Spring 1979 MKA Alumni News

FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK

MKA ALUMNI NEWS Spring, 1979

Volume 9 Contents From The Prin cip al's O ffice

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M K A Tom orrow !

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A lum ni Sons And Daughters

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Bulletin Board

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The M aking O f A M usical

Class News

Dear Friends, W hen I "gradu ate" th is June w ith the class of 1979, I w ill share w ith them the excitem en t and an ticip atio n o f new adventures ahead; and, I am sure, they w ill share w ith me a sense o f nostalgia as we leave o u r school.

W hen I inform ed Ed Read in January of m y decision to retire at the end o f the school year, I reaffirm ed how m uch M K A has m eant and does mean to m e — as K im berley did before it. I have had eight extrem ely happy years w ith the scho o ls, and it has. been v ery gratifying to w ork w ith so m any delightful people: A u drey M cB ratn e y, Aubin Am es, M arc K irsch n e r, and Frances Am es as "m y " alum ni presidents; D ic k Lo veland , Nate Fu lle r, D ick D ay, and Ed Read as heads; Jim M ills , Jim V anderm ade, and, again, Aubin as presidents of the Boards of Trustees.

There are so m any of y o u — alu m n i, parents, co lle ag u e s— w hose frien d ship , help, and interest have m ade m y job such a satisfying one! I w ish space allowed me to m ention you all by nam e.

I know that M K A w ill prosper and co ntinue to grow in e xce lle n ce under Fran O 'Connor's leadership— as w ill the A lu m n i A sso ciatio n w ith G eo ff Gregg as its new president.

M y successor w ill be jo ining a fin e te am — a team I look forw ard to being part o f alw ays as a past parent and friend.

W ith w arm est best w ishes to you all,

M rs. Jo T aylo r C allag han, Editor M em ber C o u n cil for A d van cem en t and Support of Edu catio n, N ational A sso ciatio n o f Independent Schools, A lu m n i Presidents' C o u n cil o f Independent Schools.

Published by T h e M o n tclair Kim b erley A cad em y, 201 V a lle y Road, M o n tclair, New Jersey 07042, tw ic e a year.

Entered as third class m atter at M o n tclair, N .J. 07042.

C O V ER : "W h y can't the English learn to s p e a k ...." lam ents H enry H iggins, outraged by E liz a D o olittle's co ckn ey acce n t, in the M K A production o f Lerner and Loewe's M Y FA IR LA D Y . (Photographs b y Satoru Tsufura)

HOMECOMING 79 Saturday October 13

Notice of Non-Discriminatory Policy as to Students.

The Montclair Kimberley Academy admits students of any race, color, and national or ethnic origin.

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE

Homecoming 7 8 was among the earliest of the many happy experiences Caroline and I have had during our year at M KA. We enjoyed the games against Princeton Day (especially the football victory!), the Alumni Luncheon honoring the 50th and 25th reunion classes, and the cocktail party after.the game for all alumni. It was good to meet so many of you on that September weekend and to come to know you better as the year progressed. In particular, we recall our luncheon conversations with four members of the Class of 1928, Barbara Newell Bowen, Elizabeth Love Nelson, Dick Allenby and Al Stapf. A brief impromptu speech by the late Miss Margaret G allie, former Kimberley Head­ mistress, was the high point of the luncheon program.

We shall carry with us many memories of this memorable year—of games won and lost, of lively publications and musical and dramatic performances on all three campuses, of luncheon conversations with students and teachers, of the fascinating things being done in the classrooms and laboratories, of promising ideas for future consideration, of people working together in innumerable ways to make MKA what it is and will be, but most of all, of the many p eo p leS j students, teachers, staff personnel, parents, alumni, and trustees—who have been so friendly and so genuinely helpful. MKA is indeed fortunate in the people who comprise it.

Our thanks to everyone for the opportunity to share this year with you. And our especial thanks to the members of the Alumni Association Council for their unfailing interest and support in all things. It was a pleasure and a privilege to work with Frances Ames and Jody Callaghan, and I know that Fran O'Connor will develop the same feeling next year as she works with their successors.

You may be sure that Caroline and I, as we move back to New Hampshire, w ill continue our great interest in this school which means so much to so many people.

Our very best wishes to MKA and to Fran O'Connor, for next year and all the years to come.

Edward M. Read

This issue of the Alum ni News w ill reach your hands just as I am moving into M ontclair and beginning to assume my new responsibilities as Principal of The M ontclair Kimberley Academy. It is a move that I am anticipating with pleasureBsom e impatience and a prudent dose of nervousness.

The pleasure stems from my conviction that MKA is truly a fine school — one that is, and will continue to be, a benchmark of excellence in private education. As I have come to know it over these past six months I have been increasingly pleased with the strength of its academic program and the richness and variety of its co-curricular offerings. I shall always remember the production of "M y Fair Lady" last March which was my introduction to the theatre at M KA. All of this is made possible, of course, because of the strength of the faculty, parents and alumni who are working together to make the school excel.

The impatience is due to my eagerness to get started and seize the very obvious opportunities that await me.

New beginnings are exciting times for institutions as well as individuals. The strengths of MKA are also the signs that opportunities for further development and greater excellence are there. I'm looking forward to wrestling with the ever present financial problems that challenge schools in an inflationary age, to helping with the constant renewal and improvement of curriculum , and most of all, to working with the people who are M KA, the faculty, students, parents, trustees, alumni and friends.

No one can anticipate heading a school these days without some nervousness. The problems are real and complex. They range from state and federal in­ terference to the needs of an upset student, from financial problems to philosophical dilemmas and from curriculum development to a lost football game. The variety and complexity of the job is what makes it so very appealing. You can be certain that I will be counting on each of you and on your support to make this new chapter in MKA's history outstanding in every way.

Frances R. O'Connor 1

MKA TOMORROW! The Montclair Kimberley Academy Board of Trustees has launched MKA TOM ORROW ! a $3 million fund­ raising effort, with the announcement of receipt of a $700,000 challenge grant from The Florence and John Schumann Foundation.

Announcement of the campaign and grant was made

by Mrs. Lincoln Ames (TKS '54), President of the Board of Trustees, who presided at the campaign's kickoff dinner attended by 105 alumni, parents, and friends.

The Florence and John Schumann Foundation will gfant up to $700,000 on the basis of'one dollar from the Foundation for every two dollars contributed by in­ dividual supporters. In addition to the $700,000 of challenge from the Foundation, MKA has received $350,000 advance gifts and pledges from members of the Board of Trustees. This support is a strong in­ dication of commitment to the successful achievement of the goal on the part of those ultimately responsible for the well-being of the school.

JACK W IN DOLF NAMED AS CH AIRM AN John A. W indolf, chairman of the MKA TOM ORROW ! campaign, outlined plans and calendar for the effort at the kickoff event. Mr. W indolf is a trustee of the Academy and father of two Academy students He is President of C .W . Bollinger, Montclair Travel Bureau, and Rounds Travel Service. He is also a past president of the M ontclair Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club.

In his address, he emphasized both the quality of education offered by the Academy and MKA's role as a community resource. Through the Volunteer Services Club, Academy students volunteer in hospitals and nursing homes, tutor young children, and record books for the blind. The Academy is active even during the summer when a tennis program, day camp, and summer school are in session. The MKA facilities continue to be used throughout the year by community groups for musical, dramatic, athletic, and social events.

The M ontclair Kimberley Academy was established during an economic recession and has had to live through five years of spiralling inflation. It inherited the combined debts of three schools; as well as their assets, and had to pay for one half million dollars of additions and improvements at the time of the merger. Most of this was funded and the balance is being paid off on a regular basis.

Despite these pressures, the Academy has remained financially stable. Careful management and the dedicated help of the MKA fam ily through annual giving have kept the budget in balance, even though operating expenses are running more than $2.5 million a year. " TOM ORROW 'S YEARS" In a report compiled by a Long Range Planning Committee, and published last May, requirements were set out for “ meeting the educational conditions of the present while preparing students for the demands of the 1980's."

These included the highest standards for faculty, curriculum , administration, student selection, and 2

John A. Windolf, Chairman o f MKA Tomorrow!

physical plant. The report called for continued in­ volvement of parents and alumni in the life of the school and an expansion of MKA's communications system among students, faculty, and parents.

Thecom m ittee recognized that achieving these goals will require financial support beyond the reach of tuition income and annual giving. For that reason, the Board authorized an intensive, constituency-wide campaign to meet immediate needs and provide a steady flow of income in “ tomorrow's years." $1,250,000 of the money raised will go into general endowment to relieve a total dependence upon tuition to meet rising costs. The largest portion of this amount will be used to increase faculty salaries.

One third of the overall campaign goal of $3 million will be used to strengthen the scholarship endowment of the school. MKA recognizes that a higher percentage of students will require some measure of financial aid to assure that qualified students from M ontclair and surrounding communities will be able to attend the school. Part of this endowment will be in the form of the Richard Ward Day Scholarships. Each year, these scholarships w ill be awarded to boys and girls whose work and character reflect the ideals that Mr. Day expounded during his distinguished career as teacher and administrator. Mrs. Day has assured us that this is the kind of memorial he would have chosen.

The remaining $750,000 will be used for urgently needed repairs and renovations on all three campuses.

These projects include work on the heating system,

I. Carter Bacot, Chairman o f the Major Gifts Committee

Roy C. Smith, Chairman o f the Special Gifts Committee

kitchen and dining facilities, playing fields, and parking areas.

Committee of the Board of Trustees. S. Barksdale Penick, Jr. '21 and Harold H. Helm will serve as cochairmen of this group.

Mr. Penick is a Director of CPC International, In c., in Englewood Cliffs. In addition, he is President of the M ontclair Art Museum. In 1973, Mr. Penick, a parent of past Kimberley School and M ontclair Academy students, was voted the year's Outstanding Alumnus of M ontclair Academy.

Mr. Helm is an Honorary Director of Chemical Bank in New York. Also a parent of former Kimberley School and M ontclair Academy students, he served as Honorary Chairman of The Kimberley School's Decisive Years Campaign held between 1970 and 1974.

The Committee, made up of long-time friends of the Academy, includes: L. Davis Barney; John deC. Blondel; W illibald H. Conzen; Joseph A. Courter; Bernard K. Crawford, Jr.; Roger B. Etherington '41; James T. M ills; Harold J. O 'N eill; Mrs. Alvin C. Sawtelle, Jr.; George L. Schultz; John C. Whitehead; and Howard A. Van Vleck '22.

MKA TOM ORROW ! is the first major fund-raising effort undertaken by The Montclair Kimberley Academy and is the first time this school or any of the predecessor schools has sought major endowment monies.

Throughout the solicitation period of the campaign, lasting approximately one year, every member of the MKA constituency w ill be invited to participate in the program.

Margaret Murphy '74

PERSONAL SO LIC ITATIO N MKA TOM ORROW ! is a program of personal solicitation. Volunteers w ill be asking other members of the MKA constituency to plan their gifts by pledging amounts over longer periods of time; in this case, three years. In this way, most everyone will be able to contribute a sum larger than perhaps immediately perceived, and will help MKA attain this very large goal.

CARTER BACO T TO HEAD M AJO R GIFTS The MKA TOM ORROW ! Major Gifts Committee will be led by J. Carter Bacot, President of the Bank of New York Company. Mr. Bacot, who has two daughters attending M KA, has been a trustee of the school since 1976. The charge of the committee is to raise $1,050,000 in gifts of $25,000 and larger.

RO Y SM ITH LEADING SPECIAL GIFTS Roy C. Smith has been named as Chairman of the Special Gifts Committee. Mr. Smith is a partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. He has three children at the Academy. His committee will solicit gifts in the $5,000 to $25,000 range.

H O N O RARY CO M M ITTEE NAMED The campaign chairmen will be assisted by an Honorary Committee, chosen by the Development

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THE MAKING OF A MUSICAL

"In Hamphire, Hereford, and Hartford, hurricanes hardly ever happen

“ What are you going to do next year?" is one of the first questions asked of the weary but exhilarated faculty members who are in the throes of performances which are the clim ax of their two months of unending rehearsals. W hile the question may be inopportune and premature, the quest for a show begins its slow gestation just about at that point.

With an upper school enrollment of less than 400, many problems must be faced in a show selection; casting being first on the list. W hile no show is pre-cast, we have to have some reasonable expectation that there are students capable of handling the principal and secondary roles as well as enough for the singing and dancing choruses. That's a tall order for a student body of our size, but somehow new faces come out of the woodwork and it all comes together, not only with “ faith, 'ope, and a little bit o' luck," but a corporate effort of considerable magnitude.

When MY FAIR LADY was announced as this year's MKA production, many thought we had finally bit off more than we could chew. A musical play of unusual length, MFL requires acting, singing, and dancing of the highest order, as well as difficult scene changes and design, costumes (dozens of them), mountains of props (some of them antique!), all of which must be prepared as far in advance as possible, so that the inevitable brush fires which pop up at the last minute can be put out without undue panic.

Calvin Matzke's set designs were ready by the end of summer and in execution by autumn. Along with set design goes the agony of how much space is available for large chorus numbers on a stage of modest size—a problem faced and expertly overcome by director Marilyn Faden and choreographer Martha Lasky, but not without much time and worry and experimentation.

Some items cannot be prepared for until casting is complete. Judy Nesbit faced the nightmare of getting sizes from a cast of 58 students for many costume changes: the famous Ascot scene, the ball at the Transylvanian Embassy, cockney scenes, servants, the 4

blackouts in Act I, scene 5, in which clothes are shed or added in the wings in seconds, and on and on.

Let's go back to casting. Announcements are made to the students and tryouts begin. Some aspirants are completely prepared with simple songs; others are completely unprepared and bring complicated songs they've heard on a recording, and the pianist (Nixon Bicknell) wonders if there is any relationship between what he hears coming from the student's mouth and what he is seeing (dimly) on a printed page. That goes on for a few days and we are finally down to callbacks.

Unknown to many, callbacks are all-important to Casting principal roles, and much of it must be done on intuition, based on experience. One or two students, who are highly motivated, prepare for the casting procedure by reading the play (Pygmalion), the Shaw essay on the play, the script of M FL; listen to cast recordings; and even do research on cockney and standard British accents. The rest have only vague ideas about what is going on, but there are decisions which must be made, and we have to make them.

After hours of seemingly endless conversation and worry, the final list is prepared and posted by the director. A cast meeting is called, rehearsal schedules are distributed along with some scripts for principals, and the rules laid down clearly. By now it is time for the winter holiday and the director is fretting over the script which has minimal directions and blocking that are not applicable to our situation and must be redone com­ pletely.

Immediately after vacation, the singers and dancers begin rehearsals, the principals are on stage, the crew has already been building the set pieces, Judy Nesbit is beginning a 2-month task of costuming, and the gears move faster. Some items are ready: the Tottenham Court Road backdrop is completed as is the Wimpole Street scrim curtain. But the main work lies ahead and only 2 months (actually less than that) remain until opening night.

The MKA show demons are illness and weather. The

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weather in January and February appeared somewhat propitiated after its oblations of last year, but illness continued its inevitable tour of the cast, right up to the last week. At that time, a case of chicken pox had us worried, but it posed no major threat. Since there are no understudies, we trust in fate and the muses to see us through. Stu Carlisle broke his thumb over the Washington's birthday weekend and was persuaded that plaster casts were a part of the 1912 scene, as now, and that he needn't hide it behind his back all the time! Sore throats were held at bay with vile green sprays and antibiotics, despite excitement, strain, and too little sleep.

One of the least appreciated parts of a show is the blocking and staging. If done well, it looks so natural that it often goes unnoticed. The preparation for where the players stand and how they move is enormous.

Marilyn Faden burns the midnight oil constantly over the production numbers involving large groups of performers, and one such song, "Get me to the church on tim e," is particularly a problem as the singing chorus must be gotten out of the way in order for the dancers to have sufficient room. Consultations between the director, scenic designer, and choreographer are held and the director finally comes up with a plan-||"sheets and sheets"—which show every move during the entire number of every person on stage. This process is repeated for all but the simplest scenes in the show, and in this one there are few simple scenes.

Teaching the blocking generally comes on the weekend rehearsals and is tedious and tiresome. Some players pick it up quickly, some take forever, some are always absent or late and must be taught individually, but the process is unending right up to the final dress rehearsals where unfamiliar costumes, makeup, props, and lighting combine to change individual perceptions and create some of the brush fires mentioned earlier.

"The Embassy Waltz

The Ascot scene creates visual problems from the audience which are solved by Calvin Matzke and the crew designing and building risers for the chorus men, which are then used in a decorative manner upstage for the entire scene. The Ascot tea party is too short for a proper British tea and it is rehearsed by the principals and the stewards endlessly until, somehow, it looks very natural and unhurried —but how many times it has been done and changed before that happens. The squeaks of the tea cart send the music director into spasms before enough oil is applied.

M usically, the problems facing the principals are extremely difficult in M FL. The identification with the original cast is so strong that many decisions must be made, particularly in Henry Higgins's role as to what will be sung and what will be spoken. Lerner and Loewe were writing for a very special actor and they created songs that are virtually impossible to sing. More rehearsals, more conferences, and John Joseph listens endlessly to tapes made by the music director as he practices "I'm an ordinary man" (the trickiest of them all) and the many others.

The chorus members learn their songs, then promptly forget them after the music room rehearsals end, and they go on stage. More pounding away at parts, fiddling with balances, adding a principal or two behind a set piece to beef up the bass; even getting Jack Brink (Alfie) to sing in the opening of "Get me to the church" when he's supposed to be receiving comfort from a cockney woman. The solution? Jack puts his face on the woman's upstage shoulder and sings into the chorus, while pretending to cry!

Upstairs in the dining room, experienced and inexperienced dancers are struggling with new steps, routines, partners, and above all, learning that strange dance, the waltz! Later, when they glide around the stage as elegant couples of London society, they will wonder why it ever seemed so difficult.

Over and over the scenes are rehearsed, tempers flare, boredom increases, lethargy creates more problems. The midpoint is the hardest time, but it is endured somehow and the show slowly takes form.

Inadequate space backstage causes constant tension as the crew's work collides with that of the cast.

Meanwhile, Judy Nesbit, assisted by Nancy Minard, is -struggling with the myriad costume demands. Her sewing machine never stops unless she is in school or out buying material (that's a special problem all its own). Eliza's stunning ball gown and cap e ,‘ as well as her other beautiful dresses are completed, but the Ascot gowns are proving more than one or two persons can handle, so mothers and faculty members assist, closets are raided, and eventually the Ascot and ball gowns are ready, but not without last minute brush fires and solutions, including finding rhinestone jewellery by the bushels!

Did you ever try to tell a young person of the late 70's what it was like to be an Englishman or woman in the early part of this century? Many of the cast faced the problem of switching from poor cockneys to society snobs, and that took more than a bit of work, but it taught these students about the class system in terms far more vivid than any text. AND THOSE ACCENTS! That was an unending task!

Costume and hair changes slow down the dress rehearsals and provide some of the hottest brush fires of the last week. Over and over the changes go until we are sure that we can make it through. Higgins's big song "I've grown accustomed to her face" is punctuated by noise from a scene change behind the scrim. The crew moves at a snail's pace with tender loving care; faster when the song is louder, slower when it is softer. It works! Another fire is out.

The last dress rehearsal is Thursday morning attended by the entire middle school and the third grade from the primary school. They sit, with attention and courtesy, from 10:30 until 1:30 with no lunch and we know "we've got it, by George, we've got it!"

More problems: not enough binoculars, Ascot hats for the men, an evening suit doesn't fit well —rush, worry, talk, change, iron incessantly. Claire Pahl savesour necks by handling, among other items, the hair styling. The musicians (Margaret Johnson, Richard Moskowitz, Barry Centanni, and John Bicknell) scurry around fiddling with balances, lights in the audience's eyes, placement of many percussion instruments. Props people have frequent nervous breakdowns. Danny Timmons takes over the Saturday matinee and evening performances from lighting chairman John Langstaff who is ill, and does a super job. No performance is letter perfect, but each holds and captivates its audience.

Feeding the cast and crews for dress rehearsals (and this year between the matinee and evening per­ formances because makeup calls are 2 hours before curtain) is generously undertaken by PAMKA members, who have become a very important part of the final week. Without theml^we would collapse!

Finally it is opening night and all 100 and more young people swing into a team effort of precision and ex­ cellence that is nerve wracking but generously rewarded by audience enthusiasm. We know that after all this work and worry, "we did it!"

When the last curtain calls are being taken (these are carefully blocked too, and were especially difficult for MFL) we feel tremendous pride in and love for these young people who have given so much to the show: the crew, costumes, props, business, singing and dancing Choruses, the cockney quartet, the servants' sextet, Karen Blinder's efficient Mrs. Pearce, Anne Morey's 7

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majestic' Mrs. Higgins, George Reimonn's lovesick Freddy, Jack Brink's ebullient Alfie, Ippolit Matjucha's splendid "Old Boy" Colonel Pickering, John Joseph's arrogant and towering Professor Higgins, and ending her third year of female leads at M KA, Peggy Mills's exquisite and brilliant Eliza, our special fair lady. There are tears just below the surface then, which flow freely as we gather in the art room to hear the closely guarded secret: the cast party location.

Later, at the Sperlings, where Colletta and W alt try to feed this horde of ravenous teenagers, the celebration is short for some, long for others; but Sunday afternoon, the crew strikes the set under Calvin's direction, Judy, Nancy, and their committee try to sort out costumes, I scrub the music room a bit so I can teach the next day.

All of us know it's over, but what a marvelous educational experience it has been in so many ways.

On Monday, I say to M arilyn, "W hat are we going to do next year?" She groans "Not you, too!" And it starts all over again, because this is "the street where we live."

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ALUMNI SONS AND DAUGHTERS

PRIM ARY SCHOOL: (left to right) Wells and Heather Aitken, son and daughter of S. Thomas Aitken '56; Whitney Bingham, daughter of Hartley D. Bingham, Jr. '59; Girard Ruddick, son of ).

Perry Ruddick '54; Gregg Simon, son of Joel Simon '62; Shane and Shannon Fry, son and daughter of Mary Crawford Fry '64.

M IDDLE SCHOOL: (back row, left to right) Ashley Fawcett, daughter o f Fay Taft Fawcett '52; Melissa Grieves, daughter of Peter D : Grieves '58; Russell Muller, son of Robert H. Muller '39; Robert Kerr, son of Gail Tomec Kerr '52 and David L. Kerr '52; and Debbie Dodd, daughter of Lynn Towner Dodd '54. (front row, left to right) Stephanie and Michael Simon, daughter and son o f lo el Simon '62; and Ashley Perry, daughter o f Helen Bryant Perry '58.

MIDDLE SCHOOL: [back row, left to right) Andrea Cestone, daughter of Ralph B. Cestone '47; lames Sarna, son of Philip E. Sarna '57; Eric Treene, son of Cynthia Mann Treene '54; and Tracy Ryan, stepdaughter o f Dow H. Drukker III '48. [front row, left to right) Susan Kramer, daughter of George I. Kramer '54; lanet Phillips, daughter of lanet Cook Phillips '54; Jessica Lieder, daughter of Robert N. Lieder '51; and Karen Kramer, daughter of Paul D. Kramer '56.

Missing from Middle School picture: Suzanne Halm, daughter o f lules F. Halm '49:

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UPPER SCHOOL: (back row, left to right) Kyle Curtin, daughter o f Ann Dixon Curtin '39; Stuart Carlisle, son of loan Denney Carlisle '46; Dodge Bingham, son of Hartley D. Bingham '59; Jonathan Sandler, son of Richard M. Sandler '48; Stephen Dudiak, son o f S. Thomas Dudiak '57; and Robert Muller, ¡r., son of Robert H. Muller '39. (front row, left to right) Scott Bartlett, jr. '50; daughters of J. Perry Anastasiou, daughter o f '62.

Laura Bartlett, daughter o f C. Julie and Pamela Ruddick, Ruddick '54; and Nicolette Denise Farandatos Anastasiou

UPPER SCHOOL: (back row, left to right) Catherine Emerson, daughter of Tilly-Jo Beatty Emerson '54; Barbara Kluge, daughter of Willard C. Kluge '42; James Van Dyk, Jr., son of James Van Dyk '47; Heidi Ames, daughter of Aubin Zabriskie Ames '54; Joanne Wallace, daughter of John H. Wallace '50; Tracy Ann Buermann, daughter of Mary Gail Smith Buermann '55; and Donald Baird, son o f David C. Baird '41. (front row, left to right) Mandy and Nina Calder, daughters o f Frederic C . Calder '42; Julia Sturchio, daughter o f Susan Crook Sturchio '56; Chris Perry, son of Helen Bryant Perry '58; and Robert Orbe, stepson of Daniel E. Isles '47iyi:„

UPPER SCHOOL: (back row, left to right) Peter and Stephen Dodd, sons of Lynn Towner Dodd '54; Robert and Gary Kramer, sons of Paul D. Kramer '56; David Wallace, son of John H. Wallace '50; Bryant Harmon, son of Mary Evans Harmon '54; and Andrew Kramer, son of George J. Kramer '54. (front row, left to right) James Irwin, son of Miriam Eustis Irwin '51; Jennifer Towner, daughter of Reginald F. Towner, Jr. '49; Margaret Schumann, daughter o f W. Ford Schumann '44; Carol Baird, daughter of David G. Baird '41; and Louise Sperling, daughter of Walter J. Sperling, Jr. '34.

Missing from Upper School pictures: Dana Cestone, daughter o f Ralph B. Cestone '47; Ruth Perretti, daughter of Peter N. Perretti, Jr. '49; Katherine White, daughter of Carol Humphrey White '52.,

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PAMKA Grant Awarded Hugh Bigelow, of the Upper School Social Studies Department, is the recipient of the second Montclair Kimberley Academy Parents Association (PAMKA) Faculty Continuing Education Grant, awarded at the Annual Meeting of the Association on May 9.

Mr. Bigelow, known as Bay, will use the $500 grant toward expenses involved in a three-week invitational tour of the Peoples Republic of China, sponsored by the United States Peoples Friendship Association. He will visit Canton, Sian, Peking, Nanking, Shanghai, and Chento, an educational center heretofore closed to foreign visitors., , Bay feels thatfÿthis is "a rare op­ portunity," and he is looking forward to sharing his experiences with his Asian studies and comparative culture classes in the fall.

Established by PAMKA last year, for the purpose of encouraging and sup­ porting continuing faculty education, the grant went to fourth grade teacher Barbara Rabuse, for textbooks and other materials related to thereompletion of her doctorate in education. from the P A M K A n e w sle tte r, M a y-ju n e issue 1979

National Merit Nine members of MKA's senior class advanced to Finalist standing in the National Merit Scholarship Program in March. Certificates of Merit attesting to their distinguished performance in the competition have been presented to Pamela Barz, David Fernald, Jr., James Johnson, Daniel Kim, Ippolit Matjucha, Alison O'Neill, Nancy Orr, Sarah Scher, and Elizabeth Stanton.

In A pril, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced that Finalist Sarah Scher was one of the 1,000 winners of a one-time National Merit $1000 Scholarship. These awards, allocated on a state representational basis, are supported by grants to the Merit Program from corporations, corporate foundations, and business organizations.

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Mrs. Richard L. Blinder, president of MKA's Parents Association, and Mrs. Roger T. Cole, president-elect, present the PAMKA Faculty Continuing Education Grant to Hugh Bigelow at the Association's Annual Meeting.

Have You Heard........... . . that the Primary School's second major musical, "Mary Poppins," was presented for families and friends in May? The program included instrumental music, songs, and dances, and the children created their own scenery. . . that the New Jersey Ballet visited the Primary School this spring? . . that the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia presented chemistry programs to the kindergarten, and the first, second, and third grades? . . that a "Spring Fling," organized by students and faculty members of the Economics and Environmental Education Committees, took place at the Primary School? Parents, grandparents, and friends visited classrooms, transformed into mini-shops and filled with plants, crafts, and baked goods made by the children. Special demonstrations by the physical education skills group and the eurhythmies class were included in the program. . . that over half of the Middle School student body, from all grade levels and including a cast of 92, joined together to present "The Wizard of Oz" in May? . . that after a two-week in­ terdisciplinary classroom study of "survival," the seventh grade tested its new skills by taking a three-day spring trip to Princeton University's En­ vironmental Center in Blairstown? . . that, again this year, Middle School students raised money to help build a school in an underprivileged country? Six hundred dollars will go toward the construction of a school in the Indian community of Yulhuitz Grande in Guatemala. ...th a t two faculty members of the French Department took fourteen eighth graders to France during the spring recess? The trip included four days in Paris, a tour of the Riviera as far as Monte Carlo and Monaco, and a visit to the magnificent Roman monuments in Nimes, Arles, and Avignon. . that twenty ninth graders returned to the Middle School to talk with eighth

grade advisor groups about their ex­ periences in the Upper School? . . that the eighth graders then visited the Upper School on "Move-Up Day" in April, familiarizing themselves with the Lloyd Road physical layout, learning about the Upper School rapport system and activities, and meeting with in­ dividual teachers for an orientation session. . . that the MKA instrumental students presented their first combined concert in May? The program included the 'Return of the Ocelots,' that band-in-the-stands that played for Homecoming and other home football games; and various performing groups (from duets to full bands) composed of fourth through eighth graders. Following numbers by the Upper School ensembles and band, the finale featured a combined Middle and Upper School band. . . that alumni Barry Centanni '77, Paul Bicknell '76, and John Bicknell '78, on drums, guitar, and piano respectively, accompanied the 110-member chorus and the 20 Mastersingers during the Upper School's Spring Concert? . . that twenty-one students and four faculty members arrived from Elstree, England, in March to participate in the third MKA-Haberdashers' Aske's School student exchange program? In addition to attending classes, the "Habs" visited New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. MKA students and faculty members will complete the exchange when they visit England for three and a half weeks this summer.

Academically Speaking After winning two preliminary matches in previous weeks, the "Academically Speaking" team lost in the final contest to Montclair High School, March 31.

The "Academically Speaking" com­ petition, sponsored by the Montclair Board of Education, pitted teams of three students each from various schools in the area against each other in a contest of knowledge in both academic

Upper School Winter Scorecard Won

Boys Basketball Girls Basketball Girls Volleyball Girls Fencing Boys Fencing Boys Ice Hockey Swimming — Coed

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Coaches Linda Cold and Mark Schlossberg look on as "Academically Speaking" scholars "practice thinking "M K A team members from the left: Ippolit Matjucha; John Joseph, alternate; Larry Principe, captain; Anne Morey; and James Johnson, alternate.

and nonacademic areas. The format much resembled that of a television quiz show, as the students attempted to answer questions concerning science, mathematics, literature, language, current events, arts and even spelling.

The purpose of the games, according to co-ordinator and master of ceremonies Dr. Arnold Goldberg, was to "provide a forum for recognition and competition for fine students in the way that sports contests provide such a forum for

athletes.". . .

[MKA's] first match against Passaic Valley and West Orange Mountain turned into a close contest between the Academy and Passaic. Going into the final round, the Academy had come from a small deficit to a small lead which they preserved to win. The second match saw the team handily defeat Verona by a score of 370-30 and put them into the finals. . . [from Academy News, April 26, 7979]

THE SPORTING LIFE

BY ROD GRODT Real Dedication

Dedication is a term used quite a lot in regard to athletics.

Young people involved in athletics are dedicated because they sacrifice after-school activities to participate in sports.

Parents are dedicated because they put up with the crazy schedules due to their sons and daughters' involvement in sports.

Coaches are dedicated because they give of their time and efforts to instruct the young people.

Real dedication has to be a coach who works for no pay.

Montclair Kimberley Academy has a lot of really-dedicated coaches.

None of the coaches at that school receive a salary. It makes the job that they are doing even more unbelievable.

It takes a tremendous amount of dedication to conduct a basketball practice from 6:30 to 9 P.M. not because you're being paid to but because you want to.

It takes a lot of dedication to keep going each day, rain or shine, through an 0-16 baseball season without throwing in the towel.

The girls volleyball team won its second consecutive Class "A" Cham­ pionship; Tony Barnes became third 1,000 point basketball scor.er in MKA history; Alfred Clarke is the top freshman foilfencer in New Jersey—public, private, and parochial; and MKA athletes were represented on All-Star and All-State teams in boys and girls basketball, girls volleyball, and ice hockey!

Names in the news:

Senior Mitch MacGregor broke two national swimming records at the YMCA Nationals in Florida in April. Mitch swam the 100-yard and the 200-yard breast­ stroke in record-setting times of 59.0 and 2.06.8!

Fiaving qualified in the Jersey Shore Marathon last December, faculty members Sally Bailey and Mark Schlossberg competed in the Boston Marathon in April. Sally finished the 26mile, 385-yard run in 3:26:22 and Mark in 3:05:15!

It takes a lot of dedication to bring a girls basketball team to prominence when your super star graduates and you have no seniors to begin the season with.

It takes a tremendous amount of dedication to try to put together a track program with less than a dozen athletes.

It takes super amounts of dedication to start a lacrosse program from scratch and develop it into one of the best around in just a couple of years.

It takes a lot of dedication to bring a hockey team from one level of competition to a higher one and, in just two seasons, be in contention for a championship.

It takes dedication and patience to run a JV basketball program through a losing season and be able to see some of the good things which were accomplished.

Win or lose, MKA's coaches never give up. They just keep coming back for more. They all love their sports and their athletes.

It's a testimonial to all of them that they do their coaching out of dedication and not for money.

The parents, athletes and fans should all be proud. But the coaches should be proudest of all!

Re-printed with permission from the Montclair Times, March 30, 1979.

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exam ple, ach ievem en t in the perform ing arts and a dem onstrated a b ility in le a d e rsh ip ,fio n trib u tio n o f energy and c re a tivity to th eir schools and co m ­ m un ities, and ach ievem en t in the sciences and in other fields of interest.

The independent judgm ent o f the m e m b e rs o f th e C o m m is s io n on Presidential Scho lars, w ith the co n­ currence o f the President of the United States, determ ines fin al selectio n.

MKA students and faculty meet with Congressman James Courier '59 (standing front row, far right) on the ste p ^ o f the Capitol.

U.S. History Field Trip U n ite d S ta te s an d A dvanced P lacem ent histo ry classes set out by bus for W ashin g to n, D .C . on Sunday, April 29, fo r w hat has becom e an annual three-day v is it to the nation's cap ita l.

The them e this year w as "G o vern m en t at W o rk —T h e o ry or Fact?" Students and fa c u lty m em bers visite d Congress and the Suprem e Co urt, while?-both w ere in session, and then divid ed into several interest groups for m eetings w ith key m e m b e rs o f s e le c te d g o v e rn m e n t agencies.

B riefing sessions by the A m erican Petroleum Institute, the In­ tern atio n al Brotherhood of Team sters, the Pentagon, H EW , and H U D were am ong the m ore than tw enty briefings m ade av ailab le to M K A students.

Student groups had the opportunity of m eeting N .J. Congressm en Jam es Courter and Joseph M in ish , and N .J. Senator W illia m B r a d le y .

V ie w in g th e illu m in ated m onum ents o f night-tim e W ashin gto n, v isitin g m useum s, and attending a production o f "P ip p in " were am ong other highlights of the trip .

Presidential Scholar Finalist U . S. Com m issioner of Education Ernest L. Boyer and the Com m ission on Presidential Scholars announced in April that Jam es Johnson w as nam ed as a 1979 fin a lis t in the Presidential Scholars Program w h ich an n u ally identifies the most in te lle c tu a lly distinguished and acco m plish ed graduating high School seniors in the nation.

Jam es is one o f the 1,000 outstanding young A m erican students to becom e a fin a lis t in this program from among more than three m illio n seniors to graduate th is y e a r . F in a lis t s w h o b e c o m e Presidential Scholars w ill be invited to W ashin gto n, D .C ., w here th ey w ill be honored by th eir elected representatives, by educato rs, and by others in the public life o f the cap ital o f the nation. The selectio n is based on num erous factors in addition to acad em ic e xce lle n ce , as for 14

News Of Former Faculty So n ice to have a long new sy letter from Ellen Studdiford! "In late August Jane Bauer and I m ade our annual trip to M aine to v is it Charlotte Nolan Crawford Spencer and her husband, Ja ck, for a few days on Cushings Island. T h eir house is the oldest on the island, dated 1735.

C harlotte has gone to the island since her childhoo d and is a w onderful guide to its treasures.

"Jan e and I decided to explore some spots w e've enjo yed, so headed for Pem aquid Light and spent the night in D a m a r is c o t t a ... W e sta y e d a t th e G osnold Arm s in New Harbor, a very n ice sm all inn w here Gertrude Carpenter and Jane had stayed years earlier, and called to m ake a date w ith Marjorie Bowers and her sister, Sigrid Edge. Had lunch w ith them on th eir secluded cove in South B risto l, and did a lot of catching up. W e'd not seen each other but once since M arge and A lan left M o n tclair.

M arge enjo ys being librarian in the D am arisco tta library.

W e then looked up Ruth Genaway Cross's daughter. It was fun to see A licea n n and her husband, Scott, who is at the D arling C enter, the U n ive rsity of M aine's O ceano graph ic Studies site, and th eir 4-year old C h ris. A recent letter from Ruth reports that C hris now has sister Jessica, born on Christm as D ay. On our w ay hom e, we stopped in U n ca sville , C o n n e cticu t, to see Ruth and could give her a fin e acco u n t o f our trip . This past February Ruth took a trip to Flo rida. Her son, Peter, lives nearby in Harmon Cove so I'm hoping Ruth w ill com e see us when she visits him .

"A Christm as letter from Estelle Cotton Bain told of th eir long anticipated fam ily trip to Europe last sum m er. They had 'five glorious w eeks th ere .' T h e y traveled

by Eurail passes and 'the highlight was our v is it to Leon, Spain, w ith Cam ino and the A lv a re z fa m ily . Bias A lv are z had arranged for us to stay in a m agnificent hotel w h ich retained part of the structure o f a tenth centu ry w ay station for pilgrim s on th eir w ay to the shrine in northwestern S p a in '....C a m in o had been a foreign exchange student in the Bain hom e a few years ago. Estelle and Floyd have three daughters and had their 25th w edding an n iversary in O cto ber.

"I stopped in to see Jeanne Pons in W ald e n , N .Y ., w hen I was returning from western New York State last August. She had been h ospitalized and had a serious operation last w in terj but she looked w e ll, has m ade a good reco very, and m ain tains her own apartm ent.

"Eunice Snyder is trying to decide w hether to sell her hom e in Leechburg and, if so, w here to live! She was on her w ay to Flo rida in February to look at a place w here friends o f hers live.

"Yette Chamberlain Alford and Arb are looking forw ard to Arb's retirem ent and a return to Florida in 1980. Daughter Judy is expecting her first ch ild in M ay and son Jim w as m arried in W ashington in D ecem ber.

"Jean Denio and I spent a day last June at Jane Bauer's in Point Pleasant. Had a real good v isit w h ich lasted from break­ fast until e arly evening. O u r reunion before th at w as at Charlotte's on Cushings Island a couple o f years ago.

"S aw Celine Smith Graetz a couple of w eeks ago. She and her husband, Kerm it, live in V e ro n a. She was expecting a visit from Madge Edwards. M adge lives in P h ilad elp h ia and is planning a trip to England this su m m e r."

Jane Bauer, Charlotte Spencer, and Ellen Studdiford enjoy a visit at the Spencers' home on Cushings Island.

W e had a n ice note from Jane Bauer, too, in w hich she said how m uch she enjoys reading about "ou r girls" in the m agazine. She enjoys her life in Point P le a s a n t — h o u s e , g a rd e n , fr ie n d s , church a c tiv itie s, concerts.

Fritz Jellinghaus w rote of warm m em ories o f M A . He is now the D irector of Corporate A ffa irs for W H Y Y -T V , P h ila d e lp h ia 's p u b lic b ro a d c a s tin g station.

W e w ere happy to receive a picture and a note from Violet Peterson w ho lives in C orona, C a lifo rn ia . She is w ell and happy and alw ays looks forw ard to news about the scho o l.

A n ice letter from Helen Burtt Mason brought lots o f new s: "W e expect to m ove to La Jo lla , C a lifo rn ia , at the end of M arch. W e sold our house in Con­ n ecticu t in N ovem ber. La Jo lla is, we

think, one of the loveliest places in our country, and we have long had our eyes on it. Almost all our relatives live in California. We have nieces and nephews and many grandnieces and nephews, and four great grandnieces and nephews! We shall miss the east and especially the New York area and Connecticut.

"I always-read MKA NEWS with great interest. I was saddened indeed to hear about Richard Day, but was inspired by the fine article about him in the last magazine. He was one of the rare examples of the Renaissance man, as the article pointed out so well. How won­ derful that MKA could have known him as their principal!

"I shall always follow MKA with in­ terest and hope to visit it again on a visit to the eastern seaboard........You say that our former students enjoy reading about us. We love reading about them!"

Dick Loveland with a friend's son on a fishing trip, Madison River, Montana, in the summer of 1978.

Another glowing testimonial to life in the western U.S.A. came from Dick Loveland, in February. Dick enjoys get­ ting into the mountains and wrote, "Spent ten great days trout fishing in Montana last summer, and Margot and I

recently spent two days cross country skiing at Lake Tahoe. It is lovely out here." Headmaster of Crystal Springs and Uplands Schools in Hillsborough, California, Dick reports that all goes very well with the schools, and that Margot loves teaching in the nursery school.

Their son, Ward, finished Menlo School as a Nati.onal Merit Scholar and won the top senior prize. He is a sophomore at Princeton now.

From our Garden State, Phil Anderson, Headmaster of Morristown-Beard, sent good word of the school and an up-date of the Anderson family. Celeste is in­ volved in the Home Garden Club, Friends of the Arboretum, Florham Park Historical Society, to name a few ac­ tivities! Daughter, Cheryl, and son-inlaw, Dick Crane, Lt. Commander, U.S. Coast Guard, live in East Lyme, Con­ necticut, with their two children, Chrissy, age 5, and Tommy, age 3. Scott '69, a graduate of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, now co­ owns and operates a restaurant and lounge located on the edge of the Cornell campus. The Andersons' youngest, Dennis, is working and recovering after a rather severe accident to his hand that required several operations, before returning to college.

Betty Logan wrote that she, too, en­ joys reading the magazine and catching up with everyone's news. "Life for me is busy, but really good. I'm currently head lacrosse coach and assistant field hockey coach at Princeton University, and have been since August, 1977...Occasionally I see some Kimberley students who are now Princeton students...Took a trip back to Scotland last summer—only the second time I've been home since 1965, so you can bet that I enjoyed it. I'm very much involved with our National Olympic Field Hockey Training Program, which keeps me busy most of the summer; and this year I'll be working at the Merestead hockey and lacrosse camp, which some Kimberley players will remember."

Betty now has a house and two puppies that keep her "hopping." She also wrote that she was in the process of writing a book on hockey and lacrosse which she expected to go to press this summer.

From Minnesota came news of John Howard and some memories! "How often I think of the good old days: setting off the burglar alarm, teaching English, canoeing on the Delaware, planning for yet another use for the 'Commons' room.. . .Names like Dick, Ruth, Penny, Kit, Buck, Claire, Betty, Andre", Susie, Edith, Bill, Van, Fran, Peg, Jody and a ton of others...come to mind often.

Students, too, all the time!" John is still heavily involved in camping and was looking forward to a "full" summer.

We are sorry to report the deaths of four former faculty members, and we

extend our deepest sympathy to their families.

Muriel Pell Butterworth died in November at her home in Montclair.

Mrs. Butterworth, who attended Hunter College, taught kindergarten and first grade at the Brookside School before retiring in 1964. She was the wife of the late Robert H. Butterworth, Jr., and is survived by her son, Robert III; her sister, Mrs. Floyd Guion; and her brother, Lawrence Pell.

Emily Kyle died in December. She graduated from New Jersey College for Women (Douglass College) Phi Beta Kappa. Before retiring in 1968, Miss Kyle taught at Jersey City State College, the Gardner School, and Kimberley.

Charles "Casey" Jones, we just learned from Edward Seymour '17, died in 1977.

Athletic coach at Montclair Academy 1915-17, Mr. Jones went on to fame first as a flyer with the U.S. Army Air Corps, then as a competitor in air races. He was president of the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, and in 1932 founded the Casey Jones School of Aeronautics which later became the Academy of Aeronautics. He served as its president until .1963 when he assumed the position of chairman of the board.

Margaret Muir Callie, Homecoming 1978

Margaret M uirGallie died in Montclair in March. A 1912 graduate’’ of Smith College, Miss Gallie joined the Kim­ berley faculty in 1913 as a teacher of English and Latin. She did graduate work at Columbia University, the New School of Social Research, and Oxford University, England. Prior to being appointed Assistant Headmistress in 1943, Miss Gallie was head of Kim­ berley's English Department. She served as Headmistress from 1947 until her retirement in 1950. Miss Gallie is sur­ vived by her sister, Isabel Gallie Gassaway '23, her niece, Jane Gassaway Bonner '51, and their families. The number of former colleagues, former students, and other friends who joined the family at the memorial service was a tribute to the contributions Miss Callie had made to the school; the community; and to all of us whose lives she enriched so generously.

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and Debbie Baldwin, my daughter Gay's child, will be married on June 16, Gay never attended Kimberley but she taught nursery school there for at least two years. The Baldwins live in New Vernon.

"My daughter, Jane Williams Bauermeister '49, lives in North Madison, Connecticut, with her fam ily."

Alumni Association Annual Meeting The Annual Meeting of the Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Association was held prior to the Upper School Spring Concert on May 4. Elected as officers for two-year terms were Geoffrey Gregg '68, president, and Gail Tomec Kerr y52, secretary/treasurer. Elected as officers for one-year terms were Leslie C. Bunce '54, executive vice president; Fenton P. Purcell '60, vice presidentannual giving; and Nancy Plummer Nazarian '68, vice president—reunions.

Elected to three-year terms on the Alumni Council were Frederic G. Calder '42, Joan Denney Carlisle '46, Richard L. Carrie '41, Dawn Geannette '68, Jules F. Halm '49, Miriam Eustis Irwin '51, Robert H. Muller '39, and Carol Humphrey White ¡¡2.

Outgoing President Frances Johnson Ames '40 was presented with a gift from the Alumni Association in appreciation of her outstanding leadership and dedication, 1976-1979.

Frances then presented retiring Director of Alumni Affairs, Jody Callaghan, with a farewell gift from past and present Alumni Council members and former members of the TKS Alumnae Board. On behalf of all, Frances read, "We wish you well and thank you for your efforts and enthusiasm, both of which you have given unstintingly and with utmost devotion to our alumni, 1971-1979."

Gail Tomec Kerr, Secretary

Kitchen Boutique "Arbors and Architecture," the MKA Parents Association benefit house tour was held on May 5, co-chaired by Muriel Windolf and Susan Sorger. Seven beautiful Montclair houses, all over fifty years old, provided a unique and memorable day for hundreds of parents, alumni, and friends of MKA. A boutique organized by alumni and past parents was a special feature in one of the houses. Blue and yellow bows, flowers, and wicker baskets further enhanced a lovely kitchen, filled with home baked foods, herbs and spices, cookbooks, and many fascinating handcrafted items.

Many thanks to co-chairmen Fay Taft Fawcett '52 and Sandy Carter; to treasurer Ginny Hall Aspdin '48; and to everyone who generously gave of their time and talents to make the boutique so delightful and so successful!

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Congratulations to Emma Dickson Carswell who recently became a great grandmother!

Peggy Klotz Young '37 had a nice chat with Mrs. Carswell when she and Bill '28 drove through Charlottesville on their way home from Florida. >1 4 TKS We were sorry to hear from Mary DeLong McKnight's son that your classmate died in January. Mrs. McKnight had been a resident of Maryland since 1946. Her son, Malcolm, wrote that his mother had always enjoyed reading about the school and the alumnae/i.

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Mrs. George O. Bailey, Secretary (Dorothy Cerf) Old Point Road Quogue, NY 11959 We are very sorry to report the death of Dorothy Comstock Moreton in July, 1978.

Mrs. Moreton was a- resident of Tucson, Arizona.

Your Secretary wrote us the sad news that her brother Louis Cerf died in March. We extend our deepest sympathy to her and to her sister, Katherine Cerf Brown '30.

Mrs. Bailey was planning to go to Italy with a friend in May, and wrote that one grand­ daughter is to graduate from Yale this year, and one from Exeter.

MA A thoughtful note from Mrs. Utter this winter told us that her husband, Wilfred Utter, died in September. A resident of Westerly, Rhode Island, Mr. Utter was a former publisher and newspaper executive for nearly sixty years. Our deepest sympathy to Mrs. Utter, their daughter, and three grand­ children.

As you have read in TKS '15, we were so Sorry to learn of the death of Louis Cerf. Mr. Cerf was also an alumnus of Choate and Princeton University, and was a general agent for State Mutual Life Insurance Company in New York City for twenty years before retiring.

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Mrs. Charles W. Williams, Secretary (Geraldine McBrier) 10 Crestview Court Montclair, NJ 07042 We enjoyed hearing from Geraldine Mc­ Brier Williams this spring from her home in Naples, Florida: "My daughter, Nancy Williams Brundage '41, moved to Lyme, Connecticut, a year ago. Her eldest, Louise '65, her husband, Eugene Lynch, and their baby, Carrie, live in Lyme also.

"We have two weddings coming in June.

Gerry Brundage '74 will be married on June 8,

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Mrs. Samuel Meek, Secretary , (Priscilla Mitchell) 88 Doubling Road Greenwich, CT 06830 Last year in September-October we traveled to Hamburg, Germany, for the meetings of the Atlantic Treaty Association, one of the most informative meetings we've had so far.

The hospitality was warm, the trip well planned, and the meetings chaired by a high, calibre of men, such as the late Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Chancellor Helmut Sch­ midt, and General Alexander Haig, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. The trip consisted of a sober visit to the demarcation line between Germany and the Soviet Union. . a tour of the sea borderline, visits to cathedrals and historical towers.

Then a reception at the Town Hall and one at our Consulate. The last evening we went on a memorable boat trip up the Rhine.

Hamburg has the second largest harbor in the world, and it is one of the most interesting with its international ships and activity. We went to Baden-Baden with our daughter, where we had been on our wedding trip long ago. After that, we went down to France to her small windmill home, passing war memorials and old battlefields, where my husband had fought in the First World War. All was peaceful and neat and rich with agriculture.

Our grandson was married in Florida in November. . and now we're expecting some of our large family for Easter, even two greatgrands.

A nice letter came from Marian Lincoln Cox who says she's always lived in the Montclair area even though she's moved thirteen times!

She has three children —Marian Inglis, James Van Dyk '47, and Anne Poindexter, who lives in Kansas C ity—and ten grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Granddaughter, Ann Inglis, graduated from MKA in June, and grandson, James, Jr., is an MKA ninth-grader. "Both of them love the school."

Marian lost her husband, James Van Dyk, in 1951. In 1954 she married Carlton Cox and had almost 23 years of companionship with him before his death in 1977. "Now I am living in a nice apartment by myself. I see Dorothy Cerf Bailey '15 occasionally when she comes to see her sister-in-law. Dorothy lives ®n Quogue, Long Island, and has an apart­ ment in N.ew York during the winter."

Elizabeth Platt McGhie wrote, "Malcolm and I spend the winters in New Canaan and the summers at our place in Maine, near the Canadian border. "It was so nice to learn that the McGhies have put a forever-wild Con­ servation easement on an 80-acre tract of spectacular ocean front and forest. The easement is held by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife of Maine. Betty also wrote, "Our two sons and six grandchildren all love coming to Maine, and especially enjoy our lobster boat.

"Last year Jeanne Engle Van Breda Kolff, a friend, and I motored around France—not a

tour—we were the tour!"

Florence Herring Bruce wrote that she was enjoying seeing signs of spring at her home in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her son and his family live in Putney, Vermont.

MA Platt Spencer sends best wishes and regards to classmates and other MA friends.

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We were sorry to learn this winter of the death of your former classmate Ruth Boehm.

For many years she worked as executive director and field director for the Manhattan Girl Scouts. She moved to Hartford, Con­ necticut, six years ago.

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For news of Eleanor Ellis Heydfs daughter, Margie Heydt Bonner, please see Class Notes for '58.

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We were sorry to hear from Harry Milbauer '33 last February that your classmate, Walter Rainer, had died. Mr. Ramer was a resident of Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Connecticut. Since our daughter and son have a boat, we are able to get on the lake and in it.

We are most thankful that we are in good health and can enjoy our ten grandchildren (one a great).' I play bridge, garden, and have a little craft business."

From Maine came a nice letter from Alice Vezin Chatellier: "Granddaughter Meg is at forestry college, Paul Smith's in New York, not far from Lake Placid and Winter Olympics of 1980.

"Last summer I saw Nancy Holton Bartow '31 arid Tyler. George Beach '22 and Mary came by, and not long ago I lunched with Lucia and Harrie Hogan '22 in lovely Cape Neddick, Maine." Mrs. Chatellier said it was a treat to talk over the good old days with them all.

Myra Halligan Evans wrote from Con­ necticut that celebrating a fiftieth wedding anniversary and suffering a broken hip were the high and low points of the winter.

Congratulations on the "high," and we hope the "low" is mending rapidly!

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From Connecticut, Mim Cary Clifton sends much love to old Kimberley friends and says that reading MKA ALUMNI NEWS is something she looks forward to. She further reports that she finally gave up skiing in 1976, but still gets out on the golf course. The family picture she enclosed was taken a year ago. Brad is now seven and Cynthia ten.

"Heidi is one of the family, and Lanny and I enjoy 'dog-sitting' when the Lees go some place where pets are not welcome."

Jean Moir reports that she is still living in P hilad elp hia and thoroughly enjoying retirement.

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"My husband and I are just back from six weeks on the Costa del Sol," Ruth Waring Bogart wrote this March. "We enjoyed it very much. We took some delightful tours all over Spain with a brief but interesting tour to Morocco.

"We've retired to a small house one short block from Candlewood Lake in Brookfield,

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Mrs. Philip B. Taylor, Secretary (Helen Patrick) 80 Norwood Avenue Upper Montclair, N J07043 Our very deepest sympathy is extended to Helen Patrick Taylor on the loss of her husband, Philip, who died in December, and on the loss of her mother, who died in March.

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MA Henry B. Fernald, Jr. '28, Agent How nice to hear from Alden Smith in New Hampshire last December: "Possibly there are still alumni who, like myself, experienced the thrill of studying English Lit. with Dr. Steven Lee at the old MA. He gave meaning to Shakespeare, but did not ignore the virtues of Mark Twain, for example. Hence today, being one of snow and zero temperature, gives support to Twain's. . .'If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.' So, a snowy Christmas greeting to MKA from Anne, from me, from our 12 cats and one dog (honestly!)." Alden sent best wishes for the new year to all.

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Mrs. John Holt, Agent (Dorothy Ayres) "Had a wonderful trip to Ireland in August, 1978;" Dorothy Ayres Holt wrote this spring, "and just now another to New Zealand and Australia. Eda Bainbridge Kolbe went with me."

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We were sorry to learn from Barbara Newell Bowen this winter that your classmate, Barbara Bagg Newton, had died.

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Mrs. H. Kimball Halligan, Secretary (Helen Raymond) 55 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042 Peg Ewald Cook wrote in March, "We have just returned from Florida—a good winter to be south, it was bitter cold on the Cape.

"Son, Bill, is busy designing sailboats.’ He had two boats in the S.O .R .C . this winter. His 'Celebration' placed first and his 'Firewater' second in their class. Were we proud! He will design the boat to your specifications and can be reached in Greenwich, Connecticut.

"Daughter, Nancy '64, is spending two weeks in England and Wales with friends before returning to her beloved California."

Your Secretary reported that she was looking forward to attending her 50th reunion at Smith this spring.

Following his 50th reunion celebration in September, A l Stapf '28 (center) attended a Morristown-Beard/MKA football game in October and enjoyed another reunion with two 1928 Morristown players, Stewart Boyd and Luther Hagerty:

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Gay Lemkau Fitt and hejTfflsband. Russell, W e were so sorry to Iearn r-iftithe death of are a b o u t A / fe t Russdtt daughter in Paris.

Irene Burbank Frell lives in Bloomington, your cfassmate, Eleanore Fox Eastwood, in Illinois, and spends her winters -in Naples, February. Mrs. Eastwood lived in Lumberton, Florida. Her surgeon husband |1 about to New Jersey. retire.

MA Zaida Jones Dillon and her husband have a home in Princetoni^aida has retired from her Henry B. Fernald, Jr. '28, Agent position with the P. U. Library, and has joined We were sorry to learn from Homer the Century 21 firm, Carnegie Realty.

Whitmore '26 that his; brother and your Babette Pereless lives in Verona now. She classmate, John Whitmore, died in October, says she is part of a "walking group," and 1977, in Boynton Beach, Florida, where he continues her interest in (Conservation. had resided! for eight years.

Izzie Stewart Cunningham is living in New York City, She has one grandchild. Her '30 ™s daughter, Sheila, is a department head at B.u’siness Week, and daughter, Bonnie, is Mrs. Val J. Brennan, Secretary finishing at Yale Medical School.

(Grace McCollum) Virginia De Golyer Maxson is living with her 130 North Mountain Avenue daughter in Canada since' her recent illness.

Montclair, NJ 07042 Esma Currier Christner writes, "On May first Jane Henderson lives in Stockton, New Jersey.

I will complete thirteen years of working in _ Iy and I spent February at the Circle Z Ranch in Arizona where I rode horseback MKA's Athletic O ffice, and still enjoy it a lot.

Hope to keep going! Have?' four grari|fe again after a lapse of 40 years! We have a new children—the youngest, Anna Elizabeth, was grandson, Teal Thomas Brown, son of born this March in Switzerland on her Aunt Catharine Homan Brown '62.

Lynn's birthday. Paul and Liz will return to the '32 TKS U S.A. with the children in September."

A nice note from Mary Harrsen Van Brunt MA arrived this spring. "I do volunteer work at John Seed wrote this spring, "l am well Planned Parenthood clinic in Newark Am taken, care of by two MA alum ni—doctors also on the board of trustees. We travel twice Chester Fairlie '32 and Charles Roh '33 of a year, ¡p^rSche average, and have a summer Hartford." house on Cape Cod. "My daughter Carol Van Brunt Rasic '56 has a son of seven and a daughter of three."

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Mrs. Tyler M. Bartow, Secretary James A. Rogers, M .D ., Agent (Nancy Holton) John Newberry is now living in Stowe, 88 Forest Way Vermont, and is retired from a 35-year Essex Fells, NJ 07021 business career in retailing. At the time of his Welcome to your new Class Secretary who retirement, John was Senior Vice President, gathered up lots of class news!

J.J. Newberry Company. He received his B.S. Octavia Roberts Allis and By live in degree in economics from the Wharton Wallingford, Pennsylvania. Both have retired School, University of Pennsylvania; and in now and are enjoying golf, bridge, church 1953 was awarded an honorary Doctor of work and being active in the Art Center. One Laws from Waynesburg College in Penn­ child is a lawyer, another works for Colgate in sylvania.

London, C)nM is in public health work in Minnesota, and the last is a psychotherapist '3 3 ma in Philadelphia.

W illgm J. Thompson, Jr., Secretary ' Marion Howell Holt wrote of meeting up 415 Claremont Avenue, #2E with Tavie Allis after many years. "Our Montclair, NJ 07042 daughters met at a Junior League meeting.

We were so sorry to learn from Mrs. Tavie's daughter is also O ctavia. . . I asked MacMahon that her husband and your her mother's maiden name—and lo! I found clijsm ate, Myles MacMahon, died in March, my old friend again. We have had such nice 1978. We extend our deepest sympathy to times together since!" Marion's1 daughter, her.

Cathy Holt Kent, has two children —Allen and Marion. Both Marion and her husband, Gilbert, are retired and "enjoying a leisurely life with a few trips thrown in." She is an '3 4 tks ardent doll collector, miniature collector, and Mrs. David Haviland, Secretary button collector.

Dell Halsey Bell and Bill have moved from (Barbara Spadone) Essex Fells to Naples) Florida, where they T85 Cates Avenue have a charming condominium overlooking a Montclair, NJ 07042 golf course where much of their time is spent.

It is with sorrow and regret that we In summer, they can be found in Little •belatedly report the death of David Barclay Compton, Rhode Island, near Dell's sister, Walton, middle son of Jean Berry Walton and Hunter on May 27, 1978.

Kay Halsey Hutson '34.

A very beautiful church service attended by Last summer they took a three-week trip to Scandanavia. An August trip is planned for marry friends from far and near was held for David. His brothers and contemporary young Brussels, the Rhine, and Munich. Son, Jim, skiing and sailing friends spoke eloquently of lives in Connecticut and has two daughters, 13 and 9, and a son, 11. Daughter, Bonnie their love for him. He leaves his wife, Mary Bell Potter '59, has a son, 7, and a daughter, Beth, and young son, Tucker.

3; and they live in Ross, California, as does» A very joyous event followed which we report herewith. Exactly five months after daughter, Ellen '64.

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David d p |l, a son was born to his brother, Jay, and Cathy of Boston. This child is named David Barclay Walton II. A very gay and jolly, gathering occurred this spring upon the occasion of Thomas Ramsey Kenny's acquisition of U.S. citizenship after being our distinguished Canadian "visitor" for yea these many years. "B ill" seemed very happy to have taken the plunge, and the whole place was ablaze with flags and bunting. All of us were happy to welcome him aboard. Hostess|||f said event was his wife,

Elizabeth Gracy Kenny.

Mary Louise Hayward Davis ^writes from Winston Salem that her daughter and three sons are all now married with cfepdren.of their own. Her love is travel, and she will visit China in April.

Exciting news from Betty O'Gorman Dixon: Hergldest son, Michael, Will have a one-manpain|ing show in Los Angeles in June. Those of us who saw his very professional- and beautiful exhibit here will be most interested.

He lives in ;San Francisco and has four children. The second son, Robert, a musician and composer, has a first son born June, 1978.

Bill and Betty keep very busy. Betty is a trustee and Docent Chairman of the Montclair Art Museum, and church work also keeps her going.

Our news this year: a new granddaughter, Laura Frost Hutchinson (whose mother is Nancy Haviland Hutchinson '62); a trip to England in October via the Queen Elizabeth II; and another trip to Antigua in January. All delightful developments.

MA Barbara Spadone Haviland '34 also wrote, "It is with great sorrow that we announce the death of Albert 'Pete' Haviland on February 14, 1979. His mother, his brother David (my husband), his sister, Mrs. Mechem, and I attended the funeralwin Watertown, New York, where Pete had lived for thirty years. He leaves his wife, Betty Lou, a daughter, and a son." We extend our deepest sympathy to all the family.

"Hap" Hazard wrote » M a rc h that he and his wife, Mary, are still in Rochester; and that he is still busy editing Volume V of the six,volume History o f the Crusades that he's been associated with for nearly 30 years. Hap has eleven grandchildren, the youngest now nine, and he managed to visit all of them in 1978!

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Mrs. Stewart Carpenter, Secretary (Josephine Fobes) 4 LaSalle Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Mrs. Sidney P. Herbert, Agent (Virginia Voorhees) Elise Manson Brett and husband, Bob, are living in a Cape Cod farmhouse, Circa 1816, in Wellfleet. Elise has been a reporter on the Cape Cod Times for eight and a half years. She sees Betty Minsch Buys '36 who was also a reporter on the Times but is now retired.

Elise's daughters are Sandy Brett Amsler '64 now W n g in Hoosick Falls, N .Y., with 7-year old Megan, and Margi Brett Eckel '66 who lives in San Diego, California, with her husband, W ill. Elise and Bob spend vacations in cities. In the past seven years they have visited London, Rome, Florence, Zurich, Geneva, Venice, and San Francisco.

Ruth McCord Alexander writes about hgfl experiences as a travel agent. She went to Bremen and Brussels with 130 student choir members and chaperones for an international fe s t& l -1 They are entertaining the foreign studeriti here in April. Last May, Ruth and her husband, B;p| enjoyed a weekend trip to Disneyland, California. Then they went to Bermuda in September and the Virgin Islands early in December. In January, another school trip to Quebec for skiing, etc.

Helen Strong Oechler reports that her first grandchild, Caroline Nobel Whitbeck, was born to her daughter, Kathy, on November 24, 1978. Helen is busy with Church Women's Guild, Fine Arts Fund, Colonial Dames, Maternity Society, Junior League Garden Club, and as a Docent in the Taft Museum and a Friendly Visitor at a home for the aged.

Last April, Stewart and I enjoyed a trip to Hawaii. Stewart was stationed there during the war and wanted to see what it was like now. The only familiar landmarks were the Royal Hawaiian (where we stayed), Diamond Head, and Waikiki Beach. There were tourists everywhere. Then we visited my sister, Mary Ann Fobes Williams '29, in Borrego Springs, California, which was a real treat—enjoying the beautiful desert and the wildflowers as we drove in their 4-wheel drive car.

Just returned, in March from a relaxing week's vacation in the sun at Antigua in the West Indies. Now to get busy cleaning up the yard and planting the vegetable garden.

Eleanor Barrett Vernon and I played tennis last fall and hope to start again this spring.

Anyone interested? Hope to hear from more of you next time.

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Mrs. W. Kent Schmid, Secretary (Josephine Murray) Mason's Island Mystic, CT 06355 Mrs. H. DeHaven Manley, Agent (Jean Winpenny) Elizabeth Howe Glaze wrote from Missouri this spring, "Andy and I hope to be in Manasquan some time during August, so we hope many of you will call us there. Our son, Bob, is now with First National in Chicago and enjoying his new life and new friends. Larry will get his master's in April from SMU in Dallas, and he already has accepted a position with McFaddin & Kendrick in real estate development in Dallas. It is great to keep in touch with so many of you, and I hope we can have a real get-together soon."

"In the Room Across the Hall" has recently been published by Vantage Press Inc., New York City, authored by Evie Van Wie Penick.

It is an alphabet book for reading aloud, and from the description in the newspaper, sounds delightful.

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Ruth Russell Gray, Esq., Secretary (Ruth Russell) 517 Central Avenue Plainfield, NJ 07060 There has been an addition to George and Janet Gaylord Newsome's family. Their daughter, Nancy, had a beautiful baby girl named "Jennie" last summer. I'm sure Janet and George will be spending a lot of time with their new' granddaughter since George has retired. They're also planning on doing some travelling—particularly a five-week vacation trip to Thailand where they also intend to explore the surrounding areas.

Peg Klotz Young and Bill '28 along with Betsy Townsend McFadden and Bill will be driving to Bethesda, Maryland, in April.

During that month they plan to keep on motoring to visit Sally Young Shertzer wh|ijjg living in Montgomery, Alabama. As the gas supply is very ominous, we wish them good luck in their travels. Peg informs us that she and Bill were in Florida in February and looked up Holly Mitchell Kimball '38.

Has anyone seen our Ruth Duff Eager in the Montclair Times? On January 5, 1979 her picture was in the news, showing her presenting the founder of the Yard School of Art an honorary member certificate to the Mountainside Hospital Auxiliary. I don't know what you're up to, Ruth, but you look great!

We haven't heard from Ruth in a while, but we know via the grapevine and the news media about the terrific work Ruth is con­ tinuing to do for the Auxiliary.

Margaret "Terry" Richards Chapman reports from Colorado Springs that she visited husband Curt's mother in Port Charlotte on the west coast of Florida, and was also in

Clearwater recently.

I continue to enjoy the practice of the law.

Just recently I won a victory in a New Jersey case dealing with a large pharmaceutical company and my client. It hit the radio and several newspapers. Luckily I was in Florida fojptwo and one half weeks just when the reporters were trying desperately to get a comment from me. .

If you have some news or just want to say "h i," drop a line. Do you realize that it is possible that we could pass each other right on the street and not recognize each other? It would be terrific if everyone would send in a snapshot of herself. What about it, Class of '37?

Hope everybody survived the winter in good health and maybe we will hear some good reports from you all, now that spring's; arrived.

MA Vice Admiral Parker Armstrong retired from the United States Navy last July, and writes that he is now occupied as a consultant and president of Parker, Inc., in Annapolis.

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Miss Jane Carpenter, Secretary 11 Norman Road p p p er Montclair, NJ 07043 Narcisse Kunz Cadgene wrote with news of her daughters. Marie Jean '59 lives out in Norwood, Colorado—skiing in the winter, ranching in summer. Suzanne '66 owns and operates, Friday through Sunday, a French restaurant called "Bis!" on York Avenue in New York City. The rest of the week, Suzanne caters for private and corporate luncheons and dinners.

From Priscilla Bennett Ritter: "Both my oldest son Ben and daughter, Lynn Ritter Vernon '64, live with their families in nearby Hunterdon County. Lynn has two girls ages 6 and 8 years, as well as a lively little two-year old boy. The newest grandchild is Ben's baby, Heidi, who is a year old. My youngest son

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Shelley is seeking his 'fortune' in San Jose, California. I am still in Montclair glued to the same job at Mountainside Hospital, but have managed to get away for three great ad­ ventures.

"The first one was Surinam, the Cuianas and the Amazon, a memorable trip to the Lost World's endless jungle, black magic, and the forgotten Indian. Secondly, an expedition to remote New Guinea outposts; back to the Stone Age, then the Solomon and Gilbert Islands—Ah Paradise, I hated to leave.

"The third and most recent was an in­ credible mind-boggling trek through the People's Republic of China. Came home with tons of pictures and bone weary, but it was worth it." ..

And from Kay Jackson: "A treat to hear from you, Jane. Have been living in California about 20 years now, interspersed with working overseas for 7 1/2 years, all over the world. I am temporarily living in Montclair caring for my 90-year old Dad. Think of my old pals quite often in fond memory."

Our deepest sympathy to Joan Garrigan Dial on the loss of her twin brother Howard '39, after a long illness.

Thanks to those of you who gave me some news; always good to hear from each and every one. Things continue busy for me with commuting to New York, gardening, tennising, etc., around Montclair in between church and club meetings. Have a good summer!

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Our sincere sympathy is extended to Walter Garrigan '44 and Joan Garrigan Dial '38 on the death of their brother and your classmate, Howard Garrigan. Howard died in Montour Falls, New York, in February. A graduate of the Newman School and Notre Dame University, he saw action in the southwest Pacific in World War II.

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Mrs. Charles V . Cross, Secretary (Barbara Armstrong) 108 Sunset Avenue Verona, NJ 07044 Sorry there is so little to report but I have to depend on you to answer my letters, stereotyped though they may be!

Had a lovely letter from Selina Hird Taylor.

She and Lou '37 were planning a trip to Aruba in early March. Selina's niece Deborah Hird '68 and husband live there now but will return to the Boston area this summer.

Selina's oldest son will graduate from the Amos Tuck School of Dartmouth with an MBA. Shortly thereafter in June he will be married to a girl from Shaker Heights, Ohio, that he met at Dickinson College. Daughter, Martha, has met Frances Johnson Ames' daughter, Betsy, at William Smith-Hobart College. Small world, isn't it?

Nancy Schoonmaker Heidt had a tour of Europe last fallSEngland, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Finland, and Sweden! She and Bob moved to Mantoloking this winter.

Our daughter, Lyn, breezed through town with her star gymnast from San Jose State U. They were on their way to Penn State for the national competition. There were no gold medals, but Lyn felt they made an impression.

I do see a few of you occasionally but haven't any other earth-shaking news. Keep the letters and cards coming even when you don't hear from me. I'm sure you all join me in our sorrow over Miss Gallie's death.

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Mrs. Fosters. Osborne, Secretary (Beverly Crane) Llewellyn Park West Orange, NJ 07052 Mrs. John Y. G. Walker, Agent (Maryl Riter), All best wishes to your Secretary who was married to Foster Osborne last November.

They live, as you see above, in Llewellyn Park.

An exhibit of paintings by Carol Christopher Schmitz was held during February at the Wayne Public Library. Carol is president of the Bloomfield Art League. She is a member of the Portrait Painters Club of New York; the Salmagundi Club of New York, where she has won several awards for her paintings; the Essex Watercolor Club; the Garden State Watercolor Society; and the Art Center of New Jersey, where she has exhibited in regional shows. Carol's paintings have also been exhibited in the Audubon Artists show at the National Academy of Design in New York, and in many shows throughout New Jersey.

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We were sorry to learn from Mrs. Griswold in January that her husband, Lt. Col. Frederick Griswold, had died the previous month. We extend our deepest sympathy to all his family.

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Mrs. Robinson V . Smith, Secretary (Joan Trimble) 16 Marshall Terrace Wayland, MA 01778 We learned from Sally Sanders Appenzellar last winter that daughter, Kathe '68, was an assistant stage manager in an off-Broadway play.

For news of Nancy Tiernan Swenson, please see MA '39 notes.

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Mrs. E\ B. Ruffing, Jr., Secretary (Joan Sweeney) 125 Westview Road Upper Monclair, NJ 07043 It was nice to see Lucile Mason at the MKA production of "My Fair Lady." She reported that all goes well, and that she is enjoying her job as Director of Development with the Eth ical C ulture S ch o o ls—The M idtown School in New York City; Fieldstone School and Fieldstone Lower School in Riverdale, N.Y.

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Miss Elizabeth L. Specht, Secretary 26 Montague Place Montclair, NJ 07042 News from Specky: Peggy Jeanne Braender Ewing reports that life in Falls Church,

Virginia, has been especially busy this past year with son Frank marrying and moving to Winston-Salem; and daughter Lou marrying after graduation from William and Mary, and now building a house. Peggy's younger daughter is a freshman biology major at VPI. Peggy's main interest now is needlepoint, which she is teaching regularly to both adults and children. She has some men students, too. She has even gotten into the making of Oriental rugs. Her husband, Bob, is in lumber mill work. Usually they go to the N,C. coast for summer vacation, but this year Peggy says there is too much going on at home to get away. She hopes anyone from '44 heading for Washington will get in touch with her.

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Mrs. Roger Kenvin, Secretary (Verna Rudd Trimble) 3518 South Wakefield Street Arlington, VA 22206 Anne Feagley Wittels' second book, "I WONDER . . A SATIRICAL STUDY OF SEXIST SEMANTICS," was published this winter by Price/Stern/Sloan. Anne very nicely donated a copy to the MKA Library, and it is now on the library shelf along with her first book, "M S.ERY." Anne wrote, "I'm still working for my Master's degree, in English, at California State University Dominguez H il l s ...I write a weekly column for our local newspaper, the Palos Verdes Peninsula News, and I have recently written several book reviews for the Los Angeles Times. The family is all fine: Jerry same as usual; daughter Laura a senior and college shopping; son Steve in 7th grade." At the time Anne wrote, her parents were visiting from New Jersey and were then to go on to Honolulu to visit Anne's sister, Sheila Feagley James '43.

Nancy Brown Prachar wrote, "We have been in Texas for three years now and are thoroughly enjoying 'sunbelt living.' My tennis game has improved tremendously. We are only a couple of hours from Dallas, so get up there frequently. Daughter, Lynn, is a freshman at Austin College in Sherman, Texas (just north of Dallas). She is doing well and having a marvelous time with her new-found independence. Would love to see any of you who may wander this far West."

The wedding of Leigh Berrien Smith's daughter, Pam '72, to John Brock is scheduled for May 12. Sister Alison '70 will be the maid of honor, and brother Procter '69 will be an usher.

Jeanne Talbot Sawutz and George's son, David, was married last fall; and Jane Hagan

Farno and Glenn's daughter, Stephanie, also was married in 1978.

We were so sorry to learn of the death of Nancy Nevins D'Anjou's father in April, and extend our deepest sympathy to her and her family.

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Mrs. N. Young DuHamel, Jr., Secretary (Constance Ritchie) 25 Erwin Park Road Montclair, NJ 07042 Abby Keebler Ryan sent me a newsy letter this spring: "Our tribe are at different stages of jobs and education. Judy (married, which makes me a statistic) is working at University of Maine, and getting a master's in coun­ seling; Philip an industrial engineer (in nuclear energy—wow) and getting his MBA at William and Mary; and Ruth, who will be a junior at the University of Michigan, in 30th Reunion: This year's Homecoming is an "autumn event!" geology.

"Art and I are becoming lovers of Michigan —cross country skiing is super. We she's a dental technician, and Todd's a forest have just built a fun and somewhat wild ranger." contem porary house — four levels, clerestories, small greenhouse, with antiques '47 TKS and Blue Staffordshire. . We're on a river, Jean Frey Drake's son, James Harrison, was and it is so lovely and wooded and secluded. I plan to return to college in the fall and take married to Barbara Lewis in December. The graduate courses at C entral M ichigan groom attended Mount St. Mary's College in University. I play team tennis in Saginaw, and Emmitsburg, Maryland, and is district sales look forward to gardening and enjoying 'manager with the Minwax Company.

Louise Rudd Hannegan wrote, "I'm still Michigan's lovely summer."

We were so sorry to learn of the death of active in- the Concord Players, and will be Sally Seidler Golding in March; our prayers president; and am on the board of our unit of the hospital auxiliary. Dave is a V .P . in his and love to her family. division at Itek. We're planning a trip to MA England the end of May. Dave, Jr., is teaching Bill Brown wrote with all his news and said, fourth grade at the Maret School in D .C .; Cinny Hall Aspdin, Stan and Fran Lane Miller "It's not a year when I had another W IZ to Garret is a sophomore at Kenyon. Sister enjoy a holiday get-together in Florida. crow about." (Ed. Note: We think W IZ is still Nancy Rudd Wahlberg '46 moved to Hinsdale, Illinois." mighty crow-able!) our weather has been. The Millers are "I did have another show on Broadway MA definitely enjoying their new home on the recently, called A BROADWAY MUSICAL. Nice to have news of Dick Hehmeyer: "I'm Hillsboro River, and our boys are into many Charles Strouse and Lee Adams wrote the adventures such as building rafts, which score, Cower Champion directed, Norman a TV and radio commercial actor and an­ sometimes slip away, and most recently, a Kean produced. The show was about a nouncer-free lance and busy. Usually, you two-story dock which managed to topple Broadway musical that was in lots of trouble, hear me, but sometimes you can see me on over! But that's what it's all about. Learning at and so were we. By the time it opened, we spots like Chase Manhattan or Puritan O il. It's home is just as important as those many thought we deserved better, but the critics a competitive business, but I thoroughly studious hours at school and romping on the hated it, and it closed on opening night. Back enjoy it. Before all that I went to Hamilton College, wrote copy, worked at various radio fields. to square one.

"Lejsha arrived from Jacksonville this "I wrote the sketches for a little revue and TV stations." weekend with three young ladies for a little called STRAIGHT UP WITH A TWIST that Boca Raton sun and home cooking, and of '48 TKS premiered March 3 at Pheasant R u n ...a course a visit to Ft. Lauderdale to see the dinner theater just outside Chicago.

Mrs. A. Stanley Miller, Jr., Secretary Easter action. We had a beautiful Christmas Hopefully after its run there it will go on to (Frances Lane) with an unexpected visit from Stan's sister, other dinner theaters. I have a new play called 736 Camino Lakes Circle Stephanie Miller Gray '53 and children. We all A SINGLE THING IN COMMON that will tour Boca Raton, FL 33432 managed to squeeze in our smaller h o m e in stock this summer. I also wrote the book for Mrs. Virginia Aspdin, Agent thank goodness for two sets of bunk beds! a musical called DAMON'S SONG that will be (Virginia Hall) Shortly after Steph's visit we were pleased to given a showcase off-off Broadway this welcome Ginny Hall Aspdin for an evening.

Your Secretary sent congratulations to MKA summer. And since I'm co-writing an in­ Cinny visits her parents every holiday in dustrial show for McDonald's, I've just come ALUMNI NEWS for "a most interesting Delray Beach. back from a crash course at Hamburger December issue. I enjoyed the Homecoming pictures and news of the Class of '78, which "Sib Lewis Lotterle and Hank were here just University in Oak Brook, Illinois. recently for the big Miami Beach boat show "My daughter, Debbie, lives in Appleton, was our daughter Leisha's class, if we were and stopped in for an evening of conversation Maine. She has her studio there and is an still in Montclair. Reading about Suzy Conzen before returning to Tuckerton, N .J., where excellent artist. Her field is stained glass, and and Pam Zeug brought back good memories. they now reside. Look forward to hearing she's in the process of collecting galleries to The girls are writing to one another at college, from or seeing '48-ers more and more. So and we think it's great. exhibit her work. please give us a call or drop us a note should "And here we are again saying: Greetings "My son, Todd, has been married just a you be in our area. Have a great summer of from South Florida. For those of you who year to a girl from Brattleboro, Vermont, 7 9 ." named Jan Earle. They live there now, where visited this winter, you know how beautiful

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Heidi Ames Troxell '46 passed on an an­ nouncement of Priscilla Travers Ryan's performance at the L|lifcoln Center Library, New York City, in December. A violinist and composer, Priscilla has been a member of several orchestras and string ensembles. We also learned from the afiraouncement that Priscilla is a member of the Volunteer Resources program at the Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, schools, and demonstrateslthe flexibility of the violin through her own music. She has composed works for solo violin, solo piano, and a suite for violin and orchestra commissioned by Delaware County Community College.

MA David St. George, rector of St. Peter's Church, Essex Fells, gave the invocation at the M KA TO M O RR O W ! k ic k o ff dinner in February, which was very much appreciated.

We were so sorry to learn that David's father, Leland St. George, died several weeks later.

We extend our deepest sympathy to David and all his family.

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elected President of Staff of. St. Joseph Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.

News from Kenneth Crowell w ||| that he would be on leave in the spring of 1979, studying sociobiology at Oxford University, England.

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Mrs. Edward C. Fawcett, Secretary (Fay Taft) 9 Gordon Place Montclair, NJ 07042 Mrs. David L. Kerr, Agent (Gail Tomec^B In a letter from Wain Koch Maass this April, I learned of the death of Lee Seltzer Berdan. I know that everyone in the class joins me in sending deepest sympathy to her husband, John, and his family.

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Mrs. T. R. Cutting, Secretary (Sally Sm ithaH 24 I nwood Road Essex Fells, NJ 07021 Mrs. Franklin Saul, Agent (Flayne Robinson)

MA Richard M. Drysdale, Agent News from Clark Simms: "I have moved to the Oakwood Scho o l, a Q uaker coeducational boarding school that I find extremely congenial. I am enjoying teaching English and chairin g the Hum anities Department—among other duties."

Babs Pendleton Donnell and family

Babs Pendleton Donnell wrote at Christ­ mas, "Our good news includes our an­ nouncement of a new family member!

Matthew Ian Leggett arrived July 20 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, weighing in at 185 '50 tks pounds and nearly 6 feet tall. Matt, an AFS Mrs. W. G. Tull, Jr., Secretary student from Melbourne, Australia, is now a (Sue Davis) senior at Blackhawk High School.

7907 Greentree Road "Calvin, now a Blackhawk junior, likes Bethesda, MD 20034 having a brother. Good news for Cal includes an invitation just received to be a junior Mrs. Clifford S. Evans, Jr., Agent counselor next summer at Camp Mishawaka, (Mary Anne Treenej- • Audrey Carroll McBratney reported that in Minnesota; a great trip to Montana this Bonnie '/4 (Colgate 78) is working in New past summer while a C .l.T . at the same camp; York; Sally 7 5 is a senior at Lafayette College; being captain of the J.V . soccer team; and Bruce 7 8 is a freshman at Amherst. "I am generally having a great year.

"Jane is a freshman at the College of back in Miss Woodward's English classroom at Wooster. She spent three weeks camping in 33 Plymouth Street, doing job placement, the Adirondack Wilderness in August—a pre­ public relational* and some admissions, in­ term course. Good news for Janie, but bad terviewing for Katharine Gibbs School. news fpr any unwary soul —she got an "A" in Husband, Bruce, is with Pershing & Co. on karaté! Bridget is a junior at Ohio Wesleyan Wall Street." where she is majoring in history and political |?|ience. Good news was working fo.r a MA political candidate in the fall election, and Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr., Secretary having him win; and surviving as a camp Northgate Road co unselo r, teaching canoeing and Mendham, NJ 07945 shepherding eight 5th grade girls.

"Good news for Jim is his election as '51 tks Moderator of Beaver-Butler Presbytery for Mrs. EricW . Stroh, Secretary 1979 and election as presbytery's represen­ (Gail Robertson) tative to the Synod General Council. He also 350 Provencal Road was chairman of the presbytery delegation to Crosse Point Farms, Ml 48236 the General Assembly in San Diego last May." Babs' continued employment as a Title I MA reading teacher ifjjthe ¡Blackhawk system, and Ernest F. Keer III, Agent her very successful completion of the first We heard from Michael Silverman this course on her way to a Reading Specialist's winter that he is practicing radiology in a Certificate and a Master's Degree is more nine-man group. He had recently been good news.

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Wain Koch Maass also wrote at Christmas, "It has been a h e c tic and busy year. The picture on our card was taken at my parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary.

"Billy worked for Bill all summer and is now in his junior year at Duke. Andy was a counselor at camp this summer and is a senior in hig^school. Kathy went to Denmark and spent time with my Danish 'sister' from years ago. She is a sophomore at Vermont Academy this year.

"Amy is in the sixth grade and involved with horses. Received her first blue ribbon this year. Bill opened his new store this fall, and I'm teaching third grade again."

Your Secretary and husband, Ned, are off to H aw aH in May. On the way, we will visit Ned's sister, Polly Fawcett Redfield '51, in San Francisco.

. . .and Nancy Booth Kelly's sons, Andrew, Gregory, and Scott.

MA Joseph L. Bograd, Agent

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Mrs. Thomas Burgin, Secretary (Lolly Penick) 328 Fairway Road Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Mrs. John Seymour, Agent (Carol Snow)

MA Peter A. Cockshaw, Secretary P.O. Box 427 Newtown Square, PA 19073 David J. Connolly, Jr., Agent One of the more interesting bits of news from classmates who couldn't make last year's 25th reunion was from Bob Weinmann, a San Jose, C a lifo rn ia , neurologist and selfproclaimed "medical muckraker." It seems that Bob got the journalistic itch in 1976 and

launched a newsletter called "Nightletter for American M edicine". . . On more than one occasion his four-page publication has scooped the Bay area newspapers. . From reading various press clippings (San Francisco Examiner, The Kansas City Times) Bob sent along, it appears he is engaged in a crusade against unnecessary medical costs: For that, he has our gratitude and respect. Keep it up, Bob! Gordon Crozier is the librariam at Rider College, Lawrenceville, N .J., having attained his BS from Columbia University, MS from Drexel University, and MA a t t f e New School for Social Research. , Ed Clapp, or "Rev. Ed" rather, is in the ministry, having graduated from Middlebury with a BA, and from Drew Theological School. Ed writes that he gets two months off from serving in a country parish and heads each year to the West Indies. It is., he ex­ plains, "the perfect life for a confirmed bachelor."

And then comes more news from an old football teammate we saw at the reunion, Bob Coningsby. . . In a note with handwriting almost as unclear as mine is, the president of Apex Machine Co., Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, tells us that he and his wife, Bette, have five children, four boys and one girl. (Hope business is good, Bob!) The oldest, Bob, Jr., works with his dad; the second, Todd, is at Florida Southern. Gregg, the third son, is at Westminster Academy playing soccer and baseball; and Russ is at Pine Crest School "trying hard to prep to be a doctor in between working hard on the tennis team." When Bob isn't knocking his brains out trying to support this impressive team of talent, he has time to enjoy his beautiful daughter, Kris, a "typical nine-year-old."

That's it for this time. Keep the letters and notes coming!

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Miss Georgia Carrington, Secretary Westtown School Westtown, PA 19395 Many thanks to those of you who wrote long, newsy letters —and short, newsy cards.

Lynn Towner Dodd was first to get the word off that they were all Antigua-bound for spring vacation— "Sun! Swimming! and super scintillating scanning of softcovers!" Sounds good to me.

Had a nice letter from Marian Miller Castell who is now in Darien, Connecticut, with three boys, "two are my children and one is my husband." Marian says that she and June Hayward Foster are working very hard in the field of preservation, are on the boards of local museums, and doing an architectural survey for the Junior League.

Fluffy Ferguson Morse writes ..from the Boston area that all goes well. She and Reggie are off on a super trip to California, then fishing off the tip of the Baja peninsula, and then home via Mexico City. What a trip!

Reggie is in charge of his 25th Choate reunion, so they are getting in practice for ours in October.

News of Cynthia Mann Treene came first­ hand this year, and it was good to know that CY will be next year's head of the Montclair PTA Council. She's been involved with it over the years. Her family really keeps her active with the oldest son, Jeff, getting ready for college next year; the youngest, in his third year at MKA, has "English in Mrs. Dawson's

old room. So everything doesn't change." CY says, with her athletic sons, she spends a lot of time in the cheering section for football, basketball, and lacrosse.

Another family of athletes is Vicki Wendt West's. And, as Vicki says, "Who would have thought it with my lack of athletic activity throughout school and college?" The Wests are still in Scarsdale and Peter is Director of Conventions and Meetings for National Associations of Electrical Distributors. Vicki and Peter manage to travel some, often with the boys. The whole family sounds extremely involved. The West's oldest, John Paul, is 17. . Among his sports activities are soccer team, bowling team captain (201 average), swimming team captain, tennis team, golf team captain. His golf handicap is a 6 . . Fifteen-year old Christian is a swimmer, golfer, and animal lover. "He is indeed a help in our utter confusion." The ten-year old, Benjamin, swims 7,000 yards a day but also finds time to bowl. (Both he and his brother won championships with sprained ankles!)

Good luck to him in this month's Junior Olympics.

Vicki volunteers but is also financial secretary with Merrill Lynch Relocation Management. She really enjoys doing in­ terviews and college fairs for Hollins! Vicki sends her best to all, and I have a hunch we'll see her at the reunion. She says she has a new stepbrother, Bob Hughes '52.

A wonderful surprise to. hear from Anita Bleecker Kahrl, containing lots of news of the last 25 years and a very impressive brochure!

Her art work is all along the East Coast, and I suspect many of you have seen it, maybe in New York at the Hudson Valley Art Association or in Boston at the Copley Society. It seems our class has turned out some real celebrities. Anita's husband, Tom, is assistant counsel for the Mellon Bank, so they are now living in Pittsburgh. They also own a place in Maine, and their children are real outdoors lovers. Marguerite, age 12, camps out with the dog "in her self-styled

leanto." Tommy at 15 is at St. Mark's, and he has his own tractor. He "enjoys building roads with his dad." The Kahrls are preparing some Maine land to sell.

Before her marriage Anita studied in Paris and then in London. While majoring in ar­ chaeology, she went on a lot of "digs" around London, and discovered some lovely frescos, she says. She was Art Director at Houghton Mifflin for a while, leaving to start her family and get into serious painting. I certainly intend to keep my eyes open for some of her work.

Well, that's the "roll c a ll"—not too large a showing but a treat to hear from some of you who have been silent for a while. If you won't write and send the news, maybe you'll at least come bring it in person in October! Or if you're inspired at any time, drop me a note and I'll save it for the next issue. Surely the rest of you have something to say!

And a final note of sympathy to Pat Taylor Dill and Janet Cook Phillips who los^itheir fathers—and to any others of you who have had similar -tragedies that I'm unaware of.

We're thinking of you.

MA Donald Karp, Secretary 18 Shawnee Road Short Hills, NJ 07078

Hobart Van Deusen recently started working for Columbia University as Director of Deferred Giving. "My wife, Nancy, and I live in a SoHo loft. Nancy is a Trust Officer at Chemical Bank. My older daughter, Heather, f l a sophomore at University of Pennsylvania, and my daughter, Holly, is anxiously awaiting college acceptances. Son, Rye, is a 6th-grader in Westport, Connecticut."

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Mrs. George Buermann, Secretary (Mary Gail Smith) 21 Arden Lane Essex Fells, NJ 07021

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MA Oscar A. Mockridge III, Agent Nice to catch up with news of Howard Hak. A graduate of N .Y .U ., with a BS in banking and finance, Howard went into the National Guard and trained as a medic. He was general manager of Community Charge Plan, founded by his family in 1959, until 1974 when they sold the company. Howard presently owns a iS operates Ramsey Square Bar and Liquors, specializing:®!) wines. He and his wife, Judith, were married in 1960 and have three children —B'^n1, 16; Felicia, IS ; and Seth, 8 .

The Haks live in Fair Lawn.

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Mrs. LawtherO. Smith, Secretary (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive Doylestown, PA 18901 Nancy Prescott Ward Writes, "I am still owner and manager of Pompton Lakes T ell||j|Sne Answering Service and on the board of directors of my husband's advertising agency. Am past co-president of Kinnelon Elementary Home and School Association, §nd presently on the vestry of St. David's Episcopal; Church." The Wards have three children—Victoria, 10; Jennifer, 5 VS; and Robert III, 6 months. "Recently saw Mr. Coursen when he was playing the organ at a service at the Cathedral in Newark. We spoke afterwards and discussed the 'Ooragnaks' of '56! First time I'd seen him in 23 years!"

Congratulations to Janie Goodwillie Swann who wrote, "I graduated in August from Georgia State University with a master's in English, and am presently employed by Atlanta Psychological Center as a part time tutor which is full time work. Jody is 11 and Eliza, 9. I have a house which I bought last year. Atlanta is still busy and growing." Jane says she gets to Montclair fairly often to see her mother, and that she stays in- close contact with Nancy Cornell Esposito.

"I'm into real estate, renovation preser­ vation in Newton, Massachusetts," wrote Carolyn Van Vleck Edwards, "and love the proximity to Boston. . . Saw Henny Nelson Skeen for lunch last week. So few changes— so many years!" Carolyn has three children, the oldest of whom is off to college in the fall.

Molla Kaplan Reisbaum wrote in March that she loves getting the alumni magazine and reading the '56 Class Notes. She sent news from the Reisbaum house: "Jonathan, I 6 V2, is in tent® grade at Ramapo Regional High School. He's looking forward to a trip to Russia with his school Social Studies Department during the April vacation.

Michael, 14, in eighth grade is anxiously looking forward to spring, baseball, high) school:, etc.! Emily Sue, our 9-year old, is very busy being nine, and loving everything she does.

"Last summer we took our children and s p e S Tsix wonderful weeks in Israel. We toured the entire land; we learned; we saw; we appreciated; and we loved it! This summer back to routine! Jonathan cross country, Mike and Emily in camp, and Al and I at home enjoying each other and solitude!

"I'm busy with my stationery business, volunteer work, and in general driving three children all over. Six months and Jonathan gets his license, and I can't wait!"

MA John W . Clapp, Agent

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Robert Fischbein is currently president­ elect of the New Jersey Dermatological Society, and assistant clinical professor in dermatology at the New York University Medical School.

Tom Aitken, president and chairman of the board of Peoples Bank N .A. in Belleville, was re-elected in March to a one-year term as treasurer of the Clara Maass Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees. Tom and Helen's son, Wells, is a third-grader at MKA and daughter, Heather, is in MKA's kindergarten.

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Mrs. Wichard van Heuven, Secretary (Connie Hay) Mason Lane WestmeadowsSlingerlands, NY 12159 Thanks to Vondamae Nary Houston for responding to my request for news! Von was promoted to the lljem ational Division of Polaroid. This "position is interesting and challenging" and has given her the op­ portunity to travel. Von and husband, Forrest, went off on a three-week visit to Hawaii this spring. Von will spend weekends this summer at Sugarbush —as she is an avid golfer.

Joan Wallace Bryant and Hager took a whirlwind V .I.P . business trip to Europe this fall, and since then have been flying all over ishe East Coast on business. Son Mark is en­ joying his new school in Houston. He had the opportunity to ski with MKA friends at Christmas time. Joan was in Montclair in February to celebrate her "big" birthday. She had a chance to visit with Martha Mackenzie Hug, while Martha was visiting her brother in Houston.

Jean Bonnell Goodrich and Tim spent a glorious two-week holiday in Portugal. They both deserved this terrific vacation. Tim is very much involved with his job as a lumber broker, and Jean continues working with her prize-winning dog and training their horses.

This fall and winter Jean worked with Sugarbushv,setting up a new form of ad­ vertising.

The van Heuvens spent a wonderful weekend at Mad River with Fay Taft Fawcett '52 and Ned—skiing in 30 below zero weather! Then we were very lucky to enjoy a week in Bermuda during our nine-year old's vacation. Our two-year old addition con­ tinues to keep us all active.

Please send me some news!

Julie and Michael Hillegas, children of Don and Nancy Ferris Hillegas '58, enjoy the beach at Martha's Vineyard during the summer of 197mm

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Margie wrote that several years ago she saw Mary O'Donnell who at that time was working with I.B .M . in San Francisco. The grapevine now tells us that Mary is living in Roswell, Georgia. What are you doing, Mare?

Double congratulations to Wendy Worsley Breslin and Jud for producing twin boys, James Montague Breslin and Matthew Montague Breslin, who arrived on December 21, 1978. Wow! Wendy proclaimed, "We are absolutely thrilled with our twins! They are super babies and so beautiful! Lots to do, but such fun!"

Anne McCormick Leeby relates that she has been involved in two volunteer commitments which have been educationaj and interesting.

She was a wholesale buyer for a Women's Exchange and was also the manager of the luncheon restaurant of a nearby museum.

After such a busy year she is looking forward to gardening this summer.

Nancy Adams Scherer and husband, Jerry, will celebrate their eighteenth wedding anniversary in September. They live in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, with their two daughtersHDebbie (16), a student at Mid­ dlesex School, and Elizabeth (13) who attends Friends Academy. Nancy is president of the Women's Guild and on the Executive Board of her Congregational Church, and in her spare time enjoys bridge, tennis, and renovating their old farm house which she and Jerry purchased two years ago. They like to travel, ski, and go boating. Nancy occasionally sees Margaret Brown Dinsmore since they both have daughters in the same private school.

Margie (now Margaret!) lives in Marion, Massachusetts.

Thank you one and all for the influx of letters and cards bearing lots of news. Hope this sets a precedent for our entire class for future issues of MKA ALUMNI NEWS! Have a happy summer!

Mrs. Ralph Perry III, Secretary (Helen Bryant) 18 Warfield Street Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 The Class of 1958 extends its sympathy to Sally Braddock Dinsmore whose father died of a heart attack in July, 1977, Sally and her husband, Bob, live in Sacramento with their three-year old adopted daughter, Betsy. Sally has worked for fourteen years with Giselle's ¡¡¡Travel as a travel counselor and corporate secretary while Bob enjoys his job designing small computer systems. Sally and Bob would welcome any classmates passing through their area.

Margie Heydt Bonner and her husband, Fred, now live in Flintridge, California, and they have two children, Fritz (15) and Andrea (12). Margie plays lots of tennis and con­ tributes to her community through volunteer work while Fred's job is with Union Oil.

Betsy Dinsmore, daughter of Bob and Sally Braddock Dinsmore '58

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and check-m il while Dave, does repairs and builds a new Jog cabin every year."

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20th Reunion: Come back to "our school" for Homecoming '79!

MA Robert R. Haney, Secretary Department of Psychology Georgia Southern College Statesboro, GA 30458 Franklin M. Sachs, Agent

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Mrs. Robert P. Sumas, Secretary (Deana Rogers) 4 East Greenbrook Road North Caldwell, NJ 07006 Mrs. Robert P. Sumas, Agent From Italy comes news of Suzanna Cole Luxardo: "W e have two ram bunctious children, Nora (8) and Matteo (4) who have adapted beautifully to the move from apartment in Padua to our newly built house in the Euganean Hills (30 kilometers due west of Venice). I teach gymnastics to elementary school children; and catechism and, unof­ ficially, elementary grammar and hygiene to our country neighbors. They want to teach me how to wring chickens' necks and to put up our olives in brine, so it all evens out!"

Suzanna says the people are endlessly charming.

For news of Marie Jean Cadgene, please see TKS '38 Class Notes.

Milton

MA Beard wrote from

England in January, "I am an Associate Director of Merrill Lynch International Bank (100% owned by Merrill Lynch) and have respon­ sibility for Denmark, Ireland, Mexico, and Brazil. My wife, Joan, and I have been living in London for seven years. Golf handicap is 6 and life seems to be treating me very w ell."

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It was good to hear from Sheila Albright Hogan in Arizona, who wrote: "We have four children —Don (12), Patty (9), Frankie (3), and Nancy (1). We own and manage a resort, Lake of the Woods, in the White Mountains. Don is the skier in the family. Patty likes to dance and perform. Frankie is the talker; Nancy tries to hold her own. I take care of reservations

As we wrote to you all, Hawley Van Wyck g|as regretfully resigned as your Secretary and Agent. Many thanks for his past endeavors, and we hope to hear from one of you soon that you'd like to be his successor!

Jay Clott lives in Upper Saddle River with h lw if e , Nancy, and his two children, Missy (11) and Jon ( 8). Jay is pharmacist-owner of Harding Pharmacies of Ridgewood and North Arlington.

Philip Leone moved from St. Louis, Missouri, to Gastonia, North Car®|na, in July, 1978, to become director of laboratories at a 500-bed private hospital; Gaston Memorial.

We were happy to have John Franz bring us up to date with this information: Georgetown Medical School; M cGill University Hospitals for internship and residency; N .I.H . Fellow; Urology Fellow in Norfolk, Virginia. John is married to Canadian Jennifer Vallee, and they and their dog are settled in the hills of Wheeling, West Virginia.

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division of Exxon Enterprises® have been wpjking part time as a free-lgnce manuscript editor, most recently helping to prepare for publication a reading-writing curriculum for learning-disabled children."

Sarah Wells Robertson's dissertation on Marguerite Gerard 1761-1837 was awarded the Prix Paul Cailleux for 1977 for outstanding research on an art historical subject of the Hfth or 18th century in France. Sarah wrote, "A scaled-down version of it is to be published by Princeton University Press. In 1979 I plan to launch my own business: Art History Research, Inc.'' May Day, 1964

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Miss Judith Poor, Secretary 96 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042

Judy Corbett wrote last winter, "I left California in May, 1978, on a leave of absence from my company and embarked on a threemonth around-the-world trip which was fabulous. I ended up in our Boston office where I am organizing and preparing to open up our newest office in Chicago next sum­ mer."

MA Robert T. Root, Agent John Lowy has become a partner in the law firm of Gusrae, Greene, Kaplan & Lowy with, offices in New York City and Newark.

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Mrs. Thomas Pohl, Secretary (Carol Vincelette) 1016 South 16th Street Blue Springs, MO 64015 Mrs. Alexander A. Anastasiou, Agent (Denise Farandatos) We were happy to have news of Catharine Homan Brown from her mother, Nancy Holton Bartow '31. Catharine and husband, Gerard, now live in Burnsville, North Carolina, where Cathy pursues her career in making hand-built porcelains and Gerry specializes in building solar houses. Their new son, Teal, joins sister Tamsin, now eight years old.

We learned from Carolyn Wilson Ward '64 that her sister, Susanne Wilson Howson, is still living in Belgium. She enjoyed skiing in Austria last winter, and was looking forward to visiting Spain this spring. Then in March, we were so sorry to learn that their father had died, and send our deepest sympathy to all the family.

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Mrs. William J. Wood, Agent (Susan Pettingill)

Debbie Anthony Stuart wrote during the winter, "Our third child, Jane Louise, was born in October (Amy is 7, Thomas, 5). Jim is manager of Mechanical Engineering at Qyx, a

15th Reunion: Follow the leader to Homecoming '79!

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Mrs. James G- Ward, Secretary (Carolyn W ilso nSS 522 Ash Street Lemoore, CA 93245 As you can see by the above address, the Ward family has moved bag and baggage again. We have somehow landed on a Navy base located inland in California. My husband is teaching radar in the A-7 jet trainer, and the children and I are trying to put down new roots. Hope you will all send me news for the next alumni magazine.

RandilgWhite McGinnis and her whole family went to Monaco this winter. Dick, her husband, had a job there and they stayed in Princess Grace's palace. Randi said she just broke even in the casinos of Monte Carlo.

Randi and her two children, Richie and Heather, then went to Florida to visit her parents where they were vacationing.

Missy Keyser Sandberg and I had a long telephone conversation. She was able to fill me in on her activities during the 'past few years. She works part time at the New Jersey Inheritance Tax Department. Her other ac­ tivities sound very interesting also. She is the treasurer of the Junior Women's Club, and has won the title of best actress, and her play best play, in their dramatic contest. Missy has been in many operettas and is taking singing lessons, which shej||ays .is something she always wanted to do. Her daughter, Kirsten, and she were in "Carousel" in the fall. I guess Kirsten enjoyed it as much as Missy.

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Husband, Earle, is practicing law with a law firm in Paterson; son, Earle, is enjoying sports and keeps very active.

After receiving Carolyn's notes, we were very sorry to learn of the death of her father in March. We extend our deepest sympathy to her and all the family.

For news of Lynn Ritter Vernon, please see f)KS '38 C la S Notes

Peter W. Adams, Agent

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Mrs. B. R. Madsen, Secretary (Betsy Ridge) Box 415 Essex, MA 01929 Mrs. George W . Calver, Agent (Susan DeBevois|e|k'f;

Marjorie Bartholomew Reid was married to Gordon Collins Burris on February 14, 1979, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her husband is assistant director of the University of Virginia Alumni Association. Margie is a realtor with Ivy Realty, specializing in residential, estate, farm, and land properties. Her son Matthew, 6, is very happy to have a new sister, Bridgette, 6, and a brother, Beau, 11.

Ellen Curtin Herrenbruck received an M.S. from Johns Hopkins in 1975, and is working as a school administrator at AnnapoliSH igh School, Annapolis, Maryland.

Mary Ayres Hack wrote, "Dancing with Sandra Stewart Dance Theatre in N .Y .C ., and teaching creative movement part time. Randy is working hard in real estate investment.

Enjoying Connecticut and the house, but finding it hard to find enough time to devote to it."

MA H. Holt Apgar, Jr., Agent Congratulations' to Joe Hare and his wife, Liz, on the birth of their son, John Alexander, in January.

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Mrs. Johan M. Andersen III, Secretary (Alina Seborowski) 64 Rachefle Avenue Stamford, CT 06905 Miss Paula Pryde, Agent A hectic Christmas season prevented me from making the deadline for the last issue of the magazine, so here's some old news and some new news.

Cindy Brandenburg Gibbon and her husband, Mike, moved from Texas to South Carolina where their first child, son Glenn Michael, was born in December. Cindy is busy setting up her home and enjoying her little one.

Another«classmate who moved is Jesse Broadfoot Boyer—from Chicago to Fair Haven, N.J. JeSso's husband, Jerry, became executive chef of United Airlines flight kit­ chen in Newark.

News came, too, from a long-lost '66-er.

Jan Shaw wrote to bring us up to date from her graduation from the University of Washington in Seattle. After working as a research assistant at Manhattan Eye Ear and Throat Hospital, Jan returned to Washington. She is now a registered nurse, working ag Clinic Coordinator of the University of Washington Hospital's Diabetic Retinopathy Study: a program studying the effects of laser

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Miss Avie Claire Kalker, Secretary 4619 Lake Avenue, #261 Dallas, TX 75219 Karin Strom and James Frederick McCombs were5 married in January, and Marguerite Johnson served as maid of honor. A graduate of Syracuse University, Karin has a design studio in Columbia, N .J., where she produces one-of-a-kind items for boutiques and galleries. Her groom attended Bravard College, and is the founder and manager of American Energy Savers in Caldwell, a design and contracting firm dealing with solar energy and energy conservation.

We heard from Kathe Appenzellar's mother last winter that Kathe was an assistanpstage manager for an off-Broadway play. We'd love to hear more about it!

For news of Debbie Hird, please see TKS '40 Class Notes. photocoagulation on the retinas of diabetics.

All is not work though, as Jan adds: "I also own seven wooded acres on Whidbey Island, |H Puget Sound, and spent part of last sum m e| clearing an acre for a building site with ax, machete, and chain saw." Terrific!

Francine Onorati Crawford and Bill an­ nounced the birth of their son, William Charles Richards, in December. Young Charlie keeps Francine busy when she isn't working, studying, or renovating their brownstone.

Bill's book on photography, The Keepers of Light, will be published this spring.

Johan and I are involved in redecorating (in bits and pieces), landscaping, and chasing after an active 2 Vi year old, in addition to pursuing our individual careers. Remember over the summer to forward any of your news.

The Alumni Office was pleased to have news from Randy Bean in January: "After a year with ABC News in Washington, I returned to New York, and public television, as Associate Producer for documentaries on 'Bill Moyers'Journal'out of WNET/13. I am so glad to be back in the town I love—don't think I'll be moving again for quite a while!

My contract with Moyers ends in April, at which point I will probably take a month or two off to relax and travel, neither of which I have had time to do for ages. I hope a visit to Sandy Fates in St. Croix, V .I ., will be included in the travels. She has left England for a year or so and has settled in her own house in the Caribbean. She's planning to work, study, and continue her latest passion —fly ¡nglJ|B| "I am hoping to return to the Moyers series for its second season; either that, or return to NBC Newsv (where I worked on two Presidential inaugurations) to work on its election coverage. My first love is public television, though, so I am hoping that I have found a home here at WNET for a w hile.'fi,;, Suzanne Cadgene, we learned from her mother, owns and operates, Friday through Sunday, a French restaurant called "Bis!" on York Avenue, New York City. The rest of the weekBshe caters for private and corporate luncheons and dinners.

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Miss Linda Feinberg, Secretary 43 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011

MA Geoffrey Gregg, Agent Double congratulations are in order for your Agent, Geoff! He and Cecilia Andres were married in January, and Geoff, as you know, was elected president of MKA's Alumna Association in May. Cecilia is an architectural designer with Environment Planning, Inc., and received degrees from Parsons School of Design and the New School for Social Research. Geoff studied at Long Island University and received his degree from Parsons.School of Design. He is assistant vice president of leasing for Olympia and York Properties in New York.

The Greggs live in New York City.

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Mrs. Charles Gildea, Secretary (Lynn Erhardt) 46 East Saddle River Road Saddle River, NJ 07458 Chris Hannon writes thatiihe finished her M .A. degree in June and spent the summer traveling in California, British Columbia, Alberta, and back to the East. Now Chris is in Denver and just began a job at Coopers and Lybrand as a corporate librarian. She also writes that Ellen Hare is going to Denver for a visit.

Phyllis La Touche left her job at Givenchy last fall and is now in marketing for Nina Ricci. She lives in New York City.

Lisa Schultz Vanderlinde is still studying for her master's at the University of Rochester, and hopes to graduate in August. She will then work on a full-time basis as a medical illustrator in the Strong Memorial Hospital.

Derek is busy with his family's firm, and has just returned from Tanzania where he is setting up a subsidiary business.

Marilyn Cowing Dulin is working part time as an LPN, and is working toward a degree in clinical psychology. She and her husband, Curt, a contract engineer with York Division of Borg-Warner, live in Stewartstown, Penn­ sylvania, and are busy remodeling their house. Marilyn and Curt have two children — Chris, 8, and Jon, 4.

Susan Schadler was married in February to Leslie Lipschitz. The ceremony was per­ formed at her parents' home, and her sister,

Holly '73, was maid of honor. Susan reports that she and her husband had a lovely sixweek wedding trip in South Africa. They are now back in Washington, D .C ., where they are econom ists w ith the International Monetary Fund. They both did their graduate work at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Susan is a graduate of Mount Holyoke, and Leslie of the University of Capetown.

Annette Colston Henderson sent word that she is going to return to broadcasting as a news writer in May. She'll be with WCBS radio, the "alt news" CBS station.

I have heard from about 25% of our classmates concerning our 10 th reunion, and so far al| plan to attend. Our committee, consisting of myself, Barbara Fox Mc­ Williams, and Phyllis La Touche have decided to set the date for our reunion for Saturday, October 13. . . Homecoming Day. Most of the girls felt that an informal gathering at a home would be more appealing than a restaurant affair, so we have decided to have a buffet supper at my hofne after the cocktail hour at MKA. I hope that everyone will do their best to arrange their schedules so we can all get together on the thirteenth. The committee will be in touch with everyone, and we hope to see you all at HOMECOMING!

Picture from MA Yearbook, 1969

10th Reunion: Join the team and come to Homecoming '79!

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Christopher C. Beling III, Secretary 116 Righter Road Succasunna, NJ 07876 Scott Anderson and a partner, we were happy to learn from his father, own and operate The East Hill Depot, an authentic 1876 railroad depot that they moved and converted into a restaurant and lounge. It is located on the edge of the Cornell campus in Ithaca, N .Y., and Scott's father reports it has been extremely successful. Scott is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.

David Cralle called the Alumni Office in early May, just as we were going to press, to ask about reunion plans. We hope you'll all return to celebrate your tenth on October 13.

David has just moved back East from Los Angeles, and is working for the international departm ent of C o ntin ental Insurance Company.

David Freed, Secretary 900 West End Avenue, Apt. 2B New York, NY 10025 Michael W. Lidwin, Agent Your Secretary, David, reports that he remains busy with New York in general and work at the bank in particular. They've opened a number of new food facilities lately.

David looks forward to seeing anyone who may be in the area and, as he wrote you all, to hearing about your activities so he can share the news in this column!

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Ms. K. Vanderhoof-Forschner, Secretary (Karen Vanderhoof) 39 Anderson Road Tolland, CT 06084

MA GarretS. Roosma, Secretary 11 Sherbone Place Sayreville, NJ 08872 David Paterson wrote in February, "After graduation from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1974, I received my J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center in May, 1978. I was admitted to the bar last fall, and am presently associated with a law firm in Manchester, New Hampshire. Peter Webb attends FPLC."

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Miss Kate Curtin, Secretary 393 West End Avenue, #14C New York, NY 10024 Miss Deborah Peck, Agent Tacey Phillips wrote in April, "Just com­ pleted seven episodes of a CBS-TV series, 'Coed Fever.' Am back in NYC planning to do some summer.theatre. I share an apartment here with Kate Curtin." A newspaper article we clipped in February further tells us that Tacey majored in English at Williams College and spent her junior year at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has been in com m unity shows and appeared offBroadway in revivals of musicals. . "Babes in Arms," "Company," "Let's Face It." Tacey has also performed at the W illia m sto w n , Massachusetts, Summer Theater and the American Stage Festival in New Hampshire.

Linda Finney-Perryman wrote from Nan­ tucket, "We are working hard up here; are in the process of clearing our land in preparation for our own home. My husband and I are building a fair-sized house ourselves with our own hands sans outside contractors, so should be quite an experience. Hear from and see Amy Nussbaum Mack quite often. She and her husband just bought a home in Cherry Hill, N.J. My almost two-year old daughter, Aryn, and their year and a half son, Richie, are great friends and are both thriving beautifully." Linda hopes that anyone visiting Nantucket will stop by.

Good news from Denise Chezek! She will graduate from Boston University School of Law in May, and will take the N.J. Bar exam in July.

MA Samuel S. Weiss, Secretary 20 West 64th Street, Apt. 9F New York, NY 10023 Dan Prescott graduated from the University of Denver Business School in 1976, and is now " e n th u s ia s tic a lly " em ployed by Drexal Burnham Lambert as an investment broker in St. Louis. He is married ( 2 V2 years) and he and his wife are expecting their first In July.

Michael Vitale is also going to St. Louis, as a lawyer with Lewis, Rice, Tucker, Allen and Chubb. He would love to hear from any classmates.

John "Kaps" Kaplow has founded New Jersey Video Works, a company which provides video services of all kinds. John will receive his BFA from N .Y.U . next year. He reports that he sees Alessi, Gioffre, Gross, Schultz, and Earl Perretti .'74 occasionally.

I have joined Springs Mills as Brand Manager for Springmaid sheets. My wife, Judy, and I would love to see anyone visiting NYC. Peter Perretti and Kathleen Dockry will be married in June. Kathy, a graduate of Duke, iM with a New York law firm and will be going to Rutgers Law School in the fall. Peter is taking a year's leave of absence from the MKA faculty to work for his master's degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Raymond King, Wesley when he was at MA, sent an update of his activities to the Alumni Office. After graduation, he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania and enlisted in the U.S. Army. After basic at Fort Dix and Artillery Survey Training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Raymond was stationed in Fulda, Germany, where he held various sensitive/critical posts. He says four years of Academy German proved a pleasant head start. Raymond attained the rank of Specialist Fourth Class, and completed his service in November, 1975. Next came the National Guard, NJ IT, Rutgers, and the Chubb Institute

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MA J. Dean Paolucci, Agent It was. fun to pick up news of Edward Force via theT'Who's New" column in the Montclair Times. In March they reported that Ed had moved to Montclair from Glen Ridge. Ed is a tennis professional with'-ithe Glen Ridge jffennis Club in the summer and Willowbrook Racquet Club during the winter months. He waspraduated from the University of Virginia as an§p$|lish major.

Gregory Lackey wrote this spring that he is stillMving in Elmwood Park and workingfi|i Paters©i* He is attending Seton Hall's Graduate School of Business atinight.

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Miss Martha Bonsai, Secretary 264 Upper Mountain Avenue Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Gerry Brundage is engaged to Rick Con­ nors, and jejune wedding is planned. Gerry is working in a real estate office and is still painting, hoping to be a portrait painter. Rick is pursuing a Ph D. in marine biology at the University of Rhode Island.

•'»(Living in Massachusetts, Betsy Nietsch is working as a programmer/analyst. She writes, "I love my job but am well overworked. I'm s i l l up to my old tricks—beers and boats."

Leslie Aufzien is pursuing an MBA at NYU Graduate School of Business and is "inun­ dated with to® of work." She is currently apartment sitting on the East side.

Lisa Schwarz is Eying in Florida and is pursuing a BSN (nursing) at Jackson Memorial; and gaining work experience in psychology. She writes she'll either "go on for an MS and Ph D. or get on a 30-foot sailboat and blow away to Bimini or St. Maarten."

Sue Woods is living in Charlotte, N .C ., and is working in a training program at North Carolina National Bank. She'll be a credit analyst for one year and move to a line position. She writes, "I want to assure you that although I love the southern way of life, I'll never be a 'SoutherMBelle.' " Bonnie Waterman is working at Automatic Data Processing in Clifton .as- an ad­ ministrative assistant to the Divisional Director of Personnel. She's teaching yoga at Lyndhurst Adult School and plays racketball.

Susan Stokes is living with her college roommate in Minneapolis and is working in a management training program at First Federal Savings and Loan. She plans to visit Montclair in June.

Nancy Pokotilow is living at home and is an environm ental engineer for Am erican Cfeanamid. She was recently made an honorary fireman, by the New York Fire Department.

Mary Lathrop works for Chase Manhattan Bank. She,started out as a statement analyst and has recently moved into a personnel recruiting position. She lives in the upper East Side.

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Cathy Irwin plans to marry Jeff Hippie this June. Until then, she will continue working for a real ¿state consultant.

Living in Georgetown, Blythe Hamer is an editorial assistant for the Washington Star newspaper. She's playing a lot of squash, and she is "wishing my mother was here to do my laundry."

Seton Daly has recently moved into New York City. She is working as a media planner at an advertising firm.

Anne Johnson is working for Golden Pacific National Bank in Chinatown (NYC). She plans to go to Thunderbird in Arizona for one year to study international business.

Pat Shean will soon start working for Prudential Insurance in Newark in their legal department.

Maggie Murphy is working in MKA's Development Office, and she authored the article on the.capital campaign, which ap­ pears on page 2 !

And, I am working in New York City as a systems analyst. This summer I will pursue the perfect tan.

MA Anthony Celentano, Secretary Princeton Arms So. II, Apt. 151 Cranbury, NJ 08512 Brian Thomas, Agent John Blondel reports that he is working for Harvard University on its major capital fund drive. This past fall he was involved in the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign. John also reports that Henry Williams is a banker in New York City, and Dirk Buikema is a firstyear law student at Boston University.

Bob Powell writes that he is now working at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine as an electron microscopist. He graduated last May from Connecticut College with a B.A. in zoology and plans to continue his education next year working towards a Ph.D. in anatomy.

I received a Christmas letter from David Kwan and in it he reports that he has joined Western International Hotels. He has been appointed manager of the Glass on the Green restaurant in the Williams Plaza Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is a new and apparently very successful hotel, and David is enjoying his work.

I ran into Brian Thomas in March at the McCarter Theater in Princeton. Brian is working there in the Business Office. He hopes to continue with graduate studies soon.

As for myself, my life remains as busy as ever. In January I was appointed Director of Music for the Parish of St. Robert Bellarmine in Freehold. This is a new parish, and l have the responsibility of building a music program from ground up. It's challenging, and I enjoy my work there.

We all extend our deepest sympathy to Peter Berinato on the loss of his mother this March.

75 David Soule, Secretary 101 Stonebridge Road Montclair, NJ 07042 Dallas Gordon, Agent Ralph LaSalle wrote a letter full of good news. He is participating sin a five-year cooperative program at Georgia Tech where he gets work experience designing and rehabilitating sewage treatment plants all over the south while pursuing a civil engineering degree. Even better news was his engagement to Deborah Polacek.

Congratulations, Ralph!

I enjoyed seeing two '75-ers, Debbie Mahler and Nick Eastman, at the opening night of MKA's production of "My Fair Lady." Nick was in a cast but doing well; Debbie had come down for the weekend.

Your Class Secretary has graduated and started working in New Jersey as a mechanical engineer. I think I liked school better—except

it doesn't pay well. Please note my new address and give me a call the next time you visit Montclair. In any case, keep in touch.

The Alumni Office was happy to read that Foster Cooper is one of 28 Upsala College students whose names have been selected to appear in the 1978-79 edition of "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges." Foster is majoring in business administration.

Greg Murphy, a senior English major at Franklin and Marshall, was involved in F & M's January Internship program and spent a week doing editorial work at McGraw-Hill.

We were happy to read in the paper that Mary Jo Cestone and Pat Masino were married in AprH. Serving as maid of honor and best man were her cousins Dana Cestone '79 and Ralph Cestone '78. Cousin Andrea Cestone '83 was a bridesmaid. A graduate of the Katharine Gibbs School, Mary Jo is employed by the Bell Telephone Company. The groom received his B.A. degree from Seton Hall University, and is a senior production planning analyst at the Fedders Corporation.

Many thanks to Lori Pink for her past work as co-class secretary. She'd like to pass the mantel on to another classmate. Any volunteers?

'76 Miss Laurie Hoonhout, Secretary Box 1968 Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 Charles Read, Secretary Delta Upsilon 180 Rugby Road Charlottesville, VA 22903 News from your Secretary, Chip, is that he has followed through his pre-med studies and "things look very promising. I will be spend­ ing my summer in Montclair, and am looking forward to seeing everyone."

Robin Towner wrote Chip that she made the finals of the New England Theatre Con­ ference, an organization auditioning for summer stock.

From Drew University comes news that Bernard Compagnone was elected president of the Republican Club. And, Bowdoin College has announced that Raymond Swan has been promoted from executive editor to managing editor of "The O rient," Bowdoin's student newspaper.

MKA students enjoyed seeing and hearing Greg Mancusi-Ungaro this winter. Greg and the other seven members of the Hamilton College singing group, the Buffers, performed at MKA during theii! 7-day tour of the East Coast.

'77 Miss Donna Crews, Secretary Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA 01075 Marty Cohn, Secretary 316 Howard Avenue Passaic Park, NJ 07055 Notes from your Secretary, Marty: As the summer approaches, several classmates have interesting plans and exciting adventures upcoming. Bob Adams, a political science major at Princeton, is presently working towards a brown belt in Shotokan Karate! Bob visited Rome and Florence during his spring break, and has been working backstage at some Princeton sponsored concerts—meeting several artists such as Bruce Springsteen and

Dave Mason. He sends regards from Alan Deehan, Pete Adams, and June Wispelwey.

Pat Berry has become a news editor of the "Daily D ," Dartmouth's famed newspaper. Pat plans to take some summer courses and anxiously looks forward to Dartmouth's Summer Carnival.Bev Hall has been training horses along with handling a full course load at the U n iv e llty of Vermont. Bev also played in­ tramural hockey, and had an article published as a feature in an international horse magazine! This summer Bev will work alongside a veterinarian in Lexington, Ken­ tucky. She also hopes to work at nearby Keen land Race Track to further expand her vast knowledge of horses.

It was great to see Joe Sullivan, Joe Ricciardi, Pete Adubato, Andy Pedersen, and Pete Valentine during winter break at local higher-class establishments. The gang of

Andy Read, Dave Jones, Paul "Hasti" Hastaba, Bob "Hubby" Hubsmith, Marco Casta, and Steve Cowles all send greetings and salutations! We'd all like to wish Marco and his family the best of luck in their new home in Waterloo, Iowa!

Hard work but good times were the order from Donna Crews and Lisa Greenburg at Mount Holyoke, as was the word from Nancy Cohn who's at Ithaca College.

Myself, I'm very happy after my transfer to Hofstra University. My marketing major and banking minor have kept me busy, but I've been able to enjoy many of New York's highlights! It was great to hear from so many more classmates, but I hope to hear from more and more in the future. Let's keep the closeness outclass has always possessed, and everyone have a great summer!

The Alumni Office heard from Lake Forest College that David Pinkham received his second-year award as a member of the men's swimming team. The team finished second in the Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference championships.

And from Swarthmore College we learned that Liz Greene sang in the college production of J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion in April.

We read in March that Scott Schulte was selected by the U.S. Junior National Water Polo Olympic team to participate in the C anadian-A m erican-M exican W ater Polo Tournament. Scott, the paper reported, was the only Eastern player to make the national junior team. He is Bucknell's leading scorer in goals and on the first team All-East.

Further news of Peter Adams, via the press, is that he was honored for his performance in the Southwestern Com pany's summer marketing program. In competition with students throughout the country, Peter earned the company's Century Club Award for ranking in the top percentage of student dealers in personal sales. We also read that Pete is listed as an attackman on the Princeton University varsity lacrosse roster.

'78 Miss Pamela Ze.ug, Secretary P.O. Box 7171 College Station Durham, NC 27708 John Glicksman, Secretary Trinity College Box 610 Hartford, CT 06106 Cheryl Wedel, majoring in education at Wittenberg University, pledged herself to the

Alpha Nu chapter of Kappa Delta this spring.

John Phillips, an economics major at Franklin and Marshall College, is on the men's tennis team.

Pam Lalli writes from Skidmore College, "I have experienced many positive and enlightening achievements this year. . . I would have to say making the Dean's List this past term was the most rewarding and exciting honor of them all. I Would be amiss if I did not give public recognition to William Bullard (my 12th and 11th grade English teacher) for teaching me how to think, read, and write creatively, which increased my awareness to a [Sgher level of learning." Pam was elected Social Chairperson of the freshman class, and is a member of the students' Entertainment Committee which deals with the social ac­ tivities for the entire student body.

Mary Ward is a member of the New Hampshire College varsity women's softball team.

Laura Marnell, one of the five freshman starters on M an h attan ville College's basketball team, led the Lady Valiants in steals this season. Included in their season were championships in the Elmira Tour­ nament and New York State Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Division III Tournament.

It's been great to see so many members of the Class of '78 here at MKA during the year.

Keep up the visits—and a happy summer to all!

Just as we go to press, we have learned with great sorrow that Kenneth Karl died in an automobile accident on May 20. A gifted artist and cartoonist, Kenny was a student at Carnegie-Mellon University. We extend our very deepest sympathy to his parents, his sister Patty '79, and his brother Gary.

VITAL STATISTICS DEATHS The editor records with sorrow .the death of the following alumni and extends the sym­ pathy of the officers and members of the Alumni Association to their families.

Mrs. Charles McKnight (Mary DeLong '14) Mrs. D. C. Moreton (Dorothy Comstock '15) Louis A. Cerf, Jr. '15 Wilfred B. Utter '15 Miss Ruth Boehm '18 Walter W. Ramer '21 Mrs. W. L. Newton (Barbara Bagg '28) Mrs. C. H. Eastwood (Eleanore Fox '29) John H. Whitmore '29 Myles T. MacMahon '33 Albert Haviland '34 Howard Garrigan '39 Lt. Col. Frederick H. Griswold '41 MTs. H. G. Golding (Sally Seidler '46) Mrs. John Berdan (Lee Seltzer '52) Kenneth R. Karl '78

MARRIAGES Beverly Crane Perry '39 to Foster S. Osborne Marjorie Bartholomew Reid '65 to Gordon C. Burris Karin Strom '68 to James F. McCombs Geoffrey Gregg '68 to Cecilia Andres Susan Schadler '69 to Leslie Lipschitz Mary Jo Cestone '75 to Pat Masino

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