Winter/Spring 2014 U the Alumni

The Friends Academy Magazine for Alumni, Parents & Friends The Meeting House Winter/Spring 2014 u the alumni

Cover Photographs by Kathryn Abbe Artists issue u FA Trustee, Parent and Quaker, 1920 - 2014 Friends Academy Board of Trustees, 2013-2014 Co-Presidents Thomas Hawkins ’78 Scott Rechler

Treasurer Francis Ingrassia

Board Members Strong Minds. Carl Ashkin Kind Hearts. Peggy Brucia Jeff Daniels ’90 The Friends Academy Mission Debra Del Vecchio Steve Fortuna Founded in 1876 by Gideon Frost for “the children Conchita Heffron Elizabeth McCaul Ingrassia of Friends and those similarly sentimented,” Friends Andrew Menzin ’81 Academy is a Quaker, coeducational, independent, Victoria Quesada Moore college preparatory school serving 775 students Joe Podbela from age three through twelfth grade. Robert Rosenbaum George Tsunis The school’s philosophy is based on the Quaker Robin Wachtler ’83 Craig White ’61 principles of integrity, simplicity, patience, moderation, peaceful resolution of conflict, and a Head of School belief that the silence and simple ministry of the William G. Morris Jr. “gathered meeting” brings the presence of God into the midst of busy lives. Friends Academy is Friends Academy Alumni Association, 2013-2014 committed to developing a diverse community whose President Peter Stein ’79 members value excellence in learning and growth in knowledge and skill, a genuine commitment to Vice President service and ethical action, and a realization that Penelope Wylie Mayer ’75 every life is to be explored, celebrated, and enjoyed in the spirit of the Religious Society of Friends. Secretary Thomas Pascarella ’95

The Meeting House Alumni Board Members Editorial Board, 2013-2014 Craig White ’61 Amanda Fisk ’99 Barbara Shoen Brundige ’63 Kathy Fox Thomas Hawkins ’78 Natalia Porcelli Good ’93 Elisabeth Dillof Dreizen ’78 Hayley Kucich ’03 Kathryn Hawkins Schneider ’86 Penelope Wylie Mayer ’75 Elizabeth Siris Winchester ’91 Andrea Miller Colleen Doyle Moran ’91 Jennifer Ryan Woods ’99 Alana Teutonico Brock ’94 Courtney Devon Taylor ’01 Salwa Touma ’01 Jenna McCann ’06 Rebecca Pacchiano ’07

President Emeritus James R. Greene ‘74

Alumni Office Alumni Affairs Coordinator, Kathy Fox The Meeting House | Fall 2009 From the Head of School William G. Morris Jr.

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From the Archives: Did an FA Teacher Inspire You to Teach?

Above, English teacher Jean Stubbs guides her students through a lesson. Left, English teacher Edward Herscher guides his students through Hawthorne’s classic,

“The Scarlet Letter.”

ds academy archives academy ds n frie of courtesy Chalk diagrams. Animated group discussions. Out-of-the-classroom experiences. SmartBoard lessons. We’ve heard from so many alumni over the years how Friends Academy teachers changed you for the better, gave you direction and strengthened your self-confidence. Now we’d like to seek out those of you who were inspired to literally walk in their footsteps. Were you were inspired by your FA teacher to become a teacher yourself? If so, we’d love to hear from you for an upcoming story. Please contact [email protected] or call (516) 465-1796.

The Meeting House | Winter/Spring 2014 The (Modern) Wild West Between 2006 and 2013, Lucas Foglia ’01 traveled throughout rural Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Wyoming documenting the modern American West. This photograph and others were just published in his second book, Frontcountry. Read more about Lucas and other Friends Academy alumni artists in our Alumni Artists Issue, starting on page 24.

Photograph by Lucas Foglia ’01 insideVol. 49, No. 2 Meeting House Letters. 6 Around the Quad. 8 Believe. Share. Act. 2014 Peace Week FA wins “Best Delegate” at Model UN Conference Responsive Classroom: Beyond 1,2,3s and ABCs Middle School Robotics Team takes top honors Take a trip around the world Exploring their options Redefining service The Arts. 14 This winter FA cut loose... “Footloose!” Winter Sports: Go FA! 16 Faculty Milestones. 20 Alumni News. 22 Alumni Profiles. 24 Explore the lives of 17 alumni artists in our special Alumni Artists Issue, including Chris Milk ’91, Nina Stein Wolf ’64, James Boorstein ’73, Jennifer Briggs Stanley ’88, Jeff Davis ’65, Michelle Rabinowitz Carney ’98, Sarah Klass ’07, Tom Pascarella ’95, Lawrence Schimel ’95, Meghan Farrell ’02, Jeff Hull ’73, Robin D. Beckhard ’75, Stephen Kunken ’89, Lucy Gould Reitzfeld ’69, Michael Poloukhine ’82, Lucas Foglia ’01 and Fernando Gutierrez De Jesus ’00 Class Notes. 44 In Memoriam. 65 The Meeting House Staff

Editor Andrea Miller, Director of Communications and Marketing 516.393.4295 | [email protected] Writers Kathy Fox, Natalia Porcelli Good ’93, Hayley Kucich ’03, Andrea Miller and Jennifer Ryan Woods ’99 Photographers Michael Damm, Amanda Fisk ’99, Kathy Fox, Alan Quackenbush and Adam Weber ’04 on the cover SHE WAS FRIENDS ACADEMY. Board of Trustee member, Quaker, Friends parent and photographer extraordinaire Kathryn Abbe documented decades of campus life at FA with her insightful and whimsical images. We chose our three favorites for a special cover ensemble. KATHRYN ABBE FOR Friends Academy Meeting House Thoughts, memories and reflections letters from our readers ... you!

The inspiration of Mr. Springsteed irst thought I’d let you know how Fmuch I enjoyed the recent issue of The Meeting House. Do the kids ever have regular classes? Kidding.... We never had all the Quaker Groups and people in charge of so many more “groups” of all kinds. We had French Club, etc. and Ser- vice Club (which seems now so elementary compared to the complex “Com- munity Service”... it encompassed such KATHRYN ABBE FOR friends academy Two Upper School students lose themselves (and their shoes) in their studies. a limited outreach). Reading this issue made me think I attended Clear and warm memories ... 65 years later a very primitive Friends Academy... and I loved it y brother and I came to FA as created wonderful, close and affectionate just as it was and glad I was students (me, 6th grade; my brother bonds. M there when I was. Bob, 8th grade) and my dad, Glen Hender- I could write a book about the mean- Well, as to my teaching son, who was the new head coach for the ings the Quaker Meetings had for me – the Richard inspiration, I hadn’t planned boys. It was 1946. congealing of spirit, which although it Springsteed on it... had a liberal arts B.A. We lived in the dorms. My dad was one occurred often, I was not aware of then. majoring in Art, minoring in Music... and of the dorm proctors. My mom was study- My senior year I worked as an orderly then went on to get one of my Masters in ing voice in Europe, aspiring to be a Wagne- at Glen Cove Community Hospital on teaching...Art. Mr. Springsteed was my rian Dramatic Soprano most of those years. weekends, rode the ambulance, cleaned the instructor and he had such a wonderful, She had turned down a contract with The morgue, etc. Roommates making rockets, casual way of presenting and instructing, MET on the advice of her manager, who ad- my brother climbing out the dormer I know he had a lot to do with my teach- vised her to study and sing in Europe. Thus window after lights out to sneak into a ing career. FA was home for my dad, brother and me. friend’s room with ice on the slate shingles – Abbie Freedman ’59 On vacations we often were in our dorm in winter, knitting wool squares to make rooms even though the heat was turned off, blankets for the Dutch at war’s end. etc. (Summer vacations we were at summer Sixty-five years later the memories are camps where our dad was head of the wa- clear and warm. end Us Your Thoughts terfront, etc.) Seven years of living together, – Dick Henderson ’53 Sand Memories eating in the dining hall together and going (Read more of Dick’s reminisces in the We want to hear from you! To send a letter, to Quaker Meeting together, for me at least, 1953 Class Notes, beginning on page 45.) respond to an article or share a memory of Friends Academy, please e-mail Andrea Miller at [email protected].

The Meeting House | Winter/Spring 2014 What FA Traditions Do You Remember? o you remember a special tradition, custom Or, perhaps it was singing the Friends Dor event that occurred at Friends during Academy Alma Mater song together at your school years or your children’s years? Convocation, Founder’s Day and Com- Perhaps it was dressing up in costume mencement each year... as your child’s Mystery Reader in We are collecting traditions of past Pre-Kindergarten... and present for an upcoming story for Perhaps it was the first time you braved The Meeting House and would love to in- Pharaoh’s Fury at Fall Fair... clude any and all that you remember.

Please send memories and photos to [email protected] by August 1st, 2014.

Speaking at Upper School Meeting, circa 1969.

KATHRYN ABBE FOR friends academy

The Meeting House | Winter/Spring 2014 8 Around the Quad

All Hands in for Peace Week

Lower School students, with the help of MS and US TASQUE members broke into small community groups to get to know each other.

AMANDA FISK/friends academy Believe. Share. Act. All-school Peace Week strengthens bonds of entire community. most people just get to listen,” he added. By Andrea Miller will make it easier to organize cross- The final third of Lower School Director of Communications divisionally,” she added. Community Groups was dedicated to elayed by a snow day, Groups used ice-breaker exercises to teaching everyone a specially choreo- students, faculty and staff make even the youngest students feel graphed line dance, which all divi- Dgathered together the next at ease – with ques- sions would even- tions about family day, undaunted, to kick off Peace Week “If we can know each tually learn. “Part with a special Lower School and favorite Fall of the goal was to Community Groups day. Fair rides. better, we can be a kinder give our younger For the first time, Early Childhood “There was a lot and more caring students the students joined the entire division for more excitement community. We can work chance to lead the community building and a division- this year,” said se- together because we have older students by wide line dance practice nior and Commu- this sustaining example already rehearsing choreographed by seniors Carina nity Group leader of community.” and knowing the Goebelbecker and Cissy Shi. Ryan Dobrin about dance,” pointed “We have always tried to have a integrating Early out Martin. tri-divisional planning practice,” said Childhood through second grade. “It This year’s school theme, “Call Angie Martin, Director of Quaker was nice to have new faces and to be To Action,” resonated each day with Studies at Friends. able to do activities with everyone. Queries such as, “How can we use our “Now that Peace Week is under the Usually, during all-school activities own education to spread peace?” and auspices of TASQUE, we are hoping it like Convocation and Founder’s Day, “How do we care for those around

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us?” The Queries worked in concert with daily themes of Inspiration & Education, Community, Reflection and Action. Each year, TASQUE works to main- tain similar Community Groups so that the students from each division can stay, learn and grow together at Peace Week. Upper School departments spon- sored special Lunch and Learns each day. On the final Friday, the World Languages & Cultures Department hosted a lunch that explored the concept of “The First Follower.” “‘The First Follower is that person who gives a movement legitimacy,” said Martin. AMANDA FISK/friends academy Thoughout the week, students Lower School students from Early Childhood to 5th grade line up to learn the community-wide line dance. heard from inspirational outside speakers, including Rodney Glasgow A national outreach program, The order to express the magnitude and and Chelsea Barker, who spoke about Combat Paper Project “utilizes art- variety of the collective effect. Hand respecting differences. making workshops to assist veterans papermaking is the language of Com- Glasgow addressed Middle and in reconciling and sharing their ex- bat Paper.” Upper School students about his own periences of war with fellow veterans This year, Hunger Awareness Day personal experiences with rejection and with civilians. Participants in the was marked during the four-day Peace and acceptance. He started by telling workshop use the transformative pro- Week as students dined on a simple about how when he bullied a new cess of papermaking to reclaim their meal of rice at lunch and made sand- member of his class in 5th grade, his uniforms as art.” wiches together for local shelters. teacher stepped in to help him to grow Through a series of paper-making A final K-12th grade Meeting for out of this selfish behavior. workshops, artists and veterans Jenny Worship wrapped up the week as He went on to share some of his Pacanowski, a former combat medic, almost 40 students lined up at a single own experiences of rejection in high and Patrick Sargent demonstrated microphone, following a silent reflec- school and beyond, stressing the how to turn the actual uniform into tion, to voice their responses to: “How impact of our efforts to reach out to paper pulp and then expressive art. do I put my beliefs into action?” those who we see bearing the brunt of According to the Combat Paper “Stop is Go.” teasing or unkind behavior. Project website, “Coming home from “Don’t wish to be someone else.” The Arts Department hosted a spe- war is a difficult thing. There is often “Don’t wish for things – achieve them.” cial interactive workshop and exhibit much to account for as a survivor. A “Positive change always has opposition.” entitled, “The Combat Paper Project.” new language must be developed in “Look for the inner light.” Community Group emcee Sofia Patino, 10th, extolled the all-school interactions. “Once we create a safe community, we are more able to be ourselves and help each other.” And this was the key for Martin. “If we can know each other better, we can be a kinder and more caring community. We can work together because we have this sustaining example of One of the Combat Paper Project pieces that was on display during Peace Week. community.”

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Responsive Classroom Beyond 1,2,3s and ABCs... Lower School character education program links social education and academic excellence Kate scudellari/friends academy Friends Academy students compete at the Model UN competition at Carnegie Mellon in ight years ago Parent Council Pittsburgh, PA. gifted Lower School faculty with FA wins “Best Delegate” Efunds for Responsive Classroom at Carnegie Mellon Model Training, a character-based nation- UN Conference ally used program that emphasizes the importance of both the social and his March 14-15, eleven Var- academic curriculum. Tsity Model UN members from “The Responsive Classroom is a class- the Upper School participated in room management philosophy that a challenging two-day Joint Crisis helps teach social skills in the early Committeee at Carnegie Mellon in weeks of school, as well as helping us to Pittsburgh, PA. know the children – their hobbies, their Friends dominated the confer- families and ultimately their issues ence’s ECOSOC (Economic and better – so we can create a more trusting friends academy Daily Morning Meeting reinforces simple, but Social Council), UNSC (United partnership between home and school,” powerful lessons of respect and courtesy. Nations Security Council), Choshu explained Lower School Principal and Satsuma committees. Deborah McCrimmon. to help children understand some key At the conference’s end, Mack At the core of Responsive Classroom are issues with peer relationships: learning Hoyt and Sofia Patino-Duque were ten classroom practices: From Morning the names of peers, listening, compli- awarded the Best/Outstanding Meeting (where children greet and share ments versus put-downs, peer pressure Delegate Award. news with each other) to Collaborative and conflict resolution. Students tackled simulated Problem-Solving (using conferencing, “Why does Responsive Classroom real-world global problems. On role-playing and other strategies to work where other approaches do not?” the ECOSOC Committee students resolve problems). With these, teachers questions Mosle. problem-solved how to “create a are able to nurture a sense of belonging, The answer lies in the infrastructure central council to handle rapid and significance and emotional safety so that of the program, investing not only in effectual aid to countries struck by students feel comfortable taking risks initial training, but also in follow-up a natural disaster to mitigate and working with a variety of peers. coaching and support from the admin- damage and facilitate reconstruc- As teacher Sara Mosle writes in her istration. tion.” Another committee was 2012 New York Times blog, the guiding At Friends, the Responsive Class- tasked with the usage of drones, principle of Responsive Classroom “is a room lessons of cooperation, assertion, both for surveillance and warfare. belief that students who develop social responsibility, empathy and self-control “Our students’ excellent skills like cooperation, assertiveness and (C.A.R.E.S.) align directly with the preparation and strong presence empathy can achieve more academi- school’s Quaker framework and the resulted in two official awards cally. Part of what makes the approach Quaker tenet of respect for all. and positive feedback for all FA effective is that each routine is highly “Children start by holding doors for participants,” said advisor and structured, and so replicable, but allows each other, addressing each other and Upper School Spanish teacher Kate for student input and choice.” their teachers respectfully and eventu- Scudellari. According to McCrimmon, the ally move to resolving conflicts to a win- Responsive Classroom model is designed win outcome,” said McCrimmon.

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AMANDA FISK/friends academy The MS Robotics team rehearse the robot-task part of their upcoming competition. Middle School robotics team takes top honors he Middle School Robotics Tteam wowed judges with their research and presentation during the First Lego League Robotics Competi- tion at Central Islip High School. The team of seven boys and one girl presented their “Tornado Prep App” and received First Place for the Most Innovative Solution. Overall, the FA team finished 7 out of 34 teams and advanced to the next round. The team’s app followed the competition’s theme of “Nature’s Fury” and was inspired by a team member’s experiences with tornados while living in Texas. The app not only provides preparation instructions while dealing with the before/during/ aftermath of a tornadic event, but also enables the user to locate family members via a GPS bracelet. The Middle School team, coached by Middle School teacher Clare Nesfield, was comprised of Jared Rothberg, Taye Holder, Michael Sen- sale, Shiva Ward, Griffin Kang, Alan Cooper, Ben Cooper and Max Miller. “Although we didn’t win in the Championship,” said Claire Nesfield, AMANDA FISK/FRIENDS ACADEMY “the kids embraced the FLL core Students, teachers and parents flew around the world on Friday, March values that friendly competition, 28th for Lower School Goes Global. Every year, for several months, each grade focuses on the cultures, peoples, language and food of a differ- cooperation, and learning together as ent continent. Above, Early Childhood’s Thomas Rubenacker browses a team are just as important as through a classroom-made picture book on Hawaii with his mother. Middle, third grader Emma Daniels walks viewers through the leaders winning. The team had fun and and famous people of Italy. Bottom, fourth graders perform a rousing are all looking ahead to next year’s set of African dances with the Upper School African Drumming group. challenge!” The Meeting House | Winter/Spring 2014 12 Around the Quad

Middle School Career Day Exploring their options or one full day, Middle schoolers explored twelve different Fcareers, from stunt performing and cooking to the Operating Room and real estate. Sports journalist and author Kimi Puntillo ’75 kicked off the morning with a keynote speech, in which she encouraged students to grab hold of their goals. Puntillo also holds the Guiness Book of World Records as the first woman to run a marathon on every continent. Puntillo chronicled her running quest in her recent book, Great Races: 100 Places. “I never planned on running more than one marathon,” said Puntillo, who KATHY FOX PHOTOS/friends academy Middle School students head into the Operating Room with Kim Colombo Aberman ‘94 and Peter Stein ‘79. told the students that the races helped her learn more about herself and how to Salzhauer Axel ’83, who achieve any goal, including the advan- founded Art Beyond Sight/Art tages of reading and research, network- Education for the Blind, which ing, arriving prepared and to always makes it possible for blind expect surprises. people to “see art.” “Getting prepared and digging down Temporarily stricken with and doing the hard work really prepares blindness during an illness she you for your goal,” she said. eventually overcame, Axel was Following Puntillo’s presentation, determined to create a tactile students broke into small groups to art language. “Disability could explore a variety of careers one-on-one happen to any one of us at any with alumni. time.” Aspiring culinary artists sampled Romola Ratnam ’03 shared homemade potato chips and pretzels her story of social responsibility. Rat- Middle School Career Day alumni presenters (clockwise): nam is Executive Director of Seed Acad- Romola Ratnam ’03, Alexandra Troy Beattie ’79, Corey with Chef Alexandra Troy Beattie ’79. Pierno ’02, Peter Stein ’79, Penelope Wylie Mayer ’75, After graduating from Friends (where emy, an African-based program that Elizabeth Salzhauer Axel ’83, Kimi Puntillo ’75, Maggie she learned how to whip up a cheese offers students academic and athletic Keats ’79 and Katherine Posillico McGowan ’86. Not pictured: Greg Andrea ’78, Adam Weber ’02, Tom souffle for her senior project), Beattie opportunities in exchange for service. Pascarella ’95 and Kim Colombo Aberman ’94. attended the Culinary Institute and “Get as many internships as possible,” cooked under Wolfgang Puck. she instructed students. “Look for ways man ’94, surgeon Peter Stein ’79, Tilles Beattie stressed to students the im- to volunteer.” Technical Director Tom Pascarella ’95, portance of organization, especially in Students also heard from Realtor stunt performer and actor Corey Pierno catering and restaurant work. Maggie Keats ’79, Interior Designer ’02, architect Greg Andrea ’78 and Students learned about how to give Katherine Posillico McGowan ’86, Oper- Educational Technology teacher and back in their career with Elizabeth ating Room Nurse Kim Colombo Aber- software developer Adam Weber ’02.

The Meeting House | Winter/Spring 2014 Around the Quad 13 Redefining Service Annual YSOP trip transformative for sophomores – and their adult advisors

uring their sophomore year, Devery student takes part in YSOP (Youth Service Opportunity Project). Students and their advisors spend two days in New York City at a local soup kitchen, helping to feed some of the city’s homeless. For advisor Casey Reed, this year marked her third YSOP and every one has been unique. “My favorite part of the experience is the dinner party we host on the first night. I think it’s valuable for the students because it gives them a comfortable environment to break the ice and they start to see that people who are homeless are normal, nice and have a lot of interesting things to say,” said Reed. “It also allows them to see how good they are at making conversation with strangers and how much joy they bring to the people around them. It really shows the students how capable they are of giving back and helps them get over the ‘it’s such a big problem, I can’t possibly make a difference feeling,’” said Reed. According to Reed, the trip is unique because it gives students the chance to question their own beliefs and stereotypes about homelessness. “The trip doesn’t force the students to feel shock or fear, but rather to understand that the issue is complicated,” explained Reed. “Hopefully, they come away with an understanding that people who are AMANDA FISK/FRIENDS homeless are still humans with hopes ACADEMY and dreams, and an understanding Top: Students outside the soup kitchen where they help out. Middle: A group of sophomores dish out a hot meal to partakers. Bottom: A quote from Quakerism’s that small acts like donating cans or founder George Fox in the Friends Seminary Meeting House reminds students serving at a soup kitchen can make a about the mission of YSOP. huge difference.”

The Meeting House | Winter/Spring 2014 14 The Arts

The Upper School Winter Musical

AMANDA FISK PHOTOS/friends academy This winter, FA cut loose....

Upper School brings back round 2 of the 80s... e’ve heard a lot the film quickly grew beyond about the Winter its iconic Kevin Bacon dance Wof 2013-14, but moves and classic 80s pop hits this year, a cast and crew of as the decades passed. energetic Upper School stu- As director Tracey Foster dents kicked up their cowboy explained, “On the surface, heels and chased those wintry the story of Ren McCormack blues away with an ensemble and Bomont looks like a piece The Moore family together in church: Vi Moore (junior Julia performance of “Footloose, of fluff. But looking a little Newitt), Rev. Shaw Moore (senior Parker Huseby) and their daughter, Ariel (junior Gloria Fortuna). The Musical.” deeper ... the 1983 movie has Based on the 1983 movie, become in so many ways a cul-

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tural touchstone. Ryan Dobrin) Winter Performances & Concerts We have felt the and the rest need to break is Footloose The Jazz Concert loose from our history. frustrations and High en- everyday chal- ergy domi- lenges,” she said. nated the “That fight show, which between free- featured dom and rules, nearly 80 (between the Upper School young and the students, with old) never ends. high-flying It just transforms kicks, jumps through the and even years.” some break- The story dance moves. begins in the Valley girl fictional small inflection, town of Bomont, coupled with which is rocked musical oldies by the tragic like “Almost loss of four of its Paradise,” young people, “Holding Out and consequent- for a Hero” ly outlaws all and “Let’s alcohol, all drugs Hear it for the and all dancing. Boy,” gushed Enter upstart early 80s for Ren McCor- the audience. mack (senior The cast Sam Riese), who and crew, one OriginalWorks15 unwillingly up- of the largest rooted from his for FA, had to big-city home contend with by his mother numerous (senior Caitlin delays from From the top: Ariel (Gloria Fortuna) Rubin), imme- and Ren (Sam Riese) share a tender unrelenting diately alienates moment; Willard (Ryan Dobrin) weather, but the town elder, learns how to dance; Ren’s mother, never faltered. Ethel (Caitlin Rubin) feels her Reverend Shaw son’s pain; freshman Kaitlyn Hardy “We had Moore (senior astounds fellow classmates in the two seniors, Parker Huseby) prom scene. Carina Go- and draws the at- belbecker and tention of his daughter, Ariel Cissy Shi, who stepped into (junior Gloria Fortuna). leadership roles and served FA’s new gospel choir debuted at this year’s annual Jazz Concert on March 6th. Middle Determined to bring danc- this production and their and Upper School jazz band students treated listeners to a variety of musical styles, ing (and joy) back to Bomont, fellow students in ways which including Swing, Funk, Rock and Latin Jazz. Ren teams up with unlikely were simply... spectacular,” ally, Willard Hewitt (senior ended Foster.

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{Winter 2013-14}

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Back in the Final Four, matching Long Island championships for Varsity and strong JV seasons – that’s longhand for a dynamic Winter Sports season this year and next!

Top row: Grant Elgarten, Ryan Weight and the MS Jazz Band; Middle row: Patrick Crowley, FA Upper School fans and Tyrone Perkins; Bottom row: Josh Goldblatt, Kristina Kim and Candace Taylor.

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FA 2013-14 Winter Sports Southeast regional champs

Senior Will Sands determinedly takes the ball down the court as he runs through an Elmont defender.

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A L N Q UAC K E NB USH /frie n ds academy Sophomore Lindsay O’Sullivan goes on the offensive. Long Island Champions Girls Varsity Basketball: Boys Varsity Basketball: Team reaches Final Four Strong 15-2 Season Finish omentum was on the side of the Friends Academy Boys Varsity oming off the 2012-2013 season that Basketball team this year as they rallied through each playoff game Cresulted in the school’s first Girls to capture first the Long Island championship against Stony Brook, Basketball Long Island Championship, 55-48 and then the Southeast Regional Final in a routing win over the team had high expectations for the 2013-2014 season. The team was led by HaldaneM High School, 71-49. individual awards five returners, three of whom are seniors, But that momentum was not enough to and joined by five new All-Conference – Cyrus propel them to the state final championship contributors. game, as they fell to Middle Early College of Holder, Jack Forlines and Tyler Sehring The girls started off the Buffalo, 72-66. season with seven tough All-County – Tyrone Perkins non-league games in a short The team finished the regular season with and Jon Nierenberg time frame, and ended that an overall record of 14-3 and an impressive Conference Student-Athlete Coach Ryan part of their season 6-1, as unblemished league record of 10-0 to win the – Jon Nierenberg Schneider, conference BC championship for only the voted Coach well as winning the Port Conference Player of the of the Year Washington Tournament third time in school history. Year – Tyrone Perkins Championship. “It has truly been a great team effort as dif- Moving into 2014, the team continued ferent individuals have stepped up throughout their schedule with league games, finishing the season to be instrumental players in our success,” said coach Steve Hefele. with a record of 9-1 in league, and an out- Hefele went on to recognize seniors Patrick Moodhe, Will Sands, Jack Forlines and standing 15-2 overall. In those nine league Jon Nierenberg for their contributions over the years. “Their leadership this season wins, the players showed heart, determi- was instrumental in our success,” said Coach Hefele. nation, team camaraderie, and used their experience to walk away with the regular 2014 ROSTER: Narain Badhey, Johndee Baptiste, Gregory Petrossian, William Sands and Tyler season Conference Title. Jordan Christian, Julian Christian, Jack Deutsch, Sehring. Managers: Jamisen Beechler-Ernst, Gabrielle John Forlines, Thomas Frey, Cyrus Holder, Patrick Cron, Ranait Denihan, Mairead Gahan and Victoria In March, the Lady Quakers won the Moodhe, Jon Nierenberg, Tyrone Perkins, Nastasi. Continued on Page 18

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FA 2013-14 Winter Sports Continued from Page 17 Small School and their second Long Island Championship. 2014 ROSTER: Stella Davis, Kristina Kim, Cath- erine Lori, Rose Mangiarotti, Jacqueline O’Brien, Madeline O’Brien, Lindsay O’Sullivan, Danielle Ramsay, Elisabeth Shibley and Alexis Toles. Manager: Jen Keogh. individual awards All County – Lindsay O’Sullivan, Kristina Kim All Class – Rose Mangiarotti All Conference – Maddie O’Brien Conference BC Player of the Year – Lindsay O’Sullivan

JV Girls Basketball: Huge Wins he Friends Academy JV Girls Basket- Tball team worked hard to perfect their basketball game, strategies, and teamwork. ALAN QUACKENBUSH/friends academy The season was filled with some very Patrick Margey keeps up with his competitors during a winter track meet. close, exciting games and lots of dedication and drive. The culmination of the team’s efforts came toward the end of the season. Hard work pays off for many The team finished their season with Chapman, Alfred Constants, Patrick Crowley, Ian three huge wins against Syosset, Oyster Varsity Winter Track: D’Silva, Pierce DellaFera, Stephen Graham, Robert Bay, and Wheatley – two of these teams Multiple Athletes Achieve Izquierdo, Scott Kriesberg, Glenn Lostritto, Patrick had beaten FA earlier in the season. Honors, Break Records Margey, Sahil Massand, Daniel McCooey, Griffin The athletic ability and determination Nesfield, Christopher Nishimura, Christopher he Friends Academy Varsity Winter Paniccia, Joseph Paniccia, Josiah Pettway, Bill of each of the players on the team was able TTrack and Field team of 2013-2014 Rechler, Jacob Rush, Alexander Schneider, Nicholas to shine through and helped to contribute was one of many successes. Schneider, Faris Shikara, Mark Slotnick, Alexander to the success of the team. The boys and girls on this team worked Storch, Ryan Tam and Aidan Vascotto. 2014 ROSTER: Halle Blum, Julianne Cottone, very hard and with their hard work came individual awards Elizabeth Gherlone, Hannah Goldblatt, Caroline great results. Hoyt, Jenna Koufakis, Lauren LeoGrande, Catherine All Conference – Candace Taylor, Lori, Jacqueline O’Brien, Danielle Ramsay, Katerina This season, six athletes achieved All- Catherine Sullivan, Harmony Sanoulis, Andi Simon, Sydney Themelis and Ryan Conference Honors, five athletes achieved Grodsky, Aidan Vascotto, Glenn Weight. All-County honors, six individuals and Lostritto, Patrick Crowley (3200m) one relay team qualified for the State Qualifier Meet, and the athletes also man- All-County Class – Candace aged to break nine school records. Taylor, Harmony Grodsky, Glenn Lostritto, Aidan Vascotto, Lydia “I am very proud to work with a group Graham, Shekinah Pettway, of athletes that are so hard-working and Katherine Hom talented,” said Coach Lauren Carballo. FA Record Breakers – Candace 2014 ROSTER: (GIRLS TRACK) Amelia Cardone, Taylor (300m, 400m, 600m), Glenn Javana Clark, Gabrielle FitzGerald, Chloe Fried- Lostritto (1600m, Mile), Aidan man, Simran Ghool, Lydia Graham, Harmony Vascotto (Shotput), Sahil Massand, Grodsky, Katherine Hom, Sloane Hughes, Kasey Glenn Lostritto, Patrick Crowley, Katz, Rhea Nagpal, Shekinah Pettway, Catherine Patrick Margey (4xMile), Ian D’Silva ALAN QUACKENBUSH/friends academy Sullivan, Candace Taylor and Victoria Wu. (BOYS (Triple Jump) Lauren LeoGrande maintains control. TRACK) Nour Bendary, Max Botwinick, Nicholas

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FA 2013-14 Winter Sports A return to Varsity play Varsity Ice Hockey: was a struggle for the boys. “Despite these challenges, and while we were tested physi- Deep Team Looks Ahead cally, the boys persevered and displayed an his season marked FA hockey’s inau- uncanny grit and determination that made Tgural season in the Nassau County us coaches proud. It was this test that set High School Hockey League. Competing the stage for a strong close to the season,” for the first time in four years as a varsity said Pamuk. program, the boys hockey team finished As the season came to a close, the final the season a respectable 7-11-1. six games of the year showed the Quak- The 2013-14 hockey season is best char- ers’ potential. The team rallied around acterized as “a season of what ifs.” one another, not only picking up victories Against a strong Massapequa club, along the way, but earning the respect of the season started in a most exciting and powerhouses like Bellmore-Merrick and dramatic way. FA emerged victorious with Long Beach in close, tight games. a 5-4 win. “The coaches were brimming The Varsity team will return next season ALAN QUACKENBUSH/friends academy with enthusiasm – and most importantly, intact. “We stand here ready to pronounce, Jalijah Daniels eyes the basket. optimism. We started thinking big: What no, guarantee, a berth in the playoffs next if we get this kind of goaltending all year? season!” said Coach Pamuk. JV Boys Basketball: What if we get this kind of passion all 2014 ROSTER: Christian Barakat, Jason Baskind, Strong 13-5 Season year?” recalled Coach Sven Pamuk. Hao Zheng Chen, Julian Coleman, Struan Coleman, haracter and hard work defined the But like in any sport, seasons are a Gerard Eastman, Grant Elgarten, William Evans, JV Boys basketball season this year. marathon, not a sprint. And FA was about Connor Febesh, Peter Fornell, Perry Gordon, C This season the boys finished with a to be challenged in a way that would test Andrew Greene, Adam Hartog, Theodore Ingrassia, Connor Lavin, James Morgan, Harry Nicolas, Kole 13-5 record. The team finished with a their character and mettle. Plagued by Rossi, Jack Statfeld, Daniel Tauter, Cameron Wang league record of 9-1, which is the best injuries and illness that further thinned and Christopher White. Managers: Taylor Quinland league record the JV has had in several their ranks, the middle part of the season and Christina Yannello. years. “A lot of our success this year had to do with the growth of our players from last year and how they matured on the court,” said Coach Simeone. New incoming athletes added their own character to the team. With the combination of the two, it all blended into one dynamic team. From the first day of the season, the team was instilled with the passion to work hard. “They were told that hard work will get them a long way and as a team we prided ourselves in defense. Every night it was always a different player making a big play and contributing to the team and the victory. I am very proud of all the hard work the boys put into this season. We had a lot of fun and I wish the boys the best in their spring seasons,” said Simeone. 2014 ROSTER: Jacob Broxmeyer, Nicholas Campbell, Brian Chiang, Jalijah Daniels, Trevor Dineen, Louis Durante, Merek Glover, Joshua Goldblatt, Corey Goldglit, Tau Holder, Maclain Pascucci, Jordan Salzman, Gavin Tam and Cole ALAN QUACKENBUSH/friends academy Vissicchio. Managers: Sydney Banks, Danielle Andrew Greene and Conor Lavin move the puck down the ice. Dellaquila, Ruthie Fritz and Emily Wachtler.

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Faculty Milestones & Professional Development

sity, Lehman College and Nassau County Community College – led participants through a series of exercises and scene-building techniques derived from the world of improvisational performance. “Classroom teaching is a kind of performance, so it’s no surprise that exercises and techniques derived from the world of theater can be enormously helpful for writing teachers – as well as for writing students,” said Garrett. The workshop focused on the Shawn relationship between performance and Marie Garrett rhetoric. “We had a section on karaoke (an example of a rhetorical act) and another section on how to create a persona for yourself in the classroom,” explained Garrett. Prior to Friends, Garrett spent most of her career in the world of theater and teaching theater. “I’m really interested in the connection between performance and writing – understanding that writing is a physical process and a sort of performance in itself with a persona and a voice,” explained Garrett. In the coming academic year, Garrett will lead the Writing Fellows program, and she will teach a Shake- speare senior elective in the fall. “Performance techniques obviously come in handy when studying writers like Shakespeare, and even in bringing novels to life in the classroom. But these processes can also help writers young and old in the invention, or idea-generation, stage of their own writ- Lower School librarian Kate Madigan, standing sixth from left, played Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the recent play ing,” she said. “Victoria Woodhull.” The workshop was such a hit that she and her workshop leaders plan to reprise the presentation this Lower School librarian Kate Madigan made her instead of taking notes in class. As a result, class time fall at Nassau Community College. acting debut in her first full-length play in Northport is freed up.” Both Newitt and Helpern “There can be a lot of stiffness and anxiety around this spring as Elizabeth Cady Stanton regularly apply this style of teaching in writing and these types of techniques can not only in the play Victoria Woodhull – The their classes. loosen writers up but also aid those who may not be Rise and Fall of America’s First Feminist. At the end of the workshop, partici- naturally strong critical writers, but are learners who Woodhull was the first woman to run pants were able to explain the advan- excel in speaking extemporaneously.” for President (against Ulysses Grant), tage of flipping a unit, use technology Joe Helpern the first woman stock broker and to create video notes (with Jing, Snagit At the end of the 2013-14 school Kate among the first women to testify before and the SMART Notebook), design a flipped unit and year, we will be bidding farewell to Madigan Congress. Madigan also appeared in the add hands-on resources to their courses. two veteran teachers. Upper School play with former colleague Alex Edwards-Bourdrez. Physics teacher Dick Abbene and Upper School English teacher Shawn Marie Upper School Math Department head Upper School Biology department head Garrett drew upon her background in theater when Dick Maxine Lifshitz are both retiring Jennifer Newitt and Upper she presented “Sing, Act, Engage: A Workshop on Abbene at the close of the school year. Abbene School science teacher Joe Helpern Performance, Pedagogy and Professional Develop- has been teaching since 1974 and Lif- recently presented at the Teaching ment” at the National Council of Teachers of English shitz since 1987. Both faculty members with Technology conference. The duo in Indianapolis on March 19. will be honored at the New York City team taught a workshop on Flipped The workshop, comprised of 25 college writ- Reunion at the Princeton/Columbia Classrooms, a fairly recent teaching teachers, learned about Garrett’s techniques in Club on Monday, June 2, beginning at Jennifer improvisation and invention. She and her workshop 6 p.m. More details on page 71. Newitt ing technique, where “students are Maxine assigned video notes for homework leaders – writing teachers from Stony Brook Univer- Lifshitz

Former Faculty Notes Former faculty member and alumni director Alex Edwards-Bourdrez recently inaugurated the role of Cornelius Vanderbilt in a new play, Victoria Woodhull: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Feminist, about the first woman to run for President of the United States. The play was produced in Northport, NY, this past March. Alex is in his fourth year as annual giving director at The Stony Brook School. He enjoys his contact with former FA students and colleagues on Facebook!

The Meeting House | Winter/Spring 2014 A Quaker Education: A Gift For Life

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from the

presidentPeter Stein ’79 Dear Fellow Alumni, are a performer and want to participate, please contact Tom The early spring was an exciting time for alumni on the ([email protected]). Former FA athletes will be hon- FA campus. On March 25th, 12 alumni gathered at the ored at halftime during the football game, so dust off your Middle School for the entertaining and informative Career old uniforms and join us! All alumni from the classes of Day, which began with an outstanding lecture by Kimi 1964 and older are invited to a special inaugural luncheon Puntillo ’75, the first woman to run a marathon on every which has been appropriately named Gideon’s Guard. It continent. Kimi spoke to the students about the lessons will be held during Homecoming at noon. And back by she learned while completing her global quest, including popular demand is the Alumni Tailgate Party. Come and achieving your goals, finding support, getting tailgate with your fellow alumni during the foot- a new perspective, and always expecting sur- ball game – this event was held last year for the prises. Following her keynote speech, students first time and proved memorable! Of course, all learned about numerous other professions, in- class years ending in 4 and 9 will also have spe- cluding architecture, real estate, community cial reunion events. Please contact Homecoming service advocacy, catering, and stunt perform- Chair Penelope Wylie Mayer ’75 (pwm25@aol. ing to name a few. Operating room nurse Kim com) or Kathy Fox with questions or comments Colombo Aberman ’94 and I participated, and regarding Homecoming festivities. had a blast in an amazing simulated operating But there is still so much left to do this spring! room full of equipment and also putting on The Class of 2009 will gather at the Jackson casts on a number of middle schoolers who House on May 30th for their 5-year reunion. Peter Stein ’79, proudly showed off their “injuries” until the Our always popular New York City Alumni Re- Friends Academy casts were removed before school’s end, so as union will be held on June 2nd at the Princeton/ Alumni not to unnecessarily alarm their parents. Columbia Club from 6-8 p.m. We will be hon- Association Speaking of careers, check out pages 24-43 oring two legendary FA teachers who are retiring President to see the artistic profiles of 17 of our alumni. this year. Beloved science teacher Dick Abbene Both professional and recreational, these art- will leave the hallowed halls and labs of FA after ists and their works are quite impressive! Look for some of a 40-year career! Math teacher Maxine Lifshitz is also their masterpieces at the Homecoming Alumni Art Show retiring after a stellar 27-year FA career. We would love to being organized by Lis Dreizen ’78. If you are interested see all of our older alumni attend the NYC Reunion this in displaying your work, please contact Lis (artland95@ year. We will be giving each member of the class pre-2000 aol.com). Additionally, as this is the 50th anniversary of with the most members in attendance a special gift, so call FA Homecoming and Fall Fair, we are planning an extra your classmates and make plans to attend. special day, so make sure you mark your calendars for As always, if you are ever near Duck Pond Road, stop by October 18th. Some of the festivities include a Homecom- campus and see your alma mater. Wishing you all a joyous ing Cabaret being organized by Tom Pascarella ’95. If you spring!

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Friends Academy Alumni Association Alumni are the living legacy of Friends Academy.

Class of 1964

50th Reunion! the Lamp Reconnect at FA's Largest Community Event Special Reunion Celebrations for Classes Ending in 4 and 9

Fall Fair & Homecoming 25th Reunion! October 17-19, 2014 Friday: 50th Reunion Luncheon for the Class of 1964

Friday night: Off-campus class gatherings

Saturday: Fall Fair, Alumni Art Show, Homecoming Cabaret, Gideon’s Guard Luncheon and Homecoming Reception for all alumni.

Saturday night: reunion Dinners off campus for classes ending in 4 and 9. the Lamp Sunday: meeting for Worship in Matinecock Class of 1989 meeting House Volunteers in classes planning special reunions will reach out to classmates soon. More information is on the alumni pages of the FA website: www.fa.org/alumni. Contact Kathy Fox in the Alumni Office with questions: [email protected] or 516-465-1796.

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the alumni artists issue

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

– Pablo Picasso

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The Alumni Artists Issue

rom sculptors to writers, filmmakers to arts educators, musicians to jewelry designers, painters to architects, the following 17 alumni artists each add a F bit of their own magic into what can sometimes become a mundane world. While some of the artists found their passion im- ment’s best practices as part of his Fahey master mediately, others eased in with side projects that offer Teaching Award. them regular bubbles of joy. “I visited each of my 13 colleagues’ classrooms Here at Friends, the Arts Department offers over the course of the year, programs across four central areas of Music, Visual logging 24 hours of Arts, Theater and Dance. formal observation Next fall, Friends will be adding a new and numerous more program area for Media Arts that will encompass hours of informal photography, graphic design, music and sound, observation,” he motion design, video and animation. recounted. Over the last eight years, the FA Arts has been Geha found dedicated to bringing all arts programming under that students one large umbrella in order for faculty to share thrived when resources, support curriculum in the different areas, they felt empow- create opportunities for interested students to engage ered, simultane- in a variety of artistic experiences ously independent outside the classroom and and responsible for invigorate curriculum and one another, understood Painter Lucy Gould teaching practices. clearly-defined boundaries, Reitzfeld ’69 According to Arts were individually challenged and Department head Tracey finally, were inspired by the work in front Foster, all the classes of them. are largely experiential. In his conclusions, Geha emphasized that the Arts “Students are constantly must stay the course and retain their core values. Jewelry engaged in the process “As independent educators across the country designer Sarah Klass of making art. Historical struggle to shift from test-based learning to the ’07 and global context, literature, authentic assessment of skill and character develop- critical analysis and self-reflection ment, there is a sense of the educational community are layered in as students grapple with a particular scrambling to redefine our priorities in order to keep concept, technique or style,” said Foster. up with the trends and needs of the modern world. Exposure to the Arts at FA begins with the young- In the arts, students must be creative to be success- est students in Early Childhood and culminates in ful and our goal has always been to educate the whole challenging college-preparatory programs for juniors person through art so that they can find the very best and seniors. of themselves,” said Geha. By Upper School, an Arts student has not This issue and the following profiles only an understanding of him/herself as honor all of our Friends Academy an artist, but s/he has discovered his/her alumni who work in the arts and own voice and how to share that through who help lift the spirit of the artistic work. world around us and wash away A year ago, Theater teacher Andrew from our souls the dust of every- Geha, undertook a study of the depart- day life.

Bilingual social issues author Lawrence Schimel ’89

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Chris Milk ’91: Music Video Director Unites music, video & interactivity By Elizabeth Siris Winchester ’91 100 of my own versions of aily e-mails from the Michael Jack- Cure’s Robert Smith. son’s ‘Thriller’ Sibling-like fights with video with Kanye West. Conversations my grandfa- withD President Obama and Bono. These ther’s VHS interactions are just part of life for camcorder Chris Milk ’91 (who changed his last and dressed name from Mertens as a project in art my brother, school, and never changed it back). Jeff, and Milk is a director whose work whatever includes music videos for West, as well play dates as U2, Green Day, Arcade Fire, Johnny he had over, as zombies,” COURTESY SPIKE JONze Cash and Courtney Love. In the fall he Milk shares. “I think Mike Cuales co-creatively directed ’91 and Mikey Roos- goal is always to tell a story that will the YouTube Music evelt even made a few resonate with people on a deep emo- Awards with Spike cameos.” While Milk’s tional level. But what fascinates me, Jonze. His latest proj- FA senior year ISP and what I’ve been experimenting with ect Sound & Vision, project wasn’t filmed, a lot lately, is figuring out how we can which is a collabora- it was musical – Milk use modern developing technology tion with the musician wrote and recorded a to tell stories that feel more human Beck, is the world’s song, played guitar and and have more poignancy than what THE LAMP first virtual reality Chris (Mertens) Milk in 1991 sang. Dennis Petrou ‘91 was possible before that technology film. It premiered at played piano. Recalls existed,” Milk explains. “We don’t the 2014 Sundance “My primary goal is Milk: “I think it was know what the established model of Film Festival, and always to tell a story a decent song, though interactive storytelling will be in 100 screened in New York that will resonate I’m sort of thankful years. The best part about this rapidly in April at the Tribeca with people on a there’s no music video evolving interactive model is that the Film Festival. deep emotional evidence of the event.” audience isn’t a passive receiver any- Earlier works It was after Friends, more. Instead, the viewer is participat- include numerous level.” when Milk went to the ing in the narrative and co-creating the television commer- University of California art because he or she is now a part of it.” cials and a portion of at Santa Barbara for Milk may begin directing his first President Obama’s biography film used film and then to the Academy of Art feature film later next year. No details in his 2008 campaign. Milk created in San Francisco, that he learned the yet but lessons learned from Friends an interactive film with Arcade Fire, professional craft. He started his own will likely have an impact. “I think thewildernessdowntown.com, which production company, first directing TV Friends really taught us to be caring, was exhibited at the MoMA in New commercials and then music videos. It understanding, and compassionate of York City in 2012. His interactive was his third music video, for Kanye’s our fellow human beings,” Milk says. video installation, “This Exquisite For- song “All Falls Down,” that launched “I see some of the intolerance and est” just finished a year run at the Tate his career. A career highlight so far hate permeating through so much of Modern in London. (See his work at was working with U2, which Milk says our country’s politics these days, and chrismilk.com.) “was a childhood dream come true.” wonder if it all wouldn’t be better if Milk’s interest in making music vid- Milk’s interactive work has been everyone went to a Quaker high eos started in childhood. “I made about praised for its innovation. “My primary school.”

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Nina Stein Wolf ’64: Watercolor Artist Local painter immerses herself in the arts

By Kathy Fox Alumni Affairs Coordinator COURTESY CHRIS MILK Chris Milk on location ina Stein Wolf, raised Got Camera? Get Going! in Huntington, Long Christopher Milk ‘91 offers Island, and a resident this advice to aspiring filmmakers. of Great Neck for Nover 40 years, has always been he technological bar has been interested in the arts. lowered for filmmaking in the Having majored in art his- last 10 years. Before that, if tory at the George Washington “T University, Nina supports the you wanted to make something that looked professional, you needed equipment that Metropolitan Museum of Art cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, and MoMA, as well as art guilds pretty much anyone can get their hands on Long island, including on a good cheap camera and edit with the National Art League, the COURTESY NINA the software that comes built in on most Manhasset Art Association, and the STEIN WOLF Art Guild of Port Washington. She computers. continues to study with artists Steven Gallery in July 2011, which she dedi- So, my advice for someone who wants to Lampasona and Max Hergenrother. cated to the memory of her sister, Juliet be a filmmaker, is to get a camera and start For the last nine years, Nina has Stein, class of 1956. making films.T hey can be short films, exhibited her work in many art shows Nina is fortunate to come from a music videos, documentaries, anything; on Long Island. long line of artists just practice the craft. There is this She is the proud recipient of the in her family. Her pervasive attitude in the arts that great Bronze Medal for original watercolor grandmother, auteurs come out of the womb that way. in 2010. Nina also had a one-woman Lena, was a sculp- I don’t really believe that. show at the Great Neck Courthouse tor and a couture Filmmaking is a craft, and you need to designer; her learn it and practice it, a lot. The only way mother, Helen, to get better is to fail over and over, and is an interior Nina Stein Wolf it’s better to do that now while no one is designer; and her from the 1964 Lamp really looking. sister, Juliet, was a Yearbook Eventually, you’ll figure out what works sculptor and artist. and what doesn’t, you’ll start finding your As Nina states, “Looking at one’s own voice instead of copying what you surroundings in the eyes of an artist think is good, and you’ll build a portfolio of changes one’s perspective and challenges oneself to create and grow. I am work that actually makes you proud. Then eternally grateful for the opportunity it’s time to start showing it to people.” to immerse myself in the arts and to widen my horizons.” Elizabeth Siris Winchester ‘91 is a contributing writer and editor at Time For Kids, Time’s magazine with editions for Left, one of NIna Stein Wolf’s signature children in grades K-6, their teachers, and watercolor paintings. NIna regularly families. exhibits in art shows around Long Island. COURTESY NINA STEIN WOLF

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James Boorstein ’73: ‘Photographs with a Duration’ Architectural passion leads to video By Natalia Porcelli Good ’93 Fine Arts in Boston and many museums in New York City. In addition, ames Boorstein ’73, has been Boorstein is currently doing conserva- working as an architectural and tion projects for the New York Yacht museum conservator for the past Club and other private historic homes J34 years. With an expertise in and clubs. woodworking, and a broad knowledge Boorstein attended Friends Academy of many other architectural materials for 7th, 8th and 9th grades after which like metal and stone, combined with the time his family moved to Manhattan ability to track down difficult to find and he attended a Quaker school in tools and parts, Boorstein had the good Pennsylvania. It was there that he start- fortune to attain a position at the Met- ed to learn technical skills with wood. ropolitan Museum of Art in 1980 as a He then went to Colgate University and restorer. He attained many of spent some time at the Art the old-fashioned conservation Institute in San Francisco. techniques necessary for such While Boorstein worked work while on the job, much part-time at the Met, he like an artisan would learn. maintained a studio in Chel- sea and sculpted objects out of In 1984, Boorstein partnered Boorstein captures moments in time and nature with another craftsman and brick and wood. He often let with short 30-second videos, above and left. founded Traditional Line, the material create the shape Boorstein has always been interested “[architectural restoration] a of his sculptures, thereby in “ephemeral motion” and the work company devoted to return- creating works that “mini- that he does today captures moments ing historically significant mized the effect of his hand.” in time: such as steam moving through architecture to its original splendor,” as In 1984, Boorstein gave up traditional the air, rain falling, dust floating, light noted in a 1987 New York Times article. studio work in favor of site-specific reflecting and falling leaves. His videos Over the past 20 years, a significant installation work. After creating a series are 30 seconds long – more like “pho- amount of the company’s work has been of photographs made with a camera in tographs with a duration.” While some with museums, including the Getty, the motion, he began to shoot short videos. of these works have a natural narrative, Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of others are more abstract. “With each piece, you know its duration – you have the choice after 4 or 5 seconds to decide if you are willing to invest another 25 seconds. If you do, you let yourself become more present with the piece.” Boorstein’s works give the viewer “another level of looking, slowing down and observing more carefully what is around you.” Boorstein describes his works alternatively as “little meditative moments.” Boorstein lives and works in New York City. Over the past six years, Boorstein has made more than 1,000 of these works that he calls video pictures. Visitors can sign up at www.videopic- tures.org to receive his video pictures either daily or once a week.

photos courtesy james boorstein

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Jennifer Briggs Stanley ’88: Mystery Novelist Prolific writer hits NY Times Bestseller List

By Kathy Fox Bestseller List. Alumni Affairs Coordinator Other titles include her Books by the Bay Mysteries, ennifer Briggs Stanley ‘88 has which are set on the coast of written over twenty traditional North Carolina and feature mystery novels under several unpublished writers turned Jpseudonyms, including Ellery Ad- amateur sleuths. ams, Jennifer Stanley and J.B. Stanley. The titles in this series In Jennifer’s case, quantity does not include A Killer Plot, A interfere with quality…her last four Deadly Cliché, The Last novels, Written in Stone, Poisoned Word and two of her Prose, Buried in a Book, and Peach Pies bestsellers: Written in and Alibis hit the New York Times Stone and Poisoned Prose. Jennifer has also authored the Charmed Pie Shoppe Mysteries featuring an COURTESY JENNIFER briggs stanley enchanted pastry chef who runs a pie

shop and solves mysteries in northwest most intriguing heroines of the genre Georgia: Pie and Prejudice, bestseller and one created by a maturing and Peach Pies and Alibis, and the recently empathetic author.” released Pecan Pies and – Richmond Times-Dispatch. Homicide. “[Ellery Adams] has already Two other mystery series proven she has a gift for include The Supper Club Mys- charm. Her characters are teries with six titles: Carbs & charismatic and alluring, and Cadavers, Fit to Die, Chili Con downright funny. Corpse, Stiffs and Swine, The Not to mention, the plot is Battered Body, and Black Beans an absolute masterpiece as far and Vice (watch out if Jennifer Jennifer Briggs Stanley as offering the reader a true invites you over for dinner) from the 1988 Lamp puzzle that they are thrilled and Collectible Mysteries with to solve!…A Deadly three titles: A Killer Collection, A Fatal Stanley sets her mysteries in a Cliché is a solidly great, fun read!” – Appraisal, and A Deadly Dealer. variety of southern locales, from Once Upon a Romance. This year Jennifer will debut a new Virginia to Georgia. Jennifer dedicated one of her books, series featuring a resort for bibliophiles The Last Word to former Friends Acad- Jennifer dedicated (and a few murderers) in western emy English teachers Frank Brogan Virginia. one of her books, (whose recent obituary in the Fall/ Stanley has received enormous praise The Last Word, to Winter Meeting House was written by for her books from the literary com- former Friends Jennifer) and Roger Erickson, both of munity. “Written in Stone is written whom were huge inspirations to her. Academy English with skill, as Adams continues to enter- teachers Frank tain her readers with a clever story and For more information on Jennifer, visit Brogan and Roger further develop Olivia, one of the Erickson. www.elleryadamsmysteries.com.

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Jeff Davis ’65: American Folk Musician & Collector Musician has helped revive old-time folk

By Kathy Fox amidst archival photographs Alumni Affairs Coordinator was a pivotal moment in Jeff’s life. “My interest in history and hen Jeff Davis ’65 was music slammed together at that in the seventh grade at moment and have never let go.” Friends Academy, folk- And in 1963, Jeff bought one singer and folksong col- of Frank Proffitt’s hand-made lectorW Frank Warner performed for the banjos. (Incidentally, another Middle School at a morning assembly in one of Frank Proffitt’s banjos the gym. As Jeff recalls, “There was a hit is on display at the Hall of song at the time called ‘Tom Dooley,’ Musical Instruments at the sung by the Kingston Trio. It was an Smithsonian and another can unlikely pop hit. The song was differ- be seen at the Rock ‘n’ Roll ent from anything I had heard, full of Hall of Fame.) murder, hanging, deception, gloom, and Jeff Davis is a life-long a seemingly remote locale. Suddenly I professional musician, play- COURTESY jeff davis wanted to play the banjo.” ing and collecting traditional American Jeff is the voice of the Jeff continues, “So, there, at Friends folk music culled from field recordings South, and an English anthology, called Academy that day, was Frank Warner, and archives. He performs regularly at Song Links, of old English songs and playing a banjo made for him by a festivals at home and abroad and runs their American variants. Jeff also per- North Carolina mountain man, sur- curriculum-based, forms in the duo The rounded by photographs that he and his in-school programs New Boys of Old New wife, Anne, had taken on their travels on a wide variety of “My interest in York, singing and play- around the country while collecting old subjects. Jeff performs history and music ing the traditional mu- songs. One of the songs they found was internationally as well. slammed together sic of New York State. ‘Tom Dooley,’ that was the very song we “This winter saw me Jeff and Jeff Warner ‘61 were all listening to, and here, right in at that moment and playing at folk festivals have never let go.” (Frank Warner’s older front of us, was the man who had dug in England and, for the son), former music the song out of the mountains.” fourth time, playing partners for decades, Frank Warner had learned the song Appalachian music to have recorded together three times. He from Frank Proffitt, an Appalachian Norwegian school kids in Oslo!” also stays in close touch with Frank old-time banjoist who had learned the Besides the banjo, Jeff plays a wide Warner’s younger son, Gerret ‘64. song from his aunt. (Proffitt’s great variety of instruments, including the Jeff Davis is one of the most respected aunt had known the figures portrayed fiddle (he inherited one from his great performers, interpreters and collectors in the song.) Hearing Warner play uncle), the dulcimer, the mandolin, the of traditional American folk music. As mandocello (a guitar-sized mandolin), David Kidman from NetRhythms writes, spoons, and bones. He has released a “Jeff is one of the most charismatic number of CDs, most recently Some and widely-regarded of American old Fabulous Yonder, which includes Appa- time-folk revival performers, possessing lachian songs, Long Island fiddle tunes, that maddeningly enviable trait of be- American versions of English folksongs, ing master of several different instru- and a wide variety of other old music. ments… as well being a darned fine Jeff’s other CDs include Sharp’s Ap- singer, a man of wholly unpretentious palachian Harvest with Brian Peters, a and completely natural musicianship Smithsonian-Folkways project called who all the while makes everything he Jeff Davis, surrounded by his instruments, from the Civil War Naval Song, in which does seem totally effortless.” 1965 Lamp Yearbook

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Michelle Rabinowitz Carney ’98: Director, Tribeca Enterprises Love for storytelling fuels documentaries By Jennifer Ryan Woods ’99 person. I never thought I’d be working York, where she worked in the inves- in the entertainment side of the indus- tigative unit alongside correspondent t was during a college internship try,” she said. “I’ve always loved movies Brian Ross. with WNYC public radio that but I never thought I’d be working for a About six months later, she was Michelle Rabinowitz Carney ’98 company that’s known for film.” offered her dream job: political realized her love for storytelling. But when you look at where producer for MTV, in charge WhatI she didn’t know at the time was her career has taken her over the of producing all of the political that storytelling would soon become a years, it makes perfect sense. content. cornerstone of her career. After receiving an undergradu- “It was so meaningful to travel As director of production for Tribeca ate degree at Wesleyan Univer- around the country ... meeting Enterprises – the media company sity, where she majored in art young people and finding out behind the Tribeca history, Carney Michelle what was important to them in Film Festival, a film attended the Rabinowitz this upcoming election and why Carney in 1998 distribution company “I had this crazy job University of they did or didn’t care about the and related ventures – where one day I’d be Southern California, election.” “It’s my job to oversee interviewing Green receiving her masters When things were quiet on the politi- any original content we in broadcast journal- cal front, she was often asked to produce produce,” says Carney. Day and the next ism. While at USC, she entertainment segments as well. “I had This role includes I’d be shooting a had a job working the this crazy job where one day I’d be everything from pro- show with the 2008 overnight shift at the interviewing Green Day and the next ducing web series and presidential assignment desk for To- I’d be shooting a show with the 2008 documentaries to trail- candidates.” day in L.A. at KNBC, presidential candidates.” ers and DVD ‘extras.’” the Los Angeles affiliate Carney was thrilled to be doing One of the best of NBC. exactly what she had set out to do. parts of the job, Carney says, is that it “That was my first TV Continued on page 32 allows her to tell stories that matter. For news job and I loved it,” says example, one project she worked on was Carney, who had by then a web series for AOL, Acting Disruptive, determined the career path which gives a behind-the-scenes look she planned to pursue. at the business and passion projects “On my first day of grad launched by celebrities – projects that school when we were all have the ability to make a real impact talking about why we de- on the world. cided to go to grad school… Currently, she’s producing a docu- I remember standing up mentary, We Could Be King. It’s about and saying my goal in life a high school football team, comprised was to make young people of two rival schools, that were forced care about the news and to merge due to budget cuts. It follows the world around them.” their first season as they learn to work It wasn’t long before together not only for the team’s sake, she had the chance to do but also for the fractured community just that.

they represent on the field. It premiered After grad school, she

o n i b ra e ll miche during the Tribeca Film Festival and it was one of 10 journalists COURTESY aired on ESPN 2 on April 26th. selected for the Carnegie While the job is a perfect fit for Fellowship Program, Carney, if you had told her a decade ago which allowed her to

that she’d be working in the film indus- receive hands-on train-

ey n car itz try, she might not have believed you. ing at the ABC News w “I’ve always been a hard-core news headquarters in New

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MICHELLE RABINOWITZ-CARNEY ‘98 Sarah Klass ’07: Jewelry Designer Continued from page 31 Unfortunately, after three years, her job became one of the many casualties Abstract line emulates of the struggling media world. After being laid off, she says, “I spent natural world the next two years freelancing, producing episodes of True Life for MTV and By Hayley Kucich ’03 working on a documentary for Vice. I hustled to get a few days of T.V. work arah Klass, Friends Academy here and there.” Class of 2007, is the creator of She also spent some time at a non- “The Sarah Klass” jewelry line profit, the Iraq and Afghanistan Vet- that was formed in 2012. erans of America, which she was very SThe name of the line, interestingly passionate about. After a few years she enough, is a product of Friends Acad- wanted to get back into the media world emy and it comes with an anecdotal full-time. She was offered a job with story. the Sundance Channel, producing their “FA helped me in naming my Sundance Film Festival website. business,” recalls Sarah. “I chose ‘The “Sundance needed a producer to over- Sarah Klass’ because in high school an see film festival coverage on the web. I older student had an instant messenger used it as an opportunity to learn more screen name that started with “The” about producing online.” and then their name. I thought that After having a baby in 2012, Carney was silly and I never forgot about it!” continued to freelance for Sundance. You never know how you are going to influence another person without even knowing it! “My goal in life Sarah’s aesthetic is sort of an abstract was to make young and whimsical interpretation of natural people care about the line formations in brass and silver. news and the world After FA, Sarah attended Parsons The New School for Design where she Above, a piece from The Sarah Klass jewelry line; around them.” studied fashion, product design and bottom, the artist at work in her studio. printmaking: “the combination that things like print my own designs onto But after a while, she felt the itch to brought me to jewelry,” she said. fabric, go to art exhibits like Chihuly get back to doing full-time production “FA contributed to me taking at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, and work. an artistic route. I had access to art use my interest in fashion to help de- “I thought it would take forever to techniques and culture that I other- sign and create costumes for the theater find the right position that would allow wise would not have had. I got to do department. After school, me to still be a mom. I stumbled across I would participate in the this job at Tribeca… I blindly sent my Art Therapy community resume and was sure I wouldn’t hear service program with SCO back but they immediately wrote back. Family Services. I got to see After four months of interviewing, I got the limitless possibilities the job.” of the art world and how I “This job is a good combination of could fit into it.” everything I’ve worked up to. I’ve always been passionate about storytelling For more information and I’ve always loved documentaries,” about The Sarah Klass she says, adding, “Even though I’m not and how to purchase her in the news business anymore, I have designs, please visit www. the opportunity to work with amazing thesarahklass.com. film makers… helping them get their documentaries made.” photos COURTESY sarah klass

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Tom Pascarella ’95: Tilles Center Technical Director Jack of all trades keeps it fresh and fun By Andrea Miller PA on fire. “They were asked not to Director of Communications help out any more,” confided Tom. At Friends, Tom’s relationships ow many people can say with many different faculty they get paid to play? Well, members helped shape his career count Tom Pascarella ’ 95 path. as one of them. “Peter Carvell in the Theater HAs Technical Director for the Tilles Department was my first expo- Center for the Per- sure to real forming Arts, Tom is theater person- responsible for all the “The favorite thing ality. His sense needs of the produc- about my job is that of humor tions that come through the office is different sparked some- Tilles, from lighting to thing in me every weekend. personally labor and crew, sound, Tom Pascarella ’95 with Penelope Wylie Mayer There are never and profes- lobby music, catering, ’75 at Middle School Career Day costumes and more. the same challenges sionally. Bob

“The favorite thing twice, never the McGuire was kathy fox/friends academy about my job is that the same four walls.” a real technical guy, office is different every who had worked in “The Children of Uganda weekend,” said Tom. design on Broadway. I locked it in for me that this is what I “There are never the same challenges really started to iden- wanted to do. twice, never the same four walls, so it tify with him,” recalled Tom. We brought over kids and teens from keeps it fresh, new and challenging,” he While studying production and Uganda, who were sharing their native added. design at Long Island University’s Post music to raise money for their villages. Tom picked up the theater bug early Campus, Tom continued to work part- Some of these kids had never been out at Friends and was thrust into the scene time as technical director at Friends. “I of the country. On the first day, we or- in 7th grade after two errant Upper was learning what I didn’t know during dered pizza for them and, yes, we got to Schools students and stage hands set the the day and applying it at Friends in the teach these kids how to fold pizza.” afternoon,” said Tom. Every year, Tilles sponsors a major At Tilles, Tom devotes much of his art installation, which calls for a unique time to lighting design and ensur- set of design and lighting. “We need to ing that each show has the right crew, show the art in the same eye that the which is crucial to its success. “Some- artist originally intended.” times I work with as many as 60 people, In November, Tom married and sometimes just two,” said Tom. Jessica, whom he met at Tilles and who Tom will draw hires from the stage- now works as Director of Ticketing at hand union, non-union freelancers and Adelphi University. “She runs the front Post students, and appoint up to 200 of the house and I run the back of the people during a season. “We’ve had a house!” few FA alums also pass through during What does the future have in store my time,” added Tom. for Tom? “I spent all my youth know- Working with a diversity of performing exactly what I wanted to do. Now I ers, from Idina Menzel to the Dresden can do anything I want. Tilles is one of Philharmonic, constantly enriches Tom. the few places where I can have a mix of Tom Pascarella, behind the lights, from the 1995 “One of my favorite shows was one of everything.” Lamp Yearbook the first I ever did at Tilles,” said Tom.

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Lawrence Schimel ’89: Bilingual Children/Adult Author Author fights for overlooked, invisible By Andrea Miller often generalized or truncated. Director of Communications “In Let’s Go See Papá! I wanted to tell the other side of the immigra- awrence Schimel ’89 was tion story. We always hear the stories always a voracious reader about coming to America, but never as a child. The problem was hear the side about the people that he could not find any of the are left behind.” Lstories he wanted to write about. In Let’s Go See Papá!, Lawrence in- “I like to write about troduces a young girl who things that are overlooked or lives with her mother and invisible,” said Lawrence. grandmother in Latin Writing in both Spanish America. She regularly cor- and English, for both responds with her father, who Let’s Go See Papá! tells the other side of the immigration story. children and adults, lives and works in the United Lawrence has published States, through handwritten over 100 books as author or letters. Lawrence penned his first published anthologist. When it is time for the girl piece while at Friends, which he entered Lawrence’s stories explore and her mother to move to in 6th grade. points of view that are not America, Lawrence illustrates “There was an anthology series called Lawrence Schimel in 1989 frequently seen in main- the anguish the girl feels at Sword and Sorceresses that featured stream children’s or adult literature. “In leaving behind those she loves most – women who were heroines, instead of my children’s books, I write from the her best friend, her grandmother, victims. I sold a number of stories to point of view of the child. I also want to her dog. that,” said Lawrence. tell the other side of the story.” Lawrence turns adoption upside Influenced by FA English teacher The other side translates into a down as well. “There are not a lot of Roger Erickson, Lawrence also worked unique look at social issues that are books about being adopted, and aside with Katharine Maris on the student- from a few where the run literary publication. Ironically, adoption is the crux of Lawrence credits his persistence and the story, these kids never resilience to the time he spent running have lives afterward.” and competing in FA Track. Social inclusion and “The thing that was the best for issues of sexual ori- becoming a writer was running track,” entation and gender explained Lawrence. “I was the slowest are strong themes for runner and as a freshman, I always Lawrence, who says that competed against juniors and seniors some of his inspiration and always came in last. But I managed is rooted in personal to finish all the time.” experience. The tenacity and determination “Belonging to mul- Lawrence learned helped him cope tiple minority groups, with publishing rejection. “I submitted I have experience with my work again and again, stayed the not being accepted course and worked through it.” by the mainstream. Running also afforded Lawrence the Ultimately, we can’t opportunity to free his mind. “When I allow any prejudices was running, the physical motion was to exist, so we must very useful to me for narrative motion. fight them all to It would free up the creative mind and make the world a let me figure out what I was going to do better place.” Continued on page 35 photos courtesy of lawrence schimel

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LAWRENCE SCHIMEL ‘89 Meghan Farrell ’02: A New Standard of ‘Classic’ Continued from page 34 with whatever story I was working on.” Much of Lawrence’s adult work is Jewelry combines love influenced by folklore and mythology. In Fairy Tales for Writers, Lawrence uses of medicine, romance fairy tale metaphors to work through common problems that writers face. By Hayley Kucich ’03 “These are very archetypal stories that have appealed to people for fter graduating from Friends millenia. When you do a rewrite and Academy in 2002, Meghan twist on a traditional tale, you can would find herself tak- play on expectations and the familiar ing jewelry classes at FIT. by deviating from the template,” said ThoughA never imagining it would Lawrence. become a career, the MF collection (her Primar- initials) launched in the fall of 2010 ily making and has sold at Opening Ceremony ever his living as since. Meghan Farrell’s pieces are the culmination of a Spanish- Being inspired by her parents who many different passions. to-English are in the medical field, medicine was translator, interlaced rings that represent kisses. always around, so it was inevitable that Meghan says that her “ultimate goal is Lawrence’s Meghan’s jewelry took on a medical social issue to create a collection of jewelry that sets theme. However, a true romantic, and a new standard of ‘classic:’ pieces that projects are having always loved the Shakespearean what feed his are bold and different, but that are also A collection of poems heroine, the pieces also took on this timeless and remain to be written for writers. passion. love narrative. The first collection was one of your favorite pieces He has most neurology themed, and then went onto recently published a Spanish children’s that you will wear forever.” cardiology. The collection features The collection has been book about women and HIV, which everything from delicate EKG Heartbeat was actually translated into Slovenia featured in Lucky, Refinery Rings with heart shaped stones, dimen- 29, Vice, Vogue, and most a couple of months ago. “This is the sional DNA rings, and bulkier number one cause of death of women recently on Selena Gomez between 16 and 46. We don’t for the feature story in Meghan Farrell, have an image of an HIV+ Teen Vogue. from the 2002 Lamp Yearbook woman,” said Lawrence. The Meghan explained that fictional picture book uses “Friends Academy really encouraged a non-fiction addendum to my artistic spirit and cultivated my complete it. love for romance and theatricality, and Other projects include a it helped me build a sound founda- Korean Braille version of a tion of knowledge against this idea of children’s book that includes a magic. This was accomplished through blind character in a book that is the little ways I never imagined: like not about being blind. reading Wuthering Heights in Doc Sul- “I definitely have a billion livan’s class, baking different objects projects open up at the same in the kiln in Mrs. Lindner’s Lower time. If I’m feeling blocked, I can School art class, or studying Helena jump around and that will free up in scene study with Jorge Vega. In the the creative process. “ end, life is really all about projecting who you are through creation.” Lawrence works in Madrid, which he has called home for the past 15 For more information about years. He lives with his husband, Meghan’s collection, please visit Santiago Casas, whom he married in www.meghanfarrell.com. 2011. photos courtesy of meghan farrell

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Jeff Hull ’73: Sculptor and Arts Educator Artist brings passion into classroom

By Natalia Porcelli Good ’93 for his nose, and a worn brick he found on the beach for the eff Hull ’73, has devoted his life to tongue. This early sculpture being a follower of Christ and one was a harbinger of the type of the ways he lives out that faith of art for which Hull would Jis by using his God-given talents eventually become known. as an art educator and artist. Hull After graduating is a sculptor, welder, potter and from Friends, Hull furniture maker in the American attended Wheaton Craft movement. Hull sells his College, where ironically works and has won local art com- enough, he was told that he would Pre-AP and AP petitions in Longview, Texas and never make it as an artist. Hull Sculpture classes. The immense pride surrounding East Texas cities. quit school, moved home and he has in his students and the work he Hull discovered his passion for worked for some time as a busboy puts into their submissions for regional making art as a young student and gas pump jockey. Six months and statewide art competitions and col- at East Side Elementary School, later he returned to college and lege admissions is remarkable. in Cold Spring Harbor. He was graduated from Le Tourneau In addition to his work at Longview greatly impacted by a fourth University in Texas. High School, Hull creates his own art grade class trip in 1964 to the After a circuitous career path works, primarily sculpting works out of Guggenheim where he “fell in working with non-profit organiza- found objects. For example, he created love” with the works of Alexan- Jeff Hull, circa tions, as a youth pastor, helping various sculptures out of the hoods of 1973, and one handicapped and special needs cars and trucks. He also creates one-of- der Calder. Once Hull became a of his earliest student at Friends in 7th grade, sculptures at FA individuals, and a 10-year stint a-kind pieces of handcrafted furniture he did not take any formal art as a manager/owner of a quick- of the American Craft movement. In classes, but he always enjoyed work- lube business, Hull was encouraged to addition, Hull and his students have ing with his hands building model apply for a teaching position that had competed many times in the annual cars. In 7th grade, he recalls making a become available. In 2000, Hull began Houston Art Car Parade, in which ordi- found object sculpture in tribute to his “the most satisfying and longest lasting nary moving vehicles are transformed science teacher Mr. Alkins. The head job I’ve ever had” – he was hired as an into rolling sculptures. In the 2007 was made from split firewood see( inset). art teacher at Longview High School competition, which he won, Hull’s Hull used wire for his glasses, pieces of in Longview, Texas where he currently team took a full size van and turned it sea glass for his eyes, a wooden dowel teaches Art 1, Ceramics I, II and III and into a toaster with pop tarts coming out. Hull has now turned to hanging art, some of which has religious or political Jeff Hull’s messages. With respect to interpreta- one-of-a-kind tions of his work, Hull intends to create pieces are truly unique works that provoke strong part of the American visceral reactions in the viewer. Craft Hull lives with his wife, Bonnie, in movement. Longview, TX and has three grown children, Kimberly, Chris and Brandi.

For more information on Mr. Hull’s work, visit www.jeffhullart.com or https:// sites.google.com/site/jeffhullart/home. You can also find his work on Facebook.

photos courtesy of jeff hull

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Robin D. Beckhard ’75: Cabaret Chanteuse Vocalist a lover of all music

By Kathy Fox After receiving her first guitar from Alumni Affairs Coordinator her grandparents, Robin headed to the Guitar Workshop in Roslyn where she o how did a brainy girl took lessons from fellow alums Jeff from a nice family on Davis ’65 and Jeff Warner ’61. Robin the North Shore of Long was there several times each week Island who studied clas- studying classical, folk, and flamenco sical,“S folk and flamenco guitar end up guitar, as well as attending folk music belting out torch songs and ballads in sings every Tuesday evening. (Her New York City night spots? It’s a long mother was a patient chauffeur!) way from a Quaker high school and Robin sang, danced and acted Seven Sisters graduate to cabaret chan- her way through Friends under the teuse, but no one ever said life should inspired direction of Joe Servello, be predictable,” Robin writes on her including roles in Threepenny Opera, Robin D. Beckhard, from the 1975 Lamp Yearbook website, robinjamescabaret.com. Under Milkwood, Ondine, West Side job” is with Lee Hecht Harrison, in hu- The story begins when Robin was Story and The Madwoman of Chaillot. man capital consulting. She considers very young. Growing up, her house was “I was an avid participant in all the herself incredibly lucky to be able to alive with music. From Theodore Bikel arts at Friends in the have two simultaneous (who inspired not only a love of music four years I was there “I was an avid careers. Not having to but a love of languages), Edith Piaf and – theater and fine arts participant in all the make a living as a mu- Pete Seeger, to Gregorian chant and JS with Joe Servello, vocal sician, Robin explains, Bach, music filled the rooms. As Robin music with Arthur arts at Friends in the “I get to have my cake explains, she “grew up with music in O’Hanlon and cham- four years I was there and eat it too!” She is her blood.” ber groups – theater and fine as a classical also a choral singer and arts ... and chamber soloist (and current guitarist.” groups as a classical “Theater,” President) with New Robin ex- guitarist.” Amsterdam Singers plains, “was a (www.nasingers.org), wonderful outlet for a geeky and a cabaret singer girl who didn’t know how to (www.robinjamescabaret.com), “activi- make friends easily.” ties which offer welcome balance and Following Friends, Robin enrichment to my professional career.” attended Bryn Mawr Col- But there’s even more. A mother of lege, where she majored in two, Robin considers herself lucky to French. At Bryn Mawr, have two wonderful grown children Robin sang under the who live nearby in NYC. tutelage of Tamara Brooks. As a vocalist, Robin loves decon- It didn’t occur to her to structing songs, examining the lyrics, “let myself be a theater or and helping others discover the mean- music major,” says Robin. ings behind the words and music. This “Now, I look back and ask winter Robin performed in a cabaret, ‘why?’” a venue she loves as it allows her to At the time, Robin perform “so many different flavors” of viewed herself as someone music. who could sing, not as “a Her advice to aspiring musicians? singer.” Today, Robin is “Give yourself permission to say that’s not only a singer, she is who you are, not just something you much more. Her “day like to do. Go ahead…make music!”

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Stephen Kunken ’89: Broadway, Film and TV Actor Enjoys both worlds of stage & screen

By Jennifer Ryan Woods ’99 was first sparked while he was a student In addition to acting in various at Friends. “There’s something about critically acclaimed off-Broadway tephen Kunken ’89 always the Quaker philosophy and having productions, Kunken has also appeared wanted to see the world through compassion for all different people that on Broadway in shows such as Proof, many angles. So it’s no surprise inspires a kind of desire to want to know Frost/Nixon, Rock ‘n’ Roll, High and The he chose to pursue an acting what drives people to do the things they Columnist. He was nominated for a Tony Scareer, which has allowed him to do. Not to judge them in black award for his portrayal of disgraced be different people for a living. and white but to pursue the CFO Andy Fastow in the play Enron. “Being an actor lets you dip universal truths that live in the In addition to stage work, Kunken has into different types of people and gray,” Kunken says. guest-starred in a number of TV shows places, live them for a while and “I remember going to Quaker such as Law and Order, The Good Wife then move onto something else,” Meeting and hearing the inner and Unforgettable. He has also worked says Kunken. monologues that people would with renowned directors including Ang During his prolific career, voice and that would give me an Lee, Barry Levenson and Spike Lee on Kunken has worked on films insight into that person… that various films. Recently Kunken played Stephen Kunken, made me want to know more the role of Jerry Fogel, Leonardo Di- with some of the most acclaimed from the 1989 Lamp actors and directors of our time, about the world that I would Caprio’s first boss in Martin Scorsese’s guest-starred in various hit TV shows only know through my Wolf of Wall Street. and acted in a slew of Broadway shows own eyes.” “I remember going While Kunken’s ca- – one of which earned him a Tony During his time at to Quaker Meeting reer has run the gamut nomination. Friends, Kunken par- between the stage and Kunken’s interest in theater ticipated in nu- and hearing the the screen, he enjoys merous theater inner monologues being able to transition productions. that people would between the two. “Go- Coincidental- voice and that would ing back and forth is ly, he recently give me an insight really great... When you found himself work in theater, you get cast opposite into that person.” an immediate response a fellow FA to the work you’re classmate Melissa Errico ’88 doing. So it feels the best as an actor. in an episode of the TV show You also get to live it sequentially as the Blue Bloods. experience is happening to the charac- After graduating Friends, ter… so it’s the most cathartic.” Kunken enrolled at Tufts However, he says, “in terms of prolif- University where he ma- eration of material…there’s nothing like jored in theater. He then a movie or TV show.” went on to complete a four- “Also, when you finish a film project, year graduate program in you don’t see it again for six months or acting at Juilliard. a year so it’s amazing to see when all of “What I wanted to do the elements are put together, what your more than anything else small part adds up to. Luckily I’ve been when I got out of Juilliard able to have a great life going between was work on new plays,” the two,” says Kunken, who is looking he says adding, “I like to forward to working on new plays and lend my voice as an actor creating new roles in the future. to help writers create new Kunken lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn work. The majority of with his wife, Jen Thompson, an award- my career has been winning theater director and their 4 ½ [doing] that.” year-old daughter Naomi. courtesy stephen kunken

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Lucy Gould Reitzfeld ’69: Painter of Timeless Scenes Works explore the natural and urban By Kathy Fox Reitzfeld’s paintings compel Alumni Affairs Coordinator us to return to them over time, as if each reading offers ucy Gould Reitzfeld ’69 a means of experiencing found her passion early in nature, even momentarily, life. She began painting as through the eyes of the art- a child and has not stopped. ist,” explains artist and art LInspired by the old masters and Impres- dealer Robert G. Edelman. sionists, Lucy paints Celia Bergoffen from The in many layers ac- Villager fur- cording to old mas- ther explains ter recipes, thereby her style: creating depth and “Lucy Gould

luminosity. Reitzfeld’s With a long list landscape of exhibitions, both paintings encompass scapes; it includes still lifes, solo and group, nature’s many moods, abstracts and a series of paintings of nationally and in including her own. New York City’s Mercer Street which Europe, and selected “I see my landscape Devoid of people, they were painted in her Manhattan loft. collections on dis- paintings as are timeless scenes of “All realistic painting has elements of play throughout the forests, meadows and windows that invite abstraction,” says Lucy. country, it is easy to rivers, places in the art- the viewer to look In her work, she explores “the color see why Lucy has ist’s past or memories of through and sensations and patterning” found in garnered such re- masterpieces seen long everyday life. While Lucy spends time spect as an artist. She experience the ago... Hard-edged real- in the country sketching and taking has recently shown sensuality of nature.” ity is subsumed by her photographs, most of her painting is at the George Billis emotional response to the done in her studio in Ridgefield, CT. Gallery in New York momentary visions of City and is currently exhibiting at the dappled light in a forest, reflections on For more information, and to view Affordable Art Fair in water or cloudbursts.” Lucy’s work, visit http://lucygr.com. New York City with The Lucy’s work is not limited to land Front Art Space. Additionally, Lucy has been an arts educator for 10 years. She has taught plein air painting at Lucy Gould Reitzfeld the New York Botanical from the 1969 Lamp Gardens and landscape painting at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. As she explains, “I see my landscape paintings as windows that invite the viewer to look through and experience the sensuality of nature.” Indeed, one wants to gaze through those windows again and again. “For the viewer, photos courtesy of lucy Gould reitzfeld

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Michael Poloukhine ’82: Architect Solving ‘earthly problems’ with design

By Natalia Porcelli Good ’93 teacher, and that without question affected my affinity ichael Poloukhine ’82, for creativity. My parents is an architect who chose FA for its commit- founded a design/build ment to both education and practice, ReSquare Ar- spiritual growth, and I fit chitectureM and Construction right in. in 2008, based in Los An- In our family, geles. As his website states, education was “ReSquare Architecture and seen as the most Construction is focused on important achieve- providing custom architec- ment to pursue. Was there a teacher or tural design, building and That commitment to teachers at Friends Academy construction management learning is critical to being who inspired you to do the work solutions tailored to discern- an architect in staying on you do today? ing homeowners looking to Michael Poloukhine from the top of advancements in the While my art teachers Mrs. Gilden elevate their living environ- 1982 Lamp Yearbook field and exploring paths for and Mrs. Tilton were very supportive ment and lifestyle.” new ones in my work. of my creative talents and nurtured my Our family’s Russian Orthodox love of them, my AP English teacher Can you tell me about your back- Christian faith is a deeply spiritual one ground, such as where you were born and Mr. Al Haulenbeek was the most that accepts we are all imperfect and at influential. His love of literature and raised, and how that has impacted your the same time called to be divine. To work? teaching opened my eyes to the great me architecture is a little like that: solv- authors’ yearning for self-expression I was born in Glen Cove, NY in ing an earthly problem like keeping the 1964. My mother was an artist and art and inspired my creative core. Al knew rain out in a spiritual way. this, used it, and I am a better person and professional for it. I deeply regret not realizing this in time to let him know it. You mention that you have “a passion and devotion to building and environmental stewardship.” Can you elaborate on that? My parents grew up as poor immi- grants in a dirt floor shack in WWII Nazi-occupied France, surviving by conserving… everything. My views of the world around me were affected by that in many ways. I also spent two summers on a remote island building our family vacation home with my uncle, an architect/builder with the same background as my parents. Con- servation was crucial. All the materials

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MICHAEL POLOUKHINE ‘82 Lucas Foglia ’01: Internationally Acclaimed Photographer Continued from page 40 needed to be imported, so everything Documenting the got used in some way, even the packing materials. The beauty of the natural environment was why we were there, modern American West so preserving it was paramount. That experience instilled in me a reverence By Hayley Kucich ’03 for delicately living in our natural environment; we are not its owners, but ucas Foglia graduated from tenants called to preserve and improve Friends Academy in 2001, it for the next generation. where he first learned to pho- Who/what are the inspirations/ tograph in the darkroom at the LDolan Center ... and the rest is history. influences behind your work? Frank Lloyd Wright is a great influ- Upon completion of his MFA in ence. His love of nature, form and how photography at Yale in 2010, his pho- we experience tographs have been widely exhibited them in motion throughout the U.S. and Europe. Many are inspira- of his works are in the permanent collec- tional. His tions of museums, including the Denver designs reflect Art Museum, Museum Photographer Lucas Foglia ’01 an understand- of Fine Arts in Houston, ing of what it Philadelphia Museum of United States. The photo- means for us to Art, and Victoria & Albert graphs were just published in his second move and live in Museum in London. Lucas’ book with Nazraeli Press. is spaces in a way first monograph, “A Natu- Frontcountry a photographic account of people living that elevates our ral Order,” was published Lucas Foglia, by Nazraeli Press in 2012 in the midst of a mining boom that is lives. 2001 Exterior design by Michael transforming the modern American I also admire to international critical Poloukhine West. The photographs will be exhibited the work of San- acclaim, and the project was included in by Fredericks & Freiser Gallery in New tiago Calatrava. He has a genius ability the 2013 ICP Triennial in New York. York this March, and at Michael Hop- to unify engineering and sculpture Between 2006 and 2013, Lucas Foglia pen Contemporary in London in April. in a way that is greater than the sum traveled throughout rural Idaho, Mon- of its parts. Architecture’s challenge tana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and is combining the pragmatic with the Wyoming, which included stops in some For more information and images, please ideal, the prosaic with the creative. of the least populated regions of the visit www.LucasFoglia.com. Calatrava’s work reminds me that this is possible. Is there anything else you would like to add? Lucas Foglia’s A few words to FA students. Think! collection of photographs Explore! Express! Walt Whitman said of the rural it best (thank you Mr. Haulenbeek!): American west country “What good amid these, O me, O life? debuted this Answer: March in That you are here – that life exists, and New York identity; City at the Fredericks That the powerful play goes on, and you & Freiser will contribute a verse.” Gallery.

photos courtesy of lucas foglia

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Fernando Gutierrez De Jesus ’00: Interactive Filmmaker Tribeca film challenges conventions By Andrea Miller Director of Communications

t’s not like a normal show,” begins filmmaker Fernando Gutierrez De Jesus ‘00 in describing the two-years- “Iin-the-making documentary that he and three other British filmmakers recently showed at the Tribeca Film Festival. And indeed it’s not. Entitled Choose Your Own Documentary, the film takes its format and inspiration from the popular 1980s children’s series, Choose Your Own Fernando Gutierrez De Jesus from the 2000 Lamp Yearbook Adventure. Written by Edward Packard (who is funding from the Arts Council in Eng- gast. The boy writes of bullying, running now coincidentally Long-Island based), land to cover shooting and travel. As we away from home, expulsion from school the complete set of 106 books offered were filming, we never knew how it was and suicide and Nathan decides to start its readers choices, decisions and going to end. We went out on a a quest to find the author and reunite consequences as they tackled plot limb with this project and people him with his diary. twists and multiple endings. have really reacted to it. It was an An interactive experience, there are Fernando’s path was equally amazing journey for us.” 1,566 permutations of the show given intriguing. “I had gotten an The documentary was born all the decision points and five distinct e-mail from an old friend that after the central narrator, Nathan endings. Audience members are given this guy, Nathan, was looking for Penlington – an avid childhood remote controls and at various points a filmmaker to put this together. reader of the CYOA series – during the film are asked to vote on He wanted it to follow the CYOA for- found four pages of a diary in a used the next step. Consult a psychic? A mat, but still be real and entertaining. copy of one of the books and notations handwriting expert? Choose wisely, but I found some guys I had worked with from a boy named Terence Prender- majority rules. previously and we received enough “The first show we ever tried was in 2012 in England during the early stages. In 2013, we played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won The Scotsman Fringe First Award for Innovation in Storytelling. After that we were invited to various festivals,” said Fernando. CYOD has received multiple ac- colades from media outlets like The New York Times, “Ultimately a love letter to the ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books and a directive to live actively and make choices,” to Official London Theatre, “Enough intrigue, excitement Continued on page 43

Fernando Gutierrez De Jesus, second from left, collaborated with three other filmmakers on a new interactive documentary, entitled “Choose Your Own Documentary.” The interactive film recently aired at

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FERNANDO GUTIERREZ DE JESUS ‘00 Continued from page 42 and decision making to keep you glued School. to your seat.” “I was able to study England’s process It was back at Friends, where Fer- of making television and to see the dif- nando tasted and gulped down his ferences between there and America.” passion for film. “I started in the drama Currently, Fernando works for the department and did a lot of work in the production arm of the British television theater. I was really inspired by Mr. Vega network ITV (known for shows like who gave me a lot of confidence. My Hell’s Kitchen), where he directs and pro- experience at Friends made me think duces a variety of programmes for ITV about performance and audience reac- and other networks. He also has worked tion. I really got into that by doing a lot in the area of format development of plays and I liked the ability to control where a show is thought up, produced, reactions. That translated quite nicely and subsequently sold to international into making films,” recalled Fernando, markets. who started at Friends “A show like American in the 4th grade. Idol or So You Want to A lack of formal “As we were filming, Be A Millionaire is a big video curriculum at we never knew how format that sells interna- FA was no deterrent it was going to end. tionally,” said Fernando. as Fernando created We went out “In factual shows, it videos on the side on a limb benefits us to have a for class projects. In with this formula to make the Upper School, he show, which we can and classmate Ryan project and then sell as a recipe card McCally ’ 01 made people to other territories,” he a film calledA Touch have really explained. “This experi- LIKE us at www.facebook.com / of Frost, that spoke to reacted ence translated well to diversity and how the to it.” help me create the many school was improving paths for Choose Your it. They submitted Own Documentary and friendsacademyNY! it to the Bridge Film tell them all effectively.” Festival, a competition for student-made Following the success of Choose Your films from Friends Schools and Meeting Own Documentary, Fernando and his worldwide, where it won first place. fellow filmmakers created their own www.twitter.com/FAtoday On a whim, the two decided to found company, CYOD Ltd. dedicated to find- on Twitter either!

a film club and were taken by surprise ing and supporting other interactive Don’t forget us when 80 or 90 students signed up. projects. “My hope is that this type of “The school was amazing,” said format can become more mass audience. Fernando. “They bought us (then) a Interactive documentary is an emerging state-of-the-art PC, which allowed video world of storytelling. It allows us to use capture from mini DV. They even gave technology in new and exciting ways us a room. At that time, what we were in order to enhance and enliven a story doing was not all that popular and there while still creating powerful and emo- were not that many institutions that tional reactions with audiences around provided that sort of support for young the world.” kids,” Fernando added. After graduation, Fernando attended Fernando Gutierrez De Jesus lives and Providence College where he started the works in London. He and his girlfriend, college’s first TV network, and finally Daisy Lilley are expecting a son in July. traveled to England to attend the pres- For more information about Choose Your tigious National Film and Television Own Documentary, visit www.cyod.co.uk.

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ports including Devil’s Island, Trinidad at a defense missile site not far from my 1940 and Tobago, Aruba Bonaire and Curaçao, home here in Fairfeld, CT). Sadly, we just Barbados, St. Maarten, etc. got word that Ken passed Florence Milyko Skinner away on May 17; Ken 4202 Avalon Drive East was 80. I was his Primary New Canaan, CT 06840 1947 Health Caregiver and need 203-966-9475 If anyone from the Class of 1947 would like to identify and reach out to [email protected] to be the class representative, please contact some of his relatives. Can us at [email protected]. We would love to hear anyone give me a name from you! 1942 Kenneth to follow up? Thanks for Shenkel, your assistance. (Please Helen Craft Price The Lamp, 1952 look for a remembrance 173 Ocean Pines Terrace 1948 of Ken in the next issue.) Jupiter, FL 33477 Marian Schwartz Feniger – Bob Burian. Terry Scheetz says that she has [email protected] 16 West 77th St., Apt. 9E lots of camellias, and bulbs are popping up New York, NY 10024 in SC. “Even in SC it has been unusually (212) 362-8968 cold…even some ice. Not complaining when 1945 [email protected] looking northwards! I still ride horses, play Joy Mayes Brown a bit of golf, run the PPhood fundraising 2110 West Center Road 1949 beneft in our area of SC, do yoga, and P.O. Box 239 garden with Ted. The citrus trees he planted If anyone from the Class of 1949 would like Otis, MA 01253 are loaded with fruit. Our eldest grandson is to be the class representative, please contact (413) 269-6398 in prep school and plays soccer and squash us at [email protected]. We would love to hear [email protected] when he is not playing ultimate frisbee or from you! involved with the photography club.” Bob Sheila Morrisey Potter Burian avoided the winter snow. “We just got 37 Coles Meadow Road 1950 back from Sanibel Island, Florida, for two Apt. # 301 weeks. It is just off the western coast near Ft. Northampton, MA 01060 Suzanne Didier DeVito 59 West 12th Street, 16A Myer. It is delightful. Had sun 13 out of 14 (413) 584-1578 days. Clean, clear, quiet, restful, calm waters, [email protected] New York, NY 10011 (212) 627-7103 many shells, good food. Do go if you can. I [email protected] play bridge twice a week with several great 1946 guys. Both daughters and families live here in Fairfeld, CT on the same street. Daughter Henry Palau 1951 Susie and husband hosted Thanksgiving for 38 Yarmouth Road 20. Barbara took granddaughter, 13-year-old Rowayton, CT 06853-1847 George H. Gifford, Jr. 12 Oak Ridge Road Grace, to Paris last year. Barbara has several 203-855-0021 friends there so Grace got to see a little bit [email protected] Stony Brook, NY 11790-2011 (631) 751-7489 of Parisian life. My son-in-law, Tom, took me to the Penn-Columbia game at Baker Class rep Henry Palau writes: I have taken Field. Penn 21-Columbia 7. I can remember to cruising in the months of January and 1952 my father taking me there in 1951 because February to escape the cold and snow. In Jan. Margaret Whitney Shiels he knew I was planning to go to Penn.” 2012, I took two successive 30-day round 5427 FM 2515 Wendy Murphy thanked me for keeping trip cruises out of San Diego. The ﬁrst was to Kaufman, TX 75142 track of everyone. “You’re right about the Hawaii and then to French Polynesia and a (972) 962-8124 snow. It’s almost a daily affair this year few other islands and returned to San Diego. [email protected] and I fnd myself keeping ft by shoveling; After refueling, etc. we departed on a cruise though fnding places to put the excess was to Lima, Peru and return (remember the A letter to the Class of ’52 about William becoming a problem and avoiding falls on parasite). Sixty days was a bit too long, but I Kenneth Shenkel: How many of you recall the ice was a challenge. My mother went well wasn’t home for any measurable snow. Sailed Ken Shenkel, a gentle giant of a man? We into her 80s, semi-blind from glaucoma, but on Holland America’s MS Rotterdam. This were roommates when I frst came to Friends when she fell, it was with grace and never year took a 49-day cruise on MS Maasdam Academy in the fall of 1948. He had a a broken bone. I seem to have inherited her from Fort Lauderdale to Brazil and back. In younger brother, Richard (now deceased, “bounciness” and am quite accustomed to Rio de Janeiro for Carnival. Also went 800 I believe: does anyone know where his crashing when walking up and down my icy miles up the Amazon to Manaus. Numerous remains may lie?). Once Ken got his driver’s driveway, but so far so good.” Bob Wilkinson license, he became a day student from his and Connie divide their time between Port Ludlow, WA and AZ. Many friends from WA Love Friends? Then “Like” Friends at Garden City home. I believe Ken went onto Washington & Lee after graduating from winter there so they spent many happy times facebook.com/friendsacademyNY! Friends. I also know that he served two or with new and old friends. Thanksgiving was three years in the Army (some of the time spent in Portland with daughter Wendy’s

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Sara graduates from Baylor U. and already has a teaching job in Waco, TX. Andrew is studying biomedical engineering and will have to do several more years since he changed from Civil Engineering. Kate will do another year at Oklahoma City U. studying and performing opera. She will go this summer to Taos, NM, to study. Cameron is a sophomore in college. Cousin Craig [Craig White ‘61] has kept us current on the terrible snowy winter on LI. He sent pictures of snow up to the frst floor windows. He called to tell us a “small world” story. He took Nancy to “21” for her birthday. A slick spot on the floor sent her sprawling. She was not hurt but you can imagine what a flurry there was. The young Maître’D rushed over and they assured him she was fne. In conversation Craig realized that he was not from those parts and it was revealed that he was from OK. Craig A mini 1952 reunion: From left, Annemarie Schreiber, Bob Wilkinson, Fritz Schreiber and Connie told him that his cousin Kate Shiels was at Wilkinson OKC studying opera. Craig asked where he family. Wendy’s children, Zachary and college every year for fve years. We went went to school. He revealed that he went to Sophie are at the school where Wendy to Charlottesville to hear our granddaughter OKC and got a degree in opera! After 30 teaches French. Kari and David moved to a sing Ahmal in “Ahmal and the Night minutes or so, the young man came back to larger home in White Plains. Both Alex and Visitors.” Spent Christmas in Charlottesville their table to say that he texted his professor Ben are in school jazz bands. They spent and then went to NYC for some culture, about Kate and found out that she was in one Christmas in China. They fly many places music, a play and museums. Donn Andre of his classes. Life on the farm is very busy. with David piloting. We haven’t seen Jens visited from Texas.” Fred Schreiber and Cattle prices are up and we have had lots of and Junko in Tokyo in several years. Their Annemarie report that “grandson, William, calves to take to auction. Robert and David girls are both in college. Bruce’s family is will transfer to The Citadel, Charleston, SC are building another corral for round up. He enjoying the Williamsburg area. Natalie is in the fall for NROTC. He follows in his is doing a lot of welding with help from son a sophomore at Roanoke College. Alyson father’s footsteps. His sister Victoria is with David and grandson Andrew. I go to Fort is a high school sophomore. Gail and Bruce a large social services company in England. Worth every week for art classes and 2 book enjoy biking, kayaking and sailing. WA is Son Mark’s tour in England will be over in a groups. Here in Kaufman we will have our especially beautiful in summer and AZ is year and a half and we hope to have him back 14th Book and Author Luncheon supporting delightful in the winter. Both near National in the U.S. for a while. Fritz and Annemarie the library. We sell 200 tickets. Not bad for Parks. The guest rooms are waiting.” When saw the new museum at Gettysburg. It is a town of 6,700. Keep in touch and please Connie and Bob were in Williamsburg, worth seeing but one leaves depressed over support Friends with a donation when you are VA visiting their son Bruce and his wife Gail, all the loss of life. Chris and family are still writing those checks for good causes. Let’s they had dinner with Annemarie and Fritz outside of D.C. Their son is in 7th grade. No make sure that future students will have the Schreiber! Fay Biggins still does not have travel plans. We go only by car these days. same wonderful experience that we did. internet. She may be forced into it when her Plane travel has become so unpleasant.” daughter comes to spend the summer. “Nancy Your intrepid class secretary, Margaret Shiels, 1953 has been developing a business: “Copper has nothing earthshaking to report. The The Class of 1953 mourns the loss of class Hummingbird.Etsy.com.” She shows all annual all-family Thanksgiving gathering rep Bruce Nichols. His obituary appears in the over AZ and plans to do the southeast circuit in Big Bend will probably be our last. It is “In Memoriam” section on page 67. If you this summer using my place as home base. a very long way and the grandchildren are would like to follow in the footsteps of Bruce She will need the internet. I helped my graduating from college and going into the as class representative, please let us know. 93-year-old cousin dismantle her apartment working world. We enjoy them when we Congratulations to Clare Coss, whose in Vermont so she could go live with a son can have them. We are doing pretty well historical play, Dr. Dubois and Miss in NC. Bittersweet for both of us. I know with all the aches, pains and complaints of Ovington, presented by the New Federal the time will come for me, too. I recently people our age. Like the Schreibers, we drive Theatre, hit the NY stage this past January totaled my car and walked away from it. Am everywhere. We have been driving to SC and February. The production, which was very thankful. Heather Poetzsch and Joachim each summer to visit my college roommate directed by Gabrielle L. Kurlander starred celebrated their 50th anniversary. “We go to where she has a place on Pawley’s Island and Tony nominee Kathleen Chalfant (Angels the gym 2 or 3 times a week. I like the cold visiting friends on the way. Granddaughter in America,Wit) as Miss Ovington and but it has been REALLY cold in Vermont. Timothy Simonson (The Trial of Adam Laurie and Valerie Castleman report, “Our Clayton Powell, Deadwood Dick Legend oldest grandchild is a high school senior, so Turn to the Red & Black channel at of the West) as Dr. Dubois. The 60th reunion next year we will see a grandchild go off to youtube.com/friendsacademyschool this past fall inspired Dick Henderson to send

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production solo roles and enjoyed many years or singing in church choirs etc. Currently one of my vocal chords for unknown reasons is not working and I’m unable to basically sing a note. I’m also hindered in my speech production. The loss of being able to sing is greater than I could ever have imagined.” With many thanks for the care that you bring to us – Dick Henderson ‘53.

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If anyone from the Class of 1954 would like to be the class representative, please contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! 1955 Student Council representatives meet with President Dick Henderson in 1953. Arthur M. Geoffrion some wonderful reminiscences to Kathy Fox the memories are clear and warm. My dad 322-24th St. in the alumni offce about how and why FA left Friends after my sophomore year to join Santa Monica, CA 90402 was so special to him: “My brother and I my mom in Germany where he worked for (310) 394-0185 came to FA as students (me, 6th grade; my the US Army Special Services so for my last [email protected] brother Bob, 8th grade) and my dad, Glen two years I was alone since my brother had Henderson, who was the new head coach graduated in ‘51. My brother and I had gone Naomi Johnson Dempsey for the boys. It was 1946. We lived in the to Germany the summer after 11th grade to 69 Webster Point Rd. dorms. My dad was one of the dorm proctors. be with our folks courtesy of the US Army. I Madison, CT 06443 My mom was studying voice in Europe, felt such loyalty and closeness to Friends that 203-245-7617 aspiring to be a Wagnerian Dramatic Soprano I chose to return for my senior year rather [email protected] most of those years. She had turned down a than fnish high school in Munich and be contract with The MET on the advice of her with my family. One of the hardest decisions Never before revealed in this column manager, who advised her to study and sing I ever made. Thankfully after graduating is that Sandy Abramson is a serious car in Europe. Thus FA was home for my dad, and returning to Munich that summer I was enthusiast. He has a 1970 Chrysler Newport brother and me. On vacations we often were able to spend my freshman year there with with a raised-block, TNT engine and 375HP; in our dorm rooms even though heat was my brother and parents. I had to give up my his father’s 1974 Jeep Wagoneer; and a 2002 turned off, etc. (Summer vacations we were full scholarship to Oberlin in doing so and Cadillac Escalade. Connie Eadie and Mike at summer camps where our dad was head transferred to Oberlin the following year. Hellman have moved to a smaller home in of the waterfront, etc.) Seven years of living It all worked out. My brother and I were the same community: 53 Oyster Landing together, eating in the dining hall together remarkably close all through our lives. The Lane, Hilton Head, SC 29928-4131. They and going to Quaker Meeting together, for year in Munich together was wonderful. recently returned from a cruise around me at least, created wonderful, close and My brother became a dentist and I became Cape Horn from Lima, Peru to Buenos affectionate bonds. I could write a book a psychiatrist, and we both lived near each Aires, Argentina. The highlight was the about the meanings the Quaker Meetings other in San Diego. Dave Fox was my Falkland Islands, with its friendly people, had for me – the congealing of spirit, which roommate at Friends and at Oberlin. I stayed bird rookeries, and plentiful penguins, which although it occurred often, I was not aware at Bruce Nichols’ home Christmas vacation could be approached within 10 feet. In other of then. My senior year I worked as an my senior year. In four weeks my friend important news: their daughter Elizabeth orderly at Glen Cove Community Hospital Tracy Flynn whom you met at the reunion was married at 41 and at 42 gave birth to on weekends, rode the ambulance, cleaned and I will be driving to Tucson, Arizona for their seventh grandchild, Eleanor Harper the morgue, etc. Roommates making rockets, Clare Coss’ opening night of her play which Freeman. The Hellmans, who had no interest my brother climbing out the dormer window is being performed there. I’m still working in venturing north of the Mason/Dixon line after lights out to sneak into a friend’s room two days a week as a psychiatrist at our local in the past, now have this latest grandchild to with ice on the slate shingles in winter, county mental-health clinic near where I visit in New York and we hope to persuade knitting wool squares to make blankets for live in Apple Valley. I inherited some of my them to join us at a future class reunion. the Dutch at war’s end. Sixty-fve years later mother’s vocal genes and enjoyed singing all Naomi Johnson Dempsey and Clark Denslow through my life. I gave Bill Morris a copy were fnally married early in April. Last of my CD of Negro spirituals when I was at year they discovered the Mayan Riviera and Don’t just follow Friends Academy... the 50th reunion. I performed the bass solos enjoyed two vacations there. This spring, @ | RT | # us at twitter.com/FAtoday of Handel’s Messiah with the San Diego they spent Easter with Naomi’s youngest Symphony Orchestra, sang various opera daughter and family in Scottsdale, AZ. The Meeting House | Winter/Spring 2014 Class Notes 47

because each one is extremely charismatic. boarding boys used to fly model airplanes Bookmark www.fa.org/alumni As for the two old coots, we’re hanging in down there. The diameter of the arc they for the latest news and reunion pics there. I broke a minor bone in my foot this flew was only slightly less than the width winter and have been hobbling around since of the gym. If they didn’t stay right in the then and George ’54 hobbles around in general center of the gym, the plane would “crash” Keville Larson, who has lived in Mobile, due to knees that should be replaced. We’re into the wall with disappointing results. Alabama since 1962 and has been “retired” going to Scotland after the last graduation in Ah ... memories. Peter Javsicas checked in from his forestland property management June, but had to cancel a scheduled trip with recently. Daughter – Laura, son – Aaron, company for a few years, still goes to work Bryn Mawr to Iceland as traipsing around the and three grandkids – Evan, John and fve days a week by choice because this is rough terrain did not seem feasible for bone- Daniel, have “given me a heightened interest how he can spend time in the woods that on-bone knees.” in longevity,” he writes. “Anne retired a he so loves. As previously reported, Owen couple years ago after 22 years as head of Smith remains very busy with the family Plymouth Meeting Friends School. I’m still restaurant, service to Nassau County, and the 1956 working part time on transportation reform Institute for World Politics in Washington Anne Wauchope Smith here in Pennsylvania, heading a group called D.C. His latest e-mail includes some 297 London Drive PenTrans ... Anne and I have joined with previously unreported items: that he chairs Beaconsfield others here in Mt. Airy (Philadelphia) to form the fnance committee of St. Mary’s church Quebec H9W 5Z1 an aging-in-community group. This activity in Roslyn, continues as Vice Chairman of Canada is leading to new and stronger friendships the Nassau County Republican Committee, (514) 695-1951 in the area. Had the pleasure of visiting last is Chairman Emeritus of the Finance [email protected] summer with Mike Bliss and wife, Susan, in Department at Long Island University Watertown, Mass.” As always, Pete would whence he retired, and writes op-ed pieces love to “catch up” with other classmates on vexing issues like college student loans, 1957 (215-247-0457 or [email protected]). I the escalating cost of higher education, Roger O. Sanders would like to hear from you also. Please how Ronald Reagan would handle the mess 324 Fishing Ln. take a moment to jot me a note to include in in the Ukraine, and the need for energy Deland, FL 32720 the next issue. Your classmates will enjoy independence. By the time you read this, (386) 736-0815 hearing from you. - John Owen and Bernadette should have been to [email protected] Rome in April for the canonization of John Paul II and to Ireland in May for their annual 1959 trip to St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Charles G. Jameson Ireland’s national seminary, where Owen 13464 Brightview Way is to receive an honorary Ph.D! Joan Gainesville, VA 20155 Konvalinka Hawkins writes that “this fall I (703) 743-1619 shall have not one, but two grandchildren [email protected] heading to Cornell … Miranda, daughter of Jack and Simina, will graduate from St. Help us Find Lost Classmates Anthony’s in June and has been selected as a Tanner scholar at Cornell; Alex, Katie’s We need your help in fnding FA alumni son, will graduate from Friends and plans with whom the school has lost contact. on a computer science major there. You The name below is a lost alum from the may wonder how anyone related to me Class of 1959. If you have current contact could possibly qualify for anything to do information please let us know. We would with computers, but I assure you it is so. love to welcome her back to Friends Amalia, Jack’s older daughter, graduated In front of Frost Hall, circa 1958 Academy! from UPenn last June as a computer science Jane Lewis Miller ‘59 major and is currently employed as a software programmer at MongoDB. Jake, 1958 Tom’s youngest, started his freshman year John Hiatt 1960 last September at Union where he is in the 21 Brookview Drive Bob Powell Engineering program, as well as throwing the Glenmoore, PA 19343 5344 Reasor Court discus and shot put. Sam, Tom’s older son, is (610) 942-8814 Virginia Beach, VA 23464 a junior at the University of Vermont, with a [email protected] (757) 201-5525 major in Political Science and Emmie, Tom’s oldest, will graduate this June from Wellesley All is well with the Hiatts as we continue with a double major in Classics and History to try to age gracefully. Our four sons and 1961 of Art. … Nick is fnishing his sophomore six grandkids provide endless joys ... and Park Benjamin, III year at FA, and Ben, Peter’s son, is fnishing surprises, I might add. We are blessed. P. O. Box 368 8th grade at The Wellington School in Anyone remember the “Girls’ Gym” in the Oyster Bay, NY 11771 Columbus, Ohio. Both are having very basement of the main building? Some of the (516) 922-9537 successful academic experiences, probably [email protected]

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1962 Randi Reeve Filoon P.O. Box 5495 Ketchum, ID 83340 (208) 788-1734 [email protected]

The Class of 1962 mourns the loss of Caroline Meirs. Her obituary appears in the “In Memoriam” section on page 66. 1963 Barbara Shoen Brundige 35 Wood Lane Lattingtown, NY 11560 (516) 922-3944 [email protected] From left, Paula Howe, Diane Olding Stanley, Kathy Laemmle Garren, Barbara Shoen Brundige and Sally Hicks at the 1963 brunch. Paula E. Howe 4914 Eigel Street that haunted me from 7th grade through environs, we would love to have you come Houston, TX 77007-3326 graduation…(DH)...to be polite we did not for a visit! Diane Olding Stanley [dianest@ (713) 863-7541 mesh at any level. I’m going to Las Vegas optonline.net] wrote: Mel and I shared a [email protected] and continuing on to Mexico to lecture lovely Christmas season with our friend on Women’s Imaging…When I (Paula) Christine Bonneux (from Bordeaux, France) Dear classmates, the reunion fun continues asked Earl if I was mentioned as having and with our children and grandchildren. as we get more news from classmates as well the same birthday (June 12) Earl replied: We enjoyed some sun in St. Kitts and Nevis as calls from those who have seen the photos absolutely...and that you were the frst person in January. Mel is making plans to build a and want to know more about the weekend! I danced with at the Nassau dance (Miss bocce court this spring at our summer home In addition, some future “get-togethers” Stephanie). Speaking of Miss Stephanie, I north of Syracuse, N.Y. Anyone close by are in the works as well with those of us (Paula) was surprised by how many people (Arno) or even far away, is invited to join who live closer and others who plan to visit attended this class and remembered it – I us. Just e-mail us for directions. I plan to here. Please let us know if you will be in the think being at Nassau Country Club for again be in France for part of July. This year New York area and we will try and help get our reunion dinner reminded people – I I will be in Alsace, France. I will do some some other classmates together at that time!! remember Hardin Davis especially. And I short term Christian missionary work there For future Fall Fair weekends the school is remember too that Hugh Brown pulled the for France for Christ. FPC works in various having a luncheon for all of us who have had chair out from under me there when I went ways: opening closed churches, encouraging our 50th reunions during the day of the Fair. to sit down once – OUCH! News from growth in existing churches, coffee houses, This will be a wonderful way to continue Lee Cronbach [[email protected]]: Lee and visitations, distributions, street ministry seeing each other and planning some mini is now the staff keyboardist for Tagaytay at local parks and fairs, and FPC sponsors reunions!!! Keep in mind there are some United Methodist Church (Philippines). Toni gospel concerts as well. The director of FPC, really fun things to do in the area as well Naren Gates [[email protected]] reported: Jeannot Gauggel, will be staying here with as trips out east or to Manhattan. We look On Feb. 8 we celebrated…I mean really Mel and me in May for a short time while forward to seeing classmates more often!! celebrated…our daughter’s marriage! Our he visits local churches in our area. With six – Paula and BJ. News from Earl Kabnick family is expanding in the most delightful grandchildren, there is lots of babysitting [[email protected]]: I am continuing way. Lindsey went from a “girl-less” family going on! We are always doing fun outings my work in Women’s Imaging with to having two stepdaughters, and her 9-year- with them and our adult children as well. concentration on osteoporosis. I recently old son, an only child, is thrilled to have Well, that’s all the news that I can think of at discovered my diaries that date back to 4th stepsisters. Wonderfully, we were friends the moment. I always love to hear news from grade and continued through my residency with our son-in-law’s parents before we ever FA Alumni, so keep in touch! Elin Mainwaring in Radiology. I was struck by my actual met David. Must say, we all seem to party Richards [[email protected]] shared: Many attention to details. For example frst date in well together! Of course, Nancy Wadsworth thanks again for all you and BJ did to make 4th grade was Christine Godfrey. We went Hanna and her husband, Ali, joined the our 50th Reunion such a success! I look ice skating...there were also a lot of rhetorical festivities. They’ve known Lindsey since back on it now with a pang of longing to questions: English teacher 7th grade was a she was just an embryo and in attendance at experience it all over again. It was great to German (Kyle Keith), our civics teacher THEIR wedding! I truly hated to miss the see my classmates and to feel so welcomed was a Frenchman (Andres), and our math reunion. The pictures sure captured everyone despite leaving after my sophomore year. teacher was an Estonian who was pretty hard having a very, very good time! Anyone My two years at Friends, though brief, had on the ears. There was a segment on my who happens to be roaming around the a permanent, positive impact on my life. favorite teacher Mr. Stevens and a teacher Adirondacks in the summer(s) or nearby Reunion made me feel as though I were

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returning to a deeper, truer part of myself. respond by phone or e-mail per my profle. Fifty years seemed almost to melt away and Looking forward to seeing your (not really) Love Friends? Then “Like” Friends at life seemed flled with the possible rather old faces again!” – Sue facebook.com/friendsacademyNY! than the past. My family was not Quaker, although I knew it had been generations Help us Find Lost Classmates ago on my mother’s Case side. Last month Additionally, we need your help in fnding Meeting House. I never want the class of while pursuing my genealogical research, FA alumni with whom the school has lost 1968 to be blank. I haven’t edited much from I discovered that I am a direct descendant contact. The names below are lost alumni your replies as this way the class can see of the Quaker heroine Provided Southwick, from the Class of 1964. If you have current what you all were thinking. Onto our 50th whose story is told in John Greenleaf contact information please let us know. We reunion in 2018! Kathy Attridge Anas stays Whittier’s ballad, “Cassandra Southwick.” In would love to welcome them back to Friends in touch all the time and she shared this Puritan Massachusetts, her parents, Lawrence Academy! quote for the class – very fun: “Classmates, and Cassandra Southwick, were persecuted, give Les a break and be forthcoming with Mary Yawger Bromley ‘64 imprisoned, and banished in 1659 to Shelter some facet or event in your life, now or Norman Hagen ‘64 Island, where they perished after a harsh past. No one but Lesley stepped up to the winter. To satisfy the heavy fnes levied plate to do the job she has willingly done against the family, Provided and a brother 1965 all these years. I suggested she resign the position but we all know Les will die with were ordered sold into slavery to “any Robert D. Tilden commitment on her mind and pen or IPad in Christian in Virginia or Barbados.” She was 3640 County Road 16 hand. So share something with her we all probably the only white woman in America Montour Falls, NY 14865 can enjoy. All of us were very privileged ever threatened with slavery for religious (607) 535-2217 to have attended FA. Please share some reasons. It’s quite a story! [email protected] updated news we can all laugh or cry about, but be proactive for all of us and especially 1964 Turn to page 30 to read about life-long for Lesley!” And that is a direct quote from professional musician and collector of Suzanne Notides Melzig Kathy Attridge Anas. Greg Tarone shares: “I traditional American folk music Jeff Davis in 104 E. Hillcrest Ave. recently heard from Todd Smith, who lives in our profle of FA alumni artists. Richmond, VA 23226 Tucson, and had a nice catch-up chat after (804) 358-7626 many years being out of touch. We mourn [email protected] the loss of our All-American friend, Hank 1966 Banach, and plan to meet up when Todd and The Class of 1964 mourns the loss of Shelley Helen Lotowycz Rising his family will be nearby at Candlewood Galehouse Broven. Her obituary appears in the 98 South Bay Avenue Lake in Connecticut for the summer. We “In Memoriam” section on page 67. Turn Brightwaters, NY 11718 both shared how much we appreciate the to page 27 to read about Great Neck painter (631) 666-0135 experience we had at Friends Academy and Nina Stein Wolf in our profle of FA alumni [email protected] its positive influence on us – a common artists. Mark your calendars for the October sentiment expressed by most alumni I have 17-19 weekend for our 50th Reunion. In Rick Barr reports that he is working on a book, encountered. Now, I decided to try and fact, plan to come on the 16th so you won’t Irene Means Peace, with his childhood friend attend four 50th reunions in a row, beginning miss any of it. There is a lunch on campus Pastor Dick Kretchmar. Rick writes, “My with Todd’s Class of ‘66, to catch up with both days and we have a dinner at Stangos frst book, Play the Game! is all about fve more people at Friends when I was there. in Glen Cove on Friday night and a dinner at strategies we face in the essential conflict of Maybe more of our classmates would enjoy the Creek Club Saturday night. Lesley Birkett Life and Death.” that, too!” Karin Neilson shares: Hi, Lesley. Jacobs will organize Friday night’s dinner, News? Well, Dad passed away on Feb. 4th and her e-mail is lesleybjacobs@gmail. 1967 and my brothers and I have been busy ever com. Contact her for more information and since, sifting through decades of accumulated Diana Dickson-Witmer to sign up to attend. There is also Meeting for possessions. It’s given us some opportunities 24 Brendle Lane Worship on Sunday morning. Betsy Malcolm to laugh together but mostly it’s been just Greenville, DE 19807 Eklof and Gail Spencer Chase will be contacting a very busy time. I will send more news (302) 656-1190 you with more details but it’s not too soon for the next issue; hope all is well with [email protected] to make a reservation. The Glen Cove everyone. Susan Abrams Butler shared with Mansion has a senior rate and an AAA rate. me on Facebook that “daughter Meagan Lee Both are better than a group rate. Looking 1968 Butler is now Dr. Meagan Butler. She got forward to seeing a lot of classmates and her degree from the University of Glasgow, Lesley L. Graham also celebrating the 50th Homecoming. Call Scotland. My son Jared graduated from 615 NW Murphy Blvd. me or e-mail me with any questions. Jeffrey Brooklyn College Magna Cum Laude in Joplin, MO 64801 Bloom is gearing up for the big 5-0. He Anthropology. He’s taking time to travel (417) 781-1858 writes: “We are in our 50th anniversary before going to grad school (at least for [email protected] year and I am feeling nostalgic (translate: now). Megs is coming home in July and job old). It is early to ask, but I would love to hunting or might go back to Glasgow to do Here we go again. As always, I appreciate hear from anyone who is planning to attend a post doc. Other than that our engineering any news from the class to report for The our reunion. I am on Facebook and you can frm is going well. That’s about all.” It’s fun

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to occasionally see the latest on Facebook for daughter, Nicole, is in her third year of Anne Maher and family, Liz and Bob Rushmore residency at NRH in Washington, D.C. as she and Bob Piro along with his family events. prepares to become a physiatrist (PM&R) Paul Hand shares, “Basically I have nothing and, in her spare time, gave birth to Stella, after that awesome article Kathy Fox did the frst grandchild on both sides of the for me. It is amazing how life is treating us family. Nicole’s husband, David, graduated all. I am still crazy after all these years. On from his medical residency program and is March 28, I celebrated my 64th BD and all now an attending psychiatrist with the U.S. I can ask is: ‘Will you still need me, will Navy, working at Camp LeJeune in North your still feed me, when I’m 64? God I hope Carolina. Mary Baird is still living in Atlanta so!’ Brian C. I miss you, we had so much fun where she has run The Baird Company together.” Had a wonderful Christmas card for over 25 years, providing marketing from John Malcolm saying he is very busy research and strategy to banks and mortgage with his position with the Legislature and all companies. It’s hard to believe that it’s been is well in Vermont. “Come on by for a visit.” 10 years since her older sister, Connie, lost Peg Springsted Weiner also shared a Christmas her battle to cancer. But, it’s given Mary letter that her family is thriving. Her three and Dave the opportunity to be grandparents sons have wonderful careers and lives. Peg without ever having kids of their own. still enjoys her art work and has donated Connie’s youngest son, Evan, and his wife many pieces to local hospitals in San Diego. FA takes the mound in 1969. Sophie have three boys – Hudson, Easton She and Ken traveled to India and life is and Ellis - to whom they are Grand Mary and grand. Sally Rising Dean sent a fabulous photo and make sure we get lots of news next time. Grand Dave. In April, Melissa Moody ran a card with her four darling grandchildren Be sure to send me your most recent email two-day workshop in Austin on natural vision belonging to daughter Carrie and son Micah. address for future correspondence. Have a improvement where she instructs on lifestyle, Jim Evans shares: “I am continuing to enjoy wonderful rest of 2014. workplace and environmental stressors in retirement. It is so great to get up in the modern life that compromise visual health morning, which is at an earlier time than 1969 and function, leading to poor eyesight. when I was working, and realize that I do The class is experiential, offering specifc Jane Forelle Casey not have to get ready for work. Even better techniques that include relief for computer 49 Bay Drive is that I do not have the daily stress coupled and digital eyestrain, making reading easier Annapolis, MD 21403 with the demands of the job. I never knew and reducing dependency on eyeglasses. I [email protected] that working in higher education could be wish I could have attended, recently fnding 203-570-1866 more stressful than working at the secondary the need to up my reading glasses to 2.5 if level. I am planning to visit friends on I want to see what I’m knitting! Bob and Turn to page 39 to read about painter and arts Long Island from May 20 to 28 (over the I have been in Annapolis for almost two educator Lucy Gould Reitzfeld in our profle Memorial Day Weekend). I have not been years and I’m still commuting to Blyth in of FA alumni artists. I hope these notes back to Long Island for a couple of years! CT which is not nearly as bad as it sounds. fnd those of you living in the Northeast Otherwise, there is not too much else new to The once-a-week trip on Amtrak really does and mid-Atlantic region having survived report. I hope that our class can put together beat the daily commute on I-95 I left behind. a nasty winter. It’s been nearly 20 years a great 50th Reunion. I am looking forward With Taylor a sophomore at Brown, we’re since we’ve had so much cold weather and to making that one! As for me nothing has awash in Amtrak and Southwest points. I I, for one, welcome the sun that’s bouncing changed since last news; life remains tranquil transitioned out of the Treasurer role into off the Chesapeake and streaming into in Joplin, MO. I am enjoying retirement. Investor Relations, which allows me to work my offce window. Judith Fox Javelly had Will plan a Graham family reunion with remotely sometimes. However, I’ve also much to celebrate last year. Her son, Alex, brother Todd ’67 and his family this spring. I picked up some other functions that have graduated from GW law school, passed the always hear from my favorite history teacher kept me totally engaged and plan to renew NY State bar and is living in NYC, having Robbie Thomas during the holidays and my apt. lease for another year. Thankfully, joined the law frm of Pillsbury Winthrop all is well with his family. One of the best Bob works at the nearby RBC Wealth Shaw Pittman. Before embarking on his friendships that came out of my teaching Management offce and holds down the fort new career, he and his dad had a father-son years was with Kal and Judy Wynot. We during the week. Taylor’s off to Beijing celebration in Spain where they explored the stay in touch and it has been such fun to this summer and I’m looking forward to “Ham Trail,” searching for the world-famous see the three Wynot boys all grown up with getting back to rowing and enjoying leisurely “Bellota” ham. Judith writes that they shared such fabulous families. As diffcult as it is paddles in the bay on my SUP. This year amazing adventures, fabulous meals and collecting news from all of you, it still gives marks 45 years since we graduated from great sightseeing and, along the way, Bernard me pleasure hearing from you and sharing “Old FA” so let me hear from anyone that’s taught Alex how to drive a stick shift. But, with the class. Friends Academy is very near interested in a get-together on Homecoming there was much more. Judith and Bernard’s and dear to my heart as I went K-12 and then weekend, Oct 17-19. Best contact is rjntkc@ taught for 5 years after college. Who could gmail.com. Also, please join our Facebook ask for anything better? The friendships are Don’t just follow Friends Academy... group to share news and post updates. the best after all these years. Stay in touch @ | RT | # us at twitter.com/FAtoday Help us Find Lost Classmates

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We need your help in fnding FA alumni with whom the school has lost contact. The names below are lost alumni from the Class of 1969. If you have current contact information please let us know. We would love to welcome them back to Friends Academy! Linda Hawkins Carlisle ‘69 Roger Mack ‘69 1970 Deborah Gianelli 587 Highland Avenue Montclair, NJ 07043 973- 655-1011 [email protected] 1971 If anyone from the Class of 1971 would like 1970s smiles in 1972... to be the class representative, please contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! daughter Melissa plan her summer wedding.” son Kevin and his fiancée recently became Francie B-B Thompson writes, “On Maui for homeowners and are planning (presumably) month of April. Life is good.” Aloha. Philippe an October wedding. (Claire reminds me that 1972 Bennett writes, “Happy to say that Susan, as the groom’s mother, I need to “shut up and Karen Spero Albers John and I have seen each other and have de- wear beige,” which has become my mantra!) 2513 Harris Avenue cidedly lessened the shock of this momentous My son Kyle is majoring in Biochemistry Richland, WA 99354-1637 milestone with good food and a few drinks. at Washington State University and wants (509) 375-5356 Also, Susan and John have been kind enough to pursue a Ph.D in Medical Health Phys- [email protected] to help and advise me on the production of a ics. I split my time between Washington and documentary for Harvard fencing 125-year Northern California, where my husband John Happy Birthday to all of you FABULOUS anniversary!” Susan Johnson Banta writes, continues to work. I’m still involved in child sexagenarians! (And thank you, Kevin, for “I’m back in the saddle after a long stretch of advocacy and was recently elected as the coining the term!) As we start a new decade raising four kids and serving on local com- Finance Officer for the WA State PTA. Plans of adventure, keep in mind the words of So- munity boards. I’m working with Stewart for our sexagenarian birthday bash are in phia Loren, “There is a fountain of youth: it Brand (Whole Earth Catalog) The Long Now progress. Check your e-mail or Facebook (FA is your mind, your talents, the creativity you Foundation Revive & Restore project – the Class of ’72 Reunion) for details. Be sure to bring to your life and the lives of people you de-extinction of the Heath Hen and bringing send me your most recent email address for love. When you learn to tap this source, you back this extinct species to Martha’s Vine- future correspondence. Warm regards. - Karen will truly have defeated age.” Mike Della Ratta yard. I’m the community development con- writes, “Hi all. After 34 years of the salary sultant. Interesting work.” Congratulations to 1973 man’s life, of which 24 have been in Japan John Mankiewicz, co-producer and writer of (Yikes!), I joined the ranks of the evil con- the Netflix original series “House of Cards” Laura Wicker Hackett sultants who prey upon foreign companies (which, by the way, stars fellow FA alum, 2420 Chatham Court that mistook Japan for a normal country. This Sebastian Arcelus ’95). If you haven’t had the State College, PA 16803 was supposed to be a “downshifting” move opportunity to watch it, you are in for a treat. (814) 238-7661 but resulted in two simultaneous jobs so I am Do we see an Emmy in his future? Also con- [email protected] busier than ever. Fortunately, I can do much gratulations to our fearless classmate Susan of my work from my home near Mt. Fuji Schulman, who has been documenting the Read about two artists from the class of with occasional trips to Tokyo. I had a bit of violence in the Congo for many years. She 1973: visual artist James Boorstein on page a scare with prostate cancer a few months was featured by Nicholas Kristof of the NY 28 and sculptor and arts educator Jeff Hull on ago. I thought eating tons of soy products Times in April for her “Photos of Survival page 36. Bill Dudjoc – along with the rest of us would render me immune. Not true! Success- in Congo.” http://kristof.blogs.nytimes. in the north – is tired of winter. Winter/spring ful surgery in Tokyo so all’s well that ends com/2014/04/02/photos-of-survival-in-con- issue? How about the winter/winter issue lol. well. Well, not the end yet. Cheers.” Claire go. As for me, I am living la dolce vita. My Supposed to be 50 where I am going today Sieburg Hribar is a jet-setting grandma travel- in New Jersey. It is the frst outdoor ride for ing often to the west coast, “My identical the New Jersey Chapter of Team in Training. twin grandsons, the loves of my life, have Bookmark www.fa.org/alumni I have a selfsh reason for riding with them turned 4. I’ve also been busy helping my for the latest news and reunion pics this year. My cousin Steve Gurnis was a

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member and he passed away last September in the “service excellence” arena. One of and I will be riding in his place. I have my patients not too long ago is a graduate 1974 formed a cycle team for the Closer to Free of FA.We had a nice time catching up and Evette Beckett-Tuggle ride to beneft the Smillow Cancer Center it was a good distraction from his post- 1338 Shinnecock Lane at Yale/New Haven Hospital. http://www. surgical pain!! We are enjoying life as empty Fort Mill, SC 29707 rideclosertofree.org. We will be riding in nesters. We get to visit our kids and our home: 803-431-7898 memory of my wife’s brother-in-law, Jim two grandsons on the west coast regularly cell: 516-840-5236 Minella, who lost his battle with cancer on which was the essential survival tactic for [email protected] January 5th. If you are interested in cycling this unending and gruesome winter.” Jeffrey 100 miles for a really great cause…Please Hull reports, “Our oldest daughter Kimberly join our team: http://www.rideclosertofree. exchanged wedding vows on October 9th, Help us Find Lost Classmates org/team/Minella. Not a lot is happening 2013 with Will Granich of Jefferson We need your help in fnding FA alumni with since the last time. I can see by the last City, Missouri in an intimate church whom the school has lost contact. The names Meeting House that not a lot happening with wedding followed by a beautiful below are lost alumni from the Class of everyone else either. Do you think social 5 p.m. beach ceremony on Hilton Head 1974. If you have current contact information media has a little to do with that? I was Island, with the Atlantic Ocean serving as please let us know. We would love to sorry to have missed the 40th reunion but backdrop. Our youngest daughter Brandi welcome them back to Friends Academy! when you have a job (Newington Bicycle) was the Maid of Honor, and our son Chris Brian Connelly ‘74 that only lasts 8 months out of the year, you was a Groomsman. Following a honeymoon James Luttrell ‘74 have to take what you can get...when you in Aruba, Kim and Will returned to Macon, Jill Marks ‘74 can get it. On a fantastic note, Cindy and Georgia where Kim works as an investigator Gregory Van Raalte ‘74 I are celebrated our 32nd anniversary on for the Department of Justice, and Will is March 12th. How she put up with me for so a Professional Environmental Engineer long I’ll never know. Jim Robinson writes, with the frm Hodges, Harbin, Newberry, 1975 “Sorry to have missed another reunion due to & Tribble.” Jeffrey Leach writes that he has short notice and my only child’s graduation been selected to be a Mobile Champion by Tilde Mariani Giacché from U.S. Naval Academy followed by our his company, Oracle. “A Mobile Champion Salita Falconara, 11 road trip to Pensacola where Bond is in explains our Mobile Strategy and provides 19032 San Terenzo di Lerici naval pilot training. Traci and I moved back architectural guidance to our customers and La Spezia to Dallas last year after a year in Austin. sales teams on any mobile platform.” He Italy We have executed the great downsizing was also made sales consultant of the quarter 339-260-1874 within the same zip code; we have lived in and as Jeffrey explains, “one slide was [email protected] Dallas since 2005. Smaller home gutted and dedicated to me in the Quarterly Business updated and now we can walk to dozens of Review. My sales counterpart went 453% Turn to page 37 to read about choral singer restaurants, movies, et al. I suspect a number over quota and he stood up and clapped when and cabaret chanteuse Robin Beckhard in of us have been in a career transition at some my name was mentioned. You may want to our profle of FA alumni artists. Penelope point and mine began late 2009 following look at my summary on LinkedIn to see my Wylie Mayer reports in: “Christopher and I twenty years at ABC Radio. Four years updated story, including things I did for our had the surreal experience of attending later I am pleased with the road I am on. I military that I could not say until now. It Augusta’s graduation from FA in June. It work from a home offce where I developed was a pleasure to serve our government and was so different from our graduation! It was a signifcant radio talent agency business the military that protects it in the past.” Cliff really entertaining, in a cool tent and they representing a couple dozen top market Gardner’s life is “fne here in California. I had caps and gowns in the school colors! morning show personalities. Particularly spent an evening with David Rosenberg in San (Does anyone know why ours were blue and pleased to have created a business I can do Diego a few months back – we had a blast white? Bothers me still.) Anyway, it was a from anywhere for as long as I might choose although he did feign a leg injury to avoid lovely event. So, we are now empty nesters! while integrating the proverbial balance of playing tennis. Kris Horvath, Ray Goodrich Augusta has gone off to St. Lawrence non-work interests and pleasures.” News and I have tried to plan a mini-reunion down University. She was recruited to play golf from Kathy Neisloss Leventhal: “Timing is in Florida, though it has not yet come to for the Women’s team and had a great fall everything... I had dinner just last night with pass. And Cille Koch and I had a great lunch season. Christopher also had a great golf Denise Levitt Chernoff ’72 who was in NYC together after the reunion in Mill Valley season culminating with a team win for the for the weekend. We are still very good when she was out visiting her brother.” My Creek Club against six other teams played friends and we revel in the good ol’ carefree thoughts are turning to retirement these days. at Mid Ocean Club in Bermuda. One of days whenever we get together. I am Charlie has been retired for two years, and Christopher’s teammates is married to Laurie working at the Hospital for Special Surgery our frst grandchild is due shortly. A new Bruckner Bastis ‘74, so there were a few olden chapter is beginning! The class of 1972 day FA stories shared! Christopher and I is having a mini-reunion this summer, to also met Matt and Vicky Chesler Kovner on Turn to the Red & Black channel at celebrate their collective 60th birthdays. Any their new yacht and had a raucous time on youtube.com/friendsacademyschool interest in doing the same next year? the high seas this past summer. Christopher has been traveling non-stop since October, but we were able to steal a week on St. Croix between snowstorms in March.” For almost two years now, Betsy Bober Polivy has

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in treatment and many of us do for quite a while. My life is full of art, love and social justice volunteering. What more could anyone want? I blog about the journey at LivinglyDying. My best to all and I encourage that everyone become experts on early diagnosis – it is tricky but can be done. http://livinglydying.com/” Susan Weinstein Dobuler lives in New Haven, CT, and has for many years. She is a child psychologist, in private practice, at Yale. Elizabeth Boyle, followed the route so many of us take too long to do, by leaving New York to move South. She has settled at Sullivans Island, outside of Charleston, SC, one of the truly quaint and beautiful places in this country. Your love of art and photography, Liz, will serve you well in your new digs. One of the best parts of my job is that I travel to most anywhere to see people. So it was when I caught up with Cindy Colombo Robinson in Charlotte, NC in February. We had a great lunch trying to ft 35 years into about two hours. Suffce it to say, we didn’t get it all done, but will continue to try in the future. Cindy is a real estate attorney, and Charlotte is one of the fastest growing metros in the US. She has three children. A daughter,

KATHY FOX/friends academy Rachel, has graduated from North Carolina- Kimi Puntillo ’75 at Middle School Career Day Chapel Hill, and is a schoolteacher. Sons Jason and Jordan, are a junior and freshman been walking the side streets of Manhattan respectively, at UNC Wilmington and documenting each and every shop, boutique, 1976 Catawba College in North Carolina. I caught restaurant, bar, garden, museum and so Nancy Toher Hawkins up with Steve Mills when the Knicks came to much more. She began walking and biking 123 Duck Pond Road Dallas in January. Steve was brought back to the frst 100 streets of Manhattan’s iconic Glen Cove, NY 11542 the Knicks in September to be their General grid, from the East River to the Hudson. (516) 671-8977 Manager, and even though Phil Jackson has She continues to re-walk every street as [email protected] now been brought in to oversee the basketball Manhattan Sideways introduces readers to operations, Steve will still be responsible for one street at a time, every few weeks. There the day-to-day running of the team. I was are fabulous photos, video interviews and 1977 hoping to see Steve when the Mavericks write-ups. It is her hope that Manhattan Chuck Cooperstein came to town in February, but we didn’t Sideways will encourage people to get off the 1332 Coral Drive connect. Steve, you still owe me the $.05 avenues and to explore the side streets. Her Coppell, TX 75019 tour to show me what $1 billion can get you ultimate goal is to give more exposure to the (972) 393-2160 when you refurbish a building like Madison side street businesses. Please check out the [email protected] Square Garden. Which leaves me. It’s hard site manhattansideways.com to see what she to believe that 30 years ago in August, I set has achieved thus far. Friends Academy’s Hello 77ers. Not much response from you, out for Dallas, confdent in my ability, eager Middle School Career Day this past March but from those I have heard from/seen/talked to see a place I’d never seen, but hardly was a huge success thanks to the efforts of to, here goes… Marcy Westerling writes believing that it would turn into home. Yet, Penelope Wylie Mayer who spearheaded the in with “A little note to my classmates … except for a 16-month stint in Philadelphia event. The day began with a keynote speech It’s been decades since I have visited the in 1992-93, Dallas has been my home, and from sports writer Kimi Puntillo. She spoke campus of Friends Academy but I have fond in the broadcast business that simply doesn’t to FA’s middle schoolers about pursuing a memories and track school progress. Friends happen. I’ve been just amazingly lucky that career in news and sports journalism. Kimi, gave me such tools for life! I relocated to I’ve only made those two moves (to and from who was the frst woman to run a marathon Oregon after college, became a community Philadelphia). I love the people. The sports. on every continent in the world landing her organizer founding the Rural Organizing And yes, the weather (even when it’s 105 in the Guinness Book of World Records, Project, a non-proft I still actively volunteer in August, or icing over in January). I’m currently teaches journalism and multimedia with. Four years ago I was diagnosed with fnishing my ninth year as the radio play-by- communications at St. John’s University. terminal ovarian cancer. It was bleak news play announcer for the Dallas Mavericks. She is the author of the book Great Races, but I have since realized that you can live The job is as great as it ever was. Every part Incredible Places.

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of it. The preparation. The travel, and, yes, awkward than anyone at this task. As a result, which is frequent). Karen is a Tax Director the games. You may love your job, but no I offer you this “Mad Lib” version of “class with Grant Thornton in their Private Wealth one, I promise, loves their job more than notes.” I thought it might simplify your Services division. Other than running around I do. My wife, Karen, and I will celebrate efforts in light of how busy everyone must for work, etc., not much is going on. I our 4th anniversary in August with a return be. Use this template if it helps; add to it as promise to let you know the next time I’m trip to Turks and Caicos. We have, indeed, you see ft. Looking forward to any and all going to be “up north.” I really enjoyed found our beach. Karen is a part owner of correspondence from you! Love, Lis Dillof seeing you and the rest of the group back in her PR frm (Cooksey Communications), Dreizen and Tom Hawkins Hey all! Life October, and in the weeks afterward I very and her frm has been recognized by the U.S. is adj in place where you live where it’s vividly remembered how much all of my Chamber of Commerce as one of the top been adj as usual. I have been adv working classmates meant/mean to me. All the best, 100 small businesses in the nation. I get to at noun where it is always adj. In my free Bill (Buck). From Lynn Gardner Stack: Lis, be her plus-one in Washington, DC in June time, I verb and verb when the weather Thanks for helping Tom keep up with all of when she accepts the award. My son, Jeffrey, is adj. I’ve been in touch with name of our FA friends. The reunion was great fun turned 18 in February, and will be attending a another FA Alum and talked about plural and I’d love to keep in touch with folks. As community college in the fall before enrolling noun and how adj we have become. We are for news, I live in CT with my husband, at the University of North Texas in Denton making plans to verb in the near future. Hope Richard, and two dogs. My eldest daughter in January. Would love to hear from more of everyone is adj. Best regards! News from Lis lives in Brooklyn and works for an Internet you. I’m found in many places. My e-mail is Dillof Dreizen…Hey all! Life is good here in start-up. An artist, illustrator, writer, [email protected]. I’m on Twitter at @ Huntington, where this record-breaking choreographer and dancer, she’s coopmavs. And I’m on Facebook. Let me winter has educated us in some new snow currently writing a novel in her spare time. know what you’re up to. I’d love to know, removal techniques along with the greater My younger daughter is spending four and I think your fellow 77ers would too. safety strategies for avoiding the hazards of months studying in the Balkans, chiefly in black ice. I’m still painting, showing my Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina. An work at the b.j. spoke Art Gallery here in International Studies major concentrating on 1978 town along with an upcoming show in May at peace building and conflict resolution across Thomas Hawkins the family home of Walt Whitman, also in borders, she’s in her junior year at the College 123 Duck Pond Road Huntington. Speaking of art, this year, as it of Charleston, which she loves. Alex, my Glen Cove, NY 11542 marks the 50th anniversary of the Friends stepson, migrated to San Diego where he is a (516) 671-8977 Academy Homecoming, I will be working Project Manager with a large commercial [email protected] with Joy Lai, head of Upper School art at FA, construction company by day and often surfs in celebrating the talents and inspirations of after work – lucky guy – and my Lis Dillof Dreizen ‘78 Friends Academy Alumni Artists. Please join stepdaughter, Chrissy, graduates this spring 11 Cobb Ct. us, either by sharing your artwork with us from University of Indiana, with a degree in Huntington, NY 11743 (please contact me at [email protected]) or psychology. As for me, I’m a marketing 631-424-3880 -home stop by during the Fall Fair (October 18th) to communications professional, freelance [email protected] see the wonderful work we have curated at editorial writer and content developer, and the Dolan Center Art Gallery. This event will Richard’s with a fnancial services frm. Dear Class of ’78, I hope that this note fnds include an open house reception for all who We’re big outdoor people and you all doing well. This year I will be joining wish to attend. I am hoping to be environmentalists. All in all, life is good. Tom in gathering together class notes from accompanied by our little grandson, Weston Hope all is well with you. Happy Spring ...it’s you. As for those folks that we have recently Sawyer Howell (born August 25, 2013) and just around the corner, or so they say. seen through the various alumni meet-ups, it his parents, Eric and Olivia Dreizen Howell ’03. From Barry Pailet: Hey all! Life is good, but would be great if you could just give us a Our daughter Jenny ‘05 will be sharing her art busy up in Boston. Working as Sr. Manager little refresher course in your life, as the work with us in the Alumni Art Show, and with Blue Cross Blue Shield memory isn’t what it used to be. For those of son Collin ‘09, will be helping out with some of MA & juggling coaching youth sports, you we haven’t recently heard from, we of the reception arrangements. Hope to see volunteering, etc. Taking a family service would love to hear what you are up to. you there! Bill Hodson writes: News from here trip to the Dominican Republic in April to Anything at all will do; where you are is that we are all fne. Karen and I are still teach English in the school system and then a currently residing, what you are interested in, living in Burlington, NC but we now go back 2-week Alaska adventure this summer. your job, a hobby, a new philosophy, a new and forth to our place in Delray Beach, Looking forward to the annual concert and interest, an observation you would like to FL. We celebrated our 30th wedding fshing excursion with Mark Janoska in the share with us, a goal for the future, a new anniversary in February. Hard to months ahead. Best regards to you all and let food you have discovered, what your family believe. Our son (Nicholas) and daughter me know if you’re ever heading to the Boston is up to, etc... I realize that jotting down a (Christina) are back home with us, but area. Meg Flynn Frost writes: I managed to brief description of your life is more diffcult Nicholas is waiting to hear of his acceptance catch up with some of you when Ian and I that one might assume, as I am perhaps more to law school, and Christina is getting her were in NYC in December. We had a great masters and working in retail fashion. I run a time watching the years fall away – and by reinsurance intermediary company based in that I mean about 35 of them, since that is Love Friends? Then “Like” Friends at Greenville, SC and go back and forth about how long it has been since I have seen facebook.com/friendsacademyNY! between here (NC), Greenville, and Florida most of my FA classmates. We just moved (when not traveling elsewhere for business, back into our London house, after a six-

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month refurbishment and it feels like a completely new place. The downside being that we have spent all of our cash and will therefore be holidaying this year in our living room. Anyone who wants to pop over to London and say hello will be most welcome. Anne Swezy Mallory writes from Albuquerque, NM: “I live in the desert and miss the ocean.” She has two grown sons (one who is on tour 10 months of the year as a show electrician with the musical “Ghost”), who are also great friends and she is patiently waiting for either one of them to make her a grandma. Craig Wheeler is living in Kennesaw, Georgia with his 10-year-old daughter. He works as an independent contractor selling medical software, and enjoys travel and sports. Much to our delight, Vanessa Fromm Holloschutz and Sara Klocke Scarfone did a bit of detective work and actually located Dinah Huntoon and Kathy Drasher, both of whom are living in New York. We all had a delightful meal in the village followed by a wonderful dessert at the home of Kathy and her husband Bob Deutsch, who is an anthropologist and author, his most recent book being The Five Essentials. Sara is “living in Greenwich, two KATHY FOX/friends academy boys – one high school, one college (and a Peter Stein ’79 with Kim Colombo Aberman ’94 at Middle School Career Day with FA middle schoolers husband!). I have really enjoyed all the hither, thither and yon for basketball. She’s a out other tasks for the class and school. offcial and unoffcial reunions this year.” sophomore at Sidwell Friends which has a Everyone’s support and involvement through Vanessa is enjoying her family as well as her similar vibe to FA, so it’s weird being on the the years was heartening. There are no words business, “Ridgewood Needlepoint,” which is parent-side of things now. I miss living in NY to describe the pleasure of bringing everyone located in Wyckoff, New Jersey. Here and I’m actively thinking/planning on moving together, seeing the smiles and hearing the Vanessa carries any and all needlepoint back after my daughter graduates HS. I like laughter as if no time had lapsed at all since supplies for all levels of needlepoint crafters. DC and Maryland (where we live), but it just graduation.” If anyone from the Class of “Among the most popular activities held at doesn’t feel like home. Hope you all save a 1979 is interested in taking over the reins, the store, the “stitch and chat,” is an place for me. I’ll be calling on some of my please contact us at [email protected]. We “informal class where students sit around a former classmates in a couple of years to beg would love to hear from you! Three members table with one of the staff members and work for job assistance! Hope I can prevail upon of the Class of 1979 returned to their alma on their projects.” Sounds a bit like our 6th some of you to have a get-together whenever mater for Middle School Career Day. Peter grade afterschool “Knitting Club!” Greg I do make it up to NY. Stein, Chief of the Hand Surgery Division Andrea, a partner in the frm of Andrea Baker at North Shore/LIJ Hospital and Kim Colombo Architects, participated in Middle School Aberman ’94, an operating nurse at North Career Day this past March, and introduced 1979 Shore/LIJ , wowed current FA students by students to the overall design process, from Pamela Picoli showing them everything from rib spreaders conception to fnish. Susan Francolini Jordan 1033 Bedford Avenue and x-rays to how to repair broken bones; lives with her husband in Virginia where she Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33403 and although a number of students left the is a dedicated RN in Charlottesville. Susan 561-627-5480 “operating room” with colorful casts, they was all ready to attend our reunion but sent [email protected] were removed before they got home, so as regrets, having undergone hand surgery at the Pamela Picoli not to alarm their parents! Alexandra Troy last minute. So sorry to have missed you, Many thanks to who is stepping down from her role as class rep. Beattie also participated in Middle School Susan, and greatly looking forward to Career Day, and certainly knows the way seeing you at our next gathering! Leslie We cannot thank you enough! Pam writes of her experience as class rep, “As Class to middle schoolers’ hearts – through their Garner writes: “I’m still a public servant, stomachs! She entertained the class with emphasis on the servant part right now. I’ve Representative the past twenty years for the Class of 1979, I would like to express my “The Sweet Life of Catering” – a delicious been an attorney with the SEC since 1999. cooking demonstration which delighted the Before that, I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn thanks to the members of the class as well as to the Alumni Association for encouraging me hungry students. And fnally real estate agent and NYC for 7 years. I have a 15-year-old Maggie Keats showed the middle schoolers daughter (soon to be 16) who is an avid and to be your spokesperson through the years. I have thoroughly enjoyed this role particularly just how relevant her profession is to them talented basketball player. This is where by explaining how a realtor uses math, much of my free time disappears – taking her when it came time to coordinating reunions, compiling class notes as well as carrying geography and even art to sell homes.

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Help us Find Lost Classmates In preparation for the Class of 1979’s 35th reunion, we need your help in fnding FA alumni with whom the school has lost contact. The names below are lost alumni from the Class of 1979. If you have current contact information please let us know. We would love to welcome them back to Friends Academy! Cathy Jordan ’79 Margaret Irwin Madden ‘79 Gregory Peirez ‘79 1980 Michael Salzhauer Benjamin Partners 589 Broadway Captain Jonathan Christian ‘82, front row, third from left, stands next to General Dick Myers, CJCS in New York, NY 10012 Baghdad. (212) 744-7974 [email protected] synopsis of what he’s been up to: are my life. Devoted husband to Sarah; a “Greetings from sunny and WARM Florida. super lady who offers more love, lasagna, It is diffcult to fathom how many years and loyalty than I deserve. Talk about lucky! 1981 have passed since we enjoyed the (almost) Following retirement from 25 years of active Betsy Jordan Gahagan care-free life at FA. Well ... let’s just say duty, I continued serving our country as a PO Box 12 that I was blessed to have an amazing career Program Manager for Raytheon Corporation 142 Skunks Misery Road as a senior Naval Offcer: Promoted to the overseeing U.S. and Coalition training in Iraq Locust Valley, NY 11560 rank of Captain, three Command-at-Sea and Kuwait and a few other vacation spots (516) 759-6697 assignments aboard the most sophisticated in Afghanistan. But the sea still “called” me [email protected] ships in the world with the greatest men and, last year I left the sands of Iraq for the and women in our nation and Navy. Won last time and began another career at Crowley Robert Blechman the Navy’s “Shiphandler of the Year” Maritime Corporation in Jacksonville, Florida 42 South Knoll Road competition, served as a “Commodore” of as Manager of Marine Personnel. I’m now Mill Valley, CA 94941 fve ships and Fleet Task Force Commander, charged with overseeing 70 ships and nearly (415) 810-8889 selected as the Briefer for the Chairman 2,000 mariners throughout the world. So [email protected] of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) during fortunate to be from FA and honored to have Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, and as served you, our families and country for The Class of 1981 mourns the loss of Alice required, went to war more than once to almost three decades. Despite the personal Irwin Barnes. Her obituary appears in the “In defend our nation’s interests. Saw the world, hardships and sacrifces, I would do it again Memoriam” section on page 70. drove fast ships, helped many; I couldn’t in a NY minute.” I think we speak for the ask for better. It is what I was called to do. class as a whole when we say “Well done! More importantly, I’m blessed to have an And thank you for all you’ve done for our 1982 amazing family: Loving “Daddy” to twin nation, Jonathan!” Peter St. Wecker writes, Leslie Oren & Michael Poloukhine girls, Hannah Grace and Sophia Hope – they “In 2013, we had the incredible joy of 930 Embury St. adding another member to our family. Zoe Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 Elizabeth was born on September 19th, and [email protected] is a very happy, healthy baby. Alix (who is [email protected] now 6 years old) is overjoyed to be a loving (kissing, hugging) big sister, and Sarah and Turn to page 40 to read about architect and I have grown accustomed again to a life of class rep Michael Poloukhine in our profle bottles, diapers, and limited sleep. Now if of FA alumni artists. Greetings FA Class I can just keep working until I’m 75, we’ll of 1982! Only a few respondents this time be all set! We continue to love living in around, but plenty of news! Matt Bloom Piedmont, just east of San Francisco. I don’t writes, “I’m still writing novels, but work make it back to the east coast very often, for JP Morgan Chase doing anti-money so I recommend that everyone move out to Captain Jonathan Christian ’82 with his cheer- laundering investigations to pay the bills.” Laura leaders taken at the Wounded Warrior Project California!” Finally, looking forward, Captain Jonathan Christian surfaced after Solinger writes: “I am having an FA reunion/ more than two decades of silence with this event.

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party on August 2 at my home in Cutchogue. position as the director of athletics and My contact info is [email protected]. physical education at The Calverton School Any FA alum is more than welcome! RSVP in Huntingtown, Maryland where he has to give me an idea of how many people to been for the past eleven years. He coached expect.” Also, stay tuned to the Class of 1982 Calverton’s Lacrosse team when they set Facebook page (www.facebook.com/groups/ a school record for wins and earned the FA1982/) where you can stay in touch with school’s only national ranking in any sport. more daily updates from classmates and He was named both the All-League and U.S. regular updates on events and happenings. Lacrosse Coach of the Year for that season. That’s it for now, have a wonderful summer! For ten seasons prior to Calverton, Greg was the head lacrosse coach at Haverford College. 1983 Ed Strauss ‘85, Laura Schaffer ‘85, and Erik “Being back at the college level has been Feldhaus ’85 reunite in Chicago. great,” Greg said. “My experience with the Laura Dilimetin guys thus far has been outstanding. We have 66 Eakins Road time for a visit to Chicago (which was, at a great foundation to build on.” In addition to Manhasset, NY 11030 times, no doubt, the coldest place in the his coaching in the US, Greg has three years [email protected] northern hemisphere, but the weather for of experience coaching internationally. From their time here was surprisingly a mild 32!), 2003 to 2005 he served as head coach and Elisabeth Salzhauer Axel, a community service but Ed Strauss, and wife Peggy, weren’t general manager of Team Italy and served and arts advocate, and founder of Art Beyond afraid. Despite it being a ‘work trip,’ they as the team’s General Manager and assistant Sight/Art Education for the Blind participated had time for a great dinner downtown with coach for the 2006 world championship. in Middle School Career Day. She discussed my husband and me, as well as Erik Feldhaus, not only her career but also how following and his wife, Wendy. These guys are still my one’s interests and entrepreneurial skills can fantastic friends who haven’t changed a bit 1987 lead to a really interesting new facet of your (well, maybe there’s a little more grey, and Barry D. Joseph career. we all need reading glasses!). David Johnson 67-66 108th Street, D66 was in touch to say that he, his wife and two Forest Hills, NY 10010 children (Nicole and Christopher) are living (718) 222-3563 1984 in Madison, NJ. Dave just started a real [email protected] Beth Anne Melkmann estate investment company and is studying 162 East 80th Street, Apt. 3B for a Certifcate in Financial Planning. Emily Beiles Kaufman New York, NY 10075 7 Beechwood Drive (212) 988-1753 Saddle River, NJ 07458 [email protected] 1986 (201) 785-0907 Kara Vassel Lewis [email protected] Save the date! Our 30th reunion will be 44 Pinehill Crl. East held on October 18. Lydia Fichera (lfchera@ Tequesta, FL 33469 visualmillwork.com), Diana DiMonda [email protected] 1988 Yastrzemski ([email protected]) and I are If anyone from the Class of 1988 would like planning the evening. We look forward to Chuck Ritter to be the new class representative, please seeing all of you in the fall! – Beth Melkmann 79 The Promenade contact us at [email protected]. We would love Glen Head, NY 11545-1739 to hear from you! Turn to page 29 to read Help us Find Lost Classmates 516-676-8271 about novelist Jennifer Briggs Stanley in our Also, we need your help in fnding FA alumni [email protected] profle of FA alumni artists. Melissa Errico with whom the school has lost contact. returned this April to 54 Below with a newly The names below are lost alumni from the This past March, Interior Designer Katherine titled show called, “At the Corner of 54th & Class of 1984. If you have current contact Posillico McGowan participated in Middle Crazy.” Melissa played there post-Hurricane information please let us know. We would School Career Day. The students were Sandy and got a rave review from The New love to welcome them back to Friends fascinated by all that is involved in her York Times. For more information visit http:// Academy! profession, from floor plans to color schemes, melissaerrico.com. fabric to fnishes…many were eager to run Christopher Simko ‘84 home at school’s end to redecorate their Peter Zizzo ‘84 rooms! Congratulations to Gregory Zecca, who was named the new Head Lacrosse 1985 Coach at Ohio Valley University. In addition Laura Match Schaffer to his position as head lacrosse coach, Greg 1220 Studio Lane also serves as the university’s director of the Riverwoods, IL 60015 sports management program. Greg holds a [email protected] BA from Ohio Wesleyan University, where he played both football and lacrosse and This winter, it probably wasn’t the optimal a Masters degree in sports management from Adelphi University. Greg leaves his Melissa Errico ’88 performs at 54 Below in NYC.

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1989 Adam Fruitbine 7 Olde Woods Lane Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 (201) 391-3040 [email protected]

JoAn Monaco 315 East 72nd St., Apt. 18-L New York, NY 10021 (646) 438-9264 [email protected]

Read about actor Stephen Kunken on page 38 and author Lawrence Schimel on page 34 in our profles of FA alumni artists. Greetings Class of 1989...we have another reunion year that has snuck up on us and FA has a great reunion planned for October 18th at the Creek Club....hoping we have a great turnout! Jennifer Stuber ’90 (front left) with the Forefront Team As for our class updates, everyone has been busy and the updates have been much international attention with profles appearing a Catalan translation, too). For adults, last appreciated. Erika and Vik Iyengar have been in The New York Times Sunday Styles year I published a new collection of poetry extremely busy with their academic careers section, London’s Stella magazine, titled Deleted Names (A Midsummer Night’s and keeping up with Connor who is almost Italy’s “D”magazine, the Sydney Morning Press) which was chosen by the American seven and their twins, Tyler and Jackson Herald, New You magazine, and more. Tanya Library Association’s GLBT Round Table who are 4 1/2. They moved into a bigger is a regular contributor to Fox News Channel for their Over the Rainbow List. Regan Otto place and live near a nature preserve where providing on-air nutrition commentary and was just featured on Fox for her new position their boys are in paradise with wildlife on writing the network’s weekly nutrition blog. at Credit Suisse. Regan applied for an ultra- the property in Pennsylvania. Vik continues Lawrence Schimel wrote: I’m still living in competitive ten-week program for moms to enjoy teaching entomology, ecology and Madrid, it’s been over 15 years now, I’m reentering the work force through Credit animal behavior at Villanova University, and mostly translating (Spanish-English) these Suisse where she was awarded this highly Erika is teaching courses related to (marine) days, although I am still writing, mostly sought after position. She then turned this ecology at Muhlenberg College in Allentown. kidzbooks or poetry. Recently published into a great opportunity to excel and landed Tyler and Jackson are known in their day translations include two books for Assouline, a position in their litigation department. care as the kids who love bugs and Connor a fashion book for te Neus, two pop-up It’s defnitely worth looking for the FOX entered his frst Allentown fair. His love children’s books about artists for Princeton link to see Regan’s interview. Gail Havekotte of building things led him to win six blue Architectural Press, three volumes of poetry Vlacich sends quick emails from her travels to ribbons, a second place and a fourth place... by Mexican writers in co-edition between Grand Cayman and Turkey to name a few... at six years old!! Andrew Wu is enjoying his Mantis Editores in Mexico and BookThug in she’s doing great and keeps really busy at career as a realtor on Long Island and has Canada, an anthology of Spanish-language work and with Taylor who is involved in captured a wide market based out of Port science fction for Sportula, etc. In terms every possible little kid activity from karate, Washington with Sotheby’s International. He of my own writing, my bilingual children’s baseball, religion, chess and piano! Michele has listings all across Long Island and does book Just Like Them/Igual Que Ellos was Pauporte is doing great. She is based out of an incredible job selling properties...look chosen by IBBY (International Board of the city and works as a dermatologist. Her him up if you are ready to change homes! Books for Youth) for Outstanding Books son Tiger is fve years old and is going to And when he’s not selling properties, for Young People with Disabilities last year, kindergarten in the fall. He plays basketball Andrew keeps busy with his two sons and has also appeared in Catalan-English, at Dalton’s DRIBBL program and met who are now nine and ten years old. Tanya Basque-English, Galician-English, German- Sandeep’s (Sandeep Singh ‘89) second son Zuckerbrot published her second weight- English, German-Spanish, German-Greek, there – who is the same age. Michele had a loss book: The Miracle Carb Diet. Tanya, German-Italian, German-Russian, German- second baby this past October and named her F-Factor Nutrition brand, and private French, German-Turkish, and Portuguese her Samantha Joelle! She is adorable and so counseling practice in Manhattan received (monolingual) editions. My picture book much fun. They plan to come to the Fall Fair ¡Vamos A Ver A Papá! (which I had already in October when she is one and hopefully mentioned in a previous class notes) was Nicole Petallides Don’t just follow Friends Academy... walking! continues to work translated into English by Elisa Amado at Fox Business where she is always on @ | RT | # us at twitter.com/FAtoday and published by Groundwood Books as top of the latest in breaking business news Let’s Go See Papá! It’s just come out in while still fnding the time to spend with Japanese a few weeks ago, and has also her husband and sons! As for this class rep, been published in Brazil and Korea (and has my husband Mike and I are happy to report The Meeting House | Winter/Spring 2014 Class Notes 59

the birth of our son Matthew in August. He Turn to page 26 to read about music video Tim Kane and his wife also recently had their joins his big sister Caroline who is fve. We director Chris Milk in our profle of FA alumni frst child in October. We were very saddened are thrilled to become a family of four! Our artists. to learn of the sudden passing of Cybil Hudak practices keep us busy but there’s nothing Taylor. We extend our deepest sympathies to like rushing home to an infant smile... her friends and family… As always, we look especially when our little guy is being 1992 forward to hearing from more of you. Reach entertained by his big sister! Thanks for Clayton Siegert out to us on Facebook! the updates and looking forward to seeing 100 I Street everyone at our reunion in the fall. All the S. Boston, MA 02127 best, JoAn Monaco (617) 821-2867 1994 [email protected] Heather Upton Help us Find Lost Classmates 451 East Sacramento Street Altadena, CA 91001 Additionally, we need your help in fnding 1993 617-803-9199 FA alumni with whom the school has lost Natalia Porcelli Good [email protected] contact. The names below are lost alumni 2 Tondan Lane from the Class of 1989. If you have current Lattingtown, NY 11560 Kim Colombo Aberman, an operating nurse contact information please let us know. We [email protected] at North Shore/LIJ Hospital together with would love to welcome them back to Friends Peter Stein ‘79, Chief of the Hand Surgery Academy! Danielle Valenti Smith Division at North Shore/LIJ Hospital, wowed Kathryn Schmudde Kehoe ‘89 1036 Park Avenue current FA students at Middle School Career Grace Kim ‘89 Apt. 12d Day. The team discussed such things as how Andrew Kolovas ‘89 New York, NY 10028 to control bleeding, how to set bones, and Diana Minge Najera ‘89 (646) 334-3888 how to use rib spreaders; and their audience [email protected] was mesmerized. A number of students left the “operating room” with colorful casts; 1990 Hi everyone. Spring has fnally sprung and however, they were removed before they got If anyone from the Class of 1990 would like there are many exciting new beginnings for home, so as not to alarm their parents! to be the class representative, please contact many of our classmates. Joshua Sussman will us at [email protected]. We would love to hear be married May 3rd in Anguilla. Adam and I 1995 are very much looking forward to celebrating from you! Jennifer Stuber, Forefront Faculty Thomas A. Pascarella this wonderful occasion with Josh and his Director, reports big news at Forefront: 156 Lewis Avenue wife to be, Kateryna. Alexandra Tsakanikas “Washington’s legislature passed the most Westbury, NY 11590 Andrejkoviks and I enjoyed spending time ambitious suicide prevention law of any state [email protected] across the country. ESHB 2315 requires that together at Jillian Stile’s baby shower. Jillian all doctors and nurses in the state are trained and her husband Neil are expecting their frst Kelly Reid Walsh in the skills needed to prevent lives lost to child at the end of May. Todd Jacobson and 96 Grove Street suicide and couples that requirement with his wife, Jana, are expecting their frst child Wellesley, MA 02482 the development of a phone consultation in June. Shaleen Patel and his wife Greta had (781) 237-2893 [email protected] line to assist front-line providers caring for their second daughter, Leila Jane, in January. patients of concern. This is on top of the two laws already passed in Washington in 2012 and 2013 to better equip mental health professionals and schools in the prevention of suicide. To use sports lingo, it’s a Hat Trick and a rare occurrence to have three legislative successes so quickly.” 1991 Michael Fox 1209 N. Citrus Avenue Hollywood, CA 90038 (646) 373-7535 [email protected]

Colleen Doyle Moran 10 Arbor Way Morristown, NJ 07960 (973) 656-1513 [email protected] From left, Brett Lambert ’95, Dino Anagnostopoulos ’95, Tom Pascarella ’95, Sebastian Arcelus ’95 enjoy a moment at Tom’s wedding.

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Turn to page 33 to read about Tilles Center Technical Director and class representative Tom Pascarella in our profle of FA alumni artists. Cheers all! If you enjoy watching the morally bankrupt at work, be sure to catch Seb Arcelus in the second season of “House of Cards” on Netflix. (Fellow FA alum John Mankiewicz ‘72 is the show’s co-producer and writer.) Seb’s role grew last season, as the colleague and new love interest of ruthless journalist Zoe Barnes. The show has fans in very high places… President Obama admitted on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” that he is a fan of “House of Cards!” Dan Fisher and his wife Emily welcomed their third son, Burke Samuel Fisher, on March 5. Burke joins his big brothers Cabot (6) and Winston (4). Dan is the co-head of Akin Gump’s M&A practice and splits his time between New York and Washington. Congrats to the Fisher Family! Maggie and John Nevis, children of Courtney Higgins Nevis ’96 and her husband Jason Allison CS Lewis by a Honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. 2014 will be Camp Argo’s second season, (Serpe) has also I hope to see you all, and introduce you to my so check them out on Facebook and visit welcomed a new wife at the June reunion in NYC and the their website www.campargo.com. Frank new addition 50th Homecoming and Fall Fair in October! McRoberts and his wife, Sue, had a baby boy, to her family, a Jack, on December 17. baby girl named Congratulations Frank! Mackenzie Azul, Mackenzie Azul, 1996 Frank is enjoying daughter of Allison CS born at home by an Luke Cass fatherhood and his busy Lewis (Serpe) ‘95 unassisted water 350 Chardon Ave. law practice at Farrell birth! Mackenzie Suite 1202 Fritz. We wish the is now 17 months old, and joins her brothers San Juan, PR 00918 growing McRoberts Jackson, 8 and Cole, 5. Allison writes that [email protected] clan all the best. We’ve their restaurant in Costa Rica is doing great Congrats to Frank been in touch with in its now second year. “Alice Restaurant and More good news from the Class of McRoberts and his Friends alums, Sameer Bar” is organic Carribean family-friendly 1996, Courtney Higgins Nevis and her husband wife Sue on the Sayeed, PJ DeCurtis, Zach dining in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca. Be Jason celebrate six years of marriage this birth of their baby Smith, Brian Shields, sure to look it up on Trip Advisor, or stop in October 2014. They currently live in the boy Jack. and Daryl Holzman. if you are in the area! I have a bit of my own San Francisco Bay area where Jason is the They’re all doing great news to share. In addition to participating in Athletic Director at St. Raymond School, and keeping busy with work and family. If Middle School Career Day by demonstrating a JK-8 Catholic school in Menlo Park. anyone makes it down to San Juan, please how to design lighting for the stage and Courtney, a former Challenge Producer for e-mail or call; you’re always welcome and it what techniques are needed to make sure reality TV shows such as The Apprentice, would be great to catch up with you. the show goes on every night, I got married Big Brother and several others, now stays this past November on Long Island to my at home to raise their two kids. Magnolia wife Jessica! We had a wonderful wedding 1997 Grace (Maggie) turned 4 in January and will surrounded by friends and family, followed Devon Broderick Carroll be attending St. Raymond School this fall. 28 Bedford St., Apt. 23 John Higgins will turn 2 at the end of May. New York, NY 10014-4471 Jason and Courtney run a sports and creative (917) 531-7579 arts summer camp in Menlo Park called [email protected] Camp Argo. With a mission to show the campers that everyone can be a hero, Camp Devon A. George Argo exposes the children to local heroes, 163 West 18th Street, Apt. 9B charitable organizations, educators and New York, NY 10011 entertainers to hopefully inspire the campers (516) 457-8082 to be kind and considerate to others, and [email protected] give back whenever possible; little gestures can make a world of difference. Summer Tom and Jessica Pascarella

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1998 Justin J. Boults 222 Gates Ave., Apt. #2 Brooklyn, NY 11238 [email protected]

Justin P. Meli 1500 Chicago Ave., Apt. 620 Evanston, IL 60201 (713) 553-4108 [email protected]

Turn to page 31 to read about Michelle Rabinowitz-Carney, who is the Director of Production for Tribeca Enterprises (the media company behind the Tribeca Film Festival) in our FA Alumni Artists Series.

1999 Ashley Fee ’02 and her fiancé Conor Reeves Jennifer Ryan Woods Meredith A. MacKinnon Artists Series. FA welcomed stunt performer 2 Meadow Spring Lane 46 Duck Pond Road and actor Corey Pierno who participated in Glen Cove, NY 11540 Glen Cove, NY 11542 Middle School Career Day this past March. (516) 398-0888 (516) 759-2063 Although Corey did not summersault off [email protected] [email protected] the roof of Frost Hall, the students were fascinated by all his career has to offer. Dara Broxmeyer Gruenberg Turn to page 42 to read about UK television Corey teaches fght choreography at NYU, 24 Hampton Road producer Fernando Gutierrez de Jesus in our The New School, and right here at Friends! Scarsdale, NY 10583 FA Alumni Artists Series. Fernando is a co- Congratulations to Ashley Fee, who will marry 914-723-1796 flmmaker in a documentary project that was Conor Reeves this August! [email protected] shown at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Plans are underway for the Class of 99’s 2003 15th reunion, October 18th, 2014. We hope 2001 Jessica Jakobson you can all join to celebrate! Many thanks Hadley Devon Mongell 434 East 11th Street to John Reid who is stepping down from his 245 E. 63rd Street New York, NY 10009 role as class rep. We welcome Dara Broxmeyer Apt. 517 [email protected] Gruenberg who joins Jennifer Ryan Woods New York, NY 10065 in the role of Class of 1999 Class Rep. (516) 759-1377 Romola Ratnam, who began her professional Welcome aboard Dara! [email protected] career in the business offce of the NBA, is currently the Exectutive Director of the Turn to page 41 to read about photographer SEED Project, a non-proft based in Senegal. Help us Find Lost Alumni Lucas Foglia, in our FA Alumni Artists Series. Romola, who participated in Middle School Also, we need your help in fnding FA alumni Career day this past March, spoke about how with whom the school has lost contact. The she has traveled around the world with the name below is a lost alum from the Class of 2002 NBA and the SEED Project using basketball 1999. If you have current contact information Lauren Marie Bebry as a tool for positive social change. She please let us know. We would love to 8655 Edgewood Park Drive shared the many ways that sports can be welcome him back to Friends Academy! Commerce, MI 48382 (631) 875-5725 used to combine one’s professional career Khalid Johnson ‘99 [email protected] with social responsibility. Adam Weber, who currently works at Friends as a computer 2000 Michael Jason Weiss science teacher and technical specialist, 40 Cow Neck Road didn’t have far to travel to participate in Paul P. Corrigan Sands Point, NY 11050 Middle School Career Day. He spoke to the 1 The Preserve (516) 883-1572 students about software development and Woodbury, NY 11797 [email protected] careers in technology. (516) 448-2228 [email protected] Turn to page 35 to read about jewelry Meghan Farrell, designer in our FA Alumni

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to Kat Christie who reports that she is getting Congratulations to Jenna McCann on her 2004 married to her girlfriend of 7 years this fall. upcoming wedding to James Gilchrist Messer Angela Teresa Batista October 18th marks the Class of 2004’s 10th (Gil). Jenna and Gil, who met at The College 2 Greenway Reunion, so save the date! of William and Mary are getting married this August at St. Andrew’s Church on Block Muttontown, NY 11771 Help us Find Lost Alumni (516) 857-6572 Island, RI with a reception to follow at the [email protected] We need your help in fnding FA alumni Sullivan House. Congratulations to Jennifer with whom the school has lost contact. Wagner on her engagement to Matthew Jonathan Harley Koenig The names below are lost alumni from the Nowlin. They met at Miami University in 31 Yukon Drive Class of 2004. If you have current contact Ohio and currently live in Chicago. Woodbury, NY 11797 information please let us know. We would [email protected] love to welcome them back to Friends Academy! 2007 Rebecca Pacchiano For the month of April, Pacific Jacqueline Palma ‘04 93 Tenth Street Standard is profling the individuals who Justin Roth ‘04 Hicksville, NY 11801 made their inaugural list of the 30 top 516-932-0002 thinkers under 30. “The young men and [email protected] women we predict will have a serious impact 2005 on the social, political, and economic issues Helen Simpson Hatch Christine Farrell we cover every day here at Pacific Standard. 137 Linden Farms Road 1971 Cedar Swamp Road Our stated criteria: We were hunting for Locust Valley, NY 11560 Glen Head, NY 11545 intellectuals in the social and behavioral (516) 609-3239 (516) 606-1300 sciences who, because of their brilliance [email protected] [email protected] or originality of thought or ambition or charm… are likely to be famous in fve to Caitlin Koufakis 10 years.” The goal was to fnd the world’s 2006 239 Cleft Road not-yet-known Milton Friedmans and Philip Brian T. Alessi Mill Neck, NY 11765 Zimbardos and Margaret Meads. On the 50 Shore Drive (516) 627-5222 list is Molly Fox whom Pacific Standard calls Plandome, NY 11030 [email protected] “The Brilliant Researcher Who Wants to Put (516) 365-3983 an End to Dementia.” As [email protected] Turn to page 32 to read about jewelry stated in Pacific Standard, designer Sara Klass, in our FA Alumni Artists “Dr. Fox’s academic career Series. Rebecca Pacchiano is already distinguished Congratulations to by three big discoveries: on her new job as an analyst at Goldman One, that good hygiene is Sachs. linked to a higher risk of Alzheimer’s – she used 2008 data from 192 countries Laura Berke Molly Fox to determine that. Two, 310 3rd Avenue, Apt. 1906A that breastfeeding lowers New York, NY 10010 a mother’s risk of developing dementia. And (516) 680-4437 three, that, for genetic reasons, grandmothers [email protected] like their sons’ daughters best. Thanks to these and other revelations, Fox’s peers Alexandria Phillips and higher-ups regard her as a brilliant 801 N Monroe St, Apt. 719 researcher. When she amended the prevailing Arlington, VA 22201 hypothesis for the evolutionary origin of (631) 421-3332 human longevity to include a genetics [email protected] perspective, her paper became one of the Royal Society’s most downloaded articles… Sam Menzin reports, “I’m still working for It concerns Fox deeply that Alzheimer’s the Detroit Tigers. I’m now the Statistical affects one in six American women. ‘With Analysis Coordinator. I’m involved in salary an aging population so ravaged by dementia, arbitration, player evaluation, advance we are losing the wisdom of the elderly,’ scouting, and instant replay.” News from says Dr. Fox. ‘The moral synthesis and Liz Pisano: “I switched jobs in January. I’m historical perspective that should guide our now with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a tax lives are damaged.’ By doing the work she associate in downtown Baltimore.” does, Fox hopes to fgure out how to stop Dylan Pancer (Dylan Reid) writes: “I’m back dementia from stealing so much.” Congrats in the US (for about 11 months) and now I’m back in NYC – Running a start-up Jenna McCann ’06 and her fiancé Gil Messer The Meeting House | Winter/Spring 2014 Class Notes 63

company (we just opened a second offce here). We launched a few months back and the FA community came out in full force! Ed Gunnar Esiason ’09: Why to Give Everything Dugger was one of our frst customers :D” hrowing yourself 100% into anything will always make you better ... Dylan is co-founder and CEO of Matter.io, if you give it everything you have inside,” instructed Gunnar Esiason whose company’s software allows designers ’90 this past winter, who has helped coach football and ice hockey for and companies to turn their ideas into custom “T 3D products. For more information follow Friends this year. this link: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/ Invited back to address Upper School students at the Winter Sports assembly, matter-io-bringing-3d-printing-to-the- Gunnar spoke about his athletic experience at Friends and how it has impacted him masses-PbzSUjH7QMy8W4oY0cGefg.html in other areas of his life and career. Laura Berke writes: “I switched jobs in “I was never the strongest or fastest athlete, but I February and started working for Bravo played my heart out,” said Gunnar, who played football and Oxygen Media at NBCUniversal in their Digital Media department.” Ally and ice hockey for Friends. Phillips reports: “I work for a not-for-proft Diagnosed wtih Cystic Fibrosis as a child, Gunnar organization in foster care doing education appreciated the risks involved in athletics. “I was different advocacy for children from 2 to 21! It is from other athletes. I had CF. It attacks your lungs so rewarding being able to help these kids and it is difficult to breathe and put on muscle mass. and watch them reach milestones such as Imagine trying to breathe through a straw and then doing graduating from high school and getting into colleges. I also recently was elected everything in your life with your only source of oxygen to the W&M alumni board!” News from through that straw.” Charlotte Russell: “I moved back to NY from Despite physical challenges, Gunnar made San Francisco this past fall and have been the FA Varsity Football team as a junior and working as a jeweler and the wholesale never looked back. manager for Catbird (www.catbirdnyc. “Football demands a level of commitment com) I live in South Williamsburg (pretty like no other sport. Commitment is one of close to Andrew Schlenger!).” Suzy Weiss reports: “Right now I’m Assistant Editor the driving means of success,” said Gunnar. for Footnote, a new website that showcases “Most CF patients are not athletes. And academic research with accessible articles don’t live past 20. I’m 22 and I’m right here. for mainstream audiences (pardon the I’m not in a hospital attached to breathing elevator pitch). Basically, we work with tubes. I’m stronger than that.” academics to translate their work into plain English. In addition to my editorial duties, I’ve been writing about various topics from birds to fnancial decisions.” Samantha Sharf reports: “I write about the stock market and 20-something personal fnance for Forbes ranging in topics from how to handle having less money than your friends to why Tesla shares are jumping on a given day.” News from Shant Keskinyan: “In August I will be joining our fellow classmate Bryce Robinson and starting medical school at Wake Forest School of Medicine.” Message from me and Ally: “It has been so great to hear from all of our fellow classmates and learn more about what everyone has been up to! Hopefully we can organize another event soon where we can all meet up and reconnect!” All the best, Laura 2009 Nell C. Kucich 316 Manhasset Woods Road Manhasset, NY 11030 (516) 965-0635 [email protected]

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John E. Mascari Gabrielle McPhaul-Guerrier Dartmouth College 188 Leaf Avenue 3153 Hinman Central Islip, NY 11722 Hanover, NH 03755 [email protected] [email protected] Kyle Grady spent his fall semester in The January 2, 2014 episode of HBO Barcelona, Spain. He is an Accounting Major Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel featured and will be working this summer in Boston Boomer and Gunnar Esiason in an in-depth as an audit intern for KPMG, one of the look at their work with cystic fbrosis and big 4 accounting frms. Jessica Sawicki spent the CF community, interviewed by Senior July to November at a study-abroad program Correspondent Frank Deford, whose in Argentina working on an internship in own daughter, Alex, lost her battle with marketing and sales. cystic fbrosis at the age of eight. Since its inception, the Boomer Esiason Foundation has raised more than $100 million to support 2012 research toward a cure for CF. The class Gabrielle Rechler Augusta Mayer ’13 and Kirsten Grady ’13 of 2009 will celebrate its 5th Reunion on 58 Hoaglands Lane vacation in St. Croix with friends, Sean and Friday, May 30th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Old Brookville, NY 11545 Nathan the Jackson House. So drop whatever you [email protected] are doing, and make plans to join friends and 516-404-4105 activities, organizing hosting, and helping to faculty at this special event! prepare Wesleyan for when the students visit Jake Ingrassia for “WesFest.” Emily LeoGrande is a member 95 Feeks Lane of the graphics staff of the bi-weekly 2010 Lattingtown, NY 11560 independent student newspaper at Boston Alexa Gordon [email protected] College. She also spends her time teaching 24 West Creek Farms Rd. 516-236-6064 an art class at a local elementary school that Sands Point, NY 11050 had to cut its art program for grades K-5. [email protected] Chris McCann A student at Barnard college, Kira Sanchez 170 Linden Farms Road has gotten involved with the Columbia Meredith Mangiarotti was named captain of Locust Valley, NY 11560 University Gospel Choir and started working Villanova Women’s Lacrosse Team for the [email protected] for a college prep program helping under- 2014 season. The season, which started this represented students in the NYC area. Kira February, runs through May. Sarah Chartash is looking forward to spending part of Meredith also participated in 19 Serenite Lane summer in Spain, where she plans to stay the Fifth Annual Women’s Muttontown, NY 11791 with the host family she connected with Nicholas Colleluori Lacrosse [email protected] through an FA study abroad trip to Málaga Classic celebrating the life 516-941-7309 last year. A perspective psychology major, of the Ridley High graduate Kira will be interning with her host parents, who died seven years ago Sarah Chartash is interning on Capitol Hill in who are Developmental Psychologists. Jake after fighting Non-Hodgkin’s the House of Representatives for the Offce Hawkins joined the Varsity Track team at Lymphoma. “I think it is really awesome for of our Congressman Steve Israel. Union College. He is in the school’s Honors us to have a chance to do something for oth- Program and it looks like he will pursue ers, play the sport that we love, and have it 2013 their 5-year program with a Masters in go to charity,” said Meredith. “We are a great Engineering. Chris Sawicki has declared his group of girls and think it’s nice that we can Sydney Menzin Major in Biology at Clarkson. He wants to all rally together and fight a terrible disease.” 6 Tappenwood Drive become a veterinarian. Chris also rows for At Villanova, Meredith participates in the Lattingtown, NY 11560 the club crew team. Kirsten Grady joined the Episcopal Community Services’ St. Barnabas [email protected] swim team at Bentley. She has also joined Mission. “Being in a place as special as Vil- 516-639-2083 the sorority Phi Sigma Sigma and she’s lanova, we are constantly reminded of how the marketing chairperson for the Campus lucky we are, which leads to taking time to John O’Brien Activities Board. Augusta Mayer had a very share our blessings,” said Meredith. 16 Wishing Well Lane successful fall golf season playing either Old Brookville, NY 11545 the number 2 or 3 spot for St. Lawrence [email protected] University. The Men’s and Women’s Golf 2011 516-375-9860 teams competed in a tournament in Florida over Spring break and began the Spring Holly Constants At Wesleyan College, Keyonne Session season on April 12. In January, Augusta and 52 Ayers Road serves as an Admissions Intern, planning Kirsten got out of the snowy Northeast and Locust Valley, NY 11560 campus events such as the school’s Admitted vacationed on St. Croix in the Caribbean. [email protected] Students Week. He is currently coordinating

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The enduring lessons Dorothy Van Siclen Dayton Barmeyer ’32: Painter and philanthropist of Mr. and Mrs. Stubbs riends Academy mourns the loss of our Barbara, John, Mary and Susan. Foldest alumna, Dorothy Van Siclen Dayton During this time, Dorothy began her art ca- ne Wednesday, the phone rang mid-morning Barmeyer. Dorothy died at home in Missoula, reer, and in 1973 she founded Missoula’s Main Oand I saw that someone was calling from MT on Sunday, March 9, 2014. Lovingly Street Artists. She specialized in painting land- the Headquarters of The Episcopal Church in known to her family as “Dottie” or “Lady” scapes, and exhibited at art galleries around NYC. Indeed, it was someone I’ve known since I and to her classmates as “Dot,” she entered the state. In addition, she painted miniature was three. “I have a Mrs. Stubbs question,” said Friends in February of 1929, midway through oils for dollhouses, which have sold nation- my sister Elizabeth (‘Penny’ ’62). She then read her freshman year. ally. Dorothy also a sentence from a report she was editing and said Dorothy quickly created a museum- the word “less” – I immediately interrupted – became involved quality dollhouse “fewer.” “I thought so,” said she. in school activities. patterned after a I can’t begin to count how many times this She played both rural farmhouse she has happened since we were at basketball and remembered from FA. Usually we both know the hockey, participated childhood. answer and are just checking in the operetta Dorothy had a in; sometimes one of us isn’t “Riding Down the strong compassion quite sure and knows the other Sky,” and managed Dorothy Barmeyer in 1932, on her wedding day for children and an- will be. the junior and se- and in recent years imals, exhibited by Dear, dear Mrs. Stubbs – had nior plays. She was her philanthropy you any idea what a delightful known to her classmates for her good humor to a wide variety of organizations, including presence you would be in my and good-heartedness. the Florence Crittenton Home, Intermountain life 55 years after I graduated? After graduating from Friends in 1932, Deaconess Home for Children, Lake County Were any of us to talk with a Dorothy attended Smith College where she Youth Guidance Home and the Humane high school student today and majored in English and art history. In 1940, Society of Western Montana. say we really loved our English Dorothy married George Henry Barmeyer, Dorothy will be remembered for her com- teacher and our math teacher, whom she knew as a child in Sunday school. passion, can-do attitude and loving generosity. her husband, they would think They lived in New York while George She is survived by her four children: Barbara we’re crazy. It’s true, isn’t it – completed his medical training and Dorothy Barmeyer, John Barmeyer (Anda Olsen), Mary Classes of 1959 and 1962? worked as a secretary at Paramount News. Barmeyer O’Brien (Dan O’Brien), and Susan Jean and George When “Aunt Jean” and During World War II, George was stationed Barmeyer (Jon Haber). She will also be dearly Stubbs, circa “Uncle George” retired and in the Pacific, and Dorothy and their first-born missed by her nine grandchildren: Matthew 1959 moved to Florida, I kept track daughter, Barbara, returned to Long Island Weld, Mary Rosales, Wilson Barmeyer, Mary of them, first because they to live with her parents. After World War II, Logan Bikoff, Jennifer O’Brien, Kevin O’Brien, remained in touch with St. John’s of Lattingtown the Barmeyers moved to Boise, Idaho, where Kathleen O’Brien, Steven Haber and Benjamin where my father was Rector, and then I stayed in George was the physician at the Army’s rest Haber. Dorothy also had three great-grand- correspondence with them on my own. and rehabilitation camp. Both Dorothy children: Zoë Weld, Ethan Weld and Tinsley Their lives in Florida were always busy and and George fell in love with the Western Barmeyer. Dorothy’s beloved husband George interesting. I wondered if they missed the ‘good landscapes, and in 1947 the family relocated predeceased her on Sept. 4, 2000. old days’ at FA where they had taught for so many to Missoula, MT when George was offered a A private family gathering will be held at years. As I look back, I realize that we all had position as a pediatrician at the new Western a future date on Dorothy’s beloved property so many questions, some probably stupid, that Montana Clinic. Dorothy and George settled in Pattee Canyon. Messages can be left for the we must have tried their patience over and over into their dream home in Missoula’s Pattee family at the website for Garden City Funeral again. But they loved teaching and really liked Canyon, where they raised their four children: Home: www.missoulafuneralhomes.com. their students. Perhaps even more than learning more than anyone else today knows about English, what I learned from Mrs. Stubbs was to really like and to respect all students. Only, she wasn’t teaching that, she was living it. In my whole life of teaching Kindergarten and Pre-K, I remembered that lesson. Does anyone else in “The Master Class” react as I do when I encounter a misplaced apostrophe? In my old age, I am becoming less and less toler- ant of that particular mistake and have written letters to newspapers and websites correcting it. When I got a thank you from The Times of London about a mistake in Princess Margaret’s obituary, my first thought was, “Bless you, Mrs. Stubbs!” We stayed in touch for years after his death. Then when she stopped writing, I Googled her and learned that she had died on August 31, 2011. How we had known her birthday I can’t remember, but she always comes to mind on May 24th (1921) and Elizabeth is amazed that I remember it. May they rest in peace. An early painting of the St. Mary’s Mission in Pattee Canyon, MT by Dorothy Van Siclen – Ann S. Lowell ‘59 Barmeyer ‘32

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Caroline Meirs ’62 (back row third from the left) at the Class of 1962 50th reunion Caroline Meirs ‘62: Devoted to international educational exchange aroline Virginia Meirs died of the Editorial Board of the Foreign Service donations be made in her memory to Christ peacefully on February 28 after Journal, served on The Foreign Service Griev- Church, 118 North Washington Street, Alex- a prolonged battle with salivary ance Board of Appeals, and was a leader in the andria, VA 22314 http://www.historicchrist- gland cancer. She was surrounded Foreign Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX). church.org/ or to M.D. Anderson Cancer Cby family in Rochester, NY. During her 12-year battle with cancer, Center, Head and Neck Cancer research, Caroline received her B.A. from Wellesley Caroline participated in numerous clinical P.O. Box 4486 Houston, TX 77210-4486 or College in 1966, and earned her M.A. from trials in the hope of advancing knowledge online atwww.mdanderson.org/gifts the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of this rare and stubborn disease; shared her Caroline left a letter including the fol- in 1972. She was a great believer in lifelong experience by participating in support groups lowing: learning, and spoke French, Italian, German, and by writing a blog on the MD Anderson and Spanish fluently. web page; and never wavered in her commit- “I was so blessed to find a career I loved, She served as a Foreign Service Officer ment to living each day to its fullest by trav- doing things like international educational for the United States Information Agency, eling extensively, visiting with friends and exchange that I felt passionate about, and later incorporated into the Department of family, skiing and swimming, walking her able to meet all kinds of fascinating people, State, from 1968-1995. She held positions beloved dog, and exploring the many cultural from writers to country presidents. My as Country Program Officer in Mexico and opportunities offered by her residence in the Central America (1979-80); Cultural Affairs D.C. area. She had utmost faith in her health friends from around the world have enriched Officer in Lima, Peru (1980-82); Deputy care team and expressed gratitude at every my life in ways I can only begin to describe. I Policy Officer, Office of the Assistant Director opportunity. am proud to have been a public servant, and for Africa (1982-83); Pearson Fellow, Office Caroline was loved and will be missed by to have served good causes in other ways. I of Congressman Dante B. Fascell (1983-84); many who had the honor of knowing her. wish that you may be as fortunate. …Thank Chief, Latin American Branch, Office of She is predeceased by her parents, John and you for all your love and support throughout Research (1984-85); Counselor for Public Af- Virginia Meirs. She is survived by her loving my life, but especially during my long cancer fairs, United States Embassy, Bogota, Colom- sister, Susanna Meirs Morgan, brother John challenge. May you and your children and mbia (1985-88); Senior Branch Public Affairs Meirs, and by five nieces: Elizabeth, Susanna, grandchildren live long, healthy, happy and Officer, Berlin, Germany (1985-92); and as Mary Anne (Morgan), Abigail, and Tara productive lives, always being aware of the Policy Officer, Office of the Assistant Director (Meirs). She shared her love with her seven for European Affairs (1992-94). Caroline grandnephews, one grandniece, and dog, needs of others.” also worked with the Federal Emergency Bonnie, along with countless friends across Caroline was loved and we will miss her. Management Agency, U.S. Agency for Inter- the globe. – Susanna Morgan national Development (USAID), was Chair In lieu of flowers, Caroline requested (Caroline’s neice)

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Bruce Nichols ’53: International banker and horse breeder Shelley Galehouse Broven ’64: Smithtown News reporter ruce Churchill Nichols passed away on February 8, 2014 surrounded by loving family and friends follow- helley Galehouse Broven, of East Setauket, died on Bing a long battle with cancer. He was 78 years old. SOct. 5 at the age of 66 after an incredibly brave fight Born on August 20, in Glen Cove, New York, Bruce was the against breast cancer. She was born on Nov. 6, 1946, son of the late Frank Churchill Nichols M.D. and Ethelyn in New York City, the only child of Clark and Aleece Louise Anderson. He attended Hamilton College in Clinton, Galehouse. New York and graduated with a Masters degree from Colum- Raised in Cold Spring Harbor on the grounds of bia University. the laboratory, where she knew many of the renowned scientists, she was educated at West Side School, before Bruce was an international banker specializing in Central coming to Friends Academy. After graduating, Shelley and South America. He worked for many years as a private attended Bradford College, the University of Michigan consultant to multi-national banks including the Inter- and Penn State while obtaining her master’s degree in American Development Bank and World Bank. Aside from art history. his work, Bruce will be remembered for his passions: cooking Her father headed Shelley Products, one of the and horses. He was involved with breeding and racing of thor- largest independent record pressing plants on the oughbred horses for many years on his farm in Galena, MD. East Coast, from the 1950s through the early 1980s. Bruce is survived by his partner of 27 years, Margaret, two The Huntington Station-based business operated the Bruce Nichols Golden Crest and Shelley record labels, with Golden circa 1953 (top) sons, Frank and Brad, his sister Susan, three nieces, Holly, Jennifer and Kimberly, two step daughters, Nancy and her Crest releasing national hit records. That Clark adored and in more his daughter is evident in the recent years husband David and Pam and her husband Brad, and three names of his corporations. grandchildren, Jackson, Sam and Olivia. In Manhattan in the 1970s, Shelley organized a business- Reflections from his Classmates women’s networking newsletter and worked as a paralegal before At the fore on the football field Brotherly bond forever joining, in the next decade, The Heckscher Museum of Art in ’m sorry to hear his passing was so hard. A first met Bruce probably on the football field, Huntington as director of public Icombination of tough and gentle he was, and Iin the fall of 1950. As the years passed, we relations and working as a reporter it must have been hard for Maggie to see those were teammates, roommates, classmates, and Shelley for The Smithtown News. two very strong traits he had play themselves fraternity brothers at Hamilton College. There Galehouse, She then launched her Beaux out in his going. were occasional visits or dinners together after circa 1964 Faux garden statuary business with I remember Bruce so clearly at football. he moved to Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Bruce a shop in Huntington, then Cold Though small in stature, his slim, wiry strength was a very bright guy, although his academic Spring Harbor. and fast feet brought him to the fore on the career was more fun than study. He was a good After Shelley married Hugh King, an import busi- fields of play, both at home and away games. friend, and I will miss him. nessman and former Rhodes Scholar, they settled in In Spanish class, he and I were rivals for the – Donn Andre ’54 East Northport before moving back to the Cold Spring attention of our teacher, Miss Ruff. I know she Harbor family home. was quite fond of us both, and we excelled in When Hugh died in 1995, Shelley married English- her subject, both because we loved the language, A passion for life man John Broven, music history author, retired bank and to impress her. We both went on to use it ruce Nichols of the beautiful blue blue manager and currently with the Times Beacon Record well, thanks to her inspiration, both in business Beyes! And the most engaging smile! Newspapers’ editorial office. and personally. I remember him fearless on the Red and Together Shelley and John revived her father’s music I’m glad we got to room together at the Fif- Black football field, a dependable F.A. line- business, CFG Publishing Co., including Golden Crest tieth, and we looked forward to doing so again backer: Hold that Line! Hold that Line! And Records; a story appeared in a recent online issue of last fall. Events conspired to prevent that, sadly. he gave his all to Hold it! I was a new cheer- the Long Island History Journal (Volume 23, Issue 1, – Stephen Fisher ’53 leader and he confided, “Clare, you need more 2012). pep!” Okay! I hadn’t realized I was being Following the couple’s move to East Setauket in too “ladylike” (my southern background) so I 1997, Shelley was active with the Three Village Histori- 60th Reunion: His final gift kicked into my cheerleading with more punch cal Society, where she won the Volunteer of the Year ruce was a dear friend and a gallant man. and exuberance. Thank you, friend. award with John in 2010. BHis ready laugh, always entertaining, and Bruce’s passion for life was displayed in Shelley is survived by husband John, sister-in-law sometimes a bit naughty, made him a close his devotion to his beloved family – generous Barbara (Phil) Satchell, Hugh’s children, many friends friend to many of us. spirit – smart business acumen – his sense of and beloved English springer spaniel, Jay Jay. As Bruce struggled with a horrific disease, he humor – love of nature and horses. In recent Thanks are due to the doctors and nursing staff who never lost hope that he might win yet another years his interest in my playwriting and new treated Shelley throughout her illness, including at battle. In a way, he did win: We will always opera project meant so much to me. Mather, St. Charles and Stony Brook University hospi- remember with love his final gift: a joyful gath- We became e-mail buddies. He organized our tals, and the Smithtown Center for Rehabilitation. ering and return to F.A. for our 60th reunion splendid 60th F.A. reunion but his health kept Donations may be made to her final carers, Good and so many memories. him from attending. Our mighty little band of Shepherd Hospice, 245 Old Country Road, Melville, alums passed a cell phone around at the Satur- NY 11747. – Timmie Buck Wiant ’53 day night dinner he had planned so carefully A Celebration of Life event will be held at a later – we wished him comfort and let him know we date. were holding him in our hearts. We will forever Arrangements were entrusted to Bryant Funeral hold him in our hearts. Home of Setauket. Please visit www.bryantfh.com to – Clare Coss ’53 sign the online guestbook.

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Kathryn Abbe: 1920-2014 A Photographic Legacy athryn Abbe died peacefully at home on January 18, 2014, after a brief illness following a stroke. She was 94. Kathryn had a long and exception- ally rich association with Friends Academy.K She served for 22 years on the Board of Trustees and for 40 years on the Board of The Meeting House magazine. She contributed hundreds of photographs she made to The Meeting House to illustrate articles and to numerous other publications to document significant events in the history of Friends Academy. For example, in 1977, she led the publication of Friends Academy’s centennial history entitled “A Century of Friends.” Its Acknowledgements page credits her as having made all the photographs from 1967 through the 1977 publication date. The Fall 2009 issue of The Meeting House featured a retrospective of 50 covers, 30 of which were photographs made by Kathryn. Importantly, Kathryn was a Friends Academy parent of Tom ‘67, Lucinda ‘68, and Eli ‘70. Kathryn was also a sought-after mentor to generations of Friends One of the hundreds of photos that Kathryn Abbe shot for The Meeting House magazine of FA. students interested in careers in the arts. “She was Kathryn Abbe there from the earliest days of my photography, when we set up a darkroom in an unused closet on the top floor of Friends,” recalled photographer Elizabeth Billhardt ‘68. “When I received the last issue of The Meeting House, I reflected on how many extra memories she gave us in the journal as well as the yearbooks long before the digital age might have made photo documentation easier.” Kathryn and her late husband, James, joined the Religious Society of Friends in Jericho in 1957. Kathryn was a past Clerk of both the Jeri- cho Monthly Meeting and of the Jericho Prepara- tive Meeting. One of her most profound achievements (and one of my favorite projects with her) was her photographic documentation of generations of Long Island Quaker leaders, almost all of whom have since died. All of those individuals were Friends Academy graduates, parents, donors, or trustees whose stories I was privileged to record as Kathryn photographed them for the Friends Academy Ar- chives (which she also helped establish). Among Right, frolicking in the playground at Friends and left, Kathryn’s favorite self portrait. those individuals were William Masland, Fred Willits, Phoebe Willets, Marion Jackson, and Bob few women worked in the profession. In a career enriched by our long friendship and professional Albertson. The photographs and stories of these that spanned over 70 years, Kathryn’s photo- collaboration. We are all blessed to have Kathryn’s individuals were so compelling that they were fea- graphs were published in more than 80 books and photographs of the Friends Academy family by tured in a 1987-88 show titled “A People Called periodicals. Kathryn was also a co-author of three which to remember her, her documentation of Quakers” at the Nassau County Museum of Art. books: Twins on Twins, Twin Lives in Photography, our lives as Friends students, teachers, parents, and Kathryn and Frances McLaughlin-Gill, her and Stars of the Twenties Observed. administrators, and her decades of service. twin sister who survives her, began their careers as Few have contributed as much to Friends freelance photographers in 1942 at a time when Academy as Kathryn Abbe. My life has been – Victoria Baum Bjorklund ‘70

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Crusader for the Arts at FA and Beyond he news of Fuffy’s passing sparked a bank of memories Tthat are forever etched in my mind. From the day I set foot at Friends and throughout my Charlie Buchan: FA Mailroom clerk and Santa Extraordinare tenure from 1970-1980, Fuffy was a treasured friend, inspiration and consummate role model. harlie Buchan was FA’s mailroom When I joined Friends in 1970 the Arts Department was clerk for 18 years, and for 18 years virtually non-existent. Che was friends with everyone who Fuffy’s support of my vision to develop an arts program for entered our school mailroom. Known for his FA students was unequaled. kindness, Charlie greeted his friends with a I attribute the development of the program to her “hidey ho” and a warm smile. He was born encouragement and understated yet effective influence on on May 21, 1923 and passed away on Tuesday, Headmaster Ted Withington and the administration to pro- January 14, 2014 at the age of 90. Charlie vide funding for the arts. As a result it was possible to hire a is survived by his children Leslie Marentis staff of wonderful teachers and build what became a robust (Steven) and Cameron Buchan (Deborah); arts curriculum. his grandchildren Alexander, Mitchell and The creation of a professional caliber photo lab and Phillip; his brother David (Barbara); and his popular photography program followed. Once again Fuffy’s brother-in-law, Edward Butt. His beloved confidence and ongoing support were key to the success of wife Isabelle predeceased him. photography at FA. Her stature as a professional photogra- What follows are reflections of Charlie pher on and off campus was an inspiration to the students from his colleagues at Friends. and acclaimed by all members of the Friends Academy community...parents, faculty and students. Fond memories of morning chats Fuffy worked tirelessly for years as a member of the Board y fondest memories of Charlie all of Trustees. Her dedication to the preservation and practice of Mrepresent what a kind and simple Quaker values at Friends is legendary. man he was. Year after year playing the role Kathryn Abbe may have left us physically but her inspira- of Santa, watching him bring wonder and tion, gracious spirit, dignity, beautiful images and books she joy to the children and to us as well. Our created up to the end of her life endure forever. early morning mail chats were always about – Lillian Gilden family, holidays, weekends and sharing the simple pleasures of having loved ones No Obstacle was Insurmountable around him. He is missed, but left very fond Charlie Buchan at work in the Friends memories. was so sorry to hear of Fuffy Abbe’s passing – she has been Academy mail room Ia longtime friend of Friends. Fuffy, a Quaker, had been a – Cathy Philipakos parent, a grandparent and a board member at FA, though her support continued long after these roles ended. Charlie brought me back to center Fuffy and I worked together on a wide range of projects Huge presence at FA harlie and I shared time together talking over the years – often for the Development Office or for about our feelings. Both of us agreed lthough I did not interact with Charlie publications, where Fuffy’s superior photography skills C that today is the most important time of our Amuch during my time at Friends were most in demand, but sometimes in unlikely places, lives, but I learned this from Charlie. I was Academy, he was still a huge presence in like mounting old artifacts from the often impressed how Charlie could bring me the FA community. Last year, when I would school’s Quaker collection. back to center. If I was thinking too much be waiting for physics, I would be outside Fuffy was one of the most creative of the past days and how something went Charlie’s mailroom. Every so often, he’d have people I have ever met, with an eye wrong, or right, Charlie reminded me that a big box of letters he’d have to bring down for meticulous detail and all the skills what happens now is more important. If I was those couple of stairs from outside, and I and tenacity to get the results she worried about the future he would say, “How would help him by bringing them down for sought. When Fuffy had an idea, no is today going?” I went back to class relaxed him. He was also so grateful and so spirited. obstacle was insurmountable. On one after our chats. I truly admire him for the hard work he did, Scan the QR code particular project, I remember trying – Dick Abbene enjoyed having him on campus, and will miss or go to www. to take an easier route, in the interest his presence. fa.org/alumni to of time and effort. It was no use – Fuffy – Ryan Dobrin ‘14 see more images had the easiest, most charming smile A model of kindness and respect and was always able, as in this case, to s much as anyone, Charlie modeled A Santa to FA’s little ones win me over. This determination was matched only by her Akindness and respect in our community. graciousness, though, and Fuffy was always quick to share the It is hard to imagine a more gentle person. ow blessed FA was to have Charlie our credit for her creative ideas. The Class of 2012 recognized him with their H90-year-old mailman. He loved people, As our work together grew into friendship, I learned more yearbook dedication. He quietly went about especially the little ones. He was their Santa, about Fuffy’s full life and wonderful family. She and her twin caring for our mailroom for 18 years and and he played his part beautifully – bounc- sister Francis had been trail-blazing fashion photographers befriended all who spent even a short time ing each one on his knee, giving them their at a time when that was a male-dominated profession. Fuffy with him. We will miss him. gift and getting them to smile for their and her husband, James Abbe, had been part of New York’s – Bill Morris picture with Santa. Charlie had a great sense vibrant, post-war art scene, and some of their earlier photo- of humor and a wonderful smile. His love of graphs document the vitality of the 50s and 60s art world. chocolate was well known, and he was always Fuffy was modest about her connections to some of the Always a smile on his face the first one called when any was dropped best known artists and celebrities of the twentieth century harlie was a friendly man who always off! He was a true gentleman! and it was only in looking through the books of her work Chad a smile on his face and was willing – Regina Papa that I realized just how interesting and full her life had to help out with anything. been. It was such an honor and a great pleasure to know this – Brian Baxter remarkably talented woman – thank you, Fuffy, for all you did for FA and, from me personally, for your friendship. – Margaret Lindner

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Alice Irwin Barnes ‘81: The love of – and for – one dog t is with great sadness and a still broken He didn’t trust anyone (easily understood) We Iheart that I tell you about the loss of an and would cower in fear if anyone came near amazing and lovely woman, Alice him. Remember... Irwin Barnes. It took the foster family nearly four weeks In October, Alice was diagnosed with a to get him well enough to travel north to a Dorothy Van Siclen Dayton Barmeyer ’32 type of cancer called Carcinoid Sarcoma, new foster home, where he was for just a few which had no symptoms or warning signs. It days before we adopted him. Alice always felt Bruce Nichols ’53 was only after she had surgery to remove that Cubby brought a breath of life into the what was believed to be fibroid tumors that house that was missing after we lost Becky, Caroline Meirs ’62 the cancer was discovered and diagnosed. and felt there was a reason we found Cubby Shelley Galehouse Broven ’64 Despite being treated by doctors at and brought him home. Memorial Sloan Kettering, the type of cancer Ella, Cait and I believe that the reason Alice Irwin Barnes ’81 Alice had was both very rare and very ag- was to look after Alice while she was sick and gressive. She bring her love Cybil Hudak Taylor ’93 displayed a and companion- Kathryn “Fuffy”Abbe formidable ship when she battle against the was home alone Charlie Buchan cancer, but sadly and needed it lost the fight more than ever. Jean and George Stubbs on November Last night 10, when she Toni Ann called passed away to say that at at Overlook Hos- Home for Good pital, in Summit, Dogs Rescue Eleanor V. Albertson ’43: New Jersey, with Alice Irwin Barnes, circa 1981 and more recently recent capital Ella (now 20 and fundraising din- FA trustee and Quaker a Junior at Virginia Tech), Caitlin (now 18 ner, she told everyone Cubby’s story and how let her life speak and a senior at Verona High School) and me he had come to be such an important part of holding her hands and letting her know how our family in a short time, and how he helped leanor V. Albertson died on September 27, much we loved her. Alice through her illness. She said that by E2013 at the age of 88. While there is little positive one can the time she was done telling the story, she Eleanor graduated from Friends Academy find in a situation like this, Alice to the end was in tears, as was the rest of the room. in 1943 and went on to study at The Grace continued to think about others more than This past Monday, she got a phone call Institute in New York City. A member of the herself. She had us direct donations to an from a woman who had been at the event, Matinecock Meeting and a volunteer at both organization called Home for Good Dog and that the woman and her husband had Friends Academy and the Glen Cove Hospital, Rescue, where we’d adopted our dog, Cubby, decided after hearing Cubby and Alice’s story Eleanor let her life speak. this past May. to make an anonymous donation of $10,000 She sat on the Board of Trustees for Friends Shortly after Alice died, I got a call from in Alice’s memory. HFGDR is in the process Academy. Eleanor spent her adult life breeding a woman named Toni Ann Turco (Founder of moving to a new office in Berkeley Heights, show dogs and thoroughbred race horses. and Director) at Home for Good Dog Rescue and one of the rooms in the new office will Her grandfather, Townsend Albertson, who said she had received many phone calls be dedicated in Alice’s memory, along with founded the town of Albertson. from people who wanted to donate to them in a plaque bearing her name and Cubby’s, and Alice’s memory. She was so grateful because the photo of our family (taken the day we they work on almost no budget, and this adopted Cubby) would also be included. meant so much to them. It was a shock to say the least, and as Ella I told her about how Cubby had been put it when I told her last night, it’s hard to Alice’s protector during her illness, and how believe that one stray dog from Georgia com- he had cuddled with her on the couch when ing into our lives could change the world for she was in pain, or sat by the couch and Mom and for future dogs everywhere . . . he Correction wouldn’t leave her side if she couldn’t have was a true blessing in disguise. In the Fall/Winter 2013 issue of The him on the couch. I had assumed, and told This holiday season has not been an easy Meeting House, within In Memoriam, her as much, that Cubby had come from a one for us, but hearing this story last night Eleanor V. Albertson’s first name was family in Georgia that must have treated has brought some holiday cheer into our spelled incorrectly and mention of her him well and allowed him on the furniture house and we wanted to share it with all show dogs was omitted. The corrected because within a day of joining our family we of you. obituary has been reprinted above. found him sprawled out on the love seat in The photograph was, I believe, the last the family room sound asleep. one taken of Alice. She is wearing the wig She told me it was just the opposite – that she bought to be ready for when her hair fell Cubby was about a day away from being out. She still had the ability to smile, and she Please send announcements and memories euthanized when HFGDR arrived in Georgia looked beautiful in it, as she did every day of to Kathy Fox at [email protected] or call and got him to a foster home. At the time, he our life together. (516) 465-1765. Feel free to include a had virtually no fur on his lower torso, was – George Barnes photo with your message. malnourished, and had a horrible skin rash.

The Meeting House | Winter/Spring 2014 Friends Academy Alumni Association Alumni are the living legacy of Friends Academy. Alumni Upcoming Events>>

Alumni gather at the annual New York City Reunion. Five-Year Reunion for the Class of 2009 Friday, May 30, 2014 from 6 – 8 p.m. Join classmates and faculty for an informal reception at the Jackson House New York City Reunion Monday, June 2, 2014 from 6 – 8 p.m. Princeton/Columbia Club 15 West 43rd St., NYC 10036 Honoring Retiring Upper School Teachers Dick Abbene and Maxine Lifshitz

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