Fall 1992 MKA Alumni News

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C over: Scenes from Com m encem ent 1992 T o p to Bottom : Four M K A siblings: Loyd Godwin, ’9 0 with sisters Charry ’8 9, Serena ’9 2 (front) and

Gretchen ’88.

Like father, like son: Jane and Hal Cohen ’5 7 w ith son Kevin, Class o f ’92.

Trustee M artin Sorger and his wife, Susan, pose proudly with two alumni sons: Andrew (far left) ’88 and John ’92.

Rebecca ’9 2 and Deborah Hemsley ’89.

Lauren ’9 4 , Vince ’9 2 and Beth Visceglia ’89.

C o n ten ts From the Principal / 1 From the Board o f Trustees / 2 New appointments, farewells Dolven's W oods / 3 Com m encem ent Awards / 4-5 C um Laude Awards N ight Howard A V an Vleck ’2 2 T ribute / 6 N otes Around M K A / 7-8 Faculty Tributes Cougar Sports 1 991-92 Alumni Profile: Ellen M alcolm ’6 5 / 9 From the Alumni Association / 10 From the President Senior Breakfast 1992 Distinguished Alum ni Award / I I Class Notes / 12

The MKA Alumni Association is an organization of all men and women who have attended the school. Its purpose is to make known to MKA the ideas, interests, and concerns of alumni and to inform alumni of the accomplishments and objectives of MKA. The Alumni Council is the governing Board, a representative group elected at the Association’s annual meeting to sponsor events and activities linking alumni with their alma mater.

A l u m n i A s s o c ia t io n C o u n c il 1992-93 Joseph Alessi ’6 8, V ice President Susan M cIntosh Awerdick ’68 M ichael A. Baker ’59 Laura Bardett ’81 Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 Sara Close Crowther ’7 6 M artha Bonsai D ay ’7 4 , Executive V ice President Alan C . Deehan ’7 7 Robert H . Gardner ’7 8 , President Pamela Eastman Garvey ’80 Hugh J. Gleason ’75 Edward G . Healey ’7 7 Paul A M cFeeley ’7 6 , V ice President Peter M cM ullen ’7 7 , V ice President Kristine Hatzenbuhler O ’Connor ’83 J . D ean Paolucci ’7 3, Treasurer Rudolph G . Schlobohm ’7 4 , Vice President Anita Sims ’79 Ellen W ahl Skibiak ’7 3, Secretary Albert D . Van Eerde ’7 3 Lori W in d olf ’78 Peter R . Greer, Principal Ju d y Polonofsky, D irector o f External Affairs Christie Austin, Alumni Director

B o a rd o f T r u st ees 1992-93 Margaret Crawford Bridge ‘65 Peter J . B m ck Rose L. Cali M artha Bonsai D ay ’74 Robert H . Gardner ’78 Jo h n E. Garippa, Secretary Linda Garippa Ronald Gennace Peter R . Greer, Principal Thom as H . Hagoort Robert A H oonhout ’71 Jo h n L. Kidde ’52x Austin V . Koenen, President Robert S. Kramer Elizabeth M . Noonan Newton B. Schott Jr., V ice President Jodi Sm ith, V ice President M artin L. Sorger Jean N . Torjussen Eugene R . W ahl ’6 6, Treasurer

A d v is o r y T r u s t e e s Gail T o m ec Kerr ’52 Anne E. M uenster-Sinton Herbert H . T ate Jr. ’71

H o n o r a r y T r u st ees Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’5 4 Joseph A. Courter Susan H . Ruddick James S. Vandermade ’35

E d it o r s Christie Austin Susan Jones Ju d y Polonofsky

P h o t o C r e d it s C .C . Brimberg Susan Jones D an Katz Satoru Tsufura

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F rom T he P rincipal

time on M KA’s tradition? There are several reasons.

At the time I served with former Education Secretary, William J. Bennett, I reviewed a study that strongly indicated that the best schools believed in and sus­ tained their symbols and traditions. The M KA tradition helps us to become part o f something important that preceded us and that will follow us.

W e quickly learn that we all have an obligation not only to remember and share the tradition, but also to sustain the M KA tradition by our own efforts and by the daily conduct o f our lives. The M KA tradition provides us a common language and common tales when we meet as friends and colleagues at reunions. The M KA tradition is a benchmark for decision making — it enables us to maintain our academic and philosophical compass.

Those schools who deny their tradition or ignore it are apt to lose their center and their integrity — their wholeness.

N ot all tradition is positive or helpful. For example, I was a brother in a fraternity that encouraged tradi­ tional ways o f engaging in vicious hazing. The M KA tradition that is in need o f rejuvenation is good and positive. There is the tradition o f caring and talented faculty. There is the tradition o f active and supportive parents. There is the tradition o f passionate and creative alumni who helped Montclair Academy, The Kimberley School, Brookside School, and M KA to address fierce financial, academic, and other chal­ lenges. And, as Jason explained in his challenge to me, there is the tradition o f ritual -- o f customs.

I ask the alumni for ideas that will help us all to rejuvenate M KA’s tradition. Please talk to me or write. Tradition is not something to be pulled out at a 100th anniversary or at the time o f a “homecoming.”

Tradition must be part o f the daily life o f an institution and o f its graduates and must inspire, comfort, guide, remind, and hold the institution strictly accountable.

Tradition is the jelly that will hold us all together as a learning community called The Montclair Kimberley Academy.

A friend o f mine asked how I went about establish­ ing goals for The Montclair Kimberley Academy.

After considering my lengthy response to that ques­ tion, my friend remarked that the only interesting point I had made was that an M KA student had encouraged me to establish one special focus for this academic year.” That focus is the rejuvenation o f M KA’s long and rich tradition.

The student, Jason Tepperman, writing the lead editorial in the May, 1992 edition o f The Academy News, was persuasive as he described the importance o f M KA’s customs and MKA’s tradition: “All schools have their own traditions. These customs are what make each institution unique. Ours, such as Homecoming, are subtly woven into the fabric o f MKA. Perhaps it would be beneficial to reinstate some older rituals, ones which will emphasize our illustrious history.

These events are what makes our school so special. New traditions are wonderful, but those which we already have are what define our school. So, bring on the old, and bring out the new.”

It is far easier to wish for a rejuvenation o f MKA’s rich tradition than to will it to happen. M y tentative plans include the scouring o f the nooks and crannies for old photos, the framing and hanging o f photos in key places on the three campuses and in my office and home, and introducing a two-page synopsis o f W ithin These H alls for the use by all M KA staff and students.

Additionally, I plan to resurrect the use o f the MKA seal — “Knowledge, Vision, Integrity.” (To borrow from the dialogue between Sir Thomas More and Richard Rich in Robert Bolt’s play, A M an fo r A ll Seasons, three words that “are not bad company!”)

Students might be interested in a few independent study projects or might select a piece o f the M KA history for a school paper or as an article for a publication. Alumni might donate a few precious photos for an exhibit and to make every effort to attend reunions and to talk with M KA students.

Parents and alumni should read W ithin These H alls or, at least, peruse the synopsis.

W hy should we care so deeply and spend precious

Peter R Greer Principal 1

F rom T h e B oard O f T rustees The 1991-92 school year, my last as President o f the Board o f Trustees o f The Montclair Kimberley Academy, was an exciting and challeng­ ing one for our commu­ nity. I express my sincere thanks to those trustees who have retired, and my gratitude to the Commit­ tee on Trustees for their outstanding efforts in the nomination process for the Board.

Martha Bonsai Day ’74, Ronald E. Gennace, and Thomas H. Hagoort join the Board o f Trustees as new members in the Class o f 1995. Peter J. Bruck, an Advisory Trustee for the past two years, has been elected a voting member o f the Board, and Linda Garippa joins the Board in her new position as President o f the Parents’ Association. Re­ elected for a second term are John E. Garippa and John L. Kidde ’52x; Gail T . Kerr ’52 has been re-elected an Advisory Trustee. Anne Muenster-Sinton and Herbert Tate ’71 will also continue in service as Advisory Trustees. Dr. Peter R. Greer, our new Principal, will serve on the Board ex officio.

Peter J. Bruck and his wife Libby are the parents o f two M KA students: Amanda, in second grade, and Andrew, fourth grade. Peter is President o f Bruck & Franzese, Inc., a design and construction management firm in New York City. Libby has been very active in PAMKA for several years, most recently managing publicity for the 1991 fundraiser.

Martha Bonsai Day ’74 brings the perspective o f alumna, parent, and active Alumni Association volunteer.

Martha, who graduated from Bowdoin College, is Executive Vice President o f the textile firm Joshua L. Baily & Co. She has been on the Alumni Council since 1987, serving on the Fundraising Committee, as chair o f the Distinguished Alumni Award Committee, and currendy as Executive Vice President. Martha and her husband, Neal, have two children, Neal, 3, and Heather, in second grade at Brookside.

Linda Garippa joins the Board as President o f PAMKA. Linda has served countless hours as treasurer, chair o f the Primary School Book Fair, auction co-chair o f the “Starlight Cabaret” fundraiser in 1990, and as co­ chair o f the highly successful Brookside Capital Cam­ paign in 1989. She is a graduate o f Rutgers University.

Linda and her husband, John - himself an MKA trustee have a son, John, in fifth grade at the Middle School.

Ronald Gennace is a very involved parent at MKA. He and his wife, Stacey, have three children at the school: Lesleigh, in seventh grade, Philip, a freshman, and Gregory, a sopho­ more. Ron, a graduate o f Rutgers University, received his M .D . degree R on ald G ennace from New Jersey College o f Medicine.

Thomas Hagoort brings expertise from both international and public school systems. A general counsel with Albany International Corp., Tom is a graduate o f Harvard College and Harvard Law School, both with honors. He served as President o f the Thom as H agoort Montclair Board o f Education from 1966 to 1970 and six years as chairman o f the Board o f Trustees o f Mountainside Hospital. He was made President o f the Council and Foundation o f International Baccalaureate Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, in 1990 after being President and C EO o f IB O North America since 1980. Tom and his wife, Lois, have two married daughters and three granddaugh­ ters.

M KA’s retiring trustees together have provided over 25 years o f dedicated service to our school. A. Lawrence Gaydos joined the Board in 1984 as Advisory Trustee for Annual Giving and was elected a voting member in 1986. As Chairman o f the Buildings and Grounds Committee, Larry excelled, guiding us successfully through three major projects - the Middle School renovations, the Helmut E. Muenster Field on Upper Mountain Avenue, and the Brookside Campus expan­ sion. Larry’s expertise and good-natured spirit will be sorely missed.

James Magna was a jack-of-all trades during his six years on the Board. He served on the Nominating and Development committees early on in his trusteeship but found his real home on the Educational Policy and Student Life committees. W e are grateful to Jim for the energy and humor brought to each meeting, sporting event and activity.

Anne Muenster-Sinton has brought an outstanding business acumen as well as a deep personal commitment to MKA. She has served both the Finance and Buildings and Grounds committees very well over the years, and chaired the Nominating Committee. Although Anne is retiring as a voting member, she will continue with us as an Advisory Trustee hopefully well into the future. con tin u ed on p ag e 3

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Welcome back aboard, Anne!

Robyn Margolis joined the Board for the 1991-92 year in her position as President o f the Parents’ Association o f The Montclair Kimberley Academy. Her energy and leadership were welcome additions to the Board and the committees on which she served.

James A. Courter ’59 has served M KA well as an Advisory Trustee for many years. Always ready to lend support in those special situations which call for a unique wisdom and good judgment, Jim represents M KA and the Courter family extremely well. Thank you, Jim , for all you have done for MKA. Few people have left as lasting and vibrant an impression as Richard J. Dolven, M K A ’s Interim Principal for the 1 991-92 school year. Though his time with us was brief, D ick will long be remembered for his gentle wit, his firm and direct guidance and his personal commitment to making M K A the best possible place for our children. Under D ick’s leader­ ship, M K A has reached new heights. T o the gratitude o f our community for all he has done for us, I add D ick, it was an honor and a privilege to work with you. T hank you.

M K A ’s future is bright! Peter R. Greer, Principal, and Austin V . Koenen, President o f the Board o f

M arg aret B rid g e a n d D ick D olven F o r th e last fo u r years u n der th e presidency o f M arg aret B ridge, th e B o a rd o f T ru stees o f T h e M o n tcla ir K im b erley A cad em y has ben efitted fro m her stro ng leadership and guidance. T h a n k y ou , M arg aret, for giving generously o f y ou r tim e, expertise and k n o w l­ edge, an d fo r y o u r co n tin u ed c o m m itm e n t to M K A .

A u stin V K oen en , P resid en t

Trustees, have assumed the mantle o f leadership together. I wish for them, and for each o f us in the M K A community, most especially our children, countless successes in the years ahead.

M arg aret C raw ford B rid g e

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D olven's W oods

P rin cip a l D ick D olven h old s th e sign fo r h is tan g ible, lastin g legacy to M K A : D olv en ’s W oods.

Eighth graders w rote the follow in g dedication o f a year­ long outdoor education project.

M r. Dolven, you came into our school this year on an interim basis, and you were expected to simply hold down the fort until we could get someone in here to take the jo b on a full-time basis. You have done much more than that. Aside from strengthening school programs and winning the respect o f students and faculty alike, you have helped us in another major way.

Thanks to your help and support, the eighth grade class o f 1992 was able to construct a ropes course. M r.

Dolven stood by us and supported us throughout the

project. M r. Dolven even got a $ 2 2 ,0 0 0 grant from the Hayden Foundation to fund it for us.

M r. Dolven, we want to thank you for all your efforts and hard work. W ithout you the ropes course wouldn’t have been built. Thanks to you, we now have something that will be beneficial to everyone in years to come. W e will miss you greatly and we wish you the best o f luck.

T o thank you for all the wonderful things you did to make the ropes course possible, we are now dedicat­ ing these woods to you. These woods will always be known as Dolven’s Woods.

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C ommencement Awards

ETH EL M. SPURR AWARD for cooperation, responsibility, service and citizenship Marie D ’Amato

MARJORIE W INFIELD EASTER AWARD for sportsmanship, self-discipline and behind-the-scenes service Sharon Most

CO M M UN ITY SERVICE AWARD for positive action which shows unselfish concern for the larger community beyond school Laura Mamchur

BUD MEKEEL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP for a worthy senior Joanna Augustyn Ainsley Campbell

RO BERT C. HEM M ETER MEMORIAL AWARD for intellectual curiosity, love o f books and sports, and enthusiasm for living Enrique Neblett

RUDOLPH H. D EETJEN AWARD for athletics and academic achievement Chris Burchell Lisa Groudan

1992 Cum Laude Fifteen seniors and two faculty members were inducted into The Cum Laude Society in a formal candlelit ceremony in April.

Nixon Bicknell, President o f The Montclair Kimberley Academy Chapter, announced the names. The speaker was Dr. Luke A. Sarsfield, Superintendent of Schools in Rutherford and parent o f Luke Sarsfield III, ’9 1 .

L to R : F acu lty m em ber G eorge H rab, Jo a n n a A ugustyn, M atthew W irz, fa cu lty m em ber C alvin M atzke (p a rtially h id d en , rear), M elissa R oed el, E n riq u e N eblett, A lison K rou se, M arie D A m ato, B en n ett W irz, S haron M ost, M ich a el S am ojlik, D oreen O liver, A drien n e P h illip s, C heryl S in n er, D av id A ron ow , Jo sep h A d ler. M issin g fro m p h o to : A lison S chw artz.

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Awards TH E BARRAS ENGLISH PRIZE Bennett W itz

MODERN LANGUAGE PRIZE IN FRENCH Joanna Augustyn

MODERN LANGUAGE PRIZE IN SPANISH Adrienne Phillips

TH E NAZARIAN MATHEMATICS PRIZE

TH E MAESTRO THOMAS MICHALAK INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AWARD

Alison Krouse

TH E JAMES D. TIMMONS SCHOLARSHIP

TH E YALE SECONDARY SCHOOL BOOK AWARD Jason Pogorelec ’93

Jenna Blanes

HEADMASTER’S AWARDS Doreen Oliver Alison Schwartz Joh n Sorger

KLEIN AWARDS FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN ATHLETICS AND SCHOLARSHIP GRADE 12: Jennifer Lonsinger Douglas M unson

TH E G A DOWNSBROUGH SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP

Brian W echt ’93

Taurey Buffer

Joseph Adler

TH E WILLIAM H. MILLER SCIENCE PRIZE

TH E DARTMOUTH CLUB BOOK AWARD

GRADE 11:

Andrea Arria-DeVoe Solomon Steplight

GRADE 10:

M itchell Decter Candace Messinger

Enrique Neblett

TH E SMITH COLLEGE CLUB AWARD Laura Caprario ’93

TH E RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE MEDAL Sunil Mirchandani ’93

I.G.W .C. LITERARY AWARD Cheryl Sinner

TH E MONTCLAIR SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS AWARD David Aronow

TH E OSBORNE SCIENCE PRIZE Laura Caprario ’93

TH E HISTORY PRIZE

GRADE 9:

Joh n Eberhardt

TH E JACK RABUSE AWARD Jeffrey Glasser

FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS PRIZES ART: Eric Iversen MUSIC-VOCAL: Christopher Gaydos

TH E MARILYN FADEN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THEATRE ARTS Ainsley Campbell Liza Boglivi Alison Schwartz

TH E ELIZABETH O’NEIL FEAGLEY CREATIVITY AWARD Sue Jean Kim ‘93

FACULTY SCHOLAR AWARDS GRADE 11: Laura Caprario

Julie Porter Charles Kaplan

Rupali Gandhi Sunil Mirchandani Brian W echt

TH E AL STAPF AWARD James Ringwood

GRADE 10:

Lissa Bollettino Laura Hardman Allessandro Mangili Candace Messinger Benjamin Roth

GRADE 9:

Stacy Gannaway Kori Pirouz Benjam in Silverman Kristine Sova

HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PRIZE M ark Wheeler

TH E FRANK “PONCHO” BROGAN 7 2 MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Brian W echt ’93

RED AND BLACK SOCIETY Rupali Gandhi ’93 Brian W echt ’93

ORGANIZATION OF BLACK STUDENTS LEADERSHIP AWARD AND SCHOLARSHIP Keshia Trotm an

SENIOR ART EXHIBIT AWARD Eric Iversen

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TH E NEW JERSEY INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION AWARD M arni Schinman Daniel Solomon

A T ribute

H ow ard A .

V an V leck 2 2 a t d ed ica tio n o f h is p o rtra it, O ctober 1 9 8 7

H ow ard A. Van V leck ’2 2 1904 - 1992 N ixon B ick n ell M orn in g M eetin g M ay 2 6 , 1 9 9 2

Kimberley School moved to its Valley Road site where our Middle School is now - he helped redesign the landscaping. In the late fifties and sixties he was deeply involved in the design o f these buildings here on Lloyd Road and chose the stone that provides the handsome facing that enhances the appearance o f our school, acting as an unofficial clerk o f the works while construction was in progress. H e supervised and planned the plantings o f the many flowering shrubs and trees that we enjoy so much, particularly at this season. It was in landscaping that he had some o f his greatest joys.

Howard was happiest in old clothes with dirt on his hands, supervising and participating in garden work.

His beautiful home and magnificent grounds are on Van Vleck Street bounded by Upper and North M ountain avenues across from our Muenster Athletic Field. M any persons came daily to use his tennis courts or just enjoy the surroundings. They were always welcome, and - if Howard was at home - he would often come out for a word o f greeting and answer questions about the garden, answers which frequently were sprinkled with the complete Latin names o f flora and fauna.

Personally, I will miss his warm greeting and enthusiastic handshake. W e will all miss him terribly, for he loved his old alma mater, but he has left for us the finest legacy imaginable. Born to privilege and leisure, he devoted his life to duty and service, and those o f us remaining would do well to emulate such devotion. All o f you who attend this school are privileged. Take a moment today to look at Howard Van Vleck’s portrait in the library, think o f the difference his life has made and resolve to do some service to others also.

M any o f us go into our school library each day and on the fireplace wall we see the portrait o f a man with white hair, casually dressed and standing in an outdoor setting. Howard A. Van Vleck, M ontclair Academy Class o f 1922, died on M ay 5th in his 88th year, active and full o f plans to the end. Alumnus, trustee, friend and benefactor - his legacy to our school is worth examining for its many implications.

Howard’s grandfather, Joseph V an Vleck, was a founder o f M ontclair Academy; his father [Joseph Jr. ’93] and brother [Joseph 3rd T 9 ] were graduates, as were his two sons [Howard Jr. ’59 and Roy ’64]. His wife [Betty Tomlinson Van Vleck ’27] and two daughters [Anne Van Vleck Webb ’54 and Carolyn Van Vleck Edwards ’56] graduated from T he Kimberley School, all well before the merger in 1974.

Howard was born into privilege and wealth and spent the greater part o f his life giving his money, time and expertise back to the community and institutions that he loved.

This was a Renaissance man: art, architecture, landscape design, horticulture, music (his song for which he wrote both words and music was sung at his funeral), and portraiture were among the many interests and talents that made him so important to this community. Outside o f M ontclair he had major commitments to such nationwide organizations as the Boy Scouts o f America and Planned Parenthood.

O nly a year ago he was instrumental in helping Planned Parenthood o f Essex County acquire its new M ontclair office.

His church, where our Commencement exercises are held, the art museum, and this school were close to his heart and he gave more than generously o f his time and money to the buildings and grounds. W hen T h e

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N otes Around M ka Farewell Tributes Excerpts fro m the year-end faculty m eeting.

John Noble The Name Says It All From retirem en t speech by G eorge H rab

Margaret Crawford Bridge ’6 5 , President o f the Board o f T r u s t e e s ,^ thanked Principal Dick Dolven for his co m m itm en t, devotion o f tim e, and sharing o f experience and love, w hich fostered a very successful, calm year at M K A . [See separate article, “D o lven’s W o o d s.”]

Betw een these tw o nonpareil educators, B ickn ell and N o ble, w e have m ore than

T h e P rincipal announced the retirem ents o f three longtim e m em bers o f the faculty: Nixon Bicknell, “a perfectionist o f the old school, whose

5 0 years o f tradition, stability, and

pursuit o f excellence enabled students to m ake a quality o f m usic they never dream ed o f

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m ovem ent to young students and order to traffic at B rookside”; and

R adio C ity M u sic H all. T h in k o f that!

John Noble, “a rarity w ith a perspective o f timelessness, w ho freed m in d and soul through his gift o f w ords to others.”

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Jo h n , your actions and deeds at this school for the past quarter-plus century have spoken volum es about you.

Audrey Gelston From Halls o f Ivy to a Parachute From song by Jo y ce A ppelqu ist

Y o u r students have honored you w ith their appreciation and the ultim ate h o n o r for a teacher - n o t ju st once, b u t tw ice - w ith yearbook dedications. T h e first cam e from M K A ’s first graduating class, the Class o f ’7 5 , and the second in ’8 6 , show ing how you’ve

Audrey w orked under five different headmistresses during her 2 4 years at

m aintained you r effort and co m m itm en t throughout the years.

Brookside. Sh e taught phys. ed and

I rem em ber being stru ck w ith the rich m ultifaceted nature

“scheduled the school...w as a traffic cop, an engineer, a runner for plays, a cavalier,

em bodied in one m an: teacher, sportsm an, athlete, coach, m inister, p o e t....It is in view ing Jo h n as a poet that one could see how he

M o n tclair’s own colleen...patience o f a saint

developed that marvelous succinctness o f thought and expression

w ith kids and grown-ups too. H ik ed the Appalachian T rail. I f anybody

w hich can cu t like a rapier through any and all (bleep). A ll w ho

needs a friend, you w on’t fin d one that’s truer...she can orchestrate,

have w orked w ith h im have som e fon d m em ory o f Jo h n ’s brutal

illum inate, exasperate, incorporate, facilitate, com passionate, and w hen there’s a jo b left to do, the volunteer is you-know -w ho.”

and pithy honesty in faculty m eetings or athletic contests.

Nixon Bicknell The School Ambassador F rom speech by Jo h n R abke

deem ed w orthy o f effort and co m m itm en t, the ever-ready burst o f

Jo h n N o ble: D eep passion and total co m m itm en t to everything raw and heartfelt laughter, deep interest and involvem ent in soccer.

W h e n all is said and done, it’s Jo h n ’s passion fo r w ords that N ixo n , w e know where you are f r o m ,,.,

com es through m ost, be they words in his English classes, in his

although you’ve tried to hide your accent for

innum erable college recom m endation letters, in his poem s, or in his

2 7 years....W hen I arrived years ago, I learned tw o things very quickly: R espect for this dapper,

duties as m inister. I ’ll never forget that image o f h im am bling (and

dedicated, and dem anding teacher. I learned,

podium , staring dow n the crowd, getting h im self set, and then

N ixo n , th at y ou care about the kids and

delivering the words always perfect for that occasion.

program s at M K A , how they look, how they act, bu t m ore im portant, w ho they are and w hat they will becom e.

[E d. n ote: Jo h n N oble d ied tw o w eeks later, on Ju ly 1, 1 9 9 2 .]

I do m ean am bling, in that athletic jo c k way o f his) up to the

T h e second thing was F ear. W o e be it to that overzealous parent w ho began to applaud during a concert before you had finished, or clapped w hen a son or daughter received a diplom a. Result: T he B ick n ell L ook.

T h e m usical m em ories are m any. T h e old m orn ing m eetings w ith a

D ic k D olven thanked Assistant Principal Jean Gisriel - the “M K A

selection from P ilgrim H ym nal, the school song, the m usicals, the organ

factotum ” - for the hu m or, spirit and cheer she brought to any

at graduation, the w inter and spring concerts w ith songs ranging from

gathering. F ro m buses and dinners to interviews and coaching, Je a n did

carols and G regorian chants to the sounds o f basketball games and ticker

it all, “often in furs, jew els and w ith panache.” H e r zest fo r travel and a

tape m achines.

party w ere legendary. T o the sportsw om an, coach, needlepointer,

W e all appreciate your w ork w ith the senior projects, and w ho could

raconteur, voracious collector: thanks, appreciation, and best wishes.

ever forget the sonorous voice ann ou ncin g C u m Laude and C om m encem ent?

A t Brookside, Barbara Rabuse announced the departure o f L yn n RitchkofF, w ho brought w it, w arm th, caring and a sense o f hu m or to

O n e o f your m ost outstanding contribu tion s is you r w ork w ith the

the cam pus as she w orked w ith people and unexpected challenges, w rote

M astersingers, true ambassadors o f our school. T h e cu lm ination had to

poem s for every occasion (“a w alking thesaurus”) and edited the newsletter.

be at the 1 9 8 9 International Y o u th C onferen ce in France. A fter a truly m oving selection from L es M isérables, there was a thunderous ovation

A t the M id dle School, Normie Dickerson thanked Donna Carrara

and n o t a dry F ren ch eye in the house. T h e Fren ch headm aster said,

for “a w hirlw ind 13 years” o f sharing her inquiring m in d and incredible

“V o u s A m éricains, vous êtes trop forts.” T h a t m eans, “Y o u ’re too

know ledge o f language arts. M K A rejoices w ith her as D o n n a becom es

m uch , the greatest,” or in today’s jargon , “aw esome.” N ixo n , Vous êtes

D irecto r o f the Low er Sch o ol o f Far H ills C o u n try D ay. A fter 11 years

trop fo r t.

at the M K A M id dle School, 10 as head o f the science departm ent,

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C ougar Sports 1 9 9 1 -9 2 Commie (Blauvelt) Carluccio is m oving to

IT ’S A LL IN T H E GAM E

N o rth C arolin a as her husband retires. W e will miss her cheerful ways and fabulous roles in the Faculty Follies.

Karen Vaisman Kiev, w ho taught fifth and sixth grade science for three years w ith caring, sensitivity, and great organization is

BO YS’ SO C C E R MVP

B O Y S ’ F E N C IN G MVP

Ingrid Ramos

Edwin Kim

Eric Kusseluk

M IP

M IP

M IP

Tara Grossbard

Cliff Finkle

C o ach ’s Award

Sunil Mirchandani Bennett W irz

C o a ch ’s Award

Kimberly Fischer

C o a ch ’s Award

m oving w ith her new husband to Philadelphia. D on Pitt, w ho did an

Ari Terry

incredible jo b w ith num erous students in

G IR L S ’ S O C C E R MVP

language arts and com puters, will w ork closer

VO LLEYBALL MVP

Brian W echt G IR L S ’ B A S K E T B A L L MVP

to hom e. Betsy Davis was wished m u ch jo y

Doreen Oliver

Lisa Groudan Jennifer Lonsinger

o n her m aternity leave.

M IP

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A t the U pper School, T im Saburn wished

Rebecca Strenz

Cayce Cummins

good lu ck to part-tim e L atin teacher George

C o ach ’s Award

C o ach ’s Award

Harriston, a “w arm , caring, gende teacher.”

H e also wished Stephanie Naticchia well in

Candace Messinger

Lisa Groudan

gift for classroom teaching and coaching field

B O Y S’ BA SK ETBA LL MVP

Alison Krouse

hockey, basketball and lacrosse.

Jason Deblinger

M IP

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announced that tw o reliable, courteous receptionists were departing, M ary Tulp to retire and Charlotte Byrne to be m arried.

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Ki Paschal

C o ach ’s Award

C o ach ’s Award

G IR L S ’ T E N N IS MVP

G IR L S ’ S W IM M IN G MVP

Jim Ringwood

Siobhan Mulvey M IP

Jennifer Goldman C o ach ’s Award

C o ach ’s Award

Stacy Gannaway

Melissa Roedel

B O Y S ’ S W IM M IN G MVP

C R O SS C O U N TR Y MVP

Brendan Mulvey

Chris Burchell

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Dhruv Singhal

James Lepow

C o ach ’s Award

C o ach ’s Award

Martin Chen

Brian W echt

Dorothy F. Martin

IC E H O C K E Y MVP

FO O TBA LL MVP

Peter Benedict

Doug Munson

energy a n d zest for

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life ...th e capacity

Mark Davidson

Peter Barrett James Staedler

to type, answ er th e

C o a ch ’s Award

telep h o n e, c h e ck a

Jason Pogorelec

C o ach ’s Award

Christopher Burchell

FO O TBA LL C H E E R L E A D IN G MVP

S K IIN G MVP

Jenna Blanes

M IP

great rap p ort w ith faculty, parents and

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Jill Finkle Coach’s Award Alison Raymond

Richard Sutter

stud ents a lik e ....S h e was fu n to b e w ith

solve a stu d en t’s p ro b lem w ith in m in u tes. S h e h ad

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and e n jo y ed a g oo d jo k e . O n H allow een D o t w en t alon g dressed as a m e m b e r o f C o lo n e l C o o p e r’s S W A T

Damien Vena

C o ach ’s Award

T e a m an d loo ked so g oo d she stole th e

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show . W e en jo y ed h e r D r . S p o ck

Kim Cohen

advice, h e r D r . R u th advice, and her

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D o ro th y M a r tin advice, th a t b ein g th e best.

Iren e M oran , a t M em orial S erv ice

C o a ch ’s Award

Jennifer Seelig B O Y S’ BA SEBA LL MVP

Lisa Groudan

study hall list and

Candy Messinger

A.J. Royce

M IP

D o t h a d k in etic

M IP

Patricia Stem

Marni Schinman Jessica Ball

In M em oriam

C o a ch ’s Award

Jim Cirello G IR L S ’ S O F T B A L L MVP

F IE L D H O C K E Y MVP

Allegra Slyder

John Sorger

Rebecca Strenz

her new pursuits, no tin g her devotion and

Business M anager Richard Sunshine

G O LF MVP

C o a ch ’s Award

Mark Wheeler B O Y S ’ T E N N IS MVP

Mike Castine Kevin Cohen M IP

Vadim Sarma C o a ch ’s Award

Jason Barr IN D O O R T R A C K MVP

Keshia Trotm an G IR L S ’ L A C R O S S E MVP

Jennifer Lonsinger M IP

Kristen Noell C o a ch ’s Award

Laura Mamchur B O Y S’ LA C RO SSE MVP

Jordan Safirstein M IP

Solomon Steplight

G IR L S ’ F E N C IN G MVP

Gene W ahl

M am i Schinman M IP C o ach ’s Award

Caroline Russo

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Zach M cLarty

Carolyn Seugling

Jane Lee

Carrie D i Stephano Coach’s Award Genessa Keith

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C o a ch ’s Award

F rom T he Alumni A ssociation The Woman Behind The Seats

P eo p le m agazin e [M ay 1 8 , 1 9 9 2 ] ca lled E llen M alcolm ’6 5 “a fa ir y g od m oth er to fem in ist p o liticia n s. ”

“I look forward to the day when people are so used to seeing women in government, you don’t even need an EMILY’S List. ”

Roberts o f Oregon, and Senator Barbara Mikulski o f Maryland.

T h e future E M IL Y founder grew up watching a committee-minded family volunteer in the M ontclair community. At Kimberley, she was president o f the senior class and was known as a “persuasive, strongwilled individualist [and] sympathetic listener” [quotes from the yearbook]. Ellen went on to earn an A.B. in psychology from Hollins College in 1969.

This May, during celebration o f the college’s 150th year, she delivered the commencement address and was awarded an honorary D octor o f Humane Letters.

In her address, Ellen referred to the lack o f role models for women when she was growing up, and urged the graduates to enter business and politics, to “hurry up, come and help those o f us that need you.”

Ellen also earned an M .B.A . from George W ash­ ington University in W ashington, D .C ., where she worked for groups including Com m on Cause, Cambodia Relief Agency, and the National W om en’s Political Caucus. She was press secretary for Esther Peterson, President Carter’s special assistant for Consumer Affairs. In 1980 Ellen founded a private philanthropy called the W indom Fund, a foundation that seeks to promote equal opportunity. B y the mid-’80s, to quote Morley Safer, “the anonymous liberal philanthropist turned activist.”

This year - with some $5 million to distribute E M IL Y 5s List will make a significant impact on governor, House and Senate election results. Ellen said in People, “W om en candidates are becoming lightning rods for voter frustration,” and predicts a record number o f women will be elected in 1992.

Ellen - now on center stage for E M IL Y - is waiting in the wings for her candidates to take their bows.

E llen M alcolm , on ‘60 M inutes. ’ Politics and women - or more precisely, women in politics - are hot topics in the news this year, due in large part to Kimberley alumna Ellen Malcolm ’65.

Ellen herself has been in the news as founder and president o f E M IL Y ’s List, the nation’s most power­ ful political network and fundraising organization for women.

E M IL Y 5s List stands for Early M oney Is Like Yeast: “It makes the dough rise,” quips Ellen. She has appeared on 60 M inutes and in P eople and M irabella magazines, describing the group’s work to raise money for Democratic, pro-choice, “electable” women in the early months o f their campaigns, when they need it most.

Seed money buys a higher profile, and visibility equals viability,” states M irabella.

Ellen, after years o f political action in Washington, determined the need for “early money” and founded E M IL Y 5s List in 1985. She describes it as “a strategic political way to make a difference.” E M IL Y informs members o f issues and gives money and tactical advice to candidates. In 1990 the group raised $1.5 million from 6 ,0 0 0 members. By July this year, in the wake o f the Hill-Thom as confrontation and Ellen’s coverage in the media, membership had risen to over 16,000. (E M IL Y received more than 2 ,0 0 0 phone calls in the two days after Ellen’s interview on 60 M inutes.) E M IL Y is credited with helping elect governors Ann Richards o f Texas and Barbara

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From T h e Alum ni President M a n y than ks to past A lu m n i A ssociatio n P resid ent Robert A. H oonh ou t ’7 1 , w h o retires this year fro m th e A lu m n i C o u n cil. B o b served tw o term s as T reasu rer an d tw o as P resid ent, guid in g th e A ssociatio n to new an d energized activities. M K A is fortu n ate th at B o b w ill co n tin u e to serve as a T m s te e . W e also th a n k Melissa C ohn Paprin ’7 8 , w ho resigned to spend m o re tim e w ith business and m o th erh o o d .

T h e A ssociatio n was pleased to d on ate $ 1 ,0 0 0 to th e R o b e rt C . H e m m e te r M em o ria l Scholarship an d to c o n trib ­ u te to th e U p p er S c h o o l land scaping b y th e fro n t en trance.

W e also su p p orted th e sen ior y earb o o k and th e P A M K A fundraiser, “T h e S k y ’s T h e L im it,” b y d on atin g an M K A ch air, 'W ithin T hese H alls, and a C o u g ar p o n ch o to th e

L ocal alu m n i an d guests A va Z ebrow ski, Jo n an d Sara Close C row ther ’7 6, Joh n Lagasi 7 4 (rear), an d M ichael Z ebrow ski ’ 71 enjoy the A lum ni A ssociation 2 n d A nnual A pril F ool’s D ay Party.

au ction .

O n e o f th e goals o f th e A lu m n i C o u n c il is netw orking.

T o th a t en d w e help w ith H o m e co m in g an d reu nion s, th e A lu m n i H o c k e y G a m e , and C areer D ay . T h is year w e also sponsored th e “S e co n d A n n u al” A pril F o o l’s D a y Party (actu ally th e first) to help reestablish co n n ectio n s am o n g local alu m ni. I t was th e m o st fu n any one has had o n a W e d n e s­ day n ig h t in years! W e h o p e to m ak e this an ann u al event.

W e w elcom e all alu m n i p articip atio n in o u r events an d activities!

R o b e rt H . G a rd n e r ’7 8 A lu m n i A ssociatio n Presid ent

Senior Breakfast Y ou r A lm a M ater Needs You T h e M K A A lu m n i C o u n cil w elcom ed th e C lass o f 1 9 9 2 in to th e A lu m n i A ssociatio n at th e S e n io r B reakfast o n A pril 2 9 . M artha Bonsai D ay ’7 4 , A ssociatio n E xecutive V ic e P resid ent, and M argaret Crawford Bridge ’6 5 , P resid ent o f th e B o ard o f T ru stees, spoke ab o u t alu m ni activities, th e special “alu m n i c o n n e ctio n ” betw een graduates and th e sch oo l, an d th e rewards o f involvem ent.

P rincip al D ic k D o lv en w ished th e class w ell, and d elightedly presented th e tradition al M K A gift fo r th e m to

V arious styles o f listenin g to the B reakfast speakers, rear, L to R : Serena G odw in, M am i Shinm an, Amy Jon es, A llegro Slyder, Saurabh A garw al, Scott W einer (partially hidden ), E nrique N eblett, C ourtneay D ow rick, facu lty m em ber R obert Sinner (partially hidden ). F ron t: Seth Shanin g Jen Sutter.

tak e o f f to college - a laundry bag w ith each sen ior’s

D oug M unson (R ) helps distribu te g ijts to K elly N orton, M egan C ain an d Jen Sutter. In the rear, J e f f G losser.

C hris Gaydos, K eshia Trotm an, an d A drienne P hillips look fo r nam es on the g ift to seniors - a laundry bag w ith the signatures o f the Class o f ’9 2.

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1992 D istinguished A lumni Award

M ich ael S. Y am ashita ’6 7 T h e M ontclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Association is pleased to present the 1992 D istin­ guished Alumni Award to M ichael S. Yamashita, a photographer whose exquisite work has graced the world’s most demanding and prestigious publications.

And for all his expertise, the most remarkable aspect o f his distinguished career is that M ichael is self-taught.

After graduating from M ontclair Academy, Michael attended Wesleyan University, where he received a B.A. in Asian History in 1971. H e became interested in photography after graduation and pursued his interest with a passion. This dedication evolved into assignments around the globe. Michael is on the road six months o f the year for a variety o f editorial and commercial clients, including The N ation al G eographic M agazine, Traveler, T ravel an d Leisure and Signature.

O n one assignment for N ation al G eographic M ichael explored Japanese gardens. His results were so outstanding that selections were showcased in a major exhibition on Medieval Japan at the East Building o f the National Gallery in Washington, D .C . in 1988. His Japanese garden prints are on perma­ nent display at the National Arboretum in Washing­ ton and at the Los Angeles County Museum o f Art. Although his work has taken him from home in M endham to six continents, M ichael’s specialty is Asia, and he spent six years living in Japan, Singapore, Thailand and H ong Kong. H e is fluent in Japanese and counts N ikon Cameras, D ai Nippon Printing, Shimizu Construction, and Northwest and Singapore

Airlines as his major clients.

M ichael’s own book, In a Japan ese G arden - whose text was written by his wife, Elizabeth Bibb - was published by Starwood Publishing this year. H e also contributed to three D ay in the L ife o f ______ books (Japan, America, and Italy), and to more than a dozen N ation al G eographic books. H e spent a year covering the Canada-U.S. border as the sole photographer for

Lakes P eaks an d Prairies.

M ichael has received awards from a variety o f professional organizations and is a frequent speaker at photographic seminars and workshops. Despite his vigorous international shooting schedule, he has generously returned to M K A several times to speak at Career Day. H e has shared the glamour and occupa­ tional hazards o f a professional photographer while relating his experiences “shooting” an American plastic surgery team in Ecuador, retracing the Long M arch in China, and riding the O rient Express from London to Istanbul.

M ichael’s unassuming eloquence and glorious photographs will no doubt inspire students and alumni alike when he receives the Distinguished Alumni Award at Homecoming. W e hope it is particularly rewarding to M ichael since he will be celebrating his 25th reunion with other members o f the Class o f 1967.

Joseph A lessi ’6 8 D istinguished A lum ni A w ard Com m ittee C hairm an

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C lass N o tes Editors Note As those o f you in classes that have secretaries already realize, we use one official mailing each year to obtain news, which is in the FALL magazine. SP R IN G magazine Class Notes are taken from reunion, holiday, and phonathon news, the flap on the Annual Giving remittance envelope, and the “Grapevine” on the inside back cover. Although the items m ight seem “old,” we have found that m ost people love to read news whenever. T h e tím e lapse is unavoidable, as the processing o f Class Notes from secretary to Alumni O ffice to classmates to secretary to Alum ni O ffice to typesetter to printer covers a 14-to -16 week period! Please remember that you can send a note to your class secretary or to the Alumni O ffice anytime.

T o those o f you whose class has no secretary, how would you like to volunteer? T h e jo b has been simplified to the point that you will probably find it downright enjoyable! It is no exaggeration to say that the position o f class secretary, like that o f class agent and reunion chairman, is absolutely essential to the vitality o f the school.

Please consider it.

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M rs. Ju lian M iller (Ju lia H aw kins) 18 Shannon T errace, Easton M D 21601 Julian and Ju lia Hawkins M iller have moved into a retirement place in Easton, M d., near their farm on the Miles River, “which draws our children and ‘grands’ to our area.

“I had a wonderful letter from Georgie Chaffin Foresm an, but I haven’t heard from anyone else. A move from a house where we lived in Pittsburgh for almost 50 years is devastating, but it was wise and we will be happy as we get used to it. Greetings to all.”

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O ur condolences to the family o f Catherine Meeks. K it put up a gallant fight against Parkinson’s, kept her spirits, and never lost her sense o f humor.

Had a great visit with G inny H am ilton Adair in her home in Clarem ont, Calif. W e talked steadily for several days and had a hilarious time reminiscing. Also spent some time at her very livable cabin in W rightwood.

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Riegel Jr. Joseph H odgson’s son B ob wrote that Joe suffered a stroke in November, is improving, and has been moved to a nursing hom e near his sister H elen H odgson M cLellan ’3 7 in Metarie, La. All Jo e’s friends are encouraged to send their greetings.

M rs. Joh n E . H olt (D orothy Ayres) 189 N orth B igelow R d, H am pton C T 0 6 2 4 7

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M any thanks to R obert (“Peanuts”) D orrill for his many years as class scribe. I f anyone would like to pick up the pen, please notify the Alumni Office.

O u r condolences to the family o f Clem ent W . Eddy.

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E m ily Parsons Ridgway writes, “A t my advanced age I am fortunate to be alive, in good health, and able to walk a lot and travel, as well as enjoying 11 grandchildren, some o f whom travel with m e along with parents.”

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M rs. R ichard D um ont (M arjorieK ieselbach) M eadow Lakes, H ightstow n, N J 08520 M argaret Penick N uttle writes, “I have just subtracted ’3 0 from ’9 2 and am surprised, considering the accumulation o f years, that I can still w rite....The year is divided between Maryland - m y adopted state where I have now lived over half my life - and Florida during the winter. So far I am enjoying m y own home, although a widow after 5 0 years o f marriage, and rejoice over visits from three adult offspring and two (perfect) grandsons....

I hear from K ay W eb b Perry from time to time. She is in Newport, R .I. with her husband W alter. After wintering in St. Maartens for many years, they have added Florida, so last

Literary Grandfather “T ed H olm es is the only creative w riting teacher I ever h ad w ho w as q u alified to teach creative w ritin g an d he w as a very excitin g teacher. ” Stephen K ing T h e B angor D aily N ew s ran a break-page profile o f Edward M. Holmes ’2 9 in April, calling him “literary grandfather to a hearty line o f M aine writers.” Ted, who has taught in M aine high schools and, since 1 956, at the University o f M aine, is credited w ith being “a m ajor influence on a whole generation o f new realists.” His classes and hom e soirees provoked “rich discussions and debates about politics and art...and sensible and thoughtfrd advice to young writers.”

O n e o f those young writers was Stephen King, M aine class o f ’7 0, o f whom T ed says, “H e was a good craftsman when he started. H e gives me a great deal o f credit for helping him , but, I mean, it wasn’t difficult. And he wrote and wrote and wrote."

T e d ’s own writing includes three collections o f M aine Coast short stories, two works o f literary criticism, years o f magazine articles, and a soon-to-be-published novel. T h e article notes, “Holmes wasn’t published until after he was 4 0. As with m any who grew up during the Great Depression, Holmes had to defer his pursuits o f writing.”

His varied jobs included stints as a seaman on schooners, runner on W all Street, stage and shipyard carpenter, business manager o f a health association, organizer o f a fishermen’s cooperative, and as a drummer “in a tourist-third-class band aboard two French ocean liners.” T e d was so m uch “a Renaissance man at heart,” that when first hired as a teacher, he taught physics, plane geometry, algebra and French, plus English.

T ed recalls that he always had an interest in narrative writing, and that back in the 1920s as editor o f M ontclair Academy’s On Bounds magazine (title from the days as a military school) he caused “stormy” consternation when he changed it from news to a literary magazine. T h e result was that a pure newspaper, T he N ew s, was started. T ed was also managing editor o f the 1929 Ye Y earebooke. H e majored in English at D artm outh and later earned a P h.D . at Brown University.

Professor Holmes continues as Lecturer in Honors at the University o f M aine and edits fiction for the literary magazine P otato Eyes. T w o o f his three daughters and two grandchildren live nearby. T h e Bangor article admiringly concluded that, though Holmes is “from away,” he “seems to have been granted honorary status as a Mainer...whose gentle, quirky tales reveal a keen eye and a lifelong love for the coast and its people.”

spring we had a delightful day o f reminiscence.

“I am in touch too with Jeanette Van Wie Smith who, though somewhat housebound, maintains a sharp game o f bridge and is as usual delightful company.”

Francis and Chara Church Phillips have “the best o f all possible worlds” w ith a house o f their own (four m onths in Siesta Key) and the security o f living in a “Life Care” apartment at Harrogate in Lakewood, N .J., where they are “near friends and our boat moored in Barnegat Bay in front o f the condom inium in which we once lived, as yet unsold. Any takers?” T hey were looking forward to an annual trip with friends, this year down the Mississipppi.

O ur condolences to the family o f Barbara

Berry Morgan.

Marjorie Kieselbach Dumont had a hectic spring w ith two weeks o f house guests, movers, auctioneer, and the move to Meadow Lakes.

She was lucky to sell her house.

Patricia Laurence Cone reports all good news. “Great-grandchildren are springing up about me. There are ten to date, with three ‘in the oven.’ And great-grandchildren are great.

You don’t have to babysit them , you just enjoy, and remember birthdays and, o f course, Christmas.

“1 continue to live in the house in which my husband, Ed Cone, grew up - also his sister,

Helen Cone Kelly, who was in our class. Ed died several years ago. H elen is in a nursing home.

“1 see Cynthia Fries and Gert Bradley Jenkins ’31 fairly often. W e ‘do lunch’ together. T h ey are both in fine fettle. I am still deeply involved with the Studio Players as a

member o f the Board o f Managers, publications manager, box office some o f the time, the ‘oldest living member’!”

MA M r. C. Irvin g P orter B ox 27 5 0 , Q uaker H ill R d., U nity M E 04988

A Writer Reflects From a U tter to the class secretary from P atricia C lapp L au ren ce C one 3 0 : As Patricia Clapp I have had seven books published, all in the “junior literature” (!) category. T h e film rights to one o f them have been optioned by W alt Disney Productions.

W hether it will ever come to pass - who knows?

I talked at M K A recently to a group o f aspiring writers. T h e young people today are so

serious! T h ey made m e feel rather flippant in m y attitude toward being a “professional writer.” It seemed they could not understand that I lik e “putting words on paper” - so I do it.

I remember m y 11 years in Kimberley with great pleasure! Blowing the soda straw wrappers across the room at the Academy boys in H uber’s - or was it W ittrock’s? I was pretty good at dancing around the maypole with all .those streamers to interweave, and when I was editor o f the Opus S criben di I had to sit in the front o f the auditorium and read it out loud, since there was only one copy. I wonder where it is now.

I f I hadn’t had to take m ath and Latin, I would have been totally happy! I use m y fingers now for math, plus a small calculator. As for Latin, I haven’t had to speak it in years!

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M rs. Jerom e D rew (Jesse T aylor) 1 0 7 6 S. E . St. L u cie B lvd., Stu art FL 3 4 9 9 6 From the 21 letters sent out, I have heard from 10 alumnae. T h a t’s pretty good. Thanks.

Baynard and Tavie R oberts Allis moved to a retirement hom e in Newton Square, Pa. last July. T hey are happy there and are glad they made the move. T h ey celebrated their 50th with all but one o f their 2 0 progeny over a weekend.

N ancy H olton Bartow says she does and sees more now that she is living in Kendal. She saw Tavie last winter at her new home. N ancy is in touch with Virginia D eG olyer M axson’s son who is very interested in his m other’s M ontclair years.

Sue Strassburger Anderson is in a nursing home. She is near her daughter, plays bridge, and “gets along.”

D ell Halsey Bell keeps busy after the death o f her husband. She is in a retirement home in Naples, plays golf on the three-hole golf course, but also plays 18 holes at her club. She went to Arizona w ith two daughters and spouses in M arch and had a trip to Alaska last summer.

She volunteers at the local health center and planned to spend the summer in Little Com pton, R .I. G ood for you, Dell!

Zaida Jon es D illon vacationed in La Jolla, Cal., visiting her daughter Diana and her Flemish husband. Zaida has said “N o ” to giving book reviews at her local Beaufort library; she did this for six years.

Eileen Halligan Form an takes yoga lessons, does volunteer work and stays in touch with family and friends. She was to be East this summer visiting a son and daughter.

T h e authorities in Port Royal found a uranium spill in a house two doors down from Irene (Nikki) Burbank Frell. Fortunately no serious radiation exposure was reported.

Eleanor Vreeland (Ronnie) M cK n ig h t says the W om en’s Club keeps her busy. She will have five (5!!) great-grandchildren by Christ­ mas. Ronnie was laid up for two m onths with a broken ankle but friends and family helped out.

She loves T V but has given up gardening.

Harold and Blanche Cosgrove Raynor moved to Sebastian two years ago, on the intercoastal waterway. T hey enjoy theater and shows and the beach, and are willing to drive most o f the way down to Stuart and have lunch w ith the Drews. Blanche and Jerry discovered they lived across the street from one another in Montclair.

Jerry went with her older sister and was always known as “Jerom e.” Blanche was amazed to find out w ho he was.

M y sister V irginia T aylor W agner lost her husband last year. She leads a pleasant but uneventful life. She works in the local hospital starting duties at 5 a.m.! G inny and I both went to Shrewsbury, N .J. for the memorial service for our oldest sister Libby T aylor

Randall ’2 3. Libby was 86 when she died and had led a fine full life, so the service was more a celebration o f a life than a funeral.

T h e m ost interesting thing Jesse T aylor D rew did this year was serve on the grand jury o f M artin County, three days a m onth for seven months. A real eye-opener! T h en I was on the search comm ittee for our new rector, and in M ay went to M t. Holyoke College for the graduation o f our youngest granddaughter, who received honors. Jerry and I play cribbage each day after lunch. I walk two miles a day before breakfast, but otherwise we are quite inactive.

social values so necessary to be able to function in our present society.’S | H elen and Dave Stanley took a Smithsonian Institution tour called “Red Sea Passage” in M arch, living on ship and sightseeing in Egypt and Jordan. T hey are proud great-grandparents o f a baby boy, Ryan, born in Seattle in September.

Fred Stickel reports that he is still practicing law after 52 years, enjoying it, and swimming half mile a day at the local Y. H e and H an k D orem us are going fishing in Labrador in September.

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M ary reports that there’s lots to do. She is making new friends, keeping busy, and is on the Executive Com m ittee o f the Forum , the residents’ committee.

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M rs. D avid H avilan d (B arbara Spadone) 10 C restm ont Rd. A pt. 3B , M on tclair N J 07042 Last spring in Naples, Fla., I had a delightful talk with Irene (Nikki) B urbank Frell ’31 after having not seen her since we were both at Kimberley. W e vowed to lunch together in January when we are scheduled to return. W e had many ties; her older sister Ellen was a good friend o f m y sister’s.

Arlyn (Terry) Bull Sterling, who lives next to us in Naples in the winter, had family and business ties with Irene’s parents the Burbanks and m y family knew them too here in Montclair.

Irene has kept up a lively interest in Kimberley and sees her classmate D ell Halsey B ell when in Naples. H er hom e is in a lovely section o f Naples and her husband’s medical practice is there.

W e lost a good friend this spring - Gay W illiams Baldwin, who taught at Kimberley for awhile and was a wonderful neighbor in M ontclair; her children were friends o f ours.

She will be very much missed. B arbara

TKS MA O ur condolences to the family o f Ellenor Vandermade V an Deventer.

Condolences also to Elizabeth B arrett Spence on the death o f her husband, Harold, and to M ollie H ollins W oodw orth on the death o f her husband, Douglas.

Elizabeth D ixo n V ogt moved from Los Altos to a new hom e in Redwood City, Calif.

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After college Louis went into teaching in the inner city o f Los Angeles. “It was a wonderful experience. I was into counseling. W orking with mentally deprived boys and girls was most rewarding, to see them begin to take on the

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Harold and Jeannette B ell W inters spent the summer o f 1991 being shown the wonders o f Minnesota, including a young friend’s 3 ,0 0 0 mechanized acres o f wild rice. T h ey spend time in Florida, at their Eastern Shore farm, and attend Elderhostels. Harold has a patent on a new hybiscus plant being grown commercially, called “Sweet Caroline.”

Jean B lack Jennings still plays tennis at least twice a week and travels with tennis friends.

Last February ten o f them did the Galapagos Islands on a yacht, “just us with five crew. A wonderful, educational week. M uch hiking on

the islands and lots o f snorkeling w ith many sea lions. W e continued on to Peru and visited M achu Picchu. T h e awe and mystery o f that ancient Inca civilization has to be seen to be felt and then never understood.”./!* MA Jerom e L. Yesko, a Hackensack trial attorney, received the Bergen County annual B oat Jumpers Award for outstanding service.

T h e Boat Jumpers organization honors those pioneers o f the Italian com m unity who immigrated to this country; present trustees are the second and third generation descendants.

Jerom e is a former N .J. Assemblyman, and was chairman o f the Com m ittee on Insurance.

36 M rs. W. K ent Schm id (Josephin e M urray) 4 4 N auyaugP t. R d., M ystic C T 06355 Elizabeth How e Glaze says it was wonderful to see her special class friends in August in Manasquan. “Sorry that m ore o f you don’t live closer to join us for yearly reunions.”

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R uth D u ff Eager received the Health Citizen o f the Year Award from the Associated Physicians o f M ontclair this spring. She was cited for her 3 0 consecutive years o f volunteer work for Mountainside Hospital - more than 1 8 ,0 0 0 hours o f service. During R uth’s 12-year tenure as president, the Auxiliary has contrib­ uted more than $ 5 7 5 ,0 0 0 .

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Volunteer of Joy Jo y O ’N eil B an ta 3 9 sent a long letter to h er class secretary w hich w ep rin t verbatim .

M y news is the same. A m still in Jupiter, Fla., still working with M exican migrants.

Madame M oser would be upset about my Español though...I teach them C .C .D . (that’s religion) and you simply get involved in their whole lives.

W e have Masses at the campesino, go to the hospitals and clinics with them, supply food and clothes, Christmas parties, baptisms, confirmation, comm union, deaths. N ine got killed this year in an auto accident, and, well, you get very, very involved. Even births! O ne nun d elivered a baby in thefield s. Yes, really. She said that was as close to th at as she wanted to be. A riot!

It grows to be a “love” affair and I am the one on the receiving end. T h e children are beautiful.

People are so good. W e have a treat at M cD onald’s every now and then for the migrant children. People just walk up and hand me money for them. T h e last I used to send one 14-year-old girl to a “clown ministry” weekend seminar up in Vero.

She had the time o f her life.

From B ruce Swenson via C huck M cG inley: Last O ctober Bruce attended the dedication o f the M artin Dw yer Jr. Sports Medicine Room in the Payne W hitney Gymnasium at Yale University. T h e room was created as a memorial to Marty, who died in 1987. As an undergraduate, M arty had earned varsity letters in football and track and he continued an active interest in Yale throughout his life. H e was class reunion co-chairman and active in alumni affairs.

From Bruce Swenson him self in April, a brief note claiming no changes. H e and N ancy (Tiernan Swenson ’42) continue to live in Texas, “replete with grandchildren and dogs!”

B ridg H u n t reported that he and Esther were “lucky enough to have a boat in ‘O p Sail ‘9 2 ’” and their catboat S elin a //would be in the parade July 4 in New York Harbor. O n the 5 th, joined by M aty and Peter Funk, they were to head for Boston in tim e for the Parade o f Sail in Boston H arbor on July 11.

T ed V an Buren writes that he and his wife returned from a trip to Egypt “after inspecting every tom b and pyramid along the Nile from top to bottom .” In retirement, the Van Burens divide their time between M arco Island, Fla., and Greenwich, C onn., golfing, fishing, and “losing at bridge.” A new granddaughter arrived in January in Salt Lake C ity to join a brother, 2 1/2, and sister, 7. T ed says his son in Baltimore has a stepdaughter who just got married, so there’s hope for a step-greatgrandchild. T h e only classmate he sees is El C arter who still lives in Tenafly.

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program, D ynam ic V ocabulary!, has hit the bookstores or can be ordered through Penton Overseas, Inc. T h e jacket copy reads, “Peter Funk, a lexical semanticist o f Funk and W agnall’s prominence, writes the famous R eader’s D igest feature, ‘It Pays T o Increase Your W ord Power,’ known world-wide to over 5 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 readers each m onth.’J s Peter also has a children’s book in the works and is contemplating two novels. T o celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, M ary and Peter “are taking all 3 2 o f us on a three-day W alt Disney cruise in November on the Red Ship.”

Congratulations to the Funks on all o f the above.

A1 Pels keeps active with the ski patrol and in comm unity efforts in Hancock, N .H . In May, he and Betty went to New Jersey to the installation o f their son, Jim , to head the M ontclair Ski Club, o f which A1 was one o f the founding fathers. T h e next weekend they went with Gerry and Bud Lyle to attend a concert in Francestown, N .H ., featuring the return o f Bud’s grandmother’s piano to the concert stage after an interval o f 8 0 years. W hen not chasing childhood pianos, the Lyles summer in M aine and go south to spend their winters in New Hampshire.

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M rs. Jam es F. C. H yde, Jr . (E n id G risw old) 5 4 0 2 D uvall D rive, B ethesda M D 2 0 8 1 6 Bill and H elen H anau Breen are expectant grandparents - B ill Jr. ’7 3 and Lise in O ctober, K en ’7 9 x and Terri, November. Bill Sr., not retired, heads a sports marketing firm and loves it. H elen still runs the Country Store at the Crane House and chairs the Garden Club civic beautification comm ittee and the town Advisory Com m ittee. B ill Jr. is editor o f G arbage Magazine (environmental) in Mass.; T im ’75 works for E SP N Cable in L A ; Ken works at Saachi & Saachi, N Y C , lives in Bloomfield.

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W elcome T o O ur N ew est A lumni T he C lass Of 1992

Kevin Cohen.................................................WashingtonUniversity Kimberly Cohen............................... Skidmore College Gerald D’Amato...............................................VillanovaUniversity Marie D’Amato..............................Middlebury College Victor D’Amato..................................................... IthacaCollege Jason Deblinger...................................................RutgersCollege Courtneay Dowrick..........................................WesleyanUniversity John Eberhardt........................................................ DukeUniversity Sari Ehrenkranz................ University of Rhode Island Amos Elberg.................................................... WesleyanUniversity Adam Ertel..................... Franklin & Marshall College Ramy Fayed.......................................... Boston College Joseph Ferrara............................University of Vermont Max Fierst................................................................. YaleUniversity Clifford Finkle......................................................LehighUniversity Melissa Fitzgibbon...............................................LehighUniversity Leanne Franks......................................................... BatesCollege Christopher Gaydos..............................................BrownUniversity Jeffrey Glasser..........................................................YaleUniversity Serena Godwin...................University of Pennsylvania Adam Goldberg...........George Washington University Alessandra Goodkin......................................... SyracuseUniversity

Joseph Adler....Massachusetts Institute o f Technology Saurabh Agarwal...............................................

Boston University David Aronow...............................................................TuftsUniversity Joanna Augustyn..................................................ColumbiaUniversity Peter Benedict............................................................HobartCollege Jennifer Blanes.................................................GeorgetownUniversity Liza Boglivi................................................................Boston University Jon Bombardieri...................University o f Rhode Island Amy Bressler..............................................................EmoryUniversity Christopher Burchell...................... Trinity College (CT) Taurey Butler......................................................DartmouthCollege Wendy Byrd................................................... University o f Pennsylvania Megan Cain..................................University o f Vermont Ainsley Campbell...................................................CarletonCollege Gerard Caputo............................................................Boston University Kristi Carrara.............................St. Lawrence University Melanie Carroll.................................. .Colgate University Michael Cerino................... University o f Rhode Island Martin Chen................................... University o f Virginia James Chi........................................................ University o f Pennsylvania Won Hee Cho..........................................................RutgersCollege James Cirello.....................Franklin & Marshall College

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Lisa Groudan.................... ...............Princeton University Rebecca Hemsley..................................................Wheaton College Stacey Honstedt................... ............................. Colgate University Eric Iversen............................... ....... Maryland Institute of Art Amy Jones.................................. ................................... Duke University Thomas Kaim................ ... y..... University of Vermont JoonKang..................... .... Jl. ....... University of Chicago Adam Kent.................... ...ill................ .Tulane University Christopher Koh............ .....a . .............Lafayette College Alison Krouse............... ____ili........................ Duke University Y usef Laguerre.............................!........................... Rutgers College Jane Lee....................................... ........................Columbia University Joseph Lee.................................. ....................................... Boston College Julie Lee....................................... .................... New York University Michael Leichtner.............. ...................University of Vermont Daniel Liu.................................. ..................................... Rutgers College Jennifer Lonsinger............ ........................Princeton University Laura Mamchur.................... ................... University of Vermont Robyn McGrath................... ...................College of Holy Cross Stacy Robin Meranus.... ............... .University of Michigan Sharon Most............................. . . . College of William & Mary Douglas Munson................. ...................... Princeton University

Daniel Napolitano.................... University of Colorado Sanjay Nayar........................................................ .TrinityCollege Enrique Neblett.....................................................BrownUniversity Kelly Norton.......................................................... AlfredUniversity Doreen Oliver............................................................YaleUniversity Nahder Pajoohi............George Washington University Alpen Patel..................................New York University Nimali Patel.................... Franklin & Marshall College Adrienne Phillips.................................................. BrownUniversity Ingrid Ramos........................................................ BostonCollege Alison Raymond.............................................. SkidmoreCollege James Ringwood.............................Spring Hill College Melissa Roedel........................................................ DukeUniversity Janet Rosen................................... University of Miami Caroline Russo...............................................Undecided Tamar Safer....................................... Skidmore College Atoosa Salimi..............................New York University Michael Samojlik...............................................CarletonCollege Marni Schinman...................................................... DukeUniversity Alison Schwartz...............................................WesleyanUniversity Jennifer Seelig..................................................... RutgersCollege Seth Shaning........................................................ RutgersCollege

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Nicole Silver............... .............Princeton University Cheryl Sinner.............. College of William & Mary Allegra Slyder............. ............Swarthmore College Daniel Solomon.......... ....Johns Hopkins University Bianca Soprano........... ................ Boston University John Sorger.................. ........... Muhlenberg College Patricia Stem............... ............Wesleyan University Jennifer Sutter............. ................ Boston University Ari Terry...................... ....... University of Michigan Keshia Trotman........... ................. Spelman College Ann Marie Verdiramo. ..... St. Lawrence University Vincent Visceglia....... ................... Boston College Jeffrey Visotsky.......... .................Stonehill College Eugene Wahl............... ...................... Ithaca College Scott Weiner................ ... Johns Hopkins University Bennett Wirz............... ..............Stanford University Matthew Wirz.............. ............ Columbia University Marla Wuebbens......... ....University of Connecticut

Phoenix, where they had lived for six years in the 1960's. T hey also explored Carlsbad Caverns. T his summer they visited children, grandchildren and Howard Dodd in New Hampshire.

Betty and Dick Carrie purchased a tennis villa at Sea Oaks in Vero Beach, Fla. T h ey would welcome any classmates there during the late fell and winter and also at Pt. Pleasant Beach next summer.

Dale and Howard Dodd saw our 50th reunion guest Howard Parker and his wife, D otty, in M elbourne, Fla., and were taken to dinner at the Patrick A ir Force Officers Club.

Howard (Dodd) reports, “T h ey are a terrific couple and we had a great tim e.” O u r class President keeps busy as Real Property Steward for the Connecticut State S.A .R ., in charge o f upkeep o f three historic Revolutionary period buildings. H e is also secretary o f the New London S A .R . and is on the planning and zoning commission in Groton.: >, Charlie Holmes retired last M ay after 32 years o f teaching and administrative work at Transylvania U . in Lexington, Ky. H e plans to audit graduate courses in history and political science at the U . o f Kentucky.

Siby and Perry Minton took in the 50th reunion for Nutley High Sjjkool in November, after which she went to Germ any to be with their daughter for the birth o f their first grandchild. T his year they have done a great deal o f traveling in California and to Mexico.

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8 2 W est R oad, Short H ills N J07078 M r. W illard K luge O ne Seneca P lace, U pper M on tclair N J 07043 Jo y and Jim Prescott spend half the year in Denville, N .J. and M ay through O ctober at their shore house in M aine. T h ey m oor their 30-ft. cruiser in Christmas Cove, where they see Dave and Ann Reppert Lewis ’43 and Lois and

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44 MA M r. W in terfordJ. O hland 4 A hler’s Lane, B lairstow n N J07825 Michael Poydinecz is developing Lost Pine Village, the gateway to Adantic City, in oneand two-acre building plots.

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Frances John son Furlong '42 - here presen ting the Sm ith C ollege B ook A w ard to Laura C aprario ’9 3 - drew g reat applause a t M KA A w ards N ight w hen she announced th at she was a K im berley alum na an d was lookin g fow ard to her 50 th reunion this fa ll Condolences to Barbara Sm illie Curtis on the death o f her husband, Peter, in January.

Mary Batt Taylor reported the birth o f her first grandchild, Eliza Taylor W hite, to daughter R obin in San Francisco in January.

B y May, M ary and her husband, Arnett, had visited them twice. T heir son Ken is a marine biologist who also lives in San Francisco. Mary and Arnett continue in their Shaklee business.

T hey went on a mailboat going up the coast o f Norway with M ary’s sister, Peg Palmer, and her husband.

Gloria Camick Ewing wrote that her mother died in M arch at the age o f 95. Gloria’s granddaughter, Robyn Shanley, is with a health care firm in Denville, N .J. Another granddaughter, K im Ewing, is a junior at the U . o f Florida, and K im ’s brother, Brad, is in the Coast Guard, stationed at Governor’s Island.

Gloria herself is an avid tennis player and golfer at Ft. Myers, Fla. in the winter and at M t.

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MA M r. Jam es M ackey 2 1 3 G eneva Street, E lizabeth N J 0 7 2 0 6 O ur condolences to the family o f John O. Henry.

T ed Brohl is whizzing along with his writing and has another new book o f poetry/short-short stories published by Vantage Press, In A F in e Frenzy R olling. H e graciously sent a copy to the M K A archives. T ed has been invited by several local schools to read his poetry and discuss the subject w ith several middle and high school classes, says, “It helps me feel I am giving something back to the com m unity.”

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Leigh Berrien Smith reports on her “K ’45 m onth o f September”: to N antucket for lunch with Nancy Nevins D ’Anjou; a glimpse o f Anne Reighley Ferguson (the Fergusons are excited first-grandparents); a visit from George and Jeanne Talbot Sawutz. And, as usual, Leigh has been corresponding with Judy Shearer Turnbull, Rudd Trimble Kenvin, Sue Ailing Miller and Pat Driver Shuttleworth. In addition to our class, Leigh also sees Sally Sanders Appenzellar ’4 2 , Joan Ailing Wuerth ’4 1 , Kit Eavenson Sanders ’4 1 , Nancy Lockerty Hoffmann ’4 6 and Petey Hofmann Reade ’4 7 . Leigh is “still writing for the Garden Club and Library League and not doing a whole lot besides that, except g olf from April to O ctober”... and Voter service chair for L W V M V ...and publicity person for the Library League.

Nancy Nevins D’Anjou sent a couple o f notes during the year; she keeps in touch with Leigh and Judy and spoke o f the Nantucket lunch. She doesn’t, however, say one word about her own self or activities.

Josie Murphy Rayermann called with much news: that day was their 4 0 th wedding anniversary; E d has just retired; elder son Patrick, who has been in Germany for four years, is to be promoted to M ajor and will be home in O ctober and who-knows-where next; younger son/Navy pilot Richard and wife Em m a expect their first child in July. Josie’s m other is now 102, and Josie keeps busy visiting her at the retirement home and also with the San M arino W om en’s Club and the garden club, o f which she is treasurer. She saw Rudd in January.

Rudd T rim b le Kenvin writes she is now president o f the Board o f their condominium community. She and Roger are hoping, for their 40th , to cruise the Black Sea in the fell.

Roger continues his writing and has had several short stories published already this year. Their elder daughter Brooke received her R .N . (with highest grade point average in the class) and now works at LA County/USC Medical Center. In January Rudd drove from Iowa to M aine with younger daughter Heather, who is now director o f alumni affairs for Bowdoin

College, and who, o f necessity, is maintaining a “comm uting marriage” with husband T o m still on the faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa. T h e Kenvins will visit Mass, and M aine in the spring on the way to their N .H . farm.

Nancy Brown Pracher says that although Jo h n has retired, her “days always seem to be full. I ’m convinced that wives never really retire.” She volunteers at the library and hospital, plays bridge, and w ith Jo h n enjoys their 2 7 ' sailboat. W h at w ith this year’s floods, : “the only way to get to the boat at the marina was by boat, the lake being 3 6 fe e t above norm al.” T h ey visited the Caribbean last year and were about to take o ff for Albuquerque/ Santa Fe. T hey’re pleased that daughter Lynne, now in Louisiana, is within a day’s drive.

O n a more somber note, we extend sympathy to Judy Shearer Turnbull, whose older bother, Ralph ’4 2 , died in 1991; to Anne Reighley Ferguson on the death o f her sister Janet Reighley McIntyre ’3 9; and to the family o f B etty Specht ’4 4 . I was saddened to read o f her death in the last M K A A lum ni N ew s, and recall with such pleasure, and now poignancy, her visit to Palos Verdes with her two daughters a couple o f years ago.

In addition to the above correspondences and calls, I have had several visits with m y sister, Sheila Feagley James ’4 3 ; letters from my cousin, Joy O ’Neil Banta ’3 9 ; a visit from my cousin Hayden O ’Neil ’4 6 and a card, this very day, saying he and Pat were o ff to Europe. Also, it was a great pleasure to have Roger and Rudd Trim ble Kenvin and daughter Brooke attend our 1992 New Year’s D ay party.

Last, news o f the W ittels family: Husband Jerry, retired, continues happily with music classes, plays clarinet and saxophone in two bands, and plays tennis. Daughter Laura lives in San Francisco. Son Steve, in Bakersfield, is to be married in August. Jerry and I did go to Baja last July to see the total eclipse, truly a once-in-a-lifetime event. Having completed my term as an elected trustee o f the library district, I now have more time for painting. I continue as a trustee o f the Museum o f N eon Art and am involved in two painting groups and some truly part-time com m unity activities.

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Connie Ritchie DuHamel’s first “darling” grandbaby, Katherine Young, was born to

Robert and Elizabeth DuHamel Williams ’78 last July. She writes, “Four o f us Kimberley ’4 6 had a marvelous time together at Mary Ketcham ’s wedding, daughter o f Jack and Eleanor Helm Ketcham. It was held at the Helm/Ketcham House on M artha’s Vineyard.

Abby Keebler Ryan, Nancy Lockerty Hoffmann, Eleanor and I had such fun together, w ith husbands there a big plus.

Eleanor and Jack, Mrs. H elm and Jo h n [see M A ’48] made us all feel wonderfully welcome at the pretty church and reception on the lawn overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

“Young and I stayed w ith Bill and Nancy Lockerty Hoffmann. T heir son Jim just married in California in M arch; two older sons are in business together in H ong K ong.”

T o m and Heidi Ames Troxell’s first grandchild was born to Sarah Troxell Winokur ’7 4 x in April 1991, Cole Ames by name.

Heidi, Abby, Connie and Andy Schneidewing Walker got together for a “hilarious” lunch in February.

MA William F. Brown ’4 6 , author o f T he W izwinner o f seven Tonys on Broadway - has finished updating his libretto for the show which began a new tour starring Stephanie Mills in Atlanta in August. T h en Dallas, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, M em phis, Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, W ashington, Kansas City, and possibly London. D on’t m iss it!

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It seems I just finished this column and here I am again. I ’m never sure what tense to use as I ’m writing this in M ay and you’ll read it in September. I choose the present.

A t the m om ent I ’m sitting at the Lyric Stage in Boston where Dave and I are rehearsing for “T h e M an W h o Cam e to D inner” which will run four weeks in June. W e play husband and wife. I was the zany m other in “Isn’t It Rom antic?” last fall, played the real-life roles o f m other and grandmother when all the family were home at Christmas, was a “mature” factory worker for the New Irish Theater in M arch, took part in a comedy at church in April and now this. Last fall Dave and I were “extras” in the Steve M artin-G oldie Hawn film “Housesitters” - Dave for one m onth, I only one day! W e look forward to being in Lakeville this summer, for R & R and family visits.

I had a neat phone conversation with Patty Cox Mansfield who had just returned from Connecticut. She happened to see Anne Dudley G ill ’4 8 while there. Though Peter’s retired, Patty is still an active realtor in the

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W eston area. T heir youngest - and only daughter - was married last September with the reception at the Mansfields’ beloved Cataum et home. A t the last minute B ill and Jeannie Frey Drake couldn’t make it.

Patty has three granddaughters, one for each son. She and Peter visited the newlyweds for a m onth in the Bay area, took several side trips.

O n e o f the highlights was a reunion with Herb and Bar Nash Hanson, having dinner near San Francisco. Patty says Bar looks great.

Bar sent along the Hanson Christmas letter, written before they went o ff to H ong K ong for the holidays, which they found different and fascinating. Bar and nine other gals went to the Galapagos Islands in February to swim (with sea lions!), hike, and take in all the unusual birds, animals and vegetation. An addition to the Hanson ranch last year was a race horse who has been very successful and was to run at Santa Anita.

Bar and Teeny Redfield Sander keep in close touch. T eeny spent the winter in Florida with all family visiting at various times, including her mother, 9 0. T een went to Sanibel to visit Dave and Cindy Youngman Adams, meeting their friends and birding and canoeing. T een hopes to go to Europe this fall with her sister Jane Redfield Forsberg ’52 and husband.

T hey might cross paths with Court and Midge Bethell Cross who will be in Florence in O ctober w ith the W orld Presidents Organization for a conference, followed by a trip to Positano and Amalfi. In June the Crosses plan another antique car tour, this time in Court’s 1913 Pierce Arrow, to northern California and Oregon, with 5 0 other pre-1915 cars.

All is fine with Gray and Cyn Overton Blandy. Dave and I helped them celebrate their 4 0th anniversary and spent a delightful Easter afternoon with them. T hey had just returned from a swing south to visit children. T hey’re looking forward to a trip to Ireland in July.

I wish I could fit in all Petey Hofmann Reade’s long letter. T h e Reades spent a joyous Christmas in Texas with son Jo h n and family, Easter w ith N ed and wife at Trinity-Pawling School, and visited Kate and family in D .C .

T hey’re looking forward to a M ay visit from Joh n , Masum i and Lisa and Masum i’s parents from Japan whom they’ve never met.

Petey is increasingly involved in the Episcopal Church, in her own parish, state, and nationally. She was a delegate to the 1991 N at’l Episcopal Church W om en and since has spent m uch time addressing church groups, sharing the experience. Ed is also an active volunteer, so life for them is “rich and full.”

Comer Fisk Polak has had good press coverage in the Sarasota area for her patented Cord Caddie. She has a trademark and has incorporated Com er & C o. to manufacture it, Congratulations to our C E O ! All three o f her children have babies due this summer which will make five grandchildren. Anne and Stephen have girls born just three weeks apart in 1989. Such timing.

I ’ve seen Joan Cook a couple o f times. She

came to see the Irish play and spent the night with us. T his M ay Cookie’s o ff on a theater tour in London with the Concord Players and will stay a few extra days to sightsee and attend the Chelsea Flower Show.

Sue Harrison Schumann wrote that their new log house should be ready in Aspen this summer. Arizona will remain their winter hom e, but they expect to have a couple o f weeks o f skiing at the new house this winter. Sue still rides horses. She lost a long-time favorite, but has two other geldings and two mares. Ford ’4 4 x is busy painting, oversees the house­ building and the racing business. Sons M ark and Gregg and families visited Aspen last summer; Kristin lives in Scottsdale so they see her often.

I was surprised and pleased to receive a letter from Helen Drysdale ’48x, or “Driz” as m ost o f us called her. She is a photographer o f some renown in D el M ar, Calif., exhibiting and snapping prominent clients under the name H .

Montgomery-Drysdale. She ran into Sue and Ford at the local recycling center two years ago; they tried several times to “reune,” but schedules didn’t mesh.

Last year Driz was in touch with Bar Hanson in Palm Desert and the Hansons got to one o f Driz’s exhibits. She found that the Hansons live practically next door to “one o f m y most favorite people and a delightful client,” Ginger Rogers. W e are urged to read Ginger’s autobiography as it’s ‘‘a guide to the era we all appreciated.”

Thanks, faithful contributors. Whatsammatta with the rest o f you? N ext time, right? W eezie

T h e Jun e issue o f L ife magazine ran a beautiful article on M ontclair’s Presby M em orial Iris Gardens titled, “An Iridescence o f Iris.” T h e subhead read, “For 65 years the citizens o f a New Jersey town have cultivated a people’s park, proudly nurturing the world’s largest historical collection o f Irid aceae .”

T h e inspiration, author and cultivator o f the article was L ife assistant editor

Janet Mason ’48.

John Helm is President o f the Board o f N E D A C , a counseling agency in Montclair, Verona, and Livingston. Lynn Towner Dodd ’5 4 has joined the Board, too.

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MA Allan Toub - who still practices podiatric medicine and surgery - teaches Judaic history, theology, and medical bioethics at Tem ple Sinai Religious School, and a course on musical nationalism at the So. Orange-Maplewood Adult School. H e reports, “T h e MillerM onson teaching techniques worked on a very recalcitrant bunch (32) o f 7th graders this year.

I was switched to that class to impart order out o f chaos. I had them working hard and mostly enjoying it despite their moans o f protest that I was too exacting. In fact I actually gave a few hard-earned A ’s both terms, surprising everyone. T h e m ost popular subject was the medical bioethics.”

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N orthgate R oad, M endham N J 07945 Patty and Rudy D eetjen’s younger son, Cliff, a graduate student at U . o f Maryland School o f Architecture, has announced his engagement.

T heir older son, Leif, lives in N orth Carolina and builds homes in the Raleigh-Durham area.

George Weilepp “retired to golf course living” in Tyler, Texas, but is a consultant with the U .S. Army Medical Corps, State o f Calif., and Veterans’ Administration. H e remarried in 1983, wife’s name Peggy. Daughter Anne is completing Cornell M ed. School and will do an orthopedic surgical residency in N Y C ; son Steve is doing a graduate course in Physical Therapy.

George says, “Call me if you want a free second opinion in orthopedic, rehabilitative surgery or sports medicine.”

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Ed. note: Apologies to Gail and to Susie Bailey Twyford, whose news was inadvertently omitted from the last issue. W e include it here: Susie Bailey Twyford has become a wellknown artist in the W ashington and Virginia area. She loves horses, understands them, and paints them beautifully. She also teaches and will have a show in November. Susie’s son and daughter are grown.

Joan Jacobus Miller has survived the Chicago flood and was looking forward to their annual sojourn in M aine. T h ey had fun with Bob and Susie Twyford who were in Chicago in April.

T h e Twyfords had a great time and loved seeing “so many elegánt examples o f early modern architecture.” After returning to W ashington, they looked forward to a visit from Miriam Eustis Irwin and two o f her daughters, Catherine ’7 4 and Margaret ’90.

M iriam was picking up Margaret at the U . o f Richmond.

Pat Overton Lee is very busy with their inn Birch H ill In n in Manchester, V t. - in case any wandering classmates are looking for a comfortable, low-key place to visit. It’s a sevenday-a-week job most o f the year. T h e Lees enjoy their kids and five grandchildren when they can manage it.

Anne LaBastille was busy every weekend this summer with autograph sessions for her new book, T he W ilderness W orld o f A nne L aB astille.

She still lives in the Adirondacks.

Ju lia Smith Gentry sent a long letter detailing their travels around the country to visit their five children, 14 grandchildren, and various relatives. T hey spent Christmas with Baxter’s parents in Florida, with son Baxter III and grandson Baxter IV - four generations together! T heir youngest daughter, Dorabeth, gave birth to a 13 lb. 5 .6 oz boy in M arch; son M ike graduated from Franklin U . on Easter Sunday. T heir children from the Solom on Islands will visit from Jun e to January 1993, inspiring a family reunion. Baxter planned to take six or seven grandchildren backpacking in U tah - and Julia planned to setde into their new home. “W ho said life settles into a dull routine when you get older.”

Last fall, after our reunion, Eric and I stopped in Beaufort, S.C . and had lunch with Bruce and Audrey Carroll McBratney ’5 0 at their beautiful house overlooking a marsh. T o m and Judy Frost Costikyan were there. In February I was in Boca Grande, Fla. visiting m y mother; Susan Dear Ross ’52 was there visiting her mother. Such fun to see her. Spent a day with Nancy Ehrhardt Bambara. W e sailed from Siesta Key for a picnic and a long walk on the beach.

O n the way hom e I visited Jack and Nancy Jones Trescot on the shore o f the St. Jo h n ’s River in East Palatka, Fla., not a resort feeling at all, more like S.C . I hadn’t seen Ja ck since their wedding; what a neat guy. I loved seeing them.

Also had a quick visit in H obe Sound with Judy M erck Buechner ’50x. She had m et someone who knew our old fifth-grade teacher, Charlotte Nolan Crawford.

After a M ay trip to Ireland w ith a group and a professional photographer to learn how to take pictures, I had a visit from Susie Forstm ann Kealy ’55. W e hadn’t seen each other in 41 years!

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Class secretary an d reunion co-chairm an : M rs. E dw ard C. F aw cett (Fay T aft) 9 G ordon P lace, M on tclair N J 07042 R eunion co-chairm an: M rs. D avid K err ( G ail Tom ec) 21 H illbu ry R d., Essex F ells N J 07021 Anne Dw yer M ilne marked her calendar months ago and is looking forward to a good turnout at reunion! She and N orm ’s second grandchild, Beth, was born in July 1991. Anne is now a trustee at Colby Sawyer College and o f the N .H . Episcopal Diocese and the Currier Gallery o f Art. David and N ancy B ooth Kelly announce the engagement o f both their oldest and youngest sons. N ancy is fine now, but she had arthroscopic surgery on her knee after being attacked by a pack o f wild dogs while walking.

Nancy and G ail T o m e c K err have completed five years o f being class fund agents for Sm ith College.

Dave and Gail spent two weeks this spring sailing in the Grenadines with another couple.

T hey went “bare boating” (you are the crew) on a 4 3 ' boat, pulling into all the big islands. T h e Kerrs have two grandchildren who live nearby.

I had a wonderful visit with Babs Pendleton D onnell who was in M ontclair visiting her mother. Babs enjoyed her second year teaching sixth grade reading and English in a regular classroom. Daughter Jane works as a legal advocate for battered women in Cleveland. Son Cal has opened his own studio in Hoboken, Cal Donnell Photography, and will be married in O ctober. Daughter Bridget and husband have a daughter who was baptized by her Granddad Jim . “Meggie” joins brother Kyle, 4.

George and Jean Brisbane Boveroux have moved to New Haverhill, N .H . to an old, old house that boasts a root cellar.

B ob and Ja n e Redfield Forsberg’s son B ob Jr. was married in M ay in Newport, R .I. T he newlyweds live in his condo in H oboken.

I, Fay T a ft Fawcett, Ned, and daughter Ashley ’85 spent a wonderful weekend skiing with B ob and Jane at their condo in Sugarloaf, M e. N ed and I did lots o f skiing this winter since Ned is now retired. H e left: IB M Jan. 1 after his 2 5 th IB M anniversary and you never saw anyone happier.

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M rs. Thom as Burgin (L olly P enick) 3 2 8 Fairw ay R oad R idgew ood N J 07450 M argaret M cV ay M cC om bs is in her 12th year as a realtor in Fairbanks, Alaska. She enjoyed the arrival o f her second grandchild last fall and was expecting a third in May. Both daughters live in Anchorage: Kathy has “retired” to motherhood, doing some accounting on the side; M ary is in her third year as an attorney so time o ff to have her baby will be brief. “Hope to see everyone at our 4 0th (Yikes!) next year!”

MA Judy and David C onnolly have four children - David, 3 3; Laurie, 2 9 ; Jo n , 2 7; and Sue, 23 and four grandchildren, ages nine to two months. “W e are almost completed with tuition,” says David. H e is already planning ahead and hopes “all ‘53 classmates will return to our 4 0 th in ’9 3 .”

R obert W einm ann’s U nion o f American Physicians and Dentists won an important vindication by the Federal Trade Commission for the right to be a legitimate collective bargaining agent for physicians - “an enormous achievement” says Bob. Peter and Lois Creighton Lindsay sold their home in N .J. and moved to M aine this spring, enduring hom e-construction delays. “Patsy Eddy Ford cheered us with a delicious homecooked meal. W e discussed our 4 0th reunion in 1993; M aine contingent is coming. W e both hope for a big turnout.”

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active and involved, and travel as m uch as possible to sunny climes. T h e W est boys bowl and golf and win all their club championships in their spare time. Christian got his feet wet in politics (time o ff from banking); Benjam in is finishing college; and Joh n Paul is managing his restaurant with Vicki minding the books. Vicki enjoys her weekly forays into the city to buy for the handbag and accessory business she started last winter.

Lynn T ow ner D odd sent news o f her boys.

H er middle son, Steve ’7 9 , is now engaged and will be married in O ctober. Son Bill is married and living on the W est Coast, and Peter ’80 and Julie are in O ld Greenwich. She is still working at her business.

I heard from Barbara H obart Valbuena, who hopes to attend another Camp Wabasso Reunion this year. (W e have awhile until our next “Biggie” at school.) Barbara is the proud grandparent o f a grandson born in July 1991, and Vivien is working in New York in data systems. Julian and Barbara have done quite a bit o f traveling, all with a sunny Spanish flavor.

Julian is still at the U . o f Delaware.

M aree Callahan Currey loves her travel business as it forces her to travel from Florida to Hawaii to Paris. (I wonder i f any o f us are ever in the same place at the same time. I wonder even more i f we would recognize each other if we weren’t looking for someone in particular.

W hat a horrible thought!) T h e Curreys got to see the Ryder Cup and were thrilled by the patriotism displayed. T h e girls are doing well: Kathy, who loves teaching, is married, and Lynn is working in New York, close enough to pop in.

A phone conversation with Adrienne (Tookie) O nderdonk Dudden gave highlights o f their incredibly eventful year: travel to D enm ark where Arthur was advisor to an American studies program being established; publishing his book on the American Pacific; daughter Alexis’s winning a M ellon Fellowship to U . o f Chicago for graduate school, after her year traveling all over East Asia, meeting all manner o f public figures; a marvelous symposium at Bryn Mawr honoring Arthur’s retirement; T oo k ie’s work on a catalogue o f Vatican treasures for the Library o f Congress.

She says the manuscripts are fascinating.

Inspired by my roommate’s retirement, I have decided to go part-time next fall. I’m still finding many rewards from working with students and their com m unity service projects.

I don’t know i f you are familiar with M idnight Run into N Y C (in a huge van with food and clothing for hundreds). T h e school managed to pull one o ff in December, and I have never seen so much clothing and food as was donated!

T his spring I had m y first trip to California (La Jolla), and loved it, from the zoos to the golf courses to riding bikes on the boardwalk. This summer m y cousins, en masse, are headed down the Snake River on rafts...I am eager to see the scenery and I guess that’s the only way.

Please write something as you read this, and I will save it for the next magazine, honest.

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Well Done, Coach Congratulations to Philip D o n lin Jr. ’54, who received two awards from the Maryland High Schools Coaches’ Association at the University o f Maryland, College Park. O n e was for having won more than 150 football games as a head coach, and the other was for 3 2 years o f service to football.

Phil, who teaches physical education and coaches football, wresding and lacrosse at Parkville H igh School, has also been selected several times to coach the Baltimore County All-Stars football team.

H e and his wife, Gloria, have a grown daughter and son.

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MA Howard H ak is proud grandfather to a threeyear-old girl. H e has his own business, H ak Funding Associates, in Fair Lawn, N .J.

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especially working with foreign students.” T o m has been with Schering Plough Corp. for 30 years. T h e Grahams travel annually to their time-share retreat in Aruba.

Teaching and travel are also features for Carol V an B run t Rasic. She teaches first grade three mornings a week as part o f the N Y C School Volunteer Program. T h e whole family visited Jank o’s English cousins in London in M arch.

T im is at H am ilton and will spend his junior year in Spain, and Lynn continues at M ilton.

“Fabulous mountain views” greet N in i de Jurenev from the windows o f her new house on 11 acres. She enjoys being “a country mouse” after years in Santa Fe. N in i’s m other moved to a retirement hom e in Tryon, N .C .

A newsy letter from Linda C ole LeStage was filled with info about classmates. She and D on see Brett and B etty B eatty B oocock more often now that Linda is studying at W heaton near by.

R ich is married and living in N .Y .C . and Andrew is also in the city, involved with investments. Betsy is a V .P . with Somerset (N .J.) T ru st Co. Linda’s daughter Julie and her husband, Jay, live nearby in Brookline, Mass.; she’s with an equipment leasing company. Gregg graduated from Oxford U . with an M .Phil. in English but did a career switch and is working for a pension fund investment firm.

Linda herself, as president o f her local hospital’s Auxiliary, has initiated a new fundraising program. A two-day jewelry sale will highlight the local precious-metal jewelry manufacturers whose industry was born in the Atdeboro area over a century ago.

Last year Larry and I, Linda Lovell Sm ith, bought a small manufacturing company and moved it to Pa. B oth kids - Sabrina, an accountant, and Scott, with M B A from Kellogg in Chicago - came hom e and we all helped with the start-up o f the company. W e’re ready to turn the U .S. economy around.

O n the international scene, Peter and G ail Zabriskie W ilson have been on safari in Zimbabwe. T h ey have had a stream o f visitors since their move to Rom e which will probably continue until their return to Greenwich in the L in da spring o f 1993.

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M rs. Law ther O. Sm ith (L in da L ovell) 3 0 W ater C rest D rive, D oylestoum PA 18901 From sunny Florida, Jan e Crawford Lyons writes about two family ski trips to Colorado and Taos, N .M . B oth Andy, 2 3 , with the military police, and Debbie, 2 8 , a Chinook helicopter pilot, returned safely from duty in the Persian Gulf. Andy’s back at Auburn U . and D ebbie’s in Germany studying for her master’s in international relations while serving frill time as an army captain.

M eredyth C lark G raham ’s daughter Katie is studying communications at Villanova and Margaret is a day-care teacher. Meredyth has been teaching history and English at Delaware C ounty Com m unity College for five years, which she finds “a challenging experience,

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M r. E ric Ja eck el 2 6 8 Titus A ve., R ochester N Y 1 4 6 1 7 M any thanks to retiring class secretary Jo h n Clapp, and welcome to E ric Jaeckel, who picks up the pen.

In addition to a busy group pediatric practice, Larry Nazarian is an associate editor o f P ediatrics in R eview , a journal designed to keep pediatricians up-to-date, and is involved in some national committees dealing with pediatric care. His wife, Sharon, is a nurse at the U . o f Rochester Medical Center. Son Doug, an attorney in D .C ., commutes from Baltimore, where his wife is in med. school.

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3 3 7 6 F em cliffL an e, C learw ater F L 36421 Peter M iller lived all over the world as a career Air Force officer: nine years in England, then Taiwan, Tokyo, M exico, California. Now retired, Peter lives in Tulsa, O kla., has a son at Colorado State U . and a married daughter in N orth Dakota. H e inquired about the next reunion. Plan on 1997.

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M rs. R obert P. Sum as ( Constance Rogers) 4 E . G reenbrook R d., N o. C aldw ell N J 0 7 0 0 6 Constance Rogers Sum as’ daughter Tam m ia ’85 was married in February. Son Nicholas ’8 7 was best man. N ico graduated from Lafayette last year and is a credit analyst for Chemical Bank. Constance is busy with a Carlisle consultancy and travels to London twice a year.

Karen Shaver W esley is “relocation manager” for a 30-office real estate company in Maryland, “but I do a little o f everything - agent training, software workshops, counseling transferees, etc., etc.” Last child, Kate, graduated from high school this year (“where did the time go?”).

Doug, 2 2, is in fifth year o f college (“can’t seem to tell me when he’ll finish”). Bob, Jr., 2 4 , is on his own, working in research at Johns Hopkins.

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9, pony Misty, border collie Brooke, cat Arther (stet), and Alison’s m other Mrs. Kern (living with them in a new wing) “are fine and would love to invite any classmates visiting D .C . for dinner.”

Suzanne Braddock’s daughter Gail, 12, is a seventh grader at Brow nell-Talbot Prep. School, “O m aha’s equivalent o f Kimberley.” T h ey have moved to Beaver Lake, “a lovely body o f water with actual trees, an unusual entity here on the plains.” Suzanne, husband D an W olfe, and Gail are commuters again. T im , 14, will spend his high school days with them from Sacramento.

Suzanne’s sister, Sally Braddock D insm ore ’58 lives there with her daughter, Betsy, 16.

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2 2 5 9 W eir D rive, H udson O H 4 4 2 3 6 Jo h n M arston is the Asst. Division Forest Fire W arden for the State o f New Jersey, responsible for several employees and overall fire forecasting services, including aviation. H e and his wife, Anne, have two children, Laureen, 2 2, and M ichael, 18; they live in Chester.

Jo h n Franz has a private urology practice in Pittsburgh, Pa., is associate clinical professor at the U . o f Pittsburgh and a Fellow o f the American College o f Surgeons. H e and his wife, Jennifer, have two sons, M ichael, 12, and M ark, 7.

Graham M acM illan is an engineer/ programmer with IB M in Raleigh, N .C . H e is ■ responsible for V S L I design and real time programming. Graham and his wife, Leslie Ann, have two sons, Brian, 2 4, and Greg, 21.

It was good to hear again from Jerry W einer and E . Hawley Van W yck. N o particular changes; both continue successful businesses travel and direct mail fundraising, respectively.

I continue to be based in Chicago as Boeing 7 3 7 Captain with United. O nly our children are older.

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M r. D avid L . B ruck M etro C orporate Cam pus I, P. O. B ox 5 6 0 0 W oodbridge N J 07095 From Fred Lewis: “I was in touch with Alan Tessler, anticipating our 30th reunion.

Checked to find out no one else from Class o f ’61 was going to be there. Com e on group, next tim e let’s do it! Otherwise, you can find feie living in South Orange and running Lewis Advertising in Newark.” ' ' '

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Class secretary an d reunion chairm an : M rs. C. D . C reed (B arbara Byw ater) 1769 F orest View A venue H illsborough CA 9 4 0 1 0

H olly Harrison G athright is director o f marketing for the Louisville (Ky.) Com m unity Foundation.

Susanne W ilson H ow son is club coordinator for Amelia Island Plantation, in Florida.

Sounds wonderful.

Suzanne W rig h t Klein lives and works as an artist and musician in Albany, Calif.

M argaret Agens M organ is a graduate gemologist in Hyannis, Mass.

Barbara Bywater Creed is a partner with Pillsbury M adison & Sutro law firm in San Francisco.

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M iss C hristin e K eller 1702 C hurch Street, G alveston TX 77550 Ju d ith P oor thinks she’s leading the class in birthdays. She celebrated her 50th in February with a trip to Disney W orld and a visit with relatives in Pinehurst, N .C . She was looking forward to seeing Sally Poor O w en ’6 4 and Jo a n P oor Clarke ’6 6 in Colorado.

Cynthia Baldanza O lsen sends greetings from the desert o f Fountain Hills, Ariz., where she moved to complete two books on an Australian herb. “M y little publishing company, Kali Press, is buzzing along. Books are distributed all across N orth America and Australia.” Her three daughters are fine: Tam ara has two children and lives in Colorado where the girls grew up; Kimberly, after a year working and

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Jo h n Bleyle, senior V P ofTransam erica Reinsurance C o., fives in W estport, Conn.

E m il D ooley D u l has been forced to take disability retirement and at press time was waiting for a pancreas/kidney transplantM‘1 do what I can as game manager [Craig Kennels & G am e Farm] raising pheasant and hybrid stripers and catfish.” G ood luck from M K A and the Class o f ’62.

B yron N oone, a graduate o f Columbia Teachers College, is an educational advocate with New Ground in Hempstead, N .Y. Jo e l Sim on, who lives in M ontclair, is president o f Prime Management C o., Fairfield.

His daughter Stephanie ’8 4 heads Sim on & Com pany in L.A.; she represents screenwriters and manages actors and actresses. Son M ichael ’86x, also in L.A., is an agent with International Creative Management Co.

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Wonderful gifts or graduation presents!

MKA chairs are antique black with maple arms and bear the official MKA seal in gold. Each chair sells for *175 and is shipped express collect directly to you from MKA. Your order must be accom­ panied by a check made payable to The Montclair Kimberley Academy. Send to: The Alumni Office, MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042.

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M r. Bronson Van W yck P. O. B ox T, Tuckerm an AR 72473 W hile on a parents’ weekend trip to UMass. at Amherst, K en Stufko stopped to see, for the first time since 1963, W o rth Noyes. “W orth was shocked to see his old pal from high school.

W e ’ve both put on a few pounds but could still see the ‘teenager’ hidden behind the gray hair, pounds and wrinkles. W orth has his own church; I always knew he’d make a great m inisterH H K en’s daughter Sandy graduated from UMass. in M ay and is planning a wedding for July 1993. Daughter Cheryl enters Penn State this fall. Both are graphic design majors.

T h e entire Stufko family was going to Bermuda to celebrate Ken and G ail’s 25th wedding anniversary and his parents’ 50th.

“H ow fast the years go by! High school seems so near and yet so much has happened since 1965. Amazing.”.

Harvey C ohen is wondering whether he is the first grandparent in the class? H e has a granddaughter, born to son Daniel and his wife JoA nne last O ctober. B oth Daniel and Jo graduated from M cGeorge School o f Law, Sacramento, in June. Number two son, David, will follow D ad’s footsteps in graduate school in clinical psychology. Harvey, a P h.D . in psychology, has a private practice in San Diego.

His wife, Priscilla, is an elementary school teacher; their third son, Joseph, is a senior in high school.

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Brown III, with their now-five children and two grandchildren attending. T hey’ve moved to Sm art, Fla., with summers in N onquitt, Mass.

Leigh, Sally’s oldest, is a junior at Princeton; Katherine’s a freshman at Vanderbilt.

Helen Heller Noey is changing careers, turning in the husband and keeping the children, 16 and 12. She sounds wonderful in her now single state. She’s leaving the business world and has gone back to school in theater and psychology, hopes to go after a P hD in arts administration.

Lynn Sanders Pizzirusso reports she is staying married to the same guy she’s been married to for 2 3 years! She sounds happy. She went to Barcelona to visit their foreign exchange student, then Paris and Avignon too. H er son, Jam ie, is a junior in high school.

Randi White McGinnis and family were awaiting fat college envelopes for son Rick, E v r a jl written a college computer text with his father. Daughter Heather, 16, is at Peddie, and in love with the theater. Charlie, 12, and Ariel, 9, are also stage-struck. D ick has a sabbatical next year, but as o f her letter they didn’t know where. Randi’s tenure as president o f Bucknell’s Assn, for the Arts is up, so the tim ing for the sabbatical was good.

Sabbaticals, I find, are not easy. In the fall 1990 magazine I said I was ready to run o ff to Europe with $200 in m y pocket. W ell, I hope I really will have finally run o ff by the time this column comes out. It’s hard work having a mid-life crisis. G otta straighten our myriads o f red tape: insurance, banking, taxes, billing messes, root canals, biopsies (benign, thank goodness), shipping problems, cat placement, patient placement, etc. I plan to leave for Bali next week [written in M ay], with a layover in Hawaii to meet m y m om and stepfather. But m y departure date keeps changing with each m ajor snafu...

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alive and well and living in N Y C . She is winding up a high-level job with an international skin-care company, taking time o ff to redecorate her apartment. Joan hosted me in Florida last April at her m other’s house.

It was just like old times.

Merrill Adickes Rich ended her 2 0th year last spring as the founder/director o f the W olfeboro [N .H .] School o f Ballet. She and husband, Dave, have two children, Becky, 18, and Benjam in, 15. Becky, who has D ow n’s syndrome, represented N .H . as a gymnast at the International Special Olympics in Minneapolis last summer.

Ellen C u rtin ’s m other dropped by during fall foliage and told me Ellen was about to complete her doctorate in education. Ellen lives in Los Gatos, Calif.

Lyn Schultz Blackwell, husband and three sons live in M ontpelier, V t. Lyn commutes to the U . o f Mass., Amherst, where she is pursuing a P h.D . in American history.

Jane Kuzmick Izod: D id you know Hillary Clinton at Wellesley?

Margaret Crawford Bridge continues to serve M K A through countless hours o f activity and leadership as President o f the Board.

Bonnie Frutchey Barrett remains our class “W ord W ealth” champion, i f not the school’s unbeatable speller. She called to challenge me on the word I used in m y class letter last year, lavender (as in our Kimberley uniforms). I stand by the spelling. Bonnie and Brad live in M ountain Lakes.

Sharyn Griffith Garfield lives in Coral Gables, Fla. year-round. She is “happily divorced” with a son, M arc, 2 2 , and daughter, Chelsea, a senior in high school. Sharyn, a lawyer with her own practice, specializes in divorce and civil litigation. W e’re all invited to visit!

Kate Bonniwell was promoted from Publisher o f L ife magazine to the management o f T im eLife last fall.

I keep getting calls about Ellen Malcolm and am beginning to feel a bit like her agent. I ’m an eager volunteer. Ellen was featured on “60 M inutes” and in P eople magazine [see separate article]. E M IL Y 5s List is practically a household word. Bravo, Ellen!

I ’m an assistant dean o f students at Dartm outh College and am at an age where my students are your children. O f course I still think o f m yself as a college student. M y husband, Jim , is a history professor and dean o f the faculty.

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MA M r. A lan J . Balm u 6 6 G entry D rive, F a ir H aven N J 07704 W elcom e to new class secretary Alan Balma!

Alan is still happily married to high school sweetheart Mitzi Sans Balma ’6 6 . T hey have two sons, David, 17, and Michael, 14, and are becoming avid sports fans watching the boys play football, soccer and wrestling. Alan, a supervising systems engineer at A T & T Bell Labs, is a very active B oy Scout leader, leading camping trips and inspiring the troops. T heir oldest son is an Eagle Scout.

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TKS M s. M argot E scott 2 9 8 0 Kings L ake B lvd., N aples EL 3 3 962 MA M r. C raig C. Perry 3 4 6 7 P inestream R oad A tlan ta, GA 3 0 3 2 7 R eunion chairm an: M r. Joseph M arino 190 So. M ountain A ve., M on tclair N J 07042 After spending 2 0 years working and living in N Y C , Craig Perry, wife Douglas, and two children, Crane, 2, and Charlotte, 6 months, made the big move to Atlanta for Marsh & M cLennan. H e reports, “Adjusting to a 10minute comm ute and a backyard hasn’t been difficult and all members o f the family are having a great tim e.”

Paula and Joseph Marino are very proud parents o f daughter Alexandra Paula, born in April.

News culled from reunion questionnaires:

John Cosentino Jr. is president o f O tis Elevator Co. in Farmington, Conn.

John Rudd is an engineer with the Public Service Commission, State o f M ichigan, in Lansing.

Michael Phares is director o f communications with AmeriNet Inc., in St. Louis.

Walter Sperling III is a writer and consultant in Arrowsic, Maine.

C .J. Steggles is assistant V P with Engineering Insurance Group in Hartford, Conn.

Robert Wolff has his own business in Mt. Freedom, N .J., lives in Bernardsville.

Congratulations to world-traveled photographer Michael Yamashita, our very own Distinguished Alumni Award recipient!

W e look forward to being w ith M ike as he receives the award at Reunion Luncheon.

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TKS M s. A vie C laire K alker 5 8 0 5 B irchbrook # 202, D allas TX 7 5 2 0 6 I hear regularly from Lindy Franciose, who is in Boynton Beach, Fla. She is happily in business for herself with a skin care program that I and several other alumnae subscribe to.

I am still struggling with the resusitation o f m y teen program, “Shaker Village.” It is a difficult task to arrange for foundation grants, etc., prom otion, and recruit teens to attend the summer session in the Berkshires. W e are planning an alumni reunion in O ctober at the original site in upstate New York. I have made this project my life’s passion - it may just take a lifetime to attain it! In the meantime, I continue teaching in the field o f antiques and decorative arts/humanities/architecture (adult ed) and appraisals that have supported me for some 17 years.

I remind our class that our 2 5th reunion will be part o f the 1993 Hom ecom ing. D o n ’t forget to keep the Alum ni O ffice posted on any changes o f address.

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TKS M rs. C harles G ildea (Lynn E hrhardt) 4 6 E. Saddle R iver Rd. S addle R iver N J 07458 After 18 years o f journalism, Annette Colston Saviet is making a career change and will begin

will now help M om with her homework. Best o f luck! Also our condolences to Annette, whose father died in September. Annette says her m om is doing well and living in an adult community.

As you can see from the photo, Barbara Fox

McWilliams, Anne LaVoy Guerra, Phyllis LaTouche Rawlins and I had a great 40th birthday celebration at Phyllis’s hom e in St. Croix in January. You would think we were still in Kimberley the way we reminisced all night about “the way we were.” N one o f us could remember the last tim e we laughed so m uch, so we decided to make it an annual event.

Barb and her family still live in N orth Carolina where Barbara has become quite a golfer (as we found out when we played golf one day in St. Croix, but that is a whole story in itself), and is still involved with the school system as a social worker.

Anne, who lives outside L A . with her family, continues to work part tim e at the radio station.

And Phyllis is finishing up her schooling at the N .Y. Botanical Gardens. Phyllis and I try to get together at least once a m onth when she is in N Y C . She has' taken on the project o f designing m y perennial garden, which we are both very proud of. Chip no longer has to worry about us getting together for lunch and shopping; we just dig in the dirt now.

Lynn

MA M r. E ric W eis 5 C am illo D r., W ayne N J. 07470 Last O ctober (Charles) Andrew Salzberg gave a presentation on reconstructive plastic surgery at an international symposium in Beijing, China. H e has moved to Ardsley Park in D obbs Ferry, N .Y ., and looks forward to hearing from classmates.

law school at Fordham in September. Annette and David’s children Elyse, 6, and M ichelle, 5,

T ropical reunion Fou r m em bers o f the C lass o f ’6 9 m et in St. C roix to celebrate th eir birthdays: class secretary Lynn E hrhardt G ildea, B arbara Fox M cW illiam s, A nne LaV oy G uerra, an d P hyllis LaT ou che R aw lins.

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TKS M s. L eslie Bryan 8 4 4 E ast M om ingside D rive, N E A tlan ta GA 3 0 3 2 4 Y ’all (can you tell I ’ve lived in the South for 17 years?) were not particularly communicative this time, but I ’ll do my best.

Pat Vilas Brown is enjoying full-time m other­ hood for Rachael, 5, and M atthea, 2 1/2. She also teaches labor and delivery classes for expectant parents. I f any o f you travels to Seatde, Pat asks that you give her a call.

Liz Conzen Zellner’s note was complete with pictures o f her two daughters, Katie Sue and Maggie. She reports they are “well and thriving” in Lynchburg, Va. Liz’s eldest daughter looks exacdy as I remember pictures o f Liz at a similar age.

Lisa Shapiro Golding lives in Louisville, Ky., with her British husband, Alan, and their son Chase, 6. Lisa is in private practice as a clinical social worker and serves on the part-time faculty at the U . o f Louisville’s K ent School o f Social W ork. Alan is an assoc, professor o f American literature. Lisa recounts how she was recognized as a Kimberley graduate by a K ent Place grad because Lisa was wearing her Kimberley ring. I think I was more shocked that Lisa was w earing her ring (since I have no idea where m ine m ight be), than that she was recognized!

Betsy K im ball wrote a nice newsy letter from Boston where she is practicing law and still playing rugby. She hopes for a good showing at our next reunion.

Georgia Buckner wrote from Verm ont that she was preparing to move to Massachusetts with her two daughters. T o Alison Smith Hitesman, I must apologize. I have your envelope, but I lost your letter. W rite again and I ’ll try to do better.

Bruce and I continue our busy schedules with two law practices and W hitney, 6. W hitney spent this spring engaged in her first team sport, soccer. I have been kept monstrously busy with breast implant litigation. M y firm was successful last summer in getting a large verdict for an Alabama woman injured as a result o f her breast implants and our phones have not stopped ringing since. It has, however, been wonderful to be involved in trying to effect some fundamental changes in the way that doctors and industry view w om en’s health issues. Bruce and I are looking forward to our 17th anniversary this summer and recendy snuck o ff for some wonderful R & R in San Francisco.

As we all celebrate our “significant” birthday this year, I know that Heidi Sanders Bryan got her celebration o ff to a good start with a week in Ponte Vedra, Fla. M y brother, Will ’7 2 , arranged a family surprise to celebrate the event that included my parents, Heidi’s parents, and Heidi’s siblings and their spouses. U nfortu­ nately none o f W ill’s siblings was able to attend.

I have been lucky enough to talk to Kim Kolbe with some frequency when she passes through Atlanta. She and Anne Graves McIntyre are organizing a trip to St. Thom as as

Thank you to these new class secretaries for volunteering:

part o f their birthday celebrations with the help o f Anne’s husband, O tto. Rum or has it that Liz Conzen Zellner and Madge Huber Henning are joining in. I have also heard some rumors o f expectant mothers in our midst and will keep you posted as to details.

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E ric Jaeckel ’5 6 Alan Balma ’6 6 V . Jam es Castiglia 7 0 Lawrence Garrigan 7 8 Jo y B ooth ’8 7 ^ ’

MA M r. V Jam es C astiglia 3 L ark L an e, O ak R idge N J 07438

W elcom e to new class secretary Jim Castiglia!

71 TKS M s. Sydney John son Petty 1 3 4 Sum m er V illage D r., A nnapolis M D 21401 Nanette Utech Thomas, Monique Mustacchi, and Susan Von Hoffmann Tompson attended our 2 0th reunion.

Nanette said she “had more fun than I thought I would.” She very much enjoyed talking with M onique, and hearing about Susan, whose three children include a set o f twins. (Nanette and her husband Joseph are expecting a little girl.) She saw such Academy favorites as Jimmy Bryan, Geoffrey Close, Robert Lipman, and Herbert Tate. She had an interesting conversation with our old drama/ public speaking teacher Mrs. Faden, who talked about how the drama department has grown at MICA. Everyone was touched, Nanette said, by Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner’s speech. Karen 7 0 received the Distinguished Alum ni Award for her work on behalf o f the Lyme Disease Foundation, which she founded because her little son, now deceased, was afflicted.

“Hopefully, by our 3 0th or 4 0th reunion, people will get over their reluctance to attend our reunion,” was Nanette’s closing comment.

Jim and Jean Hutson Lister and daughter Katy, 7 and in first grade, enjoyed springtime in the Rockies [Evergreen, C olo.]. Jean works as an aide at Katy’s sch ool and teaches geology classes. Jim , a petroleum geologist, is studying environmental policy and management at Denver U. M y son Thom as de Shields Petty was born Feb. 7. H e is growing like a weed and sure has changed m y life, I hope to hear from more o f you. Please drop a line and keep in touch; it’s always interesting to hear from each one o f the Class o f ’7 1 ’s very individual individuals.

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TKS M rs. D avid K iln app (B arbara P eto) 5 3 E llerton R d., Q uincy M A 02169 R eunion chairm an: M rs. Jeffrey Lindsey (K ate C urtin) 12630 T hree Sisters R d., P otom ac, M D 2 0 8 5 4

News o f a few who hoped to make it to reunion:

Barbara Flessas has a private law practice in Clifton.

Barbara Peto Kilnapp has her own business in design and interior decoration.

Patricia Robinson Silver is a practicing radiologist in Albany, Calif., 3 0 miles north o f San Francisco. Robin is single, with traveling, friends, and three Siamese cats filling up her free time.

Linda Finney Williams does administrative work and is an E M T (emergency medical technician) on Nantucket.

K. Brewer Doran wrote from Montreal, where she is completing her P hD . in business at M cG ill U . T o keep up her flying, Brewer is also manager o f airport operations for Aviation Research Corp., a large Canadian consulting firm.

Kate Curtin Lindsey, finance director for Georgetown D ay School in W ashington, D .C ., wants to see everyone at reunion!

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M r. Steven S chotten feld 2 3 W oodfield D rive, Short H ills N J 07078 R eunion chairm an: M rjflffich olas A lessi 453 W yom ing A venue, M illbum N J 07041 News o f some who hope to attend reunion:

John Sperling completed his surgical residency in 1989, then spent two years, three m onths on active duty with the U .S. Air Force at Griffiss A FB in Rom e, N .Y . H e was deployed during Operation Desert Storm. H e is now in private practice o f surgery in New Hartford, N .Y ., near U tica. Jo h n is married and has five children: Michael, 7, Christopher, 6, Kelly, 4 , Andrew, 2, and Patrick, 6 months!

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Tom Brueckner, who lives in Madison, N .J. is president o f M edical Service C o., Inc. in Fairfield.

Joseph Doerr has his own medical practice in Clifton.

John Kaplow, who lives in Elberon, is owner/ executive producer o f Eye O n Productions in Newark.

Dave Kaytes is a partner with Booz-Allen & H am ilton consultants in N Y C , lives in Darien, Conn.

Former class secretary Vince Mascia has his own orthodontic practice in Reston, Va. Current class secretary Steven Schottenfeld, executive V P o f D ean Floor Covering Co. in Rockaway, lives in Short Hills.

Bruce Usher teaches seventh grade social studies in Raymond, N .H . and lives in beautiftd Derry.

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TKS M rs. M ichael F. M oreno (M artha D el N egro) 3 1 L asalle D rive, P rovidence R 1 02908 MA M r. Gregory Lackey 165 C hickahom iny T rail M edford L akes N J 08055 Peter Stolinsky has joined Adaptec, Inc. in Los Altos, Calif., as director o f marketing for its imaging products operation.

Bill Breen is managing editor o f the environmental magazine G arbage. H e and Lise live in Gloucester, Mass., and expect a child in October.

A1 Van Eerde teaches science and is pioneering a new program in science and technology at M illburn High School. H e continues to serve on the M K A Alumni Council.

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TKS M rs. R ichard D egener (Ann P atrick) 609 Sunset B lv d , C ape M ay N J 0 8204 Robert and Sara Troxell Winokur’s first child, Cole Ames, was born in April 1991.

MA M r. A nthony M . C elentano 3 C ondict Street, M orris P lain s N J 07950 Michael Radin practices at the Heart Institute o f the Desert in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

Having sold the house and stored the furni­ ture, Kathleen and Robert Powell decided to pursue several jo b leads and make W isconsin their hom e and base after the downsizing o f his former employer in Maryland. R ob continues to be active in R E S O L V E , a national not-forprofit support network for infertile couples.

R ob visits the state capitol, lobbying to include infertility benefits on W isconsin health insurance policies.

T h e class wishes former Headmaster Philip Anderson well on his retirement this Jun e from Morristown-Beard School, w ith thanks for his years at the Academy. Should anyone wish to correspond personally, the address is M -B , W hippany Road, M orristown N J 0 7 9 6 0 .

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M r. D avid Soule 120 Lin den A ve., V erona N J 0 7044 Congratulations to Ralph LaSalle, who received an M .B .A . from Jacksonville (Fla.) U . in April. Ralph graduated from the executive program - evening and weekend courses - with a stunning 4 .0 average, while working as an engineering supervisor for I T T Rayonier in Jesup, G a. Ralph also has a B .C .E . from Georgia T ech and an M .S . in civil envineering from the U . o f Houston. H e and his wife, D ebbie, have two sons, Andrew, 6, and Adam, 2.

D o n and Sally M cBratn ey D ’Alessandro love life in Charlotte, N .C . Sally says, “O ur three boys - Billy, 6, Tom m y, 4 , and Dave, 1 - are such fun.”

D iana U tech works in California as a freelance video camera operator, selling footage to the news networks. T h e U tech family hom e in M ontclair suffered a terrible fire in February.

Though everyone got out safely, D iana found it ironic that she covers fires for a living!

T im o th y Breen is with ESPN/Capital Cities in Sherman Oaks, Calif.

Sally Thom pson lives in Bridgehampton, N .Y ., works for Braverman, Newbold, Bennan.

Lori P in k is a psychotherapist in private practice in Plantation, Fla. “I f anyone is in Florida, be sure to look me up!”

N ick Eastman, a dispatcher and neonatal medic at New York Hospital, is going back to school.

Sean Boyle has a new job in sales with Vogelsang Corp. in Lakewood, N .J. H e and his wife both work, and they enjoy their son Owen, 4 , and life at the Jersey Shore. Sean is president. o f the Manasquan volunteer fire dept, where he has volunteered for 13 years. “H ope all is well with old friends. I f you’re in the area, stop and say hi.”

Baby boom: Peter and N an Benedict T ischbein announced the birth o f Alexis in M arch, joining daughter Maeve, 2. T heir house and farm renovations are nearly complete. “It’s nice not to be living in a construction site any longer.”

Jo h n and Karen Kelley M oriarty had tw ins in November, Joh n M ichael and Katherine Anne.

T hey live in Haverhill, Mass.

Heather and Jim Giarrusso announced the birth o f Justin Andrew in September. Says the proud papa, a lawyer, “Best kid on earth.

Happy, healthy, bright, mature beyond his age.

B y the way, he’s our first.”

Karen and David Soule’s first, daughter

Katherine Jean, was bom in May.

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M r. A ndrew Pedersen 2 2 6 F a ir H aven R oad, F a ir H aven N J 07704 Hello class, and thank you for the good response.

Bev H all writes from W yom ing, “I ’ve been here since September pursuing a master’s in zoology and physiology and hate the program.

I love W yom ing. There is different food to eat out here, antelope, buffalo, elk, and Rocky M ountain oysters. I like it all.... W in ter is not too bad, because the air is dry. Hello to everyone.” Bev was married in M ay and went to Belize for her honeymoon.

B o b H ubsm ith writes,, “Count me in on staying at V al’s (Peter Valentine) for the 20th; I ’ll bring the Doritos. I ’m living in H oboken.

Jo h n Stone ’7 8 is a recent resident, whom I ran into at the local watering hole. I had dinner with D oug M ahler a few weeks ago. D oug is a dentist in a family practice; he lives in Fort Lee. I play in an over-30 baseball league in the Bergen/Hudson C ounty area. Anyone interested in playing, give me a call (201/6562 1 3 8 ). Career-wise, I am with Mass M utual as a financial planner.

“I keep in touch with Steve Cowles, Paul H astaba, and A ndy Read. Steve works for Ogilvey and M ather as a senior copywriter and lives in the Upper East Side, N Y C . Paul lives in Richm ond, Texas and works for K H T V o f Houston. Paul and his wife Lori have two sons, Danny, 7, and Nicholas, 1.”

Andy Read is working for F D IC in W ashington D .C .

P at Berry writes that Peter Valentine’s willingness to throw a 2 0th reunion party motivated her into action. Pat married M itch Heisler two days after Thanksgiving 1988, one year, one m onth, one day after they met. She and M itch bought a house in M ontclair where they are raising their daughter Margaret, bom in February this year. Pat has been working in children’s publishing for 10 years; for the past three, she has been asst, managing editor at Sports Ilh istrated fo r K ids, “which means when the boss is away, I get to run the show.”

P at C ane D onahue has been busy with the M arine Spill Response Corporation, a non­ profit company that responds to catastrophic oil spills like the Exxon Valdez. Unfortunately

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M isho Protic, whose Reserve status caused him to be called for Desert Storm , is resuming his M .B A . studies at Northwestern U . part time. M isho is settling in Atlanta, where he is based for D elta Airlines.

D ebbie Rasin is working hard at the Bank o f New York, playing a good game o f squash and frequently traveling to Boston.

Peter Audubato spends his days in court as an attorney in Philadelphia. Son Peter Jr. “fortunately resembles his m other.”

Peter Valentine works at the law firm o f W achtell Lipton in N Y C . H e enjoys the commuting; “It gives me time to plan the big reunion!” I frequendy lunch with Peter in the spacious gardens o f the N .Y . Public Library where we discuss relevant issues o f the day while earing the delicious food that is only obtainable at the finest o f hot dog stands. Peter will be making scheduled trips to Tierney’s to plot strategy as we approach the 20th.

Jason A pter has become a snowbird with the purchase o f a Florida retreat in Boca Raton (whoever remembers their D r. Blair Spanish, please translate boca and ratón. M arco Casta, are you out there?) Jason and Colleen will most likely retire there in a few years.

K eith Ridings was in Los Angeles for all the fun during the last earthquake, and advises all alumni to move eastward immediately or remain in your doorways.

Ed Healey keeps tabs on M K A and was elected to another term on the Alumni Council.

Gerald Jones has been maintaining a low profile and the column would like to hear from him . W here is Eric Mund? Vince Matarazzo?

I must apologize to R on Spivak. I lost your letter; please send me another one, I promise not to m ix up again. It’s taken you 15 years to write in but this is understandable after having your yearbook picture accidently switched with Jo e Sullivan’s. M ike W erksm an is working in Florida, and M ike, i f you’re out there, Bob H ubsm ith says you still owe him Survival Shop ¡Honey. Brad Protas owes me Survival Shop m oney and Peter Valentine will settle all his Survival Shop debts at the 2 0 th reunion. W ill someone tell Dave Cerfolio ’7 6 to stop writing to me, he was one year ahead o f our class.

Sadly, I have to inform all o f you o f the death o f G ary Gallo. Gary died this past M arch o f a brain tumor. T h e entire class remembers Gary fondly and will miss him .

Andy

Chance Encounter Wendy Byrd ’92 and her brother Daniel, a freshman, were at a bullfight in Mexico over the holidays. It was hot, so Daniel wore his Cougar shorts. Suddenly out o f the crowd someone came up to them and said, “I went to MKA too.” Michael Platt ’7 7 - also there .on vacation from New Jersey - had spotted the school logo. Ole! [Any other good M KA meeting stories? -Ed.]

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Congratulations to Catherine and Larry Kramer on their wedding. Larry, founder and head o f Atelier America, designs furniture and hom e accessories in Clifton.

Lisa Moskowitz is brand manager at Ciba Consum er Pharmaceuticals in Woodbridge, N .J., where her fiance, Randy Sloan, is V P o f marketing. Lisa graduated from U . Penn and received an M .B A . from Northwestern.

Sue Felber Durkin is hom e full time with Tom m y, 3, and Brian, 18 mos. She has a small business for a line o f children’s clothes called “O K K I,” and says it’s nice because she can make a litde M oney and do it at her own pace.

Melissa Cohn Paprin was expecting a new baby (another daughter) the first o f August.

M ark and Susan Cole Furlong had their first baby, daughter Erin Cole, in M arch. T h ey live in N Y C where Susan is a management supervisor on the A T & T account at Ayer Advertising and M ark is ad director at E squire magazine.

After completing six years o f a surgical residency, Richard Rento has left the W indy C ity and moved to Newport News, Va. to be with his wife, Lisa, now stationed at Langley A FB . T h ey will miss Chicago - “truly a g reat town. Numerous attempts to lure Laura and John Phillips from N Y C to the G R E A T Lakes failed. It’s time to up the ante - a few rounds on the N .C . O uter Banks?”

Pam Zeug, who has her own headhunter firm in N Y C , spent two m onths in South America on business this winter.

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And speaking o f Mandy: She is a production supervisor at I T T Sheraton Corp. in Boston, and is also pursuing an M B A at night at Boston College. G et it, girl!

T h e latest bit o f info came from a source who wishes to remain nameless. It seems that an Alumni party was held in April at Tierney’s (imagine that!). Tracey Green Frager, Anita

Sims, Paul Thompson, Mike Sullivan, Andy Rod and Kerry Eastman were all there.

Kerry married Jeff Chandler ’80 in June.

Double congratulations!

Anita Sims has been promoted again , this time to senior internal auditor for A T & T .

Anita, who has returned to M K A for Career D ay several times, begins a three-year term on the Alum ni Council. She is engaged to longtime friend Andrew Stokes. T hey will marry in O ctober next year after both have finished school.

Craig Bartlett is getting married to Holly Ann Johnson in September and is training for orthopedic surgery at M t. Sinai in N Y C . Boy, our class just loves to cut!

Jim Carter is alive and well and living in Dallas and throwing wild “Oscar N ight” parties. Sorry we can’t all make it, Jim .

Christine and Bob Paige also live in Dallas, where he’s a director at Northern Telecom .

Gabe Rispoli has his own architectural company in Ocean County. H e got his master’s at N JIT .

Marriage has claimed yet another bachelor.

Tony Cristello married on February 2 9 , and claims this way he’ll never be able to forget his anniversary or have many o f them. Typical Tony.

I learned o f those nuptials while attending a co-ed baby shower for Daphne and Gardner Semet. T h ey got a late tax deduction for 1991 with the premature arrival o f V ictor Aaron.

Gardner is already making plans for skiing lessons and has been heard singing rugby drinking lyrics to the tunes o f famous lullabies.

A t the baby shower were George Frey and his wife Heidi, also in “a motherly way.” Early 1992 marked the arrival o f their son, George.

At Christmas a card from Jeanne and Bruce Eng told that spring would bring a second baby. News o f stork deliveries is slow to arrive from H ong Kong.

I am once again a frill-time Maryland resident. I could not continue comm uting to N Y C each week after m y 11th knee surgery last summer. I was able to find a challenging job outside W ashington as director o f publicity for National Press Books.

M y first project was the autobiography o f James Earl Ray, and I am currently designing publicity plans for Senator Paul Sim on’s book on the scandalous history o f Supreme Court nominations. Betcha didn’t know that the first nominee for C h ief Justice, Joh n Rutledge, attempted suicide when his appointment was denied. T h e rest, up to and including last summer’s televised judicial soap opera, as they say is history. Bob Hemm eter would be proud o f m y enlightening you with this historical tidbit.

Jeffrey Schiffinan is an anchor/reporter for W S BA radio in N Y C . H e also added another m outh to the table: Samuel was born in June, L991.

K en Breen works in media at Saatchi & Saatchi, N Y C , and lives in Bloomfield.

Things are going well for me (Jack Brink] in Atlanta. I play a lot o f tennis and finished 1991 as Georgia’s #1 ranked player (men’s 30s) and won the 1992 Georgia State Championships. I won all 11 tournaments entered in 1990 and seven o f nine in 1991- W hen no t practicing in my clinic or hitting tennis balls, I ’m active in Project O pen Hand, an outreach that prepares and delivers food to people with A ID S. It takes a lot out o f you but makes you feel like a spark o f light in a very consuming darkness.

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M rs. M artin G arvey (Pam Eastm an) 10 C hurch S t., A pt.6, M ataw an, N J 0 7 7 4 7

T h e Alumni O ffice informs me that information for columns tends to com e in spurts over periods o f time, chronicling our maturity. M ostly we hear from you when someone marries or has a baby, or occasionally when you visit friends, and thus this is once again the type o f news.

A letter from Kenny and Lori Dewey Dioguardi finds them still living overseas and traveling. Now that Eastern Europe is open they are seeing places which before would have remained a mystery. Last summer they spent time stateside in New Jersey, and sadly Kenny lost his m om. Lori recently (? - everything is relative given these deadlines) completed her master’s degree in education and still enjoys teaching third grade. Kenny is working on his graduate degree through an extension program offered through U SC .

W elcom e to the Every-12-Years (or U ntil Your Class Secretary C an Com e Up W ith a Better Idea) Class o f 198 0 Alumni Awards: T his year’s winners have excelled in a wide range o f areas and each should be commended for his or her unique contribution to society: Sherri Moore Cardona is this year’s recipient o f the I ’ll-F ollow -M y-M an -to-the-E nd-of-T heE arth (or at least to Solon, O hio) Award. Sherri moved to this quaint town near Cleveland with husband Miguel, a bank V P , and their son, Miguel II. Sherri was a buyer for Sterns department stores in N .J. before moving west.

T h e Screw -the-C orporate-Ladder Award goes to Jonathan H. Parker, who opened his own law firm in Coral Gables, Fla. in August. Jon, who had extra office space, talked John Langstaff into relocating to the M iam i area.

Jo h n is doing freelance computer consulting in

Jack and I enjoy writing these columns, but we know you would enjoy reading them more if you could hear about some other people. T hat means that other people would love - well maybe would “like” - to read about you too.

Shaw n

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Congratulations to Carol Baird, who is marrying Stephen Rich in August in Chatham, Mass. Barbie Kluge Hickox will be maid o f honor and Mandy Calder, a bridesmaid. Carol, who graduated from St. Lawrence U ., is a manager w ith Sharf Marketing Group, a sports marketing firm in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Speaking o f Barbie: Congrats on the birth o f her and R ick’s daughter Em ily Margaret in O ctober.

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his new home.

Steve Barral wins the I t ’s-A -W onderjul-Life Award. Steve and Angela DeCandia Barral ’82 have moved into a house in Chatham, N .J., and celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary.

Steve works for Merrill Lynch in fixed-income sales and trading.

T h e W hadhesayhedoesF? Award goes to Charlie Davis who works at Sm ith Kline Beecham Pharmaceuticals in research and development as a P hD . in Drug Metabolism and Pharmaskinetics. H e and his wife, Carina, live in Jeffersonville, Pa., near Philadelphia.

Brian Morris is the recipient o f the Boys-O fSum m er Award. Brian owns B P sports in M ontclair, specializing in baseball cards and memorabilia. Brian also spent a summer o f sun and fun in “T h e H am ptons.”

T h e 1- W as-Lost-But-N ow -I’m -Found Award goes to Melanie Gold, D .O . Melanie went into hiding for a few years, but resurfaced in June in Northern W estchester, N .Y ., where she began an adolescent medicine fellowship at Albert Einstein/Montefiore M edical Center. M elanie did her pediatric residency at U . o f Maryland.

N ow M elanie is interested in getting in contact with George Reimonn, Karen Gibson Wollery, Carmen Fleetwood, Danny Timmons and India Hayes. India is the com m unity relations coordinator at Blue Cross/Blue Shield in Newark. As for the rest, perhaps a call to the Alumni O ffice would be best.

W e have a group o f co-winners for the H ow -

T o-R un-T hrough-Five-H ours-of-H ell-A nd-LiveT o-T alk-A bou t-It Award. Jim Irw in, J e ff Chandler, N ick Lieder ’8 lx , Steve D odd 7 9 , and K erry Eastm an 7 9 ran in the Marine Corps M arathon in November 1991.

B est-Fitness A w ard: T he M on tclair Tim es stated, “Sean Jones keeps his 6-foot-8, 2 7 0 pound frame in good order for what promises to be another season as a defensive end w ith the H ouston O ilers.” Sean, who lives in L A ., is also a stockbroker with D ean W itter.

Congratulations to each and every winner.

T h e Class o f 19 8 0 extends sincere condo­ lences to Rachel (Ronnie) 7 7 , Steven, and Diane (’83) Kimmel on the death o f their father.

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Class secretary an d reunion co-chairm an : M s. C heryl M cCants 152 F orest S t., M ontclair, N J. 07042 M r. Thom as R obbins 1204 F airview R d., H avertow n PA 19083

R eunion co-chairm an: M r. W illiam H all P. O. B ox 3 8 6 , D urham N H 0 3 8 2 S jst Thad Yablonsky finished medical school in M ay 1990 and did his intern year at St. V incent’s Hospital in N Y C with fellow M KAer Eric Roberts. After a year in St. V incent’s radiology program, T had transferred to Morristown M em orial Hospital for the last three years o f residency. Thad and his wife, Alison W eir, moved to New Jersey this summer.

Jeffrey Osofsky graduated from Loyola Stritch School o f M edicine in Illinois in June and will stay there for his internship, then specialize in cardiology. Jeffrey received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from U nion College.

Jill M iller works in film production and is living in Gurumayi’s Ashrem in N Y C studying Siddha Yoga. Jill sends peace and light to everyone.

B eth and Bob Carson are busy raising daughters Brittany, 5, and Kayla, 3, and son Bryce, 1. B ob is playing basketball and softball and working hard as a sales representative. H e is looking forward to our 10th reunion.

Elizabeth Abrams is engaged to Gregory Ritchie. Elizabeth, a Yale graduate with an M .B A . from Columbia, is an associate in corporate finance at Lehman Brothers in N Y C .

Best wishes to our newlyweds!

Carl and Alexandra Swanson Svernlov were married in June. M em e, who graduated from Boston U ., is a legal assistant at Decker Hubbard & W alden in N Y C .

W illiam and Pamela Ruddick Holding were married the same day. Pam, a graduate o f Princeton, received an M .B.A . from Harvard.

Kathryn and Peter Dancy were attended by Peter Gibson and Patrick Eng at their wedding in M ontclair in June. T h e Dancys live in Chicago, where Peter is w ith N at W est Bank.

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lacrosse. She is engaged to Steven Locke whom she m et at Lafayette College; they plan to marry in September.

Tamar Lehrich graduated from Harvard Law School and began a clerkship w ith Justice Edith Fine o f the Massachusetts Appeals Court. She plans to work in the area o f poverty law as a legal aid attorney or a public defender. She will marry Thom as Augst in September; they met back as freshmen at Yale. H e is pursuing a doctorate at Harvard.

Kevin Wilkins is in his second year at Harvard Business School. All the Boston area people m entioned want to be in touch with other M K A people in the area.

Geoffrey Habron is working toward an M .S. in fisheries management at Mississippi State U .

G eoff says, “I am enjoying the slow pace o f life here and realizing that Mississippi is not the poor dreary state that people imagine.” H e is busy with extracurricular activities such as the NAACP. T h e campus newspaper, R eflector, published G e o ff s outstanding editorial about the enduring legacy o f D r. M artin Luther King Jr. G eo ff compared H abron family experiences before and after King’s work. (For a copy o f the article, please call or write the M K A Alumni Office.)

Elliot Semet graduated from the Robert W ood Johnson Medical School (formerly Rutgers). H e married Kathy Babiak in June and began his residency in orthopedic surgery at R W J in July.

Stephen Pineda did both undergraduate and medical school at Columbia. After receiving his M .D . in 1990, he did a year at the National Institutes o f Health in orthopedics. After a general surgery internship, he will begin four years o f orthopedic residency at University Hospital at Case W estern Reserve U . in Cleveland. In February 1 9 9 2 , Stephen had a poster presentation at the National Orthopedic Research Society in D .C .

A Star-Ledger article on Trustcom pany Bancorporation featured a photo o f V P Alan Wilzig and his father and brother.

Kris Hatzenbuhler O ’Connor, Paul Josephson, and Arsen Zartarian are all at Sills,

M s. H olly Jerv is 5 5 South M ountain A ve., M on tclair N J 07042 Holly Sobel Armitage and her husband moved into a house they built in Shutesbury, Mass. H olly passed the Massachusetts Bar, finished a judicial clerkship and has been teaching legal research. She taught a paralegal course at UMass. and now teaches frill time at W estern New England College o f Law. Best wishes to E ric and Marci Reiss Berger on their wedding. M arci’s brother Ted 7 5 was an usher and Laura LaCorte was maid o f honor; Suzanne Halm, Jo Ann Surdi, Jenny Rosenblatt, and Arsen Zartarian attended.

M arci received a master’s degree in public policy from Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute. Laura practices law in N Y C. Suzanne Halm teaches at Shady H ill School, Cambridge, Mass., and coaches soccer and

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Cumm is, etc. in Jersey City. Kris and Paul were involved with Career D ay at M K A again this year. Arsen recendy moved into H oboken; his “movers” were Andy Voss, Dan Carson, Jay Wecht and Paul Nigro. H e says M ary and Bunker Davis are expecting their first child.

O n the subject o f lawyers, Scott Rumana passed the Bar. H e spent the year as a judicial clerk for Judge Rothenberg o f Passaic County.

Connie Kiggins passed the Bar and is living and practicing in W ashington! D .C .

Don Cussen graduated fromj.Seton Hall Law School in June and is working with the firm Lum , Hoens, Conant, etc. in Roseland.

I realized some o f you do not know I am no longer teaching at M KA . I left teaching to work at Carolina Herrera Ltd. in N Y C , a couture fashion designer. I am the executive assistant to the C E O .

It was great to see some o f you at the 2nd

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Annual M K A Alumni April Fool’s D ay party.

G ood turnout from our class: A ndy Voss, Jo n C ohn, Arsen Zartarian, Kris Hatzenbuhler O ’C onnor, T o b y Bizub, Paul Josephson.

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M s. Jen n ifer Jon es 4 2 4 W est E n d A ve. 17F, N ew Y ork N Y 10024 T h e M arch issue o f M magazine featured B ob Cottingham modeling a suit in its article, “Great New Style for Olym pic Stars.” B ob won the N C A A fencing championship in 1988 and the national championship in 1990, and was on the 1988 Olym pic team. H e is taking time o ff from Rutgers Law School to fence in Barcelona.

D oug K eh is a speechwriter for the South Korean delegation at the U nited Nations.

Doug, who has an M A in international relations from Johns Hopkins U ., speaks French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. H e spent a summer with the W orld B ank and one in Africa with U N IC E F .

R obert Iverson was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Force at Lackland A FB in San Antonio, Texas.

Sonya Stetkiewych, who has an M .A . in art therapy, works at Goldsmith Center for Adolescent Treatm ent in Tarrytown, N.Y. Stephanie Sim on heads Sim on & C o. in L A .

She represents screenwriters and manages actors and actresses.

Jenn ifer Jones, who passed both the Connecticut and New York Bar exams, is an associate at Dewey Ballantine in N Y C . She keeps in close touch with Laura Dancy, who teaches kindergarten at the Far Brook (N .J.) School.

Jennifer also sees Susan Bacot, who works at M T V in N Y C and does wonderful freelance videos o f weddings. She had a New Year’s party, attended by Ed C onlin, M eg Lugaric,

T rish M cG rath , Jo h n M artin and Craig M iner. Everyone seems to be doing well.

M eg Lugaric has begun a new career as lead singer for one o f the Princess Cruise Lines ships, Pacific Princess (the original “Love B oat” from the show) which tours Alaska and Vancouver through August. T h en M eg will sing on their newer and largest ship, the Regal, which travels down the W est Coast and does the Caribbean for six months.

Patty M orozov graduated with a Bachelor o f A ch itectu re from N .J.I.T . She is busy planning a fall wedding to fiance Jose Alcala, remodeling their apartment in Montclair, designing a small line o f furniture, and completing a few renovation jobs locally.. “It’s a challenge, symptomatic o f the ‘Real W orld,’ a place I ’d rather no t visit.”

D octor, doctor: Larry Rosen will graduate from med. school next June, then specialize in pediatrics. D iane Ridley received her M .D . this M ay from Colum bia U . and will complete her internship at St. Barnabas Hospital, Livingston.

T h en she will return to Columbia-Presbyterian M ed. Center, N Y C , to complete a three-year residency in anesthesiology.

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M r. Joh n B ooth I I I 3 7 1 9 C astle T errace, S ilver Spring M D 2 0 9 0 4 Best wishes to Jonathon and T am m ia Sumas Burke on their wedding. T hey live in Cleveland.

Jim Rothw ell, at Harvard Law School, was an editor o f the H arvard Law R eview . After graduation, he joined Davis Polk & Wardwell, N Y C , as an associate-.., i B ill Stone won the prestigious W illiston Com petition for negotiation skills at Harvard Law School. H e was a teaching assistant to Judge Peter Lauriat in a Federal Litigation class [Harvard info sent in by R obert Loigm an ’86].

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After graduation from Cornell, D o n D iD om enico attended the U . o f Seville, Spain, for work in “Spanish Civilization” as pre­ paration for entrance into law school, where he will specialize in international law. In the summers D onny has. worked at two different law firms.

Another lawyer-in-progress, Jennifer Rem ington, was elected director o f staffing and symposia for the Seton Hall Legislative Bureau, and published a piece in the school L egislative Jo u rn al T his summer she interned for Judge Nicholas Politan in Federal D istrict Court.

After graduation, Je n will clerk for the H on.

Murray Sim on in Superior Court o f N .J., chancery division, for the 1 9 9 3 -9 4 court term.

After teaching pre-school, M arcia Podvey is beginning graduate school at Tufts U . for a two-year program in occupational therapy.

C athy H u nter will begin a three-year program with Nations Bank in Dallas in O ctober. She planned to go to Ireland this summer, then drive across country in her new Bronco.

Best wishes to our newlyweds! Lisa P orter married Dartm outh classmate Jason Kable in June. Sisters Jill ’91 and Ju lie ’95 were in the wedding party.

M ichelle and David Schwartzbard were married in May. In June they left for England, where they will both have two-year assignments with Exxon Research & Engineering.

W hile finishing his B .S. degree in aviation management and flight technology at Florida Inst, o f Technology, M a tt H endrian received his commercial-instrument and multi-engine certificates. H e worked this summer at Teterboro A rp o rt flying second-in-command in the Falcon je t simulators.

After two years in Seattle working for a theater, M ario LaCorte moved back East to look for jobs in theater administration “somewhere in the Northeast.”

M ichael Sim on is an agent with International Creative Management Co. in L.A. Brad V an Siclen works for Waterhouse Securities, and lives in Upper Montclair.

Sam Sussman is in his second year as a management consultant at Corporate D eci­ sions, Inc. in Boston. H e puts in long hours, both for C D I clients and “in planning the social activities for C D I younger associates.” Sam reportedly has dared fate by bungee jum ping over Boston Harbor, hang gliding, white water rafting, and - inspired by a prior trip to run w ith the bulls in Pamplona - celebrating Carnival this year in Rio de Janeiro.

R obert Loigman, at Harvard Law School, is

an editor o f the H arvard Law R eview . His N ote on the fiduciary duties o f the directors o f nonprofit corporations was published in the M ay issue as part o f D evelopm ents in the Law , and next year he chairs the R eview ’s Develop­ ments O ffice. T his summer he worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell, N Y C . Following graduation, R ob will clerk for the H on. J . Harvie W ilkinson o f the U .S. Court o f Appeals, Fourth Circuit, in Charlottesville, Va.

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M s. Jo y B ooth 5213 C hestnut S t., N ew O rleans LA 70115 M s. Id a B oodin 3 3 8 N orth M ountain A venue U pper M on tclair N J 07043 R eunion chairm en: M s. M eg A llen 2 1 5 E ast 86th St. A pt. 3N N ew York, N Y 10028 M r. R ichard Stanton 7 7 W arren P lace, M on tclair N J 07042 M any thanks to Laura Baczko for her tour as class secretary, and welcome to new scribe Jo y B ooth. Joy, w ith a B A . in studio art/ comm unication from Tulane, is staying on in New Orleans as an account exec with G am bit

M agazine.

News from secretaries, grapevine, and reunion questionnaires: Allison Bernstein received a B.A. in anthropology in M ay from Bard College.

Pam Faw cett is in management training/sales with Ailing & Cory, paper distributors, Philadelphia.

Andrew Friedm an, already an accountant, is in law school at St. Jo h n ’s University. Jo h n Pogorelec attends T ou ro Law School; he graduated from Lafayette with a degree in economics.

M arla B eth Gross, also a Lafayette graduate, is a parent counselor with N orth Jersey Com m unity Coordinated Child Care in Jersey City.

K eith Schott received a B.A. in philosophy from W ittenberg U. International flavor: K urt H ilberth is regional director o f H ilberth Trade Ltd., in Budapest, Hungary. Kurt graduated from T h e Citadel with B.A. in history.

David M cC ants, B .S. in applied math from Brown, is a systems consultant with Andersen Consulting in N YC. Sloan Chase W iesen graduated m agna cum lau de from U . Penn with B.A. in communications. H e was a Benjam in Franklin Honors Scholar there, and looks forward to a career in civil rights.

Lisa M artinez, B A . from Vassar, is public information rep. at the Federal Reserve Bank o f New York.

O ther ’87s in T h e B ig Apple: Laura Baczko (Chemical Bank), M eg Allen and M erri

Safirstein (Sotheby’s), P at Coyle (Bozell C o., advertising).

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M s. K aren M uenster 125 Country Lan e, C lifton N J 07013 M r. Jam es P etretti 13 O tis P lace, V erona N J 07044 Class agent: M r. A lec Schw artz 181 Long H ill R oad M 5, L ittle F alls N J 07424 Craig Stark graduated m agna cum lau de from Harvard and received sum m a on his thesis. H e will do graduate work in cognitive science at the psychology department at Carnegie M ellon U ., studying with the #1 national authority.

N icole G ray was in the news as “senior ' captain and mainstay” for the Yale women’s fencing team this winter. Coley graduated m agna cum lau de, Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, w ith a m ajor in humanities. She will work in publishing.

Coley, Jill T o b ia - fencing for Colum bia and Lana K ang ’8 9 - fencing for Stanford - all m et during the N C A A championships at Notre D am e in M arch. Coley and Jill were both named first-team All-Ivy fencers for the third consecutive season.

E rik Jespersen received Connecticut College’s M ahan M usic Prize, for the greatest achieve­ m ent and talent in music.

D ean’s list, from the newspapers: Richard Cunningham , an art and design m ajor at Alfred U .; Lauren Shanahan, majoring in English at Colgate. Lauren was a representative for student government and admissions.

B oth M ary Savage and Andrew Sorger graduated sum m a cum lau de from Drew U .

Andrew received honors in economics.

A m y Harris graduated from Princeton and will teach fourth-grade English at the Brearley School, N Y C , and live on the Upper East Side.

After a year at Cal. Poly, Pom ona, Calif.,

W en dy D orn er took a year off, then transferred to Seton Hall U . W endy has found her forte in television, directing and producing as a communications major. She has been on the honor roll at SH U , despite a long battle with pneumonia this winter. She reports that sister M eri ’9 0 is doing well at Cornell and so is M arta Branca at U . o f Delaware.

W iem i D ouoguih finished his junior year and third season o f lacrosse at W ashington & Lee U . H e scored 25 goals and 8 assists as starting attackman. W iem i is m ajoring in chemistry and applying to medical schools.

T h e class extends heartfelt condolences to D anielle D eV Ita on the death o f her father.

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M s. Suellen B izub 1 0 7 Country Lan e, C lifton N J 07013 M r. Louis Lessig 78 K en t R oad, H untington V alley PA 1 9 0 0 6 C lass agent: M r. Josh Raym ond 4 W hite O ak R oad, R oseland N J 07068 M ichael H unter has been accepted for Army Airbourne School. H e spent part o f the summer training new cadets at Ft. Buckner, W est Point.

Je n G entile spent the fell semester at Konsai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan.

David Ames spent the fell in Australia studying in the rainforest o f N orth Queensland.

H e played lacrosse in the spring, helping Bowdoin College reach the E C A C Division III finals. Dave made press acclaim when Bowdoin won the Guilford (N .C .) Invitational Tourna­ m ent title.

L aX con’t: D aniel M urphy, ranked fourth for scoring in N C A C Division III, was elected captain o f O berlin’s lacrosse team for next year.

H e will coach fall ball. David A ustin, playing for Northwestern, was named MVP/Defense at the Big T en tournam ent in April.

Faculty m em ber B arbara M am chur (right) an d husband D ennis - longtim e fa n an d u n official photographer to M KA sports team s - w ith th eir daughters K risty ’8 9 an d L au ra ’9 2 .

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capella group which she renamed “In AChord.” T h ey have performed at other schools, including Princeton and Haverford. Claire has been working with the O h io Public Interest Research Group (PIR G ) on a campaign against toxic waste and made public service announce­ ments on Cleveland radio.

Shane Mahieu made the honor society at Jacksonville (Fla.) U . both semesters. H e has continued his motocross racing seriously and was the 1991 New York supercross champion.

Shane is in the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Alpha Kappa Psi professional fraternity.

Meredith McGowan is the Panhellenic Council rep. for her sorority, Gam m a Phi Beta.

She is m ajoring in international business with a m inor in journalism. M eredith is very active on the school newspaper and yearbook staff, and helped run Lehigh’s Sexual Assault Awareness W eek.

Paula Kovanic is a history m ajor and women’s studies m inor at Johns Hopkins U .

She will be president o f the university’s W om en’s Center this year.

Alexa Fitzpatrick and Jamie Reif were roommates at Bowdoin and are both members o f Beta Sigma sorority. Alexa will spend the fall at the U . o f New South W ales in Australia and Jam ie will be in Geneva, Switzerland.

T h e class extends sincere condolences to Nicole DeVita on the death o f her father.

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O ther members o f the team include M K A alumnae Jill Tobia ’88 and Regina Chi ’90.

Seth is having a great time in N Y C and plans to major in political science.

In April, Roberta Griff was initiated into the sorority she had been pledging all semester, Alpha Phi. Between Alpha Phi stuff, classes, and tutoring in a W est Philadelphia elementary school, Roberta had an incredible semester.

W riting from Richm ond, Melissa Di Chiara

Faculty m em ber Sandy Lonsinger an d his w ife, K athy, fla n k B rian ’9 0x an d Jen n ifer ’9 2.

said she had been initiated into Alphi Phi sorority (that makes Roberta and Missy sisters!).

Missy served as philanthrophy chair for her pledge class.

In his spare time, Marc Hauser D J’ed a jazz show on the Northwestern radio station and sang in a chorus.

Jamie Lenis had a lead role in Ionesco’s The B ald Soprano, and was active in the develop­ m ent o f a third m ajor theater group at Holy Cross. A t press time she was rehearsing for a role in ’N ight M other, and claimed that between plays she is pursuing a double major in English and French.

Seth Traum has had a great time at Cornell and is wondering whether or not he will remain an engineering student.

News from Clinton, N Y: Mary Lynn Murphy and Gail Szakacs continued their athletics at H am ilton College. M ary Lynn had a successful softball season and managed the women’s volleyball team, and Gail played lacrosse and soccer.

Dara Marmon had a fun year at Colum bia U . W hen not riding the subways, she was treasurer for two student-run organizations, and was a founding member o f one. O nce again Dara has managed to keep A T & T stockholders and the U .S. Postal Service happy.

Jackie Kearney loves UMass. at Amherst with its 25,000-plus students, quite a change from M KA . Between activities, Jackie attends classes and is considering majoring in psychol­ ogy-

Kim Kohlman is enrolled at the School o f Management at Boston College, where she is working hard and enjoying the city. She occasionally runs into fellow B C students/ M K A alumni Maggie Gomez, Nils Ostberg, Mark Politan, and Maggie Tilton.

Bill May is busy at Duke U ., where he is a civil engineering major and participates in Army R O T C . Being in the South is quite a change from M ontclair, and Bill loves everything about Dixie.

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T o all o f you whom we did not hear from:

Please write so we can spend more tim e together working on class notes. Considering the eclectic interests o f the Class o f ’9 1 , we are sure you all have unique things to share. Best o f luck in your sophomore year!

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M r. E n riqu e N eblett 102 P ark S t., M on tclair N J 07042 M s. T am i S afer 8 7 6 A ztec T ra il F ran klin L akes N J 0 7 4 1 7 Class agent: M s. A lison Raym ond 4 W hite O ak R oad, R oseland N J 07068 W elcom e, Class o f ’9 2 , to your own alumni column!

HOCKEY TRIUMPHS M KA Ice Hockey had an outstanding season. The team won the division championship, the Prep B Champion­ ship, the Handchen Cup (conference championship), and the first Montclair Cup since 1982. The team set school records: the most wins (23), fewest losses (3), longest winning streak (12), longest unbeaten streak (15). Three players were named to the 1st Team All-League: Peter Benedict ’92, Jeff Glasser ’92, and Bryan Cook ’94. The good news is that Bryan Cook and Coach o f the Year J. J. Reydel will return next season.

M arriages 1964 1971 1977 1978 1979 1 979, 1980 1982 1982 1982 1982 1983 1983 1985 1986 1986

Sally W eb b and Jam es M . Brown III Nanette U tech and Joseph Thom as Beverley Hall and M elvin Hildebrand Lawrence Kramer and Catherine Brown A nthony Cristello and Cynthia H ohm ann

1991 M arch 1, 1992 M ay 3 0, 1992 M arch 2 2 , 1992 February 2 9, 1992

Kerry Eastman and Jeffrey Chandler Peter D ancy and Kathryn Daly Pamela Ruddick and W illiam H olding Jr. Alexandra Swanson and Carl Svernlov Thaddeus Yablonsky and B. Alison W eir M arci Reiss and Eric Berger Elliot Sem et and Katherine Babiak Tam m ia Sumas and Jonathon Burke Lisa Porter and Jason Kable David Schwartzbard and M ichelle W itzlib

Ju n e 1 3 ,1 9 9 2 June 1 3 ,1 9 9 2 Ju n e 2 0 , 1992 Ju n e 2 0 , 1992 Septem ber 1990 M ay 2 4 ,1 9 9 2 Ju n e 1991 February 1992 Ju n e 2 0 , 1992 M ay 2 4 , 1992

Keep Us On The Grapevine Please send news, photos and/or address changes to the Alum ni Office.

I f you know a classmate who is no t receiving alumni information, please let us know.

NAME

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TELEPHONE NEWS FOR CLASS NOTES:

In M em oriam If you have a son or daughter or know of a family who would be interested in learning more about The Montclair Kimberley Academy, the Admissions Office would be delighted to send a catalogue and admissions information.

Please com plete and return this card.

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T o all alumni, parents, trustees, faculty, staff and friends o f T h e M ontclair Kimberley Academy: T h e Distinguished Alum ni Award Com m ittee is hereby accepting nom inations for the recipient o f the 1993 Distinguished Alum ni Award.

T h e recipient should have achieved distinction in some field o f endeavor, or through outstanding character or dedication made a special contribution to humanity.

Race, creed, sex or contribution to the school should have no bearing on the choice o f recipient.

T h e purpose o f the Distinguished Alumni Award is “to bestow recognition and appreciation for outstanding achievement.” T his 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 M K A and address a gathering o f alumni and o f students.

You may nominate more than one alumnus/alumna. There will be one Distinguished Alum ni Award recipient each year; all nominations will be maintained in confidential files for consideration in following years.

1993 D IS T IN G U IS H E D A L U M N I A W A R D N O M IN A T IO N F O R M Inform ation on Nominee: NAME

Subm itted by: CLA SS

NAME

A D D RESS

A D D RESS

TELEPH O N E

TELEPH O N E

CLA SS

Please use a separate paper to state the case for your nom ination, giving sufficient inform ation to establish the person’s qualifications. Include, in as m uch detail as possible, the following: career and/or volunteer information; awards, achievements, honors; personal data.

D etach and mail to: T h e M ontclair Kim berley Academy, Alum ni O ffice, 201 Valley Road, M ontclair, N J 0 7 0 4 2

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M s. M eredith M cG ow an 5 4 G ordon R oad, Essex F ells N J 07021 M s. L orelei M uenster 125 Country Lane, C lifton N J 07013 Class agent: M r. Shane M ahieu 4 C olum bia C ourt, N orth H aledon N J 07508 Claire A cher sings in an Oberlin coed a

capella group which she renamed “In AChord.” T h ey have performed at other schools, including Princeton and Haverford. Claire has been working with the O h io Public Interest Research Group (PIR G ) on a campaign against toxic waste and made public service announce­ ments on Cleveland radio.

Shane Mahieu made the honor society at Jacksonville (Fla.) U . both semesters. H e has continued his motocross racing seriously and was the 1991 New York supercross champion.

Shane is in the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Alpha Kappa Psi professional fraternity.

Meredith McGowan is the Panhellenic Council rep. for her sorority, G am m a Phi Beta.

She is m ajoring in international business with a m inor in journalism. M eredith is very active on the school newspaper and yearbook staff, and helped rim Lehigh’s Sexual Assault Awareness W eek.

Paula Kovanic is a history m ajor and w om en’s studies m inor at Johns Hopkins U .

She will be president o f the university’s W om en’s Center this year.

Alexa Fitzpatrick and Jamie Reif were roommates at Bowdoin and are both members o f Beta Sigma sorority. Alexa will spend the fall at the U . o f New South W ales in Australia and Jam ie will be in Geneva, Switzerland.

T h e class extends sincere condolences to Nicole DeVita on the death o f her father.

91 M s. Ja m ie Lenis 2 5 T aylor D r., W est C aldw ell N J 0 7 0 0 6 M s. D ara M orm on 108 T anglew ood D r., E ast H anover N J 0 7 9 3 6 Seth Abbey was a starting varsity member o f the Colum bia U . fencing team that won the 1992 N C A A championships at N otre Dame.

O ther members o f the team include M K A alumnae Jill Tobia ’88 and Regina Chi ’90.

Seth is having a great time in N Y C and plans to major in political science.

In April, Roberta Griff was initiated into the sorority she had been pledging all semester, Alpha Phi. Between Alpha Phi stuff, classes, and tutoring in a W est Philadelphia elementary school, Roberta had an incredible semester.

W riting from Richm ond, Melissa Di Chiara

> Faculty m em ber Sandy Lonsinger an d his w ife, K athy, fla n k B rian ’9 0x an d Jen n ifer ’9 2.

said she had been initiated into Alphi Phi

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treasurer tor two student-run organizations, and was a founding m ember o f one. O nce again Dara has managed to keep A T & T stockholders and the U .S. Postal Service happy.

Jackie Kearney loves UMass. at Amherst with its 25,000-plus students, quite a change from M K A Between activities, Jackie attends classes and is considering majoring in psychol­

ogyKim Kohlman is enrolled at the School o f Management at Boston College, where she is working hard and enjoying the city. She occasionally runs into fellow B C students/ M K A alumni Maggie Gomez, Nils Ostberg, Mark Politan, and Maggie Tilton.

Bill M ay is busy at Duke U ., where he is a civil engineering m ajor and participates in Army R O T C . Being in the South is quite a change from M ontclair, and Bill loves everything about Dixie.

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M KA Ice Hockey had an outstanding season. The team won the division championship, the Prep B Champion­ ship, the Handchen Cup (conference championship), and the first Montclair Cup since 1982. The team set school records: the most wins (23), fewest losses (3), longest winning streak (12), longest unbeaten streak (15). Three players were named to the 1st Team All-League: Peter Benedict ’92, Je ff Glasser ’92, and Bryan Cook ’94. The good news is that Bryan Cook and Coach o f the Year J. J. Reydel will return next season.

M arriages 1964 1971 1977 1978 1979 1979, 1980 1982 1982 1982 1982 1983 1983 1985 1986 1986

Sally W ebb and Jam es M . Brow n III Nanette U tech and Joseph Thom as Beverley Hall and Melvin Hildebrand Lawrence Kramer and Catherine Brown A nthony Cristello and Cynthia H ohm ann

1991 M arch 1, 1992 M ay 3 0 ,1 9 9 2 M arch 2 2 , 1992

Kerry Eastman and Jeffrey Chandler Peter D ancy and Kathryn Daly Pamela Ruddick and W illiam H olding Jr. Alexandra Swanson and Carl Svernlov Thaddeus Yablonsky and B. Alison W eir M arci Reiss and Eric Berger Elliot Sem et and Katherine Babiak T am m ia Sumas and Jonathon Burke Lisa Porter and Jason Kable David Schwartzbard and M ichelle W itzlib

June 13, 1992 June 1 3 ,1 9 9 2 June 2 0 , 1992 Ju n e 2 0 , 1992 September 1990 M ay 2 4 , 1992

February 2 9 , 1992

Ju n e 1991 February 1992 Ju n e 2 0 , 1992 M ay 2 4 ,1 9 9 2

Keep Us On The Grapevine Please send news, photos and/or address changes to the Alumni Office.

I f you know a classmate who is not receiving alumni information, please let us know.

NAME

CLASS YEAR

NEW ADDRESS

TELEPHONE NEWS FO R CLASS NOTES:

In M em oriam M arch 2 9 , 1992 M ay 5, 1992 M arch 15, 1992 1991 1992

1922 David Jayne Jr. 1922 Howard A. V an Vleck Elizabeth Taylor Randall 1923 1925x W illiam Van Ness Jr. 1928 Katherine Sim m ons D ana 1928 Charles H . Riegel Jr. Clem ent W . Eddy 1929 Catherine Meeks 1929 1930 Barbara Berry Morgan W ayne D u m ont Jr. 1931 Ellenor Vandermade Van Deventer 1933 W illard C . Kim m 1939 Jo h n O . Henry 1943 Richard M . Drysdale 1949 1952 Jo h n F. M ylod Jr. Gary Gallo 1977

M ay 2 5 , 1991 April 9, 1992 1991 M ay 13, 1991 M arch 18, 1992 January 3 0 , 1992 June 19, 1992 O ctober 10, 1991 April 8, 1992 January 18, 1991 M arch 1992

Faculty/Staff: D orothy F. M artin Jo h n M . Noble

M ay 2 7 ,1 9 9 2 July 1 ,1 9 9 2

D ISTIN G U ISH ED A LU M N I AW ARD T o all alumni, parents, trustees, faculty, staff and friends o f T h e M ontclair Kimberley Academy: T h e Distinguished Alum ni Award Com m ittee is hereby accepting nominations for the recipient o f the 1993 Distinguished Alumni Award.

T h e recipient should have achieved distinction in some field o f endeavor, or through outstanding character or dedication made a special contribution to humanity.

Race, creed, sex or contribution to the school should have no bearing on the choice o f recipient.

T h e purpose o f the Distinguished Alum ni Award is “to bestow recognition and appreciation for outstanding achievement.” T his 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 M K A and address a gathering o f alumni and o f students.

You may nom inate 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.

1 9 9 3 D IS T IN G U IS H E D A L U M N I A W A R D N O M IN A T IO N F O R M Inform ation on Nominee: NAME

Subm itted by: CLA SS

NAME

A D D R E SS

A D D RESS

TELEPH O N E

TELEPH O N E

CLA SS

Please use a separate paper to state the case for your nom ination, giving sufficient information to establish the person’s qualifications. Include, in as m uch detail as possible, the following: career and/or volunteer information; awards, achievements, honors; personal data.

Detach and mail to: T h e M ontclair Kimberley Academy, Alum ni Office, 201 Valley Road, M ontclair, N J 0 7 0 4 2

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