Fall 1994 MKA Review Magazine

FALL 1994

The Montclair Kimberley Academy Montclair, NJ

C over : The College Connection MKA continues to keep in touch with its students after graduation. Here students model sweatshirts from colleges with recent MKA alumni. See article, “Learning from Our Alumni in College.”

C ontents From the Headmaster / 1 From the Board of Trustees / 2yl!j Learning From Our Alumni in College / 5 Notes Around MKA / 8 The Last Mountain / I I Awards / 12 Cougar Sports / 14 From the Alumni Association* 15 Profile Bill Brown ’46 1994 Distinguished Alumni Award: Rudolph H. Deetjen ’50 / 17 Class Notes jt't.8

E ditors Christie Austin Susan Jone^B Judy Polonofsky

P hoto C redits Boston Sniversity Photo Services James Burger David Hollander Lisa Howey Susan Jones Dan Katz Mattia Morley ’94 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 accomplish­ ments 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 m ater.

A lumni A ssociation C ouncil 1994-95 Joseph H. Alessi '68, Executive Vice President Lisa S. Aufzien 76 Andrew J. Blair 78 Sara Close Crowther 76 Martha Bonsai Day 74;;,v Alan C. Deehan 77, Vice P^sident Pamela Eastman Garvey ’80 Edv^lpl G. Healey 77 Michael F. Hnatow ’89 Holly E. J e ^ S 8 3 Larissa Lury ’96 Peter S. McMullen 77, Vice President Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ’83, Secretary J. Dean PapJjicci 33, President Rudolph G. Schjbbohm 74, Vice President Benjamin Silverman ’95 Sabino T. Rodano ’88 Anita E. Sims-Stokes 79, Treasurer Patricia Shean Worthington 74 Albert D. Van Eerde ’73>»* Peter R. Greer, Headmaster Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs Christie Austin, Alumni Director

B oard of T rustees

1994-95 Susan R. Bershad Peter J. Bruck Martha Bonsai Day 74 Paul G, Edwards Andree (Penny) Finkle John E. Garippa, President Linda F. Garippa A. Lawrence Gaydos Ronald E. Gennace Peter R. Greer, Headmaster Thomas H. Hagoort Alice Hirsh Robert A. Hoonhout 71 John L. Kidde ’52x J. Clarence Morrison Anne E. Muenster-Sinton, Vice President Richard M. Pisacane J. Dean Paolucci 73 Barry W. Ridings 70 Newton B. Schott Jr., Treasurer Jodi Smith, Secretary Jean NMorjussen Terence D. Wall

A dvisory T rustees Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 Edwin J. Dejattre Austin V, Koenen Elizabeth M. Noonan Ronald L. Tobia

H onorary T rustees Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 Joseph A. Courter Susan H. Ruddick James S. Vandermade ’35

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From the H eadm aster

I have a great respect for the power of “the pebble in the shoe.” I greatly enjoyed reading Brikki Tikki Tem bono sa Rembo-Chari Bari Ruchi-Pip Peri Pem bo” to my children when they were young. A moral from that story is to “think small.”

Is there a point to this? And does it have something to do with our MKA? My point is that MKA’s traditional and recent success profile is due in large part to a purposeful and aggressive concentration by faculty and administration on both the vision and the small aspects o f education that matter. This secret to our success is almost hidden within the litany of attractive statistics that help to describe MKA: a 32% increase in inquiries over last year’s figure; a 15% increase in applications (impressive since no new applications were accepted in grades pre­ kindergarten, 1, 2, and 5 for the last three months of the academic year); an increase in the number of grades with “waiting pools”; a new record of $558,500 for Annual Giving; a new record for PAMKA giving of $100,000; a reenrollment rate of over 90%; and fully 85% of our inquiries are the result of “word of mouth” — our reputation as a premier independent day school.

What, then, are the small aspects to which we devote our energies? For example, during the last two years, we have devoted our time to how competent our students becom e in the m echanics of writing. The MKA Writing Challenge is one manifestation of our focus. Students in grades 3, 8, and 11 work toward meeting standards of writing, identify strong and weak areas, and prepare strategies to ameliorate the weaknesses.

We have devoted our time to how our students dress and how they conduct their lives both in school and outside of school. The new Student Code of Attire and ethics/formation of character program are outcomes from our efforts. The efforts related to the prevention of substance abuse has been time well spent. Our ourstanding substance avoidance/outdoor education program, The Free Group, now numbers well over 150 willing students.

We have devoted our time to help students who are struggling with mathematics or science. Our expanded Mathematics Lab is one exam p le We have equipped the programs in the Fine and Performing Arts by purchasing long-overdue replacement pianos and a pug for art classes. We funded the first student-produced MKA feature film, “A World Gone Wrong.”

We have devoted our time to how we welcome and assign new students, to the quality of coaching for boys’ and girls’ sports and what their uniforms look like, and to the upkeep of the buildings and athletic fields. The renovation of the girls’ field (Muenster Field) at 40 Upper Mountain Avenue is an example.

We have devoted our time to how to increase our students’ study skills — e.g., using time well, taking notes, and strategies for reading different types of texts — and to how we schedule our students and faculty, adding additional academic time on a daily basis. Over the last two years, we have lengthened the student calendar by a full week. We have devoted an enormous amount of time in the hiring procedures that bring to our students highly qualified faculty.

As th e R ev iew ’s featu re article illu strates, w e have devoted con sid erab le tim e to finding o u t fro m grad u ates in colleges n ation w id e h ow effective w e h ave b een in th e ir acad em ic p rep aratio n at MKA. As th e re su lt o f o u r alu m n i’s co n stru ctiv e com m en ts, ch an ges h ave b een m ade in th e acad em ic lives o f th o se stu d en ts cu rre n tly o n o u r th re e cam p u ses.

Yes, we have vision S - without which we would indeed be adrift. We concentrate on larger ideas and issues. We will be implementing our Pre-K-12 Citizenship Core Curriculum that includes grounding in public discourse, our founding principles and doc­ uments, and ethics/formation of character. There is our new Office of Career Services with programs involving parents and alumni in providing their expertise in our classrooms and assisting our MKA graduates with career networking. Another example is our upcoming and exciting Long-Range Plan for MKA that includes renovation of all three campuses, the upgrading of technology for use in all areas — especially science, mathematics, and research — and an endowment for faculty salaries.

However, I thought it was timely and important to share with you the fact that MKA’s recent successes and reputation are due in large part to our devotion of time to small things that matter. We are not easily distracted by the latest educational trends that might hamper our ability to prepare students intellectually. This ability to concentrate on the “pebbles” is another aspect at our MKA that “Sets us...apart.”

Dr. Peter R. Greer, Headm aster

From the Board o f Trustees

I Penny F in kle

Susan Bershad

P au l Edw ards

M y final official assignment is to introduce new members of MKA’s Board of Trustees and my successor, Jo h n G arippa, as President. In many ways, John needs no introduction as he has served actively on the Board for five years and co-chaired the Brookside Capital project. I k n o w « will have the same full support of the Board and the entire MKA community th lj I have enjoyed these past two years.

L in da G arippa

] . Clarence M orrison

Clifford, are the parents of two MKA graduates, C lifford ’92 and Jill ’94.

Linda G arippa is a graduate of Rutgers University. As President of the Parents’ Association (PAMKA) for the past two years, Linda proved to be such an integral part of the Board of Trustees that she was elected to a full term so her service on the Board would continue.

Linda and her husband, John, are parents of seventh grader John Scott.

John Garippa graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A. in economics and received a J.IM from Seton Hall Law School. He is the; Senior partner at Garippa and Davenport in Montclair; a member of the New YorH gi New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and American Bar associations; and serves on the Supreme Court Committee on the Tax Court. John and his wife, Linda, are the parents of seventh grader John Scott.

J . C laren ce M orrison graduated from Saskatchewan Teachers College, received a B.S. in business administration from the University of Montana, and did graduate work at New York University. Clarence is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.

He and his wife;, Cheryl, have served as New Parent Phonathon chairs for the past two years. They are parents of Brookside second grader Chase.

W elcom e New T ru stees Susan B ersh ad is a dermatologist in Montclair. Dr. Bershad graduated from Hunter College and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. She is a faculty member at Mtpf| Sinai School of Medicine and a member of the American Me||pal Association, New Jersey Medical Society, American Academy of Dermatology and American Society of Dermatology. She and her husband, David, ar^the parents of MKA students Bradley Jonathan, a sixth grader, and llitib e th Jo, a kindergarten stude^^B

B a rry Ridings, a 1970 graduate of Montclair Academy, received a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.B.A. from the Cornell University School of Business. He is a Managing Director of the New York investment banking firm Alex Brown and Sons, Inc. He is a director of a number of companies, ranging from computer software, shipping, and waste management to a restaurant chain. Barry and his wife, Ann, have five sons attending MKA: Alexander, in eighth g r a d e » James, sixth; Andrew, fourth; Jason, second; and Nicholas, kindergarten.

Paul Edw ards is a Managing Director of the New York investment firm Lehman Brothersj He graduated from The Johns Hopkins University and earned an M.B.A. from Loyola College. He and his wife, Liz, have been involved in every aspect of volunteer service at MKA for many years. They areyne parents of MKA students John, in tenth grade, and Kevin, in sixth.

Elected to the Board of Trustees to serve a second term are parents Jo d i Sm ith and R ob ert H oon h ou t ’71.

As the newly elected President of the Parents’ Association, A lice H irsh brings the parents’ perspective to the Board. She graduated with a B.S. from Syracuse wiiversity and earned an M. Ed. from Weachers College, Columbia University. She is a member of the National League for Nursing, American Nurses Association, and N.J. State Nurses Association.

AliSg and her husband, Steven, are parents of MKA students Jonathan, a senior; fourth grader Adam; first grader Samantha; and Jamie, who is a student at The Phoenix Center.

P en n y Fin k le graduated from Averett College in Danville, Va. She has just completed a two-year term as PAMKA’s Vice Presid^iSgof the Upper School and did the recent interior design on all three campuses.

She is an invaluable volunteer member of the Roseland Historical Society, Montclair Art Museum, and the Mental Health Association. Penny and her husband, 2

Barry Ridings 7 0

A lice H irsh

J . D ean P aolucci 7 3

Edw in D elattre

R onald T obia

M argaret C raw ford Bridge ’65 was »m em b er of the Board from 1985 to 1994, serving as President from 1988-92. Her ever-present leadership provided a stability to MKA as she led the Board through difficult times. Margaret’s wisdom and attention to detail allowed the Board to cover many issues and, at the same time, juggle all interests.

Many thanks to the indefatigable retiring President of PAMKA, Linda G arippa, who, as noted above, has joined the Board for a full term.

J . D ean P aolu cci, as President of the MKA Alumni Association, represents alumni on the Board. Dean graduated from Montclair Academy, Class of 1973, and from Ithaca College with a B.S. in business. He is an account manager with Softmart Inc., a computer software firm. Dean has been active on the MKA Alumni Council for eleven years, and served as Sfreasurer and Executive Vice President. He and his wife, Patricia, have two children, Dana, 4, and Joseph Dean Jr., three months.

A graduate of The Kimberley School, Margaret was involved for many years on MKA’s Alumni Council and did double duty when she b eca m eS Trustee. As a Trustee, she chaired the Educational Policy and Long Range Planning committees and served on numerous, other committees. Infinite thanks to Margaret from all of MKA for her selfless devotion to the task. We are fortunate that she will serve as an Advisory Tmstee for 1994-95.

Many thanks to the outgoing President of the Alumni Association, R ob ert H . G ard n er 7 8 , who served the Board for three years and the Alumni Council for nine.

[Ed. note: Also retiring, A ustin K oen en joined the MKA Board in 1988 and in June completed two years as President. He was chairman of the Search Committee that selected Dr. Peter R. Greer as Headmaster of MKA. See following article.]

A dvisory T ru stees Newly elected Advisory Trustees Edw in D elattre and R onald T obia bring their special talents to the Board.

Edwin is Dean of the School of Education and Professor of Education and Philosophy at Boston University. He graduated from the University of Virginia and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Texas/Austin. Dean Delattre is President Emeritus of St. Joh n ’s College in Annapolis, Md., and Santa Fe, N.M. He is no stranger to MKA’s students and faculty,-’ having taught them ethics and Dr. Martin Luther King’s Letterfrom , a Birm ingham Jail.

R ob ert K ram er joined the Board in 1986 as Advisory Trustee for Annual Giving. After serving in that capacity for two years — and running very successful campaigns — Bob was immediately elected a Trustee and has completed two terms. Bob was a member of the Development Committee, Executive Committee, and chairman of the Buildings and Grounds Committee. His generosity provided the External Affairs Office a computer and many hours writing the very detailed program. Bob and his wife, Francine, are the parents of Ja m ie ’88, M ichael ’91, and L esley ’96x, who is now living with the family in Key West, Fla. Our thanks to Bob for all he did for MKA in his many years of service to MKA.

Ron Tobia served in many capacities on MKA’s Board of Trustees from 1985-1991- A graduate of Lafayette College and the University of Miami Law School, Ron is a partner in the Montclair law firm of Schwartz, Tobia, and Stanziale. He and his wife, Sandra, are the parents of MKA students Joseph, in seventh grade, and Ali, a senior. Their eldest daughter Jill graduated from MKA in 1988 and Columbia University in 1992; she is attending Seton Hall Law School.

Eli2ab eth M. N oonan was a member of the Board from 1991 to 1994. As Director of the Evening and Weekend Programs at Felician College, she brought an' educator’s view to MKA’s Board. Beth was Secretary of the Board this past year and served on IS^Executive Committee, Educational Policy, and the Committee on Trustees. With thanks and gratitude, although she has

R etirem en ts Experience, dedication, commitment! and a love for MKA are reflected in the Trustees who are retiring.

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completed her term, Beth;will remain on the Board as an Advisory Trustee.

T h e Montclair Kimberley Academy has been exceedingly fortunate to have had Austin Koenen as the President of the Board of Trustees. During his tenure, Austin was principally involved in overseeing the development of a long-range plan that would set the direction that MKA would take over the next twenty years. Toward that end, he made certain that all constituencies of the schof| were properly consulted and brought into an atmosphere of earnest dialoguSso that all opinions could be considered as the school moved forward in this great new venture.

It is with a very heavy heart,Jh^t my wife, Kathy, and I leave MKA and the Board after more than a decade of involvement. I have only the highest regard for the members of the Montclair Kimberley Academy com­ munity, especially Headmaster Peter Greer, the faculty and administration who have served the students well.

I sincerely thank you for the privilege of serving as the President of MKA’s Board of T ru sses for the past two years.

Austin V K oenen President

Austin will also be long remembered for his efforts as the chairman of the Search Committee that ultimately selected Dr. Peter R. Greer as the Headmaster of the school. His efforts were herculean as he traveled throughout the country to interview prospective candidates and ultimately recommended Dr. Greer to the Board of Trustees. Clearly the progress The Montclair Kimberley Academy has demonstrated during the two years of Peter Greer’s tenure serves as a testament to Austin’s acumen.

Austin will also be remembered by the Board of Trustees as an individual who was interested in eliciting a variety of opinions at all of the Board meetings, and in so doing, ultimately was in a position to obtain the best advice prior to recommending a course of action. His efforts in these regards will be long remembered. fo h n Garippa

Austin V. Koenen, outgoing President o f the Board of Trustees, welcomes his successor, John E. Garippa.

The M on tclair K im b erley A cadem y Fou n d ation B oard o f T ru stees O fficers 1 9 9 4 -9 5 President - John Garippa Vice President - A. Lawrence Gaydos Vice President - Anne Muenster-SintoM p Treasurer - Newton Schott Secretary - Jodi Smith

“Lifetime” Students.

Students who attended MKAfrom grades 1 -12- and theirparents were honored at a breakfast at Headmaster Peter Greer’s home in June. R ear, L to R: Sheldon Barnes, Tara Mulligan, Alexis Phillips, Beth Manchester, Ki Pachal. Front: Austin Koenen, Chris Pisacane, Julie Fanelli.

M issing: Carrie DiStefano, Kristen Drukker, Angela Garretson, Genessa Keith, Jill Lutzy, Christa Roedel, Gregg Tully, Daniel Urband.

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Learning From O u r Alumni In College “MKA’s academ ic p rep a ra tio n f o r college couldn’t be better. Even a t a school like [X], my coursew ork fe lt like high school all o ver again. I believe I w as seriou sly advantaged over my p ee rs because o f my high school experience.” [Eastern university grad]

mandatory intro to computer. l am clueless about computers.” As a result, the school has made improvements in the arts, added computers to science, and put the library’s periodicals index on-line, thanks to a generous gift from the Parents’ Association (PAMKA).

“I w ould recom m end m andatory com puter science cou rses. I w ish I had known som ething beyond w ordprocessing; com puters can now do everything.”

“We use a lot of computers in college,” says a Midwestern engineering student. “It’s nice to see what they have now at the Upper School. Even Mr. Matzke’s art room has CD/ROM so students can design graphics.”

[Ivy League university grad]

“My acting and pu blic speaking experience a t MKA w as a big p lu s in term s o f being p rep a re d to g et up in fro n t o f a grou p o f p eo p le to m ake a presen tation and sim ply p a rticip a te in class discussion w ith ou t an xiety.”

Students’ side comments on the replies are helpful.

There is often praise for individual teachers or courses: “AP chemistry at MKA is excellent. College is easy compared with Mrs. Schwier’s chem class.” [Midwestern university]

[Northeastern college grad]

“The pu blic speaking program should be a year-long course as it is so im portant and valuable a t the college level.” [Northeastern college grad]

“MKA’s Outdoor Leadership project was one of the best experiences of my life.” [Northeastern college]

JV io n tcla ir Kimberley Academy students’ involvement with the school doesn’t end at graduation with the assumption of the grand title “alumni.” Before they return at Homecoming, reunions, and Career Day, recent alumni are asked to contribute to MKA in a unique way: their opinions.

“MKA taught me how to write.” [Ivy League university] “The English department did a tremendous job in preparing me for college writing courses:’’ [Northeastern college] “I definitely received an excellent education in the humanities. In literature courses I always felt better prepared than my fellow students. The small classes at MKA really helped in this respect.” [Ivy League university]

“We care about the continuity of MKA students,” says Headmaster Peter Greer. “Our alumni still have an attachment, a commitment, and a feeling of responsibility to those behind. It is one of the obligations of our community in the finest sense.”

Upper School department chairmen receive a synopsis of the surveys and relevant comments. They meet in the fall to examine major trends and to discuss strategies. Many of the replies give recommendations for specific classes; for example, “Physics material could be more condensed. The teachers should look at what colleges are teaching.” [Midwestern university]

For the last two years, MKA has sent questionnaires to alumni in college, at the end of their freshman and senior years. Students are asked to grade their MKA experience generally, academically by department, socially, and by academic skill areas. Their answers can be anonymous, but many students sign and write lengthy opinions. This year more than a third of the college freshmen and a quarter of the seniors filled out the questionnaires, an extraordinarily high return.

“Grammar and literature need to be given an equal weight.” [Ivy League engineering student] “English needs to do some poetry. I also think we need a greater awareness of current events.... copies of the New York Times in lounges would be useful in promoting current events awareness.” [West Coast university] “The lack of emphasi#'on 20th century events, their consequences and modern-day views of those events influences my opinion.” [Northeastern university] Gary Schwartzbard ’9 3 describes life at the University ofMichigan.

The surveys are taken seriously by the administration, discussed, and if appropriate, acted upon. The confidential results are used to find trends that may raise areas of concern or reinforce areas of strength.

Valid concerns are addressed; some - such as technology - have also been entered into the LongRange Plan.

In tro to C om puters Many college students feel, for example, that their computer skills were weak, that they needed more than wordprocessing. One wrote, “There should be

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forms of community service. He will inventory current community service opportunities in grades 7 through 12, and make recommendations about future directions for MKA to pursue.

Socially Speaking The replies’ greatest divergence of opinion reflects social concerns such as peer pressure and valuing people from different cultures. Some alumni feel that MKA was m ore diversë than their college; others have the opposite view. “The school needs to be more challenging and diverse.” [Ivy Leaguèÿhniversity] “It needs more racial, ethnic, religious diversity within the class and more open discussion about the differences and similaritieftamong people.” [Eastern college]

Cliff Finkle ’9 2 and Renee Monteyne '93 discuss their college experiences.

One MKA alumnus expressed his surprise, not at the ethnic diversity of his university vis-a-vis MKA, but at the socio-economic differences he encountered.

“There were people worrying about jobs just to stay in school.”

(To whichlgim Saburn, Head of Campus for the Upper School, says, “At least three history teachers regularly teach and quiz on current events. Further, we have offered Post-World War II U.S. History since the fall of 1992. We also offer The Art of Poetry and Romantic and Victorian Poetry.”)

According to Dr. Greer, such comments serve to reinforce the faculty’s desire to emphasize varied sources. His own course in ethics, fpr example, uses literature from many cultures, including Chinese, Indian, Hispanic, African-American, and Native American. Other teachers include similar sources in their curriculum.

There are, of course, contradictions: “Calculus classes in college were the toughest. Pre-calc didn’t lead up to it.” [Eastern university] “Calculus was my easiest B ou rsell [Northeastern college] “Math and||cience at MKA are outstanding.’’IB id w estem university] “Math and science need to be at higher levels.” [Eastern university]

H ow to H it th e Books Another contribution of college freshmen to MKA is an innovation of the College Placement department, which invited alumni to speak with this year’s seniors about their transition to college life. Nine recent graduates returned for a panel discussion in May.

Suggestions fo r C u rricu lu m Among the replies are strong social awareness and some unexpected suggestions for curriculum. “I think students need a mandatory course in ethics.” [Eastern university] “Public speaking shoffd be a year-long course....New suggestions would be to include philosophy, psychology, anthropology as choices at B on ors levels.” [Northeastern college]

Advice ranged from the concrete “You don’t need a lot of stuff; you wear the sameplothes every day,” to the philosophical “Stay flexible. Keep an open mind.”

Such advice flowed with reassurance that MKA seniors would be well-prepared for college. According to the College Placement department, returning alumni tout their preparation in terms of study skills. They know how to learn, how to use research facilities, and how to research and put together organized papers.

“Stress community service more; education not for self, but for others.” [Northeastern college] “It would be beneficial and would contribute to the well-roundedness of your students if you included in your curriculum courses on feminism, a variety of ethnicity and cultures, mandatory community service projects, more laboratory techniques in sciences, and technology classes® [Ivy League university]

The questionnaires reflect that.§j‘MKA helped me learn how to manage a lot of work, so college work is not so overwhelming. I know better what’s important and what’s not.” [Northeastern college] “Overall, I was pleasantly suprised to find my college classés exactly like being in a clasroom at M KAS [Eastern college]

Partially in response to such, concerns, MKA instituted » h e following courses in the ’93-94 school year: 19th Century American Women Authors, African-American Literature, Latin American Literature, and African Studies.

“Although the workload and intensity of the work at college is twice that of high school, I have felt very prepared ancmble to handle the material, both in subjects I have background in and those which are

Thispekr, faculty member John Murray will be a parttime Epfector of Service Learning, the new term for all

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MKA alumnifrom the Class of 9 3 returned to advise this year’s seniors about college. Standing: Mark Goldberg (NYU), Brian Wecht (Williams), Liz Wells (Barnard), Jen Wahl (Boston College), Renee Monteyne (Boston College), Mike Brown (Oberlin). Front: Chad Brown (Amherst), John Eberhardt 9 2 (Duke), Brett Shanahan (Moravian), f :

totally new.” [Ivy League university]

D on’t Buy an Alarm Clock w ith a Snooze Bar In an innovation o f the College Placement department, last year’s graduates returned this May to advise MKA seniors on the transition to college.

And, “Homework skills are probably the most important skills, right after analysis and thinking skills...I took great advantage of being allowed to hand in assignments late. It doesn’t work that way in college.” [Ivy League university]

“You’ll have a lot of free timeH one college freshman said. “At first you’re going to love it, then you wonder what you did.” “You’re left on your own to figure things out,” said another.

The College Placement Office gets much feedback on various colleges from returning alumni, getting a sense of fit and how they feel about their school. The office continues to counsel students and parents in college transfers.

“Keep up with the work. If you slip a little bit, you slip a lot. You’re staying up all night....It’s not like here [MKA], where you’re not allowed to slide.”

“The biggest problem is the amount of material at one time. You don’t get so much in high school.

In college, we had 17 chapters of chemistry in one semester. You have to set your own goals and homework assignments. There is no beginning or end of a day.”

“We are pleased to see our graduates branching out across the U.S.,” says John Rabke, Director of College Placement. “And as any college will tell you, success in high school equals success in college.”

The C ollege C on n ection

With irreverant good humor, they discussed getting along with roommates: “Your roommate’s mom will be the most annoying person on earth. They don’t know when to calB.W ith roommates’ friends, you have to lay down rules....[or] Try to room with an engineer; they’re always in the lib ra ry .^

Referring to both the number of replies to the questionnaires and college students returning for discussions, Dr. Greer says, “We are very grateful to our alumni in college who took time and picked up the challenge, for their willingness to play Dutch Uncle to our students.”

There were hints both philosophical and practical: “The library is a great resource. Exploit Everything you can; take advantage of it....Learn not to mix light and dark in your laundry. I have a lot of pink T-shirts.”

“Those alumni are our clients; we ask, How did it go?

Their comments are candid and thoughtful, and are a demonstration of our community. MKA means to improve every single year. We will not rest on our reputation, but improve on behalf of the students.”

The biggest shock for some college freshmen was the size of some lecture classes and the system of grading on a curve. “A curve is sort of competing, but it’s also reassuring because you realize what average you can shc§fit for.”

Christie Austin

All the MKA grads advised getting involved: ;|Get to know as many people as you can early on....Branch out, try different things....Some of my best friends are those I worked in clubs with.”

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Facu lty T ributes

A, the closing faculty meeting, Austin V. Koenen,

President o fjlie Board of Trustees, thanked the professional staff — “the core of MKA” — for their advice, expertise, and integrity during his long involvement with the school, six as a Trustee and 12 as a parent of three students. Austin introduced the new President of the Board, John Garippa, who gave a preview of the Long-Range Plan to build endowment and improve the physical plant as the cornerstone to the future.

Dr. Peter Greer wished the following departing faculty and staff good luck in the next stages of their careers: Susan M cIntosh A w erdick ’ 68 , E lissa B ald assarro , Ellen B ilinski, K een eh C om izio, A iden D ow ney, C raig D ow ney, L ori E rick so n , M ichele G erke, Ja n is G irt ’87, C arol G riese, A ndrew K n ap p , A lice S tarr, and Y an n a Y an n ak ak is.

He thanked Jim B u rger, who leaves to becom e Headmaster of Tuxedo Park School, for his 12 fine years at MKA as Head of Campus for the Middle School and Director of Admissions, and retiring faculty members T om m y B rayb oy and Jo a n n e Noble.

Jam es B u rger from speech by Pat D ancy Jim had a very real impact on my professional life at MKA. He was encouraging and positive, an excellent motivator. He is gifted in identifying an individual’s skills and giving him or her the opportunity to use them....Jim is a problemsolver with a ragical mind.

He wants input prior to making decisions or taking action.

H^fjjghose to look carefully at what we were as an institution at the time, to find the good things about us, to praise us for them, and bit by bit to challenge us to tackle some of our problem areas. We became collaborators in the quest for providing excellence in education.

T h om asin a B rayb oy from speech by Rita Singer Tommy, we all know how many children’s lives you’ve touched in your 27 years of teaching here.

You may not be aware of how many co-workers’ lives you’ve touched in your many roles at MKA. By your example we learned to deal with the children who march to a different drummer and helped us take pride in their differences. In our many cultural diversity meetings and workshops, we learned that we all have experienced some sort of prejudice and you prodded our consciousness to recognize that even in our differences we are all alike in some ways.

How often did you willingly set aside your work to listen to and encourage us?

You wisely reminded us, “Is this change really going to benefit our students?” W e’ll miss your caring, your kindness, and your wisdom.

Jo a n n e Noble from speech by Myra Hrab Joanne started 24 years ago at The Kimberley School as a 6th grade teacher, and quickly established a reputation for no-nonsense.

She had high expectations of her students and firmly believed that discipline and a strong knowledge of the basics was of utmost importance. Parents knew that their children would get a heavy dose of grammar, spelling, and perhaps an archaic skill called penmanship....She instilled a love of reading, taught organizational skills, and her love of Indian culture opened up a new world for them.

As the director of MKA’s Summer School, Joanne saw nine years of high attendance and great success.

Joanne, you are the consummate professional, an example to us all. We will miss our morning talks and many discussions about the latest books and films.

MKA is losing a devoted, dedicated, and caring teacher.

B ragging R ights • Congratulations to our faculty: Ju d y N esbit was selected to the summer Leadership Program in Discrete Mathematics at Rutgers University, one of only 40 out of 700 applications.

• Latin teacher Jo a n H avens received a stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to attend a five-week seminar in Greece.

• Many thanks to PAMKA (Parents’ Association) for donating an astounding $100,000 to MKA this year.

Dr. Steven Tigner, Professor at Boston University, gave a week-long workshop on ethics this summer to 3 2 faculty members.

• The Senior Class gift was a flag with the school seal which will fly by the Stars and Stripes at the Upper School.

MKA in N ational Jo u rn a l o f E d u cation

• Five Upper School students were invited to participate in the National Invitational Mathematics exam in March. Seniors Fran k lin K im , Jo h n Sarofif, and E ly Slyder, and two sophomores, Je s s ic a B ru d er and Jo o n C hoi, earned top scores on the competition involving more than 10,000 high school students. The 90-minute test emphasized problem-solving skills more than math achievement.

MKA students were featured in an article written by Dr. Peter Greer about the teaching of ethics in the spring fo u m a l o f Education, vol. 175. “Taking Life Seriously, An Ethics Course and Its Teacher” discusses the aims, content, methods, and recommendations of his course.

From the article: The students are making a conscious effort to integrate what they have been reading, and they have been reading a lot....They draw on stories from several cultures. They better understand what all people hold in common in spite of cultural and other differences. They take seriously and have applied what they have learned about private decency. Thenreadings and discussions have carried over into their day-today lives. Several faculty members have told me that in discussions in other classes [the] students will use refen-no.s to readings they have discussed in ethics class.

The Facu lty K eep L earn in g • MKA faculty participated in a Folger Shakespeare Workshop, given by Peggy O ’Brien, Head of Education at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and Michael Tolaydo, Professor of Theater at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. The speakers combined scholarship, teaching, and acting skills to show how to make Shakespeare “accessible and alive for students.’9

It would be immodest and inaccurate to describe these students and their teacher as accomplished philosophers.

There was a clumsiness as we attempted to engage seriously in reasoned conversation about ethics and moral literacy.

This clumsiness is natural to the learning process and a sign of a genuine attempt to leam new things....

• Elliott Merenbloom, Director of Middle School Instruction for the Baltimore County (Md.) Public Schools, gave a workshop on team teaching to the Middle School faculty. He is the author of The Team Process, a handbook for teachers.

We can report that we constructed a moral framework with which to examine issues and examples of private decency.

Our mutual engagement in conversations that matter created a special student-teacher relationship and a shared moral literacy....Our seriousness together gives us reason for optimism.

• Thirty-two faculty members took part in a week-long ethics workshop this summer, “Ethics and Argument in Plato’s Republic.” The workshop — combining study and application to daily classroom activities — was run by Dr. Steven Tigner of the Boston University School of Education and Tonya Geckle, a teaching assistant in philosophy at the University of Texas. Fellowships for the workshop were provided by MKA parents Carol and Terry Wall.

• Ethics beyond the classroom: Last year five MKA students traveled with Dr. Greer to Washington, D.C., to meet Nien Cheng, author of Life a n d Death in Shanghai. Cheng discussed her life in China, including the time she spent in jail during the Cultural Revolution. All MKA faculty and staff were presented with an autographed copy of the book for last summer’s reading.

• Mary Ann Hull from New Jersey’s Liberty Science Center spoke with the MKA science faculty about science and technology as it relates to MKA’s Long Range Plan.

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MKA M ovie — A C ross B etw een “Field o f D ream s” an d “It’s a W onderful Life” Replacing the annual spring play, the drama department this year produced a feature-length, technicolor movie, “A World Gone Wrong.” More than 114 students, faculty members, administrato|p|nd alumni answered the casting call. The film was shot on campus at the Upper School and at the Tick Tock Diner on Route 46.

Faculty member J.C. Svec wrote the original story about a young girl who has gone astray (played by junior Sara Shaning), whose life is turned around by her guardian angel, a former baseball player (played by professional actor Michael Blotsky). The story was sent to a Hollywood screenwriter, Stephen VittoriaJ^ whc >turned it into a screenplay. G eorge Ilrah J r . '89 wrote the music score and T aryn R eif ’93 appears in the movie.

The professional actor and cinematographer (Lisa Spagnuolo) gave students valuable exposure to the working realities of filmmaking. Students participated in both acting and production ro|jM Andra Kyriakides ’94 was the producer; faculty member George Hrab was the associate producer, and sophomore Dawn Dolden was the art director.

“A World Gone Wrong” premiered in May in the Deetjen Drama Lab, and will be shown again at Homecoming on September 24.

Fou n d ers’ Cup L o ri W in d olf C risp o 7 8 presents the 1993-94 Fou n d ers’ Cup Award to afth g tim e faculty m em b er K en G ib s o n ,B ‘th e m an w h o has taught many of us important lessons about economics, history, and life.”

“The Founders’ Cup honors all MKA’s faculty w ho helped u a through the lessons o f our younger years — academic lessons, emotional and social lessons, life|| lessons. As chairman of the History Department, long-time coach of the track and football teams, student advisor, and member of the disciplinary department, Ken Gibson has had an effect on the lives of many students.,..Hifiname is synonomous with uncompromising standards and his judgment is held in high repute by his colleagues.”

By jthe award, alumni “honor the spirit of what we as alumni remember and cherish about our teachers long after we have graduated.”

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learning-disabled children.) Enlisting the sign language skills of MKA staff member Lori Daskowitz, the group began weekly classes to learn American Sign Language. After a trial on the Upper School ropes course, Katzenbach students joined the MKA students on a hiking expedition in the Catskills. Tentative at first, the two groups of students were soon interacting and communicating with success. Senior Alex Mangili calls the experience “a real eyeopenev.^’ 7

The Last M ountain X h e Free Group is a program for Upper School students who pledge to be free of drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes all year. An outgrowth of MKA’s Outdoor Education Program, it provides activities, community service opportunities, and some necessary fundraising.

In the process, it changes lives.

For the 13 seniors who climbed Mt. Rainier in June, the impact of this program is especially real. The 14-day challenge of Mt. Rainier culminated a year of canoeing, rock climbing, learning American Sign Language, selling hamburgers at football games, performing in a cabaret, attending a rally in support of the deaf, and other anything-but-average activities. The climb was a powerful symbol of their growth. They called Mt. Rainier “the last mountain we will climb as children.”

Communication is an essential aspect of The Free Group. Time and again, Free Groupers express how much better they communicate now. Alex Mangili says, “Mr. Love really teaches you to express your true feelings.” For Alex, it was the close, honest conversations that meant the most.

Peter Barrett joined because he wanted to do outdoor activities, but he feels that being in the group has changed them all. Their habits, their behavior, and their perspective on drugs are different. The climb up Mt. Rainier was “something you don’t forget anytime soon. That was a serious event in our lives.”

1993-94 was the first year of The Free Group. The hard core was mostly seniors, who took lowerclassmen on canoe trips and hiking expeditions to pique their interest. Long-time faculty member David Love, who has trained extensively in outdoor education and is certified by NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School), runs The Free Group. He promotes it as “an attractive alternative to trouble.”

Climbing Mt. Rainier was indeed challenging. Senior Kristen Drukker said, “With each step I took, I felt emotions that amazed me — anger, peace, frustration, accomplishment. I could feel myself growing as person.”

Though membership fluctuated, Love gives the core group of seniors enormous credit for pioneering The Free Group from September to graduation. “Those 13 kids who stuck with the program have taken the first step toward changing the way MKA students look at chemical behavior. They have shown there is a benefit to being chemical-free.”

Kristen continues, “Those of us in The Free Group were worried at the beginning of the year that we would be bored and boring to other people. It didn’t turn out that way. Instead, we realized we didn’t have to party to have a good time. Climbing a mountain is a natural high.”

In order to support their activities, the students raised money all year. Their biggest effort was the Free Group Cabaret in April, which raised over $7,000 — enough to finance the trip to Mt. Rainier and to take students from the Katzenbach School on a weekend wilderness trek.

Beyond their perspective on drugs, the students’ inneig« worlds have changed. Would any of them ever have learned about the complexities of the deaf culture?

Doubtful. Would they ever have attended a political rally in Trenton to protest state funding cuts for the Katzenbach School for the Deaf? No. Would they ever have sung and danced at a fund-raising cabaret in front of 400 people? (Laughter) Would they ever have climbed Mt. Rainier? Maybe, eventually.

In the fall, Love and the students added the .component of working with students from the Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf in Trenton. (Earlier they had done work with young students from the Harriet Tubman School in Newark and a group of

Senior Peter Barrett closed the Free Group Cabaret with “Landslide

Susan Jones

David Love and Lori Daskowitz sign a welcome to Katzenbach students as they prepare to leavefo r the Senior Alex Mangili looks toward Catskills on a Free Group expedition. the summit ofMt. Rainier.

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C om m encem ent Awards

ETHEL M. SPURR AWARD for cooperation, esponsibility, service and citizenship Jonathan Accarrino

BUD MF.KEF.L MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP for a worthy senior Ishan Muhammad

COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD for positive action which shows unselfish concern for the larger community beyond school Laura Clemente Egan Davson

MARJORIE WINFIELD EASTER AWARD for sportsmanship, self-discipline and behind-the-scenes service Jason Awerdick

RUDOLPH H. DEETJEN AWARD for athletics and academic achievement Candace Messinger Mitchell Decter

THE ROBERT C. HEMMETER MEMORIAL AWARD for intellectual curiosity, love of books and sports, and enthusiasm for living Lissa Bollettino

Cunt L a u d e 1994: (Back) Ben Roth, Michael Dore, David Steinberg, Priya Khanna, John Saroff, Paul Yoo, ALexMangili (Front)Jason Tepperman, Remy Monteyne, Monica Fernand, Emily Ehrenberg, Laura Hardman, Candy Messinger, Jill Lutzy, Jamie Bedrin, Eugenia Go (F), Lissa Bollettino (R), Laura Clemente. Missingfrom photo: Magalie Lemaire.

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Awards N ight

THE BARRAS ENGLISH PRIZE Jason Brody MODERN LANGUAGE PRIZE IN FRENCH Jaim e Bedrin MODERN LANGUAGE PRIZE IN SPANISH Amy Yam ner ’95 Julie Porter ’95

HEADMASTER’S AWARD Andria Kyriakides Rosemary Monteyne John Saroff Daniel Urband KLEIN AWARDS FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN ATHLETICS AND SCHOLARSHIP GRADE 12:

Magalie Lemaire Peter Barrett

THE NAZARIAN MATHEMATICS PRIZE Dhruv Singhal ’95

GRADE 11:

Kristen Klank AIon Terry

THE WILLIAM H. MILLER SCIENCE PRIZE Emily Ehrenberg

GRADE 10:

Kelli Kessler Michael Reiter

GRADE 9:

Dana Tyson Brett Coldiacovo

THE G.A. DOWNSBROUGH SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP Alessandro Mangili THE OSBORNE SCIENCE PRIZE Candace Messinger

THE AL STAPF AWARD Bryan Cook HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PRIZE

THE DARTMOUTH CLUB BOOK AWARD Carolyn Seugling ’95 THE YALE SECONDARY SCHOOL BOOK AWARD Dhruv Singhal ’95 THE SMITH COLLEGE CLUB AWARD Amy Yam ner ’95 THE RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE MEDAL liana Safer ‘95 BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL AWARD Alexander Joerger ’95 THE MONTCLAIR SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS AWARD Kiwitta Paschal Jr. FACULTY SCHOLAR AWARDS

THE HISTORY PRIZE Lissa Bollettino

A nand P ath uri

GRADE 11:

THE JACK RABUSE AWARD Benjamin Roth

THE FRANK “PONCHO” BROGAN ’72 MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Kristine Sova ’95

GRADE 10:

Jessica Bruder Larissa Lury

GRADE 9:

Jennifer Fink Abigail Love Ellen Stem

FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS PRIZES Visual: Aron Nemeth Music-Vocal: Alexis Phillips Communications: Jonathan Accarrino Dance: Anand Pathuri THE MARILYN FADEN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THEATRE ARTS Acting: Benjamin Roth Technical: Emily Ehrenberg THE ELIZABETH O’NEIL FEAGLEY CREATIVITY AWARD Julie Porter ‘95

RED AND BLACK SOCIETY Ami Shah ’95 Rita Papaleo ’95 ORGANIZATION OF BLACK STUDENTS LEADERSHIP AWARD AND SCHOLARSHIP Ihsan Muhammad Kiwitta Paschal Jr.

THE MAESTRO THOMAS MICHALAK INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AWARD Laura Hardman Benjamin Roth THE JAMES D. TIMMONS SCHOLARSHIP Lissa Bollettino

Herbert TateJr. ’71, speakerfo r the 1994 Cum Laude Induction Ceremony, poses with Magalie Lemaire and Candy Messinger.

Herbert, who is President of the Board of Regulatory Commis­ sioners in N.J. Governor Whitman’s Cabinet, was himself a member of Cum Laude in 1971.

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Carolyn Seugling Dhruv Singhal

THE STAR-LEDGER SCHOLAR Lissa Bollettino GOVERNOR’S SCHOOL ON THE ENVIRONMENT Clay Irving ’95

1 9 9 3 -9 4 COUGAR ATHLETIC AWARDS AND HONORS FOOTBALL

VOLLEYBALL

Sheldon Barnes Brian Donahue Austin Koenen Chris Pisacane

’94 '94

Daniel Williamson

'94

Justin Blanes Greg Gennace Matthew Seelig Ben Silverman Darren Witmer

’95 ’95 ’95 ’95 ’95

’94

2nd Team All-State B, Halfback Captain, 2nd Team All-State B. Lineman 2nd Team All-State B. Quarterback Wiener Award, 2nd Team All-State B, Lineman Captain, MVP|§nd Team All-State B, Splitend 1st Team All-State, Lineman 1st Team All-State, Lineman 2nd Team All-State B, Lineman 1st Team All-State, Lineman Most Improved Player

■94

FIELD HOCKEY Lissa Bollettino Angela Garretson

’94

Coachjs Award, Honorable Mention Prep A Captain, MVP, Honorable Mention Essex County, 1st Team Offense Prep A, lS T e a m Offense NJ Field Hockey Coaches Association Coach’s Award, Honorable Mention Defense Essex County, 1st Team Prep A, 1st Team NJFH Coaches Association Coach’s Award Most Improved Player Captain, Coach’s Award, 2nd Team Defense Prep A, 2nd Team NJFH Coaches Association 1st Team Defense Essex County

'94

Lisa Ramos Diana Striano Lauren Visceglia

'94 ’94 ’94

Rita Papaleo

’95

’94 ’94 ’95

Captain Captain Prep A All-Star Team

’94

Captain Captain Captain MVP Coach’s Award

SWIMMING Jill Lutzy .Siobhan Mulvey Ely tSIidcr Brendan Mulvey Marcy Shapiro

’94 ’95 ’95

BOYS’ FENCING Andy Choi David DeMatteis

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Christina Loff

Michelle Grasso Remy Monteyne Shan Shan Yam

’94

Captain, 2nd Team All-State Captain, 1st Team All-State

GIRLS’ FENCING Alicia Lee ’95 Ali Tobia ’95 Nina Mirchandani i | B

Captain Captain 3rd Team All-State

SKI RACING Daniel Urband Richard Sutter

’94 ’95 .

. Captain, MVP Most Improved Player

SPRING 1994

BASEBALL BOYS’ SOCCER Mitch Decter

’94

Daniel Byrd Kevin Clark Charles Kaplan Jon Monico Aion Tefjy.L Steven Raab

Captain, MVP, 2nd Team Essex County, 1st Team All-Prep 2nd Team All-Prep B 1st Team All-County, 1st Team All-Prep 2nd Team All-Prep Honorable Mention All-Prep B 1st Team All-Prep Honorable Mention All-Prep B

p a i ’95 '95 ’95 ’97

GIRLS’ SOCCER Candy Messinger

’94

Remy Monteyne

’94

Tashi Murphy

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Captain, 2nd Team NJISAA A Division, Coaflh’s Award Captain, Honorable Mention NJISAA, Coach’s Award 2nd Team NJISAA A Division

’96

CROSS COUNTRY Daniel Urband Billy McCormack’

MVP, 2nd Team All-Prep B 2nd Team All-Prep B Coach’s Award

SOFTBALL Melissa Arcoleo Jill Finkle Magalie LeMaire

’94 ’94 >94

Candace Messinger ’94 Dana Tyson

Captain, Coach’s Award Coach’s Award MVP, All-Prep A Honorable Mention, Star Ledger 3rd Team All-County Captain Most Improved Player, Star Ledger 3rd Team All-County

GOLF Jason Awerdick Blair Dore

Julie Fanelli Christina Loff Gillian Sheeran Lauren Visceglia Megan Torjussen Kelli Kessler

BOYS’ BASKETBALL AJ Royce Kevin Clark

’94 '95

Dennis McNeil

’95

Captain Co-MVP, 1st Team All Prep B, Star Ledger 2nd Team All Prep ^■gl-MVP, 1st Team All Prep B, Star Ledger 2nd Team All Prep

GIRLS’ BASKETBALL ’94 ’94

Captain, MVP MjCaptain, Most Improved Player Coach's. Award

ICE HOCKEY Peter Barrett H Brian Cook

IM l ’95 ’97

’94 ’97

Coach’s Award Low Scorer Award

’94

2nd Team Offense Prep A Captain MVP, 2nd Team Offense Prep A Captain Most Improved Player 1st Team Offense Prep A

GIRLS’ LACROSSE Captain, MVP Most Improved Player

É É II '96

WINTER 1993-94

Angela Garretson Rebecca Strenz Tana Shah

Brian Cook Charles Kaplan Brett Colaiacovo

’94

Captain, MVP, Second Team Prep B Captain, Coach’s Award, 1st Team All Prep B

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’94 ’94 ’95 ’96

BOYS’ LACROSSE Sheldon Barnes Mitch Decter Ki Paschal Chris Pisacane Daniel Williamson

’94 ’94 ’94 ’94

Captain Coach’s Award Captain Captain MVP, Honorable Mention All-Conferenc^H

From T h e Alum ni Association A Little Travelling Music

by W illiam F. B row n ’46

always referred to as “...a source close to General Ridgeway says...”

I was 23. That’s who sources really are.

Bill Brown is a prolific author, playwright, TV a n d cabaret writer, a nd cartoonist. H e received the D ram a Desk Aw ard a nd was nom inated fo r the Tony Aw ard fo r his longrunning Broadway play, The Wiz.

Our daughter Debbie was born in Tokyo; “A maid in Japan” her birth announcement proclaimed. In October 1952 we came back to the States, and I was discharged as first lieutenant. We moved to California and I became a talent agent for MCA (Music Corporation of America). My clients were all TV writers. My son Todd was born in T.A, just after I sold my first cartoon to the Saturday Evening Post.

In 1 9 5 ^ we moved back east and settled in Greenwich, Conn. I worked for BBDO advertising agency and worked my way up to being agency producer for “Armstrong Circle Theater” and the specials on “The U.S. Steel Hour.” At night, I’d draw my cartoons and do my books — 11 altogether — and write humor, fiction, and non-fiction.

I want to go back to 1936, when I first came to MA in the third grade...and stayed until 1946, when I graduated. I was Head Boy in both the lower and upper schools, and I loved the place. The teachers who made the most impact on me were Claude W. Monson in Latin, William Avery Barras in English, William H. Miller in science, and Frank H. Harmon in math.

Encouraged to be a freelance writer by two legends in the business, Julius Monk, cabaret impresario non­ pareil, and TV producer Max Liebman, I left the agency in I960, after having gotten my feet wet as a performance writer in Monk’s 1959 Upstairs at the Downstairs Review and on Liebman’s CBS TV special, “The American Cowboy.”

There were a lot of things I did at MA besides study [though] I hold no records in Lower School baseball or football. In the Upper School I was captain of the tennis team that Loren Shores (my French teacher) coached. I was in the Kimberley-Academy Dramatic Club for three years and trod the boards as an actor in three forgettable, fun shows. I was editor-in-chief of our paper, The M ontclair News-, art editor of Octopus-, president of Red and Black, and on the Student Council.

The first play I ever wrote, a comedy called The Girl in the Freudian Slip, actually made it to Broadway....That was 1967. It still plays in stock after all these years.

The Wiz, my third (of four) shows on Broadway, wassia tremendous hit, running over four years (J.,672 performances), 20th on the alltime list of Broadway musical longruns. Ahead of, by the way, M usic Man, The Sound o f Music, Funny Girl, and Guys a n d Dolls.

My mother kept telling me I was hyperactive.

I started out as an engineer at Princeton, then switched to the arts and majored in psychology. I continued the extracurricular activities, which both at MA and Princeton were my real education. Courses just taught me the mental stuff. At Princeton...age about 1 9 , 1 sold the first cartoon (of many) to King Features Syndicate; sold my first magazine article (to Glamour), and my first book {Tiger, Tiger). I graduated Phi Beta Kappa, m agna cum laude, because I learned in MA how to take an exam (and I don’t mean cribbing).

In 1977, I moved to Westport, Conn., and was divorced two years lite r. Two years after that, I married my current wife, Tina. Between us w e’ve had four children and eight grandchildren.

I’m now busy writing the book for a musical called Twist (Oliver Twist set in New Orleans during Prohibition. Multi-racial cast). I’m also writing a chronology of The Wiz called “Repaving the Yellow Brick Road.” Tina and I are waiting for a production of our play, It Takes Two, and have finished a children’s book, Sergeant Spider.

A week after graduation in 1950, I got married...and went to work as a writer for Look magazine until the Army tapped its ROTC graduates. In March 1951 I reported to Fort Riley, Kansas as a second lieutenant in Psychological Warfare....I was shipped to Pahmunjom, Korea, where the truce talks were just starting. I’ll never forget riding up to Kaeson in a jeep with a white flag on it. Through the summer of 1951, I was correspondent for our 32-station radio network. In September, I was sent back to Tokyo and spent the rest of the war working on General Matthew Ridgeway’s staff. I wrote propaganda, some of which was picked up by the New York Times, Time magazine, etc. I was

Anyway, I’m sure it J| began with my involvement with the Dramatic Club, M ontclair News, and Octopus. And the teachers I mentioned at MA who taught me to think, to do, to act.

Note: Montclair News was the Montdair Academy newspaper; Octopus, the yearbook.

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F ro m th e P resid en t H I reflect for a moment on the 1993-94 school year to note our accomplishments and gear up for a new schedule o f events. Alumni supported other areas of. the school by an ad in the senior yearbook and by donating an MKA chair and a hardcover history of the school, Within These Halls, to the Parents’ Association (PAMKA) fundraiser.

There was a new /««raising activity this spring: The Council sponsored a picnic in June for area alumni, families, and faculty. We were helped by some Free Group students who raised funds for their trip to Alaska next year. A great time was had by all who attended.

We say thank you for a job well done to outgoing Council members Susan M cIn tosh A w erdick ’68 and L o ri W in d olf C risp o 7 8 . Susan brought a broad view to the Council as an alumna, faculty member and parent. She created a wonderful feeling as the host of Kimberley School tours at Homecoming. Lori served with great distinction as the treasurer and as the chair of the newly formed Founders’ Cup Committee. Her dedication and creativity were the cornerstone of this new award. We also thank our first student representative to the Council, Ja im e B ed rin ’94, for her constructive input.

Sara Close Crowther ’76 opensfavors with alumni children at the Alumni Picnic in June.

A special note of thanks to the outgoing president, R ob ert H. G ard n er 7 8 . Rob devoted much time, effort, and commitment to MKA in his nine years on the Council. In his tenure, he served as the treasurer for four years and as president for three. Our sincerest thanks for all he did to advance the Council!

The Council is proud to welcome to our ranks parent/alumna P atricia S hean W orth in gton 7 4 and Sabino T. R odano ’88, who have already participated in our events, and to our new student member, junior L arissa Lury.

Alumni Council members Rudy Schlobohm ’74, Peter McMullen ’77, and Joe Alessi '68 begin water balloon toss during alumni picnic in June.

We welcome your comments and suggestions. Let’s hear from you! /. D ean Paolucci ’73 President

S en ior B reak fast The A lum ni C on n ection Every year before graduation, the MKA Alumni Association reaches out to its newest members. The Association purchases an ad in the senior yearbook welcoming them, and personally greets the class at a breakfast buffet.

This May R ob ert G ard n er 7 8 , President, and Trustee M artha B on sai D ay 7 4 spoke about alumni activities, the special “alumni connection” between graduates and the school, and the responsibilities and rewards of being alumni.

Headmaster Peter R. Greer wished the class well and presented each senior with the traditional gift for college — a laundry bag with the class photo.

Welcome to the Alumni Association. Seniors in the buffet line at the Senior Breakfast. On the left, Tim Sabum, Head of Campusfo r the Upper School.

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1 9 9 4 Distinguished Alumni Award

Rudolph H. D eetjen J r . ’50 In 1977 Rudy became Headmaster of the Peck School in Morristown, a co-ed day school, grades K through 8.

He retired this July. During his tenure, new facilities for art, music, classrooms and dining facilities were added; the athletic program was diversified; and a reading and testing program and computer technology were integrated into the curriculum.

T h e Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Association is pleased to present the 1994 Distinguished Alumni Award to R udolph H en ry D eetjen J r ., Montclair Academy Class of 1950. Rudy, as he is known to friends and family, has dedicated his life to the education of children, developing both their academic intelligence and their personal growth and value systems. The remarkable and selfless contributions Rudy has provided during his career, spanning some four decades, are credit to himself, his profession, and most certainly his alm a mater.

Less tangible is the boundless inspiration, encourage­ ment, and support Rudy provided to students and faculty over the years. He has remained in touch with his MKA colleagues, and cared enough to return this June for the retirement of two faculty members who had taught under him 18 years ago. His enthusiasm was apparent at all fundraisers and reunions, and his talented piano playing enlivened many a gathering.

After graduating from Montclair Academy with Cum Laude honors, Rudy attended Princeton University and received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Vermont and Distinguished Military Graduate from ROTC. Rudy studied education administration at Columbia University Teachers College.

Rudy has received various honors, including the Distinguished Educator Award from Delbarton School in 1983- He has served on the Board of Trustees of Montclair Academy, St John Episcopal Church, Bernardsville, and the Winston School, Summit. He has long been class secretary for his Academy class and chaired its triumphant 40th reunion.

Rudy really began his career of working with children in 1947 as a camp counselor in Maine. He spent the next twenty summers working with boys ages seven through 14, and credits this experience with giving him great insight into educating youth.

It is this life experience that developed his philosophy of educating the entire child. Rudy considers academics “a matter of individual achievement rather than pressure:! He tempers the pursuit of academic knowledge with the theme of consideration for others.

His legacy is no less than a generation of welleducated, well-rounded, responsible and considerate individuals.

He began teaching and coaching in 1955 at the Greenwich (Conn.) Country Day School, and in 1961 was appointed Head of their Middle School. In 1973 Rudy returned to his roots as Head of the Brookside School; the next year he became Head of the new MKA Middle School. Rudy played a pivotal role in the merger of Brookside, The Kimberley School, and Montclair Academy, a crucial period for the MKA community. He coordinated “vertical development” of education, introducing department chairs to the school and greatly expanding the number of faculty.

Rudy Deetjen is the quintessential headmaster, a modern-day Mr. Chips — a dedicated educator who has given back much to the community.

“Rudy was a leader" says a colleague from that time.

“He provided a spirit - of energy, of excitement, of fu n .

Despite his old-time traditional kind of approach, he was ahead of his time...in the way we tracked progress, of kids being proud of their work.”

Joseph H. Alessi ’6 8 Distinguished A lum i Award Committee Chairm an 17

C lass Notes Editor s Note

Those Were the Days

As those of you in classes with secretaries realize, we use one yearly mailing to obtain news, which appears in the FAT.,! magazine.

SPRIN G magazine Class Notes are taken from reunion, holffljay, and phonathon news, the flap on the Annual Giving remittance envelope, and the “Grapevine" on the inside back cover.

Although the items might seem “old,” we have found that most people love to read news whenever. The time lapse is unavoidable, as the processing o f Class Notes from secretary to Alumni Office to classmates to secretary to Alumni Office to designer 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 Office anytime.

To those of you without a class secretary, how would you like’|^ volunteer? The job has been simplified to the point that you will probably find it most enjoyablO The position o f alumni class secretary, like that of class agent and reunion chairman, is absolutely essential to the vitality of the school.

Please consider it.

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TK S W jrs. Sam uel M eek (Priscilla M itcbel) 88 D oubling Road, •(¡ireenwich C T 06830 2

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Homer G Whitmore reports he is “still alive and kicking at 87 years.” HM s somewhat a local celebrity in Rochester, N X newspapers for his knowledge o f history and excellent recall.

Homer was featured in a program on PBS-TV , and the interview made the Harvard Business School bulletin|p§ 7

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they had a naturalist-oriented cruise along Costa Rica, Panama, and the Canal. This year Carol and Simon were in D .C. instead o f statM o f Washington, so the Barnards saw them more.

Josephine Gibbs DuBois’ good news is a new grandaughter from JsTkraine. Her son Larry and hiSiWife returned from Russia last summer with Masha, “a darling little girl, 5. She already speaks English quite well and seems to be adjusting beautifully.” Josephine still lives in her home with her cat, volun toffs at the hospital and swims. She spent Thanksgiving with son Jack,:— a United Airlines captain — in Seattle, and a week on daughter Joan’s boat in the Florida Keys in the winter.

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Dorothy Ayres Holt ’27 wrote, “1 do hear from so lje of our class, but it is fun to get informatfjn in the bulletin as some o f these O LD GALS (sic) really, still do a lot!!

“I am really very proud to have graduated from Kimberley and we did have a wonderful time all those years ago.

I’ll never forget many o f the teachers and some of thHbons mots’ that some of them left with me. Miss Gallic: was terrific and she alwaysraiid, ‘Never put off until tomorrow what you can possibly do today.’ W hat a snappy idea.”

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MA Joseph W . Doremus, who retired from farm management in Morris County, N .J., has lived in southwestern Florida since 1988. Two brothers live on Florida ¡fféast coast and a sister in N e S e rs e y . Dori is occasionally in touch with Fraser Martens, who liws in Sussex, England.

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TKS M iss (Jharlotte H . Fitch, BoxWsBgk 2 4 Cape B ia l Lane, W estport P oin t M A 02791

Our condolences to Gretchen Eshbaugh Engel on the death o f her husband, Bob. Gretchen and Louise Stauffen Barnard had a long, chatty lunch last fall. Frank and Louise ¡¡¡Chip) had a busy “no pains or a c t® ” winter three months in Sebastian, Fla. In December

Manggthanks to all o f you who responded.

Ginny Hamilton Adair has given her lovely#® home in Claremont, Calif, to the retirement community an®noved across th*fij?eèjt to one o f their residences. She has been writing up a storm o f poetry but is too blind to read it and

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has to rely upon a friend to read for her at various poetry readings. Both sons, Brian and Douglass, and their families live near enough to )|ge her occasionally. Ginny planned to visit daughter Katharine on Gape Cod in July.

The last report should have read fimgreatgrandchildren for Connie Parkhurst Chauncey, and two more are arriving this fall to make seven. Connie sends greetings to all classmates.

Jane Ferris Fryatt wintered in Tucson as usual and returned home to Harwichport in May to spend the summer months, which are enlivened by visits from her daughters and grandchildren. She reports a brief travel to Mexico.

Dorothy Minsch Hudson reports having six “great|i!! Her daughter has three grandsons and one granddaughter and her son has “one of each.” She was looking forward to taking a house and garden tour in Ireland sponsored by Winterthur. Except for two Caribbean cruises, Do reports this is her first time out o f the country since 1986. At Christmas time, she spoke with Doris Blondel Krebs, “who sounded just the same.”

Lewis and Jane Foster Lapham have lived in “a great house and garden” in Greenwich, Conn., since 1962, and judging from the photo, their life, there agrees with them lfjane’s roses are spectacular. You may recall that she went to Holland to be honored by the rose growers by having a variety named for her.

Their oldest son, Lewis, the editor o f H arper’s magazine, has three children, and their son Tony, a lawyer in D.G., has two sons.

Mary Ann Fobes Williams’ husband, Newton, died ip July 1993. Though we express belated condolence, we can share with her her relief that he was released from blindness and a long bout with Alzheimer’s. Maisie now lives in an apartment in the Jennings M cCall Center in Forest Grove, Ore., near her son Myron.

She reports one great-granddaughter. She returned to California to be honored at a paleontology meeting. [See box] Life in the Desert Congratulations to Mary Ann Fobes Williams 29, who was honored by a life membership in the Anza Borrego Desert Paleontology Society, California.

In retirement, “Maisie” and her husband Newton studied vertebrate paleontology and geology, and went digging in the desert? near their home in Borrego Springs. What they found in the mudhills, they prepared and gave to the museum they started, the Anza Borrego Desert State Park V isito r^ ® Center. Among the fossils she discovered w||!e the bones o f a Mammoth. Maisie spent two years raising native desert plants from seed, which were used to landscape the mound and grounds o f the milliondollar underground project.

Your secretary continues to enjoy life in stormy New England. The picture o f Jane Lapham’s terrier gave her pangs o f a sense o f loss for her fiftffn.-year-old companion, Mickey Mac — a West Highland ^ ^ h o had to be put to sleep in August ’93. Quite a number o f stray cats seem to have discovered she doesn’t have a dog any longer, but cats are tooiSglf-centered to be wholly satisfactory.

At the time o f writing, she was looking forward to her 60th reunion at Smith and a summer o f relatives and friends to come visit.

She hopes to hear from all o f you for the next Review, especially the other six. A note at any time is welcome.

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TKS M rs. P atricia Clapp Cone 83 Beverly Rd., Upper M ontclair N J 07043 Marjorie Kieselbach DuMont writes that “Kimberley girls” Mary Harrsen Van Brunt ’32 and Lorraine Condit Kneip ’32 also live in her retirement community, Meadow Lakes.

Marjorie broke her right thumb in January.

She tried typing, but “young ladies were not expected to go into trade so Kimberley did not teach typing; moreover, no one knew that college might find it useful. Palmer method handwriting seemed to satisfy our teachers....”

MA M r. C. Irvin g P orter B ox 2 7 5 0 , Q uaker H ill Rd.., Unity M E 0 4 9 8 8

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Do You Have Room?

D o you have a small apartment or room||f available in your home? Would you like a companion? Would you like someone reliable to house-sit while you go to Florida for the winter?

MKA is always looking for suitable, affordable housing in and near Montclair for its Sculty.

Please call the Alumni Office, 201/5097940.

TKS Anita Schwarz Beamon lives in a house on an acre-plus in Pennsylvania; n jr son lives with her and daughter lives half a mile up the hill.

Anita still plays tennis, gardens) and winters in St. John, B.V.l.

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TKS Elizabeth Barrett Spence, widowed in 1992, lives in a nice condo in Hendersonville, N.C. Her three children, seven grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter all live far away, but they talk every Sunday.

MA M r. W illiam J . Thompson 3 6 H aw thorne P lace #1K, M ontclair N J 07042 Upon retirement, Charles Roh M .D . took over meal planning, marketing and cooking.

He reports that “Sara (Cole Roh ’34)1^ H delighted and I’m in seventh heaven. I see now that she worked hard all those years. This hobby is time-consuming.” They had a banner year in 1993: their ninth grandchild arrived and two grandchildren were married. The Rohs see many Montclair people: “Eleanor D ’Este Mosehauer ’35 is playing bridge with Sara as I write. M y mpst frequent male companion (golf, bowling and other social events) is Chet Fairlie ’32 but later in my class at both Princeton and med school.”

David Stanley spent four weeks this spring at an Elderhostel program in the British Isles, and reports, “Very interesting and the group o f 37 were very good company.”

Our condolences to the family o f Oliver Ellsworth W ood. Elly kept active to the end and just missed his 55th re u n iljjjit West Point.

I spoke with Charles Joelson on the phone.

Despite a stroke two years ago, he is “in good spirits” and reads a book every two days. He says his daughter and son-in-law have been great.

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TKS Mrs. D av id H avilan d (B arbara Spadone) 10 Crestm ont Rd. Apt. 3B , M ontclair N J 0 7042 “Last year I mentioned ail the fine Kimberley people living in Montclair and how lucky I feel that they have chosen to rjjsggjn in the area,|ij| writes Barbara Spadone Haviland. “O f these there is one special one, Peggy Klotz Young ‘37, who lives here at RockclifFe. This year 1 found she was class secretary for heryeax. I alwaysMy Peggy Young, is the one at Rockcliffe everyone loves best.”

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A Happy Ending When the last issue o f the M KA Review offered the possibility o f extra yearbooks from the alumni collection, Jean Black Jennings ’35 called to see if any were available for her c la fl After her Kimberley graduation, Jean’spenr the war years in L ondcS and lost her yearbook during the Blitz.

Happily, the Alumni Office had S e copy available, and Jean is now sharing it with her grandchildren, “who are into yearbooks.

MA “I’ll never forget Kimberley and Moryiglair Academy (attended 4th-9th grade)Mwrites Edgar Blackledge. “I won at marbles, like bandits. I had two sisters who went the whole 12 years at Kimberley.”

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TKS Mrs. Stew art Carpenter (Joseph'iJie Fobes) 4 L aS alle Road, Upper M ontclair N J 07043 Elise Manson Brett moved from California back to Cape Cod (Wellfleet) this spring.

36 TKS Mrs. W. K en t Schm id (Josephine M urray) 9 Brandon Lane, Bishops Cove M ystic C T 0 6355 Elizabeth Howe Glaze was looking forward to seeing Kimberley friends at Manasquan in August.

In May, Doris Keller Hamlin saw two o f her bridesmaids from 52 years ago, Patsy Soverel Rapelye and Jodie Murray Schmid. Doris is still active with ecology — “save our trees, wetlands, and most important, water.”“ She and Gordon manage a few trips a jH r , “very lucky to be active.” She send' her best to the class.

Patchwork The Class o f 1936 has attained that “patchjfepair-patch-repair” time o f life, and a few ate beyond repair, but w iltill keep our banners flying, and along with extra vitamins we feast on memories of our Kimberley days and friendships still vigorous!

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W elcome to O ur N ewest Alumni T he C lass O f 1994

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TKS Mrs. W illiam Young (Peggy K lotz) 10 Crestm ont Road, ID , M ontclair N J 0 7042 Our condolences to Kathryn Holton Sjolander on the death of her husband, Newell.

Teppy took an Elderhostel trip to Carlsbad Caverns, N.M . in April to study interesting wildlife. Native American heritage, and the desert environment. She and a friend did some camping, and she asks, “Has anyone igyer seen a Vermillion flycatcher in the sun? Or a painted redstart? Unforgettable.”

Betsy Townsend McFadden and daughter Pam had a week’s vacation in Nag’s Head in April, then Betsy left for an Elderhostel program in Greece. She enjoys plays at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington.

Charlie and Ginny Kracke Leavitt are off again, this time a Mediterranean cruise in August and an October river trip on the St.' Lawrence.

Jane Rinck writes from Vermont that she’s moving from Beethoven sonatas to Brahms and ‘‘enjoying the adventure.” She has a new violin made by an excellent local person, conducts a bell choir and writes arrangements for it. Her new dog is called “A T (short f S “Allegro Vivace”). Jane planned a spring trip to France to visit family.

Sally Bausher Litdefield spent “a good winter to be away”’in Tequesta, Fla. She golfs and expected to see Tac ’36 and Sally Jennison Riter, Dot Hanau Frost ’38, and Ruth Russell Gray. Her son, Bill Littlefield, published Cham pions and B aseball Days this fall. She has two granddaughters.

Small world: Jean Hamlin Noyes met Ellen Studdiford’s nephew’s wife at a party in Dallas this spring!

Leonard and Sally Young Shertzer planned to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a 1 4 -d a )B river cruise froffigSlenna through the new canal to the Rhine; daughters Kitty and Peggy will join them. Sally is my sister-in-law and we always enjoy seeing her and her fa m iH n Manomet, Mass, in t ® summer.

Some o f us meet monthly for lunch, at a different restaurant each time. I f anybjtfwould like to join us, please call me at 744-3558 for time and place. W e’d love to have y o u B in us!

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MA Irene and G. John Schreiner Jr. sold their house in Wilmington, N .C . and moved to fu.ll-

The Alumni Office needs copies o f the Eagle Rocket, Montclair Academy newspaper in the 1930s, for the archives.

Please send to the MKA Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair N| 07042.

time residence in Cape May Point, N .J., where they will build a new house.

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TKS Mrs. Joh n RauJM jr. (Jan e W ilson) 8 1 1 5 IjpgingM ill Rd., Indianapolis I N 4 6 2 6 0 Our condolences to Maryl Riter W alker on the death o f her husband, John.

Not a word from the Miss. Are we too old to have exoR|ifi;ews?

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MA M r. C. R. Zjg// 168 M ountain Rd. P. O. B ox 3 9 4 Jaffrey Center N H 0 3 4 5 2 -0 3 0 4

quemon. Where in the world is Geoffrey Crook? heKSys, in Southport, Lancashire, England. “In 1974 our daughter Mary took her junior year in college in England. Geoffrey and his wife D ot befriended her most graciously. W e had a delightful weekend with them. They have two children, Peter, now married, and Sally, I think divorced..

“Geoffrey became a stockbroker and when he retired, he helped Sally organize and run what I recall is a kind o f antique store. Geoffrey is the quintessential non-communicatcS W e exchanged letters about 15 years ago. His son Peter visited us in the 70s and thought Americans very wasteful: leaving on too many lights, homes too hot, etc,”.

About himself, Peter Funk reports he is still writing three editions o f W ord P ow eriJJiS ., Canada, and Russia; working on a T V script; and in the fall hopes to start a new book. His work as a lay eucharistic minister and chaplain to a nursing home he calls “most rewarding.”

Dr. Frank Finnerty has been in active practice in D .C . since retiring in 1976 as a professor o f medicine at Georgetown U. He fully enjoys Ibeing a real doctor — even to making house callsM His letterhead mentions internal medicine and cardiology, in case any of you get a bellyache after visiting the Senate in sessraMBM

The Year of the Big Double-Five proves that some of us can still write and that most o f us are forgetful. A postcard reminder helped, though the Postal Service machinations are a wonderment. The card to Bill Marchese was sen&fetek to me with his revised address neatly in place. W ouldn’t it make more sense ti^end it to him, since it was already in New Jersey?

Barbara and Dave Armstrong planned to spend three weeks in Virginia in June with their three daught||s, seven grandchildren and three greats. Then they planned a two-week Alaskan cruise with his brother Parker ’3|§and wife.

Dave also reportagis second hole-in-one, which he modesdy blames on “pure dumb luck.”

It took the 1989 earthquake to keep Ralph Heintz away from our 50th reunion, but hfj$;.G been doing well with 50s since. He and Marcella c||ebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last year and attended the 50th reunion o f the Stanford Class o f ’43. He remarks “how old everyone looked---- except oursjslves of course,” Hq-inquires whether we’,re planning a 55th or 60th reunion, since he hates the thought o f waiting for a 100 th.

RalphH still occupied with the sale and "repair o f mechanical musical instruments and spends mueptim e writing articles, for which he gives full credit to “Uncle W illie” Barras. He recalls Mr. Miller, whom he calls “MA’s own five-foot shelf o f misinform ation,” and another faculty member with a need for 90-proof cough medicine at 8:30 a.m. Ralph is trying tjgilocate Ted Collins, a former MA student wild is supposed to be operating a magic store in New Jersey.

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Ted Van Buren writes from his beachfront condo in Marco Island, Fla., that swimming, golf, fishing, social activities, and travel keep him busy. They did Germany this spring and returned from Santa Fe just before writing. He and Jean have children with families in Utah, D .C ., and Connecticut,HI o f whom enjoy visiting in the winter. The Van Burens left early for summer quarters in Greenwich, Conn M o as to attend Jean’s 50th reunion at Smith. Ted says the .only classmate he sees is El Carter in Tenafly, who was not well enough for a Florida visit this year.

Seth Washburn sends an auto-encapsulated biography from Maine.

“I retired 10 years ago as V P o f what was then called Bell Telephone Labs and moved to W est Bath, Maine. Sadly, my wife died three years later, and since then I have lived alone, if you can call sharing a home with a 145-lb. New-

Normandy Remembered David Higgins ’39 is helping with the B a t tle » Normandy Foundation’s Wall o f Liberty Campaign, which aims to build a,memorial monument in France with the names o f all American veterans on it. Anyone interested in the project can write him at 330 Island View Terrace, Seaville N J 08230.

foundland dog and two coon cats as living alone. Depending on the season, I fish, practice the piano (modern jazz chord structures and voicings are neat!), snowshoe, build model

ships, tie trout flies, volunteer at the Maine Maritime Museum, and spend lots o f time...in home maintenance in an unfriendly climate. I am father to four children and grandfather to six. They appear in variof£ combinations and permutations during the summer and for Christmas. ” Peg and Dave Higgins were looking forward to their 50th wedding anniversary and his 50th reunion at W est Point. He figst finished his 14th year with H & R Block, working the first three and a half months o f the year. He also works with the Federal Emergency Manage­ ment Administration (FEMA) doing appraisals after national disasters.

Up here in the New Hampshire wilds, th e , classmate I see most frequently is Ai Pels, who lives two towns over in Hancock. He and Betty often spend evenings with Gerry and me at one house or the other, at the movies, or checking cuisine at local restaurants. Al is still an avid skier and National Ski Patrol member, works in his woodiot, and runs his jeep and boat-ontrailer to lakes. He sends the following: “Last fall, on a foliage trip to Vermont, we noticed a lovely old home on Route 30, south o f Middlebury with a sign, ‘Windham Craft House.’ Neither o f us can resist an antique or craft shop, especially in Vermont. When we entered, the owner, Bob W inner, extended a warm greeting and showed us a wonderful collection, Soon we found out that he, too, once lived in Montclair. N ot only did we have mutual friends, but Betty’s father had once taught Bob in Sunday School. T o top it off, he had also been, for a time, a member o f the Class o f ‘39 at Montclair Academy. He transferred to another prep school, went to Middlebury College, and moved to Vermont after W W II. After exchanging many stories o f years past, we purchased several items and promised to stop by again. Be sure to say hello, if you are up that way.”

The life o f your secretary, Bud Lyle, is busy, even when not working on class rates. After reaching emeritus condition in the state university system in 1986, we built two houses, one on Swan’s Island, Maine, and the other here in Jaffrey. W hat with shuttling between the two, doing sotjje.Caribbean travel to get away from late winter, and entertaining relatives, and o t h S , life is never dull. Our son and his family live in Keene, where he is ad director for the Sentinel, where I began newspapering 48 years ago.

After retirement I took up watercolor painting again, and was astonished this spring by an invitation to exhibit in Art Walk in Keene, a week during which all the downtown store windows display all the varioiKiartists’ works. Since the Monadnock Region tends to attract some top-notch talent, that was pretty heady stuff for a rank amateur. It’s been fun preparing for it.

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Jean, who has moved to Magnolia, Mass!, writes that the support o f friends and “nice schools” is most helpful in this difficult time.

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MA M r. D avid B aird Jr. 9 Parkw ay, M ontclair N J 07042 Our condolences to the family o f John M. W eyer Jr. News o f his demise reached MKA as the spring issue o f the M KA Review was at press. The family designated memorial gifts to MKA. Sue and David Caldwell, who live in Cupertino, Calif., planned a summer trip to Alaska and an annual visit to New Hampshire, where they were to get together with Dale and Howard Dodd.

Another Californian, Perry M inton, writes, “The January earthquake ratded us around but for a change didn’t break anything here [Rosemead]. W e are 30 miles from the epicenter so didn’t get the full brunt o f the shock.”

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The First News From Polly Rowe Barrows ’42, on the arrival o f the spring M KA Review : “Ilffist remembered starting the first A lum nae I f e n B 1944 in the attic o f the Old Kimberley House with Miss Kinsman, a pair o f so®g|§§a typewriter and a staple gun! N ovice^ll, but we mailed it nevertheless!”

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¡I ks M iss L u cile G. M ason N orth M ountain A venue M ontclair N J 0 7042 Nancie Nicholls Kurty is very active in a national antiques study group called the Questers, whose mission is to preserve and restore historical landmarks. After ten years of membership in an Ohio chapter, Nancie founded the chapter in Jacksonville, N .Q three years ago. Last year she attended the national convention.

Betty Brown W ard reports that her mother died last year, shordy after turning 97. Betty has purchased a w ordprocf^B and has started to write her biography. Last August, Betty and her family visited England with some good friends to celebrate 50 years o f friendship. She says,. “A great time was had by all three generatiljSs — 22 o f H w ith both families.”

W e are sad to report that after; enjoying our 50th reunion last fall, Barbara Smillie Curtis died in December. W e send our condolences •tib her family.

Kiki Addison Johnson entertained the following people in Maryland on the way to Florida: Charles and Kit Eavenson Sanders ’41, Maggie Johnson Sliker ’68, Sydney Johnson Petty ’71, Howard Johnson Jr. ’75, and Bill and Mary Johnson Addison. Bill and Mary are expecting their 12th grandchild this summer; they now have nine boys and two girls.

Lucile Mason has been active as a fundraising and public relations consultant for her firm, Lucile Mason & Associates, established in 1980. Two current accounts are the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation o f Montclair and the Association o f Retarded Citizens (ARC) o f Bergen and Passaic Counties, Im fjfo r which she is conducting a feasibilitystudy prior to a . capital campaign.

Lucile MA M r. R ichard R. Angus 3 8 Ilin ch m an A venue D enville N J 0 7 8 3 4

Many many thanksyo James Mackey for his years as faithful'class scribe and as 50th reunion chairman. He has passed on the pen to Dick Angus.

The reunion photo in the “centerfold” o f the last issue incorrectly identified A1 Soria as Dick Angus. Apologies!

Ted Brohl, poet extraordinaire, sent a copy of his third book o f poems, A Sim ple G race Poesy, to the MKA library. Ted has donated a copy of the book to almost all o f the high school, college, and public libraries o f New Jersey at his o ™ expense, with the thought, “In this small way I hope that an interest in poetry can be reawakened, especially among the youngsters.”

Ted has won several awards and honors for his poetry, which has appeared in some 53 anthologies.

Alumnae Bulletin Volume I, Number 1, M ay 1944 In all our projects we look to the alumnae for their support and interest, for the alumnae o f any school can be o f inestimable help. Their enthusiasm for the school makes other parents and girls want to take advantage o f its opportunities; their friendliness long after they have graduated is one o f the pleasantest aspects o f the school life; their support helps make possible expansion and the development o f new ideas; and last but not least, alumnae are living examples o f what the |jihool can turn out!

The bulletin...will mean that alumnae can follow their friends and thg|r school and that the school can follow them wherever they go and whatever they do.

Neither Kimberley nor its alumnae will stand still in this new era o f far-reaching changes....

I hope that the alumnae who have helped build Kimberley by their loyalty, their hard work, and their fun while they were its students...will always feel the welcome we have for them when they come to visit us.

H elen B urttM ason, H eadm istress

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TKS Best wishes to William and Patricia Lamborn Coward Kolbe on t h « wedding. Bill is the father o f Kim Kolbe ’70 and Katherine Kolbe l 8' MA M r. W interfordJ . O hland 4 A h ler’s Lane, Blairstow n N ] 07825

Reunion chairm an: M r. Law rence Soule Jr. P. O. Box 428, K ennebunkportM E 0 4 0 4 6 Priscilla and Donald Casde moved from their home in Glen Ridge to a townhouse in Bedminster; they have a second home on Cape Cod. They have two children and three grandchildren. Don continues to work at the Castle Company, life insurance, in Springfield.

His partner is another Academy graduate, Rudy Schlobohm ’7|i,|who is, incidentally, the Alumni Association's 1994 Reunion Chairman).

Sam Brent Girdler, who boasts 12 y ear^ t MA, writes, “After 32 years in steel fabricating and railroad car repair businesses (both o f which I founded), I retired and started a classic car restoration company to pursue a lifetime hobby. (I had a $10 Ford at MA and Yale!)

Married three times (all good) and am now raising a 15-yeajJrold boy (h o rro r* but it keeps you young and on your toes! I am trustee of Nevada County Cultural Preservation Trust, ^ sto rin g a 1956 miners’ foundry with winery and FM radio station, and an 1872 pipe organ.

Have spent 21 years as VP and director o f Rolls Royce Owners Club, and am Past Master o f the Masonic Lodge.

“Can it be there is only one alumnus grain farmer?” writes Robert Angus from Prescott, Ariz. “Can it be there is only one alumnus, tree farmer?” he asks, referring to W illiam Braunworth in Virginia.

Daniel O ’Brien w rffi^ “In the way o f news from this remote corner o f Spain, I can’t offer anything terribly exciting. Foixais a medieval village a few kilometers inland from the Mediterranean andjggithin the shadow o f the Pyrenees which separate us from France.

Incongruous as it may seem, we have two young children who attend a grammar school in a nearby village. We.also operate a shop [The Masial||tore] where we make and sell rustic furniture....Our house, which we rebuilt, was originally from the X V century.” [Ed. note: A photo o f their house and nearby X I century casde, plus text in Catalan, was given to MKA Middle School Spanisff classes.]

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2 1 1 6 Via A lam itos, Palos Verdes Estates C 4 9 0 2 7 4 The question has been raised: W ill ex­ members o f our class be welcome at the 50th reunion,in 1995? Yes, yes; o f course!® all come!« The dates haven’t been set ^ M | ut ids bound to be late September to mid-October.

So start making plans, everyone. (Note: Sometimes Jerry and I have combined a week at an Elderlfstel with an event we want to attend.

Works o u t ia a .)

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MA M r. R obert N ebergall 7 -0 Planters Trace 2 2 2 2 Ashley R iver R oad Charleston S C 2 9 4 1 4 Lake Underwood is back in Maplewood after the winter in Stewart, Fla. In August he will make another assault on M t. Washington, N .H ., part o f the Presidential Range. Let us know if there is a Mound Clinton up there yet, Lake. His daughter Jody ’83 has finished her third year o f medical school at U. Medicine and Dentistry N .J. Lake may need her pulmonary resuscitation after that climb.

Bill Grant was in Washington D .C . meeting with members o f the Russian medical research community in preparation for a trip to Moscow this summer to enlist Russian scientists in his company’s continuing search for an AIDS vaccine.

Rumor has it that Ken Hanau has retired from the corrugated container business in New Jersey. Any chance you might get involved now in bringing Mrs. Wagner’s Pies back on the market now, Ken? I remember how well they went with our cigarettes down in the Senior Smoking Room/dungeon.

Your correspondent spent a pleasant winter in the Florida Keys. Next January I ’ll be heading down to Costa Rica, the Switzerland o f Central America, for a month. Now I wish I had paid more attention in Spanish class at M.A. I willWf be hiking in the Arcadia National Park in September with the Carolina Backpackers Assn.

Perhaps I’ll see Lake o n B s way out o f the woods.

Keep those cards and letters-coming to me down here in the Cradle o f the Confederacy.

Remember 1995 and our 50th reunion hooray.

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Abby Keebler Ryan has a consulting business to foundations and non-profits)” She is on several Boards, plays tennis, and enjoys visiting children: daughter in Chile, son and his family in London, and older daughter and family in Maine. Abby kcep'3|n close touch with Heidi Ames Troxell and Connie Ritchie DuHamel.

Connie writes that they have three little

grandbabies, the latest being Anna, adopted by Alex and Lucie DuHamel Kirk 7 5 . She says, » G r e a t fun to have them in N YC as the other two are in Hong Kong (daughters o f Bob and Betsy DuHamel Williams 7 8 ). Daughter Charlotte ’87 was to be married in July in Rhode Island. Connie reports that Kate 77 is finishing her Ph.D. in health psychology at Yale; Constance 7 3 is with Paine Webber, NYC.; and Emily ’81 is director o f corporate giving for Covenant House, NYC; her husband ¡§1 in med. school.

John ’40 and Pat Youngman Ames’s daughter Cyndi graduated in May from the U VM College o f Medicine with highest honors and three awards. Cyndi and her husband Gary Haselton have four children.

Florence Johnson Jacobson has moved to the Jersey Shore and does a great deal o f wonderful work with her church.

Connie also reports that John Helm ’48 and Mrs. Harold Helm visited Jack and Eleanor Helm Ketcham, children and grandchildren over Easter in Florida.

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Julie LaZier Noyes is« liv e , well and happy” and has six grandchildren. She has retired from teaching, is a Life Master in duplicate bridge, and lives on a boat, a Banshee. She owns Mystic Yacht Restorations, Inc. MA M r. R ichard H . D avis 3 5 M ill Glen Rd., U pper Saddle R iver N J 07458

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MA Sam Hakim graciously sent a copy o f one of the books his wife has written to MKA, part o f a narrative history o f the U.S. Oxford U. Press is publishing them for libraries and bookstores, and they are being distributed with teaching guides to schools. Sam “suggested a few ideas that go back to my Academy days, and cooked a few meals so she could meet deadlines....I remember my years at Montclair Academy with fondness. Our three children have gone to Norfolk Academy here in Tidewater Virginia.”

Many, many thanks to Louise Green Dunham for her stint as class secretary. Would anyone like to pick up the pen?

Audrey Carroll McBratney proudly announces new grandsons Curtis Carroll Wallin, born to Bogue and Bonnie McBratney W allin 7 4 , and John Carter McBratney, born to Julie and Bruce McBratney 7 8 . The McBratneys’ three children each have three children, “which happily gives us seven grandsons and two granddaughters.”

colleagues, and 38+years o f youngsters’ company. ': O f MA ’50: O f those who responded, half are on early retirement and half threaten never to quit. The majority were too busy making money to find the time to write.

Bill Warren (working) is looking forward to our 45th. He and Bill Rose have reunio^^B regular® Bill Rose says he’s slowed down, but can’t quit with a pre-cast concrete factory in Willimantic and a large animal family o f 100 sheep, a dozen-plus horses and catde, and 6,000 poultry. They||e looking at Pensacola half-p.^“ year within 5 years.

Jay Bitting (retired and happy) is immersed in travel, photography, and “e^Iing out”!

George Hallock (retired 1993) is writing credit and financial analysis courses for Dun & Bradstreet at his leisure and enjoying visits with his and Nancy’s seven grandchildren.

Dick Hopkins (retired at 54 in 1986) is enjoying golf and a new boat in Sanibel, Fla. He went back to college to continue his financial planning skills. (It must have worked.)

Bill Ricketts (won’t quit) spends his leisure racing ocean sailboats out o f Houston. His company’s name is Liftex.

Patty and I will be in Maine into the fall but. may see some o f you at Homecoming. Then we depart for a conference in Santa Fe and friends and family out west. C liff and Kim are heading to Boston with his M.A. in architecture and her forte in interior design. Leif continues to build homes in Raleigh-Durham.

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Congratulations to Rudy Deetjen for his selection as MKA’s 1994 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient! He writes: Patty and I are excited about the change o f pace, but find the retirement plan is more than anticipated, in departure from friends,

MKA faculty member Judy Nesbit, chief costumer for the winter musical, came across a list in an old box o f goodies in the theater department. It listed the Kimberley girls o f ’51 and what size and color each wore in some production (pink & yellow, blue & yellow, ‘monkey suit,” etc.)v Does anyone remember when she had a 21 or 22-inch waist?

Katharine Kidde’s (’48) first book o f poems, H O M E LIG H T , A long the Shore, was published in May by North Atlantic Review. Katharine, who started a literary agency at age 50, began writing poetry at 60 and has published some 20 poems in various magazines. H om e L ight offers 60 poems organized by the seasons, “mosdy tributes to Long Island and other islands. Some are love poems, some more psychological.” ..It is available at major bookstores; she is donating 40 percent o f the profits to MKA. Kay graduated from Vassar and worked in N YC as an editor with Harcourt, Brace and as senior editor with New American Library. In 1980, “concerned with authors more than corporations,”Mie started her own literary agency, Kidde, Hoyt & Piccard. She says, “there is nothing better than to launch an author with a first title — a challenge akin to writing poetry. Two whom she launched are Michael Cadman and Jeannette Haien, who won a prize for the best fiction in 1986.

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TKS Mrs. E dw ard C. Faw cett (Fay T aft) 9 G ordon Place, M ontclair N J 0 7 0 4 2 Wain Koch Maass spent the ten days befoie Christmas in the hospital, but managed to be ready for the arrival o f the family by December

Trustee Joh n K idde ’5 2 x a n d his three M KA sons: Jason , in 8th grade, Jon ath an ’9 4 , an d Jerem y, a jun ior.

24th. W ain still teaches third grade and raises money for the Festival Series; husband Bill is on the Board o f Selectmen and substitute teaches at the local high school. Their children visit them in the summer. By the time you read this, the Maass family should number 15, including five grandchildren. Lucky Wain.

Bob and Jane Redfield Forsberg happily announce the arrival o f their first grandchild, Abigail, born last March to son Bob and his wife Laurie. They live in Westport, Conn.

David and Gail Tomec Kerr have moved permanently to their home in Bay Head, N.J. New environmental laws played havoc with their move due to the discovery o f a trace o f oil from an olllleak under their front lawn. Their pretty house was bought by Jim Irwin ’80, son o f Miriam Eustis Irwin (’51). The Kerrs’ daughter Susie lives in Hoboken and works in NYC; Robbie 83 is in Seatde and David Jr. ’77 and family are in New Jersey. ' George and Jean Brisbane Boveroux are enjoying retirement in New Haverhill, N .H .

I had a wonderful long lunch with Babs Pendleton Donnell, who is on sabbatical this year. Unfortunately her mother is ill and we certainly all wish her a speedy recovery. Babs and Jim wentjto Paris in 1993 with Mrs. Pendl||9n and Babs’s two brothers and their wives. Babs was surprised at how much she likes not working!

Nancy Booth Kelly moved her mom to a retirement home in Maryland, and during the winter, Mrs. Booth stays with Nancy and her family in Nassau. Nancy’s three sons all work in the family store, now the leading retailer in the Bahamas. Two sons are married and one is engaged. Nancy attended the wedding of Skipper Gilbert Moran’s daughter in May ’93 and says Skipper looks wonderful.

Ned and I have nothing new to report except we love our Nantucket h o m ll And we both still adore H sk i. Ned works part time at First Fidelity Bank in Newark. Our girls are fine, one in Boston and one in Philadelphia. Fay

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“Too anxious to fish; B e k moved, dumped me in the lake; broken wrist, etc.”

Congratulations to Charlotte Niese Dufford, who fy Sieved an award for longtime exceptional service and commitment to Family and Children ’s Services o f Elizabeth. She is a past member o f the Board o f Trustees and has been a staff member since 1975J.’

Form er Trustee Austin D rukker '52 an d his daughter Kristen 9 4 a t Commencement.

40T H R EU N IO N SEP T E M B E R 24 TKS M iss G eorgia Carrington 3 8 Silver Spring Lane, R idgefield C T 0 6 8 7 7 Reunion chairm an: Mrs. R eginald M orse (Felicity Ferguson) 1 6 W hite Road, W aylandM A 0 1 7 7 8 -2 4 3 2 I assume most everyone is waiting to give news in person at our reunion, but thanks to some for responding to my plea.

A special treat was news from Karen Hinck McKergow in Irving, Texas, where she has lived for 25 years. She and her younger daughter —

Managed Care: A Doctor Speaks Out Robert Weinmann M .D . ’53 was interviewed by CBS in January directly after President Bill Clinton’s State o f the Union Speech, for his views on health care reform. Weinmann is the president o f the Union o f American Physicians and Dentists, based in Oakland, Calif., representing 5,000 members.

The doctor’s views were also extolled to the House o f Representatives in May 1993, when the Hon. Pete Stark o f California quoted in entirety Weinmann’s article, “Managed Care: The Dark Side.” From the Congressional R ecord: “The article makes the excellent point that enrolles in managed care plans need to know what kind o f financial incentives and barriers exist to their being provided with care...The movement toward mangaged care is ...fraught with dangers s B th e danger o f underservice and underutilizationHB Rep. Stark quotes Weinmann’s article: “Prospective patients need to know about the ‘gatekeeper’ concept by which patients may be diverted from obtaining care....Speaking as a physician, I never wanted to be a gatekeepeiSl only wanted to take care o f sick people. ...Why don’t physicians speak out? M ost plans contain an anti-whistle-blSxving clause....What about emergencies?... [A] plan may have its own definition for what will be accepted as an emergency.

Everything else is eler.rivpIH “...The message is to make sure that the health care plan to which you subscribe takes as good care o f you as it does o f itself.”

Robert Weinman, a neurologist and board examiner, has long been in the news for hi.«3B crusading medical He edits The N ightlefttr, a “muckraking journal” that exposes flaws in the medical establishment. He won his largest public notoriety in the late 1970s for uncovering and publicizing Stanford University’s practice o f dpuble-billing Medicare. The University agreed to return $1.5 M llion after a federal audit.

Note: Please call or write to the MKA Alumni Office for eopifsfof Dr. W einm anm article and CBS transcript.

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who works for a landscape design firm — are learning desktop publishing; Karen sent news in a most impressive form. Her older daughter works for Governor Richards in Austin. Her husbanffis with American Airlines, which makes t r a S to the Thousand Islands easy every Summer and will, we hope, ’get her to reunion.

Felicity Ferguson Morse has four grandchildren, two for each daughter. She spent two months this winter traveling: London, Kenya (“fabulous safari”), the Caribbean, ffi|d California. She says after Reggie’s death, “Friends have been such a comfort and I look forward to our reunion.”

Sylvia Middleton Seymour’s daughter Holly graduated from college in May; son Andrew works for T V G uide; husband David travels the world for Zippo. Sylvia runs an after-school tutoring business, teaches G E D for a local industry, and is Jj| o president o f McKean County Literacy. She says ji s exciting to have a whole new career at this stage! Sylvia keeps in touch with Amy Roberts Beebe, “who is becoming quite a painter.”

A phone conversation with Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden revealed her new challenge: pottery. “Tookie” loves her work with clay as a break from the demands o f all the technological devices connected with her graphic arts career. Arthur teaches part time.

Alexis continues her pursuit o f Eastern languages, history, and politics at the U. o f Chicago.

Lee W ood Audhuy visited last summer, and I trust will again this year. She works extremely hard at the U. o f Toulouse and is so popular as a “professeur” that she has far too many students to allow her time to do much. She still tries to do her own writing and research.

Marian M iller Castell works for two museums as a Board member, the LockwoodMatthews Mansion in Norwalk, Conn., and the New York Historical Society — “Both are challenging and appeal to my sense o f trying to rescue institutions.” A second home in New Hampshire, an old Greek Revival, is also part o f her “restoring and rescue mission.

Barbara Hobart Valbuena has learned Word Perfect on the computer in English and Spanish: “Wish we had this technology available when we were in high school and college. What a time- saver.” Barbara and her husband walk through beautiful Longwood Gardens, Pa., weekly, just 30 minutes from their home. Daughter Teresa works part time setting up computer fairs in the D .C . area and taking care o f her son Gregory, almost 3.

Younger daughter Vivian works in NYC. “I hope to make the 40th reunion in September, but if not, I ’ll be there in spirit.”

I went to a workshop for communityjservice coordinators in Washington and spent a wonderful two lo u rs with MKA’s Headmaster, Peter Greer, and one o f the T r u s te e It was a real coincidence that we ended up at the same table at lunch!

I look forward to seeing you in September and catchi^| up on more news then: Georgia

MA M r. Santo D eStefaym Bt 3 3 6 M adison A venue, P ateiw k N J O f$ 2 4 Reunion chairm an: M r. George K ram er 1033 C lifton A ve.) C lifton N J 07013 W ith son Larry ’78, George Kramer develops and builds single family homes in Bergen County. He se rv e ® VP o f the Daughters of Miriam Home For the Aged and as treasurer p the Philatelic Foundatijpi, N Y C : George was the'LL'S.A. champion o f the Foundation’s ) Champion Exhibit in both 1986 and 1993.

Other interests are bridge, gmf, skiing, and tennis.

Since moving to Watertown, Conn., in the Litchfield HilllBHobart Van Deusen has become involved in historic preservation. He led a well-publicized fight “togive one o f the town’s most historigjand beautiful buildings from the wrecking ball.” Building saved, Hoby was named chairman o f a committee to establish Watertown’s first historic district. He also edits a newsletter on Stvertising ppllectibles and is adding to his ¿collection o f Canton Chinese export porcelain. “I’m a born collectors During MA days, I S h e e te d stamps, minerals, insects, coins, etc. and in college graduated to beer cans!”

Hoby’s wife, Nancy, is director o f development at Ramsey Hall School; daughter Heather is an architect in New Haven; Holly, a paralegal, is married and living in Hartford; son Rye works for Galson Corp, a national environmental firm. Hoby says, “I hope to attend our 40th and see classmates from long ago.”

Gloria and Phil Donlin’s daughter Jean Marie will be married in September; son Matt is head instructor for all Emory Worldwide trainees in Ohio. Gloria is an administrator with Baltimore County Public Schools. Phifis a phys ed instructor at Parkville High S c h o ^ M also the heaci football coach (“This year was for Building Character, 2 -8 ”), head JV wrestling jgoach, and head lacrosse coach. He writes, “Gloria and I came up to Montclair recently and drom by the Academy. You sure have a beautiful school. See you ah at the reunion. / h a d to g et a fo o tb a ll gam e date changed to m ake it, so I know you a ll can do it. SegjKou.”

Van Brunt’s Boys Muriel P. Van Brunt, widow f '' legendary Montclair Academy coach Edward Van Brunt, donated fiy jt d o z m p f his 9 X 12 team photos to the MKA archives. The Alumni Office could use help in identifying these teams and players, which appear to be from the 1950s and 60s. Please call 201/746-9800.. , ■

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o f her father, but is in constant touch with daughters and grandchildren back in Texas.

Dee Donlin M ell is .on a new adventure of building a house in Kiawah, N .C. W hen can we B m e visit?!

Terry Ash Rose is still in San Francisco doing: accounting for a small bank and is proud o f a new grandchild in Tucson.

Also in Arizona are T o n i Hetherington Lovejoy and Mary Russell Waldron. Toni has kids in Virginia, Pittsburgh, and Germany. S h i and her husband explore the L'.S. in their motor home. Mary has been office adminis­ trator with Otis Elevator for 10 years and enjoys her two single daughters living close by.

Bruce and Nancy Joyce Buckley are busy with house remodeling, their construction company and three houses. Nancy is training as a freelance jewelery goldsmith. Son Eric graduated from Denver U, law s ^ S l and daughter Laurie has a s<3, 1 1/2.

Carol Cloke W ildhaber writes son Pete got married, daughtájgis back at work. Carol enjoys, being a grandma.

The travel b u s in S a n d grandchildren keep Leigh Eberstadt Brenza busy. Husband Jim took early retirement from IBfyi .and teaches cS ip u ter science. Offspring are busy with investment banking, law, med school and college applications.

Fundraising for Tower Hill jdhool and first grandson are Barbie Ives Riegel’s new ney^yiy After years o f far-off assignments with the Foreign Service, Carol Turtle 5sfhappily settled near her parents in Florida and keeps busy with tennis, the Audubon Society, and Florida Symphony OrchestrárJ-g-, I’m looking forward to seeing Alaska, the Pacific Northwest and the Canadian Rockies this summer.

S®if- with all that news, let’s a ll try an d dim fo r our big 4 0th reunion a y ear from ñoW! Anyddeas o f the whereabouts o f Jackie Byrne Devendorf and Lou Walters?: / .s.-IH k

TKS M rs. Susie Forstm ann K ealy 2 3 2 E. W alton Place, Apt. 2E , Chicago IL 60611

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W e had a mini-reunion at Pal’s Cabin: Pris Cole 111, enjoying grandchildren and her travel business; Beth Hyde W hittemore and Marilyn Walrath Elliott, who work in the same building. Beth’s husband teaches' at Pingry.

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in January 1993. They live nearby which is nice for Henny and Bart. Andy is also in the area working for NationsBank in Va. Henny wrote that Judy Lindeman has helped start a new ad agency in Hawaii which is going well.

Janie Goodwillie Swann did not have a dull year. Jody finished first-year UGA and Eliz is working for a law firm in NYC. She’s applying to law school in Sept.

Carol Van Brunt Rasie s note included news that T im graduated from Hamilton and Lynn will enter Brown in the fall. In March the whole family celebrated Janko’s father’s 90th birthday in Florida. Carol has extended her volunteer tutoring and is working with students from public and private schools.

Bob and Nancy Prescott W ard find time for volunteering but the ad agency and answering service keep them busy. They’ve enjoyed family trips to Arizona and Great Britain. Vicki works in N YC for Z iff Publishing, and Jen is majoring in landscape architecture at U. Michigan. Rob is a student at Kinnelon High and started a business of power washing and sealing decks.

Jane Crawford Lyons is involved with “power skiing” as well as tennis, sailing, and volunteering for Safe Place and Rape Crisis!

Center. They had fantastic skiing in British Columbia. Toby is married, Andy is engaged and living in Alabama, and Debbie, engaged, is in her first year o f law school at Wake Forest.

Skiing is not the main reason forTpeter and Gail Zabriskie Wilson when visiting two o f their children in Telluride, Col. Peter and Karen recently joined Anne and Toby who’ve been settled there for a few years. Anne’s son Sandy was born in 1993, the first grandchild.

Bonnie and Sarah both live in Connecticut, which makes visiting easier. Gail and Peter are adjusting to life in the USA after five years in Australia and Rome with IBM . They have been fixing up their house and Gail works on a volunteer program helping foreign women adjust to living in this country.

Bill and Carol Cooper Henry enjoyed a vacation on their boat last fall at Martha’s Vineyard. Bill’s law practice is going well, and daughter Annie is involved with her swimming career. Charlie is working for his father’s firm and Billy is in L.A. working in films. He was . the first asst, editor for City Slickers vnxE Billy C. Lin da MA M r. E ric Ja eck el 2 6 8 Titus Avenue, Rochester N Y 1 4 6 1 7 Great news - we made contact with three more o f our classmates - Bob Fischbein and Mike Sucoff, and thanks to “the Fish” we now know the whereabouts o f Paul Kramer!

Brenda and Bob Fishbein still practice dermatology-in Livingston. “Last fall I made everyone around me miserable while I had a brief flirtation with law at Seton Hall Law School,” he writes, “butgl'came to my senses.”

TheMolder daughter, Suzanne, has finished law

school and hopes to tie that in with her interest in Japanese, her college major. Emily graduated from Columbia as an English major and will go to graduate school after working for awhile.

Bob spends leisure time with golf and tennis.

Michael Sucoff is VP o f Property Capital Trust, a R E IT traded on the Amex. He and Roberta just celebrated th||r 34th anniversary (“She was also my date for our senior prom”).

Daughter Barbara is a seminar leader for Learning International, teaching selling skills to business executives. She and her husband are parents o f the Sucoffs’ twin granddaughters.

Son Andrew is a »‘first-class real estate lawyer” in B oston..

W e are alive and well in Rochester. I do a lot o f volunteer work to keep my sanity such as National Ski Patrol, Rotary, 15-Love Tennis for drug-free inner city kids, and Compeer (matched with a mental disease person to be a friend/support).

Surprise me, the rest o f you guys!

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Nina Carter Lynch sent a photo o f herself, husband George, and their two darling grandchildren, Carter Anne and Robert Samuel, both born in 1993. She writes, “I have withdrawal symptoms if I don’t see them every 3-4 weeks!IIDaughter Whitney works in Boston after graduation from Denison U., and son Philip is a junior at UVM . Nina works in the faculty grants office atSHrinity College.

“I know we have all been greatly saddened by news o f the death o f our classmate Joan Krebs Neuhoff. Our thoughts and sympathy are with her family,” writes Nina.

Georgia Sherman Glick continues as director o f research at Bentley College’s fundraising office, in a capital campaign. Her husband Tom is in his 25th year at Harvard Medical School, currently as chief o f neurology. Son Steven, Harvard B.A., College o f Europe M.A., has a/»¿with a management consultant in Boston; daughter Sharon, Williams B.A., has pan-time work with greeting cards » “Needs a rea ljo b d says Mom. MA M r. E dw ard T. 0 ’B rien, Jr. 3 3 7 6 F em c liff Lane, C learw ater F L 3 6421 John Higgins came with his lovely wife on business and ^ w ed us. He is involved doing counseling and church ministry in the Massachusetts prison system. (He is omef psychologist and the first designated foresnic psychologist, which means doing competency

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I am so glad to hear the good news. I trust others will send news or come to Florida to warm up.

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TKS M rs. Judson Breslin (W endy Worsley) 4 4 L ake D rive, M ountain L akes N J 0 7 0 4 6 T o those who responded, I thank you and loved reading all your news.

Sally Braddock Dinsmore works for a travel agency in Sacramento, Calif., and has been escorting tours to wonderful places all over the world since 1970! She is divorced and has a daughter, Betsy, who is o ff to college in the fall.

June Dallery Doolitde enjoyed a summerlong camping/fishing trip in Wyoming and Montana. Her three children are nearby i ^ f l Rhode Island where her boys are working and daughter, Lauren, is finishing second year vocal studies at U RI where June is also studying for a music education degree and working for the music department. June plays Celtic harp and hammered dulcimer and is learning sign language!

Mary Ann Lawrence Decker still loves teaching second grade. Youngest daughter, Nancy, got married recendy; her boys work with their dad; and she and Mel have three grandchildren. The Deckers have gotten U together with Jake and Gail Garnar Jacobus occasionally.

Betsy Cole, divorced, lives in Miami where she is a manager for Coulter Corporation, a company she has worked for for 16 years. She also two years into a Ph.D. program in human and organization development! Her daughter lives in Mass., and soon-to-be-wed son lives in Conn., so she gets back to the northeast occasionally.

Jud and I are fine. W e have lived in Mt. Lakes for ten years after numerous moves. Our oldest son, Ned, and wife Lindsey live in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he works for Operation Hunger and she works in a shelter for homeless street children; Beau teaches at U. Penn, is working on his Ph.D. in political science and was married in June; David, our All-American lacrosse goalie (Ohio Wesleyan), teaches at Chesapeake Academy, Va.; twins M att and Jamie are sophomores at Mt. Lakes High School — they keep us young following their sports and activities. W e all had two fabulous summer trips to Africa where we “did” the Serengeti Plain and canoed down the Zambezi River avoiding the resident hippos.

N ot a trip for the faint-of-heart.

Let’s hear from the rest o f you!

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Lily Solmssen Moureaux recendy completed an assignment as a photo consultant for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to archive their photo library o f 5,000 images.

Husband Gislain was appointed director o f Mercy College’s physical therapy program.

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TKS Mrs. Em ily S. D anson (Em ily Stark) 2 3 2 1 5 L ’H erm itage C ircle B oca Raton EL 3 3 4 3 3 Jan Gennet Chase works in financial development at Recording for the Blind, a nonprofit organization that produces taped books (over 80,000 titles) for people with visual or learning disabilities. Her husband, Larry, an advertising copywriter, has launched the first Online Ad Agency (also its name).

Dave and Sheila Albright Hogan run the Lake o f the Woods Resort in Lakeside, Ariz. — a lovely, four-season place with cabins, fishing, horseback riding, as depicted in their brochure.

Children: Don has his own landscaping busindp; Patty is getting married in October, works for Envicom Corp. in Calif.; Frank graduated from high school in May; Nancy is in high school.

“Since my home and our daughters’ homes are overflowing with my paintings,” writes Kerwin Kipp Mayers, “I will have a ®Hewoman show in spring 1995. When this issue is out, our youngest, Darcy, will be married and grandchild #3 will have joined her brother and cousin. Never a dull moment.”

MA M r. George A. Bleyle, Jr. 2 2 5 9 W eir D rive, H udson O H 4 4 2 3 6 Graham McMillan lives in Montclair and does computer network and software development contract work for IBM at their Watson Research Center. He worked a total of 27 years for General Dynamics and IBM before his consulting business. Gordon and Leslie have two spiHout o f college, Brian and Gregory; Brian and his wife have a son, so that makes Graham a grandfather!

After earning a master’s in electrical engineering at M IT , Jerry Weiner ended up in Ft. W orth, Texas working for General Dynamics on the ill-starred T F X fighter/bomber aircraft (a.k.a. the F -l 11). After a number o f years, Jerry began a successful travel agent business. He now has three locations and has traveled to 86 countries. Jerry married and has two daughters, both attending college.

Phil Leone’s daughter Abigail attends the same girls’ boarding school in Maryland as my -, middle daughter, Jill. One parents’ weekend last October, I turned around and literally walked into Phil and his wife, Cheryl. Both are practicing pathologists at the Gastonia, N.C. hospital and operate an independent pathology lab. Phil has lost none o f his spark, good humor, and friendly smile, though his hairline has retreated a bit!

George Bleyle is still flying the friendly skies, although if you’ve followed business news, you’d know that UAL employees are about to buy the company. W ith the benefit o f hindsight, I’ll let you know i f this turns out to be a prudent decision. I had captain’s school on the Airbus A 320 in May, Alison graduated from Bucknell U., and Jill graduated from Oldfields School (see Leone entry above) and will attend Purdue U. in the fain Mike is a Navy lieutenant stationed in Norfolk, and Sarah is a sophomore in high school. M y wife Jane teaches fourth grade.

W e are missing addresses for Henry Hobelman and Peter Levine.

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TKS Ms. C hristine K eller 1 7 0 2 Church Street, Galveston T X 7 7 5 5 0 Christine Keller looks forward to “retiring” ' mid-year 1995 and getting involved with various charitable organizations, “and, perhaps, turning my hand to teaching basic law courses at our local community college.” She might also finish renovating her home so she can get into the B and B business, “which is why I bought the house in the first place. Love Galveston, love Texas, and would be happy to host any MKAers who come this way. Bernie Milstein ’59 is a most successful opthamalogist here also. He, Ms lovely family, and I cari show you one heck o f a good time.”

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Ja y Royce ’6 4 an d his son A .J. (A lbert J . TV) ’9 4 a t Commencement. F iv e graduates this y ear w ere “legacies“ o f alu m n i parents.

Reunion chairm an: Ms. C atherine Krebs Suiter 75 O ld Stage Rd., Essex Jun ction VT 05452 Congratulations to Connie Bruck, whose new book, M aster o f the Game, about entrepreneurial genius Steven Ross, came out to RAVE reviews.

A sample, from IVmagazine (May): “I f i t ’s scathing, the book is also balanced....Bruck doesn’t write books that aren't controversial.

And is there anyone anywhere who is a better researcher than s h i^ B j “Another chapter in life comes to a close,” writes Nancy Finn Kuper. Son Art graduated in June and will enter Michigan State in the fall; Sarah begins 10th grade and Wendy begins ■ t h . Nancy’s mother lives in a nearby nursing home. Nancy coaches gymnastics and teaches a “fun” pre-school gym class; husband Art works for Dow Chemical.

M. Beatrice Crawford made a permanent move to Charleston, Utah — near Park City — a year ago. After traveling for a couple o f years, she is now selling real estate, as it is something she can do and continue to travel. Son Shane Fry '89 works for G E inspecting nuclear plants all over the country; daughter Shannon ’91 attends the U. o f Arizona. They traveled to Hawaii together this summer. Bea says, “I f any classmates are skiers, Utah has the best snow on earth. Ify o u ’re in my area, give me a call.”

Judith Hesse Mick’s two girlsSaura, 16, and Christina, 12, keep her busy with school activities, etc. Judith does medical research for her husband, Ted, who has a patent on measuring intracranial pressure (within the skull) non-invasively. They are also starting a wood-products company.

From Auckland, New Zealand, Debbie Pines writes, “It’s a very pretty city with harbor views on 12 sides. You drive along and hit the top of a hill and there’s a spectacular view.”

See you all at Reunion!

MA Class secretary an d reunion chairm an: H on. Joh n Sheldon P. O. Box 96, Paris M E 04271 Robert Black Jr. is llrector o f marketing and sales for Continental Central Credit, a national collections agency. He and his wife, Cheryl, live in San Diego and have a summer home in New 1.ondoti, N .H . fflieir children are Stephen, 8, and Thomas, 6.

“One o f my fonder memories o f Montclair Academy was taking pictures for the school newspaper and yearbook,” writes John Benigno. Over the years,he developed his hobby and in the past t ® years has been exhibiting at galleries, exhibitions, and art shows. John was awarded blue ribbons at the Riverwalk Art Exhibition (York, Pa.) in both 1992 and 1993. H flis a juried member o f the Pennspyania Guild o f Craftsmen. John will return to Montclair for a July exhilpt in Anderson Park and again in September for REU N IO N .

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Michael’s story on Japan appeared in the January N ation al Geographic and his book, The M ekong — elaborating a previous Geographic story — will be out in the spring with a blurb by Ted Koppel.

W hen reached by the Alumni Office, in May, Mike had just returned from “days in the saddle” shooting Marlboro cowboys. He calls it exciting photo­ graphy.

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Campus Visit The combinffion o f the Academy and Brookside to Kimberley seems to have , enhanced the school. The improvements to the Valley Road Campus are verv impressive....I have great appreciation and love for the place that provided me with a critical thinking and education base that I find myself continually drawing upon.

That, o f course, is what a good education is supposed to do, and it is very obvious that MKA is still providing that kind o f an atmosphere for ,kids.

Jessa Vogt Dawson ’6 6 in letter to Dr. P eter mFegi)

Jan Shaw Partin works part time as an ophthalmic nurse/technician, and is coordinating a research study on the effects o f interferon on age-related molecular degener­ ation. She is into scuba diving, British Columbia to Bonaire to Micronesia. Son Elliot wants to turn 12 to be certified to dive; Randy will stick with snorkling.

Jan reports having had dinner with Bruce Borchardt (husband o f Susan Richardson Borchardt) on his two business trips to Seattle; the Borchardts have purchased a new house in D .C. with a bigger kitchen.

According to Jart’s brother George, there is a chance that Terry Appenzellar may work for his division o f Hughes Aircraft in D.C.™ ‘He told Hughes he knew her when her name was Sally Louise,; she told them nSfeasSa pesky older brother o f a grade school classm ateBM MA Mr. A lan J . B alm a 2 9 Gentry D rive, F a ir H aven N J 0770a

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Are we deadheads....I can’t believe you wore that blazer...You mean you can fit into your whole uniform? That’s a crock....Hope everybody is healthy, but less successful than me....A trip to Rowe-MM$fe,...Our Lady o f Victory Convent in Ho Chi Minh City....Academy men come out on top....Newark hired droids to fight the battles.

1993-yearbook quotes courtesy of: B. Webb, S. Brown, J. Catherwood, L. Francis, A. Kalker, G, Gregg, K. Strom, G. Aiello, and other anonymous members., ' Lindy Franciose has reached her goal o f entrepreneurship. She is a licensed persmal fitness trainer and skin care therapiff at “Touch o f Class” in Lauderdale-By-the-Sea, Fla. She writes enthusiastically about her work.

is having fun in the equestrian area; Katie, 8, earned her yellow belt and plans to try for black belt; all “manage to do well in school as well.”

MA M r. V. Jam es Castiglia 3 L ark Lane, O ak Ridge N J 07438 Gordon Sussman stopped by M KA one cold February day, his first trip from Wisconsin in years. He has “the world’s largest” canoe^hop just outside Madison, Wise.

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MA M r. Burton M . W ebb Box 2 9, Free U nion VA 2 2 9 4 0 Congratulations to Joseph Alessi, who was named Man o f the Year by the Cedar Grove chapter o f Unico National, a non-profit organization dedicated to funding scholarships and furthering Italian heritage. Joe was also named Man o f the Year professionally, by the Essex County Bar in 1993.

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On Old Cape Cod Former M A Trustee Robert Carlisle and his son, Gordon Carlisle ’69, collaborated on a book o f narrative poetry called In the L an d o f the Lotus-eaters, their third collaboration.

Gordon did the cover and illustrations. He works as a m uralst with his llrnpany, Mural Works, all over New England, including the celing o f the Barnstable County Courthouse on Cape Cod. Rob has written some 20 books, including the history o f MKA, W ithin These H alls.

See you at Reunion!

MA Reunion chairmam&M D r. E dw ard A. Griggs Jr. 3 2 Courseview Rd., B ronxville N Y 10708 “I must be having fun,” writes Eric Weis.

“F=MA where F=Fun, M=Middle Age, and A=Acceleration.” Eric acquired a 4-wheel drive to cope with all last winter’s snow. “M y kids ¡Mope it will never go away. Sinc|j5§l^, Snowbound in Wayne!’! » Charles Levin is president o f Sandler & W orth Floorcoverings with 17 stores in the metropolitan area. He and Amy have two sons, Josh, 14 and Daniel, 2 - B “a very lively combinationHBj See you at Reunion!

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TKS Mrs. R ichard D egenev (Ann PaMtck) 6 0 9 Sunset B lvd., Cape M ay N J 0 8 204

Reunion chairm an: Mrs. H. N eal D ay (M artha Bonsai) 1 7 Duryea Rd., Upper M ontclair N J 07042 Congratulations to Leslie Jeddis Lang, who was named a partner in the law firm o f Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer in Woodbridge. According to the newspaper clipping, Leslie is an honors graduate o f Douglass College and Rutgers Law School.

From Blythe Hamer: “Married, two kids, station wagon, suburbs. The only difference between me and my mother is that I have a job (i.e., I work for money). Is this progress? Is this liberation?”

After working many years in the field of architecture/interior design, Susan Yentema Bierly “fin ally took time out to discover family life.” She and husband Je ff are the proud parents o f a darling baby girl born in July 1993.

Lisa Schwarz is working on her Ph.D. in energy medicine and lives on the water in Coral Gables with two cats and four large parrots.

Hap and Susan Widmark Ridgway and their four children live in southern Maine, but head for Wyoming in the summer. There they operate the Elk Creek Ranch Program, a wilderness experience for teenagers.

Ann Patrick Degener encourages everyone to get back to Montclair in the fall “so we can all catch up!” Martha Bonsai Day and Seton Daly Beckwith are putting together a great gettogether.

MA M r. Anthony M . Celentano 3 C ondict Street, M orris P lains N J 0 7950 Reunion chairm an: M r. Rudy Schlobohm 78 M ontclair Ave., M ontclair N J 07042 Rudy Schlobohm’s daughter Melissa will enter kindergarten at Brookside this fall, the fourth generation at M KA (grandfather, uncle, Rudy, daughter).

Dorothy and Earl Perretti announce the birth o f daughter M adeline^ June 1993, joining sister Frances.

Charlotte and Ben Thompson also had their second child, son Sawyer. He joins Madeline, now 4. Ben plans to attend reunion and hopes

that others will too.

Owen K. Davis is on the faculty at Cornell U. Medical College practicing at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility. He and his wife, Marianne, have two daughters, Zoe, 4, and Alida, 2.

Sue and Peter Berinato are “alive and well and living in Richmond, Va. ” where they would love to see anyone passing through; they’re in the phone book. Peter works in public relations for the State o f Virginia and does freelance acting on the side.

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MKA M r. D avid Soule 120 Linden Avenue, Verona N J 0 7044 Best wishes to Frank and Leigh Royer Scheuer on their wedding. Kay Towner Stalle was bridesmaid. Leigh is an industrial designer with her own product design firm in NYC. Best wishes to Bruce and Diana Rowe Campbell on their spring wedding. They have bought a house in Wichita, Kan.; she works for Oblinger Mason McCluggage & Van Sickle Corp.

Stephanie and Dan Saucy were expecting their second child in May; daughter Hilary is two. He is a Ph.D. analytical chemist with Roehm & Haas outside Philadelphia, Pa. Jeffrey Schiffman was named sports director at SWBA/ York, Pa., where he directs a staff o f seven. He got together with Dan and his family in January.

Congratulations to Paul Zukerberg, who announces the opening o f his practice o f law at 1790 Lanier Place, N W , Washington D .C. He invites any classmate in the area to stop by.

Joanne Mikulik is chef de cuisine at the Canterbury, a 380-seat fistaurant and banquet facility in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. In her sparse time, she exercises polo ponies. Joanne will be married this fall to Joseph Witzigman; details to follow.

Janet Kluge Wiggin writes that her only news is' that her fourth son was due to arrive in August. “Just trying to keep up with Lisa Irwin Keane who also has four boys.”

From the Lions and Cougars to the Panthers Congratulations to Donald D ’Alessandro M .D 775, who was named chief orthopaedic surgeon for the new N FL football team, the Carolina Panthers. Don graduated from Princeton and the Georgetown U. School o f Medicine, did internship and residency at Harvard, and post-graduate training at Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in California. He is one o f 20 board-certified physicians at the Miller Orthopaedic Clinic in Charlotte, N .C. “I ’ve looked forward to an opportunity like this my enfiffie life,” saw Don, “and can’t wait to get to wqrk.” He has received numerous honors, including Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and a New York Orthopaedic Clinic award for outstanding resident research, and the 1990 Eciucational Video Award from the American Academy o f Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Don and his wife, Sally McBratney D ’Alessandro, classmates at MKA, have three children.

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Jill and Geoffrey Gimber went to a party at Hugh Gleason’s home in Caldwell. The Gimbers’ three boys (7, 6, and 3) are roughly the same age as Hugh’s two boys and a girl.

Geoff recently switched firms and is now VP of sales at Smith New Court, the large British brokerage house. G eoff met Headmaster Peter Greer in a Price Club parking lot — he recognized him from the M KA license plates!

Liz Newman Miro-Quesada started a company, Great Harbor Productions, with a friend, producing workshops and seminars around Delray Beach, Fla. Her husband wrote a new game called PSI*KICK, “a mind adventure,” and E P C O T Center ordered a case.

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Eve W ood’s psychiatric practice is thriving.

She has opened a second office in center city Philadelphia and was elected to the Executive Board o f her hospital. Eve has been asked to lecture widely.

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“Life on Chebeague Island, Maine, is great,” writes Marcelle Irwin Pope, “although winter is awfully icy and makes the ferry schedule inconsistent...not as picturesque as one might think. But the community o f 400 people is wonderful.” Marcelle is in a singing group that performs on and o ff the island, runs the recreation program, and takes care o f son Dana.

Husband Buddy contracts his work as a senior programmer/analyst, Mel and Bev Hall Hildebrand are in Omaha, Nebr. where he has finished the first o f a fouryear dental program. They were expecting Baby #2 in July, when Leah will be 17 months old. Bev enjoys being Mom — “It's more work than working!” She is in touch with Susan Moreau in Sterling Colo, and with Nellie Matjucha, “usually after she goes on a great ski

trip to T ellu rid eS S h e reports that Jennifer Hendrian and husband moved back to Indianapolis. “Ask Peter Valentine if he will pay for dependents to attend the 20th reunion in 1997. Hopefully by then we will be living in the foothills o f the Big Horn mountains or the Rockies. Tell Joe Sullivan it’s a great kind o f lifestyle for people with a cholesterol level o f 300+.”

Jonathan Grevatt is a D J at 92.7 W D R E F.V1,, a modern rock station that can be heard in the tri-state area, as well as on 98.5 in eastern Long Island and 103.9 in Philadelphia. He is Jonathan Clark on the air, working mostly the weekend morning show. The request line is 1800-377 DARE. He is also a staff writer for Creem magazine, doing a monthly music column featuring reviews, artist interviews, and interviews with prominent producers and A & R execs (“Artists and Repertoire, the guys who sign bands to record companies”). Jon is in the process o f releasing his own C D with five songs.

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Marty Cohn writes, “W e are doing great in Miami Beach: wife Amy, son John, 8, and daughter Margaret, 4. I am head o f the marketing department for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line and also run our senior PGA tournament, the R.C. Classic. Regards to all.”' ‘ Addendum to the happy news o f Pat Cane Donahue’s adoption o f two Ukranian children.

One o f the boys turns out to have Attachment and Bonding Disorder (“I f you saw the movie ‘Child o f Rage’ you have some idea o f what we are dealing with”). Treatment is with “Holding Therapy.” As a result o f their trials, Pat and Kevin have established a support group for families o f such children. They can be reached at 908/549-8717.

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Daniel Groisser, M .D ., dermatologist and dermatologic surgeon, is a frequent speaker on skin issues to such varied groups as the Lions Club and senior citizens’ groups around Montclair.

After 12 years o f living in NYC, Susan Cole Furlong moved to Upper Montclair and changed jobs as well to avoid the Lincoln Tunnel commute. She works with Dugan Valva Advertising in Morristown.

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M KA M rs. Carlos O rtiz (Shawn M ahieu) 1 7 4 0 F alls Way D rive, Crofton M D 2 1 1 1 4 Dr. Ja c k B rink 1 2 9 0 Beech Valley Dr. A tlanta GA 3 0 3 0 6 Reunion chairm en: M rs. A nita Sim s-Stokes 111 Sapphire Lane, Fran klin P ark N J 08823 M r. Stephen D odd 3 0 9 Riverside A ve., Riverside C T 0 6878 Congratulations to Amanda Calder, who received an M BA from Boston College Carroll School o f Management in May. She works in cooperative marketing at I T T Sheraton.

Janet Welsh, finishing her Ph.D. at Penn State, is working on a national project involving children.

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The new girls are Tristen Leigh, daughter o f Dannah Ladendorfif-Asrejadid and Madeline, one-year-old daughter o f Lila Uskokovic Vidger. Lila is a clinical psychologist in private practice.

Best wishes to Stephen and Pamela Lalli Richmond on their wedding. Pam, who graduated from Skidmore College with highest honors, teaches first grade in Clifton.

Nina Cerfolio, M .D . is full-time faculty at NYU Medical Center in the department o f psychiatry. In addition to teaching residents

A lum ni C ouncil m em ber A nita Sim s-Stokes ’7 9 poses w ith her w edding attendants, MKA classmates Tracy Green Frager (L) an d P aige Cottingham . R obbin G ordon ’7 8 p lay ed the harp during the ceremony.

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Running with MKA Edwin Delattre, Dean o f the School of Education at Boston University and frequent visiting scholar at MKA, wore an MKA cap to run in the Boston Marathon in April. Several people from the crowd came up »to him beforehand S chat about the school. One was Burgess Ayres, Head o f the Upper School from 1976-1981, who said that some o f his fondest memories were from MKA.

their wedding. They have left Santa Fe to run a bed and breakfast on Martha’s Vineyard. “Y’all come visit — the Captain Dexter House, Edgartown, Mass. Our best to everyone.”

David and Karen O ’Connor Dunnigan ’80 have moved to AtlantlpGa., with Dun & Bradstreet Software. They are “thrilled” to be back on the East Coast and have sentimentally named their puppy Jersey. Their children are Dennis, 2 1/2, and Kelly, 1. They note that Karen Marnell ’81 lives nearby so they see her quite a bit. The Dunnigans hope to make reunion - “W e miss everyonljBB Another great M KA couple, Andrew and Randi Pickelny Rod ’82, had a baby girl, Jordan Alexis, in April.

Craig Bartlett is in his third year o f orthopedic residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He and Holly had beautiful twin boys,. ¡Scotty and Charlie, in 1993.

John and Lee Anne Perrino Brensinger were expecting their third baby in June; their oldest boy is 5 and begins kindergarten in September!

They are hoping to relocate to a more rural life in northern New Jersey, and plan to return for Homecoming.

Dale and Emily Rowland Malone enjoy living near the ocean in Cohasset, Mass., M th daughters Sara, 5, and Charlotte 2. “When not busy chasing them, I’m H » e with the Junior League o f Boston assisting single mothers and their children and beginning a child care program at the local hospital.” Emily has received several awards for original recipes published in local newspapers.

Hugh and Beth Kindler Lloyd-Thomas moved back from Australia three years ago.

They live in Westport, Conn., whql| she is a realtor with William Pitt Real Estate. Their son Matthew was born this March. .Congratulations to David Fernald, who earned a Master o f Engineering »(mechanical) at Stevens Institute o f Technology, then an MBA at Florida I.T . in 1993. He has three children|2 James, 7, Sarah, 4, and Alexander, 1.

The Rev. Pamela Barz is minister o f th£|§ Unitarian Universalist Church o f Saco-Biddeford, in Saco, Maine.

Anne Morey finished her first year o f a Ph.D. program in the radio/TV/film department at the U. o f Texas at Austin.

Marathon news update: Steve Dodd ran the New York City Marathon — all 26 miles — in

only four hours, 21 minutes, and three seconds!

Steve was sponsored by friends and family, and raised over $4,300 for the Starlight Foundation.

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Mrs. M artin Garvey (Pam Eastman) 2 6 Warren Place. M ontclair N J 07042 I invite you to relax and let me take you back.

Remember Eric Dobbin, with his quick sense o f humor?

He’s passed it to a new generation; he’s a baby boomer.

Rebecca Corell Dobbin was bom in March '94, Doting Laura and Eric could ask for nothing more.

You’ll recall Tony Bowser, quiet and introspective.

Tony lives on the Persian G ulf in the city of Kuwait.

General Dynamics accounting and socializing with new friends Tony finds first rate.

The grapevine says that Carmen Fleetwood tied the knot.

Gordon Paul is lucky to fill the groom’s slot.

Carmen is a news reporter at the Associated Press.

We wish them a wonderful life with very little stress!

George Reim onn’s outdoor Oregon adventures have been put on hold for a tad.

H e’s a hospital C IO by day; at night, a proud dad. (He and Jeanne welcomed Thomas Michael in Sept. ’93.)

Mary Cole used to argue any point with anyone using all her mind’s might.

All that practice sure paid off She made partner at O ’Meara & Height.

fish keeps in the icebox.

I f they’re working, don’t mention the powder.

Tell them you skied on rocks.

Take them out to a fancy dinner, that will make them cheer; I f you want to come back, you buy all the beer.

Ta for now.

Pam

Lorraine and Robert Cerfolio have a son, Robert Michael (Robbie), 2. Rob is a surgeon at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, doing cardiac and thoracic surgery, including heart and lung transplants. [Ed. note: H&Aegps in shape by playing hockey and is a most-desired player at MKA’s annual Alumni Hockey Game.]

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Kate Baker had a daughter, Maddalena Rae, in March, joining son Sam, 6. Kate works at White Sands Research Center, N.M .

Annie Malfitan Horohonich teaches elementary school and “dabble^ in interior design. She and husband Stephen, a research clinician at Pfizer, live in Mystic, Conn.

Paul Amirata remains in contact with Al Salamone ’82, who works in Savannah, Ga., but says the latest rumor has Al moving back to New Jersey. P aul who works for Continental Insurance, says sister Adrienne '86 Was to be married in June, and brother Ed ’82 “is a doctor and never leaves the hospital.”

Laura Reisch Itzkowitz is branching out from opera into musical theater. T B fi spring she plafed Nellie in South P acific Jo t a local (Chicago) company. This summer she had a supporting role in The M usic A fJSand played Gypsy Rose Lee in Gypsy for a company in Indiana.

Karen Boyle continues to work in Mauritania, Africa, with aifihristian volunteer group, Doulos, which was formed while she

was at Princeton. They distribute food, help with health and records, and provide expertise for natives to use supplies(e.g., how to brush teeth). Their only electricity is in the office; she communicates with home by E-mail.

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Ms. CherylM cCants 1.52 Forest St., M ontclair N J 07042 M r. I'hom aslfpbbins 1204 F airview Rd., H avertow n PA 19083 Congratulations to Kathryn and Peter Dancy on the birth of daughter Hope Brennon, born in March, and to Stefanie and Roger Raichelson on the birth of son Ryan in September. Roger is an anesthesiologist in NYC, his wife a psychologist.

Reggie and Mary Hayes McDaniel’s son Houston turned 1 in May. They are expecting another child in’December.

After two and a half years in Tokyo, Robert and Elizabeth Lewis Moritz were relocated back to New York. They bought a house in Westchester. Daughter Sarah Kathryn was born in November 1992.

Rob and Carol Peto-Ostberg report surviving the house-building process;: they moved into new quarters in Northampton, Mass.

Anthony DelGaizo and brother Vincent ’86 own the Plaza Cleaners in Flemington, Clinton, and Bridgewater, and are in the process o f opening a new store in Bedminster.

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From the MKA nurse’s office to title o f D .O ., Melanie Gold and medicine always fit just so.

Montefiore Medical Center is lucky to have Melanie Who has a third-year fellowship in adolescent medicin# with glee.

Melanie’s second publication in Pediatrics in Review is due in August 94 It concerns children ot gay and lesbian parents, a ’90s issue for sure.

Eric Betke married ]ennie Larnond in June o f ’93.

Without best man M artin Brayboy, where wouldiftjric be?

The Betkes invite you to visit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming Before you book, ybu need to know something: Jfbur stay cannot exceed the number of days a

MKA alum ni a t the w edding o f Susan B acot ’8 4 a n d A ndrew H erzherg last fa ll: Ju lio D olorico 8 4 , Ritu Tham m àn 84, Paige L a d en d orff ’83, groom A ndrew H erzherg, bride Susan Bacot, L au ra D ancy 84, C raig M iner 84, Betsy BacotWÎO, E d Conlin 8 4 . A bsentfro m p h oto: Jen n ifer Jon es 8 4 .

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Congratulations to Geoffrey Habron, who received an M.S. in fisheries management from Misissippi State U. Geoff is working as a fishery biologist with National Marine Fisheries Service in Maryland until September, when he will begin a Ph.D. in fisheries/anthropology at Oregon State U. Congratulations too, to Navy 1st Class Petty Officer Brad Kramer, who was selected for AEGIS leadership training in fleet operations.

(AEGIS is a weapon system on the Navy’^ p newest cruisers and destroyers that is completely integrated into computer-controlled sensor, weapons, and control systems, according to a newspaper clipping.) Brad entered the Navy in February 1984.

Most exotic award: Maureen Towers has been living and working in Russia for the past two years. She is with International Finance Corp. in Moscow.

Congratulations to Susan and Michael Eisner on the birth o f Matthew Reese in February.

Mike says, “Everyone is doing great and we love being parents.”

Best wishes to Lydie and Christopher Morano on their wedding. Chris is VP/general counsel at Essex Crane Rental Corp., and volunteers as young adult coordinator at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC.

10TH REU N IO N SEP T E M B E R 24 Class secretary a n d reunion, ew ehairm an: Ms. Jen n ifer Jone's ,: 4 2 4 W est E n d Avenue 1 7 F N ew York N Y 1 0 0 2 4 Reunion co-chairm an: M r. D arrin O ’N eill 4 5 Stanford Place, Glen Ridge N J 07028 Lots o f news, in anticipation o f the big reunion!

“On September 24th I’ll probably be on top o f Pik Communista in Tadjikistan, so I won’t be at reunion,” writes Tom Hochman. “I hope to be around for the 15th unless I’m in prison in China — this has happjped before and I kind o f expect it to happen again, as I ’ll be crossing Tibet from W est to East, a definite nog o for foreigners. M y best to all.||S “Unfortunately, Budapest is far away fron^B M KA,” laments Maria Rabb, who is working for an environmental non-profit agency (“and earning very little money, so people should come visit me here”')).! Her brother Anthony ’86 has been working in Hungary for G E since January 1993. Maria said Alex Lee ’88 was there last summer; he.iif in law school in L.A. Maja Kastler is working on a Ph.D. dissertation in 16th-century German painting for Columbia U. She lives in N YC and is engaged to be married next summer.

Seth Antiles is m o workiri^on a Ph.D. at Columbia, in political science. He was to be married to Janette Kizer in Caracas, Venezuela, in August.

W edding reunion: Greg Sullivan ’8 5, Rosie A hkam i ’8 5, D an Carson ’8 3, R obin Schw artz ’85, bridesm aid Corinn Thompson ’8 5, Andy Voss ’8 3, bridesm aid M ichelle Kessler ’85, bride E d ie Szakacs 85, groom D arrin Prescott, D onna D el G aizo 8 4 , Tim B izub 85, m aid o f honor G ail Szakacs V I. Diane Ridley, M .D . is a resident in anesthesiology at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, NYC. Roger Raichelson, M .D . ’82 is one o f her chief residents there!

Congratulations to Cameron Fleming, who graduated from Harvard Business School in J une and works as an associate with investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette. He is engaged to Anique Gorman o f Connecticut.

Congratulations also to Robert Cunningham, who received a J.D . from Rutgers Law School.

Bob accomplished this despite a year off to train for the Olympics.

Best wishes to our manyrjewlyweds!

Susan Bacot and Andrew Herzberg were married in the Hamptons in October; see photo o f large M KA contingent. Laura Dancy’s father performed the ceremony. Susan runs her own video production company, Susan Productions, with a specialty in weddings!

Tim and Bryn Fleming Mulligan were married in Montclair in December with both a Baha’i and a Catholic ceremony. Bryn has a “wonderful” accounting position in Rochester at a small manufacturer based in Denmark.

“The best part: I can wear jeans to work every day.”

A year later the details o f James and Nina Howard Galione appeared in the paper: Sonia Stetkiewych and Craig Miner were in the wedding party. Nina, who graduated from Mt. Holyoke, is V P and C FO o f LiTenda Mortgage Corp. in Montdair.

Marie Therese and Darrin O ’Neill were married on Long Island in September.,' Darrin, a graduate o f Boston College, is an account manager for Triple I in NYC)'-' r Engagement announcements: Donna DelGaizo and Tim Bizub ’85 were engaged -to be married in July in an MKA family merger. Details next issue! Donna has a m a s « g degree in social work. She is on the Belleville child study team and also counsels for

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Harris Podvey is engaged to marry Sharon Muller in October. He has a B.A. in economics from the University o f the South, and is a loan officer at Valley National Bank in Wayne.

Class secretary Jennifer Jones will marry Todd Ladda in October in Sanibel Island, Fla. She is an attorney in N YC with Dewey Ballantine.

“It all seems so-recent,” writes Victor Lupi, P h .D .S th e six-day schedule, the morning assemblies, the study hall sessions, the education. Yet ten years have already passed since the Class o f 1984 graduated from MKA. Thanks to the Alumni News, Yke. been able to keep track o f the affairs o f my classmates....”

Victor earned a B.S. in aerospace engineering from M IT , with a full schedule as head teaching assistant, fraternity study chairman, arid production manager o f M IT ’s spring concert series. His numerous academic achievements included election to Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Gamma Tau honorary societies, and the prize for ingenuity in engineering design.

H m cto r stayed on at M IT to earn an M .S. and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering. He now works at Data Delay Devices, Inc. in Clifton, N .J. and coaches youth sg^^Sin free time.

He often gets together with Maria and Tom Lauricella and Jill and Andy Walsh and their daughter Emily-Rachel; he reports that Dr. Ritu Thamman is doing well in N Y C B A s for the rest o f the Class of 1984, I look forward to seeing all o f you at Homecoming.”

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Bizub '83 work with their father in their family business, the Bizub-Quinlan funeral homes of Clifton and the Norman Parker Funeral Home ofLittle Falls.

Roger Brown left Graham & James law firm in D.C. to specialize in international tax with the Internal Revenue Service. He is engaged, but sent no details. He wrifil, "Loren Miller and I have been hanging out and becoming great friends. Life is mgSing forward; every day is still a learning experience. I like being a liberal in Washington!”® Darrin and Edie Szakacs Prescott were married at her family’s home on Martha’s Vineyard. [See photo.] Edie worked as a financial analyst at First Boston Corp. after graduation from U. Colorado; Darrin is in second year o f Harvard Business School.

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international policy and business.

Rebecca Link is a buyer for men’s activewear at Lord & Taylor, NYC. She graduated cum laude from NYU’s Stern School o f Business.

"Texas is fun!” writes Catherine Hunter, who lives in Dallas and lends to energy companies around the world for NationsBank. “Does anyone know where Azerbaijan is?’HBl Mario LaCorte moved to Chicago last year and works as a press associate at the Goodman Theater.

Best wishes to our newlyweds: Following wedding and honeymoon.in August, Jodi Schneider Scherl will finish her last year o f law school at American U. Rob and Valerie Cordover Katz were married in NYC and have bought a home in West Orange. Claudia Ross, Jodi Schneider, and Julia Weil attended the wedding. Valerie, a graduate o f American U. with a major in psychology and marketing, is a sales rep. for Prescriptives cosmeti<SEstee Lauder.

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Mrs. Jan ies Roussel (Joy Booth) 5 5 0 9 Cam p Street N ew O rleans LA 7 0115

Congratulations to our advanced graduates: Dr. Rohina Gandhi graduated from Brown U. School o f Medicine and received the Dr. Stanley Aronson Prize for excellence in neuroscience. At the commencement ceremony, Rohina presented the students’ prize to the faculty. After an internship at the UCLA/San Fernando Valley program, Rohina will be a neurology resident at UCLA. Dr. Erica Lubetkin graduated from U. Penn School o f Medicine, and will intern at New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center. [Her mother writes to MKA, “Thanks for the excellent preparation.’’]

Marcia Podvey graduated from.Tufts U. with a master’s in occupational therapy. She is working in the pediatric occupational therapy department o f St. Barnabas Hospital.

Dr. Adrienne Amirata graduated from U M D N J Dental-Sehoo! in .Via . and was married in June.

Karestan Koenen, who revived an M.A. in psychology at Columbia, is entering the Ph.D. program at Boston U. Nancy Castro is working toward a Ph.D. in English at Columbia. She has^Seen a few MKA-ites on campus, but have not yet taught any.” Nancy is teaching the core composition course, Logic & Rhetoric, required o f all first year Columbia College students. She attended Rohina’s graduation from med. school.

Don DiDomenico studied at the Monflre'piK. Institute for International Studies in the MBA program and worked in Mexico as a translator/teacher. He is attending a summer and fall master’s program at Middlebury College, to be followed by a year abroad in Madrid. Donny is pursuing a career in

Mrs. P au l L adn er (Ida B oodin) 2 1 2 0 Floyd Avenue, R ichm ond VA 2 3 2 2 0 Congratulations to our graduates: Joanne Pundyk graduated from Washington U. Law S c h o o lg SwLouis and will work as an associate at Grotta, Glassman, Hoffman in Roseland, specializing in labor and employment discrimination law.

Sigrid Cook received a master’s in landscape architecture from U. Virginia, in May. She had graduated from Davidson College cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

Best wishes to Robert and Lynne Yellin

Sutton on their wedding, which was held at the chapel o f the College o f William and Mary, where they met. Lynne graduated Phi Beta Kappa at W M and earned a master’s degree in operations research at UNC/Chapel Hill. She is a consultant with Decision Technologies in Dallas.

Marla Gross is engaged to Bruce Lerman.

She is an employment specialist at West Essex Rehabilitation Center in Montclair, doing job placement and counseling for disabled adults.

Frank Blesso is an associate consultant with C SC Consulting in Newton Lower Falls, Mass.

Laura Baczko has left the international group at Chemical Bank, NYC, and after a summer traveling will begin an M BA at the U. o f Michigan. She was awarded a fellowship.

Lisa Babic graduated from the professional acting program at N YC’s National Shakespeare Conservatory, one o f 40 students selected annually through national auditions. She will be featured in the off-off Broadway production o f Arthur Schnitzler’s “Anatol.”

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Ms. K aren M uenster 1 25 Country Lane& Clifton, N J 07013 M r, Jam es P etretti 13 Otis Place, Verona, N J 0 7 0 4 4 Class agent: M r. A lec Schw artz 1803 P in e St., Apt. 1R, P hiladelphia PA 19103 Wendy Rosenblum, who graduated from Washington,U./St. Louis with dual degrees in educational studies and political science, has worked in Washington, D .C . for several lobbying organizations. She now works for Sen. Bill Bradley as a legislative correspondent, handling issues o f social/domestic policy

Austin Koenen, P resident o fth e B oard o f Trustees, poses w ith his M KA fam ily : E rin ‘8 9, Austin Jr. ’9 4, K arestan ’8Ws a n d w ife Kathy.

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(education, health care, women’s issues). She is also president o f the Arlington Co., I/L, ch ap ® o f the N a ts ia l Organization for Women.

A change of plans: Amy Harris is not attending Harvard for a master’s degree, as reported in the last Review. She spent the year as a clinical researcher at Western Psychiatric Clinic in Pittsburgh, and this fall is beginning Ph.D. studismn clinical psychology at George Washington U. in D .C . She has a graduate teaching assistantship.

Bonjour. Simon Auld, who was studying French at the Sorbonne and taking classes at the American U. for International Trade and Commerce in Paris, now works for Mastercard International. He l|lgjjother M KA ex-pats.in Paris frequently: Pat Sweeny ’86, Noah Goldman, Michael Stawnychy.

Since graduating cum lau de from Kenyon College with a B.A. in honors English, Jennifer Blum has been living in London and backpacking all over Europe and the Middle East with her British fiance, Sean Cronin. (“I got my scuba diver’s certificate in Egypt!™ Life is about to become more settled with their October wedding and Jenna’s beginning an M.A. in creative writing at U. Massachusetts/ Boston.

Jonathan Fairchild is helping the Smithsonian with an ethnography study o f the Crow Indians in Montana.

Alec Schwartz works full time in the administrative office o f the U. Pennsylvania Cancer Center. H e writes grant proposals, writes and edits clinicalmals news and a quarterly newsletter, writes and designs marketing material, and plans educational conferences. Alec bumped into Mark Sapienza, who is in med. school at Loyola, and had lunch with Dan Horn, who is a grad student at U. Penn School o f Education.

Alec will be an usher at the wedding o f Brad Van Siclen ’86 and Inga Walter this summer.

Brad works for Waterhouse Securities in NYC.

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Ms. Suellen B izub 1 0 7 Country Lane, C lifton N J 07013 M r. Louis Lessig 7 8 K en t R d., H untington Valley PA 1 9 0 0 6 Reunion chairm en: Ms. P am ela D A m ato 3 5 B eachm ont Ter., N orth C aldw ell N J 0 7 0 0 6 M r. Josh Raym ond 4 W hite O ak Road, R oseland N J 0 7068 Melissa Kemlitz works for D .E. ||iaw & Co., NYC. She graduated from Ya|£gj§<th a B.A. in English and received the Wallace Prize for best non-fiction writing.

Marine Cpl. Douglas Dauzier received the

Selected Marine Corps Reserve Medal for faithful service during the four-year reserve program. He has a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute.

Elizabeth Crowell works in N Y S fo r H.M .

Long Inti. Ltd., an executive research firm. She was training for triathlqMiihi^ummer.

Anjali Bhatt isifnjoying medical school and is the school AMA president. She has joined a roller hockey team.

Geoffrey Krouse is beginning law school at Duke U. Erin Koenen is also beginning law school, at Georgetown.

David Austin left Chicago to Hater Inter­ national Paper C o.’s Manufacturing Associate Program (MAP) in management training. He gives engineering technical support to IP’s various plants around the country; first ;;)|ssignment, three months in Dallas.

David Ames has moved to Boston to work with State Street Bank, and lives with twb classmates from Bowdoin.

W ith the help o f Daniel Murphy, David Zweifler is working in Jakarta, IndonesiaMn the editorial staff o f the Ja k a rta Post. Dan has been there since the fall. Dan spent the summer lltrekking” through Indonesia, Australia, and New Z ealand,Sid hoped to return to a different position.

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Each chair sells for $225; a rocking chair version is available for $250.

Please add $20 for shipping and handling. Your order must be accomp » i e d by a check made payable to The Montclair Kimberley Academy. Send to: The Alumni Office, MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair N J 07042.

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Ms. M eredith M cGowan 2 0 5 E ast 9 5 th St., Apt. #90 N ew York, N Y 10128 Ms. Lorelei M uenster Village a t Lenox P ark 2 1 1 9 Village P oint, A tlanta GA 3 0 3 1 9 Class agent: M r. Shane M ahieu P.O . B ox 1180, Bolton Landing, N Y 1 2 8 1 4 Congratulations to those who graduated from college this year. News o ® few, from early clippings and proud parents: Brett Zbar graduated from Yale with a double major in English and molecular biophysics and biochemistry. He spent the summer backpacking through Spain, and is off to Harvard Medical School.

Danielle Bergamo plans to go to graduate school for a master’s in journalism.

Sabrina Yellin graduated from Connecticut College with honors, with a major in English and studio art. She was awarded the Charles B. Palmer Prize o f the Academy o f American Poets in April, a national recognition. Sabrina created an arts awareness program at Conn, and was |pglected to be an admissions interviewer.

Meredith Dorner graduated from Cornell with a B.S. in operations research and industrial engineering. She™ workingifbr the Port Authority o f N Y and NJ as a management

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Kate Schroeder transferred to the U. of Pittsburgh after her sophomore year and graduated this May. She was proposed to on the beaches o f the Bahamas and m 11 marry Mark Braun in April 1 9 9 5 8 1 Kristy Scanlan graduated from Wesleyan with a B.A. in film studies, and spent the summer at the International Film and Television workshops in Maine, where she was assistant to the director o f the film program.

She is moving to Los Angeles this fall.

Kate Hnatow graduated from Skidmore as a biochemistry major. She earned varsity letters in softball and soccer (she was captain o f the soccer team). After time off she will work in the medical field.

Defenseman Bryan Lonsinger helped lead the Harvard Crimson ice hockey team to the NCAA Final Four in Minnesota this year.

Meredith McGowan graduated from Lehigh U. with a B.A. in international business and minor in journalism. She received the Student Contribution to Life Award and the President’s Award. She ^working as an assistant analyst with Bear Stearns in NYC. Shane Mahieu has taken up a new racing form, the offshore race boat. Last year Shane and team members took the national title in the 32' inboard class (record speed 108.973 m.p.h.) and second in the outboard. After graduation, Shane became general manager o f Performance Marine on Lake George,. N.Y. Lorelei Muenster graduated H jm Syracuse U.

with a B.A. in textile design. She participated in the 1994 Amoco Trace yarn student design competition, creating eight fabrics using IBM CAD programs. After an internship with an interior designer, she has moved to Atlanta, where she will take architecture courses.

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Ms. Ja m ie Lenis 2 5 Taylor Drive, West C ald w ellN J 07006 Ms. D ara M ormon 108 Tangleivood Dr., East H anover N J 0 7 9 3 6 Kudos to Erin O ’Neill, who earned lacrosse All-American honors while leading Princeton to its first NCAA women’s national championship as goalie. She stopped Maryland’s all-time leading scorer. Jen Lonsinger ’92 played defense on the team.

Matt Blesso is studying economics.. He spent last fall semester in Sydney, Australia and worked in NYC this sum m eriti On one o f his first days in Scotland, Ian Ross recognized Gene Mazo across the street. And you thought you could run away from MKA! Ian and Gln.e both spent the spring semester at the U. o f Edinburgh. They both played host to me when I visited Edinburgh over spring break.

Gene and Ian traveled in Europe and ran into or met many-other alums studying abroad.

Tim Werldey met Ian for a weekend in Amsterdam. And a number o f people have mentioned seeing Madeline Temple in Paris.

Nicole Pruess e-mailed me from the U. of Bristol, England, where she spent the year. She too has gallivanted through Europe. After attending Berkeley, Nicole transferred to Georgetown, and loves D .C. She and Brooke Sullivan, who attends Catholic Lb,.see each other quite a bit. During the summer, Nicole lived with Lea Kling in Minnesota.

Bruce Herforth sent me an e-mail message from Connecticut College, where he is majoring in environmental studies and anthropology. Bruce is secretary-treasurer o f the main environmental group on campus, and is “applying for theme housing in an environmental house’’ this year. This summer Bruce worked at the Central Wisconsin Environmental Education program in S'tCven’s Point, Wise. He served’s asa regular counselor and participated in four week-long wilderness adventure trips.

Gail Szakacs spent the fall o f junior year in Madrid, Spain. She often wishes she had stayed the entire w fe but is happy at Hamilton Colleggghere she played lacrosse.

Apologies tCf-Jessica Lerner. In the last issue, Jfjwas reported that Jessica was a member o f a coed fraternity. It should have read that she is a member of Kappa Alpha Thetaisorority, and held an officer’s position. This spring, Jessica studied at the U. o f East Anglia in Norwich, England. She too ran into Gene. She will graduate from Washington U. in December

Small W orld Etc. Two members o f the Class of ’92 will spend their junior year studying at the prestigious London School o f Economics: John Eberhardt from Duke and Scott Weiner from Johns Hopkins. Both earned dean’s list honors. and then apply to law school.

On behalf o f the Class o f 1991, our condolences to Radhika Kunamneni on the death o f her mother in May. D ara

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M r. E nrique N eblett 102 P ark Smjet, A lotitclair N J 07042 Ms. T am i Safer 8 7 6 A ztec T rail, Fran klin L akes N ] 0 7 4 1 7 Class Agent: Ms. Alison Raymond 4 W hite O ak Road, R oseland N J 0 7068 Marni Schinman, pre-med at Duke, spent the summer at Beth-Israel Hospital as an intern and will^pend her junior year at the U. o f New South Wales, Australia.

Patricia Stem will also attend the U. o f New South Wales, for the first semester. Her major is psychology/sociology.

Max Fierst enjoyed his second year at Yale, “writing all the time — poetry, short stories.’” ‘ He is taking 1994-95 off to live and study in Siejia and Florence, Italy, hoping to return fluent in Italian.

At Middlebury, Marie D ’Amato devoted a lot of time to ultimate frillee. Her team took their spring break down south, and she visited friends at Duke and Emory. Marie will spend rage fall in Florence, Italy.

Melanie Carroll loves Colgate, whe#| she earned dean’s list. She will spend the spring semester in Dijon, F ra n ^ S B Kevin Cohen is a brother o f Sigma Chi at Washington Eh He’s been doing a lot o f acting;»and haefi part in a hit play on campus.

Joseph Lee is writing for Boston College’s student papew The H eights. He is interning at the Massachusetts Republican Party, working 'on campaigns, including those o f the mayor of Boston and Golgrnor Bill Weld.

Liza Boglivi is a public relations major at Boston 1|8 She will live in an apartment with two sororifasisters this year.

Melissa Roedel is spending the fall on the coast of North Carolina, studying marine biology at Duke’s program.

Chris Burchell trSsferredffi) Wesleyan U. where he played varsity I k hockey.

Alison Raymond spends much time volunteering at Skidmore College’s day care center, ; Amy Bressler and Tami Safer are ’spending the fall semester in Washington, D .C. - finally

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able to spend time together again.

Good luck. Class o f ’92. Can you believe Bge’re juniors?

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Ms. R enee M onteW efW , 10 Lookout P oin t T rail, Totow a N ¡ (1)175,12 M r. B rian W echt 51 Glen Court, l^ompton L akes N J 074142 Class Agent: Ms. Lisa Gittlem an 3 4 W inderm ere Rd„ Upper M ontclair N J 07043 Hi, everyone.

Congratulations to Barry Lieberman, who was elected president o f the sophomore class at Lehigh University! He is in Lehigh’s school o f business and pledged Chi Phi. Midshipman Vincent O ’Hara was named to the Commandant’s list for academic excellence and military performance at the U.S. Naval Academy. He plays lacrosse for Navy.

Jeremy Kahn is doing well at Duke and has qualified first for fencing in North Carolina for the National Championships this summer.

Congratulati|||s, Jeremy!

Stephanie O ’Brien is on the varsity swiM|j§i team and is working hard at Hobart William Smith.

Lisa Gittleman is the editor o f the Vassar D aily and was named a student fellow (like an R.A.) for her dorm. She was a dorm rep. for the admissions hosting committee last year.

Kristina Thomas says ‘hi’ to everyone and lets you know she is transferring from Hamilton to Vassar.

Themis lots o f news from Atlanta. Lauren Hyman loves Emory and is a sister o f Delta Phi Epsilon. Amy Feinsilver, also at Emory, pledged Alpha Epsilon Phi. Eric Kusseluk is in the pre-med program at Cornell and is playing on. the varsity soccer team.

Rupali Gandhi is having an awesome time at Stanford in sunny California, where she literally lives in T-shirts and shorts, even in February.

She is involved in student government and participated in a marathon Indian dance

Lost Your Yearbook?

The MKA Alumni Office has-iome extra yearbooks in inventory, available for $5 postage and handling charge.

Please call firS to See if extras are available for your year (201/746-9800).

The archives have at least one copy of every yearbook published except 1902.

W e need an, extra copy o f the following: K im berleavesW ofsl, ! 954, 1955, 1963.

Planned Giving A Gift by Bequest: A Legacy o f Education

Throughout its history, The Montclair Kimberley Academy has flourished through the care o! alumni, parents and friends who have created and sustained a tradition o f generous giving. While many have given in their lifetime, others have chosen to include MKA in their wills.

Ja m ie B edrin 9 4 an d Em ily Ehrenburg 9 4 a t Commencement.

Ja m ie is the fir s t student m em ber o f the A lum ni Coumm. Em ily is the daughter o f P eter E hrenberg ’6 5

The Unplanned Lesson I f you ever wondered about MKA students’ social consciousness, ponder this: Eighth grader Dan Strader was looking at the graduation photo o f the Class o f ’93 in the hall. Examining it in detail, he astutely noticed that several members were wearing ribbons.

“Look,” he said, “they’re wearing A IDS ribbons.”

A faculty member happened to overhear the comment and said no, they’re Cum Lau de ribbons.

“W hat’s a Cum L a u d ^ ^ g That evolved into a^mversation about graduating with honors and leadership and participation....

performance. This summer she had an internship at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Stephen Pietrucha reports having a good time at Bucknell. Dan Lieb says hiljuggling is going well.

Solomon Steplightj|Sdoing fine. He had a great season on U. Penn’s J.V . football team, undefeated 10-0. Congratulations Sol! He is working hard to become an engineer.

Sue Jean Kim is enjoying Williams. She lives on the floor below Brian W echt and sees him every day. Brian loves Williams. He is a co­ organizer o f the College Bowl and is actively involved in six musical ensembles, including a jazz band and an orchestra. He is playing piano for a rock band and will be a T.A. . (teaching a®istant) for math and physics classes.

Renee Monteyne loves Boston College. She volunteered in the Admissions office and was a day-visit host for prospective freshmen. This year she will be a Freshman Assistant which means she will be helping a lot o f freshmen adjust,to college life!

Love ya. Bye! B rian an d Renee

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Ms. M onica Fern an d 16 0 Cheyenne Way W ayne N J 074m l Ms. Rosemary M onteyne 10 Lookout P oin t T rail Totow a Borough N J 0 7512 Class agent: M r. Joh n S a ro ff 6 7 Eagle Rock Way M ontclair N J 0 7042 Welcome, Class o f ’94, to your own alumni column!

First news: the archives contain a copy <Hthe ’93-94 video yearbook by Jo n Accarrino and Bernie Maas. Look forward to it at your fifth reunion!

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A gift by bequest to MKA will help en »re a tradition o f excellffice for generations o f students to come.

Your bequest may take a variety o f forms, including: • A gift o f cash, securiti|| or real property • A specified percentage o f your ¿¡¡¡estate • A contingency bequest, naming MKA in your will if other beneficiaries are no longer living You may wish to consult your attorney to decide which vehicle best suits your needs. Please feel free to put your attorney in touch with the school.

W e can help you or your attorney with specific wording.

For more information, or to notify MKA thlgyou have included the school in your will, please call or write: Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs, The Montclair Kimberley Academy, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 (201/746-9800) T he M ontclair Kimberley Academy has established a Pooled Income Fund. Please call for details.

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE—Mowsben of Student» Agaiast Drwak Driving awd the McMsm Netor Mewion f in d (mm Mowlctalr KJmberte, Academy Jotaed patke omclal» lor a special ceremoa) Tjte«U> mamm SADD leader» presented tbe Moalclair Potkr Department with ■ video camera to be wed ta record arre»U druaken drivers. Tbe tape» could aid provec.ttoa. Fram left are Jared aad U area La.tbadar. Martin Nete p m Idem af tbe Memorial Faad. MeU.ro A.riemm^ Poller Chief Thoma. Ru»»o. Ll. Fraak \ ................

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Patricia Lamborn Coward and K. William Kolbe April 30, 1994;.: Leigh Royer and Frank Scheuer Jr. October S i 993 Diana Rowe and Bruce Campbell April 16, 1994 Dale Frederick and Edwin Horne M af!2 8 ,1 9 9 4 Michele Saucy and Brad Mitchell March 27, 1993 Pamela Lalli and Steven Richmond R u n e 1994 Warren Busch and Amy Adler January 1994 Carmen Fleetwood and Gordon Paul 1993 Christopher Morano and Lydie Levasseur March 12, 1994 Bryn Fleming and T im Mulligan December 3, 1993 Darrin O ’Neill and Marie M cEntee September 25, 1993 Adrienne Amirata and Carlo Porccuro June 25, | p i Valerie Cordover and Robert Katz November 13, 1993 Edith Szakacs and Darrin Prescott May 22, 1993 Lynne Yellin and Robert Sutton September 12, 1993

Keep Us On The Grapevine 4 ^ ^ Please send news, photos, and/or address changes to the Alumni O I|fce, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, N J 0 7 0 4 JS I f you know a classmate who is not receiving alumni information, plcas.fi let us know.

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C hester® Martine Helen Dickson Ware William L. Chapman Jr. Louis Van Nalts ' Oliver Ellsworth W ood Carolyn Wrensch Dudley Robert G. Hildebrand Barbara Smillie Curtis Joan Krebs Nuehoff

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Faculty a n d Form er Faculty Seamans Suggs

March 1994

D IST IN G U IS H E D A LU M N I AWARD T o all alumni, parents., trustees, faculty, staff and friends o f The Montclair Kimberley Academy: 7 The Distinguished Alumni Award Committee is hereby accepting nominations for the recipient o f the 1995 Distinguished Alumni Award.

The 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.

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

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

1995 D IST IN G U IS H E D ALU M N I AW ARD N O M IN A TIO N FO R M Information on Nominee: NAM E__________________

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

Detach and mail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy, Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, N J 07042

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