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CONTENTS From the Headmaster.....................................1 Dreams Take F lig h t.......................................2 Notes Around MKA.......................................11 TKS ’65 40th R eunion................................. 13 Homecoming 2 0 0 5 ........................................14 The Investiture................ 16 Book Fair 200aR«,„...................................... 18 From the Alumni Association......................20 Cougar Sports................................................22 Class Notes 1..... 1...........................................24 REVIEW EDITORS Marsha Kleinman Judy Polonofsky CONTRIBUTORS Debbie Kozak Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley '76 PHOTO CREDITS Kelly Byrne ‘08 Tony Cuneo Jeff Goldman David Hollander Debbie Kozak Laurie McFeeley ’76 Diana Reese ‘07 Steve Tober
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We have had most of a school year to take our new Arts Wing on a test drive, and it has functioned beautifully for classes, receptions, performances, work space and as an apparently seamless addition to the Upper School campus. On April 2, we will dedicate the Arts Wing in honor of Peter R. Greer, and I believe that the nature of this tribute is uniquely suited to his leadership of the School and contributions to its success. The addition to our Upper School building possesses two significant qualities that were a part of almost everything Dr. Greer accomplished in his time at MKA. First, the Arts Wing takes its form and definition from the strength and personality of what was already present in the school, and second, the Arts Wing steps off from the original foundation, and leans into new space and the future with complete confidence. It is not possible to drive by the Arts Wing without wondering what it would be like to be in those classrooms defined by generous space and suffused with light. This edition of The Review includes the observations and comments of some of our Fine and Performing Arts faculty whose working environment has been transformed by the Peter R. Greer Arts Wing. Their words provide evidence that we have added classrooms and studios to our campus that lend themselves to the creation of works of beauty and integrity.
athletic facilities at MKA are program-driven. W hen we ask what we can do to provide safe, attractive and enduring facilities for our students, the answers to some of the toughest challenges become obvious. Careful planning inspires friends, alumni, parents and faculty to support our goals, and their generosity emboldens us to watch over the design and completion of our projects with care and vigilance. The story of the Peter R. Greer Arts Wing includes all of these ingredients and is worth remembering as a testament to Dr. G reer’s hopes for our students, the commitment of our Board of Trustees, the generosity of our alumni, parents and friends, and the wisdom and work ethic of our administrators, faculty and staff. With all best wishes, Thomas W. Nammack Headmaster
Less obvious to the outside observer, but immediately apparent to those who work and learn in the Upper School, is the way in which existing facilities, such as Weiss Auditorium, once compromised by the lack of studio and classroom space, now function as they were meant to. The student locker area and lounge, the Learning Center and the Faculty Room are areas that were created or renovated as part of the reconfiguration made possible by the addition of the Arts Wing. It is always a risk to undertake a project like the addition of our new Arts Wing. Successful planning, fundraising and financing, and the quality of the final product itself are never sure bets. Our best decisions about the educational and
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Faculty and Alumni Celebrate the Peter R. Greer Arts Wing With the dedication o f the Peter R. Greer Arts Wing on April 2, 2006, a dream has been realized fo r the MKA community. As part o f the celebration fo r this longawaited event, we asked current and form er Fine and Performing Arts faculty members to comment on the effect o f the new facilities, and our alumni in the arts to tell us stories o f life and learning in the old VAS (Vandermade A rt Studio). Here are excerpts from iheir responses.
J From Tony Cuneo, Chair of the Upper School Fine and Performing Arts Department: The new arts space includes a sculpture studio, a painting studio, a band room, a new traditional darkroom and a new digital darkroom (a computer lab dedicated to imaging and design work).
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The impact has already been immense and will only grow in significance.
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The simplest and most obvious effect is that, for the first time, the Band has a dedicated space of its own. This means no more taking down and setting up stands and chairs every time we want to show a movie in Weiss or have a speaker. It means the Band no longer migrates to the cafeteria when the Winter Musical rolls around. It means the students get to practice in an acoustically designed, beautiful space with instruments readily accessible. It means one student can be practicing the piano in one practice
room, while another is practicing the trumpet next door and a violinist is rehearsing in yet another practice room upstairs (there are five altogether). We used to have to lock Weiss after Band so that students wouldn't sneak in and do stuff they shouldn't. Now they can access a bright, open space whenever they want. I have already seen more students practicing outside of class time this year than I did all of last year. For the visual arts, the wing means our space is consolidated in one area. Instead of teaching in three places, widely separated from each other, sometimes simultaneously, we now have our offices next to our studios and our supplies easily at hand. In the past, when we ordered charcoal, we had to split the order into three parts and put a little in each teaching space. No more. In the past, a student looking to work in the studio had to find a teacher to unlock the space and that teacher had to worry about what was going on in the studio, since his or her office was, in all probability, hundreds of yards away and on a different floor. No more. Our old spaces were about 12 feet wide. We couldn't set up a still life and have an entire class encircle it, looking for different angles from which to draw. No more. We actually have a studio space, not a converted lecture hall. We're excited; the students are excited. And this doesn't even take into consideration the improvement in the quality of the light (and the view). In photography, the consolidation is especially important. Today, in one class, we were able to develop as many rolls of film as we used to do in about three days. And the change for digitally based work is huge. I used to have students near the library, working on computers, developing images. Another set, same class, would be in the old VAS, scanning negatives. A
third group might be in the traditional darkroom, working on a set of prints. A fourth group would be in my office, where the one dedicated photo printer was, waiting in line for the chance to use it. I had to circulate between four locations (and if a student had a problem, they had to wait until I came around again). Now the equipment is all together. We have 17 excellent (G5) computers dedicated to imaging, four high quality photo printers, two 35 mm scanners, one medium format scanner, a flatbed scanner and a 36" bed inkjet printer. This space can be used, not only for photography classes, but also for Media Production Design and the like.
Tony Cuneo teaches Photo I, Photo II, Photo Portfolio, Digital Darkroom, Studio Art, andA.P. Studio Art.
The secondary effects are just as important. Since the Band has vacated Weiss, we can now teach Experience of Theatre or Acting on the big stage when we need to...Experience of Theatre used to be taught in the Dance Room. It's much easier for students to experience theatre when they're actually in a theatre. Additionally, VAS has been transformed, including, among other spaces, a quiet study area that is drawing kids in like
From Randy Svane, Director of Instrumental and Vocal Music, Pre-K to 12: The new Band/Strings rehearsal space is an acoustically designed room that brings out the best. I know that as a result of this new space, (and by the way, the five new practice rooms which were also built), the music program will continue to thrive. Registered students for these two ensembles are at an all-time high. The
future looks bright!
Randy Svane teaches Mastersingers and Chorale.
flies.. .when you walk past this space on the way to the faculty mailroom/lounge, and look in and see all these dedicated kids beavering away, it absolutely warms the cockles of your heart.
From Alicia Cuccolo, Upper School art teacher: It is said that thinking of places in our past is an invitation to start imagining. Those places for me are the Vandermade Art Studio (VAS) where my friend and mentor Calvin Matzke taught for many years; the Sculpture/Set construction studio where countless projects were created; and the "secret" back door that led directly to Weiss stage. When construction was not completed on the new Arts Wing by the start of September, an unusual but imaginative solution was needed to find a space to teach sculpture classes. The only available room was the Headmaster's garage—the same garage where years ago a goat was kept for use in a winter musical production. It was another adventure for MKA students who, as expected, handled the situation with spirit and humor. I will never forget their look of awe when they first walked into the new room weeks later. It was worth the wait. Every space, every comer of this new Arts Wing resonates with the love of learning about and making art. Innovative and fresh projects are developing everywhere and hang from the walls, from the ceiling, and are displayed on the grounds of the campus.
Alicia Cuccolo teaches Sculpture I & II, Fundamentals o f Art II, and Senior Studio Honors.
Dimitri Hadjipetkov teaches beginning string instruments and String Orchestra.
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From Dimitri Hadjipetkov, Upper and Middle School music teacher: With the growing numbers of students in the instmmental music program, the new Arts Wing was much needed. Now the program can continue to flourish and expand.
From Chuck Olsen, Upper and Middle School music teacher: In the new wing, I now feel equipped to do my job in a first class manner. I can teach students in small groups, individually, and as a full ensemble; this facility meets all of my needs, exceeds my expectations, and gives us room to grow. I am exited to see where it will take us.
Chuck Olsen is the director of the Upper School Concert Band, Jazz Band, and Pep Band, and assists in the Middle School Band program. From Jeanne P. Jones: I was fortunate to be on hand at the beginning of a fine arts program at MKA with the merger of the two schools. There was a set of circumstances at that time that allowed me to initiate new art classes and to build a program. The Principal, Dick Day, the Headmaster, Birge Ayres, and the college guidance counselor, Claire Kleinschmit, all helped me and gave me
experience. I knew some people at Christie's (Park Avenue) and I took a group of my students to an auction of Impressionist paintings and you can guess what happened.. .one of the students in the back of the room raised his hand to bid on a Renoir! Oh well, the auctioneer was aware of the situation. The students never let us down: the class o f '79 had a beautiful response to the aged stones that make up the Cloisters; the class of'83's response to the Edward Hopper Show at the Whitney Museum was gratifying to watch. Another time, Ms. Held and I took our students to The Natural History Museum to draw some of the intriguing skeletons of dinosaurs. The Frank Stella show resulted in the students making their own "Frank Stella's" and so much more. The plans for the new Arts Wing—consolidating the studios and offices— sound practical, invigorating, and sorely needed.
Jeanne P. Jones was an art teacher, yearbook advisor, and art trip coordinator at The Kimberley School and MKA from 1972-1989. From Nixon Bicknell: The musicals we did with Marilyn Faden as director and Calvin Matzke as designer were effective in both performance and educational value. Working with them was a great privilege. I'm sure the new space will be a boon to the Fine and Performing Arts Department and wish them much success as the years go on.
Nixon Bicknell was the Director o f the Mastersingers, musical director of the school productions, and teacher o f the history o f musical theatre at Montclair Academy and MKA from 1964-1991.
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fantastic backing to do what I thought was best...so I visited art departments, checked the books they were using, talked to students and then got busy starting sculpture, painting, drawing (with a model, no less), pottery, printmaking and later, art history.
From Calvin Matzke: From the first year of the merger until I retired, it seemed to me that the biggest problem our growing Arts Department had was space! We taught in classrooms with a variety of windows— there were classrooms with large windows, small windows, very high windows and no windows at all. For several years during the 1970s, Marilyn Faden and I shared an office that was also the art supply storage closet.
One of my favorite classes appealed to a lot of athletes— sculpture... something about working with a hammer and chisel, maybe, or heavy blocks of soapstone. However, there was a tense moment when one of the star water polo players accidentally rammed a chisel into his hand needing stitches and we were afraid he couldn't play for weeks. However, his father was team doctor and devised a solution.
I am happy to know that the Arts Department now has a new facility that solves many of the space problems we had during my years at MKA.
Calvin Matzke was the Department Chair from 1975-1992. During his tenure from 1970-2002, he taught art, designed all sets for the school productions, and was the Director of the "Manassas Road Crew. |
Both Birge Ayres and later Headmaster Phil Allen were helpful with my art trip plans. Since we were so near to NYC, I wanted to take the students to the major art shows, at museums as well as galleries and even auction houses. Well, that was an
From Marilyn Faden: Twenty-one years of teaching and directing 25 plays produced a lot of memorabilia and unforgettable incidents. Every class, every production provided a story or two.
One of the most outstanding was provided by the live goat in The Teahouse o f the August Moon. She arrived a week before the performances and lived in the Headmaster's garage which I named the "MKA Goatel." On stage, the goat had to sample a homemade alcoholic brew. We used Coca Cola and she loved it. She held up the show because she wouldn't stop drinking and then followed the actors around the stage looking for more. Many of my fondest production memories originated on "gag night." At the second dress rehearsal of each show, the cast and crew devised "gags," mostly visual, to make me and each other laugh. I permitted it as long as it didn't disrupt the continuity of the rehearsal. I was allowed to laugh, the performers were not, and laugh I did at such as the following: Fiddler On The Roof: Christmas stockings hanging on Tevye's fireplace; Guys and Dolls: the Hot Box girls singing "A Bushel and a Peck" wearing Mickey Mouse hats and long black tails; Kiss Me, Kate: Petruchio singing "Were Thine That Special Face" to the lovely smiling ladies who had blacked out their front teeth, and on and on. I will be forever touched by the absolute dedication of all the crews as well as all the actors, and be grateful for the rapport and sense of accomplishment I shared with Calvin Matzke, Nixon Bicknell, Michael Bergman, and Judy Nesbit. We were quite a team and remain friends to this day.
Marilyn Faden was the Director of Theatre at The Kimberley School and MKA from 1966-1987, maintaining the KA (Kimberley-Academy) productions and starting the MKA musicals in 1975. She taught a four-year cycle of acting, the history o f theatre, public speaking, and co-taught stagecraft with Calvin Matzke.
Currentfaculty member Karson St. John '98 with the legendary Marilyn Faden
From Karson St. John '98, Upper School theatre and dance teacher: It's like all the pieces are coming together. Everyone is in his or her own place, and the kids can work in an environment that is conducive to artistic thought. While I am one of those faculty members who is enjoying the "secondary effects" of the new wing, the key is that I am enjoying them. I can hold musical rehearsals on the stage. We can build the set at our own pace, without having to wait to push the Band up into the Dining Hall. I can have my theatre classes in the theatre, where they belong. It's all as it should be. As an alumna, I know that it was my experience at MKA that sparked my love for the arts. When J.C. Svec cast me in my first dramatic role in Agnes o f God my freshman year, my life was changed forever. I learned an appreciation for the
true art of theatre, and recognized early on that what I would learn in these plays would ultimately shape my foundation as an actor. Eleven years later, I am blessed to work alongside J.C. Svec, collaborate with him, and continue to learn from him on a daily basis. My life has already come full circle as I am teaching the classes J.C. taught me; directing the Winter Musical that I always loved so much; and, hopefully, having an effect on my students the way that the F&PA teachers of my time did on me.
Karson St. John '98 teaches Experience o f Theatre, Acting, Dance I, II, and III, and directs and choreographs the Winter Musical Her background includes: BA from Emory University with a concentration in Theatre Arts; American Academy o f Dramatic Arts; Broadway Dance Center; STEPS New York; Fouryear Member of Emory Dance Company; acted with the professional company Theater Emory; Member o f 30 Below Theatre Company in Atlanta, Georgia; originated the lead role in the musical adaptation o f Doc Hollywood with Neil Schulmann; appeared in several HBO comedies; acted in several original off-Broadway one-acts in NYC; taught at Danceworks Studios in Montclair; choreographed the Upper School Musical for two years and now choreographing and directing the Winter Musical. From Jeremy Selenfriend '96: My art instruction was split tri-fold by three of the most memorable teachers I've ever had. Honestly, I will remember the names of Tony Cuneo, Calvin Matzke, and J.C. Svec long after the countless other teachers I've had in my life have faded into the haze of age. All three of my art teachers challenged me in ways not commonly seen in a high school setting. They all recognized my potential and love of the field, and strongly encouraged me to go beyond the boundaries of the classroom. In my senior year, I was granted not one, but two independent studies by Mr. Cuneo and Mr. Matzke. Both teachers gave me their utmost trust to challenge myself in new artistic fields. On top of that, I acted as J.C.'s make-up assistant on Agnes o f
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So what does the new Arts Wing mean to me? When I came to The Kimberley School in 1966 neither it nor Montclair Academy had a theatre department, much less a place where theatre could be taught. At TKS, I taught grades 1 thru 12 in the hallways, the bowling alley and, once, in the girls' bathroom (a class those third graders won't soon forget). We staged our annual Kimberley-Academy K-A Play in the all-purpose room at Brookside. The Weiss Arts Center came years later. After the merger at the MKA Upper School and before the Deetjen Chemistry Lab was converted into the Deetjen Drama Lab (now the Black Box Theatre), I held classes in the Headmaster's dining room
in and around his table and chairs. Clearly, I can appreciate the value of the new Arts Wing. At last, each of the Fine and Performing Arts has its own space— a place to explore, to experiment, to discover, and to create. Isn't that what the arts are really all about?
know with one look that the reason I had had such a hard time completing the drawing was because I had been pressing down too hard on my pencil! In her classes, Mrs. Jones would circulate around us, providing encouragement, instruction and constructive criticism. It was really in Mrs. Jones's classes where I laid down the foundation of everything else I would learn concerning draftsmanship and design. I truly don't have the words to describe how lucky I was to have an art teacher like Mrs. Jones.
God, then the following year, he trusted me enough to give me full make-up responsibility on the school film: Jane. J.C., recognizing my specific love of the special effects make-up field, personally instructed me on his own time, and gave me the running start I needed to get to the position I maintain now as head of my own make-up and special effects studio. I got a great deal of my ability to creatively solve my own problems and not think so linearly from these men, and often come to visit the two who still remain at MKA. Even 10 years since my graduation, it gives me such pleasure to come by and say hello and see the genuine joy in their eyes that I was able to follow up on my dreams since high school. I am so glad to see the arts finally get a space large enough to contain these teachers’ talents. There are no more deserving people I know of.
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Jeremy Selenfriend '96: Special effects make-up artist and business owner of Monster in My Closet, LLC. Jeremy trained in graphic and architectural design, prop and set fabrication, and special effects make-up design at the Art Institute o f Pittsburgh. Freelancing for several years, he was successful enough to open up his own studio, where he creates bizarre characters, monsters, and aliens for film, television, and stage.
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From Jay Wecht '83: Mrs. Jones's dedication to teaching art, and inspiring the students who were serious about it, is unmatched in any other fine arts educator I've ever experienced. As fine arts students, we were required to submit a number of sketches a week commensurate to the number of hours one would expect from those who are serious about art. Mrs. Jones would scrutinize each and every drawing, letting us know where we succeeded and where we did not. Then, in plain terms, she would let us know how to improve what many of us thought needed no improvement. And the woman was always right. I remember one time after spending hours struggling over a charcoal sketch of a tree, Mrs. Jones let me
As a teacher, I recognize how much I learned from those who taught me at the Academy. The students really do enter my room and wonder why I'm not their "Mrs. Jones." This is due to the fact that I use cartoons to help them better understand my lessons on literature; my walls, bulletin boards, blackboards and shelves are covered with cartoons, many of my own design. I believe I've created an atmosphere in my classroom very conducive to learning, just like Mrs. Jones's and all the others I both learned and grew up in two decades ago. I believe I've been able to achieve my "very best"— artistically, and otherwise—with great thanks to Jeanne Jones. More importantly, I'm able to use my talents to inspire the children in front of me to think and feel more, to be more excited about the whole idea of the worlds that literature enables you to explore.
Jay Wecht '83: Attended Tufts University (editor of the graphic arts page of the weekly Tufts Observer): Boston Museum o f Fine Arts education program; Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art; and started a couple lines o f greeting cards. A teacher in West Orange at Roosevelt Middle School, Jay has published cartoons in the New York Review o f Books: designed a cow for West Orange's celebrated "Cow Parade; " and recently completed his first children's book that he both wrote and illustrated. From Frank Godlewski '76: My best arts learning experiences were with Jeanne Jones and Van Peterkin during the MKA merger; they are responsible for the beginnings of my academic journey that then led me to The Cooper Union School of Architecture and a five-year doctoral program in Venice.
Frank Godlewski '76 was the Senior Project Architect for restoration, Lawless & Mangione, 2004-2005, in New York. In Italy, he was an architectural designer for Frank Gerard Godlewski Designs and Usa Interventions o f Design, Restoration and Renovation of Italian National Landmarks and other notable properties, 1989-2004.
From Rosanne Pennella '81: The great thing about the new facility at MKA is that it will allow so many students the opportunity to leam about the arts. Even if these classes merely serve to inspire initial interest, it is a terrific opportunity to be allowed to study many subjects while in high school as often a greater interest can spring up years later.
Rosanne Pennella '81: a travel photographer, was named by Nikon in 2005 as a "Legend Behind the Lens " and has received many other awards
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an artist in those early months because I didn't take my art too seriously. Fair enough. Then, one study hall session, I took out my drawing pad and began a pencil sketch of Julie Traum's LL Bean book bag. I sat there for the full 45 minutes, . fully concentrated, and began to lose: myself in the drawing. I applied shading, exaggerated lines and movement, and, although it was merely a book bag, I swear that drawing had a sense of atmosphere and character I had never tapped into before. (All right, fine, perhaps I am pushing the impact of my book bag sketch, but let's roll with it for now.) Anyway, when the 45 minutes were up, I snapped out of my haze and took a look at my new creation; "Huh. Not bad," I thought. So, I submitted it as my assignment for Mr. Matzke's drawing class. I'll never forget Mr. Matzke's tone when he said after the next class, "Allie, can you stay a minute? I'd like to speak with you." It was stem, yet respectful. It wasn't as if he was speaking to a 14-year-old student, but rather a colleague. However, none of that respect hid the fact that he was definitely pissed at me. So, I stayed and Mr. Matzke explained how he felt cheated by me; that if I had been capable of this quality of work all along, how come I wasn't giving it to him. I expected praise and this is what I got? My young mind was reeling and I was confused. "How come my teacher's mad? How come he doesn't want the best from me?" Then it hit me; he doesn't want my best, he expects it...and at all times, too. Whoa. Not a bad philosophy to teach a kid.
including a PDN Annual and a Puffin Foundation Grant. Rosanne also teaches travel photography at the New School and International Center of Photography in New York City and leads travel photography workshops around the world with the American Photo/Popular Photography Mentor Series.
I'd also like to note, that as my four years in high school passed and the same 15 or so kids took the studio art classes together, it was really interesting to see how we all matured as budding artists. It was great to watch our different styles emerge, our different points of view come into focus, and, at rare times, our different souls painted into those assignments. Incidently, those styles, points of view,., and souls remain just as vivid in my mind today as they did 20 years ago, and I am sure they will stay with me always. The only reason I can attribute
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From Allie Dvorin '89: It was the end of the first trimester of my freshman year at MKA, 1985 to be exact. I was your typical (or perhaps atypical MKA freshman): small, bushyhaired, and pretty much terrified of every upper classman that came my way. The high school workload became pretty intense pretty quickly and I was struggling in nearly every class. But my freshman drawing class, taught by Calvin Matzke, became my sanctuary. That small, secluded art studio was a great getaway from the rest of the school. I felt relaxed there, like I could be myself and forget about all my worries and anxieties from my other classes. Having said that, I didn't exactly work hard in that small art studio, but rather gossiped and flirted with the girls. Mr. Matzke didn't take me too seriously as
Twenty years have passed and I realize why I recall what seemed to be an insignificant exchange so clearly. It's because it was not insignificant at all, but rather the laying of a foundation that became the basis for my professional experience in the arts. When it comes to writing, directing, painting, acting,. dance, music and every art where one expresses oneself, you can't expect results, you can't expect fame and fortune, all you can be is confident in the knowledge that you put it all out there and never held anything back.
something so special and lasting is the nurturing, relaxed atmosphere that Mr. Matzke and the rest of the art teachers at MKA provided us. It was "the good stuff," as it were. Congratulation on the new Arts Wing! Keep creating!
Allie Dvorin '89 is a screenwriter based in Los Angeles and New York. After receiving his B.F.A., Tisch School of The Arts, New York University, film major, Allie Dvorin became the assistant to film producer Scott Rudin on Ransom. First Wives ' Club, and Marvin's Room. He went on to write and direct an indie film, Brokers, going to film festivals and getting a review in Variety in October 1997. After moving to Los Angeles in 1998, Allie started to option scripts; worked for Hypnotic/Universal buying/producing short films; sold a script to Disney based on the life o f Olympic fencer Peter Westbrook; was hired to write Like Mike 2 and Dr. Doolittle 3 for Fox (both films will be released on DVD in 2006); and recently sold a pitch to ABC Family Films called Brewster’s Millions. From George Hrab '89: Among some of my clearest memories from MKA are my times spending countless hours practicing and performing in the auditorium. Memorable performances included playing in the pit band for shows like Grease, Runaways, and Pippin-, being part of the concert band under the masterful direction of Barry Centanni for our yearly winter and spring concerts; and playing drums while accompanying Mr. Bicknell during choral performances.
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My fondest memory, however, is thinking back to my last days at MKA, and the chaos and excitement of putting together my senior project. My proposal had been approved and the project would consist of my writing and assembling a one-man concert performance. The show would consist of mostly original work; singing and playing guitar and drums. I had suggested that the entire school watch the performance as an assembly. Imagine the presumption! Looking back now it seems like an enormous act of hubris, as well as a huge leap of faith on behalf of the school. The day arrived, and with minimal technical glitches and incredible support from teachers Barry Centanni and Michael Bergman, the show went off well. I had been involved with performances before, but this was truly MINE. I'm afraid that that morning's show created a monster. Since that June morning 17 years ago, I have become an addict. I have worked hard to re-create again and again that incredible feeling of performing in front of a receptive, eager, enthusiastic audience. My performance addiction has led me to play in front of thousands of people, with dozens of equally "addicted" musicians. My performances today as a drummer and bandleader often struggle to live up to the precedent set by that senior project at MKA, but when they do, I'm genuinely reminded of how fortunate I am to have had such a positive experience so early in my musical career.
George Hrab '89 is a drummer/composer/philosopher diligently making a living as a musician. He currently performs with The Philadelphia Funk Authority, and has released 5 solo records, the latest entitled IN TERROBANG. He has performed for President Clinton at the White House, entertained
5,000fans at the Astrodome during Super Bowl XXXVIIVs festivities, played gigs at The Kennedy Center and New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom, and even shared the stage with Elton John at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center. He also is DefactoPresident/Dictator-For-Life o f the Geologic Orchestra, a ten-piece ensemble that performs his eclectic repertoire. From Lily Solmssen Moureaux '59: As a seven year old, perched on an apple crate in my aunt's (whose family photographs graced my parents' desk and father's office walls) darkroom, I experienced the initial wonder of negatives morphing magically into photographs. The following Christmas, my mother and father (who later served on the Kimberley Board of Trustees) gave me a Kodak Processing Kit. Thus began a marvelous journey, which to this day gives me a great deal of satisfaction and pleasure. I will never cease to wonder how my camera—with the click of the shutter—B has given me this 'window on the world'.
Lily Solmssen Moureaux '59: While at Kimberley, Lily was the photographer for the Kimberley Kourier and Kimberleaves. After graduating from Endicott Junior College with an AS in Photography, she landed her first job at MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY. Thereafter, she worked in Geneva and Vienna and all over the world with her late husband; and in New York, at UNICEF and the UN as a Photo Librarian. She presently works at The New York Public Library; her photography endeavors are focused on archiving historical collections, their digitization, and access. From Gil Kruger '02: It was not until I reached college that I truly understood the effect that MKA's arts program had on me in comparison to my classmates' schooling. When I reached NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, I was probably one of the least experienced students in terms of actual film m akinsSl had never owned a video camera and made movies with my friends, for one. But I did have two things (courtesy of MKA) that many others did not—a background in the theater and an overwhelming sense of responsibility to my craft.
At MKA, I learned the importance of collaboration and the mining of the source material. J.C. often chose plays where you couldn't just rent the movie version and phone in your performance. Those works were not always the easiest to digest, nor were they always the
Because of my years at MKA, whether it was the time when I interned at a production company or when I
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produced a video for the largest bank in Africa, I have always been accountable. I cannot say the same for a lot of the people I've met in school and in the business. Trustworthiness builds relationships, ones that have changed the course of my life forever. I am happy to hear that the new facilities will allow students to further their self-discovery.
Gil Kruger '02 holds a BFA from NYU's Film School. He associate produced the feature film Jailbait. which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005 and will be theatrically released in April 2006 by Kindred Media Group with a subsequent TVpremiere on Sundance Channel. Kruger received the Producing Award for a thesis project that won first place at NYU's Film Festival. Flutter Kick, a short film that he directed, has screened at some o f the country's most prestigious festivals. He is currently raising money in order to direct The Alisa Project, a documentary feature about a father's struggle for justice after losing his daughter in a terrorist attack. From Emily O'Dell '97: Whether it was before school, after school, during school or in between classes, Mr. Matzke would always open the art studio for us to paint at any time during the day—
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I'm still not sure why my classmates at NYU shunned the theater: there are thousands of years of plays to mine for material, and it has often been said that the best directors have experience as actors.
most popular with the audiences. But they were part of an underlying freedom at MKA during Dr. Greer's tenure that allowed us to explore different themes and ways of expressing ourselves that were absent in other programs. When I produced the Spring Movie as a senior, I felt like it was my show—J.C. had given me as much responsibility as I was willing to take on. MKA was like this little professional version of real life—it did not feel like "high school theater."
us. J.C. believed in us, gave us hope, and equipped us with the skills necessary to feel comfortable in every aspect of the theatre. Their doors were always open, and continue to beS-relationships with MKA faculty do not end at graduation. These teachers and others have profoundly influenced me as an artist, person, and teacher. Much artistic experimentation, success and joy to the current and future students at MKA—may they grow artistically and personally with the talented and accessible faculty to guide them and the generous administration and alumni to support them.
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even if he had a class in there—making the studio as much of a social space as a classroom. Hippies, preppies and jocks mingled with ease. It has been thrilling to see my classmate from Advanced Painting, Jack McCullough (the co-genius behind Proenza Schouler) become the hottest fashion designer in the country—9 and to read about him weekly in The New York Times. Whether Mr. Matzke was on stage singing "I Am the Very Model of a Modem Major General" from the Pirates o f Penzance or in the studio pushing us to take artistic risks, he was unforgettable, and we knew that we could talk to him about anything—artistic or not—and he would listen without judgment; with a raise of the brow, a clever retort, a twinkle of the eye, and a smile usually reserved for Zen monks.
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On the days when I felt like escaping th |r: triviality of high school gossip, awkward attempts at flirtation, the pressures of the college application process, and the noise of the cafeteria, J.C. Svec would kindly open the theatre for me and let me eat my lunch from the balcony. To be a playwright and alone in a theatre—is there anything better? To sit in silence and dream up imaginary worlds and listen to characters begging to be bom—to look at the blank canvas of an empty stage— what a gift! Little did I know that my lunchtime dreams would come true. I
wrote my first plays in J.C. Svec's Production Workshop, and he taught us the importance of regularly getting our work on the stage as he expected us to create entertaining works weekly for Morning Meeting. The class was in fact no class at all—we didn't read, he didn't lecture—it was more than a class. It was hands-on learning. We had to do everything-Sfind scenes, write scenes, rehearse, perform, direct, find scenery, get costumes, and design the lights. J.C. taught us how to teach ourselves—that it is only in doing that we can truly leam. This approach was essential to constructing and rehearsing my senior project at MKA (with Joe Felice '97), which was a production of theatre scenes and a film from scratch. As an undergraduate, graduate student, and professor at Brown, I have not only written and acted in plays, I have also directed, choreographed, and produced plays— and it has been no coincidenc e ^ that I was drawn to approaching th e a tre ^ from a variety of angles. When I think about J.C., I cannot get the image; of the white couch in his office QLjJ o f my mind—the couclj in J.LMs office was like our therapist's couch—he listened With empathy^ gayeihonest indispensable advice, andTonowed up to plow his genuine concern. Most importantly, J.C. reminded us that there is life beyond high school and that an exciting future awaited
Emily Jane O'Dell '97 is a playwright, actress, Egyptologist, concert Javanese gamelan and berimbau musician, and capoeirista. Productions and/or readings o f her plays have been produced at Lincoln Center, the Public Theatre, Perishable Theatre, the New York Fringe Festival, Brown University, the Catalyst Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and City Center. Her play The French Revolution: Part Deux (a new jersey play) was named one o f the best plays of the year by the Village Voice in 2003. She has appeared in and worked on the following films and TV shows: New York Undercover. Picture Perfect. Advice for a Caterpillar. Addicted to Love. Law and Order, and For Richer and Poorer. Emily received her MFA from Brown University where she taught play writing and received the Weston Award f a r playwriting. She is currently teaehing and working on harJpCD. at BMk>n in Egyptology anAAkkadian. Emily performs capoeira^nhGrupo Onaos and iy. currently being filmed and featured in a three-year documentary project on capoeirail She t s ih o returning to Egypt this winmr for her fifth year as chief epigrapher in the western cemetery at the Great Pyramids in Giza.
Notes Around MKA Sarah Kim Nicholas Murlo Lisa Radosti Sabrina Schmidt William Wagner
Mike Rooney Barry Rothbard Sabrina Schmidt Ashley Wahba Sam Walter Sharon Williams
The Headmaster is Pleased to Announce... National Merit SemiFinalists Kathleen Dantzler Andrew Davis William Wagner National Merit Commendations Eli Bildner Sean Finn Katie Gelnaw Sarah Kim Nick Murlo Lisa Radosti John Rodriguez
Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholars Manika Agarwal Elias Bildner Kimberly Bleicher Kathleen Dantzler Andrew Davis Michael Giuliano Ann Hiat
National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholars Christina Capela John Rodriguez National Hispanic Recognition Program Honorable Mention Victoria Schalk
IN MEMORI AM
Sarah Love with her daughter, Abbie Love Vose '97, at her wedding in March 2005. Jane Smith, Sarah’s dearfriend and Brookside colleague, said Sarah was so grateful to be well enough to be able to attend, and that it was the most important day o f her life.
MKA lost an esteemed and beloved faculty member, Sarah Love, on November 23, 2005 after an eight-year struggle with cancer. Although it is impossible to sum up a talented teacher's contributions to the school community, Brookside H ead o f Campus Ginger Kriegel shares her thoughts about her frien d and colleague:
best by doing. Her students discovered nature through exciting center work and outdoor exploration; they developed thinking and problem solving skills through innovative projects. Sarah was one of the!*-' most creative teachers at Brookside. She set high standards both in academics and in building positive social relationships.
Sarah Love was the quintessential teacher. During her thirteen-year tenure at Brookside, Sarah's kindergarten and second grade classrooms always reverberated with excitement. Sarah truly believed that "childhood is a journey, not a race." In turn, she incorporated an equal number of developmentally appropriate activities interwoven with academics.
Sarah was well respected by all constituents— faculty, parents and above all, students. As one former student stated, "Mrs. Love was not only a great teacher, but she was also my best friend." Sarah cared about all of us, and we knew it. Every student who entered her room left with a better appreciation of the world and all it has to offer. The Brookside community sorely misses Sarah's wit, leadership, and dedication to her students and MKA.
Sarah's special gift was creating an environment that fostered a true love of learning. Sarah believed that children learn
Dedication of The Memorial at Reflection Court on Veterans’ Day, 2005 Following five years of successful fundraising for Operation Tribute and the significant contributions of faculty member J.C. Svec, who designed the project, and alumnus Dan Carson '83, whose construction company built it, a permanent and renamed memorial— The Memorial at Reflection Court— to those alumni, faculty and staff from Montclair Academy, The Kimberley School and MKA who served their country either in peacetime or active duty in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the War Against Terrorism was dedicated at the Upper School Campus on November 11, 2005. The dedication was followed by a Veterans' Day assembly, where MKA parent and author John Glusman was the keynote speaker. The remarks below are taken from speeches made in both forums. "We honor their gift of service, the scars of battle, and the unfulfilled promise of unfinished lives. We honor the sorrow and pride of the families and friends of those who did not return from war or who fell as victims of terrorism.. .This memorial will be a forge of gratitude and remembrance to strengthen us in completing the work of the warrior and of the fallen by leading lives of justice, meaning and compassion."
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"My task this morning is to share with you a brief history lesson—the November 11, 1999 Veterans' Day Assembly was the start of it all... J.C. Svec, Dr. Flocco and I met to plan a special assembly that would help our students recognize and understand the importance of history, traditions, and the responsibilities of citizenship. In the process, moved by the reactions of our students, faculty, and members of the MKA community, our vision changed, eventually resulting in a commitment to Operation Tribute. To stand here today, to view this beautiful monument, and to honor those veterans present in body and others present in spirit, is truly a humbling moment for all of us, and a tribute to so many in the MKA community who cared enough to make this happen."
Upper School Head Char Charlton "Hermann Wouk, in his novel War and Remembrance,wrote that 'The Beginning of the End of War Lies in Remembrance.' This line forces us, as a people, to remember war—not to necessarily condone it or oppose it in the political sen^j—but to simply remember. This is
Lqyql Alumni: Dan Carson '83jfj/hos%$, construction company realized J.C. vision fo r the memorial, with hismreman on the job, Ed imnlin '84.
the design behind The Memorial at Reflection Court. To remember...to reflect.. .to think seriously about the freedoms we enjoy and the people in this community who have made them possible. Use it, reflect on it, think about it.. .treat the memorial as a place of reverence. When you go out there, think about the blood that has been shed for the freedoms you enjoy as an American—the freedom to protest.. .the freedom to practice the religion of your choice.. .the freedom NOT to salute the flag. In short, treat Reflection Court as an area to remember those 'honorable men and women, who as members o f The Montclair Kimberley Academy Community, gave, in each generation, their timMendeavors and lives to the struggle fo r freedom and human rights. Lest we forget.'"
Assistant Head of the Upper School Dr. David Flocco "The actual memorial structure sits on the outer edge of a circular base detailed as interlocking tiles used to represent the concept of overlapping years and individuals who have forged both the history of our community and country. At the center of this circular area, and the memorial, is a constantly lit American flag. Immediately behind the flag sit six, raked tablets on an enclosed semi-circular plot of land. The tablets commemorate the six major conflicts of the past century.. .inscribed with words that salute the individual citizen, and are constructed of specific material innate to the individual conflict’s period in history. White marble for WWI, Bronze for WWII, Gray granite for Korea, Black granite for Vietnam, Sandstone for the Persian Gulf and Steel for the War on Terrorism. The last major aspect of the memorial is the two overlapping walls that serve as the court's backdrop. On the right, a flagstone wall, visually tying the memorial to the architecture of our school with the inscription 'The Beginning of the End of War Lies in Remembrance.' On the left, an unfinished brick wall is used to symbolize the fragile, ongoing process of building a lasting peace."
"My father was a prisoner of the Japanese for three and a half years, and that is the subject of my recently published book, Conduct Under F ire.. .a young Navy doctor, just twenty-six years old, about the age of some of your teachers, I imagine. Smart, handsome, enthusiastic, he knew virtually nothing about war; he had no military training to speak of.. .Of the Navy medical personnel on duty in the Philippines and China when hostilities first broke out in December 1941, more than half never made it home. So you see, my father was one of the lucky ones. When I told him I wanted to write a book about his experiences, he replied with characteristic understatement: 'We did nothing extraordinary. We lived in extraordinary times.'...While it is natural for many veterans to not want to talk about their experience, it is our obligation, as sons and daughters, as grandchildren, to find out what they endured. Not simply to help understand the extent of their sacrifice, and to pay tribute to them, but to understand ourselves and our history. It is our responsibility, in other words, to remember."
MKA parent and author, John A. Glusman
At the present time, w e have only a fraction o f the names o f the MKA community members who actually served during war and peace. The data that has been collected is posted on the MKA website We apologize if w e have inadvertently omitted or misspelled any names, and we ask that you please forward any corrections or additions to Alumni Director Marsha Kleinman at 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 or mkleinman@.montclairkimher1ev. org or telephone at (973) 509.7940.
Faculty member J.C. Svec
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The dynamic women from The Kimberley School Class o f 1965 organized a fabulous New York City 40th reunion fo r themselves last June. Kate Bonniwell started the party in a Kimberley-colored garden setting at her Park Avenue apartment, and the festivities continued the next day fo r a brunch at Kitty H aines' lofty East Side perch with panoramic views o f the river. Here is the reunion news from Class Secretary Susan DeBevoise Wright: We had a ball! June 4-5 will go down in history, at least for those of us lucky enough to have celebrated the 40th anniversary of our Kimberley graduation in New York City: Merrill Adickes Rich, Gigi Ahrens Harvey (who came from London), Mary Ayres Hack, Margie Bartholomew Burris, Kate Bonniwell, Louise Brundage Lynch, Ann Carrad Schaffer, Cheryl Calmenson Graff, Margaret Crawford Bridge, Ellen Curtin (from San Diego), Susan DeBevoise Wright, Kitty Haines, Abby Estes Hutchins, Jane Kuzmick Izod, Ellen Malcolm, Ruth Sisler Morine, Catherine Noonan, Page Paterson, Betsy Ridge Madsen, Lucille Russomano de Boissez, Lyn Schultz Blackwell, Gabby Thummel Leach, and Joan Vanderbeck Taylor. Randy Bean '66, who encouraged us to do the reunion, and Marcia Harrison '66, Ginny Redpath 65x, and Lynn Sanders Pizzirusso '64 were the icing on the cake.
Twilight on one party sets in: Lucille Russomano de Biossez '65, Page Paterson '65, and Marcia Harrison '66
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TKS '65 at Kate Bonniwell's apartment: Abby Estes Hutchins, Marcia Harrison '66, Margaret Crawford Bridge, Ruth Sisler Morine, Ellen Curtin, Randy Bean '66, Jane Kuzmich hod, Gabby Thummel Leach, Joan Vanderbech Taylor, Lynn Sanders Pizzirusso '64, Ellen Malcolm, Kitty Haines, Ginny Redpath 65X, Kate Bonniwell, Louise Brundage Lynch, Gigi Ahrens Harvey, Margie Bartholomew Burris, Mary Ayres Hack, Susan DeBevoise Wright, Page Paterson, Merrill Adickes Rich, Ann Carrad Schaffer, Lynn Schultz Blackwell, Lucille Russamano de Boissiz (missingfrom picture: Catherine Noonan and Cheryl Calmenson Graff)
In a beautiful garden setting Kate and Bill and their 7-yr. old son, Alex, hosted our party. We entranced like 'Alice in Wonderland.' Magically our Kimberley friends materialized in this idyllic world. Tables covered with yellow tablecloths set against the garden green, our Kimberley colors, created the stage for our exuberant reunions. With each arrival I had a flashback to our graduation. I could almost hear the strains of "Pomp and Circumstance." Our progressive party moved on to Kitty's on Sunday for a lovely brunch. Her apartment has a panoramic view of the East River, which has the effect of suspending time. Time stopped for us. For a brief moment we were back at Kimberley.
The sun is outfo r the Sunday brunch at Andy and Kitty Haines' apartment: Gigi Ahrens Harvey, Ellen Curtin, Mary Ayres Hack, Kate Bonniwell, Page Paterson, Catherine Noonan, Betsy Ridge Madsen, and Merrill Adickes Rich
What a wonderful time we had. Seeing so many dear and not-forgotten friends was a gift of a lifetime. Susan DeBevoise Wright
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Kimberley ladies o f1965: Gigi Ahrens Harvey, Ellen Curtin, and Ruth Sisler Morine
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"When you 're down an d troubled an d you need a helping h a n d ," so begin the lyrics to "You ve G ot a Friend, " w ritten by James Taylor an d suggested, by Tim Breen '75 to be the theme fo r Homecoming 2005. The strong bonds o f friendship w ithin classes, across classes, a n d particularly between faculty, form er faculty, a n d their form er students were evidentfrom the m om ent people greeted one another in the newly redesigned lobby o f the Upper School on LloydRoad. "Winter, spring summer, or fa ll Hey now, a ll you've g o t to do is call A n d I'll be there, yes I w ill You've go t a frien d A in 't i t good to know you've g o t a frien d ?"
A harbinger o f future greatness? Former faculty member Marilyn Faden showed 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Dr. Ross Zbar '84 the photo o f the "West Side Story" production in which he played a doctor!
The changes at the Upper School—especially the new Arts Wing—generated much excitement among all o f our returning alumni. Academy guide JeffFesta got a workout touring all reunion classes; pictured here with Jack Heller '50 and Reunion Chair Bill Grant '45.
Formerfaculty member Ken Gibson greets Hugh Gleason '75, backfo r his 30th reunion.
Faculty member Judy Nesbit shares a laugh with the always-entertaining Reunion CoChair fo r 1975, Tim Breen.
Dave Atherton '55x and Mike Ludlurr^S— pals from sixth grade on^M
Fran De La Torre '00 and Antonella Bollettino '00 embracedfaculty member Barbara Mamchur.
Kyle Torjussen '99 and Marty Torjussen '90 greetfaculty member George Hrab.
Sixty years o f friendship: Lake Underwood '45 and Richard Adams '45.
Carmen and Dave DeMatteis '95 enjoMtheir yearbook with classmate Dennis McNeil '95 before the luncheon.
The prodigal daughters return fo r thefirst reunion fo r the Class o f2000: Marissa Martini, Dana Meranus, and Reunion Chair Anna Labowsky.
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John Booth '85 and wife Kathleen hang out with Jonathan and Janet Phillips Conner '85, who came all the way from Geneva fo r her 20th reunion!
Under William Avery Barras's famous quote are Corinn Thompson '85 and Robin Schwartz '85.
Oldfriends Christopher Smith '85 and Roger Brown '85 cuddle with their beautiful babies.
Back fo r their first "official" reunion—the 5th—are Lauren Hooper '00 and Deborah Katz '00.
Upper School Head Char Charlton welcomes her daughter Kim Charlton Bedetti '90 and her husband PabloL With them are Dennis Rodano '87 and his young daughter, Julia.
Cross country voyagers: Harry Jackson '75 came all the way from Washington state, and Diana Utech '75 drove nonstop across country to be at their 30th reunion.
The girls from 1975 are not getting older; they're getting better! Lucie DuHamel, Anna Crawford, Diana Utech, Kay Towner Stolle, Katie Grover, and Leigh Royer return in high spirits fo r their 30th.
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The guys from 1950: Reunion Co-Chairs Jay Biting andformer Acadamy Trustee & DAA recipient Rudy Deetjen, Jr., George Hallock, Dick Hopkins, Jack Wallace, Walter Rauscher, and Adrian Karp.
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The Investiture of Thomas W. Nammack, MKA's 4th Headmaster information about your studies, each other and the world at an amazing rate.. .And of course, you have seen it coming, because you who are in Upper School are the visionaries. You have the capacity to see the world as it ought to be and you know how to push back against the way things are.. .Your ability to imagine a more just and compassionate world, and your skills for making that vision real are the greatest gifts you will take with you from this place.
The Montclair Kimberley Academy's 4th Headmaster, Thomas W Nammack
The Investiture o f Thomas W. Nammack as MKA's 4th Headmaster was an auspicious beginning in many ways: the flawless weather fo r our first tri-campus picnic; the tender care afforded the younger students by the older ones; and the children cheering their teachers as they processed in their academic robes. It was telling that Mr. Nammack began his inspiring speech by honoring the fo u r faculty members—Pat Parke, Jan Peterson, Sonia Tyson, and Joan Weller—who had completed their 30th year o f teaching, commenting that he was awed by their loyalty, commitment and talents. The follow ing is an excerpt from Mr. Nammack's speech; it has been posted in its entirety on the website. I want to talk to you this morning about the future, about my goals for every student at The Montclair Kimberley Academy, and I want 16 offer you a vision of what the school has been, is, and will be that I hope will have meaning for you.. .As your future unfolds, I know what I want you to have, I know what I want you to take with you, and I know what I want your education here to help you develop.
What school then are we where all of this happens? We are the school by the sweet clear brook where integrity is renewed. We are the school in the valley where knowledge grows and is harvested. We are the school on the hill, a vantage point from which we can see well beyond these days and these walls. By the brook, in the valley, on the hill. In order to flourish, the school must know the world as it is and not as others would have us see it. Thanks to the leadership and work of the faculty and of Dr. Peter Greer, we are a school that does not flinch from the hard work of self-improvement and we view the world with the steady gaze of intelligence, compassion and responsibility. Whether it is the next nine months or the coming thirteen years that brings you to graduation, remember that what you learn here is yours forever, and that you will never be more alive than in those moments when you can see the world as it is.
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Thomas W. Nammack
I want you to be able to see the world as it is and not as others would have you see it. And I want you to have a vision of how the world should be and the knowledge and skills to make things happen. We must bring to bear the words of the school seal on the lives that we lead and the lives that we hope to have. Knowledge, Vision, Integrity. Those of you who are students at Brookside have and enjoy the natural integrity that is one of the greatest strengths of those who are the youngest in our midst. You can describe what you see and what you believe with clear and direct words and images...Our Middle School students at the Kimberley campus are in the realm and world of knowledge. You are our experts. You are acquiring
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Seniorfaculty members George Hrab and Judy Nesbit led the procession. Mr. Hrab entertained the school community with his wit and wisdom, and Miss Nesbit carried the cane o f Montclair Academy ■founder John MacVicar, and, as Mr. Nammack said, "the spirit o f The Kimberley School and its founder, Mary Kimberley Waring."
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Primary School Art teacher and Department Coordinator Barbara DuRant accepts the school's prestigious teaching award, The Founders' Cup, fo r 2005.
Upper School String Soloists, under the direction o f Dimitri Hadjipetkov, skillfully performed "Concerto fo r Four Violins in B Minor."
During the singing o f "Land That We Love/America, the Beautiful," with Director Jane Smith, Kindergarteners act out the phrase, "From the mountains..."
With Director Maria Gilmartin at the helm, the Middle School Chamber Singers sang a moving rendition o f "Shenandoah," and deserved Mr. Nammack's appreciation in his speech: "You have added real grace moments to this occasion."
Following the Investiture (andfor the first time in the school's history), all three campuses joined tm ether on Lloyd Roadfor a barbeque/picnic and casual play on Van Brunt Field.
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Book Fair 2005
This year's Scholastic Book Fair at MKA began on a Friday morning with a new event as Editor-in-Chief of Gourmet Magazine, author and former New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl was the guest author at an elegant luncheon at a locfflrestaurant.
Hits at the Book Fair this year included Jim Benton (the Franny K. Stein: Mad Scientist and Dear Dumb Diary series); Alan Zweibel (Our Tree Named Steve, and The Other Shulman); and Christopher Myers (Black Cat, Wings, Fly, Lies and Other Tall Tales, Blues Journey, and Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History o f the Harlem Renaissance). Jim Benton showed Brookside students how he creates a character before he writes his stories, and had a luncheon with 4th and 5th grade girls to discuss the diary genre. Brookside students of all ages enjoyed Alan Zweibel's endearing story about a tree that grew in his backyard in Short Hills, NJ (originally written as a letter to his children), and Christopher Myers explained that writers get ideas from everyone and everything around them, but that the important thing is to make the idea your own. He encouraged the students to write and consider trying to get published, pointing out that their Brilliance" has yet to be discovered!
Christopher Paul Curtis (The Watsons Go To Birmingham; BuSm-Not Buddy, and Bucking the Sarge), charmed faculty and students alike with tales of life as an auto factory worker in Detroit, a job that he was supposed to have only for | | long as it took to save for college. During his thirteen years on the line, he developed the habit of reading and writing during his breaks.
New York Giants superstar #21 Tiki Barber entered the auditorium with Brookside and Middle School students enthusiastically chanting, "Tiki, Tiki!" Barber, who has cd-written two books (By My Brother's Side and Game Day) with his twin brother, fellow NFL player, and best friend Ronde Barber, reveled in the company of the children, and communicated his love of sports and education in a warm and unassuming manner.
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Many of our Brookside students and parents enjoyed a special 'Knighty Night' event. Wearing pajamas, they shopped, enjoyed storytellers, made bookmarks, crowns and diaries and happily nibbled on snacks.
Mike Lupica, one of the best-known sports writers in this country, spoke to the Middle School students about his novel, Travel Team. In his interview for MKA's Academy News, Lupica described how he started writing stories for his high school newspaper, continued writing for three different papers at Bosfpn College, and had one of those stories wind up on the front page of the Boston Globe. Most memorable quote (and MKA writer Andrew Bauer's choice headline): "It's a good thing writing worked out for me, 'cause I don't have any other skills."
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Middle School English teacher Ruth Miller particularly appreciated visiting author Blue Balliet: "A teacher at the Chicago Lab School for about ten years... she really respects the curiosity and innate intelligence of children. Her novel actually grew out of one particular third grade class, in which her kids loved art and mysteries, and were disappointed to find that there weren't many novels with both of those elements. So Blue started writing, and ended up with Chasing Vermeer\"
Upper School students lined up for signed copies of books by Rob Siegel, who served as the editor-in-chief of The Onion from 1996-2003, after he spoke to them about how his interest in a career in comedy ended up in the new field of "comedy journalism." What was once a free local weekly in Madison, Wisconsin, The Onion has become the most widely-read satirical newspaper in the U.S., and Rob Siegel has now published two books of compilations: Our Dumb Century and The Onion, Ad Nauseam.
A Middle School student stands guard for the Royal PAMKAKE feast that opens the Book Fair to the MKA community.
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McFeeley, and Marsha Kleinman, we are organizing, sponsoring, and promoting more events for alums to attend than ever before. In January, the second Winter Break Young Alumni Luncheon was held at the Upper School and attended by members of the Classes of 2004 and 2005. In February, at the time of this writing, metropolitan area alumni have planned to attend the offBroadway show, Altar Boyz, facilitated by alumnus Peter Stem '65. We anticipate that the private reception and the highly acclaimed show will both be hits!
Young Alumni returning to Cougar Dining Hall in early January: Chris Gregory '05, Kristen Rode '05, Cassie Kornblau 'OmEdmund Kozak '05, Paul Cuneo 'O^Laura Jackson '05, and Ben Merrit '05.
Dear MKA Alumni, Family and Friends, It is my great honor and pleasure to report to you that the transition from Peter R. Greer to Thomas W. Nammack as the Headmaster of our alma mater has gone very smoothly and very successfully. Mr. Nammack has demonstrated outstanding leadership during this transitional period, and the reports from students, faculty, and staff are extremely positive! In the late fall we learned that Char Charlton, Head of the Upper School, announced her retirement after more than thirty years of dedicated service to MKA. The entire Alumni Association thanks Mrs. Charlton for her leadership and wishes her well in her new life. An internal search was conducted to find a replacement for Mrs. Charlton, and Dr. David Flocco was chosen to be the next Head of the Upper School. The Alumni Association is pleased that he has accepted this position, and we wish him the best of luck. We are all confident that the Upper School will continue to thrive with Dr. Flocco at the helm.
In early March, Mr. Nammack plans to greet Boston area alumni at a small reception. On April 20, Tom and Zandi Nammack will welcome all Montclair and local New Jersey alumni to their home for cocktails and a tour of the new Peter R. Greer Arts Wing, the newly redesigned Upper School lobby, and the adjacent Memorial at Reflection Court. We continue to encourage alumni to join the Alumni Council and to attend alumni events in the future. We have made great strides in our effort to reach out to a broader alumni base throughout the country, and our commitment remains to connect with even more alums and provide greater networking opportunities in the future. It has been my personal honor and privilege to have served for the past two years as President of the MKA Alumni Association. I am grateful for the fine work and dedication of the Alumni Council, and I remain confident that the future leaders of the Association will advance our goal of creating opportunities for all alums to reconnect with their alma mater. Respectfully yours, Joshua H. Raymond, '89 President, MKA Alumni Association
The Alumni Council has been even more active this year, and with the able assistance of Judy Polonofsky, Laurie Hoonhout
J o in u s fo r th e se A lu m n i E v e n ts April 20 April 28 May 13 June 13 August 19 October 21
Alumni reception at the Headmaster’s House Senior Breakfast/Moving Up Day BANI picnic at Eagle Rock Reservation Alumni Golf Open MKA Seashore Gathering in Avon HOMECOMING 2006 Reunions fo r classes ending in 1 and 6.
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S a v e th e D a te M K A S e a sh o r e G a th e r in g August 19, 2006 MKA and hosts Esther and Bill Dioguardi '76 invite all alumni and MKA current parents in the vicinity of beautiful Avon, NJ to a cocktail reception on August 19th at their seaside home. Whether you live in South Jersey year-round or summer at the shore, don't miss this opportunity to meet new Headmaster Tom Nammack and mingle with alumni and parents in a spectacular venue.
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Distinguished Alumni Award Committee Chair Janine Garland '82 presented the 2005 award to Dr. Ross Zbar '84 at the reunion luncheon at Homecoming. Dr. Zbar '84 did a masterful presentation to the students at the Friday morning assembly, weaving stories about the humanitarian work he does with his message about how we all can make a difference. The students were attentive and not at a lossfor questions, yet some o f the stark realities ofDr. Zbar's answers actually stunned them into silence. It was a profoundly moving experience, andfaculty members came up to him afterwards to thank him.
Alumni/Student Hockey Game: VarsityIce Hockey Coach Kenny Smith and his son, Danny Smith, led the Cougars in a game with alumni CliffFirikle '92, Chris Burchett '92, JoePotenzone '02, Hal Garrity '04, Nick Galasso '05, Bryan Lonsinger '90,and Carlton Pote '96. New Head Coach Mike Good talked to his varsity players before the game about the important role that the alumniplay in the life o f the independent school.
Alumni Association Council Ballot Election for Alumni Council members will be held at the Annual Meeting of the MKA Alumni Association on May 15, 2006. Meeting place will be at the Middle School Presidents' Room, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey. Time: 7:00 p.m. If you do not expect to be present at the meeting, please sign the proxy below and return it to the Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042. Upon election 0f the proposed slate of nominees, the Alumni Council for 2006-2007 will consist of the following: TERM EXPIRING 2007 Daniel Carson '83 David DeMatteis '95 Janine Garland '82
TERM EXPIRING 2008 Dana M. T. Cestone '79 Chris DeStefano '90 Lawrence Duca '79 Joanne Pundyk Goldberg '87 Cheryl McCants '82 Mark Politan '91 Keshia Trotman '92
TERM EXPIRING 2009 Michael Braun '01 Wanda Robinson Holloway '76 William Martini '98 Anne Marie Verdiramo '92
ADVISORY Lori Windolf Crispo '78 Kristine Hatzenbuhler O'Connor '83 J. Dean Paolucci '73 Joshua Raymond '89
The following persons presently on the Alumni Council have been nominated to serve as officers of the Alumni Association for 2006-2007. These officers will be elected by the Alumni Council at its annual meeting on May 15, 2006: President................................................. Daniel Carson '83 Executive Vice President............... Dana M.T. Cestone '79 Network Vice President....................... Janine Garland '82
Secretary.......................................... David DeMatteis '95 . Treasurer............................... Christopher Bellapianta '97
The undersigned hereby appoints Joshua H. Raymond '89 Proxy to vote FOR___ AGAINST___ the election of the proposed members of The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Council at the annual meeting to be held May 15, 2006 as set forth in the spring issue of the MKA Review magazine. NAME
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Cougar Sports
MKA Fall Season Recaps by Varsity Head Coaches
The 2005 Boys' Cross Country team once again defended the Hills Division title in the Colonial Hills Conference (CHC). The team was undefeated in their CHC division with a 7-0 record overall. The team was led by captain Nicolai Naranjo, who was CHC Champion, Essex County Champion, NJ Prep Champion and 3rd team All-State (Star Ledger), finishing in 20th place at the Meet of Champions at Holmdel Park. Nicolai continued to improve this season, getting down to 15:22 for 5,000m; a personal best from last year. Varsity runners Andy Patton (Capt. ’06), Randy Richardson, Mike Deatherage, Phil Fandel, Johnny Borbone and Eric Casella all improved greatly from last season. The Cross
Country team peaked perfectly to finish second place in the NJSIAA Non-Public Group Championships. This qualified our team for the Meet of Champions—only the second time in MKA school history. The Girls' Cross Country team had a very successful season! Since our varsity team consisted of only 7 girls, each member's contribution was invaluable. Leading the group was captain and junior Carly Ferguson. The experience that she brought to both the practices and the meets contributed to our 6-1 dual meet record. In addition, seniors Keara McCarthy and Debbie Lewis, along with junior Jennie Sutton, and freshmen Emily Naranjo, Madeline Frank, and Laura Ovadia each brought their own strengths and talents to the team. The girls competed in the Stewart Memorial Invitational, the Shore Coaches Invitational, the Essex County
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Championships, and the Prep State Championships. In addition, two members of our team, Carly Ferguson and Emily Naranjo, were named to First Team All-County, while Emily was also named to First Team All-Freshmen. Emily, the first-place finisher of every single dual meet this season, finished second at the Stewart Memorial Invitational, the Essex County Championships, and the Prep State Championships. She then went on to finish third at the Group State Championships, allowing her entry to the Meet of Champions. The Field Hockey team ended the season with a record of 4-14-1. We play against some of the strongest teams in the state
and against many of those teams, MKA played at a high level unseen in past years. This season saw many ups and downs, but our record does not reflect the talent, dedication, and commitment of the members of this team. A strong senior Stass led the field hockey team, and each senior defined a certain characteristic for us. Angela McCaffrey showed us how to laugh and have fun while working hard on the field. Kara Shepard was almost never ruffled and displayed calm under pressure. Katie Gelnaw was determined and highly competitive whenever someone stood in her way. Rachel Levine was quietly, consistent and always came up with a great play. Sam Dana used her patented moves to play at a consistently high skill level. Caitlin DiRuggiero came off of a back injury to play in our last 8 games, and she was inspirational in both her voice and play. We are looking forward ta the 2006
season and the return of several players who give us great balance on both offense and defense. The 2005 Football season was filled with disappointment and frustration, but it also demonstrated the character of the young men who played this season. While more competitive in many games, the team did not get its first win until it beat Immaculate Conception in the wind and rain midway through the season. Close losses to Mountain Lakes and Glen Ridge put a damper on the team spirit, but the players fought hard to the end, winning their consolation game 36-7 in convincing fashion over Cardinal McCarrick. Led by senior co-captains Nolan McGarrity and
Brandon Bullock, the team dominated every facet of the game. The 2006 Cougars are already hard at work preparing for their home opener against Newark Academy. The Boys' Varsity Soccer team completed another successful fall season by winning their third successive Prep B State Championship and capturing the Colonial Hills Conference title. The Cougars finished with a 12-7-1 record scoring 46 goals and conceding 29. "It's been a great year," stated Head Coach Mark Shearer. "We overachieved and it's a great feeling for everyone involved." Shearer cites the positive attitude throughout the squad and outstanding senior leadership as the reason for success. "All the seniors were great," said Shearer. "Captains Sam Walter and Drew Simon really helped the coaches create a positive atmosphere and their
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performances on field were outstanding." Walter had 11 goals and 8 assists and was named the Colonial Hills Conference Player of the Year. Simon led the team with 14 goals and 7 assists.
Championship and the Colonial Hills Conference Championship. Winning 70 of their last 73 matches over the last three years, the MKA Cougars cemented themselves as one of the greatest and most successful teams in the history of the school.
The Girls' Varsity Soccer team ended the year with an overall record of 5-11-3. Led by senior captains Sami Hirsh, Lisa Vuono, Liz Miller and Clare Christovao, the Cougars were competitive throughout the season with 6 games going to overtime or double overtime and 8 of the team's 11 loses were by one goal. The defense held opponents to a total of 27 goals this year throughout the 19 game schedule for a stingy 1.47 goals against average. The Cougars’ problem throughout the season was definitely finishing and scoring, but with 17 varsity letter winners coming back in '06, the Cougars feel that they are on the verge of something special. Soccer is alive and well at MKA, and we have a vision and commitment to develop and build one of the strongest prep soccer programs in the state.
Led by Brittany Berckes at First Singles (undefeated for the second year in a row) and Nicole Viola at Second Singles, the Cougars had a very formidable 1-2 punch at the top of the line-up. With the always resilient Stacey Bums at Third Singles, the Cougar matches were often clinched before they even got started. Heading up the doubles line-up were Chelsea Hubbell and Jamie Silverman, who also captured second place in the State Doubles Championship. Melissa Wong and Anastasia Konstantinov (Second Doubles) rounded out the starting lineup. Brittany Berckes finished her terrific career as the Essex County Singles Champion, and was named Essex County "Player of the Year" and Colonial Hills Conference "Player of the Year."
The MKA Girls' Varsity Tennis team completed another year for the ages as the team captured the Parochial B State Championship, Parochial B North
The Cougar Volleyball team had an excellent year. Led by senior co-captains Jess DelVecchio and Megan Livesey, the team went 21-6, reached the semifinals of
the Essex County Tournament for the first time, tied for second in the conference)«,*^ and reached the quarterfinals of the state tournament in the newly created non public division. With only three players leaving and 25 left in the program, hopes are high for further improvement next year. All former Cougar volleyball players are invited to participate in our open gyms on Tuesday and Thursday nights in the summertime. For more information, contact Coach Tully at edgetully@optonline.net
Community Service Initiative is Off and Running! By Debbie Kozak, Assistant Director of External Affairs In addition to daily practices and a full schedule of matches, Varsity and JV athletes at The Montclair Kimberley Academy have added a community service component to their team activities this year. Spearheaded by MKA's Director of Athletics, Todd Smith, and our Director of Community Service Programs, Dr. Denise Brown-Allen, each team now assumes responsibility for a community service project during the course of the season or school year. As Smith explains, "Many of our athletes felt that they didn't have the time to take part in any of the school's community service offerings throughout the year. By making this a part of the team culture, our athletes now have an opportunity to give back, as well as participate in a great team bonding experience." "It's imperative that our kids have a true understanding of working with each other and giving back to our community," Smith states, "and we believe that this is a great way to unite our teams towards a common goal or project." "I have been delighted with the response from coaches and students to the Athletic Community Service Initiative. The projects have been creative and model the tradition of service within the MKA community," states Dr. Denise Brown-Allen. She goes on to say, "What pleases me most is the initiative was developed from our athletes' desire to take part in more community service." Smith concludes, "The personal rewards for our student-athletes and coaches in helping others goes far beyond what we gain from scoring a goal or making a save. The idea of spending time together as a team to help others can be so rewarding and I truly feel we CAN and WILL make a difference, one player at a time, one team at a time, one season at a time!"
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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, and the deadline is May 1. SPRING magazine Class Notes are taken from reunion, holiday, and phonathon news, newspaper clippings, the flag on the Annual Giving remittance envelope, and letters or e-mail to the Alumni Office, and the deadline is January 1. Although the items might seem "old." we havMound that people love to read news whenever. The time lapse is unavoidable, as the processing of Class Notes from secretary to Alumni Office to designer to printer covers a 14-to 16-week period. Please remember that you can send a note or e-mail to your class secretary or to the Alumni Office anytime mkleinman@montclairkimberley.org. We keep ongoing files for each class and we welcome family photograp^^H 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 chair, is absolutely essential to the vitality of the school. Please consider it. MA - Montclair Academy TKS - The Kimberley School
9 TKS Charlotte Fitch 24 Cape Bial Lane, P.O. Box 45 Westport Point, MA §2791 We send our deepest sympathies to the family of Mary Ann "Maisie" Williams who passed away in April of thBryear.
0 MA Mr. H Irving Porter 2750 Quaker Hill Road Unity, ME 04908
TKS Mrs. Albert Frell (Irene Burbank) 580 Admiralty Parade Naple&FL 34102 Our deepest sympathies go to Virginia Taylor Wagner on the loss of her sister, Douglas Taylor Weir '36.
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TKS Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) Crane’s Mill, Apt. 249 459 Passaic Avenue West Caldwell, N J 07006 Nancy Fiske Milne writes, "I have moved to an extended care facility.. .1 entered MKA, then ‘The Kimberley School’ in 1923 and am grateful to my family and Miss Waring." Our sincere condolences go to Josephine "Jodie" Fobes Carpenter on the death of her sister, Mary Ann "Maisie" Williams '29. MA Mr. John Graham 1129 King’s Ranch Road Bandera, TX 78003
6 TKS Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) 118 Heron Point Chestertown, MD 21620 We send our deepest sympathies to the family of Douglas Taylor Weir who died this past July. Elizabeth Rhoades McCabe was kind enough to notify us of the sad news. We send our condolences to the surviving family of Cecelia Degolyer McGhee, who died in 2001, on the loss of Cecelia's husband, George C. McGhee, eminent oilman and Cold War diplomat.
TKS Mrs. William Young (Peggy Klotz) The Village at Duxbury 290 Kingstown Way, Apt. 253 Duxbury, MA 0 2 3 3 2 ’* Peggy Klotz Young sends the following news: Ruth Russell Gray wrote in early May that she was enjoying all the beautiful spring flowers and shrubs blooming just outside her windows in her Florida home. However, she says that she likes to escape from Florida's summer heat. This summer she and a friend are going to Russia, taking a cruise from St. Petersburg to Moscow on the Volga. She expects to take short trips to Georgia (USA) and North Carolina, too. She has bought a Toyota Prius which she is enjoying. It'hplps save the environment and uses less gas. Ruth plays golf two or three time a week.
Shirley "Cozy" Noyes Lathrop wrote, enclosing a picture of her two great grandsons who are very cute. She plays duplicate bridge 3 or 4 days a week. She also has-'^Maltese puppy - a year old now, who is a delightful companion and goes shopping with Cozy in her carrying case. I had lunch with Sally Bausher Littlefield in September, soon after Hurricane Katrina. She had heard from Helen Hodgson McLellan who lives in a suburb of New Orleans and had to leave and go to a daughter's home during that time. Helen is coming to a wedding in Connecticut and hopes to spend a couple of days in Montclair. Sally went on an Elderhostel trip to the Everglades last winter. She and her friends enjoyed it so much that they are planning another Elderhostel in November in London to see some theater. She played golf this winter and shot her age on the executive course. She mentioned that each year she gets one more stroke. Her older granddaughter, Amy, is looking forward to going to Brown in the fall. She got early acceptance! I hope to see Sally this summer. Ruth Duff Eager writes that she and George are planning for their 60th wedding anniversary this fall and George's 90th birthday, too. It's quite a job to find a time when all three families can come and they all want to be there together! Kathryn "Teppy" Holton Sjolander at Kendal in Pennsylvania says that they have a new health center with all sorts of exercise machines and a pool, and she is using them all and enjoying them.. .Her sister, Nancy is in the nursing facility there and getting excellent care. An Earl Wild fan from our old school days, Teppy went to Carnegie Hall in New York to attend his 90th birthday concert and reports she is still on "Cloud Nine" after it. Last August, she and a friend cruised the Columbia River and enjoyed good food and good weather on a nice ship! Teppy also welcomed her 5th grandchild and went to Atlanta to see her. Virginia "Ginnie" Kracke Levitt writes from Maine that she is glad she is living where she is - in a retirement community with nice pleasant and occasionally interesting people and a very helpful staff. Margaret Richards Chapman reports that she and Curt are happy in their retirement community where one can be watched over if need be.
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Janet Gaylord Newsome writes that she moved in July to Ottawa, Ontario and is delighted with her "senior residence." She expected to spend Christmas with daughter, Nancy, and family. Jane Rinck writes that she keeps busy but it takes her longer! She has a new dog named "Bear,0a black and white Shelty and part border Collie. He loves to play with toys. Their collection of orchids is blooming just in time for Christmas! I had a happy and very sad year. I now have four great grandchildren. Identical twin boys were bom to my grandson, Andrew and his wife in February. In November, my daughter, Margy Robb, died of cancer after a valiant and courageous four-year struggle. I miss her so much but am glad she is no longer in pain and suffering. I wish you all a peaceful 2006. Peggy Klotz Young
On July 28th, Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley '76 traveled to New Canaan, CT to have lunch with Betty Harding, TKS Class o f1937. Betty has resided in New Canaan fo r 49 years, raised her fam ily there, and currently lives in a lovely three-story condominium conveniently located right near town. Betty is a replacement bridge aficionado and plays every week with friends. Over lunch, she talked o f childhood days and growing up on Wilde Place in Montclair. Betty has very fond memories o f her Kimberley days at the original Plymouth Street campus, and her living room wall is adorned with a beautiful, patchwork quilt with one square dedicated to the schools she attended - the letters "MKA " are beautifully embroidered under a green graduation cap and diploma. Our deepest sympathies go to the family of Barbara Vondermuhll who passed away on September 6, 2005. She is survived by a daughter and several nieces and nephews. Our sincere condolences go to Peggy Klotz Young whose daughter, Margy, died in November.
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Warren (Ed. Note: The following is a letter from Barbara Porter Anderson '38 about a special person she remembers from her days at The Kimberley School.) Warren was the janitor when I attended [The] Kimberley School in the 1920's and 1930's. I know today they use the word "custodian." I guess it is supposed to connote more dignity, but I have never met anyone more dignified than Warren. We lived just a block and a half away from Kimberley. There was no afternoon school, only morning sessions from 8:15 to 12:30. I loved my school, not the scholastic part, but the physical - specifically the large silver jungle gym resting at attention in the dusty yard waiting for me. On many afternoons I would return to school and usually Warren and I would be the only ones there. Warren kept the school spotless, cleaning blackboards, mopping floors - all the grungy jobs that fall to a janitor. Warren, with pride, always referred to HIS school, HIS blackboards. He washed HIS floors. One day after hanging by my knees, swinging and doing "skin-the-cats," I decided to defy gravity and stand up on the top bars - you know, "Look ma, no hands!" Warren came rushing out of the door drying his big brown hands. "Missy, you hurt my heart doing that." I never stood on the top again. I wouldn't have hurt his heart for anything. Warren was a tall, slim nice-looking man with crinkly crow's feet around his eyes. His color was that of coffee with a little bit of cream. The first thing you would notice about him was his beautiful posture. To this day when I think of Warren I find myself straightening up a bit - standing a little taller. I suppose he was poor. I thought so because his high black sneakers were slit on the sides where his toes pressed out. One thing that truly impressed me were the clean shirts he always wore that had creases in the sleeves like the state troopers' shirts. Poor people usually didn't bother with creases, but Warren wasn't a usual man. When he was letting HIS clean floors dry, he'd come outside and we would sit on the gray stone bench and talk and sometimes play "cat's cradle" with the string he carried in his pocket. We talked about most everything, except not much about his life. One afternoon, however, he told me his dog Jackie had dug under a fence and run in front of a car. The car didn't even stop, just drove off leaving Jackie on the street with a mangled back leg. Warren immediately took him to the vet. But there was no way to save the leg - it was too badly crushed, so it had to be amputated. "The vet's bill was fifty dollars," Warren said, "but he's letting me pay it off and he'll get along fine with three legs, Missy. I don't know what I'd ever do without Jackie." That was the only time Warren let me glimpse into his life. I, on the other hand, told him everything - my happy times, my hurts and woes, how my big sister bugged me - or something like not getting the new roller skates I had my heart set on. Warren was my confessor, my friend, and someone I have never forgotten in the intervening seventy-odd years. I picture him in my mind as a tall, dignified, caring person - a gentleman.
9 TKS Class agent: Mrs. Saul Serota (Cornelia Carswell) 6891 Wilson Road Marshall, VA 22115
\40 TKS Mrs. Alfred D. Williams (Joan Bayne) 15 Piper Road, Apt. K310 Scarborough, ME 04074 Class agent: Mrs. Iris Flournoy 900 Hollinshead Spring Road, G203 Skillman, N J 08558 We send our heartfelt condolences to
Josephine "Jo" Watt Clark whose husband. Bill, passed away in September. Josephine writes: "We had 621/2 years of a wonderful marriage. Our first grandchild was bom on 9/10/05." Our deepest sympathies go to Barbara "Bobbie" Douglas MacMillan on the death of her husband, Wallace MacMillan.
Mrs. James F.C. Hyde Jr. (Enid Griswold) 5402 Duvall Drive Bethesda, MD 20816 Kit Eaveson Sanders returned from a highly enjoyable two-week trip to Alaska last August with her husband, Charles Sanders Jr. '41 and their children, Carolyn "Lynn" Sanders
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Pizzirusso '64, Deborah "Debby" Sanders Lewis '67, Helen "Heidi" Sanders Bryan '70, Bruce Sanders '77 and their spouses. MA Mr. David Baird Jr. 9 Parkway Montclair,mJ 07042 Class agent: Mr. Lewis Townsend K 0 7 New Mexico Avenue, Apt. 303 Washington, DC 20007 Charles Sanders Jr. vacationed in Alaska this past August with his wife, Kit Eavenson Sanders '41 and children Carolyn "Lynn" Sanders Pizzirusso '64, Deborah "Debby" Sanders Lewis '67, Helen "Heidi" Sanders Bryan '70, Bruce Sanders '77 and their spouses.
MA Our sincere condolences go to the family of Robert Townsend who died in August.
4 MA Mr. Winterford J. Ohland 39A Cambridge Court Lakewood, N J 08701-622f
TKS Anne Feagley Wittels (Mrs. Jerome L.) 2116 ViaAlamitos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 wittels@worldnet. att. net
William "Bill" Hall writes: "...of 11 grandchildren, seven are in college. None married yet, but first in '06." Our deepest sympathies go to Lewis Townsend and his family on the death of his brother, Robert Townsend '43. Our sincere condolences go to the family of Richard Lawrence Carrie who passed away in October. Our deepest sympathies go to Arthur "Art" West Hyde whose wife, Joan, passed away.
]42 TKS Helena Burrill writes that she is a staff volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Philharmonic. Barbara Bonney 74x, daughter of Audrey "Janet" Gates Bonney, recently performed at Alice Tully Hall with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. As a soprano, Barbara sang works composed by three generations of the Mozart family. MA Mr. Richard L. Charlesworth 121 Cherry Brook Road Weston, MA 02493 DIKNAN@aol. com
TKS Miss Lucile G. Mason 142 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, N J 07042 Our deepest sympathies go to the family of Mary "Mibby" Batt Taylor who passed away last June. She is survived by her husband, Arnett. Her daughter was kind enough to inform us of the sad news.
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60th Reunion fo r MA 1945 Lake Underwood, Richard Adams, Bob Nebergall, and Reunion Chair Bill Grant Anne "Barbara-First" Reighley Ferguson recently wrote to Anne Feagley Wittels: ".. .Eric and I are fine. We've built a guest cottage here in Nantucket next to the big house with just enough room for us called The Escape. Our two grandsons come and go - plus our other children but don't stay with us. Life can be beautiful. We have a daughter living in Darien, a son and his wife living in Westfield,H daughter with her husband and two sons living in Canton, CT. We're lucky to have them all so close. We still have a "pad" in Florida but go less and less. We really enj oy our Connecticut home..." Anne Feagley Wittels was kind enough to notify us that Pat Driver Shuttleworth's husband, Ted Shuttleworth, passed away in October. We send our deepest sympathies to Pat and her family. MA Mr. William B. Grant 7330 Westmoreland Drive Sarasota, FL 34243 grantwb@tampabay. rr. com William Grant sends this update: "First some sad news: Marilyn Bogdanffy called to say that she and George Bogdanffy had been doing a US tour in their Cessna. Fortunately they were on the ground on September 14th in Seattle when George had a f S l heart attack, only an hour before they were to take off on their next leg and she does hot fly."
Our deepest sympathies go to Marilyn and her family. While we would have liked to have a few more for our 60th reunion, the four of us who showed up had a great time. A couple of Kimberley classmates thought they would be attending but some last minute problems precluded their joining us. Attending from the Class of '45 were Lake Underwood, Robert "Bob" Nebergall, Richard "Dick" Adams and me. Friday night the four of us went to Lake Underwood's nephew's restaurant in Caldwell. The old adage that it pays to know the chef was proved in spades. On Saturday, we had a tour of the new facilities at the Academy, poured over our MA '45 year book, had a great lunch at the school and brought each other up to date on what we were doing, That evening we continued the reunion at MKA's banquet at the Essex Fells Country Club. Lake is a member and so again got special service from all the help there who were obviously fond of him. We also felt we were in the company of a celebrity because several MKA graduates came up to Lake to talk about the days he was on the auto race circuit going against the likes of Sterling Moss. Nebergall [is] still enjoying the good life moving between his winter quarters in Key West and his home in Charleston. Each year, Bob visits a different U.S. coastal defense fort with a group with a similar historical interest. Adams had disappeared from our radar but I found a number of Richard Adams on Google and wrote them, asking, "Are you our Richard?" He replied that we had found him. Dick lives in Lavallette, NJ where he occupies himself as a sailor and continues consulting as an engineer knowledgeable in the field of synthetic fibers. There are about 400 graduates of Ivy League schools in the Sarasota, FL area in a local Ivy League Club and they have permitted me to form an economics club, which keeps me intellectually stimulated. On the way up to NJ from FL for the reunion, stopped in Washington where [I] had breakfast with boyhood friend Don Rappaport '44, and dinner with MKA's former headmaster, Dr. Greer. Both very enjoyable mini-reunions. The academy staff planning this reunion for our class and all the other five-year anniversary classes did an outstanding job. These included Judy Polonofsky, Marsha Kleinman, and Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley. Richard "Rich" Hopkins wrote to say he would have been at our 60th reunion but for the fact that he would be at that time with his wife on a long in advance scheduled bike trip through the French countryside. MKA's copy of our yearbook shows the sign of heavy use. If you have a MA '45 yearbook, would you consider sending it to MKA care of Marsha Kleinman, the school's very
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capable'Alumni Director, for the school's library?" Our sincere condolences go to the family of Elliot Anderson who passed away in October. [Ed. Note: The Montclair Academy men and The Kimberley School women collaborated on the following letter to the recent MKA graduates.] FROM: The Montclair Academy Class of 1945 and The Kimberley School Class of 1945 on the occasion of their 60th Reunion
fancy free for only a few years. Take advantage of that fleeting time by hoisting a back pack during your college years and, with friends, youth hostelling it around Europe for a whole summer and then doing the same thing another summer around China and India. Even if you have to borrow to do that. However, better that you work the summer after your freshman year and save every nickel for such trips. Even if that means forgoing a summer at the beach with friends and family. Become fluent in at least one foreign language by taking four years of it while in college.
in time. You may decide you want to change careers. You may want to start your own business. You may have some serious health issues. Hopefully not, but you and your mate may find yourself trapped in a marriage that is proving disastrous for both of you. Without that savings, you could be trapped or forced to make decisions that you would not make if you just had the capital to enable you to make the choices that you want to make. Such a program will represent "fail safe" insurance. And even if no changes are made at that time, being financially independent will mean that you will tend to stay that way for the rest of your life rather than living in fear from one pay check to the next.
TO: The MKA Senior Class of '05 Dear MKA Senior Class Member, Here are a few pieces of unsolicited advice based on the experiences we have had over the last 60 years: You are going to make a number of critical life changing choices in life such as the first job you take, where you decide to live, the location and size of your first house, etc. If we were to apply a weight to all the major choices you will be making other than your choice of a marriage partner, perhaps we would come up with a total of 25%. Your choice of mate would account for the other 75%. That is how important we consider that choice to be. Life is very, very short. You will be amazed at how fast you get to your 60th reunion. And at 78, you do not [get] a chance to go back and relive your life. If you have the right mate and you continually work to keep that relationship healthy, no matter what slings and arrows the world throws at you, you will be able to shrug them off. If you don't, even if all-else goes incredibly well, it will be far less than the fabulous world it can be with love in your life. Your choice of the partner with whom hopefully you will travel this whole short road is that important. If we had all the answers as to how to do that, we would have come up with E-Harmony.com many decades ago. But here are a few with which we have come up: If the one you have selected as a life partner has serious reservations, respect that and look for another. Do not try to pressure the other person into accepting your decision. Try to find someone who has roughly the same level of intellectual curiosity; this should increase the chance that you are going to be able to share the same types of interests. If you tend to disagree over what is important while dating, keep looking. Don't put too much time into a relationship that you do not feel anything permanent will come out of. If you are in such a relationship, you are closing the door on other possible relationships. On an easier subject, you are going to be
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Your entire life, work on staying healthy by spending at least a half hr/day, 5x/wk doing an aerobically challenging activity such as brisk walking or jogging. Use your 'twenties’ to save some money. Make it you goal to have by age 32, or by ten years after you have finished your post graduate work, six times your first year's salary. That means you do not go out for dinner more than once or twice a month, you start off with a used car for which you pay cash, you start off with an apartment rather than immediately jumping into house payments, at least for half that time you put off having your children, etc. Reason: Ten years out is very often a "taking stock" point
Those courses you took at MKA on the value of integrity will have enormous life value if applied. Dishonest people lie to themselves and make decisions based on those false assumptions, an intellectual crippler. Further, those whose word can be trusted will be looked to for leadership in the social, political and business worlds. At the beginning of the century in which we spent most of our lives, there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire United States and the majority of Americans lived on the farm. In spite of the world's governments' many grievous mistakes in that century, capitalism created an economic miracle and almost limitless opportunities for our
The Q uiet Giant: In the Fifties and Sixties, the Title R uler o f R ightC oast R acing A rguably B elonged to L ake U nderw ood (Excerptedfrom story by Dom Miliano from the September 2003 issue o f Excellence magazine) Porsche's amazing history spans more than five decades. During that period, it has made memorable cars, won memorable races, and inspired many memorable drivers. The greatest of these have practically become household names - Bob Akin, Richard Attwod, Derek Bell, Bob and A1 Holbert, Dan Gurney, Mark Donahue, Hurley Haywood and Brian Redman, to name just a few. There are other drivers with names that may not be as famous, but whose contributions were nonetheless important and came at a time when the fledgling Porsche company needed them the most. New Jersey's Lake Underwood is one such driver. As a successful competitor in the early sport car racing scene on the East Coast, his on-track achievements contributed mightily by helping to create the mystique we associate with the cars from Zuffenhausen. In many ways,: he was Porsche's quiet giant. So it's only fitting to relate a little of the early right-coast sports car racing history and call attention to someone who, in the fifties and early sixties, helped establish Porsche as the world's best sports car builder. Underwood is now 76 years young and starts off our interview with a simple statement. "It was kind of a new era because, back in those days, the American cars were kind of warmed-over prewar cars," he smiles before talking about the special fascination that postwar European cars held for him. "Anything we saw coming out of Europe was very innovative, very creative, well engineered and a whole different concept of transportation than what we had to go on."... Growing up with Porsche has been exactly Lake Underwood's story, as he continued his close relationship with Porsche through a car dealership and close support and sponsorship for his local regions of the Porsche Club of America. In fact, he still drives a Porsche every day - his daily driver being a prized 928. That's a fitting pick as this car represents the final contribution Ernst Fuhrmann made to Porsche, long after designing the engine that took Underwood to glory.
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generation. So don't be daunted by the new waves of economic change with which we already know you will be confronted as a result of our increased interaction with the rest 'of the world. The book The World is Flat, a New York Times "best seller," gives some idea of the magnitude of those changes and lays out the opportunities this will open for you if you personally assume responsibility to make the choices necessary to prepare for those changes. Don't listen to the nay sayers. It can be a fabulous life if you will assume full individual responsibility for your life. Set goals. Work hard and consistently toward those goals. But stop each day to smell the flowers. It all goes by awfully fast! With affection and best wishes, Alumni of the Academy and Kimberley Classes of 1945
in June 2001. It is a passion and I'm loving every note!!!" TKS Mrs. David Hannegan (Louise Rudd) 49 Canterbury Lane Lakeviim C T 06039 weezieh@msn.eom Aubin "Teeny" Redfield Sander recently moved to Galloway Ridge, a retirement community in Pittboro, NC.
8 TKS Mrs. Sibyl Lewis Lotterie 4360 E. Burchell Drive Hayden Lake, ID 83835-8148 sibstoy@mymailstation. com MA Alfred "Al" Murray updates: ' "Retired in 2005 from Collegiate and High Basketball
T he A m erican O ption A nd, Yes, I A lm ost B ecam e an Am erican by Philip M organ C heek [Ed. NotezThis is Philip Morgan Cheek's (MA '46) second book. The following is an excerptfrom the jacket] "Threading through the events of one war, World War II, is a plain tale of a child evacuee escaping the London Blitz - and perhaps worse, if the imminence of invasion by gloating shock troops of Nazi elite is taken into the account. And we see how children, a nation's heritage, are suddenly remembered by postwar writers. In that context, the story raises questions posed by history. The story's main title is chosen for two reasons. America no longer feels insecurely isolationist. Just less secure. In a world where national boundaries increasingly count for little more than lines on a map, its child population could also suffer evacuation to safer zones if a land war affected the country internally. For nothing now is beyond imagination in terms of terrorism in the name of a culture, not a country. The second reason: A child evacuee to America i S global political climate not unlike the present, the author chose an option. He would avoid the horrors which ultimately proved the lot of Europe's children had Britain not missed being overrun by a whisker. Winston Churchill hesitated over relinquishing British children to different cultures. Visiting New York three weeks after "nine-eleven;" aware of the city's spontaneous official and citizen response among numbing scenes, was to return to the London blitz, to the 1940's - even the smell was there. This is a story about courage and family's ultimate triumph." (Captain Cheek has been a loyal alumnus o f Montclair Academy since the war and still communicates to the headmaster. He writesy^SThe Academy is featured as part o f a discussion on America in the 4Q's - and now.) ”
6 60th REUNION OCTOBER 21, 2006 TKS Our sincere condolenc^pM j Florence Johnson Jacobson whose son Stephen passed away in June. MA Dr. Pernr Lawrence 4802 Olympic Lane Wilson, NC 27896 Our deepest sympathies go to Arthur "Art" West Hyde whose wife, Joan, passed away last fall.
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officiating after 50 years service. Presently observing and evaluating young officiates in S.W. Florida on the Collegiate and High level."
9 TKS Ruth Lieder writes: "...Nothing going on here but singing up a storm with a local choir of 95 singers. We sing with the Boise Philharmonic about twice a year in Sun Valley 7 big time stuff like Dvorzak's "Stabat Mater" and the "Lord Nelson Mass", etc. Forty-seven of us went to Italy, Germany and Austria in June and sang in lovf|r small communities who always roll out the red velvet carpet. We had been in France and Switzerland
We send our heartfelt condolences to Dorothy "Skip" Redfield Brooks who lost her husband, Bill, quite suddenly in April.
SI TKS Class agent: Mrs. Richard Lewis (Audrey Maass) 4551 G ulfShore Blvd. N, Apt. 804 Naples, FL 33940 Audrey Carroll McBratney writes: "I moved to a smaller place not too far from my former home - still have plenty of room for visitors." MA Mr. Rudolph Deetjen Jr. 17 King's Cove Lane Brooksville, ME 0461 Class agent: Mr. Jay Bitting 299 River Edge Drive Chatham, NJ 07928 Rudolph "Rudy" Deetjen sent the following update: "All's well with 2 builder-sons, 2 grandsons, and daughters-in-law who are an interior designer and a realtor! I continue to write music and lyrics about the coast of Maine and special events. Rudy's Reunion News: We had a fine turnout for lunch at Lloyd Rd. and later for an upscale dinner at the Essex Fells Country Club. Most memorable on September 24th were Jay Bitting, our organizer with wife Lin, Nancy and Richard "Dick" Hopkins, Erica and Adrian "Andy" Karp, Walter "Pete" Rauscher, George Hallock, Jack Heller and John "Jack" Wallace. I hope I've got that right and haven't forgotten anybody (like my wife, Patty, who journeyed the 500 miles with me from Downeast Maine.) It was a good turnout, maybe even better than expected. We're already looking forward to our 60th. Sadly Clifford "Cliff "Evans reported by phone about MaryAnn Treene Evans' passing. How they always added to our good times together! We send our deepestsympathy to Cliff. William "Doc" Warren sold his herd down in picturesque Furlong, Pa. He can be reached in FL at 727-363-1357-; We visited Bunny and William "Bill" Rowe after Thanksgiving at their beautiful lakeside home looking out at Champlain's Valcour Island. They became grandparents in Sept. (Kim and Dennis' baby daughter) or the Rowes would have been with us. Their Heather and Tim were married a year earlier and are in the Burlington area.
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Please do send us vour news. The old school has never looked better and was alive with the enthusiasm of loyal alums and beautiful young people. A great Homecoming!"
55th REUNION OCTOBER 21, 2006 TKS Mrs. Lloyd Marentette (Gail Robertson) 93 Glen Avenue, Llewellyn Park West Orange, N J 07052 MA Mr. Ernest F. Keer III 459 Club Drive, P.O. Box 1030 Bay Head, N J 08742
TKS Mrs. Clark Moran (Martha Gilbert) 8011 StrauffRoad Baltimore, MD 21204 mmoran@iopener. net MA Class agent: Mr. Charles Sage 435 Welch AvenueAmes, 1A 50014
MA Mr. Peter Cockshaw 1264 Oakmont Court West Chester, PA 19380 pcockshaw@rcn. com
TKS Ms. Georgia Carrington 38 Silver Spring Lane Ridgefield, CT 06877 carrgeo@aol. com Felicity "Fluffy" Ferguson Winner writes: "All is well and happy - grandchildren in
college and oldest engaged on Donn's side. Still continue to do group trips to Canyon Ranch twice a year, Florida for 3 months in winter and golf all year. Donn did another month of diving/photography; I stayed home and had the kitchen totally redone - that's rhy priority!! Life is good!" Our deepest sympathies go to the family of Adrianne "Tookie" Onderdonk Dudden who passed away on October 15, 2005. She is survived by her husband, Arthur; her daughter, Alexis; her mother; sister; grandson; 2 step-daughters; seven step granddaughters; and a step great-grandson. Our sincere condolences to Jean Olmstead Witherington whose husband, Charles Witherington, passed away. MA Class agent: Mr. Sheldon Buck 51 Cornell Road Wellesley, MA 02181-7408 m TKS Mrs. Susie Forstmann Kealy 550 N. Kingsbury, Apt. 603 Chicago, IL 60610 sfkealy@sbcglobal.net MA Mr. Lawrence Martin P.O. Box 1058. : Lexington, VA 24450 Class agent: Mr. Robert Brawer 131 East 6 6 ^ Street New York, N Y 10021
Carol Barnard Ottenberg writes: "We downsized this year to a Seattle cottage - I'm still working part-time as a research interviewer on government studies - planning a Hawaii vacation in Feb. - hope to get to the TKS 50th next October." Linda Lovell Smith can, no longer serve as class secretary. She writes: "...I have happily filled that position for many years, but I think it's time for some new ideas and energy to be applied to the j<$|, especially with our big reunion coming up next fall." If anyone is interested in the position, please contact Marsha Kleinman at 973-509-7940 or mkleinman@montclairkimberlev.org MA Mr. Eric Jaeckel P.O. Box 20153 Boulder, CO 80308-3153 efiaeckel@hotmail. com Class agent: Dr. Larry Nazarian 29 Surrey Place Penfield, N Y 14526
5 6 50th REUNION OCTOBER 21, 2006 TKS Mrs. Lawther O. Smith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive Doylestown, PA 18901 lsmith6071@cs. com
55th Reunion fo r MA 1950 Back: Jack Heller, Dick Hopkins, Reunion Co-Chair Jay Bitting, Jack Wallace, Adrian Karp.. Front: Former DAA recipient, Academy Trustee, and Reunion Co-Chair Rudy Deetjen, Jr., George Hallock, Walter Rauscher and guest Bernice Scott
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Linda "Karolyn" Cole Lestage updates: "43 years married and still living in the same home since '65! Pretty unusual these days. Don continues to work full time at the family jewelry manufacturing company in North Attleboro. No signs of retiring yet! 5 grandchildren ages 10-1/2 to 5 mos. All are an hour away. We connect especially over the summer months in our family 'compound' in East Orleans, Cape Cod. My mother, [Karolyn "Killy" Greene Cole] class of '23 at MICA will be 100 in August - Wish she could enjoy it - she's in a nursing home in Orleans."
We send our heartfelt condolences to Lawrence "Larry" Nazarian whose mother passed away in October. She is survived by 2 sons, 8 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
50th Reunion fo r MA '55 and TKS '55 Back: Marguerite Ramee Kaiser, Cecily Wilson Lyle, Dave Atherton, Oscar Mockridge, S. Lawrence Martin. Front: Mike Ludlum, Dick Moskowitz, Nancy Joyce Buckley, Susie Forstmann Kealy
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TKS Georgia Sherman Glick writes: "Life is good; we're healthy and active. We split our time between Lexington and in summer Mattapoisett (South Coast MA). Our second grandson arrived in Boston in September. My husband is still Chief of Neurology at Cambridge Hospital,(mid I am an Associate at the Boston Museum at Cambridge Hospital and Fine Arts and a Director at the Lexington Education Foundation." Penelope "Penny" Gray Wheeler updates: "All fine here, boys Phil and Carl in Colorado and Sweden - Grandkids terrific - 1 do still love the snow even if I'm in FL. I visit them as often as possible! What ever happened to Green/Yellow?" [TKS school colors] MA Class secretary and agent: Dr. Edward T. O'Brien Jr. 3376 FerncliffLane Clearwater, FL $6421 eobl0727@msn. com John Higgins writes: "Still working as Chief Psychologist for Department of Federal Rehabilitation Commonwealth of Massachusetts and doing forensic work. " Michael Ingraham sent this update: "Retired - living between the Shrewsbury River and Atlantic Ocean - just Kathy and I, no kids!" Michael J. Pollard was mentioned in The New York Times article (1/1/06) "Faces Only a Mother and the Movies, Could Love." It is a great article about what the film theorist Bela Balazs called "the language of the face." Edwin "Ted" O'Brien heard from Donald Conrsen recently who writes:".. .At present we live in Willow Springs, Missouri where we are home schooling our 3rd grade grandson, Samuel! We have 8 grandchildren: our oldest son and his wife in Tulsa have 2 boys; and our youngest son, Ken and his wife here in Willow Springs have 6 children: 3 boys and 3 adopted Russian granddaughters."
Mr. David Stroming 33 Mt. Prospect Avenue Verona, N J 07044
59 TKS Ms. Jarvis Reilly Nolan 15612 Via Marchena San Diego, CA 92128 jarvisno@aol.com Marianne Doran Steinhacker writes: "My husband Bob and I just spent 3 days visiting Pat Rowland Webb at her beautiful new home in Lake Toxaway, NC. Pat came to Maine to play in a member/guest golf tournament in July." Our deepest sympathies go to Lily Solmssen Moureaux who lost her husband, Ghislain, and her mother, Kate Solmssen, in August and September of 2005. MA Mr. Michael Baker 100 Via Condado Way Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418-1700
60 TKS Class agent: Mrs. Mary Anne Coursen Doty 21 Juniper Drive Queensbury, NY 12804 Carroll Tiernan wrote; ".. .Our 45th reunion was this year. And there was a party. Alison Kern Stitzer from Maryland and I, Caroll Tiernan, from Maine, enjoyed a delightful evening at the Essex Fells Country Club, which is right across the street from where we both grew up. But where were you?"
MA Class semetariesj, v. Mr. Henry Agens 86 Eagle Rock Way Montclair, N J 0704^m\
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MA Mr. Bronson Van Wyck Arrowhead Farms Tuckerman, AR 72473
64 TKS Mrs. Frank Henneman (Lynn Ritter) 3920 Mariners Way, Unit 321 %prtez,FL 34215 lynn. henneman@unisys. com
TKS Mrs. James Wright (Susan DeBevoise) 1 Tuck Drive Hanover, NH 03755: susan. wright@dartmouth. edu Reunion Class Agent: Ms. Marilyn "Lyn" Schultz Blackwell 3779 Center Road RR1, Box 63 East Montpelier, VT 05651 [Ed. Note: Please see TKS '65 New York City Reunion News and photos in front half o f magazine.]
TKS Mrs. C. D. Creed (Barbara Bywater) 1769 Forest View AvenueSi Hillsborough, CA 94010
MA We received the following from Joseph "Joe" Hare, Jr. shortly after the Reunion: "Upon the occasion of their 40th, the class of '65 (the first group to attend MA in the Lloyd Rd. buildings) did as much catching up over the internet (a large number of this group of 31 graduate exchanged e-mail letters back and forth) as did the seven (Stephen "Steve" Cutaia, Peter R. Stern, R. Victor Bernstein, Gregory "Greg" Hare, Robert "Bob" Ferrara, Eric Schneider and Joseph "Joe" Hare) who broke bread together at the reunion luncheon. Eric came the furthest (Iowa). Theodore "Ted" Flagg, James "Jim" Jim Kuzmick, H. Holt Apgar, Arthur "Kerry" Brown, Henry Allen, William "Bill" Fries, Michael "Mike" Fink, Neil Mutchler, were among those who checked in via cyberspace. Stephen "Steve" Edelstein was set to join the luncheon group, but had to cancel at the last minute due to his mom's illness. We all send our condolences to him on his loss...."
MA Dr. John J. Farrar PO. 114 2069 Warren @§eek Road Ovando, MT 59854 sharknoie@starband. net
H. Holt Apgar sent this recent update to Joseph?"Joe" Hare: "...Judy and Jim Kuzmick have recently relocated to Great Falls, VA.. .Ted Flagg has recently moved into the house that he has been building (mostly with the assistance of just one other
61 45th REUNION OCTOBER 21, 2006 TKS Ms. Christine Keller 1702 Church Street Galveston, TX 77550 , Class agent: Mrs. Suzanne Scanned Hardy 47 Bartlett Parkway Winthrop, MA 02152
\58 TKS Mrs. Diana Bethell Little IK Buckingham Rd. West Orange, N J 07052
We send our deepest sympathies to Barry Nazarian whose mother passed away in October. She is survived by two sons, 8 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
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roof doesn't leak and the toilets flush. Life is good... I teach Digital Photography I+II and Waterfall Photography (Transylvania County boasts more than 1000 waterfalls) in the Continuing Education Department of three local colleges in between nursing my sore; and aging corpus. (Construction work was not what I had planned for the delicate age of 58.)
40th Reunion fo r MA '65 Back: Eric Schneider, Steve Cutaia, Robert Ferrara, Gregory Hare. Front: Reunion Chair Joe Hare, Victor Bernstein, Peter Stern carpenter beside himself!) over the past few years, in the national forest area of Brevard, NC.. .Phebe and Holt Apgar moved all of 4 miles last year, but it took 7 months of effort, working on both houses. We survived somehow, and now live in Fairfax Station, VA...[Our] older daughter Phebe Elizabeth (Princeton 2000) lives and works in New York City; she keeps up with a Princeton classmate, Cecelia Livesey; that's right Robert "Rob" Livesey's daughter. My younger daughter Sarah Alexandra just graduated from the University of Virginia, in nearby beautiful Charlottesville. She is now living nearby in Arlington, and is working in Washington, DC. I manage a group of UNIX servers for the US government, but I work for a private consulting company, SETA Corp..." James "Jim" Kuzmick was in touch with Joe Hare and sent the following news: "My wife Judy and I have been married for 35 years, having met in Pensacola, FL when I was training to be a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War. We have 3 daughters, Elizabeth Larkin (29) of King of Prussia, PA, Katherine (Katie, 26) of Philadelphia, PA and Mary (23) of Brooklyn, NY. Elizabeth has also given us 2 grandsons, Jack (2) and Ben (9 mos.). We have lived in Northern Virginia since 1985, when I started a management consulting business with a couple of partners. Our company consists mainly of retired military officers (175 employees), and we work primarily with the government but also the defense industry, on current and future military system development and related management issues. I became President in 2001, and we have tripled in size since then. Revenue will be 40MM+ this year. I intend to retire in early 2007, and we plan to remain in this area,,) We are close to both DC and Dulles Airport, and any classmate is welcome any time. This past May we attended a TKS 40th reunion dinner (my sister Jane told me about it) held in NYC by Katherine "Kate"
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Bonniwell and Katherine "Kitty" Haines. There were about 35 TKS ladies o f '65 there. [See TKS '65 New York City Reunion news and photos in front half o f magazine.] We would have attended this weekend, but lost the date; thought it was in October!..." Joseph "Joe" Hare, Jr. also sent news he received from Theodore "Ted" Flagg who writes: "Well, here I am in the mountains of Western North Carolina after 35 years in Central Florida. After graduating from college (Rollins College, in Winter Park, just outside Orlando) I started my own business in commercial photography. I did mostly Museum and Food work, including eight years for Red Lobster and Olive Garden Restaurants. I was also a Food Editor and specialty columnist for ORIENT Magazine, and towards the end of my stay did some private publishing of family histories and art catalogues. About five years ago, burned to a crisp (both literally and figuratively) I informed my wife that we could be just as poor up here as we were down there, only with a great view. We sold everything we had and bought six acres near Asheville, NC, in Transylvania County. I enlisted an old friend of mine, Mr. Toshihiro Sahara, who is one of the last Japanese Teahouse Carpenters in the world and who I have studied under for almost 15 years now, to help me design and build a Japanese style home. Working with traditional Japanese hand tools and large cypress logs brought in from north Florida, I have spent the last four years erecting an updated version of a 400 year old Japanese farmhouse, or Minka. For the last three years it has been just two of us working and for the past six months it has been just me. We got our final inspection three weeks ago and began our move right after that. There's still interior trim to do, plus all the shoji screens and niceties of joinery that I have learned from him, but so far the
My wife is a native of Bangkok, Thailand, and whose cooking threatens my waistline, and I have a daughter who will be 16 next month (late start, I know). She is beautiful, intelligent and certainly my best work of art to date... if I can just keep all her suitors diverted without her learning my tactics. She is a promising artist, makes her own jewelry and studies piano. She often serenades me with Scott Joplin favorites while I enjoy my evening cigar out on the balcony. As I said, life is good... Let me know about yourself and all our old friends. We never knew how good it was when we had it, did we?" Ted Flagg Peter R. Stern writes: "It is hard tb believe that it is 40 years since graduation. I am practicing law in New York City with the fifty-lawyer firm of McLaughlin & Stem LLP, where I continue to specialize in litigation and art-related matters (www.mclaughlinstem.com). I am now in my 7th year as Chairman of the Board of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, the country's largest pro bono legal services organization, which assists countless arts organizations and artists with low incomes (www.vlany.org). Over the last three years I have become increasingly active in theater. I struck oil with my first theatrical investment, Avenue Q. Since that stroke of good fortune, I became a partner in Martian Entertainment LLC, a theatrical production and management company, to date most well known for its highly controversial show, now in its 7th year, Naked Boys Singing! (www.martianentertain.com) Upcoming Martian productions include Black and White Blues, Revolution and a reality television show, Show People."
66 40th REUNION OCTOBER 21, 2006 TKS Mrs. William E. Crawford (Francine Onorati) 421 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02115 francine. crawford@verizon. net Jan Shaw writes: "My son Lt. CPL Elliot J.Partin is with the USMC currently in Iraq."
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Francine Onorati Crawford writes: "My son Will has just begun graduate school at MIT's Sloan School of Business. He is enrolled in the Biotechnical Entrepreneurial Program, a joint program with Harvard and Harvard Medical School. Three years from now he'll earn an MBA with a concentration in biotech industry issues, and a masters in science. Daughter Faith graduated from Pitzer College (part of the Claremont Colleges) in May and is living in Los Angeles, working for a documentary filmmaker." Francine also notified us of the sad new that Jessie Broadfoot Boyer's husband Jerry passed away in August. We send our heartfelt condolences to her and her family. MA Mr. D. Carter Fitzpatrick 49 Bell Rock Plaza Sedona, AZ 86351 Class agent: Mr. A. Craig Cameron 11 Bay Point Drive,'»?: Ormond Beach, FL 32174
67 IKS Ms. Margot Escott 1818 Imperial G olf Course Blvd. Naples, FL 34110-1010 escott@naples. net
F inancial Executive, G aret R oosm a's Star is R ising (The follow ing is an excerptfrom an article in Financial Executive magazine, October 2005.) Garret Roosma ['70] has tried to motivate his sons by relating the tale of the tortoise and the hare. He compared his career progress to that of the tortoise (making progress, albeit slowly), and told them that while they had the ability of the hare, they also had to use their ability to make progress. Based on their successes thus far, he believes his sons got the idea! Career Summary: Amerada Hess, Credit Analyst, Woodbridge, NJ, 197780; General Cable, Financial Analyst, Woodbridge, NJ, 1980-83; Butler International, Manager of Financial Planning, Montvale, NJ, 1983-87; The Hertz Corp., Director of Financial Analysis, New York City and Park Ridge, NJ, 1987-9 ¡^Worldwide Process Technologieis, Allendale, NJ, Vice President and CFO, 1991-92; Smarte Carte Inc., 1993-present, White Bear Lake, Minn., EVP and CFO
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Deborah "Debby" Sanders Lewis updates: "My fifth grandchild will arrive on 12/01/05 a girl named McKenzie bom to my middle daughter, Erin. That will make 3 girls and 2 boys! They are all wonderful and range in age from 5-1/2 to 10 mos. My youngest daughter is in her 4th and final year of Tufts Vet School and is set to take her boards in the beginning of December and graduate in May. All is well here on Martha's Vineyard. If you're ever here, be sure to give me a call!" MA Class agent: Mr. Craig Perry 3467 Pinestream Road Atlanta, GA 30327
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
TKS Phyllis La Touche Rawlins P.O. Box 1423 Bridgehampton, NY 11932 MA Dr. Edward A. Griggs Jr. 25 North Drive Dobbs Ferry, N Y 10522 eagriggs@optonline. net Edward Griggs sent this update that he received from Gordon Carlisle: "Since 1984, I've been making my living primarily as a mural artist, based in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire region. Last year marked the completion of a three-year project, adapting four Italian Renaissance artworks to fit in the sanctuary of St. Peter’s Church in Portland, Maine. This can be seen on my new website, www.gordoncarlisle.com along with other public commissions and studio artworks. Enjoy!"
classmates could have been there. I really enjoyed the TKS gals from '70. Long live the memory of Kimberley." Elizabeth "Betsy" Kimball adds: "Garrett Roosma was gentleman enough to keep all of us dancing for hours. Great time was had by a ll... 5 years will come sooner than we think! See you all then." Patricia "Pat" Vilas Brown updates: "I am working as an R.N. in the operating rooms at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue WA (a suburb of Seattle). I specialize in vascular surgery and am an assistant charge nurse on the evening shift. My oldest daughter, Rachep;, 1 graduated from Blanchet H.S. (a private Catholic school) in Seattle in June and is a freshman at Santa Clara University in Calif. My other 2 daughters, Matthea and Hannah, are in 10th and 7th grades respectively at Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bellevue. (Their dress uniforms remind me of our Kimberley uniforms!) Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner is doing very well in law school and has received awards for being at the top of her class in several of her courses. She is an Associate Editor on the Health Law Journal, and is the Chief Justice of the law school Judicial Board. She hopes to submit a major disability law paper on food allergies in the next several months. This summer she did an internship at the Connecticut Attorney General's office, working in the legislative area. She describes it as one the best experiences in her life. Karen is scheduled to graduate in May with a special certificate in Healthcare Law and will sit for the bar exam in July. Our sincere condolences go to Leslie Bryan whose father passed away in June. MA Mr. V. James Castiglia 3 Lark Lane Oak Ridge, N J 07438 Class Agent: Mr. Peter Webb Mile Slip Farm 48 Mason Road Brookline, NH 03033
71 35th REUNION OCTOBER 21, 2006 MA
TKS Ms. Leslie Bryan 844 East Morningside Drive, NE Atlanta, GA 30324 lbryan@dsckd. com
Andrew "Andy"Abramson updates: "Daughters Heather Abramson '01 and Lauren Abramson '01 graduated from Cornell University and University of Wisconsin respectively in May."
Class agent: Ms. Kim Kolbe 38 Kent Drive Roseland, NJ 07068 Anna Crawford writes: "I had the best time at our 30th reunion. I wish more of our
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35th Reunion fo r TKS '70 Back: Kim Kolbe, Barbara Sloane, Madge Huber Henning, Susan Buttel O'Brien, Anne Graves. Front: form er DAA recipient Karen Vanderhoof-Forscher, Lisa Shapiro, Betsy Kimball
72 TKS Class agent: Mrs. Linda Finney Williams Box 1446 6 South Pasture Lane Nantucket, MA 02554 Amy Nussbaum Mack sent this update: "My son, Jeremy Mack, graduated from Brown University in 2002 and had started his own website design business, www. amberfusion. com. He is engaged to be married to Lauren Goldstein, a fellow Brown alum, and they've set a wedding date of July 30, 2006. I'm still practicing landlord-tenant litigation in New York City." Linda Finney Williams writes: "Greetings from Nantucket. I have entered into my 34th year on Nantucket year-round. I am in my 23rd year working for the Nantucket Zoning Board of Appeals, and in addition to other volunteer activities I am an appointed and elected official on the Commission on Disability, Historic District Commission, Planning Commission and in my "spare time" coaching my son's soccer, basketball and baseball teams. My 28 year-old daughter Aryn is getting her PHD and law degree at the same time and playing rugby in Adelaide, Australia, where she has lived for 4.5 years. My 20 year-old son Colin is headed to Brazil in September to play for Volta Redonda semi-pro soccer team with the goal of making him the first American to play for a pro Brazilian soccer team as a goal keeper. My 8 year-old son Evan is in third grade and will not be allowed to leave the island at this rate. I just finished driving in my 27th demolition derby where I won yet another trophy. Some of us never grow up and so much for my excellent prep school education! Hope all is well with everyone else. Looking forward to the 35th reunion. Anyone coming to Nantucket please look me up."
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30th Reunion fo r 1975 Back: Paul Zukerberg, Harry Jackson, Lucie DuHamel, Katie Grover, Leigh Royer, Kay Towner Stalle, Anna Crawford, Tim Breen Front: Hugh Gleason, Liz Newman, Diana Utech, Betsy Webb, Janet Kluge Wiggin
MA Class agent: Mr. Peter Perretti 86 East Bracebridge Circle The Woodlands, TX 77382 perrdoc@msn. com
TKS Ms. Susan Read 38 College Circle Staunton, VA 22401-2375 davick@intelos. net Class agent: Mrs. Edward Sldbiak (Ellen Wahl) 56 Hamilton Drive East North Caldwell, N J07006 MA Mr. Gregory Lackey 138 Paupukkewis Trail Medford Lakes, N J 08055 Class agent: Mr. Thomas C. Galligan 6933 Old Kent Drive Knoxville, TN 37919 galligan@libra. law. utk. edu Our deepest sympathies go to Jeffrey "Jeff Carrie on the death of his father, Richard Lawrence Carrie '41.
74 TKS Class agent: Ms. Erin Cuffe Crawford 102 Buckingham Road Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Barbara Bonney 74x recently performed . with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall. A featured soprano, Barbara performed works by three generations of the Mozart family. MA Mr. Rudolph Schlobohm 78 Montclair Avenue Montclair, N J 07042 rudyschlobohm@hotmail. com
75 Class agent: Mr. Paul Zukerberg 1790 Lanier Place NW Washington, DC 20009 Timothy "Tim" Breen sent the following synopsis of the Reunion: May God bless and keep you always, may your wishes all come true, May you always know the truth, and see the light surrounding you. May you build a ladder to the stars, climb on every rung, And may you stay, Forever Young....Bob Dylan For its 30th reunion the Class of '75 shook off the cobwebs, kicked off their shoes and danced the night away - not once but twice. As was true when we ruled the hallways, the "girls" stole the show. Looking amazing for so-called mid-life, they proved once again that Youth is not the sole property of the young in age, but belongs to all who are truly young at heart. Anna Crawford, Lizabeth 'ffliz" Newman, Leigh Royer, Katherine "Katie" Grover, Diana Utech, Kathryn "Kay" TownerStalle, Lucie Du Hamel and Janet Kluge Wiggin, with a surprise visit from Elizabeth "Betsy" Webb Rowe (sister to Peter [Webb] 70) attended the fine luncheon at the Upper School. Current faculty Judy Nesbitt and George Hrab (looking most dapper and fit), and former faculty Ken Gibson and Marilyn Faden, reminisced with the group, which dispersed only when the caterers requested their tablecloth back. The boys held their own with: Harry Jackson (winner of the Prodigal Son Award for returning from Seattle), John Moore, Hugh Gleason, Timothy "Tim" Breen and Paul Zukerberg (with father and sons) in attendance. But it was that evening, at the Essex Fells Country Club, where the first graduating Class of MKA really hit its stride. Joined by Kassie Canter, Lisa Irwin Keane,
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Debra "Deb" Mahler Matthews, Brian Keane, Andrew "Andy" Steiger and James "Jim" Friedlich, the '75ers again held forth until the patient wait staff threatened to turn us all into pumpkins. The tour de force (or ®>up de'grace) was a dance circle formed by the ladies, with each taking a turn over a (lit) candle, reprising some ancient tribal rite of bonding. A rousing good time was had by all in attendance. And all who wished to, but could not make it, were remembered fondly, as were those with us now only in spirit. We can only hope that ibis hot another five years before we are in each other's fine company oncfgjagain. Shalom. Janet and Tim Lizabeth "Liz" Newman writes that she is a realtor with Coldwell Banker in Delray Beach, FL.
76 30th REUNION OCTOBER 21, 2006 Mrs. Paul McFeeley (LaurvecHoonhout) 238 Devon Road Essex Fells, N J 07021 Class agent: Dr. Charles Read 1918 N. Daniel Street Arlington, VA $2201
77 Mr. Andrew Pedersen 1 Washington Avenue Rumson, N J 07760 pedera@nytimes. com Class agent: Mr. Robert Hubsmith 16 Warren Road Maplewood, N J 07040 Our condolences to Cheryl D'Alessandro McMullen and Peter McMullen on the death of Peter's father, John J. McMullen. After a career as a naval officer, McMullen founded a marine engineering firm before bringing the National Hockey League to New Jersey and winning two Stanley Cup Championships with the Devils. McMullen is survived by his wife, Jacqueline, his sons, Peter add John Jr., a daughter, Catherine, and 5 grandchildren. [Articles in The New York Times on 9/18/05 and 9/2W05, among many others, provide a glimpse into Mr. McMullen's illustrious career and life.]
78 Ms. Pamela Zeug 250 Mercer Stmet, D502 New York, NY 10012
Class agent: Ms. Jane Lugaric Burkhard 299 Crown Road Kentfield, CA 94904 Susan "Sue" Felber Durkin writes: "I live in Manchester-by-the-Sea (in MA) and have 3 boys (10,15 and 16 years old). My husband, Tom, is a buyer in Boston." Elizabeth "Lisa" Farlie Bannerot sent the following update: ".. .1 live in Stamford, CT with my husband of 22 years, Rick, our two children Courtney (16) and Eric (14), a dog, and two cats. I am very busy with my company, Collegiate Presswire, a business I founded 7 yearn.ago with my brother. We work with PR agencies and marketing companies and distribute their news out to over 1,000 college media outlets everyday. In addition to the newswire, we also produce a newsletter geared towards marketers and we just rolled out our newest product, an auction-based website for buying and selling college newspaper advertising. It is the first one of its kind specifically for college advertising. The business continues to do well and we look forward to its continued growth. When I am not working, I am busy volunteering at both of my children's schools, church and with the Junior League of Stamford-Norwalk. I also help out with the annual Smith College Club of Darien and New Canaan's annual book sale, which raises money for scholarships. Recently, I have also been spending a lot of time helping my daughter (who is a junior) research out information on colleges she is interested so we can tour and visit them over the next several months. As you can see, I am quite happy with life in my mid-forties. Here's to good health and continued happiness for us all."
Mary L. Cole, Esq. 1 Ferrous Court Chester, N J 07930 marycolel2@hotmail. com Class Agent: Mr. George Reimonn, Jr 199 Winter Street Hopkinton, MA 01748 George@cadsmcom Martin Brayboy sent the following note about the Reunion in September: "The Class of '80 reunion began with an impromptu event at Tierney's on Friday night, where we were entertained by a great cover band 'Enzo and the Bakers' as we revisited years of debauchery and danced together in a large group as only old friends can. Festivities at campus on Saturday included touring the new addition of the fine arts wing, and seeing many classmates for the first time in a long while, even as the football team was getting shellacked by Mo-Beard. Lorraine and Robert Cerfolio did make it up for the game from Alabama as threatened, and Carla Hahnebach Egbert got the award for traveling the least far to attend (five houses away?). And of course, everybody looked 'mahvelous'. We needn't have worried about class of '80 folks being too formal and stiff at the dinner at Essex Fells CC. We held our own at the bar, on the porch overlooking the golf course (you know who you are!), at dinner, and later in the foyer as the music continued on into the wee hours. Such hair as is still left, was let down in admirable fashion, and a great time was had by all. Many thanks to our class for rallying from the anemic projected attendance two weeks prior to an impressive turnout. Let's get an even bigger bunch to come next time!"
79 Dr. John Brink 1246 Beach Haven Rd. Atlanta, GA 30324 Mrs. Carlos Ortiz (Shawn Mahieu) 2163 Gilbride Road Martinsville, N J 08836 Emily Rowland Malone writes: "How quickly time flies by! Our oldest daughter, Sarah, is looking at colleges now, and Charlotte and Whitney are not far behind. Seeing those SAT booklets still makes me nervous! Ugg!"
Tracy Cunningham Kozinets '80 in Florida in 2005
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25th Reunion fo r 1980 Back: Reunion Co-Chair Martin Brayboy, Tracy Cunningham Kozinets, India Hayes Larrier, Andy Kramer, Tracy Green Frager '79, Frederick Coles, III, J. Kent Walker, Martin Gonzalez, Dan Timmons Front: Lisa Bitting, Julia Fernald, Jan Timmons
25th REUNION OCTOBER 21, 2006 Class agent: Mrs. Laura Itzkowitz (Laura Reisch) 37 Nottingham Road Manalapan, N J 07726 Laura Reisch Itzkowitz writes: "I will be singing at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank on May 15th. I will be the soprano soloist in Orffs 'Carmina Burana' with the Monmouth Symphony and the combined choirs of the Arcadian Chorale (NJ) and the Richmond Chorale Society (NY)."
\82 Cheryl McCants 48 George Russell Way Clifton, N J 07013 Thomas Robbins 6 Bradford Terrace Newtown Square, PA 19073 Latest news from John "Yanni" Fotiadis: ".. .We are working on a master plan and new building designs for a new housing development. 20 high-rise buildings containing about 3,700 units in total. About an hour outside of Seoul. I've been the lead person on this project from our office. This will be my second (and hopefully last) trip to Seoul for this project anyway.. .I've become an Associate Partner and remain Director of Design for the firm.. .It's all great stuff, but it sure interferes with being a rock star..." Stay posted for news of Yanni's upcoming gigs in NJ and NY. Our deepest sympathies go to the family of • Monaca Innarella who passed away on October 7, 2005. She is survived by her parents, her brother and sister and her companion. Jim Windolf, contributing editor at Vanity Fair, wrote a review of Montclair
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25th Reunion fo r 1980 - Back: Pam Eastman Garvey, Tracy 'Cunningham Kozinets, J. Kent Walker, Mary Cole, Reunion Co-Chair Julie Ruddick Meade, Andy Kramer, Stephen Kimmel and his wife, Alison Keel, Jim Halprin. Front: India Hayes Larrier, formetfffaculty member Ken Gibson, Reunion Co-Chair Martin Brayboy, Alex Halprin
resident and author, Ken Emerson's latest book, Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance o f the Brill Building Era. Entitled "Leaders of the Pack, Who says rock 'n' roll died when Elvis went into the Army? Not the hitmakers o f the Brill Buliding," the article can be found in The New York Times Book Review, Sunday, October 30, 2005.
Charles Shulman is a Mortgage Banker with NJ Lender's Corporation in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ. Congratulations to Susan Bacot who writes: "I was married to George Davis on September 29, 2005 in the Masai M araff Region of Kenya (East Africa)."
\85 8 3 Ms. Amy Felber 229 Cardinal Road M ill Valley, CA 94941-3618
Class agents: Mr. Jeffrey Schackner 1435 Lexington Avenue, Apt. 3E New York, New York 10128
Ms. Maureen Towers Natkin 5 Riverview Road Irvington, N Y 10533 motowers@aol. com
Ms. Alexis Polonofsky Zebrowski 33 Glen Road Verona, N J 07044
Class agent: Mr. Walter J. Davis 66 Oakwood Drive New Providence, N J 07974 davisteam@comcast.net India Hayes Larrier '80 reports: "Geoffrey Bryan Habron recently received ;a promotion to the tenured position of Associate Professor at Michigan State University. Dr. Habron holds dual positions in both the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Department of Sociology." Jody Underwood is a professor at Brown University in Providence, RI and Chief of Patient Assessment Services at Butler Hospital (part of Brown University).
\84 Mrs. Jennifer Jones Ladda 110 Glen Rock Road Cedar Grove, N J 0700 Class Agent: Mr. William Stone 99 Larch Road East Greenwich, Rhode Island 02818 bstone@outsidegc. com
Ilene Saul Richardson updates: "I am living in Dumbo Brooklyn (househunting in Montclair, though!) with my 18 month old son Jasper and my husband. I produce shows and commercials, and I am also a photographer (assignments for NY magazine, families, wedding, headshots, album covers)." Edie Szakacs Prescott writes: "Enjoying the summer with my husband, Darrin, and my two children, Henry, age 3, and Gordon, age 8 months.” Mark McGowan writes: "I recently won the men's club championship at Montclair Golf Club and the NJ State Amateur Golf Championship at Mountain Ridge Country Club. I also recently joined Goldman Sachs & Co. as a trader in their securities lending division."
20th REUNION OCTOBER 21, 2006 Ms. Sherry Ahkami P.O. Box 3187^ | Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067$®
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Ms. Jennifer Remington Knodel 44 Hamilton Drive East North Caldwell, N J 07006 Class agent: Mrs. Jodi Scherl 12 Mayflower Drive Tenafly, N J 07670 Mary Louise Neary Rubin updates: "I had a holiday dinner in NYC with Laura Baczko Andrews '87 and Suzanne "Suzi" Criqui" '87. Fun! Also Margaret "Meg" Allen Coyle '87 ran the NY Marathon in incredible time." Congraulations to Sherry Ahkami and her husband, Kam Raiszadeh who welcomed baby Kamron Jasper ("KJ") on November 6, 2005. He joins big sis, Sophie (5) and bro Cyrus (3). Matthew Hendrian updates: "Moved to Denver on Thanksgiving 2004. Started working on Frmtier Airlines in April 2005. Daughter Alexandra turned 2 in May. House finished in June and moved in middle of the month. Loving the Rocky Mountains and living close to family."
18 7 Mr. Dennis Rodano 14 Wayland Drive: Verona, N J 07044 rodanod@ix. netcom. co Class agent: Mrs. Lynne Y. Krest (Lynne G. Yellin) 7408 East Main Street Lima, N Y 14485 Raj Gona sends this news: "I graduated with a Master of Public Health Degree from the UMDNJ - School of Public Health in January of 2004. Then, also last year, I purchased my first house in a suburb of Trenton, NJ, after accepting a new position with the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services as a research scientist in cancer epidemiology.”
Meredith "Merri" Safirstein Bergmann writes:".. .1 am currently finishing my Masters in Urban Planning at NYU and have been working at the Union Square Partnership, the Business Improvement District for 14th Street in Manhattan. Still living on Charles Street in the West Village with my husband Marshall and Emery Belle who is entering first grade this year. She is in love with her "new" brother, and he thinks she's a rock star. Still stay in touch with Meg, Rich S. and Joy and saw Suzi a while back. Still visit "the clair" often as we still have the house on S. Mountain." Congratulations to Lynne G Yellin Krest who writes: "Our third daugher Laren Caymens Krest was bom on June 14, 2005. She joins big sisters Kayla (age 4) and Gayle (age 2)."
88 Ms. Susan Bartlett Rankin 4540 51st Avenue NE Seattle, WA 98105 srankin@microsoft. com Class agent: Mrs. Hillary Johnston (Hillary Windolf) PO. Box 35 New Vernon, N J 07976 Karen Muenster Fanning send this update: "Our daughter, Madyson, started Pre-K at Brookside this year! We also had our 3rd child - a girl Chloe Judith, who joins her sister Madyson and brother Luke!" Jody Booth writes: "Got married Oct 2, 2004 to David Seals McClellan, a writer. Had a wonderful outdoor wedding. MKA folks there - brother and sister, John Booth '85 and Joy Marie Booth Roussel '87. Plus Judith "Judy"Ainbinder Glinder '89 Still in LA acting. FedEx National Commercial out now.. .Most recently on 'E-Ring' with Dennis Hopper!"
20th Reunion fo r 1985 Back: John Booth, Kathleen Booth, Jonathan Conner, Janet Phillips Conner, Jeffrey Schackner, Alison Schackner. Front: Robin Schwartz, Marcy Riley, Derek Sanders, Michelle Kessler Sanders
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Jody Booth and husband, David Seals McClellan at their October 2004 wedding. Congratulations to Negar "Negi" Ahkami who married William Randall McNulty on October 1, 2005. Negar is an artist and candidate for an MFA degree at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and a lawyer for arts organizations.
Mr. Louis Lessig 141 Thunder Circle Bensalem, PA 1920 Class agent: Mr. Josh Raymond 303 Kensington Lane Livingston, N J 07039 Peter DeCandia writes that he has been an equity sales trader at Citigroup for the past 11 years. He is married and has two children, Allegra (3-years old) and Nicholas (2-years old).
\90 Class Secretary and Agent: Ms. Meredith McGowan Zengo 383 Middlesex Road Darien, CT 06820 mczengo@aol. com
20th Reunion fo r 1985 Back: Rosie Ahkami Whitworth, Darrin Prescott, Edie Szakacs Prescott, Corinn Thompson, Nina Jeffries. Front: Anthony Paone, Stephen Root, Maryanne Decandia
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Ms. Lorelei Muenster Leia9sioux@dol. com Kimberly "Kim" Charlton Bedetti sends the following update: . .We had our second son, Daniel, in July. Our older son, David, is 2. We moved into a new house in Red Bank, also in July, and are settling into life in the new house with 2 little ones. I'm at home with my kids and am staying pretty busy with them. Not too much else to report besides that." Joshua Ford ran into former headmaster Dr. Peter R. Greer outside of Kramer Bookstore in Dupont Circle. Josh is an Art Director at an agency in Washington, D.C. Congratulations to Jenifer Lara Schylen who married Mark Daniel Salzbarg on October 1,'2005.
15th REUNION OCTOBER 21, 2006 Ms. Dora Marmon 127 East 30th Street, # 15A New York, N Y 10016 wackohead@nyc. rr. com Class agent: Mr. Luke Sarsfield 400 Chambers Street, PHG New York N Y 10282 Steven Most, a Yale researcher has established that gory and erotic messages can affect your vision, i.e. an emotion-induced blindness. This fascinating article was published in The Economist on August 8, 2005. Congratulations to James Mazzanti who was married to Anna Gusarov in Newport, RI on August 28, his birthday. James has been
working for Kate Spade for the past 10 years. James met up with Michael Mura recently; Michael is living in Hoboken and working for CBS selling advertising space. Congratulations to Joseph Fiordaliso on the birth of his daughter this past September.
92 Mr. Enrique Neblett 2780 International Drive #522C Ypsilanti, MI 48197 eneblett@yahoo. com Ms. Tamar Safer Radfar 876 Aztec Trail Franklin Lakes, N J 074l^ m g tsafer5400@aol. com Class agent: Ms. Anne Marie Verdiramo 2030 South Street, Unit D Philadelphia, PA 19146 amverdiramo@hotmail. com
Mr. Brian Wecht 150 River Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Class agent: Mr. Damien Vena 240 E. 27th Street, MB New York, N Y 10016 venad@yahoo. com Congratulations to Tyson Lomazow on his marriage to Jillian Erdheim on SeptemberE M 2005. Congratulations are also in order for Suzanne Jacobson Kirsch who writes: "My husband and I had our first child, a son - Benjamin Eli Kirsch - on June 22, 2005. He's great!" Congratulations to Ali and Jason Pogorelec on the birth of their daughter, Suzanne on October 13, 2005. Our deepest sympathies go to Jamie Streit Decter on the death of her father.
Congratulations to Alison "Ali" Raymond on her engagement to Brian Levit. Christopher "Chris" Burchell sends this update: "Things have been going well. I am married with two kids, but have not played hockey in about 9 months (since my son was bom). I was playing in a pretty competitive league and Peter Benedict, Jr., Michael "Mike" Leichtner, Clifford "Cliff" Finkle and I are going to enter a 4-on-4 pond hockey tourney in Wisconsin this February...."
93 Ms. Renee Monteyne 10 Lookout Point Trail Totowa Borough, N J 07512 monteyne@yahoo. com
Suzanne Pogorelec, daughter o f Ali & Jason Pogorelec '93
Lana Kang *89 Hospital for Special Surgery Appoints First Hand Surgeon in Queens Location New York - September 20, 2005 - Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) recently appointed Lana Kang, MD, as assistant attending orthopedic hand surgeon; she is the first hand specialist to work out of the hospital's Fresh Meadows, Queens, location. Dr. Kang specializes in general upper extremity conditions such as arthritis, fractures, nerve compression, sports injuries, and carpal tunnel syndrome with a special concentration in trauma. "I am thrilled to bring this specialty to Fresh Meadows where I will see patients and perform surgery," said Dr. Kang, "I also love the sense of community and cultural diversity that exist here." During medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Kang had a surgical rotation at HSS; the experience was pivotal in her decision to develop a specialty in hand surgery. After a residency and fellowship at Brown University, Dr. Kang returned to HSS for a fellowship ill hand and upper extremity surgery. "We are delighted that Dr. Kang will be continuing her clinical and research career at HSS," said Dr. Scott Wolfe, chief of the hand service at HSS. "We are particularly excited that she will be extending our coverage of hand and upper extremity injuries to our Fresh Meadows location, where this specialty has not been available until now." About HSS: Founded in 1863, the Hospital for Special Surgery is a world leader in orthopedicswpeumatology and rehabilitation, Ranked No. 2 in orthopedics and No. 3 in rheumatology by U.S. News and World Report, HSS was awarded Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. A member of the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare system and an affiliate of the W eiE? Medical College of Cornell University, HSS provides orthopedic and rheumatologic patient care at New York - Presbyterian Hospital at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center. All HSS medical staff are on the faculty of the Weill Medical College of Cornell Universtiy. Its Research Institute is internationally recognized as a leader in the investigation of musculoskeletal and autoimmune diseases. The hospital is located in New York City.
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15th Reunion fo r 1990 Back: Pablo Bedetti, Tim Scherzo, Alison Smith Fernandez, Brian Fernandez, Sara Godwin and daughter, Lloyd Godwin and daughter, Danielle Bergamo, Brett Zbar, Michelle Santoro Lomuscio, Anthony Brydon, Ellen Gilson Voth, Greg Voth, Robert Hess and daughter, Kristen Meyer, Meredith Torjussen,lÿlare Acher and fiance Drew Sterling. Front: Tiffini Kriegel Haley and daughter Payton, Kim Charlton Bedetti and son Daniel, Leah Napolitano Ortiz, Pam Pogorelec Hess, Marty Torjussen and daughter Lilly.
94 Ms. Dana Fiordaliso 102 East 9th Avenue Conshohocken, PA 19428é^ djfiordaliso@yahoo. com Class agent: Mr. Jason Awerdick 215 East 95th Street, #296 New York, N Y 10128W Dana Fiordaliso updates: "My brother Joe moved to a new apartment in NYC.. .he has exciting news !!! He just had a beautiful daughter.. .VERY fun to be an aunt for the first time..." Congratulations to Michael Dore on his marriage to Tara Starr Kole on August 20,H 2005. The bride is a law clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. She will begin as an associate in an entertainment law firm in Beverly Hills. Michael I f an attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP in Los Angeles; he is a litigator who specializes in appellat#hnd media law.
Ms. Rita Papaleo 31 Fernwood Terrac^M Nutfep, N J 07110 ritapapaleoiggmail. com Class agent: Mr. Matthew Drukker 230 E. 4th Street, #3D New York, N J 10017 Richard Sutter writes: "I spent thc^ummer working on and racing bicycles. I crewed for Race Across America (www.raceacrossamerica.org), won The 24 Hours of Allamuchy Mt. bike race in the Solo division (24honrsofallamuchy.com), and will be rb'ck climbing for 2'weeks in FranciF^ this fall."
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10th Reunion fo r 1995 Back: Dave DeMatteis, Carmen DeMatteis, Michael Richardson. Front: Dennis McNeil and guest Marguea White with her daughter
Steven DiPasquale sends this update: "I just opened my third restaurant/lounge. This one ¡stalled 'Nine1located at 333 Washington Street in Hoboken. I used to own 'Cream' and 'Mod' both on the Upper West Side in NYC."
Jeffrey Gurtman has worked exclusively in the hospitality business since graduating from Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. He currently owns his own hospitality consulting firm based in New York City.
Matthew Accarrino, formerly of Per Se, RM and Olives, is the executive chef of Barbounia in New York City. The restaurant's food is inspired by Italy, Croatia, Greece and Turkey. Barbounia opened in September 2005 at 250 Park Avenue South (20th Street).
Our deepest sympathies go to Jennifer Fink Gelboim on the death of her mother.
96 10th REUNION OCTOBER 21, 2006 Ms. Tanya Barnes 40 Waterside Plaza, Apt. ID New York, N Y 10010 tbames(fiffas. harvard, edu Ms. Debbie Haight 115 De Witt Avenue Belleville, N J 07109 deh27ft.,columhia. edu Class agent: Mr. Lee Vartan 700 First Street, Apt. 17P Hoboken, N J K 030 Congratulations to Bryan Becker on his marriage to Michelle Joy Izkowitz on May 2005 in New York City. Congratulations to Allison Beth Connolly on her engagement to Eric Bradley Oishi. A September wedding is planned.
Congratulations to Bhavna Bhandari Mahal who writes: "I just recently got married, moved to Michigan and am in law school out here..." .
We send our heartfelt condolences to Robert Streit on the death of his father.
\98 Class secretary and agent: Ms. Gemma Giantomasi 170 Devon Road Essex Fells, NJ 07021 Congratulations to Lauren Pincus on her marriage to Jonathan Har Even on July 9, 2005. The bride is studying towards a master's in social work at NYU, and designs and produces her own line of jewelry. Arnoldas Pranckevicius, National Policy Advisor to the President of Lithuania, hosted former headmaster Dr. Peter R. Greer during his fall consultation to that country. Dr. Greer reports: "I did five-hour seminars with about 250 teachers from all over the nation. I spoke to fifty administrators for five hours. I spoke to a group of parents. I visited key officials at the national government level. I was taken on great tours, including one where I sat on a rock that is the geographical center of Europe. I visited a rebuilt castle. My presentations went well. I had fine translators. The teachers and administrators appeared to be very interested. The best news is that the teachers and administrators who came to visit MKA did implement ideas that they learned during their visit. They were excited to show me those ideas, especially the signs on the walls and focus on the virtue of respect."
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In memory of Laquan Majette, classmates have established a memorial fund that would benefit a needs-based Upper School student. If you would like to contribute to this fund, please contact Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs at 973-509-7932.
ran into Mr. Herforth, decked out in his school-spirit gear, alumni of other years Daniel Weller '01 and his cousin, Marc Ponzio '99 and DBA at the dunk tank, paying other students to try to dunk her son, Daniel. He did get wet, more than once.
Our deepest sympathies to Abbie Love Vose on the death of her mother, faculty member Sarah Love.
By the time we made it up the driveway to the front door, a group of our classmates had already gathered by the door. Joette Harrison and her new husband, Mike Nigro, Jay Tobia and his girlfriend Claire, and a few others. I was glad to see Mr. Buckley, who was a favorite of our class.
Class agent: Mr. Alex Holz 992 Valley Road Franklin Lakes, N J 07417 LT (jg) Richard Eytel updates: "...I am currently serving on active duty in the United States Navy. I deployed twice in support of the Global War Against Terrorism to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea onboard USS NICHOLAS (FFG 47). I'm currently assigned to the USS MONTEREY as the Navigator, and expect to deploy again in April, 2006..." Emily Berman ran into Dr. Peter R. Greer outside his Washington, D.C. apartment. She works for the Democratic Party and speaks highly of MICA teachers, especially Randall Svane.
0 0 Mr. John Oarippa 30 Wayside Place Montclair, N J 07042 Ms. Anna Labowsky 5 Highview Court Wayne, N J 07470 Class agent: Ms. Ashley Griffin 1205 Holly Lane Cedar Grove, N J 07009 Francesca De La Torre writes about the Reunion in September: "It was a beautiful Saturday, and many of us had planned to meet up. Just on our way to the front door, Lauren Hooper, Antonella Bollettino and I
We filled 2 tables at the luncheon, and clearly felt like the new kids on the block, as we were unmarried (one exception) and childless. Nonetheless, we had fun and took our MKA playing cards home. The real reunion for us was that evening at Tierney's. The turnout was much more diverse, and we filled the upstairs floor. Also, I think everyone was a bit more relaxed at the bar. I think most people looked the same. Jennifer Glasser was probably the person who traveled the farthest to the reunion. She was home from France for a little while preparing for the LSAT. I found out that Douglas Green lives in Philly (as do I —I work at New Foundations Charter School and he works for the commercial real estate company, Michael Salove Co., but we have yet to run into each other). Hasani Sinclair is also in Philly (so is his brother, Masamba Sinclair ’03), but he did not come back for the reunion." Christian Langbein writes that he has ".. .joined The New Yorker magazine, working on the publishing staff." He lives in Manhattan. Deborah Katz sends the following update: ".. .1 graduated in May of 2004 from Amherst College. I majored in Computer Science and wrote a thesis: 'An Evaluation of the SEGQ Replacement Policy with Adaptive Variations for Running Time Reduction.' I am currently in my second year of law school at NYU."
5th REUNION OCTOBER 21, 2006 Ms. Dana Pisacane 3 Finley Lane Wayne, N J 07470 Class agent: Ms. Lindsay Braverman 484 South Parkway Clifton, N J 07014 Congratulations to Melissa Branco Bowman on her recent marriage. She writes: "I am now happily married to a high school science teacher named Chad Thomas Bowman. I am finishing up my last trimester at Carleton College and will graduate with a degree in psychology and concentration in behavior. Several Class of 2001 ladies stood for my wedding...." Lindsay Braverman writes: ".. .1 am now the Assistant to the 2 Senior Managers of National Publicity for Disney and Touchstone Pictures." Danielle Claudio graduated from Barnard in May, 2005 with a B.A. degree in European Studies. She spent the month of July back in her (junior year abroad) apartment in Paris. She is currently working as Coordinator of Development for the French Institute Alliance Française in New York City.
Ms. Melissa Fortunato 40 Holton Lane Essex Fells, N J 07021 Class agent: Ms. Lauren Tortoriello 112 Heller Way Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Frank Herrmann writes^"Signed a professional contract with the Cleveland Indians after playing summer ball in the Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League." Our deepest sympathies go to Lauren Tortoriello whose mother, Margaret "Peggy" Tortoriello, passed away in December. She is survived by her husband, Robert, a daughter, Lauren '02, and two sons, Christopher '04 and Kenneth TO.
03 Ms. Judith Ferreira 819 Clifton Avenue Newark, N J 07104 Class agent: Ms. Melanie Braverman 484 South Parkway Clifton, N J 07014
Dr. Greerfinds a 'teaching moment' with Arnoldas Pranckevicius '98 and young Lithuanian educators.
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5th Reunion fo r 2000 Back: Marissa Martini, Dana Meranus, Reunion Chair Anna Labowsky, Jay Tobia's guest Claire Singer, Deborah Katz, Joette Harrison Nigro, Mike Nigro. Front: Fran de la Torre, Jay Tobia, Antonella Bollettino, Sammy Lee Glen Ridge, N J 07028 ekozak@comcast. net Ms. Kate Santoro santorok@lafayett0igdu Class Agent: Mr. David Endo Gate House 31 Idle Acres Road Smith's Parish 0FL06 BERMUDA Congratulations to Charlotte Morel who was named to the Dean's List at Drew University for the Spring 2005 semester. William Boss III writes that he is "playing lacrosse for Muhlenberg College this spring." Andrea Piela is in the Siena College News, December 6, 2005, "Four Softball Players Named All-American Scholar-Athletes", The National Fastpitch Coaches Association distinguished four Siena College softball players as All-American Scholar-Athletes. Sophomore catcher Andrea Piela was recognized along with 2005 graduates... "This is a great honor for all four women and a great tribute to our program," head coach Peejay Bran said, "... Anj (Piela) has a great work ethic, and we expect more honors from her on and off the field for the next three years." Piela, who carries a 3.68 GPA, is currently working on her psychology degree and hopes one day to work in special education. Our sincere condolences go to Christopher Tortoriello, whose mother, Margaret "Peggy" Tortoriello, passed away in December.
Mr. Manav Lawani 132 Blue Heron Drive Secaucus, N J (M094 malwani@princeton. edu Class Agent: Mr. Edmund Kozak 17 Summit Street
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Manav Lalwani sent the following update: Julia Roth spent the fall in Belize! She writes that she had an amazing time, met a lot of great people, and has no regrets taking the first semester off from college. She begins her studies at Pennsylvania State University this spring. Rebecca Beyer is studying to be an art history major at Bard College, and is currently enjoying competing on the equestrian team, the Bard Cavaliers. Alexander "Sander" Porcelli has been
2001 MKA alums at Melissa Branco Bowman's wedding: L -R: Consuela Pyz '01, Corey Timperley, Tatjana Gall '01, Melissa Branco Bowman '01, Laura Brown '01, Dana Laufenberg and Joan Kubicek '01 living in Chicago this year interning with the Teamsters Labor Union Local 705. He will be traveling to Paris, Austria and Prague in February, and hopes to return to Europe after he finishes his internship. Sander plans to attend Georgetown University beginning next fall. Heather Lamb writes that Ohio Wesleyan is awesome. The women's soccer team, on which she plays, finished the season as NCAC champions, and made it to the second round of the NCAA's. Congratulations! Rachel Pelosi is a freshman at Drew University on a merit scholarship and is doing quite well.
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