Congratulations to the Classes ending in 0's and 5's, who are celebrating their reunions in the 2015-2016 school year!
RIVERDALE ALUMNI
1964 Please send your news to your Class Correspondent(S) before MAY 1, 2016. 1964 John H. Jiler johnjiler@earthlink.net
1965 Gail Hart York86@aol.com Melissa Gordon melmelg48@aol.com
1966 Be a QUAD Class Correspondent*
1967 Mary Lou Scott marylou.scott@gmail.com
1968 John M. Davis johnmdavis3@gmail.com
1969 Nancy Duff-Boehm nduff611@aol.com Susan Tembeck Riccardi Plookie51@gmail.com
The Class of 1965 at the 50th Reunion dinner on September 26, 2015: Back row, from left: David Rubin, Robert Blum, Thomas Wilcox, Jim Fuld, Robert Rosenheck (in hat), Henry Allen, John McDowell, and Robert Krulwich; Middle row, from left: Jeffrey Richards, Javier Sanjines, Fred Lehrman, Jane Lisman Katz, Melissa Gordon, John Siffert, John Brendler (with cane), and Richard Aronson; Seated, from left: Maddie Bertino Graham, Sue Kaffenburgh Thimme, and Barbara Foley.
36 | QUAD WINTER 2016
Class Correspondent John Jiler’s newest play, Half Moon Bay, is about “a dark obsession. It was mentored by John Patrick Shanley and features some of New York’s best young actors. I’ve very proud of it.” The show ran from October 3-25, 2015 at the New Ohio Theatre.
1965
The Class of ’65 had a fantastic 50th reunion! The reunion planning committee of John Siffert, Gail Hart, Fred Lehrman, Calvin Hill, and Robert Flug worked hard to make it happen. First we enjoyed a barbecue lunch under a tent on the Hill Campus and were presented with the Alumni Reunion Award (see photo on page 26). Then people toured the campus, while others went to soccer and football games. Later we gathered inside for a cocktail party and dinner. John Siffert and Robert Krulwich toasted our class with thoughtful, memorable words. As a souvenir we all received a CD with our favorite songs from our high school years. Maddie Bertino Graham travelled the longest distance (California), but others came a long way, too: John McDowell and family (Indiana); Javier Sanjines and his son Frederico (Michigan); Bob Blum and his wife (Baltimore); Suekey Kaffenburgh Thimme (Cape Cod); Dick Aronson (Amherst); and John Brendler (Swathmore). The New York contingent was well
represented, too: Chris O’Sullivan; John Siffert and his wife; Melissa Gordon and her husband; Fred Lehrman and his wife; Jim Fuld and his wife; David Rubin and his girlfriend; Jane Lisman Katz; Robert Krulwich; and Jeff Richards. At the night’s end we were sad to say goodbye to each other and felt that we had re-kindled our former, high school friendships. We are all hoping to come to the 55th reunion, only about 1,825 days away. Be there or be square!
1968
From Class Correspondent John M. Davis: “On August 27, 2015, Michele, the daughter of my lifelong friend, Diane Levbarg Klein (President of Riverdale School for Girls Class of 1968) and her husband Martin, was married at The Pierre Hotel in New York to Max Rayden of London. The mother of the bride looked resplendent and glowing in Missoni (see photo below right). Luca Missoni walked Diane down the aisle. “
1969
Class Correspondent Nancy DuffBoehm has compiled the following notes from her classmates of 1969: From Peter Kazaras: “In addition to my duties at UCLA as Professor of Music and Director of Opera Studies, I’m also lucky enough to
get the chance to direct on big (and small) professional stages throughout the country. That means I can work with singers from 17 to 70. Amazing that much of the process is the same! Last year included debuts at Glimmerglass Festival, Washington National Opera, and The Dallas Opera. This season has included a world premiere of a piece about the forcible removal and incarceration of the Japanese-American population during World War II (An American Dream) at Seattle Opera, and I’ll be making my LA Opera debut next spring with La Bohème. Next summer comes a new production of Rossini’s The Thieving Magpie at Glimmerglass, which is a great place for a weekend of operatic fun, with the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown right down the street. “My husband Armin Baier has a full-time psychotherapy practice in Los Angeles, and has recently been made a faculty member of the Pacific Gestalt Institute. He has also prepared and is slated to teach an online course in Addictions Treatment for Columbia University School of Social Work next fall. We both wonder when the alleged ‘golden years’ start. Tommy, our miraculous miniature poodle, does not bother himself with such worries, but is content to live each day to the fullest. He is a good teacher. Mother of the bride Diane Levbarg Klein ’68 at her daughter’s August 2015 wedding.