2016 Spring Journal

JOURNAL PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL Spring 2016

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Princeton Day School was formed in 1965, a merger between two great schools: Miss Fine’s School (c.1924, left) and Princeton Country Day School (c.1928, right)

FEATURES

IN EVERY ISSUE

28 From the Archives Before Princeton Day School

2 From the Head of School

32 Hockey Memoir

4 News and Events

On the Ice with Christopher Reeve ’70

8 Arts Notes

34 Memories of the Start of School 1965 On the 50th Anniversary

13 Sports Notes

36 From the Sixties to Now

18 Faculty Notes

Reflections from a Student and Trustee

38 Spotlight On Service

26 Board of Trustees News

Ruchita Zaparde ’17

52 Alumni News

42 Alumni Achievement Award

59 Class Notes

Sara Zoe Hart ’96

44 John D. Wallace ’48 Alumni Service Award Roopa Purushothamam ’96

90 Snapshots

46 Outstanding Young Alumni Award John Maher ’06

48 Athletic Hall of Fame

Jessica D’Altrui Davidson ’96 and Coach Rome Campbell

89 In Memoriam

Spring 2016 Journal Volume 53/Number 2

On the Cover: The fox hunt forms at Pretty Brook Farm in the 1920s Editor: Kathryn Rosko, Director of Communications Designer: Christine Cantera, Art Director Contributing Writers: Hank Bristol ’72, Rebecca Bushnell ’70, Kathryn Rosko, Bill Schluter ’70, Linda Maxwell Stefanelli ’62, Evan Thomas Class Notes Editor: Ann Wiley ’70 Photography: Christine Cantera, Nancy Erickson, Matt Pilsner

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Paul J. Stellato, Head of School

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Present at the Creation Herb Kendall and the Founding of Princeton Day School

“All politics is local.”

— Thomas P. ‘Tip’ O’Neill

n our 50th year, recalling the great and good ideas that led to the 1965 merger of Miss Fine’s School (1899) and Princeton Country Day School (1924), we concede that, around that event, during the last half century, have grown no small number of myths and legends, with their heroes, villains, and all manner and type of goals and motivation. In some small way, each of them is true, as is the important role played by each trustee, parent, faculty member, and student who willed into being Princeton Day School. It is an epic tale in its own right, one worthy of telling in this 50th year and in every year to follow.

But even in the founding of a school, all politics is local. So it was in 1962, as two schools confronted some real – but unpleasant – facts. In search of those small details, my wife Maureen and I found ourselves in late February with Herb and Elaine Kendall, wine glasses in hand, on the sun-speckled patio of the Four Seasons Santa Barbara. With a broad, engaging smile, Herb leaned forward and asked: “Has anyone told you about the rope ladders at Miss Fine’s School and playing fields at Country Day?” I first spoke with Herb Kendall on a December afternoon, when he called as I was getting ready to head to Upper School assembly. He introduced himself as a former trustee of the school (a founding trustee, I would soon learn, Herb served in that capacity from 1965 to 1972), and asked if we could talk for just a few minutes. Unsure about what was to come, I really wanted to go to assembly. Instead, I traded the assembly on that Monday afternoon for a deeper insight into our school than I had enjoyed until that point. We hit it off quickly; and we made a date for a visit to Santa Barbara in February, when I would be in California to speak at the annual meeting of the National Association of Independent Schools. Before I hung up the phone, I asked Herb why he had called me. With his answer, I thought about hopping on a plane that very afternoon: “I’ve been following the school, reading its publications and other items. When we were thinking about the school in the 60s, we never imagined it would become the great school it is today. I wanted to say that to someone, and so I called you.”

And so begins our tale.

Herb Kendall grew up in Newark; his wife, Elaine, in New York. While a student at Wesleyan, Herb had the idea (‘the clearest I have ever had’) that GIs returning from the war would need homes, and lots of them. Although he had no construction experience, he borrowed $5,000 from his dad and hired a crew of Sea Bees (the building corps of the armed services) to design and build small, comfortable homes, first in New Jersey and then across the northeast. Herb mentioned that, at its peak, his company was the country’s sixth-largest. His most notable development was Twin Rivers, an environmentally-friendly development that, at one point, housed several thousand families. Residing in Princeton for some 25 years, Herb built and developed property up and down the Great Road and across the county. For his only building project at Princeton University – a

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women’s dormitory – he hired his first in-house architect: Bob Hillier, Princeton Country Day School class of 1952.

Having lived their entire lives in the east, they moved to Santa Monica, California in the mid-70s, after Elaine, then a writer for the New York Times, composed a feature article on Californians who lived on boats. Never having visited California beforehand, she traveled the length of the state and, once finished, they decided to relocate from Princeton.

They moved first to Santa Monica, before settling in Santa Barbara. Elaine then enjoyed a long career with the Los Angeles Times, writing two columns each week for more than 25 years. An author and playwright, Elaine has seen several of her plays produced at Victoria Hall Theater in Santa Barbara. Their son, Dick ’70, lives in Los Angeles; their daughter, Nancy Kendall McCabe ’74, calls Santa Monica home.

Minutes after being greeted by the Kendalls, Maureen and I were treated to the Princeton Day School version of Tip O’Neill’s famous observation. There were two simple, practical, local-politics reasons the two schools began to discuss a merger. First, Miss Fine’s was a fire trap, relying on rope ladders, flung out of third-story windows, to get its students safely out of the building during a fire. The fire marshal would have none of it and, having spoken often to trustee Bunny Dilworth, was getting ready to close the place.

(Herb added that in the first three or four conversations on this topic, the fire marshal proved no match for Bunny.

Intending to close the place each time he spoke with her, he walked away having been charmed just enough to leave the school open a little longer.) On the boys’ side, things were not much more promising: Anticipating its own expansion, Princeton University informed the Princeton Country Day board of its need for land and buildings upon which the school relied. By 1960, the path forward began to emerge.

Details of the merger are well documented in William K. Selden’s From These Roots (1991), a vivid portrait of the rise and union of two fine schools. I read this book soon after I was appointed head of school in 2008; I have done so countless times since. I commend it to anyone who loves our school.

Much like a young history student trying to place himself within the very events that have consumed his imagination, as I read this stirring tale, I have found myself often gazing into the sepia-toned faces of the men and women present at the creation: Peter Rothermel, Shirley Davis, Herbert McAneny, Bunny Dilworth, May Margaret Fine, Harold W. Dodds, and so many other

heroes and warriors. Theirs is the vision we steward and advance today. But here, before me, was another. On the edge of my seat, I listened to Herb, as that sepia bloomed into full, rich color: a meeting at Bunny Dilworth’s house to discuss the merger (“I assumed I was there because I was the only one who knew how to build anything…”); trips to New York in Dean Mathey’s private train car, where land negotiations and plans for the new school were discussed; the vital roles played by a small number of plain-spoken, committed faculty, especially Robert Whitlock and Herbert McAneny; the choice of slate for the school roof (“The contractor tried to substitute thick-edged slate for the thin-edged we had paid for’); Dean Mathey’s interest in providing tennis courts, ample playing fields and, exiled from the Lawrenceville rink, a hockey rink of its own; and the broad appeal of (and mounting traffic headed to) this new school on the Great Road (“It was a great success from the start; everyone wanted to be there!”). Not much has changed.

Now 92, Herb remains active within the Santa Barbara community, as he and Elaine have been attentive and generous to a range of initiatives there, especially in the performing arts. They have turned their attention now to the planning and construction of a cancer center in Santa Barbara.

With a roster of professional achievements and 60-year record of philanthropy and generous support, Herb Kendall has no shortage of successes upon which his legacy might rest. I never got the chance to ask of which one he is proudest, for, as we walked to our car, he took my arm, pulled me close, and quietly offered his choice: Princeton Day School, and the gift he was given to be present at her creation.

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News and Events

Miss Fine’s Center Spotlight: Interdisciplinary Coursework in the Middle and Upper Schools

Students from Beijing High School No. 4 Visit PDS Twelve students from Beijing High School No. 4 (BHSF) came to PDS to spend two weeks on our campus and live with families from our community. Global Studies Coordinator and US History teacher Maria Shepard, who organized the exchange program, noted “BHSF is a highly prestigious public beacon high school, located in Xicheng District, Beijing, and is recognized throughout China as a top school.” Throughout their stay, visiting students attended classes, interacted with students in the Middle and Lower Schools, and engaged with Upper School students in discussions about global issues.

Black History Month Celebration On February 29, PDS held a special event organized

by Head of School Paul Stellato and the Community Multicultural Development Team (CMDT) to celebrate Black History Month. The school was honored to welcome Mark Tatum, PDS parent and trustee, and Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the National Basketball Association, to speak to the community. In addition, there were musical selections and spoken poetry performances by students in all three divisions and an African drumming circle.

The Upper School Photojournalism and Environmental Studies classes along with the EnAct student sustainability club worked together on a unique interdisciplinary termlong project called “Beauty and the Beast: The Fall and Rise of the Raritan River.” Through the lenses of history, science, photography and economics, the students explored the river, focusing on documenting the ecological impacts that have affected the Raritan over the course of the last century and also recorded its unique beauty through photography. Science teacher Carlos Cara, English teacher and Sustainability Coordinator Liz Cutler, and Photography teacher Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick created the project through the auspices of the Miss Fine’s Center, which provides support for interdisciplinary work at Princeton Day School.

In the Middle School, English teacher Katy Terry’s 8th grade class approached the themes of character and setting in “To Kill a Mockingbird” in a new way by creating characters and maps. Ms. Terry’s asked her students to use what they had learned about the characters in the book to create actual models of the characters using the materials such as cardboard, yarn, buttons, fabric, and raffia, all found in the MS library’s maker space. As for the setting of the classic, Ms. Terry asked students to create a map of Maycomb, Alabama, noting that it could be a literal, drawn map, or a 3D model representation, or students could use the school space to represent different parts of the town.

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GIOVANNA GRAY LOCKHART ’98 AND JULIE ROGINSKY ’91 VISIT CAMPUS TO SPEAK WITH STUDENTS

Left: Giovanna Gray Lockhart ’98, circled. Right: Julie Roginsky ’91, with Paul Stellato and Howie Powers ’80

Giovanna Gray Lockhart ’98 came back to campus to visit classes and speak with our Upper School students about the current political landscape, women in politics, and women in business. Ms. Lockhart, who served as a special advisor to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, is now Glamour Magazine’s Washington, DC editor.

Julie Roginsky ’91, a devoted student of Ann Rothrock, was the first PDS alum to present the Rothrock lecture in early March. Ms. Roginsky has extensive experience in government, politics, and public relations on both the federal and state levels (she worked with both former Senator Frank Lautenberg and current Senator Cory Booker in New Jersey), and appears on the Fox News Channel as a frequent co-host of “Outnumbered” and “The Five.”

Princeton Day School Wins an Impressive 91 National Scholastic Writing Awards The 2015 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards were announced, and Princeton Day School students won a record 91 writing awards. US English teacher Tom Quigley noted “Based on my analysis of data, PDS won more writing awards than ever before, and more than any other private school in the Northeast… This is clear proof that PDS is a creative writing powerhouse.”

Upper School Mock Trial Team: Mercer County Champs The Upper School Mock Trial Team won the Mercer County Championship title, placing first of out of sixteen teams. Congratulations to our team: William Hopper, Devika Kumar, Tarika Kumar, Amberjean Leist, Julia Marshall, Bharat Nagalamadaka, Alexander Neumann, Leo Nye, Malavika Rajagopal, Jedidiah Seinfeld, Alex Waclawski, and Noam Yakoby. Thanks also to the team’s attorney coaches Kathy Flicker, Mike Rosenberg, and Scott Rosenberg ’04.

Middle School Lego Robotics Team Wins Big Congratulations to the Middle School Lego Robotics teams, who won the first place Research Award and the first place Presentation Award at First Lego League competition.

Sustainability Spotlight: Energy Climate Scholars Princeton Day School, a 2015 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School, is committed to sustainability in many forms. This year, a new group was formed: the PDS Energy & Climate Scholars, a group of selected US students who study energy and climate with Princeton University graduate students.

They met several times throughout the year to discuss topics, such as technology solutions for climate change mitigation through fuels, agriculture, transportation, and various industries.

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Parents Association Parties: Panthermania Auction and The Angels Benefit for “The Boy Friend”

At left Paul Stellato with the band Britishmania; Party goers in 60’s style; Auction co-chairs Carole Spence Decker (left) and Mary Beth Enck (right) with Jill Goldman ’74 (middle)

THE DAY OF SERVICE: HONORING THE LEGACY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

From left to right: Anna Cahill, Catherine Cahill, Jesse Neuman, Ann Robideaux, and Benefit Chair Roxane Yonan

Lower School: Literacy Night and Mathternoon

Lower School students had the opportunity to delve into reading and math at two events this year: Literacy Night, at left, and Matherternoon, above.

The Princeton Day School community honored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 15 by participating in a schoolwide day of service with a wide variety of projects. There was wonderful synergy as students in all three divisions worked on a number of projects together. In addition, an original theater piece written and performed by 13 Upper School students called “A Better Place,” was presented at MS and US assemblies. The students who conceived the piece wrote: “If we think of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his passion for service, it is founded on his firm understanding that all humans deserve a life of dignity and we are all interrelated. I can’t be free if you are not free.” Head of Middle School Renée Price, who was inspired to devote the entire day to service and the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., noted “Dr. King said, ‘Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.’ This faith applies to our MS Day of Service. The ways in which this MS has pulled together, pitched in and committed to serve others is not only inspiring, but embodies so much of what our PDS mission is all about.

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Middle School Mini-Course Week

The Middle School tradition continues with Mini-Course Week. Pictured are students participating in Chocolate Immersion and Medieval Madness. This interdisciplinary and experiential week-long program provides wonderful learning opportunities for our students.

“Cymbals� First Place in National Competition

Upper School English teacher Jamie McCulloch reported that the Upper School literary magazine, Cymbals, won another First Place in the annual American Scholastic Press Association Contest/Review of magazines and yearbooks.

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Arts Notes

Upper School Play: Our Town Princeton Day School returned once again to Grover’s Corners in the fall, after 50 years, for a splendid production of “Our Town”

by Thornton Wilder. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play was the first production at Princeton Day School in 1966, and featured a young Christopher Reeve ’70 and Herbert McAneny. In this staging, “Our Town” took place in, among, and around the audience as the production moved through three important gathering locations on the PDS campus, the Gymateria, the Campus Center, and McAneny Theater, marking the journey of the student through Princeton Day School, from Lower to Middle to Upper School.

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Middle School Play: Holes The Middle School students did a great job in the fall play, “Holes,” based on the popular book by Louis Sachar, and directed by Music teacher Marc Beja.

At a post-show 50th anniversary event, PDS welcomed Stuart “Stu” Duncan back to the stage. Mr. Duncan, a former trustee and past parent, starred as Mr. Webb in the original PDS production of “Our Town.” From left, Paul Stellato, Mr. Duncan, Director Stan Cahill, and Cameron Smith ’17 (holding poster).

Upper School Musical

The Upper School winter musical, “The Boy Friend” was pure delight, with book, lyrics, and music by Sandy Wilson. Director Stan Cahill chose this musical to mount in the school’s 50th anniversary year, as it was one of the first musicals ever produced at the school (and again featured Christopher Reeve ’70 in the lead role!). Set against the backdrop of the French Riviera, this romantic spoof of 1920’s musical comedies boasted amazing costumes, choreography, and the effervescence of a glass of champagne.

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The angels always inspire at the Lower School Winter Concert

The dragon dance is also always a hit!

Laughter and fun at the Middle School Strings Concert

Our students shine at the Middle School Band Concert

Beautiful singing at the Upper School and Middle School Choral Concert

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Arts Notes continued

20152016 The Anne Reid ’72 Art Gallery

1. “You Are Here,” Portrait paintings by Micaela Boekelmann and Karen Stolper

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2. “Vanishing Landscapes,” Environmentally-focused photographs and works by James Balog and Susan Hoenig, “Barnes Hall,” video installation by Eleanor Oakes ’03 3, 4. “Syn-chro-nous” Art from Lower School students in grades PreK through four 5. “Double Vision” Photographs by mother/daughter artists Martha Vaughn and Barbara Vaughn ’78

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6. “50th anniversary Alumni Art Exhibition” Works from 37 PDS alums!

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RISING STARS OF PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL On the stage, on the field, or in the classroom, these students shine!

Congratulations to…

Ashley Abrams ’16, Michelle Leung ’18, Ottilie Lighte ’16, and Jerah Siegal ’17, for winning Scholastic Art & Writing awards in art, photography, and design from the Montclair Art Museum (MAM).

Ziad Ahmed ’17, the founder and president of Redefy, an organization which aims to “boldly defy stereotypes, embrace acceptance and tolerance, redefine our perspectives positively, and create an active community,” who partnered with Princeton University’s Muslim Life Program and Not in Our Town Princeton, to host #The Generation of Now event in December. In addition, Ziad also gave a TEDxTalk in November in Panama City, Panama entitled “Our Age Does Not Limit Our Activism.”

Helen Healey ’16, who was named a 2016 National YoungArts Foundation Merit Winner in Photography. In the announcement from the YoungArts Foundation, it was noted that she was selected from more than 12,000 applications—the largest number of applications received to date.

Abby Ling ’17, who won the 18th annual balsam bridge building competition. According to US Science teacher Anthony Lapinski, Abby’s bridge mass was 10.5 g and it held 14,670 g (32.3 lbs.). “So Abby’s bridge held 1397 times its own weight.”

Bharat Nagalamadaka ’17, Rajiv Potluri ’16, and Emily Simons ’17 for winning the PDS Shakespeare Competition in February. These students advanced to the ESU branch competition.

Nived Parikh ’17, for co-founding LetUsConnect, an organization to raise awareness of autism, and to provide educational tools and resources in India.

Tag Quijano ’17, for winning the 2015 U.S. Green Building Council New Jersey Chapter Student Awards for his bicyclepowered rain water pump, which is in the PDS Garden Classroom.

Eric Chen ’19, who competed in the second annual Camerata Artists International Competition and won in the concerto category for his violin piece.

Shriya Annamaneni ’20, for being selected as a TIME for Kids reporter, and interviewing author Rick Riordan about his new book.

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Rising Stars continued Varun Kumar ’21, for being selected as a semifinalist eligible to compete in the 2016 New Jersey National Geographic State Bee by the National Geographic Society. This is Varun’s third year making it to the State round as the PDS representative.

Max Frost ’25, for starting a coat drive in which he donated $1 from his savings for each coat collected to the Warm Coats and Warm Hearts Drive. He even appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” for his project!

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PDS Chess Team is First Place!

Emily and Lyla Allen ’22, also known as the Kitchen Twins, who competed in the television show “Chopped Junior” in December, and appeared on “The Rachael Ray Show” in March.

Congratulations to the Princeton Day School Elementary chess team, who placed first in the New Jersey Championship on Sunday February 21, at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, New Jersey. Also, a hearty congratulations to Albert Ming ’22, won all his games to take home the big first place trophy. Here are the final scores for the tournament: Albert Ming 1st Place; Winston Ni ’23 4th Place; Eric Wu ’24 7th Place; Jai Kasera ’23 9th Place; Dodge Martinson ’22 1st Place, 6th grade. The primary team of Eric Jiang’27, Sonia Lackey ’25, Thomas Horner ’27, Patrick Ming ’25 and Shaan Srinivas ’26 won the 4th place team trophy. First grader Eric Jiang took home the trophy for 4th place in first grade.

Accolades for the Model UN Club The Model United Nations Club participated in both the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University Model UN conferences this year, and won many awards.

Congratulations to our Upper School students: Best Delegate: Kate Bennett ’18, Philip Kaplan ’19, Alex Neumann ’17 Outstanding Delegate: Emma Dries ’18, Pranav Pulakkat ’19, Alex Zheng ’16 Honorable Mention: Ziad Ahmed ’17, Coby Gibson ’17, Nicole Hartley ’17, Vivek Sharma ’18, Jacob Tharayil ’19 Verbal Commendation: Jacob Chang ’17, Stacey Kim ’17 JOURNAL

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Sports Notes

Sports News Highlights In Historic Meet-up Boys Varsity Hockey Defeats Rival Lawrenceville School 6–3 With Princeton Day School celebrating 50 years and longtime rival the Lawrenceville School celebrating their 100th year of ice hockey, the January 13 match carried more significance than the average Mid-Atlantic Hockey League regular season contest. As usual, when the PDS and Lawrenceville ice hockey teams met up, campus was crowded, with students, parents, former hockey players, alumni, faculty, staff and a large contingent of Lawrentians filling the stands and lining the boards to capacity.

PDS struck early in the game and led 3–1 at the end of the second period with goals by Ryan Lisk ’18, Coby Auslander ’19 and Keith Asplundh ’17. The third period, fraught with penalties, brought the score to 4-3, but two more hard-fought goals by Russell Friedman ’18 and Jack Mascali ’17 sealed the win decisively. Goalie Logan Kramsky ’17 had 36 saves, and forward Tyler Coffey ’18 three assists.

Varsity Ice Hockey Coach and Associate Director of Athletics Scott Bertoli remarked, “Every year our kids get excited to compete against Lawrenceville and showcase their talents. To perform at our highest level and come out on top in this bitter rivalry at a jampacked McGraw rink makes it all the more rewarding and memorable for our players.”

Congrats to the 2015-16 Varsity Boys Hockey Team for securing another win for PDS in this historic rivalry!

Connor Fletcher ’16, seated with his parents and sister. In the back row, from left to right, are Associate Director of College Counseling Cindy Michalak, Head of School Paul Stellato, Director of Athletics Tim Williams, and Coach Rich D’Andrea.

Congratulations to Connor Fletcher ’16, who signed a National Letter of Intent to attend Cornell University and play for their Division I men’s lacrosse program.

2015 Tournament Results

Boys Semi – PDS (7) vs. Moses Brown School (2) Semi – Rye Country Day (1) vs. Shadyside Academy (6) Consolation game – Rye Country Day (3) vs. Moses Brown School (3) Championship game – PDS (3) vs. Shadyside Academy (4) Girls Semi-PDS (1) vs. Kent Place (0) Semi-Mater Dei Prep (6) vs. Summit HS (4) Consolation game – Kent Place (2) vs. Summit HS (6) Championship game – PDS (1) vs. Mater Dei (2) Congratulations to Maddy Birch ’19 and Keith Asplundh ’17, recipients of 2015 Christopher Reeve Sportsmanship Award.

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Sports Notes continued

LEGACY ATHLETES

New Coaches at PDS

Maximilian Adam ’16 – Varsity Boys Soccer

Hussein Tolba – Varsity Fencing Coach Tolba joined PDS Fencing this year. He is the founder and owner of Premier Fencing in Monmouth Junction, NJ and has a long history of coaching and competing worldwide.

Samuel Guarino ’16 – Varsity Baseball

Tim Williams – Varsity Boys Basketball Coach Williams joined Princeton Day School as Director of Athletics in 2011 after nine years as Director of Athletics and Head Boys Basketball Coach at Louisville Collegiate School. This winter Mr. Williams took over the role of Head Coach of PDS’ Boys team with great success; see winter roundup.

Oliver Hilliker – Varsity Boys Soccer Coach Hilliker will join PDS Boys Soccer for the 2016 season from New Hope-Solebury High School, where he has spent the past five years as head coach of the varsity boys team, winning a state title as well as four District 1 championships. In addition, Coach Hilliker has served as the Assistant Director of Coaching for Princeton Soccer Association since 2009, where his team won a USL Super Y North American Championship in 2011.

Katelyn Laughlin ’16 – Varsity Field Hockey, Varsity Volleyball Ashley Cavuto ’17 – Varsity Girls Ice Hockey, Varsity Girls Lacrosse George Cole ’17 – Junior Varsity Boys Ice Hockey Coby Gibson ’17 – Varsity Boys Soccer, Varsity Boys Lacrosse Morgan Mills ’17 – Varsity Cross Country, Varsity Girls Lacrosse Peter Shannon ’17 – Varsity Boys Ice Hockey, Varsity Boys Lacrosse Kyra Hall ’18 – Varsity Field Hockey, Varsity Girls Ice Hockey, Varsity Girls Lacrosse Rebecca Kuzmicz ’18 – Varsity Girls Soccer Claire Szuter ’18 – Varsity Field Hockey, Varsity Figure Skating Alexander Zaininger ’18 – Varsity Cross Country Alec Berger ’19 – Junior Varsity Boys Soccer, Junior Varsity Boys Basketball Matthew Kuenne ’19 – Junior Varsity Boys Ice Hockey, Junior Varsity Boys Lacrosse Margaret Laughlin ’19 – Varsity Girls Soccer, Volleyball, Varsity Girls Lacrosse Eric Quirinale ’19 – Junior Varsity Boys Ice Hockey, Varsity Golf Sydney Vine ’19 – Varsity Girls Tennis

Fall Sports Roundup Prep B Champs!

GIRLS VARSITY SOCCER 17W – 2L – 1T Varsity Award – Hannah Bunce ’17 Coaches Award – Abby Atkeson ’17, Isabel Meyercord ’16 Girls Varsity soccer enjoyed an extraordinary season winning for the second year in a row the Prep B State Championship.

Given that a strong core of senior players had graduated, different players were called upon to step into new roles, which they did skillfully. It was a tremendous team effort to win back-to-back State Prep Championships. Coach Trombetta commented, “The bar has been set very high for next year.

I look forward to working with our returning players and the new challenges that 2016 may bring.” Hannah Bunce ’17, Madison Coyne ’18, Grace Barbara ’18, Damali Simon Ponte ’18, Emily Simons ’17, and Becca Kuzmicz ’18 all JOURNAL

received post-season honors. Coach Trombetta was named Coach of the Year by the Trentonian, Trenton Times, and Town Topics.

Prep B Champs!

GIRLS VARSITY TENNIS W9 – L2 Varsity Award – Renee Karchere-Sun ’16 Coaches Award – Devika Kumar ’16, Anna Kovacevich ’16 Girls Varsity Tennis team won the NJISAA Prep B Championship for the fourth year running. It was a team effort going into the final round just one point ahead of rival Gill St. Bernard’s and each player was essential to this thrilling victory. PDS pairs Devika Kumar ’16 and Tarika Kumar ’18, and Anna Kovacevich ’16 and Touria Salvati ’17 swept the doubles flights.

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The 2015 varsity boys soccer team had a very successful season, highlighted by a trip to the Prep B Championship, and a first round win over a talented Hightstown team in the Mercer County Tournament. Additionally, and importantly, the team ended a 32-year winless streak against Lawrenceville School on PDS’s 50th Anniversary Fall Weekend.

VARSITY CROSS COUNTRY Boys 5W – 3L Varsity award – Morgan Mills ’17, Kevin Sun ’17 Coaches Award – Bridget Kane ’18, Tommy Batterman ’18 It was a challenging season for Varsity boys and girls Cross Country, but still a very successful one. With a new head coach, John Woodside, there were many day-to-day changes implemented, and after an initial period of adjustment, the new routines were embraced. The boys team saw consistent

improvement throughout the season despite dealing with significant injuries along the way. The girls team struggled to stay healthy, only finishing the required 5 runners in 3 of their dual meets. Despite these difficulties the girls ran hard and were very competitive. With a new off-season and in-season training approach, and a continued commitment to excellence, PDS Cross Country is in position to achieve their full potential in upcoming seasons.

Sports Notes

BOYS VARSITY SOCCER W9 – L5 Varsity Award – Kevin Hagan ’16 Coaches Award – Chris Chai ’16, Isaac Rosenthal ’16

FIELD HOCKEY W6 – L11 – T1 Varsity Award – Rowan Schomburg ’16 Coaches Award - Katie Shih ’16, Valerie Radvany ’19 The Field Hockey team played a very tough schedule this year against top seeded opponents in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The season proved to be one marked by steady improvement where the team won five games during October. Highlights included hard-fought competitive matches against perennial powerhouses Lawrenceville, Notre Dame, and Robbinsville, and two victories against Stuart Country Day.

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Winter Sports Roundup Prep B Champs!

BOYS VARSITY BASKETBALL 16W – 8L Varsity Award – Chase Lewis ’17 Coaches Award – Paul Franzoni ’17, John McArthur ’17

Prep B Champs!

VARSITY FENCING Boys 9W – 3L Girls 3W – 8L Boys Varsity Fencing Varsity Award – Ritvik Khandelwal ’16 Coaches Award – Mark Schafer ’16, Henry Reynolds ’17 Girls Varsity Fencing Varsity Award – Abby Cohen ’17 Coaches Award – Amanda Ostendorf ’17, Christina Tian ’17 This was an impressive season for both the boys and girls fencing teams. The boys achieved a record with 9 wins. The girls squad expanded thanks to an influx of first-year fencers joining. Both teams experienced notable success. The Boys Sabre team of Ritvik Khandelwal ’16, Mark Schafer ’16, and Henry Reynolds ’17 earned a silver medal at the NJISAA Prep B Tournament. The girls foil team of Sarah Prilustky ’18, Christina Tian ’17, and captain Abby Cohen ’17 triumphed with a gold medal at the Prep Tournament and a bronze medal in the statewide “Santelli” Tournament. Fencers who earned individual medals at the Prep Tournament are Ritvik Khandelwal (silver medal, boys’ sabre), Sarah Prilutsky (bronze medal, girls’ foil), Chris Kiel ’18 (bronze medal, boys’ foil.)

Finishing with 16 wins, the boys pulled together under Coach Williams to make this a season to remember. On February 17, the first-seed team won the NJISAA Prep B State Championship at home with a thrilling 66-62 win over Morristown-Beard, the first Prep title since 1999. Players John McArthur ’17 and Chase Lewis ’17 were named 1st team All State and freshman David Coit Honorable Mention.

Coach Williams remarked that, “It has been a dream season.

The players all have bought into our system and worked well together, and it paid off for us. We are extremely proud of our hard work and success and will continue to build on it.”

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GIRLS VARSITY BASKETBALL 12W – 12L Varsity Award – Helen Healey ’16 Coaches Award – Isabel Meyercord ’16, Alexis Davis ’17 It was a remarkable season of growth for PDS Girls Varsity Basketball not just in skills and team chemistry but also in the number of victories over years past. Despite a tougher, longer schedule the team finished an impressive 12-12 ultimately losing the NJISAA Prep B State Semi-Final game to Pennington.

Season highlights include wins over PHS, Hun, Germantown Friends, Solebury Prep, Hill School, and a momentous win over Stuart Country Day in the first round of the Prep tournament. Coach Bailey observed, “We had several girls step up and play at a high level this season.” He looks forward to helping this tenacious team achieve their goal of State Championship.

In addition, Shayla Stevenson ’17 (Honorable Mention) and Maddie Coyne ’18 (Honorable Mention) were chosen for the NJ Prep B Girls All-State Basketball Team.

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The boys varsity hockey team was charged with forging a new identity and leaving last year’s many struggles in the rear-view mirror. Collectively, this team accepted the challenge and went to work. Two weeks into the season the team stood at 5-0-1 with impressive wins over Hun, Lawrenceville, Hoosac and a third place finish at the prestigious Albany Academy Tournament. The team continued its strong play into the new year, defeating Malvern Prep twice, perennial state power St. Augustine and a strong Wyoming Seminary team. But, the two most memorable outings were decisive 6-3 and 7-2 wins over rivals Lawrenceville and Hun at a packed McGraw Rink. It all added up to an improbable record, a third place finish in the highly competitive Mid-Atlantic Hockey League (MAHL) and a runner-up finish in the Prep Tournament. Goalie Logan Kramsky ’17, Tyler Coffey ’18, and captain Connor Fletcher ’16 all were recognized in the post season by the MAHL. Conner Fletcher was named forward of the year and Logan Kramsky goalie of the year by the Trentonian.

Additionally, Fletcher, Coffey, Kramsky, and Nic Petruolo ’18 were selected for the Trentonian All-Prep Boys Ice Hockey First Team and Keith Asplundh ’17 and Eric Sherman ’18 the Second Team. Coach Scott Bertoli named The Times of Trenton ice hockey Coach of the Year for 2015-16.

GIRLS VARSITY ICE HOCKEY W15-L8-T1 Varsity Award – Annika Asplundh ’17 Coaches Award – Kiely French ’17, Allison Klei ’17

The girls’ varsity ice hockey team had a successful 2015-16 season. With 14 new players and no seniors, the team relied on the strong junior class to lead by example on and off the ice. Regardless of age or experience, everyone shared a commitment to support each other and to work hard to improve.

The team earned 3rd place in the Women’s Interscholastic Hockey League of the Mid-Atlantic (WIHLMA) with a thrilling playoff win over Morristown-Beard. It was PDS’ first win versus Morristown-Beard in 13 years. Ending the season on such a high note was well deserved for this group. Coach Cook is excited to build on the year’s success next winter.

Annika Asplundh ’17, Kristi Serafin ’17, and Kiely French ’17 were all recognized in the post-season by the WIHLMA.

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BOYS VARSITY ICE HOCKEY W15 – L6 – T3 Varsity Award – Connor Fletcher ’16 Coaches Award – Logan Kramsky ’17, Gianluca Travia ’17

VARSITY SQUASH 4W-10L Varsity Award – Noah Liao ’17 Coaches Award – Devon Riley ’16, Laurel Peters ’19 The Varsity Squash team earned 4-3 victories over Hun, Lawrenceville JV, and Delbarton. The squad of 10 was led by senior captain Devon Riley and included four experienced freshmen, three who came from the Middle School team.

Freshmen Dylan Sakaria and Connor McIntyre had the best records in match play with 8 wins and 6 losses. With the loss of only one senior, PDS Squash expects a strong showing next year.

VARSITY VOLLEYBALL 0W-10L Varsity Award – Kate Laughlin ’16 Coaches Award – Clara Love ’18, Tess Gecha ’16 Like any program in a start-up situation, PDS Volleyball continues to master skills, achieve goals, and control their environment. Coach Lano remarked, “We’ve tried a lot of things, but mostly, we’ve tried our best.”

In looking back, players and coaches fondly remember the hard work, fun, and camaraderie they shared as a team.

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SCHOOL LIFE

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Karen Latham Appointed English Department Chair In January, Head of School Paul Stellato announced that Karen Latham, who had served as the acting chair of the English Department since the beginning of the school year, had been appointed the Chair of the English Department (Grades 7-12).

Mr. Stellato noted, “As a teacher and advisor, Karen has distinguished herself, as she has honored our school’s finest traditions of scholarship and engagement. She adds leadership to that list, providing guidance, insight, and vision for her department and our school community.”

Dr. Latham, who has taught at PDS for seven years, was raised in New York and educated in the Midwest, receiving a B.A. in English and American Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a Masters in Film Studies and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa.

She noted, “I have lived in Rome, Italy; in San Francisco; and in London, England. Each of these places has touched and changed me profoundly; I return to them often in my writing and in my teaching.” At PDS she has taught English VIII, English IX, English X, American Literature, Romantics to Moderns, and two personal favorites, The American West and (Hi)Story in Film and Literature. “I helped establish a truly interdisciplinary course at PDS— Springtime in Paris: Art and Literature of the 1920s— alongside art historian, Dr. Elizabeth Monroe. I was founder and moderator of Cinema Club and Living Poets Society.

I served as co-advisor to LINK, the PDS yearbook, and to Cymbals, our literary magazine. I was the coordinator of the Upper School Advisory Program for two years and now look forward to serving as English Department Chair.”

Jane Grigger and Barbara Maloney to Retire

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Middle School Science teacher Jane Grigger and Upper School Science teacher Barbara Maloney will retire from Princeton Day School at the end of the school year. Ms. Grigger has one of the longest teaching careers in our school’s history, and will retire after 41 years of teaching at PDS. In his announcement, Mr. Stellato noted of Ms. Grigger: “Jane’s impact on our school – along with the great measure of devotion she has given it – is equaled by only a few.” Mrs. Maloney, not far behind, will retire after 23 years of teaching students on the Great Road. About Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Stellato commented, “There is not enough space or time here to recount the many ways Barbara has served our school fully and faithfully during her career.”

Both of these legendary teachers will be honored at our end of year celebration.

Head of School Paul Stellato presented at the annual National Association of Independent Schools conference in California in February on Princeton Day School’s journey to becoming a U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School.

Jane Grigger

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Barbara Maloney

US English teacher and Sustainability Coordinator Liz Cutler and Garden Coordinator Pam Flory presented at the Monmouth County Master Gardeners School Garden Conference in April on the topic of the PDS garden, “From Birth to Blossom.”

Stan Cahill Directs World Premiere Play Theater Director and teacher Stan Cahill is directing the world premiere play “Kidnap Road” by acclaimed playwright Catherine Filloux, which is based on a real-life story of the imprisonment of Ingrid Betancourt by the FARC in Columbia. “We headlined the Planet Connections Theater Festival this past summer and a conference at The Center for Justice and Peace at the University of San Diego in November,” reported Mr. Cahill. Next up: Anna Deavere Smith has invited the group to perform at her Institute for Arts and Civic Dialogue, a program that began at Harvard and Stanford and is currently it is based at NYU, at the end of April. Mr. Cahill added, “We are tentatively scheduled for a NYC run at the end of July at 59E59 theatre, followed by an August run in Edinburgh at the Pleasance Theatre.”

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Miss Fine’s Center Update The Miss Fine’s Center at Princeton Day School provides ongoing financial support for professional development, travel, and research for PDS faculty in order to promote the collaborative study of topics and themes that demand and benefit from an interdisciplinary approach. Tara Quigley, the Director of the Miss Fine’s Center, reported on faculty professional development opportunities this year through the Center.

In the winter, Mrs. Quigley joined two groups of faculty who visited two schools to connect with peers and share ideas on design thinking, project based learning, and interdisciplinary studies: the Berkeley-Carroll School in Brooklyn (Eamon Downey, Karen Latham, Beth Yakoby, Carrie Norrin, Jack Madani, Sonia Flores-Khan, Irina Covington, and Jenny Mischner) and Trevor Day School in Manhattan (Jessica Clingman, Drew Lloyd, Sheila Goeke, Ron Banas, and Liz Cutler). In January during the faculty in-service days, “Most Likely to Succeed,” the highly regarded film about education in America, was screened for the faculty. In addition, Mrs. Quigley, and MS teachers Tarshia Griffin-Ley and Alec Militano are taking a course entitled Teaching for Understanding through the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Looking ahead to the summer, a group of faculty will attend workshop at the Buck Institute for Education in California (Jessica Clingman, Carmen Santa-Cruz, and Tara Quigley) on project based learning.

MS English Teacher Paul Epply-Schmidt Wins Silver in Fencing Congratulations to Paul Epply-Schmidt, Middle School English teacher, former PDS fencing coach, and lifelong fencer, who won a silver medal in the 50-59 age bracket for Men’s Foil as well as 7th place in the open Vet Men’s Foil (over 40) in the North American Cup in Baltimore in December. Mr. Epply-Schmidt commented, “This puts me ranked #2 in the US at the moment.”

US English Teacher Reuben Loewy Named Educator of the Month Reuben Loewy, English teacher in the Upper School, was named Educator of the Month by Kids Discover Magazine in December for his PDS course “Living Online,” an interdisciplinary course combining history, technology, economy, sociology, and language which serves to study the Internet and how it shapes our lives.

Design Teacher Chris Maher Wins Award for Furniture Design US Design teacher Chris Maher won an award for best furniture in the “Works in Wood” exhibit at the New Hope Arts Center for his piece, “The Buckeye,” a chair crafted of walnut and buckeye burl.

PDS faculty visit the Berkeley-Carroll School in Brooklyn.

From left to right: Jack Madani, Carrie Norin, Eamon Downey, Jenny Mischner, Beth Yakoby, Tara Quigley, and Karen Latham

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Former Faculty News “Our biggest trip was a return to Panama this past December. The last group of students we taught graduated on Dec. 22, so we wanted to be there for the ceremony.

You would think that after 22 years of PDS graduations, we would have had enough, but this one was special. It was really nice to see students and families after two years away from Panama.”

Steve Bailey, far left, his wife Heather, center, at their favorite waterfall in Panama with Peace Corps and Panamanian friends.

To see more pictures and info about their Panama visit: blog: steveandheatherbailey.blogspot.com

Steve Bailey, former Computer teacher (1989-2011), wrote: “After leaving PDS, Heather and I went into the Peace Corps and served in Panama from 2012-14. We are now retired and living in Montpelier, VT. We love living in the smallest U.S. state capital (pop. 8000), where there are no McDonalds or Burger Kings. The only chains we have here are one Subway and two Dunkin’ Donuts. And of course it’s the home state of Bernie Sanders!

“We spend a lot of time hiking, snowshoeing and skiing in the Green Mountains. During the (short) summers, we enjoy kayaking and swimming in lakes and ponds.

“I am still teaching a bit — I help out with AP computer science at Montpelier High School, and Heather and I tutor at the local adult education center. We also volunteer at the local food pantry. We have had a big influx of donations from the local grocery store, as the Vermont laws will soon prohibit them from throwing out food. It will all have to be given away or composted. We even get a lot of food from (gasp!) Wal-Mart.

“We are really enjoying the freedom to travel. We have spent the month of September each of the last two years in the Seattle area, visiting our son, Dave ’98, and doing lots of hiking in the North Cascades. Last year we traveled to San Antonio, where my father (age 95), brother and sister live.

We stopped off in New Orleans and saw Annie Gibson, former Spanish teacher at PDS, who works at Tulane and often takes groups of students to Cuba; that’s one place we would like to go soon.

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Joan Baker, former registrar, celebrated her 95th birthday with her daughter Linda Baker Bogue ’68, former Middle School teacher, Pat Cross, alumnae Sia Godfrey Bauer ’68 and Connie Sayen Ban ’68, former Director of Athletics Jan Baker, and some of her friends at Stonebridge in Montgomery Township, NJ. Linda Baker Bogue ’68 serving cake to her mother Joan Baker

Kay Haartz Cortelyou, former Upper School Math teacher, wrote: “A PDS memory from my first year teaching there in 1969: as a dedicated young teacher I attended many school events. I attended the fall play that year; I was surprised at how difficult and mature a play it was for a high school to attempt. I asked Mr. McAneny, the faculty director, if he always put on such difficult plays. He replied, ‘Only when I have Christopher Reeve to star in them.’

“Although I have ‘retired,’ I continue to do some long-term substitute teaching as well as more traveling, and I am still showing my Morgan horses. I have two granddaughters living outside of Houston, TX. But I do not see them as much as I would like. Kip and I continue to live in McLean, VA where we have been for 40 years.”

Pat Cross, former Middle School History teacher (19791997) sent: “Happy Birthday PDS! “I have Doug McClure to thank for taking a plunge into the unknown by hiring me in 1979. My credentials were not easy to understand but Gary Lott and Anne Rothrock explained my background and the rest is history!

“I became a Middle School history teacher and then began my wonderful years at PDS. Most memorable were the

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many Mini-Week adventures — a tradition begun by former Middle School Head Mary Williams. I remember most vividly our trips to Williamsburg and how Beth Carroll and I thought being a tour guide would be a great thing to do in our retirement; a dream that I have now fulfilled at Drumthwacket, the Governor’s mansion in Princeton. We also loved the beautiful Amish country in its stark black and white winter colors.

“Life in the Middle school would not have been complete without Medieval Day, when the entire sixth grade became immersed in all things medieval and had so much fun writing and performing their own skits after a procession to the orchard, following the banner.

Former and current PDS faculty and staff celebrating former Head of Lower School Sara Schwiebert’s 80th birthday: Sue Carty (Grade 1) Molly Houston (Grade 2) Sara Schwiebert, Nancy Miller ’57 (K), Linda Maxwell Stefanelli ’62 (Alumni Office), Jan Baker (Athletics), Laurie Curtis (Grade 2)

“I continue to derive great pleasure from occasionally bumping into my old students — most of whom are in their 30’s or 40’s and hearing about the amazing and interesting careers they have chosen.

“I’m now happily retired, living in Kingston, NJ, reading the New York Times everyday, very engaged in the news and politics and still playing tennis!”

Laurie Curtis, former Lower School teacher, reported: “Since retiring from teaching second grade at PDS in 2007, I returned to another love: writing, mostly poetry and stories for young children. I’ve also been busy raising miniature donkeys, zipping back and forth to help my elderly mother on her farm in Maryland, playing tennis, and learning golf.

I found I’ve really missed spending time with little kids, so I am now happily ensconced volunteering in the after-school program at the Home Front Family Preservation Center.

This past December, my former second grade student, Sydney Gecha ’11 was also helping in the after-school program so we had a giggle over working side by side as fellow teachers.

“My husband Hal is about to set off to hike the Appalachian Trail from May-November only coming off to walk our daughter, Eliza ’08, down the aisle in early August. Eliza is an LCSW at a family clinic in Brookline, MA and her fiancé Richard Worsman is a teacher of Mandarin Chinese at The Pacific Rim School in Boston. Parker ’02 teaches sixth and seventh grade history and world religion, and coaches basketball at The Moorestown Friends School, in Moorestown, NJ. Suzanna ’04 recently moved to Berkeley, CA, where she is pursuing her PhD in Special Education at UCal-Berkeley.”

Current second grade teacher Susan Ferguson (at left) with former Lower School teachers Sue Carty and Molly Houston (at right) celebrating Sara Schwiebert’s 80th birthday

Steve Hahn, former Upper School math teacher, sent his memories: “Almost 44 years since that creative 1972 graduation ceremony (where are you now, Nan?) … a special class at a special time, and I remember each of you as we grew up together. Thanks always to Doug McClure for faith in a rookie teacher, his ‘I Bet You Can’t’ challenge at the inception of Oak Valley, and to the math department and so many Former math teacher Steve faculty friends for mentoring Zahn with his grandson and colleagueship, for hanging out at Alan’s, for Monday night bowling with Wes McCaughan, and Alberto Petrella.

Sitting on stage and debating the Board Chair on revising the SPRING 2016

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dress code, it was all idealism and community and what has become to be known as student-centered. Who was to know that I would become a trustee at three schools — I may have lost some of the naïveté but not the perspective. I remember our camping trips, math deep in Dan Barren’s basement classroom, learning to understand student needs with Ginny Stein, great advisees, awesome seventh and eighth grade basketball teams, and that yearbook remains one of my most prized mementos.

“Those four years (1968-1972) helped to shape a career that included directing experiential travel programs in the ’70s, teaching, coaching, admissions and development work at Derryfield School (1981-1984) that led to becoming Head of School at Lawrence Academy (1984-2003), Hamden Hall (2004-2005) and Portledge School (2006-2012), where I succeeded Huson Gregory after his 29-year tenure. We were ahead of the curve with a skills-based, interdisciplinary approach to learning and always conscious of building community and helping students toward realizing their individual potential. Since retiring, I have committed to New Hampshire as a school board member here in Hillsborough, an almost successful candidate for the state legislature (I lost by 96 votes in 2014), a volunteer with The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and an aspiring tennis player.

“Most important, since leaving PDS, has been my family.

I married Trim in London in 1974, and we now await our third grandchild, due in March! Trim has worked in many capacities with me in the schools where we have lived, has also been an elementary school principal, and a master with flowers and gardens. Josh, his wife, Steph, Sam (age 3) and Anna (age 1) live at The Hotchkiss School, where Josh is the assistant head for sustainability and environmental affairs.

Rebecca, our child with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome, lives in a group home in Massachusetts. And Dianna, who has devoted her career to leadership training and experiential and international education, and her husband, John, live in Boston and await their first child.

“Happy 50th to PDS! Time has moved quickly, and it mostly makes sense.”

Pete Jaques, former Head of Middle School (1978-84): “My 2008 retirement from Princeton Friends School proved to be premature, so I led Friends School Haverford (PA) as an Interim Head for a year. Then I returned to Princeton Friends for five more years, teaching and being a division head as always, including being Acting Head for six months.

I loved my 15 years with Nancy Wilson and Jane Fremon (from PDS Middle School years); it was they who founded Princeton Friends in 1987, and that school, like PDS, is going strong and sending a couple of kids to PDS each year. After re-retiring in June, I am enjoying not working

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and am filling my time easily with being outdoors, especially birding, being a diligent trustee with Family Guidance Center in Hamilton, reading history, good lit, and poetry, writing poems, living in Vinalhaven, ME in summer, and, with my wife, Sue, seeing more people and places. Part of being retired and 73 is de-cluttering, and I have come across a crutch signed by the 1982 Middle School football team that I coached with Tom Malsbury: Scott Miller, Justin Mraz, Zack Gund, Joey Gigliotti, Steve Cohen, Jeff Walker, Ben Travers, Bobby Sheehan, Gary Hofing, Mike Socolow, Peter Sienkiewicz, Peter Pritchard, Seth Woodward, Todd Roberts, Mark Federov, Scott Fletcher, Jamie Knill, Jameel Talwani, Jon Bylin, Steven Thomas, Cliff Hilpert, Ashley Jameson, Brad Batcha, Clayton Benchley, Ian Davis, Brent Eaton and Tim Jaques. We were distinguished by having a line that was heavier than that year’s PDS varsity, and by winning a lot. PDS students & colleagues live on in my memory, but I’d love more direct contact. Write to me if so moved! herbertjaques@comcast.net” Judy Michaels, former Upper School English and Poetin Residence, wrote: “As I think over the years — from 2011 back to 1974 — the memory that’s most vivid is PDS’s performance of Carnival at Circle in the Square in New York. Incredibly exciting! Frank Jacobson and I were playing the two pianos in the pit, with Frank conducting, Don Gilpin was directing, and Muna Shehadi and David Lifland ’79 were singing their hearts out — and Susie Rabb Bailin ’80 as Rosalie. I can’t remember who played Marco the Magnificent, or Jacquot, or who animated the puppets, though Cory Powers ’79 was the formidable stage manager whom even the New York stagehands learned to respect.

“Recent news: The saddest note was Steve Lawrence’s death from cancer back last spring. I feel fortunate to have been able to spend time with him during the year of his illness, at first on some beautiful fall walks and later on visits to the house.

“My new poetry collection, a chapbook called ‘Ghost Notes,’ came out this past June, and I was invited by the publisher to give a reading in Dublin this past December at the week-long Abroad Writers Conference, where I also got to study with an outstanding Irish poet who’d just won the T.S. Eliot prize for her new book. I did some sightseeing, the high point being a production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Gate Theater with a brilliant Irish and English cast. I spent euros recklessly at one of the best poetry bookstores I’ve ever visited, went to a 150th anniversary exhibit on Yeats at the National Library, heard some good fiddle music in an Irish pub, and took a very moving tour of Kilmainham Gaol, where the leaders of the Easter uprising of 1916 were executed.

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“Back in October I had a good visit with Kate Westhaver in Boston. I was sorry to miss catching up with faculty and alumni at the New York reunion and the holiday party but have been back to PDS a number of times to give poetry sessions, attend art exhibits and plays, and — in October — to hold a book launch reading and signing for my new book.

“Cancer has held off now for nearly five years, so I feel very lucky. I continue to teach poetry for the Dodge Foundation and participate on cancer panels in New York medical schools for the national program STS — Survivors Teaching Students.

12 in Burlington, New Jersey. Although I miss my students and friends at PDS, I love my new school and position. I feel very fortunate to have joined Doane at an especially significant time in its 179-year history, as we have just completed a major new building project and are embarking on a series of other exciting new ventures. Please come by for a visit, if you haven’t done so already! I am also lucky to be able to commute to Doane from my home in Pennington (only a 30-minute drive to school) and remain a member of the PDS community as a parent of Peter and Katie, who graduate this June.

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time at the Walker Art Museum. I was in Key West at the Literary Seminar for four days in January and enjoyed the keynote discussion by Junot Diaz and Hilton Als on James Baldwin’s influence on later writers.

“The family cabin in Maine continues to be a great source of pleasure, in summer, part of the fall, and at Christmas — time together with my siblings, the lake, and the mountains.”

Tom Palma, former Upper School Science teacher, wrote: “Happy 50th birthday to PDS! My one-year position (that turned into a ten-year stay) was most enjoyable and rewarding. I feel proud to have played a small part in your illustrious history.

“My wife and I have altered our plans to spend the summer at our NJ Shore home and the winters at our Naples, Florida home. Last May, my son and his wife, who live in Brick, NJ, had twins, a boy Tom and a girl Lila. We are helping them out by providing day care two days a week. This ‘job’ consumes quite a bit of our time and energy, but we love it! The kids are very mobile either crawling or cruising (walking holding onto furniture — I am learning so much new stuff!)”

Tom Palma with his twin grandchildren wearing corrective helmets that make their heads grow into a symmetrical shape

George Sanderson, former Upper School History teacher and History Department Chair, was installed as the Headmaster of Doane Academy in Burlington, NJ this past October. He wrote: “After 23 years in a variety of teaching and administrative roles, I left PDS this past summer to become the Headmaster of Doane Academy, an independent Episcopal day school for students from age 3 to grade

Current and Former PDS faculty and administrators at George Sanderson’s installation: Front Row L-R: Howie Powers ’80, George Sanderson, Maria Shepard, Lauren Ledley Back Row L-R: Andy Hamlin, Kathy Jamieson, Carlton Tucker, Todd Gudgel, Kelly Dun, Dave Freedholm, Elizabeth Monroe and Hank Bristol ’72 (not pictured are Bill Stoltzfus and Paul Stellato)

Mickey Shriver ’46, former college counselor, wrote: “1965-66 is a long time ago, but I do remember I spent much of it in Colross. For the previous five years, I’d been a Trustee of the new school and one of the fundraisers in the Development Office on Nassau Street. When the school opened and I began working there, we moved everything to Colross, and a year later the McClure family made the second floor their home. While they lived there, we had fun celebrating holidays, especially Christmas and Thanksgiving —until someone stole the turkey they were cooking the night before Thanksgiving. That celebration quickly changed, but Christmas was still wonderful, with Fred Wandelt sliding down the banister as Santa Claus.

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“The late ‘60’s and most of the ‘70’s were, of course, a time when everything was in flux, but PDS always seemed, to those of us in Colross, to be a happy place, without too many restrictions, but under control. Those were the days when Doug McClure delighted audiences of a faculty show with his rendition of ‘The Girl with the One Blue Eye,’ Thomas still directed traffic, and my colleague, Ginny Taylor, and I were allowed to bring our dogs, Daisy and Charlie, to work every day.

“Before he left PDS, Doug offered me the position of Director of College Counseling, a job I loved for 15 years until my retirement in 1992. It’s impossible to name all the marvelous teachers, administrators and students who filled my life, but I have countless, rich memories of those years.

“At the moment, I’m living at Stonebridge, a great retirement community a few miles from Princeton. My main activity is working with The Princeton Festival, which a few of us started 12 years ago, when Opera Festival of New Jersey closed. It’s a June festival of opera, dance, chamber music, jazz, musicals, and more, but we work on it all year, with vacation in August.

“Recently, I’ve been going to Maine in August to see two of my friends who live at Piper Shores, another retirement community, where I’ve also seen Kay McClure.

“And, so, life sometimes comes full circle.”

Cindy Stadulis, former Business Manager, wrote: “Happy 50th Birthday PDS! So glad to have been a part of your history for almost half of your life (1986-2008). I write you from Louisville, KY where I have recently started as the Director of Finance and Operations at Kentucky Country Day School, JK-12 coed independent school, which is very similar to PDS. After leaving PDS, I headed north to Dwight-Englewood School and commuted for seven years over three hours a day on the NJ Turnpike. Got tired of that so Tom (1990-1996) and I moved here this past summer and have quickly settled into life in the Midwest/ South. We are loving it. Why Kentucky? In theory, as it is in the middle of the country, we figured it was halfway to wherever our shared five children may end up. Leslie ’06 is in San Antonio, TX, working as a teacher. She has blessed us with our first grandchild, Emma. Philip ’08 is in Austin, TX, working in film production. Meghan ’08 just passed her Veterinary Boards and will graduate with her VMD from UPenn in May. Ben ’09 is currently in advanced flight training and hopes to have earned his Navy wings by the time this Journal goes to print. And Sara ’12 will graduate in May from Middlebury. If you are ever in town, we would love to raise a glass of bourbon with you to honor PDS’ 50th!”

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Shapiro/Stadulis family, which includes three former employees and five alums (and a few friends, too). Back Row L-R: Ben Stadulis ’09, Tom Stadulis (6 years at PDS ’90-’96), Cindy Stadulis (22 years at PDS ’86 -’08), Sara Stadulis ’12, and friends. Front Row L-R: Meghan Shapiro ’08, Dail Forsyth (10 years at PDS ’88 -’98), Sandy Forsyth holding Emma Davenport, Travis Davenport; Leslie Shapiro Davenport ’06 Front: Philip Stadulis ’08

Louise Topp McClure, former music teacher, reported: “Since I left PDS in spring of 1992, I have developed a busy private teaching schedule out of my house, with lessons, groups, and a chamber-music-and-pizza series, as well as a summer string orchestra in the Hopewell train station and a summer chamber music camp. I co-organize a community dance series for families, with the Mixed-Age Dance Band as the house band, and co-lead an annual weekend Suzuki Workshop with invited clinicians. I play fiddle in the contra-dance band Blue Jersey and viola in the classical Sinfonietta Nova.

“In April of 1996, my husband and I carried our adopted Chinese daughter over the threshold for the first time.

She is now a junior at NYU, spending a term in Madrid.

Parenting, it turns out, is quite a journey!

“Since leaving PDS, I have studied several forms of bodybased/energetic healing. I am fascinated by the body’s response to verbal, energetic, emotional, and physical suggestions for healing.

“I would love to hear from former students: louisemcclure@ verizon.net.”

Jan Westrick, former music teacher, sent “Greetings to the PDS family from sunny Santa Fe. Fred and I relocated here in October of 2014, partly to be closer to two of our five grown children. We miss Princeton but are enjoying exploring New Mexico and the Southwest. I have such happy

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Judy Williams, former Lower School faculty, wrote: “After ‘retiring’ from PDS in 2009 my husband Charlie and I accepted teaching jobs at The American School in Switzerland (TASIS). We enjoyed four great years there, teaching an international student population Monday through Friday and traveling on weekends. We returned to the States in 2013 and are enjoying retirement in Bridgehampton, NY. We like to play tennis and golf, and we take lots of walks on the beach. We have been lucky to escape the cold northern winters by heading to Florida and we take a long trip every August. Last summer we went to Ireland, England, Belgium and Holland. Our older daughter, Christina ’94, is a trauma surgeon in Cincinnati. She tries to spend three months every year with Doctors Without Borders. Our younger daughter, Austin ’97, lives with her husband and two wonderful children in Denver. She just completed a Master’s degree program in cultural anthropology and has started a doctoral Former Lower School faculty program. That’s it in a member Judy Williams, with her nutshell. Happy Birthday husband Charlie and their two PDS.”

GJ Melendez-Torres ’07 in London with former Upper School English teacher, Mary Williams

Mary also wrote, “Catching up with G. J. brought back a vivid memory from my very first Friday of teaching at PDS: September, 2003; last period, Friday afternoon; room 204. The Class of ’07 had just entered grade IX, and my amazing section settled immediately into working on the writing prompt I had suggested. As I leaned against the window ledge, admiring their focus, their enthusiasm, their responsiveness, and their seven minute silence, I was certain that I had landed in a very special place! And what a lovely array of memories have followed over 11 years in the classroom, and, since retiring in 2014, in my continuing work in support of the Lively Arts Program and Imagine the Possibilities.”

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memories of my 22 years on the PDS faculty—fourth grade plays, eighth grade musicals, concerts galore, etc. etc. I loved almost every minute of it!! Please convey my greetings to former students and faculty friends. Hopefully on some trip back East I can stop by and say ‘hi!’ Love to all.” Jan would love to hear from former students and colleagues. Her email is: JanWestrick0076@comcast.net.

Kate Winton wrote: “John (Baldwin) and I started teaching at the Taipei American School last August and love living in Taiwan! It’s been great fun teaching internationally, and Taipei is a perfect base for amazing travels in SE Asia — Xmas in Thailand, Chinese New Year scuba diving in the Philippines, and spring break cherry blossoms in Japan. This summer we’ll be sailing in Vanuatu, sharing a yurt on the Steppes with Mongolian friends, and seeing orangutans in Borneo, so no complaints beyond our missing Erin (Burns) ’08 and Kelsey (Burns) ’10 and good friends stateside. We welcome visitors!”

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Mary Williams, former Upper School English teacher, wrote: “While traveling in Europe this summer, my granddaughter, Amani Speller, and I spent a delightful afternoon with G. J. Melendez-Torres ’07, who was passing through London en route to presenting a paper in Dublin, Ireland. G.J. has accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of Health Technology Assessment, Epidemiology and Evidence Synthesis at Warwick Medical School in Coventry, UK, that began in October.”

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Board of Trustees Barbara Griffin Cole ’78, Chair Thomas B. Harvey, Vice Chair Andrew M. Okun, Treasurer Lisa R. Stockman, Secretary/Parliamentarian Deepinder S. Bhatia Marc C. Brahaney Rebecca W. Bushnell ’70 Kun Deng J. Christopher Dries Joanne ElKadi Christopher W. Gerry ’99 Carol Herring Eleanor V. Horne Lynn Dixon Johnson Christopher B. Kuenne ’80 Cindy Linville Naru Narayanan David L. Richter David R. Scott Paul J. Stellato Mark A. Tatum Mark E. Thierfelder John C. Wellemeyer ’52 Marilyn W. Grounds, Trustee Emerita Betty Wold Johnson, Trustee Emerita Samuel W. Lambert III, Trustee Emeritus Edward E. Matthews, Trustee Emeritus John D. Wallace ’48, Trustee Emeritus

Deepinder S. Bhatia

Marc C. Brahaney

Rebecca W. Bushnell ’70

Barbara Griffin Cole ’78

Kun Deng

J. Christopher Dries

Joanne ElKadi

Christopher W. Gerry

Thomas B. Harvey

Carol Herring

Eleanor V. Horne

Lynn Dixon Johnson

Christopher B. Kuenne ’80

Cindy Linville

Naru Narayanan

Andrew M. Okun

David L. Richter

David R. Scott

Paul J. Stellato

Lisa R. Stockman

Mark A. Tatum

Mark E. Thierfelder

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LETTER FROM THE

Chair of the Board of Trustees

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or the last 50 years Princeton Day School has been celebrated for “Great Teachers on the Great Road.” Our teachers ignite curiosity, instill confidence, demand rigorous inquiry, applaud creativity, and in many cases uncover and nurture latent talent. A pivotal teacher or coach can make a profound difference in the life of a student. Students at the school develop deep personal connections with teachers who not only believe in them, but make them feel that they are understood, valued, and hold great promise. A hallmark of the school is our teachers’ willingness to take time to work with students independently, often outside the classroom, when they need it most. The greatest gift our students receive is having very talented and deeply caring adults believe in and support them. In addition, our faculty members seek continuous improvement of themselves so that they may bring back increased knowledge, perspective, and energy to the classroom. Princeton Day School, since its founding, has supported hundreds of advanced educational opportunities for our faculty and many of the school’s distinctive programs, such as Imagine the Possibilities, Garden and Sustainability, International Travel and Global Studies, and Health & Wellness, are direct outgrowths of these faculty opportunities.

In her remarks at a dinner last fall, fellow trustee Rebecca Bushnell ’70 compared her experience at the school in the 60’s and 70’s to the school of today and said, “The most important thing that has not changed is the value that PDS places on having the most extraordinary faculty and community of students: it is the focus on the quality of the people, and the cultivation of strong academic and moral values that continues to define PDS.” Her sentiments have been echoed by hundreds of alumni who have written in during this 50th anniversary celebration to tell their stories about teachers who changed their lives. For example, a member of the class of ’06 wrote to the school about a faculty member in the performing arts, “For me, Deb Sugarman ignited a lifelong passion and artistic journey and for that I am extremely grateful.” A member of the class of ’69 expressed her deep appreciation for a history teacher, “In 1965, I fell in love with history because of Mr. McCaughan… he was the most influential teacher in my life.”

The heart of teaching is the personal relationship between student and faculty. Our faculty is the backbone of this institution, and they are the people who, in large measure, define it. The teachers that inspire the most are those that bring their curiosity, enthusiasm for learning, and innovation into the classroom and to the students. Over the course of this year, the Board, along with Head of School Paul Stellato, has been looking at ways to support our faculty to do just that. We are seeking new endowment dollars that will increase funding for faculty graduate work, seminars, travel, and research that will allow them to develop and enhance outstanding programs and teaching. Additionally, we seek funding to support renovated library, performing arts, technology, and classroom spaces to meet the needs of enhanced programming in science, technology, and performing arts. We are confident that Princeton Day School will continue to be defined by “Great Teachers on the Great Road” for the next 50 years. (Visit www.pds.org/great-teachers-great-road for more information.)

Barbara Griffin Cole ’78 Chair, Board of Trustees

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Since September 17, 2015, we’ve been celebrating the 50th anniversary of Princeton Day School— looking back at photos from the first day of school (those wonderful madras jackets!), talking to alums, and honoring the faculty, administration, and trustees who created this wonderful school. But, Princeton Day School stands on the shoulders of giants; notably, Miss Fine’s School and Princeton Country Day School, and the generosity of benefactor Dean Mathey.

On the third floor of Colross, there is a treasure trove of photographs from well before the founding of Princeton Day School in 1965. In celebration of this great, coeducational, PreK through 12 independent school, it’s instructive (and just plain fun) to look back to the foundation upon which this school was built.

This photo, from the late 1920s, captures the Stony Brook Fox Hunt forming at Pretty Brook Farm. The photo, donated by Sarah Gardner Tiers MFS ’33, shows off the beautiful Pretty Brook Farm, home of benefactor Dean Mathey, who donated the property to create Princeton Day School. The Farm, still beautifully preserved, now serves as a meeting space on campus, as well as housing for faculty.

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A photo of the Princeton Inn from 1915. Though May Margaret Fine established her school in 1899, originally at 42 Mercer Street in Princeton, the “enrollment had increased to such an extent that plans were initiated for constructing a new school building with expanded educational facilities” (from William Selden’s “From These Roots”). Miss Fine decided to transfer her growing school to the Princeton Inn in 1918, situated where Princeton Borough Hall currently stands.

A photo of the “Old Home” on Bayard Lane where the Princeton Junior School, which later became Princeton Country Day School, began in September 1924. In William Selden’s “From These Roots,” he notes that this particular house at 10 Bayard Lane served as the headquarters for the local chapter of the American Red Cross during WWI and later was owned by the College Entrance Examination Board at the time of the founding the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Princeton Junior School was renamed Princeton Country Day School, and included grades 5-9, in 1930.

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It seems that theater has flourished throughout the history of Miss Fine’s School, Princeton Country Day School, and now Princeton Day School. Here are two memorable photos of students in dramatic scenes.

Left, a PCD performance of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” in 1936 and below, a photo from 1953 a classical performance from Miss Fine’s School.

Students from Princeton Country Day School, c. 1928

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Entire Miss Fine’s School, including faculty, on the steps of the Old Princeton Inn, c. 1924 Working hard and playing hard. At left, in an undated photo, boys at Princeton Country Day School appear to be hard at work learning the printing press (a timeless skill, right?).

The class of 1954 cavorts on the porch of Miss Fine’s School in their junior year, with Aggie Fulper, Anna Rosenblad Davies, Jenneke Barton (upside down), and Susan Creasey Gertler (thanks to Leslie McAneny ’54).

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Alumni IN THEIR OWN WORDS

By Bill Schluter ’70 Teaches history and coaches soccer at The Tatnall School in Wilmington, Delaware Growing up in Princeton during the sixties, and attending allboys Princeton Country Day School, I gravitated, as did most of my friends, to hockey. We played other sports, including soccer, football, baseball, and eventually lacrosse, but for many, our participation in these activities simply was intended to keep us busy until the winter season. PCD began in grade 4, and all students chose between hockey and basketball as their winter sport. Needless to say, a significant portion of the student body piled into yellow school buses each day to participate in the daily skate at Princeton University’s Baker Rink. Beginning in grade 7, we competed against other schools. PCD ended in grade 9, and the expectation for many was that we would continue our education and hockey at a New England boarding school.

Winter weekends were devoted to playing in the Princeton Pee-Wee Hockey League, consisting of six house teams playing in a round-robin format every Saturday morning. Games began as early as 7:00 a.m., which represented a major commitment for players and an even larger one for parents. Since my father was the coach of my team, the Blackhawks, we occasionally picked up players who needed a ride to the rink. One was Chris Reeve ’70, the future actor and a classmate at PCD, who played JOURNAL

goalie and was assigned each week to a League team. On more than a few occasions, we strapped our equipment on over pajamas while being driven to Baker Rink.

Entering 8th grade, our world changed considerably as PCD combined with all-girls Miss Fine’s School. The merged institution, Princeton Day School, extended through grade 12 and was located on a new campus. A new on-site hockey rink was built, which provided an option for those who were considering boarding school. Some, including Chris, remained at PDS for the Upper School experience. However, I was not among them.

After some deliberation by my parents, perhaps brought on by my discovery of the opposite sex, I enrolled as a 9th grader at Berkshire School in Sheffield, MA in 1967.

A highlight in my junior year was an invitation to play in the Milton-Noble & Greenough 1969 Christmas Tournament (today’s Flood Marr Tournament), the most competitive in New England at the time. Other invitees included Kent School, a long-time rival and member of the Housatonic League, and, ironically, PDS, which replaced a last-minute withdrawal.

We won our first two games in the eight-team field, which put us in the Sunday afternoon finals. After winning the second, the Berkshire team watched the other semi-final match, which pitted Kent v. PDS. We knew Kent well; the team was strong and deep, with an outstanding new defenseman Larry Piatelli who had transferred from a Boston-area high school. Larry’s defensive mate was Basil Stetson, another product of PCD and Princeton Pee Wee Hockey. PDS was the clear underdog; the team had outstanding goaltending, with Chris Reeve alternating with Tom O’Connor, and six very good skaters, all of whom had to play extended minutes. However, Coach Harry Rulon-Miller ’51 had them playing at a high level. PDS’s best player was Fred Schluter, a powerful center who had recently transferred from Taft, a New England power. Fred was my cousin, as well.

Berkshire’s co-captain, Fred King, was also from Princeton and PCD, so he and I had more than a passing interest in the game that we were watching. Predictably, Kent dominated, putting shot after shot on the PDS goal. However, Chris Reeve was having a special game, and the score remained tied 1-1 through a tense third period. His greatest save was with about five minutes left after a scramble in front of the PDS net. Chris made several difficult stops, but he was unable to get control of the puck. Eventually, it slid back to the point where Larry Piatelli was able to line up one of his patented slap shots. As the puck headed for the “top shelf,” Chris, lying on his back, managed to free his leg and tip the puck with the toe of his skate over the crossbar, preserving the tie. Early in overtime my cousin scored a backhand goal, which gave PDS an improbable victory and a spot in the finals.

The tournament finals on the following day remain a blur, perhaps because Berkshire was on the losing end (I believe the score was 2-3). My cousin scored the winning goal, and Tom O’Connor turned aside just about everything that we could throw at him. Both the semis and finals proved, at least for this weekend, that a small group of well- coached and conditioned athletes could defeat a favored opponent.

In the ensuing years, much changed in our lives. After college, Fred King, Fred Schluter and I were reunited as teammates on the Princeton Hockey Club, an adult team of ex-collegiate players that played in the competitive New York Commuter League (it had been founded by my father and Harry RulonMiller, among others). Chris Reeve attended Cornell, where he majored in Theater. Soon after college, he was chosen to play the lead in the film, Superman.

Despite the fact that I no longer was in close contact with Chris, I kept up with his acting career. After his horse jumping accident in 1995, I was touched by his passionate advocacy for spinal cord research. In 1997 at a fundraiser for the Christopher Reeve Foundation at McCarter Theater in Princeton, Fred King, Fred Schluter, and I were lucky enough to meet back stage with Chris. He genuinely enjoyed talking hockey, specifically the details of the 1969 Christmas Tournament. Chris beamed as I regaled everyone with an account of his incredible save in the final minutes of the Kent game. Indeed, he

Excerpted from the 2010 senior project “Princeton’s Finest: A History of Princeton Day School Hockey,”

by Brooks P. Herr ’10. ne of the first things that the newly formed Princeton Day School did before classes began in the fall of 1965 was to build a rink on campus. That winter, the first-ever PDS team took the ice, led by their captains Sandy Wandelt and Evan Donaldson. They skated to a 6-3-1 record.

The 1969-1970 ice hockey team is arguably one of the greatest if not the greatest PDS teams to ever take to the ice. Led by the goaltending tandem of Tom O’Connor ’71 (the only PDS player to appear in an NHL game) and Christopher Reeve ’70 (“Superman”) along with Deebs Young, Jimmy Rodgers ’70, and a plucky freshman named Buzz Woodworth. The Panthers opened the season in the renowned Milton-Nobles tournament. PDS went out and won three games in two days, beating the host school, Milton Academy, 2-0 on Friday night and then beat Kent and Berkshire on Saturday 2-1 and 2-0, respectively. The Panthers were far from satisfied, springboarding from the early successes they went on to thrash arch-nemesis Lawrenceville twice by the scores of 7-0 and 7-1. The boys of blue and white went on to finish the season 14-4-0, outscoring their opponents 80 to 27.

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remembered watching Larry star for Harvard against Cornell, never realizing that they previously had met on the ice.

In 2003, I was able to revisit these events in an unexpected way.

In January, I received notification from Berkshire of the appointment of Larry Piatelli as the new Headmaster. Later in May, I attended the graduation of my nephew from Berkshire, and one middle-aged man stood out in his apperance. I approached this individual a bit hesitantly, introduced myself, and was thrilled to connect immediately with my old rival. Larry and I reminisced about past hockey games and our careers in independent school education. At one point, I asked about his memory of the KentPDS game and the spectacular save on his shot in the final minutes. Larry immediately recalled this game in detail, including that particular play. Larry was speechless when I told him that Superman was responsible for his years of angst!

PDS was the clear underdog; the team had outstanding goaltending, with Chris Reeve alternating with Tom O’Connor, and six very good skaters, all of whom had to play extended minutes. However, Coach Harry Rulon-Miller ’51 had them playing at a high level.

Larry and I promised to stay in touch as he moved Berkshire forward into a new era. So, several months later I was profoundly saddened when I heard of his sudden passing from a heart attack while playing an adult hockey game in Albany, NY. In the following year Chris died from a lingering staph infection.

One of his passions in his final years was watching his son, Will, learn to play hockey in his hometown of Mount Kisco, NY. Larry and Chris both lived life to the fullest, and, they left us too soon. Undoubtedly, hockey was important to them, and it contributed to their future successes. For a moment in a rink in suburban Boston in December 1969, their lives intersected playing a game they loved.

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Alumni IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Memories of the Start of School

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Delivered on the 50th anniversary of the opening of Princeton Day School on September 17, 2015

by Hank Bristol ’72 teacher, former trustee, past parent ’06, ’09, ’13

oday, like the Lorax, I speak for the sixth grade – that wonderful age of academic revelation, where the human brain is at its peak, formal education is halfway complete, and the world, though complicated, has all been figured out...

To be more precise, I speak today of my sixth grade – one that first walked these halls, ran the fields, and first slammed the lockers, many years ago, as the doors of this school were first opened. We did not realize the significance of that day, but stood in awe outside the large red-brick and white building that would be our new school. We had to wait outside, us boys in jackets and ties (of course), as grown-ups made all sorts of speeches – not unlike today!

Our class of boys had started at Princeton Country Day, over on Broad Mead in Princeton, only two years earlier.

The girls in our class at Miss Mason’s, after graduating from third grade, had for the most part gone over to enlarge the classes at Miss Fine’s School in the big yellow mansion at the head of Nassau Street, where the enormous statue of George Washington is today.

It was 1965. The Beatles were on top of the charts, and the Rolling Stones were coming on strong. I was twelve years old. As we finally entered the building for the first time, our Middle School grades were sent to the South Commons (now named after one of our then Upper School English teachers: Anne Shepherd). That first day, I was happily reunited (in room 215) with some of my friends from the previous year, in spite of the fact that we now had girls in the room, too. But, more importantly, all our classrooms opened up to double ranks of individual lockers filling the Commons! How great! Awesome. As you can imagine, due to this very important fact, we boys quickly forgot that we were now attending a co-ed school.

Mr. Sawyer, our homeroom and science teacher explained how the bells worked between classes, and that the size of the school would not allow for dawdling between rooms.

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Lateness would not be tolerated, even if we had to get to his lab in the Science wing! In addition to introducing us to the principles of electricity that year, Mr. Sawyer later taught me that heat, in fact, does not rise (as my parents had always told me). To this day I remember, it’s heated air that rises.

But you all know that.

The Lower School was situated down stairs in today’s fifth grade wing, opening directly to their very own playground.

Of course there was no Middle School Science Wing at that time, so the outdoor space was much more extensive than today. I still remember the omnipresence of Miss Madeleine Weigel sitting outside at all their recesses.

The Upper School was in the North Commons. And their lockers crowded the space of today’s computer lab and faculty offices. When walking through the North Commons we were always impressed with how big the older boys were. Of course they were ninth and tenth graders, for PCD had only gone up through ninth at the time of the merger. And the girls, or should I say women, were old. They didn’t look like students, in their skirts and dress shoes. We sixth grade boys didn’t realize that Miss Fine’s had been a full K-12 school, sending women off to college for years.

My biggest surprise, and greatest love, in the whole new building was the new Woodworking Shop, with our very own Mr. Whitlock from PCD. How great it was to see him and all the new work benches and power tools! I remember it was just a year earlier, though, that Mr. Whitlock had lost his temper when one of us was just fooling around. I don’t know what the big deal was, but he kept shouting down the hall at us, “One thousand dollars! That’s the tuition you’re wasting! One thousand dollars!”

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In those days, there was no Lower Gym. We were a smaller school back then. The new gymnasium was huge, by my standards, and especially high! Compared to the low concrete block gym at PCD, this bright white room was enormous. It also had a stage used for any all-school events and the wrestling team in the winter.

The Lower School Wing, of course, didn’t exist, nor our expanded Campus Center. There wasn’t a garden like we have today, or beehives. In fact, the only bees were those sprayed by the faculty in the summer when they were hired to climb up and paint the white trim of the building. And, in those days, there was no Anne Reid ’72 Gallery. We had instead the young, and very beautiful, Anne Reid!

We had no Mini-Course Week, or photocopiers; only one music room; no air-conditioning, or ERBs. Except for ice hockey, there were no travel sports on weekends. We had no computers or Internet; no Learning Management Systems or high ropes course.

So what did we have?

We had so much to see and explore that first day!

• A steel frame and roof that would house the open-air hockey rink was still under construction. Mr. Rulon-Miller and others would later that fall have us spread crushed ice directly over the pipes, to make the first ice – there being no time to pour concrete over them.

• The almost-completed theater where students and some faculty would together perform Thornton Wilder’s Our Town later (that fall) under the direction of Mr. McAneny.

It was Herbert McAneny who would later teach middle schoolers (like me) how to perform Shakespeare by having us first strive to do it wrong (on purpose!) and through this exercise decide what would be a more effective or appropriate interpretation. For boys, what began as permission to be silly (as if this was necessary) eventually allowed for the start of a theatrical understanding beyond our years.

• We had a Planetarium where we could see a show of all the stars – given in memory of our classmate, Tui Duncan.

Now a physics classroom, I remember the wonder of that igloo-ceiling, the stars beyond, and my friend, Tui, who never experienced it.

The playing fields were all out to the west, with a Pagoda separating the baseball from the football and soccer fields.

I later found out that the Pagoda was sort of a signature of our own Dean Mathey, the donor of all our property. He had (apparently) also given a pagoda to preside for many years over the Princeton University’s tennis courts.

Well, if we consider today a school as a community: teachers and students together learning and growing for the nurture of the young and the preservation of knowledge, we had it!

The simple chemistry of it all was that we had a place – a beautiful setting, if you will – in which students and teachers could gather to learn and grow. The founders, however, realized the modern reality that such a Socratic dream in a modern school does not just happen out of thin air. It first needed a vision; the vision of women, and men, like Dean Mathey, and a community of parents and alumni/ae willing to commit to the administrative and financial support for such a dream.

We were a new school, neither Country Day nor Fine’s, but something new.

It would take time to realize what this was and the direction that school would take.

It was a complicated dream. On our first day, our name was Princeton Day Schools (plural). To me the dropping of the ‘s’ the following year seemed appropriate but I wasn’t sure why. We were a new school, neither Country Day nor Fine’s, but something new. It would take time to realize what this was and the direction that school would take. My association with this place has been long and varied. Like the Lorax, I long for the simplicity of the life of a sixth grader, but see now that it’s where sixth graders go that is most exciting. For this opportunity, and on so many levels, I, am forever grateful.

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Alumni IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Sixties toNow

From the

Reflections from a Student and Trustee

Delivered to former trustees of Princeton Day School at a dinner on October 22, 2015

by Rebecca Bushnell ’70

Rebecca Bushnell ’70 in a photo from the 1970 Link.

It’s such a pleasure to be here with you former trustees, who have been such steadfast guides and supporters of Princeton Day School.

I count myself among your number, for I, too, am a former trustee, as well as a current trustee, having served a term some 30 years ago with Edith Eglin and Sam Lambert as chairs of the board.

Of course, my relationship with PDS goes back even further than that, to my years as a student, when the school (and I) were still quite young, from 1967-70. As with many of you, I have lots of images of PDS in my head from different eras.

Let’s talk about the sixties and now.

Imagine, if you will, the PDS of the late sixties, with the boys in madras jackets and the girls in skirts where the hems kept

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inching up. There was a dress code, though it was certainly being challenged, as hair got longer and skirts got shorter!

Physically the campus was, of course, a fraction of what it is today: really the main building and Colross are all I remember. It is with less fondness that I recall the gym and pristine playing fields where I sadly limped through field hockey and lacrosse.

But that didn’t matter. What really mattered about PDS were the people who changed my life. For me, it was legendary English teachers like Anne Shepherd and George Packard, who demanded the most from us, and who made students who loved to write believe in themselves. It was the delightfully sarcastic contrarian Gary Lott, who made history live for us. It was Herb McAneny, directing Chris Reeve ’70 in Little Mary Sunshine and Watch on the Rhine at the beginning of Chris’s extraordinary acting career. It was

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Carl Reimers, whom we now miss so much, who was such a genial and wise presence — really the spirit of the place.

It was Doug McClure, PDS’s first headmaster, who led the way in setting high academic standards and recruiting the very best faculty. And of course, it was my fellow students, who came together to challenge and inspire and sometimes tease each other.

If you look at PDS today, what has changed, and what has stayed the same? Well, physically, the campus has been transformed under the wise guidance of trustees over the years. There are expanded athletic facilities, buildings for the Lower and Middle schools, and an extraordinary arts center — I could go on and on! Of course, the students also look rather different: madras jackets have fallen out of fashion, which is probably a good thing.

our students in the fast-changing world of the 21st century.

These students will need to be globally aware, navigate the world of new technologies, and bring multiple skills to problem solving.

PDS is ready to tackle the challenges we all face in this century that is still young, but I believe the school will never forget its roots in valuing the strength of human relationships, teacher to student, and friend to friend.

Fashion aside, we can note that PDS students look different now, in that the community is so much more diverse than it was when I was here. A commitment to the support of financial aid has made all of the difference in creating a collectivity in which students can learn about society and the world from each other, and not just from the teachers.

But the most important thing that has not changed is the value that PDS places on having the most extraordinary faculty and community of students. It is the focus on the quality of the people and the cultivation of strong academic and moral values that continues to define PDS. As a trustee, I have had the opportunity to meet many of the current faculty and student leaders, as well as parents, and I have been so impressed with their collective dedication and their spirit of innovation. And it has also been wonderful to work so closely with Paul [Stellato], whose strong, visionary, and compassionate leadership for this school has really launched it into a new era.

So from my current seat at the trustees table, what do I see?

I see a school that has never forgotten that, in the end, while great buildings and technology and playing fields are all important, what really matters in education are the people and the relationships. That is what you remember; that’s what makes an impact on you years later. It’s your teachers, mentors, and friends. As with all of its peers, PDS will have to adapt its facilities, curriculum and pedagogy to prepare

But the most important thing that has not changed is the value that PDS places on having the most extraordinary faculty and community of students. It is the focus on the quality of the people and the cultivation of strong academic and moral values that continues to define PDS.

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SPOTLIGHT ON SERVICE

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By Kathryn Rosko

n academics, athletics, the arts, and service, we celebrate the pursuit of individual excellence and the spirit of collaboration that binds us together as a community.

The concept of service figures prominently in the Princeton Day School mission statement. Serving the community and the world around us is at the core of a PDS education.

Wander through the halls during the school year, or read announcements on the school website, and you will always find news of a community service opportunity or project in process. From the Thanksgiving basket drives in November to the Wrap-In in December to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service in January, the school, as a whole, is committed to helping others.

And then there are some students who truly find their passion—perhaps even their vocation—in service. One such student is Ruchita Zaparde ’17, who decided in 7th grade to start a non-profit organization to help women in India.

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— From the Princeton Day School Mission Statement

Ruchita was visiting India with her family and had the opportunity to meet Asha, a 27-year-old widow from a rural village, and her two young daughters. Ruchita was appalled to learn that within only a month of her husband’s death, Asha was kicked out of her in-laws’ home, with nowhere to go and no source of income. Immediately, Asha did what she could by working as a laborer during the day and sewing clothes at night by hand. Ruchita was concerned not only for Asha but for her daughters, as well, who would undoubtedly have to quit school to work and help earn money for food.

When she dug a little deeper, Ruchita discovered that there are more than 40 million widows in India, in many cases young women with young children, who are left alone to care

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for themselves and their children after their husbands’ deaths.

On top of that, these widows are often shunned and isolated from society, with no job prospects, and forbidden from remarrying. She wanted to find out if there was some way to help this particularly vulnerable group of women in India.

Ruchita came up with a simple but very powerful idea. If she were able to provide sewing machines and training to these widows, they could support themselves and their children by playing an important role in their villages: seamstress. And in 2010, Sew A Future was born.

Sew A Future is an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization founded by Ruchita Zaparde. As noted in the materials about the organization, “A sewing machine does much more than allow one to stitch clothes; it provides a mother with self-respect and dignity.” In fact, the primary mission of the organization is to “uplift and empower widows with young children by providing them with a steady source of income through a sewing machine.”

Sew A Future truly began with Ruchita’s desire to help Asha and her daughters. She came back to PDS after meeting Asha in India and asked for donations to raise money to buy her a sewing machine. The PDS community helped raise the funds to meet her goal and she was able to present Asha with the sewing machine on her next visit to India, which was incredibly gratifying. But yet, she hoped to help more widows and wondered how to grow the program.

Ruchita quickly decided that reaching out to other students groups at other schools who might be interested in doing this as a service project would be the key to expanding the program. “Using Skype, I presented our efforts to members of Key Clubs, Interact Clubs, National Honor Society

1. Sew A Future strives to uplift and empower widows with young children by providing them with a steady source of income through a sewing machine.

2. Sew A Future also aims to inspire and motivate fellow students across the U.S. to recognize the many hardships widows face in developing countries.

By instilling empathy in fellow students, we can empower them to make an impact on those living across the world.

Sew A Future, founded in 2010, is an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.

Opposite page: Ruchita Zaparde ’17, at right, presents a young widow, Chhaya, with a sewing machine in India.

Chapters, and other community service programs at more than 100 schools,” noted Ruchita. These schools are all over the country, and not only high schools. It turns out that high school students usually spearhead the fundraising aspect of the program for sewing machines, while younger students are happy to collect buttons, threads, and fabrics to help the cause.

Since it was founded in 2010, Sew A Future has helped 312 widows with young children to become self-sufficient. In addition, the organization has involved 57 schools and more than1400 students in their cause.

It seems that Ruchita’s idea for growing the organization worked. Since it was founded in 2010, Sew A Future has helped 312 widows with young children to become selfsufficient by involving 57 schools and more than 1400 students in their cause.

The schools and students who have taken part in Sew A Future have been able to see the impact of their efforts firsthand. Photos, videos, and address details of the families in India receiving the sewing machines are sent back to the students who sponsored them. In addition, the students often receive letters from the widows and their children expressing their gratitude.

Ruchita’s work with Sew A Future over the past few years has not been overlooked by the larger community, and, as such, she has been honored many times. She was chosen as a Youth Ambassador for the National Youth Advisory Council of GenerationOn, a youth service enterprise—she was one of only 14 students selected nationwide for this three-year commitment. In addition, she was selected as a 2015 Global Teen Leader for Three Dot Dash, a We Are Family Foundation initiative. In this case, Ruchita was one of only 30 teens chosen worldwide. And most recently, in November, she was named a 2015 Nickelodeon HALO Honoree, which stands for Help And Lead Others. One of only four teens chosen from across the country, Ruchita was able to act as a co-host of a special, nationally televised Nickelodeon awards show, which aired on November 29.

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a rigorous course load and many extra-curricular activities at Princeton Day School. How does she manage it all?

Thankfully, it turns out that she is human, and sometimes needs to give herself a pep talk to keep moving forward with her ambitious goals.

“When I find myself calling a school numerous times to make a presentation and don’t get a call back, or when I meet so many helpless widows in just a single village in India, I think: Does what I’m doing really make a difference? Can a high school student from New Jersey affect real, substantial change 6,500 miles from home? But then, I remember the smile on Asha’s face and her young daughters’ jubilation at the thought of returning to school thanks to the efforts of a few students at a middle school … half a world away. Seeing our success with Asha and many others, I have come to value the difference that taking small steps can make in this world.”

Ruchita credits her experiences here at Princeton Day School with inspiring her to stick to her mission. “Being at PDS since Kindergarten has influenced my desire to help others. Because of the close knit community PDS has, I was able to hold Sew A Future’s first fundraiser here in 8th grade, which got everything rolling. Because of our community and the immeasurable support I have had from teachers, peers, and friends over the years, Sew A Future has grown and flourished far beyond my expectations.”

For her work with Sew A Future, Ruchita Zaparde ’17 has been honored many times. Here are some of her accomplishments: • Selected 2015 Global Teen Leader for Three Dot Dash – a We Are Family Foundation initiative.

Only 30 teens were chosen worldwide.

• Chosen as a Youth Ambassador for the National Youth Advisory Council of GenerationOn, a youth service enterprise of “Points of Light.” One of only 14 students selected nationwide.

• Named a 2015 Nickelodeon HALO Honoree, which stands for Help And Lead Others. One of only four teens chosen from across the country.

Nickelodeon aired a special awards show on November 29, and Ruchita was honored as well as serving as co-host of the evening.

It really does begin with one desire and one voice. “We all have a responsibility to better our communities. Supporting one’s family and living with dignity form the basic foundation of human life—for living merely to survive is not living at all.”

Ruchita Zaparde ’17 pictured with some of the widows and children she has helped in India through her non-profit organization, Sew a Future.

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GREETINGS FROM THE

2015/2016 Alumni Board

Chris Gerry ’99 President

Alumni Board It’s been a great year for Princeton Day School as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the merger between Miss Fine’s School and Princeton Country Day School. The alumni community is clearly engaged with our school as evidenced by the record attendance at events and increased Annual Fund support.

In this special year, we invite you to celebrate Great Teachers on the Great Road by making a gift to the Annual Fund in honor of a PDS faculty or staff member that made an impact on you while you were a student at PDS. Anecdotes about this person’s impact and influence on you are most welcome. For those who have already made gifts in honor of faculty, let me personally say: thank you. The collection of stories amassing in the alumni office is a true testament to the unique bond between PDS students and the teachers, coaches, and other staff members that stay with our alumni long beyond their time at Princeton Day School.

Please continue to check in with PDS as we head into the spring months. We hope to see you on campus for Alumni Weekend on May 13 and 14; Saturday evening’s reunion party (open to all class years) under the tent behind Colross is sure to be a must-attend party for all members of our community – former faculty are guaranteed to make special appearances. Visit www.pds.org/alumni-weekend for more details and to register.

I hope to see you on campus in May, Chris Gerry ’99 President, Alumni Board

Justin Revelle ’03 Vice President Beth Geter-Douglas, PhD ’82 Maria Tardugno Aldrich ’99 Lucy Englander Brinster ’78 Aly G. Cohen ’91 Allissa C. Crea ’06 Mark Egner ’82 Scott J. Feldman ’93 John L. Griffith, III ’99 Taylor Hwong ’88 Patrick McDonald ’06 Stephen A. Pollard ’90

Julie Roginsky ’91 Arianna Rosati ’88 Barbara Rose MFS ’64 Scott E. Rosenberg ’04 Margaret (Marlee) L. Schmucker ’02

Kaylie B. Keesling Director of Alumni Giving Amy M. Gallo ’03 Director of Alumni Engagement

Connect with Us! www.pds.org and on Facebook at PDS Alums

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Alumni Achievement Award by linda maxwell stefanelli ’62

Sara Zoe Hart ’96 High Altitude Risk Management

had to demonstrate proficiency in rock climbing, alpine climbing, and ski mountaineering.

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uffeted by swirling winds, fingers cramping with cold, Sara Zoe Hart clings to a sheer, ice-encased rock face, suspended over a 300foot drop with just her strength, skill, and experience to protect her. It is enough. Such adventures are just another day at the office for the 1996 alumna who has turned a passion for mountain climbing into a rewarding and record-setting career as a professional climber and guide.

“Some of the most powerful moments in my life have come from being the most vulnerable in the mountains and trusting myself and my partner,” she says. “I wouldn’t change it.

We spend too much of our lives working not to be doing something we love.”

Ms. Hart received her diploma from the American Mountain Guides Association in 2008 and became only the fourth American woman to be certified by the sport’s premier organization, the International Federation of Mountain Guides Association. To gain that status, she

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“Sharing the mountains with others is something I love,” she says. “People aren’t aware of what they are capable of because, generally, we aren’t pushed that hard. Our choices don’t have direct consequences in most cases. When you’re in the mountains, your choices have very imminent consequences. You can often land in a situation where you’ve pushed yourself farther, or climbed harder, or gone longer than you ever thought possible. I love bringing people to that place.”

At Princeton Day School, Ms. Hart was a Gold “P” soccer, basketball and softball player. She went on to play Division I softball at Boston College and planned to become a teacher like her parents, PDS fourth grade teacher Chris Hart and Upper School English teacher Michael Hart. In her freshman year, however, her world was shattered when her father died suddenly from an undiagnosed heart condition.

“Knowing that people can disappear at any moment really made me want to live now and not for things that might come tomorrow,” she says.

In 1997, inspired by her father’s love of the outdoors, she enrolled in a National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) mountaineering course in the Cascade Mountains and felt an immediate affinity for the life. After graduating from college, she returned to Mt. Rainier and soon became an apprentice guide. That led to more climbing opportunities and the realization that she had found her passion.

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For the last 15 years, Ms. Hart has travelled the world, climbing and guiding expeditions in North and South America and in such countries as Pakistan, Oman, Scotland, and Morocco.

She has summited several of the world’s most difficult mountains and established multiple first ascents and speed records.

She has slept suspended off vertical walls of ice or, when unable secure a sleeping spot, climbed for 50 hours straight.

An expedition she led up 20,310-foot Denali involved camping for 21 days on glaciers, carrying a 60-pound pack, and dragging 20 to 40 pounds of supplies on a sled.

“I think the ability to be comfortable with risk or uncertainty is often mistaken for wanting to be in a risk-ridden situation.

Actually, it sparks the opposite.”

It is not an easy life and, until recently, it was a man’s domain. When Ms. Hart started guiding, she was only the second woman in the U.S. system, but she has gained respect for her accomplishments and is admired for her intelligence and ever-ready sense of humor. Over the years, she has become a visible presence in women’s mountaineering and has worked with various companies, testing and evaluating their outdoor clothing, gear and equipment.

“I think of her as a pioneer, always looking to the horizon,” says her friend, PDS Science teacher Carlos Cara. “To do what she does, you have to have stubbornness, determination and grit, and a healthy sense of fear that develops self-reliance. I think that every peak she climbed, every night she froze her fingers, every meal that was cold and crusty were moments that took her to the limit and she liked being there.

I’m convinced that Sara* does what she does because each time she challenges herself, she reawakens her joy of life.”

“I don’t seek out risk,” Ms. Hart explains to those concerned about the dangers inherent in the life she has chosen. “I think the ability to be comfortable with risk or uncertainty is often mistaken for wanting to be in a risk-ridden situation.

Actually, it sparks the opposite. Climbing has taught me to minimize risk, to evaluate and manage it.”

Living one’s dream does not come without sacrifice. Ms. Hart now makes her home in Chamonix, France, but for 10 years she never lived in a place longer than three months and often lived out of her car. “Taking risk comes in many forms: the risk of not having a steady paycheck, of not having a fixed home, of embarking upon a climb,” she says. “All of them force you to find confidence and strength in your-

self, force you to trust people. Uncertainty makes you see the now and forces you to be honest with yourself.”

In 2011, Ms. Hart married Canadian climber Maxime Turgeon who shares her love of mountains and travel. They have two sons, four and two, who have already visited nearly 20 countries. Ms. Hart continues to climb but motherhood and time have shifted her focus away from the big expeditions to the opportunities in her own backyard.

Her work depends on the delicate balance of nature and she has become a champion for the environment. She has had a long association with Patagonia and today acts as their Alpine Climbing Ambassador, working to develop expeditions that use skiers and climbers to document the fragility of glaciers and snow packs and the necessity of protecting the world’s resources. This spring, she will be in the Balkans to bring attention to the proposed construction of more than 2,000 dams that threaten the region’s rivers.

It seems that Ms. Hart has become a teacher after all.

She recently completed a master’s degree in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management from the Harvard Extension School. She is currently developing a program that mixes learning with outdoor adventure for university students, and has created an extracurricular program for local children called Chamonix Little Explorers that blends adventure storytelling and experiential learning.

Several years ago, she established the Chamonix Adventure Festival, an international gathering of explorers and athletes who share their experiences through film, art and photography and recently added courses in those disciplines.

“Zoe* is the perfect combination of fortitude, grace and strength,” says PDS English teacher and Sustainability Coordinator Liz Cutler. “She is a passionate, free spirit who follows her heart, yet with her instinctive sense of the importance of community, she focuses her energy on making the world a better place. It’s not enough for her to adore the mountains and her own work as a guide; she strives to imbue that love of the environment and her larger understanding of nature’s limited resources to everyone in her path.”

“I believe that one of the biggest untapped tools we have to address environmental crisis is the next generation of kids,” Ms. Hart says.

* Sara, as she was known at Princeton Day School, took her confirmation name, Zoe, when she started climbing to mark a new chapter in her life but she assures us she will happily answer to either name.

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John D. Wallace ’48 Alumni Service Award by linda maxwell stefanelli ’62

Roopa Purushothamam ’96 Changing a Nation’s Perceptions, One Girl at a Time

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s an economist, Roopa Purushothaman is excited to be in India at a time when it boasts the fastest-growing economy in the world, but she also feels a responsibility to address what she considers one of the biggest obstacles to the country’s future progress: the subordination of women. To combat ingrained perceptions, she is spearheading a unique educational initiative for adolescent girls that seeks to eradicate gender inequality by creating a new generation of leaders to act as role models and raise the standard of living for everyone.

network for girls. In 2011, she founded the Avasara Leadership Institute, headquartered in Mumbai and Pune.

Its Avasara Young Talent program grants scholarships to highly motivated girls at risk of dropping out of school; its Leadership Fellows program offers after-school enrichment courses; and its Young Scientists program runs STEM camps to expose girls to math and engineering concepts.

Through these programs, Avasara has worked with more than 1,000 girls to date.

The jewel in this crown is the Avasara Academy. It is a residential secondary school for girls who demonstrate strong academic and leadership potential, regardless of their social background or ability to pay. It opened last summer with 50 seventh and eighth graders and there are plans to add 100 students next year. Its progressive curriculum emphasizes leadership and business skills. A speaker series brings a diverse range of role models to the school, and each student is mentored by a professional whose background and interests match her own. An affiliation with Yale University provides technical assistance and educational resources.

“This is not an issue of income or class,” Ms. Purushothaman says. “It is an issue of mindsets. And that is exactly what gives me so much hope, because mindsets we can change — and we can do it in a generation with home-grown success stories.”

“The passion, enthusiasm and indomitable spirit that made Roopa a joy to work with as a student inspired us to work with her to start Avasara,” says Kate Winton. She and her husband, John Baldwin, have been fans of Ms. Purushothaman since they were all at PDS: Ms. Winton was her English teacher, Mr. Baldwin, her math teacher and volleyball coach.

Avasara means opportunity in Sanskrit and it is the banner under which Ms. Purushothaman has built an educational

“Starting a school in the best of circumstances is a challenge, but what Roopa faced was nothing short of impossible,” Ms.

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Winton continues. “Undaunted by a global financial crisis, an educational minister in prison, a building site that lacked an access road, an ever-shifting landscape of permitting procedures, regulations, architects, and curricular choices, all while holding down a full-time job in a major private equity firm and having her first child, Roopa accomplished a true miracle. And let’s just look at the premise for a moment.

An all girls’ boarding school is unusual enough in India, but Roopa’s goal is to mix girls from the slums of Dharavi with the daughters of Gujarati diamond merchants in a leadership program that will inspire these young women to be agents of change for all women in India.”

“Avasara is a big dream,” Ms. Purushothaman admits.

“It has taken a decade of sheer will to get to this point.”

Luckily, will is something Ms. Purushothaman has in abundance. She was only 16 when she discovered her calling. On a summer trip to India before her sophomore year at PDS, she became intrigued by a simple question: Why are some countries rich and some poor? That led to the study of economics at Yale and the London School of Economics and a position at Goldman Sachs where she researched long-term global patterns and became world-renowned for the report she co-authored on the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) entitled “Dreaming with BRICs: The Path to 2050.”

Motivated in part by the school she hoped to start, Ms. Purushothaman moved to India in 2006 to co-found Everstone Capital, a wealth and asset management firm in Mumbai. Currently, she is managing director and head of research, exploring demographics, income, and consumption patterns in developing nations. Her transition was fairly smooth, but there must have been some culture shock for her husband, Joseph Cubas, a Puerto Rican/Cuban educator with degrees in American and Latin studies, who now serves as Avasara’s head of school.

Ms. Purushothaman’s parents, who emigrated from India to the U.S. after graduate school, may have been surprised when their daughter chose to reverse the path they took, but they must be proud to know it was the sacrifices they made and the value they placed on education that inspired her life’s work. She was profoundly influenced by the diversity of her teachers at PDS and the time and energy they devoted to students. That model is the bedrock upon which Avasara is built.

The school strives to instill confidence in girls during their formative years when they develop a self-image and set goals for the future. Since India has one-fifth of the world’s

youth, which includes 105 million adolescent girls, it is critical to ensure they are able to contribute to society.

“We feel incredibly lucky that we have the opportunity to try to build something as audacious as Avasara,” Ms. Purushothaman says. “Our students inspire (and exasperate) us every day! One of the best advantages we have is how eager our students are to learn, and how much they respect their teachers. It is a great responsibility and, at times, it floors us.

“Avasara is a big dream,” Ms. Purushothaman admits.

“It has taken a decade of sheer will to get to this point.”

“Some of our girls have particularly challenging circumstances,” she explains. “One applicant was 12 years old, top of her class and, at the same time, engaged to be married.

Ultimately, her parents decided to break her engagement so she could enroll in Avasara. Our strongest student academically comes from a government school that had 100 students in a class, no walls to partition classes and no bathroom facilities for girls. She is now excelling and loves participating in Model UN. Others come from historically criminalized, nomadic castes and could not even qualify for government identity cards or rations. Then we have a couple of girls from middle class backgrounds whose parents work at tech companies. Some of the most dramatic changes we have seen are in these students, whose parents say they now think and talk about India in a completely different way.”

Ms. Winton says, “Roopa’s infectious smile, joyous and positive spirit, and fierce commitment to stand up for what is right create a gravitational force that pulls people together, and she inspires all within her sphere to do amazing work.”

“India has its own set of challenges,” Ms. Purushothaman says. “I do miss the luxury of 24-hour water and power!

However, each day is different and colorful in its own way; it sparks wonder and you feel a sense of impact that is addictive. It is a unique and dynamic time to be young in this country.”

More information on Avasara may be found at: www.avasara.in and https://www.facebook.com/AvasaraAcademy/

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Outstanding Young Alumni

Award

by linda maxwell stefanelli ’62

John Maher ’06 Design as a Prescription for Better Health Care

light or conditioned air so we design in the most sustainable way, ventilating for infection control, and using a lot of natural light.”

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ohn Maher has discovered an area of architectural design that offers an opportunity to make a vital difference in people’s lives. It presents unique challenges, invites innovative solutions, and involves him in every step of the design and construction process. He is an architect with MASS Design Group, a non-profit company with public health projects across North America, Africa, and Asia.

He admits that health care is not a sector he ever thought he would enjoy because in the United States, strict standards and building codes dictate design and impact creativity.

However, for the last two years, he has been working in developing countries where the situation is very different.

“One huge issue with health care in these countries is the lack of infrastructure: roads, water, and electricity. If you dropped the best hospital in the U.S. into Rwanda, it just wouldn’t work and its design would probably do more harm than good,” Mr. Maher explains. “We can’t rely on artificial

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MASS seeks to create buildings uniquely suited to their communities by working with local populations and researching an area’s needs, resources, and problems. In this way, the building that eventually emerges has the best chance of being a successful resource for the people who use it. Mr. Maher supervises the training of local craftsmen, and interviews members of the community to determine what they value in a health center. At times, he even helps formulate a country’s architectural standards. He works closely with doctors and technicians to understand their requirements, and factors such as the optimum flow of personnel are considered for efficiency and safety.

“Making architecture in Africa presents a very specific set of challenges and design constraints that are both frustrating and rewarding at the same time,” he says. “For instance, we’re restricted by the materials available and the quality of the craftsmanship. One of the benefits is that not only do we design the building but we design the furniture, the pavers, the windows — everything. There aren’t any window or door catalogues that you can pick from; everything is custom made.”

Mr. Maher shuttles among a dizzying array of projects.

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Nyaraguru District, Rwanda which is tied to developing design standards adopted by the Ministry of Health for all future hospitals,” he says. “I’m working on health centers for a company in Nairobi, Kenya; eight health centers in rural Mali which will be operated by an N.G.O. from the U.S.; a cardiac care specialty hospital, the first of its kind in Kigali, Rwanda; a design consultation for a hospital in Juba, South Sudan; a hospital on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia; and a health center in Dhaka, Bangladesh.”

Mr. Maher cannot remember a time when he was not building something. He enjoys designing furniture and in 2005, a chair he made received the first place high school award from the Association of Woodworking and Furnishing Suppliers, a national group that acts as a bridge between industry and education.

“In Middle School, John was extremely talented in construction, problem-solving, and design,” says Woodworking and Design Teacher Debbie Hillmanno.

“He felt comfortable around tools and the shop became his second home. He also was a TAP student for my classes.

His design skills started to take off after he took an Upper School class in woodworking so I suggested he take an architecture class to round off his skills, knowledge, and ability. The rest is history. You couldn’t ask for a more agreeable person to work with: a student who is interested in learning, exploring, and excelling.”

“I think the most satisfying aspect of architecture is that at the end of the process you have something tangible that you can actually experience,” Mr. Maher says.

After PDS, Mr. Maher was awarded a scholarship to Washington University in St. Louis. Architecture Professor Gay Lorberbaum has taught more than 4,000 students and considers Mr. Maher exceptional.

In the spring of his freshman year, the university launched the Alberti Program to teach architecture and sustainable design to disadvantaged students in fourth through eleventh grades. Mr. Maher was selected as its first student teacher. “He was willing to give time each Saturday to teach while excelling in design studios, required courses, advanced furniture design, and sculpture courses, and as a teaching assistant for many different professors,” Professor Lorberbaum says. “John has the deep inner strength to execute to the highest quality any commitment he takes on.

He was kind, patient, and loving with complicated young people from some of the most economically distressed parts of the city. Moreover, John’s combination of superior design ability and keen intellectual depth contributes to the exciting content he constantly brings to any project in which he’s involved.”

Although he still designs furniture, Mr. Maher has not built much recently. “In Rwanda, it’s difficult to get access to tools that I feel comfortable using from a safety standpoint,” he says. “You also can’t find well-dried wood here and often when you do, it’s coming from deforestation in Congo which I wouldn’t want to support.”

Mr. Maher and Kyle Barker were fellow graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and are now colleagues at MASS Design Group. Mr. Barker says, “John is fantastic. He’s incredibly friendly, easygoing, and modest, but he’s also an exceptional designer and leader. Over the past two years at MASS, he’s grown from a junior designer to a project manager and has been an important mentor to the younger designers in the Kigali office.”

“I think the most satisfying aspect of architecture is that at the end of the process you have something tangible that you can actually experience,” Mr. Maher says.

He finds his work fulfilling but when asked about the future he says, “I want to open my own architecture and furniture design studio one day. I’d like to have a larger impact, more than just one building at a time.”

“John does beautiful pencil and ink drawings and is equally talented with many digital programs,” she says. “His handmade architectural models are extremely well crafted and he is a brilliant furniture designer. At the same time, his modesty keeps him even tempered, uncomplaining, and an active, committed participant in a team.”

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his year’s Athletic Hall of Fame selections highlight the extraordinary contributions a player can make to a team and the wide-reaching and long-lasting effect coaches have on their players. Jessica D’Altrui Davidson ’96 and Rome Campbell share a deep love for sports and an understanding of teamwork that characterizes the best in athletic endeavor and exemplifies the values PDS seeks to instill in its students.

Before she came to Princeton Day School in sixth grade, Ms. Davidson spent her leisure time skiing and riding the horses on her family’s farm. For interscholastic competition in seventh grade, she chose another individual sport, cross-country.

It took less than two weeks, however, for her coordination and speed to capture the attention of coaches Jill Thomas and the late Kim Bedesem who knew she could be an asset on their field hockey and lacrosse teams. They had no compunction about poaching young talent and, the next thing Ms. Davidson knew, she was setting the pace on the hockey field and reveling in the companionship of team play.

“You need a stick in your hands,” Ms. Thomas remembers telling her. “You can do a lot of things with that.”

says. She recalls a game in which Morristown-Beard resorted to a rather desperate defense strategy. “They had played us before and knew the threat we posed. So they put the whole team — all 10 of their players and the goalie -- in the striking circle. I’ve never seen a team do that. And Jess intercepted a ball coming out of the circle and scored and that was the game winner!”

“She was a great kid, a great worker,” says Health and Physical Education teacher Leslie Hagan who coached her in lacrosse. “She was easy-going and she had fun. She just brought the team together. Her enthusiasm and her love of life made her a natural leader.”

She made the PDS varsity field hockey team as a freshman and started every game, setting a single season and career scoring record. She was Mercer County’s high scorer and an All-America nominee her senior year.

2011 Hall of Fame selection Dana DeCore Falconi ’96 has been best friends with Ms. Davidson since sixth grade. She played junior and varsity lacrosse with her and says, “When I look back on all the years I’ve played sports, there is no teammate I’ve loved more than Jessie. She is an amazing athlete: one of the fastest girls I’ve ever played with and, when you combine that speed with her coordination and fearlessness, she’s awesome. That’s the athletic side. Then you add on Jessie’s fantastic personality – totally entertaining and truly unique on and off the field.”

“She had great stick work, she was aggressive and she understood the concept. She was a leader out there,” Ms. Thomas

The University of Richmond recruited Ms. Davidson to play field hockey and she enrolled in its elementary education

And she did. Ms. Davidson learned to manipulate field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse sticks with a finesse that set scoring records and led to a full scholarship at the Division I University of Richmond.

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Jessica D’Altrui Davidson ’96 program, one that enabled students to complete their practice teaching requirement as undergraduates.

“I was student-teaching at the same time I was playing field hockey and it was really hard,” she says. “It was only one semester, but it was during my senior year and I was captain of the team and going to school. That had never been done at Richmond.”

In spite of the heavy load, she led the team to its best season in eight years, became the fourth leading scorer in the school’s history and graduated with high honors.

“Sports are a huge part of my life,” Ms. Davidson says.

“I think they teach you so much.

They teach you how to work with others, how to stick with something, how to work hard and succeed.”

Ms. Davidson then returned to New Jersey to teach first grade in the Bridgewater public schools. She married and, after taking a break to start a family, she went through a rigorous recertification process to become a Wilson Reading teacher. Now she travels among area schools, working one-on-one with dyslexic students. She is also teaching a new generation of athletes. She coaches with Ms. Falconi in the Princeton Lacrosse Club where their daughters play.

“Jessie’s the most tremendous teacher,” Ms. Falconi says. “She’s organized, she’s to the point, she’s likeable and that reflects in her coaching. She really knows how to reach the kids. I’m so proud to have her coach my daughters.”

“Sports are a huge part of my life,” Ms. Davidson says. “I think they teach you so much. They teach you how to work with others, how to stick with something, how to work hard and succeed, especially team sports. I think they’re wonderful for kids and a great way for the whole family to spend time together.”

PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL Varsity Field Hockey - 4 years 1992 Prep A State Championship 1993 Panther Award 1994 Offensive Coaches Award 1995 Captain & MVP Prep A State Championship All-America Nomination Set PDS Single Season and Career Scoring Record NJAISS PREP A All-Star Team Trenton Times All-Mercer County All-Star Team Trenton Times All-Area First Team Central Jersey Coaches Association First Team Ranked High Scorer in Mercer County Ranked One of Top 10 Scorers in New Jersey Trenton Times Female Athlete of the Week Varsity Ice Hockey – 4 years 1992-1993 MIP 1995-1996 Captain Varsity Lacrosse – 4 years 1994, 1995, 1996 Prep A All-State First Team 1994, 1995, 1996 All-Area First Team 1994 MVP 1995 Prep A State Championship 1996 Captain Prep A State Finalist Scored Over 200 Points 1990s All-Area First Team Gold “P” UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND Varsity Field Hockey – 4 years 1999 NFHCA Division I North-South All-Star 2000 Captain Fourth Highest Scorer in Team History Named All-CAA Second Team POST-COLLEGE Coach, Princeton Lacrosse Club

In 1996, for the only time in PDS history, the Gold “P” was awarded to four girls: Jessica D’Altrui, Dana DeCore, Sara Zoe Hart and Kathy Knapp. Ms. Hart played softball in the spring, but the other three were lacrosse teammates and they each tallied 200 career points in the same record-setting game.

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Athletic Hall of Fame by linda maxwell stefanelli ’62

Rome Campbell retired in 2013 after a 42-year career in health and physical education that spanned two continents and was distinguished by enthusiasm for his work and commitment to his students. During his 31 years at PDS, he coached close to 120 teams, led 30 summer tennis camps and taught countless students the importance of fundamental athletic skills and sportsmanship.

“One thing I always loved about being a physical educator,” he says, “is that you experience the whole teaching spectrum; you see the development and growth of the kids from PreK through 12. You see him as a kindergartener and 12 years later, he’s on your varsity team and you’ve known him for his whole athletic and educational life. It was a tearrific experience to see them making those steps to the varsity level.”

At PDS, Mr. Campbell coached highly successful junior basketball teams for 31 years and coached junior football for almost as long. “Those boys were terrific, dedicated athletes,” he says.

His tennis teams are legendary. Over the 27 years he coached them, his boys’ varsity teams captured 14 state championships and Mr. Campbell was twice named Coach of the Year. He also led the girls to championship seasons in two of the four years he coached them. Many of his players went on to excel at top colleges and universities.

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recruited by Division I Duke University. “He was always able to bring us together and lighten the mood, no matter the situation. Whether it was during warm-ups or after a tough loss, we could always count on him to bring laughter and lightheartedness to any situation. He treated each player with the utmost respect and I always admired him for that.

I thank him for letting me serve as his captain. He taught me a lot about how to lead with maturity and humility over my four years at PDS.” Fresh out of college and unable to find work in his field, Mr. Campbell was working as a painter and furniture mover in Connecticut when he spotted a placement agency and pulled his truck to the curb. At the end of a positive interview, he was given the disheartening news that there were simply no teaching jobs available. But just as he turned to leave, the phone rang and the placement officer held up his hand.

“Can you make an interview tomorrow in Hartford?” he asked. Mr. Campbell was hired the next day as the school’s first health and physical education instructor.

“For all my jobs, I was in the right place at the right time,” he laughs.

Some years later, luck struck again when he cut short a camping trip in Nova Scotia. “We got hit with three days of rain,” he recalls. “The tents were soaked, the sleeping bags were wet, the pillows were soggy. So I threw all the gear in the BMW, drove 500 miles home, walked in the door

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at 11:00 at night and there was a telegram in my mailbox regarding a job in Athens, Greece.”

By the time he learned of the position, it was almost too late, but he raced to the last available interview and three days later was offered the position. Although he had never been on a plane, did not have a passport and had never travelled abroad, within 10 days he was working in Europe.

“For all my jobs, I was in the right place at the right time,” he laughs.

Three years later, he happened to look through a Sunday edition of the New York Times a friend had brought from the States and read that St. John’s International School in Belgium was looking for an athletic director. He was hired within the week.

“We would pack the Mercedes bus with 48 kids, five coaches and off we’d go,” he says. “Any weekend your away games might be in London, Paris, Frankfurt or Vienna and the next, you’re hosting students from those places.”

It was in London, at one of those away games, that he met his future wife, Cindy. She worked in Brussels but was watching her sister compete in a basketball tournament in which Mr. Campbell’s team was playing. In 1983, they were in Connecticut, about to leave for a vacation in Maine, when Mr. Campbell learned PDS needed a health and physical education instructor. He immediately detoured to Princeton, interviewed the same day and secured the position. Again, his timing was perfect.

Rome Campbell CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY, 1972 B.S. in Health and Physical Education & Recreation Track & Field ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE, WEST HARTFORD, CT, 1973 –1975 Designed and Taught School’s First Health and Physical Education Program Coached Middle School Basketball, Baseball AMERICAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL, ATHENS, GREECE, 1975 –1978 Health and Physical Education Teacher Coached JV Basketball, Track & Field ST. JOHN’S INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, WATERLOO, BELGIUM, 1978 –1983 Athletic Director Health and Physical Education Teacher Coached Varsity Boys Basketball, Cross-Country, Track & Field, Tennis PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL, 1983-2013 1983-2013 - Health and Physical Education Teacher, JK-12 1983-1986 - Girls Varsity Tennis Coach

Mercer County Championship, 1985, 1986

1984-2011 – Boys Varsity Tennis Coach

Prep B State Tennis Championships, 1980, 1981, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

“Fundamentals were the hallmark of Rome’s teaching and a strong factor in his teams’ success,” says Coach and P.E. Teacher Mark Adams. “He was serious about competition but, between the whistles, he loved to tell wildly entertaining stories about all the people he’d met and the adventures he’d had.”

Mercer County Championship, 1986, 1988

Twice Coach of the Year

Mr. Campbell’s impeccable timing may have served as the impetus for his career, but it is his gift for connecting with people and motivating young athletes that has had such an indelible influence on his students.

2010-2012 – Junior Track & Field

2012-2013 – JV Golf Coach 1983-2012 – Junior Boys Basketball Coach 1988 – Junior Boys Soccer Coach 1989-2012 – Junior Football Coach 1984-2013 - PDS Summer Camp Tennis Program

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2015 Thanksgiving Alumni Games UPCOMING EVENTS

2016 Alumni Weekend – May 13th and 14th at PDS (please see schedule on page 58)

RELIVE • REUNITE • RENEW • RECONNECT

November 27, 2015

thanksgiving games More than 100 Alumni came back to campus for the Annual Alumni Thanksgiving Games and Alumni Reception and Family Skate.

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Regional Gatherings

New York City Regional Gathering

December 9, 2015

Head of School, Paul Stellato, welcomed 150 Alumni to the The Century Association and shared an update on the school. Special guests included Former Head of Upper School Carlton Tucker h’13 and Current Head of Upper School Jason Robinson.

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1. Denise Bencivengo, Stephen Nanfara ’96, and Todd Gudgel 2. Head of School Paul Stellato, Will Powers ’11, Neal Bakshi ’10, and Aaron Shavel ’11 3. Isaac Geltzer ’08 and Howie Powers ’80 4. Anna Otis ’10, Sheridan Gates ’10, and Emilie Hamel ’10 5. Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick, Head of Upper School Jason Robinson, Former Head of Upper School Carlton Tucker h’13, and Bill Stoltzfus

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Kate Cohen ’07, Sophie Guild ’07, and Father Dan Skvir

Rob Whitlock ’78 and Head of School Paul Stellato

Ayana Dawkins ’12, Lily Halpern ’12, and Jasmin Smoots ’12

Justin Revelle ’03 and Alex Sussman ’02

Morgan Weed ’03, Ross Hindley, and Allissa Crea ’06

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8th Annual Young Alumni Pub Night

December 23, 2015

PDS Alumni gathered at the Nassau Inn Tap Room to reconnect and celebrate the season.

Lindsey Mischner ’08, Vinay Trivedi ’09, and Francesca Behling ’09

Caitlin Gribbin ’09, Brody Sanford ’08, and Bryanna Mayes ’09

Priyaka Trivedi ’10, Charlie Behling ’10, and Meade Atkeson ’11

Josh Meekins ’10 and Anna Otis ’10

College Alumni Lunch Kayla Stokes ’15, Kathleen Crowell ’15, Annie Nyce ’12, Peri Feldstein ’15, Peter Powers ’12, Jenn Martin ’12, Amanda Donohue ’13, Tom Martino ’13, Bob Madani ’13, Kevin Towle ’15, Caroline Lippman ’15, Sophie Jensen ’15, Jacob Shavel ’15, Ben Levine ’14

January 5, 2016

Members from the classes of 2012-2015 came back to speak with the senior class about the transition to college, and how PDS prepared them.

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ALUMNI WEEKEND

Schedule of Events

Friday, May 13 GOLD GUARD REUNION LUNCHEON 12:00 p.m.

BEHR HOUSE (Across the Street from Lisa McGraw ’44 Ice Rink) Our distinguished alumnae/i who are celebrating their 50th reunion and beyond are invited to a luncheon hosted by Head of School Paul Stellato and his wife Maureen.

“LIVING OUR MISSION:” A CONVERSATION WITH THE 2016 ALUMNI AWARD RECIPIENTS 1:30 p.m.

HERBERT & MARGUERITE MCANENY THEATER Join our Upper School students and faculty for a special assembly with our 2016 Alumni Award Recipients.

This year’s recipients are Sara Zoe Hart ’96, Alumni Achievement Award, Roopa Purushothaman ’96, John D. Wallace ’48 Alumni Service Award, and John Maher ’06, Outstanding Young Alumni Award.

A TIME TO REFLECT Invitation Only 3:30 p.m.

MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY An oral history conversation with our first graduating Class of 1966 led by Linda Stefanelli MFS ’62.

faculty and former trustees who have passed away during the past year. Special recognition will be made to former teacher, trustee, and parent, the Reverend Carl Reimers and former English Department Chair Stephen Lawrence.

LEADERSHIP & LOYALTY BRUNCH Invitation Only 12:00 p.m.

BEHR HOUSE (Across the Street from Lisa McGraw ’44 Ice Rink) A special brunch for our leadership donors and members of the Semper Luceat Society, those who have given to the Annual Fund ten or more consecutive years, with Head of School Paul Stellato and his wife Maureen.

ALUMNI PICNIC 12:30 p.m.

PRACTICE FIELD (Near the Lisa McGraw ’44 Ice Rink) Meet up with friends, and bring your family, to an afternoon of fun for everyone, featuring a picnic lunch, beverages, ice cream, and games and activities for our younger guests. Stick around and play in one of the alumni games or cheer on your fellow Panthers!

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Coed Alumni Soccer Game, Bill Smoyer ’60 Field Bob Krueger Memorial Alumni Lacrosse Game, Bob Krueger Field

ALUMNI ART EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Kim Bedesem Memorial Alumnae Lacrosse Game, Jan Baker Field

ANNE REID ’72 ART GALLERY As part of our 50th Anniversary celebration, the Anne Reid ’72 Art Gallery proudly presents the fourth Alumni Art Exhibition.

Thirty-seven alumni artists will exhibit a wide variety of mediums reflecting their exposures to the arts while students at Princeton Day School. Please see the list of artists here.

THE LAY OF THE LAND – A WALKING TOUR OF THE PDS CAMPUS 2:00 p.m.

STUDENT LED CAMPUS TOURS 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

MAIN ENTRANCE OF THE SCHOOL BUILDING

REUNION RACE PARTY FOR ANNUAL FUND DONORS 8:00 P.m. – 10:00 p.m.

TRIUMPH BREWERY (138 Nassau Street, Princeton) All alumni who have made their Annual Fund gift this year are welcome to come kick off Alumni Weekend in downtown Princeton.

Reunion Race winners will be announced at the event. Haven’t made your gift yet? You can do so when you register online.

Saturday, May 14 MOMENT OF REMEMBRANCE 11:00 a.m.

MATTHEWS ARTS WING COURTYARD Please join us for a Quaker-style ceremony honoring alumni, JOURNAL

PDS GARDEN (Located near the Lower School Playground) Come for a walk led by former teacher David LaMotte on the PDS walking trail. Take the time to renew an old acquaintance with the landscape, and hear some of the stories that have shaped the campus and surrounding woods and fields over the years.

ALUMNI AWARDS & ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME RECEPTION & CEREMONY 6:00 p.m.

CAMPUS CENTER Please join us for a cocktail reception and ceremony to celebrate our distinguished alumni who are being honored on the occasion of their milestone reunion.

THE REUNION PARTY 7:30 p.m.

UNDER THE TENT BEHIND COLROSS On the occasion of Princeton Day School’s 50th Anniversary, all alumni and friends are invited to come celebrate with our reunion classes for an evening of delicious food and drinks, live music and dancing. Each Reunion Class (classes 1966 through 2011) will have tables reserved for their class.

Class Notes If a class correspondent is not listed, please send your notes to Ann Wiley ’70 at awiley@pds.org.

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Joan Kennan 3143 O Street, NW Washington, DC 20007-3117 202-342-2118 joankennan@gmail.com

If you don’t have a class correspondent, please send your news to Ann Wiley ’70, Class Notes Editor, at awiley@pds.org or mail to PDS PO Box 75, Princeton, NJ 08542.

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Phyllis Vandewater Clement 465 Eileen Drive Sebastopol, CA 95472 707-823-0925 pvanclement@gmail.com

Hope Thompson Kerr ’53 in Indonesia

Ann Tomlinson Reed and Louise Russell Irving are both leading active lives in Princeton. Bob and I are doing the same in California. We congratulate Ann on the birth of two great-grandchildren in the past six months.

I broke my shoulder three months ago, really painful, but I have healed well. I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with memories of my 13 years at MFS; the only thing that comes to mind is my mixed feelings of elation and guilt when I learned how to get money out of the pay telephone in the coatroom. (It had to do with a folded piece of paper stuck into the return slot, remember?)

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Marjorie Libby Moore 90 Woolsey Court Pennington, NJ 08534-1428 609-730-9515

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Nellie Oliphant Duncan 3 Coventry Farm Lane Princeton, NJ 08540 609-683-5469

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Anne Carples Denny 2101 Cedarfield Lane Richmond, VA 23233 804-474-8960 andenny56@gmail.com

Hilary Thompson Kenyon and her sister, Hope Thompson Kerr have been on the go again. “Our trip for 2015, September, was to Indonesia: Java-Bali-Komodo Islands. Hope and I spent three fun weeks seeing and doing a lot! We visited homes, met families, attended dance shows, colorful festivals, schools, rice fields, chased dolphins in outriggers, swam and snorkeled, sailed to various islands, hiked and shopped, as their arts and crafts are amazing.

Seeing the ninth century Hindu and Buddhist temples was one of the main attractions of the Islands. The most unusual event was visiting the Komodo Islands and seeing the dragons…

10-20’ long! I was lucky enough to almost pet

Hilary Thompson Kenyon ’53 with a dragon on Komodo Islands one! We visited several smaller temples and were purified under a waterfall with our skirts on! Next September we’re off to Burma.” Hope added, “In Jakarta while we were asleep in our hotel, the Call to Prayer began at 3 am - 5 am every day. This was done five times a day. The speakers were so loud that we were all up ready to go at 3:30 am. Also I felt that the country was one of the most friendly of all the places we have visited. The children would come up to us, shake hands and speak a little English. “ Hilary also said, “Life in Bend, OR continues to be the best: golf, kayaking, hiking, biking, skiing and playing with all of my grand-dogs!

My 19-year-old granddaughter, Denali, is pursuing a career in the horse world: training, teaching and barrel racing.”

A wonderful note from Jean Ackerman Robinson: “Even though I left MFS after 9th grade in 1950, I have vivid memories of our class, more about the fun than the academics!

Today, 65 years later, with three children and 13 grandchildren having attended over 50 schools before college, I realize how lucky I was to have had one home in Princeton and MFS as my school from fourth through ninth grade! Brooks and I, 84 and 80 respectively, are both well, still happily living in Pittsburgh, and busy as ever!”

I thank “all y’all” (that’s southern talk) for your news. You are now honorary members of the OHL Club. That’s the “Off the Hook List,” which gets me closer to my retirement.

Aggie Fulper is still living Albuquerque, NM, but visits her sister in Princeton over the Christmas holidays, which she did again this past year. As she is now dealing with a new hip replacement, she was grateful that her Princeton relatives had installed a chair glide, which enabled Aggie to “ride up and down like Mary Poppins.”

Anna Rosenblad Davies sent a wonderful Christmas card, which she had painted herself, of children playing in the snow in front of a stately manor house. In addition to her painting, Anna has “taken up the piano with a vengeance after not having touched it for four months, working mainly on Chopin etudes and some other war horses.” Her son, Nick, has posted her paintings on YouTube under the heading of “Amazing Unique Original Works of Art by Famous Swedish Artist.” Anna quickly pointed out that this was not her doing. However, I went to YouTube and looked at her collection of paintings, which are truly delightful. I never realized that our classmate was so talented!

Your correspondent has nothing new of note to report. I continue to sing in a chorale for “older singers” and participate in the activities of my local Georgetown Village, which provides volunteer services to seniors, thereby enabling them to stay in their homes for much longer than they might have otherwise. I also have a wonderful Labrador Retriever, who is great company and forces me to exercise no matter what the weather.

I am sending a plea to those of you that have not been heard from for some time. Your classmates would really love to hear from you, no matter how mundane you think your news, or non-news, would be. If you have an email address you would be willing to send me or need to update the one you may have given me a few years ago, I would be very glad to have it.

Mine is: joankennan@gmail.com.

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tually powerful women who taught us in the early and mid-1950s. I expect we are all under their influence to this day, and I expect through us their influence has extended to our children and grandchildren. We are fortunate to be living still in the house we moved into with our then six-month-old daughter, Catherine, in June 1968. Now we have nine grandchildren in New York City, Winchester, Massachusetts, and Manhattan Beach, California. My love to all former MFSers, especially those who remember Mrs. Shepherd, Miss Campbell, Mme. Wade, Mrs. Raubitschek, Miss Rohr, Miss Davis, the bike shed and Thomas! Others very respectfully and affectionately remembered, too. Come visit us in West Hartford, Connecticut, if you can, or meet us at a Tanglewood Saturday morning open rehearsal this summer. We’re almost always there in July and August. Love, Merriol” Mary Tyson (Ty) Goodridge wrote: “Saw a man in the last four weeks that I dated 46 years ago. As a result, I am moving from Mexico to Rancho Santa Fe, CA. to be with him, as it was an immediate connection. 78 years old, so it must never be too late. Love, Ty” Lucy Bussell Myers wrote: “I feel very blessed by my life, even though it doesn’t include amazing adventures or travel to exotic places! Sally and I go for long walks, either on the beach or in the woods, with our two cockapoos, Calvin and Hobbes. I meander through the marshes and rivers in my kayak; and I spend as much time as possible with my grandchildren, two on Martha’s Vineyard, one on the Cape, and two in college. I have been facilitating writing groups, one here in Ipswich and one at a women’s prison north of here. Working with the inmates is a great joy. My goal is to make them feel comfortable and to give them the opportunity to feel good about themselves. I also helped someone in my Ipswich group put together her memoirs. She is 92 and still driving her tractor! Singing in my choir at church and participating in Aqua Dance at our Y are also important parts of my life.”

Alice Marie Nelson wrote: “I repeated the concert program, which I had previously sung in NYC, in VT in May at the Gallery-in-the Field in Brandon. It went very well, and was great fun in that beautiful setting. You can look it up on the web and see photos of the Gallery.

At the end of October, Ann and I took a fabulous river cruise up the Danube from Budapest to Nuremberg and on to Prague. The trip of a lifetime really. We went with a company called AmaWaterways, which was first class in every respect. It was especially fun to be able to meet up with Hungarian friends in Budapest and an ex-colleague of mine from the opera house in Kiel in Nuremberg. Anyone contemplating a river cruise, just about anywhere in the world, should definitely contact this company! Still dealing with the messy aftermath of the big snow here, let’s hope we don’t have too many of those this winter! The city is such a mess for days afterwards. All the best, Alice Marie” Laura Travers Pardee “spent a lovely evening of wine and dinner with Hobey Alsop Hinchman and her husband Dave. I haven’t JOURNAL

seen her since 1955 but we had a wonderful time catching up. We discovered we go to the same church in Venice and live not very far from each other. We’re looking forward to many more times together.”

Barbara Kohlsaat von Oehsen and I had a long conversation via phone (better than email) the other day. She is very excitCan you name the MFS ’56 girls when in fourth grade? ed about going on a river Their teacher Mrs. Lockwood is in in the background? cruise (Rhine and Mosel) this summer with her son, (Photo courtesy of Molly Menand Jacobs, MFS 57) Bill, and his daughter, Elizabeth. She will be on the rivers for 12 days. “starting at the Black Sea, and sailing up and Barb enjoyed the blizzard of ’16 in her snug lit- down through nine plus countries to reach the tle house while her grandchildren cleared snow North Sea.” From her descriptions, it’s clear from her car, walks, etc. She now has a miniaMarina has not lost her wit or way with words. ture dachshund, Anna, who has joined her two Speaking of travels, I am now vicariously labs. Barb enjoys all three as they romp in the accompanying Kay Dunn Lyman and Dick as snow! Her church life is important, too. they “embark on an adventure, leaving Feb. 11 Nicky Knox passed away in December after a long struggle with poor health. She fought hard to beat COPD, but that deadly disease won. We will all miss Nicky! She was a “lifer” in our class until she went to boarding school after grade X.

I continue to enjoy life in the Boston area.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts and open rehearsals are fabulous! Our NH cottage is a great place for summer and fall! We are in the process of downsizing (in Needham) in preparation for moving to brand new senior community in the fall. I’m not looking forward to moving, but am looking forward to being free of homeowner responsibilities! Thanks to all who sent news! Best to everyone.

to drive across the country by a southern route.”

Accompanied by their “beloved golden retriever,” they plan to visit friends in Connecticut, NYC, DC and Chattanooga, then cross Tennessee and Arkansas, with a detour north to see the Crystal Bridges Art Museum. They will then turn toward LA to see a granddaughter at Occidental, and work their way up the coast to Astoria, OR where they will rent for two months near their son, daughter-in-law and grandson. By the time we read this, they should be heading home by the northern route.

Joan Pearce Anselm was delighted by Molly Menand Jacobs ’57’s fourth grade photo, “a classic,” and wondered “if later class pictures are out there to include more faces.” Following a January visit from Charlotte Cook, who was 1956 in Charlottesville for a Cicely Tomlinson Richardson family memorial service, 58 Bear Tree Road Joan and Klaus toured Orford, NH 03777 Columbia. Landing in 603-353-4608 Bogota, they went on to jctr@together.net Armenia, Medellin and Cartagena, enjoying 11 I’m sure everyone will join me days with a fun bunch of in sending our sympathies to travelers, above average Betsy Thomas Peterson, whose hotels and food, and cousins Joan (MFS ’52) and great weather. They also Jenneke (MFS ’54) Barton hope to revisit Southern you surely remember. Both Charlotte Cook ’56 and Joan France for three weeks died last year, leaving Betsy Pearce Anselm ’56 in front this year. Meanwhile, as the sole remaining Barton of a Peter Cook seascape in “Judging dog shows is descendant. Betsy continues to Charlottesville, VA. still a part of our lives, count her blessings, loving her and Klaus and I continue to workout so that life in Boston where she is still on the board of we can enjoy the sport.”

Beacon Hill Village, and spending more time at her cottage on Thompson Lake in Maine.

A note from Molly Wade McGrath reported Betsy’s big trip of 2015 was to Botswana, with that they are well and busy. Molly continues a side trip to Zambia to see Victoria Falls. This “life as a teacher of English to people from far year, she said, she plans to stay closer to home, and wide through the English Speaking Union; family and old friends. it has an excellent program for new arrivals to the US. These people keep me well informed Marina Turkevich Naumann’s first year withand happy with just enough work.” out Bob was one of ups and downs, laughter and tears, and much appreciated family and In 2015, Molly’s husband, Norm, played friends. She was joined by her daughter, Kris “a cameo role in a PBS film about Pedro (Naumann-Juros ’82), for an extensive voyage, Guerrero called A Photographer’s Journey and

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had the thrill of seeing many of his photographs of Penn Station used as a setting for a play, The Eternal Space, about the demolition of the iconic building.

Carol Harris Bradley had “a great year” celebrating two weddings and hers and Trump’s 55th anniversary. The only downsides: “some saddle sores as we crisscrossed the country from Connecticut to Colorado and back to Vermont,” with no time in Maine—“maybe next year.”

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What a delightful surprise. Our seventh grade homeroom teacher, Miss Rohr, now Connie Rohr Reiter of Mountainside, NJ shared a few of her fond memories in response to news of the death of one of “her girls,” Thayer Clark Paine (1939-2015): “It is 64 years ago that we all shared seventh grade (1951-’52) homeroom, geography, and American history — in that lovely old mansion … All my special homeroom ladies made that teaching experience a very happy time for me…. Sorry to read about Thayer Clark. In my mind you were all ‘my girls.’ I do recall one episode in which Helen Wilmerding and Maudley Halban climbed the fire escape outside my third floor office when a grad student was visiting that evening. Next morning they had written on all the boards, ‘Miss Rohr, How was…’ and then covered every blackboard with every boy’s name they could think of. We all had a good laugh; though later I felt I had to scold them about the danger of climbing fire escapes in the dark! I married that same grad student after I left MFS. I continued to

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Their children, settled at the northern “incredibly rural” tip of Manhattan and in Colorado, “are all working to the max, reaping the gains of full employment, grateful for the occasional breaks that teachers enjoy and well deserve.” In May, Molly and Norm will spend more time with Helen in Colorado, swapping houses with a friend of hers who will “revisit some of her old haunts in NYC.”

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News from Ann Lea Fries in Savannah is that she is busy, busy on some boards as well as on the Advisory Committee of the local Public Broadcasting station in Savannah.

Miss Fine’s School painted by Nan Lee ’65 from the memorabilia of Kathie Webster Dwight ’54 teach, and then quit while my five children grew up enough to all be in school. I returned to teaching… sort of retired several years ago, but have continued to teach two adult classes, and love it....”

When I (Susie Smith Baldwin) started teaching fifth grade in 1961, at just 21, my mother shared that Connie (Miss Rohr) had asked her to please destroy a letter to me from her mother.

My beloved teacher’s mother must have proudly answered my typical seventh grader questions about Miss Rohr’s age, how cute she was, her first date, her first boyfriends, etc. Who knows how many other personal tidbits and boys’ names we might have added to our blackboards!

I enjoyed a pilgrimage to India again this winter.

One need not travel abroad for spiritual awakening unless you are drawn to foreign teachers like a magnet… as I have experienced with Oneness University and Sai Baba. Whether in India, Vermont or anywhere… the journey is really about traveling within, knocking within… just being in the present moment with what is.

News Flash: Sandy Strachan Froehlich has her usual great sense of humor even when it comes to taking another painful “flying nose dive” outside her Northern Maine home in this year’s ice and snow. “No fractured bones this year, only a fractured ego. I had snow stuck between my eyes and my glasses so you can see when I say nose dive I was not kidding….

Take care… and be careful out there. We don’t bounce as well as we used to.”

Ann Lea Fries ’58 sent this photo of herself with classmates: L-R: Betsy Lawall Grant, Ann, Bev Ward Docter, Faith Wing Bieler and Lisa Fairman Heher Lisa Fairman Heher describes herself as a “Granny-Nanny” to her two granddaughters, Alessandra and Phoebe, who are 15 and 12 years old. She enjoys gardening in the summer, needle-pointing in the winter, the activities of a couple of women’s groups and reads all year round. This past summer she visited an old friend in her homes in California and Wyoming.

Sarah Adams Model is enjoying California, as well as a recent trip to Maui. Her talented ballerina granddaughter and her family live nearby.

As for me, Nancy Hudler Keuffel, I am a Regent at Gunston Hall, the historic home of George Mason whose Virginia Declaration of Rights was the precursor of the nation’s Bill of Rights. This is the 240th anniversary of his authorship and we all are busy with many events nationwide. Golf is my sport of choice and every once in a while I win a trinket, which keeps me coming back. And, I have become the “archivist” of the Keuffel family documents, which go back to the 1500’s. The goal is to organize all these papers and produce a family history that is accurate and up to date.

With charts, photos, sketches and various narrative accounts I am up to about eight hundred pages. It is a lot of fun and I appreciate the help of family members here and in Germany.

Above is news from some of you. All of us would love to catch up with the rest of you! So do send me updates of what you are doing.

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1951-52 MFS Faculty; Miss Connie Rohr, seventh grade teacher for MFS ’57, to right of Miss Shirley Davis, Headmistress. How many of these teachers can you name?

To find the full list go to: www.50.pds.org and click on Archives to find the 1952 Link (and all Links), scroll to page 28 to see the list of teachers in this photo.

Ann Kinczel Clapp 5 Farview Road Baltimore, MD 21212 410-464-9471 AnnClapp@hotmail.com

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buildings, and enjoyed superb meals. The 1950s cars were gorgeous and everywhere! Next they travel to Peru and Ecuador and Myanmar, where their youngest son works providing insurance to the rising middle class.

Dana Conroy Aymond visited with Nan Nicholes Goodrich in Florida.

Who remembers Charlie Fischer, PCD ’53?

He lives in St. Croix. We recently exchanged stories about mutual friends in the good old days before MFS and PCD merged.

My mentee will graduate and go to college this spring. Seven years of interesting and fun experiences.

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Penelope Hart Bragonier 68 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02108 617-742-0093 Pbragon@gmail.com

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Fiona Morgan Fein 10 West 66th Street, #25D New York, NY 10023-6212 212-799-9542 ffein@mac.com Nancy Smoyer 375 Crystal Road Fairbanks, AK 99712-1249 907-457-8473 nrsmoyer@alaska.edu From Fiona:

Tibby Chase Dennis wrote: “Chip and I are experimenting with living half-time on Cape Ann. I put my Cape Cod condo on the market last May, and the sale just closed a couple of weeks ago (it felt like a very long vigil, waiting for that to happen.) We have rented an apartment in downtown Gloucester within walking distance of everything. The museum is right next door, the library, town hall and post office are all one block away. Chip’s sister and her family live nearby, and Gordon Conwell, the divinity school where Chip got his M.Div. and offers all kinds of lectures, etc., is just a fifteen minute drive from where we are. Oh, and the station where you get the T into Boston, as well as bus service all around Cape Ann is just one-tenth of a mile away! So far we love it.

Though I have to confess that at the closing of my little Cape Cod condo I did shed a few tears.”

Julia Cornforth Holofcener reported: “We’re off to England for a couple of weeks, as Larry’s life-size sculpture of Shakespeare, Young Will, is being unveiled on his 90th birthday, February 23rd. Stratford is kicking off their celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death with the unveiling. It’s been a good year with the unveiling during the British Open last July in St. Andrews of his Faces of Golf for the front of the British Golf Museum, and now this. We both wonder what’s next.”

Sheila Long wrote: “I’m trying to teach a course on the Gospel of John to our postulant, Kathy, and a retired psychologist/poet who JOURNAL

lives down the road. We’re using two books of commentary, one very logical and structured, and the other full of intuitive leaps that don’t always seem self-evident. I also just acquired a new Latin student, a young man who works as a teacher’s aide in a classroom of autistic children and who loves languages. His French is good enough to use the Latin book/workbook I wrote for the novices when I was at Maumont. He did his first assignment in no time and posted the declension of gloria on Facebook, which warmed my teacherly heart.”

Fiona Morgan Fein announced: “Our big news is the birth of a great-granddaughter, Ada Beth, in early December! She lives in the Boston area so there are no babysitting duties, which we rather regret. Other than that, I’m still on the board of Wells College, which is thriving, and I continue to work away at learning to play classical guitar. The challenge is very interesting and is, I hope, building fresh brain cells. I took a short trip to Puglia to visit friends at the end of August and will take the youngest grandchild to London in July. My baby sister, Patience, will have her 50th PDS reunion this year. How is that possible?? She’s probably wondering the same thing. Thanks to everyone who sent news!”

Lucia Norton Woodruff reported: “I had the delight of being in the role of the younger generation one more time as houseguest of Maida Pollock, a friend of my mother’s from the music world in Princeton. Maida just moved to Maui at 92 to be near her extended family. Our discussions brought back so many Princeton memories.”

And although I’m certainly physically creakier, I’m still, thank God, in good enough health to be able to do some of the things I’ve always wanted to do. It is freeing, in a way, and I have a more philosophical and perhaps even forgiving approach to life (and others) having a long timeline of experience of the world and people to look back on.

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Susan Shea McPherson P.O. Box 506 Hyannis Port, MA 02647 508-775-1368 suebear3@gmail.com

Sympathies to Kitty Walker Ellison whose husband Dan passed away earlier this year.

So good hearing from Paige Aaron: “Just a brief update. I have moved to Westminster, Maryland with my partner Rena and our three dogs. We are living with our son, Josh, and his delightful family, chickens, dog and three cats.

A big change for us, but it is working out well.

I love the daily contact with our grandchildren, aged five and nine. Walking the dogs two hours a day is keeping me quite fit. Take care and best to all.”

Sonia Bill Robertson is a new grandmother!

“Off to see Carey and Alia (after my mother, wouldn’t she be pleased!) to meet Jean Overton Evans (born Sept. 15, 2015) in Charlottesville, where Louis is getting his Master’s of International Law. Who knows where the Marine Corps will send them next.

Should know by April, fingers crossed on the East Cast, at least. Off to Vero Beach for a bit in early March, to be joined by Carey et al, then back to VA for graduation.” I went to Maine in early December and stayed with Sonia and Jock one night in Portland, which was such a fun evening. Sonia kindly invited for dinner my good friend in nursing school, Dale Halsey, who married Tom Lea ’63 years ago; it was great to see them both again.

Nancy Smoyer wrote: “My winter trip this year was two weeks in the Dominican Republic to study Spanish before going to Cuba for two weeks with Road Scholar. It’s my third time there and my last because tourism there is exploding and will change the atmosphere greatly. I could see big changes from my last visit about 12 years ago, many more stores, restaurants, B&Bs and less poverty. There are many interesting stories about how they’ve coped with the Special Period after the Soviet Union pulled out and their conflicted feelings about whether to stay or try to leave. I’m looking forward to a 12-day Grand Canyon raft trip in April, something I’ve wanted to do as long as I can remember, and then our reunion [at Debbie’s] with a couple of days in Princeton added on!

Gail Cotton ’62 with her Cynthia Weinrich wrote: great-grandson, Amare “Am continuing to enjoy just subbing rather than having a regular church job, and therefore having more time for things I’ve been saying I wanted to do for what feels like my entire life: people, thinking, writing and just in general more ‘space’ for relaxation and open choices. I really think that I’ve entered a new chapter of life, which I guess in the former days was called old age.

Gail Cotton is a great-grandmother: “Dennis and I are delighted to report the birth of our first great-grandchild!

Amare Anthony joined us on August 3, 2015. He is the son of our oldest grandchild, Andrea. He is now a happy and delightful six-month-old.

We still take care of our twoyear-old grandson, Andrew, twice a week, which keeps us young and hopping. We are looking forward to July and daughter Anne’s wedding.

Colton and his two girls will be coming from Australia for the wedding and an extended visit. We are also pleased that other friends and family from out of state will be able to attend.

I joined Susan Mathews Heard and her husband Bruce for a fabulous trip on the Duoro River in Portugal last fall; it is a beautiful country. I mentioned to Susan about Christopher Reeve ’70 being Superman; much to my

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Kathleen Sittig Dunlop sent her wonderful Christmas letter telling of her time with her daughter in Paris at the French Open. She celebrated her 70th birthday with her husband Richard and daughter, Allison, in Iceland in The McPherson family at Thanksgiving 2015: L-R: August. 2015 travels took the Dunlops to Mexico, Morocco and the Panama daughter Elle, daughter-in-law Selina, son Rob, Canal. Other important activities daughter Sandy include being with her sister, Sigrid, volunteering, and all the activities around her surprise she knew nothing about his living in faith and church.

Princeton, having gone to PCD and finishing at PDS, so I told her, perhaps none of you Anne Updike Burt wrote that she had a dream knew that either, which is why I had to put this about me! We were visiting tribes in Maine. in our Journal.

Andy was taking an aboriginal art class and gathering photos for her film (is this part real, 1963 Andy?), “It was lovely to hang out with you Alice Jacobson in the dream.” Sounds good to me!! Andy is 2924 NE 21st Avenue working (real life, not dream life) on the Down Portland, OR 97212 to Earth Storytelling Project about climate 503-528-8489 change. She invites us to check out the website: alice_jacobson@comcast.net http://igg.me/at/downtoearth/x/3244191. Andy is on the short video explaining the project.

Pamela Sidford Schaeffer celebrated her 70th Donations from us for this project would be well birthday with a Neil Diamond concert, and received by Andy and others! She concluded, they celebrated Leonard’s 70th with fireworks “Just know I’m appreciative of many memories at the Cape. Pam reminisced about our good I have of each of you that I bring out often to time with Laura Rogers and our spouses in enjoy. I am finding that reminiscing is much Oregon last August. We did have a great time more of a pastime these days than ever before.” in Portland and Ashland! Pam reported that her new best friend is the rat control man who In January, I celebrated my 70th on a cruise is now coming monthly to take care of the ship off the west coast of New Zealand. It was problem. The big news: daughter, Jaq, is prega great trip. No question that the best thing nant, and she and husband Jake expect Pam that happened in 2015 was my marriage to and Leonard’s fourth grandchild in the fall. my partner of 20 years, AJ Arriola. We had a great party on October 4, our friend, Stephanie, Kathryn Kilgore pulled my leg and chastened married us, and we celebrated with over 200 my usage by commenting that my question, friends and family. No way to top that! So even “What was your fondest memory of 2015” though you won’t receive this until the late employed the old-fashioned word “fondest.”

Who knew? But as a poet, she has my blessings spring, I am writing this on Valentine’s Day, and I wish all our classmates a great 2016! (as do the rest of you, too) to challenge what I write and how I write it! Kathryn’s moment: 1964 “when Larry’s brother, Dan, jumped up and Barbara Rose down in an elevator to scare me to death.” The 2C Brookline Court point was to make her laugh…and she did, Princeton, NJ 08540 even after 10 hours waiting outside the oper609-937-1700 ating room after Larry’s last cancer surgery. I barbarabrose@me.com hope that he has fully recovered and that you are both doing well.

As Princeton Day School celebrates its 50th anniversary, we, members of the class of 1964, Colleen Coffee Hall said her fondest memocelebrate our 52nd year since our graduation ries include the June 4 birth of her new grandchild, Keaveney, and a tour of Crete in October. from that venerable institution known as Miss Colleen is still busy selling real estate, and I get Fine’s School. Astoundingly, I’ve had news from no fewer than 12 classmates in preparanotices of the fabulous homes she is selling in tion for the writing of this column. I believe it Princeton. must be a record of some kind! Thanks to all Sharon Stevenson Griffith wrote from who shared their stories.

Pound Ridge, NY. Her best memory from last It is my sorrowful duty to report the death year was the week that her family spent on of one of our own. Wendy Fruland Hopper Nantucket. She loved her December trip to passed away last September after a long illSouth East Asia. Sharon and I both endorse ness. If you’d spent any time with Wendy Overseas Adventure Travels, and we compare during the last 18 months of her life, you notes on our trips. would not have known she was ill. Wendy Kleia Raubitscheck Luckner said her best lived her life to the fullest right up until the memories were “celebrating the Christmas day she succumbed to cancer. holidays in one place with her two children and For those of you who didn’t have the privilege three granddaughters.” Although she misses

of knowing this “life force” called Wendy, she attended MFS until eighth grade, when she and her horse departed for the Oldfields School in Maryland along with Beirne Donaldson and Leslie Dupont Myrin. But she always stayed in touch and even helped organize our 50th class reunion two years ago.

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Toledo and all her friends there, she appreciates her closeness to family including those children and her sister, Marita, and brother, John.

Friends were extremely important to Wendy and she managed over her lifetime to build and nurture an amazing number of them through many and varied interests. An accomplished equestrian, she competed in several different disciplines.

She was also an avid foxhunter as a member of the Amwell Valley Hounds. In addition to her riding interests, she enjoyed the outdoors of the Adirondacks. From her home in Keene Valley, New York, she would climb the mountains, fish and hike the streams and row the lakes. A gardener, she was a past President of the Stony Brook Garden Club. She had an eye and a flare for decorating, each of her homes reflecting the warmth and joy she felt in just being alive.

1964 Classmates: Barbara Rose, Beirne Donaldson and Wendy Fruland Hopper taken on May 1, 2014.

She leaves behind her husband of 47 years Arthur Hopper and three daughters, Allison Hopper Skinner of San Rafael, California, Emily Hopper Carifa ’91 of Far Hills, New Jersey, and Hilary Hopper of Burlington, Vermont. To her five grandchildren she was known affectionately as “Gobgob”.

Wendy and her special “joi de vie” is and will be sorely missed.

I can’t help being somewhat jealous as I learned so many of our class have retired and are doing just what they want to do, which seems to include, across the board, lots of travel. Who knew we could develop such wanderlust; perhaps seeds planted long ago at MFS. Penny Pettit Kreinberg wrote from Oregon “I’ve been retired for thirteen years from teaching and counseling in community college. I have no idea how I ever found all those hours to work each week. I love being retired, but haven’t managed to find a slower pace. We have three wonderful kids, one of whom still lives with us. We take care of our three Portland grandchildren three days a week and visit our three Pasadena grandchildren as often as we can. As rich as this makes my life, my passions are art and travel. So I do as much of both as I can find time for. Life just keeps getting more and more precious. We were fortunate to be together all those years ago and we are privileged to be here now, relishing this amazing planet.”

Fran Wolf, class president our senior year at MFS, wrote similarly. “I love being retired and

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wonder how I ever found time to work! I enjoy living in Atlanta (despite the horrific traffic and evangelical Georgia mentality) because it is a beautiful wooded city and is cosmopolitan enough to satisfy me. I am happily single and expect to stay that way. In between volunteering with Hispanic 1st graders, duplicate bridge, occasionally mediating financial industry disputes, exercise and reading, I travel! I spent September in the Baltics (Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia) and Russia—a surprisingly fascinating trip since as Americans we learn very little about Baltic history. I just returned from two weeks in Myanmar (Burma), which I wanted to visit before it became too westernized. I am enjoying these later years.”

Linda Conroy Vaughn is off on another trip this week. She wrote, [since she lost her husband Dave a year ago] “My goal this year is to travel, travel and travel some more. I am starting by heading for Chile, Argentina and Brazil next week… I am almost frenetic about traveling.” When she’s not traveling on her own or visiting friends or family, she claims to work about 20 hours a week with her son, Brad, in the real estate management company she and her husband started decades ago. Linda also wrote, “All of my grand babies are good. Brad just had a girl in October… making that five grands for me. [Heather’s] preemies are doing remarkably well. They are not out of the woods yet, but all indications are pointing in the right direction…Bravo to modern medicine.”

Cary Smith Hart also travels but reported here on her interest in giving back to her community. “I too am retired and feel so fortunate.

Friends, kids, reading, birding and travel are some of my retirement passions. I get my kid fix when not visiting our three grandkids by reading to children in the waiting room at my old clinic as part of the national Reach Out and Read Program. I’m proud that we were able to get Kaiser to sponsor it, so every child from six months to five years is given an age appropriate book at each well-baby visit with a pitch from the doc about how important reading aloud is. My part is to model how to make reading fun for parents and kids. What a blast!

My husband and I also do book clubs with high school students and participate in various adult book clubs, also lots of fun. When the weather gets better, I do solar cooking demonstrations for a group called ‘Solar Cookers International.’ Time seems to whiz by.” What a great reading program, Cary. Wonder if we have something like that out East.

Beverly Wilson Parry seems to have found paradise in her “retired” life. “I retired in 2000 from running a statewide parent group called Parent to Parent of NH, did a bunch of great programs for parents of kids with special needs, a bunch of legislation for family-run family support agencies; I miss it. I moved to the Caribbean when I retired (our family was part-owner of a small inn on the island of Nevis). I married an old friend (2nd marriage for me) who ran the museum there and have lived happily ever after. I just started a recycle program to rid the island of plastic bottles!

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(birthplace of Alexander Hamilton). My kids are happy; one lives in Brooklyn, the other lives in Boston. We come home in the summer to visit. I miss Wendy Fruland Hopper. Will try to get to a MFS reunion soon!”

Glad to know there are a couple of us who still make up a part of the working-class. Johanna Hornig Fox said she is “… not retired, but I increasingly think it might be a lovely idea. I still work at Johns Hopkins, in school reform, now about 1/3 in a hands-on way, 2/3 in research analysis, writing, and getting folks together to promote a focus on the kids who drop out. I have one child in CA/SF area, and one in Spain, where there are three grandkids, oldest now 10, to my utter amazement; I would very much like to see them more often than I do.” There’s an opportunity for travel, Johanna, Spain!

“I retired in 2014,” wrote Susan Moulton, “but had no idea what to do with my time!

So am now back working three days a week, for a while… I work at small business center in Salem MA doing programs and education for small businesses. PLUS I volunteer at a flower store; talk about a great work environment!! It is the best. Still feel so lucky to live in Massachusetts, which I consider a wonderfully sane and progressive state, plus I love the four seasons, even the snow! My son works in Chicago, and is trying to transfer to Scotland, which would be great and a true excuse to travel. I feel 45, act 45 but, yup, look older.

I have not figured out the post-work life…

I find turning 70 simply astonishing!!!! But life is good and I am truly grateful, and I still think our little group is made up of exceptional women whom I love to see. Onward!!!”

So glad to hear from Jane Budny Conrad again and adding her voice to the “retirement chorus.” “I am retired from being an elementary school teacher. I have been volunteering at our library and at the Grounds for Sculpture for a while. When you do one job, you learn a new one, and help wherever you can. We travel as much as we can. Our son is devoted to his two daughters and our daughter had her first child this year. I cannot have written a better story.”

highlights: last January, a 10-day bird watching trip to Cuba, scouring national parks, wetlands and biospheres for pygmy owls, grassquits and rails for 14 hours a day. We saw about 159 species, including 20 of the 28 birds endemic to Cuba. Food and lodging were simple and comfortable. I’d love to go back—to explore the countryside and hang out in Havana. In June, for our 25th anniversary, Al and I spent a week on the mail boat (Hurtigruten) up the Norwegian fjords—peaceful and beautiful, with side trips to meet sled dogs, Sami people, reindeer and cloudberries. Then in October, a terrific weekend in Plains, Georgia, to celebrate the opening of Rosalynn Carter’s Monarch Butterfly Trail. The Carters helped us explore Plains, the peanut industry, the Carter legacy. I’ve now planted lots of butterfly weed (NOT butterfly bush) in our garden.”

Like me, Annie Clay Harris hasn’t yet retired.

Far from it, it seems. Annie wrote, “I am still working full-time as the CEO of a regional non-profit called Essex Heritage, which I helped to start. We have an affiliation with the National Park Service and we work on projects and programs that connect residents and visitors to the considerable historic, cultural and natural resources in Eastern Massachusetts, a 500 square mile region just north of Boston. We promote rail trails, place base learning, youth job corps, historic preservation grants, and we recently acquired a lighthouse with a landing craft to visit it. My husband, Andy, and I still live in Salem, MA, which is a very interesting little city. It has a lot more going for it than just the witch hysteria of 1692, and if you can survive the month-long October Haunted Happenings extravaganza, it is a very pleasant community.

Our daughter is a lawyer in DC and is getting married in September so we still have some time before we can reasonably expect grandchildren.

I now understand the downside to waiting so long to have kids because we are going to be very old grandparents! When we aren’t working, we thoroughly enjoy this beautiful part of New England. In the summer we sail around here and also in Maine and Buzzards Bay. In the winter, Andy moves our boat to the Caribbean and we sail there whenever we can get away.”

Can’t imagine Susan Jamieson retired, which she said she did a couple of Dora Lange declared years ago. And, I guess she’s not. her retirement a couple “I am mostly retired but work of years ago, too, but with the Institute of Human certainly doesn’t sound and Developmental Disabilities like she’s become a at the University of Georgia “couch potato.” She speaking at law schools about wrote, “George and I my work, especially the US S again spent the sumCt case, Olmstead v. L.C. The mer in Santa Barbara, focus is integration of people with a couple of weeks with disabilities into community Barbara Rose ’64 and Penny in Sedona and Grand life and related rights under the Canyon, then to Croatia Pettit Kreinberg ’64 last May Americans with Disabilities Act. with a teacher friend In the past two years, my first three grandchilin November. Otherwise I’ve been enjoying dren have arrived! My son lives in Providence/ Grandma-duty plus yoga, volunteering at school Boston and my daughter in DC so I spend lots and at the local art festival, taking the occasional of time in Northeast.” hikes and even learning to knit! (That’s what being a granny and senior citizen will do to I’d like to pack myself into Mea (Liz Aall) you… Lol !!). My life is full and happy! Best to Kaemmerlen’s suitcase. She seems to orgaall for a Happy New Year/Year of the Monkey! nize unusual trips in pursuit of her many And please stay in touch!” interests. This time she reported, “three travel

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If you don’t have a class correspondent, please send your news to Ann Wiley ’70, Class Notes Editor, at awiley@pds.org or mail to PDS PO Box 75, Princeton, NJ 08542.

Hobie Hare, son of Barbara Rose ’64, with his bride.

I am pleased to still be working for Sotheby’s International Realty in Princeton. Can’t imagine being retired, although I’m trying to work more rounds of golf into my routine, and hope I can remain a productive member of society for several more years to come.

A good time was had by all in our family last August 22, when my son, Hobie Hare ’93, married Lucy MacCallum in Peabody, MA. The newlyweds live in South Boston. Lucy has a great job at Cigna and Hobie is the Operations Director for the Revolution (New England’s professional soccer league) in their Academy Program. He and Lucy love living in Boston and I enjoy visiting them there.

I am sure I speak for everyone in the class of ’64 when I say congratulation to PDS on its 50th anniversary. The facilities and tools available to students at PDS today are vastly superior to those we knew at MFS. We are proud to see what hasn’t changed are the high educational standard established long ago with regard to the fundamentals of teaching and learning, based on trust, mutual understanding and respect, which continue to inspire us today.

For the next Journal column it would be fun to have a few pictures. Be sure to write in again and share some photos of your exciting travels.

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Margaret Woodbridge Dennis 11115 Fawsett Road Potomac, MD 20854-1723 301-983-9738 hotyakker@gmail.com

Peggy Woodbridge Dennis wrote: “Our 50th Reunion was an excuse for Bob and me to travel to Norway and take the Hurtigruten Line (coastal express) all the way to the northern end and back again. On the way south, we debarked at Harstad in the Loffoten Islands and had a wonderful four days with Merethe Lange-Nielsen Ytterstad and her husband Borge. Merethe met us dockside waving a copy of the Link just in case we had trouble recognizing each other after 50 years. But 50 years melted away within minutes. It was wonderful to exchange recollections and, after hosting four foreign exchange students over the years, hear her views on how the exchange experience had been for her. Merethe and Borge were fabulous hosts. We enjoyed Harstad’s cultural festival, visited many places of interest, hiked and went fishing for freshly caught Norwegian dinner. We were only sorry to miss Gigi and Dana who were traveling there on different dates.

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Peter Erdman 700 Hollinshead Spring Road Apartment D100 Skillman, NJ 08558-2038 609-759-3362

1944 Markley Roberts wrote that he lives in a retirement building in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

He gives courses at a lifelong learning institute affiliated with American University. This spring he is giving a course on Queen Elizabeth I, England’s Renaissance Ruler.

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Colin McAneny 438 Evans Street Vicksburg, MS 39180 601-636-8698 gwiz438@gmail.com

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that class class correspondent correspondent We are sorry to report that Lewis Kleinhaus Kleinhans ’46 passed away on on April Apri 5, 5, 2016.

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David Rogers 1602 Tuckers Lane Hingham, MA 02043 781-749-9229 drassoc53@comcast.net

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Jack Wallace 90 Audubon Lane Princeton, NJ 08540 609-921-2257 njnb1@aol.com

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William Wallace 171 Riveredge Drive Chatham, NJ 07928 973-379-4455

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Edwin Metcalf 23 Toth Lane Rocky Hill, NJ 08553-1010 609-921-2386 ehmet@comcast.net

Hugh Fairman has slowed down his writing standards for testing materials for the ASTM (American Society for Test Materials). He has stopped most of his theatre and archeology activities. We see him regularly at Princeton

Hugh’s strongest memory of PDS is learning ice hockey under a full-time, professional, hockey coach (Dick Vaughn) on the only artificial ice rink in the area (Baker Rink). Few if any competitors or prep schools had artificial ice at the time.

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home football games. He continues perfect attendance at all our Princeton class campus reunions (for which he has received “The Order of the Claw”).

George Hess has “retired.” He still has his lab at U of V and had an article reviewed and published on films of single molecular layers on graphite at 30 to 150 Kelvin last year. He is now working on an article for 2016.

George remembers good teachers and good athletic programs at PCD. He left in November of eighth grade for South Africa, where his father was on sabbatical. George finished eighth grade at a school in South Africa and rejoined PCD at start of ninth grade.

Travel then was by slow freighters. George joined his Princeton class’s mini-reunion in South Africa a few years ago.

Oakley Hewitt has now completely retired from assisting on orthopedic procedures, partly for medical reasons. He has cut back on his other activities and traveling. He and his wife have seven grandsons and step-grandsons.

Oakley remembers made good friends at PCD and such good academics at PCD and Lawrenceville that Yale “was a breeze.”

We reached Bob Kales on winter vacation in Fort Myers, FL. He and his wife are in Stonington, Deer Isle, ME for summer vacations and periodically visit good friends in Ottawa, Canada.

Bob remembers PCD’s teachers for interesting personalities. He studied art under Peter Cook at Exeter, and continues to paint (particularly portraits).

Jimmy Kerney wrote from Freeport. ME. He sold his 32-foot trawler last year so he now joins friends and children on their boats. He and his wife cruised up the Rhine River with great people, food and crew last fall. They would love to do another river trip if anyone looking for company.

Jimmy and his wife have six grandchildren, of which five are out of college and gainfully employed. They urge any classmates that happen to be in Freeport area to get in touch with him.

Doug Levick had surgery last October to replace two hip replacements with a steel plate.

After three and a half months, he is just beginning to walk… with a cane. He has cut back on his work for Outward Bound for teenagers, but continues to interview Princeton applicants and to mentor a few kids.

Doug and his wife plan to move to a popular retirement home in Palo Alto when an apartment they want becomes available. In downsizing they find donating items to charities much easier than selling them.

Doug was very fond of PCD. He learned a lot, the sports were good fun and he liked riding his bicycle to and from school (except in the rain).

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Ed Metcalf ’s has stopped ice dancing four days a week, almost year around, for medical reasons.

He now spends more time on fitness training, yoga, and spinning. Also he helps Trinity Church Princeton’s outreach programs, raises funds for the Rocky Hill Library, and keeps up his real property (with occasional help).

Ed enjoys helping his nearby Princeton classmates with monthly lunches, helping on their major reunions, and joining many twice yearly off-campus mini-reunions (for which he received the “Order of the Claw”). He and his wife enjoy visiting their children: Anne Metcalf ’73, “Ebe” Metcalf ’74, and second son in Rome, Italy, and their families.

Ed’s chief memory of PCD was the emphasis on education. He had moved to Princeton from an upstate New York where the academic goals of over 50% of my classmates were to be prison guards at the largest employer in town. At PCD over 50% of his classmates were sons of Princeton faculty, staff, and alumni and thus a strong focus on academics.

Bob Miller lost his driving license and became lonely in the family homestead. About a year and a half ago he moved to Acorn Glen for more company and medical help.

Bob’s sister, Nancy Miller MFS ’57, finds he enjoys visitors and his long term memory can be good. The best times to visit are mid-morning and afternoon.

Henry Rulon-Miller has retired from PDS after 50 years as a superb teacher, mentor, ice hockey coach and director of hockey operations. PDS has named its annual hockey tournament the Harry Rulon-Miller Hockey Tournament and is preparing a permanent banner for the rink in his honor.

Harry recently had the second of his two artificial knees replaced. He is active helping a number of charities in Princeton area. He visits college classmates and his two step-children, Emily ’88, Jamie ’92 and son Peter ’03.

Harry’s memory of his days at PCD is the faculty was “as good as it gets.”

Peter Wright has just retired as professor of theatre at Roger Williams University. He has a pulmonary disorder and works on physical maintenance rehabilitation. His children live within two hours of driving. Peter helps at his Episcopal church. Whether he will continue helping local summer theatre is still to be decided.

Peter’s best memories of PCD are what wonderful and first rate people Polly and Jim Murch were.

We were not able to hear from two remaining classmates, John Fisher and Walter Wilmerding by press time.

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causes or a Ludditian aversion to the mod means of chatter. Presently I have email addresses for Bauer, Hillier, Kerr, Wellemeyer and Whitney. Absent evidence to the contrary, I believe Lee, Outerbridge, Sheer and Smith are still among the quick but they ignore my snailmailed queries. The rest, perforce, may have left this mortal coil.

In sum: Hillier and Wellemeyer, as reported before, remain active in the PCD/PDS circles; John being a trustee of the school (Kudos!).

As for myself, I keep on publishing, most recently the following: a delightful and insightful anthology of experiences, Heard and Overheard; Words Wise (and Otherwise) with Politicians, Statesmen and Real People by former Congressman James W. Symington. Also, a snappy and scary YA fantasy, Crestfall, A Novel of Earth and Fire, by Lily St. John McKee, my erstwhile youngest author—now tragically departed. Also, Yuki’s Journey, a charming dogloses-boy/dog-finds-boy story in the wake of Japan’s tsunami, by Joseph J. Krakora. Look for them all at www.PosterityPress.com, and call me for an old-school-tie discount.

The only new news comes from Peter Bauer who sounds busy enough doing good works for all the rest of us combined. He sends the following unedited missive from his home of many years, which (I just learned) lies one town south of Canada: “Living in Enosburg, near the Canadian border, in Vermont, elevation 1,400’ in the Cold Hollow Mountain valley, last place on the left, where the snowplow turns around … Major Project, “Slow the accelerating Climate Change.” {many worldwide important contacts, some famous} … Major Project, “Reduce drastically the annual 500 murders in Chicago.” {Tweeting for these 2 Projects - Both named, “Enough is Enough!!! ” } …

School Shootings website {for brainstorming} … “Public Banking” for Vermont … Solutions for PTSD … Started local opiate prevention program … “Identity Guard” member … Very happy, living by myself {“the most exciting time of my life!“} {“Fortunate about physical and mental capabilities - therefore Grateful”} …

Former wife nearby {getting along fine, invited, visits} … Downhill skiing with 4 grandchildren - Telemark Skiing - Snowboarding - Motorcycling - Dirt Biking - Windsurfing - ATV with “Tracks” {chainsawing} - Dancing - Learning Spanish {already speak German and French} - MacBook Air - iPhone 6+ - Apple Pay - Line2.com”

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Kenneth Scasserra 3161 NW 107th Drive Sunrise, FL 33351 609-598-1776 kscas@hotmail.com

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Fred Blaicher 710 Manatee Cove Vero Beach, FL 32963-3728 772-231-0046 fritzblaicher@yahoo.com

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Guy Dean 11 Lemore Circle Rocky Hill, NJ 08553-1007 609-921-6356 guydean@verizon.net

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Robert Dorf 410 Walnut Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81501 970-471-1067 dorfb@outlook.com

There aren’t a lot of people in our class, but we have quality. In early January, I took a trip to Princeton and Lawrenceville. Since I attended Lawrenceville and was fortunate enough to play hockey there for four years, I was invited back to celebrate 100 years of hockey at the school, and since I am still upright and sucking air, I decided to join in on the alumni game. I thought I would be the oldest, but I was proud to be joined by Austie Sullivan ’54, another PCD and L’ville alum. We didn’t distinguish ourselves by our skills, but by our enthusiasm for the event. I took my 13-year-old grandson, Jensen, along to see the school, and he was given the opportunity to be one of the two refs for the games (2). Being a pretty fair player himself and a level 2 hockey ref, he had a great time. We also had the opportunity to stay with John Cook and his patient wife Jeannie. On Friday, Jensen and I met John at the Princeton/ Union hockey game that ended in a spirited tie, and then joined Austie, Stevie Cook ’59 and his wife, and John and Jeannie for a wonderful dinner in Princeton. I was hoping to have the opportunity to skate on Carnegie Lake, like the old days, but it was too warm for ice. A couple of weeks later John sent me a great picture of the lake covered with black ice just before the 30 inch snowfall. It was such a quick trip that I didn’t get a chance to visit with Joan, who is well into her 90s. Although she has suffered from some debilitating strokes, the last time I saw her, a couple of years ago, she was all too aware of who I was, and we shared some wonderful memories and tears together. Still as beautiful as ever. It was a great trip and a great visit with the Cooks.

Johnnie sent me the following with the picture of the lake: “We had a beautiful sheet of black ice on the Lake, and just as I took off for a two mile skate it started to snow. And snow it did!

As a younger man, I would get out there with Noogie and shovel off the 30 inches to create a fine rink for shinny, but this time it was more than even a younger man could handle.

Ergo, we will be back at Baker Rink for our hockey this week, a venue that many of you will remember, with three noon-time, cross-ice games going on at once.”

I have heard a little from you other lazy old men, but not enough. Send me a little something.

Larry Estey wrote: “Not much new to report.

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John Davison made a move and wrote: “I just moved up to Douglas Elliman, New York’s largest real estate company. Know anyone who wants to buy, sell or rent an apartment in NYC?? Hurry while they last!! (Perfect for that PCD pension.) My email is: john.davison@ elliman.com” Dave Smoyer reported in his best e.e.cummings style: “bobby, i loved your cartoon. yes, as we age, we do need to think carefully, ‘exactly WHY is that relative being so nice to me??’ news: mary and i are living jan and feb in portland, or, a couple blocks from a daughter, son-in-law, and their three active teenage boys. it’s fun. in june we’ll be in hawaii (first time) w/three children, three in-laws, and seven grandchildren, feeling very lucky as we celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. as i dodder into senescence, i think often and happily about ‘those once familiar halls.’ all the best to our ’56 classmates and to you.”

Received a nice note from David Kamenstein; I remember David as one of the only guys in our class who could lift the puck in our early years at Baker Rink. He would launch an end over end back hand half way down the rink.

He wrote: “What a nice surprise to get your email. The list of recipients was pretty short, I’m glad I am on it. I hope that’s not all of us left. It is hard to believe that 10 years have gone by since our 50th PCD reunion. I have not been in Princeton since.

“I hope the past 10 years have been good ones for you and your family. We have no complaints. We are all in apparent good health.

Carol and I have been married 52 years and became grandparents for the first time five years ago to my daughter’s (Tracy) twin girls, Indy & Minnie. They are giving us lots of pleasure. We are all living in the Palm Beach area and all spend the summers at our home in Dorset, Vt., probably about 1 1/2 hours south of Middlebury. This past summer, however, we all spent the summer in California as my son (Sloan) opened one of his unique ice cream stores in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills and he had to be there. If you ever get to South Florida or Vermont, in the summer, please give me call. I’d love to see you. My cell is 561-301-2313.”

Danny Quick wrote: “After retiring, Elaine and I moved from NJ to Saxonburg, PA (25 miles northeast of Pittsburgh) to be close to Elaine’s daughter and family. The last ten years

have been busy and eventful keeping up with a combined family of five children / nine grandchildren. My eldest grandson, Douglas Quick, joined the Marines last August.

“Since moving west, Elaine and I have enjoyed traveling, especially to Europe (eight times), the Caribbean in the winters, and the “mandatory” Hawaii and Alaska.

“In retirement I have taken two dozen Great Courses from the Teaching Company as well as doing a bunch of puttering at home and our local church.”

That’s about all I’ve got. Still haven’t heard from Chris Shannon, Moke Raymond, or Dudley Clark. Stay in touch.

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James “Tim” Carey 245 A Chestnut Avenue Unit #2 Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 781-326-8966 tim_carey@nobles.edu

Bob Smyth wrote about two of our classmates who passed away last year.

I first met Jerry Gildar in 1951 when we entered the fourth grade at PCD. Jerry was one of those rare individuals who made everyone he met better for having had the experience. We became friends and shared some good times at PCD. You always relaxed in his presence because he took everything in stride and was a calming influence on those around him. After PCD, Jerry went to Rutgers Prep and I to Taft, but we reunited at Princeton High School. We had a lot of fun together in high school. Jerry was suave. People, especially girls, wanted to be around him. Through Jerry, I got invited to all the best parties and met all the “right” people. Jerry could talk cars with mechanics and sports with athletes. After high school, we drifted apart a little, until we went to our PCD classmate John Thompson’s viewing. At the viewing, Jerry asked me if I was planning to go to the service the next day.

When I said yes, Jerry said, “Good. I don’t want to cry alone.” We both cried like babies the whole time.

In 2007, when I was asked to chair our PCD 50th reunion, I needed to get a couple of classmates to help; Jerry was the first one I called; Rob Kuser and Stu Robson joined us.

We worked tirelessly and the reunion was a huge success. After that, Rob, Jerry and I had breakfast together monthly. We called ourselves ROMEO II. ROMEO I was made up of some of our former PCD teachers. ROMEO was an acronym for Retired Old Men Eating Out. Rob and I are the only ones left now, but we continue the tradition.

In 2012, Jerry was diagnosed with cancer and from the treatments he received he was often weak and lethargic. When he started to have kidney problems, he had to be on a dialysis machine nine hours a day. During this period, I would try to call and visit Jerry as often as possible. He really enjoyed reminiscing about PCD and Princeton High, My brother-in-law, Tom, and his wife Anna

annually host a large Thanksgiving feast. Several years ago, I had invited Jerry, but he was in the hospital. When I told Tom this, he packed a large basket of food, and my son, Rob, and I delivered it to the hospital. We were pleased to see that this was one of the few times he had an appetite, and he ate everything. When finished, he said that he would not miss the next one in 2013. He didn’t. Between 2012 and 2014 Jerry came to picnics we or our neighbors had, and he hosted one as well.

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PCD years. I’ve been here full-time since 2000. I retired in 2006 from a career as an Episcopal priest in parishes in Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, and Maine. I’ve been married to Elizabeth for nearly seven years. I have one daughter of my own and an elevenyear-old granddaughter, and through marriage acquired two more daughters and two more granddaughters. All of these live in an almost straight east-west line from Portland, Maine to Toronto; none had the sense to move south where we could visit them in the winter. I’m locally involved in theater and choral singing and the usual number of boards of non-profit groups. Life is good.”

As 2014 wore on, and into 2015 Jerry missed a few cookouts and ROMEO breakfasts; he was too sick to come. He invited all of us, other friends and family and neighbors to a 4th of July cookout and fireworks. The fireworks were amazing. At one point, he said to my wife Debbie and me, “This will be my last hurrah,” and he gave Debbie three roman candles. That was the last time that I saw Jerry.

The night before Jerry’s funeral, we were having dinner at our neighbors’ house across the street and remembering Jerry. All of a sudden their 15-year old son said, “Jerry was the only adult I knew that ever listened to me explain how a certain complicated video game worked and understood what I was saying.” Later, Debbie said, “Let’s set off the three roman candles Jerry gave me.” We all went out into the street.

Each candle had four different colors (red, green, blue and white) rockets inside and they deployed separately. The first two candles were set off, and each rocket went up a little higher than the one before. The third candle’s blue, green, and red rockets went up about as high as all the others, but the white one went up and up and up until it was out of sight. I knew what this was. It was the light that temporarily replaced the one in the heavens that winked out when Jerry was taken from us. Rest in eternal peace, my brother.

I met Stu Robson also in the fall of 1951, when he, Jerry and I entered PCD. Stu and I had something in common; our fathers were masters at PCD. Stu’s dad taught Math and Science, and mine taught French.

Stu “Stuie” Robson was a quiet, unassuming, genuine nice guy with a good sense of humor.

We played basketball together; Stu’s dad was the coach. Although this relationship can cause problems, for the Robsons everything went well. Stu and I lived within biking range of PCD and our houses; we’d often hang out together after school. After the Robsons got a swimming pool, we didn’t go to my house much anymore. Stu was very generous and invited not only PCD kids to the pool, but also kids that lived in both our neighborhoods.

Stu and I went to Princeton High School and then to Rutgers, but we didn’t see much of each other at either school. Except for exchanging Christmas cards, we had little contact until 2003, the year my mom died. I was selling her house and needed an appraisal.

I remembered that Stu’s father did appraisals, so I contacted Stu. We caught up with each other, and then Stu said he also did appraisals and would be glad to do one for me. He had it done in a couple of days; it was thorough,

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comprehensive and very professional. Despite my insistence, Stu would not take any fee for his work. Four years later, when I was planning our 50th reunion, I asked Stu to join classmates Rob Kuser, Jerry Gildar and me to work on the event. There was talk of trying to get together for a 55th in 2012; I called Stu to see if he would be interested in helping. He told me he couldn’t because he had Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

That was the last time I talked to Stu. Recently, I heard from PDS that it thought that Stu had died, but there was no confirmation. I drove out to the last address I had for Stu and met a pleasant young woman at the door. She was Stu’s daughter, Stacey; the resemblance was clear. She told me that Stu had died in 2013 after suffering a year-long struggle with Gehrig’s. Stacey said that she had moved in with her dad to care for him and that the last couple of months were very hard.

I was glad to get closure on Stu, but saddened that this kind, generous and soft-spoken man had to endure such pain as the disease ravaged his body. It just doesn’t seem fair.

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Toby Knox 163 Boulder Hill Drive Shelbourne, VT 05482 802-985-3191 toby@tobyknox.com

It is with a heavy heart I take over the role of class correspondent after Perry Rodgers filled the position for so many years. As was noted in the fall 2015 PDS Journal, Perry passed away on August 4. He fought three bouts of cancer valiantly and, according to his wife Toni he was upbeat with an undaunted spirit to the end. I had the pleasure of having lunch with him the previous May in Princeton. He was about to have his last round of chemo and was pragmatic but optimistic about the future. My scholastically- related friendship with Perry began in nursery school and included Miss Fine’s, PCD and a semester at the University of Arizona, where Perry pledged my fraternity. He left the U of A, joined the Marines, including being in Vietnam, and obtained his college degree at Rider University. The majority of his professional career was in the insurance brokerage business in New York and Philadelphia.

Oliver Hamill and I attended Perry’s funeral service. I had a nice visit with Oliver at the family farm on Carter Road. He is very busy managing his families’ company, the Cherry Grove Farm in Lawrenceville. You can order some of their handcrafted farmstead cheese online.

In August my wife, Kathryn, and I had a very nice dinner with Jobe Stevens, his wife and daughter across Lake Champlain in Lake Placid, NY. The Stevens’ family was ending their summer visit to their Adirondacks’ family camp. We were in Lake Placid to see our son, Andrew, who was in town performing with his traveling Second City comedy team.

I caught up with Tim Carey (PCD 1957) last year outside Boston. He looks great, and it was fun to catch up after probably more than 50 years.

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I received this from E. John White: “This photo of the White Brothers, John (1958), Peter (1962), Bumper (1970), was taken in December in Small Point, Maine at Bumper’s house. All three of us have houses in Small Point and are neighbors. Bumper is a retired professor of education; John is a retired “Headmonster;” and Peter is retired, yet continues to travel in West Africa, where he has a number of consulting jobs with businesses and NGO.” John ’58, Peter ’62 and “Bumper” White ’70 I received the following from Sandy Kirkpatrick: “Jeanie and I are in excelStates. My wife Jennifer (a retired OB/GYN), lent health and deep into the nonprofit world and I live in Alexandria, VA, close to our two in Bradenton FL. She is currently Chair of grandchildren, who are our greatest delight.”

South Florida Museum; I am Chair of Turning From Huntingdon Valley, PA, Bob Bales sent Points, our community’s homelessness coalithe following news: “I am fully retired now after tion, in addition to other such pursuits. We 45 years of running my restaurants and distribuhave had a fun spate of travel the past few tion center. Times have changed so much that I years (Cuba, Canada, Britain, Europe), but are doubt if I could compete today but I had a great resting our wallets this year. We have six chiltime and will always be thankful for the oppordren and nine grandchildren between us and tunity to build a small business. I was blessed keep in close touch with them. I will be attendwith a lot of great people to work with...even ing my 50th Princeton reunion this May (we had some dishwashers with me for 40 years. have rented an apartment right above what I “My kids are doing well. Tina is a doctor at remember as Skirm’s Smoke Shop!). Greetings Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and lives to all long-lost classmates!” in Philadelphia with her doctor husband so it’s From Dick Baker’s Christmas card from easy for us to see them. Katie lives outside of Hawaii, his wife shared the following news: Boston where she runs her own business. [My “Dick has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s wife, Edie, works for her from here… computer disease and so he is slowed down, as is our world!]. Katie has 11-year-old twins [Bobby & life and lifestyle generally. Fortunately, though Libby] which is a lot of fun for us. Princeton Parkinson’s is progressive, it is not fatal, so was an incredible place to grow up… nothing he can look forward to many years of slowly like the real world. We were very lucky and I declining ability to move. And in the meantime, often think back to my life there… I loved it.” the medications and therapy available can do a I caught up by phone with Frank Bushnell in lot to relieve the symptoms and restore a pretty Waco, TX. He has been retired for some time normal lifestyle, and medical research is moving and is enjoying life. along very well.” I am sure all of Dick’s classmates wish him the very best. If you want to get I, Toby Knox, still live in Shelburne, VT and in touch, his email is richardwbakeriii@gmail.com. continue to conduct marketing research projects in and out of VT. Our son, Andrew, was After more than 50 years, I had a nice phone married last July in Chicago and, as mentioned conversation with David Stewart. We spoke above, performs with the Chicago-based of remembering of going to Renwick’s on Second City comedy company. Our daughWednesday afternoons (if you didn’t have a ter, Amanda, and her family, including our pink slip of which I had more than my fair two granddaughters, live outside Boston in share) and ordering hamburgers with the Sherborn. Amanda is the CEO of a non-profit accompanying small, white ketchup cups that seemed to be the weapon of choice in the occa- (Invest in Girls) that educates high school girls in financial literacy. sional food fights.

David sent the following to bring us up-todate: “I now teach international law (as “Professor from Practice”) at Georgetown University Law Center. I joined the faculty after retiring from the U.S. Department of State, where I spent 33 years in the Office of the Legal Adviser. Earlier I practiced law at a large firm in New York. In my spare time, I serve as President of the American Branch of the International Law Association, on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, as a member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee (the legal advisory arm of the Organization of American States) and as a reporter working on the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth), Foreign Relations Law of the United

I’ve enjoyed having this opportunity to connect with classmates. I hope to hear from more of you for the fall Journal. Best wishes.

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Roger Budny 7005 SE Pacific Drive Stuart, FL 34997 772-419-8004 budny@comcast.net

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Karl Pettit 6079 Pidcock Creek Road New Hope, PA 18938-9313 215-598-8210 karl.pettit@comcast.net

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John McCarthy 124 Mercer Street Princeton, NJ 08540 609-924-3926 jack@mccarthyllc.com

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John Ritchie 7302 Durbin Terrace Bethesda, MD 20817-6127 301-564-1227 jhnritchie@yahoo.com

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William Ring 2118 Wilshire Boulevard, #336 Santa Monica, CA 90403 310-600-2015 mwmaverick@gmail.com Donald Woodbridge 64 Depot Hill Road Amenia, NY 12501-5817 845-373-7035 maderacito@yahoo.com

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Deborah Hobler 1342 Rialto Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93105 805-682-4896 dvhobler@cox.net

The faces on our eighth grade class photo for the 1962 Link show many thoughtful, though somewhat distracted looks, along with a few smiles. What were you thinking about that day? Were you worried about an upcoming English test? Had you been called in to see Miss Davis? Were you still concerned that you would be found yet again smoking behind the MFS gym? Whatever the reason, I’d love to hear about it when we all gather for our 50th reunion during the weekend of May 13 and 14. Andrea and I continue to make plans on your behalf, with the great support of the PDS staff. Margery Cuyler is going to cook for us all on Friday night, as long as we bring the drinks (no problem), at her Lawrenceville home. Since she retired from Amazon at the end of 2014, she said the past year has been “bliss.” Spending most mornings writing,

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Sally Harries Gauldie and husband Jack took a kayak trip paddling their way around Venice in the spring, “a great way to see the city.” The whole Gauldie family gathered in Maine in August. Sally shall be coming for the reunion, along with Sally Lane, from distant Trenton.

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Since June of 2013, Sally Lane has been working happily at Thomas Edison College (now University); overClass of ’62 eighth grade class photo for the Link. seeing the organization of archives for the school, founded in 1972 as she landed five new children’s book contracts a pioneer in distance learning. The university this past year. Margery also walks every day, has more than 18,000 students from 73 counsees friends, and keeps tabs on her two sons. tries and all 50 states taking courses. When I Tom, her eldest, lives in Boston, where he is (Debbie) worked at the College Board’s Adult teaching high-needs 10th graders at a charter Learning Services office in NYC in the early school while getting his graduate degree in 1980s, I learned so much about adult and social work. Tim, her youngest son, recently distance learning, particularly how helpful it returned from Italy, where for almost two was for people who live in rural areas. I was years he worked for an Italian architect in surprised to learn that more than 50% of all Genoa named Renzo Piano. Now he’s workcollege students are over the age of 25. ing for an architect in Brooklyn and envisions a graduate degree in the future.

Hilary Drorbaugh Propst wrote that she and her husband traveled to Africa last year, When I asked Margery about her memwhich was “beyond super.” Still on their bucket ories of our senior year, she talked about list is China, Russia, New Zealand and the the fun she had running the drama club, Galapagos. and how thrilled she was to act the role of Mrs. Soames in Our Town, with the talentLike many people in our class, Hope Rose ed Susan Bonthron in the role of Emily Angier wrote me about the memorable end and Christopher Reeve in that of Wally. In of the senior year trip we all took to Mary our junior year, she was given a part of the Carroll Bilderback’s N.J. shore home, where Chinese woman in The Lute Song, dyed her we spent far too many hours on the beach. “I hair black for the part, only to learn it showed was so jealous of how easily Patty (Morgan) up as green under the stage lights. To fix the tanned, while I just burned.” Since we were all problem, she poured a bottle of peroxide on it, using baby oil, sunscreen not a choice, it’s no ending up with white blonde hair, with green wonder half of us got sunburns roots! “I also remember clearly the wild times I had with Patience (Morgan).”

Mettie Whipple, whose graphic designs over the years have been highly successful, is now selling her designs to local companies who manufacture fabric, textiles and giftware. She recently starting selling a line of purses, which she designed that are bright, nature inspired fabrics.

Members of the class of 1966 sunbathing during senior year trip Barbara Sullivan will be attending her son, Charles’s, medical school graduation in Boston the weekend of our reunion and sends her regrets, asking us all to please take pictures for those who cannot join us.

Mettie Whipple ’66 with bags she has designed

Katherine Becker picked up her possessions and her cat, Ned, and relocated from NYC to beautiful Asheville, N.C. “I enrolled in the University of NC College for Seniors, and am now taking qigong, investing, exercising classes, and I will continue these courses to keep my grey matter sharp. I’ve also embarked

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on a plant-based eating regime, not quite vegan. Asheville is in three valleys ringed by the amazing Blue Ridge Mountains, filled with waterfalls. It is impossible to run out of things to explore in Western North Carolina.”

Katherine will not be able to join us; we will miss seeing her.

Sarah Jaeger wrote of her memory of reading Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness with George Packard, getting an introduction to Freud along with it.” It was one of those seismic moments in my education when doors opened to whole new worlds. Totally thrilling.

Remembering these experiences like that is the only thing that can make me wish I were a teenager again. I also remember Sally Lane and I adopted the alter egos of Trotsky and Lenin, respectively. Something to do with our being on the student council (Sarah was president) and figuring, since the school was new, that we could foment revolution. It was 1966 after all. Rick Ross ’68 and Jerry Pitt ’68 were our understudy Trotsky and Lenin.” Oh those senior PDS girls were such a bad influence on those sophomore boys!”

I’ve already written my classmates about the very sad loss of Lindsley Cameron, who passed away suddenly on September 30, 2015 in New York City. Her husband Masao Miyoshi predeceased her.

Lindsley was an Lindsley Cameron incredibly talented Miyoshi ’66 writer and author of two published books, and loved all things Japanese. In 1985, Lindsley went to work for the New Yorker and stayed for 11 years. There was a touching New Yorker magazine blog written about her in October by Mary Norris; “Postscript: Lindsley Cameron Miyoshi” that was a beautifully written tribute to her life and work. Many of our classmates were close childhood friends of Lindsley, before she left for boarding school. “Lindsley was so smart and different, she really belonged at the New Yorker, the perfect place for her wit and intellect,” wrote Galey Bissell Sergio-Castelvetere.

“I will sorely miss her.” Ann Hughey wrote, “A very cool friend to us all. When I read Eloise to my children I told them about Lindsley and all the fine and fascinating writers she introduced me to when we were young girls. She was a goddess and dear Mrs. Shepherd’s favorite student.” Our class will all miss her, and will keep her in our hearts.

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Susan Fritsch Hunter 12 Fatima Drive Bethany, CT 06524 203-393-9349 ares543@comcast.net

The Class of 1967 is gearing up for its 50th reunion in 2017! More news will follow.

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Francoise Foassier described a recent trip to Patagonia, a region at the southernmost tip of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile: “For one like me who loves high mountains and the sea, it’s a paradise. It was summer and we had beautiful weather, quite warm in fact with enough wind to know what Patagonian gusts are like. Once we couldn’t go to the lake at the foot of Mt. FitzRoy because the wind would have pushed us I don’t know where. I loved also the Argentinean Steppe, with immense skies and open spaces with the Cordillera in the background. The most beautiful for me were the high peaks of Torres del Paine, reflecting glacier lakes, and also the views of fjords and lagunas with Patagonia geese. This reminds me of all the photos that I took and are lost forever, as my camera was snatched from me on the very last afternoon in Valparaiso [Chile].” Despite the sad end to a wonderful trip, Francoise sent a cheery “hi” to the class.

My news is that I’m a grandmother for the first time. My daughter, Lauren Collier, and her husband Ryan welcomed Cameron William Collier into the world on January 6 in Boston, MA. From a grandmother’s perspective, he’s adorable, of course, Cameron William always hungry Collier, grandson of and growing very Susan Fritsch Hunter tall for his age ’67 (5 weeks).

On a much sadder note, the class offers condolences to Franny Gorman on the death of her mother, Jean Gorman.

We also express our sympathy to Lissy Stevenson Bryan, whose husband J. Stewart Bryan died in January.

Hooray! I’m still teaching Virtual School for the district, but that’s a breeze compared to the classroom.”

Andy Fishman is a faithful courier of news.

“This year, my wife and I got to add cancer survivors to our CV. Though this was not by choice, it did add to our medical education and enhanced our outlook on life. I retired in June upon reaching 65 and we started to travel. We went through the old Hapsburg empire (Mr. Tibbals would have been proud), from Prague to Vienna then Budapest in June. We then hit southern Spain in September from Granada to Cordoba and bullet-trained it to Barcelona. In November we joined Operation Walk as the medical hospitalists for their orthopedic team and went to Cuba for eight days. Upon returning to the States, I visited my 99-year-old dad in Florida, who was recovering from a hip fracture. Our next planned trip is to Israel this spring. My granddaughter, Ella Jane, will be a year old in February. All of our kids are either working or in school or both. Looking forward to our 50th!”

Sia Godfrey Bauer and I saw each other a few times this year. She and her husband Charles are presently in Puerto Rico soaking up some warmth.

Speaking of getting together, Connie Sayen Ban and I sneak in a few visits a year when I come to the Princeton area to help out my 93-year- old parents. She and Vlad were just back from Croatia, where they have a home.

Connie was a most gracious hostess, and prepared a lovely soup on a moment’s notice.

Hope I get invited back!

In December Beth Schlossberg and my sister, Nancy, joined me at a NYC reading of a musical, The Spirit of River City. My brother, Randy (PCD 1961) wrote the book, the music and the lyrics. It is a bio-fantasy that takes place in 1928 with Meredith Willson (creator of The Music Man) traveling back in time to Mason City, Iowa (River City.) We gave the production a “two thumbs up.”

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Sophia Godfrey Bauer 7 Hart Ridge Drive Burlington, CT 06013-1817 860-673-9385 candsbauer@att.net Mary Hobler Hyson 1067 Wolf Hill Road Cheshire, CT 06410-1732 203-272-1294 bassett7750@cox.net

From Mary: The thermometer points to minus 10 this morning. A bit nippy, but I’ll bundle up in layers and go out for a walk after I have written up the class notes.

Katie Ecroyd shared her news: “I retired after 40 years of teaching English in Ottawa, Kansas, at the end of the last school year. My oldest daughter and her family are now in Toledo instead of Pretoria, so I actually get to see them more than once every three years.

Grandchildren of Mary Hobler Hyson ’68: L-R: Elliot, Nate and Sean and Colin (right), the youngest grandson at eightmonths-old.

I spoke with Susan Koch LaTulippe in November. Her husband Steve faced some nasty health problems last year, so I hope that 2016 brings a healthy year. Susan and I recalled many of our young girlish escapades and giggled, even now.

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Meg Brinster Michael ’70 and Mackenzie Carpenter ’72 visit with Gary, the bartender, at the Harbor’s Edge in Hopetown, Elbow Cay, Bahamas

Eve Robinson ’70 (right) with her family at her daughter’s college graduation last spring

Of course, your scribe always has something to offer for the Journal. That’s one of the perks to this job! I plan on attending reunions as an honorary member of the class of 1966 for my sister, Debbie’s 50th . . . . And then it’s only two more years until our 50th. Now there something to think about.

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Susan Denise Harris 801 Ocean Boulevard Isle of Palms, SC 29451 ssharris73@hotmail.com

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Ann Wiley 124 Traditions Way Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 609-403-6152 awiley@pds.org

Thanks so much for those who responded to my last minute plea for news! Make sure you check out the PCD ’58 news to see a photo of Bumper White and his brothers. Also make sure you read Rebecca Bushnell’s memories from the early days of PDS and Bill Schluter’s great ice hockey memoir, which are also in this Journal.

say in Paris. Lots of fun and travel. Off to Milan tomorrow, then to Maastricht in the Netherlands to exhibit at The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF). This is a huge event and 2016 is my 24th year participating. Seems that I have spent over one year of my life in this medieval town!

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Jack Kilgore wrote: “I live in New York City and have an art gallery here. Started this in 1992 after law school and graduate school in art history and a stint at Christie’s. Specialized in 16th and 17th century Dutch old masters, but now focus on later 19th and early 20th century European works. A thin market and certainly not sexy like the contemporary art scene, but we have sold to over 75 museums throughout the world. Last week we placed a fifth painting in the collection of the d’Or-

take stock and make sure we are being our best selves. With that, I accepted a new position in the fall of ’15 as a Project Director with a state initiative called Grow NJ Kids. It is the quality rating system for the state of NJ for early childhood centers. I am heading a regional technical assistance center for northern counties and we will provide assistance to early childhood pro“My wife Kim is an avid Court Tennis player, and we have a place in Tuxedo Park, where there grams to achieve high quality service and education to young children and their families. It is is a court. I think that there are about eleven of challenging but very rewarding to be a part of these in America. She just got back from a tourthis initiative, working with many areas of state nament in Australia. We have a cat, a dog and government. In addition, I am a current member a fourteen-year-old daughter named India. She of the Montclair Board of Education, having goes to Spence in New York. Thank goodness been appointed by the Mayor in May 2015. Our it goes through 12th grade! Soon I shall miss two children, Sophia and Olivia Fraioli, are 27Huson Gregory’s wise college advice! Best to and 22-years-old and doing very well; Sophia our classmates and love to hear from one and lives in Brooklyn and works for Movement all! Can reach me at: jack@kilgoregallery.com Strategies, a social media advertising agency No time to retire! (Oh, yes, the dog is named and Olivia lives in Portland, Maine, working Westie and the cat is Mr. Puss, so much for with young adults with disabilities at STRIVE originality.)”

U. Tom and I will celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary in April. Also in April, Tom will be inducted into the NJ Hockey Hall of Fame, as a player from the 70’s and a two-time state championship coach as an adult in 2004 and 2010.”

I had two trips this past year. The first was to Haiti for a weekend in June for the dedication of the new church that our church helped to rebuild following the earthquake in 2010. Then in October, my sister, Jane ’69, and I spent about 11 days exploring Normandy, France. We rented an apartment in a fishing village near Bayeux. We explored from Giverny to Mt. St. Michel. So much to see… of Wendy Lawson-Johnston McNeil ’70, center, course all the Normandy Beach sites, but with her husband Tom, their two children with so much more… The Tapestry in Bayeux spouses and grandchildren was extraordinary.

Wendy Lawson-Johnston McNeil had “a 1971 new grandchild last summer, Madeline; she Blythe Kropf is Tucker’s first child. Lawson’s boys, Chanan 205 Penn Valley Terrace and Paxson, love having a little girl join this Morrisville, PA 19067-1028 crazy clan.

917-763-4923 “We continue to love our life in the woods of blythekropf5@gmail.com South Carolina. I travel to NYC for museum Thomas Worthington meetings but try not to leave more often than I 4355 Brook Avenue South have to. Life in the lowcountry is pretty special.”

Saint Louis Park, MN 55424-1011 Eve Robinson updated us on her family: “2015 952-927-9828 was a year of challenges for me and my family, worthington_tom@yahoo.com but we have entered 2016 with a new sense of energy and enthusiasm. My dear mother, Estelle, From Tom: died on Feb. 6, 2015 at the age of 94. We miss Jean Schluter Yoder wrote: “Our girls gradher quite a bit, but she inspired all of us to uated from college last May, Elizabeth from

Lisa Lawrence has become our Southwest correspondent and always has some interesting tidbits to report. This time she told me: “I am in the midst of contract negotiations with an agency that has proposed hanging my artwork in their offices in exchange for offering me secretarial services to advance my business. Even though those initial months are often the most awkward and challenging, they are also some of the more promising in collaborations. The invitation comes as I prepare to sell my home and studio. I have put in a request for renting studio space. I will be downsizing as well. I might not have space to include overnight guests, but if you’re passing through Las Vegas, New Mexico, it’s still a unique place to visit.”

Eve Robinson ’70 and her mother outside of the house where Eve grew up in Trenton SPRING 2016

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Colgate and Margaret from Cornell. In June, Margaret started training with Teach for America and is living and teaching in a high school in MS. Elizabeth became a Global Advocate with the charity Mama Hope from San Francisco. Her responsibilities have included raising $20,000 and taking those funds to Uganda to build a maternity ward. She is back and now in San Francisco, looking for a job and an apartment. Thom and I still live Summit, NJ and spend winter/spring in Vero Beach, Florida.”

Deborah Huntington will be juggling time at another reunion, but is hoping to do both.

She sent along this note: “In January I stepped down after 17 years from my management job in the NYU School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. I continue to work part-time and am delighted at the prospect of more hours for recreation, reading and even closet cleaning.

Last summer my husband and I and our two grown sons bicycled from Prague to Vienna, and over Christmas we did another bike trip in Sonoma County, California (brrr!). It is our preferred style of tourism and travel. Our kids have settled in Colorado and California, while Larry and I remain in Brooklyn, where we raised our family. All is well and I have much gratitude for where life has brought me. I hope to be able to share memories and laughs with everyone in May.”

a hoot. The house is filled with toys and balls everywhere; it is not guest friendly at present!

Off to Cabo at the end of February for some Mexican relaxation, fresh tuna, and potent adult beverages.”

Howard Vine and David Stark have been working together for 10 years on a next generation insulated glass window. Howard wrote: “Our company, EverSealed Windows, Inc., hopes David’s patented technologies will apply to all future energy efficient buildings and residences. Otherwise, my son, Chase, married his college sweetheart in October and passed both NY and Jersey bar exams. My daughter, Courtney, is a therapist in NYC with a mother -lode of clients. Living half-time in south Florida and half a year in Dominical, Costa Rica. Enjoying life.”

Rick Albert wrote: “Missing those 30 inches of snow storms from here in Santa Monica CA, so I bought a small place in midtown Manhattan to spend one week a month. Still stay in close touch with Susan Stix Fisher and her clan in NYC. Some of my friends around the country are starting to ‘retire.’ What a scary feeling!! I’m ONLY 61, is that ‘old?’

“Hope to hear from anyone passing thru NYC, or LA.” Rick has been in Santa Monica since 1998 and before that he was in Venice since 1990.

On the other hand, Jan Hall Burruss wrote from her farm in Sherborn, MA: “My son, Oliver, got married in September to his longtime girlfriend, Anna. They are both Harvard grads and past Nordic ski captains there. A beautiful, magical, woodland wedding was put on by Anna’s family at their place on the side of a mountain in Johnson, VT. My daughters, Meriwether (Harvard 2011) and Georgiana (Tufts 2014), stood by their brother. I continue to enjoy my work at the same nursing home where my mother still lives with end-stage dementia at almost 93. Our ‘farm’ is much reduced to two small adopted stray dogs, but we are all well and thriving. Best to all PDSers!”

Tom Worthington ’71, with wife Melissa, son Charles, daughter-in-law Jessica, and daughter Rebecca at the Duke Gardens

Rebecca Ramsey ’71 (second from left) with her daughter, niece (the bride), and son Becky Ramsey shared my denial about the passage of time: “Yikes, our 45th? It’s amazing how young I feel when I am vague about the facts. Don’t know if this is news of much interest but I am trying to balance my time between still practicing (hoping to get it right) psychiatry, oil painting, and playing the cello. No grandchildren but Sam, our oldest, is married and Leigh our daughter is a third-year student at CSU Veterinary School. She loves Colorado so the West may be more in our future too.”

Vicki Willock wrote: “Just looking forward to seeing everyone in Princeton in May at our reunion. Still enjoying life in San Francisco, looking forward to the fans enjoying a successful Super Bowl experience on Sunday (there are thousands of avid fans in enjoying the pregame events, free concerts in the evening, and a variety of celebrities in the city this week), and to 70-degree weather this weekend. John and I are raising a seven-month-old Border Collie who has us walking at all hours; she’s JOURNAL

I still love working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where I help manage national wildlife refuges. One of my fun projects is to help develop our Agency’s strategy to build conservation connections with urban populations (plug: fws.gov/urban). Melissa and I are enjoying a relatively mild winter in Minnesota. Our daughter, Becca, is a physical therapist who works on a brain injury team here in Minneapolis; our son, Charles, and his wife Jessica live and work in DC, so I get to see them during my frequent visits back to headquarters. I seem to be spending a lot of my spare time playing tennis and coaching 12-year-olds at the fantastic Inner City Tennis Foundation here in Minneapolis.

See you in May!

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Mackenzie Carpenter 7531 Rosemary Road Pittsburgh, PA 15221 412-401-1533 mcarpen54@gmail.com

Sally Rodgers Smith reported all is well in New Hampshire.

Karen Turner wrote of her travels with her students to South Africa. How many of us have met Archbishop Desmond Tutu twice?! Many congratulations to her! From Temple University, she wrote: “I always look forward to spring semester because it’s college basketball time. In the fall I went to a few football games. Temple almost pulled out a win against ND. That would have been historic! I sit on the faculty advisory board for the Resnick Academic Support Center that oversees advising for the student-athletes. In keeping with my Archbishop Tutu theme, my students and I met him this summer. I took seven students to Johannesburg and Cape Town. We were there a month. It’s an international reporting study away class that’s offered through the Temple journalism department.

Here’s the link where many of us wrote our reflections of meeting him. http://tusouthafrica. com/post/124274647517/reflections-on-meeting-desmond-tutu. You can also see the student work. I’m so proud of them!”

Virginia Myer Kester 909 Lincoln Street Madison, WI 53711-2164 608-257-2161 ginny.kester@gmail.com

2016 got off to a bang with an historic snow storm for many of our classmates; I hope you have all had a chance to dig out and that life is back to normal for you and yours. However not all of our class are in the deep freeze.

Karen Turner ’72 with Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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John Moore ’72 and his wife Kim.

Class of ’72 mini-reunion: Jean Beckwith Funk, John Moore, Paul Funk, Mackenzie Carpenter Mackenzie Carpenter wrote of her “reunion with Jean Beckwith Funk, Paul Funk, John Moore and Kim Moore in Norwalk last October. We had a swell time reconnecting with John, after decades of not seeing each other (nearly 40 years, in my case!) Kim made a fabulous roast and John selected some excellent wines. We laughed and laughed!”

I also had the chance to visit New England in September, spending a long weekend in Maine with Andy Scasserra and Cici Morgan Patuhov. I also saw Ellen Fisher ’73 and her wonderful glass studio. Always a lot of fun, nothing beats life-long friends, right?!

One more year until our 45th - wow!!

Class of 1972: Cici Morgan Pastuhov, Andy Scasserra, Ginny Myer Kester

Ellen Fisher ’73 & Ginny Myer Kester ’72 in Maine

Cassandra Oxley 171 Pine Hill Road Boxborough, MA 01719-1915 978-264-4938 cassandra.oxley@gmail.com Michael Felder wrote that he is married to Elissa (née Wootliff ), who is originally from London, England. They recently celebrated their 30th anniversary. They have five children.

He sent this update: “Over the last 18 years in Providence, RI, we have hosted a great number of Jewish students who were looking for homes/families to celebrate the Jewish Sabbath and Jewish holidays. One of those boys was Evan Pelz. This past summer, he and our eldest daughter, Sophie, got married.

Sophie is working at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. Evan is in his second year at Georgetown Law School.

“Jacob is married to Sivan. Jacob moved to Israel over seven years ago. He pursued Advanced Talmudic Studies for several years, and did a tour of duty in one of the elite units of the Israeli Army. Having nearly completed his degree in education as well, Jacob is now teaching and working in the administration of a ‘startup’ yeshiva in Jerusalem. He and his wife have a two-year-old boy. Sivan is in the film/ video business in Israel.

“Our daughter, Sonia, is married to Yosef Hoffman. They bought a home and live in Atlanta, Georgia. Sonia has been teaching in a Jewish high school. Her husband, Yosef works for AT&T, and is now pursuing graduate studies in software engineering.

Sonia just gave birth to twins, Yonatan and Leora. The twins arrived a little early, but are progressing nicely.

“Our son, Ezra, is now 20. He has completed nearly two years of Advanced Talmudic studies and is now in the Israeli Army. He’s planning on returning to the States next summer, in order to continue his college education here. Ezra is a bit of a renaissance man, accomplished in academic areas of math and science, history and philosophy, and talented in music, art, and dance. We’ll see where that all takes him.

“Finally, Raphael is our youngest. He just turned 17 and is in 11th grade. He had a fascinating job in a neurosurgery research lab at Johns Hopkins this past summer. I’m not sure that he’ll pursue the sciences or math. He’s

a successful runner and will be participating in his third consecutive half marathon, in Jerusalem, Israel (coming up this March).

“My wife Elissa is an overly busy good deed do-er with boundless energy. She is a school nurse and has now, for the last few years, been very involved in leading women’s groups on inspirational trips to Israel. She maintains a punishing level of fitness. And, me, well, I continue my work as a family physician here in the Providence area. I continue to teach at Brown University’s medical school, primarily, in areas of philosophy of medicine, medical ethics, and only a little in areas of clinical medicine and pediatrics. I review articles in one of the peer-reviewed academic journals of Family Medicine, study, and lecture. Life is very full.”

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Cynthia Bishop’s earliest memories of Miss Fine’s School: “I joined in second grade, Henry Lane pinned me to the ground and kissed me, which infuriated me. Mimi Davies and I would bounce each other over the bars on the teeter-totter, who knew that was a weapon to be reckoned with? She had this broken front tooth that she would routinely glue back in.

And I remember the Maypole dance.”

“PDS recollections: Oxford brown tie shoes from Hulit’s Shoes and rolled-up kilts were very cool, Mr. Lott was my adviser/history teacher and ‘the experiment’ with Mr. RulonMiller’s math class teaching girls for his first time. Plus my participation on the Judiciary Committee ninth grade through senior year was a terrific experience for me; we froze out Mr. Bing at one point, a total coup!! Ninth grade (for me, goalie) lacrosse varsity team was undefeated and basketball (not undefeated) but I could shoot from anywhere and it would go in!! After that I lost the magic touch in both sports.

“I recall a great many friendships both within my grade, as well as above and below my grade to this day.

“My daughter, Emily, is pursuing a graduate degree in horticulture and agronomy and international agricultural development at UC Davis.

“My son, Oliver, works for Amazon. His wife, Valentina, is a consultant for PointB in Seattle.

“I continue to produce corporate events for anyone who will have me. As noted in our yearbook [the Link], I ended up off Broadway, living, that is… .

Cynthia Bishop ’73 with some of her family at her son, Oliver’s, wedding in 2013 (“it’s shocking, we all look exactly the same today!!”): L-R: Cynthia; sister Wicki Bishop Wickliffe ’71; sister Jean Bishop Stolzman ’83; daughter Emily, sister Suzanne Bishop Willis ’75; daughter Sarah; and her husband Rob SPRING 2016

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Anne McLeod Weeks ’73 (left) with her husband Jim and a friend Anne McLeod Weeks wrote: “When I reflect on my career in education, I can directly attribute my passion and success to Anne Shepherd, Moyne Smith, and Huson Gregory.

I know I was a late bloomer, but I have to say the guidance and faith these three placed in me guided me forward to a positive life.

Because of them, I will be a lover of reading, writing, and literary discussion until the day I die.

“Not much else happening except the time to pursue interests without a work schedule getting in the way. We have had many visitors in Lunenburg, some we know and some just friends of friends. We are happy to put up anyone on their way to exploring the ocean playground of Nova Scotia.”

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Polly Hunter White 2224 Carlow Drive Darien, IL 60561-8458 630-234-1691 pollyhwhite@aol.com On December 1, 2015, Jim Wittke was honored for 25 years of service by his employer, North Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Jim works in the School of Earth Sciences and Environment Sustainability.

Terry Ward shared that life in Providence and at Providence Country Day School is good. Terry and his partner Gary have now been together for 15 years. Terry was honored, along with some others, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for having sung with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for 25 years. He continues to sing with this group, which is now in its 26th year.

Terry also shared that he got to sing on the James Taylor CD and DVD, One Man Band, in 2005, four times, on the songs “Traveling Man” and “Shower the People.” His reason for singing with James Taylor was due to his involvement in singing classical songs with the Boston Symphony chorus. He said it was a “blast” working with James (Taylor) and that he is exactly the person he seems to be on stage.

Terry stated that it’s hard to believe that the big 6-0 approaches for him this summer, but he knows that many of us are there. He hopes to see Peter Sears in the spring when Terry travels to Oregon on business. Best wishes to the class of 1974.

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Libby Farr Luken stated: “I enjoy being Grandma to three girls, Lily, April and Tenley. I am blessed to have my kids and granddaughters all in Colorado. I am happily single” : ) She states that she has a great group of friends with whom she bikes, travels and socializes.

Libby is a facilities manager for Intelligent Software Solutions and hopes to stay there until retirement.

Libby is frequently on Facebook, which allows us the opportunity to stay connected. Many in our class Sab Russo ’74 during a break on the bike trip with are using Facebook to stay connect- Ted Dowey ’74 ed. If any of you would like to join, please contact me on Facebook, “Polly White” Ted states that anyone interested in a three-day and we can get you connected trip in Maine, or any other venue, should contact him at decsyst@aol.com.

Two or three days, about 50 miles per day, motels and restaurants only with some interesting/challenging terrain included.

Ted is still building New York City water supply tunnels, this time a new tunnel to fix a leak upstate. The tunnel is 2.5 miles long, 600 feet underground and 14 feet in diameter. And to end, Ted stated, “I think it is ridiculous that many of us are turning 60.” (I agree Ted.)

Sab Russo is a partner in a boutique real estate brokerage and investment firm, Mercer Libby Farr Luken ’74 with her family in Rehoboth, Oak Realty, LLC, in the Delaware in 2014.

Princeton area. Sab stays in touch with Cole (Harrop), David Straut and his wife Maureen moved Dowey (Ted), and Trip ( JJ Jennings) once in to Washington, DC about five years ago from a while….

Charlotte, NC, where they had been for sixteen Sab has boy/girl twins in ninth grade. Their years. They now live in Georgetown and he older brother will get his master’s in architecheads up the Wells Fargo commercial bank for ture from Tulane this year. Sab’s oldest son the DC area. Two of their kids live together in lives in Ithaca, New York.

New York and are in grad school: in law and nursing, respectively. Dave’s youngest graduated Twice a year, at Christmas time and again from college last spring and is now living in San during the summer, I (Polly Hunter White) Francisco, working in sales. Dave states that they visit Princeton where I see both Palmer Uhl are now empty nesters enjoying city life. They and Evelyn Turner Counts. The three of us have a dog named Penny, who keeps them on have been getting together for many years their toes. They visit Princeton regularly to see and all appreciate staying connected. Evelyn his parent, as well as his is retired and is considering a brother and sister. move, within the next few years, to Florida, where her brother Ted Dowey, Sab Russo lives. Palmer still lives on Quaker (and sometimes Cole Bridge Road where she runs her Harrop) take two bike trips own graphic arts business and a year. This year they biked assists her brother in taking care in Brandon, Vermont. On of their dad. the first day they traversed the Green Mountains to I live in a western suburb of the east and back; day two Chicago with my husband, our consisted of riding west to two teenage boys, two Cavalier Lake Champlain and back.

King Charles Spaniels and two cats. Since my husband is origiTed states that he would nally from Baltimore, we usually really like to have a PDS travel east to visit his family and bike trip one year. Trina, mine at least once a year. We Cam, Libby, Jim Meigs also used to vacation at Bethany ’75, and others, are all canBeach Delaware (right near Ted Dowey ’74 on bike trip didates.

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I have received compliments from some of you for taking on the role of Class Secretary and I say thank you. I really am enjoying having this opportunity to stay in touch with each of you whether on Facebook and/or by way of my role as our Class Secretary. This is a group I enjoy and appreciate the opportunity to remain connected with.

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Yuki Moore Laurenti 464 Hamilton Avenue Trenton, NJ 08609 609-394-1065 Laurentijy@earthlink.net

Mary Sword McDonough 111 North Main Street Pennington, NJ 08534-2206 609-737-8435 mollyswordmcdonough@yahoo.com

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Needs Correspondent – If interested in volunteering or to send news, please contact Ann Wiley ’70, Class Notes Editor, at awiley@pds.org.

1976 state lacrosse champs

Bill Erdman ’76 and Tom Moore ’76

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Alice Graff Looney 70 Jagger Lane Westhampton, NY 11977 631-288-4910 alicelooney59@gmail.com

Cary Batchelder Dufresne went back to school to get her master’s degree and is currently the lead teacher for the second grade at Trinity Episcopal School in Charlotte, NC. Her daughter, Louise, is working at CBS now for Face the Nation and her son, Mason, is a junior at Chapel Hill.

Rob McClellan “is in his fifth year as Director of Annual Giving for the Pennington School, enjoys shooting trap on most weekends and still tries to fly a helicopter at least once a year. Last year he was honored by the Lawrenceville Alumni Association for his volunteer efforts there. Linda is working full-time at Terhune Orchards in Princeton, enjoying working with the Mount family and helping to keep up the Terhune presence at the Princeton Farmer’s Market.

Daughter, Cassie (Lawrenceville 2010, Elon College 2014), is settled in Rob McClellan’s (’77) Washington, DC, working at a consult- son Garrett placing ing firm focused on a wreath on a veternational security and an’s grave this past counter-terrorism December issues. Son, Garrett, is enjoying his freshman year at West WindsorPlainsboro High School South where he excels on the cross country team. He is an excellent photographer (www.garrettbrucephoto.com) and is an active member of the local Civil Air Patrol.”

Alex Zaininger wrote from across the pond, “It is hard to believe that it has been almost 39 years since our class graduated high school and I started living my globetrotting life. I’ve always been good at procrastination (“Yes Mrs. Shepherd, my paper is late again!”) but this must be some sort of a record! Here is a brief summary of almost four decades of my peripatetic adventure.

After PDS I ended up at CU Boulder (with classmates Chris Johnson, Jenny Mezey and Skip Guerin). I somehow managed to get out of there with a double degree in Econ and International Affairs and quickly joined the ranks of the unemployed. I ended up finding a trainee position in Germany, which started me on the journey. Several years there and with an MBA under my belt I joined BCG for a several years in Munich and Kuala Lumpur interspersed with gigs in various client organizations in New York, Liechtenstein and Malaysia.

Along the way, I married my wonderful cardiologist wife Amely, had three wonderful children, and moved to Sydney, Australia. We came to Sydney with the aim of staying for six months and have stayed for 19 years! For most of those years I have worked in private equity and as a board director with smaller companies.

We are now empty-nesters with all three kids studying overseas. I get back to P’ton about once a year to see my parents and sister and occasionally drop in on Chris J. in NYC. For

all you empty-nester classmates, come on down and visit. I’ll throw a couple of shrimps on the barbie! (FYI, we actually don’t say that here and nobody drinks Fosters either.)”

Quinn McCord “is getting ready to move into our new home in Milton, Delaware (near Rehoboth). I’ve been at Dover Downs Casino now for a year and a few months and loving it here! It took 50 plus years to find the best job ever! Mary Eileen and I are married 32 years and have two grown sons! One in Flagstaff, AZ and one completing his master’s at Drexel in Philly. I am missing my PDS peeps as I think about all the great times we all had in the seventies. My email address is qmccord@yahoo. com if anyone wants to stay in touch…. Have fun everyone!”

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Rehoboth, Delaware where Libby Luken vacationed in 2014). However, most of the cousins are now in high school or college so our beach vacations have ceased.

Juila Penick Garry sent a hello from Princeton.

“I find myself with an empty nest, one boy in Nashville ( James, musician) and the other in Toronto (Matthew, waiting to hear from law schools). I’m enjoying work at a consulting firm. I’m planning on working at home a bit more in the coming year so I can fill my nest a little with a DOG! So exciting.”

Harold Tanner published his fourth book in 2014, entitled Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948 (http:// www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info. php?products_id=807588). “At least one or two people, who are not family members, have called it a ‘compelling narrative’ or said that it saved them from depression. In addition to teaching Chinese history and related courses (such as the Korean and Vietnam Wars) at the University of North Texas, I am also serving as Coordinator of the Humanities Division of the College of Arts and Sciences, which means that I work with the four humanities departments to improve and advance humanities programs at the University.”

Mark Zawadsky is “living in Washington, DC, working as an orthopedic surgeon. I have finally made it to the NHL! I am one of the team physicians for the Washington Capitals, who are having a pretty good year. It has been really fun being involved with the team.”

Sandra Benson Cress and her family are “in our fifth year living in Nairobi; husband Doug is running the UN’s Great Apes Survival Partnership, daughter, Lauren, is in 11th grade at the International School of Kenya, and I’m still working as Director for Africa for One World Play Project, a social venture that produces and distributes a ‘nearly indestructible’

Sandra Benson Cress ’77 and family enjoying the weather and wildlife in Africa SPRING 2016

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soccer ball. Over my time here, I’ve been able to donate over 500,000 balls to programs and schools throughout Africa. I missed seeing Julie Stabler ’76 here over Christmas, and Kerin Lifland last summer… but Molly Moynihan ’75 came through two years ago, and ran a college application essay workshop at Lauren’s school. We enjoy the weather, walks in the monkey-filled forest behind our house, and watching English Premiere League every Saturday and Sunday on TV. Life is good, and we are grateful. Big hugs to all, and I’ll see you all at NEXT year’s reunion!”

Tim Brush (Fuzz) wrote “from Crested Butte, CO, where my wife Cass and I moved after 23 years in Breckenridge. Andy Jensen ’79 is a frequent visitor here at his in-law’s house next door, and thus a frequent ski and mountain bike partner. I still get to Breck often (a three-hour drive) to look after our house, pick up mail, ski, bike, etc. We might sell the place in a year or two and are pondering a move to the ‘banana belt’ of Salida, CO. I’ve managed to avoid work the last four summers after ten summers as owner/manager of part of the Peak 8 Fun Park in Breckenridge. In recent winters I put in three days a week tuning and repairing skis and installing bindings, just for the beer and dog food money, and to keep our ski gear in good condition. Cass and I enjoy a variety of skiing options including lift-served ski area days, multi-day trips to remote backcountry cabins (under our own power, no snowmobiles allowed!), and easy Nordic days in the woods with our two dogs. I even had two days of hiking up and skiing down Mt. Washington in New Hampshire with Phil Glouchevitch, most recently in 2010. ‘Glouch’ has visited us in CO several times in recent years, and joined us for a cabin trip in ’13. He can move uphill on skis and climbing skins with a loaded pack on his back like few others our age. I get to the Princeton area once year to visit Mom in Skillman, my brother, Jon ’81, in Lawrenceville, and Tom Gates ’78, wherever he is. That’s it for now.

Gotta get the dogs out, and then go skiing....”

lives and works in NYC. Son, Sid, is a senior at Washington College in Chestertown, MD and plays on the lax team. All the best to the Class of 1977!! Looking forward to our 40th reunion next year.

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Thomas Gates 211 Penn View Drive Pennington, NJ 08534 609-730-0277 tgates@mortgagemaster.com Nora Cuesta Wimberg 535 South 2nd Avenue Galloway, NJ 08205 nlazz@mac.com From Nora:

First of all, let me say THANK YOU to those of you that wrote in and some even sent pictures. Tom and I love hearing from you and seeing where life has taken you.

We started 2016 quietly and at home. Dinner out early, but home by 8pm. Our “Cuban” traditions are still alive, we had to have our 12 grapes at midnight to start the new year (the tradition states that the 12 are for the 12 coming months and bring good luck), and we have to be wearing something NEW, a piece of clothing, pajamas, whatever the case may be but by “new” it means never worn before to start the “new” year.

It may seem odd to many, but since I was brought up with those traditions with two Cuban parents, who am I to break them and not carry on what my parents so strongly believed in? So, now, my American husband and my Ukrainian son also have to follow the traditions! (Who am I to question it?!?!)

May 2016 bring my class of 1978 many, many good things, but mostly Health. Be happy, be positive and let’s keep in touch through this wonderful Journal that brings us all together to share twice a year.

Livia Wong McCarthy wrote, “Life in Princeton is good. Daughter, Delia, is in seventh grade at PDS and Perry graduated from Williams College last year and is now working in New York. PDS Middle School is all you remember, but better.”

Charlie, Jovan (16) and Nora Cuesta Wimberg ’78 on New Year’s Eve

Livia Wong’s (’77) daughters, Perry and Delia, at Lake Carnegie this past Thanksgiving As for me, the hubby and I are enjoying life on the eastern end of Long Island. Our daughter, Liz, turned 30 this year and that really makes me realize how quickly the years fly by. She JOURNAL

Allison Iams wrote: “I am still living outside of Boston where I am now regularly recording things in decades: I have lived in the same house for more than 20 years, I have been married for more than 30 years, I have known Sheila Mehta for way more than 40 years. Where did the time go? It went speeding fast enough to put Tom and me in the camp of having marriageable-aged children. And my smart daughter has gone out and found herself an excellent guy, so MOB that I am (Mother of the Bride) it’s

wedding planning time. All fun, all a blessing. I am still writing for area newspapers and magazines and have put my toe into the fiction arena.

A good stretch for the aging neurons. I get to see Alice Lee Groton sometimes, and Jenny Johnson Eddy and Lydia Thompson Fox, too.

Lucky me. Hope all are well.”

Greg F. Morea wrote: “My wife Barbara and I spent a lovely two weeks in the Canadian Maritimes this past summer. Nova Scotia is breathtaking, and we had a blast at the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo. No, it doesn’t have anything to do with injecting ink into human bodies. It’s a performance by military bands, display teams, and dancers with lots of bagpipes, Highland dancers, and acrobatics. Barbara managed to score us front row seats, and the show was Greg Morea ’78 and his incredible! Even wife Barbara on their more fun was being trip to the Canadian invited to the VIP Maritimes area after the show since my company, General Dynamics was the principal sponsor of the tattoo. We also visited Prince Edward Island, spent an afternoon driving the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, and we even spent a few days in New Brunswick, which having grown up in Somerset, NJ, NEXT DOOR to another New Brunswick, was cool.

“I celebrated my 32nd anniversary with Electric Boat this past summer. I received a promotion from the Knights of Columbus and now serve as Grand Knight of the Council. I also continue running my baby, the Lenten Fish Fry. I never thought that life would take me through New York City and on to Southeastern Connecticut where I would still be 30 plus years later, happily married with two grown children and retirement awfully close. Barbara remains at the New London law firm she has been with for nine years. Our son, Joseph, and his wife Alicia celebrated their first anniversary as a married couple shortly after moving into their new house, which they bought in April. Joseph has been at Electric Boat for almost six years now, and Alicia continues to work for Aetna. Our daughter, Rebecca moved from Groton to New London a few months ago and is sharing a house with a couple of roommates, their four cats, and her Bryn.

Rebecca is still working happily in environmental engineering at Electric Boat.

There is some irony in designing the most Greg Morea’s (’78) son’s lethal weapon wedding: L-R: Greg’s on the planet, daughter, Rebecca, his a nuclear sub- son, Joseph with his bride marine, to be Alicia, and her sisters

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Brian Trubee wrote: “My wife Amy and I are enjoying our empty nest. Amy is working as interim and possibly will be full-time general manager of the Seattle Yacht Club. I continue to work in the Fire Department in Sammamish, Washington. Son #1 is in the Air Force, and son #2 is a sophomore at Grinnell.

Amy, son #2 (Philip) and I went to Cuba last October on a People to People tour. The people were very friendly, but I sense that they are ready for the Castros to leave and have a more open society. I’m doing an engine swap and avionic upgrade on my plane, and tentatively plan an East Coast excursion this summer.”

Brian Trubee ’78 with son, Phil Trubee Lise Anne (Annie) Roberts: “We are all well.

Chuck and I love our empty nest and yet see our boys often as well. Life is good! My big news is that I am serving on the Board of Directors for Amnesty International USA. After over 25 years as an active member, the issues are very familiar and yet the responsibilities are different. My best to you all!”

Keith Baicker updated us with the following news and PDS memory: “Last fall, I celebrated 28 years of running Radiation Data with my father, and will celebrate my 30th wedding anniversary this spring. Our two sons are doing great. Michael is a junior at Dartmouth pursuing a degree in environmental engineering and Andrew is in the process of deciding where to go to college...it is so much more stressful than when we went through it!

“Remembrance: A profound ‘Thank You’ to Mr. Denby for starting my love of photography.

Although I don’t shoot film anymore, I have such fond memories of time spent in the basement of Colross doing darkroom work. When I made the switch to digital gear, I gave my film equipment to a new photography student at PDS. It seemed like a good way to show my appreciation. Photography is one of the few things I am compulsively organized about and that comes from my first class with Mr. Denby at PDS. Over the years I have been published occasionally and I always credit PDS for starting this ever evolving adventure. Now, my younger son has embraced photography and we have taken some wonderful trips together. Equally exciting to me is the fact that he has been nationally recognized by Photographers Forum the last two years as a finalist in their annual competition. His work has been included in a book they publish each year. I am always learning new things in photography...frequently from my son. How great is that!”

“Back over last summer I was pleasantly surprised when Beverly Banks reached out to me via email to catch up. Bev and I were really good friends and it was great to hear from her, since I hadn’t seen her at recent reunions.

There’s always the 40th Bev!”

Brad Clippinger ’78 at the Pyramids Brad Clippinger is currently living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and “decided to take a long weekend and visit Giza to see the Pyramids. The bucket list is a tad shorter.”

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“The kicker was the late night Rob and I spent reminiscing and enjoying some music in his man cave….ahhhh, I mean his library, aided by his favorite scotch. Cheers to the class of ’78.

‘green,’ but our fervent hope that it will serve its mission and never fire a missile.

Sue Keitelman Fineman: reported: “I am officially an empty nester. Sooo quiet in my house. My oldest, Jordan, is now 25 and an auditor for the Federal Reserve. My daughter, Becky, is 22 and finishing her master’s in special education this spring. Paul, 20, is a sophomore and business major at George Mason; and Matthew is 18 and a first-year computer engineering student at University of Virginia. I am teaching at two different synagogue religious schools and a co-coordinator for an intergenerational program at one of them. Also busy trying to get in better shape and taking Pilates, gentle yoga and a gentle Pilates class three times a week. Still waiting for some muscles! I had my other hip completely replaced this summer. My husband said if I have anything else replaced, I’ll be his trophy wife!

Robert N. Cottone, Jr. sent the following update: “OK classmates, this could be my first contribution to class notes, 37 years later, but I’m feeling nostalgic: “My wife Lauren and I visited Rob Whitlock and his wife Roby at their upstate NY home last fall. We’re empty nesters, although we have to see if it lasts when our younger daughter, Ellie, graduates from the College of William & Mary this coming May (her mom’s alma mater). The visit to Rob and Roby was also a chance to Tom Gates wrote: “All is well in the Gates escape from our worries about our oldest family. Our son, Ren, is engaged to the fabudaughter, Emma, who has been fulfilling a lous Jenna Kandravi, and an October wedding dream of hers on a 2.5 year commitment with is planned in Mt. Hood, OR. I am still writing the Peace Corps in the Philippines. It hasn’t residential mortgages and enjoying it. We had a been dreamy the whole time for her, but we wonderful trip over New Year’s to see my sister are very proud she is making a difference as and family in Cape Town, South Africa. We a coastal sustainability coordinator in one of also spent some time in the Timbavati Nature the southern islands in the Philippines. And Reserve. speaking of making a difference in the world, both at home and abroad, who in our class would be surprised that Rob Whitlock is doing so?! Outside of his tremendous work accomplishments with his Manhattan-based architectural firm, including business travel to Malaysia and Far Eastern projects, where he is principal designer for world class skyscrapers, Rob and wife Roby continue to almost singlehandedly transform the The Gates Family in South Africa: Tracey (former PDS riverfront town of Stuyvesant, NY. Lauren and I enjoy visiting Director of Alumni Relations), Sheridan ’10, Tom ’78, Ren them at least once or twice a and his fiancé, Jenna year, and every trip to their place overlooking the Hudson River is fantastic. They Suzanne Vine reported: “I’m still living in have completely transformed a number of local Amsterdam with my husband Peter, who homes by updating and upgrading their conworks for a Dutch company. If you want dition, while restoring them to period décor. to catch up with me, you can check out my A peek into Rob’s garage is like a visit back blog: https://suzanne-vine.squarespace.com. to his dad and Mr. Franz’s workshop at PDS, Writing has given me the chance to stay in and Roby has put her professional talents to touch with family and friends, both from great use with both interior and garden design PDS years, and beyond, and to reconnect and furnishing. Most recently they extended with folks I lost touch with. I recently heard their reach to do the same with a local bistro from Sandy Bing, who claims I didn’t give down the street. We usually don’t leave without him gray hairs while at PDS. I’m enjoying patronizing one of their favorite antique shops, living abroad, and would love to hear from but this time we scored with some pretty exotic classmates. Let me know if you are coming to Amsterdam!” flavors of local hard apple cider.

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Hotchkiss; he is now playing soccer for Boston College. Outside of work and writing, I spend lots of time with family; time in Princeton, Boston, and Middlebury, especially during soccer season; and lots of time doing activities outdoors if I can. I am working on developing a program to help young people through the teenage years.”

Rob Whitlock ’78 and wife Roby at their restored home in Stuyvesant, NY

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Cathy White Mertz: “Oscar and I had the great pleasure of spending an October evening with Hazard Zenzie and his wife Kathleen Wetherby. They live all of 11 minutes from us, in Dover, MA; it took a year and a half (since our 35th reunion in May 2014) of concerted effort to finally get together! The evening flew by, and none of us could believe it when I announced that it was 11:30, and we really should think about getting going. We’re already looking forward to our next get-together, which we vowed would happen before spring. I hope it happens before this issue is published!”

Martha Hicks Leta PO Box 205 Marshfield Hills, MA 02051 7818375308 mhleta@aol.com Catherine White Mertz 67 Rybury Hillway Needham, MA 02492 781-449-4993 pettifog@verizon.net

Long about now, we’re all looking for a break from election year shenanigans, so we bring you breaking news from several members of the class of 1979. And what a Sweet Thing it is to see our PDS peers enjoying life to its fullest and showing no signs of lagging.

From Harriette Brainard: After living largely in Vermont and some in Connecticut since 2005, I have moved back to be local. Now divorced and living in Chestnut Hill, PA, doing some volunteer work; writing essays, web work and articles; and in the process of a career move. While in Vermont, I developed and co-published VT SKI + RIDE Magazine, and I coached the Middlebury High School girls’ lacrosse team for a number of years, frequently revisiting the championships, and winning the State Championship in 2008. My oldest, Samantha, graduated from Amherst, and then The Fletcher School (of International Affairs) at Tufts University this past May. She lives in Boston and works for the Boston Foundation, specifically the Haiti Development Institute, and spends a great deal of time in Haiti.

Alexander (Z) has spent the last couple years in Peru working in the Mountains of the Sacred Valley with a holistic institute, building a community and supporting the local people. He is now working in Brooklyn and focused on natural wellness and community building. Spencer graduated from St. Lawrence this past May; she is living and working in Princeton, and will be moving to NYC. My youngest, Bradford, is at Middlebury, playing on the soccer team and working hard. I also include a young man, Moro, in our family, as he has been a part of our family since he played soccer with Brad at JOURNAL

Hazard Zenzie ’79 and Cathy White Mertz ’79 enjoying an evening at Hazard’s home.

Pam Kulsrud Corey ’79 with her husband Troy at an STS9 concert at Red Rocks in Colorado.

Pam Kulsrud Corey: “I live and work in Pound Ridge, NY, with my husband Troy and rescue mutt, Shadow. Our home abuts 90 acres of nature preserves and hiking trails.

After 25 years as a class action securities fraud litigator, I formed my own law firm and now litigate/manage trust and estate matters and antitrust class action cases. In my free time, I love entertaining (especially baking), hiking with Shadow, taking in live music, and coloring. I frequently host adult coloring events. I also volunteer at sandwich-making events and distribute the food to community centers and homeless shelters in NYC and Westchester for “One Sandwich at a Time.” I recently assumed the position of Treasurer of the Pound Ridge Land Conservancy, which owns and manages 357 acres across 17 nature preserves in Pound Ridge. For the past five years, I have volunteered as counsel for The

Princeton Festival, a local music festival that presents an opera and musical theater work every June. I sent this update from St. John, where I vacation every winter with my husband.”

Chris Horan is Senior Project Manager at Synergy Environmental, where he has been for eight years. His son, Sean, is a freshman at Penn State, major undecided, but something in the sciences. Daughter, Kate, is a sophomore at Central Bucks South High School, and spends her free time playing soccer and ice hockey.

Cathy found David Rosenbloom in Park City, UT! After Lawrenceville, David graduated from Colgate with English and philosophy degrees. He met his future wife on a ski trip in Utah, it was love at first sight! He started and ran a ski shop on Main Street, 19862000, and sold it prior to the Olympics, which paid for law school at the University of Utah, followed by a well-earned hiatus. He now practices criminal defense law, with a focus on DUI defense. He has three kids: Alison Carol (1996), Elizabeth Katherine (1998), and Daniel James (2000).

Tom Rebman: “I left PDS after sixth grade and spent most of the rest of my primary schooling in the Lawrence public school system. I did a couple of years at Notre Dame, but hated it (‘the lost years’), and then returned to Lawrence High. I went to Tulane University, where I earned my BS in physics in ’83. I returned home to live with my parents for a year, working mainly as a waiter at the Cranbury Inn. I moved back to New Orleans, took some programming classes at UNO, and applied to graduate schools for a MS in engineering. I graduated from the University of Colorado with my MS in Computer Science in ’87, went to work for Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ, and stayed there until ’91 when I was relocated to Denver. In ’94, I left Bell Labs and joined Qualcomm in Boulder where I stayed for 21+ years, until I was laid off this past November due to a substantial office downsizing. On the personal side, I was married in ’94 for a brief stint. No kids, but I had a hand in raising a stepchild, and am now a step-grandpa to a seven-year-old and a one-year-old.

I remarried in ’04, and we have two kids, Spencer (11) and Trevor (7).”

Martha Hicks: “The past year or so has brought some fairly seismic changes to my life, including downsizing to a smaller house, which hopefully I will have done without having a nervous breakdown by the time this goes to print. I have spent a good deal of time in NJ in these past months with PDS friends, including having dinner with Lucy Englander ’78 and others. A proposed dinner date with Cathy White Mertz, Ann Gillespi and Laurie Hapgood Carpenter was scrubbed due to inclement weather, but is rescheduled, so hopefully we’ll have a report on that for the next Journal. My connections to the PDS community continue to grow in surprising ways and have become a very meaningful part of my life after these many years.”

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Suzanne Albahary D’Amato 16 Maiden Lane Bedford, NH 03110 suzannemndamato@yahoo.com Karen Fein Kelly 43 White Pine Lane Princeton, NJ 08540 klfk2pk@gmail.com

We’re happy to report news from several of our classmates, so keep your news and memories of your days at PDS rolling in to us! It’s always great to hear what our class has been up to throughout the years. Besides using e-mail, you also can submit news and photos to us through the “Princeton Day School Class of 1980” Facebook page.

Tim Murdoch wrote, “I have lived in Montreal for more than 23 years, and I celebrated my 24th wedding anniversary with my wife Pascale Lemaire on January 18, 2016. It’s been many years since my last update… .

“Our son, Maxime (“Max”) Murdoch, is a freshman at McGill University. Max and I are holding the Baggataway Cup, the symbol of Canada’s national college champions, shortly after we won Canada’s national college lacrosse championship after being undefeated at 15-0 on November 8. Does it get much better than that?! When I started coaching at McGill in 2003, Max was our team’s seven-year-old ball boy. Time sure has flown!

Tim Murdoch ’80 and his son, Max Murdoch, represented McGill University at Canada’s national college lacrosse championships

Tim Murdoch ’80’s daughter, Liliane, sang on-stage live at the Montreal International Jazz Festival ‘Our daughter, Liliane, is 17-year-old and a budding music star in 11th grade in high school. Liliane is balancing her school work with performance commitments in the Montreal area. Liliane performed with her band, CITRUS CLUB, in front of more than 10,000 people at the Montreal International

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Sara Cooper ’80, founder of Cooper Creative Group, in Mercer County, N.J., helps small businesses, non-profit organizations, and entrepreneurs establish brand recognition. In February, Kyle Boatwright ’05, a writer, served as a guest blogger for Cooper Creative Group. “I love the PDS connection!” Sara said. Here’s what Kyle wrote:

Clever Minds for Clever People – An Inside Look at Cooper Creative Group

By Kyle Boatwright / February 4, 2016

Sara Cooper ’80

The first time I see Sara Cooper, she is furiously typing on a little laptop, looking hard through pink reading glasses. She doesn’t see me. She stops for a second, purses her lips, and goes back to typing.

I let her work for a few more seconds, and then approach her. “Sara?”

She looks up. Her furrowed brow relaxes and she breaks into the warmest smile. “Kyle!”

She gets up and hugs me, pinning my arms to my sides. And I immediately love her.

I’ve heard only good things about Sara—fabulous things, really. From what I’ve gathered, Sara Cooper is a force of nature. And I meet her now and I know for sure that she is.

As I take out my notebook, she launches into the story of her brain-child, Cooper Creative Group. What I learn immediately is that Sara cares. And she’s built an entire business based on that premise.

Outsiders see New Jersey as something on the outskirts of New York, and sometimes it is. So many of us commute into the city, and so many of us work for big businesses and corporations. But most of us who grew up here know that it’s more than meets the eye. It’s more than the city’s dumping grounds, more than bland marshlands, more than the Jersey Turnpike. It’s a beautiful state with a ton of small towns and closely-knit communities and, as such, many small businesses.

Enter Cooper Creative Group. Our towns thrive on local support. New Jersey is for the people, by the people. CCG has exactly one goal: to boost any and every small business, be they jewelry stores, dental practices, or non-profits.

This, of course, requires experts in a variety of fields. There’s marketing to be done, and underneath that marketing umbrella, there’s practically an infinite number of routes to explore. What do you think of when you hear the word “marketing?” Whatever you think, it’s probably not enough.

CCG, in short, covers everything. Sara’s pulled together a consortium of brilliant locals to cover every square inch under that umbrella. Financial planners, lawyers, writers, web designers, and more—all are available to advise and assist with the click of a button.

The advantage to having access to so many worlds is that CCG can easily adapt to suit unique needs. Need a press release for that book drive your team orchestrated? CCG’s got you covered. Need an update on your sorely outdated website, or access to social media? CCG can do it. Do you simply need an experienced mind to bounce ideas off of? Three letters: CCG. The best part of all of this is that CCG is itself a small business. You know, then, that you’re not just getting generic, impersonal advice. You’re getting words of wisdom from people who are in the trenches with you. And CCG is in it for the long haul.

Sara Cooper smiles widely. She keeps talking. I keep writing. CCG keeps rolling.

About our guest blogger: Kyle is a writer, actor, and musician living and working in Western Mass.

Her recent ghostwritten publications have included an international bestseller as well as books on money management, which makes absolutely no sense since she has none of her own money to manage. She can frequently be found trapped in a theater somewhere, playing Super Mario for free on her laptop in coffee shops, or at home in her yoga pants, wishing she had more snacks.

Jazz Festival on July 4, 2015. She also was cultivating a team who ‘inspires healthy living asked to be the spokesperson for Camp de around the world.’ This photo captures a great Blues, a program that showcases young artmoment of hard work paying off for me!” ists. I’m not sure where Liliane found her musical gifts, but, surely, it is not from my days singing as a member of the PDS Glee Club in the late 1970s!”

Lolli Dennison Leeson told us that, “Life has been rolling along, and 10 years ago, I began a journey with the Juice Plus+ Company. I’m thrilled to have been promoted to the top position of National Marketing Director with the company. The photo, taken last October in Nashville, T.N., shows my family and me celebrating my new Lolli Dennison Leeson ’80 and her family celebrated her new promotion promotion and my 10-year journey SPRING 2016

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Kirsten Elmore Meister 1004 Tasker Lane Arnold, MD 21012 410-647-5432 kmeister5@yahoo.com

Rena Whitehouse 600 Saint Anne19s Road, NW Marietta, GA 30064 770-845-1577 renawhitehouse@hotmail.com

As our 30th reunion approaches, here are some memories to bring you back. (If you haven’t yet signed up, please go to the PDS website, www. pds.org/alumni/alumni-weekend-2016, to see the planned events and to sign up.)

Camie Carrington Levy 2212 Weymouth Street Moscow, ID 83843-9618 208-882-5658 camie@palousetravel.com

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Lorraine Herr 9S021 Skylane Drive Naperville, IL 60564 LHerr@herr-design.com

Bill Brennan, John Vine, Jamie Herring, Bob Szuter and Jeff Perlman recently gathered at the Witherspoon Grill to celebrate the New Year. This group, along with Henry Bowers, gets together regularly to eat, drink and laugh.

The PDS connection lives on as several offspring attend(ed) PDS. Szuter and Vine each have a kid in the Upper School now and Perlman’s kid already graduated. A jazz trio played this cold night in January, turns out the awesome drummer was Pete Cottone’s younger brother, Tom. Many of us remember him as the skinny kid hanging around the famous Cottone basement. Well, Tom is all grown up and reports that Pete is alive and well, living in North Jersey practicing medicine.

Noelle Damico 325 Main St.reet Apt. 3B White Plains, NY 10601 revdamico@gmail.com

Ann Miller Paiva 185 Hall Street, Apt. 1413 Brooklyn, NY 11205-5042 347-266-4616 apspilu@gmail.com

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We scared the new kids in music class with Mrs. Gilbert’s song, “There was an old woman, old skin and bones ohhhh,” and delighted in screaming “BOO” when they opened the closet door.

Edward Willard 214 Lynchburg Road Pilot Mountain, NC 27041 tcwillard@mac.com Lynch Hunt 771 Mayflower Ave Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 609-851-5521 lynchhunt@gmail.com

Marisa Petrella 250 Midway Drive Morrisville, PA 19067-5930 609-462-3101 sales4metoo@msn.com From Lynch:

How are you all doing? Here the latest from the Hunt family in Lawrenceville NJ...We (my wife Sharon, my 17-year-old daughter, Sydney, and myself ) spent Christmas 2015 by visiting Sharon’s brother in Phoenix! Here’s how we did it: We flew to Phoenix on December 23rd, did Christmas in Phoenix, stayed there until the 26th, drove to the Grand Canyon for a one night ’82 classmates: L-R: Bill Brennan, John Vine, Jamie Herring, stay and sightseeing...

Bob Szuter, and Jeff Perlman recently gathered at the Then drove to Las Vegas Witherspoon Grill on Sunday for a two night Marc Daubert wrote in simply to say, “Hi.” stay @ the Venetian hotel...Then...drove back to Phoenix on the 29th to stay there until Lorraine Herr returned to New Jersey for January 1st. Whew! Then flew back to NJ! a Herr family Thanksgiving gathering with brother, Dan Herr ’84 and sister, Julia Herr I’ll see you guys @ our next reunion!

Smith ’88. Lorraine, Michael and their two sons, Emerson and Holden continue to reside in the Chicago area.

There were tall trees growing in pots in the sunny stairwell in front of the upper and lower libraries.

We propped open the water fountain in the playground and dug rivers and built dams until we got in trouble for wasting water.

Mrs. Gilbert chose Marty Scassera for the role of Joseph in the Christmas pageant but he got chicken pox before the performance.

We would have soccer games and the balls would crash into the Lower School, Upper School and library windows and when we were asked to move away from the school, the ball would go over the fence.

We sang Miss Topp’s “Poor Little Kitty Puss.”

We caught crayfish in the river down behind the playground at recess.

We made rockets in Mr. Walter’s science class.

Our 2nd grade operetta was King March (King March has donkey ears!).

Our 4th grade operetta was Rip Van Winkle.

We memorized the poem “September” by Helen Hunt Jackson.

Who was our ice skating teacher? I remember he had a white wool coat with three colored stripes and a long belt and we’d all hold onto his coat belt and he would fly over the ice.

Middle School:

We sang “I Sing the Body Electric” with Mrs. Spiegel.

I sing the body electric I celebrate the me and to come I toast to my own reunion When I become one with the sun And I’ll look back on Venus I’ll look back on Mars And I’ll burn with the fire Of ten million stars And in time and in time We will all be stars

(Excerpt from “I Sing the Body Electric” by Irene Cara)

Lorraine Herr ’82 with her husband and two boys JOURNAL

Lynch Hunt ’85 with family at the Grand Canyon

I saw the Challenger launch and disaster at school. I was a teacher’s assistant in the Middle School and the science teachers set up TVs on carts in the Middle School hallway to the amphitheater.

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We were in school the day John Lennon was shot. I was in art class and I remember so clearly Chris Osander just being beside himself, devastated over the news; we consoled him.

Our 8th grade play was The Music Man. Upper School:

Only certain kids were allowed to use computers because there were so few computers.

We memorized: “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” and Sonnet 116: “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds Admit Impediments” by William Shakespeare.

We listened to Devo, Squeeze, David Bowie.

We sat outside the theater writing PDS on postcards to try and win The Hooters at our prom from a WPST raffle.

Chris McCabe and the other boys sang

“Everyday I Write the Book” all the time.

Don’t tell me you don’t know what love is When you’re old enough to know better When you find strange hands in your sweater When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote I’m a man with a mission in two or three editions And I’m giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book

Excerpt of “Every Day I Write the Book” by Elvis Costello

Special thanks to Susan Hockings, Missy Whitehouse, Pam Bye Erts and Nancy Miller MFS ’57

News sent to the Alumni Office:

“40-year friends in 40 below weather (with wind chill)! Shockingly cold.” Liz White Meahl and Pierre from ME, Kelly Noonan O’Shea and Dan from PA, and Christi Curtin McCarthy and Dan from NJ met “in the middle” in Lenox, MA They are already planning for their next adventure in New Orleans, and likely more crossing of paths before then as they travel with kids to each other’s states, exploring college options.

1987

Sofia Xethalis 1953 Shore Oak Drive Decatur, IL 62521 217-422-5648 sxethalis@yahoo.com.au

1988

Amy Venable Ciuffreda 8 Rydal Drive Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 609-882-7899 amy.ciuffreda@gmail.com Arianna Rosati 251 W 19 Street #3C New York, NY 10011 917-202-7114 pavianyc@gmail.com

1989

Doria Roberts PO Box 5313 Atlanta, GA 31107 404-874-3779 doriaroberts@yahoo.com

Lauren French Stout 965 South Morgan Street Meadeville, PA 16335 814-337-5686 lfrench@allegheny.edu

1990

Deborah Bushell Gans 143 Isle Verde Way Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418 561-799-2463 debgans@yahoo.com

1991 Class of ’86: Top to bottom, Cary Paik, Susi Franz, Yvette Pelletieri Parker, Chris Anderson, Liz White Meahl, Ann Miller Paiva

Aly Cohen 1 Big Barn Road Cranbury, NJ 08512 917-273-4573 alycohen@yahoo.com

So, as we approach our 25th reunion (uuugghh!), some of us feeling a bit older than others, here are few messages from our classmates:

1986 classmates Liz White Meahl, Kelly Noonan O’Shea, and Christi Curtin McCarthy, reunioning in Lenox, MA.

Julie Roginsky is the co-host of “Outnumbered” on Fox News and came back to the PDS campus in March to deliver the Rothrock Lecture to Upper School students… she shared key points, like not heading to a Clapton concert the night before taking the SAT and other useful advice…

Besides running a busy integrative rheumatology/environmental health practice in Monroe NJ, I have been quite busy writing and co-ed-

iting the textbook Integrative Environmental Medicine for the Weil /Oxford University Press due out in 2017. I’m still actively building my environmental health platform, TheSmartHuman.com and welcome followers to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram who are interested in simple tips to reduce exposures to toxins in our everyday lives!

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President Reagan was shot after lunch.

I still made time to hang out with several classmates over the past few months, including Julie Roginsky, who joins me on the PDS alumni board, and Chris Jones, who coached a soccer practice with my son and his teammates.

Hoping all of my classmates are able to come in for our May reunion to celebrate!

1992

Sharon Thomas Haber 1675 York Avenuem, Apt. 20L New York, NY 10128 212-722-8793 ziggythomas@hotmail.com

Judson Henderson 5073 Province Line Road Princeton, NJ 08540 609-751-1519 jhenderson@callawayhenderson.com From Sharon:

Thanks to Judd Henderson’s reminder, I collected some class notes for our spring Journal.

Judd shared that “All is well in Princeton, we moved over the summer, but will still be ready to host our 25th (!) next spring. Look forward to seeing everyone soon.”

Dave Wise shared, “We’re doing fine. This is probably the busiest our lives have been. We sold our company in December and are going through a serious integration, which is great, but also a bear. We had to get each of our three boys into new grade schools for the fall, which was like a massive college application process. They actually make the two- year-old do an interview, where all you can do as a parent is pray he doesn’t poop in the middle of it.

And we are combining our apartment with the one next door and about to do a painful construction here in Brooklyn. We really should just move to the suburbs already.” As a fellow New Yorker, I hear you Dave!

Alison Cho wrote, “My youngest son turned one and is awesome as ever. My eldest turns three in April and I am amazed at how time flies. Still with the same company but moved to a different role as an HR Business Partner supporting Operations. My brother, Ed Cho ’96 just got engaged so I need to get ready for the wedding!”

On my end, as always, I’m on the run with a business and family. My daughter is eight years old; I am consistently amazed by how much of her own person she’s become. We just got back from a vacation to Jamaica, where we had a chance to connect, play and swim with dolphins. We’re back to the winter chill of NYC and I can’t wait to read the spring Journal in warmer weather!

Tricia Frank wrote: “I’m writing this on Sharon’s orders, but they were quality orders, so

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I’m glad to comply. Let’s see: last year, I finally, finally!, finished my PhD in literature, with my specialty being Victorian Studies (think massive novels by brilliant writers like Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot, and massive displays of facial hair that inspire the fashions of today).

We also added to our family, bringing Alice, now one, to her loving siblings: Auggie, now four, and Annie, three. The plan is to enter the job market soon, but for now, I’m embracing domestic life and savoring the sweet lulls when I can find them. Our gang can be found residing in Spokane, WA, close to family in Oregon, and close to where my husband Mark is a speech science professor. Last summer, I got to meet with Sharon and stay with Stacey Namm and her family, thanks to a conference in New York, and it was so much fun to do that. If anyone plans to visit Spokane, please let me know!

It’s great seeing old friends.”

1993

Darcey Carlson Leonard 217 Yorkshire Drive Williamsburg, VA 23185 darceyva@gmail.com

1994

Cynthia Shafto Bernardoni 1780 Shore Acres Drive Lake Bluff, IL 60044 312-330-5319 cynthia.bernardoni@gmail.com

1995

Melissa Woodruff Mccormick 257 South State Street Newtown, PA 18940 215-550-6596 mwoodruf99@yahoo.com

1996

Stephen Nanfara 5 Pegg Road Flemington, NJ 08822 908-310-9724 nanfara@yahoo.com

Liuba Shapiro Ruiz wrote: “Still living in LA and still marketing new albums and campaigns for Universal Music. Just finished up a yearlong #Sinatra100 celebration of Frank Sinatra and ran the campaigns for the new Eagles of Death Metal and Chris Cornell albums back in the fall along with working with RUSH, Seger and some others. I also got back in touch with Rebecca Nemiroff Siegel, which was an unexpected, long overdue blast.

Liuba Shapiro Ruiz ’96 with her husband Francisco “On October 10th I got married in Big Bear, California to Francisco Ruiz. It’s been fantastic.

“Not sure I will be able to attend the reunion.

It depends on work and if my family will be in town, they now spend a lot of time traveling to Florida or visiting me and my brother, Dan, here in LA. My brother and his wife live about 20 minutes from Cisco and me; really happy he’s here, too.”

1997

Ellyn Rajfer Herkins ellynrajfer@gmail.com

Mandy Rabinowitz Plonsky 59 W. 12th Street, Apt. 9A New York, NY 10011 609-937-6348 mandyrab@aol.com

the University of Chicago (2002) and his MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (2006). There are no words for how much Andrew will be missed, and it is comforting to know that he is at peace and no longer has to struggle. We want to thank all the nurses and doctors who have cared for Andrew throughout the years, especially Dr. John Ruge, Dr. Martin Nicholas and his caring staff. Donations to Midwest Children’s Brain Tumor Center at Advocates Children’s Hospital-Park Ridge, http://advocate.kintera. org/mcbtc or 3075 Highland Parkway, Suite 600, Downers Grove, IL 60515-9872, would be most appreciated.”

1999

Joanna Woodruff Rominger 836 South Broad Street Lansdale, PA 19446 jbw1980@gmail.com

Life is still moving along for all of the members of the Class of ’99. Although there is not a lot of news to report, everyone seems to be living their lives to the fullest.

Lauren Welsh Sparrow wrote, “I got married to David Sparrow on August 29th, 2015 at our farm in Lambertville. It was a perfect weekend and we had several PDS alums in attendance and as bridesmaids!” Congratulations to Lauren and David!

1998

Giovanna Torchio Lockhart 2446 Belmont Road NW Washington, DC 20008 gray.giovanna@gmail.com

We are very sorry to report the death of Andrew Bordeman; his obituary is below:

“Andrew Malcolm Bordeman, age 35; passed from this life on November 9, 2015, after a most courageous battle with brain cancer for over 17 yrs. He is survived by his loving wife Deanna Bordeman; his treasured parents, Cathy and Robert Bordeman; his younger brother, Adam (Lauren) Bordeman; maternal grandparents, Eleanor and William Richter; his mother-in-law, Donna Markley; his sister-in-law, Laura Markley; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. He is predeceased by his paternal grandparents, Arthur and Edith Bordeman. Andrew was a graduate of Princeton Day School (Princeton, NJ 1998).

He obtained his undergraduate degree from

Lauren Welsh Sparrow ’99 with her groom David Sparrow

Celebrating Lauren Welsh Sparrow’s ’99 wedding: L-R: Stacy Orr Gallager ’99, Ann Shorling ’99, Lauren, Ariana Jakobs Brandise ’99 and Julie Perlin ’99.

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2002

Margaret Lee Sayen Schmucker 7102C Sladek Road New Hope, PA 18938 marleeschmucker@gmail.com

Kiran John Thottathil Gardner, son of Sapna Thottathil ’00, from December “in a serene sleeping state!”

Sapna Thottathil is happy to announce the arrival of Kiran John Thottathil Gardner.

He was born on August 8, 2015 in Oakland, California.

Aviva Perlman shared: “Last August I took a job in White Plains, NY as the Program Director of a small organization called J-Teen Leadership. We provide community service and leadership development opportunities, programs, and trips for Westchester County Jewish teens. I am still very much living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I am now just one of those crazy people who has a car in the city. I recently reconnected with fellow UWS resident, Morgan Weed ’03; we spent a LOT of time reminiscing about our experiences in the PAP, as well as talked about her role in an upcoming Broadway show. I am looking forward to being in the audience, rather than backstage, to see her perform!!”

Grant Schmucker reported: “Things are going great! My wife Margaret Lee (“Marlee”) Sayen Schmucker and I found an old farmhouse to move into in Carversville, PA and

we just had coffee with former history teacher George Sanderson.”

Margaret Lee (“Marlee”) Sayen Schmucker shared: “I ran the NYC Marathon in November and raised $8,100 for the Cancer Research Institute, an organization dedicated to cancer immunotherapy research. I dedicated each mile of the race to loved ones (of mine and of my supporters) who have had a cancer diagnosis. Among the list of names were a few PDS friends: mile seven was in memory of Wendy Fruland Hopper ’64 (donation made by Betsy Bristol Sayen ’69 and William Sayen ’65), and mile ten was ‘in honor of all the wonderful PDS faculty/staff, parents, students, and alumni who have died, or been touched by loved ones who have died of cancer” (donation made by former Head of the Upper School Carlton Tucker and his wife Kathleen), and mile 17 was in memory of Genevieve Lescroart ’03 (donation made by Elizabeth Sayen ’03), It was a privilege to run such an incredible race for such an amazing cause.

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Natasha Jacques Nolan reported: “Last July, my family moved to Atlanta, GA, as my husband was offered a new job at Holy Innocents Episcopal School. Since moving here I have been pretty busy. I have managed to catch up with some old classmates (Morgan Perkins, Julia Cataldi Ziaylek and Ted Ziaylek).

Piper has adjusted well to her new school and Lauren Welsh Sparrow’s ’99 bridal party: Alley Welsh ’01, Reese will be starting school next fall at HIES, Betsy Welsh ’04, Sharon Herbert ’99. Lauren, Amanda Kolb, commuting with her Ann Shorling ’99 and Alex Wang daddy. I am still heavily involved in GiGi’s Playhouse, a Down synAll members of the Class of ’99… although we drome achievement center, and was offered the are all connected through Facebook, and other position of Educational Director in the fall. ways, it will still be nice for past teachers, and I’m in charge of the one-on-one literacy and classmates you are not in contact with to know what you’ve been up to. Please feel free to reach math tutoring programs, and have started a “Handwriting Without Tears” program (which out any time to let me know about any excitI learned from working in the PDS Pre-K ing news that you’d like to share in our next classroom). I feel like life has a very interesting Journal. Hope all is well! way of coming full circle. I will always have From the Alumni Office: The New York Times fond memories of my time at PDS as a student reported the marriage of Lawrence Miller to and as faculty member. I don’t think I would be Ann Marie Yoo on August 15, 2015. Lawrence where I am without them.” is a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch and Ann Marie is a Manhattan based actress, comedian and violinist.

2001 Carolyn Yarian Morgan 2000 223 East 61st Street Natasha Jacques Nolan Apt 2G 200 North Falcon Bluff New York, NY 10065 Alpharetta, GA 30022-5922 609-638-7249 nkjphoto@hotmail.com carolyn.morgan2012@gmail.com Sapna Thottathil Wilson Weed 4127 Bayo Street 25 Swan Street Oakland, CA 94619 Lambertville, NJ 08530 sapna.thottathil@gmail.com wweed1@gmail.com

2003

Allison Marshall 1717 North 35th Street, Apt. 9 Seattle, WA 09103 amarshall220@aol.com

Greetings class of 2003! I moved to Seattle, Washington in January and enjoyed some great Northwest skiing this past winter. I also traveled to Peru in March and visited Machu Picchu. In addition, I’ve had the pleasure of reconnecting, after many years, with classmate, Robert Jellinek, who contributed the following: “Hi Class of 2003, long time, no update!

Much has happened in the past years. I went from studying Russian and political science in undergrad, to living in Russia doing research and translation, to then returning to the US to switch gears and study computer science in Boston and then at U Wisconsin-Madison.

Most recently I moved to Seattle to start work for Amazon, and between the people, the city, and the surrounding nature, life out here is amazing. I’m still playing sax these days, and am working on getting a new band going and playing more around Seattle. If you’re ever coming through Seattle, shoot me a message on Facebook/email, I’d love to meet up!”

Morgan Weed made her Broadway Debut in American Psycho; performances started in New York City on March 24, 2016.

Justin Revelle and Will Dewey found the time to visit Hawaii in between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Erich Matthes wrote: “Our son, Henry, was born in June 2015. I’ve been spending the spring semester on parental leave from Wellesley, and am having a fantastic time hanging out with the little guy. Jackie was recently hired as an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Wellesley, so we’re looking forward to working together, and moving back to the Boston area.”

Ben Johnson wrote: “Hi everyone, things are great here in New York. Recently took a job at new start-up, The Drone Racing League, which SPRING 2016

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is pretty much exactly what it sounds like...

Drone Racing! Still traveling a lot and living in Chelsea with my fiancée Megan. Haven’t been back to Princeton in a while, but hoping to make it back for a hockey game sometime soon. Hope everyone is wonderful!”

the groomsmen. Just before the wedding, Brianne started as an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, and I’m still working as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, so it looks like we’ve committed to lives as New Yorkers.

Now that we’re in the city fulltime we’ve been much better at keeping in touch with a bunch of the PDSers that have wound up in the area and hope to see more of you soon!”

Emily Hamlin wrote: “More than half a year into our Costa Rica adventure and life is good!

No part of me misses the cold or hoisting snow into piles that Emily Hamlin ’03 with her father, former PDS tower over me, which is exactly what I was doing 365 days ago. Director of Advancement Andy Hamlin, and her brother, Charlie, walking on the hanging bridges I was so excited to recently have my brother, Charlie ’06, in Monteverde in Costa Rica Celebrating Nick Perold’s (’03) wedding: L-R: and my dad come down to visit Justin Revelle ’03, the bride, Nick, Aniella Perold us and explore the cloud forests of 2005 Monteverde via hanging bridges and ’07 and Will Dewey ’03 Needs Correspondent: If interested in volunteering ziplines. Kathleen and I will be back in or to send news, please contact Ann Wiley ’70, Nick Perold married Ashley Tinsley in Wolfeboro, NH for the summer before we head Brooklyn in mid-September. Aniella Perold back down here for year two. Happy to be riding Class Notes Editor, at awiley@pds.org. ’07, Justin Revelle and Will Dewey were in this wave and seeing where life takes us.” attendance at the small ceremony of family and friends. Following the wedding, Nick accepted the role of VP of Marketing at Dan Gilbert’s commercial real estate company, Kyle Boatwright ’05; Bedrock, which is making major investments see her blog about in the revival of downtown Detroit. Nick and alumna Sara Cooper Ashley moved to downtown Detroit in late ’80 in Class of 1980 January, where they are in good company with fellow ’03 alums Eli Oakes and Alex Alsup; news they encourage any PDS grads to come for a visit!

2006 Alyssa Briody began a new job this fall as a staff attorney in Brooklyn Defender Services’ criminal defense practice. She’s gotten to see lots of PDSers recently and had a great reunion over the holidays with Emily Hamlin, Allison Marshall, Eli Oakes and Katie Weber.

Will Dewey ’03 and Justin Revelle ’03 in Hawaii

Sebastian, son of James Ramos ’03 James Ramos wrote: “Tina and I are proud to announce the birth of our son, Sebastian James!

He was born November 28; we are so blessed that he has been such a peaceful, happy baby.

Matt Hendrickson wrote: “After dating for more than eight years, Brianne Smith (no relation to our classmate with a similar name) and I finally went and got married. The wedding was at the Cornell University Chapel and had a nice turnout of PDS folks, including Andrew Hendrickson ’05 and Rosser Lomax among JOURNAL

L-R: Chris White ’03, Noelle Fales ’03, Andrew Hendrickson ’05, Jen Wilkinson ’03, Matt Hendrickson ’03 and Rosser Lomax ’03 celebrating Matt’s wedding

2004

Erin McCormick 5085 Case Street Middlebury, VT 05753 802-462-3645 erinmacker@gmail.com

Jacob “Mendy” Fisch 1234 Massachusetts Avenue NW Apt 725 Washington, DC 20005 609-731-2540 mendyman@gmail.com

The Class of 2006 felt a major loss with the passing of Cait McPhaden on December 3.

Echoing the sentiment expressed by many members of our class in conversations on and off-line, Hannah Tamminen wrote, “I just want to express how deeply saddened I was to hear about Cait. She was always so kind and down to earth. I have so many fond memories of her during our time on the softball team together. My deepest condolences to her family and friends.” Cait will be missed by everyone who knew her at PDS and her absence from our class is palpable.

Tanvi Goel Saxena moved from Boston to Seattle to work on Starbucks’s digital team and would be excited to give class members a tour of the Roastery.

Patrick McDonald shared the good news that he married Alicia Cerna in January in Nicaragua. Jon Siani, Fred Mittnacht, Kevin Smith and Jon Wilson ’05 all celebrated with them.

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Aaron listens to songs by Conor Meara, also known as the musician Roy Orbitron, and recommends Roy Orbitron’s music. Aaron wrote, “I’ve been keeping in touch with Conor Meara and his son Noah, who likes pirates.

Conor just released a new album, “Girls’ Boyfriends.” Check it out.”

2007

Nina Crouse Cambridge, MA 02139 ninacrouse@gmail.com

Vishal Gupta 58 East Springfield Street, Unit 3 Boston, MA 02118 609-658-4768 vishgupta2@gmail.com

2008

Tessica Glancey 3726 Connecticut Avenue NW, Apt. 105 Washington, DC 20008 215-534-6406 tessicaglancey@gmail.com

Aditi Juneja will finish her second year at NYU Law. She spent the past summer working at the Mayors Office of Criminal Justice in NYC. Brody Sanford is almost done with his first year at Emory Law School.

Steward Johnson recently moved to Los Angeles and started his own business.

Julie Gordon got promoted to Associate Investor at JPMorgan. She also passed the CFA Level 1 exam last summer.

Hannah Epstein was in Santa Cruz, California for Super Bowl 50 shooting footage for NFL Films.

From Nina:

Jacqui Bowen wrote: “Next October, my fiancé Kyle, and I will be getting married in Villanova, PA. We currently live right outside Philadelphia and I am working at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Ashley Smoots 20 Paddock Drive Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 267-987-9448 asmoots@gmail.com

Vinay Trivedi 239 Park Avenue South, Apt 9D New York, NY 10003 267-229-2425 vt1090@gmail.com

2010

Alexandra Feuer 60 West State Street, Apt. 2 Doylestown, PA 18901 609-240-1706 awfeuer@gmail.com

Courtland Lackey lives in Hoboken and works for J.P. Morgan, where she recently got promoted to associate. She works in compliance support for the sports and entertainment division of the firm.

Ali Hiller Rorick will be moving back to New York after spending two cold years in Boston while her husband was in graduate school. She is looking forward to catching up with PDS alums once she’s back in the city!

Allie wrote: “I have so many amazing memories from my time at PDS. I absolutely loved going to Florida with Ms. Thomas and the team for lacrosse pre-season every year, despite having to run the feared mile super early every morning! Going to Australia to play field hockey was extra special to me; to have PDS recognized on a global scale for sports was pretty cool! Developing our own film in photography class with Ms. H, meditating in Sacred Traditions with Mr. Freedholm, mini-week to Gettysburg with Mr. Green, getting to play field hockey on the new turf field, experiencing the school spirit at the ice hockey games, spending hours trying to organize our groups of three for peer group leaders; I loved it all : ).”

2009

Rebecca Golden is midway through her second year of medical school; this year she became a certified crisis counselor for Crisis Text Line. Additionally, a cancer treatment for children with advanced neuroblastoma, that Rebecca got to work on, is entering clinical trials

Alexandra Hiller Rorick 60 Brattle Street, Apt 201 Cambridge, MA 02138 609-658-2961 ali.rorick@gmail.com

Allie Crouse and I are running the Boston Marathon this year representing Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, respectively. We are so excited to have our biggest, tiniest super fan there on Marathon Monday to cheer us on, our sister, Carly Nicholas ’05, will be welcoming a new baby girl to the world!

Tess Glancey accepted a new position on Capitol Hill and will serves as a Communications Advisor for the House Committee on Homeland Security.

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members in the Princeton area. He wrote: “I’m in my third year of undergraduate study at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. I commute in from Princeton Junction, so if anyone is in the area, let me know if you’d like to discuss how Trump is going to make America great again (kidding).”

Hannah Epstein ’08 filming at the Super Bowl Justine Drago married fiancé Philip Dawson on October 3, 2015 at the Washington Crossing Inn in Pennsylvania. Fellow ’08 alum Caitlin Wollack was her Maid of Honor, and Elisabeth Cichonski served as one of her bridesmaids.

Alexandra Feuer lives with her boyfriend in Doylestown, PA, and works at Carrier Clinic as a Discharge Planner for the adolescent unit.

Ethan Geltzer is living in New York City, working as a digital marketing manager at Island Records.

Danielle Dawkins lives in Boston and works at Mullen advertising with Royal Caribbean.

Jim Fuhrman is working in sales at SHI in Somerset.

The Shapiro/Stadulis clan with significant others: Leslie Shapiro Davenport ’06, Philip Stadulis ’08, Meghan Shapiro ’08, Ben Stadulis ’09, and Sara Stadulis ’12

Rachel Manning is working at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and plans to begin law school this fall. Her current work focuses on environmental health challenges in New York, and she hopes to continue addressing these issues at the policy level after completing her law degree.

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2011

Svitlana Lymar 2238 West Cortez Street Chicago, IL 60622 609-393-5330 silymar@syr.edu

’12 Classmates: Dan Humphrey, Mackenzie Striklin and Gabi Phillips rock climbing this past winter

Mackenzie Striklin ’12 at Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow

2012

Rachel Maddox 58 Fieldcrest Avenue Skillman, NJ 08558 (908) 829-4230 Rachel.Maddox@conncoll.edu Annie Nyce 9 Brookside Avenue Pennington, NJ 08534 609-730-1582 annienyce@gmail.com

Peter Powers 644 Rosedale Road Princeton, NJ 08540-2218 (609) 921-6377 petpow46709@gmail.com

This past fall Annie Nyce (senior at Rollins College) interned with Morgan Stanley in Winter Park, Florida. In December she was promoted to part-time Client Service Associate and is currently studying for the Series 7 licensing exam.

From Peter:

This is an exciting time for the Class of 2012!

Many of us are finishing college and moving on to the “real world.” I’ve heard from many of my classmates who are excited to see each other again at our 5th reunion next year. We’re all hoping that some of our favorite teachers — you know who you are ;) —can join us in the celebration in 2017. Maybe even our one-time dean, Harvey, will make the trip!

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Also, 2012ers, if you have a non-college email, please send it to me or the Alumni Office so you can keep getting communications once (if ) your college email gets shut down.

Brit Bucklee reported that he graduated with honors from New York University in May 2015 with a BFA in Film/Television Production and three minors focused on Entertainment Business. He now works in Los Angeles as an assistant to an agent at talent agency, William Morris Endeavor.

Mackenzie Striklin sent in an awesome update with some pictures of other 2012ers!

“I’m in my final semester, all set to graduate in May with a Computer Science major and a Russian minor. I’ve become a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta honor society, as well as the Upsilon Pi Epsilon computer science honor society, and am to be inducted into the National Slavic Honor Society, Dobro Slovo later this spring. I co-head both the Russian Club and the Gaming Club here at Dickinson, as well as attending Martial Arts Club meetings twice a week. I also work as a Russian tutor in the Multilingual Writing Center here.

Last summer I worked as an intern on a team in the IT department of John’s Hopkins, and the summer before that I spent a month abroad in Russia, staying with a host family and taking classes. Over winter break I got to see my crew again, Hunt, Gabi, Sam, Dan, and Peter (Hopper), and we went rock climbing.”

I also heard from Jessica Goldberg, who also graduated early! She received her degree in Communications from Villanova in December and is now working as a buyer in seasonal home decor at QVC. She loves it, and said “I never thought I would be buying Christmas trees as a living, but I’m having a blast!”

Rob Klein wrote: “I had an awesome summer in Nashville interning at a surgical instrument company in New Product Development Engineering. Lots of cool music and I was even down there with a former ’12 classmate, Bailey Outerbridge. Jenn Martin came through for a week with a dance company, so I got to hang out with her while she was in town. Back at Trinity, I am the captain of the ski team this season. Like most PDS Class of 2012 members, I have mixed feelings about graduating this spring as I’ve had a blast here and I don’t want to leave yet.” He was also nice enough to wish me well for the rest of the semester.

I caught up with Jessica Castello on New Year’s Eve. She shared that since her parents have moved away from the area, it’s been harder and harder to go to Zorba’s and Twist as much as she would like. I had to break it to her that both of those establishments are now closed. She took it well, and will still graduate in the spring from Emory, despite the inconvenience.

Paul Zetterberg went skating at the PDS rink over his semester break from Lehigh University.

I ran into Garrett Jensen when we went skiing together for a week. He’ll be moving out west

to the Bay Area (San Francisco) for work and is looking for fellow Panthers who could welcome him to the area. ( James Cole ’08, are you interested? If so, LinkedIn message me.)

Janie Smukler wrote “I just had a weird feeling yesterday where I missed hanging out in the nook.” She’s doing well and is also set to graduate from Emory in the spring.

Cara Hume’12 and Peter Powers ’12 in Ms. Spencer’s 10th grade Chemistry class, 2010.

Cara Hume is hard at work on her thesis, though is growing increasingly sick of reading about medical aid procedures in Haiti. She also took the LSAT “which was a traumatizing experience, ha ha, lol.” She’s all “on the lookout 24-7 for a foster cat center.” I’m not sure whether or not this means she wants to volunteer at one, or wants a foster cat. Lily Halpern, you like cats. Any advice? Cara also sent in a picture of us from six years ago in Ms. Spencer’s Chemistry Class.

I (Peter Powers) am finishing up my last semester at Bowdoin College and am busy interviewing students for Admissions, working as a first-year proctor (but a cool one), back interning at Congresswoman Chellie Pingree in Portland, ME. They only hired me initially because of when Zach Lawrence and I interned for Rush Holt, but I like to think that I’m not incompetent. I had a lot of fun seeing some 2012ers that I hadn’t seen in a while at the Young Alumni Pub Night.

Also, Callie Schneider landed a job at Deloitte in the Tall City: Chicago! She said I could visit her, so now that it is in writing, she can’t back out.

Eric Powers wrote every single word of this following update: “Wow. What a whirlwind winter it’s been. From accepting a job offer in New York to trying yoga for the first time, it sure has been a whirlwind. It was -9 in Boston last night, what a whirlwind! I do feel the need to say again that Peter is not writing these on my behalf, in fact we haven’t spoken in months... it was a tense Christmas and I expect Easter will be more of the same. Highlights for me so far this semester include bowling a very respectable 113, averaging just over eight hours of sleep per night, and receiving Garret’s save the date in the mail (congratulations!). With everything that’s been going on, it’s hard to forget about the whirlwind of academic responsibilities I have left. Why, I should be writing a paper right now! I guess some things are better left unsaid.

Graduation is coming up, but just like gorilla four years ago in high school, I try not to think about it! I imagine by the time this comes out, we will all (well, the ’12 Panthers) will be caught up in the graduation whirlwinds. Shoutout to

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Matt, Jeff, and Oren for designing the Zoo shirt that I’m wearing right meow. It was a pleasure to be able to go back to the good old ice rink and cheer against Lawrenceville. It sure reminded me of my ( JV) hockey days playing against the Big Red. Has anyone seen Game of Thrones? Everyone around me never seems to want to talk about it with me, but they will with each other. Weird right? Anyways, I’m off to my Pilates class, as you can see I loved it so much the first time that I had to go back! Remember to appreciate everything you have while you still have it, even if it’s just one big whirlwind #ThePlan. Stay warm everyone and have a wonderful winter/spring! Off to my tai chi class.”

Grace Lee 67 Bridle Path Belle Mead, NJ 08502 (908) 280-0006 gracelee6666@gmail.com Caroline Lippman 13 Aqua Terrace Pennington, NJ 08534 609-737-3235 crlippman@gmail.com

Kirsten Kuzmicz said: “I am really enjoying myself as freshman at Franklin and Marshall College, and plan to get my EMT certification this summer so that I can work as an EMT on campus. I’m really looking forward to it.”

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Leah Falcon 136 Bouvant Drive Princeton, NJ 08540-1224 (609) 279-9774 lgfalcon04917@gmail.com

Robert Madani 209 Berwyn Place Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 (609) 771-0912 robert.s.madani@gmail.com From Bob:

Once again it has been a busy semester for our young PDS alumni. The class of 2013 is currently spread around the world taking advantage of study abroad programs.

Matthew Cavuto has spent time in India working on developing a “low-cost transfemoral rotator prototype for use in the developing world.” Matthew’s work will allow for people with above-knee amputations to have an improved quality of life. In Matt’s words “easily the most fulfilling part of testing was getting to see the patients’ faces and reactions as they were suddenly able to complete tasks that before existed only as a desire.”

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Matthew Cavuto’13’s work in India Robert Madani is excited to be coming back to the Princeton area for the first time in two summers to intern for Deloitte in the external audit division.

I have enjoyed reaching out to the members of the Class of 2013 and if anyone wants to send me an update for the next issue of the Journal, send me an email at robert.s.madani@gmail.com

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Rory Finnegan 31 Sutton Farm Road Flemington, NJ 08822 (908) 782-5892 ref8af@virginia.edu Mary Travers 31 Elm Lane Princeton, NJ 08540 609-466-0104 mary.travers@tufts.edu

Michael Kearney has recently returned to the United States after living for five months in India, where he went backpacking and rafting with NOLS and taught math, science, English, and geography at two schools for the children of migrant laborers. Michael will be joining the Brown University Class of 2020 this coming September.

Oscar Vik wrote: “I spent three months in Norway, trying to strengthen my connection with my other country of citizenship. In that time I worked at an auction house selling works by artists such as Picasso, Warhol, and Norwegian icon Edvard Munch. I also took Norwegian classes as I continue my efforts to achieve fluency. In the spring I will be in Uruguay and Chile hoping for an equally rewarding adventure!”

Sarah Parks wrote: “I’ve joined the Psi Phi (Sci-Fi) club, and am starting my first semester as its treasurer. Academically, I’m taking classes in engineering, computer science, Old English, and French this semester.”

Alumni Weekend May 13 and 14, 2016 TO REGISTER GO TO : www.pds.org/alumni We’re excited to reunite with classes ending in 1s and 6s as we celebrate Princeton Day School’s 50th Anniversary!

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Letters to the Editor Howard Bushnell PCD ’57 writes: I read with interest Kathryn Rosko’s tribute to Thornton Wilder’s Our Town as it was produced by PDS in 1966 (Journal, Fall 2015). Probably because Chris Reeve was a classmate of my sister (Nell Bushnell Cadue ’69), five of us Bushnells attended that performance. I can tell you that it was a most remarkable experience, unexpectedly so because, after all, it was only a school play. I don’t much remember Chris Reeve, but when Susan Bonthron ran out on the stage and cried “I want to live!” I tried unsuccessfully to remind myself that it was “only a school play.” I have never forgotten her, or that moment.

At the time, I was a teller at Princeton Bank and Trust on Palmer Square. As luck would have it, Mrs. Bonthron came to my window the next morning. With great enthusiasm I told her how wonderful her daughter had been as Emily Webb. She thanked me (tolerated me?) with an interesting combination of dignity, pleasure, and embarrassment.

Susan, if you are reading this, know that I still remember you in the PDS production of Our Town. You were terrific, and unforgettable!

Christopher Reeve ’70 in one of his first starring roles: the PDS production of The Boy Friend

Harry Rulon-Miller PCD ’51 writes: Regarding two PDS Journals, which discuss a photograph of the 1934-35 PCD Ice Hockey team and its roster (2014 Fall Journal, pg. 106; 2015 Spring Journal, pg. 83): I immediately noted something wrong with the picture. The original note specifically named Hal Erdman, ’39 as a team member. He was not in the picture and he was too young to be on the team. Hal was always the tiniest member on PCD teams. So... Looking at a copy of the 1936 (spring) Princeton Country Day Junior Journal, I discovered that the picture is that of the 1935-1936 team not that of 1934-35.

With the corrected team date and the accurate roster as a starter, one can straighten out corrections, historical memory flaws, etc. found in both of the Journals. Then, find someone who can attach names to individuals in the photograph.

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David Smoyer PCD ’56 writes: Reading Ms. Rosko’s piece on Mr. McAneny warmed my heart—as was surely the case for many other alumni. He is one of the two most important non-family members in my life.

Believe it or not, however, his daily PCD life involved yet more activity! He was for many years the excellent coach of the varsity soccer and baseball teams and faculty overseer of the Junior Journal—probably others can add to this. What does that make him—a quintuple threat?! And understated in everything he did and every way he acted. What a man!

What a role model!

The Junior Journal recorded the 1935-36 PCD Ice Hockey team roster as follows: The Line-up Spares James Sloane William Meredith Henry Baker Christian Chapman William Sloane John Cooper, III Henry Sayen Robert Elmer,Jr Philip Paris John Crocker, Jr David Elmer McKay Sturgis, Jr Charles Erdman, III Richard Harvey Newton Gibson, Manager

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In Memoriam

The school has learned of the passing of the following members of the Princeton Day School community.

We wish to extend our deepest sympathies to their families and friends.

Robert H. B. Baldwin Father of former Trustee Robert H. B. Baldwin, Jr.; Grandfather of John S. Baldwin ’12, Randall “Tony” Hack ’03 and Tobin “Toby” Hack ’01; Stepfather of former Trustee Randall Hack Myron Bash Father of Steven Bash ’72 and Evan Bash ’74 Joan Barton ’52 Cousin of Jane Thomas Fenninger ’38 and Elizabeth Thomas Peterson ’56 Jenneke Barton ’56 Cousin of Jane Thomas Fenninger ’38 and Elizabeth Thomas Peterson ’56 Elizabeth Bates-Turner Stepmother of Karen Turner ’72 Patty Beard Mother of David Beard ’07 and Chris Beard ’10 Andrew M. Bordeman ’98 Robert C. Burns Grandfather of Erin Burns ’08 and Kelsey Burns ’10 Colin C. Carpi Father of Jennifer Carpi Muller, Colin C. Carpi, Jr. ’78, David B. Carpi ’80 and Lisa Carpi Gorsch ’81 Gwendayn “Gwyneth” Hanawalt Catlin ’83 William Cirullo Father of Lower School Learning Resource Center Coordinator Casey Upson; Grandfather of Barrett Upson ’28 and Morgan Upson ’29 Jon E. Courtney Father of Patrick Courtney ’85 Mary S. Cross Mother of Ann Warner Anderson ’79 and Polly Warner ’83 Richard Elden Father of Lower School Librarian Jenny Mischner; Grandfather of Kaitlin Mischner ’05, Sarah Mischner ’06 and Lindsey Mischner ’08

Daniel R. Ellison Husband of Katharine Walker Ellison ’62 Joseph A. Figur Father of Jeanine Figur ’74 Kenneth W. Fisher Father of Sean Fisher ’85 and Galen Fisher ’86; Stepfather of Mettie Whipple ’66 and Louise Whipple Gillock ’73 Arnold M. Gordon Father of Jerem Gordon ’72 and Shelley Gordon Feryus ’75; Grandfather of David Gordon ’06 and Julie Gordon ’08 Jean Gorman Mother of Martha Gorman Nielson ’65, Frances T. Gorman ’67, Jeanie Gorman Wilson ’69 and Elizabeth “Betsy” Gorman Moyer ’71 Herb Greenberg Father of Holly Greenberg ’88 Ethan Hatke Son of Eric Hatke ’83; Nephew of Gary Hatke ’81 Wendy Fruland Hopper ’64 Mother of Emily Hopper Carifa ’91 Sonia B. Kim Mother of Thomas Kim ’97 Lewis C. Kleinhaus III ’46

Bernard W. Ozarowski Father of Bernard Ozarowski ’03 and Carly Ozarowski ’12 Richard W. Raines ’68 A. David Russell Father of PDS Trustee Lisa Stockman; Grandfather of Isabel Stockman ’01, Hope Stockman ’03, Phoebe Stockman ’06 and Elizabeth Grier Stockman ’09 Stephen R. Schragger Father of David Schragger ’94 Frederic E. Schluter, Jr. ’40 Father of Frederic E. Schluter III ’70, Jean Schluter Yoder ’71 and Elizabeth C. Schluter ’78; Brother of William E. Schluter ’42 and Peter Schluter ’48; Uncle to William E. Schluter, Jr. ’70, Nancy Schluter Thurston ’72, Sally Schluter Tardella ’75 and Stephen A. Schluter ’83 Lawrence Shendalman Father of Melanie Shendalman ’87 Roland Snead Husband of Betty Snead, PDS Kitchen Staff Sean Sparks Brother of Ryan Sparks ’17 Margaret Wicks Spicer ’43 Charles E. Stokes III ’44

Ralph S. Larsen Grandfather of Emma Dries ’18 and Evan Dries ’20; Father-in-law of Trustee J. Christopher Dries

Cynthia (Nicky) Knox Watts ’55 Sister of Gordon (Toby) Knox, Jr. ’58, Thomas Knox ’62 and Harold Knox ’62

Caitlin McPhaden ’06

David A. Willard Father of Edward Willard ’84

Frank W. Miller Husband of former Middle School Librarian Cathie Miller; Father of Emily Miller Jee ’93

David L. Williams Father of Evan J. Williams ’84

Lindsley Cameron Miyoshi ’66

Stuart V. Willson, Jr. Father of Wylie Willson ’74

Peter J. Mladineo ’86 Brother of Paul Mladineo ’84 Charles S. Moffett Husband of Lucinda Herrick ’72

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Snapshots Groundbreaking

Chairman of the Board Harold Dodds starts the groundbreaking process with a special Princeton Day Schools shovel on April 24, 1964.

Mr. Dodds addresses a group of students and faculty at the groundbreaking ceremony in April.

On October 24, 1965, Princeton Day School held a special dedication ceremony, with remarks by Herbert McAneny, then the Chairman of the Faculty Operating Committee, and Mrs. J. Richardson (Bunny) Dilworth, the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Princeton Day School. In addition, some students were asked to share their reflections. We found the program for the ceremony in our archives with the students’ remarks. These comments are quite prescient, as well as still very relevant, as we look back and celebrate this 50th anniversary year of PDS. “As the first student body in this building, in this school, it is our responsibility and our privilege to establish its identity and character. If we do not distinguish ourselves, this great building will be meaningless. For this school A glimpse of the Princeton to realize its vast potential, each one of us simply must contribute and CARE.”

— Sarah Jaeger ’66, President of the Student Council Day School buildings during

construction.

“As I stand and look at the new site one main idea comes into my mind: ‘THE FUTURE.’ I definitely feel the Princeton Day Schools will be one of the finest day schools in the country…. The faculty and Board of Trustees can do everything in their power to make PDS a fine school, but they need the enthusiasm, spirit, and backing which only we can provide. In other words, we will only get out of this great school what we put into it.”

— Joseph Sands Wandelt ’68, Class X Boys’ Representative on the Student Council

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Great Teachers on the Great Road

The Annual Fund provides vital resources to Princeton Day School – resources that support our outstanding faculty, academic programs, hands-on learning,

athletics and financial aid. The school relies on the support of everyone in the Princeton Day School community. Your gift matters – will you support our students and faculty by making a gift today?

Make your gift online at www.pds.org/giveonline or send your check to: Princeton Day School Advancement Office P.O. Box 75 Princeton, NJ 08542

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We’re celebrating 50 Years

at PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL. Your planned gift can ensure the next 50 years.

The May Margaret Fine Society: Established in 1998, the May Margaret Fine Society recognizes those loyal alumnae/i, parents and friends who have informed the school that they have made provisions for Princeton Day School in their estate plans.

Including the school in their will, establishing a charitable trust while maintaining life income, or naming the school as a life insurance beneficiary are some of the ways these individuals have helped secure the long-term strength of Princeton Day School.

If you have included Princeton Day School in your estate plans or would like to learn more about including the school in your estate plans, contact Kathy Schulte, Director of Advancement, at 609-924-6700 ext. 1255 or kschulte@pds.org.

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