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C over Ninety-three new alumni graduated in the MKA Class o f 2002.

C ontents From the H eadm aster................................... 1 From the Board o fT ru ste es......................... 2 MKA-mail.................................................. . . 3 There’s So Much O ut T here......................... 4 In M em o riam ................................................. 8 Notes Around M K A ......................................9 Commencement A w ard s............................ li] Newest A lu m n i.............................................16 Athletic Hall of Fame V II............................ 18 O n the R o a d ......... ........................................19 From the Alumni Association .................. 20 Distinguished Alumni A w ard.....................24 ..Cougar Sports . . . . . ................................... 25 Class Notes ................................................. 27

Review Editors Christie Austin Judy Polonofsky

C ontributors Debbie Kozak Laurie H oonhout McFeelcy ’76

P h o t o C redits Christie Austin Jane Lugaric Burkhard ’78 Philip Cantor Darren Cooper, The M ontclair Times Anthony Cuneu Diane Davis David H o lla n d er^ Dan Katz Debbie Kozak « Laura Lemaire I Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76 Lily Solmssen Moureaux ’59 Alec Schwartz ’88 Published twicelyearly by: The Montclair Kimberley Academy 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042 973/746-1800. FAX: 9 7 3 /t 8 3 - f |3 | www.montclairkimberley.org Entered as third class matter at Montclair NJ 07042 Design: Gemini Studio, Inc. West Caldwell NJ ^Printed on recycled paper

The MKA Alumni Association is ah organization of all men and women who have attendecl1the Upp'er School. Its purpose is to/make known to MKA the ideas, interests, and Concerns of alumni and to inform alumni of the Accomplishments and objectives o f MKA. The AlumnilCouncil is the governing Board, a representative group elected at the Association’s annual meeting to sponsor events and activities linking alumni with their alma mater.

A lumnT^ ssociation \ C ouncil 2002-2003 Lisa S. Auf/.ien ®76 Toby BizubDS3 Daniel Carson 83 Dana Cestone Robert Nottingham Tr. ’84 Erin Culfe Crawford ’74 Lawrence P. D ucaw 9 Susan Cole Furlong ’78 Vice President Janine Garland ’82 Richard G. Jenkins ’l l S p Drew Jennings ’04 Alex Joerger ’95 India Hayes I artier ’80 Secretary Dara Marmon ’91 Mark D. McGowan ’85 Joshua H. Raymond ’89 Executive Vice P re sid en t^ Denise Sarkor ’03 _ Lauren Sarti ’04 Alec P. Schwartz ’88 Treasurer Keshia T rotm an|92 Patricia Shean W orthington ’74 President Peter R. Greer Headmaster Judy Polonofsky Director o f External Affairs Christie Austin Alumni Director Laurie 1 Ioonhout McFeeley ’76 Director o f Alumni Giving and Planned Giving

A dvisory C ouncil Lori W indolf Crispo ’78 Martha Bonsai Day ’74 Kristine Hatzenbuhler O ’Connor ’83 J. Dean Paolucci ’73

B oard of T rustees 2002-2003 Linda Û. Almeida Trayton M. Davis Karen A. Dias-Martin A.J. (Penny) Finkle Michael P. Frasco Peter R. Greer, Headmaster Alice M. Hirsh Michael V. Johnson Peter S. McMullen ’77 J. Clarence Morrison AhnejE. Muenster Eric F. Pai ’79 Keith D. Phillips Laura L. P h B p s Marisabel R. Raymond Michael L. Rodburg Treasurer1''“ Newton B. Schotti Jr. Président Robert H ^Silver Jo lin d iD . Smith Frank D- Speno Robert L. Tortoriello Secretary David L. Turock Vice. P resid en t, * Denise G. Wagner ” Vice President .• John T. Weisel Patricia S. W orthington ’7 ^ E

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

A dvisory T rustees Edwin J. Delattre Barry W. Ridings ’70 Herbert H. Tate Jr. ’71

M ember: Alumni Program Council of Independent Schools (APC) Council for Advancement and Support o f Education (CASE) National Association o f Independent Schools (NAIS) New (Jersey Association of Independent Schools (NJAIS) MKA complies with all state and federal anti-discrimination laws.

From the Headmaster D ear M K A Community, A t the end o f M ark Tw ain’s Tom Saw yer, the narrator com ments, “ Some day it m ay seem w orthw hile to take up the story o f the younger ones again and see w hat sort o f m en and w om en they turned out to b e ..^ H There is m ystery and a frustration in a teaching career. There is a central truth that teachers love and instruct their students, their students go aw ay to college, and little is know n how it all “turned out.” Except for those students w ho either respond to their class secretaries about the latest new s or w ho return to M K A to talk about their lives w ith their teachers at Hom ecom ing, Thanksgiving, other holidays, or the sum m er (or w hen proud parents relay inform ation about their daughters and sons), teachers really do n ’t know if the academ ic lessons and habits o f behavior they w orked so hard to instill in their students took root and flowered. I w as told about a letter to a professor from a form er student:

Headmaster Peter Greer and Maintenance team at Commencement.

D ear P rofessor Stelzig: In 1981, as part o f the course nam ed “Practical C riticism ,” I read K afka’s M etam orphosis. D espite m uch class discussion, I didn’t quite “get it.” In fact, I didn’t “get it” at all. I haven’t touched the book since. In 1996, w hile sitting at m y desk and apparently out o f now here, I understood the book. Thank you. Yours truly, W hat a happy professor to hear this result! A few years ago, I m et a student at a chain-restaurant at the M all in South Portland, M aine. I had not seen this favorite student o f m ine for tw entysix years. I w as so nervous and so full o f questions. A fter an uneasy start, I began to probe and learn as m uch as possible about m y form er student’s life. H er life had not been easy, though she had earned her Ph.D. and w as a college professor in Florida. W hen w e left, and I had p ut dow n the tip and gotten up to pay the bill, I realized I had barely touched m y meal. I had to know everything; I had to know the result o f m y effort. ' This fall issue o f R eview is our attem pt to address the m ystery and frustration. We have pledged to be m ore aggressive in finding how it all turned out for groups o f M K A alumni. O ur first attem pt at this is the group related to journalism . A lum ni D irector Christie A ustin has researched and w ritten an article that w ill m ake us all proud o f the alum ni identified ~ .and proud o f their M K A teachers and experience. W hen you exam ine the photo o f K enneth G ibson (36 years at M KA), Calvin M atzke (32 years at M KA), and Jam es Buckley (11 years at M K A ), you understand w hat author E dw ard Shills m eant by “the invisible senate.” These three, and those like them w ho rem ain, provide a steadiness to our M KA. They are the ones true to the ideals o f this institution. They have lived their lives in fidelity to the values o f M KA. They are the ones w ho earned the respect and trust o f their colleagues and students - the ones who m ade such a difference in the academ ics and habits o f current alumni.

M K A R eview • Fall 2002

Their last Commencement. Revered faculty members Calvin Matzke, Ken Gibson, and Jim Buckley retired this June. The Trustees, as individuals and as M KA’s leaders, hold our faculty in high esteem and acknow ledge that the A cadem y will continue to be a successful independent day school only i f it m aintains and attracts the highest quality faculty and staff future m em bers o f the “invisible senate.” The B oard voted unanim ously this spring to m ake increased endow m ent for faculty com pensation M K A ’s next priority. O ur pledge is that M K A w ill continue to provide excellent teaching and services to our students and families. A s a school and as its individual m em bers, w e w ill thrive. W ith best wishes, Dr. Peter R. G reer H eadm aster

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From the Board of Trustees

Trayton M. Davis

Keith D. Phillips

The last year w as a good one for M K A , despite the events o f Septem ber 11 and the troubled econom ic environm ent. It was also a busy year for the B oard o f Trustees. A s I look forw ard to serving again as President o f the B oard o f Trustees o f The M ontclair K im berley Academy, personally and on b eh a lf o f the entire M K A community, I thank m y colleagues for their continued support and hard w ork in this new year. We are pleased to w elcom e seven new m em bers.

Trayton M. Davis is a partner and head o f G lobal Corporate Finance at the law firm o f M ilbank, Tweed, H adley & M cCloy. H e received a bachelor’s degree from H averford College and a law degree from N ew York U niversity Law School. A m em ber o f the A m erican B ar A ssociation and the A m erican College o f Investm ent Counsel, he is active w ith St. P au l’s Episcopal Church in Paterson. H e is an avid supporter o f M K A football, and has served as an affiliate m em ber on the B oard’s Educational Policy Com m ittee. Trayton and his w ife, M aris, have tw o children attending M K A , A ndrew in ninth grade and K atherine in sixth. Keith D. Phillips is a M anaging D irector o f M errill Lynch & Company. A graduate o f Laurentian U niversity in Canada, he received an M .B.A. from the U niversity o f Chicago, and is a m em ber o f the C anadian Institute o f Chartered A ccountants. K eith has served M K A as an A dvisory Trustee for the past two years. H e and his w ife, Shelley, have three children at MKA: D erek in eighth grade, K atherine in sixth, and M ark in third.

Laura L. Phillips joins the B oard for a tw o-year term as the new ly elected President o f the M K A P arents’ Association. She has been a m em ber o f the PAM KA B oard o f O fficers as w ell as Cam pus Vice P resident o f the Prim ary School. L aura received a bachelor’s degree from the U niversity o f N orth C arolina at Chapel H ill and a m aster’s degree in finance from N ew York University. A m em ber o f the K appa K appa G am m a Sorority A lum nae A ssociation (Essex County) and a m em ber o f the B oard o f Trustees o f the M ontclair Foundation, she is also an elder and clerk at the Presbyterian Church o f U pper M ontclair. L aura and her husband, John (a 1978 M K A alum nus), have tw o children at M KA: John in sixth grade and M eg in fifth.

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Laura L. Phillips

M arisabel R. Raymond

Marisabel R. Raymond is a past President o f PAM KA and o f the Junior League o f M ontclair-N ew ark. She received a bach elo r’s degree from B oston State College and a m aster’s degree in education from H arvard University. She is actively involved in m any local organizations, including the M ental H ealth Resource Center, the N ew Jersey Cham ber M usic Society, and the Van V leck Foundation. A t M K A she has served on the B oard’s Educational Policy and Student Life com m ittees. M arisabel and her husband, Jerry, have tw o children - Abigail, w ho graduated from M K A in 2001, and Harry, in seventh grade.

Robert H. Silver is President o f U BS Paine W ebber Services. H e is a graduate o f the U niversity o f N orth C arolina at Chapel H ill and holds m any professional m em berships, including D irector o f the N ew York Y M CA ; C orporate W alk C hair o f the N orthern N ew Jersey W alk to Cure Juvenile D iabetes; Past G overnor o f the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, D epository Trust, and C learance Corp.; and a m em ber o f the E xecutive Com mittee, CPA, N ew York. H e served as an affiliate m em ber on M K A ’s Educational P olicy Com m ittee. R obert and his w ife, Rhonda, have tw o sons attending M K A , Justin in tenth grade and B rian in sixth.

Frank D. Speno is a Senior Vice President w ith A lliance Capital. H e received a bach elo r’s degree from Colgate U niversity and an M .B.A. from N orthw estern U niversity Kellogg G raduate School o f Business. Frank has served as an affiliate m em ber on the Finance and Educational Policy com m ittees. H e and his w ife, K rista, have three daughters, o f w hom Cassandra (seventh) and K endall (third) attend M KA.

Patricia Shean Worthington ’74 joins the B oard as the new ly elected President o f the M K A A lum ni A ssociation. A long-tim e m em ber o f the A lum ni Council, she received a bach elo r’s degree from D ickinson College and law degree from Seton H all Law School. A form er em ployee o f M etropolitan Life Insurance Co,, Pat is currently w orking tow ard a career in health advocacy. She is active w ith the Presbyterian C hurch o f U pper M ontclair. She and her husband, M ark, have a daughter, Lara.

M K A R eview • Fall 2002

Robert H. Silver

Frank D. Speno

I return to the B oard w ith new ly elected Vice Presidents David L. Turock and Denise G. Wagner, (reelected) Treasurer Michael L. Rodburg, and Secretary Robert Tortoriello. In addition, Alice M. Hirsh, Anne E. Muenster, Newton B. Schott Jr., Robert L. Tortoriello, and Denise G . Wagner w ere each elected to serve another term.

Honorary/Advisory Trustees We are grateful for the continued service o f H onorary Trustees Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54, John E. Garippa, Susan H. Ruddick, and James S. Vandermade ’35, and A dvisory Trustees for 2002-2003 Dr. Edwin J. Delattre, Barry Ridings ’70, and Herbert H. Tate ’71.

Patricia Shean Worthington

Rudolph G. Schlobohm ’74 served on the B oard for six years and the A lum ni Council for seven. H e w as chairm an o f the D evelopm ent C om m ittee and a m em ber o f the Educational Policy, Long-R ange Planning, and Faculty C om pensation com m ittees. We are pleased to report that R udy w ill continue to be active, serving as chairm an o f the 2002-2003 A nnual G iving campaign.

Lori Windolf Crispo ’78, outgoing President o f the M K A A lum ni A ssociation, served on the B oard for tw o years and the A lum ni Council for eleven. Lori w as on the B o ard ’s Student Life and E ducational Policy com m ittees, and has been the chairm an o f the A lum ni C ouncil’s F ounders’ Cup Com m ittee - w hich . honors faculty excellence - since its inception in 1993. I know I speak for the w hole B oard w hen I say w e look forw ard to the opportunities and challenges o f the 2002-2003 year.

Retirements T he B oard w ishes to acknow ledge w ith thanks the experience, dedication, and com m itm ent to M K A o f the Trustees w ho are retiring this year.

N ew ton B. Schott, Jr. P resident, B o a rd o f Trustees

MKA-mail C lassm ates o f S co tt Johnson '93, w ho p e rish e d on 9/11, esta b lish ed an aw ard in h is nam e, w hich w as g iven a t Aw ards N ig h t to a sen io r w ho w ill be “a torchbearer o f S c o tt’s warm th, generosity, a n d goodw ill. ”

Thank you for sending a copy of both the Commencement speech and the Scott M. Johnson Memorial Award speech.. ..They were both beautiful® am touched by the importance that was given to the award and the effort of my friends. I will attempt to forward copies to as many people who 'contributed as possible.. ..Please give my thanks to all those in the MKA family who also contributed® believe we have done a great mitzvah in remembering Scott-O's name... Jordan Safirstein '93 •

M K A R eview • Fall 2002

F rom K im C harlton B ed etti '88, w ho w as in d u cted into th e 1997 A th letic H a ll o f F am e a n d in 2002 as a m em ber o f the 1988 g irls ’fe n c in g team :

I feel very honored to be grouped with... those athletes who made up the 1988 MKA Varsity Fencing Team. These women were such an inspiration to us younger team members and really set the standard for what we could achieve. Over the past couple of years I have attended a number of the Hall of Fame luncheons. At the conclusion of every event, I leave thinking how special the day was for managing to bring together alumni, family, friends, teachers, and the school community, both past and present, in celebration. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this special occasion.

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W orking at the A cadem y N ew s w as a huge deal for m e and som etim es felt like the m ain reason I w ent to school. I joined the paper as a freshm an, in 1979, w riting a funny article about counting ceiling tiles during m y frequent detentions. From then on I spent m ost o f m y free tim e in the school newsroom. Jim W indolf ’82, Articles Editor, Vanity Fair magazine

s the Class o f 2002 leaves The M ontclair K im berley A cadem y and the Class o f f * 1998 graduates from college, they em brace The Future. W hat w ill they be w hen they grow up? W hat fields w ill they pursue, w hat m ark w ill they m ake? The stunning new s that four very recent M K A graduates are currently active editors o f the H arvard C rim son prom pted an inquiry. M K A has m any alum ni prom inent in the field o f journalism , from Pulitzer Prize-w inning journalist Philip Fradkin ’53 to recent graduates w ho edit their university new spapers. Was there a com m on thread? Hereby, profiles o f a representative few across three decades.

Jeffrey Schiffman ’75 Assistant Program Director and Sports Director at WSBA-AM, York, Pa. “The sum m er o f 1977 I w as helping out doing some radio shifts at W M SC -FM (M ontclair State College) w hen m ost o f N ew York City w as hit by a m ajor pow er failure, w hich knocked all o f the radio stations in the city o ff the air,” w rites Jeffrey Schiffm an ’75. “I happened to be on the air that night and got calls from hundreds o f people - obviously listening on battery-operated radios - m aking requests for inform ation about the pow er outage but also for songs. I w orked as a D J in m y college days. I ’d never realized how m uch o f an im pact m usic and providing inform ation could really have. A fter that I w as hooked.” Jeffrey now has 22 years o f broadcasting experience and says, “In the w orld o f radio, I ’m sort o f a Jack-of-A ll-Trades.” H e hosts a m orning new s show, 5-6:00 a.m., produces the M orning D rive Show (hiring, training, and scheduling 12 producers), and does sportscasts every h a lf hour. H e also covers the B altim ore Orioles, B altim ore Ravens, and Penn State; as W SBA is a netw ork affiliate, he coordinates play-by-play coverage and attends games. Jeff covered Penn State F ootball’s Rose B ow l season (1994); Cal R ipken’s record-breaking gam es in Septem ber 1995; the O rioles’ post-season appearances in 1996-97; and the B altim ore Ravens, from inaugural season to the Super Bow l in Tam pa in 2000. H e has also covered several g o lf events and auto racing series.

Jeffrey first w orked for the G ettysburg College radio stations for four years, as DJ, program director, and first station manager, helping secure an FM license for the school. A fter graduation (B.A.), as a new s anchor/street reporter for W LPA Lancaster, he covered “everything from house fires to m urders to Presidential visits.” He has w on num erous statewide awards for both new s and sports, and says, “I ’m proudest o f the fact in m y years w orking in Pennsylvania, the station I ’ve been at has w on six Joe Snyder Awards for the B est N ew s & Sports O peration in the state o f Pennsylvania.”

James Windolf ’82 Articles Editor, Vanity Fair

Sports director Jeffrey Schiffman ’75 on the jo b at the fin a l game at Memorial Stadium, Baltimore, December 1997

W SBA ’s coverage o f Cal R ipken’s breaking o f L ou G ehrig’s record received m any awards. “I thought w e did a great jo b o f giving our listeners an up-close look at a national event, som ething they w eren ’t able to get anyw here else,” Jeffrey says. This year, for the second year in a row, Jeffrey received the Pennsylvania Top A P Sportscaster in the state award. A t M KA, w here he w as a m em ber o f the first graduating class, Jeffrey w orked on the “M anassas R oad Crew,” w hich built the sets for theater productions. “I learned to take responsibility for getting a jo b done on tim e and had a great tim e doing it. Mrs. Faden and Calvin M atzke always pushed us to do the best and I ’ve never settled for being #2 because o f that. I gained a good values system, a good w ork ethic, and lifelong friends plus a pretty good education.”

Jim edits the w ork o f about a dozen w riters at the magazine. “W hatever they write, w hatever the topic, I edit. I like Vanity F a ir because it’s one o f the last general interest m agazines, w ith all kinds o f stories. Favorite stories that I ’ve edited: a recent three-part series on high-level Iraqi defectors, com plete w ith tales o f life under Saddam; an essay w ritten by singer-songw riter Elvis Costello on his 500 favorite album s o f all tim e; a story on how the U.S. State D epartm ent ignored w arnings about O sam a bin Laden from governm ent agents in Sudan, w here bin Laden was living in the m id-90s; a bizarre story about a subculture o f people know n as “plushophiles” w ho have an intense passion for stuffed anim als; an entertaining profile o f M ichael Cim ino, the director o f The D eer H u n ter.” “N ot all story-editing takes place on the page)” he continues. “M ost o f m y jo b involves talking w ith the w riters about w hat th ey ’re thinking, helping them to realize the best version o f w hatever it is th ey ’re w riting, and helping them through the long reporting process.’’1 Prior to Vanity F a ir Jim w orked at The N ew York O bserver, a M anhattan weekly, for eight years. “I started there as a 28-yearold intern, the oldest intern in N ew York. Soon I w as w riting the m edia colum n and features on all kinds o f things. A fter five years I w as the executive editor. I edited too m any stories a w eek and w rote m ost o f the front-page headlines.” W hile at the O bserver, Jim interview ed film director Wes A nderson, “w hose great m ovie R ushm ore rem inded m e a little o f life at M K A .” For a story he w rote on the 1993 W orld Trade Center bom bing, he got a b rief audience w ith the 1993 W TC bom bers at their cellblock in the M anhattan Correctional Center. Jim graduated from M K A in 1982 and in 1986 from Ham ilton College, w here he w rote only occasionally for the school paper. H e earned an M .A. in E nglish from the U niversity o f Texas at A ustin, 1990. H e taught E nglish at the M K A U pper School in 1986-87 and at Friends Sem inary in M anhattan, 1990-91. Jim has published short stories in four literary quarterlies, and last year had tw o hum or pieces (“M y Sexual Fantasies”; “M y A ssociate”) in The N ew Yorker. H e has also had stories in

Esquire, D etails, The W all Street Jo u rn a l and Vanity F air. Jim ’s passion for journalism was unleashed at M KA. He joined the paper as a freshman, and during Jsophomore year w as features editor, responsible for everything on page 3, which, he says, “becam e a hodgepodge o f parodies and notalways-appropriate satire o f life at M .K.A ,” Junior year he was editorial editor and senior year Jim was editor-in-chief. “The faculty advisor at the tim e w as N athan Fuller,” he w rites, “a great E nglish teacher (now deceased). H e taught m e ju st about everything I needed to know about reporting, w riting, headline-w riting, and editing during those long after-school hours in the school new sroom and at the printer’s. This was som ething I needed, since I w as not the best student. I even had to put in a sum m er at M K A sum m er school. I ’m still grateful to the E nglish teachers w ho encouraged m e— Nate Fuller, Lynn Benediktsson, John N oble and Bill Hamm ond. They w ere hard on m y w riting in a good way. O ther teachers I rem em ber fondly are George Hrab and N ixon B icknell.” ,

We had so many funny writers. David Newman, class of ’81, wrote things that still make me laugh when I think of them now. My classmate David Bailey wrote a satire of the SATs that one English teacher at MKA used in her class for years afterward. Jim W indolf ’82

Jaime Bedrin ’94 Reporter WFAE/90 FM, Charlotte “I rem em ber so clearly, having to w rite, rew rite, d ra fts.” Jaim e B edrin’s revelation cam e in fourth grade, w hen she sw itched from public school to B rookside.||“I had never heard o f story revision. It was a w hole new w ay o f learning. It m ade a huge im pact on m e.’Vi She still recalls the storybooks they m ade at Brookside, w hen they had to w rite “about the author” and the em phasis on w riting and revision, and adm its, “The lessons still hold. I still struggle w ith clarity, the organization o f thought.” yj, A t the U pper School, Jaim e w as an editor o f the yearbook and w orked briefly on the A cadem y News', w hen she took over som eone’s column. “I w rote a few stories, nothing serious. The same pattern developed in college. I didn’t take it seriously until I w as alm ost through w ith school. A t that point I becam e a staff colum nist.”

A t D artm outh College, Jaim e m ajored in religion, w ith a concentration in ethics and philosophy, particularly bioethics. She then w orked as a new s clerk and editorial assistant for The B ergen R eco rd (“learning how a new spaper w orks”) and as an intern for Foxnew s.com . in N ew York. It w as during her concentration for a m aster’s at C olum bia Journalism School that she sw itched from print to broadcast. H er final project was a 30-m inute radio docum entary on the Rockettes. She interview ed dancers from tw o generations, including the oldest living Rockette and som e m other-daughter duos. Jaim e’s hours o f tape at Radio City M usic H all “tapped right into m y interest in m usical theater.” “I loved sound,” she continues. “The w riting is different; it is m ore o f a conversational style. G etting a 30-second thought/bite is a different skill. You have to ask questions in several different w ays for air tim e, and go for the em otional cut, find w h at’s unique.*®» Since September, Jaim e has been a reporter and evening on-air host at W FAE-FM , Charlotte. She does general assignm ent reporting, from public hearings on the County budget to the loss o f the basketball H ornets. Jaim e started w ork on Septem ber 4, in a new city, “scared,” know ing no one, and alone on 9/11. She says her “training kicked in and cut through the anxiety.” “You m ove som ew here new, you think in different w ays,” she says, com paring that experience to a trip to Israel on a grant in graduate school. She w as “the only Jew ish girl from N ew Jersey am idst those from Norway, Singapore, U A E ” in that crucible o f history. Jaim e continues, “A nd journalists have so m any interests, are so curious. T here’s so m uch out there.”

Jeffrey Glasser ’92 Roving National Correspondent, U.S. News <6 World Report Bob W oodw ard - one o f the country’s m ost celebrated investigative journalists - called Jeffrey G lasser “w ise, intense and independent; a skilled, relentless editor.” Jeffrey was W oodw ard’s assistant and collaborator for three years on his book Shadow , digging resourcefully through the Ford, Carter, and Reagan Presidential libraries and the N ational A rchives, “assisting in reporting and w riting at every stage.” A fter w orking w ith W oodward, Je ff covered national crim inal justice issues for U.S. N ew s & W orld R ep o rt in W ashington, then spent tw o years as their M idw est bureau ch ief in Chicago, w ith 20 states under his purview. Je ff is now a roving national correspondent, “w hich m eans I travel around w riting enterprise stories.”

“A m ong other subjects, I ’ve w ritten about ex-cons in Vegas, a rogue congressm an, the 2000 presidential elections and the Florida recount, the fastest declining counties in the country (in N orth D akota), the richest trucker in A m erica (in A rkansas), the youngest m urderers to be executed on death row.’Y in M ay he published a cover story on South A frica, reporting on the high instance o f fetal alcohol syndrome. His research led him to W estern Cape vineyards, w here he encountered ram pant alcoholism. M ost poignantly, Je ff’s N ovem ber 12, 2001 cover story on the afterm ath o f 9/11, “This M an’s Life,” brilliantly reflected on how the tragic death o f his friend, team m ate, and fellow alum nus Scott Johnson ’93 affected a w hole community. [It can be read on M K A ’s Web site, www. m ontclairkim berley. org.]

The Crimson Connection Four recent M K A graduates are currently on the H arvard C rim son staff: executive editor D avid N ew m an ’99, editorial editor D uncan Currie ’00, new s editor Fisola Fasehun ’00, and arts editor Steve Jacobs ’01. D ave is one o f tw o new s executives w ho in addition to assigning, editing, and Journalist Bob Woodward called Jeffrey Glasser ’92 “a skilled, relentless editor; a child o f the information age. He has the highest standards o f fairness and accuracy. ” J e ff is a senior editor at U.S. News & World Report.

Je ff m ajored in history at Yale, w here he served as editor-in-chief o f the Yale D a ily N ew s, the nation ’s oldest college daily, in his jun io r year. A t M K A , Jeff w as co-editor-in-chief o f the A cadem y N ew s. H e credits K aren N ew m an, N ew s advisor, w ith editing precision. “I received w onderful instruction in w riting and history from teachers like M rs. N ew m an, Dr. Sinner, M rs. Forbes, and Mr. B ranigan,” he writes. Je ff took an independent study in A P/European history, and AP/US history and political theory.

A s Bob W oodw ard w rote in the A uthor’s N ote in Shadow f A e f f w as b om in 1974, the year N ixon resigned. H e is probably one o f the few A m ericans w ho has a deep understanding o f the history o f the presidents w ho have served in his lifetim e.”

proofing new s - direct the new s “com p,” the process by w hich reporters are trained. He, er, reports that the C rim son sem ester-long process is thorough: for the new s board, aspirants m ust attend “a bunch o f sem inars,” w rite a num ber o f stories, and do m iscellaneous things like layout assists and taking a form quiz before they are officially accepted as editors. A ll four M K A alum ni have w ritten notable pieces, accessible by author on www. thecrim son. com /w riter. F isola’s coverage o f a protest against A bercrom bie & Fitch w as picked up by the national media. D ave’s feature on the rise o f

M K A has m any other notable alum ni in journalism . E nvironm ental journalist Philip Fradkin ’53 shared a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage o f the Watts riots in 1965 for the L os A ngeles Tim es and received the M K A D istinguished A lum ni Award in 1989. Philip, w ho has w ritten about earthquakes, rivers, A laskan w ilderness, and the natural history o f California, ju st published his ninth book, Stagecoach: Wells F argo a n d the A m erican West. D iane H aines ’63, associate publisher and vice president o f N orth Jersey N ew spapers, has been in the new spaper business as reporter, editor, and m anaging editor since 1969. She has shared her know ledge w ith M K A students at several Career Days. D aniel M urphy ’89 has been in Jakarta, Indonesia, for a decade, reporting on new s o f Southeast A sia for Bloom berg, F a r E a st E conom ic R eview , and C hristian Science M onitor. W ith stints at various new spapers, Jay G reene ’82 is - in the w ords o f his classm ate, Jim W indolf - “a real honest-to-G od reporter.” H e covers M icrosoft for B usiness W eek m agazine. N ew to the field but also out w est, L aura H ardm an ’94 edits Sherw ood G azette, a m onthly com m unity newspaper. “It’s a great jo b in a com m unity that really cares about its city, a w estern suburb o f Portland,” she writes. L aura follow ed the 1950s band Independence Jazz R eunion around last year and her nonfiction m em oir about them is to be published this year by W ickw ire Press.

evangelical Christianity at H arvard (April 2000) w as reprinted in Com m on Sense > m agazine the follow ing fall. It w as also runner-up for the D ana Reed Prize, an aw ard for the best pièce o f undergraduate w riting in a given year. D avid and Steve served as editor-in-chief o f the A cadem y N ew s w hile at M KA; D uncan and Fisola w ere frequent contributors. D ave notes, “I ’d like to thank [faculty mem ber] G eorge Berry for encouraging me to read w idely and appreciate quality journalism , and for having a good sense o f humor.’02*

The M K A faculty follow such accom plishm ents w ith great interest and pride. W hen inform ed o f a form er student’s achievem ent, faculty m em ber G eoffrey Branigan observed, “This is w hy w e ’re here.”

The W ashington P ost, in an article on college admissions, ran excerpts from essays submitted by seniors to various admissions departments around the country as examples o f good essay writing. Two were chosen from the University o f Chicago, including one

by MKA’s own Abigail Kaboth ’02, whose essay appeared on the P ost Web site [April 23], Abby wrote about Route 17 and w hat it means to be from N ew Jersey, the contrasts and perceptions o f “the playground o f consumerism meeting the American land.”

In Memoriam The M ontclair K im berley A cadem y lo st tw o fo rm e r m em bers o f th e B o a rd o f Trustees this spring. B oth w ere highly esteem ed in th e ir business a n d p h ila n th ro p 0 ca re ers, a n d both le ft th eir m ark onM K A .

M KA lo st a yo u n g alum na this sum m er, C aitlin Lehm ann, C lass o f 2001. Dr. M ark B oyea - D irector o f A th letics a t the tim e, her advisor, a n d now candidate fo r the m inistry - ga ve the eulogy.

Caitlin Lehmann ’01 Austin C. Drukker ’52 A ustin D rukker served M K A as an enthusiastic alumnus, Trustee, parent, reunion host, and advisor to publications. A fter graduating from M ontclair A cadem y in 1952, A ustin received degrees from W illiams College and C olum bia U niversity Business School, H e entered the fam ily new spaper business, w hich published the P a ssa ic H era ld N ew s, D over D aily A dvance, and five w eekly N ew Jersey new spapers, and in 1973 becam e president and publisher o f D rukker Communications. In retirem ent, he taught business ethics at several area universities. Felician College aw arded him an honorary doctoral degree. A ustin served as chairm an o f the board and president o f the N.J. Press A ssociation and on the education com m ittee o f the A m erican N ew spaper Publishers Association. H e served on the boards o f banks, hospitals, and philanthropic foundations, and as an M K A Trustee from 1985-1991. H e is survived by his wife, Lois; five children, A ustin Jr., D avid, Andrew, K ristin ’94, and M atthew ’95; and seven grandchildren.

Ulrich V. Solmssen U lrich Solm ssen w as on the board o f T he K im berley School during the critical tim e o f its m erger w ith M ontclair A cadem y! “I rem em ber him telling how the m erger alm ost did not com e about,” w rote his daughter Lily Solm ssen M oureaux ’59. “H e w as instrum ental in the unification and knew all along it w ould be good for the future o f the school and our education.” * Dr. Solmssen, bo m in Berlin, attended M IT as an exchange student in 1932. A fter receiving a Ph.D. in chem istry from the University o f Zurich, he joined H offinan-LaRoche in N utley as senior chemist. From 1945-72 he w as scientific director o f the international division o f W arner-Lam bert Pharm aceutical Company, and served on num erous m edical, educational, and philanthropic boards. H e w as a T rastee o f K im berley/M K A from 1963-1980.

The w riters o f the H ebrew B ib le and N ew Testam ents, the w isest m en and w om en, and the best novelists and playw rights throughout history all shared the same great insight - that our lives are best understood as a story. A nd every great story is, in the end, about im portant ideas or themes. C aitlin L ehm ann’s story w as about truth. C aitlin told it straight, and expected you to tell it to her straight. B ut this forthrightness never expressed itself in disrespect, arrogance, or an attitude. It w as dem anding, but it w as grounded in a genuine love for the truth. C aitlin’s story w as also about strength. Strength as an athlete, strength as a person, strength as a young w om an w ith cancer. Swim m ing is a grueling sport that requires mental, physical, and em otional toughness and consistency. Sounds a lot like Cait, doesn’t it? She w as no different as a student or patient determ ined, consistent, focused. T here’s been a lot o f talk about heroes since last Septem ber 11, and thankfully it’s been talk about real ones - police officers, fire fighters, doctors, and nurses. O ne o f m y heroes is a young w om an w ho lived the same w ay that she died - all out, all the tim e. W ith great strength. A nother them e o f C aitlin’s story w as hum ility. She w as a strong student, a state cham pionship sw im m er w hose team m ates looked up to her as a big sister or a second mother. Yet she d idn’t regard h erself as special in any way. W hen she did w ell, she acknow ledged it and m oved on. W hen she d idn’t do as w ell, she acknow ledged that and m oved on. She w as confident, but never conceited - serious, but never took h erself too seriously. B ut mostly, Caitlin d idn’t think o f h erself at all, and that, m y friends, is the true definition o f humility. Last, and m ost important, the story o f Caitlin L ehm ann was about love. I often think about visiting Cait at the hospital or her hom e during the first few m onths o f her illness and meeting [various m em bers o f the family]; It d idn’t m atter that at first you d idn’t know m e or a num ber o f other people w ho cam e to visit. We w ere there for Cait, and so as far as you w ere concerned, we w ere one o f you. C aitlin loved you, her team m ates, her coaches, and her friends ju st as deeply and well.

H e is survived by his wife, Tinka; daughters Julie S. Steedman, Lily S. M oureaux ’59, W endy S. Som m er ’62, and Teresa (Terry) S. Shartar ’69; nine grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. * See page 5 in Within These Halls, the historyM fMKA. Page 8

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Notes Around MKA A t the year-end faculty m eeting, N ew ton B. Schott, Jr., president o f the B oard o f Trustees, thanked H eadm aster Peter G reer for his 10 outstanding years at the helm o f M KA. H e presented him w ith a T-shirt w ith “ 10” on it in Cougar green. Faculty also said farew ell to retiring colleagues, som e o f w hom have reached legendary status at the school. Excerpted from speeches:

Ken Gibson from speech by George Hrab M K A is heading into a new epoch w here for the first tim e in m ore than a third o f a century a year at this school w ill start w ithout the presence o f K en Gibson... Ken, you w ere a great foil for u s .. .you took in all the stories about you in good humor, like the good straight m an you can be. A nd w hat a gold m ine o f stories y o u ’ve provided for this happy little com m unity o f ours... It’s those personality quirks that give us so m uch gleeful enjoym ent in the retelling! N ever ask this m an a sim ple question or m ake a sim ple com m ent about anything. Y ou’ll never get a sim ple answ er in return. Ah, K en G ibson, M K A ’s own loveable ogre, the shrek o f M KA, but w here w ould the history and lore o f M K A be w ithout him ? Y ou’ve been the foundation w e all look to for support and guidance. Your w ork w ith children o f all ages - from B oy Scout camps to Brookside D ay Cam ps to highschoolers - has m aintained a consistency o f excellence through all those years and yet has had an adaptable flexibility that has allow ed you to w eather all the storms o f change. Y du’ve had an im m ense influence on your students and your colleagues as H istory D epartm ent chairm an, as football and track coach, and as a longtim e m em ber o f several com m ittees. You’ve show n extraordinary toughness and yet rem arkable com passion and understanding in your no-nonsense com m on sense approach to various issues. A nd as our ow n resident expert on the history o f M A and M K A , y o u ’ve been the first one w e always turn to w hen there is any question or historical precedence and need for guidance. A s a devoted husband and father, and now as doting grandfather, y o u ’ve show n all o f us w hat it takes to deal w ith the difficult tim es that confront us in life. A s a teacher, y o u ’ve offered solidity and consistency that all students need. O utside the classroom , your w ork has taught them valuable lessons on fairness and values that guide them in their own fam ily decisions. You w ill always get from all o f us our sincerest and deepest thanks and fully deserved respect, gratitude, and appreciation for uniquely enriching our lives and for a jo b w ell done.

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Retiring faculty members Calvin Matzke and Ken Gibson with Charlaine Charlton, Head o f Upper School Campus, before a celebratory dinner at the River Café in New York.

Calvin Matzke From speech by Judy Nesbit We w orked together on school productions for years, probably 25 shows in all. C alvin’s set designs w ere always exquisite. The finished sets w ere built to perfection. Scene changes w ere planned, choreographed, tim ed and practiced until they w ent smoothly; costum e colors w ere coordinated w ith set colors. [That] w as ju st one o f C alvin’s m any and varied activities at M KA. H e has served as departm ent chair, advisor, com m ittee member, coordinator, designer, coach, representative to various com m ittees, teacher... o f A rt A ppreciation, A rt History, Stagecraft, M echanical D raw ing, A rchitecture, and D raw ing and Painting. A student said, “H e has inspired m e to do things I never thought w ere possible for m e to do. H e has an am azing ability to drive m y thirst for know ledge. H e truly understands the m eaning o f ‘teach.’ ” O ver the years he has integrated both w riting and com puter graphics into the Fine Arts curriculum . Calvin has an abiding interest in how art relates to the larger issues in the w orld, in psychology and so on. [He] did a sabbatical study on m ultiple intelligences... did research in thinking, problem solving and creativity in the arts, both in the U.S. and at London University... H e leaves his m ark on the U pper School. W hen w e set up for Cum Laude, w e w ill follow the design he created and follow the instructions he has left b eh in d .. .the Core W orks bulletin board, w atercolors o f M iddle School and B rookside in the hall, the locker lounge that w as designed by Calvin and his architecture students. Each bears the hallm ark o f C alvin’s w ork planning, preparation, careful attention to detail.

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Linda Bollettino

Jim Buckley

From speech by Boni Luna

From the Class o f2002 yearbook dedication.

Linda started w orking in 1981 as an advisor and teacher... It never ceased to am aze m e how she could weave gramm ar, culture, and personal insight w ithin a sim ple lesson. H er classes [are] carefully crafted around the m aterial and to highlight student strengths and input... H er students always finished the year w ith a greater understanding o f the social systems that govern hum an life and o f the plight o f Latin A m erican countries.

Beneath his w arm and genial exterior lies one o f the m ost benevolent, giving, and respectable m en ever to grace the halls o f M KA. His tw elve years as physics guru, football coach, and class advisor are secondary to the relationships he has had w ith his students, colleagues, and friends. Though Mr. B uckley’s coaching is exemplary, and his teaching and advising noteworthy, it is as a friend to all that m ost distinguishes the essence o f Jim B u ck ley ... .He has always done w hatever he tackles w ith an open m ind, a surfeit o f laughter, and a caring heart.

Linda is a humanitarian, evident in her choice o f career but also in the w ay she lives and thinks...She believes in social activism, and that change for the good o f all com es from dialogue, participation, and consensus. L inda w as instrum ental in w riting the Diversity/Unity m ission statem ent for our school and has served as a SEED coordinator and m em ber for m any years... a forum that provides individuals the opportunity to explore issues o f diversity and equity. Linda is truly a m oral hum an being and sees her students and colleagues w ithout prejudice or judgm ent.

H e is so m any things to so m any p eo p le.. .an invaluable m entor to faculty, a w ise advisor to adm inistrators, a talented teacher to his students, and a savvy coach to the athletes. H e is a great listener and gives unstintingly o f h im self to help others.

The Headmaster is very proud to announce...

Jean Meyers National Merit Scholar From retirement dinner speeches’ by

Elana Spungen B ildner ’02

Ken Bishe and Linda Stark M ost people’s first im pression o f Jean is that o f a sweet, soft-spoken, genteel, Victorian lady. Some o f this is correct and is cultivated by Jean herself... Jean’s is the w orld o f ideas and ideals. H er goal has always been to bring children into that m ore m ature w orld through consideration, example, and careful planning. She has always been [the] court o f first resort w hen a question arises. A conversation w ith Jean is a gentle challenge to your assumptions. She presents alternatives in such a calm, considered m anner that they can slip b y you unnoticed. [She is] a colleague who provides inspiration by exam ple o f an open m ind and w illingness to ad ap t.. .who encourages by sharing excitem ent w ith new ideas... w ho challenges us to think m ore deeply about our ultim ate goals. W hen w e think o f Jean, the w ords poet or poetry spring to our minds. [She] put our diverse styles into one voice [fo slth e Blue Ribbon. She gave her seventh and eighth grade students selfconfidence and a love o f literature. Jean is also a closet m athem atician. She recently calculated that she has spent six m onths o f her life w riting com m ents, and that w e ’d spent two m onths o f our lives on W illiam sburg busses.

“Lifers”';- students w ho attended M K A from Pre-K or kindergarten through graduation - w ere honored at a special breakfast at the H eadm aster’s house in June. Back row: Jonathan Bratt, John Watson, Scott Simon, Lood Olibrice, Kathryn Chase, Kathryn Kolodziej, Natalie Ghosh. Center: Sean Colon, Adam Shapiro, Joseph Potenzone, Adam Simon, Kerry Bishe, Elizabeth Martone, Drew Mersinger. Front: Lauren Tortoriello, Emily Silver, Olivia Ulmer. Missing from photo: Kiran Mahal.

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• Faculty m em ber R on W olfson finished his ninth m arathon in Big Sur, California, in A pril (finishing in 4:27), and returned on the red-eye to teach his history classes. Faculty m em ber A m y Bonnici finished the B oston M arathon. • Faculty m em ber Judy N esbit w ill give a w orkshop at the A ssociation o f M athem atics Teachers o f N ew Jersey conference in October. M Faculty m em ber Sharon Stephens is a m em ber o f the N JA IS A rts D ay com m ittee, a group planning an arts day for the 2003 conference. • A dm inistrators D avid Flocco, A ssistant Flead o f Cam pus at the U pper School, and R andy K leinm an, H ead o f Campus, M iddle School, have begun the intensive Ph.D. program at Seton H all University. D enise Brow n-A lien, A ssociate D irector o f A dm issions, passed the N ew Jersey P rincipal’s exam and com prehensive exam in Educational A dm inistration and Supervision at Seton Hall, and is w orking on her doctoral dissertation. • A nn Kruger, college guidance counselor, w as a contestant on Jeopardy on June 26. • The M K A Y earbook staff w as honored w ith a Special A chievem ent Award from Taylor Publishing Company. Only the top 10 percent o f yearbook staffs are recognized. • C orrine G aby ’02 w on second place in the annual district-w ide art com petition sponsored by C ongressm an Bill Pascrell. M ore than 90 students from 23 schools w ere represented. • M iddle School grades 4, 5, and 6 raised about $7,000 for St. Jude H ospital by participating in the St. Jude m arathon this spring. A s a prize for the school, they received all 116 years o f N a tional G eographic on CD-rom . • Rutgers U niversity Press spotted the 1914 K im berley M aypole photo on the M K A Web site (school history page), and asked to use it for the R utgers E ncyclopedia o f N ew Jersey. [See www. m ontclairkim berley. org.\

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MKA’s spring 2000 movie Postcards From the Road won two Videographer Awards (for Creativity/Writing and Low Budget Video), which allows it to tie with VOICES From a D istant Planet for six recognitions. The total for the five Upper School movies over the decade stands at 21.

The Founders’ Cup is 10 A t the year-end faculty meeting, Lori W indolf Crispo ’78, president o f the Alumni Association, presented the 2002 Founders’ Cup to faculty member J.C. Svec o f the Fine & Performing Arts Department. This was the tenth year o f the tradition recognizing excellence in teaching. “J.C.” - as he is known to one and all - has been at MKA for more than a decade, and is known for his high level o f instruction, innovative teaching style, creativity, and dedication to his students. One alum wrote, “While teaching us the required course material, he taught us about life. Not only did we get hands-on instruction at a level far above that normally taught in high school, but in doing so, he has also brought many awards and national recognition to MKA.” J.C. - who teaches theater, film, and videomaking - is the person behind MKA’s successful “spring movies,” which bring students, faculty, and staff together in prize winning productions. His sensitivity is the driving force behind “Operation Tribute,” a memorial to recognize MKA’s veterans o f the century’s wars.

Honoring Mr. Coursen The Rev. W allace Coursen, longtim e teacher o f m usic at M ontclair A cadem y and The K im berley School, w as honored at a special service for his 65 years as organist and choir director at C hrist Episcopal Church, G len Ridge, in April. M ore than 60 people in the choir sang tw o pieces a cappella. M artha Bonsai D ay ’74, w ho sang in the choir, reports it w as “a w onderful service and tribute.” “B uck” decided at age 8 to be a church musician, according to the program , and began as an assistant organist and choirm aster at the age o f 15. H e jo in ed Christ Church in 1936 at 22, “not m uch older than m any o f the singers in his choir.” A t its peak, his choir o f 30 m en and 50 boys w as reportedly the largest in the state, if not the country. A t the sam e tim e, he w as head o f the M usic D epartm ent at M ontclair A cadem y from 1945-61 and at K im berley from 1952-74. H e was ordained in 1972. “H e w as a m arvelous influence on hundreds o f children,” says M ary Coursen, his w ife o f 64 years. “H is biggest jo y is seeing them grow up and seeing how the choir has been a continuing experience in their lives. B uck gave ‘the gift that keeps on giving.” ’ Excerpted from the program and an article which appeared in The Voice (Diocese o f Newark) 12/01

P age 11

Deetjen The new Deetjen Theatre - a ‘glorious, comfortable “black box” with all the latest technical equipment - was rededicated in May, Its official opening coincided with the opening o f the spring movie, N ot D ark Yet. Members o f the Deetjen family, descendants o f Rudolph H. Deetjen Sr. ’15, for whom the theater was named, were present to celebrate. Mr. Deetjen was fc;q Charter Trustee o f the Montclair Academy Foundation and the first President o f the Board of Trustees, from 1948-50. Four generations o f his family have attended MKA.

Members o f the Deetjen family gathered fo r the rededication o f the Deetjen Theatre. StandingtiTrustee Rudy Schlobohm ’74; eighth grader Karl Schlobohm; Arthur Schlobohm; Vicki Schlobohm. ‘Wedied: Rudy Deetjen ’W ; sixth grader Melissa Schlobohm; Marilea Deetjen Schlobohm; Patty Deetjen.

Students o f Mrs. Lemaire s fourth grade class welcomed “Our Hero, Alek Sergek” home from Kosovo in May. The class “adopted” the lieutenant, who was in charge o f 30 paratroopers in a peacekeeping mission. He regularly emailed the children with photos, maps, and news from the front.

Cutting the ribbon on the new Deetjen Theatre: Back, partially hidden: Newton Schott, president o f the Board o f Trustees; Trustee Rudy Schlobohm ’74; Anthony Cuneo, head o f the Fine & Performing Arts Department. Front: freshman Alexandra Mendez; senior Gil Kruger, producer o f the spring movie; junior Will Connolly; and David Flocco, Assistant Head o f Campus, Upper School.

Renowned physician Dr. Frederick Siegel addressed Upper School students on the effect o f AIDS on this generation, and then held a lengthy Q-and-A session. The doctor, named “Hero o f Medicine ” by the International Association o f Physicians fo r AIDS Care in 2000, has been listed five times in New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors in New York” list and as one o f the “Best Doctors in America ” in three others.

Dr. Sylvia Ann Hewlett - economist, author, and expert in work and family issues - was the speaker at this y e a r’s springPAMKA Lecture. Dr. Hewlett’s critically acclaimed works The War Against Parents and Creating a Life:

Professional Women and the Quest for Children have brought her national attention.

Dorney Park

Members o f the Middle School Music Department Linda Larkin, Dimitri Hadjipmkov, and Maria Gilmartin stand by the display o f trophies won by M K A students at the Music in the Parks Festival in DorWy Park. Pa.

P age 12

M K A M iddle School students com peted in band, strings, and chorus at the M usic in the Parks Festival in D orney Park, Pa. this spring. The experience o f entering the festival gives the students a goal to aim for and gives them a point o f cam parison, as they are ju d g ed by others in a supportive and constructive environm ent. Two independent judges — typically college professors or band directors - rate the groups’ perform ances from Fair to Superior. The M K A 4th, 5th, and 6th grade bands w ere each rated Excellent; the 7th/8th grade band w as second w ith a Superior rating. The ja zz band (tw enty-tw o 6th, 7th, 8th graders) gained second place and an E xcellent rating. E ighth grader N icholas M urlo w on the Jazz Solo Award for the entire com petition w ith his perform ance on tenor sax. The youngest strings ensem ble (3rd, 4th, and 5th graders) gained a Superior rating, and the M iddle School Cham ber Singers (tw enty-three 6th, 7th, and 8th graders), rated Superior, the highest score o f any o f the groups perform ing that day in the M ixed Chorus category.

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Dr. Jennifer Johnson presents a Proclamation from Senator Jon Corzine to Randy Kleinman, H ead o f the Middle School Campus.

When the family of a Middle School student lost their home and all their possessions in a tragic fire five days before Christmas, the entire MKA community faculty, administration, students, and parents responded with an outpouring of support and generosity. A family friend, Dr. Jennifer Johnson, “impressed with the level of sensitivity and caring,” shared the story with United

States Senator Jon Corzine’s office. Senator Corzine was, in turn, so impressed that he issued a Proclamation to the school, which states, “The Montclair Kimberley Academy showed the true spirit of the holiday season through their expression of kindness and generosity, teaching the students a valuable lesson about sensitivity, caring and being part of community.” It congratulates the school on “dedication to teaching our young people values which will last a lifetime.”

Operation: Tribute “Operation: Tribute” is a project to bring recognition to Montclair Kimberley Academy veterans o f last century’s wars and the victims o f September 11. Plans are almost complete for an area o f reflection at the Upper School campus in honor o f those members o f the school community “who gave in each generation their time, endeavors, and lives to the struggle for freedom and human rights.” More details will follow in the spring Review. Money for the memorial garden is being raised through student and faculty fundraisers, events, and activities, but additional MKA community support is paramount to realizing the goal o f erecting this memorial. Questions about the project may be directed to J.C. Svec o f the Fine & Performing Arts Department (Jsvec@ m ontclairkim berley.org or directly at 973-509-4585) or David Flocco, Assistant Flead o f the Upper School (id flocco@ m ontclairkim beley.org or at 973-783-8801). Alumni are urged to contact the Alumni Office (973-509-7940 or caustin@ m ontclairkim berley.org) if they know o f someone who died in any o f the conflicts.

Out of Africa MKA students are fairly blasé about seeing important visitors and hearing outside speakers, because such things are a natural part of the curriculum. However, this spring even the most jaded did a doubletake with the sight o f three African visitors - one in full tribal gear - striding down the halls. Maasai Chief Oleodorop, his 13year-old son Saningo, and safari guide/interpreter Eliyahu came to MKA during their month in Montclair as guests o f the Cerf family. The Cerfs - Christopher, his wife Ann Rasmussen, and their his red warrior cloak, describes children Nathan, Leah, and Will how he killed a lion with his spear. (all MKA students) - met the chief while on safari in Tanzania last year and arranged the visit to enable Saningo to experience an American school. * Saningo, despite knowing only a few words o f English when he arrived, became a popular addition to the school, delighting faculty with his willingness to learn (especially Spanish), and amazing his peers with his running speed and endurance. MKA faculty in the Primary and Middle schools made immediate use o f the visitors for lessons in tribal life. Faculty member Libby Zug - who had spent time in Tanzania and spoke some Swahili showed her own slides and had her fourth graders research/discuss the Maasai. Host and benefactor Dr. Rasmussen showed video clips o f their excursion to Africa to several different classes. Chief Oleodorop was reportedly delighted with how rapidly Saningo’s English improved, how easily he made friends, and how much he “loved” his teachers. Though the difference between life as a hunter-gatherer in rural East Africa and suburban life in New Jersey could hardly be greater (no electricity, running water, computers, TVs, furniture), the chief’s greatest hope is for Saningo to get a Western education in order to help bring the Maasai people into the modem world.

Scenes from Cougar Pride Day in May.

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Commencement Awards

Ethel M. Spurr Award

Rudolph H. Deetjen Award

for cooperation, responsibility, service and citizenship

for athletics and academic achievement

Jeanne Lehmann

Bud Mekeel Memorial Scholarship

Ralph Delouis

for a worthy senior

Stephanie Platt

Sofia Tomé

Marjorie Winfield Easter Award

The Robert C. Hemmeter Memorial Award

for sportsmanship, self-discipline and behind-the-scenes service

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

Trevor Barnett

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

Natalie Ghosh

Celia Cohen

Cum Laude Retiring faculty members Ken Gibson and Calvin M atzke gave theirfin a l address as members o f the Class o f2002 were inducted into the Cum Laude Society. Back row: Kate Boardman, Joseph Geschlecht, Kerry Bishe, Sarah Miller. Third row: Dagmara Jastrzebska, Natalie Ghosh, Abigail Kaboth, Celia Cohen, Kaitlin Ryan. Second row: Victoria O ’Kane, Elana Spungen Bildner, Quinn Leslie, Belle Koven, Kathryn Chase, Erin Culbreth. Front row: Katherine Klimczak, Sonia Nagesh, Marc Chan, Lauren Tortoriello

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Awards Night 2002 Red and B lack S ociety Trevor Barnett Stephanie Platt

The B arras P rize in English Elana Spungen Bildner M odern L anguage P rize Quinn Leslie

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M odern L anguage P rize Elana Spungen Bildner Kerry Bish£

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M odern L anguage P rize Stephanie Platt

H ealth and P hysical E ducation D epartment P rize Jonathan Bratt T he S cott M. Johnson ’93 M emorial A ward Christopher Jackson T he F rank “P O N C H O ” B rogan ’72 M emorial S cholarship Amy Klein ’03

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T he N azarian M athematics P rize Abigail Kaboth

T he D arthmouth Club B ook A ward Christopher Glenn ’03

T he W illiam H. M iller S cience P rize Abigail Kaboth

T he Y ale S econdary S chool B ook A ward Shuchi Agarwal ’03

T he G.A. D ownsbrough S cience S cholarship Abigail Kaboth

T he M ount H olyoke C ollege B ook A ward Amy Klein ’03

T he M argaret Jenkins O sborne S cience P rize Joseph Geschlecht

T he S mith C ollege C lub B ook A ward Denise Sarkor ’03

T he A l S taph A ward Joseph Potenzone

T he Rensselaer P olytechnic Institute M edal Amy Klein ’03

T he H istory P rize Celia Cohen

T he M ontclair S ociety of Engineers A ward Belle Koven

T he John R abuse H istory A ward John Thompson ’03

H amilton B ook A ward Nithya Nathan ’03

F ine and Performing A rts P rizes Visual Arts: Kate Boardman Sofia Tomé Music-Vocal: Erin Culbreth Music-Instrumental: John Philip Sousa Band Award: Abigail Kaboth Louis Armstrong Jazz Award: Marvell Saint-Victor Communications: Gilbert Kruger Dance: Dagmara Jastrzebska

Faculty S cholar A ward GRADE 11: Bonnie Gill Amy Klein Monique Wolkoff

T he M arilyn Faden A ward F or Excellence Acting - Drama Award: Dagmara Jastrzebska Musical Theatre Award: Julie Fefferman Emily Santangelo Technical: Trevor Barnett

M ary K. Waring S cholars for 2000-2001 * GRADE 12: Elana Spungen Bildner Katherine Klimczak Belle Koven

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GRADE 10:

Camila Contreras Jordan Pisarcik

GRADE 9:

Manav Lalwani Nicholas David Ivan Loughman-Pawelko Elizabeth Moses

GRADE 11:

Shuchi Agarwal Bonnie Gill Blake Spence

Andreas Argyrides Denise Sarkor Elizabeth Spragins

GRADE 10:

Daniel Bleicher Jamie Burns Camila Contreras Erin Frey

Pooja Gupta Alexis Tucker Yvonne Wang Jonathan Winnerman

T he E lizabeth O ’N eil F eagley C reativity A ward Lisa Duva ’03 T he James D. T immons S cholarship Kerry Bishé H eadmaster ’s A ward Erin Culbreth Melissa Fortunato Lauren Tortoriello K lf.tn A wards for A chievement S cholarship GRADE 12: Frank Herrmann Victoria O’Kane GRADE 11:

Nicole Pugno Justin Ashenfelter

GRADE 10:

Allison Currie David Endo

GRADE 9:

Jacqueline Araneo Joseph Walter

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Avery B arras D istinguished S cholars (A ll A ’s) for 2000-2001 * Grade 12: Abigail Kaboth Grade 11:

Amy Klein Monique Wolkoff

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Welcome to Our Newest Alumni... The Class of 2002

Olufunmilayo Akinyosoye............. College of New Jersey Ralph Delouis........................................ Connecticut College Christopher Jackson.............I ___ Wake Forest University Jonathan Allcom...........Savannah School of Art & Design Jillian D itinyak...................................New York University Dagmara Jastrzebska........... ...........New York University Alexandra Am ari..................................Columbia University Christopher Dunn Allentown College of Abigail K a b o th ................... ............ University of Chicago Shanika Baldw in..................................Columbia University .................................................................St. Francis de Sales Steven K akaty....................... Lehigh University Trevor B arnett............................................................. BostonUniversity Alecia Fearon........................................................... SpelmanCollege Adam K essler...................... Syracuse University Dana Beringhelli.......................................................FordhamUniversity Julia Fefferm an........................................................... LehighUniversity Katherine Klimczak............. ..........Georgetown University William B etts................................................................TulaneUniversity Dana Fleishm an.................Fashion Institute of Technology Kathryn Kolodziej............... Fordham University Elana Spungen Bildner.....................................................YaleUniversity Melissa Fortunato.........................................................BostonCollege Belle K oven........................... Harvard University Kerry B ishe....................................Northwestern University Michael F ortunato.......................................................TulaneUniversity Gilbert Kruger......................I ............ New York University Jessica Block ...................... George Washington University Morgan F ra ser.....................................University of Miami Jonah K ruvant.........................................Skidmore College Kate Boardm an................. Rhode Island School of Design Jordan Fried......................... George Washington University Jonathan B r a tt............. University of Maryland, Baltimore Rebecca Friedman.........................................................UnionCollege Samantha Braverm an................................................ ColgateUniversity Corrine G aby.............................................................GoucherCollege Jonathan B ru n o ...........................................................LehighUniversity Joseph G eschlecht.................................................... HarvardUniversity Michael Bukalo................................. New York University Natalie GmsSaf c ............................................................... RiceUniversity Christian Carmona.................................................. VillanovaUniversity Leora G oldm an...................George Washington University Marc C han...................................Johns Hopkins University Anthony G ra y .........................................................WesleyanUniversity Kathryn C hase......................................................... PrincetonUniversity Kalani G re e n ........................... East Stroudsburg University” Celia C o h e n ..........................................Middlebury College Alyce Harriott............................................................... XavierUniversity Sean C olon..................................................Tufts University Frank Herrmann.........................................................HarvardUniversity Erin C ulbreth.................................................. Bates College Matthew H o c h ................................ Syracuse University

Jeanne Lehm ann.................................. WilliamsCollege Kaitlin R y a n ........... . . . University of Vermont Quinn Leslie......................................................................YaleUniversity Marvell Saint Victor ...........Rutgers University Gianna Lopreato........................................ Lafayette College ............. DrewTOniversity Emily Santangelo.. Koran M ahal.......................................................SusquehannaUniversity Nathalie Santuccio. .........Fairfield University Elizabeth Martone................................................ SyracuseUniversity .. University o f Rochester Adam Shapiro........ Lindsey M azur........................................... Moravian College Emily Silver........... . . Washington University Lauren M elhuish..........................Green Mountain College . . University of Michigan * Adam S im on......... Drew Mersinger...........Savannah College of Art & Design . . . University of Arizona * Scott S im on........... Sarah M iller....................................................................DukeUniversity Karinna Sjo-Gaber . ...........Brown University Sonia N ag esh .................................... New York University Peter Spragins . . . . ................. Pitzer College Erin Stutz . .............. Sarah Nahabedian................................New York University , . . College of New Jersey Samora Noguera........................University of Pennsylvania Lauren Sunshine. . . . . . Seton Hall University Victoria O'K ane............................................. Boston College Bartlomiej Szczech Johns Hopkins University Lood O librice.................................................... NortheasternUniversity Jordan T hebner.. . . . . . . Muhlenberg College Cassie Pendergrass.........................................................DrewUniversity •- Sofia Tome............. Parsons School of Design Chaim Pizem ..................................................Babson College . . . , Columbia University Lauren Tortoriello . Stephanie P la tt.......................................Connecticut College Olivia U lm e r......... . . . . . . Lehigh University Marguerite Plekhanov......................... Ohio State University; Sheela Vijayakumar ...........Boston University David Podolsky.......................................................WesleyanUniversity * Katharine Wallace.. . . . University of Vermont Joseph Potenzone.......................................................NiagaraUniversity John Watson........... . . . . Wesleyan University Jennifer Racine ............................................... Ithaca College Kara Ross..................................................Gettysburg College ...............................................................B E Alumni children

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2002 Athletic H all o f Fame: Standing: Coach Tom Boutsikaris, Jill Tobia Sorger ’88, coach Ellen Iverson, Peter McMullen ’77. Seated: fencers Kim Charlton Bedetti ’90, Anne F etherston’88, Alyson Beasley ’88, and Nicole Leonard ’88; sailor R ick D oerr ’78. M issing from photo: M aryl R iter Walker '39.

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Dr. M ark Boyea, outgoing D irector o f Athletics and master o f ceremonies at the awards luncheons Congratulates Dr. R ick D oerr on his achievements.

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San Francisco The City on the Bay was the site of an alumni reception in late February, when Headmaster Peter Greer and several members of the faculty were in town to make presentations at the annual NAIS convention. Alumni representing four decades reunited and mingled over dinner at the Hawthorne Lane restaurant, and came away knowing their hearts were still at MKA.

Faculty member Geoffrey Branigan, local host Jane Lugaric Burkhard ’78, and Peter Greer, Headmaster. One alumna described Dr. Greer as “fascinating, full o f energy, inspirational, andjust a delight. ”

Barbara Bywater Creed ’62, Kitty Haines ’65, and Randy Bean ’66 had a most enthusiastic Kimberley reunion.

Standing: Janine Mamell Wishnow ’83, Bruce Eng ’79, Karen Ladenheim-Martos ’85, Darwin Martos. Seated; Rick Wishnow, Christine Wakefield ’69, Jeannie Eng.

Stacy Robin Meranus ’92, left, and classmate Clifford Finkle ’92 with his fiancee Alexis Ohls.

Though both live in California, Philip Fradkin ’53 and Dr. Robert Weinmann ’53 hadn’t seen each other since graduation 49 years ago! Fradkin received the MKA Distinguished Alumni Award in 1989.

John Hawley ’66.

Former MKA faculty member Bill Bullard.

Connecticut___________ ___________ ________________ In May, MKA hosted a reception for Connecticut alumni at the Greenwich home of Julia and Ray Knox ’76. As is usual at alumni gatherings, old friends reconnected and strangers with an MKA connection met and listened with pride to news of their alma mater.

Gail Zabriskie Wilson ’56 and Lily Solmssen Moureaux ’59 hadn’t seen each other since their Kimberley days.

Mark McGowan ’85, his fiancée Stephanie Gebhart, Meredith McGowan ’90.

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Jim Garino ’88, Sarah Garino, Tony Kane, and his wife Susan Huang ’72.

Daniel Kim '79, Hugh Gleason ’75 and his sister, Nora Gleason Leary ’78.

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From the Alumni Association D ear M K A Fam ily & Friends, Thank you all for a great two years! Serving as President o f the A lum ni A ssociation has been a very enriching experience in m any w ays. I am m ost proud o f the fact that the A lum ni A ssociation has been successful in reconnecting alum ni w ith M KA. It is m ost satisfying for all o f us involved w ith the A lum ni Council and the A lum ni Office to hear som eone say, “I hav en ’t been back in years, and I ’m really glad I cam e to this event.” This past spring, w e m ade “reconnections” at m any different events. In M arch, the A ssociation sponsored another successful Career D ay at the U pper School. Eighteen speakers presented their views to M K A students on a w ide range o f topics. Over M arch break, the B lack A lum ni N etw ork Initiative (BANI) sponsored their second annual college trip, this tim e to Boston, w ith rave review s from all. M ay w as a busy m onth for the A lum ni Council. We w elcom ed our new est alumni, M K A ’s graduating seniors, at the annual Senior Breakfast. M em bers o f the Council w ere happy to participate in the M K A A thletic H all o f Fam e and the alumni social at the hom e o f R ay K nox ’76 in G reenw ich, CT. A t the year-end faculty m eeting in June, the Council celebrated the tenth year o f the Founders’ Cup, and presented the aw ard to J.C. Svec o f theftJpper School Fine A rts Departm ent. We w rapped up this y e a r’s activities on a high note in June w ith the second annual M K A A lum ni G o lf and Tennis O pen at G len Ridge Country Club — once again, a fun outing, w ith a great group o f alum s on a beautiful day!

Alumni Association president Lori W indolf Crispo ’78 presents a g ift to Alumni Director Christie Austin in appreciation fo r 16 years at the ' alumni helm. With them are form er president Dean Paolucci ’73 and incoming president P at Shean Worthington ’74.

The Newest Alumni: Autograph, Please The A lum ni A ssociation reaches out to its new est m em bers w ith an ad in the senior yearbook, and w elcom es them at the Senior B reakfast in May. This y ear the Class o f 2002 received special M oving Up D ay T-shirts, to be autographed on the spot and w orn all day. Dr. G reer also: presented a traditional class laundry bag to take o ff to college.

Last, I ’d like to w elcom e and congratulate Pat Shean W orthington ’74 as the new president o f the A lum ni A ssociation. Thanks and farew ell to departing Council m em ber Scott Rum ana ’83 and our student rep, R alph D elouis ’02, w hom w e w ish good luck at C onnecticut College. I am very glad to be involved w ith such an active, productive group o f alumni. Thanks for all your support. —L o ri W indolf C rispo '78

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Alumni Golf & Tennis The day w as glorious for the second annual A lum ni G o lf & Tennis O uting, held June 18 at the G len Ridge Country Club. A lum ni from three decades played, and that evening, chatted w ith old classm ates and esteem ed faculty members.

Danny Kim ’79, Dave Wallace ’79, Larry Duca ’79 and his wife; Dr. Kim Fenesy.

Andy Voss ’83 and Dan Carson ’83 recall Middle School foibles with teacher Linda Stark.

Alumni Council members Erin Cuffe Crawford ’74, Eric Pai ’79 (who is also a Trustee and parent o f three children at MKA), and Lori Windolf Crispo ’78.

Mark McGowan ’85, faculty member George Hrab, and Tony Domenick ’79.

Ray Knox ’76, Joe Sullivan ’77, and Paul McFeeley’76.

Classmates o f ’76 Dave Hughes and Warren Waters.

Henry Talbot ’72, Dave Debell ’72, and Louis Gioffre ’72 prepare to

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Headmaster Peter Greer admires an engraved putter presented by the Alumni Association fo r his 10 years o f leadership at MKA.

Alan Deehan ’77 won the putting contest.

Rick Jenkins ’77, organizer extraordinaire

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A t m ost schools, “Career D ay” is a group o f experts sitting up on stage in a panel addressing students, usually the juniors or seniors. The experts m ay or m ay not include alum ni, and interaction is restricted to answers to broad questions from the audience. In contrast, M K A ’s Career D ay involves all U pper School students, and the speakers are alum ni w ho w ent through the same school and som etim es had the sam e teachers. Their forum is a classroom and their audience is students interested in the field. They have student hosts w ho greet and introduce them for the session. The process is involved, but the result is personalized and allow s for great interaction.

Classmates o f 1989 Nilie Pajoohi, Josh Raymond, George Hrab, and Ralph Amirata.

I used to give some of these kids detentions, and now they’re back in three-piece suits giving advice. F a cu lty m em ber G eorge H rab

M em bers o f the A lum ni Council (under chairm an M ark M cG ow an ’85) contact alum ni in a range o f fields - w hether volunteers or from inform ation sent to the A lum ni Office. Speakers fill out a questionnaire on their background and details o f their career; the A lum ni Office w rites it up into a “course description” from w hich students choose w hat career th ey ’re interested in during an advisor session. Speakers are assigned classroom s depending on the num ber o f registrants and need for audio-visual equipment. W hen the “day” arrives - actually a m orning - alum ni are greeted by student hosts. Because students have chosen the field and the sessions are small, there is m uch student-alum ni discussion. M any a Career D ay has resulted in further interaction, even internships. B est o f all, alum ni have a chance to return as role m odels and “give back” to their alm a mater. M K A ’s Career D ay is so unique that A lum ni D irector Christie A ustin w as asked to present a w orkshop on it to other independent school professionals at the A lum ni Program C ouncil’s annual convention in W ashington, D.C.

Mark McGowen ’85 has been chairman o f Career Day fo r six years.

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Sisters-in-law Paige Cottingham Streater ’79 and Alison Thomas Cottingham, Ph.D. ’84

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Margaret Johnson ’81

Advertising Computers Construction/Engineering

Keshia Trotman ’92

Deirdre Newman ’74

Susan Cole Furlong ’78

Dan Carson ’83

Trustee Peter McMullen ’77 has spoken at 14 MKA Career Days.

Deirdre Newman ’74

Paige Cottingham Streater ’79

Journalism

Diane Haines ’63

Languages

Alex Joerger ’95 Ralph Amirata ’89 Nilie Pajoohi ’89

Management

Margaret Johnson ’81

Medicine

Christopher Kruse ’88

Psychology

John Kaplow ’72

Dan Carson ’83

Graphic Art & Illustration

Music

Diane Haines ’63

Janine Garland ’82

Mark McGowan ’85

Law

Christopher Kruse, M.D. ’88

Susan Cole Furlong ’78

Financial Careers

International Relations

Alison Raymond ’92

George Hrab ’89 Alison Thomas Cottingham ’84

Public Health & Community Justice

Keshia Trotman ’92

Special Education

Alison Raymond ’92

Sports Administration

Peter McMullen ’77

Video Production

Alex Joerger

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John Kaplow ’72

Janine Garland ’82

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Distinguished Alumni Award 2002 Laura Scher ’76 Charity Begins at Work “You can have a jo b th a t m atches y o u r p rin cip les w ith y o u r career goals, ” says L aura S cher ’76, CEO o f W orking A ssets F unding Service. “You can do so cia lly b en eficia l work, m ake it m ore responsible to society. ” In this y e a r’s clim ate o f corporate greed, The M ontclair K im berley A cadem y A lum ni A ssociation is particularly pleased to honor L aura Scher ’76, w ho for alm ost tw o decades has led a corporation that is a role m odel for socially responsible business. L aura is ch ief executive o f W orking A ssets Funding Service, w hich she co founded in 1985. The San Francisco com pany has channeled m ore than $20 m illion since then to progressive nonprofit organizations. The long distance, credit card, Internet services, and broadcasting com pany is based on a unique business m odel that donates a portion o f revenues to a nonprofit donation pool.

Change the world by talking on the phone. “We provide a w ay for people to becom e effective activists and philanthropists through their everyday activities, at little or no cost to them,T^she told the H arvard Business School B ulletin. Cardholders “donate” a dim e on each purchase, online purchasers donate a percentage, and long-distance custom ers give one percent o f a m onthly phone bill to a group o f 60 charities (voted on by the customers). The bill (printed on recycled paper) has becom e a lobbying tool in addition to a fundraising tool, as it prom otes tw o national issues under debate each month. W orking A ssets has becom e one o f the m ost pow erful progressive citizen-action groups in the nation. The com pany has been nam ed five tim es by Inc. m agazine as one o f the country’s fastest-grow ing enterprises. It has 500,000 custom ers, 100-plus em ployees, and revenues o f $ 140 million. Its CEO has been honored as Entrepreneur o f the Year in N orthern California, and the San Francisco League o f Women Voters has nam ed her “one o f four w om en w ho could be President.” Laura grew up in Clifton and began The K im berley School in kindergarten. She recalls “great rapport w ith K im berley teachers Judy N esbit (m ath and school plays) and Sally B ailey (biology), w ho “show ed w hat girls can achieve in m edicine and science.” L aura earned a B.A. at Yale and spent 1980-81 in G eneva, Switzerland, studying international econom ics and politics on a Rotary Fellow ship. She w orked at Bain & Co. as a consultant before attending H arvard Business School, w here she graduated w ith honors. Laura, m arried and the m other o f tw o children, told H arvard, “M y parents taught m e that individuals can m ake an impact, and that it’s our responsibility to speak out about injustices and to be generous w ith our tim e.”

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Cougar Sports Winter 2001-2002 It certainly w as a rem arkable w inter outside. I f it h ad n ’t been for the early darkness and the annual holiday celebrations, it w ould have been hard to tell by the w eather if it w as w inter or ju st a very long fall or spring. A s far as M K A A thletics w as concerned, it w as a rem arkable w inter inside as well. Leading the w ay w as the division cham pionship captured by the Ice Hockey team. In w hat m ust have qualified as the m ost rem arkable one-season turnaround in the state, the hockey team im proved from 1-16-3 to 12-7-5, and w on the N ew Jersey Interscholastic H ockey League Central Blue D ivision title w ith a thrilling 2-1 victory over Johnson Regional. G oalie B rett A llcom led the w ay in the cham pionship gam e w ith 33 saves, w hile A nthony G ray received A ll-County honors. In addition, the Girls’ Swimming team achieved a rare threepeat as Essex County Cham pions and then added to that the team title in the second-ever Colonial H ills Conference Cham pionship meet. A bigail K aboth, E rin Stutz, C arla Franciose, Jenna Sakolsky, A llison Currie, K ate H aigney and K risten Rode all achieved A ll-County recognition, w hile H aigney and Stutz were selected A ll-State as well. W hile the Boys’ Swimming team did not have the same kind o f success, it rem arkably w on tw o dual m eets w ith only six young m en on the team! W ith no seniors on the roster, it w ill not be long before the program regains its traditionally strong standing. In Wrestling, M K A - after last y e a r’s first-tim e appearance in the state tournam ent - once again qualified in 2002. The team needed a victory over N ew ark A cadem y on the last date for qualifying, and cam e through by a 46-34 score. Individually, Jon Bruno and Brian Picillo becam e the school's first D istrict Cham pions, and each w ent to the individual state tournam ent final rounds for the second consecutive year. Bruno, Picillo and M asam ba Sinclair all received post-season honors. The Girls’ Fencing team had one o f its finest seasons in recent years, com piling a 10-3 dual- m eet record, including im pressive w ins over Ram apo and Pingry. The Cougars return all but two m em bers o f this y e a r’s roster, so hopes are high for the program in 2003. Junior Cassie Frey led the w ay in 2002, and for her efforts w as nam ed to the A ll-State Sabre team. The Boys’ Fencing team w as one o f our m ost inexperienced in m any years, but w ith only one senior still m anaged to post a 5-7 record. Fourteen o f the team 's 17 m em bers w ere either freshm en or sophom ores, so expect the Cougars to return to their usual prom inence soon. Typical o f this y ea r’s team ’s young talent were sophom ores Jon W innerm an and A ndy Powers, w ho both made the A ll-State team. In its second year o f existence, Indoor Track once again fared w ell in both the Colonial H ills and Essex County m eets, w hile helping to pave the w ay for the spring season. M ike D ulong was

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selected to the A ll-State Prep team in the 1600 m eter run, w hile sophom ore O skar N ordenbring w as nam ed A ll-C ounty in the 3200 m eter run. Last, it w as the best-com bined year for both Boys’ and Girls’ Basketball in a long tim e. M K A w as the only school in the Colonial H ills C onference w hose b o y s’ and girls’ team s both w on at least fifteen gam es. Both team s finished second in the conference, and both coaches - b o y s’ coach Tony Jones and girls’ coach Dr. M ark B oyea - w ere selected as Coach o f the Year. In addition, the bo y s’ team advanced to both the sem ifinals o f the State Prep Touram ent and second round o f the State Parochial Tournament, w hile the girls’ reached the State Prep sem ifinals and, for the fifth straight year, the State Parochial tournam ent. Frank Herrm ann, K evin Codey, A asim Cunningham , Jeanne Lehm ann, Sarah Miller, Tory O ’K ane and M ary K ate Lanzo all w ere nam ed to post-season A ll-Star teams.

Spring 2002 W ith no pun intended, it w as certainly a “banner” spring. M K A team s captured eight cham pionships during the m onths o f M ay and June, as w ell as producing tw o o f the finest m om ents in recent A thletics memory. O ne o f those m om ents w as the afternoon o f Saturday, June 8. A t Toms R iver E ast H igh School, M K A had both its Softball a n d Baseball team s playing at the same tim e for the State Parochial B Cham pionship. M K A was the only private school to have both its team s playing for titles in any classification that day. A t Toms River, the Softball team captured its third state cham pionship in the past four years w ith a thrilling 1-0, nine-inning victory over G loucester Catholic. This avenged a loss to G loucester in last y e a r’s final. The Parochial C ham pionship w as the last o f four for the Cougars during the 2002 season. T hey also claim ed the Colonial H ills Conference, Essex County, and State Sectional titles. In addition, the team finished the year ranked third in the state. K ristin M asino w as nam ed 1st Team A ll State; G ianna Lopreato and A ndrea Piela, 2nd Team; and Jacqueline A raneo and Jam ie Piela, 3rd Team A ll State. K ristin D iM eo, Candice Pastor, K atherine Sisco, and Lhenee Riddick received county and/or division honors. The Baseball team w as not as fortunate, falling to Bishop Eustice at Toms River, but the loss far from dim inished a great season. M K A w on the Colonial H ills Conference, State Prep and State Sectional cham pionships, m ade a first-ever appearance in the Essex County tournam ent sem i-finals, w on 25 gam es, and ended the year ranked 17th in the state. Coach Ralph Pacifico w as nam ed H ills D ivision Coach o f the Year. Christian Carm ona, A nthony Gray, Frank Herrm ann, and C hristopher Jackson were nam ed to 1st Team Prep B; Laurence Canales, D avid Podolsky, and A ndrew Powers w ere 2nd Team, and V incent G rossi and M ichael Jones received honorable m ention, Prep B.

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T he other o f those m om ents occurred in Princeton, as the Girls’ Lacrosse team pulled o ff one o f the biggest upsets in several years by knocking o ff tw o-tim e defending cham pion L aw renceville 13-10 for the State Prep cham pionship. The Cougars trailed throughout, tying the gam e late in regulation before dom inating play in overtime. It was a stellar year in every w ay for the team as it m ade its first appearance in the overall State tournam ent and finished second in its division. Sarah M iller, V ictoria O 'K ane and N icole Pugno w ere nam ed to the 1st Team, A ll Prep; C ionna A lm eida to the 2nd Team; A lexandra A m ari, A lexandra Alati, and A llison Currie received division honors. The Boys’ Lacrosse team narrow ly m issed qualifying for the overall States, b ut did advance to the sem ifinals o f the State Prep tournam ent. The team posted several im pressive w ins, and w ith several players returning, the team has a great chance to challenge for the Prep title as w ell as return to the States next year. A dam Kessler, L ood O librice, A dam Shapiro, and W illiam W iden w ere all given division honors. The Golf team, under new coaches G eo ff B ranigan and Brian M ochnal, continued its tradition o f success w ith another w inning season. In addition to finishing at 12-7, the Cougars finished in the top five in the Colonial H ills Conference, State Prep and State Parochial tournam ents. A nother big surprise w as turned in by the Boys’ Track and Field team , as it rode personal-best perform ances by several team mem bers to a second-place finish in the Colonial H ills Conference cham pionship meet. W ith 15 team s com peting, M K A cam e w ithin a few points o f a stunning upset. A t the State Parochial meet, sophom ores O skar N ordenbring and Jon W atkins captured individual titles. M ichael D ulong w as nam ed to 2nd Team A ll-State, and Ralph D elouis to the conference 2nd team . For the Girls’ Track and Field team , it w as a season o f growth, as a young but talented team com peted w ell, losing close dual m eets that they w ill be prepared to w in in the future. A lso o f m ajor significance for both team s is the near-com pletion o f the brand new track com plex w hich M K A w ill share w ith Verona H igh School. This w ill be an incredible boost for our student-athletes. Last, it w as another strong cam paign for the Boys’ Tennis team. The Cougars com piled a record o f 16-10 w ith one o f the toughest schedules in the state. A long w ith several victories over top prep schools, the team finished second in the Colonial H ills Conference and was ranked in the top ten in Essex County. Scott Simon, Tyler Adam s, D aniel Bleicher, H arold Garrity, K evin Hu, D rew Jennings, and Patrick Cedrow ski w ere all nam ed to the H ills D ivision 2nd Team.

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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 email 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. The Review will accept “alumni-reunion” photos, but regrets it cannot print individual wedding, baby, or family photos. 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. MA - Montclair Academy TKS - The Kimberley School

deceased), several grandchildren and even three great-grandchildren. “The only part I don’t like about it is being a mother of grandparents,” she writes. Jesse lives at a retirement home near her son in Virginia and has been improving ever since a stroke in 199J<; She uses a typewriter and is learning The Computer, particularly for e-mailing to grandchildren in Africa. Nikki Burbank Frell still enjoys oldfashioned “snail mail.” She and Albert are well.

Miss Charlotte H. Fitch, Box 45 24 Cape Bial Lane, Westport Point MA 02791

30 M A________________ Mr. C. Irving Porter Box 2750 Quaker H ill Road Unity ME 04988

31 TKS __________________________ Mrs. Albert Frell (Irene Burbank) 580 Admiralty Parade Naples FL 34102 Jesse Taylor Drew wrote that of the six Taylor girls, all who graduated from Kimberley, there are three left (her twin Virginia Taylor Wagner lives in Florida and Douglas Taylor Weir ’36 in California). Jesse herself has two living children (two

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Our condolences to the family of Barbara Spadone Haviland. She leaves five children Peter ’64, Nancy H. Hutchinson ’62, Barbara H. Brogan ’69, Catherine H. Schafer ’75, and Linda H. Conte ’77 - and nine grandchildren. Betty

TKS __________________________ Frances Hardy Feezer is chairman of the Fine Arts committee at the Carlsbad (N.M.) Museum. She enjoyed a barge trip in France last fall. Mary Harrsen Van Brunt has been in touch with Frances and reports that Frances is now considering an Elderhostel trip to Greece! Mary also hears from Joan Williams Seeley, who says her several great-grandchildren brighten her life.

m TKS __________________________ Our condolences to the family of Mollie Hollins Woodworth.

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summer. She and Dick were celebrating their twin grandsons’ birthday with daughter Heidi and family. Heidi’s home is on the very same lane where Sandy and her parents lived many years ago when we first became friends. Our oldest son was with us, and he and Heidi, both artists, had a chance to get acquainted while we old classmates caught up.

Henry Doremus has volunteered with the Vero Beach Humane Society (Florida) for 15 years and the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute for 10.

34 TKS __________________________ Mrs. Willard Dixon (Betty O ’Gorman) Crane’s Mill, Apt. 199 459 Passaic Ave., West Caldwell N J 07006

TKS __________________________ Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) Crane s Mill, Apt. 249 459 Passaic Ave., West Caldwell N J 07006 It was so nice to have results from my letter to classmates. Nancy Fiske Milne is in White River Junction, Vt. She has been busy with marriages and traveling and painting (watercolor). She remembers Kimberley and sends lovegjyj Betty Garrison Tobin wrote from Tucson* ** Ariz. She gets along with hearing aids and has great and greater grandchildren. Bobby Littlejohn is still very active in New York City. We were all devastated that Elizabeth Higgins Thompson died in November. We remember such good times at 84 Llewellyn Road. Our sympathy to Bogie and their family. At Christmas every year I hear from Jean Black Jennings in Oregon, who is still playing tennis and skiing, and from Jeannette Bell Winters in Maryland. Jeannette has moved to a retirement community in Silver Springs that reminds her of a college campus. Stewart and I have the same feeling at Crane’s Mill. We are busy with the Gift Shop, bridge, library, meeting new people, etc.

To celebrate their birthdays, Virginia Snead Keyser and her granddaughter enjoyed American Ballet Theatre’s production of “Eugene Onegin” at Lincoln Center in May, a happy occasion indeed.

Josephine McNair Schutt has also moved to a retirement community, near Orlando, Fla. Her sister Ann lives near her. Jodi6fj(M

Bob and Jean Berry Bush were in Montclair for a spring visit to family and friends; they spent the weekend with Elizabeth Gracy Kenny. The Bushes live in Mass, to be near her sons and go often to their other home on the Cape. Jean is looking forward to the arrival of her first great-grandchild.

Mr. John Graham 1129 K ing’s Ranch Road Bandera T X 78003

Augusta Sanborn Goennei (Sandy) and I had a nice family get-together in Westhampton last

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Dave Bate, our still-active lawyer, keeps on “planning for retirement,” but so far hasn’t. Dr. Eddy Davis Palmer reports to the hospital daily ("mainly to annoy the nurses") while bringing much-needed help to many grateful patients. Keep up the good work!

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My newest endeavor is a weekly reading to elderly residents of our local health care center. Best reference book is Bill Bennett’s Book o f Virtues, Reminisce magazine, a host of borrowed short stories, and the Bible. And, yes,* I am older than m o|J of my listeners, but fortunately in better shape.

Robb, ran in the Boston Marathon this spring, on behalf of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. We’re so proud of her. Peggy

Come on, guys, write me with your news. Our time is, well, shall we say waning? John

Class agent: M rs^Saul Serota (Cornelia Carswell) 6891 Wilson Road, M arshall VA 22115

Congratulations to Maryl Riter Walker on her induction into the MKA Athletic Hall of Fame! Maryl - who taught generations of girls to ride - wa.s most gracious as she addressed current MKA students«. She was widowed in 1994. She has three children, Maryl Walker Thomas ’61, Caryl Walker Greisenbeck ’65 (deceased in 1981), and John G. Walker III, and three grandchildren.

IKS _______________________ Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) 9 Brandon Lane, Bishops Cove M ystic CT 06355 Betty Howe Glaze lives in St. Joseph, Mo.1 and enjoys summers at her home in Manasquan, on the Jersey Shore, sometimes seeing Kimberley friends.

37 TKS __________________________ Mrs. William Young (Peggy K lotzJ^t The Village at Duxbury 290 Kingstown Way, Apt. 253 Duxbury MA 02332 We would love to hear from more of you. Sally Bausher Littlefield had plans to remedy some problems with her hip; I hope she did as she enjoys travel and golf. I sent her son’s book to a granddaughter for her birthday. Of course, I enjoyed it myself first. I recommend Circus in the Woods (Bill Littlefield). Margaret Richards Chapman’s brother-inlaw, Robert L. Chapman, died in February 2002. He had a distinguished career as editor of Roget’s ThesaurusJene of my favorite books! I am eagerly awaiting Jane Rinck’s second book of essays. I love her first, entitled Vermont Mountain A ir For People Stuck InsifflSmi Ruth Russell Gray plays golf regularly, travels, and is “in a bunch o f organizations and give them a lot of time.” She is active in her local Unitarian, Universalist church. My sister-in-law, Sally Young Shertzer, writes, “Since March 1999,1 have been privileged to live in the marvelous new Bishop Gadsden Retirement Center in Charleston, S.C. I stay busy tending my garden...a nearby golf course lures ntgoften, and along with frequent exercise, keeps me in good shape. Daughter Kitty lives nearby; grandchildren visit; daughter Peggy visits from Austin, Texas, and we all travel each August to Manomet, Mass., the beloved gathering spot for the Young family.” I had a nice conversation this spring with Bob Livesey ’37, who called from Connecticut, where he lives. My granddaughter, Susan

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Saul and I continue to love living on our farm in Virginia’s beautiful “Piedmont.” Our two dogs keep us busy. Last fall we had a great six-nation cruise/tour of northern Europe; we both voluntep for our local hospital and library. Cornelia Our condolences to the family of Joy O’Neil Ross Banta. Joy, twice widowed, is survived by her two daughters, brother E. Hayden O’Neil ’46, and two cousins, Sheila Feagley James ’43 and Anne Feagley Wittels ’45. Joy spent much time helping migrant workers in Florida, and became such a part of their lives, she waljinvited to christenings, weddings, and graduations.

M A____________________________ Mr. C.R. Lyle II 435 Mountain Rd., PO. Box 394 Jaffrey Center NH 03452-0394 Bill and Nancy Tiernan Swenson ’42 had a good winter in Delray Beach, Fla. with visits with his brother, Perry Swenson ’41 and Jeannie, and Nancy and Bill Marchese. Sadly, Bill died in June. He had a distinguished law career and spent 20 years as a Superior Court judge in Passaic County. He served in the Navy in both WWII and Korea and left as a lieutenant commander. Bill is survived by his wife, Nancy, a daughter and two grandchildren. Doing 80 with friends (and I don’t mean in my Volvo!) is rather fun. I’ve done about a year as a trustee of First Church and a year as an elected trustee of the town library. Otherwise, I walk the dog, swim daily in my indoor lap pool, paint and write some, read a lot. I see A1 Pels regularly and Peter Funk occasionally. Bud

TKS _____________________ Mrs. Alfred D. Williams (Joan Bayne) 15 Piper Road, Apt. K310 Scarborough ME 04074

Our heartfelt condolences to Helen Keenan Thatcher on the death of her son, Gary, and to Jean Girdler Grinnell on the death of her daughter, Suzanne. She was a particular inspiration to us for many years, as she and my Allie shared Hodgkins disease and various treatments. Joan

M A____________________________ Our condolences to Carlton Frost on the death of his wife, Ruth. Carlton does a lot of volunteer work at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood and with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also “Webmaster” for the Class of 1944 at Dartmouth College.

Mrs. James F.C. Hyde Jr. (Enid Griswold) 5402 D uvall Drive, Bethesda MD 20816 Susan O’Gorman Karlin writes from Locust, N.J.: “All is well with our tribe. The welcome mat is out.” Mildred Wright Dorland has two weddings this year, one in France (granddaughter) and the other in Costa Rica (grandson). She had a fire in her apartment in France, and notes, “The weddings will be much more enjoyable.”

M A __________________ Mr. D avid Baird Jr. 9 Parkway, M ontclair N J 07042 Perry Minton had an interesting trip on the Columbia and Snake rivers, “In the Wake of Lewis & Clark.” The high point, he says, was running over a couple of tons of timbers at 2 a.m., which caused the Coast Guard to order passengers ashore for a day. No one was hurt and most felt the “disaster” was a bonus. Dick Carrie writes that all of his kids now live within an hour of Newark Airport, so he and Bette expect to be in New Jersey more often, when not traveling. Dick recognized Dan Emerson ’42 in the local Vero Beach supermarket, and Dan recognized him too! Bruce Cornish is living in a retirement center in Lee’s Summit, Mo., which features many activities “like schools we have known.” Bruce played the role of Lt. Joe Cable in the musical “South Pacific,” and reports he had developed enough voice in singing groups to sing “Younger Than Springtime” and another solo, but memorizing dialogue was tough. “It was an unusual way to relive events of WWII,” he observes. Our condolences to the family of David Caldwell. Dave graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology and worked as a licensed professional engineer. He leaves his wife of 50 years, Suzanne, three daughters, and two granddaughters. Our condolences,Jalso, to George Buttel on the death of his wife, Ruth. They had been

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married 59 years, and have three daughters who, combined, attended Kimberley for 40 years: Bonnie Buttel Drury ’62, Lynn Buttel McElroy ’64, and Susan Buttel O’Brien ’70. George remembers his years at the Academy, three of which he boarded at the Bradley House on Lloyd Road, and particularly senior year when he was class president and football captain.

44 M A______________________ Mr. Winterford J. Ohland 4 A hler’s Lane, Blairstown N J 07825

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42 60th REUNION OCTOBER 19, 2002

I KS __________________________ Mrs. Robinson V. Smith (Joan Trimble) 16 M arshall Terrace, Wayland MA 01778 Reunion chairman: Frances Johnson Furlong Joan Trimble Smith, albeit beset with serious illness, nonetheless finished four children’s portraits in pastel and was working on an oil for Mt. Holyoke. As of February, she had had three successful one-person shows since July 2001. Joan has four grandsons, ages 10 to 21. Jean Jeffers Hill loves living in Laurelmead, an adult community five minutes from her former home in Providence. She reports using the pool every day. Harriet Bell Barrett continues writing poetry. Her first book is sold out. Harriet reports that her late husband’s father was in the first class at Montclair Academy. Over the course of 40 years, Helena Burrill has driven through many countries. She also has seen both ends of the Earth - Antarctica one year, the Arctic the next. Helena is happily ensconced in NYC now. Our condolences to Elizabeth Staudinger on the death of her sister, Anne Staudinger Abels ’47.

M A____________________________ Class secretary and reunion chairman: Mr. Richard L. Charlesworth 121 Cherry Brook Rd., Weston MA 02193 Art Hofmann had hip replacement in January, and reports it is great to walk again and play golf. He and Omell are fine and so are their children, Lisa (in Omaha) and Joe, in Fairlawn, NJ. James Ritchie writes from Santa Fe that his wife of 49 years died in 1997 and that he married Ruth Bell in 1999.

TKS _______________________ Miss Lucile G. Mason 142 North Mountain Ave:, M ontclair N J 07042

M A_________________________ Mr. Richard R. Angus 38 Hinchman Avenue, Denville N J 07834

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here in California, and my sister, Sheila Feagley James ’43 and her husband, David. I was evicted from my studio (rented space in a defunct school), now that students are plentiful again. Working at home isn’t quite the same. Anne

Anne Feagley Wittels (Mrs. Jerome L.) 2116 ViaAlamitos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 wittels@world.net.att. net Barbara Bumsted Shand not only wrote about her art activities, she sent pictures. What fun stuff she paints, combining paint and collage, either for commission or for herself. Ann Gerhauser Buchbinder sent a charming holiday cardHthat darling dog again! S hut no specific news. Kathryn Tease Clark also says no news, but that she misses Connecticut and the seasons. Josie Murphy Rayermann and Ed spent February at their house in Sedona and celebrated their 50th anniversary in May. Son Patrick, a Lt. Colonel with a new master’s degree, begins Army War College in July; son Richard, still flying with American Airlines, assumes command of another Naval Reserve unit. The four grands are all fine and involved in scouting. Judy Shearer Turnbull made her annual call on Josie’s birthday. Judy and Bob are “in good shape.” She is still involved with the garden club. Roger and Rudd Trimble Kenvin’s new book, Magellan Moon, is an account of last year’s round-the-world voyage, 52 days by ship. Their latest trip involves 64 days around the rims and islands of the Pacific. They celebrated their 50th anniversary with children and grands in attendance. Rudd keeps in touch with Josie and with Flo Biggs Davis. Dick and Phyllis Harder Reininger toured Central America and passed through the Panama Canal, and cruised to Alaska. They also visited children and grands and her sister, Joanne Harder Woodward ’46. Phyl had a tennis injury requiring surgery, but hoped to resume play soon. Leigh Berrien Smith enjoys chats with “old friends from ’45” and reports those she’s talked with “sound as if fewer years have passed than the calendar indicates. It’s great to hear their voices.” Leigh reports that Sally DuBois Moberg has moved back to Westfield, NJ. to be near her daughter. On a sad note, Joan Newell Sanford ’49 reported that her sister, our classmate Elizabeth Newell McCaffrey, died suddenly in November. She is survived by her son, Thomas McCaffrey. As for us, Jerry and I enjoyed a wonderful trip to London and Edinburgh last summer. We see our children (two) and grandchildren (three)

Mr. William B. Grant 7330 Westmoreland Dr., Sarasota FL 34243 grantwb@tampabay. rr. com The class had a mini-reunion this spring in Stuart, Fla. Bill Grant drove over from Sarasota to join Emil “Bud” Tietje, who winters in Stuart, for a luncheon hosted by Lake Underwood. Lake’s condo faces both the ocean and the St. Lucie River. Bud and Bill enjoyed thumbing through Lake’s coffee table book featuring car-racing greats Mario Andretti, Moss Sterling, Briggs Cunningham, and our own Lake Underwood! Bud spends the summer in Falmouth, Mass, where his sons own and operate his Clam Bar Restaurant and his powerboats, which shuttle folks to and from Martha’s Vineyard. Bud has made three Stuart-Falmouth round trips in a cat-rigged sailboat!

\46 M A____________________________ Dr. Peter B. Lawrenck' 4802 Carriage Pl„ Wilson NC 27896 Art Hyde enjoyed being with Bill Brown, Peter Lawrence and spouses at the 55th reunion. “We all missed having more members attending,jVhe writes!, “so let’s all plan to get together for our 60th.” Captain Philip Cheek returned to MKA in May to chat about his current project: a book on British wartime evacuees. It is inspired by the five children whoBappeared on the Academy campus in the dark days of 1940.” If anyone has information about Tony Rooke, Brian Rooke, or Percy Llewellan, please contact the MKA Alumni Office.

■ 55th REUNION OCTOBER 19, 2002

TKS __________________________ Mrs. David Hannegan (Louise Rudd) 49 Canterbury Lane, Lakeville CT 06039 weezieh@msn. com Reunion chairmen: Joan Cook, Louise Rudd Hannegan, Aubin Redfield Sander Reunion agent: Jeannie Frey Drake Dear ones, lots of vibes going your way to come to reunion. You will have received mucho info by the time you read this. Teeny Redfield Sander came to Lakeville for a planning session in May (gale winds prevented Cookie from coming). Teen has 14 grandchildren and travels a lot to see them,

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and children and/or grands visit her in Florida and Hartwood. Teen and Barbara Nash Hanson had a grand trip to Australia and New Zealand last winter. Bar’s biggest news is that she and Herb have gone in on a time-share airplane, with pilot! They made a 15-stop, three-week trip around the country to see old friends and places old and new. They have a new colt in the stable and one in training. From another stable, Sue Harrison Schumann wrote heffife “remains blissfully the same, tending six Corgis and four horses.” Ford had a hip replacement last winter and in May spent a week in London. Sue’s grandson, Mark, made the varsity crew at Williams as a freshman and rowed at Henley in June. Kathy Crowell sold her RV after many great trips and she and her jjister now enjoy Elderhostel. Kathy had both knees replaced and is doing well. I talk to Joan Cook quite a bit (not just ' reunion). Cookie’s nephew Cleve was married last September, overlooking the ocean in Gloucester. Nephew Hunt is engaged with the wedding next May. Katy Watt Cangelosi has another granddaughter and her namesake, which pleases her, the fourth child of daughter Leslie. Katy still loves her 10-acre spot, saying she and her dog and goats are all “ancients.” Cindy Youngman Adams fell and broke (I think) her rotator cuff, had to have surgery, and was in a brace, for a long time, no sports. We hope she’s okay now. Tom and Peggy Soucek Weissenborn made two moves within a year: in Florida to another golfing community; in New Jersey, they sold their Essex Fells house to be in a condo in Roseland. Their dogs: Baron is-retired and Ripley is getting better in the ring. Gray and Cyn Overton Blandy visited us in Florida, so we four had dinner with Tom and Peggy. The Blandy children arranged a surprise 50th anniversary party for them last April.

Sally Funk Ellinger is still grooming dogs “to help keep arthritis at bay.” She has two great grandchildren now, and says, “Life is wonderful, when you are with your children and theirs Our condolences to the family of Anne Staudinger Abels. Her husband, William, had died last April, three days before their 50th wedding anniversary. She leaves five children and several grands. We Hannegans had a busy 2001 with moving and finishing the new house in time for family at Christmas. A lazy time in Florida, then back to the new digs. We love them. Weezie

M A____________________________ Reunion agent: Mr. Alan Kessler See you in October!

\49 I KS __________________________ Class agent: Mrs. William Brooks (Dorothy Redfield) 1 Thelbridge Street, Madison CT 06443 Jane Hinton Smith happily reports grandchild #7 - Charles H. Smith III. Nancy Eavenson Copp reports “#10 move” to Tennessee. She has “eight darling grandchildren, three special and gifted sons and super daughters-in-law.” Our condolences to Joan Newell Sanford on the death of her sister, Elizabeth Newell McCaffrey ’45.

50 IKS __________________________ Mrs. Sibyl Lewis Lotterle 4360 E. Burchell Drive Hayden Lake ID 83835-8148 sibstoy@ mymailstation,gom Welcome to Sibyl Lewis Lotterle, who picks up the pen as class secretary, and thanks to Frances Lane Miller for her stint. Sibyl lives about 90 miles from the Canadian border in northern Idaho, which she says is very beautiful. She spent 16 years in the tour business at Mammoth Lakes, Calif., and guided tour buses in the summer into Yosemite National Park; she then lived in Nevada, near Lake Tahoe. Sybil spends a lot of time with her two beautiful white Samoyeds at dog shows all over the Pacific Northwest. The Anaheim (Calif.) Museum had a major exhibition of 80 of the works of Helen Montgomery-Drysdale this spring. “From the vast steppes of Genghis Kahn’s homeland to the rich complexities of Beijing, the artist captured the spirit of a cultural and artistic nation,” reads the invitation. A curator wrote

Three-generation légacy: Imm WalldceyJO at Commencement with hiêkbn, Tim Wallace '72, and granddaughter Kate '02.

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that Helen’s photographs capture “a culture within a culture.”

TKS __________________________ Class agent: Mrs. Richard Lewis (Audrey Maass) 4551 G ulf Shore Blvd. N, Apt. 804 Naples FL 3394$ * Sue Davis Tull writes, “Had a great visit with Bruce and Audrey Carroll McBratney in South Carolina on our way home from Florida. They are great\”

M A____________________________ Mr. Rudolph Deetjen Jr. 17 K ing’s Cove Lane, Brooksville ME 04617 Class agent: Mr. Jay Bitting 299 River Edge Dr., Chatham N J 07928 Patty and I were delighted to welcome a second Deetjen grandson, Benjamin Anders son of Cliff and Kim - who joins brother Alex, almost 3. Cliff is an architect/builder in Vermont and our other son, Leif, is also a builder, in Maine. I look forward to hearing more from old ’50 buddies. Bunny and Bill Rowe looked and sounded fabulous when we saw them in

Audrey Carroll McBratney '50, Bruce McBratney, Nancy Jones Trescot '51, and John Trescai in Florida; the photo taken by their host, Gail Robertson Marentette '51.

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February. They are both still avid skiers and boaters in the Lake Placid area. (Bill himself wrote^ “Alive & w ell”) Rudy

Marshall and Pegeen Eustis Keating planned to move to Essex Fells to her mother’s house over the summer.

Ed. note: Rudy and Patty also looked and sounded fabulous when they returned to MKA in Mayfor the dedication o f the newly renovated Deetjen Theatre at the Upper School.

While watching the Westminster Dog Show in February, I spotted Barbara Worchester Keenan as the Judge of the Terrier group. Remember, one of Barbara’s West Highland Whites won Best in Show in the early 1960s.

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Mrs. Lloyd M arentette (Gail Robertson) 93 Glen Avenue, Llewellyn Park West Orange, N J 07052 Several of us went to the memorial service in Rhode Island for Frances Hedges Parsons. Franny grew up across the street from the old Kimberley on Plymouth Street and was always very hospitable. It was lovely to see her at our reunion last fall; she still had her calm, even temper and good sense of humor. Gail

M A____________________________ Mr. Ernest F. Keer III 459 Club Drive, PO Box 1030 Bay Head, N J 08742 Our condolences to the family of Richard Lamborn. Though retired from full-time OB/GYN practice, Mark Hanschka continues to advocate for women’s reproductive rights and works part time at a local Planned Parenthood clinic. He is also involved in an Oregon state campaign to restrict the power of corporate and private wealth over the results of public elections, with the goal of a state constitutional amendment.

\52 50th REUNION OCTOBER 19, 2002 I K S _______________________________ Mrs. Clark Moran (Martha Gilbert) 8011 Strauff Road, Baltimore MD 21204 mmoran(3)iopener. net Class agent: Mrs. James Donnell (Barbara Pendleton) 9468 No. Florence Rd., Pittsburgh PA 15237 Reunion chairman: Mrs. Fay Taft Fawcett ecfawcett@aol. com Wain Koch Maass reports that they sold their house in Vermont and will rent a cottage there for the summer and be in Florida the rest of the time. She is looking forward to reunion! Anne Dwyer Milne is also looking forward to reunion. She has enjoyed traveling - to Australia for three weeks and the Marquesas Islands, where the TV show “Survivor” was done. Reunion chairman Fay Taft Fawcett writes that daughter Pam ’87 had her second child, Brian Carrington, in January. The baby joins sister Katie, 3. Daughter Ashley ’85 and her husband live and work in Boston.

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Our condolences to Gail Tomec Kerr on the death of her mother. She was 94, and one of the very early R.N.’s. I have fond memories of Gail’s dad, the late Dr. Tomec, who delivered many Montclair babies, including my first-born. See you in October. Skipper

M A____________________________ Class agent: Mr. Charles Sage 435 Welch Avenue, Ames IA 50014 Reunion chairman: Mr. George Lucas lukeshome@comcast. net Our condolences to the family of Austin Drukker. Austin was an esteemed publisher (Drukker Communications’ two dailies and five weeklies) and teacher of business ethics. He served MKA as a Trustee for many years. He leaves his wife, Lois; sons Austin Jr., David, and Andrew; MKA alumni Kristen ’94 and Matthew ’95; and seven grandchildren. Our condolences, also, to the family of Jack Headden. We’ll see everyone else on October 19!

\53 I K S _______________________________ A1 and Julie Stoney Johnson moved to Far Hills, NJ. near their four children and six grandchildren. They spend the winter in Vero Beach, Fla. (“plenty of golf’). A1 is an adjunct professor at a Seton Hall graduate program; he got his doctorate in higher education after 30 years in business.

M A____________________________ Mr. Peter Cockshaw 1264 Oakmont Court, West Chester PA 19380 pcockshaw@rcn. com “ft may seem too early to be thinking about our class’s 50th anniversary next year,” writes Pete Cockshaw, “but a few of us are.” He and Dave Connolly have agreed to help spearhead arrangements for the Big 50th. Both will help update the class list and develop mailings. Peter had a subsequent contact with Phil Fradkin, and even though Phil is 3,000 miles away, he has pledged to attend. Everyone will be notified as soon as the date has been set for the fall 2003 event. More recently, Phil and Bob Weinman met at the MKA alumni reception in San Francisco, the first time they’d seen each other since graduation in 1953 (“he lives north of the Golden Gate and I live on the other side”). Nonetheless Bob was sending two of Phil’s books to him for autographs.

WELLS FARGO Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Philip Fradkin ’53 donated a copy of his ninth and latest book, Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and thqfr American West, to the MKA library’s Alumni Collection. Stagecoach chronicles a rare combination of Western and business history. The forward states, “Fradkin includes (with contagious pleasure) a review of the richest source of western folklore which Hollywood has woven into our national mythology,” and lauds his scholarship and range of observation. The Bloomsbury Review (March/April 2002) published a lengthy interview with the environmental journalist and historian. Fradkin received the MKA Distinguished Alumni Award in 1989. He shared the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for his coverage of the Watts riots for the Los Angeles Times.

I KS __________________________ Ms. Georgia Carrington 38 Silver Spring Lane, Ridgefield CT 06877 , carrgep@dbl. com The most exciting news came from Fluffy Fergusson Morse, who married Dorm Winner in May. “Anne had been my first friend in the U.S. and I was in touch throughout her illness,” Fluffy wrote, “then he and I kept in touch.” Their families are happy; Donn planned to sell his house in Virginia and move to hers on the Cape. Fluffy’s mother died at 96; our condolences. Our other recently wed classmate, Vicki Wendt West Peek, sent a litany of travels and troubles, but fortunately everyone is okay. They travel a lot and she is busy with golf, bridge, bowling, and listening to Walter’s Barbershop group. Dick and Maree Callahan Currey are “hanging in there” and enjoy times with the grandchildren and daughter in the City. A card from Arthur and Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden arrived from Japan where they were enjoying remote areas, the Japan Alps, the sea, and a reunion with daughter Alexis. Dave and Sylvia Middleton Seymour both retired in June 2001 and moved to a new house in Amish land. They are busy joining new groups, making new friends, and enjoying their first grandbaby, Katelyn Yerkes. We are gearing up for a trip with Vermont Biking to the south island of New Zealand in the fall. Tennis, paddle, golf, and volunteer activities occupy my time; I feel lucky to be able to keep up with so much. Georgia

M A____________________________ Class agent: Mr. Sheldon Buck 51 Cornell Rd., Wellesley MA 02181-7408

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55 I KS ________________________ Mrs. Susie Forstmann Kealy 550 N. Kingsbury, Apt. 603, Chicago IL 60610 Class agent: Miss Carol Turtle 13300 Indian Rocks Rd., #505 LargS FL 33774-2009 Diana Donlin Mis11 wrote from Kiawah Island, S.C. that she is engaged to John (Jay) Whipple, but no date had been set. Since my art show I have been in one gallery and doing loxsbf architectural watercolor commissions. In June, I’ll go to Italy with curators of the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by receptions, dinners, and the Ball at Versailles for the American Friends of Versailles. Cecily Wilson Lyle and I spent a wonderful February in Paris, Normandy,.and the Loire Valley. Susie

MA__________________________ Mr. Lawrence Martin P.O. Box 1058, Lexington VA 24450

MA__________________________ Mr. Eric Jaeckel P.O. Box 20153, Boulder CO 80308-315

eJ^aeckeK^hotmailibjom Class agent: Dr. Larry Nazarian 29 Surrey Place, Penfield N Y 14526 Congratulations to Larry Nazarian, who received a national award for community pediatricians who teach medical students, residents, and other practitioners. He also edits Pediatrics in Review, an international journal. Larry writes, “Recreation centers on faM iljP - they were awaiting a sixth grandchild. I hope you watched the 2002 Olympics from Salt Lake City. Yours truly was one of the 1200 volunteers who worked for two weeks at the Snow Basin Ski Area, which held the six Alpine ski events for men and women. My assignment was the men’s racecourse crew, and our goal was to maintain the very steep (72 degrees in places) icy course. Our weapon of choice was the shovel or rake - an experience I’ll never forget. Eric

Class agent: Mr. Robert Brower 131 East 66th St., New York N Y 10021 Robert Louer is retired after 32 years at Hoffman LaRoche, and 30+ years with the Navy and Naval Reserve, including Desert Shield/Desert Storm activation. He has four children - Bob III, Karen, Jim, and Bill - and seven grandchildren, five boys, two girls. Bob and Jim graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; Bill from Rutgers’ Engineering; and Karen from Douglas College.

56 I KS ________________________ Mrs. Lawther O. Smith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive, Doylestown PA 18901 lsmith607Mffi!@mom Janie Goodwillie Swann teaches Middle School English and world cultures at Epstein School, Atlanta, and this spring directed Peter Pan “with wings.” She spends summers in Michigan, Vermont, and Nantucket. Both kids are lawyers, Eliza in NYC and Jody, intellectual property law in Atlanta. Peter and Gail Zabriskie Wilson “downsized” this spring to a condominium near their home of 30 years in Greenwich. They have extended their summer to four months in Maine, their favorite family gathering place. Lilia Emetaz McDonald keeps busy in Oregon, and reports the best cruise ever in the southern Caribbean (Venezuela). Gillian Brisbane Ingram spends more time each year in Sanibel, Fla., near daughter Hillary and her family. They still have their home in Mass, near her brother Andrew. Gillian’s mother died this spring at 93; our condolences. I Page 32

fish, ride a lot, “and flirt with ever-present bears.” Ginger Rhoades Newkirk did retire three years ago, and enjoys a lot of traveling. They divide their time between Texas and their condo in Breckenridge, Colo, in winter and summer.

MA______________________. Class secretary and agent: Dr. Robert R. Haney 525 Cardinal Circle E., St. M ary’s GA 31558 rrhaney@net-magic. net Marie and David Black have pulled up stakes and moved to scenic Bend, Oregon, where they can golf, fish, and ski. They’re building in a valley with views of mountains and streams. Not yet fully retired, Dave will continue trips east to carry on his consulting work. Widowed four years ago, Steve Heller now goes regularly to the third world - Haiti, El Salvador - to do dentistry. All three of his children are physicians (congratulations!); he has one grandchild. Steve has taken up flying, has a pilot’s license and plane, and sends regards to rail his classmates

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The Good Doctor

Ms. Linda Baldanzi 2 Greenview Way, Upper M ontclair N J 07043

“Much of the world is without basic services that we take for granted,” writes dentist Steve Heller ’58, who volunteers in third world countries. Two of the groups he goes with were started by caring individual dentists; one has expanded beyond dentistry and now takes care of the multiple needs of 240,000 people who are without any physicians, dentists, or any other kind of health care workers. “Unfortunately, what we do simply takes care of the end result of neglect on the part of the local, nationals and international community.

Best wishes to Guiduccio and Nina Carter (Lynch) Rosselli Del Turco on their wedding. Nina sent a wedding photo of their handsome combined families (seven children - four hers, three hisrj and seven grandchildren - five hers, two his). They have known each other for years from Long Island. Both are retired and they will live part time in Rome and part time in the U.S. Her son was getting married in May.

MA__________________________ Class secretary, agent, and reunion chairman: Dr. Edward T. O ’Brien Jr. 3376 Fem cliffLane, Clearwater FL 36421 eobl072720@ aol.com Ted O’Brien writes, “At last a grandparent. All that I learned in school re: parenting I have discarded; I am now specialized in diaper changes, feeding and babysitting. Education is wonderful.” See you on October 19.

\58 I KS ________________________ Mrs. Judson Breslin (Wendy Worsley) 44 Lake Drive, Mountain Lakes N J 07046 June Dallery Doolittle stays busy teaching music lessons in Celtic harp, piano, and classical guitar. “No retirement for tstsl” They spend summers in Montana, where they

“There is a lot of retired brain power and a huge variety of abilities and knowledge that might become available if the general plight of these poor unfortunates were known,” Heller writes. “There is real potential out there. We all can be effective ambassadors into very old age and really, it is the most rewarding way to approach the end of a career, in service to humanity.” After 35 years as a trial lawyer who traveled the country litigating cases, Franklin Sachs retired from active practice. He and Rebecca now live overlooking Sarasota Bay in Florida. He took a course in mediation at Duke Law School last summer and now mediates cases on a national basis. His major project is trying to lower his golf handicap and learning from scratch how to play the piano. Frank returns to New Jersey often to visit his mother, well at 94, and reports attending the wedding of Bernie Milstein’s youngest daughter in Galveston, Texas, where they reminisced with Jim Zager.

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And That’s The Way It Was Montclair Academy (it will always be that to me) was a very special place. It provided the foundation for a reasonably successful life. Even these many years later, I still treasure the memories of that remarkably “quaint” physical plant and the great people like [faculty members] Frank Brogan, Tom Hall, and Ed Van Brunt who made our lives so special. Letter from Franklin Sachs ’58

\59 T K S _________________________________ Ms. Jarvis Reilly Nolan 15612 Via Marchena, San Diego CA 92128 jarvisno@ aol. com Judy McConnell’s baby granddaughter, Eva, lives nearby in Cambridge with Nell and Joe. Judy has found the perfect job with the Mass. Dept, of Housing and Community Development, managing grants to non-profit organizations. Deana Rogers Sumas and her husband have had fun reconstructing their house. Son Nico ’87, his wife Carrie, and Alexandra, almost 2, live nearby. Deana gets to babysit. Daughter Tami ’85 has two girls, 7 and 4. They live in a new home outside Cleveland, where the whole family celebrated Christmas. Merrill and Cinnie Hooton Magowan celebrated their 40th anniversary this spring. She still enjoys riding, playing golf, and traveling. Her mother died in December at 96. I remember her as a gracious lady in our days at MKA. Pat Rowland Webb has moved to her North Carolina mountain home, and has already started two-year commitments as garden club president and on the advisory board of her historic Methodist church in town. Sounds like our energetic Pat, always a leader. Lily Solmssen Moureaux participated in a group show at the New York Public Library in January, exhibiting three color photographs taken in Portugal. She continues to do photo assignments for the International Rescue Committee, while her husband, Ghislain Moureaux, consults with the World Rehabilitation Fund and U.N. to investigate landmine survivors’ needs for rehabilitation in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Our condolences to Lily on the death of her father, longtime Kimberley Trustee Ulrich Solmssen. Another “international” classmate, Joan McConnell, was presented a medal and made an honorary citizen of the town Albano Terme in Italy after a special lecture. Her presentation at the U. of Lund (Sweden) has been published. Joan teaches intensive courses in comparative cultures at Bunkyo Gaukuin University in Tokyo, and last fall,

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shortly after 9/11, she “was touched and moved by the amazing solidarity expressed by the Japanese.” Somewhere along the way, she finished a textbook entitled Power English, which will be accompanied by two CD’s. This summer she will present yet another paper at a conference in Germany. Jarvis

MA__________________________ Mr. M ichael Baker 10 H ighland Dr., North Caldwell N J 07006 Arthur Schwartz says he’s come full circle from photography at MA to a children’s portrait studio where his wife is the photographer. “We’re in Clinton, N.J., where we cater to the people who I was supposed to be when I grew up.” He sees Joel Bauer for dinners, vacations, etc, and they had dinner “with the great Mr. Brogan a few years back. It was a real honor.”

60 TKS ________________________ Class agent: Mrs. Mary Anne Doty 21 Juniper Drive, Queensbury N Y 12804 Sheila Albright Hogan is a general partner at Arizona’s Lake of the Woods resort in Lakeside. She sent a photo of her gorgeous family, in which she looks incredibly young, surrounded by seven sons/daughters/in-laws and four “grands.” On vacation this spring, Adele Larson Poholsky visited with Nicki Smith Coffaro in Sarasota, and they came up with the idea of a TKS reunion in Florida next spring. Stay tuned.

MA__________________________ Mr. George A. Bleyle 2259 Weir Drive, Hudson OH 44236 orion@gwis. com

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TKS ________________________ Mrs. C. D. Creed (Barbara Bywater) 1769 Forest View Avenue Hillsborough CA 94010 In April, nine members of TKS ’62 gathered at Amelia Island, Fla. to celebrate their 40th reunion. Susanne Wilson Brisach hosted the group, which included Margaret Agens, Tina Schultz Bilotti, Carolyn Heath Cariello, Barbara Bywater Creed, Holly Harrison Gathright, Nancy Haviland Hutchinson, Suzanne Wright Klein, Morgan and Stephanie Bobst Vanden Heuvel. Susie Brisach prepared a heartwarming class record book bringing us up-to-date on the last 40 years of our class members’ lives. Barbara For a reunion in time and place, come back to campus in October.

MA__________________________ Reunion Chairman: Barry Nazarian Our condolences to the family of Byron Noone. At his death, “Mike” was working on his autobiography and had just had two poems published in an anthology. A book he edited, Voices from Vietnam, will be published in August. It chronicles 70 lives impacted by the era, from both sides. Byron, a teacher, still kept in touch with his Academy teachers Harry Balfe and Frank Brogan.

TKS ________________________ Ms. Sharon Livesey 81 Grand St., #5, N e^Y o rk N Y 10013

Diane Haines, head of the marketing department of the North Jersey Media Group (The Record and Herald News), spoke at MKA’s Career Day this spring. She - er reports that the students were clearly interested in talking about 9/11 and issues journalists face daily.

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Ms. Christine Keller 1702 Church Street, Galveston TX 77550

Mr. Bronson Van Wyck Arrowhead Farms, TuckermanAR 72473

Class agent: Mrs. Suzanne Scannell Hardy 229 Woodside Ave., Winthrop MA 02152

Class agent: Mr. Arthur S. Gurtman 11 Sunset Drive, North Caldwell N J 07006

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Bronson Van Wyck grows rice and cotton in Arkansas and Mississippi, and wine grapes and oranges in California.

William Weber sent best wishes and a change of address but no news.

Mr. D avid L. Bruck 12 Pond View Lane, Titusville N J 08560 Craig Van Tatenhove is COO at Myron Corp. in New Jersey. They recently opened facilities in China, Thailand, and Malaysia.

Also in California, Harvey Cohen writes that their youngest son, Joe, was married last year and is following in his dad’s footsteps, pursuing a doctorate in psychology. They now have two sons who are psychologists and one, an attorney. Their third grandchild (all girls) was bom in May. Harvey would love to hear from old friends, especially if in the San Diego area.

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Bill LaPlant has been a Federal employee since 1968, as a design engineer for the Air Force, manager for DOD computer standards* and now as researcher for the U.S. Census Bureau, where he has headed a long list of impressive projects and acronyms. Bill received an M .S .g technology of management from American Univ.

64 TKS ________________________ Mrs. Frank Henneman (Lynn Ritter) 3920 Mariners Way, Unit 321 Cortez FL 3421~jjt: lynn. henneman@unisys. com Class agent: Ms. Ardath Blauvelt P.O. Box 733, Hollis N H 03049 Ed note: Lynn Ritter Henneman compiled such Wytailed cmM notes that they were mailed to the class in lieu o f editing/eliminating interesting

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MA__________________________ Hon. John Sheldon Diamond Cove, Gr.Diamond Island ME 04109 Class agent: Mr. Peter C, Mayer 133 Woodfield Road Washington Township N J 07675

65 TKS ________________________ Mrs. James Wright (Susan DeBevoi^e) 1 Tuck Drive, Hanover N H §(3755 susan. wright@dartmouth. edu Margaret Crawford Bridge is executive VP of Englewood Hospital & Medical Center Foundation in Englewood, N.J. Kitty Haines bursts with enthusiasm about her wonderful dinner in San Francisco with MKA Headmaster Peter Greer this winter. She describes Dr. Greer as “inspirational and just a delight.” Much to her surprise, who should be on hand but her good friend, Randy Bean ’66 and her sister Nancy’s classmate, Barbara Bywater Creed ’62 (two people I would love to have seen too). Randy makes documentary films and Barbara is a lawyer. So far just Kitty and Cheryl Calmenson Graff have submitted their e-mail addresses. Please*sign on. Thinking of you, near and far. Susan

TKS ________________________ MrsLWilliam E. Crawford (Francine Onorati) 421 Beacon Street, Boston MA 02115 francine. crawford@verizon. net Jessie Broadfoot Boyer suggested to the Review that Mrs. Peterkin would be a great subject for a profile. The spring issue had a “box” lauding Mrs. Peterkin’s achievements,

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including the recent acquisition of one of her paintings by the Metropolitan Museum. She was a very reluctant interviewee. Jessa Vogt Dawson’s family has their own video and film production company called Sure Shot Productions, focusing on shorts, commercials, public service announcements, and music videos. Jessa works as a scenic artist for the American Musical Theater of San Jose. Her middle daughter, Erin, married last fall, works as country manager for L&E International, and lives in Bangkok, Thailand. Her youngest, Leslie, has one year left at the Academy of Art College-in San Franciscd; the eldest, Ali, appeared in Susannah this summer with Festival Opera in Walnut Creek, Calif. After more than a decadeHSmlass .secretary, Francine Onorati Crawford asks to pass on the pen (volunteers, please contact her or the Alumni Office). Her son Will graduated from Yale last year and works in Cambridge at Invantage; Faith is a freshman at Pitzer College of the Claremont Group in Calif.

MA__________________________ Mr. D. Carter Fitzpatrick 49 Bell Rock Plaza, SedonaAZ 86351 Class agent: Mr. Craig Cameron 11 Bay Point Drive, Ormond Beach FL 32174' “I was very impressed with MKA students’ accomplishments,” writes John Hawley, who met Headmaster Peter Greer at the alumni reception in San Francisco. His daughters are at the Harker School in San Jose. Elnora, the elder, is off to college; both she and Emma are involved in studio and performing arts. “California is great,” he writes, “but I do occasionally miss the East.” Carter Fitzpatrick donated a copy of his selfhelp book, Auto Claims Without Attorneys, to the Alumni Collection of the MKA Avery B arras Library. Mark Geannette’s son Christian graduated from Princeton U. in June and will begin a one-year fellowship at USC Medical Center, Los Angeles. Mark’s daughter Marissa will attend Princeton in the fall; His wife, Gloria, is managing editor of the weekly Ridgewood News and Mark is in-house counsel to Sun Chemical Corp. in Fort Lee.

67 TKS ________________________ Ms. Margot Escott 5135 Cobble Creek Court #101 Naples FL 34110 escott@ naples.net Debby Sanders Lewis’s granddaughter was two in May (“I wonder where the time goes”). Her mother received a master’s in social work from U. New Hampshire. Debby’s youngest will attend vet school in the fall; her main interest is marine animals. Debby works as an emergency room technician, which she finds

“interesting and never boring.”

MA__________________________ Class agent: Mr. Craig Perry 3467 Pinestream Road, Atlanta GA 30327 J. Michael Nolan joined law firm Lowenstein, Sandler as a director. He was a member of Governor James McGreevey’s transition team, co-chair of education and Special Counsel. His work at Kids Corporation has resulted in thousands of children from Newark receiving health exams and dental services. His oldest son, Sean, is executive director of the Governor’s Office. In May Gwyneth graduated from Villanova Law School and Michaela graduated from Notre Dame; his wife, Kathleen MurrayNolan, graduated last year from the New School in NYC. “Everyone is out of school!” he writes. “Free, free at last!” Charles Gardner is executive director of Agape Flights, which serves as a conduit for emergency supplies to the missionary community in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Peripatetic photographer Michael Yamashita appeared on the Paula Zahn show on CNN in January.

68 TKS ________________________ Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 10 Knolls Road, Williamstown MA 01267 akalker@aol. com

MA__________________________ Mr. Burton M. Webb Box 29, Free Union VA 22940 After 25 years with Salomon Brothers, George Styskal has started work as a financial consultant with A.G. Edwards in Barrington, 111. Edward T. (Jack) O’Neill spent time with Geoff Gregg at his wife Lisa’s BIG (“can’t say what number”) birthday party. He also saw Peter Gimber over the holidays “For a bunch of old alums, everyone seems to be well and happy,” he writes. Jack’s daughter Ashley is||sen io r at Georgetown, and Devon, a sophomore at Fairfield. Retired faculty member/alumna Leigh Berrien Smith ’45 spotted Wigton Zamore on a Boston TV show, “Greater Boston, hosted by Emily Rooney. Wig spoke about an environmental cause, the Mystic View Task Force. There is a photo to prove it.

69 TKS ___________________ Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Ehrhardt) 46 E. Saddle River Road Saddle River N J 07458

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On the Beach. The Kimberley Class o f1970 had a reunion in Florida this spring, L to R: Barbara Sloane, Leslie Bryan, Kim Kolbe, Heidi Sanders Bryan, Liz Conzen Zellner, Deborah von Hoffmann Lanzone, Anne McIntyre Graves, Georgia Buckner, Betsy Kimball, Madge Huber Henning.

MA________________________ Dr. Edward A. Griggs Jr. 32 Courseville Road, Bronxville N Y 10708 eagriggs@dellnet. com

I KS ________________________ Ms. Leslie Bryan 844 East Morningside Drive, NE Atlanta GA 30324 lbryan@dsckd.com Class agent: Ms. Kim Kolbe 38 Kent Dr., Roseland N J 07068 It was to celebrate our 50th birthdays that Heidi, Kim, Anne, Betsy, Liz, Deb, Barb, Georgia, and I headed to the beach at Ponte Vedrà to have fun, relax, and reminisce this May. What a wonderful time we had. Many of us are getting closer to being empty nesters as our children are off to college, and we are all doing interesting things. Heidi has embarked on a wonderful photography career. Betsy is busy protecting the Massachusetts wetlands while finding time to bike to work and referee rugby games. Kim, always the organizer, is looking forward to her retirement from the Giants. Barb came to the beach from NYC via the west coast, where she had participated in the Big Sur marathon. Liz and Madge are both in the midst of moving and construction. Georgia is buying a house. Ann is always busy but seems quite occupied looking after Otto and his midlife desire to begin riding Harleys.

ago, we spoke fondly of those teachers who pressed us the hardest. We read old Kouriers and were amused by our predictions for ourselves. We sang hymns that we were too tearful to sing at our graduation. We shared pictures of our families and wondered at how much they looked like us at their age. We spoke about all of you who were not with us (so you better come next time) and we remembered you all fondly. The trip reminded me of the importance of old friends and setting priorities and I look forward, enthusiastically, to the next time. Leslie Julia Haines’ work as a musician/peace activist was subject of an article in the WorldNetDaily in June. Since last October, Julia has been offering solo Music Meditations for Peace and Healing, accompanied by her Celtic harp, at a church in Chestnut Hill, Pa., offering the community “the opportunity and environment for quiet reflection during this time of war.”

MA__________________________ Mr. V. James Castiglia 5701 Berkshire Valley Rd., P.O. Box 311 Oak Ridge N J 07438 Class agent: Mr. Garret Roosma 12175 Upper Heather Ave. N Hugo M N 55038

We all look wonderful and have aged elegantly and beautifully. Our husbands remain handsome and our children are perfect. We are proceeding through life with grace and ease; we are coping with aging and ailing parents and, for some, with their death. We are addressing our own health issues. And we are worrying about the everyday stresses that life brings.

Gordy Sussman bought an old mill in Wonewoc, Wis., on the 400 State Bike Trail (“so named because it’s on the old Chicago Northwestern mainline and at the turn of the century trains ran 400 miles in 400 minutes”) and the Baraboo River (“longest stretch of restored river in the world - 130 miles- with four dams removed last year”). He plans to restore the building and have it house bike and canoe/kayak rentals. “In the perverse symmetry-of-the-universe-department,” Gordy writes, “I - who distanced myself from the east coast milieu - am pleased and confounded that our eldest, Y Paul, scored early acceptance and will be at Wesleyan next year.”

We were thankful for the education we were given, and despite our complaints many years

James Brothers and his wife have split after 23 years. He is on the board of the Falling

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Double legacy. Joy and David Simon ’70 at Commencement with twins Adam ’02 and Scott ’02, and Drew ’06.

Creek Ironworks Foundation, the first ironworks in North America.

77 I KS ________________________ Ms. Janis Moorhouse 12 Presidio #2, M ill Valley CA 04941 Dorothy Davis started her own consulting firm, The Diasporan Touch, in NYC, handling international special events, public affairs, and celebrity advocacy.

MA__________________________ Class agent: Mr. Guy D ella Penna 141 Ogden St., Sarasota FL 34242 Jonathan Golding wrote from Tallahassee that he remarried in 2001 and adopted a fiveyear-old girl, so now has three daughters. After 9/11, it was necessary to close his restaurant. Now he is with the U.S. unit of a French contract food service firm. He invites classmates in the area to look him up or email. Our condolences to the family of Thomas Wells Jr.

7 2 30th REUNION OCTOBER 19, 2002

TKS _____________________ Class agent: Ms. Kate Curtin Lindsey 12630 Three Sisters Road Potomac MD 20854 Reunion chairman: Ms. Barbara Fle'ssas akisister@ aol.com See you in October!

MA_______________________ Class agent: Mr. Peter Perretti 86 East Bracebridge Circle The Woodlands TX 77382 Everyone is saving news for October 19.

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TKS ________________________ Ms. Susan Read • H P * - Staunton VA 22401-2375 davi'dk@intelos. net Clasp agent: Mrs. Edward Skibiak (Ellen Wahl) 56 Hamilton Drive East North Caldwell N J 07006 Holly Schadler moved her law practice to a small firm in Dupont Circle and has enjoyed it very much. Bryan, 10; Geoffrey, 8; and Kira, 6, keep them busy with their active sports schedules.

MA__________________________ Mr. Gregory Lackey 138 Paupukkewis Trail Medford Lakes N J 08055 Class agent: Mr. Rudy Schlobohm 78 Montclair Ave., M ontclair N J 07042

74 TKS ________________________ Class agep: Ms. Erin Cujfe Crawford 102 Buckingham Road Upper M ontclair N J Of043 Lisa Schwarz Ericson is thrilled to announce the adoption of daughter Kristi Svetlana Ericson from Kirov, Russia, bom in April 1997. Anne Johnson Anspach manages the bookstore H Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia, a small boys’ school “with an atmosphere very similar to TKS.” She has taken up rowing, so is out on the Schuylkill three timeiia week. She and Phil have one boy in college and one going into second grade. “I take comfort in knowing Bonnie, Sue Woods, and Seton have kids younger than mine!” _

MA__________________________ Mr. Rudolph Schlobohm 78 M ontclair AveMMontclair N J Of042 rudyfrjfmecastL&eompany. com After a long hiatus since MA days, Owen Davis has picked up the electric guitar again. Otherwise, he practices reproductive medicine and IVF at Cornell U. Medical College, NYC.

75 Class agent: Mr. Paul Zukerberg 1901 Wyoming Ave. NW #75 Washington DC 20009

three, practically overnight. “After reuniting with a long-lost love of 14 years .ago, we married and had a child (Howard ‘Quint’ Finney V) to add to the two children she had from a previous marriage.” Then Jay took a new position as deputy director of marketing and communications at Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. They moved from northern California to a new house in Marblehead.

Reunion chairmen: Cheryl D ’A lessandro McMullen, Andy Pedersen

Bill Baker writes from Nebraska, where he is a veterinarian, that the kids are growing up and he has divorced. “Just goes to show y ^ B life delivers that which you do not expect.”

Pat Cane Donahue once again ran a Summer Miracles program for Kidsave International. Last year, they brought 316 children from Russian and Kazahk orphanages to the USA for summer camp; all but nine have found adoptive homes. She sent a neat small-world story.

Mrs. Paul M cFeeley (Laurie Hoonhout) 238 Devon Road, Essex Fells N J 07021

Come to reunion October 19 to swap other stories.

Beverley Hall Hildebrand wrote that they were moving south to the Ozark Mountains. Her eyesight is getting better, slowly.

Class agent: Dr. Charles Read 1918 N. D aniel St., Arlington VA 22201 Frank Garnevicus broke a long silence to write that he teaches the handicapped in Rockaway Township, is married, and has a 16year-old daughter in private school. Julia and Ray Knox kindly hosted an MKA alumni reception at their home in Greenwich, Conn, in April. The food, MKA reminiscing, and spectacular setting made all the guests (classes of ’45 to ’90) feel welcome. We even had a brother/sister team with Hugh Gleason ’75 and Nora Gleason Lcaryw8. Ray, Dave Hughes, Warren Waters, and Paul and Laurie McFeeley (surprise) represented the class at the Alumni Golf & Tennis outing in June.

The Boys of Summer Longtime faculty members George and Myra Hrab were at Toms’ River one Saturday in June, when MKA baseball and softball teams were playing in the state championships. There was a controversial line call, and Mr. Hrab - former coach and Athletic Director - said, “It’s good.” The man next to him, in sunglasses and cap, alsd said, “It’s good.” They looked at each other. The man said, “Mr. Hrab?” He took off his sunglasses and MKA bas'eball cap to reveal himself as Rob Hubsmith ’l l: Rob - a baseball aficionado - still wears his old, good-luck MKA cap; the former player and his old coach reminisced about a great game in 1976 and other marvels for half an hour.

Congratulations to Jeffrey Schiffman, who won the AP Broadcasters Top Sportscast in Pennsylvania for the second straight year. He works for WSBA-AM.

25th REUNION OCTOBER 19, 2002 Mr. Andrew Pedersen 84 Lake Ave., Fair Haven N J 07704

In the last 24 months, Jay Finney went from a seemingly confirmed bachelor to a father of

Class agent: Mr Robert Hubsmith 16 Warren Road, Maplewood N J 07040

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Martin Cohn is director of marketing for the southeastern U.S. for Grant Thornton, LLP. His son John is 16, daughter Margaret, 11.

The Well-Dressed Gentleman This story came from Patricia Cane Donahue '77:

I was standing in line for a cup of coffee at Lincoln Center killing some time before watching some of my students in.recital at Alice Tully Hall next door. In front of me was a handsome, well-dressed gentleman. As we waited, two elderly women with loud voices managed to cut the line in front of us both. This, of course, led to a couple of disgruntled remarks on our part. A third woman stepped up in front of the handsome, well-dressed gentleman in front of me, but this time these two knew one another; she was looking for something that he had “left on stage.” Since he and I had already spoken and were, therefore, on amicable terms, I ventured to note that he must be an important person if he was allowed fax leave things on stage. He replied that he played with “the little band” that was scheduled to perform shortly. I apologized that I would not witness his’ip performance as I was expected elsewhere. One pleasantry led to another; we discovered MKA in common. “What year did you graduate?” he asked. “1977,” I replied. “Me, too! Who are you?” he asked. Just then our turn for coffee came. The young lady behind the counter said, “What can I get for you, Mr. Centanni?” [Barry Centanni, a handsome, well-dressed, wellknown musician, graduatedfrom MKA in 1977.]

Ms. Pamela Zeug 250 Mercer S t, C418, New York N Y 10012 Mr. Lawrence Garrigan 6103 Ox Bottom Manor Drive Tallahassee FL 32312 Class agent: Ms. Jane Lugaric Burkhard 299 Crown Road, Kentfield, CA 94904

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Jane Lugaric Burkhard helped Dr. Greer host the San Francisco alumni reception this winter. It was a terrific success, and Jane looks great.

Dr. John Brink 1290 Beech Valley Rd., Atlanta GA 30306 Mrs. Carlos Ortiz (Shawn Mahieu) 2163 Gilbride Rd., M artinsville N J 08836 Many classmates have moved west: Andrea Meschkow writes, “My parents bought a home in sunny Arizona and I decided to try out the area.” Andrea does freelance oil paintings, particularly of pets, and a class on Photoshop computer graphics. She loves Phoenix and the great museums. William Carson, wife Marina Goffredo, and three children - Gianni, Luca, and Serena have lived in Southern California for 10 years “and don’t miss the cold rain and snow.” Warren Busch is a recent transplant, to Santa Barbara. “Don’t know a soul.” Meanwhile back on the East Coast, Edward Mason writes he is working out o f a NYC hotel since 9£L1 because their (Deloitte & Touche) offices were across from the WTC. All is well; his oldest daughter starts high school this fall.

Class secretary and class agent: Mary L. Cole, Esq. 1 Ferrous Court, Chester N J 07930 marycolel2@ hotmail.com George Reimonn recently relocated from Oregon to Hopkinton, Mass, in a transfer with his employer, Workscape. George, his wife, and three boys are adjusting to the new setting, and he is looking forward to being within driving distance of Homecoming activities. Melissa Beth GruenHwho is both a lawyer and a doctor - is engaged to Raymon Lee Wener. He proposed at 11,440 feet while they were vacationing in Colorado. Liss is a surgical resident at Mt. Sinai Hospital, NYC.

Class agent: Ms. Hyla Ames Bauer 240 East 82nd Street, Apt. 7J New York N Y 10028 Best wishes to Michael and Shelagh Daly Miller on their wedding. They have known each other for 25 years. Several MKA alumni attended, including Seton Daly Beckwith ’74, Sharon Sudol ’76, Peter Schiffenhaus ’82, Anthony DelGaizo ’82, Daniel Brindley ’97, and Elizabeth Brindley ’00. Shelagh works as advertising manager for AARP Publications {Modern M aturity and My Generation

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magazines), and moved to the suburbs after 15 years in Hoboken. Laura Reisch Itzkowitz, besides “the usual mom-of-a-kindergartner stuff,” recently sang the soprano solo for Mozart’s Mass in C. Karen Boyle has just bought her first house - I with a pool! S in Boca Raton, Fla. She will be spending several months each year overseas in West Africa until her cbntract with USAID expires, and notes, “It’s going to be a big challenge to be an absentee homeowner.” Karen plans to have fellow missionaries on home leave house-sit for her. Ira Lome is also in Boca. He and Jacalyn have been married almost five years, and have twin boys named Tzvi Abraham and Eli Lev. Ira is a controller at Technion Communications, a teleservices company. Pamela Berkowsky and family have decamped the mainland for St. Thomas, VI.

After nine years as a professor at Wayne State Univ., Gary Powell returned to the corporate world as a project manager with the CELT Corporation. They provide research, planning, and “wefcenabled decision support systems” to school districts across the country. Gary and his wife, Kiris, celebrated their first anniversary. Janine Marnell Wishnow has taken time off from teaching to be “Mommy” to their first baby, DavipNicholas, bom in November. Nancy Cambria also reports their first child, Samuel Thomas Kohler, bom March 2001. Marlene and Marshall Hendrian had their second, Marshall D. Ill, in June 200M l Toby Bizub was appointed to the Lakeland Bank advisory board. He is owner/manager of Bizub funeral homes in Little Falls and Clifton.

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82 20th REUNION OCTOBER 19, 2002 Reunion chairman: Peter Schiffenhaus peterschiffenhaus@ schifpack. com Reunion agent: Peter Dancy pkdancy@ comcast. net Bob Carson and family moved from N.J. to Denver. They see Billy Hall, his wife Frances, and baby Liam regularly. Bob reports his kids have adjusted well and love Colorado. The rest of the news will be given live and in person at reunion!

83 Ms. Amy Felber 10 Una Way, M ill Valley CA 94941 Ms. Maureen Towers Natkin 5 Riverview Road, Irvington N Y 10533 motowers@aol. com Class agent: Mr. Walter J. Davis 66 Oakwood Dr., New Providence N J 07974 davisteam@home. com After 12 years with the law firm Sills, Cummis, Paul Josephson “followed the spark lit for me by Bob Hemmeter.” Governor McGreevy appointed Paul Chief of Authorities, which means oversight and the governor’s policy at nearly 50 independent state and bi-state transportation, education, development and environmental authorities. This includes Port Authority (WTC rebuilding); N.J.Transit, Turnpike, Parkway and Expressway Authorities; and Pinelands Commission, plus policy oversight. Paul invites any alums or current students in or near the renovated State House to drop in for a quick tour.

Carmela DeCandia '83 is Clinical director of St. Mary’s Women & Infants Center in Dorchester, Mass. Carmela, who has a doctorate in clinical psychology, has a specialty in working with children and families who have experienced trauma. She oversees clinical programming of four programs serving homeless women and ' children and helped to create the first fitness center for homeless women (the Center has been serving the community sinccPl874). After 9/11, Carmela volunteered with Red Cross and provided trauma counseling at Ground Zero for eight days. “It was an intensely moving experience, one which I will never forget,” she writes, “one of those quintessential life experiences that make you who you are.’jj^,,

84 Class secretary and class agent: Mrs. Jennifer Jones Ladda 110 Glen Rock Road, Cedar Grove N J 07009 Welcome, alumni children! Rick and Meg Lugaric Shick had a baby g irl in October. “Her name is Mamie, she’s awesome, she looks nothing like me,” Meg writes. Meg does commercials -ayou can see her in seven or eight for Budget Rent-a-Car -1 and they were on one segment of “Weekend Warrior,” doing a house project for H&G Channel. Jennifer and Christopher Nemetz welcomed their first child, Sarabeth Grace, last August. Bill Stone and his wife, Carolyn Mark, had aL daughter, Teah Rose, in September. They live in Rhode Island. Sharon and Harris Podvey also welcomed a daughter, Hannah, in June 2001. He won the 2001 New Jersey State Golf Association Mid Amateur Title - congratulations!

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Heather Gibson checked in for the first time |ln c e graduation and says life is good. Heather lives a few miles from work, in a beautiful area of Philadelphia called Mt. Airy, though her job carries her all over the U.S. She is the COO of a successful internet-based corporate art advisory firm, art4business. Aside from work, she is in a wonderful relationship, spends time working on her home, playing soccer, cooking, and spending time with friends. Stephanie Simon is president of the talent agency Untitled Entertainment in Los Angeles. Sonia Stetkiewych is marketing director for the Westchester division of Jewish Home & Hospital Lifecare System. Andrew Smith is now a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, stationed in Middletown, RI. The doctors: Dr. Ritu Thamman is a cardiologist in private practice in Pittsburgh. Her husband, Andrew Watson, is a surgeon. They would welcome any MKA alums to Pittsburgh. Dr. Diane Ridley is now a Board-certified anesthesiologist. She practices at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, NY. She will be married in November to W. James White, and Alison Thomas-Cottingham will be an attendant.

85 Mr. John Booth III 1912 Harwood Road, Annapolis MD 21401 iClass agents: Mr. Jeffrey Schackner 220 E. 65th S t, Apt. 7M, New York, N Y 10021

Brother and th elsist'S Peter Silver ’86, Hayley Silver-House ’88, Emily Silver '02, and Amanda ’04 at Emily's graduation. The Silvers have had someone attending MKA ey,eyy year since 1975.

\86 Ms. Sherry Ahkami 4386 North Talmadge Drive^ San Diego CA 92116 Ms. Jennifer Remington Knodel 24 Wakefield Place, Caldwell N J 07006 Class agent: Mr. Damon Zeigler 403 Third St., Oakdale PA 15071-1250 Best wishes to Stephanie and Mark McGowan on their wedding. Mark has chaired MKA Career Day for five years for the Alumni Council and is one of the chairmen of the Alumni Golf & Tennis Outing (surprise). Welcome alumni children: Craig and Elyse Decker Fenerty welcomed Ethan Garrett in February. He joins Conlan, Hannah, and Aidan.

Ms. Alexis Polonofsky Zebrowski 33 Glen Road, Verona N J 07044

David and Rohina Gandhi-Hoffman welcomed twins, Maya and Dillon, bom on Rohina’s birthday in June 2001.

¡Congratulations to Victor and Sandy Hrab Naumenko on the birth of Maya Victoria in February. She joins brother Joseph, lfi. Faculty members Myra and George Hrab are very proud grandparents.

John and Jennifer Remington-Knodel moved into a new house in Caldwell; their new neighbor is Coach Sandy Lonsinger. She is a lawyer with Chubb.

Christopher Bruce writes that life is good in Baltimore. He and Rebecca have two kids now, David and Kathryn. He is “workingift' Legg Mason and planning to retire on a yacht.” Karen Ladenheim-Martos opened a new fencing center in ijl Cerrito, Calif.; you can look it up and & her on the web, sportfencingcenter. com. Best wishes to Salaam and Christopher Smith on their wedding, a private ceremony in Buckingham, Va. His brother Vincent Smith ’90 was best man. Chris, who received a Ph.D. from the U. of Wisconsin in 2001, is a visiting assistant professor at the U. of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles:. They love L.A., but report they miss all their east coast friends and fellow MKA alumni.

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15th REUNION OCTOBER 19, 2002 Class secretary and reunion chairman: Mr. Dennis Rodano .. 14 Wctyland Drive, Verona N J 07044 rodanod@ix. netcom. com Class agent: Ms. Andrea Schackner 118 Palmer Ave., Tenafly N J 07670 Best wishes to Ron Benson and Jane Ainbinder on their wedding. They were married in June in Mendocino, Calif, and will' live in San Francisco. Roger and LaRhonda Foster Boone had a boy, Foster Tuney, in February. He joins sister Corinth Lawren, 2. “We’re a happy family!”« LaRhonda writes.

Robin Schwartz and Jack Cappitelli had a daughter, Ava, in December; brother Alex is 4. Alex and Ava have a new cousin, Madelyn, bom to Betsy and Richard Schwartz ’88. Christopher and Pam Fawcett Hynes welcomed Brian Carrington in January. His big sister, Katie, is 3. Joy Booth Roussel, Jane Ainbinder, and Lesley Skoloff went to a small island in Belize in March 2001 for ten days. They had a great time snorkeling and exploring neighboring islands. Joy had her third child, Margot Marie, this February; the baby joins brothers James, 5, and Sawyer, 3. Bob and Allison Bernstein Stanton’s daughter, Madison, is a year and a half, and Allison is a stay-at-home mom. They bought a house in Montclair three years ago. She reports that Carla Tamburro is married, lives in Minneapolis, and has a young daughter, Sophia.

88 Ms. Susan Bartlett Rankin 4540 51st Ave. NE, Seattle WA 98105 srankin@microsoft.com Class agent: Mr. Alec Schwartz 46 Plymouth Road, Springfield PA 19064 aled@cmcservices. com Thomas Francoeur and Maria Doiorico announced the arrival of Virginia Soledad D-F in February. Chris and Justine McBride Fellows and daughter Kallie moved back east to Connecticut, where she is marketing coordinator for Scholastic, Inc. They had lived in Park City, Utah for ten years and he was operations manager on the bobsled/ luge/skeleton track at the Olympics (“amazing experience”). Sarah and Jim Garino are also back on the East Coast, and attended the MKA alumni reception in Greenwich. Jim would love to reconnect with old friends.

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Meg Wight Kelly is back in the U.S. after four years living in the Middle East. She has a new job and home in Dayton, Oh., “playing Mrs. Dad while my husband, Mike, stays at home as Mr. Mom raising our baby Anna.” Meg is “still grieving over the death of Fred Rimmele on 9/11.”

Hillary Windolf Johnston and her husband, Craig, work for the family insurance business (“along with my sister, her husband, my aunt, uncle, and Sigrid’s husband). They do a lot of trap shooting and yoga, and attended both MKA golf outings. Hillary’s horse, Magic, keeps her busy on weekends.

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Sapienza, who finished six LONG years of medical training. His final was a fellowship in gastroenterology/ hepatology at Jefferson in Philadelphia. Mark has joined a GI practice in Englewood, and he and Christine have moved back to New Jersey, “so close to NYC.” Mark, having contributed the photos on the cover o f the class yearbook, “recently looked at the yearbook again. It’s very unsettling.”

Jill Tobia Sorger reports baby Max is good friends with Aidan Holtz and that “it is really something to see Josh and Andrew with Aidan and Max.”

Dr. Jonathan Schwartz has been living in Gramercy Park for the past five years, and “watched the whole thing happening from my window.” He graduated from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in 1997 and just finished a year as chief resident in radiology at Beth Israel Medical Center. This summer Jon began a one-year fellowship to specialize in musculoskeletal/sports imaging at the Hospital for Joint Disease/NYU. He reports that Andy Statmore is a lawyer, lives in Livingston, and “has a kid.” Howard Tasch is engaged and lives on the Upper West Side, and Sherwin Zanjanian lives around the comer and is a stockbroker. He also says his sister, Elizabeth Schwartz ‘85x, owns a bridesmaids’ boutique in Englewood called “Bride’s Best Friends,” and calls him with MKA names she sells dresses to. Charles Sorkin writes that after the WTC attack, he took some photos from the upper parking lot behind the campus, and someone called the police “to make sure I was not doing something inappropriate.” John and Danielle Devita Cerza’s baby Jack is almost one; they also have two dogs and a house in Clifton. Danielle is an attorney in Bergen County and John is an attorney in Essex County; they met at law school. She is in touch with several classmates, mostly by e-mail.

Congratulations to Andrea Safirstein, who received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Columbia in May; her husband, Adam Bernstein, finished his orthopaedic surgery residency in June. She reports her sister, Meredith Safirstein Bergmann ’87, lives in the village and has a daughter, Emery, 2; brother Jordan ‘93 is a medical intern at Albert Einstein Med. H “so the whole famiiyds living in the city, which is awesome.”

\89 Ms. Suellen Bizub 247 West 87th St., 6D, New York N Y 10024 Mr. Louis Lessig 141 Thunder Circle, Bensalem PA 19020 Class agent: Mr. Josh Raymond 213 Vista Drive, Cedar Knolls N J 07927 The Mark Strobeck-Lauren Napolitano wedding pictured took place last summer in Garrison, N.Y., near West Point. Congratulations to Louis Lessig, who received the Professional Achievement Award from the Young Lawyers Division of the New Jersey State Bar Assn., for “professional recognition through publications, excellence in a particular area of law, a significant verdict or law changing appellate decision.” In addition to numerous articles, Louis recently co-authored the 2002 supplement to D rafting and Revising Employment Policies and Handbooks, published by Aspen publishers. He has

appeared three times on the cable program “Legal Line.” Congratulations to Judy Ainbinder Glinder, who finished her Ph.D. in clinical psychology in August 2001. She moved from Vermont*** back to the San Francisco Bay area, Berkeley, and this spring ran the Boston Marathon. David Ames still enjoys life in Boston. He made a career change and is teaching geometry and physics at Brookline High School. Deborah Hemsley Schultz, who works at North Shore Children’s Hospital in Mass., writes, “I am enjoying watching my girls grow and seeing the world all over again through their eyes.” Emily is 3 and Lauren is 1 1/2. Amanda Roth Salzhauer had a daughter, Abigail, in April; Rebecca is 2. Amanda works part time as a social worker at NYU child study center. Jennifer and David Austin had a son, Stuart Stagg, in June. They live in Portland, Ore. Donna Zanjanian works in hospital management/operations at Lenox Hill Hospital. She earned an M.P.H. from NYU in 1997, with a specialty in international health, and for a while was a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Erin Koenen is a litigation attorney in NYC with O’Melveny & Myers. She was planning an October wedding in Maine to Charlie Samuels. Erin wrote that John Boeckel and Greg Sullivan were also engaged. Nilie Pajoohi and Ralph Amirata did a wellreceived joint presentation on law at MKA Career Day this winter. Nilie is in regular touch with several classmates in NYC. Katie and Bram Zeigler bought their first house, in Oakland, Calif. Both commute to work in San Francisco. The rumor is true: Allie Dvorin did indeed sell a script to Disney. It is The Peter

Lauren Aquino has an apartment in Philadelphia, where she works as a medical editor/analyst (“which means I read a lot of medical journals and do some writing”). She goes to the West Coast occasionally; in September she went mountain climbing in the Cascades. Negi Ahkami is “a happy single New Yorker.” She has made a life change from her day job in law “to invest in and nurture my art.” Negi - who mostly goes by “Negar” now - has been painting all along, exhibiting her work in group shows in NYC.

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Last summer’s wedding o f two alumni, Lauren Napolitano ’92 and Mark Strobeck ’89,' reunited several classes o f alumni. L to R: Michael Hunter ’89, Matt Strobeck '9lx, Geoffrey K rouse^S,1,Suellen Bizub '89, Peter DeCandia bride Lauren Napolitano Strobeck ’92, groom Mark Strobeck ’89, Ann Napolitano ’90, Leah Napolitano-Ortiz ’90, Michael Napolitano ’97, and David Ames ’89.

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Westbrook Story, a true story about fencer.:, ' Peter Westbrook, who started a fencing center in Harlem. Allie knows Peter personally from his fencing days at NYU. “After overcoming racial and economic obstacles, three of his young at-risk fencing students went on to make the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia,” Allie writes. “It’s a heart-warming story that Disney sees in the vein of Remember the Titans.” Stay tuned. Allie sent news of other classmates: Adam Sussman works in the strategic planning department for Disney. He works directly with Michael Eisner “and has been helpful on checking up on my Westbrook status every now and then.” Ryan Schinman’s company, Platinum Rye Entertainment, “is doing some amazing things in the marketing and branding world. He worked on the Jason Alexander KFC commercial deal and a host of others.” Dana Leibowitz Kaplan had a baby girl, Sophie, in January 2001. Her husband, Paul, is a producer/writer on “Just Shoot Me” in LA.

\90 Ms. Lorelei Muenster Imuemterffiglyahoo. com Class ggent: Ms. Regina Chi Clancy 790 Riverside Drive, #11D New York NY 10032 ■ Congratulations and best wishes to our brides and grooms. Mamie and DavidlBecker’s wedding was a veritable MKA alumni reunion. Michael Gurtman, Chris Simon, Marty Torjussen, and Allie Dvorin, Ryan Schinman, and Adam Sussman of ’89 were » in the wedding; Dave’s brother Bryan Becker ’96 was best man. Congratulations also to Melissa and Joshua Ford, who were married in Baltimore. Caitlin Barile ’91 and her husband attended. In January 2002, Josh’s play “Miklat” had its world premiere at Theater J in Washington, D.C. Caitlin reports that “Miklat” played to sold-out houses and received critical acclaim. Danielle Katz, a technical services analyst in Greensboro, N.C.. is engaged to Patrick Malone. Meredith McGowan is also engaged, to Mark Zengo. They attended the MKA alumni reception in Greenwich, Conn, in May. Congratulations to Dr. Leah Napolitano Ortiz, who graduated from MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine, Philadelphia, in 2001, and is doing a residency in family practice at Overlook Hospital in Summit. She’s getting real-life experience in famiRjjpractice, as daughter Isabel Rose, bom October 2000, is

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Kenny and Robyn Williamson Battiato welcomed daughter Julia Leigh in February. Roby is working on a master’s in counseling psychology and substance abuse counseling certification. Shane Mahieu is à portfolio manager with Ayco Asset Management in Clifton Park, just north of Albany, NY. Shane is still a volunteer firefighter and great outdoor participant on Lake George. John and Susannah Arwood DuPuy live in Charlotte, N.C. and report “life is status quo.” Rhoan Jones is assistant general counsel for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health in Boston.

Ms. Dara Marmon 127 East 30th Streife ISA New York N Y 10016 telldjmfcEdolWam Class agent: Mr. Luke Sarsfield 275 Greenwich Street, Apt. 8M New York N Y 1| B 9 | Best wishes to Caitlin Barile and John Krattenmaker on their wedding. They were married in Florham Park in October. CheryM Rizzo ’90 was maid of honor and Joshua Ford ’90 was one of Caitlin’s honor attendants. Jennifer Russell ’89 also attended. Congratulations to Jason Late, who earned an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School in May. He will be an investment associate at Goldman Sachs, NYC, in the fall. Congratulations, also, to Mary Lyn Murphy, who received a J.D. from Seton Hall Law School. She will live in New Hampshire and take the bar. Dara Marmon is an associate with J.P. Morgan Investment Management, NYC. Dr. Noel Sonta Peterson moved to North Carolina to begin residency in internal medicine at East Carolina Univ. Noel and her husband, Allan, have a 2-year-old son, Dylan Colby.

92 10TH REUNION OCTOBER 19, 2002 Mr. Enrique Neblett 2780 International Drive #522C Ypsilanti M I 48197 eneblett@yahoo. com Ms. Tamar Safer Radfar 86 Frost Court, W yckoffNJ 07481 tsafer5400@aol. com Class agent: Ms. Anne Marie Verdiramo 1 Franklin Town Blvd., A pt 1003 Philadelphia PA 19103 amverdiramö@hotmail. com

Reunion chairmen: Tami Safer Radfar & Anne Marie Verdiramo Best wishes to Eric Shuffler and Amy Bressler on their wedding. Amy, who graduated from Emory U., is a third-year law student at Fordham U. The New York Times did a long write-up of their first meeting, which was on election night in 1996, and subsequent courtship. Best wishes and congratulations also to Ellen and Joseph Lee on their wedding. Joseph has accepted the position of youth pastor at Young Nak Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, the largest Korean-American Church with more than 7,000 members. The Lees moved to Los Angeles in July. Congratulations to Marie D’Amato, who received a master's in British literature from Dartmouth College in May. She teaches high school English in Hanover, NH. Ed note: Sincere apologies to Tami Safer Radfar and those classmates who sent her news. She dutifully wrote it up and submitted it to the Alumni Office, which deeply regrets having misplaced her column fo r the spring issue. Please come to Homecoming/reunion on OCTOBER 19 and catch up!

93 Ms. Renee Monteyne 10 Lookout Point Trail Totowa Borough N J 07512 Mr. Brian Wecht 3891-D Miramar St., La Jolla CA 92037 Class agent: Mr. Damien Vena 240 E. 27th St. #4B, New York N Y 10016 venad@yahoo. com Taryn Rotondi sends “a prayerfulfJw remembrance to our fellow classmate, a talented and special young man, Scott Johnson, who was taken from us much too soon on that tragic day of 9/11... .Scott’s spirit will always be with us.” Taryn graduated from NYU as a psychology major and is a counselor at the National Institute for People with Disabilities in New Jersey. She teaches and mentors young adults and says it is very rewarding. She has several certifications in mental health training and will pursue a master’s. Dr. Kelly DiStefano is a resident in pediatrics at Morristown (NJ) Memorial Hospital. She graduated from Georgetown U. in 1997 and from medical school in 2001. Jonathan Crowell writes from Vermont, “I continue to fight for social and ecological justice and against imperialism, capitalism and racism.” Brett Shanahan handles mass-market sales of graphic novels, not comics, for DC Comics, whose properties include the greats like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.

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Brett is also working on getting an adult literacy program started, “using our characters due to the incredible response to our materials in the library market.” Best wishes to Robert and Kristin Noell Eddy on their wedding. Her sister Beth Noell '96 was maid of honor. Robert and Kristin met at Georgetown U.; they live in NYC where she works for Morgan Stanley. Vince O'Hara is back in Nambia working as the field director o f World Teach, an organization that places volunteer teachers in disadvantaged communities. Our condolences to Zachary McLarty on the death of his mother.

Ms. Monica Fernand 37 Garden St., Boston MA 02114 Ms. Dana Fiordaliso 514 2nd Street SE, Washington DC 20003 Danajfiordaliso@ labor.senate.gov Class agent: Mr. Jason Awerdick 215 East 95th St. #296, New York N Y 10128 Priya Khanna is happily back in New Jersey, beginning her fourth year of medical school at the University of Health Sciences, UMDNJ. After completing two years of med. school in Missouri, she had the option to do clinical rotations at the hospital of her choice. Priya sends news of classmates: Justin Vandergaag is consulting for DLJ Direct in N.J.; Melissa Auriemma is at law school at Pace Univ. in N.Y.; and Parul Agarwal is consulting for McKinsey in NYC. Dana Fiordaliso heard from Laura Hardman. Laura drove out west and settled in southwest Portland, Ore., where she edits the Sherwood Gazette, a monthly community newspaper that may go weekly. She loves the area, but did have to adjust to the weather - 34 straight days of rain this winter! Before the move, Laura wrote her first book, a nonfiction memoir about the band Independence Jazz Reunion, published in March by Wickwire Press. Laura followed the band around and interviewed them about their memories of performing together in the 1950s. Jaime Bedrin, who received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia U. last year, is a reporter for 90.FM/WFAE, a public radio station in Charlotte, N.C. She also has a weekday evening air-shift.

planning a wedding for May 2003. She works as head teacher of a pre-school class in Greenwich, Conn, and lives in NYC. Matt Ebling writes, “No doubt you never figured me to be a chef, but now I’m coming up with the best food in the Boston area. I look forward to seeing anyone there [DunnGatherin’s Food & Spirits, Newton].” Robert Kramer e-mailed, “Married in Israel April 30th, currently living in the Northern region of Eretz Yisrael learning ancient Jewish manuscripts, fighting terrorists, and awaiting redemption.” Thora Westock and Rita Papaleo vacationed in Ireland, three days in Dublin and five in the countryside. “We rented bikes and biked throughout the entire island of Inishmor. We had a great time - beautiful countryside, nicest people, sunny and rain-free weather.” Thora and Rita plan to continue their travels each year, a tradition that began in college when they traveled and studied abroad in Austria and Spain, respectively. Rita works in the institutional research department at Sanford C. Bernstein, NYUC, working with European and U.S. media teams.

Ms. Tanya Barnes \7 Melrose Place, M ontclair N J 07042 tbarnes@fas. harvard, edu Ms. Debbie Haight 115 DeWitt Ave., Belleville N J 07109 deh27@columbia.edu Class agent: Mr. Lee Vartan 25B Avon St., Cambridge MA 02138 pldv@ aol.com Elizabeth O’Brien is a research assistant at Boston College, and is working on an M.Ed. in their educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation Program. She will graduate in May 2003. Also near Boston, Nikki Martinez works as a pre-school head teacher at Bright Horizons, Staples Child Care Center in Framingham. She graduated from Boston Univ.

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Kenneth DiStefano graduated from Georgetown U. School of Business and just finished his second year of medical school at Sabor Univ. Juli Peterson is assistant director of athletics *: for compliance and the senior woman administrator at Saint Peter’s College, N.J. She began a master’s in education this summer. Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Alex Voinov, who received a doctor of pharmacy from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in May. He was getting married to Monica Chulupsa this summer; they were both ocean lifeguards at Monterey Beach. Faculty member Tony Cuneo spotted a picture of Simone Mangili in the April newsletter of The Trust For Public Land. Simone is a project associate in the New Jersey field office, where he supports the acquisition and parkland development work. (He looks great.) Our condolences to Lucas McLarty on the death of his mother.

Ms. Rita Papaleo 31 Fernwood Terrace, N utleyN J 07110 ritapap@aol. com Class agent: Mr. Matthew Drukker 400 E. 57th ST, #15C, New York N Y 10022

Nicole Kamine is in her third year teaching upper school French and coaching varsity cross-country and track. She was engaged to marry Eric Wilhelm in August with Adrianna Delcollo as a bridesmaid.

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International Studies Arnoldas Pranckevicius, an exchange student at MKA in 1996-97, received a prestigious Rotary World Peace Scholarship from Rotary International, one of only 70 in the world, in this, the program’s inaugural year. He will use his scholarship to earn a master’s degree in international relations at Institut d’Etudes ■ Politiques de Paris (Science Po). He graduated in May from Colgate University, where he majored in international relations. While in high school, Arnoldas was a member of the Lithuanian national debate team, and participated in the World Debate Championships in Israel in 1998. At Colgate, he hosted “The World Matters,” a weekly program on Colgate’s television station that he originated after 9 ffl. His honors thesis considered whether Lithuania should join NATO. Arnoldas has written more than 250 bylined articles for Lithuanian and U.S. newspapers, and he interned in the office of U.S. Senator Richard Durbin and at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Washington, D.C. Arnoldas, his mother, and brother came to see his former MKA faculty members and Montclair friends after his graduation from Colgate.

Rebecca Friedman '02 and her sister, Tashie Murphy '96, at Commencement.

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5th REUNION OCTOBER 19, 2002 Ms. Jennifer Platt 904 Pompton Ave., B2, Cedar Grove N J 07009 jepla2001H ||Z . com Class agents: Ms. Jennifer Fink 225 West S3Ilf St., Apt. 11 O New fo rk N Y 10017 Ms. M elissa1Schlachter 32 Larsen Lane, Lincoln P arkN J 07035 Reunionmfiairmen: Laura Petrolle, Brooke Travis Robert Streit graduated from the U. of Florida last year and is attending^law school at Seton Hall in Newark. “I miss the sun and warm weather,” he writes. Kate Edelstein teaches third grade in Orange, N J. Brooke Travis works in marketing at Rogers & Cowan, primarily with entertainment and film clients.

Junior Elliott Platt and alumni siblings Alison '99, Stephanie '02, and Jennifer Platt '97 at Stephanie's graduation in June.

David Gurtman wrote from Juneau, Alaska, where hffspent the summer guiding and fishing. He planned to start law school in the fall.

After graduating from Middlebury College, Kristen Connolly performed in a production of Scotland Road this summer with the Potomac Theatre Project in Olney, Md. Then she will go on tour with National Players (the country’s longest-running classical theatre company) acting in As You Like It and Tartujfe.

Amanda Dickey, who received a B.A. from Georgetown in 2001, is beginning law school at NYU.

Dan Kabler wrote that he had taken time off to work and ski bum in Vermont and was returning to college part time.

The M ontclair Times ran the engagement announcement of Blair Dore and Jennifer Valiando. Blair, who received a B.A. in English and French from Amherst College, is a literary agent for book authors and illustrators at Pippin Properties, NYC.

Garret Bedrin graduated from UMass in May with a major in sports marketing. He managed the basketball and field hockey teams and did some neat travels (“I spent New Year’s Eves in South Africa, Antarctica, and South Beach”). He spent his final semester as an intern for the Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Club in Bradenton, Fla., responsible for the marketing, promotions, and special events of spring training.

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A s I look b ack on m y M KA days, I see how w ell p re p a re d I am to tackle the real w orld. M KA g a v e m e the p ro fessio n a l attitu de I needed, a n d it also taught m e to take risks, a n d g o after w h a t yo u desire. Garret Bedrin MKA ’98; B.S., University of Massachusetts ’02 Congratulations to those alumni who are now college/university alumni as well! Newsiof a few, from questionnaires, clippings, and proud parents: Erika Bickoff graduated from Ithaca College. Courtney DiStefano graduated from ‘{y American University and was applying to law schools.

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Mr. John Garippa 30 Wayside Place, M ontclair N J 07042 Ms. Anna Labowsky 5 Highview Court, Wayne N J 07470 Class agent: Ms. Ashley Griffin 55 Afterglow Ave., M ontclair N J 07042 Jennifer Glasser spent the summer working in equity research at Solomon Smith Barney, NYC, before leaving for Paris, where she will spend seven months studying at the Sorbonne. A walk-on as a freshman, then recruited, now Candice Watkins has been elected captain of the Boston U. women’s crew. Bret Hirsh has transferred to the University of Pennsylvania so that he can combine finance and accounting with liberal arts studies.

On Stage, Back Stage Ms. Alison Platt 904 Pompton Ave., B2, Cedar Grove N J 07009 Class agent: Mr. Alex Holz 992 Valley Road, Franklin Lakes N J 07417 Gary Murphy finished his third year at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. This summer he had an internship in Washington, D.C. with the Congressional Subcommittee on Coast Guard Affairs; then he was stationed in Bayonne, N.J. Igor Alves, an international studies major at Rutgers U./Honors College, is American Red Cross regional youth liaison for the MidAtlantic region.

After a series o f regional performances, the national “finals” o f the American College Dance Festival were held this spring at Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. Dancers represented their colleges in pieces selected for the performance. Backstage two MKA alumnae from the sam e class - each representing a different region H m et and reminisced: Laura Sharp ’98, from Connecticut College, and Omni Kitts ’98, from Montclair State University. Both graduated from college this year.

Elizabeth Isralowitz spent spring semester of junior year at the U. of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is majoring in psychology at Skidmore College and is interested in pre school special education.

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Marriages Ms. Dana Pisacane, 3 Finley Lane, Wayne N J 07470 Our heartfelt condolences to the family of Caitlin Lehmann, whose life was tragically short, but who showed us so much about dedication, selflessness, friendship and courage. Lauren Stefanchik continued her winning ways with Harvard softball. She was named the Ivy League’s Rookie of the Week in March and helped Harvard to its best season opening since 1983. Bryan Bishe was named 1st team AllConference (Mid-Atlantic) for Johns Hopkins, and went on 9-0 to win the individual title foil champion. He placed in the top-24 in foil at the NCAA Division I finals.

Ms. Melissa Fortunato 40 Holton Lane, Essex Fells N J 07021 Class agent: Ms. Lauren Tortoriello 112 H eller Way, Upper M ontclair N J 07043 Welcome, Class of 2002, to your own column!

There will be No Thanksgiving Day Game this year, as Newark Academy will have no varsity football team.

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Mollie Hollins Woodworth Barbara Spadone Haviland Joy O'Neil Ross Banta William J. Marchese David F. Caldwell Elizabeth Newell McCaffrey Anne Staudinger Abels Richard Lambom Frances Hedges Parsons Austin C. Drukker John Headden Byron M. Noone Thomas Wells Jr. Caitlin M. Lehmann

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Faculty, Former Faculty, Staff, and Trustees Austin C. Drukker '52 John Frey Ulrich V. Solmssen

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Commencement 2002

Jordan Fraser ’00 and sister Morgan Fraser ’02 at Commencement.

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Faculty member Ken Bishe with his wife, Dorice, and children Bryan ’01 and Kerry ’02.

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MKA Bulletin Board Advice! Internships! Jobs! It's Alumnet Alumnet, formerly known as the Office of Career Services, serves as a liaison between recent alumni and established alumni, parents, faculty, and friends of the school. To make Alumnet work for you, or if you are willing to offer career advice or opportunities, please call, write, or e-mail Laurie McFeeley at 973/509-7939 or at lmcfeeley@montclairkimberley. org

Presentations! Slide Shows! Discussions! Any alumni, parents, or friends of the school interested in bringing their enthusiasm and expertise into the classroom at any of the three MKA campuses should contact the Bank of Community Resources. Faculty will then use this bank to supplement their own teaching in a particular unit. Long distance learning is even possible. Enhance student learning and get involved at the classroom level all at once. Your participation is encouraged and appreciated. Contact: Joan Brennan Monico at 973/509-4594 or at jmonico@ montclairkimberley.org

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Class Notes • Fall 2002

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Our three beautiful campuses, our fine buildings, our playing fields all are, to a great extent, legacies left to The Montclair Kimberley Academy by former benefactors. The way each benefactor chose to offer a gift varied, but the impact was the same: a wonderful school that is financially strong, that brings honor to the community of Montclair, and that provides excellent education for some 1,025 stu dents today.

The Heritage Society recognizes those benefactors who have made planned gifts to MKA. Members of the Heritage Society enjoy the personal gratification of advancing the education of future genera tions of students. They also enjoy the financial benefits which flow from sound investment and estate planning, including increased spendable income, an immediate tax deduction, reduced estate taxes, and reduced capital gains taxes on appreciated assets.

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

In recent issues of the MKA Review you may have noticed articles about alumni who have chosen to make a planned gift to MKA. 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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