Spring 1998 MKA Review Magazine

SPRING 1998

C over Brookside students wave at Gathering V. “From the Headmaster, MGathering V,” and the lead artidlS'Stewards of MKA.”

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From the Headmaster 1' From the Board of Trustees 7 Gathering Stewards of MKA 4 Notes Around MKA 8 Cougar Sports 12 Pool Ceremony 13 PAMKA Lecture Seifes Retrospective 14 Athletic Hall of Fame III 15 From the Alumni Association On the Road With MKAwjionnecticut 18 Class Motes 19

R e v ie w E d it o r s Christie Austin Judy Polonofsky

P h o t o C r e d it s Christie Austin Jeff Goldman. .'David Hollander Susan Debbie Kozak Sat Tsufura Published twice yearly by: The Montclair Kimberley Academy 201 Valley Road, M o n i c a NJ 07042 973/746-9800 • FAX: 9 7 |l 7 8 3 : - |3 M http://www.mka.inter.het Entered as third class matter at Mona lair NJ 0 7 0 4 g |§ Design: Gemini Studio, Inc., Montclair NJ Printed on recycled paper , The MKA Alumni Association is an organization of all men and wom en w ho have attended the Upper School. Its purpose is to make known to MKA the ideiis, interests, and concerns of alumni and to inform alumni o f the t|S>m plishm ents and olgffictives of MKA. The AlumrflfCouncil is the governing Board, a representative groupSelected at the Association’s annual meeting to sponsor events and activities linking alumni with their alma mater.

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1997-98 Karin Strom Aiell^ 6 8 Joseph H. Alessi ’68 Lisa S. Aufzien ’76 Andrewffl Blair ’78, Vice President Robert Cottingham Jr. ’84 Erin Cuffe Crawford ’MSB Holly E. Jervis Felber ’83, Executive Vice President Susan Cole Furlong 7 8 Edward ©. Healey JtiSrTreasurer Jennifer Js^nejsXadda ’84 Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley 7 6 Mark McGowan ’|f|i Peter S. McMullen 77, President Lauren Moses ’98 Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ’83 Eric F.S. Pai 79, Secretary Marc Ponzio ’99 Joshua H. Raymond ’89 Sabino T. Rodano ’87 Scott Rumana ’83 Anita E. Sims-Stokes: 7*9 Patricia Shean Worthington 7 4 Peter R. Gf ll5 l Headmaster Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs Christie Austin, Alumni Director Peter Perretti 72, Assistant Director External Affairs

A d v i s o r y C o u n c il Lori Windolf Crispo 7 8 Martha Bonsai Day 7 4 J. Dean Paolucci 7 3

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Martha Bonsai Day 7 4 Paul G. Edwards George W. Egan Andree (Penny) Finkle : John E. Garippa, President Linda T. Garippa A. Lawrence Gaydos Ronald E. Gennace, Vice President Peter R. Greer, Headmaster Alice M. Hirsh Jdgephine D. Martone Peter S. McMullen ’77 J. Clarence Morrison, Vice President Michael L. Rodburg Anne E. Muenster-Sinton, Secretary.

Rudolph G. Schlobohm%4 Newton B. Schott Jr., Treasurer Jolinda D. Smith

David L. Turock Terence D. Wall Walter L. Zweifler

A d v is o r y T rustees Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 Edwin J. Delattre Austin V. Koenen Sr. Barry W. Ridings B() Herbert 11, ’liatdjr. 7 1

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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) N ew Jersey Association of Independent Schoo||(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.

From the Headmaster

Dear MKA Community, I was new to MKA. It occurred to me that there was no time when all students, faculty, and staff members in grades K-12 were together to celebrate the sense of continuity, high spirit, and exceptional companionship found at our wonderful school. With the assistance of Judy Polonofsky, Director wf External Affairs, and others, we took a chance and tried a new event - The Gathering. It sounds like the title of a Stephen King novel, but The Gathering is a moment in time that has become a favorite spot in the calendar for students, faculty, and staff, a hot ticket for parents, and a strong traditiongow of five years.

for his debut as a dance partner of English teacher Sharanya Naik; 3rd grader Samuel Deutsch playing a violin-viola duet with music teacher Peg Roberts; senior faculty member Ken Gibson delighting the crowd when he picked up his caneflprang out of his chair, and danced with a former Broadway star/faculty member with a light-footedness akin to Fred Astaire; the thunderous and emotional applijise for custodians Julius Della Rovere and Richard Fleming when they received the special MKA sweaters for heroic actions® the Upper School; the deportment and deep respect shown for student achievements by.all thefltudents; and, of courstmMr. and Mrs. Fish!

The first Gathering in 1993 was such a surprise and so much fun that a delegation of Upper School students met with me and demanded that I never agamlbring in an outside group to their Gathering. They were talking about a group I had invited from Maine, “Mr. and Mrs. Fish.” (I never did understand why Mr. and Mrs. Fish were not a hit; I thought they were great!) Since that time, Gatherings II-V have featured such events as dance performances by our faculty and students, the presentation of academic awards and MKA’s special sweaters, the power of entire campuses singing to the other campuses, instrumental performances (the Brookside Bellringers, violinists, jazz bands), cheerleaders and the Step Team exciting the crowd, inspiring words from alumni (from classes as far back as 1929), and always one surprise.

The cover photo of this! ||Sue and pages within give you a sense of the students’ joy and anticipation at Gathering V. Again thigjyear, I marched in with the platform party, looked out at more than one thousand students, facultyc;and staff, delighted in how our older students eyed the younger students and perhaps saw themselves from long ago, appreciated how the younger students eyed the older,students with curi<||ity and respect, and marveled that our MKA may well have a new tradition - one that brings us together once a year as a total community. A tradition that clarifies):' and declares to all assembled that we enjoy each other’s company, that we enjoy each other’s talents and achievements,ignd that amidst the constant rigor and study, we i i n be childlikefend have loads of fun.

My most memorable moments include science teacher George Mixon missing just before his performance and then found alone in a classroom psyching himself up

Sincerely, Dr. Peter R. Greer Headmaster

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From the Board o f Trustees Two traditional school events. Home<pming and the Gathering,Berved as gcasiowi^M hontj^specdal

Trustees for their tireless, above-and-beyond ' •.; ,|®mmitment to MKA.

Headmaster Peter Greerpresents ¡thefirst official MKA stadium blanket to Trustees Linda Garippa and John Garippafor their extraordinary commitment to MKA.

Dr. Greerpresents specialMKA sweaters to Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’5 4 - Woo, since the merger in 1974, has served in every office on the Board o f Trustees-and been an Adifisjory Trustee - and current Trustee/parentJodi Smith. Thejjsfjeaters cannot be purchased; they are awarded to members o f the MKA communimMstudents, staff, faculty, alumni, Trustees)for meritorious achievement and/or service to the school.

In Memoriam: W alter J. Sperling Jr., M.D. ’34 1917-1997

Their six children all attended the Academy, Kimberley, or MKA: Walter J. Sperling III ’67, Jean Sperling Catherwood ’68, John 72, Douglas 73/ David 75, Louise K f.

“He was a good doctor for many,” wrote his namesake, Walter III. “Few people get to do ¡Ibmething they love m much, and for which they are so well suited, as their life’s work.”

The Montclair Kimberley Academy notes with sadness the death of an outstanding alumnu^H Waiffer J. Sperling Ji f Class of 1934. Walter served as presidentBf the Medical Board at Mountainside Hospital, as president of the MA Alumni Association, and for almost a decade as% Trustee of Moriralir Academy Foundation. His wife, (Mlletta Sperling, also served asjgjn Academy Trustee.

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Gathering V

Representatives o f all three campuses signed the new Code o f Honor.

Seniorfaculty member Ken Gibson stopped the show with d soft-shoe routine. He carries the cane used by Montclair Academyfounder John MacVicar.

When popular faculty member Ralph Pacific^ received an MKA Sweater, Brookside students erupted in a flurry of handmade signs congratulating and cheering “Coach P.” The band played, membersraf the Step Team did an intricate drill, and modem dancers performed an original number. At last year’s Gathering IV, Head master Peter Greer did a surprise appearance with the dancers; this year sSjiior faculty mej^pef Ken Gibson rose for a little soft-^ioe, complete with caneU ■

Who will be the surprise mystery dancer this year? What banners will unfurl? Who will receive an MKA Sweater?

Can Brooksiders keep a secret? .

Those were the thoughts alp students, faculty, staff, and administration from all three campuses filed into the Upper School Gym to MKA’s fifth annual Gathering in -September. The joyous celebration officially marks the opening of the'.school year and celebrates recent accomplishments of teams, students, and faculty.

Thundrous applause went to third-grader Sam Deutsch, who stood on a box to p!a$? a Mozart piece g$h his violin. As is now traditional, third-grade Bellringers closed the Gathering with thelgchool song.

This year’s notable event was the signing of the MKA Code of Honor by representatives from each campus Senior Faculty, Students, Staff, Maintenance, Administration. Academic honors were announced, teams and their coaches accepted trophies, and the latest banners unfurled on cue.

William Farlie, Mayor o f the Township o f Montclair and a former MKA parent, addressed the Gathering.

After the Gathering, following another tradition, stu d en t planted a tree on each campus.

Brookside students erupt in a flurry o f handmade signs congratulating “Coach PWt Ralph Pacifica - fo r receiving an MKA Wjpeater award,

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Third grade violinist Sam Deutsch received thundrous applame.

Graduation 1915, Graduation 1997: Roses and long white dresses

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by Christie Austin and Debbie Kozak In the late 14th century, the m em bers o f New C ollege at O xford m oved into their quadrangle, the first structure o f its kind, intended to provide for the residents all that th ey needed. On the north side o f the quadrangle sat the chapel and the great h all - beautiful buildings, and, as you m ight im agine, the focus o f life at the college. In the m iddle o f the n ineteenth century, alm ost 500 years later, the college hired architect Sir Gilbert Scott to restore the roof o f the hall. The ro o f and the great oak beam s that support it had badly rotted. And so representatives from the college w ith Sir Gilbert visited Great H all W oods in Berkshire, w h ere th ey expected to find trees for replacem ent beam s. Sure enough, the replace­ m ents w ere standing there, w aiting to be cut out o f the livin g oak trees planted a century before just for that purpose.

Today’s MKA jf^lthough at the cutting edge in curriculum and technology - encompasses many traditions set years ago that alumni remember. Many events and activities are the direct descendants ofjl earlier customs, though perhaps people are not aware of it. At Commencement, for example, girls wear long white dresses and carry a red rose. This tradition goes* back ninety years, to the very first Kimberley graduation in 1909- (The Alumni Office still has the first graduation dress of lawn and lace, which is trotted o i for special occasions.)

The song sung by the Mastersingers at Commencement, “The Last Words of David,” was sung at Montclair Academy graduations in the Sixties. The Mastersingers themselves are descended from the Academy’s Mastersingers and Kimberley’s Ooragnaks (“kangaroo” the school mascot - spelled backward). The highest graduation award, CumLaudmwas established in ■ 1M1; today’s recipients still wear the distinctive yellow ribbon - and their Cum Laude induction receptioiM features the old sterling Kimberley tea service.

Every generation ¡ipl the grMindwork for the next.

Seeds planted in one generation Continue to grow and bear fruit in later gSèratkfls. The plans and actio* of our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents detljfepe our roots and who we are.

The G athering

A n|^> it is with a school. The Montclair Kimberley Academy is got just toda|fs students, faculty, parents and T ru ag p p t Is the sum of those who went before, who planned and acted and made their mark.

The MKA annual Gathering, now in its fifth year, brings all three campuses together for a joyous celebration.

Awards are presented for all to see and the latest athletic banners are unfurled, joining their predecessors in the gym. The most senior faculty member, Ken

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A Kimberley alumna, touring the Middle School during h | | 50th reunion H || fall, spotted a May Day picture from 1936 and identified herself as sme of the flower girls. B I can’t te§£you how much it m eansfi^H said, “to see a bit of the past.”

Gibson, leads a procession of faculty and students representing each campus. He carried the cane used

by Academy founder John MacVicar, which was presented to him by the Alumni Association in the 1920s. Dr. Peter Greer carried that same cane at his Investiture in 1992, thus physically uniting school h» Headmasters seventy years apart.

In addition to such tangible traditions at MKA, other activities are rooted in eras past. MKA’s holiday and .spring concerts date back to glee clubs founded in .I9O6 (Academy) and 1934 (Kimberj||0; joint concerts pegan in 1934 during intermission of the first “K-A play.” Drama itself has always been featured.

Montclair Military Academy cadets put on their first play in 1900; Kimberley did “Robin Hood” outdoors in 1906. “South Pacific,” produced the year pf the merger in 1974-75, began the series of wonderful winter MKA musicals - one of the highlights of the Upper School experience and the one which involves the most students.

The undisputed favorite of every Gathering is the litde Brookside Bellringers, third graders who play: belli,first brought over from England in 1937. They were used at Kimberley vespers and graduation, and now ring out the school song. Brookside continues another Kimberley tradition in the spring, Maypole Dance.

The Headmaster rings school into session each year and closes it at the final faculty meeting - with a heavy brass bell once used to signal the change of classes at Montclair Academy.

In the Presidents’ Conference Room near the Headmaster’s office - beneath the gaze of all the Presidents of the MKA Board ofttrustees - new Trustees begin their terms by signing a leather book with a pen which belonged to the Kimberley founder, Mary Kimberley Waring. The book rests on a desk from Miss Waring’s School.

Some of the s p o ts rivalries go back for generations, too; the Academy-ys,.-Newark game - now the Thanksgiving Day game - dates back to 18,93; A newer rivalry is the popular Powder Puff Game, a Junior-vs.Senior girls’ touch football game coached by varsity players. That began in the early 1980s, though some believe its Origins were the 1970s when Kimberley girls dared Academy hockey players to try field hockey.

W ithin These H alls

The Alum ni

Anyone who has visited MKA campuses in the last year will have noticed the addition of handsome vintage photos in the halls. Their impact was deep and immediate: students stop to Esok at the pictures often and they think about what they see. Military Academy cadets paraded where now athletic teams play football, soccer and lacrosse. One eighth grade girl looked at a football picture from 1896 and asked if they were playing rugby, because the uniforms looked too sparse for football.

The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alum ni Association will support The Montclair Kimberley Academy and its graduates by m aintaining and nurturing the active connection between Alumni and all members o f the school community. Mission Statement, September 1994 With a school, those of the past - the alumni - have th<| opportunity to transcend their own time and bjlffb art of the present. Alumni support the school with their time, with their money, and with their efforts. Last fall,

MKA Bellringers 1997- Brookside third graders.

Thefirst Kimberley Bellringers, 1937■ The bells, made in 1869, were brought overfrom England by Kimberley music teachers. .

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their careers with Upper School students. Alumni and parents also - through the Office of Career Services offer networking, internships, and career advice to young college-age alumni. The .ultimate affirmation of support is when alumni send their own children tp the school. In 1997-98, twenty alumni are MKA parents, sending thirty-two alumni children within the halls and on the fields. Some o f these students represent the fourth generation to attend the Academy, KimberBy, or MKA. The Parents

The need fo r a Parents and Teachers Association in the Montclair Academy is being felt increasingly as the school grows and more complicated problems have to be solved. The purpose o f such an association is to bring the home and the school into closer contact so that the parents and the teachers may cooperate more intelligently in the education and development o f our children. Letter to parents, November 14, 1930

H eadm aster P eter G reer rings in each schoolyea r w ith tM b ell used to signal th e change o f classes a t M o n tcla ir A cadem y u n til the early 1920s.

for example, swimmers and water polo pla \ C'rs from the glory d a « of the 1970s donated money to refurbish the pool - and then defeated the current varsity in an impromptu meet. Alumni (and parfifits and friends) also make generous planned gifts to support the endowment.

PAMKA is a parent volunteer organization established to provide opportunitiesfo r parents to participate in the support and enhancement o f the students’ educational experience at MKA. PAMKA Statement o f Purpose, September 1997

What alumni often cherish most about a school is a particular teacher w h o || classes awakened their imagination and inteijjst. In hoiior of those wonderful teachenfj the Alumni Association presents the Founders’ Cup each year to that faculty member who represents the best of teaching excellence. A portrait gallery of Founders' Cup recipients gracS the walls of every campus, joining legendary Kimberley, Academy, .and jgrookside teachers.

While the rationale for parental involvement at MKA may not have changed substantially in more than sixty years,, the «cope and effectiveness of such involvement undcfSibtedly has. The Montclair Academy Paren#|§| Teacher Ass|»ation ofH936-37 dispersed the then-notinconsiderable sum of $832.44 to the school. Last year PAMKA raisl’J iknd returned to MKA almost $200,000 a remarkable figure, even allowing for inflation.

Today’s Parents’ Association of The Montclair Kim­ berley Academy (PAMKA) is a vital and constantly evolving body, one whose positive influence was noted in the designawm of the Upper School as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.

The Alumni Association sponsors fundraisers every year specifically for faculty endowment. It also ‘nurtures the connection” by organizing events such as Career Day, whereby alumni return to speak about

PAMKA Bookfair 1996

B rookside B o o kfa ir 1960s.

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Throughout all of PAMKA’s activities, the goal of enhancing the educational experiences of the students ra never lost. Funds raised by the Book Fair are returned to the libraries, with the remainder being used to purchase items requested in faculty “wish lists.’

PAMKA funds directly support faculty continuing education through the PAMKA Faculty Trust and foster a strong MKA community through the sponsorship of special events, programs and social activities which benefit parents and stueS ts alike.

Our thanks to th ose w h o w en t before And set a standard high: K now ledge, v ision , integrity, Great truths that never die.

W ithin th ese halls and on th ese fields We w ear the green and blue, OhMKA, ohM KA, Our song w e sin g to you. h Wecond verse o f school song Nixon Bicknell, Lois Riley 1984,1987

As times change, so do the needs of a school and its constituents, and PAMKA sponsorship of ¡substance abuse awareness program for parents and safe, supervised Friday night social activities for seventh to twelfth graders reflect these changing times.

More than 70 percent of the 820 familiesEt MKA today are actively involved in PAMKA, from being class parents to organizing visiting speakers. Parents support and run an annual book fair, which this year sold thousands of dollars worth of books and gift wrap for a profiflpf more than $23,000. PAMKA holds gradelevel social events for parents and feeds hungry Upper School students at the Survival Shop. Parents also organize, attend, and contribute to PAMKA’s annual fundraising extravaganza, lih e Skyis' the Limit.” This blockbuster event has been held every spring for the past six years, and involves a live auction, silent auction, raffle, dinner, and dancing. Guests can bid on items as diverse as a tie decorated by Brooksiders to Wk week at a luxury vacation home, and every year the event grows, not only in its financial success (last year $165,000 was raised) but also in volunteer participation and attendance.

Time and again, newspapers and research data contend that there is a direct correlation between the success of students and the degree of parental involvement in a schfpl. The commitment, dedication and energy of today’s PAMKA wojald make its predecessors proud, and is a powerful statement not only of the strength of today’s MKA, but of the strong belief in its future.

Alum ni, Parents, and Students: Two Views o f Career Services

have obtained summer internships in fields such as publishing, the arts, sports, and business. Alumnus Jason Late ’91 got a full-time position. During his senior year at the University of Southern California where his major was petroleum engineering and his minor, economics - Jason used thq,JBank to speak about investment banking positions with MKA parents,and alumni. He subsequently took a job as a petroleunSg engineer in the feld, but maintained contact with parent Rick AndlingeS “We developed a rapport in the interview,” Jason .recalls. When Andlinger formed his own alternative fuels company, Pure Energy-Corp., two years, later, he remembered Jasbn and offered him a job!

The Bank of Community Resources is one aspect of MKA’s Career Services program. Parents, alumni, and faculty register their interests and expertise, and are called on to enhance classwork. An example: Middle School faculty member Linda Bollettigife used the listing and invited Upper School faculty member Warren Marchioni to her 8th grade Spanish class. Warren showed slides that illustrated research in the rain forest of Belize - including revelations about trick photography in the James Bond movie “Dr. No” (the tarantulas).

Thus students were introduced to the possibility of combining language with international scientific research.

Career Services also provides career counseling anc® “networking” advice to recent MKA graduates. Many

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Notes Around MKA At the opening 1997-98 faculty meeting, Headmaster Peter Order and John Garippa, President of the Board of Trustees, thanked Col. Thomas Cooper and Deborah Jennings for 10 \ ears of devotion to MKA. The Headmaster is very proud to announce...

N ational Merit Finalists

Leigh Guarinello Daniel Wolfe Emily Zackin N ational Merit Com m endations

Parag Butala Matthew Hays Anastasia Lambert Lauren Moses Anthony Ndu Aneeta Saxena KateScelsaSlI Daniel Strader N ational A chievem ent Finalists

Lauren Moses Anthony Ndu N ational A chievem ent Com m endations

Dashiei Fryer Pretar Passe Edward J. B loustein D istinguished Scholars

Parag Butala Gemma Giantomasi Leigh Guarinello Anastasia Lambert Lauren Richard O'Brien Kate Scelsa Devon Wagner Emil$t Zackin AP Scholars w ith H onors

Abby Love ’97 Ellen Stern ’97 • Faculty member Geoffrey Branigan was nominated by former MKA students at Tufts University as .an inspirational teacher “who had contributeSsignificantly to their intellectual and personal development.”

Branigan htH also revived a meritorious teaching award from Amherst College.

• UpH^School faculty member David Hessler was selected to serve on the Educational TestinggServicifjS iTeáfcher Assessment Development Team for the National Board for Professional Teaching^Standards." •

• Faculty member Brother Patrick Carney has written a chapter, “The Impact of Dgfcrete Mathematics in My Classrooom,” in Discrete Mathematics in the Schools, a recent publication of the American Mathematical Society of the National Council of Teachers ¡S’ Mathematics.

• A film crew visited Upper School faculty member Judy Nesbit and henstudents in a Discrete Math class as part of a National Science foundation grant-funded project called FANS (Families Achieving the p e w Standards in Mathematics,. Science, and Technology).

Nesbit lectures in the Leadership Program in Discrete Math at Rutgers University, and presented a workshop, “Patty Paper, Paper Tape, and Precalculus,” at the January conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in St. Lolpf'G • Headmaster Peter Greer had an article published in the NAIS (National Association of Independent Schools) Academic Forum entitled, “The Moral Life of Montclair Kimberley Academy.” In it lf| exwained MKA’s special ethics program and its integration into,- , daily life at school. Another Greer piece, “Respect: Making It Stick,” appeared as the lead article in the December issue of Character, a newsletter of Boston University’s Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character.

A third article, “Teaching Virtue,” was the featured “Commentary” in the February 4th Education Week newspaper. In it Dr. Greer discusses four issues pertinent to ethics education: grounding teachers in the study of ethics, including the entire teaching community, integrating study into every aspect of the school, and providing á framework for students’ understanding of what they are learning.

• Charlaine Charlton, Academic Dean and incoming Head of Campus at the Upper School, has accepted a three-year term on the NAIS Committee for Women and girls in Independent Schools.

• Brookside faculty member Ralph Pacifico will be IhduSed into the University of New Haven Hall < |||| Fame this spring. Pacificcgwho played professional fjSfrtball with the Philadelphia Eagles, coaches MKA varsity football and ba^ball.

• The Maryland Sun’s Web site “Sunspot” quoted faculty member Judy Nesbit in a September article on bobbin lace making. Nesbit, who is president of the International Old Lacers, is taking a leave second sem ester to dirMt the bobbin lacé club, which has 1,600 members from more than 20 countries.

• The MKA Math Team won the Delta Divisionof the New Jersey Math League. Coached by Boyd Herforth, thelfeam was made upief MKA’s top five scorers: Sophomores Aaron Feigenbaum, Emmanuel Go (who was t i d for third in thSstate), Deborah Katz, Fran De La Torre, and senior Rich O’Brien. Iloach Herforth says, “It H notable that four of the five are Sophomores!” The achievement is hailed^Bkn endorsement of MKA’s Chicago Math program - now taught K-12 - which many students enSuntered in Middle School. The team was selected in two qualifying jpontests in thffiall.

• Congratulations to faculty members Cheryl Best, Lynn Salehi, Randall Svane, and Jenny Zagarielp » r their designations,J| recipients of the new PAMKAfuncled Faculty Trust Gran®, They will do their sustained studies in Indonesia, Greece, Rome, and Belize, respectively.

• Fifth grader David Billig made his operatic debut as Amahl in the Bloomfield Federation of Music production of “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” David gave thanks in the pwgram to Middle School faculty member Lowse Wciglafka | | r guiding his vocal development.

Review The fall issue of the MKA Review has provoked much comment and rave reviews from around the country.

New Academ ic Team

Headmaster Peter Greer announced that Assistant Head/Academic Dean Charlaine Charlton would «.become the next Upper School Head of Campus and that David Flocco will be Assistant Head.

Deborah Jennings will become Academic Dean.

From Nien Cheng, revered exemplar and subject o f the striking cover:

The new team will take over in July with the departure of Upper School Head Tim Sabum, who has accepted the position of Headmaster at Saddle River Day School, an independent day school with about 270 students. "For seven years, Saburn and Charlton have been a strong team that led a powerful academic climate at our Blue Ribbon School,” wrote Dr. Greer. “We are fortunate to have on board experienced and eminently qualified professionals ready to take on the responsibilities associated with school leadership.”

I am just overwhelmed to B e your fall magazine with the beautiful red cover. When you mentioned having my photo on the cover, I thought you meant having me among others. I never dreamed you were to have this old lady alone and so prominently. I know I do not deservjlsuch a great honor....I ^ ® lv e ^ H improve and try to live up to your gpOd opinion of me, and © t to||et you down...It will give me great pleasure to See you and your students.

We will have a nice talk and I will be happy to answer their questions.

“Char’s long-standing ties to MKA, including her long and distinguished service here, her scholarship in the field of mathematics, her brilliant teaching ability, and her devotion to MKA...make her particularly well-suited to bring us the leadership on which we must insist.”

From John Silber, Chancellor o f Boston University: Thank you for the Fall 1997 Montclair Kimberley Academy Review. It is interesting that in its pageg, two women w l» have led diametrically opposed livesmre «ought* together by their shared friendship with the school: Olive Cawley Watson anc^Hen Cheng. As always, it is JM pleasure to be reminded of the fine work being done at the Academy. Your continujlfl emphasis on ethicsmnd citizefi|ip is increasingly important.

Flocco is currently Freshman Dean and leader of the.: Citizenship Core curriculum. Jenningsy; ; Department Chair of Foreign Languages and Admissions Coordinator, wrote and edited MKA’s successful Blue Ribbon application.

Michael Napolitano, President of the Student Council, said of Tim Saburn, “More important than admissions statistics and honors is Mr. Saburn as a person. We know his door is always o p e » .. He relates to us, not only as an administrator but also as a friend - concerned and passionate about the school and about each of us.”

AddenduaS Dr. Stephen Tigner, pictured as a Imentor in the fall RevieiF^krticle; on Ethics, is also distinguished as a member of the faculty at the Boston University School of Education.

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A Moment iofLevity: Dr. Greerposes with Upper School winners o f Bad Tie/Bad Shoe Day. Left to right:faculty member Peg Roberts, senior Angela Mulligan, staffmember Irene Maran, 9th grader Sam Schneider, and Student Councilpresident M ike Napolitano. Missingfrom photo: Middle School winners Sherri Eldin and Joshua Rudbart.

Faculty mqrnbers Denise Brown-Alien, Judy Nesbit, and K ef Wilson (left) pose with .students on Denim Day, which raised SJ&OOfor breast cancer research.

Each award is made with enthusiasm for 1) the terrible badjudgment in wearing such a tie andfor wearing such tasteless shoes, and fo r 2) the clear unattractiveness o f both the tie and the shoes.

Please Wear D enim

More than 70 percent of the Upper School students, faculty, and staff participated in National Denim Day on October 10, a unique opportunity to raise funds for breast cancer research and awareness. With a donation of $5, each participant was given a pink ribbon lapel pin and f|brmission to repgtlthe dress code and wear denim.

There was an overwhelming response the last day of the drive. One advisor matched her advisees’ donations dollar for dollar. Mothers matched their s « s ’ donations. Many students donafg’d even though they dressed in regular attire. The school raised more than $1,700 for the Susan G Komen Foundation.

Exchange student Philip Stenner o f Germany (pictured) and faculty member Elena Rakova o f Russia (notpictured) discussed how ethical behavior is taught in their respective countries in one o f Dr. Greers ethim klasses.

“Over the past few years many membeii of The Montclair Kimberley Academy community have^een touched by cancel” sayshE|enise Brown-Allen, Dean of Student Lif<^ “Those who have fought a personal battle with canc'èr and won or lost loved ones in the battle anJIbegarded as heroes in the MKA community....The student body was focused on working, together toffMIsg money for a very worthy cause, not just on wearing jeans to school.”

Popular visiting instructor Ruby Bridges H all visited MKA again to promote discussion o f diversity. H all - who as a little girl integrated an elementary school in New Orleans in 1960 and was the subject o f a Norman Rockwellpainting - is now the subject o f a Disney movie, which aired in January.

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Last June MKA hosted 40 Chlnese-gducatorsj- who were on a mission to gain insights into American high school Education - specifically as it impacts charaffer education. MKA was suggested by Thomas Lickona, author of Educating fo r Character.

C hinese at MKA

Five Upper School students and one Acuity member are studying Mandarin Chinese as a second foreign language. The unique thing about this class is that the instructor, Xiaoyang Zhou, is in a videoconference rooS at Boston University. The cMm meets daily during the second lunch block at MKA’s Distance Learning Room, and two-way interaction is supplemented by written work, which §f faxed from the room directly to B.U.

The Chinese delegates - who w p e eacMresponsible for more than a millift. children in their respective school districts fin d their interpreters were |ket'byj) Headmaster Peter Greer, Head of Campus Tim Saburn, Trustee Jolinda Smith, and some recent graduates of MKA. Alumna Shan-Shan Yam ”95 and Lillian Labowsky, an MKA parent, acted;.¡0 interpreters. In addition to iS; tour of the campus and an address by Dr. Greer, there was a lengthy question-and-answer session. "

“Aside from the electronic aspect, the course works like any other,”;say.s Zhou, a native Chinese, in an article in B.U. Bridge magazine (October 1997). “We’re using college textbooks and other college material. We do grammar and practice conversation and writing Chinese characters. I give dictation lessons and the students fax me their papers.” In January,, “virtual classroom” professor Zhou visited MKA live and in person.

The Chinese visit to MKA, sponsored by a NSW York foundation, came between a two-day conference!; on Exploring Models of Character Expectation and a trip to Washington, D.C., which included breakfast with senators on Capitol Hill. The MKA visit and chancáffl to interact on such ^personal level with stui lents and faculty was reportedly one of the highlights of their trip.

In another Chinese connection, students taking an East Asian history elective benefited from firsthand insights into modern Chinese business and culture from Austin Koenen, former President of the MKA Board of Trustees and parent of three alumni. Koenen, deputy CEO of the investment firm Morgan Stanley, is on loan to the Chinese Government to advise them on economic growth.

Again thanks to the wonders of the Distance Learning Room, these history students - together with those taking Dr. Greer’s ethics course - met with Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai and moral exemplar (she was the cover subject of the fall MKA Revieiv). From Washington, D.C., Nien Cheng reportedly mesmerized the students with her profoufid responses to their prepared questions about how she survived imprisonment, her upbringing in China, and her thoughts about China’s future.

Tim Sahurn, Upper School Head o f Campus, conducts an EastAsian history class in the Distance Learning Room with Nien Chengwthere% from Washington.

Austin Koenen, former President o f the MKA Board o f Trustees, gives insight into modem China, where he is “on loan" to the Chinese government.

Headmaster Peter Greer and TrusteeJolinda Smith, center, receive a gift from a delegation o f Chinese educators visiting MKA. On the right, alumna Shan-Shah Yam ’9 5 and MKA parent Lillian Labowsky, who served as tour guides and interpreters, look on.,

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Cougar Awards and Honors CHC = Colonial Hills Conference (Colonial Division) ECCA = Essex County Coaches Association NJIS = New jersey Independent Schools Football 1-8 Joshua Daniels ’98 Division CHC Laquan Majette ’98 Anthony Ndu ’98 Peter Tiboris ’98

Tri-Captain, .Coach’s Award, 2nd Team Tackle, Hills

Alan Davson ’99 Michael Latzoni ’99 Kevin Koenig ’00

Tri-Captain "Weiner Award, Honorable Mention, Hills Division CHC Tri-Captain, 1st Team Defensive Back, Hills Divisiop CHC Honorable Mention, Hills Division CHC MVP, 1st Team Linebacker, Hills Division CHC 2nd Team Wide Receiver, Hills Division CHC

Field Hockey 3-9-3 ;; Olivia Kaplan ’98 Thea fesfezny (99 Nelli Bollettino ’00 Courtney Knowlton 00 Natalie ''crock ’01

Captain, 2nd Team AllgEHC, MVP JV, MVP Honorable Mention All CHC 2nd Team All CHC, Coach’s Award JV Coach’s Award

Girl’s Soccer 13-5-1 Monica Ann Manginello ’98 Rachel Roth ’98 Emily Berman 99 Niamh HugheaBD Roxanne Esposito 00 Danielle Greer ’00 Laura Schrager 00 Kimberly Smith ’00 Candice Watkins ’00 Rachel Weary 00

Co-Captain, Coach’s Award, 1st Team Hills Division, CHC 3rd Team Essex County Co-Captain, Coach’s Award, 2nd Team Hills Division, CHC 2nd Team Hills Division, CHC 2nd Team Hills Division, CHC 1st Team Hills Division, CHC 1st Team Hills Division, C H fij 2nd Team Essex County 2nd Team Hills Division, CHC Honorable M o tio n , CHC lstTeamBKIx County, 1st Team Hills Division, CHC Honorable Mention, CHC

Boy’s Soccer 12-5 David Fox ’99 Geoffrey Roehm ’99 LeRoy Watkins ’99 Duncan Currie ’00 ¿Alexander Materna ’ 00 James Parke ’00 Atif Siddiqui ’00 Peter Ebling ’01 Craig Hirsh ’01 Wesley K irk’01 Matthew Nielsten ’01

Tri-Captain, State Prep 2nd Team, 1st Team Hills Division, CHC Tri-Captain, Co-MVP, State Prep 2nd Team, 3rd Team Essex County, 1st Team Hills Division, CHC Tri-Captain, Co-MVP, State Prep 1st Team, 1st Team Hills Division, CHC 2nd Team Flills Division, CMC Honorable Mention Hills Division,CHC 2nd Team Hills Division,^^HC Honorable Mention Hills Division, CHC JV Co-MVP State Prep Honefeble Mention,i||hd Team Hills Division CHC Honorable Mention Hills Division, CHC JV Co-MVP

Varsity Tennis 1 1-5 Jessica Gerstein ’99 Michelle Kawecki ’99 Alexandra Sious ’99 Ashley Griffin ’00 ^ £ i n a Gurkoff ’00 Kristen Pugno ’00 Lauren Stefanchik ’01 Cross Country 1-12 Cara Smith ’98 Alexander Holz ’99 Philip Mazo ’99 James Varkala ’99

Co-Captain, 2nd Team 2nd SinglM Hills Division CHC . C©- Captain, Co-MVP, 2nd Team, 1st Singles, Hills Division, CHC Co-MVP, 2nd Team, 3rd Singles, Hills Division, CHC 2nd Team, 2nd Doubles, Hills Division, CHC 2nd Team, 2nd Doubles, Hills Division, CHC 2nd Team, 1st Doubles, Hills Division, CHC^bl 2nd Tea®H?;lst Doubles, 1 [ills Division, CHC C<sEaj>tain Coach’s Award Co-Captain MVP

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Big Splash

Members o f the New York Athletic Club waterpolo team gave a water polo demonstration.

Cutting the ribbon to the refurbishedpool: M ark Baran 74, Bill Dioguardi 76., Headmaster Peter Greer, Assistant Head o f Campus Char Charlton, Scott Schulte 77, Head o f Campus Tim Sabum, President o f the Board o f Trustees John Garippa (partially hidden), junior Emily Berman, swim team coach Dave Flocco.

A highlight of Homecoming 1997 was the morning Pool Ceremony, an event filled with pride, joy, nostalgia, and fan. The event marked the rededication of the Upper School pool after renovations and the unveiling of a record board and new electronic touchpads and scoreboard.

A team of alumni, led by Bill Dioguardi ’76 and Scott Schultelpf, raised money for the pool. An MKA parent - who had once competed against them in high school - was so moved by the ceremony that he too contributed to the drive. Thus it was touching and appropriate that what had been an alumni, drive reached almost $30,000 in gifts and pledges from alumni, alumni parents, and a current parent.

After warm recollections of the glory days of MKA swimming, ribbon cutting, and unveiling of the new record and scoreboards, Spectators were treated to a relay race and water polo exhibition in the “new and improved” pool.

Scott Schulte 7 7 accepts mikefrom teammate Bill Dioguardi 7@mThe two, who led a fundraising drive to refurbish the pool, spoke about MKA’s championship waferpolo and swim teams..

The school is most grateful to all those who have pledged or contributed their support to the pod® MKA also invites any ■alumjvi who may h ||d a swimming record to contact the Alumni Office.

The Alum ni challenged the Varsity in a swim relay and the “old guys” won!

A new scoreboard and record board were unveiled at the ceremony.

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PAMKÀ Lecture Series Retrospective

Social scientists Abigail and Stephan Themstrom presented theirfindings from America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible.

The panel consisted o f Michael Meyers, Stephen Adubato Jr., and Newark Mayor Sharpe James.

“A Dialogue on Race in America Today” was the latest in a series of outstanding discussions spcfgsbred by the Parents’ Association. Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, authors of America in Black and White, used statistics to argue that affirmative Wti®h fpno longer nstessary.

Their views were challenged by Sharpe Jam®, Mayor of Newark,, and Michael Meyers, director of the New York Civil Rights Commission. Stephen Adubato Jr.,

televison 1k m and Rutgers instructor, was commentator.

The January event drew a standing-room-only crowd and much media coverage.

Scientist Farouk E fB az

Historian, author Doris Kearns Goom m

PoliticalsMvWt Harry Wu

This is the fifth year of the PAMKA Lecture Series, which offers thoughtful and sometimes provocative commentary on current events. Other outstanding guest speakers include those below.

Educator and smolar Sfefieh Tigner

c *JA ffdifitial candidate Michael Dukakis

Scholar Shelby Steele

Author Christina H off'Somers

Political commentator Linda Chavez

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Author and politicalprisoner Nien Cheng

Educator Chester Finn

Journalists Tabitha Soren, Jonathan Alter, Laura Ingraham

Athletic Hall o f Fame III The Montclair Kimberley Academy will proudly induct three people and a team into the Athletic Hall of Fame on May 9. These individuals have brought “distinction, honor, and excellence” to Montclair Academy, The Kimberley School, and MKA through athletics and their lives reflect p®tively on MICA. Georgia Carrington ’54 Racquet Sports

Over the years Georgia has excelled in field hockey, lacrosse, and basketball, but she is particularly hoifered for her achieve­ ment in tennis and paddle tennis. At Kimberley, where she was captain, Georgia won the Eastern 15 & Under tennis singles and doubles and the Eastern Interschollltic Doubles, and played on the Junior Wrightman Cup squad.

E. Alden Dunham ’49 Tennis

Alden is the quinteSntial ftholar-athlete. At Montclair Academy, he played fooftall, basketball, baseball, and tennis, and was captain of all four his senior year. In the spring, Alden did â remarkable twdjfsport trick: he would play his singles tennis match, then jump intepa bâsebaffl suit and join the team in the middle of the game.

(Once at Blâir, he went in as a pinch hitter, scored the tying mn, saved the game in thRlOth with a terrific catch, and made a winning run in the 11th.)

He won 11 varsity letters at the Academy and was named Head Boy. Alden then earired an A.Bllit Princeton Phi Beta Kappa, an M.A.T. at Harvard, and an Ed.D. at Columbia, and was awarded an honorary doctorate at California Slate University in 1972. He played on the only undefeateS freshman baseball team in Princeton history, and for three years played varsity tennis, tw<||of them undefeated.

At college (two years at Vassar, B.A. fjom Hollins, M.A. from Middlebury), Georgia played three sports and was president of the tennis elute her senior year. Then she embarked on a career of teaching and coaching, playing club hockey and competitive tennis and paddle as “extracurricu|ars.”

Alden retired after 25 years at Carnegiqjffljrporation in New York, which gives grant§Jbr educational research, innovation, and reform.. He also served as dean g admissiciMat Princeton; assistant to Jamesj^lnant on studies <RAmerican schools at the time of Sputnik; English teacher at Phillips Academy, Andovli; and the U.S. Navy (“seasick inllÿery ocean in thé world”). He wrote a “prize-winning but dull” book on statef|ollêgdij and regional universities¡ Wplleges o f the Forgotten Americans, and did much consulting with educational organizations.

Her coaching records are a litany efflorganization and achievement: her tennis teams at Westtown School won three Friends School, championships; at Greenwich Academy - where she coached varsity and JV tennis and paddle for six years - the teams won three Fairchester league championships. B o r five years in Philadelphia, she ran the girls’ intersectional team Rhampionships for the USTA. In Connecticut, she has run a women’s paddle league and captained a tennis team, which won two championships. Now retired, Georgia continues to play tennis and paddle tennis competitively.

He now coaches Division I tennis at MercemJniversity in Georgia part time, and still plays in senior fftnnis tournaments. A l|S s '?gaal is “to bbiSme the #1 seventy-fivégÿear-old tennis player in thp; nation.”

“Sports are a wonderful way to get to know people,” Cslfe says, “to share ideas and experience.”^ !

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and extra activities as possible.” As one child is autism Laura is devoted to both a school and a township support group for children with different disabilities.

Laura Marne11 Garvey ’78 Basketball

With 1,675 career points, Laura is the all-time leading scorer in MKA basketball male or female. Laura h as. been called a true pioneer in women's sports. S h e raised the level of expec­ tations for women p la^S | at our schooldays a faculty membM A first-rate dribbler, fast passer, and an excellent outside shooter, Laura scored her 1,000th point junioiSear. Slip was' selected to the||978 NJAIS All-Star Basketball Team.

“MKA remains, special,” she says, “because of the teachers and coaches who have touched my life.”

The 1982 H ockey Team

The 1982 hockey team achieved the seemingly im possiblethey, won the Gordon Cup, the state championship (f|hockey - the, er, goal of every New Jersey high school team whllever played. They lompeted in the A-Division against teams at least twice their size and over the season defeated mighty cross­ town rival MHS four times.

At Manhattanville College, where she earned a B.A. i^ g psychology, Laura started varsity for all four years and was captain for two. Three times they were New York Sta^KMsion III champions, often playing divisions I and Ilfiflote from a newspaper: “Manhattanville College turned the New York State AIA championship game into.a basketball clinic.”) As a starting guard, her college record was 786 points, 4f§3 rebounds, and 2B2 a™ists, the third all-time record. She was also a defensive standout, assigned “man-to-man” fllporfSibility against the opponent’s belt player. Laura was named to several all-tournament teams.

Theirs is a saga of determination and discipline; as they came Iggck from a “building” year to state honors.

They were l<|-8-3 for the season. After an initial tournament defeat, the Cougars won'four hotlyfontested playoff contests - three in overtime and one in the last 30- seconds - to win the coveted cup.

“Immensely talented” individual Cougar players won a. colades as “one of the top players in the state” and several were named to first- or second-team All-NJIL. Members of this team have been, so devoted to MKA hockey that they came back year after year to play in the Alumni Hockey Game.

Now she is mom to four children, ages HB1J8, and 6; involved in three scholM 'and as many school, Ifoort,

MKA Ice Hockey Team, 1982mJordon Cup Champions. Standing, L to R: Head Coach Tom Preville, Craig Sudol ‘83, John Towers ‘84, Charles Shulman ‘84, Jason O’N eill ’85x, Darrin O’N eill ’84, Andy Walsh ’84, Doug Colwell ’83, Anders Skilbred ’83, Rich Nolle ’85x, James Goldman ’84, TedMcCormick ’85x, DougKeh ’84, Harris Podvtyk84, Chris B ru cef^J^a ch Andy Szabo. Front, L to R: Jay Greene ’82, Peter Schijfenhaus ‘82, goalie Robert Kramer ’82, co-captain Blake O’N eill ’82, Robert Welsh ’82, co-captain Anthony Del Gaizo 82, Colin O Neill 82.

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From the Alumni Association

Homecoming Head table.: Standing L to R: Trustee Linda Garippa, Betty and A l Pels 39, Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Peter Funk 39, Richard Benson 39, and John Garippa, President o f the Board o f Trustees, ¡Seated: Cornelius Lyle 39, Esther and Bridgford H unt '39, Mary Funk.

From the President

there was a particular teadlier or ^bJgS'who especiallycontributed to your growth at MKA. The Al^$jg$|fi| Association is an opportunity to reconnect and ‘give back.” For information you Pan contact any Alumni Council member (see the Alumni Association: ballot in this issue) or Christie Austin, our devoted AlhmSM Director.

We have enjoyed the participation and support of alumni, parents, students, and friends in our endeavors.

Thank you!

The Homecoming luncheon and dinner were full to capacity; phonathon was marked by enthusiastic volunteerism; and our tenth annual Night With the Devils at the Meadowlands sold out.

Please join us on Saturday, MaylWat the historic Van Vleck House and Gardens in Montclair for our annual alumni social.

Our ongoing meetings reviewing candidates for the Distinguished Alumni and Founders’ Cup (teaching excellence) awards have been sincere and thorough.

Sincerely, Peter Sg McMullen ’77 President

We are looking for alumni to join our activities - the participation can be as fun as it is fulfilling: Perhaps

Alum ni Council vicepresident Holly Jervis Felber ’83 congratulates author Peter Funk 39, recipient o f the 1997Distinguished Alumni Award.

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O n the Road W ith MKA: Connecticut The latest in a series of MKA alumni reception^was held in October in Darien, Connecticut, at the lovely home of Bob and Betsy H&>rouck Cole ’56.

Headmaster Peter Greer gage an informative talk about the exciting things happening at school and was peppered with thoughtful questio^^B

Hosts Bob and Betsy Hasbrouck Cole ’5 6

It was an evening of congeniality and the reception turned out to bqfla Kimberley reunion of sorfii One alumna wrote later, “...the opportunity to hear Peter Greer exude his enthusiasm for MKA and its programs has made me eager tBhear more and convinced me that whatever I give will be put to.gOocI use. It sounds though the students are being challenged not only academically but morally and spiritually as well.”

Lincoln Ames, Honorary Trustee Aubin Zabriskie Arnes “54, Gail Zabriskie Wilson ’56, Marian M iller Castell 5 4 greeting each other in the hall.

Headmaster Peter Greer, Terry Greer, Anne Reighley Ferguson “4 5

Bill Brown ’4 6 chats with Terry Greer

Ed “Woody”Shelton 76, Nora Gleason Leary 78, Robert Leary

Anne Reighley Ferguson ’45, Barbara O’Donovan Whitm42, Teeny Redfield Sander ’4 7

Kimberleyfriends Marian M iller Castell 54, Linda Cole LeStage 56, Gail Zabriskie Wilson 56, Georgia Carrington 54; Director o f External Affairs Judy Polonofiky looks on.

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Class Notes E d ito r s N ote We use one “official” yearly mailing to obtain news, which appears in the FALL MKA Review.

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

Although the items might seem “old,” we have found that people love to^eacjpews whenever. The time lapse is unavoidable, as the processing of 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. We keep ongoing files for each class.

To those of 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! gShe position of alumni class secretary, like that of class agent and reunion chairman, is absolutely essential to the vitality of the school.

Plea|g consider it.

16------------- = TKS The Great Legacy Best wishes to Geraldine McBrier Williams on her 99th birthday! She has two daughters who attended Kimberley Nancy Williams Brundage ’41 and Jane Williams Bauermeister ’49- and two granddaughters, Louise Brundage Lynch ’65 and Geraldine Brundage ’74. Her-' grandson Peter Brundage graduated from the Academy in 1967.

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TKS Our condolences to the family of Elizabeth Thorne Staudinger. Her demise marks the end of an era for many alumni, as Mrs. Staudinger taught dancing to teenagers for six decades.

Reportedly she taught a second generation at her Sawyer Dancing Classes. Her daughters Elizabeth Staudinger ’42 and Anne Staudinger Abies ’47 graduated from Kimberley.

From The Class o f 1918 Verdenal Hoag Johnson, daughter of Philip O. Hoag ’18, discovered his Academy Yeare Booke and wrote the Alumni Office, updating school records. Hlhil left the Academy before graduation to join the Marine Corps; the letters he wrote to his family while he was at Parris Island, S.C., have been photocopied for the archiv||| at the New Jersey Historical Society. (He was spared overseas service in WWI because, with his trained baritone voice, he was such a good drill commander that the Marine Corps kept him at Parris Island. His unit did go overseas and only three returned.)

After the war, he attended Cornell for engineering, then took two years of business administration courses in preparation for joining the family firm, Whitehead & Hoag in Newark. He was a salesman and designer and at his death in 1953 was president of the company. The Company had patents in printing on what becaml*g| plastics - in those days bakelite and celluloid. One of his products, small but important, was the “plastic” cover for cosmetics that goes inside the lid and keeps the products from hardening and evaporating.

According to the 1918 Yeare Booke, Phil spent nine years at M.A. and was “captain of our glorious T7 football team...the strong man of the school...and the champion yarnteller.” He also served as Batallion Sergeant Bugler in the Montclair Academy Battalion, an optional military training at the time.

His daughter wrote, “He was always an athlete of some sort, over six feet tall and wonderfully charming. HMiked nothing better than playing host at a large party; my parents gave famous parties, from the bathtub gin days of Prohibition to the country open houses of later years.”

2 6 ---------------“ MA The indefatigable Homer Whitmore celebrated his 91st birthday in December by giving a huge party for all his friends and family. Last year’s party in Rochester, N.Y. made newspaper columns.

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TKS Mrs. John E. H olt (Dorothy Ayres) The Arbors, 403 West Center St. D Manchester C T 06040 Our condolences to Teresa Darius Hayes offl the digath of her husband, Richard. They had been married 69 years.

Class secretary Dorothy Ayres Holt noted, “Great school. I graduated in 1M&M.70 §^S|§Wp ago.”

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29 TKS Miss Charlotte H. Fitch, Box 45 24 Cape Bial Lane, Westport Point M A 02791 Our condolencSto the family of Marjorie McComb Sexton.

30 TKS Mrs. Patricia LaurehiM fone 83 Beverly Rd., Upper Montclair N J 07043

Flight George Bleyle ’60, a pilot and a student o f the history o f flight , sent news of a long-lost alumnus who made a mark on aviation history.

George spent time last summer with W illiam H . Cook o f the class of 1930.

Bill lives in Bellevue, Washington today and is retired after a long and successful career in aircraft design with Boeing.

T hat should not surprise anyone who knew him back at Montclair Academy.

Bill’s senior portrait in Ye Yeare Booke reported that he spent most of his spare time designing a glider and that he “hoped to m ount an engine on it and be a regular aviator JiOme day.’fit,!

Well, he did a little Better than that.

Bill acquired a private pilot’s license in 1936 and was employed by Boeing two years later. H e went on to become the B29 project engineer, X B -|g aero­ dynamics unit chief, and chief of technical staff of the transport division at Boeing.

Bleyle, a pilot for U nited Airlines and aforesaid history buff, tells us that Bill C ook® one of the Major Figures in the design and development of the B-29 (which was one o f the U.S. Army Air F orce® talwart bombers in W orld W ar B-47, B-707, and XB-47. Since the design of the B-707 became the basis for the design o f many subsequent jet designs (no more propellers and swept wings instead of straight)®®: is no understatement to say that Mr. Cook and his aerodynamics group at Boeing changed the face of the commercial airline business forever.

To think it all'started in a hoiplgon Orange Road with a student from Montclaffl Academy.

[See also I9 6 0 Class Notes, “The History B u ff.”]

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Homecoming 1997 “Our reunion was like a mission... a cause...a revival. ” - M K A alumnus

Robert Doubleday ’4 7 and reunion co-chairman Alan Kessler ’4 7 reminisce with their yearbook. Doubleday had not been back to the Academyfor 50 years, and pronounced it “■ wonder-

Louise “Weezie”Rudd Hannegan and Joan Cook had suchfu n being reunion chairmenfo r the 50th reunion o f the CMSBof 1947 that they have already volunteered to do it again for their 55th! Twenty-four o f25 classmates sent information for a reunion booklet.

DistinguishedAlum ni Award recipient Peter Funk 39 was honored by the presence o f classmates Bud Lyle and A l Pels, who had started secondgrade at the Academy with him in 1928.

Here, they present some antique Funk & Wagtails box ends to Peter to commemorate almost 70 years o f friendship. [See 39 Class Notesfp r the story o f the box endsW^k

As o f the date ofHomecomingskhe Kimberley Class o f1947, celebrating their 50th reunion, had achieved both the highestpar­ ticipation rate and the highest dollar total reunion gift.

Here, Headmaster Peter Greer receives a symbolic checkfor $7,810 from class agents Cynthia Youngman Adams, Barbara Nßsh Hanson, Louise Rudd Hannegan, and Joan Cook.

Trustee Penny Finkle, right, organized an “Empty Nest”com­ mittee o f parents whose last chud had graduatedfrom MKA. With her is Rosemary Monteyne. Parents who missed their MKA friendships were invited to “come home again to M KA" for a casual lunch to cheer the games.

Grace Aldrich Andersen ’4 2 and Margaret Krout Taylor ’4 2 look at Homecomingprogram.

10th reunion chairmen Sabino Rodano ’8 7 and Andrea Schackner M aline 87.

Jim and Barbara Pendleton Donnell ’52, class agent and 45th reunion chairman.

Senior Michael Napolitano 98, President o f the Student Council, gives a campus tour to John Higgins ’5 7 and Barbara Higgins.

Family reunion amidst the class reunions: Aubin "Teeny” Redfield Sander ’47s her son William Bryan ’72, and her sister/his auntJane Redfield Forsberg ’52.

Andrea Borio 87, an AFS student in 1986-8T,received the greatest-distance award. He catyefrom Italy for his 1 Oth reunion. With him isfaculty mmnber Ken Gibson.

Class o f’77 reunion chairmen CherylD’Alessandro McMullen and Andy Pedersen inspired an unprecedented return for a 20th reunion.

Headmaster Peter Greer with former Academy Headmaster Philip Anderson and Celeste Anderso^^U

Rudy Schlobohm ’7 4 and FrancesJohnson Furlong ’dMgve a presentation on planned giving as a morning seminar at HbpuWkning.

25th reunion chairmen Linda Finney Williarns, Peter Perretti, and Chris Shultz (tight) chat with faculty memberJohn Rabke, secondfrom right.

Scott Weiner, A ri Terry, and Doug Munson came backfor the 5th reunion o f the Class o f1992.

50th reunion co-chairman Joseph Hammond and Sam Hakim look at the display o f vintage photos oftheffilass o f1947.

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TKS Mrs. Albert Frell (Irene Burbank) : 580 Admiralty Parade, Naples FL 34102 Zaida Jones Dillon corresponded with the Alumni Office about the Annual Report and the magazine. "Indeed, I read MKA Review for ’31 news and also ’33 and ’42 for my brothers’ friends,’’ she wrote. “Nikki Burbank Frell and I lived next door to each other.

So I had pre-reception jitters accounts, plus Monday-morning quarterbacking, verbatim [about the MKA alumni reception the Frells hosted in Florida last winter].”

That reception was such fun and began such a friendship that Alumni Director Christie Austin had lunch with Albert and Nikki Frell in Naples this year <Spr the hohdayQTJ “We read the fall Review from cover t; t cover with great interest and even some personal pride that MKA has evolved into such an outstanding place of learning.... I congratulate you (a voice crying in the wilderness) on your high standards and ethical instructions.”

Irene Burbank Frell ’31 •'■Ipim letter to Headmaster Peter Greer

Our condolences to the family of Barbara Shilstone Ogsbury.

Condolences also to the family of Dorothy K. McCord. Her sister wrote that Dorothy died very suddenly at her Pennsylvania retirement home.

Caroline Thompson Lathrop is taking a trip to the Hebrides in M ay’98. “Fun!”

3 5 = ----- -TKS Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) S LaSalle Road, Upper Montclair N J 07043 Our condolences to the family of Elise Manson Brett. She lived on Cape Cod in Wellfleet, Mass. Her daughter Margaret Brett Eckel graduated in the Kimberley class of 1966.

Condolences also to Ruth McCord Alexander on the death of her luster Dorothy K. McCord ’34.

Class-secretary Jodie Fobes Carpenter, president of the Women’s Club of Upper Montclair, was photographed greeting Governor Christine Todd Whitman at the annual convention of the Federation.of New Jersey Women’s Clubs in July. Jodie led a delegation of nine.

MA Mr. John Graham 75 River Ranch Drive, Bandera T X 78003 Our condolences to the family of Michael B. Callender. He leaves a wife, daughter, and two grandchildren.

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John J. Newberry attended his 60th college reunion at U. Mnnsylvania last May. He received a B.S. ingtconomics from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce in 1937.

TKS Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) 9 Brandon Lane, Bishops Cove Mystic C T 06355

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MA Charles Eisler, who identified himself as a five-day boarder, wrote to inquire about one of his roommajfgs, Edward G. Buckenham ’32.

Alas, Wry Buckenham has been “lost” in alumni records for years. The Alumni Office would be grateful for any information.

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Our condolences to Josephine Murray Schmid on the death of her husband, W. Kent Schmid. They have three daughters and four grandchildren.

Marguerite Pendarge Strassburger has moved to a retirement community in Danbury, Conn, near her sister, Barbara Jane Pendarge ’41.

MA Our condolences to the family of long-time class sejpetary W. Kent Schmid. Kent, who served in the Navy during WWII, maintained a lifelong connection to the sea, via teaching ROTC, the Mystic Seaport Museum, yacht club, and Retired Naval Officers Club memberships.

TKS Mrs. Willard Dixon (Betty O'Gorman) 8 Kip s Ridge, Crestmont Road Montclair N j 07042

38 TKS Mrs. William Young (Peggy Klotz) The Village at Duxbury 290 Kingstown Way, Apt. 253 Duxbury M A 02ML? George and Janet Gaylord Newsome moved to an apartment or retirement place (not sure which) in Kingston, Ontario. I guess the move was exhausting because I didn’t hear from her at Christmas.

Jean Hamlin Noyes writes that an Alaskan cruise was the jewel in her year. “Seward was no fool when he urged buying that place!”

Teppy Holton Sjolander is moving in March to Kendal, Pa. She says she is knee-deep in things and hopes she will get them all done.

She did, however, have lunch with Ginny Kracke Leavitt, Ruth Duff Eager, and Frances Montgomery in Summit.

[Ed. note: Apologies to Mrs. Sjolander for graduating her a year early in the last jssue, in the noteabout her visit with Ellen Drewes Studdiford. We know “Teppy” is a great member of the Class of ’37.]

Betty Pierce Harding sent a Christmas card paying how much she misses our Montclair luncheon reunions. Jodie Fobes Carpenter ’35 also misses them. She and Stewart have signed up for Crane’s Mill in West Caldwell, which is supposed to be ready by the end of June.

Curt and Margaret Richards Chapman are happy in their retirement spot although she finds moving from there to Sunapee and back twice a year is a drag. Files and drawers seem to get out of control! She had a card from Barbara Vondermuhll in Florida.

Jane Rinck in Vermont says she has more projects than she can fit on She most enjoys her forest. Jane and her dog, Al, are in it most every day and have many small adventures which she writes up and has published in The Christian Science Monitor. This is her fourth career! She had a delightful “cream” tea with Ginny Leavitt last summer near Peacham where the Leavitts spend summers.

Betsy Townsend McFadden says nothing of note to repoti|f Her son Peter teaches English in Mexico but may resetde in California.

Daughter Pam lives in North Carolina and daughter Diana, a musician in Silver Spring, Md., is near enough to come home occasionally.

Your secretary’s eldest son, Peter, was married for the second time in September in Birmingham, Ala. to a wonderfid young lady who had never been married before. Peter’s two brothers and cousin, Rumsey - son of Dorothy Vondermuhll Young - were ushers at the wedding. Our daughter and her family all came as did Leonard and Sally Young Schemer and some of her family and Ann Young Clark, Dee’s daughter. Quite a gathering of Youngs for a very happy occasion!

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MA Condolences to the family of John “Jack” P. Schroeder. Although he left MA to attend boarding school, he later maintained an active connection to the Academy during his years in commercial banking. He was much decorated for his service in the Navy Pacific theatre during WWII.

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TKS Joy O ’Neil Banta, who taught kindergarten at a private school in Virginia for 19 years, now works with Mexican migrants in Florida.

She observed that her yearbook “Class Prophecy” was pretty close: “Joy O’Neil giving advice to the lovelorn MA Mr. C.R. Lyle I I 168 Mountain Rd., P. O. Box 394 Jaffrey Center N H 03452-0394 Congratulations to Peter Funk for receiving MKA’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

Peter wrote to the Headmaster, “It’s somewhat an oxymoronic statement to find a Funk nearly speechless. But that’s where we were....There are times when there’s a certain wondrous magical quality in mingling the past and present. It was for us.”

Four friends from the Class of ’39 turned out to honor their classmate: Bridgford Hunt, Richard Benson, Cornelius Lyle, and A1 Pels. They and their wives were seated at a special table with John Garippa, President of the Board of Trustees, and his wife, Linda (also an MKA Trustee).

Following the main presentation, A1 and Bud, who had joined the honoree in the second grade at Montclair Academy in the fall of 1928, presented Peter with a framed display of two box-ends discovered in a landfill in Hancock, N.H. [Seephoto in center spread] One read “Funk & Wagnall’s, New York” and the other one read “Literary Digest, New York.” They evidently predated 1932 and were a part of Peter’s family history. As A1 Pels said at the luncheon, the chance of these two relics being discovered by anyone who could connect them with Peter was one in several million, especially since the area is used often by townspeople as a source of firewood.

A1 phoned Bud in nearby Jaffrey and they arranged to have the box-ends framed by Bud’s daughter-in-law, who owns Creative Encounters in Keene, N.H., in time to get them to New Jersey to mark nearly 70 years of friendship.

Bud Our condolences to the family of George Twedell Jr. His wife wrote that the doctor, hospitalized at the time, was pleased to hear; of Peter Funk’s award and to receive Bud Lyle’s newsletter.

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TKS Mrs. Alfred D. Williams (Joan Bayne) 10 Foxglove W>.urt, Yarmouth M E 04096 Mary Chapman Shearer wrote from Pleasantville, N.Y. that they are spending long summers at the Cape and have all their children within an hour of their home in the winter - a blessing! I have the same blessing and see the little grands grow up (4 and 6 years) and welcome the big ones (in their 20s) for the holidays.

Wally and Bobbie Douglas MacMillan plan a move in ’98 to a retirement home - also on the Cape - and with a big exclamation point says|feAnd we won’t be raking leaves agaiisM Harriet Palmer Pickens spends summers at Schooley’s Mountain, N.J., where replacing a roof, getting a new shower, and 12 family members at the “compound” kept her and Richard busy.

The Reverend Raymond Cunningham wrote that his wife, Emily Meeker Cunningham, died in March “bravely and painlessly” from emphysema. Their son was married last summer in Maine where they went every summer to take part in harvesting blueberries.

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Bill Sr., semi-retired, has formed his own company in sports marketing; he loves working on his own projects, tennis, and playing with their grandchildren. Helen is still volunteering at the Crane House and Garden Club, and is a board member of the Presby Gardens.

MA Mr. David Baird Jr. 9 Parkway, Montclair N J 07042 Bette and Dick Carrie have made Florida their permanent home. Their next door neighbor in Vero Bg M jB Henry Bertram ’34; Nelson Lawes also liy.es. in Vero. Perry Minton, Dick’s MA roommate, writes that Dick is an active secretary and agent for their Amherst class. Recording to Perry, “Dick claims his tennis game is pretty good jb.ecause he still gets around the cqurt like a teenager.

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Elsie Luddecke Kelsey ’42, 1924 -1997 •Any alumna/us who has attended a reunion over the past 20 years may recall being greeted at the Montclair Golf Club by a diminutive dynamo with a great big smile.

Elsie Luddecke Kelsey ’42 was Queen of the MKA reunion dinners. She was the Alumni Office’s link to the club; sh e /« personally did the arrangements and worked tirelessly on the ever-changing numbers for seating. Elsie also - because of her intense love of people - always reviewed the guest lists, s® he could greet alumni by name.

She was thought of as “the glue” that held the Class of $ together. T h |y had so. much fun at their reunions, espeeially their grand 50th, that this year they came back togethermr a 55th reunion. Elsie, ailing, but with indomitable spirit, proposed that this was such fun, they should have an annual reunion. She died a month later.

In her honor,W’h.e Montclair Kimberley Academy will establish a special Elsie Luddecke Kelsey Reunion Award - funded by heiMjassmates - to be presented at Homecoming, saying she had been one of Elsie’s bridesmaids in 1942 and “we had been friends for 60 years.”

Margaret Krout Taylor told the student Alumni Khonathon caller that she had “joined the girls of ’42 for thefi5th telamon and had a good tim ejp p Virginia Westen Usher, who spent 1996 with doctors, lived up to hibprediction that she would “be able to run around the campus” at reunion after double knee replacements.

Helena Burrill volunteers at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC and the New York Philharmonic. She is taking a computer course.

Joan Trimble Smith is doing portraits of all 14 presidents of Assumption College - no mean task since many have been deceased for years and phoibgravure are scarce. She is also doing the president of Bentley College, where she teaches.

Janet Gates Bonner’s daughter Barbara 74x has had a prestigious operatic year, [See special s box in 74:<class notes.]

Our condolence®® Elizabeth Staudinger on the death of her mothera B lM f a W ’1918],

Mrs. Robinson V. Smith (Joan Trim b& M 16 Marshall Terrace, WaylandMA 01778

MA Mr. Richard L. Charlesworth 121 Cherry Brook Rd., Weston M A 02193

Our condolences to the family of our lifelong friend Elsie Luddecke Kelsey.

Polly Rowe Barrows wrote with sadness,

Our condoleritffilp) Jack Kelsey on the death of his wifj| extraordinaire, Elsie Luddecke Kelsey.

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55th reunion, Class o f Back row, L to R: Grace Aldrich Andersen, Virginia Westen Usher, Helen Jones Gordon, Frances Johnson Furlong Anne Adams Beetle.

Front row: Margaret Krout Taylor, Elsies .

Luddecke Kelsey, Jack Kelsey.

Sincere condolences, too, to Jim Ritchie on the d e a t® f his wife, Hope.

Jim Prescott retired in 1988. He and Joy summer on the Maine coast at Christmas Cove, where son James and daughter Donna visit.

They live in Vero Beach permanendy. Last winter he and Dave Lewis and their spouses met Headmaster Peter Greer there at MKA’s Florida alumni reception. The Prescotts have a married granddaughter and great-grandson ‘ living in Port Orange, Fla. Howard Kimm, who relocated to South Carolina after retiring from Exxon, operates a part-time contracting business which keeps him busy almost.full time.

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MA Mr. WinterfordJ. Ohland 4 Ahler’s Lane, Blairstown N J 07825 Robert Angus wrote that they will have two of 10 grandchildren helping in their continuing hardwood plantings during the coming summer.

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TKS Anne Feagley Wittels (Mrs. Jerome L.) 2116 Via Alamitos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274

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TKS Our condolences to the family of Nancy Heydt Green. Nancy had a most interesting career with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. As public information officer, she assisted with news of major events, such as the discovery of the Titanic and the visit of the Emperor of Japan. She was also an active community volunteer.

Our condolences to Betty Deyo Martin on the death of her sister, Shirley Deyo Dayton ’48.

46 — In September, Peter Lawrence reported that he was in his fourth month of recuperation from a bad accident to his back; We wish him continued recovery.

Peripatetic sea captain Philip Cheek wrote from New Zealand, where he was working on the final re-write of a novel. He is in touch with Bill Brown and sees him when Stateside.

Dick and Nancie Nicolls Kurtz had a wonderful visitti'a'st spring with Dick and Betty Brown Ward at their beautiful mountain home in Jasper, Ga., en route home from their, -c condo in Destin, Fla. The Kurtzes hope for a return visit from them this year. Nancie writes, “Our three sons and families are all fine - as are we. Enjoying the pleasures of four grands - ®o far."

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Cynthia Blair later wrote to the Alumni Office about how happy she was to see classmates at the Capet Tom and Barbara Bumsted Shand still live in Florida most of the year. They have restored a small windmill barn in Lancaster, Pa., near one son and his family - three granddaughters - one 7, and 6-year-old twins. They have put their two farms in the Lancaster County Farmland Trust “to remain forever green.” She writes, “Our Pennsylvania family will raise their children where they were raised; the N.H. family will stay there.”

Phyllis Harder Reininger wrote that they had a wonderful Christmas, after the birth of their ninth grandchild in December, Charles Reid Reininger, named after his father.

MA Dr. Peter B. Lawrence 4802 Carriage PL, Wilson N C 27896

TKS Miss Lucile G. Mason 142lfforth Mountain Ave., Montclair N J 07042

MA Mr. Richard R. Angus 38 Hinchman Avenue, Denville NJ 07834 1

Provincetown and Sandwich, and investigations of gift shops and local villages.

The Farnos hosted the group for wine, while we listened to Roger Kenvin give a reading from his new book of short stories. Delightful.

Jane had organized Sfspecial reunion dinner at a country inn, and had had our yearbook pictures framed as place cards. Conversation ran to reminiscing about faculty, favorite and hated classes, and other alums, with many toasts to ’45 and to absent friends.

Some of us hadn’t seen each other since a 1985 reunion, but agreed we all “looked exactly the same.” We were sorry the whole class. ’, couldn’t have been there. Pat

A mini-reunion on Cape Cod in September brought together Pat Driver Shuttleworth, Jane Hagan Fame (standing), Cynthia Carswell Blair, Rudd Trimble Kenvin (standing), and Jeanne Talbot Sawutz o f the Class o f194524* Pat Driver Shuttleworth sent a report on a KKBS mini-reunion in Harwichport, Cape Cod, in September: Planned as long ago as April 1997 by Rudd Trimble Kenvin, Jane Hagan Farno, and Leigh Berrien Smith, it was hoped that as many as 1L classmates anafspouses could attend; it worked out that five classmates and spouses were able to make it....

Thanks to good scouting by Jane, out-oftowners stayed at a pretty inn a block from Nantucket Sound. Monday morning Cynnie Carswell Blair was able to join us for a gala breakfast before she had to return to New Jersey. Day trips included drives to -

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TKS Mrs. David Hannegan (Louise Rudd) 3 4 Monadnock Drive, Westford M A 01886 Thanks to reunion chairmen extraordinaire Weezie Rudd Hannegan and Joan Cook, who had such a good time they areralteady looking forward to planning the 55th!

Weezie reports: A view of reunion from your secretary, who can’t be detached as she and ESobkie were your fearless leaders. It was wonderful, wonderful! We knew it would be good,[nut everyone agreed that it surpassed all expectations.

Those who were there for some part or all of the festivities were Peter and Patty Cox Mansfield, Gray and Cyn Overton Blandy, Joan Cook, Elliot and Jay Smith Hague, Teeny

50th reunion, Class o f1947. Back row, L to R: Sally Funk Ellinger, Patricia Cox Mansfield, Aubin Redfield Sander, Jay Smith Hague, Barbara Nash Hanson, Cynthia Youngman Adams, and Cynthia Overton Blandy.

Front, L to R: Margaret Soucek Weissenbom, Joan Cook, Kathryn CroweilMM Louise Rudd Hannegan. Missingfrom photo: Jean Frey Drake, Lila Rappaport Landau.

Redfield Sander, Cindy Youngman Adams, Janet Heller, Tom and Peggy Soucek Weissenborn, Dave and Weezie Rudd Hannegan, Kathy Crowell, Bill and Jeannie Frey Drake, Sally Funk Ellinger, and Walter and Lila Rappaport Landau.

We had greetings from several who couldn’t come for variou'ireasons, the happiest from Dede Loasby Eisen whose great-grandson was about to be born. The saddest news came via Cindy that Katy W att Cangelosi’s son was critically ill and she had gone to Chicago to be with him. He died Saturday night. (Our thoughts are with you, Katy.)" Sue Harrison Schumann’s daughter, Kristy, was ill, so Sue ’ declined, and Comer Fisk Polak cancelled at the last minute as her husband had to have back surgery.

Most of us stayed at the Marlboro Inn, which can only be described as shabby genteel, with lots of stairs. We started our reunioh with a bang Friday at the Weissenborns’ for drinks and lots of^SaSSing old photos around. We had dinner at Pals Cabin which Certainly was nostalgic - and good, Saturday some of us toured the Valley Road campus [formerly Kimberley and now the Middle School] and were impressed by the facilities - library, labs, new auditorium, the excellent use 6f space. The athletic field looked huge to fis ex-hockey players. Luncheon for all reunion classes was held at the Upper School [Academy] on Lloyd Road. (Did you know the Headmaster’s house used to be the Rudds’?)

And did you know the 1997 Homecoming was the biggest reunion in MKA’s history?

Our class received top honors - for the largest percentage turnout and for the biggest 50th reunion gift. Flash bulbs were popping everywhere!

Dinner at the Golf Club was grand - very crowded - and again we talked and reminisced non-stop. Back to the Marlboro for some spontaneoB storytelling before lights out, and Sunday morning Jeannie surprised us by coming over for breakfast. We “closed up” the dining room at 11 a.m.* : One of the’best parts of reunion was the idea, from Bar Hanson, of having aijjaini-yearbook.

Te'eUy undertook the project as you know, and

50th reunion, Class o f1947. Standing: Joseph Hammond, Alan Kessler, Sam Hakim, Ulrick Voetter. Seated!: Ginny Voetter, M artin (“Porter”) Tuttle, Robert Doubleday. Inset: Don Horn at the reunion dinner.

again, the results surpassed our expectations.

Our thanks to Teeny, and to all who contributed! ’Till spring, then....

Weezie I am so impressed by MKA; I was impressed 10 years ago but now I feel that the school has gone on to another plateau....I’ve raised two nephews who went to two fine boarding schools, and certainly MKA has everything that any boarding school I’ve seen had, and its spirit is excellent.

Joan CookWSP. 50th reunion co-chairman “I’m in computer kindergarten trying to get to first grade.” Teeny Redfield Sander *147, who compiled a 50th reunion bookfo r the Kimberley Class o f1947. Twenty-four o f twenty-five classmates responded.

“I have practically memorized the reunion book.”

Susan Harrison Schumann 'Mjfiii MA Many thanks to reunion chairmen Joseph Hammond and Alan Kessler.

Robert Doubleday called shortly after to thank the Alumni Office for such a nice experience. He hadn’t seen the school for 50 years. He called the reunion a “wonderful thing, tremendous.”

Ginny and Rick Voetter, “lost” to the Alumni Office for years, were found in time to come from Texas for reunion. They bought out the Bookstore for souvenirs for their grandchildren,.

Many who couldn’t attend sent greetings and messages: Jim Benedict said, “Though I’ll be sorry to miss my 50th, you can count on me for my 100th.” He is a trustee and treasurer of the Robert Bates Fullwood Scholarship Fund, which gives scholarships to California students for college.

Eugene Miltenberger wrote, “Have a wonderful 50th reunion. Sorry I can’t attend ;as I’ll be out of the MSA..’’ He has five grandchildren: one boy, four girls. > Cole Sheehey couldn’t make it because he had just had heart surgery. He wrote, “My

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best to you all and good luck.” ’ From Edward Striffier: “After 50 years, if’S hard to remember classmates. Not living in the New Jersey area for many years, I’ve had little opportunity to. maintain ties with MKA. For a young veteran my short stay at M.A. relearning academic skills was most rewarding to me throughout my business career.”

Andrew Davlin, in California, produces an analyst’s report on the aquaculture industry, and would be glad to give classmates a free : subscription; just^m tact the Alumni O ffic^H Another “lost” alumnus, Thomas Weilepp, found the Academy after the reunion and brought files up to date on 50 years; He has-; retired to Shelton, Wash., about 60 miles rauthwest of Seattle. After Cornel U., Tom did medical research at the universities of Washington, Michigan, and Texas, and did some Navy contract work. He says that®’ “nothing was anything near” his experien||lat MA in math and in-£nglish with Mr. Barras. i “The Academy, and its superb masters, I shall always remember with pleasure and gratitude, etieicSOyears after.” , Miles K. (James) Benedict ’4 7

50th REUNION OCTOBER 3 TKS Mrsffitanley M iller (Frances Lane) 3678 S W 27thAve:, Delray Beach FLW&jj45 Janet Mason is “more and more retired.”

Shd has worked on a few major stoffljs, for Life Magazine and on the successftd capital campaign for the Presby Memorial J r a H Gardens.

Our condolences to the family of Shirley Deyo Dayton. Shirley was an active civic leader' in Minneapolis, and served as the first fem al^irector of the Minnesota Outward Bound School. She wrote two cookbooks.

MA Mr. Richard H. Davis . “ 35 M ill Glen Rd., Upper Saddle River N J 07458

50 TKS Our condolences td Joyce Deyo on the death of her sister, Shirley Deyo Dayton ’48.

MA Mr. Rudolph Deeijen Jr. 1 Northgate Road, RD 2, Mendham N J 07915

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Jane Gassaway Bonner planned a visit to Nancy Ehrhardt W hite in Vermont in September, bringing her mother, who wanted to visit an old classmate from Smith. Jane’s daughter, N icoS was married in September.

Our condolences again to Nancy, whose mother, Mrs. Ehrhardt, died in October.

Dave and Joan Miller Buchanan sold their house in Verona and have moved to the apartments on South Mountain Avenue.

Tom and Judy Frost Costikyan continue to be in the thick of golf in South Carolina.

They went to Africa in February and Tommy became quite sick; I hope all is well now.: Gerry Lockerty Hendricks isfnow in the real estate business. She, was in Llewellyn Park previewing a house and stopped by to see my mother, who was thrilled toiffie her.

Linda Herbert is really enjoying retirement.

She travels constandy, all over the country, touring and seeing family and ¡friends.

Ted and Miriam Eustis Irwin are on the go seeing their six children, and innumerable grandchildren. They also have fitted in trips to Florida and Europe. Mrs. Eusti|||s in wonderful shape.

Anne LaBastille’s latent book is out: Woodswmmm III. We are very proud of you, Anne. You keep going and never give up.

Anne has now written seven trade bcggp| five children’s books, and more thanB50 articles.

Jim and Pat Overton Lee armhuilding a new house on their property. We saw it in January; what a beautiful setting and how well-planned the bouse is. Their Vermont inn is for sale.

Dave and Joan Jacobus Miller have sold their house in Chicago and moved to an apartment.

They have, kal new house in Maine, where they have goM in the summer for years. She spent a weekend with us in Boca Grande in February.

Joan Spinning, still in McLean, Va., has i - , daughter who is an artist and is also as pretty as Joan, Both her son and daughter are married.

Jack and Nancy Jones Trescot love living in

northern Florida. They have five children who are all over the place and all doing well.

Bob and Suzie Bailey Twyford enjoy their pool and tennis court. They have a condominium in the Laurentians; Suzie loves to ski as well as Swim and play tennis. Their son Rob is now working for Bob, and their daughter, Holly, is an actress.

Nick and Ruth Ransom Wilson are very involved in Princeton. Ruthy is on the board of Morven, the Governor’s mansion, which is beingfre^toted Their son Tim is kept busy with stage and TV Sting.

Now my news. We came east to see: my mother in June, went to Spring Lake, visited cousins near Valley Forge who live in a 1740 farmhouse, went to a wedding in Philadelphia, and visited a good friend in the Poconos over July 4th. We had a birthday for Lloyd in July; the guest list were all the people who helped him in some way when he was sick.

In October I visited Ellen Studdiford in her wonderful old house in Montclair. We had a nice time; she told me a lot about the old days.

I will stop in again on my next visit.

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TKS On a cruise/tour of Alaska, Sally Maxson Jones had a breakfast get-together with Brian and Margaret McVay McCombs at Fairbanks.

Sally reports, “They are fine and we enjoyed the meeting.”

On a trip to Florida in January, Suzette Armitage W hiting stayed with Stephanie Miller Gray, and they had lunch with traveler Sally Maxson Jones. Suzette’s daughter was married in August and returned to LaBelle, Fla., to start building a house. Suzette played Aunt Ellen for two weeks of “Oklahoma!” at the Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven, N.J.; she is also president of the ECW of her church and of the Island Singers.

MA R. Bruce Grover was pictured in a newspaper photo during a visit to a division of his company, Vinyl Plasticine., in Sheboygan, Wis. VPI was 92nd on last year’feWisconsin 100 list.

MA Mr. Ernest F. K eerlll 459 Club Drive, P. O. Box 1030 Bay Head N J 08742

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TKS Mrs, Clark Moran (Martha Gilbert) 8011 StrauffRoad, Baltimore M D 21204 Class agent: Mrs. James Donnell (Barbara Pendleton) 9468 No. Florence Rd., Pittsburgh PA 15237 Thanks and congratulations to Barbara Pendleton Donnell for inspiring a great'' ' “impromptu” 45th reunion! What a wonderful return.

Welcome to new class secretary Skipper Gilbert Moran.

“We were sorry to miss reunion in OctoberH writes Phyllis Lockwood Hull. “We thank Babs fgr her effort fc®get our class together. I bet those there had a ball. Hope we can join in on the next gathering. As of 1998 I will be

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MA Jake Jacobus has been a financial consultant for 30 years. He is a senior VP in Smith Barney’s Morristown office. He and Gail Garnar Jacobus ’58 have three children: son Randy-is married, lives in Minneapolis where he is a partner in a hedge fund and has three children; Katherine is a decorative artist in San Francisco; daughter Julie teaches earth sciences 45th reunion, Kimberley Class o f 1952. Back townL » R: Jean Fairgrieve Granum, Daphne Driver McGill, Martha (Skipper) Gilbert Moran, A n n q B Dwyer Milne, Fay Taft Faibcett.fi Front: Barbara Pendleton Donnell, Jim Donnell, \ Nancy Booth Kelly, Jane Redfield Forsberg

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and marine biology to fifth and sixth graders in Coral Gables, Fla., while pursuing a master’s/Ph.D. program.

Donald Karp is CEO and chairman of th ^ B board of Broad National Bank in Newark.

Phil Donlin retired this year from the Baltimore County school system after 33 years of teaching and coaching. He wrote he was “doing nothing and just relaxing,” though he traveled to California and the Carolinas.

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TKS Mrs. Lawther O. Smith (Linda LovellL 30 Water Crest Drive, Doylestoum PA 18901 Bob and Betsy Hasbrouck Cole hosted a wonderful MKA alumni reception at their home in Connecticut in October. It turned out to be a m ini-K im berlreunion, with Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54, Georgia Carrington ’54, Marian Miller Castell ’54, Anne Reighley Ferguson ’45, Linda Cole LeStage, Teeny Redfield Sander ’47, Barbara O’Donovan White ’42, Gail Zabriskie Wilson and many spouses attending. Betsy said it was the best school/college reception they’d ever hosted.

Lilia Emetaz McDonald’s son Malcolm was married in September. Daughter Elizabeth (Ginney) will receive a £h.D. in botany/ecology in May from the U. of Vancouver, Canada.

MA Mr. Eric Jaeckel 4 3 2 Eastbrooke Lane, Rochester N Y 14618

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Mike Ingraham sent his news in one word: “Retired.”

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TKS Mrs. Jtidson Breslin (Wendy Worsley) 44 Lake Drive, Mountain Lakes N J 07046 Gail Garnar Jacobus has been head of the history department at Kent Place School for 20 years. She teaches juniors and seniors. [See MA ’54 for family news.]

Diana Bethell Little sent news of her family: her children Christine ’95 and Stephen ’96 are at Colgate University. Diana’s sister Daphne Bethell McCarthy and John love their new home in Falmouth, Mass. Their aunt Caroline Thompson Lathrop ’34 enjoys living yearround on Nantucket Island; cousin Mary Lathrop Will, husband and two children live on the mainland but visit the island frequendy, and they all own homes there.

“We M| loved Kimberley and often say our ability to cope and survive in the modern world comes from the character and spirit that the school mollis and develops. We ar|v all very blessed to have been part of the MKA heritage.” Diana Bethell Little ’58, sending in news of her extended MKA family.

MA Dr. Robert R. Haney 40719 Woodside Place, Leesburg VA 20175 haneyrr@erols. com

40th reunion, theWf Class o f1957. Back 'row: Barbara Higgins, Linda Baldanzi, H al Cohen, Judith Slijkin Kaplan, Thelma M iller Knight.

Front: John Higgins, David Marroccffljm Robert Lansoh.

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E.C. and Lea Fitzhugh Welch live in Yakima, Wash. Lea teaches GED classes tojjitiults who dropped out of high school and never received their diplomas. For three years she taught aBwj the'county jail; last fall she was relocated to a small learning center on the Yakama Indian Reservation 20 miles south of town.

The Welches traveled recendy to the Greek Isles and to the Alaskan coasdine. Astronomy isl a major hobby: E.C. has spent years building a 17-inch reflector telescope. They have taken it to variouspptar parties” in the Northwest, during which astronojners.from milesjaround gather on a mountaintop for a weekend viewing deefefspace objects. At the last star party, E.C.’s telescope won the Judges’ Choice Award for the best homi-built telM cope^ut of hundreds) on the mountain.

Todd and Sigrid Lund Tanberg had a fabulous reunion with James and Harriet Fischer Stanphill. It was the first time they had seen each other in W years. They swear they haven’t changed ( a few gray hairs don’t count).

The snow and hiking in the Colorado mountain air wellfabulous, though James'kept calling Todd and Sigrid “fladanders” because they were always o® of breath. Sigrid and Harriet lived across the street from e w other when they were growing up in Montclair and going to Kimberley. Sigrid visited with Harriet’s parents during this visit and said it was wonderful to see them again.

Deana Rogers Sumas’s daughter Tami Sumas Burke ’85 gave birth to another little girl in September, named Raegan McKensi^B Burke (“Tami’si'spellingQiot mineSMshe has her mother’s dark hair and fair .coloring.

The Sumases were planning to go for a postChristmas visit.

Elihu and Susan Wechsler Rose traveled to Cambodia, Burma, and Vietnam last January.

This year they were, off toypl idie whales and penguins in AntiBtfca. She planned to see Judy McConnell in Boston, and said, “I can’t wait to see everyone at our 40th reunion!!* Only a year and a half until our 40th reunion.

So far Joan, Susan, and Jarvis will be theta We are looking forward to seeing many of you there. Some of the highlights are tours of thejH Kimberley (now Middle School|||ampus and the Academy (Upper School) campus.* I have

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It’s not too soon to start thinking about all of this. Jarvis

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Mr. MichaelBaker 10 Highland Dr., North CaldwellNJ 07006 Our condolences to Dorrance Sexton Jr. on the death of his mother, Marjorie McComb Sexton ’29.

60 ----------TKS Best wishes to Wayne and Sally Alice Unkles Diller on their wedding. They were married in Palm Beach in May, then spent a four-month honeymoon on his yacht, the M V Intrigue, cruising the Inland Waterway from Florida to her house in Maine. They m erat church in Palm Beach, discovering that she had spent teenage summers with her godmother in Stone Harbor, N.J. in Wayne’s apartment building!

Sally Alice is a librarian at the private* fodiety of Four Arts Library in Palm Beach.

Sally Minard’s daughter Gillian graduated from Brown U. in 1997 and works in psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital, NYC. Son Nicholas will graduate M m Harvard this year and plans to go into comedy. Sally herself still runs Lotas Minard Patton Mclver Advertising, NYC, and has been elected secretary/treasurer on the board of directors, American Association of Advertising Agencies. Congratulations!

T h e H istory B uff George Bleyle ’60 deserves a new title: “Historian-Laureate of MKA.” George an aviation history buff - discovered a long-lost alum [see 1930 class notes] th m u jh a history b o ^ S l t seems that George scouts bookstores during his stopovers as a pilot For United Airlines,. and found The Road to the 707, Thk yt Inside Story o f Designing thed707\>y William H. Cook. George liked the book so much, he wrote the publisher for another copy, mentioning that his father had worked with an engineer mentioned therein on the B-29 engine, and that he, himself (George) had 10,000 hours in Boeing airplanes.

Author Cook wrote back, asking George to give him a call if ever in Seattle.

In August the two got together, and discovered that in addition to the love of aviation, thdy h ad Montclair Academy in common!

M r. George A . B leyle orion @gwis. com.

6 1 = ----- — MA Mr. David L. Brack 12 Pond View Lane, Titusville N J 08560 From former Academyfaculty member Frank Brogan to the Alum ni Office: We are sorry we will not be in attendance [iapsT; Homecoming 1997]. These years we are on Cape Cod from June through September; the rest of the year finds us in Winter Park, Florida, where we have a garden apartment in a campus-like continuing care retirement center. I have given time to Rollins College and the Center for Grieving Children, and last year began poetry readings at the Morse Museum and here at Winter Park Towers.

We did make it to Steve O’Neill’s (’61) wonderful wedding for his daughter Megan, and occasionally hear from “the old boys.

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MA Mr. Alan J. Balma 29 Gentry Drive, Fair Haven N J 07704 Class agent-: t Mr. Craig Cameron 11 Bay Point Drive, Ormond Beach FL 32174

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TKS Dr. Deborah Pines .,; 1788 Paper M ill Rd., Meadowbrook PA 19046 Sarah Webb Brown writes that her daughter, Leigh Todd Armstrong, will be married in Naples, Fla., in May. Leigh and her fiancé both attend Wharton Business School at U.Penn-.

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30th Reunion, Class o f1967. Back row, L to R: Laurel Pekar Tahija, (who camefoom Inclonesia), Julie Bonsai, Debby Sanders Lewis. Middle: ■ Linda Pasternack Feinberg Susan Penick. Front: Kathy Mustacchi Summon, Gayle Adler, Margot Escott. Missingjrom photo: Lisa Zobian Lindahl, Polly Smith, Carol Bresky Sigda.

30th reunion, Class o f1967, L to R: Joseph Marino, faculty member Ken Gibson, Russ Roche, Lillian and Michael Labowsky.

The Lawyer and the Kids New Jersey Lawyer magazine did a long;* profile of J. Michael Nolan ’67, who founded the non-profit Kids Corporation, a summer school and educational camp for Newark youth. Mike, a lawyer by profession, “quips his real job is running a program for inner-city children living in Newark.” Thousands of children have attended his summer program or been tutored during the school year.

After graduating from college, Mike was a Substitute teacher in Newark’s public schooSwhere he observed the plight of the city and the great need for educational opportunities for its children. (Mike was known, in his Montclair Academy days, to volunteer in Newark with disadvantaged kids.) Five years ago, Mike and his wife formed Kids Corporation.

Children in grades 1 through 5 attend summer classes four days a week in five subject areas - math, science, reading lab, language arts, and Newark history. The fifth day they attend camp in Warren County.

Breakfast and lunch and field trips to museums, libraries, and the Port Authority are included.

Mike spends an enormous amount of time seeking private donations to fund this program. Corporations, individuals, and foundations underwrite the camp and school - for example, the Archdiocese of Newark leases the camp site to Kids Corporation for $1 a year.

The program operates at four school sites and last summer, according to the article, more than 2,000 children participated.

Fifty college students worked at the camp and many tutor children after school.

There is a long waiting list. The article concludes with Mike’s statement, “I could have 10,000 kids from Newark voluntarily going to summer school. AH we’re doing is supplying kids with that opportunity and at the end of the day we’re only meeting a ^ j small part of the need.”

Laurel and Linda Pasternack Feinberg (the new, natural mother of beautiful twins and a two-year-old)- could not attend the dinner so it was especially great to see them at the lunch.

(Linda looks radiant as evidenced by the photo.)

Gayle Adler is also the mother of a beautiful little girl and leads and active, healthy life in New Mexico.

It was truly as if time had stood still and we were able to connect with ¿áSjkjfther immediately. There was much laughter and occasional sadness and terrific memories of the time we shared together during the ’60s. It was interesting to note that, as opposed to the 20th reunion, none of us brought significant others.

At the dinner that evening Polly Smith (who still works for the Muppets and has developed a talent for genealogy), Lisa Zobian Lindahl (a recent bride), and Carol Bresky Sigda joined us. Our sympathy goes to Caroles her mother had recently died and she spent most of the week packing her old home and finding memorabilia that astounded us all! Susan Penick is as sweet as ever and lives in upstate New York, and Debbie Sanders Lewis still has that great smile and terrific attitude.

We sorely missed those of you who couldn’t come and now invite you not to miss the 40th when we have all committed to come as Elvis Impersonators! Your loving secretary, Margot MA Mr. Joseph Marino 190 South M ountain Ave., Montclair N J 07042 Class agent: Mr. Craig Perry 3 4 6 7 Pinestream Road, Atlanta GA 30327 Many thanks to reunion chairman Joe Marino for rallying “the guys”-.tp return. Joe’s comment: “For years I’d just pop my head in to the Academy. This year I’m back with a vengeance” as an MKA parent. Daughter..

Alexandra is in kindergarten.

Lillian and Michael Labowsky have two daughters at MKA: Anna in 10th grade, Sarah in 4th.

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Dutch Vanderhoof completedmts first threeyear gubernatorial appointment as acts representative of insurance produclji on New Jersey’s Small Employer Health Benefits board of directors.

Dallas Gordon ’75 e-mailedSThe photo from the 1967 Academy vs. Newark Academy*?! was a great surpris|. I recognized and confirmed that #32 was my cousin John Ward Jr. ’69! John and his wife Paula now live in Pennsylvania with their three children: Justin, Jason, and Melissa.|b | |

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TKS Ms. Leslie Bryan 8M East Momingside Drive, N E Atlanta GA Mj324 On the July 10 “Today Show,” Katie;(jouric interviewed Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner about her book Everything You Need to K no^^k About Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Disorders [John Wiley & Sons, 1997]. Karen is founder and chair of the board of dir|gtors of the Ljpie*Disease Foundation.

Our condolences to Elizabeth Conzen Zellner op the death of her father, MA Mr. V. James Castiglia 3 Lark Lane, Oak Ridge N J 07f38 Our condolences to John D oerr|m the death of his father.

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TKS Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 5805 Birchbrook #202, Dallas TX 7$206 Class agen« H Mrs. Nancy Plummer Gordon 90 Two Bridges Road, Towaco N J 07082 Avie Kalker’s Shaker Village Democracy Project co-sponsored a youth action congress at Williams College in August. High school students from Massachusetts’ Berkshire County convened for “It’s Our Century: Empowering ■Teens for the 2000s”; among the speakers was former governor and Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. Avie says a “continuity council” was elected to implement decisions.

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TKS Ms. Sydney Johnson Petty 5 H ull Avenue, Annapolis M D 21403 MA Class agent: Mr. John Guttmann 5311 Locust Ave., Bethesda M D 20814 University development expert Bruce Downsbrough seized an unexpected opportunity to work with the president of Knox College, Galesburg, I H running a campaign the college was about to launch.

(The president, as VP for Development, had previously conducted Penn’fgfirst billion-dollar campaign.)

25th reunion, Class o f1972. Back row, L to R: Bonnie Porter, Peter Aiello, John Kaplow, Paul Dackow, Linda Finney Williams, Robert Newman, Jackie Collier Thomas, Heidi Sanders Bryan, Denise Chezek, John Sperling. Front: Walter Porter, Kathleen Perretti, Peter Perretti, Barbara Peto Kilnapp, W ill Bryan.

25th reunion, Class o f1972. Back row: Vince Mascia, John Sperling, Chris Schulz, Will Bryan, faculty memberJohn Rabke. Front: NickAlessi, Steve Schottenfeld, Glenn Veit, Rob Newman. .

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TKS Mrs. David Kilnapp (Barbara Peto) 15 Fairway Lane, Pembroke M A 02359,' ClafMigent: Darcy W ittZonino 970Amble Road, Shoreview M N 55126 Many thanks to reunion chairman Linda Finney Williams for her hard work which inspired a great return.

Tacey Phillips Carroll announced the birth of a “precious.” baby girl, Jamie Louise, in October, “keeping big brother Tyler, 5, on his toes and delighting us all.” ' MA Mr. Steven Scbottenfeld 11 Woodfield Drive, Short Hills N J 07078 Class agent^AI Mr. Tim Wallace 483 Ridgewood Ave., Glen Ridge N J 07028 Congratulations and thanks to reunion chairmen Peter Perretti Jr. and Chris Schulz for orchestrating a tremendous reunion.

Particular thanks ro Peter and Kathy Perretti for hosting a Friday evening launch to the festivities.

Peter reports: “MA ’72 had a great turnout and a fabulous time for its 25th. Present at all or some of the festivities were: Pete Aiello from Florida (who raises snakes in addition to children and has a fascinating job trouble­ shooting for NASA in their coflputer programs), Mike Cassady also from Florida, Chris Schulz from California, Glenn Veit from North Carolina in hiiSrst visit baagSn 25 years (you can call him “farmer Veit” now that he lives on a farm; some form of animal is raised on it), Walter Porter from New Flampshire (Walt flew down in his own plane from a fairweather strip on his property in New Hamp­ shire), Lou Gioffre from Hackensack, Joe Doerr from Massachusetts (expecting twins, probably born by the time yoti read this), Will Bryan from Texas (and wife Heidi Sanders too ofTKS ’70), Rob Newman from NYC, John Sperling from upstate New York (had a huge

grin on his face the entire weekend, first visit back in many moons),.and Vince Mascia from Virginia. Former faculty member Barry Nazarian ’62 attended the Friday night party as an honorary member of the class.

“Tom Brueckner (married to the world’s kindest woman for actually appearing interested in the same old stories), Steve Schottenfeld, Peter Perretti, Paul Dackow, NickAlessi, John Kaplow, Henry Talbot, Greg Jackson, Dave DeBell, Wylie Royce, and Bill Crawford (with wife Erin Cuflfe ofTKS ’74) came from New Jersey. ¿ “Perhaps at the 30th reunion we can continue the great debate that engaged us at dinner on Saturday night: Who has aged most,, the women ofTKS ’72 or us? The woSen made their opinion clear!”

Our condolences to Joe Doerr, whose fatheftdied the week after reunion.

Paul Dackow is design manager for Intelligent Power and Audio Products for Harris Semiconductor (formerly RCA/Glipolid State) in Somerville, N.J. Craig Maginness, unable to attend, wrote from Denver: “Life continues to take unexpe<®id but very fortunate turns; so just as I wound up with the good fortune at being at Montclair Academy at the same time as my classmates, I have the good fortune of living in one of the most beautiful places on earth, being married to a terrific woman, having two very special children, and having a job which allows me to travel the world and run a business. Life is good!”

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TKS Mrs. Michael F. Moreno (Martha Del Negro) 31 Lasalle Drive, Providence R102908 MA Mr. Gregory Lackey 138 Paupukkewis Trail Medford Lakes N J 080575 Class agent: Mr. Rudy Schlobohm 78 Montclair Ave., Montclair N J 07042

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Jeffrey Kindler, subject of a “box” in the fall Review for his position as general counsel for McDonald’s Corporation, has been elevated to executive vice president as well. Congratu­ lations!

Lisa and Bill Breen Jr. live in Gloucester, Mass., with their two children - Leah, 5, and Aidan, 1 1/2. Bill is senior editor of Fast Company, a business magazine in Boston financed by well-known publisher Mort Zuckerman.

74 TKS Mrs. Richard Degener (Ann Patrick) 609 Sunset Blvd., Cape May N J 08204 Class agent: Mrs. Erin Cujfe Crawford 102 Buckingham Road Upper Montclair N J 07043 Geraldine Brundage told her Alumni Phonathon caller that her grandmother was about to celebrate her 99th birthday! Geraldine McBrier Williams T6 had two daughters who attended Kimberley (Jane Williams Bauermeister ’49 and Geraldine’s mother, Nancy Williams Brundage ’41) and three grandchildren who attended KS or the Academy: Louise Brundage Lynch ’65, Peter Brundage ’67, and her namesake, Gerri ’74.

Mrs. Williams may be MKA’s oldest living alumna.

Also learned at Phonathon: Bart and Kathleen Guttmann Rekucki have three children, 7, 4 l/^ f e |./2 .

Blythe Hamer Gewhr also has three children.

She looked very, well, glamorous in the photo accompanying her full-page “Viewpoint” article in Glamour magazine on “Why do so many employers ® it part-time people on the slow track?” Blythe, a health-care executive, crowds a five-days-a-week job into three days.

MA Class secretary and class agent: Mr. Rudolph Schlobohm 78 Montclair Ave., Montclair N J 07042

Brava!

American soprano Barbara Bonney ’74x received, rave reviews for hwasold-out recital at Lincoln Center’s Mosdy Mozart Festival last summer. The New York Times rev ise r wrote, “Despite more than 50 recordings, only in recent years has she gained the profile in the United States that she has long enjoyed in Europe....Now a resident of London, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut only six years ago....

“Ms. Bonney seems at an artistic peak.

Her exquisite lyric soprano voice is pliant and true, and retain® .a rosy youthful radiance. She has found her ideal repertory in German Lieder and in the lighter operatic roles of Mozart and Strag|KjB| After touring Europe, Barbara returned to the States this winter to give concerts at the Met, Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic. Her Carnegie Hall recital debut brought a photo and two-column review in the Times, praising her “exceptional intelligence...musical maturity...and soft high notes of choirboy purity.”

Barbara was also featured on the cover of the February Opera News.

Congratulations and best wishes to Courtney and John Blondel, who were married in NYC in December. Henry Williams was best man.

Ben Thompson opened a new private practice in psychotherapy in Northampton, Mass., and continues to work with a local hospital system in their effort to combine medical and mental services in primary care physician practices. He’s hoping to get to the 25th reunion.

Marilyn and C.G. Brian Thomas adopted Owen Christopher, born in Seoul, South Korea, in May. Owen joined sisters Katherine, 9, and Maggie, 5, on September 20th after arriving at LaGuardia Airport.

Our condolences to Peter Berinato on the death of his fathei,

7 5 -----------------Mr. David Soule 120 Linden Avenue, Verona N J 0704-^Kt Class agent: Mr. Paul Zukerberg 1901 Wyoming Ave. N W #75 Washington D C 20009 Elizabeth Webb Rowe wrote, “Some day I hope to go back and visit the school with my brothers Bim ’68, Peter ’70 and David 72x!

Douglas Hamilton iy-an assistant professor of biology at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y. The September issue of House dr Garden magazine featured an Sight-page spread on a Palm Beach mansion that was decorated by “renowned designer” Howard Slatkin. [The news was sent in by Lori W indolf Crispo£78 who has seen Howie’s offices in Manhattan.]

Our condolences to Malcolm Hall on the death of his father.

Dallas Gordon e-mailed MKA from Chicago, noting that he had recognized his cousin John Ward ’69 in the 1967 Academy vs. Newark football photo in the last issue. [See ’69 Class Notes.]

7 6 = -------------Mrs. Paul McFeeley (Laurie Hoonhout) 238 Devon Road, Essex Fells N J 07021 Class agent: Dr. Charles Read 1918 North Daniel St., Arlington, VA 22201 Robert Bertsche was made partner in the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow. He specializes in litigation and counseling in first amendment, media, and employment law.

Robert, who graduated from Wesleyan U. and Harvard Law School, is ^ S itin g lecturer in the communications and media studies at Tufts U. and a contributing editor for Media in the Law, a national newsletter. He was

Jdrmerly a writer and editor |§ New England Monthly magazine. Robert and his wife, Lynn, have two sons - J<pn.ua, 9, and Jeremiah, ”

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Andy writSIthe following: As Ed Healey would have stated 20 jjssaqs ago, “All I can say is I had a good timep The 20th reunion of the Class of 1977 was a tremendous success from all perspectives and everyone had a good time.

Liitis see, I sat®June Wispelwey, who seems very happy. Wendy White, Mike Werksman, and Brad Protas all came up from Florida to help celebrate. Mike handed out T-shi|g§ to all his classmates and gave the opposing football team a hard time from the sideline®,- Mike, Brad, and Joe Ciccolini closed down the McMullen party at 2:00 a.m. in the old•i|Miioned tradition.

Peter Valentine restructured all survival shop debt for anorher.,20 years. I sat next to Ron Spivak at lunch on Saturday and he shared stories of his acting career in New York and Hollywood. Joe Sullivan had everyone laughing with his ribald humor on Friday night tite McMullens.

Stacy Silverstein Cochran still refuses to tell me what her next movie is about. Scott Schulte gave a swim demo in the new pool and Bruce Sanders made it to the Golf Club for dinner

20th reunion. Back, L to R: Stephen Cowles, Ed Hemey, Chris Brenner.

Andy Read, Sally and Alan Deehan. Front: guest Victoria Cowles, Paul Hastaba, Bob Hubsmith, Michael Werksman.

20th reunion, Class o flyW - Back, L to R: Doug Mahler, Paul Finney, Donna LoBiondo, Barbara and John Hopkins, Pat Berry, Andy Pedersen.

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Class o f1977 reunion collage. Top left: Peter Valentine, Robbin Gordon Cartier, Cheryl D ’Alessandro McMullen, Peter McMullin. Top right: Rick Jenkins, M ike Werksman, David Pinkham, Peter Valentine, Bob Hubsmith, Bill Baird, Steve Cowles. Bottom left: Eric and Stacy Silverstein Cochran, Donna LoBiondo, Pam Danforth. Bottom right: Pat and Andrea Bradley, Margerite and Keith Ridings.

20th reunion. Hut k row, L to R: Pat Berry, Jennifer Hendrian, Donna LoBiondo, June Wispelwey. Front: guest M ark Bradley, Paul Finney, faculty memberJudy Nesbit.

Saturday evening.

Buddy Royal did a surprise appearance at the football game on Saturday. Michele Saucy Mitchell was also at the game looking splendid and c h e S ig our team. Keith Ridings lent me his clothes for the McMullen party, proving that he will literally give you the shirt off his back. Andrew Read saved me a seat at theVs football game and traded war stories with Bob Hubsmith, Paul Hastaba, Jerry Randall, Steve Cowles, and Bill Langstaff. Deborah Rasin Jacobson was also at the game looking lovely.

Bob Post was not there but on a busine^trip to Florida. T hè-test of you can expect vistts*v ' from Ed Healev, Jaison Apter, and Peter Valentine (except for Andy Dobbin, who is off in Sweden, though he writes that anyone in the Stockholm area is welcome to visit).

Mike Platt wins the award for the coolest address - a Beverly Hills number - along with writing comedy for TVkalt^oMs, including the CBS show “Pearl.” Dave Pinkham traded Montclair Golf Club stories with Peter Valentine. Eric M und kept the stories going at the dinner Saturday evening. Lisa Miller Elton caught up with everyone over the weekend as well.

Both Peter and Cheryl McMullen were around all weekend, hosting a party Friday night and distributing alumni awards at the luncheon. Jason Apter was there on Friday night, then was off to Vermont for a medicaid • school exam. Doug Mahler, his wife, and new baby attended the luncheon on Saturday.

Donna LoBiondo cSght: up with the Kimberley grammar school group at Pat Berry’s party and held their own 30th reunion. Pat Cane Donahue was there too.

Dave Kerr and I will get together for lunch sometime in the new year. Gerald Jones was his usual shy self and stayed mainly in the background at all events. Rich Jenkins and Alan Deehan, who live in Montclair, swapped old stories with everyone.

Marcy Irwin Pope (Whom I admit publicly to having a crush on in school) continued |g|pp ignore me just like the old daySBjay Hopkins is litigating right down the road from me in West Long Branch, N.J. Jennifer Hendrian was

there all weekend and had a lot of fun and continues to have that bubbly happy personality. Ed Healey had thSfcme of his life.

Air personality Jon Clark (Grevatt) was around on Friday night with his girlfriend, and might beat out Mike Platt for the coolest address. Jon is a DJ on 104.3 FM, lives in New York, and has an office in the Hard Rock Cafe.

Robbin Gordon Cartier was around at the game sans harpsichord, which shastill plays.

Betsy Gelenitis Alison is sailing all over the world and has won numerSfJCTcups and challenges. Meryl Eastman Connelly was also in fine spirits and told of living in Toronto, her new home.

Donna Crews looked good and had lots of interesting information concerning her work in Washington "D.C. Nancy Cohn Dainesi looked terrific and lives in North Caldwell.

Joe Ciccolini wins the award oMnappiestV person aiffhe weekend; the new baby and Mrs. Ciccolini seemed pretty happy too. Chris Brenner al'so wears the perennial smile of a truly happy person. Pat Bradley was around on Saturday night and relayed that he and family are living in Princeton.

As already mentioned, Pat Berry threw ar " wonderful party Saturday night after dinner at the Golf Club, and hopefully there are numerous phorps of the event. Pat passed out litde cameras for everyone to take pictures of each other.

Peter Adubato came up from Philadelphia and sent regards from his wife Sarah and children Peter and Andrew. If I missed any of you, please write and tell' me. My official head' count for the weekend was of a potential 95 surviving alumni we had 53 show up. So thanks to everyone, and to Alumni Office people Christie Austin and Peter Perretti. as well.

Anjly : Other news: Belated congratulations to Victoria and Stephen Cowles on their wedding.

Paul Hastaba was best man and Andy Read and Bob Hubsmith were groomsmen.

Best wishes to Mary Ellen and Bob Hubsmith. Paul Hastaba was best man; Steve Cowles, Andy Read, and Ed Healey attended.

Congratulations to our mommas and papas:

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Boatwatch PBS’ program “Boatwatch” in July showed Betsy Alison ’7 7 and the U.S11‘ Women’s Sailing Team. In November Betsy appeared in Sports Illustrated for winning the biennial International Women’s Keelboat Championship, a 10-race regatta, for the fourth straight time. Thirty-six teams from eight countries competed in the event, held this year in Betsy’s home waters of Newport, R.I. A New York Times piece antieijpating the regatta said, “Alison has the determination of a corporate raider...and [credits] her victories as a blend of effort, instinct...good teamwork, and boat handling.”

Betsy was inducted into MKA’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.

Linda Haviland Conte writes, “I’m at home' with Michael, 4, and Celia, 1 1/2, trying to write children’s stories and keep my sanity.” .

Michele Saucy Mitchell had a daughter, Anastasia Lea, in February. They moved to Red Hook, near Rhinebeck, N.Y., in November.

Susan Moreau Lovell had triplets on JfffiCly9th.

Holly and Douglas Mahler had their first child, a red-headed boy named Lukas Michael.

Doug, family, and dog Duncan moved to a new home in Franklin Lakes. Doug, in practice with his father and sister, completed three years of study and part-time teaching at NYU Dental College.

Donna Crews has a new position as special assistant to Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Donna is liaison to the Congressional Black Caucus and (has legislative responsibilities for Africa and the Caribbean.

Andrew Royal is national account executive for managed care at Merck & Co. in Irving, Texas.

Our condolences to Bev Hall Hildebrand and •to Andrew “Buddy” Royal on the death of their fathers.

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Ms. Pamela Zeug 2 5 0 Mercer St., C418, New York N Y 10012 Mr. Laurrence Garrigan 6103 Ox Bottom Manor Drive Tallahassee FL 32312 Class agent: Ms. Melissa Cohn Paprin 200 East 71 St., New York, N Y 10021 Laura and John Phillips are now MKA parents: Meg is in kindergarten and John, in first grade, at Brookside.

Austin and Heath Betke Shelby welcomed Melissa Brooke, born on the 4th of July.

Heath reports, “Meredith is a proud big sister.”

John Bicknell had a record deal to release two singles in January with BAM Records, to be used as a fundraising vehicle for the rain forests of Brazil.

“They- don’t call me ’the Meester’ and we have yet to sing the ’Star Spangled Banner’ before a game.,” writes Bruce McBratney, “but I’m coaching kids soccer and it’s pretty fun.i'll Bruce and wife Julie live in Evanston, 111. with Ben, 7; Sally, 5; and John, 3.

Our condolences to Rick Doerr and to Suzanne Conzen on the death of their fathers.

Pamela Bolton e-mailed, “Greetings to fellow class-of-78ers. Vital stats: After doing a public health degree and spending time overseas, I currently work in the field of international health and development, with a nonprofit called AVSC International that specializes in reproductive health. I married Nicholas Radcliffe in 1991; we have a son named Noam born in January 1996 and a second child due in February. I’m interested to hear from anyone working in international business, particularly with developing countries/emerging markets.’V-

79 Mrs. Carlos Ortiz (Shawn Mahieu) 2163 Gilbride Rd., Martinsville N J 08836 Dr. Jack Brink 1290 Beech Valley Rd., Atlanta GA 30306

JamesJohnson 7 9 was. named Under Secretary o f Treasuryfor Enforcement, the No. 3 position in Treasury. He is the highest-ranking AfricanAmerican in law enforcement. James is shown here hosting the MKA junio r class on their trip to Washington in April 1997, when he was 7\ssistant Secretary. He oversees the Secret Service, the Bureau o f Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the Customs Service.

Brewpub someday!” She teaches cooking classes at the local community center.

Our condolences to Ginny Hall and to Debra Doerr-Larsen on the death of their fathers.

Condolences also to Paige Cottingham Streater on the death of her husband, Donald.

Congratulations to Judy and Eric Pai on the birth of daughter Samantha in January.

She joins big brothers Nicholas, 2, and Alexander, 1.

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Mary L. Cole, Esq. 28 Cayuga Trail, Oak Ridge N J 07438 Class agents: Mr. M artin Brayboy 64 Whetstone Road, Harwinton C T 06791 Ms. Julia Ruddick Meade 51 Avon Road, Bronxville N Y 10708

Larry Duca is practicing general dentistry on Valley Road in Clifton. His wife, Dr. Kim Fenesy, is also practicing as a periodontist.

They have two children - Kyle, 5, and Erin, 1 and live at Packanack Lake, Wayne.

Terri and Ken Breen live in Bloomfield with children Conor, 5, and Liam, 1. Ken is VP of Donovan Data Systems, NYC. Andy and Randi Pickelny Rod ’82 have two children, Jordan, 3 1/2, and Spencer, 1.

Patty Green Geisel has started a catering business in Park City, Utah. She has two children.

Dale and Emily Rowland Malone and three . daughters - Sarah, 8; Charlotte, 5; and Whitney, 2 - live in Cohasset, Mass. Emily is having fun starting her own catering busine^^B “and with Dale’s home brewing, look for a new

BiS|t wishes to our brides and grooms.

Sharon and Josh Cohn were married in Brooklyn. Josh graduated from Hamilton College and Geofgeto$m Law’Schdbfey.; Formerly an assistant prosecutor in the Bergen County Prosecutor's,-Offia . he is now an associate at the law ^ p fe Cohn Lifland Perlman Herrmann & Knof, founded by his grandfather.

Kim and J. Kent Walker were married in Adanta by the Congressman she worked for in Washington. Tony Barnes ’79 was' best , man. Kent graduated from Cornell and Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate Management School, w herfhe was p S id e n t of the student body. He owns Dessert Sensations, a distribution company in Glen Ridge.

Rob Cerfolio sent news of the birth of their third child, Matthew Cole, in November/:*-' Jan and Dan Timmons moved to Verona two years ago. They are “proud parents of three wonderful boys” - Zachary, 6; Matthew, Douglas, almost 1. Dan works at Smith Barney as a UNIX system administrator, “but I’d rather stay home to watch the kids. I’d like to hear from old friends; send m ean e-mail.”

81 News gathered at Alumni Phonathon: Rachelle and Michael Dobbin had a son, David Edward, in November. They live in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Linda and Robert Cunniff also had a baby, Connor Leo, in September.

Karen Boyle is in her sixth year of working with children in Africa.

82 Ms. Cheryl McCtprils 8 Willowdale Court, Montclair NJ 07042 Mr. Thomas Robbins 1204Fairview Rd., Havertown PA 19083 Class agent: Mr..Jonathan Sandler 5 Black Oak Road, Wayland M A 01fffl78 Many thanks to reunion chairmen Beth Cherashore Schlager and Billy Hall. The 15th 15th reunionpclass-:gJmk 1982. Back pjw: Andy Rod ’79, Kelif^jnitE~y Mongeau, Lena Corbo,

BethSl& r£r^^M i Wchlager, Liz- Cullum, ¡guest Bryan Hart.

Front: Randi Pickelny Rod, Carol Peto- , :; Ostberg, '¡(Sheryl McCantss%gi(0Mmarles

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reunion was intimate and fun.

Our condolences to Bill on the death of his father.

Best wishes to our brides and grooms. Carrie and A1 Salamone were married in September, with Ed Amirata as best man. A1 works in the family business in New Jersey.

Carrie and David Greenbaum were married last spring in the historic Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colo. According to the newspaper writeup, guests enjoyed “several sunny days” of snowy activities. David received a B.A. from Lehigh and an M.B.A. from Columbia; he is a director of the family business, Greenbaum Interiors.

Richard and Elizabeth Gay Cunningham were married in New York City. Gay, a graduate of New York Universjy, is associate special projects editor at Aventie magazine.

Cheryl McCants is engaged to Charles Merritt Jr. She is working as director of marketing, advertising, and PR at Tyco Systems while working on an executive master’s a « | Columbia School of Journalism. , William and Suzanne Mahler Brogan have two children - Erin, 2 1/2, and Ryan, 41/2.

Suzanne runs her own graphic design firm, Brogan Design, and is a part-time instructor of computer software.

Mary Rachel Hayes McDaniel writes: “I thought I had retired from fencing after 1992, but I couldn’t get it out of mySstem. As o H | October 1996, I’m officially back. Wish me luck for the 2000 Games.”

Jim Windolf, ¡executive editor of the New York Observer, had an editorial reprinted in the Wall StreetJournal as an op-ed piece. It was titled, “A. Nation of Nuts” and ribs the nation’s “sorry statistical portrait|9“The experts won’t be satiMed until every last person is suffering from some kind of disease or disorder or syndrome.” (He mentions attention deficit disorder, multiple chemical sensitivity, social anxiety, restless leg syndrome, chronic fatigue, and other current afflictions.) Apparently Rush Limbaugh discussed it at length on his program, leading Jim’s sister Lori W indolf Crispo ’78 to observe it was probably the only time that Rush and Jim ever agreed on anything.

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Ms. Amy Felber 2841 Sacramento St., 301, San Francise CA 94115 Ms. Maureen lowers Natkin '127 W esf96th Street, 7D, New York N Y 10025 Class agent: Kristine 1latambuhler O Connor , 313 Smith Manor Blvd., West Orange N J 07052 Many thanks to Holly Jervis Felber for her years of interesting news as class secretary. Amy Felber and Maureen Towers Natkin have picked up the pens. Holly will continue her involvement with MKA as Vice President of the Alumni Council, where she chairs the awards committee.

Congratulations to Scott Rumana, who won election as Freeholder for Passaic County. Scott previously served as Wayne Councilman and member of the Township Planning Board. He worked as a Congressional intern and as a law clerk before joining a law firm. Scott too is a member of the Alumni Council.

Welcome alumni children: Susan and Michael Eisner had a baby girl, Emma, in March.

Steve and Suzanne Halm Locke had a boy, Connor Charles, in September. (“We are learning with each mistake and still searching for the instruction manual...”)

Katherine and Eric Green’s daughter Ellen (“Nell”) was born in M a j Eric is with Coopers & Lybrand in Boston. and Maureen Towers Natkin had a boy, Edward, in September.

Hope Hasbrouck was teaching full time at .

Harvard but thinking of moving back to NYC this winter.

Joann Surdi was a bridesmaid at Jennifer Rosenblatt’s wedding in June; Marci Reiss Berger and Kerry Pickelny Rod ’82 attended.

Paul Josephson took a leave from Sills, Cummisjljp be general counsel to James McGreevy’s N.J. gubernatorial campaign.

Doug Colwell reconnected: by e-mail after being “lost” in alumni records. He is with General Dynamics in Burlington, Vt.

1 Oth reunion. Back row:J0t@ and Lisa Resotko Kruk, Richard Stanton, Michael Doyle, Jon Venezian. Front: Guest Roger Boone, LaRhonda Foster, Jaime Plaisted.

Alan Wilzig was pictured in an August New York Times Sunday magazine, interviewed about his 14,000-square-foot Medieval-style castle in the Hamptons.

84---------- -----3fkiss secretary and class agent: Mrs. Todd Ladda (JenniferJones) 110 Glen Rock Road, Cedar Grove N J 07009 Class agent} Mrs. Andrew Wilson (Laura Dancy}.': 3200 West 60th St., Apt. 27-H New York, N Y 10023 Congratulations to Stan and Diane Duca Dacuk oh the birth of their son in September.

Best wishes to Catherine and Wayne Weil on their wedding. He is attending Columbia Business School and will graduate this May. Wayne made it to the final round as..a contestant on ’“Jeopardy.” The show - taped in July in I>.qs Angeles - aired in September.

Wayne entered it on a whim: he logged onto the Jeopardy website and signed up for a chance to try out when the producers were in New York. He was one of 1,000 people selected at random, invited to take a 50-question test. The producers graded the test, then invited the successful hopefuls to take part in a practice game to p jl’if they were telegenic. Then they were asked what they would do with the money if they won (Wayne said he was about to be married and would use it for down payment on a house).

Wayne was selected and spent three days in L.A., one day taping. On the show, Wayne went against a college professor and a librarian and almost won. He was given a high-tech cell phone. He observes there’s a lot of strategy involved, and “there’s a big difference between answering the questions in your living room and being up under the lights.”

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10th reunion, Class o f1987. Back row, L to R: Lynne Yellin, guest Sean Crest; Raj Gona, Sloane Wiesen, guest Randy Blandón. Front:faculty member Calvin Matzke, Peter Ort, Meredith Safirstein Bergmann, Marshall Bergmann.

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1Oth reunion. Back row: Guest Kirsten Bronkovic, Glenn Cademartori, Dennis Rodano, Andrea Borio, Marie Kuipers, guest Daniel Goldberg.

Front: Guest Geralyn Whelan, William and Susan Fehnel Hart, Joanne Pundyk Goldberg.

Class agent: Alexis Polonofiky Zebrowski ,$ 9 Newman, Verona N J 07044 Doug Polizzi is a senior market analyst for Europe at Delta Airlines* Welcome alumni children: In September, Jonathan and Tami Sumas Burke had another litde girl, Reagan McKensie.

Jon and Janet Phillips Connor live in London and were expecting a s.econd baby in February to join brother Griffin.

Robin Schwartz and hej husband Jack Cappitteli had a son, Alex, in November.

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Ms. Sherry Ahkami 225 East 57th Street, 20B, New York N Y 10022 Ms. Jennifer Remington 512 Bloomfield Ave, Apt. 8H Caldwell, N J 07006 Class agent: Ms. Julia Weil 146 West 10th Street, ID , New York, N Y 10014 Best wishes to Marc Spiotta and his bride Karen Muenster ’88. The wedding was an enormous MKA reunion.

Best wishes to Kelli and George Calder on their wedding in June ’96.

Congratulations to Carol and Rob D ’Alessandro on the birth of daughter Amanda in October, and to Amy and Damon Zeigler on the birth of Emily Lauren in September.

Nancy Castro is finishing a Ph.D. program at Columbia U. Jennifer Remington, assistant county counsel for Essex County, is engaged to fellow attorney John Knodel. They met at the courthouse and will be married in May.

87 Mr. Dennis Rodano 137 Washington St., Apt. R3 Morristown N J 07960 ,

1Oth reunion. Back row: Bob Poiugll, Evan Wittepberg, Sabino Rodano, guest Michael Dien. Front: Anthony Barrai, Marie Claire Eberle DeMassi, Andrea Schackner Maline, Tara Frenkl.

Mrs. Joy Booth-Roussel 5509 Camp Street, New Orleans LA 70115

science to 8th/9th/10th graders at the Charles® E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland.

Many thanks to Andrea Schackner Maline and Sabino Rodano for orchestrating a wonderful 10th reunion.

(One week later, at an industry meeting in Delaware, a man came up to Sabino and said, “Lynne Yellin says hello.” It was Lynnelswi? husband, who recognized Sabino from th ^ H MKA luggage tag on his briefcase.)

Best wishes to our brides and grooms: Brenda and Vincenzo Bollettino were married in the chapel of Denver University, Colo., where Enzo is studying for his comprehensive exams in international studies.

Brenda is studying for a master’s in the same field. They honeymooned for three weeks in Sicily and Italy, then returned to an East Coast reception in New Jersey.

Carrie and Ken Gilson were married in the Wheaton College Chapel. Ellen Gilson ’90 was a bridesmaid; Raj Gona, a groomsman.

Ken, who received a master’s degree from Wheaton, has a new job as registrar at Oberlin College in Ohio.

Catherine and Wayne Marston were married in November; Glenn Cademartori was best man.

Geralyn and Dennis Rodano were married Thanksgiving weekend. Sabino Rodano was best man; M att Rodano ’89 was a groomsman and sang at the wedding.

Glenn Cademartori loves his job ias a senior account executive with DKB & Partners advertising in Morristown. Glenn was best man at his brother Gregg’s (’90) wedding hist year.

Congratulations to Jam® and Joy BoothRoussel on the birth of James H. III. He was born while they were living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; they have returned to New Orleans.

Learned at Alumni Phonathon: John Pogorelec ended a two-year clerkship at the U.S. Court ofFedeM ClaimMn D.C. and was moving back to New Jersey.

Katie and David Pike are in grad, school in Boston.

Michael Tantillo is working for the GAP in Quakertown, Pa. Robert Landolfi is teaching math and

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Ms. Karen Muenster Spiotta 59 Long H ill Road, Long Valley N J 07853H M rjfim gs Petretti 219 Otis Place, Verona N J 07044 Class agent: Mr. Alec Sc/fftiartz 1803 Pine Street, 2R, Philadelphia PA 1910ÎÏ ' cmcalec@ix. netcom. com Best wishealo our bridés and grooms.

Marc and Karen Muenster Spiotta’s wedding was a veritable MKA reunion.

Christopher and Courtney Ballen Thaw were married in JuneSB Best wishes to d o it® Elise Butkiewicz and Noah Goldman on their wedding; Simon Auld was best man. Noah graduated from U. Rochester and New J® ey Medical School.

He is a resident in OB/GYN at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, NYC. Gretchen Godwin received a master’s in journalism from NYU in December.

Kevin Silen received an M.B.A. with high honors from Bgston IB School of Management, and was inducted battlBeta Gamma Sigma honorary society. He received his undergrad degree magna cum laude from Boston College.

He works for Ernst & Young.

Javier Salabarria is doing a residency at Mass.

General Hospital.

Mary Savage King is in med. school at UMDNJ. Nicole Gray spent the summer in Tanzania working on her Swahili. Sjj|;js ill â master’^ ® program at Yale, and her thesis will be about U-S. support for democracyin Africa.

Andrea Safirstein is writing her doctoffiftjfcat Columbi&iU. Sandy MacDonald, an manager for Enterprise Rental Car in Winston-Salem, N.C.,’ is building a house there.

Richard Schwartz!® engaged to Elizabeth Yates of Glen Ridge. Rich graduated from

Boston U. and Seton Hall U. School of Law. He practices with the firm Schwartz, Tobia and Stanziale.

In California, Susan Bartlett is working at Oracle Corp. in software sales. She ¡»ivolved in various community activities, including board member of San Francisco Opera’s Bravo! ffilub, the Junior League, and as special event chair for the charity group, the Spinsters of San Francisco.

Jim Garino wrote from Albuquerque, N.M., where he’I's executive director of corporate sales and marketing for the New Mexico Scorpions Hockey Club. He bemoaned the demise of the MKA Alumni Hockey Game. “..I the stands were packed on a Friday night in front of all our friends and peers while the final seconds ticked off the clock and the last strains of Coach Preville s screams turned into a toothless smile.

Yes, an era has certainly passed.”

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78 Kent Rd., Huntingdon Valley PA 19006 Class agent: Mr. Josh Raymond 4: White Oak Rd., Roseland N J 07068 Congratulations and best wishes to our brides and grooms: Brad and Natalie Page Smith; and April and Dan Weiner.

Lisa and Scott Holwitt were married in New Jersey in September. Sean Fitzgibbon was best man; other MKÀ alumni attending included Dana Holwitt 91, David Ames, Suellen Bizub, Peter DeCandia, Mike Hunter, Geoffrey Krouse, Chris Leber, and Andy Weiner.

Michael Hnatow is working as a senior associate, polymer technologies with Foamex LP in Eddystone, Pa. Charry (a.k,a. Chaz) Godwin earned a master’s in journalism and scientific reporting from N.Y.U. She is a freelance TV producer in NYC. David Zweifler is working for Bear Stearns in Hong Kong.

Louis Lessig, who graduated from Widener U. School of Law, clerked with the presiding civil judge in Camden County. He passed the bar in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and now is an associate in the law firm 11 Marks, O ’Neill, Reilly etc. Louis is teaching Dispute Resolution at St. Joseph’s U. through his partnership in the Penn. Employment Law Institute.

Josh Raymond is an associate with the firm Rambinowitz, Trenk, Lubetkin & Tully in West Orangé; practicing bankruptcy Jaw. Josh is a tireless member of the MKA Alumni Council.

Barnes & Noble welcomed author John Blesso with a reading and discussion in New York City in November. Their blurb said, “Disturbingly hilarious comedian John Blesso chronicles the “A current affair-ization” of America in O ff to a Bad Start: Chicken Soup for the Sold...These

insanely funny characters attempt to navigate the devalued expectations of the third millenium.” John is now working on a novel to be released in the spring of 1999.

David Allen spent the summer and fall in Baghdad, where he worked with United Nations relief. “My job is basically to help specialists in certain fields to track the incoming items bought with Iraqui oil.... I am also the comptroller (in a manner of speaking) of WFP data, as so far almost two million tons ,of food have arrived in the country and they are the ones: Bracking it.” Word came in November that Dave was evacuated.

Daisy Altamore Nishigaya is an attorney at law with the firm Thoits, Love, Hershbeger & McLean in Palo Alto, Cal if. She was married last year.

Marilyn Altamore, a past parent, wrote to MKA proudly announcing that her daughter, Daisy Altamore Nishigaya ’89, is a lawyer:® want you to know that the teachers and innovational studies have been a great part of ^Daisy’s] success. MICA stands out in a place of honor for me. Her education there influenced her career very much, along with educators and support.

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Ms. Lorejp) Muenster 125 Country Lane, Clifton, N J 07013 Ms. Meredith McGowan 33$ East 65th St„ Apt, 3F, New York N Y 10021 Besj wishes to our brides and grooms.

Greg and Ellen Gilson Voth were married in June; Ken Gilson ’87 was a groomsman. Ellen received a B.A. from Wheaton College, 111., and a m aster® music from Westminster Choir College in Princeton. She is teaching in Dryden, N.Y. near Ithaca.

Gregg’s brother Glenn ’8,7 was best man at the wedding of Emilie and Gregg Cademartori.

Lisa and William Pietrucha were married in August; brother Stephen Pietrucha ’93 was best man and Middle School faculty member ., Lorraine Pietrucha was proud Mother of the

Groom. Bill and his bride live in their own home in Westfield. He .is a police officer in Cranford.

The wedding of Robert and Leah Napolitano Ortiz was a veritable MKA reunion (see photo).

Robert and Leah met at Notre Dame as undergrads. She has started medical school in Philadelphia.

Meridith Ooruer is engaged to Andrew Gansler of Springfield. She graduated from Cornell U. College of Engineering and is a client analyst for Merck-Medco Managed Care in Montvale.

Congratulations to Rhoan Jones, who revived a Juris Doctor degree from U. of Pittsburgh Law School. He graduated from Boston College.

Lloyd Godwin, a graduate of U.Penn, is in his fourth year of NYU Medical School, “awaiting news of residency.”

Alexis Hughes works for J.P. Morgan in NYC, literally on Wall Street.

91 Ms. Jamie Lenis 25 Taylor Drive, West Caldwell N J 07006 Ms. Dara Mormon 518 East 80th Street, 5F, New York N Y 10021 dara. marmon@lgtna. com Congratulations to Balaji Gandhi, who received a master’s in health administration from George Washington U. in May. He is a research analyst with HealthCare Financial Partners, Inc., a health care investor and lender in the Washington, D.C. area.

Dana Holwitt is in her second year at the Medical College of Virginia.

William May was promoted to 1st Lieutenant.

He is stationed in Manhattan, Kansas.

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Mr. Enrique Neblett 77 Columbus Ave., Montclair N J 07042 Class agent: Ms. Alison Raymond 4 White Oak Road, Roseland N J 07068 MKA wedding reunion, L to R: Ann Napolitano ’90, Michael Napolitano ’98, Jamie R eif 90, T ijfn i Kriegel ’90, Marty Torjussen ’90, Bryan Lonsinger ’90x, bride Leah Napolitano Ortiz ’90, groom Robert Ortiz, Kim Charlton '90, Seth Sham ing ’9 2 (partially hidden), Eric Iverson 92, Paula Kovanic Spiro ‘90, brother Dan Napolitano ’9 3 (partially hidden), sisterJaime Napolitano ’91, Alison Smith ’90.

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1992: Back row: Jane Lee, Tami Safer, Doug Munson, A ri Terry, Doreen Oliver, J e ff Glosser, Adam Goldberg faculty member Geoffrey Branigan, subject o f the Class o f1992yearbook dedication. Front: Jenna Blanes, Amy Br0sler, Tom Kaim, Laura Mamchur, Scott Weiner.

Fifth reunion, Class o f1992. Back row, L to R: M arni Schinman, Alison Raymond, Liza Boglivi, Bianca Soprano, Lisa Groudan, Mario Legido and Allegra Slyder Legido. Front: Caroline Russo, Alessandra Goodkin, Serena Goa/win, Nim ali Patel.

Congratulations and many thanks to reunion chairmen Tami Safer, John Sorger, and Anne Marie Verdiramo for leading a terrific reunion.

Almost 50 percent of the class returned for all or part of the day, an unofficial record for a 5th reunion: Jenna Blanes. Amy Bressler, Tom Kaim, Laura Mamchur, Jeff Glasser, Ari Terry, Scott Weiner, Doug Munson, Doreen Oliver, Jane Lee, Adam Goldberg, John Sorger, Chris Gaydos, Sharon Most, Enrique Neblett, David Aronow, Saurabh Agarwal, Keisha Trotman, Adrienne Phillips, Daniel Solomon, Joe Adler, Bianca Soprano, Lisa Boglivi, Serena Godwin.

Also Lisa Groudan, Caroline Russo, Allegra Slyder Legido and her husband Mario Legido, Alessandra Goodkin, Marni Schinman, Joe Lee, Gerry D ’Amato, Victor D ’Amato, Jim Cerino, Alison Raymond, Nimali Patel, Joe LaGuerre, Nahder Pajoohi, Cliff Finkle, Pete Benedict, Jim Cirello, Kim Cohen, Nicole Silver, Stacey Honstedt, Melissa Fitzgibbon, John Eberhardt, Adam Ertel, Tami Safer.

Alison Schwartz sent regrets and congratu­ lations from Athens, Greece, where she was performing with the Pilobolus Dance Theatre.

Kim Cohn, a graduate of Syracuse U., works with the factoring company Westgate Financial Corp. in Hoboken.

John Sorger works for Morgan Stanley Dean

Witter Discover as a member of their TFI sanisuk and marketing liaison desk.

Serena Godwin, a graduate of U .Pengis attending Cardoza Law School, NYC. Amy Bressler received a BA. in politic®©; science from Emory U., with Phi Sigma Alpha honor society. She is a legislative assistant to Congressman Bill Pascrell in Washington.

Marie D ’Amato spent last year and the summer at Northfield-Mt. Herman, a coed boarding school in western Massachusetts. She lived in a dorm and .coached field hockey, ice hockey, and ultimate fnsbeeikfe&rding to the season. Marie received a B.A. from Middlebury College in American lit./environmental studie^j She spent a semester in Florence, Italy.

After graduating from Columbia College with a B.A. in economics and East Asian studies, Jane Lee spent six months in Korea, where she worked with Samsung in their w S ien ’s issues task force. v There, I tried to benchmark policies that would help to create a friendlier work atmosphere for career-minded women.”

Jane now works for Andersen Consulting.

David Aronow is engaged to a fellow Tufts University student, Sarah Baker. David earned a B.S. in chemical engineering magna cum laude and is working on a master’s degree in chemical engineering at Tufts.

Amos Elberg graduated with departmental

honors from Wesleyan U., Conn., with a major in social studii,es.

Max Fierst graduates from Yale this spring and will marry Erin Jepsen, an artist, in May. Max is now a published poet.

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Ms. Renee Monteyne 10 Lookout Point Trail Totowa Borough N J 07512 Mr. Brian Wecht 51 Gleyt! Cove, Pompton Lakes N J 0074,'MSu Class agent: Ms. Lisa Gittleman 3 4 Windermere Rd„ Upper Montclair N J 07043 From newspaper clinninis^B Vadim Sarma graduated cum laude from Darttiiouth with a degree in psychology..

Gretchen Cook received a B.A. with a double major in psychology and religion from Davidson (N.C.) College., |h e will pursue graduate work in psychology.

Lisa Gitdeman, with B.A. from Vassar, is a public relations aSSMate with IDT Corp., a high-tech tel^ommunications firm (Internet service, web-posting) in Hackensack. Lisa

199M Joe LaGuerre, Michael Cerino, Gerry D ’A m ato,^hris Burchell Nahder Pajoohi. Front: Victor D ’Amato, Joe Lee, John Sorger

Fifth reunion, Class o f1992. Back row, L to R: Dan Solomon, Chris Gaydos, Sharon Most, Adrienne Phillips, Kiesha Trotman, faculty member Robert Sinner. Front: Joe Tidier, David Aronow, Saurabh Agarwal Enrique Neblett.

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handles the press and trade shows.

Coast Guard Seaman Recruit Joe Williamson joined the Guard last March and graduated from the extensive training program in Cape May. After graduating from Colgate U. with a B.A. in biology, minor in religion, Jordan Safirstein has begun Chicago Medical School.

Chris Kelly won the John Crowe Ransom Writing Prize at Kenyon College.

After earning a B.A. in psychology and theater at St. Lawrence U., Kristen Brondo drove across country and spent six weeks at a horse show in Utah (she had been on an intercollegiate equestrian team). Kristin now works in hospitality at Embassy Suites in Denver, Colo.

Two faculty members spotted sportscaster Jason Barr on CN-8 TV (he was doing a story on an MKA rival team).

Brian Wecht is teaching madt at Kent School, Conn., while applying to graduate schools for physics.

Vince O’Hara received a B.A. in government from Cornell and was selected for a summer Oxford program in politics for international students. Vince had unusual internships: he ^■¡Transcending Stereotypes Senior line backer M a r k W heeler ’9 3 was subject o f th e cover photo a n d p ro file in the official gam e program a t the U niversity o f N e w H am p sh ire in September:

Wheeler, a humble and carefid speaker... looks at his life and the stereotypes surrounding his race, his gender, his sport, and his social activities, and he makes one statement: “It’s good to have someone who transcends stereotypes.”

He has been dubbed “the most exper­ ienced” and therefore ¿¿leader on the defensive side of the football. Leadership, as he sees it, comes on all different levels. “I like to lead b ^^ ^B p le.’isfDespite injuries, Mark nonetheless achieved great statistip)f;iy He had a career-high 13 tackles vs. UMass in 1996. nH As a psychology major, Wheeler is motivated into helping the community. He spent |1 ||§ summers helping young kids.

For two summers while training for football, he worked as a counselor at a day camp, [helping] to expose young people to the differences that exist in the “real world.” He also spent one summer in Paterson, N.J. helping 16- and 17-year-old foster children, including some young mothers, learn adult responsibilities like establishing bank accounts and developing job skills. His ultimate goal is to one day start his own nonprofit community organization.

At college, Mark has worked as a gender issues peer educator.... His purpose is;;to offer individuals some new alternatives and perspectives to their thinking.

At MKA, Mark lettered in football, baseball, and swimming, and earned first team AllState honors. His mother, Victoria Wheeler, is on the faculty at Brookside. jA

worked with President Carter in the Carter Center and with the National Security News Agency under a Cornel [-for- Washington program. According to his mother, he went “from laX to intellectual”; she credits his preparation at MKA.

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Class agentsjm Mr. JohfjmaroJf 67 Eagle Rock Way, Montclair N J 07042 Cory Ness, a Bucknell Scholar in English and Sonomics, was selected to study at Oxford for a semester.

Jaime Bedrin spent a week last fall at the United States Military Academy at West Point, examining the role B moral education and the Academic Honor Code at colleges and universities in the U.S. Charles Kaplan earned a second varsity letter in baseball at Wesleyan U. (Conn.) last spring.

He is majoring in psychology and serves as a DJ and sportscaster for the student radio station.

The Crane Home fall newsletter noted that Jason Awerdick, a history major at Hamilton College, was an intern last summer. He was pictured studying an old book detailing President U.S. Grant’s around-the-world trip.

Jon Accarrino, graduated a year early from Ithaca College, produces an “underground ’zinc” (fanzine) called Rubber Ducky. He is® editor, publisher, and graphic designer. The The Volunteer Egan Davson ’94 was subject of a lengthy profile in the Lehigh University Student News. Egan volunteers for a new community service engineering course supervised by the Lehigh chapter of the National Society m Black Engineers. Every Saturday last semester, Egan and other students (“not all of whom are black or engineers”) tutored teenagers in math, science, English and computer skills at the Renaissance Center in New Brunswick, N.J. They taught how to use software programs, design a Web page, use the Internet, and build a model race car. They also offered advice on resisting negative peer pressure, managing time, setting goals, and applying for college.

“Volunteering is not a new experience for Davson,” the articlq^jatedy “One of those activities [during his days at MKA] was teaching a 32-year-old Newark custodian to read, a project that took more than three years.” A mentor and peer leader at MKA, Egan received the Community Service Award at Commencement.

Egan, who is majoring in political science, plans to attend law school.

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humor zine ® o popular, it- can be found M B Tower Books. An article about Jon in the Ithacan noted that he got his start with zinesy Sn a high school mass communications class” and was bombarded with requests for a second issue. Jon has.a Rubber Ducky web site: http://users.aol.com/stiflizard “Home stretch at Connecticut College,” writes Kiki Drukker. She is having a great senior year and keeping busy as activities coordinator for the Senior Class Executive Board, a pre-trial advisor for Honor Code, and caseworker intern for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Southeastern Connecticut.

You Meet the Nicest People...

Last summer former MKA faculty member Helen Molina - studying at the University of Salamanca, Spain - was walking across campus with her books in a backpack. On the backpack was an MKA luggage tag.

Out of the crowd came someone singing the MKA school song. It was Mitch Decter ’94, who was also studying Spanish in Salamanca before his senior year at the University of Vermont. They bumped into each other several times after that at dances ,i£hd tapas bars.'

The moral of the story: Use your MKA luggage tag.

9 5 ----------------Ms. Rita Papaleo 31 Femwood Terrace, Nutley N J 07110 rep%8 @nwu. edu Class agent: Mr. Adam Schrager 121 Christopher St., Montclair N J 07042 M att Drukker spent the fall semester in London at the University College of London.

He writes, “Dan Byrd and I spent six weeks in Florence, Italy, last summer taking courses and traveling for two weeks.”

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Class secretary and, agent: Ms. Jennifer Fink 154 Upper Mountain Ave., Montclair N J 07042 Jennifer Brown played the role of Snug the Joiner in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the West Orange summer Theater Under the Stars. She was also gmpreographer for “The Fantastics.” Jen is majoring in psychology and dance at Tufts.

Kate Edelstein is singing in an all-girls a cappella group at Lafayette College and will be a tour guide second semester.

Jonathan Zweifler spent the summer as an assistant to award-winning photographer Michael Yamashita ’67. Jon had been his host at Career Day!

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January 5,1998 September 19,1997 February 3,1998 July 12,1997

M KA Bulletin Board

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

Career Services - A networking referral service to advise recent MKA alumni on internships, resumes, jobs, career paths. We particularly need advisors in financial areas such as banking and technology, and summer internships. We also have requests for advisors in major cities, such as Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.

MKA Chairs Wonderful gifts or graduation presents! MKA chairs are antique black with maple arms and bear the official MKA seal in gold. Each chair sells for $225; a rocking chair version isl available for $250. Please add $20 for shipping and handling. Your order must be accompanied by a check made payable to The Montclair Kimberley Academy. Send to: The Alumni Office, MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042.

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. Can be done through distance learning.

Call Ginger Kriee,el at Career Services, 973/509-4870 or contact us through the MKA Web site - www.mka.inter.net

April 30 May 9 October 3

Dates To Remember Senior Breakfast Athletic Hall of Fame Alumni Social at Van Vleck House & GardenS:'/ HOMF.COMING/REUNIONS 1998

Thank You Thank you to the§| new class secretaries for volunteering: Amy Felber ’83 Maureen Towers Natkin ’83 [If your class has no secretary, why not volunteer? Call the Alumni Office at 973/746-9800 for further information.]

Kimberley Tea The MKA Alumni Office and the Cum Laude faculty committee are looking for information about the sterling Kimberley tea service. It is now used for Cum Laude receptions. Does anyone know when and how Kimberley acquired it? How was it used? Did Miss Waring and Miss Jordan pour? Or was it an alumnae thing?

Lost Your Yearbook?

The MKA 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 (973/746-9800).

The archives have at least one copy of every yearbook published except 1902. We also need an extra copy of the following: Kimberleaves 1946, 1951, 1954, 1955.

Please call the Alumni Office (973/509-7940) with any ¿¿collections or information. Thank you.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COUNCIL RAT T O T Elespon for Alumni Council members will be held at the Annual Meeting of the MKA Alumni Association on May 11, 1998. Meeting place will be at the Middle School Library, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey. Time 7:00 p.m.

If H i do not expect to. be present at the meeting, please sign the proxy bji®s1|' and return it to the Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey 07042 Upon election of the proposed slate of nominees*, the Alumni Council for 1998-99 will consist of the following: TERM EXPIRING lj®9 Karin Strom Aiello ’68 Erin Cuffe Crawford ’74 Lori W indolf Crispo ’78 Holly Jervis Felber ’83 Kristine Hatzenbuhler O ’Connor ’83 Scott Rumana ’83

TERM EXPIRING 2000 Lisa S. Aufzien ’76 Andrew J. Blair ’78 Jennifer Jones Ladda ’84 Mark McGowan ’85 Doreen Oliver ’92 Joshua H. Raymond ’89 Sabino T. Rodano ’87 Pat Shean Worthington ’74

TERM EXPIRING 2001* Robert Cottingham Jr. ’84 Crystal A. Elliott ’88 Susan Cole Furlong ’78 Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76 Eric F.S. Pai ’79 Andrew D. Rod ’79 Anita E. Sims ’79 Alexis Polonofsky Zebrowski ’85

ADVISORY Martha Bonsai Day ’74 Peter S. McMullen ’77 J. Dean Paolucci ’73

The following persons presently on the Alumni Council have been nominated to serve as o ffic jK f the Alumni Association for 1996-98. These officers will be elected bv the Alumni Council at its annual meeting on May 12, 1997: 1 President...................................................Kristine Hatzenbuhler O ’Connor ’83 Executive Vice President.........................Holly Jervis Felber ’83 Vice President.......................................... Sabino T. Rodano ’87

Secretary..................................Pat Shean Worthington ’74 Treasurer.................................Andrew J. Blair ’78

The undersigned hereby appoints Peter S. McMullen T T froxy to vcJjjFOR______ AGAIISSt _______ the election of the proposed m em fas of The Montclair Kimberley | B | ^ B Council at the annual meeting to be held May 11, 1998 as seSgorth in the spring issue of the MKA Review magazines M • ■ ■ . : ,y. ■ H j

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Richard M. Sandler ’4 8 teaching in Headmaster Peter Greer’s ethics class. Sandler is one o f the most esteemed attorneys in the state o f New Jersey and a founder o f the firm Lowenstein, Sandler, Kohl, Fisher & Boylan.

In recent issues of the MKA Review we have had the pleasure of highlighting alumni who have made planned gifts to MKA and thus joined the Heritage Society. Richard M. Sandler of the Class of 1948 is another alumnus who has included The Montclair Kimberley Academy in his estate planning. He wrote with some thoughts on why he and his wife, Susan, decided on a bequest to MKA: “For many years, my estate planning has included a provision for MKA. It was an easy thing for me to do because I do not consider it a gift but rather a repayment of a very large debt of gratitude to the Academy. I have no doubt whatsoever that I could not be where I am today, or have the ability to leave money to MKA, if it were not for those great sources of inspiration and learning: Messrs. Barras, Monson, Miller, and Harmon.|l The Heritage Society recognizes those benefactors who have made planned gifts to MKA. Members of the Heritage Society enjoy the personal gratification of advancing the education of future generations of students.

They also enjoy the financial benefits which flow from sound investment and estate planning, including increased spendable income, an immediate tax deduction, reduced estate taxes, and reduced capital gains taxes on appreciated assets.

Charitable Bequests, Charitable Remainder Unitrusts, Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts, Charitable Lead Trusts, and Gifts of Real Estate are all examples of planned gifts that make one eligible to join the Heritage Society.

If you would like more information about making such a planned gift to MKA, please write The Office of External Affairs, MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042. If you prefer, telephone Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs, or Peter Perretti ’72, Assistant Director of External Affairs, at 973/746-9800.

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Homecoming * Reunions October 3, 1998

Middle School students plant a tree after Gathering V. Dan Rocha, Head o f Campus, looks on.

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