Alumni Roll Call 13-17 Dominique Dawes in the D.C

VOLUME XXXIII, NUMBER 2 Spring, 2019

ALUMNI NEWS

Three Amazing Seniors Are Your 2019 Alumni Association Scholarship Recipients

Inside: 2019 Alumni Association Hall of Fame Inductees

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-That same week that Mike was being WHAT’S INSIDE honored, it was announced ’58 Blair graduate Tom Brown had been selected for induction Editorial 3 into the Washington DC sports Hall of Fame. Stories from the Wall of Honor 4 While some (including yours truly) felt this honor Blair 85/20 Celebration Information & was way overdue, it was great to see Tom (one Registration Forms 5-8 of our Alumni Association Hall of Fame 2019 Alumni Association Scholarship inductees) selected to join fellow Blair grad Contributors & Recipients 9-12 Morgan Wootten and one-time Blair student Alumni Roll Call 13-17 Dominique Dawes in the D.C. Hall. Tom will be Reunion Corner 18 inducted prior to the Nationals-Braves game on Welcome New Members Back Cover June 23.

Best known Perennial Recognition as a Green In the midst of the run-up to an Alumni Bay Packer, Association Hall of Fame weekend (November 1- Tom was 2), the local media here in the DC area is full of also the only person to news about former Blazers and faculty members play for both being honored for their lifetime achievements. the Senators These three stories broke within the last few & Redskins weeks: -Myron “Mike” Michaelson, who taught -In March, I had the privilege of being invited at Blair from the 1950s to the 1970s, was to the retirement celebration for Montgomery honored by the Montgomery County Board of County Police Chief Tom Manger (another AA Education for his many years of service to the Hall of Fame inductee), who was retiring after 42 school system. Mike was given the Individual years of service in law enforcement. Distinguished Service Award during a ceremony at the Board headquarters. His citation noted his mentoring of multiple generations of students and his support of student activists through five decades. He was a pioneer in integrating the cheerleading squads in the county and assuring students had a voice in the school system. Those of us who were fortunate enough to It was a great, fun program topped off by the know him during his time at Blair also remember very first presenter, newly elected County his wit, his enthusiastic support of all Blair Executive Marc Elrich. At the end of reading student activities and sports teams, and his what was probably the longest official citation in dedication to challenging students in the government history, Ehrlich praised Tom for his classroom. work in consolidating many of the law enforcement agencies into one facility. He then announced that, henceforth, the building would be known as the J. Thomas Manger Law Enforcement Center. That’s right. They named the building after him! What great people were, and are, associated Mike receiving his Distinguished Service Award with our great school. (l) and at Blair in the 1960’s Meet some more of them on November 2.

Stories from the ALUMNI HALL Wall of Honor

Taking “Extreme Measures” Just to Be a Blair Grad

could graduate with my class at Blair and transfer some classes from Billings, as long as I attended one day of the next school year.”

So Jeff did what anyone in his situation would do – he hitchhiked back to Maryland. “When I was growing up, all I ever dreamed about was going to Montgomery Blair, says Jeff “Yep,” he says, “I took

McClelland (’60). “Elementary school, junior some stuff and thumbed high, it was nothing but going to Blair games and rides all the way back to Silver Spring. I got back wanting to play for them.” in time to go to the Prom with my girlfriend, Dawne Brandenburg. Most importantly, I got to Jeff had no way of knowing that his dreams of walk across the stage and going to Blair were going to be a little get my graduation certificate “challenged” over the next few years. with Montgomery Blair on it. I was so proud.” “We lived in a little area that was right between the Blair boundary and the boundary for the new After Blair, Jeff served in the Northwood Jr-Sr High. I got assigned to military in Vietnam. After Northwood for 9th grade. I thought my Blair days returning to the states, Jeff were never going to happen, but they gave us a went into aviation-related choice of where to go starting in 10th grade. I industries, including more than 20 years at the jumped at the chance to go to Blair,” he recalls. Dexter Corporation. He had a snmall ranch in California before returning “home” to Billings. While he was at Blair, Jeff played both baseball and basketball. He fondly remembers his He has stayed in touch with some of his Blair baseball coach, Stan Kulakowski. connections. He was delighted when Dr. Alan Dodd (’47) was inducted in the Alumni “Mr. Kulakowski wasn’t one to mess around. He Association Hall of Fame a few years ago. was very formal, and I had him for science. He’d walk in and expected all of the boys to have their “Dr. Dodd was just starting his teaching career, shirts buttoned all the way up.” and I was in the first elementary school class he taught.” Everything was going along fine until midway through his Senior year, when his Dad came Jeff recently went on a wine tour in Europe with home and told him they were moving to Billings, a group of friends that included his Blair Montana. Not what he had in mind for his last classmate Barry Collier, who owns a winery in year of high school. California.

“It was a strange predicament,” he notes. When he inscribed “A Great Ride” on his Wall “Billings High School told me I couldn’t graduate of Honor tile, Jeff knew it had more than one from there because I hadn’t been in their school meaning. system long enough. Montgomery County said I Want your “story” on the ALUMNI HALL Wall of Honor in time for the Blair 85/20 Celebration this fall? There is still time. Go to https://www.bricksrus.com/donorsite/blairalumni

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Highlighted by the 85/20 Celebration & Hall of Fame Induction Saturday, November 2, 2019 ALUMNI HALL AT Montgomery Blair

Here is the schedule for the Weekend FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1

6:00pm Blazer Football vs. Damascus - Join the students, faculty, and fellow graduates as they root the Blazers on against their upcounty rivals from Damascus. Specially-priced Alumni Tickets will be available at the entrance to the football stadium.

Post-Game Drop-in Parties - These Silver Spring gathering spots have been designated as Blazertowns for after-game festivities and class or multi-class reunions. Get the word out to your class and get together at:

*40’s, 50’s & 60’s - The Four Corners Pub 10111 Sutherland Rd, Silver Spring *70’s - McGinty’s Pub 911 Ellsworth Drive Silver Spring *80’s,90’s, and beyond – Fire Station 1 8131 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring

(* These are just suggestions. Drop in wherever you want.)

5 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2

10:00am-12:00pm - Wayne Avenue Location Nostalgia Tour Yep, we're going to set aside a couple of hours for those of you who haven't been back since the school moved to its University Blvd. location to tour the original buildings one more time.

5:00pm-6:30pm - University Boulevard Campus Tours If you haven't been to the University Boulevard Campus yet, come early for the 85/20 Celebration and get a tour of the location that has so gloriously carried on the traditions of Blair's inclusiveness, leadership, and high achievement. A special nostalgia area will be set up to let you explore Blair's 85-year history through Silver Chips, Silverlogues, Silver Quills, and other Blazer artifacts. Take time to visit the ALUMNI HALL Wall of Honor, featuring over 200 tiles honoring every aspect of Blair Life.

Saturday Evening - Blair 85/20 Official Celebration 6:00pm-9:00pm ALUMNI HALL at Montgomery Blair

-Eight decades of Blair history through the eyes of the students who were there

-Pioneer Memories - graduates from Blair's earliest days at both campuses share their experiences about creating the "firsts" at each location

-Induction of the newest "class" of the Alumni Association Hall of Fame

-Special VIP Hall of Fame Reception where you can meet and mingle with Hall of Fame Members (current and new)

NOTE: You MUST purchase tickets* in advance for this event. Seating is strictly limited by Fire Marshall rules, so get your tickets now, as it will be a complete sell- out. Ticket order forms are enclosed, or to purchase tickets online go to our Blair Alumni Website (www.blairalumni.org)

*All proceeds from this event go into our Scholarship and Special Projects Fund 6 7

Registration/Participation Form for the

Please fill out this form and return with payment (checks payable to MBHSAA) to: Montgomery Blair High School Alumni Association P.O. Box 1434 Ellicott City, MD 20142

Name ______Class of ______Name at Blair (if different) ______Address ______Phone ______email ______Yes, I will be attending the Blair 85/20 Celebration and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday, November 2, 2019 to be held in ALUMNI HALL at Montgomery Blair.

*Please reserve ______85/20 Celebration tickets @ $50.00 per ticket *Please reserve ______V.I.P. Hall of Fame Celebration Tickets @ 75.00 per ticket (includes VIP seating assignment and VIP Hall of Fame Reception) Total enclosed $______(checks payable to MBHSAA) *All proceeds from this event go into our Scholarship and Special Projects Fund.

Reminder: Seating in ALUMNI HALL is strictly limited by Fire Marshall regulations. Once the seats are sold out attendance will be on a stand-by basis only.

(The following information is requested just to help us with planning for a great event.) I plan on participating in the following Blair 85/20 activities ____ Friday Night football game vs. Damascus (specially-priced Alumni Tickets available at the gate) ____ Friday night drop-in at one of the designated BLAZERTOWN venues ____ Saturday morning Open House at Wayne Ave location (10am-12pm) ____ Saturday evening Open House at Blair (5:00pm-6:30pm)

8 2019 Scholarship and Special Projects Fund Contributors

Our thanks to these Blair graduates, faculty, family members, and friends for their generous support of

the Blair Alumni Association (as of April 30, 2019 )

Daniel Fallon ’56 Eleanor Garmarsh Lewis ‘58 PLATINUM LEVEL Sarah Manchester ’90 James Fisher ‘60 Bill Mason ’62 Charles Maye ’60 Barbara Stewart Fisher ‘62 Jeffrey Weisleder ’64 Ben McCeney ’53 Hugo Fleischman ‘65 Richard Cohen ‘59 Jeff McClelland ’60 James Foster ‘77 Jeff McClelland ‘60 Christine Hoadley McCully ‘65 Frank Gatchell ‘62 Charlie Wendal ’64 Treva Wingo McLaughlin ’62 Norma Gates ‘47 Dan Dickson ’62 Howard Metcalfe ‘51 Sherlyn Goldstein-Askwith ‘63 Larry Raney ’61 Georgia Claxton McGraw ’53 Gary Gottfried ’72 Joe Pavlock ‘70 Howard Metcalfe ‘51 Glenn Gottfried ‘73 The Class of 1956 Jean Blana Parks ’54 John & Joan Wells Hozik ‘63 William Oppenheim ‘62 Steve Perring ’70 Roger Huff ‘63 Laura Rummel Magrames ‘98 Barbara Piquet ’70 Ron Hurley ‘61 GOLD LEVEL Anne Marie Groomes Pisani ’61 Kathy Black Hynson ‘62 Don Lawson ‘64 Mike Pollack ’57 Lauris Lightfoot Irby ‘64 Janet Gessford Buhler ’74 Peter Remsen ’62 James Johnston ‘62 The Class of 1961 Maxine Rheingold ‘69 Stanley Kensky ‘70 The Class of 1965/Bob Bryan ‘65 Donald Robertson ’62 Charles Krupsaw ‘67 Edith Roby Edwards ’45 Ellen Morris Rubin ’68 Jonathan Levy ‘64 SILVER LEVEL Nancy Pursell Schulze ’59 June Spates Liverette ‘54 Richard Hozik ‘70 John Sharman ’69 Gloria Barnabei MacKenzie ‘52 Judith Margolis Macaluso ‘62 Margaret Jean Smith ‘48 Dr. Wendy Marlowe ‘60 Emmy Lou Moke Midgette ’62 Dr. Alan Smith ‘55 Alice Speizman Marshall ‘64 Doug Moke ’64 Robert Stewart ’67 Betty Bray McAtee ‘63 Kevin Moose ’75 Betsy Stanley Thomas ’58 Tony McCann ‘61 Howard Oppenheim ‘73 Jack Townsend ’62 Liz Allen Mitchell ‘75 Theresa Salus Oppenheim ‘74 Bill Turner ’58 Harry Packard ‘65 Charles Polinger ’62 Linda & Walter Valenca ‘70 Eliot Pfanstiehl ‘68 John Wood ‘68 Larry Walker ’65 Gordon Powers ‘73 CENTURY LEVEL Ervin Walter ‘72 Robert Prinz ‘62 Sharon Mahaney Pyle ‘66 Laurence Abramson ’58 Robert Warsaw ’57 Audie Richey Richeson ‘65 Sandra Graham Beall ’64 Tom Windes ’61 Nadine Roberts ‘58 Joe Betthauser ’70 Kay Sneiderman Woodruff ‘64 John Sasse ’62 John Castellot ’64 Morgan Wootten ‘50 Linda Valenca Schmidt ‘70 Maggie Armstrong Chapman ’67 John Yerrick ’58 Al & Joyce Divecchia Schrider ‘46 Allen Chauvenet ’63 SUPPORTER LEVEL Mary Ellen Shepard ‘61 Everett Childs ’64 Darlene Landis Ball ’58 Anne Nordquist Smart ‘56 Donald Clark ‘52 Candy Jacobs Barbag ’67 W. Harley Smith ‘62 Doug Dawson ’64 Bob & Joan Mitchell Benton ’47 Pete Springirth ‘48 Robert Decker, DDS ‘58 Robert Bogley ’62 Wayne Starkey ‘61 David DeJong ’68 Lynn Dietle Booth ‘64 Fred Steele ‘62 Sandra Clevering Drimal ‘66 Aileen Hurd Boyd ‘62 John Thomas ‘60 Steed & Sharon Edwards ‘67 Ellie Wood Brazee ‘50 Gary Thompson ‘58 Jane Hill Egly ’60 Charles P. Brenner, DDS ‘61 Connie Kefauver Tracy ‘70 Robert Ewing ’54 Bucky & Myra Hirst Cannon ‘56 Nadyne Silverman Turner ‘55 Bruce Feinman ‘78 Stephan Caracofe ‘65 Barbara Besuden Usher ‘61 Jim Griffin ’50 Pat Wills Castell ‘62 Rafael Valle ‘82 Ilona Grenadier Heckman ‘58 Bill Clark ‘65 Eugene Vicere ‘68 Mary Jacques Hergert ’65 Anna Fayard Connellee ‘67 Dean Walters ‘64 Joyce Beck Hermann ‘67 Vera Lynn Blana Coulam ‘63 Alvin & Judy Blatt Warren ‘62 Richard Hoag ’57 Mary Etta Beasley Craze ‘61 Marguerite Wason ‘71 Marjorie Persion Hobart ’54 Barbara Levine Cronin ‘63 Hollace Goldberg Weiner ‘64 Mary Ann Bowman Hunt ‘58 Richard Dale ‘53 Barry & Rita Callen Wertlieb ‘60 John Ilgen ‘62 Harry DeMoll ‘61 Karen Wickre ‘69 Staley Jackson ‘60 Judy Paxton Docca F Roberta Smith Wilhelm ‘65 Gordon Kennedy ’65 Pamela McWilliams Dodd ‘58 Patricia Wills ‘62 Dana Beers Laake ’62 Sophie Patellis Dunn ‘68 Jean Robertson Wilson ‘48 Gail Weinraub Leon ‘65 Tom Engleman ‘66 Douglas Windes ‘64 Larry Levin ’66 Judith Conway Entwistle ‘65 Mary Ann Burr Winegarden ‘52 Robert Levin ’65 Rachel Stein Epstein ‘59 Stuart Wolk ‘70 9 Your 2019 Alumni Association Scholarship Recipients

Different Backgrounds, Different Dreams, Same Love for Blair EMMA MORGANSTEIN Dear Alumni Association, “I’ve always Thank you very much for your generous scholarship believed that that you’ve granted me. Blair has been a home for activism is an me for the past four years, and I know I will never be important part able to leave the Blair community. Blair offered me a chance to explore my interests and to advocate for of the political what I believe in. I joined Stage Crew while at Blair, process,” says and I worked hard to build the amazing sets for the Emma. ” While I plays and musicals, as well as designing and was at Blair, I building pieces for the yearly production of Sankofa. pushed my One teacher in particular, my AP Language teacher classmates to Ms. Whitney, spent an enormous time outside of the classroom making sure that I was balancing my become as school work and extracurriculars well, and helped politically active me when I was struggling in her classroom. I know as possible by organizing seminars about the that when I leave Blair, and eventually become an equal representation of women in government.” Early Childhood Educator, I will always attempt to provide future Blair students with the same Emma didn’t just talk about activism, she took opportunities that I have been afforded. Thank you the lead in it. She worked on numerous political for the scholarship that you have awarded me, and I campaigns and helped to make a Blair a center will strive to live up to the Montgomery Blair High for student activism. In addition to her work in the School ideals. community for various candidates, Emma served Emma Morganstein as an Assistant Teacher at Silver Spring Day School and was the President, House Manager, KAYLA MALONE and Stage Manager for the Blair Stage Crew. All Student Government this while being an Honor Society Member and a Executive Director, top student with a grade point average of 3.8. Minority Scholars “My whole family has great deal of Blair Program Leader, tradition,” she noted. “My brother had been a part Senior Class of the Pit Orchestra, so I went to all the shows. I President, National knew I’d wind up being part of the Blair Drama Honor Society, Mu Department. I really enjoyed being House Alpha Theta Math Manager because I got to show the best parts of Honor Society, the theater department to future Blazers.” National English Honor Society (wait- Emma will be using Alumni Association there is more), WEB Dubois National Honor Scholarship to attend the University of Pittsburgh Society, Middle School Tutor, Varsity Track, next year. Varsity Tennis, Key Club, and, oh yes, a 3.75 GPA. “I’m the third in my family to graduate from Blair, and my Dad has been a teacher there for almost “One of the things I like most about Blair is its 20 years. Because my family is so deeply size,” Kayla notes. “Some people don’t like big involved in the Blair community, I will always be schools, but Blair is unique and I love that. proud to be a Blazer.” Where else could you meet, and learn to get along with, so many different types of people? These are very meaningful things.”

10 Next year Kayla will attending the University of Those college representatives must have been Maryland, with help from her scholarship. as impressed with him as we were. Tinsae logged over 1,000 hours of service to the “One thing at Blair I really enjoy is just walking community, including work at the Takoma Park the halls and seeing everyone,” she said. “I am Recreation Center, the D.C. Office of Human going to seriously miss that next year.” (Thanks, Rights, the Lunch and Learn Program, and the Kayla - spoken like someone who could have Ethiopian Community Center. At Blair he was in graduated from Blair anytime in the last 85 years!) the National Honor Society and the Engineering Dear Alumni Association members, Club, where he helped build a solar car to race When I became a Blazer in the fall of 2015, I had no in the Solar Car Challenge. He did all this while clue that I would fall so deeply in love with a school maintaining a GPA of 3.73. His career goals are and its community. Throughout my four years of high school at Blair I have always wanted to give wrapped around helping others. back to the Blair community and make an impact. I “I want to help homeless people find a better life,” am happy to say that I think I have accomplished what I wanted and am ready to move on to the next Tinsae declares. “I want to help my community step. I would like to thank the Blair Alumni and place these people in need in a healthy Association for helping me be able to reach this next environment.” step. It is such an honor to be one of the recipients. This scholarship means a lot to me because To the Alumni Association Members; education in my household is not taken for granted. I want to thank the members of the Blair Alumni So just by receiving it will help me continue my Association for awarding me the 2019 Blair Alumni education at the University of Maryland. Blair has Scholarship. This scholarship has great value to me, shaped me into the person that I am today through because it encouraged me even more to continue leadership positions to the classes I attended. I pursuing higher education. This also motivated me really want to emphasize how grateful I am to the to expand my service outside of Blair and to the Alumni Association for this scholarship. Thank you community at large. I hope my contributions to my for providing me with the resources to continue my high school leave a good message to my family, journey of education. friends, and the younger generation. Of the all the Kayla Malone scholarships I’ve applied for during my senior year, this one was the first on my list and I’m proud it TINSAE DERESSE came directly from an organization affiliated with my school. Therefore, I once again thank the Alumni “I think the thing I Association for this scholarship.” am most proud of Tinsae Deresse about Blair is how dedicated the teachers and counselors are to helping students be successful,” said Tinsae, who will be attending the University of Maryland or Montgomery College next year. “They knew how important college was to me and they made sure I took advantage of all of the opportunities that were available, such as this Alumni Association Scholarship. (Note: Take a good look at the smiles on the faces They really pushed me to plan and be ready for of these three amazing young people. YOU – the the entrance exams and to meet with the college members of the Blair Alumni Association – put representatives.” those smiles there! Thank you, so much, for your generosity.) 11 2019 Scholarship and Special Projects Fund Contributors (as of April 30, 2019)

Our thanks to these Blair graduates, faculty, family members, and friends for their generous support

Barbara Heft ‘69 Barbara Lynn Rabenhorst Potts ‘64 CONTRIBUTOR LEVEL Scott Henning ‘69 Joe Price ‘76 Stuart Allen ‘54 Ellen Wallach Hodges ‘65 Richard Reiter ‘65 Joanne Viverette Alvey ‘69 John Holt ‘55 Troy Robinson ‘54 Dianne Brott Apter ‘64 Jeannie Howe ‘78 James & Mary McMullen Roth ‘66 Arthur Aron ‘65 David Hudgel ‘61 Pat Hartman Russell ‘59 Robin Roth Ayers ‘78 Karen Davis Huggins ‘80 Kay Hober Sammons ‘63 Spencer Baba ‘60 Sonny & Cicily Davis Iacangelo ‘59 Terri Zeibert Sanker ‘69 Leslie Backus ‘68 Bob Irelan ‘55 Lorin Sarbacher ‘65 Maris Baltins ‘63 Allan Jaffe ‘62 Michael Schechter ‘64 Wilma Benney Barger ‘60 Bridgett Bunch Katz ‘64 Anne Rothman Schenof ‘63 Janet Buckingham Bates ‘44 Andrew & Francine Schneider Katz John Schwenzer ‘63 Sanford Berman ‘60 ‘69 Doris Louft Seckman ‘61 Mike Bird ‘57 Alan Kazdoy ‘65 Herb Sehorn ‘49 Susan Ness Birrell ‘67 Anthony Kerr ‘66 Helen Holland Shanklin ‘56 George Bland ‘62 Alan Kerxton ‘56 Leslie Kirshbaum Shire ‘66 Joel Block ‘63 Robert & Beverly Bell Kessler ‘62 Mark Sidell ‘59 Frances Boggs ‘50 Pansy Hirst Kirschenmann ‘51 Joseph Simpson ‘60 Chuck Bowie ‘51 Bernice Kisliuk F Merrill Smith ‘80 Carol Humphries Brown ‘60 Dr. Thomas Klechak ‘58 Jay Smith ‘94 Michael Bucci ‘69 Jay Knox ‘63 Bill Stein ‘57 Jean McPherson Buchanan ‘64 Charles Krautler ‘65 William ’61 & Elizabeth Gay Patlen Tod Burke ‘74 Ellen Brockdorff Krautler ‘38 Sterling ‘62 Edith Caro ‘76 Michele Meyerson Kreiss ‘64 Richard Stern ‘75 John Caron ‘61 Arlene Hoffman Lamark ‘60 Richard Stock ‘51 Ellen Walker Carr ‘56 Neil Lamb, DDS ‘55 Harry Stubbs ‘86 Edward Chaney ‘53 Moira Cargill LaVeck ‘73 Marcia McVicker Stubbs ‘73 Alvan Chaney ‘45 Loretta Taylor Lechlider ‘65 Laana Taylor ‘80 Joan Norris Chatterton ‘54 Sherri Wise Legere ‘61 Dennis Theoharis ‘67 Ron & Rita Cima ‘71 Sharon Rae Larkin Levine ‘63 Alexander Thompson ‘75 Carlton Clark ‘51 Roger Lewis ‘66 Erol Torun ‘62 Fran Schiff Clay ‘69 Bruce & Barbara Dodd Lieske ‘52 Margaret Rosen Tucker ‘65 Harriet Caplon Cobern ‘64 David Luber ‘61 Michael Virts ‘66 Michael Cohen ‘66 Pat Butler Lynagh ‘57 Ralph & Sally Corzine Ward ‘53 Don & Pam Curley ‘64 Tom Manger ‘72 Gary Waters ‘61 Brenda Dietz Davis ‘58 Francis Mason ‘59 Judith Nolan Whelan ‘65 Elizabeth Downing ‘64 Pamela Blevins Matthies ‘66 Lois Watts White ‘51 Roger Drummond ‘65 Jeannette Thomas McNair ‘55 Annette Taylor Williams ‘60 Jeffrey Ellis ‘58 Andrea Phucas Melendez ‘73 Stephen Willison ‘85 Richard Evans ‘51 Frank Meyerle ‘55 Brearley Carroll Wilson ‘49 John Fetty ‘60 Elinor Abramson Morgan ‘55 James Wise ‘61 Pam Lazzari Fisher ‘66 Sam Musgrove ‘53 Michele Oppenheim Withnell ‘69 Ruth Good Fitzmorris ‘39 Barbara Brownley Mushet ‘62 Joseph Wolinsky ‘60 Nancy Edelman French ‘73 Sherill Wells Nee ‘64 Harold Wyckoff ‘66 David Funk ‘62 Leslie Wolin Neff ‘63 Raymond & Nancy Bates Young ‘64 William Furlow ‘49 Gary Noel ‘60 Bill & Elaine Tolker Gangloff ‘59 Jose R. Nunez Jr.’66 PARTICIPANT LEVEL Karen Orton Garrett ‘69 Joanne Ochsman ‘73 Joan Hudson Gartrell ‘55 Noel Castle Oliff ‘62 William Algeri ‘55 Patricia Dixon Gay ‘58 Cindy Bahn Oser ‘60 Beverly Potler Barnhard ‘67 Doug Gelfeld ‘55 George Pappas ‘69 Dale Bennett ‘62 Lorraine Mudrick Gerson ‘61 Ted Parker ‘54 S David Brookes ‘65 Susan Kuskin Gerstel ‘60 Ann Gummel Pease ‘50 Susan Rawls Cranston ‘84 Adele Steiner Golden ‘66 Dianne Pemberton ‘48 Janice Jones Favara ‘43 Don Graham ‘57 Judith Atwood Pinkston ‘56 Roland Ferguson ‘56 Sandy Landman Gurshman ‘60 Richard T. Pioli F Susan Wheeler Goldsborough ‘57 Michael Hauser ’57 Richard Pizer ‘61 Ben Hendrickson ‘84 Amy Myer Phifer ‘79 Clark Silvers

12 ALUMNI ROLL CALL

1943 1954 Janice Jones Favara lives in Forest Grove, OR. She is Charles Brown lives in now in an assisted living Williamsburg, VA. He has facility, but at 93 she says published 2 novels, Vampire “hope to reach 100.” The Resurrection and Vampire people are nice at the Embrace. He still plays facility but she misses Maryland! clarinet in a Dixieland band. He retired from the USAF as a colonel and was a 1945 Vietnam veteran with 30 years’ service.

Edith Roby Edwards lives George Everett lives in in Rutherfordton, NC. Her Spotsylvania, VA. At Blair, he husband Wm. Henry wishes he had studied hard Edwards died November 17, and made high grades. He 2018 and they were married also wishes he wasn’t so shy 70 wonderful years. She and asked girls to go to says “I am well and active, still drive and dances and other school events. enjoy hearing from friends.” 1955 1946 Elinor Abramson Morgan Joan Cox Fincham lives in lives in Queenstown, MD. Gaithersburg, MD. She She finally retired from her says, “Many times I wished interior design company. She we had a girl’s gym.” has 6 beautiful granddaughters. She says, “I live a happy Popey Doten Xander lives life with my husband Ivan and 2 in Silver Spring, MD. She seventeen-year-old cats.” says “Count my Blessings! And Friends from the Blair 1957 days, and Tuesday night Pizza!!” Pat Butler Lynagh lives in Wheaton, MD. She has a 2- 1952 year-old great grandson. She volunteers at theaters Sylvia Waldschmidt Johnson lives in and at the National Gallery of Art. Frederick, MD. She has 2 adult children, 5 adult granddaughters and 12 great Suzanne Ewen Ross lives in grandchildren with number 13 on the way. Mount Jackson, VA. She has She is a 30-year member at American graduated from house cleaner Legion Post 11 assisting active service to caregiver for her 95-year- men and women, veterans and their old friend from Indiana. families.

1958 Kim & Jane Beck Sherman Charles Maye lives in live in Columbia, MD. They Mission Viejo, CA. He is still spent a few days in Madrid healthy and traveling. He with fellow 1959 graduate enjoys the great weather in Anne Harvey Mustienes. Mission Viejo. During his Blair They saw museums and galleries, as well days he wishes he would not have as enjoyed Madrid’s best restaurants. worked a half day during school hours and would have joined many wonderful 1960 clubs. Michael Gotkin lives in Shirley Schlosser McCarthy lives in Northbrook, IL. He and his Bethesda, MD. Her husband Sean wife Diana (class of 1961) passed away 2 years ago and it has been celebrated their 55th wedding a difficult journey. Her family, friends and anniversary in August. They faith have helped so much. She spends have 2 great children and 3 the winter months in Florida. She wishes grandchildren. He is in his 51st year of there was a list or way to contact alumni practicing law. He is involved with many from the class of 1958. different organizations like the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Corporate Joanne Murray Richards Counsel and Skokie Chamber of lives in Silver Spring, MD. Commerce. He is a judge for the She has been married for National Moot Court Competition and the 56 years to Alan Richards, National Negotiation Competition held for also from the class of 1958. law schools. They have 2 children and eight grandchildren. Joy Umberger Leaneagh lives in Brighton, CO. She is Stephen Weiner lives in a Certified Nurse’s Assistant Las Vegas, NV. He says to and loves it. She helps “old make his years more people” be happy and memorable he would have healthy! taken part in more of the various clubs at Blair. Joseph Simpson lives in Riva, MD. His daughter will 1959 be a junior at Temple University this fall. He Rachel Stein Epstein lives volunteers at the AAMC, in Brooklyn, NY. She wishes two days a week. during her time at Blair she would have been more 1961 involved in theater, after seeing how it enriches the lives of her Larry Raney lives in Rochester, MI. He grandchildren Zoe and Penelope. retired from General Motors in 1999. He is blessed with 2 daughters and 4 grandchildren.

Linda Pollack Shevitz 1963 retired from 25 years at the MD Department of Marilyn Modance Bagel lives in Education. She served Frederick, MD. She is a freelance script students and educators writer for major clients working on statewide in the Civil national events and multimedia. Rights/Equity Office as the Gender Equity Specialist. She was Roger Epstein lives in inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame Honolulu, HI. He retired for her leadership and contributions as after 45 years at the founder of the Maryland Women’s largest law firm in Hawaii, Heritage Center and board member of the but is still doing some Maryland Multicultural Coalition. She is consulting. He is working celebrating her 54th anniversary. Her with organizations to develop good daughter Beth is a gifted teacher and her relationships with China including being 12-year-old grandson David is a counsel to Zhou Enlai Peace Institute. In remarkable individual. 2018 he taught a semester in Beijing at the Beiwai Foreign Studies University 1962 Law School. Catherine Farrell lives in Arlington, MA. After 10 years Susan Kantor Zepeda lives of retirement she went back in Louisville, KY. She is to work at her former mostly retired but does some municipal legal job. She is consulting with foundations in drafting conservation the US and is on a few restrictions for park land and will retire boards. She is traveling (most again this year. recently to Peru and India), doing fiber art and visiting far flung family. Treva Wingo McLaughlin lives in Ambler, PA. She 1964 says “It is great to have time to travel.” She is going to Jean McPherson Buchanan Lindisfarne in the UK in lives in Bonita Springs, FL. March, then to London and the South of She is planning another trip to England with her husband in May. San Antonio this summer. She has made several visits William Oppenheim lives in to Virginia to see her mom who is Marina Del Rey, CA. He won approaching 102 years old! Their son and the Distinguished Service daughter in law moved to Tampa so it is Award from the American nice to have the family closer. Academy of Pediatrics. He is finishing 40 years at UCLA as Professor Joy Littman Murray lives in of Pediatric Orthopedics. He is the Chesapeake, VA. She says “I am still 5’ Director of the Center for Cerebral Palsy tall. I still love to dance, only now if I stay and Past President of the American out past midnight, I’m a zombie the next Academy for Cerebral Palsy. day.”

Jeffrey Weisleder lives in 1965 Bal Harbour, FL. He is trying Gordon Kennedy lives in to lead a retired life between Albuquerque, New Mexico. Costa Rica and Miami. He is He and his wife Lois are now enjoying his 12 retired. They have been grandchildren. He says, “My doing a lot of traveling. They wife of forty-nine years and my five have been to all 50 states, all children can’t wait for my 55-year reunion. national parks in 49 states, Cuba, Russia, Charlie and Lazlo see you there!” and Europe.

Loretta Taylor Lechlider Raymond & Nancy Bates Young live in lives in Silver Spring, North Beach, MD. They have been Maryland. She has been married for 49 years. They have 3 taking art classes; married children and 7 grandkids. watercolor & drawing for 4 years. She received an Everett Childs lives in honorable mention in the Beacon Online Bradenton, Florida. He says Show, a huge show in the DC/MD/VA “I should have listened to my area. There were over 960 entries so she th Driver’s Ed teacher in 11 is honored to have won. She says, grade- Mr. Davis- and tried “pictures will be put on Facebook.” out for the wrestling team. He did ask several times.” Jeremy Raines lives in Deerfield Beach, Florida. His Pamela Geiger Collins dominant activity in recent lives in Southport, North years is music. He owns 18 Carolina. She retired in guitars and plays in several 2004 from Montgomery bands with at least 3 stage shows County Schools where she monthly. He says his favorite musical was a teacher, specialist, & principal for forms are the ones we enjoyed as 31 years. She moved to NC and worked teenagers, rockabilly & doo wop ballads. for the school system in Southport for 6 He has copyrights awarded or pending for additional years. Her full retirement came over 50 songs. in 2010. She celebrated her 51st wedding anniversary with her husband Ron in Richard Reiter lives in December. She has 3 children and 6 Cedar Grove, New Jersey. grandchildren between the ages of 3 and He stays pretty busy 16. practicing the saxophone, clarinet, and flute. He is also 1965 performing with his swing band and other bands (blues, R&B) composing, jamming Mary Pugh Easton lives in Silver Spring, and leading drum circles. He says, “I’m MD. She continues to travel as often as surprised that the music industry hasn’t possible. She went on a Viking Cruise thrown me aside!” He and his wife Sue from Venice to Barcelona where she saw are having a great time hanging out with their son and their daughter Croatia for the first time and loved Barcelona again.

1966 Larry Levin lives in Las 1970

Vegas, Nevada. He says Connie Kefauver Tracy just moved to “Nothing new out here in Las Waynesboro, PA. She retired and sold Vegas.” He also said he the house she and her husband built in wouldn’t change anything 1989. Their daughter and son in law had about his time at Blair, it was a perfect twins (a boy and a girl) in December high school experience. 2018. Their son and daughter in law are having a girl this fall. Ruth Lepson lives in Cambridge, MA. She enjoys 1971 swimming. Back at Blair Ron Lewis lives in Rancho Mirage, CA. she would have been less He recently retired as a physician at a shy about auditioning for California State Prison for 10 years. He The Music Man, she was the understudy. was appointed to the Medical Board of

California in 2013 and recently was Steve Mudrick lives in reappointed for another 4-year term. He Gaithersburg, MD. He is has taken up golf as a hobby since he retired. He has 5 children lives in an area of sunshine. who are all girls! He also has 7 grandchildren. Back 1979 at Blair he wishes he had let Peter Mascone lives in things go and enjoyed life more. Clarksville, MD. His family is

doing well, including all of the Sharon Mahaney Pyle animals – horses, dogs, cats, lives in Silver Spring, MD. deer, foxes, raccoons, She has discovered that it snakes, etc. He still works at BAE really is true that one can Systems and Lisa is still at NIH. Anthony be busier in retirement still works for Varen Technologies and is than when employed. She looking to buy a house. Matthew teaches says “Between my church community and physics. Sara is a Senior Kinesiology my 15 grandchildren, I’m having fun!” and Biology Double Major at UMD.

1967 Amy Meyer Phifer lives in Silver Spring, MD. Together with friends and family she Beverly Potler Barnhard has started an art studio group, Plum lives in Marietta, Georgia. Creative Studio - check the website for She says that during her updates and shows they are doing. time at Blair “For the school shows I always 1990 helped with the behind the scenes art – props, Sarah Manchester lives in painting and design.” She enjoyed that a Silver Spring, MD. Back at lot, but wishes that she had the courage Blair she wishes she had to be an actual part of the show! She joined or tried out for a loved it all and it was a very inspiring sports team. She did a experience variety of musical and STEM-related activities but no athletics.

The Class of 1969 50 Year Reunion Reunion Corner

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The Class of 1984 – 35 Year Reunion

November 1-2, 2019 Contact: Ben Hendrickson [email protected]

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The Class of 1999, the first Blair class to graduate from the University Boulevard Campus, will celebrate its big 20-Year Reunion June 7-9, 2019. For more information go to their Facebook page or contact one of the Reunion Committee Members

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