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The online edition of Horace Mann Magazine enables readers to learn about Horace Mann School wherever you are, including through the newly-launched Horace Mann Alumni App available on your iPhone, iPad, or Android-enabled devices. We look forward to connecting, and to celebrating Horace Mann School’s 125th Anniversary together. If you prefer to receive your copy of Horace Mann Magazine online only please email your postal address to [email protected] with the words “ONLINE ONLY” in the subject line. magazine Volume 7 Number 2 7 Number Volume Wi n t HORACEer 2012 MANN past, present, andfuture Preparing Great andGivingLives, Celebrating 125Years:

All Horace Mann School parents, alumni, grandparents, parents of alumni, current and former faculty & staff, and friends

are invited to celebrate HM’S 125TH ANNIVERSARY and to benefit its present and future students

at a gala event on Saturday, May 19, 2012 Formal invitation to follow but mark your calendars now to attend! Contentscontents

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4 Greetings from Dr. Tom Kelly, Horace Mann School Head of School

5 G reetings from Melissa Parento ’90, Horace Mann School Director of Development features horace mann school journal

th 6 Horace Mann School’s 125 24 nE w Initiatives in Institutional Research Anniversary Observances Begin and Admissions The 2011-2012 school year marks the 125th anniver- Horace Mann School launches The Office sary of Horace Mann School, and commemorates of Institutional Research and Enrollment 125 years of the school’s pursuit of excellent educa- Management under the direction of Lisa Moreira. tion. Throughout this year the greater Horace Jason Caldwell ’97 returns to Horace Mann as Mann School community is taking the opportunity Director of Admissions. to reflect on HM’s past, engage with the energetic education of its present, and consider new possibilities for the school’s future. At the same time 28 H M’s New Director of College Counseling: Horace Mann School’s administration is charting a Canh Oxelson course for HM’s future. 31 Timo thy Ho and Monica Merlo are 2011 Tina and David Bellet Teaching Excellence Award Win- 9 Strategic Thinking: A framework for the ners future of Horace Mann School’s Mission to: “prepare a diverse community of 34 Langfan Oratorical Contest, 2011; students to lead great and giving lives.” Four new Trustees appointed After several years of internal and New York State Association for Independent Schools (NYSAIS)- 36 Ho race Mann School graduates 178 in June, 2011 related self-examination, in the winter of 2012 HM presented a document outlining Strategic horace mann alumni journal Thinking about the future direction of the school. Particular consideration was given to the many 44 a LUMNI COUNCIL CORNER ways Horace Mann School can fulfill its mission Horace Mann School Alumni Council (HMAC) of preparing “a diverse community of students President Justin Lerer ’95 invites alumni to par- to lead great and giving lives.” The Strategic ticipate in HM’s 125th anniversary celebrations. Thinking document is reviewed in this article that also highlights six alumni whose life circumstances led them to pursue work on behalf of 45 B OOKSHELF others. Read about: Dr. Richard (Dick) Traum ’58; Bill Davis ’70; Prof. Nicole Lamb Ives ’86; 49 c LASS NOTES Jennifer Melamed Iannuzzi ’89, Alexander Silver ’95 and Jamie Grossmann Silver ’95; and 58 O m EM RIALS Norbelina Disla ’01. 64 PH ILANTHROPY AND YOU th Cover: Alumni from the Horace Mann School Class of 1946 and current sixth graders from the Horace Mann School’s 125 anniversary inspires HM Class of 2018. Pictured are (Top row, front to back) Prof. Francis Chen ’46, Paul Bilgore ’46, Bill Sarnoff ’46, and Michael Loeb ’46. (Bottom row, front to back) Leonie Kurzlechner ’18, Augusta 125 memories—and reasons to support the school. Owens ’18, Grace Hill ’18, Zarina Iman ’18. Photos by Jasmin Ortiz Correction: An article about Kay Negishi ’03 in the last issue of Horace Mann Magazine unfortunately included a head shot that was wrongly identified as being of Kay. We apologize. Horace Mann Magazine Winter 2012 1 Lettersletters

Editor’s Note: reconnecting with your past, especially when that past has Among the most rewarding aspects of publishing Horace Mann done so much to form who you became and the values you Magazine is the opportunity to connect HM alumni with their hold. It may seem funny, but I still remember the words to school, and with one another. The Spring/Summer 2011 issue of our school song and occasionally find myself singing it. the magazine drew letters from alumni from the classes of 1942, Robert Lamb ’68 1968, and 2005. We greatly welcome their correspondence, and are News about Prof. Robert Lamb ’68, of Purdue University, appears pleased that their letters updated information about their past and in “Bookshelf” and “Class Notes.” current work. Details can be found in “Class Notes.” The last issue of the magazine focused on HM alumni engaged with communities around the world. It also featured alumni involved Composing for Britten 100—in Jerusalem with food and restaurants. We recently learned of another alumnus who is welcoming diners: Alan Blackwell ’00 and his partner Alyssa enjoyed reading the latest HM Magazine on HM’s inter- Blittersdorf opened Metropolis Wine Bar & Cocktail Lounge in Inational involvement, though I was saddened to hear of Brattleboro, Vt. in July 2011. “Metropolis” is worth a visit, especially the death of Tom Reilly, my Russian teacher. now that ski season is underway. Take it from HM Upper Division Here in Jerusalem, Israel, I am working to produce English teacher Deborah Stanford, who is Alan’s mother, and a very Benjamin Britten’s spiritual chamber opera, Curlew River satisfied customer, and learn more at www.metropoliswinebar.com. in Sept./Oct. 2012. It will probably be the first of the Britten productions that will occur during the 2012/2013 season honoring the 100th anniversary of Britten’s birth. (My pro- Education in a Global Era posal was one of nine that won Britten 100 Awards for this purpose. We are still looking for more sponsors, however!) have just finished reading the Spring/Summer issue of In creating Curlew River, Britten took a Buddhist Ithe Alumni Magazine. It is simply fantastic in every re- Japanese Noh play, Sumidagawa,(written by Kanze Juro spect. What a truly wonderful job you and your associates Motomasa in about 1430 and still performed today) and have done in presenting both the school and it’s alumni moved it to medieval Christian East Anglia. and their dual involvement with the well chosen theme My production moves Curlew River to a poor town near “Education in a Global Era.” the Pale of Settlement at the end of the 19th century. This Very beautifully presented and most impressive. is the first poly-cultural, poly-religious version of Curlew Best, River, and for the first time also we will be using profes- Don Hillman ’42 sional dancers throughout the performance to indicate water, wind, spirits, etc. There’s lots more information on the website, http:// Remembering Horace Mann School curlewriver.com/, and I hope everyone will plan to visit Israel and see this unique production during the Britten ’ve just spent the past hour on your magazine website Centenary season! Iand am overwhelmed by its high quality. Frankly, it’s John C Saunders (Jonathan) ’68 considerably more impressive than any similar university [email protected] website I’ve ever seen. I am so very sorry that I’ve fallen out of touch. It never occurred to me to send any information about my life or work to my high school or college, only to Keeping up on fellow alumni while writing my graduate school, and I suspect that only occurred to me and traveling because I spent years getting Harvard’s university magazine and it’s liberal arts magazine, so I knew they had those. recently read the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of Horace I’m afraid that you could fill a library with all the things IMann Magazine and I was very impressed. I always love everyone seems to know but that I haven’t figured out. receiving the magazine and seeing what my fellow former I would love to receive the link to coming issues of classmates and alumni are doing but I was particularly the Magazine so I can read up on Horace Mann. And the intrigued by this Education in a Global Era issue. next time I’m in New York City, I definitely will come to Since graduating with my B.A. in Communications from Riverdale for a visit. My last time was around 1979, and Temple University in 2009 I spent some time teaching it’s pretty clear that with all that’s changed it might as well English language in Italy, traveling and freelance writing have been back in the Age of Jackson. I’d love to see the for online food and travel publications. I am freelancing library. It was nothing like what you now have! while actively looking for employment in my field. Once again, thanks so very much. When you hit your 60s, Kendra Elise Howard ’05 as I just did, there’s a wonderful feeling that comes from Writer & Creative Freelancer, Wordpress: Kendra Wanderlust

2 Horace Mann Magazine Winter 2012 Horace Mann School Trus tees Emeriti Lisa Braunstein Zola Peter Levine ’93 Dr. Thomas M. Kelly William Aaron Alumni Council Liaison Mark Littmann ’02 Hea d of School Frederick Adler Deborah Croland Franklin Lowe ’70 Dr. David Schiller, Susan Baldwin Communications Elissa Miller ’95 Head, Upper Division (9–12) Tina Bellet Daniel Rosenberg ’92 Alumni Council Robin Ingram Bruce Brickman ’70 Jodi Rosensaft ’96 2011–2012 Head, Middle Division (6–8) Kai Chan Eliah Seton ’00 Nathaniel Christian, III ’79 Justin Lerer ’95 Wendy Steinthal Pnreside t David Strongwater ’01 Head, Lower Division (K (U) –5) Richard Friedman ’75 Brett Sundheim ’97 Theresa Havell Sari Mayer ’84 Marcia Levy Vice-President Sara Roby Wiener ’97 Heau d, N rsery Division (N, K (D)) Donald Jonas ’47 Dayna Langfan ’79 Wesley Mittman LePatner ’99 Glenn Sherratt Secre tary Direc tor, John Dorr Nature Bert Lewen Alumni House and Laboratory Herbert Neuman Members Development Office magazine Morton L. Olshan Sharon Bazbaz ’92 Melissa Parento ’90 The Board of Trustees Jordan Roth ’93 Ronald Blum ’79 Direc tor of Development 2011–2012 Silda Wall Spitzer Jeffrey Brosk ’65 Kristen Pietraszek Officers Miles Stuchin, ’70 Anthony Brown ’76 Direc tor of Annual Giving Steven M. Friedman ’72 Elliott Sumers Louise Elton ’80 Greg Zuroski Chair David Tillinghast ’47 Randy Fields ’94 Direc tor of Alumni Relations Deborah S. Cogut Neil Underberg Paul Getzels ’81 Ruth Seligman Vice Chair Cortnee Glasser ’92 Director of Publications Parents Association Carolyn Okin Amy Gold ’98 Editor, Horace Mann Magazine 2011–2012 Executive Board Vice Chair Cary Sidlett Gunther ’93 Farrah Kleiner Libby Barge Lawrence Shelley William Irwin ’74 Assistant Director of Pnreside t Treasurer Samantha Kleier Forbes ’90 Annual Giving Mariko Zeitlin Robert Heidenberg ’76 Sabrina Kleier Morgenstern ’94 Nurie Hasandjekaj 1st Vice-President Secre tary Mark Langfan ’78 Development Associate and Lisa Lindvall Database Manager Trus tees Noah Leichtling ’92 2nd Vice-President Glenn August Elisabeth Lerner ’86 Eleni Jiavaras Aimee Felton Freedman Steven Bussey ’85 Mickey Littmann ’52 Development Associate, Secre tary Alumni Relations Michael Colacino ’75 Ephram Lustgarten ’96 Ellen Davis Sheryl Jassen Fink Peter Mandelstam ’79 Barbara Melamed Treasurer Ron Dickerman Jeffrey Margolis ’63 Development Associate, Gift Processing Jamshid Ehsani Alice Kim Hayley Friedman Morrison ’92 Assistant Treasurer Catherine Goodstein Wallace ’87 Herbert Nass ’77 Published by the Alumni Allison Essner Laurence Grafstein William Nightingale ’49 House and Development HORACE MANN Lawrence Otis Graham Tijana Perl Joelle Tisch Perlmutter ’95 Office Michael Heller Co-Chairs—Upper Division Daniel Pianko ’94 Horace Mann School Farrah Kleiner Mini Suri Jason Polevoy ’90 231 W. 246th Street Justin Lerer ’95 Vice-Chair—Upper Division Wendy Elias Sassower ’90 Bronx, NY 10471 Edward Levy Linda Filardi Andrew Schoenthal ’91 Phone: 718.432.3450 Howard Lutnick Secretary—Upper Division Daniel Silvers ’94 Fax: 718.432.3010 Matthew Mark ’90 Jennifer Price John Sorkin ’86 www.horacemann.org Jonathan Meltzer ’83 Amanda Salzhauer Daniel Turkewitz ’91 © 2012 Co-Chairs—Middle Division Manish Mittal Lisa Braunstein Zola ’83 Design Eric Mindich Ellen Kramer Emeriti RE :CREATIve William Montgomery Vice-Chair—Middle Division Alli Baron ’89 Andrea Olshan ’98 Alison Wolfson Peter Brown ’53 Primary Photography Michael Pruzan ’83 Secretary—Middle Division Donald Hillman ’42 B ruce Fuller Jasmin Ortiz Joseph Rose ’77 Susan Kane Bloom David Jacoby ’72 Ruth Seligman Richard Ruben ’72 Robin Kaplan Robert Judell ’41 Amanda Salzhauer Co-Chairs—Lower Division Ronald Katter ’78 Printing Usha Saxena Lauren Pritchard-Manning Michael Katz ’56 Capital Offset Company, Inc. Regina Kulik Scully ’81 Vice-Chair—Lower Division Dayna Langfan ’79 Horace Mann Magazine is printed on Beth Kobliner Shaw Jodi Grossman Nass ’78 Galbrie Art, a Forest Stewardship Council Page Bondor (FSC) certified paper. The wood for the Secretary—Lower Division Suzanne Sloan ’77 Daniel Shuchman ’83 production of this paper comes from Thomas Stern Melissa Neumann Friends well-managed forests, adhering to FSC Samona Tait ’86 Karen Ziman Michael Barr ’81 guidelines for legal and sustainable forest Chair Emeriti Co-Chairs—Nursery Division Samantha Cooper Brand ’01 production, as well as recycled wood Richard Eisner ’52 Marc Cornstein ’88 products or fibers, with a 10% post- Penny Hecht consumer recycled content. Peter Gross ’55 Vice-Chair—Nursery Divison Loren Easton ’97 Michael Hess ’58 Amy Dichter- Landis Robin Fisher ’00 Robert Katz ’65 Secretary—Nursery Division Andrew Fleiss ’96 Alan Locker ’57 Ellen Hefter Bari Bloom Goldmacher ’90 Michael Loeb ’46 Andrea Baumann Lustig Penny Kramer Hecht ’94 Carl Pforzheimer, III ’54 Pnreside ts Council Blake Indursky ’90 Daniel Rose ’47 William Kuhn ’99

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inter, 2012: As the world embraced a new calendar year, Horace Mann School students Wreturned to campus following their winter break ready to continue the studies and activities that so deeply engage them day, week, and year after year. I am humbled by such milestones, and by this passage of time, for this year at Horace Mann, time is very much on our minds. Horace Mann School is observing the 125th anniversary of our founding throughout the 2011- 2012 school year. The address of our school has changed since the first four children walked through Horace Mann’s doors in Lower Manhattan back in 1887, but the quality of our students has not, nor has the central idea of our school. Those original students came from families who saw education as an adventuresome enterprise, and were willing to be the first in line at a school that aimed to engage children intellectually, athletically, artistically, and ethically, with a sense of community being of paramount importance. Those students were instructed by teachers seeking to learn, themselves, by engaging young minds, under the guidance of the master educators of their day. Over the ensuing century and a half this powerful combination of questing students and inspired teachers helped Horace Mann School refine its mission into the one we pursue today—a mission of preparing “a diverse community of students to lead great and giving lives.” In this issue of Horace Mann Magazine you will read about a handful of alumni from Horace Mann School’s past who are living our mission of realizing “great and giving lives,” by turning experience gained through personal challenges and triumphs into efforts on behalf of others, and toward the greater good. Each of these alumni credits some aspect of their Horace Mann School education for endowing them with the resources to pursue their giving lives. You will read about HM’s present, in articles on initiatives new to our school. One is our Office of Institutional Research and Enrollment. Emerging from the foundation of Horace Mann School’s long tradition of excellent education, this Office is already providing information critical to our continuing efforts to strengthen the school for the diverse community of students it serves. You will also read about our future, in a synopsis of the document “Strategic Thinking: 2012 & Beyond” we recently presented to members of the Horace Mann School community. This document grew out of directions we identified for the school to pursue, based on the self-study we undertook in preparation for our recent ten-year review by the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS), and in response to the recommendations contained in the NYSAIS accreditation report. The document offers a roadmap to assist us in fulfilling our mission, and to guide our efforts to ensure our school’s strength for milestones to come. When I reflect on Horace Mann School’s past, present, and future during our 125th year, the topic of time obviously emerges. My focus is not only on time, but on the quality of time—of how time teaches, and transforms. For, at Horace Mann School, we value the lessons learned each day of our 125 years. Among the thoughts I, personally, bring to our commemorations, are reflections of the days just before our winter holiday break, when I joined our youngest students counting pennies and wrapping presents for others in need, and watched our older students entertain at our annual Sanctuary for Families dinner, or teach children at the nearby neighborhood center where our students regularly work. I swell with pride over our students who were recently recognized at the nation’s highest levels for their accomplishments in music, science, math, athletics and journalism, both individually and as members of teams. These good works demonstrate how fully our students live in the moment. But, our school’s history tells us that such experiences are part of the preparation for their future of great and giving lives. Finally, at Horace Mann School, time is a value, for we continue to grow through the legacies of the teachers who taught here, the alumni who learned here, and the engagement of all of you who are committed to our school today and to its future. Please join us on campus for events and special programs celebrating HM’s 125th year, and visit www.horacemann.org to learn all of our latest news. Let us celebrate our milestones together, now and in the years ahead.

With best wishes, Dr. Thomas M. Kelly P ’18 Head of School

4 Horace Mann Magazine Winter 2012 Director ofletter Development from the director of development

ho was your favorite teacher?” “Did you have a uniform?” “Did you ever skip class? “Did “Wyou get in trouble?” “What classes did you have?” “What are the biggest changes at Horace Mann since you were a student?” “What is your favorite memory?” These were just some of the questions sixth graders from Horace Mann School’s Middle Division asked members of the Horace Mann Class of 1946, when these alumni came to the HM campus during Homecoming Weekend 2011 to celebrate their 65th reunion. The alumni answered the students thoughtfully, with consideration for how carefully their young fellow Horace Manners had com- posed their questions, and with humor that drew laughter shared across the generations. The visit brought Horace Mann School’s history to life for these students. It also gave them a chance to personally thank a group of Horace Mann School alumni who had contributed to their learning. The students were members of the Middle Division’s sixth grade and, like the rest of HM’s sixth graders, their school year began with an assignment to answer the question: “Would Horace Mann, the man, approve of Horace Mann, the school?” The assignment required the students to research the topic using primary and secondary sources, and to reference materials originating from the mid-1800s, when the American reformer was articulating ideas that would transform education in this country. A special bonus was the chance the assignment gave the students to examine letters penned by Horace Mann himself, a century and a half earlier. They were able to see those letters because of the generosity of the Class of ’46: The letters are housed in an archive in HM’s Katz Library. The archive was endowed by the Class. Students in Horace Mann School’s Lower Division also had a chance to connect with alumni from an earlier era, when Prof. David Schaefer ’43 and Mary Dick Schaefer ’43 shared their love of Lewis Carroll—and their love for Horace Mann School—during a visit with the entire fourth grade. The Schaefers came to Horace Mann in November 2011 to participate in a series of readings by alumni, organized by the Lower Division’s librarians and the Alumni House and Development Office. In another opportunity for alumni to interact with current HMers, hundreds have linked to the school’s website to hear webcast lectures by their former teachers, in a new HM initiative. And, the list goes on. Horace Mann School is currently commemorating its 125th anniversary. Throughout the 2011- 2012 school year the entire HM community is coming together to celebrate our school, and what HM has meant to us throughout the generations. Whether we are HMers from the Class of 1946 sharing memories with members of the Class of 2018, or alumni from 1943 interacting with children who will graduate HM in 2020, this facet of our 125th anniversary observance speaks to our powerful bond, by demonstrating that we can learn from one another. It’s no wonder, for all of us at Horace Mann today, and all who have lived and learned throughout our individual eras at the school, learned also to share an ongoing love for the education that shaped us. We invite you to take part in celebrating our mutual legacy throughout this, our 125th year, by coming to alumni events, keeping abreast of school and alumni news through www.horacemann.org , tuning in to our faculty webcast series, or to videos of student performances or activities on the site’s media gallery or on HMTube. Our next big event is the annual Alumni Council Winter Gathering on February 23, 2012, followed by the Buzzell Games on February 25. On March 15 alumni will enjoy a concert together at the NY Philharmonic, featuring violin virtuoso Gil Shaham ’89. Finally, please plan to be a part of Horace Mann School’s gala 125th Anniversary celebration on May 19, 2012 on the HM campus. We look forward to seeing everyone there.

Sincerely, Melissa Murphy Parento ’90 Director of Development

Horace Mann Magazine Winter 2012 5 Celebrating Horace Mann School’s 125 Years of Preparing Great and Giving Lives, past, present, and future

Honoring HM’s past, educating its current generation, and building a future of preparing “a diverse community of students to lead great and giving lives”

The Past… The Present… The Future…

“If there is anything for which I “As each generation comes into the “The great heart of humanity is would go back to childhood, and world devoid of knowledge, its first heaving with the hopes of a brighter live this… life over again, it is for duty is to obtain possession of the day. All the higher instincts of our the burning, exalting, transporting stores already amassed.” nature prophesy its approach; and thrill and ecstasy with which the the best intellects… are struggling to young faculties hold their earliest “Every addition to true knowledge is turn that prophesy into fulfillment.” communion with knowledge.” an addition to human power.”

– Horace Mann, American education reformer, 1796–1859

orace Mann School is now in its 125th year of citizens of a global society, while grounding current and fu- pursuing outstanding education. Throughout the ture generations of students in traditional knowledge, deep- 2011-2012 school year the entire HM community ened by experiences in athletics, arts, and civic participation. isH celebrating the past and present of this school, while With eyes on the past, focus on the present, and excite- looking toward its future. ment for the future Horace Mann School is celebrating its At HM students and teachers in each Division are ob- enduring core value of “The Life of the Mind.” serving this anniversary by engaging in their studies with the passion for learning exemplified by earlier generations Observing the 125th anniversary in classes of students, who were inspired by their dedicated teachers. Upper Division students are connecting the dots of Horace Simultaneously, Horace Mann’s administrators, guided Mann School’s history as they listen to alumni whose visits by Head of School Dr. Tom Kelly and Board Chair Steve to the school have added the dimension of real-world ex- Friedman ’72, are working to assure HM’s future—one that perience to their lessons. Among those visitors in the first is rooted in its powerful tradition, its current strength, and weeks of the school year were London School of Economics its embrace of thoughtful innovation. Prof. Keyu Jin ’00, who met with economics students, and The vision for Horace Mann is of a school that fulfills its photographer Ben Lenzner ’99 who described his work mission of preparing “a diverse community of students to documenting populations around the world to over 200 lead great and giving lives” through a curriculum that grows students, notably including HM’s new AP Geography class. with its students, as they progress from Nursery through Noted authors, including Robert Caro ’53 and Prof. Howard grade twelve. The vision is of a school equipped with the Wolf ’58 are scheduled to speak to students in English and facilities to respond to the demands of STEM (Science, history classes in upcoming months. Technology, Engineering and Math) education. This school In the Middle Division, the entire sixth grade learned must also be pioneering in its approach to educating young to do historical research based on primary sources to help

6 Horace Mann Magazine Winter 2012 celebrating 125 years: preparing great and giving lives photo by Jasmin Ortiz HM alumnus Dr. Jack Richards ’46 shared stories of his days as a student at Horace Mann School with current HM sixth graders. HM Head of School Dr. Tom Kelly enjoyed the conversation. them write essays answering the question: “Would Horace The HMPA, together with the Horace Mann School Mann, the man, approve of Horace Mann, the school?” Alumni House and Development Office, also helped orga- Students were able to look at original letters penned by nize Homecoming festivities that drew hundreds of alumni education reformer Horace Mann himself, thanks to the and current Horace Mann families to the HM campus on generosity of the HM Class of 1946, whose members en- October 29, 2011. The day featured “Golden Alumni” and dowed an archive to house and catalogue these materials in “Theater Alumni” luncheons, along with a 50th reunion lunch the Katz Library. for the Class of 1961. Other guests cheered on soccer, water In the Lower Division, students are enjoying a year-long polo, and girls’ varsity volleyball teams in competitions each series of Library readings by alumni. And in Nursery through team won. Unfortunately, the usual under-the-tent festivi- grade twelve students are demonstrating how they “prepare” ties, including student-run bake sales, the HMPA’s crafts to “lead great and giving lives” through their involvement and games, and other sports events, had to be cut short or in community service and service learning, by holding coat cancelled by a rare October snowstorm. But, the weather did drives, visiting senior citizens, conducting penny harvests, not keep over 600 alumni from reunion dinners and cocktail or teaching reading and math in Horace Mann’s ongoing parties in Manhattan. Homecoming coverage and pictures Saturday tutoring program, or music and athletics at nearby can be seen at www.horacemann.org/alumni. neighborhood centers, to name only a few activities. Alumni are very much a part of the ongoing celebrations of Horace Mann’s 125th anniversary. In addition to working Ti he w der HM community’s observances begin with the Upper Division on its author series, and the Lower The greater Horace Mann School community began its Division’s Library reading series, The Alumni House and 125th year celebrations with the involvement of its many Development Office launched a webcast series featuring constituents. The Horace Mann Parents Association Horace Mann School teachers addressing subjects of inter- (HMPA) provided an excellent review of the history of est in their fields. Alumni from around the world can tune the school in its PA Bulletin which featured an article on in, or access these presentations at: https://horacemann. the topic by Shadi Sheybani, Bulletin editor and parent webex.com/horacemann/l. In another instance of stu- of two HMers. The article, and the entire Bulletin, can be dents connecting with alumni Insight, the HM Department found on the Horace Mann School website at http://www. of Visual Arts’ photography magazine, has invited HM horacemann.org/page.cfm?p=1018. graduates to submit work for its 2012 issue.

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societies, stellar performances in music and theater, and competitive teams in science, sports and technology. It also means the example of over 8,000 alumni who have learned and lived in Horace Mann’s classrooms since 1887, and gone on to contribute their novels, poetry, paintings and theatrical productions, and their innovations as engineers, astronomers, or research scientists, in ways that resulted in significant scientific discoveries, helped heal millions, and moved the emotions of millions more. Over Horace Mann School’s 125 years “great and giving lives” has meant alumni like actor and social activist Marsha (Betty) Hunt ’34, at age 94, producing a new re- cording to raise funds on behalf of world refugees. It means neuro-imaging pioneer Dr. Robert H. Ackerman ’53 (who wrote the HM alma mater that is sung at the school today) developing noninvasive modalities to diagnose and study

photo by Jasmin Ortiz stroke. It means Regina Kulik Scully ’81 producing the film Fourth graders from Horace Mann’s Lower Division enjoyed meeting Mary “Miss Representation” to generate international aware- Dick Schaefer ’43 when she and her husband HM alunus Dr. David Schaefer ness of the media’s negative depiction of women. And it participated in an alumni reading series honoring HM’s 125th anniversary. means Anoushka Vaswani ’08. Active in community service at Horace Mann, she now advocates community service Community to gather for May 19, 2012 among her peers on her college campus today. 125th Anniversary gala In the following pages you will find stories of only a Plans are underway for a gala 125th anniversary celebration handful of alumni from recent decades who are fulfilling of Horace Mann School on Saturday, May 19, 2012. This Horace Mann School’s mission, specifically by taking a cir- benefit, organized by the HM administration, the Alumni cumstance or a challenge in their lives and turning it into an House and Development Office, and the HMPA, will be opportunity to aid or enhance the lives of others. Included held on Clark Field, and bring together alumni, Horace are alums Dr. Richard (Dick) Traum ’58, William Mann School families, friends, Trustees, administrators, (Bill) Davis ’70, Prof. Nicole Lamb Ives ’86, Jennifer faculty and staff. Other benefits traditionally held annually Melamed Iannuzzi ’89, Alexander Silver ’95 and Jamie by Horace Mann constituencies on behalf of the School, Grossman Silver ’95, and Norbelina Disla ’01. including the annual PA Benefit and the Horace Mann We look forward to sharing more HM stories as Horace School Alumni Council (HMAC) spring benefit, will be part Mann School continues to commemorate its 125th anniver- of this community-wide party. Please watch for informa- sary. We also look forward to celebrating with you at HM’s tion about the 125th anniversary celebration, and make storied campus on May 19, 2012. $ plans to participate in what will be an affair for the ages.

Gnreat a d Giving Lives This issue of Horace Mann Magazine offers a look at the school today in articles about initiatives and administrators new to HM in the 2011-2012 school year. We also look at Horace Mann’s future by featuring an overview of the school’s “Strategic Thinking” document that was recently presented to members of the HM community. This document outlines directions Horace Mann anticipates pursuing to strengthen and continue to fulfill its defining mission of educating students toward “great and giving lives.” It can be read in its entirety on www.horacemann. org. What does that “great and giving” equation mean? It means all of the students and teachers in every Division of photo by Jasmin Ortiz Horace Mann School today engaging in rigorous education In honor of their 65th reunion members of the HM Class of 1946 visited their alma in languages, literature, science, math, arts and athletics. mater and met with sixth graders in history teacher Katharine Rudbeck’s class. Alumni Mike Loeb ’46 and Bill Sarnoff ’46 answered questions about Horace Mann It means initiating and participating in community service in their day. activities, as well as over a dozen publications, debate

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Horace Mann School’s “Strategic Thinking” Document focuses on continuing commitment to diversity in curriculum and community, STEM education, and enhancing physical facilities

“Horace Mann School is united by a common set of values, a dedicated faculty and staff, and a constant effort to improve its policies and practices in the interests of our students. As we reach our 125th anniversary, Horace Mann School seeks to strengthen its foundations while looking to innovations that will continue to make the school a model for the future. Our success derives from consistency and innovation, the value of tradition, and the excitement of the new. Strategic Thinking in these important areas supports Horace Mann School’s continuing commitment to excellence.”

– Horace Mann School Strategic Thinking document, 2012 and Beyond

his winter members of the Horace Mann School com- well as by groups of students, alumni, parents and trustees, Tmunity are reviewing a document titled “Strategic generated during a careful self-study process. This process Thinking, 2012 and Beyond.” The “Strategic Thinking” included strategic planning sessions Dr. Kelly organized document is a fitting tribute to Horace Mann and its past, during his second year as Head of School, when faculty, staff present, and future, as the entire HM community observes members, and administrators from all Divisions, as well as the school’s 125th anniversary. alumni, trustees and students gathered “Under the Tent”— In a letter introducing the brochure Dr. Kelly, together literally—to exchange thoughts about Horace Mann. with Horace Mann School Board of Trustees Chair Steve Another catalyst for generating ideas was the comprehen- Friedman ’72, invited all members of the Horace Mann sive self-evaluation the HM community engaged in during School community “to join the HM faculty, Board of Trustees the two-year New York State Association of Independent and Administrative Council in a process of strategic think- Schools (NYSAIS) reaccreditation process. ing about the future… Our strategic thinking represents a Dr. Kelly noted that the thoughts expressed in the docu- creative process, not a finished product,” they wrote. ment were inspired by Horace Mann’s successful NYSAIS “Thinking about the decade ahead we have articulated reaccreditation and the constructive comments of the some far-reaching goals, concerning our continuing com- NYSAIS Visiting Committee. The document was devel- mitment to diversity within our curriculum and commu- oped “mindful of the school’s Core Values” that guide all nity, our focus on essential STEM (science, technology, that Horace Mann School does. The Core Values address: engineering and math) education, and our physical space. The Life of the Mind; Mature Behavior; Mutual Respect; A Each has numerous possibilities for realization. Far from Secure and Healthful Environment; and a Balance between being a static list of tasks, this document represents a Individual Achievement and a Caring Community. Each framework for collaborative thinking that will grow and of these Core Values is applied in service to Horace Mann change as circumstances require. In short, it is a document School’s ultimate mission of preparing “a diverse commu- that will help us to provide the best education for our chil- nity of students to lead great and giving lives.” dren in the 21st century.” “As we embark on the exciting process of strategic think- The Strategic Thinking document was developed by Dr. ing for the coming years, we look to our community for con- Kelly, in conversation with HM’s Division Heads, depart- structive responses to creative initiatives, and support for the ment chairs, faculty, and other members of the community. traditional value of high educational attainment,” Dr. Kelly It represents the culmination of several years of thorough added. “We ask you to continue to learn and grow with us as examination of the academic, co-curricular and commu- we prepare our wonderful school for a bright future.” nity life of Horace Mann School by all faculty members, as The entire Strategic Thinking brochure can be seen on-

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line at www.HoraceMann.org/StrategicThinking. Some make Horace Mann School an inclusive and welcoming en- highlights are outlined here. vironment.” A section on “Inclusion and Diversity” defines this further as needing to: “maintain the school’s commit- Curriculum ment to inclusion through programming and communica- Horace Mann’s Strategic Thinking document sets goals tion that reaches all” and to “maintain and enhance the so- for the years ahead in the school’s academic program. The cioeconomic diversity of the Horace Mann family, including document affirms the notion that “The Life of the Mind the development of a long-range plan for financial aid.” is the essence of a school” and describes HM’s pedagogical philosophy and teaching initiatives, detailing thoughts Physical space about curriculum and ongoing curricular review in the In reviewing Horace Mann’s facilities and physical plant Nursery Division through the Upper Division, and at the the document notes that the school strives to “provide school’s John Dorr Nature Laboratory. One idea outlined state-of-the-art facilities for state-of-the-art program- in this section is to “Create a forward-looking curriculum ming.” As Horace Mann looks to its future, the document that encourages curiosity and creativity and imparts the in- notes that the school will “continue the work of the Board formation and skills that students need as they prepare for of Trustees, the Administrative Council, and the faculty to lifelong learning. Another is to further demonstrate a com- meet immediate and future physical plant needs.” Horace mitment to diversity and inclusion in curricular choices. Mann will also “continue the planning for the construction and renovation of athletic and science facilities to serve Pedagogy and student well-being grades six-through-twelve, and re-vision the portion of the One goal of the school’s philosophy described in the docu- campus that includes the current Lower Division, Business ment is to “maintain our commitment to outstanding Office, Alumni House and Development Office, and the teaching by encouraging innovation” while also embark- Head of School’s House. With regard to these plans for the ing “on a program of institutional research to enhance future, HM’s focus is on the relationship of the academic instruction and future curriculum planning.” While great program and community life, with curricular and co-cur- attention is given to the depth of classroom content, efforts ricular elements of the school experience driving the de- to “enhance the variety of learning experiences to ensure sign and building of new structures. The need to enhance that there is time in the day for reflection, relaxation, and science and technological education is a key element of a recreation in addition to traditional school activities” are strong future for HM and its students. encouraged. Promoted as well is “an awareness of nutrition, exercise, and rest by all members of the community” Administrators and faculty members comment in order “to support a balance between academics and on HM’s Strategic Thinking document wellness that allows The Life of the Mind to thrive.” The Strategic Thinking document represents the thoughts of HM administrators on the imperatives of education today. HM and surrounding communities Among these are how science studies and international The Strategic Thinking document addresses relationships awareness will become ever more significant in a global soci- the school has with its students and families, as well as with ety that is increasingly interconnected, and in which students alumni. Interaction with the surrounding community and acquire knowledge from an array of technological sources community engagement through service and other initia- that are still emerging. Far from eschewing the potent stu- tives are important aspects of the school’s future direction. dent/classroom teacher relationship that is so valued a part Attention to faculty life is outlined in detail. One section of the Horace Mann experience, the Strategic Thinking docu- of the document describes the school’s resources, defin- ment suggests ways to strengthen Horace Mann’s tradition of ing these as the human resources in which Horace Mann excellent teaching by embracing technological advances that School takes so much pride: its students, teachers, admin- can deepen the academic experience. istrators, and staff; its parents; its devoted alumni; and the Horace Mann School Division Heads and administra- greater community of the many constituencies that sup- tors shared their thoughts on aspects of the Strategic port Horace Mann’s Annual Fund, capital needs, and the Thinking process as follows: school’s endowment. Emphasis is placed on Horace Mann’s continuing efforts to incorporate lessons of environmental Director of Institutional Research and Enrollment, sustainability and communal accountability imparted at Lisa Moreiera: A Strategic Thinking document, at its “Dorr” throughout HM’s campuses and curricula. core, speaks to who we want to be as we move into the Who makes up the current and future Horace Mann future. While faculty, program and curriculum are key School community is an important part of the document. A elements of the educational experience, the other children section on “Students and Families” reiterates the school’s with whom a student shares the learning experience are admission and student retention goal of “continuing to critical too. Each year when we enroll new families and

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children, we reshape the community in small ways, and the School recreates its student population every 15 years. As we create the student body of the next 15 years, we must think about the kind of leaders that our country and our world need. This speaks directly to the ideas of diversity, global awareness, and inclusion.

Head of the Upper Division Dr. David Schiller, on exploring future curricular initiatives: “One way in which we’ve been engaging the project of curriculum revision is by visiting other schools similar to ours. We observe classes and talk with teachers, students, and administrators about their courses of study, schedules, and ways of handling change. It’s great to talk to people who are doing the job we’re doing. We’ve found many wonderful examples from which we can profit and have been favorably impressed with how thoughtfully many independent schools are organized. We’re now Students explore the environment and community at Dorr. in the second year of the project, and have invited guests to Horace Mann to speak with us about various relevant topics, lem solve, and reflect on their actions as they become more including how adolescents think, the new developments in independent learners. Our classrooms are inviting spaces technology and their affects on our students, and the future that support inquiry and spark creativity, and our Nursery of college liberal arts education. These talks have stimulated Division community is focused on the parent-teacher part- much thoughtful consideration of our future.” nership to strengthen the support system for each child at this important developmental stage, and into the future.” Head of the Middle Division, Robin Ingram: “The Middle Division, as the newest of the HM Divisions, has John Dorr Nature Laboratory Director, Glenn almost continually been developing new curricular models Sherratt, on how the “Dorr” experience responds to and materials to match the needs of this age group. The Horace Mann School’s Core Values: “At Dorr, the School’s return of the Williamsburg trip creates a reinventing of the Core Values serve as the threads that form the fabric of what sixth grade History curriculum. Hands-on math materi- we do, and we use the outdoors as the medium through als have been developed to support student learning. The which students can experience their relationships with oth- history and English departments have begun a dialog about ers and the natural environment in new and different ways. writing across the curriculum. English and science classes At the center of this experience and the essence of Dorr is offer a choice of one trimester electives with clear skills awareness and understanding of community, from both an identified. Curricular innovation is currently shared across interpersonal and biological standpoint. Strategic planning departments, and the next step is to broaden the discus- requires that we explore and celebrate our interdependence sion to share across divisions.” as we strive to create a more sustainable environment.”

Head of the Lower Division, Wendy Steinthal: “How Director of Technology, Adam Kenner, on the need fortunate we are to have children come to us with tremen- to incorporate technological advances into academic dous natural curiosity and excitement about learning. We life at HM, and in education today: “Horace Mann has are able to capitalize on these and focus on our curriculum, a tradition of excellent education, and the intent is not to making sure to enhance the skills that will support our stu- remove that tradition but to keep it alive in a new century, dents as they move from one division to the next. Our cur- with new tools that respond to the development of new riculum serves to enhance our community, bringing balance minds. One hundred years ago people had to go to school to intellectual pursuits and preparation for what lies ahead.” because that was where the knowledge was. That’s where the books were. That’s where the teachers were. Fifty years Head of the Nursery Division, Marcia Levy: “The ago things hadn’t changed that much. But today, knowledge foundation for lifelong learning begins in the nurturing is everywhere, from your phone to the street. In the past 20 environment of the Horace Mann School Nursery Division. years the activity of acquiring knowledge has gone off the The children thrive in an atmosphere that supports charts. The challenge of education today is to help students exploration, collaboration and intellectual curiosity. Our create a context for all that knowledge. I do believe that preschool children are inspired to think, plan and make schools that are open to connecting with new technology to connections. They are encouraged to ask questions, prob- lead their students to knowledge will lead the way.” $

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Dr. Dick Traum ’58: Helping wounded veterans triumph

After his accident Traum went on to complete a Ph.D. at NYU’s Stern School of Management, and founded a computer applications company. About a decade later, he was shaken again by a colleague’s fatal heart attack—and decided to act. Traum joined a local YMCA and attempted running. His runs evolved from struggling minutes to conquered miles. Within 18 months Dr. Traum became the first-ever amputee to complete a marathon. An article about him in Runners World inspired other disabled athletes, and interest grew. In 1983 Traum founded the Achilles Track Club. That year, six members competed in the NY Marathon. A year later an Achilles chapter opened in Dr. Dick Traum ’58 (center) with Achilles International athletes Vermont, and, in 1985, with a New Zealand chapter, Achilles International was born. ight Golden Glove winners were at “A victory for humanity” Dr. Traum attributes his success on behalf EYankee Stadium on June 24, 2011, when Achilles International engages over 10,000 of Achilles International, in part, to his educa- the NY Yankees played the Colorado Rockies. people in 70 countries in athletic training and tional experience at Horace Mann, where he But the catch that won “Play of the Day” events. The organization and Traum, its found- learned “about differences and about leader- sports news status was made by a fan, who er and president, have been widely honored. ship,” he recalled. nabbed a foul ball inside his cap. The fan was On August 3, 2011 he was profiled online as “Horace Mann had a fantastic selection of Sgt. Michael Kacer. The retired U.S. Army “HuffPost Greatest Person of the Day.” teachers. They gave the students an oppor- staff sergeant used his hat to assist his right- To understand the history of Achilles tunity to learn beyond the course work. There armed catch, because he’d lost his left arm in International, one must go back to the 1950s, were conservatives, liberals, obsessive com- a rocket attack in Afghanistan. when Dick Traum was a student at Horace pulsives, authoritarians… Teachers bonded The 46,000 fans at the stadium who gave Mann. HM alumni from generations past of- with and motivated the students. The faculty Sgt. Kacer a standing ovation and the millions ten recall a quote on the school’s library wall was family. Some of the great value of Horace who viewed the catch on TV saw him dressed attributed to 19th century American education Mann was found outside the classroom. in an Achilles International Freedom Team of reformer Horace Mann: “Be ashamed to die Almost every student had an opportunity to Wounded Veterans T-shirt, surrounded by until you have won some victory for human- lead. They could become the captain of a team 20 other Achilles Freedom Team Vets. The ity.” Traum was among the students who read or the head of a club, or a part of student gov- Team members were in New York to take the quote nearly a century later. The words ernment, the newspaper or the theater. I have part in the ninth-annual Achilles Hope and came back to him at a critical point in his life. found no place in my fifty years following HM Possibility Race, a five-mile event in which Dick Traum was an athlete at Horace where people had so much room to grow.” hundreds of disabled athletes mainstream Mann and at NYU, who focused on wrestling among 5,000 runners. and track and field. In 1965, at age 24, a car Growing Achilles for veterans, The race is a signature event for Achilles collided into him as he stood at a gas station. youth and research International, and Achilles is the signature His right leg was amputated above the knee. Dr. Traum has applied his HM experience organization providing athletic opportunities Lying in the hospital, in a life-threatening situ- to growing Achilles International. In 1995 to people with disabilities around the world. ation, Traum recalled the quote and thought he added Achilles Kids to the organization’s Achilles International was founded by Dr. he had yet to leave a mark on society. With work, to involve children with disabilities in Richard Traum ’58, whose organization dem- this idea constantly in mind, Traum eventu- athletics. In 2003 he started the Hope and onstrates how one Horace Mann alumnus ally put those words to work—for himself, Possibility run. Today Achilles International translated his school’s mission of educating and for the millions of people with disabilities has branched out to include research and students to lead “great and giving lives.” he has inspired. exercise experiences for diabetics and people

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with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and works consider running. In their two dozen trips to more sophisticated, and so did the process with children on the autism spectrum in New Walter Reed Traum and Bryant promoted the of saving lives in the field. Today field medics York City schools. Achilles approach of physical strengthening, are saving people they never could before. With its “Running Your Life” motivational confidence building, and supportive com- We have quadruple amputees running.” and physical training program at the Friedman munity to the specific needs of wounded Initially, Traum and Bryant encouraged Diabetes Institute of NY’s Beth Israel Hospital, veterans—“our country’s heroes,” Traum said. people to run on an artificial limb. “We real- Achilles runners are contributing to research In 2005, Bryant named the group The Achilles ized this was pretty hard, especially if the that has shown exercise to be as effective Freedom Team of Wounded Veterans. residual limb was still healing. Consequently, as medication in some instances in treating “It wasn’t easy,” Traum reported. “We Achilles introduced specialized and adaptive diabetes. Achilles also helps people with TBI would encourage these veterans to run and devices, including the hand-crank wheelchair. at the NYU Medical Center Rusk Institute resume an active life. They would tell us ‘I lost “First they train with a hand-crank, and do a for Rehabilitation Medicine Brain Injury my leg three weeks ago. I’m not interested in marathon with a hand-crank. Next they may Day Treatment Center train for marathons. running.’ Imagine yourself in a hospital and run on their artificial leg, or legs. The Hope and Through a second Achilles chapter at Rusk’s some old guy comes in and says you need to Possibility 5 mile race is important, as a bridge physical therapy department, and through its train for a marathon.” to longer races for some,” Traum explained. participation in exercise and TBI research at Over time some of the veterans decided “We had one soldier, Major David Rozelle, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Traum declared, they were up for the challenge. “Virtually who wanted to rejoin his battalion in Iraq. “We’ve noted fantastic improvement with every person who is wounded is an athlete. If The Army said he couldn’t return to combat the TBI runners.” Traum also reports seeing you joined the armed services you’re an ath- because he only had one leg. He told them success with autism. Achilles has programs in lete: the training, the running, the wall-climb- ‘I just did a marathon’. The Army let him re- 140 NYC schools, where a number of children ing—all of that is athletics. We provided the enlist. He is the first person in U.S. history to are on the autism spectrum. Many are find- veterans a goal to help them get back to an return to battle with an artificial limb.” ing improvements in their social integration active life. The physical therapists at Walter Achilles’ affiliation with the veterans through their work with Achilles. Reed supported us and became our buddies. didn’t miss a step when the 102-year-old More veterans started working out, and doing Walter Reed Army Medical Center of The Freedom Team marathons. Soldiers who were having 10, 20 Washington D.C. closed in August 2011. As the U.S. ends its involvement in Iraq this or 40 surgeries would return to the hospital Achilles relocated with the hospital’s patients winter, national focus will turn to Iraq War vet- to applause with a marathon medal around and staff to the new Walter Reed National erans reintegrating into American society. Dr. their neck. The spirit was catching. Patients Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Achilles Traum and Achilles International have focused started asking their doctors to schedule sur- also reaches out to veterans at Balboa Naval on these veterans since 2003, around the time geries around their marathons. The training Hospital in San Diego, CA, and Brooke Army media coverage began highlighting veterans distracted the veterans from a boring exis- Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. “Close to returning from the conflict with severely dis- tence, and the activity improved their spirits, 1,000 veterans, men and women are part of abling wounds. Traum and Achilles vice-presi- and raised their level of aspiration. They got our program,” said Traum. dent Mary Bryant started visiting Walter Reed to bond with a group, and their body language The organization’s latest achievement is Army Medical Center, then in Washington encouraged others, saying: ‘I may have lost a its Kayaking Team for Wounded Veterans D.C., to encourage the wounded soldiers to couple of legs, but I haven’t lost the ability to and Disabled Persons. Achilles International be active and part of launched kayak programs on NY’s Hudson a team,’” Traum said. River and Long Island Sound in 2007. Since The Achilles 2010, Achilles teams have competed in major program for veterans East Coast kayak races. Last summer Traum evolved as did the himself was a fierce contender throughout war. “When we a four-hour 20-mile race in Massachusetts. started going to “Kayaking is a beautiful transition, particular- Walter Reed typi- ly for the veterans. It’s a way to mainstream. cally we saw soldiers For an amputee, kayaking provides a level who had lost a leg. playing field,” said Traum. By 2008, we saw Learn more at www.achillesinternational. soldiers who had lost org, and read Huffington Post’s “Greatest two legs and an arm. Person of the Day” profile of Dick Traum at The explosive de- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/cssi- vices (IEDs) became mi/dick-traum-disabled-veterans-athletes. $ Dick Traum ’58 runs with President Bill Clinton.

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Bill Davis ’70: Advocating for Autism, today and for the future

in toys, went limp or screamed when touched, woman who read about Chris told me ‘I didn’t and stared at the ceiling fan for hours. know your son was acoustic.’” The year was 1997. U.S. Center for Breaking Autism’s Barriers also recounted Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sta- efforts to pass the Advancement in Pediatric tistics on children with autism date back only Autism Act, which called for establishing to 1998, when nine in 1,000 was the number autism resource centers around the country of children on the Autism Spectrum Disorder where parents could find needed information. (ASD) definition. Some attribute the increase Passed in 2000, the bill never became law. to greater awareness of autism and the That’s where the “great and giving” chapter of increased ability to diagnose it. But, when Bill Bill Davis’ life kicks in. and his late wife Jae Davis began investigat- Parenting an autistic child is a challenge. ing the profound changes in Chris’ behavior, Add to that educating him at home, and it was only their own reading that led them to advocating on his or her behalf to school and associate their son’s symptoms with autism. government officials, while trying to support When their pediatrician cautioned against a family. For Bill Davis, the mission he began jumping to conclusions, they sought answers for his son quickly extended to others facing from psychiatrists, neurologists, and audiolo- similar struggles. Davis published Breaking gists—paying for these costly consultations Autism’s Barriers when few autism books out of pocket because they had no insurance. from a personal perspective were available. A Bill and Jae were surprised to learn there was notable exception was Dr. Temple Grandin’s no medical test for autism, only a checklist famous memoir. It was while reading Dr. n September 2011 the New York Times of warning signs. Finally, when Chris was Grandin’s recollection of the hours he spent Ireported on “the 200,000 autistic teenag- 3½, a diagnosis at Children’s Hospital of watching sand grains fall that Davis said he ers set to come of age in the United States Philadelphia confirmed their belief. “looked over at Chris, sitting in a sand box over the next five years,” noting, “Little is sifting sand through his fingers and staring. known about their ability to participate fully From personal strife That’s when I really knew.” in public life, or what it would take to accom- to public service Davis’ first book covered every facet of life modate them.” The ensuing years were marked by persis- with a child with autism, including potty- Bill Davis ’70 has a few ideas. Davis is an tent battles to find services, treatment and training, aggression, family support, effective experienced advocate on behalf of people educational opportunities for Chris, a difficult education and finances, “to enable others to with autism, a lifelong developmental disor- task then, in the area of Pennsylvania where understand autism and its day-to-day chal- der caused by an abnormality of the brain. He the Davis family lived. Eventually, the parents lenges,” Davis wrote. For many parents the is also an important voice in efforts to plan decided to educate Chris at home. Formerly book provided the comfort of knowing they for the future of these young people. With his working as a bartender (Bill) and a manicurist were not alone, wrote one reviewer. 2009 book Autism Tomorrow: The Complete (Jae) the two became serious students of the How was Bill Davis able to make the transi- Guide to Help Your Child in the Real World special needs options for their son, and adept tion from a self-described “guy who got into a (http://autismtomorrow.com) Davis and at adapting the latest educational materi- lot of things back then” to an advocate on be- co-author Karen Simmons were ahead of that als to Chris’ temperament and considerable half of others? How did someone whose email New York Times article. But then, Davis has intellect. Bill chronicled this struggle to obtain address is “Irishpunkbd” become a crusader? long been ahead of his time when it comes to resources for Chris in his 2001 book Breaking And, what inner resources did Bill draw upon autism. He’s had to be. His son Chris, a young Autism’s Barriers: A Father’s Story. The book to translate his family’s own tumult into reas- man with autism, has been the focus of described Bill and Jae’s efforts at a time surance to so many? Bill says the motive was Davis’ life, even through major family upheav- when school officials and even pediatricians always his love for Chris, his “great friend.” als. That’s another chapter of Bill Davis’ “you told Bill to “bring a book” explaining autism, “I wasn’t really into school when I was a can’t make this up” life story. because few had heard of it. “One school kid, but I had some memorable experiences Like many autistic children, Chris Davis wanted to put Chris in a class for deaf chil- in my creative writing and art classes,” said developed normally. Then, at around age 2½, dren because he didn’t speak,” said Davis. “A the Barnard alumnus. “My teachers encour- he stopped speaking and eating, lost interest aged me to write. I didn’t because I was going

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through a lot of things at home, and I didn’t we showered at the gym, to keep up our hy- Autism Tomorrow want to reveal anything. I started writing giene,” recalled Davis. His primary concern That brings us to Autism Tomorrow—the book about Chris, because I had to. My skills were was maintaining a sense of security that was Davis published a year later. With Kate’s there, and it was time to put them to use.” so important to his son. “Wherever we were support for both Chris and himself Davis was Since Breaking Autism’s Barriers’ publica- I created a routine for Chris.” able to return to his advocate’s mission. His tion over a decade ago Davis has continued Living frugally on odd job earnings, Bill book tackles the burning questions shared his mission to “give Chris a voice.” In 2002 eventually put enough money together to by everyone with concerns about a child with he published Dangerous Encounters: Avoiding “settle into a small hotel.” His first purchase autism headed toward adulthood, includ- Perilous Situations with Autism, with co-author was a cell phone. “I called everyone I knew ing whether the child will be able to live Wendy Goldband Schunick, to give the to tell them I was available for lectures or on his or her own, find employment, marry public, and especially emergency and security consulting. I started writing again and doing and become a parent. The book also offers workers, insights on how to interact with part-time jobs until we were able to get a guidance on estate planning, independent a person with autism, particularly during a nice little apartment.” Managing to arrange living, nutrition, fitness, employment, safety, stressful situation. Davis also began conduct- care for Chris, Davis returned to bartend- puberty, sexuality, dating, bullying, social ing autism training workshops for police, fire ing, and became friendly with co-worker skills and communication, and speaks to fighters, emergency room workers, parents Kate Cannon. The friendship evolved into a perhaps the most pressing issue for parents: and support groups, and speaking throughout romance. “Kate was great with Chris, and he whether their child will be secure in their the country, at conferences, universities and took to her. One night Chris reached for her eventual absence. before Congress. With his personal message and said ‘I love you Kate.’ I knew we had to be of “Don’t Hurt My Child” he is the Resident a family,” Davis said. Safety Advocate Expert for Autism Today, an In the style of extremes that has charac- advocacy and support organization. Davis an- terized his life Bill Davis wasn’t content to swers questions online from parents, teachers simply ask Kate to marry. Instead, he put his and school administrators, always sharing his writing skills to work again, and entered a personal contact information for further ques- “Final Engagement” contest. The assignment: tions. He has held leadership positions in state To write, in 250 words or less, why he should and national autism organizations, lobbied be the last person to propose marriage in the legislators on behalf of CAN (Cure Autism former Yankee Stadium before it was retired Now), and is a founder and board member in 2008. Bill’s essay about Chris, Jae, Kate of Pathfinders, an organization dedicated to and her love for Chris and for the NY Yankees forming an autism research center. Davis was was selected from among 8,000 entries. Davis acknowledges that his evolution as a also honored with Temple University’s End the The contest was sponsored by Michael C. writer was tempered by his personal journey. Victim’s Silence Advocacy Award and by the Fina jewelers, Hearts on Fire diamonds, the “I wrote my first book during some tumultu- Pennsylvania State Senate for work with the Yankees, and pitching ace Mariano Rivera, ous times. In my latest book I apologize for police and the disabled. on behalf of the Mariano Rivera Foundation. some of the anger I displayed then,” he said. Davis’ story moved the judges, including Bill Davis continues to lecture around the A life of extremes inspires others, Rivera, whose foundation focuses on children. country, and offer advice online. Some of his the Yankees included Thus, Davis and Kate traveled to New topics hint at the arduous experiences that In 2002, Parents magazine carried a profile York for one of the final games at the old transformed him from that “Irishpunk” into a of the Davis family. That was when there stadium. Arriving by limo to VIP seats, Kate responsible dad. Among these are “How to was a family to profile. Not long after, Jae considered this a pretty good prize. But, ease the stress of raising a child with autism; Davis fell victim to cancer. Bill had spread Bill hadn’t revealed all the details, as Kate the effects autism has on siblings; helping himself thin during the years he was caring learned when he appeared on the stadium’s your child secure friendships; dealing with for Chris while attending to his wife’s illness. Diamontron screen, talking to none other being left out socially.” Perhaps most gripping Not able to maintain a full time job, and than Mariano Rivera in a pre-recorded video. is “how to enjoy your child.” tapped of his resources after Jae’s illness, And then, as the cameras switched live to the For Bill Davis the journey continues. He in- Bill and Chris found themselves home- couple in their seats, Bill presented Kate with vites the many who turn to him for advice to less. “We stayed with friends for as long a 1.5 carat, Hearts on Fire diamond ring. host a community lecture, and provides bulk as they could have us. I was able to get us “Over the years I had crashed, gotten up, copies of his book at a substantial discount. into some hotels for a few weeks at a time. and then crashed again,” said Bill. “I felt this As proof that his fun side still lives, he contin- Some nights we slept in a park. Luckily I had was a sign, that, this time, things were going ues to take questions at the email address of: a gym membership that hadn’t expired, so to be OK.” [email protected]. $

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Prof. Nicole Lamb Ives ’86: Translating academics into action, on behalf of refugees and Indigenous peoples

unteered at the Rehabilitation and Research Demographic Project in Montreal. Among her Centre for Torture Victims, and witnessed, findings is how important is the “lived experi- first-hand, the harrowing stories of so many ence” of refugees, because it provides data refugee lives. Since then, she has combined a on “what works” in refugee resettlement— passion for studying issues affecting immi- an issue communities around the world grant and refugee populations with her pursuit grapple with. “In the case of refugees who of social justice and societal change. are sponsored by church groups and other Today, Prof. Ives also includes her own religious communities the results prove how background as an impetus for her work. “I significant it is for their long-term integration have always been interested in migration be- for refugees to connect with individuals and cause my maternal grandfather was born in community members in an organized way,” he UN High Commissioner for Refugees Germany but fought with the Allies in WWII. Prof. Ives explained. T(UNHCR) estimates that nearly 44 I grew up watching his acculturation, his “I saw that in my study on Bosnians. million people internationally are today transition from life in Germany to life in New People who had been sponsored by a displaced from their homes because of war Jersey. I have Native ancestry on my father’s community—a church group—ended up and political repression. The figure represents side (Seminole and Cherokee). That’s not the in more stable jobs. Some owned homes, a jump of 400,000 from 2010, bringing the reason that I started work with Indigenous whereas, many who were not sponsored were number of refugees worldwide to its highest communities, but I feel that it is what is keep- still going from job to job, at lower wages, in 15 years. Just over half of the world’s refu- ing me in it now,” she explained. years later. I saw success, for instance, with a gees are under age 18. As an academician, Prof. Ives is a qualita- Presbyterian church that sponsored Bosnian The international community adheres to tive researcher who focuses on refugee Muslims. There was no proselytizing to the a precise definition of the causes of refugee resettlement, congregational sponsorship refugees. It was just a congregation giving status. “Persecution for reasons of race, of refugees, refugee family reunification, support. This is a very resource-intensive religion, nationality, membership of a par- Indigenous social work education, and thing for a congregation to take on, but it can ticular social group or political opinion, and Indigenous social and educational policies. have a great outcome.” Translating the results being outside the country of nationality” are As an educator, an Assistant Professor at of these findings for public policy-makers to primary, with a growing consensus to include the McGill University School of Social Work consider is a goal of Dr. Ives’ research. climate change resulting in displacement in Montreal, Prof. Ives has taught History After Barnard Prof. Ives went to the from floods or draught-induced famine. and Philosophy of Social Work, and Policy School of Social Work at the University of Whatever the cause, Dr. Nicole Lamb Ives and Practice with Refugees to undergradu- Pennsylvania, and focused on social and ’86 has interacted with numerous forcibly ates, and Qualitative Research Methods and economic development. After completing her displaced persons firsthand, and has dedi- Migration and Social Work at the graduate MSW she returned to Copenhagen to work cated her professional life, as a researcher level. She also teaches Anti-Oppression with the Danish Refugee Council and the and educator, to refugees and to other Social Work Practice, among other courses. Danish Red Cross, teaching English to asylum marginalized people—primarily First Nations, seekers. She then returned to the University of Métis and Inuit populations—and has turned Results from research Pennsylvania to pursue her Ph.D. at the School her academic experiences and personal Dr. Ives is a member or a fellow at the of Social Work, writing a comparative study of background into a driving force for work she Centre for Research on Children and Families refugee integration in different countries. hopes will engage students with a mission (CRCF) at McGill, the Montreal Consortium Prof. Ives’ contributions to this increasingly to address the complex issues refugees face, for Human Rights Advocacy Training, the critical field are significant, as reflected in her and help break down barriers for marginal- Quebec Metropolis Centre/ Immigration and dozens of publications and presentations at ized people. Metropolis, and the Program for Religion and conferences around the world on topics rang- It was while pursuing a B.A. in foreign-area Social Policy Research at the University of ing from sexual exploitation of children, the studies at Barnard College that Prof. Ives first Pennsylvania. She has conducted research on religious congregation as a community partner confronted issues refugees face. During a year immigrant integration and faith-based social in refugee resettlement, and “Building Bridges at Copenhagen University in Denmark she vol- service delivery with the Black Communities with Indigenous Communities”—a current

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area of concentration. “The focus of my work Social Work, including several Indigenous teaching is to prepare students to work with has been in the resettlement context, because students, spent a week in the Kahnawake diverse populations, who have experienced I started out in that work in Copenhagen. Mohawk community just outside Montreal, marginalization, colonization, and oppression. Whether they were survivors of torture or where they had the opportunity to learn I continue to be involved with that work with not, the question was ‘how do you work with about the community first-hand, while also refugees as well as with Indigenous groups.” people who have been through the refugee sharing aspects of their own backgrounds. Of her personal experience, Prof. Ives process? How do you facilitate their integra- Enrollment grew in the summer of 2011. The noted that one of her earliest forays into re- tion?’ When I got to McGill, it wasn’t a big course is significant to McGill because it search relating to refugees stemmed from her jump to work with the Inuit. My focus is about does not focus on a far-away First Nations family background. “In eighth grade, before working with marginalized populations.” community living in isolation in the Canadian I came to Horace Mann, I did a biography of Prof. Ives is a founder of Indigenous Plains, Northern Quebec, or elsewhere on my maternal grandfather. It wasn’t popular Access McGill (IAM), a university-wide the globe, Prof. Ives explained. “McGill has for him to highlight his German background initiative that addresses the fact that while a geography course that takes students when he came to the U.S., even though he First Nations, Métis and Inuit make up 3.8 per to Indigenous people in Panama, and an worked for the Allies in England. I really got a cent of Canada’s total population, they com- Anthropology class that visits Cree people in sense of what he went through. prise a far smaller percent of the university’s the North. We wanted students to know the My dad’s side of the family is African student body. Economic indicators confirm Indigenous population right here. They live American. My paternal grandmother’s grand- that access to higher education enhances job only 20 minutes away from the main McGill mother was Seminole, and there was also and future income opportunities long after campus,” said Prof. Ives. Cherokee on my paternal grandfather’s side. college, and that the lack of higher educa- Prof. Ives and her colleague, Prof. Michael Growing up I wasn’t all that aware of this tion perpetuates marginalization. IAM also Loft, with whom she developed the course, background, but it was something that was provides support programs, advisors, and a had to literally cross a bridge—the Mercier always there, that I knew about in my head. I welcoming environment to enable Indigenous Bridge—countless times as they worked with knew about things like the Trail of Tears (the students in social work, occupational therapy, the community over a two-year period to forced removal of Native Americans from the physiotherapy, dietetics, and speech and devise a class that, they hoped, would build Southeastern U.S. to the West, when tens of language pathology to feel comfortable and bridges between McGill and its neighbor- thousands died). “Growing up in New York succeed at McGill. ing Indigenous community. Prof. Loft is City we weren’t really exposed to Native a Mohawk, and helped facilitate com- Peoples’ issues, so it wasn’t really part of my Bridging a gap munication with the Longhouse and the framework until I came to Canada. These is- In 2010 Prof. Ives launched the inaugural Band Council. “One of the things I’ve come sues are now more than a research interest.” Aboriginal Field Course of the McGill School across in my own work is the gulf between As she guides students today Prof. Ives of Social Work. Twenty McGill students from Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, the remembers one Horace Mann School teacher the departments of Anthropology, Law and stereotypes and biases,” said Prof. Ives. “We in particular: “The person I always come wanted Canadians and First Nations peoples back to is Mr. (Randal) Castleman. I was to get to know each other, learn about the relatively shy when I came to Horace Mann. Iroquois context, and break through the But, I played soccer during my four years at preconceived notions.” But, Prof. Ives empha- HM. It was really playing soccer and having sized, “We also taught that we can’t general- Mr. Castleman as a coach that brought me ize about all Native communities from this out of my shyness,” Prof. Ives said of the late experience. Here our lives have many simi- Dean. “The team grew as a community and larities. That’s very different from some of we did really well as a team. Mr. Castleman the Midwestern provinces of Canada, where pushed us, but he never pushed farther than the conditions are terrible. The students learn he believed we could take. I learned that what that they are meeting one Indigenous com- I thought were my limits were not my limits— munity, and not to think that they now know that I could go further. I try to use that with my about all Indigenous people.” students today… bringing them to understand what they are capable of accomplishing.” The value of diversity studies To learn more about Prof. Nicole Ives’ The course has changed the perspective of its work go to http://www.mcgill.ca/socialwork/ students,” Prof. Ives said. “One law student is faculty/ives. A video of her Aboriginal Field now working on incorporating an Indigenous Course is at: http://www.youtube.com/ pillar into legal studies. A central goal in my watch?v=8nWO76m9PK8 $

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Jennifer Melamed Iannuzzi ’89; Alexander ’95 and Jamie Grossmann Silver ’95: Their children’s needs made them advocates for others

Barbara Melamed, Dr. Christopher Iannuzzi, Jennifer Iannuzzi ’89, Sydney Emma Jackson Gabriel Silver, Alex Silver ’95, Jamie Grossman Silver ’95, Michaela Silver Iannuzzi, Cole and Ben Iannuzzi

he nine months a family waits for the Strength for Sydney by “sleepless nights and Internet surfing every Tbirth of a child are filled with anticipa- Here is the story that Jennifer Melamed symptom that Sydney exhibited” along with tion, preparations, and a fair share of anxiety. Iannuzzi ’89 tells about Sydney Emma, her frequent visits to the pediatrician, specialists At the moment of birth these emotions re- 6-year-old daughter. It is also the story of the and therapists “with no answers regarding main—except for the anxiety. It’s time to put birth of www.StrengthforSydney.org and the her painfully slow global development,” said worries on hold, until, say, the day the future SMS Research Foundation. Jennifer. Finally, a “very aggressive neurolo- teen asks these new parents for the keys to “Sydney Emma was born on Dec. 23, gist ran a special genetic test.” Six weeks the car. For those first moments the joy is 2005. It was a typical day for a family about after Sydney underwent a micro-array test to palpable, and the relaxation a relief. to have another baby—a day filled with determine if the issue concerned her genetic That is, until some change occurs, a change expectation and exhilaration. Sydney was our material the Iannuzzis had a diagnosis: Smith- usually signaled by a visit from a doctor. third child… This time it was going to be a Magenis Syndrome (SMS), a non-familial None but a mother or father who has little girl. It was a perfectly normal pregnancy chromosomal disorder resulting from a rare experienced such a visit can describe the fear with a planned C-section delivery. She was micro-deletion of genetic material that is that sinks a buoyant heart. No one but that a beautiful child and at first everything ap- characterized by a pattern of physical, behav- parent can give such an experience the dignity it peared to be fine. It was not until a few hours ioral, and developmental features, including deserves. Thus, what follows are the stories of after she was born, when I was resting in my varying degrees of cognitive impairment. three Horace Mann School alumni who have had room, that a physician I had never met before this experience, told in their own words. Then came into my room and informed me that Jackson Gabriel Silver comes the story of how these alumni looked be- Sydney would need to be taken to the NICU Here is how the story began for the Silver yond their own family circle and circumstances (neonatal ICU) for observation but there was family—Alexander Silver ’95 and Jamie to turn their great lives into giving ones. no cause for concern. Sydney was having Grossman Silver ’95, sweethearts during Connected to one another only through trouble coordinating her suck and swallow re- their Middle-through-Upper Division years at this account, these families’ separate jour- flex, which resulted in her oxygen saturation Horace Mann. It is also the story of their son neys prompted each to launch foundations levels dropping too low. My instincts told me Jackson Gabriel and the Jackson Gabriel Silver that have raised hundreds of thousands of there was plenty of reason to be concerned.” Foundation (JGSF or http://www.jgsf.org). dollars to support medical research, and be- For Jennifer Iannuzzi and her husband, on- When Jackson was born on October 11, come advocates on behalf of their causes, in cologist Dr. Christopher Iannuzzi, the next 21 2007, the couple heard the doctor utter six the media and all the way to the U.S. Senate. months of life with Sydney were characterized words that would change their lives: “‘I think

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he has Epidermolysis Bullosa,’” repeated process of daily bathing and bandaging. Skin, employees as a former HM parent and through Jamie Silver. She was referring to “EB,” the the body’s largest organ, serves as its first her 31 years working at the school. She com- genetic condition that affects her son. EB line of defense against trauma and infection. mutes to her daughter’s home in Connecticut is an excruciatingly painful, disfiguring and Not so for EB children, some of whom are each weekend to assist in the smooth running currently incurable blistering disorder that born with missing skin that never grows back of a growing family busy with round-the-clock affects children from birth. Children like normally, or accumulate wounds impossible activities. Swimming with Sydney, chauffeur- Jackson are known as “Butterfly Children” to heal. Every aspect of life for a child with EB ing and cheering on brothers Ben and Cole’s because their skin is as fragile as a butterfly’s is compromised by the condition. Walking, soccer games, Barbara is an active advocate wings. Severe forms of EB cause serious, and standing, eating, and even holding a crayon for the SMS Research Foundation. She has also possibly fatal, complications. is impaired over time when toes and fingers redefined the role of devoted “Grandma” to “We were first tipped off to EB at the hos- fuse from continuous injury. The bleach become each grandchild’s best friend. pital when they did a routine heel prick and required to treat ever-present bacterial infec- Jackson’s parents approached his care the Band-Aid tore the skin off Jackson’s left tions makes bathing extraordinarily painful, with love stemming naturally from their role heel,” recalled Alex. “He was transferred to and bandage changes can last up to several as parents, but also from the foundation of the intensive care unit and his body began to hours, with special bandages costing as much understanding upon which their own relation- blister and deteriorate. We went from a sense as $14,000 per month. ship is built. Jamie and Alex met when each of overwhelming joy over our son’s birth, to a Both the Iannuzzis and the Silvers initially came to Horace Mann as seventh graders sense of confusion, and even despair.” found support from organizations focused new to the school. They became friends, and And here is how the journeys of these on their issues. Jennifer Iannuzzi connected soon started dating. “We dated when we families began to parallel one another’s. with Parents and Researchers Interested in were 13—as much as 13-year-olds can really Once the Iannuzzis received a diagnosis Smith-Magnesis Syndrome (PRISMS). The date, which means mostly running up phone they returned to their research, because, Silvers linked with other EB families through bills, and hanging out on the bar and bat Jennifer explained, “SMS is so rare that after DebRA, the Dystrophic Epidermolyis Bullosa mitzvah circuit,” said Alex. The two remained 21 months of obsessive Internet surfing I had Research Association of America. Essential friendly over their HM years. Though their never heard of it. Even the neurologist was to both families was the love and understand- paths did not always parallel—with Alex, a able to offer nothing more than to say ‘google ing they found inside their own worlds. tri-athlete, involved with after-school prac- it’ because she had never heard of it herself.” For the Iannuzzis, Jennifer’s mom, Barbara tices and games, and Jamie engaged in such For the Silvers, the questions that flooded Melamed, is a hero. A Development Associate activities as peer tutoring—the two enjoyed in during those first days after Jackson’s birth, in the Horace Mann School Alumni House and interlocking HM friendships. And, while each including how they were to care for their pre- Development Office, Melamed is well-known went to their prom with someone else, Alex cious, fragile infant, also went unanswered. to the entire HM community of alumni and related: “We started dating toward the end of “We were at a world-class institution in New York and the doctors had never seen EB.”

Gaining control through experience, family and friends The Iannuzzis spent the next three years adjusting to Sydney’s diagnosis of delays and other cognitive and social-function features of SMS. They addressed issues surrounding her safety, particularly when her temperament would fluctuate suddenly, as SMS indicates. They harnessed the resources of learning materials, technology, and physical activities to give her the best possible start in life, toward as integrated a future as possible. They also paid attention to the emotional well-being of Sydney’s brothers and their nuclear family. The Silvers spent the first few months

after Jackson’s birth learning the torturous photo © Ileana Garcia Jacolow Sydney Iannuzzi watches runners at a 5K run fundraising event for Smith-Magnesis Syndrome in October, 2011.

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senior year. We were together through col- finally had a chance to reflect. Both looked funding required for researchers to focus on lege and ever since, and married in 2004.” beyond their own circumstances, to imagine just one disease, or generating enough public In the 20 years the Silvers have known the lives of parents similarly blindsided by awareness to help circumvent obstacles to each other, their communication has become their children’s health. Both wanted to spare medical trials, hinders the hunt for solutions. seamless—a plus considering the joy and other families the torrent of questions and With time of the essence, the two families responsibility they experience with Jackson, lack of responses they first experienced. And, embarked upon similar courses of action, at and, now, a new focus of attention—Jackson’s for both, still larger questions loomed: Is around the same time. In early 2010 each baby sister Michaela, born on April 23, 2011. there a way to subvert SMS? Will there ever launched a foundation to pursue research Jamie and Alex also share longtime friend- be a cure for EB? on behalf of their children and others like ships with a close-knit group of HM alumni What these otherwise unrelated condi- them. The Iannuzzis began with “Strength for that has expanded to include college and tions share is a link to a missing protein. With Sydney.” The organization’s website provides friends from work. These friends are there regard to SMS, a lack of the protein RAI-1, information on SMS, and features Jennifer’s for the Silvers today, offering encourage- which is made or encoded by the missing elegantly written blog, with personal reflec- ment and support, attending JGS Foundation piece of genetic material on chromosome 17, tions inspiring not only to those in the SMS annual benefits and running on the organiza- is believed to result in the features associated community, but to all. Strength for Sydney tion’s behalf in the NYC Marathon, and other with the condition. Decades of EB research is also the address for the SMS Research events. Four HM alumni, including Jamie’s show that children with Recessive Dystrophic Foundation, which the Iannuzzis initiated father Edward Grossmann ’66, her brother EB (RDEB, a severe form) are missing the with another “SMS family.” Richard Grossmann ’98, and the Silvers’ protein Collagen VII, which binds the epider- Its mission is to find “those missing classmates Monique Morris Sock ’95 and mis and dermis. Without this protein skin answers” with “the belief that the prognosis Jared Stern ’95, are JGSF board members. tears and separates from the body. of Smith-Magenis Syndrome can be rede- With evidence pertaining to each condi- fined to enable every individual with SMS Fostering pioneering research tion already established one might expect to experience an improved quality of life.” Today, Sydney is on her way to integrating researchers to be on their way to developing a Through awareness and fundraising cam- the effects of SMS into the routine of a lively, means to loosen the grip. There is hope on the paigns, including a 5K run and a spin-a-thon, delightful school girl. The Silvers have mas- horizon, with dedicated medical investiga- Strength for Sydney raised $150,000 in less tered Jackson’s daily bathing and bandaging tors working on these conditions around the than a year—enough for its SMS Research routine, and conquered their fear of Jackson world. The difficulty lies in turning promising Foundation to award a $50,000 grant to Dr. being bumped or hurt while interacting with research into reality, as both families learned. James R. Lupski, a renowned human genetics other children. SMS is present in one in 25,000 births. For expert at Texas’ Baylor College of Medicine, With their daily lives under as much con- EB, the figure is one in 50,000. Because whose laboratory has extensive experience trol as possible, the Iannuzzis and the Silvers these conditions affect so few, obtaining the with SMS. The Foundation is helping finance his investigations of RAI-1 functional pathway components, including some leading to therapeutic possibilities to intervene with or even reverse SMS’ symptoms. The Foundation is also involved with a study of behavioral concerns related to children with SMS, directed at finding potential therapies. The Silvers brought The Jackson Gabriel Silver Foundation into being, also in 2010, to fund viable research underway to treat and cure EB. In Jackson’s case, as with those with more severe forms of EB, the condition is life threatening, yet research suggest that a cure and livable therapy is within reach—with proper funding. The Silvers have raised over $700,000 since they began their efforts, and have awarded grants to researchers developing protein replacement therapies and stem and

photo © Ileana Garcia Jacolow gene therapies at the University of Minnesota, S ydney Iannuzzi with a family friend Stanford University, and Kings College in

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also agree that while helping their children is sibility. I had experience doing that for other of primary importance, their vision reaches people, and I realized I had to do that for far beyond. The Silvers’ involvement with EB myself and our child. With the support of my extends to championing the cause of “rare husband, my children, and friends, including and orphaned diseases.” EB is one of the ap- new friends I know through the Internet, I proximately 7,000 rare diseases identified by learned to look beyond what is possible to- the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) day, to what we hope is possible tomorrow.” as having “unique problems and little support As Jennifer wrote in her blog, she has made or treatment.” In the U.S. a disease is defined the transition from reflecting on how SMS as rare if it affects fewer than 200,000 peo- has affected her daughter and family’s life, to ple. About 250 million people worldwide and focusing “on what Sydney has accomplished, 30 million Americans are afflicted with rare what our family has overcome, what our diseases, according to the FDA, which hosts foundation is doing to further her cause, and an Office of Orphan Products Development. finally, what I have learned in the process.” Only around 200 of the 7,000 rare diseases Jamie Silver studied special education have approved treatments available. at Bank Street College of Education. She It was this knowledge that brought Alex feels she is able to draw on the patience she Silver to the U.S. Senate in July 2010 to learned working with special needs children testify at a hearing on rare pediatric diseases in caring for her own son. “I also had experi- Jackson Gabriel Silver at school on behalf of children with EB. His testimony ence procuring services for students in dif- addressed the need for resources to cure ferent school systems, and when we decided London, helped fund a DebRA education EB, and for a refined approval process for we would send Jackson to school, I was able program to teach nurses EB care, and assisted potential treatments. Alex’s moving testi- to speak to the administrators, and help allay in setting up a Family Crisis Fund to help offset mony can be found on the JGSF website at their concerns about having Jackson in class. the estimated annual cost of $50,000 and http://www.jgsf.org/news-coverage.html We arranged to have a nurse trained in taking $200,000 to care for a child with EB. where video coverage of the hearing can be care of EB as a shadow, and the school has Most significantly, together with another viewed. Additional material Alex prepared been wonderful. Jackson is able to experi- EB family foundation, JGSF backed the work of for the Senate is also on the site. In addition, ence and enjoy what other children enjoy,” USC’s Dr. David Woodley and Dr. Mei Chen, the Silvers’ advocacy made Jackson and EB she said. whose lab has produced a potential treat- the focus of the FDA-sponsored Rare Disease For Alex Silver, his Horace Mann experi- ment which can provide the missing protein Day in February 2011. ence comes into play today as he takes either locally or systemically to children like These three alumni reflect on their on the challenges of balancing his profes- Jackson. As a founder and partner of the education in considering how they each sional life, sharing in caring for Jackson and New York-based private investment firm P2 transformed themselves from individuals Michaela, working on behalf of the founda- Capital Partners Alex Silver understands the privately pursuing their professional and fam- tion he and Jamie started, and tackling new power of capital investment. His approach ily lives into articulate advocates on behalf challenges, including testifying before the helped advance Dr. Woodley’s work, which of hundreds of thousands of others. Both U.S. Senate. subsequently attracted $26 million in venture Jennifer Iannuzzi and Jamie Silver pursued “In its entirety, Horace Mann was a semi- capital from Third Rock Ventures to form a human service work in graduate school and nal experience. It highlighted the value of company to swiftly move the lab’s ten years of professionally, and both had experience with perseverance, which is instrumental in giving research through Phase III clinical trials. “The children. With an MSW in Social Work from Jackson and children like him EB-free lives,” large pharmaceutical companies are currently NYU Jennifer had learned to navigate public said Alex. “I remember having Mr. Dean (for- showing more interest in developing treat- and private service systems to serve her mer teacher Lyle Dean) as a math teacher in ments for rare diseases,” said Alex, who has clients, and acknowledges that it has been seventh grade and getting a poor grade on a visited many researchers and industry execu- useful to be aware of avenues that exist to test because my equal signs were not straight tives considering focusing on EB treatments. assist children like Sydney and the many oth- and certain sentences were grammatically ers who are the object of her efforts. incorrect. Mr. Dean gave you a chance to get Champions of a larger cause “When you first learn that you are fac- a higher grade if you resubmitted the exam While the Iannuzzis and the Silvers named ing this kind of challenge, and with your with all the ancillary details corrected. While their foundations for their children, both ex- own child, everything seems difficult,” said that test is inconsequential, the notion of plain the idea was to “put a face to the cause” Iannuzzi. “Eventually, you learn you have to continually trying to get it right is not.” $ and make them more “relatable.” The families gather your thoughts and look at every pos-

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Norbelina Disla ’01 Brings Personal Experience to her Research

of Stroke and Critical Care, the NOMAS York City where she grew up Norbelina team is examining stroke and other illnesses recalled wanting to go on to a high school, in the multi-ethnic population of Northern “where I could find the best education for my Manhattan, where Disla grew up. Stroke and future. When it came time to think about high coronary disease are two of the top three school a friend told me about private schools. leading causes of death in the U.S., with stroke She gave me a list of schools she had. Some affecting blacks and Hispanics more than of them were boarding schools,” Disla said. whites, regardless of socio-economic status. “That would not have worked. My family did This ongoing study began in 1990. Designed not want me to go away for school.” Thus, to give data over a range of years, the NOMAS Disla began exploring independent schools in study is the first of its kind to focus on stroke the New York City area. risk factors in whites, blacks, and Hispanics “Something about Horace Mann caught living in the same community. my attention. I felt it was the right place for One NOMAS study quantified the high me. I applied, and came into the school as a risk of stroke and heart attack among daily ninth-grader. It was extremely different than orbelina Disla ’01 sees a crisis emerging, drinkers of diet soda. Another conclusively what I was used to, and it took some adjust- Nand she wants to help stem its tide. linked a similar risk to high sodium intake. ing on my part, but it was the best growth “Returning veterans. Veterans returning Yet another showed a greater risk of long- experience I’ve ever had.” from Iraq and Afghanistan will be a critical term disability among stroke survivors who At Horace Mann Disla applied herself area of focus for social services in the coming suffered from acute depression after stroke. to her studies, and found a new love in one years,” she said emphatically, anticipating the Disla is a co-author of these studies. Their of her electives. “Dr. Schiller’s Shakespeare future needs of our country’s young veterans results apply to NOMAS’ focus community, class,” she said, emphatically. “I took the as she maps out her own future. For Disla, as well as to the population as a whole. As classes I was required to take. I also took that future is in the field of counseling and part of the NOMAS team since 2005 Disla’s Spanish courses with Mrs. Carnochan. I depression, the focus of her graduate studies research has contributed to these ground- spoke Spanish at home, but I wanted to not at Columbia University. breaking findings and the significant media only know the language but understand the “I have always thought of working with attention they’ve attracted. As a compassion- culture. I was always into Latin American the elderly, or with inmate populations. But ate researcher whose ability to personally literature, so I had some background for I am thinking more and more about today’s connect with hundreds of the over 3,948 par- those classes. But, I didn’t really appreciate veterans. Their issues are overlooked by ticipants in this long-term study, Norbelina’s Shakespeare before I took Dr. Schiller’s class. society. There are so many veterans in the contribution to the life of each individual she I’ve loved Shakespeare ever since.” country, and now, many more are coming encounters is invaluable. Norbelina also became passionate about home. We are just beginning to see how community service at Horace Mann. “I did difficult their situation is,” said the Horace Seeking an education to prepare tutoring with low income students in the Mann School alumna. “I have friends who for a great and giving life summer, and I did community service at were in the service, and friends who are mar- First-hand knowledge and personal compas- HM’s Summer on the Hill,” she said. Her ried to people serving now. I’m learning about sion are strong motivators for Norbelina involvement in community service helped her the problems that veterans and their entire Disla. These also factor into her pursuit of an become a William H. Gray Scholar at Franklin families face. There is a lot of work to be done education aimed at learning to help oth- and Marshall College. This scholarship is in this area.” ers—her ultimate goal. Just as she takes the awarded to students who have shown a First-hand knowledge of the problems long view today in anticipating the needs of commitment to community service and have people face is Norbelina Disla’s inspiration returning veterans, this alumna has always demonstrated a potential for achievement in her work today. That work includes her looked to the future in her personal prepara- through academic strength and leadership research on behalf of the Northern Manhattan tion to lead “a great and giving life.” ability, and “who are also from a background Study (NOMAS). Part of the Neurological As a middle schooler at PS 187 in the traditionally underrepresented in U.S. higher Institute of Columbia University’s Division Washington Heights neighborhood of New education.” The Gray Scholars Program offers

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students trips, lectures and opportunities to Columbia in 2010—a feat she accomplished relevant our studies are, because when I am connect with faculty and distinguished visi- by fitting graduate school classes into her full at these doctor visits, I see a lot of hyperten- tors. It also offers financial aid. time workload. “I came into NOMAS plan- sion and other diseases that are risk factors Disla took advantage of those oppor- ning to stay for three years. I stayed longer for stroke. Today, people are getting strokes tunities, and was able to quickly zero in on because I enjoyed the research. It also means at earlier ages. It could be diet, or lifestyle, or the academic discipline that moved her a lot to me.” the stress of finances or moving to New York most: psychology. “There was a really good NOMAS’ overall goal is to investigate after growing up in a much different place. psychology class at Horace Mann, but I didn’t stroke risk factors in different race-ethnic “The experience I gained with NOMAS take it. At the time I was thinking of going in groups, and to develop better stroke preven- has helped me look at the clinical aspects of a completely different direction. I wanted to tion programs to improve the health of the my career. My interest in studying depression do something helping people, but profes- surrounding community. The study is helping comes from learning that depression affects sionally, I thought I’d go into business. My fill gaps in knowledge of stroke epidemiol- so many other health areas, and that, in turn, interest in business came from my family’s ogy in minority populations. Because of the health issues can contribute to depression. working experience in the U.S. A lot of my broad scope of the study, it also considers Many therapists are focused on the mental family members, given that they were im- conditions including diabetes, hypertension, health status of a patient. However, they have migrants, opened a store or a business,” Disla cardiac disease, and such issues as diet, to factor in other medical conditions that said. Her parents came to New York from the education, and physical activity. Until the may be affecting mental health, like demen- Dominican Republic when they were in their study was launched there was no sufficient tia or diabetes, for example. In these cases, early twenties, met and married here, and research of Hispanic communities and their combining mental health counseling with went into business. When it came time for risks for stroke and heart disease. appropriate medical treatment is important. Norbelina to declare her major, she followed Disla’s work in the study involved adminis- Norbelina Disla’s focus on studying de- her heart’s desire, and chose to pursue a BA tering blood tests, depression scales, memory pression may seem a bit surprising: ten years in psychology. “It was completely the right assessments and doing neuropsychological before earning her MA in this specialty she decision,” she said. testing with its adult participants. NOMAS’ wrote in her Mannikin yearbook “Ser feliz es During Disla’s junior year at Franklin and research has generated several sub-studies. Vivir”, or, “To be happy is to live.” Marshall she was named a Hackman Scholar, Because the overall research has a genetic If everyone was held accountable to the in a program that brings students and faculty aspect, for a time Norbelina traveled peri- words they chose for their high school year- together to work on challenging, high-level odically to the Dominican Republic, applying book page, at age 17 or 18, yearbook quotes research projects. Disla did her research with medical tests to study participants there might become a thing of the past. But one Dr. Roger Thompson, Director of F & M’s who were relatives of participants in New doesn’t have to ask if the thoughts Norbelina Primate Laboratory and a leader in the field York. Disla found this aspect of her research Disla expressed in that 2001 Mannikin of animal behavior. “We were doing research particularly rewarding because it involved her apply to what she’s done since her days at on monkeys that got a lot of media attention,” in the healthcare of an underserved population. Horace Mann. Looking at the contributions said Disla of studies on responses among “People would come from all over the country she has already made, and her plans for the monkeys to reward systems. to Santo Domingo where we were conduct- future, help understand that “Norbe” has The excitement of doing research had ing our tests at a small private hospital. Some always been one step ahead in planning out Disla hooked. It also gave her the necessary traveled three or four hours. They understood a course in life that will enable her to be as experience to apply for similar positions. how important this research was, and while effective as she can be on behalf of others. Anticipating her next step after gradua- they were seeing us, they were able to have Another example? That yearbook page also tion from college, she searched for research health exams they may not otherwise have had has a picture of Winnie the Pooh hanging opportunities in New York City, where access to in their routine medical visits. onto his balloon, and floating next to Disla’s she planned to return. “When I found the Most participants in the New York-based smiling face. “My family called me Winnie NOMAS study, a light went off in my head,” research come in to the Columbia University the Pooh because I was the one who was al- said Disla. “I saw that it involved working Medical Center to meet with the research- ways playing with the little kids, or talking to with the Caribbean population. When I was ers, but some are seen in their homes. “If a the older people at all of our gatherings, try- applying online, I noted that it included participant is elderly, or house-bound, we ing to make them feel good,” Disla explained people from Dominican Republic. I gave it my make home visits,” said Disla. This is an area with a laugh. all to get into that program.” where Disla is particularly adept. “I tend to go It’s no wonder, for Norbelina’s Mannikin Norbelina Disla began working with to doctor appointments with my grandmoth- quote went on to show her appreciation for NOMAS in 2005. Since that time she has er and other family members, if they don’t her family and friends, in a prescient indica- contributed significantly to its research speak English, or need help filling out forms, tion of her dedication to others: “Y fue por while also earning her MA in psychology at or understanding the system. I know how ti…”—it was for you. $

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Enrollment Management, especially in its formative years,” said Dr. Kelly. “She is an expert in data research and analysis. She is also deeply committed to Horace Mann School, as someone who has overseen the admissions process for nearly a generation of HM students, and as a Horace Mann School parent herself. Lisa has always made what is best for the school her priority. She has long believed HM could benefit greatly from the kind of research she is now doing. “With all she was doing in admissions Lisa never had the time to do the institutional research she wanted to accomplish. Now she can,” continued Dr. Kelly. “However, she felt she could not leave her position as Admissions Lisa Moreira and Jason Caldwell ’97 Director without the right person to fill her spot. Therefore, at Lisa’s suggestion, irst on the list of Horace Mann inform HM’s ongoing effort on behalf of and with my full support, we invited School’s defining Core Values its students, families, and community. Jason Caldwell ’97 to come back to Fis the pursuit of “The Life of The Enrollment Management aspect Horace Mann as Director of Admissions. the Mind.” With its focus on lifelong of the Office’s work brings important He served as Assistant Director of learning this value is not simply one of demographic figures into this quest. Admissions under Lisa Moreira from acquiring knowledge, but of fostering This new initiative represents Horace 2004 to 2007, and then as Director of students’ ability to evaluate and apply Mann’s first-ever foray into formalizing Middle and Upper Division Admissions that knowledge in meaningful ways. data about the school. It is also the first at Packer Collegiate Institute, before Like its students, Horace Mann research-dedicated office established returning to HM.” School’s teachers and administrators at an independent school. “Lisa and Jason are working closely are involved in a constant learning pro- In creating the Institutional together today. Lisa is responsible for cess, examining curricula, programs and Research Office, Dr. Kelly looked to overseeing the Admissions Office, and policies to fulfill the school’s mission Horace Mann’s own former Director of supervises the financial aid process. of preparing “a diverse community of Admissions, Lisa Moreira, to guide its Jason is in charge of the day-to-day students to lead great and giving lives.” work. A graduate of MIT who is adept operations of admissions, from nursery Thus, in 2011, Horace Mann Head at data gathering and analysis, Moreira through grade twelve.” of School Dr. Tom Kelly established an has the human touch that makes her Both Lisa Moreira and Jason Office of Institutional Research and a leader in the world of independent Caldwell are excited about the work Enrollment Management. Its goal is to school admissions. “I can think of no they have embarked upon, separately gather facts, statistics, impressions and better person than Lisa to direct our and together. They’re also thrilled to reflections about Horace Mann that will Office of Institutional Research and resume a working relationship that

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complements one another’s efforts, on ment no longer a part of admissions, he atmosphere—that isn’t based on fact. I behalf of Horace Mann. is able to do a lot more outreach. His can say that as a Horace Mann par- personal magnetism is invaluable in ent. As a researcher, I know a ‘warm A meeting of the minds supports our external relationships, as well as in feeling’ is not something quantifiable, “The Life of the Mind” relating to families applying to Horace but institutional research can help show “Jason and I have worked incredibly Mann, or in the HM community.” what this means. Surveys of students, well together over the years,” said The outreach Caldwell is currently en- alumni, and families can represent the Moreira. “He was one of our best gaged in, the administrators explained, true experience, and provide insight we student ambassadors. We worked is not about bringing more applicants to can analyze and report.” beautifully together when we brought Horace Mann, but about “reaching kids him to Horace Mann in 2004 to work in we may not otherwise reach, and bring- Gathering data to strengthen admissions. I was sorry to see him go.” ing in the right students.” Horace Mann Said Caldwell, “I had no inten- “We’re very, very happy with our “What can institutional research do?” tion of leaving my position at Packer students today. They are amazing asked Moreira. “Institutional research Collegiate, but the opportunity to work kids,” said Moreira. “Last year we had is about collecting data, but more. I’m with Lisa again was too positive not to a 33 percent increase in applications all about the data, not just for the sake accept. I had gotten calls from other so, outreach isn’t about bringing more of having data, but for what it tells us. It schools, and I kept saying no. When I applications, but about bringing in the provides a way to learn more about our received the phone call from Horace right kids for Horace Mann. We also school—what we do well and what we Mann I was extremely honored to be want families to base their decision to need to improve. Ultimately, it’s about asked to come back by the Head of apply to or accept admission to Horace our willingness to make changes based School and the Director of Admissions. Mann on the right reasons. We under- on what we learn.” When I considered the work we’d be stand parents who decide they want The tasks formally identified by the doing, I realized this was a way I could their child in a school only five minutes Office of Institutional Research and really contribute to Horace Mann. I’ve from home, but, every so often a fam- Enrollment are to: collect and share had the opportunity to see Lisa in ac- ily makes a decision based on factors data and information from internal and tion. There is no one in the admissions that may not be accurate, that they external sources for strategic planning field as equitable as she is. I’ve also heard second hand. When parents say and program evaluation; provide sta- seen the way she uses data. By bringing they are choosing a different school tistical information and data to review the admissions process together with because it has a warmer or friendlier within divisions, departments, pro- institutional research we have already been able to streamline the admissions and financial aid process. In the future we’ll be able to understand what works at this school and what needs improvement, based on research and not on anecdotal evidence.” As deeply as Caldwell valued his Horace Mann education, he appreciates the learning he accomplished in his professional life here when he returned as an administrator. “Few supervisors share what they know as much as Lisa. I tell people all the time ‘Lisa is my Obi- wan Kenobi.’ Lisa always asks ‘Are you Anakin or Luke?’” Caldwell joked. Moreira has learned from Caldwell, as well. “His background as an alumnus is invaluable. While I have gotten to know Horace Mann incredibly well over the past 15 years, Jason’s experience

as a student here adds a difference. He photo by Jasmin Ortiz brings a personal side to the admissions Lisa Moreira had a chance to chat with her son Nicholas Moreira ’21 and his friends when she participated in process. With the enrollment manage- the Lower Division’s communal meal at Thanksgiving.

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grams or offices; provide data and pro- based on such factors as course selec- Horace Mann School has gone jections for annual planning, including tion,” Moreira continued. “A few years through several self-examination enrollment, financial aid, and student, ago we looked at the Cum Laude Society, exercises in recent years. Five years family and employee demographics; (of graduating seniors honored for ago Dr. Kelly invited teachers, staff, and respond to reporting obligations academic accomplishment). We looked alumni, students, parents and trustees required by the National Association of at the distribution within Cum Laude in to participate in a series of “under the Independent Schools (NAIS), the New relation to when these students started tent” meetings held, literally, under a York State Association of Independent at Horace Mann. We saw a cross-sec- tent outside the Head of School’s home. Schools (NYSAIS), the Independent tion of students who came in Nursery Participants enumerated what they felt School Admission Association of and at different times in the enrollment Horace Mann does well, and how it Greater New York, (ISAAGNY), the process. Such data can tell us what we could improve. The next two years saw Guild of Independent Schools, the can do better. We should have been able the school involved in self-evaluation New York State Education Department to do a Cum Laude study every year, but in preparation for its required ten-year (NYSED) and other HM affiliations. we didn’t have the time. Now we can.” NYSAIS review. In winter 2012 Horace Moreira notes that HM has been Moreira has embarked upon an Mann’s families received a “Strategic conducting research on its incoming important study of the overall cost of a Thinking” document outlining directions classes and students for as long as she Horace Mann education. “We know the the administration, trustees, faculty, and has been at the school, by gathering and cost of tuition, but what is the average staff aim to pursue toward building a analyzing enrollment data and figures. cost of being in school here if you play strong future for Horace Mann. Moreira “We now have an opportunity to get on a sports team, or if you take pho- feels these experiences are very relevant into more depth. One area to examine tography? Many students will probably to HM’s institutional research. is admissions testing. We can see how buy their own camera. What does that “Some of the information gathered and whether testing students before mean to a family?” Moreira asked. “It’s was anecdotal. Some was based on they come into Horace Mann correlates not my job to tell a department what data,” she said. “You can’t make data rel- with how they do as students here. We supplies to ask students to have, but it evant without the understanding of the already have some of this information is my part to inform about these costs. school that we accomplished through from over a five-year period. Discovering It’s not my job to tell a history depart- these earlier exercises. We also always a correlation between test results and a ment, for instance, not to use a certain have to ask whether we are analyzing subset of students could be very helpful. history book. But it is my job to say information the right way. Good statisti- “We’ll also be able to study Horace ‘this is what an eleventh-grader, or an cians can make data say whatever they Mann’s internal performance over time, eighth-grader, is paying for books.” want it to say. It’s the context that’s important. Those discussions gave us context. Conversely, the data we gather with institutional research will inform some of the ideas and initiatives we came up with under the tent. All of this contributes to the same goal.”

A personal concern to streamline financial aid and enrollment The transition in the Admissions Office and the development of the Office of Institutional Research and Enrollment allows Moreira to address an issue that highlights her personal consideration for Horace Mann’s students and families: financial aid. “Financial aid was one of the first things we looked at when we made these changes. We completely over- hauled our timing of the process to have re-enrollment on the same sched- HM Director of Admissions Jason Caldwell ’97 and Head of School Dr. Tom Kelly ule as admissions. We can now send

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out re-enrollment contracts to current families receiving financial aid in mid- February, when we send out acceptanc- es. Before, families receiving financial aid did not get their re-enrollment contracts until April. This put them in a difficult situation,” said Moreira. Horace Mann has further demonstrated consideration for families applying for financial assistance by separat- ing the Financial Aid Office from the purview of the Admissions Office, both administratively and physically. “In the past families were wary that applying for financial aid would effect their application for admission. This was uncomfort- able for them and for us,” explained Moreira. “This year we relocated the Financial Aid Office. Parents no longer enter the Admissions Office to apply for

financial aid. The office of our Assistant photo by Libby Barge Director of Financial Aid, Chrissalee Lisa Moreira (center) and Dr. Tom Kelly congratulated Alumni Council President Justin Lerer ’95 and AC Erriah, is now located in the Business Benefit Chair Suzanne Sloan ’77 on fundraising efforts on behalf of current students. Office. The fact that parents don’t walk participate in committee deliberations, through students I met at MIT, including into the Admissions Office or have now that I’m involved in institutional re- some from Horace Mann. They were their paperwork there goes a long way search and enrollment management, but, great kids, well-prepared for college. to making them understand that HM we’re all working toward the same goal.” They knew how to develop relationships respects the financial aid process.” with teachers. I learned from them,” Together Lisa Moreira and Jason A dedication to Horace Mann Moreira recalled. Upon graduation, Caldwell are streamlining the entire School stemming from experience Moreira was offered a job at Oracle, and admissions process. Chris Garrison ’04 As Dr. Kelly stated, Lisa Moreira is the a one-year position as an admissions joined Caldwell as Assistant Director of perfect person to head Horace Mann’s counselor at MIT. I loved MIT, so I de- Admissions for the Middle and Upper newest administrative initiative, and ferred Oracle for a year. After the year, Divisions, and is involved in outreach as Jason Caldwell is equally qualified to MIT offered me a full-time position.” well as admissions. build upon her efforts as Director of Moreira became an admissions officer “We’ve also instituted a new in- Admissions. As a management student at MIT for the next five years, before terview weekend to alleviate some of at MIT Moreira said she “spent time joining HM’s administration. the stress on the interview cycle,” said in both the computer science and the “I’ve always been thrilled I came to Caldwell. “There is always an uptake math departments. I certainly believe Horace Mann. My new opportunity is in applications after winter break, and those experiences formed me as a really exciting. I’m aware of only one adding this weekend relieves some of thinker—the kind of thinker who is ex- other school that has something close the pressure of getting all applicants cited about finding this data and putting to our Institutional Research Office. in, especially if we lose interview time it to work. I am also teaching psychol- That’s at Brown. Our institutional for snow days. Of course, that means ogy this year. Research and statistics research work is another way Horace admissions officers and staff have to are very important to psychology.” Mann is leading the charge.” come in on a weekend, but no one The Institutional Research Office For Jason Caldwell, his latest oppor- minds if it means doing it right.” Director said she came to appreciate the tunity enables him to publically herald Moreira will be part of that weekend. significance of an independent school his appreciation of his Horace Mann In her role of overseeing Admissions education when she was at MIT, as a education. “I am very proud to be back. at Horace Mann, and because of her student and as an admissions officer. I want people to know about the Horace ongoing commitment to the process, Moreira attended a high school where Mann that is a community of artists as she added, “I’m helping the Admissions 22 percent of graduates went on to well as athletes, that’s a school driven Office out with that weekend, and with college. “I was public school all the way, by student/teacher relationships. I want things like Open House tours. I won’t but I learned about independent schools them to know the school I went to.” $

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Canh Oxelson Becomes Horace Mann School Director of College Counseling

If there is anything Oxelson finds challenging about directing the College Guidance office, it’s helping HM’s students navigate the process of matching the myriad exciting options they have among colleges and universities with their academic accomplishments and aspirations. In fact, Oxelson’s sincere concern for helping students make the right college match are among the reasons Horace Mann School felt he was the best person for the job, Dr. Kelly said. “We deeply value Canh Oxelson’s considerable qualifications. We also wanted to incorporate into the life of Horace Mann School his passionate commitment to students. Canh expressed this when he wrote that he finds ‘great joy in helping young people our life story begins on a page For anyone from outside the Horace discover enough about themselves to of history so epic you’re the Mann School community who believes find a college environment that pro- Ysubject of a documentary film. the myth—media-made or otherwise— vides them a safe space to become the Your athletic skills bring you acclaim of stressed-out HM students for whom best and most evolved person they can as a high-school All American, NCAA acceptance into the country’s top be,’” said Dr. Kelly. champion, and an Olympic hope- universities is the ultimate educational ful. Your academic prowess earns goal, a college advising position at The journey to Horace Mann you a graduate degree from Harvard this school would be a challenge. That Canh Eric Oxelson began his work as University. Your professional life is wasn’t Cahn Oxelson’s belief. The real- HM’s Director of College Counseling personally fulfilling and of service to life protagonist of each of the novelistic on July 1, 2011, taking up the role long- others. And, you have a sideline that’s possibilities listed above, Oxelson was held by Steven Singer, one of the most so unique your name is a question in drawn to Horace Mann School by its esteemed administrators in the country’s Trivial Pursuit. reality—its long tradition of talented college counseling profession, who re- With these chapters already written, students dedicated to “The Life of the tired the position in 2009 but now teach- what can you do to bring some serious Mind” and prepared by their school “to es at HM. Oxelson joined Horace Mann’s challenges into the plot of your life? lead great and giving lives.” accomplished College Counseling Become the Director of College As a Harvard alumnus, a former Office team including: Senior Associate Counseling at Horace Mann School. admissions officer at the University of Director of College Counseling, Thomas That’s what Canh Oxelson did when Pennsylvania and someone who inhabits Katzenbach, who served as the office’s he applied for the position and was a world where educational excellence Interim Director last year; Associate selected by Horace Mann to fill the is prized, Oxelson was acquainted with Directors of College Counseling Amber post. A veteran high school and col- Horace Mann alumni, and knew this Long and Elizabeth (Beth) Pili, both of lege admissions officer, Oxelson was school was about much more. As he re- whom have also worked on the college selected from over 100 highly-qualified assured a group of seniors at an October side of the admissions equation; and candidates, following the school’s year- instruction session in the legendarily- counseling office administrative assis- long, nationwide search for the ideal tense early days of the 2011-2012 ap- tants Barbara Billies and Linda Dowling. College Counseling head, said Head of plication season: “I know you can do this. Oxelson has also worked on both School Dr. Tom Kelly. I’ve read Horace Mann essays.” sides of the application process. He

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entered the profession as an admis- me that what makes our students so forum to discuss standardized testing. sions counselor at the University of San interesting is that they are doing things Another is a case studies program to Francisco, his alma mater. A President’s they genuinely find interesting, instead give students, parents, and teachers an Scholar, a Davies Forum Scholar on of just doing what they think will lead inside look at how college admissions Equal Opportunity, and an athlete at to college. Many admission representa- committees make decisions, Oxelson USF Oxelson spent one of his college tives have left saying, ‘I wish I’d gone to reported. These ideas go hand in years at California State University, a high school like HM.’” hand with the focus the entire College Bakersfield, where he helped the Counseling Office places on trying to Roadrunners to the NCAA Division II Easing application stress relieve that application stress factor. National Championship. He went on Since arriving at Horace Mann School “As wonderful and talented as Horace from USF to serve as senior admis- Oxelson has been working with the Mann students are, they’re still kids. sions officer for St. Mary’s College of counseling office, the faculty and staff They seem so on top of things, but they California, and regional admissions to streamline the application process, to still get nervous about this. Our college representative at the University of make it as efficient as possible, and help counselors try to help students ease California at Santa Cruz, before moving ease the stress that traditionally accom- the pain, but, each year brings a new East for his studies at Harvard. After panies this time in a student’s life, and class and new parents, experiencing completing his graduate studies in that of their family. This year, applica- the whole thing for the first time. administration, planning and social tions are being managed online through The first meetings Cahn Oxelson held policy at Harvard’s Graduate School of Naviance, and most letters of recom- for seniors and parents were instructive, Education he was named Director of mendation were submitted electronical- and sprinkled with laughter and gener- the Multicultural Recruitment Program ly. Online submission makes it easier for ous examples of his dedication to the and Regional Director of Admissions at teachers and counselors to keep track application process that families found the University of Pennsylvania. of letters of recommendation, Oxelson reassuring. He also offered insights Drawn back to California, Oxelson explained. “If students and counselors gained through his experience. moved his focus to the high school side get to submit their materials electroni- “All the pieces of an application work of the process at Harvard-Westlake cally, why shouldn’t teachers?” in concert to help the colleges get a School in Studio City, CA, managing the The office is considering several strong sense of why a particular student three-year college counseling program other ideas to address the mystery that would be a good fit for a particular col- for 850 students at this renowned surrounds college admissions. One is a lege,” Oxelson said. “The same themes independent school. There he initiated new programs while cultivating admissions relationships with colleges and universities nationwide. Oxelson has already met with several hundred college admissions representatives from around the country, on behalf of Horace Mann’s students. “After only a few months at Horace Mann, I can confirm what I had always heard: These kids are really talented,” said Oxelson. “When you add that talent to the inspiration and support students get from teachers, it’s a powerful combination. It’s easy to see why Horace Mann students enjoy such great options through the college process. This is truly a remarkable place. “Clearly, admissions officers are as impressed with Horace Mann as I am. They speak glowingly of our students’ willingness to take intellectual risks, try things outside of their comfort zones, The Horace Mann School College Counseling Office includes (back row) Director of College Counseling Canh and aggressively pursue their interests. Oxelson, Senior Associate Director of College Counseling Thomas Katzenbach, Counseling Office Administrative Assistant Barbara Billies, and (front row) Associate Director of College Counseling Amber Long, Counseling College representatives keep reminding Office Administrative Assistant Linda Dowling, and Associate Director of College Counseling Beth Pili.

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Gaining an understanding of students through self- understanding With the application process a potential minefield of anxiety, what made Canh Oxelson choose a profession in college counseling? “That answer comes from the fact that my college experience was so meaningful, and the application process got me to a college where I felt I was able to blossom,” he explained. As an All-American swimmer in high school Oxelson had “plenty of NCAA swimming scholarship offers. But I was already beginning to question some of the reasons I was swimming.” Those questions stemmed, in part, from Oxelson’s unique personal his- Canh Oxelson addressed college guidance counselors from around the country at a conference hosted by tory. He was born in Vietnam at the Horace Mann in June 2011. end of the Vietnam War, the child present in the student’s portion of the two kids go through Horace Mann and on of an African American father and a application should be found in the letters to college. They can tell us what worked Vietnamese mother, neither of whom of recommendation. Since teachers and for their families.” Oxelson also welcomes he ever knew. He was one of 3,000 counselors are writing based on their input from alumni. “I’d love to hear from children rescued from Vietnam before genuine interactions with the student, it’s them—to have them retrace their steps the fall of Saigon in 1975 in President very important that students be equally of how they got to a college and what Gerald R. Ford’s “Operation Babylift.” genuine in how they describe them- they got out of their college experience, Oxelson was also featured in the docu- selves. The counselor is the only person what they would do differently, and what mentary film, “Operation Babylift: The who has first-hand knowledge of each they learned that got them to where they Lost Children of Vietnam” about how letter of recommendation and student are now. Those are valuable stories.” these children were welcomed into new essay, which means the counselor is in Oxelson suggests to the students that homes in the U.S. Canh Oxelson was the most enlightened position to give ad- it’s OK to take risks. “There’s a tendency adopted by a family of Swedish-Irish vice and help the student put his or her for students to be conservative in their background living in California’s Central best foot forward. Being genuine allows essay writing, wanting to stay on a well- Joaquin Valley. Close knit and loving as the pieces of a student’s application to worn topic. While that safe approach his adoptive parents and siblings are, work together to paint a great picture. works in some situations, allowing one’s Oxelson is articulate about the inner “In the college process, parents personality to shine through the essay conflicts he experienced growing up should never be more memorable than is more likely to leave a lasting impres- as a part-Asian part-African American their child,” Oxelson advised. “I can’t tell sion,” Oxelson advised. “The more a youngster within a white family in a you how many stories I’ve heard from student allows his or her personality to predominantly white environment. college admission officers who describe emerge in an essay, the less likely that Some of these conflicts factored meeting a student only to have the essay will read like someone else’s, mak- into his success in swimming, Oxelson child’s parent overtake the conversation. ing the applicant more memorable. once wrote. Believing that excelling in Not only does this happen in face-to- “No one is thrilled that the college athletics would help ease his way into face conversations during campus visits, process has taken over so much of the a comfortable niche among both black but in phone calls and emails to colleges lives of our young people. However, if and white students, Oxelson did not as well. These parent-dominated inter- teachers, advisors, and administrators always find that to be the case, despite actions leave the impression that the use a common language and philosophy the fact that he rose to the heights of child isn’t very independent. Colleges are in their interactions with our students, competitive swimming. Instead, African trying to admit students, not parents.” we can ease the stress while giving the American students wondered why he At the same time, Oxelson appreciates student the best chance to be admitted was so involved in a sport dominated parents’ input. “Parents’ insights about to colleges that are an excellent fit. The by white athletes, and white students their child are very useful, as are the more we all understand what each of us clung to similar stereotypes about insights of parents who have had one or does, the better it is for our students.” black athletes. Nevertheless, swim-

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ming taught Oxelson to pursue a goal, his complications stemmed from a And, what about that Trivial Pursuit and endowed him with life lessons he complicated life. The opportunity to card? That’s a detail of his story reflects upon in his work with adoles- return to Vietnam in 2005 with other Oxelson didn’t write. In fact, he only cents and young adults. “My experi- Operation Babylift “alumni” was an- learned his name was in the 2006 ence as an Olympic hopeful taught me other turning point that further helped edition of the game after a student at about following a dream, setting goals, Cahn understand the historic influences Harvard-Westlake reported finding it maintaining discipline and overcoming that contributed to his identity. on a card when she played the game obstacles. Although it was a dream I with friends. Oxelson contacted game- was never able to fulfill, I met the chal- A passion for helping students maker Hasbro, and the company sent lenge head on. It also helped me build A t USF Oxelson was a leader in him the card. Visitors to the Horace enough self-esteem to get through my student affairs and athletics. He also Mann School College Counseling adolescent years.” He wrote. “became inspired by the ideals of equal Office find it floating in Lucite on the “Many thought that swimming in access and opportunity, he said.” Upon Director’s desk. “It’s a nice little ice- college was a foregone conclusion for graduation Canh was offered a posi- breaker,” he said, in his quest to make me,” said Oxelson of his own college tion in the USF Office of Admissions. “I students feel comfortable. application process. But a high school loved helping young people figure out To learn the reason behind the card, counselor sensed Oxelson’s doubts what they wanted to do with their lives readers will have to “google” HM’s about focusing primarily on swimming and where they wanted to go to gain new College Counseling Director by in college. The future admissions coun- the basis for their future goals. I was name. It has to do with a sideline he selor chose to attend the University passionate.” embarked upon to help pay for gradu- of San Francisco. “That was a turning Nearly 20 years later Canh Oxelson ate school. Here’s a hint from that point. The Jesuit experience is about has brought that passion to Horace game card: “Who does Canh Oxelson … recognizing the uniqueness of each in- Mann School, and Horace Mann is impersonate at corporate golf outings?” dividual as well as encouraging growth already the beneficiary. A recognized And here’s another: Because of that intellectually. It is also about recogniz- presence at assemblies, games, or in celebrity’s off-the-golf-course excesses ing one’s responsibility to help those in the audience at student performances, Oxelson’s impersonating gigs pretty need,” Oxelson said. His education, he he also contributes to Horace Mann ini- much dried up. That leaves him ample added, helped him recognize the value tiatives concerning community service, time for his ample workload at Horace of his own uniqueness, and reconcile diversity, and intellectual engagement— Mann—and for being as much a part of with the fact that it was natural for him quickly filling the pages of this newest the Horace Mann School community as to experience complications—because chapter in the story of his life. he loves to be. $

Timothy Ho and Monica Merlo are Honored with 2011 Tina and David Bellet Teaching Excellence Awards

cknowledging teachers at and Middle and Upper Division music Price ’96 and Stacey Bellet ’00, the Horace Mann School is a time- teacher and Glee Club director Timothy Bellets have supported and strengthened Ahonored HM tradition. But, one Ho. The teaching expertise of all the Horace Mann School since their daugh- night a year the school has the chance nominees was also highlighted. They ters enrolled in its Nursery Division. to single out teachers who inspire the included Lower Division science teacher The Tina and David Bellet Award for entire HM community. That’s the night Katie Diaz, Lower and Nursery Division Teaching Excellence enhances teaching of the Tina and David Bellet Teaching music teacher Barbara Marin, and Upper at Horace Mann school by encourag- Excellence Awards. Division English teacher Harry Bauld. ing great teaching, and by promoting The 2011 Bellet Dinner celebrated These recognitions are possible through the teaching enterprise within the HM the awardees—Monica Merlo, Lower the generosity of Tina and David Bellet. community, explained Dr. Barbara Division foreign languages teacher, The parents of alumni Suzanne Bellet Tischler, Director of Curriculum and

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Professional Development, who also This collaboration was on display at Arts in Philadelphia. Earning degrees coordinates the Bellet Award. the dinner, as Dr. Tischler stepped in in Culture and Communication and “The Award gives teaching col- to deliver Dr. Kelly’s words. Felled by a Teaching Foreign Languages to Young leagues, alumni, and parents who severe cold, Dr. Kelly was forced to log Students at Columbia University’s submit nominations a chance to think in a rare absence from a Horace Mann Teachers College, she also studied about teachers who have inspired School event. teaching Spanish, in Spain. Merlo brings them or have made a difference in their Both 2011 Bellet honorees are known all these skills to her classroom today. children’s lives. The nominated teach- for their vibrant teaching. Both also As she wrote, “I believe my banking ers prepare statements and a portfolio harnessed skills and talents in several background has helped me in the orga- describing their teaching ideas and ap- areas when they chose to focus their nizational aspect of planning and teach- proach. Bellet Award Committee mem- life’s work on teaching. Dr. Kelly quoted ing, while my passion for movement has bers read the portfolios and visit the several students in describing Merlo. “I guided me in creating communicative nominees’ classrooms to experience the love her class. I love the way we get to activities to bring the Spanish language teaching environment each candidate use the SmartBoard to practice new vo- alive within the classroom.” creates,” said Dr. Tischler. “The process cabulary. I love her and I don’t even have Merlo grew up speaking Spanish, provides an opportunity for teachers to her!” Sharing the thoughts of a Class of Italian, German, and later studied reflect on their own teaching values and 2008 HM alumnus about Timothy Ho, French and English. “Being able to practices, and for committee members Dr. Kelly quoted, “With so much talent speak five languages and to communi- to learn how HM teachers connect and expertise, it would be easy to devel- cate with people from other countries curriculum throughout the school. The op a huge ego, but Mr. Ho’s humility and has always brought richness to my life. Bellet Award reminds us how diverse gratitude are undeniable. I am blessed That’s what I would love my students teaching excellence is.” to have had Mr. Ho as a teacher.” to achieve,” she wrote. “Learning a In remarks to guests at the May 16, language often feels like jumping into 2011 award dinner, Head of School Dr. Monica Merlo: Bringing multi- cold water and not being sure how to Tom Kelly expressed gratitude for being ple skills to the classroom swim. Yet, once you learn, you find out “privileged to be a part of an exceptional Monica Merlo came to her cherished how wonderful it feels to float. I work collaboration of teachers and students, teaching position through a circuitous on creating a place where the children parents, trustees, staff and alumni. The route. Merlo first pursued a degree in feel safe enough to take the risk to jump theme of this collaboration is teaching; business administration and a career in into the water and gain confidence not just students, but teaching ourselves banking—an “inevitable” step for some- speaking Spanish.” as well. The brilliance of a colleague one who grew up in the “the banking en- The Lower Division’s Spanish cur- inspires our increased efforts; the sear- vironment of Zurich.” She left the world riculum enables Merlo to follow her ing insight of a curious young person of finance to move to the U.S. to pursue students from first through fifth grade, points to the need for reflection; and the dance and education studies, and to when they are introduced to foreign lan- concerns of a parent or staff member perfect her English, in the dance educa- guage studies and develop into speak- engender a display of compassion.” tion department of The University of the ers. “The children’s curiosity, motiva-

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tion, and willingness to work have been how I teach, I would like to have you help That life-changing experience led a priceless inspiration for me.” me remember this night through song.” Ho to his career as a music and music Merlo thanked Tina and David Bellet Picking up a ukulele—Hawaii’s history teacher who holds advanced for initiating the award process that iconic instrument—Ho strummed as degrees in ethnomusicology. Ho’s enabled her to reflect on her goals as a he strolled from table to table, sing- classes employ Hawaiian storytelling, teacher. She also thanked the Horace ing in his mellifluous voice. As he combined with formal Western music Mann School community for the oppor- went through each stanza of Ingrid education traditions. Horace Mann tunity to teach at HM, and “for the long- Michaelson’s “The Way I Am” he dem- School’s professional development time support” of the “administration in onstrated “Mr. Ho’s Awesome Singing programs have given him opportuni- creating the Spanish curriculum at the Basics.” ties to pursue interests in such things Lower Division. Without the teamwork “Number one—no stalkers” he said, as Jewish music, participate in music of my colleagues, Marielle Coadic and gesturing the guests to join in. “Two: festivals, and master the technology Carole Ellis, the curriculum would not No Muppets—sing through an ‘o’. he implements in his courses, he wrote be where it is today. This incredible Three: Strong and Wrong,” he urged the with appreciation. place is the main reason I chose to stay singers to take risks. “Four: Know with in the United States.” whom you can joke freely. Five: Don’t Nominees honored Merlo gives back to HM as well, take yourself too seriously. Six: Have Honoring the 2011 Bellet Award translating technological knowledge fun! Seven: Break a leg!” nominees, Lower Division Head Wendy she gained through HM professional Little by little the guests joined in. Steinthal described Katie Diaz as a development opportunities into tech- This teacher’s encouraging charm has lover of technology turned into a lover nology training for her colleagues. She helped the most retiring students enjoy of teaching, whose work as head of also co-writes curriculum guidelines— singing and playing an instrument. the Division’s science department has and even teaches Pilates on campus. Some have even discovered a hidden made her “a real connector” with the “Monica’s training and creative bril- talent and new love of music. Ho’s dedi- other departments in the Division. liance breathe life into a colorful and cation was apparent that evening. Or, Steinthal and Nursery Division Head engaging Lower Division Spanish cur- as Dr. Kelly said of the singer/teacher: Marcia Levy described how music riculum,” noted Dr. Kelly. “Tim, you had us at Aloha.” teacher Barbara Marin plies her magical In his teaching statement Ho de- abilities with young children on two Timothy Ho: giving voice to all scribed an experience that showed him campuses, encouraging their musical Guests participating in the Award dinner he could make “a difference in the lives growth. And Upper Division Head Dr. got a taste of the passion that Tim Ho of others” through music. “I was 13. As David Schiller spoke about his English brings to his lessons when he expressed I and my 449 fellow freshmen settled department colleague Harry Bauld thus: his appreciation for his honor through into our gymnasium to rehearse for the “I have watched Harry teach for almost song. In so doing he demonstrated how upcoming Song Contest my stomach 30 years. His students love him.” $ he, literally, helps students find a voice. sank as I realized the teacher was A native of Hawaii, Ho told those absent and that gathered that kumu, or teacher in I, by default as Hawaiian, “is the same as the word for the Song Contest tree, or the part of the tree that con- leader, would have nects with the earth. It also means to improvise a ‘foundation’ and ‘origin’. In Hawaiian lesson on the spot. thinking, a kumu, a teacher, must not My class finished only provide knowledge to students, only about eight but also stability, structure, inspiration, measures of music understanding, and nurturing. Music that day, but I re- and Hawaiian culture are completely member feeling a linked,” he said, explaining why he tremendous sense turns to his early cultural influences in of accomplish- building a foundation for his students to ment for having connect with music. taught my class- “I want my students to experience mates those 32

the joy they can find through music and counts of music. photo by Ruth Seligman help them build laulima—communities Those 55 minutes David and Tina Bellet appreciated the words of the winners of the teaching excel- that are uplifting. Rather than telling you changed my life.” lence award they endowed at Horace Mann.

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make the most of its pedagogical possibilities. The topic is introduced to the entire tenth grade at an assembly at which Horace Mann School Theater Arts Director Woody Howard and English teacher Gerri Woods discuss the nature of oratory. Students then have the opportunity to meet with members of the History Department to discuss possible topics. Students who decide to participate in the competition receive further training in oratory, and review their research with their history teachers. One semi-final round yields the finalists. The 2011 competition culminated in a Sunday brunch in the rotunda of Fisher Hall, which the speakers’ family members, and HM teachers

photo by Ruth Seligman and administrators attended. Audience members were welcomed by Dr. Tischler, Horace Mann Head of School Dr. Tom Kelly, and Upper Division Head Langfan Finalists Dr. David Schiller. Dr. Kelly led the gathering in a moment of peace in memory of the victims of 9-11, and Dr. Schiller Address Press Freedom emphasized the importance of fostering an education that teaches young people on Competition’s to think through issues in the human- istic tradition. In discussing issues of freedom of the press the students Tenth Anniversary invoked historic press/freedom court cases to support their arguments. or the past ten years members teacher and Director of Curriculum and A panel of student judges, who were of Horace Mann School’s tenth- Professional Development, who coor- finalists in 2010, selected the winner, Fgrade class have studied the dinates the Langfan award, observed: with history teacher Pasquale DeVito U.S. Constitution, and examined an “It seems fitting that we celebrate free guiding their deliberations. issue through its lens as participants speech with free speech, the freedom Shaan Hathiramani ’04 captured the in the William K. and Marion Langfan of our students to speak their minds, to Langfan prize in its first year at HM. American Constitutional Oratorical be critical, and to disagree. That’s what The alumnus recalled the Langfan ex- Competition. the Langfan Competition, indeed, what perience as “memorable… both for the The 2011 tenth-anniversary com- a Horace Mann education, is all about.” opportunity to deliver a speech on big petition engaged finalists Susannah The Langfan Competition was issues in a rapidly changing world, and Cohen ’13, Daniel Elkind ’13, Jacob launched at Horace Mann in 2001 by the privilege to hear the speeches of Gladysz-Morawski ’13, Alexander Mark ’78 and Dayna ’79 Langfan to friends. We addressed topics like civil Posner ’13, and Elizabeth Rosenblatt ’13 honor their father William, and their liberties and censorship that seemed with the question of “How Free is a Free late mother Marion Langfan, whose only appropriate to read about in class Press?” Each earned a plaque in recog- love of the U.S. Constitution and of or watch on the news. The Langfan nition of the thoughtful arguments they oratory inspired the event. The goal is competition gave us the opportunity to presented. Alex Posner took home the to encourage students to learn how the engage with those issues directly and winner’s trophy. Constitution applies to daily life in the with confidence,” he said. “The gravity The final round of the competi- U.S., and offers them a public speaking of that year (2001-2002), the preparation took place on September 11, 2011. experience at a young age. tion and practice of the speech itself, Coinciding with the tenth anniversary Since the award’s inception, the and the spirit of the occasion, provided of 9-11, Dr. Barbara Tischler, history competition has been fine-tuned to for a lasting experience.” $

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Horace Mann School Names New Trustees

The Horace Mann School Board of Trustees named new members in spring 2011.

Farrah Kleiner al equity fund that he initially formed involved in numerous civic and social was elected with The Blackstone Group in 2006. service organizations. She lives in New President of the Before Blackstone he was a managing York City with her husband, fellow HM Horace Mann director at Perry Capital and a portfolio alumnus Michael Odell ’92. School Parents manager at SAC Capital. He started Association his career as a private equity analyst at Amanda (HMPA) in spring Goldman Sachs. Salzhauer has 2011 after serving Manish is a 1994 graduate of the been a parent at as First Vice President for the past two University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Horace Mann years. She has been a member of the School. He also serves on the Board of School since Horace Mann community since her Directors at the University Settlement. 2003. She has daughter Carson ’14 entered the Nursery been an active Division in 1999, and has been intimate- Andrea Olshan and engaged ly involved in the HMPA since that time. ’98 serves as member of the HM parent community Farrah Kleiner is an associate at Sloane Chief Operating whose involvement includes serving on Square LLC, a boutique residential real Officer of Mall the Head of School Committee since its estate firm in Manhattan. Prior to Properties, Inc. inception in 2006, active participation working in the real estate field, Kleiner overseeing the in the Horace Mann Parents worked in the fashion industry for firm’s operations Association (HMPA) including chairing Glamour magazine, Elle magazine and and asset the Lower Division Book Fair and Calvin Klein. management functions and is respon- volunteering as an Annual Fund grade Farrah is a graduate of the University sible for the financial performance of representative since 2003. Amanda of Southern California. She lives in New the company’s commercial and residen- graduated from Dartmouth College in York City with her husband, Ken. They are tial portfolio. Olshan guides and directs 1993 with a degree in art history and the parents of Carson ’14 and Devin ’18. the day-to-day functions of the MPI went on to earn a Masters in Social operating units—Leasing, easing, Work from NYU in 1998. She special- Trustee Manish Property Management and Asset izes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Mittal has been a Management, and establishes forward- Anxiety Disorders and previously parent at Horace looking strategic plans for the portfolio worked at NYU’s Child Study Center. Mann School of properties. She also represents the Amanda and her husband Michael since 2009 when company in its third-party investments Salzhauer are the parents of Rebecca his oldest which include the “RCG Longview” ’18, Abigail ’20, and Emily ’23. daughter, Saiya, series of debt and equity funds as well Amanda’s brother is Jordan Roth ’93, entered Horace as the “Normandy Realty Partners” who served on the HM Board of Trustee Mann’s Nursery Division. In that short fund, where Olshan is responsible for from 1998–2007 and was elected time, he and his wife, Ritu, have made a evaluating new real estate investment Trustee Emeritus in 2007. $ positive impact on the administration, opportunities through her membership faculty and Board of Trustees with their in the Investment Committee. Mall commitment to supporting Horace Properties is owned by Andrea’s father, Mann School and their willingness to Mort Olshan, who served on the help achieve our goals. The family lives Horace Mann School Board of Trustees in New York City. from 1996–2008 and was elected Manish is a portfolio manager Trustee Emeritus in 2008. at Kingdon Capital Management. Andrea Olshan graduated magna The firm invests in public market cum laude from Harvard College securities across the globe. Prior to in 2002 and earned her MBA from Kingdon, Manish was the CIO of Kailix Columbia University. In addition to her Investment Advisors, a long/short glob- real estate career, Andrea is actively

Horace Mann Magazine Winter 2012 35 news of the school photo by Jasmin Ortiz Horace Mann School Graduates 176 in the Class of 2011 s the members of each class at for this class of poets and mathemati- and universities across the country, or Horace Mann School grow to- cians, research scientists and sculptors, in gap-year experiences. But, Horace Agether over the four, six, twelve, great debaters and peacemakers.” She Mann School remembers its most recent or fifteen years they study and partici- also thanked the students’ parents, graduates as their efforts on behalf of pate in activities with one another, the families and friends for supporting and the school continue, largely because of class as a whole seems to take on a encouraging them, and “most of all for the foundation they laid. Fad magazine, a defining characteristic. maintaining our partnership to send out creation of the Class of ’11, was pub- The Horace Mann School graduating into the world passionate and engaged lished early in the 2011-2012 school year Class of 2011 provided a prime example citizens with the strength of character to by an editorial board of students who of this phenomenon, as HM Head of master themselves and the challenges were part of the magazine’s invention, School Dr. Tom Kelly pointed out in his they will undoubtedly face.” and now carry on the excitement it gen- address to the graduates at their com- Congratulations and words of erated. The 2010-2011 Review contained mencement ceremony last spring, when encouragement were also offered by content of unprecedented depth, and he thanked them for “being among the Board Chair Steve Friedman ’72, by its current editorial board is following most active, energetic, engaged and Upper Division Head Dr. David Schiller, this tradition. While 2011’s athlete and inventive classes” he had come to know and by the Class’ valedictorian, Eric theater standouts have moved on, a new in his years as Head of School. Singerman ’11 on that blisteringly hot crop of talent, inspired by their prede- The Class’ Grade Dean, Alicia Hines, but beautiful June 7th day when the cessors, emerges from the wings. affirmed that description in her words Class of 2011, their teachers, families Thus, in tribute to the Horace Mann to the students she had come to know and friends gathered under the tent on School Class of 2011, and to the history so well in the four years she served as Clark Field to bid one another farewell. of Horace Mann on its 125th anniversary, their advisor. The Dean thanked her The members of the Class of 2011 are, here are the words addressed to its mem- Upper Division faculty colleagues for by now, well situated in their coursework bers by Dr. Kelly and by valedictorian Eric their “accepting and attentive support and extra-curricular activities at colleges Singerman upon the class’ graduation.

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Commencement Address ties. I saw it with my own class in Spence Cottage, where, each year, to the Horace Mann School Class of 2011 on the first day of school, students scope out seats near the windows by Head of School Dr. Tom Kelly in the back of my office. Not so this class. You congregated right ood morning. Thank you, Mr. Friedman, for your thought- up front, wherever you could find room, because we were quite a Gful words to today’s graduates and for your dedication to this crowd. Then with classes over—and on a day you did not need to be school throughout your relationship with our community for over 40 here—you asked to tour the brain exhibit at the American Museum years, as a student, a parent, an active trustee, a visionary officer, of Natural History with dinner to follow. My teaching colleagues and, for the last six years, as the Chair of our Board of Trustees who agree. Few of them had trouble encouraging any of you to speak up in has worked tirelessly to not only secure the health of Horace Mann class. You always had a question or response that challenged us. You School today, but for the future. always enjoyed spending time together. Your dedication serves as a role model for all of us. It is echoed in You have the ability to wrap yourselves around the model of “Living the dedication of all of those it is my privilege to greet and acknowl- out Loud”—and we’ve all benefited from your zest to do so. I mean, edge here today. First—the parents, stepparents, and grandparents of when was the last time we saw not one but two fire trucks pull up to this Class. We thank you for your dedication to our mutual enterprise Horace Mann with their sirens blaring early in the morning. Thankfully— of the education of your children—our students—and for all you have never! Or, at least, not until a bunch of you rode those fire trucks to done over their years at Horace Mann to help bring them to this day. school the morning of your Senior Absurdity Day. Now, that’s loud. From the support you have given each and every one of them by When it came to self-expression, and encouraging others to ex- placing your trust in us, to the athletic contests you have cheered, the press themselves, your class has left Horace Mann with some power- theatrical and musical performances you’ve applauded, to the count- ful new traditions to try to perpetuate. Ten issues of The Horace Mann less car pools you have navigated, to the late night and weekend trips Review, drawing over 100 students in grades eight-through-twelve to back to campus for this book or that book—we thank you. You’ve write about current events and world affairs, not for an assignment, done an amazing job! but on their own time—that’s engagement. Speaking of publications, Welcome and thank you to the siblings, caregivers, friends and your class launched FAD magazine. Exceptional in its own right, many relatives of our graduating class. Your dedication to our graduates— of us saw the beauty of your celebration of the human spirit that your love and support—will always be a part of the fine people these jumped from FAD’s pages in the way you also made it into a move- students have become. ment—a movement open to all of your classmates and friends from To the members of the Horace Mann School Board of Trustees— around the school. The variety of student faces and personalities who we appreciate your tremendous efforts on behalf of our School. Thank graced your pages showed how you extended yourselves to all, and you for your dedication and guidance. how everyone was excited about joining in. Will our alumni in the audience and on stage please stand? Your This class also opened our school to the world, hosting our first-ev- dedication to Horace Mann is a testament to the lasting impact this er TEDx Youth conference, an innovation that brought students from School has had on your lives, and your continued involvement makes our neighboring schools to present their own innovative ideas, as we us stronger in many ways. live-streamed our event around the world. You, as a Class, have tried That strength emanates perhaps no more powerfully than from so many new things. You’ve soared over our stage, broken records in the dedication of those who have put their all into teaching the mem- the annals of state and city sports, sat in classes from your bedrooms bers of the Class of 2011—the faculty of Horace Mann School. With via Skype on a snow day, unleashed a thunderstorm in our theatre, gratitude, I ask our faculty members to stand so we may salute your and launched new ideas about self-governance in your discussions in talent, expertise, and untiring efforts on behalf of our students. meeting rooms and assemblies. In so many ways, you are a Class that This is no formulaic phrase—not when it comes to the Class of greatly respects tradition, but is also ready to embrace change. 2011. For, this was a class we all had to keep up with. As I now turn to One final day of your senior year stands out in my mind: Class acknowledge you, our graduates, I must also extend thanks on behalf Day, when we came together to utter our appreciation for all that of all who have taught you, coached you, advised you, cooked meals you’ve done, and honor the myriad ways you have made a difference. for you—for being among the most active, energetic, engaged—and in- For one student, making a difference was seeing a brand new ap- ventive classes it has been my privilege to experience at Horace Mann. proach to solving a problem in math. For another, it was a way of con- We need only think back to a few days during this past school veying her understanding of science to others in her class, enabling year—your senior year—to capture the spirit of your entire Horace them to move along collectively to learn more advanced concepts. For Mann experience, no matter how many years you spent with us. others it was the ensemble approach they applied to musical, dance The first assembly of the school year is the first thing that comes to and theatrical performances, supporting one another so that each my mind. Each year Woody Howard asks students filing into Gross individual could shine. Still others made a difference by logging the Theater to keep moving toward the stage, so they can fill the front greatest number of community service hours a graduating class has row seats of our auditorium. Not so this year—at least not for the ever amassed—not only through Horace Mann, but in our neighbor- members of the Class of 2011. You all took your seats at the front ing community, our city and suburbs and even abroad, as teachers, toward the stage—because that’s who you are—a front row kind of artists, musicians, environmentalists, advocates for the needy, and as class. That trait was apparent in your academics and in your activi- patient guides. The world called to you and you answered.

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Now comes the moment when you step out into the world. The Freedom from want? So many of you have done so much already world you step into is a challenging one indeed—as you have wit- in your young lives to assist others in realizing this right—through nessed, discussed and become involved with—particularly during the your personal philanthropy, as advocates, and as teachers who have last half of your senior year. While your class of young citizens was supported and encouraged other young people with compromised involved with developing your thinking and analytic skills to enable resources to achieve their potential, even as we have encouraged you to address the issues you will encounter in the future, your peers you to pursue yours. Those similarly engaged among the Horace across the globe were engaging verbally, and en mass, spreading their Mann School alumni body you join today are legendary—far too call for freedom from the public squares of their capitals through the numerous to name. world’s social networks. Our virtual presence at those gatherings Freedom from fear? You, of all people, a generation that has across the world gave us all an opportunity to think about freedom, grown up in a country at war, know that fear is no abstract idea. about the characteristics of freedom that compelled so many to pour You have also already learned how acceptance of and advocacy re- into the streets at the risk even of their lives. lating to the first three freedoms is one way of realizing the fourth. Seventy years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined Four When I think of this freedom my mind goes, once again, to that Freedoms in an address to Congress. The first was “freedom of Class Day we celebrated together. One of your teachers, on stage speech and expression—everywhere in the world.” The second was to deliver her department’s honors, looked out at all of you and “freedom of every person to worship in his (or her) own way—ev- your family members there that day and asked that you look around erywhere in the world.” The third was “freedom from want, which,” at one another, yourselves. “Know that these are your friends, the the President said, “translated into world terms, means economic people who will always be with you. As you go through life, do not understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime hesitate to turn to them” to collaborate on ideas, and for support in life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.” The Fourth Freedom all that you do. was “freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms means…. Looking out at this Class today, I am assured of the voracity of this that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical ag- notion, and I repeat it to you, and then some. Look to one another for gression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.” friendship throughout the years ahead. Look to your family members “That is no vision of a distant millennium,” the President went on here to celebrate you today. You will always have all of their support. to say. “It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own And, please, look to us—your teachers, your advisors, your deans, time and generation.” Yet, today, here we stand, in a millennium new your coaches, your mentors and those who cared for you deeply over to President Roosevelt’s days, with you as the quintessential genera- your years at Horace Mann, from our security officers, to those who tion of this new millennium. But have we attained these freedoms? have built, and planted, and pruned so that you could learn in the Freedom of speech and expression? We have already seen how most nurturing atmosphere. We, too, will always, always, be here for you and your classmates have little hesitation when it comes to you, to help you along the mission of striving and helping the world expressing yourselves, and, perhaps more significantly, encourag- strive toward achieving each aspect of freedom, before another mil- ing expression among others. But, how to adopt the responsibility of lennium dawns. expression into exercising this freedom is something the world is still As you did on your first day of school this year—we ask you to trying to grasp. We hope you have learned one way to do so through- take a front row seat in the quest for our collective future. out the years of your education at Horace Mann, when we encouraged Congratulations Class of 2011. We love you. you to ask questions, to investigate issues in class and on your own, and to incorporate the pursuit of truth within your eloquence. We ask you to continue to emphasize this essential element of education—to include inquiry into your ongoing pursuit of knowledge, so that when each one of you speaks, as we an- ticipate and call on you to continue doing, you articulate the responsibility of this precious freedom, loudly and clearly, for all to hear. Freedom to worship in one’s own way? During the years this graduating Class has spent at Horace Mann, through your classroom reading and discussions, and through new diversity initiatives within the school, you have learned about, come to understand deeply, and have championed the right of all to their own beliefs. We ask you to take that

understanding with you in all that you do. photo by Jasmin Ortiz Horace Mann School Class of 2011 valedictorian Eric Singerman ’11 addressed his classmates. 38 Horace Mann Magazine Winter 2012 news of the school

Address to the Class of 2011 by Valedictorian, Fortunately, there are two things that I do feel myself capable of Eric Singerman ’11 doing. I can say thank you, and in the true fashion of a valedictorian, I ood morning Dr. Schiller, Dr. Kelly, Herr Mueller, members of the can say goodbye. Gboard, and Class of 2011. Give yourselves a round of applause. I’ll always remember, freshmen year, after a grueling Mr. Lenner bio Not going to lie, it’s an honor to have been elected to speak for the test, I fell down into my parents’ bed shaking my fists at the gods, pro- next five minutes. Normally, if I talk for that long, my parents just start claiming how much I hated high school. It was hard, it was annoying, it rolling their eyes. Here’s the thing though, I may have been elected to took up eight hours of my day, and I could have been on my couch eat- speak, but no one told me WHAT to speak about. ing Coco Puffs and watching quality daytime television. Things didn’t In preparing my speech I really got to thinking about what a get too much better; in fact, I’ve complained about this to my parents valedictorian should do. I started looking for other speeches, hoping just about everyday since then. Winter of that year, Varsity Wrestling for ideas. All of them started out with a good morning, which I’ve came into my life, thereby taking over my life, and school kept on being done. And then there was usually some sort of basic string of thank hard. Dr. Milkes…you give a lot of homework. Luckily, by the time I be- you’s, so, thank you Dr. Schiller, Dr. Kelly, Ms. Hines, siblings, parents, came an upperclassman I got much better at homework, and recently I grandparents, pets, obliging friends, creepy people who just come to became so good at it that I just don’t do it anymore. graduations to hang around. But in the process of struggling through Dr. Wesely’s problem sets, Unfortunately, all Youtube had to offer past that were guys taking writing papers for AP World, and practicing my silent ommmmmmm their shirts off in front of their senior class, so I was left on my own. for Mr. DeVito I realized that, don’t let my parents hear this, I had So, I got out one of those yellow legal pads where I like to do all actually learned something, that, perhaps, all the complaining wasn’t my thinking. After breakfast on Saturday mornings I would sit around justified one bit. Granted, I’ve already forgotten half the equations I’ve on my kitchen floor, thinking about my speech. I won’t recreate the learned, and I certainly won’t remember the governmental structure scene, nor will I take my shirt off. Anyway, I eventually made a list of of the Zulu Nation 60 years from now; in fact, I’m sure most of us all the things I could and couldn’t do. won’t even remember this speech, unless I take my shirt off of course, Of course, there was number one: Keep all clothing on. I would like but I already promised I wouldn’t. But, hopefully, we’ll remember the to go on living in the Singerman household, at least until college, and I people and this place. don’t think my mom would let me back in if I did that on stage. As I said, these past four years, the past 15 even, I’ve been among Number two: Don’t be toooo outlandish or inappropriate. Dr. some very brilliant minds. I find myself every day being held to a Schiller may not be able to throw me in jail anymore, but, again, my higher level of excellence, even if that means figuring out the best mom may be 5’4” and middle aged, but she still is kinda scary. way to hang my hammock. To share in your thoughts and conversa- Number three: Don’t try to sum up my years at Horace Mann. It tions has made me a better person. I’ve been constantly challenged to would take too long, I wouldn’t do it justice, and, as much I’ve loved it revaluate myself, and for that I thank you all. here over the years, I really don’t need to relive my days of being a six I also thank this school itself. foot tall middle-schooler with long hair and a mustache. I owe a lot to my family at home, thank you again mom, dad, and Number four: Don’t give advice. To be frank, I have the maturity Lydia, but I also owe a lot to my other family, the one on this cam- of about a 5-year-old. In fact, I still find toilet humor kind of funny, as pus. I read somewhere recently that all the things you really need to you can see from the slump shirts we sold. It’s not my job as a fellow know in life are learned in the sandbox in kindergarten. To quote the teenager to give advice. I am no wiser than any of you, despite my abil- American author Robert Fulghum: ity to grow a prodigious amount of facial hair and then go like this with “Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where it. All of us are setting off on the same road of confusion and mistakes, you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that are where we will graduate not only from high school, but also from potty not yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt someone. Wash your hands humor, into college and jokes about things you shouldn’t be doing before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. when you’re under 21. I wish I could give advice about how to succeed Live a balanced life. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into or how to be happy, but I don’t think it’s my job even to try. the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.” Lastly, number five: Don’t try to represent the whole grade. There’s Horace Mann constantly reminded me of those lessons, and simply no way that I can. Look around you, to the left and to the right. taught me to go beyond them. All the people surrounding you are unique. Everyone here possesses I’ve learned the value of respect, hard work, and mindfulness, some amazing set of skills that I may not even know about and that I among other things, and I’ll carry those with me forever. Each one of personally would never attempt. If I tried to live the lives of Bryan Knott, us has picked up some sort of lesson from someone here that we’ll Saribel Paiges, or Michael Davis, I would end up with a broken back remember the rest of our lives. It might have been as small as crafting from a back flip, getting poked in the eye in a quidditch match, and get- a sentence or as large as parking a fire truck on Tibbett Avenue. If you ting hit by a bus. You’re surrounded by artists, poets, athletes, rappers get the chance, when I’m done, try to thank them. (shout out to the dream team), video producers, and comedians. If you So, now for the goodbyes. I can say goodbye to the walls of this ask me, it’s a truly amazing thing. It’s been a real privilege to spend the school, to the things in them, even to all of you. But, there is one last last four years among the people in this tent. I will always try to emu- thing I can’t do. I can’t say goodbye to the memories, nor can I really late you all, but not to imitate, lest I end up with that broken back. say goodbye to the lessons learned. Fortunately, they will follow me

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the rest of my life. I suppose most of my goodbyes are really just me again and again, whether it came from my teachers, coaches, or “goodbyes for now.” classmates, and, for that, I am truly grateful. I certainly hope that high school is not the pinnacle of my life. It So, please, just take the moment and appreciate everything here. is just a small blip on the map of the things to come. In the scale of The good, the bad, what-have-you, because, after so many years, our the universe, it doesn’t really mean much. But when I look back 50 experiences at Horace Mann have shaped us. Go ahead and think of years from now, wondering who in the world told me to “have a great this day as your “escape from high school,” but at least acknowledge summer” in the Mannikin, all the things that I must say goodbye to that without this school you wouldn’t be the person you are now. will mean the world to me. But let’s be honest, none of this is really Thank you all so much, and goodbye. Or—goodbye for now. a true goodbye. All that I’ve gained here at Horace Mann will help Congratulations Class of 2011. We did it. $ Honors and Awards Each year, Horace Mann School presents honors and awards to members of the graduating class. They are noted here. Several departmental awards were also presented to members of the Class of 2012.

Alexis Chloe Ziebelman Devon McMahon CUM LAUDE SOCIETY Alan Breckenridge Prize Evan Griffith Jasmine Mariano Sophie Miller Joseph Allen Abadi Megan Lu for “Street Alexa Lambert Caroline Marin Alex Perry Megan A. Childs Scarves” Ji Won Park Anna Meredith Maia Salholz-Hillel Maya I. Chung Runner-up: Harry Sarah Swong Sara Nishimura Samantha Schiff Andrew James Demas Honors in Manin ’12 for “Never Ken Yanagisawa Yasmin Rawlins Sarah Sicular Lori Bowe Dershowitz Academic the Shrinking Violet” Gabrielle Rivkin Eric Singerman Katherine Alexandra Chamber Wind Pins Jonathan Robertson Subject Jessica Skoczylas Dinan The Randal Castleman Erica Chiang Muizz Salami Sarabeth Spitzer Danielle Bella Ellison COMPUTING & Prize in English Akash Goyal Maia Salholz-Hillel William Stern Cordelia Loomis Francis COMMUNICATIONS Anna Meredith Michael Hwang Andrew Sklar Sarah Swong Suman Umesh Gidwani Erika Whitestone Sophie Miller Carla Thé Alice Taranto Julia Goldberg Harrison Klaperman ARTS Jacob Salzman Spencer Whitehead Lauren Tomasulo Steven Maxwell Henick Muizz Salami Music Arynne Wexler Erika Whitestone Arynne Wexler Gregory David Heon Aaron Orwasher Evan Griffith Ken Yanagisawa Samantha Zuckerman Jonathan Wolf Justin Scott Katiraei Dan Evangelakos Alexa Lambert Robert C. Kivell Pamela Mishkin Paul Block ’56 Award Sarah Swong Jazz Ensemble Pins Frederick H. Little Harrison Lyle Gabrielle Rivkin for Creative Writing Philip Lee Theatre Award Klaperman Michael Felix Beethoven Medal Sophie Miller Production Fiction Jordan Lea Kolinski Sarah Swong Jacob Salzman Andrew Sklar Rebecca Matteson ’12 Megan W. Lu ENGLISH Ian Singleton Cindy Chen for “Beat the Clone” Sinclaire Devereux Joseph Abadi Special Recognition Jasmine Mariano Runner-up: Jasmine Marber Anna Christina Arvanitis in Music Theatre Jonathan Robertson Mariano for “16 mm” Danielle Aisa Marcano Allison Bienenstock Maya Chung Commendations Poetry Devon Emily McMahon Katherine Cacouris Sophie Miller Amanda Ainetchi Anne Somary Musical Avital Morris ’12 Sophie Eve Miller Andrew Catomeris Ian Singleton Zachary Bretton- Theatre Award for “Just Before the Deependra Mookim Jessica Chi Granatoor Jessica Chi Doors Close” Nicholas Moon Maya Chung Glee Club Pins Tucker Caploe Tucker Caploe Runner-up: Jacob Jesse Stephen Swyer Michael Davis Amanda Ainetchi Cindy Chen Moscona-Skolnik ’12 Novak Lori Dershowitz Jessica Chi Jessica Chi Arnold Cohen ’57 for “Latin America” Aaron Orwasher Katherine Dinan Megan Childs Charlotte Christman- Dance Award Alex Perry Danielle Ellison Edward H. Simpson Andrew Demas Cohen Carla Thé Yasmin Rawlins Cordelia Francis Essay Award Nicholas Demas Michael Davis Suman Gidwani Maia Alexandra Julia Goldberg Suman Gidwani Miles Frankel Rebecca Matteson ’12 Salholz-Hillel Aaron Goldman Carter Glatt Suman Gidwani Curtis Beech Award in for “‘Who’s There?’: Samantha Jordan Evan Griffith Julia Goldberg Wilfredo Gomez Design Excellence Religion, Revenge, Schiff Gregory Heon Olivia Greer Steven Henick Zachary Bretton- and Uncertainty in Sarah Violet Sicular Rachel Hollander Kia Hampson Cindy Huang Granatoor Hamlet”; Eric Paul Singerman Justin Katiraei Megan Lu Nefeli Pire Iliou Jonathan Robertson Runner-up: Sarah Sarah Swong Jordan Kolinski Anna Meredith Frances Ikwuazom Sara Nishimura Swong for “‘Repression Arynne Wexler John Liss Jordan Kolinski Samantha Zuckerman of Memory in the Post- Ken Ichimaru Megan Lu Orchestra Pins Megan Lu Wilfredo Gomez WWII Era,’ by John Yanagisawa Sinclaire Marber Katherine Cacouris Liana Mack Cheever” David Hershel Yassky Danielle Marcano Maya Chung Danielle Marcano

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Photography Daphne Taranto Rodrigo de Oliveira Paula Robert J. Cairo Joseph Chase Award Special Awards Gregory Barancik Zoë Kestan Sarah Swong Science Award for Mathematics Jazmine Goguen Ceramics Gregory Barancik Gregory Heon Gregory Heon 2011 National Frances Ikwuazom Spencer Whitehead David Yassky Runner-up: Merit Scholarship Megan Lu Alex Perry Outstanding Harrison Klaperman Semi-Finalists Sinclaire Marber Art History Achievement in NONE Nefeli Pire Iliou Arielle Amzallag Franca D’Amico Award Science Research HISTORY Saribel Pages Alex Baudoin for Dedication to Foreign Nicholas Moon: Tucker Caploe 2011 National Merit Miranda Shapiro Justin Burris Languages and Culture Intel and Siemens Maya Chung Scholarship Finalists Jessica Skoczylas Zachary Gad Evan Griffith Semifinalist Michael Davis Joseph Abadi Jazmine Goguen Katherine Dinan Gregory Barancik Drawing & Painting Zoë Kestan Thomas P. Reilly Special Achievement Danielle Ellison Cindy Chen Cindy Chen Katherine Leibholz Award for Excellence in Science Research Sara Gabriel Jessica Chi Alexa Ginsburg Rainer Lempert in Foreign Language Devon McMahon Julia Goldberg Danielle Ellison Christian Kasilag Sinclaire Marber Danielle Ellison Pamela Mishkin Aaron Goldman Suman Gidwani Zoë Kestan Samantha Michel Maia Salholz-Hillel Jack Hildick-Smith Daniel Grafstein Julia Goldberg Jennifer Lim Justin Reinsberg Rachel Hollander Gregory Heon Liana Mack Emma Specter SCIENCE MATHEMATICS Justin Katiraei Justin Katiraei Jasmine Mariano Samuel Turner Joseph Abadi Joseph Abadi Robert Kivell David Kim Victoria Marlin Antonia Antonova Antonia Antonova Jordan Kolinski Robert Kivell Samantha Michel Henry Geldzahler ’53 Gregory Barancik Andrew Demas Philip Lee Harrison Klaperman Sara Nishimura Award in Art History Maya Chung Lori Dershowitz John Liss Alexa Lambert Jonathan Robertson Sinclaire Marber Lori Dershowitz Katherine Dinan Sinclaire Marber Philip Lee Alice Taranto Katherine Dinan Danielle Ellison Jasmine Mariano Philip Lin Daphne Taranto Dan Barr ’80 Award Daniel Evangelakos Cordelia Francis Devon McMahon Megan Lu Robert Tuck in Art History Cordelia Francis Suman Gidwani Deependra Mookim Alexander Ma Justin Burris Sara Gabriel Carter Glatt Jesse Novak Sophie Miller Ceramics Suman Gidwani Julia Goldberg Yasmin Rawlins Pamela Mishkin Charlotte Christman- FOREIGN LANGUAGE Julia Goldberg Akash Goyal Samantha Schiff Deependra Mookim Cohen French Akash Goyal Daniel Grafstein Rafael Seltzer Nicholas Moon Nicole Dalessandro Sophie Miller Debayan Guha Steven Henick Sarah Sicular Rodrigo de Oliveira Paula Reuben Dizengoff Joseph Abadi Gregory Heon Gregory Heon Eric Singerman Sarah Sicular Cordelia Francis Julia Goldberg Ariel Hernandez Christian Kasilag Ian Singleton Eric Singerman Jack Hildick-Smith Katherine Dinan Christian Kasilag Justin Katiraei Jessica Skoczylas Sarabeth Spitzer Justin Katiraei Maya Chung Justin Katiraei Robert Kivell Sarabeth Spitzer Sarah Swong Jordan Kolinski Yasmin Rawlins David Kim Harrison Klaperman William Stern Arynne Wexler Sarabeth Spitzer Justin Katiraei Robert Kivell Brian Knott Sarah Swong Matthew Zeitler Spencer Whitehead Evan Griffith Harrison Klaperman Jordan Kolinski Lauren Tomasulo Maia Salholz-Hillel Alexa Lambert Megan Lu National Merit Video Production Jazmine Goguen Philip Lee Alexander Ma D aniel Alexander ’49 Scholarship Recipient Charlotte Christman- Nefeli Pire Iliou Philip Lin Kabir Malkani Award for Excellence Arynne Wexler Cohen Lauren Tomasulo Sinclaire Marber Devon McMahon in Economics Stephanie Cai Devon McMahon Sophie Miller Danielle Ellison National Merit Ion Theodore Award for Cordelia Francis Sophie Miller Pamela Mishkin Deependra Mookim Moody’s Scholarship Excellence in Visual Arts Samantha Michel Deependra Mookim Nicholas Moon Philip Lin Photography Justin Reinsberg Nicholas Moon Jesse Novak Philip D. Lewerth Frances Ikwuazom Emma Specter Jesse Novak Aaron Orwasher History Award National Merit Megan Lu Rachel Hollander Aaron Orwasher Maia Salholz-Hillel Sarabeth Spitzer University of Chicago Drawing & Painting Alex Perry Samantha Schiff Eric Singerman Cindy Chen Japanese Yasmin Rawlins Eric Singerman Gordon I. Newcombe Danielle Marcano Philip Lee Maggie Reinfeld Sarabeth Spitzer History Award National Merit Alice Taranto Nicole Dalessandro Maia Salholz-Hillel Arynne Wexler Rachel Hollander Northwestern Daphne Taranto Jasmine Mariano Samantha Schiff Jonathan Wolf Sarah Swong University Zoë Kestan Caroline Marin Rafael Seltzer Ken Yanagisawa Matthew Zeitler Ceramics Naira Setrakian David Yassky PSYCHOLOGY Spencer Whitehead Latin Sarah Sicular Soren Zeliger Anna Christina Arvanitis National Merit Frances Ikwuazom Sarabeth Spitzer Alexis Ziebelman Megan Childs Tufts University Donnette Atiyah Aaron Goldman Arynne Wexler Alexa Ginsburg Julia Goldberg Award for Leadership Ken Yanagisawa Joan Brady Bowen Award Joshua Goodstein in Visual Arts Spanish Katherine Dinan Chloe Kling 2011 National Photography Danielle Ellison American Chemical Avery McCann Achievement Sinclaire Marber Lori Dershowitz Society Award for Out- Maria Ocampo Lalinde Scholarship Finalists Miranda Shapiro Ian Singleton standing Achievement Rodrigo de Oliveria Paula Matthew Elmore Drawing & Painting Ariel Hernandez in Chemistry Maggie Reinfeld Frances Ikwuazom Alice Taranto Sarah Sicular Katherine Dinan Siddharth Saxena Yasmin Rawlins

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2011 National New York State Tucker Caploe Danielle Ellison Athletic Awards Male: Matthew Fox Hispanic Achievement Comptroller Chloe Kling Matthew Fox Recognition Program Achievement Award Evan Griffith Julia Goldberg Varsity Club—Boys Sirena WuDunn ’81 Scholars Nicholas Demas David Goodman Michael Felix Award Rodrigo de Oliveira Paula Gordon I. Newcombe Joshua Goodstein Matthew Fox Zoë Kestan Ariel Hernandez The State of New York Community Service Steven Henick Robinson Strong Sophie Miller Office of the Attorney Award Jack Hildick-Smith Gideon Wertheimer R obert Buzzell ’51 Medal Rafael Seltzer General Triple “C” for Anne Schechner Megan Lu Daniel Evangelakos (Fall) Honorable Mention Character, Courage Steven Henick Sinclaire Marber Alexander Baudoin Braxton Brewton Alexander Familant and Commitment Devon McMahon Wilfredo Gomez Wilfredo Gomez D avid Shelton ’76 Sophie Miller Varsity Club—Girls R obert Buzzell ’51 Medal Mervin Liriano Anna Meredith Memorial Fellowship Daniel Mishkin Margot Penn (Spring) Rebecca Rosen-Checa Award Maia Salholz-Hillel Zoë Kestan Rámon Perez American Association Alex Perry Samantha Schiff Miranda Shapiro Congressional of Teachers of French Suman Gidwani Naira Setrakian Lori Dershowitz William Quinn ’40 Certificate of Merit, Sophie Miller Sarah Sicular Samantha Schiff Wrestling Award Representative Allard Lowenstein ’45 Kevin Somar Clara Hill Gideon Wertheimer Eliot Engel Peer Tutoring Alumni Award Sarabeth Spitzer Chloe Kling Wesley Close Recognition Award Andrew Demas Sarah Swong Stanley Shier Memorial Nicole Dalessandro Samantha Schiff Lauren Tomasulo Lud-Bock/Bill Rowley Baseball Award Malcolm Taylor Jesse Novak Lizzie Koch ’05 Heart Arynne Wexler Award Reuben Dizengoff and Hand Award Erika Whitestone Steven Henick New York State Senate Health Peer Frances Ikwuazom The Jonathan Kleier ’01 Student Leadership Leader Award Award for Excellence R obert A. Thomason Leadership Award Award—Awarded by Daniel Grafstein Ambassador in Middle School Cup (Athletics) State Senator Jeffrey Maggie Reinfeld Maroon Key Mentoring Joseph Abadi Reuben Dizengoff D. Klein David Goodman Allison Bienenstock Maia Salholz-Hillel Jordan Kolinski John Liss Stephanie Cai Eric Singerman Walter Bernson ’56 Tucker Caploe Tucker Caploe Award—Athletes of Anti-Smoking Maya Chung AAA Driver Education the Year Peer Leaders Andrew Demas Award Female: Samantha Jessica Chi Nicholas Demas William Stern Schiff

Colleges and Universities Members of the Horace Mann School Class of 2011 are enrolled at the following colleges and universities

American University ...... 1 Hamilton College...... 2 Rutgers, The State University Amherst College...... 4 Harvard University...... 8 at New Brunswick...... 1 Bard College...... 2 Johns Hopkins University...... 3 Sarah Lawrence College...... 1 Barnard College...... 6 Kalamazoo College...... 1 Smith College...... 1 Bates College ...... 1 Kenyon College...... 1 University of Southern California...... 2 Berklee College of Music...... 1 Macaulay Honors College at CUNY...... 1 University of St. Andrews...... 2 Boston College...... 2 Maryland Institute College of Art...... 1 Stanford University ...... 4 Boston University...... 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...... 1 Swarthmore College...... 1 Brown University...... 1 University of Miami...... 2 The University of Texas, Austin ...... 1 Carleton College...... 1 University of Michigan...... 2 Trinity College ...... 1 Carnegie Mellon University...... 3 Middlebury College...... 3 Tufts University...... 4 Case Western Reserve University ...... 1 New England Conservatory of Music...... 1 Tulane University...... 3 University of Chicago...... 7 The College of New Jersey...... 1 United States Military Academy...... 1 Claremont McKenna College...... 3 New York University...... 4 Vanderbilt University...... 2 Colby College...... 2 University of North Carolina School of the Arts. .1 University of Vermont...... 2 Colgate University...... 3 Northwestern University...... 2 Washington University in St. Louis...... 1 Columbia University ...... 13 Oberlin College...... 1 Wellesley College...... 1 Cornell University...... 7 Occidental College...... 2 Wesleyan University...... 4 Dartmouth College...... 8 University of Pennsylvania...... 7 Wheaton College MA...... 2 Duke University...... 4 Pomona College ...... 1 Williams College ...... 2 University of Edinburgh...... 1 Pratt Institute...... 1 Yale University...... 4 Emory University...... 1 Princeton University...... 1 Eugene Lang College The New School...... 1 Purchase College...... 1 Fordham University...... 1 Purdue University...... 1 The George Washington University...... 1 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...... 1 Georgetown University ...... 4 Rhode Island School of Design ...... 3 Grinnell College...... 2 University of Richmond...... 1

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Andrew Demas ’11 is honored with Allard K. Lowenstein ’45 Award

ndrew Demas for others is unparalleled and his ability Demas joined the Horace Mann A’11 made an to have made such a substantial impact Service Learning Team at its incep- indelible mark at our School is truly remarkable,” tion in 2007, and helped develop the on Horace Mann said Director of Development Melissa team into a vehicle for the educational School through Parento ’90 who presented the award development of elementary students activities in the on behalf of the Alumni Association. who participate in activities at the arts, publica- Demas was active in HM publica- Kingsbridge Heights Community Center tions and service. He was honored tions. As Cinemann editor-in-chief he (K.H.C.C). He assisted in developing for his dedication to Horace Mann transformed the publication’s layout, Service Learning Day, accelerating the on Class Day 2011 with the Allard K. design, and content. As executive editor growth of the Service Learning program, Lowenstein ’45 Award. The award of The Review, he set a new standard for and introduced a recorder program is given each year by the Horace excellence in production and layout. He at K.H.C.C. to help spread the thrill of Mann School Alumni Association in frequently contributed to The Record, being able to learn to play an instru- memory of Lowenstein, an educator, Folio 51, and Insight while also mentoring ment. Andrew was also an HMO Peer a Congressman, Ambassador to the others in the StuPub. Andrew was presi- Leader, a Dorrientation volunteer and United Nations, and a tireless sup- dent of the Glee Club, and music groups a Student Ambassador. A dedicated porter of civil rights. Members of the The HarMannics and HarManny. He member of the varsity swim team, he graduating class select a classmate organized fundraisers, community contributed greatly to the success of they feel exemplifies Lowenstein’s concerts and the newsletter Harmony this title-winning team by “constantly qualities of citizenship and leadership, to share Glee Club life. “His leadership encouraging and wildly cheering for demonstrated by constructive concern in the choral community, coupled with his fellow teammates,” Parento said. for others and distinguished service to his commitment to community service, The 2011 Allard K. Lowenstein Award the Horace Mann School Community. inspired him to produce, organize, and thus recognized Demas’ “commitment Andrew Demas “not only contributed direct HM’s Acappellooza, a multi- to the well-being of Horace Mann and to daily life at HM, but inspired others school charity competition to support the greater community, his desire to to do so as well, elevating the entire neglected music programs in New York mentor and lead, and his dedication to school community. His genuine concern City,” Parento said. making HM a better place.” $

Reuben Dizengoff ’11 is honored with Jonathan Kleier ’01 Award

euben were of his time spent with teammates. player and a mentor to young players, Dizengoff The award recognizes an athlete who his teams rallied around him. The water R’11 was best exemplifies the characteristics for polo team voted Reuben captain in honored on Class which Jonathan Kleier was so appreci- 2011, as well as MVP at the end of the Day with The ated: passion, pride, and leadership. season, and credited its success, in part, Jonathan Kleier In honoring Dizengoff, the Kleiers and to his efforts to create an environment in ’01 Leadership Horace Mann School recognized a stu- which all members thrived. Reuben was Endowment Award. The award was es- dent and athlete who put a great deal of also a standout on the swim team, con- tablished by Ian and Michele Kleier and time and energy into Horace Mann ath- stantly pushing himself and his team- Samantha Kleier Forbes ’90 and Sabrina letics. A three-sport athlete who was mates to their limits, resulting in the Kleier Morgenstern ’94 in memory of captain of two teams, Reuben made team’s fourth straight Ivy League title. As their son and brother Jonathan Kleier ’01. it a priority to support other players, captain of the baseball team he led by While a student at Horace Mann School, teams and fellow students at athletic example as the first on the field each day Jonathan was an avid sports competitor and non-athletic events, when he was and last off, honing his skills as a player and team leader whose best memories not competing himself. An inspirational and encouraging others to follow suit. $

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Greetings from the Alumni Council: sion on a topic of interest to our students and community, with members of the alumni body appearing as speakers in Horace Mann School is currently com- these discussions. The theme of this year’s dinner is Heroes, memorating the 125th anniversary of its and WIC is recognizing alumnae who are “heroes” in their founding in 1887. The Alumni Council professions or in their everyday lives. The dinner, on April is deeply involved in these observances 11, 2012, promises to be an exciting evening. The following and celebrations, and I am thrilled to day is Book Day in Horace Mann’s Upper Division, when the invite the entire Horace Mann School entire Upper Division will discuss a book read by all Upper alumni community to participate in as many of these events Division students and faculty. Alumni are among the sched- as possible. uled workshop speakers. All alumni are invited by the school The 2011-2012 school year has already been a momen- to participate in Book Day. tous one for Horace Mann and for the Alumni Council. As part of HM’s 125th anniversary observances, the In October, the Alumni House and Development Office Alumni Council is honoring all Horace Mann School alumni launched a series of professional guidance sessions in which who have contributed and continue to contribute to our alumni in various fields discussed their professions with school as faculty, staff, and administrators at a dinner on other alumni, including those in college exploring various May 7, 2012 at Horace Mann. A special recognition will be areas of study, and alums considering career choices or presented to Dan Alexander ’49, a former HM Assistant to transitions. Members of the Alumni Council have been very the President, history teacher, coach, and Alumni Council involved in these events, serving as panel members. The first member. We know you will want to be a part of honoring of these sessions, in October 2011, addressed the topic of your former teachers, and recognizing “Mr. Alexander.” We investment banking. A discussion on the real estate profes- look forward to seeing you on campus that night. sion is scheduled for February 16, 2012, with Alumni Council The keystone event of this commemorative year takes members again serving as panel members. place on Saturday night, May 19, 2012, when members of the October 2011 also saw Alumni Council members partici- entire Horace Mann School community of alumni, teachers, pating in HM’s annual day of Homecoming and reunions. staff, families, administrators and Trustees will gather for our This year was made memorable by a heavy snowfall that gala anniversary reception. This year, the Alumni Council and covered the campus—the first October snowfall in New the Parents Association are combining our annual benefit York since 1952. While some of the activities planned for the parties into this one event that will celebrate our school’s day, including the varsity football game, had to be canceled history, and also raise funds for its students and programs because of the snow, alumni from the past six decades gath- for the coming years. ered for reunion dinners in Manhattan that night. An article The Alumni Council exists to bring you closer to the on Homecoming 2011 can be found at http://www.horace- school we all love. If you would like to become more involved mann.org/cf_news/view.cfm?newsid=297. with Horace Mann, or have any questions or concerns, In November, the Alumni Council hosted the annual please e-mail me at [email protected]. I look for- Distinguished Alumnus dinner. This year former United States ward to hearing from you. Attorney General William Barr ’67 was honored with the Remember to watch your mail and e-mail, and keep in- Horace Mann Alumni Association Award for Distinguished formed about alumni activities by reading HM’s online news- Achievement. This award, which was inaugurated in 1939, letter “Across the Divisions” when it hits your inbox, and by is given to graduates who exemplify the best of Horace keeping up with alumni news and with news of the school at Mann through distinguished achievement in their chosen www.www.horacemann.org. fields. The honoree is selected by the Alumni Council’s Distinguished Alumni Committee, chaired by Bill Nightingale I look forward to seeing you soon! ’49, Mickey Littmann ’52, and Wesley Mittman LePatner ’99. Suggestions for candidates for the Award for Distinguished Justin Lerer ’95 Achievement for 2012 can be sent to Eleni Jiavaras, Alumni Alumni Council President and Development Associate at [email protected]. Coming up on the calendar for Horace Mann School VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES alumni from all classes is the Alumni Council’s annual Winter Horace Mann School’s alumni have many opportunities to Gathering. An informal cocktail party, this year’s event is volunteer on behalf of their school. Among these are serv- scheduled for February 23, 2012 in Manhattan. Please look ing as a Class Agent, a Class Correspondent, an Annual out for invitations and notices for this fun evening. Fund Parent Grade Representative, or as a Summer Job/ Each year, alumni also participate in the Women’s Issues Internship Provider. These and other opportunities are de- Club (WIC) dinner, with HMAC members helping to orga- scribed at http://www.horacemann.org/page.cfm?p=356 nize the event. The annual dinner includes a panel discus-

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orace Mann School celebrates our many alumni authors in this column, tion of more than 200 community and by showcasing alumni-written books in the Olshan Lobby of the service opportunities and experiences. HSchool’s Mullady Hall. Please share news of a new book you or another Wrote one reviewer: “Arthur Blaustein alum has written. The Alumni House and Development Office makes every effort has been leading the charge for social to keep up to date on recent publications by alumni. Keep us posted at (718) 432- justice and economic sanity since the 3453 or [email protected]. Carter Administration, and his new book serves as an opus for all he has learned and all he has seen. This book is Brothers at War music and lyrics, and powerful brand of insightful, emotionally engaging and By Jerold Auerbach ’53 hip hop’s infamous Wu-Tang Clan. The potentially world transforming. Quid Pro Books, June, 2011 Wu-Tang Clan is one of the greatest hip hop groups of all time, with six platinum Brothers at War is albums, more than 40 million records Lost Worlds, Ruins of the Americas Jerold Auerbach’s sold, and extensive influence on both Photographs by Arthur Drooker ’72 ’53 probing and the music business and fellow artists. Verve Editions, October 16, 2011 poignant explora- Notwithstanding the Wu-Tang Clan’s tion of the tragedy success, their language and the Lost Worlds is a of the Altalena, the mythology that guides it have been powerful visual doomed ship whose difficult to understand—until now. The meditation on the arrival in Israel Wu-Tang Clan and RZA chronicles the cultures, conflicts ignited Jewish rise of the Wu-Tang Clan from an and conquests that fratricidal conflict underground supergroup to a globally forged the New only weeks after the 1948 declaration recognized musical conglomerate. The World. This beauti- of statehood. This is the first history of telling is enhanced by Blanco’s one-on- ful book of stunning the Altalena by a historian and the first one interviews with group members. photographs to explore it within the context of represents the culmination of an ancient Jewish and contemporary intensive three-year project by photog- Israeli history. The Altalena remains Democracy is not a Spectator Sport: rapher and writer Arthur Drooker ’72 embedded in memory, Prof. Auerbach the Ultimate Volunteer Handbook who traveled to 33 sites in 16 countries. suggests, still framing unresolved By Arthur Blaustein ’50 An Emmy-winning writer and director issues of political legitimacy in Israel. Skyhorse Publishing, January 2011 of television documentaries, in this The first full book in English on this book Drooker turns his eye to signifi- event, and the ninth book by Auerbach, Senator John Kerry cant ruins in Mexico, the Caribbean, Professor Emeritus of History at called Prof. Arthur Central America and South America. Wellesley College, the book tells the Blaustein’s ’50 Lost Worlds offers a unique pictorial story, and the profound implications for latest book survey of the geographical, architec- the present, of a moment in the birth of Democracy is not a tural and historical diversity that modern Israel. Spectator Sport: the defines the Americas, and moves from Ultimate Volunteer little known gems to monumental Handbook “A temples of Mexico’s Maya civilization, The Wu-Tang Clan and RZA: A Trip blueprint and a to Inca citadels in Peru’s Sacred Valley. through Hip Hop’s 36 Chambers guidebook to help Drooker’s luminous images, shot with a By Alvin Blanco ’95 us all get involved.” A professor at the specially adapted digital infrared ABC-Clio, April, 2011 University of California, Berkeley, where camera, expose crumbled walls, he teaches community development, weathered facades and overgrown flora The Wu-Tang Clan public policy, and politics, Prof. in new ways. Brief, informative text and RZA: A Trip Blaustein has also served on the board describes the rise, fall and lasting through Hip Hop’s 36 of the National Endowment for the significance of each site. Lost Worlds Chambers by Alvin Humanities and was chair of the follows on the success of Drooker’s Blanco ’95 is an President’s National Advisory Council 2007 award-winning American Ruins. insightful biography on Economic Opportunity. The advice An accompanying exhibit of Drooker’s that looks at the he offers comes from experience. photographs will travel the country over turbulent lives, Readers can learn how to get in the the next five years. http://www. groundbreaking game with this comprehensive collec- lostworldsbook.com/travelexhibit.html

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The Global Grapevine: predict the weather. Through field tangible, felt experience. Healing the Why Rumors of Terrorism, observation and interviews at the Storm Split is an attempt to bring reason and Immigration, and Trade Matter Prediction Center in Oklahoma, the feeling together, to show how they are By Gary Alan Fine ’68 and Bill Ellis National Weather Service in intimately related. Oxford University Press, June 2010 Washington, D.C., and a handful of Midwestern outlets, Prof. Fine finds a In The Global supremely hard-working, insular clique Hot Property Grapevine: Why of professionals who often refer to Michele, Samantha ’90 and Rumors of Terrorism, themselves as a “band of brothers.” We Sabrina ’94 Kleier Immigration, and learn their lingo, how they “read” Harper Collins, September 13, 2011 Trade Matter, Dr. weather conditions, how forecasts are Gary Alan Fine ’68, written, and how those messages are Horace Manners John Evans conveyed to the public. Weather may want to turn Professor of forecasts, Fine shows, are often shaped first to the Sociology at as much by social and cultural factors “Acknowledgments” Northwestern inside local offices as they are by page of Hot Property, University, and Dr. Bill Ellis, professor approaching cumulus clouds. One a novel by Michele emeritus at Penn State, examine the reviewer called the book “a major Kleier, Samantha rumors and legends that circulate contribution to understanding the role Kleier-Forbes ’90 about the risks of our interconnected of organizations in the production of and Sabrina world in their examination of the most scientific knowledge” by “a superior Kleier-Morgenstern ancient source of news. The authors social analyst.” ’94 to read the following: “And last, but explore the influence of rumors in the never least, to the mighty Horace Mann intimidating global community of the and our favorite English teacher, Dr. 21st century, particularly in the arenas of Healing the Split David Schiller, who gave Samantha her terrorism, immigration, international By Dr. Marc Elihu Hofstadter ’63 first and last C plus on an English paper, trade, and tourism and make a persua- Dog Ear Publishing, LLC, March 18, 2011 and thus inspired an English major: for sive case that since rumor shapes how all the great books you taught us that people think and then respond to the Healing the Split inspired our own voices and for your world, its propagation is a fundamen- offers the collected wise and heartbreaking answer to why tally political act. essays of poet, we can’t be HM students again, ‘You literary critic and can never go back.’” philosopher Dr. But don’t stop there—if you don’t Authors of the Storm, Meteorologists Marc Elihu want to miss out on this novel that and the Culture of Prediction Hofstadter ’63. The takes readers behind the scenes of By Dr. Gary Alan Fine ’68 essays stretch from the glamour and grit of New York’s University of Chicago Press, June 2010 Hofstadter’s early high-end real estate world. The novel scholarly articles follows Elizabeth Chase and her daugh- Whether used as an about poets William Carlos Williams ters, Kate and Isabel, who are the lead- icebreaker in (HM 1903) and Yves Bonnefoy through ing ladies of New York City real estate conversation or as articles published in the Redwood Coast at Chase Residential, their family-run the subject of Review about poetry, art, music, science firm. They spend their days walking the serious inquiry, “the and politics, to recent articles concern- city’s high society through the most weather” is one ing the “split” between the sciences and luxurious properties in the most fash- subject that the humanities and reason and feeling/ ionable neighborhoods. But, life behind everyone talks intuition/faith. In the view of Dr. closed doors isn’t always as glamorous about. Though we Hofstadter, who has taught American as it seems. Drama abounds, and when recognize those literature at the University of California, Chase Residential’s very existence is who bring us the weather on television, Santa Cruz, in France and in Israel, the threatened by a terrible betrayal, the how government meteorologists and differences between science and the family comes together to save the forecasters go about their jobs is rarely humanities are differences of degree of business at the center of each mem- scrutinized. In Authors of the Storm, Prof. objectivity, not of essence, and the bers lives. Gary Alan Fine ’68 offers an inside look knowledge the humanities display is The authors know their material. at how meteorologists and forecasters less certain than science but rich in Michele Kleier is the president and

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chair of Gumley Haft Kleier real estate as “An Outstanding Academic Title for A Life Beyond Ideology, brokers. She and her daughters—both 2010” and called “Essential, All read- Paul Oppenheimer ’57 executive vice presidents at GHK—are ers” by Choice journal. Continuum, December 29, 2011 costars of HGTV’s hit real estate reality television series Selling New York. A Life Beyond In Times of Danger Ideology is a major Paul Oppenheimer ’57 new scholarly Art Matters: Spuyten Duyvil Press, November, 2010 biography of Hemingway, Craft, Machiavelli, the first and the Creation of the Modern In his fourth published in 30 Short Story collection of poems, years. Niccolo di By Robert Paul Lamb ’68 In Times of Danger, Bernardo Louisiana State University Press, novelist, journalist, Machiavelli is not January 2010 professor, translator only one of the and widely-pub- most fascinating figures of the Italian In Art Matters, Prof. lished short story Renaissance but indisputably among Robert Paul Lamb writer Paul the most influential political theorists of ’68 provides the Oppenheimer ’57 any age. Machiavelli’s adventurous life definitive study of presents a love story led him to notable heights as a diplo- Ernest Hemingway’s told almost entirely in brisk, often racy mat and reformer of the Florentine short story aesthet- modern sonnets set against a back- military. His fall, exile and eventual ics. Lamb locates ground of the rural Hudson Valley and rehabilitation came as swiftly as his Hemingway’s art in New York City—before, during and after rise. His experiential insights led to a literary historical the catastrophe of 9/11. “I need a form shift in the perception of statehood, war contexts and that I did not invent,” writes and society from forms of stasis to explains what he learned from earlier Oppenheimer, “tuned by ancient anguish those of process. All this unfolds in Prof. artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul to impart/the strain of modern doubt: an Paul Oppenheimer’s ’57 compelling Cézanne, Henry James, Guy de instrument/just right, just now, on which recreation of Machiavelli’s life as he Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Stephen to test my heart.” His test turns into a actually lived it, from his family back- Crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, struggle that sweeps up history, elusive ground and childhood, to his years as and Ezra Pound. Examining how love, preparations for war and the war in advisor to the Medici family, to his Hemingway developed this inheritance, Iraq in more than 90 accomplished death and historical legacy. Lamb, a professor at Purdue University, renderings of poetry’s oldest and still insightfully charts the evolution of the most powerful form. The Adirondack unique style and innovative techniques Review wrote: “Focusing on New York See Yourself Sensing; that would forever change the nature of City circa 9/11, Oppenheimer’s poetry is Redefining Human Perception short fiction. Art Matters opens with an in tune with the city’s initial aloof By Madeline Schwartzman ’79 analysis of the authorial effacement insularity, and its post-attack fiery search Black Dog Publishing, August, 2011 Hemingway learned from Maupassant for retribution, its brittle conscientious- and Chekhov, followed by fresh per- ness, and fragile heart. Yet, despite all Did you know that spectives on the author’s famous use of this fireball and building-crumbling we can see with our concision and omission, and analyzes terror, hope is omnipresent throughout tongue? Or that we how he created an entirely unprec- this book and adds an undeniable can plug our edented role for fictional dialogue, humanization to the work’s whole.” Dr. nervous system exploring his methods of characteriza- Oppenheimer, a professor at The City directly into a tion, and categorizing his settings in the College and The Graduate Center of the computer? With 53 stories that comprise his most City University of New York, is also the cybernetics, important work in the genre. author of the broadly-cited investigation prosthetics, robotics, nanotechnology A major contribution to Hemingway of the origin of the sonnet in thirteenth- and neuroscience altering the way we scholarship and to the study of mod- century Italy, The Birth of the Modern perceive and experience space, the ernist fiction, Art Matters was honored Mind: Self, Consciousness and the Invention body has re-emerged as an important by the American Library Association of the Sonnet. architectural site, revealing its astonish-

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ing potential as a creative medium. In events that hurtle to a startling and Partners in Parenting: See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human haunting conclusion. The story unfolds The questions parents ask. Perception Madeline Schwartzman, in scenes of hallucinatory intensity, The answers they need. architect, filmmaker, artist and profes- from a commuter train ride to baccha- By Dr. Meir Wikler ’65 sor of architecture and art at Barnard nal parties. Author Clancy Martin Artscroll, March 2011 College and Parsons School of Design, called the book “A beautifully written presents an explosive and unique story about all of the many different From the moment survey that captures the fascinating reasons we need love and are terrified of their birth our relationship between design, the body, to lose it.” children are our the senses, and technology. A timely greatest pleasure— discussion with cutting-edge design, and often, our See Yourself Sensing examines work On Life’s Terms greatest challenge. from the last 50 years by artists, By Dr. Richard Wanderman ’61 Colicky newborns, a architects and designers who have been Xlibris, March 2010 2-year-old’s experimenting with the boundaries of tantrums, home- our senses, changing the way we In On Life’s Terms sickness at sleep experience the world. poet, author and away camp, or the roller coaster doctor Richard adolescent years—being a parent can Wanderman ’61 be puzzling, perplexing, and confusing. The Arriviste paints the animated In Partners in Parenting psychologist and By James Wallenstein ’81 world through therapist Dr. Meir Wikler addresses the Milkweed Editions, June, 2011 lyrical verses and kinds of questions he has heard in his rhyme in this rich years of practice, and in providing In a starred review poetry collection. advice to parents as an author and Booklist described He expresses his artistry and humanity lecturer. Some of the issues seem The Arriviste, James as he reveals his thoughts in poignant simple, and are encountered by parents Wallenstein’s ’81 verses that encourage readers to on a daily basis, but even these can first novel as having ponder a variety of subjects, including become more complex, when it comes “the muscular grace imagination, choices, goals, healing the to agreement or disagreement between of an expert tennis soul and more. A pediatrician who had the parents, on such issues as strict- player or strong a private practice, and who also ness vs. leniency, relieving a child’s swimmer,” and as a practiced Clinical Ecology/ anxieties, and many more. Dr. Wikler is nuanced tale of Environmental Medicine for 30 years, a renowned family counselor and miserliness and ambition, emotional Dr. Wanderman notes that the focus of practitioner in the Orthodox Jewish bankruptcy and betrayal. The narrator, his writing is on “emotion and positive community, and some of the questions silver-haired lawyer and venture attitude which grew out of people he addresses and the answers he gives capitalist Neil Fox, lives alone in his watching and experience.” One poem apply specifically to members of that palatial house on Long Island during the from the collection, “Choices in Life” community, but his advice is sound, and 1970’s. His wife has left him; his begins: “Visions float in and out of our can be applied by all. $ 17-year-old daughter keeps her dis- consciousness/Reminding us of past tance; and he is still mourning his experiences and future desires. Each young son’s death. Cigarette and drink has its emotional value/A price tag in hand, Neil is cold, hostile, caustically exacted from our being…” witty, and adamantly solitary. But Bud Younger, the energetic and naïve ‘arriviste’ who has moved in next door with his loving family, wangles his way into Neil’s fortress of anger and into a treacherous deal with Neil and Mickey, Neil’s eccentric, avaricious brother and business partner, to set up a factory on a Caribbean island, setting in motion

48 Horace Mann Magazine Winter 2012 Class Nclassotes notes end us a note to let us know how you’re doing, online, via email, or through the mail. New class notes are posted online on a weekly basis until they ap- 1949 Spear in print in Horace Mann Magazine. Class notes received prior to March Class Correspondent Irwin Spiegel sent 1, 2011 can be found in the Class Notes Archive section on www.horacemann. in the following class notes this past org/alumni. Some of the notes that appear here have been shortened from the summer. original material we received, in order to include all the news by alumni who keep Hello again. Carol and I are back in in touch with Horace Mann School. However, these notes appear in their entirety New York and getting used to the Third on our website. We thank you for keeping us up-to-date. Avenue city sounds outside our living room window. Despite some minor medical issues, it was a good winter for both of us. Before continuing, however, a brief 1942 1944 word of apology to Dick and Bob Miller Benjamin Wormser wrote: This past Dr. Jocelyn Schoen Malkin was elected (and their respective wives). In my July 1st, my wife and I celebrated our president of the Association of Yale last class notes I published informa- 67th wedding anniversary. Where did Alumni in Medicine in 2007, and tion from Dick Miller but erroneously we meet? At the Field House at a Spring was featured in a profile in the Yale attributed it to Bob Miller. It was clearly Dance hosted by the Class of 1940. My Medicine alumni magazine in 2009. my error, for which I am deeply sorry to buddies (Artie Aufses, (the late) Jay The article described Dr. Malkin’s all the Millers concerned. Now for more Pack, Edgar Simon and Earl Bronsteen) journey as a woman in medicine, and current news: and I went to the dance hoping to meet the challenges she faced after choosing As usual, I organized a SE Florida some nice girls. I spotted a pretty girl to become a psychiatrist, going through mini reunion lunch; the turnout was dancing with my classmate, Merrill her medical internship and psychiatric gratifying and a great time ensued. Garfinkel, and I said “I’m going to residency, and then seeking a position Those attending included: Dick Asher, cut in”, a popular term used in those at a psychoanalytic institute—one she Dick Greene, Arthur Irwin, Dick Kleid, days. We danced and then we strolled was denied as a young mother at the Mitch Rosenheim, Marv Rubin, Andy around the football field twice. I knew time. Dr. Malkin and her family eventu- Taub, Jay Tischenkel, Peter Tishman, right then and there that she was “the ally settled in Bethesda, MD, where and myself. After lunch, I asked for one” (imagine, at age sixteen!) While she practiced, taught and supervised e-mail up-dates from those attending. I was on leave from the Marine Corps, trainees for decades. Dr. Malkin has Following are the replies I received. Edie and I were married and Dr. Arthur since settled in New Haven. Her term From Dick Kleid: Aufses was my best man and is still a as president of the alumni association “Peter Tishman and I now live in best friend today. Our first apartment, ended in June 2009, but she remains the same building in Palm Beach and right after WWII, was available thanks active with the Yale Medicine alumni recently attended the south Florida to another classmate, Alan Posner, association, and is also on the Board reunion luncheon. I am in my seventh the owner of the property. It gives me of Trustees of the Center for Advanced year as a Town Councilman for the great pleasure to share my story with Psychoanalytic Studies (CAPS), a group Town of Palm Beach and serving on the Alumni of HMS. I’m proud to say of psychoanalytic professionals that the Centennial Commission planning that I am a graduate of this prestigious meet throughout the year to compare for the 100th anniversary of the Town school. Don Hillman continues to stay cases, study procedures and discuss of Palm Beach. In May, I received the connected with Horace Mann School, topics related to their practices. Don “Emeritus” award from the Palm Beach as a member of the HM Alumni Council Maggin is completing a biography of County Legal Aid Society for my long and attending HM events. He recently jazz musian/drummer Max Roach, ti- service to this organization.” shared memories of his HM experienc- tled Make it New: The Life of Max Roach. From Jay Tischenkel: Thank you es for a history of the school being pre- Maggin worked with Roach and valued for putting together a really fun af- pared in honor of Horace Mann’s 125th the drummer’s openness to new forms ternoon at Henry’s with old friends. anniversary. Don was the first execu- of music. Maggin is the author of Stan You asked for an update from each tive producer of National Educational Getz: A Life in Jazz (1997) and Dizzy: The of us. I still work full time as Director Television (NET) which became PBS. Life and Times of John Birke Gillespie. of Institutional Advancement at An interview with him about his work Nova Southeastern University in Fort with Eleanor Roosevelt is archived in Lauderdale. NSU is the sixth largest the Roosevelt Library. private university in the country out of 1,600. That makes it larger than my alma mater, Columbia. I have three

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children: two graphic artists and a doc- 2002. You can listen to any and all of “ Blessed with three grandchildren in tor. From Dick Asher: I am an Affiliate them at www.compactdiscoveries.com. Mill Valley and Culver City, CA and Professor at Florida Atlantic University Fred’s book Sixty Slices of Life… on Wry: teaching for 42 years in syncopa- (unpaid) and do a lot of committee The Private Life of a Public Broadcaster, tion between Venice, Barcelona and work in our community here in Florida. was awarded a 2011 Pinnacle Book Jefferson’s Piedmont Condition. Come We go to our home in Kiawah, SC from Achievement Award in the memoir visit.” (Editor’s note: Peter Waldman spring until fall. Lots of golf and com- category in August. These awards is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of municating with old and new friends have been given for more than 21 years Architecture at the University of Virginia. both in Florida and at Kiawah. Not very by the North American Bookdealers Read about his publications and awards exciting news, but it is all I have, unless Exchange (NABE) to honor some of the at: http://www.arch.virginia.edu/faculty/ you want to discuss medical problems finest independently-published books PeterWaldman/ and other problems of advancing age. in a wide variety of different fields. Sixty Regards.” From Arthur Irwin: “I wish I Slices of Life… on Wry: The Private Life of could relate something exciting to you, a Public Broadcaster is a tongue-in-cheek 1963 but my life is quiet and pretty unexcit- memoir, proceeding chronologically From Kenneth Casazza: “Hi class of 1963. ing. I just had my 80th birthday and my from what the author learned about Hope all is well with everyone. It’s hard to children made me a lovely party. I play life from his dog when he was eight, to believe that in two years we will be cel- golf a few times a week and still have when he learned that he was an old man ebrating our 50th Reunion. It sure would a few friends to have lunch with. Other in the Paris Metro at age 68. In between be fun if we could all make it to HM for than that, life pretty mundane. See you the reader experiences his humorous, the reunion. Hope to see you then.” next winter. All my best.” From Jerry behind-the-scenes adventures in public Diamond: “Hope this finds you all well. radio, television, and journalism. My son Gregory recently released an 1964 album titled ‘Conduit’. It’s all original Ed Beck has reestablished contact music and so far we’ve received amaz- 1959 with many of his classmates through ing feedback from everyone who has Tom Gutheil’s wife, Shannon, won a Facebook. Dr. Beck was presented had a chance to listen. Regards.” From development grant from the New York with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Peter Tishman: Drama League for her play. Scholars for Peace in the Middle East “Enjoyed joining classmates at the in Jan. 2011 in Miami. He was also a annual FL lunch. Proud to report my wife nominee for The Jewish Federations Lynn recently earned her Ph.D. from 1960 of North America’s National Jewish Columbia. Look forward to next winter’s John (Jack) Lowe is still teaching and Heroes award, the annual award honors FL get-together. Regards.” From Marv supervising residents at DC Children’s Jewish communal heroes from all Rubin: “After many years, I’m finally Hospital. As President of the Chesapeake walks of life. Dr. Beck, a Professor of cutting back on my real estate activities. Bay Vexillology (flag) Society, he hosted Mental Health Counseling at Walden As usual, enjoyed seeing classmates the International Vexillology Society University, is being recognized for at our annual luncheon, and looking Congress in Alexandria, Virginia in creating a network of international forward to next year’s ‘FL reunion.’” August 2011. He spends his free time higher education academics, Noble traveling to North Carolina and California Laureates, and college and university to visit his four grandchildren. Fred presidents to promote academic, peer- 1952 Clarke writes: My wife (of 47 years in review researched debate about Israel, Alan Sklar, an Audiobooks star narra- December) and I are retired since 2007 and for many more accomplishments. tor, lent his sonorous voice to delight and live in Gibsonville, NC. We spend To learn more about Ed’s work go to children throughout the Westchester much of our time traveling, trying to http:// www.jewishcommunityheroes. Library system in a series of readings of keep up with nine grandchildren, trying org/nominees/profile/edward-beck. appropriately spooky stories during the to stay fit, and reading tons of ebooks The Rev. Dr. Peter C. Bower partici- month of October 2011, and Christmas (never thought I would give up the real pated in the recent Congress of Societas stories in December. books). Of course there is time spent on Liturgica (international and ecumenical yard work and gardening. Occasionally society for liturgical study and renewal) we substitute teach or pick up a short in Reims, France. He presented a paper 1958 term consulting assignment, but we on “Enacting the Responsibility in Fred Flaxman has produced almost 200 are truly retirees. This is just a great Reformed/Presbyterian Congregations hours of his “Compact Discoveries” time to do things we have never had for Nurturing Baptized Members in the public radio series since it started in the time to do. Peter Waldman writes: Christian Life.”

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John Saunders is working on a pro- Palestinians. His son is at Endicott 1965 duction of Benjamin Britten’s spiritual College on a merit scholarship where Meir Wikler’s latest book, Partners in chamber opera “Curlew River,” to be he is studying sports training therapy Parenting: Questions Parents Ask and the performed in September/October as well as playing on the baseball team. Answers They Need was published by 2012/2013. The work will be among the Danny Moss’s daughter Rosie was re- Artscroll/Mesorah Publication in 2011. first productions to be performed during cently in two TV commercials. One was the season commemorating the 100th for Kit Kat which was on MTV and the anniversary of Britten’s birth. John’s pro- other for CarMaxx which went national. 1966 posal was one of nine that won Britten From Ken Flatto: “Gov. Daniel P. George Lowe retired from clinical prac- 100 Awards in an international com- Malloy has appointed me as executive tice of internal medicine on January 1, petition. He hopes to receive enough director of the Connecticut Division 2009, but is still active administratively, sponsorship for the performance sched- of Special Revenue, which regulates developing and running two large multi- uled to be held in Israel, where Saunders gambling. This is quite an opportunity specialty clinical practices for Mercy lives and works in music and computer to help the State of CT and a great Health System-Baltimore. He and Betsy technology. Learn more at http://cur- team assembled by our Governor Dan spend much of their time cruising lewriver.com. Ken Browne premiered Malloy. It was a really hard decision to around the world. Martin Rogowsky his film “Small School, Big City” in May make to leave a job as Mayor which I decided not to run for re-election in 2011. The 30-minute documentary have truly loved for 12 years and was November. He retired after 13 years as a chronicles the story of Pace’s School of still fairly strongly favored to win if I ran Westchester County legislator. Education in partnership with the City again, but this is a unique opportunity of New York in creating the ground- to work with an entire State govern- breaking Pace High School. Called an ment and to help hopefully to solve 1968 inspirational film for more information problems and make things work bet- Robert Paul Lamb received his Ph.D. in and a look at the trailer, go to: www. ter!!!! My family is well (Liz still teach- the History of American Civilization from kbprods.com/smallschool. ing middle school; Michael is working Harvard University and came to Purdue at a bursars office in University up here; University in 1991, where he is Professor Sarah is at Teachers College doing of English and American Studies. The 1970 international education graduate work author of dozens of scholarly articles, Franklin Lowe reported that the Lowe and working there too; Diana is honors his books include James G. Birney and family had a marvelous experience roll at Brandeis, and Evan at University the Road to Abolitionism (1994), A visiting son and brother, Jensen Lowe of Michigan. Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 ’10 in the Peace Corps in the Philippines (2005), Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, in May 2011. Frank is still active as a US and the Creation of the Modern Short Story Soccer Federation referee. Bill Davis’ 1972 (2010); and Reading the Hemingway book Autism Tomorrow is available for Arthur Drooker’s Lost Worlds: Ruins Short Story: The Return and Value of Craft groups to order. It provides advice on of the Americas, was published in fall Criticism (forthcoming 2012). Bob has dealing with major issues in the lives 2011 by ACC (Antique Collectors’ received over forty teaching awards, of people with autism as they get older Club), publishers of books about art including Harvard’s Stephen J. Botein and includes contributions by Temple and culture. This book of photography Prize, and Purdue’s Liberal Arts Award Grandin, Elaine Hall and others noted in offers a powerful visual meditation on for Teaching Excellence, the Charles the field. Davis is also available to speak the cultures, conflicts and conquests B. Murphy University Outstanding on the subject at conferences and train- that forged the New World. Lost Worlds Undergraduate Teaching Award, and ings for audiences ranging from educa- represents the culmination of an inten- induction into the Purdue Teaching tors, to attorneys, to law enforcement sive three-year project by Drooker, an Academy and Book of Great Teachers. and emergency service providers. He award-winning photographer and writer Fifty-seven of his graduate students can be contacted at 717-808-6122. whose research took him to 33 sites in are now professors, and seventy-three Hal Oringer reports that his daugh- 16 countries. His award-winning book, of his undergraduates have gone on to ter Molly, a student at Smith, is ma- American Ruins (Merrell, 2007), was graduate and law schools. In 2008, he joring in Arabic and religion. She was the first photographic survey of historic was named the Indiana Professor of the studying in Egypt, but left five days ruins throughout the United States. Year by the Carnegie Foundation for before the March 2011 revolution. She Drooker is also an Emmy Award- the Advancement of Teaching, awarded next worked in Israel for an organiza- winning writer and director of televi- to the top educator in the state in any tion that does mediation; she primarily sion documentaries. Please visit: www. discipline. will be acting as a translator for the lostworldsbook.com

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grant to do an experiential arts project is available on DVD. The three-part, 1975 exploring Western photography in six-hour documentary is set in the era Indian villages, from Colonial times to of speakeasies and bathtub gin and the present. The work is called Portraits tells the true story of the rise, rule for People (www.portraits4people. and fall of the 18th Amendment to the com). I know that there are a lot of HM Constitution. In conjunction with the folk who work overseas and even more broadcast PBS and Burns’ Florentine who are photographers. I’d love to dis- Films partnered with the National cuss the work with anyone interested.” Constitution Center in Philadelphia on a joint initiative to foster a national conversation about “Civility and Democracy” that aims to engage the public through educational resources, Nicholas Chen has launched iChinaFo- online discussions and a speaking rum.com (http://www.ichinaforum. tour. More information at: http://www. com), which brings together a network pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/. Paul “of seasoned China experts with Engelmayer became a U.S. District decades of success, sharing practical Judge for the Southern District of hands-on lessons from the front lines of New York on July 27, 2011 a day after Greater China, by presenting to the he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate world the real face of a rapidly changing Andy Caploe met up with world- in a 98-0 vote. Engelmayer had been China.” The site presents “candid views class singer Fonzi Thornton ’70 at nominated by President Obama on Feb and inside knowledge on current trends NYC’s landmark Lower East Side 2. A former law clerk for U.S. District in China from Chinese and international Sammy’s Roumanian Steakhouse Judge Patricia Wald and Supreme direct participants, through online inter- restaurant on April 21, 2011. Both Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, views, live events, customized pro- were there to roast legendary comedy Engelmayer was an assistant U.S. at- grams and publications, and traveling writer Tom Leopold (“Cheers”/”Will torney in Manhattan (1989-94), rising exhibits.” Nicholas is also involved with & Grace”/”Seinfeld”) on his last night to deputy chief appellate attorney in www.goldenbridges.org which is as a Jew: he converted to Catholicism 1994. After serving as an assistant to leading Project Pengyou (“Friends” in on Good Friday, the next day, during the Solicitor General from 1994-96, he Chinese), a 10,000 strong initiative Passover. At the end of the uproarious returned to the U.S. Attorney’s office between China and the U.S. On a June evening, which was attended by com- in Manhattan as chief of the major 2011 business visit to the U.S. Chen saw edy writers from all over the country, crimes unit from 1996-99, then was a Dan Levitan, Tony (Anthony) Billera roastmaster and the evening’s host, partner at Wilmer Hale until becom- and John Pai in Seattle. “They were Paul Shaffer, brought out a star-studded ing a judge. Madeline Schwartzman, well,” he reports. Nicholas also saw Gospel choir, which is where Thornton a filmmaker, architect and professor David Rose in NYC, and enjoys con- came in to join Leopold in “Oh Happy in the Barnard and Columbia Colleges necting with classmates on Facebook. Day”. Caploe was cast as “The Amazing Architecture Departments and at Mishkin” an outer borough mentalist Parsons School of Design, has pub- making a disastrous Manhattan debut, lished See Yourself Sensing: Redifining 1976 in “Tom Leopold Presents”—a post- Human Perception, a fascinating study Todd Morrison is very happy to report modern variety show Leopold wrote on the subject. Book launches and that his horse, Boungiorno Johnny, got with comedy writer Bill Persky, and pre- signings were held in September at up in the late stages to win the Vandal sented at the famous Duplex Cabaret the Diana Center at Barnard College, Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack in Theater on Christopher Street in NYC. and at Eyebeam Institute for Art and Ontario on Aug. 2, 2011. The son of Mr. Andy is also appearing as an improve Technology, in NYC. Greeley-Mycupoftea provided great ex- actor at The PIT (Peoples; Improv citement for the whole Morrison Clan. Theater) in NY. 1981 Regina Kulik Scully is Executive 1978 1979 Producer of “Miss Representation”, Margaret Frank wrote: “I’ve been out of Lynn Novick is the co-producer, with a film that explores how the media’s touch for a while, living in West Bengal, Ken Burns, of “Prohibition” the PBS misrepresentation of women has led India. I went there on a Fulbright-Nehru series that aired in October 2011 and to the underrepresentation of women

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citizenry. David’s career in new media 1982 began as a founding writer with Wired Winnie Stachelberg and partner, magazine in 1994. His reporting on Vickie Phillips, have twins, Will and the rise of the Internet and its impact Charlie (named for their Dads). They on our culture was published in The are great 3rd graders at DC’s Horace New York Times, New York magazine, Mann public school. and The Economist. David’s business career included guiding online strategy for several Fortune 500 corporations 1983 and partnership in a New York-based Congratulations to Michael Jiavaras private equity fund that invested in next who was awarded the Secretary of generation wireless mobile services. Defense Meritorious Civilian Service His book, Extra Life: Coming of Age in Award which is the second highest Cyberspace, published in 1999, recalls Civilian Award given by the United the early days of teaching computing States Government. He received at Horace Mann in the 1980s. Learn Regina Kulik Scully ’81 with Gloria Steinem this award for his career work sup- more about his current work at http:// porting the Department of Defense tainews.org/about/ in positions of power and influence. Expeditionary Airfield (EAF) Program Acclaimed at the July 2011 Sundance with special emphasis on efforts sup- Festival, the film premiered on the porting the Global War on Terrorism, 1988 Oprah Winfrey Network on Oct. 20, support of White House Aviation After being re-elected in November 2011. Screenings at schools and colleg- Missions and development of the next 2010 to his fifth term in the New York es around the world are accompanied generation Joint Strike Fighter Program. State Assembly representing the East by related educational programs and Michael is the Engineering Team Leader Side of Manhattan, Jonathan Bing curricula for students K-12, university of EAF. accepted in July 2011 a position in the age, and beyond. Combining interviews Pamela Rodman’s daughter, Melissa administration of Governor Andrew with film and TV stars and with girls, ’14 started 10th grade at HM in fall 2011. Cuomo as the superintendent of the women and men of all ages the film is Melissa has been at HM since Nursery. New York Liquidation Bureau, The NYLB having a major impact. Several Horace protects the interests of policyholders Mann School alumni and administra- and creditors of insurance companies tors attended a screening in New York 1984 that have been declared impaired or in October. For information on the film, Steven Chait and wife Lisa are de- insolvent, managing 60 distressed enti- curriculum or hosting a screening, lighted to share the news of the birth ties with more than $3 billion in assets please go to: Missrepresentation.org. of their daughter Eliana Joelle born with a budget of over $50 million. The A 28-year communications veteran, on September 21, 2010. The family Bureau’s 260 employees are all based Regina is the founder of RPR Marketing including, older sister and brother, in Lower Manhattan, allowing Jonathan Communications, a premier public rela- Hannah and Joshua, are happily living to forgo the Albany legislative session tions firm representing clients such as in Riverdale. commute and spend more time with his Johnson & Johnson, Neutrogena, and wife, Meredith Ballew, their daughter Aveeno. Her work with young women Charlotte, and a baby boy expected in in the beauty industry led her to found 1986 December 2011. CareerPeeks, a nonprofit focused on David S. Bennahum is President and Congratulations to Jennifer expanding career options for young CEO of the American Independent Slaybaugh who was elected into the women. Regina has produced “Boyhood News Network (AINN), which pub- Franklin & Marshall Athletics Hall of Shadows”, a social-issue documentary lishes a network of investigative news Fame. She was a member of the soccer, about male survivors of child molesta- sites in six states and Washington D.C. softball and basketball teams at F & tion. A passionate education reform AINN reaches over 500,000 readers a M. A three-time All-Middle Atlantic activist, Regina and her husband John month. Reporters with AINN have won Conference (MAC) team selection in Scully opened their own successful over 40 awards for excellence in jour- softball, Slaybaugh led the Diplomats charter school called Making Waves. nalism. Its mission is to investigate and to the MAC Southwest Championship disseminate news that impacts public as a sophomore and junior. Jessica debate and advances the common good Lynn is a lawyer working in NYC for the in the interest of fostering an informed Manhattan District Attorney.

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that takes readers past the doormen 1989 1990 and into the glitz, gilding, and gossip of Jennifer Melamed Ianuzzi is the David Leonhardt won the 2011 Pulitzer Manhattan society—via the world of founder of Strength for Sydney and Prize, journalism’s highest honor, for high-end real estate. The authors are the SMS Research Foundation, which commentary. The prize, announced also President (Michele) and execu- supports research on Smith-Magenis on April 18, 2011, was awarded to tive vice-presidents (Samantha and Syndrome, a neurological condition Leonhardt for his weekly New York Sabrina) of Gumley Haft Kleier real es- which affects her daughter Sydney and Times column, “Economic Scene” for tate brokerage, and co-stars of HGTV’s about one in 15,000 people worldwide. what the Pulitzer committee described hit real estate reality television series The organization held its first walk/run as Leonhardt’s “graceful penetration “Selling New York.” (5K) in October. Details can be found of America’s complicated economic at www.strengthforsydney.org. Ilario questions” from the federal budget Pantano, appeared on “Fox & Friends” deficit to health care reform.” In win- 1992 morning show the day after 9/11, as ning the Pulitzer Prize David Leonhardt D avid Itskowitch is the COO of Golden part of a segment on Veterans of Iraq became the fourth former Horace Boy Promotions, an international box- and Afghanistan who are now running Mann School Record editor-in-chief ing promotional company established for Congress. Pantano discussed how to be so recognized. Former Record in 2002 by Oscar de la Hoya. The Los his experiences serving our Country editors Anthony Lewis ’44, Richard Angeles-based company is working in the military motivated him to run Kluger ’52 and Robert Caro ’53 were on promoting a monthly boxing series for Congress. David J. Goldsmith and also awarded Pulitzers for their re- at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn his wife Jennifer Ocean are thrilled to porting or for the books they penned. beginning in 2012. David and his wife announce the birth of their son, Ethan Horace Mann School alumni have also Kim recently moved back to New York Andrew, on September 11, 2011. Ethan won Pulitzers in music (Elliot Carter from Los Angeles (where he moved in brought pure joy and happiness to his ’26), poetry (Anthony Hecht ’40) and 2007). He will be heavily involved in family on an otherwise solemn day. biography (Justin Kaplan ’41). The New promoting the events. He joins proud big sister Molly, HM York Times appointed Leonhardt its Class of 2024. Gil Shaham has a busy Washington D.C. Bureau Chief in July concert schedule this year, including 2011. The appointment was the first 1994 one that HM alumni will gather to hear. change in the Times’ editorial lineup, On September 13, 2011 Sabrina Kleier- On October 8, 2011 Shaham played since Jill Abramson became executive Morgenstern, along with her sister Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D Major editor. She described David as “one Samantha Kleier-Forbes ’90 and their with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra of our finest writers and most elegant mother Michele Kleier, published a at Lafayette College in Easton, PA. On thinkers” and said, “His keen under- novel Hot Property (Harper Collins), October 25, he joined the New York standing of how Washington works that takes readers past the past the Philharmonic in its “A Night at the and the nexus of politics and economic doormen and into the glitz, gilding, Movies” performance of film music. policy make him a perfect leader of the and gossip of Manhattan society—via Conductor John Williams invited Gil Washington bureau at this moment.” the world of high-end real estate. (see to be the featured artist at this con- David Leonhardt won the 2011 Pulitzer note, 1990). cert. In March, the Alumni House and Prize for commentary for writing in his Development Office has reserved a “Economic Scene” column. He joined block of tickets to hear Gil Shaham the Times in 1999 and has taken on 1995 perform at its “Modern Beethoven” various writing assignments over the series. Conducted by Alan Gilbert, years, including economics reporter, Shaham will perform Beethoven’s staff writer for the Sunday Magazine Symphonies No. 1 and 3 on Thursday, and contributor to the Economix blog, March 15, 2012. If you can’t join HM which he helped create. Leonhardt alumni for this concert you can hear said his goal in Washington is to help Gil at an open rehearsal that morn- decode and demystify the ways of the ing at 9:45 a.m. The series continues capital in every respect. with a concert Friday morning, March On September 13, 2011 Samantha 16, 11 a.m., Sat. March 17, 8 p.m., and Kleier-Forbes ’90, along with her sister Tuesday, March 20, 7:30 p.m. Sabrina Kleier-Morgenstern ’94 and their mother Michele Kleier, published Jonathan Fuld and his wife Elizabeth a novel Hot Property (Harper Collins), welcomed the arrival of their first baby,

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Jack James Edward Fuld, on December Hannah and, at this writing, another on Ph.D. program in screen and media 9, 2010. Jonathan is President of Fuld the way. studies at the University of Waikato in Fine Art in Manhattan, advising on Lindsay Franklin Taylor and New Zealand in December 2011 on a the purchase and sale of high-end Matthew Taylor ’95 welcomed their fellowship. Scheduled to be in New works of art. He may be contacted via first daughter, Kate, on March 3, 2011. Zealand for the next three years Ben FuldFineArt.com. Her proud brothers Maxwell HM ’24 said he will be “studying the cultural Many Horace Mann School alumni and Charlie HM ’26 are thrilled with the and social implications of the fact that participated in “Action for Jackson” at addition of a girl to the family. for the first time in history more people, the Sherry Netherland Hotel on Oct. 26, everywhere, than ever before, are 2011. The annual fundraiser supports documenting their lives. What does this the Jackson Gabriel Silver Foundation 1997 mean for communities, culture, story (JGSF) launched by Alex Silver and David Koplik is currently an associate telling traditions, the archive, etc.? He Jamie Grossmann Silver to raise funds producer at MLB Network where he will be writing a lot but also creating for research for Epidermolusis Bullosa won a Sports Emmy for his work on the short films as part of his Ph.D. field- (EB) and other rare diseases. The network’s flagship show, MLB Tonight. work. He also plans on “finally pursuing Foundation is named for their son who MLB Tonight won for the category of (his) life-long dream of learning how to has EB. Best Daily Studio Show beating out surf and getting in more earth time…” Lee Rom and her husband Emmanuel competition such as SportsCenter and Ben has traveled widely and his images Tesone are excited to reconnect with Inside the NBA on TNT. MLB Network include work from various parts of the HM now that they have moved back to launched on January 1, 2009 and is world. Images can be seen at http:// New York from London. currently available in approximately 60 www.benlenzner.com/ and films at million homes and continues to grow http://www.vimeo.com/benlenzner in just its 3rd year of operation as Major 1996 League Baseball’s national cable outlet. David has been at MLBN since it first 1999 came on the air to cover “Our National On March 15, 2011 Nia Shepherd van Passtime All The Time.” der Velden gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, William Walker van der Velden. Nia and her husband Mark are 1998 enjoying parenthood.

Suzanne Bellet Price opened Sprout San Francisco, a natural and organic children’s boutique, in San Francisco in 2009. She opened a New York City branch of the store in Manhattan on September 24, 2011. Sprout New York is located at 79th Street and Third An exhibit of photographs and films by Pictured from left to right, Bram Alden, Wesley Avenue. Suzanne was also named Ben Lenzner was featured in the HM LePatner, Soraya Slocum, Chris Lee, Nyssa Fajardo th Lee, Chondita Chatterjee, Erica Battle, Anita Gupta, “Super Mom of the Week” by NYC’s Gallery from October 5 to Oct. 31s, Andrew Brill. “Big City Moms” website that features 2011. Lenzner visited Horace Mann to events and information for mothers speak with students about his work. On Saturday, October 16, 2010, and families. To read the Big City The show included two recent bodies of Nyssa Fajardo married Chris Lee at Moms article about Suzanne and her photographic work, one about the Van St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York all-natural mission go to http://www. Gujjar community of Northern India City. The couple was honored to have bigcitymoms.com/SuperMom_ and another about the human interac- former classmates Berta Matos, Soraya SuzannePrice.php. To learn more about tion with the living world. Lenzner Slocum, and Anita Gupta as brides- her innovative store go to www. completed his MFA degree in docu- maids. The reception took place at sproutsanfrancisco.com. Suzanne is mentary media from Ryerson University the Mandarin Oriental, where guests the mother of 2-year-old daughter in Toronto in June 2011, and began a danced late into the night. Other

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Horace Mann alumni in attendance downstairs lounge with couches and of The Record Michael Pareles, also included Bram Alden, Wesley LePatner, wingback chairs. The restaurant offers commented on the “great news about Chondita Chatterjee, Erica Battle, a rotating cycle of infused liquors made David Leonhardt ’90” who won a 2011 Andrew Brill, Melissa Brown Eisenberg in-house by Blackwell and Blittersdorf, Pulitzer Prize for Commentary honor- ’95. The couple currently resides in serves Tapas-style dishes, made mostly ing his economics writing. “I remember Manhattan. Nyssa is a Senior Lecturer of Vermont meat and produce and when he took The Record on a tour of at Fairleigh Dickinson University and vegetarian and vegan options. It’s worth the NYTimes building in 2003. Couldn’t Chris is a Principal at Apollo Global a visit. www.metropoliswinebar.com/ have happened to a nicer a guy.” Management, LLC. 2002 2004 Lauren Mavroudis and Michael D. Shaan Hathiramani and his brother Camarinos were married on June Raj ’03 have launched Harvey Prince, 25, 2011 at The Greek Orthodox a beauty and fragrance company Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy dedicated as a gift to and inspired by Trinity in New York City. A reception in their mother. The company features celebration of their wedding followed boutique-quality yet affordable scents at The Grand Ballroom at The Plaza manufactured in the U.S. that are free Hotel. Lauren is the Vice President of of toxic chemicals, and use no animal Rio Vista Companies, a diversified real testing. The company draws on the Andrew Kane was married to Jenny estate development and health care expertise of leading dermatologists, Sharfstein, Fieldston Class of 2000 group in Northern New Jersey. Michael scientists and scent experts to create in November 2010. Peter Bernstein, is an Assistant District Attorney at the individual fragrances. Learn more about Charles Birnbaum and John Meckler Bronx County District Attorney’s Office. the company’s fascinating story and were all groomsmen and Wesley Lauren has taken her husband’s name. products at www.harveyprince.com. LePatner and Michelle Bernstein also Jonathan Weissberg graduated from attended. Charles’ mom Ellen Birnbaum Hunter College and started Medical and Andy’s parents Priscilla and Gerry School at SUNY Upstate Medical Kane are also in the photo. College at the end of August 2011. Jonathan notes that none of this would be possible without the many positive 2000 experiences he had and valuable lessons he learned at Horace Mann. After spending a period of time traveling in Australia, New Zealand and sundry other places, playing ultimate frisbee with the Australian National Team, Tom Manewitz is now studying law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Logan Lowe is currently working for Prophet Capital, a hedge fund special- izing in mortgage backed securities. He plays soccer at Chelsea Piers and Asphalt Green with HM classmates 2003 Adam Parker, Brett Kasner, Chris Nicholas Frisch and Michael Pareles Taussig and Ben Liss. are both studying in China on Alan Blackwell opened Metropolis Blakemore Fellowships. Michael is at Wine Bar & Cocktail Lounge in Tsinghua University in Beijing, and 2005 Brattleboro, Vermont in July 2011. Nick is at National Taiwan University in Kendra Howard graduated from Temple Alan and partner Alyssa Blittersdorf Taipei, “but we’ll still be getting togeth- University with a BA in communica- completely redesigned the interior er to eat Chinese food on Christmas,” tions in 2009. She has since taught of an existing restaurant to include a Pareles wrote. A former Editor-in-Chief English in Italy, and has traveled and

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done freelance writing for online travel Ventures, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, and conductivity of the particles may make and food publications. Kendra works as the Commissioner of the New York City them useful in a variety of products, a freelance writer, and is seeking a full- Department of Information Technology from windows to solar particles. time writing position. Examples of her and Telecommunications.” Rachel John Liss is taking a gap year to lively writing—about New York, France, Williams is president of the student explore the real estate industry before and more—can be seen at http://kend- body at Goucher College. entering Harvard in September 2012. rawanderlust.wordpress.com/. A licensed salesperson, he is working at Gumley Haft Kleier, where 2009 Samantha Kleier Forbes ’90 and 2006 Congratulations to Zach Malter who Sabrina Kleier Morgenstern ’94 are was elected Student Body President of executive vice presidents. $ Wesleyan University for the 2011-2012 academic year. 2011

Exciting news from Ben Sann: “I founded a website called BestParking.com in 2006, while attending Horace Mann. I came up with the idea while watching an episode of Seinfeld in which George refuses to pay for a parking space. I then rode around (during senior year) on my three-speed bicycle documenting all the parking facilities and their rates throughout Manhattan. Over the past five years, much has changed. We now employ 10 full-time employees and 50+ part-time rate surveyors, and have expanded to 18 cities and 79 airports throughout North America, with 47 more cities coming in 2011. BestParking. Katie Dinan won the Gold Medal in the com is visited by over 150,000 loyal Adequan FEI (International Equestrian users each month and our iPhone, Federation) North American Junior and Android, and BlackBerry apps have Young Rider Championships (encom- been downloaded onto over 100,000 passing the US, Canada and Mexico) in devices. Our API and XML feeds Lexington, KY on July 31, 2011. (our core data) is also distributed via Sophie Miller was one of 70 high licensing agreements with Google and school graduates from 15 countries Microsoft. Recently, BestParking won accepted to study at the Weizmann the “Investor’s Choice” and “3rd Place Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel Overall” awards at the NYC Big Apps through the International Summer competition, backed by the City of New Science Institute (ISSI). Working in York and BMW i Ventures: http://www. organic chemistry Miller assisted a youtube.com/watch?v=YwyBJZkpy28. PhD student who was examining a new The award was presented by Mayor conductive polymer recently discov- Bloomberg, and the judges included ered at Weizmann. Miller participated prominent VCs, CEOs, and city officials, in harvesting the nanoparticles of the including Fred Wilson of Union Square polymer dissolved into a solution. The

Horace Mann Magazine Winter 2012 57 Memorialsmemorials orace Mann School mourns the deaths of the follow- Caputo, Patricia Andersen, Penny Blevins, Pamela Potter ing members of our community. We invite readers and Peter Potter, eight grandchildren and four great- Hto share their memories and reflections with one an- grandchildren. other in these pages by writing to [email protected]. Please note that the names of several alumni appear in the Memorial listing, but they are not eulogized here. Their me- John Avery Tillinghast ’44 morials will appear in the next issue of Horace Mann Magazine. Distinguished Scientist and Engineer

With sadness Horace Mann School notes the passing of Dante Salvatore “Bick” Caputo ’38 John Avery Tillinghast ’44 on May 7, 2011 at the age of 84. Community Leader He was the son of the late Dorothy and Charles Carpenter (excerpted from The Riverdale Press) Tillinghast, Horace Mann Head of School from 1920-1950. John A. Tillinghast was educated at Horace Mann, and Horace Mann School mourns then studied at Columbia University, while serving in the the passing of Dante Salvatore U.S. Navy V-12 Program. From 1948 to 1949, he earned a “Bick” Caputo ’38 on April 7, BSME and a MS degree, and was the Honor Graduate. 2011 at the age of 91. He was John Tillinghast began his career in 1949 at American affectionately called “Mr. Electric Power Service Corp. rising to the position of vice Riverdale” by friends and chairman and senior executive vice president of engineer- members of the Riverdale ing and construction in his 30 years there. Upon retiring in community, earning the title 1979, he joined Wheelabrator Frye Inc., in Hampton, New through his service to his Hampshire as senior vice president of technology. He held neighbors and his neighborhood. various executive positions in Allied Advanced Technology The youngest and smallest of five Italian children, his Group, Allied Signal International, Science Applications parents called him “Piccolino.” Eventually shortened International Corp., TILTEC, Great Bay Power Corp to “Pick” and mispronounced “Bick” by his friends, the and BayCorp Holdings LTD. His professional knowledge name stayed. When Bick Caputo arrived in Riverdale as a and experience spanned steam turbines, nuclear energy 10-year-old in 1930, ground had not yet been broken for the systems, fossil fuel plants, transmission and distribution Henry Hudson Bridge and the Henry Hudson Parkway. systems, alternative energy projects, cogeneration and Caputo was a proud graduate of Horace Mann School, other innovative technologies, including patentee of gener- and remained in touch with the school throughout his life. ative unit control system. He was a member of the National He went to Williams College earning a bachelor’s degree Academy of Science and a Fellow of the American Society before entering the Army as a private in 1942, and leav- of Mechanical Engineers. ing as a captain. He pursued a six-decade-long career in Tillinghast was an Elder of the Reformed Church of insurance at New York Life Insurance. A year after join- Bronxville, N.Y., and a member of the United Church of ing the company Caputo qualified for its Top Club, and Christ of North Hampton. He gave generously of his time remained a Top Club, President’s Council or Million Dollar supporting many non-profit and professional associa- Roundtable member every year of his long career. Always tions. He was predeceased by his beloved wife of 52 years, involved with “helping others” he raised money for many Mabel, and is survived by his daughters Katherine Brickley organizations, including the Riverdale Neighborhood and husband John, Susan Trainor and husband John, and House, where he served as vice president for many years. Abigail Ryan and husband Sidney; four grandchildren, one He was also treasurer of the Williams Club in Manhattan. great-grandchild, and his brother David Tillinghast ’47, and When his first wife, Kathleen Buckner, whom he married several nieces and a nephew. in 1943, died of polio in 1950, Dante Caputo became in- In a memorial in The New York Times upon John volved with the March of Dimes’ fight against the disease. Tillinghast’s death Horace Mann Head of School Dr. He married his second wife, Emily Stull, in 1976. Thomas Kelly and Board Chair Steven M. Friedman ’72 Tending crops of eggplant, tomatoes and basil at his home wrote: “Generations of Tillinghasts have come through our overlooking the Hudson River, he was also a passionate School doors and we remain grateful for their contribu- Yankees and Rangers fan, known to all at Madison Square tions and impact. We extend our heartfelt condolences Garden. The Rangers honored him with a ceremonial to Mr. Tillinghast’s loving daughters, Katherine, Abigail hockey stick. In 2009 the Riverdale Yacht Club, where and Susan and their families; brother David Tillinghast Caputo was an active member, named its clubhouse for HM 1947 and his wife, Lisa; his nieces, nephews and many him. Dante Caputo is survived by Kathy Caputo, Thomas friends. He will be deeply missed.”

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Hans Julius Baer ’45 Ira Harvey Cohen ’51 Former Chair of the Julius Baer Group and Poet, Photographer, Filmmaker, Publisher Volker Commission Member and Editor

Horace Mann School is sad- With sadness Horace Mann School notes the passing of Ira dened by the death of Hans J. Harvey Cohen ’51 on April 25th, 2011 at the age of 76. Baer ’45, who was a head of the Ira Cohen was an innovative and original poet, pho- Julius Baer Group, and one of tographer, filmmaker, publisher, and editor, and a self- Switzerland’s most prominent described “Electronic Multimedia Shaman.” Educated at bankers. Hans J. Baer died on Horace Mann, Cornell and Columbia, he spent the early March 21, 2011 in Switzerland 1960s in Tangier, Morocco, where he lived and worked at age 83. with William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Paul Bowles. photo by Theo Anderson Theo by photo For nearly 50 years, from While there, he prepared his first major work; editing and 1947 to 1996, Baer devoted his creative energy and profes- publishing the anthology Gnaoua (1964). This volume con- sional life to developing what was at first the family-contained work by Burroughs, Gysin, Jack Smith, and others. trolled Julius Baer Group, a company engaged in domestic In the late 1960s, Cohen developed a photography process and international banking and global asset management, in his “Mylar Chamber”, producing distorted, iconic photo- based in Zurich, Switzerland. He served the company as graphic portraits of Jimi Hendrix, Smith, Robert LaVigne, partner beginning in 1958, as president of the executive Angus MacLise, Pharaoh Sanders, and Burroughs, among board from 1975 until 1993, and as chairman of the board others. In 1968 he made his first film, “The Invasion of in the three years before his retirement. Milestones under Thunderbolt Pagoda”, a baroque, underground experimen- his leadership included the initial public offering of Julius tal film. The following year he produced the experimental Baer Holding Ltd. in 1980 as well as the opening of branch film “Paradise Now in Amerika” documenting the Living offices in New York in 1982 and London in 1984. Hans Theatre’s 1968 tour. In the 1970s he lived in Kathmandu, Baer also played a leading role as a member of the Volcker Nepal, and operated the publishing house Bardo Matrix, Commission investigating Holocaust assets, and serving, publishing books and broadsheets on handmade rice paper in his words, “as a connecting bridge” between the World by authors including Gregory Corso, Charles Henri Ford, Jewish Congress and the Swiss Bankers Association. Bowles and MacLise, as well as several books of his own, Baer went to Lehigh University following Horace including Gilded Splinters and The Cosmic Crypt. Mann. In his memoir, It’s Not All About Money—Memoirs Returning to New York City in the early 1980s Cohen of a Private Banker, Baer recalled his active student life continued to write and publish poetry and stage exhibi- at Lehigh, as president of his fraternity, editor-in-chief tions of his photography. In 1986, he directed the film of the student newspaper, winner of varsity letters on “Kings With Straw Mats”, a documentary about the the swim team, and cello player in the orchestra. Baer Kumbh Mela festival, India’s annual pilgrimage and gath- graduated from Lehigh in 1947 with a B.S. in industrial ering of holy men. From the early 1990s on he wrote poetry engineering. In 1950, he received his M.A. in econom- and edited numerous books and periodicals (Ins & Outs, ics from New York University. He was a Christ Church Third Rail, Nexus, and 15 Minutes). In the last years of Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and a Visiting Fellow his life, in increasingly declining health, Cohen gave local for the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at poetry readings and received a wide array of friends and Harvard. He became a Lehigh trustee and was given an admirers to his home on 106th Street, where they would honorary doctorate by the University in 1997. Baer was a listen as he told stories, read poems and cast insights. passionate supporter of the arts who served as Chair of Cohen is survived by children Raphael Cohen, Lakshmi Switzerland’s Tonhalle Society from 1982 to 1992, as the Cohen, David Schleifer, and Rafiqa el Shenawi of Egypt, founding President of the Board of Trustees of the Zurich and daughters-in-law Kristina Cohen and Janet Schleifer, Festival in 1997, and endowed several arts-related initia- as well as two grandchildren, and his loving sister Janice tives at Lehigh. Baer was predeceased by his wife, Ilse, and Honig and devoted brother-in-law Charles Honig. is survived by his daughter, Monique, son, Raymond, and his wife Gabriele, and four grandchildren

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Melvin Friedland ’53 Steven Klein ’55 of Friedland Properties Former News Professional and Owner of Mermaid Transportation Co. Inc. in Maine Horace Mann School regrets the passing of Melvin S. Friedland ’53 on July 12, 2011. A graduate of the Albany Horace Mann School regrets the passing of Steven Klein College of Pharmacy, he was a retired pharmacist and a ’55 of Kennebunk, Maine on July 31, 2011 at age 74 after retired veteran of the U.S. Air Force. Together with his a brief illness. Klein graduated from Syracuse University brother Lawrence ’56 Melvin Friedland built upon a fam- graduating, in 1959 with a bachelor’s degree in communi- ily history of property ownership and founded Friedland cations. He then worked in public relations and in news for Properties in 1960. The brothers developed a portfolio CBS News, ABC and Katz Media Group covering historic of over 100 properties on the East Coast, and became the events such as JFK’s assassination. Moving to Woodbridge, largest landlord on the gold coast of Madison Avenue. Conn., where he lived for over 20 years, where he was an Known for his generosity and his story-telling Melvin active civic member and worked in retail, commercial real Friedland was also a generous supporter of Horace Mann estate and as a financial advisor. School. He was predeceased by his wife Pauline Friedland, In 1994, Klein moved to Kennebunk and purchased and is survived by Merilyn and Joseph Geisberg, Gayle and Mermaid Transportation, Maine’s Premiere Passenger Roberto Glik, and Jennifer and Eric Friedland, and by eight Transportation Company. Klein bought Mermaid in grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother Lawrence 1995 and operated the business for 16 years. During his ’56 and sister-in-law Marilyn Friedland. tenure, the company provided transportation to more than 100,000 customers traveling to and from airports, hospitals and schools throughout New England. He was Edward R. Busch ’54 remembered by his employees as a person who cared Attorney, and Devoted Horace Mann Alumnus about his workers and did what he could to help people… Klein’s daughter, Crissa Klein, described her father as an With sadness Horace Mann School reports the passing of outgoing guy, saying “Most people knew him for his jokes, Edward R Busch ’54 on December 10, 2010 in Savannah, laughs and his smile. I think a big part of his business in Georgia after a long illness. Ed Busch’s wife Ellen shared Maine was built around his relationships and his loyalty to with Horace Mann the deep affection he had for his alma people.” Klein was also a gifted photographer. mater, writing, “He loved Horace Mann dearly and told me He is survived by his wife, Sue; his daughter, Crissa so many wonderful stories of his experiences,” and “con- Klein and son-in-law Jarret Lewis; two grandchildren; tinued his close, cross-country friendship with Joel Kluger sister-in-law, Beth Trier, and brothers-in-law, Donald ’54 until Joel’s untimely death.” Klauber and Ken Meyerhoffer. After graduating from Horace Mann, Busch went to Princeton. There he majored in English as a member of the Special Program in Humanities and was inducted Dr. Richard J. Levine ’56 into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He graduated from the Eminent Preeclampsia Researcher Harvard Law School in 1962. Combining his legal education with security analysis he joined the New York Society Horace Mann School is deeply saddened by the death of Security Analysts. He held executive positions in: of Dr. Richard J Levine ’56, an outstanding physician- commercial printing, telecommunications and recorded researcher who died on April 12, 2011 in Washington D.C. music. Upon his Princeton class’ 50th reunion Busch wrote: at the age of 71 following a long illness. A graduate of St. “In 1985 my wife Ellen and I left Connecticut and the Louis University and Harvard Medical School Dr. Levine corporate world, purchased a business in Hilton Head, made significant contributions to our understanding of S.C., and, in 2000 retired because of my ill health. I’ve done preeclampsia, and worked tirelessly on problems impor- my share of travel, both domestic and foreign, and have tant for the health of pregnant women and their unborn lived throughout the country. Now I continue as an avid children while battling a devastating disease during the reader of American and foreign literature and occasionally last three years of his life. His published results appeared perform some pro bono work. We are delighted to be living as late as January 2011, and he was working on new manu- in Savannah, a city that inspired us with awe since our first scripts at the time of his death. trip to the Deep South over twenty years ago.” Ed Busch is A physician who had a highly varied career of significant survived by Ellen Busch, to whom heartfelt condolences contributions Dr. Levine was a Peace Corps volunteer in are extended. Iran before focusing on epidemiology. He next served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control. Stationed in Bangladesh, he documented

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that the effluent from a cholera hospital was responsible Timothy Neil Sundel ’76 for the spread of disease to the surrounding villages. Next Mechanical Engineer posted to the health department in Alabama he documented occupational lead poisoning at a smelter, and diagnosing Horace Mann School mourns the loss of Timothy Neil epidemic hysteria at a high school. This diagnosis gained Sundel ’76 on March 21, 2010 at age 51. He attended Syracuse him recognition as a leading expert in this condition at University, earning a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1981. that time. Dr. Levine moved on to the Chemical Industry He was employed by Carrier Corp. and eventually worked Institute of Technology in Research Triangle Park, North for ENRON Energy Services. Since 2003, he was employed Carolina, where he studied male fertility. by United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, The greatest achievements of his career were yet to Conn, and had moved to Hartford with his family. Timothy come. In 1991 he joined the National Institute of Health’s Sundel was most proud of the two patents he held in Marine Child Health and Development Division (NICHD) as engines. A true family man, he enjoyed grilling, reading, a senior investigator in the Division of Epidemiology, antiquing, swimming and visiting museums. Sundel earned Statistics, and Prevention Research. renown through his swimming. While working as a lifeguard For the next 20 years, he would focus on pregnancy he was tapped for an Almond Joy commercial and sang the research and preeclampsia, a complication that affects 3 to tagline “Sometimes you feel like a nut.” He is survived by 5 percent of pregnancies. In the U.S. the condition is rarely his wife Patricia Sundel, and children Matthew and Emily, fatal, but can lead to lasting health problems. In the devel- and by his mother Penny Sundel and his sister Cathryne A. oping world preeclampsia is a leading cause of maternal Sundel, and many nieces and nephews. death, killing as many as 75,000 women a year. Discovering that preeclampsia was still a major cause of maternal and fetal mortality, and how neglected research Thomas P. Reilly and funding was in this area, Dr. Levine spent the rest of his Horace Mann School Foreign Languages Teacher career working on related problems. During the 1990s he led the first major multicenter trial to determine if calcium Horace Mann School mourns supplementation could prevent preeclampsia. This work the loss of Thomas P. Reilly, inspired others, and today the World Health Organization who taught foreign languages is embarking on both preventative and therapeutic cal- in the school’s Upper Division cium projects in countries where calcium intake is low. for 44 years, and chaired the “Dr. Levine’s NICHD career was an example in patience, department for 32 of those persistence, and seizing opportunity,” said Dr. Alan E. years. Mr. Reilly died on April Guttmacher, a director at the NICHD. “Soon after he joined 27, 2011 at the age of 85. the institute, he undertook a large study… When the study Horace Mann School showed the treatment didn’t work… he held the biological administrators described the teacher, who retired in 1996, samples from the study in storage for possible future use. as “a dedicated, skillful teacher of foreign languages, a Years later, he learned about the work of a promising young fastidious scholar who spoke 11 languages, who was also… a researcher who had a new theory of preeclampsia” and compassionate advisor to generations of students.” “forged a collaboration with the young scientist, contrib- Born in Waterbury, Conn. on July 7, 1925, Reilly re- uting the stored samples to the effort. The two went on to ceived his B.A. from the University of Connecticut, his M.A. confirm the theory and establish the biochemical basis for from Middlebury College, and did graduate work at the the high blood pressure central to the disorder.” University of Grenoble, France, Laval University, Quebec, Dr. Levine is survived by his wife Verena, and two the University of Mexico, Columbia University and NYU. daughters, Adele and Nicole. He served in the army during World War II. An avid trav- eler who liked to tell stories, during his lifetime, he visited more than 150 countries and every continent. One of Mr. Parviz Nafissian ’58 Reilly’s hobbies involved traveling on each of his milestone of UBS, and a Devoted HM alumnus birthdays. On his 40th birthday, he traveled to Timbuktu, his 50th was celebrated on the shores of the Amazon, his Horace Mann School regrets to note the passing of Parviz 60th in Russia, and his 70th birthday in Turkey. He served as Nafissian ’58 on August 18, 2011. A graduate of Oberlin College president of the Kingsbridge Historical Society and was a and Brooklyn Law School he was a devoted Horace Mann member of the National Rail Society and Canal Society. He alumnus. He was affiliated with Morgan Stanley for 20 years is survived by his sister, Ann Rutigliano, and her husband, and UBS for eight years. He is survived by wife Barbara, and Frank, his brother, Eugene J. Reilly, and several nieces and children David and Sheryl, and by granddaughter Elizabeth. nephews. He was predeceased by his sister Mary Mukosey.

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Tom Reilly Remembered faculty led by Dr Gratwick, and its wider community, sup- Ken Roberts ’58, who lives in London and was an exchange student ported him in both significant endeavours, which rightly at Horace Mann memorialized his former teacher and friend, Tom flourished and impacted positively on the lives of many, Reilly, in the following reflection: including my own. We met whenever and wherever our paths would cross, I met Tom Reilly in the fall of 1957 when I came to Horace happy and convivial occasions when he would delight in re- Mann as an exchange student, the first to visit from the UK porting the ‘goings on’ at the School, usually with hilarious in his fledgling international program. He became both my yet always kindly humour. As often as not, this was direct- mentor, and a very special lifelong friend. He was a man ed at himself, and especially so when he also recounted the whose principles were fiercely held, and followed with many incidents—which lesser mortals would call disaster— conviction, integrity and courage. that befell him on his constant travels. Thus, we should remember that he developed the But on his many trips around the world, he was no Exchange Program at HM when the Cold War was getting ordinary traveller, and not for him the dash to tick off a list colder, and isolationism finding strong advocates in the US. of major tourist attractions. As the extraordinary person Moreover the first partner school he found for HM was in he was, his interest and passion was to find the unusual, Germany, scarcely 10 years after the end of World War II. the off-beat, the quirky, that special little island, or village, Whilst perhaps not a natural first choice for a school with or restaurant, or bar that was like no other, and to enjoy a strongly Jewish tradition, its symbolism as a means by to the full the local “specialities” and characters he always which to further new understanding and reconciliation found there. So, it was actually dear Tom Reilly in 1963, was both real and striking. in London where I was by then working, who introduced Similarly he pioneered the teaching of Russian at HM in me to the Ebury Wine Bar and Gordon’s Vinters, two little a decade when McCarthyism had cast a pernicious shadow gems which are still amongst my favourite haunts today. In of suspicion and false accusation—and one from which turn I am happy to pass on his recommendations to all who educators were far from immune. Tom told me, much later, may visit here—may you enjoy the experience as he did, that he had indeed felt vulnerable and faced fierce ques- and be sure to raise a glass, or several, to his memory. tioning and criticism at the time, but he persisted with his initiatives because he believed they were the right things Ken Roberts ’58 to do, which would yield incremental benefits to the school London, October 2011 and beyond. It is to the credit of HM that the bulk of its

In Memoriam

Horace Mann records with sorrow the deaths of the following graduates and members of the Horace Mann School community and extends its sympathies to all family and friends who have lost loved ones. Memorials of some of these alumni will appear in the spring 2012 issue of Horace Mann Magazine.

Robert Markewich ’36 ...... April 25, 2011 Samuel Messiter ’46 ...... September 27, 2011 Rodney D. Dalton ’37 ...... September 15, 2010 I. Michael Heyman ’47 ...... November 19, 2011 Howard L. Blum ’37 ...... July 1, 2011 Edward Elkind ’48 ...... October 8, 2011 James H. Van Raalte ’38 ...... August 18, 2010 Samuel Hellinger ’49 ...... August 2, 2011 Dante S. Caputo ’38 ...... April 7, 2011 Arnold Weinberg ’49 ...... August 3, 2011 Thomas Z. Van Raalte ’38 ...... April 16, 2011 Ira Cohen ’51 ...... April 25, 2011 James Sondheim ’38 ...... August 6, 2011 Mark Saulnier ’52 ...... August 8, 2011 Albert H. Lewis ’38 ...... December 6, 2011 Michael Nussbaum ’52 ...... October 5, 2011 Tania Khmel Markow ’41 ...... May 14, 2008 Daniel A. Cohen ’52 ...... October 29, 2011 Ellen Irvin Newberry ’42 ...... June 7, 2011 Melvin S. Friedland ’53 ...... July 12, 2011 Donald E. Wolf ’41 ...... July 7, 2011 Edward R. Busch ’54 ...... December 10, 2010 Alan Posner ’42 ...... November 12, 2011 Stephen Klein ’55 ...... July 31, 2011 John A. Tillinghast ’44 ...... May 7, 2011 Richard J. Levine ’56 ...... April 14, 2011 Piero Weiss ’44 ...... October 2, 2011 Tor Mattsson ’56 ...... April 9, 2011 Jay Manacher ’44 ...... November 4, 2011 Parviz Nafissian ’58 ...... August 18, 2011 Hans Julius Baer ’45 ...... March 21, 2011 Paul Guberman ’74 ...... September 23, 2011 Harold Russek ’45 ...... August 23, 2011 Timothy Sundel ’76 ...... March 21, 2010

62 Horace Mann Magazine Winter 2012 the charles carpenter tillinghast society

The Charles Carpenter Tillinghast Society

ounded in 1990 to honor the memory of Horace ued excellence of Horace Mann School in the future. FMann School’s second headmaster, Charles We are grateful to those who have chosen to support Carpenter Tillinghast, The Charles Carpenter Horace Mann School in this personal way. Tillinghast Society recognizes the generosity of To learn more about planned giving opportuni- those individuals who have made provisions for the ties, please contact Melissa Parento ’90, Director of School in their estate plans or have made a planned Development, at (718) 432-3456 or melissa_paren- gift to the School. Their support ensures the contin- [email protected].

Members of The Charles Carpenter Tillinghast Society

Matthew Abramson ’91* Alan Gilbert ’53 Eileen Ludwig* Renee Rosenblatt* Howard Appell ’28* Walter Goetz ’32* James Ludwig ’42 Robert Schnitzer ’23* David Arnold ’65 Ruth Smith Goodstein ’78 Donald Maggin ’44 Rose Schwiers ’21* Jacqueline Aronson John Green ’24* Arthur Master, Jr. ’49* Barry Siebelt* Anthony Bentley ’63 Margaret Armstrong Green ’26* J. Winston Mayo ’30* Paul Silverstone ’49 Liza Chianelli Bové ’82 Philippe Grelsamer ’40* John McCormack ’35 Suzanne Sloan ’77 Michael Brinitzer ’50* Peter Gross ’55 Adele Bazinet McCormick ’20* John Smallwood ’39 Jack Brown ’31* Norman Grutman ’48* Douglas ’33 and Leone McGowan* Sanford Solomon ’46* Helen Lehman Buttenwieser ’23* Philip Harris ’36* Irving Mendelson ’27* Malcolm Spence ’18* Arnold Cohen ’56 Everett Hayes ’38* Evelyn Borchard Metzger ’28* Henry Sperry, Jr. ’24* William Cooper ’62 Horace Henry ’33* Harold Meyers* Franklin Speyer ’65 Edward Costikyan ’41 Melvin Hershkowitz ’38 Robert Miller ’38* Joseph Stetz, Jr. ’60* James Couzens ’34 Michael Hess ’58 Mildred and Alex Minkowsky* Alan Stroock ’25* Alfred Davidson ’29* Milton Heyman ’10* Donald Morgan ’24* Elouise Conte Sutter ’42 Helen Ederheimer Dawes ’36* William Hyde ’30* J. Robert Moskin ’40 Arthur Sweeny ’24* John Dirks ’35* Frederick Jacobson ’56 Leo Narodny ’27* David Tillinghast ’47 Alfred Eisenstaedt ’27* Robert Judell ’41 Herbert Nass ’77 Robert Tishman ’33 Richard Eisner ’52 Donald Kallman ’47 Jodi Grossmann Nass ’78 Melville Tucker ’34* Robert Eisner ’47 Michael Katz ’56 Herbert Neuman John Turner ’28* Mark Ellman ’63 Robert Kohler ’44* H. Robert Nissley ’38* Frederick Veit ’31* John Erdman ’42* Paul Kohnstamm ’40* Helen Hirsdansky Ostrow ’27* George Wallerstein ’47 Joel Fairman ’46 Stanley Kops ’63* Trevor O’Neill* William Wallstein ’32* Richard Fisher ’59* Burton Kramer ’33* Edward Peckerman ’21* Efram Weiss ’38* Frederick Flatto ’42* Philip Krapp ’36* Charles Perera ’22* Robert Werner ’29* James Fogelson ’60* Robert Kuhn ’47* Saul Polayes ’48* Donald Wolf ’41 John Freund ’50 George Lambrose ’28* Douglas Powell ’42* * deceased Eugenia Gale ’27* Helen Kaufmann Lippmann ’23* Bill Racoosin ’50 Margaret Gale ’24* Mark Litt ’47 Daniel Rose ’47 Henry Geldzahler ’53* John Loeb ’36* Louis Rosenblatt*

Horace Mann Magazine Winter 2012 63 philanthropy and you

64 Push ups 94 “The moment 65 “The first rule someone says 125 Years Create Multiple of education: he is better than ask yourself someone else Memories, and Reasons to questions.” is the moment he loses his 66 “Buy your candies humanity.” Support Horace Mann School at Andy’s. They’re dandies.” 95 Tennis courts and wooden track on 67 Audrey!!!! 4 Acres th 68 Red flag for Ms. elebrations in honor of Horace Mann School’s 125 anniversary are un- 96 Elevator passes: $5 Balletta derway, with programs for students and alumni throughout the school. 97 Color war C 69 Singing New initiatives on behalf of alumni continue to connect graduates of Horace 98 “I was born at Mann from across the generations with the HM community of today. As “Hallelujah” at the holiday night but it Horace Mann’s alumni visit campus, or gather at events, they inevitably ex- concert wasn’t last night.” change reflections on favorite classes and teachers, or the big games, theatrical 70 “The Year of the 99 Mark Twain performances or the pranks and pratfalls that create meaningful memories— Whale” teaches math?! and keep HM’s alumni and families connected to this school. These memories 71 Cold Cut City 100 The Muscat Wall are also among the many reasons Horace Mann’s community supports its 72 “SALVE!” 101 The Breezeway th school through its Annual Fund. In honor of Horace Mann’s 125 year, we offer 73 “It’s the poor 102 Dorrientation 125 of these recollections, in no significant order, to stir your own memories workman who 103 Varsity Club of your school. Please, keep the conversation going, by submitting your own blames his tools.” 104 Saturday Morning memories to: [email protected], and add your support by clicking on 74 Trashketball Tutoring www.horacemann.org/support. 75 Camp Moosilauke 105 Williamsburg, 76 Dollar Day Grade 6 106 77 The Siberians Mannikin 1 What is in that 16 The Dorms 35 “Sleeping 50 “Hit the pause Dedications 78 Home Plate: time capsule we 17 “The flowers are privileges”: $2.50 button.” 107 The Tibbett Ave. buried on Clark freezing, awaiting 36 pehee-nuee-nuee 51 The Quinnmen Commandment Field in 2001? 79 Survivors the warmth of the 37 Basketball Ivy 52 Hazen 108 The CAT 2 “On the Hills Above spring. And then 80 MAGNA EST team of ’65 Gymnasium 109 “Firsties” the Hudson” they bloom.” VERITAS 38 “Things are more 53 “You would 110 The car in the 3 “Back to your nest, 18 81 White dresses Senior Slump the way they are never wear cafeteria birdie.” 19 82 Exchange Lean-tos at Dorr now than they’ve your underwear 111 The Forum 4 The Trailers 20 outside your students The Loeb’s Pond ever been before. 112 “Just walk away.” 5 Moment of silence And that’s gotta clothes, so don’t 83 Lou & Tito’s: 21 “The Bishop 113 Carnation Day in creaky Crazy Orders His change!” put a period or “Where the elite comma outside meet to eat” 114 The Junior Creek Chairs Lunch” 39 Ultimate! 6 Song Fest quotation marks.” 84 “Buildering” up Carnival Goldfish 22 “We’ll see.” 40 “The 54 A. Bardena Tillinghast 115 Advisory Groups 7 Gilbert and 23 “Men of Harlech” Commandment” Sullivan McIntosh 85 Mr. B’s carpool 116 Cross Country 24 “There will be a 41 Pedro homers 55 Chapel 86 th Magic Circle 8 Choice! war, and you will over the tennis The Record 100 56 Dorr’mores 117 Class Day 9 Hatching chicks be in it.” courts 87 Fake dive 44— 57 Library Wall: bootleg. T.D. vs. 118 Class Day Record 10 Survivors 25 The Lion Roars 42 Scuba Club? “Be ashamed to Riverdale Issue: Deadline 11 The Fourth Floor 26 “Be well.” 43 “The time is now.” die until you have 88 “Peas and 6 a.m. of Tillinghast 27 Sixty seconds of 44 Lit Chat won some victory carrots, peas and 119 Senior Scream 12 “There is more to Peace Sleepover for humanity.” carrots…” 120 The Bookstore teenage life than 28 Middle Memories 45 Coach 58 “No Limits!” 89 Saturday night 121 Book Day sticking your face Time Capsules in a book for 70 46 “You don’t tie, you 59 Buzzell Game dances 122 David’s Corner 29 “Business is Is- don’t eat.” hours.” 60 “Gloomy the 90 “Let’s get 123 ness” “Those dancing 13 The Purple “B” 47 Wonder Walk Days When We everybody in a feet, on 42nd 30 Record polls Must Leave Our room and talk 14 Senior Absurdity 48 “All loyal to Street” 31 The rooftop Beloved Horace about it.” Day Horace Mann, 124 When Ms. Walker playground Mann” 91 Killer Kane and 15 Game goes extra fair Alma Mater” wanted to work 32 Middle Memories 61 Graduation Leis Joe Badoogie innings; bus driver 49 “First let me see for JetBlue leaves; team 33 The Barnard your combs, 62 Madame 92 Stella’s 125 “We were walks: Fordham Bears nail files, and 63 Fifth Form 93 Trolley up strangers met in Prep to HM 34 “What’s the Sig?” handkerchiefs.” Carnival Broadway friendship…”

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