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C over MKA seniors at Clogher Head near Ballyferriter and Dunquin, Ireland, looking west over the Atlantic Ocean during May Term (in digitally rendered watercolor photo).
C ontents From the Headmaster....................... 1 MKA Mail..........................................2 The Blue Ribbon School.................. 3 Trustees - New Board, Farewells . . . 4 May Term ..........................................6 Notes Around M K A ....................... 10 Cougar Sports..................................17 Athletic Hall of Fame V...................19 Distinguished Alumni Award..........20 From the Alumni Association . . . . 21 The Newest Alumni.........................22 Career Day 2000............................. 24 Class Notes......................................25
R eview E ditors Christie Austin Judy Polonofsky
C ontributors ^ Debbie Kozak Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ‘76
P hoto C redits Christie Austin Kate Brambilla ’00 Philip Cantor David Hollander Dan Katz ' Debbie Kozak PXaurie Hoonhout McFeeley ‘76 ’ William Stites J.C. Svec
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The MKA Alumni Association is an organization of all men and women who hayc attended the Upper School: Its purpose is to make known to MKA the ideas, interests; and concerns-of alumni and to inform aluinni of the accomplishments and objectives of MKA.
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The Alumni Council is the! governing Board; a representative grpup elected at the Association’s annual meeting to sponsor events and activities linking alumni with their alma mater.
Linda D. Almeida Lori Windolf Crispo ‘78 George W. Egan **%.J. (Penny) Finkle Michael P. Frasco John E. Garippa Peter R. Greer, Headmaster ■ Alice M^flirshj ;; Vice-President Michael V. Johnson Peter S, McMullen ‘77J. Clarence Morrison, Secretary Anne E. Muenster / Kevin G. Quinn Marisabel R. Raymond f Michael L. Rodburg, Treasurer Rudolph G. Schlobohm ‘74 Newton B. Schott, Jr., President Jolinda D. Smith, VicefEresident Robert L. Toftoriello David L. Turock Denise G. Wagner &
A lumni A ssociation C ouncil
2000-2001 Lisa S. Aufzien ‘76. Toby Bizub ‘83 Lindsay Bravennan ‘Ol/'/J Robert Cottingham Jr. ‘84 Erin Cuffe Crawford *?4 Lori Windolf Crispo ‘78, President Ralph DeLouis ‘02 Lawrence P. Duca ‘79 Crystal A. Elliott ‘88 Holly Jervis Felber ‘83 Susan Cole Furlong ‘78, Vice President Richard G. Jenkins ‘77 Alex Joerger ‘96 India Hayes Larrier ‘80 Dara Marmon ‘90*1! Mark D. McGowan ‘85 Eric F.S. Pai ‘79 Joshua H. Raymond,¡¿59, Secretary Andrew D. Rod ‘79 Sabino T. Rodano ‘87, Treasurer Scott Rumana ‘83 Alec P. Schwartz ‘88 Patricia Shean Worthington ‘74, Executive Vice President 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
MKA is 25 ^ T h e Montclair Kimberley Academy was formed in 1974 by the merger of Montclair Academy, founded in 1887, and The Kimberley School (1908). i Brookside School, founded in 1926, became part o f “the Academy” in the 1940s. The 1974-75 school year was the first year of MKA, thus we are celebrating the 25th year of the merger.
Martha Bonsai Day ‘74 Peter S. McMullen ‘77 Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ‘83 J. Dean Paolucci ‘73
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H onorary T rustees Aubin Zabriskie Ames ‘54 Susan H. Ruddick James S. Vandermade ‘35
A dvisory T rustees Edwin J. Delattre Keith D. Phillips Barry W;Ridings ‘70 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 Friends of MKA, This issue flies in the face of what is commonly known as “senioritis.” This view posits that at the end of the senior year, few students can be attracted by strong academics and few are willing to engage in rigorous academic study. MKA believes that whether it is at the time of an upcoming vacation, at the end of a semester or a year, or even during the summer (our virtual summer classroom has seventy participants this year), every minute lost with academics can never be recovered. This Review features an almost invisible and important feature of an MKA education, an education recognized everywhere. I am talking about the May Term for seniors. I know quite a bit about that academic month at the end of the senior year because I was both a student and a faculty member who participated this year. As a student, I was one of seven faculty members under the theatrical direction of senior Kate Brambilla. Her complicated task was to direct us in an English farce, “Egad, What a Cad!” (I was not the cad!) I was the stately and enormously wealthy Augustus Greystone that you see in the photo inset. Kate was patient, kind, tolerant, talented, and purposeful. At the far-toomany rehearsals and at the final production, my six colleagues were supportive and skilled actors and actresses. I was out of my league. The large audience of students, parents, and worried faculty and staff were bowled over by the results of Kate’s hard work and direction.
Dr. Peter Greer as Augustus Greystone in the May Term pmdmnon of “Egad! What a Cad!”
As a faculty member, I taught a May Term course to seniors called “Facing Stress and Leisure Tests in College.” We engaged in readings, including Aristotle, Plato, St. Augustine, C.S. Lewis, Pablo Neruda, and Simone Weil. We shared information via carefully researched reports, skits, and good discussions about the temptations and thickets our students would have to address as they entered college, including cults, credit card excess, preying professors, excessive studying or excessive partying, and safety in general. These two experiences, among all the other student experiences you will be reading about, provided me with what Rembrandt was depicting in his painting Aristotle - theoretical, practical, and productive wisdom. These experiences affirmed the student, faculty, and administrative efforts to provide a useful and challenging final month of the senior year, efforts that signal another advantage of attending MKA.
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With best wishes, Dr. Peter R. Greer Headmaster
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M K A M aü I was pleased that MKA had the sterling distinction of hosting J.K. Rowling. In truly generous fashion, MKA became a kind of magnet school for the occasion, drawing representatives from all the schools in the Montclair area.... In the greeting line at church last fall, a young lady of elementary school age ahead of me greeted Father Rafferty and asked him about the Harry Potter series. He spoke with her about the books at some length and encouraged her interest in reading. When I shook hands with him myself, I asked if what they had been talking about had anything to do with Beatrix Potter’s books. He said, “No relation at all: one’s an author and the other’s a character.” Subsequently I found that both my children and my students have been active readers of J.K. Rowling. Thank you for the prose portrait of her that you sent us. It was also nice to hear that Mr. Brogan and his family are doing well. Florida is the wealthier for his being there. Byron Noone ’62 The article on Anne Winner ’54 [in the spring Review] is fabulous and also all of the articles about HARRY POTTER. What a treat to have had Ms. Rowling there at the school! I am impressed! Georgia Carrington ’54 I’ve just heard Ruby Bridges on C-span, speaking with children, and I am so glad Dr. Greer has felt it important to have her visit MKA regularly in recent years. I remember hearing Robert Coles (at a meeting we all attended in NYC) speak about meeting her when she was enduring that first grade experience, and how impressed he’d been, and about the drawings he had her make to try to express her feelings. Leigh Berrien Smith ’45, former Brookside faculty member
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As a community building project, fifth graders made May baskets o f flowers and treats, which they distributed to nearby neighbors and the Van Dyk nursing home. They received this note with cookies: To Our Special Friends at MKA: Just a little thank you for the lovely surprise I found hanging on my door. I just love receiving them every May. It is such a special thing for you little sweethearts to do. Thank you again. Your neighbor on Belleaire Drive It was a privilege to watch Craig Fleischman break the boys’ lacrosse alltime New Jersey scoring title on May 23rd. We know that Craig’s achievement will be a great inspiration to the MKA family of students, parents and alumni, [and] will kindle our spirits to achieve individual success. Craig’s dedication to the team and his leadership on the lacrosse field gives meaning to “Cougar Pride.” His scoring title is a symbol of the success so many MKA students have already, and will in the future, achieve in the classroom and on the athletic field. Terry L. Shapiro, MKA parent [Ed. note: Craig Fleischman was subsequently named to the All-American Lacrosse Team.] To Lacrosse Coach Noll Klank: Congratulations on [last year’s] State Prep B Championship and your selection as NJILL Coach of the Year. There was no lacrosse team when I entered the Academy (1973), but several of us were able to get started in the spring of 1974. Mike Martin ’74, the only senior, was influential in gaining the blessing of Carmen Mamell, AD at the time. We fielded only 13 players in our first year; we practiced at Brookdale Park and at the Kimberley campus - but only if we didn’t interfere with the girls’ lacrosse program. Several of our players had never played before; our first goalie,
Nick Eastman, played with his hockey goalie equipment, except for the stick, of course. We had several hockey players cross over to lax and we all had a pretty good time. We were allowed to use practice football team jerseys for uniforms, but other than that, everyone had to supply his own equipment. We never had a home game in our first year. That might have been a blessing in disguise as we lost every contest - but we did play hard and the team never gave up. We finally won a game in our second season. I don’t remember if we won more than one, I just remember that we did get that first victory. We had a great group of kids and coaches in those lean times. I am very happy to see that the program has continued and improved. I am sure that there are kids, coaches, and administrators who deserve thanks for keeping it alive over the past 26 years. Good luck and have some fun. John T. “Sean” Boyle ’75 I am the grandmother of one of your students and received a copy of the MKA Review. I am puzzled as to the meaning(s) of the letters that follow the Class Notes years, i.e., TKS and MA. Ed. reply: MKA is the merger o f Montclair Academy —founded in 1887 — and The Kimberley School -fo u n d ed in 1906. Brookside was founded in 1926 and became part o f Montclair Academy in the 1940s. Kimberley (TKS) merged with “the Academy” (MA) in 1974. The 1974-75 year was the first school year o f MKA, The Montclair Kimberley Academy, thus we are celebrating the 25th year o f the merger. The Class Notes reflect the schools and their eras.
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T h e Montclair Kimberley Academy Middle School has been named a National Blue Ribbon School for excellence in academic leadership, teacher development, and school curriculum. MKA is the only independent school in the nation to be so honored in 2000. This is MKA’s second blue ribbon: the Upper School received the designation in 1996. The Middle School was cited for its levels of parental and community involvement, high student achievement levels, and rigorous discipline and safety programs. The site visitor, indeed, said that in many sections of the application, the school underestimated itself. “Our philosophy, and what the site visitors saw and talked about, is the fact that we really try to meet the needs of every single child,” says Headmaster Peter Greer. He praised the faculty for their dedication and hard work. The U.S. Department of Education gave the Middle School an “exemplary” rating in five areas: school organization and culture, challenging standards and curriculum, leadership and educational vitality, indicators of success, and character education. The Middle School’s six-day rotation schedule, which includes time for meeting with clubs, was cited; so was the sports program for sixth and seventhgrade students, which includes a “no-cut” policy. MKA’s Core Works Program, which guarantees a strong liberal education through exposure to great literature and art in every grade, and ethics program were also noted. Faculty member Boni Luna chaired the self-evaluation and application committee, and Jean Myers synthesized the work and writing of 75 people into a 45-page document “that spoke with one coherent voice,” according to Daniel Rocha, Head of the Middle School. U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley, in announcing the Blue Ribbon award, said, “These schools are fine examples of places where parents, teachers, administrators, and the community have formed partnerships to help all students learn to high standards. Their hard work, dedication and commitment should serve as a model for other communities that are deeply concerned about the education of America’s students.”
Watch for additional Special Honors and photos of the MKA delegation’s trip to the White House in the next Review.
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From the Board of Trustees_____________________________
Newton B. Schott, Jr.
Linda D. Almeida
My final official assignment is to introduce new members of MKA’s Board of Tmstees and my successor, Newton B. Schott, Jr., as President. I know Newton will have the same full support of the Board and the entire MKA community that I have enjoyed these past six years. Newton is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for PIMCO Funds Distributors LLC, one of the largest investment management companies in the United States. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton and a Juris Doctorate from Columbia University. Newton and his wife, Toni LeQuireSchott, are the parents of two MKA alumni, Keith ’89 and April ‘98.
Welcome New Trustees________________________ Linda D. Almeida is an Adjunct Professor of Education at New York University. She received bachelor’y an d master’s degrees from Boston College and a Ph.D. from New York University. Linda is a member of the New York Irish History Roundtable. She has been active in MKA’s Parents’ Association and will serve as Communications Vice President this year. Linda and her husband, Edward, have three children at MKA: Cionna, grade 10; Devin, grade 8; and Eamon, grade 5. Michael V. Johnson is President and CEO of Exario Networks, a network service provider. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas and a master’s from Southern Methodist University. He served on MKA’s Finance Committee for two years. Michael and his wife, Mary, are the parents of four MKA students: Sarah, grade 7; Matthew, grade 5; William, grade 3; and Michael, Kindergarten. Kevin G. Quinn is consultant to Service Corporation International, a funeral service organization. He is a graduate of Villanova University. For the past two years, Kevin has served on MKA’s Buildings and Grounds Committee. He is a member of the New Jersey State Board of Mortuary Science and serves on the Board of Governors of the Rock Spring Club. Kevin and his wife, Jeanne, have five children at MKA: Kevin, grade 12;fl Patrick, Grade 10; Colleen, grade 8; Meghan, grade 6, and Katie, grade 3. Robert L. Tortoriello is a partner of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. He received a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from St. Peter’s College and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Robert is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He and his wife, Margaret, served as chairmen Page 4
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for the MKA Gift Club and New Parent Phonathon and also PAMKA Club Nights. They are the parents of three MKA students: Lauren, grade 11; Christopher, grade 9; and Kenneth, grade 3. Elected to the Board of Trustees to serve another term are parents Jolinda D. Smith, J. Clarence Morrison, Michael L. Rodburg, and David L. Turock. Marisabel R. Raymond, the newly elected President of PAMKA, will serve for two years representing parents on the Board. A Past President of the Junior League of MontclairNewark, Marisabel has chaired many committees. She has also served on the boards of the Mental Health Resource Center in Montclair, the AIDS Task Force, and Friends of Hospice, and is currently on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Chamber Music Society. Marisabel holds a Bachelor of Science from Boston State College and a master’s degree in education from Harvard University. She has taught special education in New York and Boston public schools and was on the faculty of Kean College in New Jersey and Antioch College in Massachusetts. She and her husband, Jerry, have two children at MKA: Abigail, grade 12; and Harry, grade 6. As President of the Alumni Association, Lori Windolf Crispo ‘78 represents alumni on the Board. Lori is Executive Vice President, Amateur Sports Division, with Bollinger Insurance. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College and did graduate work at Middlebury College. Lori is a member of the American College of Insurance ^Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Designation. Lori has been on the Alumni Council for the past nine years. She also has served as chairman of the MKA Founders’ Cup Committee since its inception. She and her husband, Alex, have two children.
Advisory Trustees____________________________ Newly elected Advisory Trustee Keith D. Phillips has served on the Board’s Finance Committee. He is a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch & Company. A graduate of Laurentian University in Canada, Keith received an MBA from the University of Chicago and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. He and his wife, Shelley, and children Derek, Katherine, and Mark are living in England for a short-term assignment. Elected to serve another year as Advisory Trustees are Dr. Edwin J. Delattre, Barry W. Ridings ’70, and Herbert H.
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Retirements_________________________________ The Board wishes to acknowledge with thanks the experience, dedication, and commitment to MKA of all the Trustees who are retiring this year. Paul G, Edwards was a member of the Board from 1994 to 2000 and Vice President for the last two years. He served on the Finance Committee, the Committee on Trustees, Executive Committee, and Buildings and Grounds, and was chairman of the Investment Sub-Committee. Linda T. Garippa joined the Board of Trustees in 1992 as President of PAMKA, and served two terms. She was Chairman of Development and served on the Committee on Trustees Executive Committee and the Educational Policy Committee. Linda and John headed a committee that raised $1 million for the renovation and addition to the Brookside Campus. Mary Ellen Gray served on the Board for the past two years as President of PAMKA. Her professional background was evident in her leadership of this active group and its enormous contributions to the school. Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ’83, outgoing President of the Alumni Association, served the Board for two years and the Alumni Council for ten. Linda and I now change our official relationship with our beloved MKA. Our son, John Scott, is a “lifer” and we are lifers and none of us intends now to ignore our strong ties with our favorite school. I will continue to serve on the Board of Trustees in a different, but no less-interested capacity. Shamelessly, I am pleased and proud of the giant steps MKA has taken on my watch, academically, athletically, financially and in property. Together with a great group of committed and generous Board members, parents, faculty, alumni, friends, and administrators, we have made it possible for future generations of students and Board members to thrive. This is what it is all about - understanding what those in the past have prepared for MKA and doing everything we can to enhance a great school for those who follow us. It has been a rare privilege to participate in this continuum of important and fulfilling effort. John Garippa
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John Garippa
Thanks______________________________________ During the years that John Garippa served as President of the Board of Trustees, The Montclair Kimberley Academy truly prospered. It was a period of national awards, increased enrollments, implementation of key portions of the Long-Range Plan, and increased financial improvement, including significant capital-raising. John’s leadership was instrumental in these efforts. John’s extraordinary years of service will be part of the “highlights” portion of any history of MKA. In addition to his leadership of the full Board, John was a significant contributor to the Finance, Development, and LongRange Planning committees and a moving force in connection with the building of the new Middle School gymnasium. He will be long remembered for his leadership, devotion, and efforts at harmony in meetings, endless school functions, and even around the piano, as he tried to make singers out of disparate collections of Trustees. His service will be long and fondly remembered. Newton B. Schott, Jr. The M ontclair Kimberley Academy Foundation Board of Trustees Officers 2000-2001 President - Newton B. Schott, Jr. Vice President - Alice M. Hirsh Vice President - Jolinda D. Smith Secretary - J. Clarence Morrison Treasurer - Michael L. Rodburg
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May Term Or, How to Spend Your Last Month as an MKA Senior --------------------------By Christie Austin ^Afhat I learned, cannot be taught in the classroom, but it is just as valuable May Term Journal T h is course will examine a broad spectrum o f Irish history and culture. We will look at selected topics spanning the ancient to modem periods. Through film, literature, and song we will attempt to develop a deeper understanding o f the foundations o f the modem Irish nation. In the field, students will travel to Ireland to visit museums, archives, heritage centers, and schools to work with leading professors and scholars in the fields o f famine and emigration studies. Students will be required to complete a portfolio/Intemet project in conjunction with the course. May Term Course Offering The traditional view of the indolent last months of high school has been shattered by The Montclair Kimberley Academy’s mind-expanding options for seniors. Entitled May Term, the MKA program encompasses a range of meaningful options. This year MKA seniors, among other things, interned at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, directed faculty in a melodrama, followed a doctor on her rounds, and visited a famine ship in Ireland.
Background______________ F o r many years, approximately 20 percent of the seniors were granted Senior Projects. These projects designed by the senior in conjunction with a faculty advisor and approved by a faculty committee - presented an opportunity for students to develop a skill, work as an intern, carry out an art project, etc. Another portion of the class participated in the Outdoor Program, which involved trips into the wilderness.
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- In short,” says David Flocco, Assistant Head of Campus, “for the last month of school approximately 35 percent of the senior class were out of the building pursuing an area of interest. What was left, in general, was a group of disgruntled seniors who weren’t accepted into one of the two projects and forced to remain in their academic classes until the beginning of June. Faculty and students alike felt the ramifications of trying to educate in an environment that wasn’t too conducive to learning.” In 1997, the faculty voted unanimously to release all seniors, upon successful completion of all academic obligations, to May Term. May Term, which has just completed its third successful year, consists of five options:
• Brookside Intern Program • College Seminar • Community Service • Outdoor Program • Senior Projects The process begins in February, when students receive an outline of the options and their guidelines. Students apply for their area of interest, stating their goals. Students wishing to pursue an independent Senior Project must complete a detailed proposal and be interviewed by a faculty review committee. The Brookside Intern Program and the Outdoor Program place students “in house” with younger MKA students. Interns work alongside a teacher at the Primary School. The traditional Outdoor Program was modified to incorporate a leadership component by having seniors guide the seventh graders on their “Project Expedition” trip.
College Seminar__________ C o lle g e Seminar is an opportunity for students to take mini-courses in a seminar-type atmosphere. Eleven course offerings included such challenges as Codes and Cryptology, Geology, French Film, The Psychology of Success, America in the 1960s, TV and Society, and Irish Studies. Fourteen students elected the Irish Studies program. For the first week, they studied the political, social,' ' economic, and religious forces that shaped Irish history and nineteenth century emigration. They also had computer training, as one of the requirements of the trip was to maintain a web page describing daily events. They learned to use digital and video cameras and to work with Photoshop. Then they embarked on a 15-day field program by traveling to Ireland. There the MICA group visited museums, archives, heritage centers, and schools, and met with leading scholars in the field. Their itinerary took them to such special places as the Ulster History Park and Centre for Irish Migration Studies, the Jeanie Johnston Famine Ship Project in Co. Kerry, and the Blasket Heritage Centre. They saw ruins and windmills and folk crafts; they went horseback riding in the hills of Dingle; they tried their hands at basket weaving, cooking over a peat moss fire, and pounding hot metal on an anvil. The MKA group also experienced other sobering aspects of history. They stayed in the Commodore Hotel in Cobh, the last port of call for the Titanic and refuge for those fortunate enough to have survived the attack on the Lusitania. On their last stop before entering Northern Ireland, they were warned not to talk to anyone about religion or politics, and to leave their backpacks on the bus. They
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tjonstâiun« passed by the actual site of a bomb blast in Omagh, still filled with rabble and indentation. “All of us felt a renewed appreciation for our homes, our families, and a deep sense of gratitude that we live our lives in a relatively safe environment,” says Char Charlton, Head of Campus at the Upper School, who accompanied part of the trip. Parents and fans at home kept up with the day-by day Irish itinerary via an MKA Intranet site. They could follow their route on a map, read the history of each place visited, view photos of the students at various locales, and read their reactions as they happened. (Students were divided into small groups responsible for particular sites.) One parent, upon seeing a picture of her daughter at the Dublin airport, sighed with relief. “They’ve arrived. This is going to be a great trip.” Later every participant received a CD of the journal and photos.
Community Service “We got so attached; I ’m never going to be able to leave those kidsJfl May Term Journal
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E ig h te e n seniors elected to devote at least 70 hours to a non-profit organization as their May Term experience. Choices included three local ; hospitals, a church in Newark, Planned ^ Parenthood, Babyland (sponsored by the Newark Community Center), Habitat for Humanity in Paterson, the Arts Council of Essex, and the Senior Citizens of Nutley. Many students had already been involved in volunteer work; others had an interest in medicine, or wanted to volunteer their time in a worthwhile way. A requirement of the project was a weekly report to the coordinator and a final report. “It was meaningful to me to read their journals,” says Denise Brown-Allen, Dean of Students and coordinator of the May Term community service project, “to see how excited the kids were, eager to share their week.” The journals ranged from daily diaries to brief profiles of every child in a day care center. (One student’s “cast of characters” included the bully, the whiner, the sharer, the observer.) The journals recorded small triumphs and many eye-opening observations. “I saw how not-for-profit organizations need to treat their volunteers,” wrote one student, “and the divisions set up in a workplace between genders.” While the men pounded nails, the girls stuffed envelopes or swept the floors. Another noted the hierarchy of clothes worn by hospital personnel.
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Dear Dr. Greer: During the month of May, it has been our privilege to have two MKA seniors, John Garippa and Christian Langbein, as interns in the Department of Medieval Art. They made a very important contribution to the work of this department, helping us to photograph and catalogue a group of illuminated choir book pages from the fifteenth century. Almost as important, they have been great ambassadors for MKA. John and Christian possess all the qualities that one could hope for in young men: intelligence, character, curiosity, wit, modesty in short, knowledge, vision, integrity. Dr. Barbara Drake Boehm, MKA Parent, Curator Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters The Metropolitan Museum o f Art
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The Art of Nature S in c e there is a sort of a Lone Ranger cachet to the independent spirit of Senior Projects, it was aptly cinematic when Whitney Brown rode off from graduation into the sunset on her horse. Whitney, a passionate animalphile and aspiring veterinarian, spent May Term visiting horses and cows, pigs and chickens, sheep and whatnot. When she wrote on her application, “For my Senior Project I would like to do an in-depth photographic study of animals, particularly animals that are not common in suburban New Jersey,” the faculty selection committee was dubious. We questioned both the artistic potential and the travel logistics involved. A single interview with Whitney convinced us that she had the skill, initiative, and devotion to distinguish herself in this personal quest. After spending hours on farms followed by even longer horns in the darkroom, Whitney displayed her work in the art gallery of the Upper School. The 15 prints in the show were noteworthy for the technical mastery of their development, but what was truly moving was the power of Whitney’s eye to create an emotional link in the viewer with the animals. The selection committee’s eyes were opened to just how extraordinary the ordinary can become in the hands of an enthusiast. George Berry, Faculty Coordinator
A volunteer at a retirement home observed, after a sad episode with senility, “I sometimes feel like I am working with small children.” Those who did work with children met inner city kids who lead a life very different from their own. “It was reflected in their vocabulary,” says one student. “B is for ‘bail’.” Another wrote, “These children are innocent victims. Their childhood has been robbed from them and they will be left to fend for themselves. I hope that my presence has had at least a minimal impact in their lives.” Most of the students’ insight was about the people they met. “We laughed a lot and it was nice to laugh with a stranger,” wrote one Habitat for Humanity volunteer. “I don’t think I’ll ever forget that conversation and how it made me think about my life and about other people.” “I was just amazed at the number o f things general practitioners do. I always wanted to be a physician, but in thinking about it, I mainly thought o f the educational aspects o f it; the years o f schooling, the amount o f information there is to learn. But now I see a different perspective. Not only do you have to stay knowledgeable about medicine, but you also have to be knowledgeable about people. It seemed just as important to be patient, respectful, personable, and compassionate toward patients as it was to cure their illnesses.” May Term Journal Summing up the community service projects, coordinator Brown-Alien says, “It was a valuable experience, even though perhaps not as expected. Each student was surprised by how much fun, meaningful, and life-changing this was. They weren’t just filling up 70 hours . H
Senior Projects_____________________ _________________ I n the Senior Project component of May Term, every proposal is independently conceived. They include “artistic” concepts, internships in law firms or architectural firms, as well as personal interests like computer programming or publishing one’s own student newspaper. After filling out an application form, prospects schedule an interview with the Senior Projects Committee (five teachers). According to George Berry, faculty coordinator, the students must explain in depth what they plan to do, give their time schedule, decide on a teacher who will be their advisor/monitor, and define in what tangible way they will share their project with the Upper School community. The committee discusses each proposal to evaluate strengths and weaknesses. “We grant proposals based on a student’s care in planning, ability to complete the project in the allotted time, originality of concept, and passion in presenting the idea to us,” says Berry. “The ones we deny tend to be because they are vaguely conceived, involve too many contingencies, or do not have a significant tangible return to the school.” “The title for the project proposed by John Garippa and Christian Langbein could be The Nature of Art,” Berry continues. “They were offered an internship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to work in the Department of Medieval Art digitally computerizing pictures, bibliographies, and inscriptions for many items in their collection. The only problem that the faculty selectors could see in granting this proposal was that every teacher would want to be advisor to the project in hopes of getting privileged visits to the inner sanctum of The Met. Among the fascinating and esoteric pieces John and Christian catalogued were choral manuscripts from the 15th century. They were taught to identify the Latin texts of the choir pages, which then made it possible to know which feast each hymn was used for and to reconstruct the original choir books.”
Aspiring veterinarian Whitney Brown at Commencement.
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Villain George Hrab, hero Chris Halloway-Sheldon, heroine Amy Bonnici, andfour other members o f the faculty brought down the house in the melodrama, “Egad, What a Cad!", directed by senior Kate Brambilla. Other students and members o f the faculty built sets and did lighting.
Reflections
S e n io r Kate Brambilla had enthusiastic school-wide cooperation in putting on a one-act melodrama/comedy, “Egad! What a Cad!” Every single member of the faculty and administration she approached said yes to being a member of the cast. Kate worked through the difficulties of coordinating rehearsals amidst seven busy schedules, and spent weekends finding costumes and building sets. Sophomores and juniors and faculty member J.C. Svec of the Fine & Performing Arts department “just pitched in,” she says. The play - performed the evening of the last day of school - revealed hidden faculty thespian talent and received wild applause from the appreciative audience. In all, 15 students did Senior Projects. The overall collection was stimulating and eclectic, says coordinator Berry, ranging from political activism to poetry, melodrama to courtroom drama. “For each it was the opportunity to personalize their final days in high school, and they did a stirring job.” In sum, May Term is the culmination of a graduate’s MKA experience. “It provides them with some of the freedom they will experience in the future, while still being under the jurisdiction of the school,” says David Flocco. “It fosters the importance of making wise choices. It is an educationally rigorous, rich, and diverse program that allows a student to pursue an area of particular interest. In the future, we are looking at the possibility of expanding May Term to include more foreign travel, environmental opportunities, and what we will refer to as City Term, a program designed to study about and visit historical landmarks and museums in New York City.”
John Garippa and Christian Langbein helped photograph and catalogue 15th century choir book pages at The Metropolitan Museum o fArt. They enjoyed it so much that they extended May Term until the end o f June, and Christian hopes to return during his holiday break.
The last few days of the journey found us on the remote coast of southwest 3 Ireland, the Dingle Peninsula. The students marveled at the ragged coastline, offshore islands, seaside mountains and quiet, friendly towns. This is one of the “gaeltaecht” area of Ireland, where locals still speak Gaelic (Irish) as their first language and the love of traditional Irish music is passionate.
One night in Dingle Town, a small fishing village, we wandered out to dinner and eventually searched out a pub and a “trad (music) siesun.” We found it at An Droisead Beag. It was here that a small group of musicians (including Eoin Duignan, one of the foremost Uilleann Pipes players in Ireland) was playing a magnificent set of traditional songs. The pub was packed with local as well as traveling music aficionados. After about an hour, our bus driver, guide, and friend Rory O’Connor suggested to senior Lauren Hooper - a very accomplished jazz singer - that she get up and sing. After a small conference among Lauren, Eion and the guitarist, they broke into an absolutely beautiful rendition of “Autumn Leaves.” I watched with pride and an enormous smile as Eion turned to his partner with a wink and a nod as if to say, “Wow, this Yank is great!” Lauren was given a rousing standing ovation. They asked her to please sing again - which led to an encore of “Summertime.” Another standing ovation was accompanied by our students proudly embracing Lauren and claiming her as our friend and fellow traveler. MKA Review • Fall 2000
Seniors on May Term guided seventh graders on their “Project Expedition" trip into the wilderness.
Walking back to Sheehy’s Bed and Breakfast, everyone was excited and abuzz, but Lauren was literally walking home via “cloud nine.” I can’t say how long it took her to come down, but I can certainly say that this was one of the most memorable and special moments of my life. As much as I would like to talk about how much the students got out of the museums, heritage centers, and universities, it is the beauty and warmth of the Dingle Peninsula, An Droisead Beag, our wonderful night in Dingle Town, and the camaraderie of friendship that will certainly be the most enduring memories. Geoffrey Branigan, Trip Leader
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At the 1999-2000 year’s final faculty meeting in June, John Garippa delivered his final words as President of the Board of Trustees, summarizing the achievements of the past several years, and thanking the faculty for their outstanding contributions to programs and the education of MKA students.
Dr. Peter Greer, Headmaster, presents a g ift to Dora Spencer, head o f M arriott Food Service, thanking her for 25 years o f devotion to MKA.
MKA bids farewell to the following faculty, who depart for the next stages of their careers: Jane Bean-Folkes, Gerald Boardman, Carol Collins, Philip Cox, Robert Edwards, Trudy Fraser, Annette Gadegbeku, Scott Kushner, George Mixon, Elena Rakova, Richard Reiter, Daniel Rocha, Tara Scotti, Michael Shrem, Madeline Till, and Violet Wetherell.
M ary Norman (Norime) Dickerson
New Jersey Math League results: MKA’s 7th grade team placed first in Essex County and 20th (of 259) in the state, in the top 8 percent. Paul Cuneo and Andrew Davis placed third in Essex County. The 8th grade team placed third in Essex County; Chris John and Chris Noroski placed fourth. At the Upper School, MKA placed fourth in Algebra I and first in Calculus in Essex County. Junior Louis Waldman won second place in Pre-Calculus; senior Jon Stone won second place in Calculus. • Aaron Feigenbaum ’00 received a 2000 Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship, a four-year merit award. Aaron is one of only 192 New Jersey graduating seniors to receive the award. He will attend Yale University. • Junior Kerry Bishe went to the national Speech and Debate ffiToumament in Portland, Oregon, in June. She qualified by placing third in the districts after placing second in the state in
Félicitations y Felicitaciones
From speech by Susan Reiter Normie came to MKA in 1982. At the Middle School, she taught math and computer, was an advisor, the bus maven, director of Talent Explosions and Extended Day, Assistant Head of Campus, and Head of Campus. She introduced manipulatives to the math department, wrote the handbook and discipline code, and brought the team concept to the Middle School. At the Upper School, she was director of Distance Learning, and became the computer coordinator and department chair, working to train teachers in Power Point and Word. Normie is a team player; to each of these jobs she brought her exceptionally creative problem-solving ability, her great intellect and her whole heart. Whether teaching fourth grade students to balance a checkbook, advising a distraught parent, or helping a colleague, Normie brings a quiet dignity to all of us.
MKA students had outstanding state and national results in the 2000 National French Contest.
The Headmaster is very proud to announce....
French 2A
The MKA Middle School was selected by the U.S. Department of Education as a National Blue Ribbon School. MKA also received the Special Emphasis Award in Character Education. [See separate article.]
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French 5AP Aaron Feigenbaum placed #1 in New Jersey, #4 in USA; Rebecca Leffler was #5 in NJ, #9 in USA. Jenny Glasser, Kate Wolf, and Fisola Fasehun placed in the state Top Ten.
French 4A Dan Ursu was #3 in NJ, #8 in USA. Bryan Bishe, Josh Berg, and Danielle Claudio were in the state Top Ten.
French 3A Celia Cohen - #1 in NJ, #4 in USA; Joe Geschlecht - #3 in NJ, #6 in USA; Quinn Leslie - #5 in NJ, #8 in USA. Kate Boardman, Tory O’Kane, Erin Culbreth, and Sarah Miller were in the state Top Ten.
Amy Klein - #3 in NJ, #7 in USA. Bonnie Gill and Monique Wolkoff placed in the state Top Ten. Four students received state Top Ten recognition in the National Spanish Examination: Spanish 3 Kerry Bishe; Spanish 2 - Nithya Nathan, Elizabeth Spragins, Jillian Ditinyak.
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Dramatic Interpretation, which is basically an 8-10 minute dramatic monologue. • Faculty member Barbara Winkfield was named an EdPress Fellow in a new program of the Association of Education Publishers. The program brings together publishers and teachers to ensure “an informed, articulate discussion of education issues in the media, local school boards, and community groups.” Barbara is one of ten national fellows. She was also nominated by a student for the Disney American Teacher Awards. • Randall Svane, MKA’s Music Director, was the subject of a lengthy profile in InterNos (Jan/Feb 2000), the newsletter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. It discusses his choral compositions, opera, and works for solo voice. It praises Svane’s “terrifically dramatic piece...with arching, grateful lines for the solo voices and great choral numbers integrated within the story line.”
Kathryn Auw, John Schroeder, and Sammy Lee attended the annual New Jersey Academy of Science competition for secondary students at Georgian Court College in Lakewood. All three students won grants-inaid for their projects, and Sammy won third place in his category, Behavioral Science. Sammy also received second place at the regional competition and second place from the Army. He will study science at Rutgers University. Kathryn and John did a joint project on cardiovascular health; they received a two-month research position working in a corporate or university lab in New Jersey this summer. Another MKA student, Alexander Dunham, received second place in the regional competition in the Water Conservation category, a second place from the Army, and a Life Science awardfrom the National Association of Biology teachers. All took MKA’s Introduction to Research in Science II course.
• Deborah Jennings, Upper School Academic Dean, a member of the 1999-2000 NJAIS Professional Development Committee, has been asked to serve another term.
• MKA’s Webmaster, William Stites, will serve a three-year term as an advisor with the New Jersey Educational Computing Cooperative. • Jan Peterson, assistant to the Director of Athletics, has been invited to be on the New Jersey State Strength & Conditioning Coaches Committee, which she calls “a great opportunity to network and be involved on a higher level.’w | • Sophomore Elana Bildner and freshman Precious Okungbowa won second place in the annual French poetry contest at William Paterson ^University in May. More than 60 New Jersey schools were represented.
“Lifetime " students - who attended MKA from kindergarten orfirst grade through senior year and their parents were honored by Dr. Greer at a special breakfast in June. Top row: Atif Siddiqui, John Martin, Bret Hirsh, John Garippa, and (partially hidden) Paul Gittleman Third row: Jessica Egan, Stephan Seabrook, Christopher Vtvino, William Malenzi Second row: Kimberly M. Smith, Laura Schrager, Stephen Digaetano, James Parke Front row: Douglas Green, Genna Gurkoff, Craig Fleishman, Ashley Griffin, and Dana Meranus Missingfrom photo: Tiffany Adams, Danielle McHenry, and Alarm McKnight
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• MKA sent boxes of books to the Bleks Foundation in Namibia, Africa, at the request of alumnus Vincent O’Hara ’93, who taught at the school last year. The Foundation wrote, “To the generous MKA community: We are all happy to see them [books] and everybody has a pleasure [sfc] to say thank you very much for the nice and wonderful books you sent us. Our library is full and well equipped.” Vince adds, “I thank you for helping in this important effort. It took a long time to come to this
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New Head of Campus, Middle School
point, when I can congratulate the MKA community for a job well done, but things go slowly when it comes to Africa... ‘Africa time.’ It’s rarely easy to get things done there, but it’s ALWAYS worth it!” • Members of the Earth Club collected 96 bikes and more than $800 to send to people in Panama during MKA’s fifth year helping with “Pedals for Progress.” • Marine biologist Sarah Lester, daughter of Middle School teacher Laura Lemaire, corresponded with fourth graders at MKA by e-mail while she was on the Saudi Arabian research ship Golden Shadow, owned by the royal family. Sarah discussed her dives into the Red Sea and studies of coral with the MKA students, who studied the area on maps and e-mailed questions. The “video guy” on board for filming underwater dives was so intrigued with this possibility to expand science education, that he filmed Sarah “conversing” with MKA fourth graders!
Randy Kleinman
Randy Kleinman, the new Head of Campus for the Middle School, comes to MKA with a wealth of independent school experience. He has served as acting head of the middle school at Brooklyn Friends School, a principal at York Preparatory School (N.Y.) for ten years, a learning disabilities specialist at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and as assistant director at the Winston Preparatory School (N.Y.). He is a frequent contributor to journals and workshops, specializing in study skills and inclusion. Kleinman earned a B.A. from State University of New York at Stony Brook, an M.A. from New York University, and certification from the Hunter College School Administration Program. He has also taken advanced coursework at Teachers College, Columbia University, in neuroscience and education. His depth of experience, ideas, and engaging personality impressed every one of the six interviewing panels, and he plunged right into life at MKA by taking a summer seminar in ethics. Kleinman replaces Daniel Rocha, who accepted a position as Headmaster at York Country Day School in Pennsylvania.
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Chris Noroski
• Eighth grader Chris Noroski had help with his science project from students in Brazil. Investigating the “Effect of the Coriolis Force on the drainage of water in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere,” Chris needed the means to replicate his experiments in the Southern Hemisphere. A former colleague of Headmaster Peter Greer helped locate a school in Sao Paulo whose middle school science department head was willing to cooperate and have two students conduct the same experiments. Students reported their findings via e-mail, and, though inconclusive, the effort demonstrated the unlimited potential of technology for education - and international cooperation. • A group of MKA students, faculty, and parent chaperones toured Italy in June as part of the Foreign Studies program. During their visit to St. Peter’s Square, Rome, they saw the Pope, whose “Popemobile” passed perhaps 20 feet away. Then they listened to the papal aide announce pilgrims from around the world, including a delegation from The Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey. [The scene has been verified on video.]
Mort Soule, a teacher ofLatin in Maine, presents Casey at Bat to Middle School students.
• MKA will host a children’s concert by Oscar Ravina’s Montclair Chamber Ensemble on March 4, 2001. The program will feature Tubby the Tuba, a well-known work much like Peter and the Wolf, which helps introduce orchestra to young children.
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Alumnus Dr. Bruce Guernsey ’62 returned, to his alma mater fo r two jam-packed days this spring. Guernsey, a national award-winning, distinguished professor at Eastern Illinois University, worked with Upper and Middle School students on creative writing and poetry.
Founders’ Cup 2000
“I wish these seventh graders were my students in college,” he said. “They are perceptive, sensitive, and funny, which is a sign o f their intelligence. I ’ve had an indelible experience here.” He found it ironic that he was departing the school to visit an old Montclair Academy classmate, one o f his “permanent friends.”
Showhouse English teacher and Italiaphile George Berry
The eighth Founders’ Cup to honor excellence in teaching was presented in June to George Berry, a highly regarded member of the faculty since the early 1980s.
Brookside second graders plant a garden at Brookwood Showhouse.
MKA students became part of the larger community this spring with participation in the Junior League of Montclair-Newark’s Brookwood Showhouse. Two juniors from the Upper School’s Photography II class, Laura Brown and Danielle Claudio, volunteered to take “before and after” photos of the 30-room mansion. They printed, matted, and framed black-and-white prints, which hung at the entrance to each room, showing visitors the extent of the renovations. Second graders from Brookside designed and planted a children’s garden for the showhouse, “Mr. McGregor’s Garden.” They also “planted” bunnies they had decorated among the rows and along the fence. This was an extension of their second grade experience, when every aspect of garden design, planning, planting, and harvesting is integrated into the curriculum.
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In presenting the award, Lori Windolf Crispo ’78, chairman of the awards committee and incoming President of the Alumni Association, said that Berry’s excellence, care, and academic rigor shone through his nominations, which came from alumni, students, parents, and colleagues over several years. Berry has taught all levels of English, coached golf and tennis, guided the Stylus literary magazine and Core Works Program, and been a mentor to scores of students. “He elevates his 10th grade subjects to a university level,” wrote one parent, “and brings his students up with him. He brings a level of teaching, care and concern for students that is far, far above what one might normally expect in high school ” • A student wrote, “Mr. Berry would invite his students to be his equals in discourse. His students, in turn, would almost always rise to the occasion. And with equality came responsibility....We were fortunate to have experienced this environment as freshmen, one which many students aren’t exposed to until they reach college.”
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Commencement Awards
E thel M . S purr Award
M arjoie W infield E aster Award
B ud M ekeel M emorial S cholarship
for cooperation, responsibility! service and citizenship
for sportsmanship, self-discipline and behind-the-scenes service
Tzipporah Kertesz
Lauren Hooper
Stephen Digaetano
for a worthy senior
for athletics and academic achievement
T he R obert C. H emmeter M emorial Award
Courtney Knowlton Duncan Currie
for intellectual curiosity, love of books and sports, and enthusiasm for living
Rudolph H. D eetjen Award
Francesca de la Torre
Cum Laude Class of 2000
Nip; M ■r l stfl .* m ì
C ommunity S ervice Award
for positive action which shows unselfish concern for the larger community beyond school
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PP1
Top row, L to R: Lauren Hooper, Deborah Katz, Tzipporah Kertesz, Stacy Levey, Anna Labowsky, Celia Figlewski, Sham Kennedy, Aaron Feigenbaum. Middle row: Jonathan Stone, AlexaAron, Courtney Knowlton, Jessica Egan, Duncan Currie, Rebecca Leffler. Front: Jordan Bleicher, Dana Meranus, Kate Wolf, Antonella Bollettino, Francesca de la Torre.
Alumna Martha Bonsai Day ’74 gave an inspiring address to members of the Class of 2000 during their induction into the Cum Laude Society in May. MKA Review • Fall 2000
Awards Night T he B arras P rize in E nglish
Aaron Feigenbaum M odern L anguage P rize in F rench
Aaron Feigenbaum Rebecca Leffler M odern L anguage P rize in Spanish
Deborah Katz M odern L anguage P rize in L atin
Tzipporah Kertesz T he N azarian M athematics Prize
Emmanuel Go Deborah Katz T he W illiam H. M iller S cience P rize
Anna Labowsky T he G.A. D ownsbrough S cience S cholarship
K lein Awards for A chievement in Athletics and Scholarship Grade 12:
Kevin Koenig Rachel Weary
Grade 11:
Jonathan Leifer Lauren Stefanchik
Grade 10:
Frank Herrmann Jeanne Lehmann
Grade 9:
Richard Cunningham Nicole Pugno
T he A l Staph Award
T he James D. T immons S cholarship
Jordan Bleicher Deborah Katz
T he Dartmouth Club Book Award
T he H istory P rize
Steven Jacobs ‘01
Bret Hirsh
T he Yale Secondary S chool B ook Award
Kimberly Marinella Smith
F ine and P erforming A rts P rizes
T he M ount H olyoke C ollege B ook Award
Jennifer Woschinko ‘01
T he R ensselaer P olytechnic Institute M edal
Louis Waldman ‘01 T he M ontclair S ociety of E ngineers Award
T he M arilyn Faden Award F or E xcellences T heatre A rts
Jonathan Stone
Acting: Aaron Feigenbaum and Lauren Hooper
Lilith Houseman ‘01 Grade 11:
Kathryn Auw Laura Brown Steven Jacobs Matthew Meisten Lauren Stefanchik
GradelO:
Elana Bildner Kerry Bishe Celia Cohen Abigail Kaboth Belle Koven
C r e a t iv it y A w a r d
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Grade 10: ary
Abigail Kaboth Sarah Miller
K . W a r in g S c h o l a r s
for
1999-2000 Grade 12:
Duncan Currie Tzipporah Kertesz Rebecca Leffler
Avery B arras D istinguished S cholars 1998-1999
for
Grade 12:
Aaron Feigenbaum Anna Labowsky
Grade 11:
Lauren Stefanchik Louis Waldman
Grade 10:
Dagmara Jastrzebska
Avery Barras D istinguished S cholar 1999-2000
for
Grade 12:
Aaron Feigenbaum
Fa c u l ty S c h o l a r A w ard
Lindsay Braverman ‘01 Talia Ortega John Garippa Hasani Sinclair
Kathryn Auw Laura Brown ¡Jared DeMatteis Margaret Dziadosz Steven Jacobs Matthew Meisten Dana Pisacane Jennifer Woschinko
H amilton B ook Award
T h e E l iz a b e t h O ’N e il F e a g l e y
H e a d m a s t e r ’s A w a r d
Grade 11:
T he Smith C ollege C lub B ook Award
Lauren Stefanchik ‘01
for
Jordan Bleicher Antonella Bollettino Duncan Currie Celia Figlewski Alison Haar Deborah Katz Tzipporah Kertesz
M
Duncan Currie
S cholars
Grade 12:
Steven Jacobs ‘01
Jonathan Leifer ‘01
Technical: Katherine Brambilla and Stephen Digaetano
K. W a r in g
Dusko Joldzic
T he M argaret J enkins O sborne S cience P rize
Bonnie Gill Amy Klein Rose McNeel Nithya Nathan Monique Wolkoff
1998-1999
Stephen Digaetano
Tzipporah Kertesz
Visual Arts: Ricki Leigh Jones Music-Vocal: Aaron Feigenbaum Music-Instrumental: John Philip Sousa Band Award: Christopher Vivino Louis Armstrong Jazz Award: Stephan Seabrook Communications: Katherine Brambilla and Stephen Digaetano Dance: Lauren Hooper
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H ealth and P hysical E ducation D epartment Prize
T he F rank “P oncho” B rogan ‘72 M emorial S cholarship
T he J ohn R abuse H istory Award
Grade 9:
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Chess
The Upper School team of Samara Noguera, Will Malenzi, Steve D’Amico, and Marvell St. Victor defeated the reigning national champions to reach thefinals of the Eastern Standard Time Division of the World School Internet Chess Championships.
T h e scene looked like something out of the movie Searching fo r Bobby Fischer. Two thousand young players stared at their chess boards in silence while anxious parents with walkie talkies paced in the corridors or tried sending brain waves from the windows above. “The playing was really tough,” says MKA fourth grader Michael Mastakas. “The games were long, really, really long.” After each game they wrote out their plays in a scorebook for the master to analyze. “I was afraid I’d lose every match and make a joke of myself,” says John Ciardy. “We were nervous. At the end, we were so psyched. They called our names and we were, almost, running there.”
“While at the tournament, the students formed a strong team bond that was reflected in their appreciation o f teammates’successes, positive encouragement after defeats, and in exemplary sportsmanship. The parent chaperones also developed a newly formed and valued bond. “Many o f us would be eager fo r more tournament chess at MKA. We were impressed by the effort made by each player as they strived toward the goal o f another win fo r the team.”
The Middle School chess team of Ryan Tepperman, Michael Mastakas, John Ciardi, and Sean Finn present trophies they won at the National Elementary School Chess Championship to Dr. Peter Greer.
The Middle School chess team of John Ciardi and Michael Mastakas (4th grade), Ryan Tepperman (5th), and Sean Finn (6th) traveled to Dallas, Texas, for four days in May to compete in the National Elementary School Chess Championships. Some 2000 students from all over the country in grades kindergarten-6 took part in the event. The MKA team played in the Championship section with 280 other students, and took 13th place overall. Sean Finn, one of the highest-rated players of his age in the country (and who reportedly “can almost beat the master”), received an individual trophy for placing in the top 20, and John Ciardi came in second among the unrated players. The Upper School chess team played by computer in the World School Chess Championship. The “world” is divided into six zones; the MKA team played in the Eastern Zone, comprising the east coast of North and South America. The MKA team of sophomores Marvell St. Victor and Samora Noguera, junior Steve D ’Amico, and senior Will Malenzi defeated the reigning national champions in the semifinals in what was reported to be “a tense and complicated ending” to advance to the final round. Chess has been offered as a club activity at both the Middle and Upper schools for two years. Coached by International Grand Master Gennady Zaichik and chess master Michael Khosdarkovsky, the MKA teams this year had national success. “It’s a thinking game,” says one young player, “a skill, not luck. This was a fun thing to do.”
Parent Pat Tepperman in letter to Headmaster Peter Greer
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Snorts Awards: 1999-2000 Cousar Athletic Awards and Honors C H O Colonial Hills Conference NJ1S= New Jersey Independent Schools NJTLL= New Jersey Interscholastic Lacrosse League
NJLCA= New Jersey Lacrosse Coaches Association SL= Star-Ledger
WINTER 1999-2000
SPRING 2000
BOYS’ BASKETBALL 10-13 Frank Herrmann ’02
BASEBALL 17-10 CHC Co-Division Champions Joseph Landolfi '00 Kristopher Rynshall '00 Frank Herrmann ’02 Laurence Canales ’03
Camel Drummond
’03
2nd Team All-Prep; 2nd Team Hills Div, CHC 2nd Team All-Prep; 2nd Team Hills Div, CHC
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL 20-3 Dr. Mark Boyea - • CHC Girls’ Basketball Coach of the Year • Parochial B Semifinalist j»CHC Hills Division Champion Michelle Latzoni HM All-Prep 2nd Team Hills Div., CHC ’00 2nd Team All-Prep; 1st Team Hills Div., CHC Yvonne Shirley ’00 Candice Watkins ’00 ; 1st Team All-Prep; CHC Co-Player of the Year; 1st Team Hills Div., CHC HM All-Prep; HM Hills Div., CHC Rachel Weary ’00 ICE HOCKEY 1-16-3 Douglas Green John Martin Jonathan Leifer Anthony Gray
’00 ’00 ’01 ’02
Captain Asst. Captain Asst. Captain 1st Team National C Division, NJIHL & SL
BOYS’SWIMMING 5-3 David Flocco - • State and County Coach of the Year, SL • Prep B Champions • Second Place NJSIAA Parochial B • Ranked #8 in the State bv Star Ledger John Garippa Co-Captain ’00 Kevin McCrann Co-Captain 1st Team All-County, 50 Fr, SL ’00 Alexander Materna 1st Team All-County, Relay, SL ’00 County Swimmer of the Year, SL; 1st Team All-County, Kevin Devine Jr. ‘01 100 Bk, SL; 3rd Team All-State Parochial, 100 Fly, SL 1st Team All-County, Relay, SL 3rd Team All-County, 100 Kevin Quinn ’01 Fr, SL Patrick Quinn 1st Team All-County, Relay, SL 2nd Team All-County, ’03 100 Fly, SL GIRLS’SWIMMING 8-2 Prep A Champions • NJSIAA Parochial B Champions • Essex County Champions Francesca de la Torre Co-Captain ’00 Co-Captain; 3rd Team All-County, 200 Fr, SL Courtney Knowlton ’00 1st Team All-State Parochial, 50 Fr, SL Essex County Caitlin Lehmann ’01 Swimmer of the Year, SL 1st Team All-County, 50 Fr, SL 1st Team All-State Parochial, 00IM, SL 2nd Team AllErin Stutz ’02 County, 200 IM, SL Kristin DiMeo 2nd Team All-County, 100 Bk, SL ’03 Carla Franciose 2nd Team All-County, 100 Fly, SL ’03 1st Team All-County, 100 Br, SL 2nd Team All-State Jenna Sakolsky ’03 Parochial, 100 Br, SL BOYS’FENCING 11-0 NJSIAA Foil Champions • NJSIAA Sabre Champions • District Foil Champions • Ranked #3 in State by Star Ledger Joseph Tobia 1st Team Foil All-State, SL ’00 Brian Bishe 3rd Team Foil All-State, SL ’01 Star Ledger Fencer of the Year 1st Team Sabre Jared DeMatteis ’01 All-State, SL GIRLS’FENCING 7-5 WRESTLING 3-11 Hasani Sinclair Andrew Murphy Jonathan Bruno
’00 ’01 ’02
Brian Picillo
’03
Coach’s Award; 1st Team 152 lbs, All-CHC MIP; HM 145 lbs, All-CHC 1st Team 140 lbs, All-CHC 3rd Team All-County 140 lbs, SL 2nd Team 112 lbs, All-CHC
2nd Team, Hills Div. CHC 1st Team, Hills Div. CHC 1st Team, Hills Div. CHC; 3rd Team All-County, SL HM, Hills Div. CHC
SOFTBALL 25-4-1 Parochial B State Champions • CHC Division Champions Vanessa Carmona 2nd Team Hills Div., CHC ’00 2nd Team ECCA; 1st Team Hills Div. CHC; 3rd Team AllParochial, SL Laura Schräger 2nd Team Hills Div., CHC; 2nd Team ECCA; 3rd Team ’00 All-County, SL Jessica Nelson 1st Team Hills Div., CHC 1st Team ECCA; 1st Team All’01 County, SL; 2nd Team All-Parochial, SL All-American Star-Ledger Player of the Year; 1st Team Lauren Stefanchik ’01 All-State, SL; 1st Team All-Parochial, SL; 1st Team AllCounty; 1st Team Hills Div., CHC; 1st Team ECCA Jennifer Woschinko HM Hills Div., CHC; HM ECCA ’01 Dana Beringhelli 1st Team Hills Div., CHC; 1st Team ECCA; 2nd Team ’02 All-County, SL Gianna Lopreato ’02* HM Hills Div., CHC Kristin Masino '03 HM Hills Div., CHC GOLF 9-8 Kevin Quinn
’01
Cary Eggleston GIRLS’LACROSSE Courtney Knowlton
’03
6-12 ’00
Kristen Pugno Katherine Klimczak Victoria O’Kane Lauren Sunshine Bonnie Gill Mallory Singer BOYS’LACROSSE Duncan Currie Craig Fleishman
Jed Gallagher Dusko Joldzic Atif Siddiqui Eric D’Oench
State Prep B Individual Champion; Captain; 1st Team Hills Div., CHC HMiMQsffliv. CHC
’00 ’02 '02 ’02 ’03 ’03
1st Team Stars Div. All-Conf., NJGLL 2nd Team Stars Div. All-Conf., NJGLL Defense Award HM Stars Div. All-Conf., NJGLL Coach’s Award Defense Award Most Improved Player
10-8 ’00 ’00
’00 ’00 ’00 ’01
2nd Team Waterman Div. NULL; HM B Div. NJ1LCA All-American Player of the Year, Waterman Div., NJILL; 1st Team Waterman Div., NJILL; 1st Team B Div., NJELCA; Quad-Captain; 2nd Team Attack, All-State, SL Quad-Captain Quad-Captain; HM Waterman Div. NJILL Quad-Captain 2nd Team Waterman Div. NJILL
BOYS’TENNIS 9-8 Joe Han- CHC Hills Division Coach of theYear Paul Erian ’00 2nd Team Hills Div. CHC Daniel Schwartz ’00 2nd Team Hills Div. CHC Whitney Mishler 2nd Team Hills Div. CHC ’01 Evan Sarti 2nd Team Hills Div. CHC ’01 2nd Team Hills Div. CHC Louis Waldman ’01 Joshua Weissglass ’01 2nd Team Hills Div. CHC Scott Simon ’02 2nd Team Hills Div. CHC GIRLS’ TRACK AND FIELD 5-4 Francesca de la Torre Captain ’00 Anna Labowsky Captain ’00 2nd Team All-County (3rd 400M); 3rd Team All-Prep Denise Sarkor ’03 BOYS’ TRACK AND FIELD .4-3 Douglas Wall '01 Parochial B State Champion 1500 M
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All-Americans Attackman Craig Fleishman ’00 has been named AllAmerican in Lacrosse. Craig is the Mew Jersey all-time leading scorer with a career of 152 goals and 133 assists (285 points). Craig broke an 11-year-old record with 3 goals, 4 assists in MKA’s 13-1 victory over East Brunswick on May 23. Junior Lauren Stefanchik has been named All-American in Softball for the second year in a row. She holds a national high school record of 159 steals. In 1998 she was the first freshman in the history of New Jersey high school softball to make first team All-State. Liza Boutsikaris ’99 was named All-American this year at Notre Dame. She fenced on the Irish varsity her freshman year. Last winter she was named Fencer of the Century by The Star-Ledger.
The Department of Athletics regrets that the following awards were omitted in the spring Review magazine. Kevin Koenig ’00 - Football - AllCounty ECFCA; 2nd Team All-County linebacker, SL; 3rd Team All-State, Parochial, linebacker, SL Alex Matema ’00 - Soccer - 3rd Team All-County, ECADA
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• The MKA Softball team received the third annual Harry Nowick Award from the New Jersey State Baseball Umpires Association as the team that best represents “the spirit of competition and exemplary sportsmanship.” The award was named after a NJSLAA tournament and Amateur Softball Association umpire known for his ability and integrity. • Former MKA faculty member/coach Peter Von Hoffman was named to The StarLedger’s Lacrosse Team of the Century • Hank Borowy ’36, who did a post-graduate year at Montclair Academy, was named to The Star-Ledger's Top 10 Baseball Players of the Century. He went on to pitch for the Yankees, and posted a 108-82 mark in 10 seasons. • The Senate of the State of New Jersey presented a Resolution to The Montclair Kimberley Academy 1999-2000 Girls’ Basketball Team in tribute to their meritorious achievements, competitive spirit, and sportsmanship. They commended Coach Dr. Mark Boyea for fostering the finest qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and team spirit. “His superlative abilities and dedicated efforts as a coach, mentor, and motivator of players have earned for [him] the respect and admiration of his peers in the world of sports.” • Thanks, Coach: Dr. Mark Boyea - CHC Girls’ Basketball Coach of the Year Elisa DeRochi - Essex County Field Hockey Coach of the Year David Flocco - State Girls’ Swimming Coach of the Year Joe Han - CHC Hills Division Tennis Coach of the Year • David Flocco is one of only two swim coaches in the nation to be asked to announce the Olympic trials in swimming in Indiana this August. Flocco announced his first U.S. Swimming National meet in Florida in 1996; he subsequently announced two U.S. Open meets, the 1998 Goodwill Games, and the Nationals again in 1999. He has extensive experience as a coach and director of swim camps.
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A new tradition at Brookside began on the last Wednesday of the year: Field Day. The result of a faculty goal to build community, the day was meticulously researched and planned by faculty member Ralph Pacifico. “Coach P” organized games which built on year-long phys ed skills, and then acted as chief ref and cheerleader. All grades were divided into two teams, Blues and Greens, and every child received a T-shirt proclaiming “Brookside Field Day 2000.” The Field Day finale was a whole-school picnic.
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M KA’s fifth induction cerem onies for the A thletic H all o f Fam e in M ay carried the hallm arks o f previous years: reunions o f family, friends, and fans; reunions o f form er players and their coaches; heartfelt speeches, laughter, and pulled heartstrings. K ristine H atzenbuhler O ’C onnor ’83, President o f the M K A A lum ni A ssociation, w elcom ed guests. Dr. M ark Boyea, D irector o f Athletics, was m aster o f cerem onies, and Dr. P eter Greer, H eadm aster, told o f the im portance o f athletics to the M K A community.
Athletic Hall of Fame V. Standing: Alexa Magna YannuzzM’87, tennis; Earl Perretti '74, wrestling and cycling; Mark McGowan ’ffljmwtball and golf. Front: David Jacobs ’40, football; India Hayes Larrier ’80, fencing. Missing from photo: Max Jones ’78, football and lacrosse.
Former Athletic Director Carmen Mamett, who was induc ted into thefirst Athletic Hall of Fame; inductee David Jacobs ’40; Craig Jacobs, '72, who acted as hisfather’s presenter; and Alphonse Iannuzzi, Jacobs’college lineman who came upfrom Florida to honor his friend.
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Inductees represented four different eras and seven different sports. Ironically, a resurgent sports injury prevented the attendance o f M ax Jones ’78, but he sent a m oving letter o f acceptance, w hich read, in part, M ontclair has provided the tools, brick, mortar, and outstanding guidance to build the fu tu re m em bers o f a healthy society... I an d m y brothers and sisters have been fo rtu n a te in that our parents understood that constant em otional support, only the m ost positive encouragement, and around-the-clock participation in our lives is the m ost im portant gift any parent can bring to the institutions o f fa m ily and education. It is w ith both hum ility and great honor that I accept this induction and w ill alw ays look back at m y years at the A cadem y with w arm th and pride.
A family affair: Peter Perretti '72, Ruth Perretti ’79, inductee Earl Perretti ’74, and theirfather, Peter Perretti ’49.
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Distinguished Alumni Award 2000 James E. Johnson ’79 Undersecretary of the Treasury The Montclair Kimberley Academy Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes “distinction in some field of endeavor” and “outstanding character or dedication which made a special contribution to humanity.” This year’s inductee has achieved all three. James E. Johnson ’79 is Undersecretary of the Treasury for Enforcement, one of the highest appointed positions in government. As such, he oversees 40 percent of the federal government’s law enforcement personnel, including the United States Customs Service, the United States Secret Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network - some 29,000 people. He is co-chair of the National Church Arson Task Force, created by the President to investigate Southern church fires. James E. Johnson ’79
James- hands-on in the job, visits churches and speaks with community groups. He also spearheads the federal government initiative tracing illegal gun suppliers - the ATF Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative - and is helping craft a policy on firearm sales over the Internet. A former colleague says, “Johnson’s instincts for how to bring people together, get information from people, and convey confidence [are] enormous. So much of law enforcement depends on the confidence the community and victims have in you.” James has a long history of public service. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. In 1994 he was assistant director of the White House Security Review, the most comprehensive review of White House security ever undertaken. He prosecuted a variety of criminal actions as Assistant U.S. Attorney from 1990-96. He graduated cum laude from both Harvard College and Harvard Law School. His classmates elected him First Class Marshall; he spoke at their Commencement before 12,000 people. Harvard awarded him the Burr Prize as the outstanding male scholar-athlete. While at Harvard, James was three-time Heptagonal (track) champion and Ivy League champion, and earned All-East and All-Ivy Honors in 1982 and 1983. He is fifth on the university’s all-time fist for long jump. MKA inducted him into the Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998. At MKA James earned four varsity letters each for soccer and track (captain of both), and three for basketball. He was the state Prep champion in long jump and high hurdles in 1979, and was named All-Prep in soccer for three years. He received the coveted Deetjen Award as scholar-athlete at Commencement. He graduated cum laude and achieved national honor as a Presidential Scholar. This extraordinary litany of achievements masks a humble and devoted private person. James ^ who started Brookside in fourth grade - upon learning of the Distinguished Alumni Award wrote, “As my wife and I raise our two daughters, I receive daily reminders of my early years as a student. Abby’s reports of her daily experiences conjure up my memories of the lessons learned and encouragement received at MKA and two of its predecessors, Brookside and Montclair Academy. I will always be in the school’s debt.” He still keeps in touch with members of the faculty, and has returned to speak at an all-school Gathering and a Cum Laude induction ceremony. He offers an internship in his office to an MKA student, and greets the junior class trip to Washington. The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Association, with great pride and gratitude, presents its greatest alumni award to James Johnson ’79 - a truly distinguished scholar, athlete, and public servant.
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From the Alumni Association From the President Dear Fellow A liunnifp It is hard to believe that two years have gone by so fast and that this is my final letter to you as President of The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Association. I have enjoyed representing all of you and have learned quite a bit about MKA. The school has changed since we graduated; however, the changes are all positive. MKA is an extremely well-run and vibrant academic institution. This is due to its outstanding leadership both at the board and administrative levels and to its dedicated faculty. This dedication has resulted in MKA being designated, once again, a National Blue Ribbon School. The 1999-2000 academic year came to a close with great pomp and circumstance at the First Congregational Church with the ladies in their white dresses and the gents in their navy blue blazers - a tradition which has experienced little change. We welcomed the Class of 2000 to the alumni ranks at the Senior Breakfast. There are a few individuals who deserve extra thanks. Peter McMullen ’77 and the Devils Organization have been extremely generous to the MKA Alumni Association through their sponsorship of the Night with the Devils for the past 13 years. This event has been a resounding success and a memorable event for all. I also thank all of the members of the Alumni Council for their work and support, and wish our student reps Danielle Greer and Christian Langbein good luck in college. The Council next year will be working on some new ideas for alumni events, so keep reading the Review or check out the MKA Web site for details. Finally, I thank Christie Austin, Alumni Director, and the entire External Affairs staff for their tireless behind-the-scenes efforts. Before I say goodbye, my best wishes go to our next President, Lori Windolf Crispo ’78. Please show her your support by sharing your thoughts and ideas with her.
Pre-K class at Brookside in the fall another generation ready to continue the tradition. MKA has come a long way and continues to grow in the classroom and on the field. Please take a moment to remember MKA and be proud! Fondly, Kristine Hatzenbuhler O ’Connor ’83 President, MKA Alumni Association
Fans The Yogi Berra Museum on the campus of Montclair State University was the venue for this year’s MKA Alumni Spring Social in May. Alumni, faculty, and friends mingled, saw historic photos and artifacts, and listened to jazz by alumnus George Hrab Jr. ’89 and his trio. Alexis Polorwfsky Zebrowski ’85, Director o fExternal Affairs Judy Polonofsky, Bill and Bebe Swanson Whiteside ’83.
David Pinlcham ”77, faculty member Joan Grevait, Ren Grevait.
The Class o f '89 together again: Class advisor Judy Nesbit, Matt Rodano, Jen Russell, George Hrab Jr., Josh Raymond George’s trio played jazz fo r the evening.
Even though I will no longer be serving on the Alumni Council, I hope to volunteer my time as an MKA parent, as my daughter Kelsey will be joining the Dr. Peter Greer, Headmaster, and James Mackey '43.
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Alumni Council members Sabino Rodano ’87, Susan Cole Furlong ’78, and Lori Windolf Crispo ’78, incoming President; Alex Crispo, Hillary Windolf '88.
Jerry Roth '58, Neal and Martha Bonsai Day ’74.
Paul McFeeley ’76 and Rob Hubsmith '77.
Alumni Council members Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76, President Kristine Hatzenbuhler 0 'Connor ’83, Holly Jervis Felber '83, and Lisa Aufzien '76.
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Welcome to the Newest Alumni... The Class of 2000
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Kevin Koenig..............................1...................................Georgetown University Celia Figlewski......................................................................Princeton University Alexa Aron......................................................... New York University Lauren Liuzzi........... Anna Labowsky........................ I ................................................ YaleUniversity Craig Fleishman...................................................................... BucknellUniversity Marcela Bequillard.......................................Susquehanna University Mary Malabanan . . . Nicole L ally..................' ........... | ......... . . . . Seton Hall University Jordan Fraser...............................................................................DrexelUniversity Jordan Bleicher.......................................................................... BrownUniversity William Malenzi . . . 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LehighUniversity Elizabeth Brindley..................................................................... NyackCollege Paul G itdem an..................................... Carnegie Mellon University Kevin McCrann Michelle Latzoni...................... ................................Union College Whitney B row n......................................................................KenyonCollege Jennifer Glasser ........................................... Northwestern University Danielle M cHenry.. Jillian C am eron........................................................................TrinityCollege Emmanuel G o ...............................Worcester Polytechnical Institute Alana McKnight Douglas Green.............................Hobart & William Smith College Vanessa Carmona............................................................. PhiladelphiaUniversity Colin Melhuish. . . . Danielle Greer ................................................ University of Michigan Nathalie Castillo....................................................................FordhamUniversity Dana M eranus......... Ashley Griffin....................................................................ConnecticutCollege Davin C h itra ............................................................................ TulaneUniversity Erica M erson......... . Adrienne C o lo tti................................................................. SkidmoreCollege Genna Gurkoff......................................................................... LehighUniversity Karina Milchman. . . Alison H a a r.................................................... University of Michigan Edward Cubero................................................ New York University Robin Moallem. . . . Joette H arrison.................................Fairleigh DickinsotSJniversity Duncan Currie........................................................................ 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. Rutgers College of Pharmacy .................Dartmouth College ........... Washington University ..........................Ithaca College . . . University of Rhode Island ....................... Boston College . . Carnegie Mellon University ........... University of Vermont ................Villanova University . . . College of the Holy Cross ........... University of Delaware Fairleigh Dickinson University ...............................Undecided ...................... Montclair State University ............................Washington University ................George Washington University University of Hartford, The Hart School .......................................Emerson College ................................ Columbia University .....................................Hamilton College ...................................Bucknell University .........................................Trinity College ........................................... Marist College
Kristopher Rynshall................................................Skidmore College Jessica Schneider ............................................ State University New York Binghamton Laura Schrager.........................................................Lafayette College Daniel Schwartz..................................................... Tulane University Stephan Seabrook.................................................. Bowdoin College Ami Shah.........................University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Yvonne Shirley.................................................................University of Pennsylvania Atif Siddiqui................................... University of Colorado Boulder Hasani S inclair...............................................................University of Pennsylvania Kimberley Marinella Sm ith.................................................... GordonCollege Jonathan Stone......................................... University of Rhode Island Zachary T arshis...........................Hobart & William Smith College Joseph Tobia............................................................Boston University Richard U nis...............................................................................IthacaCollege Anitha Vijayakumar............................................................. AmericanUniversity Christopher Vivino....................................................................BostonCollege Candice Watkins............................................................. NortheasternUniversity Rachel Weary................................... University of Colorado Boulder Tamisha Williams....................................................................SpelmanCollege Valancy W ilson......................................................................RoanokeCollege Severin W irz ........................................................................ ColumbiaUniversity Kate W olf...............................................................Haverford College * Alumni children
Career Day 2000: Profit From Our Experience Alumni spanning the eras of Montclair Academy, The Kimberley School, and MKA returned to school in March for Career Day 2000. These alumni gave advice and perspective on a wide range of chosen careers. Some alumni were paired to offer different versions of similar occupations. All were escorted and introduced by student hosts. The event is a joint production of the Alumni Council (under chairman Mark McGowan ’85), the Alumni Office, and Upper School administration, staff, and students. Behavorial & Occupational Therapy
Anne Fetherston ’88 Jennifer O’Dea ’93
Broadcast Journalism
Michael Ludlum ’55
Clinical Psychology
Andrea Safirstein ’88
Computer Science
Alec Schwartz ’88
Engineering
Amy Dix Rice ’89
Fashion Industry
Holly Jervis Felber ’83
Financial Careers
Don Cussen ’83 Mark McGowan ’85
Fine art/Illustration
Deirdre Newman ’74
Journalism
James Windolf ’82
Law
Barbara Flessas ’72
MKA parent Barbara Flessas
Classmates Lisa Gittleman ’93 and Jennifer O ’Dea ’93
Amy Dix Rice ’89
Holly Jervis Felber ’83
Career Day chairman Mark McGowan ’85
Deirdre Newman ’74
James Windolf ’82
Peter McMullen ’77, Trustee
Kerry Rod Schlein ’83
MKA parent Dr. John Campanile ’75
Dr. Carmen Scherzo, parent o f alumni
Marketing
Glenn Cademartori ’87
Medicine
Dr. John Campanile ’75
Music
Richard Reiter F
Public Relations
Lisa Gittleman ’93 Kerry Rod Schlein ’83
Sports Administration
Peter McMullen ’77
Veterinary Medicine
Dr. Carmen Scherzo
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Class o f ’88 classmates Andrea Safirstein, Alec Schwartz, and Anne Fetherston
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Class Notes Editor’s Note
We use one “official” yearly mailing to obtain news, which appears in the FALL MKA Review. SPRING magazine Class Notes are taken from reunion, holiday, and phonathon news, newspaper clippings, the flap on the Annual Giving remittance envelope, and 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 of Class Notes from secretary to Alumni Office to classmates to secretary to Alumni Office to designer to printer covers a 14-to-16 week period! Please remember that you can send a note to your class secretary or to the Alumni Office anytime. We keep
ongoing files for each class. To those 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 of alumni class secretary, like that of class agent and reunion chairman, is absolutely essential to the vitality of the school. Please consider it. TKS = The Kimberley School MA = Montclair Academy
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Karolyn Greene Cole is happy in her home at the Orleans Convalescent Home on Cape Cod. Her family visits frequently. Her eldest, Sue, visits from England once or twice a year. Daughter Linda Cole LeStage ’56 and family five closer by, so she sees grandchildren Julie and Gregg and their little ones often. Karolyn has “3fi great-grandchildren” she’s fortunate to see growing up. She gets out for lunch often and enjoys the beach and going for a ride.
community volunteer. Dorothy served as Kimberley class agent and donated many photos to the archives. She leaves a son, four grandchildren, and eight great grandchildren.
MA _______________________ Priscilla Douglas Polkinghom writes from California, “I am still active in AAUW Laguna Hills branch and keep up my membership in several other organizations. The only other one that I work in is an Antique Group.” She had a busy Easter week with visits from a grandson with great-grandchildren ages 3 and 5, and her other grandson with a one-year-old. Priscilla has lived in her retirement community/small city for 25 years; there are 150 clubs in the complex!
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Betty and Steve Bartholomew reside in Crane’s Mill, West Caldwell, and report many other Montclair folks there. He began this year’s tennis on March 3rd, and plays regularly twice a week.
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Our condolences to the family of Lucy Fields Haskins. Several years ago Lucy donated a Montclair Military Academy sword that had belonged to her father, Richard Fields, Class of 1908. The sword is displayed at official MKA functions and vintage exhibitions.
Condolences to Joan W illiams Van Dolen Seely on the death of her husband, Bill. She fives in Smart, Fla., and her daughters are in Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, so she sees them fairly often. She writes that her great-grandchildren - ages 9, 6, 5, and 4 - bring her great happiness. Frances Hardy Feezer moved back to
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Our condolences to the family of M arjorie Kieselbach Dumont. Marjorie served as class secretary for many years, and it was her quote that inspired the current series of Homecoming/Reunion invitations with their vintage photos. “You are a ll fixed at seventeen in our minds, and we’d like to know how you are today.”
Marjorie Kieselbach Dumont ’30, letter to classmates, 1988.
MA ______________ Our condolences to the family of Dorothy Monro Dill. She was “First Lady” when
Mrs. Albert Frell (Irene Burbank) 580 Admiralty Parade Naples FL 34102
Mr. C. Irving Porter Box 2750 Quaker Hill Road Unity ME 04988
Carlsbad, N.M. after a year in California. She enjoys small-town living and is heading the arts committee at the Carlsbad Museum. Frances Elliott M cCahill is enjoying fife
at The Fairfax, a military retirement community in Virginia. She did a fascinating cruise around Cape Horn, South America, last winter. She planned to visit her oldest son, who has retired to Boise, Idaho, this summer. Frances’ youngest son, a juvenile and domestic relations judge, was recently appointed to the Circuit Court Bench, “so I’ll proudly attend his second investiture in July.” Why You Should Keep in Touch With Your Alma Mater Mary Harrsen Van Brunt ’32 read in her Smith College alumnae bulletin that a Kimberley classmate from sixty-eight years ago had moved to New Mexico. She had lost touch with her and wondered if MKA had her address. The classmate, Frances Hardy Feezer ’32, had notified the Alumni Office of the move, so MKA was able to reconnect them. There’s a moral here.
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MA _______________________ Ross Roe started playing drums back in 1931 with the Montclair Academy school orchestra, and kept it up “on and off for years.” Now living in Cape Cod, Ross is back at the drums supplying percussion for four leading piano players and a group known as the Woodbriar Music Makers. “It’s like swimming,” he writes. “You never forget.”
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Our condolences to Jean Ferris Anderson on the death of her husband, Nils.
MA _______________________ Dr. Vardy Laing 228 Valley Ridge Heights NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3B 5T3 Welcome to new class secretary Vardy Laing. Vardy retired in 1994 after 54 years as an active physician. He earned his B.S. and M.D. at McGill University, and along the way served as a medical officer in the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve and 12 years in the militia. The Alumni Office has learned that Vardy was given a medal in 1959 for service in the Calgary Highlanders. After retiring as pensions officer at 65, Vardy began study which culminated in two further degrees: B.A. (1985) and M.A. (1990). He now keeps busy with travel, dabbling in the stock market, and teaching beginners bridge.
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Mary Hoermann Vreeland and I were happily reacquainted, thanks to Josephine Fobes Carpenter ’35, shortly after we moved to Crane’s Mill. Mary is the Greenhouse Committee chair and practically single-handedly takes care of all the plants there, plus watering numerous others in public areas. Elizabeth Gracy Kenny writes about the delightful luncheon that she and I enjoyed last November as guests of Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76, alumna and member of the MKA administration. “She brought us up-to-date on the developments and activities of the school - all very interesting and exciting.” Augusta Sanborn Goennel told me by phone, “My ever-sailing husband is set to race to Bermuda in June and then sail to Scotland, which takes three weeks. All this on a good friend’s boat. While this is going on, I will spend time with my twin grandsons, almost 5, in Westhampton.” Barbara Spadone Haviland has moved to Green Hill, a lifecare community in West Orange, N J. She is very happy there and is very glad she made the move. Betty Ed. Note: Our condolences to Betty Dixon on the death of her sister, Pauline O’Gorman M orrison ’36.
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Mrs. Willard Dixon (Betty O ’Gorman) Crane’s Mill, Apt. 199 459 Passaic Avenue West Caldwell NJ 07006-7461 Margery Atwater Crane is finishing a two-year term as president of the Westhampton Garden Club. “I approached the job wondering how things could be done differently, or better,” she writes. “Garden Club ladies prefer ’the way we’ve always done it,’ but everyone is still speaking to me and we had one meeting with men invited.” Bob and Jean Berry Bush were in Montclair in January on the occasion of his birthday. The party, given by his offspring, was a gala reunion for many of us, their old friends. Jean tells me that Arch and Terry Bull Sterling have moved to St. Andrews in Booth Bay Harbor, Maine.
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Barbara Littlejohn ’35, shown here with dog Tina, entertained Headmaster Peter Greer during a luncheon in June with tales of life at The Kimberley School in the Thirties. Barbara Littlejohn was so impressed with MKA’s Core Works Program that she sent a copy to a cousin from a rival school! She also sent to the MKA archives a copy of the Kimberley Class of 1935’s 50th reunion book, compiled in 1985. It is a
wonderful view of the lifestyles and achievements of one era’s alumnae. “The news is I’m still here,” writes Jean Black Jennings, “healthy and enjoying life. I still play tennis and ski. Have just returned from a two-week cruise on a windjammer in the Caribbean.” Jean catches up with eight grandchildren and two “greats” when she can. Our condolences to the family of Virginia Voorhees Herbert. She leaves her husband of 57 years, Sydney, and daughters Pembroke (Susan) Herbert Kyle ’64 and Gail Herbert Trask ’70. Condolences, too, to the family of Katherine (Kay) Richards DeLancey. She leaves her husband, Bob, and several children.
MA ________________________ Mr. John Graham 1129 Kings Ranch Road Bandera TX 78003 Thanks to several classmates who responded to my spring letter. We are still a pretty active and healthy bunch of “Old Grads.” Dave Bate continues his law practice in Montclair (since 1948). “Except for college, law school, and WWH, I have not moved far from Berkeley Place, Montclair, where I was bom,” he writes. He and Janet, married in 1942, have four children and seven grandchildren. Head Boy Dr. Eddy Davis Palmer, retired military, practices medicine, mostly gastroenterology, in North Jersey. With 24 years in the Army, Eddy spent many years in Longview and San Antonio, Texas. He has two “Army brats” sons who graduated from the Academy. Bogie Thompson keeps active in sports and various community services way out in Bridgehampton, Long Island, where he retired in 1972. He and his wife, Elizabeth Higgins Thompson ’35, have five children (middle-aged), three of whom graduated from MKA, and seven grandchildren. He is in touch with Jim Vandermade and Ramsey McGregor ’36. “I’m glad to learn that we have a class secretary again,” Bogie writes. “It has grown tedious reading nothing in the class notes except items from... Kimberley.” Betty and Jeff (Gerald) Podesta, another lawyer, left their Glen Ridge home of many years and now live in the comfort of a complex in West Orange, which provides all the amenities deserving retirees could ask for. He, too, has an Academy son. Last spring in Florida, Jeff heard from Jerry Yesko (Jerry - how about a word for the next issue?).
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A lifelong skater (including hockey captain senior year), I celebrated my 80th birthday with a skating party, including my kids and grandkids. Later I was asked to skate in between periods of the San Antonio Iguana pro team in the Central Hockey League. I turned this down. John Our condolences to the family of Richard S. Barnett
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Mrs. William Young (Peggy Klotz) The Village at Duxbury 290 Kingstown Way, Apt. 253 Duxbury MA 02332
Our love and deepest sympathy to Margaret Richards Chapman on the loss of her sister, Kay Richards DeLancey ’35. Margaret writes that she and Curt are very happy and moderately active in their retirement community in New London, N. H. They are taking a course on China, play bridge, and each has a volunteer job as well. Margaret suggests that perhaps we could get up a class e-mail list; if you have one, please send it to me. A great note and photo from Cozy Noyes Lathrop, who moved into a retirement community in Delray Beach, Fla. two years ago. She calls it “The Ritz.” She winters there and still has a farm in Southern Pines, N.C., where she has a few horses (including three miniature horses 33-inches tall). She takes them all over to compete in driving shows. Cozy plays golf and bridge. Last summer she took her three daughters and two sons-in-law on a Baltic cruise to celebrate her 80th birthday. Sally Bausher Littlefield celebrated her 80th birthday several times - at North Hill, her retirement community in Mass., and in Florida. She went to Israel with her
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church group and to Ocala, Fla., with Elderhostel. In Sarasota she talked with Sally Jeimison Riter. (Sally R. had all her family with her to celebrate her 80th last June.) Sally L took an Elderhostel this spring to Berlin and Prague with a boat trip on the Elbe River. She loves her computer and plans to have more lessons. Your secretary hopes to see her this summer as North Hill and Duxbury are quite near each other. Betsy Townsend McFadden reports she is well and enjoys doing Meals-on-Wheels once or twice a month but has no other news for us. She still fives in the house in Bethesda, Md., that she and Bill bought 35 years ago. Jean Hamlin Noyes spent a special week this spring in a condo on Maui with her son, Rick, and daughter-in-law, Ellen. Going to Hawaii has been a dream of hers since she was 15. Jean spent time beforehand studying Hawaiian history, mythology, and pronunciation of Hawaiian names. My sister-in-law, Sally Young Shertzer, is happily settled in her retirement community in Charleston, S.C. near her elder daughter and family. She has an adorable great-grandson and was looking forward to another “great” in August. Sally celebrated her 80th with a threeweek trip to Montgomery, Ala., where she lived for many years; Fort Walton, Fla.; Las Vegas to see a granddaughter; and Arizona. She played lots of golf and had a wonderful time. I am looking forward to her annual visit to me this summer. Your secretary went to Paris in April with a friend who’d never been to Paris - what a treat to share my favorite places! Then my dream trip, a deluxe barge cruise in Burgundy via a company called French Country Waterways. We had a glorious week, sunny weather, wine(s) and three cheeses with every gourmet meal, tours of wineries, dinner in a three-star restaurant, bicycles. Three of us even went up in a balloon - a wonderful experience, floating above the ground but never so high we couldn’t see everything below. One of the best trips ever! Everyone else, please send news any time. I will get it into the next report. Peggy
graduation trip to Bermuda. Joy sent a copy of a photo of herself and Dale McCarthy Joslin in Brooks Brothers sweaters and Spaulding saddle shoes in front of the Volandam.
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MA _______________________ Carlton Frost, who retired in 1984, reports that he just went on the Internet at 79 and is “still trying to learn something new each day.”
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Mrs. James F.C. Hyde Jr. (Enid Griswold) 5402 Duvall Drive Bethesda MD 20816 Charles and Kit Eavenson Sanders continue to love fife on the Vineyard. They spend March in Vero Beach, where they saw Betty Deyo Martin ’44 and Ann Dixon Curtin ’39. En route south, they always visit Bill and Helen Hanau Breen and have dinner with Lib Gracy Kenny ’34. The Sanders have 10 grandchildren and have added three grandsons-in-law. Their daughter Debby Sanders Lewis ’67 became a grandmother in May, making them great-grandparents - “which sounds better than having one’s daughter be a grandmother!” Our condolences to Susan O’Gorman Karlin on the death of her sister, Pauline O’Gorman M orrison ’36.
MA _______________________ Mr. David Baird Jr. 9 Parkway Montclair NJ 07042 Richard Sanborn reports he is retired from 40 years of ocean racing navigation and from his orthodontic practice.
Joy O’Neil Banta was in a doctor’s office in Florida after a fall and found a New Jersey Monthly magazine with a writeup of MKA, curriculum, and photo of Headmaster Dr. Peter Greer! It brought back memories of the Kimberley
Carl Eisen and his wife, Dede Loasby Eisen ’47, have two great-grandsons, ages 2 and 1. Bette and Dick Carrie were continuing to enrich travel agents this year with trips to Europe, Amherst reunion, Michigan, and
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national parks. Perry Minton sent copies of old slides of the class football players circa 1938-39 and of an earlier game - leather helmets and no padding! Ted Winpenny winters on Hutchinson Island, Fla. (see photo) and is still active part time in investment brokerage. See Kimberley notes for news of Chuck Sanders.
Bill and Mary Johnson Addison will celebrate their 50th anniversary in October. They “have much to be thankful for: All seven children are still married to the same partners, and fourteen grandchildren (ten grandsons).” Bill Jr. is in his second year as secretary of the Senate, Maryland Legislature.
MA _______________________ Mr. Richard R. Angus 38 Hinchman Avenue Denville NJ 07834 Class secretary Dick Angus takes his job so seriously that he traveled to Long Beach, Washington, where he saw classmate Harvey Weeks for the first time since the summer of 1944! Dick reports that Harvey and his wife Joan, though not in good health, would enjoy mail or visitations from old Academy friends. Dick also visited his sister-in-law and family in Oregon.
Ted Winpenny ’41 and Richard Charlesworth ’42 were reunited in Florida this w inter a t a Princeton class reunion. They recalled playing some sports on the old M ontclair A thletic Club fields, later Kimberley field s and now home to MKA Cougars.
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Helen Jones Gordon spends winters in Southern Pines, N.C. She was looking forward to a trip to France with Frances Johnson Ames ’40.
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Miss Lucile G. Mason 142 North Mountain Avenue Montclair NJ 07042 Dick and Nancie Nicholls Kurtz keep active with travel, gardening, and social life. They have lived in a small college town near Lexington, Ky., for three years “and dearly love it.” They enjoy the racing at Keeneland.
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Condolences to J. Robert Brown on the death of his wife, Ann. He and Ann were blessed with two children, Bob and Kathleen, and six grandchildren. The oldest, Jordan, is an Echols Scholar at UVA; the other grandchildren will soon be entering college every year for four years. Bob travels a bit and last summer was happy to see Jean and Bill Burker, who stopped in on their way back from a grandchild’s wedding. He also sees Tom Adair, who lives in Crane’s Mill in West Caldwell.
T h e V olu n teer Race riots in 1969 triggered a desire to be part of the solution to a problem in his own community. Ted Olcott ’43, after retiring from the Port Authority as an engineer and planner, helped establish the Summit (NJ.) Housing Authority in 1970, which he chaired until 1974. Over a period of years, the city has created three public housing units: two family residences that shelter 70 families and a senior housing building, home to 150. In 1987, Ted became a member of the Summit Common Council, and served nine years, one as president. He has written a book for the city’s centennial celebration, 20th Century Summit, a history of the city. Ted is now at work with “Summit 2005,” a strategic planning group formed in collaboration with the hospital to promote healthy lifestyle, with such things as a pedestrian-friendly downtown shopping area. From an article in The Star-Ledger, November 26,1999
The “lost” Anne Flynn has been found alive and well and living in Maine.
MA _______________________ Mr. WinterfordJ. Ohland 4 Abler’s Lane Blairstown NJ 07825 Peter Hofstra reports selling his old home in Rogers, Arkansas, and building a new one right next door. They spent the winter in Arizona.
I v u J __________________ Anne Feagley Wittels (Mrs. Jerome L.) 2116 Via Alamitos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 Another year, another flurry of class news. Bob and Ann Gerhauser Buchbinder sent a charming holiday card, a photo of them on their patio with scene-stealing Benji. Pete (Florence) Lambom Peters writes that she’s “letting go of much activity on the volunteer scene in Princeton.” She and Landon spend three months at Martha’s Vineyard and have begun to travel again, including London and a barge trip with her sister Pat Lamborn Kolbe ’44 and Bill. Leigh Berrien Smith sent holiday greetings, and forwarded a year-old newsletter from Phyllis Harder Reininger. Phyllis and Dick seemed to have spent most of 1998 traveling, in Sun Valley “with the Ancient Skiers,” the annual trek to Florida, and a fabulous European tour including Athens, two weeks aboard the Odyssey, and Holland. Then to Saratoga for her 50th reunion at Skidmore. Katie Teaze Clark writes, “Our life in Naples, Fla., and in Madison, Conn, continues the same as always, and you don’t want to hear of our aches and pains.” Ed and Josie Murphy Rayermann still five in San Marino, she’s still active with the garden club, and they still have their second home in Sedona, Ariz. Their two sons and families are all well. She and Ed get together for dinner with Roger and Rudd Trimble Kenvin occasionally, and she and Rudd keep in more frequent touch by phone. Speaking of phones, Josie says that Judy Shearer Ttimbull calls her every year for her birthday. (All’s well with the Turnbulls, too.)
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Rudd Trimble Kenvin writes of minor catastrophes, many trips, and some potentially not-wonderful health issues. Happy to say all is well now, and they were heading East, with stop-offs in Northern California and Iowa, then sail back home from Quebec to Florida, then Amtrak back to L.A. They had a family reunion in January with children and grands. Roger is at work on Necessary Ports, which contains letters they wrote while they taught school in Switzerland, lived in India...and toured Turkey. Rudd met Sue Ailing M iller at their 50th Vassar reunion. George and Jeanne Talbot Sawutz spend winters in Arizona and the rest of the year in Connecticut. Son David is director of drug discoveries for animal health at Schering-Plough in New Jersey; daughter Linda is an interior designer in Boston. She and family live 70 miles from them, and their other daughter, Sandy - who works at United Technologies Research - is four miles away. Jeannie and George have four grandchildren. As for us: Jerry volunteers for H.E.L.P., devoted to providing unbiased information on health and legal issues for the elderly. I try to keep my hand with painting, collage, computer art, and writing, and photography while traveling. In March I attended my first origami conference (fun!) and in May spent two weeks in London with my sister, Sheila Feagley James ’43, being helpful with her new twin granddaughters. Then Jerry and I attended his 50th reunion and the graduation of one of our nieces from Rutgers. Then San Francisco for our daughter’s wedding. Anne
MA _______________________ Bud Tietje lives on Cape Cod June to September and works part time for his son Jim, who runs freight to Martha’s Vineyard. His youngest runs a sailing schooner on Vineyard Sound in the summer and in Annapolis the rest of the year. Bud’s two other boys are in Boston and Seattle; he has a daughter in Hilo, Hawaii and eight grandchildren. “We’re busy,” he says.
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Frank J. Groten sent his news in one word: “Retired.”
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Mrs. David Hannegan (Louise Rudd) 34 Monadnock Drive WestfordMA 01886 Katy Watt Cangelosi had a great visit from Cindy Youngman Adams last fall, harking back to old times. “I dragged her on a canoe trip; there we were, two old ladies paddling along in the rain. Much fun!” Bar Nash Hanson says some people write about grandchildren, and she writes about racehorses! The Hansons’ mare had a bay filly in April, and they will enjoy watching her grow, perhaps into a racer. Their millennium cruise to Singapore and Bali was H-O-T, humidity 100%. In May, Joan Cook’s nephews took her to Paris for two weeks as a birthday present. (Several of us had the Big 70 recently: Cookie, December; Sue Harrison Schumann, January; me, February; Katy, May. We join you other old bats.) Dave and I had a good winter in Florida. The family came for Christmas and otherwise I played a lot of golf, getting my new left hip into shape, and we enjoyed visitors. My sister Nancy Rudd Eddy ’46 and Arthur came for a week, followed by Gray and Cyn Overton Blandy; great fun. The Blandys, Hannegans, and Weissenborns (Peggy Soucek ’47) enjoyed dinner together. [Ed. Note: Unfortunately the photo would not reproduce well.] Peggy and Tom are “besotted with” their new puppy, Ripley, who has started his “show” training. Other dog, Baron, is retired to pet status. Peggy has started looking for a smaller one-floor house. Sue Harrison Schumann is a splendid correspondent! She keeps busy with her horses and Corgis and moves from Scottsdale to Snowmass for the summer. She and Ford came East in June for Ford’s 50th reunion at Williams, and - this is amazing - Sue and Cookie and Cyn and Patty Cox Mansfield and I got together for lunch. I saw Teeny Redfield Sander in Needham at the sad and yet celebratory service for her mother, who died in April at the age of 98. She was special to many of us. Cheers for now. Send me news anytime! Weezie
MA _______________________ Andrew Davlin reports a move to a wonderful small town overlooking
beautiful Lake Mead, Boulder City, Nev. “Great for my wife’s health and no taxes.” It is quiet but Las Vegas is just over the hill “if one wants shows, fabulous restaurants, and gambling.” He still serves the aquaculture industry with The Davlin Report. Robert Doubleday enjoys retirement living “on the edge of deep woods near West Point and Bear Mountain.” Reading, music, old movies on TV, astronomy, and local history take up his time; “I do not own a computer.” He was looking forward to the 55th reunion. Maggie and Joe Hammond welcomed grandchild Number 11. The entire Hammond clan now has 20-plus assorted sons and daughters-in-law, all doing fine. Maggie and Joe spent Christmas ’99 in the Holy Land, where her church choir - one of half a dozen from the U.S. - had been invited by the Cultural Ministry of Israel to participate with other choirs from around the world in the Holy Land Millennium Choir Festival. They sang in five concerts in Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem. “Singing in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve is an experience never to be forgotten,” Joe writes. On the way the Smoke Rise choir was the only one invited to sing in Notre Dame in Paris, so they spent a few days there. Back home, Joe is still working long hours CPA-ing.
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Mrs. Stanley Miller (Frances Lane) 462 SW 27th Avenue Delray Beach FL 33445 Kay Kidde was trying to find a publisher for her third book of poetry, culled from recent magazine appearances. She is enjoying literary agenting, summers and weekends on Long Island, and trips to southern climes. Arthur and Nancy Rudd Eddy took a month-long sunny warm journey, visiting friends last winter. Back home, two classes at their community college have produced “great motivation to write fight poetry and.. .my life story,” part of which has been published in the monthly college periodical. They love Cape Cod; “my extensive gardens beckon, as do fun projects at church, so fife is full.” They planned to visit their son and his wife in Monterey, Calif, in July, and host friends and family at the Cape.
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Dick and Audrey Maass Lewis, Allen and Gay Clarke Perry, and C liff and Mary Anne Treene Evans had a nice reunion in Naples in March. Then, “lo and behold, who should surface in Naples but Austin Drukker ’52 and his lovely wife, Lois. The Lewises, Perrys, and Drukkers all belong to the same country club!” The Treenes also saw Sally Cooke Bull, Joan Toner Koehler ’49, and Bob Lieder ’51. Cliff’s brother Bill and CY Mann Treene ’54 visited them in Oregon in February.
B ey o n d th e G rea t W all Photographer Helen Montgomery-Drysdale ’48x spent two weeks on assignment in China and Inner Mongolia last year, photographing black-and-white stills for a 30-part series for CCTV (China Television) on the life of Genghis Kahn. Helen, a portrait photographer, was fascinated by the faces of the Chinese and Mongolians, and “astounded” by the production values on the set, according to an article in the Escondido [Calif.] North Country Times. She was also impressed by the courtesy of the people. Helen spent years as a Hollywood photographer and publicity chief at the La Jolla Playhouse. She photographed some of the legends, including Burt Lancaster (“shot in profile during the filming of The Swimmer, looking like a Roman emperor”), Marge and Gower Champion, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Howard Duff. She is working on a tribute to Ginger Rogers and a book called Signs of Our Times, inner-city documentary photos taken across the United States. She was “discovered” in California by the visiting Chinese comedian Jing Kun, who commissioned a portrait of himself and persuaded a group of film producers to hire Helen for the series. Mrs. Sonny Simberkoff (Cornelia Wiesing) 7476 Wheeldale Circle Reno NV 89511 nela2 @mindspring, com “What a terrific 50th reunion!” writes M ary Ann Nebergall Denny. She and Dick have moved to a larger home in Naples, Fla. to accommodate their 11 grandchildren. She plays tennis and golf at least three times a week and just finished a two-year term as president of the ladies 18hole golf association. Rae K rout M uller also enjoyed the reunion immensely. Nancy Eavenson Copp writes of golf, church, books written or reading, travel, children and eight grand ones, animal therapy with elderly, painting and photography.
■5«l 11 lil tunion October 14,2000 IK S Reunion chairmen: Mrs. Bruce McBratney (Audrey Carroll) 170 Distant Island Drive Beaufort SC 29902 mcbratney@islc.net
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Class agent: Mrs. Richard Lewis (Audrey Maass) 4551 North Shore Blvd. N, Apt. 804 Naples FL 33940 “I spent six years at Kimberley through graduation in 1950. The 50th class reunion will be my first and most meaningful reunion, which I plan to attend,” writes Edith Hoisington Miller. After living in Canada for 33 years, she has dual citizenship. “When Michael retired from teaching music at university in Sackville, NB, we moved to Fredericton, NB, to be near our son Andrew, his wife and three children. He and his two brothers are also musicians. I thank Miss Carpenter and Miss Bauer at TKS for starting me out with choral experience.” Molly Prescott Kindred has spent many years volunteering with animals in humane societies, and now is “semi-retired.” She and husband Brook enjoy tennis and paddle, canoeing, cycling, and traveling. Back and forth to Colorado to be with daughter Valerie and family is a treat, and having daughter Dorothy’s family a mile away is very special.
Ted and Miriam Eustis Irwin have new grandchildren: Jonathan to Bud and M arcelle Irwin Pope ’77 (joining Dana and Grace), and twins Grace and Oliver to Liz and Jim Irwin ’80 (joining Adele).
“It couldn’t be Bobbie; she never wore ruffles.” Nela Wiesing Sim berkoff '50, identifying class photos fo r the MKA archives.
MA ___________ Mr. Rudolph Deetjen Jr. 17 King’s Cove Lane Brooksville ME 04617 Reunion chairmen: Mr. Jay Bitting (and class agent) 299 River Edge Drive Chatham NJ 07928 Mr. Richard Hopkins 3 Harwood Drive Madison NJ 07940 Mr. Walter Rauscher 12 Chestnut Avenue, #502A Summit NJ 07901 C liff and Mary Anne Treene Evans got in reunion spirit early with visits to Academy and Kimberley friends in Florida. (See Kimberley class notes.) Cliff reported the death last year of Duncan MacMillan. “I spoke with him before he died and we were able to pass on a couple of jokes to each other and laugh about the times spent in the grubby smoking room in the basement of the old MA building. He had lived in Florida for a number of years.” Bunny and Bill Rowe traveled to Winnipeg last summer for the Pan Am Games and saw their daughter Heather and two sailing mates win a gold medal for the U.S. in the Lightning class sailboat. Bill Ricketts reported plans to semi-retire to Canyon Lake, Texas. He spends most weekends racing or getting ready to race sailboats, especially offshore. Congratulations to Dick Hopkins, who won the club championship (golf) of the Dune Golf & Tennis Club, Sanibel, Fla.
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George Hallock reports being happily retired. After graduation, he served in the Coast Guard to 1954, then earned a B.A. from Kenyon College and M.B.A. from Rutgers. He worked in credit and finance for Abb, Inc., Dun & Bradstreet, and Hoffmann LaRoche. Bill and Nancy have two children and seven grands. Patty and Rudy Deetjen “are on cloud nine and traverse the 300 mountainous miles frequently” to see new grandson Alexander. They report lots of hospital hoard work and exciting travels. “October 14 will be the BEST if you can join us at MKA.”
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Yours truly has only two rug rats: Story (girl) 4, and Clark, 16 months, who live in Hong Kong with my daughter Peyton and her husband, Paul. In March I went for my annual visit, and took a side trip to Bah (absolutely fabulous).
Our condolences to Peter Lindsay on the death of his wife, Lois Creighton Lindsay.
Dear Babs, I want you to know that you are in our thoughts and prayers. Dear Ladies of 1952,1 expect to hear from more of you next year. Skipper
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Mrs. Lloyd. Marentette (Gail Robertson) 476 Lakeland Avenue Grosse Pointe MI 48230 In an early spring note, Nancy Ehrhardt W hite planned to visit daughter Nan in Florida and tour Greece with daughters Nan and Alicia.
MA _________________________ Mr. Ernest F. Keer III 459 Club Drive, P.O. Box 1030 Bay Head NJ 08742 Mark Hanschka is already looking forward to the 50th reunion next year! Though retired in Oregon, he still does gynecology clinics for Planned Parenthood, writes letters for environmental organizations, and visits grandchildren in Oregon and Massachusetts.
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Mrs. Clark Moran (Martha Gilbert) 8011 StrauffRoad Baltimore MD 21204 Class agent: Mrs. James Donnell (Barbara Pendleton) 9468 No. Florence Road Pittsburgh PA 15237 Fay Taft Fawcett had a nice year, with summer in Nantucket and a 65th surprise house rental in Provence. She says her ole K.S. French held up pretty well. Wain Koch Maass has the best of both worlds: six months in Florida and six months in Vermont. Daughter Amy has remarried and teaches at the Peck School in Morristown, N J. The Maasses have ten grandchildren. She and Bill played golf with Bob and Jane Redfleld Forsberg in April, while visiting Teeny Redfield
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Our condolences to the family of Lois Creighton Lindsay. Lois and Peter had retired to Maine, and she loved the lake, birds, loons, her garden, fishing. Their two daughters, Karen and Heather, five nearby. Margaret McVay McCombs works with McCombs Realty in Fairbanks, Alaska. This summer Suzette Armitage W hiting appeared in summer stock with the Surflight Theater, Beach Haven, N J. Her husband played Mr. Lundie and she did the chorus in Brigadoon\ she played Mrs. Straus and he did the chorus in Titanic.
January 2000 marked the 30th year in a publishing and political consulting business Peter Cockshaw founded in January 1971. Their publishing activities specialize in legal, legislative, and labor relations analysis. Politically, they consult with various members of Congress and committees on labor-related legislation and policies. Peter writes, “Much of the credit for my success goes to Avery Barras, who both inspired me and taught me the ’ins-and-outs’ of journalism.” Neil Lindeman is retired in St. Michaels, Md.
Ms. Georgia Carrington 38 Silver Spring Lane Ridgefield CT 06877 carrgeo@aol.com Small World Category, from Tilly-Jo Beatty Emerson: While Anne Waraick W inner was visiting her children, who five in Tilly-Jo’s town of Maplewood, Tilly-Jo was facilitating a workshop at Anne’s church in Virginia.
S h o w a n d T e ll Alexandria, Virginia, turned 250 last year. In honor of the anniversary, Mimi Evans Winship ’54 wrote Great Chefs of Historic Alexandria, described as a cookbook, guidebook, and history book. Spanning culinary history from Martha Washington to current chefs and restaurants, the book intersperses recipes with details of buildings and sites. The book began when Mimi interviewed the Alexandria 250th Anniversary commissioners on her talk show, “The Mimi Winship Show,” on Comcast Alexandria and asked if they were planning a cookbook for the Big Year. They thought it was a great idea. After contracting a publisher, Mimi started with restaurants, then added historic sites when the director of the Apothecary Museum said she had lots of 18th century recipes. Then she heard from the “town fathers,” who wanted to participate, so she asked the governor, Senators, Congressman, and other celebrities. The cover of the book is the 250th Anniversary logo, which has helped make it into a best seller. Mimi’s twice-a-week show began three years ago in the TV studio, and has evolved into going on location. “I got a whole new perspective,” she writes, “being able to tour historic homes, watch chefs in their own restaurants, cover events....” She has been involved in theater for 30 years, as actress, producer, director, choreographer, singer, playwright, composer, and teacher. She owned and managed her own professional touring company for several years, the American Comedy Theater. Mimi wrote and directed numerous plays and musicals in Montclair that starred many MKA faculty and alumni or had them working backstage. Despite having done much writing, “I got a kick out of writing a cookbook,” she admits, “because I’m not a great cook.”
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Felicity Fergusson Morse spent time in Vero Beach last winter and had a wonderful catch-up visit with Gael Seton Habernickel.
MA ______________________ Class agent: Mr. Sheldon Buck 51 Cornell Road Wellesley MA 02181-7408
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Mrs. Susie Forstmann Kealy 550 N. Kingsbury, Apt. 603 Chicago IL 60610 Class agent: Miss Carol Turtle 13300 Indian Rocks Road, #505 Largo FL 33774-2009 Mary Gail Smith Buermann is living in Roseland after 30 years in Essex Fells, while building a house in Longboat Key, Fla. Susie Forstmann Kealy is spending a lot of time at her new condo in Santa Fe, N.M. Her daughter Victoria is engaged to a longtime family friend; the wedding will be next year.
MA _______________________ Reunion chairman: Mr. Lawrence Martin P.O. Box 1058 Lexington VA 24450 martin @cfw. com Class agent: Mr. Robert Brower 131 E. 66th Street, IOC New York NY 10021 The reunion is inspiring news! Richard Moskowitz is a family physician in the Boston area, specializing in homeopathic medicine since 1974. He is married, with two children, ages 36 and 30. After eight years in NYC as a psychotherapist at a day center for chronic mentally ill, prior to which he directed three homeless shelters, Oscar Mockridge has returned to parochial ministry as a pastoral associate at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison, N.J. He has two married children and a grandson, almost 2. Our condolences to the family of James V. Addy Jr. Dr. Addy had a private practice of anesthesia in Denison, Texas, prior to moving to Myrtle Beach, S.C., where he maintained a pain management practice until 1998. He leaves his wife, two sons, three daughters, and six grandchildren.
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Our condolences also to the family of Robert E. Brolli, an actor, teacher, critic, and producer. Robert appeared on Broadway with Mary Martin and in an HBO special, “Sherlock Holmes,” and was very active in summer stock, particularly in the Berkshires.
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All four grandsons are thousands of miles away in Colorado and Tennessee, so Peter and Gail Zabriskie W ilson spend lots of time visiting them and her parents in Naples, Fla. “But we still have a life in Greenwich and two daughters in Connecticut. Summers in Maine draw the family north.” Bob and Nancy Prescott Ward have made significant trips recently, Australia in 1999 and Ecuador this year. Their family is doing well: Vicki and husband are in Maine; Jennifer is a landscape architect/director of Queens Botanical Garden; Rob a senior at the U. of Maryland. Jane Crawford Lyons had two grandchildren bom in 1999, to son Andy and to daughter Debbie, who also has a stepson, 10. The Lyons enjoy tennis, boating, and skiing, and she volunteers with Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center in Sarasota. Daughter Hillary and family five near Gillian Brisbane Ingram on Sanibel Island, Fla. “Am still a New Englander at heart and love being home in Massachusetts for the summer and fall, where I am near my mother (91!) and brother and niece.” Their daughter and family visit from California.
MA _______________________ Mr. Eric Jaeckel P.O. Box 20153 Boulder CO 80308-3153 ejjaeckel @ hotmail. com Class agent: Dr. Larry Nazarian 29 Surrey Place Penfield NY 14526 Karen and Dick Hobbins took a wonderful float trip through the Grand Canyon sponsored by the Geological Society of America. There were daily hikes in addition to brief lectures at the beginning of the day and while en route down the river. Dick has kayaked many of the white waters of the Southwest while doing some consulting on nuclear reactor
safety, “but not so much as to interfere with my recreational schedule.” He also enjoys sea-kayaking (“suitable for camping out in the wilderness”), which they do on the lakes in Grand Teton Park.
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Class agent: Dr. Georgia Sherman Glick 21 Eliot Road Lexington MA 02421
MA _______________________ Class secretary and agent: Dr. Edward T. O ’Brien Jr. 3376 FemcliffLane Clearwater FL 36421 eobl072720@ aol. com
Perspective I realized the other day it is 43 years now. In 1957 the Class of 1914 would have had the perspective we have. Ted O’Brien ’57, in letter to classmates From Stephen Freifeld, M.D.: “Gail and I celebrated our 30th anniversary in London in 1999. My daughter, Elisha, is planning a wedding in Vermont this September. My son, Jed, is a partner in Iron Street Labs, an incubator of the .Com generation. “I look back.. .and remember playing football and baseball, and I remember Avery Barras, who taught me Latin roots.. .1 can see him sitting there clearly in his three-piece suit. I can remember wanting to pitch: trying out and hitting Coach Van Brunt at my first attempt and being banished forever to center field. “My life has been good and Montclair Academy helped set me on the fast track. I did not think so then, but I am sure of it now. It was a charming, old-fashioned, interesting, competitive and understanding place. It was four years of my life that changed my life for the better.”
Mrs. Judson Breslin (Wendy Worsley) 44 Lake Drive Mountain Lakes NJ 07046 A spring of sadness and hope for Betsy Barney Gill. Their handicapped grandson, Carl, died at age 12. In April, their son
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Jim got a new kidney after two years on dialysis. Condolences and best wishes from MKA. Ralph and Helen Bryant Perry’s son Chris ’82x was to be married in July; daughter Ashley ’85x and Jim were expecting their first child in late summer. Helen is busy with her interior design business. Elizabeth Cole, Ph.D. moved back to Boston to be closer to her family; daughter Elizabeth Sobel, married in November, lives in Brookline. Elizabeth the First has her own consulting practice, Cole Consulting Group.
MA ________________________ Class secretary and agent: Dr. Robert R. Haney 525 Cardinal Circle E. St. Mary’s GA 31558 Philip Amsterdam sent news of his children. Daughter Alison received her M.D. in May from George Washington U., and will do her residency at NYU and advanced research in cancer at SloanKettering. Son Andrew was named VP of Marsellis Warner after working three years with the firm. He graduated from UPenn. I didn’t realize until the reunion how sought-for and well received the few words are when they appear in the column. I’m retiring late this year, then Sylvia and I are moving back to Georgia, this time to St. Marys. Bob
Ms. Jarvis Reilly Nolan 15612 Via Marchena San Diego CA 92128
Our condolences to the family of Alicia (Kim) De Rosa Nieves.
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Time flies. See you all at reunion!
Class secretary and agent: Mr. Michael Baker 10 Highland Drive North Caldwell NJ 07006
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James Courier has been president of IDT Corp. since 1996, and often appears in full-page ads in the business pages.
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40th Reunion October 14,2000 TKS ______________________ Reunion chairman: Mrs. Philip Coffaro (Nicki Smith) 5746 Carriage Drive Sarasota FL 34243 Class agent: Mrs. Mary Anne Doty 21 Juniper Drive Queensbury NY 12804 Wayne and Sally Alice Unkles Diller finished the three-year restoration of their British Colonial home on the Intercoastal Waterway in Palm Beach, Fla. They
National Book Award Congratulations to Fredric M. Kaplan ’58, who received the National Book Award (Reference Books) for his Encyclopedia o f China Today (Harper/Collins). Another book, The China Guidebook (Houghton-Mifflin), is the world’s best-selling travel guide to China, with more than 2.5 million copies sold since 1979. It is about to go into its 14th edition. Fredric has been involved professionally in Asia and China for the past 35 years, beginning with the Yale-in-China Chinese Language Training Program in 1964-5. He covered the war in Vietnam and Cambodia for Time/Life in the late Sixties. Since then he has worked as a writer and consultant. He founded China Travel Consultants, Inc. in 1976 and has visited China and Asia more than 120 times.
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planned to tour China, then spend the summer and fall on their boat along the coast of Maine and in Newport, R.I., where they have a wing in an old “cottage” called The Waves.
Fredric is senior consultant for the China National Tourism Administration in Beijing. His company wrote their Official Guide to China Travel, and has organized “literally thousands of individuals and groups on private trips and cultural exchanges,” he writes. That includes the Smithsonian, Harvard Business School, MIT, mayoral and cultural exchange delegations from major U.S. cities, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. National Women’s Soccer Team (winner of the 1996 Olympic Gold Medal). “You might say it all began in my English classes with the formidable Mr. Barras,” he writes, “whose imposing presence caused me to think about far-off places like China and Mongolia (my next book).”
Class secretary, agent, and reunion chairman: Mr. George A. Bleyle 2259 Weir Drive Hudson OH 44236 orion@ gwis. com Best Excuse for Missing Reunion: Philip Leone will be in Nepal on a hike up the Khumbu Valley to the base camp of Mt. Everest. Class captain George Bleyle has three of four children married, and he is the grandfather of a two-year old girl. “If I’m a grandfather staring at retirement, you too must have news of your personal and professional lives. See you at our 40th to catch up!”
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Ms. Christine Keller 1702 Church Street Galveston TX 77550 Mina Lund Davis and Pat Harrison Case had a great get-together. “We hadn’t seen each other since around graduation,” Mina writes. “We had no trouble chatting nonstop and discovering how we ’remembered’ things differently. We look forward to reunion!” Our condolences to Susan Faulkner deDecker on the death of her mother. Bill and Susan have two daughters, Kim and Lauren, and two grandsons, Alex and Zac, 4. Bill’s firm, Conklin and de Decker, celebrated its 15th anniversary as an aviation information resource. Sue is a science specialist at a Montessori academy.
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MA _______________________ Bruce Guernsey returned to his alma mater for two days this spring. Bmce, an award-winning, distinguished professor at Eastern Illinois University, worked with Upper and Middle School students on creative writing and poetry. He was impressed with the students’ energy and focus, and declared them superior to many of his own university students.
Ms. Sharon Livesey 81 Grand Street, #5 New York NY 10013 Best wishes to Donald and Deborah Anthony Stuart Smith on their wedding. Beverly Harrison M iller was elected president of the Skidmore College Alumni Association. Daughter Brooke is in the first year of a PH.D. in neuroscience, and Noah is a freshman at Dartmouth.
MA _______________________ Mr. Bronson Van Wyck Arrowhead Farms Tuckerman AR 72473 Class agent: Mr. Arthur S. Gurtman 11 Sunset Drive North Caldwell NJ 07006
Mrs. Frank Henneman (Lynn Ritter) 818 Staffordshire Rd. Cockeysville MD 21030-2948 Class agent: Ms. Ardath Blauvelt P.O. Box 733 Hollis NH 03049 “I had a nice nostalgic tour of Kimberley last fall,” writes Catherine Krebs Suiter, “when I went to get picture of my sister’s May Day festivities (what an anachronism!). If we ever regroup for a reunion we have to do a reminiscent walk through. Mrs. Pickelsimer’s room still makes me shudder and I can still hear Mr. Coursen playing Bach’s Tocatta and Fugue in the old gym.” Her boys are doing well: Scott is working in Burlington and Brian graduated from Colgate in May, and will work “at a real job for real pay” with a national real estate developer in Cleveland. Cathy is executive director of a statewide non-profit agency.
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Jim and Carolyn W ilson Ward “have a lot of room” an hour from Disney and eight miles from the beach. He files for Comair and she “graduated” to teaching Algebra 2 and geometry. Son Robert attends New College in Sarasota; James has relocated to Dallas; Beth is in the Air Force in Los Angeles. Randi W hite M cGinnis’s children are on the move: Rich is in NYC with a small pre-IPO e-company; Heather is with a preEPO insurance company in San Francisco; Charlie is studying industrial engineering at Northwestern; Ariel will break the mode and attend Stanford. Dick and Randi spent the fall semester in London, and will travel next year while he is on sabbatical. We wish Debby Pines good luck on her recovery from breast cancer and very best wishes on her impending wedding. Barbara Mahler Markussen was looking forward to daughter Kris’s wedding. Kris works in New Jersey. Son Jeff lives at home and works as a network administrator. Barbara works as the stacks supervisor at the RPI library; husband Carl drives a truck but would rather use his Air Force experience flying a plane. This summer they hoped to visit her sister, Sarah Mahler Henderson ’61, who is living in Berlin, where the Markussens spent six years with the military. Our condolences to (Sue) Pembroke Herbert Kyle on the death of her mother, Virginia Voorhees Herbert ’35. Sue’s son David graduated from Trinity College, Conn., in May; Kevin attends the U. of Maine, Orono. Her business, Picture Research Consultants, had a banner year. Joe and Lynn Sanders Pizzirusso are now bi-coastal parents. Daughter Jenny and her husband live in Seattle, where she’s teaching in a Head Start program. Their son, in the East Coast Washington, has just finished second year at George Washington Law School and will be director of the Student Law Clinic next year. Lynn is in her 14th year working in the marketing department of a physician group practice. Lynn had a great visit in Memphis from cousin Terry Appenzellar ’66 and her significant other. Terry and John are both information systems consultants; Terry’s job was keeping her in Rochester and he was based in Atlanta. Frank and I are still working at Unisys Corp., another year closer to retirement (34 years for him, 13 for me). Our combined family of six children and 3 grandchildren is always abuzz with activity. We find that they all visit us more often in our Florida condo than here in Maryland. Lynn
MA _______________________ Hon. John Sheldon P.O. Box 96 Paris ME 04271 Class agent: Mr. Peter C. Mayer 133 Woodfield Road Washington Township NJ 07675 John Benigno has had some of his fine art photography purchased by prestigious collections this year, Nova Scotia to Texas. [His web site is accessible via the MKA Web site.] He “earns his keep” selling real estate along the Philadelphia Main Line.
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Mrs. James Wright (Susan Debevoise) I Tuck Drive Hanover NH 03755
Katharine (Kitty) Haines sent in a new address - in San Francisco, where she works for Macys.com - but didn’t elaborate.
MA _______________________ Steve Cutaia, president and one of the founders of Montclair’s Outpost at the Burbs, has been in the Montclair Times in several articles about the volunteer program. Outpost, which was formed at First Congregational Church to bring people together in a safe and uplifting environment, is known for its musical programs, particularly folk and folk-rock shows. Its members have organized daylong work projects at Habitat for Humanity in Newark four times a year for 11 years; they also do the Community Food Bank of New Jersey four times a year.
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Mrs. William E. Crawford (Francine Onorati) 421 Beacon Street Boston MA 02115
MA _______________________ Mr. D. Carter Fitzpatrick 49 Bell Rock Plaza Sedona AZ 86351 Class agent: Mr. Craig Cameron II Bay Point Drive Ormond Beach FL 32174
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time skiing, hiking, doing volunteer work, “and, of course, fiddling with computers and electronics.”
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Ms. Margot Escott 5135 Cobble Creek Court #101 Naples FL 34110 escott@naples.net Judy Dixon ’67 coaches both the men’s and women’s teams at the U. of Massachusetts in the Atlantic Coast Conference. In 1998 she was named USTA/New England College Coach of the Year. Judy, National Junior Champion in 1967, competed in the pro circuit (U.S. Open, Wimbledon, Virginia Slims tour) for several years after graduating from Southern Cal; her doubles partner was Billie Jean King. She has since become an accomplished journalist, businessperson, and coach. As women’s tennis coach/coordinator of women’s athletics at Yale, she led the Elis to the Ivy League title. Judy was the first woman nominated for an Emmy Award in Sports Broadcasting (1975). She has been a contributing writer for Sportswoman magazine and a guest commentator on ABC’s “Eye on Sport.” According to UMass publications, Judy emphasizes confidence, good sportsmanship, discipline, and fun as well as fundamentals in her coaching, whether collegiate athletes or youngsters in summer camp. She takes part in community service projects with her teams, and says, ‘Tennis is a wonderful sport, and I want my players to know and appreciate they have been given a gift and they need to use that gift to give back to the community.”
Debby Sanders Lewis became a grandmother when her middle daughter, Erin, gave birth to a 10+ pound girl. Her youngest daughter, Megan, graduated from Bowdoin.
MA _______________________ Class agent: Mr. Craig Perry 3467 Pinestream Road Atlanta GA 30327 “Who would have thought in 1967 that data processing would become the industry it became?” writes Richard Brightman. He decided to “trade the suits in for denim” last year and move to thenweekend lake house in Pennsylvania. Richard and his wife Aimee work out in the mornings and spend the rest of then-
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Son Justis, 18, will attend Georgia Tech in the fall for engineering; Will, 15, is loving high school and sports. Barbara is busy with volunteer and support activities. Andy Goddard was sorry to have missed our reunion last fall, but she is busy with her restaurant/bar. She has cut her hair short and punky and covered up the gray (along with the rest of us). Winter in St. Croix was more exciting than usual for Phyllis LaTouche Rawlins. She experienced her first Category 4 hurricane with 155 mph winds; luckily, their home had no damage.
Legacy: Michael Labowsky ’67 and daughter Anna ’00, who graduatedfrom MKA cum laude, at Commencement.
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Jim and Angela Steggles Nevius moved to Newtown Square outside Philadelphia last summer. “We are still adjusting to being in a ’strange land,” ’ she writes. “If anyone around here knows me, give me a call. One of the precious things left behind were friends.” After teaching in Ridgewood for 10 years, Katharine Hancock has been granted a yearlong sabbatical to pursue a master’s in theater, and several other projects related to doing theater with children. “An exciting prospect,” she writes. Avie Kalker lives nearly full-time in Massachusetts, “practicing the balancing act between working and parenting.” She is guardian to a 17-year-old, a “very rewarding life change.”
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Shelley Brightman Runyan is in her 13th year as a media specialist at Detroit Country Day School, and has a French tutoring business on the side. Both sons are in college, one at Oakland U. in Michigan and the other at the U of Maryland (I wonder if he’s been to Andy’s?). Shelley vacations three times a year in the Rocky Mountains and visits her sister in Park City, Utah when there. Anne LaVoy Guerra writes they are busy looking at colleges for son Chris, and Elizabeth is busy with swim team, softball, etc. “We’re living through the oh-so-fun years with high school teenagers.... I never did anything that caused my parents any anxiety.” Anne, I hope your kids contact me. Congratulations to Lisa Schultz Vanderlinde, who has been chosen as assistant chief resident (pathology) at the U. of Rochester, and then will be chief resident the following year! What an honor. Our condolences to Christine Hannon on the death of her father. I spent some time with Barbara Fox McW illiams this spring when I attended a ladies’ golf school in Pinehurst. My girlfriend and I spent the night at Barbara’s and then played golf with her and a friend the next day. Barbara and Mac have a beautiful new home on the golf course at Pinehurst #7. Brant just graduated from the Citadel and will be working for the USGA in Pebble Beach; Mary Devon is taking classes at State and is coaching and volunteering. Lynn
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Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Ehrhardt) 46 E. Saddle River Road Saddle River NJ 07458
W illiam Brogan was made VP of the business intelligence and data warehousing practice at Oracle Corp. [See Kimberley notes for more Brogan family news.]
W illiam and Barbara Haviland Brogan have moved to “a little tree house” on the waters of the Severn River near Annapolis.
“Life is focused on my two daughters,” writes George Downsbrough. Melissa, 17, a senior, was deciding on college. She
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will attend the Olympic qualifying match in Women’s Air Rifle. Lea, 14, on the high school swim team, was headed to Ft. Lauderdale for YMCA swimming nationals. David Robb Cralle checked in with a new address in Paris. Eric Weis writes, “Serving on the board of a private day school, managing finances with growing student population and demanding parents. Now I am finally impressed by MKA’s success! Fem is teaching French, in another school!” After writing a letter informing everyone that I am the new class secretary, the response from Alan Hirsh was, “I have no news.” Thank you Alan. Actually, he does: Alan’s oldest son, Bret, graduated from MKA in June; son Craig will be a senior. They were soccer stars together at MKA. [See photo.] I am an opthalmologist with a practice in Yonkers, N.Y. My wife, Paulette, and I have two children, Claire, 13, and Remy, 8. I still ran 3-4 times a week and get in an occasional round of golf. The rest of you, please write. Ed
business; her oldest child, Weston, just graduated from high school. Julia Haines, who is music therapist/artistin-residence at Stratford Friends School, has just released her third recording, a CD entitled Thunder: Perfect Mind. It is based on ancient Gnostic Texts, dating more than 1500 years ago, though discovered only 50 years ago. The CD is available from Julia (call the Alumni Office) or her distributor, Ladyslipper Music. Our condolences to Gail Herbert Trask on the death of her mother, Virginia Voorhees Herbert ’35. In the small world department, I was at a meeting in Washington with a lobbying firm, and asked about a member of the firm who wasn’t there. It turns out she was on the Hill with Karen Vanderhoof Forschner for a lobbying day on Lyme Disease. See you all in October. Leslie
MA _______________________ Mr. V. James Castiglia 5701 Berkshire Valley Road P.O. Box 311 Oak Ridge NJ 07438 Class agent: Mr. Garret Roosma 12175 Upper Heather Avenue N Hugo MN 55038 Fred Sheldon is now a full professor at Louisiana State U. (a.k.a. LSU). “We have a big house in Baton Rouge and love to have visitors to the New Orleans area,” he writes.
He presented a paper at the 8th Uplands Conference in February. James’ eldest daughter, Nancy, will attend Wellesley with an Air Force ROTC scholarship; Meredith is a freshman at the Governor’s School in Richmond; Elizabeth is a 5th grader at the Collegiate School; James V is in nursery school. They sponsored two Japanese exchange students this year; daughter Nancy went to Japan. Come back, reminisce, laugh, and celebrate at reunion October 14.
Many thanks to Sydney Johnson Petty for her years of filling the column with interesting news. She would like to pass on the class secretary pen. Please contact the Alumni Office if you are interested.
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Congratulations to David Freed, who was named senior vice chancellor and chief operating officer of the City of New York University (CUNY) system. David, who graduated from Cornell U., has masters’ degrees in business administration and in health services management from New York University, and is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He has held executive positions at several nonprofit organizations, including Hahnemann U., Mount Sinai Medical Center, and the Museum of Modem Art.
From Garret Roosma: “Still working the same job, still married to the same woman, still have two kids, still alive!” Legacies: Alan Hirsh ’69 with sons Bret ’00 and Craig '01 at Commencement.
BOtlNeimion October 14,2000 I KS ______________________ Ms. Leslie Bryan 844 East Momingside Drive, NE Atlanta GA 30324 Class agent: Ms. Kim Kolbe 38 Kent Drive Roseland NJ 07068 Heidi Sanders Bryan spent two weeks in Greece and Turkey with sister Debby Sanders Lewis ’67 and two friends, then linked up in New York with Kim Kolbe. Heidi has her own portrait photography
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“Been having way too much fun these last 30 years,” writes Gordon Sussman. ‘Wound up starting what has become the largest canoe and kayak shop in the universe [Rutabaga, Inc., Madison, Wis.], and I preside over what daily feels like a cartoon strip. Just to keep things entertaining (in addition to riding herd on my own kids) I tutor/mentor a couple of boys who are acutely ADHD.” Gordy’s witty, literate Web site can be accessed via the alumni e-mail listings on the MKA Web site. James Brothers, retired from the Army, doesn’t have to “worry about being sent to weird places at a moment’s notice.” He has been, er, deeply involved in archeological projects, including Cactus Hill, a “pre-Clovis” site near Petersburg, Va.; a geophysical survey of Falling Creek Iron works (11619-22); and two mid-19th century canal boats (Marymont Park, Va.).
Mrs. David Kilnapp (Barbara Peto) 15 Fairway Lane Pembroke MA 02359 Class agent: Darcy Witt Zonino 970 Amble Road Shoreview MN 55126
MA ______________________ Class agent: Mr. Peter Perretti Ferriers Cottage, Culham Lane Upp. Culham, Wargrave Berkshire RG110 8NR UK Best wishes to Henry Talbot and Alena Nemcikova on their wedding (in Maui, Hawaii). They live in Smoke Rise and “would love to hear from any classmates nearby or passing through.”
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ceremony. She was eloquent, she was nostalgic, she was thoughtful, witty, and inspiring.
MA _______________________ Ms. Susan Read 38 College Circle Staunton VA 22401-2375 davick@intelos. net
MA _______________________ Mr. Gregory Lackey 138 Paupukkewis Trail Medford Lakes NJ 08055 Class agent: Mr. Rudy Schlobohm 78 Montclair Avenue Montclair NJ 07042 Crane’s Chicago Business did a profile on Jeffrey Kindler in February. Jeffrey, general counsel and EVP of McDonald’s, was named liaison to the recently acquired Boston Market chain. Jeff is in charge of using the real estate to convert some units to Chipotle Mexican Grill and Donatos Pizza restaurants. Jeffrey, a lawyer, was praised for his ability to see the business issues “down the road.” Durwin Johnson, about to complete seminary studies at Drew U., preached his first sermon at New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, in June. Managing partner of The Rene Group, Durwin is a graduate of Brown and a COGME Fellow at Wharton School. He and his wife have two daughters, a son, and a grandson.
Class agent: Ms. Erin Cuffe Crawford 102 Buckingham Road Upper Montclair NJ 07043 “Our 25th reunion was the best!” writes Anne Johnson Anspach. She has a new job in the business office at Chestnut Hill Academy, a small independent school for boys in Philadelphia.
Mr. Rudolph Schlobohm 78 Montclair Avenue Montclair NJ 07042 castlecompany @ibm. net In June, Danny Beim e called from Spring Lake, where he was filming a movie with Cameron Diaz. He plays himself- singing, playing the piano - in My Father’s House, an independent feature film directed by Larry Holden.
October 14,2000 Reunion chairmen: Ms. Katie Grover 20 Fifth Avenue, 17B New York NY 10011 Brian & Lisa Irwin Keane 26 John Street Demarest NJ 07627
Cum Laude There are lots of similarities between MKA and Kimberley. The biggest similarity is the pursuit o f knowledge and academic excellence. Kimberley taught me how to think, how to analyze, and how to solve problems. It was rigorous academically, just as MKA is today... This school is all about people and our relationships with each other. For me, there were those special teachers who always knew I could do things I could not even imagine. Mr. Coarsen, Mr. Hemmeter, and Mrs. Faden always knew that I had an ability to act, and sing, and speak out. They never gave up on me. Today I make my living in sales. I could not do what I do today if it weren’t for them. Miss Nesbit started out as my homeroom teacher and ended up as myfriend...
The New York Times gave consistently rave reviews to soprano Barbara Bonney’s singing at the Salzberg Festival, Metropolitan Opera (Susanna in Nozze di Figaro), and recital at Alice Xully Hall. It lauded her Decca CD, Diamonds in the Snow, songs by Nordic composers. “Ms. Bonney sang with scrupulous musicianship, exceptional sensitivity, and.. .convincingly idiomatic delivery of the Swedish, Norwegian and German texts.”
Cum Laude is a very high honor. And who you are has in many ways been shaped by yourfriends who have supported you, by your parents who have hadfaith in you, and by your teachers who have encouraged you to reachfarther than you could imagine you could.
Everyone in the class would have been proud of the speech M artha Bonsai Day gave at this year’s Cum Laude induction
Martha Bonsai Day ’74, Cum Laude 2000 speaker
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Class secretary: Mr. David Soule 120 Linden Avenue Verona NJ 07044 Class agent: Mr. Paul Zukerberg 1901 Wyoming Ave. NW #75 Washington DC 20009 Ken and Nathalie Humbert Rockhill live in Charlotte, N.C., where he manages the fixed-income desk at LDJdirect. Nathalie has her own landscape and design business in Chapel Hill. Their three sons are doing well: Kent 10, Philip 8, and Langston 3. John (Giovanni) Campanile moved back from Florida to New Jersey. A cardiologist, John spoke on medicine at Career Day; his wife is a psychiatrist. They have two children; son Danny just finished 9th grade at MKA. Katie Grover visited AFS student Marianne Gertsch in Switzerland. Marianne fives in Bern, where she grew up, and now works as a psychologist. She has been in touch with several members of the class by e-mail, AND PLANS TO COME TO REUNION FROM SWITZERLAND. Jeffrey Schiffman and John Moore had a great time at an Orioles game at Camden Yards last summer. (“Can’t remember who won.”) John made the trip from D.C. while Jeffrey “trucked in” from Lancaster. They hadn’t seen each other for perhaps 20 years. John, senior program officer with the Academy for Educational Development (AED), works as a consultant to the Department of State arranging short-term educational programs for groups of visiting foreigners. (AED is an 850-employee international development agency with offices in 20 countries.) “Actually,” he writes, “I got started down this path by a summer in Paraguay as an AFS student. I was further nudged along by gifted MA/MKA faculty who would probably be astounded to find out I was actually paying attention, let alone actively juggling the ideas they were trying to share.” Anne Benedict Tischbein and family have been living on a farm in Maine for 10 years. “Between the kids’ (Maeve, 9, and Alexis, 7) activities, our jobs, the farm, working on the Aina school committee, and work, fife is chaotic but enjoyable.” Anne was made a partner at Woodward & Curran last summer. Roger Abbott works with a .Com firm in Toronto, Ontario. Richard Steenland’s family includes his wife, Doreen, and children Anna, 2 fi, and Benjamin, 1. They live in seaside Spring Lake, N.J. He is an anesthesiologist at the
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Jersey Shore Medical Center, concentrating exclusively on anesthesia for heart surgery. They are active in Grace Tabernacle Church. “It will be an enormous pleasure to see my former classmates, teachers, and friends...at reunion,” he writes. So if people are coming to reunion from overseas, mountains and shore, everyone else should too!
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news is Mel is back at work and they all had a happy reunion at Bill’s wedding this summer.
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Ms. Pamela Zeug 250 Mercer Street, C418, New York NY 10012 Mr. Lawrence Garrigan 6103 Ox Bottom Manor Drive Tallahassee FL 32312
Mrs. Paul McFeeley (Laurie Hoonhout) 238 Devon Road Essex Fells NJ 07021
Class agent: Ms. Jane Lugaric Burkhard 299 Crown Road Kentfield, CA 94904
Class agent: Dr. Charles Read 1918 N. Daniel Street Arlington VA 22201
Richard and Elizabeth Ames Abramowitz had a daughter, Carly Brooke, in April. She joins Jack, 7; Paige, 5; and Douglas, 3.
Heartfelt congratulations to Chip Read, who raised $19,000 last year doing the D.C. AIDS ride, bicycling from Raleigh, N.C. to Washington, D.C. - some 340 miles. Chip is director of intensive care medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. “Yes, I’m still in Tampa (15 years),” writes Rob Pariseau, “with Sadie; Hank, 14; Nat, 12; Dan, 10; and Emily, 5. No, I don’t live across from a hotel or next to a nursing home. Come on down.” Our condolences to Brad Scott on the death of his father.
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Class agent: Mr. Robert Hubsmith 16 Warren Road Maplewood NJ 07040 Bev Hall Hildebrand had a horrendous year. Last summer her husband, Mel, almost died after being dragged by a team of runaway horses. He had to be airlifted to Denver U. Hospital with all kinds of breaks and bums and system failures. They all lived in Littleton with Bev’s brother Billy ’82 for four months. As of this June, Mel was still on crutches and needed knee reconstruction. Fortunately, their children, who were in a wagon hitched to the runaway horses, were unscathed. This year everyone had to he vaccinated for rabies after a horse died. “And the Wyoming people say New Jersey is dangerous!” Bev writes. The good
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Betsy DuHamel moved to Boston from Hong Kong in September, via a coupleyear stopover in NYC. She has two daughters, Katherine, 7, and Grace, 9. George Stephens is senior pastor of Forked River Baptist Church in Lanoka Harbor, NJ. Robert Gardner was named acting chairman of the Essex County Improvement Authority, an independent arm of county government. Tom and Sue Felber Durkin have three boys: Tommy, 11; Brian, 9; and Jeffrey, 4. They live in a quiet seaside town north of Boston, and Sue is busy with kids’ hockey, lacrosse, and soccer schedules, plus volunteer work.
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Class agent: Mrs. Anita Sims Rainford 299 North Walnut Street East Orange NJ 07017 In the family: Best wishes to Tarryk and Anita Sims Rainford on their wedding. “As a result of marriage,” Anita writes, “I am a cousin to classmate Patrick Richards and alum Carol Richards ’82.” Harry Haramis, a Board-Certified plastic surgeon, practices with Baxt CosMedical, with offices in Paramus, Wayne and Livingston. Gardner Semet writes, “Still living in Pompton Lakes, still married with 2.0 children, still working for M+T Bank
making commercial mortgages.” Ginny Hall announced a family reunion in Mystic, Conn, at the wedding of brother Bill ’82 with all four siblings and mother Doug Hall. Peggy M ills Kaplan and family have moved to Goshen, NY. “Hannah, 5, is starting kindergarten, which is the reason for leaving our great neighborhood in Upper Manhattan. Benjamin, 2fi, is starting nursery school. Peggy took a leave from Revlon to pack up and move. “We really enjoyed reunion!” she writes. Kim and Lawrence Duca have two children, Kyle, 7, and Erin, 3. “Kyle is involved with hockey at Montclair State U.; we look forward to him skating for MKA some day!”
IraHKunion October 14,2000 Mary L Cole, Esq. 28 Cayuga Trail Oak Ridge NJ 07438 Class agents: Mr. Martin Brayboy 64 Whetstone Road Harwinton CT 06791 Ms. Julia Ruddick Meade 51 Avon Road Bronxville NY 10708 Reunion chairman: Mrs. Pam Eastman Garvey 72 Wootton Road Essex Fells NJ 07021 Gordon and Carmen Fleetwood Paul five in Basking Ridge with dog and cat and a horse stabled nearby. Carmen is assistant managing editor at Dow Jones Newswire, and oversees market coverage for technology, healthcare, and telecom industries. She has been with Dow Jones for six years, and previously was a reporter at the Associated Press. Carmen is in touch with Liz Nebb Owen, who lives in Santa Barbara, Calif. Marego Athans is another journalist from our ranks. She recently switched beats as an education reporter to become a national correspondent at the Baltimore Sun. She covers stories everywhere in the U.S., except Baltimore. John Langstaff, a computer technology consultant, has been running his own company, Compupro, since moving to South Florida 10 years ago. He’s a board member of Miami’s City Theater, and “of counsel” to several other area performing arts organizations. He collaborates with Jonathan Parker (a.k.a. Pollock) on various projects. Jonathan is an attorney
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and senior VP at PaineWebber. Rumor has it that Barb Transue also lives in the Miami area and keeps in touch with John and Jon. Lou Serafini practices law with his brother in Wayne, N.J. Lou is happily married and has three children ranging from 3 to 12. He occasionally runs into Jim Gelenitis and Fred Coles (and me) at the Essex County Courthouse. Pam Eastman Garvey keeps busy in Essex Fells with her husband and two sons, Matthew, 5, and Liam, “terrible two.” She coaches 3rd and 4th grade girls lacrosse, and plays paddle tennis and soccer in her spare time - when not trying to organize our reunion. Rob Cerfolio, our class manic, doesn’t disappoint with his update. Cerf is a cardiothroacic surgeon, whose subspecialty is lung and esophageal surgery. He performed 801 operations last year. He left Mayo Clinic four years ago and is at the U. of Alabama at Birmingham. Cerf and his wife have three boys, 2, 5, and 7, and he coaches all of his boys’ soccer, baseball, hockey and swim teams. He also plays hockey and baseball year round. He reports he loves living in the South and is probably there for the long run. Stefan and Betsy Bacot-Aigner had a second son, Eric Carter, in November, joining big brother Christoph, 2fi. They moved to Basking Ridge this summer. Betsy works three days a week as a production artist for a graphic design firm, the De Plano Group, in Manhattan. Charles and Julia Ruddick Meade had a second child, first son, in March: Thomas Patrick. Barbara Transue is “having a blast in Tucson” doing graphic design, photography, and ad writing for an international engineering firm. “So it’s 110 degrees in June.. .it’s dry heat! In January, there aren’t many other places where you can swim outdoors in the morning, ski in the afternoon, and BBQ when you get back from the slopes. Hope you’re all having fun!” Thanks to everyone who reported in. Keep the updates coming - in person at reunion on October 14. Mary
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George George, wife, and three children Christina, 10, Katie, 6, and Kevin, lfi, -live in the Washington, D.C. area. George works for the Secret Service and is currently assigned to the Presidential Protective Division protecting President
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Clinton. “Travel is extensive and takes me all over the world,” he writes. “It is exciting and challenging and I watch history unfold before my eyes. If you visit the White House, look me up!” Laura Reisch Itzkowitz was a soprano soloist for a performance of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank. “It was lots of fun,” she reports. Pam Berkowsky hosted 25 MKA juniors during the annual visit to D.C. this spring. The visit included lunch, tour of the Pentagon, and attendance at a five press briefing to the Pentagon Press corps. Pam is wearing two hats at the Pentagon -Ml assistant chief of staff to Secretary of Defense Cohen, and assistant to the S.O.D. for Civil Support. [See box.] She and her husband, Adam Shapiro, welcomed their first child, Benjamin Powell Shapiro, in June. Pam reports that Roseanne Pennella gave up a lawyerly job four years ago to pursue professional photography. Roseanne had an exhibition at the Liberty Science Museum again this year, of photos taken in Papua New Guinea. She was on assignment in Morocco in June.
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Ms. Cheryl McCants 730 Northwest Natio Pkwy, Unit E24 Portland, OR 97209 Mr. Thomas Robbins 6 Bradford Terrace Newtown Square PA 19073 Class agent: Mrs. Randi Pickelny Rod 365 Peacock Drive Charlottesville VA 22903 Wendy and James Van Dyk are happy first-time parents of Nicholas Spencer, bom last November. James is major account manager with Konica Corp. in San Diego, Calif. “San Diego is treating us well,” he writes, “but I miss seeing Montclair. It’s been eight years since my last visit to MKA and I’m looking forward to the 20th reunion in 2002. Ouch!” Best wishes to Frances and Bill Hall on their wedding in June, which became a large MKA reunion as well as a Hall family reunion. Peter Edge was best man, Bob Carson was in the wedding party, and Patrick Eng, Robert Kramer, Ed Conlin ’84, and Lynn Towner Dodd ’54 attended
Special Assignment “I have always been interested in intemational/cultural stuff,” says Pamela Berkowsky ’81, “the political uses of culture.. .the battle for hearts and mind.” These days Pam has a different kind of battle plan. In addition to her role as assistant chief of staff to Defense Secretary William Cohen, she has a special assignment to help organize the military effort to increase domestic preparedness for terrorist attacks. Pam was asked to “audit the process” of bringing various parts of the Pentagon together, and to brief journalists about the dangers of biological, chemical, and nuclear attacks on population centers. It is a fine line, she says, between keeping Americans wary and making them paranoid. The appointment had a precedent: in the mid-1990s, Pam handled biological weapons issues for Richard Danzig, then-Undersecretaiy of the Navy. Pam, according to a full-page article in the Princeton Alumni Weekly [3/22/00], joined the Pentagon during the Reagan administration and spent 12 years as a career official “who held down a succession of jobs in such areas as weapons acquisition, insurgency and counterinsurgency, Pentagon management, and international treaty negotiation.” After MKA - where she spent summers studying in France - Pam graduated magna cum laude in international affairs from Princeton, was a Fulbright Scholar in Geneva, then earned a master’s from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Her career has taken her around the world; she visited the Persian Gulf during the war with the Secretary of Defense. This spring Pam hosted the MKA junior class trip to Washington. “ I had such a wonderful time 20 years ago on my junior class trip,” she says. “I asked them, ’Who knows where you might be in 20 years?’”
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Dr. Gary Powell ’83, assistant professor of instructional technology at Wayne State University, Michigan, was pictured on the cover of the university’s New Science magazine [Vol. 13,1999], and his virtual classroom was featured in the lead article. “The WSU professor Dr. Gary Powell 83 teaches a filled-toteaches the cutting capacity course, ’Webedge of technology. Based Instruction,”’ the article states, “makes numerous presentations nationally [to K-12 educators], and often advises international corporations interested in using the technology to train employees located in several countries.”
Gary’s students never have to appear in class or turn in a single sheet of paper. “Everything they created was sent electronically or posted on their own Web page,” he says. He extols the virtues of online classroom instruction, via listserve or chat room, the unlimited resources of the World Wide Web, the consistency of online training (“You don’t have to worry about the differences from instructor to instructor”), the potential of audiographics. Overall, Gary says, “Online courses will get better, focusing on.. .higher levels of engagement, on simulation, and on collaboration between learners and between learners and virtual experts.... The instructor must become a monitor and mentor.” Gary earned a master’s degree in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of New Haven, Conn., and an Ed.D. in instructional technology from the University of Georgia. “See what an MKA education can do?” he says.
(per Bev Hall Hildebrand ’77, whose three daughters were in the bridal party). Ginny Hall ’79, Malcolm ’75, and “avid MKA parent” Doug Hall celebrated.
years, are proud parents of Frank Jr., 4, and Mia, almost one. Dr. Frank practices with Mecklenburg Radiology Assoc, in Charlotte, N.C.
Carrie and David Greenbaum and baby Alexa, 1, have moved to Montclair on Lloyd Road just down from MKA! They met Headmaster Peter Greer at a block party.
Walter Davis is director of international development in the managed futures department of Morgan Stanley. “Living happily in New Providence [N.J.] with my wife Mary and two sons, Ryan, 7, and Patrick, 2,” he writes.
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Class secretaries: Ms. Amy Felber 2841 Sacramento St., 301 San Francisco CA 94115
Ms. Maureen Towers Natkin 5 Riverview Road Irvington NY 10533 motowers @aol. com Class agent: Mrs. Kristine Hatzenbuhler O ’Connor 159 Fells Road Essex Fells NJ 07021 Best wishes to Emily and John McGrath, whose wedding was an MKA affair. Emily’s father, Richard Rodin, is on the MKA faculty; her mother taught at Brookside for years. David McGrath ’88 was best man; Patricia McGrath Griffin ’84x, Robyn McGrath ’92, and Victoria M ollard ’85 were bridesmaids, and faculty member Richard Reiter was flautist. Jody Underwood is a physician at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. Lynn Gabriel is human resources director at Moore Capital Management, NYC. Michelle and Frank Kosarek, married six
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Welcome, alumni children: Kathy and Elliot Semet had a “beautiful baby boy, Evan Christopher” in November. “Looks like Dad!” Elliot writes. Also in November, Eric and M arci Reiss Berger had a second son, Jake Justin, who joins brother Reiss, 3fi. Jake’s godfather is Marci’s brother, Dr. Ted Reiss ’75. Marci works as a public affairs director for a women’s health center in Morristown.
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Class secretary and class agent: Mrs. Jennifer Jones Ladda 110 Glen Rock Road Cedar Grove NJ 07009
Class agent: Mrs. Andrew Wilson (Laura Dancy) 325 Ridgewood Avenue Glen Ridge NJ 07028 Congratulations to Cynthia Robin, who received a Ph.D. in anthropology from U.Penn in December. Her dissertation, “Towards an Archaeology of Everyday Life: Maya Farmers o f.. .Belize” was based on excavations of farming communities, 660-790 A.D. Cynthia
received numerous grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright, to fund her research. She is now an assistant professor of anthropology at Northwestern U. Congratulations to Debi and Victor Lupi on the birth in March of Abigail Claire, “the newest member of MKA’s Class of 2018!” Robert Leonardo announced the birth of his third daughter, Olivia Katherine. He started his own mortgage company, Millenia Mortgage, in Fairfield, N.J. Sarah and Ken Vostal welcomed their first child, Taylor Lawrence, in January. He joins step-brother Chester. Marc-Andre Buenger lives in Paris (as in France), where he works for UBSWarburg.
union October 14,2000 Mr. John Booth III 1912 Harwood Road Annapolis MD 21401 Reunion chairmen: Ms. Michelle Kessler 372 West 11th Street, Apt. 1 New York NY 10014 Mr. Jeffrey Schackner 220 E. 65th Street, Apt. 7M New York, NY 10021 Class agent: Ms. Alexis Polonofsky Zebrowski 33 Glen Road Verona NJ 07044 M elissa Bradley was featured in an article called “A Course in Money and Power” in Money fo r Women magazine [May/June 2000]. Melissa is one of the founders of the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, a program that treats financial know-how as a key to power. She also founded BHC, a dotcom that teaches money basics, and a nonprofit that trains young people to start small businesses. Melissa graduated from Georgetown and earned an M.B.A. at American University. Susan Glasser has been named Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post. She will be married in September, then move overseas for three years. Paula and David Tessler were expecting their first child in September. Last year they bought an apartment in Manhattan. Robin Schwartz, husband Jack, and son Alex, 2, moved to North Caldwell. Alex is best friends with Joseph and Jack Bizub, children of Tim and Donna Del Gaizo Bizub, who live nearby!
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S e r v in g t h e M o s t N e e d y Dr. Ross Zbar ’84, a plastic surgeon, has spent the past year traveling around the world, performing surgery on impoverished children and adults and instructing local surgeons in specialized techniques. Ross, subject of a lengthy front-page article in The Montclair Times, has been a volunteer member of Interplast, a nonprofit organization that sends medical teams to developing nations.
Dr. Ross Zbar ’84 and petite Vietnamese patient.
Ross has repaired cleft palates and bps (his specialty), and operated on deformities and bum scars in more than 12 different cities and eight different countries, to patients from four months to 75 years old, often in rudimentary conditions. After surgery, Ross often stayed behind to educate local doctors one-on-one.
“I think I’m keeping the Lonely Planet Guidebook in business,” he is quoted in the Times, en route to Brazil after serving in Peru, Nepal, Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Vietnam, and Laos. Ross is the first recipient of the Jerome P. Webster Fellowship in International Pediatric Plastic Surgery. He went all the way through MKA, kindeigarten-12, then attended Harvard and earned his M.D. from Yale. He interned at Lenox Hill Hospital and did residencies at the University of Iowa and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. After this tour, he will practice pediatric plastic surgery in Montclair. “You get the satisfaction of helping someone who’s incredibly poor,” he told the Times. “The level of poverty in some of these countries is indescribable. After the operation, they can get a job, get married, function in society.” Jeff Schackner was made VP in Solomon Smith Barney’s mergers and acquisitions group, NYC. He is engaged to attorney Alison Wiener.
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Ms. Sherry Ahkami 5205 Fiore Terrace, Apt. 417 San Diego CA 92122 Ms. Jennifer Remington Knodel Park Glen #1602 105 Roseland Avenue Caldwell NJ 07006 Class agent: Ms. Julia Weil 115 E. 87th Street, #39E New York NY 10014 Sherry Ahkami and husband, Kam Raiszadeh, live in San Diego, where she is in-house counsel at Children’s Hospital.
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Mrs. Joy Booth-Roussel 5509 Camp Street New Orleans LA 70115 Class agent: Ms. Andrea Schackner 10 Markham Circle Englewood NJ 07631 Jennifer Bowser Quella is working as a consultant with the Lesotho Education Acceleration Project (LEAP) in Africa, which focuses on literacy education in rural villages and primary school teacher training. Jennifer writes, “My office fills a large void in education, agriculture, health and nutrition extension work.” She left the capital to work in the mountains, where many of the villages are at 8,000-12,000 feet, with small populations of subsistence economies. Best wishes to Dana and Deborah Rosen Glazer on their wedding. Marla Gross Lerman (who sent the news) was matron of honor; Larry Rosen ’84 and Douglas Rosen ’91 were groomsmen. Proud father of the bride was M artin Rosen ’58; other guests were Arthur Rosen ’61, Richard Rosen, and Tracy Mattikow ’89. Deborah co-founded “Glass Slipper Productions” (NYC), and is working to produce a series of shows due out this year.
Marla works at Integrated Commun ications Corp., a pharmaceutical advertising company, in Parsippany, N.J. Marla and husband Bruce have a son, Alexander, 2. Carrie and Ken Gilson moved to Monmouth, Ore., near Salem, where Ken is registrar at Western Oregon U. He is enjoying the administrative side of the academic world and hopes to start a J.D. or Ph.D. soon. Katie and David Pike had their first child, a daughter named Aidan Muldoon, in January. They live in Charlotte, N.C., where he is an AVP with First Union capital markets. David received an M.B.A. in finance from Boston U. in 1998. Sabino Rodano was made AVP at Claritas, Inc., after recognition as the top sales consultant in 1999, with 125 percent of his sales goal. He works with banks and insurance companies in the Northeast on how to better market their products. Sabino also serves as treasurer of the MKA Alumni Council. Congratulations to June and Rich Stanton on the birth of son Jack in July 1999. Rich received an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School in 1999 and went back to Chase to work on a new media and Internet technologies team. Evan W ittenberg has started an M.B.A. at Wharton. He was an internal consultant at New York-Presbyterian Hospital where he helped with the merger of New York Hospital/Comell Medical Center and Columbia Presbyterian. Evan achieved his black belt in karate (US Oyama style), and has been teaching karate part-time for two years. As for me, I have a new challenge at a new B2B dotcom firm called MarketsWork. We focus on e-commerce solutions designed to help corporate buyers of indirect goods and services save money; I will be focusing on client management. Dennis
Classmates Deborah Rosen Glazer ’87 and Marla Gross Lerman '87 at Deborah’s wedding.
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Ms. Karen Muenster Fanning 3 LaSalle Road Upper Montclair NJ 07043 Mr. James Petretti 13 Otis Place Verona NJ 07044 Class agent: Mr. Alec Schwartz 46 Plymouth Road Springfield PA 19064 alec@ cmcservices. com
Kim Uddin Leimer is a program planning specialist in language and cultural diversity at Regional Education Lab at Brown U. She directs professional development in school districts around diversity issues and classroom practices. Kim’s daughter Sage just turned one. Congratulations to Joyce McNeill and Alec Schwartz on the birth of Abigail Sarah McNeill Schwartz in May.
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Ms. Suellen Bizub 247 West 87th Street, 6D New York NY 10024 Mr. Louis Lessig 78 Kent Road Huntingdon Valley PA 19006 Class agent: Mr. Josh Raymond 213 Vista Drive Cedar Knolls NJ 07927 Ryan Schinman is president of CNB Entertainment, a company that matches sports and entertainment celebrities with sponsor-hungry corporations. Ryan was pictured and quoted in the May/June 2000 issue of Maxim magazine. Keisha Johnson just built a house in Maryland with her two children (boy and girl). She works as a human resources coordinator for George Washington U. in D.C. Keisha was about to embark on her second marriage in August. G eoff Krouse lives on the Upper West Side, Manhattan, and practices corporate law at Andrews & Kurth. Douglas Dauzier married in 1995. Both he and his wife work in advertising, Doug at BBDO and his wife at Olgilvy & Mather. They were searching for the
perfectly priced apartment in Manhattan near a park so their Welsh terrier could run. Alexa and Peter DeCandia are new homeowners in Scotch Plains, N.J. Some of you attended the Homecoming party they hosted last October. Best wishes to Merita and Sean Fitzgibbon on their wedding. Chris Leber was best man; Scott Holwitt, Andy Weiner, and M elissa Fitzgibbon ’92 were in the wedding party. Sean and Merita live in NYC and he works in Stamford, Conn, as a financial analyst with Columbus Circle Investors. Best wishes also to Katie and Bram Zeigler, who were married in California. Greg Sullivan and Geoff Krouse attended. They five in San Francisco, where he is a project manager at Charles Schwab & Co. Bram graduated magna cum laude from Dickinson College and received a master’s in economics from Washington U. Congratulations to Jeffrey and Sarah Lane Sproha on the birth in March of daughter Amanda Mitzi. Amy Lorentzen completed the NBC page program in New York and was taking the summer off to travel before moving to San Diego. Pam D ’Amato is finishing her medical school rotations, one of which found her in the same Baltimore hospital as Wiemi Douoguih ’88 and Macaya Douoguih ’90. Anthony Vitiello checked in from San Francisco, where he is an account manager with Paradigm Promotions. Deb Hemsley Schultz, her husband, and daughter, Emily Alea (18 months), have settled in North Beverly Mass, after spending the last few years in Denver and New Orleans. David Austin finished an M.B.A. at UNC/Chapel Hill and will work for Qwest in Portland, Ore. after ten weeks this summer in Africa. His wife, Jennifer, did a pediatrics rotation in Tanzania, then they climbed Kilimanjaro and went on safari. Dave packed their sleeping bags in a sturdy MKA laundry bag from the Senior Breakfast! I now work at Merrill Lynch at the World Financial Center marketing fixed income. I ran into Anya Buenger at a writers’ conference and it was not until afterwards that we realized we were working a tower away from each other. Suellen
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Ms. Lorelei Muenster Lmuensterl @yahoo.com
Reunion chairmen: Ms. Meredith McGowan 3 Gull Road Rowayton CT 06853 Ms. Merle Pear 16 West 75th Street New York NY 10023 Mr. David Becker 185 E. 85th Street #29C New York NY 10028 Class agent: Mr. Chris DeStefano 225 Rector Place 8F New York NY 10280 Best wishes to John and Susannah Arwood DuPuy on their wedding, which took place in Bay Head last December. They live in Charlotte, N.C. Best wishes, too, to Jason Agard and Kristy Scanlan on their California wedding. They met at Wesleyan U. Kristy works at Miner Vision in L. A. as VP of development for Steve Miner, in charge of looking for feature and TV material for him to direct, as well as developing material for him to produce. Jill Porter Larson received a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard in June. She and her husband have moved to Seattle. M att Fiore received a master’s in environmental and energy management from U. of Delaware. He works in Cherry Hill, N.J. as a mortgage broker for American Residential. M argaret Irwin is living in Portland, Me., teaching high school Spanish. Rich and Paula Kovanic Spiro just had a baby boy named Benjamin Joshua. They live in Pittsburgh and Paula works for a CDC-funded injury research center. Nikki DeVita works as a therapist in outpatient mental health. She has a master’s in counseling psychology and has finished her third semester of a doctorate in clinical psychology. Chris DeStefano was spotted in a fullpage ad (Newark Economic Development Corp.) in the New York Times and The Star-Ledger extolling the benefits of locating a business in Newark. Chris is president/CEO of HybriNet, an Internet infrastructure company that “integrates the online world with major brick-and-mortar retailers.”
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New York, New York: David Becker works at Time Equities in Manhattan. M erle Pear has a new job as international marketing manager at 24/7 Media, an interactive marketing and technology solutions company based in NYC. Heather W hite is a corporate lawyer in NYC, primarily doing mergers and acquisitions at Paul, Weiss, Riflind, Wharton & Garrison. Tiffini Kriegel works at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in their choice (fee-based account) marketing department. She is engaged to Brendan Haley, who is in business school at Cornell. Meredith McGowan works at ABN AMRO’s institutional research sales department in NYC, and lives in Connecticut. After completing his internship in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Brett Zbar joined the New York office of McKinsey & Co. As a management consultant, he focuses on the Internet, private equity, and health care. Brett and his wife, Lori, live in Manhattan. Michael Mark surfaced in movie heaven: he owns two video stores, Couch Potato Video, in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. He and his wife, Lome, were married on the beach in St. Croix. Meredith
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Ms. Jamie Lenis 59 Hickory Hill Court Rockaway NJ 07866 Ms. Dara Mormon 127 East 30th Street, 15A, New York NY 10016 telldjm@aol.com Class agent: Mr. Luke Sarsjield 275 Greenwich Street, Apt. 8M New York NY 10007 It must have been a millennium thing. Lots of people wrote in from around the country to share news. Michael Kramer is opening a motion picture production company in L.A., and planned to begin filming their first feature film before the fall. Joe Fiordaliso is now a legislative assistant to Senator Bob Torricelli in Washington, D.C. Joe advises the senator on environment, energy, and agriculture issues, and plans to attend graduate school for a master’s degree in public policy. Pat Uhm and Balaji Gandhi stopped by to
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party with Joe; Pat lives in Manhattan, and Balaji, back on the East Coast from San Francisco, is there too. Up the East Coast, Mark Politan wrote from Roseland, N.J. After graduating from Emory Law School in Atlanta, Mark now works for Lowenstein Sandler P.C. For the record, Mark reported that he is not married, but Alex Balk is, and Owen Grover is soon to be a groom. Mark keeps up with ex-pats around the globe: Nils Ostberg lives and works in Aix-enProvence, France, and Ulysses De La Torre calls Singapore home. Ulysses attended Madeline Temple’s wedding. From nearby Warren Township, Rashida MacMurray filled me in on her life since leaving MKA. She graduated from the U. of Virginia in 1995 (sorry Steve, some people don’t call it “The University”) with a B.A. in architecture, and followed that with an M.E. in civil engineering in ’97. She worked for an international construction company, then moved to Lucent Technologies. As a project manager in the real estate division, she travels weekly, so it is amazing that Rashida can be a part-time law student at Rutgers U. A career in construction law, intellectual property, or corporate litigation may be in the cards. Jacqueline Kearney is a 5th grade teacher in Paramus. She was getting married in August to Chris Bladek, a computer engineer. Camilla Galesi graduated from Washington and Lee Law School this spring. She is happy to be back in Montclair and plans to take both the New York and New Jersey bar exams. Across the Hudson, Erica Lewis reported in from Washington Heights. Erica graduated from Harvard Law School in June 1999. She passed both the N.Y. and N.J. bar exams and is now an associate in banking and finance at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. While in Cambridge, Erica ran into Luke Sarsfield, who was attending Harvard Business School. He is now at Goldman Sachs, NYC. From Cambridge, Eugene Mazo writes from Harvard. He said he never left the world of academe, but never did tell me what he was doing there. He says that Steven Most ’90 is getting a Ph.D. in psychology at Harvard. Gene keeps in touch with Steve Pestka. After rotations in Great Britain and completing medical school at U.Penn, Dr. Pestka is off to Chicago, where he’s doing a four-year residency in internal medicine and pediatrics. He hopes to see some fellow alumni “before disappearing into the depths of the U. of Chicago hospital for four years.”
Seth Traum recently became my neighbor two blocks away. Seth earned his M.B.A. from NYU in May, and will work for DLJDirect once he is done enjoying a vacation. Keep the cards and letters coming, folks. As fair warning, I am now on the Alumni Council. When that phone rings in November, it will be me asking for donations! Dara
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Mr. Enrique Neblett 40 Highview Terrace Bloomjield NJ 07003 eneblett@yahoo.com Ms. Tamar Safer Radfar 1 14th Street #807 Hoboken NJ 07030 Class agent: Ms. Anne Marie Verdiramo 2804 Second Street SW #118 Rochester MN 55902 The class is on the move. James Chi checked in with MKA for the first time. After receiving a B.A. from U.Penn in international relations, he earned a J.D. from Temple Law School in 1999. This year he received an LLM in taxation from Temple. James has moved to NYC, where he works as an associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers in their tax department. Anne Marie Verdiramo works as an RN in the neurological intensive care unit at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. She plans on starting a master’s in critical care soon. Cheryl Sinner finished her first year as a school speech/language pathologist in Aurora, Ind. She received national certification as an SLP in June. In Chicago, journalist Jeff Glasser covers the Midwest for U.S. News & World Report. Marie D ’Amato teaches high school English at the Liberal Arts Academy, a public magnet school in Austin, Texas. She also teaches an outdoor ed. class and coaches Ultimate Frisbee. Marie plays on a traveling ice hockey team. “I do tniss the East Coast,” she writes, “but playing golf in shorts in January helps cheer me up.” Clifford Finkle moved to San Francisco, where he works in Goldman Sachs’ private wealth management group. An “X” of the class, Alex Calfee, mustered out of the Marines this summer after four years, and is getting married in September.
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Ms. Renee Monteyne 10 Lookout Point Trail Totowa Borough NJ 07512
Ms. Monica Fernand. 7Josephein Avenue Somerville MA 02144
Marcy Shapiro is working on a master’s in social work at NYU. She graduated from Ithaca College.
Mr. Brian Wecht 3891-D Miramar Street La Jolla CA 92037
Class agent: Mr. John Saroff 67 Eagle Rock Way Montclair NJ 07042
Kristin W hite, who graduated from NYU in 1999, is with the Peace Corps in Bulgaria teaching English. She says there is a great need for literature there, especially novels, and was happy to have some MKA “discards.”
Class agent: Ms. Lisa Gittleman 88 Fairview Avenue Verona NJ 07044 Rupali Gandhi graduated from Yale Law School in May, and will be starting Yale Medical School in the fall. “My long-term plans,” she writes, “are to practice medicine and be involved with bioethics/medical policy.” Eric Kusseluk is attending Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia. Laura Caprario is in her first year at Georgetown School of Medicine, after receiving an M.S. in epidemiology from Harvard in June 1999. Jason Barr is the sports anchor on the Fox 10 o’clock news in Wilmington, N.C. You can see his picture, bio, and column on www.wsfx.com. After three years in Colorado “living the life of a radio personality and ski bum,” Brett Shanahan returned to New Jersey to pursue new career goals. Stephanie O’Brien is working as an account exec at a PR firm in NYC. Among her clients are the Mandarin Hotel in London and the Brazilian Court, Palm Beach, Disneyland, and some Manhattan restaurants. She hopes to check on the Mandarin this fall, as brother Richard ’98 is studying at the London School of Economics. Vejay Lalla graduated from the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, and is now an attorney with Cowan, Liebowitz and Latman in NYC, practicing in the areas of entertainment, trademark, and Internet/ e-commerce. Taryn R eif lives in the Los Angeles area and is having a productive acting career. She spent last fall in the Philippines filming an action/horror feature, “an incredible adventure in the jungles of Asia.” She finished a Fox family movie, “Whipped,” with Amanda Peete. Taryn has done some TV work in episodes of “Days of Our Lives” and “City Guys” (NBC). “Hope to see you at the movies!” she writes from “La La Land.”
Many thanks to Rosemary Monteyne for her tour as class secretary. Anyone wishing to “receive the pen” should contact the Alumni Office. Jaime Bedrin is back in school, working on a master’s at Columbia U. School of Journalism. Elizabeth Osur is also in school, attending Columbia Business School. She’s spent the last three years living and working in New York. Gillian Sheeran works for Painewebber, NYC. Ben Roth is at Stanford Law School. Priya Khanna is in med. school at University of Health Sciences, Kansas City, Mo. She graduated from Drew U. cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with honors in her double majors, biology and Spanish. Best wishes to Oliver and Tara Grossbard Rothschild on their wedding; Jillian Lutzy, Andria Kyriakides, and Anan Joe Pathuri helped celebrate. Oliver and Tara planned a six-month honeymoon hiking the Appalachian Trail. They met at Clark U., where she is pursuing a master’s in environment, science, and policy. Chris Del Collo works for Cornell U. as a graphics designer in the office of distance learning. “My three dogs and I love Ithaca,” he writes. Our condolences to Bernard Maas on the death of his father.
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Ms. Rita Papaleo 31 Femwood Terrace Nutley NJ 07110 ritapap @ aol. com Reunion chairmen: Ms. Shan-Shan Yam yams3309@hotmail, com
Mr. Jonathan Hirsh jhirsh @pacacc. com
Christine Little attends Utah State U., pursuing a second bachelor’s degree in elementary education. Kristen Klank received a degree in elementary ed. from Loyola College. liana Safer, with B.A. in economics from Duke, is attending Georgetown Law School. Kristine Sova is attending Fordham Law. She graduated from NYU with B.A. in English and creative writing. Nicholas Stephenson is an admissions counselor at Susquehanna U. Alexandra Aldea, with B.A. in international relations from Hamilton College, is working on Wall Street as a human resources specialist at AIG, an international insurance company. Vanessa M izzone is an independent actress in NYC. She played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet with a national touring production. She graduated from U.Penn Phi Beta Kappa, with a double major in theater arts and communications. Elizabeth O’Brien graduated from Wheelock College and will teach at New Canaan Country Day, Conn. Raelynn Schwartz came back to offer to help MKA students interested in debate in college. A successful debater at the U. Vermont (Debater of Eastern Region, 1998-99), Raelynn was asked to stay on and coach the UVM team for a year. This fall she will begin a master’s in communications and become assistant coach of the debate team at Wake Forest U. Her undergrad degree was in women’s studies and poly sci at UVM. Charles Kaplan, B.A. in psychology from Wesleyan U., is casting director at Grant Wittley Casting, NYC. With a B.S. in marketing management from Syracuse, Jonathan Hirsh is an account exec with Pacific Access Technology, N J.
Class agent: Mr. Matthew Drukker 400 E. 57th Street, #15C
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Richard Sutter works in Web production with Bertelsmann, NYC. He earned a B.A. in psychology from Susquehanna U.
Ms. Melissa Schlachter 32 Larsen Lane Lincoln Park NJ 07035
Sara Shaning, B.S.B.A. in management from Bucknell, is production coordinator at Organic Media, NYC.
Jen Fink will he graduating a semester early, in December. She lived in NYC and worked for Cahner’s, an industry-specific magazine publishing house, this summer.
Alex Joerger is language production manager at Translations.com, NYC. He received a B.S. in languages from Georgetown. Alex is a member of the MKA Alumni Council, so if you have any concerns or ideas, contact him!
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Ms. Tanya Barnes 7 Melrose Place Montclair NJ 07042 tbames @fas. harvard, edu Ms. Debbie Haight 115 DeWitt Avenue Belleville NJ 07109 deh2 7 @Columbia, edu
Class agent: Mr. Lee Vartan 54 Hamilton Avenue Kearny NJ 07032 Congratulations to our college graduates. News of a few, from proud parents and newpaper clippings: Jill Rodburg works in the human resources benefits dept, at White and Case, NYC, working with the law firm’s 31 international offices. Deborah Haight is a consultant with PricewaterhouseCooper in their management consulting branch, NYC. Vivien Hudig graduated from Willamette U., Ore., with a B.A. in anthropology, minor in French. Jessica Bruder received a B.A. from Amherst College, where she received the Ralph Waldo Rice Price for the best essay on “The Liberal College and Christian Citizenship.” Mari McCrann graduated from Swarthmore College, with a B.A. in women’s studies and psychology.
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Ms. Jennifer Platt 904 Pompton Avenue Cedar Grove NJ 07009
Class secretary and agent: Ms. Jennifer Fink 154 Upper Mountain Avenue Montclair NJ 07042
Class Notes • Fall 2000
For the third summer, Jonathan Zweifler worked for Playboy Enterprises, this time in their L.A. office. He has been appointed “creative director” of a small Web development startup in Chicago, Goldfish Design Inc. MKAers tend to gravitate toward the government department at Conn. College, as four out of the five MKA alums are either government or international relations majors. In fact, M att Iversen ’96, Vikki Bollettino, and I (Jen Platt) are all in the same human rights class. Vikki studied in Spain last semester at the Universidad Coneplutense de Madrid; she also traveled around western Europe. She is minoring in Spanish. I am an international relations major and devote most of my free time to Amnesty International. I am Amnesty’s Death Penalty Abolition coordinator for the state of Connecticut and president of our campus chapter. Jen
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Ms. Alison Platt 904 Pompton Avenue Cedar Grove NJ 07009 Class agent: Mr. Alex Holz 992 Valley Road Franklin Lakes NJ 07417 Daniel Blake completed his freshman year at Tufts/New England Conservatory double degree program. Madeline Normile sent in a new address in London, but no news.
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Mr. John Garippa 30 Wayside Place Montclair NJ 07042 Ms. Anna Labowsky 5 Highview Court Wayne NJ 07470 Class agent: Ms. Ashley Griffin 55 Afterglow Avenue Montclair NJ 07042 Welcome, Class of 2000, to your own alumni column!
Class secretary and agent: Gemma Giantomasi Sigma Delta Tau 3833 Walnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104 Danielle Gitkin was one of only three interns from the U.S. at the Cannes Film Festival this summer, per Ithaca College classmate Jessie Schwartz. Exchange student Am oldas Pranckevicius is back in the U.S. as a sophomore at Colgate U., majoring in international relations. After MKA, he returned to Lithuania, finished high school, and began university there.
Laura Schräger ’00 and Adam Schräger ’95 at Commencement.
Keri Knowles is attending the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. For the third year, she has received the “Promising Artist Award,” applied to tuition if her grades are a 3.85 average. Richard O’Brien will spend the year studying at London School of Economics.
Bill Martini ’98 and Marissa Martini ’00 at Commencement.
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Faculty members Ken and Jane Smith with sixth grader Daniel, Kimberly ’00, and (front) second grader Rebecca.
There was a member of the Glosserfamily at MKA every yearfor 25 years. Glasser siblings, L to R: Susan ’85x, Jeffrey ’92, Jennifer ’00, and Laura ’89 at theirfinal MKA Commencement.
M arriages
Faculty member Linda Bollettino (secondfrom right) and Vincenzo Bollettino with (L to R) Vikki ’97, Nelli ’00, and Maria ’94. Missingfrom photo: Enzo Bollettino ’87.
Jill Tobia Sorger ’88, Jay Tobia ’00, and Ali Tobia ’95 at Commencement.
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1963 Deborah Anthony and Donald Smith
April 4, 2000
1970 Jacqueline Bollag & Rich Gruber
May 20, 1999
1972 Henry Talbot and Alena Nemcikova
March 15, 2000
1979 Anita Sims and Tarryk Rainford
April 8, 2000
1982 William Hall and Frances Duhig
June 9, 2000
1983x John McGrath and Emily Rodin
March 4,2000
1987 Deborah Rosen and Dana Glazer
October 9, 1999
1989 Sean Fitzgibbon and Merita Alliu
June 4, 2000
1989 Abraham Zeigler and Katie Mauro
July 0 2000
1990 Susannah Arwood and John DuPuy
December 4, 1999
1990 Michael Mark and Lorrie Fisher
January 8, 1998
1990 Kristy Scanlan and Jason Agard
June 4, 2000
1994 Tara Grossbard and Oliver Rothschild
May 29, 2000
In M emoriam 1922 Janet Moir
December 8, 1999
1924 Dorothy Monro Dill
March 31, 2000
1927 George W. Young
June 16, 1999
1930 Marjorie Kieselbach Dumont
March 21, 2000
1932 Lucy Fields Haskins
January 31, 2000
1935 Richard B. Barnett
1999
1935 Katherine Richards DeLancey
March 15, 2000
1935 Virginia Voorhees Herbert
March 6, 2000
1936 James M. Hermiston
September 1997
1936 Pauline O’Gorman Morrison
February 9, 2000
1946 Richard Dunney
1997
1959 Duncan MacMillan
1999
1953 Lois Creighton Lindsay
May 10, 2000
1955 James V. Addy
January 4, 2000
1955 Robert E. Brolli
January 2000
1960 Alicia De Rosa Nieves
1999
1975 Gene Ciancimino
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M K A W eb S ite Tune in to M KA’s W eb site for adm issions, alum ni, calendar, history, sports inform ation:
www.montclairkimberley.org
Are You Lost? Moved? M arried? Please send news, photos, and/or address changes to the Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042, or call 973/746-9800. Or e-mail caustin @mka.pvt. kl 2.nj. us.
Letters to the Editor MKA and the Review welcome questions and comments from readers. We publish selected letters in a Letters to the Editor page, “MKA-mail.” What do you think? Please send your thoughts to the MKA Review, Alumni Office, 201Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042.
E-mail MKA alumni can contact each other via email - if they have registeredfor the class list on the Web site. Go to the site www.montclairkimberley.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.) Readers can contact any member of the faculty or administration by the following formula: < first initial last name @mka.pvt.kl2.nj.us>
Wanted Alumni and parent volunteers are wanted to share advice and experience with current students and recent alumni. Career Services - A networking referral service to advise recent MKA alumni on internships, resumes, jobs, career paths. We particularly need advisors in financial areas, technology, and summer internships. We also have requests for advisors in major
cities, such as Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Bank of 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 of more than 50 talented people who volunteered through the Bank. Call Mamie McNany at Career Services, 973.746.9800, or contact us through the MKA Web site www. montclairkimberley. org
T hank You Thank you to these new class secretaries for volunteering:
Vardy Laing '33 Edward Griggs '69 John Garippa '00 Anna Labowsky '00 (If your class has no secretary, why not volunteer? Call the Alumni Office at 973/746-9800 for further information.)
MKA Chairs Wonderful gifts or graduation presents! M KA chairs are antique black with maple arms and bear the official M KA seal in gold. Each chair sells for $250; a rocking chair version is available for $275. Please add $25 for shipping and handling. Your order must be accompanied by a check made payable to The Montclair Kimberley Academy. Send to: The Alumni Office, MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042
Alumni Dates To Remember HOMECOMING/REUNIONS 2000 October 14 ALUMNI PHONATHON November 6-9 THANKSGIVING DAY GAME November 23 10:30 Away at Newark Academy CAREER DAY March 7 SENIOR BREAKFAST May 3 ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME May 5
Class Notes • Fall 2000
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Alumni Awards 2001 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD NOMINATION FORM NOM INEE____________ '
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ACHIEVEMENTS_______________________________________________________________
(Please include additional information or resume on a separate sheet.) Submitted by: NAME
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A D D R ESS_________________________________________________
TELEPH O NE_____________________________________________ _ Detach and mail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD CRITERIA To all alumni, parents, trustees, faculty, staff and friends of The Montclair Kimberley Academy: The Distinguished Alumni Award Committee is hereby accepting nominations for the recipient of the 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award. The recipient should have achieved distinction in some field of 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 of recipient. The purpose of 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 of alumni and of 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 NOM INEE__________________________________CLASS____________________________ SPO RTS______________________________________________________________________ ACHIEVEMENTS______________________________________________________________
(Please include additional information or resume on a separate sheet.) Submitted by: NAME
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A D D R E SS_________________________________________________ Swim Team 1918.
TELEPHONE_________________________________________________ Detach and mail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 MKA ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME AWARDS CRITERIA The Montclair Kimberley Academy Athletic Hall of Fame was founded to honor those who have made telling contributions to the school’s athletics. Its purpose is to perpetuate the memory of those persons who have brought distinction, honor, and excellence to Montclair Academy, The Kimberley School, The Brookside School, and MKA in athletics. 1. Nominee must have been an outstanding varsity athlete, coach, Athletic Director, trainer, or major contributor (financial and/or participant) at MA, TKS, Brookside, or MKA and/or brought distinction to the school through related and subsequent athletic accomplishments. 2. Student nominees must have attended MA, TKS, Brookside, or MKA for at least two years, and have graduated from MA, TKS, Brookside, or MKA. Student nominees must have graduated at least five years prior to the year of 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 of 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.
The Montclair Kimberley Academy’s Board of Trustees has established the Heritage Society in honor of those donors who make a commitment to guarantee the future financial security of the school. These generous donors arrange bequests, establish trusts, and make gifts to thè Academy’s Pooled Income Fund.
A bequest may take a variety of forms, including: A gift of cash; securities, or real property A specified percentage of your estate A contingency bequest, naming MKA in your will if other beneficiaries are no longer living.
The Pooled Income Fund is, simple and straightforward. The fund will accept any gift of $5,000 or more. The money is invested in a well-managed fund, and the donor - or his designee - receives, quarterly dividends based on the amount of the investment. Upon the death of the donor or designee, the original investment becomes a gift to MKA. If you have highly appreciated stock with a low dividend yield, you cap contribute the stock to MKA’s Pooled Income Fund (avoiding capital gains tax), receive a tax deduction (based on actuarial figures); and increase your present income with a higher yield on this investment. It’s good for you, and, over the long run, good for the school. If you have included the school in your estate plan, whether with a bequest or other planned gift, please let the Office of External Affairs know so that we may honor you as a member of the Heritage Society. For further information, call or write: Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs, The Montclair Kimberley Academy, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042 (973/746-9800).
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Brookside students at Field Day.