Fall 1987 MKA Alumni News

Fall

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T H E M O NTC LA IR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY;

C ontents Centennial /1 Recollections of Howard Van Vleck / 4 Leigh Berrien Smith: Memories / 7 Notes Around MKA /9 Alumni News / 18 Class Notes / 24

Editors Christie Austin Judy Polonofsky Virginia Montemurro

P hotographic C redits W.L. Bill Allen, Jr. William Bullard Steve Tober Satoru Tsufura

1986-87 Alumni Association C ouncil Stephen Barrai ’80 Martin Brayboy ’80 Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65, Vice President Curtis E. Brunner ’78 Stephen T. Dodd ’79 Fay Taft Fawcett ’52, President Mary Crawford Fry ’64 Robert Gardner ’78 Geoffrey Gimber ’75 Robert Hoonhout ’71, Treasurer Gail Tomec Kerr ’52, Vice President Alan Kessler ’47, Executive Vice President

Jane Lugaric '78 Oscar Mockridge ’55 Blake O’Neill ’82 J. Dean Paolucci ’73 Kit Eavenson Sanders ’41 Charles Small ’58 Cynthia Mann Treene ’54, Vice President Albert Van Eerde ’73 Ellen Wahl Skibiak ’73 Frances R. O’Connor, Principal Christie Austin, Alumni Director Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs

A lumni N ews Advisory B oard Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 Robert D.B. Carlisle Austin C. Drukker ’52 Audrey Carroll McBratney ’50 Member: Council for Advancement and Support of Education National Association of Independent Schools Alumni Presidents’ Council of Independent Schools Published twice a year by: The Montclair Kimberley Academy 201 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey 07042 (201) 746-9800 Notice of non-discriminatory policy as to students: The Montclair Kimberley Academy admits students of any race, color, and national or ethnic origin.

Entered as third class matter at Montclair, NJ 07042 Front Cover: Collage of vintage photos and memorabilia reflects early years of Montclair Academy.

Correction: Spring 1987 Alumni News Credit for the photo of a student studying on the lawn was inadvertently omitted. Photo was by Bernadette Lee ’88.

THE MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY

M acVicar’s School, Clinton Avenue, 1887.

CENTENNIAL BOOK To commemorate the Centennial o f Montclair Academy, Robert D.B. Carlisle, a professional author and former MKA parent and Trustee, will write a history o f the first hundred years. Susan Jones, parent and Alumni Director 1984-86, will help in research and organize permanent

First class, MacVicar’s School, September 1887.

archives. The book will be published in the spring of 1988 and be available through the Alumni Office.

If you have any vintage photographs, memorabilia or historical anecdotes that might be helpful to the authors, please contact the Alumni Office today!

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CENTENNIAL TAPE The Mastersingers and Chorus of MKA, directed

by Nixon Bicknell, commemorate favorite Academy songs and ceremonies. The tape features the school songs of Montclair Academy, Brookside, and The Kimberley School. To order the tape, see page 30.

An Abbreviated H istory Of T h e Schools 1887-1987

Principal Mary Kimberley Waring and fir s t tw o Kimberley graduates, 1909-

In the spring of 1887, a few leading citizens of Montclair decided to engage a tutor to prepare their sons for college.

They hired John G. MacVicar of the University of jtfBUKE Rochester, and on KgtiiWj September 18, 1887, MacVicar’s I School opened in a one-room frame schoolhouse on -47PS1 Clinton Avenue.

By the second year, the enrollment expanded from 16 to 75^ and the school’s backers built a new building near Walden Place.

By 1891 the school' had added a boarding department and became Montclair Military Academy. Mr. MacVicar married and his wife managed the dormitory.

Each spring many of the

town’s 6,500 residents came to watch the boys drill and to see the great sham battles enacted on the Academy fields. In 1909 a new three-story academic building was constructed on the Walden site.

The military department was discontinued in 1910, revived temporarily during World War I, and ended permanently in 1918. The school was renamed Montclair Academy.

By 1925 the Academy’s enrollment was near 300, but Mr. MacVicar’s health was failing. Dr. Walter Head became owner and Headmaster. That same year another group of parents founded Brookside School for boys and girls in kindergarten through sixth grade.

The counterpart for young ladies, “Miss Waring’s School,” opened in September 1906 on

Montclair Military Academy 1894-95. A tfa r right, back row, Mrs. MacVicar a n d child.

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Plymouth Street with 46 students. The school was renamed The Kimberley School in 1909 after its founder Mary Kimberley Waring. Miss Mary Jordan became Co-Principal.

After more than three decades under Miss Waring and Miss Jordan, Kimberley incorporated as a non­ profit institution in 1941.

In 1950 The Kimberley School moved to a new campus at 201 Valley Road, the former Montclair Athletic Club. The new facility accommodated 325 girls in grades kindergarten through twelve, and flourished with strong athletics, academics, and traditions such as May Day, graduation, and vesper services.

On August 1, 1948, Montclair Academy, after 61 years as a proprietary school, likewise became a nonprofit institution, the Montclair Academy Foundation, led by alumnus Rudolph Deetjen.

The boarding department was closed. In 1950, the Foundation bought Brookside School.

Montclair Academy experienced a number of “static” years in the 1950’s, and the crumbling school showed its age. Puddles formed in the building when it rained and athletes used a gym built in 1890. Masters Claude Monson and William

schools, to rewrite job descriptions for faculties of two quite different institutions, to establish a parent association, to build anew school colors, traditions and spirit. The MKA seal was designed O riginal Brookside Campus circa 1925.

by Betsy Benedict, then a junior. A with the help of several research-practitioners at student exchange was leading universities, established with the received a national award.

Medway Park Country Long before it became Day School in popular, a merit system Louisiana and with and formal evaluation of the Haberdasher’s teaching was set in place.

Aske’s School in Students’ achievement England. A tradition was noteworthy: in the o f wonderful musicals first decade alone more was begun. The than 150 were cited for Trustees undertook to special recognition by the build an endowment National Merit Scholarship and plan for the Program. The school’s future. computer team won an Mr. Day’s tenure international championship met an untimely end several years, the seniors with his death in July amassed an outstanding list of 1978. In four short o f college acceptances, and years he had students won awards for M ontclair Academy. Rear, Bradley House. Left to right, accomplished the Walden House, G ym nasium , Academ ic Building. merger: MKA was an excellence in the arts, mathematics, science and entity in itself with a for certain classes. Social the humanities. On the strong faculty, clear goals, Science building; after events and plays had long athletic field, MKA teams wonderful students and a further fundraising, the been joint productions. won district and state dedicated Board. During Fairleigh Dickinson, Jr. After a well researched championships in the next year Edward Read Gym and Weiss Arts Center study, the Trustees of The practically all of the sports served as interim Head and were completed in 1969.

Kimberley School and the in which they competed. consolidated many gains Dedication took place in Montclair Academy In short, the dream of the made by the first Principal. the fall of 1964, and the Foundation decided in Montclair Academy and The current Principal, old Academic Building — November 1973 to com­ The Kimberley School Dr. Frances R. O’Connor, the heavy old stucco bine to form a new school.

Trustees had come true: came to MKA in July 1979fortress that symbolized In September 1974 The through merging the two With the managerial Montclair Academy — was Montclair Kimberley schools a new Academy aspects o f the merger demolished.

Academy, a co-educational arose which was greater accomplished, it was time One bridge between the school kindergarten than the sum of its parts. to turn to the program. old and the new Academy through twelve, opened During the next years a K was Edwin Van Brunt, with an enrollment of through twelve Computer coach and athletic director 1,010 students on three Education Program was from 1934 until his campuses and Richard established, and became a retirement in 1969. The Ward Day as Principal. prototype for public and Van Brunt Field, site of His task was multiple: to private schools in the drills, “battles,” and combine alumni and nation. A Reading/Language athletics, was named in his Student records from two Arts Program, established honor.

Miller retired after four decades of dedication and discipline.

The Foundation purchased property on Lloyd Road and on September 21, 1963, ground was broken for new Academy buildings.

The William Avery Barras Library, Schumann Admini­ stration and Van Vleck Humanities buildings were built first, then the Barney

The 60’s and early 70’s were marked by student unrest and desire for change. In an era of educational and social trauma, the challenge was to balance tradition with progress.

In 1968 Montclair Academy and The Kimberley School — each with strong school spirit and loyal alumni — began to offer cross-registration

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H oward Van V leck

H oward Van Vleck fro m the 1922 yearbook.

He might be called “Mr. Mont­ clair Academy,” so extensive are his ties to the school.

Howard Van Vleck ’22 has witnessed eight decades of people, eras, buildings, mergers, and changes from the vantage of student, alumnus, parent and trustee.

His family has had a long and vital association with the Academy.

His grandfather, Joseph Van Vleck, was one of those who hired John MacVicar in 1887 to tutor their sons. His father, Joseph Jr., was one o f the early students — class of 1893- His brother Joseph 3rd was class of 1919- He himself attended Montclair Academy from first grade through a post­ graduate year. Two of Howard’s sons are alumni: Howard Jr., ’59, and Roy, ’64. Both his daughters, Anne Van Vleck Webb ’54 and Carolyn Van Vleck Edwards ’56, graduated from Kimberley. He was on

the Board at Kimberley, and his wife, Betty, was President o f the Home School Association.

Howard studied architecture at Columbia University and in 1963 as a trustee of Montclair Academy was named Chairman of the Buildings and Grounds Committee.

He devoted countless selfless hours to plans for the new building and was a daily visitor during the

landscaped the grounds of the Upper School and knows every shrub and tree on all three campuses.

Many o f the specimens are from his own greenhouse and gardens.

He is also an artist. He painted the portraits of three “fathers” of Montclair Academy, long revered for their love of learning and inspiration to students: John G. MacVicar, the founder and first Head­ master; William H. Miller, science teacher; and Claude W. Monson, Latin teacher. Howard also carved the Kimberley School seal which is in the lobby of the Middle School H oward a t H om ecom ing w ith his daughter Ann and the Van Vleck Webb ’54.

Academy seal period of rebuilding. He which hangs on the fire­ and his wife spent an place in the Upper School anniversary in Pennsylvania library. personally selecting the No wonder the Montclair stone from the quarry to Academy Alumni build the Upper School.

Association gave Howard One of Howard’s greatest Van Vleck its Outstanding loves is horticulture. He Alumnus Award in 1969!

Recollections of M ontclair Academy 1910-1963 H oward Van Vleck ’22 fro m conversation with Robert D.B. Carlisle STUDENT DRESS

From 1891 to 1909 M ontclair A cadem y w as a m ilita ry school. The con cept w as revived d u rin g W orld War I. • The first uniform, I think, had been sort o f a gray with black trim. The military presentation was to teach authority — towing the line, obeying orders. During

the First World War, the uniforms were changed.

Instead o f being part of a boy’s training the military aspect was a rising to the occasion of the country’s need. We went from home to school in uniform.

A fter the War, there w as a d ress code.

• Usually, it was a coat, a white shirt and a necktie and it was conservative.

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You dressed like a gentleman.

BUILDINGS

The b u ild in g know n a s The Academ y, the one in the etching o f the school, w as b u ilt in 1909.

• It was a very auspicious location for the school.

There was an article in the paper about the great

advantage that it was going to be because the horsedrawn stages used to go up from Montclair to Caldwell, right past the school.

because every once in awhile these animals would get out of their cages, and we would get telephone calls, “Tell Beaks Seagears to get up here and get his rattlesnake!” . . . Later that building was demolished and the property stood idle for several years . . . . It was just about where the humanities and library are now.

science labs were also H ow ard Van Vleck on the top w en t to school in th a t floor. They b u ild in g fro n t f i r s t were even­ g ra d e through a p o s t­ tually con­ jH H I g ra d u a te year. D uring demned . . . those y e a rs there w as a in the 60’s. sep a ra te gym . Walden I think the House a n d B radley labs were House w ere u sed as used right • [Walden House] was also residen ces f o r out-ofup to the used for boarding facilities tow n students. bitter end, for out-of-town students. In because I my brother Joe’s class, 1919 • Bradley House was up remember — and this is rather there on the west side of Football captain A rturo "S tu tz” Herrera. someone indicative of how the Lloyd Road and originally H arry A bbott 1921. was parked reputation of the school housed boarders for the second floor. We went to up on Lloyd Road, looking had spread — we had the Lower School . . . seventh classes in other rooms and down at the old school son of the president of grade down. Mr. Miller at came back to the study hall building, and his wife said, Guatemala [Rafael Herrera]. one time lived there in between classes. We some­ “Oh look at the reflection Another son of the Bradley House. I remember times had a rather informal, of the sunset in those top president [Arturo] was in the ages there because of nonsectarian chapel service floor windows.” He in the assembly hall. looked at it and he The school moved on a said, “My dear, that bell system. Originally it is not ‘Sunrise, was a hand bell [now in the Sunset,” it’s on Alumni Office], By my day fire.’’ It was caused the Academy had reached a by faulty wiring point where they had a under one of the clock with an electric bell lab benches. system downstairs in the Headmaster’s office. It was • There was quite a belted with perforated tape group from that would cause the bell to Newark. Some ring on schedule. . . . . It boarded and others was very, very advanced. came by trolley on a day basis. We used ÊSÊÊÊ HÜ ¡¡II '//* • We had an honor system to say the trolley when it came to taking had triangular tests: the boys sort of wheels the way it supervised the examina­ clumped, clumped, tions . . . . We had a glee clumped up club, a choir . . . and two Bloomfield Avenue.

WÈBSk U Ë E ?"SB ÉÊÈMê é M debating societies. I was a Football game, 1922, w ith Bradley House in background.

SCHOOL LIFE member of The Forum; the other club was The The Lower School my class. my brother and his friend Rostrum.

Every once in a teachers w ere a ll w om en • There was another group Clayton Beaks Seagears. while, we would have an a n d a ll the classes w ere of students, seniors, in the Beaks loved garter snakes intra-debating society bout held in hom eroom s. top of the academic build­ and mice, and he had a on some topic of general • When we got to the ing, up on the third floor. raccoon at one time there interest.

Upper School, we had a big These rooms were closed in Bradley House. The assembly room maybe 50 off and useless toward the housemothers had quite a feet square . . . on the end of the period that the bit o f trouble with him

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SPORTS

H ow ard Van Vleck p la y e d fo o tb a ll u n der leg en d a ry fo o tb a ll coach W illiam G. ( “C hief”) B roadhead.

• I always liked him and reacted to him . . . . Harry Abbott was the football hero, the fast man, the recipient of forward passes, the dramatic plays — so Harry was the idol of all the girls’ eyes.

The helmets were sort of felt, 3/8 inch thick, and had leather on the outside.

There were no face guards.

They were far from the sophisticated helmets in existence today. Face injuries were more numerous because there was no mask.

East Orange High School was the big football rival.

AS A TRUSTEE • In the late 50’s the Board tried to decide whether to renovate the Academy or to build a new school. We went over the design to

decide what kind of building . . . . Originally a large red brick structure was proposed, but a big square high school building on that site would have been an eyesore.

Henry Poor was the Headmaster at that time, and he really put the Academy on its feet. He took over the Academy when it was nothing . . . .

He had a tremendous amount of personality and assurance, and he came on our team at a time when we needed him. It was his advice that led to the present building.

M ontclair Academy, Lloyd Road, 1960’s.

greenhouse with me on the way out, and I’ll take you home.” So we went to the greenhouse . . . . and I was describing cross-pollinaFACULTY tiort, cuttings, making new • Mr. Billy Miller and plants through cuttings, etc.

Claude Monson were the He sort of looked at me two older members of the and said, “Howard, you faculty that I remember know somebody along the particularly well . . . . I’ll way has given you a never forget Bill Miller. wonderful grasp of nature, Near the final sitting for his and he would be so thrilled portrait, I said, “Mr. Miller to know that he has passed (he was always Mr. Miller, onto you something that never Billy), would you like will be with you for the rest to walk down into the of your life.”

I said, “Mr. Miller, I only had one course in science and that was given in the third floor, southwest room, in the old Mont­ clair Academy.”

He just burst into tears. That was his room. . . . .The last time I saw him was at the groundbreaking for the Lloyd Road campus in 1963 . . . Some­ one brought him to the ceremony in a car. I Science w ith Mr. Miller, M ontclair Academy. remember the

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sea of faces and Mr. Miller sitting there behind them in the automobile. I said to everybody there that this was the first day of the new life of the school, and I wanted to pay tribute to Mr. Miller w ho had been part of it for so many years [1910-56] . . . So I asked everyone to get down on one knee . . . and I said, “In the back there is a car in which is Mr. William Henry Miller, and I would like to recognize his presence with us today.’’ I asked the driver of the car to have him wave his hand, and that worked out very nicely.

• Mr. Monson was a very, very likable individual . . . .

He always had an efferves­ cent spark behind a rather severe face. I never took to him as much as other people did for the plain and simple reason that I never took to Latin as much as other people did. The irony of life is that I probably have used Latin more through names of plants and flowers than anybody else in my class.

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Leigh B errien Sm ith : M emories ^***£-.

The girl in The Kimberley School ¥ yearbook was noted for “plan-. ning things’’ and was “usually seen \ making lists.“‘ The observation was prophetic. She has spent much of her life planning lessons, activities, or listing names and facts. Even in retirement, she hoped to write a book.

The girl with the “comehither smile,’’ Leigh Berrien Smith, has retired after 25 years on the faculty at Brookside. Before leaving she wrote an informal history of Brookside and left recollections of Kimberley. Leigh B. Smith, both as an alumna and teacher, was in a unique position. She knew or worked with all the heads of Kimberley, including the redoubtable Misses Waring and Jordan, who retired when Leigh was in high school. She was there for

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Leigh Berrien Sm ith ’45.

The Kimberley School, 201 Valley Road.

Mrs. Mason during the war, and later was hired by her former English teacher Miss Gallie. Miss Spurr (“quite forbidding”) arrived the year Leigh taught Kimberley’s youngest (1950-51). In the 50’s Leigh volunteered in the alumnae office (‘‘all those addressoograph plates’’) and was

name and knows when he or she was at Brookside, Kimberley, or Montclair Academy, or whose mother or father, cousin, sibling or child attended. She has been a reference source against which most alumni facts are researched.

Leigh shrugs off her gift.

“I can’t remember anything

Leigh Berrien Sm ith

involved as a parent. From 1962 on, she was on the faculty at Brookside.

“You can stay in the same place and still experience many changes,” she says with the “spon­ taneous chuckle” noted in the yearbook 40-odd years earlier.

She remembers them all.

Leigh’s memory for names, dates, and faces is legendary. For years, she has filled the Alumni Office with clippings from newspapers (New Jersey papers, the New York Times, the Vineyard Gazette).

Amidst the engage­ ments, marriages, obituaries, and news items she spots a

significant except your name,’’ she jokes. “I have a poor memory for concepts.

I have to reread historical material.” But once a name or a date is filed by her “labeling” process, it seems entrenched. The recall comes from her habit of mentally labeling the child’s name, address, and birthday month on the child’s forehead. (She once won a name contest at Kimberley.)

“I was always interested in people;’’ she says. Leigh has known since seventh grade that she wanted to work with young children.

At Smith College she majored in government, and was the only non­ major to take a seminar in what was then called nursery education. When her three children were young in the 50’s, she was

accustomed to being in a group situation. Since they are always enthusiastic, young children aren’t aware of changes, such as the elimination of basal readers, which frees each child to select a book of personal interest. The advent of computers has been important: “It’s wonderful to see children enjoying learning how to use them.”

“Overall, early ed. has been made more effective and more palatable at the same time,” she states.

Leigh is looking for­ ward in retirement to being closer to her own children and five grand­ children. She has tried to dispose of a lifetime collection of letters to the editor and articles (“I save everything”) but happily retains memories of the children she taught (names “registered” on their foreheads).

She offers her favorite quote, from a student in the 60’s. “ ‘God makes you grow up slow,’ he said, ‘so you can enjoy being a kid.’ ”

Kimberley Prim ary School, 1910.

an active volunteer. One year she was chairman of three nominating commit­ tees — for the Junior League, YWCA, and the League of Women Voters.

“Kimberley taught us to give community service,” she says.

After a stint at the Little Schoolhouse in Upper Montclair, she began teaching four-year-olds at Brookside the year her daughter entered Kimberley’s third grade. A few years later the head­ mistress, Mrs. Martha Johnson, asked Leigh to be the kindergarten teacher. In 1966-67 “Mrs. Smith” operated kindergarten from a trailer on the playground while the school was being enlarged. Five boys (she names them all) “survived the trailer” to go all the way through and graduate from MKA in 1980.

In the late 70’s she changed from kindergarten to tutoring and handling the “Resource Room” which held reference and audiovisual equipment (fiction was then in classrooms). In 1981 the library as such was reinstated by Dr. O’Connor, and Leigh became a librarian and kindergarten music teacher. Her work now reached beyond the

Brookside campus: she helped PAMKA and Upper School students gather news, and coordinated the student intern program in which Upper School students work with primary schoolers. She also helped organize special assemblies.

She called these activities “seniority privileges.”

In recent years, “Mrs. Smith” missed the parent conferences she had as a kindergarten teacher. “If I run into the parent of a child I once had, I always stop to talk about where he or she is now,’’ she says wistfully. “They are wonderful people, those Brookside parents, and we’ve had many warm relationships.”

The greatest constant, Leigh observes from her long vantage point, is the Brookside “mystique,” which she describes as a warmth, openness, “a familyness about it.” What she has especially liked is the school’s widely representative cultures, drawn together by one belief — that early education is an im portant investment. (Italics hers.)

The greatest change, she thinks, is that younger children adapt more easily to school than years ago. By three or four they are

• In thinking back to my own Kimberley days, the recollection is that by far the majority of teachers were fine, intelligent ladies over 50, such as Miss Kinsman and Mile. Pavillard — whereas now the MKA faculty is definitely younger, and I think that’s a great,

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desirable change. The energies of our present faculty are just right for coping with today’s students — and of course the girls benefit from the male role models of which we had none that I can recall (unless one was chosen for the Kimberley Academy play directed by “Major Dawley” — and there were few female roles!).

• I regret that so few men are interested in early elementary education, and

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hope that more will be inclined towards the field in coming years. Maybe now that young fathers are sharing child care more ways than formerly was customary, such jobs will not seem so unusual for a man. I think there is room for a good male image in the young child’s environment outside the home as well as in it.

• As she donated Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Kimberley Kourier to alumni archives, Leigh said, “This was the first Kimberley newspaper.

It replaced the Opus Scribendi, which used to be read from a lectern.”

NOTES AROUND MKA

O ffice o f External Affairs memory of her son who was a member of the 1948 class of Montclair Academy.

We will miss them both.

• On Wednesday, May 3, Susan Ruddick, President of the Board of Trustees, and Frances O’Connor, Principal, broke ground for the Middle School expansion. The addition will house the Academy’s administrative offices, freeing space for classrooms, a publishing center and faculty offices.

Unexpected but welcome gifts have enabled MKA to begin the Middle School expansion ahead of schedule. Trustees, faculty,

• The Montclair Kimberley Academy community was saddened by the deaths of Mrs. Alvin Sawtelle, Jr., and Mrs. Nelson Webb, both loyal supporters of the Academy for many years.

Mrs. Sawtelle made it possible for many talented minority students to attend MKA through her generous support of our Community Scholars Program. Mrs. Webb established “The Nelson W. Webb Jr.” scholarship in

Left to right, Frances R. O’Connor, Principal; Ronald X. Tobia, Chairm an o f the D evelopment Committee o f the Board of'Trustees; and Susan H. Ruddick, President o f the Board o f Trustees.

parents and outside consul­ tants worked for a year to project the needs of MKA for the future. To meet the capital needs of the Long Range Plan, a capital cam­ paign is under consideration.

• A Banner Year — MKA’s fiscal year closed June 30, 1987, with a record 8395.000 contributed to Annual Giving. The goal of 8350.000 was surpassed with an 11% increase.

The significant success of this year’s Annual Giving is yet another sign that MKA’s future is bright!

—Judy Polonofsky, Director

B oard of T rustees

Dr. M artin Sorger, Rose Cali and Eugene Wahl ’66.

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June brought to a close the terms of two members of the MKA Board of Trustees, Patricia Wahl and Fay Taft Fawcett ’52. Both Pat and Fay served on the Board because of their respective positions as President of the Parents’ Association and the Alumni Association. They worked as hard as any regularly elected trustee with service on the Board’s Educational Policy and Nominating Committees, and will be missed.

The three new members for the Class of 1990 are Antoinette LeQuireSchott, Martin L. Sorger and Eugene Wahl. Follow­ ing her mid-year election to fulfill an unexpired term, Rose Cali is also part of the Board’s Class of 1990.

Toni Schott comes to the MKA Board as the newlyelected President of the Parents’ Association. She and her husband, Newton, are parents of April ’98 and Keith ’87, a freshman at Wittenberg University. In

her years as an MKA volunteer, Toni served as PAMKA newsletter editor, a survival shop worker and on committees for special fund­ raising events. She is the Board Chairman for the Child Placement Review and the Public Relations Chair­ man for the Family and Children’s Services of North Essex.

Dr. Sorger has returned to the MKA Board after two previous terms from 1980 to 1986. He is a surgeon with the Montclair Orthopedic Group and is an Assistant Professor of Orthopedics with Columbia Medical School and the New Jersey College of Medicine. Marty and his wife, Susan, are the parents of Andrew ’88 and John ’92. He also has a daughter, Marissa, at Williams College.

Eugene Wahl is a graduate of Montclair Academy (’66) and is the husband of retiring Trustee Pat Wahl.

They have four children: Eugene ’93, Jennifer ’92, Eric ’99 and Lauren. Gene is President of Vibra Screw, Inc. in Totowa and is a 9

member of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade Council and Vice Chairman of the Small Business Committee. He was a parent member of the Board’s Long-Range Plan­ ning Committee and he has served on the MKA Alumni Council.

Rose Cali served as cochairman of PAMKA’s spring luncheon and fashion show, ‘April in Paris.’’ She and her husband, John, who was a parent member o f the MKA Board’s Long-Range Plan­ ning Committee, are the parents of Christopher ’96.

Rose also has two older sons, Michael and Joshua Nevins.

She is on the boards of the Mental Health Association of Essex County, the Montclair Art Museum and the YWCA of Montclair-North Essex.

She is a volunteer with the Montclair Public Library and the Willowbrook Outreach Organization.

I welcome their enthusi­ asm, commitment, guidance and support as I begin my fourth term as President of the MKA Board of Trustees.

— Susan H. Ruddick President

C ommencement Awards THE NAZARIAN MATHEMATICS PRIZE

Deborah Cheung

THE MARGARET JENKINS OSBORNE PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE

THE WILLIAM H. MILLER SCIENCE PRIZE

Janis Girt Michael Doyle

Deborah Cheung FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS PRIZES ART:

Joy Booth MUSIC-VOCAL:

Lauren Green, Richard Rosen, Sigrid Cook,Jeff Dairman, Nicholas Sumas, Marie Kuipers.

F.THEL M. SPIJRR AWARD

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for cooperation, responsibility, service and citizenship Evan Wittenberg MARJORIE WINFIELD EASTER AWARD

for sportsmanship, selfdiscipline and behind-thescenes service Kenneth Gilson COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

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for positive action which shows unselfish concern for the larger community beyond school Lynne Yellln BUD MEKEEL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

for a worthy senior Michael Doyle

Patrick Coyle Susan Fehnel Kurt Goldstein

THE FRANK“ PONCHO” BROGAN ’72 MÉMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

Nicole Gray ’88 THE ELIZABETH O ’NEIL FEAGLEY CREATIVITY AWARD

Margaret Wight ’88 SENIOR ART EXHIBIT AWARD

Françoise Caro

INSTRUMENTAL:

Tara Lee Frenkl THEATRE:

Jane Ainbinder Pamela Cohen Deborah Rosen PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PRIZE

Kenneth Gilson

THE AL STAPF AWARD FOR ATHLETICS

Pamela Fawcett HEADMASTER’S AWARD

Elisabeth Osgood RED AND BLACK SOCIETY

Jody Booth ’88 Negi Ahkami ’88

KLEIN AWARDS FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN ATHLETICS AND SCHOLARSHIP GRADE 11:

Kimberly Ray Henry Nakamura GRADE 10:

Elizabeth Crowell David Allen GRADE 9:

RUDOLPH H. DEETJEN AWARD

Kimberly Charlton David Bettencourt

for athletics and academic achievement Christina Rabke

THE G.A. DOWNSBROUGH SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP

Frank Blesso

RUDOLPH H. DEETJEN AWARD

THE JAMES D. TIMMONS SCHOLARSHIP

for athletics and academic achievement David McCants

Margaret Allen

Richard Stanton, Michael McGinty.

VARSITY SOCIETY

Jill Tobia ’88 James Garino ’88

Alan Horn

ORGANIZATION OF BLACK STUDENTS LEADERSHIP AWARD AND SCHOLARSHIPS

MODERN LANGUAGE PRIZE IN FRENCH

LaRhonda Foster David McCants

THE BARRAS ENGLISH PRIZE

Margaret Allen Laura Baczko

NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP FINALISTS

MODERN LANGUAGE PRIZE IN SPANISH

Deborah Cheung Alan Horn Robert Landolfi Jonathan Venezian

Elisabeth Osgood LATIN PRIZE

Victor Chi

THE DARTMOUTH CLUB BOOK AWARD

SOCIAL STUDIES PRIZE

Evan Wittenberg

Susan Fehnel, Joy Booth.

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Jennifer Rabke ’88

The newest alum ni.

THE YALE ALUMNI BOOK AWARD Evan W ittenberg Ethel M. Spurr Award

M ichael Doyle B ud Mekeel M em orial Scholarship

Melissa Maddox ’88 THE SMITH COLLEGE CLUB AWARD

Jody Booth ’88 THE RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE MEDAL

Frank Blesso THE MONTCLAIR SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS AWARD

Frank Blesso COLLEGE WOMEN’S CLUB OF MONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIPS

Tara Frenkl Janis Girt Christina Rabke Kenneth Gilson M arjorie W infield Easter Award

Lynne Yellin C om m unity Service Award

NEW JERSEY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL WOMEN’S ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION SCHOLAR ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

Margaret Allen THE CUM LAUDE ACADEMIC HONOR SOCIETY

C hristina Rabke Rudolph H. Deetjen Award

D avid McCants Rudolph H. Deetjen Award

Jane Ainbinder Margaret Allen Laura Baczko Vincenzo Bollettino Jennifer Bowser Deborah Cheung Deborah Chun Sigrid Cook Michael Doyle I'ara Frenkl Kenneth Gilson Marla Gross Mina Kang Michele Naporano Megan Noonan Peter Ort Elisabeth Osgood Christina Rabke Deborah Rosen

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Sioan'Wiesen Evan Wittenberg Lynne Yellin This year th e U pper School faculty established th e Faculty Scholar Award to h o n o r those w h o d em onstrate unusual intellectual curiosity, seek know ledge for its o w n sake, an d w h o exercise leadership an d fairm indedness by sharing th eir talents selflessly w ith th eir peers.

FACULTY SCHOLAR AWARDS GRADE 11:

Andrew Cheung Nicole Gray Daniel Horn GRADE 10:

Melissa Kemlitz Elizabeth Visceglia GRADE 9:

Susanna Arwood Stephanie Stark Brett Zbar

Faculty Farewells P hilip Allen: A T eacher and a G entleman From Farewell Speech by Robert Sinner The saying goes that “To teach is to touch a life for­ ever.” If that is true, Phil is a great teacher — he has touched many, many lives.

Though his official position was Head of the Upper School, his real role has been as friend and teacher.

Phil came to us from Rome, after fifteen years in Italy. Ten of those years he spent as co-director of the Forum School, which he helped found. Now, he is leaving us for New York to head the Upper School at the Friends Seminary. Of course, he isn’t totally departing MKA. He is leaving his son David behind as hostage, so he will remain in the ranks of concerned, involved parents . . . . Most of all, he is leaving his spirit which will remain a vital force in the school.

In Phil’s six years at MKA, the school has seen the addition of a new art studio, a drama lab and the central faculty room. A computer department has been created, the reading department expanded. A new humanities curriculum and a dance program have been introduced. Class ranking has been dropped.

Counseling services and programs on career educa­ tion have been expanded.

Faculty meeting time has become more effective and parent contact improved.

And Phil saw the Upper School through the laborious Middle States evaluation.

But . . . first and fore­ most, Phil is about people.

He is a good listener, a sage advisor. He is a builder of community — within the school and out. He is the champion of consensus and group effort. Though Phil is lauded as an excellent judge o f wine, he is an even better

judge of character, and he has the consummate skill of being able to bring out the best of almost everyone he encounters. His tact, high moral standards and great sense of humor have won him the admiration and respect of the entire MKA community.

I dare say he knows every student in the school. Not just by name; he knows their strengths, their weaknesses, their peculiar quirks, their special talents.

And most important — they know he knows. They know he cares. He brings out the best in them and makes them proud. Are there any athletic teams or student performing groups which have gone without his personal presence and support?

Phil is a kind and a gentle man, in the best sense of the word. MKA has been a richer place because o f his presence.

J udy K emlitz : T he J oy of Science From Farewell Speech by Philip Allen Judy came to The Kimberley School in 1971, and has taught science and headed both the Middle and Upper School science departments. Ever interested in new challenges, Judy became one of the first computer teach­ ers, helped design the MKA computer curricu­ lum and served as computer

co-ordinator for the three campuses. She is a fine, demanding teacher, a leader and innovator, and has been one of the strongest advocates of the ongoing traditions of the school.

Through her work on curriculum, her use of faculty development grants to broaden her own back­ ground, her work in the Summer Computer Institute and her painstaking

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attention as a member of our admissions and other committees, she has contributed immeasurably to the strength of MKA. Judy has given 17 years to this community; we will miss her warm friendship and her dedication. Our gratitude and good wishes go with Judy as she leaves to head the science depart­ ment at Garrison Forest School in Maryland.

J acqueline Laks:J oie de V ivre From Farewell Speech by Barbara Rabuse

. . . I have seen Jackie over the years, dauntless in the face of major and minor catastrophes. Most of these have occurred because of her willingness to be involved in everything, from her famous Inter­ national Cooking class in After School Activities to leading groups to France on the March break. We agonized over how many would really attend the International Dinner and

what would we do about the huge container of frozen chicken and rice that refused to thaw. Just two years ago, during a talent show put on by the eighth grade students, one skit centered on a camp experience. Only a few were surprised to see Madame Laks, an important member of the cast, costumed in shorts and dancing as well as her eighth grade cohorts. This sense o f fun helped create the unforgettable character of Tattoo in Faculty Follies.

Though I first remember the fun and enthusiasm that Jackie brings to everything, she has a serious side, too.

Not one of us will ever

forget the power and strength she exhibited when sharing her experiences with hunger during World War II at Morning Meeting.

What I will remember most about Jackie is her grace, gentility and devotion to her students and her profession. She is respected and admired because she has made Language live through the culture she has shared. She has taught us patience; to give and not to count the cost; to be a good listener; to know when to laugh; to give help and not to be afraid to ask for it.

Two years ago, a group of students and I stood with her in Paris at the font where she was baptized.

There, in that darkened

church, I sensed the beginnings which have shaped her into the tireless, devoted, loving person we admire.

When I think of Jackie and I think of teaching, I think of an exchange in the play “A Man for All Seasons” in which Thomas More tries to give some direction to a young man, Rich.

“Why not be a teacher?

You’d be a fin e teacher.

Perhaps even a great one.”

Rich responded, “And i f I was, who w ould know it?”

Thomas More replied, “You, yo u r friends, God. N ot a bad public, that To my mind, Jackie is a fine teacher, a great one.

She is a woman for all seasons.

Marilyn Faden : H O W A NICE JEWISH GIRL FROM THE BRONX WITH A PRE-MED DEGREE FOUND HAPPINESS AND FULFILLMENT IN THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL THEATER OF THE GARDEN STATE

From Farewell Speech

by Nixon Bicknell . . . .There are two areas I want to stress of the many ways Marilyn has enriched the life of this school. First, the program in theater and acting studies. From scratch, she built this program to what it is today,

. . . . If they only knew the hours she spent trying to pick a show that would work with the available talent (plus a few nifty newcomers if she got lucky).

It’s hard to persuade them that much of Marilyn’s job was anything but fun.

Perhaps the aspect of the productions that I appre­ ciated and admired the most was the completely professional way Marilyn went about making every kid look good on that stage.

And what a job that was!

Each and every player had specific movements from the time he or she went on stage until he or she went off. Large casts, chosen to make parts available to the

the envy of those who come to observe it. It has meant so much to the young people who took one or more o f her courses.

Remember, no one. was required to enter her classroom for the theater courses. They came for reasons stretching from the burning desire to act to the therapeutic joy o f being in a different situation during a school day filled with many pressures.

And secondly, she built the tradition of productions culminating in the musicals that has become so well known to the community.

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maximum number, created nightmares in staging.

Dozens of sheets of paper were used to graph every movement of a single large chorus number. And it all looked so simple and natural up there.

Then there were the continuing problems of those who could act well but not sing well and vice versa. For musicals these were thorny thickets indeed. Those of us who worked closely with Marilyn knew that nothing, but nothing, escaped her eagle eye in all things: sets, props or costumes. No stone was left unturned to make the production as close to professional theater

as possible, On opening night she’d be there, all gussied up to the nines, with a huge apron on, putting on the more difficult makeup jobs.

Then, despite a monumental backache, she’d stand at the back of the house watching her

handiwork unfold, praying nothing serious would go wrong. Sometimes her heavenly connection worked, sometimes it didn’t. But what a legacy she left us: a record of fine theater mighty hard to equal and nearly impossible to beat!

In all these years she would never allow the customary bringing out of the director after the final curtain to give her a bouquet and a bow. She said it detracted from the professionalism of the production. Today I want to make up for those 21 years

by giving her the bow to end all bows. She isn’t wearing her pearls and diamonds but she’s still our star!

[Presenting bouquet] Ladies and gentlemen: MARILYN FADEN.

Faculty C hanges

Richard Ewing Webster became the new Head of the Upper School on July 1.

He has extensive and varied experience in education.

He was Headmaster of La Lumiere, a small indepen­ dent high school in Indiana, for five years, and was Director of Develop­ ment at the Landon School in Maryland. He taught

social studies and coached varsity basketball and lacrosse at Sewickley Academy in Pennsyl­ vania and at Wroxeteron-Severn School in Maryland. He has also taught philosophy and ethics, served as a college guidance counselor, and been President of his own educational consulting firm.

Mr. Webster is a graduate of Boys’ Latin School in Baltimore and Johns Hopkins University, where he was Captain of the lacrosse team. He and his wife, Betty, have four children: Richard Jr., a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a First Lieutenant in the Marine Corps; Michael, a graduate of Johns Hopkins; David, a senior at Dickinson, and Beth, a junior at MKA.

At the Primary School, Anita C ole announced Leigh Sm ith’s retirement after 25 years at Brookside.

“She’s been invaluable to our community and will be greatly missed by children and colleagues.” Joan M onico, who has handled Admissions, will assume Leigh’s responsibilities in the Library. MKA parent Sarah Love will take over Joan’s job. Sarah is the wife of faculty member David Love. D onna Carrara is on a sabbatical from third grade to work toward her Ph.D. Lyn Vlaskamp will teach Donna’s class. First grade teacher D onna B lanes will teach Blue Kindergarten. Parent Sue Gurtman will join the physical education department part time.

At the Middle School, Head Jim B urger said a reluctant goodbye to D iane Famularo Tsimis, who developed a ‘‘super 8th grade Spanish program” and has been a “wonderful cheerleading coach and advisor.” Clarice D ou oguih , who developed the 6th grade math/science program, was enticed by the greener grass on the other side of Bloomfield Avenue and will teach at the

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Upper School. In exchange, Jill Potter will teach Middle School Spanish.

Linda H um phreys is leaving Admissions to resume full-time teaching.

Barbara Rahuse (‘‘a wonderful teacher”) will be Admissions Director.

N orm ie D ick erson and Pat D ancy will be assistant heads of campus.

Upper School Head Phil A llen congratulated Jim W in d olf on his engage­ ment and wished him good luck at the University of Texas. “His commitment to literature and writing were a fine example to his students.” Sue Topchik, who coached three differ­ ent sports, helped with drama productions, and “set high goals for herself and students,” will teach for two years in Tel Aviv.

M egan C aldw ell will return to Fort Wayne, where she plans to study art. After six years at MKA, Jeanne M ersch is moving to New England. Jeanne built up the golf team and leaves an enviable field hockey and swim team. Pat H um m el of the Guidance Office has entered the NYU Graduate School of Education.

MKA Law

Joseph Alessi, Jr. ’68, law yer coach.

Attorney: And you main­ tain that the defendant was fooling around when he dropped the tray on your hospital bed?

Witness: Yes, he was not paying attention.

Attorney: Yet, in your deposition, you state that his persistent comedy was “pretty funny.”

Witness: I meant “pretty funny” in an obnoxious way.

Attorney: But, you did say “pretty funny,” didn’t you?

Witness: Yes, but . . .

Attorney: No further questions, your honor.

The dialogue is taken from the cross-examination of a defense witness by the plaintiffs attorney in Taylor v. Lance M emorial Hospital. This was the 1986-87 Mock Trial Com­ petition case argued by student teams from 18 public, parochial and private schools in Essex County. It was argued before judges and lawyers o f the New Jersey Bar Association in municipal courtrooms and in the Essex County Courthouse in Newark.

For the past two years, MKA students have

enjoyed the challenge of the competition which was designed to whet the appetite of would-be lawyers.

In the fall, a fictional case is submitted through workbooks to each parti­ cipating school. The workbook includes state­ ments of the plaintiff and defendant, and affidavits signed by two witnesses for the plaintiff and two for the defense. The work­ books also include a simplified set o f rules of procedure for the case on the admissability of evi­ dence and the procedure to be used by the lawyers as they examine and crossexamine the witnesses.

Each school has a team for the plaintiff and a team for the defense. At each round, a school is assigned to represent either the plaintiff or the defendant.

Points are awarded by the judges and lawyers on the basis of how well the team, including the witnesses, have mastered the facts of the case and the trial procedures, and how well those attorneys have employed both in their presentation to the judge and jury. Any verdict by the jury, however, has no bearing on the number of points awarded to either team: the presiding judge is the final arbiter as to who won the round argued before his bench.

It is evident that enormous emphasis is placed upon the attorneys’ ability to master the facts of the case and to use them in the most construe tive way to defend the interests of their clients.

Team members must train themselves to be alert, to jump in with objections

case by a strategy which is whenever they see that logical and convincing and appropriate procedures a psychology which have been violated and to reflects a sensitivity to the constantly scrutinize testi­ needs and proclivities of mony from all possible the judge and jurors viewpoints. Most of the demands a solid orchestra­ preparation comes from tion o f factual evidence. frequent practice sessions This cannot be done by in which team members random or sloppy think­ examine and cross-examine ing. It must be done their opposite team. neatly, clearly, and without Direction and guidance confusion. It must also be during these practice ses­ done with poise, confi­ sions comes from volun­ dence and controlled teers who coach the dramatic expression. Above students. Last year, the all, the students came to MKA coach was Judge realize that the contrived Penn from the county episodes o f “Superior bench. This year’s coach Court” and “Divorce was one of our own Court” bore little alumni, Joseph Alessi (’68) resemblance to the com­ who works in the plexities of the case they prosecutor’s office in argued. Preparing their Newark. His invaluable case was arduous work. assistance in training our As an assistant to the teams for the competition lawyer coach (Mr. Alessi), I helped bring a victory in play a supportive role, the first round. Unfortu­ setting up practice ses­ nately, MKA lost a close sions, drilling the team on one to St. Benedict’s in their positions, and help­ the second round. ing to sharpen their skills It was obvious from of examining witnesses their performance that the and presenting opening MKA students were well and closing arguments. I prepared. Their case was a enjoy the role immensely sex-discrimination suit and must admit to a involving prejudicial workmeasure of heart-thumping, shifts, subjective evaluation nervous foot-shuffling, and and alleged incompetence. sweaty palms every time The case was so designed MKA Law enters the court­ that important facts and room and goes into action. events were open to — Bob Hemmeter diverse interpretations.

To assess the experi­ ence of the 10 MKA students involved, one should focus on the devel­ opment of their indi­ vidual thinking Mock Trial Team learns pointers fro m coach Bob Hemskills. meter. Left to right: Bob Powell ’87, Josh R aym ond ’89, Andrew Cheung ’88 a n d D ana L eibow itz '89.

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Sports 1987: W in Some, Lose Some BOYS’ SOCCER: 5-10 MVP — G ordon G reen Coach’s Award — Richard Stanton Unsung Hero — Fred G erson GIRLS’ SOCCER: 4-9 MVP — Justine M cBride Unsung Player — M ichelle Brantley Most Improved — Erin K oenen The g irls’fen cin g team won its seventh State Tournam ent Team Cham pionship in eight years.

CROSS COUNTRY: 6-7 CHEERLEADING MVP — Amy Harris Coach’s Award — LaRhonda Foster Special Recognition — Lauren Charlton Judy A inbinder FOOTBALL: 3-5 MVP — S olom on Joh n son Coach’s Award — Evan W ittenberg Offensive Lineman — A nthony Barral Defensive Player — D avid McCants

Dave McCants ’87 led lacrosse defense.

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Enzo B ollettin o Coach’s Award — V incent Nadal Unsung Hero — Dan H orn

SWIMMING: CO-ED, 2-9; GIRLS’, 2-2 Coach’s Award — R ebecca Corris Most Improved — G eorge Hrab Scott Marshall HOCKEY: 5-8-6 MVP — Jim Garino Coach’s Award — G eoff K rouse SKIING Coach’s Award — Noah G oldm an Most Improved — Steve Manning

WATER POLO: 6-1 MVP — Jam ie Plaisted Offensive Player — Jam ie Kramer Defensive Player — Sandy M acDonald Most Improved — D avid DevejianFIELD HOCKEY: 12-2-3 Coach’s Award — Meg A llen Ida B ood in Pam Fawcett B u ffy Pruyn GIRLS’ TENNIS: 20-3 MVP — Alexa Magna Coach’s Award — Jill Tobia VOLLEYBALL: 4-13 MVP — Meg A llen GIRLS’ BASKETBALL: 7-9 Most Improved — Ayana G oore Coach’s Award — C hristie Rabke Unsung Player Ida B ood in BOYS’ BASKETBALL: 2-13 MVP — D avid McCants

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J ill Tobia ’88 was an in d ividual winner.

BOYS’ FENCING: 7-6 MVP — Josh Abbey Coach’s Award — D arius G oore Most Improved Bob R osin Unsung Hero — D avid Z w eifler GIRLS’ FENCING: 11-2 MVP — Jill Tobia Coach’s Award — N icole Gray Anne Fetherston Unsung Hero — A lyson B easley GOLF: 8-3 MVP — B ill Richards

BASEBALL: 8-9 Coach’s Award — K eith Schott Mike Tantillo Evan W ittenberg SOFTBALL: 9-4

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Kim Ray Unsung Player — Marta Branca GIRLS’ LACROSSE: 10-3 MVP — Meg A llen Coach’s Award — Ida B ood in Pam Fawcett Alexa Magna

BOYS’ LACROSSE: 13-4 MVP — Dan D erian Coach’s Award — D en n is Rodano Sabino Rodano Most Improved — Mike H unter Most Promising Newcomer —D avid Ames Manager’s Award — A lec Schwartz BOYS’ TENNIS: 13-4 Coach’s Award — N ico Sumas

Goalie Jim Garino was voted best in the league.

Around MKA millions of light-years away — ‘‘the end of the amateur limit.” The ambitious project, in the planning since the club began last year, used a 10-inch mirror donated by the University of Massachusetts and a 12-foot tube which was cut and painted. The rest of the equipment was obtained from local lumber and hardware stores. The result is a telescope built for $200 whose retail cost is an estimated $800 to $1000.

Craig Stark ’88, presi­ dent of the club, directed the undertaking, which took more than 100 hours

Upper School science teacher A l Van Eerde '73 and 10-inch telescope b u ilt by Astronom y Club. Left to right: M ark Sapienza '88, Jason Schw artz '88, Jonathan Fairchild '88, Craig Stark '88, and M att Braun '89.

• The fall drama produc­ tion, Runaways, went beyond the MKA stage into the community. Excerpts from the unconventional musical — a collage of monologues, dialogues, and songs based on interviews with real runaways — were presented in May at the annual meeting of the Mental Health Resource Center. Twenty-five mem­ bers of the cast, directed by M ichael Bergm an, recre­ ated the emotional experi­ ence o f life on the streets.

The cast also donated $250

of the play’s profits to Covenant House, a shelter for runaway children in New York City.

• The Mastersingers, under director N ixon B icknell, performed at the Montclair Art Museum in April. This was a signal honor for the group as only professional musicians had appeared in the spring concert series until this season.

• The Astronomy Club, under teacher A1 Van Eerde (MA ’73), built a 10-inch reflecting telescope which can see galaxies

to execute. ‘‘It was an ambitious project,” says Van Eerde, “with impressive, almost professional, results.

The telescope has a light­ gathering power thousands of times the naked eye. It is 300 percent better than the average college six-inch scope.”

The club plans a Star Night for students, when they will see back in time to the Andromeda galaxy.

Next year they hope to replace the current Dobson mount with an Equatorial mount, whose motor will permit time-exposure astrophotography.

Last spring MKA hosted visitors fro m the Haberdasher's A ske’s School in England. Left to right: M ichael Hepworth; MKA teacherJeanne Jones; Upper School H ead Phil Allen; Geoffrey W iltshire; Sheila Wiltshire, Headm istress o f “the Habs.”

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ALUMNI NEWS

C areer D ay

G eoff Close ’71

Career Day at the Upper School provides an opportunity for adults to share their work ex­ perience with students beginning to explore career choices. On February 6, twenty alumni, parents and friends of MKA ex­ plained their jobs, de­ scribed their education and training, answered questions and offered advice, from the future of their field to suggested courses and summer internships. The students asked questions both practical and philosophical.

The day was organized by Alumni Chairman Ellen Wahl’73, Suzanne Saldarini, Director |§f|

of Student Services, and the Alumni Office.

CAREER DAY SPEAKERS: Architecture N elson Grailia Education Avalin Green Banking Jonathan Sandler ’82 Aviation Robert Iverson Clinical Psychology Dr. Judith Gurtman Industrial Psychology Dr. Catharine Napolitano Commercial Real Estate Stephen D odd ’79 Edward M ason ’79 Residential Real Estate Judy Allen

Virginia Daguise, speaker Nelson Grailia, Ayana Goore

Ju d y Allen

Herbert HiteJr. ’71, Ellen Wahl ’73, and teacher Bob Hemmeter Rob Gardner ’78

Law Margaret Bridge ’65 H erbert Tate Jr. ’71 Robert Gardner ’78 Medicine Dr. Martin Sorger Nursing Sally M unson Retailing Norm an Polonofsky Translation Christine Schmidt Military Col. Jam es Kolb Research Science Edward Nugent Veterinary Medicine Dr. Carmen Scherzo Stocks & Bonds G eoffrey Close ’71

D istinguished Alumni Award To all alumni, parents, trustees, faculty, staff and friends of The Montclair Kimberley Academy:

1988 N omination F orm

The Distinguished Alumni Award Committee is hereby accepting nominations for the recipient of the 1988 Distinguished Alumni Award.

The purpose o f the Distinguished Alumni Award is “to bestow recognition and appreciation for outstanding achievement.” This award will be a meritorious reflection on the school and will provide inspiration and encouragement for our young people. It is hoped that the recipient will come to MKA and address a gathering of alumni and of students.

You may nominate more than one alumnus/alumna.

There will be one Distinguished Alumni Award recipient each year; all nominations will be maintained in confidential files for consideration in following years.

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Detach and m ail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy, Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042

Alumni A ssociation C ouncil Ballot Election for Alumni Council members will be held at the Annual Meeting of the MKA Alumni Association on October 24, 1987. Meeting place will be at the Upper School Library, Lloyd Road, Montclair, New Jersey.

Time 11:00 a.m.

If you do not expect to be present at the meeting, please sign the proxy below and return it to the Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey 07042.

Upon election of the proposed slate o f nominees, the Alumni Council for 1987-88 will consist of the following: TERM EXPIRING 1988 Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 Mary Crawford Fry ’64 Robert Gardner ’78 Geoffrey Gimber ’75 Robert Hoonhout ’71 Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 Jane Lugaric ’78 Oscar Mockridge ’55 Blake O’Neill ’82 Cynthia Mann Treene ’54 Ellen Wahl Skibiak ’73

The Nominating Committee proposes the following Alumni Association members to serve on the Council: Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 Curtis Brunner ’78 Martha Bonsai Day ’74 Stephen Dodd ’79 Ann King Franges ’56

Peter McMullen ’77 Lizabeth Newman ’75 Robert Post ’77 Linda Horowitz Rosier ’60 Charles Small ’58

The undersigned hereby appoints Fay Taft Fawcett ’52, proxy to vote FOR______AGAINST______ the election at the annual meeting to be held October 24, 1987 of the proposed members of The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Council as set forth in the Fall issue of the Alumni Magazine.

TERM EXPIRING 1989 Stephen Barral ’80 Martin Brayboy ’80 Albert Van Eerde ’73 Alan Kessler ’47

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TERM EXPIRING 1990 Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 Curtis Brunner ’78 Martha Bonsai Day ’74 Stephen Dodd ’79 Ann King Franges ’56 Peter McMullen ’77 Lizabeth Newman ’75 Robert Post ’77 Linda Horowitz Rosier ’60 Charles Small ’58

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The following persons presently on the Alumni Council have been nominated to serve as officers of the Alumni Association for 1987-88. These officers will be elected by the Alumni Council at its annual meeting on Oct. 24, 1987; P resident ............................................... Robert Hoonhout ’71 Executive Vice P r e s id e n t ......................... Geoffrey Gimber’75 Vice P re s id e n t ...........................Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 Vice P resident ................................. Cynthia Mann Treene ’54 Vice P re s id e n t ....................................... Ellen Wahl Skibiak ’73 S e c re ta ry ....................................................... Charles Small ’58 T re a s u re r ................................................... Robert Gardner ’78

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C lass Notes Editor’s Note As those o f you in classes that have secretaries already realize, we are now using only one m ailing each year to obtain news.

News gathered a fter Christmas by holiday cards and the one o fficia l m ailing w ill be in the fa ll magazine. Spring m agazine Class Notes are taken fro m reunion and phonathon news, the fla p on the A nnual G iving rem ittance envelope, and the “G rapevine” on the inside back cover.

Although the news m ight seem “o ld ” to some, we have fo u n d that m ost people love to read news anytim e. This tim e lapse is unavoidable, as the processing o f Class Notes fro m secretary to A lum ni Office to classmates to secretary to A lum ni Office to typesetter to p rin ter covers a 14-16 week period! Please remember that you can send a note to your class secretary or to the A lum ni Office anytim e.

To those o f you whose class has no secretary, how w ould yo u like to volunteer?

The jo b has been sim plified to the p o in t that y o u w ill probably fin d it downright enjoyable! It is no exaggeration to say that the position o f class secretary, th a t o f class agent and reunion chairm an, is absolutely essential to the vita lity o f the school.

Consider it.

14 TKS Mrs. H enry W. jo n es (Elizabeth Prentiss) 254 Ivy Street, Wallingford, CT 06492

17 TKS Mrs. Sam uel Meek (Priscilla M itchell) 88 D oubling Road, Greenwich, CT 06832 Priscilla Mitchell Meek worked in her husband’s files to research his business background for the American Advertising Federation, which honored Samuel for his long career in national and international advertising, and paid particular respect to him for having started international advertising worldwide.

“This great honor,” she wrote, “was bestowed to his memory by his election to the Advertising Hall of Fame in March 1986 at a luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Part of my research consisted of collecting meaningful memorabilia and appropriate pictures to be used in an audiovideo presentation. “. . .1 was reminded of that eventful day in 1926 when we moved to London with two young children . . . At the luncheon I was asked to speak and it came so effortlessly to speak about those days in London and the monumental effort it took to launch what was to become known as ‘international advertising.’ It was most gratifying to see over 1,000 people who came from all over the world to pay homage to the three remarkable

men being honored, and several of my own family were there also. I sat with the chairman of J. Walter Thompson who had, long ago, been one of ‘Sam’s Boys’ H a term given to young men whom he had trained in their business programs and who, together, changed the course of advertising history.

“As you can imagine, this was a very proud and unforgettable moment for me.’’

MA E.T. Seymour, M.D. 5055 Lakewood Drive, Nashville, TN 3 7220

23 TKS Mrs. Jonathan Chatellier (Alice Vezin) 16 West Elm Street, Yarmouth, ME 04096 Ruth Waring Bogart’s husband died a year ago. Our condolences to Ruth and her family.

She is as busy as ever serving on executive boards, choir and so on. She has eight grand­ children and four greats.

Elizabeth Hawkins W ilson has retired from nursing and enjoys many of the activities Bowdoin College offers. She also has student roomers. Her son lives nearby and two daughters in Massachusetts. She has 11 grand­ children and four greats.

Polly Richardson Evans (TKS ’24) and I had lunch with Marge Parkhurst Sommer and Bud just before they left for Florida where they have a house in Vero Beach.

Killy Greene Cole went to London in September to visit her daughter Sue and three children. Killy still volunteers at Mountainside and loves it.

Barbara Zimmer Borden lost her husband several months ago and will move to New Mexico.

My granddaughter Eve and husband Scott Purvis (MA ’71) and delightful 16-month-old son Ross came for a brief visit last spring. I never have to think of ways to entertain guests as I live six miles from L.L. Bean in Freeport and everyone has to go there. .. — Alice MA Mr. Richard E. Kleinhans 190 Scribner Avenue, S. Norwalk, CT 06854

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27 TKS Mrs. Paul M acdonald (Louise Russell) 35 Bank Street, New Canaan, CT 06840 Louise Stauffen Barnard reports that she and Frank are well satisfied with their retirement community in Gladwyne, Penn.

They miss Vermont where they spent many years but will probably return for visits in the summers. “Chip” says she has found volunteer jobs to keep her busy and plenty of congenial bridge players. She and Frank spent Christmas in Seattle with daughter Carol ’56 and her husband. TWo of their grandsons are in college and the third, off to prep school this fall.

Gretchen Eshbaugh Engel’s children and grandchildren lived in New England until recently but many of them have scattered far and wide, to Texas, California, Colorado, Virginia. That will be an incentive for the Engels to travel. They planned to spend two weeks in Tortola, BWI in February and a third at Boca Grande, Fla. Eda Bainbridge Kolbe and her sister, Doris Bainbridge McIntosh ‘33, went through the Panama Canal in February. My sister, Jo Russell Peniston ’26, and I made the same trip on the same ship in March. Too bad we didn’t consult on dates.

Dot Ayres Holt planned to be in Florida in the spring and said that she and Eda were hoping to go to Russia in the summer.

Hat Lowry Rydstrom reported a marvelous trip to the Swiss Alps and northern Italy the summer of ’86.

Jo Gibbs DuBois writes that she and her husband do volunteer work at the Delevan, Wis. hospital. Jo retired from the library there after 25 years. She attended her 55th reunion at Sweetbriar and wrote that Helen Underhill Gamble was chairman of the same event at Skidmore. Jo’s daughter and her husband spend most of their time on their 50-foot sailboat. Her older son is an airline pilot and her younger serves with the county sheriff’s office.

Betsy Butterworth Gordon says a favorite greatnephew drove her back to Florida from a vacation at the Chatauqua Institution in New York State. The trip home included Grand Ol’ Opry in Nashville and the NASA Space Center in Huntsville. Betsy is another contented member of a retirement community.

Sylvia Stoutenburgh Bliss has also opted for a retirement village in Pomona, Calif.

I have a grandchild off to college this fall and two more following not far behind. I’m delighted to have heard from so many of you.

We were a close class and it’s good to keep in touch.

K —Louise MA Mr. Eugene Spent 85 U ndercliff Road, Montclair, NJ 07042

28 TKS Mrs. Gordon Bowen (Barbara Newell) '50 Forest Avenue, Glen Ridge, NJ 07028

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dog. The dog decided to live with her and takes her for good country walks or along the beach several times a day. He doesn’t let her procrastinate about taking those walks either.

IKS Miss Charlotte H. Fitch, Box 45, 24 Cape B ial Lane, Westport Point, MA 02791 One time when I was in the studio at 33 Plymouth Street, trying desperately to paint a backdrop for a play at the ninth hour, I was visited by Miss Henney who must have stayed late. She said, “Charlotte, you are a procrastinator. If you don’t learn to get the better of it, it will curse you all your life.”

At the time her prophecy didn’t bother me a bit. However she was right, although procrastination has worked both ways. When something has been postponed or canceled it has saved a lot of unnecessary effort, but I think Miss Henney would scoff at that rationalization.

News from the class of ’29 which almost didn't make the deadline: Our condolences to the family of Alicia Schwartz Decamp. “ Sis” died last spring.

Jane Ferris Fryatt spent the winter in her home in Thcson and was looking forward to a summer in Harwichport with visits from her children and grandchildren.

Jane Foster Lapham and her family all seem to be flourishing. TWo new additions to the family: what looks (from the Christmas photograph) to be a Lahsa terrier with Jane and Lewis, and a cute puppy in the Lewis H. Lapham family. See end of column for other dog notes.

She wrote from Greenwich — “I have very warm memories of my days at Kimberley and all the happy times and good friends I had there.” Her son Lewis is editor of Harper’s Magazine and Tony is a lawyer in Washington, D.C. Grandson Nicholas, 18, goes to Yale; David, 16, to Proctor; Andrew, 14, to Groton; Delphina, 11, is at Brearly; and Winston, 5, is in his first year at Buckley.

Ginny Hamilton Adair took a boat trip from Montreal, sailing up the St. Lawrence Seaway to Lake Erie, down the Hudson River to Long Island Sound and Narrangansett Bay. Your secretary waited on the dock in Warren, R.I. for her to disembark so that she could visit in Westport Point before joining her daughter, Katharine, at the Cape. She and your secretary are tentatively planning another reunion in September at Ginny’s in Claremont, Calif, before a trip for both to Alaska via the inland waterway.

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A good letter from Laura Hurd Motion and husband, Bob. They have had a rough year. Both spent time in the hospital, and because of Bob’s broken hip they had to omit their stay in Madison the summer of ’86 but were planning to be there this summer. They had wonderfully helpful visits from children, and grandchildren while they were recuperating.

A card from Harriet Laffey Files who seems to be doing well. She was trying to recall the school motto. She had “Labor” and “Amicitia” but had lost the “Inspiratio.” I wrote her to supply the latter and told her an anecdote that might amuse you too. (See box.)

Kit Meeks is carrying on her tenth year of coping with Parkinson’s of which she has a

MA Mr. Robert S. D orrill 42 Godfrey Road, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

30 K it Meeks ’29 relatively mild case. She has had to give up golf, at least for the time being, and has moved to an apartment that doesn’t allow pets. She misses both but says, “I have found you can finally learn to live with anything if you work on it. She still enjoys having company and going on visits. She is able to drive, went to a wedding in La Jolla, and planned a trip by Amtrak to L.A. The previous summer she visited in Washington State and Vancouver, B.C., making four visits to Expo ’86. She continues her volunteer work for her congressman at least once a week. Kit “honestly doesn’t have a gray hair in her head.” (See picture.)

Your secretary is looking forward to not being president of the area Smith Club and the Westport Art Group by the fall of ’87. She is considering giving a seminar on “How to Say ‘No.’ ” She’s had an interesting time as a volunteer town census-taker, finding roads she never knew existed, covering a wide area and, thanks to all the snow and ice, found herself stuck on out-of-the-way lanes quite frequently, but it was fun. She now finds her life being structured somewhat differently, having been acquired by a West Highland terrier. On the sudden death last year of the local minister, she volunteered to find a good home for his

‘Labor” Troubles Miss Waring was on sabbatical in England in 1926, th e‘time of the General Strike. As she was not going to be on hand for commence­ ment she sent a cable to the graduating seniors that included the Kimberley motto. Her hotel in London was all agog because she had been the subject of an investigation by Scotland Yard, who were informed that she had gone to Cambridge. They tracked her down there, causing a sensation in that hotel also. Some overzealous censor had been alert to the word “Labor,” not being aware of its Latin pronunciation, and suspected ‘‘Amicitia, Inspiratio’’ to be code for some evil plot. When Miss Waring and “a nice young man from the C.I.D.” got together over tea in Cambridge, it was all straightened out and both had a good laugh.

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TKS Mrs. Paul Christner, Jr. (Esma Currier) 31 Aubrey Road, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Patricia Clapp Cone was the subject of an article in the Montclair Times announcing National Library Week in April. It said, in part, “Mrs. Cone has written many plays for children and has been actively involved with the Studio Playhouse of Essex County for many years. She has written many of the children’s plays for the Magic Trunk productions that the playhouse does each year.

“In addition . . . Mrs. Cone has written numerous successful books for children.

Constance, her first work of fiction, won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award and was runner-up for the 1968 National Book Award for Children’s Literature . . . Her latest, Tamarack Tree, was published in 1986.”

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31 TKS Mrs. Jerom e Drew (Jesse Taylor) 1076 E. St. Lucie Blvd., Stuart, FL 33494 Susan Strassburger Anderson has moved to another “condo” without stairs. They got to be too much for her. If you are ever in Portland, Ore. she would love to see you.

Nancy Holton Bartow has her husband in a nursing home. He had three strokes in one week. He is near enough for her to visit him often. She herself plans to go to a “nifty” retirement home, Kendal, at Kenett Square, Pa., maybe in 1990. Her daughter, Catherine Brown, has a successful porcelain business in Ashville, N.C. Nancy says Gerty McKeel Mount and Annie Hodgson McBriar are always cheerful and involved.

“Leenie” Halligan Forman wrote last July that she is the proud grandmother of identical twin girls, age 13. She also feels we were all lucky to go to Kimberley.

Jean Batt Kagen lives in Washington, D.C. She doesn’t drive because of glaucoma, but gets around happily by bus. She is about to take a course in meditation, given by a fellow Quaker.

Virginia Taylor Wagner uses her microwave to heat up her husband’s dinners. When Norm gets hungry he wants his meals ‘‘right now.”

Jesse Taylor Drew didn’t get as much response from her class letter as she did last year. Last year’s answers must have been “beginner’s luck.” However, write her any time and she will relay the news. This March she is going on her first cruise to the Caribbean. She is going with another gal as Jerry isn’t interested himself, but has urged her to go. Very thoughtful.

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TKS Mrs. Thomas Shaughness (Ruth Powers) 6428 B arfield Drive, Dallas, TX 75252 Our condolences to Janet Watkins Cook, whose husband died in April. She wrote, “I’m thankful he remained active and busy ’til the end. We had a wonderful vacation last summer helicopter-hiking in the Caribou Mountains in Canada — an exhilarating experience in the most beautiful scenery imaginable.’’

TKS Mrs. W illiam M cCahill (Frances Elliott) 3114 Russell Road, Alexandria, VA 22305 Unfortunately I must start my first column as class secretary with the sad and belated news of the death of Marita Murray Sylvester on 31 January 1985- All of us I’m sure will recall Marita joining us in 7th grade with her sunny disposition and beautiful smile.

Anson Church Kidd writes that this past fall she and Don welcomed a grandson followed six weeks later with the celebration of their golden anniversary. She says it was a long time to wait for a grandchild but that Jesse Kidd was worth the wait! Our congratulations to them on both counts.

A nice note came recently from Audrey Ayers Burgess who had just returned from a visit to Florida. While in Stuart she tried to look up Joan Williams Van D olen but was disappointed in not being able to locate her.

Audrey lives in West Hampton Beach, N.Y. and her house is directly on the bay. Her son, Frank Ayers Tupper, lives in Canterbury, N.H. in a home he built on the Ayers’ property. He is the father of two boys — Glenn, 21, and Zachariah, 9. He has recently been elected to the House of Representatives in Concord.

How proud Audrey must be!

At Christmas, Olga Ness Ramsay wrote that her two grandchildren are both in college in Virginia — a granddaughter at James Madison University and grandson, Brian, at the University in Charlottesville. Olga lives in Chatham, N.J. near her son, David, and his wife, and is still a prolific knitter.

Recently Bill and I had lunch with Jeannette Bell Winters (TKS ’35) and her husband, Harold, at their home in Silver Spring, Md. It was a wonderful reunion for Ginny and me since our friendship goes back to growing up together and our parents were close friends.

I am starting my 16th year as a licensed tour guide in Washington and anticipate a busy iispring. It’s terrific exercise both mentally and physically, though I’ve slowed down since I first started. By cutting back a little each year I hope I can continue until I just fade away!

It was great hearing from those who wrote.

I hope more of you will get in touch by next issue. In any event, keep the news coming.

— Frances MA Jam es A. Rogers, M.D. 921 Seagrape Drive, Marco Island, FL 3393 7

Attention: Alumni and Faculty The Centennial Book Committee is collecting vintage photos, anecdotes and memorabilia of life at The Kimberley School and Montclair Academy. Whatever your era, we’d love to hear from you.

Please call or write the Alumni Office, MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042. (201) 746-9800.

Hindsight “Trying to learn DataBase. Every student should have to learn typing.”

— Erwin Wilson '33 MA Mr. W illiam J. Thompson 415 Clarem ont Ave. #2E, Montclair, NJ 07042 Many of you have expressed interest in a 55 th reunion next year. Watch the Alumni News for the date and plan to come!

Fred Stlckel was looking forward to a 50th reunion at Princeton in June with several MA classmates. He still practices law five days and at least three nights a week. He says he should retire but doesn’t know what he would do.

According to Fred, “My wife says, ‘I married you for better or worse but not for lunch.’

Dave Stanley and Helen spent last summer in the Adirondacks as they generally do, and celebrated his 70th in August with all children and all but one grandchild present. Then they had a good trip to Nova Scotia. They spent Christmas with their son’s family in Utah and with one daughter’s family in Washington State. Dave still plays tennis and does volunteer work with criminal offenders.

Bob Even and his wife, Grace, are “chugging along,” keeping track of their three sons and five grandchildren, who are all doing well in Maine, Massachusetts and Washington State.

Vardy Laing will retire from medical practice in August, after more than 47 years as a practicing physician. This will give him more time to pursue his MA in history at the University of Calgary.

Elly (O.E.) Wood writes, “Sue broke her left elbow and she is left-handed! I’ve been cooking, housecleaning, writing cards, etc. while holding a full-time job as a teacher in Pebble Beach. I used to teach physics and math, but lately I have been giving driver training. I only take one kid out at a time, so I’m like a tutor . . . I lead a pretty active life — play tennis three times a week, swim, race my sailboat year round, and ski in the winter.”

34 TKS Mrs. D avid H aviland (Barbara Spadone) 3400 G ulf Shore Blvd N, Naples, FL 33940 Dorothy McCord wrote that her 72nd birthday will fall on Palm Sunday this year.

She usually celebrates with her sister Ruth McCord Alexander at one of Pennsylvania’s fine old inns. Her retirement village “celebrates with a cocktail hour, a corsage, and a dinner for everyone who has an April 26

Lucy Fields Haskins '32 showing an original sword o f M ontclair M ilitary Academy to A lum ni Director Christie Austin. Swords, medals, and other m em orabilia belonging to Lucy’s father, Richard Fields '08, and her uncle, John '06, were presented to alum ni archives. birthday. I am the youngest one!”

Our condolences to Betty Dixon on the death of her mother.

MA Dr. WalterJ. Sperling, Fearrington P.O. Box 192, Pittsborough, NC 27312

35 TKS Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) 4 La Salle Road, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Thank goodness I’ve heard from a few of you. No more news about Betty Blackledge Fenger — at this point she is with her brother, Edgar S. Blackledge, Jr. in Palo Alto, Calif.

Bobby Littlejohn is enjoying her volunteer work at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation in New York City. She heard from Carolyn Wrensch Dudley who is back in New York after living in Paris for the past year and a half. Bobby had lunch with Elizabeth Higgins Thompson in Bermuda in November.

Jodie McNair Schutt has been retired from Eastern Airlines for a couple of years. She volunteers at Rairchild Tropical Gardens and grows orchids in her backyard. Her mother still lives with her.

Ellie Barrett Vernon and I had a delightful lunch with Glnnle Bell Winters and her sister, Evie Bell White (’30) last October.

Lewis and Carol Prince Allen visited Ginnie at her farm on the eastern shore of Maryland also in October. Frannie Elliott McCahill (’32) and husband spent a day in February with Ginnie and Harold in their Silver Spring, Md. home.

Greetings from Rancho Monserate from Elise Manson Brett. She has moved again 12 miles northeast to a mobile home park at Fallbrook in the coastal mountains of California — glad to be in the country again.

Jean Black Jennings is still happy in Oregon playing tennis, etc. and enjoying grandchildren.

Ruth McCord Alexander and Bill are very busy traveling w ith a trailer 9last year, the Grand Tetons and visiting their daughter in a log cabin home in Vermont. They saw Kay and Bob Delancey. Ruth has been in charge of a senior citizen feeding program at her Presbyterian Church for 10 years (over 7,000 meals last year).

I’m still busy — both Stewart and I have our

volunteer programs. Right now, I’m president * of the First Congregational Church Guild.

Please keep in touch.

—Josephine MA No secretary

36 TKS Mrs. W. Kent Schm id (Josephine M urray) RD 1, Box 623, M ason’s Island, CT 06355 MA Mr. W. Kent Schmid RD 1, Box 623, M ason’s Island, CT 06355

Cl M 50TH REUNION OCTOBER 24 TKS Mrs. Charles Leavitt (Virginia Kracke) 93 Stonebridge Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 Reunion Chairman: Mrs. W illiam Young (Peggy Klotz) 10 Crestm ont Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 The class extends sympathy to Betty Roberts Williams, whose husband died last December.

The class also extends sympathy to Barbara Vondermuhll on the death of her sister Dorothy Vondermuhll Young in April, and to Dorothy’s sisters-in-law Sally Young Schertzer and Peggy Klotz Young.

Jean Hamlin Noyes plans to motor south in late April, with Lenoir and Creston, N.C., and genealogical research as the objective.

Peggy Klotz Young, another inveterate traveler, takes off for Easter in California with her daughter and family.

Another classmate on the go is Janet Gaylord Newsome. In recent months she and husband George have visited Portugal (pretty country and nice people); many of the national parks in the West (the Icefields Highway from Jasper to Banff, Canada, is breath-taking); Florida (a month in a condo on the Gulf).

Aroused to righteous indignation, Tibbie Caldwell Soper sports a bright green “T” which proclaims “ Fight the Pipe,” a project of the Iroquois Pipeline of Canada to “dig up the terrain of Washington, Conn.” This summer, Tib plans “to take a choo-choo trip across Canada from Montreal to Vancouver, and include Victoria.” She hopes son Henry and wife from L.A. will join her.

Teppy Holton Sjolander reports that Jane Rinck has made the big decision; she is moving permanently to Vermont, and has taken the first step in building herself Dream House No. 2. No. 1 is up for sale near Toms River — a honey of a house, as all who have seen it can attest.

Your secretary and her spouse have likewise caught the travel bug. In celebration of Charlie’s retirement, we motored south in January (we were much impressed by our brief visit to Berea College in the Kentucky mountains); in February-March we cruised around South America from Chile to Brazil (the Chilean lands at the tip of the continent defy description); in June we plan a month in Europe. After that we shall settle down as befits our senior status!

Peggy Young has generously volunteered to serve as our reunion chairman. Be sure to save October 24 for our big celebration. As a

matter of fact, why not count on coming to Montclair for the whole weekend. See you in October!

— G innie In May, Mountainside Hospital gave a memorial tribute to William Littlefield, late husband of Sally Bausher Littlefield. The occasion was a special lecture, “Titanic Revisited,” which commemorated the 75th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and honored Sally’s husband for his long-time involvement with the hospital as trustee, volunteer, fundraiser, and lecturer.

Another Mountainside volunteer, Ruth Duff Eager, was noted in the Montclair Times. She will continue as president of the Auxiliary — her fifth two-year term!

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38 ~ TKS No secretary Our condolences to the family of Narclsse Kunz Cadgene.

Ann McNair Bushnell moved this spring to Apopka, Fla. She has two new grand­ daughters born five weeks apart: Alyssa Cadue, born to her daughter Nell and son-inlaw Jim, and Kendal Bushnell, born to son John and daughter-in-law Laurie.

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39 TKS Mrs. John Rauch Jr. (Jane Wilson) 8115 Spring M ill Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46260 Our condolences to Beverly Crane Osborne on the death of her husband.

Our condolences to Grace Currie Mitchell on the death of her husband Harvey last November.

MA Mr. Charles McGinley 1911 W. Magic Place, Tucson, A Z 85 704 The class extends sympathy to the families of two classmates who died last winter. Victor Baer, who died in December, lived and worked in Calgary, Canada for forty years.

Martin Dwyer Jr., known affectionately as “The Mayor” at the Academy, died in April.

Martin won many medals, including the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, during World War II. He graduated from Yale and New York Law School, and founded JWP Inc., a tech­ nical industrial service company, on Long Island.

Peter Funk and his wife, Mary, remain active in Princeton writing books and inventing new word games. “Winning Words” is their latest creation; it will be displayed at the New York toy fair and be available in stores this spring. According to Peter another new book is “gestating in the faltering think tank.” Both he and Mary are “thinking of ways to lead a simpler, less encumbered life.”

Their latest grandchild was born in September and was appropriately named Peter. They now have 11 grandchildren and thoroughly enjoy visiting them and their own seven children.

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Thank you to this new class secretary fo r volunteering: Jan e Wilson Raucb TKS ’39A Christmas note from Bruce Swenson reveals that he and Nancy celebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary on Dec. 30th.

Bruce and Nancy have lived in the same house for the past 30 years in Dallas. Their family now consists of six children and five grand­ children. Another grandchild is expected in May, and in June another of their children is getting married.

Dave Armstrong is the latest member of the class of ’39 to get in touch with the class secretary. Dave enjoys his retirement in .Carmel, playing golf and working on his house. He graduated from West Point in 1945, followed by a military career that saw him rise to the rank of colonel while serving in Korea, Pakistan, and two tours of duty in Europe.

Dave enjoyed every minute of his career before retiring in 1972. Dave and his wife, Barbara, will celebrate their 37th wedding anniversary in July. They have three daughters and seven grandchildren. All of their daughters are married; the youngest daughter was married last July in the Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis. Dave states that he and Barbara have returned to the East Coast many times in the past 15 years to visit family. He regrets that he has not had the time to return to Montclair. Dave extends an invitation to any of the thirty-niners who might be wandering around the Monterey Peninsula to give him a call (408-624-3281). As he stated in his letter, “Surely 50 years should produce a fair amount of gossip to exchange.”

Chuck McGinley retired from the Foreign Service in 1980. After years of diplomatic receptions and other formalities, he and his wife Teresita enjoy the informal lifestyle of the Southwest. Three daughters and five grandchildren comprise the immediate family.

Chuck would enjoy hearing from any of the classmates who might be in the area (602-742-4989) or just a note to be included in the Alumni News. After all, he writes, “our 50th anniversary will soon be upon us and I hope that we will be able to make a grand showing on that resplendent occasion.”

40 — TKS Mrs. Charles V. Cross (Barbara Arm strong) 2306 Cardinal Dr., Point Pleasant, NJ 08742 Betty Burnham Hinckley and Hugh have three grandchildren. They plan to attend Hugh’s 50th reunion at Harvard in June. Betty will visit Jean Girdler Grinnell in Naples, Fla. in April. She had a grand reunion with Jean Downes Fisher, Girdie and others at

Editor’s Note: The unfortunate fact of newsletter publication is time-lag. Marriages have happened before the engagement announcement appears, babies have been born when the column announces “expecting,” trips have occurred that are mere plans on paper. These Class Notes reflect alumni news as of April. Whether the tense is accurate or not, the news is interesting reading.

Joan Bayne W illiams’ daughter Mattie’s wedding in June 1986. Betty’s real estate business keeps her very busy. She just retired as president of Greenwich’s Board of Realtors.

Joan Bayne Williams had other Kimberley grads at Mattie’s wedding: Nancy Williams Brundage and Betty Perry Gleason. She is thrilled that Girdie and Charlie Grinnell are moving to Yarmouth, Maine this spring, right around the corner from her. Baynie extends a cordial invitation to all of us to visit.

Jo Watt Clark still summers in Michigan with all her family. She and Bill spend part of the winter in Winter Park, Fla. and the rest of the time they are in Houston.

Nancy Kluge Rumery loves life in the “Sandhills,” the nickname of Pinehurst, N.C., and they spend the summer grandparenting at Lake Sunapee, N.H. Marilyn Gates Crandell and George journeyed via their famed motor home to four painting workshops in California and Nevada.

I had a nice reunion with her last summer and saw the rolling home. George now has his accounting office at the home compound and her mother resides in her own bungalow there also. Their grandchildren and children are now located in Irvine and Sacramento. We spent a worthwhile day visiting the beautiful Getty Museum. Gatesie, through her interest in art, knew more about the museum than the docent!

Iris Fox Flournoy and Rich still reside in Princeton. They have two granddaughters.

Richard, as an aircraft consultant, took them on a fabulous trip to China, Japan, and Hong Kong last fall.

Sis Underwood Gregory is enjoying daughter Sandy’s two children who live nearby. Son Jim teaches ski racing to dedicated Olympic-type young people, Chile in the summer, Sugarbush, Vt. in the winter, where he is the head of the NASTAR program.

Daughter Wendy lives at home and works in Hamden, Conn. Husband Russ may retire this winter. Sis works three days in a knitting shop and loves it.

Mary Chapman Shearer and Chris are in Pleasantville, N.Y. but spend six months at Cape Cod where they hope to live when their home is winterized. Their youngest, Margaret, lives at home, Peter is in New Jersey, and the other boys are in Houston.

Selina Hlrd Taylor and Lou spent a wonderful ten days in Kona, Hawaii, in January 1986 and Selina was at Skytop, Penn, all summer. They have four grandchildren by their two boys, and daughter Martha will be married in June 1987. Selina is serving a twoyear term as moderator of Presbyterian Women of Warren, Va. Lou dedicates his time to the Boys and Girls Homes of Montgomery County.

Nancy Shoonmaker Heidt and Bob are enjoying their new granddaughter, Rachel. She lives in Greensboro, N.C. with her mother, Darcy. Nancy has been taking some art lessons in between trips south.

Helen Keenan Thatcher takes art courses and is going to England in May for a garden tour.

After 17 years of winter in Florida, Nancy Taylor Craw has taken up skiing. She is working on a health food cookbook, which takes a lot of checking and rechecking. She also prepared one-of-a-kind ceramics and porcelains for the Junior League show this spring in Montclair. Nancy was getting her property ready for the growing season which

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Cover Story Betty Burnham Hinckley, TKS’40, was featured in the January cover article of “The Nutmegger” in the Connecticut magazine’s 12th annual Real Estate Review. She is retiring as president of the Greenwich Board of Realtors and has 30 years experience in the business. “Betty Hinckley is entitled to speak with authority on the present condition of her profession and its prospects,’’ stated the article. “ [She] offered to serve as president of the Board of Realtors for a year, after holding every post on the board for eleven years — director, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. ‘I felt I had been a bridesmaid too long . . . it’s been very rewarding.’ ”. . . She adorns whatever she touches.

A charter member and first president of the Junior League of Greenwich, a director of the Community Chest, and, later, the United Way, and a charter director of Community Concerts for Children, her influence in town has been wide and varied ever since she moved to Riverside in 1952.”

Betty and her husband, Hugh, have two children and three grandchildren.

Betty headed the firm Wood Associates from 1980 to 1984 and remained after it was sold to Merrill Lynch Realty. “ Far from resting on the laurels of a productive past,” said the article, “ Betty Hinckley looks forward to a promising future, in which the real estate business and Greenwich will be among her chief beneficiaries.”

involved putting in good insects and worms to battle the bad insects and worms. Sounds very scientific!

Barbara Armstrong Cross (yours truly) has a newly-adopted grandson, Gary, 5. Chuck and Mary Cross of Poway, Calif, are the happy parents. I keep busy with bowling, bridge, and church work, not to mention the beach in the summer. Hope some of you will make it down this way.

— Barbara

41 TKS Mrs. Jam es Hyde (Enid Griswold) 5402 D uvall Drive, Betbesda, MD 20816 MA Mr. D avid Baird, Jr. 9 Parkway, Montclair, NJ 07042 Bruce Cornish is the supervisor of the Kansas City, Mo., water treatment plant, though a few thoughts about retirement have crossed his mind. He is interested in “world order’’ organizations such as the World Federalist Association, whose convention he attended in Hicson, Ariz. “I recall,” he wrote, “that this interest began at Montclair Academy. In fact, I was brave enough to give a senior speech on Clarence Streit’s book Union Now, a precursor of this movement.”

Dick Scheuermann has been retired for several years after commuting to New York on the train for more than 35 years. He is planning to leave Lake Hopatcong and move to a more hospitable climate.

Dick Carrie is starting his 29th year at “ Seventeen” magazine. He is secretary of the class of 1945 at Amherst. He reports seeing Perry Swenson last winter at Key Largo, Fla.

45TH REUNION OCTOBER 24 TKS Mrs. Robinson V. Sm ith (Joan Trimble) 16 M arshall Terrace, Wayland, MA 01718 Reunion chairman: Mrs. John Kelsey (Elsie Luddecke) 83 West Road, Short Hills, NJ 07078 Our condolences to Constance Nagel Messinger on the death of her husband, Edward.

MA No secretary Reunion chairm an: Mr. W illard Kluge One Seneca Place, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

43 TKS Mrs. E.B. Ruffing, Jr. (Joan Sweeney) 125 Westview Rd., Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 MA Mr. Jam es Mackey 213 Geneva Street, Elizabeth, NJ 07206 All goes well with Dick Angus, who sends his regards. He enjoyed skiing this winter at Vernon Valley/Great Gorge, N.J. He also does a lot of cross-country skiing.

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TKS Mrs. Nancy Heydt Green 99 Belvidere Road, Falmouth, MA 02540 MA Mr. W interfordJ. Ohland Box 13 7, R.D. #3, Blairstown, NJ 07825

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45 TKS Anne Feagley W ittels (Mrs. Jerome L.) 2116 Via A lam itos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90142 Needed for Alumni Office files: 1945 Kimberleaves.

If there’s an orderly way to present class news, I’m not sure what it is. Alphabetically, by (bite your tongue) maiden names? by married names? How about more-or-less chronologically? Even that’s a bit strange because news comes from Christmas cards, phone calls, letters, short notes. By whatever means, here it is: Christmas mail brought a card from Leigh Berrien Smith, who had hoped to see Rudd Trimble Kenvin in November. It didn’t work out, however, due to the death of Roger’s mother. Leigh is keeping up a correspondence with Judy Shearer TUrnbull. Leigh’s fifth grandson, Leighton K. Smith, was born this April.

Nancy Nevins D’Anjou also sent a card.

No news, but a nice plea for a visit — which I’m hoping to take her up on this spring.

Details next year.

Barbara Creighton Ulband gets the gold star for good behavior. Not only did she send Christmas greetings, she also replied to the request for class news. Their big news: Grandparenthood! “A darling baby girl," Jaimie Lynne, was born to their daughter Lynne and her husband on December 15th.

Josie Murphy Rayermann sent a copy of their Christmas letter. Husband Ed marked his 30th anniversary with Honeywell in November. Son Patrick and wife Emma expect to make them grandparents in June. Son Richard is stationed at Miramar Naval Air Station. (Josie says the type of plane he flies is the same as that flown by Tom Cruise in ‘‘Top Gun.”) They were all together at Christmas - 9 the first time in more than five years. Josie’s mother is still, at 97, ‘‘an avid baseball fan (L.A. Dodgers) and is able to enjoy many things on TV." Josie, after much urging, has finally joined the San Marino Garden Club and is enjoying it a great deal.

Ann Gerhauser Buchbinder, my sister and I met over lunch at Neiman-Marcus in Chicago. What a treat! Ann, who went into real estate when she moved there in 1978, is now sales director for residences in that building. She looks absolutely marvelous! (I promptly went on a diet.) Ann and husband Bob, a photographer, spend part o.f every year on Mallorca. This summer they’re going to Kenya, Tanzania, and the Seychelle Islands.

Ann's son is married (both are lawyers) and lives in New York.

Rudd Trimble Kenvin and husband Roger visited us briefly during the holidays. It was a great visit. In addition to his faculty responsibilities at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Roger is also very successful with short story writing. Daughter Brooke works in video production. Daughter Heather is finishing up as admissions counselor at Grinnell College and will go to graduate school — Harvard —in the fall. Rudd tutors study skills with students and finds that this frequently uncovers other problems: e.g. stuttering, which causes unease with talking which leads to not doing well in school which leads to tutoring with Rudd. It’s amazing that such a small city has a permanent Democratic Party

headquarters, but it does, and Rudd helps staff the office. She’s also on the board of their condominium. They will spend part of the summer in New Hampshire.

Pat Driver Shuttleworth gets the gold star for impressive news. She wrote just as she and Ted were ‘‘about to set off on the trip of a lifetime” to Australia for the America’s Cup race. They “retired” to Quogue in 1983, and are busy with various community boards and affairs such as the library, Historical Society, Wildlife Refuge, Quogue Association, etc.

Their eldest, Daphne, lives and works in Washington, D.C. as a graphics designer and illustrator for the Folk Life Section of the Smithsonian. Son Teddy is captain of a private yacht, and son Wes is a systems engineer for IBM. Pat also wrote the sad news of the death of her father, Frank Driver, in October 1986.

Her mother, she says, is coming along.

Nancy Brown Prachar sent a long letter.

Husband John is still with M&M/Mars as production director of the Waco plant.

Daughter Lynn lives in Fort Wayne, Ind. and works as a computer analyst. About two years ago, Nancy contracted a ‘‘rather strange and unusual malady called Guillain-Barre syndrome.’’ Although it required a couple of hospital visits, she says she’s much better now.

They sail a lot on their 22-footer on a big (“despite the fact it’s Texas”) lake. Nancy also says she and John have been talking about retirement but haven’t yet agreed where to spend their “golden years.” Sound familiar?

Jane Hagan Farno had two granddaughters born last year, Alexandra Fontaine and Meaghen Farno.

As for the Wittels: Jerry continues to work for the Aerospace Corporation. Daughter Laura lives in Portland, Ore. and works at the library and for a law firm. Son Steve is at Cuesta College with plans to transfer in the fall. I enrolled in a second master’s degree program in arts administration and spent a busy fall semester doing almost nothing but that. I’m taking this semester off, getting back to art and writing, and to some traveling. In November my sister — Sheila Feagley James, TKS ’43 — and I visited our 93-yearold aunt in New York. I just spent a week in Hicson visiting an old friend and hope to get to a large-number reunion at Bradford in Massachusetts in October. In the meantime, my novel progresses at the proverbial snail’s pace, but I do have work in two small group exhibits just now. Small potatoes indeed, but exhilarating.

I suppose this job may prove tiresome one day. For the moment, though, if others wanted it, I’d beat ’em off with a stick. Please keep writing — postcards from vacation, Christmas cards and/or letters, or notes at any time of year. It’s great hearing from you!

— Anne MA Mr. W illiam B. Grant 41 Clinton Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07451

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TKS Mrs. George P. Shoemaker (Elizabeth Sm ith) 11 High Point Terrace, Scarsdale, N Y 10853 The Class of 1946 extends its deepest sympathy and loving concern to Hyla Ames Troxell on the death of her beloved father, Wyllys P. Ames.

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must begin by thanking MKA for its red-carpet treatment! Those of you who haven’t visited the “new” plant should have shared our tour.

The facilities are truly wonderful, and yet the School seems to have kept the close, warm spirit we remember so fondly. All of you received a letter from Joan Denny Carlisle and Florence JohnsonJacobson telling some of the highlights of that happy event.

Ten of your classmates were present for some, or all, of the festivities. Most were accompanied by husbands, and a finer, more convivial group of men is not often found in one spot! Looking radiant, spiffy, “hasn’t changed a bit,” and generally gorgeous were: BJ. Gilmour Eshbaugh, Nancy Lockerty Hoffman, Eleanor Helm Ketcham, Marilyn Magnus Larner, Joan Denny Carlisle, Barbara Crowell Estes, Florence JohnsonJacobson, Yours Truly, Nancy Rudd Wahlberg and Heidi Ames Troxell.

The din at the Golf Club Saturday night, as we combined with other reunion classes, wasn’t to be believed. A special treat for some of us was to ride back to our cars in the elegant “road yacht” belonging to the Wahlbergs. We toured part of Upper Montclair revisiting former homes of classmates — great fun!

Just in time for the reunion, a lovely letter arrived from Jeanne Jordan Freeman enclosing a snapshot of her family. She confessed to “a renewal of the old Kimberley spirit’’ after a get-together with Eleanor Helm and John Ketcham. Jeanne went on to give us news of herself and family: “four grown children, all moved away and busy with their lives. Our oldest, John, is an architect in Boston. Katie is a professional artist who shows in New York, but lives (temporarily, I hope) in Poland with her husband, Matt, an AP journalist in charge of the Warsaw desk. Robert, our third, is a veterinarian practicing in Tabb, Virginia. Peter, the last, is married and works as a process engineer for Intel Corp. in California. John and I are left at home with four dogs, three cats and five horses. We enjoy raising and riding Quarter Horses . . . I’ve worked with a domestic violence group and a rape crisis service for six years and have been chairman of the board for four years. I also do a lot of work with our local Humane Society. For about ten years I taught remedial reading, then retired, and now am starting back as a teacher in a newly-formed illiteracy program for adults.’’

A fine, newsy note from Margaret Shanks Moore came in response to what she termed my “masterful blackmail” letter. It’s reproduced here in part. “Children all grown — the two girls are married — one to a doctor (two little boys), one to an agronomist. One son a banker in New York, and one son still at Stanford, a senior.’’ Maggie and Bill spend a good deal of time abroadg- last summer in a flat in London — China the year before . . .

“Bill is still active in State water development.

I’m on the board of California State University. Hated to miss reunion.”

Nanette “Monty” Mount Cutler was also sorry to miss our reunion. “Dave has been retired for some years and now has Parkinson’s which keeps us close to home, but we get in a week every summer on our beloved Cuttyhunk Island” as well as weekend jaunts. “I still love my job as elementary librarian. Our Olympics-of-theMind team moved up the ladder to the national competition and came in first in the country against 39 other teams in their category. . .”

Monty tells us ‘‘our four girls are scattered far and wide. Lynne (a librarian at Berkeley in the Rare Books Department) is spending a couple of years in Barcelona. Jodi is in Santa Barbara in an MA program. Shana lives on a farm in Pleasant Valley, N.Y. Kathryn got married in August ’85 to Billy Seago, who is deaf but reads lips and talks quite clearly. His father performed the ceremony orally and in sign language — very moving. They live in Seattle, busy with the deaf and deaf-blind community.”

Your secretary enjoyed a delightful phone conversation with Connie Ritchie DuHamel. You’ll be glad to know she’s lost none of that famous pep and sense of humor.

Per my request, here’s a rundown on her six daughters. Constance Peabody is a volunteer at Covenant House. Lucie is married to Alex Kirk. Kate is married to Carl Weinberg, a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Betsy is engaged to Bob Williams and plans a September wedding. Emily works at Covenant House fund raising and helping with the problems of runaways. Charlotte graduated last June from Miss Porter’s.

Nancy Rudd Wahlberg wrote that she ‘‘has been very busy with presidential duties for Garden Club, and getting our ‘Country Wives’ business off the ground with a partner.

Lots of work and fun. My son is doing fine at Indiana U grad school in Bloomington . . . My four stepchildren are a real joy -Hthe third grandchild is expected this fall.”

I, Liz that is, got a special kick out of reuning with Nancy, and the Shoemakers and Wahlbergs hope to get together soon. My own news is that my oldest daughter, Wendy, received her Ph.D. in microbiology from Chapel Hill in December. She and her husband, Doug, have bought a house in Maryland where Wendy will continue her research at the National Institutes of Health.

My other two kids are fine. OK you silent ones . . . answer my next letter PLEASE! We’re a great class, and once a year shouldn’t be too much of a burden. This column is YOUR vehicle to keep in touch!

— Liz MA No secretary Philip Morgan Cheek, an English student who attended Montclair Academy during the war years 1940-42, has just published his first book, Legacies o f Peril, about ‘‘the last days of a ship with a death wish.” The dust cover states, “Captain Cheek has laid his career and reputation on the line by campaigning vigorously against the blind eye turned to unseaworthy vessels . . . Philip Cheek first went to sea as a cadet in a convoy to Russia in 1944 and his career in the Merchant Navy has taken him to the position of shipmaster . . .

He has had the ‘thrill and pleasure of commanding twenty merchant ships under eight flags.’ ”

40th Reunion O ctober 24 TKS Mrs. D avid H annegan (Louise Rudd) 301 Concord Road, Carlisle, MA 01741 Reunion chairmen: Louise R udd H annegan Miss Joan Cook, 42 Candlewood Rd., Box 401, Ipswich, MA 01938 Congratulations and m erci m ille fo is to Weezie Rudd Hannegan who has graciously

offered to edit this column! Do send her news whenever you can! Weezie reports the forthcoming wedding of son, Dave, to Penny Brodeur, who heads the mental health division of Outward Bound. Both Dave and son Garret are in graduate school programs; Garret is in law school at the University of Kentucky. Both Weezie and her husband are still very active in a theatre group, “The Concord Players,’’ and have had many leading roles, which comes as no surprise! Gardening is another great mutual hobby, especially since Dave has decided to retire and be his own boss.

For 40 years — and more besides — Cynthia Overton Blandy and I have kept in touch (but have not seen one another, alas, for many years). Cyn writes of a very pleasant year “with nothing earth-shattering.” Vacation is spent in the south visiting Peter and his family in Virginia, Robin and Mark in Naples, plus always looking for that special place to retire! In the meantime Cyn continues school library work every day, and although Gray still travels a great deal, he serves on the vestry of the Episcopal Church in Medford.

Joan Cook writes that all is going well with her life in Ipswich. Cleave is a freshman at St. Lawrence and loves it; Hunt is now looking at prep schools for next fall. The last time I had a real visit with Cookie was when she brought Cleave to see Deerfield Academy some time ago. Maybe we better think about a New England reunion for ’47! You all realize that our 40th comes October 24, 1987!

Teeny Redfield Sander reports that the grandchild count has just risen to nine. Both her sons live nearby with their families. A trip to the Far East was exciting.

I received an absolutely beautiful family picture of Midge Bethell Cross and her family. Midge looks as young as her own daughters! I counted six stunning grand­ children. Midge reported having lunch with Cindy Youngman Adams and Jay Smith Hague while visiting in Montclair. She said they both look marvelous and are leading very busy lives. My cousin, Pat Lamborn Coward, showed me samples of Jay’s superb photography last summer — pictures taken at Sarah Coward’s wedding. If I could name a woman of the year, be it mother or grand­ mother, it would be Mrs. Richard S. Bethell, Midge’s mother, who is as vivacious and interesting as when we were all in school. We have an annual visit when she comes to Edgartown in August and it’s always a treat.

She often darts up from Montclair to visit Midge at the drop of a hat. Amazing woman!

Nineteen eighty-six saw the birth of a first grandchild to Barbara Nash Hanson. Barb reports selling their home in Glen Ellen, Calif, and moving most of their belongings to their townhouse in Belvedere. They have bought a piece of property at Thunderbird Country Club and anticipate building there. Barb reports that her mother, at 94, is still living at home with help around the clock. Daughter Lynn Sullivan lives nearby; son Jeff is managing a wine and spirits shoppe. The Hansons had a lovely trip to Italy and travel a great deal. Wonderful picture of Barb and her husband on their Christmas card. Yes, our class was unusually attractive and spirited!

Susan Harrison Schumann reports that she and Ford have entered the world of thoroughbred racing and have six horses running. (The Schumanns’ racing stable is called the Diamond S. Diamond.) They have also purchased a home in Rancho Santa Fe;

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A Centennial Concert By the Chorus and Mastersingers o f MKA Directed by N ixon Bicknell In celebration of the Centennial, a tape has been made which features songs from the 16th century, Mozart, Haydn, Schumann, Grieg, Ellington, Gershwin, Porter, Simon and Garfunkel; “The Last Words of David’’ sung by the Mastersingers and alumni at the MKA 10th Anniversary celebration in 1984, and the school songs of TKS, MA, and MKA.' Available at the Upper School Book­ store or order from the Office of External Affairs, MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042. Cassette: $10 plus $1.00 for , postage.

their main base is still Scottsdale, Ariz. The Schumanns now have six grandchildren! Their oldest son, Mark, received his doctorate in English literature. “Mickey” reports a great visit with Barbara Nash Hanson after 30 plus years!

Little did I dream as a child that we would wind up living on the Vineyard! Ed and I keep extremely busy: Ed chairs the Tisbury Board of Appeals, which is almost a full-time job. We make so many trips to the mainland that we now leave a car in Woods Hole! Trips to Boston are frequent for me as Episcopal District 16 (Cape and Islands) representative to the Diocese of Massachusetts. We spent Christmas in Washington, D.C. with daughter Kate and her husband; Ned teaches at TrinityPawling School and produces gorgeous watercolors. (He was given a grant to paint in Italy last summer.) John and Masumi will be parents in May — our first grandchild — and live in Tokyo. Masumi translates for Newsweek in addition to teaching and John travels as much as his brother Ned. I am sad to note that my own parents’ godchild, Carol Butler Christopher Schmitz '39, died in November 1986. My father had the privilege of taking Carol down the aisle as a bride — and what a beautiful one she was! Kimberley has every right to be proud of her and her distinguished contribution to the art world.

Let Weezie hear from you — please! Fondest wishes to a wonderful class!

Petey H offm an Reade MA Mr. Chase Troxell 20 Fox H ill Lane, Short Hills, NJ 07078 Reunion chairman: Alan Kessler 50 Pearl Brook Drive, Clifton, NJ 07013

48 TKS Mrs. Stanley M iller (Frances Lane) 2498 NW 25th Street, Boca Raton, FL 33434 MA Mr. Jam es A. Swan Rte. 4, Box 665, Chestertown, MD 21620-9271 John Helm was elected president of the board of trustees of the Visiting Nurse Association of Montclair. He is also an active volunteer with the American Red Cross and the Senior Care and Activities Center.

49 TKS No secretary Condolences to Joan Duffy Murray on the death of her father, Alfred Duffy ’27X. MA Mr. Richard M. Drysdale P.O. Box 217, Bay Head, NJ 08742 Dudley Smith Jr. and his wife, Liliane, have lived in Brussels, Belgium, for the past 15 years where he heads his own management consultant firm, now with the help of his oldest son, Dudley 3rd. The Smiths have three children — Dudley 3rd, Michele, and Craig.

Michele serves as an interpreter for NATO, and Craig lives in Montclair with his grandmother, Mrs. Dudley Smith. He works for “The New Yorker” in its promotion department. Dud makes frequent trips to the States and would enjoy news of classmates.

and runs garden clubs. She is a nationallyaccredited flower show judge and landscape critic. She was chairman of the New Jersey Flower Show for two years! They have an adopted Korean son.

My mother has already invited all of us, our husbands and friends, for dinner in 1991 to celebrate our 40th reunion! She loved seeing everyone last September. I feel very fortunate to have been at Kimberley for nine years and am pleased to see how well the school is doing now.

— Gail MA Mr. Ernest F. Keer, III, P.O. Box 1030, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ 08742

50 TKS Mrs. E. Alden Dunham , III (Louise Green) 73 Brookstone Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540 Edith Holsington Miller writes, “We’ve enjoyed 20 years in the small college town of Sackville, New Brunswick. Michael (a Canadian since ’72) is a composer-pianistteacher at Mount Allison University. I’m a part-time secretary and writer. Andrew, 23, a double-bassist, will graduate from the University of Ottawa this year. Nathaniel, 21, is a rock drummer in Toronto. Joel, 17, is in high school and is a jazz-and-symphonic saxophonist. I thank Kimberley for a rich choral-musical background!

Jane Soucek Coughlin and Joe have lived in Bethesda, Md. for 27 years. Their oldest, Lynda, and Jim and their three girls live 25 minutes away; Curt and Jess — expecting in October — live with their little girl 20 minutes away; and Liz and Randy and their two boys are only 10 minutes away.

MA Mr. Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr. Northgate Road, M endham, NJ 07945 Alan Werksman writes, “Here we are, grandparents, enjoying sunny south Florida living, with our sailboat in the Virgin Islands, etc., etc. All goes well, and we look forward to getting much, much older!”

Rudolph Deetjen’s younger son, Cliff, spent his junior year with a Columbia University architectural program in New York and Paris. He returns to Hobart this fall. Leif is pursuing carpentry, renovation, and construc­ tion contracting in the Morris County area

51 TKS Mrs. Eric Stroh (Gail Robertson) 350 Provencal Road Grosse Pointe Farms, M l 48236 Beth Sherman Fisher and her husband travel frequently for his work as a financial analyst. Last year they went to Australia and New Zealand. Beth, a medical illustrator, is heavily involved in community work: she sings in a choir, edits school news bulletins,

Barbara Pendleton D onnell ’52 and fam ily.

52 TKS Mrs. Edward C. Fawcett (Fay Taft) 9 Gordon Place, Montclair, NJ 07042 Babs Pendleton D onnell and Jim, happily settled in Pittsburgh, had a wonderful family reunion over the holidays. Their son Calvin, a free-lance photographer in New Jersey, spent six weeks on a photographic expedition in Kenya. Jane married Youssef Zrikem of Morocco last August; they live in Cleveland.

Bridget and Fred expected their first child — Babs’ first grandchild — in May. MA No secretary

53 TKS Mrs. Thomas Bürgin (Lolly Penick) 328 Fairway Road, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 MA Mr. John Wade 2 Pullm an Avenue, Elberon, NJ 07740

Your Service” business; she somehow also finds time to be president of the Board of the Mental Health Resouce Center, a major commitment.

The other long, wonderful letter came from Pixie Cole Pendergast and Jack, complete with a family picture of John’s wedding. John is finishing at Harvard Divinity School this year. Tim, a lacrosse player, and his wife were on a lacrosse tour in Australia and then came home via the Far East. Terry and Liz are in Wickford, R.I.; Mary graduated from Providence College and is preparing to spend a year or two in Venezuela with the Christian Foundation for Children. Michael is at St. Michael’s studying and acting, and Joan is at Exeter for a P.G. year, also very much involved in theatre. Pixie has organized something called After Abortion Helpline, which has 14 volunteers, all well-trained. Sounds like a truly worthwhile service, an outgrowth of some graduate work.

A Christmas message from Maree Callahan Currey and Dick places their older daughter, Kathy, teaching in Richmond, and Lynne, who is taking a semester off from Dartmouth, working at the Breakers in Palm Beach. (She certainly chose the right winter to leave the North!) Maree, I assume, is still involved in the travel business, but was briefly sidelined for some surgery.

One celebrity in our midst is Lee Wood Audhuy, who was flown to Natchez, Mississippi (from Toulouse), to speak at a conference on Natchez before 1830. The conference was sponsored by the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, and Lee’s topic was “Natchez in French History.”

She had done a great deal of research and focused on Chateaubriand’s epic, The Natchez. Lee is still teaching at the University of Toulouse and racing around after her two children; Leslie is now a teenager. I was lucky enough to see Lee last summer when she was here for a month: she looked great, never seems to change.

A conversation with Leslie Bunce confirmed last year’s testimony that she loves her association with the catering service in Greenwich. She keeps all their books. In spite of periodic aching bones, Leslie still is active with both paddle tennis and tennis as often as time permits. She has seen Nell Fisk Herbst a few times recently and said that Nell looks great and is nearby in East Haddam, so maybe I will get to see her also.

In spite of my proximity to June Hayward Foster and Marion Miller Castell, I have not seen or talked with them. I guess we are all

54 TKS Miss Georgia Carrington 38 Silver Spring Lane, Ridgefield, CT 06877 First, a thank you to those who responded to my plea. To those who didn’t, we’d still like to hear. The first newsy letter came from Lynn Towner Dodd, who lost her mother in December, a rough beginning for the holiday season. We send our love and sympathy to Lynn and all her family. On the brighter side, news of Lynn’s children. Bill lives near San Francisco, Pete in Jersey City and Steve in New York City. Pete and Steve are both involved in renovating houses. Debbie goes to Ohio Wesleyan. Lynn is still active in her “Select

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TKS ’54 spring luncheon in Montclair. Back: June H ayward Foster, Cynthia M ann Treane, Aubin Zabriskie Ames. Front: Tilly Jo B eatty Emerson, M arian M iller Castell.

too busy and phone calls are tried at the wrong times. I did talk with Adreinne (Tookle) Onderdonk Dudden in the fall as I needed advice on travel to and within Hawaii.

They were in Hawaii in March for spring break, much deserved. Tookie’s new studio is so glorious to work in that I suspect she’s seldom out of it. Her designs are much in demand. Alexis is in her senior year at Baldwin School, participating in sports, theatre and music. Sound like someone we went to school with?

Greenwich Academy finally has tennis courts (after well over 100 years without) so coaching the varsity is going to be much less frantic. Last year we had to commute and were guaranteed only two courts for two hours for 15 girls. I still teach English and work with theatre, too. It keeps me from getting in a rut.

So, next time I hope we’ll have news from more of you and 1 hope we’ll all make our next big reunion.

— Georgia MA No secretary

55 TKS Mrs. Susie Forstmann Keaty 232 E. Walton Place, Apt. #2E Chicago, IL 60611 Marilyn Walrath Elliot and I talk and get together quite often, as we are “neighbors” in the Midwest by the far-flung locations of our class. She works for the president of a subsid­ iary of Kraft. Oldest son, Doug, is at Susque­ hanna University in Pennsylvania and Stephen is a junior at Loyola Academy near Chicago.

Cecily Wilson Lyle lives in Washington, D.C. and commutes to the farm in Maryland on weekends. She has taken the exam and plans to join the ranks of real estate agents.

Her daughter Becky is getting married in May to a Frenchman. Son Stevie lives in New York and Sarah in Boston. Both are married.

“Jessie” will be finishing college.

Got a card from Carrie Cox Eckert. She lives in Catlett, Va. Diana Whittaker is involved with a shop in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. My daughter, Tory, and I visited Di last spring and their little house is almost finished. It is very cozy.

Nancy Joyce Buckley dropped a postcard that she and Bruce have moved to Greensboro, Vt. Nancy writes that they have only 2 horses, 7 dogs, 5 cats, 200 acres and an old house that they are fixing up, 50 miles west of Mount Mansfield.

Carol Hanschka Traenkle and her husband spent two months this fall, going around the world! They visited Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore and Athens. Meanwhile son Scott attends the Boston Architectural Center and Wendy graduated from Smith last May and works for John Hancock.

Beth Hyde Whittemore wrote a year ago, January, just after I turned in last spring’s news. Beth has been married 27 years, has two children, Tom, 24, and Jennifer, 21, both Bucknell graduates. Husband, John, went to and teaches at Pingry School and was nominated for the outstanding teacher in New Jersey. Beth works as a receptionist at the corporate headquarters of Carteret Savings after years of Junior League, museum and volunteer work and part-time designing and

painting fabrics.

Leigh Eberstadt Brenza is busy in the travel business. Her oldest, Jim, is in his last year of law school at the University of Chicago. Karl graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and works for Raytheon in Newport, R.I. designing navigation systems for launching missiles from submarines. Amy is a sophomore at Cornell, struggling with chemistry and physics, and had much fun creating a student dance last summer at New York State University. Andrew is a fifth grader and loves soccer, baseball and basketball.

Lastly, I, Susie Forstmann Kealy, am taking three studio courses at the Art Institute of Chicago in the architectural design department. I just got back from five days of skiing in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Daughter, Tory, is at the Laboratory School of the University of Chicago and Ryan is a sophomore at Landmark School in Boston.

Best wishes to all. Please send me news at any time during the year!

— Susie MA No secretary

56 — TKS Mrs. Lawther O. Sm ith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive, Doylestown, PA 18901 Seven of us represented ’56 at our 30th reunion last September: Carolyn Van Vleck Edwards, Anne King Franges, Gill Brisbane Ingram, Linda Cole LeStage, Carol Van Brunt Basic, Betsy Beatty Sanford and I. The get-together was topped off with delicious dinner at the Franges’ home in which Carol Barnard’s family had once lived. A fall ’86 newsletter from Camp Wawenock includes news that Carol married Simon Ottenberg in Seattle in June, and they put 14,000 miles on their rented car touring the Northeast.

Also in a new home in Darien, Conn, since July 1986 are Betsy Hasbrouck Cole and Bob. Bob is busy with various business projects and Betsy is chairman of the Center for Hope, a counseling service for people with life-threatening diseases. Carolyn, in a career move, has enrolled in the French Culinary Institute, and Susan, who graduates from Denison in 1987, is headed toward publishing or art.

Henny Nelson Skeen missed the reunion but attended parents’ weekend at Connecticut College visiting Andy. With Peter at St. * Lawrence, the nest is empty for Bart and Henny, but she is busy as treasurer of the Newcomers’ Club and continues to make Virginia home.

Gail Zabriskie Wilson is in her sixth year as an instructional aide at Greenwich High School -=§|“The kids all graduated but not me!” Bonnie and Anne are working women in New York City, Peter is a junior at Hobart, Sarah is a sophomore at Connecticut College.

Peter is still with IBM, now in New York City.

Travel is a major part of Lilia Emetaz McDonald and John’s life. In 1986 alone they visited Arizona, Washington, New York, Expo ’86 in Vancouver, and Hawaii, where Lilia, remembering summers on Long Island, taught Malcolm to body surf! He is in his last year of middle school while John-Andrew is a community health major at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Elizabeth will receive her

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master’s in Alpine botany ecology in June 1987 from Western Washington University. At home, Lilia is busy on the board of the League of Women Voters and helping John with the AAA office and its new world-wide travel section.

Also busy in business is Betsy Beatty Sanford who happily works in retail banking for Horizon. Andrew will graduate from the University of Pennsylvania in June 1987. Rich has been working at Dartmouth and wants to pursue a teaching career and Lindie continues to enjoy life at the Tilton School in New Hampshire.

In the fall of 1986, Linda Cole LeStage and Don went to Europe to visit Gregg in Avignon where he was away from Trinity on a French studies program. They visited the Alps and Cote d ’Azure. Linda has begun new studies of her own with a Basic computer course.

Not to be left at home, Ninl pejurenev took a trip to India to see her guru, Maharaj Cheran Singit. She had lots of company because his discourses were attended by onequarter million Indians and a thousand Westerners from all over the world. Before arriving in India, the 300 Americans visited Singapore and Malaysia. “India was pretty much the way I thought it would be. I was not prepared for the sweetness and gentleness of the people and the level of spirituality and sophistication even among the poorest — puts us to shame!” Back home in Santa Fe, Nini is building a painting studio, doing psychological counseling and body work. Her mother, recently widowed, plans to move to a retirement community in California. Nina adds, “Hope we're all in as good shape and spirits when we get to be her age: what an example!

Larry and I have taken the Antarctic slide show “on the road” for various church, school and community groups. My newest project is tutoring non-reading adults. Scott works at Citibank in New York City and Sabrina is a sophomore at University of Vermont, and planned to head the sailing program at Camp Wawenock this summer.

— Linda MA Mr. John W. Clapp Box 256, Sea Girt, NJ 08750

30TH REUNION OCTOBER 24 TKS Airs. Wichard Van Heuven (Connie Hay) 909 Cambridge Oval, San Antonio, TX 78209 Reunion chairmen: Connie H ay Van Heuven Mrs. H agar B ryant (Joan Wallace) 802 H eathcliff Court, Houston, TX 77024 MA Mr. Edward T. O 'Brien, Jr. Box 1906, N aval A ir Station FPO New York 09560-5004 Reunion chairmen: Ted O 'Brien Mr. H arold Cohen 871 Scioto Drive, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 N eeded f o r A lum ni Office Files: MA Octopus — '47 TKS K im berleaves — 11-33; '45, '50

58 ~ TKS Mrs. Ralph Perry, III (Helen Bryant) HC-60 Box 150, Tolland, MA 01034 Linda Michele Bragg and husband, Stacy, enjoy living in Colorado Springs. Their six children are Elizabeth, 17, a freshman at Bible college; Andrew, 15, a running and history buff; Jason, 13, into clarinet and reading; David, 11, a computer and math whiz; Timothy, 9, “great at everything” ; and their newest family member is Hannah, age ONE! Needless to say Linda is a full-time mother!

The children enjoy hiking, mountain climbing, and skiing. Stacy has retired from engineering and is busy buying and selling houses.

A nice note from Betsy Barney Gill relays that she is enjoying her second year working with Kelly Temporary Services and likes meeting new people. Betsy’s husband, Ron, has a new job with BEC Calibration Labs in the electronics field. Betsy’s son, Richard, and his wife, Brenda, are in the Air Force in Hamp­ ton, Va. Daughter, Ginger, is working at Pacer Co., and son, Jim, was married in June, 1985!

Wendy Worsley Breslin has a part-time job and “generously volunteers in her Mom things.” Husband, Jud, started his own management consulting firm as well as writing his second book. Their son, Ned, a junior at St. Lawrence, spent his fall semester at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Son, Beau, a junior at Hobart, spent his winter term interning in Washington, D.C. Son, Dave, is a junior at Mt. Lakes High School and is into football, hockey and lacrosse. Their twins, Matt and Jamie, 8, are in second grade. Lots of activity abound in the Breslin household.

A long letter from Nancy Ferris Hlllegas revealed that she continues her job at the bank, while husband, Don, enjoys his career in senior health-care administration. Their son, Michael, a 6'3" freshman in high school, is involved with sports, and daughter, Julie, is a high-school sophomore. She is very involved with her horse and is contemplating the veterinary program at Cornell in the future.

Nancy and Don still love vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard summertime and look forward to a trip to Hilton Head in September.

Margaret Brown Dinsmore is engaged to Lee Vulgaris and they have recently developed a mini-storage business in Marion, Mass.

Margaret’s eldest daughter, Pam, graduated from TUfts in the spring of 1987 and hopes to continue in graduate studies at Brown University. Margaret’s youngest daughter, Cindy, is studying fashion design.

Nancy Adams Scherer and Jerry celebrated their 25 th wedding anniversary in September 1986. They have a home in Harbour Ridge, Fla., where they spend two weeks of each month during the winter. Their daughter, Debbie, married Steven Asetta last August and lives in Rocky Hill, Conn.

Daughter Elizabeth, 21, is a junior at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Mary Ann Lawrence Decker and Mel visited the Scherers last summer. Nancy also sent on word that our class artist, Linda Almgren, is in India.

Helen Bryant Perry and husband, Ralph, moved temporarily into our summer home in western Massachusetts. We’re land hunting near Hartford, Conn, in hopes of building a small dream house. I’m really enjoying living

in the woods and am designing kitchens, volunteering at the Wadsworth Atheneum and playing tennis. Ralph is still with Dean Witter Reynolds and loves his Hartford office. Our son, Chris, graduates from Skidmore College in May, while Ashley, our daughter, will be a junior at Skidmore this fall.

Helen MA No secretary The Alumni Office thanks Robert Haney as he ‘‘retires’’ as class secretary and wishes him well at his new post with the federal government. If anyone would like to volunteer to be the class scribe, please call or write the Alumni Office.

59 TKS Mrs. Robert P. Sum as (Deana Rogers) 4 E. Greenbrook Rd., No. Caldwell, NJ 07006 Joan McConnell wrote: “I am returning to Japan in April, 1987, for the third time. I have been invited to lecture on language, especially in conjunction with my new textbook The Background o f English. This new text is the best-selling English textbook in Japan. In addition to a rather heavy lecturing schedule, I will be meeting with colleagues at various universities in Tokyo, and will also be doing research for a new book, An Am erican Year.

But the trip will not be all work. I have reserved some time to visit friends outside Tokyo. I will go on to Korea for a shopping spree, move on to Hong Kong for a few days before an eight day trip to the People’s Republic of China (first one in winter of 1984) and I will be interested to see how the country has changed in three years. I will visit Xian, Guilin, and of course, Beijing. After China, I think it will be time to go home. I will rest a few days in New Jersey and then return to Florence. Although I had a sabbatical for the spring, I have to be in Florence in June and early July because I will again be directing the Stanford University Alumni Summer Symposium.”

Jarvis Reilly Nolan received a B.S. in information systems from San Diego State University. She works as a programmer for San Diego Gas and Electric Co. MA Mr. B enjam in Fischer 26 Delta Blvd., Palisades Park, NJ 07650

60— TKS Mrs. Em ily S. D anson (Em ily Stark) 130 Old Stone Bridge Rd., Cos Cob, CT 06807 Lucienne Rosier Durouchoux wrote to the Alumni Office, hoping to reestablish contact with her former classmates. Her letter: “Dear friends: Already 27 years have passed since I was in your senior class! I feel sorry not to have news from any of you. I had news from Carroll Tiernan and Toby Finkelman for about 15 years but now it has been a long time since I heard from them and the last letters I sent got no answers: they probably moved several times! So, if some of you could get in touch with me, I would be very happy.

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University where I got a master’s degree in mathematics — I then started to work in computers. I went back to the States for my job in 1968 and met the Finkelman and Tiernan families (but not Toby or Carroll).

Now I’m working part time in computerassisted instruction and have no opportunity to go to the States.

“I married a physical research engineer in 1966 and we have five children: four boys (18, 17, 15, 12) and a girl (10). We still live in l’Hay les Roses, 4 kms. from Paris. If any of you are coming to Paris, please let me know so that we can meet.”

E ditor’s Note: Contact the Alumni Office for Lucienne’s address.

MA Mr. George A. Bleyle 2259 Weir Drive, Hudson, OH 44236 Phil Leone writes: “I live in Gastonia, N.C. where I’m the director of the lab at Gastonia Memorial Hospital. My wife and I are pathologists and have two children, Seth and Abigail, 12 and 10. ‘‘I guess my real love and passion after my wife, kids, and job (sometimes) is sailing and travel. We have been to Kenya, Alaska, Galapagos Islands, and Europe over the past couple of years. We’re leaving for the British Virgin Islands next week (February) — have chartered a 43-foot sloop with another couple E - no captain or cook so it should be interesting.”

My own son Mike is a first-year aeronautical engineering student at the University of Virginia, on four-year Navy ROTC and National Merit scholarships. Alison, the eldest of my three daughters, is a freshman at Western Reserve Academy. Jill is in fifth grade, Sarah in second and thinks the world is made of rainbows and Care Bears.

My wife, Jane, works as learning disabilities/ special education teacher in the Hudson schools and attends Kent State University for her master’s degree.

I still fly the friendly skies of United Airlines as a Boeing 727 first officer (co-pilot).

I retired from the Naval Reserve last year after 22 years of service, the rank of captain, and over 5000 flight hours without incident.

We live 30 miles southeast of Cleveland just off the Ohio Thrnpike between exits 12 and 13. If you’re in the area, please stop in. | K - George

61 — TKS Miss Judith Poor 9 6 N. M ountain Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042 Claire Derdyn Coles, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. She has just received grants from the March of Dimes, State of Georgia, and National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the effects of drug abuse during pregnancy on the development of the infant. Her daughter, Allison, will graduate from Emory in political science this summer. Son Brian, 17, is a senior in high school and a varsity basketball player.

Claire writes that she is “too busy for social life, unfortunately.”

Judith Poor greatly enjoyed the 25th reunion and thanked Chris Keller for being chairman. She loved being in Colorado with her sisters and their children; would like to go

back every summer. During the rest of the year Judith goes to the Yard School of Art — “Our teacher is a very special person.” She wishes all the best to everyone.

MA Mr. Robert Tyler Root, III 24 W iedemann, Clifton, NJ 07011 John Lowy lives and practices law in New York City, specializing in corporate securities law at the firm Lowy-Chernie.

Bob Root is in the manufacturing business — “the same old stuff.”

25TH REUNION OCTOBER 24 TKS Mrs. C.D. Creed (Barbara Bywater) 1769 Forest View Avenue Hillsborough, CA 94010 Reunion chairm an: Barbara Byw ater Creed Minky Crane Morfit writes that she and her family have settled in South Freeport, Maine, after sojourns in New Zealand and Washington, D C. Minky plans to attend our 25th reunion.

Bonnie Buttel Drury’s son, John, Jr., will graduate from high school this year and son Danny will enter the ninth grade. The class offers Bonnie its condolences on the death of her grandmother last year.

Another mother with near-adult children: Bev Haring Myers. Martin, Jr. is at Princeton and Walter will enter college this fall. Bev recently got her real estate license and is busy juggling work and family.

Nancy Haviland Hutchison’s son Dwayne will graduate from Andover and is collegebound. Laura, 8, is a dancer and computer whiz. Nancy is doing a stint on the local PTA board.

Susie W ilson Howson’s boys are far-flung.

Peter is at American University in Washington, D.C. and Brian will enter his junior year at Kent in the fall. Keith is headed for the ninth grade and Stephen will be in the third grade.

Susie and Bruce travel on business a great deal. She recently left two messages on my tape machine during a layover at the San Jose Airport. 1 hope she was on her way to or from someplace exotic.

Everyone I’ve heard from expressed the fervent desire to attend our 25th reunion, so perhaps we’ll have an even better turnout than the 20th. Suzanne Kramer Klein and your class secretary have made a pact to make sure the California contingent is well represented.

See you there!

— Barbara MA Mr. Laurence J. Magnes 3222 Lexington Road Louisville, K Y 40206-2714 Reunion chairman: Dr. Kenneth Kessler 1273 North Avenue, New Rochelle, N Y 10804

63 TKS Ms. Sharon Livesey 12' Gorham Avenue, Brookline, MA 02146 MA Mr. Bronson Van Wyck P.O. Box 580, Tuckerman, AR 72473

64 TKS Dr. Deborah Pines 2540 D South Walter Reed D rive Arlington, VA 22206 I’ve discovered that the benefit of this job as class secretary is receiving wonderful letters. The disadvantage is trying to distill “the facts.” I hope I have successfully conveyed the tone of your letters.

Lynn Ritter Vernon, after five moves in four years, has a home, “ Finally Home,” with a large pond in the back. She’s happy at 40 to be home with her kids watching them become young adults but she’s sad to be a single parent. However she knows it’s okay not to have all the answers. She’s planning to start a business, Business Office Services Substitute, BOSS. She has a granddaughter via a step­ daughter, a son 10, and two teenage girls, equestrians both. Lynn has visited Joanne Luma Wagner and been visited by Cindy Smith Gaw.

R andi White M cGinnis ’64 and fam ily.

Randi White McGinnis sent a great picture of her family. Randy is busy with dance, piano, flute, soccer and basketball schedules.

She enjoys her position on the school board, working to reorganize elementary school classes and to get seat belts on school buses.

She is enjoying college town life (Bucknell) with its healthy family, cultural and educational atmosphere.

Barbara Mahler Markussen is back from Germany, stationed in Plattsburgh, N.Y. She’s delighted at being able to speak to everyone again, never having fully conquered German.

Conversation with neighbors and even sales­ people is a treat B or at least a relief. She’s sad, however, to leave friends and her daughter, a high school senior, over there.

Carl, still with the Air Force, now has a desk job and is trying to adjust to not being able to fly all over Europe. Their son, 8, is happy speaking English to all his friends. Fortunately, they are relatively close now to their families.

Barbara, as of her letter, but hopefully not as of the date of this publication, is still unpacking.

Sherry Newcomb Hauff is also back in the States — “happy to have traveled and lived in all the foreign countries I’ve ever desired to see. Wined and dined to the hilt, socialized to the point of fatigue,” and “happy to now live in Vermont and paint, write and love my wonderful second husband as well as my first 18-year-old daughter and first 16-year-old son, and never come off my mountain. . . ” Cathy Krebs Suiter wrote summarizing 20 Hyears. She and Ron have moved around the East Coast progressing through his academic career. Cathy, “thanks to, or in spite

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of, Mrs. Pickelsimer,” has pursued biology, from research assistant at the Jackson lab to coordinator of all the biology labs at Colgate.

She is now in a master’s program in health education at UVA and should, “if I survive this semester and exams, be done in June.” She’s in charge of the alcohol education program, a frustrating position in a program designed to encourage “responsible drinking to students at a school that was ranked by Playboy as one of the top ten party schools in the country.”

Cathy also has two boys, 8 and 14, who “alternate between being perfectly charming and perfectly churlish.”

Lynn Sanders Pizzirusso says the best things about being 40 are a) “ I’m not getting older, I’m getting better” ; b) “my kids are getting older” ; c) “ I’m having more fun now than I ever did” ; d) “ I’m working on my design portfolio again” ; e) “I’m still enjoying athletics, swimming laps and playing indoor and outdoor soccer.” She’s happiest about working hard on her career again. Lynn circled my favorite multiple choice option about the worst things of being 40. For those of you who have not treasured and preserved the questionnaire, this was “ never having had the body of a 20-year-old” — my daily lament.

Anne Beard Smith avenges herself on us “after hating being the youngest in the class all those years, it’s nice to be able to say I ’m not 40 like the rest of you." She and Clif have fun raising registered polled Herefords, beef cattle to us city folk. “ It’s great to be involved in the children’s activities. Hard to believe they are in sixth grade! They’re busy with whatever sport the season brings. Love to hear from anyone up this way skiing [Vermont].”

As for me, remember that lawyer I wrote about? Well, after chronic bachelorhood, Joel’s lifelong and mine 16 years, we’ve decided to get married. This has me ecstatic, energetic, and busy: closing my practice and trying to sell it; interviewing for jobs, both in group and private practice, on weekends in Washington; looking for houses in Washington; interviewing movers and realtors weekdays in Philadelphia; and finally planning the perfect wedding. Those of you with girls, just wait!

— Debbi MA No secretary

65 TKS Mrs. P.E. Madsen (Betsy Ridge) 58 Chestnut Street, Boston, MA 02108 MA Mr. R. Victor Bernstein 40 W. 77th St., Apt. 4E, New York, N Y 10024

Hockey Game Sat., D ecem b er 19 4:30-6 pm MKA Alumni VS.

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66 TKS Mrs. W illiam E. Crawford (Francine Onorati) 421 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02115 Some of this news was gathered at our 20th reunion in September ’86, which was quite a pivotal event from my point of view. We had a terrific turnout, rediscovered old friends and made some new ones.

Jessie Vogt Dawson has moved back to Los Altos, Calif, with her husband Doug and family. She and Doug attended the reunion, and then went home for a short while before going skiing with the family at Yosemite. From there, they went on to Carmel and Monterey.

Jesse had been working as an art docent before the move, and I hope she will continue to be involved in that area, for Mrs. Peterkin’s sake if not for her own.

Jessie Broadfoot Boyer has temporarily retired from teaching math in order to concentrate on her young family. She wrote that she enjoyed the reunion and went home to sort slides, finding a half dozen slides of May Days and graduation. Then she attended Alumnae Council at Smith, which she had not visited since 1972 when she was married in the College Chapel. After two back-to-back alumni events she ended up recruiting for Smith in local public and private high schools.

Now I call that being a good sport!

Madden Harkness had an exhibition of her works at the home of Valerie Miller in Hancock Park, Calif. Valerie Miller and Associates must be her gallery or agent. I hope I will receive some clippings on the reviews, but I am sure the exhibit was a success.

Vicki Fisher Patino wrote that her husband Luis has taken a job in medical education with the Interamerican College of Physicians and Surgeons, acting as the project director for a Latin American Physician’s Exchange Program, through the U.S. State Department. Their daughter Cris is 16 years old and beautiful (I saw her picture at the reunion). For the past five years, Vicki has worked as a Spanish/English translator for a national Spanish newspaper, translating the daily editorials into English. She is also working as a free-lance artist designing for stitchery and greeting card companies. If that were not enough, she has a part-time business selling children’s face painting for birthday parties and affairs.

Noel Thorbecke Estes missed the reunion because of illness in her husband Mark’s family, but I did learn that she has moved to Weston, Mass, with her husband and three children.

Randy Bean lives in Stanford, Calif, and produces specials for public television. We spoke with her on the telephone at the reunion and she sounds wonderful. Randy, a single parent, hopes to adopt a three-year-old son. Randy, our best wishes!

Mitzi Sans Balma is studying computer programming, while carrying on with her mothering duties.

Joanne Hoffstatter Clark's oldest son entered the military in January (which makes me feel very old).

Holly Hamer pursues a career as a framer in Great Barrington, Mass. Her toast at the reunion dinner was classic: “I salute those of you who have come here who I thought I didn’t like very much, but find I do like. A toast as well to those of you who I still don’t like.”

One note of special thanks to Terry Appenzellar Hauberg and to Susan Richardson Borchardt for the absolutely lovely luncheon which they gave to our class at the reunion. At the lunch, I talked at length with Jan Shaw, who has a darling four-yearold and a terrific career in hospital administration. I probably learned more about Jan that day than I had in four years at Kimberley.

Marcia Harrison Goodwillie has finished law school, winning top honors in Moot Court competition, and will pursue a legal career.

Joan Poor Clarke, Cindy Brandenburg Gibbon and Susan Guterman Roche all showed off pictures of their children, and they will all write to me with details of their lives before I begin to make stuff up.

Sari Kramer practices psychology in Montclair, where she lives with husband Sam Margulies and baby daughter.

Sandy Fates Xsherwood was strong-armed into agreeing to host our 25 th reunion at her home in St. Croix.

Suzy Cadgene has closed her New York restaurant and corporate catering business, and plans to sit back for a year and evaluate her life goals.

Clbby Thomas Kimmel and her husband are moving to Massachusetts, and Mary Sander has moved to Schwenkesville, Pa. Nicole Taghert and her husband have their own film production company in Chicago.

My company’s real estate project Tashmoo Wood in Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard — is off to a strong start, and I hope that any of you interested in property in Martha’s Vineyard or in Nantucket will give me a call.

Our advertisements have been running in the Sunday Times, and the project truly is spectacular. Write to me in 1988!

— Francine MA Mr. John F. Hawley, 1402 Washington St., H olliston, MA 01746-2215 John Hawley teaches English and Latin and is vice president of the Wellesley Teachers’ Association. He and his wife, Claire, have two daughters, Elnora, 4, and Emma Louise, 1.

Their 140-year-old house is now larger by two rooms and a garage.

wife, Diane, whom he met in college, stayed in Iran through the revolution. They left one month after Khomeni’s return.

Andrew decided to leave teaching and received a law degree from the University of Denver Law School in 1983. Since then they have lived in Southern California, where he specializes in litigation with a law firm in Irvine.

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TKS Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 5805 Birchbrook #202, Dallas, TX 75206 MA Mr. Burton M. Webb Box 29, Free Union, VA 22940 Bim Webb is a general contractor in the Charlottesville, Va. area where he has lived for 12 years. His wife, Pat Dowd, is a staff nurse at the University of Virginia’s Children’s Rehabilitation Center. They have a daughter, Sarah Alberta, 3, and son, Mallory James, 1.

Bim is active in Democratic politics (“which can be frustrating in the state’s most conservative Congressional district”).

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TKS Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Ehrhardt) 46 E. Saddle R iver Rd. Saddle River, NJ 07458 Barbara Haviland Brogan and Bob are alive and well and living in Annapolis, Md. Bob works as networks marketing manager for Digital Equipment Corp. and Barbara “is still attempting the ‘civilization’ of two boys, 5 and 2, who are . . . cute and wild.” They wonder how everyone is and are thinking forward to a 20th reunion. “Best wishes for now . . . Keep sailing.”

20TH REUNION OCTOBER 24 TKS Ms. M argot Escott 2980 Kings Lake Blvd., Naples, FL 33962 MA Mr. Craig C. Perry, 119 East 84th St., Apt. 6C New York, N Y 10028 Andrew Sussman surfaced in the Alumni Office records after many years abroad. After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1971, Andrew spent two years in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan, teaching English at the Medical School. So segregated was the society, he was one of the first men in Afghanistan to teach women any subject. He came back to the States and earned a Master’s at Columbia University in teaching English to speakers of other languages. He then spent four and a half years in Iran on private contracts, teaching at Pahlevi University at Shirza and Abadan Institute of Technology, which is run by the National Iranian Oil Company. He and his

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M ary Boyden (Beedle) H inely ’69 and daughterJuliet, 8 months.

Mary Boyden H inely recently moved into a new home in Lexington, Va. Mary is an administrator of the Lute Society of America, an international music society. Patrick won two international photographic awards for his

pictures of jazz musicians and has been to Poland twice and to Germany to receive his prizes and to cover major jazz festivals.

Sue Schadler writes that it has been some year. While on vacation in the Berkshires, she had a cerebral aneurysm rupture and was rushed to the nearest hospital in Pittsfield, Mass, where she underwent emergency brain surgery to prevent further bleeding. Although there were no complications, it did take some time for Sue to regain her strength. She is now back to normal. Sue continues to work as an economist at the International Monetary Fund. Her work involves mainly consulting with the governments of Asian countries on macroeconomic policies. Her husband, Leslie, also works at the IMF, but mainly on European countries. Their daughters Vanessa, 5, and Jessica, 3, are wonderful fun. Sue, we are all glad to hear you’re fully recovered!

Jonathan and Joshua Shartar, children o f Terry Solmssen Shartar, ’69■ (Photo by Lily Solmssen M oureaux, ’59-) Terry Solmssen Shartar enclosed a photo taken by her sister Lily Solmssen Moureaux (TKS ’59) of Jonathan, 5, and Joshua, 3. Terry writes that Joshua, who is developmentally delayed, has been a very special teacher to the entire family.

Nina Szot Boral and her family are very busy also. Recently their daughter Alicia, 10, won two gold medals at the Junior Olympic Swimming Olympics at West Point, N.Y. Barbara Fox McWilliams has finally made the BIG move. Barbara, her husband, Charles “Mac,” and their two children will be heading south to Pinehurst, N.C. They have decided to play golf and relax in the sun for awhile. I wonder how long until the next move??? Only Barb knows for sure.

Anne Lavoy Guerra and her husband, Bob, recently had their second child, Elizabeth.

Anne and Bob, who both work for radio stations, live in the Los Angeles area.

Phyllis Laflfouche Rawlins and her husband, Morgan, have moved to Pennsylvania, not far from the New Jersey border. Phyllis, send me your new address.

Lynn Ehrhardt Gildea,'69, husband Chip, Brian, 12, and K ristin, 10.

In February, we had a vacation in Cozumel, Mexico. Brian, 12, and Kristin, 10, loved the snorkeling while I ventured by scuba under the reefs.

How about hearing from the rest of you next time . . .

— Lynn MA No secretary John Lally married Ann Bierbower this spring in Washington. He graduated from Boston College and received an M.B.A. from Columbia University. He is managing director of the Bankers Trust Co. in New York.

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TKS Ms. Leslie Bryan 1277 Avalon Place, A tlanta, GA 30306 MA Mr. G arretts. Roosma 30 Cottage Lane Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Jim Castiglia is'now entering his ninth year as an attorney. He has had his own private practive for over six years. He is also secretary/treasurer of the New Jersey State Bar AssociationYoung Lawyers Division. Jim has been married five years, and he and his wife, Mary Ann, expected their first child in May. Jim moved to Oak Ridge, N.J. in March.

Garrett Roosma, ’70, and fam ily: contributors to this column. After college Peter taught one year at MKA and then a year at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N.H. He then went to law school in Concord, N.H. and met his wife, Ann. They have two children, Grant, 6, and Brenner, 3, and live in Brookline, N.H. where Peter has been a selectman for four years. Peter is now a partner in a Nashua law firm.

The Newark Star Ledger announced that David A. Simon was named president and chief operating officer of Prime Motor Inns.

71 TKS No secretary MA No secretary Douglas Crawford is back at Yale (he and his wife, Lynn, are graduates) at the School of Management getting his M.B.A. They have a son, Matthew, 4.

Garret Roosma successfully completed the requirements to become a certified manage­ ment accountant (CMA) and a certified cash manager (CCM) in-1986. He doesn’t plan on moving or having any more children, although he’s very happy with the two he has, Colin, 8, and Ian, 4. Oh yes, he’s also happy with his wife Emily, age NA. Roger Silversteln is alive and well and continues to examine Jim Castiglia’s eyes and supply him with all of his contact lenses.

Roger has been keeping a low profile recently, unlike his behavior during his years at Montclair Academy, and we all thank Jim for this information.

Albert B. Thrower, M.D., or just plain A1 Thrower, lives in Westfield, N.J. and has opened his own practice specializing in orthopedic surgery with a sub-specialization in sports medicine. He is also a member of the staff at Overlook Hospital. He and his wife, Patty, a practicing orthodontist, have two children, Albert, 5, and Courtney, 3.

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Asst. Town Councilm an Bob H oonhout, '71, and Miss Am erica a t Congressional reception fo r New Jersey Chamber o f Commerce.

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72 TKS Mrs. M ark W illiam s (Linda Finney) Box 1446 Greglen Ave., Nantucket, MA 02554 MA D r Vincent E. Mascia 800A Fifth Avenue, Suite 205 New York, N Y 10021 Bruce Usher will be married in July to Marion Mueller of Derry, N.H. and will be the proud stepfather of two wonderful children.

Bruce is in his 10th year teaching social studies at Raymond Middle School, where he coached track and cross country to a state championship season.

73 — TKS Mrs. M ichael F. Moreno (Martha Del Negro) 750 Woodward Rd., No. Providence, R I 02904 The Glen Ridge Paper announced the engagement of Ellen Wahl to Dr. Edward Skibiak of Verona. She received a B.A. in political science from Sweet Briar College and an M.B.A. from the College of William and Mary. She was a corporate loan officer at the Irving Trust Co. in New York and is currently treasurer of Vibra Screw Inc., a family firm in Totowa.

MA Mr. J. Dean Paolucci 46 Village Road, Clifton, NJ 07013 Bill Breen, staff reporter for Brooklyn Paper Publications, won a prestigious Roger Starr award for reporting on housing and planning issues in New York City. His article, written last fall about a housing court dispute, won honorable mention and a $500 cash prize. The award is sponsored by the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a 50-year-old non-profit organization, and is named after Roger Starr, a member of The New York Times editorial board, who served as the council’s director.

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TKS Mrs. Bogue Wallin (Bonnie McBratney) 39 Sum m it, Philadelphia, PA 19118 Leslie Aufzien married Peter Levine in January. She graduated from Rollins College and received an M.B.A. from New York University. She is advertising and marketing manager for the RAL Corporation in Fairfield.

Blythe Hamer was married last spring and lives in New York, working in strategic planning for American Express.

Susan Stokes Galligan and Tom's (MA ’73) second child, Sarah Elizabeth, was born in January. Susan writes, “ Sarah is a very good baby . . . Patrick is taking her pretty well although he would like my full attention.”

Anne Johnson Silva was in Hong Kong for six weeks this winter representing Philadelphia National Bank while her husband, Iggie, was home in Wayne, Pa. tending their condo and managing an international sales force for a pharmaceutical company.

I’m getting married in May to an old college friend and Anne Johnson Silva is one of my bridesmaids. We’ve settled in Chestnut Hill outside Philadelphia where I’ll continue to work in sales for the Forum Corporation.

— Bonnie MA Mr. Anthony M. Celentano 3 Conduct Street, M orris Plains, NJ 07950 Jeff Crawford is back from Liberia, West Africa where he was with the Chase Manhattan Bank. He is now a vice president of the Chase Ohio banks in Columbus.

John and Barbara Lagasi had a daughter, Belinda Rose, in January. They live in Upper Montclair.

Tom Arthur ’74 received the Roy W. Howard Award for public service at the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards banquet this spring. He has a B.A. in English from Florida Southern College, writes for the Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger, and has won several other awards for journalism.

75 MKA Mr. D avid Soule 21-4230 M eadowvale Drive, Niagara Falls Ontario, Canada L2E5W 7 Capt. Hayward Hull is assistant professor of military science, ROTC, at Lafayette College.

He is a Cobra helicopter pilot. He graduated from Georgetown University and has a master’s in engineering from Catholic University. He and his wife, Eileen, have three children, 5, 3, and 1.

The M ontclair Times announced the engagement of Howard Johnson to Nora Ryan of Wilton, Conn. Howie received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering technology from Southern Illinois University and is studying for a master’s in computer science at Johns Hopkins University. He served for four years with the U.S. Army Defense Corps in Germany and in the Seventh Infantry Division in Fort Ord, Calif. He is employed by Traycor Flight Systems and does contract work at the applied physics lab of Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Md. Jeffrey Schiffman’s son, Benjamin Allen Morrison Schiffman, was born in May 1986.

76 MKA Mrs. Paul McFeeley (Laurie H oonhout) 530 Valley Rd. #5N, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

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Mr. Charles Read 311 North 20th Street, A partm ent C733 Arlington, VA 22201 Julie Bellet, M.D. is finishing a residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She will stay there to do a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine. She is engaged to Mitchell Zickoff, a reporter for the Associated Press.

Jeffrey Weiss is getting a Ph.D. in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York City.

Teacher Judy Nesbit ran into Rob Parlseau and his wife on the beach in St. Petersburg, Fla. over spring break. He lives in Tampa and is doing well. His sister Amy ’79 is married and also lives in Tampa.

The M ontclair Times announced the engagement of Ana Rincon to Jonathan Gold of Englewood. Ana graduated from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and Fordham Graduate School of Business. She is assistant director for the City of New York Office on International Trade and Investment.

10TH REUNION OCTOBER 24 MKA Mrs. D an Gasparino (Beverley Hall) 563 D anbury Road, W ilton, C T06897 Reunion chairmen: Miss D onna Crews 218 Turrell Ave., South Orange, NJ 07079 Mr. Gerald Jones 257 Orange Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 BUI Dalzell, married in December, is a senior at Rutgers Law School.

Bruce and Susan Sanders bought a townhouse in Washington Township.

Doug Mahler graduated from Union College and the University of Pennsylvania Dental School, and did a general practice residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in 1986. He now practices full time with his father, including dental implantology, general and cosmetic dentistry. He lives in Fort Lee. David Kerr was married in May to Ruth Ann Warnell, a senior medical student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dave, a graduate of Colgate University, has an M.B.A. from the Wharton School and is an associate in the investment banking division of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. in New York.

Pat Cane wrote from the New Jersey State Legislature where she is a professional environmentalist. She was scheduled for a defense of her master’s thesis in January.

Jonathan Grevatt graduated from the University of Colorado last May with a B.S. in journalism and now works for Billboard Magazine. He hopes ultimately to work for a record company.

Lisa Greenburg has been living in Boston for six years and has recently received her master’s (social work) from Boston University.

She hopes to have her own private practice and is working toward an independent license.

Ronnie Kimmel has lived in Los Angeles for two years and loves the area. Robert Nebb moved from Austin to Lubbock, Texas.

David Jones lives in Oneida, N.Y. with his wife, Jody. He works for a small plastics company.

Donna LoBiondo graduated from Barnard

College in 1983 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1986 with a Master of Divinity. She now attends Boston University, working toward a Ph.D. in pastoral psychology. Donna works as a psychotherapist in the Boston area.

Her sister, Joan Weller, teaches fifth grade at MKA’s middle school.

Marty Cohn and his wife, Amy, are enjoying the adventures of parenthood with son John. Work is going well at Ryder and Schild Advertising. They hope to be north for reunion.

It was wonderful to hear from you all! Keep those cards and letters coming! I hope to see many of you at our tenth reunion this fall.

— Beverley

78 MKA Miss Pamela A. Zeug 19 D owning St., Apt. 3, New York, N Y 10014 Mr. John Glicksman 316 Greenway Road, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Pamela Bolton is completing her master’s in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, with a concentration in maternal and child health in developing nations. She lives in Baltimore.

The M ontclair Times announced the wedding of Bob Harmon to Lidia Soto. He is a stockbroker with Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. in New York.

Peter Brandow graduated from Duke University with a bachelor of arts in both history and mathematics. He is attending Fordham University School of Law and is engaged to marry Laurie Caldwell of Westport, Conn, in June 1988.

Susan Felber, a graduate of St. Lawrence University, is director of sales at the LafayetteSwissotel in Boston. She is engaged to marry Thomas Durbin of Boston.

Nancy Heath Betke, an associate with Anne Cooper Interiors of Ridgewood, contributed to a designer room at “Wisteria Heights,” the spring showhouse of the Junior League of Montclair-Newark. Her room was featured in The New York Times review.

79 MKA Miss Shawn M ahieu 4 Columbia Court, No. Haledon, NJ 07508 Mr. Jack Brink 943 North Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30306 Lee Anne Perrino graduated from Seton Hall University in 1986 with an M.A. in elementary education. She will marry John Brensinger of Pompton Lakes in August.

The Reverend James Carter is the director of University Ministries at the Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas. Jim received a Master of Divinity degree from S.M.U. in May. In addition to pastoral care, teaching, and worship leadership, Jim will work with college students. He spent a year as a minister-in-training, and served S.M.U. as a dorm director and residence life leader for six years.

80 MKA Mrs. M artin Garvey (Pam Eastm an) 155 Oldchester Rd., Essex Fells, NJ 07021

81 MKA Miss Shelagh D aly 330 North M ountain Avenue Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Miss Karen M am ell 25 Alden Circle, West Caldwell, NJ 07006 Robert Cunniff is doing graduate work at Michigan State University, working toward a master’s degree in petroleum geology and hydrology.

Ian Griffis is building condominiums in Colorado Springs.

Christine Margitich earned a Bachelor of Music Education from Westminster Choir College in Princeton. She has performed a variety of roles on stage and has appeared in Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall with the Westminster Choir. In March, the soprano gave a recital in Montclair, accompanied by Nixon Bicknell.

The M ontclair Times announced the engagement of Christopher Nlcholl to Susan France of Verona. Chris graduated from Rutgers University and is working on an M.B.A. at Montclair State College. He works with Prudential Insurance Company.

The New York Times announced the engagement of Lyssa Raichelson to Steven Scott Girden of Stamford, Conn. Lyssa, a m agna cum laude graduate of Northwestern University, is a broadcast production assistant at Louden, Kaplan & Elegant, advertising, in New York.

5TH REUNION OCTOBER 24 MKA Miss Nicole Anastasiou Oak H ill Road, Clifton, NJ 07013 Mrs. Stephen Barral (Angela DeCandia) 240 9th Street, Apt. 14, Jersey City, NJ 07302 Reunion chairman: Mr. Blake O’N eill 34 Greenview Way, Upper Montclair, NJ 07042 The Star Ledger announced the engagement of Chris Tortorello to Bridget Giancaspro of Elmwood Park. Both graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is a computer programmer with Varityper in East Hanover.

83 MKA Miss A nne Rowland 13 Gordon Place, Verona, NJ 07044 Class agent: Mr. Kevin W ilkins 95 Heller Way, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Stephen Pineda spent three years as a biochemistry major at Columbia College. After being accepted at five medical schools (yes, five), he went to Tufts University in Boston, where he is a freshman. Stephen shares an apartment with Eric Roberts ’82, who graduated from Union College and is a freshman at Boston Medical School.

Ron DeMatteo is also a freshman medical student, at New York University.

Arsen Zartarian, a senior at Rutgers, is gearing up for law school.

Suzanne Halm graduated with a double major in psychology and education from

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Mary Rachel Hayes ’82 was selected to compete with the United States Fencing Association’s National Team in West Germany in February in a World Cup A tournament. She ranks seventh among the U.S. women foilists. She is a member of the varsity team at Temple University, where she was voted MVP in 1984. In 1986, Rachael was second in the Temple Open and first in the Penn State Open and the USFA National Collegiate Competitons.

She has compiled a 151-26 career mark; last season she was 40-3 while leading the Temple team to the Mid-Atlantic South Regional title. Rachael finished in ninth place at the 1986 Olympic Sports Festival and has her sights on the 1988 Olympic Games.

Lafayette, where she played soccer and was actively involved in the psychology department.

Frank Kosarek is a medical student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

Jill Rosenblum graduated from Brandeis, majoring in economics and minoring in legal studies. She enjoyed Brandeis, and now has gone on to law school.

Brian Davis competed in the sprints for the University of Rochester indoor track and field team last winter.

Diana Nolle will marry Scott Deitch on September 12. He is from Carlisle, Pa., and is an ’85 graduate of Susquehanna University where he is the director of public relations.

David Nolle ’79 will be-in the wedding party, and Nixon Bicknell will provide the musical entertainment. Congratulations and good luck from all of us!

Enjoy your first year “out there,” folks. Our fifth reunion is just around the corner . . .

— Anne

84 MKA Miss M aria Rabb 9 Birch Drive, Roseland, NJ 07068 Class agent: Mr. Larry Rosen 6 Shoshone Road, Wayne, NJ 07470

Deepak Amin is a food sciences major at Cornell, and his plans include getting an M.B.A. and working for his dad’s food company. Over winter break he took an ice -cream manufacturing class at Rutgers.

At Northwestern, Meg Lugaric is studying radio, TV and film. She is in a sorority, has an internship at a cable TV company, is coordinator of the home help aid program, and was chosen as one of 12 juniors to be in the honors writing program. In the future, she may write scripts for TV shows.

Liza Cohn is taking a break from Swarthmore. She is attending Harvard as a visiting student for a semester.

Laura Dancy, an art major at Guilford, was in England last fall. She took classes in art, architecture, theatre, and British women. She also traveled to Scotland, Italy and Switzerland. Laura was visited in London by Sue Bacot, who was studying in Paris.

Doug Keh '84 in Seville, Spain, "traveling light.”

At the same time, Doug Keh was also in London, at King’s College, an hour’s drive away from where Ken Vostal was spending his junior year! Doug traveled extensively around Europe, and had plans to visit Greece and Morocco.

Kirk Royster is a journalism major at American University. He works for the school newspaper and is also a member of a fraternity.

Cam Fleming is back at Dartmouth after spending the fall studying at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Over break he worked near Wall Street at Goldman, Sachs & Co., an investment banking firm. Cam gets the award for best on his way to becoming a yuppie!

Bryn Fleming is studying in Florence, Italy on a Smith College exchange.

Jason Bernstein is an economics major and architectural history concentrator at Middlebury. He’s also a college scholar, varsity tennis player, and member of a fraternity.

Over winter break he spent a month skiing in Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. He also spent a few days skiing in New Hampshire with Mark Pineda and James Goldman and went out to eat with Seth Antiles and Bob Hemmeter. Last summer Jason worked for World Tennis magazine, and this spring he will be studying at Tel Aviv University

in Israel.

Mark Pineda is a sophomore at Columbia College, majoring in political science.

According to The M ontclair Times, Eagle Scout Ross Zbar, now attending Harvard College, was awarded the Eagle Palms at the Troop 12 Court of Honor in February.

Bob Cottingham led the Columbia University fencing team to its ninth NCAA national championship this winter. He finished second in sabre to three-time national collegiate champion Michael Lofton of NYU. Out of 30 fencers in the round-robin competition, only Lofton and Cottingham emerged undefeated. Bob and his Columbia teammates now go to the World Fencing Championship in Switzerland this summer, the Pan American Games, and the World University Games.

Dorothy Stark was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior at Harvard. She is one of only 12 juniors at Radcliffe so honored. Last fall, Dorothy was also named a John Harvard scholar. She is majoring in philosophy.

Here at Brown, Alex Lee recently won the New England Fencing Championships in sabre. Alex claims it was due to his lack of practice (somehow the amount of time spent practicing is inversely proportional to how well he does). Meanwhile, I am a geologybiology major, and this summer I’m going to be at field camp in Wyoming, South Dakota and Colorado, mapping rocks. I’m also working on a fun senior project dealing with dinosaur bones.

— M aria Matthew Colagiuri stopped by the Alumni Office to tell us: “I am very excited about being chosen as a member of the Whiffenpoofs of 1988. This is the culmination of three years’ work on musical theater at Yale Drama (thrown in between volleyball sessions). Who would’ve suspected that this would be the end result of my audition for West Side Story freshman year. It should prove quite a challenge — I’m the only Whiffenpoof who has never sung in a group at Yale before.

The last time I sang in a group was in the sixth grade when I was still a soprano. I’m also finishing my undergraduate degree in physical anthropology. What happens after that is anybody’s guess.”

85 MKA Miss P atti M cConnell 131 Harmon Cove Towers, Secaucus, NJ 07094 Class agent: Miss Loren M iller 1055 R iver Road, Apt. 5606 Edgewater, NJ 07020 The Alumni Office has learned that: Janet Phillips is a studio art major at Rollins and has been elected corresponding secretary of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

Marce Cullum has transferred to Holy Cross where she plays lacrosse and is very happy.

Alexis Polonofsky has joined Alpha Chi sorority at UVM. Tim Bizub has transferred from Gettysburg to Fairleigh Dickinson and is living at home.

Lori Rosenblum is also taking classes at Fairleigh Dickinson.

Robin Schwartz is now at New York University where she is majoring in architectural design.

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Ashley Fawcett is a member of Gamma Phi Beta at Colgate and is majoring in English with a minor in art history. She will spend the fall semester studying in London. Merri Ray is majoring in French at Colgate and will spend the fall semester in Dijon, France.

Rosie Akhami spent her January term in the Mojave Desert in Amboy, Calif., where she studied biology and ecology. She also hiked, climbed sand dunes, and just had a lot of fun in the sun. Back at snow-covered Colby College, she is pre-med, majoring in human development.

Karen Ladenheim had a 42-14 record for the Temple University fencing team, which finished second in the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships.

Dancer-choreographer Lea Kramer performed an evening Shabbat service at Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, South Orange, in May. The service was influenced by concepts of Japanese aesthetics. Lea attends the State University of New York at Purchase and studies dance at Peridance in New York City.

She has danced at workshops at Jacob’s Pillow and with the TWyla Tharp company. Lea recently choreographed a work for the dancers at Yale.

86 MKA Miss Sherry A hkam i 37 Virginia Avenue, Clifton, NJ 07012 Miss M arylouise Neary 27 Warren Place, Montclair, NJ 07042 Class agent: Miss Megan Cole 164 D evon Road, Essex Fells, NJ 07021 Joseph Kavesh was named to the dean’s list at Muhlenberg College last fall.

Alexandra Hrab was in Pinna’s “Today’s Fashions” as part of the freshman plays presented at Dickinson College.

Jenny Remington earned a 3.025 at Lehigh College and hopes to do even better next semester. She is also pledged at Alpha Phi sorority. She “absolutely” loves Lehigh!

Rebecca Link and Gaby Silla tell me that there is never a dull moment at N.Y.U. Rebecca lives right off 8th Street near Washington Square Park, and between classes she works as an Admissions tour guide. Gaby is a music major, and is also very proud of the fact that she has been given the opportunity to study under the instruction of opera singer Anna Moffo.

Mike Rosenblum and Anthony Salvanto were skiing in mid-January at Mt. Tremblant, Canada. In the late afternoon of their last day of skiing, following a heavy snowfall, Mike and Tony, along with four other skiers, were caught in an off-trail avalanche. Fortunately, the ski patrol arrived quickly, and they were dug out. The two spent the night at a local hospital under observation for mild frostbite and shock. Thankfully Mike and Tony recovered completely. They returned to their respective schools (Penn and Tufts) only one day late. On a lighter note, even through the avalanche, Mike’s hair was not out of place.

Damon Zeigler is doing well at Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania; he received a 3.65 GPA for the first semester. He thinks he’ll double major in economics and mathematics. He will play baseball this spring and pledge Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He has also been busy writing for

the sports section of the campus newspaper and participating in intramural sports.

Megan Cole is enjoying her P.G. year at The Loomis Chaffee School, and looks forward to college life, as she is in the process of applying right now. Although Megan’s family has moved to Florida, she will spend a lot of time in Montclair.

Dave Weston finished a successful season on Hobart’s varsity soccer team, and will be playing J.V. lacrosse this spring. He plans to major in biology. He pledged Sigma Chi fraternity and is having a great time.

— Sherry

87— --------- -MKA Miss Laura Baczko 102 H ighland Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042 Miss Ida Boodin 338 North M ountain Avenue Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Pam Fawcett and Christie Rabke also volunteered to be news conduits to the Alumni Office!

Ken Gilson’s famous slide show is the first contribution to the 1987 alumni archives.

Hockey Game Sat., D ecem b er 19 4:30-6 pm MKA Alumni vs Montclair High Alumni M ontclair Ice Rink

M arriages 1947 1956 1968 1969 1973 1974 1974 1975 1977 1977 1978 1978

Katherine Watt Gielow and Andrew Cangelosi Carol Barnard and Simon Ottenberg Katherine Tiernan and Peter Rooney John Patrick Lally and Ann Butler Bierbower Ellen Wahl and Edward Skibiak Leslie Aufzien and Peter Levine Elizabeth McBratney and F. Bogue Wallin Howard P. Johnson, Jr. and Nora L. Ryan David L. Kerr and Ruth Ann Warnell William Dalzell and Catherine Logan Susan Felber and Thomas Durkin Robert Harmon, Jr. and Lidia Soto

May 23, 1987 June, 1986 January 17, 1987 May 2, 1987 June 6, 1987 January 18, 1987 May 16, 1987 June 6, 1987 May 9, 1987 December 14, 1986 June 20, 1987 October 11, 1986

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Elsa Scripture Kidd Marion Clough Hall Jack H. Warner Mary Ellen Llewellyn Evans Harriett Stuart Joseph H. Oram Alfred P. Duffy Laurena Hart Redding Alicia Schwartz DeCamp Dorothy Vondermuhll Young Narcisse K. Cadgene Victor Baer Martin Dwyer, Jr. William G. Post

October 23, 1986 February 15, 1987 May 16, 1987 May 4, 1987 June 18, 1987 February 24, 1987 February 21, 1987 March 28, 1986 April 18, 1987 March 31, 1987 December, 1986 April 15, 1987

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