Fall 1999 MKA Review Magazine

Kimberley Academy

C over Dr. Albert Léger, co-chairman of the UppèjfSchool science department, and a student in the new Introduction to Research in ScienfScourse. See lead article on Science at MKA.

C ontents From the Headmaster / 1 MKA Mail / 2 Science at MKA A 4 ‘ J s Notes Around MKA / 13 Cougar Sports / 17 From the Alumni Association / 20 1999 Distinguished Alumni Award /.25 Class Notes / 26

Review Editors Christie Austin Judy Polonofsky

C ontributors Debbie;Kozak

P hoto C redits W.L. Bill Allen Christie Austin Anthony CuneoE.W. Gilbert David Hollander Dan Katz Nick Kelsh Debbie Kozak Steve Tober Michael Yamashita Published twice yearly by: The Montclair Kimberley Academy 2Qâ Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042 973/746-9800 • FAX: 973/783-5777 http://www.montclairkimberle^.org Entfifed as third class matter at Montclair NJ 07042 Design: Gemini Communications West Caldwell, NJ Printed on recycled paper

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

A l u m n i A s s o c ia t io n C o u n c il

1999-2000 Karin Strom Aiello ’68 Lisa S. Aufzien ’76 Andrew J. Blair ’78 Lindsay Braverman ’01 Robert (Nottingham Jr. ’84 Erin Cuff© Crawford ’74 Lori Windolf Crispo ’78, Executive Vice President Lawrence P. Duca ’79 Crystal A. Elliott ’88 Holly Jervis Felber ’83 Susan Cole Furlong ’78, Vice President Danielle Greer ’00 Jennifer Jones Ladda ’84 Christian Langbein ’00 Mark D. McGowan ’85 Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ’83, President Eric F.S. Pai ’79 Joshua H. Raymond ’89, Secretary Andrew D. Rod ’79 Sabino T. Rodano ’87, Treasurer Scott Rumana ’83 Alec P. Schwartz ’88 Patricia Shean Worthington ’74 Alexis Polonofsky Zebrowski ’85 Peter R. Greer, Headmaster Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs Christie Austin, Alumni Director Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76, Director of Alumni Giving and Planned Giving A d v is o r y C o u n c il Martha Bonsai Day ’74 Peter S. McMullen fm U J. Dean Paolucci 173

B oard O f T rustees 1999-2000 Paul G. Edwards, Vice President George W. Egan Andree (Penny) Finkle Michael Frasco John E. Garippa, President Linda T. Garippa Mary Ellen Gray Peter R. Greer, Headmaster Alice M. Hirsh, Secretary Peter S. McMullen ’77 J. Clarence Morrison, Vice President Anne E. Muenster-Sinton Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ’83 Michael L. Rodburg Rudolph G. Schlobohm 7 4 Newton B. Schott Jr., Treasurer Jolinda D. Smith David L. Turock Denise Wagner

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

A dvisory T rustees Edwin J. Delattre Austin V. Koenen Sr. (in memoriam) Barry W. Ridings 7 0 Herbert H. Tate Jr. 71 Member: Alumni Program Council of Independent Schools (APC) Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) New Jersey Association of Independent Schools (NJAIS) MKA complies with all state and federal anti-discrimination laws.

From the Headmaster Dear MKA Community, This issue of Review is worthy of your attention. You will be impressed by the thoughtful enhancements to our Pre-K to iti science curriculum. You will be pleased by the energy and professionalism you spot in the articles by three of our faculty, Bridget Looney, Jenny Zagariello, and Dr. Albert Léger (who is on the cover with one of his students). The science faculty are talented and opportunities for students atjy the Middle and Upper School campuses include major research projects and presentations, expanded hands-on activity (the result of recent alumni comments on our annual college questionnaires), and computer-assisted studies. Best of all,' our faculty work easily and well with each other across our three campuses and have now developed several new ways to make MKA even more competitive in the science area, e.g., an outdoor garden classroom at Brookside an®?* renovated classrooms at the Middle and Upper School campuses. College professors have visited with us and given valuable advice on needed state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. We will now seek funding for these ideas.

If you follow MKA athletics, you will enjoy reading about the exploits of our Boys’ and Girls’ Swimming and Fencing teams, the Girls’ Basketball team, Boys’ Lacrosse, and Girls’ Softball. It was a pleasure for Terry and me to watch many of the games and meets this winter and spring. There were two main sources of enjoyment for us. First, our players’ exemplary sportsmanship showed the results of hard and intelligent work by our coaches, team captains, and Director of Athletics, Dr. Mark Boyea. Our focus on good sportsmanship is very much part of the MKA ethics and formation of character curriculum. Our total record over the last two years is that only two players have been ejected in over 1,500 contests. Second, our teams surprised a lot of competitors who, reading pre-season reports by commentators, were supposed to be top-ranked, but who in the end fell victim to Cougar ferocity, athleticism, excellent coaching, and grit.

H eadm aster P eter G reerpresents his g ift to the departing seniors: a laundry bag w ith th eir nam es on it to take o ff to college.

taken us far beyond what was planned originally. This issue reveals who several of those scholars are. In subsequent issues, I will report on the progress made ;©our students are taught and learn “enduring understandings” from significant literature and art.

One way to be a fully participating student, parent, faculty, or alumni member of MKA is to read every single page of every issue of Review. That is your homework assignment for the fall.

With best wishes,

The last issue of Review drew many favorable comments regarding our unique Core Works Program that begins this September. Our faculty’s careful preparation and the advice and materials provided us by national scholars have

Dr. Peter R. Greer, Headmaster

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MKA-mail Dear Dr. ,Greer,

You and your staff made my induction into MKA’s Athletic Hall of Fame a very memorable event. MKA has moved a long way since I .was there and it has all been in the right direction. My days at Montclair Academy remain fond fnemories. The older I get the more I realize how much fun those days really were and how important they were as part of my subsequent development. Your vision of the educational experience and its process seems right on target.

You should be proud that you are setting the mold for future generations. I am more proud than ever to be associated with the “Academy.”

Michael Sucoff ’5 6

Last fall in search of an outdoor diversion for my two-yearold daughter and four-year-old son, I discovered the MKA field hock®| practice. We live on Upper Mountain Avenue and found it a nice walk. I was eight months pregnant and slow, but we came as often Is we could. Robert would bring his catcher’s mitt and run after the stray balls. Currie, my daughter, ran back and forth on the hill. The days were lovely and we had fun playing outside, watching your team develop its skills.

Though I was impressed with the teamwork, effort, enthusiasm, and good sportsmanship your young ladies showed day after day, ,one specific incident stands out® A couple of days after our third baby was bom, I was standing on our porch in the late afternoon holding the baby,H Watching the older children play in the froW yard. The ifi'eld hockey team jogged by and, recognizing us from the practices, waved. One girl called out “Wait there” and turned and ran back toward the field. She returned with a handdrawn “Welcome baby/Congratulations” card signed by all the girls on the team.

Just received your latest publication - what a splendid job you do to make it interesting....Just for the record, Lois [Riley] and I wrote the words to the school song together. The music is an old Navy song from the turn of the century which has been used for such things before.

Nixon Bicknell, form er faculty member What great things are going on there. It sounds like such a center of vitality, i l ’m so impressed with the Ruby Bridges program.

Sara Hunter, author children’s books

WOW! That’s impressive! I was overwhelmed. We are newcomers to Montclair, s<|!i was especially grateful for that show of kindness. It’s one I’ll never forget.

Mary Tabor Engel

I am always happy to receive news from MKA, which I was a part of during the year 1996/97. The experience gained during that yfear still inspires me in my academic, . professional, and personal deeds. I am finishing my second semester at the Institute of Journalism of Vilnius University, Lithuania... This fall I will transfer to Colgate University, where I am planning to major in international relations. I have been given a [full] scholarship. I view this support as an investment, which makes me feel responsible in giving back much more to Lithuanian society upon my return from the'USA. I have a great hope to visit MKA again.

Amoldas Pranckevicius, exchange student

As an MKA graduate, it was with great pride that I read the Essex County Bar Association April newsletter which highlighted the success of the MKA Mock Trial Team this year... Some of the mgst prominent attorneys in New Jersey are MKA graduates and are no doubt equally as proud of this accomplishment. MKA has in the past and clearly continues to be committed to maintaining the highest level of academic excellence. This continued commitment is a clear reflection Igf the quality and integrity of the MKA faculty and student body. Thank you for giving every alumnus the opportunity to be proud of being an MKA graduate.

Richard Schwartz ’88 1) Dr. Greer’s “fireside chat” letter to children about the Clinton Issue was reminiscent of the best in classic journalism 0 1 a “Yes, Virginia, there still is a Presidency.”

2) In » 6 2 , we had school on Memorial Day, our Head­ master’s contribution to idealism in education “that they would study war no more.”

3) ,:Your core curriculum was dimly reminiscent of the halls of pre-Ivy curriculum that I remember as a child. However, we read Oedipus the King and Antigone during our senior year.

That year also, Mr. Brogan narrated for us the plot structure ||f a novel he had recently discovered entitled Lord o f the Flies, and recommended that we not go to college without having read it. I did not discover the “f|fo” until my junior yea:- at Columbia.

It is evident that your educational offerings are not only still superlative but also intensifying by degree (no pun intended).

Byron M ichael Noone ’62 2

I have not been back to the school since I graduated in 1988; however my recent “visit” to the MKA weblfite impressed me.

If tBrg improvements in MKA’s technical resources are indicative of the improvements in the quality of education being given to current students, then I want to thank you for making my diploma more valuable today than it was in 1988.

I wish you, the staff and faculty continued success in educating future alumni of MKA. My regards to Mrs. Charlton from one of her former math students.

Tiffany Ricker Wellman 8 8

MKA welcomes questions and commentsfrom readers. Please send your thoughts to the MKA Review, Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair N J07042, ore-m ail caustin@mka.pvt.kl2.nj. us

From the Board of Trustees As I look forward to serving another year as President of the Board of Trustees of The Montclair Kimberley Academy, I thank my colleagues for their continued support and hard work.

Retirem ents The Board joins me in thanking the following for their service to MKA:

Michael P. Frasco and Denise G. Wagner were elected new members of the class of 2001 and 2002, respectively. Elected to serve another term were Alice M. Hirsh, Anne E. MuensterSinton, Rudolph G. Schlobohm 74, and Newton B. Schott.

A. Law rence Gaydos joined the Board in 1984 as an Advisory Trustee, and has served almost continuously since that time.

Larry was chairman of the Buildings and GrouMs,«.

Committee, and over the years jggrved on the Executive, Finance, Development* and Auxiliary Operations committees.

Advisory Trustees for 1999-2000 are Dr. EdwinP Delattre, Barry Ridings 70, and Herbert H. Tate Jr. 71. Honorary Trustees are Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54, Susan H. Ruddick, and James S. Vandermade ’35.

Terence D. W all served on the Board from 1993 to 1999. He was a member of the Finance Committee, Long-Range Planning Committee, and the Buildings and Grounds Committee,

W elcom e New Trustees In the coming school year, we will see further progress on our Long Range Plan. We will focus on science at all three campuses and upgrade much of our lalwspace. At the same time, we will improve the arts facilities at the Upper School.

We will also continue to put an emphasis on increasing our faculty compensation endowment so that we can attract, train, and hold the fg|§t teachers.

M ichael P. Frasco is a Senior Vice President and portfolio manager for CDC Capital. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his M.B.A. from Wharton. He and his wife, Angela, are parents of three MKA students: Sarah, grade 1; Michael, grade 5; and Elizabeth, grade 7.

Jo hn E . Garippa President

D enise G. W agner is a Vice President in the Technology and Operations Department of Deutsche Bank. She received her bachelor’s degree from Dickinson College as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received an M.B.A. from Wharton. Denise and her husband, Ira, have two children at MKA: Andrew, grade 1, and William, grade 6.

The Montclair Kimberley Academy Foundation Board of Trustees 1999-2000 President - John E. Garippa Vice President - Paul G. Edwards Vice President - J. Clarence Morrison Treasurer B'lewton B. Schott Jr. Secretary - Alice M. Hirsh

H eadm aster P eter G reer visited O live Cawley Watson ’3 6 a t her sum m er hom e on N orth H aven E land, M aine, this summer. Mrs^ Watson, a benefactor o f M KA, hosted Dr. G reer a n d hE w ife, Terry, fo r lunch an d a tour o f th e Eland.

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Jen n ifer Z agarielh, chairm an o f the science departm ent a t the M iddle School, chatting w ith a student abou t his research project.

Science at MKA: In Search of Research B ro o k sid e

by Bridget Looney

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s.we have done in the past with other academic disciplines! this issue of Review puts the spotlight on MKA’s science program. Perhaps more than any other area, the science program parallels the two strands that make the school so strong: the tradition of the Kimberley School and Montclair Academy land the vision of today's MKA. Both strands are united by a strong commitment to academic rigor, ’and to maintaining excellence in facultSprograms and facilities. As you will read, MKA’s science program has no shortage of tradition and vision, but the faciliti^are now visibly lagging behind. The science laboratories on all three ca m p js S need significant attention, and to this end MKA Ep§nce faculty haBp consulted with science teachers at Princeton and other institutes of highter education to 'determine hee&s’and priorities. To provide stafe-'of-theart laboratories that will do justide to the program will take approximately $1,000,000. If this can be raised, MKA will enter the new millenium at the forefront of sSjenglj education.

Children are born scientists. They enter the world trying to make sense of it. Most infants begin to figure out the world by putting a good chunk of it in their mouths. Then they dash it against the floor several times to test, the laws of gravity.

From the dawn of each little life, observations are made, hypotheses formed, and experiments make jettison of spoons and CheeridSfte Brookside’s science program feeds upon this curiosity. It encourages children not only to gaze about and absorb the mysterious universe that surrounds them, but to peer closely and scrutinize. Through developmentally appropriate topics and activities, children from Pre-K through grade three are taught process skills. They learn to gather and interpret information, to design and conduct fair tests, and to communicate results. Brookside strives to build criticalthinking skills in its students. Process skills such as recognizing patterns, inferring, predicting and reaching conclusions play a tremendous part in many areas of the Brookside curriculum, but the testing of hypotheses by experiment involves skills specific to science. In the course B asking “big” questions and using process skills to find answers, the children also learn specificyscientific concepts, i.e., whatffi living, what is nonliving. In addition, they learn

.faculty members from B c h campus tell (gf programs and pro§If|ppp

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cooperation between the science and homeroom teachers though, the result of which is the integration of Science with social studies, math, language arts, and fine art. Here are some examples of interdisciplinary studies. Last January the first grade studied rainforests a social studies and science unit, discussing not only the ecological effects of forest depletion, but also its effect on the communities nearby. The second grade designed, planted, and maintained a vegetable garden. At the same time, as a reading and writing project, the children kept garden journals and read a variety of garden-related books with their classroom teachers. The third grade, which focuses on research skills, integrated math skills with science learning as the children discovered various ways to communicate the results of their research. The children learned about different types of graphs and charts and used computer software to quickly organize their data however they saw fit. Each year Brookside’s curriculum becomes more interwoven.

to be thorough and not to jump to conclusions.

Young children hold fast to numerous mistaken preconceptions about nature, their environment, and how things work. For example, some take it for granted that water just primes out of the bathroom wall. They have no concept of pipes and reservoirs, or that natural phenomena exist in systems.

If such preconceptions are not worked through early, they will hinder the students’ growth in Middle and Upper School science classes.

Brookside provides its young learners with ample hands-on experiences which encourage the students to rethink their ideas.

The activities described above are just a fraction of what happens in a year of Brookside science. I®nits of study run an average Of six to eight weeks, with Stime longer-term projects, such as the second grade garden, happening alongside shorter units. Imagine what a departing Brookside class has experienced over the course of five years. Brookside dispatches children to the Middle School with a solid foundation in physical and life sciences, an understanding of environmental science and conservation, and practical experience in the scientific method. It sends children home with eyes open to the responsibility they have to protect the elements of nature mankind affects, and the relative powerlessness they have against stronger forces of nature which affect mankind.

Brookside is unique among elementary schools, in part because of a full-time science specialist on the faculty who does direct teaching of science and partners with grade-level teachers to integrate science into their lessons.

The learning environment is not limited to the science lab, nor to the Brookside campus: students explore and study the Brookside grounds and gain the assistance of faculty from other campuses of MKA for help with their inquiries. In fact, the Kindergarten visits the Upper School annually to see models of the moon and its orbit. Visitors from museums and funded science programs enrich and reinforce science learning at Brookside. Last year representatives of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia gave a fascinating presentation on the dynamics of flight.

M iddle S ch o o l byJenn ifer Zagariello Where is science in the Middle School? One might find students in the computer lab analyzing their data by creating spreadsheets and graphs or in the garden collecting soil samples for analysis. Students might be observed in »class discussing rainforest ecology or the ethics of genetic engineering, in the laboratory dissecting a bovine eye, or in the library researching the physics of their favorite sport. In all casesf students are learning by actively engaging in inquiries that are important to them.

Science is a discipline that relies on the building of knowledge over time. Brookside designed the scope and sequence of the science program with this in mind. The youngest Brooksiders are involved in concrete exploration of everyday phenomena. They play with sand, measure water, mix paint colors, and in the course of such activities, observe some of the laws of nature and physics. The PreKindergarten monitors an ant farm to get a bird’s-eye view of a community in action. Teachers encourage the children to see the importance of each ant to the group and to consider the morality of wantonly squashing one in the playground.

It’s a small lesson in justice and stewardship that is intended to go a long way. The Kindergarten classes study the moon’s orbit and phases. Through this experience they begin to see that there is order to the universe, and that each body within it, even their own little one, has its own rhythm.

The Middle School science program provides a transition between Brookside and the Upper School through a rigorous curriculum that emphasize:«-a balance between process and content* Active learning or process encompasses the combination of hands-on and minds-on inquiry. Students learn in ways that are similar to the manner in which Scientists work: by formulating usable questions and hypothesesfféonducting systematic observations, and discovering new ideas. Content is carefully chosen to »tpflect important scientific concepts.

Formal science classes begin in first grade, when the science teacher instructs the children in the science lab. Excellent science teaching requires expertise and an appropriate laboratory setting for experiments. There is plenty of

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Student interest and sense of relevance are fostered by the emphasis on the use of technology that is present in all aspects the project, from research and experimentation to presentation of resultS While completing this long-term task, students experience the joys and frustrations of advancing and testing a hypothesis. They :come to understand that error and misdirection are normal steps in the scientific process, and that, most of the time, scientific research does not result in a tidy, final answer. To capture the nature of scientific research, the one-on-one collaboration between studentteacher roles may become more of a relationship of colleagues. In many cases this relationship is one the student develops with an expert outside of the Middle School.

From visits-to the Distance Learning Lab and the Science Project ¿Chat Room - as well as traditional|ll|s of technology Snell as spreadsheets and d atabase» technology has become an essential tool of the science curriculum. Multimedia applications, CD-ROM, Internet, and peripherals such as digital qgappras, laser discs, video, and probes are frequently employed to gather, interpret, and present information. As an example, this year the sixth graders used laptops to create a multimedia lab report on seed germination. They used wordprocessing for description of purpose and results, digital photos to document proceduresgcharts to display qualitative observations,, and a spreadsheet and graph to display and analyze data. They also used laser disc and Internet for background information.

The MKA Middle School science faculty believSSin a course of instruction that spends more time on fewer but more powerful topics, authentically reflects the structure of the discipline, and uses the instructional means for expanding the intellect. Middle School science teachers are committed to the significance of what they do because they believe science literacy, the ability to access and evaluate information, and critical thinking skills are keys to understanding the challenges of the 21st century.

A focus of the science department has been to identify and incorporate exemplary ^Sfcgment practices in evaluating student understanding of both science concepts and skills.

Frequently students are evaluated while working in the lab in . rder to replicate how people facsperformance challenges in authentic situations. Students illustrate their understanding of safe lab practices and measurement by burning copper and sulfur and determining whether mass changes in the reaction.

Fourth graders m ow their knowledge of the origins of rock types by creating a giant rock cycle of New Jersey’s rocks; a fifth grader, with binoculars in hand, may show understanding of field markings by identifying birds on the MKA campus.

No enduring understandings are ever learned in one unit or course of instruction. Students need years of amassing appropriate experiences before they can understand such essential ideas such as transfer of energy or the significance of cellular respiration. To address this issue, the Curriculum Team Leaders, who are the department heads from each campus, have developed a sequential strategy to introduce and reinforce core scientific concepts. By relating subsequent knowledge to prior knowledge, students progressively build from grade level to grade level an essential understanding of the foundational concepts of a subject area. Content is integrated with frequendy applied skills that spiral throughout the curriculum.

The scientific research strand that extends from Brookside through the Upper School advaneglskills and depth of understanding. The research program incorporates the benchmarks developed by the librarians on each campus and traditional methods use^in science. With the ultimate goal that students can make inferenggs based on their research, beginning in grade four, inquiries are introduced that require relating idea® from different sources. We consider it essential that students be flexible, independent learners who can look at information with a judicial eye and use. other people’s information properly. For example, eighth graders begin their study olllvolution with summer reading on Darwin’s life. Later different groups dissect the circulatory systems of a worm, fish, frog, or mammalian heart. Finally students combine each other’s dissection data, Lamarck and Darwin’s opposing ideas regarding the evolutionary process, and after much discussion - make inferences: about common ancestry- N

Significant C ontent A reas in Science Conservation of Mass and Energy Atomic Model Transfer of Energy (kinetic and potential) Kinetra Model of Matter Jjjlta te s of matter) Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration (food chain begins with plants) Ecosystem (bioticljbiotic, cycles, cell theory) «PeMssification of Organisms (evolution) Environmental Stewardship (biodiversity, nonrenewable resources) >j Genetics

The research strand culminates in the Middle School with the eighth grade projeA The project is grounded in a fundamental scientific concept that reflects the student’s interest. This year a student started with curiosity about-fish and titled the final project “The Effect of Disglved Oxygen on the Respiratory Rate <|®Carassiu,4Awatus.’' Another student began with forensics and ultimately investigated “The Effects of theE||centage of Agarose Gel on a. simulated DNA Fingerprint.’'

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local grocery store because he needed a walk-in refrigerator to test ski-binding release under cold conditions, and another student in the greenhouse to conduct plant research. Some students had to work at lunch time or after school because their research involved interviewing other students. On days with no manipulation, there was always library or on-line research to be done. Many students were successful in finding information on-line, and some were in communication with scientists at research laboratories or universities.

U p p e r S ch o o l

by Dr. Albert Léger The Science Department at the Upper School strives to provide students with the fundamentals of modem scientific principles to form educated and knowledgeable citizens. Our society is becoming increasingly sophisticated technologically, and science topics are often headline news, so our students must leave the Upper School with a good education in the physical and biological sciences.

The students were required to make an oral presentation to classmates and invited guests. Their projects are presented on MKA’s Intranet Web site. Six of these students will continuh, into “Introduction to Research in Science II” this year, a course aimed at individual research and p o ssib le s presentation at regional science fairs.

More than 80 percent of the students at the Upper School take four years of sciences. This strong interest is partially due to their being genuinely interested in science, and also reflects the importance of strong science performance for entrance to top colleges.

In 1999-2000, the research course will be combined with tenth grade biology. During the fall semester, the biology curriculum will be emphasized, along with the theoretical aspects of research and the basics of laboratory work.

During the spring semester, individual research projects will be emphasized, along with the completion of the biology curriculum. Projects will not be limited to the geld of biology, however, and we anticipate the same imagination next year in research topics. Recognizing the extra amount of work that will be required to be successful, we are modifying the schedule so that students will meet seven times every cycle, instead of five.

The Science Department strives to provide every student with a challenging but appropriate curriculum. The basic required sequence of science courses consists of chemistry in the ninth grade, followed by biology in the tenth grade. We strongly encourage all students to take physics in the eleventh grade, followed by an advanced class (advanced chemistry, advanced biology, or honors physics), or an elective (astronomy, oceanography, environmental sciences, or biopsychology) in the twelfth grade. Some students may elect to double in science in either their junior or senior year.

In order to provide an alternative path for bright and motivated science students, we developed a new research program. In 1998-99 we introduced a course entitled “Introduction to Research in Science I” (IRS-I). The aim is to instruct students on the scientific method, from experimental design through the collection and analysis of data, to the final writing of results for. publication.

The path for gifted science students at the Upper School would thus be: ninth grade chemistry, tenth grade biology/IRS-I, eleventh grade advanced chemistry or advanced biology along with IRS-II, and twelfth grade honors physics. With this sequence of courses, students will find a scientific challenge of the highest caliber.

Last year IRS-I met five times every cycle. In the first half of the year, students studied theoretical concepts about science, along with how to perform long-term projects. The students studied the scientific method, the structure of the scientific paper, statistics, and ethics in science. The mid-year exam consisted of their individual project outline. The entire second semester consisted of individual research. Every two weeks, they had to submit a progress report, but overall, the students had control of their time.

For those students for whom the basic sciences are challenging enough, teachers are devoted to providing extra­ help sessions during supplemental period or with appointment. We encourage all students to come and seek extra help when needed. We also offer very interesting elective courses to those-seniors who wish to take science but decide not to take the advanced courses. These classes excel in encouraging students to develop a life-long interest in the sciences without subjecting them to undue pressure.

We met as a group in a laboratory setting every day, but the students had their equipment spread out at many different locations throughout the school. After announcements or specific information at the beginning of class, students would go to their own space to conduct their own research, with the teachers monitoring everybody’s progress. On any given day, there could be a group of students staying in the laboratory to conduct microbiology research, a student in a large closet area where she found peace and quiet to set her aquariums and train fish to see color, another student at a

“In other schools, kids do projects related to the teacher’s expertise. Here students have thefreedom to pursue their own interest. w Dr. Albert Léger, co-chairman o f the science department, discussing the new research course.

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Outside the classroom, members of the faculty facilitate the participation of students in the Science Club and the Earth Club. These clubs are instrumental in bringing students together to talk about and appreciate science and theM environment. Over the years, students have visited various museums, heard outstanding speakers - including an •astronaut and the anthropologist Richard Leakey - and been on a variety of wonderful trips (including a whale watch and one to the rainforest in Belize). There is also a Science League team, composed of students competing against other regional high school teams. Their performance has been admirable, even resulting in one student receiving a plaque, for her top-10 results in Biology I. We are diligent in bringing the latest technology to the science classrooms. We stress the use of computers where applicable and have introduced the Calculator-Based Laboratory (CBL) technology in many chemistry and biology classes. With this technology, students gather their data with the appropriate probe and then download the data to a

computer for further statistical analysis and/or plotting.

Physics dasSe's rely on the PASCO laboratory technology to present and support physical concepts. The entire physics curriculum uses this computer-modeling approach almost exclusively, and the students have responded very positively to this method of learning.

Our students are well-prepared to tackle college-level science after MKA - a statement supported by recent graduate surveys. Even if many of our graduates do not become science majors in college, we are confident that their MKA science experience prepares them to become informed citizens in society. When they become the leaders of tomorrow, we can feel confident that the decisions they make regarding science and technology issues will be well informed. This® the goal of our department and the mission we undertake as science educators.

Eminent scientist Dr. John Archibald Wheeler visited the class “Introduction to Research in Science” to talk about the processes and wonders of scientific discovery. Dr. Wheeler helped develop the theory of atomic fission with Neils Bohr while on a post-doctoral fellowship in Copenhagen, and worked with Einstein, Oppenheimer, and others on the Manhattan Project. As a physics professor at Princeton University and the University of Texas in Austin, he wrote many books and co-wrote one of the most widely used college physics textbooks, Gravitation. Dr. Wheeler is also famous for his work in astrophysics.

He was one of the first to work on, and later coined the word, “black hole.”

(He is 88 years old and is Dr. Léger’s wife’s grandfather.)

Scientist Dr. Joh n W heeler (second from left, fro n t row), facu lty m em bers Dr. A lbert Léger a n d Warren M archioni, an d research students.

Joh n M cM ullen, right, w ith m em bers o f his fam ily. Standing: Trustee an d form er President o f the A lum ni A ssociation Peter M cM ullen ’77, Jacqu elin e M cM ullen, Cathy M cM ullen B lake, an M KA parent. Front: P eter M cM ullen Jr., B ridget B lake, an d Tim othy B lake.

Joh n G arippa, President o f the B oard o f Trustees, presents the key to the gym to the presidents o f campus Student Councils: M ayur Saxena ’9 9 (U pper School) an d Steven Singer, M iddle School.

On a Sunday in April, a year to the day after the groundbreaking, MKA dedicated its new gymnasium at the Middle School. The program featured speakers from the realms that made it possible: John Garippa, President of the Board of Trustees; Dr. John McMullen, of the McMullen Family Foundation; Dr. Peter Greer, Headmaster; Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54, Honorary Trustee; William Farlie, Mayor of the Township of Montclair; and Dr. Mark Boyea, Director of Athletics.

Guests were treated to a demonstration of the indoor climbing wall by Upper School students, and a view of the artifacts which would be sealed in a time capsule with a video of the event, including a sports jersey, Our Common Purpose, the Code o f Honor, Faculty Profiles, handprints from Brookside, and a letter from Headmaster Peter Greer to his successor, to be opened in 2049.

H eadm aster P eter G reer greets Dr. Joh n M cM ullen, who rem inisced on the history o f th e bu ildin g w hich h e knew as the M ontclair A thletic Club.

The full text of John Garippa’s thoughtful speech on the history of sacrifice and dedication which made The Montclair Kimberley Academy what it is today is on the inside back cover.

Students dem onstrate prowess on the clim bing wall.

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Commencement Awards

ETHEL M. SPURR AWARD

RUDOLPH H. DEETJEN AWARD

for cooperation,® responsibility, service and

for athletics and academic achievement

^ citizen sh ip M ayu r S ax e n a

E m ily B e rm a n

A lan D avson

MARJORIE WINFIELD EASTER AWARD

for sportsmanship, selfdiscipline and behind-thescenes service N eil G rab ow sk y

BUD MEKEEL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

THE ROBERT C. HEMMETER MEMORIAL AWARD

for a worthy senior D an iel B lak e

A m rita M allik

COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

for intellectual curiosity, love of books and sports, and enthusiasm for living

for positive action which shows unselfish concern for the larger community beyond school

D avid N ew m an

M a rg a re t P a rk e r

CU M LAUDE CLASS O F 1999 Alumnus Eric Pai ’79 gave an inspiring address to members o f the Class o f 1999 during their induction into the Cum Laude Society in May. Top rots, L to R: David Newman, Mayur Saxena, Kimberly Trabka, Ehimare Akhabue.

Second row: Elizabeth Wolf, Agata Celmerowski, Erica Serock, Stacey Werdieb, Jennifer Konarski, Amrita Mallik.

Front: Tara Kakaty, Margaret Parker, Thea Posluszny, Amy Gabel, Michelle Kawecki, Madeline Normile, Jenevieve Duron, Margot Wilensky.

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Awards Night THE BARRAS PRIZE IN ENGLISH Agata C elm erow ski David N ewm an MODERN LANGUAGE PRIZE IN FRENCH David Newman M ayur Saxena MODERN LANGUAGE PRIZE IN SPANISH Elizabeth W olf THE NAZARIAN MATHEMATICS PRIZE M ayur Saxena THE WILLIAM H. MILLER SCIENCE PRIZE K im berly Trabka

THE MARGARET JENKINS OSBORNE SCIENCE PRIZE Neil G rabow sky THE HISTORY PRIZE David Newman THE JOHN RABUSE HISTORY AWARD B ret H irsh ’00 FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS PRIZES Visual A rts: Alan D avson M usic-Vocal: Am y Gabel M usic-Instrum ental: D aniel Blake C om m unications: Robyn Pruzansky D ance: Leslie C afferty

THE YALE SECONDARY SCHOOL BOOK AWARD F ran cesca de la T o rre ’00

THE ELIZABETH O’NEIL FEAGLEY CREATIVITY AWARD A nna Labow sky ’00

THE MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE BOOK AWARD A ntonella B ollettino ’00

HEADMASTER’S AWARD Ehim are Akhabue D eborah G reene

THE SMITH COLLEGE CLUB BOOK AWARD Lauren H ooper ’00

KLEIN AWARDS FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN ATHLETICS AND SCHOLARSHIP GRADE 12: Liza B outsikaris M ichael Latzoni GRADE 11:

THE G.A. DOWNSBROUGH SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP A m rita M allik

THE DARTMOUTH CLUB BO< )K AWARD A aron Feigenbaum ’00

THE MARILYN FADEN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THEATRE ARTS A cting: Jam es V arkala T ech n ical: P atricia Chin-Sw eeney and F ran ces Sgourdos

THE RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE MEDAL D eborah Katz ’00

D anielle G reer Kevin K oenig

THE MONTCLAIR SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS AWARD M arc Ponzio

GRADE 10:

Lauren Stefanchik Ja re d DeM atteis

GRADE 9:

K ath erin e K lim czak T im othy Cook

HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PRIZE M arc Ponzio

FACULTY SCHOLAR AWARDS GRADE 11: A aron Feigenbaum D eborah Katz A nna Labow sky K ate W olf GRADE 10:

M argaret D ziadosz Steven Jaco b s Jo n ath an Leifer Louis W aldm an

GRADE 9:

E lan aB ild n er D agm ara Jastrzeb sk a Abigail K aboth K ath erin e K lim czak C arly R othm an

THE AL STAPH AWARD Elyse Levy THE FRANK “PONCHO” BROGAN 7 2 MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP D uncan C urrie ’00

It’s a W o n d erfu l Life “L ifetim e” students - who attended M KA from kindergarten or fir st grade through graduation - a n d their parents were honored by Dr. G reer a t a special breakfast in June.

The “lifers, ” left to right: Top row: M argot Wilensky, D avid N ewm an, Tyler D iN apoli, M ayur Saxena. T hird row: Jam es Varkala, Cory Weissglass, Glenn Tyson, G avin Bailey, R upal Patel. Second row: Geoffrey Roehm , Kyle Torjussen, Jason Ciccone, P atricia Chin-Sweeney.

Front: E lizabeth W olf R enie K irkland, M argeaux Ulmer, D evin Cooper, Jen evieve D uron.

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Core Works: The Faculty Become Learners “She made us enthusiastic about our work. It was a shot in the arm; it is sd0xciting to learn.mm Primary School faculty member Trudy Fraser

Anthony Cuneo, chairman of the Fine and Performing Arts at the Upper School, worked with Dr. Robert Simon on his course about the School of Athens. Dr. Simon, noted professor of Renaissance and Baroque art history at Columbia University, will also give a workshop for the faculty in the fall.

“So what do Manet and Warhol have in common? The answer demonstrates the value o f having national scholars share their comprehensive knowledge o f a Core Work. When teachers can hold two such seemingly disparate ideas or images in their minds and really see the traditions connecting them, they also help students to clearly see, appreciate, and understand the importance o f a Core Work - whether it be a painting, book, a recording, or a film .”

Upper School faculty member Marianne Burke

“Our intellectually charged afternoon with Dr. Paula Fredriksen will prove invaluable when we begin teaching a new text called Introduction to Biblical Literature by O.B. Davis,” wrote Marianne Burke. “As we study the myths and legendary heroes of Genesis, the history of Ancient Israel, and the literary forms of short stories, lyric poems, and proverbs in the Bible, our aim, to echo Davis in the Preface, is to inform our students of the essentials of Biblical literature so that they can understand ‘more about what goes on in the cultural currents they inhabit.^H

Over the summer, MKA faculty worked with university scholars to enhance ways to use Core Works of texts and art in classroom teaching. They learned to weave rhymqs. throughout the curriculum, to observe the fine points of fabled films, and to make storied classics come alive. They learned history and enriched their lesson plans.

Dr. William Wians, Merrimack College Tile

Some of the visiting scholars with their topics:

Dr. John Patrick, University o f Indiana Magna Carta, The Mayflower Compact

Dr. George Grella, University o f Rochester C asablanS The Mysteries of Sherlock HolmllSM

Dr. Paula Fredriksen, Boston University Selections from The Bible

Dr. Steven Tigner, Boston University Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Classic Slave Narratives, Gulliver’s Travels, A Man for All Seasons 12

Dr. Jonathan Ribner, Boston University M anet’s Folies Bergère

Dr. Nina Jaffe, Bank Street College of Education Non-Western children’s literature

Notes Around MKA At the year’s fin a l faculty meeting, John Garippa, President o f the Board o f Trustees, thanked faculty and stafffo r another outstanding year, and linked the school’s successful fundraising to their work: “Happy people give. ” He also spoke about the Board and its role in setting MKA policy.

Headmaster Peter Greer bade farew ell to departing faculty and wished them well in the next stages o f their careers: René Amirata, Theodora Balias, Debra Cabrera, Sarah Califano, Deanna Donnelly, Roberta Hart, Patricia Laprey, Madeleine Lynden, Laura Nietzer, Jam ie Perrello, Peter Perretti, Margaret Roberts, Katharine Sanders, Stuart Ward, Colleen Kearns Wilson, K ef Wilson.

Fran ces Ferlauto from speech by Myra Hrab Her history here began 31 years ago: Fran began at Brookside and moved to the Middle School. Her presence has been a security blanket; she is someone who’s been a friend to all of us. Her impact includes folders, due dates, comments; illnesses, births, dates; flowers and cards; lottery reminders, the best jokes, infinite patience, and fruitcake that can actually be eaten. She has been a friend to thousands of students as she worked with every Headmaster since the merger.

Colleagues saluted their retiring peers: Barbara Rabu.se Dolven from speech byJoan Weller Barbara has worn many hats at our school. She came to MKA in 1974 as teacher of fourth grade; she was made Assistant Head of the Middle School, moved to Head of Admissions, and became Head of the Brookside School, where she has spent nine wonderful • years and left ¿‘tremendous impact on the lives of those who met and worked with her there.

The H eadm aster is v ery proud to an nounce...

David Newman and M ayur Saxena, graduates o f the Class o f 1999) received N ational M erit Scholarships.

Both will attend H arvard U niversity.

Representative of all three campuses met at an informal lunch gathering in June to honor their mentor, Dr. Steven Tigner. Tigner, professor at the University of Toledo and Boston University, has worked with MKA faculty on the Ethics program for six years. He has guided faculty through Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Kant, Mill, Melchert, and the Declaration o f Independent^ this year he worked with faculty on five Core Works. Dr. Tigner has also made his mark as one of the “founding fathers” of MKA’s Seven Character Expectations.

Barbara, thank you for all the lessons you have given us about the meaning of teaching and the profound responsiblity it is every time you walk into a classroom and dare to teach others. You did it with such grace, solving problems big and small with warmth and generosity; you had such an engaging style. But your gifts as a teacher go far beyond the ABCs and multiplication tables....We are grateful for your humanity; you were always tuned to the suffering of anyone in our community. I always looked forward to the smallest notices you sent out because they always included a bit of humor or good-natured advice.

The MKA student literary magazine Stylus received an “excellent” rating by the National Council of Teachers of English for the second year in a row. Leigh Guarinello ’98 and Keri Knowles ’98 were editors, Calvin Matzke the faculty advisor.

H elen Faulkner from speech by Robert Sinner

Omar Joyner ’99 won a silver medal in architecture for his plan and model of a jazz museum at the New Jersey state competition in ACT-SO (Academic, Cultural, Technological, Scientific Olympics). The program, sponsored by the NAACP, pairs professional mentors in engineering, math, sciences, and fine and performing arts with young students.

Helen was our first Founders’ Cup recipient; she incarnates MKA’s motto, ¡“Knowledge, Vision, IntegrityM Great'', teachers inspire; they have the art of awakening curiosity. In her 14 years here, Helen helped children become capable, self-reliant in math and computer, full of dignity and selfworth. She is a pure professional, constantly learning - our mathematician with a British accent.

Dan Blake ’99 placed first in the tenor sax competition for the Region MHigh School Jazz Ensemble. He will attend the New England Conservatory’s prestigious jazz program, one of only two or three saxophonists in one of the country’s jlpfest programs.

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Félicitations MKA students placed extraordinarily well in the National French Contest, sponsored by the American Association of Teachers 'of French.

In the eighth grade, all participants placed in the top 20.

Several achieved top 10 in both New Jersey and national rankings: Bonnie Gill - 4th in state and 5th nationally Amy Klein - 5th in |iâte and 6th nationally Monique Wolkoff - 7th in state and 8th nationally The M ontclair K im berley Academ y M ock T rial team , Essex County Cham pion, with Judge P eter Vazquez.

Rose McNeel - 8th in state and 9th nationally Meridith Mikulich - 8th in state and 9th nationally Alison Gilman - 9th in state and 10th nationally

The MKA team became the Essex County Champion in the Vincent J Apmzzese Mock Trial Competition after six nights of competition by defeating Montclair High School. More than 200 students from 14 public and private high schools participated in the contest, sponsored by the Essex County Bar and the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, at the Essex County Courts Building in Newark.

At the Upper School French 2, 9th graders: C ilfl Cohen - 5th in state and 7th in USA out of 21,158 jBlspidents ' Sarah Miller - 11th in state

The team was coached by attorney Philip Elberg, an MKA parent. During the competition, students served ¡¡Sttorneys, witnesses, and jurors while trying a civil case; schools were required to present both a plaintiff and a defense team.

French 3, 10th graders: Danielle Claudio - tied for 6th in state and 10th in USA out of 3 ,9 5 6 students Daniel Ursu -Med for 6th in state and 10th in USA out of

MKA team members were: Elana Bildner, Daniel Blake, Danielle Brenner, Laura Brown, Sean Colon, Lee Eskin, Lilith Houseman, Jonah Kruvant, Kate McHugh, David Newman, Geoff Roehm, Mayur Saxena, and Stephan Seabrook. Jason Noyes served as teadfér-coach.

15,956 students ijjasha Kramer - 8th in state Brian Bishé - 9th in state Joshua Berg - 10th iniÿjate French 4, 11th graders:

This was thê'second time in the past three years that MKA has won thé county championship.

Aaron Feigenbaum - 2nd in state and 5th in USA out of 10,523 students Fi§Jbla Fasehun - 9th in state Rebecca Leffler - 11th in state

Sophomore Jason Schwartz|^^^elected by the “Sound of America” Honor Band and Chorus to participate in a 25-day tour of Europe this summer. Students were chosen for excellent character and outstanding musical ability. Jason, a clarinetist, was also featured |§ a guest ¡aftist at the Opus IV Strings Concert.

Anna Labowsky - 12th in state

The MKAPizz Band played at a “Seniors Prom” at the Verona Community Center on a Saturday night in April. The event was run by the Kids for Kids charity organized by freshman Carly Rothman and supported by othgl MKA and Verona High School students. The Jazz Band reportMly enjoyed playing this event because for the first time people were dancing to their music - and the audience had heard and danced to most of that music back when it jgg|! first being released.

Amy Gabel - 11th in state

French 5, 12th graders: Mayur Saxena - 3rd in state David Newman - 6th in state Biola Fasehun - 8th in S ite

Mastersingers Amy Gabel ’99, Anna Labowsky ’00, and Aaron Feigenbaum ’00 performed at the 1999 Ole Bull Music Festival Concert at Merkin Hall, Lincoln Center in June. Amy sang Fauré’s Les Berceaux, accompanied by Aaron on the piano; Anna played Debussy’s Les Collines d ’A nacapri. T he& ncert was produced by famed pianist Inez Bull in celebration of the life and musi(*)f Norwegian violinist and composer Ole Bull.

Dr. Bull invited the three to perform after hearing them in Montclair at an Alliance Française soiree.

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MKA’s 1998 movie, Prime Time: AMERICA, received yet two more awards, the Videographer Award of Distinction for Art Direction - given by the national video production industry and the 1999 Print Media Communicator Award in the writing/video script category. The final tally for PT:A is FOUR national awards that recognized the film^overall video, art direction, and writing. Three of the professionals who worked with MKA students and faculty on the production have signed on for the next movie - at their request.

There will be a special showing of Prime Time: AMERICA at Homecoming on October 16.

[Correction: Telly awards were won by videos Prime Time: AMERICA and A World Gone Wrong, the 19.94 production, not Ja ne (1996) as previously reported.]

D avid Flocco, Assistant H ead o f Campus a t the Upper School, welcomes B enedita d a Silva,, vice-governor o f Rio de Jan iero. M rs. d a Silva rose from poverty to becom e the highest-ranking black fem ale p olitician in B ra z il she was in the U nited States exam ining affirm ative action policies. H er granddaughter attends M KA.

Upper School science t#|cher Dick Rodin spent two weeks sailing along the East Coast in the highly selective U-S. National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration Teacher At Sea program.

Juniors Nelli Bollettino and Anna Labowsky and sophomore Kathryn Auw participated in the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine in June. Nelli and Anna studied in Boston, Kathryn in Washington, D.C. Students in the highly selective program have firsthand experience at prestigious medical establishments during the eleven days of “discovery and mentorship.”

Upper School English teachers Marianne Burke and Patty Forbes attended the University of Mississippi’s Twenty-Sixth Annual William Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference this summer.

Beyond AP: MKA’s Distance Learning courses will continue this year with a study of Greek art - taught by Dr. Kenneth Lapatin, professor of classics at Boston University - and “Learning to See” - taught by Dr. Jonathan Ribner, also a professor at the university. The college-level course»' meet three times a week at noon in the Distance Learning Center.

Sixth grader Jonathan Bleicher has played Chip the Teacup in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway since January 1997. He splits eight shows a week with another young actor.

Jonathan is also a member of the cast of Broadway Kids, an off-Broadway revue featuring a rotating cast. He has appeared in some NYU student films and made a radio commercial for Quaker Oats.

Back to school: Alumna Laurie 1l&onhout McFeeley ’76 has returned to join the Office of External Affairs. Laurie, an active member of the Alumni Council for several years, replaces Peter Perretti ’72 as Director of Alumni Giving and Planned Giving. She is married to MKA classmate Paul McFeeley ’76, and serve!» appropriately, as class secretary.

Ticket proceeds from the Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet- $1,100 - were donated to the Salvation Army to aid refugees in Kosovo.

Faculty member Boni Luna will be a copresenter at the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) meeting in Dallas this November. She will speak on organizing a Spanish immersion day for beginning level students.

Brother Pat Camey of the Upper School math department was a lead teacher at Dimacs (Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science) this summer. Dimacs - a consortium of Rutgers, Princeton, Bellcore, and Lucent Technologies - hosted 30 research mathematicians from around the world and an equal number of high school teachers in the three-week program.

Brother Pat served as liaison between teachers and ' professional mathematicians and gave model lessons on how to adapt the latest math research to high school passes.

Favorite visiting m entor Ruby Bridges H all spent a few days a t M KA this spring visiting classes. One evening she helped fa cilita te a “ca fe” whereby several students, parents, a n d facu lty fro m M KA a n d St. P hilip’s (N ew ark) read poetry. The audience contributed to a poem com posed th at evening by p o et C harlotte M andel.

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Baumgartsbrunn Junior Secondary School in Windhoek, Namibia, a school to educate the children of the region’s poor farmers. He is also “charged with improving the English sk ills”|||fyoung women at the vocational Bleks Institute for Domestic Science and Agriculture.

Vince, who is financing his own volunteer work, wrote to MKA requesting books and supplies, “although most of the children lack shoes and proper clothing.” Many students', don’t have textbooks, pens, pencils, or even paper. Most of the workers at the schools are former soldiers who were permanendy disabled during Namibia’s war for independence in 1989, who would be considered unemployable elsewhere; there they work for food, housing, and their families.

M iddle Schoolfacu lty m em ber B arbara W in kfield was p ictu red on the cover o f the 1 Oth anniversary edition o f Leading the Way, the pu blication o f the N ation al B oard fo r Professional Teaching Standards.

The non-governm ental organization recognizes accom plished teaching professionals an d sets high certification standards. B arbara is one o f the first 9 0 N ation al B oard C ertified Teachers in the country. She has also been selected fo r the review com m ittee o f D isney’s A m erican Teacher Awards.

“My time here nas been quite inspirational,” Vince wrote.

The MKA Middle iSsffo'o l ran a drive for school supplies through Student Council. They collected eight huge boxes of materials and money to package and send them. The Upper School worked through the Shades of Color club. Through announcements and strategically placed collection bins during exams, the Upper School accumulated more than 1,000 books - 400 of them literature - which were sent to Africa over the summer.

To A frica W ith Love MKA answered a call from Africa.

Vince, who has aggess to e-mail when he goes to town every couple of weeks, was pleased to learn of the success of MKA’s lacrosse team this spring. He volunteered to share his experiences when he returns.

Alumnus Vince O’Hara '93 is teaching in Namibia through World Teach, a non-profit organisation based at the Harvard Institute of International Development. Vince, a graduate of Cornell University, teaches English, math, and science at the

“This year’s candidate has both quality and consistency,” she said. “He exemplifies many of the Cup’s criteria, particularly in his rapport with students and parents, his innovative teaching techniques, and his far-reaching contributions to MKA, both in and out of the classroom.”

Ken Bish^wK MKA since 1983 * teaches humanities at the Middle School and is coordinator of the 'Williamsburg trip. He has coaoftd boys’ tennis and basMtball and girls’ tennis. He spends hours backstage building sets for Middle School dramatic productions, and is renowned w r enlivening Colonial studies by appearing in authentic garb.

An alumni nomination states, “I have never had such an enthusiasm caring teacher before or since....Seven years after having been in his class, Mr. Bishe; is the first teacher I visit when I come home. He is a role model for all teacherH^H

Founders’ Cup 1999 The seventh Founders’ Cup Award for excellence in teaching was presented in June to veteran fatiMty member Ken Bishe. Lori Windolf Crispo of the 1978 spoke on behalf of the Alumni Assogfelion.

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1998-99 COUGAR ATHLETIC AWARDS AND HONORS

CHC= Colonial Hills Conference NJIS= New Jersey Independent Schools NJILL= New Jersey Interscholastic Lacrosse League NJLCA= New Jersey Lacrosse Coaches Association

WINTER 1998-1999 BOYS’ BASKETBALL 3-18 Ehimare Akhabue ’99 >99 Glenn Tyson David Traster ’01 GIRLS’ BASKETBALL 16-7 State Prep Runner-Up NJSIAA Quarterfinalist >99 Jessica Natal Michelle Latzoni

’00

Candice Watkins

’00

ICE HOCKEY 3-17 Gary Murphy Kyle Torjussen Scott De Rosa Tyler DiNapoli Kevin Edwards Timothy Cook

M'-h '99 Wf: !‘ ’99 ’0 1 -

’02

Co-Captain Co-Captain HM Colonial Div., CHC

2nd Team Colonial Div., CHC 2nd Team State Preps HM Colonial Div., CHC HM State Preps 1st Team Colonial Div., CHC 1st Team State Preps

State Cham pions: The M KA softball team won its fir st NJSIAA P arochial B cham pionship w ith a 5 -0 fin a l victory. Coach B ob Gervasi, fro n t left, was nam ed Coach o f the Year.

Co-Captain Co-Captain Asst. Captain Asst. Captain MIP All-Star Team Rookie of theYear

SPRING BASEBALL 16-14 1999 State Quarterfinalists Edward Hayes Alexander Holz ’9 9 Kyle Torjussen ’99

BOYS’ SWIMMING 7-1 David Flocco- Essex County Coach of the Year State Prep Champions 2nd Place Team in Essex County Championships 1st Team All-Essex County Kevin McCrann ’00 3rd Team All-State Parochial Kevin Devine, Jr. ’01 1st Team All-Essex County

Joseph Landolfi

'02 •

Jared DeMatteis

’01

GIRLS’ FENCING 16-2 NJSIAA Foil Champions State Prep Foil Champions Liza Boutsikaris

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Stacey Wertlieb

’99

Robyn Pruzansky

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2nd Team Infield, Hills Div. CHC 2nd Team 1st Base, Hills Div. CHC 1st Team Infield, Hills Div. CHC 3rd Team All-County HM Catcher, Hills Div. CHC

SOFTBALL 24-6 Bob Gervasi- State Coaches Association Coach of the Year CHC Hills Division Champions Parochial B State Champions 1st Team All-County ’00 Vanessa Carmona 1st Team Hills Div. CHC Star Ledger 2nd Team All-Group 3rd Team All-County ’00 Laura Schräger 1st Team Hills Div. CHC 3rd Team All-County ’01 Laurie Hatt HM Hills Div. CHC 1st Team All-County Jessica Nelson ’01 1st Team Hills Div. CHC Star Ledger 2nd Team All-Group 1st Team National All-American Lauren Stefanchik ’01 Player of the Year, Essex County and CHC 1st Team All-County 1st Team Hills Div. CHC Star Ledger 1st Team All-State and 1st Team All-Group 1st Team All-County ’02 Dana Beringhelli 1st Team Hills Div. CHC Star Ledger 3rd Team All-Group 3rd Team All-County ’02 Gianna Lopreato 2nd Team Hills Div. CHC

GIRLS’ SWIMMING 7-1-1 2nd Place in Essex County Championships Captain Margaret Parker ’9 9 , 1st Team All-Essex County Pamela Servidio ’99 3rd Team All-State 1st Team All-Essex County Erin Stutz 3rd Team All-State BOYS’ FENCING 9-4 NJSIAA Foil Champions >99 Greg Scherzo Severin Wirz ’00 ’00 Joseph Tobia

1999

Co-Captain Co-Captain NJFCA 1st Team All-State Star Ledger 3rd Team All-State NJFCA 1st Team All-State Star Ledger 2nd Team All-State

Co-Captain NJSIAA Individual Foil Champion 1st Team All-State Co-Captain 1st Team All-State NJSIAA Foil Runner-up

GOLF 11-9 Zachary Tarshis Kevin Quinn

WRESTLING 4-11 John Bruno- NJWCA District Assistant Coach of the Year >99 Tri-Captain David Fox Tri-Captain David Lutz ’99 >99 Tri-Captain Marc Ponzio MVP 1st Team All-CHC, 175 lb.

2nd Team All-County 1st Team All-CHC, 152 lb. ’00 Hasani Sinclair MVP MIP Louis Waldman ’01 ’02 HM All-CHC, 125 lb.

Jonathan Bruno

’00 ’01

GIRLS’ LACROSSE 0-15-1 >99 Lindsay Pisani >99 Niamh Hughes Jenevieve Duron Amy Gabel Sandra Tritt Courtney Knowlton

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>99 >99 >99 ’00

Co-Captain Co-Captain Essex County Golf Champion 1st Team All-CHC

MIP MVP HM Div. A NJAIS Tri-Captain Tri-Captain Tri-Captain 2nd Team Div. A NJAIS 2nd Team Stars Div. NJILL

BOYS’ LACROSSE 14-4 Noll Klank- NJILL Coach of the Year State Prep B Champions >99 Jason Kidde Tri-Captain 1st Team All-Div. NJILL 1st Team All-State NJLCA Star Ledger 1st Team All Rizk Div. Star Ledger 3rd Team All-State >99 Michael Latzoni Tri-Captain >99 Glenn Tyson Tri-Captain 1st Team All-Div. NJILL 2nd Team All-State NJLCA Craig Fleishman ’00 1st Team All-Div. NJILL 1st Team All-State NJLCA Star Ledger 1st Team All-Rizk Div. Star Ledger 3rd Team All-State Dusko Joldzic ’00 1st Team All-Div. NJILL 1st Team All-State NJLCA Star Ledger 1st Team All-Rizk Div. Jed Gallagher ’00 2nd Team All-Div. NJILL 2nd Team All-State NJLCA Michael Roth ’01 HM Team All-Div. NJILL HM Team All-State NJLCA

BOYS’ TENNIS 10-8 David Newman

>99

Joshua Ramos Mayur Saxena

>99 >99

Daniel Schwartz Whitney Mishler Louis Waldman Scott Simon

’00 ’01 ’01 ’02

Co-Captain HM Hills Div. CHC 2nd Team Second Doubles, Hills Div. CHC Co-Captain 2nd Team Second Doubles, Hills Div. CHC 2nd Team First Doubles, Hills Div. CHC 2nd Team Second Singles, Hills Div. CHC 2nd Team Third Singles, Hills Div. CHC 2nd Team First Doubles, Hills Div. CHC

GIRLS’ TRACK AND FIELD 3-3-0 Danielle Greer ’00 Tri-Captain Belle Koven ’02 Decathlete Award BOYS’ TRACK AND FIELD 2-3-1 Alan Davson Tri-Captain '99 Coach’s Award James Varkala Tri-Captain Emmanuel Go MIP

Outfielder Lauren Stefanchik was named to the 1999 Louigfille Slugger High School All-American First Team by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. Lauren, “w hohas been timed from home to first in 2.47 seconds, batted .688 for MKA this year. She walked K times and struck out only once while stealing 91 bases in 92 attempts. In two seasons, she has swiped 154 bases and set a national high school record with 159 consecutive steals. In 1998 she was the first freshman in the history of Hew Jersey high school softball to make first team All-State” and appeared in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd.”

This year she had 65 runs and no errors in 30 games.

The good news is - Lauren was only a sophomore.

Congratulations to our State Cham pions: Girls’ and Boys’ ¡Fencing, both state Foil champions.

Boys’ Lacrosse is state Prep B champion. Girls’ Softball is state Parochial B champion. Boys’ ; Swimming is state Prep champion.

H onors fo r Coaches Assistant Wrestling coach John Bruno is District Assistant Coach of the Year. Swimming coach David Flocco is Essex County Coach of the Year. Softball coach Bob Gervasi was named Coach of the Year by the State Coaches Association, Colonial Hills Division, and the Bergen Herald & News.

Boys’ Lacrosse coach Noll Klank is NJILL Coach of the Year.

Boys’ Lacrosse was the Prep B State Cham pion. Coach N oll K lan k (holding trophy) was nam ed N JIL L Coach o f the Year.

Fencer Liza Boutsikaris ‘99 won her second straight individual foil championship in the NJSIAA state tournament, finishing her MKA career with 131 straight vigtbrieS Liza was unbeaten as MKA won both the Santelli and NJSIAA state foil titles this season. She also finished first in the Junior Olympics Under-20 qualifier and the Denise O'Connor Open. Her father, Tom Boutsikaris, coached a long line of championship MKA teams in the 1980s and ‘90s.

Michael Latzoni ‘99 won a National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete Award. The award, based on athletic and academic ability, was voted on by the coaches and presented at a dinner in March. In June Mike played in the iffest-West All-Star Game at Rutgers.

Ju n ior H asani Sinclair (left) p in s an opponent in the district meets.

M KA wrestling, reinstated ju st three years ago after an absence o f over a decade, is m aking a com eback. Severalplayers were nam ed to a ll­ conference or all-county teams, an d the assistant coach, Joh n Bruno, was nam ed Assistant Coach o f the Year. Sports writers accorded the “sm all but deadly”squ ad “m uch respect. ”

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Athletic Hall of Fame IV

The 1 9 9 9 Athletic Hall o f Fame. Standing: 1984 Boys’ Tennis Bruce Redpath, Julio Dolorico, Jason Bernstein, Bill Stone, Mark Pineda. Front: Liz Nolley’86, Jam es Jo h n so n ’79, I Michael Sucoff ’5 6, Donald Bren ’48, Jill Tobia Sorger ’88.

Dr. Mark Boyea, Director of AthletiS, and Kristine O’Connor ’83, President of the Alumni Association, welcomed gu@ts, and the near-legendary George Hrab again provoked laughter and nostalgia as master of ceremonies. .

MKA’s fourth Athletic Hall of Fame ceremonies in May reunited players and coaches, teammates, faculty, friends, and fans. The honored athletes were grateful, inspiring, and humble in their acceptance speeches.

Inductee William Stone ’8 4 wrote to MKA after the event: Hear Dr. Greer: Thank you and thanks to MKA for hosting the Athletic Hall of Fame luncheon. The event was a great reminder of the caring, enthusiasm, and friendship that I found at MKA as a student. I was honored to be among those chosen to be remembered for finding some success while having fun and growing as an athlete at our fine School.

Catching up with friends and with some of the terrific teachers I had at school, reminiscing with fjS K v teammates about good times had both on and off the court, and getting a chance to eulogize a bit on4?pf my favorite mentors, Coach Hemmeter, made the long trip from Oregon a trivial price to pa|j| 1 will wear my MKA sweater proudly.

More than any other academic experience I have had, my years at MKA best prepared me for what was to come. With MKA as my background, I was able to sail through my college ccfSfles at Tu ft§ffi| | iversit^ B graduating summa cum laude. Even success in law school at Harvard ISemed t|) come easier for me thanr©r others who did not have the advantage of MKA schooling. While back on the Upper Sc||||f^^B)hs for the Hall of Fame event® was reminded of how fortunate I am to ha|ji MKA as my background. I am convinced that it serves me to this day.

So, thank you for honoring me and my team. But it is you and the teachers at MKA wh?® deservelDll the praise and recognition.

Sincerely jgburs, Bill

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From the Alumni Association From the President Dear Alumni, I encourage all of you to support the school into the next millennium and let knowledge, vision, and integrity guide us as our alma mater needs our continued support. Thank you for a wonderful year. I look forward to seeing you at Homecoming on October 16!

The 1998-99 school year ended in June with wonderful pomp and circumstance as the Class c|fcl999 joined our ranks as alumni. I have to admit that walking down the aisle of the First Congregational Church brought many memories of my MKA days flooding back. As I listened to the class speakers, the school song, and “America the Beautiful,” I felt truly proud of our alma mater.

Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor 8 3 President, MKA Alumni Association

MKA has grown in so many ways-.since I graduated and much in part is due to you, the alumni, who went before and did so many notable things both large and small. You may have left your mark or perhaps you are still striving to make your mark. Whatever the case may be, your knowledge, vision, and integrity are the three elements which have made and continue to make MKA a great institution.

Florida, H ere We Come Headmaster Peter Greer will host alumni receptions in Florida on both East and West coasts this winter, February 4-6. If you will be there, we’d love to, Sg& ou! Please call, write, or e-mail the Alumni Office s§|we can send you an invitation.’ (973-746-9800) MKA Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042 caustin@mka.pvt.kl2.nj.us

Thanks to many of you, the Alumni Association successfully sponsored many events and programs, including Homecoming, the Distinguished Alumni Award (the Honorable Robert L. Clifford ’42), Alumni Phonathon, “Night With the Devils,” Career Day,- Senior Breakfast, spring jazz party, and the Founders’ Cup Award (Middle School teacher Ken Bishe). In addition, the Alumni Association donated benches for the new MidcMjSchool gym and a reception desHfor the Upper School lobby.

Senior Moment

E d Hayes an d M ichelle K aw ecki a t the Senior B reakfast.

A lum ni A ssociation President Kris H atzenbuhler O ’C onnor ’83 welcomes the Class o f 1 9 9 9 to the Senior Breakfast.

Amy Filippone, student rep. to the A lum ni Council, studies h er laundry bag, the H eadm aster’s tradition al gift.

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Jazz and Wisteria The celebrated Van Vleck mansion was dripping with decades-old wisteria as alumni, faculty, and friends gathered in May to socialize an d jjk en to jazz. The fifth annual event, sponsored by the MKA Alumni Association, also featured a “tricky tray” raffle of donated gifts.

K atie a n d Toby B izu b ’8 3 w ith Judy Polonofiky, D irector o f E xternal A ffairs.

B ob Post 7 7 , Joh n P hillips 7 8 an d Laura Phillips. The P hillips have two children a t M KA, M eg in second grade, Joh n in third.

Faculty m em ber R ichard Reiter, an Emmy A w ard-w inning composer, led his D uo on tenor sax.

Geralyn a n d D ennis Rodano ’87.

Classmates P au l M cFeeley 7 6 a n d L au rie H oonhout M cFeeley '76. B oth have served on the A lum ni Council, a n d L au rie jo in e d the adm inistration this sum m er as D irector o f A lum ni G iving a n d P lann ed Giving.

H onorary Trustee A ubin Z abriskie Am es ’5 4 chats w ith Terry Greer; H eadm aster P eter Greer looks on.

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A lum ni C ouncil m em ber L ori W in d olfCrispo 78.

M erry A ufzien B au er 7 9 an d sister Lisa A ujzien 7 6 . M erry’s two children are a t M KA, A ndrew in fifth grade, R ebecca in second. Lisa is on the A lum ni Council.

W elcome to O ur Newest Alumni The Class o f 1999

Frances Sgourdos ..........................Pace University Ehimare Akhabue...................................... HarvardUniversity Gary Murphy ......... U.S. Coast Guard Academy Orobiola Fasehun .............. New York University Bryan K o ........................................................ BostonCollege Igor Alves............................. New York University Amy Filippone .............. Susquehanna University Jennifer K onarski.........................................BostonUniversity Jessica N atal.................................................... AlfredUniversity Jessica Sim pson...........................................TempleUniversity Priya Krishana ................................ Ithaca College Benjamin Aronson ...................Lehigh University Tina Foroutan............................................. HofstraUniversity David Newman ..................... Harvard University Alexandra S lo u s ........................................... CornellUniversity Georgeann Sobotka .University of New England Gavin B a ile y ................................................. BostonCollege David F o x ................................................. HamiltonCollege Michael Latzoni ...................Fordham University Madeline Normile........................................ BostonCollege Emily Berman........................................... WesleyanUniversity Amy G ab el......... George Washington University Elyse L e v y ......................................................UnionCollege Margaret Parker............................................... BatesCollege Kyle Torjussen ...................Vanderbilt University Kimberly Trabka............................................. TuftsUniversity David L u tz ..................................... .IthacaCollege Brian B ich e r....................................................IthacaCollege Jessica G erstein........................................ SkidmoreCollege Rupal P atel....................... University of Rochester Michael T ra in o r............................................... ElonCollege Neil Grabowsky.................Rensselaaer Poly Tech Amrita M a llik ................................................BrownUniversity Emily Peyser ....................... New York University Daniel Blake Lindsay Pisani ....................... Bucknell University . . .Tufts University/New England Conservatory Sandra T ritt ..............University of Rhode Island Deborah G reene........................................... BostonUniversity Philip M azo ..................................................CornellUniversity Glenn T y so n .................................................... TuftsUniversity Ian M elhuish...................................................N JIT Liza Boutsikaris......... University o f Notre Dame Josi Hausm an................................................BostonUniversity Alison P la tt...........................................ConnecticutCollege Marc Ponzio ....................... Columbia University Margeaux U lm e r.................New York University Sylvia Mosser............Carnegie Mellon University Edward Hayes............St. Bonaventure University Danielle B ren n er................New York University Leslie Cafferty................................................LehighUniversity Alexander H o lz ..............................................LehighUniversity Thea Pozluszy.......................................... SkidmoreCollege James V arkala...........................................SkidmoreCollege LeRoy W atkins.............. Northeastern University Agata Celmerowski.......................................BostonUniversity Niav Hughes .................. University of Maryland Robyn Pruzansky.........................................BostonUniversity Morgan Weiner .................. University of Miami Patricia Chin-Sweeney............................... BarnardCollege Joshua Ramos ..........................Rutgers University Elizabeth Isralowitz................................. SkidmoreCollege Geoffrey Roehm ...................Middlebury College Omar Joyner Cory Weissglass ....................... Tulane University Jason C icco n e............................................... BostonCollege Stacey W ertlieb..........University of Pennsylvania Alyson Rosenthal.........................................HofstraUniversity Devin Cooper................................................. IthacaCollege ................ North Carolina A & T State University Caroline Rozdeba.........................................HofstraUniversity Margot Wilensky.........................................ColgateUniversity Alan Davson ....................... New York University Tara K akaty.................................................. CornellUniversity Marc W itm e r.................Chicago Institute of Arts Mayur Saxena..............................................HarvardUniversity Scott DeRosa..............The College o f New Jersey Michelle Kawecki ...................Colgate University Allison W o l f ................................................IndianaUniversity Gregory Scherzo . . . .Roger Williams University Tyler D iN ap o li..............Sarah Lawrence College *Jason K idd e............................................... ColoradoCollege Erica Serock ................................... Boston College Elizabeth W o lf......................................MiddleburyCollege Jenevieve D uron...................................... ColumbiaUniversity Rene Kirkland........................................... FordhamUniversity Harrison W reschner......................................ColbyCollege Jason Klukowicz......................................SkidmoreCollege Pamela Servidio ..................... Fairfield University Richard E y te l.............Virginia Military Institute * Alumni children

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Career Day: W here Do You Go From Here?

Many alumni who were students themselves not so long ago returned to campus in March to offer advice and perspective on their careers. Topics ranged from acting to government service in immigration. An established physician and a medical student offered different perspectives on medicine, a perennial favorite, and two classmates spoke about financial careers.

D octor-to-be Steven G oldberg ’9 1

Career Day is the joint production I f the Alumni Council, Alumni Office, and Upper School administration. Students host alumni speakers, and longtime faculty members greet their former students, now back as instructors for a day.

Acting Art Galleries/Museums Clinical Psychology Computer Science Education Fashion, Photo Styling Financial Careers Geology/Energy Immigration, Asylum Journalism Languages Law Medicine M usilill Sports Administration TV, Video Production

Jody Booth ’88 Meredith Fisher ’89 Alison Thomas-Cottingham, Ph.D. ’84 Janine Garland ’82 Dr. Peter Greer Deborah Tirico Mark McGowan ’85 Jeffrey Schackner ’85 Hugh Gleason ’75 Ji-Young Ahn ’91 Diane Haines ’63 Joan McConnell, Ph.D. ’59 Arsen Zartarian ’83 David DeBell, M.D. ’72 Steven Goldberg ’91 Richard Reiter, F Peter McMullen w m Cheryl McCants ’82

Classmates M ark M cGowan ’8 5 an d Jeffrey Schackner ’8 5 gave two versions o f fin a n cia l careers. M ark was chairm an o f C areer D ay fo r the A lum ni C ouncil

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Cheryl M cCants ’82

Arsen Z artarian ’83

Alison Thom asCottingham , Ph.D . ’83

Jod y B ooth ’8 8

P ublisher D ian e H aines ’63

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1999 Distingushed Alumni Award William Hough Cook ’30 It is particularly fitting that at the end of the 20th century, the MKA Alumni Association present the 1999 Distinguished Alumni Award to one who helped change the face of an industry that changed history. The Association is very proud to present the award to one of the great aeronautical engineers of the century, William H. Cook of the Class of 1930.

Bill was the Project Engineer on the B-29, the airplane that carried the two atomic bombs that convinced Japan to sue for peace, and the Aerodynamics Unit Chief for the B-47, which one pilot says “was the biggest leap in aviation since the Wright Brothers first powered flight.” His group proved the novel concept of swept wing design, invented the yaw damper, developed the bicycle landing gear, and developed the use of wing spoilers to reduce wing bending.

As Chief of the Technical Staff in the Transport Division, he developed the 707, which became the basis’-for the military KC-135, the 727, 737,W , 757 and 777 - some 10,000 planes.

Bill Cook was the chief aerodynamicist for Boeing Aircraft in the design and development of the B-29 (the U.S. Army Air Force’s stalwart bomber in World War II), the B-47, and the B-707. In addition to radical and novel designs in these aircraft, his group beat competitors in getting the aerodynamic, structural, and performance capabilities into commercial production. Their 707 airframe changed the airline business forever: no more propellers and swept wings instead of straight.

In recognition of his contributions, the jet transport/ commercial airline industry gave Bill its extremely prestigious Elmer Sperry Award.

He has written a book, The Road to the 707, which chrom cled both the history of aerodynamics from the Wright brothers on and the progress of Boeing from WWII to the present. In sending a copy to the MKA library, Bill took pride in being able to interest non-technical readers in a highly technical subject; he wrote in “pilot’s language^®

Bill tinkered with aircraft even back at Montclair Academy: his senior yearbook reported that he spent most of his spare time Resigning a glider and that he “hoped to mount an engine on it and be a regular aviator some day.” Bill graduated from Rensselaer Polytech as a mechanical engineer, received that private pilot’s license in 1936, then a master’s from MIT in 1938. He was immediately hired by Boeing and put in charge of high-speed wind tunnel design.

“A criticism of education in general,” he writes, “is that so much time is spent in studying the wore of others, that instruction in the exercise of the irnagination and instruction in the tools to create something new are not recognized. The modem effort in teaching software is very much in the right direction.”

The Boeing wind tunnel, completed in 1942, is still in operation, and was modernized only a few years ago, It can be said that this tunnel was instrumental in Boeing becoming the premier transport airframe builder in the world.

Words from a pioneer to help us soar.

George Bleyle ’60 ^Rphristie Austin, Alum ni Director

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Class Notes Editor’s Note W e use one “official” yearly mailing to obtain news, which appears in the FALL M KA Review.

SPRIN G magazine Class Notes are taken from reunion, holiday, and phona.rhon news, newspaper clippings, the flap on the Annual Giving remittance envelope, and letters or e-mail to the Alumni Office.

Although the items might seem “old,” we., have found that people love to read news whenever. The time lapse is unavoidable, as the processing o f Class Notes from secretary to Alumni Office to classmates to secretary to Alumni Office to designer to printer covers a 14-16-week period! Please remember that you can send a note to your class secretary or to the Alumni Office anytime. W e keep ongoing files for each d a $ £ g f T o those without a class secretary, how would you like to volunteer? The job has been simplified to the point that you will probably enjoy it immensely. The position o f alumni class secretary, like that o f class agent and reunion chairman, is absolutely essential to the vitality o f the school.

Please consider it.

T h e A cad em y A ce Historian M ichael O ’Neal, compiling biographies o f New Jersey residents who served in the Air Service during W orld W ar I, contacted the Alumni Office, regarding alumnus Kenneth Russell U n g e r’17x. Research inEH A cadem y Yeare B ookes from.'1 9 13-16 found Unger in the Bradley House (dorm) roster, a member o f the Rifle Club, and Field Day participant.

Unger left the Academy before graduating to enlist in the British Royal Flying Corps (he was rejected as underage by the U .S. Air Service), and had a very distinguished career. H e was the top ranking “ace” from New Jersey (o f 4 0 0 officers) and is credited with shooting down 14 airplanes during the war. He was awarded the British Distinguished Flying Cross - a high honor for an American - in 1919. H e flew the famous Sopwith Camel. Unger was also a major force in the New Jersey aerospace industry from 1919 until W W II, when he again enlisted, this time in the U .S. Navy. H e is believed to be the oldest man, at 44, to complete the Navy’s flight program. He later headed the corporate aviation division o f Johnson & Johnson.

Unger’s biography will be published in the fall 1999 issue o f O ver th e Front, a publication o f the League o f W W I Aviation Historians.

W o n d e rs o f th e W e b V ia the school W eb site, M K A heard from the grandson o f an alumnus o f M ontclair M ilitary Academy, Fayette L. Rockwell, Class o f 1910. T h e grandson had a photo o f the 1908 Academy football team and wondered about the school. T h e Alumni O ffice sent copies o f the 1910 Y eare B ook page w ith Rockwell in full military uniform, his signature, and a write-up. Cadet Rockwell went on to Cornell University, spent his career as a civil engineer in Brownsville, Texas, and died in 1966. A map o f the city o f Brownsville today shows a lasting reminder: Rockwell Circle and an inter­ section o f Fay and Rockwell.

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Our condolences to the family o f Teresa Darius Hayes. She leaves a son, daughter, seven grandchildren, and 15 great-grand­ children.

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Virginia was gifted even in third grade, age 7.

Other poems discovered were written when she was 9, lffl and 12. Her first collection o f poems, Ants on the M elon, was published in 1997 to rave critical reviews; her third book will be published this year.

Our condolences to the family o f Jeanne Price Goodlatte. Jeanne was the town correspondent for the Springfield [M ass.]

U nion (now U nion News) from 1952-70, and was a charter member and first chairman o f the town’s Historical Commission. She was named the Lions Club distinguished citizen o f the year in 1982. She leaves three brothers, two sons and seven grandchildren.

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Audrey Ayers Tupper Burgess writes, “Except for arthritis which slows me up, I jtn enjoying my home on the bay in Westhamptoji?!

Beach [N.Y.].” She is active in Hospice, “etc.” and returns to Delray in the winter. “Real news: M y grandson Glenn Tupper in Colorado presented me with my first grandchild, Skylar.” ;

MA After 19 winters in Lake Worth, Fla., Ross Roe has settled in Falmouth, Mass., to be near his family. He enjoys watching the boats in Falmouth Harbor.

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“This is being sent as a tribute to Eleanor Henney, who taught Ancient History,” writes Margaret Church Perkins ’33. “I belong to the University o f Delaware Academy o f Life Long Learning. For the past five years I taught a course on Alexander the Great. All the teachers are talking about their hobbies, not professions, but my main interest has been history.”

M iss H enney spent 41 years a t The Kim berley School, from 1 9 1 4 to 1955, as teacher an d assistantprincipal.

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John Graham observes that due to fire department and EM S needs, “we country folks were given street numbers to replace Post Office RFD numbers we’d been using for years. That’s progress, Bandera-style.”

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Barbara Spadone Haviland attended a “perfectly wonderful wedding” o f her eldest grandson in May near Charlotte, N .C . Many friends and family attended, and Barbara had met the bride before.

Caroline Thompson Lathrop went on a barge trip in Belgium last fall and was planning to go to Ireland with her son and daughter-inlaw this October.

Margery Atwater Crane announces the birth o f a new grandson in December. His father, Tom , did the photography for the book H istoric H om es o f P hiladelphia, which is a best­ seller!

Our condolences to Virginia Snead Keyser on the death o f her husband. She and Jack had been married for 57 years. Their daughters Melissa Keyser Sandberg ’64 and Lydia Keyser Nahuco ’70 both graduated from Kimberley.

Bill and Betty O ’Gorman Dixon have moved to a life-care community still near Montclair. “W orth a look for anyone visiting the W est Coast,” she writes, “your secretary’s oldest son, Willard Dixon, now has a mural, The Eastern Sierra in F a ll (35’ x 12’ x 8 ’), in the Supreme Court o f California, Earl Warren Building, San Francisco Civic Center.”

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TKS M rs. Stew art C arpenter (Josephine lo b es) C rane’s M ill, Apt. 2 4 9 4 5 9 Passaic Ave., West C aldw ell N J 0 7 0 0 6 Our condolences to Nancy Fiske Milne on the death o f her husband, John. His first wife, Jean - a classmate o f Nancy’s at Wheaton died in 1982, leaving four sons. (Nancy

Pauline O ’Gorman Morrison has moved to a retirement community in Rye, N.Y. She is closer to family, but misses South Carolina a lot.

Herman and Elizabeth Van W ie Penick Schmitz were married in September 1997; he was a widower. She is now taking the Hospice training course as macular degeneration made other volunteer jobs impossible.

MA Our condolences to the family o f John W .

Little. John served in W W II and the Korean conflict, then had a long and illustrious career as a country physician in Upstate New York and as a physician in Acadia, Calif. An inveterate traveler; John toured extensively all over the world. He leaves his wife, two sons, a daughter, stepson, and seven grandchildren.

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Jean Hamlin Noyes enjoyed a visit to the Kimbell Museum in Fort W orth to see. the Matisse and Picasso exhibits. She reports such a mild winter in Dallas ther the roses were blooming in May. Sally Young Shertzer is now comfortably and happily setded in a retirement community in Charleston, S.C. near her daughter, Kitty. “I hope to play some golf and meet new friends, she writes. In our most recent class notes, it

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Our condolences to the family o f Frances Catherine Montgomery; she leaves a sister, brother, nieces, and nephews. Frannie was a member o f our ’37 “Lunch Bunch.”

Your secretary went on a wonderful twoweek Elderhostel trip with her daughter to* France - Normandy and Paris in the footsteps o f the Impressionists. Delightful trip. A highlight for me was one week on a barge, cruising the Seine.

Please remember your classmates enjoy reading about you no matter what you are doing. Peggy [Ed. note: Bill and Peggy Young had been married 5 8 years, not 38 as reported in the last issue. What a marvelous statistie!|*

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TKS Mrs. W illard D ixon (Betty O ’Gorm an) C rane’s M ill, Apt. 19 9 4 5 9 Passaic Ave., West C aldw ell N J 0 7006-7461

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had been a bridesmaid at their wedding and remained friends for years.) W hen Nancy and her son, Jules Evans, joined the family,'it made five sons whose names begin with jflH She has many grandchildren.

Our condolences to the families o f Jessica Roberts Gilmour and Helen Strong Oechler.

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TKS Mrs. A lfred D. W illiam s (Joan Bayne) 10 Foxglove Court, Yarmouth M E 0 4 0 9 6 This column is going to sound like a personal diary,.but it has many MKA highlights. This winter I was on the road to two Elderhostels,. one on Hiltohv.Head Island and one at Arrowmont Arts and Crafts School in Tennessee. They were chosen for geography and timing and both were excellent.

First stop was Bobbie Kluge Deming’s new condo in Simsbury, Conn., which is full o f her artistic touches - quilts she made and an entertainment center she painted. She is near her son who redid her kitchen. Bobbie’s granddaughter in Mexico had a son in March, so now we have another great-grandmother in the class.

I left for Pennsylvania (twcfetops with friends) and Richmond, Va.,:and on to Hilton Head, where both before and after the Elderhostel I stayed with Ann Cochran Beeler in her home, which is another great spot. Ann is a travel agent and busy, busy! After I left, she was off to France.

I spoke with Jean Downes Fisher who also lives in Hilton Head. She and Jack are not doing any more traveling, but Jean is busy with reading, bridge, and Volunteers In Medicine.

They have six grandchildren.

I drove to Florida to visit family and friends, but didn’t go south far enough on the east coast to see Russ and Sis Underwood Gregory.

They have a new home in Coral Springs six doors from their daughter; they sold their Conn, home in one week. She loves being “on the water” and has litde time for anything but unpacking.

In Naples I stayed with my sister-in-law Nancy Williams Brundage ’41 and had a double treat, as Louise Brundage Lynch ’65 and her daughter were there.

Going up the west coast I stopped with Helen Keenan Thatcher in her “dream house” in Sarasota. Helen has been in Sarasota sincg^g 1994 and volunteers at the Ringling Museum o f Art, where she is involved in “special parties at the museum, very elegant and each different.” She is active with the W est Coast Symphony Assn., is a docent for the Youth Symphony, and knits for homeless shelters. I benefited by a symphony evening and a Monday jazz session at a restaurant w h e r e ; musicians “jam” for three hours - shades o f olden days at the Meadowbrook. Helen says every so often she stopsgUst to appreciate.how lucky she is.

After that I went to the second Elderhostel in Lookout Mountain, Tenn. and back to Maine after a 4,000-mile-plus drive. It was so good to see everyone and now we have our 60th reunion coming up for our wonderful class.

Baynie MA Our condolences to the family o f Charles E. Foster. His widow wrote, “He always enjoyed your Review and related many stories, amusing and serious, about Montclair Acaden|g^M

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TKS Mrs. Jam es F. C. H yde Jr . (E nid Griswold) 5 4 0 2 D uvall D rive, Bethesda M D 2 0 8 1 6 MA M r. D av id B aird Jr. 9 Parkw ay, M ontclair N J 07(M 2 Suzanne and David Caldwell live in

Cupertino, Calif, near San Jose. They • vacationed in Alaska, and were joined in Arizona by their daughter Carolyn and her husband. Every summer they spend two weeks on Lake Winnipesaukee, N .H ., near their middle daughter Dale and son-in-law; they expect to see Howard Dodd this year.

Another Californian, Perry Minton, recalls his mathematics class his final year with Frank Berger, who came to M.A. on an exchange.

Perry was reunited with Mr. Berger the following year at Punahoe School in Hawaii.

Perry trip» to play golf at least once a week now.

Perry’s old Academy roommate D ick Carrie lives in Florida, and he notes that his beach club on the ocean offers “50-yard-line seats from which to view space shots from Canaveral 40 miles north.”

Bruce Cornish was looking forward to an Elderhostel program in Norway, featuring birds and a study o f the natural environment.

Lewis Townsend is still financial officer and controller o f the Trust for Museum ExhibitipiEpa non-profit company which organizes and circulates art exhibitions nationally and internationally. “Hope to retire before long,” he writes, and sends warm regards to all M.A. classmates.

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Sam Hall and I had a delightful reunion in Vero Beach this past winter. It had been 58 years since we had last been together, prior to his move from New Jersey and transfer from the Academy. There was lots o f catching up to do!

Sam left M.A. at the end o f our sophomore year, and recalls being disappointed with the caliber o f teaching at his new school in Mass, after studying under the stars we enjoyed in Messrs. Miller, Monson, Jaillet, Vail, and Barras. D ick

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TKS M iss Lu cile G. M ason 14 2 N orth M ountain A ve., M ontclair N J 0 7 042 Joan Sweeney Ruffing sent news o f her two talented grandchildren in Florida, Jennifer, 16, who was inducted into the National Honor Society, and Cody, 14, who is a soccer star entering freshman year.

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Ted Brohl (¡¡.planning to dedicate his seventh book o f poetry to M .A.’s legendary William Avery Barras.

44 --------------------------- ---TKS Due to a case o f mistaken identity, Anne Davidson Flynn was erroneously reported deceased in the last Review. (Another Anne Flynn’s obituary appeared in the newspaper.)

W e regret any pain this may have caused.

However, “our” Anne Davidson has been lost for years. I f anyone has any information about her, please contact the Alumni Office at 973-746-9800.

Tom and Betty Deyo Martin had a great cruise to Brazil and the Amazon and were in Vero Beach until May. They were getting together with Tom and Connie Soverel Gattle.

MA M r. W in terfordJ. O hland M A hler’s Lane, Blairstow n N J 0 7825 Donald Castle reports, “Partly retired.

Spending time at our home on Cape Cod, playing golf, some traveling - U.S. and Europe.

Two children, five grandchildren.”

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2 1 1 6 Via A lam itos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 9 0 2 7 4 w ittels@ w orldnet. att. net At the holidays,, Nancy Nevins D ’Anjou sent a card with lovely comments and remarks, but no news o f her own doings.

Ann Gerhauser Buchbinder’s charming holiday card included a photo o f their dog, which is cute enough to star in commercials.

She, too, omitted any news o f what she and Bob are up to.

Leigh Berrien Smith sent greetings and sad news; Our condolences to Barbara Bumstead Shand on the death o f her mother last autumn.

George and Jeannie Talbot Sawutz report a move to Connecticut to be near daughter and son-in-law Sandy and Jim Hill and Kylie and Austin. They spent winter 1998 in Arizona and were expecting to return for winter ’99. They also spend several weeks each summer in the Adirondacks, and were able to get together with Ann and Bob Buchbinder.

Katie Teaze Clark writes that things “stay pretty much the same” for them. She and John are in Naples, Fla. for about seven months o f the year, and in Madison, Conn, for the summer. And “the family all carrying on okay.” ^■jlhings are pretty much the same for us, too.

Jerry divides his time between music, computers, and tennis.. I still do a bit o f photography, writing, painting, computer art, and a little origami; trying to be a good friend to a couple o f friends going through a bad patch; and enjoying grandparenthood more than I thought possible. Add to that visits to and from our children, Jerry’s family, and. my

sister, Sheila Feagley James ’43, and that’s how we filled up last year. A nne MA Bill Grant was introduced to a revolutionary new arc-welding process during a trip to Russia in 1994. He negotiated its purchase, got a U .S. patent, and formed a company to introduce it to the market. Articles on it have appeared in a number o f trade journals.

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TKS Constance Ritchie DuHamel continues to see Tom and Heidi Ames Troxell “and exchange pictures o f grands, etc. with Walkers, Helms, Ketchams, and other Kimberley alums in town.”

Nancy Anne Rudd Eddy golfs almost year ’round on Cape Cod; “our gardens are beautiful from lots o f hard work; have a new small swimming pool.” They were planning a trip to British Columbia in June. She is still taking a course for writing her memoirs.

MA D r. P eter B. Law rence 4 8 0 2 C arriage PL, Wilson N C 2 7 8 9 6 Art Hyde reports their first grandchild, Brian, born on their 45th wedding anniversary in March. Proud parents are their youngest son Bruce and his wife. Their middle son Mark and his wife are expecting in December; oldest son, Chris, “has not reported yet. Grand­ parents are both doing well.”

Bill Brown writes, “Paradigm-TSA, a new syndicate, is launching my new comic strip ’Warp Wilson’ nationally about July 1.’’ ' Barbara and I are golfing and raving about our children. Peter Jr. retired from Microsoft at 37; Briand heads up J. Walter Thompson in Argentina; Robin (a young lady) is a litigator for the U.S. Justice Department (Environment); Leslie (also a young lady) heads up M ajor League Baseball’s television division. W e spent time at World Series, All-Star games, etc. P eter

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TKS M rs. D avid H annegan (Louise Rudd) 3 4 M onadnock D rive, W estfordM A 0 1 8 8 6 During our sojourn in Florida, it was great to connect with Tom and Peggy Soucek Weissenborn, Shirley Hopkins (for lunch in West Palm) and Teeny Redfield Sander who came over from Sarasota visiting a classmate from Wells College. Teeny and Bar Nash Hanson enjoyed their trip to Portugal and Spain last fall and Teen has visited with family since. She planned her 70th herself, getting all 24 family members to celebrate with her in Hartwood in June.

Bar and Herb had a good winter in California before heading to Reno in May. They saw

Teeny and Cindy Youngman Adams in Florida in March. Bar also talked to Jeannie Frey Drake who had one o f her hips “done” again, but was as chipper as ever. Bar still plays tennis once a week and says she and Herb are struggling (as ever) with golf.

Patty C ox Mansfield sent a card from Santa Fe in May. She and Peter also visited Costa Rica and California, and in New Jersey surprised Jeannie at her “big” birthday. They were here for our 45th anniversary party along with my sister, Nancy [Rudd Eddy ’45jgiand Cookie [Joan Cook] last September.

Court and Midge Bethell Cross still enjoy the N .H . lifestyle on Lake Sunapee, keeping busy with civic projects, travel, tennis, x-country skiing, grandchildren and four dachshunds!

Gray and Cyn Overton Blandy spent the winter fighting viruses, but as Gray i|§|l chairman o f his 50th at Williams, did mucho organizing - and guess who’s helping.

Other than reunion, they were in Florida for two weeks visiting daughter Robin.

Kathy Crowell and her sister enjoyed a 6,000-m ile trip from N .J. to New Orleans, then on to Arizona in February in Kathy’s 26ft. RV. They had a great time.

Jay Smith Hague’s tidbits included her retirement from the wedding photography business, after 170 weddings. Her son, Jim , coached the varsity lacrosse team at Ramapo H .S. in Franklin Lakes that beat M KA and ruined its 6-0 record.

■ I cannot find Sue Harrison Schumann’s news. I put it in too special a place. I do remember that her daughter, Kristy, is doing well.

Dave and I are well, futzing along as usual, but why are the days so short? W eezie

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MA From John Pinkham: “Skied in Vail for a week. Total knee replacement worked well.”'

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MA Reunion chairm an: H on. P eter N . P erretti Jr. 2 6 2 S. M ountain A ve., M ontclair N J 0 7042 M ac Simms writes, “Semi-retired. Part-time English language instructor for Royal Thai Scholars, part-time tutor at an independent school, part-time wood chopper, unpublished novelist.”

Find out about everyone else at reunion!

[Ed. note: The Alumni Office has a few extra Academy ’49 yearbooks. I f you’ve lost yours and would like to catch up on names and faces before reunion, please send $5 for postage and handling to the MKA Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair N J 07042.)

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TKS Dick and Audrey Maass Lewis enjoy the best o f both worlds, summer in Maine and winter in Florida. Their three children and five grands are close by in Maine and they have long-time friends in Florida. Audrey has been reunited with Gay Clarke Perry and her husband Allen at their club in Naples.

Richard and Pamela Neil Collins are happily retired in Vero Beach. Their five children and seven grands are scattered: San Francisco, Chicago, Omaha, and NYC. “Fortunately they love to visit here and in Millbrook, N.Y. where we spend summers.” Lee Roberts Dulfer and Carol Ordway Webb are close by; Gail Robertson Marentette visits annually. “Can’t wait for our 50th! Big Event for the Millennium!”

Lynn Towner Dodd sent a photo o f Bruce and Audrey Carroll McBratney whom she visited during a Junior League trip to Beaufort and Savannah.

MA M r. Rudolph D eetjen Jr. R R 1 Box 4 0 5 H errick R oad B rooksville M E 0 4 6 1 7 Hope you’re gearing up for our Big 50 in ’00!

Patty and I are enjoying our first full year on the Blue Hill peninsula, with son Leif (RH DIII) and Christina in building and travel businesses nearby. C liff Deetjen and Kim are in architecture and interior design in Burlington, Vt. Cheers! Rudy

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TKS Mrs. L loyd M arentette (G ail Robertson) 4 7 6 L akelan d A ve., Grosse P ointe M L4 8 2 3 0 Joan Jacobus Miller retired from 23 years teaching in public school in Chicago in June 1998, then returned as a tutor. They are traveling and spending three months in Maine in the summers.

W e had a wonderful trip to Kauai in December to see my daughter, Frances, who is

living there and being a day trader with the New York Stock Exchange. She gets up at 4:00 a.m. and goes to bed by 8:00 p.m.! W hat a schedule. Kauai is a beautiful island magnificent beaches, spectacular scenery, and the Grand Canyon o f the Pacific. W e plan to go again in November.

W e spent two months in Boca Grande; Ted and Miriam Eustis Irwin were with us for two days, and Nancy Ehrhardt W hite rented a beachfront place for three weeks.

Please start thinking about returning to Montclair for our 50th reunion.. The Irwins expect everyone for dinner and my mother is looking forward to having us for brunch on Sunday. She just celebrated her 93rd birthday at Boca Grande with my sister, brother-in-law, me, and Lloyd. G ail MA M r. Ernest F. K eer I I I 4 5 9 Club D rive, P.O . Box 1030 Bay H ead N J 0 8 742 Last year M ark Hanschka retired from active OB/GYN practice in Pordand and moved to central Oregon, and now provides minor surgical services for birth control clinics in Bend and Eugene. “Have more time for grand­ children, travel, writiiig letters to Congressmen for environmental organizations, and other hobbies,” he writes.

Michael Silverman retired from 31 years of practice o f radiology in 1995, and lives in Boca Raton with his wife o f 39 years, Kay. Daughter Sara is a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Honolulu; son Richard is an architect in Charlotte, N .C. They have two grand­ daughters.

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TKS Mrs. C lark M oran (M artha G ilbert) 8011 Strau jfR oad, B altim ore M D 2 1 2 0 4 Class agent: Mrs. Jam es D onnell (B arbara Pendleton) 9 4 6 8 N o. Florence Rd., Pittsburgh PA 1 5 2 3 7

Historic Preservation is More Than Saving Buildings “Thirty years ago, I would have said preservation R a v in g buildings and preservation is historical areas,” says Roger S. W ebb ’52. “Now I think preservation is people, the preservation o f their Udtural assets and cultural history, as well as their man-made and natural environment, jjsg Words from the founder and president o f the Architectural Heritage Foundation in Boston, who saved Old City Hall from the wrecking ball three decades ago. “The idea o f renovating an old building into modern office space was considered a very risky proposition,” he says in an article in the Boston Business Jou rn al. Now Old City Hall is one o f the city’s gems.

The foundation also helped lay the groundwork for restoration o f Faneuil Hall - an area being abandoned by food wholesalers - with a two-year feasibility study and by attracting millions o f dollars in federal aid. Today the AHF supports preservation efforts by offering grant money and free office space in Old City Hall to various preservatiori'groups.; f In June 1998 Roger received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Massa­ chusetts Historical Commission for his decades o f dedication to preservation. He is an advisor to the National Trust fop Historic Preservation.

Roger’s current project is to restore and revitalize the Old North Avenue Bridge (built in 1908) with a self-financing Ponte Vecchio-type redevelopment which includes retail, restaurant, museum, and office space. An editorial in the Boston G lobe [June 30, 1999fflfe)ls his plan for the “lattice o f steel” bridge “the best combination o f preservation and financial practicality for this important artifact o f Boston’s maritime past.”

The revolutionary idea that preservation can revitalize an area economically is now a given.

From Fay Taft Fawcett: “Yeah! W e’re grandparents! Katherine T aft “Katie” was bom in March to Chris and Pam Fawcett Hynes ’87. Ned and I and Aunt Ashley Fawcett ’85 spent that first week helping out and taking you-wouldn’t-believe how many pictures!”

MA Charles Sage is easing into retirement, working two-thirds time as professor and lead systems analyst at Iowa State U. (ISU). His wife, Priscilla, is an artist and associate professor at ISU. Their daughter, Abigail, lives in Ames, Iowa, and son Andrew and his wife jiy e in Albuq^fferque, N .M ., as does Charles : sister, Winifred Sage Wilson ’61. The Sages spend the summer in Laporte, Minn., and the rest o f the year in Ames H ‘I f anyone S n the area, please stop by.”

Legacies: Form er Trustee Joh n K idde 5 2 x presen ted the diplom a to his th ird son to graduate from M KA, Jason ’9 9. Jon ath an graduated in ’9 4 , Jerem y in 96.

53 ------------------------------TKS Our condolences to the family o f Anne Shields Brayman. Anne was a sculptor of note, and volunteered with environmental and community issues in Maine and Florida.

Anne’s obituary was sent by another Maine resident, Patsy Eddy Ford, who renewed their acquaintance a few years ago and celebrated birthdays and other events with her. Benson B id Patsy are very involved with Bowdoin and Brunswick activities. Their son Doug has returned from more than two years in Bosnia and Albania with Physicians for Human Rights.

The Fords had two interesting trips to Bosnia and the “beautiful Croatian coast” while he was there.

MA Always in the news, it seems, Robert Weinmann was quoted extensively in an article in the N ew York Tim es in February abput doctors, H .M .O .s, and unions. His appearance at the W hite House in November was pictured in P ublic Em ployee magazine.

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TKS Ms. G eorgia Carrington 3 8 Silver Spring Lane, R idgefield C T 0 6 8 7 7 carrgeo @ aol. com Reunion co-chairm en: Mrs. R eginald M orse (Felicity Ferguson) 1 6 W hite Rood, W ayland M A 01778 Mrs. W illiam Treene ( CYM ann) 5 0 9 P ark Street, M ontclair N J 0 7042 Marian Miller Castell is involved on boards o f museums and historical societies, “which allows me to be involved with history.” She is the official Town Historian o f Darien and is on the board o f the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum. Marian spends one day a week in Montclair to be with her father, “and some of my happiest times are walking with Aubin Zabriskie Ames and CY Mann Treene, then having lunch with them and Tillyjo Beatty Emerson.

Fluffy Fergusson Morse, looking forward to the reunion, says, “The more o f us that come, the more fun it is...lH | I have actually joined the real world and gotten myself op line. I saw Adrienne Onderdonk Dudden and hjgs family when her daughter gave an endowed lecture at Connecticut College; she is a professor there.

See you all in October! G eorgia MA Reunion chairm an: M r. P hilip D onlin 1 2 1 4 W alker R oad, F reelan d M D 2 1 0 5 3 Heartfelt condolences to Gloria and Philip Donlin on the death o f their son, Matthew.

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luncheon the year Phil was inducted into MKA’s Athletic Hall o f Fame. He did it so beautifully, there was not a dry eye in the place.

H obart Van Deusen, who used to collect Montclair ephemera, came across a wonderful old Montclair Military Academy Yeare B ooke from 1904 and donated it to the alumni archives. The school was both boarding and military in those days, so it is particularly interesting. The publication o f Academy yearbooks started in 1900.

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TKS M rs. Susie Forstm ann Kealy 5 5 0 N. Kingsbury, Apt. 603, Chicago IL 6 0 610 After 30 years o f suburban living, George and Mary Gail Smith Buermann moved to a carriage house on 36 acres in the horse farm country o f Mendham. They are also building a house in Longboat Key, Fla. Our class reported lots o f new grandchildren: Cecily Wilson Lyle - twin boys; Carol Cloke Wildhaber - a boy; Leigh Eberstadt Brenza two boys; Carol Hanschka Traenkle - a girl.

Susie, Cecily, and Nancy Joyce Buckley planned a reunion in Vermont this summer.

Dick and Marilyn W alrath Elliott are busy with traveling, bridge, book clubs and courses, despite their illnesses. Their youngest son is in London.

The Brenzas’ youngest son graduated from Boston U. Leigh’s travel business has taken her and Jim all over, Europe to New Orleans, and she has choral society and psychology courses.

I took a trip to the Slavic countries, Warsaw to Vienna, last fall. Spent 1999 at home studying oil painting, history, movies, and taking short trips. Keep the news coming.

Susie MA Richard Moskowitz is practicing holistic medicine in Boston, specializing in classical homeopathy. His wife, Linda Sblar, is a licensed social worker. Son Richard Moskowitz lives in California, daughter Jennifer Sblar, in Adanta.

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TKS Mrs. Laivther O. Sm ith (Linda Lovell) 3 0 W ater Crest D rive, Doylestown PA 18901 MA M r. E ric Ja eck el 4 3 2 E astbrooke Lane, Rochester N Y 14618 Class agent: D r. Larry N azarian 2 9 Surrey Place, P en field N Y 1 4 5 2 6 The class is very proud o f Mike Sucofif for his induction into MKA’s Athletic Hall o f Fame.

No one was ever able to tackle him.

The snow finally disappeared in April, and Rochester won the record for most snow this

year, 110 inches, beating even Buffalo. W e had a great winter for cross country skiing, and by default I was elected patrol director for our Nordic Ski Patrol, a part o f the National Ski Patrol system. W e also had the largest number o f new recruits in many years, probably due to our glorious snowfall. E ric

57 ------------------------- “ TKS Ms. L in da B aldan zi 2 Greenview Way, Upper M on tclair N J 07043 MA Class secretary an d class agent: D r. E dw ard T. O ’B rien Jr. 3 3 7 6 F ern cliff Lane, C learw ater F L 3 6421 eobl0 7 2 7 2 0 @ aol. com Ted O’Brien’s daughter was getting married in May, “and we will then be going condo hunting.”

58 ---------------- — TKS M rs. Judson Breslin (W endy Worsley) 4 4 L ake D rive, M ountain L akes N J 0 7 0 4 6 Jack and Louise Alford Dillon enjoy living in Sun City, Georgetown, Texas. She is a computer graphics designer with IBM in Austin. Daughter Pamela was to be married in August; their eldest, Holly, lives and works in NYC; son Jim will graduate from U. Colorado in December.

Stacy and Linda Michele Bragg had a busy year. They took custody o f an 11-week-old preemie, named her Sara Rose, and adopted her in September. “She is a delight and doing better than the doctors had predicted.” Then they welcomed grandchildren Rachel (daughter o f son Andrew) and Abigail (daughter o f daughter Elizabeth). In December all 15 o f the family had a reunion in Colorado Springs; the six children are scattered from Germany to Aaska. “Stacy and I are having the time o f our lives with a new baby in the house and four grandchildren to spoil!” She sees sisters Phyllis Nielsen ’60 and Mary Ellen Burton ’63 in training meetings with the Mannatech supplement company.

MA D r. R obert R. H aney 4 0 7 1 9 W oodside Place, Leesburg VA 2 0 1 7 5 haneyrr@ erols. com Jerry Roth has lived in Sacramento since 1970 and is a school psychologist with the Elk Grove School District. Brother Jack lives in Hamburg, N.Y. “W e no longer look alike but sound the same,” Jerry writes. “I saw Frank Sachs’ and Peter Grieves’ picture in the last Review and remembered what a good time I had with them and the rest o f the Class o f ’58.

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TKS Class secretary an d reunion chairm an: Ms. Jarv is R eilly N olan 1 5612 Via M archena, San D iego CA 9 2 1 2 8 jarvisn o @ aol. com From Susan Wechsler Rose: “O n a recent holiday in New Zealand, my husband and I stopped in San Francisco for a few days. O f course we had dinner with Merrill and Cynthia H ooton Magowan. W e ate, laughed, joked, drank wonderful California wines, and had the best time together!”

Lily Solmssen Moureaux looks forward to the reunion. In addition to her job at the New York Public Library, she is the historian for the NYAC Yacht Club. “After writing about transAdantic crossings by sailboats, those waters looked quite different when flying above them en route to a ski week in Austria with our three wonderful grandchildren.” Lilly collaborated with husband Ghislain in Southeast Asia for the refugee crisis; she did a comprehensive photo coverage, and now volunteers at the International Rescue Committee. He is programming the rehabilitation o f land mine victims.

Elizabeth Garretson Vanderbilt writes, “W e will be away on an extensive trip at the time o f our reunion; I will miss seeing you.” She and Jerry retired four years ago to Austin, Texas, which they have come to love; daughter Cathy and her husband Bob live nearby. Youngest son Jim , who is handicapped, lives in a group home nearby; son Bill, his wife, and daughters Emilee and Chrisdna are in California.B|It’s amazing how litde time there is in retirement,” Elizabeth writes, “with traveling, community work, and participating in local clubs and interest groups.” She still has family in New Jersey.

Judith Thomas Rammerstorfer won’t be at reunion, but sends greetings. “I hope it will be a memorable experience for those who do attend. Kimberley seems so far away - almost like another lifetime!”

Joan McConnell had a very rewarding session at MKA’s Career Day; “I was pleased that the students had such a keen interest in language as a communication tool.” She is traveling from Italy to Maine, Scodand to Japan, to give conferences and lectures regarding her two new books, Language an d Culture in the 2 1 st Century and The USA Today: Changes, Crises, an d Challenges.

W e’re going to have a GREA T reunion.

D on’t miss it! Jarv is MA Class secretary a n d agent: M r. M ichael B aker 10 H ighland D r., N orth C aldw ell N J 0 7 0 0 6 W e’re saving the news for reunion, so don’t miss it! M ike

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TKS Sheila Albright Hogan reports a granddaughter, Madison, 1, Patty’s child. Son Don works at the Hogans’ resort, Lake o f the Woods, Lakeside, Ariz.H'rank is in Tempe; Nancy is a junior at N.A.U. in Flagstaff. Sheila works at the resort and plans family vacations.

MA Class secretary a n d agent: M r. G eorge A . B leyle

2 2 5 9 W eir D rive, H udson O H 4 4 2 3 6 orion @ gwis. com

George Bleyle will accept the 1999 Distinguished Alumni Award at Homecoming on behalf o f pioneering aeronautical engineer William H. Cook. ’30, whom he “discovered” through Cook’s book The R oad to the 707-

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MA M r. D av id L. Bruck 12 P on d View Lane, Titusville N J 0 8560

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TKS Mrs. C. D . C reed (B arbara Bywater) 1 7 6 9 Forest View Avenue H illsborough CA 9 4 0 1 0 MA Charles W eston reports, “After 24 years in Europe, we arrived here in 1992 and started a new business, a travel agency in Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill district.” They have four kids, aged 26 (Penelope, in San Francisco), 17 (Daphne, who lives in Belgium), 9 (Mary), and 7 (Alex).

The Columbia College alumni news reported that Byron Noone’s daughter received her M SW in May. Jennifer has been profiled in N ewsday regarding her accomplishments as an International Adoptees Spokesperson. She arrived in the U .SA . in 1975 through the Operation Babylift rescue effort for Vietnamese war orphans. The Noones’ son Jason graduated from Hofstra and was profiled in the N ew York Tim es for his participation in a Korean Adoptees homecoming tour o f Korea in 1998; he was received by the First Lady o f South Korea at the Presidential Mansion.

A loh a “Commuting between Maui, the Big Island, and Kauai is rough, but someone’s got to do it!” Says Jay Schmitz ‘62. About 10 years ago, he shut down a California landscape/hardscape business after a 20-year stint. Jay specializes in diseases and viruses o f tropical zone plants, and is consultant to various resorts in Hawaii and the Pacific.

He teaches post-doctoral students at U. Hawaii, Manaoa, and gives seminars at the National Tropical Botanical Gardens in Kauai.

Jay still does triathlons, loves long­ distance ocean swimming, and is on the Ironman Race Committee. He skis in Aspen every winter, though this season “after 50 years o f skiing, I need to get my knees scoped out.,” His children are grown (26 and 23); no grandchildren yet.

63 TKS Ms. Sharon Livesey 81 G rand St., N ew York, N Y 10013 MA M r. Bronson Van Wyck A rrow head Farm s, Tuckerm an A R 72473

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TKS M rs. F ran k H ennem an (Lynn R itter) 81 8 Staffordshire Rd. Cockeysville M D 2 1 0 3 0 -2 9 4 8 Congratulations to Miranda W hite McGinnis, who turned her experience with the great college search o f her children into a book, Som e ?’s to Answer, M ore ?’s to Ask. Two o f her children, Richard and Heather, graduated from Northwestern; Charlie is there now, and “baby” Ariel is a junior at Peddie. Randi has a second career now as author and publisher and star o f book-signings.

Carolyn Wilson W ard’s younger son, Robert, graduated from St. Andrew’s School, Delaware, in May; middle son James is in Atlanta; daughter Beth is in the Air Force, stationed in L.A. Jim flies for Comair, and Carolyn teacheahigh school math. She would like to hear from Kimberley people: “W e are an hour from Disney World and near the Space Shuttle and have plenty o f room now that the children have deserted us.”

Carl and Barbara Mahler Markussen live near Albany, N.Y. in an old farmhouse they are renovating. She works as the stacks supervisor at RPI. Daughter Kristin works in Boston, son Jeffrey is finishing his master’s thesis in geology at U. Alaska, Fairbanks.

Barbara and Carl had a New England vacation, visiting their daughter and Barbara’s sister Sarie (Sarah Mahler Henderson ’61) on Martha’s Vineyard.

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Cindy Smith Gaw says that all is status quo in Marietta, Ga. Sons T .R . and Colin live nearby. Cindy helped celebrate a friend’s 50th at a resort in Arizona. Her husband Kevin travels quite a bit; he stopped at the Hennemans’ in Baltimore while on a business trip last year, and they enjoyed his visit over Maryland steamed crabs.

Deborah Pines reports things are going well.

She is establishing a private practice in Doylestown, Pa.; she has been providing psychiatric services at a residential treatment center for adolescents in the Philadelphia area.

Debby returned to visit friends in New Zealand on vacation. She has a special someone in her life.

Barbara Doubleday Perry manufactures woven clothing and John designs holograms, so they try to combine business travel whenever possible. They were planning a trip to Europe this summer to visit friends. Barbara is in her third elected term as City Counselor (Burlington, Vt.) and chairperson o f the Waterfront Committee. Sons Aaron, 22, and Heath, 21, are engineers and live in the Boston area. Barbara went to a Christmas party at Cathy Krebs Suiter’s home last year.

Lynn Sanders Pizzirusso’s daughter Jenny was married in Gibraltar over Thanksgiving “magnificent!’-! Lynn and Joe traveled through Spain and Portugal before and after the wedding. After the holidays, they had a reception in Memphis, which most o f her family was able to attend. “This has been quite the year for Sanders weddings, as Debby’s middle daughter was married in September.”

Jenny is a teacher and the Pizzirussos’ son Jamie attends George Washington U. Law School.

Jim and Sally Webb Brown are retired and living in Naples, Fla. Her daughter, Leigh, and her husband both graduated from Wharton Business School in May and are moving back to Boston. Sally’s younger daughter, Katherine, will be studying at Boston U .’s graduate school in the fall. Jim and Sally planned to sail their boat from Florida to Nantucket and the Vineyard this summer, ending with six weeks in Chatham.

Sandy Brett designs, custom hooked rugs in Vermont. Daughter Megan lives and works in Woods Hole, Mass, on projects for ecological sustainability. “She has a three-year-old son which makes me (oh’no) a grandmother.”

Condolences to Sandy, whose parents both died in the past year and a half. She and her sister still have the family place in Wellfleet, Mass.

Lynn Ritter Henneman is still in the clouds since her wedding/family gathering last September. She sent news o f husband Frank’s first grandchild, Ellie, and their visits to her three children and two grands, and a family vacation at their condo in Sarasota, Fla. Lynn and Frank both work for Unisys Corp. in Maryland. “Come visitl’^ H MA H on. Joh n Sheldon P. O. B ox 96, P aris M E 04271 The Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia selected a photograph from John Benigno’s “W hite Flowers” series for its permanent collection.

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Jessie Broadfoot Boyer wrote to M KA for help in planning a Maypole dance. Her Garden Club in Colorado wanted to hold a Maypole dance at a garden tea this spring.

Alumnae will be happy to know that second graders at Brookside do a Maypole dance on May 1 every year, weaving ribbons in and out.

They are all dressed up and look adorable.

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MA Michael Fink is serving as national V P and chairman o f the Federal Government Affairs Committee for the National Association o f Homebuilders, while practicing law and developing land and housing in urban and suburban New Jersey. Daughters are 9 (Rebecca), 6 1/2 (Jenny), and 3 (Katie).

Robert Livesey teaches at the Austin Knowlton School o f Architecture at Ohio State U. in Columbus.

Alan and Mitzi Sans Balma have moved to' the Shore, to Ocean, N.J. Lloyd George LeCain checked in from Hawaii via MKA’s W eb site. He is on duty at Naval Station Pearl Harbor as a special projects officer. He is a Commander and his wife is a Captain in the Navy. He says, “Hawaii is nice but after awhile you get island fever and need to get o ff island. New Jersey is a nice place to live and at times I do miss it.? vs

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Randy Bean is head o f production and programming for the Stanford Channel. They air four hours o f broadcast-quality video per night, covering a range o f campus-based events.

They also originate documentaries and a weekly faculty interview program/'1“I’m extremely busy and love (almost) every minute o f it,” she writes.

Randy has bought the house she’d been renting.

Debby Sanders Lewis has had a very happy year. Erin, her #2 daughter, was married on Martha’s Vineyard in September, then Kelly, #1 daughter, was married in Connecticut in May. Her third daughter, Megan, will be a senior at Bowdoin College and is thinking ofbecom ingavet. Debby works for an

opthamalogist doing testing and assisting in educating the patients after cataract surgery.

She is also an E M T in her town.

MA Class agent: M r. C raig Perry 3 4 6 7 Pinestream Road, A tlanta GA 3 0 3 2 7 Michael Phares is VP and director o|M production and technical operations for KFNS AM/FM radio in St. Louis. He is also executive producer for “Working Fire” Video Training, a national series for firefighters and emergency responders.

Joseph Marino, attorney-at-law, is a Board Certified Creditors Rights Specialist, with offices in Verona, N .J. He hosted the 78th annual national convention o f the Commercial Law League o f America last November, with 900 attendees. He was elected chair o f the Creditor Rights section o f the CLLA, the oldest creditor rights organization (105 years).fjoe has been a contributing author and served on numerous educational panels for years. His wife, Paula Varsalona - a renowned couture bridal designer and manufacturer - opened her first retail store on Madison Avenue, NYC. Their daughter Alexandra is entering second grade at Brookside.

Andrew Sussman is an attorney with Hart, King & Coldren, a mid-sized law firm in Orange County, Calif., about an hour south o f L.A. The practice emphasizes business trials, involving transactional, real estate, intellectual property, entertainment and/or securities disputes. He and Diane celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary by spending a month traveling around Thailand, the highlight o f which was a long weekend at the elephant festival in Surin, “an unparalleled photographic opportunity.”

Searching for Marco Polo when Saddam Hussein opened Iraq - other than Baghdad - to foreign journalists. He toured the country, shooting scenes not available for 20 years.

P hotographer M ichael Yam ashita ’6 7 on assignm ent in Brunei, 1998 Award-winning international photographer Michael Yamashita ’67 was on assignment for the N ation al Geographic, a story on Marco Polo. He retraced some o f the historic route's, and, with uncanny timing, was the first Western photographer to be given access

In north Kurdistan one day Mike went to a club frequented by United Nations personnel after hours. The U.N . man in charge greeted him, pulled up a chair, and asked if he could be o f assistance. Mike explained his mission, and the young man was very helpful, naming an unusually picturesque traditional Kurdish village (no electricity) and giving many other suggestions and local contacts.

Mike thanked him, gave him his card and said he’d be back. The man looked at the card and said, “Are you the Mike Yamashita o f Montclair Academy?’* ® There, in the litde village o f Erbil, Kurdistan, David Allen o f the MKA Class of ’89 met Michael Yamashita o f the Academy

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Class o f 1967. Dave recognized him because he reads the M KA Review and knew that Michael had received the Distinguished Alumni Award and spoken at Career Day several times. David - on assignment as assistant to the head o f U N D P [United Nations Development Program] - was therehelping with assessment o f Iraq’s electrical power. ( David’s father, Philip Allen, was Head o f the Upper School in the 1980s, and his mother, Judy, was Alumni Director.)

They ran into each other again days later in Baghdad. “He gave the best sources of information,” says Mike, “and presented it well.”

The powerful scenes Mike shot evolved into their own feature, which will be the cover story on Iraq in the November N ation al Geographic. David was listed as consultant.

Mike, in the meantime, is continuing in the footsteps o f Marco Polo.

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Maggie is in touch with Sally Kimball Petito and says she, husband David, and two sons are doing well in Florida.

Avie Kalker is spending almost as much time in Williamstown, Mass, with the T.E.E.N .S. Democracy Project, as at home in Dallas.

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Betty Logan: In M em oriam Several Kimberley alumnae attended the memorial service o f Betty Logan, who served as athletic director and coached field hockey and lacrosse in the 1960s and 70s.Ai Betty, a member o f the Scottish national field hockey and track teams, molded players, coaches, and umpires in field hockey. She coached at Princeton and volunteered with the U .S. Field Hockey Association, which prepared elite players for Olympic and college play. The Kimberley Class o f 1971 dedicated its yearbook to Betty Logan.

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and Japan. Meredith will start high school, Elizabeth is entering middle school, and Sandy (James V) is in nursery school.

Steven Schuster practices plastic and reconstructive surgery in Boca Raton, Fla. with emphasis in cosmetic and reconstructive breast surgery and facial aesthetic surgery. “Living here affords me the luxury to play five or six holes o f golf just by walking out my back door.

It’s not quite MA, but then, what can you do.”

He and Stephanie have been married 25 years; daughter Kimberley is a junior at Emory U. and Lindsay, a ninth grader at Pinecrest School, Ft. Lauderdale.

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TKS Class secretary a n d reunion chairm an: M rs. Charles G ildea (Lynn E hrhardt) E. Saddle R iver R d., Saddle R iver N J 0 7458 Our condolences to Barbara Fox McWilliams on the death o f her father.

Russ and Virginia Munson Vasallo are happily living on a farm in Kentucky and are foster care “parents” for retired and/or abused Standard bred race horses. Daughter Heather, a store manager for Hammett’s Learning Center, was married two years ago; son Michael, an investigator, and Tracy had a son, Michael Patrick, in April.

W e’re saving other news for reunion, so don’t miss it!

MA Reunion chairm an: M r. G arrett G rainger 1 0 2 5 D unhurst Ct., Longw ood F L 3 2 ggrainger@ dixontisa. com

In M em oriam From L isa Shapiro ’7 0 on the death o f D r.

Roger H uber, chaplain a t K im berley from 1 9 6 6 -7 0 : I was very saddened to hear o f Dr. Huber’s death. During my junior year, Dr. Huber taught a class called “ethics.” W hat he actually did was facilitate a growth group toward self-actualization and cohesion.

This class remains a highlight o f my life.

M y eyes and heart were forever opened, my sense o f belonging to the group was solidified, and our entire class came together in sharing, emotional risk-taking, and “making a difference” as we invited the headmaster (Dr. Loveland) in for “intergenerational dialogue.” It was great fun, too! So thank you posthumously, Dr. Huber, for teaching me the powerful lesson and delight o f group work, which I now have the opportunity to share in my career as psychotherapist. Thank you, Kimberley, for hiring such talent.

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From Eric Weis; “Son Joshua is playing ice hockey at Floyd Hall Arena. W e look forward to many days/hours o f driving to rinks.

Daughter Sarah is fluent in three languages.

College years are still ahead o f us, so kids are keeping us young. Living in Wayne, we probably see M KA folks around town, but MA is now 30 years ago. W e must be having fun, since time has flown.”

[E d llo te : The Alumni Office has a few extra MA ’69 yearbooks available. I f you’ve lost yours and would like to see old names and

M r. V. Jam es Castiglia 5 7 0 1 B erkshire Valley Rd., P.O . B ox 3 11 O ak R idge N J 0 7 4 3 8 James Brothers retired last fall after 2 2 years in the Army/Army Reserves. He passed the orals for his M.A. in historical archeology at the College o f William & Mary (on colonial iron furnaces o f Virginia). He also helped excavate two 19th-century canal boats in Richmond.

W ife Joanne received a master gardener’s certification. Daughter Nancy is a National Merit Commended Scholar, and has participated in exchanges to England, Ireland,

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MA Class agent: M r. P eter P erretti Ferriers Cottage, Culham L an e Upp. Culham , W argrave, B erkshire R G 11 0 8N R UK Steven Schottenfeld has five children, ages 2 to 13. He started a new business, Pinnacle Flooring, in May. Bruce Pollack, his wife, and four children have moved to Buenos Aires, where Bruce has an expatriate assignment for Aetna as the chief o f medical operations for the largest health plan in Argentina. He was looking forward to an exciting professional challenge for the next two years.

Bill and Erin Cuffe Crawford ’74 are the proud parents o f Kelly Cuffe Crawford, born in January 1998. They assure us that Kelly already plays two instruments and is about to tackle the multiplication tables.

Erica and Robert Newman were married in June at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Chris Schulz and Peter Perretti served as ushers.

Michael Cassady parked cars, and damaged only one. Robert and Erica met in N YC and will live in Manhattan.

Henry Talbot is engaged to be married, a date as yet unset. His fiancee, Elena, is a citizen o f the Czech Republic and speaks five languages. Henry feels he has just recently mastered English.

John Kaplow has two “happy and healthy” girls, Lauren, 10, and E v a n ,b u s y with Girl Scouts, piano, and roller blading. He has retired from five years o f “M r. M om” and returned to video and media production. In a word, “whew!”

Lloyd Moss is the product manager for Window Brook, Inc., in Cambridge, Mass, which develops software for the mailing industry. It has over one million users o f its products.

Peter Perretti has moved to England. He goes there as a trailing spouse, his wife, Kathy, having been offered a deal that could not be refused. They live near Henley-'oiiThames.

Vince Mascia is taking several months off from orthodontics practice “to try things I have wanted to do since college.” His adventures include: golf in Florida with the folks, a bachelor party to a Caribbean island, scuba diving off the Venezuela coast, mountain climbing to the peak o f M t. Rainier, then language school and cooking classes in Italy.

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TKS Ms. Susan R ead 3 8 College Circle, Staunton VA 2 2 4 0 1 -2 3 7 5 davick@ gatew ay. net MA M r. Gregory Lackey 138 Paupukkew is T rail M edford L akes N J 0 8 055 Class agent: M r. Rudy Schlobohm 78 M ontclair A ve., M ontclair N J 0 7042 Timothy Miller is in the second year o f his own firm, Graphic Direction, a graphic design business south o f Boston. “Creative Design for Marketing Solutions.”

Jeffrey Kindler is VP/General Counsel of McDonald’s Corp. He and his wife live in Winnetka, 111. with children Joshua, 13, and Samantha, 10.

25th REUNION O CTO BER 16 TKS Class agent a n d reunion co-chairm an: Ms. E rin C uffe C raw ford 10 2 Buckingham Rd, Upper M ontclair N J 0 7043 Reunion co-chairm an: Ms. Seton D aly B eckw ith 1 3 6 Bellevue Ave., Upper M ontclair N J 07043 Je ff and Suzan Yentema Bierly became the proud parents o f Grant Jefferson. “Who said that at the young old age o f ? one is too exhausted to have a child? The Bierly family shall now stop with Grant and Brittany, 5.”

Roberta Root Weiser has her own architectural firm in Encino, Calif.

Catch up on other news at reunion!

MA Reunion chairm an: M r. Rudolph Schlobohm 7 8 M ontclair Ave., M ontclair N J 0 7042 castlecom pany@ ibm . net The team o f Rudy Schlobohm, John Blondel, Henry Williams, Earl Perretti, Joe Scirocco, Stew Carr, and Allan Cox is planning great things for reunion the weekend o f October 16. Don’t miss it!

Yukka Luostarinen, who attended MA as an AFS student and stayed with Christian Varkala’s family, brought his wife Paivi and daughter Katja, 10, to the U.S. and spent New Year’s day with them. Yukka is an international lawyer in Helsinki, Finland. Over the years the Varkalas have visited Yukka and his family in Finland.

Chris is sales manager o f Mouli Mfg. Corp.

On a related note, Chris’ nephew James Varkala, MKA ’99, became fast friends with a more recent international student, Lithuanian Arnoldus Pranckevicus, when he lived with James’ family in 1998.

D irk Buikema was promoted to director of strategic alliances for Motorola’s semiconductor business. He and family live in Texas.

[Ed. note: The Alumni Office has a few extra MA ’74 yearbooks. I f you’ve lost yours, order one to check out your old classmates before reunion. Please send $5 for postage and handling to MKA Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair N J 07042.]

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M r. D av id Soule 12 0 L inden Avenue, Verona N J 0 7 0 4 4 Class agent: M r. P au l Z ukerberg 1901 W yoming Ave. N W # 75 W ashington D C 2 0 0 0 9 Form er A lum ni Association President J . D ean P aolucci 7 3 presen ted the diplom a to his nephew M arc W itm er ’9 9 (w ith bou ton n ierejf W ith them are M arc’s brothers Bryan ’0 1 a n d D arren ’9 5.

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Yachtswoman Congratulations to Betsy Gelenitis Alison ’77, who was named Rolex Yachtswoman o f the Year for an unprecedented fifth time. She also earned the distinction in 1981, ’82, ’84, and ’93.

Betsy, who was named to MKA’s Athletic Hall o f Fame in' 1996, also won the 1998 International Sailing Federation World W omen’s Match Racing Championship and three other major events. The award was given “in recognition o f her leadership contribution to sailing.” She is coach o f the U.S. Disabled Sailing Tearn and is sought after as a motivational speaker, sailing fitness teacher and writer.

“The time has come to give something back to the sport we all enjoy,” she says.

M arty Cohn sends regards. He is V P o f marketing for a large international com­ munications firm; “son, 12, and daughter, 8, enjoy life on Miami Beach.”

P at Cane Donahue is teaching earth science to eighth graders. “Are we sure teenyboppers are the same species as humans?” She and Kevin are planning another adoption.

Linda Haviland Conte is working on poetry as well as caring for Michael, 6, and Celia, 3, at home. She published two poems in The Cam bridge T ab in December.

Beverley Hall Hildebrand is a full-time mom

o f three girls: Leah, 6; Kelley, 5; and Libby, 4.

Bev also does bookkeeping, payroll, etc. for her husband’s dental practice. They now have a menagerie o f chickens, dogs, horses, and cat.

“Love Wyoming. Door’s always open - come visit.”

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Ms. P am ela Zeug 2 5 0 M ercer St., C418, N ew York N Y 10012 M r. Law rence Garrigan 6103 Ox Bottom M anor D rive Tallahassee P L 3 2 3 1 2 Class agent: Ms. Ja n e Lugaric B urkhard 2 9 9 Crown Road, K en lfield, CA 9 4 9 0 4 John Glicksman is VP and general counsel for Hyperion Communications, Inc., one the largest local exchange telephone companies in the U.S. and a subsidiary o f Adelphia Communications. He spent four years as deputy general counsel for Adelphia.

Pam Bolton and husband Nick Radcliffe have two children, Gabriel, almost 2, and Noam, 4. Pam works in international health, which takes her to Africa several times a year. She is program director for Francophone Africa with N.Y.-based Family Care International. “All those years o f French with Ms. Andre and Mr. Adair did come in handy after all!’s|gShe would like to hear from anyone who has anything to do with Africa.

Best wishes to Kimberley and John Butler on their wedding. They moved to Essex Fells.

Pamela Lalli Richmond is co-president of the Mendham Cooperative Nursery School, which her son Tyler attends. Pam loves being an at-home mom but misses teaching. She is also chairman o f the B O T o f the Short Hills Ski Club, her seventh year on the board.

Rick D oerr moved back to New Jersey and opened a plastic surgery practice in Clifton.

He is a faculty member in the department o f orthopedics and plastic surgery at Seton Hall University. Rick is ranked #1 in 2.4 meter class sailor on the U.S. Disabled Sailing Team for the 2000 Sydney Paralympics.

Our condolences to Kurt Schansinger on the death o f his mother.

Deborah and Frederick Eiden, who met in Italy on business four years ago, welcomed their first child, Alexander Francis, in January “a future student at MKA.” They live in Essex Fells.

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M rs. Carlos O rtiz (Shawn M ahieu) 2 1 6 3 G ilbride Rd„ M artinsville N J 0 8 8 3 6 Reunion co-chairm en: D r. Ja c k B rin k 1 2 9 0 Beech Valley Rd„ A tlanta GA 3 0 3 0 6

Class agent: Ms. A nita Sim s-Stokes 2 9 9 N orth W alnut Street E ast Orange N J 0 7 0 1 7 Congratulations to Anne Morey, who received a Ph.D. in film history last August from the U. o f Texas at Austin. She is beginning a tenure-track position at Middlebury College. Look her up i f you’re in Vermont!

Amanda Calder Holder is director of marketing for the new National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, Calif., an $11 million interactive museum for author John Steinbeck.

Amanda and her husband Je ff live in Monterey, and she welcomes all classmates to the Bay area.

Congratulations to James Johnson on his induction to the MKA Athletic Hall o f Fame.

His speech was poignant and humble.

Roger W eber checked in from County Tyrone, Ireland, but sent no news.

Vanessa Noble Good is V P o f a small company and works as a legal recruiter (placing attorneys and paralegals in Philadelphia area).

Son Brian is 9, in third grade, and a football player; Vanessa serves on the board o f his league. Her husband Michael announces Brian’s home games. “As you can tell, football has become our main pastime.HVanessa’s mother, former faculty member Joanne Noble, lives in an apartment in their home. “All is well in Philly, except for Eagles football. W e won’t go there!”

“Though I have changed careers, gotten married, and had a son since my last report,” writes W arren Busch, “I still do a lot o f hitchhiking. I encourage more o f you to do it curs down pollution and auto costs. I f you see me, pick me up.”

Beth Kindler Lloyd-Thomas reports that the family is alive and well, and living in Con­ necticut. Son Matt, 5, has a bit o f an Aussie accent, and Sophia, 2 1/2, is the family comedienne. Beth enjoys being at home raising the children. They visit Australia every other year, and are looking forward to celebrating the millennium in Sydney. She hopes to see everyone in October.

Correction: Anita Sims-Stokes is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, not a deacon as previously reported.

[Ed. note: The Alumni Office has a few extra ’79 yearbooks. I f you’ve lost yours, order one to look up your old classmates before reunion. Please send $5 for postage and handling to the M KA Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair N J 07042.]

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“Chasing my 2-year-old Jonathan, working full time, and moving to a new house has kept me busy,” reports Susan Greenbaum Gross.

They were planning a trip to Iceland and England. “Regards to all - can you believe it’s almost 2 0 years}”

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Pam graduated magna cum laude from Princeton, was a Fulbright Scholar in Geneva, and received a master’s degree from the Fletcher School o f Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

An exhibition o f photographs called “Tribal Kenya” by Rosanne Pennella was displayed at the Liberty Science Center for four months this winter. They are stunning. A postcard o f the exhibition arrived at the Alumni Office via retired faculty member Marilyn Faden.

Catherine Emerson is enrolled in American University/National Training Labs’ (AU/NTL) Master o f Science program in organization development. She has relocated to California as tenant coordinator for Parsons Infrastructure & Technology.

Best wishes to Nicholas and Lisa Giordano Apollo on their wedding. Lisa, who earned a degree in health administration from Ithaca College, is head coordinator for Home Care Options in Paterson.

Congratulations to Mark and Julia Sturchio Stockwell on the birth o f son W yatt Milne in May 1998.

82 Ms. Cheryl M cCants 8 W illow dale Court, M ontclair N J 0 7042 M r. Thom as R obbins 6 B rad ford Terrace, N ewtown Square PA 19073 Class agent: M r. Jon athan Sandler 5 B lack O ak Road, W aylandM A 01778 Peter Gibson announces his fourth child, Coby Voight, born last October.

Tom Robbins enjoyed the MKA W eb site’s article on the football competition with Newark Academy. “I played in the 1981 game,” he writes, “and still remember it when I run into NA graduates. Too bad we only won one or two others that entire year.”

After competing in the 1998 World Championships, Mary Rachael Hayes McDaniel is once again retired from the sport o f fencing. “M y concentrations have returned to the task o f trying to provide a good education for our sons Cameron, 4 1/2, and Houston, 6. It’s really hard to believe that we’re all old enough now to actually consider schools like MKA for our own kids....scary!’’!i'': Katy and Peter Dancy’s daughter Hope, 5, w ill be entering M KA’s kindergarten in the fall. The Dancys’ third child, first son - Ryan North - was born in June, joining Hope and Maggie, 3.

Cheryl McCants earned an M .S. in broadcast journalism from Columbia U. Graduate School o f Journalism. She spoke on T V and video production at M KA’s Career Day this year.

Pamela Reisch Lasher is commercial lines manager at Sanford & Purvis, Upper Montclair.

Peter and Kelly Smith Mongeau, expecting a third child, have returned to the Boston area.

Bob Carson and Billy Hall spent their 35th birthdays together in Colorado. Ed Conlin ’84 and Andy Voss ’83 joined in the festivities.

Bob’s fourth child was born in January. “We have a full house!” he writes.

stimulating and emotionally taxing.” Her own two daughters are 3 and 5, both in preschool.

After completing his fellowship in surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center this June, Ron DeMatteo has joined the faculty there in hepatobiliary surgery. His wife, Allyson, works as an investment banker in NYC. D on Cussen works at the Morristown branch o f Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

Nancy Cambria moved to St. Louis last fall, and works as the communications director for Grand Center, St. Louis’ arts, education, and entertainment district. She was married in June to Jeremy Kohler, a reporter with the PostD ispatch. Best wishes!

Octavia Loyd-Oliver received a master’s in tourism and travel management from NYU in 1995. She and her husband, Dr. Garth Oliver, have two children, Jeremy Duncan, now 4, and Samantha, 1 1/2. She lives 10 minutes from Yale in Connecticut and would like to hear from anyone in the area.

Congratulations to Alan Wilzig, who opened his Trustcompany Bank’s 60th branch office in Upper Montclair in June, a very elegant branch.

Alan is executive V P o f the bank.

15th REUNION O C TO BER 16 Class secretary an d class agent: Mrs. T odd Ladda (Jen nifer Jones) 11 0 Glen Rock Road, C edar Grove N J 0 7 009 Class agent: Mrs. A ndrew W ilson (Laura D ancy) 181 Long H ill Road, Apt. R 5 L ittle F alls N J 0 7 4 2 4 Reunion chairm en: M r. D arrin O ’N eill 4 5 Stanford Place, Glen R idge N J 0 7028 Billy H all ’8 2, E d Conlin ‘8 4, B ob Carson 8 2 an d (m issing from p h oto) Andy Voss 8 3 celebrated B illy an d B o b ’s birthdays together “som ewhere in the Rockies. ”

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Class secretaries: Ms. Amy F elber 2 8 4 1 Sacram ento St., 301 San Francisco CA 9 4 1 1 5 Ms. M aureen Towers N atkin 5 Riverview Road, Irvington N Y 10533 m otowers@ aol. com Class agent: K ristine H atzenbuhler O ’Connor 15 9 Fells Road, Essex Fells N J 07021 Arsen Zartarian is associate counsel for the state-operated Newark Public Schools. He spoke on law at MKA’s Career Day this spring.

Holly Sobel Armitage has a part-time practice representing children on appeals from parental rights termination cases - “mentally

D r. Alison Thom as-Cottingham 3 9 8 Trem ont Ave., Orange N J 0 7 0 5 0 Congratulations to the 1984 tennis team for their induction into MKA’s Athletic Hall o f Fame. Their speeches were eloquent and poignant.

Debi and Lee Goldberg had a son, Jason, born in February. Jason joins twins Molly and Jake, 3. They live in Morris Township,™ N.J. Larry Rosen is enjoying his pediatrics practice in Old Tappan, N .J. Son Matthew was one in March.

Bill Stone is a partner in a law firm in Portland, Ore., specializing in corporate finance and intellectual property. He and his wife, Carolyn, have a son, Benjamin, 1, who was born on Bill’s birthday.

Donna Del Gaizo Bizub is in a Ph.D. progam in social work at Fordham U. Donna, Tim ’85, and sons Joseph, 2 1/2, and Jack, 1, have moved to North Caldwell.

M arc Klein practices labor and employment law, representing management only, with Thompson & Knight, P.C. He was elected a shareholder in the firm in December.

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ment consultant to the financial services industry for KPM G, one o f the Big-Five accounting firms. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth and an M.B.A. from Columbia.

Jim and Nina Howard-Galione welcomed daughter Phoebe Joelle in January.

Sonia Stetkiewych is director o f the new adult day health program at Sarah Newman Center for Healthcare and Rehabilitation irjHB Mamaroneck, N.Y., a program which can often delay the need for nursing home care from two to four years. Sonia received a master’s in art therapy from N YU in 1991 and started working with children. “Since then I have worked with all age groups, but I have to say that [the elderly] have become my most rewarding experiqficelwH Eva Gold, with a Ph.D. in Italian, is teaching Italian and Italian lit. at SUN Y Stony Brook; she lives in the Village, NYC. From Sean Pignatello: “M et Lauren, magical wife/mother, on a blind date set up by Craig Miner at the Downtown Raccoon Lodge, NY, NY, in 1994. W e were married on the rocky coast o f Maine in ’95, and live in a saltbox in the woods o f the Maine Coast with two children, DjangoBM /2, and (Queen) Isabella, 3.” Sean is a finish carpenter/cabinetmaker.

Best wishes to Frederick and Natalie Klufas Mueller on their wedding, held in Captiva Fla. Natalie’sffirst update in 15 years reveals she graduated from Boston U. and lived in Rome for two years. She started at Morgan Stanley and currendy works as a portfolio manager at Ark Asset Management, NYC. Rick writes and directs television./TIt has been great reading about everyone over the years,” she writes?, “and I hope to see lots o f familiar faces at Home­ coming.”

[Ed. note: The Alumni Office has a whole carton o f ’84 yearbooks available. Plan |jnead and look up your old friends and faculty.

Please send $5 for postage and handling to the MKA Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair N J 07042.]

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M r. Joh n B ooth I I I 1912 H arw ood Road, A nnapolis M D 21401 Class agent: A lexis Polonofiky Z ebrow ski 4 9 N ew m an A ve., Verona N J 0 7 0 4 4 Best wishes to Matthew and Susan Ciccone O ’Donnell on their wedding. They live in New Vernon, N .J. Pamela Wohlgemuth is an open-heart intensive care nurse at Morristown Memorial Hospital. Pam received a B.S.N . from Seton Hall and a B.A. in politics from M t. Holyoke.

Tim Bizub reports he is keeping very busy at work (Bizub-Quinlan Funeral Homes in Clifton). He and Donna Del Gaizo Bizub ’84 have two sons, Joseph, 2 1/2, and Jack, 1.

Jason O’Neill works for Bristol-Myers Squibb in Princeton.

Jonathan and Janet Phillips Conner still live in the “sweltering head’fof Bahrain with sons Griffin&ffcl./2, and Andrew, 18 months. They will leave the Mideast by m id-2000 with

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CitiBank for somewhere unknown - possibly Singapore.

Doctors Rosie Ahkami and Je ff Witworth will be married in December. Both are dermatologists and will begin practicing in New Jersey this fall.

Ms. K aren M uenster Spiotta 2 9 5 C larem ont Ai)& A pt' 4seM. M ontclair N J 0 7042

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Ms. Sherry A hkam i 5 2 0 5 F iore Terrace, Apt. 4 1 7 San D iego CA 9 2 1 2 2 Ms. Jen n ifer Rem ington K nodel P ark Glen #1602, 10 5 R oselandA ve., C aldw ell N J 0 7 0 0 6 Congratulations to Je ff and Sharri Ginsburg Freedman on the birth o f Jacob Scott in April.

“Big year for us!” writes Valerie Cordover Katz. Rob is the C EO for the company, they acquired in November. They are building a house in Livingston and welcomed their second child, Jason, in June. Daughter Alexandra is®.

Valerie had two special lunches last winter: one with Jodi Schneider Scherl and Elyse Decker Fenerty, and the other with Claudia Ross Nemphos and Julia Weil. “It was wonderful to see them all.”

Saul and Jodi Schneider Scherl had a second child, daughter Adinah, last October. Jodi is counsel with the firm Cohn Lifland, special­ izing in estate planning, elder and tax law.

Congratulations to Nancy Castro, who received a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature at Columbia U. in 1998. She is enjoying her first year teaching U .S. and Caribbean lit. as a professor o f English at Baruch College, part o f CUNY. Best wishes to Matthew and Kelly IversonSellers on their wedding. Kelly expanded a private therapeutic massage practice to a wellness center in Princeton, N .J. She bought? a large Victorian on Main Street in 1997 and renovated it for the center - “a long, difficult project but well worth it.” The business offers yoga, chiropractic, nutrition, psychotherapy, and massage.

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Class agent: M r. A lec Schw artz 4 6 Plym outh Road, Springfield PA 1 9 0 6 4 cm calec@ ix. netcom. com Congratulations and best wishes to Alec Schwartz and Joyce McNeil on their wedding.

A large MICA contingent attended the ceremonies in Villanova, Pa. [see photo].

Congratulations also to Alec, who will join the MKA Alumni Council in the fall.

Patricia and Javier Salabarria were married the same day in Connecticut. M ark Sapienza was his best man; Kevin Silen attended. Both Javier and Kevin live and work in Boston.

Mark completed his internal medicine residency this June and is staying on at Jefferson (Philadelphia) for a three-year fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology. In February, Mark traveled to Uganda for a medicine elective. “I managed a safari in the Serrengeti, white water rafting on the Nile River, and gorilla tracking in the Bwindi Impenetrabel Forest - narrowly missing the Hutu rebels by only four days!”

Lisa Kang is grants manager at the American Music Cente%'NYC, and helps disperse over $ 1.5 million through programs at AM C, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Mary Lary Trust to composers and performers o f new American music. Congratulations to Lisa, who finished a second master’s' degree, this one in arts administration, at Teachers College, Columbia U. Negar Ahkami left the corporate law world to work in the general counsel’s office o f the Museum o f Modern Art in NYC. Negi had a

very successful exhibition o f her paintings and sculpture at a Soho gallery last summer.

Welcome, alumni children: Andrew and Lauren Charlton Niebuhr had a son, Jake Thomas, in May. Cris and Justine McBride Fellows had a daughter, Kallie Ellen, in February. They live in Park City, Utah.

Tom and Mary Savage King welcomed daughter Caitlin in October. Mary is completing her fourth year at New Jersey Medical School in Newark, where she serves as director o f the family services clinic. She was chosen as a member o f Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.

Paul and Kim Uddin Leimer had a daughter, Sage Emily, in June. Kim reports that Curt and Karen Rimmele Connors live in Cambridge, Mass, and Meg W ight and her husband live in Saudi Arabia.

Craig Stark, a post-doc fellow in cognitive science at U.California/San Diego, is engaged to Shauna Christiensen. They will marry in September in Utah.

Lauren Shanahan is engaged to Jonathan Selikoff; a September wedding is planned.

Lauren received a B.A. in English cum laude from Colgate U. She is V P o f Michael Kaminer Public Relations, NYC. David McGrath, who earned an M.B.A. in finance at Owen School/Vanderbilt U., works with Peat Marwick etc. in NYC.

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Ms. Snellen B izub 2 4 7 W est 87th St., 6D, N ew York N Y 1 0 0 2 4 Reunion chairm en: Ms. E rin Koenen 4 3 0 W est 2 4 th St., Apt. 2A N ew York N Y 10011 M r. Louis Lessig 7 8 K en t Rd., H untingdon Valley PA 1 9 0 0 6

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M r. D ennis R odano 1 4 W ayland D rive, Verona N J 07052 Mrs. Joy Booth-Roussel 5 5 0 9 Cam p Street, N ew O rleans LA 7 0115 Welcome, alumni children!

Chris and Pam Fawcett Hynes had a daughter, Katherine Taft, in March.

Danny and Joanne Pundyk Goldberg had a daughter, Allison Rachel, in May. Joanne left her job as an attorney last year to pursue a master’s in education tat, NYU. She will graduate in 2000 and hopes to teach high school history.

Glenn Cademartori is engaged to Kirsten Bronkovic; an October wedding is planned.

Glenn is director o f marketing and business development*««: the Meadowlands Racetrack.

He graduated from U. Vermont and earned an M.B.A. at Seton Hall.

M KA w edding reunion: B ack row, L to R: Jeffrey Glosser ’9 2, groom sm an B rad Van Siclen ’8 6, Christopher Kruse ’88, groom A lec Schw artz ’88, Jo e l Sim on ’62, W illiam Schw artz ’6 8x. Front: Jen n ifer Glosser ’00, Susan Glosser ’8 $x, groom ’s sister A lison Schw artz ’92, a n d L au ra Glosser ’8 9.

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Class agent: M r. Josh Raym ond 4 W hite O ak Rd., R oseland N J 0 7068 Go west, young folk, go west: Adam Sussman is working in strategic planning at Disney’s headquarters in Burbank, Calif. He received an M BA from Harvard this year.

All Dvorin is a screenwriter in L.A. He has written a play called S alad Days, loosely based on MKA days. A film he did with friends, Brokers, made the festival circuit. Ali graduated from NYU/Tisch film school and worked with producer Scott Rudin.

Laura Glasser is in L.A. as a researcher for the new “West W ing” T V show. She checks out details o f the W hite House and the Presidency, arranges guest speakers, and does some writing.

Dana Leibowitz Kaplan teaches art and is department head at St. James School in L.A. Her husband is a T V writer.

Ryan Schinman, though based in New York with Worldwide Entertainment & Sports, is in California frequently for his client-athletes and sees all the above.

Renu Thamman is working for the City of Chicago’s Law Department in the Labor Division. She received her law degree from U. Illinois in 1997Back east, David Ames is working as a Year 2000 consultant in downtown Boston. His consulting firm has grown from five to 25 in one year; they hope to double by next year.

Dave has picked up snowboarding and loves it.

Carl Lejuez has finished his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at West Virginia U . He will start a clinical internship at Brown U. this fall. His research focuses on || experimental lab models o f anxiety and 2) the short-term treatment o f depression without medication. ■Carl has had 17 articles and chapters published in scientific journals and academic textbooks over the last four years. He is looking forward to reunion.

Kristine Mamchur and Stephen Sands were planning an August wedding in Vermont.

Kristy, who received a B.A. from Wellesley College, is pursuing a Ph.D. in psychology at Antioch New England Graduate School. She is a counselor at Barre Elementary School.

Amy and Peter Fusco and son Ethan, 1 1/2, live in Caldwell. After working as a staffer with Senator James Jeffords (R-Vermont), Peter graduated from Seton Hall Law School, and now works in the corporate department of Brown Raysman Millstein, etc. in NYC. He is involved primarily in financing transactions, and served as lead negotiator for the firm to the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee regarding online securities trading issues. Peter is finishing up his commitment to the Army Reserve (Infantry).

Around the world: Dan Murphy is a reporter in Jakarta for FEER [F ar Eastern Econom ic Review ], a Dow Jones publication.

Dan is on the masthead and his byline is frequent; a classmate saw one o f his articles about the Indonesian elections on the Web. Peripetic David Allen had the all-time best “small-world” story during his recent stint in the Middle East with the United Nations Development Program - see “Searching for

Marco Polo” in the Class o f ’67 notes. David was getting married in Rome in July to Francesca Carrani, and will begin a master’s in international affairs at Columbia U. in September.

Don’t anyone miss reunion; 10 is the big one!

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Ms. E orelei M uenster 4 9 0 Fillm ore Street, Apt. 1 San Francisco CA 9 4 1 1 7 ellesioux@ aol. com Ms. M eredith M cGowan 3 3 3 E ast 65th St., Apt. 3F , N ew York N Y 10021 Clarissa H art finished her master’s in public health; her thesis was “The Progress of Pollution Prevention in the United States: 1987-1994.” She is an environmental health and safety specialist for a growing biotech company, Biosite Diagnostics, in San Diego.

Regina Chi is a VP at Clay Finlay, an international investment management firm.

She is an equity analyst/portfolio manager responsible for Europe. Regina worked for them for three years during college and five years since; she received a degree in economics and philosophy from Columbia. She is on the Columbia W omen’s Fencing Committee with Jill Tobia Sorger ’88, with whom she fenced at M KA and Columbia. Regina will marry James Clancy in New York in September.

Best wishes to class couple Bryan and Fay O ’Neill Lonsinger.

Ellen Gilson Voth has joined the faculty of the School o f Music at Ithaca College as lecturer in the music education department.

Ellen is also a staff accompanist for recitals.

Jill Porter will marry her long-term boyfriend from Dartmouth, Steve Larson, in October.

Shane Mahieu is a driver with the Fast Lane Offshore [powerboat] Racing Team, and, as such, merited a full-page profile in the glossy program. W ith previous racing championships under his belt, Shane is competing for national and world championship titles as well as th e , world speed record. In real life, he is an investment executive with PaineWebber’s private client group.

Dr. Patrick Greco checked in for the first time since graduation. He received a degree in health and physical education at Seton Hall, and graduated from chiropractic school in Atlanta in 1998. He continues to practice in Atlanta, and asks classmates in the area to contact him.

Alexa Fitzpatrick is moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. She has performed in New York at such venerableg|i places as the Comedy Club and Don’t T eESfe Mama. Alexa majored in government at Bowdoin College, and says she was never on stage either at MKA or college.

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M artin Torjussen 9 0 , Kyle 9 9 , M eghan 9 5 a t Commencement.

91 Ms. Ja m ie Lenis 2 5 Taylor D rive, West C aldw ell N J 0 7 0 0 6 Ms. D ara M arm on 5 1 8 E ast 80th Street, 5F, N ew York N Y 10021 telldjm @ aol. com Class agent: M r. L u ke Sarsfield 2 9 B attle Ridge T rail, Totowa N J 07512 Michael Kramer is “having a great time in Hollywood.” He is working as assistant to . producer Mike Lobell at Universal Pictures until he can get his own stories into production.

He has finished two screenplays this year.

Douglas Rosen is also in L.A., working for the Chesterfield Film Co. in Santa Monica.

Brooke Sullivan is working with the “Maury Povitch Show” in NYC. Luke Sarsfield received an M.B.A. from Harvard in June and is working with Goldman, Sachs in NYC. E.jMand W endy DiStefano Champey graduated from medical school in April and have started residencies in surgery.

After graduating from Providence College, James Mazzanti went to work for a nascent handbag company in NYC. After several years o f toiling over financial statements in the accounting department, he has a new job as information technology director. As those handbag sales exploded, the ¡¡|mpany’s IT expanded, and James was the right person for Katc’skSbmpany. He lives in Hoboken.

Noel Sonta and Gail Szakacs are in medical spipol.

Seth Traum has finished his first year at Stern Busine^School at NYU. Best wishes to Amit and Sadhvi Sahu Khanna on their wedding. The ceremony was held on May 14th and reception on the 15 th; Parisa and Atoosa Salimi ’92, Roberta Griff, Veenu Narang, Jai Mirchandani, Christina Kim, Anjali Sharma, Sonal Lodhavia, Sadhvi’s brother Sharad ’89 and sister Malini ’96, and - according to Melissa DiChiara “many other MKA alums who were-younger than us but I don’t know who they were” attended. D ara

G ary M u rphy *99 a n d sister M ary Lynn M u rphy *91 a t C om m en cem en t.

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Sarah and David Aronow were married last August, with several MKA classmates present: best man Daniel Solomon, ushers Saurabh Agarwal, Chris Gaydos, and Enrique Neblett, and Joanna Augustyn, Sharon Most, and Cheryl Sinner. David is an associate consuitantfor Computer Sciences Corp. in W est Orange.

Monte and Tami Safer Radfar were married in New York in May and now live in Los Angeles. Tam i’s sister liana ’95 was maid of hppor and Amy Bressler was a bridesmaid.

John and Marni Schinman Bedow were married “barefoot on the beach at sunset” at the Ocean Club, Nassau. Ryan Schinman ’89, Dana Leibowitz Kaplan ’89, Andrea ArriaDevoe ’93, and Caroline Russo attended.

Marni, a graduate o f Duke U., is working on a doctorate in clinical psychology at Seton Hall U. Jennifer and Adam Ertel were married last July. They purchased a home in Lake Hiawatha, N .J. and he has started a fin&p.gs Positive Image Retail Consulting Services.

Adam reports he is proud father to three dogs and a cat.

New York, N.Y.: Caroline Russo has retired from her modeling career and joined the work force, at a PR firm in NYC. Seth Shaning is working as a “personal chef’ on the Upper West Side in New York.

Serena Godwin finished her third year o f law school in New York, and was hoping for an internship at the W hite House (!).

Eric Iverson is working at a gallery in SO H O .

Stacey Honstedt is working for Andersen Consulting in NYC. Ari Terry and Scott W einer are doing the banking thing and are living together on the Upper W est Side.

Doug Munson and Pete Benedict work together at a securities firm in N .J.; Doug lives in Union Square in-New York.

Lisa Groudan works in the marketing department at Disney and Nicole Silver in the legal department o f Sotheby’s.

George Buermann finished his first year at New York Law School. “Late nights and early morning study sessions remind me o f my years at MKA!” he reports.

Doreen Oliver is an account exec at BozeU

Worldwide. She is the creator and producer of a bimonthly talent showcase called “Frustrated Artists in Corporate America.” It features the talent o f young corporate folks who are also vocalists, actors, poets, comics, and musicians.

Doreen and amazingly talented pianist Taurey Butler have performed in several shows (once to a song she wrote), and several alums have attended (Matthew W irz, Ayana Goore ’89, Crystal Elliott ’88, Stephen Maddox ’93, and me). Doreen was accepted to a Ph.D. program in African Diaspora studies at UC/Berkeley, but deferred her acceptance to continue producing shows. She also acts with the Harlem Theatre Company and does pro-bono advertising fo S H them.

From time to time, I bump into Doreen, Taurey, Daniel Solomon, Sharon Most, and Adrienne Phillips, who just completed her “great” third year at the Brown IMSchool of Medicine. She reported that Keshia Trotman is living in Maryland and working at a public health agency. Keshia received an M .P.H . in spring 1998.

Saurabh Agarwal became an M .D . at Boston U. this spring and will do his residency in Providence.

Cheryl Sinner earned a master’s in speech pathology from UVA. She is a speech pathologist and is restructuring the program at a public school in Aurora, Ind. Joanna Augustyn is working on a Ph.D. in French at Columbia U. and was planning to teach French this summer.

Sari Ehrenkranz is studying interior design at Fashion Institute o f Technology, NYC, and works for Greenbaum Interiors in Morristown.

She graduated from U. Rhode Island. Sari is engaged to David Gallinson; a November wedding is planned.

Wendy Byrd has lived in Manhattan since graduating fom U. Penn in 1996. She is getting her master’s in elementary education.

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Renow ned author/journalist B ob W oodw ard w rote this A u thor’s N ote in his latest book, Shadow, abou t his collaborator Je ffr e y G losser, who gradu ated fro m M KA in 1992.

Je ff Glasser, who graduated from Yale in 1996 and interned at The W ashington Post that summer, was my assistant and collaborator for the last three years. He tirelessly and resourcefully worked through the presidential libraries o f Ford, Carter, Reagan and the National Archives, unearthing key documents, leads and vital new information and corroboration. He also immersed himself in the key memoirs, books, articles - and controversies - o f the period l S i to 1999. A skilled, relentless editor, he repeatedly improved early drafts with detailed comments and suggestions. He assisted in the reporting and writing at every stage. The exhaustive chapter notes are his work, as he made sure the book provided the most explicit attribution where possible and forthrighdy stated when the source could not be identified. A child o f the information age, he brilliantly used all sources, from the Freedom o f Information Act to the Internet.

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His friendship and energy made immeas­ urable contributions to my work and life. He has the highest standards o f fairness and accuracy. Je ff was born in 1974, the year Nixon resigned. He is probably one o f the few Americans who has a deep understanding o f the history o f the presidents who have served in his lifetime.

J e f f was co-editor o f the Academy News a t M KA. H e received a B.A. in history from Yale, w here he served as ed itor-in -ch iefo f the Yale Daily News, the n ation ’s .oldest college daily, his ju n io r year.

J e f f says he was always interested in politics. A t M KA, he took an independent study in A P IEuropean history w ith D r. R obert Sinner an dA P /B .S . history a n d p o litical theory w ith G eoffrey Branigan. H e credits facu lty m em ber K aren N ew m an, Academy News advisor, fo r editing precision. Says G eoffrey B ranigan on his form er student’s achievem ent, “This is why w e’re here. ”

Elsewhere: Melanie Carroll writes from Vail that she has enjoyed living and traveling throughout ColoradojilfJtah, and Arizona for a year and a half, but is looking forward to academia and law school at American University.

Way west, Ingrid Ramos is living in Los Angeles and working for J. Walter Thompson on Wilshire Blvd.

I am excited to report that I will be leaving Prep for Prep (after three years service) to begin a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Penn State U. In my free time, I am still singing, and I auditioned for and joined the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Jubilation Choir. The choir is committed to performing AfricanAmerican sacred music (gospel, spirituals, hymns); we have performed with evangelist Shirley Caesar and hip-hop’s Queen Latifah.

In June we opened a performance at the hall for classic soul singer Isaac Hayes. Very exciting indeed! E nrique

93 Ms. R enee M onteyne 10 Lookout P oin t T rail Totowa Borough N J 0 7512 M r. B rian W echt 9 4 5 0 G ilm an D rive, UCSD # 92092 L a Jo lla CA 9 2 0 9 2 Class agent: Ms. Lisa Gittlem an 8 8 Fairview Ave., Verona N J 0 7 0 4 4 Laura Caprario graduated with an M .S. in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health and will enter Georgetown University School o f Medicine.

Brian W echt is working bn a Ph.D. in physics at U. California, San Diego.

Jason Barr is a sports anchor for a television station in South Carolina. “Sorry I missed the reunion. I heard from Michael Castine that it was a great time.”

Daniel Lieb is an advanced business process engineer for Altera Corporation in San Jose, Calif., heart o f Silicon Valley. Dan is in training for some 200-mile (“some day”) bike rides and triathlons.

Charlotte Ostberg is working as a teacher in Cambridge, Mass. She received her master’s last year and says, “I love teaching!”

Vince O’H ara is volunteering through World Teach at Bleks Institute, Windhoek, Namibia in Africa. Vince appealed to M KA for school Supplies for the children, and the campuses responded magnificently. [See article in Notes Around MKA.] Vince was very interested in how the MKA lacrosse team did this year [they were State Prep B champions].

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Class agent: M r. Joh n S a ro ff 6 7 E agle Rock Way, M ontclair N J 07042Reunion chairm en: Ms. Kristen D rukker Ms. J i ll F in kle 1438 3 rd Street, Apt. 2 2 B N ew York N Y 10028 John Saroff, who received a prestigious Watson Fellowship, spent the year traveling through the United Kingdom and South Africa studying the cultural, racial, and gender influences o f Scotland and South Africa on the sport o f golf. “An incredible intellectual and social experience,” he reports.

Peter Barrett and Jon Kidde are working at Freemont High, a school for Native American kids, in Lander, Wyoming. They are teaching and - could have been predicted - leading a wilderness program.

Lissa Bollettino, who graduated from Brown U. with a degree in modern European history (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, honor’s thesis), joined Teach for America and is teaching ninth and tenth graders civics and world history in New Orleans, at Marion Abramson Senior High School.

Egan Davson is working on a master’s at Seton Hall.

Emily Ehrenberg, who graduated from Tufts U. with a B.A. in child development, is working on a master’s in speech and language pathology at Emerson College, Boston.

Jeff Kessler graduated from Willamette U. with a major in history. Teach for America assigned him to a 5 th and 6th grade class o f Mexican children in the foothills o f Pasadena, Calif. He is an avid rock climber.

Leanne Gattie graduated cum laude from Bucknell U. with a major in économies. She is an analyst with Andersen Consulting in Florham Park.

Elizabeth Osur, who earned a B.A. in economics from Johns Hopkins U ., is a research associate with D u ff & Phelps Credit Rating Co., NYC. Daniel Urband earned a B.S. in geography from Montana State U. and is working with Karst Stage construction company in Bozeman, Mont.

W e’ll catch up with everyone else at reunion!

Egan D avson ’9 4 an d brother A lan ’9 9 a t Comm encem ent.

95 Ms. R ita P apaleo 31 Fem w ood Terrace, N utley N J 07110 rep968@ nw u. edu Ms. Shan-Shan Yam Box 1481 SRU, 10 0 O chre P oin t Ave. N ew port R I 0 2840 Class agent: M r. A dam Schräger 121 Christopher St., M ontclair N J 0 7 042

Jill Finkle ’94 won the 1999 Finkle Family Easter Egg Dying Contest, as judged by neighbors. Jill dyed her egg gray and added a wire “tail,” thus turning it into a computer mouse, which she placed on her M KA mouse pad.

Congratulati<|äs to those members o f MKA ’95 who graduated from college this year.

News o f a few, from newspaper clippings, proud parents and siblings:. » Jen Goldman will attend Columbia Teachers College in the fall.

Marcy Shapiro will attend New York Uni­ versity for a master’s in social work (M .S.W .). liana Safer graduated cum laude from Duke U. and will attend law school at Georgetown U. this fall.

Joanne Berman received a B.A. in art history from Smith College.

Glenn-John Jeffers received a B.S. from Northwestern U., where he was a reporter and columnist for The D aily N orthwestern.

Charles Kaplan graduated with a degree in psychology from Wesleyan U., and earned his fourth varsity letter in baseball. He collected 25 hits, including three doubles and three homp . runs. Over his four seasons, he played 99 games with 71 starts. Charles was also on the W ESU -FM radio broadcast team.

Kate McClear graduated from Fordham College with a B.A. in psychology and will start the graduate psychology program at Columbia U. in September. Kate is co-author o f the chapter “Oncology” that will appear in the medical textbook C lin ical Care o f the M edical P atient, to be published this fall. She lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and “eniovs' Jlllip the delights o f the city and continues to root for the Rangers.”

Her mother, Penny Finkle - an MKA Trustee - says, “You’re never too old to have fun or be excused from this contest.”

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Ms. Tanya B am es jkM elrose Place, M ontclair N J 0 7 0 f2 tbam es@ fas. harvard, edu

Ms. Rosemary M onteyne 10 Lookout P oin t T rail Totowa Borough N J 0 7512

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Ms. D ebbie H aight 11 5 D eW ittA ve., B elleville N J 0 7109 d eh 2 7 @Columbia, edu Class agent:

M r. Lee Vartan 5 4 H am ilton Ave., Kearny N J 0 7032 Kelli Kessler is majoring in pre-med at Colorado College, minoring in women’s studies. Kelli plays lacrosse and was nominated for regional All-American, m ’m having the time o f my life studying in Parifif writes Nicole Kamine, who learned that she was one o f 15 juniors from Georgetown elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Jeremy Kidde also studied abroad his junior year, at the London School o f Economics. He attends Colby College.

Congratulations to Erica Hirsch, who was elected president o f the senior class|l| Ohio Wesleyan U. She is majoring in politics and government.

B rother a n d the sisters: Alison P latt 9 9 (right), w ith E lliot (seventh grade), Jen n ifer 9 ffljan d Stephanie, a freshm an. Alison an d Jen n ifer both serve as class secretaries fo r their respective classes.

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Ms. Gem m a G iantom asi 5 Kensington PL, R oseland N J 0 7068 Class agents: G em m a Giantom asi, M ichael H alchak, O mni Kitts, A ngela M ulligan, Lauren Moses, M ichael N apolitano, Bobby N du, A lena W eller From the M ontclair Times: Karson St. John and Christine Paschal were named recipients o f the 1998 Junior League o f MontclairNewark Community Service Volunteer Award in recognition o f their outstanding community service and dedication to volunteerism.

R anjeev K rishana 9 1 an d sister Priya 99.

B rother Sanjeev 9 6 also atten ded M KA, but was not present a t graduation.

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Ms. A lison P latt 9 0 4 Pom pton A ve., C edar Grove N J 0 7 009 Class agent: M r. A lex H olz 9 9 2 Valley Road, Fran klin L akes N J 0 7 4 1 7 Welcome, Class o f ’99, to your own Class Notes column!

Marriages

Brothers an d the sister: Shauna W reschner ’9 6, H arrison 9 9 , an d brother Jam es, in sixth grade.

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Ms. Jen n ifer P latt 4 3 Brookside Terr., N orth C aldw ell N J 0 7 0 0 6 Class secretary an d agent': Ms. Jen n ifer F in k 1 5 4 Upper M ountain A ve., M ontclair N J 0 7 042 “Just wanted to let classmates know that MKA bonds are strong,” writes Jennifer Fink.

Gemma Giantomasi ’98 and I are sorority sisters at Penn and she is my ‘litde sister’!”' r Tim Howard, “X ” o f the class, is star goalie for the MetroStars. He was seen on ESPN in June.

1-936 Elizabeth Van W ie Penick and Herman Schmitz 1972 Robert Newman and Erica Heller 1978 John Butler and Kimberly Stewart ly81 Lisa Giordano and Nicholas Apollo iy 8 3 Nancy Cambria and Jeremy Kohler ly 8 4 Natalie Klufas and Frederick Mueller ill 1985 Susan Ciccone and Matthew O ’Donnell 1986 Kelly Iverson and Matthew Sellers 1988 Alec Schwartz and Joyce S. McNeill 1990, 1990 Fay O ’Neill and Bryan Lonsinger 1991 Sadhvi Sahu and Amit Khanna 1992 David Aronow and Sarah Baker 1992 Adam Ertel and Jennifer Slumpif iyy2 l ami Safer and Monte Kadtar 1992 Marni Schinman and John Bedow

September 3, 1997 June 1999 August 1, 1998 September 25, 1998 June 1999 * April 17, 1999 April 24, 1998 June 5, 1999 May 15, 1999 May 8, 1999 May 14, 1999 August 1998 July 12, 1998 May 29, 1999 March 4, 1999

In Memoriam 1917 Priscilla Mitchel Meek 1926 Elizabeth Spadone Manning V>Mm Teresa Darius Hayes 1929 Jeanne Price Goodlatte 1930x Dorothy Spalding Swann 1935'*'Jessica Roberts Gilmour 1935 Helen Strong Oechler 1936 John W . Little 1937 Frances C. Montgomery 1938 Blanche Geer 1940 Charles F oster 195.3c. Anne Shields Brayman 1 9 5 « Henry Hooton

June 6, 1999 December 1 ^ 19 9 ^ H February 27, 1999 June 3, 1999 1998 March 30, 1999 April 24, 1997 March 20, 1999 July 8, 1999 1996 December 23, 19 9 ^ S May 6, 1999 1997

Faculty, Former Faculty, and Trustees

Betty Logan Frederick Schwartz

March 24, 1999 May 1, 1999

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MKA 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. W e particularly need advisors in financial areas such as banking and technology, and summer internships.

W e also have requests for advisors in major cities, such as Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D .C. Bank o f Community Resources - Share expertise with students in the classroom on all three campuses, be it hobby or profession. All fields are welcome, especially technology.

Can be done through distance learning. This year MKA classrooms were enhanced by the expertise o f more than 5 0 talented people who volunteered through the Bank.

Call Marnie McNany at Career Services, 973/746-9800, or contact us through the M KA W eb site www. m ontclairkim berley. org 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 is 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 N J 07042

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 o f every yearbook published except 1902. W e also need an extra copy o f the following: Kim berU aves 1946, 1951, 1954, 1955.

Dates to Remember

E-mail October 16 November 8-12 November 25

MKA alumni can contact each other via e-mail - i f they have registered fo r the class list on the W eb site. Go to the site - w w w .m ontclairkim berley.org- and under “Alumni,” find the e-mail registry for your class. (The Alumni Office may have an alum’s e-mail address from a questionnaire, but will not publish it unless so requested.)

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January 21 February March 8 April 27 May 6

Letters to the Editor M KA and the Review welcome questions and comments from readers. W e publish selected letters in a letters page, MKA-mail. W hat do you think? Please send your thoughts to the M KA Review, Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair N J 07042.

H O M EC O M IN G/REUNION S 1999 Alumni Phonathon Thanksgiving Day G a m e » . Newark Academy Home on Van Brunt Field A Night W ith the Devils Winter Musical Career Day Senior Breakfast Athletic Hall o f Fam e.

Alumni Social

Florida, Here W e Come Headmaster Peter Greer will host alumni receptions in Florida on both East and W est coasts this winter, February 4-6. I f you will be there, we’d love to see you! Pleäse call, write, or e-mail the Alumni Office so we can send you an invitation. (973/746-9800) MKA Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair N J 07042 caustin @ m ka.pvt.kl2.n j.us

New MKA Web site MKA has a new Web site. Tune in for admissions, alum ni, calendar, history, sports inform ation: www.m ontclairkim berley. org

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2000 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD NOMINATION FORM N O M IN EE ______________________________________________ CLASS A C H IEV EM EN TS_______________________________________________________________

(Please include additional information or resume on a separate sheet.)

Submitted by: NAME___________________________________________ CLASS_______ A D D RESS______________________________________________________

TE LE PH O N E _____________________________________________________ Detach and mail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, N J 07042

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD CRITERIA T o all alumni, parents, trustees, faculty, staff and friends o f The Montclair Kimberley Academy: The Distinguished Alumni Award Committee is hereby accepting nominations for the recipient o f the 2000 Distinguished Alumni Award.

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

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

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

You may nominate more than one alumna/alumnus.

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

NOMINATION FORM FOR MKA ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME N O M IN EE ______________________________________________ C L A SS____________________ SPO R T S_____________________________________________________________________________ A C H IEV EM EN TS____________________________________________________________________

(Please include additional information or resume on a separate sheet.)

Submitted by: NAME

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ADDRESS, Swim Team 1918.

TE LE PH O N E _____________________________________________________________________ Detach and mail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, N J 07042 MKA A TH LETIC HALL O F FAME AWARDS CRITERIA The Montclair Kimberley Academy Athletic Hall o f Fame was founded to honor those wfp'have made telling contributions to the school’s athletics. Its purpose is to perpetuate the memory o f those persons who have brought d istin «o n , honor, and excellence to Montclair Academy, The Kimberley School, The Brookside School, and M KA in athletics.

1. Nominee must have been an outstanding varsity athlete, coach, Athletic Director, trainer, or major contributor (financial and/or participant) at MA, TK S, Brookside, or M KA and/or brought distinction to the school through related and subsequent athletic accomplishments.

2. Student nominees must have attended MA, TK S, Brookside, or M KA for at least two years, and have graduated from MA, TK S, Brookside, or MKA. Student nominees must have graduated at least five years prior to the year o f nomination.

3. Nominee must have conducted his or her life in keeping with school standards and in ways which reflect positively on MKA. 4. The nomination can be a posthumous award.

5. Nominees may nominate themselves, be nominated by alumni or others.

6. Each year, a minimum o f one qualified male and one qualified female will be selected. Nominations will be kept on file for subsequent years’ review.

7. A team may be inducted.

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The M ontclair Kimberley Academy’s New Gymnasium The Tradition o f Giving Continues Joh n E. G arippa, President o f the B oard o f Trustees, gave this speech a t the D edication o f the M KA Gymnasium on A p ril 18, 1999.

Today is a special day in the life o f The Montclair Kimberley Academy. Today we reflect back on the accomplishments o f the past several years as we honor those who have made special contributions to this school. This gymnasium, which is being dedicated today, represents just one part o f a total commitment to the continued growth o f our school. In order to properly understand what this gymnasium means to our school and its overall place in our latest capital campaign, it is important to look back at the history o f MKA and to see the sacrifices that others have made in order for this school to survive and grow.

John George MacVicar came to Montclair in 1887 with a mission to educate young men.

In that first year, he paid $400 for a one-room schoolhouse and rented an acre o f land on Clinton Avenue in Montclair. Thereafter, he moved that building to that land and divided that single room into two classrooms. At 8:45 on September 18, 1887, 18 boys converged on the building and Montclair Academy was born.

One year later, he realized he needed more room. In order to save expenses, he walked over three miles to an architect in East Orange who would design a new building for the school. In order to save labor costs, he laid the building foundation with his own hand. There­ after, in 1891, he built a gymnasium that lasted over 60 years and helped to educate three generations o f boys.

While this was going on at Montclair Academy, Mary Kimberley Waring came to Montclair and began what became the Kimberley School in 1906. Several generations o f young women were educated at Kimberley with distinction.

From 1960 on, the Kimberley School and Montclair Academy made significant changes in their respective campuses in order to be equipped for modern times. Forlorn, dilapidated Montclair Academy was up against it in 1960. The headmaster pointedly stated to trustees that “I f we don’t rebuild, we must shut down.” A study was made by the long-range committee o f the Board o f Trustees at that time to see if the school should relocate from Montclair. Happily, they decided that their mission was to remain in Montclair.

A significant plan was formed to build a new campus on Lloyd Road. N ot surprisingly, neighbors contested the idea o f a school at that location. Despite the fact that the town approved the building o f the school, the neighbors contested the building on the property. It took two years for this battle to be decided by the New Jersey Supreme Court.

W hile the Upper School building was being constructed, Howard Van Vleck, an alumnus, trustee, and prime mover o f Montclair Academy - displaying his usual dedication to the school - visited various stone quarries in Pennsylvania in order to hand-pick the perfect type o f stone befitting this school.

W hen one reflects on the sacrifices others have made for this school to be here today, you should contemplate this: between 1960 and 1965, approximately $5 million was raised by the trustees and parents o f Montclair Academy students for the Lloyd Road campus to be built.

At one point during the fundraising process, things stalled - as they generally do. This is when you find out the price o f leadership. At that point, only $700,000 had been raised, and it was not clear whether the Board would be able to raise the millions o f dollars needed.

In the middle o f a Board meeting, two trustees excused themselves, went out in the hall and came back and announced that they would each give six-figure gifts! The plan was saved, the money was raised, and the school was built.

At the same time, the Kimberley School was also actively raising funds to modernize the school. During the late Sixties, $2 million was raised for the Penick Center, new classrooms, and the dining room.

W hy have I felt it necessary to revisit the history o f this school? Because it is imperative to remember that we, today, are the beneficiaries o f the sacrifices o f past generations. This is one o f the very special elements o f independent education. W e sit here today in schools that have been paid for by others without sagging us with debt. W hen we decided that we had to improve and renovate the swimming pool by spending several hundred thousand dollars, we as a Board agreed that it would be a disgrace if we could not even take care o f what others had sacrificed to give us. This is really the lesson o f the past, and why those o f us here today have

worked so hard to improve this school.

This gym would not have been built without the leadership o f the Board o f Trustees. Just as in the past, when Board members took it upon themselves to see that the school moved forward, so also did this Board take the step of leadership.We started four years ago recognizing that we would remain in Montclair and continue the mission o f this school in this town.

W e focused first on technology, recognizing that for our children to get a world-class education, they would need the tools o f today.

W e raised over $ 1 million, which allowed us to wire and connect all three campuses, and to put in a distance learning center that is the envy o f many small colleges. W e then looked at improving and renovating certain science labs, the swimming pool, and a general three-campus upgrade.

At the same time, we recognized that the key to a great school is a great faculty. Recognizing this component, we raised $700,000 for faculty compensation and development, $350,000 for scholarship endowment, and $1.3 million for general endowment.

M ost recendy, you see here the result o f our hard work culminating with the gym. From the time that we received township approval to build this gym, in just over a 12-month period, we raised $1.5 million. Overall, in the past four years, we have raised over $5.3 million for our capital campaign while at the same time raising $2.4 million for annual giving.

Yes, we know that when we give, we benefit our children. But just as important, we pay back those who have sacrificed for us in providing this great school. M y earnest hope is that 50 years from today, speeches will be made whereby others will speak glowingly o f our sacrifices and dedication. Let us never forget the lessons o f the past. May this spirit o f remembrance and generosity continue to guide us and help to propel The Montclair Kimberley Academy into the next century.

I f you w ould like inform ation abou t the C apital Cam paign or P lann ed G ifts to M KA, please ivrite the M KA O ffice o f E xternal A ffairs, 20 1 Valley Road, M ontclair N J 07042. I f you prefer, telephone Ju d y Polonofiky, D irector o f E xternal A ffairs, a t 9 7 3 -7 4 6 -9 8 0 0 .

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