SPRING 2010

Honoring Members of Our Family Tree ALUMNI WEEKEND 2010 Polly Roberts Woodbridge ’42, P’64, P’65 and P’78

“I couldn’t be more pleased.”

“My family has had a long and positive relationship for

four generations with the school and we are very grateful

to the many special teachers who had such an important

impact on our lives. I want to support this important

work, avoid taxes on my estate and pass assets on to family

The planned gift I established is called a charitable lead

trust. It was easy to set up and accomplished all three

objectives. I couldn’t be more pleased.”

If you would like to discuss how a planned gift could benefit you and Princeton Day School, please give me a call or stop by the Development Office. Andrew C. Hamlin at 609-924-6700, ext. 1251 or at [email protected] Contents Princeton Day School Journal

Volume 47, Number 12 • SPRING 2010 p. 5

SCHOOL LIFE______

2 Letter from Head of School Paul J. Stellato 3 News & Events 8 PDS Notable: Father Dan Skvir 9 Arts Notes 12 Sports Notes

p. 12 FACULTY p. 9

14 Faculty Notes 15 Geting to Know You: Faculty Award Fosters Community

FEATURES

16 Alumni Service Award: Crutis Webster ’75

17 Alumni Achievement Award: Regan Hofmann ’85 p. 15 18 Outstanding Young Alumni Award: Taj Forer ’00

20 Athletic Hall of Fame Honorees

ALUMN

25 Message from Alumni Board President 26 Spotlight on Young Alumni 28 Alumni Gatherings: Princeton, Palm Beach, New York City p. 26 31 Alumni Games P. 31 SPRING 2010 JOURNAL 32 Alumni Weekend 2010 Event Schedule Editor: Michelle Ruess Designer: Maria Kauzmann, MK Design 34 Class Notes 34 Miss Fine’s School Printed by Garrison Printing Company 41 Princeton Country Day School

The Journal is printed on 100 percent 44 Princeton Day School ^ < 9 post-consumer recycled paper 56 In Memoriam On the Cover: Illustration by John Woodcock, istockphoto.com LETTER FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL SCHOOL LIFE

Letter from Paul J. Stellato, Head of School

hile the school year demands that we travel fright). And shortly, students in my eighth grade English class many, many more miles before our summer’s will begin to dismiss themselves from class (“I can’t take that rest, the spring term beckons us to make all quiz right now, Mr. Stellato. I’m off to the theater!”), as they of it we can. Among the many uses to which piece together time to rehearse their songs and steps. we will turn its bright, warm days, spring in schools is a time But their participation in these traditions is the stuff of summing-up: for prospective students and their families, of magic. It begins with the disarming inattentiveness and who are trying to imagine their new lives on this marvelous casual boredom (along with the attendant revelation) that campus; and for those within the community, who begin to accompany all of these rituals: though third, seventh, and search for adjectives that will, for years to come, eleventh graders have witnessed and heard of describe and distinguish this year of years from these events year after year, they seem genu­ others so much like it. inely surprised (and, on occasion, somewhat I have to admit that, at this time of the year, terrified) when it is their turn to participate. conversations with friends of the school often They moan and complain. They roll their eyes, begin with: “So tell me, what kind of year it pout, stamp their feet, and strike poses that has been.” Eager always to answer that ques­ can only emphasize their informed and en­ tion but halting, occasionally, as I try to tie my lightened distance from these events. Yet, once answer to something other than my mood of the they have trod the stage and remembered their moment, I think I have found a response in that lines, opened and read their parents’ letters, or place where all questions about the school are belted out a show-stopper at a middle-school asked and resolved: the lives of our students. matinee, they become true believers: weeping In particular, three spring traditions - the lower and laughing, hugging and cackling, they are school operetta, the eighth grade musical, and at once swept away by something completely the twelfth grade 100-day celebration - are as much glimpses within themselves and then carried upon that very same tide into the culture as they are gauges of the success and certainty that has washed every Princeton Day School student who of the school year. has shared what they now share. For those of you who may know little about these mag­ So the second time around I knew what to look for, and nificent celebrations, let me give you a bit of background. my impression is much stronger than that of the first: pure The operetta is just that: a lavish, all-inclusive musical story, awe at the number of hours spent by faculty and kids alike in written and produced by members of the lower school faculty; each of these endeavors; unalloyed joy at the spectacle of the sung entirely by each and every fourth grader, and replete whole: the entire fourth grade on stage, every senior - all at with cameos by their teachers and the head of school. (Ask the same time - quietly reading letters from their parents, our a college senior what role she played in the operetta, and she soon-to-be high school freshmen reveling in the bright lights will name it more quickly than her current major.) The eighth of the McAneny Theater and one another’s company; and, of grade musical carries on the tradition begun with the operetta: greatest importance, the singular experience of each child - every eighth grader plays a role in this blockbuster which, like fourth, eighth, twelfth grader - confronting for him or herself its lower-school counterpart, is conceived of and produced by the richness of shared experience and the resounding pleasure the members of the middle school faculty. Finally, as much of individual accomplishment. With my faculty colleagues, I as senior projects or fat letters from colleges and universi­ have come to appreciate and understand these tender threads ties, the end of the beginning of the senior year occurs in late of youth that weave themselves into the sturdy bonds of adult­ February: 100 days, a senior gathering at which, in addition to hood, tethering each student to a campus he or she will always nachos and burgers, seniors feast on letters from their parents, call home. You see, as elusive as it may appear, history has who do their best to sum up their lives with and through their caught up with all of them: the personal history of each is now senior sons and daughters. part of the shared history of Princeton Day School. I have now experienced two of these events - the operetta What kind of year has it been? I will invoke a head of and 100 days - twice. Later this spring, I will sit in the audi­ school’s prerogative and encourage you to ask any fourth, ence and soak up a second performance by the eighth grade. eighth, or twelfth grader. I have spoken to the seniors at the 100-day celebration, only That is, if you can get the question out before the answer to witness stoic, heroic senior boys and girls utterly undone comes thundering back. by the heart-felt musings of their mothers. Too timid to do more than utter a line or two in last year’s operetta, this year I actually sang and danced a little (and got some good advice, from a practiced fourth-grade thespian, on dealing with stage Head of School

2 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 SCHOOL LIFE NEWS & EVENTS News 8 Events

Corporate Green Enhances Organic Garden Princeton Day School students cheered when Princeton-based Church & Dwight Co. presented a $6,000 check to support classroom activities re­ lated to the campus organic garden during a Lower School assembly. “At Church & Dwight, we want to help out a Friend the community,” said Church & Dwight represen­ i s s o m e o n e w h o tative Kirsten O ’Donnell. “We thought this was the coolest project!” STANDS BOJffQSt The funding will enable PDS to truly make the garden an outdoor classroom and embed garden learning into n your f'jtufe the curriculum, Sharing Cultures, particularly Embracing Differences c/CcePtS in the Lower School. Stu­ A dancing dragon. A drum m ing circle. A salsa con- y J u s t the dents will test. A day of silence. A day of remembrance. These 7 ,jUU Cfn^' work closely are some of the many ways PDS celebrates individu- ru* with Master al members of our community. Gardener Pam Princeton Day School strives to ensure that differences — in race, religion, Flori, learning about our relationship to the earth sexual orientation, ethnicity, socio-economic status, learning styles and points of through planting, composting and harvesting. view - are understood to be enhancing, not threatening. The PDS garden was “raised” in April 2008 “If education is a conversation, then the more voices participating in the when more than 200 students, parents, faculty and conversation, the more each participant will be enriched,” says PDS Diveristy alumni gathered for a one-day event creating raised Coordinator Sharanya Naik. beds for vegetables and raspberry bushes, an herb garden, a butterfly garden and (of course!) the all PDS Seniors important composting area. Named Bloustein Distinguished S cholars Class of 2010 members, pictured from left, Rebecca Golden, Ellis Ratner, Lizzy Yellin, Chris Gibson, Vic­ toria Maloney, Kelsey Burns, Dina Sharon and (not pictured) Sophia Weiss- mann were named Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholars based on their extraordinary academic achievements by the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority. “These students are not only exceptional scholars but also leaders in our PDS community,” said Upper School Head Carlton Tucker. “We are proud to see their accomplishments recognized in this way.”

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 3 NEWS 6 EVENTS SCHOOL LIFE

versatile (vur’sa-tal -til) adj. 1. Capable of doing many things competently.

Bon Temps a t PDS Princeton Day School kindergartners let les bon temps roulent during their annual Mardi Gras celebration. Each year, PDS students celebrate the holi­ day with elaborate, glittered shoebox floats reflecting a range of interests, from sports to pirates to space travel. With zydeco Robotics Team Builds Teamwork music setting the mood The PDS Panthers Robotics Team (abovej won a and costumed faculty Second Place trophy for research at the First State leading the way, kinder­ FLL Championship in Delaware, competing with gartners in feathered 47 LEGO robotics teams from schools throughout masks parade through the region. Lower School to the PDS students were recognized for their research delight of parents and presentation proposing an innovative subway train classmates — and then powered by fans, which also re-circulated the wind’s celebrate with King Cake. energy to a turbine to continue to power the train! The annual extravaganza was brought to PDS in 2006 by teacher and Congratulations to Roshan Benefo ’16, Yahya alum Jim Laughlin ’80, whose wife grew up in New Orleans and served as Ladiwala ’15, Daniel Ruggiero ’16, and Rohit a Queen of Hermes with one of the oldest Mardi Gras clubs. Each year, he Unnam ’15. shares authentic costumes, beads and culture with the entire Lower School.

Same Address, New Website

Thanks to the generosity of a Princeton Day School family, we recently unveiled a new, dynamic website reflecting the richness of our curriculum and our community. When you visit www.pds.org, you now are greeted by beautiful photographs of children enjoying the adventure of learning as it unfolds across our three divisions, in athletics, academics and the arts. Our partner in this project was WhippleHill Commu­ nications, selected based on the company’s experience and stellar reputation, as well as its website features. WhippleHill worked closely with our team of faculty and staff to design a new site that showcases our students and programs, encour­ ages alumni to keep in touch and enhances communication with our current families. Alumni and parents who already have logged in will have no trouble accessing important information for our com­ munity. Just click on Alumni or Parents in the upper right corner of the homepage and type in your username and password. If you haven’t logged in, please contact Director of Communication Michelle Ruess at [email protected] or 609 924-6700 for news you won’t want to miss! *

4 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 SCHOOL LIFE NEWS & EVENTS

curious (kyoor 'e-os) adj. 1. Eager to know and learn.

Adventures in Science Chemistry students combined sucrose, starch, potassium hydrogen tartrate and menthepeperita extract - to make candy canes - as their final lab before winter break. In January, physics students competed to see who could make the most ef- . ficient bridge using only 10 pieces of thin balsa wood and glue. Science Club members hosted a demo for third graders featuring fascinating special effects, including the “Genie in the Bottle” and Lower School students enjoyed showing off their expertise at the Science Fair.

Science kudos to: Science Olympiad Team for earning Fourth Place at the regional tournament, with students earning medals or ribbons in nearly a dozen events. Seniors Dina Sharon and Bobby Wei for their success in the 2009-2010 Delaware Valley Science Council Awards Program. Dina was named a Finalist based on her scores on chemistry and mathematics exams taken in October by seniors from 400 schools in the tri-state area. Bobby received an Honorable M ention in biology.

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 5 NEWS & EVENTS SCHOOL LIFE

... Taking Sides Seventh-grade students recently debated whether flag burning is a form of free speech with Chris Eisgruber, Prevost of Princeton University and a scholar on the Constitution and the Supreme Court. Using real-life examples and asking provocative questions, Dr. Eisgruber helped middle school students understand the complex issues facing the Court today. S p e a k i n g o f . . .

Free speech, Darfur, and President Lincoln are some of the topics outside speakers brought to Princeton Day School.

...Personal Stories from Darfur ...Looking Back to Abdelgabar Adam, a medical doctor born in the Darfur region of Sudan, and Darfur refugee Garelnabi Abusikin shared stories and images of life in Look Forward the refugee camps with PDS Upper School students during the annual Su­ Eric Foner, the 2010 Anne Rothrock Lecture san Moll Com munity Service Assembly. speaker, talked with Upper School students The assembly is held in memory of Susan Moll, parent of a Class of 2006 about his latest work on President Lincoln and alum, to honor her legacy of slavery. Dr. Foner is one of the nation’s most cel­ service to the school and wider ebrated and widely honored historians - and au­ community. thor of Give M e Liberty!., this year’s sophomore Violence has overshad­ history text. owed the lives of Darfur resi­ “The hall­ dents for more than 50 years, mark of Lincoln’s Dr. Adam said, but has esca­ greatness was lated since 2005, prompting his capacity for more than 600,000 residents growth,” Dr. to flee to Chad. Many refu­ Foner said. gees are children who arrive Com paring at camps after bombings and President Obama shootings have driven them with Lincoln, from home. They lack ad­ Dr. Foner noted that “both became major public Abdelgabar Adam (left) with Darfur refugee Garelnabi Abusikin. equate shelter, food and sanita­ figures by virtue of oratory.” tion. Mothers strive to stretch Dr. Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of flour, water and, if they are lucky, salt and some powdered milk, among History at Columbia University, received his more than a dozen children under their care. doctoral degree at Columbia under the supervi­ “That’s not life, that’s existence,” Dr. Adam said. “That’s just waiting for sion of Richard Hofstadter. He has appeared the time to die.” on Charlie Rose and “The Daily Show” with Mr. Abusikin, speaking in Arabic, told students how 65 members of John Stewart and is only the second person to his family have been lost in an attack on his village. “It is very difficult for serve as president of the three major professional me to tell you about my difficult life knowing your life is far better than organizations: the Organization of American the one I had,” he said through Dr. Adam’s translation. “With the help of Historians, American Historical Association, and people like you, I can be glad to go back and help.” Society of American Historians.

Stay connected to Princeton Day School at www.pds.org

6 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 SCHOOL LIFE NEWS & EVENTS

Helping Haiti PDS students, faculty and families rallied to help our neighbors in Haiti following the recent devastating earthquake. . • •# Lower School students collected “Pennies for Port- Au-Prince,” garnering more than $ 1,000 for Partners in Health, a nonprofit providing . medical personnel and sup­ plies to Haiti. - o Middle School students hosted bake sales and sold . * Valentine candy to raise n . c v x money for charities assist- .. H ing earthquake victims. Qro^ . And in Upper School, the ^ French Club, InterAct, q\,V v ...••*** Books of Hope and the Community Service committees or­ ganized drives to collect first aid supplies, as well as clothing and tents. Students also raised more than $1,000 selling doughnuts, cider and homemade waffles.

Looking for something fun this summer... 2010 Annual Fund Advances The Annual Fund is a mighty force for Princ­ PDS Summer Programs offers over 150 programs in eton Day School, contributing income equiva­ Arts, Academics, Athletics & Adventure. lent to roughly $24 million in endowment There is something for everyone in grades Pre-K - 12! each year. This year, our Annual Fund goal Check out the new easy online brochure & registration. is $1.2 million - funding needed to ensure www.pds.org/summerprograms Princeton Day School continues to be as great a school tomorrow as it is today. We remain committed to providing the best We are the World education possible for our students. And we depend on support from each member of this Students, faculty, parents and friends celebrated dynamic community to maintain and enhance World Read Aloud Day on March 3 by sharing the educational experience of our students. favorite stories throughout the day, throughout the Special thanks to members of this commu­ school. nity who have stepped forward to lead our An­ Spearheaded by Lower School teacher Bev nual Fund campaign. We hope you can show Gallagher, the PDS celebration included dozens your support for Princeton Day School by of guests who read stories in different languages joining our effort this year. The Annual Fund and from different cultures to students from closes June 30. prekindergarten up. Reading and sharing ideas are important parts 2009-10 Annual Fund Leadership of every school day at PDS, Ms. Gallagher said, Sean Brennan, Parent Chair and World Read Aloud Day provided an opportunity to share Howie Powers ’80, Alumni Chair our love of books with readers Todd Gudgel, Faculty & Staff Chair around the globe. Liza Morehouse, Jack Hall, The annual event helps raise Parent o f Alumni Co-Chairs awareness of the importance of Nancy Miller ’57, M FS Chair literacy and encourages world Jim Kilgore ’63, Jim Laughlin ’43, leaders to recognize that “Words Harry Rulon-Miller ’51, PCD Co-Chairs Change Worlds.” For more Marilyn Grounds, Former Trustee Chair information, visit the event Jacquie & Elwood Phares, Grandparent Chairs website www.litworld.org

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 7 PDS NOTABLE | SCHOOL LIFE

PDS Notable Father Dan Skvir Beloved teacher, mentor to explore new horizons

S By Bill Stoltzfus ■ tine’s Day. Who else could recurrent theme have summoned the en­ in my PDS fresh­ ergy after so many years of man Bible class teaching Bible and Russian is hesed, the Hebrew word to segue into the college Afor loyalty or steadfast love. guidance office and write The LORD maintains hesed more college recommen­ for Joseph, after he refuses dations than descendants Mrs. Potiphar’s advances promised to Abraham? and, framed, ends up in My own career at PDS prison. Ruth, a Moabite, has been a blessing and no displays hesed for her small amount of my good mother-in-law, the Israelite fortune is due to Father Naomi, by refusing to desert Dan. Early in 1985, four her in a time of extraordinary personal years after I began teaching middle sorrow. Jonathan, heir to the throne of school here and shortly before I mar­ Israel, shows hesed for David, defying ried my blushing bride Alison, Father his father King Saul to save his beloved Dan approached me, in­ Dan who mentored me ex friend from execution. It occurs to me explicably, to assist him nihilo, bequeathing to me now, thinking extra-Biblically, the per­ in the admissions office his syllabus which pro­ son who has most exhibited hesed over for two years, interview­ vided me a foundation not my career at PDS is Father Dan Skvir. ing prospective students, only for Bible class, but Loyalty manifests itself in numer­ calculating financial aid the structure for all of the ous ways. Few can compete with Father awards, and reaching out courses I have gone on to Dan’s attendance records at his alma to area public middle teach in the past 20 years. mater Princeton University’s football and schools. In the fall of The idea that a middle men’s basketball games. And steadfast­ 1989, I made the transi­ school history and math ness is surely the happiest way to charac­ tion from middle to up­ teacher had any business terize his devotion to his benighted New per school, entering the entering the Promised York Mets. Happiness is kin to joy, and religion department with Land is ludicrous, but Father Dan has labored joyfully in the Father Dan, my sainted hesed works in mysterious PDS vineyard longer than the Israelites mother, and Carl Reim- ways: not only did Father are said to have wandered the Sinai des­ ers shepherding the fold. Dan provide me with ert. Consider his inexhaustible ability to Thank God for Father Hebrew and Christian compile faculty meeting Scriptures curricula, but he notes over the decades. At the close of this school year, displayed an extraordinary Or his faithful adminis­ Father Dan Skvir will retire after 41 years level of tolerance toward tration of the Exchange as a teacher, administrator and friend. my early pedagogical Program, tirelessly facili­ Come celebrate and honor his work during stumblings. The gate was tating Gnome Week prior the Alumni Weekend Picnic at 1 p.m. indeed less narrow than I to winter break and the had been led to believe. Carnation Sale for Valen­ Saturday May 15 on the Colross Lawn. continued on page 24.

8 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 SCHOOL LIFE ARTS NOTES

aL iC e W o w s This year’s middle school fall play, “aLiCe in WonDErlaNd,” marked the world premiere of an original script by Middle School Drama Teacher Deb Sugarman based on the Lewis Carroll classic story of a rabbit running late, croquet games, tea parties and an infamous grinning cat. The production involved about 70 Middle School students, including actors and tech crew — all students willing to commit to the rigorous schedule of rehearsals, requiring two-hour practices four Visiting Composer days a week for about eight weeks. In February, Middle School singers “The kids are always coming enjoyed a visit from composer Jim up with great bits and we always Papoulis (above), who wrote one of their leave room for that,” favorite songs, “Give Us Hope.” Mr. she said. “It says Papoulis came to PDS at the invitation of something special MS music teacher Kellyann Westgate to about our Middle discuss putting ideas to music. School that we get so many students participating, (below) Veteran Broadway actor Jeffrey Schechter (front row center) came to PDS even though they to work with "A Chorus Line" cast members. are juggling so Mr. Schechter performed as Mike on many sports and Broadway and in high school with PDS other activities.” Technical Director Jeff Van Velsor.

...and now life really begins Cahill praised how actors handled the themes of Upper School actors earned standing ovations for the show, as well as the demanding choreography “A Chorus Line,” the Tony Award and Pulitzer and ensemble work. Without an elaborate set Prize-winning story of 17 dancers reaching for or costumes, he said, “this show depends on the their own Broadway spotlight. energy and talent of the performers; what they Conceived and originally directed and bring to the stage rather than what they find choreographed by Michael Bennett, the show there.” featured iconic song-and-dance numbers with The show was choreographed by PDS Artist- contemporary characters and a stark set design. in-Residence Ann Robideaux, with set design by Director and Theater Artist-in-Residence Stan Jeffrey Van Velsor, PDS Technical Director.

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 9 ARTS NOTES SCHOOL LIFE

Anne Reid '72 Gallery Exhibits Widen Horizons

Just Like Us Kids Earth Fund founder Harumi Torii visited the PDS exhibit of art created by children, for children and talked with students about the way children live in other parts of the world. PDS teamed up with Kids Earth Fund Americas to make original artwork by PDS students and children around the world available for purchase to benefit children Music Students suffering from poverty, war, and environ­ Share Talents mental disasters. Since 1988, Kids Earth Fund has provided worldwide dona­ tions of food, clothing, shelter, medicine, and educational and art materials and built homes for children who need care. “The children loved these projects, learned many valuable painting lessons in the process and expressed enthusiasm and a sense of pride that they could make a difference in the lives of other children,” said LS Art Teacher Tina Da- dian, the US representative of Kids Earth Fund Americas.

Distant Lives An exhibition of work by award- winning photographer and PDS Music is a tradition at faculty member Eileen Hohmuth- Princeton Day School Lemonick included images captured and winter concerts are an while Ms. Hohmuth-Lemonick opportunity to appreciate traveled in Africa chronicling the musicians from prekinder­ nursing shortage in Malawi. The garten through grade 12, story was published in the American from angelic singing Journal o f Nursing and featured on the CNN Fleadline News website. to jazz improvisations. The exhibit also included images from Ms. Hohmuth-Lemonick’s trip to the Republic of Georgia, where she photographed new mothers and their ba­ bies in maternity hospitals in Kutasi and Tbilisi. “I’ve long been focusing on people who live in developing countries, and who face challenges many in the developed world can’t easily imagine,” Ms. Hohmuth-Lemonick said, and these photographs provide “a kind of window” into how healthcare systems function in poor areas of the world.

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Upper School visual arts teacher Jerry Hir- niak in March exhibited a series of drawings as an installation in the gallery. Mr. Hirniak described the exhibit as a meditation on time, death and transforma­ tion. The basis for the drawings was a group 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 of cicada shells found in his backyard. The resin that encases each shell both preserves it in time and simultaneously, through its forceful energy, desecrates it. "I am interested in how spaces, objects and images carry and commu­ nicate complex memory, and as a result, the installed works function as a complex and shifting reminder of events, feelings and memories blurred by time,” Mr. Hirniak said.

Upcoming Art PDS Student Show f April 26 - May 14 Gallery Shows: PDS Senior Thesis f May 24-June 11

10 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 SCHOOL LIFE ARTS NOTES

Furniture Design What do you get when you decon­ struct an Ikea chair? Woodworking teacher Chris Maher was pleased by the creativity of students who worked with computer models and then turned their ideas into real-life furniture. Surprises Around the World The Class of 2018 operetta was a smash hit! “Around the World in an Hour-and-a-Half” showcased the talents of the entire fourth grade, with a little help from celebrity singers including Head of School Paul J. Stellato (right). r National Finalist A p p l a u s e ! Christopher J. Beard ’10 is one of seven National Y o u n g Finalists competing in the 2010 Music Teachers Princeton Day School celebrates achievements National Association Senior Voice Competition in M u sician s Albuquerque, NM. in the Arts. I f you know anyone who should Chris earned this opportunity by winning the be listed in our next issue, please contact Fifth-grader Chris Su­ arez is representing the 13-state Eastern Division of the MTNA Senior Director o f Communication Michelle Ruess at US as the headlining Voice Competition. He is a private vocal student [email protected] or 609 924-6700 xl280 act at the Young World of Dauri Shippey, and a veteran of the Performing Composers Winners Arts Program at PDS. Photography Awards Recital during the In addition to the MTNA recognition, Chris recently PDS students won two grand prizes in the Photo Golden Key of Vienna was named a 2010 National Imaging Education Association (PIEA) national music festival this sum­ Foundation for the Advance­ photography competition. Winners receive signifi­ mer in Vienna, Austria. ment of the Arts youngArts cant photographic equipment for their use and their Fourth-grader Gautam Award Winner for Voice/ school. “This is an all-time first!” exclaimed Photog­ Ramesh won second Tenor, ranking among the top ten male classical raphy Teacher Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick. place at the Interna­ vocalists aged 17-18 in the U.S. The youngArts Priyanka Trivedi ’10 won Grand Prize for a single tional Golden Key program is considered the most prestigious com­ image among students in grades 10, 11 or 12. Music Composition petition offered in support of emerging artists. Grand Prize for grades 9 and under for a single Competition and his Chris also is a Regional Finalist in the Clas­ image was awarded to Adriana van Manen ’12 composition, “Taran­ sical Singer Magazine High School Competition for “Fleeing,” with Robbie Klein ’12 receiving an tella in D Locrian scale” and is scheduled to sing at the National Finals in Honorable Mention. will be performed at the May. In December, Chris made his Carnegie Hall World Young Compos­ solo debut as a First Place winner in the TYMA Svitlana Lymar ’11 was named a Third Place ers’ recital in Vienna. Young Artist Russian Music Festival Competition. Winner in the 11th and 12th grade Visual Arts contest sponsored by Princeton University’s Published Author Martin Luther King Day Committee. Alexus Davis ’11 published a novel, “Juke Joint,” “I thought it was a distributed by amazon.com. good idea to capture Lexie was encouraged to write the book after my diverse group of meeting with popular author Jamie Adoff, a visiting friends,” she said. “It was artist who participated in the Imagine the Possibilities really fun and interest­ program at Princeton Day School. Lexie corresponded ing to take a step back with Mr. Adoff, who read her manuscript and and see how Dr. Kings recommended ways to publish her work. work has changed the She describes the book “a cautionary tale about America I live in today.” how substance abuse affects relationships.”

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 11 SPORTS NOTES SCHOOL LIFE Notes

From the desk of Director of Athletics John Levandowski:

Well it certainly was a winter for the ages! The weather earned headlines with record snowfalls but our athletes stole the spotlight. Highlights include: • Boys’ ice hockey winning the Mercer County Championship • A Prep State Title for our Boys fencing sabre team • Girls varsity basketball earning the most wins since 1995 — and finishing second in the Prep states. We are the Champions • A Mercer County semi-final appearance for boys varsity basketball Congratulations to the Princeton Day School Our recent winter athletic awards ceremony celebrated these achievements Varsity Boys Hockey Team and Coach Scott Bertoli and many others. But we also reminded student-athletes of the deeper on their exciting 3-0 victory over Princeton High meaning and value of athletic participation, looking to the Winter Olympic School to win the Mercer County Championship. Games for examples. The Panthers played before a standing-room Perhaps because I grew up in New England, I learned to make the best of the only crowd at Mercer County Park rink and PDS winter months. My friends and I would spend our free time sneaking into the freshman Alex Nespor was named MVP. town gym to play pick-up basketball, shoveling the local pond for ice hockey or ice fishing, which is truly an exercise of patience and, in retrospect, not the most PDS Fencers Win First Place exciting activity. Princeton Day School Fencing At any rate, for someone excited about ice fishing, you can imagine how Team Co-Captain Katie Elbert we felt when the winter Olympics rolled around showcasing the luge, bobsled, ’10 won First Place in Girls ski-jump, and the downhill, among others. Individual Foil and the Boys Today, I view the Olympic Games in a much different light. Now what I Sabre Team, including Team find particularly exciting is not a specific event, but the “attitude” embraced by Co-Captain Spencer Pretecrum ’10, these elite athletes. Charlie Behling ’10 and Andrew In interviews and feature stories, each Olympian shared a similar outlook... Schroeder ’11 finished on top they love the opportunity...they love representing their country...they love the during the Prep State Champion­ camaraderie... they love their sport and the sense of purpose it provides and, ship hosted by PDS. above all they love the competition. PDS also won Third Place in Girls Epee, Girls And, without exception, they said competition is not just about winning Foil and Girls Sabre to catpure Third Place Overall — it is about doing your very best and enjoying the ride! honors and Sophia Weissmann ’10 earned Second Iheir message is important for all of us. I hope when our student-athletes Place in Girls Epee. reflect on this winter season they will share a bond with these Olympic athletes. They, too, enjoyed the competition, the friendships, the sense of purpose. They also loved playing their sports and most important, Mercer County they committed themselves 100 percent! Semi-finals And like the Olympic athletes we cheered, our student-athletes The Panthers fought back from should take pride in all their accomplishments. I congratulate them a fourth quarter deficit to defeat on their success and for representing PDS with spirit and class. Hopewell Valley and earn a spot in Go Panthers! the semi-final game of the Mercer County Tournament, prompting local sports writers to praise the 12th-seeded team’s "grit, stifling John Levandowski defense and clutch shooting." Director of Athletics

12 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 SCHOOL LIFE SPORTS NOTES

Panthers In the News B eyond PDS • The Trenton Times named its list • Mercer County Sunshine Classic of All-Decade Athletes, including Aiden Epply-Schmidt ’10 and Sportsmanship Celebrated Jon Scott ’10 in baseball and Dylan Kelly ’10 Neil Karandikar ’10 was selected as one of Samantha Lieb ’11 in tennis. Soccer only four recipients nationwide of the 2009 Field Hockey • Mercer 33 - Courtland Lackey ’10 Bill Talbert Junior Sportsmanship Award. • Central Jersey Field Hockey Association and Jess Frieder ’10 The selection process involves all of the First Team: Sydney Jenkins ’11 • Mercer County Girls A ll Stars United States Tennis Association’s 17 sections, Honorable Mention: Courtney Courtland Lackey ’10, Caitlin according to the USTA, and “is a highly pres­ Klein ’11, Carly Ozarowski ’12, Shannon ’10 and Tara Glancey ’10 tigious honor that recognizes the outstanding and Andrea Jenkins ’13 • 2009 Prep 'B’ Girls Soccer sportsmanship you have displayed in your tour­ • State Prep B A ll Stars - Sydney All- Tournament Team nam ent play.” Jenkins ’11 and Andrea Jenkins ’13 First Team: Courtland Lackey ’10 Neil and a guest are invited to an award and Janie Smukler ’12 ceremony at the International Tennis Hall of Basketball • Mercer County Boys A ll Stars Fame in Newport, RI in July when some of the • Kenny Holzhammer ’10 hit Owen Haney ’10 world’s greatest tennis legends will be inducted 1,000 points and helped the • 2009 NJISAA Boys Soccer All Star Team into the Hall of Fame. Panthers get to the semifinals of First Team: Owen Haney ’10 Neil also received the Middle States Tennis the Mercer County Tournament. Second Team: Justin Ward ’11 Sportsmanship Award for 2009 in the 18-and- Football and Robby Smukler ’11 under division. He is ranked No. 3 in the • 12th Man Touchdown Club Honorable Mention: Maxime MSTA 18-and-under division. Jamier Gee ’11, Dylan Kelly ’10 Hoppenot ’11 and Kevin In addition, Samantha Asch ’13 received and Aidan Epply-Schmidt ’10 Francfort ’11 this year’s Middle States Tennis Sportsmanship • 2009 All-Prep Teams Award for the 16-and-under division. Saman­ Tennis First Team Defense: Dylan Kelly ’10 tha competes in both the 16-and-under and • Undefeated Seasons: Samantha Lieb and Aidan Epply-Schmidt ’10 18-and-under divisions and is currently ranked ’11 and Samantha Asch ’13 Second Team Defense: Davon third and ninth, respectively. • Mercer County and Prep A Champions Reed ’13 and Stephen D illon ’10 Samantha Lieb ’11 and Samantha Second Team Offense: Jamier More Honors Celebrated... Asch ’13 (singles) Gee ’11, Joshua Meekins ’10 and • Undefeated Regular Season - • Clint O’Brien ’06 was named to Trenton Evan Quinn ’10 Prep A Champions Times All-Decade Ail-Prep Team. • Tri-State Prep League Teams Nicole Keim ’12 and Samantha First Team Offense: Aidan Epply- Schaeffer’11 (doubles) • David Holland ’08 was named as one of the Schmidt ’10 and Dylan Kelly ’10 Trenton Times All-Decade Tennis Players. First Team Defense: Jamier Gee ’11 and Aidan Epply-Schmidt ’10 • Drew Godwin ’06 was named as the Trenton Honorable Mention: Davon Reed Times All-Decade Basketball All-Prep Second ’13 and Stephen Dillon ’10. Team. Senior Drew Godwin (15) scored his first collegiate varsity points on a jumper with 10 Crossing the Finish Line seconds remaining in the Quakers’ January 25 Kudos to Adam Fisch ’11 who brought home a Prep B Track Championship game against Saint Joseph’s. Godwin spent his for PDS. Adam earned Second Place in the mile, with a time of 4:30.60 and first three-plus years at Penn on the JV team Fifth Place in the two- mile at 10:15 to earn 10 points and make PDS the top in before being called up. overall standings. • Asante Brooks ’06 was named Second-Team Adam, along All NESCAC in Men’s Soccer at Wesleyan. with PDS Cross w Asante, a senior at Wesleyan University in Country team­ Middletown, CT, and a resident of Princeton mates also earned NJ, was a second-team choice in men’s soccer First Place in the by the New England Small College Athletic Patriot Conference Conference (NESCAC), an 11-member championship and conference to which Wesleyan belongs, following Second Place in an outstanding 2009 campaign by the Cardinals. the Prep B run­ Adam Fisch '11 led a 1, 2, 3, 4 finish - followed by Charlie • Colby LAX player Patrick Briody ’06 scored ning cross country Behling '10, Meade Atkeson '11 and Nick Rehmus '11, this fall. as the Panthers earned a second boys Patriot Conference the winning goal against Trinity in a recent game. Cross-Country Championship.

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 13 FACULTY NOTES SCHOOL LIFE FacultyNotes

Grants Reflect Respect for Teachers The Next Best Seller Head of School Paul J. Stellato recently announced that a Fans of PDS Poet-in-Residence Judy $1.75 million gift has been devoted to dramatically expanding Michaels gathered in February to professional development opportunities for teachers at Princeton celebrate publication of her second book Day School. of poems,' Reviewing the Skull. “This magnitude of generosity and support is remarkable,” The collection, published by WordTech, Mr. Stellato noted, “and a gift of this scope demonstrates a includes poems inspired by her battle profound understanding of the importance of great teachers against cancer and her experiences in PDS classrooms. In his and teaching. It shows, as well, the deep, genuine affection and review, Richard M cCann, author of Mother o f Sorrows, wrote: respect that our families - and one, in particular — feel for their “...Michaels’ poems are as brave as they are beautiful, poised children’s teachers.” so delicately, as they are, between the said and the unsaid.” The gift, received as part of the school’s recent $53 million Books can be ordered online from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. capital campaign, was made by a family wishing to remain anonymous. The Minerva Fund for Professional Development On the Road will provide opportunities for faculty through both an annual Upper School English teacher Susan Stein has been traveling grant program and endowment for faculty sabbaticals. around the world and the country performing her original play “It is fitting that this program is named for the Roman goddess “Etty” based on the diaries of Holocaust victim Etty Hillesum. of wisdom,” Mr. Stellato said, “as this most generous gift reflects Ms. Stein spent a yearlong sabbatical adapting the diaries of the wisdom, long-held and practiced at Princeton Day School, Etty Hillesum into a one-actor play directed by Austin Pend­ that through and with great teachers, all things are possible for our leton, an actor and playwright who has directed three Tony- students. It allows Princeton Day School to renew and reaffirm its nominated Broadway productions and teaches acting at the HB commitment to the professional growth of its faculty.” Studio in New York. Ms. Stein already has performed “Etty” at the Paramount Environmental Leadership Center for the Arts in Peekskill, NY and the HB Playwrights Foundation & Theatre in New York City. She then brought the Upper School English teach­ play to Europe, where she performed the play in Belgium and er Liz Cutler was honored Holland and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. by the Princeton Environ­ “Etty’s words, insights and beliefs reach out from the Ho­ mental Commission with a locaust and allow us to see the power of hope and individual 2009 Sustainable Princeton thought in the most extreme circumstances...,’’ Ms. Stein said. Leadership Award. “In her gentle yet forthright way, Etty asks us not to leave her at Ms. Cutler, who also Auschwitz but to let her have a bit of say in what she hopes will serves as Princeton Day be a new world.” School Sustainability Coor­ dinator, is a longtime advocate for protecting the environment Celebrity Chef whose passion has inspired countless students and parents. After-School teacher Devon Delaney is a finalist in the national Under her guidance, PDS has launched an initiative includ­ Pillsbury Bake-Off to be held in late spring. ing a curriculum that integrates sustainability issues, a campus “The Pillsbury Bake-Off is the Super Bowl of recipe contests organic garden and energy conservation measures, resulting in and certainly has the biggest prize out there, but I was willing to numerous awards including First Place among independent give it a try,” she said. “Imagine my surprise when they called me schools in the 2009 National Green Cup Challenge. to tell me I was a finalist for the first time.” In addition, Ms. Cutler in 2007 founded OASIS, Organizing Contestants must be amateur cooks and the ingredients have Action on Sustainability in Schools, a consortium of area schools to be accessible, she said - but sometimes you can score points dedicated to learning about and promoting sustainability on for using interesting ingredients, such as Ancho Chili Powder or campus. the pickled jalapenos that she uses in her recipe for “Snappy Joes on Texas Toast.”

14 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 SCHOOL LIFE FACULTY NOTES

Getting to Know You Faculty Award Fosters Community

isitors to Lower School this year have been greeted by a weekly Reflections And colorful display spotlighting members of the Princeton Perspectives (RAP) sessions, Day School community, a project helping students build with students, teachers and V relationships with familiar faces they see on campus. counselors tackling topics Lower School students interviewed community members such as bullying and peer including the Lower School librarian, science, music and art pressure. Middle School teachers, food service workers, administrators - even Head of students also learn role School Paul J. Stellato — and buildings and grounds staff before modeling while reading and Lower Schoolers hug teacher Sonia Flores-Khan. creating posters about each person. working with our youngest “Students might students. see someone but “We never have to leave our building to find so many co.. 'v* ro ’ u, ro 0 they don’t usually opportunities to build community,” Ms. Zarzecki said.

■ V% have a chance Likewise, in Lower School, the poster project has nurtured to sit and chat,” friendships among students and others throughout the PDS said Third Grade” community, Ms. Ferguson said, and encouraged students to Teacher Betsy behave kindly and responsibly. Rizza. “This “We’re the ones who have to model respect and a sense of gave everyone community,” Ms. Ferguson said. “It starts when you’re young - a chance to you know you’re part of a bigger picture at PDS.” share a little PDS staff featured on the “Getting to Know You” wall know about their their efforts are appreciated. lives (and) what they like about their Chris Devlin, of buildings and grounds, was interviewed jobs.. ..It allows for a different kind of connection and more of a by Jim Laughlin’s kindergarten class. They asked him about his community feeling.” job at PDS and his family, For example, once children talked with and learned about created a poster based on his Yong Kim, who helps clean the Lower School, they became responses and introduced more mindful of cleaning up their work areas and not leaving him to the entire Lower a mess, Ms. Rizza said. “It’s much easier to show genuine School during a weekly appreciation when you know them, when you can say hello to assembly. people by name.” The event demonstrated This project the community’s grew out of the work of appreciation for him — and Lower School teachers the memory continues to Susan Ferguson, Heather bring a smile to his face Maione and Middle no matter what else is School dean Donna happening that day. Zarzecki, who received “W hen I walk past a David C. Bogle Award Jim’s kindergarten class, in 2008 to develop a all I hear is ‘Mr. Chris! First graders interviewed Head of character education/ Mr. Chris!’ and I get School Paul J. Stellato. community building about 15 hugs,” Mr. initiative. Their efforts Devlin said. reflect the commitment at PDS to educate the whole child — Although he was a familiar face to students before academically, socially, emotionally and globally. the project, they now greet him by name. And when Mr. Devlin In Middle School, Ms. Zarzecki helped organize skits is directing traffic, students often roll down the window to wave during the weekly Focus assembly promoting values such as as they go past. “It brings a relationship to the face,” he said. kindness and honesty. Such topics also are discussed during “I feel like I’m everybody’s uncle.” ■

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 15 ALUMNI AWARDS ALUMNI NEWS

CURTIS WEBSTER 75 Alumni Service Award A Commitment That Circles the Globe

By Linda Maxwell Stefanelli ’62

ne might wonder what Amelia 2001 The American School in Switzerland Earhart, Olympic figure skaters, (TASIS), from which Mr. Webster gradu­ albinos in Tanzania, Miss Scot­ ated, sponsored a trip to Romania to help O land, rap music, Romanian children with abandoned children living with AIDS. AIDS, free concerts in Princeton, children Their plight was so compelling that, after of Taiwanese prisoners and vampire bats returning to Switzerland, the school’s de­ have in common. The answer is Curtis velopment director, Frank Klein, worked McGraw Webster. The list represents with TASIS students and the Romanian just a few of the people and projects that government to set up foster care centers have benefitted from his involvement and support. for the children. Mr. Webster, a friend of Dr. Klein’s and a TA­ “At any given time there are about 20 different things I’m SIS board member, asked to join his efforts. working on,” he says laughing. “If I thought about it all at once, “He was immediately very interested in the work we were do­ I’d be overwhelmed. So whatever is in front of me at the mo­ ing,” Dr. Klein says. “Curtis is a very open-minded and positive ment is what I focus on.” person. He’s a very warm fellow, someone who’s totally supportive, Eclectic and far-reaching, his volunteer efforts have had a very empathetic and who will bend over backwards to help you.” global impact for which he will be recognized with the 2010 Mr. Webster visits Romania regularly and has helped set up vo­ Princeton Day School Alumni Service Award on May 15. cational training and educational opportunities for older children . , . r . Mr. Webster has been there. He serves as A C N ’s senior vice president and chief financial Eclectic CLYLU Jdr-vcuchivig, able to blend his artistic officer, handling most of its legal, budgetary and tax work. his volunteer efforts have technol°glcaI talents. “He’s the behind-the-scenes person you absolutely have to JJ More than 30 years ago have in order to become a success,” says Dr. Klein, now the full­ had a global impact. he married his extensive time president of ACN. computer knowledge to his Since its founding, ACN (www.assistingchildreninneed.com) love of the media arts and founded The Vertical Corporation, a has expanded to support projects in other countries. In Tanza­ music production facility in Manhattan. He has written origi­ nia, it offers safe havens for albino children who are attacked. In nal music for the theater and produced everything from rap Moldova, it funds shelters and vocational training for teenagers music to advertising jingles. Some years ago one of the bands at risk of being sold as sex slaves or forced labor. It repaired a he worked with had a Top 20 hit in England and Europe. He Guatemalan orphanage to end nightly attacks by vampire bats has worked on sound design and original music for New York and has built shelters for the abandoned children of incarcerated theater productions and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scot­ parents in Taiwan. land. Last fall he wrote music for the New Yorkers for Parks Mr. Webster also serves as president of the Patriot Theater annual film gala and worked on the music for Miss Scotland’s Foundation which funds educational performing arts program­ talent piece in the Miss World competition. In addition, he ming in Trenton. It was founded in 2004 when Molly Sword collects vintage musical equipment, including many antique McDonough ’75, then director of Patriot’s Theater at The War analog synthesizers. Memorial, sought to offset state budget cuts to programming His work could be all-consuming, but Mr. Webster has cho­ with private funding. The foundation has provided tens of thou­ sen to volunteer a great amount of his time to improving the sands of free performing arts experiences for students in kinder­ lives of others through non-profit organizations. One of these garten through twelfth grade. is Assisting Children in Need (ACN), an international char­ “Curtis was the driving force behind creating the foundation in ity that grew out of a student community service project. In continued on page 19

16 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI AWARDS ALUMNI NEWS

REGAN HOFMANN ’85 Alumni Achievement Award On the Frontlines of the HIV/AIDS Battle

By Linda Maxwell Stefanelli ’62

or 10 years, Regan Hofmann struggled Eventually, I realized I was being selfish. If my with a terrifying secret. At a time when child or friend was sick or dying, I would want most young women begin to realize their a chance to help and to say goodbye.” Fplans for the future - she was told she had a year, So three torturous months after her maybe two, to live because she was H IV positive. diagnosis, she told her father, her mother and Ms. Hofmann was shocked; she looked and felt her sister. They responded with unwavering perfectly healthy. Days after her diagnosis, over­ emotional support as well as practical help, whelmed with fear, anger, disbelief and frustration, finding a specialist who prescribed medication she stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror that slowed the advance of the virus. and became so enraged, she smashed it to pieces. For the next decade, Ms. Hofmann told only It was then, surrounded by shattered glass and shattered dreams, a few others. But sharing the truth finally freed her from the she vowed to pick up the pieces and fight for her life. shadows and launched the work that has changed her life and Fourteen years later, Ms. Hofm ann has turned a life- lives of people around the world. c l • 1 1 threatening illness into a chance to fulfill her dream of becoming Ms. Hofmann had received a Sharing the tVUth. an author and a journalist whose words are helping to change B.A. in creative writing from Trinity { j c c d h e V frOTYl the world for the better. Her efforts to educate people about College in Hartford, CT. She worked ^ J the pandemic and slow its spread are recognized with the 2010 as a research assistant at CBS News’ the shudow s... Princeton Day School Alumni Achievement Award. “60 M inutes” and at several top New “I’m so grateful for this prestigious award,” she says. “W hen York advertising agencies. In 1995, she founded an arts and I was diagnosed, I thought, ‘I’ll never have a baby, I’ll never entertainment magazine, Poets, Artists and Madmen. After she see my sister grow up, I’ll never go back for my high school was diagnosed in 1996, she freelanced for national magazines, reunion.’ ...To have survived and be able to come back to PDS then returned to New Jersey and in 1998 helped launch New to be acknowledged for my work is just so wonderful.” Jersey Life magazine, eventually becoming its editor-in-chief. HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) kills the body’s white In addition, she wrote anonymously for POZ, a magazine for blood cells that help fight infection. Over time, it can destroy the people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. In January 2006 immune system and lead to AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency she was appointed editor-in-chief for POZ and appeared on its syndrome). With proper treatment, the progression to AIDS can April cover declaring: “I am no longer afraid to say I have HIV.” be halted and people can live normal lives. For more information, “Her public disclosure was such a good decision for her,” says visit the P O Z website, www.poz.com her sister Tracy Hofmann ’87. “People are drawn to her and she’s Ms. Hofmann wrestled with sharing her diagnosis. Although a role model for them about this unbelievably scary disease. Her she readily accepted responsibility for informing those who energy and her passion are extraordinary.” might be at risk, telling others presented a dilemma. Today Ms. Hofmann is also editorial director for P O Z ’s parent “The first thing you want to do when company, Smart + Strong, overseeing a someone tells you you’re dying is turn Hear Regan Hofmann '85 discuss variety of magazines and websites about other critical health concerns. She fre­ to the people you love,” she says. “But her experience and the fight against I worried that because of the nature quently works on Capitol Hill and with of HIV, asking for that help would be HIV/AIDS during Alumni Weekend. the Office of National AIDS Policy at the devastating to them. I was also afraid of 11 a.m. Saturday May 15 White House. Secretary of Health Kath­ being judged by them and asking them McAneny Theater leen Sebelius recently appointed her to the to carry the burden of keeping my secret. continued on page 23

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 17 ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI AWARDS

TAJ FORER ’00 Outstanding Young Alumnni Award Looking at the World through a Wide Lens

By Linda Maxwell Stefanelli ’62

aj Forer was 13 when he discov­ “The seeds that were planted at Wal­ ered his father’s dusty old camera dorf, grew and were nourished at PDS.” in the basement and began taking Taj agrees, saying he took his first pho­ pictures. He has not stopped since. tography class as a freshman and was “I just fell in love with the medium,” hooked. “I took as many (photography he says. “It resonated with me instantly.” classes) as I was allowed to take,” Today, just 10 years since graduat­ he says. ing from Princeton Day School, he pro­ “Taj was very creative right vides a global platform for others to ex­ from the start,” remembers PDS press their views through photography. photography teacher Eileen He is the co-founder and publisher of Hohmuth-Lemonick to whom Daylight magazine, an award-winning Mr. Forer dedicated his 2007 publication featuring photographic book, Threefold Sun. “And he essays on current issues of concern by was always incredibly decent. photographers from around the world. He had really good values. He also administers the Daylight Com­ He stood out in terms of munity Arts Foundation, a non-profit or­ his integrity.” ganization that seeks to affect social change “Mrs. H. challenged me,” Mr. through photography. It donates photo­ Forer says. “She pushed me and helped me acknowledge graphic equipment so communities can the significance of what I was doing.” visually share their stories and point of view. In recognition of He went to Sarah Lawrence College where he completed his deep commitment to promoting international understand­ his B.A. with a concentration in photography and philosophy. ing, Mr. Forer will be honored with the 2010 PDS Outstanding That was where he met Michael Itkoff who later became his Young Alumni Award. business partner. Mr. Forer attended the local Waldorf School until he entered “We had similar ideas about photography and the power PDS in eighth grade and believes the early emphasis on nature, of the photographic medium to transcend the gallery wall and T . r 11 • 1 the environment and a concern for potentially affect positive social, political and environmental 1 just fell in love humanityhad a great impact. change in the world,” Mr. Forer says. with the medium. His Parents (felt television and elec­ They conceived Daylight magazine to showcase their own tronics could “short circuit” their work but soon realized there were so many perspectives that de­ sons’ imaginations. “We chose an ‘unplugged’ childhood and served to be seen, they put their energies into presenting other that made all the difference,” Nancy Forer says of Taj and Leif photographers. ’98. “When Taj came to PDS as an adolescent, being unjaded “We put our own work on the back burner to promote the by technology, he had a very respectful curiosity for the next careers of really important emerging photographers,” Mr. Forer step and a really wide-eyed eagerness and readiness to take on says. “We work really hard to find photographers from all over the new challenges and opportunities. Then, of course, there was the world, from different socioeconomic backgrounds, and to that state-of-the-art photography room! He was so hungry to bring their work together in a cohesive format that ultimately learn. It was a whole new world.” continued on page 19

18 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI AWARDS ALUMNI NEWS

TAJ FORER '00 CURTIS WEBSTER 75 to go try to find Amelia Earhart!” Mr. Young Alumni Award continued... Alumni Service Award continued... Webster says proudly. They will be working under the aus­ results in a different look at our theme or terms of his support and his enthusiasm,” pices of The International Group for the subject matter... she says. “His recruitment of other people Recovery of Historic Aircraft (Tighar “We let our hand be seen through the and his vision of how we could help in the - www.tighar.org) with filmmaker and editorial process, the selection of themes. city of Trenton were invaluable.” Tighar board member Russell Matthews Our work is much more curatorial than it Mr. Webster also co-founded Blue ’86 in an attempt to prove the theory that is editorial.” Curtain, a non-profit organization that Ms. Earhart disappeared after landing on Daylight appears twice a year, online stages free summer concerts in the out­ a small South Pacific island. at daylightmagazine.org, on news stands door amphitheater in Princeton’s Pet- Mr. Webster and his daughter also and in museum, college and commercial toranello Park. Audiences are treated to work together at the Curtis W. McGraw bookstores. a wide range of musical offerings as well Foundation where he serves as president The Daylight Community Arts Foun­ as free refreshments. Mr. Webster and his and she is a vice president. In addition, dation (DCAF) seeks to connect people partners book the musicians and do the he runs the Lisa McGraw Figure Skating from underprivileged communities to the sound for the concerts. Foundation, founded with his mother, rest of the world through photography. It “He is very wise and thoughtful about Lisa McGraw Webster ’44, supporting has donated cameras, set up darkrooms giving to the right places,” Ms. McDonough figure skaters such as 2010 US Champion and digital imaging facilities, offered says, “and he brings that wisdom to the and Olympic contender Jeremy Abbott workshops in photography and put on table in everything in which he’s involved.” and Olympic medalists Nancy Kerrigan local and traveling exhibitions. Mr. Webster volunteers with family as and Paul Wylie. In February Mr. Webster One of the foundation’s most suc­ well as friends. His wife, Jennifer Ortega, and his mother traveled to Vancouver to cessful projects occurred in Iraq in is a theater artist and board chair of the cheer on their skaters at the Olympics. 2004. At that time, the war was at its El Puente School in Brooklyn. Theo, his “He revels in the accomplishments height and, although reporters from daughter by a previous marriage, is work­ and artistry and skill of the people that around the world were covering the ac­ ing toward her master’s degree in Latin at they help support,” Ms. McDonough tion, Iraqi civilians had few opportuni­ Columbia University. She has an interest says. “He uses the resources available to ties to tell their story. in archeology and plans to join her father him to provide extraordinary experiences “Through our contacts, we gave on an expedition to the South Pacific. for other people, whether it’s in Trenton 10 single-use cameras to 10 people in “In June my daughter and I are going or Princeton or Romania.” ■ Baghdad and Fallujah,” Mr. Forer says. “We told them it was an opportunity to Alumni Awards and Athletic Hall of Fame Reception & Ceremony share their perspective with the American 5:30 p.m. Saturday May 15 on the Colross Lawn people. We got all 10 rolls of film back, then partnered with Pixel Press to create a traveling exhibition of the photographs.” From Wall Street to The Great Road In order to sustain DCAF, Mr. Forer Meet Katherine Fay, who recently joined Princeton Day has had to learn the intricacies of fund School as Associate Director of the Annual Fund. raising. “On top of learning how to be a Katie, a graduate of Duke University and Deerfield photographer,” he says, “I’ve had to learn Academy, is focused on alumni giving at PDS. She appre­ how to be a publisher, editor, teacher, ciates the strong connection members of our community manage a non-profit organization, put share with classmates and former faculty. After launching a on fund raisers and solicit donations Facebook page for alumni, she saw the number of “friends” from individuals and corporations.” But grow from nine at the end of the day to 1,000 at the end of he would not have it any other way and, the week to more than 2,500. Katie also has enjoyed meet­ fortunately, he still finds time to shoot his ing with alumni from the Class of 1951 to the Class of 2009. own photographs. “I’ve always been impressed by the positive feelings people have for PDS,” she “I’m working on a visual archive said. “Hundreds of PDS, PCD and Miss Fine’s alums give back, which says a lot of objects that represent the skills and about their pride in the school.” knowledge that have sustained human Before joining the PDS community, Katie spent four years at Lehman Broth­ existence for most of its life span but seem ers in both New York and London prior to taking her most recent post at a New to be vanishing today,” he says. York-based hedge fund. At PDS, she not only works with alumni but also coaches Mr. Forer exhibits in New York at JV soccer and lacrosse. And the change suits her. Yossi Milo, one of the most important “I had an incredible experience at Deerfield and always knew I wanted to be galleries in Chelsea, and SENDA Gallery back in an independent school environment,” Katie said. “I had given Wall Street in Spain. He is also a lecturer at the Uni­ five years and was ready to do something I really loved. I’m still in the asset-raising versity of North Carolina in Chapel Hill business — but now the ‘product’ is something I truly believe in.” ■ where he lives with his wife Kate. ■

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 19 ALUMNI NEWS ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME

Bash Family & Ferrante Family 2010 Athletic Hall of Fame Honorees

All in the Family: Bash and Ferrante Athletes Epitomize School Tradition

By Linda Maxwell Stefanelli ’62

This year’s Athletic Hall of Fame mong them, the Bash and age what it felt like to lose because I was Ferrante siblings participated in always around older boys and I lost a lot. inductees are nine scholar athletes almost every sport PDS offered: But it worked to my advantage because from two remarkable sports girls soccer, boys soccer, field hockey,when I played against guys my own age, Agirls ice hockey, girls basketball, boys I had much success.” families who epitomize all the basketball, squash, gymnastics, wrestling, Evan Bash agrees. “Sports were just qualities Princeton Day School ski club, girls lacrosse, boys lacrosse, boys something we did as three active, healthy tennis and golf. The teams on which they boys growing up together,” he says. “We seeks to instill in its students. The played won 14 championship titles and, loved sports, whether we were stringing three Bash brothers — Steven ’72, individually, four were awarded the Gold up a rope in the driveway for a tennis net, P for athletic skill and sportsmanship. shoveling snow to get to the basketball Evan ’74 and Gregory ’75 — and “The Bash and Ferrante families are hoop hanging off the garage, or arguing the six Ferrantes — Giovanni ’72, very deserving of this honor,” says former about a fair or foul ball while playing Upper School Head Sandy Bing. “In wiffle ball in our yard.” Cameron ’74, Grayson ’75, many ways, they were the foundations Steve Bash recalls defending his title Catherine ’78, Virginia ’80 of the teams on which they participated. in the Mercer County tennis finals as a They were really terrific kids and PDS senior. He lost the first set and was down and Philip ’81 — represent the was a better place not only because of 1-4 in the second when the tournament best in intellectual curiosity, the major contributions they made director picked up the trophy and went to in athletics, but also because of their stand outside the court — near Mrs. Bash. sportsmanship, athletic skill and involvement and impact on the life of the “She asked why he had it in his generosity of spirit. They also school.” hand,” Steve says. “He told her the match Both families had a tradition of was just about over so he wanted to be demonstrate how lessons learned sports - Dr. Bash is an avid golfer and ready to bring it on the court for the from parents, teachers, coaches the late Mr. Ferrante was an All American winner. My mother turned to him with soccer player - which the parents passed a glare only a mother can glare and said, and especially siblings, can have a on to their children along with a respect ‘Put that away. This match is not over profound and lasting effect. for learning and strong moral values. yet!’... “My parents were responsible for our “I heard that exchange and I went inspiration, drive and competitive spirit,” on to win the match. I’ve never forgotten Greg Bash says. “I learned from a young that m om ent and to this day, when I find

continued on page 22

20 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME ALUMNI NEWS

The Ferrante family, left to right front row: Virginia '80, mom Georgette, Francesca, Catherine '78. Back row: Philip '81, Cam '74, Giaff '72, Gray '75.

»^

Steven Bash '72 Evan Bash '74 and his wife Emily.

/ — \ t

v J

- i 1

m

On and off the field, there wasn’t any doubt that these were two very special families. ”

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 21 ALUMNI NEWS ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME

HALL OF FAME continuedfrom page 20. of college, closer in age to the players than competitive edge, Steve says. “I felt the faculty, but he was also impressed by playing together gave us an advantage myself in a difficult situation or facing a the brothers. over our competition because we tough challenge, I remind myself of what “Both sets of kids were unusual in knew each other’s moves, thinking and my mother did. Our parents believed in that they had a combination of maturity capabilities so well — and we were totally us and always supported us and I learned and confidence about them,” Mr. Huston supportive of each other... to always believe in myself.” says. “It may have come from being “O f course, we had our moments of In 1971 Peter Buttenheim arrived athletic and intelligent but, unlike many disagreement at home and would usually at PDS to teach English and coach boys their age, they seemed comfortable with settle it with a wrestling brawl but, varsity soccer. That season, six of his themselves. They seemed to know they after being peeled apart by our mother 11 starters came from either the Bash were headed places.” or father, we’d immediately go back to or Ferrante families; seniors Giaff and Being on the field at the same playing together.” Steve (who served as tri-captains with time “was like one big family playing The Ferrante children also grew up John Gordon ’72), sophomores Cam together,” says Cam Ferrante. “It was loving sports and each other. “The large and Evan, and freshmen Gray and Greg. a very supportive environment, being family was a huge advantage in many Mr. Buttenheim was impressed that surrounded by friends and family and ways,” Cam says. “We could play and while the siblings could have dominated having coaches who really cared about practice together on our own and there the game, they were totally selfless team you and were passionate about what they was a real bond when we were playing players. were doing.” together at school.” “On and off the field, there wasn’t Family experience translated to Virginia Ferrante remembers making any doubt that these were two very special teamwork, Mr. Huston says. “The older the most of the family’s big farm. “We families,” Mr. Buttenheim says. boys were used to rallying their brothers played soccer, ultimate Frisbee and “Those six magnificent players and and the younger ones grew into that role did gymnastics together. We also rode their outstanding teammates finished because as the older ones moved on, they unicycles and climbed lots of trees. the season at 12-1-1,” he says. “In every had those role models to look back to.” Having two sisters and three brothers game, a different group of players would Evan recalls the camaraderie of older than me who excelled in sports excel. They exemplified team play and being in school'with his brothers. “I had pushed me harder to do well. My younger were almost unbeatable. I don’t think I a lot to live up to,” he says. “O f course, brother Philip was also excellent in sports. ever had a more joyous time coaching. there was also the practical advantage I was a very happy athletic sandwich.” I was a very lucky guy to have had that of having an older brother being able to Laura Farina ’79, a 1999 Hall of team and I don’t think the magic would drive me to school rather than take the Fame inductee, speaks of “the joy” of have happened without the wonderful bus! I remember that special feeling of having had Catherine and Virginia as chemistry of those six (Bash and driving to school with my brothers on a teammates in three sports. “We wanted to Ferrante) kids.” Friday with a big game that afternoon - win but we also had a lot of fun and put Aubrey Huston ’64 was Mr. heaven to an underclassman.” great emphasis on developing as a team,” Buttenheim’s assistant. He was fresh out Family ties also could provide a she says. “Catherine was a swift and sure­ footed gazelle in soccer, basketball and lacrosse. Virginia, determined, strong and gifted, was yet another Ferrante soccer star, and could play any sport.” On Alumni Weekend, the Princeton Day School family will gather to celebrate friendships, shared experiences and a rich heritage that stretches back to 1899. The founders of both predecessor schools, Miss Fine’s and Princeton Country Day, believed athletics is an integral part of a good education and these families prove that legacy continues. ■

22 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 PDS ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL NEWS

REGAN HOFMANN ’85 Achievement Award continued from page 17.

Centers for Disease Control and Preven­ Princeton Day School tion/Health Resources and Service Admin­ istration’s national advisory committee. BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADMINISTRATION She has represented the United States on a delegation to the United C. Treby McLaughlin Williams ’80 Paul J. Stellato Nation’s High Level Meeting on HIV/ Chair Head o f School AIDS, has spoken internationally on Kelly J. Dun behalf of the US State Department and Gianna Goldman Director o f Admission and Financial Aid serves as a celebrity ambassador for the Vice Chair Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Founda­ Dulany H. Gibson tion. She is on the board of amfAR (the Business Manager Andrew M. Okun Foundation for AIDS Research) and the Treasurer Andrew C. Hamlin NAMES Project, which is in charge of Director o f Advancement the AIDS Memorial Quilt. She is co­ Thomas B. Harvey chair of the Leadership Council of God’s Steven E. Hancock Secretary/Parliamentarian Love We Deliver in New York City and Head o f Middle School is on the advisory committee for the Robin R. Antonacci Sarah M. Graham Global Business Coalition to Fight TB, Director o f College Counseling Robert H. B. Baldwin, Jr. Malaria and AIDS. In 2009 her memoir, I Have Something To Tell You, was pub­ Laura E. Banks John J. Levandowsk Director o f Athletics lished by Simon and Schuster. Marc C. Brahaney W hitney Ross ’84 recently invited Sharanya Naik Barbara Griffin Cole ’78 Ms. Hofmann to speak to teen peer lead­ Diversity Coordinator Peter M. Fasolo ers. “There were 500 high school seniors Carlton H. Tucker at the Peer Leadership for Life Panel and Jill Goldman ’74 Head o f Upper School the kids were just mesmerized,” Dr. Ross Laura Hanson says. “She opens a dialogue, which is a John W. Weaver Ph.D. Frederic A. Hargadon talent that’s very rare.” Head o f Lower School Eleanor V. Horne Ms. Hofmann enjoys her high pro­ file, deadline-driven job yet she can still Galete J. Levin ’96 OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT encounter discrimination because of her Tobin V. Levy HIV status. Andrew C. Hamlin “I really understand what it feels like Nancy Weiss Malkiel Director o f Advancement Carl D. Reimers to have people hate you, to have people Tracey W. Gates fear you...to make people uncomfortable Mark J. Samse Director o f Alumni Relations because of what you are,” she says. “But I David R. Scott and Reunion Giving tell myself it’s really the virus that repulses Paul J. Stellato Margery F. Miller them, not me.” As a little girl, Ms. Hofm ann dreamed Lisa R. Stockman Design and Production Manager of becoming a war correspondent and in John D. Wallace ’48 Michelle R. Ruess a way, she has. There are no guns or tanks Director o f Communication Marilyn W. Grounds, Trustee Emerita on the battlefields from which she reports Betty Wold Johnson, Trustee Emerita Katherine Fay today, but the fight into which she has been drafted is of global consequence. Samuel W. Lambert III, Trustee Emeritus Associate Director o f Annual Fund “One of the key things,” she says, “is Edward E. Matthews, Trustee Emeritus Kathy A. Schulte to tell the stories of people with HIV so Associate Director of Advancement Stanley C. Smoyer, Trustee Emeritus others can see they’re just good, regular Doreen K. Weinberg, people.” ■ Assistant to Associate Director o f Advance­ ment and Director o f Alumni Relations

Ann M. Wiley ’70, Alumni Awards and Athletic Hall Princeton Day School complies with Director o f Advancement Office Operations of Fame Reception and Ceremony all federal and state laws prohibiting 5:30 p.m. Saturday May 15 discrimination in its admissions, Dolores Wright employment and administrative policies. Assistant to Director o f Advancement on the Colross Lawn

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 23 PDS NOTABLE SCHOOL LIFE

PDS Notable: Father Dan Skvir French students), and from there Frank­ continuedfrom page 8 lin’s Court. Hoping to visit the Mint Tolerance is a close cousin to hesedic next, we discovered it closed so Father flexibility. Flash forward to April 1995, Dan provided us with manna and quails eight months into my sabbatical. Father from the Redding Market. Following Dan now called upon me to help him lunch, the girls still wondered about the guide a group of visiting Russian stu­ Art Museum, but the boys dents and their teacher Olga on various balked. Off the top of my cultural outings. That morning the plan head, I asked Father Dan, was to drive to New York City, but when “what about the Zoo?” He I pulled up in the Colross parking lot broke into a huge smile (above) Father Dan Skvir in with the PDS van, Father Dan announced and said, “Let’s go!” The 2007, with his grandchild, Sadie Elena, and daughter that the weather forecast was too iffy for kids were euphoric at the Kyra Skvir Frankel '94. the hoped for views from the top of the thought and we spent the (left) Father Dan in 1973. World Trade Center so we were headed next couple of hours bliss­ to Philadelphia instead. Our initial fully staring at naked mole seed in a Father Dan destination was the Art Museum, but rats in the small mammal pool. This surely bodes unsure when it would open, he directed house and the king cobra in residence ill for my future in the End Time. us instead to the Liberty Bell and Inde­ at the reptile house, before returning to On the other hand, Father Dan’s im­ pendence Hall (where we joined, incon­ Princeton via the Franklin Mills Mall. minent retirement is proof that there is gruously, a bi-lingual tour for visiting Of course there is a tough love side to life after Princeton Day School. Tassie, hesed that needs to be mentioned. One of Nika, and Kyra having departed previ­ Father Dan’s annual rituals is to orches­ ously, the patriarch of the family now trate his NCAA mens’ basketball March leaves our world, Elijah-like. Indeed, Madness pool, in which for two dollars blessed are Katharine, Madeline, and one has the privilege of drawing random­ Sadie.. .for they get to do what we have ly one of 64 entries. I now know that so enjoyed these many years - hang out W it is easier for a camel to pass through with their Grandfather Dan! ■ f t the eye of a needle than for a Stoltzfus Bill Stoltzfus is another beloved teacher in Janet Stoltzfus with Dan Skvir, 1986. to draw anything close to a competitive Upper School.

Making the Most of Inside PDS Go to www.pds.org and click on Inside PDS Over the summer, Princeton Day School added new website features This brings you to a webpage displaying: making it easier to get the information you need about school, alumni • N e w s and athletics. Just follow these steps and log-in to Inside PDS for news, • Announcements events, photos - even alumni class notes! • P h o to s • Downloads/Forms

P r i n c e t o n Da y Sc h o o l • My Groups • E ven ts

1. In the upper left corner, click on “First time logging in?,:

U S G£2 Our Week Jn Photos 2. Enter your email and check boxes to □ g p fMaatvnwf Lacm> ft fief rtsh receive both a Username and Password k i | ■UPS.iihalir* Mtnl Rumanian 1 “ 10/7/2009 Princeton Da» School senior» are 3. Minimize — do not close — the webpage rerogniftd by the National Kent Scholarship Program for outstanding performance on the Preliminary SAT/f**tion«l Merit Scholarship test 4. When you receive the emails, return to the log-in page Smd.Mar* I PPS Alum Named Ambassador 5. Enter the Confirmation Key in the t e n */29/2009 U Pr^Mdent BoracV Obamj this month • k l nominated Donald Gtp« *70 as appropriate fields — This Is Case Sensitive1. ambassador to South Afnca. Read Hare 6. Type in a new password, confirm and “Submit”

Announce merits School Events 7. When you enter your username and personal password, you will be enrolled in the online community! More Details 10/21/2009 0:15 AM to 9:30 AM (POS No** an TwKter 9/l< Jom vis for announcements and updates as #*ell a If you have any questions, Director of Communication Michelle Ruess is happy to help you get connected! She can be reached at [email protected] or 609 924-6700 x1280

24 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS PRESIDENT'S LETTER News 2009-20010 ALUMNI BOARD Greetings from the Alumni Board!

Galete J. Levin ’96 President alling all MFS, PCD and PDS alums! With the spring thaw nearly Anthony Dell ’80 upon us, we invite you to spend time on campus with fellow alums Vice President, Alumni Activities during Alumni Weekend, May 14 and 15 — especially those of you Shana Fineburg Owen DVM ’87 in class years ending in 0s and 5s, as you are celebrating milestone reunions! CWe hope you were able to join us April 7 at our NYC party at the Explorer’s Vice President, School Relationships Club and later that month at our Washington, D.C. party at the home of Jenny Sally Lynne Fineburg ’80 Chandler ’78. We also had a wonderful reception in March for local alumni of Ex-Officio Miss Fine’s School and Princeton Country Day School at The Tap Room of John C. Baker ’62 The Nassau Inn. Sara E. K. Cooper ’80 The annual Princeton “Spring Fling” will be in June at the Paul Robeson Adrena N. Cunningham ’99 Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon Street, with tasty delights provided by Benjamin M. Frost ’92 the Red Onion of Princeton. Check our website for details and please feel free Rosalind Waskow Hansen ’81 to RSVP to Tracey Gates at [email protected] or by calling 609-924-6700, Christopher J. Horan ’79 ext. 1265. Elisabeth (Mea) Aall Kaemmerlen ’64 We also hope to see lots of you on campus for Alumni Weekend as we Sara W. Lott ’96 celebrate and congratulate three outstanding alumni receiving awards for W hitney B. Ross ’84 achievement, service and outstanding young alumni accomplishment during Giovanna G. Torchio ’98 the Alumni Awards and Athletic Hall of Fame Reception and Ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Saturday May 15 on the Colross Lawn. Read their stories on pages 20-22. Tracey Gates But whether you’re in the neighborhood or at the far reaches of the globe, Director o f Alumni Relations and Reunion Giving you can stay connected through issues of the Journal and the PDS website. Visit our virtual Alumni Community at www.pds.org to access an up-to-date Alumni Calendar, share photos and news, update your contact information and post your class notes. And check out our Facebook page; just look for Princeton Day School Alumni Group. I would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest board member, Stephen Pollard ’90 and thank departing board member, Sara Cooper ’80, for her four years of service. A big thank you to Tony Dell ’80 for his two-year tenure as Vice President of Alumni Activities, and we welcome Giovanna Torchio ’98 to this post. The Alumni Board consists of a dedicated, hard-working group of alumni who volunteer their time. While we often have many opportunities to share joy, we suffered a tremendous loss when former Alumni Board member Mark Zaininger ’81 lost his battle to brain cancer in January. Mark’s zest for life, wit and devotion to PDS will continue to inspire each of us who had the pleasure and honor of working with him. Our thoughts are with Mark’s wife, Leslie Campbell, and his two children, Charlotte and Luke ’18. Stay in touch and come join the fun,

Galete J. Levin, ’96, President

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 25 SPOTLIGHT ON YOUNG ALUMNI ALUMNI NEWS

Spotlight on Young Alumni

M y real love for development work ’1 started when I was working with conflict-affected communities as a Peace Corps volunteer in Armenia. There was something inspiring about the determination of the people, forced to make a living in half-destroyed villages with fields that were heavily mined and in homes that were often not their own. While the conflict Afghan girls peek from their home at a passing ISAF patrol, in Armenia had long since cooled when I lived Kandahar Province, January 2010 there, in the intervening years I have worked in increasingly unstable places until I now find myself at the really a threat to America? Do the Afghan people want us in coalface where a new type of warfare and development assistance their country? Is our strategy simply to impose a western-style meet: Southern Afghanistan. government in a place that has never had a strong government? As a US Agency for International Development And can we even win? (USAID) Field Program Officer embedded with the Canadian military in Kandahar Province, my job is to work with the Afghan government to draw people away from supporting the Uaving been here for more than a month, I haven’t insurgency. I do this by identifying development projects such even started to figure out an answer to any of these as opening schools, installing gutters and supplying medicines 1 1 questions, but I know that this is where I should be for hospitals and clinics and then working with the Afghan and this is what we should be doing. government to meet the needs of their constituents. This work My experience in Afghanistan so far has been oddly is integral to President Obama’s strategy for Afghanistan which comforting in the similarities I see with other places and focuses on providing security for the population while providing other countries I’ve worked in, but at the same time is so basic services to the Afghan people. fundamentally different. This was never the type of job I had envisioned for The problems that the communities face are not very myself and in considering the offer a number of thoughts went different from ones that I saw in Ethiopia, Georgia, Armenia through my mind: Does this role blur the line between military and Pakistan, People are held back by traditional elites that operations and humanitarian interventions? Are the Taliban fight to maintain a status quo at all costs; children are sickened

26 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS SPOTLIGHT ON YOUNG ALUMNI

Andy Golda '96 in Kandahar Province, January 2010.

Baloch community elder in rural Kandahar Province, January 2010

and die from treatable diseases such as diarrhea and communities are stifled by a lack of education and employment opportunities. Conversations I have with the District Governor while sitting on cushions on the floor remind me of the time I spent in Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. But the fact I am in the middle of a warzone is never far. In neither of those places did the governor have an AK-47 resting against the window sill in back of him. Right now, for example, the schools in my district are under attack. Last week saw the last remaining Andy Golda '96, (on the right) meets with the District Leader and another public school in the entire district close community elder in Kandahar Province, January 2010 under threats by the Taliban. The only educational opportunities for children in the community are to the ability of any security force to keep these people free from be taught at mosques which usually only offer basic teaching of harm would be taxed. The answer in keeping the school open is the Koran and are generally not free. with the community. The overwhelming majority of people don’t actively support the insurgency, but they don’t support the government It would seem that a simple solution would be to beef up either. After years of graft, corruption, misappropriation of security in the neighborhood of at least some of the 30-plus funds, allocation of resources based on tribal allegiances, schools that have been closed. But the school that was closed kickbacks and selective contracting, the people of Afghanistan last week has a police checkpoint on the corner of its property feel like they have been preyed upon by their government Iand is overlooked by the largest ISAF military base in the district. without seeing any tangible result. Those hard security assets, however, are not keeping the If even some small results are shown by the Afghan school open. Nightletters — threats left after dark by the Taliban government, even if a few good apples take a stand against — have been dropped at the homes of teachers, students and corruption, then I believe that the people will follow. After 30 prominent community members. Some of the teachers for the years of war, it is the least the Afghans deserve. ■ school travel as far as 10 kilometers every day to get to work and — Contact Andy at [email protected]

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 27 ALUMNI WEEKEND 2009 ALUMNI NEWS

AlumniGatherings princeton • palm beach • new york city

S 0,1 68.

-55, Wlea (abov^ChucV^HuckFa*- B a k e r'6 2 . man ‘59 a

(above) Karl Pettit '60 and J. Ward Kuser '61 singing the PCD school song.

r J i m d e i o n .,2 and6WScW“'e' Nlosie Gates

^ berVi^ < i n

Several alumni, past parents and grandparents attended a recent gathering in Palm Beach at the home of former PDS trustee and Board Chair Edith Eglin. Attendees included: (from left to right) Eric Bylin '85, Wendy Bylin, Helga Frohling, Director of Advance­ . ,ulie Fulper ^ ment Andrew Hamlin, Sydney Hopkins, Deborah Bushell Gans '90, • Ran'68 and JuUe Connie Ban William Gans, Hostess Edith Eglin, Don Pickering, Ed Frohling '39, Bob Hopkins and Beverly Bevis Jones '69.

28 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS I ALUMNI WEEKEND 2009

(left to right) Nick Sardar '01, Ashton Todd '01, Matt Levine '01, Mike Fishbein '01 and Jeremy Johnson '02.

Young alumni gathered at Pop Burger in New York City this past November.

(left to right) Alex Nanfara '99, John G riffith '9 9 , Torchio '98, Brian S m ith '0 3 , and Ariana Jakub '99.

Pierre Downing '0 0 and Paul J. Stellato. Dalya Levin '00 (left) and (iaieie i_cvin '96.

(left to right) M att Zarzecki '96, Mike O'Neill '96, Peter Denby '96, and Mark Chatham '96. (left to right) M arlee Sayen '02, G rant and Kristen France '01.

SPUING 2 0 1 0 . PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL- 29

SAVE THE DATE | ALU M NI NEWS Princeton Day School Alumni Weekend 2010

RELIVE • REUNITE • RENEW • RECONNECT May 14 and 15

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Saturday May 15

9:00 a.m. • 5K Panther Fun Run-Walk, Lisa McGraw '44 Rink Friday May 14 Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. Bring your family and friends to enjoy a run or walk around the beautiful PDS campus. Prizes will be awarded. 11:30 a.m. • Alumni Golf and Lunch with the Head of School, Paul Stellato, Beden's Brook Club 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. • Student led Campus Tours Come challenge your classmates in the Blue and White Cup. If you haven’t seen the renovations to the school yet, now is your oppor­ 11:30-12:30 check-in and lunch. Tee off at 12:30. Register early tunity! The facilities are amazing and so are the student tour guides. as space is limited. 11:00 a.m. • "I Have Something to Tell You: How the Sharing of Secrets 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. • Alumni, Faculty, Former Faculty & Staff Re­ Stops Stigma" by Regan Hofmann '85, McAneny Theatre union 2010 Alumni Achievement Award recipient, Regan Hoffman ’85, editor- Cocktail reception hosted by the Head of School, Paul Stellato and in-chief of POZ Magazine, the nation’s leading publication about HIV/ his wife Maureen at Behr House (Head of School’s home across for AIDS, and author of I Have Something to Tell You, will share her personal the Lisa McGraw ’44 Rink). Come visit with your favorite teachers, journey with us and her efforts to raise awareness and educate people staff, coaches and fellow classmates during this festive evening of fun. about HIV/AIDS.

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. • Friday Night Lights 12:00 p.m. • Moment of Remembrance, Rothrock Garden Boys Varsity Lacrosse vs. Moorestown Friends School. Come cheer on Please join us for a brief ceremony honoring alumni, faculty and friends PDS’ future alumni as they play under the lights on Bill Smoyer ’60 who have passed away during the past year. Turf Field. 12:30 p.m. • Alumni Picnic, Reunion Tent on the Colross Lawn This is the place to be...Bring the whole family to enjoy a delicious old-fashioned barbecue. Children’s games and activities to entertain the younger guests. 1:00 program to include remarks by the Head of School, Paul J. Stellato and the Alumni Board President, Galete Levin ’96. Celebrate with us as we honor Father Dan Skvir h’73 upon his retirement alter 41 years.

2:00 p.m. • Coed Alumni Soccer game, Bill Smoyer '60 Turf Field

3:00 p.m. • Alumni Games Kim Bedesem Memorial Alumnae Lacrosse Game/Bill Smoyer ’60 Turf Field Easy online registration! Bob Krueger Memorial Alumni Lacrosse Game/Krueger Field To fulfill the Princeton Day School mission of becoming Alumae/i Coed Softball Game/PDS Softball Field more “green”, we are encouraging everyone to register Alumae/i Tennis Round Robin/PDS Tennis Complex online this year to save on paper and postage. 5:30 p.m. • Alumni Awards and Athletic Hall of Fame Reception To register online go to: www.pds.org/alumniweekend and Ceremony, Reunion Tent on the Colross Lawn If this presents a problem for you, please call toll-free Alumni Achievement Award: Regan Hofmann ’85 877.924.2586 and we will be glad to assist you with registration. Alumni Service Award: Curtis McGraw Webster ’75 Outstanding Young Alumni Award: Taj Forer ’00 If you have any questions please contact Tracey Gates, Director Hall of Fame Inductees: of Alumni Relations at 609.924.6700 xl265 or call toll-free at - The Bash Family (Steven ’72, Evan ’74, Gregory ’75) 877.924.2586, fax/609.924.8944, email/[email protected] - The Ferrante Family (Giaff’72, Cameron ’74, Grayson ’75, Catherine ’78, Virginia ’80, Philip ’81) Don't miss a minute with friends! Babysitting available upon request

Note: For those traveling from out of town please refer to our 7:30 p.m. • Alumni Reunion Class Parties list of hotels found at w w w .pds.org/alum niw eekend Various locations around campus and in the community. Please check online registration at www.pds.org/alumniweekend for details.

32 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS | SAVE THE DATE May 2010 Reunion Volunteers For more information about Reunions 2010 contact one o f the following volunteers!

5th Reunion • 2005 25th Reunion • 1985 Jay Bavishi...... [email protected] Pat Courtney...... [email protected] Gyan K apur...... [email protected] Tonya Faulkenburg...... [email protected] Anu Shah...... [email protected] Sal Fier...... [email protected] Meghan Kerwin...... [email protected] Lynch H unt...... [email protected] Rajiv M allipudi...... [email protected] Alex Kekalos...... [email protected] Nick Maloney...... •...... [email protected] Jon McConaughy...... [email protected] Lynne O ’Donnell...... [email protected] 10th Reunion • 2000 Ted Power...... [email protected] Ben Brickner...... [email protected] Paul Van H o rn ...... [email protected] John Dorazio...... [email protected] 30th Reunion • 1980 Nabil Laoudji...... [email protected] James Burke...... [email protected] Kyle Lieberman...... [email protected] Liza Connolly...... [email protected] Natasha Nolan...... [email protected] Sara C ooper...... [email protected] Paris McLean...... [email protected] Tony Dell...... [email protected] Rachel Levin ...... [email protected] Sally Fineburg...... [email protected] Lauren Ira ...... [email protected] Jamie Jacobson...... [email protected] Jim Laughlin...... [email protected] 15th Reunion • 1995 Lolli Leeson...... [email protected] Missy McCormick...... [email protected] Joy Power...... [email protected] Jon Graziano...... [email protected] Howie Powers...... [email protected] Deb W epman...... [email protected] Dana Stewardson...... [email protected] Andrea Eckert...... [email protected] Leslie Ward...... [email protected] Phil Glassner...... [email protected] Treby Williams...... [email protected] Zaneta Shannon...... [email protected] 35th Reunion • 1975 20th Reunion • 1990 John Brinster...... [email protected] Janice Abud-Falcone...... falconeO 1 @comcast.net Shawn Ellsworth...... [email protected] Lylah Alphonse...... [email protected] Molly M cDonough...... [email protected] Liz C ook...... [email protected] Kip O ’Brien...... [email protected] Jason Hollander...... [email protected] Susan Vaughan Meade...... Smeade31 [email protected] Stephen Pollard...... [email protected] 40th Reunion • 1970 Dave Ragsdale...... [email protected] Louise H utner...... [email protected] Timory Ridall...... [email protected] Allison Kozicharow...... [email protected] Arielle Levitan...... [email protected] Janet Masterton...... [email protected] Kysha Pierre-Louis...... [email protected] Wendy McNeil...... [email protected] Meg Michael...... [email protected] Nicki Sarett...... [email protected] Harriet Sharlin...... [email protected] Ann Wiley...... [email protected] Contact the Alumni Office at 1-877-924-2586 50th MFS Reunion • 1960 if your reunion year is not listed above and Louise Marshall...... [email protected] you would like to organize your reunion. Sally Schm id...... [email protected] 50th PCD Reunion • 1960 Karl Pettit...... [email protected]

RELIVE • REUNITE • RENEW • RECONNECT

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 33 CLASS NOTES ALUMNI NEWS Notes Miss Fine's School

1925-29 1939 1948-49 Caroline and I were bridesmaids for Wendy 50 years ago. PDS Communications Office Therese E. Critchlow Correspondent needed At Christmastime, I heard 11 Westcott Road from several of you. Mary Rob­ 1930 Princeton, NJ 08540-3059 1950 erts Craighill, in the Kendal Re­ tirement Community in Lexing­ 60th Reunion 80th Reunion 1940 ton, VA, mentioned a lot of snow Margaretta R. Cowenhoven Correspondent needed there before Christmas! I wonder 70th Reunion 247 Heron Point how they fared in the February Chestertown, MD 21620-1680 Anne Guthrie Yokana 1951 storms! Here in Crosslands, we 87 Battle Road had two feet of that lovely white 1931-1934 Princeton, NJ 08540-4945 Nellie Oliphant Duncan stuff on Feb. 5, and almost twenty Coventry Farm, 549 The Great Road inches more on the 10th! PDS Communications Office 1941 Princeton, NJ 08540-2537 Jane Gihon Shillaber wrote [email protected] that she and her sisters, Judy and Correspondent needed Jill, inherited a condo in Florida 1935 Gordon McAllen Baker writes: from their father, and are now 75th Reunion Had a wonderful trip to Egypt and 1942 having some fun painting and PDS Communications Office Jordan (Petra & Jaresh) last spring. redecorating it. The Shillabers are Re-connected with Jeannie Milhol- Mary Roberts Woodbridge going down there in February. land Shriver MFS ’50 which was 1936-1937 2316 Windrow Drive Hope Thompson Kerr and fun. Princeton, NJ 08540-5020 Hilary Thompson Kenyon took PDS Communications Office an Overseas Adventure Travel trip Sally Kuser Lane writes: In De­ 1952 cember 2009, 36 members of the in a motorized catamaran through 1938 the Panama Canal last year, with a Lane family wennt to Key West, Jean Samuels Stephens Florida to celebrate Sally’s 85th. side trip to Cartagena, Colombia. Roberta Harper Lawrence 16 Stonerise Drive They found the Canal with all its 3359 Burbank Drive Lawrenceville, NJ 08548-5533 locks, and traffic of tankers, con­ Ann Arbor, Ml 48105 [email protected] 1943 tainer ships and cruise liners most [email protected] interesting, but the highlight of Marjorie Libby Moore 1953 the trip seems to have been a dip Roberta Harper Lawrence 90 Woolsey Court writes: My eleventh great-grand- Pennington, NJ 08534-1428 in a warm volcanic mudbath in child was born on Halloween Elaine Polhemus Frost Colombia! morning. Her name is Alexis 416 Crosslands Drive I talked with Caroline Rosen- 1944 Kennett Square, PA 19348 Paige Smith, born to my grand­ blum Moseley recently. She [email protected] told me that she now has two daughter, Taylor Ashley Law­ Correspondent needed rence. My son, James. B. Law­ Elaine Polhemus Frost writes: grandchildren attending PDS. rence, is the proud grandfather. 1945 Over Labor I am sorry to say that the only Day weekend, I other news I have is sad news: 65th Reunion joined John and Leonard Fenninger, Princeton Correspondent needed Caroline Savage University Class of 1938, passed Langan in a trip away on September 10, 2009. 1946 to Kennebunk, He was the husband of my Miss Maine, to stay Fine’s School classmate Jane Correspondent needed overnight with Thomas. John and Wendy My daughter Linda and I 1947 Hall Alden, and are headed down to Miromar help them cel­ Lakes, FL to spend two months Barbara Pettit Finch ebrate their 50th at a condo I purchased there last 15 Indian creek Road wedding anniver­ year. We are looking forward to Holmdale, NJ 07733 sary. We all had a escaping from the cold weather marvelous time, here in Michigan. and it was lovely MFS '53 classmates Wendy Hall Alden, Caro­ to see Parson’s line Savage Langan and Elaine Polhemus Frost Reunion Weekend • May 14 & 15 • See page 32 Beach again. gathered in Kennebunk, ME over Labor Day w eeken d.

34 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS CLASS NOTES

Grandson Ross Moseley is in sixth 1955 program which offers free income 1956 grade, and granddaughter Parker tax preparation to people of 55 th Reunion Moseley is in second grade. They middle and low incomes. She is Cicely Tomlinson Richardson L. Chloe King are the children of Whitney Ross looking forward to making new 58 Bear Tree Road 64 Carey Road ’84, and Stephen Moseley. friends there. She continues water Oxford, NH 03777 Needham, MA 02494-1104 I also heard from Mary Butler aerobics and Pilates. Alice Marie [email protected] [email protected] Nickerson in Brookline, MA. She is looking forward to spring and “No news (at our age) is G OO D is enjoying a lot of reading, but her Chloe King writes: Ellen Ja­ warm weather so she and her news,” wrote Margaret Pacsu big commitment these days is tu­ mieson Franck sent news that partner can get to their cabin in Campbell in reply to my plea. toring lagging first grade readers in she and her husband spend a few Lake Swartswood, NJ, near the She has a point, but fortunately one of the Boston Public Schools. months in Venice, FL in the win­ Delaware Water Gap. a few of us took a more upbeat She really loves working with the ter. They get involved with some Barbara Kohlsaat Von Oeh- approach. individual children, and devising community affairs so their brains sen has moved again! She is living Lockie Stafford Proctor re­ special ways to help each one. don’t turn into mush. “On the in an apartment in Skillman, NJ ports that her family is “all luckily As I write this I am looking whole, it is a pretty relaxed, self- to be near her sons and grand­ healthy and still employed,” and out at the three-plus feet of snow indulgent, guilt-inducing exis­ children. She has a new Choco­ sent a photo of “the whole tribe which fell in two recent blizzards tence.” At home in Sea Cliff, NY, late Labrador puppy whom she after a fierce badminton tourna­ here in southeastern PA. The oth­ they have moved from a large to a loves...of course. Barb is working ment at our favorite Basin Harbor er day I thought I would check on small house all of 6 blocks away. hard to improve her health as she Club, Vergennes, VT in August... someone else’s blizzard experience, It’s great to have grandchildren suffers from fibromyalgia. Just Even little Ella is intrigued by a and I called Anne Carples Denny nearby. Ellen and her husband go across the street from her apart­ racquet!” in Richmond, VA. It turned out to elementary school events the ment is a small health/fitness club, Marina Turkevich Naumann to be quite an experience! Her second time around. which Barb is enjoying. Yoga, and Bob topped off 2009 with daughter, Katherine, with hus­ Mary Tyson (Ty) Goodridge Pilates and Reiki are keeping her a “50-day voyage around our band and four little boys, ages Lund sent news of Nicky Knox busy and increasing her strength blue marble,” returning in time 8-13, came down to spend the Watts. The two old friends talked and flexibility. Right on, Barb! for Thanksgiving. Highlights weekend with Anne and Collins. recently via phone. Ty wrote, “We Chloe King is looking forward included a glorious cruise among The boys were participating in continue to celebrate our 70-year to more travels. At the end of South Pacific islands and H1N1 an important squash tournament friendship. We met at Nicky’s 3rd Feb. we are going to Florida for inoculations in Sydney, Australia. which ran all weekend, despite the birthday party in Princeton, and a change of scenery and to visit “Only Bob’s computer caught accumulation of a foot of snow in have been friends ever since. Nick friends. It’s not much warmer a bad virus,” she reports. “Never­ Richmond. Two of the boys were has a memory that would put an there now, but at least there will theless, we were able to retrieve finalists in their age divisions, elephant to shame.” Ty continues not be snow on the ground! the attached from a camera chip. and the other two were the win­ to live in San Miguel de Allende, In March we will be in South It is a photo of us at our intimate ners of their divisions! These boys Mexico. She said violence has Carolina for a golf fling, so we and tasty Christmas Dinner with are super athletes, and talented increased and is becoming a con­ don’t lose our touch with the little Kristin Naumann (PDS youngsters, all of them playing cern to not only Americans/Euro­ clubs. Our May trip is the big ’82) in the Hanover Inn’s Daniel squash, tennis, lacrosse, soccer, peans, but to Mexicans as well. one: a river cruise in Russia going Webster Room.” By the time this and — the piano! Anne admits her Lucy Busselle Myers is very from Moscow to St. Petersburg! goes to press our peripatetic pair blizzard weekend was filled with happy to be retired and free to That will be exciting as we’ve not will have returned from their meal preparation and running the spend time with her partner, her been in that part of the world. I * annual escape from Vermont’s dishwasher, but the tournament grandchildren, and her dog. For continue to enjoy studying flute, gloomy wintry finale to sunny results were really exciting for the several years Lucy has facilitated singing in the Wellesley Choral Maui and will be anticipating a proud grandparents! writing workshops. Right now she Society, working-out at least three fall trip to Barcelona. is leading groups at a minimum days weekly, and our NH cottage Molly Wade McGrath sent security women’s prison and the in warmer weather. Life is great!! 1954 welcome news. Her husband Nor- Ipswich (MA) Council on Aging. Kathie Webster Dwight Lucy is an author!!! Last spring 115 Windsor Road her book, Memories o f Ipswich, Tenafly, NJ 07670-2615 was published in celebration [email protected] of the 375th anniversary of the town’s founding. Congratulations Our class extends sympathies to from us all, Lucy! She continues Aggie Fulper whose sister, Rada her active lifestyle — cross country Fulper Shows, died in March skiing and kayaking — and she 2009. Aggie has been returning sings in her church choir and from Albuquerque each year to drives the elderly to medical ap­ spend Christmas with family, and pointments. Lucy added, “It’s a I was able to visit with her over wonderful life.” lunch at a restaurant in Princeton. Alice Marie Nelson wrote her Anna Rosenblad continues to “big news in 2009 was a recital send a Christmas card that color­ she gave in April in NYC which fully describes her adventures/ she had recorded for posterity.” escapades. The card often features She is loving retirement, although elves whimsically painted by her she misses the contact with many own hand, really delightful. of the wonderful colleagues she Letitia Wheeler Ufford writes: had at Tiffany & Co. Alice Marie Was presented with an honorary has just signed on with AARP Phi Beta Kappa membership at Lockie Stafford Proctor '56 and her children and grandchildren after as a volunteer on their Tax Aide Harvard last year. a rousing badminton match.

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 35 CLASS NOTES ALUMNI NEWS

Larry and Anne Gildar Kaufman '57 family at daughter Julie's wed­ ding in 2007 to A lex Betancur. Back Row, from left, their son Gregg, his wife Jill, Larry, Anne, Julie, Alex, grandson Owen, their son Brian on the end with his wife Mary Ann; Front Row, from left, Gregg's three children - Harrison, Aidan and Griffin; three of Brian's Marina Naumann '56, Kristin '82 and Bob cel­ four, Tyler, Eric and ebrated an earlier Christmas in Hanover. A n d rew .

man McGrath’s book called Archi­ 1957 lives in NYC. Our daughter, Ann, our younger son Peter, made a tectural Photography was published lives in Seattle and works as a city while ago on a trip to California. last summer by AmPhoto, a divi­ Susan Baldwin planner for the City of Seattle. Peter works as a software engineer sion of Random House. 95 Creekside Drive They enjoy raising their 3-year-old in San Francisco. The second pho­ Molly is teaching only one Shelburne, VT 05482 daughter there. Sue Barclay Wal­ to, our son Rob and his family, course at Hunter College now, [email protected] cott came for lunch while Ann was taken on the occasion of our and offering private teaching in and our granddaughter Lyla were grandson’s high school gradua­ English as a Second Language in Susie Smith Baldwin writes: En­ visiting. Sue looked very well. tion in Montreal. Simon’s now an their West Side NYC apartment. joy Betsy Baker Carter’s Trium­ Anne Gildar Kaufman writes: undergrad at McGill (majoring in “We are grandparents belatedly to phant Moment (see photo below). The Kaufman family is certainly biochemistry). Rob and his wife little June Clara Scott McGrath, Congratulations to Bill and looking forward to June. Our Laila are both professors there, who delights us like crazy and does Alissa Kramer Sutphin on their grandson Owen turns 18, gradu­ at the university’s Institute for break dancing at age 20 months,” upcoming 52nd wedding anni­ ates from high school, and will be Islamic Studies. Our granddaugh­ she adds, and, “Mirabile dictu, our versary in June. That’s our class awarded the Eagle Scout desig­ ter Jasmine, now 10, is one of the daughter Helen will be married record! nation in the Boy Scouts. His top 10 chess players in Canada for in June at age 39 to a lovely guy Alissa writes: O n January 23 brother, Eric, will perform his Bar her age group. whom she has known for 10 years. Bill and I went to a beautiful me­ Mitzvah in June as well. On June Sandy Strachan Froehlich They will live in Boulder, CO.” morial service for Nancy McMor- 19 Larry and I will celebrate our writes: I got your singing birth­ Kathleen Dunn Lyman will ris (MFS ’59) at Trinity Church. 50th anniversary! I caught Alissa’s day message, Susie! Did I really surely have completed her move I was glad to see, and sit with, a wedding bouquet two years rub your nose in my being super to Maine by the time we read dear friend of Nancy’s, Camilla before-on the same June weekend. this. She reports that, during her Turnbull (MFS ’59), as well as Where did the time go? sorting and packing, she found Kinsa Turnbull and Mary Ros Webster Perry writes: “the French Notebook that Mrs. Strunsky Wisnovsky. The service Santa Barbara suffered 3 horrible Wade made us keep and a book was conducted by The Reverend wildfires between July 2008 and of French verbs with Margaret Louise Kingston ’59. May 2009. Our daughter and her Pascu’s name in it.” Our personal news is that our family were evacuated during the That reminds me (Cicely Tom­ son, Andrew, is engaged to be first fire. Dick & I, as well as our linson Richardson) that, alas, all married to Helen Keane of New daughter’s family once again, were our schoolbooks stayed behind in York City and London. Andrew evacuated during the May fire. Princeton when my parents moved Truly 5 days of hell, with high Mary Strunsky Wisnovsky '57 to the Cape. I still bemoan the loss winds, smoke and flames rag­ with her younger son Peter, in of “Tiki etTaki,” Mme. Holen- ing; we didn’t know whether our San Francisco. kofFs delightful monkey tales — homes had survived. Luckily, we may have tormented her, but I A il neither home was damaged. The we loved those gems. fire burned down the canyon Winter of 2010 will be a that borders our street and many distant memory but, as Pamela homes were lost. In September, we Thompson Sinkler-Todd sent had small planes flying overhead in her news, it was all too pres­ all day long, spreading mulch on ent. “All is snowed under here as the burned mountainside, hop­ we near 60 inches for the winter ing to prevent mudslides during which would break all Philly snow the winter rainy season. Although records for all recorded time! That the rains did arrive in force, so far is almost as exciting as ‘walking’ there have been no mudslides in to the shops or doctor appoint­ (1939-2009) is triumphant upon our area. On a happier note, we ments!” Meanwhile, Pam is think­ completion of the manuscript spent 2 glorious weeks in Tuscany ing fall, finding too many high­ of her father, Carlos Baker, in in September, our first visit there Rob Wisnovsky, The son of lights for our October gathering 1995. She arranged for its post­ in over 20 years! Mary Strunsky Wisnovsky '57, — hope most of you can make it. humous publication as Em erson Mary Strunsky Wisnovsky s and his family on the occa­ Among the Eccentrics: A Group husband, Joe Wisnovsky writes: sion of Mary's grandson's high Portrait. Here’s a nice shot of Mary with school graduation in Montreal.

36 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS CLASS NOTES

1 9 5 9 sic it’s hard to pick and choose. Verdi, Ann Kinczel Clapp certainly. She really 5709 Visitation Way was loving Princeton Baltimore, MD 21210 before she became [email protected] ill. She had many friends far and wide. Ann Clapp writes: I She loved language, am sad to report that etymology, and talk. Nancy McMorris lost Mrs. Raubitchek was her long and valiant her favorite of our battle to ovarian can­ teachers. Mrs. Wade cer in December. Un­ MFS '59 classmates will spotted her language til the end, Nancy was miss their good friend gift. All the loving optimistic, witty, and Nancy McMorris who Sarah Adam Model '58 kindnesses of the shared this photo of her chatty. Undaunted lost her long and valiant battle against cancer in MFS ’59 classmates granddaughter, Amanda. by the severity of her D ecem ber. meant a very great illness, Nancy began deal to her these past ballet and Spanish les­ Nancy Miller '57 celebrates her 70th years. Nancy sparkled, didn’t she? 1 9 5 8 sons 18 months ago! At our 50th Birthday in London, (June, 2009), with She was fascinating, fascinated, reunion she thanked me for giving her niece, Ann Miller Paiva '86, far right; Nancy Hudler Keuffel delighting, delightful. If cancer was her the best room and said she did Ann's husband, Manuel; Alex (6); Sophie 1329 West Indian Mound tough on her, she was tough on not want to waste time SLEEP­ (10 months); Sara Bristol Ritchie '75, Bloomfield Hills, Ml 48301-2263 cancer, NEVER accepting that it ING in it! After the January me­ center, (born on Nancy's 17th birthday); [email protected] might hold sway. and Goring Hotel doorman. morial service, several classmates We could all use some of her Nancy Keuffel writes: On enjoyed the photos reminding us signal love of life, exuberance and 13 in 1952 while you were still a golf trip to Florida in January of Nancy’s magnificent glossy hair, fighting spirit. She was beautiful, 11 for another week? Many Hap­ I was fortunate enough to get alabaster skin, and blithe spirit. We too! I miss the pealing laughter will all miss Nancy. py Returns, Young Lady of 69... together with Susie Frank Hil­ that came off her like a bubbling still to be 70. I did enjoy sing­ ton. Our last meeting had been Several classmates gathered fountain. Though her life was with friends and family at the ing in the madrigal group at 40 years ago! We had a wonderful international in character, she had school. Probably has something time catching up. She has two memorial service for Nancy on poignant memories of MFS and to do with my hearing loss, but sons, Eric who is in Hollywood January 23, including Camilla abiding affection for the members Warren always told me to keep and involved in film production Turnbull, Wendy Yeaton Smith, o f our class.” Jean Schettino Conlon, Lucy my day job. I did! I’ve finally and Jonathon who is a lawyer in And from Sasha: “I was retired after 51 years in the work Washington and is a lobbyist for James, Sasha Robbins Cavander, shocked to learn she had done so force. I have been employed a national association that is con­ Susan Stevenson Badder, Allison many extraordinary things, ballet as a circulation manager of an cerned with urban housing. Susie Wheeler Lahnston, Ann Kinczel and Spanish in her 60s!” aviation magazine, secretary to 3 is as animated as ever, and is busy Clapp, Cecilia Aall Mathews and Louise Lauck Kingston. stockbroker partners, purchasing here with her church choir as well 1 9 6 0 agent for a Princeton firm, owner as a number of arts activities. She All of us were pleased that we of a hunting lodge, owner of a is passionate about opera and goes had reconnected, especially with 50th Reunion small grocery store, owner and to all the HD performances of Nancy, at the 50th reunion, but Penelope Hart Bragonier general manager of a fine dining the Metropolitan Opera in Na­ regretted not having really known 68 Beacon Street restaurant, manager of the 2nd ples. And she is looking forward her and her glamorous life until Boston, MA 02108 largest limousine company in the to our next class reunion. then. Camilla Turnbull wrote, “the [email protected] country, and finally, last but not I also chatted with Ann reunion — that she got there and least, a certified dietary manager (Rooney) Eichelberger Hall who drew such support from it - seemed 1 961 and food service supervisor. My winters in Fort Myers Beach. As to give her delight and strength. jobs have all been diversified and you might guess she is partici­ Delight. That’s our Nancy. Fiona Morgan Fein challenging, but staying at home pating in sports, playing in two She loved tea. She loved beauty. 10 West 66th Street, #25D alone is by far the most difficult. tennis leagues that compete with She said she was in love with the New York, NY 10023-6212 I miss Warren terribly. various clubs all over southwest­ human voice. She loved Covent [email protected] Susie adds: It’s very meaningful ern Florida and getting in some Garden. She loved Mac, her “baby Nancy Smoyer for me to hear from so many of golf as well. Her eldest son, Mor­ brother.” She loved so much mu­ 375 Crystal Road you and to talk with you in per­ gan, an officer in the Fairbanks, AK 99712 son about the joys and challenges Marines, has served [email protected] of life. Enjoy Nancy Miller’s 70th several times as a he­ Birthday (see photo). Check out licopter pilot in the Fiona Morgan Fein shares these our other photos online, Betsy various hot spots of notes. welcoming Nelson Mandela to our world. Nancy Smoyer writes: I spent NYC, and family photos from Do let me hear most of the month of January Ros and me. from you all - email, traveling in Morocco with Over­ Email your current email ad­ phone, snail mail or seas Adventure Travel. A good, dress [email protected]); wait some carrier pigeon! fast-paced trip full of contrasts in days, then Google “How to Use the landscape, people and way of the new www.pds.org” life. I always try to talk to as many Sissy Dean Hall '59 shared this MFS photo people as possible, and in this including IMancy McMorris and Louise Lauck case, some of my most interesting K ingston. conversations were with women

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 37 CLASS NOTES ALUMNI NEWS

on the subject of the wearing of at the wonder and mystery of exis­ Mahala “Polly” Busselle Bish­ will be able to visit with Cindy headscarves and veils. I’m afraid it’s tence, but hope to enjoy as much op writes that she has published a in Sarasota and Pat Phillips in still puzzling to me. I’m no longer of it as possible. I have made an book about the inside of bi-polar Delray Beach which I greatly look working as a therapist at the Vet appointment to have cataract sur­ disease titled Sunshine and Shadow. forward to. Then come March Center so now have more time for gery this month, which is quite a “The book is an informative mem­ I’m going out to California to see travel and various volunteer ac­ bit overdue, but... better late than oir depicting the inside of mania our son in San Francisco, take our tivities, such as the animal shelter, never. I cannot quite imagine what and depression — based on notes younger daughter to see a tennis Hospice, Bible teaching, theatre having a non-focusing lens in one’s I made during hospitalizations, tournament at Indian Wells Ten­ group and whatever else I find. eye would be like, but everyone interviews with friends and family nis Garden and then spend a few When’s our next reunion??? who has had it done assures me with their feelings and memories days with Susan Heard in Ran­ Sheila Long: I am happily they can see quite happily at dif­ of my out-of-control behavior, cho Mirage. But winter here on settled in at Transfiguration Mon­ ferent distances, and everyone also poems by my husband describing the Cape is beautiful whether it’s astery in Windsor, New York, says it’s a big improvement. I’m his confusion and despair in trying clear, cold and sparkling water or glad to be back in the US after 25 sure it’s good that life is driving me to deal with a person he no longer snowing. That’s about all I think years away, despite the American out of procrastination. Have had knew nor understood. The object that needs to be said! health care system and lack of gun some nice occasions with Fiona of the book is education, to dispel control. For the past couple of and with Tibby, and hope to get the widespread ignorance of this 1 9 6 3 months, I’ve been working really up to see Sheila this spring. Would disease which has more than 5 hard to put together a Gregorian love to see anyone passing through million victims — an illness due to Alice Jacobson chant liturgy, using some fonts or visiting NY, and enjoy reading chemical imbalance. I have tried to 2924 NE 21st Avenue that write neumes (Gregorian updates on peoples lives. Who inform people in a readable, fast- Portland, OR 97212-3444 chant notation). Now that Monk, would have thunk it all, back in paced way. My website is wwiv. [email protected] our yellow lab puppy, has passed 1961, for better or for worse? mahalabishop. com.” his canine good citizenship test Trika Smith-Burke writes: Just Alice Jacobson writes: It’s a gray and rainy Oregon February as I and is contained by an invisible call me a risk-taker (and trying to 1 9 6 2 electric fence, he’s much less time- avoid surgery!) I am very excited write this edition of news of our classmates; the winter Olympics consuming, and I’ve been able about trying a new technique Gail Cotton are about to start, Valentine’s Day to go back to sewing, in a lovely, called PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) 4720 West 10th Street Road is Sunday, and we turn 65 this freshly-painted sewing room with a to “heal” my torn meniscus in my Greeley, CO 80634-2319 year. W ho’d a thunk it? beautiful view of the woods. Today right knee. The concept is to use [email protected] I ground up wheat berries to bake one’s own blood that is treated and Ginny Elmer Stafford wrote what I hope will be only the first of re-injected back into the knee to Susan Mathews Heard is hosting that she is the first to get a Medi­ many loaves of bread. The atmo­ stimulate one’s own body to heal Susie Shea McPherson for our care card..Thanks for leading the sphere here is much more relaxed the tear. If this works, it means mini-reunion in Rancho Mirage, way. As the last to be eligible, I and easy-going than in my French that I will not have to undergo sur­ CA, in March. We wish others am hoping it will be available next community. For example, two gery! Tune in for my next report were able to join us, but we’ll January! Ginny said it was a “sur­ weeks ago I flew to North Carolina and wish me luck! have fun nevertheless. I will ask real experience” for her. She said to visit a childhood friend, and Julia Cornforth Holofcener: Susie to help me celebrate my she told her grandsons that she when guests come, the freedom to We’re getting setded in Mount Dora retirement (March 31) after 44 was officially an “old lady,” and years on the job. I will transfer visit even extends to going out for very slowly. Holofcener Studio & they looked at her as though they a meal, if anyone is so inclined. Gallery has received a lot of atten­ my time and talents to support did not understand what she was Lucia Norton Woodruff tion, including a splendid article three nonprofit organizations: the saying. Ginny’s note ended that it reports two recent wonderfully in the Orlando Sentinel. Larry Los Angeles Opera League, the was hard to believe she had gone satisfying events. First the visit of is having the best time painting, Episcopal Home Communities, from “high school senior to senior the whole extended family the last sculpting and inspiring visitors to and the Huntington Hospital in such a short time.” To the rest week of December. I managed to take up art in any form. Jo (MFS Breast Cancer Center. O f course, of you: please share your thoughts make what had become basically a ’55) visited for 3 days and froze to Bruce and I will continue our on becoming “honored citizens” storeroom into a “grandchildren’s death. The weather has been cold travels, starting with a cruise (love those euphemisms) as you room” and we nine fit into the and rainy. However, we can’t really through the Panama Canal for approach or become 65. And house. Fun to see tiny cousins start complain considering what the rest our 30th anniversary in May, and please, do not tell us that “65 is their lifetime relationships and of the US is enduring. a trip to Omaha for niece Megan the new 55”! admire our own grown children Fiona Morgan Fein writes: Mathews’ wedding July 3. So we I received a brief note from as well as bask in the hum of vis­ My routine remains pretty much have lots to celebrate! Sally Campbell Haas who had its from friends, young and old. the same with learning to play Susan Shea McPherson just returned from two weeks in Heaven. Then I played an all Sam­ classical guitar at the top of my to writes: I hosted a small class Hawaii. She wrote from Califor­ uel Barber program in the Austin do list. I’m happy to report that reunion in September. I thought nia where she was visiting both Symphony, some difficult new-to- it is actually possible to acquire I should write you about it for the San Francisco and LA. us pieces as well as the well-known new skills at our age if you’re will­ Journal so here goes: Laurie Rogers, Pam Sidford Adagio for Strings, like a medita­ ing to work hard enough—very Mid-September Gail Cotton Schaeffer, and I got together in tion with the whole hall so quiet in satisfying. We hope to take a trip arrived at our home in Hyannis early November at Pam’s home the middle pause and at the end. to New Zealand in the fall to cel­ Port, Mass. for our mini class on the Cape. Sally had just left, You could have cut the silence, it ebrate Harvey’s 70th birthday. All reunion; fortunately she was able and we missed her at our mini­ was so thick. Both performances. suggestions welcome. In answer to stay for 5 days so we had lots reunion, sorry to say. Cynthia Weinrich writes: Not to Nancy’s query, I think our next of time to catch up and explore We three and (Pam’s husband a great deal has been happening, reunion is in the spring of 2011 the Cape. Sonia Bill Robertson, Leonard and my partner, AJ) which at our age is perhaps good when we will be forced to admit Wendy and Cindy Brown came had a wonderful time. We feel news (!) I’m still employed, still that we graduated from MFS 50 for a couple of days and we had blessed to see each other once a healthy overall, still enjoy life, and years ago. I suggest we all get to­ great fun talking, walking, eating, year. AJ and I had a week in New if anything am even more amazed gether and have a good laugh! watching baseball and tennis. I York City, took the train to Con­ am heading to Florida soon and necticut where Laurie picked us

38 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS CLASS NOTES

ing. Other highlights of Delaware & Raritan Canal Watch I’ve ever experienced before. Ev­ the Dunlops’ year were a and the PDS Alumni Association eryone in town was costumed and three-week trip to China, as a board member of each. A the children were trick or treating a week in Jamaica, and Scotland wedding this summer up and down restaurant row where some travels around the and Washington, DC, wedding the restaurateurs doled out candy! US seeing family, doing in October takes care of my sister We missed all of you who church-related activities, Pamela’s two children. I highly didn’t make it and decided we and visiting friends. recommend a Scotland wedding don’t want to wait another five Hope that all of you with wandering sheep, country years before getting together are doing well. Please do dancing and even haggis (pretty again. We’re taking ideas for a send your news. good!) Happy 46th to the MFS reunion city — Washington DC? Valerie Wicks Miller class of ’64!” Atlanta? Let us know!!” I’m on- writes: Still living in gor­ board. Fran. Let’s set a date! geous Vermont, teaching Prior to the fail re­ music and conducting union in Palm Springs, my Chamber singers. Fran went on safari in Two grandchildren and Africa. She shared her a third on the way. 20th thoughts on that expe­ wedding anniversary with rience in another email MFS '63 pals Alice Jacobson, Laurie husband, Doug. Life is and spoke a bit about Rogers and Pam Sidford Schaeffer at good, despite everything her plans for the future Pam's home on the Cape. else! and Stress Manage­ up, and then went to Brewster to ment, her company in meet Pam and Leonard for the 1964 Atlanta. weekend. I am sending along a “Africa was a picture of the 3 of us; they look Barbara B. Rose fabulous trip. I loved just the same as they did in 1963! 33 Lindbergh Road seeing all the wild Pam and Leonard are remodel­ Ringoes, NJ 08551 to r) Dora Lange, Cary Hart, Barbara animals (giraffes, ze­ ing a fabulous house in Dennis, (M) 704 724-5700 Kneubuhl, Susan Jamieson, Fran Wolff in bra, elephants, lions, and this takes them to the Cape Palm Springs '09 cheetah, leopards, Barbara Rose writes: Our class about once a month to oversee etc.) in their natural had two opportunities in 2009 to what they hope is the progress. Just Newly retired Dora Lange environment. The tented camps gather in celebration of our 45th heard from Pam that she is snowed Gilstrap, filled her new-found were divine—small, quite comfort­ year as the Class of 1964. Most of in there this February. They are free time by organizing a lovely able, lots of attention and food (5 us, sadly, missed both. Thank you awaiting the birth of their second reunion weekend in Palm Springs, meals a day—just what we need­ to those who put time and effort grandchild, this time a boy. Sa­ CA, last October. Fran WolfF, ed!). It was also fascinating to visit into organizing those events. mantha is now 2 and flourishing. Susan Jamieson, Barbara Kneu­ Zimbabwe to learn firsthand of Last May Mea Kaemmerlen Pam also writes that she is now cel­ buhl, and Cary Smith Hart were their political situation and their (Liz Aall), loyal classmate and ebrating the 5 th year of being can­ all there. Yes, you read correctly, daily lives. It was actually quite PDS board representative for cer free. We are so pleased by this, Barbara Kneubuhl! discouraging. I also found South the past year, met with Wendy Pam! When we were together, the Fran gave me a brief descrip­ Africa interesting in learning Fruland Hopper and Beirne Schaeffers screened their daughter tion of the weekend’s events in more about how apartheid was Donaldson during last Reunion Jaq’s feature film, “Timer.” It is her e-mail: practiced. I did go with Overseas Weekend at PDS. Mea sent a outstanding, and it was the hit of “Fm happy to report we had a Adventure Travel (OAT), which is photo as proof, along with a note several independent film festivals wonderful 45th class reunion in the group I frequently travel with. about her own activities. “I still in 2009. Palm Springs, CA, even if only I do want to continue my travels write my weekly column, Seren­ Laurie is busy at work. She five of us were there — Dora but haven’t decided on my next dipity, for the Trenton Times and says “hi” to all, and asked our Lange, Cary Smith Hart, Bar­ location. am a writing coach at Trenton indulgence this time around. bara Kneubuhl, Sue Jamieson I am easing toward retirement. Central High School. I’m also in­ They are putting in a new com­ and me. Dora and Barbara had I’d say I’m now semi-retired, volved with FCAP (Funeral Con­ puter system, and it has taken up not attended any of our previous having given up all yoga classes sumers Alliance of Princeton), the all her time. Both she and Pam reunions, so it was particularly and my relationship with Kaiser have been excited for AJ and me. good to see them again. The five to teach there. I continue to do We take off in a week and a half of us had a great time getting re- regular HypnoBirthing classes, for a safari in Tanzania and a little acqUainted. The warmth everyone stress management workshops in R&R in Zanzibar. Both say the felt for each other despite the long companies (when called—which safari was one of the highlights of absence was really gratifying. is rarely) and for individually re­ their travels. We’ll report back in Dora, who lives near Palm ferred clients from MDs I know. the next news notes. Springs, did a fabulous job orga­ This freed up considerable time, Kathy Sittig Dunlop sent a nizing our accommodations and so I took up bridge, and now play note that she spoke with Kathryn entertainment. We even visited at duplicate clubs at least twice Kilgore who has relocated to her home and got to see her hus­ a week. It becomes addictive. Utah. Kathy Sittig’s holiday letter band’s polo horses. Living with so I’m still on the board of Planned was filled with news of her and many horses was, of course, Sue Parenthood of Georgia, although her family. In November, Kathy Jamieson’s idea of heaven. We saw I must say it’s discouraging see­ broke her jaw in a fall over her (I to r) B eirne D onaldson , beautiful desert, ate great Mexi­ ing the way the country (see the daughter’s puppy. Fortunately, Wendy Fruland Hopper, Mea can food, and delighted in being health care billed passed in the nothing else was broken, and Kaemmerlen at PDS Reunion in the midst of a Palm Springs House Saturday which includes a Kathy was mended by Thanksgiv­ Weekend '09 Halloween—which was unlike any ban on private abortion coverage

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 39 CLASS NOTES ALUMNI NEWS for millions of women and would left in general? I’m still working the country — you name it. Watch prohibit it in the new “public hard to understand what’s going for more stories about Santa Fe in option”) and, of course, the way on, especially the lack of civility, the New York Times. Yeah, Tom Georgia is going ” curiosity and compassion. I keep and I helped the campaign, and I was sorry to miss our class believing we can do better...and our son Patrick was the DJ for the reunion in Palm Springs, but BTW my ankle and shoulder are celebration last night. Our daugh­ just returned from Vermont in okay, but no field hockey for me, ter Kate and her husband Bryce October where I attended school praise the Lord! Finally a really Tappan supported the Mayor too. in order to earn a certification good excuse.” I’m hoping that Michelle Ruess, in Permaculture Design. This is As for whether the left is break­ the PDS Journals editor who is the practice of designing human ing down, I, your procrastinating kindly forgiving this column’s environments through the cre­ class scribe Elise Rosenhaupt lateness, can fit their wedding ation of systems that are ecologi­ Noble, am happy to report that photo into these pages - it was cally sound, economically viable, Elise Rosenhaupt Noble shared yesterday, March 2, Santa Fe’s taken in the dark, “illuminated by self-sufficient, do not exploit or this photo of her daughter Kate progressive mayor won re-elec­ black powder/magnesium flash,” pollute and are sustainable, long and her husband Bryce Tappan. tion. Mayor David Coss (some reflecting Bryce’s enthusiasm for term. An organic grower since the call him “Comrade Coss”) is a his work in “energetic materials” 1970’s, I’ve started a consultancy 1965 married Roman Catholic who as well as his sense of humor. called “Grow Edible Gardens.” 45th Reunion supports gay marriage, works to Peggy Dennis Woodbridge What better place to do this develop a green economy, likes writes: Having a ball serving as Elise Rosenhaupt Noble than in the “Garden State!” Last progressive taxation, and helped President of the Montgomery 2255 Old Arroyo Chamisa Road month I moved to a beautiful sponsor the highest living wage in County Civic Federation. Santa Fe, NM 87505 farm in the Sourland Mountains [email protected] in Ringoes, NJ, about 20 minutes from downtown Princeton. I love Sally Stewart Gilbert was gener­ being in the country and having ous with her thoughts and news. family and friends nearby. Daugh­ She wrote: “I’m feeling lots of ter Katherine Hare lives and solidarity with those of you who works in NYC, while Elizabeth have/are dealing with aging Don’t miss the Hare ’88 along with husband, parents. It’s an education I’m Todd Drake, and son, Jasper, live not sure that I want. But...I am 2 hours north in the beautiful clearer about my instructions for Hudson River Valley. Hobie Hare my children and friends about ’93, is currently attending grad how to deal with me. That may Alumni Awards and school and working as Assistant be a plus.” She went on, Coach for Division I Soccer “I’ve been singing a lot! Jew- program at DePaul University in eltones, small women’s a capella Chicago. group; Men and Women of the If any of you find yourselves Gospel, LARGE wonderful gospel Athletic Hall of Fame in the New York area, please let chorus Kennedy Center concert me know. I have a spare bedroom in January; East Avenue Ensemble and would love to see you. Mean­ SATB more classical (read square) while, safe travels in 2010. group; and I’ve been singing jazz Mea Kaemmerlen writes: In with a wonderful pianist named Reception and Ceremony December, I was on a fantastic, Ron Worthy. I’ve wanted to sing insightful 10-day tour of Israel— jazz since I went to school with Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Galilee, you! He’s invited me to come to Dead Sea, Haifa, Golan Heights. an ongoing jam session of some John Sheehan, PCD ’61, orga­ old guys who have been around Saturday, May 15, 5:30 p.m nized the tour and was a laugh and who play around still. I re­ a minute. Father John, as he is corded an imperfect rehearsal CD known by his flock, is head of with Ron and a drummer, Mike the Xavier Society for the Blind Richards, and if you want a copy, in New York City and alternated let me know. on the Colross Lawn between holding mass in the “I am the proud recipient of Church of the Nativity and riding a left shoulder hemi-resurfacing a camel at a roadside gas station. and some screws and plates in my He’s planning another tour to broken left ankle. Are these har­ Greece next October. bingers of the breakdown of the

Join the Princeton Day School Alumni Group on Facebook go to www.facebook .com and type in "Princeton Day School Alumni Group" Reconnect with fellow alums and learn about what's happening at PDS today.

40 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS CLASS NOTES Notes Princeton Country Day School

1926-1929 1941 1947 (1991) Class dinner at his Princ­ eton house. He and his wife have PDS Communications Office Walter Van B. Roberts Jr. Peter Rossmassler been living for the last 16 years 1382 Newtown-Langhorne Rd„ Apt. N106 at “The Courtyard, Beech Park 1930 1942 Newtown, PA 18940 House,” a complex of five build­ 215-968-7340 ings, including a grand stable, 80tH Reunion Detlev F. Vagts about nine miles outside Dublin, PDS Communications Office David CD Rogers writes: Never 29 Follen Street Ireland. Bill reminisces after read­ thought we’d be snowbirds and Cambridge, MA 02138-3502 ing an issue of the Journal (with migrate to Florida for a month 1931-1934 [email protected] some editing and class historian to escape the snow and cold of Bob Kales’ help) as follows: Hingham, MA. This is the second PDS Communications Office 1943 “Almost all classmates were on year we’ve rented the top half of the hockey team, and if I remem­ a beach shack - all of 500 square 1935 Peter E.B. Erdman ber correctly we had one, and pos­ feet - on the deserted beach of 75th Reunion 700 Hollinshead Spring Road, Apt. D100 sibly two, undefeated seasons. The Casey Key about 20 miles below greatness we had was very much PDS Communications Office Skillman, NJ 08558-2038 Sarasota. thanks to Princeton’s varsity coach First week had two days of great 1944 Dick Vaughn. It is thanks to him 1936-1938 sun (70s), wonderful grilled fish that a great number of PCD play­ and a relaxing time — especially ers went on to play in boarding PDS Communications Office Correspondent needed since I filed a major consulting school, college and then pick-up report on Monday just as we 1945 teams for further decades. For me, 1939 arrived. Next week, theater in the most memorable game was 65th Reunion Sarasota and the opera. Financial tied with around 5 minutes to go Harold B. Erdman Colin C. McAneny competitive intelligence for For­ when I personally made an abso­ 14 Smalley Lane 438 Evans Street tune 200 firms keeps my mind lutely brilliant save only to sweep Skillman, NJ 08558 Vicksburg, MS 39180 active - as does having bosses the the puck into the goal. I cried. [email protected] [email protected] age (or younger) of my “kids.” Thanks to the first string line we got one more goal, and in overtime Harold Erdman writes: Ed Colin McAneny writes: Mai 1948 the ever so important winner. Frohling left PCD a year before Cleland enjoys his life near Den­ “I also remember convinc­ we graduated in 1939 to start at ver. He and wife Martie share John D. Wallace ing my parents that the school’s Lawrenceville, Class of ’42. He the love of six grandchildren and 90 Audubon Lane schedule had changed from half received his engineering degree seven great-grandchildren. For Princeton, NJ 08540-2301 days on Wednesday to a full day. from M.I.T. and after working relaxation Mai plays, or as Mai [email protected] I am sure that very few of you in New York for several years puts it plays AT, golf. had the number of demerits that decided to start his own firm, In honor of the 75th anniver­ 1949 I managed to continually accu­ Mountain States Engineering sary of the Gallup Poll, George mulate and consequently are still in Tucson, AZ. This was a most Gallup is gathering personal pa­ Correspondent needed unable to dust bookshelves with successful company employing pers and working on a biography distinction. This reprieve lasted over 100, and designed many of his dad, the late George Gallup 1950 for a couple of weeks, but dust­ gold mining operations mainly Sr.. This effort will lead, hope­ ing books/weeding for a good in the West. He is now retired, fully, to a documentary about the 60th Reunion number of following Wednesdays spending the winters in Boca senior Gallup’s life. William C. Wallace were done at home. “Everyone Raton, FL with his wife, Olga, Colin McAneny continues 25 Barnsdale Road that started in the first few forms and the summers in Easthamp- working with Habitat For Hu­ Short Hills, NJ 07078-2018 will remember Mr. Murch. He ton, NY. He is now a very active manity, and occasionally appears had a number of distinctions: President of our Class of 1942 at on stage playing minor parts with 1951 height, glasses, nose and the very Lawrenceville. the Vicksburg (MS) Little Theatre distinctive sound of his walk. His Guild. Edwin H. Metcalf footsteps reverberated a warning 1940 Best wishes! 23 Toth Lane to all that you best be doing what 70 th Reunion Rocky Hill, NJ 08553-1010 [email protected] you were supposed to be doing James K. Meritt 1946 for students and teachers alike. 809 Saratoga Terrace Ed Metcalf writes: Bill Dorman “Although I can remember Correspondent needed Turnersville, NJ 08012-1227 was last seen by most PCD class­ something about almost all the mates hosting our 40th reunion teachers, I will just highlight a

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 41 CLASS NOTES ALUMNI NEWS

few. Mr. Robeson in shop quietly Princeton University’s 200th an­ and family responsibilities left ing, hiking, four wheeling, cool reminded me that when you build niversary, and Miss Fine’s School! little time to think about old fun place to be season, located a stool all four legs are supposed “Perhaps a full reunion in Ire­ friends. Anyway, in January 2009, some 50 miles north of Durango, to touch the floor. Mr. Tibbals land. You are all invited.” my 35-year-old daughter realized CO and the northernmost stop showed us how he could write the Bill also asks about Conway that her parents were not getting of the restored historic Durango- same sentence with both hands Hyden and Jonathon Cabot. any younger and she wanted to Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. at once, and my inappropriate Anyone know their whereabouts? know more about their past. Her Anyway, sometime last summer comment that you could not read search led her to contact the PDS I received the latest edition of the either of them. (That cost me 1952 Alumni Office, reconnecting me Class of 1959 roster and learned a good number of Wednesdays with PCD’s Class of 1959 and that Rob Carrick lived in Ouray, dusting books). I remember Mr. Philip Kopper opening doors to reconnect with CO which is located 23 miles McAneny as a gentle and good 4610 DeRussey Parkway friends from half a century ago. north of Silverton in some of the man. I must add Mr. Whitehead Chevy Chase, MD 20815-5332 Unfortunately, time and distance most spectacular scenic mountain (considering the color of his hair, [email protected] did not allow me to attend our country in the nation. So, the it was a most appropriate name). 50th Reunion, but it did provide question in my mind was, “What Mr. Smyth, French; Mr. Clarke, 1953 me with an up-to-date class list. do I do with this revelation?” Latin; Mrs. Clarke, something Since retiring at the end of Toward the end of August I was to do with singing; Mrs. Ashley, Ken Scasserra 2005, my wife Libby and I have driving through Ouray on my way general secretary; and Mr. Ross 2 Chippin Court been spending summers in Silver- north to do some shopping in the with saddle shoes while we all Robbinsville, NJ 08691 ton, CO, which had been a favor­ big city of Montrose, CO and de­ wore white bucks. [email protected] ite stop for a couple of days dur­ cided on my way home to try and “I also remember that our ing summer vacation. Silverton is find Rob. This was not difficult at Class and most of the classes one 1954 a lovely old mining town of about all and I soon found myself sitting above and below were contempo­ 450 people that swells to some in my car alongside his home. raries while all the rest were too Correspondent needed 2,500 during the summer camp­ 1 ponder, “Okay, now what do young to speak to or too old to listen to. That’s sure changed, or 1955 at least it has in Ireland. When I Alumni Director Tracey Gates 55th Reunion last met Messieurs Robeson and and Harry Rulon-Miller '51, Tibbals some years ago I opted for Guy K. Dean III holding the original PCD sign, Mister. Just couldn’t say Stu and 11 Lemore Circle which mysteriously appeared at Bud. Murch and Ross might take Rocky Hill, NJ 08553-1007 PDS. Just before going to press, umbrage. [email protected] we received this poem from John Mueller '65. Can any of the “1991 was the last time, actu­ Fighting He-Men be a true ally the first since 1951,1 met 1956 he-man with more of the story? with any number of the class, and the only person that I have seen Correspondent needed since on a regular basis is Jimmy Mystery Morsels Kerney and his wife Emmy. 1957 What a lovely family they have Mr. Mac might have prescribed “A writing assignment - yes, restitution; raised. The Rulon-Miller’s fam­ James Carey Jr. What shame to abscond with that icon of our beloved institution.” ily dog was called Mergatroid. 545 Washington Street May the story be told in somewhat of a sonnet, George Hess always finished his Dedham, MA 02026-4438 Yet woe, poetic was never a forte, doggone it. tests last, b u t.... (Editing note: so [email protected] Oh remorseful, repentant! I’m obliged, I must comply - he would reduce the embarrass­ So here’s now my confession, the how and the why. ment of his perfect papers) Tom 1958 D orf’s parents bought FORD ’Twas a breezy and warm summer night, I recall, cars and had the letters rearranged C.R. Perry Rodgers Jr. A lone streetlight flickering outside the hallowed, empty hall. to spell DORF. Bob Kales was 80 Stony Brook Road Two teenage boys with great mischief in mind, the second child in a fun and Hopewell, NJ 08525-2710 And honor, how delusional, we thought we would find large family of eight children. [email protected] By freeing from its hanger, the revered label, that gilded craft . . . Peter Alsop rode a Vespa motor On bikes to the darkness . . . a vacancy now there looking aft. scooter when teaching in Hawaii, 1959 crossing the country, and in New New adventure was awaiting this writer at Kent; York City. (Why did so many go Roger Budny It was there the prized icon and I we went. into teaching? Other than Alsop 5 Sentinel Road But too great in size and of dubious import I found, were Hess, Miller, Rulon-Miller, Washington Crossing, PA 18977 On the dorm room wall then it should not be bound. [email protected] and Wright). “Palmer Stadium So to the dorm attic, amidst other relics and booty used to be filled for every football Roger Budny writes: Nick Hare It stayed ’til who knows when, forgotten, no duty. game, and many of us lined our reports that his son Amo was re­ pockets selling programs. Einstein cruited by and accepted the offer Its next of adventures to this source they’re unknown. was just somebody famous for to play lacrosse at Union College. Can the He-Men reveal more that was sown? something. Skating was also on Union is where Rob Carrick played That the sign was found to indeed recrudesce, Carnegie Lake. Renwicks and hockey and Steve Cook’s son was Let this give some hope for more telling, more press. the Good Humor Man were for captain of the team last year. The rest of the story pray soon will come to light, ice cream. My unforgettable line Walter Smith writes: Greet­ From others forthcoming to share their insight. in the annual School play was ings from southwest Colorado! “Good evening inspector.” The For many years I had lost touch - John Mueller ’65 atomic bomb, Harry S. Truman at with friends from PCD. Work [email protected]

42 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS CLASS NOTES

A. JflDj pages with inter- in Purchase, NY. They met at two grandchildren who keep him est, pausing to ask the University of Vermont and busy. He and his wife, Laila, re­ a prayer for those live in Larchmont, NY. Charlie cently celebrated their 40th wed­ class members continues his work in Internet ding anniversary. who are no longer advertising as a Media Supervisor John Gaston is Chief Operat­ with us. All in all it at Mediaedge, a division of the ing Officer for the Jordon Insti­ seems that most of WPP Group. tute, a non-profit specializing in us did quite well. John met Mehvish on a plane energy efficiency projects for large After lunch, trip to London two summers ago. commercial buildings. A Bermuda I suggested that Mev is a senior at Berkeley College resident for four years, John now we go over to the where she has been president of lives in Cambridge, MA with Olde Tyme Portrait numerous groups and maintains his wife, Linda. They have three an A average. Her major is Fi­ Class of '59 members Walt Smith and Rob Parlour, where I’ve grown children and two grand­ Carrick posed for an "Olde Tyme" photograph worked for the nance, and she is currently intern­ children. when they reunited in Colorado last summer. past four summers ing with me here at Morgan Stan­ Rod Myers and his wife, and have an Olde ley Smith Barney. John continues Pat, live in the Dupont Circle as a real estate broker with Imagine I do?” I ask myself, “Is this really Tyme Photo taken. Well, we area of Washington, DC. Rod Living in lower Manhattan. His retired last year after many years a good idea? How might I be did and now have a wonderful interior design company, Mercury with Prudential and now works received? Living in a isolated com­ remembrance of the Summer of Interiors, specializes in optimiz­ part-time with Phillips Realty munity, does Rob want to have 2009 in the old west. We hope ing space using room dividers and Capital, a commercial mortgage contact with anyone from so long you’ll recognize the two shady other improvements. They have banking firm. His interests in­ ago?” I’m not sure that I ever an­ characters playing poker in some worked with over 50 clients in clude golf, travel and catching swered my questions, but decided dark and dusty old west saloon of their building where they live on up with old friends. that rejection would be much the 1880’s shown in the accompa­ Fulton Street in lower Manhattan. We have a 50th reunion in easier to handle than living with nying photo. We hope you get a the knowledge that I did not fol­ laugh out of it because low through and finish the jour­ we had a blast doing it! ney. So I exited the car, walked to It was hard to say the front door and knocked. “good-bye.” Rob and I Rob came to the door and I had been in kindergar­ introduced myself, I’m not sure ten together and often that either one of us knew what to played “in each other’s do or say at that point, but, be­ sandbox” when growing ing a gracious host, he invited me up. Even if only for a in while asking, “Do I owe you couple of hours, it was money?” (Like I’d remember?) wonderful to once again Anyway, after assuring him that play in that mythical “sandbox” high in the I was not looking to collect on Tom Chubet '61 at his son Charlie's wedding. Tom Chubet '61 son John an old debt, but rather wanted to San Juan Mountains. Pictured are (l-r) Tom, Kelly, Charlie, Carolyn, Tom's and his wife Mehvish on reconnect with a friend from years Anyway, if any of you other son John and his wife Mehvish. their wedding day. ago, we sat down and had a won­ should find yourselves derful time catching up on the blessed with some time in the Carolyn continues as a Kaplan 2012. In the meantime, we are last 50 years. I enjoyed very much magnificent mountains of South­ Premier tutor, preparing high in need of class notes. Please listening to the story of his jour­ west Colorado, please make it a school students to take the SAT share some news. Mail to: ney and shared much of mine. point to track us down and spend and ACT. She also trains new tu­ [email protected] I lost track of time sitting there an hour or so. We would love to tors for Kaplan. talking, sharing what we know see you. 1963 about some of our classmates and Walter F. Smith III, 1962 watching deer wandering through Albuquerque, NM (505) 898-6943, John A. Ritchie the neighborhood, when my wife [email protected]. John F. McCarthy III 6014 Walton Road called my cell wondering where 353 Nassau Street Bethesda, MD 20817-2519 the hell I was and what was tak­ 1960 Princeton, NJ 08540 [email protected] ing me so long. As I got ready to [email protected] 50th Reunion 1964 leave, Rob suggested that we get Congratulations to Woody John­ together for dinner in Silverton Karl Pettit III 6079 Pidcock Creek Road son for bringing his New York so that he could meet my wife. I William E. Ring New Hope, PA 18938-9313 Jets to the finals of the American guess he wanted to find out who 2118 Wilshire Boulevard, #336 [email protected] Football Conference Champion­ could put up with the likes of me Santa Monica, CA 90403 ship. Owner of the team since [email protected] for almost four decades. 1961 2000, Woody moves his club into The next week he and a friend the new Meadowlands Stadium Donald E. Woodbridge met us for lunch at one of Sil- 64 Depot Hill Road Correspondent needed this year. O n a sadder note, all of verton’s finest restaurants and us are thinking of Woody and his Amenia, NY 12501-5817 we enjoyed another hour or so Tom Chubet writes: During family on the loss of their daugh­ [email protected] together. Rob was kind enough to 2009, my son Charlie married ter, Casey. bring a copy of some pages from his girlfriend Kelly who is part Rick Eckels is living in 1965 the Journal covering the 45th class of a sales team with the Global Memphis where he is a Manag­ 45th Reunion reunion, which Roger Budny put Stock Plan Services department ing Director for the investment Correspondent needed together. I read and re-read the of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney firm, Morgan Keegan. Rick has

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 43 CLASS NOTES ALUMNI NEWS

1 1 J 1 * Notes Princeton Day School

And who got married last sum­ first ice show since 1965! You go Please note: Class notes include columns submitted by the class mer? Yes, it’s Mettie Whipple! girl! In addition to the time she correspondents, as well as notes submitted directly to PDS and Congratulations from all of us in loves spending with her grandson media reports on class members. the Class o f’66. Mettie wrote, Sebastian, she’s writing her astrol­ “This past July, I married Donald ogy blog, and maintaining her Classes without a correspondent may send notes to: Moffat (Nipper) Harding, and astrology website. PDS Communications Office, Princeton Day School we now live in Yarmouth, Maine In January, Argentina and Chile RO. Box 75, Princeton, NJ 08542 • Email: [email protected] (Nipper has relatives living in the was the vacation spot chosen by Princeton area, Abbot Low Moffat the Patty Morgan-Irigoyen fam­ ily. Patty and Mario (and Morgan 1 9 6 6 Having gone with his parents for one week through a divorce this of the trip) spent three weeks in Lynn Wiley Hoffman past year and a move South America and had a won­ 1701 Newport Road #1425 to a new home, Sally derful time, “...visiting family Croydon, PA 19021 Behr Ogden began a in Mendoza, with the beautiful 215-788-6143 different set of holiday Andes mountains always a back­ [email protected] rituals: celebrating drop, a thermal spa complete Christmas day with her with a mud bath in Cacheuta, the Deborah Hobler kids, and then Christ­ 1342 Rialto Lane Park at the foot of the Aconcagua, mas night with her sis­ Santa Barbara, CA 93105-4628 the Laguna del Diamante under ter in the Boston area. 805-682-4896 Tupungato’s shadow, the casino in [email protected] Like all of us who have Vina del Mar, and one of Pablo gone through this sad Mettie Whipple and Nipper Harding at their Neruda’s houses in Valparaiso. Not Debbie Hobler writes: In order to process, Sally says that 2009 summer wedding only was it fun, but it was summer gather information for these class it’s a time of transition­ to boot! Morgan is applying to notes, I had to promise everyone ing into a new life. “I’m getting a was a cousin). We held the cer­ schools in NYC and we can’t wait in the class that I would send each degree in hypnotherapy, living in emony at my home on the banks to have him back in the area. He’s of you flowers and chocolates on a rented house in Millbrook, NY of the Eel River in Plymouth, MA. a jazz studies major and would like Valentines Day. Foolishly, you in a cow field, and happy about Peter Gomes, (Harvard’s Plummer to teach and perform (percussion) believed me. In truth, I wrote a it!” Sally says she feels that her Professor of Christian Morals) after graduate school. I had a humorous letter begging you all placement in the cow field seems performed the ceremony. My two wonderful visit with Susie and Gil, to provide me with your updates, to reflect what she’s been through. kids — Stephanie Schiro, 29, who Andrea and Hermine in the fall. because if you didn’t the Alumni Her oldest daughter Oakley is 29, teaches middle school in Toronto, Susie is an amazing book artist and Association would take back my living in Crestone, CO; her son and Arthur Schiro, 26, who just taught us how to make a luminaire diploma. Thankfully, your re­ Nick, 26, is living in Nashville; finished his engineering degree at and showed us her beautiful work. sponses saved me, and I remain a and the youngest, Lacey, is at Bos­ UC Santa Cruz, and Nipper’s two It was so good to be together. PDS graduate. ton College. sons, Ben and Evan, also 29 and When’s our next reunion?” I was happy to hear from Enid Having finally sold Fred’s 26, were there as well and a good In March, Sally Harries Sackin Reddick who reported that family property on Cape Cod, time was had by last summer she and John took a Hope Rose Angier and Fred are all. If any MFSers leisurely vacation along the coast of now looking forward to breaking are in Maine, it New Brunswick, and then over to ground for their new home on would be great to Nova Scotia. In addition to enjoy­ 10 acres in the Camden Hills of see you. Yarmouth ing the beautiful coastlines of these Hope, Maine. Yup, Hope is go­ is right outside of areas, they witnessed Northern ing to live in Hope. “We are now Portland, and just Right Whales (that’s right) per­ spending the winter designing 15 minutes from forming reproductive rituals in the and acting as general contractors L.L. Bean.” ocean. (Forgive me Enid, this is a for our house. After years of liv­ New Career? family magazine, I had to change ing on a sailboat without a dog, Dale Marzoni the words.) This endangered we adopted Kizuri, a Rhodesian Kellogg is a bona large whale species, which were Ridgeback puppy. My mural fide board mem­ named “right’’ because the whalers commissions continue to be in ber of the Santa thought they were the “right” ones the mix. With challenges on all Fe Skating Club, to hunt, can weigh up to 100 tons fronts, life is interesting and the co-chair of the and be 60 feet long. Now that’s a mind and the body keep working Club’s Show, and Patty Morgan-Irigoyen, her husband Mario, and lot of loving. and moving at 62.” is skating in her son Morgan.

44 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS CLASS NOTES

Gauldie and Jack are going to Yale in the fall in immunology/ Christmas. Yes, cutting the UK for four weeks, taking infectious diseases.” the live greens and work­ Dave, Sandra and grandson Jack Your diploma-challenged ing them into a wreath still with them, including a week-long class secretary, Debbie Hobler, smarts the fingers, but it visit to Mallorca. Steve, Sam a registered filmaholic, has just brought back many funny and granddaughter Madeleine completed her 15th year of at­ and enjoyable memories will join them as well from Edin­ tending the 11 -day Santa Barbara of classmates working and burgh. Sally will be celebrating International Film Festival, which gossiping together as we her April birthday with the whole attracted directors, producers, sat on the stairs under the family in Scotland, and says her writers and actors, and us mortal MFS gym. I gave away my best present is being with both filmgoers. I spent about 8 hours wreaths this Christmas, grandchildren together, a first for a day in the dark watching award- but have since discovered she and Jack. At the end of June, winning films while the sun shone it is possible to donate Sally heads to Boston to be on outside. My mother calls this film future creations to the hand to help Steve and Sam as abuse. I love it. The best event I Martha’s Vineyard Com­ they welcome their second child. attended was the Director’s Panel munity Services, so maybe Jo Schlossberg McConaghy '67 shared July brings the Scottish-based fam­ where I heard James Cameron next year, I can continue this photo of her husband Bill and ex­ ily members to visit Sally at home (Avatar), Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt the spirit of the original change student Francoise Foassier. in Canada, and then in September Locker), Lee Daniels (Precious), MFS Candlelight Service Jack and Sally celebrate their 40th Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Tradition. DO you remember the events that happened this past fall wedding anniversary. An incredible Basterds), Todd Phillips (The dimmed lighting in the old gym, was Francoise Foassier’s trip to partnership accomplishment in Hangover) and Pete Docter the white dresses, the pen light the U.S. to visit PDS friends and this day and age, Sally, congratula­ (Up) discuss their movies and flashlights, the giant tree on the other acquaintances. tions! their craft. stage covered in tinsel and silver Francoise spent time in Sep­ Hilary Drorbaugh Propst Lynn Wiley Hoffman writes balls bathed in blue light (for the tember in New York City with writes, “Michael and I continue to that her son, Christopher, has a school colors)? This tradition rep­ Beth Schlossberg ’68, sister of Jo travel, sail, kayak and fish, and bird webpage, unvw.christopherludwig- resents some of the most magical Schlossberg McConaghy, and watch. We are members of the pbotography.com which beautifully moments of my MFS experience.” with Mary Young Bragado and Bird Club, and in December we displays and sells his photographs. husband Max. She also visited were out in the pouring rain with Lynn says, “I know I can be a 1967 Franny Gorman and family in 30-40 miles per hour winds count­ proud mommy, but I really find the Princeton area, the Hunters ing birds for the annual Audubon his work amazing. Chris has a Susan Fritsch Hunter in Connecticut, and the McCon- Christmas Bird Count. You have marvelous eye and a real knack 12 Fatima Drive aghys in Massachusetts. to PAY to do this. Sometimes I for capturing the world.” Unfor­ Bethany, CT 06524 Francoise is an intrepid and wonder about our sanity!” Hilary tunately, Lynn’s been suffering [email protected] enthusiastic traveler whose trips also volunteers for the Animal Aid from eye problems, and in early have literally spanned the globe, Susan Fritsch Hunter writes: I Society. “The dogs are great. I March, will undergo cataract sur­ and she brought her spirit of ad­ would like to build up the e-mail learned not to ask for their stories gery. Sorry, Lynn, I hope all goes venture and photography skills to address list, so I can alert everyone because it is far too depressing. It smoothly. She continues to work the U.S. trip. about sending in class news. Please still amazes and enrages me what for Walmart, and is working her In Connecticut, we made sure e-mail me with your e-mail ad­ people do to their pets.” In the way up the ladder there. she experienced a New England dress, so I can put you on the list. past few months, Hilary spoke Sadly, I must report the passing fall, with apple picking, gallery I had the honor of attending with both Polly Dickey Cock- of Katherine Becker’s mother, browsing, local dining and a tour the annual Freedom Fund Ban­ burn and Linda Staniar Bergh, Lucile Russell Stuart, 94, who died of Yale University. Her time with quet hosted by the Ansonia (CT) and looks forward to seeing Linda peacefully on January 30 at her us was too short, and we hope she branch of the NAACP in Octo­ on her way to Vermont in March. Martha’s Vineyard home. After returns soon. ber. It was the 100th anniversary I want to know what power­ leaving Princeton, Mrs. Stuart had Julia Lockwood writes: I just of the NAACP, and it was excit­ house nutritional supplements lived full time at the Vineyard since got back from Princeton visiting ing to be part of this history that Barbara Sullivan takes each day, 1991, was an avid gardener, and my mother. She is 99+, still living evening. I received the NAACP’s because she is more active and an active, energetic member of the at 74 Jefferson Road with helpers journalism award for “commit­ energetic than ever. Barb is now West Tisbury’s reading and sewing that come in three times a day ment to objective journalism” in in the second year of a three-year group. We extend our deepest con­ and my brother down the street. the lower Naugatuck MFA program in creative writing dolences to Katherine, her brother Valley. In the newspa­ at the University of North Caro­ John, (PCD ’61) her step brother, per I edit, the Valley lina in Wilmington, which she Charles Stuart (PCD ’59) and her Gazette, I’ve written loves. “I also work part time for a entire extended family. extensively about the non-profit that teaches woodwork­ In early January before her plight of residents in ing to at-risk teenagers. (I know mother passed away Katherine Ansonia’s Riverside nothing about woodworking.) Becker wrote: “I knew I got an Public Housing com­ What I do is behind the scenes erudite education in English lit­ plex and about other stuff. It’s a wonderful program erature while at MFS, but who racially charged issues. and a great group of people to knew those skills acquired while As part of the honor, I work with. Our daughter Rachel wreath-making during study received citations from just started graduate school at the hall on behalf of the Social Ser­ Gov. M. Jodi Rell, the School of International Public vices Committee would be equally state General Assem­ Administration at Columbia Uni­ valuable? I retrieved that tactile bly, the state treasurer, Mary Young Bragado '67 and her husband versity. Our son, Charles, is wan­ learning and put it to good use attorney general and Max Bragado-Darman hosted classmates dering around South America right during a holiday visit with fam­ secretary of the state. Susan Fritsch Hunter and Francoise now, and will start grad school at ily on Marthas Vineyard during One of the big Foassier in New York City in September.

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 45 CLASS NOTES ALUMNI NEWS

She is still enjoying reading poetry can Way, at Wordsunltd.com and the Operation Walk team. The Hyson on the right, then you and looking at books about cats have been published all over the surgeons will be performing total guessed correctly! and pigs. Our life is good here. Internet and even in the New joint replacements on 60 cases. My daughter, Katie, will be Rachel is still in Portland, playing York Times. Their Sunday op eds On a family note, my oldest married this July to Jon Nieren- in her band, taking courses at the get me so visceral that I worry at daughter, Megan, is engaged to be burg at our cottage, which is University of Southern Maine and this age about getting a stroke if I married this summer and will be situated on a lake in northern enrolling next year there full time read them too regularly. completing her masters in creative Connecticut. The Hobler family for a masters degree in Ameri­ writing at the U of Virginia. My will partake in the festivities. can studies. Shradha has applied 1 9 6 8 youngest daughter, Addie, will be May you all celebrate your to colleges (in Maine) and she finishing high school and going to 60th birthdays with style. has gotten into a couple, so the Mary Hobler Hyson college. My oldest stepson, Jason, John Claghorn I I I in October pressure is off. Priyanka is a fifth 1067 Wolf Hill Road is a freshman at Temple U Med celebrated the marriage of his son, grader. I’m practicing pediatrics, Cheshire, CT 06410-1732 School and the youngest, Justin, is John Winthrop Claghorn IV, to walking the dog, singing and [email protected] an eighth-grader. Sara Prather Smith. playing the piano. I have enjoyed My parents continue to enjoy Pamela Aall McPherson Sia Godfrey Bauer my first ever drawing class this fall retired living in Florida. My dad celebrated her daughter Ella’s 7 Hart Ridge Drive and I’m trying to learn Hindi - a just celebrated his 93rd birthday marriage to George Raymond Burlington, CT 06013-1817 challenge! I periodically see Jenny [email protected] and my mom breezed through her Iestyn Llewellyn-Smith at the Borgerhoff in Princeton, which is 86th. My sister, Mona, retired to Washington National Cathedral great. Mary Hobler Hyson writes: Florida after teaching 30 years in in Washington, DC. Marta Nussbaum Steele By the time you are reading this Philadelphia. writes: I came down with Bell’s spring issue of the Journal, the In January I spoke with Su­ 1 9 6 9 palsy in April 2008, went into snow shovel will be retired and san Koch LaTulippe and Leigh physical therapy in August look­ the presence of green grass and Keyser Phillips. The three of us Susan Denise Harris ing like God’s wrath. My speech blooming flowers will be in abun­ plan to have a mini-reunion/60th 324 South Bald Hill Road was also slurred. But because of dance! Now for a bit of news: birthday year celebration this New Canaan, CT 06840-2902 wonderful therapy, I’m promised Beth Schlossberg wrote in spring in Vermont. Susan sold [email protected] complete normalcy. I haven’t last October: Life is good. My her day care recently. She had missed one day of work or one private practice is growing, which designed, developed and created 1 9 7 0 day of therapy. I can pass for pleases me. I’m working full-time a top-notch educational center 40th Reunion normal now, but need more work. at the clinic and spending good which served the community for No one knows how to cure this time with family and friends. more than 20 years. Although it Ann M. Wiley condition pharmaceutically. It’s Last month I was thrilled to was a tough decision to step aside, 33 Cold Soil Road not life threatening. My daughter have Francoise Foassier (AFS’67 she is pleased that the new owner Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-1054 Liza passed her general exams student) spend a week of her is someone who has worked [email protected] at Princeton and is now thesis- month-long US trip here with me closely with her at the day care for bound, bonded to a wonderful in NYC. Looking forward to fall years. Susan’s youngest daughter, 1 9 7 1 Swiss post-doc. I became a great walks through the park with my Bissie, was married to Michael dog and to winning the lottery. Cutter this past year. Congrats! Betsy Meredith Rigo In December 2009, Andy Do you recognize these candy 200 East 90th Street Fishmann sent me an e-mail: cane dancers from 1955? (See New York, NY 10128 Life was moving along just fine photo) They would both drop the [email protected] until Labor Day of 2009 when dancing lessons (at Peggy Bayer’s I ruptured a lumbar disc and Studio) soon after this recital, 1 9 7 2 had to have emergency surgery. but would continue their inter­ After several weeks of recovery, I ests in sports in high school and Jan Hall Burruss returned to work part-time and throughout their adult lives. If 69 Forest Street eventually to full-time with only you guess that Faron Daub Fahy Sherborn, MA 01770-1619 [email protected] a slight limp. With or without the was on the left and Mary Hobler Vicodin, I can do a pretty good “House” impersonation - difficult 1 9 7 3 personality and all! I continue to Marta Nussbaum Steele '67 Jill Williams Dickerson was fortunate enough to share do Pulmonary and Critical Care hospitalist work. My company, 27 Anthony Lane a wonderful Christmas dinner Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 Cogenthealthcare, has now ex­ with classmate Laura Peterson. [email protected] panded to 18 states and four uni­ aunt in December 2008. William versity medical centers. I finished Cassandra Oxley Owen, named after my father, my second term on the National 171 Pine Hill Road was born on his birthday. Lots of Advisory Council to the Agency Boxborough, MA 01719 jobs for oldsters like me, and lots for Healthcare Research and [email protected] of guys here in Washington, DC. Quality and am glad for not hav­ Glenna R. Weisberg Andersen So glad I moved here just in time ing to commute back to DC three writes: Still living in McLean, VA for Obama’s victory. My career times a year. I am grateful for hav­ and crazy busy in my Ob/Gyn goes well every time a Democrat ing served with the present Sur­ practice - the baby business is still presides. At other times it flops - geon General, Regina Benjamin, booming! Kids are doing great - that’s a fact, though my work is and the president of the AMA, Do you recognize these Class graduating from high school and at most tangential to the govern­ James Rohack. This January, my of '68 candy cane dancers? college. Then it will just be my ment, at times. I continue to blog wife, Kim, and I will return to See Mary Hobler Hyson's class husband and me - the empty nest for truth and justice, the Ameri­ Vietnam as the Hospitalists for notes. actually doesn’t sound too bad!

46 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS CLASS NOTES

1974 and it felt warmer than the 30 1979 as we stealthily made our way degrees illuminated on my dash­ around the property. Mark’s Keith D. Plapinger board. So there I stood, content Nicolas R. Donath enthusiasm coupled with Leslie’s 25 Joy Street in the moment, wondering if 10956 Royal Highlands Street vision, prompted us to make an Boston, MA 02114-4149 maybe a poignant metaphor for Las Vegas, NV 89141-4364 offer. Within weeks, the plans [email protected] life was going to drift into my [email protected] were drawn. Mark and Leslie had mind. No metaphor came, but some definite ideas, while Mic Evan R. Press I enjoyed the stillness of the and I were a bit wishy-washy and 1975 2744 Shady Brook Cove scene, the quiet and the calm. much to Mark and Leslie’s dis­ 35th Reunion Fayetteville, AR 72703 As I think about our class, I may, very indecisive. Whenever [email protected] Yuki Moore Laurenti hope that everyone is well and we hemmed and hawed, Mark 464 Hamilton Avenue taking time to enjoy the quiet, was always there with his affable Trenton, NJ 08609-2711 simple pleasures of life. Please 1980 lilt, pushing back his trademark [email protected] take a few minutes, send an up­ 30th Reunion blond hair saying, “Don’t worry, Mary Sword McDonough date for the next Journal, and let Jennifer Dutton Whyte it will be great!” So we pushed 111 North Main Street all of your classmates know how 990 Singleton Avenue forward with quite a bit of hand- Pennington, NJ 08534-2206 you are doing! Woodmere, NY 11598-1718 holding. Little did we know [email protected] Graham Brush writes: I [email protected] that within a few short years, we recently spent two days skiing would be holding Mark’s hand. John Brinster writes that he and with Phil Glouchevitch here in James Burke screened a film he After complaining about per­ Lucy Brinster ’78 have been busy Breckenridge and in Vail. Come produced called ILLUSION that sistent and debilitating headaches with their cruise travel business. May, we plan to meet up again stars Kirk Douglas in his last film in the spring of 2009, Mark was Son Kyle ’07 (Lehigh ’11) is in New Hampshire (Phil lives in role to date at the Robeson Cen­ proactive about his health and attending a semester abroad in Hanover) to climb and ski Tuck- ter for the Arts in Princeton. told his doctor that he wanted an Berlin, Germany studying Euro­ erman Ravine. Pray to Ullr for MRI. Sadly, the MR1 revealed a pean Art History. Son Jeremy ’09 deep spring snow. 1981 brain tumor classified as a glio­ (University of Pennsylvania ’13) blastoma. Within days, surgery is busy with linguistics and vari­ 1978 Camie Carrington Levy was complete, therapy was sched­ ous other in-depth courses. 2212 Weymouth Street uled and Mark began the valiant Moscow, ID 83843-9618 Allison Ijams .Sargent fight. From May to January, Mark [email protected] 1976 25 The Water Way fought hard while maintaining a Wellesley, MA 02481 Rosalind Waskow Hansen sense of humor and often trying Creigh Duncan [email protected] writes: In the fall of 2006, my to make those around him feel 549 The Great Road husband, Mic, and I decided to better. It is with great sadness that Princeton, NJ 08540-2537 Douglas Fitton is the founder make the move from Sausalito, I tell you Mark passed away on [email protected] and president of DDF Consult­ CA to Princeton, NJ. We began January 16, 2010. ing, a commercial real estate I fondly remember a walk that From the web: September 2009 investment banking firm on the the task of looking for a new Gary Kraut writes: Still living in house and ran into all of the usual we took in May that led us from web at www.real-estate-capital- his house on Carter Road to his France, recently created the online consulting-ddf.com questions such as, “Can we blow magazine FRANCE REVISITED, out that wall? “Can the kitchen parents’ house on Honey Lake in Gwendolyn Scott-Hodges has Elm Ridge Park. Along the way, www.FranceRevisited.com, for been appointed to the board of be enlarged?” “Can we do ‘this’ savvy readers and experienced or ‘that’?” In order to keep our he asked me if I would take him Family Services Association of sailing on the Laser that rests in travelers... and PDS alums. Bucks County. marriage intact, we decided it was time to call in a professional. So, the Zainingers’ backyard. I asked From the web: November 2009 if his doctor would approve and 1977 Leland Ross writes: I’ll kiss we called Mark Z. to save us from ourselves. O f course, at the time he replied, “Probably not.” So anyone who tells me where Rob instead, we did the next best thing Alice Graff Looney of our call, we were standing in “Proc” Proctor is - better yet, and got out the fishing rods. On 70 Jagger Lane have him call me. a house that we were consider­ Westhampton, NY 11977 ing. Within minutes, Mark was Mark’s son Luke’s first cast, he [email protected] at the house. He peered around, had a fish on the line, although raised and lowered it was not in the conventional Alice Looney writes: The other his gold-rimmed way. The hook was stuck in the day, I varied my usual morning eyeglasses, scratched side of the fish’s head. We looked routine because I needed to run his chin and said, at one another and fell over laugh­ an errand before going to work. “Before you make an ing. What were the odds? I’m not sure if I have always offer on this let me Over the summer, Mark and been a punctual person, but at show you something his incredibly strong and unflap­ this point in my life I like to be else.” pable wife Leslie, accompanied on time, or, better yet, I like to Together, the by his loving parents and brother be ahead of schedule. So, not three of us, along Alex, sister Lydia his constant surprisingly, I completed my with Mark’s wife and advocate, children Charlotte and errand ahead of time, and found business partner, Les­ Luke, and friends, made trips myself with an extra 15 minutes lie, found ourselves back and forth from Princeton to of free time at 8:30am and de­ down the road peek­ New York in the hopes that mod­ Nora Lazzaretto '78 shared this photo of her cided to go to the beach before ing into the windows ern medicine would kick in and going to work. Last month, we father and beloved PDS Spanish teacher, kick out the tumor. Throughout Marcelino Cuesta, surrounded by his loving of the house. Like had about two feet of snow on uninvited guests at it all, Mark remained upbeat. He the ground but today the sun family, including his wife, Alicia, Nora's sister managed to get quality vacation Carolyn, Nora's son Jovan (10), and Nora. a party, we tried to was shining, the ocean was calm, time with his family over the Dr. Cuesta passed away in February. keep a low profile

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 47 CLASS NOTES ALUMNI NEWS

summer and went on a “guys” trip to cover our feelings of loss over and for a few years after college. nings. Had 1 been smart enough to Bermuda in November. By the the deaths from cancer of Mark Abby has her quirks. Abby and I then, I would have told Kristy end of November, the headaches Zaininger and Kristy Anastasio started dating when we lived in she was more than hot. She was were back and Mark went for Manning. different cities, and I thought of warm. At curtain call on the final additional medical attention. He Given that Kristy was social moving to Washington, DC from night of that long-ago show, I got had another operation, leaving glue— and so faithfully transmit­ New York to live with Abby. I to stand next to Kristy, and felt him with a scar in the shape of an ted our class news from these worried about living with Abby the applause surge as she stepped M or a Z, depending upon how pages for many years— we hope because of our different religious forward for her bows: a big, roar­ one looked at him. In a show of it’s fitting that several of us have backgrounds. Kristy was the best ing wave of love and admiration. solidarity, several of his friends come together to pay tribute to person to speak to about living She turned back to bring the shaved their heads. Mark was her here: with Abby. She really knew about rest of the cast up, beaming, her home for Christmas with his fam­ Mark Goodman writes: When life with Abby. And she provided eyes completely alight, and as she ily and friends. I think of Kristy as a friend I wise advice. She pointed out all squeezed my hand for the all­ In January, I went over to think... Tolerant and nonjudg- the positive points to living with cast call, she giggled (Kristy gave Mark’s house. He was weak mental. She and I shared a taste Abby. She provided assurance that the giggle its good name) and and tired but still had a twinkle for eclectic friends like “the nose” we would get along well. whispered one Anastasian word: in his eye. Together he and I and “ax” and “belvin.” “Staz” — as Sharing joy. Kristy was a friend “Fun.” And then, with Kristy in watched the Eagles lose as we we called her - welcomed a wide who I could call and share sto­ the lead, we all leaned forward held hands and reminisced about variety of characters into her ries about my children Lily and into that wave, and we bowed. our 30-plus-year friendship. Af­ social circle. Artsy people, jocks, Sophie - without worrying that Jane Gerb writes: I remember ter all, Mark and I had shared stoners, and the hardworking, I might sound like one of those the day Kristy walked into PDS family vacations as children, academic kids. Sometimes all parents who brags about their in 6th grade, taller than all of us been classmates, played on the those things in one person. We kids’ achievements. She liked to at 5’0”, and I was assigned as her squash team and shared many experimented with new things hear Sophie and Lily stories. And “buddy” to aquaint her with the good times. I well remember him together; like George Thorogood Abby and I liked to hear Jason school. Since then we had occasion being asked by my mother or and “one bourbon one scotch one stories. We also loved to hear sto­ to laugh, cry, dream, cogitate, and perhaps Kirstens mother to sneak beer” or the joy of pogo dancing ries about Michael. Building their even perhaps ruminate a time or a birthday cake up to Blairstown to The Clash’s “green album” all house. Building a boat. Making two. Ironically, we kept winding for my and Kirsten’s respective night long. beef jerky. It’s been a joy to get to up in the same places — besides birthdays. He did so faithfully I think of someone who was know Michael and Jason. Princeton there was Boston as well and happily. That’s just the type of Patient. I experienced Kristy’s The Joy o f Life. Kristy had a as New York and North Carolina. person he was and continued to amazing patience when I was in great joy for life, friends and And every time Kristy and I got be throughout his life. the musical “Chicago,” which she the stories their lives weave. We together or talked on the phone, I feel incredibly lucky to have directed when we were at Harvard. both loved to keep in touch with she never failed to make sure to had a friend as lovely as Mark. He I was Mary Sunshine - and I was people and whenever one of us find out how my family and I were grew from a somewhat shy blond, terrible. I could not follow the would see an old friend from high doing. She wasn’t satisfied with a blue-eyed boy into a confident, rhythm of the piano, and I was school or college we would always “fine.” No. She wanted to delve caring, gracious, loving and constantly going off key in a very call the other with a “Guess who into the details. And she really creative man. He was a wonder­ high falsetto that I’m sure tested I just saw...” She would go on to genuinely cared. I kept finding it ful father; I feel fortunate that I the patience of all within earshot. I provide an update on someone’s hard to believe that she was really will always see a part of him in could see the music director’s face life story in a way that expressed interested in the mundane of my Charlotte and Luke. He was also a contorting in pain while I sang in care and interest. life but when I would offer these loving husband who was happiest rehearsals, but Kristy was always I wish Kristy could be here vague updates, she’d set about when he was with Leslie. there offering encouragement, today. She would love to see the extracting the details anyway. My Mark was always the first per­ laughter, perspective. wide variety of friends who loved mother wasn’t even as good at that son to make those around him Supportive. After college I her all come together in one during my teenage “non-commu­ comfortable whether it was by remember when Kristy helped place. I wish I could call her to nication’ years. befriending a new classmate or her brother Trey organize con­ say; “Guess who I saw today...” Some of my favorite mental asking a 40-something woman to certs for Phish and help with the Abby and I miss her very much. pictures of Kristy are: dance when she attended a party Phish newsletter. Phishtorians Kevin Groome writes: When - Sitting on her front lawn in solo. I will always be thankful to have recorded her deeds with the I think of Kristy, I see her onstage Chapel Hill, NC looking at her Mark for being my friend uncon­ band. But few know of her sup­ as Penelope Sycamore in “You and Michael’s half-finished house ditionally, for making our house port for another band called My Can’t Take It With You” our as she’s lightheartedly describing a home, for his unwavering good Dog Homer. “Homer” was my senior-year fall. Kristy brought how she was relegated to a port­ cheer, and for the happiness and band in New York City - and we to that role what she brought to a-potty behind the house during joy he brought to so many. were not the greatest group, but us all every day: a gentle grace, the dead of winter for the last There was a memorial service Kristy provided guidance and a wicked wit, and a lilting laugh several months and the necessity for Mark on January 22 at Trinity support for us. I received endless that could have been the first bars for a flashlight for middle-of-the- Church. The church was over­ ribbing from other friends about of a song. night trips. flowing with all of the people who the lack of musicality of our For a tiny girl, Kristy always - I remember us trudging up to knew and loved him. Stories were group. But Kristy had a support­ had big wings. She first be­ the ice rink at 5:30 in the morn­ shared, tears were shed and thanks ive way of saying “Oh don’t listen friended me when I was new to ing for girls ice hockey team to his lifelong best friend, Mat­ to those guys.. .but you could get PDS, and it’s a testament to so tryouts, of course she made the thew Morgan, a funny childhood a little better...” all in one counsel. much in her that I never thought team, I didn’t. secret was divulged. Mark will be Advisor. Kristy provided ad­ to remark on just how remarkable - I remember basking in the missed by many, but his spirit will vice on dealing with girlfriends that was. She was a haven for the sun at our summer shared beach stay with us always. through high school, college and heartbroken (me more than once) house that she organized when we To say it’s been a sad year for post-college. She lived with my and a safe harbor in all those lived in NYC. Kristy was the Ju­ the class of 1981 doesn’t begin wife, Abby, all through college camel-hair-jacketed cotillion eve­ lie McCoy of the house, getting to

48 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS CLASS NOTES know everyone and making them me into Jane’s and your Seminary’s John 1984 each feel a part of the group. She circle in 7th grade, Hines Preaching had a way of breaking down oth­ when I arrived at PDS Award. The award Adrienne Spiegel McMullen ers’ reluctance to join in and had eager like a puppy dog is given annually 216 North Elmwood Avenue everyone involved in no time. but oh-so-insecure and to the outstanding Oak Park, IL 60302-2222 - There was the time when I was in need of friends. That preaching entry [email protected] bemoaning the fact that my par­ you were, above all. “where prophetic ents wouldn’t let me get my ears voice is central Ted Willard pierced in 8th grade and Kristy 1982 within the sermon.” 214 Lynchburg Rd Pilot Mountain, NC 27041-9320 kicked into high gear deciding Named in. honor [email protected] if everyone gave me earpiercing Lorraine M. Herr of the former Pre­ as a class gift, my parents surely 9 S-021 Skyline Court siding Bishop of the William (Blechman) Meyerhofer couldn’t deny me. So she set Naperville, IL 60564-9448 The Rev. Dr. Joseph Episcopal Church, writes: I wanted to make you S. Pagano '83 was about asking evefyone in our class [email protected] the award celebrates all aware of my new website, named the 2010 if they would donate their lunch the ministry of www.thepeoplestherapist.com. Lorraine Herr writes: recipient of Virginia money change to the fund. (The preaching and its I’m still running my private I bumped into Erica Theological Semi­ first seeds of her natural ability at importance in the practice in New York City (www. Crispin Weeder at a nary's John Hines community fund-raising already Episcopal Church aquietroom.com). This new site, Chicago Merchandise Preaching Award. taking root!) by recognizing out­ The People’s Therapist, is an out­ Mart Design lecture For me, Kristy was friend, standing sermons growth of that work, with articles in the fall. Erica is an architect cheerleader, advisor, confidant, that are deeply grounded in scrip­ for the general audience that deal with Liederbach and Graham. I and inspiration. I will miss her ture and focused on the seen and with everything relating to psy­ am still working in the field of bright smile, her heartfelt warmth unseen needs of the worshipping chotherapy. It’s meant to be fun drapery design and fabrication and that infectious laughter that community, the nation and the and interesting and relevant to all although I am looking to join a she so easily shared. world. of our lives. I hope you’ll check it larger firm. Mike and the boys Mandy Katz writes: Kristy, Pagano’s sermon, “Babushkas out — and give me lots of com­ and I just returned from a week of let me set aside mourning to and Other Prophets,” tells the ments! skiing in Steamboat, CO. take the chance to thank you for story of James Billington, a Li­ Caroline Dougherty wed maintaining, even in your final brarian of Congress, who was in Marc Robert Parker in October at days, a vibrant interest in your Moscow during the closing days La Grenouille, the New York City friends and the life around you. of the Cold War. He witnesses an restaurant. Thank you for hosting Jane and amazing act of bravery me for hours and hours of lei­ from the older women surely conversation over a week­ - “The Babushkas”— end in your family room, shortly who kept the Orthodox before you left us, easily picking Church alive in Russia up and interweaving strands of during the Communist friendship that may have loos­ period. “Some of the ened at times but never severed. Babushkas climbed onto Speaking of friendship, at PDS, the tanks and peered thank you for loyalty that rose through the slits at the above gossip, for making the Lorraine Herr '82 and son, Hold­ crew-cut men inside, music department exciting, and en, skiing in Steamboat, CO. and told them that there keeping an open phone line on were new orders, these On Martha's Vineyard, August 2009, from your shoulder while we did our 1983 from God: Thou shall left to right: Dawn and Stewart von Oeh­ math homework “together” in not kill.” sen; Missy and Mac McDougald; Steve the 1970s version of instant mes­ Noelle Damico Pagano was called in Schluter and wife, Cindy; and Jon Erd­ saging. Thanks for showing us all 17 Dyke Road 2006 to be the rector of man and his wife, Nathalie. that smart could be cool. Thank Setauket, NY 11733-3014 Emmanuel Episcopal you for teaching me lyrics to all Church in Baltimore, MD. Prior 1985 those pop songs that you (and Rena Ann Whitehouse to serving at Emmanuel, he 395 Central Park, Unit #230 25th Reunion Kim Hillier and Maggie Nunes) served as the assistant rector of St. Atlanta, GA 30312 seemed to have memorized be­ Paul’s Episcopal Church in Mil­ Lynne Erdman O'Donnell [email protected] fore they hit the airwaves. Thank waukee, WI. He earned his PhD PO Box 4017 Beaverton, OR 97229 you for greeting me each morn­ From Rena Whitehouse: in Theology (Systematic Theology [email protected] ing from your perch on the lobby Thanks to those of you who and Ethics) from Marquette Uni­ carpet, legs straight, back to the submitted alumni notes to me via versity. Patrick Courtney, vice president wall, as I dashed in late to school email. Please keep me posted at Steve Schluter and his wife, of public relations for Major — and more than once wordlessly [email protected]. Cindy, spent some time on Mar­ League Baseball, was recently handing me your hairbrush when Arid, if you’re interested, join our tha’s Vineyard last summer with named the 2009 recipient of the I arrived even more disheveled classmates on FaceBook - we have Jon Erdman and his wife Nath­ Robert O. Fishel Award for Public than usual. Thank you for having a new group there called Princeton alie, Stewart von Oehsen and Relations Excellence. The award, me over on Walnut Lane; I will Day School Class of 1983. his wife, Dawn, and Mac Me- named after the longtime baseball never forget your revealing that In January 2010, Joe Pagano Dougald and his wife, Melissa. A executive, goes to the “active, sometimes you forced yourself to (now officially The Rev. Dr. great time was had by all. Please non-uniformed representative let your bedroom get messy dur­ Joseph S. Pagano), rector of see the photo of the gang enjoy­ of Major League Baseball whose ing the week, so you could look Emmanuel Episcopal Church in ing a great day out on the water. ethics, character, dedication, forward to tidying it on Satur­ Baltimore, was named the 2010 service, professionalism and hu- days! Thank you for welcoming recipient of Virginia Theological manitarianism best represent the

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 49 CLASS NOTES ALUMNI NEWS

1987 a condo in Philly, we also have a Lylah Alphonse recently be­ new place in Aspen...1 spend a lot came the Parenting Columnist Craig Stuart of time with family in Beaufort, for The Boston Globe; her new 1638 Fell Street South Carolina....I pretend to column, “In the Parenthood,” San Francisco, CA 94117 exercise, work very hard at keep­ launched in February, and she has [email protected] ing the crows feet at bay, and am been writing the “Child Caring” constantly amazed at how we all column online at http://www.fa- Sofia Xethalis survived as children without all cebook.com/l/471df; Boston.com 1953 Shore Oak Drive the technological wonders and for about a year now. She is also Decatur, IL 62521 super safety gadgets available to­ writing and editing online for a [email protected] day. I rarely get back to Princeton few other places — details are on simply because it is too far away her blog, http://www.facebook. 1988 and my mom does not live there com/1/471 df;WriteEditRepeat. anymore. Wish I could though!! blogspot.com. When she’s not Amy Venable Ciuffreda I am excited about the reunion working, she’s usually in the 8 Rydal Drive and hope that I am not voted the kitchen, solving a kid-related cri­ Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 oldest looking person there. Hope sis, or asleep. Or, come to think Lynne O'Donnell '85 with her [email protected] this update finds you well! See of it, on Facebook. three kids Tyler (11), Carly (7) Arianna Rosati and Cole (7) in front of the Gold­ you in May (?). Still in Westford, MA, living [email protected] en Pavilion in Kyoto. They cur­ Chris Baker reports that he the blended-family life; our big rently live in Tokyo, Japan where and Joanna have 2 kids (Katelyn, kids are full-on teens and tweens her husband works for Nike. 1989 8, and Ryan, 6) who are involved at 16, 14, and nearly 12-years- in dance and martial arts respec­ old, which means we’ve officially standards propounded by Robert Christina Frank tively. Were all doing well. I am entered a new parenting era and O. Fishel.” Pat, who joined the 147 East Delaware Avenue in my fourth year as a physics and I call my mom and dad often to Office of the Commissioner of Pennington, NJ 08534 A+P teacher at Hatboro-Horsham apologize for everything I did High School near Willow Grove, and/or said when I was in high Baseball in 1992 after interning Doria Roberts PA. I also continue to work as a school. Our little kids are 5 and in the media relations department P0 Box 5313 paramedic on the weekends and 3, loving preschool and karate of the Yankees, serves as liaison to Atlanta, GA 31107 all Major League club public rela­ during the summer. I can’t believe and being social butterflies on the tions personnel and to other base­ Lauren French it has almost been 20 years... birthday-party circuit. ball organizations and principal 965 Morgan Street Tameka Brooks writes.. .Wow As for me, my child photogra­ contact for the Baseball Writers Meadeville, PA 16335 here we are 20 years later. Liter­ phy business continues to flourish Association of America. [email protected] ally -- especially for my students and I have recently expanded my Lynne O’Donnell writes: My — lifetimes ago. Update: my son work to include food & products. family and I are currently living 1990 Daniel Smith (dad is Andrew This year, my photos were pub­ in Tokyo, Japan! My husband 20th Reunion Smith ’88) is a sophomore at lished in Healthy Living, Boca, Chris is the General Manager for Notre Dame High School. I and PBG Lifestyle magazines. Al­ Jonathan P Clancy Nike Running in Japan. My three am teaching in my hometown though I experimented with a few [email protected] kids attend the American School ofTrenton, NJ (4th grade) and careers before this one, I have to in Japan, which in many ways Deborah Bushell Gans loving what I do. I did manage thank Mrs. H for starting me on reminds me a lot of PDS except 143 Isle Verde Way somewhere along the way to get the path to my calling! Be sure to for the obvious fact that it is in Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418 my MA in Education and be a reconnect on our Facebook page the tremendous city of Tokyo as [email protected] full-time parent. My job is chal­ and register for the reunion party! opposed to the quaint town of lenging, rewarding and above all Hope to see everyone in May! Debby Gans writes: OK, so it has Princeton. I am still trying to run else, keeps me young and smiling. Recently met Edie Roberts been a while since you last heard a lot and am planning to run a I still organize performances and Baronian in ATL for a play date from me, but thanks to Facebook, half marathon this spring. I have love watching the students shine with our daughters. it is much easier to adhere to my run in quite a few races in Japan; in the shows. Hope to see you all last minute tendencies and still it is quite an experience to be one at the reunion! manage to gather meaningful 1991 of about three non-Japanese run­ As for Lien Price, she says, “My information! ners in a race with 11,000 people! days are incredibly busy keeping Irene L. Kim Asbury Jen Myers Wells writes... I Through Facebook, I have been up with my three kids! In an at­ 5 Wayne Street # 3 am living in Murfreesboro, TN able to reconnect with quite a tempt to be in-the-know with my Jersey City, NJ 07302-3351 with my two daughters (Emily-4 few classmates, which has been a 4th and 1st graders, I managed to and Kate-2) and husband Jake. I Sarah Beatty Raterman lot of fun. I do not think anyone get myself re-elected as PTA Presi­ work as a Primary Literacy Co­ 3 Ivy Glen Lane can make me laugh like Jenny dent at their school for a second ordinator at a local elementary Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 Taback, Brad Smith and Ted year. I’m hoping to bridge the gap school. I work primarily with K-2 [email protected] Power. I am so hoping to make it between full-time stay-at-home teachers and their students. 1’ve mom, and part-time employment, to our 25th this May, but Tokyo Irene Kim Asbury writes: Al- been getting more involved in with the work of volunteering. It’s to Princeton is a long way to yssa Denzer currently lives in intervention work with struggling rewarding and challenging, but it’s travel. We shall see. Washington, DC “(almost 10 readers. I keep in somewhat regu­ also a lot of work. My youngest is years!) with my husband, and lar contact with Edie Baronian, 4, so my days of school involve­ 1986 enjoying all the snow we’ve been Liz Cook, and Laura Perhach ment are far from over. I have en­ getting this year. For the past 10 Kowal. And with Facebook, I joyed looking up PDS classmates Susan Franz Murphy months, I’ve been working for heard from a lot of others :-) on Facebook to see what everyone’s 3838 River Road Not sure what else you want to the Office of the Vice President, Lumberville, PA 18933 up to. Hoping to see everyone in hear...My father passed away this as Chief of Staff for the Recovery [email protected] May at reunion!” past summer, my mom bought Implementation Office, which

50 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS CLASS NOTES

1 9 9 3

Darcey Carlson Leonard 1754 Brook Road Warren, VT 05674 darceyleonard@yahoo .com Adam D. Petrick 476 Massachusetts Ave. Apt PH Boston, MA 02118-1142

Darcey Spencer Leonard writes: Scott Feldman moved his family back to Princeton last June. His daughter, Maxine, is at the Little- Aly Cohen '91 shared this Carolyn Clark '91 shared this brook School in kindergarten and photo of her sons Asher, 3, and photo of sons Aidan Philip, his son Jonny just started nursery Class of '95 correspondent Landon, 1. born March 2, 2009 and older school at the Princeton Jewish Missy Woodruff McCormick brother, C onnor Leo w h o is 3 Center. He extends an open shared this photo of her is in charge of coordinating the years old. She writes: All is well invite to anyone who finds them­ children Jackson, left, and implementation of the American and the boys are already having selves back in the hood. Connor. Reinvestment and Recovery Act. a great time together. Cyrus Alphonse wrote to Challenging work, but definitely a share the news of the birth of his me and for so many of the other great experience!” son, Sawyer Mistry Alphonse, members of our class. Last April Michael Yacht has been pro­ little boy, Aidan Philip on March born October 7 at 6am. He is a I gave birth to our second son, moted to Vice President of In­ 2, 2009. He joins his older healthy troublemaker just like his Jackson Quinn McCormick. He formation Technology at Benefit brother, Connor Leo, 3, in our father. joined big brother Connor, who Vision, Inc. Michael has been Arlington, VA home. All is well Julie Ann Morgan Reed re­ just turned 4 .1 left my teaching with Benefit Vision since 1995 and the boys are already having a ports she has been divorced for job at Chapin to stay home with and lives in Baltimore, MD. great time together.11 three years. Her sons, Gage will the kids and we moved to New­ Aly Cohen recently wrote: As for me, I live in Jersey be 10 in March and Cole will be town, PA. I still direct the middle “My husband and I still love liv­ City with my husband, Jake, and 7 in July, are going to be joined school musical at Chapin, but I ing in Cranbury, NJ and recently two enormous dogs. While Jake by a baby, Rachel Loren Reed, am really enjoying being home welcomed our second son to commutes to New York City, I any day now! with the kids. In the fall I had the the mix, Landon Bennett Levi maintain a solo law practice at Jesse Eaton Bilanin shared chance to catch up with Blythe Lewis (I know it sounds like home. Last year I spiced things that she had a baby boy in March Quinlan and her two adorable a law firm)...who joins his big up a bit by running for the New 2009 with her husband Jared. His children, Cyrus and Ivy. Blythe brother Asher. As a declaration Jersey State Assembly on the Re­ name is Tyler Alan Bilanin. They is still living in Brooklyn, but of my “physical independence” publican ticket. I didn’t win, but also have a daughter, Maya, who is planning on moving back to and a celebration of exorcis­ I’m now the New Jersey GOP is 4. Princeton sometime this summer. ing two little devils from my Committeewoman for Hudson She has been very busy working body, I trained and ran in the County! I remain on the board of 1 9 9 4 on the,set for a new HBO series NYC marathon in November.... directors for the Korean Ameri­ called Boardwalk Empire. I was and truly loved it! I also raised can League for Civic Action C. Justin Hillenbrand also lucky enough to catch up money for the Lupus Founda­ and various local committees, 300 East 59th Street with Andrea Morrison Eckert tion, an autoimmune disease that including the Hudson Advisory Apartment 1001 while she was home over the unfortunately affects many of my Vicinage Minority Concerns New York, NY 10022-2054 holidays. Andrea and her family patients... but is getting much Committee, working to improve [email protected] are living in Switzerland for the more awareness, research funding minority access to the New Jer­ Marika Sardar next few years; she said that they and hopefully better medicines sey Courts. Last spring we took 5205 39th Avenue are finally feeling settled in their down the pike. Tony Mack sailing out on New Sunnyside, NY 11104-1008 new home and love having the Fanya Stansbury and I get York Harbor aboard Windy, our [email protected] opportunity to travel throughout together all the time in Princ­ 32-foot sloop. Tony and his wife Europe. I must say, I’m definitely eton...she recently got engaged Kim reside in Ewing with their 1 9 9 5 jealous! to a great guy and I can’t wait Our class had a mini baby three boys, the oldest - James - 15th Reunion to celebrate her wedding with entered his second year at PDS! boom in 2009. Taryn Esposito her this summer in NYC. Julie Eric Schorr White gave birth to Alexander, 28 Swayze Street Marcus Downs lives outside of who joined big brother Payton. 1 9 9 2 West Orange, NJ 07052-2026 Taryn is still living in the Princ­ Las Vegas and comes to the East [email protected] Coast a few times a year...she Meghan Bencze Mayhew eton area and I’ve run into her Melissa Woodruff Mccormick and her husband have a beautiful 1011 Dacian Ave., Apt. A a couple of times. Deb Pollard 257 S. State Street little girl, Miah, who is Asher’s Durham, NC 27701 Wepman gave birth to Ella, who Newtown, PA 18940 age... what’s that? Do I hear the [email protected] joins big brother Toby. Deb still [email protected] words “prom date”? Anywhoo, lives outside of DC, and we’ve Blair F. Young all is chilly here but well...look­ Missy Woodruff McCormick had the chance to talk a few times 1204 Alsace Way ing forward to seeing everyone writes: Hi everyone! As I’m writ­ while planning our upcoming re­ Lafayette, CO 80026 back next year for our 20th year ing these notes we have close to 3 union. (More on that later!) Wes [email protected] reunion, crazy, huh?” feet of snow on the ground. The Steffens and Jess Boyd Steffens Carolyn Hendler (Clark) good thing is that by the time welcomed baby Emily into their included this photo of her babes you all read this we’ll be well into family, making Ben a big brother. with the note: “I had another spring! It has been a busy year for Ian Wijaya and Anupa Shah

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 51 CLASS NOTES ALUMNI NEWS

Wijaya also had a litde girl, Lena, is going great and I’m looking who made Evan a big brother. I forward to catching up with a also saw on Facebook that Anna number of people from PDS at Mortberg had a baby girl recently the end of March! and Kelly Babbitt has a baby girl Leif Forer: I have an awesome named Eko. Congratulations to dog named Railroad, am still liv­ everyone! ing in Chapel Hill, NC and work­ Some of you were nice enough ing at Piedmont Biofuels. Look to send me news and updates to me up if you’re ever in my neck of share with the rest of our class. the woods and beers are on me. Phil Glassner and his family Robin Ackerman was married are living in Boston while Phil to Phil Cameron in Jackson Hole, finishes up his fellowship in hip WY this past August. Giovanna and knee arthroplasty at Massa­ Torchio, Leys Bostrom and Class of '98 member Robin Ackerman was married to Phil Cameron chusetts General Hospit'al. They’re Heather Hall all attended. in Jackson Hole, WY in August 2009. Classmates Giovanna Torchio, planning on moving back to New Leys Bostrom and Heather Hall all attended. Jersey this summer where Phil will 1999 be joining the Hunterdon Or­ thopedic Institute in Flemington. Robyn L. Wells I also heard from Drew Seltzer. 479 Jefferson Road Drew is working as a producer on Princeton, NJ 08540-3418 Celebrity Apprentice and adopted [email protected] a dog named Beau. Joanna B. Woodruff Zaneta Shannon has reason 1229 River Road to be celebrating—she is engaged Washington Crossing, PA 18977 and will be getting married at the [email protected] University Chapel in October. She told me that she still keeps 2000 in touch with Weston Willard, Adaishala Hendrix Gonzalez, 10th Reunion Joel Melendez, and Kevin Mal­ Jessica L. Batt donado. She also keeps in touch 32 Fox Grape Road with Jenny Beale, who got mar­ From the web: January 2010: Tanji Gilliam '98 and family wish Flemington, NJ 08822-4011 ried last summer. In more wedding you a Happy New Year! Pictured: Jaron, Tanji, Mekhi, Locke and [email protected] Clarke news, Amanda Tate is engaged Natasha Jacques Nolan and is getting married in August. 44 Fox Chase Run Her sister, Shannon Tate Freehart Arts in Washington, DC. Aaron is 1998 Hillsborough, NJ 08844 ’92, and Heather Payne will be an associate in the finance depart­ [email protected] two of her bridesmaids. Amanda ment of the New York law firm Marin S. Blitzer lives in Princeton where she works Haynes and Boone. 791 Tremont Street, Apt. W501 Matthew S. McGowan 941 Lyndale Avenue for an Association Management From the web: September 2009 Boston, MA 02118 Trenton, NJ 08629-2409 Company as the Member Services Richard McColl writes: I have marinblitzerl [email protected] opened and been successfully [email protected] Director/Meetings Manager for Giovanna G. Torchio running my own hotel in the Co­ the New Jersey Veterinary Medical W 47 W 88 Street, #4A Sapna E. Thottathil lombian UNESCO heritage town Association and the Costume Soci­ New York, NY 10024 1865 Euclid Avenue ety of America. of Mompos— La Casa Amarilla [email protected] Berkeley. CA 94709 As you can see, our class is up (www.lacasaamarillamompos. [email protected] Giovanna Gray Torchio shared to some pretty exciting things. com) and I have also started a this news: Tom Smith writes: It’s hard to believe that this year Colombia-based travel agency 2001 My company, SilverTree Media, is marks 15 years since we graduated specialising in touring the routes doing well. We’ve taken on a few from PDS. We have been busy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Aji Nick Sardar additional projects for Disney and planning our reunion celebration; Colombia (www.ajicolombia. 9 Braemar Drive EA, and are making continued it will be so much fun to catch com). I continue to work as a Princeton, NJ 08540 progress on our internal fran­ up with each other in person. We freelance journalist in Colombia [email protected] chises. We’ve also just announced hope to see you there! — missy and my published works can be found and seen altogether at the opening of a SilverTree San Ashton Todd 20 Boudinot Street www. rmccoll .co.uk. Francisco office, and we’re look­ 1996 ing forward to releasing a number Princeton, NJ 08540 1997 of games in the coming months. A Joy Woffindin Sonal M. Mahida You can see some of the updates 10 Colt Circle 211 Goat Hill Road at www.silvertreemedia.com. Princeton Junction, NJ 08550-2247 Mandy Rabinowitz Lambertville, NJ 08530 59 W. 12th St. Other than that, life in Pittsburgh [email protected] Stephen Nanfara Apt. 9A 5 Pegg Road New York, NY 10011 Flemington, NJ 08822 212-206-8687 [email protected] PDS Alumni Weekend 2010 Ellyn R. Rajfer Aaron Beim in February mar­ 5304 Central Avenue RELIVE • REUNITE • RENEW • RECONNECT ried Alexis Beth Offen at the Na­ Aberdeen, NJ 07747 tional Museum of Women in the [email protected] M ay 14 and 15

52 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS CLASS NOTES

2002 rently starting my second year and working for a construction options for their web series: of a two-year post baccalaureate company based out of Princeton. http://www.lookingforgrace.com. Margaret L. ("Marlee") Sayen premed program at Columbia On weekends during the fall/ Reach out to Chris with ques­ 425 East 63rd St. Apt. W8C University and living in the East winter, I run hockey clinics at the tions: [email protected]. New York, NY 10065 Village with some college friends.” PDS ice rink for a local youth Cassie Kaufmann writes: “I [email protected] Parker Curtis is living in league. Also, JG Denise lives finished a New York City teaching Philadelphia and teaching history around the corner from us in fellowship last year with a master’s Andrea J. Swaney at Moorestown Friends School in Lambertville so we hang out when degree, have been teaching in 1 Pine Tree Place Moorestown, NJ. He also coaches our schedules allow.” public high school in Manhattan Parsippany, NJ 07054 the Boys JV baseball team and the Timon Lorenzo is working in [email protected] for the past three years, traveled Boys Middle School Basketball New York for his father’s invest­ around India last summer for two From Marlee Sayen ’02: It’s team. ment fund learning finance and is months before starting a PhD hard to believe that it is already Sarah Maloney writes: “I have enjoying living in the city. program in clinical psychology at 2010 and in just two years our a bit of news... This past August Andrea Swaney writes: “I took Adelphi University. I’m healthy class will be back to celebrate I got engaged! On the academic a 2-year detour following gradua­ and happy!” our 10th Reunion at PDS. Time side of life, I’m currently working tion in ’06 to the East Coast (Vir­ Kabeer Malholtra has been flies! Thank you to everyone who towards my MFA in Poetry, and ginia) before returning to Califor­ working as a publicist in the sent updates for this issue...we I have a poem appearing in the nia. I now live in downtown Palo music industry for Girlie Action have lots of news from the class Winter 2010 issue of the Michi­ Alto (across the street from Stan­ Media & Marketing for the past of 2002! Here’s what we have gan Quarterly Review.” ford) as of June 1. I run corporate three years. He has also been play­ rounded u p ... Ari Paul is living in Philadel­ development at a tech company ing music with David Ostro and Michael Battaglia writes: “I phia and working as a commodity in Silicon Valley called MokaFive, they hope to record an album have been working for a beer, trader at Susquehanna Interna­ whose technology came from together this year. Kabeer current­ wine and spirits start-up importer tional Group. Stanford’s computer science ly resides in Bushwick, Brooklyn called Total Beverage Solution. I Nathaniel Smith writes: “Hey department. I’m still swimming and has lived in New York since am the beer and spirits manager guys! I’m launching a record label at Stanford, only now in their 2002. for NJ/NY/CT, where I manage with Microsoft at the end of Janu­ master’s program. Enjoying the Jacob Widlitz writes: “I’ve distribution, sales, promotions, ary. I am playing drums, violin, Bay Area for its hiking, restau­ been back in the States for a little pricing and programming (I do mandolin, guitar, bass and sing­ rants, surfing, sports teams, and more than a year, after spending everything short of making the ing. Currently I work as a drum­ college friends who have stayed 27 months living in Tanzania, beer!) We represent: Weihen- mer for PM Dawn, the hip hop in the area. Also noteworthy, my Africa serving as a biology and stephan the Oldest Brewery group from the ’90s. Our label brother, Dwight (’99), married a math teacher with the U.S. Peace in the World (Germany), Old gives artists their publishing rights cousin of Morgan Kelly (Jamie) Corps. Currently, I am working Speckled Hen (England), Birra and a huge platform to distribute on August 30!” for a small start-up bio-pharma­ Moretti (Italy) and Affligem Ab­ their music. We are set to be the Gina Piscopo is engaged to ceutical company in north Jersey bey Brewery (Belgium). I am largest competitor with iTunes — Josh Angley and they plan to get and waiting to hear back from a also in the process of getting a we are giving music away legally. married at the Gaylord Opryland few grad schools.” spirits master certification with a I’m looking to get in touch with Resort in Nashville, TN on May Jessica Schilke recently ob­ concentration (and passion) for anyone who is a musician or who 22, 2010. Gina and Josh currently tained her Master’s of Science in Single Malt Scotch Whisky. I am is an entrepreneur. Drop me a line live in Nashville while she earns Public Health from the University currently living in Williamsburg, at: nathansmithdrums@gmail. her clinical doctorate in audiol- of South Florida in Tampa. She Brooklyn.” com.” ogy. Gina is scheduled to graduate loves living in Tampa and has Carolyn Dorazio is living in Shanique Streete writes: “This in May 2010. begun working as a Research Boston and got engaged to John summer, I was a State Depart­ Katherine Blatterfein Sor- Specialist at the Moffitt Cancer English in 2009. She is currently ment intern in the Public Affairs rentino lives in Somerset, NJ Center. working for RueLaLa. Congrats Section at the U.S. Embassy with her husband, Jeff, whom Rebecca Bramlett writes: Carolyn!!! in Ghana. I had a wonderful she married in December 2007. “Hello Everyone! I’m plugging Jennifer Urs writes: “I’m living time and was so happy to be there Jessica Schilke served as maid of away at the master’s thesis at in Miami, graduating from law for President Obama’s first trip to honor and Shanique Streete was University of Chicago and will school this spring, and looking sub-Saharan Africa. I didn’t get a bridesmaid. Katie recently com­ graduate later this year. I study to work for a collegiate athletic to meet the president but had the pleted her MBA in Marketing and medieval religious and intellectual department with the hopes of opportunity to attend his speech.” currently works as a Marketing history (largely focusing on 12th becoming Director of Football Shanique is currently completing Manager. century France and Germany), Operations, and hopefully, one the second year of a master’s de­ Caroline Binder writes: “I and while it might not be the day, Athletic Director.” gree in African Studies at UCLA. graduated from Lehigh in 2006 most practical of subjects, I Alexandra Warren is living in Michael Fragoso writes: “I and moved to Manhattan shortly am happy to say that I use Mr. Rockville, MD, teaching at Ken­ moved from Washington, DC to after. I have been working at Gudgel’s Latin in my everyday nedy Krieger School and getting South Bend, IN to attend Notre TheStreet.com since March 2008 life! With the November 2008 her MS in special education at Dame Law School. Last May I and was recently promoted to Ac­ presidential election, it’s been a Johns Hopkins University (which married Ashley Morrow, whom I count Associate in the Consumer fun year to live in Chicago. Going she will finish up this summer). had met in Washington.” Sales Department. I am surround­ to Grant Park to hear President She also spent New Year’s in DC Johanna Dickson is living on ed by a lot of fun and interesting Obama give his acceptance speech with Brooke Popko and Jen Urs. the Lower East Side in New York people both inside and outside was nothing short of incredible Evan Joye writes: “After City and working at Conde Nast of work, and have been enjoying (even if I could barely walk after graduating from Boston College, Digital in syndication and digital myself. Life is good.” standing up for so many hours). I worked at Morgan Stanley for distribution. Nathaniel Halpern and I’m looking forward to seeing two years but quit that job (and Scott Schaub writes, “I’m liv­ Chris Palsho are in the final where the next year takes me.” finance in general) to go back to ing in Lambertville on the Dela­ stages of post-production and liana Goldfarb writes: “I’ve school to be a doctor. I am cur­ ware River with Wilson Weed ’01 exploring online distribution been working/living in New York

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 53 CLASS NOTES ALUMNI NEWS

for the past few years. I still work field (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, the space - bubble-shaped pots of Law in Phoenix, AZ. He’ll be for Bristol-Myers Squibb in the 131 16573-16579). In November plopped on pedestals, latched working for the Supreme Court of Cardiovascular/Metabolic sales I traveled to Japan for a confer­ onto walls and even suspended Arizona this coming summer. division, but I recently switched ence and had an amazing time in the air. Taken as a whole, the Kate Chimacoff wrote, “I’m over to a hospital position in sightseeing. I still live in Ann work appears to actually flow living in Corpus Christi, near Manhattan.” Arbor and can be contacted by down the surfaces it adorns. “I the Naval Air Station with my Aviva Perlman (formerly Amy email at [email protected] or tried to capture the essence of a soon-to-be fiance. [She’s still Perlman) is currently in the sec­ through Facebook. Hopefully I state of transition through the waiting on the official ring!] We ond year of her Jewish Education will graduate by the time of our implied motion and evolution of are stationed here for another master’s program at the Jewish next reunion! these sculptures,” she said. year. I’ve earned my teaching Theological Seminary in New certificate and am subbing in the York City. 2 0 0 3 2 0 0 4 public school system this aca­ Jeremy Johnson writes: “My demic year, but teaching in my Teacher My Hero continues to go Nicholas L. Perold Erin McCormick own classroom next year, hope­ well — we partnered with Donors 2012 Mill Road PO Box 476 fully 8th grade history. Thanks, Choose to give $75,000 to teach­ Pennington, NJ 08534 Middlebury, VT 05753 Mr. Green!!! Look what you did! ers across the country through the [email protected]. [email protected] From here, we are headed back site, which we’re pretty excited to Florida or to Mississippi or Christopher Campbell has Don Kraft moved to London, about. Also, we just announced who knows... It’s all an adventure where he is going to veterinary our series B funding (literally started pilot training at Sheppard with the Navy Pilots.” AFB, TX in the Euro-NATO school. He says, “In just a few today) — http://www.techcrunch. Erin McCormick will leave Joint Jet Pilot Training program. years, I’ll be Doctor Don!” com/2010/02/05/2tor-20-mil- her job as the Assistant Director He is a Class Flight Lead in the Brett Downey is the gallery lion-online-education/. We raised of Stewardship at Middlebury 459th Flying Training Squadron manager and art director of a gal­ about $20M in order to fund our College on June 30, with hopes to (Dragons) and is currently flying lery in Chelsea called Dorfman next two graduate programs.” pursue an MFA in graphic design. the T-6A Texan II. He requested a Projects. She wrote, “We deal Alice Chow writes: After college, Her eventual goal is to start her flyby, but unfortunately the pat­ with major works of contem­ I started out working as a lab own graphic design/marketing/ tern was full. porary art and do collaborative assistant at the Joslin Diabetes advertising business for the hos­ Rosser Lomax is living in projects with living, working art­ Center in Boston. I moved to pitality industry in years to come. Brooklyn with cats that take the ists. I live in Brooklyn with my California two years ago and am She is loving life in Vermont, and shape of men, and plays in your boyfriend, Nick Riggle, who’s a now living in Venice Beach! This spends her free time managing band. doctoral candidate in philosophy past summer, I spent a month a French bistro just outside of Liz Kazmierczak writes: As of at NYU.” traveling around Namibia and Middlebury. Scott Rosenberg wrote, “Hey South Africa before starting now, I am getting ready to leave Melissa Rosenberg wrote, “I Denver, and move to Taos, NM all! Life is good. I bought a place nursing school at UCLA in the got engaged last summer to Nick where I was accepted as an ap­ in Philadelphia, and I’m having a fall. I love what I’m learning and Cox, my boyfriend of four years. prentice midwife at the Northern good 1L year at Temple Law. I’m every now and then, I run into We are currently in the process New Mexico Midwifery Center. going into the litigation program Shanique Streete walking around of choosing a venue, deciding I have greatly enjoyed being a and working with some great Westwood! which reality TV shows to appear part of the birth community people. It’s quite a change from As for myself, after two years of on, etc. I flirted briefly with the in Colorado, and have learned life in Colorado, but I’m loving it. working in the fashion industry, idea of going to law school, but an enormous amount from the I hope that everyone else is doing I’ve decided to change fields and rejected it soon after getting a women who I have been able to well!” pursue my passion to work in day job at a law firm in Hobo­ support in their labor processes. Andrew Sachs is living in education. I am currently apply­ ken, NJ. Right now, I am living This past year has included a lot Prescott, AZ, finishing up a ing to schools for the fall. I am in Jersey City, writing and draw­ of adventures for me, and I have degree in human ecology from still living in New York City and ing when I am not at the office been fortunate to volunteer in Prescott College. He is also play­ love seeing PDS grads frequently (and sometimes when I am), and the Dominican Republic with who are in the area. I hope all is ing drums in a band called Hot trying to adjust to the fact that midwives-to-be, as well as spend Honey, playing ice hockey, and well with the rest of you and that the ‘real world’ feels less real than over a month traveling and camp­ loving life. everyone has a fantastic spring! school did.” ing along the Pacific coast of Carly Berger wrote, “I’ve As always, feel free to send your Helena Fishbein is teaching Mexico. I am excited to see what updates my way if you have any settled quite comfortably in high school English and reading 2010 will bring, and am currently Brooklyn, and I’m still working exciting news: margaretsayen@ in Immokalee, Florida. She fin­ planning a second volunteer trip on my Master of Architecture at gmail.com. ished writing her master’s thesis to Madagascar for July. I hope Parsons. The bleakness of a city From the web: December 2009 on the use of graphic novels with that everyone is well, and enjoy­ winter has finally made me join a Erica Lanni writes: Hi! I am low-level readers in high school ing their new years so far. gym, which is a helpful counter to now a fourth year PhD candi­ English classes. She received her Emily Hamlin created and the effects of sitting in front of a date in organic chemistry at the Master of Arts in Secondary installed her first ceramics exhibi­ computer for hours on end.” University of Michigan perform­ English Education in December tion at Rivers School, where she Michelle Bramlett is work­ ing research on nickel catalyzed 2009. methods for the synthesis of teaches art. Consisting of roughly ing as a focus teacher at Winston conjugated polymers in the labo­ 2,000 pieces of bisque-fired por­ Preparatory School in Chelsea in ratory of Prof. Anne McNeil celain that Hamlin threw on the New York City. She will be gradu­ (http://www.umich.edu/"ajmlab/ potters wheel over the last few ating in May from Teachers Col­ index.html). My second year I months, the exhibit explores ideas lege with a master’s as a Reading was awarded a National Science of growth, change, and motion, Specialist. Foundation Graduate Research according to the school website. Lon Johnson graduated from The Journal is p rin te d on Fellowship and this year we pub­ She spent several hours in the Princeton in 2008 and is cur­ 100% post-consumer lished a significant paper in the gallery installing the various rently a graduate student at ASU s recycled paper. components of the sculpture in Sandra Day O ’Connor College

54 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 ALUMNI NEWS CLASS NOTES

2 0 0 5 ates from the Cornell University While Ferree works 40-hour before being called up. Drew also School of Hotel Administration weeks for Dance Marathon, 5th Reunion was named one of the Top Ath­ where they met. Jacquelyn is the Tanvi Goel is likely to put in even letes of the Decade by the Trenton Kyle Boatwright front desk manager at CityCen- longer hours next year at Boston Times. 6 University Drive, Suite 206-187 ter’s Aria Resort & Casino in Las Consulting Group, where she ac­ Amherst, MA 01002 Vegas. Saxton is the hotel manag­ cepted a job. Goel is planning to 609-658-2076 2 0 0 7 er at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. live and work in Houston, where [email protected] An October 2010 wedding on her family moved shortly after she Melanie Philippou Kaitlyn L. Langdon Lake Las Vegas is being planned. graduated PDS. Goel writes: “I’m University of Connecticutt ’ 9 Benedek Road pretty excited to be a consultant 233 Glenbrook Road Princeton, NJ 08540 2 0 0 6 and I think it’ll be fun!” Storrs, CT 06269 pinkcowgirH [email protected] Craig Knowlton is making a [email protected] Mendy Fisch name for himself in the comedic From the web: October 2009 Allie Crouse 105 Fitz-Randolph Road web series business with the debut Amanda King writes: Hello Boston University, Box 1888 Princeton, NJ 08540 of Ryan and Collin, a show about from 12 hours in the future! 277 Babcock Street [email protected] two friends who get themselves Right now I’m teaching English Boston, MA 02215 into hilarious (and sexually ex­ Mendy Fisch writes:This installa­ [email protected] at a university in China for a year. plicit) situations. Rob Mor plays tion of class notes marks the last Rather ridiculous that they let me the straight-laced Ryan. Knowl­ before much of our class gradu­ do such a thing, but I’m having a ton plays Collin, who can be 2 0 0 8 ates college, acquires new e-mail great time. I watched the National described as an amplified version addresses, and becomes increas­ Tess Glancey Day celebrations on TV when of Knowlton. The duo have put they were held in Beijing — it was ingly transient and hard-to-reach. 4 Colts Neck Drive twelve short videos (“quickies”) In anticipation of this upheaval, I Newtown, PA 18940 a rather big affair lasting all day. on their website, ryanandcollin. I’ve climbed the Great Wall, and ask all who are reading this article com. According to the website, Theo Brown was featured in a St. am living on the east coast of the to send me updated contact infor­ the first full season is coming Lawrence University brochure as country, right by the sea, which is mation. I can still be reached for soon. Knowlton says that he a Presidential Diversity Scholar. nice. the foreseeable future at mendy- began writing the series while at “Being chosen a Presidential Over October holiday, when [email protected]. PDS. Diversity Scholar really helped National Day and the Mid- Our class did not send me Moving into information I me notice my potential, and see Autumn festival were happening, many updates this notes cycle, happen to know about people, how hard work can pay off.. he I was traveling down south, by though Jason Ferree had some Charlie Turndorf will graduate wrote. Shanghai - - 1 was in Suzhou, big news. Ferree just became a Kenyon College this spring, and Tess Glancey writes: Julie Hangzhou and Nanjing. All beau­ member of the executive council wants to work in the game design Gordon studied painting, sculp­ tiful and all very, very, crowded of Dance Marathon, an Indiana industry. He is considering enroll­ ture, and architecture from the with Chinese tourists. I’ve been in University philanthropy organiza­ ing in a graduate program for late Medieval and Early and Mid China for nearly two months and tion. Dance Marathon, which is game design. Arvind Thambidu- Renaissance periods in Florence, the second-largest student-run I still cannot believe it. rai, meanwhile, has become the Italy over her J-Term at the Uni­ philanthropy in the world, raises From the web: August 2009 community service chair for the versity of Virginia. money for charity through a range Rajiv Mailipudi writes: Rajiv Association of Indians at Rutgers. Emma Morehouse, a business of large-scale events. The flag­ just graduated with a major in Finally, Adam Savitzky is plan­ student at Ithaca College, is cur­ ship event, the Dance Marathon, biomedical engineering from ning to perform with his a cap- rently studying abroad at the In­ raises money for Riley Hospital Johns Hopkins University ’09. pella group, Shir Appeal, in the ternational University of Monaco. for Children. Participants in the Last summer he won the Vreden- Annual Jewish Collegiate Festival Julia Salem was awarded the marathon are sponsored to dance burg Scholarship, which allowed of the Performing Arts, a large Kathleen Chesney Prize for Mod­ for 36 hours. According to Ferree, him to conduct cancer research convention of Jewish a cappella ern Languages at St. Hilda’s Col­ in Australia where he studied the the event raised $1.5 million this groups held at the Jewish Theo­ lege of Oxford for excellent work past year. delivery of targeted drug loaded logical Seminary. in the subject. nanoparticles to colon cancer As the Director of Special I’m finishing up junior year Events, Ferree is responsible for cells. This year, he stayed at the here at Princeton and still have 2 0 0 9 JHU Medical Campus and stud­ directing committees that run one more year to go after this. I ied the reduction of non-specific a number of major fundraising wrote one Junior Paper on water Vinay Trivedi heating in tumor mouse models events, including an auction and use in the Jordan Valley, using a 2465 Harvard Yard Mail Center using alternating magnetic fields. a 60-mile bicycle ride. Ferree says computer model to determine Cambridge, MA 02138 His work will be published in an that he dedicates at least 20 hours optimal use and allocation of (267J-229-2425 academic journal in the next few a week to Dance Marathon, and water. My second JP will be about months. He is beginning his mas­ sometimes needs to spend more Afghanistan. Over the summer, Brian Fishbein: Freshman year is ter’s in Reproductive and Cancer than 40 hours a week on the proj­ I hope to get a good amount of awesome. I am rushing a frater­ Biology at the JH U Bloomberg ect. Ferree has been working with work done on my thesis, which nity and meeting a ton of really School of Public Health ’10. Af­ Dance Marathon throughout his will likely focus on information cool people but still stay in touch terwards, he will start applying to college career, starting out as a technology policy. with the people from PDS in the medical school. Once that is out dancer and working his way up to University of Pennsylvania area. I’m thinking about doing of the way, he will then compete the executive council by holding senior Drew Godwin (15) scored an internship in technology this in his third bodybuilding contest positions as a committee member his first collegiate varsity points summer or possibly a French im­ next August! GET UP! and committee chair. on a jumper with 10 seconds mersion program in Paris. Jacquelyn Pisaturo an­ Ferree writes: “It’s truly amaz­ remaining in the Quakers’ Jan. In other news, I’m still an en­ nounced her engagement to Sax­ ing that everything is put together 25 blowout loss to Saint Joseph’s. gineering major and it is a ton ton Sharad, a 2005 graduate of by only full-time students, who Godwin spent his first three-plus of work but fortunately I ’m not the Brooks School in North An­ choose to give so much time and years at Penn on the JV team failing out. Otherwise school is dover, MA. Both are 2009 gradu­ effort to one thing.”

SPRING 2010 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 55 CLASS NOTES ALUMNI NEWS

school. Last term I was taking energy organization I founded on five classes and had no time but I campus, a social enterprise group, dropped it down to four and it’s and plan social events as the social In Memoriam so much nicer. chair for the South Asian As­ Gabi Rodriguez writes: I’m sociation, the 2nd largest student The school has learned o f the passing o f the following studying bioengineering at Rice. group on campus. This summer I members o f the PDS community. We wish to extend I’ll be spending the summer here am exploring my interests in the our deepest sympathies to their families and friends. in Houston working and hope­ power of investment and econom­ fully doing research at the Texas ics as it relates to my passion to Gunther Bright Jr. ’02 medical center. serve the community. I am travel­ Anita Plapinger Cagan, Vinay writes: I am not an ing to India to work at a microfi­ mother of Frederica Cagan Doeringer ’70, Michael Cagan ’72, engineering concentrator as I nance bank in Maharashtra. I also Eve Cagan ’76 and Elizabeth Cagan McKnight ’80 originally thought simply because plan to practice my Hindi while I I have fully embraced the liberal am down there. Following, I will Linda Campbell, arts philosophy that Harvard es­ continue hot air ballooning in the wife of Ernest Everett (Rett) Campbell ’70 pouses. I am taking freshman year states (I recently got my private to explore my interests including pilot certificate, so call me if you Frances Conover, a course in global health, energy want a ride! I can take up pas­ mother of Ruth Conover ’67 and environmental politics, phi­ sengers now) before I head back Theodore Cross, losophy, and Hindi-Urdu. I am to Asia (either Taiwan or China) step-father of Ann Warner Anderson, Ph.D. ’79 learning a lot about myself in my to teach a 10-day course to high and Mary Warner Mackwell ’83 classes and interactions as I have school children. Keep in touch! met so many diverse and accom­ Hope to hear from more of you Marcelino Cuesta, plished individuals here. On cam­ soon. ■ father of Nora Lazzaretto ’78 and pus I am heavily involved in an PDS faculty member from 1973-1983 Norbert Donnelly, father of Naurene Donelly Antoniotti ’70 Almost Alumni Tina Fabiano, sister of PDS Trustee Toby Levy Looking ahead to prom, AP exams and senior Richard Feldman, father of Shara Feldman ’92 and Josh Feldman ’94 projects, the Class of 2010 recently gathered to mark Leonard Fenninger, 100 days until commence­ husband of Jane Thomas ’38 ment. George Ford, Seniors paused their husband of Nancy Shannon Ford ’54 busy schedules — if only Jean C. Hall, for a lunch period — to stepmother of Molly Hall ’69 ponder all they have shared Pauline C. Gallo, as classmates and how their mother of Joe Gallo ’99 and Amy Gallo ’03 lives will change in coming Nancy McMorris ’59, months during a a special sister of Howard “Mac” McMorris II ’59 luncheon sponsored by the PDS Alumni Relations Of­ Jessie Nelms “Betsy” Petty, mother of Gail Petty Riepe ’64 fice. After lunch, seniors each Elizabeth Sierocki, received personal messages grandmother of Jillian Sierocki ’02 and John Sierocki ’03 from their families express­ Rada Fulper Shows, ing their love and pride. sister of Aggie Fulper ’54 Sweet, sappy or sarcastic, Christine Tibbals, the letters evoked laughter wife of former faculty Lester (Bud) Tibbals and tears — a warm-up for Arthur Turner, what lies ahead. ■ father of Karen Turner ’72 Sherwood Vine, father of Suzanne Vine ’78, John E. Vine ’82 and grandfather of Sydney Vine ’19

George Warren, father of Lisa Warren ’71 and grandfather of Alix Warren ’02 and Andrew Warren ’98 and Rachel Cantlay ’13 Mark L. Zaininger ’81 father of Luke Zaininger ’ 18

56 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2010 LESSONS OF LASTING VALUE

As a student at Princeton Day School thirty years ago, I was

challenged and encouraged to be my very best—every day.

Today, my students, players and colleagues continue that

tradition of excellence. I support PDS because I am grateful

for the education I received and for the difference it is making

in students’ lives today.

Jim Laughlin ’80 P ’16 and P ’19

Kindergarten Teacher Assistant Coach, Boys Varsity Soccer

Please support the Princeton Day School 2009-2010 Annual Fund. You can make your gift online at www.pds.org/giveonline. every gift matters OURNAL S P R IN G 2010

Princeton Day School P.O. Box 75, The Great Road Princeton, New Jersey 08542 Phone: 609.924.6700 Web site: www.pds.org

Alumni Weekend 2010

0 Princeton V,.- Day School

RELIVE REUNITE • RENEW RECONNECT May 14 and 15

See pages 32-33 inside.