Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School by wyomingseminary3

OF PENNSYLVANIA

Table of Contents 3 Student Perspective 5 Academics

TRANSFORMED. Are you ready for a change? Are you ready to be

with challenges, and become your lifelong

transformed? As a student at Sem, your life will

friends. You will also learn about yourself—your

change in the best possible ways. Your teachers

strengths, your passions, your talents—and be

will become trusted advisors, helpful mentors,

encouraged in this special place that not only

and inspirational coaches. Your fellow students

appreciates but celebrates your true self. So,

will celebrate your accomplishments, help you

are you ready? Let’s begin.

9 Athletics 11 Arts 13 Student Life 15 Boarding Experience 17 Postgraduate Studies 19 International Acclaim 21 College Guidance 23 Tuition and Aid 25 See us in Action

Seek Truth. Embrace Beauty. Model Goodness. Wyoming Seminary’s motto, Verum, Pulchrum, Bonum, translated from Latin, means The True, The Beautiful, The Good. Throughout Sem’s history, these words have touched the very core of who we are, inﬂuenced how we act, and distinguished us as an institution. We teach students that character matters, stress the importance of accepting others who look and think differently than they do, and stand up for what they believe in. At Sem, we always strive to seek truth, embrace beauty, and model goodness as citizens of the world.

1 | wyomingseminary.org/transform

CHANGING EXPERIENCE Student Perspective by Sam Immidisetti ’18 When I ﬁrst heard of Wyoming Seminary,

with them. I was always welcome in any of their rooms if I had

I didn’t realize that there was anything

a question or needed to kill time. Even as an inexperienced

extraordinary about the boarding school

freshman, I was inspired to be as encouraging and supportive to

tucked in the foothills of the Pocono

new students as upperclassmen had once been to me.

Mountains. It wasn’t until I was a freshman moving into my dorm that I understood

In my experience, Sem is a remarkable place because of the

what Sem truly was. Within the ﬁrst week I noticed one of my

opportunity for growth it presents. Sem truly allows each student

favorite things about Sem: how multifaceted the faculty are. I

to become what they want to be. When I arrived at Sem, I was

found myself surrounded by welcoming teachers, who genuinely

a timid freshman with ambitious goals. Students and faculty

wanted to hear about any challenges I had — even if it was about

alike encouraged me to try new activities and take advantage

something outside of their disciplines. As a boarding student, I

of all Sem has to offer. I was easily able to join activities I had

see teachers and faculty members acting in expanded roles—

never participated in, whether it was cross country, theater (both

trading classrooms for dormitories, teaching for chauffeuring

on and off stage), or Mock Trial. Furthermore, Sem presented

to student activities, and passing out tests to marshmallows on

numerous leadership opportunities. I was able to become part

S’mores Nights. However, even with their expanded roles, faculty

of Student Government, become a Resident Assistant, and lead

members still manage to treat students with empathy and respect.

extracurricular clubs. Academically, I was able to take courses that challenged me and were tailored to my interests.

While the faculty is outstanding, the student body is equally as remarkable. Upperclassmen, much to my surprise, were

Sem provided me with the support I needed to grow. Now I

sympathetic and wise, bestowing tips and tricks for student

can conﬁdently speak to large audiences, portray a character

survival, from rubbing the statue of Levi Sprague’s head for

on stage, present an argument, and act in leadership capacities.

good luck, to remembering the acronyms for the buildings.

No matter what my newest goal was, in my experience, the Sem

Upperclassmen in the dorms played an irreplaceable role in

community is always there to support me in my endeavors.

shaping my experience. Student leaders took the time to listen to my concerns, to encourage me to try new activities, and

Samantha (Sam) Immidisetti ’18 is a boarding student

even to coax me out of my dorm room to take me to practices

from Somerset, New Jersey.

3 | wyomingseminary.org/transform

Sem is both a day and a boarding school, with approximately two-thirds of our students living locally, and one-third from 12 states and 20 countries around the world. We’re all different, but we all ﬁt together.

A PASSION FOR LEARNING How can you ever really know where your true talents lie and what you are passionate about if you’re not given the freedom to explore? At Wyoming Seminary, students have the freedom to take courses that ignite their imaginations. Our curriculum isn’t set by government requirements; it is designed to prepare students for college. Sem offers over 160 exciting, challenging courses, and students are encouraged to expand their minds, step out of their comfort zones, and try new subjects. Taking an environmental science or astronomy elective could unleash your inner scientist. Any number of literature courses including “Modern Fantasy Fiction” or “Love Gone Wrong” could ignite the writer within. Learning Russian or Mandarin could lead to a career overseas. History

“The teacher experience at Sem is like no other. At my other school I did not have close relationships with my teachers. When I ﬁrst got here I didn’t really know anyone, and then I took forensics with Ms. Casterline. She is outgoing just like me, and we hit it off right away and now we’re besties. It was eye-opening for me to see how many classes there are available at Sem. You can take all of these cool courses like ornithology and Irish literature. It’s so great to be opened up to that kind of curriculum. I didn’t expect so many choices.” -Shelby Monk ‘17

classes such as “American Presidents” or “The Road to the

Shelby Monk ‘17 attended Wyoming Seminary

White House” could inspire a passion for politics. Sem’s

as a day student during her senior year.

exemplary, dedicated teachers will be with you every step of the way to share their knowledge and guide you along

Small class sizes are the norm here—14 being the average, with an 8:1 student : faculty

your path, and small class sizes make it possible for teachers

ratio. Your teachers get to know you well, and it makes learning more customized for you.

to get to know you really well and give help when needed. Are you ready to begin your journey?

5 | wyomingseminary.org/transform

WHO MOTIVATE AND INSPIRE At Sem, teachers don’t just teach. They serve as your personal advisor, coach, club director and trip chaperone, give you extra help when you need it, and become trusted mentors. Many faculty members and their families live in the dorms or on campus, and they become part of your family too. These passionate professionals have chosen to be at Sem for the same reason families do: for the small class sizes, curricular freedom, and vibrant studentteacher relationships. Classes are challenging, but all faculty members have conferencing periods every day for those who need extra support. This unique high school environment

“Everyone who’s a teacher here wants to teach. It’s not just their job, it’s what they love to do. In my last school, I just wasn’t motivated and it was such a drag. At Sem, I can’t wait to get to school every day, and I absolutely love it. My teachers have been great to connect with because they’re open, they have time for you, and they’re just really nice people. The classes are rigorous but exciting, and there is homework but it’s not just pointless busywork. It’s deep and thought provoking, and it really helps you understand and process what you’ve learned in class. I really feel like I’m doing college-level work, and I am conﬁdent because I will be so well prepared for next year.” -Stanley Zaneski ‘17 Stanley Zaneski ‘17 earned four gold medals in the district competition last year as a member of the Wyoming Seminary swim team.

fosters independence and ultimately prepares

Sem has over 160 courses to choose from, and offers 22 Advanced Placement

students for the relationships they will have with

classes which transfer over to college credit, saving thousands in college tuition.

professors in college.

7 | wyomingseminary.org/transform

THE

Athletic Offerings

OF A

CHAMPION Whether you’re a seasoned athlete or a weekend warrior, Sem has the sport for you. Yes, our teams have won national and state championships, but the real achievement is the teamwork, camaraderie, and trust that is built within each sport, season after season. Important lessons are learned in the classroom and carried through to the stadium ﬁelds as well: collaboration, loyalty, honor, support, integrity, grace, and win or lose, a collective celebration of everyone’s efforts. Dedicated coaches are the key to making these important lessons have an impact, and they are reinforced when student-athletes are able to interact with their coaches in class, in the dining

“Coming in as a freshman, I wasn’t sure I would play ﬁeld hockey, but now I can’t imagine life without it. It’s given me so many opportunities and made it possible for me to play in college. And it’s the same with lacrosse. I’ve made so many friends and honestly I will have them in my life forever. Playing sports at Sem, I’ve learned time management and life skills, and my coaches have been incredible. Mr. Granger, who is my lacrosse coach and teacher, has been so outstanding that I wish I could bring him with me to college next year. He’s just so funny and he’s so nice and awesome. Playing sports at Sem has not only helped me become a better athlete, but has formed me into the person I am today.” -Abby Straub ‘17

Baseball Basketball Boys Wrestling Crew Cross Country Field Hockey Football Girls Wrestling Golf Ice Hockey Lacrosse Soccer

hall, and on campus throughout the day. Abigail (Abby) Straub ‘17 played both ﬁeld hockey

Softball

and lacrosse at Sem. She plans to study business at Twenty-seven percent of the members of the Class of 2017 will play NCAA sports in college. The national average is one percent.

9 | wyomingseminary.org/transform

Franklin and Marshall College.

Swimming Tennis

Selected Arts Course Highlights

SHARE YOUR

If you are an artist, or aspire to be, Wyoming Seminary is the place to study your craft and present it on the stage, in an ensemble, on the dance ﬂoor, or in a gallery. Sem’s creative arts program is broad and deep, with seasoned, dedicated faculty in place to nurture, teach, and focus your talents to bring you to the next level. Sem is also home to the beautiful Kirby Center for the Creative Arts that opened in 2014. This stunning facility houses the arts at Sem, and provides professional-level practice rooms, classrooms, a dance studio, as well as a gorgeous 600-seat theater with technology, lighting and acoustics that rival most college

“One of the big things for me in coming to Sem was the privilege to attend a school with such a highly-developed arts program. My previous school didn’t have anything like it and lacked musical opportunities. At Sem, I was able to sing in a choir for the ﬁrst time as part of the Madrigal Singers, and I also really appreciated that there was a string ensemble and an orchestra. The dedicated music faculty who are professionals and are here for the sake of the arts was such an amazing benefit. I really do think that one of Sem’s strong points that it has above all other schools is that it has such an amazing arts program and that it supports its artists. The class sizes are so small as well, and you can work closely with your music teacher. It’s the most positive experience I’ve had in school by far.” -Eric Jang ‘17

Drawing and Design Printmaking Two-Dimensional Design Digital Photography Painting Digital Filmmaking Three-Dimensional Design Ceramics AP Studio: Drawing or Design The Dramatic Experience AP Art and Music History Dance Technique Music Theory (AP offered)

campuses. With the help of our faculty and college guidance staff, our students have

Jinho (Eric) Jang ‘17, was awarded the National School

matriculated to the most prestigious universities

Orchestra Award in 2017 and was recognized with a

for the arts in the country, and you can too!

National Merit Scholarship letter of commendation.

Chorale Music Composition Instrumental Music Masterpieces of Music

11 | wyomingseminary.org/transform

Clubs

AND ACTIVITIES Student Perspective by Abbey Capin ’18 At Wyoming Seminary, student life is truly vibrant. There is a diverse selection of weekly activities available such as club meetings, performing arts events, athletic games, and engaging lectures, all bringing our students together to campus on evenings and weekends. Because of the broad selection of activities, there is sure to be something appealing to every individual student. However, even if by some chance there is not, everyone has the unique opportunity to create their own group, a great example being the legendary hacky sack club! At the beginning of the school year, an activities fair is held during which all club leaders create booths and promote their organization. As a freshman, I remember strolling through the maze of tables, stopping at countless booths and signing up for nearly everything. The process of participating in as many activities as possible was priceless because it allowed me to learn new things about both the world and myself, gave me the opportunity to meet new people, and ultimately helped shape who I am. Abigail “Abbey” Capin ’18 is Editor-in-Chief of the school yearbook, plays on the tennis team, and is a member of Blue Key (Alumni and Development ambassador), Library Advisory Board, Mock Trial, Peer Group, and STEM Advisory Board.

13 | wyomingseminary.org/transform

Activities Committee Artisan Club Baking Club Blue Key Chess Club Civic Orchestra Community Service Dance Drama/Musical/Workshops Engineering Club Environmental Club Film Club French Club Hacky Sack Club Handbells International Club IT Club Jazz Band Library Advisory Board Madrigal Singers Mandarin Club Math Club Media Club Medical Club Mock Trial Model UN Opinator (school newspaper) Peer Group Photography Club Robotics Club Science Olympiad Science Research Group Stage Crew STEM Advisory Board Student Government TEDed The Wyoming Yearbook True Blue (school spirit) Writing Center Tutors

Activities at Sem kick off with the New Student Retreat, seen here. Throughout the year, choose from events like Casino Night to sharpen your math skills, ski trips, a school-wide 5K and more!

A WELCOMING

Life as a boarding student at Wyoming Seminary is an experience like no other. Over 150 students from more than 12 different states and more than 20 countries from around the world call Sem home. Students live together, work together, compete together, and, most importantly, learn together. Dorm living is fun. You’ll become friends with both students and dorm parents, and the best part is that there’s always someone to hang out with, play video games, watch a movie or study with. After school, students meet with clubs, participate in sports, or conference with teachers. Dinner is either casual or family-style, when students share a meal with different students and faculty members. The delicious meals accommodate every preference, and there are many themed events throughout the year which include specialty foods. In the evening, there are study hours, and also down time that can be spent with friends, on walks to local restaurants and stores, and activities which are planned for all students every weekend.

“At first it was very overwhelming coming to Sem from Argentina. I worried, will I fit in? Will I have friends and people I can trust? Will I like it? And of course those questions were answered before the first week was over. It’s so easy to make friends here—even though we’re all from different countries, we are more similar than different. There is no hierarchy here; everyone is unique and special. You just have different groups that all mix together and I think that’s awesome.” -Juan Astegiano ‘17 Juan Astegiano ‘17 was a member of the football team, International Club, Peer Group, Engineering Club, Mock Trial, and the tennis team.

This diverse community will become your home away

Our dining hall provides nutritious fare that incorporates fresh and locally-sourced ingredients into the

from home, help you become independent, teach

daily menus. A variety of food stations prepare internationally-inspired meals.

you life skills, and prepare you for college.

15 | wyomingseminary.org/transform

THE EXPERIENCE Are you a senior who wants a stronger academic foundation in a targeted subject area before moving on to the college of your choice? A postgraduate (PG) year could be perfect for you! Wyoming Seminary has a long history of educating and preparing PGs for the world beyond the borders of our campus. Taking a postgraduate year helps one-year students learn about goal setting, study habits, timelines, college applications, standardized testing, résumé building, and interviewing skills, ultimately helping PGs to gain acceptance to the college of their choice. Even though PGs usually attend Sem for one year, their positive impact is felt by the entire school communit y. With the experience they bring with them, they are poised to further develop independence, maturity, and leadership skills that beneﬁ t them as they move to the next stage of their education.

17 | wyomingseminary.org/transform

“Coming to Sem was a great experience. I made friends with a lot of different groups, not just athletes, and the diversity made it possible to learn new things about different cultures. The academics are rigorous at Sem, but there are plenty of teachers and other students to help you. What I learned the most is how to study. I studied only occasionally at my old school, but at Sem I learned how to manage my time and what to prepare to study for certain tests, and there is mandatory study time in the dorm which really helped. The teachers are great also. If I had a game and couldn’t conference, teachers would help me over email or meet at a time that ﬁt my schedule. I’m really prepared to go to Lafayette next year. ” -Otis Thrasher ‘17 Otis Thrasher ‘17 played as a defensive back on Sem’s football team. He plans to study neuroscience at Layfayette College.

A MICROCOSM OF THE

It’s hard to believe that in this bucolic town of Kingston in northeastern Pennsylvania, Wyoming Seminary’s campus is home for students from 20 countries around the world, allowing them to live together, grow together, learn together, and most importantly, learn from each other. In this richly diverse community, students can discover and embrace both the similarities and differences across cultures, resulting in meaningful understanding, tolerance and respect that they will bring with them to college and beyond. In addition, we are excited to announce that Wyoming Seminary was selected to be a Round Square member school this year, and we are one of only about a dozen schools in the United States that have this distinction. Round Square gives our students access to a vast network of schools across the globe that will enable student exchanges, service learning projects and

“There are no words to describe my Sem experience, but ‘incredible’ is the closest. I didn’t know anything about other cultures, but the Sem community and the friends I made from all over the world made me feel so comfortable and welcomed. I can’t believe how open-minded I became. Coming from Somaliland in Africa, there were things I didn’t know and I assumed things that were not true. It’s easy to judge people if you don’t know them. My time at Wyoming Seminary helped me to learn so much and understand, and I plan to take that knowledge back to my home and and share what I now know to be true about the world.” -Ali Ali ‘17 Ali Ali ‘17 is from Somaliland, Africa and was a member of both the International Club and the soccer team.

international conferences that will focus on ﬁve ideals: internationalism, democracy, environment, adventure, leadership and service.

19 | wyomingseminary.org/transform

YOUR PERFECT We help you to find the college or university that fits you best As a college preparatory school, one of our

and careers, develop testing strategies, and

primary goals is to educate and equip students

manage their application process. Parents play

with the skills to be successful in their college

an integral part, supporting their students and

of choice, whether they aspire to be an athlete,

communicating closely with the guidance team.

scientist, musician or entrepreneur. Because no two college process paths are the same,

Sem’s college counselors have vast knowledge

our knowledgeable, dedicated team of college

and close working relationships with colleges

counseling professionals are there to guide

all over the world. Nearly one hundred college

you through every step of what can be a

representatives visit Sem every year, and

complicated, but rewarding, process.

our counselors spend summers and breaks visiting and learning more about colleges

At Sem, college counseling begins early—in

and universities. This knowledge, paired with

the sophomore year—for every student. Each

a student’s academic accomplishments and

student is assigned a dedicated counselor, who

special talents, helps our counselors ﬁnd the

will help deﬁne future goals, research colleges

perfect college ﬁt for every Sem graduate.

21 | wyomingseminary.org/transform

How to Apply

WYOMING SEMINARY Perhaps you’re thinking that all of the information you’ve read here about Wyoming Seminary is wonderful, but may be out of your reach ﬁ nancially. The truth is that 75 percent of Sem students receive some form of need-based or merit funding, and there are many different criteria that are considered. Every family — and

You can complete your admission application by following the ﬁ ve steps below.

• Step One: Submit application online • Step Two: Submit a transcript or recent report card • Step Three: Submit teacher recommendations • Step Four: Visit and interview • Step Five: Submit standardized test scores Visit wyomingseminary.org/howtoapply for details.

every situation—is different. To ﬁ nd out how to make Wyoming Seminary part of your family’s life, call our Financial Aid Director, Joseph Rovelli, at

Applying for Financial Aid

(570) 270-2157.

You can apply for ﬁ nancial aid by following the two steps below.

2020-21 Upper School tuition

• Step One: Complete an online ﬁnancial statement with School and Student Services (SSS) • Step Two: Upload tax documents to SSS

Day student tuition: $27,600 Boarding student tuition/room and board: $58,100

For more details, visit wyomingseminary.org/tuition and click on the “How to Apply for Financial Aid” section.

23 | wyomingseminary.org/transform

OUR CAMPUS! To really get a true sense of what Wyoming Seminary is like, it’s best to spend the day with us. Sem’s admission team has set up dedicated Visitation Days throughout the year so that students can get a sense of what a school day is like, meet our friendly students and spend time with awesome faculty. Visitation Days include touring campus, visiting classes, eating lunch in the dining hall, and attending information sessions about curriculum, as well as college guidance. If one of the dates at right is not convenient, you can schedule a private visit instead! Don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have, or to schedule your visit. Phone: (570) 270-2160 Email: admission@wyomingseminary.org We can’t wait to see you at Sem!

Our location in Kingston, Pennsylvania provides the best of both worlds. We are nestled in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains which is close to great outdoor areas known for skiing, water sports, hiking and more. At the same time, we are within just a few hours of New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and New England.

25 | wyomingseminary.org/transform

201 North Sprague Avenue Kingston, PA 18704-3593 Address service requested

Non-Proﬁt Organization U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 29 Wilkes-Barre, PA

Be transformed! Visit wyomingseminary.org/transform to learn more.

FALL 2019

A WINNING

CREW

Sem's rowing team proving itself amongst competition

INSIDE4 REPORT OF GIFTS | ALUMNI WEEKEND | LOWER SCHOOL TEACHER HONORED WITH AWARD

Letter from the Editor

The first day of school is always an exciting morning for the Communications team as we capture photos of kids arriving on campus, looking their best, and happy to see their classmates. This year I watched the morning unfold through a different lens – as the mother of a freshman. So, perhaps I was more aware of the true nervousness these students were feeling, because I was feeling it, too. They gathered on Sprague Avenue before heading off to start a new year and they were happy to stop for pictures. But it was more than just the happiness I noticed on this particular day. Students greeted each other with genuine excitement. A group of girls took a selfie and saw a friend who was just arriving, then took another to include her.

Character is what we do when we think no one is looking - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. American Author

Later in the morning as I walked from my building I saw JARED WEISENBERGER ’20 approach a freshman, put his arm around him and ask how his day was going. He had no idea I was there as I watched him reach out to this boy.

It was sincere. It was kind. It was Sem. A real display of The True, The Beautiful, The Good! As an employee, it made me so proud. As a mom, it made my heart swell. A few days later Lower School cross country runner, JACK HESILER ’25, was in a meet and wasn’t running at full strength. From a distance he could be seen talking with another runner who was going at the same pace. As they got closer, it was evident that Jack was encouraging the other runner, who was struggling to get to the finish. The boy was from another school. It was sincere. It was kind. It was Sem! Flip through the pages of this Journal and you will see samples of the everyday kindness of our students from the annual SemDM, which raised a record $34,018.65 for the Children's Miracle Network and the Janet Weis Children's Hospital to Sem’s Round Square representatives painting homes and engaging with children in Peru. Sem will be celebrating our third annual Dude Be Nice week, Jan. 6-10. The week serves as a reminder of the simple concept of being nice to others. For a week we will see the kindness through posters and T-shirts and different daily activities. For the rest of the year, let’s live like no one is looking. Go Blue Knights!

Jill Snowdon Wyoming Seminary Director of Communications Journal Editor-in-Chief jsnowdon@wyomingseminary.org (570) 270-2195 2

Board of Trustees 2019-20

LEADERSHIP Chair: William E. Sordoni ’93 Vice Chair: John Dowd Treasurer: Anthony L. Berger ‘73 Secretary: Marjorie Henry Marquart ’78 TRUSTEES Lisa Baker Amy Valli Bennett ‘94 Frederick "Fritz" Bittenbender '89 Matthew Bruno ‘94 Charles J. Bufalino, III ‘78 Leslie Turrell Bullock ’63 Frank C. Carlucci, IV ’81 Jody Cordaro Dorothy Darling ‘68 Robert C. Friedman ‘73 Bruce E. Gover ‘98 Gerald Gunster ‘85 David Hourigan ‘71 Richard M. Hughes III ’79 Stephen B. Killian ’66 Joseph E. Kluger ‘82 Mary Lopatto ‘72 Jeffrey Metz ‘88 Scott Meuser Charles Parkhurst ’79 Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski ‘75 Stephen J. Rosenthal ‘93 Robert Tamburro ’91 Lewis Thayne ‘67 Nicole Santo Yochum ‘03

In this issue... 2 3 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 26 32 47

Please send correspondence to: Jill Snowdon jsnowdon@wyomingseminary.org (570) 270-2195

Letter from President Rea

News and Notes

Jill Snowdon Wyoming Seminary 201 North Sprague Avenue Kingston, PA 18704

Sports Roundup Scene & Heard Upper School Commencement

Editor-in-Chief Jill Snowdon

Lower School Graduation

Editorial Staff Liz Hibbard ’69 John Shafer ‘71 Gail Smallwood

Rowing Team Making Waves Bringing History to Life Day/Lower School Reunion

Graphic Design Shannon Zimmerman

Alumni Gatherings Alumni Weekend

Printing Llewellyn & McKane, Inc.

Class Notes

Photography Josiah Lewis Photography Frank Lauri Wyoming Seminary Staff

Report of Gifts

Connect with Us Facebook.com/wyomingseminary Twitter.com/wyomingseminary Instagram.com/wyomingseminary Snapchat username: wyomingseminary

TRUSTEES EX-OFFICIO Mary Louise Decker-Fenster Tara Mugford Wilson '88 Kevin Rea TRUSTEES EMERITI Richard Goldberg ‘55 Rev. Charles F. Gommer Leonard Insalaco Sue Kline Kluger ’55 Arthur W. Sherwood ’56 Robert H. Smith ’56

Wyoming Seminary Journal Fall 2019 The Journal is regularly published by Wyoming Seminary and is mailed free of charge to its alumni, parents and friends. We welcome story ideas and encourage letters to the editor.

On the Cover After winning Sem's first-ever rowing medal, KATIE RITSICK ’21, left, and MIA MAGNOTTA ’21 celebrate with coach Jared Lippman.

LIFE TRUSTEES Barbara Fassett Oski Beane ’53 Harold C. Buckingham, Jr. ’48 Rev. Wesley R. Crompton ’43 Harry F. Lee ’53 John F. Magagna ’52

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

NEWS AND NOTES

Celebrating Sem's unity

Who won the Black Diamond Trophy? A little rain did not dampen the spirits or the competitiveness between Sem’s societies during the Upper School’s annual Society Day, held on the last day of school before finals. The Alexandrians, Athenians, Florentines and Oxonians all competed fiercely for this year’s Black Diamond Trophy with the Florentines emerging as the big winner. From Jeopardy! and Name That Tune, to tricycle races, egg drops, baking competition, Sem’s Fittest Person and many more, it was a colorful day full of fun and friendship.

By Kevin Rea One of the distinct pleasures which accompanies my role is the privilege of seeing our students in action in an array of activities. Take a recent Saturday, for example. I drove my two Lower School children an hour south to watch our talented girls’ field hockey team, Coach Klassner and the entire coaching staff emerge victorious in a nail-biting double overtime win to claim back-to-back state field hockey championships. Immediately following that we drove an hour back up the turnpike to enjoy our Lower School thespians act in a beautifully directed production by Katie Callahan of Aesop’s Fables. It was a terrific afternoon. Happily, both of these events culminated in celebrations. These gatherings drew all participants (student athletes and managers, student actors and crew as well as directors and coaches, parents, faculty, family and friends) together and demonstrated that our Sem community is in terrific form. There are many headlines which have the potential to persuade even the most unfailingly optimistic among us that the world is an unfriendly, threatening place at times. Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has noted that we are caught in the midst of a global loneliness epidemic affecting all generations. Stories abound of the ironies of our addictions to “being connected” on social media. Since August I have travelled around the world to South Korea, Vietnam, India, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Dallas, Wilkes-Barre and Boston to spend time with members of our Sem family. This experience has brought me home to the simple yet profound truth that the Sem community is strong. We buck the trend of isolation. What binds us together is the dream that the world’s essential truth, beauty and goodness live within, amongst and between us. Let me assure you that wherever you go, if there is a group of Sem family and friends assembled at your destination you will, like me, rejoice and give thanks for our enduring bonds. Please accept my best wishes for a joyous holiday season. Go Blue Knights!

Help Sack Hunger The Class of 2022 student government teamed with Sack Hunger to raise money and provide food for the Weinberg Northeast Regional Food Bank in April. The group sponsored a dress down day for students, faculty, and staff, which raised $480 and a collection of food. They used half of the proceeds to purchase more groceries to be delivered to the food bank. Shown kneeling from left are EMILY AIKENS ’22, CASSIDY RHODES-ANISKA ’22 and MARGARET MICHALICK ’22. Standing are NANSEN WANG ’22, ANDREW MORGAN ’22, VAUGHN KUTISH ’22, and Rachel Bartron, Class of 2022 Dean.

Let me assure you that wherever you

go, if there is a group of Sem family and

friends assembled at your destination you will, like me, rejoice and give thanks for our enduring bonds.

Members of the science faculty were guest presenters at the 67th annual Conference of the American Associate of Physics Teachers, held March 29-30 at Wilkes University. Dr. Andrea Nerozzi, Associate Director of the Maslow STEM School and Science Research Group Coordinator, was an invited speaker and she spoke on the role of co-curricular programs in authentic science instruction. Rachel Garcia, Science Department Chair, and Nicole Lewis, Science faculty, were poster presenters for their work in STEM Foundations. Shown from left are Lewis, Nerozzi, and Garcia.

NEWS AND NOTES

A Field Day for Blue Knights!

SemDM breaks record again!

Summer officially began at the Lower School on May 23 with the annual Field Day; this year the Blue Knights took special note of Sem’s 175th Anniversary. Students, faculty, staff, and families gathered one last time for the school year and celebrated with a cookout, bounce houses, face painting and the traditional Blue/White races and relays.

Helping to bring hope and health to hospitalized children…that is the goal of the annual Sem Dance Marathon, or SemDM. This year’s event brought more than 200 students, faculty and staff together to

A visit to Jordan Seventeen Sem students were lucky enough to spend part of their 2019 spring break touring the country of Jordan, sometimes called the Hashemite Kingdom. English faculty member JAMIE MAGAGNA ’06, who taught for several years at King’s Academy in Madaba-Manja, Jordan, led the students to several ancient locations such as Petra, Wadi Rum and Mount Nebo, as well as the Roman Amphitheater and Pillars of Hercules in Amman. The group even spent a night in a Bedouin camp in the desert. This was the first Sem student trip to Jordan. Seen enjoying her encounter with a camel in Petra is KYLIE SEYLER ’19.

Allison Ross, left, mother of ELIANA ROSS '28, center, and ALEX ROSS '25, looks at the book her son wrote as grandfather Chris Perry looks on.

Preserving memories Preserving and sharing that treasured story of a family member was the goal of the eighth annual Sixth-Grade Sem Story Tellers project, organized by sixth-grade literacy teacher Liz O’Malley. She guides her students as they interview a relative, write and edit a story about that person’s life, collect images and create a colorful book. Once the books are printed, each student’s family is invited to an endof-school-year special gathering in the Lower School’s Sordoni Library to enjoy the books. 4

Mother’s Day teas a spring highlight at Lower School

3-D media lab opens in Nesbitt Sem students interested in 3-D design and animation now have a creative space to call their own on campus. Tucked into the art department on the first floor of Nesbitt Hall is an 88-square-foot 3-D media lab that contains three computers, a 3-D printer and a think tank, where students can sketch and develop ideas for their projects. Colleen Ayers, the Doris L. Patrick Chair in fine and performing arts, worked with students in the 3-D Club and Scribble Club to develop the space. Ayers, who also serves as director of the 3-D media lab, is teaching a 3-D design course during the winter term, leading students in turning clay sculptures into animation. Ayers, who thanks the Upper School Parents Association for helping to purchase some lab equipment, is looking forward to seeing the students express their creativity in new ways. “This is a special and exciting place on campus where we can inspire each other,” she says. FELIX HAMMOND ’20, at left, works on a fob cover project while YUSEN WANG ’22 observes.

One of the sweetest May events at Lower School is the annual Mother’s Day Teas, presented by the students in prekindergarten, first and third grades as a tribute to their mothers. Everyone gets dressed up to share tea and punch and nibble on cookies as the children share poems, reports and school projects with their mothers. Held during the week before Mother’s Day, the teas are a touching way for students to tell their moms how much they love them!

dance and play for six hours, all while raising more than $34,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network and the Janet Weis Children’s Hospital in Danville. The event includes participation by some children

who have been treated in Danville; they and their families tell their stories and enjoy the dancing and games. This event in March surpassed last year’s $32,000 collection.

STEM Nights bring out the scientists and engineers Science IS fun, and both Lower and Upper School students showed off how much fun it can be during the annual spring STEM nights on both campuses. The Lower School event featured many interactive exhibits, allowing students in both primary and middle-school grades to step into the role of teacher and demonstrate scientific principles behind sound, motion, robotics, biology, chemistry and even in bingo! At the Upper School, the Engineering Club displayed a new bicycle rack they built, which is scheduled to be placed in front of the Pettebone Dickson Student Center this fall. Club members hope to build and place more racks on campus to encourage the community to ride bicycles. The award-winning Science Research Groups and Science Olympiad teams on both campuses also impressed parents and faculty with the quality of their presentations.

NEWS AND NOTES

Students named to music festivals Science teams earn awards at conferences

College Decision Day The Class of 2019 celebrated the official announcement of their future academic plans on College Decision Day, May 1. Class members received acceptances at 360 different colleges and universities in the United States and abroad, and have matriculated to 92 schools this fall. Twenty-five percent of the class is participating in college sports programs. The day was filled with pride and excitement as students showcased their future schools with spirit apparel.

Upper School Science Research Group members DOMINICA DELAYO ’22, JULIA ISKRA ’19, AAREZ KHAN ’22 and KEEFER WU ’21 participated in the 2019 State Junior Academy of Science competition in May. Delayo (biochemistry) and Wu (physics) both received First Awards, while Iskra (ecology) and Khan (engineering) received Second Awards. These students all received First Awards and other honors at the Regional Junior Academy of Science competition, where ALVIN TUO ’22 earned a Second Award in engineering. In addition, six students attended the Pa. Junior Science and Humanities Symposium at Juniata College in March; ROUNAK LELE ’20 received First Place for his engineering project and YIQING CAO ’21 received Second Place in the same category. As a finalist, Lele finished in Fourth Place overall and was invited to present his project at the national meeting of the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium in New Mexico in April.

The Sem Mock Trial team concluded a successful mock trial competition season at the 36th Annual Pennsylvania Bar Association Statewide High School Mock Trial Competition in April. Representing Region 5 in state competition, the Blue Knights went undefeated in the tournament, placing third overall. This was the eighth time in 12 years that the Sem Blue Knights had advanced to the state level. The competition featured the top 14 6

Mock Trial teams in the Commonwealth. Four members of the Sem team were honored with special awards. MORGAN PRICE ’19 and SOPHIA KRUGER ’22

Wyoming Seminary inducted 13 graduating students into the Cum Laude Society, the national academic honor society for college preparatory schools, during the school’s 175th Commencement ceremonies. Membership in Cum Laude is extended to the top 20 percent of students in the senior class. Seen following Commencement exercises are, seated from left: GABRIEL JODOIN, JESSICA KILYANEK, ISIDRA REITSMA, AMANDA WALKER, YUN-CHUN LU. Standing, from left: PEARL MILLER, YIJIA LIU, NIKKO SIMONS, BINGNAN WANG, BENJAMIN PAGLIA, AN DUC NGUYEN, MOLLY LEAHY, JIARUI TANG.

For the first time in the history of the Upper School Science Olympiad program, the team earned a sixth-place award at the Regional Science Olympiad Tournament at Kutztown University in late winter, advancing the team to the State Science Olympiad Tournament at Juniata College in April. LIXIANG YIN ’20 and TIANWEI LI ’20 earned second place honors in the tournament’s Circuit Lab contest. The Lower School Science Olympiad team also did very well in regional competition in March, earning a seventh-place award and earning medals in seven events. Medal winners included ROBERT BELETSKY ’23, CAMILLA CAPORALE ’23, CHARLES COX ’23, ZACHARY KILE ’23, and HAMZA WASEEM ’23.

Mock Trial team wins honors at state tournament

Spring Cum Laude recipients announced

Seven Sem students were named to District 9 and Region 5 music festivals during the 2018-19 festival season. The festivals are organized by the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association and honor students for excellence in voice and instrumental music. Seen at the conclusion of the festival season are, seated from left: YIFEI LIU ’21, AISHANI CHAUHAN ’20 and YIJIA LIU ’19, all named to District 9 Chorus Festival. Standing, from left: JARED BOZINKO ’20, District 9 Chorus Festival, District 9 Orchestra and Band Festivals and Region 5 Band Festival; EDWARD JANG ’20, District 9 Chorus Festival, District 9 Orchestra Festival; and RODRIKO SALAS-WARNER ’19, District 9 Orchestra Festival. Not present for photo: CHRISTINA KASPAR ’21, District 9 Chorus Festival.

received Best Witness Awards, while team captain JILLAYNE GUMBS ’20 and EMILY AIKENS ’22 received Best Advocate Awards, in recognition of their outstanding individual performances in the tournament. Seen at the conclusion of the competition are seated in front: Jonathan D. Koltash, co-coordinator of the Young Lawyers Division Statewide Mock Trial Competition. Standing, from left: MYA DOBROWOLSKI ’21, BELLA TANG ’19, SHAILEE DESAI ’21, Jillayne Gumbs, AALIYEH SAYED ’21, Sophia Kruger, Emily Aikens and Morgan Price.

Distinguished Service Awards honor outstanding alumnus, business manager Wyoming Seminary presented its annual Joseph C. Donchess Distinguished Service Award in May to the late John T. Morris of Dallas and Ambassador (Ret.) JOSEPH M. TORSELLA ’81, Pennsylvania State Treasurer, Flourtown. The Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Board of Trustees and expresses appreciation for the life and example, sacrifices and devotion of those who are honored. Morris served as Sem’s business manager for 43 years and as special projects manager for seven years, before his passing in December 2017. Torsella was elected the 77th treasurer of Pennsylvania in November, 2016 and oversees an office of 360 employees which protects more than $100 billion in state assets. Seen prior to the award presentation are, seated from left: Ambassador (Ret.) Joseph M. Torsella, award recipient; and JOHN MORRIS, JR. ’83, Gail Morris and SCOTT MORRIS ’89, family members accepting the award on behalf of the late John T. Morris. Standing, from left: Kevin P. Rea, Sem president and award presenter; and John Dowd, vice chair of the Sem Board of Trustees.

Round Square group visits Peru LAUREN TOUEY ’21, ABYGAIL PRICE ’21, HEATHER PAGLIA ’21 and BRIDGET DOWD ’22 traveled to Lima, Peru for the April Round Square Conference in Lima, Peru. The students took part in a community service project in Chincha, building houses for families who had lost their homes in an earthquake. The students also attended leadership conferences and visited Machu Picchu and other major locations in Peru. 7

WINTER & SPRING Girls Wrestling 12-1 DUAL RECORD, 31 INTERNATIONAL MEDALS

GIRLS WRESTLING

The Blue Knights finished as team champions in the Finger Lakes Wrestling Classic Duals against 15 teams, won the Sem World Duals against five visiting international teams, and beat the USA All-Star Team at the NCAA Division 1 Fan Fest. The team capped the season with 31 international medals, including five gold medals for KENNEDY BLADES ’22.

Boys Wrestling

19-1, NO. 2 IN NATION Sem crowned three National Prep champions, including BEAU BARTLETT ’20, CONNOR KIEVMAN ’20, and AUSTIN COOLEY ’19 for the Blue Knights, who finished second in the country at the National Prep Championships.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Sem concluded with a 19-1 record and earned its 13th straight Pennsylvania Independent Schools Wrestling Championship with 11 wrestlers winning state titles, including Bartlett, Kievman, Cooley, TROY SPRATLEY ’22, DREW MUNCH ’20, BENNY BAKER ’19, JAKE STEFANOWICZ ’19, COLE REES ’20, DARRIEN ROBERTS ’19, AUSTIN COOLEY ’19, JAKE KAMINSKI ’21, and MIKE LEYLAND ’21.

Boys Basketball

26-3, CONFERENCE AND DISTRICT 2 CHAMPIONS The Blue Knights defended their District 2 Class AAA championship, was first in the WVC Division 3 standings and won the first-ever WVC overall title en route to a 26-3 finish.

GIRLS SWIMMING

DIMITRI GNALL ’19 was named second team AllState, and league MVP, while JEREMY CALLAHAN ’20 was a first-team league all-star

SPORTS REVIEW

and Coach Peter Moses, was named Coach of the Year by his peers. Gnall also scored the 1,000th point of his career in a win over Holy Redeemer.

record and saw Wang and NATHAN TINDELL ’19 earn all-star recognition. BERNIE FRANTZ ’19 was named and Academic All-American.

Girls Basketball

Ice Hockey

Sem showed a major improvement in 2019 as it won the WVC Division 3 championship with an 11-5 record before concluding its season with a loss to Dunmore in the District 2 playoffs.

In 2018 Sem posted the most wins since the 2008-2009 season with a 15-11 overall record and finished second in the Howard Invitational Tournament. ARMAND CHARLAND ’19 was a second-team Mid-Atlantic Hockey League goaltender for the second straight year. Co-captain GABRIEL JODOIN ’19 was the team’s leading scorer, while DALTON KARL ’19 was voted MVP by his teammates and co-captain VINCENT MAURICE ’19 received the Coaches Award.

15-10, CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS

ALEX WESNESKI ’20 and ALLY VEZENDY ’20 were repeat all-star selections, while Coach Abbey Rodway earned Coach of the Year status.

Girls Swimming 12-0, CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS

The Blue Knights posted their third straight undefeated (12-0) season and conference championship, while finishing third in District 2 and sixth overall at the state meet. It was the highest state finish for a Sem swim team. SKYLAR ROERIG ’21 was named Swimmer of the Year, and joined KYLEE KOLBICKA ’20, MADISON FEDERICI ’19, AVIAH DAHLGREN ’21, NOAM WASIK ’21, and PAIGE JACKETT ’19 on the All-State team. Jacket was also an Academic All-American selection.

Boys Swimming 8-3

The 2019 season was highlighted by the 200 free relay team of NANSEN WANG ’22, THOMAS RYDZEWSKI ’21, RODRIKO SALAS-WARNER ’19, and BOBBY DE LUNA ’19 earning an 18th place finish at the PIAA Class AA meet. The Blue Knights finished the season with an 8-3 league

PREP – 15-11-0 VARSITY – 6-7-1

The Varsity B Team concluded the year with a 6-7-1 record and a first-round playoff loss.

Girls Lacrosse

17-4, CONFERENCE AND DISTRICT 2 CHAMPIONS First-team all-stars CHRISTINA KILYANEK ’19, PAIGE PARSONS ’20, EMILY MATTHEWS ’19, and MIA RAINERI ’19, were the catalyst in helping Sem capture its ninth straight District 2 title. The Blue Knights also won the Wyoming Valley Conference championship and finished with a 17-4 record. ANNEMAAIKE REITSMA ’20 and GRACE PARSONS ’21 earned second-team all-star status.

Boys Tennis

13-0, CONFERENCE AND DISTRICT 2 CHAMPIONS Conference all-stars WILL ZIEGLER ’20 and JERRY TANG ’20 led the Blue Knights to another District 2 team title as well as the WVC championship. Sem concluded its season at the PIAA quarterfinals in Hershey.

Boys Lacrosse 12-7

The Blue Knights finished with a respectable 12-7 record in conference play. RYAN ANDERSON '19 finished his career with more than 200 career points, while CHRIS BURG '19 posted 350 career saves in goal and BOBBY DE LUNA '19 closed out his career with more than 250 ground balls. Anderson and ANDREW LEHMAN '20 were first-time all conference. Burg and de Luna were second-team selections and LOGAN FINN '19 was honorable mention.

GIRLS LACROSSE

Baseball

16-8, DISTRICT 2 RUNNER-UP For the first time in school history, Sem's baseball team earned a berth in the state playoffs. The Blue Knights finished the year with a 15-6 record, including a silver medal in the District 2 Class AAA playoffs. Pitcher AIDEN MURPHY '21 recorded a no-hitter on April 29 and his efforts on the mound earned him first-team all star recognition. TODD PHILLIPS '20 also picked up first-team all star status.

BASEBALL

Softball

18-4, CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS, DISTRICT 2 RUNNER-UP Led by the solid pitching of DELANEY ROMANCHICK '20, Sem won the Division 3 conference title and closed out the year with a 17-4 record. Romanchick recorded more the 300 strikeouts on the season. She and Hanover Area's Sarah Tuzinski made local softball history as both recorded a no-hitter in the same game in Sem's 1-0 win on May 9. Romanchick, AUBREY MYTYCH '19, and TIANA WREN '19 were named conference all stars.

BOYS TENNIS

Sem Players present Lewis Carroll stories

THE ARTS AT SEM

SCENE &HEARD

Artistic treasures on display in KCCA For 29 years, second-grade students at Lower School have been inspired by works of great artists across the centuries, and each year they display their talents in the annual “Children’s Impressions” exhibit, held in the Flack Art Gallery of the Kirby Center for Creative Arts. Led by second-grade faculty Vicki Austin and Heidi Schukraft and advised by Lower School art teacher Eileen Warren, the children learn about great art and produce their own versions of their favorite pieces, before proudly presenting their work to family and friends. The children conclude their study of art with a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. FAIZAAN WASEEM ’29 is seen describing his painting to one of the many visitors at the exhibit.

Visitors to the Buckingham Performing Arts Center in April were invited to follow along with Alice when she found herself in Wonderland and went through the Looking Glass. The Wyoming Seminary Players presented Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass,” adapted by Adrian Mitchell. The Players also presented a one-act version of the play as a children’s matinee.

Dance performances highlight community, history at Sem Sem’s theaters and dance studios were a whirl of activity in March, as the Sem Dance Company and Artistic Director Bernardine Vojtko welcomed area dance companies to campus for a three-day Dance Festival on the weekend of March 22-24. Students worked on their modern dance skills and choreography with master teacher Tim Early of Opus I Contemporary Dance, tapped and swung to the music in Linda Sipple’s tap and swing master classes and continued learning modern dance with Catherine Schaeffer. Barbara Sandonato, former lead ballerina with the Pennsylvania Ballet, offered two classes in ballet. It all came together in a Saturday evening community dance showcase featuring students and dance

companies who took part in the masterclasses. The weekend ended with a dramatic production of “Prince Charming,” the Cinderella story from the Prince’s point of view, performed by Pennsylvania Ballet II.

'Pippin,' Billy Joel tribute among summer highlights Music both of great composers and contemporary songwriters were among the many remarkable performances presented by the Summer at Sem Creative Arts program during July and August. While Music Festival students presented two outstanding concerts featuring music by such notables as Sousa, Sibelius, Puccini and Dvorak, the Theater students collaborated with Music Festival and Dance Company students to offer a colorful Celebration of the Music of Billy Joel. The Dance Company bathed its appreciative audience in nostalgia with a 50-year anniversary tribute to Woodstock. The Creative Arts summer program concluded with the Broadway hit musical “Pippin,” the story of Charlemagne’s son as he searches for his role in life. 10

11th annual Chamber Music Festival held

In May, the "Dance Stories" performance showcased some of the dances that have been performed on the Upper School campus through the decades. Under the direction of Vojtko, the company presented 15 beautiful and vibrant dances. The performance included a variety of ballet, tap and modern dances, some of which were choreographed by students.

Photo exhibit focuses on athletes Photos of athletes frequently focus on action, so an unusual photo exhibit that features intense facial portraits is an intriguing change of pace. The exhibit, titled “The Fire Inside,” presented insightful images of 47 Wyoming Seminary student-athletes and coaches and was on display for two days in the Flack Gallery of the Kirby Center for Creative Arts in March. Photographer Justin Hoch, who has made portraits of 1,700 athletes from around the world, visited Sem for several days to take the photos. This exhibit was Hoch’s first site-specific installation in which the subjects were from a single community. The display is part of Hoch’s overall portrait project, which has been displayed in Los Angeles, New York, Paris and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo, Iowa. Seen enjoying the exhibit are, from left: KYLE COSTELLO ’20, BENJAMIN BAKER ’19, CARTER TUTTLE ’19 and COLE REES ’21.

World War I and the artistic developments of Europe in the early 20th century strongly influenced the music of Sir Edward Elgar and Frank Bridge, and their highly expressive compositions are considered some of the finest examples of British chamber music. Several of their chamber and choral works filled the Kirby Center for Creative Arts in April during the 11th annual Chamber Music Festival. The Wyoming Seminary string ensemble, directed by Sem music faculty Christiane Appenheimer-Vaida and JOHN MICHAEL VAIDA ’00, and the Madrigal Singers, directed by John Vaida, joined several professional musicians in performance during the two-day festival. Appenheimer-Vaida organizes the festival, which is made possible through a grant from the Doris L. Patrick Endowment for the Performing Arts.

UPPER SCHOOL

COMMENCEMENT

1.Seated from left: VINCENT MAURICE, JEAN-RENO SOUCY ’18, FELIX SOUCY, FELIX DESILETS, GABRIEL JODOIN, ARMAND CHARLAND. Second row, from left: JACK STAMP, WILLIAM ZEIGLER, CHARLES (TREY) LEO, RYAN ANDERSON, DANTE DALGIN. 2. 2019 graduates ABIGAIL MCDANIEL, MORGAN PRICE and JIAYI LI get together under the tent during the Commencement reception. 3. Family and friends of new Sem graduate PEARL MILLER, center, gather to congratulate her after Commencement. 4. JAY HARVEY ’80, center congratulates Sem graduate WILLIAM BERGER, at right, as Will’s father ANTHONY BERGER ’73 stops by to chat. Harvey, a member of the history and mathematics faculty, gave the charge to the graduates during the ceremony.

5. REBECCA HAMMERMAN received the Harry W. and Emma R. Ruggles Award for Outstanding Graduate. 6. MOLLY LEAHY presented the Student Address.

Upper School Legacies: First row, from left: MAXWELL BANKS '19, SANTINO GAUDINO '19, ANGELO LOMBARDO '19, KATHRYN BARILLA '19, WILLIAM BERGER '19, NICOLAS BUFALINO '19; Second row, from left: GREGORY BANKS '84, DAWN RENEE LOMBARDO GAUDINO '87, FRED LOMBARDO '85, KAYANNE VANDERBURG BARILLA '84, CATHERINE EVANS BERGER '75, ANTHONY BERGER '73, CHARLES BUFALINO III '78; Third row, from left: PHILIP OUELLETTE '19, ROBERT WILSON '19, LOUIS PARENTE '19, CONNOR DENNIS '19; Fourth row, from left: PHILIPPE OUELLETTE III '94, TARA MUGFORD WILSON '88, JOHN PARENTE '85, MICHAEL DENNIS '04

7. Associate Director of Communications Gail Smallwood received the John D. Mueller Award for outstanding contributions to school life. 8. Dr. Andrea Nerozzi, science faculty member and associate director of the Maslow STEM School, received the Frances and Louis Maslow Upper School Teaching Award.

LOWER SCHOOL

1. ELLA BARBACCI, SOPHIA STASH, CHASE TAYLOR and HELENA PRUSAK pose for photos in the Lower School gymnasium. 2. Lower School legacy families: Lower School Legacies: First row, from left: STEPHEN ROSENTHAL '93, PATRICIA KLEIN ROSENTHAL '64, MAYA ROSENTHAL '23, MARAI CASTELLANOS '23, WILLIAM BURNELL III '88; Second row, from left: REBECCA RAMPP '92, GABRIEL RAMPP '23, KELLY SANTO '23, JENNIFER BANKS SANTO '87; Third row, from left: FRANCIS BAUR JR. '85, JAKOB BAUR '23, AINSELY EIDAM '23, JOHN EIDAM JR. '90, CHARLES COX '23, BRAD COX '89.

3 1 2

3. Paul Burg, Lower School director of athletics, offered his congratulations and thoughts to the graduates during the eighth-grade graduation. 4. ROBERT BELETSKY, ANDREW MAURIELLO, TRACEY KINDLER, JACK LEAHY, THOMAS ISKRA and HAMZA WASEEM get together one more time following graduation. 5. Class of 2023 members RUBY HACKETT, JAKOB BAUR, STELLA REA, CHARLES COX and AASHIMA CHAUHAN celebrate at the post-graduation reception. 6. Heidi Schukraft, second grade faculty, received the prestigious Frances and Louis Maslow Lower School Award for excellence in teaching during the school’s eighth-grade graduation ceremony.

2019 SPRING HIGHLIGHTS Novice Girls Quad won the Philadelphia Scholastic Rowing Association (PSRA) Championships: Barilla, Jackett, Papsova and Kotowski

MAKING WAVES

Novice Girls Double placed third at PSRAs (first medal in program history): Ritsick and Magnotta

Meuser’s love for rowing continues as he rows regularly at Harveys Lake. It was there that the idea came about for starting a club team and involving Sem.

Sem's rowing team is making major strides in second year of program By Jill Snowdon Two years ago, PAIGE JACKETT ’19 knew very little about the sport of rowing. A standout swimmer, her off-season training on rowing machines was enjoyable, challenging and something at which she excelled. It was enough to pique her interest in rowing and it has since led her into unexpected waters and set her on a path that she never imagined. The recent Wyoming Seminary graduate became the first Blue Knight to sign a Division I athletic scholarship for rowing and is now at the University of Miami. Jackett is a pioneer for Sem rowing and she’s raised the bar on a sport that is new to the Blue Knights. As a program, Sem rowing has made major strides in just two varsity seasons and the future looks promising as more student-athletes continue to show interest.

“We had 10 kids the first year and this past spring we had 32,” Sem head coach Jared Lippman said. “We’re teaching kids a sport they’ve never done before, but the best rowers are the ones who are willing to work hard and don’t have that fear. Once we get them comfortable on the water, we can go full throttle.” The opportunity for Sem to develop a rowing program started with Sem Board of Trustees member, Scott Meuser. Meuser himself is an avid rower, but his start-up experience was similar to many of the Sem students who are being recruited by their friends to give the sport a try. “I was in my second day at the University of Pennsylvania and they had a boat there and they were pulling tall guys to join the team,” Meuser said. “It was very transformative for me because I played basketball and football in high school. From that day on, I became an endurance athlete.”

“The lake is a fantastic rowing venue. On a scale of 10, it’s a nine and a half,” Meuser said. “The size and the lake’s J-shape creates protective water, and there is low boat traffic in the morning. I saw it as the perfect place to row and I saw an opportunity for Sem to really differentiate ourselves from our competitors.” Meuser’s vision led to the birth of the Harveys Lake Rowing Club in 2015, and thanks to his dedication and financial backing, as well as the support of fellow Sem trustees, the Blue Knights’ program took shape a year later. “It hasn’t been easy. I had to find the right place, the right coaches, and the right leadership,” Meuser said. “Jared is doing a great job with the program.” In the offseason, Sem and Harveys Lake Rowing Club programs combine their efforts, allowing for kids from different schools to row under the Harveys Lake Rowing Club. “A lot of our success comes down to the partnership with the club, which isn’t stressed enough,” Lippman said. “They are the backbone of this and the potential is there for Sem to develop into one of the top teams in the Northeast.” Sem tapped into that potential in spring 2019, earning its first medals in program history when KATIE RITSICK ’21 and MIA MAGNOTTA ’21 took third in Novice Girls Doubles at the Philadelphia Rowing Association Championships. Just an hour later, the Blue Knights foursome of Jackett, MAGGIE BARILLA ’22, SASKIA PAPSOVA ’20, and MIA KOTOWSKI ’22 added to the medal haul by winning the Novice Girls Quad championship. "They were over the moon and we were in a pretty fun spot because they didn't have any real expectations," Lippman said. "There's no defense in rowing, you can only control your boat and make it go as fast as it can. And for some of these kids, it was their second race,

which makes me excited about what we can do as the whole program gains more experience." Sem is now on the radar of opposing teams, but just as enticing, the Blue Knights are on the watch of college coaches. The college scholarship opportunities for girls are aplenty with 20 rowing scholarships for women available for each participating NCAA school. “A growing number of universities with football programs are building large women’s rowing rosters in order to meet their Title IX eligibility requirements,” Meuser said. “In 2018, there were 7,277 female rowing spots at 145 schools and this number is growing. Many of these spots include scholarship support and special admission consideration. This represents a great potential opportunity for Sem’s women students and they should really consider giving rowing a try!” A rower’s ERG score (information that includes current speed or power output, elapsed time, meters, and stroke rate) are enough to attract the interest of college coaches. College recruiting fairs are often held at summer regattas, which allow for student-athletes to explore college possibilities and meet coaches. “The process was actually easier than I thought,” Jackett said. “I talked to more coaches than I imagined I would and I instantly clicked with the Miami coach. She reminded me a lot of myself because she didn’t start rowing until she was 20.” Jackett signed her letter of intent for a 70 percent athletic scholarship to Miami where she is majoring in English. Her future plans are to attend law school. As for rowing at Sem, the excitement and interest is catching on, and having a big turnout of rowing team hopefuls is not a bad problem to have for Lippman. “I hope people hear about me and want to try rowing,” Jackett said. “I was pretty good at swimming and I was on relays at Sem that hold records, but I’m happy to be leaving a legacy in some way with rowing.”

Boys Varsity Quad advanced to semifinals (finishing 14th) at the US Rowing Mid-Atlantic Championships: JIMMY LEE '20, FLO ROPERZ '20, NANSEN WANG '22, and FRANKIE WILLIAMSON '20 Girls Varsity Quad advanced to semifinals (finishing 13th) at the US Rowing Mid-Atlantic Championships: Magnotta, Ritsick, Barilla and Kotowski Girls U17 Double placed second at the US Rowing Mid-Atlantic Championships: NOYA ALON '21 and NOAM WASIK '21. Girls Lightweight Double placed fifth at the Stotesbury Cup Regatta (largest scholastic regatta in the world): Alon and Wasik Jackett became Sem's first student-athlete to earn a DI rowing scholarship, signing with the University of Miami Ritsick accepted her invitation to attend the US Rowing Olympic Development Camp at Temple University this summer.

BRINGING

HISTORY TO LIFE

Lower School teacher receives DAR American History Award By Jill Snowdon

of Scranton. But in 1976, when an offer came in from Sem to teach America’s story, Switzer realized it was a position he couldn’t refuse.

Inside, it is deceivingly large, and on sunny days, it is filled with morning sunshine. There is something interesting to look at in every corner and on every shelf, but not in a messy way…in a way that sparks curiosity. This is Clark Switzer’s classroom and it is filled with interesting relics and artifacts. Walking into Switzer’s room is like stepping into a time capsule.

“I live in a pretty cloistered environment so I don’t always think of what I’m doing as something that would be recognized,” Switzer said. “But to be recognized as the state winner and be a part of that national nomination is truly humbling and so appreciated.” Teaching history wasn’t in Switzer’s future plans when he received a masters degree in secondary school counseling from the University

Switzer also believes strongly in covering local history with his students. During field trips they do an archeology dig in Duryea and visit the Stegmaier Mansion in Wilkes-Barre as well as the Father Murgas Room (inventor of radio transmission) at King’s College. “All learning is better when it’s accessible and it’s wonderful how Clark connects historical events to where his students live and grow,” Hanlon said. “He is the quintessential Wyoming Seminary teacher. He embodies our philosophy and he is 100 percent dedicated to his craft.” Switzer’s enthusiasm for history goes beyond the walls of Sem and into the local community. He is active on the board of the Irem Temple Restoration Project and The Greater Pittston Cultural Coalition. He is also a member of the Luzerne County Historical Society and serves as a lecturer on local history topics. “I think it’s important that the students realize what we have here in the local area,” Switzer said. “When you wrap it up into people, places, and moments in time, what we communicate about the people who came before us and what we communicate about those moments is what our students and young people will realize is important.”

“It’s unusual to say a history classroom is like a laboratory, but Clark’s room is definitely like walking into a lab,” Dr. Kathy Hanlon, Dean of Lower School, said. “In the beginning of the year it’s a clean slate and I love watching it come to life as his lessons go on throughout the year.” Switzer’s collection of historic memorabilia stretches back 44 years when he began teaching history at Sem. It’s a career that has served him well; he is Pennsylvania’s recipient of the 2019 Outstanding Teacher of American History Award, which was presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution. He also was nominated for the national award, and in August, he and his wife, Debby, attended the Daughters of the American Revolution National Continental Congress in Washington, D.C.

His classroom is filled with items that are relative to those eras so students can see and feel history, not just read and listen about it. He incorporated special interactive days into the curriculum to celebrate different centuries, including Colonial Day, Immigration Day, Roaring 20s Day, and Happy Daze.

Clark Switzer and DOMINIC FEDERICI ’24 play a game of Nine Men’s Morris dressed in authentic clothing during the Lower School's annual Colonial Day. “I met with Tim Swanson who taught fifth and sixth grade history and I felt I was in the right place,” Switzer said. “Even though my educational background was in guidance counseling, I felt I could reach more students in the classroom. I have always enjoyed the challenge of teaching where you have to constantly adapt and reinvent yourself, sometimes up to the time of day of who you are teaching. My students have been best for my professional growth because they are the ones on the other side of the desk and I need to hear and respond to them.” Switzer’s eighth-grade lessons cover 300 years of national and local

History has been Switzer’s passion for the past 44 years. His future, meanwhile, continues to evolve. He is enjoying seeing his three grandchildren (Isaac ’28, Grace ’29, and Isaac ’34) at the Lower School each day and he still has an enthusiasm for teaching. “My colleagues inspire me and so many people have helped me along the way. I am so blessed to be a Sem teacher,” Switzer said. “My wife is my biggest supporter and she will ask me every so often when I plan to retire. I tell her I still enjoying getting up every morning to go be with my students, my kids. I’m not sure when that time will come, but I have less years ahead than behind me here.”

“

What we communicate

about the people who

came before us is what our

“

he classroom that sits at the top of the double-sided staircase at Wyoming Seminary’s Lower School looks like any other classroom from the outside.

history, starting with the colonies in 1605 and ending with 1975.

students will realize is important

6 1. Members of the Conyngham and Parkhurst families posed together at Huntsville; from left: WILL CONYNGHAM ’66, SALLY PARKHURST VAN WHY ’69, CORNY CONYNGHAM ROMANOWSKI ’75, THAMSIN CONYNGHAM BOWES ’74, JESSIE CONYNGHAM GRIFFITH ’65 and FRANK CONYNGHAM ’70. 2. Seen from left, first row: Sem Director of Alumni Programs ELIZABETH CLEMENTS KATYL ’05, Kelsey Nataupsky, JASON NATAUPSKY ’03, Richard Eckman, Sem Director of Annual Giving MADDIE KROPP ’05 and NICOLE SANTO YOCUM ’03. Second row, from left: NICK SORDONI ’02 and JAMIE FLACK ECKMAN ’05. 3. Seated from left: STEPHEN KILLIAN ’66 and WILL CONYNGHAM ’66. Standing: FRED SHORTZ ’73. 4. CHRIS SHAFER ZARDECKI ’64 and MARTI ABBOTT SQUITIERI ’64 reminisce during reunion festivities at Lower School. 5. JANET MURRAY ’76, BARRY SCOTT ’78 and Sem Director of Annual Giving MADDIE KROPP ’05 took home the trophy for winning the Blue and White Trivia Contest. The White Team emerged victorious in the Blue and White competition. 6. SALLY PARKHURST VAN WHY ’69 and BETSY BELL CONDRON ’45 enjoyed the Lower School historical athletic display in the Sordoni Library.

JUNE 8, 2019 Every five years, Lower School alumni gather together with faculty at 1560 Wyoming Avenue in Forty Fort, and this year was THE YEAR! A State of the School address by President Kevin Rea, a Lower School history lesson with social studies department chair Clark Switzer, tours of the school, lunch and games on Zimmerman Field, and a Blue and White competition were highlights of the beautiful June 8 day. Later in the evening, the festivities continued with music, dinner, a Sem trivia contest and the announcement of the winner of the Blue and White contest, held at Huntsville Golf Club. What a great party!

ALUMNI G AT H E R I N G S 6

2 11

3 13

BOSTON: 1. KATIE DELANEY ’02, AMY BERMAN ’07, KENDRA SIRAK ’07 2. Sem Vice President of Advancement JOHN SHAFER ’71, JESSE MERMELL ’98, JAYE ELLEN HINDIN LEWIS ’72 3. ALEX STEINBERGH ’58, Jennifer Lynch 4. JASON RECK ’05, Lillian Pecoraro, ANDREW ROGERS ’06, NICHOLAS MILLER ’06 5. KATHY HOURIGAN LIQUE ’63, MARGUERITE WILES ’14 PHILADELPHIA: 6. DARCY BRAIN JONES '68 and JOHN PFEIFFER '68 7. Sem Director of Alumni Programs LIZ CLEMENTS KATYL ’05, JULIA CLEMENTS ’10 8. STEVE WEST ’05, CLIFF JACKSON ’05, CAT CLEMENTS ’11

5 22

ALUMNI COUNCIL, PITTSTON: 9. JILLIAN SEELEY, CHRISTIAN SWITZER, Sem Director of Alumni Programs LIZ CLEMENTS KATYL, SASHA ANSELMI, JAMIE FLACK ECKMAN, SARA ROSENBERG MOLITORIS, Sem Director of Annual Giving MADDIE KROPP, all Class of 2005 10. SUSAN DANTONA JOLLEY ’82, CORNY CONYNGHAM ROMANOWSKI ’75, JEANNIE MCCARTHY CLEMENTS ’77

NEW YORK CITY: 11. KEN SUCHOSKI ’07, BRANDON SIPPLE ’02 12. DANIELLE WAYDA ’09, KELAND SARNO ’10, JOSEPH LACH ’09, MARCO SANTARELLI ’10, ALLISON CONSIDINE ’10 13. Sem President Kevin Rea, Jane Dwyer, JERRY DWYER ’59 14. Sem Vice President of Advancement JOHN SHAFER ’71, MICHAEL MESSERSMITH ’99, KARLINA ZIKOR O’DONNELL ’01, MATT O’DONNELL ’98 10 23

DR. JANINE MUSHENO DMD ’07:

Bringing dental health to the needy in North Philadelphia By Gail Smallwood

Congratulations to ERIC SCHWARTZ ’04, JOHN RUCKNO ’04, RICHARD ECKMAN '04 and Donald Sabatino for winning the 2019 Rusty Flack Open Tournament and trophy.

2019 WYOMING SEMINARY RUSTY FLACK OPEN

Sunny skies and warm temperatures greeted Wyoming Seminary alumni, parents and friends in June as they gathered to enjoy a round of golf at the nationally-acclaimed Huntsville Golf Club. The tournament, named in memory of CHARLES (RUSTY) FLACK ’72, hosted 88 golfers and raised more than $35,392.

Left: SIS SCHALM ERTLEY ’62, JEANNIE MCCARTHY CLEMENTS ’77, Elyse Wilson and Kerry Turner Right: Mike Wills, Jamel Rolands, JAMIE FLACK ECKMAN ’05, WHITNEY POLLOCK '04

24 24

According to a recent study released by the National Center for Health Statistics, the rate of dental cavities in children ages 2-19 years old has dropped from 50 percent in 2011-12 to 43 percent in 2015-16. DR. JANINE MUSHENO DMD ’07, a dentist with the Stephen Klein Wellness Center in Northcentral Philadelphia, works every day to help bring that rate down even more. She is an employee of the Philadelphia-area Project HOME, a non-profit organization that serves the city’s low income and homeless populations at the Stephen Klein Wellness Center. Dr. Musheno and her six colleagues provide most dental services such as examinations, cleanings, fillings, crowns, dentures and extractions, as well as outreach education about oral healthcare. While they serve clients of all ages, Dr. Musheno enjoys focusing on children; many of her adult patients are not aware of the importance of early pediatric dental care, so she encourages them to bring their children to the clinic for checkups. “If you can prevent dental disease, that is easier than ever having to treat it, which is why we really try to target kids,” she says.

She has many stories of clients who had lived for years with dental problems, such as the woman who had needed a tooth extracted for 10 years but had never been able to afford to see a dentist. Another client, a mother with three young children, had been homeless and had shuttled from one shelter to another for months; she was so relieved to find the Klein Wellness Center and Dr. Musheno, who examined her children’s teeth and found they were in good health—no cavities! “Life can be very hard for so many people,” she says. “The population we treat have lived through tough times for most of their lives. By treating the underserved, you learn a lot about yourself and a lot about others. There is a great need out there and we can’t always rely on others to fill that need.”

ALUMNI PROFILE

In August 2015 she helped open the dental clinic at the Wellness Center and began serving local clients, many of whom had never had regular dental services; she may work with as many as 20 patients a day. In December, 2018, Project HOME also opened a new Hub of Hope at SEPTA’s underground Suburban Station, and she works with clients there once or twice a week. The Hub of Hope serves homeless people exclusively, and more than 300 people come in each day for showers, laundry, snacks, shelter, emergency dental care, medical care and other services; all these services are free. Dr. Musheno has been interested in community service since her days as a Sem student, and while in Temple University’s dental school she traveled to Costa Rica and Nicaragua on community service trips, assisting with dental procedures and doing research there. “I always liked community service and I’m happy that I can now combine that with my career,” she says. “There is a great need for dental services in the United States, and to help people find integrated health care. Many people don’t understand how oral health is connected to general health care. We take a lot of time to teach our clients how dental and medical care can work together.”

DR. JANINE MUSHENO ’07 is seen with two of her patients, Shawnna Kitchen and her daughter Ellaya Redmond.

2525

1. Elaine Antinnes, Sem Trustee Lisa Baker and retired Lower School faculty Betsy Gover chatted at the Distinguished Service Award reception Friday evening. 2. PIA TAGGART’83, Liela Taggart and JOHN MORRIS, JR.’83 stopped to chat outside of Fleck Hall. 3. ANNEMAAIKE REITSMA ’19 leads alumni on a tour of campus. 4. It was a walk down memory lane to classes in the old science lecture hall for these alumni when they gathered in the Kirby Center for Creative Arts. A row of seats, part of Sem’s 175th Anniversary display, captured the attention of many alumni. Seen seated from left: GEORGE BEHLER ’59, DENISE GOOBIC MECK ’69, ROB KLUGER ’69, KEN LAMBERT ’69, CHARLIE SUTHERLAND ’59, NANCY WELKER ’59 and ALAN HOLLANDER ’69. Standing, from left: JANE GRAHAM KISHBAUGH '59 and DAVID LAUDERBAUGH ’59.

ALUMNI

weekend

5. DSA recipient and former Madrigal Singer JOSEPH TORSELLA ’81 was happy to connect again with his Sem music director John Vaida, Sr. 6. CYNTHIA PRITCHARD ’81 and retired Lower School faculty Tim Swanson enjoyed the opportunity to visit at the DSA reception.

MAY 3-4, 2019

7. Rhonda Braddy, right, gets ready to snap a photo of JACKIE REESE TOLIVER ’69 as she examines one of the 175th Anniversary historical banners on display in the Kirby Center for Creative Arts. 8. KATHY LOVELAND ’69 stops to enjoy one of CARL HANDMAN’S ’69 funny stories following the class photo. 5

9. Members of the Class of 1984 visit during the evening reception: CAROLINE MCCARTHY YOUNGMAN, CHRISTY BROWN TEAL and ANN GUNSTER FINAN. 10. Nancy Weinberger, MARK WEINBERGER ’79, MIKE HUDACEK ’79 and BRAD LIBENSON ’79 got together during Alumni Weekend. 11. MARY FRANCES DONLEY FORCIER ’79 and LIZ HIBBARD ’69 collaborate on a selfie.

CLASS OF 1969: Front row, from left: MARY MCGLYNN KOVALCHIK, NANCY BARNES, LANNING ANSELMI, RICHARD ABRAMOWITZ, RONNE KURLANCHEEK ZITOFSKY, WALLY JOHNSON, CAROL DEAN, CHRIS HIBBARD, JACK MONICK, SCOTTIE ROBINSON, BRUCE SLAFF, ALISA BERGER COTTER

Class of

SOCA GATHERING

Second row, from left: JACKIE REESE TOLIVER, LORI SIMON PANZER, JOHN LOPATTO, JOE WAITER, PHIL REID, DENISE GOOBIC MECK, JIM HUNT, JOHN ECKELMAN, SALLY PARKHURST VAN WHY, NETTIE HOURIGAN MAGUIRE, TEDDY SNEED

1969

Third row, from left: ALAN HOLLANDER, KEN LAMBERT, POLLY THOMAS, BURRELL MONTZ, ROGER SCOTT, MEG TOWNEND TILLAPAUGH, BOB FIERMAN, MARTIN TILLAPAUGH, ALEX ISZARD, ROB KLUGER, BETSEY GRIESMER RADCLIFFE, DAVID SESCILLA, LLOYD MILLER, LIZ HIBBARD, BOB EDGERTON

50TH REUNION

1. Sem President Kevin Rea, at left, presented the Outstanding Alumnus Award to ROBERT EDGERTON ’69 at the annual Alumni Weekend Convocation. 2. JOHN LOPATTO '69, WALLACE JOHNSON '69, JOE WALTER '69 and Irene Bourke catch up during the icebreaker. 3. Two members of the Class of 1969, MEG TOWNEND TILLAPAUGH and MARTIN TILLAPAUGH, reminisce about all the hours they spent at Bill’s Coffee Shop when not in school.

Sem’s Students of Color Association (SOCA) invited alumni to meet with them and learn about the current generation of student diversity leaders who are working to build strong connections between the past, the present and the future of Wyoming Seminary. Seen during the meeting are, seated from left: Glynis Johns, event speaker; POLLY THOMAS ’69, JACKIE REESE TOLIVER ’69, WALLACE JOHNSON ’69, Rhonda Braddy, MEG HALL ’74. Second row, from left: Will Stanton, English faculty; JUSTIN NEGRON ’18, JEVON LAYNE ’20, SOPHIA ADEGHE ’19, ANAIAH JAMES ’19, REBECCA HAMMERMAN ’19, JONAH PASCAL ’21, REBECCA JAMES ’19, JIAYIN YAO ’21, ANNELIESE LITTLE ’21, PEARL MILLER ’19. Third row, from left: Rev. Charles Carrick, Sem chaplain; Nathan Fisher, English faculty and SOCA advisor.

MEMORIAL SERVICE SPEAKERS

4. ROB KLUGER ’69, left, and ALEX ISZARD ’69 take advantage of one of the campus’ most popular photo locations…the Whittler never seems to mind! 1

Memorial Service Speakers; first row from left: JENNIFER MACK JENNINGS ’84, JUDITH ROBBINS ’64, MARY PILLARELLA MARTIN ’74, MARY FRANCES DONLEY FORCIER ’79, SALLY TELLER LOTTICK ’54. Second row, from left: Rev. Charles Carrick, Sem chaplain and service officiant; WALLACE JOHNSON ’69, GERALD DWYER ’59, JOHN PLATT ’49 and BRAD COX ’89.

CLASS OF 1964 First row, from left: ANGE ANZALONE, CHRISTINA SHAFER ZARDECKI, SAM WOLFE, JUDITH ROBBINS Second row, from left: JON VALENTINE, EDWARD MILLER CLASS OF 1974 First row, from left: MEG HALL, JUDITH LEWIS GINGRICH, TISH MCCARTHY LAST, BARBARA WILLIAMS, NANCY HUGHES CLINE Second row, from left: JIM SCHULER, CHARLES SCOTT, LOIS ANN TROUP, MARY PILLARELLA MARTIN CLASS OF 1979 First row, from left: MEGON CLARKE ZANDER, KAMI MAILLOUS MULZET, DAYREL DIETZE SIPES, LIZ KLUGER COOPER, KAREN SMITH SINCLAIR, LISA PIEROTTI, REBECCA SMITH, MICHAEL HUDACEK Second row, from left: CHARLES PARKHURST, BRAD LIBENSON, JOHN MUSNUFF, GINA GERMAIN, SARA SLAFF, JOHN HORRIGAN, MARY FRANCES DONLEY FORCIER Third row, from left: ERIC SLAFF, CHRISTIE INNES, JOHN HENDRZAK, MARK WEINBERGER, DAVE EVANS

ALUMNI

weekend

CLASS OF 1984 First row, from left: DOUG MASLOW, CHRISTY BROW TEAL, SCOTT MACMILLAN, AMY LLEWELLYN, KATRINA D’ANCA Second row, from left: GREG BANKS, CAROLINE MCCARTHY YOUNGMAN, JEN MACK JENNINGS, MARLA MYGATT, ANN GUNSTER FINAN Third row, from left: DAVID ALEXANDERIAN, MARISSA MENN LINDER

CLASS REUNIONS

CLASS OF 1949 From left: DON DEMBERT and JOHN PLATT CLASS OF 1954 From left: PETER SPETH, SALLY TELLER LOTTICK, RUTH GATES KELLY

CLASS OF 1989 First row, from left: DAVID VOLKMAN, BRAD COX, LIZA ROSENTHAL RUDICK, RICHARD ANDERSON Second row, from left: SCOTT COOPER, MATT WALSH, SCOTT MORRIS, KEITH MECCA

CLASS OF 1959 First row, from left: JUDY CASPER BOHORAD, GEORGE BEHLER, NANCY WELKER, JANE GRAHAM KISHBAUGH Second row, from left: DAVID LAUDERBAUGH, NORM JAMES, CHARLIE SUTHERLAND, DAVID ENNIS, HARRY REICH

30 30

Class Notes

These class notes include those received in the Alumni and Development Office as of October 18, 2019. 1944 GLORIA ROTHSTEIN WHITESMAN, Fort Myers, Fla., wrote, “I finally became a great-grandmother to two little boys, one a newborn and one a year and a half, who live in Chicago.” 1950 MAX DAVISON, Allentown, Pa., wrote, “I’m in my 61st year as a lawyer. I practice every day at my law firm in Allentown: Davison & McCarthy. I served as a Pennsylvania judge for 20 years in the 1970s and ‘80s.” JOEL GOLDSTEIN, Bryn Mawr, Pa., wrote, “I’m still seeing patients, although only half-time. Debby is totally retired and son Paul is a scientist at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. I’m still teaching Residents at what is now Drexel. It’s still fun.” 1954 Before their 65th reunion in May, members of the Class of 1954 shared some memories via email. TONY DENNIS, South Windsor, Conn., wrote, “I reluctantly entered Sem, my parents’ idea, as a freshman day student. Coming from the other side of the tracks, literally, in Edwardsville, and growing up in a night club, Sem was a different world. Also thinking, sort of, that I was one of the smartest teens around, it soon became obvious it wasn’t true. “Memories: Prof. March lurking in the hall on March 1 and charging into the room with a roar: ‘March comes in like a lion.’ FRANK PUGLIESE providing neon orange ties from Calso Supreme gasoline to wear on St. Patrick’s Day to annoy the pretty Irish girls, some of whom came with green hair. I didn’t understand at the time what the annoying orange color meant. HENRY JACOBY and I trying to figure out the formula for the explosive powder that came up in chemistry class. I think it was nitrogen tri-iodide or something (I am a structural engineer, not a chemist). I didn’t but Henry did. We never tried it fortunately. Finally, KARL BLIGHT asked me to contact an Edwardsville girl he wanted to date. He knew her from Hilda Mann Hertz Studio. I barely knew her but made the contact for him, and me. They dated once. I wound up marrying her; it’s been 60 years. “Clarification on the NI3, especially in current times; it was nothing nefarious but the topic came from a story about a prank of dropping caps from cap pistols on the floor of the Kingston Roller Rink causing minor sparks as the roller skaters contacted the caps. Prof. Flaherty of chemistry overheard the conversation and said NI3 would do the same thing which of course stimulated the curiosity of teenagers and hence the quest for NI3. Oh, the kids who dropped the caps were banished from the rink.” PAULA ZELLER MOORE, Bethesda, Md., wrote, “A delightful re-memory - eighth grade! I got to be a bumblebee, black and gold, of course WITH wings even, costume put together by my mother who did NOT sew for one May Day celebration where we put on 32

Class Notes

a tumbling exhibition, and then afterwards tried most ardently NOT to get tangled up in the colorful May pole ribbons as we circled around. Now I am in major musical exhibition mode as the founder and principal Conductor of a 60-piece orchestra of adults with and without moderate cognitive disabilities, including gifted amateurs AND professional musicians from all over the country at the Strathmore Music Center, Bethesda. Look up Strathmore and The interPLAY Orchestra. If you are ‘down here,’ let me know!

and I live in this paradise called Mount Gretna. We have slowed down somewhat at 84 and 83, respectively, but still enjoy our apartment, the many and varied activities in this summer resort area, and he in the Beth Israel Synagogue and I at the Mount Gretna United Methodist Church. Life is good at a slower pace. I have fond memories of my time at Sem – 1954 -1955 as a business student living in the dorm under the watchful eye of Miss Foster, a wonderful woman. I remember GEORGE RUSSELL ’55 but I’ve no idea where he is.”

“October update: “We are doing two nights of ‘Woodstock Revisited’ Sunday afternoon and Monday night. Sell out as usual. EVERYONE is wearing amazing t-shirts instead of our usual concert blacks. Should be a riot of color and sounds.”

MARTHA MCLEAN KELLEY, Mount Dora, Fla., wrote, “After 25 years of winters in the South West coast of Florida, we have moved to the darling hill town of Mount Dora, a short distance from our three children and their families. We continue to summer in our beloved Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Jim is happily fully retired now and I’m still writing. Wonderful memories of Sem persist!”

DONALD ROESKE, Eagan, Minn., wrote, “It was a long time ago, but I remember TOM WATKINS playing the organ in the chapel. I also remember, at the last reunion we attended, the talk by Bill Plante of CBS News and his wife, Robin Smith (the daughter of Sem alumnus ROBERT SMITH ’44), who went to Vietnam to find where her father was shot down. I’m sorry I can’t attend this year.” PETER WELLS, Brewster, Mass., wrote, “Seeing the entry from Paula reminded me of participating in a play, in my senior year, called ‘The Patsy.’ Paula played opposite me. In the final act, there was a kissing scene. During the rehearsals, it was always a discrete peck on the cheek, but, during the actual performance, Paula laid a ‘smackeroo’ on me that like to knock my socks off, after which I had no clue as to what my next line was. Wasn’t even sure where I was. Of course, Paula, always the professional, turned her back on the audience and whispered my line, which I was able to pick up and the play ended just fine. Thanks for the memory, Paula.” October update: “I might add that I remember a lascivious grin on Paula’s face after that ‘buss.’ I’m thinking she knew exactly what she was doing to this poor, innocent boy.” 1955 VIRGINIA BANER DEWEY, Jamesville, N.Y., wrote, “My husband and I stay active in volunteer activities. We are involved with adult literacy, Syracuse University alumni activities, church, and organizations that address poverty in the inner city.” EUGENE FITZPATRICK, Brandon, Fla., wrote, “I was a two-year varsity letterman in lacrosse at the U.S.N.A. and was selected to play in the 1959 College All-star Game. While serving in the U.S.N. for 20 years, I worked directly for Admiral Hyman Rickover, known as the ‘Father of the U.S. Nuclear Navy.’ Following my Navy career, I worked in the civilian nuclear business; I was station manager of Commonwealth Edison’s Braidwood Nuclear Station, a vice president at GPU Nuclear, and a senior vice president of nuclear generation at AEP, retiring from there as an executive vice president. I was a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for about 20 years. I am now fully retired in Brandon, Fla.” DONNA GAY KAPLAN, Mount Gretna, Pa., wrote, “Mel

LOUISE LOUCKS MOORE, Hazleton, Pa., wrote, “My happiest times to date are visiting my children and grandchildren. Two are in San Diego with my daughter, BETH JENNINGS DIACHENKO ’77 and her husband: Alex is a successful landscape architect and Drew is an attorney. Two are in Maryland, the home state of son BLAIR JENNINGS ’80: Luke is a teacher and Julia is enjoying her first year in college. I enjoy my two residences: six months in Pennsylvania and six months in Florida with my many friends. Life is good!” FRANK SLATTERY, Bryn Mawr, Pa. and Palm Beach, Fla., wrote, “We continue to spend eight months or so in Florida each year. We have moved from our townhouse in Villanova to a retirement community in Bryn Mawr. I continue to remain active with various not-for-profits and still have several companies of which I am chairman founder.” 1957 JANE MUNCY CAMPBELL, Chapel Hill, N.C., wrote, “2019 has been an eventful year for our family. My husband Eston and I returned from a great trip to Israel, Jordan and Palestine in April. Memorial Weekend our granddaughter Megan was married on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. In September, our grandson Zachary was married in Ohio.” 1959 Before their 60th reunion in May, members of the Class of 1959 shared some memories via email. MARILYN HUGHES BROOKHART, Littleton, Colo., wrote, “Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend our 60th because my daughter in Los Angeles is marrying and a celebratory bridal shower happens on the same weekend. Mama needs to be there. Count me in for the next. “Among the numerous fond memories from '55-'59 include: ... P and J for ‘good’ juicy hamburger for lunch. ...Blue and White with the boys on one side of the gym and the girls on the other, waiting breathlessly for a doo wop or twist dance... Chapel and marbles rolling down the concrete floor from back to front, during someone's oration.”

IRWIN DAVISON, Mount Vernon, N.Y., wrote, “Dear ‘59 Classmates - although I will not be attending our reunion, I appreciate the opportunity to share my thoughts. Sem was a pivotal life experience for me. First time away from home, the experience of living in a dorm and being academically challenged. Professor Leroy Bugbee was a major positive influence on my life-long appreciation of history, government and politics. I may be in the minority on this but I appreciated Dr. Decker’s ‘words of inspiration’ in chapel. I wish our class all the best.” DAVID ENNIS, Lewes, Del., wrote, “I am looking forward to making the 60th reunion for the Class of 1959. My last attendance was for the 25th reunion, which I enjoyed very much. I have visited the campus a few times with family as we have traveled from ‘Lower Slower Delaware’ to New York State to visit relatives. The school has always looked good as we have driven by. “I was introduced to Sem through the Naval Academy, but got distracted while at Sem and accepted an opportunity to attend the University of Delaware instead. That was a good move for me since I met this really wonderful girl in the dining hall. It only took a year before I asked her out, but we have managed to get to know each other pretty well over the last 55 years. Sem can take credit for preparing me for the capacity to graduate from college. I believe that Lehigh can take credit for temporarily knocking me off the football field and helping the medical profession demonstrate their skill with knees and hips. I am currently set up for the eighth knee operation and the second knee replacement. One new hip was added along the way. “Life has been pretty good to me. I had two careers. There were 15 years in the non-profit blood bank field as a donor recruiter and then administrator. Some community involvements drew me into Delaware politics. I served in the Delaware State House of Representatives for 24 years. After building a home in Lewes, my wife, Maryanne, and I retired there and currently care for a colony of feral cats, wandering deer, raccoons and an occasional skunk while sticking our nose into local government business. The beach town of Lewes is a wonderful little town on both the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. “Many of you from the Valley were very kind to this guy from Ridley Park, inviting me into your homes for meals, and teaching me how to water ski in Harveys Lake. They didn't tell me how deep it was!” BOB HAUSMANN, Missoula, Mont., wrote, “Dear '59 Seminarians (I can't tell you how many people have heard me say I went to Wyoming Seminary and assumed I had studied to be a monk or a priest), like many of you, I won't be at our 60th (shudder) reunion. Instead, that day I will be winging my way to an extended stay in Hungary, a country I am deeply connected to ever since my Fulbright there in 1988-89. “I am in my last year of a most satisfying 48-year career as a professor teaching linguistics and developing international exchanges at The University of Montana. Aside from many wonderful students over the years,

perhaps the highpoint of my career was nine years working with George Soros. Shortly after the Wall came down, I talked him and his staff into sending Western university instructors to all of the Open Society Institute's 'Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia." I managed to direct that program from my office at UM while traveling far and wide to vet applicants, host universities, and faculty accommodations. The last year of the program I sent 73 instructors to 22 countries. “I am a huge admirer of Soros - he did more to stabilize Eastern and Central Europe after the Fall of the Wall than even the U.S. government. “I have had a couple wonderful wives over the years, had marvelous long-term girlfriends, raised five children through college (the last one my biological child), and count myself lucky in my friends, my house, and the beauty of Missoula and Montana. “I believe that most of our successes in life have been, as my mother used to put it, "better luck than management." One of the first pieces of luck I had was to get a scholarship to Sem where our instructors and my classmates gave me the proverbial leg up in life. At the risk of offending someone, without Sem, I would be selling insurance (or cars, or something else on the street). “I visited Sem a year ago while waiting for my brother to do his dialysis in Forty Fort. I had breakfast at the little cafe around the corner from Sem, sneaked into Sprague Hall, walked by the president's and dean's offices (decided that the last thing they needed on a busy day was to have to chat up some ancient alum), and watched with great pleasure the students changing classes. The school looked vibrant. The young women were as lovely as I remember them being - and the young men looked, well, like big children.” ROSLYN FEIBUS GINSBERG, Cliffside Park, N.J., wrote, “Still not certain I will be able to attend our 60th but I certainly hope I can. I always feel a tad nostalgic when I think of my days at Sem. One of my daughters met LYNN KURLANCHEEK GONCHAR’s son and daughter many years ago and I always meant to contact Lynn about it and thought it was so special but... and then time drifts away. My classmates at Sem were always what I appreciated the most. You all made every class more special and every activity and event memorable. So, I do hope to see you all again.” DAVE LAUDERBAUGH, Niceville, Fla., wrote, “I’ll be there! However not in the coal truck Miss Brown said I would be driving. It has been an amazing 60 years. Other than losing Beverly (Blazes) after 46 years, everything has had a happy ending. I have been in the corrugated box industry for 50+ years, 19 with Continental Can and 39 with my company Corrugated Gear and Service. Since everything that is made needs a box to move it around, opportunities abound. We provide the parts, service and equipment to manufacture corrugated boxes worldwide. We have 21 patents that enhance productivity and quality. I'm currently splitting my time at my factory in Cumming, Ga. and Niceville where I sail ‘Vixen’ and

watch incredible sunsets at Schooners with my new wife, Jill.” GAYLE JENKINS MANDLE, South Dartmouth, Mass., wrote, “Those of you with whom I’ve kept in touch will know that Roger (my husband of 55 years) and I have two children and five grandchildren. Our son Luke is an architect and lives with his Irish wife and son in Cork, Ireland. His two daughters are graduating from undergrad and grad school. One of them got married last year and our belated wedding present is having a New York City trip together at the same time as Sem’s Reunion. Luke and I have collaborated on several projects during my former career as an interior designer. Our daughter Julia is an artist and teacher and lives with her two children in Amsterdam. Julia and I have had many mother/daughter exhibitions about socio-political issues like economic inequality, immigration and the environment. Yes, I’m a proud, card-carrying liberal, and I am presently continuing with my painting career. “Who said that at our age life would be simpler… or at least s-l-o-w-e-r? Roger and I decided last summer to ‘scale-down’ our house and property, and make a move while we still were able. We gave up our beloved 1830s farmhouse and barn to move to a smaller house in Padanaram Village. We are in a more populated area and can now walk to the stores, instead of having to drive all the time. But God forbid that we retire, so we also decided to create a new museum for international contemporary Design, Art, and Technology in Massachusetts called DATMA. If any of you are in the nearby New Bedford, Mass. vicinity this summer, please be in touch and come see our installation for SummerWinds. It is a huge mylar cloud by Poetic Kinetics that will float over the city’s Custom House Park. All the non-profit arts groups will be participating in a summer-long festival that celebrates the coming of the wind industry in our area. DATMA is becoming an important educational venue for the South Coast. Our dream is to eventually restore or build a new place to house the activities and exhibitions, featuring the positive effects of design + art on technology and technology on art + design. “It’s been great fun to read about all of your lives….. Carpe Diem!!” October update: “DATMA.org considers Summer Winds to have been a huge success, considering it was our new organization’s introduction to the South Coast region. We are working with the theme of LIGHT2020 for next year. Stay tuned!!” CHARLIE SUTHERLAND, Stoneville, N.C., wrote, “I enjoy hearing histories of old classmates and am saddened to hear that some histories have ended too soon. My own history has had its ups and downs. I credit Sem for whetting my already active curiosity and giving me the tools to figure things out and search for the true, the beautiful, and the good. I worked in Puerto Rico, Australia, and North Carolina. I have never gone hungry nor struck it rich. I have discovered things, invented things, stumbled onto things, mastered some things and failed at much. I married well. A pretty girl I met at Clemson takes care of me and whatever monies that 33

Class Notes

come my way and still allows me freedom to tinker, fly airplanes, and play businessman with the kids. The best fun was raising our four kids. “Thirty-five years ago, just months before our 25th Wyoming Seminary reunion, I started our family's soap company. We nearly went broke several times. Our soaps are all over, but we still ain't rich. Midge (MARIAN STEVENS) put us up once or twice when we got on QVC a while back. Sorry she is going to miss this reunion. Now, it looks like our little soap company is about to change the world. “Three years ago, we made a big batch of soap that smelled like stinky feet. After giving it away to local municipalities here in N.C., it seems to have solved some universal and age-old waste water and pollution problems ... We'll see. Fingers crossed…” October update: “Our biodegradable ‘stinky feet’ is now cleaning up and protecting every city sewer in our Rockingham County and with some thanks to classmate, DAVID ENNIS, has attracted national and global attention. Field trials are getting scheduled in the southeast and we are to make a presentation at an upcoming conference. Seems our ‘mistake’ is a major breakthrough.” ROBERT WOOD, Newfoundland, wrote, “Hi to the class of 1959. Reunions have never been my thing and I won’t be able to make this one either. And after all these years I have lost touch with all of you. And I really don’t have any special remembrances of Sem life. I was a day student for two years and not really involved. My final two years I was a boarding student; worked in the dining hall as a bus boy; and served as the manager for the track team. I went on to college and theological seminary. And this June I will retire after 55.5 years as a United Methodist minister. Along the way I married a wonderful gal but lost my sweetheart to cancer in 2005. I have two sons, two daughters-in-law, and five grandchildren. My best to all of you for a great reunion and future.” 1960 CAROL LOCKWOOD EURILLO, Ballston Spa, N.Y., wrote, “Having downsized, Don and I have had a smaller home constructed on the outskirts of Saratoga, N.Y., in a senior community. We continue to maintain and enjoy our summer cottage on Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, N.Y. We are politically active, and we continue to collect antiques. We celebrated our 55th wedding anniversary in August. I am deeply saddened to learn that so many of my Sem classmates have passed away. We count our blessings on a daily basis. CHERYL SIEGAL JAVER was among my dearest friends at Sem. BILL BARNEY is Cheryl’s cousin. ‘Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.’” 1961 SANFORD THATCHER, Frisco, Texas, wrote, “In masters swimming I ranked 9th nationally in the 100-meter backstroke for 2018. In 2019 I have National Qualifying Times in the 100- and 200-meter backstroke, 200-yard backstroke, and 1,000- and 1,650-yard freestyle.” 1962 TONY CAREY, Wyalusing, wrote, “I recently had the 34

Class Notes

opportunity to spend two weeks in Turkey traveling with another former Peace Corps volunteer. One of the highlights of the trip was reconnecting with one of my closest, most supportive friends. During my two years (1966-1968) teaching English in the local middle school, I ate most of my meals in his restaurant and learned much of my Turkish with his help, even though he spoke no English. “Now he is 80 years old and not in the best of health, but we were able to spend a wonderful afternoon together. Reminiscing and drinking tea with him and his wife was an affirmation of what made my Peace Corps experience so meaningful.” KARYNE MILLER WILNER, Portsmouth, R.I., wrote, “After being widowed four years ago, I am moving from Rhode Island to Danbury, Conn. to live with my partner. I am semi-retiring from my psychology practice and my daughter, Nicole, a senior at the University of Delaware, spent the summer with me. All is good.” 1963 HARRY SCHOOLEY, Williamsville, N.Y., wrote, “We only saw what was online, but we were very impressed with Sem's on-campus celebration of its 175th. And, thanks to LIZ HIBBARD’s ’69 taking photos of them, I particularly enjoyed seeing other examples of James Lum's taxidermy. I had thought my albatross was the only ‘survivor.’ Our congratulations to all who made it such a success. May Sem have another 175, at least! “In September LON YOUNGQUIST SCHOOLEY ’63 and I made a trip to Cape Cod and Nantucket. Along the way we saw classmates NANCY GOLDSMITH, CAROL SANTARELLI COURNEEN, and BILL MAUER. On the Cape we were staying with Carol and her husband Mark in Orleans. Bill lives on the Cape in nearby Harwich. We were with Carol on the day that was Bill's birthday and Carol had arranged for us all to go to dinner with him and his wife.

Pictured from left are Lon Youngquist Schooley, Harry Schooley, Insoon Maurer, Bill Mauer, Carol Santarelli Courneen, Mark Fiegel. I hadn't seen Bill since our junior year when I went off to Australia. It was very special as I could share a fun Day School memory of Bill's having startled Miss Atwood in the library hallway. “It was a spring day, right after lunch. Bill and I had gone up to our lockers to get our baseball gloves. Assuming a furtive tread, Bill crept into one of the library doors. I continued on past Venus. Moments after Bill entered the library, Miss Atwood came around the corner from her

apartment and was coming down the hall towards the other library entrance. She was primly carrying a cup of tea or coffee on a saucer. There was no way I could warn Bill in time. He came slinking out the library door just as she got there. She jumped and the tea cup jostled, but she didn't spill a drop. Much to our relief, she actually found it funny.” 1964 Prior to their 55th reunion in May, members of the Class of 1964 shared some memories via email. JUDY FUNKE ARGENTO, Kingston, wrote, “The eldest granddaughter is graduating from Penn State the day of the reunion so I won’t be there! She will be working for Lockheed Martin in the fall. Time flies. “I’m still in Naples, Fla. enjoying the last of ‘winter.’ Just returned from a week-long national bridge tournament in Memphis... a great place. I have so many fond memories of Sem days. From Bill’s Coffee Shop to playing hockey on Back Campus with the tree in the middle of the playing field. It was a great four years. Hope this finds everyone happy and healthy.” MARTIN KECK, Roseville, Calif., wrote, “Not the best memory, but it does address a 55-year-old injustice. At the end of our senior year I won the prize for the best original poem. Second place was taken by Guard Moses, son of Sem's president. When I read his poem about a raptor, I realized even then that it was better than mine. I have always felt that I won the prize because of Guard's last name. “My best memory? Perhaps I'll save that for our 60th, if I'm still around. Best regards to one and all.” PAUL KURLANCHEEK, Boynton Beach, Fla., wrote, “I wish you all the best in health and happiness. Best memory about Sem was definitely blue and white dancing to the Beatles and Motown. I started working very young in the family business in Duryea. Looks like I will stop working when I am very old. For the past 14 years I have been a therapist working in drug and alcohol treatment centers. Now I am a clinical specialist treating chronic pain and anxiety. Took me decades to find what I love to do. I have two great sons and probably will have no grandchildren. I live in Florida year-round in Palm Beach County. I have fond memories of what was a difficult adjustment in my life. Teens, yikes.” JUDY ROBBINS, Ellicott City, Md., wrote, “Yikes, 55 years! It doesn't seem possible. After having been Early Childhood Director of St. John's Parish Day School in Ellicott City for 30 years, I am enjoying retirement. Sadly, both of my children, Blair and Scott, passed away in the past year and a half (their dad was the late DOUG ROBERTS). “I do, however, have four terrific adult grandsons who live in and around Ft. Myers, Fla. and I became a great-grandmother in February! So many wonderful memories of our years at Sem. I look forward to renewing friendships at the reunion.”

MARY MARGARET (MARGO) STEGURA BOWERS, Madison, Miss., wrote, “I have so many memories of our class, many including cousin JONATHAN STEGURA ‘64 and MIKE MCGLYNN ‘64. Fond days of smoking freely (no permission from parents needed) at Bill’s. When I moved on to college I started going by Margo since only my mother called me by my given name Mary Margaret. Jonathan started it all. I did social work in my early years in Georgia. “My husband and I decided to go to law school. We had a one- and a two-year-old, put our house on the market and moved to Mississippi to law school with plans to move to Texas. Never left Mississippi. Love the law and am still in the Deep South. It would be great to see everyone.” LOIS LEVITSKY KOTEEN, West Hartford, Conn., wrote, “Sorry I won’t be able to join you this year. Will be recovering from knee replacement surgery! My husband, Chuck, and I are still in West Hartford. Our son, his wife and three girls live about 45 minutes away and our daughter, husband and two boys live in Portland, Oregon. I retired from college teaching, my second career after television, but continue to teach one or two courses a year. So that I can enjoy traveling, I teach on-line in a master’s degree program. I remember all those good times at Bill’s plus great French classes with Mr. Miller who sparked my interest in languages. Will be thinking about you all and wishing I could join you. See you in five years! Or come see me in Connecticut.” CHRIS SHAFER ZARDECKI, Cresco, wrote, “Looking forward to our 55th reunion! It really doesn’t seem possible! I’m still in Bonita Springs, Fla. where I spend seven months each year. Summers are spent at Shickshinny Lake with our two grandchildren who live in Manhattan the rest of the year. Although I loved being an elementary counselor for the Pocono Mountain School District, retirement is wonderful!” 1965 RON RITTENMEYER, Plano, Texas, Tenet Healthcare’s executive chairman and CEO, made the Dallas Business Journal’s list of 2019 Most Admired CEOs in North Texas. More than 5,100 readers voted to select the 18 executives they admire most. During an awards ceremony in September, Ron shared advice he’d give to his younger self or someone else in his field.

Currently 114,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for organs. Twenty people die each day from a lack of available organs; 3,000 new patients are added to the kidney transplant list each month. Many seniors, even seniors in their 80s or sometimes in their 90s can be organ donors. Doctors are even taking kidneys from people who are diabetic or have other medical conditions. You can still have a funeral and be buried in a cemetery if you are an organ donor. You might be able to save someone’s life after you die. Please tell your family members of your wishes. Jill’s transplant has allowed her to enjoy life and engage in many activities.

that this was the Hendrix event I talked my way into joining. As a dumb pre-freshman, I packed my French and psychology text books and what was probably the most useless item, a checkbook, and dressed in all white, headed to Woodstock! “We got a bit less than one mile away when the generator went on the van. We were there for the full time. The most unexpected and influential performance was Santana. Shortly after returning, I dropped the Psych course and was lucky to take a D in French, setting the stage for my outstanding college academic performance. But, as Jimi said, ‘I still have my guitar!’”

1969 Before and after their 50th reunion in May, members of the Class of 1969 shared some memories via email. REGARDING WOODSTOCK (August, 1969): CARL HANDMAN, Kingston, wrote, “I missed Friday's events, since I was working at ANESCO (BOB FIERMAN’s father's business) that summer. Saturday morning, I drove to Honesdale, planning to meet LIZA ROOS LUCY ’70 and her friend Peggy Salinger and drive them to Woodstock. However, when I arrived, Liza's mother told me that she had driven them there earlier that morning. (On Friday, Liza's mother had driven Liza and Peggy to visit the Yasgur's home for ‘milk & cookies’ before the concert. The Roos' were old friends of the Yasgurs, whose farm was the site of Woodstock.) She gave me directions to go a ‘back way’ via Narrowsburg, and to look for a red flag with aluminum foil on it. (Sure, I'll be able to find it!) I think I drove up with someone, but none of us remember who that might have been. The back roads got me to within two miles of the site; I parked on the side of the road and walked in. I arrived on the west side of the hillside and was overwhelmed by the enormity of it all. I worked my way to the front of the stage and scanned the hillside for a red flag with foil! Amazingly I saw it on stage left, part way up the hillside and made my way, along a wood fence that bordered the field, to it.

Five tips from Ron: 1. Work with the best team you can find, then as leader, build a team that’s even better. 2. Don’t wait on great opportunities. 3. Be resilient, inquisitive and engaged – participation and observation won’t cut it. 4. Find solutions; other people’s lives depend on your decisions. 5. Don’t take yourself too seriously as a leader.

“Liza remembers that I arrived, surprising her, during the Country Joe and the Fish ‘F**k’ cheer. It was a really good location, approximately a third of the way up to hill, close enough to actually see who was on stage. We didn't have much in the way of food and water supplies, so Saturday night I walked out the main access road to Route 17B, found my car and drove back to Honesdale for supplies. Returning very early Sunday morning I had lost my excellent parking space and had to park a quarter mile further down the road. Fortunately, I did re-find Liza and company. We stayed until Sunday evening by which time we were soaked. And I had to work on Monday!”

1966 JILL BLUM SHERMAN, Amherst, Mass. Jill received a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. She would like you to consider being an organ donor on your driver’s license. If it is not time to renew your license, you can go online to organdonor.gov.

ROB KLUGER, Nashua, N.H., in regards to Woodstock, the Festival, wrote, “I spent the second half of the summer of ’69 doing ‘additional college prep’ in summer classes at Dickinson. Just before exams, a beautiful woman showed up at my dorm room looking for stuff to stock the van for a trip to upstate New York. Once I learned

JOEL PUTTERMAN, Atlanta, Ga., wrote, “So on Woodstock, I too tried to navigate the ‘back way’ knowing those roads well from years of summer camp in that region. I rode up with Frank Parkhurst and I think MARK FELTZ. In any event, we got fairly close to the music that first night with a reasonable parking spot in some field. But as we discovered the next morning it was quite a hike to the music stage. Mark disappeared that first night - rendezvous with who not sure. We watched a bit of Canned Heat and some other bands and then, believe it or not, Frank had to head back to town to play in a golf tournament. At the time that was ok with me as the venue was a bit soggy, muddy and a bit like a refugee site with status and weather uncertain. I agreed to travel back with him thinking I would drive back alone to the music site. But once we left the area it was impossible to navigate back. Probably should have stayed in hindsight but would have been solo with the masses.” MEG TOWNEND TILLAPAUGH, Cooperstown, N.Y., sent this photo taken during a visit to Woodstock in May.

Class Notes

REGARDING REUNION, et.al.: CARA DEVITO LOWE, Saugerties, N.Y. couldn’t make the reunion, but sent a current photo!

NETTIE HOURIGAN MAGUIRE, Gainesville, Fla., stopped by the offices of Hourigan, Kluger & Quinn during her 50th reunion weekend at Sem in May. She asked if the alumni office would like to include a ‘photo of her with these two brilliant people’ in the Journal. Yes, we would! Pictured with Nettie are DICK GOLDBERG ’55, left, and ALLAN KLUGER ’45.

LINDSAY LAMBERT DIETRICH, wrote, “We are enjoying the good life here in Salisbury, N.C.!” RANDY GALE, Camp Hill, Pa., wrote, “After 41 years of law practice, and nearly 34 years with Thomas, Thomas & Hafer, LLP, I retired as of January 1, 2019. I am planning to spend my time on gardening, travel, golf and visiting our grandchildren. PAM PETHICK GALE ’70 and I just celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary.” MARK MYERS, Salmon Idaho, wrote, “The kids are not far and we are tight. I live in a secluded Foxfire cabin in the Idaho mountains. Health seems fine, still skiing though no steeps anymore (I guess).”

LLOYD MILLER, Barboursville, Va., wrote, “So many of you have already expressed my own thoughts on how we can say thanks to those who pulled this reunion together and also pulled us together one more time. Nettie clearly explained from her University of Florida experiences the efforts required. Betsey’s reflections on the weekend echo my own thoughts, in particular the Saturday afternoon memorial service. I really wavered whether to go to the service. However, WALLY JOHNSON gave me that nudge, and I am so appreciative. I was astounded by Sem’s Madrigal Singers, in particular their rendition of Aaron’s blessing from the Torah. I really appreciated the time to talk with a number of fellow classmates. But my biggest and most pleasant surprise was unexpectedly getting to know a few classmates that I had not known previously very well, including Wally, SCOTTIE ROBINSON, KEN LAMBERT, and the fascinating story of a transplant (JACKIE REESE TOLIVER) from North Carolina to our Wyoming Valley and Sem. Dearest thanks to all.” JOEL PUTTERMAN and his wife, Dolores, celebrated their 24th anniversary recently!

1974 Prior to their 45th reunion in May, members of the Class of 1974 shared some memories via email. RICHARD WEISS, Ormond Beach, Fla., wrote, “Thanks for sending me everything and especially the biographies which I found fascinating, fun and reminded me of a time which was enormously formative. My father (SANDY WEISS ’44) passed away on May 3, 2019 and I was with him at the time he passed and preoccupied during the past months with work and caring for an ailing parent. I wish I had written a biography but did not. “I have been fortunate, with marriage, work, children and health. I still work and have been a hematologist, oncologist, and at one point a hospice medical director. I miss Mr. Miller (French teacher) but did manage to spend a year in France and obtain a degree in French literature. Looking at the interesting places people have visited and those who are deceased, it reminds me that I can’t wait forever to do other things. If the opportunity to get together again occurs or biography updates, let me know.” DAN WHEELER, Birmingham, Ala., wrote, “The Class of '69 email chain has finally pulled me out into the open. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading about experiences that you all have documented about our time at Sem. I always felt that those of you who were day students had a life (it appears that some of you had quite a life lol) outside of the school. Life as a boarding student was different but very interesting in its own way.

MARK FELTZ, Pompano Beach, Fla., wrote, “Amy and I wanted to attend the reunion but it’s just too cold up there. Can’t do temperatures under 70 degrees. If you are ever in the Fort Lauderdale/ Miami area please look us up. Our hobbies include windsurfing, golf, tennis, yoga, and ballroom/ salsa dancing. Best to everyone.”

“I have been able to speak with JACK MONICK and WALLY JOHNSON recently and traded emails with DOC LAMBERT and JACKIE REESE TOLIVER. NETTIE, I can feel your presence from your posts. I am really disappointed to not be able to attend the reunion in person but health concerns with my wife and myself prevent it. I wish all a happy reunion and swap some good memories with each other. If business or travel plans bring you into the Birmingham area, please look me up or give me a call.” 1970 GARY BUSHELLI, Trenton, N.J., wrote, “I am now retired. I live seven months in Fort Myers, Fla., and do lots of golfing and volunteer work.”

JAMES SCHULER, Longmont, Colo., wrote, “There are many things that have happened in my life since leaving Sem in my junior year (my parents divorced ... that's why I didn't come back to Sem). I graduated from high school, went into the Navy for four years, worked in factories and at the age of 26, started college and earned four degrees (B.A., B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.). I then worked briefly for Texas Instruments and then went on to Lockheed Martin for 21 years. I retired from Lockheed in November 2017 and am now working for Ball Aerospace. “One of the best parts of my life was becoming a dad at 51! I now have an 11-year-old son and our family enjoys travelling around Colorado (my home since 1988) and anywhere else in the U.S. that we can afford. I'm looking forward to seeing some people that I haven't seen in almost half a century (where did that time go?)! 1975 CORNY CONYNGHAM ROMANOWSKI, Shavertown, wrote, “ED ‘75 is retired and enjoying every bit of it. I’m teaching Pre-K part-time and thoroughly enjoying my days with four-year-olds. Hope we have a great turnout for our 45th Reunion!” 1979 Prior to their 40th reunion in May, members of the Class of 1979 shared some memories via email. DAVE EVANS, Allentown, wrote, “DJ-ing the Friday night dances with CRAIG GOMMER, using our stereos from home, someone singing ‘Roll Out the Barrel’ in the hallway during science class, the time I stranded the track team at the Peddie Relays in Princeton :P . Ahhh, those were the days!” CRAIG GOMMER, Wilkes-Barre, wrote, “Dave Evans getting me into theater and being a stage hand and having fun helping putting on all the shows. What a blast! Good times.” JULIE GOLDSTONE MARCLEY, Montauk, N.Y., wrote to her classmates, “So many wonderful Sem memories for me! Here’s one of my fondest: On occasion, I actually got to

skip Sunday vespers! Mrs. Nesbitt allowed me to head off from the dorm to go to an under 21 disco night held at the Gus Genetti Hotel… ‘Expect a difference at Gus Genetti…’ I met up with JAMIE DELPRIORE and JODI SCIANDRA in our matching Danskin disco dresses to get down to ‘Ring My Bell’ and ‘Push push’… oh what fun we had pretending we were steppin’ out from ‘Saturday Night Fever’ in our Candies. Then back to Swetland Hall before turning into a pumpkin!” JOHN HENDRZAK, Coopersburg, wrote, “Hello classmates, I have finally been able to get to this email trip down memory lane. Trying to come up with a favorite memory is like trying to ask a kid what their favorite Christmas was. However, who would have thunk that angelic KAREN SMITH, LISA PIEROTTI and BECKY SMITH were some of the most devious pranksters in the class? “Looking back, I really enjoyed the day-today interaction with our teachers and classmates on campus. From the antics of Doc Costello, the satire of Doc Moriarity, the lousy puns of Mr. Washburn, the warning to ‘Relax’ from Mr. Davies, the ‘basta chicos’ from Senora Rudin and the doughnuts in Mrs. Levy’s history class. Plus, the library, ha! The banter in the classroom with all ‘youse guys’ is memorable and made the journey lots of fun. “Plus, we had a lot of fun events! Toga parties, Julio 54 and student center dances, the student section at the basketball games and the first night soccer game at WVW, ski trips to Vermont with memorable après ski gatherings, kidnapping the card catalog, and a very fun Senior Skip Day. It seemed like we had something to do every weekend with a landing spot at someone’s house or in a field somewhere to have our teenage fun. When’s the last time you had a Genny Cream?” SCOTT PATERSON, Milan, Tenn., wrote, “First, it’s been 40 years since I’ve seen y’all. This classmate, being the top notch student in the class (ha ha) retired as a physical education teacher and baseball coach at Milan High, and I’m now a college professor in the health and human performance department at Bethel University. Who would’ve ever thunk that!!! Can’t make it to the reunion, but I hope is all well with everyone. Our son is getting married the first week of June.” JUDY DUNHAM SHAAL, Delaware, Ohio, wrote, “Some boarder memories: Januzzi’s pizza delivered to Swetland Hall through a five-inch opening in a window, Senior Skip Day, giving haircuts to PG’s while watching the mini-series ‘Roots’ and, best of all... the dog ‘Izzy’ we hid in the Bell Tower for quite a while!” 1980 TISH MACK GROSEK, Wayne, wrote, “I embarked on a new career in 2018 as a real estate agent with Berkshire Hathaway Fox Roach-Devon, Pa. It’s a fast-paced and intricate business that I love! It’s been very satisfying to help others leave and find their new homes in the suburbs of Philadelphia. I’m just an email away for you or your friends and family. My email is tish.grosek@ foxroach.com. My son, Jake, lives and works in Austin,

Texas, just got his master's degree in data science after being in software sales for the past five years. My daughter, Claire, lives and works in New York City, where she manages recruiters who place salespeople at other tech companies.” 1982 BILL HINKO, Freeport, Maine, and his wife Mary Ann purchased The James Place Inn in Freeport, Maine after retiring from their respective finance and teaching positions in Virginia. The couple has enjoyed the first few weeks of their new venture and encourage alumni and staff to stop and sample the rooms and breakfast during a trip Down East!

1984 TRACI GIBSON KNIERIEM, Liverpool, N.Y., wrote, “I was walking across (the Syracuse University) campus at the end of yet another long day of work rushing to catch the shuttle to my car. I was walking against the tide of students heading for class not really seeing faces, just the usual throng. The one thing that caught my attention in the sea of blue and orange, was one student wearing a grey sweatshirt with Wyoming Seminary emblazoned across the front. As close as Pennsylvania is to New York, I cannot remember the last time in the 20 years that I have been here that I have seen Sem gear. I stopped the student immediately and we began commiserating about Sem. Even though we are a generation apart, we immediately connected familiar names and families. I missed my shuttle, but it was worth sharing a few moments with a fellow alumna! I hope to see many more Sem sweatshirts. I may have to invest in a new one myself!” 1997 HRVOJE BENKO, Seattle, Wash. After working at Microsoft Research for 10 years, Hrvoje joined Facebook Reality Labs to run a research program focusing on augmented and virtual reality technologies. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Elizabeth, and kids Sonja (11) and Nik (7). 1998 JESSE MERMELL, Brookline, Mass. has resigned her position as president of the Alliance for Business Leadership, which she has held since 2015, to run for the Congressional seat now held by Joe Kennedy, who announced he will run for the Senate. 1999 MIKE MESSERSMITH, New York, N.Y., wrote, “Had the awesome opportunity to catch up with classmate RANDY

LAWRENCE ’99 at the world’s largest (and craziest!) consumer goods show - Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, Calif. Randy and I have made an annual tradition of catching up at this show — he runs the whole business and brand for Village Cannery of Vermont that makes a ton of products including the amazing apple cider vinegar items he is holding. We met up at the booth for my company OATLY which has continued introducing the idea of oat milk to U.S. consumers since we launched two years ago. We missed seeing SHIREEN HUSAIN ’00 there who was with her company Vital Proteins, but want to get more Sem alums who are in the natural foods industry into our picture next year.” TIM O’DONNELL, Boulder, Colo., finished second in the Ironman Triathlon. It was his best finish ever in the Ironman World Championships. O’Donnell placed second overall and was the first American across the finish line October 5 at the Ironman in Kona, Hawaii, completing the grueling course in 7:59:41. That was just behind Jan Frodeno, who won his third Ironman World Championship with a time of 7:51:13 in the 2.4mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and full marathon. It was just the third triathlon of the season for O’Donnell, who suffered through broken ribs earlier this year and overcame a recent foot injury to turn in his finest Ironman finish. The 39-year-old current resident of Boulder, Col. placed third in Hawaii in 2015, had a fourth-place finish last year, wound up fifth in 2013 and sixth in 2016 and recorded his first top-10 finish by crossing the line eighth in 2012. This contest was the third time O’Donnell finished as the US pro men’s champion, after also earning that title in 2011 and 2012. O’Donnell also won the 2009 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championship. 2001 ALEXANDER CONYNGHAM, El Paso, Texas, was promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant, and has deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Korea and Syria. He is married to the beautiful Sgt. (Ret.) Laura Grabiec Conyngham, and

Class Notes has three beautiful children: Scarlett (7), Dean (4) and Bettie (3). His loving furry family members are Guy (dog) and Squeakers (cat). 2000 JAMES ASK, Bryn Mawr, has been named Vice President, Director of Business Development at Pennsylvania Trust. Ask served in the U.S. Navy for nine years as a naval flight officer, and concluded his service in 2013 as a lieutenant. Prior to joining the firm, Ask served as Vice President, Private Banker at J.P. Morgan in Philadelphia. He is married to MARY JANE GOVER ’02.

Class Notes 2017 EAMON TUTTLE, Kingston, Pa., spent the summer of ’19 studying Chinese at Minzu University in Beijing through Hamilton College’s ACC program. Through his roommate, he met THOMAS WEIL ’18, who is also studying Chinese through the Princeton University Program in Beijing. With the support of a Boren Scholarship, Eamon will spend the fall semester at Nanjing University. He will return to the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University during its centennial year in the spring of 2020. MARRIAGES 2003 JINGJING HE, London, U.K., married David Freeman on April 23, 2019. Jingjing and David live and work in London, U.K.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Among the bridesmaids were ALEXIS SOKACH ’17 and JESSICA SWOBODA ’11. BIRTHS 1999 MARGARET SORDONI MORRIS, Haverford, Pa., and her husband, Ethan, announce the birth of their son, Adam, on November 1, 2018. Adam weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces and is a “very health and happy boy! Older siblings Jack (3 ½), Maggie (3 ½) and Lila (2) love their baby brother.”

2003 DAN VOLPETTI, Dallas, recently earned his doctorate in education from Drexel University. It is a doctorate in leadership and management with a concentration in learning technology. 2009 ELLEN HUGHES, Charlotte, N.C., wrote, “I left teaching biology and chemistry at Sem to go to nursing school, and am currently in Northeastern’s accelerated BSN program. I got engaged in June to Adam LaFave (from Moscow, Pa.). We just bought a house in Charlotte with our dog, Hamilton.” 2012 MATTHEW BLOM, Martinsburg, W.V., was a quarter finalist for the Music Educator Grammy. He doesn't know who nominated him; he suspects his principal or one of the other teachers. He was interviewed in June at WEPM Panhandle News Radio in Martinsburg, where he now teaches. According to his mom, Dawn, “there were 189 quarter finalists in the country. He has learned that as a 2020 quarterfinalist he is a ‘Legacy’ quarter finalist for one year which means for 2021 he submits his application starting as a quarter finalist, skipping the initial application for nominees.” RENATA O’DONNELL, Shavertown, graduated magna cum laude from New York University Law School on May 22, 2019. She received the Order of the Coif by being in the top 10 percent of her class. In September, she began a clerkship for United States District Judge Edward G. Smith for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 38

2008 RYAN BARBER, Washington, D.C. married Tarini Parti on June 15 at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley, a hotel in Raleigh, N.C.

2009 NEIL O’DONNELL, New York, N.Y., married Mehak Rashid January 19, 2019 at the Venetian in Garfield, N.J.

CARLY SOKACH, Philadelphia, married Zachary Kosack on May 25, 2019. Both Carly and Zack have just finished medical school and will pursue internal medicine and family medicine, respectively at the

2003 MATT KERNS, North Little Rock, Ark., and his wife Stephanie (Martin) Kerns welcomed the birth of their son, Jameson Samuel Kerns, on July 29, 2019. 2004 MEGHAN DAVIS, Haymarket, Va., and her husband Alex Keller, welcomed son Finnegan on June 8, 2019.

MARLEY COHEN TANNENBAUM, Scotch Plains, N.J., and her husband, David, welcomed their son, Zachary Ryan, on July 11, 2019. He weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz. and measured 20.25 inches long. Zachary is the grandson of LINDA MERTZ COHEN '71. OBITUARIES 1937 JEAN SNARSKI CHEPOLIS, Nanticoke, September 14, 2019. She was born in Plains on March 15, 1919, and was the daughter of the late Charles and Mary Snarski. Jean was a graduate of Wyoming Seminary’s Business College and a member of the former Holy Child Church, Sheatown. She was preceded in death by her husband, Michael, in

2010; by brothers and sisters; and nieces and nephews. Surviving are son, Michael A. Chepolis, with whom she resided; daughter, Nancy Ball, Nanticoke; seven grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren and one greatgreat-grandchild. 1941 CAROL LANDAU FRANK, Baltimore, Md., June 21, 2018. A therapist and noted gardener, Carol died from complications of dementia at Roland Park Place. She was born and raised in Wilkes-Barre. She was the daughter of Herman Landau, a Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. salesman, and Lillian Landau, a homemaker. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in 1945 from Goucher College. She married Samuel L. Frank that same year. He became owner of A. Frank & Sons, which made linings and pocketing for men’s and women’s clothing. He died in 2013. In 1965, Carol was appointed the first director of the Women’s Job Corps of Baltimore, a position she held for four years. She then obtained a master’s degree in social work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work. From 1970 until 1985, she was employed as an adult therapist at Jewish Family Services in Baltimore. She also maintained a private practice for 14 years at her Mount Washington home. Carol also liked to travel, and was an accomplished cook who enjoyed preparing French dishes. She was a longtime member of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. Mrs. Frank is survived by two sons, Russell Frank of Baltimore and Henry Lewis Frank of Chicago; a daughter, Constance Frank of Baltimore; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. 1942 STANLEY DAVIES, Mechanicsburg, August 5, 2019. Born in Hatboro on July 18, 1923, Stan was the son of the late Stanley Bevan Davies and Elizabeth Kutzner Davies. He served three years in the United States Navy, after which he earned a bachelor of science degree from MIT, Class of 1949. Stan served multiple roles at Royer Industries in Kingston, including machine assembly, design, general manager and president. In 1972, he guided Royer's recovery from the Hurricane Agnes flood – recovering the plant from 18 feet of water, supporting employees' return and creating a future for the company. He received Wyoming Seminary’s Joseph C. Donchess Distinguished Service Award in 1996, and the Alumni Association Award in 1987. Stan is survived by his wife of 70 years, Patricia Smith Davies, of Mechanicsburg; daughters ANNE DAVIES NEWMAN ’68 (JAMES NEWMAN ’68), of Camp Hill, and CAROLINE P. DAVIES ’79, of Kansas City, Mo.; sons PETER B. DAVIES ’72 (Tarin Davies), of Albuquerque, N.M., and GORDON S. DAVIES ’77 (Cynthia Davies), of Marietta, Ga.; grandchildren Jesse, Claire and Peter

Newman, Ryan, Austin and Ashley Davies, and Joshua and Gordon Beal; and great-grandchildren Gabrielle, Marius, Theodore and Cassien Davies, Greyson Davies, Aria Newman-Wall and Pascal Welborn. Stan was well known for his love of family and children. He was adored by his children and grandchildren alike, whom he treated to canoe adventures on the Susquehanna River, sunrise fishing on the shores of Nantucket and fly-fishing in the rivers of the American West. He transformed the farm where he lived for 63 years into a nature sanctuary, building trails through the woods and a pond for family gatherings. Regarded by many as a man of unquestioned integrity, Stan was also known and appreciated for his service to community. He was a life member of the Board of Trustees of Wyoming Seminary, a member and past president of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Hospital Authority, a member of the Regional Board of Directors of the United Penn Bank, a director and past president of the Wyoming Valley Children's Association, and a member of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (president of the Northeastern Pa. Chapter). He also served as a member of the boards of the Tioga Foundry, the Foundry Equipment Manufacturers' Association and the North American Manufacturers' Insurance Company. Preceding Stan in death, in addition to his parents, were his sister, ALICE DAVIES STANLEY ’36, and brothers JAMES B. DAVIES ’39 and JOHN K. DAVIES ’43. Stan was a member of the Dallas Methodist Church. He was also a member of the North Mountain Club, the Westmoreland Club and the Huntsville Golf Club. 1944 WILLIAM S. MERWIN, Haiku, Hawaii, March 15, 2019. The former United States poet laureate, Academy of American Poets Chancellor, environmental activist, literary translator and two-time Pulitzer prize-winning author, passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home in the Pe’ahi watershed near Haiku-Pauwela. One of the nation’s most decorated and prolific poets, Merwin published over fifty books. Long at the forefront of a broad ecological and poetic consciousness, Merwin’s poems often grappled with the profound power of memory, landscape and a revolutionary engagement with language. His poetry, as well as his life as a poet, was flavored with a moral and political imperative, as when, during the Vietnam War, Merwin refused his first Pulitzer Prize and requested that his award money be divided between a peace activist, Alan Blanchard, and the Draft Resistance movement. The poet Edward Hirsch has written, “W. S. Merwin is one of the greatest poets of our age. He is a rare spiritual presence in American life and letters (the Thoreau of our era).” In the mid-1970s, Merwin moved to Maui to study Zen Buddhism with Robert Aitken, who encouraged Merwin to purchase a denuded parcel of land on the island. He would build his home there and soon after, met his wife Paula Dunaway. The two attentively replanted their plot

of land in the Pe’ahi Valley on the north shore of Maui, Hawaii. Slowly transforming a “wasteland” one sapling at a time, into the thriving 19-acre palm forest that it is today, Merwin remained a dedicated and treasured member of the environmentalist community. The couple later established a non-profit organization, The Merwin Conservancy, in order to preserve and protect their home, and its biodiverse landscape that includes over 3,000 palms, as well as other rare and endangered flora. In 2015, Merwin and his lifetime of work, both poetical and environmental, was the subject of the documentary film, ‘Even Though the Whole World Is Burning.’ Merwin received Wyoming Seminary’s Joseph C. Donchess Distinguished Service Award in 2002. Merwin’s final original collection of poems, Garden Time, was published in 2016, and two retrospective collections, a 50th Anniversary Edition of The Lice, and The Essential W.S. Merwin, were published in 2017. He is survived by sister RUTH MERWIN MOSER ’46, and stepsons Matthew Carlos Schwartz and John Burnham Schwartz. AARON BRAVMAN, Kingston and Boynton Beach, Fla., October 11, 2019. Born in Wilkes-Barre, PA in 1926, Aaron was the son of Abe and Sarah Bravman. Predeceased by his wife Muriel Katz Bravman and his sister Estelle Bravman Karp, Aaron is survived by his companion Meral Libenson; his children NANCY BRAVMAN ’73 (Mitchell Pines), ROBERTA BRAVMAN MARKS ’75 (Roger Marks), WILLIAM BRAVMAN ’78 (Wendy Lynch); Aaron’s grandchildren Daniel, Amy, and Milo; Meral’s children BRADLEY LIBENSON ’79 (Fran McLaughlin), Tina Axelrad (Jeff Kirsch), and Terri Davis (Michael Davis); and Meral’s nine grandchildren. Aaron was a graduate of Syracuse University. During the final year of WWII, he served in the U.S. Navy and received the World War II Victory Medal. Following his military service and college, he became a salesman in the furniture industry and, in later years, a stockbroker. An avid golfer, tennis player, and swimmer, Aaron’s sense of adventure included a love of travel, history, politics - and most notably, engaging with people. His favorite musical was “My Fair Lady,” and he, too, could have “danced all night.” Upon retirement, Aaron moved to Florida where he especially enjoyed winter sunshine, meeting new friends, and playing even more golf. In Florida, Aaron served on the Hunters Run Annual Campaign Management Team for the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County. He also had an enduring relationship with Temple Israel, Wilkes-Barre. STANFORD WEISS, Sarasota, Fla., passed away on May 3, 2019 at home, with his children at his side. He courageously struggled with worsening emphysema for many years, never voicing a complaint and always finding joy in what he could do. Sandy was born on January 28, 1927 in West Chester, the son of Morris and Anna Weiss. His two siblings, Evelyn Sondheim and Bud Weiss, predeceased him. He served in the Merchant Marines after graduating 39

Class Notes

from Sem. Subsequently, Sandy went to the University of Michigan where he received a bachelor's degree in economics. While at Michigan, he met Geraldine London whom he married in 1949. Sandy attended Harvard Business School where he obtained a master's degree in business administration. Upon graduation, he worked for Wanamaker's Department Store in Philadelphia. Sandy returned to Wilkes-Barre in 1953 where he joined the family business, Triangle Shoes, which had retail stores throughout the mid-Atlantic. Following the dissolution of Triangle Shoes, Sandy was the project director for Rural Health which provided medical and dental service in under-served areas of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Once retired, Sandy and Geraldine moved to the Sarasota area after living in Pennsylvania for 60 years and eventually to an independent living facility, Kobernick, where Geraldine passed away in May, 2014. Sandy was always philanthropic and was a recognized leader in the Wilkes-Barre community. He was a member of the boards of the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, Kings College, Wyoming Seminary, United Health and Hospital Services, Home Health Services and the First Eastern Bank. He was the campaign chairperson for the United Way of Wyoming Valley and the United Jewish Appeal. Sandy is survived by his children, RICHARD WEISS ’69, (wife Maureen Weiss), his daughter MARILYN WEISS AVERY ’72 (husband Bill Campbell), his grandchildren Laura Weiss, Sasha Lodinger (husband David Lodinger), Emerson Avery (wife Sarah Longworth), Michael Avery (wife Lauren Rubin). He has two great grandchildren: Leah Avery and Endl Avery. 1945 CHARLES GENNARIA, China Grove, N.C., May 22, 2019. He served in the U.S. Navy for two years, then subsequently graduated from Dickinson College. Chet attended and graduated from the Illinois College of Chiropody and Foot Surgery in Chicago, Ill.

Lackawaxen Telephone Company, Rowland, from 1994 to 1998. Organizations she was a member of or volunteered for include Van Duyn Hospital, Syracuse, N.Y., Junior League of Syracuse, Junior League of WilkesBarre and the Association for the Blind, Wilkes-Barre. A loyal benefactor of Sem, she received Wyoming Seminary’s Joseph C. Donchess Distinguished Service Award in 2004. She was predeceased by her husband, Hale S. Coughlin Jr.; and brother, JOHN D. MUELLER ’52. She is survived by her children, Hale S. (Patricia) Coughlin III, Woodland Hills, Calif.; John H. Coughlin, Fayetteville, N.Y.; and Frank M. (Susan) Coughlin, Fayetteville, N.Y.; grandchildren; great-grandchildren; brother, CHARLES F. MUELLER ’48, Pahrump, Nev.; and best friend, Janice Phillips, Dallas. JOAN PHILLIPS NAYLOR, Richlandtown, April 15, 2019, surrounded by her children after a long battle with primary progressive aphasia. Joan was born in Kingston to the late Dr. C. Hayden and Joyce (Whineray) Phillips. She grew up in Trucksville. After graduation Joan married the late DONALD C. NAYLOR ’48. Together they enjoyed camping, hiking, skiing, fishing, and spending time with their children and grandchildren. Joan worked part-time as a dental assistant, was a skilled seamstress and enjoyed cooking, gardening, and reading in addition to the outdoors. Joan is survived by her children, Donna Van Cott of Macungie; Barbara Wimmer, and husband Dennis of Quakertown; Ellen Barchet, and husband John of Clifton, Va.; and David, and wife April of Joppa, Md.; eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by brother, Roger and sister, Anne Ray. H. MELVIN VIVIAN, Dallas, Feb. 28, 2019. Born July 11, 1926, he was the son of the late H. Melvin and Albertina Rickard Vivian. Mel was a graduate of the Manlius School, New York, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

In 1950, Chet married the love of his life, Algie Anne Moser. Upon his completion of podiatry school, Chet and Algie Anne moved to Levittown, where they resided for more than 50 years and where Chet had a successful podiatry practice.

He was chairman of the board of North Branch Lumber Company, a member and past president of the Westmoreland Club, member of Wyoming Valley Country Club, chairman of the board of Hanover Bank, and member of Irem Temple. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, LEANORE MACCALLUM VIVIAN ’47; and by brother, JOHN VIVIAN ’41.

Chet is survived by his twin brother, Dr. John Weiss Gennaria, and sister-in-law, Betty Regelin Gennaria, of Surprise, Ariz.; his daughters, Tori Call and her husband, Mike Call, of China Grove, N.C., and Tracie Heglas and her husband, Dave Heglas; grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.

Surviving are his children, ERICA VIVIAN CARNAHAN ’69 and husband, Gene; Ellen Millington and husband, Sam Mundrake; Harry M. Vivian IV and wife, Kim; grandchildren, Tucker Millington and wife, Kristen; Krista Vivian, Devon Carnahan, and Tracy Carnahan; four greatgrandchildren; nieces and nephews.

1947 ANN MUELLER COUGHLIN, Dallas, January 28, 2019. She was born Nov. 10, 1929, in Wilkes-Barre, the daughter of the late Frank C. Mueller and the late Kathryn R. Mueller. She attended the Wilkes-Barre Day School, Wells College, and the Boston School of Design.

D. WADE SMITH, Hilton Head, S.C., October 2, 2019. He was preceded in death by his wife, SALLY STRAYER SMITH ’49.

Ann was a past president of AMC Cellular Corporation, Indiana, Pennsylvania from 1988 to 1995 and 40

Class Notes

1948 WILLIAM ISAACS, Kingston and Naples, Fla., September 16, 2019. Born in Wilkes-Barre, he was the son of the late Jacob and Marion Schiowitz Isaacs. Bill earned his bachelor's degree from Wilkes College. A small business

owner, Bill was the owner and operator of several businesses throughout his career. A lifetime member of Temple Israel, Bill was a 30-year Kiwanian and served on the Luzerne County Zoning Board for many years. A world class bridge competitor, Bill loved playing tennis, skiing, gardening and spending time with his family. He is survived by his loving wife, Emily Emmert; daughter SUSAN ISAACS SHAPIRO ’76, of Penn Valley; sons CHARLES ISAACS ’77 and his wife, Gabrielle, of Sherman Oaks, Calif., and ROBERT ISAACS ’02 and his wife, Jenna; grandchildren Ben, Ron, Kelsey, Mollie, Magnolia and Theodore; and siblings DAVID ISAACS ’56 and his wife, Juanita, of Burnsville, N.C., and NORMAN ISAACS ’62 and his wife, Cristina, of Palm Springs, Calif. 1949 JOSEPH EAGEN, Kingston, March 21, 2019, after a brief illness. He was the husband of Marguerite K. Eagen and they celebrated 59 years of marriage. Born in Luzerne County, Joe was the son of Joseph A. and Nan (Shovlin) Eagen. Joe was a tennis player at Sem. He attended Lafayette University before graduating from Georgetown University in 1955 with a bachelor of arts degree. He served in the U. S. Navy during the Korean War and worked at the Pentagon. He began his career as a salesman with James Eagen & Sons Mining Supply, a family business, and later was an owner and officer of Eagen Industrial Wood Products, partnering with his brother, James. He later was an owner and operator of two marine supply companies, SeaMate Products and Butler Marine Systems. He had a proud career as a local businessman and was a talented salesman and entrepreneur. Joe was a lifelong member of St. Ignatius Church and a member of the Westmoreland Club for over 50 years. A talented golfer, he was a member of Wyoming Valley Country Club for more than 65 years and served as club president. He also golfed for more than 40 years at Pocono Manor Golf Club, where he maintained a summer home. Joe was a loving husband and devoted father. He was predeceased by his son, Joseph, and his brother, DONALD EAGEN ’45. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children, THOMAS G. EAGEN ’80, husband of Megan (Reehl) Eagen, of Kingston; KATHERINE EAGEN THORNTON ’84, of Wyomissing, wife of William P. Thornton Jr.; John E. Eagen, of Philadelphia, husband of Maureen (Monahan) Eagen; and ROBERT F. EAGEN ’89, of Venice Beach, Calif., husband of Jennifer (Drubner) Eagen. He is also survived by his beloved sister, MARY EAGEN MCDONALD ’48, of Scranton, wife of the late Dr. Herbert McDonald; and his beloved younger brother, JAMES L. EAGEN ’52, of Kingston and Philadelphia; and by his grandchildren, Tommi Karen Eagen, William Evan Thornton, Marguerite Emma Thornton, John Eagen Jr., Mary Grace Eagen, Jake Eagen and Adeline Eagen. MYRON KORNFELD, Boynton Beach, Fla., August 11, 2019. He was preceded in death by his wife, LEONORE SAVITZ REIFF KORNFELD ’47, and brother Mark Kornfeld.

Myron is survived by wife Ronni (Grossman) Kornfeld; brother Gary Kornfeld; children Elliot (Eileen) Reiff, Charlene Reiff, DEVON ’72 (Lisa) Reiff, Kim Hough and Robin Goddard; and six grandchildren.

Jean (Lewis), of Kingston, along with nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her sister, Shirle Gray, of Montana and brother, Dr. ROBERT FRIEDMAN ’54, of Jerusalem, Israel.

ISABEL KREIDLER, May 9, 2019. Isabel was born on November 14, 1929, and was a resident of Trucksville at the time of her passing.

1950 MIRIAM DAVIS DUNHAM, September 10, 2019, following a stroke at The Ballentine assisted living facility in Norfolk, Virginia. She and her late husband, R. JAMES DUNHAM ‘50, had moved to The Ballentine in 2015 from Wellsboro.

Isabel graduated from Coughlin High School in 1948 and from Wyoming Seminary Dean School of Business in 1949. When asked how she would like to be remembered Isabel wrote, "I loved my family, my God, and life itself." KEITH MALKEMES, Gainesville, Fla., August 6, 2019. Keith graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering. After retiring as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Air Force with 22 years of service, he received a master's degree in accounting from Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida. He owned his own accounting firm for over 30 years before retiring. He was also a pilot and avid supporter of Gator Sports. Keith is survived by his wife Valerie Clark Malkemes, step-sons Clay Aldrich (Chrissy) and John Aldrich (Soo) and their sons; his sisters Lois Malkemes of Maryville, Tenn., and JEAN MALKEMES HICKMAN ’53 of York. He is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by father Peter Malkemes and mother Florence Oliver and siblings Claire Slavis, MARILYN MALKEMES SHARPE ’46 and ROBERT MALKEMES ’47. JOAN FRIEDMAN RITTENBERG, Kingston, March 24, 2019, surrounded by her family, following a prolonged illness. Joan was born in Nanticoke, the daughter of the late Alfred and Jean Friedman. She attended Beaver and Elmira colleges after graduating from Sem. In 1952, she married the love of her life, the late HERBERT L. RITTENBERG ’48. Together, they raised their three children and celebrated 50 years of marriage together in Kingston. Joan was a devoted wife and mother. She thrived on her occupation as a homemaker. She was an active eternal life member of Temple Israel and she served two terms as president of its Sisterhood. She was a member of the Jewish Community Center and many other community organizations. She loved to travel, visiting Europe, Russia, Turkey and Israel. She occupied her time reading to the blind and to school children during her winters in Florida. She enjoyed playing bridge and golf and in her later years she began painting. Her creations adorn her home and those of her family. She was proceeded in death by her husband, Herbert, along with her parents, Alfred and Jean Friedman and a younger brother, Marvin. She is survived by her children, Dr. Michael (Lois) of Shavertown, DAVID ’74 (Jodie), of Wynnewood, and

Born in Kingston, she was a daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. John A. G. Davis. Miriam received a bachelor of arts degree from Elmira College, Elmira, N.Y., and a master's degree from Loyola College in Baltimore, Md. For several years, she taught in the Baltimore City Public School System. Following her marriage to James Dunham, she moved to Wellsboro, where she joined the family business of Dunham's Department Store. Miriam was very active in her church, St. Paul's Episcopal, where she sang in the choir and served as senior warden. She also sang in the Wellsboro Women's Chorus and was a loyal volunteer at the Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hospital of Wellsboro. She is survived by her children, Duncan T. Hopkins Jr., of Santa Rosa, Calif., Richard D. Hopkins, of Annandale, N.J., Elizabeth Barge, of Norfolk, Va., Susan Fleischman, of Beaverton, Ore., and John A. Hopkins, of Chesterfield, Va.; and her stepchildren, R. James Dunham III, Peter Dunham, BRUCE DUNHAM ’77 and JUDY DUNHAM SHAAL ’79. Surviving also are her 10 grandchildren; and her devoted sisters, ELLEN DAVIS BENDER ’48, of Whitehall, and LILLIAN DAVIS SMITH ’53, of Dallas. ROBERT KLINE, Wilkes-Barre, May 16, 2019. He was born June 28, 1932, in Scranton to the late William S. Kline and Hannah L. Feldman Kline. He was also preceded in death by his daughter, Deborah Kline. Bob is survived by his loving wife of 49 years, Carnell Jackson Kline; his sons, Rick Kline and wife Valerie Kline, of Bonsall, Calif.; Ron, of Monterey, Calif.; Randy and wife Mary, of Lakeside, Ariz.; a daughter, Michelle Kline-Palmer and husband Shawn Palmer of Gettysburg; an "adopted" daughter, Nancy Moss Satterwhite, Moreno Valley, Calif.; a sister, SUE KLINE KLUGER ’55 and brother-in-law ALLAN KLUGER ’45, of Kingston, grandchildren Adrienne Kline, Jorden Kline, Sarah Kline, Jasmin Palmer, Jaden Palmer, his namesake Bobby Kline II and numerous nieces and nephews. Bobby was a star basketball player and all-around athlete. He attended Penn State University where he was a boxer on the Penn State boxing team, a sport he had a lifelong affinity for. He loved sports, anything with a ball, running and action. Bob was the General Manager of Kay Wholesale Drug Co. Inc., where he ran the operations of the company for 40+ years. He also worked in several positions during his years at Kay Wholesale Drug Company, wherever needed, in the business his father founded, up until his retirement in 1994. He was extremely knowledgeable about the stock

market and would gladly share that with anyone who showed interest. He had extensive knowledge of history, science and civil issues. He believed in loyalty and fairness. Bobby was a phenomenal athlete; he could run like a deer and was a terrific ball player in all sports he participated in, baseball, basketball, football and boxing. Throughout Bob's adult years, he played in several local basketball and softball leagues, boxed, and was super quick on his feet in all sports. He shared this passion with his children, teaching each one of them how to fundamentally play each sport, to try your hardest and above all, to be a good sport. Bobby enjoyed watching games on TV, attending his children's sporting events, taking his children to watch professional teams and sharing his knowledge and love of sports. Later in life, Bob coached a youth summer softball team that his daughter played on. He got great joy out of watching his children and grandchildren participate in their sporting events and even learned to appreciate a sport new to him, soccer. Bobby especially enjoyed jazz music and vacations with his wife, Carnell, to scenic beach locations. Those who knew Bobby Kline would say, "he was a really good man." MARGARET ZOELLER KNOX, Newburyport, Mass, June 15, 2019. Born in Wilkes-Barre in 1931, Margaret Mary was one of four children of the late Anthony E. and Margaret (Kelly) Zoeller. She was a graduate of St. Mary's High School in Wilkes-Barre and then went on to attend the Dean School of Business. For many years she worked as an administrative assistant for the Zoeller Paper Company. 1951 JOHN FENNELL, Frederickburg, Va., March 29, 2019. Born April 21, 1932, John was the son of the late James F. and Anna (Boyce) Fennell, Sr. John was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Claire Fennell; his sister, Ellen A. Mainzer; and his brother, James F. Fennell, Jr. John is survived by his daughter, Alexandra Fennell; four grandchildren, Benny, Harry, Stella and Caspar, all of Boston, Mass.; and many muchloved nieces and nephews. John had a deep and enduring love of football and played quarterback for the Scarlet Knights at Rutgers University where he was awarded The Homer Hazel (MVP) Award in 1954 and where he graduated in 1955. He also loved to travel and was an avid history buff. John lived and worked in New York City for many years, where he met and married Claire, before moving to Rumson, New Jersey and later to Fredericksburg, Va. John later relocated to Boston, Mass., to be close to his daughter and grandchildren where they spent many wonderful times together. 1952 ROBERT PARKER, Muncy, March 5, 2019. Born Feb. 16, 1934, in Kingston, he was a son of the late Horace and Martha (Illingworth) Parker. He married the former Alice Kuzminski, who survives. Bob graduated from Dickinson College and served honorably in the U.S. Army. He worked in marketing for various employers, including the former Northern & 41

Class Notes

Central Bank, the former Muncy Terraces, Muncy Valley Skilled Nursing and Bucknell University. Later in life he served as president of the Williamsport Chamber of Commerce. Bob was a member of St. James Episcopal Church, Muncy. He was very well known for being involved in his community and had a wonderful personality and great sense of humor. Bob and his wife enjoyed life to the fullest and loved spending time together, especially traveling and dancing in their earlier years. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by one sister, CYNTHIA PARKER DEPUY ’50. His father, Horace Parker, a long-time member of the English faculty at Sem, died in 2001. FRANCES BRESLIN SEIBERT, Bedford, Mass., January 28, 2019. Born February 3, 1935 in Wilkes-Barre, she was the daughter of the late Robert and J. Fredericka Breslin. Frances graduated with her B.A. from Marywood College in Scranton, and her M.A. from the College of St. Rose in Albany. She spent her professional career as a high school English teacher and administrator in the Ballston Spa Public School system, retiring in 1991. She founded Jazz Agility dog training and instruction in 1992 which she led and taught until her death. Hundreds of dogs and their handlers trained at the facility, and the dogs earned regional, state and national titles. She pioneered the dog agility business in upstate New York and trained others to begin their own training business. Prior to starting the agility business, she was an avid horsewoman, gardener, and master online gamer. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her sister, Whitney Breslin. Survivors include her husband of 61 years, William Seibert; daughters Mary Anne Fairlie of Steamboat Springs, Colo. and Donna (Tony) Clare of Baltimore, Md.; sons Michael (Abbie) of Boston, Mass. and Sean (Teri) of Cassadaga, N.Y.; ten grandchildren, and her sister, Sarah (Bob) Monson of Kentucky. Frances also leaves behind her beloved dog Sophie who will continue to keep her husband William company. STUART URAM, New York, N.Y., June 2, 2019. He held a doctorate of materials science from M.I.T., and was founder of Certech Inc., an entrepreneur and inventor. Known for his kindness and generosity. Survived by wife, Lillian Langotsky; daughters, Linda and Sarah Uram; son, Alex Uram and five grandchildren. Pre-deceased by Sheila Uram. 1953 Mary Stegura Cheavens, Columbia, Mo., December 21, 2018. She was a Columbia, Mo. resident for 64 years with a long-time career as a librarian for the Daniel Boone Regional Public Library System. She attended Wyoming Seminary’s Lower School and Upper School. After graduation, she obtained an associate of arts degree from Stephens College, Columbia in 1955. Born in Nanticoke, she was the daughter of the late Dr. Barney A. Stegura, M.D. and Mrs. Gladys A. Rabenold Stegura, R.N. 42

Class Notes

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Thomas Dean Cheavens and John Phillip Cheavens; and a son, Thomas. She is survived by her son, Michael and his wife, Linda; granddaughters Anna and Sophie; sister PATRICIA JOAN STEGURA LAW ’52; brother, JONATHAN FRANK STEGURA ’62; and many nephews and nieces. ROBERT CHRISTENSON, Santa Barbara, Calif., June 7, 2019. Bob attended the Naval Academy, Class of ’57, and was a member in the 7th Company. Bob married his high school sweetheart and lifetime love, Mary Johnson, also in 1957. Together they raised three wonderful sons. The family moved from coast to coast and back again, with duty spent in Hawaii and Guam. The family motto became "on the road again." Yet, no matter where or in which direction, the road would always swing through Minneapolis in order to spend time with beloved family. LEROY SYKES, Flagstaff, Ariz., January 3, 2019. He was born on June 4, 1936 in Wilkes-Barre, the only child of Clara Dora Jackier and Harry Alter Sykes. Growing up in Nanticoke, LeRoy knew by age five that he wanted to be a physician. After graduating from Sem, where many swimming records still bear his name, he graduated from Villanova University with a B.S. in biology and earned his M.S. in physiology from the University of Illinois. Later that year he answered his country’s call and enlisted in the U.S. Army. He then joined the Pa. National Guard where he remained on Physician Reserve until his retirement. In 1963 LeRoy married Helen Arlene Zeigler of Philadelphia and they had four beautiful children, Mark, the late MICHAEL SYKES ’84, Erick and Carla. In 1968 LeRoy Irving Sykes, D.O. entered private practice at the Middletown Medical Center outside Harrisburg. LeRoy was an innovator, always looking to make things better for his profession, patients and community. In the early 1970’s Dr. Sykes joined two colleagues in creating the first cardiac rehabilitation program in the country. He was a senior medical examiner for the FAA and USAF. His honest evaluation of medical malpractice cases brought him to the attention of the legal community, where he accepted an invitation to membership on the Pa. Bar Institute Faculty. In 1984 LeRoy married Elisa M. Soergel (nee Haire). He retired from active practice in 1995 when he refused to lower his quality of medical care as politically legislated. After retiring to Flagstaff, Dr. Sykes continued to advocate for patients in the medico-legal field and was appointed a Special Master for the Superior Court of Coconino County. THEODORE ZWIEBEL, Hanover Township, April 26, 2019. Born June 26, 1933, in Wilkes-Barre, he was a son of the late Theodore W. and Katherine Gwynn Zwiebel. Ted proudly served our country as a sergeant of the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955. Ted married the love of his life, Catherine Moses, on Nov. 30, 1957. Together, they raised four children, and he was most proud of supporting each of them through their college education.

Ted was preceded in death by infant sons, Patrick and Gerard; a sister, DOROTHY ZWIEBEL FARRELL ’51; and brothers, John and Robert. Ted will be greatly missed by his wife, Catherine; children, Theodore and his wife, Peggy Zwiebel, of Scranton; Michael J. and his wife, Dina, of Bel Air, Md.; Christopher R. and his wife, Denise Zwiebel, of White Haven; and Laura A. and her husband, Eric Swank, of Leesburg, Va.; grandchildren, several nieces, nephews and other family and friends. 1954 MAGDALEN BENISH, Plains, July 12, 2019. She was the daughter of the late Jacob and Mary (Mushinsky) Benish, of Plains Township. Mag enjoyed spending time at and being a part of King's College. She was an active member of Campus Ministry and enjoyed attending various activities, especially events such as the President's Dinner. She was instrumental with the help of King's College in establishing the Reverend Jozef Murgas Room, located at King's on the Square. Mag received her doctorate of humanities from King's College in May 2016 with humility and pride. A graduate of the Dean School of Business, Mag was a perennial phonathon volunteer for Wyoming Seminary. GEORGE CHAUMP, Harrisburg, May 19, 2019, in his home state of Pennsylvania, where he was a revered high school head coach. Officials with District III of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, where Chaump spent much of his coaching career, announced his death. Navy would be the third and last collegiate head coaching job for Chaump, whose first stop was Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 1982-85. He coached at Navy from 1990 to 1994 and at Marshall from 1986 to 1990. Born in Scranton, Chaump attended West Pittston High School and spent a post graduate year at Sem. He was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2003. He is also enshrined in the athletic halls of fame at Bloomsburg University and Marshall. He was inducted into the Wyoming Seminary Hall of Fame in 1982. Chaump was a football and wrestling standout at Bloomsburg before embarking on the coaching career that would span six decades. Chaump was 25 when he was hired as head coach at John Harris High, which he led to six straight Central Penn League championships and a 58-4 record. SUSIE HUTCHESON FETTER, Cockeysville, Md., March 21, 2019. The following is from an email sent to classmates and the alumni office by Susie’s husband, Bob. “Susie died yesterday morning here in Hallowell Hall Room 214 where Susie had been cared for since her return to Broadmead March 16 after a seven-day hospital stay. With the doctor and nurse close by, around 9:15 a.m. Susie fainted, as she had done on March 9, except this time there was no revival. “I received a call to come promptly to the nursing station, as I had been tidying our apartment in preparation for

our weekly visit by the housekeeping staff. After I got to the Hallowell nursing care floor, and they took me to Susie’s room, I reached both our son Allen and our daughter Lizzie (and son-in-law Paul Kellett) who then drove to Broadmead in response to my phone calls. They arrived to be there with Susie’s still warm body before she was taken away by the Maryland Anatomy Board. “Outside on the hillside through Susie’s window, more and more daffodils were seen in bloom each day this week. Two more residents brought flowers while we were sitting quietly...and the forsythia cuttings I had brought earlier in the week were now in full bloom. We enclosed some flowers before they zipped up Susie’s body. As is the custom now at Broadmead, they covered her body with a lovely quilt. We followed the Anatomy Board wheeling her out of the building...the hallways lined with staff, administrators and residents waiting quietly. Outdoors we went with the cold rain falling. “May our paths cross again... with gratitude, blessings and timeless affection, Bob Fetter” 1955 TIMOTHY NICHOLSON, Tinton Falls, N.J., April 6, 2019. Tim was a graduate of the Dean School of Business. 1956 CHARLOTTE NASH, Bend, Ore., January 11, 2019. Charlotte was a spiritual, psychic counselor and astrologer, who passed surrounded by universal love, her niece Charlotte Estes, nephew Willard Nash and friends, Cheryl and Andy Tillman. Charlotte was born February 3, 1939, to Francis and Frances Nash. Charlotte lived her life to the fullest in Pennsylvania, New York City, California and central Oregon. Charlotte enjoyed people, animals, nature, jazz, astrology, fast cars, English literature, poetry, architecture, rail travel and many other beauties and passions. She especially enjoyed healing others’ spiritual bodies so they could regain balance of mind, body and spirit. Charlotte was a woman of universal intelligence and cosmic understanding. She was an enlightened counselor: wise, aware, kind, patient and very caring. She was intuitive beyond most from birth. She effortlessly tuned into other dimensions outside the physical universe, sharing the knowledge she gained from such experiences for the benefit of others. DAVID TELLER, Seattle, Wash., February 1, 2019. David was a beloved father, husband, brother, uncle, friend, mentor, naturalist, outdoorsman, and University of Washington Emeritus Professor. He was a long-standing member of the Department of Biochemistry, who started as an assistant professor in 1965 and worked for the next 40 years in "physical biochemistry," identifying the exact chemical structure of biological proteins. He shared a deep and lifelong love of nature with his family, friends, and colleagues as well, in every season. Skiing, backpacking, sailing, and fishing were his favorite pastimes. He knew the Cascades and Puget Sound well, and it may be little or no exaggeration to

claim he knew the names of every bird, fish, animal, and plant to be found around here, along with most rocks, mosses, and lichen. He was humble and kind. He was interested in what you had to say, and always ready to talk. He was rarely bored. He was a giant in the eyes of his children. He treated others as his equals. David is survived by his wife, Gayle; children Stephen and Sara; and siblings, SALLY TELLER LOTTICK ’54, SUSAN TELLER GOODMAN ’60, GAILEY TELLER ’65 and JONATHAN TELLER ’67. 1958 WILLIAM KLEIN, Bala Cynwyd, March 3, 2019. Bill graduated from Wilkes College where he played squash and tennis. Bill went on to receive his law degrees from Dickinson Law School (JD) and Boston University (LLM). On July 11, 1965, he married Marjorie Berson. Bill and Margie enjoyed traveling the world together as well as spending time with family and friends. He is survived by his beloved wife of 53 years, Margie; daughter, Jodi; son Michael; son-in-law, Greg; daughterin-law, Alicia and five grandchildren: Drew, Dillon, Peyton, Erin and Samantha. BARBARA SOYKA, Exeter, March 23, 2019. She was the daughter of the late John and Anna (Horwath) Soyka. After Sem, she went on to receive her bachelor's degree in education from Wilkes University and her master's degree in education from the University of Scranton. Also, during this time, she studied at Oxford and Dublin University. Barbara led an active and fulfilling life. She was employed as an English teacher by Coughlin High School for 38 years and had a love for art and literature. She had a passion for gardening. She was a master gardener and was a member of the Back Mountain Bloomers. Barbara had a way with words and would always add humor to any of her presentations, which were frequently given at Penn State University. She was involved in various other organizations and projects in the area, which included the Wyoming Free Library and Misericordia University, which held a special place in her heart since she organized the Shakespeare Garden. Barbara was a woman of many talents, and she enjoyed many hobbies. She enjoyed traveling across the country and around the world — California, Italy, Australia, England and Ireland being among her favorites. She loved to share stories of the places and people she visited and was happy to share her experiences. She was an active learner and avid reader. She had a passion for music that was only deepened by her love of singing. She was an excellent baker and cook. She enjoyed hosting dinners for her friends and family, as well as sharing her recipes and techniques. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her Aunt Helen Soyka. She is survived by a brother, John Soyka and his wife, JoAnn; and an aunt, cousins and many friends. 1960 STEPHEN MORGART, Garner, N.C., April 4, 2019. He is survived by his wife Nancy; his children, Jeffrey, Rachel,

and Jason; and his grandchildren, Raven and Leah Durham, Hannah, Casey, and Cooper Morgart. Stephen left a legacy of service to his country, state, and community. Steve served in the Army Special Forces; he was a policeman in Endicott, New York for 21 years and served on the board of directors for one of the first battered women's shelters in New York state. This humble man helped launch North Carolina's "Booze It & Lose It" impaired driving enforcement efforts to an unsurpassed level in the U.S. He was the first full-time mobile breath alcohol testing unit operator in the U.S. He laid the groundwork and established the operating guidelines that put North Carolina in the forefront of mobile alcohol testing and impaired driving enforcement. He was a guiding light for many other states in their efforts to combat impaired driving. 1962 DAVID MASSEY, Wilmington, N.C., December 17, 2018. He is survived by his wife, Sydney Carpenter Massey; and his children, David, Drew, Kenley, Courtenay and Cody. He was the proud "Poppy" of four grandsons and four granddaughters. Dave went to East Carolina University and then settled in New Jersey where he would ultimately meet the love of his life, Sydney. They moved to New Smyrna Beach, Fla. and Dave enjoyed his days selling real estate and playing golf with friends. He laughed often and was an entertainer amongst his group of dear friends. Dave was also a "parent" to his well-loved boxers and recent rescue Bee Bee 2. 1963 JEFFREY VAN COTT, Bend, Ore., June 1, 2019. 1965 LANCE HAUS, Feb. 20, 2019, Leesburg, Va. Lance was born Nov. 6, 1947, in Nanticoke to the late William L. and Phyllis A. Turner Haus. He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Maureen O'Donnell Haus; his daughter, Lora Kite (Gary); granddaughter Ashleigh Kite; brother-inlaw Joseph O'Donnell; sister-in-law Linda Konetski (Edmund); cousins; and several nieces and nephews. He attended Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where he graduated magna cum laude with distinction in all subjects in 1969. After graduation, he moved back to Pennsylvania to work as a teacher of adult education for the Wilkes-Barre School District. He later returned to Cornell University to complete his Ph.D. graduate work and served as director of transportation at Cornell for several years. In 1976, Lance moved his family to Reston, Va., to begin a 30-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. He served in many management positions across the organization, rising to the rank of the Senior Intelligence Service. He served on the board of the Northwest Federal Credit Union and was a member of the American Economic Association. After retirement, he spent nine years living in New Oxford with his wife while enjoying a slower pace of life. They returned to Virginia in 2011 to be closer to their daughter and granddaughter, where Lance resided until his passing. 43

Class Notes

When not spending time with his family, Lance loved to be on the golf course. He was an avid reader and loved animals, especially his corgis and cat Middy. LEONARD PAWLOWSKI, West Nanticoke, September 16, 2019, surrounded by his loving family at Residential Hospice, Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre. He was born Jan. 27, 1947 and received his B.S. degree in accounting from Bloomsburg University, Class of 1969, where he was a founding member of the Delta Pi fraternity. He also attended Luzerne County Community College and Muhlenburg College. Leonard began his career as a business teacher in the East Penn School District, Emmaus. After the death of his father and grandmother, Leonard returned to the area to manage the family business, Pawlowski Studio, and continued to do so for over nine years. In 1982, he began working for First Eastern Bank and was promoted to investment officer a year later. In 1987, he was promoted to vice president. Leonard continued to work after the merger of First Eastern Bank to PNC and later Hilliard Lyons. He retired in August 2012. Leonard was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons of Nanticoke Lodge and was also a lifelong member of First United Methodist Church, Nanticoke, serving as past administrative chairman of the board and currently as financial secretary and communion steward. He was a member of the Nanticoke Historical Society and recently contributed a segment to "Our Town" that aired on WVIA, covering the history of Pawlowski Studio. Leonard was preceded in death by his parents, Leonard and MARILYN NADONLEY PAWLOWSKI ’42, of Nanticoke. He is survived by his loving wife of 49 years, Faye (Gibbon); his daughters, Kristen Pawlowski Tomko, of Nanticoke, and Keri Keiser and husband Rob, of Mountain Top; brother Walter Pawlowski and wife Joan, of North Carolina; sister MARILYN PAWLOWSKI NICHOLSON ’65, of Taos, New Mexico; grandchildren Aiden Tomko, Caleb, Haylee and Noah Keiser; brothers and sisters-in-law; and nieces and nephews. P. THOMAS SHOULDICE, Towson, Md., December 19, 2017 of multiple myeloma. A native of Pa., Tom’s career in education spanned 46 years. After teaching science in New York and at the McDonough School, he co-founded the Living Classrooms Foundation in 1985 and served as its executive director until 1987. Taylor, his wife of 39 years, says that “Living Classrooms really got its start in our living room.” Tom joined the Baltimore County Public Schools in 1987. After serving as science teacher, science department head, magnet coordinator and assistant principal in various Baltimore County schools, he was appointed principal at Dundalk Middle School in 2003. In 2008, he became principal of Dundalk Senior High. His first challenge was to revitalize a school thought to be failing. He then supervised the three-year planning/ construction process that combined Dundalk Senior High and Sollers Point Technical High School in a new state-of-the-art facility that opened in 2013. 44

Class Notes

In 2014, Tom was awarded the honor of Humanitarian of the Year by the Optimist Club of Dundalk. In 2015, he was recognized as Principal of the Year by the Baltimore County Student Councils. Tom retired in 2015 because his health would no longer allow him to work at the level he felt his school deserved. Following retirement, he was a part-time educational consultant with AdvancePath Academics and taught a course in the secondary education department at Towson University. In addition to his wife, Tom is survived by his son David, daughter-in-law Karina and grandchildren Elvis and Alexis, all of Jacksonville, Fla. He is also survived by his siblings Lynne Stritzinger, DIANNE SHOULDICE TOWNSEND ’67 and her husband the Rev. Robert Townsend, AMY SHOULDICE GOODMAN ’77 and CHRISTOPHER SHOULDICE ’81 as well as numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his brother ROBERT SHOULDICE ’62. 1967 BRIAN BENDEL, Denver, Pa., August 11, 2019. He was the husband of Harriet F. (Heath) Bendel. Together they celebrated 34 years of marriage. Born in Reading, he was the son of the late Stanford F. and Catherine E. (Addis) Bendel. Brian attended Sem as a post graduate and then attended Kutztown University. He went on to work as a finance manager for various car dealerships, including Masano Auto Group, where he last worked. Brian enjoyed car-related hobbies, especially watching Indy Car racing and driving his own cars. He was well known to be an avid golfer and will be remembered for his love for his cats. 1969 SUSAN LICHTIG, East Windsor, N.J., September 18, 2019. Susan was born in Wilkes-Barre on Dec. 25, 1951, daughter of Edwin Lichtig, Jr. and Edna Frieder Lichtig. Susan was one of just a handful of women to be selected to attend Dartmouth through their First Year College Exchange Program, earned her undergraduate degree from Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. as a French major, and then her EdM graduate degree in educational media from Boston University. She was employed at Bellcore, Telcordia, ADP and the International Monetary Fund, serving as a quality assurance professional and corporate training instructor/ designer throughout most of her career. Her greatest passion was in creative expression. She devoted herself to cooking special gourmet meals for family and friends, developing her own mixed media art forms, and teaching art at local senior centers, at the Highland Park library as well as regionally, serving as a teaching intern at the International Center for Photography in New York City and as a teacher's aide for artist Mary Taylor. Other pursuits she enjoyed included playing violin at Interlochen Music Camp, summer living in France through the Experiment in International Living, dancing, spending time with friends and vacationing in Maine.

She is survived by her two sisters, KAREN LICHTIG ’63 of New York City, and ELLEN LICHTIG ‘74 of Novato, Calif., and brother, EDWIN LICHTIG ’74. 1971 TED TIHANSKY, Rochester, N.Y., March 16, 2019. Originally from Pennsylvania, Tihansky was the son of a doctor. For a while he followed that path himself as a premed student in college. His search for career fulfillment led him through a succession of jobs, including a climb up the ladder in the food service industry. But all along art had been what he most enjoyed doing; and in 1980 he began pursuing it seriously. Since the 1980s the artist has made Rhode Island his home base, while painting in locations as diverse as Maine, Florida, France and the Czech Republic. Tihansky took classes at the Paier College of Art and the Lyme Academy in Connecticut as well as the Art Students League in New York City. He established a reputation as an outstanding portrait painter, and his commissions have included former presidents of the University of Rhode Island, the Naval War College and the Providence Art Club. Having studied with internationally known teachers in both portraiture and landscape, Tihansky felt that the two are not mutually exclusive - artists build a color vocabulary through the interchange of techniques. In 1991 Tihansky was awarded the prestigious John Stobart Landscape Fellowship that enabled him to travel and paint in Washington, British Columbia, Pennsylvania and Maine. Ted Tihansky feels that his work is a diary of his life. "The paintings are the end products...what is important to me are the moments and experiences that I have because of my painting. The people I meet and the things I do are for a reason." Ted is survived by his brother, JEFFREY TIHANSKY ’75. 1972 ROBERT SIMMONDS, Dillsburg, June 20, 2019. Born June 9, 1953 in Danville, he was the son of the late Harriet A. (Lynn) and Henry T. Simmonds, Jr. Bob earned his bachelor's degree in 1978 from Bucknell University. He retired from the Swatara Township Police Department with 28 years of service in 2006 as a detective sergeant. Bob then worked for Erie Insurance as a senior fraud investigator until 2016. Bob loved all animals, especially his dogs, Margo and Micha. Bob loved to foster dogs as part of the Mid Atlantic English Springer Spaniel Rescue. Bob is survived by his loving wife, Adele R. (Fryer) Simmonds; three daughters, Sarah Simmonds Bingaman and husband Daniel of Lewisberry, Leslie Hall of Etters and Lauren Hall and husband Chad Hopple of New Cumberland; sister, Mary A. Simmonds and husband Richard Stewart of New Cumberland; niece, The Rev. Dr. Anne W. Stewart of Princeton, N.J.; father-in-law William Fryer of Mechanicsburg and his granddaughter Isla Hopple. JANE SCHIOWITZ, Nyack, N.Y. October 3, 2019. Jane was born in Wilkes-Barre, a daughter of the late Dr. Al and Jean F. Schiowitz. She was the granddaughter of the late Nan and Mose Fuerth and the late Mollie and Morris Schiowitz.

She is survived by her husband, Richard Brooks, and son Julian, of Nyack, N.Y.; sister Dr. NAN SCHIOWITZ ’75 and Michael Stemmer, of Philadelphia; brother Dr. Robert Schiowitz and Dr. Ronit Sugar, of Philadelphia, and brother Dr. Mark Schiowitz and Therese Schiowitz, of Wilkes-Barre. She is also survived by her brothers-in-law, David and Charles Brooks; and several aunts, numerous cousins, and nieces and nephews. While at Sem, Jane was a member of the Cum Laude Society and received a National Merit Letter of Commendation. She then graduated from the University of Virginia. She studied at the School of the Visual Arts and received a master of fine arts degree from Bard College. Jane was an accomplished abstract painter and creator of exquisite jewelry. She exhibited at Elizabeth Harris Gallery in New York City for many years and her work is in multiple private collections. Jane was beautiful inside and out, a devoted wife and mother. Everything she did was done with elegance and grace. She was well-read, a Francophile, a gifted story-teller and was famous in Nyack for her chocolate chip cake. Gentle, perceptive, a bit introverted, she also possessed a wicked sense of humor. There was fire, too: she threw batting practice, ran most opponents off a tennis court and was a menace playing scrabble. Jane was a fixture at Julian's basketball, soccer and baseball games. 2007 PHILIP KACHMAR, Atlanta, Ga., June 25, 2019. Although he suffered from avascular necrosis for the past several years, which caused multiple health issues and surgeries, he embraced life to the fullest and never allowed his medical issues to impede his academic and personal accomplishments. God gifted PJ with charisma, which enabled him to light up a room and draw people to him. His kindness, humility and concern for others endeared him to all who knew him. Born Dec. 20, 1988, in Kingston, PJ was the son of Carl Kachmar and Molly Kachmar. PJ was a graduate of the University of Scranton, where he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in political science and philosophy. While at the University of Scranton, he was a member of the Special Jesuit Liberal Arts Honors Program, was active in student government and coached Spartan Ice Hockey. He received a Fulbright Award, one of the most prestigious and competitive fellowship programs in the world, to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he served as a teaching assistant and earned a master of arts degree in political science. In May 2019, he received his Juris Doctorate from Emory University School of Law. At the time of his death, he was preparing for the Pennsylvania Bar Examination and looking forward to the next chapter of his life as an attorney. Prior to obtaining his law degree, PJ was employed by First Eagle Management, New York City, as an institutional sales associate. During law school, he was employed by Rubicon Global of Atlanta, Georgia, as a legal intern. PJ enjoyed travel, golf, tennis and ice hockey. He was a lifelong fan of the Denver Broncos and the Colorado

Avalanche. He treasured the memory of attending Super Bowl XLVIII to see the Broncos play.

was employed by Wyoming Seminary Lower School from 1982 to 1993.

PJ was preceded in death by his grandparents, Philip J. and Margaret Maher and Emil and Lucille Kachmar, all of Kingston. He is survived by his parents; a brother, Dr. MICHAEL KACHMAR ’10 and Michael's fiancée, Kellee Edmond; aunts, uncles, cousins; as well as other members of his extended family; and many, many dear friends.

She was preceded in death by her sisters, Mary Alice Eggleston and DOLORES PROKOP ’44; and an infant brother. Surviving are her loving husband of 63 years, Raymond S. Garbor; children, Jeffrey Garbor, Drexel Hill; and Marybeth Demko and her husband, John M., Kingston; and several nieces and nephews.

2009 OLIVIA MARQUART, Dallas, April 6, 2019, peacefully at home, surrounded by her family and close friends after living with cancer for six years. Born in Kingston, she was the daughter of MARJORIE HENRY MARQUART ’78, of Dallas, and Eric Marquart, of Sarasota, Fla. Olivia was a graduate of Salve Regina University, Newport, R.I., Class of 2013, with a B.A. in early childhood education. Olivia was an avid equestrian at Grand Stride Inc., Beaumont. The trainers, Bill and Heidi Osborn, and all the riders and their families became Olivia's second family. She participated in horse shows in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania. In addition to her riding, Olivia was actively involved with the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults and their Key to Keys ride; Think BIG Pediatric Cancer Fund; and was a counselor at Camp Dost – a camp for pediatric cancer patients. She loved to laugh. She was well-known for her blog – TheSarcasticSarcoma.com. Preceding her in death were her maternal grandparents, FRANK M. HENRY ’50 and Dorothea Henry; paternal grandfather, Howard Marquart; uncles FRANK M. HENRY, JR. ’74 and SCOTT E. HENRY ’76; and cousin KIRK FREY ’01. Surviving, in addition to her parents, are her sister, SAMANTHA MARQUART BRIANARD ’07 and husband JAMIE BRAINARD ‘05; paternal grandmother, Shirley Conyngham; step-grandmother, Freddie Bittenbender Henry; aunts, Maryjane Henry, Wendy Henry and Kirsten Judd; uncles, Michael Marquart and Lee Judd; cousins, LAUREN HENRY ’09, FRANK HENRY III ’13, BRIGITTE HENRY COOPER ’04 and husband Steve and daughter Caroline, SCOTT M. HENRY ’06 and wife Erica and son Scott Jr., JOHN HENRY ’10 and wife Mary Kate, JANE HENRY ’12 and Zachary Judd; as well as the Bittenbender family. FORMER FACULTY BETTY PROKOP GARBOR, Kingston, March 12, 2019. Born Oct. 30, 1930, in Plymouth, she was the daughter of the late John Prokop and Mary Gush Prokop. Betty was a graduate of Plymouth High School and a 1950 alumna of Wyoming Seminary’s Dean School of Business. She was a devoted member of St. Ignatius Church, Kingston, where she was very active with her church. Prior to her retirement, she

HARRY NAGELI was born Sept. 3, 1933 in Scranton, son of the late Harry J. and Jane Morgan Nageli Sr. He attended Scranton schools and earned both a bachelor of arts degree in English, magna cum laude, and a masters of arts degree in English from the University of Scranton. In 1956, he began an extraordinary 54-year teaching career at Wyoming Seminary Upper School in Kingston, retiring in 2010. While he taught freshman civics and government courses during his first three years at Sem, it was as an English teacher that Harry was most revered by students and fellow faculty members. He taught just about every English class and elective course that Sem offered, from grammar to composition to modern American and British literature. He was particularly fond of the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster and spent many summers studying literature at the University of London and various Oxford colleges. His extensive knowledge of literature, ability to lead his students to understand and appreciate both poetry and prose, and his rapier wit made him one of the most popular of all Upper School teachers. He chaperoned many a school trip to Europe, served as an adviser to the yearbook, the senior class and a number of clubs, attended all of the school's theatre and concert performances, served as a commencement marshal and was a revered member of the dormitory faculty in Darte and Carpenter halls, where he lived for more than 30 years. He also served an entire generation of Upper School teachers as a faculty mentor. A dedicated student as well as teacher, he frequently spent the summers traveling and studying in both western and eastern Europe as well as the Soviet Union and China. The school presented him with two prestigious awards, the 1987 Maslow Award for Teaching Excellence and the 2014 Joseph C. Donchess Distinguished Service Award.

Cover

2018-19 REPORT OF GIFTS PAGES 47-65

Ways to give 

MAIL:

Please use the reply envelope to return your check or credit card gift.

ONLINE:

Visit www.wyomingseminary.org/donate to make a secure online gift.

PHONE:

Please call 570.270.2144 to make your gift or pledge by phone.

MONTHLY:

Consider making a recurring gift every month by visiting www.wyomingseminary.org/donate or calling 570.270.2144



SECURITIES TRANSFER:

Securities should be transferred through the DTC Clearing system using the following instructions:

GIVING DEADLINE

JUNE 30, 2020

Merrill Lynch DTC #8862 Account name: Wyoming Seminary Further Credit to Account #: 882-04362



QUESTIONS:

Please contact Maddie Kropp ‘05, Director of Annual Giving, at mkropp@wyomingseminary.org or 570. 270.2144

A Message from the Development Office

News from the Development Office

Slaff Endowed Teaching Chair Funded

A Milestone Worthy of Celebration ... On behalf of the advancement team, I extend my heartfelt thanks to the alumni, parents, and friends of Wyoming Seminary, whose generosity during the School’s 175th anniversary year is celebrated in our Report of Gifts. The Report of Gifts recognizes members of the Sem community who have made a contribution to the School during the period from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019. They include our leadership-level donors, our Annual Fund participants, our corporate and foundation contributors, our volunteers, and donors who have created bequests and other gifts that Sem will realize in the future. The following is a comparison of giving for the last five fiscal years: FIVE-YEAR GIVING REVIEW

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

Unrestricted Annual Giving

$471,621

$557,772

$635,588

$619,169

$603,809

Restricted Annual Giving

$982,309

$1,493,635

$1,333,272

$1,549,130

$1,614,796

Total Annual Giving

$1,453,930

$2,051,407

$1,968,860

$2,168,299

$2,218,6057

Capital/Endowment Giving

$2,564,310

$2,379,046

$2,579,434

$5,553,242

$2,121,318

Gifts for All Purposes

$4,018,240

$4,430,453

$4,548,293

$7,721,541

$4,339,923

The 2018–19 campaign marks the first time in history where gift receipts have totaled more than $4 million for nine consecutive years. The total annual giving amount is the largest in school history. Special thanks to Claire Conlon Evans ’52, national chairperson of the 175th Anniversary Annual Giving Campaign, who led this remarkable growth in annual giving support. Claire and her team, especially the members of the Leadership Gifts Committee, did an outstanding job.

At the time of Sem’s 150th anniversary capital campaign, ALLAN SLAFF ’40 and his wife Mary Lee made a commitment to initiate The Captain Allan P. Slaff Chair in American History and American Military History. The Slaffs established a charitable remainder trust in October 1994 to fund this gift. With the death of Allan Slaff in February 2019 in the midst of the School’s 175th anniversary, the proceeds of the trust will now be invested and used to fund the salary and other expenses of the faculty member chosen to occupy this endowed chair. “Allan Slaff had a long and distinguished career in the military, education and business,” noted JOHN SHAFER ’71, Vice President of Advancement. “He regularly attended class reunions on campus as well as the annual winter alumni gath-

erings in Naples, FL. He was immensely proud that he was the first Sem graduate to graduate from the United States Naval Academy. I had many visits with him over the years in Florida and on every occasion he expressed gratitude for the role the Sem faculty played in his life, especially Dean James Adams.” “One of the great traditions at this school is the legacy of teaching excellence exemplified by the great “profs” who taught here during Allan’s era,” Shafer continued. “That teaching excellence continues at Sem today with the dedicated faculty members at both the Lower and Upper Schools. Wyoming Seminary is truly honored that through Allan’s gift, that teaching excellence is appreciated, celebrated and will continue for generations to come.”

Since October 2001, Wyoming Seminary has been approved by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a “Scholarship Organization” under the guidelines of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program, and since August 2012 under the guidelines of the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) program. Through these programs, Pennsylvania corporations who pay certain state taxes can make a gift to the scholarship program at Sem in lieu of paying up to 90% of those state taxes if the company makes a two-year commitment. More than $475,000 was contributed to these two programs and we are most grateful to the following companies for their support during the current fiscal year: Almo Corporation, Benco Dental Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., Community Bank N. A., First National Community Bank, Getaways, Inc., Henkels Foundation, Innovation 2 Manufacturing, Koberlein Environmental, M & T Bank, J. P. Mascaro & Sons, Medico Industries, One Source Staffing Solutions, PA Messenger Solutions, PNC Bank, Pride Mobility Products Corporation, UGI Storage Company, United Way of Wyoming Valley and Weis Markets, Inc. A school like Wyoming Seminary has not been able to grow and develop the way it has, however, by current gifts alone. Indeed many of the gifts that have helped to build the School’s endowment to a market value of $69.5 million on June 30, 2019 have come in the form of bequests and deferred gifts. Since 1982, Wyoming Seminary has received more than $29.9 million in estate gifts. We are honored the following alumni and friends continued this legacy during the 2019 fiscal year with bequest distributions coming from each of their estates to Sem:

Walter Condon ’50 Robert Dealaman ’63 Marcella McCormick Fay ’39 Alfred Gross ’41 Jacqueline Anderson Kepler ’44

David Love ’65 Frederick Rudolph ‘38 Murray Scureman ’56 Allan P. Slaff ’40 Robert Vandenberg ’39

This past year’s celebration of Sem’s 175th anniversary once again gave me the opportunity to reflect on this special place so many of us are proud to call our alma mater. I was a sophomore student at Sem during the School’s 125th year and have been working in the alumni / development office for the 150th and 175th. It truly was a great pleasure to hear the stories many of you shared at events here on campus and across the country — the gratitude to teachers, coaches and advisors … the lasting friendships that were made … the opportunities presented by Sem … and on and on. The alumni/development team is honored to work every day in an office that partners with the faculty and staff to help insure that future generations of students will have even more enriching experience. Please continue to join us on campus or at regional events across the country. Check www.wyomingseminary.org regularly for event updates. On behalf of the students and faculty who are the ultimate beneficiaries of your generosity, I express our gratitude and the hope that we will continue to merit your continued support in the years to come.

John H. Shafer ’71 Vice President of Advancement 48

Leadership Recognition Giving

Recognition Giving Levels Persons listed on these pages – grouped by constituencies and ordered according to giving levels – have generously supported Wyoming Seminary’s programs and institutional needs. Recognition reflects gifts to the School recorded and received between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018. Donchess Society President’s Anniversary Circle President’s Cabinet The Founder’s Society Nelson Tower Associates Levi Sprague Fellows 1844 Club Dean’s Society Blue & White Club

Donchess Society Zelia and Quincy Abbot '50 Almo Corporation Benco Dental Company James and Amy Valli Bennett '94 The James and Amy Bennett Foundation Gladys Brooks Foundation Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Patricia and James Calkins '71 Eugene and Roslyn Chaiken Si Chen and Bei Wang Rebecca Binder and Charles Cohen '84 Community Bank N.A. Estate of Walter Condon '50 Cordelia Family Foundation Ann Mueller Coughlin '47* Dorothy Darling '68 Estate of Robert Dealaman '63 Degenstein Foundation John and Tina Dowd Claire Conlon Evans '52 Estate of Marcella Fay '39 Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Kathi S. Flack Nadine and Steven Foldes '66 Edward E. Ford Foundation Robert Friedman '73 Getaways, Inc. Julia and Bruce Gover '98 Greater Miami Jewish Federation A. Michael '57 and Anne Silverblatt Greenwald ’66 Gabriele and G. Jonathan Greenwald '60 Estate of Alfred Gross '41 Kristi and Gerald Gunster '85 Hackett Philanthropies Foundation Christopher and Ramah Hackett Henkels Foundation Irene Hinko Sharon and David Hourigan '71 Innovation 2 Manufacturing (i2M) The Jewish Community Alliance of Northeastern PA F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc. John Lopatto III '69 50

$10,000 or more $5,000 to $9,999 $2,500 to $4,999 $1,844 to $2,499 $1,000 to $1,843 $500 to $999 $250 to $499 $100 to $249 $1 to $99

Estate of David Love '65 The Luzerne Foundation M&T Bank Heeyun and John Magagna '52 Marjorie E. Henry Marquart '78 J.P. Mascaro & Sons Richard Maslow McCole Foundation, Inc. Mary Eagen McDonald '48 Medico Industries Robert and Kim Mericle Scott Meuser and Susan Talbot-Meuser Corliss Mueller Bette and Stanley Nabi '48 The Nabi Foundation Geraldine Nesbitt Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation One Source Staffing Solutions Hilary and Charles Parkhurst '79 Akemi and Thomas Price '71 Hedy and Ronald Rittenmeyer '65 Estate of Frederick Rudolph '38 Jennifer and Arthur Sherwood '56 Estate of Allan Slaff '40 Annelise and Robert Smith '56 Jennifer and William Sordoni '93 Rebecca and Alex Steinbergh '58 Kenneth and Caroline Taylor Family Foundation Kenneth and Christina Taylor Thalenfeld Family Trust United States Naval Academy Foundation United Way of Wyoming Valley USA Wrestling Estate of Robert Vandenberg '39 David Wallace '97 Susan Wayne '56 Wyoming Seminary Alumni Council Wyoming Seminary Lower School Parents Association Wyoming Seminary Upper School Parents Association President's Anniversary Circle Anonymous

Leadership Recognition Giving

Jan and Richard Abramowitz '69 Bank of America Matching Gifts Program John Van de Graaff and Marylee Bomboy '63 Joyce and Harold Buckingham, Jr. '48 Leslie Turrell Bullock '63 Lisa and John Calce '90 Yvette and Frank Carlucci '81 Kevin and Leslie Dymond Marks '84 Bettijane Long Eisenpreis '53 First National Community Bank Freddie Mac Foundation Elizabeth Gover R. Clements '00 and Joanna Siegel Gover '91 Jeffrey L. Grogan Architects, Inc. Jean and John Hassler, Jr. '62 Highmark Leonard and Lita Insalaco Allan '45 and Sue Kline Kluger '55 Koberlein Environmental Services Jaye Ellen Hindin Lewis '72 Hong-Nan Lin and Wan-Lin Wang Mary Lopatto '72 Connie and Raymond Maest '56 Metz Culinary Management Janet Murray '76 Timothy and Dianne O'Connor John and Marjorie Passan Foundation The Philadelphia Foundation PNC Bank Power Engineering Corporation Pride Mobility Products Corp. Kevin Rea and Jennifer Rhoads Adina and Stephen Rosenthal '93 Patricia Rummage Mary and William Scott '54 Estate of Murray Scureman '56 Catherine and John Shafer '71 Judd and Susan Weiss Shoval '70 Megan and Robert Tamburro '91 UGI Storage Company Kevin and Neil Walker-Neveras '84 The Wight Foundation, Inc. Tara Mugford Wilson '88 President's Cabinet Lisa Bellemore and Matthew Alsted '89 Andre and Renee Bartlett Judith Casper Bohorad '59 Redge Meixner and Leon Bonner '61 The Boston Foundation Qi Chen and Pei-Hua Hsu Jody and Trudy Cordaro Henry Cornell '13 James Cornell and Stephanie Dodson Jeffrey and Lisa Doggett Eleanor and Jonathan Dyson '67 Mark and Jeanne Giallorenzi Patricia and Frederick Graboske '62 Jeffrey Grogan '67 Belinda Sneddon and Christopher Gunster '83 The Merritt L. Harding Educational Trust Marcy and Alexis Iszard '69 Estate of Jacqueline Kepler '44

Estella and Stephen Killian '66 C. Suzanne and Kelly Mather '56 Valerie and Robert Montgomery '57 John '63 and Marion Harvey Morton '63 Cheryl and Reuben Munday '65 PA Messenger Solutions, Inc. t/a Title N' Go Julie and John Platt '49 Charles Strome, Jr. '46 Fredric Bell and Pauline Thomas '69 Nancy and Jeffrey Weiss '73 Wells Fargo Mary Ann and Robert Wiggins '68 Barbara Williams '74 Helene and Robert Zimmerman '65 The Founder's Society Anonymous Jean and David Abelson '71 Barbara Fassett Oski Beane '53 Thomas '01 and Emily Blaum Bradshaw '01 Maureen and Charles Bufalino, III '78 Weihua Cao and Yuzi Jiang Don and Elizabeth Kluger Cooper '79 ExxonMobil Foundation Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra Celeste and David Hinko '84 Sharon and Michael Keough '71 Xiaochun Liu and Ke Chang James '48 and Rosemary Waverka Long '52 Jeanne Lopatto '77 Ellen Brenton McAllister '70 Donald and Kristie Miers Lois Ostrowski Daphne Hurford and Sanford Padwe '57 Betsy Hughes Phillips Peter and Mary Pavia Rolla '75 Peter Yochum and Nicole Santo-Yochum '03 Nancy Shafer Xufeng Shen and Feina Zhou Henry and Catherine Smith Helge and C. Peter Speth '54 Edward and Margaret Brown Tregurtha '81 Ilya Volodarsky '08 Weis Markets, Inc. Carolyn and Orville Wright, Jr. '52 Susan Yelen '66 Nelson Tower Associates Charlotte Glinka and Charles Alexander '58 The Allstate Foundation Estelle Andrews '65 Arnold Foundation Christy Thomaskutty and Meg Aronowitz '95 Baker Tilly Vincent Baldassano and Tamara Vrabec Bank of America Charitable Gift Foundation Marian Berk Barr '49 Michael and Julie Bean Stuart and Carolyn Bell The James E. & Constance L. Bell Foundation Peter and Dorothy Memolo Bheddah '57 Arnold Biscontini

Black Horse Foundation Matthew '94 and Sarah Sordoni Bruno '96 David Bujnowski '89 Joseph and Jan Butcher Bonnie and John Capone '55 Charlotte and Peter Casterline '61 Chubb Charitable Foundation Robert '72 and Jeannie McCarthy Clements '77 Clark '49 and Rita Kilgallon Conlon '49 Ann and Wesley Crompton '43 Michelle and Donald Davis '68 Carlo and Doreen de Luna Alexander W. Dick Foundation John Dixon '50 James and Beth Doherty Nancy and Robert Edgerton, Jr. '69 John and Elaine Eidam Allen and Mary Erwine Thomas Evans '51 Tina and William Evans, Jr. '81 Gloria and John Fassett '51 Bradley Fenster and Mary Louise Decker-Fenster Bernard and Susan Frantz Michael and Andrea Frantz L. Peter and Laura Frieder Ellen Winner and Howard Gardner '61

Fred Genung Nancy Brader Gibson '50 Rosemary Chromey and Richard M. Goldberg ’55 Golden Business Machines, Inc. Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund Charles and Viola Gommer John Graham '67 David and Carol Greenwald Samuel and Renea Hammerman Patricia and Adolph Herst '58 Seymour and Evelyn Holtzman Alice and Frank Hughes '74 Barbara and William Hughes '76 IBM Corporation Lisa and S. Michael Imperiale '78 Jewish Communal Fund Christos Varkoutas and Kimberly Johns '90 Carole and Richard Johnson '80 Harvey '49 and Judith Raub Klein '47 David '76 and Emma Simms Kluger '85 Joseph Kluger '82 Joseph Kraus and Paula Chaiken Carolyn and Kenneth Lambert III '69 David M. Lauderbaugh '59 Barbara Northrup Lemmond '52 Don and Constine Yahara Lewis '56 Changming Li and Dankui Han

Xinyu Li and Yujing Wang Yueming Li Patricia and John Licata '76 Llewellyn & McKane, Inc. Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC Regina and Frank Maguire '73 Chip Kern and Melanie Maslow-Kern '82 McGregor Fund Dave and Carolyn Graham McLaughlin-Smith '68 Susan and Jeffrey Metz '88 Marvin Metzgar '52 Ethan and Margaret Sordoni Morris '99 Tien Nguyen and Ngan Duong Kip and Marilyn Nygren Bob and Kathryn Perkins O'Fee '69 Penn State Mechanical Contractors, Inc. William Pierce '54 Bill Plante and Robin Smith Jeffrey and Leah Popple Lynn and Ellen Firestine Rebert '71 Robert and Ellen Dreikorn Redick '66 Elizabeth and Harry Reich '59 Edward '75 and Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski '75 Richard and Virginia Simms Rose '81 Barbara and Daniel Rosenn '60 Philip Santarelli '67

Harry '63 and Lon Youngquist Schooley '63 Schwab Charitable Fund Bruce Crawford and Joan Patterson Sheil '54 Yu Shen Margy Simms '79 Rhea and Ronald Simms '56 Allison and Brandon Sipple '02 Tim and Stephanie Coccia Slavish '02 Richard Neilson and Laura Semmer Sobol '54 Somerville Construction Services Inc. Barbara Soyka '58* Eric and Hong Nguyen Stumpff '82 Molly and Jeffrey Summerhill '99 Tampa Orlando Pinellas Jewish Foundation Inc. Dorothy and Lewis Thayne '67 Carolyn and Joseph Torsella '81 Joseph Waiter '69 Zuyi Wang and Keping Zhu Jerome and Dawn Llewellyn Washo '81 Nancy Welker '59 Jeong Joon Yu and Hye Jeong Oh Yuewei Zhang and Chunye Cheng Yanchen Zhong '18 Liwu Zhou and Hong Ouyang

President's Anniversary Circle Harold C. Buckingham, Jr. '48 Leslie Turrell Bullock '63 Frank C. Carlucci, IV '81 Leonard Insalaco Sue Kline Kluger '55 Mary Ann Lopatto '72 Janet E. Murray '76 Kevin P. Rea Stephen J. Rosenthal '93 Robert S. Tamburro '91

The Founder's Society Barbara Fassett Oski Beane '53 Charles J. Bufalino, III '78 Nicole Santo Yochum '03

Levi Sprague Fellows Lisa Baker Stanley S. Davies '42 Richard M. Hughes, III '79

Nelson Tower Associates Matthew Bruno '94 Wesley R. Crompton '43 Mary Louise Decker-Fenster Richard M. Goldberg '55 Charles F. Gommer, Jr. Joseph E. Kluger '82 Jeffrey Metz '88 Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski '75 Lewis E. Thayne '67

1844 Club Anthony L. Berger '73

Toni Loftus Renee McGowan Benjamin Schall Ronalee Schall

Dustin S. Good '04 Kathleen Hanlon Gayle Sekel Lucille Shick Heidi Sims Jeffrey Sims John M. Vaida Bernardine Vojtko

* deceased

Trustees Donchess Society Amy Valli Bennett '94 Dorothy Darling '68 John Dowd Robert C. Friedman '73 Bruce E. Gover, Jr. '98 G. Jonathan Greenwald '60 Gerald D. Gunster '85 David P. Hourigan '71 John F. Magagna '52 Marjorie Henry Marquart '78 Scott Meuser Charles H. Parkhurst '79 Arthur W. Sherwood '56 Robert H. Smith '56 William E. Sordoni '93

President's Cabinet Jody Cordaro Jeanne Giallorenzi Stephen B. Killian '66

Dean's Society Harry F. Lee '53

Faculty and Staff President's Anniversary Circle Kevin P. Rea John H. Shafer '71 Nelson Tower Associates Julie B. Bean Jan L. Butcher James Doherty Elaine Eidam

Levi Sprague Fellows Rachel Bartron Nicole Brogan Julie Calabro Charles Carrick Jill Carrick Mary Elizabeth Hibbard '69 Catherine Kersey Christopher J. Kersey '90 Karen Klassner

1844 Club Christiane Appenheimer-Vaida Elizabeth Blaum Catherine A. Callahan '88 William Davis

Faculty and Staff Dean's Society Vicki Austin Kayanne Vanderburg Barilla '84 Jennifer Brown-Sponseller Elaine Burg Paul Burg Mary Lou Clemente Sharon Conway John R. Eidam, Jr. '90 Nancy Federici Laning J. Harvey '80 Brian Kaschak Elizabeth Clements Katyl '05 Patricia Kilyanek Concepcion Kopec Anne Lew James W. Magagna '06 Kathryn Mercado Jennifer Mercatili Philip Mercatili '03

Current Grandparents Ivy Miller Anne E. Newhart Priyanka Patel Edward Plaksa Christopher E. Pons Kathleen D. Rickrode Jean E. Ris Steven A. Ris Barbara Lumia Rogers '77 Rebecca Rosengrant Elizabeth Schmaltz Heidi Schukraft Robert Senchak Harry T. Shafer '04 Meredith Shafer Jane Slaff Gail E. Smallwood Lauren Streifer Jill Stretanski

Blue & White Club Regina Allen Colleen Ayers Denise Barber Adam Carlisle Kathleen Carlisle Logan Chace Craig Cirelli Maria Coons Anne De Marzio Lois Feibus Nicholas Fritz Elizabeth A. Frosini Cecilia Galante Natalie Granger Randolph Granger Lisa Iskra Madeline I. Kropp '05 Sara Latcham Alison M. Lott

Tiffany Maakestad Kristine Ertley McCarthy '86 Sara Rosenberg Molitoris '05 Jessica Montrella Meghan Morgan Thomas Morris Douglas Piazza Christine Poole Danielle Romanchick Joseph Rovelli Michele Ruggiero Rebecca A. Scavone Jill Snowdon Clark G. Switzer Brennan Twardowski '10 Eileen Warren Mark F. Webber

President's Anniversary Circle Mr. Hong-Nan Lin and Ms. Wan-Ling Wang Ms. Janet Murray Mr. Kevin Rea and Ms. Jennifer Rhoads Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Rosenthal Ms. Tara Wilson President's Cabinet Mr. and Mrs. Andre Q. Bartlett Mr. Qi Chen and Ms. Pei-Hua Hsu Mr. and Mrs. Jody Cordaro Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Doggett Dr. and Mrs. Mark Giallorenzi The Founder's Society Atty. and Mrs. C.J. Bufalino, III Mr. Weihua Cao and Ms. Yuzi Jiang Mr. and Mrs. Donald Miers Mr. Xufeng Shen and Ms. Feina Zhou Nelson Tower Associates Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bean Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Butcher Dr. and Mrs. Carlo de Luna Drs. Bradley Fenster and Mary Louise Decker-Fenster Mr. and Mrs. James Doherty

President's Anniversary Circle Mr. and Mrs. John H. Shafer Nelson Tower Associates Mr. and Mrs. John R. Eidam, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Allen W. Erwine Mr. and Mrs. L. Peter Frieder, Jr. Levi Sprague Fellows Mr. and Mrs. William Flood Mr. and Mrs. William Howell Mr. and Mrs. William Landmesser Mr. and Mrs. William Mainwaring Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Morris Mr. Bernard Prusak Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rosenthal 1844 Club Mr. and Mrs. Robert Donnelly Ms. Marlene Henzes

Current Parents Donchess Society Mr. Si Chen and Ms. Bei Wang Mr. and Mrs. John Dowd Mr. Robert Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hackett Mr. Scott Meuser and Ms. Susan Talbot-Meuser Mr. and Mrs. William Sordoni Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Taylor, III

Donchess Society Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Chaiken Mrs. Claire Evans Mr. and Mrs. John F. Magagna

Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Frantz Dr. and Mrs. Samuel I. Hammerman Dr. Joseph Kraus and Ms. Paula Chaiken Mr. Changming Li and Ms. Dankui Han Mr. Xinyu Li and Ms. Yujing Wang Dr. Yueming Li Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Metz Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Popple Ms. Yu Shen Mr. and Mrs. Tim Slavish Mr. Zuyi Wang and Ms. Keping Zhu Mr. Jeong Joon Yu and Ms. Hye Jeong Oh Mr. Yuewei Zhang and Ms. Chunye Cheng Mr. Liwu Zhou and Ms. Hong Ouyang Levi Sprague Fellows Mr. and Mrs. Benson Bartron Mr. and Mrs. Shawn Brogan Rev. and Mrs. Charles Carrick Mr. Bohai Chen and Ms. Xiaodan Yu Mr. Tho Dang and Ms. Uyen Tran Mr. and Mrs. Peter Duke Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Kersey Mr. and Mrs. Bob Loftus Mr. and Mrs. Jay McGowan Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Mihalick Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Rees Mr. and Mrs. Greg Santo Dr. Michael Stefanov Mr. Dajun Tuo and Dr. Ge Xiao Mr. Yiru Xian and Ms. Kun Liu 1844 Club Mr. and Mrs. Anthony L. Berger Mr. and Mrs. William Davis Mr. Richard Frable Dr. Kathleen Hanlon and Ms. Kerry Ritondo

Mr. and Mrs. Jay Kievman Mr. and Mrs. Greg Larramendy Mr. and Mrs. Calum McNeil Mr. and Mrs. William Miller Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Munch Ms. Marla Parente Mr. and Mrs. Tarak Patel Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Sekel, Jr. Mr. Richard Shonk and Ms. Andrea Malia Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Stefanowicz Dean's Society Dr. and Mrs. Allan Austin Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Barilla Mr. and Mrs. Paul Burg Mr. and Mrs. John E. Charland Dr. Yueguo Chen and Ms. Ruoxia Wang Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cooley Mr. and Mrs. John R. Eidam, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Fletcher Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Flood Mr. and Mrs. Teal Gilbert Drs. Eric Hunt and Elizabeth Hughes Drs. William Irwin and Megan Lloyd Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kilyanek Mr. Fanhui Kong and Mrs. Danmei Zheng Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kutish Dr. and Mrs. Ming Lew Mr. Warren Lewis Ms. Kathryn Mercado Mr. and Mrs. Philip Mercatili Mrs. Ivy Miller Mr. and Mrs. John Parsons Mr. and Mrs. David Piavis Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Pons Mr. and Mrs. Raymond G. Pryor Mr. Saul Pulido and Ms. Cindy Ramos Mr. Michael Quinn

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Rosengrant Ms. Jill Samuels Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Shafer Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Siegel Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Stretanski Mr. and Mrs. Edward Urban Ms. Ellen Yuscavage Blue & White Club Mr. Adam and Dr. Kathleen Carlisle Ms. NinaMaria Cinti Mr. Neil Cronin and Ms. Jessica Montrella Mr. Ciahnan and Dr. Jennifer Darrell Mr. and Mrs. Darryl De Marzio Ms. Cecilia Galante Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Iskra Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Kurilla Dr. Carolann Littzi Dr. Yang Liu Mr. and Mrs. Steven Lott Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Maakestad Mr. Thomas Morris and Dr. Katherine Veazey Morris Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parra Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Poole Ms. Tara Quinn Mr. and Mrs. Pete Romanchick Mr. and Mrs. Kay Roperz Mr. and Mrs. Eric Ruggiero Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Scavone Mr. and Mrs. Mark F. Webber Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Williams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williamson Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Charles Youngman

Mr. Joseph Kester Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Kopec Mrs. Sandra Lefkowitz Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shedlock Mr. and Mrs. Roger Sheets Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Stefanowicz Ms. Viola Supon Dean's Society Mrs. Gloria Coates Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dicton Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Faust Mr. Jim Fitzpatrick and Ms. Lolly Kersey Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Frantz Mr. and Mrs. James P. Ganter Dr. and Mrs. Al Giallorenzi Mrs. Joyce Greene Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hawk Ms. Patricia Hufford Mr. and Mrs. Donald Jones Mrs. Elise Kenney Mr. and Mrs. D. James Kersey Ms. Mary Rose Malia Mr. Thomas Murray, Jr. Mrs. Elizabeth Olsen

Mr. Alan Hughes and Mrs. Polly Pentecost Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Mel Plucknett Mr. Jerry Raymond and Dr. Gail Keating Ms. Patricia Rees Mr. and Mrs. William Resser Mrs. Barbara Rogers Mr. and Mrs. William J. Romanow Dr. and Mrs. Frank Sandstrom Mr. and Mrs. Robert Senchak Mr. Robert Urban Mr. and Mrs. Gary Vanderburg Ms. Mary Rae Yatcilla

Blue & White Club Ms. Sharon Amann Ms. Bernadette Betnar Mrs. Helene Doherty Mr. and Mrs. Robert Getz Drs. William and Barbara Price Mr. Anthony Ross, Jr. Ms. Judith Schasberger Mr. Charles Snyder Mr. and Mrs. Clark G. Switzer Ms. Barbara Virtue Mr. and Mrs. John Wright Mr. and Mrs. John Zimich

Friends, Past Parents and Past Grandparents Donchess Society Mrs. Irene Hinko Mr. Richard Maslow Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Mericle Mrs. Corliss Mueller Ms. Geraldine Nesbitt President's Anniversary Circle Mrs. Elizabeth Gover Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Insalaco Mr. and Mrs. Timothy O'Connor Mrs. Patricia Rummage President's Cabinet Mr. James Cornell and Ms. Stephanie Dodson The Founder's Society Mr. Xiaochun Liu and Ms. Ke Chang Mrs. Lois Ostrowski Ms. Betsy Hughes Phillips Mrs. Nancy Shafer Drs. Henry and Catherine Smith Nelson Tower Associates Drs. Vincent Baldassano and Tamara Vrabec Mr. and Mrs. Stuart M. Bell Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Biscontini, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Erwine Mr. Michael and Dr. Andrea Frantz Mr. Fred Genung Rev. and Mrs. Charles F. Gommer, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. David Greenwald Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Holtzman Mr. Tien Nguyen and Ms. Ngan Duong Dr. and Mrs. Kip P. Nygren Mr. Bill Plante and Ms. Robin Smith Levi Sprague Fellows Mr. and Mrs. John R. Bilodeau Mr. F. Warren Breig, Jr. and Ms. Carol Fells-Breig Mr. John Burbank, Jr. Mr. Wenping Chen and Ms. Song Han Dr. and Mrs. John Dickinson Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hartman Dr. Steven Kafrissen Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Kiesling Mr. and Mrs. Rick Kornfeld Mr. Alexander Lurba Mr. and Mrs. William Mainwaring 1844 Club Ms. Deborah Amato Mrs. Elizabeth Burgess Mr. Xiaoxiao Cheng and Ms. Qiaofei He Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Costello Atty. Ingrid Cronin Mr. and Mrs. David Davies Ms. Kimberly Domiano Mr. and Mrs. Kenton J. Droppers Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Edwards Mr. Jay Lefkowitz and Ms. Lisa Sunday-Lefkowitz Mr. Xiaorui Liu and Ms. Hui Zhao

Mr. and Mrs. N. John Maza Mr. Bernard McGough Mrs. Lynn Molitoris Mr. Biao Zhang and Ms. Yan Lai Dean's Society Mr. Mark Adelson Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Antinnes Mr. James Bullock Mr. and Mrs. David Buran Mr. and Mrs. Rick B. Burkey Ms. Cynthia Campbell Ms. Brenda Chung Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Churnetski Mrs. Dorothy Cohen Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas Colangelo Mr. and Mrs. Harris Cutler Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Davis Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fischer Mr. and Mrs. Glenn H. Frank Mr. and Mrs. Peter Frosini Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Halloran Mr. Joseph and Dr. Patricia Hannon Mrs. Betty Harris Mr. and Mrs. Charles Holena Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hopkins Mr. and Mrs. John D. Jeremy Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Johns Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kachmar Mrs. Betty Jane Lee Ms. Catharina Litjens

Mr. and Mrs. O. Charles Lull Ms. Denise Martin Mr. T. Bryant Mesick Mr. Raleigh Myers Mr. Jay Notartomaso Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. O'Hara Mrs. Cathy Pearlman Mr. Philip Post Mrs. Susan Price Mr. and Mrs. Terry Rivera Mr. Donald Roberts, Jr. Mrs. Nancy Ross Ms. Leslie Sacks Dr. Azra Sehic Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Siff Ms. Starr Snead Mr. and Mrs. Larry Sprankle Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stankus Dr. and Mrs. William R. Summerhill, Jr. Mrs. Liela Taggart Mr. John Thalenfeld Mr. and Mrs. Tom Tomeo Mrs. Susan Trynoski Drs. Robert Tuttle and Margarita Rose Mr. Douglas Vanderau Mr. and Mrs. Gary Vanderburg Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Wall, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Williams Ms. Ann Woodland Mr. Zilong Zheng and Ms. Minxia Yang

Friends, Past Parents and Past Grandparents

Blue & White Club Mr. and Mrs. David P. Allen Mr. Jaye Beebe Ms. Marie Belasco Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Keith F. Benjamin Mrs. Judith Blaine Mrs. Irene Blum Mrs. Bernardine Borinski Mrs. Alison Cady Dr. Michael Callahan and Ms. Deborah Klayman Callahan Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Chivers Mr. and Mrs. Frank DeViva Mr. and Mrs. Paul Eyerman

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Fiske Mrs. Mei-Ling Fry Mr. Lawrence Furey Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Randy Gimble Mr. Mark Hirko Ms. Kathryn Hughes Ms. Jeanne Kerridge Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Knight Mr. and Mrs. Gary Kopervas Ms. Joan Lupinski Mr. Dave Martin Dr. and Mrs. John Moriarity Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nardone, Sr.

Dr. and Mrs. Gary Nataupsky Mr. and Mrs. Spencer G. Nauman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Nogi Mr. and Mrs. Jonah O'Hara Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Orlando Mr. and Mrs. Tony Phan Ms. Brenda Pigou Mr. Wesley Pokrinchak Dr. and Mrs. Julio Ramos Dr. Hope Riley Mr. and Mrs. Bill Rogers Mr. Dan Rossi Mrs. Helen Schieffer Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Shadie

Class Reports

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Sharkey Mrs. Molly Shaughnessy Mr. and Mrs. James Smallcomb Mr. and Mrs. John C. Stevens Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Stringfellow Ms. Iliana Such Ms. Ann Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. David Volodarsky Mr. Jeffrey Woodland Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. York Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Zoranski

President's Anniversary Circle Bank of America Matching Gifts Program First National Community Bank Freddie Mac Foundation Jeffrey L. Grogan Architects, Inc. Highmark Koberlein Environmental Services 54

LPL Financial Services Isabel Francis Smith & Ralph Lawrence Smith Foundation United Way of Greater Atlanta Waveland Advisors, Inc. 1844 Club Ball Corporation The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation Matheson Warehouse & Transfer Co. Microsoft Midlantic Engineering, Inc. Norfolk Southern Foundation North Branch Friends Meeting Pfizer Foundation Prudential Foundation Paul J. Schmitt, Sr. and Helen Stapleton Schmitt Memorial

The Founder's Society Anonymous ExxonMobil Foundation Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra Weis Markets, Inc.

Baker Tilly Bank of America Charitable Gift Foundation The James E. & Constance L. Bell Foundation Black Horse Foundation Chubb Charitable Foundation Alexander W. Dick Foundation Golden Business Machines Inc. Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund IBM Corporation Jewish Communal Fund Llewellyn & McKane, Inc. Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC McGregor Fund Penn State Mechanical Contractors, Inc. Schwab Charitable Fund Somerville Construction Services Inc. Tampa Orlando Pinellas Jewish Foundation Inc.

Nelson Tower Associates The Allstate Foundation Arnold Foundation

Levi Sprague Fellows Ameriprise Financial Patty Chapman Family Foundation

Metz Culinary Management John and Marjorie Passan Foundation The Philadelphia Foundation PNC Bank Power Engineering Corporation Pride Mobility Products Corp. UGI Storage Company The Wight Foundation, Inc. President's Cabinet The Boston Foundation The Merritt L. Harding Educational Trust PA Messenger Solutions, Inc. t/a Title N' Go Wells Fargo

1943 Nelson Tower Associates Wesley R. Crompton Levi Sprague Fellows Paul D. Griesmer 1944 1844 Club Robert C. Buckingham Gloria Rothstein Whitesman Dean's Society Thomas C. Pollock

Businesses, Organizations and Foundations Donchess Society Almo Corporation Benco Dental Company The James and Amy Bennett Foundation Gladys Brooks Foundation Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Community Bank N.A. Cordelia Family Foundation Degenstein Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Edward E. Ford Foundation Getaways, Inc. Greater Miami Jewish Federation Hackett Philanthropies Foundation Henkels Foundation Innovation 2 Manufacturing The Jewish Community Alliance of Northeastern PA F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc. The Luzerne Foundation M&T Bank J.P. Mascaro & Sons McCole Foundation, Inc. Medico Industries The Nabi Foundation Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation One Source Staffing Solutions Kenneth and Caroline Taylor Family Foundation Thalenfeld Family Trust United States Naval Academy Foundation United Way of Wyoming Valley USA Wrestling Wyoming Seminary Alumni Council Wyoming Seminary Lower School Parents Association Wyoming Seminary Upper School Parents Association

1942 Levi Sprague Fellows Stanley S. Davies

Blue & White Club Alvin L. Dattner Mary Burnside Mangelsdorf 1945 President's Anniversary Circle Allan M. Kluger Dean's Society Herbert M. Weiss Blue & White Club Katharine Lamme Stevens 1946 President's Cabinet Charles Strome, Jr. Levi Sprague Fellows Dorothy Russell Magratten

Dean's Society Aetna Foundation, Inc. Combined Jewish Philanthropies GE Foundation Genever Charitable Foundation Green Valley Landscaping Jewish Federation of Cleveland Mericle Properties Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation, Inc. Mark J. Sobeck Roof Consulting, Inc. T&F Tire Supply Vanguard Group, Inc. Wells Fargo Philanthropy Fund

1844 Club Irwin E. Lecker

Blue & White Club AGIA, Inc. Amazon Smile Foundation Bright Funds Foundation eScrip Exelon Foundation Ligus Electric Service Love's Thermal Systems Macy's / Bloomingdale's TisBest Philanthropy

Levi Sprague Fellows John C. Machun

Dean's Society Barbara Smith Bollman George J. Leacacos 1947 Donchess Society Ann Mueller Coughlin Nelson Tower Associates Judith Raub Klein

Dean's Society Elizabeth Brownlee Sherk 1948 Donchess Society Mary Eagen McDonald Stanley A. Nabi President's Anniversary Circle Harold C. Buckingham, Jr.

The Founder's Society James A. Long 1844 Club Ellen Davis Bender Dean's Society George J. Cardone William J. Donovan Elaine Barnett Espey Patricia Heffernan Ferenbach Rebekah Nicholson Malkemes Blue & White Club Virginia Harris Barrett Jane Treat Cable June Johnson Stevens 1949 President's Cabinet John D. Platt Nelson Tower Associates Marian Berk Barr M. Clark Conlon Rita Kilgallon Conlon Harvey S. Klein 1844 Club John H. Allan Nancy Luetzel Boyea John A. Kastor Harriet Feinberg Segal Dean's Society Shaela Netzel Cahill Donald F. Dembert Eleanor Hutcheson Epler Bayonne Ward Gowan Margery Goldstein Rosenberg Ann Peterson Zablocki Blue & White Club Edna Price Bailey Elaine Adelson Berg Constance Tremayne Temple Lois Kiefer Trowbridge 1950 Donchess Society Quincy S. Abbot Nelson Tower Associates John D. Dixon Nancy Brader Gibson Levi Sprague Fellows Donald P. Bush, Jr. 1844 Club Anne Cook Dickerson Dean's Society Maxwell E. Davison Ruth Bass Fiedler Joel B. Goldstein Barry J. Iscovitz

Priscilla Davis Perry J. Benjamin Reinoehl Barbara Miller Scheuer Margery Hutter Silver Blue & White Club Maureen Shedleski Brady Auvo I. Kemppinen Nancy Weiss Klein Jack E. Lockledge Mary Hileman Williams 1951 Nelson Tower Associates Thomas G. Evans John B. Fassett, II 1844 Club Norman A. Clemens Dean's Society Harold C. W. Birth Claire Lois Evans Fair William D. Golightly Blue & White Club Joseph J. Barbacci Vincent E. Dioguardi Richard N. Neuman 1952 Donchess Society Claire Conlon Evans John F. Magagna The Founder's Society Rosemary Waverka Long Orville Wright, Jr. Nelson Tower Associates Barbara Northrup Lemmond Marvin E. Metzgar Levi Sprague Fellows Stuart Z. Uram Jerrold R. Williams 1844 Club Robert C. Morgan Barbara Bauman O'Hanlon Dean's Society Helen Miller Davis Jean Schoch Griffith Richard A. Ide Harry S. Keller, III Robert N. Levy Janet Ahlborn Roberts Frederick R. Trumbore Blue & White Club C. Ruth Graeflin Dilts Warren M. Epstein Sheldon Nelson

1953 President's Anniversary Circle Bettijane Long Eisenpreis The Founder's Society Anonymous Barbara Fassett Oski Beane Levi Sprague Fellows Robert Keith Hastie Jeanne Malkemes Hickman Hilbert C. Lehman 1844 Club Carolyn Goeringer Basler Albert A. Prushinski Lillian Davis Smith Dean's Society Joanne Pemberton Anderson Roger G. Clark R. Lawrence Fraze John Hughes, Jr. Barbara Harter Koehl Harry F. Lee Gaeton A. Long Jack Sallada, Jr. Carol Evans Storrs Anne-Louise Strickland Blue & White Club Nancy Mains Ennulat 1954 President's Anniversary Circle William J. Scott The Founder's Society C. Peter Speth Nelson Tower Associates William S. Pierce Joan Patterson Sheil Laura Semmer Sobol Levi Sprague Fellows Elizabeth Hutcheson Fetter John C.H. Morgan Jean Cattanach Sziklas 1844 Club Elsa Funke Bainer Thomas E. Watkins Dean's Society Magdalen M. Benish George A. Blewitt Elizabeth Bloss Breisch Paula Heffernan Daley Louise Engle Dove Ruth Gates Kelly Sally Teller Lottick Catherine Howell Susanin Blue & White Club Deborah Rosen Cohen Ralph E. Dula 55

Class Reports

Barbara Schwartzbach Felder Henry I. Jacoby Jan Helbig Jemison Donald H. Roeske

Charlotte Perkins Schmucker Barbara Kurlancheek Shaffer Charles A. Shaffer Henry T. Wadzinski

1955 President's Anniversary Circle Sue Kline Kluger

Blue & White Club Frederick A. Farber Ronald H. Kaiser John P. Kubert Helen Schainuck Rubin

Nelson Tower Associates John J. Capone, Jr. Richard M. Goldberg Levi Sprague Fellows Louise Loucks Moore Mindaugas Petrulis 1844 Club Virginia Baner Dewey Mary W. Haas Carol Ann Hyman Levitin David M. Micahnik Dean's Society Miriam Hughes Carroll Martha McLean Kelley David B. Rivers Helen Tinsley Ralph Wetzel Blue & White Club Donna Gay Kaplan Richard C. Maurer Margaret A. Smedley 1956 Donchess Society Arthur W. Sherwood Robert H. Smith Susan Wayne President's Anniversary Circle Raymond M. Maest President's Cabinet Kelly J. Mather Nelson Tower Associates Constine Yahara Lewis Ronald W. Simms Levi Sprague Fellows Lewis D. Dana John L. Hopen Helen Hoffa Hughlett 1844 Club Robert Q. Busch Rita Biscontini O'Donnell Eric Stusnick Dean's Society Nancy Fern Ellen Gerstein Hollands Robert P. Margie Virginia Miller Schmidt 56

Class Reports

1957 Donchess Society A. Michael Greenwald President's Cabinet Robert K. Montgomery The Founder's Society Sanford I. Padwe Nelson Tower Associates Dorothy Memolo Bheddah 1844 Club Walter E. Dean, Jr. A. John Dimond Stark G. Jones

Blue & White Club Carol Crayton Dimock Llewellyn B. Jones Michael Stemniski Michael Sumner 1959 President's Cabinet Judith Casper Bohorad Nelson Tower Associates David M. Lauderbaugh Harry Reich Nancy K. Welker

Eleanor Parsons Coppedge Susan Teller Goodman Murray Ufberg 1961 President's Cabinet Leon W. Bonner, Jr. Nelson Tower Associates Peter F. Casterline Howard E. Gardner Levi Sprague Fellows Peter Turrell

Levi Sprague Fellows Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr. Bernhardt K. Wruble

1844 Club Raymond John Bolek Elizabeth Greene Ross

Nelson Tower Associates Harry B. Schooley, III Lon Youngquist Schooley

1844 Club Arthur H. Darling David H. Ennis Ann Popky Fisher Lynn Kurlancheek Gonchar Robert E. Jones Gayle Jenkins Mandle Bettina Clark Murphy Francine Stein

Dean's Society Jane Cochran Chambers Thomas Chambers Gerald M. Coopey Anne Harvey Howell Peter K. Johnson W. Kentley Jones Dale H. Moses George Arnold Pahls Sanford G. Thatcher Howard T. Watson, Jr.

1844 Club Stephen R. Ingraham Susan L. Sgarlat

Dean's Society Susan Eaton Calvert Irwin S. Davison Robert L. Wood Blue & White Club George J. Behler Robert Hausmann Jane Graham Kishbaugh Marian A. Stevens

Blue & White Club Arthur Bacon David M. Closterman Raymond Howard Elizabeth Closterman Roberts Sandra Laidler Valenti Margaret Havard Vogelson Alan D. Wilcox

1958 Donchess Society Alex M. Steinbergh

1960 Donchess Society G. Jonathan Greenwald

1962 President's Anniversary Circle John H. Hassler, Jr.

Nelson Tower Associates Charles W. Alexander Adolf L. Herst Barbara Soyka

Nelson Tower Associates Daniel W. Rosenn

President's Cabinet Frederick J. Graboske

Levi Sprague Fellows J. David Lloyd Jay N. Weinberg

Levi Sprague Fellows Norman H. Isaacs Albert C. Molter, Jr. Simon S. Russin, III

1844 Club Linda Bryan Goss Dean's Society David E. Bravman William F. Dickover James R. Edwards Edward D. Griffith, Jr. Mary Giffin Intlekofer George A. Thatcher

1963 President's Anniversary Circle Marylee Bomboy Leslie Turrell Bullock President's Cabinet John Morton, III Marion Harvey Morton

Dean's Society Jane Muncy Campbell Joseph M. DiGiacomo, Jr. Diane Burnside Haddle Ellen Shaffer Meyer Claire Trethaway Oldham Virginia Margavitch Payne Louise Bertels Porter Lawrence Remener Carole Teplitz West

Levi Sprague Fellows John W. Charlton Barbara Phillips Howell Judith Terry Smith

Blue & White Club Ruth Shaffer Chariton Carole Schalm Ertley Karyne Miller Wilner

1844 Club Michele Levine Hoffman Margaret Fischer McGroarty Robert W. Strickler Dean's Society Kathleen Adonizio-Reiff Judith Fassett Aydelott Irving Brand Fred W. Ortman, III Philip D. Thompson Blue & White Club Carol Androsky Platt Townend Arnold

1844 Club Kenneth W. Leyshon Dean's Society Anthony L. Carey M. Elizabeth Tribler Corrigan Michael G. DiNunzio Skip Falbo Flora Franconi Christopher A. Lacy Ann Horlacher Murray Carol Silberman Nelson Dembert M. Gerald Schwartzbach J. Richard Steidel

Dean's Society Margaret Perkins Beers John Johnson, Jr. Richard L. Kramer Norman H. Kresge William Sneed Blue & White Club Marsha Mittleman Adelman Karen Lichtig 1964 Levi Sprague Fellows Eleanor Swantko Fairclough Patricia Klein Rosenthal W. Thomas Walker 1844 Club Susan Mason Horn Lois Levitsky Koteen Judith A. Robbins Dean's Society Robert Evans Roslyn Schor Fishman Samuel K. Mitchell, III George J. Sick Myrtilla Abbott Squitieri Lawrence G. Stets Christina Shafer Zardecki Blue & White Club A. Anthony Anzalone Elizabeth Pillarella Faerber Samuel M. Wolfe, III 1965 Donchess Society Ronald A. Rittenmeyer President's Cabinet Reuben A. Munday Robert R. Zimmerman

Nelson Tower Associates Estelle B. Andrews Levi Sprague Fellows Howard Y. Harris, Jr. Winifred W. Rowe 1844 Club Helen M. Jones Frederick R. Levy Dean's Society Robert D. Anton Michael L. Cunningham N. Thompson Marsh, III Joanne C. Patton Gailey Chambers Teller Blue & White Club Camilla Ayers H. Pamela Bird Georgia A. Dzurica Sharon Phillips Ewing Marjorie Shaffer Victor Diane Giering Wasilewski 1966 Donchess Society Steven Foldes Anne Silverblatt Greenwald President's Anniversary Circle Anonymous President's Cabinet Stephen B. Killian The Founder's Society Susan C. Yelen Nelson Tower Associates Ellen Dreikorn Redick Levi Sprague Fellows Paul R. Freeman David F. Lacy John E. Person, III Barbara L. Smith 1844 Club Loren N. Crispell Meredith Hopkins Moses Maxwell Tedi Piken Najarian Ann Helen Roberts Ann Jones Weigle Dean's Society William C. Johnson Robert N. Klemow Mary E. Lawson Edward W. Lopatto, Jr. Jane Parry Rice Robert Rosenkrantz Anne Fisk Wilce

Blue & White Club Richard H. Blum Nancy Dragonette Morse Pamela Seibert Ontko Marshall D. Rumbaugh John B. Schooley Rosanne Smith 1967 President's Cabinet Jonathan M. Dyson Jeffrey L. Grogan Nelson Tower Associates John Graham Philip J. Santarelli Lewis E. Thayne 1844 Club Barbara Goldstein Kline Howard J. Patton Evelyn Howanitz Reggev Jeffery S. Thielen Dean's Society Robert B. Burnside, Jr. Shelley Rosen Chamberlain Ira M. Goldstein Ellyn Harris-Hesli Gerald T. McLaughlin Carol Morris Susan Pool Moses John C. Olaynick Susan J. Salsburg Marcia Roeder Wright Blue & White Club Ralph B. Edwards Deborah E. Patton Elizabeth Smith 1968 Donchess Society Dorothy Darling President's Cabinet Robert C. Wiggins Nelson Tower Associates Donald E. Davis, Jr. Carolyn Graham McLaughlin-Smith 1844 Club Christopher F. Harris Henry Horbaczewski Jonathan L. Levy John D. Pfeiffer, IV Frederick S. Valentine Dean's Society Robert S. Dolph Bruce G. Logan Kenneth MacArthur Anne Davies Newman James J. Newman

Atlee Robinson Craig A. Rozen Garry Van Scoy Blue & White Club James G. Barrera Trisha Johnson Reece Mariana Heim Marye Carlo H. Santarelli, Jr. 1969 Donchess Society John Lopatto, III President's Anniversary Circle Richard P. Abramowitz President's Cabinet Alexis S. Iszard Pauline A. Thomas Nelson Tower Associates Robert G. Edgerton, Jr. Kenneth A. Lambert, III Kathryn Perkins O'Fee Joseph J. Waiter Levi Sprague Fellows Mary Elizabeth Hibbard James W. Hunt Margaret Townend Tillapaugh Martin H. Tillapaugh 1844 Club Burrell Montz Covey Maribeth Jones Marcy Scott Robinson James C. Sgarlat Bruce T. Slaff Dean's Society Alisa Berger Cotter Carol Dean John D. Eckelman Jacquelyn Wolfe Friedland Alan S. Hollander Robert J. Kluger Katharine D. Loveland Denise Goobic Meck Lloyd J. Miller Sally Strohl Moore Lori Simon Panzer Elizabeth Griesmer Radcliffe Philip D. Reid S. Kerr Smith Sara Parkhurst Van Why Diana T. Watlington Ronne Kurlancheek Zitofsky Blue & White Club Robert C. Bothwell Joan Webster Cohen Laurie Burnside Cummings Joseph W. Harpster K. Christine Hibbard Ellen Schmaltz Young 57

Class Reports 1970 President's Anniversary Circle Susan Weiss Shoval The Founder's Society Ellen Brenton McAllister 1844 Club Terence L. Byrd Megan Thomas Goeller Kathy Isaacs Miller Dean's Society Gary L. Bushelli Frank E.P. Conyngham Erika Funke Mariann Curry Jensen Robert L. Klein Donald T. Murray Sanford H. Pahk Irving F. Rivera Susan Kelly Wagner Blue & White Club Jeffrey J. Andrews Randall G. Gale Lisa A. Harris Joel W. Lidz Stephen F. Stettler Marcy Goldberg Wesalo 1971 Donchess Society James Calkins David P. Hourigan Thomas M. Price President's Anniversary Circle John H. Shafer The Founder's Society David J. Abelson Michael J. Keough

1972 President's Anniversary Circle Jaye Ellen Hindin Lewis Mary Ann Lopatto Nelson Tower Associates Robert D. Clements, Jr. Levi Sprague Fellows Madelyn Newman Eichen Patrick M. Loftus Elliott R. Miller 1844 Club Paul B. Griesmer Barry A. Schub Ellen Grosek Stein Dean's Society Sara Hultsch-Smith Gary C. Klein Mary Post Mitchell Susan Edwards Rivera Robert L. Rosenberg Brian R. Schlier Joseph F. Shedlawski Sandy L. Singer John W. Smith, II Samuel L. Stettler

1974 President's Cabinet Barbara A. Williams Nelson Tower Associates Frank R. Hughes Levi Sprague Fellows Gary Baker Patricia McCarthy Last James Schuler Charles E. Scott 1844 Club Debra Turner Reinhardt Dean's Society Jane Benovitz Feinstein Anthony J. Grosek, III Mary Pillarella Martin David Pollock George A. Spohrer, Jr. David B. Stettler Gladys Ross Yarbrough Blue & White Club Jane Kluger Gardner Margaret Hall Nancy Hughes Cline Robert S. Lewis Lennis Aue Mullin David P. Rittenberg

1973 Donchess Society Robert C. Friedman

1975 The Founder's Society Mary Pavia Rolla

President's Cabinet Jeffrey A. Weiss

Nelson Tower Associates Cornelia Conyngham Romanowski Edward S. Romanowski

Nelson Tower Associates Frank P. Maguire

1844 Club Phillip W. Roth Hope Berger Rubin

Levi Sprague Fellows Carl S. Sgarlat Juliette Pillarella Sgarlat Kevin J. Sullivan

Blue & White Club Gary M. Cohen William Jaffe David E. Lopatto

Blue & White Club Kurt J. Myers Barbara Samuel Loftus

Blue & White Club John C. Carothers, III Regina Engel Jack W. Frey Richard J. Thomas Gail W. Vonderheid

Nelson Tower Associates Ellen Firestine Rebert

Dean's Society Thomas E. Dickinson Carol Wasnick Domsky Debra Brown Driscoll Lee R. Epstein Jack Evans Mary Jane Griesmer Evans Michael E. Flowers Sylvia Santarelli Kropp Robert E. Maloney, Jr. Monroe C. Rockmaker

Class Reports

1844 Club Anthony L. Berger James P. Harris, III Mary Ellen Boone Holt James J. Rosenthal Robert D. Seeley Dean's Society Ruth Graham Conaghan Brian L. Davis Debra Fainberg Hollander Maryann Warsky Kaufman Janet Malkemes Frederick M. Shortz Elizabeth Deering Wilkinson

David I. Kluger John A. Licata Levi Sprague Fellows Howard Baird, Jr. Sean Moran Dean's Society Thomas E. Heffernan Bruce H. Saidman Barbara Klein Windham Blue & White Club Bruce C. Buckle Heidi Weber Geiger Amy Hollander Veloric Richard N. Yelen 1977 The Founder's Society Jeanne T. Lopatto Nelson Tower Associates Jeannie McCarthy Clements Levi Sprague Fellows Richard J. Chapman Dean's Society Kathleen Fairman Marjorie Henkelman Minnich Barbara Lumia Rogers James C. Rogers, III Blue & White Club Peter K. Hunt Robert C. Williams, Jr. 1978 Donchess Society Marjorie Henry Marquart The Founder's Society Charles J. Bufalino, III

Levi Sprague Fellows Clare McCarthy Parkhurst

Nelson Tower Associates S. Michael Imperiale, Jr.

1844 Club Catherine Evans Berger April Krajeski Mary Shafer Wakeman

Levi Sprague Fellows Nancy Neary Baird Scott P. Parkhurst

Dean's Society Karl F. Arbogast, III Blue & White Club Daun Rose Margin Carolyn P. Spohrer 1976 President's Anniversary Circle Janet E. Murray Nelson Tower Associates William Hughes

1844 Club S. William Goidell Dean's Society Dana L. Griffith Timothy J. Jordan L. Mark Nelson Steven H. Roos Charles W. Umphred Blue & White Club Diana Keller Fernandez Jane Halliday-Randall Barry W. Scott

1979 Donchess Society Charles H. Parkhurst The Founder's Society Elizabeth Kluger Cooper Nelson Tower Associates Margy Simms Levi Sprague Fellows Mary Frances Donley Forcier Michael Hudacek Richard M. Hughes, III Sara Slaff Mark A. Weinberger 1844 Club Regina Germain John B. Horrigan Rebecca Ferguson Smith Dean's Society John P. Hendrzak Christie Innes A. Lisa Pierotti Philip J. Powlick Blue & White Club Dayrel Dietze Sipes Lester S. Smulowitz 1980 Nelson Tower Associates Richard S. Johnson Levi Sprague Fellows Madhu Alagiri David E. Schwager 1844 Club Tamara L. Pearsall Dean's Society Raymond H. Cabot Jane Fassett Thakar Laning J. Harvey Blue & White Club Garth A. Myers 1981 President's Anniversary Circle Frank C. Carlucci, IV

Dean's Society Ian Ferguson Joann S. Gonchar Marianne E. Horrigan Mark M. Robbins Blue & White Club Jennifer A. Jones 1982 Nelson Tower Associates Joseph E. Kluger Melanie Maslow-Kern Hong Anh Thi Nguyen Stumpff

1985 Donchess Society Gerald D. Gunster Nelson Tower Associates Emma Simms Kluger Levi Sprague Fellows John C. Evans 1844 Club Victoria M. Baran Jennifer L. Pearce

Levi Sprague Fellows Margaret Nichols Hutchins Mark C. Williard

Blue & White Club Melissa A. Gaudio Jennifer Miernicki-Nojunas Donna Zavada Wilkinson

1844 Club Christine Mohr Grenier Peyton R. Hawkes

1986 Levi Sprague Fellows Christopher Berry

Dean's Society Paul M. Kotch Lisa Caputo Morris

1844 Club Neale M. Dougherty Christopher E. Weiler Bradley W. Yoder

1983 President's Cabinet Christopher G. Gunster Dean's Society Christopher L. Barrett Lauralie Chapin Cook Priscilla Davis Farrell Karen A. Jeremy Milton C. Johns David H. Lemmond Pia Taggart Blue & White Club Paul R. Ryneski Susan E. Smith 1984 Donchess Society Charles F. Cohen President's Anniversary Circle Leslie Dymond Marks Neil J. Walker-Neveras The Founder's Society David D. Hinko

Dean's Society Robert P. Koons, Jr. Jessica Magagna-Snyder Melissa Butcofski Stevens Blue & White Club Lisa Marie Kosenak Ayers Benjamin Cabot Kristine Ertley McCarthy 1987 Nelson Tower Associates Kim Gramlich Heller Levi Sprague Fellows Jennifer Banks Santo 1844 Club Steven J. Falkowitz Dean's Society Eric M. Cohen Clifford A. Melberger Laurie J. Nelson

The Founder's Society Margaret Brown Tregurtha

Levi Sprague Fellows Christine Brown Teal

Blue & White Club Bridget J. Halpin Corinne E. Krincek Rebecca R. Post

Nelson Tower Associates William B. Evans, Jr. Virginia Simms Rose Joseph M. Torsella Dawn Llewellyn Washo

1844 Club Patrice W. Churnetski Katherine Eagen Thornton

1988 President's Anniversary Circle Tara Mugford Wilson

Dean's Society Kayanne Vanderburg Barilla John Warriner, Jr.

Nelson Tower Associates Jeffrey Metz

1844 Club Melissa Goldstone Lieberman Julie McCarthy Strzeletz

Levi Sprague Fellows Tanya Ermolovich

Catherine DePasquale Mihalick Rachel Greenwald Skaistis 1844 Club Catherine A. Callahan Marla Parente Debra Stack Dean's Society Michael C. Averna Cara A. Foldes Patrick J. Lenahan, III Christopher P. Siegel Blue & White Club Kathryon Burnside Burnside 1989 President's Cabinet Matthew B. Alsted Nelson Tower Associates David J. Bujnowski Levi Sprague Fellows Jennie A. York 1844 Club Jennifer Wideman-Green 1990 President's Anniversary Circle John V. Calce Nelson Tower Associates Kimberly A. Johns Levi Sprague Fellows Christopher J. Kersey Thomas A. Lull Dean's Society John R. Eidam, Jr. Kimberly Kozemchak Paster Norman D. Price, Jr. Carrie Rampp Blue & White Club Mary Ann Gaska Cameron Ann E. Semwanga 1991 President's Anniversary Circle Joanna Siegel Gover Robert S. Tamburro 1844 Club Maureen Metz Hannah Greenwald Ross Blue & White Club Karen E. Cera Erica Rudnick Kim Christie Meyers Laura Owens Skinner

Class Reports

1992 Dean's Society Raphael E. Bonita Tonya Drewniak DuBois Jennifer Riddle Harding 1993 Donchess Society William E. Sordoni President's Anniversary Circle Stephen J. Rosenthal 1844 Club Jeffrey J. Malak Dean's Society Melanie J. Evans Blue & White Club R. Dwayne Myers

1997 Donchess Society David Wallace

Dean's Society Christopher D. Davies Ekaterina Deriabina Yanowitz

Levi Sprague Fellows Jason Cohen

Blue & White Club Barret M. Katuna Daniel A. Levin Dennis Malcolm Packard Alana Anzalone Roof Mohammad A. Shahabuddin

1844 Club Amy R. Benjamin Dean's Society Hrvoje Benko Scott W. Yoder Blue & White Club John S. McLaughlin 1998 Donchess Society Bruce E. Gover, Jr.

1994 Donchess Society Amy C. Valli Bennett

Levi Sprague Fellows Bryanne Weightman Chandler Mathew Lapinski Christian H. Wielage

Nelson Tower Associates Matthew Bruno

1844 Club Michael Thomas Packard

1844 Club Jennifer Eidam Davis Holly E. Zug

Blue & White Club Reanna J. Lavine Jesse Mermell Kerry I. Morris Rohan Ramakrishna Harley Chivers Toufanian

Dean's Society Natalya Sharp Cherry Stacey Kutish Blue & White Club Kristen Kasulke Hamp Benjamin Johns

1999 Nelson Tower Associates Margaret Sordoni Morris Jeffrey P. Summerhill

1995 Nelson Tower Associates Meg W. Aronowitz

Levi Sprague Fellows Michael Messersmith Brooke Schuler Sciuto

1844 Club Matthew Sordoni

1844 Club Stefanie Pollock Sordoni

Dean's Society Margaret Rose Lombardo James Matysczak Jennifer Savage Matysczak Jackie Taylor Meier

Dean's Society Alexis Kropp Kwon Timothy O'Donnell Matej Santa

Blue & White Club Sandra Davis Chisholm 1996 Nelson Tower Associates Sarah Sordoni Bruno Dean's Society Katherine Gale Panfil Blue & White Club Colleen Conyngham Mazin 60

Class Reports

Blue & White Club Jamie J. Anzalone Jacqueline Dinzey Kyle A. Droppers John D. Jacob Andrew Randall Lawrence Michael Orlando, III 2000 President's Anniversary Circle R. Clements Gover

2004 1844 Club Dustin S. Good Scott A. Kutlick Dean's Society Christopher M. Katyl Leah Eyerman Katyl Andrew W. Pascucci Harry T. Shafer

2008 The Founder's Society Ilya D. Volodarsky

2010 Dean's Society John Henry

2012 Dean's Society Francesca Domiano

Dean's Society Ashley Fedak Bryn M. Harvey Alexandra Gordon Heyson

Blue & White Club Rebecca Bub Michael McMullan Donald M. McNeil Philipp Seeberger Emily Smallwood Brennan Twardowski Michael Paul Voitik, Jr.

Blue & White Club Brendan A. Larar Harry Parkhurst Kristian Stefanides

2011 Dean's Society Catherine Clements Zachary L. Harvey Spencer W. Youngman

Levi Sprague Fellows Dakota Pace

2001 The Founder's Society Emily Blaum Bradshaw Thomas J. Bradshaw

Blue & White Club Daniel Benedict Siobhan Halloran Rebecca A. Shoval

Blue & White Club Phoebe Cutter Hugh T. Gilmore, Jr. Mona Lotfipour Sarah E. Magagna Kathleen Sharkey

Levi Sprague Fellows Madhan K. Srinivasan Amanda M. Young

2005 Levi Sprague Fellows Ali Brennan Kornfeld

2009 Dean's Society Joseph McMullan

Dean's Society Alexander C. Conyngham Edward C. Price

1844 Club Zoe VanJura Haddad

Blue & White Club Ellen Hughes Caroline Kropp Katherine Levandoski

Blue & White Club Michael D. McCartney Tricia A. Rado Rover Daniel J. Sperrazza 2002 Nelson Tower Associates Brandon L. Sipple Stephanie Coccia Slavish Levi Sprague Fellows Lauren Toczylowski 1844 Club Margaret Hogan DeMato Dean's Society Andrea M. Paciotti Pascucci Blue & White Club Kathryn A. Delaney Kurt Hoffman Hatcher George H. Shafer 2003 The Founder's Society Nicole Santo Yochum 1844 Club Matthew V. Kerns Tarun Pereira Patrick J. Son Dean's Society Eric Feinstein Philip Mercatili Jason B. Nataupsky Daniel W. Volpetti Blue & White Club Lindsay Romanowski Mall

Dean's Society Jamie Flack Eckman Elizabeth Clements Katyl Jason Reck Arielle Waite Blue & White Club Jessie E. Conyngham Alex E. Flack Madeline I. Kropp Sara Rosenberg Molitoris Daniel Rittenberg Harrison Russin Jillian W. Seeley Jessica R. Smallwood Mark Vanderburg Steven West Rebecca Howell Ziemak 2006 Levi Sprague Fellows Ross Feinstein Dean's Society Justin Dellario James W. Magagna Blue & White Club Jordan Carrick-Schreiber Ryan M. Molitoris Jillian L. Nataupsky Andrew S. Rogers Lindsay M. Stevens 2007 Dean's Society Janine N. Musheno Blue & White Club Elizabeth Blaum Jack Morton Kenneth Suchoski Jacqueline Thomas

Blue & White Club Omeed Firouzi Alexandra M. Kijek Sarah Knaggs Tess Kornfeld Joshua McLucas Patrick McMullan Andrew M. Miller Lauren Skudalski Laura A. Strzeletz

2013 President's Cabinet Henry Cornell

Dean's Society Sami El-Mashtoub Tyler J. Harvey Blue & White Club Craig Skudalski 2014 Dean's Society Sarah A. Touey

Blue & White Club Matthew Doggett Hunter J. Lacomis Marguerite Wiles Matthew C. Williard 2015 Blue & White Club Gabrielle Volpetti 2016 Blue & White Club Patrick M. Munn 2017 Blue & White Club Paige Allen Melinda Holena Emily Lehman Connor McGowan Stanley Zaneski 2018 Nelson Tower Associates Yanchen Zhong

Honors and Memorials In Honor of Elaine Burg Dr. Joseph Kraus and Ms. Paula Chaiken

In Honor of Derek Lefkowitz ’09 Mrs. Sandra Lefkowitz

In Honor of Noah Sunday-Lefkowitz ’14 Mrs. Sandra Lefkowitz

In Memory of Carla P. Chapin Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Cook

In Honor of Sharon Conway Mr. and Mrs. James Kopec

In Honor of Dylan Lefkowitz ’11 Mrs. Sandra Lefkowitz

In Honor of Zoe Leigh White '18 Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hartman

In Memory of Edward Chapin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Cook

In Honor of Jack Eidam Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Yanowitz

In Honor of Joshua Lefkowitz ’12 Mrs. Sandra Lefkowitz

In Memory of Paul J. Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Shick

In Memory of Ronald A. Cohen '52 Mrs. Dorothy Cohen

In Honor of Richard M. Goldberg '55 Atty. and Mrs. C.J. Bufalino, III Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Carlucci, IV Mr. Robert Friedman Mr. and Mrs. David P. Hourigan Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Insalaco

In Honor of Mallory Lefkowitz ’14 Mrs. Sandra Lefkowitz

In Memory of Georgia Johnson Besecker '47 Mr. and Mrs. John Sherk

In Memory of Winthrop C. Collins Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Costello

In Honor of Bruce E. Gover '98 Mrs. Molly Shaughnessy In Honor of Mary Ann Hopkins Ms. Ellen Hughes Ms. Jillian Nataupsky Ms. Jennie York

In Honor of John Moriarity Dr. and Mrs. William R. Summerhill, Jr. In Honor of John H. Shafer '71 Mr. and Mrs. Brian Calabro In Honor of Susan Weiss Shoval '70 Highmark In Honor of Bruce T. Slaff '69 Atty. Sara Slaff

In Honor of Dan Krueger Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Davies

In Honor of Jane Slaff Ms. Ellen Hughes

In Honor of Bari Lefkowitz ’20 Mrs. Sandra Lefkowitz

In Honor of Levi Sunday-Lefkowitz ’18 Mrs. Sandra Lefkowitz

In Memory of Joseph B. Bittenbender '47 Mr. and Mrs. Spencer G. Nauman, Jr.

In Memory of John F. Conlon '58 Mrs. Claire Evans

In Memory of James Bruno Drs. Peter and Charlotte Casterline

In Memory of Neil L. Conway Dr. Joseph Kraus and Ms. Paula Chaiken Dr. and Mrs. Carlo de Luna Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Shick

In Memory of John and Ellen Bujnowski Mr. David Bujnowski

In Memory of Mary Costello Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Rosenthal

In Memory of Frank C. Carlucci '48 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Eidam, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. O. Charles Lull Mr. and Mrs. John F. Magagna

In Memory of Fern P. Poole Davies '43 Mr. and Mrs. David Davies

In Memory of Donald Carrick Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Shick

In Memory of Joseph A. Eagen '49 Mrs. Claire Evans Black Horse Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Simms 61

Honors and Memorials

In Memory of Christopher Conlon Evans '83 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Berger Mrs. Claire Evans Mr. John Evans Mr. and Mrs. William B. Evans, Jr. In Memory of William B. Evans '44 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Berger Mrs. Claire Evans Mr. John Evans Mr. and Mrs. William B. Evans, Jr. In Memory of Anne M. Fassett '83 Mr. Nicolas Thakar and Mrs. Jane Fassett In Memory of Marcella McCormick Fay '39 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Andrews Dr. Michael Callahan and Ms. Deborah Klayman Ms. Ann Sullivan In Memory of Michael Fedak Ms. Ashley Fedak Mr. and Mrs. Randy Gimble Mr. and Mrs. James Smallcomb In Memory of Bernice Perloff Fierman '46 Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Rose Jr. Black Horse Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Simms In Memory of Charles D. Flack '72 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Eckman Mr. Fred Genung and Ms. Kathi Flack Mr. T. Bryant Mesick Vondy In Memory of Janet E. Flack '67 Mr. John Graham Mrs. Ellyn Harris-Hesli Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rosenthal Ms. Elizabeth Smith Ms. Rosanne Smith

In Memory of Frank M. Henry '50 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Eidam, Sr. Mrs. Nancy Gibson Mr. and Mrs. O. Charles Lull Mr. and Mrs. John F. Magagna In Memory of Scott E. Henry '76 Mrs. Claire Evans Mrs. Nancy Gibson Mr. John Graham Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Rosenthal Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Shick In Memory of Herbert and Sybil Hindin Ms. Jaye Ellen Lewis In Memory of William Hinko Mr. and Mrs. David D. Hinko Mrs. Irene Hinko In Memory of Claire Hornung Isabel Francis Smith & Ralph Lawrence Smith In Memory of Ruth Horwitz Dr. and Mrs. David Greenwald Dr. and Mrs. Bruce H. Saidman In Memory of Jean Robbins Hughes '48 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hughes Mr. and Mrs. William Hughes Ms. Betsy Hughes Phillips In Memory of Paul Kafrissen '88 Dr. Steven Kafrissen In Memory of Elliot Lewis Katuna Mr. Benjamin Kehl and Dr. Barret Katuna In Memory of Robert Klarsch Mr. Philip Post

In Memory of Sheila Flanagan-Shiels ’95 Mr. Stephen Boyd and Atty. Pia Taggart

In Memory of Victoria Kopec Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Shick

In Memory of Robert Gaudio Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Rosenthal

In Memory of June Miller Kraus Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Mihalick

In Memory of Bruce E. Gover Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Churnetski Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Gover, Jr. Mrs. Elizabeth Gover Mr. and Mrs. R. Clements Gover Mr. and Mrs. Terry Rivera

In Memory of Kenneth F. Lee '51 Mrs. Betty Jane Lee

In Memory of Louise Magagna Griffin '53 Dr. and Mrs. S. Michael Imperiale Jr. In Memory of Howard Y. Harris '20 Mrs. Betty Harris 62

In Memory of Suzanne Hess Hazelton '61 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Howard

In Memory of Charlotte Levy Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Costello In Memory of Helen Jones Lewis Mr. Robert Lewis In Memory of Thomas Mack, Jr. Mr. John Graham

Honors and Memorials In Memory of Diane Ringawa Magagna '58 Mr. Rob Snyder and Ms. Jessica Magagna-Snyder In Memory of Olivia Marquart '09 Mrs. Claire Evans The Honorable and Mrs. Richard M. Hughes, III Mr. and Mrs. David Kluger Mr. and Mrs. James Kopec Dr. and Mrs. Gary Nataupsky Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Rose, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Shick Ms. Margy Simms Black Horse Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Simms

In Memory of Michael M. Ostrowski Mrs. Lois Ostrowski In Memory of H. Jeremy Packard Mr. John Burbank, Jr. Mr. Daniel Levin

In Memory of Barbara S. Soyka '58 Ms. Laura Phillips Howell Mr. and Mrs. William Howell

In Memory of LeRoy I. Sykes '53 Ms. Laura Phillips Howell Mr. and Mrs. William Howell

In Memory of Stuart Z. Uram '52 Mrs. Claire Evans Mr. and Mrs. Allan Kluger

In Memory of Wallace and Sue Stettler Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Johns

In Memory of Ray Turner '54 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald H. Kaiser

In Memory of Carl P. Walsh Dr. and Mrs. Carlo de Luna

In Memory of Ann Parkhurst Mr. Harry Parkhurst Mr. and Mrs. Scott P. Parkhurst In Memory of Elena English Horrigan Parkhurst '53 Dr. Paul Griesmer In Memory of Wallace L. Pelton '52 Ms. Anne-Louise Strickland

In Memory of Mary Jule and Lee J. McCarthy ’44 Ms. Catherine Clements Dr. and Mrs. Robert Clements Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Katyl Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Last Mr. Harry Parkhurst Mr. and Mrs. Scott P. Parkhurst Ms. Julie Strzeletz Ms. Laura Strzeletz Mr. and Mrs. Charles Youngman Mr. Spencer Youngman

In Memory of William I. and Marion Pentecost Mr. Alan Hughes and Ms. Polly Pentecost Hughes Drs. Eric Hunt and Elizabeth Hughes Ms. Kathryn Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Stringfellow Ms. Ann Woodland Mr. Jeffrey Woodland

In Memory of John T. Morris Mr. and Mrs. O. Charles Lull

In Memory of David Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Rosenthal

In Memory of Harry Nageli Mrs. Elizabeth Burgess Mr. and Mrs. Raymond H. Cabot Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Carlucci, IV Rev. and Mrs. Charles Carrick Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Costello Dr. and Mrs. John Dickinson Ms. Jacqueline Dinzey Mr. Kevin Marks and Ms. Leslie Dymond Marks Ms. Melanie Evans Mr. and Mrs. Ken Gardner Mr. and Mrs. William C. Johnson Ms. Maribeth Jones Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kachmar Mr. Richard Maslow Mr. Raleigh Myers Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Parkhurst Mr. and Mrs. Atlee Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Edward Romanowski Mr. Phillip Roth Mr. Daniel Loftus and Dr. Barbara Samuel Loftus Mrs. Nancy Shafer Ms. Debbie Smith Mr. Malcolm Smith Ms. Susan Smith Ms. Julie Strzeletz Mr. Adam Thalenfeld Mr. John Thalenfeld Ms. Rebecca Thalenfeld Dr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Thayne Mrs. Sandra Valenti

In Memory of Thomas Rokita Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Parkhurst Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rosenthal

In Memory of Mary Therese Pitcavage Mr. Raleigh Myers

In Memory of Susanne Sunday Sanderson '56 Ms. Leslie Sacks In Memory of Sesto and Irene Santarelli Ms. Caroline Kropp Ms. Madeline Kropp Mrs. Sylvia Kropp Mr. and Mrs. Young Nam Kwon Mr. Philip Santarelli In Memory of John F. Schieffer '40 Mrs. Helen Schieffer In Memory of Edward A. Shafer '36 Mr. and Mrs. George H. Shafer Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Shafer Mr. and Mrs. John H. Shafer Mrs. Nancy Shafer In Memory of Joseph Shaughnessy Mrs. Elizabeth Gover In Memory of Quinley Genevieve Siff Ms. Elizabeth Blaum Mr. and Mrs. Paul Eyerman Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Katyl Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Siff

In Memory of Esther Wainstein Ms. Susan Wayne In Memory of Norman E. Weiss '43 Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Klein In Memory of Peggy Zinkavich Mr. Stephen Boyd and Atty. Pia Taggart

The Westlake Society The Westlake Society recognizes those alumni and friends of Wyoming Seminary who have indicated that they have made provisions for a gift to the School in their estate plans, or through membership in The Living Endowment Society. This recognition society was previously known as The Planned Giving Honor Roll, but was renamed in memory of Emory H. Westlake Class of 1896 in recognition of and with appreciation of his generous bequest to the School in 1996 at the time of the 150th Anniversary Campaign. Mr. Westlake creatively planned his estate in order to maximize his giving to those charities most important to him. Within a few months of the 100th anniversary of his graduation, Mr. Westlake’s bequest created the Westlake Scholarship Endowment Fund at Wyoming Seminary. The School feels his wise use of charitable and estate gift planning is an example for others to emulate. In addition to the names that follow, there are others who have included Wyoming Seminary in their estate plans, but at their request, their names are not listed.

1942 Stanley S. Davies Joseph P. Flanagan Jr. 1945 James P. Bailey Betsy Bell Condron 1946 Irwin E. Lecker 1948 Harold C. Buckingham Jr. Geraldine Ruddy Hourigan Mary Eagen McDonald 1950 Quincy S. Abbot Anne Cook Dickerson 1952 Claire Conlon Evans John Magagna Sylvia Brown Nadel Stuart Z. Uram Jerrold Williams 1953 Carolyn Goeringer Basler Kenneth Bechdel Jeanne Malkemes Hickman Harry Lee Joanne Torbert Seifried 1954 Joan Patterson Sheil Thomas E. Watkins 1955 Richard M. Goldberg Benjamin R. Jones III

1956 Robert Q. Busch James B. Feldman Virginia Miller Schmidt 1957 Linda Myers German Sandy Padwe Robert J. Siegel Alice Robinson Thompson 1958 Stefan Hellersperk 1959 Bruce Ambrose Gerald Dwyer Robert E. Jones Jackiann Beattie Smith-McKernan Bernhardt K. Wruble 1960 Jay N. Weinberg 1961 Leon Bonner Raymond S. Howard Peter K. Johnson W. Kentley Jones V. Paul Zanecki 1962 Stephen M. Alinikoff Virginia Greenwood Dubbs Mildred Kaiser Fleetwood Peter H. Miller Alfred W. Thomas III William W. Yoder 1963 Leslie Turrell Bullock

John Morton III Lisa Harvey Morton David C. Stanford 1964 R. Scott Hummel 1965 Estelle Andrews Donald Morreale David Oblon Ronald Rittenmeyer 1966 Steven Foldes Paul R. Freeman Barbara Hauck Stephen B. Killian Leonard J. Thacher

1970 George P. Droelle Margot Meeks Hennings Donald R. Murray Sherry Kopko Ruth 1971 Anthony C. Adonizio David P. Hourigan Robert Maloney Jr. Phillip Roth John H. Shafer Richard C. Stauffer

1967 Ellen Francis Bolar Bruce Logan Crawford C. Smith

1972 John Ciocca Deborah Kapral Gary C. Klein Patrick M. Loftus Elliot Miller Thomas Person Robert L. Rosenberg Marian E. Spohrer Samuel L. Stettler

1968 W. Edward Conklin Jr. Robert R. James

1973 Charles Baltimore Brian L. Davis

1969 Joseph W. Harpster James W. Hunt Alexis S. C. Iszard John S. Lopatto III Pauline Rodgers Moon Elizabeth Hibbard Steven Russell John P. Sgarlat Joseph J. Waiter

1974 Anthony J. Grosek III Frank M. Henry Jr. Jeffrey Klein 1975 George G. Conyngham Jr. 1976 Shelley Freeman David I. Kluger John A. Licata 63

The Westlake Society Dana Pearce Voorhis Janet Murray William Wolf 1977 Kathryn Reynolds-Bellas Jodie Lyons Elyachar Timothy Evans Jon Hallingstad Jason Kurchner

Endowment Funds and Awards

C. Thomas Shannon Robert J. Wise

1982 Susan Dantona Jolley

2010 Brandon Golden

1978 Marc L. Holtzman

1996 Colleen Conyngham Mazin

1980 Louis J. Butera Robert S. Tippett Jr.

2000 Barret Katuna

Friends William Mainwaring Richard Maslow James Revie Patricia Rummage Natalie Solfanelli Laroy Ziegler

Endowment Funds and Awards

The following is a listing of all of Wyoming Seminary’s endowed funds and awards. As of June 30, 2019, the market value of the School’s endowment funds was $69.5 million. Additional gifts to these endowment funds may be made at any time. To establish a new endowment fund at Wyoming Seminary, please contact your attorney and the School’s Development Office at (570) 270-2140. Every effort has been made to report all funds accurately in the following list. If you detect an oversight or inaccuracy, please accept our apologies and inform the Development Office.

Endowment Funds Theodore S. Abbot Endowment Fund (1989) Elizabeth Albert/Marie Anderson Scholarship Fund (1989) Alumni Council Opportunities Fund Endowment (2008) Alumni Scholarship Fund (1986) Helen L. Anderson Endowment Fund (2005) Estelle H. and Estelle B. Andrews Scholarship Endowment Fund (2015) Marvin Antinnes Athletic Endowment Fund (1991) A. Anthony and Barbara W. Anzalone Fund (1993) Bessie Garcelon Atwood Scholarship Endowment Fund (2007) Olive B. Barr Scholarship Endowment Fund (2007) Sarah S. Barr Scholarship Endowment Fund (2007) Bernard B. Baschkin and Herman and Anne W. Auerbach Memorial Scholarship Fund – (1991) Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Beaver Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund (2002 Benco Family Scholarship Endowment Fund (2016) Randolph and Margaret Lazarus Bennett Memorial Fund (1961) Helen Berryman Endowment Fund (2005) Joseph Bittenbender Scholarship Endowment Fund (2001) Frank Bonstein Fund (1927) Ann Humphreys Boorom Scholarship Endowment Fund (2009)

Helen L. Brown Scholarship (1981) Buckingham President’s Discretionary Fund (1973) Ernest Buckman Endowment Fund (2002 C. H. Burgess Scholarship Endowment Fund (1997) Frank Carlucci Scholarship Endowment Fund (2012) Robert L. Casper Scholarship Endowment Fund (1996) Edward G. Chapin Sr. and Eleanor Jones Chapin Memorial Endowment Fund (1990) Charlene Lisa Chung Scholarship Fund (1989) Class of 1961 Scholarship Endowment Fund (2011) Class of 1962 Scholarship Endowment Fund (2012) Class of 1963 Faculty Development Fund (2013) Class of 2002 Senior Parents and Grandparents Endowment Fund (2002) Coughlin Family Scholarship Endowment Fund (2000) Robert B. Currie Scholarship Endowment Fund (1996 Patricia S. and Stanley S. Davies Scholarship Endowment Fund (1999) Anne Louise Greene Davenport Scholarship (1925) David L. Davis Endowment Fund (2000) Day School Class of 1962 Lower School Scholarship Endowment Fund (2014)

Muriel and Aaron Bravman ’44 Performing Arts Scholarship Endowment Fund – established in 2019 by Aaron Bravman in memory of his wife Muriel. Muriel died in an accident in 2001 in route to an opera performance. In order to perpetuate ongoing support of both the arts and individual artists at Wyoming Seminary, Aaron and his children, Nancy ’73, Robbie ’75, and Bill ’78, created this scholarship to provide financial assistance to an academically appropriate Upper School student who shows great talent or promise in the performing arts and who otherwise would not be able to afford a Wyoming Seminary education.

Robert Dealaman Scholarship Endowment Fund – established in 2018 by a bequest from the estate of Robert Dealaman ’63. This endowment provides a scholarship to an Upper School student who needs financial assistance.

Robert Dealaman Arts Endowment Fund – established in 2018 by a bequest from the estate of Robert Dealaman ’63. This endowment provides income to support the creative arts program on the School.

Arthur R. and Russell W. Edgar Scholarship Fund (1985) Bettijane Long Eisenpreis Scholarship Endowment Fund (2013) Endowment for Faculty Salaries and Benefits (1976) Evans Family Teaching Endowment Fund for Individual Learning – established in 2018 by Claire Conlon Evans

’52 and her children, Cate ’75, Tim ’77, Bill ’81 and John ’85. The Christopher Conlon Evans Fund was established in 1986 following the tragic death of Chris Evans ’83. The Evans Family Memorial Fund was created in 2010 following the death of William B. Evans ’44. Those two funds were combined and the family made additional gifts to establish the individual learning fund. This endowment fund is to be used to provide financial support to the alternative learning program to help students with learning differences become more effective and efficient learners in the Wyoming Seminary educational environment. Myrddyn and Marjorie Evans Scholarship Endowment Fund (2003) Faculty Development Fund (1988) Fassett Family Scholarship Endowment Fund (1994) Joseph P. Flanagan Scholarship Fund (1993) Wilbur H. and Evelyn H. Fleck Fund (1961) Fortinsky/Schwartz Scholarship Endowment Fund (1996) Ann and Nevin Gerges Scholarship Endowment Fund (2013) Greenwald Family Scholarship Endowment Fund (1993) Joseph C. Haldiman Kirby Library Collection Fund (1988) Merritt L. Harding Endowment Fund (1987) Howard Y. Harris Scholarship Endowment Fund (1989) Ruby Thompson Harris and Burton L. Harris Endowment Fund (1998) Harvey/Barney Scholarship Endowment Fund (1997) W. Gano and Grace A. Hazen Memorial Fund (1959) Hugh G. and Edith Henderson Scholarship Endowment Fund (1995) C. Emlyn and Mary S. Hughes Scholarship (1979) Frank M. Henry Scholarship Endowment Fund (1996) J. Theodore Hughes Library Endowment Fund (2001) Lea Hunt Fund (1951) Governor Arthur H. James Scholarship Fund (1984) Dorothy S. Jones Fund (1971) Collette Touey Kean Scholarship Fund (1991) The George and Barbara Keib Scholarship Endowment Fund (2014)

Marie Welker Kennedy Scholarship Endowment Fund (2003) Carol M. King Scholarship Endowment Fund (2011) Allan P. Kirby/Lafayette College Scholarship Fund (1949) Fred M. Kirby Fund (1921) Maurice Kluger and Barbara Kluger Weinberg Library Endowment Fund (1990) William P. Kocher Endowment Fund (1984) Kopen Family Scholarship Endowment Fund (2004) Korean Parents and Alumni Association Endowment Fund (2003) Laycock House Endowment Fund (2002) Esther Bennett LeGrand Endowment Fund (1993) Lenfest Foundation Scholarship Endowment Fund (2010) The George and Barbara Keib Scholarship Endowment Fund (2014) Alice Kleinrock Levey Scholarship Fund (1982) Levey Family Endowment Fund (1999) Dorothy I. Lewis Memorial Scholarship Fund (1982 Jack R. Linsky Foundation – Lynda Rosenthal Library Endowment Fund (2002) B. Everett and Edna I. Lord Memorial Endowment Fund (2005) Lottman Family Scholarship Endowment Fund (1998) Wyoming Seminary Lower School Endowment Fund – anonymously established in 2019 to support the needs of the Lower School. The income from this Fund is to be used for the “greatest needs” of the Lower School including such things as but not limited to faculty salaries and programs, new construction and maintenance needs, co-curricular programs, guest lecturers, etc. Howard B. and Dagmar A. Matthews Endowment Fund (1981) Lee J. McCarthy Jr. Scholarship Endowment Fund (2002) John McCole Endowed Teaching Chair in Mathematics (1995) Jack H. Meeks Scholarship Endowment Fund (1993) Teresa Jordan and Frank J. Mehm II Scholarship Fund (1985) Paul R. Mehm Kirby Library Acquisitions Fund (1985 Mericle Family Scholarship Endowment Fund (2010) Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Moat Technology Endowment Fund (2003) Stella Miner Moat Library Endowment Fund (2007) Mary Harris Montgomery Endowment Fund (1996) Helen L. Pringle Moore Memorial Scholarship (1983) Morgan Family Scholarship Endowment Fund (1999) Samuel O. Morreale Scholarship Endowment Fund (1994) John and Marion Harvey Morton Scholarship Endowment Fund (2008) Ben and Betty Hopkins Moses Library Endowment Fund (1982) Lydia Stark Mosier Memorial Fund (1927) Harry White Moyer Endowment Fund (2006) Reuben A. and Cheryl Casselberry Munday Scholarship Endowment Fund (2014) Nesbitt Family Foundation Scholarship Endowment Fund – established in 2018 by the Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation. The income from this endowment will be used to provide a scholarship to an academically talented Upper School student with financial need who has an interest in science.

Nesbitt - Orr Endowment Fund (2003) Harry Phineas Packard Scholarship Endowment Fund (1995) Horace S. and Martha I. Parker Library Endowment Fund (2002) Philip B. Parsons Memorial Scholarship (1981) Doris L. Patrick Fund for the Arts (1978) Doris Patrick Endowed Teaching Chair for Fine Arts (1998) Betsy Albert Price Endowment Fund (2005) John W. and Lula S. Price Scholarship Fund (1988) Stella Purvin Memorial Scholarship Fund (1991) E. R. Quesada Fund (1987) Linda Kinney Reiser Memorial Library Endowment Fund (1992) Harold and Shirley Rittenmeyer Scholarship Endowment Fund (1998) Daniel C. Roberts Scholarship Fund (1934) Diane Travis Rose Library Fund (1990) Adrian Ross Family Scholarship Endowment Fund (2002) Niki Rummage Scholarship Endowment Fund (2014) Saidman Family Endowment for Religious Studies (1993) Sesto P. Santarelli Scholarship Endowment Fund (1998) Schautz Scholarship Fund (1990) Rachel Van Gasken Schrider Scholarship Endowment (1999) Renee Manjin-Sherwood Senior Prom Endowment Fund (1999) Sun-Nye Shin Scholarship Endowment Fund (2004) Captain Allan P. Slaff Chair in American History and American Military History Endowment Fund – established in 2019 upon the death of Allan Slaff ’40. The income from this endowment will be used to pay the salary of the chair holder. Captain Slaff established a charitable remainder trust at the time of the School’s 150th anniversary in 1994 to fund this endowment. Slattery Family Scholarship Endowment Fund (1998) Robert Smith Scholarship Endowment Fund (1998) Wallace F. and Sue B. Stettler Scholarship Fund (1990) Wallace F. Stettler Lower School Scholarship Fund (1969) Stewart Drake Scholarship Fund (1994) Warren Tischler Endowment Fund (2004) James Troutner Scholarship Endowment Fund (2011) Trustee Scholarship Fund (1982) William and Alethea Jones Ulerich Scholarship Endowment Fund (1991) Stuart Z. Uram Scholarship Endowment Fund (2002) John M. Vaida Choral Music Endowment Fund (1986) Arthur and Emily Valli Scholarship Endowment Fund (2011) Gary J. Vanderburg Scholarship Endowment Fund (2001) Tracey Leigh Vandermark Scholarship Endowment Fund (2006) Walter F. and Florence C. Vorbleski Scholarship Fund (1988) Esther Wainstein Faculty Development Fund (2003) Nan D. Wallis Fund (1960) Anna Weeks Endowment Fund (2008) Isabel C. Weeks Scholarship Endowment Fund (1999) Zelda Klein Weiss Endowment for the Performing Arts (2005) James C. Weissman Memorial Fund (1988) Robert Weller Endowment Fund (1995) Virginia Welles Scholarship Endowment Fund (2017)

Emory H. Westlake Scholarship Endowment Fund (1996) Williams Family Scholarship Endowment Fund (1996) Thomas K. Williams Endowment Fund (2006) Rose Williamson Scholarship Fund (1950) Endowed Awards V. Helen Anderson Art Award (1961) Bessie G. Atwood Fund (1982) W. Austin Bishop and Mary J. Muldoon Award (1980) Leroy Bugbee Prize (1970) Parker H. Burt Prize (1951) Harold and Mollie Cruikshank Award (1951) Fern Poole Davies Art Award (2002) Willis L. Dean Citizenship Prizes (1943) W. Carver Collins and Louise Loucks Moore Drama Award (1992) Jane Pfifferling Dimond Award (1965) Peter Drapiewski Memorial Prize (1975) Michael Ellis Drama Prize (1993) Edward M. Griffith Memorial Spanish Award (1989) Eugene Goldstein Community Service Award (1986) Holman Religious Leadership Award (1957) John D. Hughes Memorial Mathematics Award (1982) Jerry A. and Edith K. Iscovitz Memorial Good Sportsmanship Award (1975) Adelade Jeffers Prize (1956) Paul Kafrissen Memorial Computer Award (1991) Charles B. Kanarr, Jr. Music Award (1990) Bradford Stuart Kline Award (1968) Sheldon H. Kluger Memorial Science Award (1970) Wesley A. Kuhn Prize (1946) Charles Harold Laycock Latin Prize (2005) Lyavdansky Russian Language Award (2006) Kenneth and Suzanne MacArthur Award (1968) Frances and Louis Maslow Award (1978) Mazzitelli Memorial Music Leadership Award (1978) Frank J. Mehm Memorial Award (1983) John D. Mueller Award (2013) Anna M. Olcott Awards (1952) Horace S. Parker Prize (1979) Charles Pfifferling Sr. Memorial Prize (1956) Dr. William Schuler Pierce Award (1989) Samuel Stephen Popky Leadership Award (1972) William M. Powell Prize (1951) Quay-Adams Award (1959) Irving Robin Memorial Prize (1950) James A. Ross Memorial Award (1977) Harry W. Ruggles Award (1953) John G. Ruggles III Memorial Prize (1982) Marjorie Harvey Smith Awards (1979) Charlotte M. Sours Academic Achievement Award (1997) Almeda Ruth Cushman Spencer Prize (1947) Margaret M. Stack Memorial Award (1974) Clark Switzer Prize in History (2017) Mary M. Tribler Memorial Award (1981) Jennie Hess Wandell Scholarship Awards (1979) Mabel Scott Wandell and Sterling Leroy Wandell Scholarship Awards (1979) Lindsley M. Washburn Prize (1962) Wilkes-Barre Day School Trustees Prize (1952) Charles Wood Mathematics Prize (1955)

201 North Sprague Avenue Kingston, PA 18704-3593 Address service requested

Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 29 Wilkes-Barre, PA

Notice: Postal regulations require the school to pay a fee for every copy not deliverable as addressed. Please notify us of any change of address, giving both the old and new addresses. You may email changes to alumni@wyomingseminary.org.

See you this Spring for Alumni Weekend! May 1-3, 2020

Celebrating reunions are the classes of '45, '50, '55, '60, '65, '70, '75, '80, '85, '90 Visit wyomingseminary.org for more details! 66

Wyoming Seminary Upper School

ADMISSION AND FINANCIAL AID

WELCOME TO SEM! We are pleased you are exploring the opportunity to enroll your student at Wyoming Seminary and would like to make the process as smooth as possible for you. It is our hope that the following information paints a clear picture of what is needed to complete our admission process and what to expect. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns. We would be happy to assist you! Lower School Admission 570-718-6610 2

Financial Aid Office 570-270-2157

Upper School Admission 570-270-2160

Upper School Admission APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS 1 STEP ONE: APPLY c Submit an application online Visit www.wyomingseminary.org/admission

2 STEP TWO: ACADEMIC RECORDS c Submit a transcript or recent report card Email records to admission@wyomingseminary.org

3 STEP THREE: RECOMMENDATION FORMS Forms can be downloaded from wyomingseminary.org. Refer to “How to Apply” in the Admission section. c Submit English recommendation c Submit Math recommendation c Submit General recommendation

4 STEP FOUR: INTERVIEW AND VISIT An admission interview is required and we encourage you to visit while school is in session.

c Call us at 570-270-2160 to schedule your visit

5 STEP FIVE: SUBMIT TEST SCORES Questions about this step? Call 570-270-2158. c Submit transcript or recent report card c Grades 11-PG: submit PSAT, SAT, or ACT scores. Grades 9-10: plan to take an SSAT prior to enrollment.

Financial Aid APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS 1 STEP ONE: PARENTS’ FINANCIAL STATEMENTS c Complete the online Parents’ Financial Statement (PFS) with School and Student Services (SSS) • Visit www.solutionsbysss.com • Once Step 1 is complete, the option to complete Step 2 on SSS will become available • SSS offers fee waivers to waive the cost of the application for families who meet their income requirements. For questions relating to fee waivers, please contact SSS customer support (800-344-8328)

2 STEP TWO: TAX DOCUMENTS c Upload copies of the required tax documents to SSS • The required documents are the Federal Income Tax Return 1040 with accompanying schedules and W-2 forms from all employment reflected on the 1040 • If you have not received documents from the current year, you may upload your documents from last year. Do not delay completing this step to wait for current year documents to become available. You may upload new documents to SSS at any time and the financial aid committee will consider the current year estimates reported on the PFS when determining awards.

DEADLINES

February 15: Financial aid deadline for students new to Wyoming Seminary Financial aid applications may be submitted after the deadline. We will continue awarding aid to students until all funds are distributed from the budget. If your student has a sibling currently enrolled at Wyoming Seminary, please note that the deadline to complete the financial aid process is December 15 for all returning students.

The Financial Aid Office is located in the admission building of the UPPER SCHOOL campus

NEXT STEPS Now that you’ve completed the admission process, what’s next? Parents will receive an admission decision via email. If the student is accepted, the email will include information about accessing their online enrollment agreement and forms. If you applied for financial aid, the student’s enrollment agreement and forms will be available after the financial aid committee reviews the application. In most cases, a decision is made by the committee no later than two or three weeks from the time a student is accepted. Parents will receive a follow up email notifying them of the outcome along with instructions on accessing the enrollment agreement (reflecting financial aid if approved). Parents must electronically sign and submit the enrollment agreement and pay the deposit before the due date on the enrollment agreement. Parents of admitted students will receive multiple emails leading up to the first day of school with all the information they need to prepare for the transition to Wyoming Seminary.

Financial Aid FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ? If I am applying for financial aid for more than one child, must I submit two applications? No. You are required to complete only one PFS per family.

? What should I do if I am divorced and am no longer in contact with my child’s mother/father or they refuse to comply? We strive for a complete understanding of custodial and non-custodial parents’ ability to contribute to the applicant’s educational expenses, but we work with each applicant on an individual basis. Please contact the Financial Aid Office.

? Will I receive the same amount of financial aid each year? Returning students are required to apply for financial aid each year. It is likely that the award will at least remain the same from the previous year unless your financial circumstances change.

? What is the maximum amount of financial aid a student can receive? All awards are determined in respect to the status of our budget and remaining seats to fill in each grade. We do not have a cutoff for the maximum amount of aid a student can receive.

? At what income level do families start to become disqualified for financial aid? Family income is just one of many factors we consider. If you are not sure if you will qualify, it is always best to apply.

www.wyomingseminary.org Lower School 1560 Wyoming Avenue Forty Fort, PA 18704 Admission: (570) 718-6610

Upper School 201 North Sprague Avenue Kingston, PA 18704 Admission: (570) 270-2160

Wyoming Seminary Lower School

ADMISSION AND FINANCIAL AID

Financial Aid Office (570) 270-2157

Upper School Admission (570) 270-2160

Lower School Admission APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS 1 STEP ONE: APPLICATION Submit an online application c Visit www.wyomingseminary.org/admission

2 STEP TWO: SCREENING Schedule a date and time for your student’s screening c Screenings are age-appropriate tests for prospective students lasting 30 to 105 minutes depending on grade

3 STEP THREE: VISIT US Schedule a visit day c Your child will be paired with a student in their current grade to experience a day in the life of a Sem student

4 STEP FOUR: SUBMIT REPORT CARDS Submit copies of your child’s last two years of report cards c You may drop off forms in the Admission Office, email forms to LSadmission@wyomingseminary.org or mail to Lower School Admission, Wyoming Seminary Lower School, 1560 Wyoming Avenue, Forty Fort, PA 18704

DEADLINES

The Financial Aid Office is located in the admission building of the UPPER SCHOOL campus

NEXT STEPS Now that you’ve completed the admission process, what’s next? Parents will receive an admission decision via email. If the student is accepted, the email will include information about accessing their online enrollment agreement and forms. If you applied for financial aid, the student’s enrollment agreement and forms will be available after the financial aid committee reviews the application. In most cases, a decision is made by the committee no later than two or three weeks from the time a student is accepted. Parents will receive a follow up email notifying them of the outcome along with instructions on accessing the enrollment agreement (reflecting financial aid if approved). Parents must electronically sign and submit the enrollment agreement and pay the deposit before the due date on the enrollment agreement. In addition, you have the option to appeal the decision if you believe your balance is unaffordable. Please contact the financial aid office before the due date on your enrollment agreement to discuss the appeal process. Parents of confirmed students will receive multiple emails leading up to the first day of school with all the information they need to prepare for the transition to Wyoming Seminary.

Financial Aid FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ? If I am applying for financial aid for more than one child, must I submit two applications? No. You are required to complete only one PFS per family.

www.wyomingseminary.org Lower School 1560 Wyoming Avenue Forty Fort, PA 18704 Admission: (570) 718-6610

Upper School 201 North Sprague Avenue Kingston, PA 18704 Admission: (570) 270-2160

WYOMING SEMINARY 2020-21 SCHOOL PROFILE Two campuses: Lower School in Forty Fort, Pa. and Upper School in Kingston, Pa. (570) 270-2100 | www.wyomingseminary.org | ACT/CEEB# 392040

Verum, Pulchrum, Bonum MISSION STATEMENT

“

Within an exponentially changing world, Wyoming Seminary dares to teach our students to honor and strive for the true, the beautiful and the good.

3WHERE IS SEM?4

3UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS4

Wyoming Seminary is situated in the picturesque Wyoming Valley of northeast Pennsylvania, dubbed the “valley with a heart.”

3IMPACT OF COVID-194 Wyoming Seminary pivoted to remote learning on 3/11/2020 following the closure of our campus due to COVID-19. Sem continued its commitment to academic excellence. Classes met synchronously and asynchronously to promote flexibility, collaboration, and engagement with our students around the globe. Live virtual instruction involved a variety of web-based learning systems and platforms from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. daily in five 60-minute blocks within our 7-day rotation. We maintained our grading scale in the spring trimester and included the term marks in year grades, while responding to challenging individual circumstances with a “hold harmless” policy. For the 2020-2021 academic year, Wyoming Seminary begins on 9/8/2020 with a hybrid of in-person and live distance classes in 60-minute blocks five days a week in a 7-day rotation. Sem families have elected the best platform for their students. Students who have chosen distance learning are expected to attend the in-person classes as active participants via the web platform. Grading, regardless of instructional method, follows our traditional rubric. Sem stands ready to adjust its options of instruction to respond to changing circumstances and to follow official guidelines or mandates, in order to align with our mission of daring to honor the true, the beautiful and the good in an exponentially changing world.

“

241 boys 173 boarders 20% int’l

230 girls 298 day 80% domestic

3ABOUT OUR UPPER SCHOOL4 • We are a four-year, independent, college preparatory boarding and day school, founded in 1844. • Sem is accredited by the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges, the Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools (PAIS), and the University Senate of the United Methodist Church and licensed by The Pennsylvania Department of Education. • We are a member of ACCIS, ADVIS, NACAC, NAFSA, NAIS, NEPSAC, PACAC, PACIS, PAIS, PIAA, SSATB, TABS, and College Board. Since 2017, we have been a member of Round Square, a worldwide network of innovative schools, and Mastery Transcript Consortium. • The Louis Maslow STEM School was founded in 2012 to promote the study of science, technology, engineering and math. The program includes academic classes as well as research opportunities, enrichment, and community events. In 2020, Sem launched a Climate Science Concentration, a 4-year program to focus on the scientific, global, atmospheric, economic, and societal implications of climate change. • Our student body is a microcosm of the national and global community. Wyoming Seminary has educated international students since the 1850s. • 70% of students receive tuition assistance. • We offer 65 full-year courses (1.0 credit) and 98 trimester courses (.333 credit). • Classes meet 5 times in a 7-day rotation. Traditionally, 4 of these classes are 50 minutes and 1 is 90 minutes. For 2020-2021, all classes will be 60 minutes long. AP Biology and AP Chemistry have an additional class of instruction per cycle. • There are three 12-week trimesters, and all students must take five classes. Students can elect six classes with the approval of the dean.

3DIVERSITY STATEMENT4 It is unquestionably true, beautiful, and good that the world is made up of diverse people. Wyoming Seminary strives to build a learning environment that reflects the disparate cultures, religions, languages, backgrounds, identities, and perspectives of our world. To that end, our school seeks to encourage the application of students and the hiring of faculty, staff, and administrators who represent diversity. Sustaining, and nurturing, such a community is an ongoing process, and we will continue to foster the respect, empathy, and curiosity that allow it to flourish.

23 STATES and

28 COUNTRIES and

5 CONTINENTS represented

766 STUDENTS ON BOTH CAMPUSES

3TRANSCRIPT GUIDE4

3UPPER SCHOOL FACULTY AND STAFF4

Please note that Wyoming Seminary neither ranks students nor provides a cumulative GPA.

full-time faculty and administrators

The Class of 2021 has 133 seniors and 10 postgraduates. Sem’s grading scale applies to individual courses, not to a student’s overall curriculum as illustrated in the table below. The average grade earned at Wyoming Seminary is a “B.”

faculty/administrators have advanced degrees

Course Course

Weighting

Example

Regular

No grade weight

B=3.0

Honors

Weighted 1 step

B=3.3

Weighted 2 steps

B=3.7

3GRADING SCALE4 Letter Grade

Regular Weight

Honors Weight

AP Weight

A+

4.3

4.7

5.0

4.0

4.3

4.7

A-

3.7

4.0

4.3

B+

3.3

3.7

4.0

3.0

3.3

3.7

B-

2.7

3.0

3.3

C+

2.3

2.7

3.0

2.0

2.3

2.7

C-

1.7

2.0

2.3

D+

1.3

1.7

2.0

1.0

1.3

1.7

D-

1.0

1.3

0.0

average class size

part-time faculty and staff members

artists-in-residence

3ADVANCED, AP AND HONORS COURSES4 Most AP courses are single offerings; therefore, some students must make critical choices in choosing their schedules. Wyoming Seminary offers 22 Advanced Placement courses approved by College Board. AP American Seminar is by invitation only. Other AP courses are open to students who receive a B+ or better in prerequisite courses with the recommendations of their current teachers in the discipline. Students are encouraged to limit their APs to three courses per year. Differential Equations and Multivariable Calculus are post-AP courses. Please visit www.wyomingseminary.org/courses to view the complete course catalog. Honors Courses Algebra II Honors Biology Honors Chemistry Honors Creative Spirit (Honors) PreCalculus Honors Calculus Honors French Honors Physics Honors Russian Honors Spanish Honors

AP Courses AP American Seminar-English ** AP American Seminar-History ** AP Biology AP Calculus-AB AP Calculus-BC * AP Chemistry AP Computer Science AP Economics AP Environmental Science AP European History

3MINIMAL 4-YEAR REQUIRED COURSE SEQUENCE4 English (4 credits): Literature of Self-Discovery (9), Literary Genres (10), Style and Structure (11), and electives (11,12) Mathematics (3 credits): Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II Global Language* (3 credits): 3 consecutive years Chinese, French, Latin, Russian, Spanish History (3 credits): World Civilizations (9), Modern World History (10), U.S. History (11) Science* (3 credits, including 2 credits of lab sciences): STEM Foundations (9), Biology (10) Other (1.667 credits): Art History, Religion, Health, Masterpieces of Music, Public Speaking Co-curricular: Physical Education (1 term each year), Community Service (10 hour minimum each year) *One discipline may be reduced to 2 credits

AP French Language & Culture AP Latin AP Music Theory AP Physics AP Spanish Language & Culture AP Spanish Literature & Culture AP Statistics AP Studio Art-Design AP Studio Art-Drawing AP US Government & Politics** AP US History

AP World History Advanced Courses (Post AP) Differential Equations Multivariable Calculus *Prerequisite is AP Calculus-AB ** Taught by Harkness method

3HONORS AND LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES4 Honors: Levi Sprague Fellowship, Cum Laude Society, Climate Science Ambassador, endowed scholarships and awards, Dean’s List and Dean’s List High Honors. Leadership: Student Government, Academic Department Representatives, Disciplinary Council Members, Honor Council Representatives, Blue Key Ambassadors, Climate Science Ambassadors, resident assistants, Peer Group, academic peer tutors, Writing Center tutors, Library Advisory Board, Student Activities Committee, athletic team captains, editors of publications, Blue Crew (Orientation Committee) and officers in clubs. Clubs: We offer over 46 clubs and publications, including Artisan Club, Baking Club, Business Club, Chess Club, Chinese Culture Club, Coding Club, Community Service Committee, Creative Writing Group, Engineering Club, Environmental Club, French Club, Hacky Sack Club, International Club, Investment Club, IT Club, Latin Club, Math Club, Media Club, Medical Club, Mock Trial, Model United Nations, Nerdvana, Newspaper (The Opinator), Peer Group, Photography Club, Russian Club, PRISM: Gay-Straight Alliance, Science Olympiad, Science Research Group, Squirrel Club, Robotics Club, SOCA: Students of Color Alliance, Spanish Club, True Blue Spirit Club, and Yearbook (The Wyoming).

3SAT TEST RANGES FOR THE CLASS OF 20194 Maximum possible score: 1600

•

Middle 50% (107 students)

3ACT TEST RANGES FOR THE CLASS OF 20194 Maximum possible score: 36

•

Middle 50% (42 students)

EBRW

550-680

English

Math

530-700

Math

23-28

Total

1090-1360

Reading

23-31

Science

23-28

Composite

23-28

For 2020-21, because colleges and universities are not requiring SAT Subject Test scores, we are not reporting the middle 50%.

23-32

3ADVANCED PLACEMENT EXAMS4

3CONDUCT AND DISCIPLINE STATEMENTS4

All students enrolled in AP courses at Wyoming Seminary are encouraged to take the advanced placement exams. They must be current students in the class to sit for the test. Students in AP American Seminar, AP Calculus BC, and AP Statistics are required by the instructors to take the exams. 176 students sat for 322 exams in 22 subject areas in May 2020. 81% earned a score of 3 or better (50% earned a 4 or higher) out of a possible 5. The average score was 3.4. 62 students in the class of 2020 averaged a 3.2 on 97 tests. College Board has recognized 24 of our students as AP Scholars, 10 as AP Scholars with Honor, and 22 as AP Scholars with Distinction. One student earned the honor of National AP Scholar.

HONOR CODE: All members of our community uphold a strict honor code.

3CLIMATE SCIENCE CONCENTRATION4

CODE OF CONDUCT: At Sem, we hold ourselves to high standards. We understand that other people matter. We respect others at all times, in all ways, on all platforms. We are a community of Blue Knights, bonded in our mission to become better versions of ourselves. With that in mind, we at Sem show up. We show up for class, we show up on stage, we show up for competition, and we show up to serve. Each time we show up, we represent our school culture. We hold dear the privilege it is to work and live together at Wyoming Seminary, and we honor our commitment to strive for the true, the beautiful, and the good. - excerpt from the Wyoming Seminary Code of Conduct

Students apply in grade 9 and develop 4-year portfolios of individual work across the curriculum, their co-curricular activities, our campus, and the greater community. As seniors, the students will present capstone projects in their areas of concentration. Successful completion of the rigorous program will be designated on the students’ transcripts.

32019-20 CAMPUS & COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTS4

DISCIPLINE STATEMENT: Students are expected to act with integrity in all academic and personal matters. Wyoming Seminary complies with NACAC’s Code of Ethics and Professional Practices. Students are responsible for reporting disciplinary violations, including suspensions and expulsions.

3HEADING4

Sem joins NEPSAC in 2020 for football and ice hockey

Students of Color Alliance facilitates conversations across campus

#1 prep boys’ wrestling school in USA

78% of Sem students participate in 22 sports

9 athletes in Girls High School National Rankings by USA Wrestling

Girls field hockey team wins 3rd consecutive state championship

2 students teach online summer course on legal system

Advisory, grade-level cohorts continue values and character education

PRISM (Gay-Straight Alliance) supports LGBTQ+ community

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee formed in 2020

Model UN students attend global conferences

16 students attend district music festivals; 75% proceed to regionals

Project for Enhanced Global Understanding sponsors Israeli students

Faculty and students exhibit at juried shows around the area, state

Narrative 4 expands to harness the power of the story exchange

Students travel to India to participate in Round Square conference

AP Music students compose new carols for Christmas chapel

Fall production of musical 1776 is a smashing hit

DEI

Faculty in Professional Development on anti-racism strategies All-school Day of Service supports 32 community projects

ROUND SQUARE

3COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES4 The list comprises some of the college/university acceptances of the Classes of 2016-2020. The 628 (121 in 2020) students in the last five consecutive classes received 2437 (490 in 2020) offers of admission to 492 (199 in 2020) different colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. The 5 classes have matriculated to 241 (72 in 2020) distinct schools worldwide. For the complete lists, visit www.wyomingseminary.org/acceptances and www.wyomingseminary.org/matriculations. American University Amherst College Babson College Bard College Bates College Baylor University Beloit College Bentley University Binghamton University Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University Brown University Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University California Polytechnic State University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Santa Barbara Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University University of Chicago Clark University Clemson University Colby College Colgate University University of Colorado at Boulder Columbia University Connecticut College Cornell University Davidson College University of Delaware Denison College Dickinson College Drexel University Duke University Duquesne University Elon University Emerson College Emory University Fairfield University University of Florida Fordham University Franklin & Marshall College The George Washington University Georgetown University University of Georgia Georgia Institute of Technology Gettysburg College Hamilton College Hampshire College Harvard University Haverford College Hobart & William Smith Colleges College of the Holy Cross Howard University University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Indiana University at Bloomington The University of Iowa Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lafayette College Lawrence University Lehigh University Loyola Marymount University Loyola University Maryland University of Maryland University of Maryland, College Park University of Massachusetts, Amherst Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of Miami University of Michigan Middlebury College Mount Holyoke College University of New Hampshire New Jersey Institute of Technology New York University The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill North Carolina State University Northeastern University Northwestern University University of Notre Dame Oberlin College of Arts and Sciences Occidental College The Ohio State University The University of Oklahoma Pace University - New York Pennsylvania State University University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh Princeton University Providence College Purdue University Reed College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhodes College Rice University University of Richmond Rochester Institute of Technology University of Rochester Rollins College Rutgers University, New Brunswick Saint Joseph’s University University of San Diego Santa Clara University Sarah Lawrence College Seton Hall University Sewanee: The University of the South Simmons University Skidmore College Smith College University of Southern California Spelman College St. Lawrence University Stanford University Stevens Institute of Technology Stony Brook University Swarthmore College Syracuse University Temple University Texas Christian University University of Texas, Austin Tufts University Union College United States Military Academy United States Naval Academy Vanderbilt University University of Vermont Villanova University Virginia Tech University of Virginia Wake Forest University Washington and Lee University Washington University in St. Louis Wesleyan University Wheaton College MA College of William and Mary Williams College University of Wisconsin, Madison The College of Wooster Worcester Polytechnic Institute Yale University

WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL Upper School 201 North Sprague Avenue Kingston, PA 18704 Phone: 570-270-2100 Fax: 570-270-2487 LEADERSHIP CONTACTS Kevin Rea President krea@wyomingseminary.org Tom Morris Dean of the Upper School tmorris@wyomingseminary.org COLLEGE COUNSELING CONTACTS Jane Slaff Director of College Counseling jslaff@wyomingseminary.org (570) 270-2107 Denny Barber Assoc. Director of College Counseling dbarber@wyomingseminary.org (570) 270-2127 Elizabeth Frosini Assoc. Director of College Counseling efrosini@wyomingseminary.org (570) 270-2108 Anne Lew Assoc. Director of College Counseling alew@wyomingseminary.org (570) 270-2125 Jenna Mercatili Assoc. Director of College Counseling jmercatili@wyomingseminary.org (570) 270-2126 ACT/CEEB# 392040 WWW.WYOMINGSEMINARY.ORG SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @semcollegeguide Instagram: @semcollegeguide Facebook: Wyoming Seminary College Counseling

WYOMING SEMINARY LOWER SCHOOL

P A R E N T S ASSOCIATION

Every parent or guardian of a child who attends the Lower School is a member of the Wyoming Seminary Lower School Parents Association (WSLSPA). The mission of the Parents Association is to promote the interest and welfare of Sem; to raise funds for the current needs of the school; to facilitate accurate and constructive communication among the school, parents and the community; and to encourage the active participation of parents in the school’s events and activities.

FAST FACTS HANDBOOK Our online handbook is one of the best ways to learn about the Lower School. Visit your My Sem page to access the handbook. Click the “My Sem” link on the upper right of the website to log in. The link is located under the “Handbooks” tab. AFTERCARE Wyoming Seminary offers aftercare services. Visit the Lower School handbook under the “Aftercare” heading to learn more. EIGHTH GRADE PORTRAIT Eighth graders are required to get a professional portrait done independently for the yearbook, known as the “Tatler.” Eighthgrade families will be notified in advance with specifications. PARENT EDUCATION The WSLSPA sponsors visiting professionals to the Sem community in conjunction with the Office of Alumni and Development and the Upper School Parents Association (WSUSPA). SCHOOL SUPPLY LISTS Visit wyomingseminary.org/back-to-school to find school supply lists organized by grade. SEM ATTIRE AND DRESS CODE “Sem Attire” is not a single uniform, but rather a selection of clothing pieces. The Lower School handbook lists approved attire and includes information on how to purchase items. Sem occasionally has formal dress-up days or casual dressdown days depending on school events. These days are communicated to parents in advance. Delayed school openings are dress-down days. We sometimes use dress-down days for charitable fundraising which allows us to give back to our community. For students who wish to participate, a $2.00 donation may be requested. SEM ATTIRE SWAP The Sem Attire Swap program encourages parents to donate and purchase gently-used Sem Attire at a discounted rate. Stop by the front office to see which items are available.

VOLUNTEER

HOW TO GET INVOLVED The WSLSPA is in need of volunteers for events. In addition, each grade has a parent who helps teachers coordinate parties. Events with the icon are volunteer opportunities. Please contact an officer from the Parents Association (back page) to get involved.

SCHEDULE

SUMMER: Required Reading Visit wyomingseminary.org/back-to-school and click the link for summer reading to learn more. AUGUST 13-15: Math Camp for New Students New families will be individually contacted with more information regarding this event. AUGUST 14: Early Childhood Ice Cream Social Toddler, Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten may attend at the Lower School from 10:00 a.m. AUGUST 14: Grades 1 and 2 Ice Cream Social Join us at the Lower School at 11:00 a.m. AUGUST 15: Grades 3 and 4 Ice Cream Social Join us at the Lower School at 11:00 a.m. AUGUST 15: Grades 5, 6, 7 and 8 Ice Cream Social Join us at the Lower School at 11:00 a.m. AUGUST 22: New Parent Wine and Cheese Enjoy a casual evening in the library from 6:00-8:00 p.m. to welcome our new families. Wine and cheese will be served. Adults only please. AUGUST 22: Early Childhood Back-to-School Night Toddler, Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten families, please meet us at 6:00 p.m. for an informative session regarding back-to-school procedures. AUGUST 26: First day of classes at Lower School Classes begin.

AUGUST 27: Grades 1-4 Back-to-School Night Please meet us from 6:00-7:00 p.m. for an informative session regarding back-to-school procedures. SEPTEMBER 2: Labor Day No classes at Lower School. SEPTEMBER 3: Grades 5-8 Back-to-School Night Please meet us from 6:00-7:30 p.m. for an informative session regarding back-to-school procedures. SEPTEMBER 10: Parents Association Meeting Powell Room at 8:30 a.m. All parents are welcome. SEPTEMBER 17 AND 18: Picture Day Students should wear school uniform attire.

V SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 4: Scholastic Book Fair

This event allows students to purchase books and related items. A portion of the proceeds are used to purchase items for the library. Volunteers are needed.

V OCTOBER 4: Grandparents Day

Grandparents and friends are invited to spend a day at the Lower School. Guests will attend classes and participate in fun activities. Students should wear dress-up day attire. Volunteers are needed. OCTOBER 11 AND 14: Long Weekend No classes. OCTOBER 8: Parents Association Meeting Powell Room at 8:30 a.m. All parents are welcome. OCTOBER 31: Halloween Parade Toddler through Grade 4 students wear Halloween costumes and participate in a parade around the Lower School. The parade starts at 8:45 a.m. and parents are welcome to attend! The entire community may participate in this modified dressdown day. OCTOBER 24 AND 25: All-School Conferences October 24 is a half day and there are no classes on October 25. NOVEMBER 12: Parents Association Meeting Powell Room at 8:30 a.m. All parents are welcome.

NOVEMBER 22 - DECEMBER 1: Fall Break Begins at 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 22 and no aftercare is available.

V FALL-WINTER: Original Works of Art Project

The WSLSPA enables students with the help of the school’s art department to create artwork that is reproduced in a professional production. Volunteers are needed.

V DECEMBER 2-6: Sem Goes Shopping

The WSLSPA sets up a gift shop at school so students have the opportunity to surprise family and friends with gifts they select themselves. Volunteers are needed. DECEMBER 10: Parents Association Meeting Combined with Faculty Holiday Luncheon. DECEMBER 12: Middle-School Instrumental Concert 6:00 p.m. in the Amato Auditorium.

V DECEMBER 20: Holiday Concert and Tea

Eighth-grade students and families are honored guests at the holiday concert and tea. The program begins at 9:00 a.m. and is enjoyed by parents, teachers, grandparents and friends. Guests are invited to the tea after the concert. Students should wear dress-up day attire and will be dismissed after the concert. No aftercare is available. Volunteers are needed.

DECEMBER 20 - JANUARY 5: Winter Break Begins at noon on Dec. 20 and no aftercare is available. JANUARY 14: Parents Association Meeting Powell Room at 8:30 a.m. All parents are welcome.

V FEBRUARY 3: Long Weekend and Ski Day

No classes. Students and families can hit the slopes with the Sem community at a local ski resort. Instruction for children and adults is offered at a discount. Volunteers are needed. FEBRUARY 12: Parents Association Meeting Powell Room at 8:30 a.m. All parents are welcome. FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 15: Spring Break Begins at 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 28 and no aftercare is available. APRIL 10-13: Easter Recess No classes.

APRIL 14: Parents Association Meeting Powell Room at 8:30 a.m. All parents are welcome. APRIL 24: Primary Conferences (Grades 1-4) No classes for Early Childhood and Primary APRIL (TBD): Spring Auction Lower School and Upper School Parents Associations work together to raise funds for the teachers’ wish lists. MAY 7: Primary/Middle-School Concert and Art Show 6:30 p.m. in the Amato Auditorium MAY 12: Parents Association Meeting Powell Room at 8:30 a.m. All parents are welcome. MAY 14: Middle-School Instrumental Concert 6:00 p.m. in the Amato Auditorium. MAY 21: Moving Up Ceremony Children in Kindergarten through Grade 4 gather to celebrate their new grade levels. Parents and guests are invited to attend.

V MAY 21: Field Day

Field Day is an annual Sem tradition that has evolved into a community festival of friendly competition, entertainment, crafts, games, refreshments and more. Each participating student must have a parent present and parents can watch their children participate in the activities. Volunteers are needed. MAY 26: Eighth Grade Graduation 10:00 a.m. in the Amato Auditorium. The WSLSPA is responsible for portions of graduation. These include arranging for the recording of the ceremony, providing the flowers and planning the evening party. Each eighth-grade student is also given a framed class photo. Eighth-grade families will be notified in advance with the specific attire requirements for graduating students.

FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!

Facebook.com/wyomingseminary Twitter.com/wyomingseminary Instagram.com/wyomingseminary Snapchat username: wyomingseminary

CONTACTS & RESOURCES FRONT OFFICE 1560 Wyoming Ave, Forty Fort, PA 18704 ADMISSION LSadmission@wyomingseminary.org

•

570-718-6600

570-718-6611

FACULTY AND STAFF DIRECTORY www.wyomingseminary.org/directory WSLSPA OFFICERS Each officer of the Parents Association serves a two-year term. For details regarding the Parents Association visit www.wyomingseminary.org/wslspa or contact an officer below. Mary Lou Decker-Fenster, President, fensterml@hotmail.com Dona Hall, Treasurer, donahall305@gmail.com Kimberly Mauriello, Secretary, kimberlymauriello@gmail.com Hannah Burgess, hannahfburgess@gmail.com Courtney Cawley, courtneycawley@yahoo.com Matthew Ceruti, djmattcash@gmail.com Laura Howell-Glynn, lauradoron@aol.com Theresa Kurilla, therese.kurilla@scranton.edu Valarie Nat, valarie@unstoppablefoodie.com Sheryl Piavis, sheryl.piavis@gmail.com Jessica Standish, tjmstandish@me.com Jennifer Switzer, jbunny19@gmail.com Michelle Wise, michelle@mdmgroupllc.com ONLINE RESOURCES Our website contains connects you with the information you need to know. Please visit www.wyomingseminary.org to find out about weather delays, read parent newsletters, learn about upcoming events and more. The website also contains a personalized section called “My Sem” which allows parents to view their student’s grades and reports. Click the “My Sem” link on the upper right of the website to log in.