Spring 1997 MKA Review Magazine

CONTENTS From the Headmaster ...................................1 Math at M K A .....................................................2 Notes Around M K A ........................................7 G a th e rin g ...................................................... .l o Cougar S p o r t s ................................................12 Athletic Hall « F a m e ...................................13 From the Alumni A ssociatidB ................... 14 Class N o t » , .................................................. 17

R ichard Kim m ’4 8, B arbara Kim m , a n d Trustees Joh n an d L in da G arippa a t the H eadm aster’s Reception this w inter in N aples, Florida.

Few yearbook dedications produced at Kimberley, Montclair Academy or The Montclair Kimberley Academy strike as sincere and humanitarian a chord as the 1948 Octopus. The MA seniors that year witnesses to the Se§f>nd World War, the Holocaust, and the advent of the Atomic Age - saw fit to dedicate their yearbook to the ideal cotworld peace and the cause of World Fed^lalism.

Richard Kimm ’48 was the editor of the-„i^lgejs that year wid for him the dedication answers the question, “What was it like to go to high school during the Sectfid W ffld War, and to share your high school years with post-grad students who hadPerved in the war?” The dedicatioiwallows Dick to explain the importance and value he places on the education he received at Montclair Academy.

“Without Montclair Academy and Yale I could not have gone on to accomplish what I have in life,” he says.

Dick has strong feelings about his four years at MA. To this day he is grateful for Edwin Van Brunt, Claude Monson, William Miller, William Avery Barras, Frank Harmon,; and other members of the faculty from that era. Their teaching was exceptional and from them Dick learned the meaning of struggle, the importance of Common senSff, the imperative of virtue i^daily life, the value of assertiveness, and the necessity of selfdiscipline.

Dick decided to give back by making a bequest to MKA in his will. “What our alma mater brings to us in

our youth depends a great deal o||what alumni and other supporters bring to the school. If we, as alumni, expect future graduates to be as successful as we, then we are obliged to invest in the educational process.”

MKA is extremely grateful to Dick and Barbara Kimm for their bequest. We have not only the Kimms to thank, but also the faculty and every student who ever stated an idea or expressed respect and thereby shaped the Educational experience at Montclair Academy in the 1940s.

Planned Giving is essentiajglo the growth of MKA’s endowment. There are many planned giving vehicles available to alumni, past parents, and other friends who are interested in helping secure the future o f MKA - a bequest is, of course, the most straightfoward and one for which all educational institutions are profoundly appreciative. Other planned giving options include gifts of appreciated securities to The Heritage Society and charitable remainder trusts. Some planned giving options present compelling tax advantages, particularly if one is looking to protect assets for one’s heirs while simultaneously benefiting an institution one wishes to help.

For more information concerning a planned gift to MKA, please call the External Affairs Office at 201-7469800, or write to External Affairs at MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042.

From the Headmaster

who have maintained their long-distance friendship with each other and with MKA. They were at Homecoming to honor their classmate Doris Keller Hamlin, this year’s Distinguished Alumni awardee.

Dear Members of the MKA Community, In Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot, Calaf, the unknown Prince, must solve three, .enigmas. One of the correct three responses is hope - “a glowing phantom that is reborn each night.”

Since then, we have noticed that alumni have been infused with a new energy. More alumni are contributing to annual giving and large numbers are increasing their giving.

I know about hope. Almost every day, I notice strong reasons for hope that our MKA will continue its steady P im b to the highest rank of the nation’s Independent Schools.

More alumni are volunteering to raise funds forrsfeh special projects,gs the restoration ibf the Upper School swimming pool. More alumni are requesting to host our regional alumni receptions.

My hope springs from the excellent teaching and curriculum planning I see daily, such as the brilliant 7th grade production and classroom integration of Macbeth. Hope springs from the record of student early admissions to top-ranked colleges and their achievements in academics and athletics at MKA and in college. Hope springs from the attention we are receiving for MKA’s Pre-K to 12 integration of ethics ■ and character program from such education experts as those from The Edison Project, Thomas Lickona, and colleagues at New York City’s Dalton School.

I urge eadtMof you to make The Montclair Kimberley Academy a primary source of giving. We must ) * upgrade our fine and performing arts facilities, we must build amew gymnasium, and we must restore the pool for our students. Most of all, we must expand our financial aid endowment and build a faculty endowment that will provide funds for faculty compensation - to.enable us to recruit and retain the finest professionals for our MKA students.

Hope soars almost daily as I noticelgur MKA parents taking on responsibilities so willingly. Their la rg m j projects and small touches make a difference in the lives of the faculty, staff, and administration. I sense loyalty.

The good news in this issue should add‘to or rekindle your feelings of attachment to your MKA. As the Beach Boys fell us, “Be True t|§ Your School.”

With gratitude, Dr. Peter R. G reer Headm aster

Hope has soared since the time I sat at a Homecoming table with the able women of the Class of 1936. These charming, lifetime achievers are Kimberley graduates

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Bridges: Kindergartners try to discover w hich structure holds the m ost weight. H ow m any blocks can be ad d ed before the bridges collapse? They also drew differen t kinds o f bridges in a rt class.

M ath at M K A Students at The Montclair Kimberley Academy are excelling in math - in their understanding, interest, and achievement. Here the three R n p u s math department chairmen explain the cohesive program, kindergarten througSgtwelfth gradl§ Students are accommodated at eachipvel with the individual in m in® ® B eginning a t B rookside Trudi Rodin Mathematics education has evolved continucSisly during this century. From 1900-1930, “drill, drill, drill” was the method. From 1930-1950, something called “meaningful m athem atSH w as the key to a good ^lass.

Thereafter, until the early 197&s|||eachers practiced K iew math” where the pace walfset by those who caught on quickly, paving many back in their dust, which has been blamed, for Americas students falling behind those o fS th er countries. The 1980s followed with ^ “back to basics” movement. In 198jf| however, with the publishing o f The Curriculurf|md: Evaluation iftandards for School Mathematics, a new era began.

This has bedSi popularly,called “The Standards E r a .® Thef g indards reflected changes in life such as the advent of technology. Rote memorization as a primary learning tool became less « a/focus, and new skills such as logical reæoning, became imperative.

In the past, children were often passive learners while the teacher expounded information children were supposed to “absorb,” if they listened. Today’s mathematics teachers tend to serve more as facilitators.

Mathematics is viewed as more useful and understandable when it is properly related to other subjects and everyday living situations. Reasoning skills develop when students have opportunities to explore and when they are expected to demonstrate their ability to apply concepts. One goal is for the students to see the relevance and usefulness of mathematics.

The previous goal of mathematics was to arrive at a given solution. Today’s goal should also emhasize the method of achieving the solution.

Students learn best when they are involved with concrete materials, such as manipulatives. Once they have an understanding of a given concept, the transition to symbolic representations and eventually to the abstract understanding of concepts is easier. As a result, paper and pencil operations, once a mainstay of instruction, are balanced with other mathematical strands and instructional approaches.

Our Everyday Mathematics curriculum is so rich and rigorous that it became necessary to double the time allotted for mathematics in the primary grades. Each

We use software at each grade level to reinfolge concepts being introduced. If the studentflare learning about patterns,. “Millie’s Math House” and “Thinking Things” reinforce that concept. »K id Pix” also has many supportive activities, and map skills are feinforced through a new program, “Neighborhood Map Machine.” Each classroom can graph data using “Graph Club.”

The curriculum moves fast; the students are completely involved. It’s hard to believe a first grader could focus and concentrate on one subject for a who&§S.our but they can and do.

M ath in th e M iddle H elen Faulkner

Kindergarten students explore attributes (color, size, shape an d thickness) w ith B rooksidefacu lty m em ber Trudi Rodin.

The Middle School has-a dual responsibility in m athem atic^ We build on what the students learned at Brookside and send them to the Upper School prepared for their high school mathematics. We work hard on communication among the three campuses.

The three heads of department meet regularly and we have full tricampus department meetings two or three ffimes a year. Our cohesive program, kindergarten through twelfth grade, is always under discussion.

day begins with a Math Message. As students enter the classsroom they solve the problem and write it in their math notebook. Often it is used as the “kickoff’ for the lesson of the day. In the first grade, for example, temperature is recorded each morning and then again in the afternoon, after which the difference is determined and graphed. (First graders do a lot of data collecting and graphing. They love to measure things.) Third graders do a similar project with the length of the day.

In fourth through fifth grade, we continue with the Everyday Mathematics curriculum. This is a very rich program,with the emphasis on understanding of mathematical processes. In addition, enrichment folders are offered to any child in need of additional challenges. At the end of fifth grade, we select a group of students to accelerate further. The decision is a co­ operative one between teacher, student, and parent.

The most important gauge is teacher recommendation; we also look at test scores, both internal and external, and work ethic. All of our students are capable and areglready on a “fast tr a c k .®

Students are asked “How did you solve that problem, What did you do? Did anyone solve it a different way?”

Students work in groups and sometimes alone. Every other week they “do” explorations - lab-style math activities which often provide segues to the next topic.

Science and technology are interwoven.

Students’ retention of learned concepts is noted.

Rather than spend a month on fractions every year, fractions are used frequently whenever they can be included. When the concept of decimals is introduced in the third grade, the lesson includes fractions and percents. Wherever connections can be presented, they are!

Sixth grade groups begin the University of Chicago’s well-researched texts. These books are very userfriendly. We require students to read ahead before class and come prepared to answer the first set of questions which cover the reading. We work together on some of the applied questions; homework is set from the remaining questions and worksheets provided by the publishers. Projects are assigned at regular intervals, and we encourage parental involvement. We are aiming to give students practice communicating mathematical ideas in straightforward terms. We believe we are educating a group of students Who will be interpreters of mathematics to others who;?/ understand less; than they do. The texts encourage the development of independent learners.

When the students are doing math in science, along with learning how spreadsheets are made, they use the computer’s calculator to determine averages. Last year during the drought, third graders collected data for a week, brought it to school and in cooperative groups solved problems. With the teacher’s help, the results were graphed. They used a computer program called “Cruncher” and made spreadsheets, using calculators to do the actual mathematics activities. Although they did not learn the traditional algorithm for multiplication until later in the year, they showed an understanding of the concept of multiplication and loved working on the problems.

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U p p er S ch ool M ath Ju d y firen t From a Class of 1996 graduate, a freshman at Harvard: I just w anted to send my personal thanks to you a nd the FTS course fo r allowing m e to pass my Quantitative Reasoning R equirem ent (QRR) test here at Harvard. I had no idea what it was about, but [another ‘9 6 MKA graduate] a n d I were two o f the few freshm en to score very high on the test. It dealt with topics like standard deviation, variance, a n d probability, all taught in FST. So, the next time som eone asks why they have to take FST, tell them that it will save them a y ea r o f statistics classes at Harvard!

[FST refers to the course called Precalculus l|l] It uses a University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) textbook called Functions, Statistics, and Trigonometry]

M idle Wsh ooi m ath teacher H elen Faulkner helps students m ake a m nriecticm betw een a physicalpattern an d its algebraic expression.

The <®urses|Sffered at the Middle School are transition math|gnatil|, algebra, geometry, and advanced algebra.

Teachers of sixth through eighth grades meet weekly.

Research shows that the most impact .cm students’ success is lerived from detailed discussion of what .goes on in the teaching and development of concepts.

F » m sixth grade on there are othem>pportunities: w e . have mini-courses twice a week. Math Lab offers extra help, and Math Bowl, a chance for the most talented to try more challenging math experiences, ranging from origami to difficult math contest questions.

TfChm lqgy has been an integral part of the math program for some time. Appropriate software is used w h a it fits the curriculum, and calculators are used throughout the Middle School, from simple fourfunction calculators through scientific to sophisticated graphing calculators.

Communication is paramount for success. As well as among faculty, we value all opportunities to communicate, with parents. We never lose sight of the fact that we have a very talented body of students who aré wpll motivated. It is always a joy to s.ee them reveling in their abilities and recognizing the talents of their peers.

While it is always satisfying to hear that we are doing something right, we of the MKA Upper School math department ¡gelieve our program to be tbe best available at the high school level. We offer a rigorous progression of courses from Algebra I through Advanced Placement B/C Calculus. In addition, we offer electives, such as Probability and Statistics and Discrete Mathematics, that are on the cutting edge of modern mathematics. Students are encouraged to take the most- Challenging course in which they can be successful. Most (95 percent) of our students take four years of math, and several (8 percent) take more by doubling up during their senior year.

The UCSMP textbooks are used by all students through the second course in algebra. Texts are adapted by the faculty and are often supplemented by material |iom other sources. Data analysis - the ability to read and||nterpret numbers and facts - is stressed. Data is drawn from topical sources such as newspapers and periodicals. The uselgf the calculator enables the student to work with actual “real life situation” lu m b ers, glor example, students in Algebra II develop conjectures about a car’s speed and the distance needed to stop when the brakes are applied. They can graph what happens to the water pressure exerted on a diver as he descends below the surface. Students in Precalculus I and Precalculus II work with problems involving thlgorbit of the space shutde.

Upper level courses, those in precalculus and calculus, use texts that integrate technology - in the form of graphing calculators and computers - with the study of applied mathematics.

Interdisciplinary m ath: Ju n ior physics students measure the speed o f a p rojectile an d com pare their estim ate w ith that o f a Computer.

All courses incorporate the standards set by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Results of these standards are found in the recent changes in the SAT I and SAT II tests, with renewed emphasis on both problem solving and reasoning.

M ath Facu lty The extraordinarily high calibre and dedication of MKA’s faculty is one reason MKA students excell in math. Among those teaching our students are:

There is, no apparent “gender gap” when it comes to taking higher level math courses. During each of the past two years, 24 seniors have taken Advanced Placement Calculus - 13 females and 11 males each year. Our womemare dedicated math students who aspire to careers in engineering, pharmacy, medicine, ' and mathematics.

• P resid en tial A w ard fo r E xcellen ce in M athem atics T each in g (Charlaine Charlton) • Tw o W oodrow W ilson Fellow s (Charlaine Charlton, Boyd Herforth) • R utgers Lead ersh ip P ro g ram in D iscrete M athem atics (Judy Nesbit)

Some of the most creative and “hands-on” activities may be found in the two one-semester electives that are offered each year. Students in the Probability and Statistics course conduct a survey during student registration day in September. Each MKA student is asked to pick a number from one to four. Working in groups, students in the Prob/Stat class then analyze the results of the number selection and graphically depict their analysis in a variety of ways.

The one-semester elective Topics in Discrete Math asks the student to divide the area that is the state of Wyoming between several neighboring states. The students use their newly learned knowledge of methods of fair division to “solve” this problem.

• New Je rs e y N on-Public S ch ool T each er o f th e Y e a r fo r 1 9 9 6 (Judy Nesbit) • M aine State A w ardee P resid en tial Aw ard fo r E xcellen ce in M athem atics T each in g 1991 an d 1 9 9 2 (Modine Piccolino) • F irst Fou n d ers’ Cup recip ien t (Helen Faulkner) • M aster T each er, W oodrow W ilson Fou n d ation A lgebra 3 T ravelin g Team , 1 9 9 0 ,1 9 9 1 (Charlaine Charlton) • M athem atics textb o o k w rite r (Helen Faulkner)

Geometry classesRse the concepts of reflection and rotation to create beautiful tessellations - both by hand and on the computer. The body of work by the artist and mathematician M.C. Escher is studied as students produce their own unique pieces of art.

• D ean and m ath te a ch e r, New Je rs e y SEEDS P ro g ram (Anita Rossi) • F o rm e r A ssociate P ro fesso r o f M ath a t St. P etersb u rg U n iversity (Elena Rakova)

Classroom teaching is enhanced with our state-of-theart technology. Last spring Char Charlton’s calculus class “met” with Dean Dennis Berkey of Boston OJniversity via the Distance Learning Room. Dean Berkey demonstrated the proof of a concept the class had learned earlier, and talked with the students about

Many faculty members serve as consultants in math curriculum to other schools, or are presenters at lo g l, g a te, or national math conferences! -

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presented by the College Board, dealt with the changes in the AP Calculus AB and BC courses. It was an inter­ active session in which faculty had theSpportunity to ask questions abou|fcourse content and teaching approaches.

During Math Awareness W eek in April 1-996, the entire student body took part in a project to construct everenlarging Sierpinsky Tetrahedrons. Members of the discrete math class learned the “how to’s” and in turn taught the other students how to make the tetrahedrons. We all watched as the tetrahedron grew.

Perhaps the most interesting comment to arise from this project was the one from a tent 11 grade student “teac&f®’ who, after teaching a class how to cut, fold, ■ and tape the tetrahedron, told a member of the math fau lty, “Teaching is hard!”

D uring M ath Awareness Week, the entire Upper School student body constructed ever-enlarging Sierpinsky Tetrahedrons. D iscrete M ath students learned “how ” an d in turn taught other students how to m ake the tetahedrons.

This is just a sample of the exciting activities that occur Jia the Math Wing||s MKA students learn about the beautyBnd challenges of mathematics. We invite you to visit us to find out more about what we are learning and how w e are learning it.

what to expelS in a college calculus class. In November, Mrs. Charlton and Boyd Herforth - who teaches Advanced Placement Calculus - “attended” a National Tele-Workshop in that room. The workshop,

The M athem atical Progression The curriculum spirals; a student is continually presented with previously learned material and directed to the next step. Students are active, involved learners, using and discovering with mathematical tools and strategies to make their educational experience purposeful. The role of the teacher changes from one of solely dispensing knowledge to one where he or she is also resSnsible for directing and validating students’ learning.

The typicMgdvanced student at MKA will take this math sequence: Grade * Algebra I Grade 8 - Geometry Grade|f) - Algebra II Grade 10 - Advanced Precalculus Grad<mlt - Advanced Precalcuh§8 II Srad e 12 - BC Advanced Placemen} Calculus The mean for the Calculus AB Advanced Placement Test was 4.3H p 5) for th e lB s s of 1996.

Skills and mental math are practiced daily either orallyfetf" through group activity or games.

Assessment is accomplished through written and performance tasks.

The mean on Math Level II was 652.;.(of possible.

800).

The MKA Curriculum

Technology has been an integral part of the math program for some tim B Appropriate software is used when it fits the curriculum, and calculators’are used from the Middle School on, from simple fourfunction calculators through scientific' to sophisticated graphing calculators.

MKA’s math curriculum is a continuum from kindergarten thrdugh grade 12. It is so rigorous and unique that even veteran teachers receive extensive training before taking on the program.

The curriculum is Rased on the University of Chicago S c h S l Mathematics Projjm (UCSMP) texts and the Everyday Mwiematics proglam. These are also known MslACl^S g o math.” Texts are adapted . by faculty and are often suplemented by material from other sources. The texts are rich in ^pjllbltions to other academic fields; as well as to B e n g a l world.”JR t| a analysis - the ability to read and interpret numbers and facts - is stre s^ S H

“Chicago math” is considered a tme “reform” curriculum because it is one of the first pieces of curriculum which is consistent with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics'standards in itssumptions, goals, and methodology. MKA’s adaptation has proven to be a measurab]|| success.

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Notes Around M K A The Headmaster is very proud to announce...

At the 1996-97 opening faculty meeting, John Garippa, President of the Board o f Trustees, and Headmaster Peter Greer thanked Vivi Greenspan for 25 years of loyalty and devotion to MKA.

N ational M erit Fin alists JotSph Felice Elizabeth Lieb Abigail Love N ational M erit C om m endations Amanda Dickey David 'Gurtman Jeffrey Gurtman Justin Sarma Ellen Stern Jeremy Traster Edw ard J . B lou stein D istinguished S ch olars P ro g ram Amanda Dickey Lauren Ferstandig Jennifer Fink Gene Gurkoff David Gurtman Abigail Love Jeffrey Luk Emily O ’DeliJy Ellen Stern

Vivi Greenspan Christie Austin, Kathy Bahri, Donna Blanes, Helen Faulkner, and Carol Ippisch were honored for 10 years of dedication.; ,-.

T each er o f th e Y e a r Ju d y N eshit

R ob ert C. B yrd H on ors S ch olarsh ip s Jessica Bruder ‘96 Lee Vartan ‘96

Congratulations to faculty member Judy Nesbit, who was named the 1996 New Jersey Non-Public School Teacher of the Year for her “dedication, competence, and service to children.”

She was honored at a luncheon ceremony in October by N.J. Commissioner of Education Dr. Leo Klagholz. ,

“Ja n e ” G ains The MKA 1996 student film “Jan e” has received not one but two outstanding awards. “Jan e” placed third in the. information and education category at the Columbus International Film and Video Festival, and received an overall Certificate of Honorable Mention.

“Jan e” also won an Award ©f Distinction from the Communicator Awards, “for projects that exceed industry standards in conveying an organization’s messagefplfl

Nesbit is a nominee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching. She has been instrumental in developing new math courses and incorporating social science topics into Discrete Mathematics. She appeared on a panel at Rutgers University last summer - “Teaching Mathematical Reasoning.”

“These are professional competitions,0says the director, faculty member J.C. Svec, “not just for schools. It is national recognition. We are playing with the big boys of advertising, production professionals, corporate and government communications agencies.”

Nesbit has taught at Kimberley and MKA for 27 years, and - in addition to math expertise - is known as the costume designer for the winter musicals and her attendance at afflCougar sporting events. She made many of the banners that hang so proudly irathe gym.

MKA’s 1994 production, “A World Gone Wrong,” a video dealing with social isSuelt received the prestigious Telly Award.

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C ongratulations Senior Abby Love has been selected as a candidate for the United Jitates Presidential M iolars Program.

Presidential Scholars “represent excellence i^H education andsfhe promise of greatness in AmericaByoung people.” Thejgaxe dtijM n on the basis cfgtheir exceptional scholarship, leadership, artisticdwcesi| and involvement in school and community. Up to 141 seniors are chosen annually Prom among 500 semifinalists.

Abby is a National Merit Finalist and has been a Faculty Scholar every year. In 1996 Abby received the Frank Brogan Memorial Scholarship for special interest and high proficiency in the art of written expressi|§L. Active in sports, she was named Field Hockey 1st Team Goalie All Colonial Hills Conference and is co-captain w the basketball and lacrosse teams this year.

Abby has been a mainstay of B e Free §j^Sfo.,for four years, and has spent summers with Amigos de las Americas. She did community health in Paraguay; ¡1st summer was a field supervisor in Mexico; and has been invited to be a senior staff member this summer, responsible for coordinating projects and 12 volunt<Srs. She is one of the youngest people ever selected for the work, attesting to her language and leadership skills.

Abby will attend Princeton University.

• An articlef|“Beyond Gender Barriers||describing MKA’s formation of a faculty/student women’s discussion group, was the feature story in the /February issue o f Faculty Forum, the newsletter of fHkAIS. Written by fa u lty members Charlaine Charlton and Amy Selinger, and seniors Nina Aron, Emily O ’Dell, and Ellen Stern, the article explored the need, origins, organization, and personal perspectives of the Women’s Issues Group.

W it is an honest endeavor to present how it all came together,” says Charltoh-, “with viewpoints from various ages and perspectives. It shows the group dynamics and impact.’« T h e forum o f faculty members and students read and discuss a range of issues, including life, stress, college, eating, selfimage, and self-confidence.

Charlton and Selinger gave an hour-long presentation and discussion about MKA’s women’s issues group at the NAIS annual conference in San Francisco in gSgebruary.

• Senior Blair Dore’s article, “A Season in the Booth” recounting his experience announcing MKA football games - was published in both Texas Coach magazine and the fall Independent School magazine’s “Focus on Athletics.” Blair advises, “The best way to fully involve the students in the joy and enthusiasm of the sport is t||have one of their own act as the ‘voice’ of the team.”

P aren ts K eep Learning

• The Middle States Association o f Colleges and ^Kchools has granted MKA 10-year certification, the highest rating.

• Faculty members Lorraine Pietrucha and Myra Hrab served on Middle Stateacommittees evaluating other schoolM a.flfall.

• Faculty members Tom Cooper, Scott poronis, Patricia Forbes, J.C. Svec;, and Stuart Ward were nominated byiformer students listed in Who’s Who Am ong A m erican High School Students or “The National ;®Beari§ List.”M • Faculty member James Powers was selected as a member of the United States Fencing Association Collegiate/High School Varsity Committec™&• Over 70 percent MKA’s firaulty participated in formal study programs last summer, in such areas as writing,0|ography, technologyM thicS and skillful «■cffisfoom teaching - including student and faculty ¡■pam ing styles.

Parents at MKA can take courses along with their children. Last fall 175 adults participated in the various offerings of the “Parents’ Technology College” including Microsoft Word 5 (both introductory and intermediate), the Internet, desktop publishing, spread sheet, data base, HyperStudio, and Microworlds (used

by Primary and Middle School students). The classes, taught by MKA faculty, were held in the late afternoon, evening, and Saturday mornings.

Dr. Peter Greer - by popfflar request - taught a second ethics course to, 70 parents this winter. The three-part series of lecture, discussion! and “homework” gives suggestions and material for teaching children ethics and character at home.

“The habits weform from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference. ” N icom achean Ethics, 2 .1

projectors - to a secondary school in Guinea. The process was then reversed, as African students wrote back in French and Upper School students translated them into English for the Middle School.

Some students at MKA - well-versed in high technology - wondered why they didn’t just e-mail the pen p a ls..

Well, not only do these students in Guinea not have computers, they don’t even have electricity or running water.

News analysts Laura Ingraham, Tabitha Soren, and Jonathan Alter lead the discussion of “A Political Retrospective of the 1996 Presidential Election” a[ 8 the PAMKA Lecture Series.

For MKA students, the fall PAMKA Lecture, “Farewell to the Politics o f the 20th Century: A Political Retrospective” culminated two months of studies about the election as a focus in political theory, history, and citizenship classes.

The evening of informed discussion featured MTV news reporter and anchor Tabitha Soren as moderator; Jonathan Alter, Senior Editor a B jSlewsweek magazine; and Laura Ingraham, chief political analyst for CBS and MSNBC. Three students from MKA - senior Ellen Stern, junior Michael Napolitano, and eighth grader Bryn McDonough - and two from Montclair High School contributed to the discussion.

L astfa l l Dr. G reer traveled to R io de Jan eiro, B razil, to consult on a possible academ ic partnership w ith a school there. H e is p ictu red here w ith B razilian students, who loved their M KA T-shirts.

O n th e R oad

This is the fourth year of the PAMKA Lecture Series of provocative topics and speakers. The evenings are free and open to the public.

When Upper School faculty member Boyd Herforth learned that Jane Bean-Folkes’ second graders were studying geography by taking an imaginary bicycle trip across the United States, he volunteered to visit the class. Herforth, an avid runner and cyclist, had biked to Minnesota in the summer of 1991 with his son Bruce, MKA Class o f ’91- »

The In tern atio n al, In terco n tin en tal, In terstate, In tercam p u s C on n ection

Armed with maps, photos, and biking safety information, Herforth - in full cycling regalia - rode his bike over to Brookside, talked about his trip, and made geography come to life for the class.

Bruce Herforth ‘91, a volunteer with the Peace Corps in French-speaking Guinea, Africa (and son of faculty member Boyd Herforth), connected students there to MKA through the pen pal project “World-Wise Schools.” However, the faculty at MKA have taken it a step further:

Eve Bither, Counselor for Mathematics and Science in the U.S. Department o i B Education, visited MKA to consult on the science curriculum. She visited Middle and Upper School classrooms, sat in on a department meeting, and offered feedback on MKA’s plans and technology as *. they relate to science-' ; standards and goals.

Seventh graders in Tom Cooper’s humanities class ^ wrote letters - in English - to pen pals in Guinea while doing a unit on Africa. The letters were sent to the Upper School, where Deb Jennings’ Advanced Placement French students translated them into French.

The letters were sent to Bruce, who delivered them along with miniature movies in little battery-operated

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M acbeth The entire seventh grade was in»hfe;d in an innovative production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, with dijt assistance and guidance of the \ew Jersey Performing Arts Center and the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival.

Professional Shakespearean actor Christian Ely directed the production, and provided interactive workshops and theater education to students and facility duringgan ^M t-w eek residency. Lessons included language, df^ron, costume design, and thyH historical signifimnce cmM acbeth. The H u m a n ilS and Performing Arts departments collaborated, teaching aspects of Elizabethan literature and history, design, publicity, and p u bffl reliio n s.

Students also discussed the moral dilemmas of the characters in the play.

Headmaster Peter Greer pronounced it “one of the best student productions I have seen in my 31-year career in education,” and Christian Ely, the director, said MKA had the best integration of theater and classroom he’d ever experienced.

order t® exercise her right to go to school,” said Middle School Head of Campus Dan Rocha. “In the story of that litde girl are lessons not only of courage, but also of responsibility, respectHustice, and perseverance.

Ruby Bridges demonstrated daily the principle deeply rooted in the American ideal that a determined individual can make a positive difference in this country.” ' Before the visit, students had viewed powerful original newsreels and studied the famous Norman Rockwell painting of a brave little girl, walking to school among federal marshals. During her four-day visit, our guest spoke to various fine and performing arts students about being in the Rockwell painting, to second graders on her feelings while escorted to school, and to faculty about the theme of diversity. She even discussed what makes people courageous in a teleconferenced ethics class between MKA Upper School students and Dr. John Silber, Chancellor of Boston University.

Ruby Bridges H all in an M KA class w ith the fam ou s N orm an R ockw ell p a in tin g ffh e r as a six-year-old child.

A S p ecial V isitor Linda Stark Taken from Moral Conversations

She patiendy signed hundreds of copies of her biography by Robert Cole, The Story o f Ruby Bridges, which was featured at PAMKA’s expanded Book Fair, run by Scholastic. Proceeds from the book will support the Ruby Bridges Educational Foundation, serving the same neighborhood and school she helped to shapePs a child.

The entire MKA community was enriched by a memorabje opportunity to meet Ruby Bridges Hall, a vital exemplar of the ethical qualities we cherish. As a solitary, innocent six-year-old, she desegregated the William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans in

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“Her courage aroused the conscience of a nation that daily-lkw her make her march through the crowds in

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MKA On-Line • h ttp ://w w w .m k a.in ter.n et MKA n ow has its ow n p age o n the W orld W ide W eb. Alumni, faculty, friends, parents, potential parents, and the m erely curious can n o w “tune in ” to MKA’s W ejy site to find inform ation on adm issions, alum ni, athletics, ca reer services, events, history, and mews.

Tu n e in to iearn the results o f the w e e k ’s athletic con tests o r to receiv e adm issions m aterial. Tu n e in to update the Alum ni O ffice w ith a ch an g e o f address or n ew s for the Review . T u n e in to v olu n teer to advise you n g alum ni through C areer Services, or to sp eak in a classroom through the B a n k o f Com m unity R esources.

T h e W eb site w as lau n ch ed in Jan u ary b y W ebm aster/faculty m em b er W illiam Stites in con ju n ctio n w ith the various departm ents involved. R esp on se h as b e e n im m ediate and enthusiasticggln the first m onth o f pperation, m ore than 500 p eo p le ch e ck e d in from around the w orld, including th è I l s M France, Ja p a n , and the U.K. N um ber o n e area o f interest: MKA’s B lu e R ibbon Sch o o l designation.

In February, B ell Atlantic identified MKA’s site as a “b est o f the n et” site w ithin its Internet A ccess Service.

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Dr. G reer m ade a surprise appearance in the student-faculty dance perform ance. H e is shown here w ith facu lty m em ber!choreographer Sharon M iller.

Joh n G arippa, President o f the B oard o f Trustees, presents a g ift to adm inistrative assistant Fran Ferlauto, who has w orked w ith six M iddle School campus heads an d been a frien d to thousands o f students in her many years a t MKA.

B faokside students are in aw e o f sports trophies.

In September, MKA held its fourth annual Gathering of all students, faculty, and staff from the three campuses.

It was the;.occasion to celebrate achievem ent, to watch outstanding talent, to learn from the wisdpm of special speakers, to watch more athletic banners unfurled, and just to enjoy being with friends from other campuses; .

A lum ni speaker Frances Johnson Ames ’40, her daughter Betsy Ames A bram ow itz ’78, a n d grandson stand before the p ortrait o f the Academ y’s fou n d er a n d fir s t H eadm aster, Joh n M acVicar. H er late husband, M arston Ames ’3 4 , was M acV icar’s nephew.

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Cougar Awards and H onors

Joh n G arippa, President o f the B oJprjJ^ T rw iieJtcu is the ■ ribbon to th e new Upper School W eight Room. M em bers the A thletfc D epartm ent H EM f on: A thletic D irector SdJmmLonsinger, assistanm Patty Sullivan an d Ja n Pefim on.

1 9 9 6 Cham pionship banners were unfurled a t G athering TV. The Ice H ockey Team won the N ew Jersey Interscholastic Ice H ockey League A w ard fo r Sportsmanship, so voted by the coaches.

CHC= Colonial Hills Conference- (Colonial Division) EGCA= Essex fc u n ty Coaches Association NJIS = Newgjbrsey Independent Schools F o o tb all 4-5 Brett Colaiár©t|S|É7 Matthew-Buccieip ’ʧ Joshua Daniels ||8 Laquan Majette V8 Leon Shade ’S H Peter TibJK|j|jp Mike Latzoni ’99 Field H ock ey 2-14-1 Lesley Berry ’97 Abigail Lov||f97 Yasmin Mahal E lleilstem ’97 Bridget Lov||MjM Alexa Aron ’00 Kate W olf ’'-ft&i

Tri-Captain, MVP, 1st Team Offense CHC, 3rd Team Wide Receiver All-Essex County 2nd Team Quarterback, CHC Tri-giptain, W einer Award, 2nd Team Linebacker CHC 1st Team Running Back CHC, 2nd Team Halfback All-Essex County Coach’s Award, 1st Team Defense CHC Tri-Captain 2nd Team Linebacker CHC, MVP Thanksgiving Day Game Co-Captain MVP, 1st Team Goalie All-CHC ¡ j j spkptain, Coach’s Award h o n o ra b le Mention All-CHC HonorabMMention All-CHC JV CoachliAward JV MVP

G irls’ S o cce r 4-11-2 Nina Aron ’93¡¡| (||Sflaptain, 1st Team CHC B lla b e th Lieb i ^ H MVP Dana Tyson ’97 \ |Qo-Captain, Coach’s Award, Honorable Mention CHC Monies Ann Manginello ’98 2nd Team CHC Emily Berman ’99 H on orab g Mention CHC Danielle Greer ’00 Honorable Mention CHC B oys’ S o cce r 14-5 Alfredo Bequillard ’9 1 Jaym e Califanb||7 Gregory Decter ’9 Steven’iRaab ’97 Jonathan Z w e ifle a ^ ^ David Fox ’d l B |Hgpffrey | s h m gp fe LeRoy Watkins « 1 3 Duncan Currie ’00 Jam es Parke ’¡¡¡¡111

ECCA Honorable Mention All-County ECCA Honorable Mention All-County Tri-Captain, Co-MVP, ECCA la jT e a m All-County, 1st Team CHC Tri-Captain, ECCA 1st Team All-County, 1st Team CHC ECCA 3rd Team All-County, Honorable Mention CHC ECCA 3rd Team All-County, Honorable Mention CHC ECCA 3rd Team All«£$anty, 2nd Team CHC ECCA 3rd Team All-County, Honorable Mention CHC ECCA Honorable Mention All-County ECCAMonorable Mention All-County

G irls’ T enn is 19-6 Colonial Division of the CHC Champions Emily O ’Dell ’97 Pamela Saxenagl?

Brooke TraviSf’SfBB Jessica Ge’rstein .’W T;: Michelle Kawecki ’99 Alexandra S!ouM99 Kristen Pugn®|| 001

Co-Captain, ljfflTeam 2nd Singles CHC 1st Team 1st Doubles CHC, Star-Ledger 3rd Team All-Parochial ||i|Captain, Coach’s Award, 1st Team 3rd Singles CHC Star-Ledger 2nd Team All-Parochial 1st Team 1st Doublgl CHC, Star-Ledger 3rd Team All-Parochial Thurston Woodford Fuller Award (MVP), 2nd Team 1st Singles CHC |Bt Team 2nd Doubles CHC, Star-Ledger 2nd Team All-Parochial 1st Team 2nd DoublefeCHC, Star-Ledger 2nd Team All-Parochial

C ross C ou n try 3-8 Jamillah K asuleSl? Philip Mazo ’§¡f|<¡ Elyse Levy

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Athletic Hall o f Fam e II K im berly C h arlton ’90 Fen cin g

The Montclair Kimberley Academy will proudly induct four people into the Athletic Hall of Fame oh M a * 0 .

These individuals have brought “distinction, honor, and excellence” to Montclair Academy, The Kimberley School, Brookside School, and MKA through athletics.

Some of them excelled in school, some in college or later in life, but they all achieved remarkable distinction in their chosen sport, and their lives reflect positively on MKA.

One of the stars qlM KA’s long fencing tradition, Kim achieved special distinction when, in college, she instigated a successful classaction lawsuit against Cornell University which resulted in funding of the women’s fencing team. She stayed on for a year after graduation as a women’s fencing coach.

R ob ert J . C erfolio ’8 0 B aseball Rob epitomizes the term scholar-athlete. At MKA graduation, he received the Deetjen Award and was named a 1980 All-American High School Athlete, in recognition of receiving AllState honors in footbal^B hockey, and baseball, and holding five captainships.

At MKA, Kim was on the varsity fencing, lacrosse, and tennis teams for three years. With a varsity record of 119-19, Kim helped the fencing team to State and District Championships all four years. The 1990 team, with Kim as captain, had an undefeated season and won the Santelli Tournament. She was named MVP, 2nd Team All-State, and received the Deetjen Award.

(She had also been named lacrosse MVP and twice received the Klein Award.)

Kim fenced on the Cornell varsity team all four years, and was captain her junior and senior years. The team won the National Intercollegiate Women’s Fencing Association Championships (1991 and 1992)® he won the individual championship in 1994. Her 70 wins her junior year were the most ever by an Ivy woman fencer. Kim was named 2nd Team All-Ivy, and All-Ivy Academic in 1993 a n il 1994. Cornell gave .¡her an award for sportsmanship and leadership in 1994.

Rob continued athletics at the University of Rochester, where he was co-captain of the baseball team for two years and was awarded the Team Award for Greatest Contribution to Baseball. His senior year he was AllAmerican, batted .42® an d led the team in home runs, runs batted in, stolen bases, with no errors.

Academically outstanding as well, Rob graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a finalist in the Rhodes Scholar competition in 1984 and 1985. As a medical student, he was named to the: Jfirst Team Academic Allan American in Baseball in 1985- That same year he was a finalist for a N.C.A.A. postgraduate scholarship given to only three student athletes across the United States.

She works in the archives at Carnegie Hall and is a candidate for a master’s degree at New York University.

P hilip E . D onlin ’54 Footb all Phil Donlin has spent a lifetime with his sports, as he has been teaching and coaching football, wrestling, and lacrosse for 37 years. He was twice named Maryland Football Coach of the Year and was honored by the Maryland State Football Coaches Association for 30 years o f service. .

During his surgical residencies and fellowships, Dr. Rob played hockey, squash, and tennis; he was tennis champion at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota three years in a row. He often returned to play in MKA’s annual Alumni Hockey Game. Rob is now an assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.

At Montclair Academy Phil played football, basketball, and basebalHand was recognized in the yearbook as one of the outstanding athletes of the Class of 19iMM

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He played on the early ’5(?s championship basketball and bajpfeall teams, and in football was named All-State tackle in 1952 and 195$, 1

captain for two; and was elected to the New Jersey Interscholastic Football Team for two years, captain for one. He was twice the state All-Scholastic fullback.

He lettered in football for three years and in baseball for two at the University of p>uth Carolina, and was ’ giv'qn HonorablfgMention All-Statajfor"football. In 1958 he placid on the 3rd Army football team and in |§59 was named 1st Team tackle on the All-Hawaiian, All-||ervice Team,

Deetj was Field Day Champion in both 1911 and 1912, and set a school record in the broad jump. He received permanent possession of the Bausher Cup. He continued his athletic exploits at Wesleyan University, where he earned a letter in basketball, captained the track team, and'set a college record in the 220-yard dash. He was captain (and quarterback) of the football team in 1915 and was selected as an AllAmerican, He served in an American cavalry regiment in Wqrld War I.

The ultimate coach has been cho|jg|S several times to coach the Baltimore County All-Star Football Classic, and back in 1992 was lit snored l l r having won more than l j| games as a heaslgbach.

W aldem ar L. D eetjen ’12 A ll-A round A thlete »osthumou:||fl;‘d

“My father was truly an exceptional athlete,” writes his daughter, Shada Deetjen Overton ’44, “but he was an unassuming man. Important to him were family, loyalty, and an ability to instill in young people these values, especially sportsmanship....He taught them that one can be fiercely competitive but that good conduct in sports is as important as it is in any other circumstance in one’s life.”

A.scholar-athlete from the earliest days of Montclair AcadermS “Deetj” held captainships and set records.

He played football (fullback and kicker): ft >r three years, waM:aptain i i r two; playljd basketball for four years, was

From the Alumni Association F ro m th e P resid en t MKA was blessed with great weather and attendance at jÿ lSfecom ing in October. Reunion class participation was particularly strong.

Many thanks to our. Cougar alumni skaters who played a very tight Alumni Hockey Game in December. Our ninth annual Night With the Devils in January sold out and was supported by alumni, parents, students, and friends., We have had lively meetings reviewing excellent C and id a® for the Distinguished Alumni Award and anticipate the .same enthusiasm at the Founders’ Cup (faculty excellence) meetings.

D istinguished A lum ni a t H om ecom ing: Recipients o f the D istinguished A lum ni A w ard w ear their “M KA sweaters, ” w hich are given to special alum ni, students, faculty, parents an d Trustees who do sornething outstanding fo r the school. L eft to right: Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner 7 0 9 9 9 0 ) , D oris K eller H am lin ’3 6 (1996), H erbert H . Tate Jr. 7 1 (i90M m

In the bacfljp|f this issufeyou will find the Alumni Aæffilition Council ballot. Y<Éi will see the names o f a varietyfof p ^ p le who “givepacif” to MKA. Perhaps you will consider joiningl jas in the future.

Please join us for our alumni social on Saturday, May 10, at the beautiful Van Vleck House and Gardens in Montclair.

PeterS. McMullen ’77 President

MKA is committed to maintaining strong alumni |M tions, W e are fortunate to have Christie Austin as our Alumni Director and Peter Perretti 7 2 as the Assistant Director :| lf External Affairs.

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The Great Cougars. MKA alum ni skaters from a range o f classes led an exciting A lum ni Hockey Game almost to the end, w hen rival M ontclair H igh’s greater num bers prevailed, 7-6. Back: Jo e Ferrara ’9 m Chris Burchell ’9 2, Matt Fiore ’90, Mike Morris ’9 3 , Jo h n Towers ’84, Peter Benedict Front: Peter D eCandia 8 9 , Bryan Lonsinger ’9 0x, Peter Barrett ’9 4, David Austin 8 9 , Jo n Small Spencer 8 M Missing from photo: David Ames 8 9 .

On th e R oad W ith MKA In the last year, thanks to gracious local hosts, MKA held three outstanding alumni receptions at the New Jersey Shore and in Florida. John Garippa, President of the Board of Trustees, and Headmaster Peter Greer brought alumni up-to-date on MKA’s plans and successes.

David and Gail Tomec Kerr, both Class of ’52, hosted the Bay Head reception in August. In February, Tom and Betty Deyo Martin ’44 hosted alumni in Vero Beach, and Albert and Irene Burbank Frell ’31 hosted alumni in Naples.

P au l M cFeeley 7 6 , B ob H ubsm ith 7 7 , facu lty m em ber Ju dy N esbit, E d H ealey 7 7 (partially hidden), an d L au rie H oonhout M cFeeley 7 6 .

M ark a n d Sue Cole Furlong 7 8 (left) w ith C heryl D ’A lessandro M cM ullen 7 7 an d P eter M cM ullen f j i P eter is President o f th e M KA A lum ni Association.

Shore hosts D ave K err ’5 2 x an d G ail Tom ec K err ’5 2.

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H eadm aster P eter G reer chats w ith Jea n Winpenny M anley ’3 6 (left) an d B ette an d D ick C arrie ’4 1.

Alum ni R eceptions in Florida

Vero Beach host Betty Deyo M artin 4 4 chats w ith R ichard an d Pam ela N eill & llin s ’5 0.

H eadm aster P eter G reer w ith N aples hosts A lbert an d Irene B urbank F rell ’3 1.

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K im berley alum nae Betty Deyo M artin 4 4 , Jea n Ferris Anderson ‘3 3, Constance Sonerei G attle 4 4 , Louise R udd H annegan 4 7 .. -

Sarah W ebb Brown ’6 4 an d M ary A dele H alsey B ell ’3 1.

“D ell” B ell’s daughter E lean or B ell O’N eill was in Sarah’s class a t Kimberley.

P eter P erretti ’M MfAssistant D irector o f E xternal A ffairs, an d H . D uncan M cM illan 50.

“I c a n ’t tell y o u how m ea n in g fu l this recep tio n p ro v ed to b e a n d w hat a d eligh tfu l ex p e rie n c e it was, ” w rote N aples host Ire n e B u rb a n k Frell, “a n d m ost o f all, how p ro u d I w as to h ave a tten d ed su ch a f i n e school. W e w ere in d e e d p riv ileg ed a n d im pressed to m eet so m a n y f i n e p eo p le with MKA co n n ectio n s. ”

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Class Notes E d ito r s N o te W e use one “official” yearly mailing to obtain news, which appears in the FALL M KA Review.

SPRIN G magazine Class Notes are taken from reunion, holiday, and phonathon news, newspaper clippings, the flap on the Annual Giving remittance envelope, and rheV“Grapevine” on the inside back cover.

Although the items might seem “old,” we have found that 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. W e keep ongoing files for each class.

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

Please consider it.

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Dorothy Minsch Hudson now has nine great-grands: five boys and four girls, ages 6 months to 6 years. Dorothy still takes a trip once a year in addition to spending three summer months in Orleans, Mass., where her family come to visit.

Rave Reviews Kimberley alumna Virginia Hamilton Adair ’2 9 has become a celebrity poet with the publication of Ants on the Melon, A Collection of Poems [Random House, 1996],

on September 4. She was gracious during the segment and said that she writes even more now that she is blind, getting up : at 5 :3 0 to peck away at her old manual typewriter every day.

Virginia was the subject o f not one, but two, articles in the New York Times, including a glowing full-page piece in the New York Times Book Review, “Much Better than Never At 83, a distinctive 20th-century American poet publishes the first collection of her work.” Virginia began publishing in periodicals in the 1930s and ’40s, but Ants on the M elon is her first collection.

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Her classmate Charlotte Fitch ’2 9 sent an autographed copy of Ants on the M elon to the MKA Library Alumni Collection, with the note that Virginia “truly loved Kimberley and feels closer to it than M t. Holyoke, which she also thoroughly enjoyed.”

Indeed, there is a reference to the school in the biographical The response to the publication was notes in the book: “From her so great that by August it was in its seventh to her sixteenth year, V irgin ia H am ilton A d a ir ’2 9 fourth printing with almost 19,000 [Virginia] attended Kimberley, copies published. (“The figure is one o f the finest country day schools unusual for first books by poets, who are considered in the United States, where she had nine years of French fortunate if 1,000 copies are sold.”) The Times published a with teachers who spoke no English, five years of Latin, second article about the response in August, noting that plenty of history, mathematics, and laboratory science, as Virginia had been interviewed for a New Yorker profile and well as a great deal o f reading in Greek and Roman “greeted by Time magazine as ’something o f a miracle’.” literature - and o f course, in French, English, and American. At the age o f eleven she was writing weekly Virginia was also interviewed in her Claremont, themes in French and Latin. She had been writing poetry California, retirement home for the Jim Lehrer News Hour on her own since she was six. .1118! ® S

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Homecoming 1996 “C om paring notes m a de it apparent that despite the diversity in o u r lives, the com m on threads still p u ll it together.”

—K im berley a lu m n a

B renda M adison ’71 an d N anette Utech Thom as ’7 1 brought vintage K im berlely Kouriers to reunion.

Reunion chairm an H ow ard D odd ’4 1 w ith Siby an d Perry M inton ’4 lx , who cam e from C alifornia. N in e m em bers o f the sm all class cam e back fo r a 55th reunion, including three non­ grads who fin ish ed elsewhere. "I think it speaks w ell o f the Academ y, ” says Perry.

F ifth reunion co-chairm en L u ke Sarsfield ’9 1 an d Amy Custode 91.

H eid i Troxell Ames ’4 6 an d A lum ni C ouncil m em ber Erin C ujfe C raw ford ’7 4.

Jtid ith Lindem an ’5 6 received the farthest-distance aw ard: she cam e to M KA from H aw aii!

Reunion chairm an E ric Ja ec k el ’5 6 an d M ike S u co jf’5 6.

The brothers an d the sisters: M ark Am es ’8 6, H eid i Am es ’8 1; P au lA m irata ’81, A drienne A m irata ’8 6 cam e fo r reunions.

G ail Robertson M arentette 5 1 inspired an unprecedented 45th reunion.

Reunion chairm an P eter Law rence ’4 6 greets H ayden O ’N eil ’4 6. N ot only d id H ayden still have his 50-year-old Academ y varsity jack et, he could stillf i t it!

Jo a n D enney C arlisle an d Florence Johnson Jacobson organized the Kim berley Class o f ’4 6 50th reunion.

Tenth reunion co-chairm an V alerie Cordover K atz ’8 6 an d class agent Ju lia W eil 86.

Three Cheers for Reunion Chairmen 1941

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1946 Joan Denney Carlisle Florence Johnson Jacobson Peter B. Lawrence 1951

Gail Robertson Marentette

1956 Betsy Hasbrouck Cole Janet Goodwillie Swann Gail Zabriskie Wilson Eric Jaeckel Lawrence Nazarian P au l M cFeeley, L au rie H oonhout M cFeeley, a n d Chip R ead p lan n ed eventsfo r the Class o f 7 6 2 0 th reunion.

Ju d y Polonofiky, D irector o f E xtern al A ffairs, w ith G erri an d Jw hn Clapp !56R>

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Longtim e facu lty m em ber Joh n R abke an d Sandy H rab 86.

Tim Sabum , Upper School H ead o f Campus, prepares to be dun ked fo r the cause, as students sponsored fun draisin g gam es an d events.

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Sydney Johnson Petty Herb Tate ' John Guttmann

1976 Paul and Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley Chip Read 1981

Steve Chambers Karen Marnell

1986 Mark Ames.

Valerie Cordover Katz Julia Weil 1991 Amy (ggistode Luke Sarsfield

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Association.^ ^ Our condmences fo the family'of Susanne Strassburger Anderson. Her daughter, in making a memorial contribution to MKA, wrote, “She always spoke very fondly o f her days at Kimhe-delf^M MA D r. Jam es A. Rogers, Apt. 2 0 5 P. O. Box 518, N orm andy B each N J 0 8 739

33 MA Our condolences to the family offjltiss secretary extraordinaire W illiam J . Thompson.

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dOth reunion, th e Class o f 1 9 3 6 : D oris K eller H am lin , E lain e B elin g P hillips, M ary O sborne B eam ; a n d K atherine W ebster Sawford.

Doris Keller Hamlin - who was a most gracious award recipient - now has a greatnephew, Nicholas Andlinger, attending Brookside’s second grade.

“As always^® was fun to get a few from our class together at Manasquan in August,” writes Betty Howe Glaze. “Looking forward to doing it again in 1997.f»l| MA M r. W. K en t Schm id 9 Brandon Lane, Bishops Cove M ystic C T 0 6355 Edward Stanley sent a note to the Alumni Office, noting that though he attended the Academy from 8 th through 11th grades, his closest friends at Princeton were David Demarest (roommate as a freshman), Dallas Townsend (roommate the last three years), W .

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36 TKS M rs. W. K enijj(chm id (Josephine M urray) 9 Brandon Lane, Bishops Cove M ystic C T 0 6 3 5 5 .

“Never thought I would be sitting at the head table next®) Dr. Greer watching my • SHs'smate being honored,” writes Elaine Beling Phillips ’36, who saw Doris Keller Hamlin receive the Distinguished Alumni Award at Reunion Luncheon. “So special seeingidl the graduatqifcand a wonderful job o f putting together two ¡Meat schools.”

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Lifelong Montclair resident Dr. Richard Grady, a “browser in bookstores,” found a |?ppy o f W hite Plum es at an antiquarian bookstore in Baltimore and donated it to the MKA archives.

W hite Plum es was the book published by the Honors Course o f the Academy Class o f 1936, who wrote and studied for four years under legendary master William Avery Barras. The most celebrated o f the nine students was newsman Dallas Townsend. “[TheessSys] are presented as evidences o f the kind o f thinking that an unusual group o f serious young observers o f the adventure o f life are doing,” wrote Barras. fShese . writers are,S)ing on a long journey, past many more milestones, through experiences that will transcend anything they have yet dreamed of; but on the way they will never, it is to be hoped, outgrow the idealistic ’philosophies’ that are herein set forth.”

Dr. Grady; though not an Academy alumnus, recalls that M KA’s Middle SchoH I formerly Kimberley, was once home to the old Montclair Athletic Club: he took swimming lessons in the pool.

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Ruth D u ff Eager received Mountainside Hospital’s prestigious Florence F. Schumann Award for 34 years o f volunteer service to the Hospital. Ruth is president o f the Mountainside Hospital Auxiliary.

The Award was established to recognize a volunteer, Auxilian, or employee who has performed his or her duties “in a manner which exceeds expectations, and which is above and beyond their normal call o f duty.”

A receptimgin her honor was held in December in the Mountainside School of Nursing.

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MA M r. C. R. Lyle I I 16 8 M ountain Rd. P. O. Box 3 9 4 Ja ffrey Center N H 0 3 4 5 2 -0 3 9 4 Bruce and Nancy Tiernan Swenson ’42 have a grandson at MKA, Billy Swenson, in fourth grade.

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TheSflumnae trip to England went without her, as Frances’ new grandchild had health problems. However, in September I met her at the Portland “Jet Port” in the middle o f a hurricane. W e drove to Boothbay Harbor, took a ferry to Squirrel Island, then went to Prout’s Neck where she had a National Trust tour o f Maine. Frances is now successfully over a cataract operation and is planning a trip to northern Italy with Helen Jones Gordon ’42 in May. Billie W est Barrows has been living on Nantucket for 23 years. She loves their retirement cottage and keeps busy volunteering at non-profit organizations, including the Second s shop” where she marks clothes and Carol Thompson Lathrop ’3 4 cashiers. Billie still does calligraphy, some o f which she donates to causes. A daughter and family are also year-

round “on Island” residents.

Some not-so-happy news is that Barbara Kluge Deming’s husband, Bill, died in October. They were at their son’s home in Connecticut and Bobbie went back to Texas briefly, sold their house, and has settled in Simsbury in a condominium. Being back east has made it possible to share a holiday with Sis Underwood Gregory.

Our condolences to the family o f Marilyn Gates Crandell, who was known for her talented artwork, writing, and love o f travel.

The Crandells’ Christmas card this year was one o f her beautiful watercolors o f the Gates’ summer home on an island in Maine.

Bill and Carolyn Bedell Kennard are active and “thankful for reasonably good health.BH They play bridge and enjoy jaunts to Skytop in the Poconos a couple times a year and summers in Amagansett, L.I. Occasionally she meets Frances Johnson Ames on walks in the park.

Bill and Josie W att Clark celebrated the completion o f her three-year heirloom-grade quilt project. This quilt is one o f many she had done over the last 15 years. Bill makes heirloom-quality furniture as well as being the author o f The S pirit o f Amy, which Josie describes as “an exciting and informative book for 10-11 -year-olds, ” Jo an “I am impressing my children - and grandchildren - with my Alma Mater|H| writes Joan Bayne Williams ’40. “It lets them know my academic roots are deeper than they appear to be....The Athletic Hall o f Fame is great!”

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I t ’s A bou t T im e A rthu r H ofm an n 4 2 id en tified the g irl in the 1 9 % H om ecom ing invitation dancing w ith the sailor as his late sister, F loren ce H ofm an n R ead e 4 7 . H e requested copies o f the p h oto to send to her three children. The scene was the an n u al Spring D ance in 1946.

classmates are welcome directly opposite the chateau at 43 Blvd. Magenta.” Her mother died last year just short o f her 100th birthday.

MA M r. D avid B aird Jr. 9 Parkw ay, M ontclair N J 0 7042 Many thanks to our indefatigable reunion chairmen, Howard Dodd and David Baird, for rallying the 55th reunion, including some never-before-returned classmates.

O f the eight men in the picture,” writes Perry M inton, “three (Bill Dodd, Bill Hall, and I) did not graduate from MAL, and I think it speaks well o f the Academy that we came

back for the 55 th even though circumstances sent us away from Montclair to finish our pre­ college education elsewhere.”

Charles and Kit Eavenson Sanders celebrated their 73rd birthdays with a beautiful trip around the North Cape and down the entire coast o f Norway on one o f the mail boats, They spent 14 perfect-weather days i S T Denmark and Norway.

Richard Carrie reports being happily retired, to Vero Beach in the winter, Point Pleasant Beach in summer, travel whenever.

Charles Holmes is auditing courses in history and political science at the U. o f Kentucky to learn “something about international politics.”'

He is president o f the Blue Grass Chapter o f the United Nations Association; his wife, Carolyn, continues as foreign student advisor at the university. He sends his best to classmates.

Our condolences^ the families o f Charles Ebers and N. Kempton Hastings.

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Joan Trimble Smith completed portraits for a show in December and January, and headed to Italy in October for painting.

55th reunion, M ontclair A cadem y Class o f 1941. Standing: B ob D odd, H ow ard D odd, F ritz Von Bergen, Bruce Cornish, Tom Guthrie. Front: Perry M inton, B ill H all, D avid B aird.

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The three-day convention in D .C . last summer was billed as the largest gathering o f poets in history, worldvifiS Ted had already published his fourth book o f poetry, I D on ’t T alk D ow n ^ Kids.

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2 1 1 6 Via A lam it^ kP alos Verdes Estates CA 90274 Leigh Berrien Smith, with her usual sharp eyes and incredible memory, spotted two alumni names in a Boston paper, including a football writeup in th^ ports pages o f Mark Wheeler ’93, whom she had taught at Brookside 14 years ago!

Phyllis Harder Reininger reports her eighth grandchild, Te||V|>orn in 1996 to son ChaSM l and Tracy Reininger.

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“A wonderful reunion. M y impression is that our class gets lovelier looking as the years pass!” writes Nancy Anne Rudd Eddy. She and Arthur were headed to Florida in February to see Dave and Louise Rudd Hannegan ’47; in May they go to England and Scotland to visit friends, tour,band look up ancestors. They love living on the Cape and planned to see the Carlisles who live 20 minute||hway.

Audrey Brown Robinson, unable to attend the reunion, sent a poem that was jfublished in the fall in the Anthology o f the National ■Library o f Poetry. : “In a way, it’s like’$ending a part o f m y s e l f , w r o t e . It was read at reunion.

MA D r. P eter B. Law rence 4 8 0 2 Carriage PL, W ilson N C 2 7 8 9 6 Many thanks to Peter Lawrence for rallying a select group to reunion, “a truly heartwarming tim e .JH

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TK S Mrs. D avid H annegan (Louise Rudd) 3 4 M onadnock D rive, W esford M AO 1 8 8 6 Joan Cook and Louise Rudd Hannegan volunteered in November to head the 50th reunion!

MA In addition to T V network spots, Richard Hehmeyer has been acting in a series o f halfhour radio dramas o f Ring Lardner’s short

stories and novellas for National Public Radio.

“Writing with substance is hard to come by these days, so performing in these radio plays has been especially satisfying,” he writes. He posts a trivia question from the old days: fiefin e “5 R T ” and “NAS” (Mr. Barras''class).

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“It doesn’t seem possible that nearly 50 years have elapsed since graduation in 1947,” writes Joe Hammond. His accounting practice in Butler, N .J. is still thriving, and he has just finished his sixth term as president o f the Smoke Rise Club where they’ve lived for 30 years. He sent a photo o f their family reunion last summer at a ranch in Montana: all seven children, including five sons and daughters-inlaw, and three o f nine grandchildren. “A great time was had by all, including ranch hands and owners who said it was the most fun they had since opening in 1927.” The Hammonds also celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. He is looking forward to the 50th reunion.

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50th reunion, Class o f 1946. H ayden O ’N eil, B ill Brown, P eter Law rence.

M issing from p h oto: A rthur Hyde, D an iel M cGee.

5 0 th reunion, the Class o f 1946. StandingJGhtester L am er, M arilyn M agnus L am er, R obert Carlisle, C onnie R itchie D uH am el, H eid i ArrmsTroxell, E lean or H elm Ketcham . F ron t: Jo a n D enney Carlisle, Nancy, R udd Eddy, Florence Johnson Jacdbson, A ndrea Schneidew ind W alker. M issing from p h oto: B arbara B ecker M eyer.

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and oversees the preserves. They travel a bit and love the Arizona weather.

1996 rewarded C liff and Mary Anne Treene Evans with their eighth grandchild - and second giffl- Megan, “a St. Patrick’s Day gift to Leisa and Rick.” Pam and Dennis returned to the U .S. after 4 1/2 years in Barcelona; they and their three boys arrived in Vancouver, Wash, in December, “All three o f our kids are now stretched out 500 miles apart on Interstate 5!” she writes.

J a c k W allace 5 0 has a third-generation legacy atM K A : his son Tim W allace's (7 2 ) daughter K ate is in seventh grade.

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TKS Mrs. Lloyd M arentette ( G ail Robertson) 4 7 6 L akelan d Ave., Grosse P ointe M L 4 8 2 3 0 Congratulations to Gail Robertson Marentette, reunion chairman extraordinaire, for orchestrating a tremendous return to Kimberley. Her report: . Our 45th reunion was great fun. Fifteen o f us appeared for all or part o f the weekend festivities. W e started off with dinner at Ted

and Miriam Eustis Irwin’s on Friday night.

Jack and Nancy Jones Trescot came from northern Florida, where they have lived for years. Nancy has five children, all o f whom have graduate degrees; her oldest is a doctor.

George and June Crowe Cronquist walked in the door and I said, “W ho is the ringer?” She looked so young I didn’t recognize her. They have four children and grandchildren and divide their time among three houses.

Pat and Nancy Ehrhardt W hite drove down from Dorset, Vt. They were married two years ago; Pat is an old childhood friend o f mine.

Nancy has three children spread all over and pne grandson plus stepchildren.

Baxter and Julia Smith Gentry came from Houston. They run a family business in which some o f their five children are invoI^edEOiey have 14 grandchildren ranging from 18 to 1; Christian Fellowship is very important in their lives.

Betsy Smith Berquist received a prize o f a baby blanket in the old Kimberley colors for coming the furthest distance. She and Bruce, live in Olympia, Wash., where they do family counseling. Over the years they have taught and run their own school..>They have three children and a granddaughter.

Gerry Lockerty Hendricks has recendy moved to Summit, is now in the real estate business, and her two daughters are setting the world on fire, one o f them in London. Gerry looks wonderful.

Jim and Pat Overton Lee came from Manchester, Vt., where they have run a country inn for 15 years. They loved doing it, had lots o f repeat business, but are now retiring in order to have time to travel, play golf and see their family o f three children and six grands.

Joan Jacobus Miller came from Chicago where she has taught first grade in the project schools for 25 years. She is an excellent teacher and devoted to her pupils. Dave and Joan have three sons and a granddaughter. One son is . studying French history on a Fulbright in Paris.

Dave and Joan Miller Buchanan live in Verona in Joan Jacobus Miller’s childhood home. They have two sons who have just moved out and are selling their house. They spend lots o f time on the Montclair G olf Club course. They had a lovely cocktail party for the class on Saturday evening.

K im berley Class o f 195ijM 5th Reunion: Ruth Ransom Wilson, M iriam Eustis Irw in, Ju lia Sm ith Gentry, Jo an Jacobu s M iller, G ail Robertson M arentette, Jo an M iller Buchanan, Suzanne B ailey Twyford, Gerry Lockerty H endricks, N ancy E hrhardt W hite, P at Overton Lee.

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Franny Hedges Parsons came j||>m Jamestown, R.I. for dinner only Friday night.

Johnny had ,recent surgery and needed her loving care. They have three sons and six grandchildren. Johnny is retired and they sail in different parts o f the world.

Suzie Bailey Twyford (now known a|§g Suzanne in the art world) came up from Great Falls, Va. Susie works hard as an artist, has achieved great success, and also teaches, On,e*of her paintings hangs in my front hall ami I have received many co m p lim en ts» it. Susie’s* g daughter is an actress and her son,. Rob, works for Bob. Jane Gassaway Bonner joined us for cocktails at the Buchanans’ on Saturday. Bob is very sick and she looks aft^ h im .as well as working every morning. They have three, children, one of whom lives at home and is a great help.

N ick and Ruth Ransom W ilson came from Princeton where both o f them have been very involved in the community. Nick went to Princeton and helps run class reunions. Ruthy was head o f the McCarter Theater and is now on the board o f Morven, the governor’s house. ..it is in the process o f restoration. S p y have four sons, including twins. One is an actor in various T V series. After our reunion, Lloyd and I spent two wonderful days with the W ilsffis,, Ruthy had a luncheon for me o f old friends who all live in Princeton now.

The Irwinlare now enjoying Ted’s retirement.-S i e y will go-tti New York for a show, take a hike along the Palisades, or visit one o f their six children and 13 grandchildren.

Miriam is very attentive to her mother who lives next door.

Ip llo y d and I came from Michigan for the reunion. I wanted him to„;$ee the friends from an important part o f my life. I think he was amazed how close we all are. T o me, the past five years have flown by - I’m looking forward to our 50th and want everyone to attend. My, children are spread all over. i?®|and his wife now live in Grösse Pointe, Charlie is in Dallas, Frances in London having just finished a Fulbright in art, and Whitney in Montana.

Lloyd and I were married last year and travel as much as we can. W e drove 13,000 mifei this past summer from coast to coast.

Now abm t those who didn’t make our

reuniÄHBäj Tom and Judy Frost Costikyan live in South Carolina and are devoted golfers. They just had a family reunion o f 18, including children, grandchildren, and au pairs.

Ed and Anita Brown DePachalis live in Danville, Calif. They have five children and Anita is involved in counseling.

Linda Herbert is now retired and travels as much as she can (Spain and Portugal last year) aüÄisi'ts/family or has them visit her.

Anne LaBastille continues to live in the Adirondack^ where she. has been on thijjjjri| Adirondack Commission. She, lectures, writes, . anuRia visiting professor at various universities.

Alice Cleaves (Brownie) Lewis s|iM works at,,/,' the same company where she is a computer whiz.:l i h e recently bought S m a ll farm i n ' , Wisconsin where she keeps a horse. Brownie has three children and four grands. W hen I

talked to her she said, “I am a happy person.”

Would we could all say that!

Polly Fawcett Redfield lo^psithe San Francisco area. »pThfimly way anMof us sie her is bygoiSgffut there because Polly doesn’t co:rij|yJ|fe’ She works with women inij^pyery from alcoholism and has three daughters.

Mary Jane Scott Schnitzler lives at the shore.

Her m o t h S who was close to 100, just died.

Shirley Wakeman W right lives in Packanack Lake and runs a small day care center at home.

Joan Spinning, in McLean, Va., sees Susie Twyford occffionally. She attended Susie's!most recent art show and brought her pretty daughteQtdia, who is.älso an artist. Joan also has ä Son. W e missM^ll thcSyyho couldn’t come. M y * mother, who is 90, had a brunch on Sunday.

She loved seeing everyone and commented to Gerry about her being in “The Mikado” in eighth grade.

The luncheon at school went well, and dinner at the G olf Club was well attended. I’m proud to have gone to Kimberley! G ail MA M r. Ernest F. K e e r lll W Club D rive, P. O. Box 103W&m Bay H eaelN J 0 8 742

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She served on the first MKA Alumni Council in 1975 until 1982.

college town,” writes Patricia Eddy Ford. Son Doug graduated from law school and is doing human rights work in Bosnia; AndyJs in Portland, Ore., and: Je ff in Whitefish, Mont.

‘W e do a lot o f travelling to keep up with them.”

MA Philip Fradkin donated a copy to MKA of the latest edition o f A R iver N o M ore, The Colorado Riven a n d the West, expanded and updated in its eighth printing. He is working on a book on earthquakes and the San Andreas Fault, o f which he has a clear view from his home and office.

R. Bruce Grover is owner and CEO o f Vinyl Plastics, Ineg||L Sheboygan, Wis. He&| father o f three and grandparent o f two.

He collects rare books: first editions o f African explorers.

Robert W einmann continues his crusade against H M O abuses as president o f the Union o f American Physicians and Dentists. His .articles appeared in the San Francisco Exam iner and W ashington Times, and a report went out on Business Wire after he addressed the American Academy o f Pain Management in Washington, D .C ., in Septembe^M

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Congratulations and thanks to reunion chairmen Gail Zabriskie W ilson, Janet Goodwillie Swann, and Betsy Hasbrouck Cole for their hard work and enthusiasm that brought back so many for reunion. The day was particularly poignant with recent deaths.

Lilia Emetaz McDonald sent greetings from Oregon for the 40th, and hoped classmates would visit their wonderful Northwest. She was sad about the loss o f Carrie Van Vleck Pratt, as Lilia’s mother was a good friend of Carrie’s parents-.. .

Simon and Carol Barnard Ottenberg are spending a year in Washington, D .C ., where he is curating an art show for the Smithsonian’s National Museum o f African Art. She is working as a research interviewer on a national study o f health care and insurance costs, and still playing tennis, canoeing, and “cutting the occasional jigsaw puzzle.”

TKS M iss Georgia Carrington 3$iS ilver Spring Lane, R idgefield C T 0 6 8 7 7

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TKS Mrs. Susie Forstm ann Kealy 2 3 2 E. W alton Place, Apt. 2E , Chicago IL 60611

MA Austin Drukker has “retired” again from six years, o f teaching managerial ethics at Montclair State U. He now has six grandchildren: three girls and three boyljfdaughter Kristen ’94 and son M att w are in college ^ H rap ectiv e Class Notes).

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“W e are enjoying retirement oh the ¡rofgt o f • Maine and the advantages o f being in ® m all

The Class o f 5 6 on the K im berley steps: (T op) Ja n et Rodm an K oskojf, L in da Cole LeStage. ( Centerf M olla K aplan Reisbaum , G ail Z abriskie Wilson, Henny N elson Skeen. (Front) C arol Van B runt Rosie, CarWSffljoper Henry, Ju d y Lindem an, L in da Lovell Sm ith, Connie Som m er D eBrun.

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The Class o f ’5 6 dedicated a bench a t the Van Vleck H ouse an d Gardens to the memory o f their classm ate C arrie Van Vleck Pratt.

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TK S Ms. L in da B aldan zi 2 Greenview Way, Upper M ontclair N J 0 7043 MA D r. E dw ard T. O ’B rien, Jr. 3 3 7 6 F em cliffL an e, C learw ater FL 36421 The announcement by the Academy that it is a Blue Ribbon School is not a surprise, since when I attended I knew it as did all the students. The teachers were superb, diligent, and provided us with a character and educational base that has allowed us to thrive and enjoy the benefits o f society.

Mr. Morse, Mr. Barras, Mr. Miller, and Mr. Monson all stand out as blue ribbon faculty and friends I will always cherish.

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40th Reunion, Class o f ’5 6. Standing: M olla K aplan Reisbaum , Joan n e Weisser Salom on, Ju d y Lindem an, Connie Som m er D eBrun Seated: C arol Van Brunt Rosie, A nne K ingFranges, C arol B arn ard O ttenberg

MA D r. R obert R H aney 4 0 7 1 9 W oodside Place, Leesburg VA 2 0 1 7 5

The Miracles of Cyberspace Lost alumnus Robert Haney ’58 was ¡^surfing the net” and came across the Internet home page belonging to .Upper School faculty member Charlaine Charlton. He e-mailed her, asking to be put in toucSwith the Alumni Office.

Upon receipt o f recent copies o f the MKA Review, Dr. Haney was so impressed with the school, he volunteered to be class secretary!

“It was nice seeing that the school is still on the ’old’ Lloyd Road site,” he wrote.

“It’s even more reassuring to see that the football games are played on the same field on which I played.”,..

James Zager, M .D ., writes from California that he and his wife feel blessed with a happy marriage, healthy and autonomous children, and a satisfying career. Jim practices medicine in Corona del Mar. He endorses a 40th class reunion, adding that although he hasn’t visited the Academy for 25 years, his memories from there will last a lifetime.

David Stroming e-mailed from Verona, N .J., where he, Kathleen, and the three boys have lived for the past 27 years.BDavid has been in banking since his MBA, the last 20 years in the commercial sector. He reports several “30something” events this year, including their 30th wedding anniversary and the 33rd year o f his Giants football tickets.

From Rye Brook, N.Y., comes e-mail from Howard Levine, who is with Rytech Inti, in Stamford, a Solution Provider and software consulting firm. Howie’s wife Suzanne teaches at Greenwich Academy, daughter Jennifer is a buyer at Bloomingdales, NYC, and son Jonathan is doing a residency in radiology at Yale. Howie hasn’t been back to the Academy since graduation, but promises he’ll be at the reunio^pM David V. Black is the president o f his corporate training and consulting business in Essex, Conn. H e’s in the process o f selling it and specializing in golf training and marketing seminars, particularly the use o f golf as a marketing tool. Dave and Marie have two and two grandsons, and they sail, golf, and ski.

Dave is in good spirits despite having to quit football and baseball last year.

Yr. obednt. servt. returns to the I t e ’sssecretary role after a 10-year hiatus. All is well. Sylvia and I live on a woodlot in horse country. She is a peds nurse and I am again with the governnment, since 1987, as a medical officer in clinical psychology. Our boys are married and functioning independendy. B ob

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Lily Solmssen Moureaux, enjoying the connection with K im b e rly called the Alumni Office .to say that a recent alumna, Natasha Rothchild ’96, had ^ lled her to discuss career interests with the United Nations. Natasha had read the Class o f ’59 column in the Review!

Her mother is Nancy Kraus Rothchild ’62.

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MA Class secretary a n d agent: M r. M ichael B aker 10 H ighland D r., N orth C aldw ell N J 0 7 0 0 6

TKS Mrs. W illiam E. C raw ford (Francine O norati) 421 Beacon Street, Boston M A 0 2115

60 TKS William and Jennifer Van Niel Haughton’s son.Trevor entered sixth grade at M KA this year. Sixth gradeáis in the Middle School in the “old” Kimberley building on Valley Road.

MA '■flusfsecretary an d agent: ■ M r. G ep-ye/i. Bleyle, Jr. 2 2 5 9 W eir D rive, H udson O H 4 4 2 3 6

61 TKS Ms. K eller 1702 Church Street, Galveston T X 7 7 550 Trish Shupik Littman has done a career switch to freelance journalism,’’but will remain always a sóVihlogist.’’ Daughter Rachel graduated from Seton Hall Law School, passed the N Y bar, and works at Milbank Tweed in NYC. Son Josh graduated froxti'the American U. o f París, and works in management at the Mark NYC. MA Cltismecretary an d agent: M r. D a v id ft B rack 12 P on d View Lane, Titusville N J 0 8560

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Tfflassm ates Bruce Guernsey 6 2 an d D oug Johnson 6 2 m et in A laska last sum m erfo r trout an d salm on fishin g. Accom panying them were D oug’s w ife M artha (center) an d stepson Thomas, a graduate student a t the U. o f A laska.

Our condolences to Mary (Bea) Crawford on the death o f her brother, Thomas Crawford ’76.

MA H on. Joh n Sheldon P. O. Box 9 (f, P aris M E 04271

65 TKS Mrs. Jam es W right (Susan D eBevoise) H C 61, B ox 2 2 1 Q uail D ripe E tna N H 0 3 750 Our condolences H Margaret Crawford Bridge on the death o f her brother, Thomas Crawford ’76.

The 20th Anniversary issue o f W orking W oman magazine included Ellen Malcolm ’65 as one o f 350 Women Who Changed the World 1976-96. “Going Where No Woman Has Gone Before” named her “First Political-Queenmaker.”

Ellen, founder o f the political action group E M IL Y s List, received MKA’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1993.

Many thanks to Nicole Taghert Bergstrom for rallying a wonderful group at Kimberley.

“I truly enjoyed our 30th reunion,” writes Randy Bean, “with its special remembrance o f Anne Tredway Wade and many re-kindled friendships - a remarkable group o f accomplished women! Honorable mention should go to Nicole and Terry Appenzellar for their persistence and organizational skills, and to Susan Richardson Borchardt and Sari Kramer for fun and delicious lunch and brunch.”

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TKS Ms. M argot Escott 2 9 8 0 Kings L ake B lvd., N aples FL 3 3 9 6 2 Abigail Adler, who has lived in Santa Fe for 25 years, has been president o f the Board of Directors o f St. Elizabeth Shelter for the homeless for two years and serves on the board o f the New Mexico Council on Photography.

She and her husband, Paul Abrams, just celebrated their tenth anniversary; daughter Antonia is 5.

MA Michael Yamashita was photographer for the N ation al G eographic’s article in October 1996, “Storm W atch Over the Kurils” (small islands north o f Japan claimed by Russia). He also retraced legendary photographer/explorer Joseph Rock’s Asian trips for the January 1997

63 TKS Ms. Sharon L iv ^ B T a lb o t 12 G orham Avenue, B rooklin e M A 0 2 1 4 6 MA M r. Bw JJJon Van Wyck A rrow head Farm s, Tuckehman AR 72473

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3 0 th Reunion, the Class o f 1966. Standing: Jo a n P oor Clarke, H olly H am er, M arcia H arrison. Front: M argi B rett E ckel, Chris Clawson, Randy Bean.

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MA M r. V. Jam es Castiglia 3 L ark Lane, O ak R idge N J (¡0138 Class ofr’66. Joan n e H ojfstatter Clark, M itzi Sans B alm a, Sari Kram er.

M issing fro m photos: Sandy Fates Peker, Terry A ppenzellar, M argaretta Sander, Sharon M adden H arkness, N icole Taghert Bergstrom, N oel T horbeck Estes, Cindy Brandenburg GibbonJM i issue, in which Michael the photographer was himself pictured “On Assignment.” The Yamashitas were subject o f a lengthy newspaper article last fall on the adoption o f their daughter, Maggie, from Viet Nam. Retired faculty member Frank Brogan gave a book review at John’s Island last year and found Chris Steggles Sr. in the audience. Frank sends best wishes.

68 TKS Ms. A vie C laire K alker 5 8 0 5 B irchbrook #202, D allas T X 7 5 2 0 6 Class agent: Mrs. N ancy Plum m er Gordon 9 Two Bridges Road, Towaco N J 0 7082 Nancy Plummer Gordon enjoyed catching up with old classmates at Alumni Phonathon.

She and Michael spent a month last summer in the Highlands o f Scotland with her four children: “Incredibly beautiful and a very special vacation!”

Angela Steggles Nevius started her own garden maintenance and design business in Fair Haven, N .J., last year, Garden Keepers. She reports, “W e are going greatjgpns!”

“It doesn’t seem possible, but Kelly (25) and Erin (22) are both working in the real world,” writes Deborah Sanders Lewis. “Both are

working in different schools for emotionally handicapped children, one in Conn,, one in N .H .” Her youngest daughter is a freshman at Bowdoin College “and M om is having a tough adjustment to the empty nest. Would love to hear from anyone in the Boston a re a .^

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TKS Ms. Sydney Johnson Petty 5 H u ll Avenue, A nnapolis M D 2 1 4 0 3 Many thanks to Sydney Johnson Petty for her work on reunion, and to Brenda Madison and Kiesy Strauchon, who came all the way from the W est Coast to -s.ee the old school and friends.

MA Class agent: M r. Joh n Guttmann 5311 Locust A ve., Bethesda M D 2 0 8 1 4

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Many thanks to Herbert Tate for rallying a great group to the reunion. Congratulations also to Herb for his appointment to the Board o f Directors o f the National Association o f Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ National Research Institute, for a term ending in 1999.

Herb advises Governor Whitman o'S'ithe telecommunications industry’s involvement in state economic development and serves chairman o f the New Jersey Master Plan Commission, according to the press release.

Herb serves on the MICA Board o f Trustees.

From Vernon Potter: “Two sets o f glasses, grey hair, a hitch in the ’Getalong’? Yep. W e’re gettin t>Ia|jboys. Sorry I can’t make the milestone.’¿Vi Lisa and Andy Abramson have three children happily attending MKA: Carly in kindergarten and twins Heather and Lauren in eighth grade.

TKS Mrs. Charles G ildea (Lynn E hrhardt) 4 6 E. Saddle R iver Rd., Saddle R iver N J 0 7458

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MA M r. Burton M . W ebb Box 2 9 , Free Union VA 2 2 9 4 0 Congratulations to Joseph Alessi, who received the Millie Grazie Award from U N IC O “for his contributions and dedication to the Italian-American community.” Joe is past president o f the organization and previously received the Man o f the Year award.

Our condolences to Bernard Crawford on the death o f his brother, Thomas Crawford ’76.

TKS Ms. Leslie Bryan 8 4 4 E ast M om ingside D rive, N E A tlanta GA 3 0 3 2 4

2 5 th reunion, the Class o f 1971. Right: Faculty m em ber Ju d ith N esbit.

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Class agent: Mrs. D arcy W itt Z onino ■ 9 7 0 A m ble R oad, Shoreview M N 5 5 1 2 6

2 5 th reunion, the Class o f 1971. Right: Faculty m em ber Ken Gibson.

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Jim and Tacey Phillips Carroll have a new baby girl, Jamie Louise, whose big brother Tyler is as delighted as the pareni^M Kate Curtin Lindsey saw Tacey and wants everyone to know “she looks great and has two terrific children.” ' *™5eems like only yesterday w e were in college,” writers. Linda Finney Williams. Her daughter Aryn is [Sophomore at Smith. Son Colin is 1 f and plajpseven sportsf a new son was due in December. Linda works f@| the town o f Nantucket (“I came for a summer and am sd fr'| | ^ !23| ^ 3 later”) .

Darcy W itt Zonino is “too bus|l’ raising two children and having a number o f volunteer responsibilities, but she has retained her sense o f humor. She spoke with Harlan Gibbs oil the phone last summer [see MA noresf . ; MA M r. Steven Schottenfeld 11 W oodfield Drive,, Short H ills N J 0 7078 G lussagenfijm M r. P eter P erretti 7 9 Fairvfirw Avenue, Verona N J 0 7 0 4 4 Congratulations to Peter Aiello, who in April received the Space Flight Awareness Award from NASA. This is one o f the highest awards given to non-management personnel. • Harlan Gibbs lives in Encino, Calif, with his family - two children. Thgfgood doctor is working on a b|||k about E R medicine which hesgays will help us understand better what is and. is not real on all the T V shows.

Mike Coughlin traveled from Raleigh, N .C .. to New Jersey last September for a family wedding. He and Peter Perretti caught up with each otheihover dinner. The last time they had seen each other was in Peter and Glenn Veit’s dorm room at Duke in 1973. Mike has been happily married a long time to Kay, whom he met during college days at N .C. State. They have a son, Chris, who begins" driving this year. Mike is an engineer for Raleigh County in North Carolina anil the September hurricane kept him very busy. He’s, got all his hair - that impressed Perretti very much.

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Holly Schadler had a third chid , Kira Keating, in February 1996, joining brothers Gjpjff, 2, and Bryan, 4, “so il| pretty exciting at our house.||H olly is practicing law at Perkins Coie, a Seattle-based firm with an office in Washington, D .C. MA M r. Gregory Lackey 1 65 C hickahom iny T rail M edford L akes N ] 08055} S la ss agent: M r. Rudy Schlobohm 7 8 M ontclair Ave., M ontclair N J 0 7042 Our condolences', to Peter Redpath on the death o f his father, longtime Academy Trustee Frederick L. (Bud) Redpath. Peter was promoted to First VP with Smith Barney and moved to Albany, N.Y., 45 miles from Mai O ’Hara. His three boys are 12, 9, 5. Peter golfed this summer with Dean Paolucci and Peter Perretti ’w .

Jim Crooks is already looking forward to the 25th reunion in 1998. His #1 daughter, Laura, is in,first grade; #2 daughter, Sarah, is in nursery school. Jim is active in themcal (MinriMsenbols - “you’d be amazed just how good public schools can be.” His wife Debra works full time as a professional mom; he lights theaters and T V studios.

David Kwan has been an Ann Arbor City Councilman since November 19 § J. “Ironic that Ann Arbor became M oney M agazine’s 5th best place to; live, shortly after I was elected,” he writes. “It’s tough being among the minority o f four moderate Republicans vs. seven Democrats.” He has been treasurer o f the Ann Arbor Area Board o f Realtors, a 1000-member board, for two years, and will be president in 1997- “I’m having great fun this summer with celebrity status o f driving ’top-down’ in B M W 007 roadster.” Congratulations to David, who was recognized by C rain ’s D etroit Business aia| one o f its 1996 Forty Under 40 achievers.

A1 Van Eerde finished hlstmaster’s degree in education last summer. He is teaching science, computer, and I.T.V.. at Millburn High, “rated #2 in state!”

Lisa and Bill Breen had a boy, Aiden Michelman, in February 1996; daughter Leah was 4 in November. Bill joined,F ast Company magazine as senior editor in June ’95; ACis a national business magazine launched 9/95 by U.S. N ews a n d W orld Report.

N Y C reunion, classmates o f '774 a n d form er faculty.

Standing: Stew art Carr, Joh n Blondel, J o e ScirocCipv A llan Cox, E arl Perretti.

Seated: form er facu lty Carm en M am ell an d Barry N azarian ’6 2.

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T om W ood lives in the Boston area, S a g married with three kids, all girls, according to sister Penelope W ood Kulko ’76.

David Brandley writes, “W e are happy in Summit and looking forward to what is erroneously referred to as a 20th reunion.

George is 12 and is enjoying Newark Academy (25-19 losers to M KA on Thanksgiving Day) and Frances is 5 and enjoying Kent Place.”

Dave sent a vivid description o f a memberguest tournament he played with Mai O ’Hara.

“The championship match was highlighted by some great play by Malcolm, who drove the green on #15, stuck an 8 iron for a birdie on #16 and closed out the match with a great chip shot from an impossible position on #18 for the win.” They will defend their trophy in June.

Jeffrey Kindler, “lost” for awhile in alumni records, brought us up to date: Je ff lived in the Boston area for seven years (college and law school); the Washington, D .C ., area for ten years (federal government, judicial clerkships, law firm); the New York area for five years (General Electric Co.); and for about a year in Chicago, where he is senior VP and general counsel for McDonald’s.

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TKS Mrs. R ichard D egener (Ann P atrkkJm J( 6 09 Sunset B lvd., Cape M ay N J 0 8 2 0 4 Class agent: Mrs. E rin C uffe C raw ford 102 Buckingham Rd. Upper M ontclair N J 0 7043 Brian and Seton Daly Beckwith had their fifth child, Keillor Charles, on Election Day 1996. Keillor joins sisters Micalagh, 12, Brindley, 9, Tess, 6, and big brother Connor, ¡¡I Seton happily reports, “All’s well with Mom H id the brood. ||||| Sara Troxell W inokur, who has a post­ graduate degree in molecular genetics, helped discover the gene for dwarfism.

MA Class secretary a n d class agent: M r. Rudolph Schlobohm 78 M ontclair A ve., M ontclair N J 0 7042 Alan Cox sent a photo o f a November reunion with former faculty Carmen Marnell and Barry Nazarian in NYC, noting, “Notice how Stew looks younger than 22 years ago.

The waiter wanted to see some I.D .”

AFS hosts (1973-74) Joseph and Francoise Varkala spent an evening in New York with Jukka Luostarinen. He is a lawyer in Helsinki, Finland, is married, and has a daughter, Katia, 8. He wrote Rudy that he is looking forward to reunion.

Peter Berinato saw Ken Rockhill, who now lives in Richmond, Va. Peter is still dabbling with acting, having done a few commercials plus now appearing on several billboards in Richmond. “Much time occupied by caring for 22-month-old son,” he writes.

Michael Adams moved from France back to the USA in Ju ly ’96. His wife, Katherine,

continues her successful battle with cancer.

Their son David, 8, is happy, athletic, and bi­ lingual. Mike’s firm, Pedigree Investments, consults to investors worldwide on hedge fund investing. “Lunches at Tierney’s didn’t prepare me for the real world,” he notes.

Harvey Kravis left Dun and Bradstreet Software to go to PowerCerv Corp. in June.

Daughter Alexandria started junior high (7th grade); Valerie is in 2nd.

Charlotte and Ben Thompson, Madeline, 5, and Sawyer, 2, continue to enjoy their rural western Massachusetts lifestyle. He left the managed healthcare corporate world to direct the outpatient mental health/substance abuse clinic at the local hospital. “Lifestyle seems more important than ever,” he observes.

Rick W ood teaches junior high earth science, geography, and astronomy in Maryland, is married with two children, a girl and a boy.

Congratulations to Victoria and Scott McIntyre on their wedding.

Championship MKA had two alumni involved in the National Football Conference (NFC) Championship game in Green Bay on January 12 - on opposite sides o f the field.

Donald D ’Alessandro, M .D.j ’75 was there as chief orthopaedic surgeon for the Carolina Panthers. He played football at M KA and his father started the Football Fathers.

Sean Jones ’80 was outstanding as defensive end for the Packers. Sean, who has played 13 seasons in the NFL, was a “firstround” inductee into MKA’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.

Our condolences to Sally and Don D ’Alessandro on the death o f his father. Frank D ’Alessandro founded Football Fathers at MKA and never missed sporting events.

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Mrs. P au l M cFeeley (Laurie H oonhout) 1 4 K enneth Road, Upper M ontclair N J 07043 Class agent: D r. Charles R ead 3 1 1 5 C arroll Place, Falls Church VA 2 2 0 4 2 Congratulations to reunion chairmen extraordinaire Paul and Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley and Chip Read, who orchestrated a fantastic return to MKA. Charles and Beth Giannotto Raba wanted to see everyone so much that they attended reunion, and two days later she gave birth to their second child, Jennifer. Big sister Caroline is 5.

Best wishes to David and Penelope W ood Kulko on their wedding. They had a very small wedding and “a big old party” later at the Montclair G olf Club, attended by Susan Stanton, M att Troxell, and Hilary Hoffman Fandel. They bought a new home in Brooklyn Heights and she works at American Express in a new products division. Penelope sent news o f her three brothers (see ’73» i l . and ’80 Notes).

Denise and Matthew Troxell welcomed their first baby, Julia Sakai, in August.

Hal Goodtree produced a series o f commercials for Bell Adantic featuring actor James Earl Jones, Our condolences to the family o f Thomas C. Crawford.

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M r. A ndrew Pedersen 2 2 6 F a ir H aven Rd., F a ir H aven N J 0 7704

Class agent: M r. P au l Z ukerberg 1901 W yoming Ave. N W #75 W ashington D C 2 0 0 0 9

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20th reunion, the Class o f 1976.

Jonathan Grevatt is now national director of PR and marketing for the Hard Rock Cafe Corp. He is a weekend disk jockey, known as “Jonathan Clark” on Q 104.3, New York Classic Rock.

Best wishes to Donna and Gerald Jones on their wedding. It was a large family affair: Sean Jones ’80 and Rhoan Jones ’92 were among the wedding party. Dr. Gerald, having finished a primary care residency, has opened a podiatric practice in East Orange.

Condolences to Peter and Cheryl D ’Ales­ sandro McM ullen on the death o f her father.

78 Ms. P am ela Zeug 2 5 0 M ercer St., C 418, N ew York N Y 10012 M r. Law rence Garrigan 6103 Ox Bottom M anor D rive Tallahassee F L 3 2 3 1 2 Class dgenvSfa Ms. M elissa Cohn P aprin 2 0 0 E ast 71 St., N ew York N Y 10021 Congratulations to our mommas and poppas: T o Julie and Daniel Groisser on the birth owm Samuel Robert in November; to Richard a n l H Betsy Ames Abramowitz on the birth o f their third child, Douglas Alec, in July; and to ' • Stephen and Pam Lalli Richmond, on the birth o f Tyler Austin in March. The Richmonds have moved to Mendham and Pam is on a year maternity leave from teaching.

Susan Cole Furlong was promoted to Executive VP o f Dugan Valva Confess, a marketing and communications agency in Morristown. Sue managed the A T & T Olympic promotional activities, among other accounts, and sits on the Executive Committee.

She is an active member o f the MKA Alumni Council and her daughter, Erin, is in P re-K Sife Brookside. : Curt Brunner ’78, marketing director for the company Liberte in Denmark, discovered alumnus Alec Schwartz ’88 via the Internet.

Curt and another American started Liberte in

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1989 by producing and selling girls’ nightdresses with their own prints and the concept “Me and M y 1) o Ii” |al n ig11.1 d rcss and a matching nightdress for her doll or teddy bear). They had sales in f i s c a l o f $11 million.

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Mrs. Carlos O rtiz (Shown M ahieu) 2 1 6 3 G ilbride Rd., M artinsville N J 0 8 8 3 6 WS)r. Ja m B rink ■i'290 Beech Valley Rd., A tlanta GA 3 0 3 0 6 Best wishes to Donald and Paige Cottingham-Streater on their wedding. Paige, who has a law degree from George Washington U., is the director ot .t fellowship program at the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs, a nonprofit public policy organization in Washington.

Long-lost alumna Patty Green Geisel, after moving several times on the pastern seaboard, has settled in Bucks County, Pa., in a home backing a 100-acre farm. She and her husband have a daughter, Katherine, 3, and son, Hunter, 1.

Pamela Barz left Maine in February ’96 after eight years,Ptook six months off to play,” and is spending a year as interim minister o f the First Church o f Christ (Unitarian) in Lancaster, Mass.

Congratulations to Carol Baird Rich on the birth o f Haley Elizabeth in September. Haley joins brother T o m m y ^ ^ H Hugh and Beth Kindler Lloyd-Thomas also welcomed a daughter, Sophia, in October.

Beth reports that Matthew, 2 1/2, loves being a big brothe^&j Louise Sperling’s son, Samuel Walter Gallerano, was 18 months in November.

E d y and Eric Pai had a son, Alexander, in August, joining Nicholas, 2. EriaServes actively on the MKA Alumni Council.

From the Attorney General Congratulations to John Joseph ’79, Assistant U.S. Attorney for Ifastern Pennsylvania, who received the coveted Direetor’s Award for Superior Performance from Attorney General Janet Reno last spring.

The award is for “his'accpmplishment of d u tiS in such an outstanding manner as to be clearly noteworthy, and setting a record o f achievement which inspires others.” John was pr8tSeaj|or “his vigor, innovative approach, and dedication to the mission of the Ju stffl Department, along with the series exceptional fau lts he has obtained in affirmative and defensive civil litigation.”

This was not his first award: he received the U .S. Attorney’s Award for Exceptional Performance in 1992, and a Commendation for the largest penalty ever obtained under the Clean Water Act, 1fj) 1.

John earned a B.A. in economics S d a J.D . with honors from the University of PeMIylvania. From 19§|H 9 he litigated fraud ca|f| under the U .S. Justice; ;) Department Attorney General Honors »rogram in Washington, D.C.

80 M ary L. Cole, Esq. 2 8 Cayuga Tra(lJ,O ak Ridge N J 07438 Class agents: M r. M artin Brayboy 6 4 W hetstone Road, H anuinton C T 06791 Ms.Ju lia R uddick M eade 5 1 Avon R oad, B ronxville N Y 10708 Steve and Angela DeCandia Barral ’82 are proud parents <gj|Jack Austin Barral, who arrived in Jiidy:. .

John W ood is>’a major in the Air Force, flies! jets, lives in Lubbock, Texas, and is married with a son and a daughter (news from sister Penelope ’76).

Our condolences to Katherine W hite on the death of her mother, Carol Humphrey White ’52.

81 Many thanks to reunion chairmen Karen Marnell and Steven Chambers for rallying the class to a fun reunion.

Janis Joseph had a busy year. Her husband finished his training in emergency medicine and is practicing at Mountainside/Morristown hospital. They bought a house in Chatham and had their sSo n d son, Joseph, in May. Janis is taking care o f the children and teaching part time-;:'“After a long haul, we are finally where we want to b ^ ’ she writes. Janis also sent news o f her brother John ’79.

Toby Milgrome received her M .D . degree from U. Massachusetts in 1994 and is in her third year o f residency in pediatrics at U. Virginia. Her husband, Edward Damiano, is in a post-doc in biomedical engineering there.

David Newman is a technology training ’ consultant with Towers Perrin in Philadelphia.

“Unfortunately, I had to miss, our 15th reunion. Hello, everyone; does George George look even younger than five years ago?”

Best wishes to Lara and Alex Harris, who were married in Alaska in August. He writes,

Super Congratulations to Sean Jones ’80, who won a Superbowl X X X I ring as starting defensive end for the Green Bay Packers.

Sean logged a quarterback sack and was interviewed at the end o f the program with his little son on his shoulder.

Sean was inducted into MKA’s 1 inaugural Athletic Hall o f Fame last year, after outstanding MKA and collegiate athleti(/’achievements and 12 years in the NFL. He has been with Green Bay since 1993 and was only the eighth player in N FL history to reach 100 quarterback sacks.

Sean was the subject o f a column by Star Ledger sports writer Jerry Izenberg detailing his long career. “He played his high school football at Montclair Kimberley Academy, a small New Jersey private school where, in his words, ‘the stress was never on football. It was onthacademics. The colleges that scouted us were Harvard and Yale and Princeton. I didn’t wind up at one o f them and I didn’t wind up at a football factory, either.’...Sean played college football at Northeastern and played it well enough that the Raiders made him their second pick in 1984.”

Sean is known as a family man and one o f the N FL’s most articulate players.

A lum ni A nita Sim s-Stokes 7 9 a n d K i P aschal 9 4 served as m em bers o f the p an el a t a conference on diversity last M ay a t the Upper School. The conference, sponsored by M KA s Shades o f C olor organization, attracted m ore than 100 studentsfrom eight area schools.

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“W e have MKA reunions all the time in Alaska.

I hope some o f you can make it sometime.

Mippyou all!”

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Ms. Cheryl M cCahts 8 W illow dale Court, M ontclair N J 07042 M r. Thom as Robbins 1 2 0 4 Fairview R d., H avertow n PA 19083 Bridget and Chris Tortorello welcomed daughter Alexa in April. Her big sister Diana is 5. Lorraine and James Paone are Alexa’s godparents.

Mary Rachael Hayes M cDaniel served on a health care mission to Peru last fall, where she performed physical therapy. "It was a wonderful experience,” she reports. Mary Rachael has come out o f retirement and returned to fencing. Sons Houston and Cameron are 3 1/2 and 2 and growing.

Faryl and Jonathan Sandler welcomed daughter Mykayla Lexi in May 1996. Jon reports, “She is kept amused by our two spaniels Gilbert and Betsy...[and] is a true wonder to behold.”

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Mrs. D on ald F elber (H olly Jervis) 2 2 2 G rand St., 4G , H oboken N J 0 7030 Class agent: K ristine H atzenbuhler O ’Connor 3 1 3 Sm ith M anor Blvd., West Orange N J 07052 Congratulations to Jill Rosenblum, who passed the North Carolina Bar Exam and is hospital attorney for the U N C Hospitals. In June she will start work on a Doctorate o f Public Health at UNC/Chapel Hill in the Leadership in Public Health Program.

James Sarna reports the birth o f a daughter, Natasha Hayley, on Halloween. He started his own law firm on the same day.

Virginia and Kevin Wilkins had their first child, Jonathan Wise, in November.

Best wishes to Marla and Don Cussen on their wedding, and to Lilias and Anders Skilbred. Anders is a pilot with United Airlines, based in Denver.

Best wishes also to Kenneth and Paige Ladendorff Wilson, who were married in San Antonio in May. They live in Chicago.

Dennis Goldstein works in N YC with the Boston Consulting Group.

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Best wishes to our newlyweds, Mark and Dorothy Stark Orzech. Her brother Craig ’88 was an usher at the wedding. Dorothy is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Princeton; they live in Wilmington, Del. Joanne and John Towers have a son, John Douglas (“J.D .”). They live in Ballston Spa, N.Y. Maria Rabb hopes to see more MKA friends now that she’s back after eight years in Europe.

She and her husband, Tividar Szegletes, and son have moved to Jacksonville, Fla.

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Ms. Sherry A hkam i 2 2 5 E ast 57th Street', 20 B , N ew York N Y 1 0022 Ms. Jen n ifer Remington 4 4 H am ilton D rive E ast N orth C aldw ell N J 0 7 0 0 6 WElass Agent: Ms. Ju lia W eil 1 4 6 West 10th Street, ID N ew York N Y 1 0 0 1 4 Many thanks to reunion chairmen Mark Ames and Valerie Cordover Katz for inspiring such a great return.

Best wishes to Rohina Gandhi and David Hoffman on their wedding. They had a dual Hindu/Jewish ceremony with sister Rupali Gandhi ’93 and Nancy Castro in the wedding party and Karestan Koenen and Erica Lubetkin in attendancf|fRohina, who earned B.Si*tpgi M .D . degrees from Brown U., is finishing a residency in neurology at UCLA Medical Center. David is also doing a residency.

Nancy Castro is working on a Ph.D. in English at ColumbiaaM Karestan Koenen is H engaged to David Soliz and is planning a spring

’98 wedding. She ¡fi|;a graduate student in psychology .at Boston U. Erica Lubetkin is doing-her residency in internal medicine at Qsjnell Medical Center.

Lisa Unger moved from Chubb to American International Group Sjdirector, Excess Casualty Claims. While on 'IjksigeHin California, she spontaneously decided to run the Big.Sur Marathon - practice as .she was again accepted inji| the N YC Marathon.

C ondolences» Rob D ’Alessandro on th^ H death •This father.

Brad Van Siclen had a week in October he will never forget. He became a father on O ctp JlS 18 (Alexandra)^*a Montclair homeowner on the 22nd, and a jubilant Yankee faMion theflfith.

Foreign M ark Ames, promoted to VP, is working in derivatives in the London office o f Lehman Bros. He left for Britain two days after reunion.

Marcel Green is working at the Dalian Institute o f Foreign Affairs in Dalian, China.

He has an M.A. in international relations.

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M r. D ennis Rodano 3 Byron Road, N orth C aldw ell N J 0 7 0 0 6

Mrs. Joy BmMsRoussel 5 5 0 9 Camp Street, N ew O rleans LA 7 0 115 Kenneth Gilson is engaged to Carrie Krueger, a fellow graduate o f Wheaton College Graduate School. Ken8 s a received a B.A. degree from Wheaton and serve® , their regional directo®>f development. They will marry at the college chapel in April.

Jane Ainbinder received an M.F.A. in film studies from the U. o f Southern California in the fall o f 1996. She is living in L.A. Evan W ittenberg is a communications consultant in NYC. Congratulations to Jim and Jo y BoothRoussel on the birth ofjarftes III in November.

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Ms. K aren M uenster 2 4 9 Bryn M aw rA ve., Lavallette N J 0 8735 M r. Jam es Petretti 2 1 9 Otis Place, Verona N J 0 7 0 4 4 Class agenm I M r. A lec Schwartz 1803 P ine Street, 1R, P hiladelphia PA 19103 cm calec@ ix. netcom. com Best wishes to Thomas and Mary Savage King on their wedding. Mary is a second-year med. student at the University o f Medicine and Dentistry o f New Jersey. They live in Bergen County.

Best wishes to Christopher and Justine M cBride Fellows on their wedding; Marta Branca was an attendant. Justine is a technology specialist at an elementary school and teaches part time at the U- o fiJtah . She; started a rugby team in Park City and skis constantly. She asks, has anyone found T .J. yet?

Best wishes to Andrew and Lauren Charlton Niebuhr on their wedding. Kim Charlton ’90 was maid o f honor, Danielle DeVita did a reading. Both Lauren and Andrew graduated from fiobart/William Smith College; she received a master’s in special education at Columbia U. Teachers College. She works at the Children’s Center for Therapy and Learning in Cedar Knolls.

Michael Ginsburg, who graduated from Syracuse in 1992, lived in Camus, Wash., near Portland for awhile. He received an M.A. in education from Columbia U. Teachers College, and|1 teaching 5th grade in Madison, Conn.

He is engaged to physical therapist Sue Hannula.

Karen Muenster is engaged to M arc Spiotta ’86. A September wedding is planned.

David Haight works as an environmental education counselor for Frost Valley Y in Claryville, N.Y.- The program is similar to the PEEC and Survival programs we did in 5th and 8th grade at MKA.

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Dara Goldman is in the third and final year® o f coursework toward a PH.D. in Spanish literature at Emory U. Her particular focusESl contemporary Puerto Rican lit; she is also getting a certificate in women’s studies.

Lauren Aquino, living in South Jersey, is taking classes in the sciences.

Christopher Kruse, who earned his M .D . with honors from NYU School o f Medicine, is at Yale New Haven Hospital on a medicine internship. He will begin a dermatology residency at SUN Y Brooklyn in July.

Jim Garino is director o f sales for the New Mexico Scorpions Hockey Club in Albuquerque. This is its first year in the Western Professional Hockey League, which will grow to 12 teams next year. Jim says it is a farm system for the N H L and has excellent players.

Small world: Jill Tobia lives in the same Manhattan apartment building as M imi Goel and Jen Brawer. Jill reverse-commutes to the Schwartz-Tobia law firm in Verona.

Danny Horn, editor o f M uppetzine, was interviewed for a column in the Philadelphia City Paper about what 20 Philadelphians wanted for Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanza.

Danny responded, “I’d like the Muppets Tonight to be back on the air and a Miss Piggy vase to replace the one my cat just broke.’®Jody Booth is acting in NYC, and happily reports being a new aunt; Jimmy and Joy Booth-Roussel ’8 7 had James III in November.

Lauren Shanahan joined PR firm Michael Kaminer, NYC, as vice president. Lauren will oversee operations o f the agency, which specializes in publicity for online and traditional media Companies.

From Alec Schwartz: 23 members o f the Class o f ’88 have added their e-mail addresses to our homepage!

From the Alumni Office: Mrs. Reiter found a treasure trove o f old photos, including the class’s 8th grade photos and baby pix. Just wait ’till reunion!

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Best wishes also to Kim and Andrew Weiner, who had a veritable class reunion at their wedding (see photo). They live in Washington, D.C. Judy Ainbinder has started studies as a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at the U. o f Vermont.

Amanda Roth Salzhauer is getting a master’s in social work at NYU. Congratulations to the class lawyers: Ralph Amirata graduated from Hofstra U. School o f Law, passed the New York and New Jersey bars, and is clerking for the Hon. Donald Volkert Jr. and Hon. Michael Casale in Newark.

Josh Raymond graduated from New England School o f Law, passed the New Jersey bar, and works for a small law firm in Summit. Jos’h JISIl active on the M KA Alumni Council.

Musician extraordinaire George Hrab Jr. released his first CD . The 45-minute disc, called “Sic,” features George on a myriad off^j" instruments performing his own compositions.

John Blesso’s book O ff to a B ad Start: Chicken Soup fo r the Sold is being published by Sillk City Press in March.

From the Alumni Office: Mrs. Reiter found a treasure-trove o f old photos, including the class’s 8th grade photos and baby pix.

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MKA w edding reunion: B ack row : P eter D eC andia ’8 9, M ichael H natow ’89, Louis Lessig ’89, Andrew G oldberg 89, B eth Visceglia ’8 9, Amy J o D ix ’89, bride K im Solov W einer, groom A ndrew W einer ’8 9, best m an Scott W einer ’9 2, L iz C row ell ’8 9, Chris L eber ’8 9, D avid Austin ’89, Suellen B izub 8 9 , T iffin i K riegel 9 0 , Greg Sullivan 8 9 .

F ron t: George H rab 8 9 , M att Braun 8 9 , P au l Tiranno 8 9 , D avid Ames. 8 9 , A ndrew N ydick ’8M K Sean Fitzgibbon 8 9 , M ichael H unter 89.

Paula Kovanic Spiro finished a master’s in public health from Tulane U. School o f Public Health & Tropical Medicine. She works as the coordinator o f education and prevention at the Mobile, Ala., Rape Crisis Center.

Ellen Gilson is engaged to Wheaton College classmate Greg Voth. She graduated from Wheaton Conservatory o f Music m agna cum laude and is a candidate for a Master o f Music at Westminster Choir College o f Rider U. in Princeton. Ellen is on the faculty o f the Csehy Summer School o f Music, Langhorne, Pa.

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Ms. Lorelei M uenster 2 1 West 10th St. Apt. IB , N ew York N Y 10011 Ms. M eredith M cGowan 151 E ast 81st St. A pt 5F, N ew York N Y 10028 l00^ back with appreciation,” writes Susannah Arwood. “I really value my education at MKA, the interaction with teachers.” She is i., attending U. North Carolina/Chapel Hill Law School.

Kim Charlton is in her second year at NYU for a master’s in archival management. She works at Carnegie Hall in the archives and lives in NYC. Cheryl Rizzo also lives in NYC. She graduated from Ithaca College with a B.F.A. in theatrical production arts, and works as an assistant producer on Broadway and Off. Sean Kelly is a systems analyst in the research and development department o f T O TA L TEL.

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Class agent: M r. L u ke Sarsfield 16 5 E ast 8 9 St., A pt 4F, N ew York N Y 10128Many thanks to reunion chairmen Amy Custode and Luke Sarsfield for rallying a great group to reunion.

Marc Hauser is on Law Review and “getting people o ff death row” at Northwestern U. School o f Law. Carlton Austin received a inaster’s 'in accounting from Rhodes College in Memphis, where he also earned a B.A. in busin^^m administration. ■ M att Blesso graduated cum laude from U. Rochester with a B A . in economics.. He B aS working as a credit analyst, commodities, for the international banking group o f Sooiete Generale in NYC. Ulysses De La Torre, with B.S. in engineering management from U. Vermont, is a recruiter with Concepts in Staffing, Inc. N Y C l

Dara Marmon is with ChancellorQapital Management, NYC, w e r e Ryan Young’s father I'SiSenior director ajnd Lynn Gabriel ’82 is human services' director.

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( ‘Liis-Agenii/T Ms. Alison Raym ond % W hite O ak Road, W oseland N J 0 7068 Best wishes to our newlyweds; Mario and Allegra Slyder Ruiz Legido were married in Pennsylvania and honeymooned in Spain.

Nicole Silver was an attendant. Allegra graduated from Swarthmore College.

Enrique N eblett received a B.S. in psychology from Brown U. and toured SpairjBg and Portugal with the singing group.

Joseph Lee reports from Seton Hall Law School, “H alf o f M KA is here.”

Alison Raymond [raworkiii g as an instructional aide for children with special needs at Hartshorn Elementary School, Millburn. She graduated from Skidmore College with a B.S. in elementary education and honors in her major.

Alison Schwartz is touring with Pilobolus Dance Theater as stage manager. They are performing from Connecticut to California, ending in N YC this summer.

Je ff Glasser, with B.A. from Yaleffis working |fcasMporter at the W ashington RurwHe j!s a special research assistant to Bob Woodward on his next book on campaign finance® eff was editor o f the Yale D ailytNeuEfikhe nation’s oldest college daily, his junior year.

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Ms. Renee M onteyne 10 Lookout P oin t T rail Totowa Borough N J 0 7512 M r. B rian W echt 51 Glen Court, Pom pton Lakes N J 07:442 OMss Agent: Ms. L isa Gittlem an 3 4 W inderm ere Rd., Upper M ontclair N J 07043 G oal!

Eric Kusseluk ’93 is second on Cornell University’s all-time soccer sp rin g list with 72 career points and 32 goals-. He was named first-team All-Ivy League for the secpnd year in a row. He was also an AllNew York State selection and was named to the Academic All-Ivy Tearn.

The striker led the Big Red in scoring in both 1995 and 1996;, this year with 28 points on 11 goals and six assists, leading Cornell to the NCAA Tournament.

At MKA Eric earned four lette||dn soccer and baseball and three in basketball, and was named first-team all-prep in both soccer and baseball.

He is majoring in economics at Cornijj|jj;fi Christopher Kelly will graduate with distinction from Kenyon College in May as an English major with a specialty in poetry. Chris plans on graduate school and possibly teaching.

Kristen Brondo will be in t h ® 997 edition of Who s Who A m ong Students in A m erican Universities an d Colleges, according to a release from St. Lawrence i t . Students were selected for academic achievement, community service,, and leadership.

M ark Wheeler made good press in the sports pages o f the Boston Sunday G lobe in October in U. New H am pshirSvictory over UMass.

Mark made 10 tackles, The item was spotted by alumna and former faculty member Leigh

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Berrien Smith ’46, who had taught Mark in second grade at Brookside.

94 Ms. M onica Fern an d 160m theyenne Way, W ayne N J 0 7 4 7 0 Ms. Rosemary M onteyne 10 L ookou t P oin t T rail Totowa Borough N J 0 7512 w lass agent: M r. Joh n S a ro ff 6 7 Eagle R ock Way, M ontclair N J 0 7042 Bryan Cook transferred to Reed College, Oregon.

Lauren Visceglia was on the dean’s list, first honors, at Georgetown U., and spent last summer studying Spanish in Quito, Equador.

Kristen Drukker spent the fall semester at the U. o f Edinburgh, Scotland. She toured Switzerland, Italy, and London and reportedly had the time o f her life. Now back at Connecticut College, Kiki will work in Boston this summer.

Jaime Bedrin is in San Diego for three months on an exchange program through Dartmouth College “that helps students escape New Hampshire winters.”

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Ms. R ita Papaleo 31 Fernw ood Terrace, N utley N J 0 7 110 Ms. Shan-Shan Yam 11 5 -5 2 B lack O ak Lane, K innelon N J 0 7405 Class agent: M r. A dam Schrager 121 Christopher St., M ontclair N J 07042 Kristine Sova made the dean’s list at N.Y.U. and will continue to receive the Draper

Scholarship from the university.

Charles Kaplan is happy at Wesleyan. Over the summer he worked and participated in baseball activities, including a trip to Missouri with the Jersey City Baseball League.

Chia-lin Chang attended Rutgers U. last summer to accelerate her studies.

Terry Holusha is proud to announce his induction into the Chi Phi fraternity at Ohio Wesleyan.

Jonathan Hirsh was elected treasurer o f his fraternity (ZBT) at Syracuse.

M att Drukker is happy at Williams, where he plays lacrosse and is very involved in the sailing program. He helped design a new dock for four new boats and was the foredeckmanf' i freshman year when Williams won the Corinthian Cup. Shan Shan Yam transferred to SUN Y at Canton, where she is working on a medical laboratory technology degree. Shan Shan is involved with the College Union Board and has started an Asian Cultural Society. She also played on the Canton Northstars’ first-ever female volleyball team.

Ed. Note: I f you have already worn out your laundry bag, Dr. Greer’s gift at the Class o f ’95 Senior Breakfast, please note there are a few left.

Just stop by the Alumni Office at the Middle School to pick one up.

96 Ms. Tanya Barnes 7 M elrose P lace, M ontclair N J 0 7 042 Ms. D ebbie H aight 115 D eW itt Ave., B elleville N J 0 7 1 0 9 Class A gent: M r. L ee Vartan 5 4 H am ilton A ve., Kearny N J 0 7032 Lee Vartan and Allison Connolly volunteered to set up an Internet page for the class, ¡t is “under construction.”

MKA Decals and Random Sightings Last summer newly graduated Deborah Haight ’96 was visiting her brother David Haight ’88 at the Frost Vailley YM CA o f the Catskills, where he is program coordinator.

She returned to her car to find a message on the windshield from Cecily W ilson Lyle of the Kimberley School Class o f 1955. Lyle who lives in M aryland - was happy to see the Montclair Kimberley Academy decal on the rear o f the car and thought it was noteworthy.

MKA Web site MKA now has its own Web site. Tune in for admissions*'Î alumni, calendar, history, sports information. http://w w w .m ka.inter.net

Marriages 1976 1977 1979 1981 1983 " 1983x 1984 1985x 1986 1988 1988 1989 1989 1992

Penelope Wood and David Kulko Gerald Jones and Donna Sykes Paige Cottingham and Donald Streater Alex Harris and Lara Sox Donald Cussen and Marla McCourt Paige Ladendorff and Kenneth Wilson Anders Skilbred and Lilias Morgan Dorothy Stark and Mark Orzech Ashley Perry and James Kineon Jr. Rohina Gandhi and David Hoffman Justine McBride and Christopher Fellows Mary Savage and Thomas King Michael Hnatow and Elizabeth Fuette Andrew Weiner and Kimberly Salov Allegra Slyder and Mario Ruiz Legido

April 20, 1996 May 24, 1996 July 13, 1996 August 23, 1996 September 1996 May 4, 1996 September fe 1996 July 14, 1996 August 24, 1996 September 1, 1996 June 1996 July 27, 1996 July 1996 June 9, 1996 August 10, 1996

In Memoriam 1931 1933 1939 1940 1941 1941 1952 1976

Susanne Strassburger Anderson William J. Thompson Jane Wilson Rauch Marilyn Gates Crandell Charles Ebers H. Kempton Hastings Carol Humphrey White Thomas C. Crawford

Faculty, Former Faculty and Trustees Penelope Clauson Thelma Jones

September 9,1996 January 26, 1997 December 14, 1996 December 5, 1996 1995 August 12, 1996 January 12, 1997 December 25, 1996 December 26, 1996 January 1997

The Panels in the Quilt W hile observing the thousands o f panels at the AIDS Quilt on the Mall in Washington, D .C ., last October, Carolyn Seugling ’95, a sophomore at Georgetown, ancther father came across three which were completed in 1995 by MKA Middle School students. They were located in the first quarter o f the area closest to the Capitol.

“I know the students o f MKA have always cared about others and will continue to do so,” Edward Seugling wrote.

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MKA Bulletin Board Thank you Many thanks to this new class secretary for volunteering: Robert Haney ’58

Wanted Alumni and parent volunteers wanted to share advice and experience with current students and alumni.

Career Services - A networking referral service to advise recent MKA alumni on internships, resumes, jobs, career paths. W e particularly neecf advisors in financial areas such as banking and technology, and summer internships*.,

Bank of Community Resources - Share expertise with students in the classroom on all three campuses, be it hobby or profession. All fields welcome, especially technology.

M KA Chairs Wonderful gifts or graduation presents!

M K A chairs are antique black with maple arms and bear the official M KA seal in gold. Each chair sells for $225; a rocking chair version it/available for $250. Please add $2 0 for shipping and handling. Your order must be |||l|mpaS|ed by a check made payable to The M ontclair Kimberley Academy.

Send to: T h e Alumni Office, MKA, 201 Valley Road, M ontclair N J 07042.

Call Ginger Kriegel at Career Services, 2 0 1 /5 0 9 -4 8 7 0 .

Lost Your Yearbook?

The M KA Alumni Office has some extra yearbooks in inventory, available for $5 postage and handling charge. Please call first to see if extras are available for your year (2 0 1 /7 4 6 -9 8 0 0 ).

The archives have at least one copy of every yearbook published except 1902. W e need an extra copy of the following: K im b erleav es 1946, 1951, 1954, 1955.

Are You Lost? Moved? Married? Awarded?

Please send news, photos, and/or address changes to the Alumni Office, 201 Vaffly Road, Montclair NJ 0 7 0 4 2 , or call 2 0 1 /7 4 6 -9 8 0 0 .

MKA ATHLET IC HALL O F FAME A W ARDS C R ITE R IA The Montclair Kimberley Academy Athletic Hall o f Fame was founded to honor those who have made telling Kntributions to the school’s athletics.

Its purpose is to perpetuate the memory o f those persons who have brought distinction, honor, and ■excellence to Montclair Academy, The Kimberley School, The Brookside School, and MKA in athletics.

1. Nominee must have been an outstanding varsity athlete, coach, Athleti'gSirector, trainer, or major (eonrributor (financial and/or participant) at MA, O K S, Brookside, or MKA and/or brought distinction to the school through related and subsequent athletic accomplishments.

2. Student nominees must have attended MA, TK S, Brookside, or MKA for at least two years, and have graduated from MA, TK S, Brookside, or MKA. Student nominees must have graduated at least five years prior to the year o f nomination. |1 Nominee must have conducted his or her life in keeping with school standards and in ways which reflect positively on MKA. 4. The nomination can be a posthumous award.

5. N om ineil may nominate themselves, be nominated by ajpmni or others.

6. Each year, a minimum o f one qualified male and one qualified female will b'6 .fflffi:ed. Nominations will be kept o n H e for subsequent review.

7. A team may be inducfSd.

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C over A Legacy of Four Generations at MKA: The Deetjen/Schlobohm family look at the ML 5 yearbook picture of father/grandfather/greatgrandfather Rucfolph H. Deetjen I S .

Sitting: Marilea Deetjen Schlobohm with 1st grader Melissa Schlobohm and 3r“ grader Karl Schlobohm. Marilea’s brother, Rudy Deetjen Jr., graduated in the Academy Class of 1950 and served as Head of Campus at MKA’s Middle -:/ School. Standing: Arthur Schlobohm, Vicky Schlobohm, and Trustee Rudy Schlobohm Muriel C. Deetjen, widow of Rudolph Deetjen Sr. and a lifelong friend and benefactor of MKA, died this February.

The Alumni Council is the governing Board, a representative group elected at the Association’s annual meeting to sponsor events and activities linking alumni with their alma mater.

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Karin Strom Aiello ’68 Joseph H. Alessi ’68 Lisa S. Aufzien Hpfe: i Andrew J. Blair ’78, Vice President Robert Cottingham Jr. ’84 Erin Cuffe Crawford ’74 Sara Close Crowther Holly E. Jervis Felber ’83, Executive Vice President Susan Cole Furlong ’78 Jeffrey Gurtman ’97 Frank 1. Hanus ’68 Edward G. Healey ’77,' Treasurer Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76 Peter S. McMullen ’77, President Lauren Moses ’98 Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ’83 Eric F.S. Pai ’79, Secretary Joshua H. Raymond ’89 Rudolph G. Schlobohm 7 4 Sabino T. Rodano ’87 Scott Rumana ’83 Anita E. Sims-Stokes 7 9 Patricia Shean Worthington 7 4 Peter R. Greer, Headmaster Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs Christie Austin, Alumni Director Peter Perretti 72, Assistant Director External Affairs

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The MKA Alumni Association is an organization of all men and women who have attended the Upper School. Its purpose is to make known to MKA the ideas, interests, and concerns of alumni and to inform alumni of the accomplishments and objectives of MKA.

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Andree (Penny) Finkle John E. Garippa, President Linda T. Garippa A. I.awren^ Gaydos Ronald E. Gennace, Vice President Peter R. JSreer, Headmaster Alice M. Hirsh Robert A. Hoonhou»71 iosephine D. Martone Peter S. McMullen J. Clarence Morrison, Vi®! President Anne E. Muenster-Sinton, Secretary Rudolph G. Schlobohm 7 4 Newton B.ytchjffl: Jr., Treasurer Jolinda D. Smith Terence D. Wall Nina Mitchell W eis Walter L. Zweifler

A d v is o r y T r u st e e s Margaret Crawford Bridge '6>5 Edwin J. Delattre Austin V. Koenen Sr. Barry W. Ridings h 3 H Herbert H. Tate Jr. 71 Ronald L. Tobia

H o n o r a r y T ru stees Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 Susan H. Ruddick James S. Vandermade ’35 Member: Alumni Program Council of Independent Schools (APC) Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) New Jersey Association of Independent Schools (NJAIS) Notice of non-discriminatory policy as to students: The Montclair Kimberley Academy admits students of any race, color, creed, and national or ethnic origin.

A LU M N I A SS O C IA T IO N C O U N C IL B A LLO T Election for Alumni Council members will be held at the Annual Meeting o f the M KA Alumni Association on May 12, 1997. M eeting place will be at the Middle School Library, 201 Valley Road, M ontclair, New Jersey. T im e 7 :0 0 p.m.

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

Upon election o f the proposed slate o f nominees*, the Alumni Council for 1997-98 will consist o f the following: T E R M E X P IR IN G 1998 Joseph H. Alessi ’68 Robert Cottingham Jr. ’84 Susan Cole Furlong ’78 Edward G . Healey ’7 7 Laurie H oonhout M cFeeley ’76 Peter S. M cM ullen ’7 7 Eric F. S. Pai ’79 Anita E . Sims-Stokes ’79

T E R M EX P IR IN G 1999 Karin Strom Aiello ’68 Erin Cuffe Crawford ’74 Holly Jervis Felber ’83 Frank Jay Hanus ’68 Kristine Hatzenbuhler O ’Connor ’83 Scott Rumana ’83 A D V ISO R Y Lori W ind olf Crispo ’78 M artha Bonsai Day ’74 J. Dean Paolucci ’73

T E R M E X P IR IN G 2 000* Lisa S. Aufzien ’76 Andrew J . Blair ’78 Jennifer Jones Ladda ’84 Mark M cGowan ’85 Doreen Oliver ’92 Joshua H. Raymond ’89 Sabino T . Rodano’87 Pat Shean W orthington ’74

T he following persons presently on the Alumni Council have been nominated to serve as officers o f the Alumni Association for 1996-98. These officers will be elected by the Alumni Council at its annual meeting on M ay 12, 1997: P resid en t...................................................Peter S. M cM ullen ’7 7 Executive Vice President........................Holly Jervis Felber ’83 V ice President ................................................. Andrew J . Blair ’78

Secretary................................................... Pat Shean W orthington ’7 4 T rea su rer.........................................................Edward G . Healey ’7 7

T he undersigned hereby appoints Peter S. M cM ullen ’7 7 Proxy to vote F O R _______A G A IN ST_______ the election o f the proposed members o f T he Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Council at the annual meeting to be held May 12, 1997 as set forth in the spring issue o f the M KA Review magazine.

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Brookside’s third grade publicity team arrives at The M ontclair Times to promote Book Week publications.