Quad Fall 2019

Fall 2019

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How Neil Hamamoto '11 is finding his artistic identity and helping fellow artists do the same

In this issue

12 26 The Puzzle

8 Class Notes

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The Bookshelf

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Poetry Corner

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16 Welcoming two new alumni members to Riverdale’s Board of Trustees

dear riverdale alumni, As you know, Riverdale is an amazingly complex community comprised of thousands of individuals with an astonishing diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and opinions. It is a school that aspires to be more than a school, that seeks “to change the world for the good,” as our mission states. We honor our traditions and foster innovation. We seek to be changemakers, each in our own way. Our work—to reinforce the vision of our founder, Frank S. Hackett, to create a school that promotes intellectual development together with character and values—has been instrumental in making the school more innovative, more interdisciplinary, more supportive of our students, and more holistic.

As Riverdale evolves, so too must our visual and print identity. During the last year or so, we have begun to explore how we can better bring the Riverdale experience into focus, connecting our history with our aspirations and identifying common threads. As a community, we have worked diligently and creatively to find new ways to tell the story of the school through different formats—whether on social media, in print, or through video. Our newly designed website is just one medium that reflects the evolution of our story.

When you visit over the coming weeks and months, you will see it continue to develop and reflect our broader community.

Soon you will receive an email with login credentials and instructions for a new alumni portal that will seek to improve our support of Riverdale’s alumni community and better connect you with one another and the school today. It will serve as a robust tool for you to read and share alumni news, post and pursue job openings, find former friends and classmates, register for upcoming events, and remain up-to-date on current Riverdale happenings.

In addition, as you can see, we are enhancing the look and substance of the Quad alumni magazine. We will be returning to a biannual schedule, which will include an online-only version in the fall and both online and print versions in the spring. We also encourage you to share content suggestions and feedback, as well as artwork, writing, recent published work, or other submissions that reflect the breadth and depth of our alumni body.

We look forward to keeping in touch—and hope you will enjoy seeing how the Riverdale of today respects the history of the school and how the pioneering vision of Frank Hackett continues to inspire the Riverdale experience.

Yours,

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New & Improved Alumni Portal Coming Soon!

Your alumni needs will soon be centralized — find jobs, post jobs, connect with classmates, and read about current Riverdale news all in one place!

To access your profile through Riverdale’s website and check out all the features of the refreshed alumni portal, stay tuned for a message with your username, password, and login instructions!

Take a seat!

In Riverdale’s final year of the R+ Campaign, we are excited to offer a unique opportunity to commemorate your connection to Riverdale. In appreciation of 20192020 Annual Fund gifts of $1,000 or more received through the close of the campaign on June 30, 2020, Riverdale will honor donors, upon request, with a plaque on a seat in one of the following spaces: the Jeslo Harris Theater, Hill Campus; the Montag Varsity Gymnasium, Hill Campus; or the Jane Lisman Katz Theater, River Campus. This is a great way to pay tribute to your time at Riverdale, to honor your family or loved one, or even to serve as a special gift for a close friend or relative. Please contact Marie Capasso, Director of Annual Giving and Development Operations, at 718-5192786 or mcapasso@riverdale.edu for more information.

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Commencement Address

Kay Madati ’91, global vice president

and head of content partnerships at Twitter, told members of the Class of 2019 that they have been given the “privilege and responsibility” of making an impact on the world.

“You all have been given a gift,” he said. “When you know how to think, it empowers you more than knowing what to think. This is Riverdale’s true gift.

You’ve been taught how to figure it out, how to critically think and apply it to whatever endeavor you choose.”

Madati, a Tanzanian citizen born in Norway, was raised in the U.K. His birth mother died when he was 13, and he and his 12-year-old brother were adopted by American friends who brought them to New York. His Riverdale experience was transformative.

“Riverdale has always been more than just a school,” he said. “It is, and will always be, the place that literally changed my life; where teachers, coaches, deans, cared more than they should; where friends, many of whom are here today, were found and have endured through the ages; where a sense of purpose was developed; where confidence was built; where leadership was taught; where character was molded; where perseverance through challenge was modeled.”

Madati offered five pieces of advice to the graduates.

He advised them to “unleash the power of the gift you have been given here” and use critical thinking to make a difference. He told them to be “brave enough to live your authentic self” and to “get up when you are knocked down.”

He also urged them to seek diverse experiences. “I will never undervalue how the breadth of diversity has expanded my knowledge of the things that really matter in this world,” he said. “If you leave this exclusive enclave of privilege and years from now have a circle of friends and family who only looks like you, and thinks like you, and lives like you, then you have failed.” Finally, he said, “try to matter.” You can watch the full graduation speech here.

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Riverdale’s Board of Trustees welco Edem Dzubey ’07 Edem Dzubey ’07 is currently a senior business analyst in the Business Strategy group at Disney and ESPN Media Networks. Her group oversees multi-platform content distribution of the broadcast and cable TV networks across the ABC, Disney, ESPN, FX, and National Geographic portfolios. In her current role, she serves as a contractual expert on content distribution deals.

Most recently, Edem played a critical role in the negotiations with Cablevision, one of the largest cable operators in the New York City area. In her seven years at Disney and ESPN Media Networks, has provided support in the Time Warner Cable, Cox, and NCTC deals. Edem also has spent time working with a start-up, Avisare, to develop a B2B supplier platform and database for small to mid-sized businesses.

Originally from Bronx, NY, and a member of Prep for Prep, Edem graduated from Riverdale in 2007, and received a dual degree in Economics and Africana studies from Wellesley College. She now lives in Harlem, volunteers her time at an education non-profit, Diversity Awareness Initiative for Students (DAIS), and serves as a member of Riverdale’s Alumni Association Executive Committee. In past years, Edem served as a mentor in Riverdale’s mentorship program with The Garcia Family Foundation and as a chair for Riverdale Community Action Day.

“I am excited to continue the school’s effort to create a more diverse community that fosters our future leaders.”

What excites you about getting more involved with Riverdale by joining the Board of Trustees?”

“I am eager to continue working with Riverdale to achieve its mission to positively change the world through empowerment, character development, and community building. I am honored to accept the opportunity to make a meaningful impact. Championing equity and inclusion was a key part of my Riverdale student experience. I am excited to continue the school’s effort to create a more diverse community that fosters our future leaders. One of our key values is to critically analyze problems to create equitable and actionable change. I want to work collaboratively with key stakeholders — including students, teachers, parents, administration, staff, alumni, and the other trustees — to ensure Riverdale remains an intellectually rich environment well into the future.”

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omes two new alumni members Susan Moldow ’63 Susan Moldow ’63 concluded her nearly 25-year career at Simon & Schuster as president of The Scribner Publishing Group, publisher of Touchstone, when she retired in March 2019. During her tenure she brought renewed energy to Scribner’s storied backlist ranging from the works of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald and A Separate Peace to Gone with the Wind and How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, while also publishing such bestselling and prize-winning authors and titles as Barbara, George H.W., and Laura Bush; Angela Duckworth; Janet Evanovich; Philippa Gregory; Charles Johnson; Joy of Cooking (three editions); Stephen King; Phil Knight; Frank McCourt; and Annie Proulx. Prior to joining S&S, Susan served in various capacities at HarperCollins, Viking/ Penguin, Doubleday, and Workman Publishing. In 1998 she was named one of the country’s 200 most influential women by Vanity Fair magazine. Susan holds a BA from Smith College (1967) and received a Smith Medal. Riverdale granted her an Alumni Achievement Award in 1999. Susan lives in New York City with her husband, William Shinker.

What excites you about getting more involved with Riverdale by joining the Board of Trustees?”

“In the years since I was a student at Riverdale, it strikes me how often the school and my life have continued to cross paths. Although the general culture has altered in many ways in that time, the primacy of a sound education has remained essential, as has the emphasis on character-building so central then as now to Riverdale’s mission. After retiring from a hectic career, I was honored by the opportunity to pay back as a member of the Riverdale Board.”

“Although the general culture has altered in many ways [since I was a student], the primacy of a sound education has remained essential, as has the emphasis on character-building so central then as now to Riverdale’s mission.”

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H a m a m o t o ’ 11 redefines his

worth n many ways, Neil Hamamoto ’11 exemplifies what it means to be eclectic. Best known for his idiosyncratic sculptures created using wood, metal, and other prefabricated objects, Neil stands out in the New York art scene for more reasons than one.

After graduating from Riverdale and earning a degree from Stanford University in mechanical engineering with a focus in product design, Neil has carved out a special place for his talents in the art world.

Despite a brief stint in technology during his junior year at Stanford when he founded a small education technology company he sold less than three years later, Neil knew his true calling was to continue honing his creative craft in his home city. He now works as a conceptually focused artist based in Tribeca, New York, and was named one of three New York City artists to follow by

Hamptons Magazine in 2018. Neil has had a hand in a number of unique projects since his reintroduction to the world of art. From working in the metal shop for iconic sculptor Jeff Koons to using a supermarket price gun to create his own pieces for The Bodega Paintings, an art installation that transformed five ordinary neighborhood bodegas into temporary art galleries, Neil has navigated the artistic landscape to find a style of his own and succeeded in doing so. There is seemingly no limit to Neil’s reach, and he owes much of that to a strong foundation set in a space that gave him the ability to consider the possibilities. “I have only been practicing full time for two-and-a-half years now,” says Hamamoto about his budding career, “but as I look back on my past I guess I would say that I’ve been an artist since my time at Riverdale.”

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Neil notes that much of his artistic curiosity was sparked by the opportunities he had to explore different mediums and methods under the guidance of educators he admired. “Printmaking with Mrs. Mackenzie, sculpture with Satish Joshi and Mr. Cameron, photo with Mr. Simon andgraphics with Mr. Dagony-Clark,” lists Hamamoto, of the classes he enjoyed most as a student. “Those classes were certainly influential on my career and really helped scratch my constant itch to be creating.” Having access to multifunctional spaces, tools, materials, and mentors allowed Neil to begin envisioning the potential of his craft and ignited the passion to pursue his vision. While he considers himself fortunate to have had such a start, it does not escape him that the continuance of these resources, support, and opportunities is key to the success of not just his work, but that of all artists.

That is where worthless studios comes in.

Founded by Neil in 2016 and recently incorporated as a nonprofit, worthless studios aims to provide affordable alternatives to aspiring artists of all backgrounds who are in need of space, tools, materials, technical assistance, and additional resources to fully realize their creative visions. It is named for his intention to keep the studio brand out of the artistic equation and to shed more light on artists themselves. worthless studios was originally created as a platform for knowledge exchange and manufacturing, and has become a hub for those also seeking access to opportunity.

Since its inception, the studio has showcased work from multiple artists practicing a number of different mediums and continues to inspire others to learn concrete production skills they can use in their own practice and teach to others. Neil is committed to using worthless studios to highlight public art projects that engage audiences and artists alike, particularly those that challenge participants to explore the human experience.

When it comes to upcoming projects, Neil has his hands full. Through mid-November 2019, he is helming Free Film: USA, a photography project through which free rolls of 35mm black and white film are distributed and processed in a converted 1973 Airstream trailer as it is driven across the country. “I want to uncover the stories that live between the lines,” says Hamamoto about the project’s greater goal, “The stories that don’t make

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“red, white, and blue” photo submissions

Location: Detroit; photographer: Bruno Vanzieleghem

the news or the narratives that don’t have a platform to showcase.” Neil hopes that the project’s prompt, “red, white, and blue,” coupled with the free rein to interpret those words, will bring forth a multifaceted glimpse into American life and what it means for those who live it. “It’s really a conceptual experiment,” explains Hamamoto, “to see if a crowdsourced viewpoint on a single topic can be clear and representative.” Once complete, the developed photographs will comprise a curated body of work that worthless studios will share.

Location: Detroit; photographer: Latoya Colts

Location: Detroit; photographer: Cinammon Triano

Neil credits the role Riverdale played in who he is today and the footing it gave him to grow and thrive as an artist. Indeed, Neil is a true example of the inquisitive spirit Riverdale hopes to instill in every student and the power that exists in exploring the world around them to find inspiration.

Neil is traveling around the country, continuing his work in sculpture, and making his mark on the NYC art community, all while pursuing the most admirable passion: helping others realize their own artistic visions.

Location: Detroit; photographer: Andy Shields

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Ellie Pfeffer ’19 pays tribute to one of Riverdale’s retiring teachers, Don Ostrow We often tend to normalize the wondrous — to evade the humbling act of recognizing all that we do not know.

In the semblance of control (over ourselves, society, and nature), we pretend the world is simple, quantifiable, and nameable, and forget to revel in the remarkable. Yet as the Riverdale community bids farewell to Don Ostrow, now retiring following a deeply impactful 36-year career at Riverdale and a 43-year career in education, it is worth reflecting on the contributions of someone who never lost sight of wonder, someone for whom learning was the pursuit of mystery and who spread the joy of that mystery to all he encountered.

Don Ostrow arrived at Riverdale in 1984, where he ran the Study Skills program with one English class for six years before moving to the Lower School. He was a fifth-grade homebase teacher for seven years before joining the Support Services team, where he created the position of math specialist at a time when very few schools had such a position. As the math specialist, he helped implement differentiated instruction into the Lower School math curriculum, in addition to building the Challenge Math program and teaching Challenge Math for 18 years. Soon after, he became director of the Learning Research Team at the Lower School until Dr. James Duval asked him to take on the position of math coordinator of the Lower School.

For the last two years, up until his retirement, he has supported teachers in the ongoing work of developing and refining the math program.

Yet as my third and fourth grade math teacher, Mr. Ostrow’s contagious passion for the unanswered and unanswerable was especially remarkable. It was in his class that I first discovered there were multiple ways to open and solve problems, that mathematics and art were intrinsically intertwined, and that learning could be thrilling — thrilling enough that when he taught us multiplication time-table

Five beloved faculty members retire In June, faculty and staff celebrated five retiring faculty members who brought commitment, creativity, and joy to their work at Riverdale.

We have learned tremendously from them and we will miss them greatly. From left: Hilda Shen, Lower School art; Irene Matejko, Upper School science; Don Ostrow, Lower School math coordinator; Judy Fletcher, Middle and Upper School strings, chamber, and orchestra; and Robin Bedford, Lower School art.

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Ellie Pfeffer is a graduate of the class of 2019. She is passionate about social justice, visual arts, and environmentalism, and began studying at Cornell University as an intended Environmental Policy and Government major this fall. memorization, his trick to remember “six times seven” was that he would wait for complete silence and then scream the answer “FORTY-TWO!!” at the top of his lungs. (There was no “real” trick for six times seven, but ten years later, I can attest that this trick worked).

What made Mr. Ostrow such a special teacher was that he took ten- and eleven-year-olds seriously as intellectuals. He submerged us in proof-based mathematics that looked anything but formulaic and told us regularly, “The answer is not the answer, it’s how you get there.” Charles Onesti ’19 recalled to me recently, “Probably one of the best lessons I learned from Mr. Ostrow is to take math, and learning in general, into your own hands and puzzle away at it.”

Mr. Ostrow could turn the simplest of natural objects into the most compelling of mathematical quandaries.

Snowflakes — wonderfully one-of-a-kind and perfect for cutting out of paper — motivated questions like, “What is symmetry? And isn’t its omnipresence in nature magical?” And acorns — tiny and yet capable of making such large trees — which I remember collecting in glass jars, and adding and multiplying in the classroom, engendered months-long discussions of the meaning of scale and computation with big numbers.

Yet, what I remember most about his teaching, all these years later, is that Mr. Ostrow loved us. When I sat down with Mr. Ostrow recently to discuss his career, the very

first thing he did was pull out a drawing I had made him in the third grade that he had kept all these years tacked up on his office wall. Benjamin Kaufman ’19, a classmate of mine, recalled an afternoon when he and a friend were flying paper airplanes out on the playground. Mr. Ostrow approached them to ask if they wanted to come with him and fly the planes from the roof of the Perkins building. “Robin Williams in the Dead Poet Societyesque,” Benjamin recalled. Passionate and creatively loving. They said yes, of course, and all three of them went up to the roof to let them go. He cared deeply for us and that made his teaching and mentorship so special.

While it is difficult to say goodbye to Mr. Ostrow, it comes as no surprise that he will continue to impact the lives of others in retirement, as he takes on the role of educational consultant for the Board of the I Have a Dream Foundation of New Jersey. Through the Foundation’s partnership with the PreK-through-8, Thirteenth Avenue/MLK Jr. School in Newark, Mr. Ostrow will be developing the math curriculum for the school.

He would be interested in speaking with anyone who would be willing to support the work of the I Have a Dream Foundation, as well as the collaboration that has begun between Riverdale and the Thirteenth Avenue School. We will miss Don Ostrow very much and wish him the very best in his retirement.

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The Compact

by Rachel Hadas ’65 The short steep ride in the red bus uphill from the Girls’ School to the Boys’ School left time to whip our compacts out and powder cheeks, noses. What for? For the boys? Well, yes, we might have answered if we had been asked.

No one asked. Good thing. We didn’t know.

Those uphill rides were forty years ago.

If every gesture halves a hidden whole, if every moment twins a hidden half, then my thumb clicking that pink plastic catch (sweet whiff of powder; flash of tiny mirror) opens not only the compact but also the first half of a parenthesis stretching its arms out, longing to be closed.

Rachel Hadas is the author of many books of poetry, essays, and translations; her most recent collection is Poems for Camilla (2018), and her new verse translations of Euripides’s two Iphigenia plays were also published in 2018. Among her honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, the O.B. Hardison Award in Poetry, and an award in literature from the American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters. She is the Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers-Newark.

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Pacing the Spring Traces

by Mike O’Neil ’60

The town has my boundary lines on record, But my cat defines his own property here.

In spring, I would rather inspect his domain, Than the one set on paper by the tax collector.

Tony and I stand at the brink of the Greening backwoods looking down at the dark stream.

We’ve been cooped up all New England winter, And this cold spring day is something of a liberation for us.

There, the emergent shining leaves of poison ivy, For him to brush up against, and the young rabbit To nibble. Yum Yum, he says, young rabbit. And Later that evening he will make good his wish.

Let me climb on your shoulder, he says, So, I can enjoy a fuller view—and for 30 seconds he’s up there.

I am his father, you see; at least that’s what he thinks.

And he follows me around more like a puppy than a freeborn cat.

Tramp, tramp, tramp, we range through the woods apace, Startling Bambi and his seven-babe harem into a gallop.

We listen to Lonesome George, the luckless suitor, Gobbling plaintively to the sweet hen of his dreams.

Back on the flats, Ma’s ferns are pushing up; the catnip has wintered Over nicely, and the tender chives are standing up bravely.

In the pure ecstasy of the moment, Tony rolls back and forth, In the crumbled leaf mould, picking up every tick within a five yard range.

A cold rain begins to fall.

What a fine day.

Boreegard Mike O’Neil has been writing poems for the last 20 years. “I am completely a creature of the muse. I’m serious. At the oddest moments she directs me to write a poem titled such and so, and I obey.” Prior to retirement, Mike had a career in the insurance industry. When not working on his poetry, he and his wife, Jeanne, spend their time gardening.

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GALLERY TOUR + COCKTAILS More than 70 alumni attended The Spirit of New York City Cocktail Reception and Gallery Tour on Monday, May 6, 2019.

The event was held at the Davidson Gallery in Chelsea. Owners Max ’92 and Charlie Davidson ’00 spoke about the works currently on exhibit by artist Thomas Witte. The beautiful gallery, along with breathtaking terrace views, was a perfect spot for classmates and friends to gather to reconnect, reminisce, and view the exhibition.

JOURNALISM CAREER PANEL On Tuesday, June 4, 2019, alumni, current students, and faculty attended the ninth Annual Riverdale Career Networking Panel Discussion. This year’s topic was Journalism in the Era of Fake News. David Westin P’13,’20, anchor of Bloomberg Daybreak Americas, moderated the event. Panelists included Henri Cauvin ’90, senior editor at ProPublica; Keith Grossman ’98, P’32, president of Time, Inc.; Harry Enten ’07, senior writer and analyst for CNN Politics; Vanessa O’Connell P’22, global industry editor for Thompson Reuters; David Rhodes P’27, former president of CBS News; and David Goldin P’30, founder of Goldin Solutions.

The purpose of the annual panel discussion, organized by the Riverdale Alumni Association Executive Committee (AAEC), is to educate, inform, and connect members of the Riverdale community in a given field or industry. Every year the AAEC chooses an occupation or industry to highlight. Past panel discussion topics included the business of sports, real estate, social media, finance, art, and entrepreneurship.

From L-R: Dominic A.A. Randolph, Vanessa O’Connell P’22, Harry Enten ‘07, Keith Grossman ’98; P’32, David Rhodes P’27, Henri Cauvin ’90, David Goldin P’30, David Westin P’13,’21

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Click here to watch the panel discussion.

Correction: In the Winter 2019 issue of Quad, under Alumni Profiles, the last name of former faculty member Rita McGerr was spelled incorrectly. We apologize for the error.

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Where’s My Fortune Cookie is the hilarious, startling biography of Phil Proctor ’58, the co-founder of the legendary satirical comedy group, the Firesign Theatre.

Includes over 120 rare photos, illustrating his work in comedy recordings, TV, film and even the Broadway stage.

recently published books written by Riverdale alumni Yvonne Daniel ’57 was named The De La Torre Bueno co-prizewinner (with Lucía Suárez and Amélia Conrado) for Dancing Bahia: Essays on Afro-Brazilian Dance, Education, Memory, and Race. It is awarded by the Dance Studies Association as a special citation for grounding research on the interstices of artistic practice and political activism in Bahia, Brazil.

9/12, written by William H. Groner and Tom Teicholz ’73, tells the story of responders, such as NYPD detectives Candice Baker, Thomas Ryan, and Mindy Hersh, who rushed to Ground Zero on 9/11 and remained to work on the cleanup for the next ten months, many develop serious respiratory injuries and cancers, despite being told the air was safe. For nine years a group of dedicated attorneys waged battle for more than 10,000 responders against the City of New York in what became the most complex mass tort in US history winning a settlement of $800 million. This battle was also fought in the press, in medical and scientific research centers, and among politicians at the local, state, and federal levels, as well as in the halls of Congress to pass the Zadroga Health and Compensation Act. 9/12 is the story of the brave public servants who showed up when their country needed them most, their fight for redress, and their victory in the face of the seemingly insurmountable.

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In The Heart of the City, distinguished urban planner Alexander Garvin ’58 shares lessons on how to plan for a mix of housing, businesses, and attractions; enhance the public realm; improve mobility; and successfully manage downtown services.

In his new book, The Music of What Happens, Bill Konigsberg ’89 tells the story of how, over the course of one summer, two boys face their biggest fears and decide what they’re willing to risk to get the thing they want most.

“Konigsberg demonstrates once again why he is one of the major voices in LGBTQ literature.”

Booklist, starred review

A President on trial. A reputation at stake. ABC News legal correspondent and host of LIVE PD Dan Abrams ’84 reveals the story of Teddy Roosevelt’s last stand—an epic courtroom battle against corruption—in this thrilling follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Lincoln’s Last Trial.

If you would like your work to be considered for this column, please email Robin Gottlieb with a brief description and cover art at rgottlieb@riverdale.edu.

Class Notes 1946 From Pat Arkin Gerdsen: I see our class is down to a handful. It was a great class. Many of the girls had been at Riverdale most of their school careers. I was a late joiner and the day I timidly walked into the first period class, Louise Gamble Schuchat, class president, nominated me for class secretary, a position I kept till graduation. The girls included me very quickly, and I was never a stranger again. It meant so much to me. My husband Robert Gerdsen MD, who just died at the end of March, and I had a very good life. We have three children and three grandchildren all doing well. Bob was the longest serving Medical director in the history of Children’s Hospital Oakland in California. I had

two careers, first as a geologist- paleontologist and later as a school psychologist. In retirement we went to the desert every winter in Borrego Springs, CA, a large state park, where I became the volunteer invertebrate paleontologist for the museum there.I would like to receive any histories or reminiscences from the remaining women in our class.

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Anne Goodrich Jones shared a photo from approximately 1949 of deceased classmate, Georgia Lee Au (right).

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wife of 50 years and wonderful children and grandchildren. Life is good.”

Karl Heiser sent in the following note last spring from Dick Bernhard: I lost the person who has been my best friend for over 51 years, my precious wife for nearly 50 years, &, most importantly, the mother of our 3 great kids, Barbie (49), Christian (47) & Hans (40), now themselves all mature, successful professionals, best friends to one another and each a caring, hugely important & supportive friend to me.

On our 50th wedding anniversary in May, I’m going ahead with the plan Cindy & I had to give a major financial gift to each of our 3 children, & on Fathers’ Day in June the kids & their families are having a big party for me at our old Cameron Village home in Raleigh where they all grew up & where Hans & his family now live. Not surprisingly, I’ve been having a rough time adjusting to life without Cindy, but I’m getting huge quantities of loving support not only from my family but also from dozens & dozens of caring friends in our church, university, & surrounding community! I’m still on the Industrial & Systems Engineering faculty at North Carolina State University, booked to teach my graduate course in the fall & on lots of committees, delivering Meals on Wheels, helping with church fund raising, & doing lots of outreach to people much, much more in need than I am.

And from Barbara Berger Goldman: “Craig and I will still be going to Maine, but a little later this year as my oldest grandson graduates from high school. We will go to Silver Spring, Maryland, first. The rain in NC this year has been non-stop. Still, I’m glad it wasn’t snow.”

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Jonathan Macy sent in the following note on David Bartlett, which came from the Harvard 60th Anniversary Report: In 1960, Roxana and I were married. We have four children. I am still a professor at the University of Colorado’s physics department. I haven’t taught a course in fourteen years but have succeeded in annoying both my former colleagues in experimental high energy physics and also some astrophysics. This is due by championing a specific alternative to Newtonian Gravity and Maxwellian electricity.

1956 Bill Borchard writes: “I am now working 3 days a week as the unofficial marketing director of my law firm, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman. I also still handle trademark and copyright matters for a few clients. It is great to set my own schedule, take long vacations when I want to, and still enjoy the stimulus of being part of a thriving law firm composed of smart, ethical, and warm friends. This year I have decided to adopt 65 as my age because I cannot believe my true age, do not feel it, and most of my friends are younger than I with no idea how old I am. I am lucky to have inherited such good genes, a great

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Anthony F. Capraro III passed on February 27, 2019, in a hospital near his home in Ocoee, FL. To read his full obituary click here. Marty Zelnik adds: “Dianne Capraro texted me the sad yet anticipated news that our beloved Tony has joined his son, Brian, in heaven. Tony and Dianne had lost Brian at a far too early age due to a chronic illness. Tony had been in ‘deep sleep’ for his last two days and was visited by a RC priest who administered the equivalent of ‘last rites.’ Rick Bates and Tony are now together working on that NY Yankee starting lineup. Yogi, The Mick, Joe D, Scooter, and so many other NY Yankees are joined by two of the greatest Yankee fans who ever lived. And more importantly, two of the greatest friends and classmates we have ever had. We love you Tony!! And we love and care for you, Dianne, and mourn your loss.”

From Judith Austin, Sue Jacobs Schaffzin, Bob Johnson, and Marty Zelnik: Based upon recent information and our own follow up research, we are sad to announce the passing of our classmate, John D. Roller. We believe John passed away in Florida within the last 4-5 months or so but have been unable to find his obituary to determine precise date of death.

John was a very social, affable, and friendly classmate and friend. In recent years he became more reclusive due to a chronic illness, which he knew was terminal. We last heard from John in December 2018 when he indicated that he had limited time left. He passed away at a long-term care facility in Florida. We shall miss him and his outgoing charming personality (top right).

Judy Austin writes: Our class mourns the loss of Richard Garten. He joined us for our 50th and 55th reunions, and at the latter we elected him an honorary member of the Class of 1957. Not only did he teach history at the Boys School — and in 1956-57, the first AP US history course, which included Girls School students as well — but when his wife, Jean Peters Garten, was ill during our junior year, he stepped in to cover her Girls School classes as well.

1958 Phil Proctor reports that his audiobook and the podcast series of his memoir “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” each won a Communicator Award of Distinction. In fact, the podcast series won 2 awards — one as an entertainment series and one as a podcast series! A stay in sunny London concludes a journey that took us to Dublin and then on to Edinburgh and a subsequent drive through Scotland to visit my wife’s castles — she’s a MacDougall on her mother’s side — and a nice stay in Oban, among other wonderful places in the Highlands. In late June, I performed “The Art of Radio” with my remaining Firesign Theatre partner, David Ossman, and then a live 2-hour radio show, ‘The Firehouse Follies’ at the HearNow Audio Festival in Kansas City, before returning to LA on June 9 for a public reading of a new play. ‘What?! Give up show business?’”

Alex Garvin writes: “This semester I have had the rare pleasure of teaching Cameron Koffman ’15, a Riverdale graduate and resident of the Upper East Side (like me). This semester, Cameron was in my undergraduate Study of the City seminar. I was also his primary advisor on his senior essay. Both of us were thrilled to be working with another Riverdalian” (see p.24) David Lahm went to the party celebrating the publication of Alex Garvin’s latest book, Heart of the City. The large turnout testified to the longevity of his tenure at Yale and the deserved respect in which he is held by his students and fellow scholars. Good food, too!

The Whimsy Trophy goes, this time, to David Frankel, for the following: “I just got the urge to see what was up with Vahe Tiryakian. I googled

1959

From Geoff Howard: As QUAD goes to press, the Class of ’59 is hard at work preparing for our mid-July 60th Reunion which will have happened by the time anyone reads this. It will have been at the Westchester home of Heidi and Ron Winston, the exact same place, amazingly, where our graduation party took place a short 60 years ago! In addition to the day-of festivities, we’re preparing a “60-YearsOn” Yearbook to celebrate the passage from our teens to our mid-almost-late 70s This flurry of class activity explains why this issue of Class Notes is a bit on the skimpy side. BUT, the next one, after our reunion, will have lots to report.

Harvard B-School alumni. Again, Mike writes, “We are assisting with specific initiatives in NYC, Missouri, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire and helping to organize an event on Oct. 23 (save the date) in NYC with Harvard Professor Michael Porter as a prime speaker. We’re all conscious of the political systems paralysis, but Porter has done an unusually good job of describing the problem and suggesting somewhat practical solutions.”

Mary and Bob Feuer recently travelled to Tokyo with their son Max to visit Max’s fiancée, Miri Matsufugi, and her family. Max and Miri await the U.S. State Department’s issuance of a fiancée visa then Miri will come to NYC for the wedding.

Bob also reports that daughter Kate Feuer Burke is making a name for herself in Great Barrington, serving on the Great Barrington Select Board and heading the Farmers’ Market as well.

In another full-details later item, Caddie Zagat Eland will have met classmates Jane Chiang Sieh, Sue Rosenfeld Lehmann, and Carolyn Payne Dean for a mid-May lunch in New York, Jane in from Brazil and Carolyn up from Washington.

1962

Mike Otten (pictured above) is a busy guy!

In addition to the joys and demands of the bi-continental lifestyle he shares with wife, Evelyne, he is deeply involved as a board member of the acclaimed Green Chimneys School in Brewster, NY. He reports, “The Green Chimneys Institute hosted 300+ experts in Human-Animal Interactions on our 50-acre campus in Brewster, NY. 21 countries were represented. Geoff had the pleasure of visiting with Mike at Green Chimneys back in May: “It is a truly amazing place, and an inspiring one, and I would urge all classmates who find themselves anywhere near Brewster, to get in touch with Mike and take the tour as I did, and if you’re lucky, Mike will let you handle some of the exotic animals for which the school is famous. In his ‘spare time,’ Mike works with the Political Systems Reform Group of NY-area

Tim Millar writes: “This is my 50th anniversary of my serving in Vietnam with the 1st Cavalry Division. At Riverdale I was on the Review staff and remember attending the Columbia Scholastic Press Association sessions. The English courses at RCS were outstanding - Arne Gronningsater, Paul Luke, Don McCormick, Bill Davis — and of course Willie ‘the Whip’ Williams. Who will ever forget Madame Smith for French! Loved (and feared) Irene Guiney in math — even the Saturday workbook sessions to catch up after transferring mid-year 7th grade from public school. COL Hahn was wonderful, and Dave Schwartz — and of course Al Davis and Coach Bertino. The art history part of the humanities sequence was fantastic. We’d show up for class upstairs in the library, then often jumped in a station wagon to go to the Metropolitan or the Guggenheim for the afternoon. The learning at Riverdale was REAL! Went sailing with Capt. Keasbey once. We just shoved off from a pier at Yankee Stadium and headed off — but the first swing bridge was slow opening. He pulled back on the throttle and the engine died. Somehow, we got some canvas up and struggled back to the dock…I think we even tried to tow it with the dingy, as I remember falling into the river because the painter wasn’t secured tight enough to ‘Harelda.’

Never made it to City Island! Russ Ames was always wonderful. I remember the night the Glee Club and Small Chorus performed Purcell’s

‘Dido and Aeneas’ at the Girls School Gym. The lights went out in the middle of ‘Destruction’s Our Delight’ and we finished it totally in the dark with Russ not missing a beat on piano. Carly Simon was ‘The Sailor.’ Regret not having Yogi Farrar for history — he really brought it alive!

Instead I suffered through Mr. Adams — we called him ‘Smada’ and played a baseball-type game in his classroom with buddies like Bruce and Joe Zahn. Rules were simple: Smada had many annoying and repetitive habits and words/ pattern — tugging on his ear was a single, so when any of these idiosyncrasies popped up the players earned points. There were so many I can’t remember them all, but ‘Goodbye, Mr. Zahn!’ and ‘Goodbye, Mr. Millar!’ were grand slam game winners — as one of us was sent to Mr. Cowing or Study Hall, ending the game.

Chapel in the old gym was great every morning.

Many of the hymns printed on window shades and raised up by a frame behind the podium still run through my mind like it was yesterday.

Our senior speeches weren’t really so much of an ordeal, but it prepared us for communicating later in life. And I’ll never forget our JV Football team trying to stop young freshman Calvin Hill ’65 in scrimmages. Those were wonderful years, and they have served me well as I approach 75 this summer. I volunteered for Army OCS after graduating from Union College in 1966 and spent 6 years on active duty in exotic places like Vietnam, Panama, and Germany (as a Paratrooper). As a 2nd Lieutenant right out of OCS I was at Fort Belvoir, VA, with Combat Developments Command as a Public Information Officer. I often did research at the Pentagon for the Speakers Bureau — especially the development of Air Mobility. There were many senior officers there who had served with the 1st Cav in Vietnam, including LTG Harry W. O. Kinnard, who originally took the Cav over in 1965. His aide was Medal of Honor recipient Joe Marm. A full Colonel there got me assigned to the Cav after I volunteered for Vietnam. COL George W Casey, Sr, had previously commanded a Cav Brigade there, later returned to become Commanding General, and sadly died in a helicopter crash after the Cambodian operation.

I later served with his son in Germany and watched him rise to 4-Star General.

Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Very lucky to have studied at Riverdale, and proud to have served our country.”

From Susan L. Schlechter: “My husband, Bruce Schlechter, died on March 31, 2019, from complications following heart surgery. He loved his years at Riverdale, told many stories about teachers and friends, and some of his closest friends were from there. Two, Ross Fisher and John Jablow, were at his funeral.” His obituary can be found here.

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him. He is still alive, is 90 years old, and lives in NY. I couldn’t think of anyone else to share this with!”

Class Notes

1963 Peter Philip writes that he was in touch with Mara Willie, who is the daughter of their deceased classmate Mike Willie; “I had sent her a picture of a postcard Mike had sent me from December 1964. Mike was getting ready to play in the 1965 Rose Bowl with the University of Michigan! Mara wrote back that she is now married and has a daughter Eliana Tavi Null, who turned two in August 2019 (pictured below).

1964 Mike Luss reports: “I am fairly disabled from ‘Nam issues that have taken their toll. Will be moving to Sun City West in Phoenix in May to spend my remaining years there, in an over 55 community. Love it out there Yes, it’s hot for now, but it’s better than snow!”

Jim Stark writes this entry one day after the memorial celebrating Al Davis’ life and legacy: “What a wonderful event! Six of us from the class of ’64 were able to attend: Peter Harris, Jack Russell, Ken Schulman, Jim Wetzler, John Jiler, and me. John was invited to give the keynote speech as the representative of all RCS alumni and his talk was magnificent. His theme was that for Al, being a teacher was a ‘lifelong contract,’ and he traced the arc of Al’s special relationship with our class from lower school to high school, through all the ‘Billy Ball’ years as our softball coach, to the interventions some in our class made near the end of his life to enable him to stay in his Riverdale apartment, close to the school he loved so much. He ended with the final phone call several classmates had with Al, just days before he died, imagining

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what Al, who couldn’t speak by then, might have been thinking about each of them. My thin description doesn’t nearly do it justice. If you haven’t yet watched the video on the RCS website, you can watch it here.”

Eric Kingson adds: “Many of us are better athletes (or once were!) and learned to love one or two sports because of Al Davis, but more importantly we are better people. Al modeled concern for others, persistence, sportsmanship, love of fair competition, honesty, and other values that have shaped our lives. We are fortunate to have known him as an extraordinary and caring teacher. P.S. Still amazed by how he could hit a ball sky high with a fungo bat, grab his glove, and catch the ball behind his back. Never saw him drop it! Always enjoyed watching his set shot from mid court.

But mostly, appreciate his concern for every kid, regardless of their athletic ability, and how he had a genius for finding some way to make most of us, stars and not, feel good about our ability to contribute to a team.”

John Armbruster: “Having navigated in the arts for nearly fifty years, I’ve recently been very favorably carried away by two Dutch artists — my wife, Milou, is a Dutch American born in Boston the year I graduated from RCS. The two artists are Marian Plug, due to have an exhibition in Paris at the Custodia Foundation from June 8 to August 5, and Arie Schippers who also had a show there. Look them up!... Would love to have been at the Al Davis memorial.

I‘d like to tip my hat to Arne Gronningsater for having forced me to ‘fathom’ Strindberg, which was like swimming in the North Sea before experiencing more accessible waters...Chekhov and Pasternak.”

Augie Boehm reports: “No grandchildren or joint replacements. 41 Carnegie-Weill recitals and 10 bridge books under the belt.”

From John Jiler: “Augie’s annual Carnegie Hall piano recitals are for many of us as joyous an explosion of spring as the crocuses in the park.

This year’s event was attended by Jack Russell, Rick Koplik, and myself.”

This April, David Becker received the Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni William O. Douglas Award, which is conferred annually on an SEC alumnus who has contributed to the development of the federal securities laws or served the financial and SEC community with distinction.

And lastly, Ken Schulman: “Being at the Al Davis memorial service reminded me once again of how much I miss all my classmates -

how bright, how caring, how honored I am to have been one of us.”

1965

Robert Krulwich, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree by Oberlin College during their 2019 commencement ceremony.

1977 Fran Hoffinger reports: “In late April, about 18 members of the Class of 1977 met at the home of Jessica Weill Bibliowicz and her husband Natan Bibliowicz for a casual get together in honor of our turning 60 (or at least many of us are hitting the big 6-0 this year) organized

by Wendy Barasch. Attendees included Andrea Baumann Lustig, Judy Bram Murphy, Jonathan Birnbach, Jon and Ellen Gross Polkes, Henry Harteveldt, Erica Lindenbaum Tishman, Simi Neger Matera, Cathy Cramer, Peter Cole, Debbie Teicholz Guedalia, Sue Stone, Patty Friedland Templeton, Linda Rasamny Kansao, Denise Wilson Menton, Betty Dwoskin, David Rosenbaum and Ted Janulis.”

Debbie Teicholz Guedalia raved: “Jessica and Natan were the most gracious hosts and we all appreciated the effort they made to bring us together.” Special thanks to Jessica and Natan for hosting and to Wendy for organizing the event.

Wendy has spearheaded a number of informal get-togethers of the women from our class, and this time we were delighted that some of the men were able to join as well.

Didi Dunphy reported: “I was up in NYC and had a wonderful visit with Ellen Gross Polkes.

News on our end is my daughter is enrolled in the Iowa Writers Workshop for grad school.

I have a new position as a guest curator of contemporary art at the AMA, Albany Museum of Art, in GA, and I am preparing for my own exhibit at my gallery representative in Atlanta, Whitespace.”

As for her own news, Fran had lunch recently with Andrew Barovick, who, after several years as an Assistant District Attorney in Queens County, has his own law practice with offices in Westchester and New York. Andy specializes in medical malpractice, personal injury, and appeals. We traded stories of some of our criminal trials and had a terrific time catching up. And finally, I am immensely proud to announce that my daughter Rebecca Fishbein’s first book, “Good Things Happen to People You Hate,” will be published by Harper Collins in October 2019. It’s the best 60th birthday present I can imagine!

Class Notes

Riverdale sadly reports that Michelle Haimoff ’97 passed away in Los Angeles on Monday, June 24, 2019. To read her full obituary click here. The following eulogy was written by her classmate and dear friend Emily Heyward ’97.

Remembering Michelle Haimoff ’97 1979-2019

Michelle used to say, often, that there wasn’t a single person from RCS Class of ’97 that she wouldn’t be genuinely excited to run into on the street. She saw our class as family, and would always talk about how lucky she felt that we all ended up together. And it’s true, we’re a great bunch. But it’s not entirely luck that Michelle felt this way. She had a way of bringing out the best in people. She was fiercely devoted to the happiness of those around her, determined to create the perfect life. not just for herself, but for everyone she cared about.

I’ll never forget meeting Michelle in the cafeteria on the very first day of ninth grade, when she determined we were both new and asked if I wanted to be best friends for the next four years (we shook on it). I didn’t know someone like her was possible. Her astounding sense of humor, her resistance to authority (always in the name of justice!), her relentless commitment to fun. When the unthinkable happened and we lost our dear friend and classmate Dan Alper right after graduation, Michelle was the one who insisted we stick together and continue to honor his memory, instead of scattering to our various colleges and inevitably growing apart.

After college, her novel These Days are Ours perfectly captured the struggle so many of us felt in navigating the first years of adulthood against the backdrop of September 11th.

Those were difficult years that Michelle turned into art. But her greatest achievement was the beautiful family she created in Los Angeles with her husband Ben, whom she felt was “the best person on the planet,” and her two amazing children, Sam and Aaron. Michelle loved being a mother with every Michelle (center) was a panelist for the 2017 Homecoming Career Panel Discussion: Women in Book Publishing fiber of her being. The only thing missing from the life she built in LA were her friends from New York, of which she would continually remind us through screenshots of the 70-degree weather reports and pictures of the ocean. We did not need to lose Michelle to appreciate how special she was. We are the lucky ones, to have known her, to have been her friends, to have basked in her warmth, wit, and sparkle for the time we had.

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1982

2015

Yasmin Khakoo reports: I received the Butterfly Award from the Brooke Healey Foundation this past year. The butterfly award recognizes an individual in the medical field that continually goes above and beyond the scope of their job outline to help comfort, heal, or touch a pediatric patient in ways no other medical professional was able to do (pictured below accepting the award).

Cameron Koffman sent in the photo of himself with Yale Professor Alex Garvin ’58, writing: “He was my year-long thesis advisor in the ethics, politics, and economics major and the thesis was about attempts to build a bridge or tunnel across the Long Island Sound.”

2003 Harrie Bakst and his wife Amy welcomed baby boy Ari Benny Bakst on July 16, 2019 (pictured above).

2004 1994 Amanda Britz Cole just celebrated her 10-year anniversary as the founder & CEO of Yummy Mummy, a national provider of breast pumps for insurance companies, now shipping 1,000+ breast pumps every week to moms nationwide.

Amanda lives in Westchester with her husband, two children, and their one-year-old pup, Millman.

Lauren Braun Costello is finally back in the kitchen professionally after having taken years off to be home—in Westport, CT—with her sons. She recently launched her new brand, “It’s Lauren, of Course!” to share her cooking wisdom. You can find her videos and recipes at www.itslaurenofcourse.com or on Instagram @itslaurenofcourse.

Danielle Englebardt recently rejoined Douglas Elliman’s Development Marketing Group to focus on Sales at the Beckford House and Tower, a new Luxury Condominium Project on the Upper East Side. She will also continue representing buyers and sellers in their sale and rentals of luxury properties throughout Manhattan.

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Having acquired the requisite experience and passed his last-ever exams, Caxton Kaback has recently earned full licensure as an independent New York State Real Estate Broker.

2016

Alexa Greenstadt Marciano is married and welcomed baby girl Ellie Sam Marciano on June 27, 2019.

Tim Mentor, who is a political science major at Salve Regina University, was named to the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship’s College Student Congress.

As she has done so many times in recent memory, Kenyon senior Annie Reiner clinched the match to lift the ladies to a 5-3 win against rival Denison University in the North Coast Athletic Conference Championship at Indianapolis Racquet Club. It was Kenyon’s third straight title and 18th overall.

2010

Sara Muchnick was married on September 8, 2019 to Isaac Zafarani, at Pier 60 in Manhattan.

The bridal party included RCS classmates Carolyn Levine and Zachary Sperling.

In Memoriam

Anthony F. Capraro III ’57 John D. Roller ’57 Bruce Schlechter ’62 Michelle Haimoff ’97 William (Bill) Carroll Math teacher 1982 - 2008

To submit a class note, contact your class correspondent or email Robin Gottlieb, Director of Alumni Affairs, at rgottlieb@riverdale.edu. The deadline to submit class notes is Nov 1 for our spring issue and May 1 for our fall/summer issue.

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Jeffrey J. Russell ’75 jjrussell@clearbridgeadvisors.com Daniel Easton ’76 mashfly007@aol.com Fran Hoffinger ’77 fhoffinger@hoffingerlaw.com William J. McGowan ’78 bill@claritymediagroup.com Lori (Tarnopol) Moore ’79 dlmoore4@aol.com Dana (Swinsky) Cantelmo ’80 danaswinsky@me.com Elizabeth A. Holoubek-Sebok ’81 eholoubek@aol.com Lisa (Burger) Swotes ’81 lswotes@gmail.com Meryl I. Poster ’82 meryl.poster@superbentertainment.net Eric M. Yamin ’83 eric.yamin@ubs.com Eve (Reppen) Rogers ’84 evejewels@earthlink.net Allison J. (Unger) Brody ’85 a.brody@elsevier.com Sanford E. Cannold ’86 sandy.cannold@gmail.com Stacy J. Grossman ’88 s144man@yahoo.com Allison R. Rouse ’89 allison.rouse@gmail.com Jeffrey L. Korenman ’90 jkorenman@hotmail.com Achikam Yogev ’90 achikamyogev@gmail.com Stefanie (Firtell) Donath ’91 sadonath6873@gmail.com Laura J. Kleinman ’92 kleinmanlaura@yahoo.com George D. Creppy ’93 gcreppy75@gmail.com Alexis Higgins ’93 alexis.higgins@gmail.com Danielle J. Englebardt ’94 denglebardt@gmail.com Brittany (Podell) Levin ’95 bpodellco@gmail.com Lara (Engelbardt) Metz ’96 larametz@gmail.com Timothy F. Morehouse ’96 tim.morehouse08@gmail.com Jaime Benjamin ’97 jaimebenj@gmail.com Jessica (Endelson) Baum ’98 jessbaum@live.com Matthew C. Balaban ’99 MattBalaban1@gmail.com Lana ( Jacobs) Edelman ’00 lanarose@gmail.com Samantha A. Acunto ’01 ac.samantha@gmail.com Adam M. Brenner ’01 adam.brenner@gmail.com Alex P. Horn ’01 alexp.horn@gmail.com David Rausnitz ’01 drausnitz@gmail.com Samara J. Fetto ’02 samara.fetto@gmail.com Benjamin Z. Koblentz ’02 bkoblentz@gmail.com Adam R. Heller ’03 adamheller1@gmail.com Ariel C. Schneider ’03 schneider.ariel@gmail.com Cristina E. Haley ’04 crissy.haley@gmail.com

Brandon A. Cohen ’04 brandon.adam.cohen@gmail.com Daniel A. Perelstein ’05 dperelstein@gmail.com Amy R. Schneiderman ’05 amy.r.schneiderman@gmail.com Tracy Dansker ’06 tdansker@gmail.com Jordan Marin ’06 jordan.marin@live.com Eric B. Nusbaum ’06 ericbnusbaum@gmail.com Kate M. Lehrhaupt ’07 kate.lehrhaupt@gmail.com Michael Roberts ’08 michael.roberts@law.nyu.edu Andrew J. Taub ’08 andrew.james.taub@gmail.com Zoe S. Zetlin-Fishbei ’08 zzetlin@gmail.com Josh A. Howard ’09 jh1003@gmail.com Joshua S. Pearl ’09 josh@joshpearl.com Elizabeth G. Phillips ’09 egphilli@gmail.com Ashley M. Rainford ’09 ashley.rainford@gmail.com Alyssa J. Smith ’09 alyssajaclyn@gmail.com Danielle (Suchman) Sheptin ’09 Danielle.suchman@gmail.com Daisy H. Hackett ’09 hackett.daisy@gmail.com Alexandra E. Kokot ’10 alikokot@gmail.com Ethan Gracer ’10 edagracer@ymail.com Allyson Peltz ’10 allyson.peltz@gmail.com Laura E. Berman ’11 laura.e.berman@gmail.com Chloe S. Getrajdman ’12 cgetrajdman@gmail.com Jay B. Dessy ’12 jbdessy@gmail.com George S. Niedermayer ’13 niedermayergeorge19@gmail.com Khari A. Dawkins ’13 khari.dawkins@gmail.com Travis R. Brady ’14 travis.brady@Yale.edu Saranya Vijayakumar ’14 saranyav196@gmail.com Corey A. Morrison ’15 dactadeo@gmail.com Robert J. Proner ’15 robertproner@gmail.com Christian Eggers ’16 jackbollda@gmail.com Jake Fallek ’16 jakefallek@gmail.com Ava Levinson ’17 ava.levinson@gmail.com Luis Perez ’17 lperezteak14@gmail.com Zoe Schwartzman ’17 schwartzmanzoe@gmail.com Jackson Harris ’18 jaxonlego@gmail.com Alex Karr ’18 ajkarr1@gmail.com Michael Maffezzoli ’19 mmaffezzoli01@gmail.com Jason Steiger ’19 jasonsteiger18@gmail.com

Class Correspondents

Patricia Gerdsen ’46 patfossillady@gmail.com Victor S. Noerdlinger ’48 vnoerdlinger@comcast.net Karl R. Heiser ’51 krheiser@verizon.net Barbara (Dean) Schuler ’52 914-337-2712 William H. Gardner ’53 whginc@mindspring.com Nancy (Bomeisler) Nightingale ’54 nbnight@optimum.net Jane (Samet) Rogers ’55 jazzpiano77@verizon.net Barbara Berger Goldman ’56 barbaraandronnie@aol.com Judith Austin ’57 judyaustin40@yahoo.com Bob Johnson ’57 robert.johnson@mto.com Martin A. Zelnik ’57 panzel1@aol.com Suellen ( Jacobs) Schaffzin ’57 craftyme33@hotmail.com David F. Lahm ’58 dflahm@gmail.com Michelle Seligson ’59 617-320-3935 Geoff Howard ’59 howards@warwick.net E. Harvey Meer ’60 ehmeer@aol.com Lawrence Rosenbluth ’61 rosenbluth342@yahoo.com Tom Franklin ’62 ranklinus@aol.com Joseph Pickard ’62 jpickard@oristanocapital.com Stephen R. Blank ’63 stephen.blank@att.net Peter W. Philip ’63 petersells@aol.com Paul K. Safer ’63 pksmd@msn.com John H. Jiler ’64 johnjiler@earthlink.net Gail A. Hart ’65 york86@aol.com Melissa Gordon ’65 melmelg48@aol.com Leslie Nathan Weinberger ’66 ljw429@gmail.com Carol (Nathan) Mckegney ’67 mckeg9@comcast.net John M. Davis ’68 johnmdavis3@gmail.com Nancy Duff-Boehm ’69 nduff611@aol.com David Asencio ’70 david102251@msn.com Robert S. Kahn ’70 bob@kahnconsulting.com Jerry J. Fall ’71 fall.jerry@gmail.com Charlotte ( Jones) McCormick ’71 shamimccormick@gmail.com Elizabeth S. Lasdon ’72 eslasdon@gmail.com Anthony Melchior ’73 melchprod@aol.com Roger Sherman ’74 rsherman@cyruscapital.com Donnamarie Barnes ’74 donnamariebarnes@gmail.com Jonathan J. Beitler ’75 jjbeitl@emory.edu

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THE PUZZLE

Your Best RCS Guess

by Sara Muchnick Sara Muchnick ’10 is a Copywriter at Pereira O’Dell, where she writes all the Cheesecake Factory social (throw her a follow!) and other stuff for brands like Fifth Third Bank and Rakuten. A few years back, she started making crossword puzzles for her friend and filled it with fake inside jokes (that her friend did not understand) and made-up Spanish verb conjugations. She’s since graduated to puzzles that use real words only. Find more of her crosswords at saramuchnick.com.

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ACROSS 1​ Salt, to Mr. Pike 5​ Manhattan Project scientist 9 ​See 62-Down 14​ Grand Ole ___ 15​ Pupil's place 16​ Earth tone 17​ Movement before the Renaissance, to Ms. Eskin, perhaps 19​ Shak. opus 20​ Verified teens, in a way 21​ Lines, to Mrs. Decker-Alifanz 23​ Hawaiian dish 24​ Education 28​ Virtuoso 29​ It's just below E, to 45-Down 30​ Fleur-de-___ 31​ An exam taken by some H.S. students 34​ Feature of this magazine, informally 35​ This puzzle’s theme

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36 ​Like some adapters or appliances 40​ Panache 43​ Belief system 46​ Shout 49​ Fuses 50​ Annual Fund award, maybe 53​ Swell 54​ Florida city 55​ Back in the day 57 ​Set of people, to Profe 60​ BBQ sites, often 63​ Beaks 64​ Scottish hillside 65​ Where our instincts are found 66​ Surgical tube 67 ​"___ cost you!"

68​ Cuts off

1 ​Pre-Q queue 2 ​Kind of reasoning, to Mr. Wellington 3​ Course units 4​ ___ disease 5​ Sign of spring 6​ Proctors 7 ​Western Afghan city 8​ Time off 9​ Set of values 10 ​The second frat founded in the South 11​ Natural timekeeper 12​ Prefix with center 13​ School day dinner hour, maybe 18​ Writer of praiseful poems 22​ Birth control option, briefly 23 ​Jr. and sr. mentorship program 25 ​Extreme 26 ​Lil Wayne's “___ Carter III” 27​ Tulsa sch.

32​ SAT alternative 33​ Having a sixth sense 36​ Gives, as homework 37 ​300, to Caesar 38​ Longtime TV curmudgeon 39​ Head honcho 41​ Hula hoop?

42​ Void 43​ Dante locale 44 ​Type of comedian 45 ​Lower school band teacher Monique, familiarly 47 ​About 48​ ___ tai 51​ Spiritual leader 52​ Very bright 56​ Reason for winter break?

58​ Go bad 59 ​Item prohibited at 32-Down 61​ Nickelodeon's “Kenan & ___” 62​ See 9-Across

Riverdale

Homecoming & Reunion 2019 Saturday, October 19th 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM RCS Hill Campus 5250 Fieldston Road Bronx, NY Please join us for all the Homecoming fun!

There will be food, athletic games, campus tours, alumni awards, entertainment, children’s activities, and much more!

Join us at 12:00 pm to support your fellow Riverdalians as they are awarded for their accomplishments and dedication to Riverdale! Can’t make it?

Send your well wishes in a message here.

Alumni Achievement Award Tiffany Liston ’94 Ernest McAneny ’25 Alumni Spirit Award

Geoffrey Howard ’59 Reunion Class Award

Class of 1969