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Knowledge, Vision, Integrity A Strong Foundation for an Evolving School

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Editors Gretchen Berra Kim Saunders Assistant Editor Marnie McNany Design Aldeia www.aldeia.design Copy Editors Diane Lundy Madson Kilduff Contributors Debbie Allen Jenn Baratta Ashley Conde Chris Kenrick Laela Perkins Photographers Michael Branscom Phil Cantor Steve Clayton David Kenas Derek Morf

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Evidence of our mission is found in the KNOWLEDGE, VISION, and INTEGRITY of our students and our alumni: K N OW L EDGE • Academic excellence • Intellectual independence • Love of learning VISION • Personal engagement with the world • Understanding of human complexity • A sense of humility and compassion I N TEG R ITY • Strength of character • Responsibility as a citizen and leader • An honorable and generous life

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Nigel D. Furlonge H E A D OF SC H O O L

“ Building, cultivating, and stewarding transformative communities have been core parts of my life as an educator and are key reasons why I’m so honored to join MKA as Head of School.”

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I am grateful for this opportunity to extend my thanks to this community. Since joining MKA, my family and I have received a warm and encompassing welcome. To say that it has been (and will continue to be) a whirlwind is an understatement; however, I have learned and heard so much from many of you already, and I look forward to making even more connections this year and in the years to come.

Building, cultivating, and stewarding transformative communities have been core parts of my life as an educator and are key reasons why I’m so honored to join MKA as Head of School. As a candidate and now as a community member, I have witnessed the ways in which MKA faculty and staff are designing and facilitating a learning experience that aims to cultivate healthy, joyful, ethical human beings who will contribute to better futures. In order to accomplish these essential goals, intentionality is key to meeting the needs of our students and families. Graduating problem solvers, thoughtful communicators, and dynamic, critical thinkers are essential aims for MKA. Equally important is the work of cultivating empathetic listeners who understand the substance and salience of being culturally competent. The quest for knowledge, vision, and integrity is ongoing and as relevant now as it has ever been.

After months of challenges spanning 2020-2021, many independent schools in the United States began with renewed vigor the essential work of centering equity, social justice, anti-oppression, and belonging in our schools and recognizing the importance of this commitment for the present and future health of our cities, our nation, and our world. I know that MKA has been active in this work in various ways. The world presents much for us to grapple with in our work as educators, including our own uncertainty and hope for our future. You will find in the pages of this magazine the many ways the MKA community has found purpose and renewed energy in this work by centralizing the needs of our students and the execution of our Mission.

Thank you for all you’ve done to make MKA a healthy and more inclusive community over the last school year. I look forward to continuing in this work with you.

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MKA’s Third Graders celebrate during their moving up ceremony at the Primary School.

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AFTER PHIA TRINIDAD, A RECESS AIDE AT THE PRIMARY SCHOOL, TOOK THE INITIATIVE TO BUY SEEDS, PRE-K AND KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN PLANTED HERBS IN THE FLOWER BOXES LOCATED IN THE BACK OF THE BUILDING.

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Congratulations to Andrew Kim ’22 whose article was published in the Journal of Emerging Investigators (JEI) which is run by Harvard graduate students. The article, Repurposing Citrus Peel Waste and its Positive Effects on Our Health and Communities, states that every year, more than 30% of food products go to waste. This is approximately 1.3 billion tons of food, which is equivalent to 1.3 trillion U.S. dollars. In their study, citrus peels, including grapefruit, lemon, lime, orange, and tangerine, which require special treatment for disposal, were used to determine the amounts of vitamin C and total soluble antioxidants.

Based on their results, if we were able to repurpose fruit peels and utilize them as a nutrient source, each U.S. individual would be able to meet the daily amount of the recommended vitamin C with 2-3 teaspoons of citrus peels reducing 4.8 pounds of the carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent annually at the same time.

Andrew also participated in the 2021 North Jersey Regional Science Fair and was the recipient of the NASA Earth System Science Award in which, “NASA recognizes 2 projects that address potential impact, develop quality ideas for future research, and cover basic science relevant to Earth System.”

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Sustainability Montclair Kimberley Academy was awarded the Eco-Schools USA Green Flag for Exceptional Achievement in Educating for Sustainability by the National Wildlife Federation’s Eco-Schools USA program for exceptional achievement in educating for sustainability and improving the environmental footprint of the school grounds, facilities, and curriculum. The Eco-Schools USA program is based on the commitment and work of student-driven teams dedicated to issues such as waste reduction and energy and water conservation using audits, action plans, and other educational resources. To receive the Green Flag, Montclair Kimberley Academy’s students and faculty tackled a host of sustainability initiatives that began with forming an EcoAction team; auditing facility energy efficiency and other environmental focus areas; and engaging and building community. These steps led to projects designed to raise environmental awareness, connect students to the natural world, improve the school’s environmental footprint, and increase student engagement, while saving money for the school.

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MR. HARRIS, MS. TOMPSETT, AND SEAN FROM ATLAS WORKSHOPS TOOK 11TH GRADERS UP TO WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS FOR THE FIRST GLOBAL EXPERIENCE TRIP SINCE THE PANDEMIC They spent seven days tent-camping at two different campgrounds doing a ton of hiking, kayaking on the Connecticut River, completing a high ropes course, and zip lining. They also visited a horse powered farm and helped them weed the spinach and carrots, went to a Peace Pagoda and got to watch evening prayers, experienced a James Turrell

exhibit at Mass MOCA, went swimming in some beautiful swimming holes, reflected on the poetry of Robert Frost on the Robert Frost trail, did watercolor painting at a beautiful waterfall, and had deep conversations by the campfire. It was an awesome trip that perfectly combined the experiential and the introspective parts of a life outdoors.

MKA Global Explorations Virtual Series The MKA Global Explorations Virtual Series was designed to provide MKA students and faculty with an expanded space to have meaningful conversations about the world beyond and within our walls. These conversations with guests were both an extension of what happens in the classroom as well as an opportunity to go beyond the curriculum and fulfill the mission of the school, despite the inability to “be together” and physically explore the world. Offerings included: Growing Up Under Lockdown (BOSNIA): an investigation of how we adapt to life in quarantine and lockdown; Eating Local (ITALY): which examined how our diets have changed and how we’ve gotten closer to food as well as the importance of eating sustainably; Innovation in Scarcity (KENYA): an exploration of how innovation and adaptation occur even in the absence of affluence and access; and Evolving Culture (JAPAN): which delved into the ways in which young people make sense of and adapt the past to their present.

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MKA Upper School had another great year for math competitions. As a school, MKA scored 13th out of 117 schools in New Jersey in the New Jersey Math League. Helping the team achieve this honor were 6 students who scored a perfect score on at least one of the 6 competitions this year: George Eliender ’21, Rohan Moniz ’21, Cindy Hu ’22, Sebastian So ’22, Yaelin Hough ’24, and Gary Hu ’24. In addition, Cindy Hu and Sebastian So both qualified for the American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME) by scoring in the top 5% nationally on the American Mathematics Competition (AMC).

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During the Spring semester of 2021, Spanish 5 and 5 Honors, a class with some of the strongest Spanish senior students at MKA, worked on a unit called “Art and Literature.”

For the literature part of this unit, students read their first Spanish novel titled Cajas de cartón, narrating the life of an immigrant child and his family from Mexico to the United States.

Since half of the unit was about Hispanic art, Dr. Valbona Watkins collaborated with Ms. Alicia Cuccolo from the F&PA department at the Upper School. Students in Spanish 5/5H took virtual tours of two Spanish speaking museums: the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City and the Prado Museum in Spain. Students then spent time looking at the Prado Museum to become acquainted with the exhibitions, which houses some of the world’s richest collection of Spanish paintings. After the virtual tours, students learned specific vocabulary related to art and a set of criteria for how to critique and interpret works of art in Spanish, something that would be extremely beneficial as they observed Hispanic art during class and beyond. As the unit progressed students looked in detail at Pablo Picasso’s work, exploring his early work and investigating works from the Blue period and the Rose period.

Once they looked at various Spanish paintings, students were excited to change pace and have Ms. Cuccolo take them on a journey of understanding Las Meninas (pictured left). When Ms. Cuccolo traveled with students to Spain, the painting they most anticipated seeing was Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. This monumental canvas is a family portrait but it is also a dialogue between the artist and the viewer: What is the meaning behind Las Meninas? Why is it so special? Ms. Cuccolo introduced these questions to Dr. Watkins’ students in a video she created that highlighted the complexities and the composition of the painting. After the video and lively discussion, students created a studio project collecting and cutting apart several photographs. They then reassembled them to fabricate their own reality.

This cross departmental experience between the World Language Department and F&PA was very valuable to the Spanish 5/5H class.

Students learned culture and language through the context of art which was very engaging. It kept students excited about Spanish, and it gave them an opportunity to experience language learning in a more natural and exciting way. As Jake Gale put it when students were walking to Ms. Cuccolo’s studio, “We are taking a field trip and learning about Spanish art in our own MKA art studio.”

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Congratulations to junior Shelby Carter who was recognized for her work in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and named a certificate winner of the Princeton Prize in Race Relations.

Established as an awards program to recognize high school students for outstanding work in their schools or communities to advance racial equity in order to promote respect and understanding among all people, the Princeton Prize in Race Relations was initially launched in the Washington, DC and Boston metropolitan areas and is now offered in 28 regions.

Since its inception in 2003, this year’s Princeton Prize was the most competitive and saw the highest number of applications.

“Shelby is so deserving of this honor,” stated Head of Upper School Dr. David C. Flocco. “She has led the student body boldly towards being more racially conscious and has been a fierce proponent of the equity that we strive for at MKA. Her efforts are about to go regional with the inception of the North Jersey Independent School Black Student Union, a coalition of the Black communities at numerous northern New Jersey Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) that will aim to promote unity, foster communication, and provide a safe space for black students in northern NJ. Her impact will soon exceed the MKA walls.” We could not be more proud of Shelby’s well-deserved recognition for the work she has done.

Congratulations to 8th grader Malia Cesareo who was selected as one of the winners of the third-annual Friends of Anderson Park Short-Story Contest for Montclair middleschoolers. The aim of the contest is to foster creativity and a love of writing, while drawing on Anderson Park as a spark for the imagination. Malia’s story, “Pigeon Man,” explored open-mindedness through a student’s interaction with a homeless man.

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Isa Lucas ’21 Named a Morehead-Cain Scholar Congratulations to MKA senior and Montclair resident Isa Lucas who was named a Morehead-Cain Scholar in the Class of 2025 at UNC-Chapel Hill.

As set out in the Program’s founding documents, selection criteria for the Morehead-Cain Scholarship are leadership, moral force of character, academic achievement, and physical vigor. Morehead-Cain recipients are chosen based on their record of inspiring peers to work together, displaying courage and humility, and thriving in an academically rigorous environment.

Isa served as student government President at MKA. She is a fierce advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in education and was a member of her school’s Student Diversity Leadership Committee. In addition to studying at MKA, Isa is a graduate of the School for Ethics and Global Leadership in Washington, D.C. “Isa was such a source of pride for us here at MKA,” said Head of Upper School Dr. David C. Flocco. “This prestigious scholarship provides opportunities for its recipients that are unsurpassed in undergraduate education. UNC looks for the finest incoming freshman they can find from around the world, and they certainly got one in Isa Lucas. Though not a ‘taker’ herself, Isa will certainly benefit from the opportunities provided by this scholarship. If she continues to give in the way she did at MKA, the University will gain a lot more in return.”

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE UPPER SCHOOL MOCK TRIAL TEAM AND FACULTY ADVISORS RON WOLFSON AND EMILY TOMPSETT WHO WON THE ESSEX COUNTY MOCK TRIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS AGAINST MONTCLAIR HIGH SCHOOL. The team continued on to defeat the Passaic County Champions after a nine-hour day to advance to the New Jersey Northern Regional Finals. The roster included: Izzy Szyfer ’21, Olivia Puzio ’21, Olivia OkunDubitsky ’22, Carolina Lucas ’23, Lily Piede ’22, Anya Singh ’23, Laura Altirs ’23, Jack Rochkind ’23, Josh Kaufman ’22, Frankie Bexon-Reid ’23, and Evelyn Maxwell ’22. The team received second place in the regional championships.

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In science, third graders engaged in a series of events hosted by NASA to celebrate Earth Day. Third-grade students participated in a live event where they listened to astronaut Ricky Arnold and Dr. Bill Dennison (Professor of Marine Science) talk about the key to managing our most precious resource: water. The students went on a live chat with NASA scientist Christopher Schuman to ask some interesting questions about the impact of melting ice on animals inhabiting the Arctic and Antarctic region.

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BIG News The Philip McNeal Leadership Program What does it mean to be an ethical being?

A critical thinker? A responsible citizen?

An honorable leader?

Our Upper School students will discuss these questions and more when they participate this year in the The Philip McNeal Leadership Program, a newly created, endowed leadership initiative at MKA. This robust program of curricular and co-curricular activities will augment the school’s signature learning experience, the Culture of Integrated Ethics, and is designed to further strengthen our students’ ethical education and development, deepen the conversation on the topic of ethical leadership, and help students identify their own unique leadership style in order to best prepare for college and the world beyond.

This program is inspired by the life of Philip McNeal P ’11 ’16, who served on MKA’s Board of Trustees from 2011-2014, and is considered by those who knew him to be a great leader who embodied integrity, clarity, and steadiness of spirit in both his work and his personal life. His wife, Glenda McNeal, brought the idea of a leadership program to MKA as a means to celebrate Philip’s life and legacy, This year’s inaugural program launched with a September retreat for Upper School Student Leaders under the theme of “Reimagining What’s Possible.” Through a combination of readings, discussions, videos, presentations, and activities, students explored key concepts and challenges of good leadership, cultivated strong character habits, developed stronger cultural and racial competencies, and strengthened critical skills of listening and communicating.

Reshma Saujani, Founder of the nonprofit organization, Girls Who Code, and Kobi Yamada, a New York Times best-selling author and President/CEO of Compendium, a gift and publishing company, spoke to the students about their personal journeys to becoming leaders and how they learned to value risk-taking, embrace creativity, and see the importance of growing from their personal failures. Throughout the coming school year, The Philip McNeal Leadership Program will continue to host guest lecturers to support and enhance the work our students are engaged in, including the Upper School’s annual Anti-racism film festival and community summer reading experiences.

MKA is incredibly grateful to the individuals and corporations who provided critical investments to launch this new program, including American Express, Wendy and Jared Bartie, Gretchen Berra, Bonnie and Michael Carter, Stephen Diamond, The Edward John and Patricia Rosenwald Foundation, Pamela Firestone, Michael Foster, Roberta Graves, Jocelyn and Peter Handy, Lori and Patrick Fouche, JPMorgan Chase, Glenda McNeal, and Mona Thomas.

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“ Philip was passionate about inspiring and motivating young people to learn and practice the tenets of great leadership to uplift others and their communities. In his honor, I want to create a program that will teach the concepts of leadership and expose students to great leaders early in their academic lives. In its significance, the program comes at a critical time as we all manage through the turmoil across our country that is driving us to make much needed changes to dismantle the systemic racism within our institutions and highlighting the importance of educating our youth to be empathetic, anti-racist, ethical leaders.”

- Glenda McNeal

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May Term May Term can be described as an emergent phenomenon. As individuals or small groups pursue their own, self-designed projects and experiences within the constraints of the program, collective themes shine through.

Their projects show us what they currently value and crave: reconnection, healing, reflection, and meaning. To that end, students collected and told family stories, explored COVID’s impact on community and society, connected with nature, cultivated socially responsible businesses, gave back to MKA by teaching at the Primary or Middle School, or helped us to re-envision aspects of our curriculum and our physical footprint.

We kicked off May Term with a panel of MKA alumni, each of whom spoke to the possibilities inherent in our program. Shivani Rao ’17, Jack Besser ’16, and Naren Rajani ’20 shared their May Term stories, from the speed bumps to the unexpected highlights to the ways that May Term still continues to play out in their lives.

With the Symposium (the culmination of May Term) rained out (twice!), students, faculty, staff, and alumni were able to view a slideshow of May Term projects. While these slides will never quite capture the conversations, language lessons, chess matches, and fresh baked cookies planned for the live Symposium, they provided a small glimpse into each May Term project. As people read blogs and writing tips, watched short animations and films, and listened to podcasts and oral histories, imagine, too, the stories behind and lessons learned through this special time of growth and reflection.

This class owned this process in ways other classes never have. We wish them the best of luck in all of their endeavors, and we expect that the lessons they learned during May Term will continue to reverberate in their lives, their careers, and beyond.

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May Term’s Startup

101 This year’s Startup 101 team was small but mighty.

Seniors Jacob Moshiashvili, Tai Mair, and Maximilian Bock worked to develop a clothing brand focused on mental health awareness. Tai founded UNIRIE as a method of expressing his personal struggle with mental health disorders. The team displayed his

artwork on clothing that holds a significant message or story. Not simply for people who are struggling with mental health, UNIRIE clothing will act as a symbol of support for all. When the brand officially launches, the team plans to promote mental health awareness by donating a portion of their proceeds to nonprofit organizations that focus on mental health disorders.

SOME THINGS STUDENTS LEARNED IN THE CLASSROOM OF MAY TERM, WHICH OF COURSE IS ALSO THE CLASSROOM OF THE WORLD “ Project management in a team setting is one of the most important things I’ve learned in May Term. Prior to this experience, I didn’t need to organize most of my files and as a result, many of the layers were either unnamed or were not grouped together well.

Moreover, I’ve learned how to easily transfer and sync files with people I’m working with.” “ I’ve learned good time management and communication skills. I had the opportunity to work on my communication skills by making and continuing conversations with patients either about their exercises or what they were doing in their lives. I was also able to work alongside physical therapists and shadow how they treated the patients.” “ I learned about how to set up an investment portfolio and how to view/value stocks from an investor’s perspective. I learned that you should consider qualitative factors such as company history, strengths, competition, weaknesses, and potential opportunities, as well as qualitative factors such as their growth in terms of number of stores, net revenue, operating income, net income, stock price, etc. Overall, I think I learned a lot of very important experiences that will be valuable as I pursue my interest in finance and analytics.” “ I learned how to use creativity to my advantage and market products to an audience.”

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Arts The Upper School celebrated the 12 AP Studio Art students who worked diligently over the course of the year to complete their sustained investigations, a body of work that shows evidence of practice, experimentation, and revision.

Students explored a wide range of materials, processes, and techniques to transform an idea into a visual story.

Congratulations to our senior artists and our brave junior, Jackie Tsai, for accepting the challenge of AP Studio Art. IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH, 3RD GRADE ARTISTS AT OUR PRIMARY SCHOOL LEARNED ABOUT ARTIST, ILLUSTRATOR, AUTHOR, AND ACTIVIST FAITH RINGGOLD. Students learned that Faith’s most famous artworks are her Story Quilts. The Story Quilts were a combination of sewing fabric and painted stories of her life. Students watched a movie about Ringgold and then listened to her read her book, Tar Beach. In the story, Cassie Louise Lightfoot, a 3rd grader who lives in Manhattan, flies over the city, and visits all the places that are special to her. After talking about the book, students made their own story quilts answering the question: “If you could fly anywhere, where would you fly?”

Art in April, an afternoon of creativity presented by MKA’s Student Council for the Arts, was a great success. Amazing artwork from all three MKA campuses, including photography, sculpture, drawing, and painting, was on display at the Montclair Art Museum. There was even music from many student musicians!

Proceeds from the event went to the Montclair Art Museum’s Yard School of Art. Many thanks to all of the SCA members who helped out and to all the people who came and showed their support for the arts.

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The Upper School winter drama production was different from past years because it was not a musical and it was not presented in the Deetjen Black Box Theater.

I Hate Shakespeare is the first play to be performed in Weiss Auditorium in decades, due to the need for more space because of the pandemic. Despite the difference and adjustment, Director Nicole Hoppe said, “It felt amazing for the cast and crew to be IN a theatre, DOING theatre. So many audience members remarked that it felt great to be in Weiss watching a show, especially a show that provided so many giggles and highlighted the varied talent of so many students in all grades.” The masked actors played two performances to masked, socially-distant audiences, and the show was then live-streamed through MKA TV. While everyone missed the usual winter musical, the twenty-three cast members, seven crew members, and now hundreds of viewers were all so happy to still have theater happening.

MKA THEATER STUDENTS ARE RECOGNIZED WITH AWARDS MKA is pleased to announce that junior Brennan ColumbiaWalsh was awarded 1st place in the 19th annual Young Playwrights Competition “in recognition of the quality of [his] work and a vote of confidence in [his] future growth.” Ava Chickering, also a junior, received the distinction of Honorable Mention. The Theater Project, based in Union, NJ, sees several hundred submissions each year and states, “The goal of the competition is to encourage the next generation of theater practitioners and audience by honoring their work and bringing it to life.” MKA alum and Playwright-in-Residence Rob Gelberg ’10 has been teaching a playwriting course at the Upper School since 2017. Rob shared, “I highly suspect [that Brennan and Ava were recognized] because of the strength of their individual voices as playwrights. That, and their work ethic: both Brennan and Ava are beyond dedicated, not just to their class work but also to their own personal development outside of class. Brennan is as prolific a writer as I’ve ever come across, and Ava puts in hours and hours of work into researching other writers and plays

MKA’s 2021 Young Alumni Award winner Isaiah Thompson

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information to better her own writing.” We are so proud that the

our faculty and students outside in the Amphitheater.

hard work of our students, with the support of active, engaged,

The entire community was thrilled for Isaiah to come back,

and established mentors, has been recognized.

and he and his band put on an extraordinary performance.

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Community

UPPER SCHOOL’S FIELD DAY WAS A BEAUTIFUL, HIGHLY-PLANNED, EXCITING EVENT THAT BROUGHT STUDENTS TOGETHER ON VAN BRUNT FIELD IN SAFE AND CREATIVE WAYS SO THAT A MUCH-LOVED TRADITION COULD BE OBSERVED. Students sat, socially distanced and masked, around the field by house, and there were close to a dozen events happening one at a time in the center of the field for all to watch and enjoy (There even was a faculty event!). At the end of the day, Bradley House was named the winner of the Montclair Kimberley Academy House Cup for 2021.

MKA HOLDS EVENTS TO HONOR LGBTQ VOICES AND EXPERIENCES

MKA INTRODUCES ITS FIRST ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL. The film festival offered new ways for the Upper School to come together on Community Day. All of the films chosen supported the work students have been engaged in this past year, particularly connecting the themes of intersectionality and activism. Each film presented a different perspective on what it means to be an activist trying to make change. After watching the films, everyone came together in Conversation Circles and discussed what lessons were taken away as individuals and as a community and how they might inspire change for a more just and peaceful society.

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While it looked different than prior years, the Upper School honored Ally Week, hosted by the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), in a mostly virtual format. Reflecting the importance of acceptance and understanding now more than ever, GSA President Phoebe Williams ’22 shared the history of Ally Week and said, “The best thing for allies to do is to ask questions, make an effort to educate themselves, and listen to LGBTQ+ voices.” The community welcomed Cathy Renna who shared her work with GLAAD and the National LGBTQ Task Force, as well as her involvement in the Matthew Shepard case back in 1998. Her visit prompted many people to ask questions and wonder what they could do to better support the LGBTQ+ community. More issues related to the LGBTQ+ experience and activism were explored on Community Day (held the same week) in the film, How to Survive a Plague, which chronicles the demand for proper attention to be given to the fight against AIDS. An Ally Pledge of support, a staple of the week, was shared with the Upper School, but Williams reminded the school that allyship isn’t just signing the pledge: it’s upholding everything that the pledge stands for in day-to-day life, and it’s the little things that truly make a difference. Events and opportunities like this very important week lead to progress and a more inclusive community.

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AFTER THOUGHTFUL RESEARCH AND COLLABORATION WITH CULINART, MKA’S FOOD SERVICE PARTNER, MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS SKYLAR ’27, ELEANOR ’29, MADELEINE ’29, AND OLIVIA ’29 LAUNCHED MEATLESS MONDAYS ON ALL THREE MKA CAMPUSES. With the support of Middle School teachers Laura Zimmerman and Debbie Branker, these student leaders determined that the program would help reduce MKA’s impact on the environment by not consuming any meat on Mondays. “By instituting Meatless Mondays, we can all help the planet and also live MKA’s sustainability mission by taking meaningful, daily actions to help reduce our environmental impact and to develop the good habits of responsible citizens,” said Skylar and the Meatless Monday Team. Congratulations to Skylar, Eleanor, Madeleine, and Olivia on the launch of Meatless Mondays.

MKA celebrated the 4th MKA Day, our annual day of giving, in February. To show their appreciation for our donors, our Primary School students asked their teachers to host a parade around Brookside wearing their spirit clothes (green and blue) and making some noise using instruments that they made in the classroom. Thanks in part to their support, the school raised close to $250,000! We are so grateful for our littlest learners’ “instrumental” role in our school’s fundraising success.

THIS YEAR’S SPRING PLAY IN THE UPPER SCHOOL’S AMPHITHEATER WAS THE LARAMIE PROJECT, A DOCUMENTARY-STYLE PLAY CREATED BY PLAYWRIGHT MOISES KAUFMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT, AN EXPERIMENTAL COMPANY WHOSE WORK HAS OFTEN TOUCHED ON SOCIAL THEMES. The play analyzes the death of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay college student who was brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998 because of his sexual identity. Shepard’s murder is one of the most well-known hate crimes in recent American history; in 2009, the U.S. Congress passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a piece of legislation that strengthens existing hate crime laws. At the end of the play, the students spoke about this experience in a 10-minute epilogue. Head of Upper School Dr. David C. Flocco said, “Their words were moving, courageous, emotional, and demonstrated an empathy for themselves and the real-life actors they portrayed in a way I had never experienced. Twenty-three members of the cast from all four grades, representing a mix of races, genders, sexual orientations, and identities, worked together to put on a mesmerizing and jaw dropping performance one that challenged each and every one of us in the audience to consider our privilege and responsibility to continue this work either as members of the LGBTQ+ community or its allies. It was one of my proudest moments as a member of the MKA community.”

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS CHALLENGED THEIR TEACHERS TO A KICKBALL GAME, WINNING THE GAME 5-4! Mr. Anderson had an impressive catch in the outfield and Henry ’25 had a home run for the students.

There was a pride run between 1st and 2nd inning and a few games for the spectators including egg and spoon, water balloon, and dizzy bat.

At the end of the game, the eighth-grade student government presented a donation to Montclair Ambulance Unit that students raised by selling t-shirts prior to the event.

Thank you to everyone who donated and participated in this fun game.

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Senior Awards COMMENCEMENT AWARDS

Marjorie Winfield Easter Award: Awarded to the senior who, behind-the-scenes, has given generously to the MKA community without expecting formal recognition and has consistently demonstrated outstanding character, leadership qualities, and moral values: Jacob Gale Ethel M. Spurr Award: Awarded to an involved and dynamic member of the MKA community who possesses a self-starting and enthusiastic approach to academics and engagement in school life and seeks to bring new perspectives to the school to strengthen and transform existing programs: Isa Lucas Rudolph Deetjen Award: Awarded to one female and one male student athlete in the senior class who have a distinguished record in MKA athletics and academic work and whose character and deportment have been a positive influence in the life of the school and have demonstrated a positive attitude in the classroom, in their respective athletic arenas, and in the community at large: Sarah Hobbs, Zachary Wheeler Robert C. Hemmeter Memorial Award: Awarded to a senior with interests beyond the classroom.

The recipient must have intellectual curiosity and a love of books, enjoy sports and cultural activities, and have an enthusiasm for living that will lead him/her beyond the MKA community: Alex Korfhage Dr. Peter Greer Character Award: Awarded to a senior who embodies virtues including honesty, generosity, kindness, and respect. The person receiving the award should be someone who embraces the Socratic principle “Know thyself”: Riley Rendino Head’s Award: Awarded to seniors who have made a unique contribution to MKA and have changed the school for the better: Vanessa Amsinger, Kelsey Freeman, Spencer Goldberg, Jaiden Park, Sanaa Williams, Noah Wolk

FACULTY AWARDS

Scott M. Johnson Memorial Award: Awarded annually to a senior who best demonstrates warmth, generosity, and goodwill toward others: Jonah Barbin

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Everett Glenn Memorial Award: Honors the most outstanding House Captain who demonstrates the ability to inspire, motivate, and unite his/ her House: Jack Raff Bud Mekeel Memorial Award: Given in memory of O. Stanley Mekeel of the Montclair Academy Class of 1929 to a talented and distinguished MKA senior towards college expenses: Olivia Puzio James D. Timmons Award: Awarded to an MKA senior who is the child of an MKA faculty member. The recipient is honored for distinguished academic work and significant contributions to the life of the senior class and the MKA community: Sean Stites

DEPARTMENT AWARDS

William Miller Prize in Science: Awarded to a senior who has demonstrated the greatest academic excellence in the sciences: Anthony DiMaggio Nazarian Prize for Mathematics: Awarded to a senior who has demonstrated excellence in, and dedication to, mathematics: Rohan Moniz Downsbrough Science Prize: Awarded to a senior with high moral and ethical standards who has shown outstanding intellectual capacity in physical sciences or mathematics by achieving distinguished grades in these subjects and demonstrating exceptional ability in related projects: Zoe Lynch Margaret Jenkins Osborne Prize for Excellence in Science: Specifically intended for students who have demonstrated outstanding interest in science and superior understanding of concepts and creativity in their studies: Sarah Hobbs John Rabuse History Prize: Awarded to that junior or senior student who truly loves American History and is interested in politics, the Presidency, and the workings of government: Ryan Mandachescu Computer Science Award: Awarded to a senior who has demonstrated excellence in, and dedication to, the field of computer science through performance in classes, independent study, and work outside of the classroom: Anthony DiMaggio

Congratulations to the outstanding Montclair Kimberley Academy seniors who have been honored with academic, engagement, and athletic awards. We could not be more proud of their hard work, dedication, and the impressive feats they have accomplished during the 2020-2021 school year.

Barras English Prize: Awarded to a senior whose work at the Upper School has reflected out- standing scholarship, a unique literary voice, and an abiding belief in the value of great literature, both in and out of the classroom: Emani Fung History Prize: Awarded to a senior who demonstrates enthusiasm for the study of history and society, a strong engagement with the research process, a generous spirit with classmates, and academic excellence in the department: Nate Corbett World Language Prizes: Each year, the Upper School World Languages Department recognizes the top students in the twelfth grade in Chinese, French, Latin, and Spanish. The students who earn these awards excel in and out of the classroom and engage in the study of language and culture with empathy and understanding.

Students are nominated by their current teachers, and then the awardees are decided upon by the department as a whole: Latin: Caleb Hofmann; Spanish: Maddie Golodner; Chinese: Lindsey Yu; French: OB Sedransk Visual Art: Awarded to the senior who has outstanding technique and skill in their craft, finds joy and demonstrates determination in art making, and has stayed true to their individual style and voice: Ethan Williams, Nyla Boynton-Jarrett Anthony Cuneo: Awarded to a senior who has demonstrated a sustained curiosity in, commitment to, and love for the arts in at least two disciplines: Lola Coleman Louis Armstrong Jazz Award ®: Awarded to the outstanding jazz musician at each high school: Nate Corbett, Bennett La Londe John Philip Sousa Band Award: Introduced in 1955 to honor the top student in the high school band, the John Philip Sousa Band Award® recognizes superior musicianship and outstanding dedication. It was created with the approval of Helen Sousa Albert and Priscilla Sousa, daughters of the famous composer and bandmaster: Aidan Larish Dance: Awarded to a senior who has shown tremendous growth in technique and artistic expression, as well as demonstrated leadership qualities for the overall

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program through consistent dedication and professionalism: Kailee Joseph Vocal Music: Awarded to a senior(s) who has distinguished themselves with outstanding technique, skill, musical aptitude, and expression, demonstrating determination and exemplary work in ensemble and/or solo singing: Ariel Grossman National Strings: Awarded to outstanding students in the MKA Strings Program who have shown exceptional talent, dedication, and commitment to their instrument: Olivia Puzio Marilyn Faden Award for Excellence in the Theatre Arts: Presented to students who have a true love of theatre: Musical Theater: Alex Glotzer, Ariel Grossman; Deetjen for Drama: Jonah Barbin; Technical Theater: Regan Sandoval

SCHOLAR AWARDS

Mary K. Waring Scholars: Students who make the High Honor Roll in both semesters of a given school year: Kiara Bhatia, Julia Conforti, Nathaniel Corbett, Elizabeth Esterow, Taylor Everson, Leah Glaser, Spencer Goldberg, Ariel Grossman, Louise Halbert, Katherine Hipp, Sarah Hobbs, Marlowe Knee, Aidan Larish, Zoe Lynch, Catherine McLaughlin, Rohan Moniz, Olivia Puzio, Riley Rendino, Regan Sandoval, OB Sedransk, Noah Wolk Avery Barras Distinguished Scholar: Students who make the High Honor Roll in both semesters of a given school year, and who earn all A’s: Michele Cestone, Lola Coleman, Nihaar Gopalji, Alex Korfhage, Isa Lucas, Zachary Wheeler

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARDS

Presidential Service Awards: A volunteer awards program based on hours of engagement that encourages citizens, through presidential recognition, to live a life of service. Bronze: Sebastian Burns; Gold: Leah Glaser Senior Community Engagement Award: Awarded to the student or students who have demonstrated a commitment to developing a deeper understanding of the needs and perspectives in

the community in order to make a positive difference: Aron Dyadyuk, Leah Glaser

ATHLETICS AWARDS

Yogi Berra Museum’s “Best Teammate Award”: Given to that MKA team member who represents the very best of what being a teammate is all about: Rollins Heath (soccer, lacrosse) Essex County Scholar-Athlete Award Recipients: Each year the Essex County Athletic Directors’ Association selects a male and female recipient from each school in Essex County in recognition of their achievements in the classroom and within Essex County athletics: Danny D’Angelo (soccer, ice hockey, lacrosse), Taylor Everson (tennis, lacrosse) NJSIAA Scholar-Athlete Award Recipient: Given to that student athlete who has maintained no less than a 3.0 GPA has exhibited outstanding school and community citizenship and has exhibited excellence in his or her chosen sport throughout their career: Lindsey Yu (field hockey) Senior Captain’s Prize: Awarded each season to the team captain who best exemplifies the qualities of leadership, sportsmanship, and fair play: Abigail Clothier (soccer, lacrosse) Klein Award: The top male and female student athletes in each grade who exemplify excellence in academic, athletics, and character: Katie Hipp (lacrosse), Jake Waldman (lacrosse) MKA Varsity Awards: Awarded to the senior athletes for their dedication, success, and achievement throughout the course of their MKA athletic careers. The MKA Varsity Award is given in recognition to those senior athletes who have received 10 or more varsity letters throughout their MKA athletic careers: Danny D’Angelo (soccer, ice hockey, lacrosse), Sarah Hobbs (soccer, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field) Al Staph Award: Presented to a senior who has overcome a physical handicap or serious injury in order to contribute to the success of athletics at Montclair Kimberley Academy: Julia Conforti (soccer)

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Cum Laude Society Congratulations to the 23 seniors from the MKA Class of 2021 who were inducted into the Cum Laude Society on Saturday, June 12. Established in 1906, the Cum Laude Society is modeled on the Phi Beta Kappa Collegiate National Honor Society and recognizes the scholastic achievement of secondary school students. It is the highest academic honor bestowed on members of the graduating class. The Cum Laude selection process relies both on a record of academic excellence and on nominations from the academic departments that reflect the character of students’ engagement with teaching and learning.

In congratulating the inductees on their innumerable accomplishments that earned them Cum Laude distinction, alumnus and Cum Laude Society member Zachary Yanes ’13 illustrated for the students that “Education isn’t something that one possesses but is instead something flexible and attitudinal and process-oriented: it involves appreciating and understanding the resources available and keeping alive the curiosity to use those resources to continue inquiring about the world long after we have been compelled to do so as children in school.” He entreated

all members of the audience “to get to know your own mind [in order to] create space in your life.”

In his last of 16 Cum Laude Induction ceremonies, Head of School Thomas W. Nammack noted the extraordinary achievements of the student inductees and also acknowledged fellow retiree and MKA teacher of 52 years George Hrab. Mr. Nammack said, “I can think of no other person who embodies the key ingredients of scholarship as fully as George Hrab; the discipline of putting forth one’s best effort every day, of keeping the work fresh, engaging the minds of the people around you, no matter who they are, and the quiet dignity that comes from an unwavering purpose.”

THE 2021 INDUCTEES Lola Coleman Julia Conforti Nathaniel Corbett Anthony DiMaggio Jeremiah Druckenmiller

Taylor Everson Emani Fung Spencer Goldberg Madison Golodner Nihaar Gopalji

Ariel Grossman Alexander Korfhage Aidan Larish Isabel Lucas Zoe Lynch

The Class of 2021 was introduced to the MKA Alumni Association during their Senior Breakfast just one month before the 113 seniors joined our amazing network of MKAAlumni. Students heard from Gretchen Berra, Alumni Engagement Director, Caitlin DiRuggiero ’06, Alumni Council President, and Head of School Tom Nammack.

During this event, Caitlin happily presented long-time Upper School teacher George Hrab with the 2021 Honorary Alumni Award. This award honors those members of the MKA community who have made a significant, easily recognizable, and direct impact on MKA students. As an Honorary Alumna/ us, award recipients are considered members of a specific graduating class of MKA. As such, they will receive all invitations, recognitions, and notices of events just like those who’ve received diplomas from the school.

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On Friday, April 23, the annual ceremony celebrating MKA’s graduating “Lifers” was held in the Amphitheater at the Upper School. Each of the 25 students that have attended MKA since they were in Kindergarten received the Lifer blanket as well as a photo frame which contained their Kindergarten picture alongside their Senior portrait. While the event had to be altered due to social distancing, the students were very happy to be together and to be recognized in this special way.

CLASS OF 2021 LIFERS Michele Cestone, Resham Datwani, Nicholas Eiden, Taylor Everson, Ariel Grossman, Madigan Gyves, Sarah Hobbs, Riley Rendino, Rebecca Kaplan, Alexander Korfhage, Bennett La Londe, Aidan Larish, Christine Lindholm, Matthew McCann, Rohan Moniz, Elliot O’Dell, Regan Sandoval, Jonah Barbin, Emma Ruddy, Arjun Sharma, Daniel Stehr, Sean Stites, Isabella Szyfer, Caroline Turgeon, and Ethan Williams

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Graduation

Third Graders Move on From MKA’s Primary School MKA’s Third Grade Closing Exercises were held outside at the Primary School on Friday, June 11. Families, teachers, administrators, and Trustees proudly watched our third graders formally end their Primary School years. Co-Director of Primary School Margaret Gonzales welcomed the participants and acknowledged the day and the months leading up to it. She shared, “I feel uplifted sharing this moment with you after so many months apart. What a treat to be together again.

Thank you for joining us in celebration of your children’s growth, achievement, and authentic selves. Bold, expressive, thoughtful, engaging, and passionately alive, these children live each moment fully and with gusto.”

Co-Director of Primary School Maureen Bates left the students with advice as they enter a new chapter of their lives. After so many projects, challenges, and experiences together, they should remember that “friends solve problems better when they work together as a team.” She said, “In the future you’ll be part of so many teams. Your fourth grade class will be a team. Your family is a team. You’ll play

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on sports teams and be part of musical and artistic groups and join clubs, and they will all feel like teams. On those teams, remember how helpful it is to say positive and encouraging words, to listen to each other, to plan ahead, and to collaborate. The world needs you to take all that you learned about being a teammate here at Brookside and to bring that with you.” Congratulations to our Third Graders!

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MKA’s 8th Grade Class Graduates on Van Brunt Field The 8th Grade Closing Exercises were held outside on Van Brunt Field on Friday, June 11. Proud parents and family members joined with the MKA faculty, administration, and Trustees to reflect on the students’ time at the Middle School. Head of School Tom Nammack said, “This particular class of 8th graders has been described as ‘rock stars,’ by someone who knows them very well,” as he reminded them to thank the “roadies” who supported them both in and outside of school. Student leader Ben Morganstein shared his perspective on his experience since 4th grade and especially this year, “As we have all witnessed, the future can change in an instant. What won’t change, however, are the strengths we have all gained as a result of our challenges. There are a multitude of ways to describe our class such as compassionate, courageous, and brilliant, but I believe it’s the traits we’ve developed in the past year--persistence, creativity and optimism-that will truly define us.”

Student Body President Lola Kaplan explained the Hero’s Journey to the audience, which is a major theme explored at the Middle School, and connected it to the students’ experiences over the years. She said that ultimately, “I would define a journey as something that not only challenges you but inspires you to be the best version of yourself.”

Head of Middle School Dr. Randy Kleinman was thrilled to celebrate this important milestone in person and credited the 8th graders with having “the kind of leadership that has gotten us to where we are today.” He told them, “You managed to figure out how to navigate your way through this [pandemic] with a simplicity and common sense, kindness, and compassion that have made this uncommonly difficult year one filled with uncommon rewards as well.”

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Commencement Montclair Kimberley Academy graduated 113 students during its Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 13 in an outdoor ceremony on Van Brunt Field in Montclair. This was the first commencement ceremony held on campus since the 1950’s.

Faculty and Trustees led the procession of the Class of 2021, and Head of Upper School Dr. David C. Flocco delivered the welcome address, in which he acknowledged the challenges of a year defined by a pandemic. He credited the senior class for “Not only helping us to be the community we are today, but also helping us to endure and emerge from this pandemic better than we entered it. As you sit here today and enjoy your last time together as a class, with your teachers and family in attendance...remember your home away from home – that physical place you are always welcome to visit. But also, think about the people and the memories and the community that you will take from here that will make up that home in your head that will never leave you. You have been a true blessing to us, Class of 2021, I thank you for that.”

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Student Government Vice President Kelsey Freeman reflected on her experience and shared, “The measure of our lives on this campus is not rounded up in our GPAs, or our college decisions, or even our diplomas, but it’s in the unscripted and unpredictable moments that remind us of who we are and lead us into the paths that we were always meant to follow.” She continued, “We are the school on the hill that takes pride in putting the community at the forefront of every lesson plan. We aren’t perfect, and we don’t pretend to be. But we’re getting there.” Senior Jonah Barbin ended his remarks to the class with the exhortation, “Go out there, be confident, take risks, and be the special people I know you all are.”

Head of School Thomas W. Nammack was joined by President of the Board of Trustees Kathleen M. Logan in awarding the diplomas, together with faculty members and Trustees, who as parents of seniors, participated in the tradition of awarding their own children their diplomas.

As the last speaker to address the Class of 2021 in his last Commencement before retiring, Mr. Nammack could not help but focus on the present. Thanking the faculty and staff for responding to and elevating the experience of students this year, Mr. Nammack also expressed sincere appreciation to the families for their support of and commitment to MKA. After viewing the work of studentwriters and artists in the final publication of the Upper School student literary magazine Stylus, Mr. Nammack found inspiration and perspective in the work and said, “What I have witnessed of you and the community in the past fifteen months proves that you are, we are, all part of an exceptional school.”

Student Government President Isa Lucas and Senior Class President Nate Corbett officially concluded the ceremony by ringing the Montclair Academy bell, which dates back almost a century.

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HONORARY DIPLOMAS Two honorary diplomas were awarded by Dr. David C. Flocco at Commencement on June 13, 2021. The first was given to retiring Head of School Thomas W. Nammack, presented by the four MKA Board Presidents who served during his tenure. The second diploma was presented to Mr. George Hrab, beloved MKA faculty member retiring at the end of his 52nd year at the school, by his children, Alexandra ’86 and George, Jr. ’89. As the senior faculty member for much of his tenure, Mr. Hrab was happily tasked with reading the names of graduates at Commencement. In doing the honors, his children became the only ones besides their father to read a name as a diploma is bestowed at MKA since the early 1990’s.

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CLASS OF 2021 Charles Abdulhayoglu Vanessa Amsinger Dylan Andrews Maggie Astley Ava Augustine Jonah Barbin Uras Bazna Kiara Bhatia Maximilian Bock Nyla Boynton-Jarrett Sebastian Burns Christina Carbo Michele Cestone Abigail Clothier Lola Coleman Julia Conforti

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Nathaniel Corbett Daniel D’Angelo Resham Datwani Yogi Devre Robert Di Geronimo Anthony DiMaggio PJ Dowd Jeremiah Druckenmiller Cora Dvorovy Aron Dyadyuk Nicholas Eiden George Eilender Elizabeth Esterow Taylor Everson Kelsey Freeman Emani Fung Jacob Gale

Leah Glaser Alexander Glotzer Spencer Goldberg Madison Golodner Nihaar Gopalji Dominick Greendale Ariel Grossman Madigan Gyves Louise Halbert Holden Hargrave Mohamed Hassaneen Rollins Heath Katherine Hipp Sarah Hobbs Caleb Hofmann William Horn Michael Jimenez

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Kailee Joseph Karl Kanhai Rebecca Kaplan Colin Kearns Daryn Knee Marlowe Knee Alexander Korfhage Anyah Kumar Cameron Kwiatkowski Bennett La Londe Aidan Larish Christine Lindholm Isabel Lucas Zoe Lynch Neil Maharishi Tai Mair Ryan Mandachescu

Stella Marshall Matthew McCann Catherine McLaughlin Isabel Lucas Rohan Moniz Grace Moran Clay Morris Jacob Moshiashvili Elliot O’Dell Zachary Olin Jaiden Park Riley Pease Michael Picciotto Olivia Puzio Jack Raff Riley Rendino Marcellino Romeo

Emma Ruddy Grace Russo Ignacio Sanchez Gomez-Alvarez Regan Sandoval O.B. Sedransk Sebastian Seebach Zachary Sevrens Arjun Sharma Chelsea Shey Jack Silva Max Skinner Daniel Stehr Sean Stites Gabriel Stocus Isabella Szyfer Matthew Toland Caroline Turgeon

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Anne Turvey Justin Vasilopoulos J.P. Vizzone Jake Waldman Zachary Wheeler Ethan Williams Sanaa Williams Oliver Winters Leah Wohl Noah Wolk Andrew Yagoda Lindsey Yu Darren Zou

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2021 COLLEGE LIST Bates College Boston College Boston University Bucknell University Case Western Reserve University Champlain College Colby College College of Charleston College of William and Mary Colorado College Columbia University Connecticut College Cornell University Dartmouth College Elon University

Emerson College Emory University Fordham University Franklin and Marshall College Furman University George Washington University Georgetown University Gettysburg College Hamilton College Hobart and William Smith Colleges Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lafayette College Lehigh University Loyola University Maryland

Middlebury College Monmouth University Muhlenberg College New York University Northeastern University Northwestern University Pratt Institute Princeton University Providence College San Diego State University Savannah College of Art and Design St John’s University Stanford University Stevens Institute of Technology Syracuse University

The College of New Jersey Tufts University Tulane University University of California Irvine University of Chicago University of Miami University of Michigan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh University of Southern California University of Tampa University of Tennessee University of Toronto University of Vermont

University of Virginia Vanderbilt University Villanova University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Wake Forest University Washington University in St Louis Wesleyan University Western University Yale University

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ATHLETICS 2021

SPRING 2021 TEAM AND STUDENT-ATHLETE HONORS AND AWARDS During the recently completed 2021 Spring Athletics season, the following MKA teams, coaches and athletes achieved honors:

THE MKA CAPTAIN’S AWARD IS GIVEN OUT EACH SEASON TO THAT MALE OR FEMALE CAPTAIN WHO HAS EXHIBITED THE QUALITIES THAT WE LOOK FOR IN OUR TEAM CAPTAINS...LEADERSHIP, DEDICATION, RESPECT, WORK ETHIC, AND BEING A ROLE MODEL BOTH ON AND OFF THE FIELD OR COURTS TO HIS OR HER TEAMMATES AND PEERS.

BASEBALL Head Coach: Ralph Pacifico (30th Year) Record: 10-12 Sebastian Seebach ’21 Captain; Honorable Mention All-Colonial Division, SEC Sean Stites ’21 Captain; MKA Most Valuable Player Award; 1st Team All-Colonial Division, SEC John Testa ’22 Captain; 1st Team All-Colonial Division, SEC; Essex/Union All-Star Game Michael Bronstein ’22 MKA Most Improved Player Award Jack Amirata ’23 MKA Offensive Player of the Year Award; 1st Team All-Colonial Division, SEC; Essex/Union All-Star Game Maximilian Nussbaum ’23 2nd Team AllColonial Division, SEC

Clay Morris ’21 2nd Team All-Kimber Division, NJILL OB Sedransk ’21 Captain; 1st Team AllLiberty Division, SEC; 1st Team All-Prep B; US Lacrosse Academic All-American; 1st Team All-Kimber Division, NJILL; MKA W. Noll Klank Memorial Award Jake Waldman ’21 Captain; 1st Team AllLiberty Division, SEC; 1st Team All-Prep B; 1st Team All-Kimber Division, NJILL; 3rd Team All Non-Public, nj.com; MKA Most Valuable Player Award Jake Pryor ’22 1st Team All-Liberty Division, SEC; Honorable Mention All-Prep B; 1st Team All-Kimber Division, NJILL

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Dylan Sachs ’22 Honorable Mention AllKimber Division, NJILL

Head Coach: Jessica Sarfati (11th Year) Record: 6-13-1

Jordan Fishback ’23 2nd Team All-Kimber Division, NJILL

Anne Turvey ’21 Captain; MKA Most Valuable Player Award; 2nd Team All-Liberty Division, SEC

Evan Grossman ’23 2nd Team All-Kimber Division, NJILL

Leah Wohl ’21 Captain; MKA Coaches Award; Honorable Mention All-Liberty Division, SEC Alexandra Berra ’23 1st Team All-Liberty Division, SEC Elizabeth LoPiccolo ’24 MKA Rookie of the Year Award; Honorable Mention All-Liberty Division, SEC BOYS’ LACROSSE Congratulations to the recipient of the MKA Winter Captain’s Award: Senior Ice Hockey Captain, Danny D’Angelo. Head Coach Tim Cook stated, “Danny is a coach’s dream…he is responsible, intense, prepared, and leads by example, but he is also vocal, is responsive whenever I ask him to do something, and has respect for our school, program, and the game. He would not ask others to do something that he was not willing to do and was a role model both on and off the ice. Danny was our most physical player this year and inspired others with his toughness and grittiness. Danny played both Defense and Forward over his career and was always willing to do anything that the team needed whenever the team needed it and could care less about personal stats and accolades. He was simply ‘team first’ at all times!”

Rollins Heath ’21 Captain; 1st Team AllLiberty Division, SEC; 1st Team All-Prep B; 1st Team All-Kimber Division, NJILL; 2nd Team All Non-Public, nj.com; Yogi Berra Museum’s Best Teammate Award

Head Coach: Paul Edwards (19th Year), 2021 NJ State Boys’ Lacrosse “Coach of the Year”, nj.com; 2021 “Coach of the Year”, NJILCA Dave Giarrusso (1st Year) Record: 13-5; 2021 NJISAA Prep B State Champions, 2021 SEC Liberty Division Champions, 2021 NJILL Kimber Division Champions; 2021 NJ.com Kimber Division “Team of the Year” Danny D’Angelo ’21 Captain; 1st Team AllLiberty Division, SEC; 1st Team All-Prep B; 1st Team All-Kimber Division, NJILL; MKA W. Noll Klank Memorial Award Jeremiah Druckenmiller ’21 Honorable Mention All-Liberty Division, SEC

GIRLS’ LACROSSE Head Coach: Chelsea Intrabartola (6th Year), 2021 NJIGLL Freedom Division “Coach of the Year”, nj.com Record: 16-6 Abigail Clothier ’21 Captain; MKA Players’ Player of the Year Award; Honorable Mention All-American Division, SEC; 2nd Team All-Freedom South Division, NJIGLL; NJIGLL All-Academic Team; MKA Spring Captain’s Award Recipient Taylor Everson ’21 Captain; MKA Most Valuable Player Award; 1st Team AllAmerican Division, SEC; 1st Team All-Freedom South Division, NJIGLL; 1st Team All-Prep B; NJIGLL All-Academic Team; US Lacrosse High School All-American; US Lacrosse High School All-Academic; 1st Team All NonPublic, nj.com Katie Hipp ’21 Captain; MKA Coaches Award; 2nd Team All-American Division, SEC; 1st Team All-Freedom South Division, NJIGLL; 1st Team All-Prep B; NJIGLL All-Academic Team; 2nd Team All Non-Public, nj.com

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Patricia Columbia-Walsh ’22 1st Team AllAmerican Division, SEC; 1st Team All-Freedom South Division, NJIGLL; 1st Team All-Prep B; NJIGLL All-Academic Team; 2nd Team All Non-Public, nj.com Avery Song ’22 2nd Team All-American Division, SEC; 2nd Team All-Freedom South Division, NJIGLL; NJIGLL All-Academic Team Caroline Murphy ’23 Honorable Mention All-Freedom South Division, NJIGLL Orly Sedransk ’24 1st Team All-American Division, SEC; 1st Team All-Freedom South Division, NJIGLL; Honorable Mention All-Prep B; NJIGLL All-Academic Team GIRLS’ TRACK & FIELD Head Coach: Timothy White (1st Year) Record: 5-1; 2021 NJSIAA Non-Public B State Champions; 2021 SEC Colonial Division Champions Kelsey Freeman ’21 Captain; 1st Team Relay All-Colonial Division, SEC; 2nd Team High Hurdles All-Colonial Division, SEC; 2nd Team Intermediate Hurdles All-Colonial Division, SEC

BOYS’ TRACK & FIELD Head Coach: Timothy White (1st Year) Record: 4-2 Alex Korfhage ’21 Captain; MKA Coaches Award Isiah Udofia ’22 MKA Athlete of the Year Award; 1st Team 100m All-Colonial Division, SEC; 1st Team 200m All-Colonial Division, SEC; 2nd Team High Jump All-Colonial Division, SEC; 2nd Team Triple Jump AllColonial Division, SEC; 2nd Team All-Around All-Colonial Division, SEC; 2nd Team 200m All Non-Public, nj.com Jaylen Ankrah-Jones ’24 MKA Rookie of the Year Award BOYS’ TENNIS Head Coach: Val Azzoli (16th Year) Record: 5-9 Bennett La Londe ’21 Captain; MKA Most Valuable Player Award; 1st Team All-American Division, SEC Rohan Moniz ’21 Honorable Mention AllAmerican Division, SEC

Sarah Hobbs ’21 Captain; MKA Coaches Award; 1st Team Relay All-Colonial Division, SEC; 2nd Team 400m All-Colonial Division, SEC; 2nd Team 800m All-Colonial Division, SEC; 3rd Team 4x400 All Non-Public, nj.com

Dhruv Jetley ’22 Honorable Mention AllAmerican Division, SEC

Emma Burd ’22 1st Team 1600m All-Colonial Division, SEC

Head Coach: Jeff Beer (16th Year) Record: 5-12

Phoebe Williams ’22 MKA Athlete of the Year Award; 1st Team Shot Put All-Colonial Division, SEC; 1st Team Discus All-Colonial Division, SEC; 1st Team Javelin All-Colonial Division, SEC

Michele Cestone ’21 MKA Most Improved Player Award

Rebecca Herrick ’23 2nd Team 3200m AllColonial Division, SEC

Russell Francis ’24 MKA Rookie of the Year Award

Remy Ronen ’23 1st Team Relay All-Colonial Division, SEC; 2nd Team 200m All-Colonial Division, SEC; 3rd Team 4x400 All Non-Public, nj.com Margaret Horn ’24MKA Rookie of the Year Award; 1st Team 800m All-Colonial Division, SEC; 1st Team Intermediate Hurdles All-Colonial Division, SEC; 1st Team Relay All-Colonial Division, SEC; 3rd Team 4x400 All Non-Public, nj.com Morgan Lee ’24 3rd Team 4x400 All NonPublic, nj.com

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Bryce Cherry ’22 Captain; MKA Most Valuable Player Award; Honorable Mention All-American Division, SEC

Congratulations to the recipient of the MKA Spring Captain’s Award: Varsity Girls Lacrosse captain, Abby Clothier ’21. Head Girls Lacrosse Coach Intrabartola writes, “Abby is the kind of leader that every successful team needs. From the start, she has been a solid, dependable, and comforting presence. Her teammates gravitate towards her because of her kind demeanor and natural leadership skills. Being a leader during this chaotic time is incredibly difficult for someone of any age, but through it all she has remained her steady, spirited, and dedicated self. What I love most about Abby is that she does not do any of it for recognition or for her own personal agenda, she does it because it is just who she is.

She cares deeply about her teammates and would do just about anything for them. She doesn’t have to think about putting the team first because she does it naturally. Abby is absolutely adored and respected by all who encounter her, and she has set the bar incredibly high for future leaders of our program.”

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BY KAREN NEWMAN Assistant Head of School for Curriculum and Professional Development

MKA’s curriculum focuses on familiar, foundational commitments to teaching ethics and character development, ensuring students’ engagement with a “core” of studies, and developing mastery of essential thinking and learning skills. At the same time, MKA’s curriculum is constantly evolving based on intentional design commitments to: • Choose best-practice, research-based approaches in building curriculum and instruction.

• Ensure students’ social-emotional growth and connection to the MKA community as essential building blocks for academic and personal growth and success.

• Provide all students with appropriate levels of challenge– both stretch and reinforcement.

• Create opportunities for students to develop their own sense of agency as curious learners who can reflect on and adjust their learning–and see the joy in learning.

• Support students to develop their interests and voices and apply their learning to improve their lives and the world around them.

One of MKA’s greatest engines for curricular innovation is the summertime “deep dive” into curricular (re)design that faculty choose to engage in when they identify the need and see the possibilities.

Two summers ago, every MKA faculty member spent time (re)designing curriculum and instruction to prepare to teach students in school and online simultaneously during the global pandemic. This past summer, even as they were encouraged to take time for rejuvenation after a year of such unprecedented challenges, 80 MKA faculty engaged in grant-funded work to update, adjust, create, (re)imagine, and/or (re)design curriculum.

On the pages that follow, you will see the impact of MKA’s inspired and inspiring faculty. You will see their commitment to designing a continually evolving curriculum to ensure that MKA students are not only well-informed and highly-skilled thinkers, but also prepared to be courageous in using their continually growing knowledge and vision with integrity.

MKA faculty are “creatives” committed to continually reflecting on and making adjustments to the curriculum. Individual teachers, grade-level teams, departments, administrators, and, at times, consultants, collaborate to generate, vet, and shape new ideas and insights that fuel curriculum development. Meaningful curricular innovations, both large and small, are inspired by a variety of sources, including: • The needs and feedback of the students themselves.

(Surveying students about their learning and examining trends in student work are key aspects of MKA’s Professional Growth Process.)

• The interests, passions, and observations of faculty members devoted to their craft.

• N ecessity, such as the need to find new ways to teach and learn during a global pandemic and to address our national reckoning with race.

• Careful research and professional learning about topics such as how students’ brains work best when they are learning to read, write, reason, or solve problems.

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SYMBOL 1 In MKA’s Seal the rising sun shines on a new beginning.

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EMPOWERING STUDENTS TO CAPTURE, REFLECT ON, AND ADJUST THEIR LEARNING Making Thinking Visible: Digital Portfolio Tools Help Primary School Students to Share Their Learning

BY HELEN NOBLE Primary School Educational Technology Coordinator, Administrative Team Member

The Primary School has integrated Seesaw, a studentdriven, digital portfolio tool, in Pre-K through Grade 3.

This innovation stemmed from the need to find a more authentic way of capturing students’ thought processes and overall growth as learners over time. We looked for a tool that encourages students to share their work and document their learning, promotes students’ reflection, and equips faculty with a portal to provide feedback for students in both audio and written forms.

Primary School faculty embarked on a two-year, pilot program to help vet and ultimately integrate the use of Seesaw at all Primary School grade levels. This technology affords students choice in how they share their ideas and empowers them to share their thinking using drawing, still photo, video, voice recording, and screencasting tools. Seesaw also allows families to easily connect to their child’s learning journal and to view authentic, timely evidence of both their child’s work and the accompanying feedback the teacher has provided.

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THE IMPACT OF SEESAW ON STUDENTS’ AGENCY: • S eesaw has enhanced opportunities for Primary School students to “show what they know” to their teachers and families in a timely and authentic way.

•D igital learning journals highlight students’ work in the form of digital artifacts and allow students to share their thinking in their own voices.

•A s they document their work using photo, video, drawing, voice recording, and screencasting tools, students are growing more confident in reflecting on their work to determine how they might adjust both their learning processes and products.

•S tudents are becoming accustomed to reviewing teacher feedback through the Comment feature in Seesaw.

•W ith each Seesaw post, students are building basic skills in using devices to create digital content and are learning lessons in digital citizenship guided by their teachers.

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USING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AS A SPRINGBOARD FOR CURRICULAR DESIGN Intentional Design for Engagement, Connection, and Independence Inspires Young Readers and Writers

BY MAUREEN BATES Co-Director of the Primary School

Long known for providing MKA students with the essential and inspirational foundations of their identities as writers, teachers at the Primary and Middle Schools have had a longstanding connection to and are currently in the third consecutive year of a renewed collaboration with the Teachers College (TC) Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University. MKA’s partnership with TC, one example of the school’s ongoing commitment to providing the strongest possible professional learning experiences for our teachers and administrators, brings experts to campus to coach and support teachers and students throughout the school year.

Currently, we are the only independent school in New Jersey that partners with TC, and our collaboration with two, wonderful TC consultants is now a fully bi-campus, professional development experience for teachers from Pre-K to Grade 5.

The TC Reading and Writing Project is grounded in the latest research about literacy education, and with its guidance, MKA’s evolution of the teaching of reading and writing for our youngest learners continues and fosters joy, engagement, and excellence. TC consultants help MKA teachers to develop an understanding of students’ needs as growing readers and writers and to adjust lessons and outcomes accordingly.

MKA’s partnership with TC helps teachers to: • Stay informed about the latest, research-based methods to grow strong readers and writers.

• E ngage students as thoughtful, analytic, and creative readers and writers to harness their potential and inspire them to read for meaning and to write with a wide variety of purposes and audiences in mind, including in narrative, informational, and persuasive genres.

• Provide more differentiated instruction that includes appropriate challenges and support for all students.

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Inspired to be Writers

First grade authors write realistic fiction series modeled after a book series they are beginning to read, such as Henry and Mudge. They learn how to create a realistic character and to use action, dialogue, and feelings in their writing to make their characters come to life in order to create a series of fiction books.

In the same way that series books often come in boxed sets, first graders keep the series they are writing as a boxed set in a creatively designed and illustrated cereal box.

This year, some students became so passionate about writing and creating books that they decided to collaborate with one another to create new books where characters from each other’s realistic fiction writing met and went on adventures together. Students saw themselves as creative and inspired writers, and their love of writing drove these self-propelled projects during free-choice time. One first-grade student even declared: “When I’m done, I’m going to write books for little kids!”

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Maureen Bates, Co-Director of the Primary School, wrote to first-grade teachers after students’ writing celebration for their Series Books unit: “You helped students write with independence, stamina, joy, and engagement throughout this whole unit. One child got out of the car this morning and said to me, ‘I wrote 8 books!’ Another child told me about how the problem she created for her character had happened to her in real life, and her neighbor chimed in, ‘Yeah, ‘cause it’s realistic fiction.’ A whole group of first grade students were enjoying their pizza on the back field chanting, ‘Best day ever! Best day ever!’ And another came out of the building [after their Writing Celebration] saying, ‘This was the best day of my life!’ I know how much time, effort, hard work, and love you put into supporting your students, teaching them, and helping them to see themselves as authors; and I’m really grateful.”

Diversifying Representation in Pre-K–3 Classroom Libraries:

Students need to see characters like themselves and their friends represented in books.

• Books can be mirrors (reflecting students’ own identities and experiences), windows (helping them to see beyond themselves to the experiences of other people), and doors (helping them to develop empathy for others).

• With the help of Teachers College, Columbia University’s recommendations and the work of MKA alumna Chyna Brodie ’19 (see side bar), we have greatly expanded our classroom libraries to include characters of many races and ethnicities and their stories.

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THE LASTING IMPACT OF MAY TERM

MKA is inspiring Primary School students by including more voices and storylines in their Library and classrooms.

Chyna Brodie ’19 (pictured below) is currently attending American University and was recently elected Student Body President. This past summer, she was granted two research fellowships, one of which was to help diversify her university’s curriculum, specifically course syllabi.

Chyna is working towards becoming a lawyer in corporate or civil rights law.

Chyna Brodie’s 2019 May Term project sought to answer the question, “How can MKA diversify the texts available to students in the classrooms to ensure that there are books where they can recognize themselves and read positive stories about those characters?” Chyna explains, “MKA offered many books for us to read, but a lot of the stories that included Black and BIPOC characters were not written in a celebratory tone; they were stories that centered on trauma and bad things happening to the characters. Reading stories [like those] over and over again can be depressing. I didn't see myself the way that I wanted to. I wanted celebratory and uplifting storylines as well.” She worked to curate a list of picture books that could eventually be integrated into classrooms where Black and BIPOC students could connect with the characters and want to share the stories with others. “I wanted the next generation of students to have those stories and to feel seen and included,” Chyna said.

Since her May Term Internship, MKA has ordered a large number of picture books from the list that Chyna created. She said, “I am elated that MKA has taken what I started and done the important work to include more voices and storylines in their Library and classrooms. It is necessary to make this work a priority for students. Almost all of the issues that we are dealing with in the current moment are issues of intersectionality. It’s incredibly critical for Black students and students of color to feel included.

These books are a huge step forward in making all students feel that they have a voice.”

“ Reading is the first step towards changing the world.

When you can read, you can write, and if you can write, you can inspire.”

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ENCOURAGING STUDENTS’ CURIOSITY AND AGENCY

BY PROVIDING REAL-WORLD CONTEXTS FOR PROBLEM-SOLVING The Evolution of the 8th Grade Science Project

BY CATHERINE GAYNOR Assistant Head of Middle School

The 8th Grade Science Project, the capstone of the Middle School science program, has been a rite of passage for Middle School students for decades. Upper School students and MKA Alumni may remember the topic of their research; the process of hypothesizing and seeking to support their hypothesis; or simply standing in front of a gathering of teachers, parents, and peers to give their final presentation and field questions from the crowd.

As a result of both continual evolution of the curriculum to enhance learning and, more recently, adjustments due to COVID-19 restrictions, key changes have been made in the format of the 8th Grade Science Project: • Time of year: The project has become an end-of-year, capstone experience for 8th grade students to shift their focus from engaging as science students to engaging more authentically as scientists guiding their own research.

• Purpose of the project: Instead of the project simply building on previous topics studied, it is now framed around problems that exist in the world. Students identify a problem impacting their lives and think of a way to investigate the problem and work toward a solution.

• Presentation of results: Students now focus their final presentation on an explanation of process, results, and scientific conclusions, and additionally include reflections on their engagement in the scientific process. They also have more creative choices in selecting a way to share their work by creating a Google Slides presentation, a website, visual artwork, a comic book, a song, or other way to present and interpret for their audience.

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“ When I first started at MKA, Dr. Kleinman always referred to the “Dreaded 8th Grade Science Project” in his end-of-year address.

It had an aura of being high-stress and highstakes, and, while some students appreciated the accomplishment of completing such a task, it was clear to the 8th grade teachers that it was unnecessarily stressful. Even worse, the pressure to produce meaningful results pushed some students . . . to [think] that they would only do well if they ‘proved’ their hypothesis with neat and clear results.

In real life, science is usually messy, so we’ve worked hard to emphasize the scientific method and process rather than outcome.

Students are encouraged to use trial and error to improve their experimental design and reflect on the process of planning and completing a scientific experiment. They are rewarded for identifying flaws in their design and sources of experimental error. We’re proud that we’ve been able to maintain the high standards built into the tradition of the 8th Grade Science Project while refocusing our priorities to teach students how to more realistically think and act like true scientists, minus the “dread!”

DAVID ALLEN, MS SCIENCE TEACHER

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Lessons Learned During COVID-19:

Instead of a live presentation followed by a Question & Answer session, students prerecord a presentation called “Celebrate and Communicate,” which is played as part of a group of related presentations for an audience prior to a live Q & A. This is a new practice that allows students to maximize their learning as evidenced by: • Students’ increased use of their strengths and skills to communicate their scientific understanding.

• Students’ increased ability to answer tough questions more deeply during the live audience Q & A, including stronger connections to the real-world problem they were investigating.

• Students’ increased demonstration of connections to other students’ projects, as well as to other areas of science previously studied.

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BALANCING CONTENT AND SKILLS WITH SOCIALEMOTIONAL LEARNING FOR BOTH PERSONAL AND ACADEMIC GROWTH Rethinking Middle School Physical Education & Health to Promote Personal Wellness

BY LEON SHADE ’98 Middle School P.E., Health, and Wellness Department Chair

The days of just playing dodgeball and “burning off steam” in Middle School P.E. class or simply learning about the dangers of smoking tobacco in Health class are over. The lens has widened as the curriculum has evolved to teach students what a lifestyle of healthy habits looks like, sounds like, and feels like.

The resulting wellness-oriented curriculum now intentionally focuses not just on content but also on skill-building.

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In Physical Education, teachers have reinforced the need for activity, fitness, and physical literacy as essential foundations for wellness. The curriculum consistently focuses on demonstrating the range and versatility of what healthy bodies can do, providing students with ways to consciously develop their gross and fine motor skills, and helping students to consistently challenge themselves through the choices they make and the goals they set. Faced with the challenges of teaching P.E. while students were socially distanced because of the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty members expanded the curriculum to include a new variety of experiences, challenges, and games, related to activities such as surfing, golf, skateboarding, bowling, dance, and juggling.

Lessons were curated and presented with specific goals for skill development in mind, and teachers were able to offer opportunities for students to find success in previously unexplored areas.

The department began its work on the Health curriculum by identifying and prioritizing important skills connected to leading a healthy life. Such skills include decision making, managing stress, and forming healthy relationships. Then teachers blended content areas with skill-building and created learning opportunities that promote expression, creativity, and personal growth. As a part of that process, teachers implemented different instructional methods based on brain research to better engage students in their learning.

Wellness classes now incorporate more diverse perspectives and voices in the curriculum through podcasts for teens, TED talks, music, poetry, and movie clips—all of which promote discussion.

Students are learning to see themselves and the world around them through identity, culture, value systems, and socioeconomic lenses. Issues that typically were not addressed until 8th grade are now introduced earlier in age-appropriate ways.

One of our curricular goals was to create an environment where the mastery of vocabulary, content, and skills combines to provide socialemotional balance and to destigmatize talking about mental health. Students learned to make sense of how they function in the world and the struggles they may face with their emotional well-being. Students are now building more skills, such as resilience and problem solving, that can help them navigate their lives while they are still learning about who they are.

The challenge in educating our students and preparing them to deal with an ever more complex and stressful world is to help them develop the skills and traits they will need to succeed in school and in life beyond school: greater resilience, creativity, flexibility, self-awareness, empathy, and independence.

DR. RANDY KLEINMAN, HEAD OF MIDDLE SCHOOL

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THE WELLNESS WHEEL The wellness wheel, or wellness pizza as it's called in 4th grade, provides a visual template for students to analyze specific aspects of being a healthy person (emotional, mental health awareness, physical, environmental, intellectual, social, spiritual) that are specific to the middle school experience. Concepts are introduced in 4th grade, and lessons “spiral” through the years to touch upon and build on the concepts as students mature.

Completing the “wheel” requires students to explore: • the connections among essential parts and the whole.

• the decisions they make that can affect any number of other dimensions of their lives.

• the need to continually check on the areas that make up who you are because the ups and downs of life affect us on a moment-to-moment basis.

• the concept of making our "life ride" as smooth as possible.

As the result of completing their Pizza Wheels, students will: • understand how to implement a variety of life skills.

• have a vocabulary and knowledge base that empowers them to affect change in their lives for the better and navigate difficult moments.

• become aware of how taking action or applying strategies in one dimension of their lives can have positive or negative effects in other dimensions.

Because everything that a student will experience in middle school can be tied to the wellness wheel in some way, it becomes a powerful tool for reflection and problemsolving. We want students to see that wellness shouldn't be cast aside when they enter another class or when they leave school and that the wheel can be a resource for learning and growth as students mature. Our goal is for students to become more connected to what they are feeling and thinking, be able to advocate for themselves, and implement the strategies learned at the Middle School.

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BUILDING THE FOUNDATION OF AN INCLUSIVE SCHOOL COMMUNITY Belonging and Community: A New Course for All 9th Grade Students

BY JILL MAZA Director of Libraries and Research, Upper School Librarian and CORT BOSC Director of Global Experiences

In the hybrid learning environment of September 2020, welcoming our incoming 9th grade students to the Upper School with a clear message of inclusivity was even more essential than usual. Thankfully, the completely revamped Global Citizenship course, now named Belonging and Community but still required for all 9th grade students, provided a space where students could examine their individual identities, investigate the factors that shaped them, and thoughtfully consider their individual roles as members of the MKA community.

Beginning in January 2020, our teaching team began the process of reimagining this foundational 9th grade course with the aim of providing a better onboarding experience for our incoming Upper School students.

It became clear that the Global Citizenship course redesign would be an essential part of making our aspirations for an inclusive school community a reality for all MKA students. Using the Project Wayfinder Belonging Toolkit, students embarked on a journey of deep reflection on what it means to belong and how one can actively build a culture of belonging at MKA and beyond.

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SYMBOL 3 In MKA’s Seal the palm fronds represent achievement.

The course is built on guiding principles adapted from the Project Wayfinder Belonging Toolkit:

Belonging is… more than a feeling. Belonging is a practice you can build. more than connecting with people similar to you. Belonging is valuing one another, across differences. not about fitting in. Belonging is having the courage to be true to yourself and supporting others to do the same. not about ownership. Belonging is about being a part of something.

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The 9th Grade Belonging and Community course impacted my life pretty significantly. The program caused me to positively rethink my hobbies, values, character, social environment, and biases. I went on a journey overviewing my physical and mental attributes and my interests.

I found that no single difference can make a person ‘special.’ It’s the sum of one’s qualities that determines one’s character. Therefore, the phrase ‘everyone is special in their own way’ really is true.”

STEPHEN HATFIELD ’24

The Belonging and Community course helped me to recognize my place in the world and how I can help myself in asserting my talents and working on my weaknesses.”

SHEA BRANIGAN ’24

Often times, humans surmise irrational ideas based on appearance, race, religion, and social class. Belonging and Community has made me more aware of the biases and prejudices of the world.

Additionally, I have not only learned the prevalence of those biases, but also ways to control myself from indulging in them as a member of the classroom, school, and overall community.”

The 9th Grade Belonging and ZACH GOYAL ’24 Community course helped classmates and me learn about our passions, prides, and uncertainties. Above all, we studied and explored our sense of belonging in not only the MKA community, but in all of our past and present experiences, which has established an overarching value for community interactions, relationships, and individual integrity that will remain with me for years to come.”

MAGGIE HORN ’24

STUDENTS BEGIN WITH JOY The lessons, activities, and reflections from the first few weeks of the course serve as a springboard for a deeper dive as the semester unfolds. For example, early in the semester, students completed an activity called "Rooting in Joy" in which they identified activities that bring them joy in different ways. They then traced the roots of those joys to the underlying motivations beneath them. Students later revisited those joys, selected one, and engaged in a lateral reading, research activity to find out more about implicit or explicit bias in that field. A student who finds joy in connecting with others through soccer uncovered an article detailing gender bias leading to pay inequity in professional soccer. A student who finds joy in refueling through enjoying good food discovered a podcast about racial bias in the food industry. Through a lateral reading approach, the students not only articulated their findings, but also were able to place the perspective of their findings in context by identifying the motivation of the "storyteller" in comparison to other stories they unearthed. Students ended the semester by sharing a piece of their own stories through which they identified ways they can uniquely foster a culture of belonging in our community and beyond.

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RESPONDING TO STUDENTS’ INTERESTS AND NEEDS

BY ENSURING APPROPRIATE ENGAGEMENT AND CHALLENGE FOR EVERYONE

SYMBOL 4 In MKA’s Seal the three arrows symbolize the schools combined in MKA.

Growing Our Upper School Math, Computer Science, and Science Curricula

BY DENNIS HU Upper School Mathematics and Computer Science Department Chair and DR. PETRA SAUER Upper School Science Department Chair

Even before MKA’s Strategic Plan articulated a key goal to “identify, evaluate, and advance the STEM or STEAM experiences and opportunities at MKA,” student interest and readiness indicated the need for more levels and advanced course opportunities in science, math, and computer science at the Upper School. So, over the past several years, faculty in these areas have been designing new courses and levels of study to ensure that all Upper School students have ways to fully engage and be challenged in their learning and to grow as scientists, mathematicians, and computer scientists.

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MKA Mathematics and Computer Science The MKA Mathematics and Computer Science department has been growing and tailoring course offerings for Upper School students by providing: • At least three levels of study in course from Algebra 2 through Calculus to ensure appropriate levels of challenge and preparation.

• A course sequence beyond Calculus for students who see themselves as mathematicians and will utilize math significantly in their college studies.

• A four-year computer science sequence through Advanced Placement (AP)— and beyond!

These changes have helped to support the department’s mission: to develop in each student a love of mathematics and computer science, confidence in their abilities, and a sense of responsibility for their academic achievement. The mathematics and computer science curricula combine the best of the rich cultural tradition of both disciplines with applications to modern problems. While preparing students for the most advanced college programs, the curricula also expose them to the history and beauty of both disciplines.

Science All of our science courses are designed to engage students in the scientific process. Each class requires our students to think critically, solve problems, and analyze information to make scientific conclusions. As a result, our students develop the knowledge, skills, and mindset necessary for scientific literacy.

Motivated by the evolving interests, passions, and enthusiasm of our students, we have added new courses to our Science curriculum over the past few years, including Biomechanics and Physiology; AP Biology; AP Physics 1; AP Physics C: Mechanics and Electricity & Magnetism; and AP Environmental Science.

To ensure that each of our students is challenged at the appropriate level, these new courses have allowed interested students to discuss a greater variety of ideas, analyze them on a deeper level, and develop expertise in areas of science that excite them.

Expanding Algebra 2 Options: A Differentiated Springboard The addition of an Advanced Algebra 2 Honors level of study has helped each student find success in Algebra 2. Our students who need the most additional support in mathematics are able to take Algebra 2 at a level that emphasizes the skills needed to succeed in their subsequent math courses, while also developing and improving their overall numeracy. Meanwhile, our most advanced math students are challenged to explore their mathematical interests to the fullest, while developing their understanding and appreciation of theoretical mathematics and abstract reasoning. The new Advanced Algebra 2 Honors course prepares our students for our accelerated precalculus and calculus sequence and gives them an opportunity to take courses such as Number Theory and Combinatorics Honors, Post-AP Multivariable Calculus, and Post-AP Linear Algebra—all college-level courses that students may even choose to take simultaneously.

Expanding Computer Science Options: A Four-Year Sequence What began as a two-year course sequence offered every other year has become a four-year Computer Science sequence (pictured below). Course offerings now provide students with ways to build their computer science knowledge and skills in preparing for the Java-based AP Computer Science curriculum and, if interested, a Post-AP class in Data Structures and Algorithms.

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Introduction to Programming

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AP Comupter Science

Data Structures and Algorithms

Examples of Newer Science Offerings Biomechanics and Physiology Designed for interested students to explore the science of exercise as well as gain experience in conducting original exercise-science research, the interdisciplinary Biomechanics and Physiology course is co-taught between the science and P.E., Health, and Wellness departments. Study includes a wide variety of content topics from anatomy to energy metabolism and focuses heavily on reading and understanding research in fields that relate to both athletics and disease. Students explore their own research question, first in a thorough review of related research, and then as they design and execute their own experiments to address their question. The popularity of the Biomechanics and Physiology class has extended to May Term over the past three years with a cohort of students working on projects related to research topics and methods inspired by the class itself.

AP Physics 1 The addition of AP Physics 1 has expanded our first-year physics offerings to three different levels. While each class explores many of the same topics from classical physics, they vary in the depth of exploration and complexity.

Since the AP exam emphasizes written explanation of problems, AP Physics 1 students get more practice with and feedback on their scientific writing skills.

AP Physics C: Mechanics and Electricity & Magnetism With the addition of AP Physics 1, which explores in more depth a wider variety of physics topics, we have been able to broaden the second-year Physics AP offering from the equivalent of a onesemester college course in Mechanics to include the Electricity and Magnetism curriculum of an additional college course in Physics.

AP Environmental Science MKA students are passionate about sustainability and environmental issues. We wanted to give students the opportunity to explore this field to the same degree of depth and complexity as we offer in other areas of science. AP Environmental Science provides the opportunity for interested students to integrate and apply content and skills they have learned in biology, chemistry, and physics to investigating environmental systems.

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THANKS TO YOU We are incredibly grateful for your support of MKA this past school year. Your generosity inspired us each day and played a critical role in our ability to deliver upon our mission and operate school during an incredibly challenging time. Thank you for being part of a solution.

You helped to make it possible for our students to be learning every day, whether at home or in the classroom. They didn’t skip a year of learning, because you didn’t skip a year of giving. On behalf of everyone at MKA, faculty, staff, students—thank you.

MAJOR COMMITMENTS AND GIFTS TO ENDOWMENT AND FACILITIES We are incredibly grateful to those who have made major commitments to support our endowment priorities and facility aspirations helping us to create a truly exceptional educational experience for our students.

NEW COMMITMENTS $1M AND UP Unrestricted Gift to MKA The Estate of W. Ford Schumann $100,000–$249,999 The Arnold A. Dicke Endowment Fund Amanda E. Spagnoletti ’97 and Paul Spagnoletti MKA Endowment Estate of Lee Randolph Bean Estate of David Marrocco ’57 Estate of Virginia Usher ’42 Phillip McNeal Leadership Program American Express Glenda McNeal Thomas W. Nammack Community Scholarship Kate Logan and Edmund Rung Jodi and Luke Sarsfield ’91 Alison Slone and Adam Miller Anonymous Unrestricted Gift to MKA Anonymous

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$50,000–$99,999 Phillip McNeal Leadership Program JPMorgan Chase Bonnie and Michael Carter Lori and Patrick Fouché The Edward John and Patricia Rosenwald Foundation Thomas W. Nammack Community Scholarship Rick and Linny Andlinger Whitney and Daniel Carson ’83 Bonnie and Michael Carter Christina Cotton and Brian Clarkson Anonymous $20,000–$49,999 Middle School Fields Lisa and Andrew B. Abramson ’71 MKA Endowment Estate of Helen Gordon ’42 Thomas W. Nammack Community Scholarship Bernadette Aulestia-Lynch and Kristian Lynch Meredith and Aaron Gardner

Thomas W. Nammack Community Scholarship and Phillip McNeal Leadership Program Wendy and Jared F. Bartie ONGOING COMMITMENTS $1M AND UP Upper School Academic Center Anonymous Unrestricted Gift to MKA Lisa and Joseph Amato $250,000–$499,999 Brookside Renovations Penny Finkle $100,000–$249,999 Brookside Renovations Jennifer and Victoria Barbetta Lauren Hyman Kaplan ’93 and Douglas Kaplan Kate Logan and Edmund Rung Katherine and Robert J. Ruberton PAMKA Thomas W. Nammack Community Scholarship Sybil M. Eng and Tad Roselund Muenster Field Renovation Tina A. Jordan and Kevin M. Rendino Tennis Pavilion The Everson Family The Watkins Family Endowed Scholarship Rene and Marc J. Watkins

$50,000–$99,999 Brookside Renovations Priya and Naveen Ballem, MD ’90 Samantha and Ryan Schinman ’89 Technology Tools Stephanie and Glenn Salzman Middle School Fields Bonnie and Michael Carter Mary and Joel Jeffrey Zandi and Thomas Nammack Suzanne and Mark Weinberg Muenster Field Renovation Jackie and Rick Jenkins Weiss Auditorium The McMullen Family Foundation $20,000–$49,999 Brookside Renovations Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 and John C. Barrett Michele and Bryan L. Becker ’96 Rhonda and David A. Crichlow Stacey Polanskyj ’92 and Peter Polanskyj Middle School Fields Deanna and Sean Critchley Deborah and Thomas D. Turvey Larry and Lynda Hollander

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Total Budget Revenues

$46,255,216 Tuition and Fees 89% Contributions (inc Annual Fund) 3% Auxiliary Programs 5% Endowment Income 3% All Other 1%

Total Budget Expenses

$ 46,255,216 Salaries and Benefits 60% Instructional 7% Financial Aid 12% Physical Plant 7% COVID Related Plant Expenses 3% General Administration 3% Fundraising 2% Provision for Long Term Capital Projects 1% Auxiliary Programs 6% All Other 0%

AN N UA L FU N D GI FTS

E ND OWMENT A ND CA P ITA L GIFTS

Unrestricted

Facilities $732,860

MKA Fund

$1,288,962

Restricted

Unrestricted Capital

$1,400,250

Financial Aid Endowment

Community Scholars

$175,945

Kimberley Fund

$19,210

Other Restricted

$69,800

$1,553,917

TOTAL

$845,655

Faculty Compensation Endowment $138,810 Academics Endowment

$222,150

Other Endowment

$409,543

$3,749,268

TOTAL

TOTAL $5,303,185 ANNUAL FUND DETAIL

Unrestricted

Restricted

Total Annual

Alumni

$244,329 $59,708 $304,037

Current Parent

$590,950

$91,599

$682,549

Grandparents $112,227

$0

$112,227

Friends

$8,061

$0 $8,061

Former Trustee

$10,170

$173

$10,343

MKA Colleagues

$27,364

$7,011

$34,375

Families of Alumni

$28,452

$4,305

$32,757

Students $860 $316 $1,176 Organization $2,983

$2,300

$5,283

PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT

TOTAL PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT

Trustee $263,566 $99,543 $363,109 TOTAL

$1,288,962

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$264,955

$1,553,917

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L E A D E RS H I P G I V I N G

LEADERSHIP GIVING Founders’ Society members demonstrate their commitment to MKA at the highest levels of giving. Their exceptional generosity plays a critical role in MKA’s ability to deliver its mission as their contributions support every facet of the MKA experience.

1887 SOCIETY ($20,000 AND ABOVE) The first day of classes at the newly formed Montclair Academy was September 18, 1887 ​​ American Express Lisa and Andrew B. Abramson ’71 Lisa and Joseph Amato Valerie and Bill Anders Rick and Linny Andlinger Bernadette Aulestia-Lynch and Kristian Lynch Priya and Naveen Ballem, MD ’90 Jennifer and Victoria Barbetta Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 and John C. Barrett John M. Brandow ’71 Estate of Lee Randolph Bean Elizabeth and J. Martin Brayboy ’80 Kristina and Tom Burke Bonnie and Michael Carter Evelyn and Stephen T. Colbert Christina Cotton and Brian Clarkson Edwin and Kathryn Davison Sybil M. Eng and Tad Roselund Penny Finkle Alexis and Clifford Finkle IV ’92 Estate of Helen Gordon ’42 Karen and Robert Gulliver Prof. Tracy Higgins and Mr. James Leitner Tina Jordan and Kevin Rendino Lauren Hyman Kaplan ’93 and Douglas Kaplan Kate Logan and Edmund Rung Dennis Manalo ’88 Estate of David Marrocco ’57 JPMorgan Chase Zandi and Thomas Nammack The Edward John and Patricia Rosenwald Foundation Katherine and Robert Ruberton Stephanie and Glenn Salzman Jodi and Luke Sarsfield ’91 Estate of W. Ford Schumann Alison Slone and Adam Miller Amanda E. Spagnoletti ’97 and Paul Spagnoletti Jeffrey Szilagyi and Kathleen Beebe Estate of Virginia Usher ’42 Margaret and Richard Wager Rene and Marc J. Watkins Amy Weppner and Irakli Endeladze PAMKA Anonymous (2) MACVICAR-WARING SOCIETY ($10,000 TO $19,999) John MacVicar and Mary Kimberley Waring were the founding heads of Montclair Academy and The Kimberley School, respectively Lesley and Melih Abdulhayoglu Whitney and Daniel Carson ’83 Darlene and Joe D’Angelo The Everson Family Efua and Louis Feldman

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Lori and Patrick Fouché Amy and Peter Fusco ’89 Tricia and Guy P. Garrubbo Jocelyn and Peter Handy Mary and Joel Jeffrey Jackie and Rick Jenkins Margaret and Thomas S. Johnson Estate of Lucile G. Mason ’43 Karen Merz The McMullen Family Foundation Kimberly and John O’Kane Alexandra Okun and Craig Dubitsky Gwynne Oosterbaan and John-Michael Maas Samantha and Ryan Schinman ’89 Julie and Matthew Sherman Kate and James Stanford Linda and Brian Sterling Carol Traenkle ’55 MARY A. JORDAN SOCIETY ($5,000 TO $9,999) Classmate and devoted colleague to Ms. Waring, Jordan is remembered as a consummate educator with a forwardlooking viewpoint Henry V. Allen ’65 Wendy and Jared F. Bartie Carolee Bol and Scott Rosenberg Elaine and Vincent Brier Kristina and James Bromley Regina and Bill Bronson Sheri and Ted Bronstein Cara and Dan Cesareo Jacqueline Cestone ’54 Wenfang Chen and Peter Young Paige L. Cottingham-Streater ’79 Rhonda and David A. Crichlow Deanna and Sean Critchley Paul N. Dackow ’72 Ashley and Robert D. Di Geronimo Janita and Meyrick I. Douglas Yun Fan and Yong Cai Diana and John S. Fennelly Meredith and Aaron Gardner Mary Stuart and Angus Gephart Jennifer and Darren Glatt Carolyn and Michael Goldman Cynthia R. Green and Joshua S. Jablons Carla Harris and Victor Franklin Rhonda and Stratton R. Heath Larry and Lynda Hollander Christine and Charles Hough Janice and Jeffrey Jacobson Nancy (Booth) Kelly ’52 Lisa Lazarus and Robert Coviello Philip G. Leone ’60 Gisela and Ben Limberg Gregory and Cristin Lovallo Cheryl D’Alessandro McMullen ’77 and Peter S. McMullen ’77 Glenda McNeal Leslie Meek-Wohl and Ethan Wohl Amanda and Scott T. Milleisen Luz L. Miranda-Crespo and Luis Crespo Toretha and Roberto F. Morales Deborah and Michael I. Otner

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Loretta C. Peterson Shelley and Keith Phillips Stacey Polanskyj ’92 and Peter Polanskyj Eva and Ken Press Limor and Robert Regular Sandra M. Rivera and Gerardo Mejia Barbara and Steven Sakovits Eric R. Schwarz ’76 Brooke and Michael Skolnick Jon Strain Susanna Suh and James Larish Deborah and Thomas D. Turvey Helen W. Walter Crossen ’95 and David Crossen Lela Weems, MD and Shaka Rasheed Suzanne and Mark Weinberg Scott M. Weiner ’92 Elizabeth and Ather Williams Katie and Cameron Williams Joe, Donna and Trey Wilson Cui Yang and Dayong Wang Sunny Zhao and Gavin Gao Anonymous CLAUDE MONSON SOCIETY ($2,500 TO $4,999) Teacher of Latin from 1916 to 1956, known for his great humor and devotion to the boys of Montclair Academy Delicia and Julius S. Abdur-Rahim Betsy Bacot-Aigner ’80 Rosemary and John Beer Stacey Bradford-Greenberg and Rick Greenberg Susan and J. Thomas Bradley Jr. Alexis and Ed S. Davis Megan and Chad Flick Suzanne and Mark E. Forysiak Michael Foster Jessica and Michael Freeman Sheri and Jason Friedman Alisha and Jonathan Glaser Melissa Goldman-Williams Foram and Jayesh Gopalji Gael Habernickel ’54 and Duke Habernickel ’51 Bret R. Hirsh ’00 Alexander B. Holz ’99 Christine Kachinsky-Bye and John Bye Elizabeth and Jason Katz Lisa A. Krizner-George and David R. George Molly and Andy Kuick Robert N. Lanson ’57 Cory and Mark Lebovitch Michelle and James Lee Jennifer Liu and Benjamin Chang Xiaoyu Lu and Heng Zou Heidi and Jason McAndrew Courtney and Christopher Meeker Amy Meyers and Anthony Rizzo Hazar Michael and Amer Elkhouri Debra and Patrick Mucci Kerry and Paul Murphy Anne and Patrick J. Naughton Elizabeth and Miguel Nieves Kaivon and Lauren Rahaghi Michael and Renee Rallatos Shawna and Benjamin M. Roth ’94 Olga and David Rukshin Kathryn and Duane Sachs Stacy and David Schlosser Dori and Noel Sedransk Keri and Darryl Siry Susan Sobbott

Manika Sood and Prashant Bhatia Kathryn Stallings and Stanley Chiu Su-Yun and Armin Szegedi Ami and Andrew M. Talkow Meg and Harry Temkin Nadine and Bradley Vaiana Kim and Geoff Walls Margo and Frank Walter Margo and Douglas Wheeler Julie and Jyri-Pekka Wilska Shazia and Sajid S. Zaidi Anonymous HEADMASTERS SOCIETY ($1,000 TO $2,499) Leadership plays a critical role to MKA’s past, present and future Roberta and Peter Adams Mr. Masoud and Mrs. Nadia Altirs Aubin Ames ’54 Diana Anders and Andrew Weiner Jeffrey A. Appel and John J. Caraccioli Florence and Derrick Arcilla Kathryn Auw Prasad ’01 Leena and Suvrat Bansal Tanya L. Barnes ’96 Sarah and Craig Barrack Edward Bartleson ’08 Anne and Martin Baum Morgan B. Bellapianta ’99 and Christopher M. Bellapianta ’97 Ashish and Sneha Bhatia William K. and Rhea Boss Diana and Christopher G. Brazill Lisa and Chris Breitweiser Kirsten and Christopher Brown Deborah and William W. Brown Christy Burke Ingrid E. Burke Linda Burton William Caggiano Jean Caggiano and Michael Caggiano, Jr. The Ceglarski Family Siu Chan-Lui and John Lui Jennie and Tom Cherry Nathan Chickering Nina and Suraj Chopra Bree and Keenan Choy Sonia Chudasama-Patel and Amish Patel Alison and James T. Cirenza Jenna Clancey ’03 Laura and Thomas Clark Melissa L. Cohn ’78 Susan Cole ’78 Pamela and Justin Colledge Meg Columbia-Walsh Leigh and Patrick J. Conforti Monica Conley and Eric Newman Allan Cox ’74 Barbara Creed ’62 Kyle G. Curtin ’82 Peter and Katie Dancy Lavina and Prakash Datwani Andrea DelleChiaie and Risa Wexler Michelle Dice and Andres Espinosa Caitlin DiRuggiero ’06 George C. Dolatly ’86 Jenn Dozier and Anindya Chakraberti Sara and David Elwell Kathy and Christopher X. Eng Nicolas Espinosa Dice ’18 Laura and Kenneth Esterow Lauren and Jason Fass Andree J. Finkle Worth ’94 Anne M. and David Flocco

LEADERSHIP GIVING 1887 SOCIETY

$4,116,515 45 DONORS

MACVICAR-WARING SOCIETY

$279,005 23 DONORS

MARY A. JORDAN SOCIETY

$338,187 62 DONORS

CLAUDE MONSON SOCIETY

$168,487 55 DONORS

HEADMASTERS SOCIETY

$271,337 215 DONORS

COUGAR SOCIETY

$5,024 27 DONORS

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Schuyler Horn ’59 Josephine and Michael Horsburgh Elise Hubert and Joseph Borrelli David L. Hughes ’76 Julianne A. Hunt and David Korfhage Kim and Bradford Huntington Lisa Hyman Sackman and Joel Sackman Mark M. Jaffe ’58 Dipali and Sudhir Jain Doris Janes Frederic Jewelers Suzanne M. Jogun and Mark C. Astley Asa B. Johnson ’75 Le Kang and Geng Liu Rebecca and Jonathan Kelly Gail Kerr ’52 Julie Kim ’92 and Sung W. Kim Gail and Scott S. Kingsley Marc S. Kirschner ’60 Kimberly A. Kohlman ’91 Hyun-Ju Kwak and Steve Kim Justyna and Jan R. Kwapniewski Andrew M. Kyrejko ’05 Brenda and Robert Ladd Ginny and David Laird Leslie Levine ’74 and Peter Levine The Levy Family Jiang Li and Tianwei Yao Pearl Louie and Eric Lieberman Kate Curtin Lindsey ’72 Mei Liu and Yingjun Sun Mary Lynch and James Kubinak Margot and Hugh Macdonnell Piper B. and Michael J. Magera Ellen R. Malcolm ’65 Gail S. Marentette ’51 Rich Margolin Jen and Earl Marshall Kelly and William R. Massey Angela M. McCaffrey ’06 Lynn Menschenfreund and Paulo Silva Leah and Steven Meranus Laura and Manes M. Merrit Natasha Mathias and Mayur Ian Somaiya Matthew D. Metzger ’08 Michael Miller ’15 Luz and Luis Miranda Ruchi Misra and Nicholas Hailey Leah Morgan and Richard Wolf Rebekkah and Peter Morral Kyle B. Morris ’12 The Mortimore Family ​​Michele A. Mucci ’84 Olga Nam and Aleksandr Ligai Karen and Thomas Newman David Newman ’81 Patricia and Hugh O’Kane Joseph O’Neill ’05 Lilian and Robert Okai Serene and Jason Olin Nilie Pajoohi ’89 and Hossein Ekrami Benjamin E. Parker ’96 Anna and Andras Pataki Tameka and David Pearce Laela Perkins and Michael Thwaite ’97 Amy Peterson and Jose Sandoval Jennie and JT Sowers Laura and John Phillips ’78, P ’09, P ’10 Shawn and David Portner Sherrie and Lorne Potash Bidyut and Reena Pramanik Valerie and Wesley S. Puryear Swati Rao-Engel and Richard Engel Nadia M. and Mannan Razzak Matthew Reichstein ’01 Linda Rhodes

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Alexandra Forman-Chou and William Chou Susanne and Stefan Fornasier Cali and Robert Fortunato ’08 Filomena and Demetrios Fotinopoulos Karen and Heny Furst Laurie and Tom Fusco Dulce Galvan-Wolf and Aaron Wolf Alexander Gephart ’06 Charles Gephart ’08 Judith H. Germano Bonarti and Michael A. Bonarti Jessica and Brian Glatt Dennis G. Goldstein ’83 Mary Ellen and David Gray Nicholas F. Graziano ’90 Gary W. Greendale Richard S. Griffith Peggy and Ron Gross Mary Hack ’65 Kristin Halvey Susan and Alan Hammer Kathryn V. Hatfield Karen Heath-Wade and Kirk Wade Thomas and Lynda Henderson Silvia Henriquez and Luis Villafana Ashley and Craig Hirsh ’01 Rebecca and Jonathan B. Hirsh ’95 Alice and Steven Hirsh Barbara and Dane Holmes Jackie and Larry Horn

Lori and David Riley Donna Ritter and Barry Levinson Sabino T. Rodano ’87 Susan Rose ’59 Emily Rosenblum and Steve Lucas Barbara and Martin N. Rosen ’58 Karen and Warren M. Ross Jin and Daniel Rubenstein Charles R. Sage ’52 Moushumi Sanghavi and Daniel Khublall Colleen and Robert Scalzo Rebecca and John C. Scuorzo Lynn and Sengal Selassie Patricia and Aidan Shields Lisa and Leo Shilkrot Meredith and Justin Silver Karen and Emanuel Slater Stephen M. Smith ’81 and Susan M. Smith Jodi and Jeffrey Smith Leigh B. Smith ’45 (Former Faculty) Sherrese and Roger Soares Catherine and David Strader Constance Sumas ’59 and Robert P. Sumas Jennifer B. Sweetwood C.G. Thomas ’74 Mona Thomas Alison Thomas-Cottingham ’84 and Robert Cottingham ’84 Judy and Philip To Laura and Eric Treadaway Olga and Alexander Urben E. Hawley Van Wyck, III ’60 Sonia Vora and Carlos Gonzalez Denise and Ira Wagner Kim and J. K. Walker ’80 Karen Wargo and David Rubin Samuel S. Weiss ’72 Melissa and Paul Wetzel Kevin Wilkins ’83 Jessica and Ari Wise Nicole Xu and Jonathan To Mary and Brian Zeug Ying Zhang and Yibo Huang Karina and Marek Zidlicky Anonymous (9)

COUGAR SOCIETY FOR YOUNG ALUMNI Recognizes our young alumni for their support and commitment to the MKA mission. This society is open to alumni in the first 10 years after graduation who either give a gift in the amount of their graduation year ($20.20, $20.19, $20.18, and $20.17) for years 1-4 or $100 for years 5-10.

Ahmed Abukwaik ’18 Daniel N. Arcilla ’20 Ronak S. Bhatia ’19 Christopher Brazill ’12 William J. Bromley ’16 Seth L. Bynum ’11 Robert F. D’Alessandro ’19 Ryan Dancy ’18 Harry Davison ’20 Jenna Donatiello ’17 Adam Erbes ’19 Nicolas Espinosa Dice ’18 Alexandra C. Fotinopoulos ’13 Thomas P. Fusco ’14 Ethan Q. Gross ’19 William R. Hitchcock ’19 Katherine Kallay ’20 Elizabeth L. Kallay ’18 Connor J. LeFevre ’19 Taylor W. LeFevre ’19 Kerri McGuire ’18 Michael S. Melitz ’14 Michael Miller ’15 Kyle B. Morris ’12 Chadd A. Mukete ’11 Ryan Napoli ’15 Patrick J. Napolitano ’18 Aleezae Nisar ’16 Kelsey S. O’Connor ’14 Dean Paolucci ’12 Mark Phillips ’13 Ariana K. Puzzo ’14 Benjamin A. Stuart ’18 John Sweetwood ’18 Casey R. Szilagyi ’19 Alexandra Wade ’18 J. Harrison Walker ’18 Angelo Weber ’17 Griffin A. Weil ’20 Anonymous

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LOYALTY SOCIETY

The MKA Loyalty Society was created to honor MKA’s most loyal alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and friends. These generous individuals understand that consecutive annual investments, no matter the amount, change lives. Loyalty Society members represent the commitment and strength of our community by making annual gifts for three or more consecutive years. Donors who support our school year after year believe in the mission and vision of MKA and uphold these tenets during their time here and beyond graduation.

10+ CONSECUTIVE FISCAL YEARS Lesley and Melih Abdulhayoglu Amanda Abrahams Joan Adams ’46 Henry V. Allen ’65 Daniel Allen ’07 Debra Allen Aubin Ames ’54 Ralph E. Amirata ’89 René Amirata Rick and Linny Andlinger Florence and Derrick Arcilla Lisa S. Aufzien ’76 Robert A. August ’73 Christie and Ingram Austin Kathryn Auw Prasad ’01 Kimberly A. Baker ’00 Martene Ballance Jenn and Dave Baratta Alise and Damien A. Barrett Joel Bauer ’59 Sharon and Larry Beebe Carlaina Bell Ani and Joe A. Berberian Victor Bernstein ’65 Shenaz and Cyrus H. Bhote Melanie Bieber ’03 Jessica C. Bishop ’04 Marilyn Blackwell ’65 Francis J. Blesso ’87 John C. Blesso ’89 Karen Boyle ’81 Susan and J. Thomas Bradley Jr. John M. Brandow ’71 Gillian and Geoffrey Branigan Lara J. Dahl and Adam S. Breslawsky Kristina and James Bromley Deborah and William W. Brown Denise Brown-Allen and Douglas Allen Thomas R. Brueckner ’72 Sheldon W. Buck ’54 Erica Budd Georgia S. Carrington ’54 Bonnie and Michael Carter Marian Castell ’54 James Castelli Anthony M. Celentano ’74 Denise Chezek ’72 Alison and James T. Cirenza Jenna Clancey ’03 Deborah and Steven Clayton Geoffrey S. Close ’71 Evelyn and Stephen T. Colbert Patricia Park Connell Robert Cottingham Paige L. Cottingham-Streater ’79 Christina Cotton and Brian Clarkson Allan Cox ’74 Francine Crawford ’66 Barbara Creed ’62 Rhonda and David A. Crichlow Peter and Katie Dancy Lori Daskowitz Lavina and Prakash Datwani

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Jamie L. Decter ’93 and Mitchell J. Decter ’94 Laura Demaria Alicia N. Diaz and Manuel Carbajal George C. Dolatly ’86 Nancy and Mark Donatiello ’79 George A. Downsbrough ’69 Paul and Liz Edwards Michael Ehrenberg ’75 Mary and Edward Elliott Ralph L. Ellis ’58 Monica and Matthew Elmore Daniel E. Emerson ’42 Patrick Eng ’82 John J. Farrar ’62 Alexis and Clifford Finkle ’92 Penny Finkle David and Anne Flocco Patricia Forbes Patricia Ford ’53 Lindsay B. Forman ’01 Sue Fossett Amy Fossett Nancy and Donald Foster Beth and Michael E. Fuchs Balaji Gandhi ’91 Catherine and Pete Gaynor Michael C. Gennet ’58 Judith H. Germano Bonarti and Michael A. Bonarti Mary Stuart and Angus Gephart William Gill Deborah Glazer ’87 Raj P. Gona ’87 Gordon-Goodrich Family Charles Gray ’07 Richard S. Griffith Shelly B. Grossman Diana and Salvatore Guccione Karen and Robert Gulliver John S. Guttmann ’71 Maria Gilmartin and Dimitri Hadjipetkov David E. Haight ’88 Catherine and Doug Halbert Peter Halbert Susan and Alan Hammer Christine G. Hannon ’69 Suzanne Hardy ’61 Joseph H. Hare ’65 Pamela and Michael Harriott Kathryn V. Hatfield Frances and Jack Heller ’50 Ann and David Hessler Prof. Tracy Higgins and Mr. James Leitner Alice and Steven Hirsh Richard R. Hobbins ’56 Larry and Lynda Hollander Alexander B. Holz ’99 Debbie Horn and Ronald Wolfson Jackie and Larry Horn Schuyler Horn ’59 Erin Hotchkiss ’02 Michael Houston Myra and George Hrab Dennis Hu

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Julianne A. Hunt and David Korfhage Lauren Hyman Kaplan ’93 and Douglas Kaplan Carol A. Ippisch Thomas D. Isenberg ’75 Janice and Jeffrey Jacobson Eric F. Jaeckel ’56 Nicole and Charles A. Janus Jackie and Rick Jenkins Margaret and Thomas S. Johnson The Johnson Family Tina Jordan and Kevin Rendino Charlotte E. Judd ’60 Elizabeth and Jason Katz Patricia Kearns Ann Kent ’50 Gail Kerr ’52 Marsha and Randy Kleinman Raymond J. Knox ’76 Carole and George J. Kramer ’54 Virginia Kriegel Suresh Krishnan Lisa A. Krizner-George and David R. George Mary and Matt Kunka Alexander J. Langbein ’03 Linda and Christopher Larkin Nancy Lee ’75 Toni LeQuire-Schott and Newton B. Schott, Jr. Alexis L. Levengood ’06 Leslie Levine ’74 and Peter Levine Sheila Lindveit ’53 Kate Logan and Edmund Rung Erica I. Lubetkin ’86 Diane Lundy Gemma and Richard R. Lury Margot and Hugh Macdonnell Dennis Manalo ’88 Barbara L. Markussen ’64 Dara J. Marmon ’91 Janet Mason ’48 Estate of Lucile G. Mason ’43 William F. Matthews ’49 Louise and Guy Maxwell Jill and Michael T. Maza Audrey McBratney-Bittner ’50 and Douglas McBratney-Bittner Cheryl McMullen ’77 and Peter McMullen ’77 Barry A. Meisel ’59 Laura and Manes M. Merrit Ruth D. Miller Luz L. Miranda-Crespo and Luis Crespo Anne M. Morey ’79 Ruth Morine ’65 Lily Moureaux ’59 Michele A. Mucci ’84 Kerry and Paul Murphy Meghan Murray and Jack Stadtlander Robert H. Nagel ’73 Zandi and Thomas Nammack Larry Nazarian ’56 Eugene C. Neithold ’57 Karen and Thomas Newman Harry Nimmergut ’75 Richard D. Noyes ’69 Kristine O’Connor ’83 and Michael O’Connor Malcolm B. O’Hara ’73 Benjamin E. Parker ’96 Trish and Tom Perlmutter Amy Peterson and Jose Sandoval Stacey Polanskyj ’92 and Peter Polanskyj Kim and Luca Puzzo Candace S. Rabinowitz ’94

Carol Rasic ’56 Alisa and Joshua H. Raymond ’89 Lyn and Glenn M. Reiter Benjamin P. Rich Eileen and Robert C. Richardson Diane Ridley, MD ’84 Dana E. Rose and Jared Barbin Barbara and Martin N. Rosen ’58 Arthur G. Rosen ’61 Lawrence Rosen ’84 Douglas A. Rosen ’91 Nina Rosselli Del Turco ’57 Joshua D. Rozan ’94 Erica Rowe and Marc Urquhart Jin and Daniel Rubenstein Katherine and Robert Ruberton John H. Rudd ’67 Martha and Thomas Ruddy Charles R. Sage ’52 Stephanie and Glenn Salzman Eric A. Sandwall ’60 Kathy A. Sasena David L. Schwartzbard ’86 Helen Skeen ’56 Margaret Slotkin Jane and Kenneth Smith Sheila and Todd Smith Christopher H. Smith ’85 Laurie and Jeffrey Smith Katharine L. Sonnenberg and Thomas S. Zaubler Jaclyn Spedaliere ’00 and Mark Spedaliere Marianne Steinhacker ’59 Linda and Brian Sterling Brook and William Stites Eileen Stites Susanna Suh and James Larish Patricia Sullivan Jeffrey Szilagyi and Kathleen Beebe C.G. Thomas ’74 Caroline Toman and Hugh Synder Robert L. Tortoriello Veronica and Mauricio Toscano Carol Traenkle ’55 Marianne Traina Sonia and William Tyson Amy C. Van Eepoel and Stephen Valentine Bronson Van Wyck ’63 Kerry Verrone and John Jacobs Alyson Waldman ’99 and Matthew Waldman ’98

423 288 260

D ONORS 3 YEAR +

D ONORS 4–9 YEARS

DONORS 10 YEAR +

3+ CONSECUTIVE FISCAL YEARS Angela and Nathaniel Adderley Henry R. Agens ’58 Alison Ainsworth and Edward Felsenthal Isabel and Michael Alexander David N. Allen Jeffrey A. Appel and John J. Caraccioli Mr. Masoud and Mrs. Nadia Altirs Igor Alves ’99 Nancy and Elie Amar Valerie and Bill Anders Diana Anders and Andrew Weiner Conny and John M. Andres Rosalie Asia Bernadette Aulestia-Lynch and Kristian Lynch Betsy Bacot-Aigner ’80 Michael A. Baker ’59 Priya and Naveen Ballem, MD ’90 The Everson Family Leena and Suvrat Bansal Mark R. Baran ’74 Jennifer and Victoria Barbetta Michelle Barbetta Sarah and Craig Barrack Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 and John Barrett Wendy and Jared F. Bartie Patricia Bartolomeo Maureen Bates Anne and Martin Baum Milton C. Beard ’59 Sandrine Beddou Morgan Bellapianta ’99 and Christopher M. Bellapianta ’97 Howard T. Bellin ’53 Dominique Benson Thane E. Benson ’70 Gretchen L. Berra Donna and Joseph Blanes John Blondel ’74 Nancy (Booth) Kelly ’52 Cortland Bosc Stacey Bradford-Greenberg and Rick Greenberg Nakeyl J. Branch-Johnson and Abdullah F. Johnson David F. Brandley ’73 Edith Brennan Christopher Brenner ’77 Stacie L. Bright and Jordan K. Rhodes Regina and Bill Bronson Sheri and Ted Bronstein Allison and Steven M. Brown Allison Brown ’04 and Steven M. Brown Kirsten and Christopher Brown Parkins T. Burger ’95 Christy Burke Ingrid E. Burke Kristina and Tom Burke Jean Caggiano and Michael Caggiano, Jr. Liam Campbell

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Rebecca L. Campbell ’88 Candice and Timothy S. Carlson Katherine Caro Jacqueline Cestone ’54 Monica and Atul Chakradeo Siu Chan-Lui and John Lui Charlaine and Thomas Charlton Jennie and Tom Cherry Nathan Chickering David J. Choi ’90 Nina and Suraj Chopra Abigail and Edward K. Chung Erin and Thomas Chung Laura and Christopher Chung Renee L. Ciccarella ’93 Susan M. Ciccone O’Donnell ’85 and Matthew J. O’Donnell Kimberly and Robert Clark Elizabeth and James Clothier Susan Cole ’78 Barbara and Raymond L. Colotti Christina and Raymond Colotti Meg Columbia-Walsh Ashley Conde Leigh and Patrick J. Conforti Timothy C. Cook Elizabeth and Shane Cooney Deanna and James Copeland Alisa A. Corbett Kate B. Corcoran ’97 Deanna and Sean Critchley Mimi and Rafael Cuellar Robert F. D’Alessandro ’19 Darlene and Joe D’Angelo Matthew C. Dairman ’90 N. B. and Patricia Dancy Alexis and Ed S. Davis Margaret and Gregg B. Deehan ’68 Sandra and Arthur DeRose Ashley and Robert D. Di Geronimo Judith and Charles Dickerson Caitlin DiRuggiero ’06 Danielle Donatiello ’09 Jenna Donatiello ’17 Laura Dorson Laura and Robert Doto Philip L. Ehrlich ’82 Bruce M. Eng ’79 Kathy and Christopher X. Eng Shirley and Willie Eng Sybil M. Eng and Tad Roselund Adam Erbes ’19 Laura and Kenneth Esterow The Ievers Family Laurie and Jon Ewing Patricia Ewing Yun Fan and Yong Cai Lauren and Jason Fass Efua and Louis Feldman Christine A. and Ronald L. Fernandez Jocelyn Fine and Javier Ferrandiz Amy and Peter Fusco ’89 Robert M. Fischbein ’56 Megan and Chad Flick Susan Foley Suzanne and Mark E. Forysiak Alexandra C. Fotinopoulos ’13 Filomena and Demetrios Fotinopoulos Lori and Patrick Fouché Bette Fox and Richard Liss Tracy R. Frager ’79 Joelle M. Francht Lora and Calworth Furbert Susan Galligan ’74 and Thomas C. Galligan ’73 Siobhan and Steven M. Gambuzza

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Margo and Frank Walter Dayana D. Campo and Roger Walter Helen W. Walter Crossen ’95 and David Crossen Pamela and LeRoy Watkins Kristen Weaver and David Polinchock Scott M. Weiner ’92 Joe, Donna and Trey Wilson Nancy and Michael Wolk Susan Wood ’63 Susan Wright ’65 Abraham I. Zeigler ’89 Anonymous (4)

Aimee and Sargent C. Gardiner Lauren and Nathan S. Gardner Meredith and Aaron Gardner Tricia and Guy P. Garrubbo Meritt B. Gavin ’58 Charles Gephart ’08 Diane R. Giangreco Peter E. Gibson ’82 Wendy Lazarus and David Glotzer Bora Goekbora ’08 Joanne Goldberg ’87 and Daniel Goldberg Carolyn and Michael Goldman Melissa Goldman-Williams Lisa and Scott Golodner Frieda and Daryl Goodrich Russell Goodrich Foram and Jayesh Gopalji Mary Ellen and David Gray Gary W. Greendale Marie Grover John F. Grubin ’62 Bruce Guernsey ’62 Mary Hack ’65 Deborah E. Haight ’96 Injoo Han King and Michael King Susan and Jan W. Hansen Jade Harris and Michael Copeland Lisa Harrison Stuart Harwood ’07 Xinping He and Hao Shen Elizabeth and Marek Hejna Eric Fox and Daniel Helmick Colleen Helsel Madge Henning ’70 Pilar Henriquez-Groves and Richard E. Groves Silvia Henriquez and Luis Villafana Ashley and Craig Hirsh ’01 James Hobbins ’60 Melinda and John W. Hofmann Pam Holding ’82 Barbara and Dane Holmes Laini J. Homer Lauren Hooper-Rogers ’00 Nicole and David Hoppe Josephine and Michael Horsburgh Robert J. Hubsmith ’77 Miller and Stephen Hughes

Kim and Bradford Huntington Dwight Jackson ’08 Mark M. Jaffe ’58 Dipali and Sudhir Jain Hope and David L. Jeffrey Peter Jensen Alexander Joerger ’95 Suzanne M. Jogun and Mark C. Astley Alissa and Curt J. Johnson Douglas W. Johnson ’62 Barbara and Leslie Kaplan Maryanne Kesler Daniella and Bryan Kessler Beth and Gary Kiang Lily Kiang Ruth Kidde Hailey and Charlie Kim Julie Kim ’92 and Sung W. Kim Robert M. Kim ’52 Suzanne K. Klein ’62 Ann and John Kovacs Geoffrey R. Krouse ’89 Molly and Andy Kuick Michael S. Kurtz ’57 Pia Kutten Archana and Vivek Kwatra Andrew M. Kyrejko ’05 Laura La Corte ’83 Alexa Richman La Londe and Scott W. La Londe Ginny and David Laird Dena and Keith Lambie India Larrier ’80 and John H. Larrier Julia Lazarus ’86 Robert Leather Michelle and Conway Lee ’90 Christa Leonard Philip G. Leone ’60 Rachel Levine ’06 Varsay Lewis Pearl Louie and Eric Lieberman Charlotte Lillard Caroline Lilore and Anthony Sciancalepore Mary Ann and Clifford Lindholm Kate Curtin Lindsey ’72 Jacquelyn A. Lipson Elsie Koh and Edmund Liu

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Robert S. Livesey ’65 Fay and Bryan Lonsinger Sandy and Matt LoPiccolo Gregory and Cristin Lovallo Emily Rosenblum and Steve Lucas Vanessa and John Lucas Tricia and John Mac Evoy Margaret Madden ’50 Melissa Maddox-Evans ’88 Piper B. and Michael J. Magera Helen Makohon Ellen R. Malcolm ’65 Tiffany and Julian M. Malloy Daniela and Cristian Mandachescu Rich Margolin Jen and Earl Marshall Stacey Martin Kristen and Mark R. McClusky Kerri McGuire ’18 Lhenée S. McKoy ’05 Erin and James McMenamin Elise McMullen ’08 Margaret McNany Glenda McNeal Leslie Meek-Wohl and Ethan Wohl Lynn Menschenfreund and Paulo Silva Leah and Steven Meranus Karen Merz Heather E. Milke ’15 Amanda and Scott T. Milleisen Frederic A. Miller ’69 Jeannette and Philip Miller Sunnie Minn Luz and Luis Miranda Kenneth Miscia Ruchi Misra and Nicholas Hailey Ada and Angelo Mogavero Melissa Montemuino Carlos Montoya and Penny Weissman Derek Morf Richard and Susan Morganstein Rebekkah and Peter Morral Richard M. Moskowitz ’81 Denise and Ira Wagner Debra and Patrick Mucci Chadd A. Mukete ’11 Diana and Ryan J. Murelli John J. Murphy ’72 Ryan Napoli ’15 Anne and Patrick J. Naughton Aiden Newman ’15 Brynnae Newman ’18 Huma Niazi Irma Nimetz ’80 Emily J. Nisbet ’90 Samora Noguera ’02 David B. Nolle ’79 Heather and Michael Nowak Rosita G. and Enrique Nunez Kelsey S. O’Connor ’14 Amy and J.D. O’Hara Kimberly and John O’Kane Patricia and Hugh O’Kane Karin and John W. Odell Henry Ohls Alexandra Okun and Craig Dubitsky Serene and Jason Olin Crystal Olsen Glynn Deborah and Michael I. Otner Carol Ottenberg ’56 Nilie Pajoohi ’89 and Hossein Ekrami Patricia and J. Dean Paolucci ’73 Patricia and Alan Parke Kiwitta Paschal ’94 Nadine Pearce and Alan Jones Laela Perkins and Michael Thwaite ’97

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Doreen Perna Peter N. Perretti ’72 Steven B. Pestka ’91 Mary and Joel Jeffrey Mark Phillips ’13 Jill Porter Larson ’90 Sherrie and Lorne Potash Bidyut and Reena Pramanik Brian N. Purcell ’09 Valerie and Wesley S. Puryear Hanna and Jozef Puzio Ariana K. Puzzo ’14 Spencer Pyke Shruti and Sharad Ramesh Kimberly and David W. Ramsay Joseph and John Randolph Swati Rao-Engel and Richard Engel Michelle and Jordan Raper Yesenia Ravelo-Rodriguez and Erik Rodriguez Nadia M. and Mannan Razzak Hollie and Sean Reddington Limor and Robert Regular Rhonda and Stephen Richard Lori and David Riley Sandra M. Rivera and Gerardo Mejia Janet Robertson and Mark Bishop Sara and Glenn Robertson Sabino T. Rodano ’87 Sabrina and Adam Rodgers Mary and Gary Rolain Erin and Paul D. Rooney Peri and Thomas P. Rosamilia Stacy and Scott Rosenblum Shawna and Benjamin M. Roth ’94 Estate of Susan H. Ruddick ’54 Olga and David Rukshin Nitu and Saras Rustagi Emily Ryan ’04 Franklin M. Sachs ’58 Anu Sahi-Shah and Samir B. Shah Jodi and Luke Sarsfield ’91 Barbara and Steven Sakovits Shefali and Sumeet Salwan Richard Sandler ’48 Alexander Sandoval ’17 Lincoln Sandoval Marshall P. Sandoval ’14 Regan P. Sandoval ’21 Nivia and Joe Santagata Emily Santangelo ’02 Jessica Sarfati Loretta C. Peterson Kim Saunders Colleen and Robert Scalzo Janet A. Scheel ’76 Jeffrey P. Schiffman ’75 April L. Schott-Auerbach ’98 and Philip A. Auerbach Eric R. Schwarz ’76 Rebecca and John C. Scuorzo Dori and Noel Sedransk Marie Louise Purdy and Roger Seifter Talia Selove and Roger Manzo Daphne and Gardner B. Semet ’79 Amy and Jay Shapiro Frederick H. Sheldon ’70 Maria Shepard Mendez Julie and Matthew Sherman Patricia and Aidan Shields Kristen Sigler Meredith and Justin Silver Michael N. Silverman ’51 Andrea D. Simon ’65 Fangzhou and Sevan Simon Tripti Singh and Samarpal S. Bhatia

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Robert M. Skinner Brooke and Michael Skolnick Karen and Emanuel Slater Alison Slone and Adam Miller Dudley C. Smith ’49 Stephen M. Smith ’81 and Susan M. Smith Susan Sobbott Manika Sood and Prashant Bhatia Jennie and JT Sowers Amanda E. Spagnoletti ’97 and Paul Spagnoletti Jonathan Spencer ’87 Kate and James Stanford Donna K. Starke Emma Sterling ’12 Peter R. Stern ’65 April and Brett Straten Hailey Sylvander ’17 Heather Symons ’01 Ami and Andrew M. Talkow Jamie Taylor ’90 Alice M. Terrell-Bryant Salamishah M. Tillet and Solomon Steplight ’93 Emily T. Tompsett Seth D. Traum ’91 and Lauren Traum Marilyn Travis Laura and Eric Treadaway Nicholas Tricarico Erica Tricarico-DeTrolio Peggy Chien and Chris Tsai Cindy Wu and Raymond Tse Stephen Tse ’16 Shelly Tsirulik ’16 Marc Tuazon Deborah and Thomas D. Turvey Pam Valentine Mary Valentine and Shanie Israel Lois and John Van Deusen E. Hawley Van Wyck, III ’60 Laura (Brown) Vassilowitch ’01 Stefania and Jeffrey M. Venezia Margaret and Richard Wager Edwin and Kathryn Davison Louis S. Waldman ’01

Samuel Walter ’06 Nancy Ward ’56 Rene and Marc J. Watkins Valbona and Todd E. Watkins Sarah E. Watt ’06 Angelo Weber ’17 Lori and Parker A. Weil Suzanne and Mark Weinberg Wendy and Stephen C. Weinstein Dana R. Welsh ’97 Carol and David Weppner Amy Weppner and Irakli Endeladze Margo and Douglas Wheeler Nancy and Reb D. Wheeler Ann Whitehouse ’59 Elizabeth and Ather Williams Keith Williams Stephanie and Olin Williams Julie and Jyri-Pekka Wilska Jessica and Ari Wise Jean Witherington ’54 Leah Morgan and Richard Wolf Michelle Worthington Laura (Eng) Yeu ’89 and Patrick Yeu Jane Zagajeski and Christian D. Ely Shazia and Sajid S. Zaidi Jennifer and Peter J. Zangari Damon W. Zeigler ’86 Karina and Marek Zidlicky Laura Zimmerman Xiaoyu Lu and Heng Zou Jonathan A. Zweifler ’97 Anonymous

GIVING BY FUND ENDOWMENT

A strong endowment ensures that MKA has the financial stability to continue its long tradition of excellence. Income from a growing endowment can enhance the operating budget, help moderate tuition increases and provide funding for scholarships and financial aid, crucial to realizing MKA’s ongoing commitment to diversity. We are deeply grateful to those who made gifts to the endowment during the 2020-21 school year.

TUITION ASSISTANCE The Coach Edwards Athletic Fund Linda and Edward Almeida Rick and Linny Andlinger Nicholas G. Andlinger ’07 Nicole and Steven L. Andrews Daniel N. Arcilla ’20 Florence and Derrick Arcilla Edward Bartleson ’08 Stephanie and Edward Bartleson Bianca and Michael Bator Thomas F. Beach ’04 Kevin Bednar William K. and Rhea Boss Susan and J. Thomas Bradley Jr. Christopher Brazill ’12 Diana and Christopher G. Brazill Lisa and Chris Breitweiser Linda Burton William Caggiano The Ceglarski Family John Chase ’05 Jamie and Eric Chase Darlene and Joe D’Angelo Peter and Katie Dancy Ryan Dancy ’18 Spencer Davidson ’08 Edwin and Kathryn Davison Harry Davison ’20 Ashley and Robert D. Di Geronimo Michelle Dice and Andres Espinosa Maribeth and Anthony Eckert Erin and John P. Edwards ’97 Adam Erbes ’19 Risa and Tyrrell Erbes Nicolas Espinosa Dice ’18 Diana and John S. Fennelly Breena and Jed A. Fishback Dana Fortunato Mark G. Fortunato ’03 Cali and Robert Fortunato ’08 Laurie and Tom Fusco Thomas P. Fusco ’14 Nicholas Galasso ’05 The Geering Family Alexander Gephart ’06 Charles Gephart ’08 Mary Stuart and Angus Gephart Gary W. Greendale Peggy and Ron Gross Ethan Q. Gross ’19 Shelly B. Grossman Stuart Harwood ’07 Rhonda and Stratton R. Heath Thomas and Lynda Henderson Ashley and Craig Hirsh ’01

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Melinda and John W. Hofmann The Kearns Family Peggy and Chris Kenrick Gail and Scott S. Kingsley Stephanie and Mason Kirsch James Lane Mary Lynch and James Kubinak Tricia and John Mac Evoy Brian McFeeley ’08 Cheryl D’Alessandro McMullen ’77 and Peter S. McMullen ’77 Tracy McVeigh and Andrew Melitz Matthew D. Metzger ’08 Michael Miller ’15 Kathleen and Jonathan Morisseau Kyle B. Morris ’12 Alice and Richard T. Morris ’94 Judith Mosca Connor Murphy and Family Zandi and Thomas Nammack Dean Paolucci ’12 Patricia and J. Dean Paolucci ’73 Laura and John Phillips ’78, P ’09, P ’10 Shelley and Keith Phillips John B. Phillips ’09 Mark Phillips ’13 Stacey Polanskyj ’92 and Peter Polanskyj Sabino T. Rodano ’87 Brent Rudnick Max Rudnick ’07 Kathryn and Duane Sachs Dori and Noel Sedransk Lynne and Richard Sibilia Jane and Kenneth Smith Lara and John Snyder Susan Sobbott Jason Spitz Catherine and David Strader Olivia K. Strader ’06 and Michael D. Strader ’06 Jon Strain Benjamin A. Stuart ’18 Brodie Snyder and Family David Trabka ’08 Louise Trabka Mark R. Tyson ’06 J. Harrison Walker ’18 Kim and J. K. Walker ’80 Frank J. Walter ’05 Samuel Walter ’06 Margo and Frank Walter Griffin A. Weil ’20 Lori and Parker A. Weil Scott M. Weiner ’92 Melissa and Paul Wetzel James K. Wreschner ’05 Mary and Brian Zeug Kimberly Zimmer-Weary and A. C. Weary Anonymous (1) The Community Scholars Endowment Leena and Suvrat Bansal Sybil M. Eng and Tad Roselund Tricia and Guy P. Garrubbo Silvia Henriquez and Luis Villafana Janice and Jeffrey Jacobson Ginny and David Laird Piper B. and Michael J. Magera Estate of Lucile G. Mason ’43

FACULTY SUPPORT FUNDS The Arnold A. Dicke Fund Paul and Amanda Spagnoletti ’97 Faculty Compensation Endowment PAMKA STUDENT AWARD FUNDS The Elliot Furbert Award Lora and Calworth Furbert Michael S. Melitz ’14 Kim and Luca Puzzo The Margaret Osborne Science Prize Margaret Madden ’50 Dr. Peter R. Greer Character Award The Scott Johnson Memorial Scholarship Fund Mary and Gary Rolain Elizabeth A. Rothenberg ’93 The Timmons Scholarship Fund PROGRAMS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS The Philip McNeal Leadership Program Fund American Express Wendy and Jared F. Bartie Gretchen L. Berra

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Hazar Michael and Amer Elkhouri Rob and Nicole Masella Kimberly and John O’Kane Swati Rao-Engel and Richard Engel Rhonda and Stephen Richard Katherine and Robert Ruberton Lisa and Leo Shilkrot Manika Sood and Prashant Bhatia Lela Weems, MD and Shaka Rasheed Thomas W. Nammack Community Scholarship Mr. Masoud and Mrs. Nadia Altirs Lisa and Joseph Amato Rick and Linny Andlinger Bernadette Aulestia-Lynch and Kristian Lynch Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 and John Barrett Wendy and Jared F. Bartie Kristina and James Bromley Whitney and Daniel Carson ’83 Bonnie and Michael Carter Alison and James T. Cirenza Christina Cotton and Brian Clarkson Edwin and Kathryn Davison Sybil M. Eng and Tad Roselund Alexis and Clifford Finkle IV ’92 Penny Finkle Meredith and Aaron Gardner Richard S. Griffith Karen and Robert Gulliver Barbara and Dane Holmes Rosemary Iversen Virginia Kriegel Kate Logan and Edmund Rung Alison Slone and Adam Miller Diane Ridley, MD ’84 Karen and Warren M. Ross Jodi and Luke Sarsfield ’91 Jodi and Jeffrey Smith Linda and Brian Sterling Jeffrey Szilagyi and Kathleen Beebe Margaret and Richard Wager Denise and Ira Wagner Anonymous (2) The Watkins Family Endowed Scholarship Fund Rene and Marc J. Watkins

Bonnie and Michael Carter Stephen Diamond Michael Foster Lori and Patrick Fouché Jocelyn and Peter Handy Glenda McNeal JPMorgan Chase The Edward John and Patricia Rosenwald Foundation Mona Thomas GENERAL ENDOWMENT FUNDS The Booth Kelly Family Fund Nancy (Booth) Kelly ’52 Dehlia Sunshine Endowment Fund Unrestricted Estate of Lee Randolph Bean Estate of Helen Gordon ’42 Estate of David Marrocco ’57 Estate of Virginia Usher ’42

OTHER NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS TUITION ASSISTANCE The Amy Louise Timmons Scholarship Fund Bud Mekeel Scholarship Fund Beatrice C. Crawford Memorial Scholarship The Brogan Memorial Scholarship Fund The Denise and Ira Wagner Endowed Scholarship Fund The Denise Farandatos Anastasiou ’62 Memorial Scholarship Fund The Don Knowlton Scholarship Fund The Downsbrough Scholarship Fund The Everett L. Glenn ’11 Family Fund The George Hrab Family Scholarship Endowment The Linda and Brian Sterling Endowed Scholarship Fund The Mary-Anne Treene Evans Scholarship Fund The Mildred B. and David G. Baird Scholarship Fund Montclair Academy Class of ’65 Scholarship Fund Margaret Ann Mullins Tortoriello Scholarship The Robert Hemmeter Memorial Scholarship Fund The Seth Morris Endowed Scholarship Fund FACULTY SUPPORT The Drukker Foundation Faculty Educational Fund The Peter & Terry Greer Faculty Compensation Fund Mary K. Robertson Faculty Salary Fund STUDENT AWARDS The Elizabeth O’Neil Feagley Award Fund

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GIFTS TO CAPITAL PROJECTS

Thank you to the individuals who supported one of MKA’s capital initiatives in the 2020-21 school year.

Middle School Athletic Fields Lisa and Andrew B. Abramson ’71 Bonnie and Michael Carter Deanna and Sean Critchley Larry and Lynda Hollander Mary and Joel Jeffrey Zandi and Thomas Nammack Deborah and Thomas D. Turvey Amy Weppner and Irakli Endeladze Joe, Donna and Trey Wilson Muenster Field Renovation Jackie and Rick Jenkins Tina Jordan and Kevin Rendino Primary School Renovations Priya and Naveen Ballem, MD ’90 Jennifer and Victoria Barbetta Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 and John Barrett Gillian and Geoffrey Branigan Rhonda and David A. Crichlow Penny Finkle Lauren Hyman Kaplan ’93 and Douglas Kaplan Kate Logan and Edmund Rung PAMKA Stacey Polanskyj ’92 and Peter Polanskyj Katherine and Robert Ruberton Samantha and Ryan Schinman ’89 Laura and Eric Treadaway Middle School Tennis Pavilion The Everson Family Upper School Academic Center Anonymous Weiss Auditorium Jeffrey A. Appel and John J. Caraccioli Bonnie and Michael Carter Meg Columbia-Walsh Janice and Jeffrey Jacobson Jen and Earl Marshall The McMullen Family Foundation Zandi and Thomas Nammack Barbara and Steven Sakovits

GIFTS TO THE MKA FUND

The MKA Fund, our annual giving program, provides critical resources to create a truly exceptional educational experience for our students. We are incredibly grateful to the 1,126 individuals who generously donated $1.48 million this year. Your support helps us provide the very best education to our students, making a difference in their lives, and in the lives of our faculty and staff. Thank you for your investment in our mission.

Lesley and Melih Abdulhayoglu Delicia and Julius S. Abdur-Rahim Amanda Abrahams Joan Adams ’46 Roberta and Peter Adams Angela and Nathaniel Adderley Ted Agelis Henry R. Agens ’58

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Alison Ainsworth and Edward Felsenthal Nicholas H. Alessi ’72 Isabel and Michael Alexander Henry V. Allen ’65 Daniel Allen ’07 David N. Allen Debra Allen Devin C. Almeida ’05 Thomas V. Alpren ’63 AmazonSmile Foundation David W. Ames ’89 Antonia J. Amico ’06 and Andrew Barchenko ’06 Peter J. Amirata ’13 Ralph E. Amirata ’89 René Amirata Diana Anders and Andrew Weiner Valerie and Bill Anders Rick and Linny Andlinger Conny and John M. Andres Florence and Derrick Arcilla Monica A. Ashley ’98 Rosalie Asia Maggie Astley ’21 Elizabeth August and Martin Restituyo Robert A. August ’73 Bernadette Aulestia-Lynch and Kristian Lynch Christie and Ingram Austin Kathryn Auw Prasad ’01 Jason A. Awerdick ’94 Linda and David Bachrach Michael A. Baker ’59 Kimberly A. Baker ’00 Mario Baldino Mitzi J. Balma ’66 and Alan J. Balma ’66 Leena and Suvrat Bansal Mark R. Baran ’74 Jennifer and Matt Baranello Jenn and Dave Baratta Jennifer and Victoria Barbetta Hannah E. Barker ’07 Sarah and Craig Barrack Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 and John Barrett Alise and Damien A. Barrett Paige T. Barrett ’09 Patricia Bartolomeo Pamela M. Barz ’79 Penelope Bassett and Miles Hackett Maureen Bates Joel Bauer ’59 Anne and Martin Baum Matilda Baye-Akaho and Wisdom Akaho Milton C. Beard ’59 Sharon and Larry Beebe Barbara Beeker ’59 Rosemary and John Beer Daniel H. Beirne ’74 Carlaina Bell Melissa Bell ’94 and John F. Bell ’93 Morgan B. Bellapianta ’99 and Christopher M. Bellapianta ’97 Howard T. Bellin ’53 Ani and Joe A. Berberian Susan Berman Victor Bernstein ’65 Gretchen L. Berra Amy R. Berry ’99 Maureen and Stephen Bezer Kiara S. Bhatia ’21 Ronak S. Bhatia ’19 Ashish and Sneha Bhatia Shenaz and Cyrus H. Bhote Melanie Bieber ’03 Maura and Coleman Bigelow

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Jessica C. Bishop ’04 Marilyn Blackwell ’65 Cynthia Blair ’45 Donna and Joseph Blanes Patricia Blasi Tammy and Michael Blau Roberta Blau ’74 Francis J. Blesso ’87 John C. Blesso ’89 John Blondel ’74 Carolee Bol and Scott Rosenberg Jane Bonner ’51 Julia L. Bonsal ’67 Janina Boral ’69 Cortland Bosc Karen Boyle ’81 Renee Boynton-Jarrett and Gene Jarrett Stacey Bradford-Greenberg and Rick Greenberg Susan and J. Thomas Bradley Jr. Nakeyl J. Branch-Johnson and Abdullah F. Johnson David F. Brandley ’73 John M. Brandow ’71 Karen and Gordon Braverman Christopher Brenner ’77 Casey B. Breslow ’03 Matilda S. Brett ’64 Elaine and Vincent Brier Stacie L. Bright and Jordan K. Rhodes Kristina and James Bromley William J. Bromley ’16 Sheri and Ted Bronstein Allison Brown ’04 and Steven M. Brown Corey Brown ’07 Kirsten and Christopher Brown Melissa Brown and Joel De La Fuente Denise Brown-Allen and Douglas Allen David L. Bruck ’61 Sheldon W. Buck ’54 Erica Budd Kristina and Tom Burke Christy Burke Ingrid E. Burke Sebastian Burns ’21 Marjorie Burris ’65 Seth L. Bynum ’11 Elizabeth Byrne and Niall Mullane Kelly Byrne ’08 Judith and John Caffiero Jean Caggiano and Michael Caggiano, Jr. Yun Fan and Yong Cai A. C. Cameron ’66 Liam Campbell Rebecca L. Campbell ’88 Dayana D. Campo and Roger Walter Katharine Cangelosi ’47 Jan and Adam Canton Jack Cappitelli and Robin Schwartz ’85 Christina Carbo ’21 Carolyn Cariello ’62 Candice and Timothy S. Carlson Katherine Caro Georgia S. Carrington ’54 Bonnie and Michael Carter James Castelli Grace Cecilio-Dueno and Jason Dueno Anthony M. Celentano ’74 Cara and Dan Cesareo Dianna and Dohyun Cha Monica and Atul Chakradeo Siu Chan-Lui and John Lui Charlaine and Thomas Charlton Sonia and Parmi Cheema Wenfang Chen and Peter Young Tingting Chen

Jennie and Tom Cherry Denise Chezek ’72 Nathan Chickering David J. Choi ’90 Nina and Suraj Chopra Bree and Keenan Choy Sonia Chudasama-Patel and Amish Patel Abigail and Edward K. Chung Laura and Christopher Chung Renee L. Ciccarella ’93 Susan M. Ciccone O’Donnell ’85 and Matthew J. O’Donnell Tesia E. Ciechanowski ’05 Jenna Clancey ’03 Kimberly and Robert Clark Laura and Thomas Clark Alanna L. Clayton ’23 Alexa R. Clayton ’25 Elizabeth and Shane Cooney Deborah and Steven Clayton Geoffrey S. Close ’71 Elizabeth and James Clothier Deborah and J. Barry Cocoziello Beth A. Cohn ’86 Evelyn and Stephen T. Colbert Susan Cole ’78 Lola Coleman ’21 Claire Coles ’61 Pamela and Justin Colledge Barbara and Raymond L. Colotti Christina and Raymond Colotti Meg Columbia-Walsh Ashley Conde Julia Conforti ’21 Leigh and Patrick J. Conforti Donald J. Congdon ’50 Monica Conley and Eric Newman Patricia Park Connell J. S. Conway ’77 Timothy C. Cook Alisa A. Corbett Kate B. Corcoran ’97 Cynthia Corhan-Aitken and Murray Aitken John A. Cosentino ’67 Robert Cottingham Paige L. Cottingham-Streater ’79 Maggie and Tom Cowing Allan Cox ’74 Mary and David Cragen Francine Crawford ’66 Steven Cristello Marjorie Cross ’47 Kathryn D. Crowell ’47 Kyle G. Curtin ’82 Donald Cussen ’83 Robert F. D’Alessandro ’19 Eugene M. D’Altrui ’76 Darlene and Joe D’Angelo Paul N. Dackow ’72 Lara J. Dahl and Adam S. Breslawsky N. B. and Patricia Dancy Lori Daskowitz Resham Datwani ’21 Lavina and Prakash Datwani Maris and Trayton M. Davis Edwin and Kathryn Davison Francesca D. De La Torre ’00 Anita De Pachalis ’51 Mary Ann Decker ’58 Jamie L. Decter ’93 and Mitchell J. Decter ’94 Margaret and Gregg B. Deehan ’68 Laura Demaria Nancy Demarrais ’50 Carmen and David J. DeMatteis ’95

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Lori and Patrick Fouché Bette Fox and Richard Liss Eric Fox and Daniel Helmick Neal Fox Tracy R. Frager ’79 Joelle M. Francht Jessica and Michael Freeman Sheri and Jason Friedman Inez Friedman and Jacques Friedman-Lipetz Beth and Michael E. Fuchs Emani Fung ’21 Karen and Heny Furst Amy and Peter Fusco ’89 Susan Galligan ’74 and Thomas C. Galligan ’73 Dulce Galvan-Wolf and Aaron Wolf Divya Gangadharan and Deepak Nair Aimee and Sargent C. Gardiner Lauren and Nathan S. Gardner Tricia and Guy P. Garrubbo Sophia Garrubbo ’18 Holly Gathright ’62 Jennifer and Jason Gauvin Meritt B. Gavin ’58 Catherine and Pete Gaynor Robert Gelberg ’10 Michael C. Gennet ’58 Alexander Gephart ’06 Mary Stuart and Angus Gephart Judith H. Germano Bonarti and Michael A. Bonarti Amanda Gertsen ’05 Suzanne Giarrusso Peter E. Gibson ’82 Tanner U. Gill ’14 William Gill Maria Gilmartin and Dimitri Hadjipetkov Louis M. Gioffre ’72 Alicia and Peter Giuffra Leah Glaser ’21 Alisha and Jonathan Glaser Jessica and Brian Glatt Jennifer and Darren Glatt Deborah Glazer ’87 Christopher Glenn ’03 Alex Glotzer ’21 Paul F. Glover ’60 Serena Godwin ’92 Spencer Goldberg ’21 Joanne Goldberg ’87 and Daniel Goldberg Carolyn and Michael Goldman Melissa Goldman-Williams Dennis G. Goldstein ’83 Madison Golodner ’21 Lisa and Scott Golodner Raj P. Gona ’87 Russell Goodrich Frieda and Daryl Goodrich Gordon-Goodrich Family Nihaar Gopalji ’21 Foram and Jayesh Gopalji Meredyth Graham ’56 Charles Gray ’07 Mary Ellen and David Gray Nicholas F. Graziano ’90 Cynthia R. Green and Joshua S. Jablons Gary W. Greendale Joan Grevatt Ashley B. Griffin ’00 Shelly B. Grossman Marie Grover John F. Grubin ’62 Diana and Salvatore Guccione Alexandra Guccione ’09 Bruce Guernsey ’62

John S. Guttmann ’71 Gael Habernickel ’54 and Duke Habernickel ’51 Mary Hack ’65 David E. Haight ’88 Peter Halbert Ann Hallowell ’56 Jennifer L. Hamilton ’83 Susan and Alan Hammer Injoo Han King and Michael King Lesley J. Hand ’77 Christine G. Hannon ’69 Susan and Jan W. Hansen Suzanne Hardy ’61 Joseph H. Hare ’65 Parul Harley ’94 Pamela and Michael Harriott Carla Harris and Victor Franklin Jade Harris and Michael Copeland Stuart Harwood ’07 Emma and Marshall Hatcher Kathryn V. Hatfield Alan Hawes ’96 Rebecca and Roland Hayes Xinping He and Hao Shen Karen Heath-Wade and Kirk Wade Elizabeth and Marek Hejna Frances and Jack Heller ’50 Carol and Mike Helmick Colleen Helsel Matthew B. Hendrian ’86 Jennifer C. Hendrian ’77 Pilar Henriquez-Groves and Richard E. Groves Silvia Henriquez and Luis Villafana Winifred Hentschel ’70 Emma and Peter Herrick Mary Ann and Frank Herrmann Ann and David Hessler Geneva Hester Katherine Hipp ’21 Alice and Steven Hirsh Ashley and Craig Hirsh ’01 Rebecca and Jonathan B. Hirsh ’95 William R. Hitchcock ’19 James Hobbins ’60 Richard R. Hobbins ’56 Emily and Chris Hogue Pam Holding ’82 Alexander B. Holz ’99 Laini J. Homer Richard A. Hopkins ’50 Nicole and David Hoppe Debbie Horn and Ronald Wolfson Jackie and Larry Horn Schuyler Horn ’59 Josephine and Michael Horsburgh Erin Hotchkiss ’02 Christine and Charles Hough Michael Houston Myra and George Hrab Carol Hsu and Wayne Narucki Dennis Hu Susan S. Huang ’72 Kathy and Bill Hubert Elise Hubert and Joseph Borrelli Robert J. Hubsmith ’77 Karen and Sean Hudson Miller and Stephen Hughes Patience Humphrey Julianne A. Hunt and David Korfhage Kim and Bradford Huntington Lisa Hyman Sackman and Joel Sackman Vanessa Ignacio and Kyle Burns Carol A. Ippisch Thomas D. Isenberg ’75

Dwight Jackson ’08 Janice and Jeffrey Jacobson Deborah Jacobson ’77 Eric F. Jaeckel ’56 Mark M. Jaffe ’58 Dipali and Sudhir Jain Raynetta and John James Doris Janes Nicole and Charles A. Janus Dagmara Jastrzebska ’02 Mary and Joel Jeffrey Hope and David L. Jeffrey Heather Jeney and Arvind Basra Jackie and Rick Jenkins Peter Jensen Suzanne M. Jogun and Mark C. Astley Alissa and Curt J. Johnson Margaret and Thomas S. Johnson Douglas W. Johnson ’62 Jennifer Jones Susan and Rees L. Jones Grace A. Jones ’19 Tina Jordan and Kevin Rendino Charlotte E. Judd ’60 Christine Kachinsky-Bye and John Bye Avie C. Kalker ’68 Katherine Kallay ’20 Elizabeth L. Kallay ’18 Lana Kang ’89 Eun Jung Kang and Bum Suk Shim Le Kang and Geng Liu Lauren Hyman Kaplan ’93 and Douglas Kaplan Barbara and Leslie Kaplan Elizabeth and Jason Katz The Kearns Family Patricia Kearns Rebecca and Jonathan Kelly Sheila and John Kelly Charles Kenrick ’23 Peggy and Chris Kenrick Ann Kent ’50 Gail Kerr ’52 Maryanne Kesler Azka Khan and Faisal Asghar Beth and Gary Kiang Lily Kiang Ruth Kidde Madison Kilduff Jihee Kim and Byung J. Lee Julie Kim ’92 and Sung W. Kim Robert M. Kim ’52 Marc S. Kirschner ’60 Suzanne K. Klein ’62 Marsha and Randy Kleinman Daryn Knee ’21 Marlowe Knee ’21 Elsie Koh and Edmund Liu Kimberly A. Kohlman ’91 Leyla and Alan Korkmaz Ann and John Kovacs Carole and George J. Kramer ’54 Raji and Suresh Krishnan Lisa A. Krizner-George and David R. George Geoffrey R. Krouse ’89 Molly and Andy Kuick Mary and Matt Kunka Monica Kurpiewski and Robert Kilcullen Michael S. Kurtz ’57 Pia Kutten Hyun-Ju Kwak and Steve Kim Justyna and Jan R. Kwapniewski Laura La Corte ’83 Bennett R. La Londe ’21 Susan Lacasse ’60

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Demetra Demetrios- Avalos and Jose Avalos Sandra and Arthur DeRose Nicholas DeVenezia Robbie Di Geronimo ’21 Ashley and Robert D. Di Geronimo Susan and Ralph Di Ruggiero Gemma M. Diaco ’98 Alicia and Elar Diaz Alicia N. Diaz and Manuel Carbajal Judith and Charles Dickerson Jennifer Docherty and Jane Fitzgerald Carol Doerr-Cucci and Richard C. Cucci Debra Doerr-Larsen ’79 and Jan V. Larsen Nancy and Mark Donatiello ’79 Danielle Donatiello ’09 Jenna Donatiello ’17 Deanna Donnelly Laura and Robert Doto Janita and Meyrick I. Douglas Jenn Dozier and Anindya Chakraberti Jeremiah Druckenmiller ’21 Aleksandr Duba Ozie Duncan Paul and Liz Edwards Philip L. Ehrlich ’82 Nicholas F. Eiden ’21 Mary and Edward Elliott Ralph L. Ellis ’58 Monica and Matthew Elmore Sara and David Elwell Daniel E. Emerson ’42 Barbara and Bruce Emra Sybil M. Eng and Tad Roselund Bruce M. Eng ’79 Patrick Eng ’82 Kathy and Christopher X. Eng Shirley and Willie Eng Nicolas Espinosa Dice ’18 Elizabeth Esterow ’21 Laura and Kenneth Esterow Patricia Ewing Ted D. Fall ’79 Elizabeth Farr John J. Farrar ’62 Lauren and Jason Fass Michael D. Feldman ’80 Diana and John S. Fennelly Susan Ferdinand ’56 Monica L. Fernand ’94 Christine A. and Ronald L. Fernandez Jeffrey Festa ’06 Jocelyn Fine and Javier Ferrandiz Alexis and Clifford Finkle IV ’92 Andree J. Finkle Worth ’94 Frank A. Fiore ’51 Sally and Donald Firth Breena and Jed A. Fishback Barbara Flessas ’72 and Robert E. David Megan and Chad Flick Anne M. and David Flocco Rozlyn A. Flood Nathally and Marco Florio Raphael Flowers and Tunizia Ahmed-Flowers Patricia Forbes Patricia Ford ’53 Alexandra Forman-Chou and William Chou Susanne and Stefan Fornasier Suzanne and Mark E. Forysiak Amy Fossett Sue Fossett Nancy and Donald Foster Filomena and Demetrios Fotinopoulos Alexandra C. Fotinopoulos ’13

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Brenda and Robert Ladd Ginny and David Laird Dena and Keith Lambie Melissa and David Landau Cara Landolfi ’05 Alexander J. Langbein ’03 Taryn and Darren Langer Robert N. Lanson ’57 Linda and Christopher Larkin India Larrier ’80 and John H. Larrier Sydney A. Larrier ’14 David G. Lawrence ’55 Dorothy E. Lawrence ’47 Julia Lazarus ’86 Lisa Lazarus and Robert Coviello Wendy Lazarus and David Glotzer Phillip W. Lazier ’53 Robert Leather Cory and Mark Lebovitch Walter Lee Michelle and James Lee Patricia Lee ’51 Michelle and Conway Lee ’90 Connor J. LeFevre ’19 Taylor W. LeFevre ’19 John Leister Christa Leonard Philip G. Leone ’60 Toni LeQuire-Schott and Newton B. Schott, Jr. Joshua Levine ’17 Leslie Levine ’74 and Peter Levine The Levy Family Varsay Lewis Jiang Li and Tianwei Yao Charlotte Lillard Caroline Lilore and Anthony Sciancalepore David and Amy Lim Gisela and Ben Limberg Mary Ann and Clifford Lindholm Kate Curtin Lindsey ’72 Sheila Lindveit ’53 Robert D. Lipman ’71 Jacquelyn A. Lipson Jennifer Liu and Benjamin Chang Mei Liu and Yingjun Sun Wendy Liu and Jingsheng Hua Robert S. Livesey ’65 Kate Logan and Edmund Rung Fay and Bryan Lonsinger Sandy and Matt LoPiccolo Pearl Louie and Eric Lieberman Gregory and Cristin Lovallo John B. Lowy ’61 Isabel V. Lucas ’21 Vanessa and John Lucas Diane Lundy Gemma and Richard R. Lury Jeffrey E. Lutz ’69 Zoe D. Lynch ’21 Margot and Hugh Macdonnell Melissa Maddox-Evans ’88 Piper B. and Michael J. Magera Helen Makohon Ellen R. Malcolm ’65 Tiffany and Julian M. Malloy Barbara and Dennis Mamchur Dennis Manalo ’88 Daniela and Cristian Mandachescu Rich Margolin Joan and Anthony Mariano Barbara L. Markussen ’64 Dara J. Marmon ’91 S. Lawrence Martin ’55 Stacey Martin

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Kelly and William R. Massey Natasha Mathias and Mayur Ian Somaiya William F. Matthews ’49 Karen Matyasovsky Louise and Guy Maxwell Jill and Michael T. Maza Heidi and Jason McAndrew Angela M. McCaffrey ’06 Kristen and Mark R. McClusky Kerri McGuire ’18 Alexandra McManus ’81 Erin and James McMenamin Helen and Jim McMenamin Lisa and Edward McMonagle Cheryl D’Alessandro McMullen ’77 and Peter S. McMullen ’77 Elise McMullen ’08 Margaret McNany Vincent A. Mead ’61 Julia Meade ’80 Banylou Mearin ’57 Leslie Meek-Wohl and Ethan Wohl Courtney and Christopher Meeker Ami A. Mehra ’95 Barry A. Meisel ’59 Lucia and Ian M. Melhuish ’99 Daniella Mendez ’09 Isabella Amanda Mendez ’16 Rebecca and Maximiliano F. Mendez Vinita and Vinay Mendiratta Sara and Rajan Menon Lynn Menschenfreund and Paulo Silva Leah and Steven Meranus Laura and Manes M. Merrit Karen Merz Amy Meyers and Anthony Rizzo Amy Miano and Maurice Hryshko Hazar Michael and Amer Elkhouri Helena and Svetislav Milic The Milke Family Amanda and Scott T. Milleisen Kent J. Miller ’59 Jeannette and Philip Miller Frederic A. Miller ’69 Isabel S. Minard ’60 Luz and Luis Miranda Luz L. Miranda-Crespo and Luis Crespo Lauren Mirman ’01 and Matthew Mirman Kenneth Miscia Ruchi Misra and Nicholas Hailey Sharon Moe ’92 Ada and Angelo Mogavero Lorraine Monchak ’74 Veena and Alphonsus Moniz Christina Montgomery ’81 Carlos Montoya and Penny Weissman Toretha and Roberto F. Morales Anne M. Morey ’79 Derek Morf Leah Morgan and Richard Wolf Richard and Susan Morganstein Ruth Morine ’65 Kristin J. Morisseau ’13 Rebekkah and Peter Morral Alice and Richard T. Morris ’94 The Mortimore Family Tiffany and Joseph Mosca Virginia and Richard Mosca Debra and Patrick Mucci Michele A. Mucci ’84 Chadd A. Mukete ’11 Jennifer Murawski-Boyar and Howard Boyar Susan Murley Minimi John J. Murphy ’72 Kerry and Paul Murphy

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Meghan Murray and Jack Stadtlander Elizabeth Myers ’53 Robert H. Nagel ’73 Ingrid Nakamura ’92 Olga Nam and Aleksandr Ligai Zandi and Thomas Nammack Matt Napoli ’15 Ryan Napoli ’15 Patrick J. Napolitano ’18 Anne and Patrick J. Naughton Larry Nazarian ’56 Eugene C. Neithold ’57 Myra and Phillip Nevius Aiden Newman ’15 Karen and Thomas Newman Brynnae Newman ’18 Huma Niazi Noel Nichols Elizabeth and Miguel Nieves Harry Nimmergut ’75 Aleezae Nisar ’16 Emily J. Nisbet ’90 Geraldine E. Nolin ’74 David B. Nolle ’79 Noella Notte Heather and Michael Nowak Richard D. Noyes ’69 Rosita G. and Enrique Nunez Pilar and Gary Nussbaum Kristine O’Connor ’83 and Michael O’Connor Kelsey S. O’Connor ’14 Malcolm B. O’Hara ’73 Kimberly and John O’Kane Patricia and Hugh O’Kane Karin and John W. Odell Maureen and Mgbeahuru Ogbuehi Henry Ohls Lilian and Robert Okai Alexandra Okun and Craig Dubitsky Serene and Jason Olin Crystal Olsen Glynn Gwynne Oosterbaan and John-Michael Maas Traci Otey Blunt and Jonathan Blunt Deborah and Michael I. Otner Carol Ottenberg ’56 Nahder Pajoohi ’92 Nilie Pajoohi ’89 and Hossein Ekrami Susan and Joseph Pannullo Corrie and Albert Pantow Lisa Parada ’87 Jaiden Park ’21 Henry Park ’86 Patricia and Alan Parke Benjamin E. Parker ’96 Kiwitta Paschal ’94 Bruce B. Pastorini ’71 Anna and Andras Pataki Anand J. Pathuri ’94 Karen B. Paty ’95 David Paulson Nadine Pearce and Alan Jones Tameka and David Pearce Geryl Pearl Riley Pease ’21 Sandra Pekar ’66 Judith and Brewster Perkins Laela Perkins and Michael Thwaite ’97 Trish and Tom Perlmutter Peter N. Perretti ’72 Sidney and Joan Pestka Steven B. Pestka ’91 Loretta C. Peterson Amy Peterson and Jose Sandoval Linda Petrocchi and Arthur Russell

Gerri and Robert C. Petrucelli Robert Piotrowski Jr. Chaim D. Pizem ’02 Jason P. Pogorelec ’93 Stacey Polanskyj ’92 and Peter Polanskyj Shawn and David Portner Sherrie and Lorne Potash Gary C. Powell ’83 Bidyut and Reena Pramanik Eva and Ken Press Brian N. Purcell ’09 Ellen and Gerard J. Purcell Marie Louise Purdy and Roger Seifter Deepti Purohit and Mohit Bhargava Valerie and Wesley S. Puryear Olivia Puzio ’21 Hanna and Jozef Puzio Kim and Luca Puzzo Ariana K. Puzzo ’14 Spencer Pyke Laura Quintano Candace S. Rabinowitz ’94 Kaivon and Lauren Rahaghi Michael and Renee Rallatos Shruti and Sharad Ramesh Juan Ramos Lauren Ramos Joseph and John Randolph Maubra Randolph Swati Rao-Engel and Richard Engel Michelle and Jordan Raper Yesenia Ravelo-Rodriguez and Erik Rodriguez Bhavana Ravindranath and Harsha Bhupalam Haribhaktha Alisa and Joshua H. Raymond ’89 Nadia M. and Mannan Razzak Hollie and Sean Reddington REO Holdings Limor and Robert Regular Matthew Reichstein ’01 Edward C. Reifenstein ’55 Courtney Reinisch and Eric Seid Lyn and Glenn M. Reiter Linda Rhodes Julia and Jacob Ribicoff Benjamin P. Rich Eileen and Robert C. Richardson Richard Ridgway Diane Ridley, MD ’84 Lori and David Riley Brittany and Pablo Rincon Donna Ritter and Barry Levinson Sandra M. Rivera and Gerardo Mejia Thomas S. Robbins ’82 Janet Robertson and Mark Bishop Stephen Roca Sabino T. Rodano ’87 Laura and Victor Rodriguez Wendy D. Roome ’66 Erin and Paul D. Rooney Peri and Thomas P. Rosamilia Iris Rosario and Luis Martinez Susan Rose ’59 Arthur G. Rosen ’61 Barbara and Martin N. Rosen ’58 Lawrence Rosen ’84 Douglas A. Rosen ’91 Emily Rosenblum and Steve Lucas Stacy and Scott Rosenblum Thea Rosendary Charry L. Ross ’89 Nina Rosselli Del Turco ’57 Shawna and Benjamin M. Roth ’94 Erica Rowe and Marc Urquhart Joshua D. Rozan ’94

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Stephen M. Smith ’81 and Susan M. Smith Lara and John Snyder Sherrese and Roger Soares Susan Sobbott Camilla B. Solari ’91 Katharine L. Sonnenberg and Thomas S. Zaubler Manika Sood and Prashant Bhatia Laura Sorokoff Gelman and Andrew Gelman Jennie and JT Sowers Amanda E. Spagnoletti ’97 and Paul Spagnoletti Jaclyn Spedaliere ’00 and Mark Spedaliere Jonathan Spencer ’87 Walter J. Sperling ’67 Kathryn Stallings and Stanley Chiu Kate and James Stanford Donna K. Starke Marianne Steinhacker ’59 Sharon Stephens and Laurus Sutton Aaron Sterling ’14 Emma Sterling ’12 Peter R. Stern ’65 Brook and William Stites Eileen Stites April and Brett Straten ’92 Deb Streit and Roy Breslow Sheryl A. Stoessel Suarez and Antonio E. Suarez Michael I. Sucoff ’56 Po Shan Suen and Howard Borzell Susanna Suh and James Larish Patricia Sullivan Cara W. Summit ’98 Iris and Josiah Swasey Jennifer B. Sweetwood John Sweetwood ’18 Hailey Sylvander ’17 Tracey Sylvester ’97 Heather Symons ’01 Su-Yun and Armin Szegedi Johanna and Edward Szerencsits Jeffrey Szilagyi and Kathleen Beebe Casey R. Szilagyi ’19 Ami and Andrew M. Talkow Jon W. Tarrant ’63 Meg and Harry Temkin C.G. Thomas ’74 Adeline and Jean Thomas Elizabeth and Wallace Thompson Erica Thompson Pat and Ed Thwaite Salamishah M. Tillet and Solomon Steplight ’93 Judy and Philip To Emily T. Tompsett Robert L. Tortoriello Veronica and Mauricio Toscano Carol Traenkle ’55 Marianne Traina Seth D. Traum ’91 Marilyn Travis Laura and Eric Treadaway C.Y. Treene ’54 Nicholas Tricarico Sandra Tritt ’99 Shawn and David Troutt Hyla Troxell ’46 Stephen Tse ’16 Shelly Tsirulik ’16 Marc Tuazon Alexis Tucker ’04 Sonia and William Tyson Jody A. Underwood ’83

Olga and Alexander Urben Nadine and Bradley Vaiana Amy C. Van Eepoel and Stephen Valentine Pam Valentine Mary Valentine and Shanie Israel Hobart D. Van Deusen ’54 Lois and John Van Deusen Bronson Van Wyck ’63 E. Hawley Van Wyck, III ’60 Eva Vayo Ramon Vega Stefania and Jeffrey M. Venezia Anne Marie Verdiramo ’92 Kerry Verrone and John Jacobs Gloria and John Vinasco Suzanne and Justus von Lengerke Sonia Vora and Carlos Gonzalez Alexandra Wade ’18 Margaret and Richard Wager Shelley Walchak ’69 Alyson Waldman ’99 and Matthew Waldman ’98 Kim and Geoff Walls Margo and Frank Walter Karen Wargo and David Rubin Valbona and Todd E. Watkins Pamela and LeRoy Watkins Sarah E. Watt ’06 Kristen Weaver and David Polinchock Patricia Webb ’59 Angelo Weber ’17 Lela Weems, MD and Shaka Rasheed Griffin A. Weil ’20 Wayne Weil ’84 Lori and Parker A. Weil Suzanne and Mark Weinberg Scott M. Weiner ’92 Wendy and Stephen C. Weinstein Amy Weppner and Irakli Endeladze Carol and David Weppner Margo and Douglas Wheeler Ann Whitehouse ’59 Suzette Whiting ’53 Kevin Wilkins ’83 Keith Williams Sanaa H. Williams ’21 Ethan J. Williams ’21 Stephanie and Olin Williams Elizabeth and Ather Williams Joseph H. Willner ’62 Julie and Jyri-Pekka Wilska Joe, Donna and Trey Wilson Ruth Wilson ’51 Jill Wimmer Jim Windolf ’82 Beverly Winston Jessica and Ari Wise Jean Witherington ’54 Carla A. Woldt ’03 Noah Wolk ’21 Nancy and Michael Wolk Jonathan Wood ’78 Susan Wood ’63 Michelle Worthington Susan Wright ’65 Cindy Wu and Raymond Tse Nicole Xu and Jonathan To Thaddeus M. Yablonsky ’82 Naomi Yablonsky Cui Yang and Dayong Wang Laura (Eng) Yeu ’89 and Patrick Yeu Jennifer Young Lindsey Yu ’21 Jane Zagajeski and Christian D. Ely Shazia and Sajid S. Zaidi

Jennifer and Peter J. Zangari Abraham I. Zeigler ’89 Ying Zhang and Yibo Huang Sunny Zhao and Gavin Gao Karina and Marek Zidlicky Xiaoyu Lu and Heng Zou Jonathan A. Zweifler ’97 Anonymous (39) THE MKA FUND

COMMUNITY SCHOLARS

The Community Scholars Program was founded in 1969 by Montclair Academy and has been the school’s longest standing effort to reduce the financial barriers of providing an exceptional academic experience for extraordinary young men and women. The program can support seven scholars per year and covers full tuition and all related school and extracurricular activity costs.

This program is almost entirely funded through MKA’s operating budget.

Ahmed Abukwaik ’18 Doron Abrahami ’86 John S. Allen ’57 Cionna S. Almeida ’03 Igor Alves ’99 Antonia J. Amico ’06 and Andrew Barchenko ’06 Adrienne Amirata ’86 Kathryn Auw Prasad ’01 Lisa S. Aufzien ’76 Betsy Bacot-Aigner ’80 Martene Ballance Priya and Naveen Ballem, MD ’90 Angela Barral ’82 and Stephen Barral ’80 Michelle Barbetta Tanya L. Barnes ’96 LaWanda Beckett Thane E. Benson ’70 Brittany A. Berckes ’06 Jessica C. Bishop ’04 Melissa Bowman ’01 John T. Boyle ’75 Elizabeth and J. Martin Brayboy ’80 Edith Brennan Regina and Bill Bronson Allison Brown ’04 and Steven M. Brown Deborah and William W. Brown Roger Brown ’85 Denise Brown-Allen and Douglas Allen Pamela B. Berkowsky ’81 Thomas R. Brueckner ’72 James H. Bryan ’71 Parkins T. Burger ’95 Carolyn Calnan ’81 Stewart L. Carr ’74 Steven G. Chambers ’81 Francesca Cherchio ’16 Sara Close ’76 Jane and Harold D. Cohen ’57 Paul J. Colatrella ’86 Megan R. Cole ’86 Elizabeth and Shane Cooney Robert F. D’Alessandro ’19 Eugene M. D’Altrui ’76 Matthew C. Dairman ’90 Alexis and Ed S. Davis Jessa Dawson ’66 Francesca D. De La Torre ’00 Caitlin DiRuggiero ’06

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Katherine and Robert Ruberton Joshua S. Rudbart ’04 John H. Rudd ’67 Estate of Susan H. Ruddick ’54 Martha and Thomas Ruddy Kristen and Jim Rugel Olga and David Rukshin Sheereen and Ahmad Russell Grace Russo ’21 Nitu and Saras Rustagi Kathryn and Duane Sachs Charles R. Sage ’52 Anu Sahi-Shah and Samir B. Shah Barbara and Steven Sakovits Shefali and Sumeet Salwan Stephanie and Glenn Salzman Richard Sandler ’48 Nicole Sandler ’01 Marshall P. Sandoval ’14 Alexander Sandoval ’17 Lincoln Sandoval ’21 Regan P. Sandoval ’21 Eric A. Sandwall ’60 Moushumi Sanghavi and Daniel Khublall Emily Santangelo ’02 Elizabeth A. Santarlasci ’79 Jessica Sarfati Kathy A. Sasena Michael D. Sasso ’12 Kim Saunders Bianca Scalzo ’28 Colleen and Robert Scalzo Jeffrey P. Schiffman ’75 Stacy and David Schlosser April L. Schott-Auerbach ’98 and Philip A. Auerbach Kyle M. Schrader David L. Schwartzbard ’86 Jane Scovil ’49 Rebecca and John C. Scuorzo Lynn and Sengal Selassie Talia Selove and Roger Manzo Daphne and Gardner B. Semet ’79 Cornelia A. Serota ’39 Lisa B. Shapiro ’70 Alexandra and Amit B. Sharma Frederick H. Sheldon ’70 Maria Shepard Mendez Julie and Matthew Sherman Chelsea Shey ’21 Patricia and Aidan Shields Lisa and Leo Shilkrot Lynne and Richard Sibilia Carly D. Sibilia ’13 Meredith and Justin Silver Michael N. Silverman ’51 Andrea D. Simon ’65 Fangzhou and Sevan Simon Lindberg K. Simpson Tripti Singh and Samarpal S. Bhatia Elizabeth Sinn Keri and Darryl Siry Robert M. Skinner Brooke and Michael Skolnick Karen and Emanuel Slater Alison Slone and Adam Miller Nancy and Anthony Slone Margaret Slotkin Cheryl and Marc Slutzky Leigh B. Smith ’45 (Former Faculty) Daniel Smith Dudley C. Smith ’49 Jane and Kenneth Smith Laurie and Jeffrey Smith Linda Smith ’56 Sheila and Todd Smith

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George C. Dolatly ’86 George A. Downsbrough ’69 Michael Ehrenberg ’75 Mary and Edward Elliott Sybil M. Eng and Tad Roselund Roxane Esposito ’00 The Everson Family Taylor E. Everson ’21 Efua and Louis Feldman Susan Ferdinand ’56 Allison Smith Fernandez ’90 Stanton N. Fields ’10 Robert M. Fischbein ’56 Susan Foley Lindsay B. Forman ’01 Tatjana Gall ’01 Frank Gallo ’75 Balaji Gandhi ’91 Meredith and Aaron Gardner James W. Giarrusso ’75 Bora Goekbora ’08 Justin Goldsman ’11 Christina Gonsalves ’10 Ayana C. Goore ’89 P ’31 Dionne Gronda ’01 Karen and Robert Gulliver Deborah E. Haight ’96 Virginia and James A. Halprin ’80 Kristin Halvey Lisa Harrison John F. Hawley ’66 Prof. Tracy Higgins and Mr. James Leitner Ashley and Craig Hirsh ’01 Bret R. Hirsh ’00 Lauren Hooper-Rogers ’00 David L. Hughes ’76 The Ievers Family Cheryl and Robert D. Jackson ’73 Colette Jackson ’85 Frederic Jewelers Alexander Joerger ’95 Asa B. Johnson ’75 Lauren Hyman Kaplan ’93 and Douglas Kaplan Donald M. Karp ’54 Rebecca and Jonathan Kelly Daniella and Bryan Kessler Victoria Kitirattragarn ’15 Raymond J. Knox ’76 Frederick L. Kramer ’58 Joan Kubicek ’01 Andrew M. Kyrejko ’05 Frank J. La Rocca ’69 Gregory C. Lackey ’73 Nancy Lee ’75 Alexis L. Levengood ’06 Rachel Levine ’06 Hayne Lim ’11 Ira N. Lome ’81 Erica I. Lubetkin ’86 Rashida MacMurray-Abdullah ’91 David McCants ’87 Lt. Col. Francis C. McCrane ’51 Lhenée S. McKoy ’05 Peter A. Michelotti ’86 Heather E. Milke ’15 Ruth D. Miller Sunnie Minn Rohan A. Moniz ’21 Melissa Montemuino Lisa Bombardieri Moore ’90 Kathleen and Jonathan Morisseau Richard M. Moskowitz ’81 Chadd A. Mukete ’11 Charles J. Mund ’74 Diana and Ryan J. Murelli

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David Newman ’81 Irma Nimetz ’80 Samora Noguera ’02 Joseph O’Neill ’05 Dana Pisacane ’01 Harvie L. Porter ’70 Jill Porter Larson ’90 Joshua M. Ramos ’99 Kimberly and David W. Ramsay Diana E. Reiter ’01 Riley J. Rendino ’21 Dana E. Rose and Jared Barbin Michael A. Rosenberg ’76 Martha Bonta and Mark Rotella Jin and Daniel Rubenstein Emily Ryan ’04 Franklin M. Sachs ’58 Denise Sarkor ’03 Jodi and Luke Sarsfield ’91 Amarkanth and Patrisia Saxena Janet A. Scheel ’76 Arthur D. Schwartz ’59 Jason Schwartz ’01 Eric R. Schwarz ’76 John Schwarzmann ’51 Amy and Jay Shapiro Kristen Sigler Natasha Silodor ’11 Tripti Singh and Samarpal S. Bhatia Alison Slone and Adam Miller Leigh B. Smith ’45 (Former Faculty) Christopher H. Smith ’85 Rebecca Smith ’11 Charlotte Stanton ’16 Daniel Stern ’11 Robert C. Streit ’97 Charles H. Talbert ’76 Jamie Taylor ’90 Meg and Harry Temkin Mark Teo ’91 Alice M. Terrell-Bryant Alison Thomas-Cottingham ’84 and Robert Cottingham ’84 Erica Thompson Natalia Torres ’01 Rosanne Ugone ’76 Krishna P. Vallabhaneni ’90 Laura (Brown) Vassilowitch ’01 William Wagner ’06 Louis S. Waldman ’01 Helen W. Walter Crossen ’95 and David Crossen Samuel S. Weiss ’72 Dana R. Welsh ’97 Katie and Cameron Williams Andrew R. Yagoda ’21 Lynne Yellin ’87 Damon W. Zeigler ’86 Laura Zimmerman Anonymous (6) THE MKA FUND

THE KIMBERLEY FUND

Established with a lead gift from a Kimberley School alumna, The Kimberley Fund provides financial aid to deserving young women in grades 6-12 Aubin Ames ’54 Dominique Benson Grace and Marcus Bourbon Gillian and Geoffrey Branigan Patricia Brown ’70

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Marian Castell ’54 Jacqueline Cestone ’54 Joan Clarke ’66 Melissa L. Cohn ’78 Barbara Creed ’62 Martha Day ’74 and H. Neal Day Andrea DelleChiaie and Risa Wexler Mary Anne Doty ’60 Susan Ferdinand ’56 Eleanor Ketcham ’46 Hailey and Charlie Kim Mary Jane Knapp ’63 Archana and Vivek Kwatra Deborah Lewis ’67 Alice C. Cleaves ’51 Lillian Louie ’72 Gail S. Marentette ’51 Janet Mason ’48 Audrey McBratney-Bittner ’50 and Douglas McBratney-Bittner Alexandra McManus ’81 Margaret M. Overholser ’45 Adele D. Poholsky ’60 Katharine A. Powell ’70 Patricia A. Pruett ’48 Brian N. Purcell ’09 Carol Rasic ’56 Patricia R. Silver ’72 Helen Skeen ’56 Leigh B. Smith ’45 (Former Faculty) Sally Alice Smith ’60 Constance Sumas ’59 and Robert P. Sumas Constance Van Eeghen ’73 Nancy Ward ’56 Lela Weems, MD and Shaka Rasheed Nancy White ’51 Elizabeth Zellner ’70 Anonymous (2)

GIFTS TO RESTRICTED OPERATING FUNDS

Restricted operating funds support specific initiatives within the annual operating budget.We are deeply grateful for those who have chosen to support a specific area within the 2019-20 fiscal year. Thank you for your support!

Faculty Wish List and Lecture Series PAMKA The Fleming Fund Susanna Suh and James Larish Technology Tools Ashley and Robert D. Di Geronimo Kimberly and John O’Kane Stephanie and Glenn Salzman Primary School Library Fund The Albert Payson Terhune Foundation Strings Fund Susanna Suh and James Larish

GIFTS IN KIND

Ronak S. Bhatia ’19 Charlie Koenig ’20 Estate of Peter J. Linder ’44 Gail S. Marentette ’51 Shawn and David Portner Amanda E. Spagnoletti ’97 and Paul Spagnoletti

MKA DAY

FEBRUARY 25, 2021 Thank you to the 486 alumni, parents, grandparents, faculty, staff, and friends who made a gift on our 6th annual MKA Day, raising $240,029 for The MKA Fund.

We are incredibly grateful to Regina and Bill Bronson, Alexis and Ed Davis, The Everson Family, Efua and Louis Feldman, Amy and Peter Fusco ’89, Carolyn and Michael Goldman, Christine and Charles Hough, Lisa Lazarus and Robert Coviello, Gregory and Cristin Lovallo, Heidi and Jason McAndrew, Alexandra Okun and Craig Dubitsky, Susanna Suh and James Larish, and Amy Weppner and Irakli Endeladze who gave generously in challenge fund donations and helped to inspire others to make gifts to support our students and faculty on this day.

Delicia and Julius S. Abdur-Rahim Ahmed Abukwaik ’18 Roberta and Peter Adams Isabel and Michael Alexander Debra Allen Devin C. Almeida ’05 David W. Ames ’89 Antonia J. Amico ’06 and Andrew Barchenko ’06 René Amirata Florence and Derrick Arcilla Monica A. Ashley ’98 Rosalie Asia Elizabeth August and Martin Restituyo Bernadette Aulestia-Lynch and Kristian Lynch Jason A. Awerdick ’94 Kimberly A. Baker ’00 Mario Baldino Mark R. Baran ’74 Jennifer and Matt Baranello Michelle Barbetta Alise and Damien A. Barrett Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 and John Barrett Paige T. Barrett ’09 Penelope Bassett and Miles Hackett Maureen Bates Anne and Martin Baum Matilda Baye-Akaho and Wisdom Akaho LaWanda Beckett Daniel H. Beirne ’74 Carlaina Bell Howard T. Bellin ’53 Dominique Benson Victor Bernstein ’65 Gretchen L. Berra Amy R. Berry ’99 Ashish and Sneha Bhatia Melanie Bieber ’03 Jessica C. Bishop ’04 Tammy and Michael Blau Grace and Marcus Bourbon Renee Boynton-Jarrett and Gene Jarrett Susan and J. Thomas Bradley Jr. Nakeyl J. Branch-Johnson and Abdullah F. Johnson David F. Brandley ’73 Gillian and Geoffrey Branigan Edith Brennan Christopher Brenner ’77 Elaine and Vincent Brier William J. Bromley ’16 Regina and Bill Bronson

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Sally and Donald Firth Breena and Jed A. Fishback Raphael Flowers and Tunizia Ahmed-Flowers Susan Foley Patricia Forbes Bette Fox and Richard Liss Eric Fox and Daniel Helmick Tracy R. Frager ’79 Joelle M. Francht Jessica and Michael Freeman Sheri and Jason Friedman Karen and Heny Furst Amy and Peter Fusco ’89 Susan Galligan ’74 and Thomas C. Galligan ’73 Aimee and Sargent C. Gardiner Lauren and Nathan S. Gardner Meredith and Aaron Gardner Sophia Garrubbo ’18 Tricia and Guy P. Garrubbo Jennifer and Jason Gauvin Catherine and Pete Gaynor Amanda Gertsen ’05 Suzanne Giarrusso Tanner U. Gill ’14 Alisha and Jonathan Glaser Serena Godwin ’92 Joanne Goldberg ’87 and Daniel Goldberg Carolyn and Michael Goldman Russell Goodrich Gordon-Goodrich Family Ayana C. Goore ’89 P ’31 Charles Gray ’07 Nicholas F. Graziano ’90 Shelly B. Grossman Marie Grover Injoo Han King and Michael King Susan and Jan W. Hansen Jade Harris and Michael Copeland Lisa Harrison Stuart Harwood ’07 Emma and Marshall Hatcher Kathryn V. Hatfield Alan Hawes ’96 Xinping He and Hao Shen Karen Heath-Wade and Kirk Wade Colleen Helsel Matthew B. Hendrian ’86 Silvia Henriquez and Luis Villafana Ann and David Hessler Ashley and Craig Hirsh ’01 Rebecca and Jonathan B. Hirsh ’95 William R. Hitchcock ’19 Nicole and David Hoppe Debbie Horn and Ronald Wolfson Christine and Charles Hough Michael Houston Myra and George Hrab Dennis Hu Elise Hubert and Joseph Borrelli Kathy and Bill Hubert Karen and Sean Hudson Miller and Stephen Hughes Lisa Hyman Sackman and Joel Sackman The Ievers Family Thomas D. Isenberg ’75 Dwight Jackson ’08 Janice and Jeffrey Jacobson Dipali and Sudhir Jain Dagmara Jastrzebska ’02 Peter Jensen Grace A. Jones ’19 Elizabeth L. Kallay ’18 Katherine Kallay ’20 Eun Jung Kang and Bum Suk Shim

Lana Kang ’89 Lauren Hyman Kaplan ’93 and Douglas Kaplan Elizabeth and Jason Katz Patricia Kearns The Kearns Family Rebecca and Jonathan Kelly Peggy and Chris Kenrick Maryanne Kesler Daniella and Bryan Kessler Azka Khan and Faisal Asghar Beth and Gary Kiang Monica Kurpiewski and Robert Kilcullen Hailey and Charlie Kim Kimberly A. Kohlman ’91 Raji and Suresh Krishnan Geoffrey R. Krouse ’89 Pia Kutten Archana and Vivek Kwatra Brenda and Robert Ladd Ginny and David Laird Dena and Keith Lambie Cara Landolfi ’05 Alexander J. Langbein ’03 Taryn and Darren Langer Linda and Christopher Larkin India Larrier ’80 and John H. Larrier Sydney A. Larrier ’14 Julia Lazarus ’86 Lisa Lazarus and Robert Coviello Michelle and Conway Lee ’90 Michelle and James Lee John Leister Christa Leonard Joshua Levine ’17 The Levy Family Varsay Lewis Jiang Li and Tianwei Yao Charlotte Lillard Caroline Lilore and Anthony Sciancalepore David and Amy Lim Mary Ann and Clifford Lindholm Jennifer Liu and Benjamin Chang Mei Liu and Yingjun Sun Kate Logan and Edmund Rung Fay and Bryan Lonsinger Gregory and Cristin Lovallo John B. Lowy ’61 Xiaoyu Lu and Heng Zou Vanessa and John Lucas Helen Makohon Barbara and Dennis Mamchur Rich Margolin Dara J. Marmon ’91 Louise and Guy Maxwell Jill and Michael T. Maza Heidi and Jason McAndrew Angela M. McCaffrey ’06 Kerri McGuire ’18 Alexandra McManus ’81 Erin and James McMenamin Elise McMullen ’08 Margaret McNany Vincent A. Mead ’61 Julia Meade ’80 Courtney and Christopher Meeker Lucia and Ian M. Melhuish ’99 Isabella Amanda Mendez ’16 Vinita and Vinay Mendiratta Lynn Menschenfreund and Paulo Silva Leah and Steven Meranus Amy Meyers and Anthony Rizzo Hazar Michael and Amer Elkhouri Helena and Svetislav Milic Ruth D. Miller

Isabel S. Minard ’60 Sunnie Minn Lauren Mirman ’01 and Matthew Mirman Kenneth Miscia Sharon Moe ’92 Veena and Alphonsus Moniz Christina Montgomery ’81 Carlos Montoya and Penny Weissman Toretha and Roberto F. Morales Anne M. Morey ’79 Derek Morf Kathleen and Jonathan Morisseau Kristin J. Morisseau ’13 Rebekkah and Peter Morral The Mortimore Family Michele A. Mucci ’84 Chadd A. Mukete ’11 Meghan Murray and Jack Stadtlander Ingrid Nakamura ’92 Ryan Napoli ’15 Patrick J. Napolitano ’18 Brynnae Newman ’18 Huma Niazi Elizabeth and Miguel Nieves Aleezae Nisar ’16 Emily J. Nisbet ’90 Samora Noguera ’02 Heather and Michael Nowak Rosita G. and Enrique Nunez Pilar and Gary Nussbaum Kelsey S. O’Connor ’14 Kimberly and John O’Kane Karin and John W. Odell Maureen and Mgbeahuru Ogbuehi Alexandra Okun and Craig Dubitsky Serene and Jason Olin Crystal Olsen Glynn Nahder Pajoohi ’92 Nilie Pajoohi ’89 and Hossein Ekrami Susan and Joseph Pannullo Corrie and Albert Pantow Benjamin E. Parker ’96 Karen B. Paty ’95 Tameka and David Pearce Sandra Pekar ’66 Judith and Brewster Perkins Laela Perkins and Michael Thwaite ’97 Steven B. Pestka ’91 Robert Piotrowski Jr. Stacey Polanskyj ’92 and Peter Polanskyj Gary C. Powell ’83 Bidyut and Reena Pramanik Brian N. Purcell ’09 Marie Louise Purdy and Roger Seifter Hanna and Jozef Puzio Kaivon and Lauren Rahaghi Juan Ramos Lauren Ramos Kimberly and David W. Ramsay Joseph and John Randolph Maubra Randolph Michelle and Jordan Raper Yesenia Ravelo-Rodriguez and Erik Rodriguez Alisa and Joshua H. Raymond ’89 Hollie and Sean Reddington Benjamin P. Rich Eileen and Robert C. Richardson Diane Ridley, MD ’84 Lori and David Riley Brittany and Pablo Rincon Donna Ritter and Barry Levinson Sandra M. Rivera and Gerardo Mejia Janet Robertson and Mark Bishop Stephen Roca Laura and Victor Rodriguez

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Allison Brown ’04 and Steven M. Brown Corey Brown ’07 Kirsten and Christopher Brown Melissa Brown and Joel De La Fuente Patricia Brown ’70 Denise Brown-Allen and Douglas Allen Erica Budd Christy Burke Seth L. Bynum ’11 Elizabeth Byrne and Niall Mullane Kelly Byrne ’08 Liam Campbell Carolyn Cariello ’62 James Castelli Monica and Atul Chakradeo Sonia and Parmi Cheema Tingting Chen Nathan Chickering David J. Choi ’90 Nina and Suraj Chopra Sonia Chudasama-Patel and Amish Patel Abigail and Edward K. Chung Laura and Christopher Chung Renee L. Ciccarella ’93 Susan M. Ciccone O’Donnell ’85 and Matthew J. O’Donnell Tesia E. Ciechanowski ’05 Kimberly and Robert Clark Alanna L. Clayton ’23 Alexa R. Clayton ’25 Deborah and Steven Clayton Elizabeth and James Clothier Pamela and Justin Colledge Ashley Conde Monica Conley and Eric Newman Patricia Park Connell Timothy C. Cook Elizabeth and Shane Cooney Alisa A. Corbett Kate B. Corcoran ’97 Paige L. Cottingham-Streater ’79 Francine Crawford ’66 Steven Cristello Robert F. D’Alessandro ’19 Eugene M. D’Altrui ’76 N. B. and Patricia Dancy Lori Daskowitz Alexis and Ed S. Davis Maris and Trayton M. Davis Jamie L. Decter ’93 and Mitchell J. Decter ’94 Laura Demaria Carmen and David J. DeMatteis ’95 Demetra Demetrios- Avalos and Jose Avalos Nicholas DeVenezia Gemma M. Diaco ’98 Danielle Donatiello ’09 Jenna Donatiello ’17 Deanna Donnelly Janita and Meyrick I. Douglas Aleksandr Duba Mary and Edward Elliott Monica and Matthew Elmore Sara and David Elwell Kathy and Christopher X. Eng Shirley and Willie Eng Sybil M. Eng and Tad Roselund Efua and Louis Feldman Michael D. Feldman ’80 Susan Ferdinand ’56 Christine A. and Ronald L. Fernandez Jeffrey Festa ’06 Jocelyn Fine and Javier Ferrandiz Alexis and Clifford Finkle IV ’92

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Wendy D. Roome ’66 Erin and Paul D. Rooney Iris Rosario and Luis Martinez Dana E. Rose and Jared Barbin Stacy and Scott Rosenblum Charry L. Ross ’89 Shawna and Benjamin M. Roth ’94 Katherine and Robert Ruberton Olga and David Rukshin Sheereen and Ahmad Russell Nitu and Saras Rustagi Anu Sahi-Shah and Samir B. Shah Barbara and Steven Sakovits Nicole Sandler ’01 Moushumi Sanghavi and Daniel Khublall Elizabeth A. Santarlasci ’79 Jessica Sarfati Kathy A. Sasena Michael D. Sasso ’12 Kim Saunders Bianca Scalzo ’28 Jeffrey P. Schiffman ’75 Kyle M. Schrader Rebecca and John C. Scuorzo Talia Selove and Roger Manzo Amy and Jay Shapiro Alexandra and Amit B. Sharma Lisa and Leo Shilkrot Carly D. Sibilia ’13 Lynne and Richard Sibilia Kristen Sigler Meredith and Justin Silver Andrea D. Simon ’65 Fangzhou and Sevan Simon Tripti Singh and Samarpal S. Bhatia Keri and Darryl Siry Robert M. Skinner Karen and Emanuel Slater Alison Slone and Adam Miller Nancy and Anthony Slone Margaret Slotkin Cheryl and Marc Slutzky Laurie and Jeffrey Smith Rebecca Smith ’11 Sheila and Todd Smith Stephen M. Smith ’81 and Susan M. Smith Lara and John Snyder Sherrese and Roger Soares Camilla B. Solari ’91 Manika Sood and Prashant Bhatia Laura Sorokoff Gelman and Andrew Gelman Amanda E. Spagnoletti ’97 and Paul Spagnoletti Jaclyn Spedaliere ’00 and Mark Spedaliere Jonathan Spencer ’87 Walter J. Sperling ’67 Kathryn Stallings and Stanley Chiu Kate and James Stanford Donna K. Starke Aaron Sterling ’14 Brook and William Stites Po Shan Suen and Howard Borzell Susanna Suh and James Larish Patricia Sullivan Cara W. Summit ’98 Hailey Sylvander ’17 Heather Symons ’01 Casey R. Szilagyi ’19 Jon W. Tarrant ’63 Meg and Harry Temkin Alice M. Terrell-Bryant Adeline and Jean Thomas

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Erica Thompson Pat and Ed Thwaite Salamishah M. Tillet and Solomon Steplight ’93 Emily T. Tompsett Veronica and Mauricio Toscano Seth D. Traum ’91 Laura and Eric Treadaway Sandra Tritt ’99 Shawn and David Troutt Stephen Tse ’16 Shelly Tsirulik ’16 Marc Tuazon Alexis Tucker ’04 Jody A. Underwood ’83 Mary Valentine and Shanie Israel Hobart D. Van Deusen ’54 Stefania and Jeffrey M. Venezia Sonia Vora and Carlos Gonzalez Alexandra Wade ’18 Margaret and Richard Wager Alyson Waldman ’99 and Matthew Waldman ’98 Kim and Geoff Walls Dayana D. Campo and Roger Walter Helen W. Walter Crossen ’95 and David Crossen Karen Wargo and David Rubin Pamela and LeRoy Watkins Valbona and Todd E. Watkins Sarah E. Watt ’06 Angelo Weber ’17 Lela Weems, MD and Shaka Rasheed Suzanne and Mark Weinberg Wendy and Stephen C. Weinstein Amy Weppner and Irakli Endeladze Keith Williams Stephanie and Olin Williams Joe, Donna and Trey Wilson Jill Wimmer Nancy and Michael Wolk Michelle Worthington Nicole Xu and Jonathan To Cui Yang and Dayong Wang Laura (Eng) Yeu ’89 and Patrick Yeu Jennifer Young Jane Zagajeski and Christian D. Ely Jennifer and Peter J. Zangari Abraham I. Zeigler ’89 Laura Zimmerman Jonathan A. Zweifler ’97 Anonymous (23)

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Aubin Ames ’54 Rick Andlinger Naveen Ballem, MD ’90 Jennifer Barbetta Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 James Bromley Bonnie Carter Evelyn Colbert Paige L. Cottingham-Streater ’79 David A. Crichlow Caitlin DiRuggiero ’06 Carolyn Everson Clifford Finkle IV ’92 Peter Fusco ’89 Karen Gulliver Tracy Higgins Alice Hirsh Janice Jacobson Tina Jordan Lauren Hyman Kaplan ’93 Kate Logan Thomas Nammack Barry W. Ridings ’70 Robert Ruberton Stephanie Salzman Luke Sarsfield ’91 Newton B. Schott, Jr. Matthew Sherman Craig S. Solomon Jeffrey Szilagyi Robert L. Tortoriello Margaret Wager AFFILIATE TRUSTEES Nadia Altirs Sybil Eng Solomon Steplight ’93 FORMER TRUSTEES Linda Almeida Joseph V. Amato Daniel B. Carson ’83 Christina Cotton Trayton M. Davis Martha Day ’74 Paul G. Edwards Andree J. Finkle David Gray Barbara Holmes Robert D. Jackson ’73 Richard G. Jenkins ’77 Gail Kerr ’52 Ruth Kidde Peter McMullen ’77 Glenda McNeal Steven C. Milke Kristine O’Connor ’83

Dean Paolucci ’73 John B. Phillips ’78 Shelley Phillips Joshua H. Raymond ’89 Karen Ross Jolinda Smith Jaclyn Spedaliere ’00 Linda Sterling Jonathan M. Strain Hyla Troxell ’46 Denise Wagner J. K. Walker ’80

ALUMNI COUNCIL ​​Seth Bynum ’11 Kelly Byrne ’08 Georgia S. Carrington ’54 Jenna Clancey ’03 Geoffrey Close ’71 Caitlin DiRuggiero ’06 Jeffrey Festa ’06 Stuart Harwood ’07 Cara Landolfi ’05 Angela M. McCaffrey ’06 Lhenée McKoy ’05 Chadd Mukete ’11 Samora Noguera ’02 J. Dean Paolucci ’73

ALUMNI LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Dennis Manalo ’88 Denise Sarkor ’03 Christopher H. Smith ’85 Kevin Wilkins ’83

STUDENT ALUMNI RELATIONS COUNCIL Resham Datwani ’21 Elizabeth Esterow ’21 Madison Golodner ’21 Nihaar Gopalji ’21

MKA COLLEAGUES Isabel Alexander Michael Alexander Debra Allen

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Carol A. Ippisch Shanie Israel John Jacobs Charles A. Janus Peter Jensen Alan Jones Patricia Kearns Chris Kenrick Maryanne Kesler Daniella Kessler Madison Kilduff Marsha Kleinman Randy Kleinman David Korfhage Suresh Krishnan Pia Kutten Alexander J. Langbein ’03 Linda F. Larkin Robert Leather John Leister Christa Leonard Varsay Lewis Charlotte Lillard Fay Lonsinger Diane Lundy Helen Makohon Louise Maxwell Jill Maza Erin C. McMenamin Marnie McNany Michael S. Melitz ’14 Isabella Amanda Mendez ’16 Ruth D. Miller Sunnie Minn Kenneth Miscia Derek Morf Kathleen Morisseau Diana J. Murelli Meghan Murray Thomas Nammack Karen Newman Huma Niazi John Odell Crystal Olsen Glynn Laela Perkins Robert Piotrowski Jr. Spencer Pyke Lauren Ramos Juan Ramos Jordan Raper Yesenia Ravelo-Rodriguez Benjamin P. Rich Eileen M. Richardson Brittany Rincon Pablo Rincon Stephen Roca Sabino T. Rodano Dana E. Rose Jessica Sarfati Kathy A. Sasena Michael D. Sasso ’12 Kim Saunders Kyle Schrader Amy Shapiro Maria Shepard Mendez Kristen Sigler Fangzhou Simon Tripti Singh Margaret Slotkin Jane Smith Kenneth Smith Laurie Smith Sheila Smith Todd Smith Donna K. Starke William Stites Jr.

Michael D. Strader Patricia Sullivan Alice M. Terrell-Bryant Erica Thompson Caroline Toman Emily T. Tompsett Veronica Toscano Marianne Traina Laura Treadaway Marc Tuazon Nicholas Tricarico Stephen Valentine Ramon Vega Kerry Verrone Ronald Wolfson Roger Walter Valbona Watkins Penny Weissman Pamela L. Watkins Michelle Worthington Kristen Weaver Jill Wimmer Jennifer Young Alyson C. Waldman Laura Zimmerman Anonymous (8)

PARENTS

CLASS OF 2021 Lesley and Melih Abdulhayoglu Nicole and Steven L. Andrews Bernadette Aulestia-Lynch and Kristian Lynch Renee Boynton-Jarrett and Gene Jarrett Elizabeth and James Clothier Leigh and Patrick J. Conforti Alisa A. Corbett Darlene and Joe D’Angelo Lavina and Prakash Datwani Ashley and Robert D. Di Geronimo Laura and Kenneth Esterow The Everson Family Alisha and Jonathan Glaser Joanne Goldberg ’87 and Daniel Goldberg Lisa and Scott Golodner Foram and Jayesh Gopalji Gary W. Greendale Shelly B. Grossman Rhonda and Stratton R. Heath Prof. Tracy Higgins and Mr. James Leitner Melinda and John W. Hofmann Julianne A. Hunt and David Korfhage Vanessa Ignacio and Kyle Burns Suzanne M. Jogun and Mark C. Astley Tina Jordan and Kevin Rendino The Kearns Family Wendy Lazarus and David Glotzer Mary Ann and Clifford Lindholm Xiaoyu Lu and Heng Zou Vanessa and John Lucas Daniela and Cristian Mandachescu Leslie Meek-Wohl and Ethan Wohl Lynn Menschenfreund and Paulo Silva Veena and Alphonsus Moniz Alice and Richard T. Morris ’94 Serene and Jason Olin Amy Peterson and Jose Sandoval Hanna and Jozef Puzio Dana E. Rose and Jared Barbin Dori and Noel Sedransk Alexandra and Amit B. Sharma Susan Sobbott Manika Sood and Prashant Bhatia Brook and William Stites Susanna Suh and James Larish

Deborah and Thomas D. Turvey Margo and Douglas Wheeler Stephanie and Olin Williams Nancy and Michael Wolk Anonymous CLASS OF 2022 Sheri and Ted Bronstein Jean Caggiano and Michael Caggiano, Jr. Bonnie and Michael Carter Dianna and Dohyun Cha Monica and Atul Chakradeo Siu Chan-Lui and John Lui Jennie and Tom Cherry Nathan Chickering Meg Columbia-Walsh Lara J. Dahl and Adam S. Breslawsky Michelle Dice and Andres Espinosa Anne M. and David Flocco Raphael Flowers and Tunizia Ahmed-Flowers Susanne and Stefan Fornasier Suzanne and Mark E. Forysiak Amy Fossett Judith H. Germano Bonarti and Michael A. Bonarti Foram and Jayesh Gopalji Karen and Robert Gulliver Maria Gilmartin and Dimitri Hadjipetkov Debbie Horn and Ronald Wolfson Dipali and Sudhir Jain Elizabeth and Jason Katz Hailey and Charlie Kim Stephanie and Mason Kirsch Elsie Koh and Edmund Liu Cory and Mark Lebovitch Pearl Louie and Eric Lieberman Louise and Guy Maxwell Vinita and Vinay Mendiratta Rebekkah and Peter Morral Kerry and Paul Murphy Alexandra Okun and Craig Dubitsky Stacey Polanskyj ’92 and Peter Polanskyj Bidyut and Reena Pramanik Kimberly and David W. Ramsay Hollie and Sean Reddington Brittany and Pablo Rincon Donna Ritter and Barry Levinson Olga and David Rukshin Kathryn and Duane Sachs Barbara and Steven Sakovits Stephanie and Glenn Salzman Julie and Matthew Sherman Sheila and Todd Smith Jason Spitz Caroline Toman and Hugh Synder Sonia Vora and Carlos Gonzalez Cindy Wu and Raymond Tse Suzanne and Mark Weinberg Wendy and Stephen C. Weinstein Elizabeth and Ather Williams Laura (Eng) Yeu ’89 and Patrick Yeu Jennifer and Peter J. Zangari Anonymous (3) CLASS OF 2023 Delicia and Julius S. Abdur-Rahim Mr. Masoud and Mrs. Nadia Altirs Nicole and Steven L. Andrews Jennifer and Matt Baranello Jenn and Dave Baratta Anne and Martin Baum Matilda Baye-Akaho and Wisdom Akaho Kevin Bednar Wenfang Chen and Peter Young Deborah and Steven Clayton

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David N. Allen René Amirata Rosalie Asia Mario Baldino Jenn Baratta Michelle Barbetta Damien A. Barrett Patricia Bartolomeo Maureen J. Bates Carlaina Bell Dominique Benson Gretchen L. Berra Melanie Bieber ’03 Mark Bishop Cortland Bosc Grace Bourbon Gillian Branigan Geoffrey Branigan Edith Brennan Allison Brown ’04 Bill Bronson Steven Brown Erica Budd Liam Campbell Candace Carlson Timothy S. Carlson Katherine Caro James Castelli Tingting Chen Steven Clayton Ashley Conde Timothy C. Cook Elizabeth Cooney Steven Cristello Lori Daskowitz Kathryn H. Davison Laura Demaria Nicholas DeVenezia Deanna Donnelly Laura Doto Aleksandr Duba Paul G. Edwards Mary A. Elliott ’88 Monica Elmore Christian D. Ely Jocelyn Fine David Flocco Susan Foley Patricia Forbes Amy Fossett Joelle M. Francht Nathan S. Gardner Catherine Gaynor Pete Gaynor Robert Gelberg ’10 Suzanne Giarrusso Alisha Glaser Maria Gilmartin Benjamin Goodrich Russell Goodrich Deborah Gordan Dimitri Hadjipetkov Injoo Han King Susan L. Hansen Lisa Harrison Marshall Hatcher Xinping He Colleen Helsel David Hessler Laini J. Homer Nicole Hoppe Michael Houston George Hrab Dennis Hu Miller Hughes Gretchen H. Ievers

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Deanna and Sean Critchley Alexis and Ed S. Davis Jamie L. Decter ’93 and Mitchell J. Decter ’94 Andrea DelleChiaie and Risa Wexler Janita and Meyrick I. Douglas Kathy and Christopher X. Eng Sybil M. Eng and Tad Roselund Yun Fan and Yong Cai Breena and Jed A. Fishback Lori and Patrick Fouché Sheri and Jason Friedman Shelly B. Grossman Emma and Peter Herrick Melinda and John W. Hofmann Christine and Charles Hough Carol Hsu and Wayne Narucki Karen and Sean Hudson Kim and Bradford Huntington Mary and Joel Jeffrey Alissa and Curt J. Johnson Tina Jordan and Kevin Rendino Peggy and Chris Kenrick Melissa and David Landau Lisa Lazarus and Robert Coviello Michelle and Conway Lee ’90 Jennifer Liu and Benjamin Chang Vanessa and John Lucas Tiffany and Julian M. Malloy Jen and Earl Marshall Stacey Martin Kristen and Mark R. McClusky Courtney and Christopher Meeker Karen Merz Toretha and Roberto F. Morales Alice and Richard T. Morris ’94 Kerry and Paul Murphy Pilar and Gary Nussbaum Lilian and Robert Okai Corrie and Albert Pantow Sherrie and Lorne Potash Michael and Renee Rallatos Lori and David Riley Janet Robertson and Mark Bishop Iris Rosario and Luis Martinez Shawna and Benjamin M. Roth ’94 Lynn and Sengal Selassie Susan Sobbott Susanna Suh and James Larish Jeffrey Szilagyi and Kathleen Beebe Ami and Andrew M. Talkow Erica Rowe and Marc Urquhart Gloria and John Vinasco Lela Weems, MD and Shaka Rasheed Margo and Douglas Wheeler Jessica and Ari Wise Karina and Marek Zidlicky Xiaoyu Lu and Heng Zou Anonymous (4) CLASS OF 2024 Lesley and Melih Abdulhayoglu Mr. Masoud and Mrs. Nadia Altirs Florence and Derrick Arcilla Leena and Suvrat Bansal LaWanda Beckett Carolee Bol and Scott Rosenberg Martha Bonta and Mark Rotella Stacey Bradford-Greenberg and Rick Greenberg Nakeyl J. Branch-Johnson and Abdullah F. Johnson Gillian and Geoffrey Branigan Melissa Brown and Joel De La Fuente Jean Caggiano and Michael Caggiano, Jr. Bree and Keenan Choy

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Laura and Christopher Chung Alisa A. Corbett Alicia N. Diaz and Manuel Carbajal Demetra Demetrios- Avalos and Jose Avalos Monica and Matthew Elmore Swati Rao-Engel and Richard Engel Nathally and Marco Florio Judith H. Germano Bonarti and Michael A. Bonarti Carolyn and Michael Goldman Kathryn V. Hatfield Debbie Horn and Ronald Wolfson Christine and Charles Hough The Ievers Family Janice and Jeffrey Jacobson Hyun-Ju Kwak and Steve Kim Julie Kim ’92 and Sung W. Kim Molly and Andy Kuick Archana and Vivek Kwatra Pearl Louie and Eric Lieberman Mei Liu and Yingjun Sun Wendy Liu and Jingsheng Hua Sandy and Matt LoPiccolo Tricia and John Mac Evoy Natasha Mathias and Mayur Ian Somaiya Hazar Michael and Amer Elkhouri Lisa Bombardieri Moore ’90 Lilian and Robert Okai Gwynne Oosterbaan and John-Michael Maas Deborah and Michael I. Otner Nilie Pajoohi ’89 and Hossein Ekrami Stacey Polanskyj ’92 and Peter Polanskyj Eva and Ken Press Laura Quintano Kimberly and David W. Ramsay Sandra M. Rivera and Gerardo Mejia Kathryn and Duane Sachs Dori and Noel Sedransk Lara and John Snyder Manika Sood and Prashant Bhatia Jason Spitz Susanna Suh and James Larish Meg and Harry Temkin Deborah and Thomas D. Turvey Nadine and Bradley Vaiana Amy C. Van Eepoel and Stephen Valentine Sonia Vora and Carlos Gonzalez Kim and Geoff Walls Stephanie and Olin Williams Elizabeth and Ather Williams Shazia and Sajid S. Zaidi Sunny Zhao and Gavin Gao Anonymous (2) CLASS OF 2025 Sarah and Craig Barrack Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 and John Barrett Gillian and Geoffrey Branigan Regina and Bill Bronson Cara and Dan Cesareo Dianna and Dohyun Cha Siu Chan-Lui and John Lui Sonia and Parmi Cheema Nathan Chickering Deborah and Steven Clayton Leigh and Patrick J. Conforti Edwin and Kathryn Davison Jamie L. Decter ’93 and Mitchell J. Decter ’94 Janita and Meyrick I. Douglas Alexis and Clifford Finkle IV ’92 Anne M. and David Flocco

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Suzanne and Mark E. Forysiak Lori and Patrick Fouché Dulce Galvan-Wolf and Aaron Wolf Tricia and Guy P. Garrubbo Melissa Goldman-Williams Silvia Henriquez and Luis Villafana Rebecca and Jonathan B. Hirsh ’95 Josephine and Michael Horsburgh The Ievers Family Suzanne M. Jogun and Mark C. Astley Tina Jordan and Kevin Rendino Eun Jung Kang and Bum Suk Shim Lauren Hyman Kaplan ’93 and Douglas Kaplan Elizabeth and Jason Katz Leyla and Alan Korkmaz Lisa A. Krizner-George and David R. George Stacey Martin Richard and Susan Morganstein Michael and Renee Rallatos Courtney Reinisch and Eric Seid Janet Robertson and Mark Bishop Stacy and Scott Rosenblum Shawna and Benjamin M. Roth ’94 Erica Rowe and Marc Urquhart Rebecca and John C. Scuorzo Amy and Jay Shapiro Alexandra and Amit B. Sharma Keri and Darryl Siry Karen and Emanuel Slater Kate and James Stanford Adeline and Jean Thomas Lela Weems, MD and Shaka Rasheed Suzanne and Mark Weinberg Keith Williams Cui Yang and Dayong Wang Ying Zhang and Yibo Huang Anonymous (4) CLASS OF 2026 Alison Ainsworth and Edward Felsenthal Mr. Masoud and Mrs. Nadia Altirs Priya and Naveen Ballem, MD ’90 Leena and Suvrat Bansal Jenn and Dave Baratta Alise and Damien A. Barrett Wendy and Jared F. Bartie Matilda Baye-Akaho and Wisdom Akaho Maura and Coleman Bigelow Carolee Bol and Scott Rosenberg Sonia Chudasama-Patel and Amish Patel Laura and Christopher Chung Kimberly and Robert Clark Anne M. and David Flocco Alexandra Forman-Chou and William Chou Jessica and Michael Freeman Tricia and Guy P. Garrubbo Carolyn and Michael Goldman Elizabeth and Marek Hejna Miller and Stephen Hughes Lisa Hyman Sackman and Joel Sackman Le Kang and Geng Liu Hyun-Ju Kwak and Steve Kim Michelle and James Lee Jiang Li and Tianwei Yao David and Amy Lim Heidi and Jason McAndrew Courtney and Christopher Meeker Amy Meyers and Anthony Rizzo Hazar Michael and Amer Elkhouri Luz L. Miranda-Crespo and Luis Crespo Rebekkah and Peter Morral Michele A. Mucci ’84

Kerry and Paul Murphy Anne and Patrick J. Naughton Heather and Michael Nowak Maureen and Mgbeahuru Ogbuehi Swati Rao-Engel and Richard Engel Limor and Robert Regular Katherine and Robert Ruberton Stacy and David Schlosser Lisa and Leo Shilkrot Laura Sorokoff Gelman and Andrew Gelman April and Brett Straten Caroline Toman and Hugh Synder Shawn and David Troutt Nadine and Bradley Vaiana Laura (Eng) Yeu ’89 and Patrick Yeu Ying Zhang and Yibo Huang Anonymous (6) CLASS OF 2027 Mr. Masoud and Mrs. Nadia Altirs Diana Anders and Andrew Weiner Florence and Derrick Arcilla Bernadette Aulestia-Lynch and Kristian Lynch Jennifer and Victoria Barbetta Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 and John Barrett Alise and Damien A. Barrett Stacie L. Bright and Jordan K. Rhodes Regina and Bill Bronson Ingrid E. Burke Grace Cecilio-Dueno and Jason Dueno Abigail and Edward K. Chung Christine A. and Ronald L. Fernandez Alexis and Clifford Finkle IV ’92 Megan and Chad Flick Dulce Galvan-Wolf and Aaron Wolf Divya Gangadharan and Deepak Nair Aimee and Sargent C. Gardiner Jennifer and Jason Gauvin Jennifer and Darren Glatt Melissa Goldman-Williams Xinping He and Hao Shen Emma and Peter Herrick Emily and Chris Hogue Laini J. Homer The Ievers Family Janice and Jeffrey Jacobson Christine Kachinsky-Bye and John Bye Monica Kurpiewski and Robert Kilcullen Julie Kim ’92 and Sung W. Kim Justyna and Jan R. Kwapniewski Brenda and Robert Ladd Taryn and Darren Langer The Levy Family Margot and Hugh Macdonnell Jill and Michael T. Maza Luz L. Miranda-Crespo and Luis Crespo Ruchi Misra and Nicholas Hailey Susan and Joseph Pannullo Stacey Polanskyj ’92 and Peter Polanskyj Nadia M. and Mannan Razzak Emily Rosenblum and Steve Lucas Anu Sahi-Shah and Samir B. Shah Rebecca and John C. Scuorzo Patricia and Aidan Shields April and Brett Straten Sheryl A. Stoessel Suarez and Antonio E. Suarez Adeline and Jean Thomas Amy C. Van Eepoel and Stephen Valentine Mary Valentine and Shanie Israel Keith Williams Sunny Zhao and Gavin Gao

Nitu and Saras Rustagi Anu Sahi-Shah and Samir B. Shah Samantha and Ryan Schinman ’89 Brooke and Michael Skolnick Amanda E. Spagnoletti ’97 and Paul Spagnoletti Nadine and Bradley Vaiana Karen Wargo and David Rubin Rene and Marc J. Watkins Valbona and Todd E. Watkins Anonymous (3)

CLASS OF 2029 Alison Ainsworth and Edward Felsenthal Mr. Masoud and Mrs. Nadia Altirs Ashish and Sneha Bhatia Tammy and Michael Blau Laura Demaria Jennifer Docherty and Jane Fitzgerald Monica and Matthew Elmore Lauren and Jason Fass Megan and Chad Flick Tricia and Guy P. Garrubbo Jennifer and Jason Gauvin Marie Grover Silvia Henriquez and Luis Villafana Elise Hubert and Joseph Borrelli Le Kang and Geng Liu Taryn and Darren Langer Gisela and Ben Limberg Gregory and Cristin Lovallo Piper B. and Michael J. Magera Lucia and Ian M. Melhuish ’99 Amy Meyers and Anthony Rizzo Helena and Svetislav Milic Ruchi Misra and Nicholas Hailey Melissa Montemuino The Mortimore Family Olga Nam and Aleksandr Ligai Stacey Polanskyj ’92 and Peter Polanskyj Shawn and David Portner Michelle and Jordan Raper

CLASS OF 2031 Christina and Raymond Colotti Monica Conley and Eric Newman Jenn Dozier and Anindya Chakraberti Erin and John P. Edwards ’97 Lauren and Jason Fass Eric Fox and Daniel Helmick Lauren and Nathan S. Gardner Meredith and Aaron Gardner Tricia and Guy P. Garrubbo Ayana C. Goore ’89 Jade Harris and Michael Copeland Nicole and David Hoppe Nicole and Charles A. Janus Azka Khan and Faisal Asghar Ginny and David Laird Gisela and Ben Limberg Piper B. and Michael J. Magera Amanda and Scott T. Milleisen Lauren Mirman ’01 and Matthew Mirman Shruti and Sharad Ramesh Yesenia Ravelo-Rodriguez and Erik Rodriguez Erin and Paul D. Rooney Sheereen and Ahmad Russell Samantha and Ryan Schinman ’89 Brooke and Michael Skolnick Jennie and JT Sowers Olga and Alexander Urben

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CLASS OF 2030 Priya and Naveen Ballem, MD ’90 Jennifer and Victoria Barbetta Elizabeth Byrne and Niall Mullane Dayana D. Campo and Roger Walter Candice and Timothy S. Carlson Nina and Suraj Chopra Jamie L. Decter ’93 and Mitchell J. Decter ’94 Karen Heath-Wade and Kirk Wade Eric Fox and Daniel Helmick Beth and Gary Kiang Ann and John Kovacs Justyna and Jan R. Kwapniewski Helena and Svetislav Milic Elizabeth and Miguel Nieves Karin and John W. Odell Traci Otey Blunt and Jonathan Blunt Tameka and David Pearce Valerie and Wesley S. Puryear Katherine and Robert Ruberton Alison Slone and Adam Miller Amanda E. Spagnoletti ’97 and Paul Spagnoletti Kathryn Stallings and Stanley Chiu Salamishah M. Tillet and Solomon Steplight ’93 Laura and Eric Treadaway Stefania and Jeffrey M. Venezia Margaret and Richard Wager Alyson Waldman ’99 and Matthew Waldman ’98 Julie and Jyri-Pekka Wilska

Helen W. Walter Crossen ’95 and David Crossen Valbona and Todd E. Watkins Amy Weppner and Irakli Endeladze CLASS OF 2032 Ashish and Sneha Bhatia Kirsten and Christopher Brown Christy Burke Elizabeth Byrne and Niall Mullane Pamela and Justin Colledge Carmen and David J. DeMatteis ’95 Efua and Louis Feldman Catherine and Pete Gaynor Heather Jeney and Arvind Basra Injoo Han King and Michael King Rebecca and Jonathan Kelly Erin and James McMenamin Leah and Steven Meranus The Mortimore Family Kimberly and John O’Kane Kaivon and Lauren Rahaghi Joseph and John Randolph Bhavana Ravindranath and Harsha Bhupalam Haribhaktha Moushumi Sanghavi and Daniel Khublall Meredith and Justin Silver Su-Yun and Armin Szegedi Margaret and Richard Wager Helen W. Walter Crossen ’95 and David Crossen Diana Anders and Andrew Weiner Julie and Jyri-Pekka Wilska Nicole Xu and Jonathan To Anonymous (2) CLASS OF 2033 Morgan B. Bellapianta ’99 and Christopher M. Bellapianta ’97 Nina and Suraj Chopra Laura and Thomas Clark Laura Demaria Sara and David Elwell Meredith and Aaron Gardner Jessica and Brian Glatt Carla Harris and Victor Franklin Nicole and David Hoppe Elise Hubert and Joseph Borrelli Ginny and David Laird Jill and Michael T. Maza Jennifer Murawski-Boyar and Howard Boyar Meghan Murray and Jack Stadtlander Elizabeth and Miguel Nieves Anna and Andras Pataki Deepti Purohit and Mohit Bhargava Valerie and Wesley S. Puryear Yesenia Ravelo-Rodriguez and Erik Rodriguez Kristen and Jim Rugel Brooke and Michael Skolnick Alison Slone and Adam Miller Jennie and JT Sowers Po Shan Suen and Howard Borzell Stefania and Jeffrey M. Venezia Anonymous (2) CLASS OF 2034 Elizabeth August and Martin Restituyo Jennifer and Victoria Barbetta Kirsten and Christopher Brown Abigail and Edward K. Chung Laura and Thomas Clark Pamela and Justin Colledge Monica Conley and Eric Newman Elizabeth and Shane Cooney

Efua and Louis Feldman Megan and Chad Flick Eric Fox and Daniel Helmick Ashley and Craig Hirsh ’01 Daniella and Bryan Kessler Ann and John Kovacs Diana and Ryan J. Murelli Kimberly and John O’Kane Laela Perkins and Michael Thwaite ’97 Sheereen and Ahmad Russell Moushumi Sanghavi and Daniel Khublall Fangzhou and Sevan Simon Sherrese and Roger Soares Salamishah M. Tillet and Solomon Steplight ’93 Amy Weppner and Irakli Endeladze Julie and Jyri-Pekka Wilska Anonymous (1)

ALUMNI

TKS CLASS OF 1939 Cornelia A. Serota MA CLASS OF 1942 Daniel E. Emerson TKS CLASS OF 1945 Cynthia Blair Margaret M. Overholser Leigh B. Smith (Former Faculty) MA AND TKS CLASSES OF 1946 Joan Adams Eleanor Ketcham Hyla Troxell TKS CLASS OF 1947 Katharine Cangelosi Marjorie Cross Kathryn D. Crowell Dorothy E. Lawrence MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1948 Janet Mason Patricia A. Pruett Richard Sandler MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1949 William F. Matthews Jane Scovil Dudley C. Smith MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1950 Donald J. Congdon Nancy Demarrais Jack Heller Richard A. Hopkins Ann Kent Margaret Madden Audrey McBratney-Bittner MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1951 Jane Bonner Alice C. Cleaves Anita De Pachalis Frank A. Fiore Duke Habernickel Patricia Lee Gail S. Marentette Lt. Col. Francis C. McCrane John Schwarzmann Michael N. Silverman Nancy White Ruth Wilson Anonymous

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CLASS OF 2028 Lesley and Melih Abdulhayoglu Stacey Bradford-Greenberg and Rick Greenberg Cara and Dan Cesareo Kimberly and Robert Clark Cynthia Corhan-Aitken and Murray Aitken Gordon-Goodrich Family Karen Heath-Wade and Kirk Wade Elizabeth and Marek Hejna Rebecca and Jonathan B. Hirsh ’95 Lisa Hyman Sackman and Joel Sackman Nicole and Charles A. Janus Mary and Joel Jeffrey Eun Jung Kang and Bum Suk Shim Beth and Gary Kiang Molly and Andy Kuick Monica Kurpiewski and Robert Kilcullen Lisa Lazarus and Robert Coviello Jihee Kim and Byung J. Lee Michelle and James Lee Natasha Mathias and Mayur Ian Somaiya Heidi and Jason McAndrew Karin and John W. Odell Valerie and Wesley S. Puryear Shruti and Sharad Ramesh Limor and Robert Regular Sandra M. Rivera and Gerardo Mejia Janet Robertson and Mark Bishop Erin and Paul D. Rooney Emily Rosenblum and Steve Lucas Stacy and Scott Rosenblum Olga and David Rukshin Stephanie and Glenn Salzman Colleen and Robert Scalzo April L. Schott-Auerbach ’98 and Philip A. Auerbach Karen and Emanuel Slater Kate and James Stanford Jeffrey Szilagyi and Kathleen Beebe Laura and Eric Treadaway Margaret and Richard Wager Rene and Marc J. Watkins Katie and Cameron Williams Ying Zhang and Yibo Huang

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MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1952 Nancy (Booth) Kelly Gail Kerr Robert M. Kim Charles R. Sage MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1953 Howard T. Bellin Patricia Ford Phillip W. Lazier Sheila Lindveit Elizabeth Myers Suzette Whiting MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1954 Aubin Ames Sheldon W. Buck Georgia S. Carrington Marian Castell Jacqueline Cestone Gael Habernickel Donald M. Karp George J. Kramer C.Y. Treene Hobart D. Van Deusen Jean Witherington MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1955 David G. Lawrence S. Lawrence Martin Edward C. Reifenstein Carol Traenkle MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1956 Susan Ferdinand Robert M. Fischbein Meredyth Graham Ann Hallowell Richard R. Hobbins Eric F. Jaeckel Larry Nazarian Carol Ottenberg Carol Rasic Helen Skeen Linda Smith Michael I. Sucoff Nancy Ward Anonymous MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1957 John S. Allen Harold D. Cohen Michael S. Kurtz Robert N. Lanson Banylou Mearin Eugene C. Neithold Nina Rosselli Del Turco MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1958 Henry R. Agens Mary Ann Decker Ralph L. Ellis Meritt B. Gavin Michael C. Gennet

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Mark M. Jaffe Frederick L. Kramer Martin N. Rosen Franklin M. Sachs MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1959 Michael A. Baker Joel Bauer Milton C. Beard Barbara Beeker Schuyler Horn Barry A. Meisel Kent J. Miller Susan Rose Arthur D. Schwartz Marianne Steinhacker Constance Sumas Patricia Webb Ann Whitehouse Anonymous MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1960 Mary Anne Doty Paul F. Glover James Hobbins Charlotte E. Judd Marc S. Kirschner Susan Lacasse Philip G. Leone Isabel S. Minard Adele D. Poholsky Eric A. Sandwall Sally Alice Smith E. Hawley Van Wyck, III MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1961 David L. Bruck Claire Coles Suzanne Hardy John B. Lowy Vincent A. Mead Arthur G. Rosen MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1962 Carolyn Cariello Barbara Creed John J. Farrar Holly Gathright John F. Grubin Bruce Guernsey Douglas W. Johnson Suzanne K. Klein Joseph H. Willner MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1963 Thomas V. Alpren Mary Jane Knapp Jon W. Tarrant Bronson Van Wyck Susan Wood TKS CLASS OF 1964 Matilda S. Brett Barbara L. Markussen

MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1965 Henry V. Allen Victor Bernstein Marilyn Blackwell Marjorie Burris Mary Hack Joseph H. Hare Robert S. Livesey Ellen R. Malcolm Ruth Morine Andrea D. Simon Peter R. Stern Susan Wright Anonymous MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1966 Mitzi J. Balma Alan J. Balma A. C. Cameron Joan Clarke Francine Crawford Jessa Dawson John F. Hawley Sandra Pekar Wendy D. Roome MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1967 Julia L. Bonsal John A. Cosentino Deborah Lewis John H. Rudd Walter J. Sperling MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1968 Gregg B. Deehan Avie C. Kalker MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1969 Janina Boral George A. Downsbrough Christine G. Hannon Frank J. La Rocca Jeffrey E. Lutz Frederic A. Miller Richard D. Noyes Shelley Walchak MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1970 Thane E. Benson Patricia Brown Winifred Hentschel Harvie L. Porter Katharine A. Powell Lisa B. Shapiro Frederick H. Sheldon Elizabeth Zellner Anonymous MA CLASS OF 1971 Andrew B. Abramson John M. Brandow James H. Bryan Geoffrey S. Close John S. Guttmann

Robert D. Lipman Bruce B. Pastorini MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1972 Nicholas H. Alessi Thomas R. Brueckner Denise Chezek Paul N. Dackow Barbara Flessas Louis M. Gioffre Susan S. Huang Kate Curtin Lindsey Lillian Louie John J. Murphy Peter N. Perretti Patricia R. Silver Samuel S. Weiss MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1973 Robert A. August David F. Brandley Thomas C. Galligan Robert D. Jackson Gregory C. Lackey Robert H. Nagel Malcolm B. O’Hara J. Dean Paolucci Constance Van Eeghen MA AND TKS CLASS OF 1974 Mark R. Baran Daniel H. Beirne Roberta Blau John Blondel Stewart L. Carr Anthony M. Celentano Allan Cox Martha Day Susan Galligan Leslie Levine Lorraine Monchak Charles J. Mund Geraldine E. Nolin C.G. Thomas Anonymous CLASS OF 1975 John T. Boyle Michael Ehrenberg Frank Gallo James W. Giarrusso Thomas D. Isenberg Asa B. Johnson Nancy Lee Harry Nimmergut Jeffrey P. Schiffman CLASS OF 1976 Lisa S. Aufzien Sara Close Eugene M. D’Altrui David L. Hughes Raymond J. Knox Michael A. Rosenberg

R EU N IO N Y EA R A LUMNI RAISE D $231,070 in multi-year commitments to underwrite Community Scholarships for our students. Thank you to the seven generous alumni who challenged their classmates to make gifts to support our student Scholar for the next five years: KATHRYN AUW PRASAD ’01, NAVEEN BALLEM, MD ’90, J. MARTIN BRAYBOY ’80, HELEN W. WALTER CROSSEN ’95, CAITLIN DIRUGGIERO ’06, LUKE SARSFIELD ’91, AND ERIC R. SCHWARZ ’76.

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CLASS OF 1977 Christopher Brenner J. S. Conway Lesley J. Hand Jennifer C. Hendrian Robert J. Hubsmith Deborah Jacobson Rick Jenkins Cheryl D’Alessandro McMullen Peter S. McMullen CLASS OF 1978 Melissa L. Cohn Susan Cole John Phillips, P ’09, P ’10 Jonathan Wood CLASS OF 1979 Pamela M. Barz Paige L. Cottingham-Streater Debra Doerr-Larsen Mark Donatiello Bruce M. Eng Ted D. Fall Tracy R. Frager Anne M. Morey David B. Nolle Elizabeth A. Santarlasci Gardner B. Semet Anonymous CLASS OF 1980 Betsy Bacot-Aigner Stephen Barral J. Martin Brayboy Michael D. Feldman James A. Halprin India Larrier Julia Meade Irma Nimetz J. K. Walker CLASS OF 1981 Pamela B. Berkowsky Karen Boyle Carolyn Calnan Steven G. Chambers Ira N. Lome Alexandra McManus ’81 Christina Montgomery Richard M. Moskowitz David Newman Stephen M. Smith CLASS OF 1982 Angela Barral Kyle G. Curtin Peter Dancy Philip L. Ehrlich Patrick Eng Peter E. Gibson Pam Holding Thomas S. Robbins Jim Windolf Thaddeus M. Yablonsky CLASS OF 1983 Daniel Carson Donald Cussen Dennis G. Goldstein Jennifer L. Hamilton

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Laura La Corte Kristine O’Connor Gary C. Powell Jody A. Underwood Kevin Wilkins CLASS OF 1984 Robert Cottingham Michele A. Mucci ’84 Diane Ridley, MD Lawrence Rosen Alison Thomas-Cottingham Wayne Weil CLASS OF 1985 Roger Brown Susan M. Ciccone O’Donnell Colette Jackson Robin Schwartz Christopher H. Smith CLASS OF 1986 Doron Abrahami Adrienne Amirata Beth A. Cohn Paul J. Colatrella Megan R. Cole George C. Dolatly Matthew B. Hendrian Julia Lazarus Erica I. Lubetkin Peter A. Michelotti Henry Park David L. Schwartzbard Damon W. Zeigler CLASS OF 1987 Francis J. Blesso Deborah Glazer Joanne Goldberg Raj P. Gona David McCants Lisa Parada Sabino T. Rodano Jonathan Spencer Lynne Yellin Anonymous CLASS OF 1988 Rebecca L. Campbell David E. Haight Melissa Maddox-Evans Dennis Manalo CLASS OF 1989 David W. Ames Ralph E. Amirata Anya Buenger Barrett John C. Blesso Peter Fusco Ayana C. Goore Lana Kang Geoffrey R. Krouse Nilie Pajoohi Joshua H. Raymond Charry L. Ross Ryan Schinman Laura (Eng) Yeu Abraham I. Zeigler CLASS OF 1990 Naveen Ballem, MD David J. Choi Matthew C. Dairman Allison Smith Fernandez Nicholas F. Graziano

Conway Lee Lisa Bombardieri Moore ’90 Emily J. Nisbet Jill Porter Larson Jamie Taylor Krishna P. Vallabhaneni Anonymous CLASS OF 1991 Balaji Gandhi Kimberly A. Kohlman Rashida MacMurray-Abdullah Dara J. Marmon Steven B. Pestka Douglas A. Rosen Luke Sarsfield Camilla B. Solari Mark Teo Seth D. Traum CLASS OF 1992 Clifford Finkle IV Serena Godwin Julie Kim Sharon Moe Ingrid Nakamura Nahder Pajoohi Stacey Polanskyj Anne Marie Verdiramo Scott M. Weiner CLASS OF 1993 John F. Bell Renee L. Ciccarella Jamie L. Decter Lauren Hyman Kaplan Jason P. Pogorelec Elizabeth A. Rothenberg Solomon Steplight ’93 CLASS OF 1994 Jason A. Awerdick Melissa Bell Mitchell J. Decter Monica L. Fernand Andree J. Finkle Worth Parul Harley Richard T. Morris Kiwitta Paschal Anand J. Pathuri Candace S. Rabinowitz Benjamin M. Roth Joshua D. Rozan CLASS OF 1995 Parkins T. Burger David J. DeMatteis Jonathan B. Hirsh Alexander Joerger Ami A. Mehra Karen B. Paty Helen W. Walter Crossen

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Michael Thwaite Dana R. Welsh Jonathan A. Zweifler CLASS OF 1998 Monica A. Ashley Gemma M. Diaco April L. Schott-Auerbach Cara W. Summit Matthew Waldman Anonymous CLASS OF 1999 Igor Alves Morgan B. Bellapianta Amy R. Berry Alexander B. Holz Ian M. Melhuish Joshua M. Ramos Sandra Tritt Alyson Waldman Anonymous CLASS OF 2000 Kimberly A. Baker Francesca D. De La Torre Roxane Esposito Ashley B. Griffin Bret R. Hirsh Lauren Hooper-Rogers Jaclyn Spedaliere CLASS OF 2001 Kathryn Auw Prasad Melissa Bowman Lindsay B. Forman Tatjana Gall Dionne Gronda Craig Hirsh Joan Kubicek Lauren Mirman Dana Pisacane Matthew Reichstein Diana E. Reiter Nicole Sandler Jason Schwartz Heather Symons Natalia Torres Laura (Brown) Vassilowitch Louis S. Waldman CLASS OF 2002 Erin Hotchkiss Dagmara Jastrzebska Samora Noguera Chaim D. Pizem Emily Santangelo

CLASS OF 1996 Tanya L. Barnes Deborah E. Haight Alan Hawes Benjamin E. Parker

CLASS OF 2003 Cionna S. Almeida Melanie Bieber Casey B. Breslow Jenna Clancey Mark G. Fortunato Christopher Glenn Alexander J. Langbein Denise Sarkor Carla A. Woldt

CLASS OF 1997 Christopher M. Bellapianta Kate B. Corcoran John P. Edwards Amanda E. Spagnoletti Robert C. Streit Tracey Sylvester

CLASS OF 2004 Thomas F. Beach Jessica C. Bishop Allison Brown Joshua S. Rudbart Emily Ryan Alexis Tucker

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CLASS OF 2005 Devin C. Almeida John Chase Tesia E. Ciechanowski Nicholas Galasso Amanda Gertsen Andrew M. Kyrejko Cara Landolfi Lhenée S. McKoy Joseph O’Neill Frank J. Walter James K. Wreschner CLASS OF 2006 Antonia J. Amico Andrew Barchenko Brittany A. Berckes Caitlin DiRuggiero Jeffrey Festa Alexander Gephart Alexis L. Levengood Rachel Levine Angela M. McCaffrey Olivia K. Strader Michael D. Strader Mark R. Tyson William Wagner Samuel Walter Sarah E. Watt CLASS OF 2007 Daniel Allen Nicholas G. Andlinger Hannah E. Barker Corey Brown Charles Gray Stuart Harwood Max Rudnick CLASS OF 2008 Edward Bartleson Kelly Byrne Spencer Davidson Robert Fortunato Charles Gephart Bora Goekbora Dwight Jackson Brian McFeeley Elise McMullen Matthew D. Metzger David Trabka CLASS OF 2009 Paige T. Barrett Danielle Donatiello Alexandra Guccione Daniella Mendez John B. Phillips Brian N. Purcell Anonymous

CLASS OF 2012 Christopher Brazill Kyle B. Morris Dean Paolucci Michael D. Sasso Emma Sterling CLASS OF 2013 Peter J. Amirata Alexandra C. Fotinopoulos Kristin J. Morisseau Mark Phillips Carly D. Sibilia CLASS OF 2014 Thomas P. Fusco Tanner U. Gill Sydney A. Larrier Michael S. Melitz Kelsey S. O’Connor Ariana K. Puzzo Marshall P. Sandoval Aaron Sterling Anonymous CLASS OF 2015 Victoria Kitirattragarn Heather E. Milke Michael Miller Matt Napoli Ryan Napoli Aiden Newman CLASS OF 2016 William J. Bromley Francesca Cherchio Isabella Amanda Mendez Aleezae Nisar Charlotte Stanton Stephen Tse Shelly Tsirulik Anonymous CLASS OF 2017 Jenna Donatiello Joshua Levine Alexander Sandoval Hailey Sylvander Angelo Weber CLASS OF 2018 Ahmed Abukwaik Ryan Dancy Nicolas Espinosa Dice Sophia Garrubbo Elizabeth L. Kallay Kerri McGuire Patrick J. Napolitano Brynnae Newman Benjamin A. Stuart John Sweetwood

CLASS OF 2010 Stanton N. Fields Robert Gelberg Christina Gonsalves CLASS OF 2011 Seth L. Bynum Justin Goldsman Hayne Lim Chadd A. Mukete Natasha Silodor Rebecca Smith Daniel Stern

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CLASS OF 2019 Ronak S. Bhatia Robert F. D’Alessandro Adam Erbes Ethan Q. Gross William R. Hitchcock Grace A. Jones Connor J. LeFevre Taylor W. LeFevre Casey R. Szilagyi

CLASS OF 2023 Alanna L. Clayton Charles Kenrick

CLASS OF 2020 Daniel N. Arcilla Harry Davison Katherine Kallay Griffin A. Weil

CURRENT STUDENTS

CLASS OF 2021 Maggie Astley Kiara S. Bhatia Sebastian Burns Christina Carbo Lola Coleman Julia Conforti Resham Datwani Robbie Di Geronimo Jeremiah Druckenmiller Nicholas F. Eiden Elizabeth Esterow Taylor E. Everson Emani Fung Leah Glaser Alex Glotzer Spencer Goldberg Madison Golodner Nihaar Gopalji Katherine Hipp Marlowe Knee Daryn Knee Bennett R. La Londe Isabel V. Lucas Zoe D. Lynch Rohan A. Moniz Jaiden Park Riley Pease Olivia Puzio Riley J. Rendino Grace Russo Regan P. Sandoval Chelsea Shey Ethan J. Williams Sanaa H. Williams Noah Wolk Andrew R. Yagoda

CLASS OF 2025 Alexa R. Clayton CLASS OF 2028 Bianca Scalzo

GRANDPARENTS

Lisa and Andrew B. Abramson ’71 Roberta and Peter Adams Valerie and Bill Anders Sharon and Larry Beebe Rosemary and John Beer Susan Berman Patricia Blasi Kristina and Tom Burke Jacqueline Cestone ’54 Barbara and Raymond L. Colotti Paige L. Cottingham-Streater ’79 Mary and David Cragen N. B. and Patricia Dancy Sandra and Arthur DeRose Alicia and Elar Diaz Judith and Charles Dickerson Ozie Duncan Paul and Liz Edwards Shirley and Willie Eng Patricia Ewing Penny Finkle Sally and Donald Firth Sue Fossett Neal Fox Bette Fox and Richard Liss Inez Friedman and Jacques Friedman-Lipetz Karen and Heny Furst Alicia and Peter Giuffra Frieda and Daryl Goodrich Peter Halbert Susan and Alan Hammer Carol and Mike Helmick Geneva Hester Alice and Steven Hirsh Jackie and Larry Horn Kathy and Bill Hubert Patience Humphrey Rosemary Iversen Raynetta and John James Doris Janes Hope and David L. Jeffrey Margaret and Thomas S. Johnson Jennifer Jones Barbara and Leslie Kaplan Sheila and John Kelly

CONG RATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 20 21 in taking their first step in becoming involved alumni and paying it forward for fellow MKA students and friends.

The Class of 2021 chose to honor MKA’s Physical Plant department with their senior gift for their tireless efforts in ensuring a safe learning environment for students and faculty.

FAMILIES OF ALUMNI

Amanda Abrahams Lisa and Andrew B. Abramson ’71 Angela and Nathaniel Adderley Debra Allen Linda and Edward Almeida Lisa and Joseph Amato Aubin Ames ’54 René Amirata Rick and Linny Andlinger Conny and John M. Andres Jeffrey A. Appel and John J. Caraccioli Florence and Derrick Arcilla Bernadette Aulestia-Lynch and Kristian Lynch Christie and Ingram Austin Martene Ballance Stephanie and Edward Bartleson Penelope Bassett and Miles Hackett Bianca and Michael Bator Sharon and Larry Beebe Carlaina Bell Ani and Joe A. Berberian Maureen and Stephen Bezer Shenaz and Cyrus H. Bhote Donna and Joseph Blanes William K. and Rhea Boss Susan and J. Thomas Bradley Jr. Karen and Gordon Braverman Diana and Christopher G. Brazill Lisa and Chris Breitweiser Kristina and James Bromley Deborah and William W. Brown

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Denise Brown-Allen and Douglas Allen Jan and Adam Canton Jack Cappitelli and Robin Schwartz ’85 Bonnie and Michael Carter Charlaine and Thomas Charlton Jamie and Eric Chase Jennie and Tom Cherry Susan M. Ciccone O’Donnell ’85 and Matthew J. O’Donnell Alison and James T. Cirenza Deborah and J. Barry Cocoziello Jane and Harold D. Cohen ’57 Evelyn and Stephen T. Colbert Susan Cole ’78 Barbara and Raymond L. Colotti Patricia Park Connell Robert Cottingham Christina Cotton and Brian Clarkson Rhonda and David A. Crichlow Lara J. Dahl and Adam S. Breslawsky Peter and Katie Dancy N. B. and Patricia Dancy Lavina and Prakash Datwani Maris and Trayton M. Davis Alexis and Ed S. Davis Edwin and Kathryn Davison Martha Day ’74 and H. Neal Day Margaret and Gregg B. Deehan ’68 Ashley and Robert D. Di Geronimo Susan and Ralph Di Ruggiero Michelle Dice and Andres Espinosa Carol Doerr-Cucci and Richard C. Cucci Debra Doerr-Larsen ’79 and Jan V. Larsen Nancy and Mark Donatiello ’79 Maribeth and Anthony Eckert Paul and Liz Edwards Mary and Edward Elliott Barbara and Bruce Emra Sybil M. Eng and Tad Roselund Risa and Tyrrell Erbes Laura and Kenneth Esterow Diana and John S. Fennelly Penny Finkle Breena and Jed A. Fishback Barbara Flessas ’72 and Robert E. David Dana Fortunato Nancy and Donald Foster Filomena and Demetrios Fotinopoulos Inez Friedman and Jacques Friedman-Lipetz Beth and Michael E. Fuchs Lora and Calworth Furbert Amy and Peter Fusco ’89 Laurie and Tom Fusco The Geering Family Mary Stuart and Angus Gephart William Gill Mary Ellen and David Gray Cynthia R. Green and Joshua S. Jablons Joan Grevatt Peggy and Ron Gross Diana and Salvatore Guccione Karen and Robert Gulliver Gael Habernickel ’54 and Duke Habernickel ’51 Virginia and James A. Halprin ’80 Kristin Halvey Susan and Jan W. Hansen Pamela and Michael Harriott Kathryn V. Hatfield Rebecca and Roland Hayes Rhonda and Stratton R. Heath Frances and Jack Heller ’50 Pilar Henriquez-Groves and Richard E. Groves Mary Ann and Frank Herrmann

Ann and David Hessler Prof. Tracy Higgins and Mr. James Leitner Alice and Steven Hirsh Larry and Lynda Hollander Myra and George Hrab Amy Miano and Maurice Hryshko Kim and Bradford Huntington Rosemary Iversen Jackie and Rick Jenkins Margaret and Thomas S. Johnson Susan and Rees L. Jones Gail Kerr ’52 Ruth Kidde Gail and Scott S. Kingsley Stephanie and Mason Kirsch Marsha and Randy Kleinman Carole and George J. Kramer ’54 Virginia Kriegel Mary and Matt Kunka Justyna and Jan R. Kwapniewski Dena and Keith Lambie James Lane Linda and Christopher Larkin India Larrier ’80 and John H. Larrier Toni LeQuire-Schott and Newton B. Schott, Jr. Leslie Levine ’74 and Peter Levine Caroline Lilore and Anthony Sciancalepore Mary Ann and Clifford Lindholm Jacquelyn A. Lipson Kate Logan and Edmund Rung Gemma and Richard R. Lury Mary Lynch and James Kubinak Barbara and Dennis Mamchur Jen and Earl Marshall Kelly and William R. Massey Karen Matyasovsky Louise and Guy Maxwell Audrey McBratney-Bittner ’50 and Douglas McBratney-Bittner Cheryl D’Alessandro McMullen ’77 and Peter S. McMullen ’77 Glenda McNeal Tracy McVeigh and Andrew Melitz Rebecca and Maximiliano F. Mendez Laura and Manes M. Merrit The Milke Family Jeannette and Philip Miller Ruth D. Miller Sunnie Minn Luz and Luis Miranda Kathleen and Jonathan Morisseau Debra and Patrick Mucci Zandi and Thomas Nammack Karen and Thomas Newman Noella Notte Rosita G. and Enrique Nunez Kristine O’Connor ’83 and Michael O’Connor Deborah and Michael I. Otner Susan and Joseph Pannullo Patricia and J. Dean Paolucci ’73 Patricia and Alan Parke Nadine Pearce and Alan Jones Trish and Tom Perlmutter Sidney and Joan Pestka Loretta C. Peterson Amy Peterson and Jose Sandoval Linda Petrocchi and Arthur Russell Gerri and Robert C. Petrucelli Laura and John Phillips ’78, P ’09, P ’10 Shelley and Keith Phillips Bidyut and Reena Pramanik Ellen and Gerard J. Purcell Hanna and Jozef Puzio

Kim and Luca Puzzo Lyn and Glenn M. Reiter Julia and Jacob Ribicoff Eileen and Robert C. Richardson Lori and David Riley Peri and Thomas P. Rosamilia Arthur G. Rosen ’61 Barbara and Martin N. Rosen ’58 Thea Rosendary Karen and Warren M. Ross Jin and Daniel Rubenstein Brent Rudnick Shefali and Sumeet Salwan Stephanie and Glenn Salzman Richard Sandler ’48 Amarkanth and Patrisia Saxena Marie Louise Purdy and Roger Seifter Daphne and Gardner B. Semet ’79 Lynne and Richard Sibilia Tripti Singh and Samarpal S. Bhatia Jodi and Jeffrey Smith Leigh B. Smith ’45 (Former Faculty) Jane and Kenneth Smith Laurie and Jeffrey Smith Sheila and Todd Smith Stephen M. Smith ’81 and Susan M. Smith Sharon Stephens and Laurus Sutton Linda and Brian Sterling Catherine and David Strader Jon Strain April and Brett Straten ’92 Deb Streit and Roy Breslow Constance Sumas ’59 and Robert P. Sumas Jennifer B. Sweetwood Jeffrey Szilagyi and Kathleen Beebe Ami and Andrew M. Talkow Alison Thomas-Cottingham ’84 and Robert Cottingham ’84 Pat and Ed Thwaite Robert L. Tortoriello Veronica and Mauricio Toscano Louise Trabka Hyla Troxell ’46 Deborah and Thomas D. Turvey Sonia and William Tyson Suzanne and Justus von Lengerke Denise and Ira Wagner Kim and J. K. Walker ’80 Margo and Frank Walter Pamela and LeRoy Watkins Kristen Weaver and David Polinchock Lori and Parker A. Weil Wendy and Stephen C. Weinstein Carlos Montoya and Penny Weissman Melissa and Paul Wetzel Stephanie and Olin Williams Joe, Donna and Trey Wilson Leah Morgan and Richard Wolf Katharine L. Sonnenberg and Thomas S. Zaubler Mary and Brian Zeug Kimberly Zimmer-Weary and A. C. Weary Anonymous (7)

FORMER MKA COLLEAGUES Monica A. Ashley ’98 Christie Austin Alise Barrett Jessica C. Bishop ’04 Donna Blanes William W. Brown Denise Brown-Allen

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Lily Kiang Walter Lee Toni LeQuire-Schott and Newton B. Schott, Jr. Helen and Jim McMenamin Lisa and Edward McMonagle Sara and Rajan Menon Luz and Luis Miranda Ada and Angelo Mogavero Debra and Patrick Mucci Myra and Phillip Nevius Patricia and Hugh O’Kane Henry Ohls David Paulson Geryl Pearl Judith and Brewster Perkins Loretta C. Peterson Maubra Randolph Linda Rhodes Laura and Victor Rodriguez Thea Rosendary Martha and Thomas Ruddy Lindberg K. Simpson Elizabeth Sinn Nancy and Anthony Slone Cheryl and Marc Slutzky Eileen Stites Deb Streit and Roy Breslow Iris and Josiah Swasey Johanna and Edward Szerencsits Elizabeth and Wallace Thompson Pat and Ed Thwaite Judy and Philip To Robert L. Tortoriello Marilyn Travis Pam Valentine Lois and John Van Deusen Eva Vayo Carol and David Weppner Beverly Winston Anonymous

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Charlaine Charlton Patricia Dancy Nancy Foster Alicia Giuffra Joan Grevatt Emma Hatcher Roland Hayes Susan Jones Virginia Kriegel Margaret Madden ’50 Barbara Mamchur Zandi Nammack Patricia Parke Peter N. Perretti ’72 Newton B. Schott Jr. Talia Selove Leigh B. Smith ’45 (Former Faculty) Jodi Smith Sharon Stephens Brook Stites Michael D. Strader ’06 Sandra Tritt ’99 Sonia P. Tyson Jim Windolf ’82 Jane Zagajeski

FRIENDS, ASSOCIATE ALUMNI AND PARENTS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI Ted Agelis Linda and David Bachrach Susan and J. Thomas Bradley Jr. Elaine and Vincent Brier Judith and John Caffiero William Caggiano Whitney and Daniel Carson ’83

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The Ceglarski Family Sara Close ’76 Timothy C. Cook Maggie and Tom Cowing Deanna and Sean Critchley Laura Demaria Stephen Diamond Laura and Robert Doto Elizabeth Farr Jocelyn Fine and Javier Ferrandiz Michael Foster Maria Gilmartin and Dimitri Hadjipetkov Richard S. Griffith Jocelyn and Peter Handy Thomas and Lynda Henderson Barbara and Dane Holmes Alissa and Curt J. Johnson Fay and Bryan Lonsinger Rich Margolin Joan and Anthony Mariano Luz L. Miranda-Crespo and Luis Crespo Tiffany and Joseph Mosca Virginia and Richard Mosca Judith Mosca Susan Murley Minimi Noel Nichols Amy Peterson and Jose Sandoval Courtney Reinisch and Eric Seid Richard Ridgway Mary and Gary Rolain The Edward John and Patricia Rosenwald Foundation Lincoln P. Sandoval Kathy A. Sasena Talia Selove and Roger Manzo Meredith and Justin Silver Robert M. Skinner Daniel Smith Brett Straten Sharon Stephens and Laurus Sutton Mona Thomas Shawn and David Troutt Margaret and Richard Wager

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FOUNDATIONS, COMPANIES, DONOR ADVISED FUNDS, MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES

Abramson Family Foundation ADP AIG Air Group LLC. The Aitken Family Fund Akebia Therapeutics The Albert Payson Terhune Foundation Almeida Family Fund AmazonSmile Foundation American Carpet South American Express AMP Fund Associated Fire Protection Assured Guaranty Axis Capital Ballem Family Foundation INC Bank of America Baran Family Fund BD Blackbaud Giving Fund The Buck Family Foundation The C. Green & J. Jablons Charitable Fund Caggiano Memorial The Carl and Roberta Blau Revocable Trust Carter Family Charitable Fund The Charles Schwab Corporation Foundation The Christopher D. and Barbara B. Creed Charitable Fund Citizens Charitable Foundation Citrix Colbert Family Fund Colgate The Colotti Charitable Fund The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc. Connect One The Crawford Foundation Crossen Charitable Fund The Dancy Family Fund DDAR Rentals, LLC Dennis Goldstein and Beth Kressley Goldstein Family Fund DiGeronimo Family Fund The Donald M. Karp and Margery Lesnik Karp Foundation Donald P. and Rebecca L. Campbell Charitable Giving Fund Ebay Eden Golf Media, LLC The Edward John and Patricia Rosenwald Foundation Ehrenberg Richman Family Charitable Fund EJ Cross Foundation Elsie Koh Fund Eric Schwarz Charitable Fund Estate of Lee Randolph Bean Estate of Lucille G Mason Esterow Family Fund

Everson Family Charitable Fund ExxonMobil Foundation Falcon Foundation, Inc. Fidelity Fiduciary Trust Company Francis & Jennifer Blesso Family Fund Frederic Jewelers The Gail and David Kerr Fund Gephart Family Charitable Fund Goldman Sachs Greater New York Chinese American Hockey Griffin Family Fund Hare Family Charitable Giving Hatfield Schwartz Law Group Hearst Helen J. Gordon 1997 Charitable Remainder Unitrust Helmick-Fox Fund Hirsh Family Charitable Fund Holding Family Charitable Trust HSBC J.L. Custom Homes, Inc JPMorgan Chase J&M Reichstein Family Fund Jack & Fran Heller Donor Advised Fund Jack Finn & Co. Building Contractors, L.L.C. Jason and Alexandra Pogorelec Charitable Giving Fund The Jeffrey Family Fund Jin & Daniel Rubenstein Family Foundation John and Ann Kovacs Donor Advised Fund Johnson & Johnson The Johnson Family Foundation, Inc. Kaplan Family Fund KB Electric The Keith and Shelley Phillips Charitable Fund Krouse Family Charitable Fund Kyle G. Curtin Charitable Fund Lawrence and Lynda Hollander Fund Lockheed Martin Lucas Family Fund Maine Community Foundation Mardon Group, L.L.C. Margolin Charitable Fund Mary Hack Foundation MasterCard MCG Family Charitable Fund McMullen Family Foundation Michael and Brooke Skolnick Charitable Fund Michael and Jessica Freeman Fund Microsoft Milke Family Charitable Fund MIZUHO MKA Board of Trustees Richard and Nancy Hopkins Fund National Financial Services LLC National Philanthropic Trust Netflix Network For Good New York Life Northrop Grumman Otner Giving Fund Papasikos Orthodontics Parents Association of Montlciar Kimberley Academy Paul Dackow Giving Fund Peter and Cynthia Perretti Fund Pfizer Piper Sandler Press Family Giving Fund

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HONORARY GIFTS

In Honor of Jordan M. Andrews ’17 Martene Ballance In Honor of Jenn Baratta Talia Selove In Honor of Casey Barrett ’26 Alise and Damien A. Barrett In Honor of Maggie Barret ’27 Alise and Damien A. Barrett In Honor of Pat Bartolomeo Jill Wimmer In Honor of Sarah S. Bradley ’12 Susan and J. Thomas Bradley Jr. In Honor of Anna Bradley ’20 Susan and J. Thomas Bradley Jr. In Honor of Grant R. Bradley ’16 Susan and J. Thomas Bradley Jr. In Honor of Garrett S. Bradley ’18 Susan and J. Thomas Bradley Jr. In Honor of Savannah K. Burke ’32 Christy Burke In Honor of Daniel J. Chung ’27 Doris Janes In Honor of Joanna Chung ’34 Doris Janes In Honor of Savannah Clark ’28 Geryl Pearl In Honor of Malcolm Copeland ’31 Jade Harris and Michael Copeland Jennifer Jones In Honor of Caroline Corbett ’24 Alisa A. Corbett Sandra and Arthur DeRose In Honor of Nathaniel J. Corbett ’21 Alisa A. Corbett Sandra and Arthur DeRose In Honor of Scott Coronis Joshua S. Rudbart ’04 In Honor of Resham Datwani ’21 (Graduation as a Lifer) Lavina and Prakash Datwani In Honor of Katarina DeMatteis ’32 Karen and Heny Furst In Honor of Paul Edwards Alexander Gephart ’06 In Honor of Suzanna Elkhouri ’26 Hazar Michael and Amer Elkhouri In Honor of Elana Elkhouri ’24 Hazar Michael and Amer Elkhouri In Honor of Juliana Endeladze ’31 Carol and David Weppner In Honor of Giorgi Endeladze ’34 Carol and David Weppner In Honor of Tyler Eng ’23 Shirley and Willie Eng In Honor of Jillian H. Fishback ’20 Inez Friedman and Jacques Friedman-Lipetz In Honor of Jordan D. Fishback ’23 Inez Friedman and Jacques Friedman-Lipetz In Honor of Eugenia and Demetrios Flessas Barbara Flessas ’72 and Robert E. David In Honor of David Flocco Melissa Bowman ’01 Francesca D. De La Torre ’00 Heather Symons ’01 Laura (Brown) Vassilowitch ‘01

In Honor of Amy Fossett Sue Fossett In Honor of Caleb Fosset Sue Fossett In Honor of Asa B. Johnson Jr. Asa B. Johnson ’75 In Honor of Class of 1951 Gail S. Marentette ’51 In Honor of Class of 2020 Roxane Esposito ’00 In Honor of The wonderful faculty and staff Jenna Clancey ’03 In Honor of the Amazing teachers Janita and Meyrick I. Douglas In Honor of The Upper School teachers and CCO Veena and Alphonsus Moniz In Honor of The Streits and The Decters Families Deb Streit and Roy Breslow In Honor of Delta C. Ramsay Kimberly and David W. Ramsay In Honor of Helmick-Fox family Bette Fox and Richard Liss In Tribute of Mrs. Peterkin Jessa Dawson ’66 In Honor of Margaret Gonzales Ann and John Kovacs In Honor of Alyce V. Harriott ’02 Pamela and Michael Harriott In Honor of LaDonna M. Harriott ’04 Pamela and Michael Harriott In Honor of Valencia Harriott ’05 Pamela and Michael Harriott In Honor of George Hrab Ahmed Abukwaik ’18 Jessica C. Bishop ’04 Jenna Clancey ’03 Elizabeth and Shane Cooney Geoffrey R. Krouse ’89 Sydney A. Larrier ’14 Joshua Levine ’17 Leigh B. Smith ’45 (Former Faculty) Angelo Weber ’17 In Honor of Lauren Kaplan ’93 Barbara and Leslie Kaplan In Honor of Virginia Kriegel Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 and John Barrett In honor of Sharon and Wally Kyrejko Andrew M. Kyrejko ’05 In Honor of Diane Lundy Erica Thompson In Honor of Glenda McNeal Michael Foster In Honor of Sam MIller ’30 Nancy and Anthony Slone In Honor of Leah Miller ’33 Nancy and Anthony Slone In Honor of Margaret MogaveroPrincipe ’25 Ada and Angelo Mogavero In Honor of Matthew MogaveroPrincipe ’25 Ada and Angelo Mogavero In Honor of Tom Nammack Mr. Masoud and Mrs. Nadia Altirs Lisa and Joseph Amato Rick and Linny Andlinger Bernadette Aulestia-Lynch and Kristian Lynch Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 and John Barrett Wendy and Jared F. Bartie Kristina and James Bromley

Whitney and Daniel Carson ’83 Bonnie and Michael Carter Alison and James T. Cirenza Evelyn and Stephen T. Colbert Christina Cotton and Brian Clarkson Edwin and Kathryn Davison Sybil M. Eng and Tad Roselund Penny Finkle Alexis and Clifford Finkle IV ’92 Meredith and Aaron Gardner Richard S. Griffith Karen and Robert Gulliver Barbara and Dane Holmes Rosemary Iversen Virginia Kriegel Kate Logan and Edmund Rung Natasha Mathias and Mayur Ian Somaiya Bidyut and Reena Pramanik Stacey J. Rappaport and Craig S. Solomon Diane Ridley, MD ’84 Karen and Warren M. Ross Joshua D. Rozan ’94 Stephanie and Glenn Salzman Jodi and Luke Sarsfield ’91 Alison Slone and Adam Miller Jodi and Jeffrey Smith Leigh B. Smith ’45 (Former Faculty) Linda and Brian Sterling Jeffrey Szilagyi and Kathleen Beebe Alice M. Terrell-Bryant Margaret and Richard Wager Denise and Ira Wagner In Honor of Tom Nammack and Faculty Leigh B. Smith ’45 (Former Faculty) In Honor of Ainsley and Sybil Narcisse Grace and Marcus Bourbon In Honor of Alexa Odell ’30 Elizabeth and Wallace Thompson In Honor of William T. Odell ’28 Elizabeth and Wallace Thompson In Honor of Gavin Owens ’31 Sara and Rajan Menon In Honor of Laela Perkins Gretchen L. Berra In Honor of Anita E. Rainford ’79 Elizabeth A. Santarlasci ’79 In Honor of Jack M. Rochkind ’23 Karen Merz In Honor of Emma Ruddy ’21 Eva Vayo In Honor of Antonio Seabra ’31 Mary and David Cragen In Honor of Tripti Singh Erica Thompson In Honor of Jane and Ken Smith Rebecca Smith ’11 In Honor of Rebecca Smith ’11 Aleksandr Duba In Honor of Linda Stirling Talia Selove In Honor of Ella Szilagyi ’28 Sharon and Larry Beebe In Honor of Aidan Szilagyi ’23 Sharon and Larry Beebe In Honor of Avner Valentine ’27 Pam Valentine In Honor of Edwin Van Brunt Walter J. Sperling ’67 In Honor of Howard A. Van Vleck ’59 Arthur D. Schwartz ’59 In Honor of Benjamin Wolfson ’24 Jackie and Larry Horn

* Deceased

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Prudential PSEG REO Holdings Rhonda and Stratton Heath Charitable Fund Richard R. and Karen W. Hobbins Designated Fund Rick and Linny Andlinger Charitable Fund Robert and Brenda Fischbein Donor Advised Fund Rosenberg / Bol Family Giving Roux Family Foundation The Saul Rosen Foundation Schwab Charitable Fund Sculpture Hospitality North Jersey / Bevinco The Semet Aharoni Charitable Trust Sheldon Family Fund Simons Foundation The Stacey J Rappaport and Craig Solomon Family Fund Sowers Family Charitable Fund Spotify Strain Family Charitable Fund The Susan N. Sobbott Charitable Fund The Susanna Suh & James Larish Family Charitable Fund Tapestry ThermoFisher Thomas Henderson Charitable Gift Fund TIAA Charitable UBS Financial Services Inc. Vaiana Family Charitable Fund Vanguard Charitable Verizon Vincent Cestone Foundation, Inc. Virginia W. Usher Charitable Walter Charitable Trust Wells Fargo Wilner Family Fund The Windham Foundation Inc. Wright Donor Advised Fund Yahoo YouthBuild Yun Fan Ttee

H O N RA RY G I F TS / M E M O R I A L G I F TS

In Honor of Jacob Wolfson ’22 Jackie and Larry Horn In Honor of Danielle Wolk ’17 Linda and David Bachrach In Honor of Noah Wolk ’21 Linda and David Bachrach In Honor of Carolyn Wynn Pamela and LeRoy Watkins

MEMORIAL GIFTS

In Memory of Doug Alsofrom Cheryl D’Alessandro McMullen ’77 and Peter S. McMullen ’77 In Memory of Katherine Barrett Alise and Damien A. Barrett Marilyn Travis In Memory of Randy Bean ’66 Katharine “Kitty” Haines ’65 Sandra Pekar ’66 In Memory of Richard S. Benson Thane E. Benson ’70 In Memory of Nixon Bicknell Steven G. Chambers ’81 Malcolm B. O’Hara ’73 In Memory of John Bleyle ’62 Bruce Guernsey ’62 In Memory of Frank Brogan ’72 Meritt B. Gavin ’58 John F. Grubin ’62 Marc S. Kirschner ’60 In Memory of Lorraine and Anthony Cotton Christina Cotton and Brian Clarkson In Memory of Tony Cuneo Susan M. Ciccone O’Donnell ’85 and Matthew J. O’Donnell Victoria Kitirattragarn ’15 Nicole and David Hoppe Christa Leonard In Memory of Anne Curtin ’39 Kate Curtin Lindsey ’72 In Memory of Edward De Pachalis Anita De Pachalis ’51 In Memory of Marilyn Faden Pamela B. Berkowsky ’81 In Memory of Elyse Decker ’86 Adrienne Amirata ’86 In Memory of Thomas Fleming Ronak S. Bhatia ’19 Kelly and William R. Massey Brookside Tree–In Memory of William Flocco Gillian and Geoffrey Branigan In Memory of Martin Fossett Sue Fossett In Memory of Elliot L. Furbert ’14 Kim and Luca Puzzo Ariana K. Puzzo ’14 In Memory of Steve Fowler Lisa B. Shapiro ’70 In Memory of Jay Choi David J. Choi ’90 In Memory of William Dairman Matthew C. Dairman ’90 In Memory of My deceased classmates Leigh B. Smith ’45 (Former Faculty) In memory of Ken Gibson India Larrier ’80 and John H. Larrier In Memory of Nancy Gibson Rebecca and Roland Hayes

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In Memory of Everett Glenn ’11 Seth L. Bynum ’11 Christopher Glenn ’03 Dean Paolucci ’12 Rebecca Smith ’11 Daniel Stern ’11 In Memory of Gretchen Godwin ’88 Serena Godwin ’92 Ingrid Nakamura ’92 Charry L. Ross ’89 Laura (Eng) Yeu ‘89 and Patrick Yeu In Memory of Vanessa Good ’79 Paige L. Cottingham-Streater ’79 In Memory of Dolores Greendale Gary W. Greendale In Memory of Paul Hernandez Valerie and Wesley S. Puryear In Memory of Nelda Jean Cann Kim and Luca Puzzo In Memory of Scott M. Johnson ’93 Renee L. Ciccarella ’93 Maggie and Tom Cowing Margaret and Thomas S. Johnson Margaret and Richard Wager In Memory of Thomas Johnson ’91 Margaret and Thomas S. Johnson Margaret and Richard Wager In Memory of William N. Klank Tracey Sylvester ’97 In Memory of Caitlin Lehmann ’01 Dionne Gronda ’01 In Memory of Sally Littlefield ’37 Leigh B. Smith ’45 (Former Faculty) In Memory of Sarah Love Kimberly A. Baker ’00

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In Memory of Lucile Mason ’43 Janet Mason ’48 In Memory of Colin Melhuish ’00 Lucia and Ian M. Melhuish ’99 In Memory of Ernest Mosca Ted Agelis Susan and J. Thomas Bradley Jr. Judith and John Caffiero Nicolas Espinosa Dice ’18 Paul and Liz Edwards Mary Stuart and Angus Gephart Joan and Anthony Mariano Susan Murley Minimi Tiffany and Joseph Mosca Virginia and Richard Mosca Sabino T. Rodano ’87 In Memory of Claude Munson Meritt B. Gavin ’58 Robert N. Lanson ’57 In Memory of Vince Nadal ’89 David J. Choi ’90 Mr. George Hrab Charry L. Ross ’89 In Memory of Ian Naismith Margaret and Gregg B. Deehan ’68 In Memory of Edmund Orson Nichols 1917 Noel Nichols In Memory of Jean W. Noyes ’37 Richard D. Noyes ’69 In Memory of Peter N. Peretti ’49 Thane E. Benson ’70 In Memory of Rubin Pizem Chaim D. Pizem ’02 In Memory of John Randolph Maubra Randolph

In Memory of Ellen Rappaport Stacey J. Rappaport and Craig S. Solomon In Memory of In Albert Rehus Jessica C. Bishop ’04 In Memory of Susan Widmark Ridgway ’74 Richard Ridgway In Memory of James M. Ritchie ’42 Robert M. Skinner In Memory of Deloris Rosendary Thea Rosendary In Memory of Stephen Sinn Rebecca and Jonathan Kelly In Memory of Natalie P. Smith Dudley C. Smith ’49 In Memory of Patty Strain Susan and J. Thomas Bradley Jr. Dean Paolucci ’12 In Memory of Frank Traina Marianne Traina Patricia Bartolomeo In Memory of Leigh VanderKlein Alexis L. Levengood ’06 In Memory of William Weiss ’74 Samuel S. Weiss ’72 In Memory of Ryan Young ’91 Charry L. Ross ’89 In Memory of Edmund Wolk Linda and David Bachrach Naomi Yablonsky

APRIL 20, 2021 MKA’s annual Spring Fundraiser, the Un-Gala took place virtually this year. Many thanks go to Event Chairs Leena Bansal and April Straten and the entire outstanding Un-Gala Team. Thanks to their hard work and creative thinking, this year’s virtual Spring Fundraiser was a success, raising over $150,000! This is a real testament to MKA’s strength and commitment to our students.

IN THE 2020-21 SCHOOL YEAR PAMKA RAISED A TOTAL OF

$190,000

FOR MKA PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS

$118,810

FACU LT Y CO M P ENSATIO N E N D OW M ENT

$16,190

CO M M U N IT Y SC HO L ARS E N D OW MENT

$10,000

B RO O KS I D E R E N OVATIO NS

$15,000

M KA L ECT U RE S ERIES

$30,000 FACU LT Y W IS H L IST

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SPONSORS AND DONORS

Air Group LLC. Associated Fire Protection American Carpet South Bernadette Aulestia-Lynch and Kristian Lynch Priya and Naveen Ballem, MD ’90 Leena and Suvrat Bansal Jenn and Dave Baratta Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 and John Barrett Elizabeth and Ian Bate Maureen and Stephen Bezer Ashish and Sneha Bhatia Stacey Bradford-Greenberg and Rick Greenberg Sheri and Ted Bronstein Jennifer and Richard W. Brown Christy Burke Bonnie and Michael Carter Grace Cecilio-Dueno and Jason Dueno Cara and Dan Cesareo Katie and Christopher Cherchio Bree and Keenan Choy Erin and Thomas Chung Leigh and Patrick J. Conforti ConnectOne Bank Deanna and James Copeland Tahirah and Onaje Crawford Mimi and Rafael Cuellar Lavina and Prakash Datwani Sybil M. Eng and Tad Roselund The Everson Family Laurie and Jon Ewing Lauren and Jason Fass Efua and Louis Feldman Alexis and Clifford Finkle IV ’92 Jack Finn & Co. Building Contractors, L.L.C. Breena and Jed A. Fishback Siobhan and Steven M. Gambuzza Meredith and Aaron Gardner Tricia and Guy P. Garrubbo Alisha and Jonathan Glaser Jessica and Brian Glatt Silvia Henriquez and Luis Villafana Karen and Robert Gulliver Catherine and Doug Halbert Kathryn V. Hatfield Hatfield Schwartz Law Group Elizabeth and Marek Hejna Janice and Jeffrey Jacobson Mary and Michael V. Johnson Tina Jordan and Kevin Rendino KB Electric Lauren Hyman Kaplan ’93 and Douglas Kaplan Rebecca and Jonathan Kelly Kimberly and Philip Koserowski Monica Kurpiewski and Robert Kilcullen Ginny and David Laird Taryn and Darren Langer

Wendy Lazarus and David Glotzer Lisa Lazarus and Robert Coviello David and Amy Lim Kate Logan and Edmund Rung Gregory and Cristin Lovallo Piper B. and Michael J. Magera Rob and Nicole Masella Leah and Steven Meranus Hazar Michael and Amer Elkhouri Helena and Svetislav Milic Amanda and Scott T. Milleisen MKA Board of Trustees Ruchi Misra and Nicholas Hailey Melissa Montemuino Elizabeth and Terence Moran Cheryl Morano and Stephen Augustine Elizabeth and Miguel Nieves Amy and J.D. O’Hara Kimberly and John O’Kane Deborah and Michael I. Otner PAMKA Board Papasikos Orthodontics Stacey Polanskyj ’92 and Peter Polanskyj Bidyut and Reena Pramanik Valerie and Wesley S. Puryear Kaivon and Lauren Rahaghi Shruti and Sharad Ramesh Joseph and John Randolph Swati Rao-Engel and Richard Engel Courtney Reinisch and Eric Seid Rhonda and Stephen Richard Lori and David Riley Sandra M. Rivera and Gerardo Mejia Sara and Glenn Robertson Sabrina and Adam Rodgers Emily Rosenblum and Steve Lucas Stacy and Scott Rosenblum Katherine and Robert Ruberton

Kathryn and Duane Sachs Moushumi Sanghavi and Daniel Khublall Nivia and Joe Santagata Colleen and Robert Scalzo Wendy Schacher Finn and Jack Finn Rebecca and John C. Scuorzo Lisa and Leo Shilkrot Jill and Derek Smith Lara and John Snyder Manika Sood and Prashant Bhatia April and Brett Straten Susanna Suh and James Larish Su-Yun and Armin Szegedi Jeffrey Szilagyi and Kathleen Beebe Salamishah M. Tillet and Solomon Steplight ’93 Deborah and Thomas D. Turvey Nadine and Bradley Vaiana Greta Velez De Villa–Dowdell and Michael Dowdell Sonia Vora and Carlos Gonzalez Margaret and Richard Wager Alyson Waldman ’99 and Matthew Waldman ’98 Helen W. Walter Crossen ’95 and David Crossen Lela Weems, MD and Shaka Rasheed Suzanne and Mark Weinberg Wendy and Stephen C. Weinstein Amy Weppner and Irakli Endeladze Nicole Xu and Jonathan To Anonymous (2)

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H E R I TAG E SO C I E T Y / VO LU N T E E RS

HERITAGE SOCIETY

The Heritage Society was established to recognize the generosity of all donors who have included Montclair Kimberley Academy in their legacy plans. MKA is touched by your thoughtfulness and generosity in making MKA a part of your estate plans — students and faculty for generations will be very grateful as well.

Aubin Ames ’54 Frances Ames ’40 * Rick and Linny Andlinger Polly Barrows ’42 * Howard T. Bellin ’53 George A. Bleyle ’60 Karen Boyle ’81 Elizabeth and J. Martin Brayboy ’80 Sheldon W. Buck ’54 Joan Carlisle ’46 Georgia S. Carrington ’54 Kathleen and Randy H. Carroll Philip M. Cheek ’46 * Barbara Creed ’62 Barbara and Richard J. Dolven Philip L. Ehrlich ’82 Charlotte Fitch ’29 * Susan Galligan ’74 and Thomas C. Galligan ’73 Everett Glenn * Helen Gordon ’42 * David E. Haight ’88 Barbara Hanson ’47 * John D. Harris ’63 * Varick D. Harrison ’48 * Schuyler Horn ’59 Susan S. Huang ’72 Eric F. Jaeckel ’56 Susan and Rees L. Jones Susan D. Karlin ’41 * Ruth Kidde William P. LaPlant ’63 Kate Curtin Lindsey ’72 Frederick Little ’40 * James T. Mackey ’43 * Jean Manley ’36 * Gail S. Marentette ’51 Caroline Mark ’36 * David Marrocco ’57 * Vincent E. Mascia ’72 Lucile G. Mason ’43 * Joan Murray ’49 * Judy Nesbit Harry Nimmergut ’75 Jean W. Noyes ’37 * Margaret M. Overholser ’45 Drika Purves ’57 * A. R. Rafner ’47 Diane Ridley, MD ’84 Mary Louise Rubin ’86 Curtis S. Rudbart ’78 Richard Sandler ’48 Rudy Schlobohm ’74 * Elizabeth Schmitz ’36 * W. Ford Schumann * Leigh B. Smith ’45 (Former Faculty) Philip H. Smith ’53 * Jean Suidmak * Paul G. Tiranno ’89 Virginia Usher ’42 * James S. Vandermade ’35 * Olive Watson ’36 * George W. Weilepp ’50 Pearl Wolf

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VOLUNTEERS BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Kate Logan, President Luke Sarsfield ’91, Vice President Karen Gulliver, Vice President Jeffrey Szilagyi, Treasurer Paige Cottingham- Streater ’79, Secretary Rick Andlinger Naveen Ballem, MD ’90 Jennifer Barbetta Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 James Bromley Bonnie Carter Evelyn Colbert Caitlin DiRuggiero ’06 Carolyn Everson Clifford Finkle IV ’92 Peter Fusco ’89 Prof. Tracy Higgins Janice Jacobson Tina Jordan Lauren Hyman Kaplan ’93 Thomas Nammack Robert Ruberton Stephanie Salzman Matthew Sherman Craig S. Solomon Margaret Wager Honorary Trustees Aubin Ames ’54 John E. Garippa Alice M. Hirsh Michael V. Johnson Newton B. Schott, Jr. Advisory Trustees David A. Crichlow Barry W. Ridings ’70 Robert L. Tortoriello

AFFILIATE TRUSTEES

Nadia Altirs Sybil Eng Solomon Steplight ’93

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 Bonnie Carter Caitlin DiRuggiero ’06 Sybil Eng Janice Jacobson Tina Jordan Kate Logan Tom Nammack Solomon Steplight ’93 Linda Sterling Margaret Wager

PAMKA BOARD Janice Jacobson, President Erica Amsinger Leigh Conforti Jamie Decter ’93 Rebecca Hirsh Lauren Kaplan ’93 Stephanie Salzman Alison Slone Sabrina Rodgers Margaret Wager

ALUMNI LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Karestan C. Koenen ’86 Dennis Manalo ’88 Denise Sarkor ’03 Christopher H. Smith ’85 Kevin Wilkins ’83

ALUMNI COUNCIL Caitlin DiRuggiero ’06, President Stephen A. Bezer ’11 Racquel S. Booth ’96 Seth Bynum ’11 Kelly Byrne ’08 Georgia S. Carrington ’54 Jenna Clancey ’03 Geoffrey Close ’71 Jeffrey Festa ’06 Frank Godlewski ’76 Stuart Harwood ’07 Cara Landolfi ’05 Angela M. McCaffrey ’06 Lhenée McKoy ’05 Chadd Mukete ’11 Samora Noguera ’02

ADVISORY ALUMNI COUNCIL MEMBERS Dean Paolucci ’73 Jaclyn Spedaliere ’00

STUDENT ALUMNI RELATIONS COUNCIL

Ignacio Sanchez Gomez-Alvarez ’21 Resham Datwani ’21 Aron Dyadyuk ’21 Elizabeth Esterow ’21 Madison Golodner ’21 Nihaar Gopalji ’21

* Deceased

FUNDRAISING VOLUNTEERS Kathryn Auw Prasad ’01 Anya Buenger Barrett ’89 Eddie Bartleson ’08 Carlaina Bell Stephen Bezer ’11 Racquel Booth ’96 Christopher Brazill Seth Bynum ’11 Bonnie Carter John Chase ’05 Jenna Clancey ’03 Geoffrey Close ’71 Amanda D’Alessandro ’16 Peter Dancy ’82 Ryan Dancy ’18 Alexis Davis Caitlin DiRuggiero ’06 Sybil Eng Taylor Everson ’21 Dave Flocco Rob Fortunato ’08 Sheri Friedman Tommy Fusco ’14 Alex Gephart ’06 Angus Gephart Charles Gephart ’08

Deborah Gordon Karen Gulliver Frank Godlewski ’76 Grace Halvey ’16 Stuart Harwood ’07 Janice Jacobson Tina Jordan Pat Karole ’12 Cara Landolfi ’05 Matt Lane ’13 Kate Logan Dara Marmon ’91 Angela McCaffrey ’06 Lhenée McKoy ’05 Karen Merz Matt Metzger ’08 Lisa Bombardieri Moore ‘90 Chadd Mukete ’11 Tom Nammack Samora Noguera ’02 Dean Paolucci ’73 Mark Phillips ’13 Sabino Rodano ’87 Robert Ruberton Alison Slone Jack Strain ’11 Joe Strain ’16 Rob Strain ’16 Paige L. Cottingham-Streater ’79 Fran de la Torre ’00 Laura (Brown) Vassilowitch ‘01 Margaret Wager Sam Walter ’06 Nancy Wheeler

ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT VOLUNTEERS Igor Alvez ’99 Abe Abukwaik ’15 Miriam Abukwaik ’17 Rob D’Alessandro ’19 Rick Diamond ’91 Devon Geyelin ’12 Alex Holz ’99 James Johnson ’79 Veejay Lalla ’93 Nithya Nathan ’03 Devika Patel ’12

We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this report. However, despite our best efforts, errors sometimes still occur, and for this we apologize in advance. All donors are recognized for their gifts between July 1, 2020 – June 20, 2021. If you have questions about your recognition or would like more information about giving opportunities, please contact Laela Perkins, Director of Development, at lperkins@mka.org. For more information, please visit www.mka.org/supportmka

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Enid Hyde ’41 Leigh Smith ’45 Eleanor Ketcham ’46 John Leonhard ’48 Gail Marentette ’51 Martha Moran ’52 Georgia Carrington ’54 Sheldon Buck ’54 Lawrence Martin ’55 Susan Ferdinand ’56 Eric Jaeckel ’56 Lawrence Nazarian ’56 Thelma "Tam" Knight ’57 Henry Agens ’58 Diana Little ’58 Jarvis Reilly Nolan ’59 David Bruck ’61 Suzanne Hardy ’61 Barbara Creed ’62 W. Doug Donald ’62 Katharine "Kitty" Haines ’65 Jessie Boyer ’66 A. Craig Cameron ’66 Dougal Fitzpatrick ’66 Craig Perry ’67 Geoff Gregg ’68 Avie Claire Kalker ’68 Edward A. Griggs ’69 Christine Hannon ’69 Leslie Bryan ’70 V. James Castiglia ’70 Peter Webb ’70 Philippa Bowles ’71 Jeffrey Jones ’71 Anthony Vitale ’71 Thomas Galligan ’73 Gregory Lackey ’73 Susan Read ’73 Erin Cuffe Crawford ’74 Paul Zuckerberg ’75 Sara Close ’76 Frank Godlewski ’76 Robert Hubsmith ’77 Andrew Pedersen ’77 Pamela Zeug ’78 John Brink ’79 Shawn Ortiz ’79 Laura Itzkowitz (Laura Reisch) ’81 Walter Davis ’83 Maureen Natkin (J.P.) ’83 Jennifer Jones Ladda ’84 Dennis Rodano ’87 Lynne Yellin ’87 Jennifer Remington-Knodel ’88 Louis Lessig ’89 Josh Raymond ’89 Dara Marmon ’91 Luke Sarsfield ’91 Enrique Neblett ’92 Jason Awerdick ’94 Tanya Barnes ’96 Erica Hirsch ’96 Lee Vartan ’96 Gemma Giantomasi ’98 Alexander Holz ’99 Sandra Tritt ’99

Anna Cook ’00 John Garippa ’00 Jaclyn Spedaliere ’00 Dana Pisacane ’01 Emily Santangelo ’02 Melissa Fortunato Slomienski ’02 Melanie Bieber ’03 Judith Ferreira ’03 Brendan McCaffrey ’04 Katherine Santoro ’04 Edmund Kozak ’05 Manav Lalwani ’05 Natalie Azzoli ’06 Angela McCaffrey ’06 Brian May ’07 Stuart Harwood ’07 Matthew Metzger ’08 Brian Purcell ’09 Jane Stanton ’09 Devon Barrett ’10 Matthew Palmisano ’10 Seth Bynum ’11 Carina Wong ’11 Casey Holden ’12 Ed Rosini ’12 Elizabeth "Lizzie" Amato ’13 Edward Bozik ’13 Kassandra Fotiadis ’14 Kori Durando ’15 Lily Andres ’16 Zoe Bieler ’16 Charles Rilli ’16 Jenna Donatiello ’17 Matt Rubenstein ’17 Lailanni Lucien ’18 Keenan McAuliffe ’18 Kerri McGuire ’18

THANK YOU

CLASS AGENTS

P PA REN T NE WS

An Upper School student paints the cafeteria window to represent her House, Monjo.

PA R E N T N E WS

Dear MKA Families, I hope you all had a wonderful summer break. Welcome to all our new families, and to our returning families, welcome back to a school year that looks more familiar than last year did.

Despite the challenges of COVID-19, the 2021 PAMKA Spring Fundraiser proved that the MKA community is stronger together, even when we are apart. The event was both planned and executed entirely virtually.

Thanks to the efforts of event chairs Leena Bansal and April Straten and their dedicated committee, and with the support of the MKA community, over $150,000 was raised in support of MKA. As we start this school year, it feels like we are turning a page, especially as we welcome a new Head of School, Nigel Furlonge. PAMKA’s programs depend on the involvement of our families and offer so many ways to get involved. I hope that each of you can find a way to share your time and talent with PAMKA as we foster community and support MKA. Regardless of how much time you have to give, there is an opportunity for you to volunteer, and you will be glad that you did.

Janice Jacobson President Silvia Henriquez Secretary Sybil Eng Finance VP Alison Slone Communications VP Lauren Kaplan ’93 Community Engagement VP Ruchi Misra Volunteer Coordinator VP Leena Bansal Special Events VP Meredith Gardner Primary School Campus VP Becki Hirsh Middle School Campus VP Stephanie Salzman Upper School Campus VP THE PAMKA MISSION STATEMENT

Best wishes, Janice Jacobson PAMKA President

CONGRATULATIONS TO LEENA BANSAL, APRIL STRATEN, AND THE ENTIRE AMAZING UN-GALA TEAM. Thanks to their hard work and creative thinking, this year’s virtual Spring Fundraiser was a huge success, raising over $150,000! This success is a real testament to MKA’s strength and commitment to our students. The PAMKA volunteers and the willingness of the MKA community to pitch in and help, even in uncertain times, are amazing. PAMKA donated a gift of $190,000 to MKA, which will be used to support a variety of programs to enrich the student experience at MKA.

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PAMKA BOARD OF OFFICERS 2021-2022

PAMKA is a parent volunteer organization established to provide opportunities for parents to participate in the support and enhancement of the students’ educational experience at Montclair Kimberley Academy (MKA). PAMKA pursues its mission working in cooperation with the school administration through activities consistent with the policies and goals established by the Board of Trustees at MKA.

VIRTUAL PARENTING WORKSHOPS WRAPPED UP WITH A PRESENTATION

BY MAX STOSSEL, HEAD OF EDUCATION FOR THE CENTER FOR HUMANE TECHNOLOGY, “SOCIAL MEDIA TRUTHS.” Mr. Stossel spoke to a group of 40 parents and 6th-12th grade students about the psychology of social media.

PAMKA PARTNERED WITH MKA’S DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMITTEE TO BRING THE MFEE MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY LEARNING CIRCLES ON RACE AS “MKA PARENT LEARNING CIRCLES.” For four weeks in May, parents met in small groups to discuss the documentary series “America To Me.”

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Eighth Grade Graduation was held outside on Van Brunt Field.

T RUST E E N E WS

Dear MKA Community, It is with great pleasure that we formally welcome Nigel Furlonge as our new Head of School. Nigel and his family have settled into the Head of School house, and they are excited to be part of our community. The Board is confident that under Nigel’s care, MKA will continue to be a school guided by its motto of Knowledge, Vision, and Integrity.

I am also delighted to welcome the newest members of MKA’s Board of Trustees: Sybil Eng and Solomon Steplight IV ’93.

Sybil is an experienced and enthusiastic community leader with a passion for causes advancing access and equity in child welfare and education. Her educational and professional life has focused largely on epidemiology and data analytics, and she has extensive experience in global public health projects. After earning her B.S. from the University of Chicago in Biological Sciences, Sybil went on to receive a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology, a Masters of Philosophy in Epidemiology and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Epidemiology, all from Columbia University. She is also deeply involved with CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) for Children of Essex County and Toni’s Kitchen. Sybil, and her husband Tad Roselund, are the parents of Andrew (Class of 2019) and Jack (Class of 2023).

Solomon bridges finance, technology, and politics to scale projects that address challenges in urban communities as well as minority and women-owned businesses. After earning his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and attending the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Solomon led several EdTech startups and was the CFO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow, a national nonprofit dedicated to diversifying corporate leadership. From 2013 to 2016, Solomon was the COO and CFO of Girls Who Code, where he strove to shrink the gender and racial achievement gap in computer science. Currently, he is the City Administrator of East Orange, NJ, where he is responsible for the day-to-day operations of over $5 billion of municipal resources. Proud to be known as a “lifer,” Solomon graduated from MKA in 1993. Solomon, and his wife Salamishah Tillet, are the parents of Seneca (Class of 2030) and Sidney (Class of 2034).

It is with tremendous gratitude that we say farewell to our retiring Trustees: Evie Colbert and Carolyn Everson. These two women have been extraordinary MKA Trustees. They consistently demonstrated their commitment to our students and to MKA’s mission throughout many years of service.

Evie joined the Board in 2011 and was a Vice President from 2013-2015. Evie served on many committees including the Executive, Facilities, Strategic Planning, and Student Life committees and was the Chair of Education Program and Policies from 2017 to 2020. I want to thank Evie for her dedication to MKA, for her leadership, and for her friendship.

Carolyn joined the Board in 2013. She served on the Education Program and Policies, Facilities, and Student Life committees. Her advice, guidance, and thoughtful stewardship was of the highest caliber, and so I am pleased to announce that Carolyn has agreed to serve as an Advisory Trustee to the Board for the 2021-2022 school year.

As we start the school year, I encourage us all to reflect on the past eighteen months. We’ve shared in our hardships and in our successes. As a community, I believe we remained true to the principles of our Mission Statement, and with this in mind, MKA’s Board of Trustees looks forward to the 2021-2022 school year.

With warmest regards, Kathleen M. Logan President, Board of Trustees

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MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY 2021-2022 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS Kathleen M. Logan President Luke A. Sarsfield III ’91 Vice President Karen T. Gulliver Vice President Jeffrey G. Szilagyi Treasurer Paige L. Cottingham-Streater ’79 Secretary MEMBER TRUSTEES Merrick G. Andlinger Naveen Ballem ’90 Jennifer A. Barbetta Anya C. Barrett ’89 James L. Bromley Bonnie S. Carter Caitlin E. DiRuggiero ’06 Sybil Eng Clifford B. Finkle IV ’92 Nigel Furlonge Peter J. Fusco ’89 Tracy E. Higgins Janice L. Jacobson Tina A. Jordan Lauren H. Kaplan ’93 Robert J. Ruberton Stephanie A. Salzman Matthew J. Sherman Craig S. Solomon Solomon Steplight IV ’93 Margaret A. Wager HONORARY TRUSTEES Aubin Z. Ames ’54 John E. Garippa Alice M. Hirsh Michael V. Johnson Newton B. Schott, Jr. ADVISORY TRUSTEES David A. Crichlow Carolyn N. Everson Barry W. Ridings ’70 Robert L. Tortoriello For more information about our Board of Trustees, please visit www.mka.org/about/ board-of-trustees

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Dear Alumni, I am thrilled to lead the MKA Alumni Association through another year. It is an honor to be at the helm of the MKA Alumni Network as the school continues to grow and evolve while also holding on to its core values. As we embark on our first fully in-person school year since 2018-2019, I am excited to get back to in-person alumni events.

However, one thing the pandemic taught us as an alumni community is that we can expand our network and collaborate with those thousands of miles away. We are always looking for new members of our Alumni Council, and now due to virtual meetings, we are able to expand our reach to wherever you live.

If joining the Council sounds too daunting, there are plenty of ways to get more involved:

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Caitlin DiRuggiero ’06 President/Treasurer Stuart Harwood ’07 Executive VP Stephen Bezer ’11 Senior VP Lhenée McKoy ’05 Secretary

• Cougar Convos: If you want to be interviewed and share information about your business (great networking and advertising!), tell us what you’ve been up to and give advice to others: let us know!

COUNCIL Racquel Booth ’96 Seth Bynum ’11 Kelly Byrne ’08 Jenna Clancey ’03 Geoffrey Close ’71 Jeffrey Festa ’06 Frank Godlewski ’76 Cara Landolfi ’05 Angela McCaffrey ’06 Chadd Mukete ’11 Samora Noguera ’02

• Volunteer your time with the College Counseling Office by letting them know you’d be willing to have a student reach out to you regarding your university alma mater.

ADVISORY Dean Paolucci ’73 Jaclyn Spedaliere ’00

• Provide an internship to either current students (think May TermMKA’s capstone senior project) or young alumni. If you are interested in providing one, please let us know. Even being a mentor to younger alums as they navigate their careers helps them so much!

Thank you to those who voted for the Founder’s Cup Award this past year.

Our winner, Alex Langbein ’03, received an unprecedented amount of votes, and the excitement around the award was palpable. Voting for the Young Alumni Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award is underway, and we’d love to hear from you: https://www.mka.org/alumni/awards.

Please know, my “door” is always open. I love MKA, its ever-evolving community, and the friendships it has given me. I am here to listen and help out in any way that I can, so don’t hesitate to reach out to me. I wish you all the best for this 2021-2022 school year.

Oct. 16, 2021 Homecoming Nov. 26, 2021 Winter Games Event Jan. 13, 2022

All my best,

Virtual Networking Event

Caitlin DiRuggiero President, Alumni Council (Or as Coach P. called me in Kindergarten, “Caitlin D”) caitlindiruggiero@gmail.com

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SAVE THE DATE!

Feb. 24, 2022 MKA Day

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Stephen Smith ’81 Dr. Stephen Smith has been a committed, prominent infectious disease expert for decades and has dedicated his life to helping those who are less fortunate. A graduate of Duke University, Dr. Smith received his medical degree from Yale University and completed residencies in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia and St. Michael’s Medical Center in Newark. He serves on several boards and holds many honors in his field. From 19982009, he served as an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Seton Hall School of Graduate Medical Education and currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health.

Dr. Smith has recently given numerous interviews, sharing his expertise in treatments surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health was developed to address infectious diseases in the inner city. This non-profit center, which is initially focused on HIV, recognizes that inner city patients face many unique challenges in their daily lives. These challenges interfere with treatment of infectious diseases and foster an environment where infectious diseases are easily spread. Infectious diseases are different from other diseases in that successful treatment reduces their spread. The Smith Center believes that by using novel approaches, they can rid New Jersey of HIV.

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“ I was shocked to receive an award from MKA. I was pretty sure the school had no idea what I did and for whom I did it. I don’t know who votes for this award. But it is nice to be recognized by people you had no idea were watching.”

In what ways did your MKA experience prepare you for the path your life has taken?

In the late 1970’s, MKA and the US in general were going through a tough time. MKA, fresh off of the merger, had different types of teachers: those devoted to the students, like George Hrab, and those more focused on their careers. I learned to value those committed to others.

Why did you choose your profession?

Lack of imagination, like a Berra playing baseball, I suppose. I think most clinicians, especially diagnosticians, are drawn to medicine for four reasons: fascination with science, the value of living, pathos for the human condition, and the urge to make a difference.

What is your proudest achievement?

As an MKA student, a teacher told me this quote from Benjamin Franklin: “There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive. Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.”

So my proudest moments are my most humbling. We doctors see things others don’t. Sometimes, we see too much of that thing, as in this past year.

I am most happy when I am fully committed to the patient in front of me and have removed as much of myself from the situation as possible: when my ego doesn’t matter but the doing does. I learned that from watching my father. When my dad was truly focused on a complicated patient, Leon Smith didn’t exist. His ego could be rather large when he wasn’t in this state, but when he was in this state of focus, his ego didn’t exist. The patient’s well being was all that mattered. My father enjoyed being in this state more than any other.

A few months ago, my wife and I were out to dinner with another couple. We talked about a friend of theirs who had severe COVID and whom I cared for.

I worked very hard on this patient, finally got him off the vent, and then he got re-intubated. When he got re-intubated, I got angry: I had enough, enough death, enough interference, enough… I decided then and there that I was taking over. There was no way I was going to let him die. I felt like an athlete at the end of a close game. I demanded that the ball be in my hands, and with control of the ball, I would not let this patient

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die. The patient has no idea how hard I worked on him. But after he was finally off of the vent (the second time) and better, I walked into his room and saw him, bifocals on, reading a newspaper. He hadn’t heard me enter, so I just paused in his doorway and soaked in this seemingly trivial activity. As I watched him simply read the paper, a feeling of victory and of quiet jubilation swept over me, for then and there I knew that was he going to make it and I could maybe relax a little. I guess it was a feeling of thankful relief. Later, I met with the patient, but he didn’t really remember me. I went over his hospital course of treatment a little with him but tried not to scare him. He, of course, thanked me. And that was rewarding too. He talked about how he raised money for Saint Barnabas, etc.

He had no idea how little they had to do with his survival. I almost told him about our non-profit, the Smith Center for Infectious Disease, but held off.

What are the most challenging aspects of your work?

The most rewarding?

I was an AIDS doctor and still run/own a federally funded HIV clinic. I grew up literally with AIDS because my father was the first AIDS doctor in Jersey.

I devoted a large part of my own career to HIV/AIDS, and then this year, I became a COVID doctor. Despite my experience as an AIDS doctor, I was not prepared for the infusion of politics into a pandemic. As a COVID doctor, I was quite literally fighting death. Yet so many others were arguing about this drug or that drug. For the first time ever, lay people, who hadn’t even taken biology in high school, had extremely strong opinions about medications used to treat an infection, the tests to diagnose it, and the methods to prevent its spread. I am a physician. Data matters.

Observation of my patients matters. The views of politicians, lay people, talking heads…they simply don’t matter in the treatment of my patients.

What advice would you give today’s graduates who might be interested in a similar career?

Medicine is a jealous mistress. It is very hard to be a good doctor for several reasons, and it’s a long road to get there. So, choose a specialty which you love. Choose a specialty the practice of which isn’t controlled by others. And for God’s sake, make sure that a pandemic doesn’t occur during your career.

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YOUNG ALUMN I AWA R D The purpose of the Young Alumni Award is to recognize an alumnus or alumna who has graduated from MKA within the past 15 years. He or she will have demonstrated significant service to MKA and/ or have made significant contributions to his or her profession and community. The accomplishments being considered need not be publicly renowned but should reflect a deep and inspirational commitment to the improvement of society. To learn more, visit our website www.mka.org/alumni/celebrating-our-alumni

Isaiah Thompson ’15 Isaiah J. Thompson is a jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer from West Orange, New Jersey. He began studying at The Calderone School of Music at an early age and continued his studies with Jazz House Kids and NJPAC Jazz For Teens. He was later admitted to The Juilliard School at the age of 18 and graduated with his Bachelor of Music in 2019 and his Master of Music in 2020. Isaiah has performed with major artists including Ron Carter, John Pizzarelli, Christian McBride, Steve Turre, and Buster Williams. His recording debut was featured on Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Blue Engine Records’ Handful of Keys album with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, and his debut album as a leader, Isaiah J. Thompson Plays the Music of Buddy Montgomery, was released in 2020.

He worked on the Golden Globe-nominated soundtrack for Motherless Brooklyn, was named a Steinway Artist, and has been awarded accolades, including the 2018 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award and second place in the 2018 Thelonious Monk (now Herbie Hancock) Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition. Isaiah believes that artistry is a direct channel into the mind and soul of an artist, and as such, feels that it is important to not lose sight of one’s individuality or that of others. As a performer, he tries to emit a feeling of joy and convey his personal experiences through the music and through his everlasting love of jazz.

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“ I’m honored to be thought of for the 2021 Young Alumni Award. There are a lot of alumni doing amazing things. Each day, I just do my best, and that’s all anybody can do. It’s nice to be recognized for just being myself.”

In what ways did your MKA experience prepare you for the path

What is your proudest achievement?

your life has taken?

One of my proudest achievements was being accepted to The Juilliard School but even more so because of the promise I made to do so. I was about thirteen or fourteen years old when I realized how much I wanted to play. I decided that I wanted to go to Juilliard and complete their 5-year Master’s Program. At the time, I don’t think that specific degree program was even offered to students studying jazz. I’m so thankful because things don’t always work out the way you planned them, but in this case, that promise came to fruition in May of 2020, and I’m definitely proud of that.

MKA surrounds me to this day. I was in NYC struggling to find a seat in a restaurant, and Ms. Watkins gave up her seat for me. For a few months, two years ago or so, I visited Mr. Hessler almost every weekend to learn Tai-Chi. Mr. Tony Jones has expressed interest in recordings I’ve made. Mr. Olsen helped me look for a new instrument when I was in need, and Mr. Rich has shown up at concerts in support of me and the swing dance tradition. Ms. Gilmartin and Mr. Hadjipetkov have recommended music to me; the philosophy surrounding the sport of fencing has stayed with me to this day; Mr. Christmas adopted me as a spiritual grandson, and we still keep in touch. I can go on and on. MKA taught me something about investing in your relationships.

When I came to MKA as a freshman, I was entering into an environment where the people I didn’t know were far greater than the people I did. It was time to start anew. I obviously took all the required classes I needed for graduation, but I also took the classes I knew I didn’t need to, simply because I wanted to learn. Through those experiences, I met teachers that I would not have otherwise, but more importantly, I met people whose purposes far outweighed their ability to teach me in just the classroom.

Why did you choose your profession?

I became serious about playing music at such a young age, so I honestly feel like my profession chose me.

At my core, I’m more of a jazz musician than I am a pianist. When I listen to the music, it’s not just music to me and, even more so, it’s not only art. It’s quite literally my belief system being put on display in front of me. The ideals that the music holds is what I feel is important to embody each day: democracy, empathy, adversity, and more. I chose jazz music as my profession because when I’m a part of it, it’s like I’m looking through the mirror.

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What are the most challenging aspects of your work?

The most rewarding?

A career in the arts is a very hard thing to do. I never sugarcoat it, but that does not mean that any dream to do so should ever be neglected. Jazz is the most disrespected yet unlistened-to music. If you turn on the TV at any given time, you will hear some joke or comment about how useless and wrong of an art form it is. It’s sad that so many people will say they don’t like it and have never heard it, or they think they have heard it, but they haven’t. Jazz goes against many of today's philosophies that overwhelm mainstream media. One of my greatest mentors, the late, great Frank Kimbrough, taught me that sometimes we get caught up always looking for the next big thing. In relation to music, it’s important to realize that the gift you’ve been searching for is simply being able to play. Hope to touch somebody's heart and soul whether it’s one person or 1,000. Make sure your sincerity does not waver depending on who is in the room because what happens to the intensity of your passion when it’s just you?

What advice would you give today’s graduates who might be interested in a similar career?

Your sound on the instrument, your touch on the brush, and your voice in the role is not wrong, delve into it.

The most significant contribution you can make to art and to yourself is to be just that, yourself.

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Paul Edwards Although the Alumni Hall of Fame typically inducts honorees every other year, we are thrilled to announce that we named a 2021 inductee into the Athletic Hall of Fame: Paul Edwards.

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ATHLETI C HA LL O F FAM E AWA R D The Athletic Hall of Fame Award recognizes those who have brought distinction, honor, and excellence to the school through athletics. An honoree must have been an outstanding varsity athlete, coach, athletic director, trainer, or major contributor (financial and/or participant) at MA, TKS, or MKA and/or brought distinction to the school through related and subsequent athletic accomplishment. The Athletic Hall of Fame seeks to honor the legacy of the recipient’s athletic endeavor, leadership, and achievement during their time at MKA in addition to their continued collegiate athletic success after they leave the school.

“ Personally, Coach Edwards has been an incredible friend and mentor to me as an Athletic Director, and he has simply been one of the best and finest coaches I have ever had the privilege to work with throughout my career at MKA.” – Todd Smith

The spring 2021 season marked the last of beloved Coach Paul Edwards’ illustrious career leading the MKA Boys’ Lacrosse program. Coach Edwards has been at the helm of our Boys’ Lax program since April 2003 when he took over as our Interim Head Coach after former Head Coach Noll Klank’s sudden passing.

Coach Edwards agreed to stay on board as our Head Coach the following season and has since led the Cougars to an impressive 184-136 record over a 17-year coaching career. The 2020 season would have been Coach Edwards’ 18th year leading the Cougars. During Coach Edwards’ career, the MKA Boys’ Lacrosse team captured one NJSIAA State Group Championship, four NJ Prep B State Championships, and three League Championships. Coach Edwards has been one of our best Head Coaches in program history and throughout

all MKA athletic programs. He is a role model and mentor for many of his MKA colleagues, players, friends, and family, and throughout boys’ lacrosse coaching circles. Coach Edwards is regarded as one of the finest coaches throughout the state, generating Star Ledger NJ “Coach of the Year” honors in 2012, and in 2016 he was selected as the Len Roland Award recipient by the Boys’ Lacrosse Officials for Outstanding Sportsmanship. In honor of his amazing career at MKA, the Coach Edwards Cougar Athletic Fund has been established to provide financial resources to student athletes who require financial assistance to meet additional athletic expenses in their respective sport, ensuring that every athlete has the opportunity to take part in the full team experience and enjoy the robust athletic program at MKA.

On May 1 the Alumni Office, in conjunction with MKA Athletics, held its first in-person event of the year on Van Brunt Field honoring Coach Edwards and the 2020 Athletic Hall of Fame (AHOF) recipient, Rob Fortunato ’08. The event brought together over 150 people, including alumni, parents, current and former players, faculty and staff, and students, to celebrate the careers of these extraordinary LAX men. MKA’s Director of Athletics Todd Smith was the Master of Ceremonies, which included heartfelt speeches by former MKA AHOF inductee, superstar Alex Gephart ’06, and long-time LAX Coach Sabino Rodano, who remembered longtime Assistant LAX Coach Ernie Mosca. The event concluded with a special recognition by MKA Athletics of Head of School Tom Nammack in honor of his support of MKA’s Athletic programming during his tenure at the school. It was truly an important day for the connected “family” of athletes and programs that are MKA Athletics and especially Boys’ Lacrosse.

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Alex Langbein ’03 Alex Langbein has been affiliated with MKA for over 25 years---as a student (Class of 2003) and then as a teaching professional. Alex holds a BS in Sports Management and an MA in Early Childhood Education, both from Springfield College, Massachusetts. During his graduate studies, he was a Teaching Fellow and then selected as Class Marshall for his commencement. Alex has always been passionate about working with young children and was inspired to pursue a career in education and youth development by his experiences as a tennis professional. After completing his advanced degree and a short tenure as an in-classroom paraprofessional in the Essex Fells School system, Alex returned to his alma mater, initially as a Pre-K teacher and then, after five years, a Kindergarten teacher. His empathetic and caring approach helps each

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student achieve not only core competencies but also individual self-confidence and respect for fellow students. In addition to his classroom responsibilities, Alex coaches middle school sports at MKA, including the boys’ and girls' tennis teams and the boys' basketball team. His emphasis on inclusiveness for all players and good sportsmanship define his coaching style.

Alex serves on key MKA committees (Health and Safety and School Status Advisory Team), liaising with faculty, parents, and administrative staff. For many years, he has been the consistently positive and enthusiastic morning greeter for the Lower School drop-off. In addition to a love of running and tennis, Alex is an avid sports fan, especially for the Knicks and Jets. His greatest joy is spending time with his wife Jen, family, and friends.

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FOUNDERS’ CUP R EC IP IE N T The Founders’ Cup Award, established in 1993, recognizes MKA’s strong tradition of teaching excellence dating back to 1887. The award is presented to an outstanding faculty member representative of the best qualities of teaching at MKA, inside and outside of the classroom, including coaching and mentoring. The Alumni Association welcomes nominations for the Founders’ Cup Award from all members of the MKA family, including current students, parents, alumni, administration, and faculty.

Congratulations to Primary School Kindergarten teacher Alex Langbein ’03 who was named the recipient of the 2021 Founders’ Cup for Teaching Excellence.

After receiving the award from Alumni Council President Caitlin DiRuggiero ’06 at MKA’s end-of-school meeting, Alex said, “I want to thank my mentors and colleagues over the last decade at Brookside. Especially my co-teachers, who have given me so much. Marie Richardson, Sue Awerdick, Kathy Sasena, Daniela Vespucci, Breanna Conley, Gretchen Ievers, and Erica DeTrolio. And also the leadership of Jessica Sarfati and John Odell as grade level chairs. Yes, that is a lot of co-teachers for 10 years at the Primary School! I asked Ginger Kriegel many many times, if changing teaching partners so frequently was because I was exhausting them with my energy! At the end of the day, I want nothing more than for my students to be good citizens and members of our community. Kind. Caring.

Cougars. When I see that translate to the Middle and Upper school levels, it means the world to me. There is nothing more satisfying than when a former student or athlete approaches me with eye contact, says hello, and asks how I am doing. It makes it all worth it.”

His students, who made our first ever video nomination, his students’ parents, alumni, and colleagues sent great nominations for Alex, praising him for the exemplary teacher, colleague, mentor, and friend that he is.

Some of the accolades written about him include: One word describes Mr. Langbein: phenomenal.

Mr. Langbein is an amazing teacher, who manages to meet every child at their level and works tirelessly to accelerate their path to success. Beyond academic achievement, Mr. Langbein focuses on each child’s social and emotional growth and maintains close contact with each child's family so everything can be addressed with a team approach. Managing a group of 5 and 6-year-olds is no easy task, especially during times of remote and hybrid learning due to COVID, yet Mr. Langbein is always calm, composed, positive, and fun. He finds a way to connect with every student. Our children are truly lucky to have him as a teacher.

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This is our daughter’s first year here at MKA, and needless-to-say we had much trepidation about sending her to a new school during a pandemic. I am not a teacher, but I come from a family of teachers and I know how difficult yet rewarding it can be to be a teacher, much like being a parent. But right off the bat, Charlie was in love and mesmerized by the wonders of kindergarten, MKA and most of all her teacher, Mr. Langbein. Alex makes it his business to know each child and what makes them tick. He never hesitated to communicate with us about the accomplishments or unique things Charlie did during school which really helped us as parents feel involved especially during a pandemic.

Alex’s style of teaching is engaging, creative, and innovative, and he does it all with empathy and strength.

Alex Langbein embodies all that MKA stands for.

He shows up for his students everyday not only academically but emotionally as well. He goes out of his way to ensure that his students are thriving in and outside the classroom.

During what has been a challenging year for both students and teachers, Mr. Langbein has created a special, magical Kindergarten experience for our daughter and her class. Each day, he brings an exceptional level of enthusiasm, positivity, and humor to his teaching that helps build a love of learning and excitement for school in his students.

His creativity, high-energy, and playfulness keeps the class engaged and excited to explore new ideas.

Our daughter expresses disappointment when the weekend arrives because she has to wait two days to return to her Kindergarten class! Mr. Langbein’s gentle and patient encouragement has helped our daughter grow, gain confidence to take new risks at school, and also to relax and be able to ‘be herself’ with her class.

We are so proud of Alex on his well-deserved recognition!

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HONORARY ALUM N I AWA R D The Honorary Alumni Award was created in spring 2010 to address both the perceived need for and the strong desire of the MKA Alumni Council to honor those members of the MKA family who have made a significant, easily recognizable, and direct impact on MKA students for at least 10 years.

On behalf of the Alumni Association of Montclair Kimberley Academy, the Council is delighted to announce that George Hrab has been enthusiastically selected as the MKA “Honorary Alumnus of Distinction” for the 2020-2021 school year.

George Hrab George’s 52 year tenure at MA and MKA has left an indelible mark on the school and on every one of the students who has had the privilege to learn from and be coached by him. His roles as a deeply respected and beloved teacher, colleague, and distinguished mentor have resulted in this well-deserved recognition. Alumni Council President Caitlin DiRuggiero says, “I can tell you that the Alumni Council is thrilled to award

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George the HAA in recognition of the direct impact he has on students now and has had on them for the past 52 years. He is most deserving of this award through his commitment to MKA, true love of the school, and impact on the community.”

George was honored at the Senior Breakfast held on April 30 at the Upper School. He will also be the Alumni Council’s guest of honor at next year’s Reunion luncheon.

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Email alumni@mka.org if interested.

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Photograph of Draper Laboratory engineer Sheldon Buck ’54 performing work on lunar traverse gravimeter.

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Sheldon Buck ’54

Sheldon Buck ’54 may have the longest tenure of any student at MKA. He began at Brookside in 1938 at the age of two and a half and repeated first grade due to his failure to comply with the prevailing philosophy at the time that “students must read by first grade.” It was not until the third grade that the Head of School diagnosed Sheldon’s poor eyesight as the real culprit of his classroom struggles, and with a new pair of glasses and an unrelenting thirst for knowledge, Sheldon’s education took off.

At Brookside and Montclair Academy (MA), Sheldon recalls, “They didn’t teach you to memorize facts. They taught you to think, to learn and develop knowledge.”

He credits this education for providing him with the foundation for his illustrious career in aeronautical engineering.

His penchant for mathematics was nurtured by many of his teachers at MA. Sheldon remembers taking geometry with Mr. Frank Harmon who quickly identified Sheldon’s abilities and put him in a class by himself where he was taught math from an advanced textbook from Phillips Exeter Academy. After scoring a near perfect score on the college board exam, Fred Hackett, the MA head of school at the time, suggested he apply to the Massachusetts

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Institute of Technology (MIT). Sheldon was awarded early admittance and earned the distinction of valedictorian of his MA class in June of 1954.

Sheldon credits his ability to think for himself and problem-solve as the determining factor in his success at MIT, where he received a degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1959. Throughout Sheldon’s career he focused his work on the development of aerospace control systems and geophysical instrumentation, and his work initially centered in the area of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). He then designed a number of items including a seismic monitoring system, gravimeters for lunar exploration, and instrumentation for oceanography.

He served as the Technical Director of the Lunar Traverse Gravimeter which flew on Apollo 17 in December 1972. During that time, he trained the Apollo 17 crew and performed all the instrument data reduction at Mission Control in Houston, TX during the flight.

Prior to retiring, Sheldon was the Assistant Director at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and the Associate Department Head at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Sheldon recalls that the “once in a lifetime experience of working on a mission to space was demanding and incredibly fulfilling.” All flights in space, such as those to the International Space Station not completed by a Shuttle have been possible because of Sheldon’s work. He found that when designing hardware that will be used by numerous people, collaboration and diversity are critical for success. “If you all think alike, you won’t see as many options to solve a given problem.”

Sheldon credits MKA for providing him the foundation from which he learned the values of friendship, collaboration, cultivating differing viewpoints, and perseverance. As a member of MKA’s Heritage Society, Sheldon knows that a gift from his estate will have a lasting legacy and benefit generations of young students to come.

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Cornelia (Connie) (Carswell) Serota ’39 CORNELIA (CONNIE) (CARSWELL) SEROTA ’39 HAS ALWAYS BEEN A WOMAN WHO CAN FIND A SOLUTION TO ANY OBSTACLE OR CHALLENGE. SHE CREDITS HER INGENUITY TO HER MOTHER EMMA (DICKSON) CARSWELL, ONE OF THE TWO GIRLS IN THE FIRST GRADUATING CLASS AT THE KIMBERLEY SCHOOL (TKS) IN 1909, AND HER TKS EDUCATION.

As young adults at the onset of World War I and World War II respectively, Emma and Connie both felt the urge to be directly involved in each of the wars rather than watching from the sidelines. In 1917, Emma became a volunteer with the YMCA, attached to the U.S. Army’s Third Division in the front lines in France. In this role, she spoke with soldiers and gave out hot chocolate and cigarettes as they headed into battle. During recreation periods with her violin, she conducted singalongs for the soldiers.

Immediately after graduating from Smith College in 1943, Connie went on active duty with the U.S. Navy in Communications. She was released from active duty at the war’s end in 1946. Connie worked at the United Nations in its early days at Lake Success and then went back on active duty with the Navy in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. She served a total of 30 years, active duty and Ready Reserve, retiring with the rank of commander.

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Corneila Carswell Serota ’39 and her husband, Saul, present her book to Head of School Dr. Peter Greer.

preschool children, became interested in hearing loss, and took courses at the University of Maryland at College Park. She obtained a masters in Audiology and worked in the Department of Hearing and Speech at the University of Maryland for 11 years between 1967 and 1978. In 1978, Connie and her husband purchased a large property in rural Virginia. They decided they had to make the land work for them, so Connie learned how to become a beef cattle farmer.

Connie is so grateful for her TKS education, which gave her the skills to study and learn new things and the confidence to try new adventures. She describes the faculty as “wonderful, loving teachers who really cared and wanted us to be successful.” In particular, she remembers Miss Cassandra Kinsmann and Miss Margaret Gallie, an Upper School English teacher.

She also quoted Miss Mary Flannery, an arithmetic teacher in the lower school who would “Boom forth: ‘To thine own self be true, You can not then be false to any man.’”

Connie now lives in a retirement community in Richmond, VA, where she spent ten years as the head of the community’s resident-run thrift shop and

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Emma Dickson Carswell ’09, one of the first Kimberley School Graduates.

concurrently worked with other residents, helping 16 people to write their memoirs over 14 years. Between this impactful work and a much-enjoyed symphony subscription, Connie follows all things MKA from her home in Richmond, VA. Despite being legally blind, she has embraced the use of new technologies and hasn’t missed any virtual alumni programming.

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plastics. Mr. Rich received a lovely thank you note from Connie following the presentation and shared, “It’s wonderful to hear that alumni continue to be involved in solving our problems.”

Connie is very proud of MKA’s commitment to diversity and empowerment of the student body. She feels strongly that Miss Waring, TKS founder and Head of School, “would be so proud of the school and the work it has done to grow and be successful.” We are thankful to be part of the history of the DicksonCarswell family and appreciate Emma’s and Connie’s years of service and examples of lives well-lived.

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Andy and Lisa Abramson STEEPED IN TRADITION: WORKING TOWARD A BETTER FUTURE

Lisa and Andrew (Andy) Abramson ’71 have a long history with Montclair Kimberley Academy. Andy’s family grew up in Clifton. He attended Brookside and Montclair Academy; Heather Abramson Symons ’01, Lauren Abramson Mirman ’01, and Carly Abramson ’09, were MKA Lifers; and now, a third generation is attending with Lauren’s son Ryan ’31 and daughter Sienna ’34.

Andy says that the MKA of today not only feels very different from the school he attended as a student in the 1960s and 1970s, but it has changed since he and Lisa were parents in the 1990s and 2000s. The campuses have been expanded, the programs have improved, and there have been enhancements made to operations (Lisa says the carline at Brookside runs SO much more smoothly now!), but they are thrilled that so many traditions have been preserved and that the school remains committed to delivering an excellent education at every level.

The Abramsons feel deeply connected to faculty members, many of whom have made a lasting impact on their family’s lives. Ralph Pacifico’s Biddie Sports was an incredible experience for the girls at Brookside, so much so that he remains a family friend to this day. George Hrab was Andy’s teacher as well as his daughters’, and Jane Smith is now teaching their grandson Ryan how to play the bells, just as she taught Heather, Lauren, and Carly years before.

The Abramsons credit MKA for teaching their children the importance of “community, compassion, and hard work,” traits they have all internalized,

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which is evidenced by the family’s collective work overseeing the Cure Breast Cancer Foundation. When Carly was 12 years old, she made a beaded keychain as a comfort gift for her mother, Lisa, a three-time cancer survivor. Carly and her friends made more keychains and began to sell them in an effort to raise funds for cancer research. For years, MKA students ran a table at Homecoming Weekend, selling these

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Ryan Mirman proudly wears the championship soccer jacket Andy earned as a junior at Montclair Academy. Pictured from left to right: (Back) Matthew Mirman, Lauren Abramson Mirman ’01, Andrew Abramson ’71, Lisa Abramson (Front) Sienna Mirman ’34, Ryan Mirman ’31

keychains, and after raising $10,000, it was clear that there was more to be done. Carly and Andy co-founded the Cure Breast Cancer Foundation, and to date, the Foundation has raised over $8 million dollars for breast cancer research.

The Abramsons also make MKA a philanthropic priority in their lives because they feel the school provided their daughters with a strong foundation

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and prepared them well for college. They see their grandchildren, who are just beginning their MKA journeys, starting to develop in the same positive ways. “Supporting the school is a natural evolution,” says Andy. “I benefited, my children did, and now my grandchildren are. As an alum, it is critical that I give back and support the next generation of MKA students.”

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Selfies and smiles at MKA’s Upper School Commencement

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The deadline for news for the FALL MKA Review is May 15, and the deadline for the SPRING issue is December 15.

News can be submitted at any time in response to the Alumni Office’s annual mailing, on the MKA Fund remittance envelopes, via mail or email to the MKA Alumni Engagement Office (alumni@mka.org) or your class representative. We keep ongoing files for each class and welcome photographs in digital or hard copy. If your class does not have a Class Representative listed, please consider volunteering for the position! It is a great way to re-establish contacts with old friends, does not require a great deal of time, and is essential to the ongoing vitality of the school. Thank you.

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/ TKS / Mrs. Enid Hyde, 5402 Duvall Dr., Bethesda,

MD 20816, enidghyde@aol.com

1945

/ TKS / Mrs. Leigh Smith, 847 Franklin St., Vineyard

Haven, MA 02568, lbsmith15@yahoo.com

1946

/ TKS / Mrs. Eleanor Ketcham, 4 White Oak,

Elon, NC 27244, ellieketcham8@ gmail.com

Amazing Fact: Our class would have celebrated our 75th reunion this past June, 2021, although I doubt that any of us would have been at the Reunion.

But I think there are still eight of us alive and reasonably well. Connie Ritchie DuHamel is the only one of us still in Montclair. Others live in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York City, Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, and North Carolina.

It’s been a long time since we’ve gotten together.

Only two of us live in retirement communities; the other six live independently, I believe, with various helpers. All but one of us are widows.

I had a nice talk with Joan Powell Adams. This is a hard time for her because her husband is not well.

Her children live far away from Connecticut.

Margaret Shanks Moore lives in New York City, in the same building as her sister, Meteer Shanks Schwab ’48. She remained in the City throughout the COVID era, and she has a driver and other helpers. Her children live far away, but she says they manage visits often.

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Joan Denney Carlisle lives on Cape Cod, and one of her sons lives only 10 miles away. He runs a landscaping business and has two children who visit fairly often.

Another son lives in West Hartford, CT and a third, an artist, lives in Maine. His specialty is murals.

I asked Joan how she managed meals, and she said that her favorite food has always been icecream (which she doesn’t have to cook)! I said “mine too.”

Connie (Sugie) Munoz Hirshon lives in Washington in the same house which she and Sid bought in 1958.

Two of her kids live nearby. One grandson is about to graduate from college, and another is at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

Connie writes, “I am a widow now, too. One of my family drives me to the Vineyard every summer from North Carolina. And during COVID, many of my grandkids who were working from home, joined me there with their “significant others. At one time, we had 9 people in the house and eight of them were working full days from there. (All but me). And they cooked too.”

1947 of Weston, Cataumet and Needham MA, died / TKS / Patricia Cox Mansfield

peacefully at 91 on April 1, 2021, surrounded by her family. Patty lived a full, vibrant life resplendent with music, art, learning, travel, and a highly successful real estate career. She was a beloved mother, grandmother, mother-in-law, and

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devoted friend. A 1951 graduate of Wellesley College, she went on to receive her Masters in English from Wellesley in 1953. She was a loyal alumna and served as class president.

It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Ward Ford Schumann on Saturday, January 9, 2021 at the age of 94. Born in Montclair, NJ, he was the youngest child of Florence Ford Schumann and John Joseph Schumann Jr. Prior to graduation from Deerfield Academy in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Force serving two years prior to entering Williams College where he graduated in 1950 with a B.A. in music.

His first employment was in the Music Library of the American Broadcasting Company in New York City. However, the attraction of a career as a fine arts painter found him shortly thereafter studying at the Arts Students League of New York. Within two years he became an instructor and lecturer at Bloomfield College, Montclair Academy and the Montclair Art Museum. His paintings and sculptures were exhibited at several galleries, universities, and museums well as in private collections.

He departed New Jersey and took up residence in Aspen, Colorado.

In 1980 he married Susan Harrison ’47 and together they endowed a program at the Aspen Music Festival and School known as the Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies.

Surviving members of the family include his wife Susan, sons

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John Jay Schumann and Richard Schumann, daughters Elizabeth S. Racine and Margaret F. Schumann ’81, plus three stepchildren and eight grandchildren.

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/ MA / Mr. John Leonhard, 51 Fromm Court, Mahwah,

NJ 07430, nhandjhleonhard@aol.com

Sincere condolences go to the family of Katharine Kidde who passed away on November 12, 2020.

The daughter of 1950 shared with the Alumni Office that / TKS /

Jane Soucek Coughlin

her mother passed away on January 28, 2021. Our sincere condolences to her family.

1951

/ TKS / Mrs. Gail Marentette, 93 Glen Ave.,

Llewellyn Park, West Orange, NJ 07052 Jane Gassaway Bonner writes:

“Recently moved to Fellowship Village, a CCRC facility. Not an easy transfer due to the pandemic but everyone here is very friendly. I am happy to be here.”

Gail Marentette writes: “I stopped at the Upper School campus of MKA to catch a glimpse of graduation. The athletic field where the Academy used to be was filled with graduates and families. I keep up with the school through friends here in Llewellyn Park where children are students.

We had 30 students in our class when we graduated seventy years ago in 1951. Eleven of us are still around, and we stay in touch with each other.

We had our 70th reunion over a three day period in May at my house.

The TKS ladies of 1951: Suzanne Bailey Twyford, Jane Gassaway Bonner, June Crowe Croonquist, Gail Robertson Marentette, Joan Jacobus Miller

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Joseph Leonard Bograd, a longtime upper-end furniture retailer, died on Feb. 17, 2021. He was 85. Bograd was born July 29, 1935, to Samuel and Pauline Bograd. A native of Paterson, NJ, he graduated from Montclair Academy in 1952. He graduated from Cornell University in 1956 and then joined Bograd’s, which was founded in 1930 by his father and his uncle, David. Bograd married Marcia Goldstone in 1957, and they were married until her passing last year. Over the years, Joe and Marcia worked together at Bograd’s Fine Furniture, which remained part of the Passaic County, NJ retail landscape until the store moved to Riverdale in nearby Morris County in 1996.

Aminy Audi, president and CEO at Stickley, Audi & Co., said Bograd was a great man and a very good friend. “Joe Bograd was a bigger than life personality with very strong and candid opinions, a booming voice and a very generous heart,” Audi said. “He loved his family, his community, and the furniture industry and contributed to all very generously.” Bograd is survived by two sisters and three children, Mark, Louis, and Stephanie.

Joan Jacobus Miller and Dave came from Chicago and Suzie Bailey Twyford and her daughter, Holly, came from Washington, DC. Jane Gassaway Bonner and June Crowe Croonquist and George joined us for lunch.

Louise Maxwell, in charge of college counselling came to see us and discussed the college scene today.

We all had a wonderful time telling stories and feeling young again. We plan to do this every year from now on. We have a wonderful class and have remained good friends over the years.

Much love to all of you.” / MA / Frank Fiore writes: “Retired living on Longboat Key, Florida for 6 months and Cincinnati Ohio for 6 months.”

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/ TKS / Mrs. Martha Moran, 8011 Strauff Rd., Baltimore,

MD 21204, martha.moran1@verizon.net

1954

/ TKS / Ms. Georgia Carrington, 38 Silver Spring

Ln., Ridgefield, CT 06877 / MA / Mr. Sheldon Buck, 51 Cornell Rd., Wellesley, MA 02482, sheldonbuck@me.com

1955

/ MA / Mr. Lawrence Martin, P.O. Box 1058,

Lexington, VA 24450, martinlexington@ centurylink.net

1956

/ TKS / Ms. Susan Ferdinand, 125

Limerick Ln., Phillipsburg, NJ 08865, facesbyferdinand@gmail.com / MA / Mr. Eric Jaeckel, P.O. Box 20153, Boulder, CO 80308, efjaeckel@hotmail.com / Dr. Lawrence Nazarian, 82 Brickstone Circle, Rochester, NY 14620, LFredN@aol.com

Sue Crook Ferdinand writes: “Message to all: If you were on the virtual reunion Zoom call, it was great seeing you. If you weren't on the call, you were missed.”

Nicole de Jurenev writes: “Hey Sue. Just wanted to give you a virtual hug and wishing you excellent health and good things. I was otherwise detained and missed the Zoom as Google locked down my website because of suspicious activity that often entered through the URL. It’s a very long explanation, and I have no way of knowing if it was just another phishing. So very sorry that I missed all the fun.”

Ann DeVausney Hallowell says: “Rob and I are giving a graduation party at the end of May for our 2 Vermont granddaughters, one graduating from law school and the other one from business school. Both will run with me on the 4th of July in a 5K race in South Hero as will their father, Chris, one of our twins.

Three generations!

I can’t wait. Late September, I am planning a family reunion in Nantucket with our 3 children and their spouses. Twin Ned and Sara from LA, Jessica and Matt from Gloucester, MA, twin Chris

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and Sarita, and Rob and I from Burlington, VT.” Esther Mott Darrow writes: “Well, you will probably not believe it, but we (62 years of we) have kept very busy and relatively happy for the past year. Zoom has kept us up to date with various meetings and lectures and visits with relatives.

We have made good use of the 3 miles of trails within our MPR (Master Planned Resort), some of which we helped create when we were a bit younger but help maintain at our current age. Our kayaks remain happily hanging in our garage because I doubt that either of us could actually get into, or if in, could get out of. It would be nice to be able to use them! Our two daughters are happy and busy as well – one lives 20 miles away and one lives in DC. Our granddaughter is a mountain guide/ice climber/ rock climber/photojournalist. Our grandson is a student at Oberlin College! So, we’re good for a few more years, we hope!”

Jane Romeyn Dunning recalls her wonderful memories from grades 2-8 at TKS. On the reunion Zoom meeting, Jane filled us in on her background as a knitter, a weaver, a spinner, a sheep breeder, an EMT, a paramedic, an avid reader, and an Episcopal priest!

Jane lost her husband in 2017, but enjoys a life full of children and grandchildren while volunteering as Chaplain to the Shelburne Falls Fire Department.

Carol Van Brunt Rasic writes: “Our daughter and her family live in our neighborhood, so the best part of the last year has been being able to see our grandchildren in the nearby Riverside Park playground very often.”

Molla Kaplan Reisbaum is suffering through the process of moving from Wayne to Hackensack. Joanne Weiser Salomon has been living in the same building for about ten years. Molla shares, "I will admit that moving from a 4,000 sq ft condo to a 1,400 sq ft. apartment is quite an ordeal.

In a word, it is horrible!"

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Nancy Prescott Ward reports: “I don't have special news to report, except that Bob and I are well and have had a quiet year, of course. Our children are in good health and have stayed employed throughout the pandemic, thankfully. Our oldest grandchild will head to college in the fall, though we are still awaiting his decision as to where. The other 4 have done fine with varying permutations on remote and in person school, and we're grateful for that.”

Sally Bever Zweibach claims she has nothing to report, but I personally know that she took a swan dive off of a step ladder recently and broke her wrist. (The cast is now off, and she's recovering nicely.)

Throughout it all, she never missed a day walking Jerry, her pup.

As for myself, I seem to have survived the pandemic quite easily and kept busy knitting 5.5 afghans in the first 9 months. But mask-free existence is certainly a welcome change. My most recent madness is indoor gardening with a 3-shelf installation and grow-lights on a timer. Growing African violets from seed is my first challenge.

1957

/ TKS / Mrs. Thelma “Tam” Knight, 3001 Linton

Blvd., No. 201C, Delray Beach, FL 33445, tknight115@aol.com

1958

/ TKS / Mrs. Diana Little, 1-K Buckingham

Rd., West Orange, NJ 07052, littlecorp@ verizon.net / MA / Mr. Henry Agens, 86 Eagle Rock Way, Montclair, NJ 07042, hymelee@earthlink.net

Inadvertently omitted from the last issue of the MKA Review were a couple of examples of Trey Kipp’s clever cartooning from our yearbook. We present them here now: By the way, labeling an errant student “mallethead” was a sobriquet coined and used by teacher and MA history department head Daniel O. S. Jennings, caricatured in Trey’s illustration.

In addition, it’s appropriate to mention our other talented

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Trey Kipp ’58 cartoons

Eric Frost ’58 cartoon

classmate cartoonist: Eric Frost. I very recently learned of his passing in summer 2020. Sadly, I have few details at this time. He lived for many years in Navarre, Florida.

Regardless, here is an excellent representation of his work: From Sacramento, CA, proud poppa Jerry Roth reports that his and Rosalie’s son Danny graduated from Harvard Law School in 2020 and is now working at an international corporate law firm in DC. Daughter Miriam, a freelance copywriter, is now a copywriter with Amazon Prime. Jerry enjoys meeting weekly with a writing group, a renaissance program sponsored by Sacramento State University. Each of the 10 or so members contributes an original composition; sometimes prose, sometimes poetry. Members can, if they wish, critique other members’ submissions.

Finally, I spoke with Frank Sachs recently, and he related a marvelous story, which he referred to as a “small world” tale. Frank is an avid

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golfer and a long time member of the historic Sara Bay Country Club in Sarasota. It seems he was playing in a foursome which included a man named Mike, whom he did not know.

Frank continued, “Somewhere around the ninth hole, Mike asked me where I was originally from and I told him NJ. He asked “where” and said he was from Passaic, NJ. Since I knew a number of guys from there from my MA days, I asked him his last name. The answer was Sucoff – yes, Mike Sucoff of the MA class of 1956. He was the star catcher on the ’56 baseball team and had caught me. We have been playing golf several times a week since then and reminiscing about Ed Van Brunt, Claude Munson, and others.” A small world, indeed! Sucoff was and is an excellent athlete. The Mighty Mike was a terrific football player and a scrappy, determined catcher on the MA nine in the mid 50’s.

1959

/ TKS / Ms. Jarvis Reilly Nolan, 15612

Via Marchena, San Diego, CA 92128, jarvisno@aol.com / MA / Mr. David Bruck , 34 Nelson Ridge Road, Princeton, NJ 08540, dbruck@greenbaumlaw.com

1961

/ TKS / Mrs. Suzanne Hardy, 47 Bartlett Parkway,

Winthrop, MA 02152 Marilyn Madden, sister of Sharon

Harkness ’66, passed away peace-

fully at her home in Canmore, California on April 15, 2021.

1962

/ TKS / Mrs. Barbara Creed, 501 Portola Rd., #8185,

Portola Valley, CA 94028, bbcreed@ aol.com / MA / Mr. W. Doug Donald, 189 Sedgefield Circle, Winter Park, FL 32792, D1Donald@aol.com

Congratulations to Bruce Guersney, MKA’s Distinguished Alumni Award winner in 2012, on his new collection of essays and poems Busing to Byzantium. The collection was gleaned from his travel experiences around the world, which he did with two semesterlong voyages around the world with Semester at Sea. He was

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honored with two Fulbright Senior Lectureships in American Poetry to Portugal and Greece which are also part of the collection.

Bruce is a native New Englander and is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Eastern Illinois University where he has taught for twenty-five years.

He was awarded seven faculty excellence-in-teaching awards, and in 1992-93 he was selected as the State of Illinois Board of Governors’ “Professor of the Year,” the highest award in that state’s system. He has also taught at William and Mary, Johns Hopkins, and Virginia Wesleyan College where he was Poet in Residence for four years. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic, The American Scholar, and many of the quarterlies. His essays have found a home over the years in such journals as The Virginia Quarterly, War, Literature and the Arts, Dappled Things, and Chronicles.

Bruce is a former Editor of The Spoon River Poetry Review. Several of his poems have been featured in American Life in Poetry edited by former Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser.

It is with great sadness that we share 1963 with you the passing of / MA /

Andrew

Abrams.

The phrase "To know him was to love him" really did apply to Andrew Abrams, "Andy" to many of you, "Mr. A" to countless others. To Eric and I, he was simply "Dad.” He had a rich family life, married to Cathy Abrams for over fifty years with whom he raised his sons Eric and Rob in Maplewood, N.J. From his decades at Ryan Beck/ Stifel, Andy enjoyed a large work family that remained in constant touch with us until his final day. Anybody who played basketball at Farrell Field during

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a certain era would have definitely had the frustrating experience of posting up against "Mr. A.” Lifelong friend Sean Kelly said that Andy had a way of showing respect to everyone; he would make younger more intimidated players feel welcome on the court, and he treated everyone at work with grace and dignity. "He really taught me how to be a man and respect people," Sean said. Andy is survived by his sons, Eric and Rob, his daughter Bryn, his daughterin-law Nicole, and his brother Jeff.

Jeff Abrams ’61 said to us, “Andy was much beloved in his hometown, Maplewood, for over 50 years. I have many fine memories of my ‘little’ brother Andy, growing up in West Orange and his years at MA. He set many records in both basketball and football there. He was named All-State in both sports and, if memory serves, was also captain of those teams.”

1965

/ TKS / Ms. Katharine “Kitty” Haines, 174 East

74th St., Apt. 9F, New York, NY 10021, khaines22@aol.com / MA / Our

condolences to Robert whose mother passed away in January 2021 at the age of 104.

Joseph Hare enjoys getting out of town (Greater Boston) to spend some summer time in Blue Hill, ME and a piece of winter south (enroute to Fla last year, attended an interesting Democratic presidential rally in South Carolina). If COVID gets reined in, he hopes to visit classmate Kerry Brown on the “Cape.”

“Bobby” Ferrara

1966

/ TKS / Mrs. Jessie Boyer, 8095 S. Addison Way,

Aurora, CO 80016, boyerjessie@hotmail. com / MA / Mr. A. Craig Cameron, 11 Bay Point Dr., Ormond Beach, FL 32174, ccameron@cameronhodges.com / Mr. Douglas Fitzpatrick, 70 Eastern Vista, Sedona, AZ 86351

TKS ’66 met twice via Zoom, hosted by Sandy Fates Pekar. About 20 of us were able to get together on New Year’s Eve. Fifteen of us met

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again in early May to celebrate our 55th class reunion. Many are now retired but using our time to volunteer for causes near to our hearts, such as the environment. Marg Sander and her husband are very involved in Nova Scotia. Emails have been exchanged among those we’ve been able to contact, and we’d welcome hearing from others.

The Zoom tradition is one we hope to continue.

Congratulations to Alan Balma and Mitzi Sans Balma on 50 years of marriage. They started dating in high school when Mitzi was at Kimberley and Alan was at Montclair Academy.

Sharon Harkness ’ sister Marilyn Madden ’61 passed away peacefully at her home in Canmore, California on April 15, 2021.

1967

/ TKS / MA / Mr. Craig Perry, 3467 Pinestream

Rd., Atlanta, GA 30327, craigcperry

@aol.com

1968

/ TKS / Ms. Avie Claire Kalker, 10 Knolls Rd.,

Williamstown, MA 01267, heraldicone@ gmail.com / MA / Mr. Geoff Gregg, 6108 Percheron Trail, Summerfield, NC 27358,

1969

/ TKS / Ms. Christine Hannon, 97 North St.,

Northampton, MA 01060, channon@ smith.edu / MA / Dr. Edward A. Griggs Jr., 100 Cedar St., Apt. B24, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522

1970

/ TKS / Ms. Leslie Bryan, 844 East Morningside

Drive, NE, Atlanta, GA 30324 / MA / Mr. V. James Castiglia, 3 Lark Ln., Oak Ridge, NJ 07438, vjc@vjamescastiglia. com / Mr. Peter Webb, Mile Slip Farm, 48 Mason Rd., Brookline, NH 03033,

My wife and I have two children and two grandsons. We're fortunate both have relocated to Vermont from the Boston area, and we are currently providing daycare several days a week for our grandsons in order to allow their parents to work remotely. We're looking forward to having the COVID restrictions lifted!”

1971

/ TKS / Ms. Philippa Bowles, 39 Orts Rd., Hamburg, NJ

07419, wvbond60@gmail.com / MA /

pwebb@winerbennett.com

Mr. Jeffrey Jones, 77 Monroe St., Cedar

The Alumni Office heard from Harvie Porter who reports: “I've been retired for six years from teaching high school mathematics and spend much of my time playing at the things I always thought I might want to be - a carpenter (restoring our 1870 house), a farmer (large garden), and a homesteader (we heat with wood split by hand). I continue doing a lot of cycling, having treated myself to a retirement trip to Europe for the 1,230 km ParisBrest-Paris randonée and several 1,000 mile tours in the US South before the pandemic hit. I've been able to get some skiing in as we’re only 40 minutes from Sugarbush.

Grove, NJ 07009, coastdaylight98@ yahoo.com / Mr. Anthony Vitale, 10 North Wood Ave., Apt. 601, Linden, NJ 07036, Tony.Vitale@TVOD.com

1973

/ TKS / Ms. Susan Read, 38 College Circle, Staunton,

VA 22401 / MA / Mr. Thomas C. Galligan, 14805 Audubon Lakes Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70810-8419, tgalligan714@ gmail.com / Mr. Gregory Lackey, 216 Hunters Road, Medford Lakes, NJ 08055-2116, gregory.lackey@usps.gov

1974

/ TKS / Ms. Erin Cuffe Crawford, 121 Clarewill

Ave., Upper Montclair, NJ 07043, erincrawford@verizon.net

tartanone@triad.rr.com

Class of 1974’s 40th Reunion celebrated on Saturday, October 25, 2014 - Front row left to right: Jim Chudomel, Ken Gibson, Carmen Marnell, Diane Marnell, Ben Thompson ’74, Anthony Fleischmann ’74, Christian Varkala ’74. Back row left to right: Stewart Carr ’74, George Hrab, Earl Perretti ’74, Tom Brueckner ’72, Dean Paolucci ’73, Brian Thomas ’74, Martha Bonsal Day ’74 TKS, Joseph Scirocco ’74, Allan Cox ’74, Andrew Tarnell ’74, Mark Baran ’74, John Blondel ’74, Dirk Buikema ’74, Henry Williams ’74 and David Kwan ’74.

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Laurie and Paul McFeeley ’76

Dr. Giovanni Campanile ’75, and his wife, Sandra Cammarata book The Sicilian Secret Diet Plan.

1975

/MKA / Mr. Paul Zukerberg, 1790 Lanier Place NW,

Washington, DC 20009, paul.zukerberg@gmail.com

Congratulations to Dr. Giovanni Campanile and his wife, Sandra Cammarata, on their new book, The Sicilian Secret Diet Plan.

Dr. Giovanni is a noted nutritional cardiologist / integrative medicine physician. The recipes are supplied by his wife, also a physician (and a native of Sicily). The Sicilian Diet is much more than a credible, delicious way to eat well while losing excess weight and fat; it is a complete lifestyle plan that addresses all the elements essential to physical and mental wellness at any age. In the truest sense of the word, it is the “diet” for a good long life.

1976

/ MKA / Mr. Frank Godlewski, Fells Bridge,

249 Runnymede Road, Essex Fells NJ 07021, fellsbridge@gmail.com / Mrs.

Sara Close, 76 Wootton Rd, Essex Fells, NJ 07021, dmjcrowther@comcast.net

We learned that Darcel DeVito

Collins’ father, Tommy DeVito,

passed away on September 21, 2020. Our condolences to her Darcel and her family.

We’re always in touch with our unforgettable Laurie and Paul McFeeley and their wonderful sons.

They are enjoying life in Florida and also enjoy the multitudes of MKA friends that flock down to visit with them! Our beloved friend,

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Paul McFeeley ’76 and Rob Pariseau ’76

Woody Wingert Shelton ’76 and Olga

Laurie, says it's hard to believe that she and Paul have been in Sarasota for 9 years now! They’re both still working. Paul is the branch manager at Oppenheimer and Laurie is the Director of Alumni Relations at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School.

She says that the weekends feel like vacation in paradise - which never gets old. Laurie and Paul see Rob and Sadie Pariseau a lot, which is always a guaranteed great time filled with laughs. Jane Lugaric Burkhard ’78 and husband Kurt from San Francisco visited in April, and they had a blast. They’ll be back in September! Woody Wingert Shelton and Olga met the McFeeleys for lunch and reminisced on Longboat Key while they visited from CT. They see Alex Adams ’78 when he visits his parents periodically; Alex’s

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Congratulations to Frank Godlewski ’76 who was featured on the cover of Essex Fells Magazine for his piece “Meet Your Neighbor.” Frank is an architectural designer, historian, and land-use expert. He is the creative director of Fellsbridge Studio LLC for building renovations, and he presently serves as a commissioner for the Borough of Caldwell Historical Preservation Commission and for the Essex Fells Historic Preservation Committee.

Frank resides at "Fellsbridge,” a 1957 concept house designed for the “future," a remarkable house in Essex Fells. This historic home has been preserved for its unique beauty, international “nine square grid” style, and history.

brother John lives there too, and they run into him at some of their favorite restaurants in town. Their son Brian McFeeley ’08 got engaged to Danika Owsley in May, with a May ’22 big day planned. So exciting!

Laurie and Paul, hope to see more MKA friends in their neck of the woods soon.

Beth Gianotto Raba writes that COVID did not keep 2 best friends from MKA away from each other.

Beth and Margie Hollander, friends since Nursery school at Kimberley (58 years), got together numerous times - visiting museums, botanical gardens, and having birthday

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celebrations. They even ate outside in 25 degree weather in January!

Beth is still living in Westfield with her husband Charlie and still with Citibank. They are empty nesters.

Their daughter Caroline is a mental health counselor, married, and living nearby, and Jenn, a nutritionist, lives in Virginia.

Margharet Hollander is married to Frank Nash (but has never changed her name.) She lives in Greenwich, CT and works in Westport. She has owned an optical shop there for 27 years. After leaving banking in the 80s, she went back to school and became an optician. Her shop is called Optical Shop of Westport.

Margie has 2 brilliant kids, Beatrice (24) and William (22). Beatrice is a second year PhD student in Quantum Computing at Harvard and Will is a senior at MIT studying Math and Computer Science. She says don’t ask where they got their math minds!

Rob Bertsche’s son Josh just got married! He’s 32 and moving with his new bride to Portland, OR; his other son, Jeremy, 29, moved in with the folks for the pandemic and is itching to leave! Rob’s wife Lynn is readying to retire from Curry College, where she teaches college students with learning differences.

He’s had the good fortune to work as a First Amendment and Media lawyer and says he’s the happiest lawyer he knows! Among other things, Rob pulls weekly late-nighters for Time and People magazines and their websites—and it brings back wonderful memories of running red lights, Laura Scher riding shotgun, to get the MKA News to

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the printer by midnight. Rob sends his best to all and says to feel free to drop him a line: rbertsche@verizon.net.

Humble greetings from Paul Bicknell from whom we had the honor of seeing, together with his mother Saundra Bicknell, at the MKA Memorial Service for his beloved dad, Nixon Bicknell. Paul and his wife Melissa live in rural NH. Paul says he just had his left hip replaced and is learning how to walk again with balance. He hopes that all is well with his old classmates.

Summer greetings from Eric Schwarz who hopes to see some classmates this summer or fall, either in NJ or Sarasota. Eric wishes good health to all and congratulations to Paul Bicknell on the new hip; it changed his life, too, he says!

William (Bill) Prescott responds that all is well and no new parts.

He is living and working from home in Middletown CT and says that he and his family are well. Bill joins us in offering his condolences to Paul for the passing of his Dad. Nixon Bicknell was a great mentor!

Bill Dioguardi says that he just got together with David Hughes, and they both think it’s time for another MKA class reunion party! Bill is planning another get together on the porch of his beautiful home in Avon by the Sea. Both Bill’s and Dave’s parties are always fabulously memorable events! David has been having outstanding MKA get-togethers over the years.

Hillary Hoffman Fandel is still teaching Kindergarten after 29 years at the Montclair Cooperative School. Her sons Henry Fandel ’06 and Phillip Fandel ’06 are far away as Henry is in the Northern Marianas working toward a PhD in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (The Marianna Crow), and Phillip is currently living in Bangkok, Thailand, teaching high school science. Hil bought a house in Bloomfield seven years ago near to great bagels and ice cream, so she is running daily and was dancing every week until COVID

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hit. She works directly across from Ruth Perretti's ’79 "Ruthie's" restaurant and is often buying her Kindergartners pizza slices when they forget their lunch. She visits her sons in their far off places when she can.

Our heartfelt condolences to Dale Frederick Horne on the passing of her mother, Marion Frederick, (PAMKA president 1975-76). While working on her mother’s estate, the pandemic happened, and she ended up staying first in FL and later North Carolina to be near her daughter who is a med student at Duke. After spending 16 months stateside, Dale got fully vaccinated and finally headed home to London with a new family member (a pandemic puppy) in tow, to be reunited with her husband.

Janice (Kassie) Kanter Apple says that she and her husband Jerry live and work in the Cherry Hill, NJ area. Jerry is a radiologist, and Kassie loves working with children as a speech pathologist. She also enjoys singing in a community choir and playing golf. Their oldest son is an orthodontist in Philadelphia; their middle son is an orthopedic surgeon, who lives in New Orleans with his wife and two daughters; and their daughter is a professional dancer, who is studying for a Masters degree in communications and living in North Carolina. Their greatest joy is playing with their two granddaughters (ages 3 and 6 months).

Kassie visits her family in the Montclair area often. She has fond memories of MKA. Metiner Kimel and family are all doing well in Yakima, WA where they have resided for the past 21 years. He keeps busy doing consumer bankruptcy work. Metner and his wife Cynthia will be celebrating their 20th anniversary with a fly fishing trip to Bozeman MT. They have two children, Ava (17) and Zakai (15). Ava just graduated at the top of her class and will be taking a gap year. Zak will be a sophomore, is taller than his dad, and is running

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track and cross country. Metner focuses on a date when he can do something else but is still enjoying his practice and helping folks that need help. He misses everyone in the class and tells us that Chris Cooper and Ray Knox were somewhere in Colorado the last he heard.

Coop actually made it to the Palm Springs of Washington a couple of years back. He says that if anyone makes it out his way (wine lovers?), please ring him up!

Rob Last is living in East Lansing, MI, where he is a Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Plant Biology at Michigan State University. He studies the lovely poisons that plants make to protect themselves from getting eaten or infected and for humans use for medications, recreation, and for flavor and scents. He says he hopes that we’re all doing well and enjoying the late middle! (He says that if that is terrible, please let him know!)

Andy Levine writes that he and his wife Michelle became first time grandparents in early February.

They have had a home in Sag Harbor for several years now which they love as well as a place in NYC after having left Scarsdale. Andy has served as the general Council for SL Green Realty Corp., who has just completed the most incredible new building in NYC, One Vanderbilt Avenue now the tallest office building in midtown!

Greg Mancusi-Ungaro and his wife Jennifer live in a little farmhouse near the sea in Marblehead, MA. Their two beautiful daughters, Eleanor and Margaret, are still both collegians. (At University of Rochester and Lehigh, respectively). Greg enjoys being involved with his theater group, The Mugford Street Players. He produces or designs three to five productions annually. Greg recently completed his 35th year singing with the Boston Symphony's Tanglewood Festival Chorus. An award-winning sailor, he has won the North Americans, Bermuda International Race Week

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twice and, in 1995, was part of the International Class' World Championship. Keeping in touch with classmates, he and Rob Bertsche recently made it to Fenway Park for a memorable baseball game.

He designed one of Kevin Olson’s ’76 wonderful plays that he wrote and was able to see Hal Goodtree ’76, who was around on a business trip.

Nick Marnell, former schoolmate and good friend to our class, sends his well wishes!

Frances Mills Wonnell writes that she and her husband became grandparents to James Thoburn Maury on June 25 of last year. They’re loving grandparenthood. Experiencing the world through a brand new human being is a joy. Here is a picture with James and daughter Charlotte. LOVE to all 76’ers.

Dave Minchin and his wife Judy were planning on coming north to NJ for the MKA reunion but instead are trying their best to enjoy lockdown life in 2020-2021, splitting their time between Destin, Florida and Wyoming.

Janet Nagel Scheel has been in St. Louis working for four years as a pediatric cardiologist at the Washington University Medical School. She specializes in heart transplantation. Janet’s two children as well as her husband are both in medicine. Her son is an adult cardiologist at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and her daughter is in her last year of medical school at Emory in Atlanta.

Interestingly enough, one of her best friends there is MKA alumna Devon Barrett ’10!

Rob Pariseau has retired after 41 years in the employee benefits business. He and his wife Sadie raised four kids in Tampa, Florida and have been there over 35 years.

Three out of four have settled nearby in Florida, one still lives in LA. They have three grandkids, two girls (3 and 1 years-old) and a boy (one and a half). Rob says that the only things in the world not overrated are grandkids. He and Sadie enjoy seeing the McFeeleys

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Frances Mills Wonnell ’76 with her daughter Charlotte and her grandson James

Frank Godlewski: This year, I have been invited to the Biennale in Venice Italy to present a symposium illustrating Montclair’s ties with Central Park and Hudson River Valley School paintings by George Inness, from a presentation created for the Montclair Art Museum. My book about local Black History, Pirates Slaves and the Meadowlands Fire will be coming out this year. I’m a Historic Preservation Commissioner and Trustee of the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Museum. I am happy to be living in Essex Fells, near to longtime friend, schoolmate, and neighbor Sara Close ’76 as well as other MKA Alumni. We enjoy MKA events, Montclair Art Museum events, and working on social fundraising projects with our Garden Club of Essex Fells.

often. The McFeeley’s son Rob and their Hank were fraternity brothers at Wake Forest; small world. He still remembers watching the World Trade Center going up as he daydreamed looking out the window in French class.

Rob has fond memories of MKA, Montclair, and our class; he says that we are very fortunate.

Freddie Pinkard keeps in touch. We congratulate him on the marriage of his wonderful son Benjamin.

Freddie says that he is always grateful for the educational opportunities and lasting friendships that we developed at MKA.

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After having lived in Parsippany for almost 34 years, Jennifer Renzullo McVea and her husband Jim have retired to SC, while keeping a “pieda-terre” in Cape May. She left the corporate world as a marketing and advertising professional at AT&T many years ago to take care of their wonderful son Mike and has since worked in the Parsippany Public School system as a substitute teacher and instructional paraprofessional.

It is a delight to have heard from Ana Gold Rincon who reports that she has no news other than that she’s living happily in Charleston SC. Laura Scher says she’s doing fine, still living north of San Francisco, married with 2 children. One is married and doing a postdoc in chemistry in Chicago. One just graduated college and will be working in San Francisco. She serves on several boards and teaches at Stanford.

We wish to express our most heartfelt condolences to Sharon Sudol and family for the passing of her dear mother Francis Sudol.

Sharon and her husband John live in Spring Lake, NJ, near her dad, sister Amy Sudol ’80, and brother Craig Sudol ’83 who live in Manasquan.

It’s a pleasure to always be in touch with dear old friend Charles Talbert. He and his family are doing well and living in Chicago.

Donald Williams and his family are doing well in Hampton VA, where Donald is semi-retired but will probably be returning to work now that the pandemic is winding down. He’s looking forward to visiting for the next MKA reunion!

Woody Shelton (formerly Wingert) reclaimed his true last name of Shelton at 18. He married very young at 23, moved to Los Angeles for five years and then to CT, divorced at 31, and has two incredible daughters and three amazing grandkids 9, 7 and 4 (2 girls and a boy). After a few years as an entrepreneur, he settled down, went to law school, and has been

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practicing law since 1996. He is currently very happily living with a truly wonderful woman in West Hartford, CT. Woody’s enjoyed connecting and keeping up with a few old friends from Montclair and MKA on Facebook and hopes to see many of you again soon.

Penelope Wood Kuklo and her husband David are contented empty-nesters in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where David owns a pretty fab wine shop. After a career in financial services marketing at American Express, she left some years back and couldn’t be happier. Their two young adult children are finding their way in the world. Son Peter (24) has opened a skateboard shop, Tenant, in Bushwick, Brooklyn, which despite the pandemic is going gangbusters. Daughter Isabel (21) is taking the leisurely route through her college years, spending a year in India and Spain after high school, then attending Smith College for a while, and now another break to live and work in Denver, CO. Pennelope has become a devotee of the NYTimes food section, cooking much of what’s offered in recipes, and pursuing a passion for quilt making. She delights in off-season time at their place in Montauk, NY avoiding crowds and enjoying the land, the ocean, and the air.

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/ MKA / Mr. Robert Hubsmith, 16 Warren

Rd., Maplewood, NJ 07040, roberthubsmith24@gmail.com / Mr. Andrew Pedersen, 335 Ocean Blvd, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716-1731, apedersenco@gmail.com

From Robert Hubsmith: By the time you read this it will be about 365 shopping days before our 45th Homecoming, so I am just putting it out there a year in advance to all of you to make plans now. The pandemic has got to be in the rearview mirror by that time, so I know we will not have to celebrate virtually.

First and foremost, let me take the liberty on behalf of the Class of ’77 to congratulate George Hrab on his retirement, after 52 years at MA/

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MKA—quite the unprecedented run, career, and legacy he leaves behind.

We wish George and Myra a happy and healthy post-MKA life, but we know we will see Mr. Hrab at future Homecomings. Mike Platt is filming the 7th and final season of Grace and Frankie. His next project is a dramedy called The Game, where he is the Executive Producer and writer. Bev Hall writes that a second grandchild is due in August and a stepdaughter is getting married in late July. Congrats, Bev! David Pinkham reports that he is alive, well and still able to draw a breath.

Mike Werksman also reports that he is 100% healthy and “strong like bull” at least for 62. I guess good health is newsworthy, so good for David and Mike. Andy Pedersen had a fantastic skiing vacation in Chile.

Doug Mahler is moving to SE Florida in November after selling his home in Oceanport, NJ. Steve Cowles’ daughter, Emma graduated from Tulane where fellow classmate Paul Hastaba was able to join in the celebration. I also got together with Paul and his family in Palm Beach Gardens in May to play a little golf with his sons, Danny and Nick. Andy Read has decided to retire and move to Staunton, VA where sister Sue and brother Chip also reside. Nancy Dainesi and I traded some texts and all is well with her. She keeps in touch with several of our classmates and looks forward to the next get together. Rick Jenkins reports that he attended Tom Nammack’s retirement party and was pleased to run into Mr. Hrab as well. Jason Apter tells me that his middle son Max is headed off to Coastal Carolina after graduating this past Summer. Chris Brenner says that he is relocating from Annapolis to his East Falmouth, MA vacation home on a permanent basis. He shared a great picture of daughter Brittney, three year old granddaughter Emmy, and himself in Nantucket.

Peter Valentine and Keith Ridings have been hitting the links near Keith’s house in Lavallette. I also heard from Joe Ciccolini who reports all is

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well, and he is enjoying the summer in Belmar and AC. As you have just read, I have heard from many of the “usual suspects” for this column and always welcome their comments, but I would love to hear from our other classmates as well.

I hear from many of our classmates through the GroupMe app, the banter is always quite entertaining and lively and would welcome you to join. Just get the app and our moniker to locate us is MKA Class of ’77. Don’t be shy to share some items with your fellow Class of ’77ers. My contact info is at the top of the column. Hope to hear from you.

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/ MKA / Ms. Pamela Zeug, 60 W. 57th St.,

#15F, New York, NY 10019, pzeug@ downinggroup.com Pam Bolton lives outside NYC and

continues to work in global public health - currently for a social impact company called Tech Care for All, whose mission is to increase access to continuing medical education among healthcare providers in Africa and India. Her husband Nick Radcliffe, a clinical psychologist, has moved his practice online: he now sees his clients remotely from the former bedroom of their older son Noam, who at 25, now lives in Brooklyn and writes for an esports (video game) website. Second son Gabe is an Americorps fellow teaching financial literacy to new immigrants and refugees in Seattle.

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1246 Beach Haven Rd.,

Atlanta, GA 30324 / Mrs. Shawn Ortiz,

/ MKA / Mrs. Laura Itzkowitz (Laura Reisch), 37

Nottingham Rd., Manalapan, NJ 07726, howardandlaura@optonline.net

In February 1982 led a discussion at the Montclair Art / MKA /

John “Yanni” Fotiadis

Museum called Jewels in Town —The Architecture of Montclair.

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The March edition of New Jersey Monthly is all about pizza! And inside this issue, the NJM team sampled some of the best pizza from all over the state—savoring plain slices as well as out-of-this-world wedges topped with everything from butternut squash to cherry-pepper relish to combinations of ingredients like fennel, onions and olives. Of the 56 places featured that people must try is Ruthie’s in Montclair, NJ owned

by Ruth Peretti ’79.

/ MKA / Dr. John Brink,

2163 Gilbride Rd., Martinsville, NJ 08836

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John “Yanni” Fotiadis ’82

John explored the city through its architecture, citing a number of Montclair’s landmark buildings and culminating with the original Beaux Arts building of the Montclair Art Museum, the jewel in Montclair’s crown.

A modern day Renaissance man whose creative endeavors span architecture, music, and the visual arts, John has been a licensed

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Congratulations to Bob Cottingham ’84 on being named a “Columbia Trailblazer”! After Leading the Lions fencing team to back-to-back national championships, Bob became the first Black athlete at Columbia to earn two All-America honors. Bob was inducted into MKA’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.

Congratulations to Gary C. Powell EdD ’83, Training officer for the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (at FEMA). The University of Georgia recently spotlighted his work using psychology to foster a productive learning culture for federal employees.

architect in the United States for 25 years and has worked in the profession of Architecture for over 30 years. Over the course of his career, he has provided architectural design services to top tier real estate development companies, both nationally and internationally.

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/ MKA / Mr. Walter J. Davis, 66 Oakwood Dr.,

New Providence, NJ 07974, davisteam@ comcast.net / Mrs. Maureen Natkin (J.P.), 5 Riverview Rd., Irvington, NY 10533

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TRIBUTE Susan Henretty Ruddick We are heartbroken to announce the passing of Susan Henretty Ruddick of Westwood, MA and Nantucket, MA and formerly of Cedar Grove, NJ, and Palm Beach Gardens, FL. She died peacefully on January 24, 2021. She was 82 years old.

Susan was a beloved member of the MKA community serving as a proud parent, member of the MKA Board of Trustees, and Board President from 1984-1988.

Susan was born on May 2, 1938 in Akron, OH to the late Robert Howard Henretty and Edna Rudolph Henretty and graduated from The Old Trail School in 1956. She attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1960 as a Durant Scholar with a BA in Zoology and Physiology. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, the international honor society for science and engineering. After Wellesley, Susan worked in cancer research at Sloan Kettering and then at Hoffman La Roche.

Susan met her husband of nearly 50 years, J. Perry Ruddick, in Boston in 1959. They married on July 29, 1961, moved to Upper Montclair, NJ after their honeymoon, and raised their three children in Verona and Cedar Grove. After leaving her career as a research scientist, Susan devoted her time to her family and philanthropy. She was a longtime member and President of the Junior League of Montclair/Newark and President of the Board of Trustees of Montclair Kimberley Academy. Susan was also very involved in conservation activities on her beloved island of Nantucket.

She served as a Board member, President and Chairman of The Sconset Trust, and she and her husband led the Sankaty Head Lighthouse Campaign, raising over $4 million to support the move of the lighthouse off the bluff and to a new spot where future generations can enjoy it for decades more to come. Susan is survived by her devoted children, Julie Meade ’80 of Bronxville, NY, Pam Holding ’82 (and husband William B. Holding, Jr.) of Wellesley, MA, and Girard Ruddick (and wife Gay Engstrom Ruddick) of Belmont, MA, her seven grandchildren, Perry and Tommy Meade, Will, Chase, and Abby Holding, and JP and Read Ruddick as well as many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, J. Perry Ruddick, and her brother, Robert Howard Henretty, Jr.

TRIBUTE Vanessa Noble ’79 We are truly heartbroken to share the passing of Vanessa Noble Good at the age of 59, who died in the loving arms of her husband Michael with her son Brian and her dogs Angus and Hank by her side. Cherished daughter of Joanne Noble and her father, the late John Malcom Noble, Vanessa was born in Chicago, IL. She is survived by her brother Christopher Noble ’84, his wife Helen and their children Wyatt and Sabrina, her daughter-in-law Dara, her brothers and sisters-in-law Alan Jr., Stephen, Jane, Jenifer Walker-Good and many loving nieces and nephews. She will be dearly missed by her “Good,” Mitri, and Noble families. Vanessa was an avid and accomplished fencer and singer at MKA. She travelled to Granville, Ohio to attend Denison University where she met and fell in love with her husband Michael. She graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. At Denison, she was an active member of the Delta Gamma sorority. Her love of family extended to the dogs she had by her side throughout her life.

Recently, her passion developed into adopting and saving res-

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cue dogs. Outside of family, she was heavily involved in many youth organizations. It began with her son's love of football and her tenure running the snack stand and on the Board of the Horsham Hawks. Always an involved member of the Upper Dublin academic community, she was successfully elected to the Upper Dublin School board, where she served for 12 years, and retired recently due to her illness. In addition, Vanessa discovered her passion for helping disadvantaged and underprivileged youth through her time with the Upper Dublin Education Foundation, where she served as President for much of her tenure. After a successful professional career as the Director of Operations for a local laboratory equipment company, Vanessa and her dear friend Theresa Cantley turned to their love for fashion and opened a women's jewelry and accessories boutique called Armario in Ambler and later Skippack. Her intellectual curiosity of genealogy led to countless hours of extensive research and connections to a long lineage of family, dating back to Maghera, Ireland in the 18th Century which she was able to visit in 2019. She also discovered her connection to American history and was admitted to the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her quick wit and infectious laughter lit up every room. Taken from us too early, her presence will be deeply missed by all who knew her. There will never be another Vanessa Noble Good.

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/ MKA / Mrs. Jennifer Jones Ladda, 17 Belleclaire

Place, Verona, NJ 07044, jjonesladda@ gmail.com

The Alumni Office learned of the passing of Rich Cosgrove’s mother, Diann Cosgrove, on December 14, 2020. We send condolences to Rich and his family.

The Alumni Office was notified that David Fehnel’s father, David Victor Fehnel, passed away on May 12, 2020. We send condolences to him and his family.

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world, enjoying time with her friends, and watching her favorite soccer team Barca with Denise Lysette Fink ’86 her Penya FC Barcelona NYC. She is predeceased by her mother, Frances Fink (nee Bower). Surviving are her father Dr. David Fink, sister Dana Topper (Michael), nephew, Matthew Topper, and uncle Robert Fink. Also surviving are many loving relatives and devoted friends.

We send our deepest sympathies to Damon Ziegler and Bram Ziegler ’89 on the passing of their mother Alison. Born in 1940, in Lowell, Massachusetts, Alison attended the Northampton School for Girls before embarking on her college career at Elmira College in Elmira, NY, where she graduated in 1961 with a degree in Speech and Theatre. A talented actress, Alison spent four seasons performing Summer Stock with the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire, where she worked with her future husband, Joe. Joe and

Remington-Knodel, 44

Hamilton Drive East, North Caldwell, NJ 07006, jenremknodel@aol.com

With deep regret and sadness, we share that Denise Lysette Fink passed away suddenly on March 30, 2021 at her home in Jersey City, NJ. Born in Frankfurt, Germany on May 12, 1968, she moved with her family to Verona where she graduated from Montclair Kimberley Academy. She went on to graduate from Tulane University with a BA in Political Science and Art History. Denise furthered her education by earning a JD from Touro Law School and later settled in Jersey City, NJ. Denise “Lysette” had a deep passion for cooking, enjoyed gardening in her backyard, and loved music. Her best times were spent traveling the

Two honorary diplomas were awarded by Dr. David C. Flocco at Commencement on June 13, 2021. The first was given to retiring Head of School Thomas W. Nammack, presented by the four MKA Board Presidents who served during his tenure. The second diploma was presented to Mr. George Hrab, beloved MKA faculty member retiring at the end of his 52nd year at the school, by his children, Alexandra ’86 and George, Jr. ’89. As the senior faculty member for much of his tenure, Mr. Hrab was happily tasked with reading the names of graduates at Commencement. In doing the honors, his children became the only people besides their father to read a name as a diploma is bestowed at MKA since the early 1990’s.

TRIBUTE Richard “Dick” Webster We are heartbroken to have learned that former Head of Upper School Richard “Dick” Webster died on January, 18, 2021 at age 79. Troubled in recent years by several health complications, the cause of his death, more than any other reason, was his broken heart after the loss of his beloved wife, Betty, in 2019.

Dick was a loving husband, father, and grandfather. Before her loss, he was married to Betty for 57 years and together they demonstrated the meaning of lifelong devotion to their sons Richard E. Webster Jr., Michael H. Webster, David W. Webster, and daughter Elizabeth Webster Twomey ’89.

He loved, worried about, and will be deeply missed by each of their grandchildren; Patrick, Grace, Jack, Luke, Harrison, Maisy, Christian, Michael, Maeve, and Lily. In addition, he is survived by his baby sister, Mary Webster Wiglesworth.

Dick devoted his life to the education of young people and the development of their character in the classroom and on playing fields, courts, and mats across the country. A proud graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where he served as captain of the varsity lacrosse team, he began his career as a teacher and coach and never stopped doing either. He worked with and for young men and women at the Severn School, Sewickley Academy, the Wroxeter School, Landon School, LaLumiere School, Montclair Kimberley Academy, and The Boys’ Latin School. In all his school roles, Dick devoted himself to the students. He was adored by all who knew him and left an indelible mark on all in the community.

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Class of ’89 from left to right: Mark Strobeck, David Ames, Geoff Krouse and Peter DeCandia met in July to celebrate everyone’s 50th birthdays this year

Alison married in 1964 and would eventually welcome their first son, Damon, in 1968 and their second son, Bram, in 1971. In 1973, the Zeiglers moved to Montclair, New Jersey, where they would spend the next 28 years. We are sending the family strength and love during this time.

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/ MKA / Mr. Dennis Rodano, 3 Byron Rd, North

Caldwell, NJ 07006, rodanod@verizon. net / Ms. Lynne Yellin, 413 Ridgecrest Dr.,

Chapel Hill, NC 27514, lynnegy@aol.com

The Alumni Office received notice that Susan Ferrara’s father, David Victor Frank, passed away on May 12, 2020. We send condolences to her and her family.

Our deepest condolences go to Dennis Rodano and Sabino Rodano as they mourn the loss of their mother, Rose. The devoted wife of 54 years of Dennis P. Rodano Sr., she was a beloved mother, dear sister, cherished grandmother, and aunt. We are sending the family all the love in the world during this time.

1988 , is an Our deepest condolences go out to / MKA / Dr. Wiemi Douoguih MD

James

Kramer, Michael Kramer ’91, and Lesley

Kramer Eckert ’96 on the passing of their father, Robert Kramer.

Robert was a Trustee at MKA from 1986-1994. He was married to Francis Kramer, a former PAMKA Vice President. When he joined the board, Robert was the

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Johnson & Johnson’s Dr. Macaya Douoguih ’90, is the VP and Head of Clinical Development and Medical Affairs for Vaccines. She was deservedly just named one of the most powerful women in Pharma.

Her recent tireless and selfless work has included testifying on behalf of Johnson & Johnson in a congressional hearing for the Subcommittee on Energy and Commerce regarding the COVID-19 vaccine development and writing a powerful Open Letter on Systemic Racism and Health Disparities in the US and globally.

Please join me in congratulating and thanking this exceptional alumna for all she has done and continues to do to better our world.

VP of General Automation, a tech company that developed software.

His start-up, Maxial, which developed software and firmware for resorts and hotels, was acquired

by General Automation in 1987.

He was the owner of Longwood Athletic Club from around 1997 to 2005. Longwood was then revived by his daughter, Lesley Eckert, in 2007 who still manages it to this

day. We wish his family strength as they get through this heartbreaking time. They are all in our thoughts and prayers.

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/ MKA / Mr. Louis Lessig, 2009 Morris Dr., Cherry

Hill, NJ 08003, llessig@brownconnery. com / Mr. Josh Raymond, 33 Oak Place, North Caldwell, NJ 07006, jraymond@ trenklawfirm.com

We send our deepest sympathies to Damon Ziegler’86 and Bram Ziegler on the passing of their mother Alison. Born in 1940, in Lowell, Massachusetts, Alison attended the Northampton School for Girls before embarking on her college career at Elmira College in Elmira, NY, where she graduated in 1961 with a degree in Speech and Theatre. A talented actress, Alison spent four seasons performing Summer Stock with the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire, where she worked with her future husband, Joe. Joe and Alison married in 1964 and would eventually welcome their first son, Damon, in 1968 and their second son, Bram, in 1971. In 1973, the Zeiglers moved to Montclair, New Jersey, where they would spend the next 28 years. We are sending the family strength and love during this time.

TRIBUTE Vince Nadal ’89 It is with profound sadness that the family of Vince Nadal announce his peaceful passing on Jan 21, 2021 at the age of 49. He unexpectedly passed away at Morristown Memorial Hospital with his devoted wife, Marianne Nadal, at his side. Vince was born on July 23, 1971 in Montclair, NJ. Vince will be lovingly remembered forever by his wife and his 7-year-old son Vicente Lucas (Vinnie) Nadal, his parents, Dr. Vicente Nadal and Mrs. Jaqueline Nadal, as well as his close family and friends. Though he was only on earth for a short time, he is remembered every day by people who deeply loved and cared about him. Vince was full of life with a great sense of humor that lit up any room, and his wife hopes to continue his legacy by continuing to raise their cherished son to follow in his footsteps. The family is asking for thoughts and prayers as they grieve.

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Loyd Godwin and Naveen Ballemon the golf course.

Pictured here are friends since 1990 6th grade, and / MKA /

Naveen Ballem

Loyd

Godwin.

They joined fellow alums David Becker and Marty Torjussen in a mini reunion on the course!

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/ MKA / Ms. Dara Marmon, 330 E. 39th, Apt. 21D, New

York, NY 10016, daramarmon@gmail. com / Mr. Luke Sarsfield, 105 Franklin St., Apt. 4, New York, NY 10013, luke. sarsfield@gs.com

It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Ryan Young. Devoted Husband, Father, Son and Climate Pioneer, Ryan joined Textile Exchange in October 2017 and became Chief Operating Officer in 2019. At the 2020 Textile Sustainability Conference, he was honored for his pioneering work by creating the Ryan Young Climate+ Award, which will be given to a sustainability industry leader every year. Ryan spoke passionately about his two children, Zoe and Alastair, and the world they will inherit if we don’t take immediate action to reduce global carbon emissions. “Do we want to be someone that is part of the solution or be someone who is part of the continued problem?”

We are sending heartfelt sympathy and condolences to Helena, Zoe, Alastair, and the Young family including his brother Rob Young ’89.

A huge congratulations to Radhika Fox on her appointment to lead the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the selection of US Water Alliance CEO Radhika Fox as the Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for

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the Office of Water. Fox was a Day One Presidential Appointee in the Biden-Harris Administration. She will serve as the Acting Assistant Administrator for Water. “It is an incredible honor and privilege to be selected by President Biden to serve our country,” Fox said.

Our deepest condolences go out to James Kramer ’88, Michael Kramer and Lesley Kramer Eckert ’96 on the passing of their father, Robert Kramer. Robert was a Trustee at MKA from 1986-1994. He was married to Francis Kramer, a former PAMKA Vice President. When he joined the board, Robert was the VP of General Automation, a tech company that developed software.

His start-up, Maxial, which developed software and firmware for resorts and hotels, was acquired by General Automation in 1987. He was the owner of Longwood Athletic Club from around 1997 to 2005.

Longwood was then revived by his daughter, Lesley Eckert, in 2007 who still manages it to this day.

We wish his family strength as they get through this heartbreaking time. They are all in our thoughts and prayers.

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/ MKA / Dr. Enrique Neblett, 718 Ainsley Court,

Durham, NC 27713, enrique.neblett@ gmail.com

The Alumni Office was saddened to 1993 hear of the passing of ’s

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1st edition of the Montclair Kids News

father, Ghanshyam Lalla, who passed away on November 7, 2020.

Our condolences go out to the entire family.

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/ MKA / Mr. Jason Awerdick, 23

Greenbrook Dr., Bloomfield, NJ 07003, jasonawerdick@gmail.com

There has been so much frustration, loss, and disappointment for the kids during the pandemic. So, Jaime Bedrin joined a group of dedicated local parents who were looking for something creative for the kids to do that did not involve another Zoom event. A kids’ newspaper seemed like a natural fit. Last year, she helped create a newspaper for her sons’ elementary school.

Building on that concept, the 1st edition of the Montclair Kids News was born! It was very important to everyone involved that the stories be written by the kids. Not that parents couldn't help, but they wanted the kids to be thoughtful, imaginative, and candid. They wanted to hear their voices.

And boy did they! Copies were distributed around town and at Montclair schools.

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/ MKA / Ms. Tanya Barnes, Barnes.tanya@gmail.com

/ Ms. Erica Hirsch, 10 West 15th St., #710, New York, NY 10011, ehirsch77@yahoo. com / Mr. Lee Vartan, 3 Swayze Ln., Chester, NJ 07930, ldvartan@yahoo.com

Our deepest condolences go out to James Kramer ’88, Michael Kramer ’91 and Lesley Kramer Eckert on the passing of their father, Robert Kramer. Robert was a Trustee at MKA from 1986-1994. He was married to Francis Kramer, a former PAMKA Vice President.

When he joined the board, Robert was the VP of General Automation, a tech company that developed software. His start-up, Maxial, which developed software and firmware for resorts and hotels, was acquired by General Automation in 1987. He was the owner of Longwood Athletic Club from around 1997 to 2005. Longwood was then revived by his daughter, Lesley Eckert, in 2007 who still manages it to this day. We wish his family strength as they get through this heartbreaking time. They are all in our thoughts and prayers. recently departed 1997 Comcast NBCUniversal, where he

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led innovation efforts for connected living, to join Facebook, where he will serve in the Product Design Organization exploring Next Generation experiences.

MKA sends sincere condolences to Amanda Spagnoletti and her family on the passing of her father Arnold Dicke on December 2, 2020 after a 1 ½ year battle with ALS.

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/ MKA / Ms. Gemma Giantomasi, 80 Avon Dr.,

Essex Fells, NJ 07021, gemma.diaco@ gmail.com

Our heartfelt condolences go out to Kristen Connolly and Will Connolly ’03 and their entire family on the passing of their father William H. Connolly, Jr. A lifelong resident of Montclair and the president and CEO of the insurance and risk management brokerage firm

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William H. Connolly & Co., he died at his home on Feb. 26, 2021, after a valiant battle against cancer.

He was 74. Mr. Connolly was a graduate of St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City and of Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. He served in the Army National Guard from 1967 to 1973. In 1969, after finishing college, he joined William H. Connolly & Co., the firm that his father founded in 1950. He became its president and CEO in 1983, and continued in that role until his death. Mr. Connolly’s first priority and foremost love and joy was always his family. He took great pride in their every accomplishment. But his other family — his co-workers and colleagues — came in a very close second. He felt blessed to collaborate and grow with them for so many years. Through his company and personal efforts, Mr. Connolly was engaged with many community organizations.

A member of St. Cassian Roman Catholic Church, Mr. Connolly will be remembered for his warmth and good humor, patience, dedication, honesty, and tenacity.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Daniel Blake ’99 is a wellknown, multiinstrumentalist, contemporary composer, performer, and professor at the New School for Social Research where he teaches courses on the intersection of music and politics. He has a new album out this month named Da Fé on Sunnyside records, and he has written a powerful article for JAZZEd Magazine about teaching Activism through Jazz.

/ MKA / Mr. Alexander Holz, 217 East 10th

St, Apt 18, New York, NY 10003,

Jessica Simpson-Cook ’99

alexbhlz@gmail.com / Ms. Sandra Tritt, sandratritt@gmail.com

We wish Jessica Simpson-Cook the best of luck as she runs for Bernards Township Committee to support local businesses, maintain fair and stable taxes, and create a transparent, diverse, and fiscally responsible local government.

Simpson-Cook is a legal and procurement professional and has built her career working at Fortune 500 companies headquartered in New Jersey. Jessica earned her Business degree from Temple University in 2004, attended Widener University Law School, and earned her Executive MBA from Rutgers University. She currently serves on the Board of the Junior League of the Oranges and Short Hills and is

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committed to developing and empowering women in leadership.

2000

/ MKA / Ms. Anna Cook, 5 Highview Court,

Wayne, NJ 07470, anna_labowsky @ yahoo.com / Mr. John Garippa, 2741 NE 58th St., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308, oceanhut@aol.com / Mrs. Jaclyn Spedaliere, 60 E. Oak St., Basking Ridge, NJ 07920, jaclynspedaliere@gmail.com

Congratulations to Rachel Weary and her husband John on the birth of their new baby, Reed. Reed joins his big brother Vincent.

2001

/ MKA / Ms. Dana Pisacane, 119 Dowey St.,

San Francisco, CA 94117, dana.piscane@ gmail.com

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2002

/ MKA / Miss Emily Santangelo,

27 Woods Rd., Little Falls, NJ 07424, emilyannesantangelo@gmail.com / Mrs. Melissa Fortunato Slomienski, 58 Oldchester Rd., Essex Fells, NJ 07021, slomienski@icloud.com

From Jonathan Bratt: In 2020 I served as the Incident Commander for the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and Deputy Incident Commander for the University of Maryland Medical System’s response to COVID-19 (UMB is University of Maryland’s Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Law, Pharmacy, Social Work, and Dentistry). During that time, our team stood up the State’s flagship COVID mass-testing facility, ensured the continuity of critical COVID research and vaccine trials at our Institute for Human Virology, coordinated mass care efforts across the system’s 11 hospitals, and stood up the State’s first mass vaccination. The vaccine site was particularly fulfilling because we partnered with the Indian Health Service, the International Rescue Committee, CASA de Maryland, and the Esperanza Center to ensure our most vulnerable community members have access to vaccines. For our efforts my team and I were awarded the University of Maryland’s Champions of Excellence Award and University of Maryland’s Core Values Award in Collaboration.

Also, in 2020 I was appointed to the Governor’s Emergency Management Advisory Committee and in 2021 was appointed to the Board of Directors for the Red Cross of Maryland.

2003

/ MKA / Ms. Judith Ferreira, 819 Clifton Ave.,

Newark, NJ 07104, jferreir@pratt.edu / Mrs. Melanie Bieber, 462 Vance Ave, Wyckoff, NJ 07481, mel.braverman@ gmail.com

Our heartfelt condolences go out to Kristen Connolly ’98 and Will Connolly and their entire family on the passing of their father William

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H. Connolly, Jr. A lifelong resident of Montclair and the president and CEO of the insurance and risk management brokerage firm William H. Connolly & Co., he died at his home on Feb. 26, 2021, after a valiant battle against cancer.

He was 74. Mr. Connolly was a graduate of St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City and of Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. He served in the Army National Guard from 1967 to 1973.

In 1969, after finishing college, he joined William H. Connolly & Co., the firm that his father founded in 1950. He became its president and CEO in 1983 and continued in that role until his death. Mr. Connolly’s first priority and foremost love and joy was always his family. He took great pride in their every accomplishment. But his other family—his co-workers and colleagues—came in a very close second. He felt blessed to collaborate and grow with them for so many years. Through his company and personal efforts, Mr. Connolly was engaged with many community organizations.

A member of St. Cassian Roman Catholic Church, Mr. Connolly will be remembered for his warmth and good humor, patience, dedication, honesty, and tenacity.

2004

Sheldon Fields ’04 marries Mikelle Nickens

Crosby Theodore Cameron

/ MKA / Brendan McCaffrey, 235 West

102nd St., Apt. 10i, New York, NY 10025, brendan.a.mccaffrey@gmail.com / Ms. Katherine Santoro, 333 River Street, Apt. 539, Hoboken, NJ 07030, kate.santoro@ gmail.com

Congratulations to Sheldon Fields and his wife, Mikelle Nickens, who were married on May 14, 2021 in New York City.

Congratulations to Evyn Cameron and her spouse Cari Roberts ’05 on the birth of their son Crosby Theodore Cameron, born May 18.

Congratulations to Steven Brown and his wife Allison Currie Brown on the birth of their son Aiden Michael Brown, born on June 8.

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2005

/ MKA / Mr. Edmund Kozak, e.g.kozak@gmail.

com / Mr. Manav Lalwani, 132 Blue Heron Dr., Riverside Court, Secaucus, NJ 07094, 201-617-5312, manav.lalwani@gmail.com

Congratulations to Evyn Cameron ’04 and her spouse Cari Roberts on the birth of their son Crosby Theodore Cameron, born May 18.

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Frank Vincent Picillo and big sister Liliana

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Crocker & Starr’s Expert Winemaker Evyn Cameron ’04, joined a discussion with some of Napa Valley’s top, next generation female winemakers and vintners to explore the leading lady winemakers who have paved the way for today’s generation.

2006

Amanda Azzoli ’08 got engaged

Nick Andlinger ’07 and wife Sarah welcome their son Henry

/ MKA / Ms. Natalie Azzoli, 8 Spruce St., Apt.

50H, New York, NY 10038, nat6888@ gmail.com / Ms. Angela McCaffrey, 229 Crescenzi Court, West Orange, NJ 07052, angelamccaffrey@gmail.com

and husband Thomas celebrated the birth of their son, Frank Vincent Picillo, on October 26.

Liliana (2 years) is super excited about being a big sister.

Lisa Picillo

2007

/ MKA / Mr. Brian May, bmay88@gmail.com /

Mr. Harry Raymond, raymond.harry@ gmail.com / Mr. Stuart Harwood, stuartmharwood@gmail.com

Nick Andlinger and wife Sarah welcome Henry to the world!

Congratulations to Jonathan Reichstein and his wife Payton Kendsersky on their June 2021 wedding.

Derek Phillips married Allie Goodchild on May 22, 2021 at the Deer Mountain in in the Catskills in front of their immediate families. Siblings Katherine (Phillips) Bergstrom ’09 and Mark Phillips ’13, along with Allie’s brothers, performed the ceremony.

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Derrick Phillips ’07 married Allie Goodchild

2008

/ MKA / Mr. Matthew Metzger, 235 Elizabeth

Street, Apt #1B, New York, NY 10012, metzgermd@gmail.com

Amazing work by Francesca Bacardi, senior journalist at New York Post’s Page Six, on her first cover story for the New York Post Congratulations to Amanda Azzoli who got engaged over Memorial Day Weekend in Catskill, New York.

2009

/ MKA / Mr. Brian Purcell, 63 Wall St., Apt. 1509,

New York, NJ 10005, bnpurcell14@gmail. com / Ms. Jane Stanton, 240 South

Francesca Bacardi's ’08 first New York Post cover story

Osteopathic Medicine and has successfully matched into a Pediatrics residency program at Advocate Children’s Hospital— Park Ridge in Chicago! We are thrilled for her and can't wait to see the amazing work she will do.

Congratulations to Page Harbeck who married Andrew Kelly on June 19, 2021 at the The Mansion At Natirar.

2010

/ MKA / Ms. Devon Barrett, 109 Llewellyn

Road, Montclair, NJ 07042, dlb792@

Mountain Ave., Montclair, NJ 07042,

aim.com / Mr. Matthew Palmisano, 2812

janestanton18@gmail.com

39th Street NW, Washington, DC 20007,

A huge congratulations to Jenny Glusman who graduated from Philadelphia College of

Congratulations to Laura Placentra!

With great hands and great speed,

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matt.r.palmisano@gmail.com

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT In the March 2021 issue of Suburban Essex, the magazine celebrates Women in Business.

Kristin Calandra ’09, Vice President of Calandra Enterprises, was featured in a fullpage interview where she talks about her management style, operating safely during the pandemic, upcoming marketing campaigns, and areas of growth she sees for the business.

Allison Bond ’13 gets engaged to Steven Lukas

Laura has made the WFFN National League’s Texas Outlaws. She is a 3x Decathlon Winner, 7x BMFL champion, and AFFL Champion! We wish her the best of luck.

2011

/ MKA / Mr. Seth Bynum, 23-43 35th St., Long Island

City, NY 11105, seth.bynum1@gmail.com / Ms. Carina Wong, 9 Deer Trail Rd., North Caldwell, NJ 07006, carinamwong@ gmail.com

Manhattan College with a BFA in acting in 2016, she studied abroad at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, U.K. and worked professionally Off-Broadway in New York and in regional theaters across New Jersey. Her most recent credit is Rose Granger-Weasley in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway (Broadway debut), and she will be returning to the show when Broadway returns.

2013

/ MKA / Ms. Elizabeth “Lizzie”

Amato, ljamato420@mac.com / Mr. Edward Bozik, bozik@me.com

Nadia Brown ’12

2012

/ MKA / Ms. Casey Holden, 573 Farmdale

Rd., Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417, casey. musicant@gmail.com / Mr. Ed Rosini, 32 Edgemont Rd., Montclair, NJ 07042, erosini32@gmail.com

Since graduating from MKA, Nadia Brown has been working professionally in theatre, TV, and film as an actress. After graduating summa cum laude from Marymount

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stardom, Thompson is poised to engage the world of Jazz. A graduate of Julliard with roots in West Orange, Thompson developed his early talent for Jazz at NJPAC Jazz for Teens and Jazz House Kids. He received the 2018 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award and has performed with many jazz legends, including former Art Meets Jazz performer Steve Turre, Chirstian McBride, John Pizzarelli, and Buster Williams. He is an advocate for diversity in his field and community. Newark’s First Lady of Jazz Dorthaan Kirk introduced Thompson and friends for this extraordinary evening at MAM.

Congratulations to Spencer Goldberg on his engagement to Carly Wolf on February 28, 2021. The couple resides in Berkley, MI. Congratulations to Allison Bond on her engagement to Steven Lukas.

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2017

/ MKA / Ms. Kassandra Fotiadis, kassandra.

fotiadis@gmail.com

2015

Zoe.bieler@gmail.com /

Mr. Charles Rilli, crilli33@gmail.com / Lily Andres, lily.andres@gmail.com / MKA / Ms. Jenna Donatiello,

jdonatiello12@aol.com / Mr. Matthew ‘Matt’ Rubenstein, mattrubenstein98@

/ MKA / Ms. Korinne “Kori”

gmail.com

Durando, koridurando@

Alexandra Golub will

gmail.com

March 15 marked the 4th Annual Art Meets Jazz, featuring rising star jazz pianist, composer and 2021 Young Alumni Award winner Isaiah J. Thompson! As a young artist on the verge of international

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/ MKA / Ms. Zoe Bieler,

be continuing her education this fall at the University of Washington in their Physics PhD program.

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Rebecca Picciotto ’15, editor-in-chief of The Amherst Student talks with Jessica Bruder ’96 in an article titled “On the Road of Journalism: A Conversation with Jessica Bruder Author of Nomadland” about her reporting process, the Oscarwinning film adaptation of Nomadland, and advice for aspiring Amherst writers.

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Alexandra Golub ’17

2018

/ MKA / Ms. Lailanni Lucien, llucien05@gmail.

com / Mr. Keenan McAuliffe, keenan. cavenaugh13@gmail.com / Ms. Kerri McGuire, kerrimcg11@yahoo.com

Michael Butler, a junior at Lafayette College double majoring in Government & Law and International Affairs and minoring in Mandarin Chinese, spent last summer working with his Professor, Juheon Lee, on a scholarly article titled “Integration of the Central Asian Republics: the ASEAN example” that was published in the leading online IR publication E-International Relations. The work stemmed from a research paper that Michael wrote for Professor Lee’s Chinese Foreign Policy class last spring. The two collaborated with Russia expert Aleksey Asiryan. Michael also just completed an internship during the spring semester for the State Department at the US Mission to the UN and was recently elected Treasurer of Lafayette College’s Student Government.

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Caity Ladda ’19 in Euripides’ Medea

A standing is in order for 2019whoovation had an exceptional / MKA /

Caity Ladda

performance in her first main stage debut at Elon College in Euripides’ Medea! We can’t wait to see what she does next. Brava!

Congratulations to 2020 who has been named to the Dean’s list at / MKA/

Geena Pacifico

Toni’s Kitchen, a food ministry of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Montclair, announced a new initiative to ensure local residents have reliable access to healthy food. Beginning the week of March 1, Toni’s Café made regular rounds in the Montclair community offering on-the-go meals to local residents. This project was initiated by the unbelievable Naren Rajani ’20 who learned of Toni’s Kitchen’s interest in launching a food truck last year. Rajani organized multiple fundraisers to raise money to launch a mobile café and partnered with Rich Brown, an active member of the Toni’s Kitchen Advisory Committee, to work through the many logistics needed to bring the idea to life.

James Madison University for the Fall 2020 semester.

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MKA strives to limit tuition increases to remain

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THE MKA SEAL: After a school competition, the design of Betsy Benedict ’76 won student and trustee approval. Her concept joined several symbols.

The rising sun, a beginning, shines on the torch of knowledge.

The palm fronds stand for achievement, the three arrows, for the schools combined in MKA. The motto, said Betsy Benedict, was in English “so that all who read it may understand it.”