; home to the Salish, Kootenai and Pend d’Oreille Native American tribes. So, that’s the Western side of our life. I guess you can tell how much we love it. But I miss the family! We are now snowbirds to Baltimore spending most of the winter months there. Our daughter Heather and her husband Season have two active children; Sam, 14, and Kate, 7. Our son Rob and his wife Julie have a little boy, Jackson, age 2. I’m looking forward to the 50th Reunion and catching up with classmates!” During Reunion weekend, Candy and Rich will be touring Spain and Portugal, but Candy wishes us a “happy trip down memory lane.” Marianne Benson gave me permission to make up stories about her life with artist Peter Clemons and their three children, Andrew, Tommy and Liz, but reality actually trumps fiction! The family spend summers in a historic community in the dunes of Provincetown and Truro, Mass. In their book, “Traditional Dune Dwellers,” Benson and Clemons “attempt to tell part of a mostly untold
and Byron became friends. Marilyn Miller Thomas promises, “Yes, I’ll be at the Reunion if it doesn’t snow! I’m currently enjoying cruises, Zumba and volunteer work when not driving Harry, my husband, crazy.” Dan Taylor will also be joining us for Reunion and reports, “After 20 years, I left the organization that I started; future.org and future.edu. I was 20 years also with the organization that King Seegar and I started, mountain.org. Now, I am starting another venture — a university with a worldwide scope and mode of learning created by linking world communities together. You can access it by going to .oftheworld.org.” Edie Hofmeister Brandt is looking forward to Reunion, too. She can’t believe she’s been in Arizona for 20 years now and totally loves the Southwest, even in these last five years since Pete passed away. She is still working full time as a receptionist/office manager at Temple Solel in Paradise Valley, Ariz. She loves her job and the people she works with, vacationing wherever her daughter Kelly and family are. They are currently on the Army post in Anchorage, Alaska, where her son-inlaw Matt, a colonel, has been in command since November 2012. Edie says that with grandsons 12 and 15, it’s “fun to remember back to what we were doing in seventh and 10th grades.” Nicholas Young will also be at the 50th. He’s still busy with his real estate practice and enjoying the richness of Baltimore’s cultural life with tours, plays, movies and concerts. He stays connected with Friends School, walking his dog through the grounds en route to the hills of Roland Park several times a week and sometimes manages a few pull-ups on the playground bars! His son Alexander Young ‘11 is thriving at
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he will be attending Reunion! And speaking of Reunion: Annie Nicolls Haendiges, Jay Biddison and Sally Leimbach met in early March with Eleanor Landauer for a planning meeting. Jay has already started a PowerPoint presentation on the Class and the School to be shown on Friday and Saturday nights. For a complete update, check the Facebook group. Annie reports, “I am happily retired and
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story about the way of life, past and present, of families living in dune shacks on the backshores of the Cape Cod towns of Provincetown and Truro.” Their photos and artwork are fabulous! (The book can be purchased online at blurb.com.) While teaching art at the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Mass., Marianne got to know the grandchildren of Byron Forbush ’47, who were attending the school, and she
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Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore., and just returned from a semester in Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar, studying ecology, coral reefs and native culture. I haven’t heard from Margot Kahn Pettijohn, but her pictures speak a thousand words. Go to /pettijohnat.shutterfly.com and check out her awesome photos of pandas, tigers and many other creatures! Where does she find them and how does she per-
suade them to pose? Also on board for the 50th is yours truly. I am now performing a one-woman show called “The Hollywood Dreamcatcher,” based on a personal story about substance abuse and recovery. As a therapist in private practice also presenting creative writing and self-care workshops, I was recently selected by East End Arts Council to create a public arts project in Riverhead, N.Y., providing opportunities for people to share their stories, poems, raps and comedy at open-mic events so that we can inspire each other and the larger community. Being Class Secretary for the Class of 1964 was recently described as like “trying to herd cats,” but I say being the Class Secretary is like herding butterflies. Next time: An in-depth report on the Class of ‘64’s most awesome 50th Reunion … In which we decide our next reunion will be in India in 2016, and we finally do something about those potholes on Memory Lane while enjoying our “Space Oddity”!
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Gretchen Garman gitch@tradenet.net As I write two weeks before the vernal equinox, our dream of an early arrival of spring has been dashed into the ground once again by snow, ice and frigid temperatures. The harsh winter has caused so many postponements during the high school basketball season, even tournament play, that no one can remember the original schedules. Students in middle school have begun praying for school days because, as they say, “Our teachers are beginning to act kind of crazy worrying about how much work there is to make up!” The Maryland Department of Education is advising administrators of church preschools that the children will receive credit for the entire academic year because the excessive absences are considered to be “an act of God.” After more than a decade of collecting the news about our class, I have decided that this column will be my last and I send best wishes to the new secretary of the Class of 1965. I am looking forward to seeing all of you next year during our 50th Reunion festivities.
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This class needs a secretary. If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.
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Jane Thursby mejanemd@gmail.com Social networking seems to be the way we communicate today. I love seeing all of the posts from my classmates on Facebook. To make it easier for everyone to keep in touch about all that is happening in their busy lives, I started the Friends School Class of 1967 Facebook page. I already invited as many classmates as I could find, but there remains many more to sign up. To get things started, I added our photos to the page. The class pictures span seventh through 11th grade. Our individual senior photos show as four pages. Join the page and tag yourself on the photos! Not everyone was there all six years and not everyone graduated with us; but we still think of you as part of our class. We certainly talked and emailed about you at our 45th Reunion. If you are friends with other classmates (or former classmates) and they are not already members, then please ask them to join. Our 50th Reunion is not that far off and I still have all of the emails you sent me in which you promised to attend; I am going to hold you to it! So what news do I have? Candace Nolan Hallett and her husband Ron have moved to Hawaii. I am envious since she was able to miss out on our lovely winter this year. I also missed out on the weather, sort of. I was recovering from surgery during most of the winter and avoided having to work during the many snowstorms. I think my fellow co-workers at the Maryland Emergency Management Agency think I planned this since there seems to be a pattern going on. I was recovering from surgery when Hurricanes Irene and Lee came through and again when the derecho/heat wave hit Maryland. I am a planner but not that good! I am planning to retire this year and will be moving to Atlanta again. My two grandchildren, Zoe and Thomas, are wanting their grandma to be closer.
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Frank Bond, Jr. fbondini.bond@gmail.com Helen Blumberg and her husband Bob Burke are busy planning the next chapter of their lives. After more than 60 years of combined service, they will both retire from Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library at the end of June. They
plan on traveling, exploring new activities and relaxing! They’ll be spending lots of time with their granddaughter Madeline, born to Liz Yeager Guarnieri ‘00 and Pete Guarnieri ‘00 in December 2013. For comic relief, they’ll be in the audience on occasion at son Jon Yeager ‘97’s stand-up comedy shows. Julia Frank reports that her three lovely daughters are now grown and thoroughly educated producing advanced degrees rather than grandchildren. She is indulging her frustrated acting aspirations by participating in a production headed for the D.C. Fringe Festival this summer. She continues to visit the Pratt Library (and occasionally encounter Helen Blumberg there) and has managed to get herself off of their “ten most wanted lostbook borrowers” list. She still teaches medical students at George Washington University, where she runs a small clinic in perinatal psychiatry and provides evaluations for refugees seeking asylum to balance out the private practice required of faculty. Looking forward to catching up with everyone in May!
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Lisa Mitchell Pitts Lisa.pitts.bee@gmail.com So here’s what I rarely do: post anything on Facebook. And here’s what I do most days: read what you, my classmates, post on your Facebook pages! Hope that doesn’t make me some kind of abnormal Facebook personality! Regardless, at the risk of being lazy in collecting class notes and for those of you who don’t use Facebook, here are some updates on what’s up and who’s posting what. Tom Price posts on a regular basis about everything nautical, usually with gorgeous photos of sailing, art work or projects by his students at the Naval Academy. I know many of us at our 40th Reunion hinted broadly about being invited to crew with him sometime — perhaps he’ll put something together for us for our 45th Reunion. Our talented artist, Alice Azrael Colwell, shares her flower paintings and tortures us Northern and Mid-Atlantic residents with the photos of her beautiful California garden in bloom while we’re shivering through another snowstorm. John Hammond and Stan Dorst regale us with political postings, and John likes to describe his walking and snow-shoveling exercises as well. For those of you not in the Baltimore area, Carl Robbins has kept us posted on the takeover of Jos A. Bank by Men’s Wearhouse, and I think we all join him in being delighted that it appears that the Bank name and
identity will be retained as a separate brand. Harry Connolly has just returned from a photo shoot in Greenwood, Miss., and has posted many of his photos from this and other projects. Fun to see! I also see postings about family and pets from Amy Frenkil Meadows, Henry Taylor, Kathy Cox, Mark Westervelt, Dick Scholz, Anne Bernstein Guralnick, Brenda Bodian, Brad Marshall and Charlie Sherbow. I’m thinking about connecting via Facebook and since we’re only a year away from our 45th Reunion, maybe it’s time to start a class Facebook page or reinvigorate our Google group from our 40th Reunion!
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Beth Peacock Holcomb Beth_Holcomb@sarasota.k12.fl.us All of us are busy this year either bemoaning or celebrating our 60th birthday…my how time flies! It seems like only yesterday that we were choosing sides for Greek dodgeball out on the playground. Here’s some news: Krissy Lasagna Starsia finally became a grandma when her son Joey had a little boy whom they named “Little Dominic” after Krissy’s husband Dom. If you’re a lacrosse fan, you can often see Krissy on the sidelines of the University of Virginia games cheering on Dom, the team’s head coach, and their son, Joe, the newly appointed assistant coach. David Schulz, whose research led to the development of Chantix, the highly effective prescription drug that helps people quit smoking, retired from Pfizer after 25 years and is looking forward to lots of skiing and travel. Teddy Neustadt is still working at Fordham University and acting part time. He recently worked with Woody Allen in the film “Blue Jasmine.” Although his scene was cut in final production, Teddy still appears at the dinner table in the movie’s trailer. He claims that he is now best buds with Alec Baldwin and they go drinking and clubbing most evenings. Biff Cox became a grandpa for the second time and now has two grandsons, Henry and Javier. Teresa Redd is still a professor at Howard University and the director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Assessment. Pam Quarles refuses to brag about anything but reports that she is doing well! Kenny Kolodner continues to astound everyone as one of the world’s most accomplished
hammered dulcimer artists as well as a fine old-time fiddler. He is fortunate to be able to perform frequently with his son Brad Kolodner ‘08. Joan Eliasberg Greenberg enjoyed watching the Winter Olympics and reminiscing about how she and her sister used to compete in speed skating all through high school in local and national competitions. She says her back bothers her to this day from skating bent over all of those years. Tom LeGrand reports from Montreal that he was elected VP of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. His daughter Anna turned 18 and went off to college. Tom says: “I’m an old father who has trouble imagining my daughter as anything other than my little girl.” Andrew McBee is currently facing a monumental life challenge as he was diagnosed with ALS last fall. Fortunately, he says it is progressing very slowly for now. Please keep Andy in your prayers and for all of you Friends alumni doctors out there: Hey, let’s come up with a cure soon! Jan Heller Levi reports from NYC that she just completed her third book of poems, “Orphan,” published by Alice James Books. Maggy Young continues with her photography and now works with middle and high school students on speech and language. If you like plums, stop by Maggie’s house in Enosburg Falls, Vt., as her fruit trees had a banner year! Tom Humphries runs a commercial sign company, and he recently installed a huge 45-foot tall sign for a shopping center in Austin, Texas. He hopes to begin creating electronic signs for franchises and retail chains across the country, so he may soon be coming to a town near you! Gregg Mace celebrated his 35th anniversary as sports director/weeknight sports anchor at ABC27 in Harrisburg, Pa. David Chang will be traveling to Friends School country to speak at the University of Maryland in mid-May and hopes to get together for dinner with as many of his 1972 classmates as possible. Susan Wood Mathur recently earned her fourth degree, an A.A. in performing arts music, and she continues racing in triathlons. She reports that her twin sons are both freshmen in college and that life is great! Suzanne Grell Whitney has been teaching at Friends for 14 years and recently switched from first to third grade. She is planning a trip to England and Scotland and looking forward to lots of summer sailing with her husband Beau. Judy Strouse is still working as an addiction therapist, running therapy groups and DUI programs. She returned to Antigua over Christmas and ran into
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JIM SCHWABE at his winery Baccarossa in Los Gatos, Calif.
Peter Frampton, Eric Clapton (her former boss at Crossroads of Antigua) and Roger Daltrey from The Who. “Just another day in the Caribbean…” As for me, Beth Peacock Holcomb, I now have two grandkids: Tristan, 3, and Ever, 1, as well as two stepgrandkids, Collin, 6, and Ben, 4. I’m still working in dropout prevention for Sarasota County High Schools. My husband and I enjoy grouper fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and riding our bikes 26 miles along the Legacy Trail from Venice to Sarasota every day. Florida is heaven! Come on down! I’m still searching for the whereabouts of John Beers and would love everyone’s help. Judy Ball Gentzel is still making the most of her Hawaiian lifestyle: watching humpback whales playing in the Pacific, snorkeling and paddling on her stand-up board.
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Sarah Schulz O’Laughlin somohopo@comcast.net About four years ago, Jim Schwabe started a very small winery in Los Gatos, Calif., near San Jose. They make red wines, which are his favorite, and retail the wines both online and to local wine bars and restaurants. Unfortunately, the wines are currently only shipped within the state of California. They also have a wine and food blog on their website: Baccarossa.com. Jim writes, “It’s a lot of fun but lots of work, as is any small business. I have two kids — a daughter in high school and a son in middle school — and two dogs — a standard poodle and a mini-Australian shepherd.” Lisa Shuger Hublitz lives in the Washington D.C. area, where she has been since graduating from George Washington University, and works in the public policy arena on domestic issues such as immigration, education and health care/reproductive health. She has two sons: Zach, 21, is a junior at the University of North CarolinaWilmington, where he studies business and Spanish and plays Division I tennis, and Josh, 18, is a senior at The Potomac School in McLean, Va. He plans to join his brother next fall at UNC-W and will
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KEITH TABATZNIK ’76 (right) conducts an interview at a local football game.
WHAT RENOWNED SCULPTORS do following a snowstorm: Bart Walters’ ’76 makes driveway creations.
also play on the men’s tennis team. Although Lisa is dreading the empty nest, she said she is thrilled that her boys will be together again. She has also welcomed a new puppy, a Golden Retriever named Rocky, making life anything but quiet and peaceful! If anyone has plans to visit D.C, Lisa would love to hear from you. She can be reached at lshuger@cox.net. Jessica Strauss writes, “I enjoyed the opportunity to catch up with some of our classmates at the 40th and had fun doing the sisterhood thing with Sally and Katie the following day! In fact, some healing reconnections were formed that weekend that opened my eyes and made sense of childhood dynamics that had been difficult. More on that if we get together again!” Jessica added that she really misses a few people — Beth Belcher, in particular! — and wishes they could also reconnect. Jessica has four children ranging in age from 17 to 32: Nat, Ben, Grayson and Alani. Between them, Nat and Ben have given Jess three grandchildren, Ezra, Nico and Josie — one family lives only a block away and the other lives in New Orleans. Jessica’s husband André Davis is a federal appellate judge on the Fourth Circuit, and he brought an additional adult son and three more grandchildren into her life. She is the executive director of a Baltimore-based national education innovation organization called the Alliance for Community Teachers and Schools and still enjoys the challenging world of school reform. Jessica received her M.S.W. in 2011 and eventually hopes to earn a clinical license and shift to a less chaotic but equally fulfilling therapeutic practice.
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Sally Slingluff Sallykslinguff123@gmail.com Coastal Virginia Magazine Top Dentists for 2014 include Dr. Lynnette R. Young of Young Family and Cosmetic Dentistry in Virginia Beach. If you want to take a look at her interview, coastalvirginiamag.com/TopDentists. If you have any news to share with your classmates and others, please send it to either the Friends School Alumni Office or to me.
1975.
This class needs a secretary. If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.
1976.
John Humphries jehriver@aol.com Wendy Weinberg Weil writes that she, Donna Ryan, Katie Gryder-Gibbs and Susan Zagger continue to get together three times a year along with their husbands. Wendy continues to run her physical therapy office, travels and is helping her three kids complete their “launches” into independence. Jon Patz reports that he and his Golden Retriever Taz won the gold medal in the Madison, Wis., skijoring race in February. Here’s a link to the full amazing race where you can see who did most of the work: youtube.com/watch?v=HYrHIGoCVxc. Keith Tabatznik continues to direct the East Coast Boys’ U.S. Soccer Olympic Development Program. He’s also entering his ninth year of broadcasting college soccer games. Soccer travels have taken him to Argentina, Germany, Turkey, Croatia, Italy and the U.K. Keith also enjoys running into Steve Stuart’s son Tim in D.C., and says the resemblance
“makes me think I’m hanging with Steve many years back!” During the snowstorms of early 2014, while suffering from cabin fever, Bart Walter turned his attention to a large snow pile out by the car park. In April, one of Bart’s sculptures, a monumental rearing mustang called “The Guardian,” was installed at the new Stevenson University stadium in Owings Mills, Md.
1977.
This class needs a secretary. If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.
1978.
Doug Stevenson dougstevenson@hotmail.com Hi, everybody! This time last year was a big deal because we were gearing up for our 35th Reunion, and now … the big comedown. No one feeds you crabs, throws you a party or takes your picture when you’re 36 years out. Nope. There is still four more years until somebody makes a fuss again. Or … ahem … decides to put your championship lacrosse team in the Hall of Fame. On the plus side, you don’t get the extra-special, Reunion-year appeals for money, In the meantime, we still have each other, and we all have news and photographs we took of ourselves without a name tag anywhere in the vicinity. So share that stuff here when you think of it, and as proof of concept, here’s a little tour of the Eastern seaboard. “Thanks to the magic of Facebook and Doug Stevenson’s efforts,” Susan Meyer writes from her home in Massachusetts, “I was mentioned in a recent Friends School Collection, so classmate Liz Liebson and I learned that we live nearby to one another! We met over Thai food and reconnected, rekindling a friendship that dates back to the seventh grade.”
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KATHY SHULMAN ’78 and husband Jack explored historic sites during a recent trip to Lebanon.
It’s such a pleasure to keep up with folks in our very own magical forum on Facebook, Friends School Class of 1978, which can be found here: facebook.com/groups/151573141607554/. Take a peek when you get a chance. Kathy Shulman, who is right here in Baltimore, also frequents the Facebook page, but she has sent along a Collection update about her family, work and political life as of late. Kathy writes, “I have made a leap from my 30 years in the nonprofit sector to working for a social enterprise called KidzTable. The organization serves 9,000 healthy meals to Head Start children and youth in after-school programs in the Baltimore region. This has been one of my more challenging jobs, as the business requires precision in operations, flexibility in fixing mistakes quickly and a sense of humor to not stress about it 24/7. So far, I give myself a C in managing those three things well. What a ride!” On the political front, Kathy is stumping to get Heather Mizeur elected as the first woman governor of Maryland. She says, “I believe that Ms. Mizeur offers real solutions to the challenges facing our state…” If you haven’t heard State Del. Mizeur speak and would like to, get in touch with Kathy by email: kathyshulman@comcast.net. Kathy and Jack, her husband, who spent many years in international development, have been blessed to travel quite a bit and she sends along a photo of the two of them in Lebanon at some historic sites. “Jack has two adult children from his first marriage and three grandchildren,” Kathy writes, noting that “11 years ago, I became a grandmother at age 43! We also have two joyous dogs, Archie and Lenny, who both remind us every day that life is just not that serious!” Speaking of kids, David Julian aka “Doc” has checked in from the Southland, the one that existed long before Chicagoans and Angelenos got a hold of the moniker. 2014 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Friends and Baltimore-lifer’s relocation from the Land
DAVID JULIAN ‘78’s sons Griffin and
Donovan take a break from shoveling snow at home in Charlotte, N.C. DAVID JULIAN ’78 enjoys time with wife Donna.
of Pleasant Living to the Queen City of Charlotte, N.C. He is vice president of philanthropic advancement for the Foundation for the Carolinas, the 12th-largest community foundation in the U.S. with over $1.3 billion in assets. David’s wife Donna is a senior vice president of arena events and operations/general manager for the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association, and she oversees the management of Time Warner Cable Arena. Like David, their boys, Griffin, 16, and Donovan, 13, play football, basketball and lacrosse, and, through frequent phone conversations, I hear of their exploits and continued musical education at the feet of the “Rock ‘n’ Roll Doctor.” Doc enjoys the N.C. weather, where, he says, “any snow is beautiful, but gone in a matter of hours!” Regarding the Southern charm, he says “People actually say hello!” although, he has been known to ship down crabs when that Baltimore longing pulls on him. He makes very clear, “the Julian house is most definitely a N.C.-based Ravens outpost each and every Sunday in the fall and winter.” To no surprise, he tells me, “there is a Steeler fan lurking around every corner.” The Julians hope to visit “home” this summer. There you have it. Check out the Facebook page or email me at the address listed above. If you’re in the Baltimore-Washington area, come out and check out my band, Doug Stevenson & The Spades. Google us. Show up. Say “hi!” Drink too much. Embarrass your spouse or date on the dance floor. Have a good time. Just like 1978 … except for the Google part.
1979.
Anne Hockett annehockett@me.com Jenny Freeman writes to say, “I am working as a writer at Environmental Defense Fund, covering the group’s smart power and corporate partnerships programs. Smart power works on lowering carbon emissions from the U.S. power sector, and corporate partnerships help all kinds of companies show that good environmental strategy is good business strategy. I started working at EDF last August; before that, I was a freelance science writer for nearly 20 years and also a public school education advocate in New York. Having a fulltime job is quite a change but makes paying college tuition easier while remaining solvent seem more likely. I live in New York City, where my husband Walker works for SONY Music, keeps bees near the Museum of Natural History and plays in a Brooklyn dads’ surf rock band. Our oldest son Jack is a freshman at Harvard, where he is a distance runner on the track team and plans to study biology. Leo is a high school junior, who is currently doing a semester program in Vermont and planning to spend the summer in northern India. The apartment is child-free at the moment staying amazingly neat from one day to the next. For fun, I like to farm with my sheep farmer/climate scientist friend, cook local seasonal feasts and travel to rare and/or endangered landscapes.” As yours truly, I now live blissfully in Bali with my husband of 27 years along with our two daughters. We moved from Singapore so our daughters could attend the Green School. Maddie graduates this year and Becca next year.
What lies after high school may free form into college or a gap year. For our 20th wedding anniversary, we created a house on some land we bought that sits within indigenous jungle that hasn’t seen people for hundreds of years. If you’re a Facebook friend, you’ll see some of our bigger visitors, such as a 20-foot python and her boyfriend. I maintain my practice in complementary medicine in both Singapore and Bali. I absolutely love my work. The people I see are making a conscious choice to beat the medical odds, heal and live life to its fullest. This is the space of miracles. I’m so eager to be state-side this summer and connect with any and all Friends School friends. While aging has changed the outside, the inside is so utterly grateful for my Friends School experience and for all of you! Come to BALI!
1980.
This class needs a secretary. If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.
1981.
Dahira Lievano Binford BaltimoreBinfordBunch@ verizon.net
1982.
Joyce Jennings joycejen@berkeley.edu
1983.
Shawn Dorman McKenzie dorman.shawn@gmail.com I thought I might just skip Class Notes this round, not having reached out to everyone in time. But the Alumni Office
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CAM GOTT ‘83’S children — Katherine, 5, and Kellan, 10, with grandmother
Iveagh Gott.
wanted to hear from our class so badly that I was asked to try harder and given an extension. So, your intrepid class reporter went off in search of a story. That very evening we happened to be going to see Jake Garcia-Bunuel ‘18, son of Liddy Williams Garcia-Bunuel and Martin Garcia-Bunuel and great bouldering student of my son Gabe, play the Tin Man in the Friends Middle School theater production of “The Wizard of Oz.” Jake was great, as were the other actors, and the whole production was spectacular. For me, it was also a little surreal, sitting in that auditorium, which looks and feels (literally, down to the metal chairs) pretty much exactly as it did 30-plus years ago. Evan Gifford, our own Middle School art teacher, was given a special honor before the show. He looks the same, too. The math doesn’t add up; he must have been in high school when he was our teacher. Seriously. At the show, it was wonderful to also see Lucy Williams Hand ’80 and Kristina Garcia-Bunuel ’80. “There’s no place like home … there’s no place like home …” I do understand the auditorium is about to change, but not until Richard Espey has a chance to use that auditorium for the production of his own short play, called “Bang Day.” The show will be performed during assembly on May 27 in connection with one of Tom Buck’s English classes, called Theater Workshop. It will be one of the last performances on that venerable stage before it gets torn down for renovation. Also on the theater front, Susan Bradford Schindler reports that she’s enjoying being involved in theater again. She received the second place award for Best Supporting Role in a Musical from Maryland Theater Guide’s Readers’ Choice Awards for her role as Miss Hannigan in the Charm City Players’ production of “Annie.” This spring, she’s playing Paulette in the Charm City Players production of
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“Legally Blonde” at St. Timothy’s School in Stevenson. The show will run from mid-March through mid-May. Susan is thrilled that her son Jake Schindler ’17 is now in ninth grade at Friends and is so happy. He loves his teachers and is involved in the music program, plays baseball and writes for the “Quaker Quill.” Jon Herskovitz, truly the intrepid reporter of our class, is an international correspondent for Reuters. After quite a few years of living overseas, most recently in South Africa, he has landed in Austin as the Texas correspondent and editor for Reuters. It was either Texas or Japan for the assignment to follow Johannesburg. Jon notes that he “picked up Japanese along the way, which rivals Texan as a complicated language.” According to his Amazon bio (more on that in a minute), he’s been based in Tokyo, New York, Dallas, Seoul and Johannesburg and covered events ranging from the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center to the tsunami that tore apart the northeast coast of Japan. In late 2013, Jon published his first novel, “The Tokyo Mariachi Blues,” as a Kindle eBook. As described on Amazon, “Japan’s lost decade of the 1990’s is set to music and settles into a nightclub, where a young department store clerk stumbles on a bit of fortune that changes her life. Pushed out of her Kobe home after the devastating earthquake, she finds solace in a man with a guitar and a few spare yen spilling from the edges of the Tokyo underworld.” So, please put down Collection and download this book! Trish Backer-Miceli and family are still in Baltimore and have an eighth-grader at Friends. As several other Friends alumni children are in that class as well, staying in touch for them is pretty easy. Trish reports, “After 21 years with the same organization, I made the decision to change companies this April leaving healthcare for the insurance industry. I guess I like challenges.” Trish is still in
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DEBBIE SMITH ‘83 and daughter Sarah Stockman.
touch with and see Debbie Smith and Susi Silesky, who are both doing well, adding, “I’m looking forward to warmer weather after the winter we had and watching my kids play lacrosse. Hope to see everyone at our next Reunion.” Lou Hanover reports from Paris that his son Eli is off to Emory University in the fall. He could not talk him into University of Chicago. Ella is a junior and starting the trek. The family is living in Paris and London for another 18 months. Lou’s wife Jeanne is speaking French well, while Lou is still enjoying his struggles with the language. Speaking of French (note the weaving together of our stories), Debbie Smith shared that her daughter, college sophomore Sarah Stockman, is spending her spring semester abroad at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The Smith/Stockman family took this opportunity to spend a few weeks over the winter holidays to vacation in Paris and Dublin before dropping Sarah off for the semester. The most satisfying part of the trip, says Debbie, was “to see the look of awe and confusion on two teenagers’ faces as their parents wiped away the cobwebs in their brains to access longdormant high school French.” Debbie thanks our Friends School seventh-grade French teacher Madame Parker who planted the seed of the French language that all these years later she can use to impress her two teens. As a side note to this memory, my teenage daughter was recently quite impressed (if one may interpret the rolling of the eyes quite generously) when, while quizzing her on French vegetable vocabulary, I told her that in Middle School, I had named one
of our goats Radis Rose (radish), thanks to Madame Parker’s class. Edwin Remsberg feels like he contributes to Collection too often, but he sent word anyway, because I was very pushy. Breaking news is that Edwin launched his acting career with an appearance in “House of Cards.” He plays … a photographer. Cam Gott lives in Charlottesville with his wife Kristi, son Kellan, 10, and daughter Katherine, 5. They get to spend lots of time with their grandma, Iveagh Gott, who taught a generation of Friends students how to dance. Cam is a mentor/coach for professionals, entrepreneurs and business owners with ADHD, and he writes articles and blog posts related to his work that are quite interesting. JON HERSHOVITZ recently published his
first novel, “The Tokyo Mariachi Blues,” as an Amazon Kindle eBook.
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MIKE WOOLF ’87 and son Isaac kayaking during a recent visit to Austin, Texas. MINDY ATHAS ’87 with husband Nick and children James, 11, Madeline, 8, and Jackson, 6.
LIDDY ’83 and Martin Garcia-Bunuel ’83 and Shawn Dorman ’83 congratulate
Jake Garcia-Bunuel ’18 on his performance as the Tin Man during this year’s Middle School musical, “The Wizard of Oz.”
Pamela Serfling Stack reports that this is going to be a big year for her family. “I’m changing jobs, moving a bit farther out of London and sending Leigh off to university. So far, no trips to the U.S. planned, but who knows?”As for me, my own job changed in February and I’m now the editor-in-chief of “The Foreign Service Journal,” the monthly magazine for foreign affairs professionals published by the American Foreign Service Association (and posted online in full each month in case anyone might care to check it out). On the home front, the whole family went to Colorado recently to see our Gabe compete alongside the country’s best youth rock climbers at the American Bouldering Series Youth National Championships. While he did not “podium” (apparently that’s a verb for climbers), it was still a great experience. The mysterious and marvelous Martha McClung and her husband live in Federal Hill with their joyful dog. Martha now works for Brightview Senior Living. She focuses on the creation of community culture, which residents are encouraged to live their lives to the fullest no matter where they are physically or cognitively, and she oversees the company training function. In her free time, Martha rides with fellow horse enthusiast, Alice Burton ’85, but claims she is not as brazen and bold as Alice in the saddle. The Sheik, Alex McClung ’79, is close by, living in Eldersburg with his family. Having gotten Martha to contribute to Notes, my work here is done. After what has probably been more than two decades, it’s time for me to pass on the Class Secretary baton. The line for volunteers starts here, so please be in touch.
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Robert Spencer-Strong robertstrong@hotmail.com
Staige Davis Hodges sdhpdx@gmail.com We are so happy to have celebrated our grand 30th Reunion this past May! Please send photos and any news to us to keep everyone in the loop, especially those not on Facebook.
1985.
This class needs a secretary. If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.
1986.
Roger W. Hughes
from Muir Woods National Monument and the Golden Gate Bridge. He is working for Silk.co, a fast-growing social content and information visualization company, having spent the past two years overseeing cloud computing strategy for Telefonica. He welcomes anyone on their way to Napa or visiting the San Francisco Bay area to stop by. Matt Azrael visited Austin, Texas in April and caught up with Mike Woolf, whom he hasn’t seen more than once since graduation! Steve Prichett and Mike Abrams also visited Mike Woolf recently. Christine Boling-Leubecker just adopted a 4- year-old Staffordshire Terrier from the Maryland SPCA on Falls Road and did the SPCA March for Animals around Druid Hill Park in April. In June, she and Brian went on a cruise to the Eastern Caribbean on the ship Oasis. She still teaches at Roland Park Elementary/Middle School.
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Angelo Valle gelovalle@gmail.com This past winter was long, but mine was made warmer by a brief reunion recently with Marsha Iwata Tolbert. She was on her way to Ireland in support of her children who were performing with their high school marching band in the Limerick St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Her flight itinerary included a layover in Boston that was long enough and timed appropriately for us to have dinner at the airport. It was too brief a visit but great to catch up, nonetheless. If any of you would like to share news in the next issue of Collection, make sure to send your updates to me!
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Meghan Stern Cochran meghan@stern.net Congratulations to the Class of ‘89. This is the year of our “silver” Reunion! All is well out here in San Francisco, where weekends feel like vacations.
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CHRIS ROBERTS ’87 and his three daughters, Martha, 8, Ruth, 5, and Sarah, 3, on the
Yorkshire moors while visiting his wife Hannah’s family.
Shelley Coates Stein shelley.stein@gmail.com Mindy Krause Athas is in her 13th year as a dietitian/nutritionist, now in outpatient oncology, at The University of Maryland Medical Center. Her husband Nick continues as surgical oncology PA at Mercy. She says, “The kiddos are now in their only year being all together at Relay Elementary in kindergarten, second and fifth grades. They’re very busy and active and keep Mom and Dad running! I hope to catch up with the Friendly friends soon!” Mindy and Nick celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary in April. Congratulations to you both! Alex Salkever and his family are dug into the hills of Marin County, Calif., living a stone’s throw
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LISA ENGEL MAIORANA ’92 and Sankari Wegman ’92 last summer with their children,
(from left), Eli , 8, Zach, 6 and Aaron, 4, Maiorana and Jayanta, 9, and Uma, 7, Wegman.
beginnings, but I often think back fondly on those intense and often wonderful nine years we spent together on Charles Street. And I truly wish everyone all the best!” Congratulations to Lara Zizic, who writes, “I have a new baby girl as of March 7, little sister to my 2 1/2-year-old daughter, and also have a film doing the film festival circuit called ‘Mission Congo,’ which I co-directed with my husband, David Turner. We live in Brooklyn, N.Y., and would love to catch up with everyone, but it may be a bit hard to get to Reunion as my parents no longer live in Baltimore. I’d love to catch up with the NYC/Conn./N.J. people, but the recent Reunions seemed to occur around the times of my daughters’ births!”
Disneyworld, she bumped into Natalie Santos Ferguson. It really is a small world after all! Tyler Buck is now the director for corporate and community partnerships for Special Olympics Maryland. If anyone has ideas for potential partners for SOMD please shoot him an email at tbuck@somd.org. Rob Sullivan’s second book, “Cinema Symbolism: A Guide to Esoteric Imagery in Popular Movies,” can be viewed at facebook.com/cinemasymbolism, and is scheduled to be published this spring. I thoroughly enjoy the fruits of Oakland life (some of which are literally fruits, from Sarah Miller’s garden) with my wife Kristen and son Ben, 2 1/2, (who are both also fruits, figuratively). Kristen is an all-star consumer rights lawyer and food justice advocate. I recently opened the San Francisco office of a New York-based employee rights law firm. Meanwhile, my son Ben pretends to mow the lawn, announces which stuffed animals need to see the doctor and angles for rides in the shopping cart.
Jahan Sagafi
Jeffrey J. Dinger
jahan@post.harvard.edu
jeff.dinger@gmail.com
After teaching at the University of Chicago for three years, Sarah Miller and her partner Erin have relocated to the Bay Area and bought a house within walking distance of yours truly and my family. She’s working on a book and will be teaching a course in 2014-15 about the history of photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. Kate Kaufman Gibbons still lives outside Rochester, N.Y., with her husband Dave and their children, Paige, 10, and Brooke, 6. She is a special education teacher working with third grade this year. Earlier this year on a trip to
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JENNY WEISBERG ’89 and her family thoroughly enjoy life in Jerusalem.
We have a lot of news to share from our class ... Amy Hutchens started her own company in November 2013, CLEAResources LLC. David Saunders says “hello” from Bangkok, where he is in his sixth year as chief of the Department of Immunology and Medicine at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS), looking after the U.S. Army’s malaria research program in Southeast Asia. Jon Sherman has a trio of good-news items to share. Not only is his wallpaper company, Flavor Paper, doing great (including four patterns in the CooperHewitt Design Museum arm of the Smithsonian), Jon is also very busy at home. He recently got married at Preservation Hall in New Orleans with Phil McIntyre, Eli Balser, and Julie and Chris Vaughn in attendance. To top off a busy spring, Jon and his wife Denine welcomed a baby boy named Cosimo on April 24, 2014. Jenny Weisberg writes, “I’m so sorry I’m not going to be able to make it to the Reunion. I would so love to see everyone. Since my graduation from Bowdoin College in 1993, I have been living in Jerusalem. I have been married to Rabbi Joshua Weisberg (originally from Ontario) for 18 years now and we have seven kids between the ages of 16 and 1. As you can imagine with so many kids, being a mom is my main focus in life. I also have a popular website for Jewish mothers called JewishMOM.com and have written two books on pregnancy and motherhood, “Expecting Miracles” and “One Baby Step at a Time.” My life’s journey has taken me very far from my
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David Knowles knowlesdavid@gmail.com The Class of ’92 has a lot going on these days. We’re living all over the country and the world, doing interesting work, still making new kids and turning 40. Jamie Skeen Schumann-Dahlberg gave birth to her third child on Oct 7, 2013. She is happily married and living in Portland, Ore., where she works as
a psychiatric charge nurse at a hospital. Paul Donowitz reports from his home in Yangon, Myanmar that he got married in 2013 to Bobbie Sta. Maria, who is from the Philippines. Pau is a lawyer and works for the Asian Development Bank. I’m assuming he lives the farthest away from campus of any of us. Arsh Mirmiran might be the closest, living in Homeland with his wife Lauren and daughters, Maggie, 3, and Greyson, 1. He is a partner with Caves Valley Partners, a real estate development firm in Towson. He led the development of 1111 Light Street, a fantastic new mixed-use project in Federal Hill. He entertains me by phone about once a week during our drives home from work. I was relieved to hear that despite leaving San Francisco for Columbus, Ohio, Drew Curlett is still “a hippie at
The Magic of Mike Fund’s 1st Annual Dinner & Auction When: September 10, 2013 from 7 – 10 pm Where: Pier 5 Hotel, 711 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD Tickets: $150 per person Information and to Purchase Tickets: https://www.smore.com/v2e09the-magic-of-mike-fund. All tickets include dinner, drinks and dancing. A live auction will also be conducted during the evening. All net proceeds directly benefit Mike’s two young children. If you are unable to join us at the event, kindly consider donating to the Magic of Mike Fund.
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ATTICUS CHARLES HUEBNER, Eric and Carrie Mallonee Huebner ‘93’s second child, was born on Nov. 3, 2013.
SARAH TAYLOR ’92 with husband Dave Schwartz and their kids,
DAVID KNOWLES ’92 with wife Wendy and
Caroline, Alex and Dylan.
daughters Kaitlyn and Emmy.
heart.” A veteran chef, he’s teaching international cuisines at the Columbus Culinary Institute. Look him up on YouTube to see a great demonstration on Korean BBQ! He and his wife Kimberly celebrated five years together last November. Dan Mannes and his wife will have their hands full this summer when kid number three arrives. They live outside of Philadelphia, where he works as an equity research analyst. Josh Bartlett was a tough one to track down. He’s an architect with the firm Robert A.M. Stern and lives in Larchmont, N.Y., with his wife and two daughters, Addison, 6, and Leighton, 4. Melissa Wasserman Daniels and her husband Mike live outside of Baltimore with their two sons, ages 11 and 6. For nine years she has been a technology integration teacher with Baltimore County Public Schools. The position was cut for next year so she is transitioning to a professional development/mentor-teacher role and is looking forward to the new challenge. David Melnick lives in Sparks with his wife Jenny, daughter Harper, 9, and son Holden, 5. Highlights of his life since graduation include a couple of “character-shaping, life-altering, extended journeys to Tasmania and Australia.” After returning to Baltimore he worked on TV shows such as “Homicide” and “The Corner” and wrote Episode 9 of “The Wire.” These days, he’s president of Siquis, an integrated marketing firm in Mount Washington. Ezra Easley lives in Greensburg, Pa., with his wife and children. He’s been with HealthNet Federal Services for 10 years where he is executive director for call center operations. He is also a licensed minister
serving at Refuge Way of the Cross Church in Baltimore. My old neighbor on Woodlawn Road, Franny Legge, and her husband Neerad live in Venice Beach, Calif., with their son Senaka, who will turn 5 in July, and daughter Sahana who will be 2 in August. She produces commercial photography shoots for magazines, movie posters and ad campaigns through her production company, Seamless Productions, and hopes to find more time to teach yoga. Most of her family is still on the East Coast, and there is always pressure to move back, but 365 days of sunny and 72 degrees is hard to beat! Matt Miller is another one who we’ve lost to California for good. He lives in Malibu and runs M.E. Miller Investors, where his returns routinely crush the S&P 500 (that’s my commentary, not his!). Andy Snyder and his wife Allison are living in the Boston area and enjoying their toddler, Lillian. He works for a local biotech startup. I saw him last spring when I was up there for a work trip. He is happy and loving life. Seth Niman lives in Bethesda with his wife Carrie, their daughter Emily, 10, and son Adam, 8. He’s the director of media strategy for MDB Communications in Washington, D.C. We work six blocks apart and get together for lunch from time to time. He makes the trip up to Camden Yards for games whenever he can and always keeps us up to date on baseball statistics and minor league prospects in the Orioles’ farm system. I always know it’s football season when I start getting exasperated text messages from Gage Monk about Flacco’s latest interception. He’s a longtime teacher at Jemicy School
and lives adjacent to Genesee Valley Farm with his wife Tammy and their children, Katherine ’24, 9, a thirdgrader at Friends, and Harrison, 4. I’ve been tasked the last couple of years with playing “phone Santa,” calling Katherine from the North Pole to encourage good behavior leading up to Christmas (I sure hope she isn’t reading this). Erin Koch has been living in Croton on Hudson, N.Y., for the past seven years working as a part-time event planner by day for the Garrison Institute, a contemplative nonprofit retreat center, and by night she is a painter. She is happy to say she is still close with her Friends School friends and says “hello” to everyone. Check out her website: ErinAnnKoch.com. Sarah Taylor is a dermatologist serving in the Army in Georgia. Her husband, a pediatrician and allergist, is also active
duty. She says she owes two more years of service and then plans to leave the military. They have two girls, Dylan, 6, and Caroline, 4, and added a little boy named Alex on Dec. 1, 2013. As for me, my wife Wendy and I live in Severna Park, with our daughters Kaitlyn, 4, and Emmy, 2. I’ve been director of communications at the Corn Refiners Association in D.C. for six years, spending much of my time on our high fructose corn syrup issue. It has been great to reconnect with so many classmates recently. Keep the news coming, and look for our class Facebook group if you’re not already a member.
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Carrie Mallonee Huebner carolinemallonee@gmail.com It’s been quite a few months since our 20th Reunion, and frankly, I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that it’s been 20 years since we were at Friends! It was great to catch
CARRIE MALLONEE HUEBNER ’93 (center, holding son Atticus Huebner) with
(from left) Eric and son Henry Huebner and Elise Pittenger Rocha ‘93 with daughter Elena and husband Fernando Rocha.
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AMANDA LOWER ’98 and her husband Justin Bakaian welcomed their second child, Sebastian, last October.
up with those of you who were there. Greg Seidman missed the Reunion but for a good reason: His wife was having a baby! Greg’s son has just turned 1, and his 4-year-old daughter is having a great time being a big sister. Greg also tells me that he and his wife will be celebrating their 10th anniversary this year, and he’s still having a great time developing software for a living. Elise Pittenger, her husband Fernando Rocha, and their daughter Elena, 1, were in Baltimore in January. Elise and Fernando live in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where she is principal cello of the orchestra there and is active playing contemporary music both in town and during visits to the States. My own big news is that I had another baby! My second son, Atticus Charles Huebner, was born on Nov. 3, 2013. These days, I welcome play dates, and I’ve been lucky to have had several chances to catch up with classmates and their kids this year. In July, I got together with Blakely Mikula Hamilton and Frannie Hochberg-Giuffrida at Frannie’s apartment in Washington, D.C. Blakely and her daughters Hope, 8, and Norah, 6, were visiting from their home in Santa Monica, Calif. Frannie’s daughter Nora, 5, and my son Henry, 2, had a great time playing with Hope and Norah! I welcomed a visit from Dana Kerley Jimenez and her three children, Isabela, David and Isaac, during the holidays. She currently lives in Georgia with her family. I saw Elizabeth Leonard Clifton in January, too. Elizabeth and her family live in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on the Vassar campus, where her husband is a professor. She is singing in several choirs and recently started a vocal quartet. I was thrilled that her new group, Sonority, included in its fall concert a piece I wrote. I’m honored to be your new Class Secretary. Please keep in touch!
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ALISON BIRCH ’98’s son Ronan.
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Trevor Soponis tsoponis@gmail.com
LIZ LAUREN LAUROS ’98’s sons Reuben and Micah are quickly learning how to be
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Taylor Smith taylor.c.smith@gmail.com
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Andy Dale Andrew.Dale@tdameritrade.com
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Claire Cherlin Kosloff clairekosloff@yahoo.com
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Justine Alger Forrester jalger1@yahoo.com Thank you to all who wrote in this time around. It pains me to share that since our last update, we have lost one of our classmates, Mike Malin. His dear friend Joe Johnston had this to share with us and the Friends community: “Our School suffered a tremendous loss in September with the passing of Mike Malin. Mike fought a courageous battle against cancer, and his indomitable spirit and warm personality never succumbed to his illness. On Sept. 12, 2013, hundreds attended a Shiva memorial service for Mike at the Zamoiski Alumni Center on the Friends campus, including many, many Friends School alumni. The next day, hundreds congregated at St. Casimir’s Church in Canton to celebrate Mike’s life in a Catholic mass. Afterward, friends and family gathered at Claddagh’s Pub, where many of our fellow classmates, including Rob Travieso ‘97, Jake Martin ‘99, Jesse Paulson and Chris Murray ‘97, among others, spoke about Mike and his impact on their lives. It was an emotional experience with many of us fighting back tears unsuccessfully, but
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Mike would have appreciated it and we surely felt his spirit among us. Mike’s spirit now lives on in his two beautiful children, David and Abigail. A group of Mike’s college friends have started an organization to support David and Abigail. The organization is called “The Magic of Mike Fund” and a dinner and auction fundraiser is scheduled for Sept. 13, 2014 at the Pier 5 Hotel in downtown Baltimore City. Additional details about the event are listed below, and you can visit the site: smore.com/v2e09-the-magic-of-mikefund. We miss Mike deeply and will never forget the joy, spirit and enthusiasm that he brought to our lives.” Well said, Joe. I hope to see many of you at this special event in September. We will understand if Greg Kelly cannot be there. Greg writes in from across the globe to tell us that he is currently deployed again saying, “This time I am in Afghanistan with the 211th Military Police Company. I am a first lieutenant with the position of platoon leader.” Thank you so much for your service, Greg. I am sure I speak for our class when I say that we wish you a safe deployment and we eagerly await a future update announcing your safe return home. In lighter news, Jason Anderson has been enjoying life in the city. A year ago, Jason bought a house in Brewers Hill. He is currently working as controller of the Chesapeake Bank of Maryland. Matt Kahn also wrote in this time to share the news that he and his wife Maren have recently “created another human” named Wesley Andrew Kahn. “He is pretty awesome!” says Matt. He, Maren and Wesley are living in Capitol Hill in D.C., but still come up
to Baltimore quite often (“or at least every six weeks when Maren gets her hair cut at Laboratorie”). Matt has been working for RCM&D, out of its D.C. metro office for the past seven years, and he loves it. He tells us, “I’m doing more internal legal work since graduating from law school in 2012, but I still work regularly with clients on their insurance and risk management needs. I see Marc and Jason often and Guy Furman and Janine D’Adamo less so.” Marc Broady is doing very well for himself, too! Marc is working for Baltimore City Public Schools assisting principals with their budgets by using data to drive decision-making in an effort to raise student achievement. Marc is also in the evening law school program at The University of Maryland, where his grandfather, the late Judge Robert Watts, a member of the Class of 1949, attended as “the second African-American to challenge the school’s segregation policy,” says Marc, adding, “It feels great to be in his footsteps, even in a minor way.” Quite an achievement, indeed, and we celebrate with you, Marc! Marc also continues to represent the 40th Legislative District as a member of the Maryland Democratic State Central Committee and is a proud board member of the Holistic Life Foundation, “the amazing nonprofit” that Atman Smith ‘96 and Ali Smith ‘94 founded a decade ago. “We are continuing to teach at-risk children in Baltimore and, recently, around the world the benefits of mindfulness, meditation and yoga!” says Marc. “Check us out at hlfinc.org!” In other local news, in March 2014, Alec Heuisler ‘99 and Janine D’Adamo installed an art show
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SARA BARSS ’98 with baby Austin.
at 13.5 Wine Bar in Hampden. The chef at 13.5 Wine Bar, Kate Erwin ‘99, requested their artwork after Erin Hall took down her awesome group show. If there are any fellow alumni who would be interested in hanging their artwork at 13.5, get in touch with Janine! She still works at MICA in the Graduate Admission Office and enjoys working with prospective graduate students. Speaking of Hampden, Maggie Beetz and her husband Jesse Whyte are about to celebrate one year as homeowners in the Hampden neighborhood! Maggie is currently working as the publications manager at Center Stage. We have received this personal invitation from Maggie saying, “I encourage everyone to come see amazing plays!” Brett Gordon reports, “Last October, I got engaged to Amanda Joy Adeleye, who is a resident physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital. We met the oldfashioned way … through friends of friends of friends at a party. The wedding is set for July 2014 at the Prospect Park Boathouse in Brooklyn. Ed Van Wesep will be one of the groomsmen.” Ed also wrote in with another career development. In July, he will be leaving his position as associate professor of finance at Vanderbilt University for the same title at the University of Colorado- Boulder. He says, “Nashville is a cool town, but it’s time to take skiing more seriously.” Alicia Atkinson tells us that her past year has been a blend of the old and the new. Alicia continues to work for Whittier Friends School but has tried out some new experiences this year. “My class entered the creativity competition ‘Odyssey of the Mind,’ and in true
Quaker tradition, we focused on teamwork instead of winning. The older students are connecting with Friends schools and Quaker meetings around the country, from San Francisco Friends to Friends School of Baltimore. You might have seen us sneaking around campus on the Sunday before Easter, as we attended meeting for worship at Stony Run on our East Coast Heritage trip. It’s exciting to introduce the Friends I teach to the Friends where I was the student.” What a neat bridge to make! Alicia goes on the say, “My personal life has also been filled with changes. My divorce became final, and my partner Ryan and I became domestic partners (albeit it’s only official through his work since we do not qualify for a domestic partnership in California). My son Bishop and I have been taking California by storm, experiencing all it has to offer. This includes ice skating, Disneyland, the zoo, museums, rock climbing, oyster bars, hiking, indoor and outdoor playgrounds, the beach, the mountains, and so much more. We are also discovering what other states have to offer with trips to Maryland, Alaska and Colorado. I haven’t gotten a chance to take him out of the country yet, but I hope that is coming up in late 2014 or in 2015!” We will look forward to that update — and pictures! — a few issues from now. Lee Watkins has had a very eventful year. Lee is an evaluation technician at Discovery Channel in Silver Spring. He and his wife Diana, an associate grant writer at Centronia School, moved with their son Noah, 5, to a new condo in Columbia Heights, D.C. “Early in the summer of 2013, we found out that Diana was pregnant, and she
JAMES HARLOW ’98 with son Russell.
MATT KAHN ‘98’s son Wesley.
delivered a girl, Maya Watkins, naturally, on Christmas Eve!” says Lee. “Maya and Noah are now doing well, and I returned to work in early March after a monthlong paternity leave, following Diana’s leave. Noah is currently entered into the D.C. Public Charter School lottery for a number of well-ranked local schools for kindergarten. In other news, my younger brother Derek married his long time girlfriend Natalie Ogilvie this past summer in Dewey Beach, Del.” Thank you for sharing your update with us, Lee, and congratulations on all the happy news! And now, following Lee’s lead, we have several more baby announcements — all boys! Russell James Harlow was born to James Harlow and his wife Katie and on Feb. 27, 2013. A year and one day later, Sara Barss and her husband Chris Christie had their first baby, a son named Austin Peter Barss Christie. Austin was born on Feb. 28, 2014, weighing in at just under 8 pounds. The little guy was impressively prompt, arriving only five hours after his due date! Another happy first: Alison Birch and her husband Brian Winsor welcomed their first baby, a boy named Ronan Brian Winsor-Birch, on Oct. 30, 2013. Amanda Lower Bakaian and her husband Justin have some great
news to share as well. On Oct. 10, 2013, the Bakaian family welcomed baby number 2, Sebastian Goheen Bakaian. Baby Sebastian joins big brother Harrison Bruce Bakaian, 2. They had a great snowy first winter as a family of four. Finally, just in the nick of time to make it into this issue of Collection (which was, of course, their goal), Shai and Liz Lauren Lauros and their son Reuben, 3, welcomed Micah Asher on March 11, 2014 in Brooklyn. In my own news, we Forresters are thoroughly enjoying life as a family of four. I get such a kick out of seeing our two boys growing and bonding together. Silas, 3, is a very loving and doting older brother. Just a few months shy of his first birthday, Gideon continues to earn his title as the smiliest baby we have ever known. Like most parents, we are endlessly enamored with their individual phases of development and in particular, we have found toddler language acquisition to be a real trip! As always, many thanks to everyone who took the time to reach out and stay in touch. The Class of 1998 is an awesome group, and each update is a welcome reminder of the great people whom it comprises.
ALICIA ATKINSON’S ’98 son Bishop gives rock climbing a try.
BRETT GORDON ’98 with fiancée Amanda Adeleye.
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CLASSMATES from the Class of ’99 gathered to celebrate together during a Baltimore reception for Deana Carr-Davis’s recent wedding. From left, Anna Carroll, Mary Beth Stricker Sieck, Dan Sieck, Laksman Frank, Deana Carr-Davis, Laura Liebman Fine and Rosalie Parker.
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Rosalie Parker This class needs a new secretary. If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office. Salute my dear classmates! We’re coming upon our 15th Reunion, and I hope that we all rekindle our relationships. I’ve been lucky enough to see so many of our classmates this year, including a fabulous trip to Charlie Achuff’s house in Bethany Beach. Charlie, his partner Adam, Lucia Treasure and Amanda Bates Parks were all there. Along with witnessing the rocket NASA set off, we played the best game ever, Cards Against Humanity. Charlie is finishing up his M.A. in history, and he and Adam will move back to NYC, where he hopes to find work in a library or archives. In October, we had the Mill No. 1 opening, a real estate development project that involved a number of Friends school alums, including Jennifer Tufaro Nolley ’01, Steve Travesio ’94, Harry Connolly ’70 and Bob Tucker ’70 as well as myself. So, funny story for me that ended up in marriage: Laksman Frank was a friend of mine at Boston University, where Deana Carr-Davis and I graduated. They met after graduation, years later through a mutual BU friend and ended up tying the knot! The couple wed in Florida and had a celebration soon after here in Baltimore. We celebrated with Mary Beth Stricker Sieck and Dan Sieck, Anna Carroll, Benjamin and Laura Leibman Fine. Now, on to some more news from our class … Chris Condlin shared, “I have been working as an associate in the law firm Cleary Gottlieb in NYC since November 2009. I always enjoy getting to see fellow ’99ers Will Terrin, Reid Cherlin and Tim Sweeney from time to time as well as certain other FSB grads from other, less cool class years. I can’t believe that my son Nikita
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is already 9-years-old! He and I will be in Baltimore for most of July, so hopefully some others will be around.” Drew Shelton says, “I am planning to attend the Reunion after-party with my wife, assuming I can get a babysitter for little Annie Shelton. As for news, I spent part of last summer at Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., on an engineering/ education grant and got to try out a lot of astronaut-caliber simulations. I also learned a lot that I can use in the classroom, as I teach astronomy, and I’ll be running some space-related camps at Carroll County Community College this summer.” Johanna Tassone Howe says, “I can share that I was promoted to senior mental health therapist in the Mood Disorders Clinic at Johns Hopkins Bayview. On my days off, I’m a part-time stay-at-home mom to 3-yearold Cam and 1-year-old Ellie. My little patients have taught me a great deal of patience.” Let’s give a big congrats to Meagan Ciesla, who just earned her Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from The University of Missouri! Congrats to Jessie Adkins too, as she and her husband Bob welcomed a baby boy on Oct. 4, Luke William Jacobsen. She adds, “We’re loving being parents, if not being a little sleep deprived.” Lastly, another congrats to Matt Sherman, who has opened up five Jugo Fresh shops and lives with his girlfriend. He’s happy and has firmly planted his roots in Miami. Not too much noteworthy for me — been busy with the new job. Sophia Silbergeld and I continue to partake in tartare evenings and travel to the islands. I see Kate Erwin Ward often at 13.5%, and Wilson Taliaferro and I are co-presidents of the Alumni Board … who would have thought? This is my farewell for class notes after five years. Someone better step up! All my best to all of you from Rosalie Parker.
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CHRISTINA SCHOPPERT DEVEREAUX ‘00 and husband Andrew with their son William.
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Sammy Williamson slwillia@gmail.com Hi all. Hope everyone managed to stay warm this winter if you were within the reaches of the Polar Vortex. Lesley Wojcik Raphael wrote to me from the balmy West Coast with some news: “I finished my residency in anesthesiology at OHSU in Portland, Ore., and took a job here as a private practice anesthesiologist. So far, it’s going really well! Dave Richman-Raphael ‘99 and I had a baby boy named Jack in October. He’s the cutest baby in the history of the world, in our humble opinion. We’re enjoying the Pacific Northwest but missing everyone back on the East Coast!” Jenny and Joe Fleury didn’t let the Ravens and Orioles offseason get them down and have been busy with a new and very cute dog named Gus. Kelly Swanston is also living in Baltimore and working as an assistant public defender. Katrina Rouse, another esquire, is a MARC train ride away and enjoys working as a trial attorney at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. She runs in Rock Creek Park with neighbor Brian Valle ’99 on occasion and is in a book club with a bevy of Friends women. She writes, “Kelly recently hosted me, Sima Fried,
ADRIAN GREEN, son of Shula and Adam Green ‘01, celebrates his 6-month birthday.
Emily Heinlein, Priya Shashidharan, Jessica Norwitz, and Amy Rouse ’02 for a lively discussion of the book ‘Lean In.’ A few of us had read the book in preparation. Kelly served a delicious eggplant lasagna that her mom, Becky Swanston ’69, made.” Andy Gabriel is living the good life in Miami. He married Leslie Price in April of this year, and hats are off to Laura Frank for introducing them. Jeni and Craig Hollander welcomed a beautiful daughter, Lydia Grace Hollander, in January. Another handsome ’00 baby arrived in Los Angeles just in the nick of time on Dec. 24: William Trent Devereaux, son of Christina Schoppert Devereaux and her husband Andrew. I am finishing my residency at Vanderbilt this summer, and Rob Travieso ’97 and I are packing up our belongings once again and heading to the Windy City, where I’ll be doing a cornea fellowship at Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary; we both plan to explore the city and spend much of the year in down coats. We are very sad to leave Nashville behind but ready for the next adventure. That’s a wrap!
CARRIE RUNDE PADDOCK ’01 and Kristaps
Paddock at their July 2013 wedding at the American Visionary Art Museum.
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DAN MUNOZ ’03 welcomed twins Olivia Luz (left) and Lucas Simon Muñoz on
Dec. 7, 2013. MAYA KUMTA GILBERT ’01 and husband Cam Gilbert celebrate daughter
Priya Neroli Gilbert’s first birthday in New Zealand.
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Carrie Runde Paddock Carrie.Runde@gmail.com Hello to the Class of 2001! From all of the wonderful posts that I see on Facebook, there have been lots of adorable babies born, more members of our class getting married and other important life changes. Please keep us up to date on these events by sending me an email so Friends can make sure to track these great milestones and share in your joy. Emily Kleeman writes that she is currently living in Baltimore City and working in Laurel as the transitional housing manager for Laurel Advocacy and Referral Services, a nonprofit organization. She also works with a private mental health and substance abuse clinical practice in Laurel. Emily is currently working on her LCSW-C and enjoys her work with adults and children with mental health and substance abuse difficulties. She runs life skills groups for mothers, covering financial budgeting, credit repair, housing issues, anger management, self-esteem building and parenting. With her career she works directly with clients, interfaces with politicians and local officials and sometimes get to travel and advocate for those who cannot do it themselves. Emily tells us, “I love being a social worker and always am available to speak with Friends School students about a career in social work or therapy.”
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Camille Powe Camille.powe@gmail.com
Christopher Wright cswright@gmail.com Arielle Goldman writes to say, “I’m getting married this April!” Irene Donnelly is helping longtime
boyfriend, Dylan Salmon (Gilman Class of ‘02) open an oyster bar in Mount Vernon, called Dylan’s Oyster Cellar while simultaneously “holding it down” in the floral design business. “I am excited to do flowers for Friends alumni. The company I work for, Local Color Flowers, will be doing Lisa Gabriel ‘03’s wedding flowers this spring!” Becca Fogel Erwin and Carter Erwin ‘03 have bought their first house in Medfield, Mass., and are excited to be moving in April! Becca graduates from Tufts master’s of occupational therapy program in May and is excited for her internships at a local school for the deaf and at a dementia care hospice. Auden is now almost 4 and Deegan is 2. Both boys are anxiously awaiting the upcoming move and the chance to finally have their own rooms! After finishing her master’s degree in glass at the Australian National University, Nicole Muniz decided to take up residence in Long Beach, Calif. She has just opened her own studio, business and Etsy store. Check it out at etsy.com/shop/NixStudio. Brian Doctrow shares, “I just defended my Ph.D. thesis on Feb. 21. I’m applying for a mass media fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and looking to go into scientific journalism.” My co-class secretary Chris Wright and his wife Samantha just moved to Caldwell, N.J. after Chris finished his M.B.A. and accepted a consulting position.
a move to France, where they will live in a small town near Aix-en-Provence from July 2014 until July 2015. Ben shares, “Let me know if you’re in the south of France next year!” He adds that the family’s main motivation is the experience and exposure, both culturally and linguistically, for the kids. He will be working for Middlebury Interactive Languages as a high school virtual French instructor and is currently researching other telecommuting jobs, possibly with Apple!
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Abby Seiler aseiler8@gmail.com Yana Demireva is pursuing a master’s degree in applied anthropology at University of Maryland, College Park, focusing on community health and program evaluation. She is still living in Baltimore and interns for the Community Greening Resource Network at the Parks & People Foundation. Laura Zager graduated from physician assistant school in August and started working as a PA at Mercy Hospital in September, primarily with breast and
ALEXANDRA NELSON ’04 and husband Michael Squires were married on Oct. 25, 2013.
plastic surgery. She also recently bought a house in Canton. Kathleen Gorman is a first-year pediatric resident at University of the North Carolina’s Children’s Hospital in Chapel Hill. She travels when she can and in June will be making her third trip to northern Peru to work in a clinic. Amira Mohamedosman has been working at a school for autistic children. She lives in Charles Village and apparently doesn’t care to use the Internet. Katie Ray is living in Manhattan in the ever-so-cool East Village while working in marketing. Her many accomplishments include recently getting her name on the Jumbotron at Madison Square Garden. If only we were all so lucky. Loren Kagan lives in Philadelphia on Rittenhouse Square, where he owns an apartment and boutique financial planning firm. He also sits on the board of his junior boarding school, Rumsey Hall. Since graduating Friends, he’s been traveling plenty, including trips to England, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Ireland, Mexico, St. Lucia, Dominican Republic, Jamaic, and Italy. Eli Dresner moved to D.C. this fall to start a new job consulting with hospitals around the country on their strategic KATE KOPPELMAN CALLAHAN ’04 with husband Charlie after exchanging vows on Oct. 5, 2013.
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Jessica Vanderhoff jessicavanderhoff@gmail.com Ben Pittman and his wife Jackie are happy to share two exciting new family developments: Josie Diane Pittman was born on Jan. 5, 2014. She was welcomed home by her big brother, Nico, and is doing great. The blooming family of four is now prepping for
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ABBY SEILER ’04 with Alex Broekhof ’04 in Granada, Spain.
planning. In November, Eli, Greg Russell, Throop Wheeler, David Craine, Alexei Pfeffer-Gillett and Peter Heller all traveled to Houston to be in Stephen Carlson’s wedding party. Alexei served as a co-best man, and Peter Pruitt also traveled to attend. It was the first Class of ‘04 wedding for all of them in the group and was a great weekend. Eli reports that Greg moved to London in late February to start a new life abroad. They sent him off with a party in Federal Hill with many Quakers in attendance, including Throop, Dave, Peter H, Peter P, Nick Colvin, Tim Wright, Charlie Totten, Mike Levin and Justin Coe. In September, Carolyn Coombs married Matt Zimmerman, a City High School alum and traveled to Cambodia and Thailand for their honeymoon. In November, Carolyn graduated from a year-long classical Pilates program under Brooke Siler, one of the top classical teachers in the country and accumulated over 1,000 hours of observation/teaching/and practicing Pilates. In March of this year, after 10 years in NYC, she and Matt moved to San Francisco, where she’ll continue teaching classical Pilates. Alexandra Nelson was married in October in Harbor East to Michael Squires. Julianne Grim was a bridesmaid, and attendants from Friends included Sammie Cusack and Lindsey Syropoulos. Alex is moving on from four years in cardiovascular medicine at University of Maryland to pursue a 16-month M.B.A. program. Also in October, Kate Koppelman married Charlie Callahan at the Baltimore Country Club, with a number of Friends alumni joining the celebration. Next down the aisle is Paul Greenfield, who is getting married in April in Naples, Fla., to his college sweetheart, Sarah Wilson. They met on move-in day and were good friends from Day 1, but didn’t start dating until sophomore year. There will
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CLAIRE VOGELSTEIN ’05 and Eric Loeb ’05 were married in September at the Baltimore National Aquarium.
be a number of Class of ‘04 in attendance, most notably Charlie Totten as Paul’s best man. I’m still living in D.C., and serendipitously ran into Alex Broekhof in Granada, Spain on the steps to the Alhambra! Alex is still living in the U.K.
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Nicole Runde Nicole.Runde@gmail.com This past September, after a five-year career in Frederick, Md. as a firefighter/EMT, David Weinman started with the 189th recruit class of the City of Philadelphia Fire Department. He graduated in February as a Philadelphia fireman, joining Ladder 13 Platoon A! Not only can we call him a fireman, but now David is also husband: He married Becky Murphy, a paramedic and R.N., on November 16 at the Baltimore Engineers Club. Becky and David met in the field when he was working as an EMT in Frederick. Together, they bought a threestory Victorian home on a quiet treelined street which they hope to make their “first and forever house.” Congratulations, David! As for me, I’m celebrating my first full year of self-employment. I’m enjoying having a varied range of clients and design projects. Outside of work, I’m gearing up to start another season with Katie Minton and Kaitlin Boswell on our Kickball League of Baltimore team.
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Lauren Marks lmarks617@gmail.com Happy Spring Friends Class of 2007! So many fun announcements this year with several of our classmates getting engaged ... Laura Antonelli, Tanya Tavassolie and Tim Cadet, all embarking on new and exciting endeavors. Laura Shingelton writes, “Next year, upon completion of graduate coursework at Drexel University, I will be traveling to Guatemala for six months with an organization called Somos Hermanos for a Spanish language immersion program that focuses on public health volunteer work.” Perkins deMuth writes that a lot has happened since he sent in his last update. He left his job in Volgograd, Russia and moved to St. Petersburg, Russia with his fiancée. They spent a
year there, and are now moving to Kazan, Russia. He is still teaching English as a foreign language. On an interesting note, he spent 12 weeks in Hospital Number 2 in St. Petersburg with an eye problem. Going with the theme of living abroad we find Laura Green who says “I am still living in Israel. I recently celebrated two years since moving here. I am teaching English in a low-income school in Tel Aviv as well as finishing up my master’s degree and selling pretty awesome eye glasses on the Internet. I hope to move toward the nonprofit sector next year and work with the refugees and asylum seekers in the country.” Way to go Laura! Rosalind Kreizenbeck is currently interning at the National Archives, developing school programming as she completes her master’s in museum education at George Washington University. She is
CLASS OF ‘07 PALS (from left) Roz Kreizenbeck, Lauren Marks, Chiara Olivi, Laura
Green and Holly Heller enjoyed a weekend together at the beach.
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SPENCER ROTHBELL ‘08 (third from left) enjoyed ComicCon with friends and
NICK RODRICKS ‘08 (top, third from left) joined
ANNIE KRUGER ’08 recently became
co-workers.
friends for a run around Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
engaged to Josh Payne and plans to marry this fall.
looking forward to graduating in August and beginning her career as a museum educator. Look forward to seeing many of you around Baltimore in the next year!
2008.
Jasmine Powe Jasmine.Powe@gmail.com Annie Kruger is engaged and getting married this fall! She will be moving back to Baltimore in April, and she and her soon-to-be husband, Josh Payne, will settle and live there. She is looking forward to being back and reconnecting with those of you still around. Spencer Rothbell lives in Los Angeles and is writing for a show called “Clarence” on the Cartoon Network. Brad Kolodner has pursued a career in music as a performer, teacher, community organizer and radio DJ. His main instrument is banjo but he also plays fiddle and guitar. He performs reularly with his father Ken Kolodner ‘72 throughout the region. In fall 2013, they released their second album, titled “Skipping Rocks.” The album hit No. 4 on the Folk Radio
BRAD KOLODNER ’08 and his banjo make regular appearances around Baltimore.
Charts! Last August, Brad signed on as a DJ for D.C. station WAMU’s “Bluegrass Country” to host “The Brad Kolodner Show,” a Bluegrass, old-time and Americana show that airs Saturdays from 2 to 4 p.m. on 105.5 FM in D.C. and online at bluegrasscountry.org. He also started the wildly popular Baltimore Square Dance at Mobtown Ballroom in Pigtown. The dance typically has over 200 folks, mostly in their 20s, every other month. A number of Friends School Class of ‘08 alums have been spotted at the dance. It’s quite the scene! If you’re in Baltimore and want to catch up with Brad and listen to some great traditional Appalachian folk music, check out the Old Time Jam he started and leads at Liam Flynn’s Ale House in Station North every other Tuesday night. Nick Rodricks is back in Baltimore after a year living in St. Louis, Mo.. while in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. Nick took a job in January with Bike Maryland, a nonprofit cycling advocacy group in Baltimore City. He is a program coordinator, bringing youth and adult bike safety classes to schools, businesses and organizations throughout the state.
Additionally, Nick started the Baltimore chapter of November Project, a free grassroots fitness movement currently in 10 cities. Nick is still playing for the French national lacrosse team and was just named team captain for the 2014 World Championships. He is coaching lacrosse and hockey, kayaking, fishing and biking whenever he has the chance and enjoying his life back in Baltimore. Liz Thompson recently started her Ph.D. in infectious disease medicine. She currently resides in D.C., but will be moving to Stockholm in June, where she will be studying at the Karolinska Institute until she finishes her thesis. Bill Hicks got engaged to Merrie Goodlander and became a licensed engineer in training with the Maryland Board for Professional Engineers. Eva Zaret is living in Boston, where she is completing her second year of AmeriCorps and will be attending the Boston University School of Public Health in the fall. Kathryn Stanley is living in Los Angeles, working for a film and television producer in the development room, where she reads scripts, creates and develops storylines
KURT HERZOG ’09 visits a local nursery school in India, where he is completing
and project concepts and works with writers and directors. In her free time, she’s juicing veggies, swimming in the Pacific and watching sunsets at the pier.
2009.
Leah Koenig lkoenig@wesleyan.edu Catherine Rosenberg, Kyla Minton, and Libby Nichols are living together in Boston. After graduating college with a degree in Russian and government, Matt Moses moved back to Baltimore. He now lives in Charles Village with a friend from school and works for a real estate financing company in Towson. He’s excited to go to Orioles games this spring! Kurt Herzog writes in: “I’m emailing you all the way from Trichy, India, where I am spending five months doing a fellowship for a crowd-funding website called Milaap, which can be viewed at milaap.org. I am interviewing people who got micro loans to build toilets and water connections, as well as women who got micro loans to start small businesses such as basket weaving, goat rearing and sari printing.” Keep sending me your updates everyone, it’s great to hear from you!
a fellowship.
CLASS OF ’09 GRADS (from left) Catherine Rosenberg, Libby Nichols and Kyla Minton are roommates in Boston.
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2010.
Maggie Tennis Magzhere013@gmail.com Henry Callegary was pleased to share with the class that he had just received his notification of acceptance to the University of Maryland Law School. He’ll be returning home to Baltimore to attend, following his graduation from Holy Cross. Mark Reid, upon graduation from the University of Chicago, will move to New York City to begin a job as an investment banking analyst with Credit Suisse. Joining Mark in New York is Hillary Kolodner, who has accepted a position with Teach for America following her graduation from Hamilton College. Bailey McWilliams, in her final year at Wheaton College, has continued to sing with the Wheatones and her “haus” band. She has also been focusing on her studies, having recently released an ebook of her Hispanic studies’ capstone project on the influence of Aztec plans and agriculture in the world today. She is currently making progress on her international relations thesis, “Conceptualizing the paradox surrounding the commodification of Andean quinoa.” She looks forward to presenting her research at a national conference in April. Bailey is considering grad school, but is looking toward
opportunities in South America for the coming year. Immediately following graduation, she’ll spend her 10th summer at Camp Wohelo in Maine, directing the drama program and teaching swim lessons on the shores of Sebago Lake. Clarke Lyons is an M.F.A. student studying film, cinematography, sound engineering, screenwriting and production. She’s deciding whether to pursue screenwriting or production. She put her skills to work as an art teacher at the Garrison Forest School last summer and, by holding art exhibits of her original work, had the opportunity to be mentored by Stephen Vitiello, a Guggenheim fellow. In addition, Clarke has been pursuing modeling and acting. She plans to relocate to London or Los Angeles after graduation. Middlebury Panthers midfielder Liza Herzog was named Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association second-team All-American. In her four-year career, she totaled 136 points on 98 goals and 38 assists in 64 games. As for yours truly, I will graduate from Brown in May after a trying year healthwise. I have a six-inch scar to show for it and spent a chunk of my fall semester in the hospital and at home. I am happy to be on the mend and able to graduate on time. After graduation, I plan to travel, but I will certainly also be in Balti-
KATY MCCONNELL ‘10 (left) and fellow seniors on the Tufts field hockey team ran in this year’s Boston Marathon.
more and always up for drinks with friends from Friends!
2011.
Ashley Geleta Ashley.Geleta@fandm.edu While we haven’t heard much from the class of 2011, Ayanna Matthews has been working hard and planning out her next move, as I’m sure the rest of 2011 has been as well. Ayanna is finally certified as an EMT in Maryland. She recently passed both the written and practical tests and is now looking to apply to the paramedic program at CCBC. After this, she has plans to attend nursing school
and become a registered nurse. We’d love to hear what the rest of the class of 2011 has planned, especially as many of us register for our senior year. Good luck to everyone, and I hope we all catch up over the summer vacation!
2012.
Lauren Riley rilelp12@wfu.edu 2014 will be an adventurous year for Cinneah El-Amin. She was selected as one of six Barnard students to serve as a fellow for the college’s annual Global Symposium. She will be traveling in March to Shanghai, China to lead
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Marriages 1989. Jon Sherman and Denine LaBat March 15, 2013
1992. Paul Donowitz and Bobbie Snta. Maria December 19, 2013
1999. Deana Carr-Davis and Laksman Frank October 5, 2013
2003. * correction, previously printed as Class of 1999
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Births 1989. Jon Sherman and Denine, a boy, Cosimo, April 24, 2014
1990. Jacob Nyman and Elizabeth, a boy, Huer Carlton September 4, 2013
1992. 2005. Claire Vogelstein and Eric Loeb ‘05 September 29, 2013
2010. Andrew Watson and Izzy Lawrence May 26, 2013
Sarah Taylor and Dave Schwartz, a boy, Alex December 1, 2013 Jamie Schumann-Dahlberg, a boy, Levi Liam James October, 7, 2013
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workshops for young women on leadership. This will not be her only time abroad this year, however. In the fall, she will study in a comparative program, traveling to Brazil, South Africa and Vietnam for the semester. She’s very excited to explore new parts of the world and bring her stories back home! Arlen Caplan transferred to MICA this semester — as a photo major and plans on doing sculpture installations in and around Baltimore over the coming year. Molly Weiner writes, “I am doing a program this semester called WilliamsMystic, which is an interdisciplinary semester-long experience, where I have been learning about the sea. It’s a maritime studies program through Mystic Seaport and Williams College, based in Mystic, Conn. I have been taking classes in maritime science, maritime history, maritime literature and maritime policy. We spent 11 days sailing on a tall ship off the coast of Puerto Rico, and I am about to do nine days traveling around Oregon and Washington. Then, in two weeks, I am leaving for Louisiana for five days.” Abby Preston updates, “I’ve been doing mock trial and interning at the courthouse near Dickinson College. I just got accepted to be a visiting student at Oxford next year. I’ll be studying politics and philosophy at Mansfield College, which I am very excited for!” This year is a big year for many of us who are
studying abroad. Aaron Wright adds, “I’ve been trying to finish all my prerequisites so that I can get into UMD’s engineering school. If everything keeps going the way it’s been going then I should be in the school studying mechanical engineering by next fall. My friend and I just started a club this semester called the Maryland Hip-Hop Collective. Our mission is to create a greater hip-hop presence on the campus through club meetings, events and the website, umdhiphop.com. We’re hoping to sponsor a free concert every semester for the student body. I’m also going to study abroad in Argentina during the fall of 2015.” While we’re on the topic, here’s a list of 2012 alums who’ll be studying abroad next year:
1993. Carrie Mallonee Huebner and Eric, a boy, Atticus Charles November 3, 2013
Amanda Lower Bakaian and Justin, a boy, Sebastian Goheen October 10, 2013
Greg Seidman and Carrie, a boy, April 2013
Alison Birch and Brian Winsor, a boy, Ronan Brian October 30, 2013
1998. James Harlow and Katie, a boy, Russell James February 27, 2013 Sara Barss and Chris Christie, a boy, Austin Peter February 28, 2014 Liz Lauren Lauros and Shai Lauros, a boy, Micah Asher March 11, 2014
Lauren Riley — Paris, Fall 2014 Claire McGagh — Seville, Spain, Fall 2014 Cinneah El-Amin — Sao Paulo, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; Hanoi, Vietnam, Fall 2014 Abby Preston — Oxford, England, Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 Nabil Odulate — Germany, Spring 2015 Sarah Wallack — Madrid, Spain, Spring 2015 Caroline Stanley — Lille, France, Fall 2014 Aislinn Cook — France, Fall 2014
Matt Kahn and Maren McBride, a boy, Wesley Andrew December 4, 2014 Lee Watkins and Diana Alonzo Watkins, a girl, Maya December 24, 2013
1999. Dave Richman-Raphael and Lesley Wojcik Raphael ’00, a boy, Jack October 15, 2013
Lizzy Banta — Greece, Spring 2015 Gabriela Roberts — Salamanca Spain, Fall 2014 Alex Schulick — Madrid, Spain 2015 Sarah Emrich — Australia, Spring 2015 Emily MacGibeny — Australia, Fall 2014 Alexandria Johnson — Italy, Spring 2014
2013.
Samantha Enokian samanthaenokian@yahoo.com The Class of 2013 has been off to a great freshman year of college. Molly Rosner is studying at NYU in the Tisch School for the Arts. Molly says that her college experience is different from most, but she loves it. While she still has to write essays, most of her homework is memorizing lines or rehearsing scenes. She also gets to spend time with Rohan Makle. Speaking of an atypical college experience, Sophia Springer is spending her four years of college in Switzerland. In her time abroad, Sophia has traveled to Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast and Rome. This semester she is going to Venice for Carnivale, and she will be spending time skiing in the Alps. She is having a great time in Switzerland and is making friends from all around the world. Graeme McGuire and Jack Angelone are also spending time
2000. Christine Schoppert Devereaux and Andrew, a boy, William Trent December 24, 2013 Craig Hollander and Jeni, a girl, Lydia Grace January 8, 2013 Liz Yeager Guarnieri and Pete Guarnieri ‘00, a girl, Madeleine December 17, 2013
2003. Ben Pittman and Jackie, a girl, Diane January 5, 2014 Dan Muñoz and Kelly, a boy and a girl, Olivia Luz and Lucas Simon December 7, 2013
abroad by taking a gap year to travel. Graeme has most recently left Ljubljana, Slovenia and traveled to Zagreb, Croatia. Zagreb is actually the 27th city he has visited since November 1, 2013 (27 cities and 13 counties in three months). He has been staying in hostels and using the online network Couchsurfing to stay with locals in a variety of places. He will be spending the next six weeks in the Balkans and at the end of winter, he will head across Asia in hopes of reaching Japan by July. Jack started the fall of his gap year volunteering on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he was working with a nonprofit organization called Re-Member, building bunk beds, outhouses, skirting trailers, etc. He is currently volunteering at orphanages and schools in Cambodia. He has been in the city of Siem Reap for five weeks and is now in Sihanoukville doing the same thing. During the last two weeks of his time in Cambodia, he will be taking care of rescued elephants in the Mondulkiri jungles. I will also be spending time abroad this summer in Kazan, Russia, where I will spend two months studying at a local university. I am already impressed by our class’s collegiate accomplishments, and I look forward to hearing about everyone’s progress over the years.
In Memoriam 1927. Howard Buffington April 18, 2014
1952. Janet Mules March 19, 2014
1956. Louise Schell Cate January 4, 2014
1944. Donald Sherwood August 13, 2012
1998.* Michael Malin September 10, 2013
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1939 Elizabeth Lamb Buck* Daniel S. Greenbaum*
1941 James G. Kuller Dorothy Eastwick Seaton*
1942 Anonymous
1944 David R. Millard
1945 Harry L. Hoffman III and Mary Louisa Hoffman
1946 Gisela Cloos Evitt
1947 1926 Jacob Epstein*
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1927 Howard Buffington*
W. Byron Forbush, II and Elizabeth Forbush
1948 Anonymous
1949
Alan J. Harper* and Florence Harper*
Joseph Klein, Jr.* Shirley Cox Seagren Richard A. Simon
1929
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Caleb R. Kelly, Jr. * and Adine C. Kelly
G. Frank Breining Joel D. Fedder
1930
1951
William R. Kahl* Nancy Hill Salisbury* and Arthur Salisbury*
Anonymous (2)
1952 Janet E. Mules*
1931 Anthony G. Rytina* and Theodora R. Rytina*
1934 Florence G. Oldham*
1953 Anonymous Jane Whitehouse Cohen Sara R. Kellen Virginia Kelly Mortimer and E. Laird Mortimer
1935 Ann Burgunder Greif Harold A. Ricards, Jr.* and Eleanor Connor Ricards ‘37*
1954 Anne Black Evans
1955
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1936 Carmian Forbush Davis* and Carle M. Davis Marion S. Hayden*
Robin Biddison Dodd Robert L. Kriel Mary Allen Wilkes
1956
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1937 Dorothy B. Krug Anne Homer Martin* Eleanor Connor Ricards* and Harold A. Ricards, Jr. ‘35*
1938 Ethel Kegan Ettinger* Emma Belle Shafer Wagner* Donald H. Wilson, Jr. and Marion Wilson
Albion Bacon Clarinda Harriss Robert B. Heaton and Ann H. Heaton Martha F. Horner Mabel T. Miyasaki Linda Windsor Siecke
1957 Marcia Smith Clark J. Henry Riefle, III
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Anonymous Elizabeth Banghart Flaherty Susan Shinnick Hossfeld Henry L. Mortimer J. McDonnell Price Ronald H. Renoff Frank A. Windsor and Ann McAllister Windsor ‘60
M. Louise Wagner
Will and Sandy Rubenstein
1970
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A. P. Ramsey Crosby Susan Byrnes Koerber* Lisa Mitchell Pitts and Toby Pitts Carl B. Robbins
Sherri Shubin Cohen
1959 Robert S. Patterson and Barbara Patterson Dan Reed and Claire Reed
1960 Elizabeth Beatty Gable Diane Howell Mitchell Joseph C. Ramage Ann McAllister Windsor and Francis A. Windsor ‘58
1972 Stuart S. Hutchins Laura Ellen Wilson Muglia Judy F. Strouse
1974 David R. Blumberg
1975 Robin E. Behm Katherine E. Bryant
1961
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Elizabeth Grason New Cohen Joan Yeager Cromer John L. Dashiells, Jr.* David M. Evans* Sylvan J. Seidenman and Sandy Seidenman
1977
Cynthia Klein Goldberg Winston W. Hutchins
Alison Nasdor Fass and Andrew Fass F. William Hearn, Jr.
1962 Mary Ellen Fischer Emily C. Holman James Byron Willis, Jr.
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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
Philip B. Gould Joseph Klein, III and Judy Sandler Cristin Carnell Lambros
1964 Joseph W. Cowan Peter Paul Hanley Susan B. Katzenberg Sally Huff Leimbach Harry D. McCarty Marilyn Miller Thomas Elizabeth A. Wagner Donald H. Wilson, III* Faris L. Worthington Patricia K. Worthington Carl W. Ziegaus
1965 Gretchen A. Garman Mary Dell Gordon Harlan and Charles W. Halran ‘63 Frederick W. Moran
1967
Norman D. Forbush Timothy R. Hearn
1980 Christopher Holter Amy Gould John and Andrew John
1981 Anonymous David H. Alkire Eileen S. Goldgeier Katherine A. Hearn James M. and Diana Price Matthews
1983 Louis T. Hanover Edwin H. Remsberg Sean R. Sweeney
1985 Evan C. Shubin Katherine G. Windsor
Alan B. Rosoff
1988
1968
Thora A. Johnson Wendell B. Leimbach, Jr.
Jay E. Boyd Melinda Burdette Robert L. Mackall W. Berkeley Mann, Jr. David A. Wilson
1989 David Henry Jason Innes Gregory Moody
Trustees Anonymous (2) Tom Brooks Sue Carnell Nick and Brigitte Fessenden Norman Forbush ‘78 Timothy R. Hearn ‘78 Thora A. Johnson ‘88 Barbara P. Katz Elizabeth A. McKennon Judy Witt Phares Anne B. Powell Edwin Remsberg ‘83 Stephen Rives Carole French Schreck Daryl Sidle John G. Watt Mark and Sherri Weinman Bill White
Parents, Grandparents, Faculty, Staff and Friends 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 Rebecca and Bruce Copeland Albert R. and Margaret K. Counselman Connie C. Covington and Wally Covington III Dr. and Mrs. Chi V. Dang Anthony W. and Lynn R. Deering Pieter and Phyllis DeSmit Jeffrey H. Donahue Claire K. Ebeling Martha Elliott Christina B. Feliciano Nick and Brigitte Fessenden Susan and William Filbert Sarah Finlayson and Lindley DeGarmo Lora and Greg Gann Julie Fader Gilbert and Gordon Gilbert Ann C. Gordon Vincent L. and D. Iveagh Gott Stanley B. and Joan Gould Eleanor H. Gross*
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