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WEHOW ACT at Berkeley Carroll O tLatSmo theWorld’s aStage Someof At Least Kochman wrote, “Yes, we are artists. And we are athletes. And we are scientists. are we And athletes. are we And artists. “Yes,wrote,are Kochman we versatility.their February,by defined Adam are Junior students Carroll Berkeley School Upper the in editorial an As stage. on students the to limited not is selves new on try to willingness this But plants. carnivorous or beagles sentient they be can, they as many as into first feet School’sUpper of the performances with spring swing full in was department theater our call, curtain final their took actors those School’sMiddle the of duction Theater’sFlea the company.of repertory member ing fast-ris- a is ’03 Micalizzi Michael and retroantecedents, their to hew that plays classic of revivals in performs and produces ’89 Cunningham Heather haustible inex- YorkThe New stage. the to returning and 60” at scratch from “starting before endeavors creative of lifetime a director.in dabbled Lynda’60 Rodolitz Clary,Marlene theater of beloved wing late the our under years nine spent ’98 Burbank SergeiCarroll. Berkeley at craft their honed who alumni four at curtain aplomb. and flair with roles of dozens play to manage who Carroll’sBerkeley actors—students of stable in than displayed better versatility this is nowhere Almost “vacations.” built-in variety,for allow that and ones experimentation, identities: elastic more struct con- to encouraged are students Carroll, Berkeley At vacations. requires one Photo:Jackie Weisberg Cover:"Parade of the Woodstocks, from Far from taking vacations from their identities, our theater students jump students theater our identities, their from vacations taking from Far pro- the with March in exploded veritably stage our greasepaint, of Speaking the of issue this In “identity” as something ironclad and constricting—a place from which from place constricting—a and ironclad something as “identity” Wellesenvision agree. century,to I twentieth sureseems not I’m but the of artists dramatic accomplished most the of one correct to me from it be Far identities.” own our from vacations short some allowed be should us of all world, perfect a Welles“in rson that, wrote once Magazine [email protected] Editor Corngold Jodie issue. the Enjoy student.” Renaissance the of school Wepassionate. arethe arewe We and driven are my ) You’reBrown.Charlie Man, Good a you’ll have the opportunity to peer behind the behind peer to opportunity the have you’ll You'rea Good Man, Charlie Brown" word Blotter newspaper stated this stated newspaper ) Little Shop of Horrors.of Shop Little The minute The those of the authors. the of those solely are publication this in expressed views The school. the of friends and faculty,grandparents, alumni, parents, for Office Communications the by published School Carroll Berkeley The Hirst Martha Hedden Shirley Friedman Mark Deane Jackie Cheffo Mark Chapman Eric Carponter Candace Members Ex-officio School, of Head Vitalo D. Robert Chair-Marketing/Admissions Harrison Colin Chair-Development Bockelmann Chris Chair-Finance,Treasurer Bowen Jamie Chair-BuildingsGroundsand Guarna Nick Chair-CommitteeTrusteeson Skyers-James Marcia Secretary,Chair-Legal Korbey Mitch Chair Vice Bender Amy Chair Holmes Stephanie Board of Trustees Telephone:718-789-6060 Website:www.berkeleycarroll.org [email protected]: Litho Liverpool Printing Inc. Lane, Studio Design Publication Weinstock Matt Intern Editorial Corngold Jodie Editor Printed on recycledpaper on Printed Magazine is

CON T E N T S 12 12 16 24 20 T H E H T Berkeley Carroll Berkeley was a lifelong struggle for this BC grad. BC this for struggle lifelong a was passion theatrical her pursue to courage the Finding Path Circuitous a Following LindaRodolitz ’60 Clary.Marlene teacher drama BC with bond professional lifelong a formed performer This Career Dramatic A SergeiBurbank’98 Productions.Retro for props designs even and produces, acts, woman Renaissance inexhaustible This Stage the Set to Stage the Setting HeatherCunningham ’89 work. understated” YorkNew The Times actor— this for off paid professionalism Quiet Prepared Actor An MichaelMicalizzi ’03 • • MAGAZINE has praised his “deliciously his praised has • Spring 2011 Spring • 16 8 0 0 2 L L A F 32 28 < 3 2 BerkeleyCarroll family Deathsin the IN personalalumni updates Profiles,reviews, and CL Berkeleyhallsof Carroll insideandoutside the Newsandviews from CONNECT theHead Schoolof Insightsfrom HEAD issuefromthe editor introductionAn tothis MY PASSING ASS WORD LINES NO TES IONS 20 1 O tLatSmo theWorld’s aStage Someof At Least Kochman wrote, “Yes, we are artists. And we are athletes. And we are scientists. are we And athletes. are we And artists. “Yes,wrote,are Kochman we versatility.their February,by defined Adam are Junior students Carroll Berkeley School Upper the in editorial an As stage. on students the to limited not is selves new on try to willingness this But plants. carnivorous or beagles sentient they be can, they as many as into first feet School’sUpper of the performances with spring swing full in was department theater our call, curtain final their took actors those School’sMiddle the of duction Theater’sFlea the company.of repertory member ing fast-ris- a is ’03 Micalizzi Michael and retroantecedents, their to hew that plays classic of revivals in performs and produces ’89 Cunningham Heather haustible inex- YorkThe New stage. the to returning and 60” at scratch from “starting before endeavors creative of lifetime a director.in dabbled Lynda’60 Rodolitz Clary,Marlene theater of beloved wing late the our under years nine spent ’98 Burbank SergeiCarroll. Berkeley at craft their honed who alumni four at curtain aplomb. and flair with roles of dozens play to manage who Carroll’sBerkeley actors—students of stable in than displayed better versatility this is nowhere Almost “vacations.” built-in variety,for allow that and ones experimentation, identities: elastic more struct con- to encouraged are students Carroll, Berkeley At vacations. requires one Photo:Jackie Weisberg Cover:"Parade of the Woodstocks, from Far from taking vacations from their identities, our theater students jump students theater our identities, their from vacations taking from Far pro- the with March in exploded veritably stage our greasepaint, of Speaking the of issue this In “identity” as something ironclad and constricting—a place from which from place constricting—a and ironclad something as “identity” Wellesenvision agree. century,to I twentieth sureseems not I’m but the of artists dramatic accomplished most the of one correct to me from it be Far identities.” own our from vacations short some allowed be should us of all world, perfect a Welles“in rson that, wrote once Magazine [email protected] Editor Corngold Jodie issue. the Enjoy student.” Renaissance the of school Wepassionate. arethe arewe We and driven are my ) You’reBrown.Charlie Man, Good a you’ll have the opportunity to peer behind the behind peer to opportunity the have you’ll You'rea Good Man, Charlie Brown" word Blotter newspaper stated this stated newspaper ) Little Shop of Horrors.of Shop Little The minute The Telephone:718-789-6060 Website:www.berkeleycarroll.org [email protected]: Litho Liverpool Printing Inc. Lane, Studio Design Publication Weinstock Matt Intern Editorial Corngold Jodie Editor authors. the of those solely are publication this in expressed views The school. the of friends and faculty,grandparents, alumni, parents, for Office Communications the by published School Carroll Berkeley The Hirst Martha Hedden Shirley Friedman Mark Deane Jackie Cheffo Mark Chapman Eric Carponter Candace Members Ex-officio School, of Head Vitalo D. Robert Chair-Marketing/Admissions Harrison Colin Chair-Development Bockelmann Chris Chair-Finance,Treasurer Bowen Jamie Chair-BuildingsGroundsand Guarna Nick Chair-CommitteeTrusteeson Skyers-James Marcia Secretary,Chair-Legal Korbey Mitch Chair Vice Bender Amy Chair Holmes Stephanie Board of Trustees Printed on recycledpaper on Printed Magazine is

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also had the opportunity to speak to PERFORMANCE! the students who were expected to Wax? answer all questions about their char- Wax acter—while keeping in character. ublic speaking is believed rooms are designed to increase self For the students, the assignment to be the single most com- assuredness and support the voice of THEYALMOSTLOOKEDREAL! required reading, writing, research, mon phobia, affecting as the individual. condensing a large amount of informa- much as 75% of all people. Of course, if a student wants to ‘‘Our goal at BC tion and facts into a short piece, mem- Standing up and addressing an take a more public role, the chances to orization, creativity, and—ultimately— ome led revolutions, some audience is seen by some as a fate do so are limitless. Beginning in the ability to improvise for two hours. is not just to produce transformed fashion, Pworse than death! This is hard to Middle School, students can join our The visitors had it easy: their only some wrote poems and believe if you have ever spent time nationally ranked Speech and Debate requirements were to listen attentively, men and women plays that are dearly around Berkeley Carroll. Our students team; they can perform in an orches- ask good questions, and have fun. loved hundreds of are provided almost endless opportu- tra; dance in an ensemble; or sing in a who can enthrall years later, but all— Cleopatra and Che Guevara were among the nities to perform, speak, sing, play chorus. All of these activities feed each S luminaries represented at this either significantly or less so— and dance and they embrace each and child’s need to creatively express their year’s Wax Museum. audiences. changed history. Every year, the every one of them. experiences. 8th grade undergoes a transfor- In this issue Next year we will initiate the We take pride in mation. Choosing a person (liv- you will be intro- Senior Speech program. Over the ing or dead) whose contribution duced to a num- course of the school year, the Upper that, but our major warranted either a biography or ber of alums who School student body will hear from autobiography, they read a book have pursued each of our seniors on a topic that is job is more profound: written about their subject, performing in near and dear to the individual. My write and memorize a three- creative and pro- guess is that some will be funny, some we need to nurture minute monologue (in the first fessional ways. will bring tears, and others will be person) about their subject, Our goal at BC is delivered with trembling voices and each child’s BOB VITALO then—dressed and in character—meet Caesar, from Steven Spielberg to not just to pro- rushed speech. Not all of the seniors the public. Steve Jobs, from Anna Pavlova to duce men and women who can will be thrilled at the prospect of distinctive voice For two hours on February 3, Anne Frank. Visitors to the living enthrall audiences. We take pride in standing in front of several hundred 2011, teachers, students, and parents wax museum heard more than the that, but our major job is more pro- people and delivering a meaningful and equip each of wandered from Julia Child to Julius students’ monologues, however. They found: we need to nurture each child’s message for five minutes, but each and distinctive voice and equip each of our every one of them will have had an our students with the students with the skills and self confi- experience that will help to build a dence to make sure that they are skill for life. skills and heard. Our students are going to be per- self confidence to THE STAGE IN THE LINCOLN Beginning with our youngest stu- forming on the global stage when they PLACE PERFORMANCE SPACE dents, our teachers are prodding our leave BC, we want to make sure that make sure that they was almost unrecognizable during children to step out in front of the they are prepared to express them- its transformation into an Upper group to share feelings and ideas. Our selves in all ways. are heard. East Side apartment for the students grow to be comfortable read- Enjoy the articles within and please performances of Neil Simon’s ing in a group, playing on a team, keep in touch with us. Let us know Prisoner of Second Avenue (far right) singing in a chorus. how your “performance” is going. last fall. And speaking of And if you walk the halls of BC, transformations, there was you will experience that some of our quite a bit done about quite a greatest performances happen one-on- ’’ Sincerely, bit during the Middle School one between teacher and student. Robert D. Vitalo staging of Much Ado About These can be quiet exchanges, but the Head of School Nothing (right). encounters that occur in our class-

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The minute they got out of school build a viable hot-air balloon and fig- each Monday during the fall semester, ure out how to propel a toy car using ten Upper School students hopped on a conventional mousetrap, to name BerkeleyBerkeley CarrollCarroll StudentsStudents the subway. Four quick stops later two more. Class times not dedicated Take a College Engineering they were in downtown Brooklyn, on to labs were given over to recitation. Take a College Engineering their way back to school. Excited by Each student was required to present CourseCourse atat CollegeCollege the prospect of taking a college engi- his or her findings using Power Point neering class, these motivated stu- but, beyond this, each was required dents who ranged from sophomore to to hew to a very specific engineering senior took a freshman engineering rubric and present cogent findings. class at New York University’s That part presented a challenge for NYU/Poly campus through a some of the students at first but, according to Upper School math teacher Doug Crane, the feed- back they received from their professors and TA’s enabled them to quickly learn, for instance, that a table displaying data was far more effective a tool than was a narrative or a group of bullet points. Going into this program the students all had a reasonable expecta- tion of learning about engineering. That they also learned how to think like an engineer was an unexpected— but exciting—addition. When asked what in particular he liked about the Dylan Scher class, Josh Goldin ’11 mentioned he liked the challenge of writing lab Speechand Debate reports. “They require a different form of writing than what we’re used to,” he TeamContinues said, referring to the technical writing. The class met once a week from its Upward 4pm to 7pm, which was a not Trajectory insignificant time commitment for students who have already spent the day Dylan Scher ’12 has debated against (top) A lemon-fueled car. at school. Was it worth it? You bet. some of the best varsity Lincoln- (left) The challenge of propelling a toy car. Teacher Doug Crane said, “This class Douglas debaters in the country. taught them to be resourceful, inde- During a prestigious by-invitation-only pendent, and flexible insofar as they set of daylong round robin competi- unique collaboration between had to learn how to meet new stan- tions sponsored by the Bronx High Berkeley Carroll and NYU. dards.” And the work? “There was a School of Science last October, Dylan This survey course introduced lot of work—in addition to three class dominated the preliminary rounds them to the principles of electrical, hours a week, preparation for the labs with a 7-0 record and extremely high chemical, and mechanical engineering, requires an additional two or three speaker points, earning him the Peter with even a little metallurgy thrown hours each week. But at the end of the Colavito Award for top speaker. This in. One lab required figuring out how day, these students successfully com- traveling trophy was last “owned” by a to make a toy car run using lemons. pleted a course intended for college BC student in 2005 when Jacob Levi During other labs the students had to freshman.” ’06 was on the debate team.

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Start the weekend off at a Berkeley Carroll Annual Golf Outing cocktail party in the Library at 181 Lincoln Place, hosted by Thank you to all who participated in The Berkeley Head of School, Bob Vitalo. Carroll School’s Fourth Annual Golf Outing on Connect with old friends and relive OCT. 4, 2010 Monday, October 4, 2010. Despite the rain and your memories of Berkeley Carroll. chill, 90 people came out to Saint Andrew’s Golf St. Andrew’s Vitalo Golf inClub Club in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York to enjoy a Hastings challenging round of golf. The event was the most successful one in its On•Hudson four-year history, raising over $60,000 for the school. • SATURDAY, MAY 14 A special thanks go out the Golf Outing Committee: Joe Polizzotto (Chair), Mike Miller, Kate Piccard, Tom Shpetner, DISCUSSION 10:00 am LUNCHEON/AWARDS 11:00 am Mike Weaver, and honorary co-chairs Mark Friedman and Henry Trevor.

Lorne Swarthout, Reunion will continue with a luncheon in the Upper School History Athletic Center. This year’s alumni awardees will be: Visiting Author Moustafa Bayoumi College teacher and Class of 2001 dean, will begin the day Distinguished Alumni Award: The Upper School welcomed prize- of the Arab population in New York Connection with a historical Jennifer Gordon ’71 winning author Moustafa Bayoumi in City. On Wednesday, November 24, 2010, perspective on the job For her service to the school September. Mr. Bayoumi, winner of Mr. Bayoumi spoke passionately nine Berkeley Carroll alums partici- market with a discussion as a member of the board and the the American Book Award; the Arab about the individuals in his book. He pated in the College Connection, entitled “The Best Job Alumni Council. American Book Award; and author of wanted to tell the story from the point sharing their college experiences Applications Ever”. How Does it Feel to be a Problem: Being of view of young people, he told the with current students and parents. You think you put a lot into your last job appli- Young and Arab in America, was an young people in his audience, because Lions Award Those alumni were: Katie cation? Forget about it! Nicolo Machiavelli wanted intelligent, charming, and wonderful they’re already caught up in trying to Cecilia Burgin Streit ’87 Cunningham ’09, Matthew a job with Lorenzo the Magnificent, ruler of storyteller. figure out who they are. For her service to the school Cunningham ’07, Sean Cunningham Florence. He wrote down some cool ideas about He told the gathered students Playing off W.E.B. Du Bois, who as a member of the board and the ’10, Emma Goldberg-Liu ’10, Max government; they became the book we know as about the genesis of his book. asked in The Souls of Black Folk, “How Alumni Council. Goldberg-Liu ’07, Alex Pelliccione He got the job. “Humanizing a population that has does it feel to be a problem?,” Mr. The Prince. ’10, John Norris ’10, Chandler In 1871 an ambitious young French artist, been dehumanized Bayoumi in his book asked the same Rosenthal ’10, and Bari Saltman ’10. Fredric Bartholdi, got it in his head to build a Young Alumni Award ever since the events question of another population. The A group of eager seniors and their colossal figure in New York harbor holding a torch. Reed Morgan ’05 of 9/11” was at the book examines the lives of seven parents gathered at the home of In order to get the Americans—and especially For exemplifying the basis of his decision. Arab-Americans living in Brooklyn, David and Nancy Rosenthal, parents New Yorkers—to take his idea seriously he sent Berkeley Carroll mission in He also cited public home to the largest Arab-American of Clarke ’06, Chandler ’10, and them a full size statue of Lafayette, General his work in public health. opinion polls indicat- population in the United States. Their August ’13. They asked many Washington’s Revolutionary War aide. Impressed ing that anti-Arabic stories include those of a family sub- insightful questions about the college with this free gift, the Americans gave Bartholdi sentiment had grown following that jected to government surveillance, application process and life on the contract for the Statue of Liberty, then put day. Because of his commitment to workplace discrimination, and fighting TOUR OF campus. Lafayette in Union Square. Perhaps a historical overcoming prejudice, Mr. Bayoumi in a war while questioning “sides.” 181 LINCOLN PLACE 1:00pm perspective might help you with your own job also took the opportunity to educate Throughout the book, this Canadian search! his Berkeley Carroll audience by born of Egyptian parents who is an Tours will be given by our Student Ambassadors. explaining that the majority of Arab- English literature professor at Americans were Christians not Brooklyn College said his goal was to humanize each of his subjects. Muslims, and talking about the history Free babysitting will be available from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm.

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FALL Lions Pounce at Victory Undaunted by the tiebreaking pro- SPORTS cedures that made them the four seed, Not even the unexpectedly strange the team traveled to face top-seeded weather events of September and Brooklyn Friends. The Lions rallied to October, including a Park Slope torna- win a seesaw third set (25-22), mov- do, could prevent Berkeley Carroll’s ing on to face a powerful St. Ann’s fall athletes from enjoying highly suc- team. In what some spectators called cessful and competitive seasons. The the most exciting final in league histo- presence of strong senior athletes and ry, St. Ann’s eked out a victory. The new coaching staffs resulted in many third set was highly dramatic. Both highlights and dramatic moments on teams had opportunities to serve for the volleyball court and soccer fields. victory, but St. Ann’s finally broke Volleyball coaches Eileen Herr and through to take a 28-26 victory. Vanessa Charles took charge of a core Special thanks to an outstanding of returning veterans and a host of group of seniors for their many contri- young newcomers. Senior leadership butions to volleyball at Berkeley was provided by Chanda Chin (All Carroll. ACIS), Danielle Regis (All ACIS), Varsity Girls Soccer lived up to the Bianka Bailey, and Lauren Malotra- standards set by previous teams. 24 Gaudet. This solid foundation was players met new coach Jason Dorn in strengthened by the skilled play of August, and together they embarked on returning juniors Samantha Bellamy, a season that had many highlights. Hana DeHovitz, Antonia Giles, and Contributions to the team’s 14-4-1 Courtney Wipf, along with sopho- record came from too many players to mores Samantha Giles and Elena mention by name in this limited space; Hirsch. These upperclassmen helped the Lions exemplified the word “team” the team’s six freshmen adapt to the in their style of play. The team earned a fast pace of play in the ACIS. second place finish in the PSAA, high- Highlights were many, including lighted by exciting wins over excellent wins over traditional rivals. The clos- teams from Portledge, Long Island ing days of the season were the most Lutheran, and Columbia Prep. dramatic of the entire fall. A late The league recognized the play of October win over midfielder Phoebe Miller ’11, defenders UNIS earned the Keyanka Bailey ’11 and Amanda Lions a spot in a Cordisco ’11, and goalie Anna Saltman four-way tie for ’11 by naming them “All ACIS” follow- first place in the ing the season. Their play sets the stan- highly competitive dard for our many returning soccer ACIS and a spot in players to meet next fall. the tournament. While their record wasn’t quite as strong as that of the girls, Varsity Boys soccer also made strides. New head BY HENRY SCHWAB ’11

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coach Arnold Gaston and Jimmy things went even better; all three Nestor emphasized skill development Berkeley Carroll basketball teams for all 22 players on the team. earned spots in the league playoffs. Improved ball handling was evident Coach Morgan Sevigny led the over the course of the season, allowing Girls Varsity to a second-place finish in the PSAA, and a tie for third in the them to compete with some superb ACIS. Seniors Keyanka Bailey, named teams from Friends Seminary, UNIS, Most Valuable Player in the PSAA, and and St. Ann’s, and earn a spot in the Tess Salvatore (PSAA All Conference) ACIS Divisional playoff round. A loss were outstanding leaders, both on and to Dwight closed the Berkeley Carroll off the court. Although they will be soccer careers of a pair of excellent missed, they leave behind a core of 13 captains, striker John Steines ’11 and returning players to take the next goalie Dan Schwartz ’11. steps in Berkeley Carroll’s climb up the standings. The boys basketball teams also advanced rapidly. Varsity basketball WINTER more than doubled last year’s win total, including a win over eventual SPORTS league champion Friends Seminary. A cold, snowy winter did not dampen They entered the final week of the sea- the winter seasons. The Varsity swim son tied with rival UNIS for the last teams were both successful. The boys spot in the playoffs. In the deciding team might have been small in num- game, they fell behind by 18 points in ber but, overall, was as speedy as ever. the third quarter. A stifling full-court A relay team consisting of Ben Bogart press turned the game around, ending ’11, Connor Luong ’11, Jawan LaMont in a seven-point Berkeley Carroll vic- ’12, and Henry Schwab ’11 broke tory and a playoff berth. school records for both the 200 and With no graduating seniors on the 400 yard freestyle relays, with times of roster, an experienced group looks to 1:52 and 3:59, respectively. In their go even farther next year. They have final meet of the season at Riverdale, help on the way. The JV team, led by the boys surprised even themselves, sophomore captains Michael placing first in every event they swam Dosik, Robert Graham, and Josh despite the fact that Riverdale’s team Rosas and under the guidance was much larger. of Coach Walter Paller, stormed The girls team had an equally busy back from a 0-3 start in league season. The teams’ ninth-place finish play to finish 10-6 and earn a overall at AAIS Championships at home seed in the ACIS playoffs. Asphalt Green did not reflect their They won a hard-fought quar- performance. “It was all numbers,” terfinal game over SIA, with said senior Catherine McWilliams. Will Reagan ’14 scoring a game- “We had girls finishing second and high 21 points in a comeback third out of 40 places. We’re hoping victory. the team grows next year.” Coaches While the season ended with Brooke Rea and John Stewart are both a semifinal loss to Packer, it was new to the swim team and are confi- ultimately a successful season. dent that next season will be a time of With 15 freshmen on the roster, improvement and growth. Berkeley Carroll basketball Upstairs in the Athletic Center, looks forward to success in future seasons.

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ver the course of researching his work, watching his clips, engaging him in a lengthy e-mail correspondence, and interviewing him, one gets an impression of just how serious Michael Micalizzi’s commitment to acting is. The word “professional,” for example, comes OOout every few sentences, and its clear Michael means it as a high—perhaps the highest—compliment and goal. In an industry that seems to thrive on dreams of overnight stardom, Michael, who graduated from Berkeley Carroll in 2003, provides a refreshing example of sedulous apprenticeship and patient determination. He has learned from, performed with, and now emulates so-called working actors, “people whose names you might not know but who have been working forever… people who I see in a lot of Off-Broadway theater in small theaters and people who make a living doing this.”

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12 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 13 Do not, however, conflate his he still stresses the importance of punc- assiduity with a lack of ambition; tuality, a famous Clary dictum, and rather, take it as a sign of Michael’s appreciatively contrasts himself with keen awareness of what it means to those “people coming in late, not pre- be a practitioner of the craft instead pared in some way.” of an aspiring movie star. When Though Ms. Clary has passed, her asked about his recent success land- lessons stay with Michael. He brought ing lead roles at The Flea, a presti- them with him to Wheaton College gious Off-Off-Broadway theater, he where he majored in Theater Studies; replies, “I personally don’t feel like after graduation he packed them up I’ve come that far. Talk to me in five and traveled with them from theater to years, ten years.” Consider that he theater, honing his craft, acting out of has been a practicing actor for the a suitcase. Finally, he brought them past fourteen years. back home to New York, to fulfill the It was Marlene Clary, Berkeley dream he dreamt fourteen years ago in Carroll’s late drama teacher, who front of a single audience member, on introduced Michael to such a deliber- a bare stage, in an unfamiliar school. ate approach to acting upon his ninth The lessons Michael learned then and grade BC matriculation in 1997. In there from Marlene Clary, he now fact, Michael met Marlene before draws on in packed theaters, under meeting any of his future classmates, “THIS WHOLE bright lights, and to glowing reviews— when he auditioned for her as part of and, most of all, he performs profes- his BC application. “I did my mono- PROFESSION IS ABOUT sionally. “This whole profession is logue,” he recalls, “and then after- about doing everything you can to ward she told me to do it again, to insure that when everything lines up, just try it differently. Throw out DOING EVERYTHING YOU you’re ready to be shot out of the can- everything I had prepared and try non,” Michael says. “Marlene wanted something else.” This practice was CAN TO INSURE THAT to make sure you were ready. I’m for- typical of a teacher known for her ever grateful for that.” ability to treat students as peers while WHEN EVERYTHING LINES Michael has had success landing making them realize just how much roles at The Flea, a prestigious Off- they could learn from her. UP, YOU’RE READY TO BE Off-Broadway theater, including the Michael took every acting class lead in the world premiere of Looking Marlene taught at Berkeley Carroll, SHOT OUT OF THE for Christmas last winter. The play was explaining that she used “classic acting filmed by WNET at the end of its run, methods from the method school of CANNON,” MICHAEL SAYS. and will be broadcast next holiday acting… the method of Marlon Brando season as part of the channel’s “Great that all the theater masters were teach- Performances” series. When asked ing, and she didn’t sugar- coat it.” But “MARLENE WANTED TO about his recent success, Michael perhaps more importantly, she “treated replies, “I personally don’t feel like you like a professional from day one, MAKE SURE YOU WERE I’ve come that far. Talk to me in five and expected the same in return.” Her years, ten years.” Consider that he has students called “her by her first name, READY. I’M FOREVER been a practicing actor for the past the only teacher who [allowed] that, fourteen years. and it was part of all she did, trying to GRATEFUL FOR THAT.” instill mutual respect.” Talking to Michael with other cast members from Spoon Michael now, it’s evident how exten- River Anthology, fall semester 2001. The production was held in the dance room sively Ms. Clary’s sober and thoughtful because Berkeley Carroll’s Performance Space approach influenced him. For instance, was under construction.

14 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 15 Do not, however, conflate his he still stresses the importance of punc- assiduity with a lack of ambition; tuality, a famous Clary dictum, and rather, take it as a sign of Michael’s appreciatively contrasts himself with keen awareness of what it means to those “people coming in late, not pre- be a practitioner of the craft instead pared in some way.” of an aspiring movie star. When Though Ms. Clary has passed, her asked about his recent success land- lessons stay with Michael. He brought ing lead roles at The Flea, a presti- them with him to Wheaton College gious Off-Off-Broadway theater, he where he majored in Theater Studies; replies, “I personally don’t feel like after graduation he packed them up I’ve come that far. Talk to me in five and traveled with them from theater to years, ten years.” Consider that he theater, honing his craft, acting out of has been a practicing actor for the a suitcase. Finally, he brought them past fourteen years. back home to New York, to fulfill the It was Marlene Clary, Berkeley dream he dreamt fourteen years ago in Carroll’s late drama teacher, who front of a single audience member, on introduced Michael to such a deliber- a bare stage, in an unfamiliar school. ate approach to acting upon his ninth The lessons Michael learned then and grade BC matriculation in 1997. In there from Marlene Clary, he now fact, Michael met Marlene before draws on in packed theaters, under meeting any of his future classmates, “THIS WHOLE bright lights, and to glowing reviews— when he auditioned for her as part of and, most of all, he performs profes- his BC application. “I did my mono- PROFESSION IS ABOUT sionally. “This whole profession is logue,” he recalls, “and then after- about doing everything you can to ward she told me to do it again, to insure that when everything lines up, just try it differently. Throw out DOING EVERYTHING YOU you’re ready to be shot out of the can- everything I had prepared and try non,” Michael says. “Marlene wanted something else.” This practice was CAN TO INSURE THAT to make sure you were ready. I’m for- typical of a teacher known for her ever grateful for that.” ability to treat students as peers while WHEN EVERYTHING LINES Michael has had success landing making them realize just how much roles at The Flea, a prestigious Off- they could learn from her. UP, YOU’RE READY TO BE Off-Broadway theater, including the Michael took every acting class lead in the world premiere of Looking Marlene taught at Berkeley Carroll, SHOT OUT OF THE for Christmas last winter. The play was explaining that she used “classic acting filmed by WNET at the end of its run, methods from the method school of CANNON,” MICHAEL SAYS. and will be broadcast next holiday acting… the method of Marlon Brando season as part of the channel’s “Great that all the theater masters were teach- Performances” series. When asked ing, and she didn’t sugar- coat it.” But “MARLENE WANTED TO about his recent success, Michael perhaps more importantly, she “treated replies, “I personally don’t feel like you like a professional from day one, MAKE SURE YOU WERE I’ve come that far. Talk to me in five and expected the same in return.” Her years, ten years.” Consider that he has students called “her by her first name, READY. I’M FOREVER been a practicing actor for the past the only teacher who [allowed] that, fourteen years. and it was part of all she did, trying to GRATEFUL FOR THAT.” instill mutual respect.” Talking to Michael with other cast members from Spoon Michael now, it’s evident how exten- River Anthology, fall semester 2001. The production was held in the dance room sively Ms. Clary’s sober and thoughtful because Berkeley Carroll’s Performance Space approach influenced him. For instance, was under construction.

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ith a costume-designing mother and a set designer father, Heather Cunningham, Berkeley Carroll Class of 1989, was born into the theatrical craft; the stage was set for her to star. Heather’s interest in performing was not a gradual, dawning realization, but existed “from WWthe first moment [she] can remember.” Indeed, performing seems nearly as compulsive for her as, say, an air of general hostility is for most NYC public transit passengers. Evidence exists that she was fascinated with acting before she can even recall. For instance, Heather’s mother likes to tell a story of a visit she paid to Heather’s kindergarten class, cos- tumes in tow, to help the children mount a production of the Three Little Pigs. When time came to assign the parts, Heather “begged” her mother to play the wolf. “A character actress from the start,” Heather notes, smiling. HEATHERHEATHER BY JONATHAN DAVENPORT

(l to r) Lowell Byers, Lauren Kelston, Elise Rovinsky, Casandera M.J. Lollar and Heather E. Cunningham in Retro Productions 2010 World Premiere CUNNINGHAM’89 production of Women and War by CUNNINGHAM’89 Jack Hilton Cunningham, photo by Kristen Vaughan. Women and War is now published by Baker’s Plays (an BY JONATHAN DAVENPORT imprint of Samuel French, Inc.).

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16 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 17 Heather E. Cunningham as Peg Costello in Retro Productions 2010 (6 time New York Photo By Jordana Zeldin Jordana By Photo In contrast to her seemingly con- Innovative Theatre Award nominated) production of The Desk Set by William Marchant. genital will to perform, Heather’s taste in what to perform developed slowly. update her website herself does not Marlene Clary’s class “Drama and seem to bother her. Heather admits, “I Society” played an early role in this certainly never thought I’d end up process. “We studied four plays and producing my own work,” but finds their context within social history,” that “I’m more at peace with myself as she says. “Wonderful. In many ways, an artist…because I’m doing what I it’s what I still do today.” But perhaps want to do.” more influential was her mother’s old Retro Productions’s mission state- college professor and dear family ment declares their intent to perform friend who instilled in Heather “an “20th-century period pieces that tell appreciation for old things.” She con- THAT SHE OFTEN us something about their time peri- fesses this appreciation has formed ods,” and era-accurate décor, precise both her personal and theatrical aes- HAS TO DESIGN PROPS, settings, and time-specific social issues thetic. Heather’s apartment is fes- characterize all Retro Productions tooned with Nancy Drew books, plays, including the most recent, 1950s glasses, and vintage kitchen CLEAN THEATERS, OR Michael Frayn’s Benefactors. Heather tools; she refuses to put on shows set spends hours researching the histori- after 1985. UPDATE HER WEBSITE cal context of each play, and, as if to Combining her passions for prove it, now excitedly recites whole theater and history, in 2005 Heather HERSELF DOES NOT swaths of late-1960s London social founded—and performs in—Retro and housing history vis-à-vis Productions (www.retroproductions.org). SEEM TO BOTHER HER. Benefactors. She says that such atten- The productions benefit from her par- tion to detail serves to “transport [one] ents’ experience—her mother now HEATHER ADMITS, to the time of the story…and the story designs sets and her father now writes is why we are all here,” while ruefully plays—and Heather’s apparently inex- acknowledging the irony in this adult haustible dedication. That she often “I CERTAINLY NEVER hobby, since at BC she “had horrible has to design props, clean theaters, or grades” in and far less enthusiasm for THOUGHT I’D END UP History. As setting serves a great role in her PRODUCING MY OWN productions, so it plays a great role in her life. Heather seems to have a bet- WORK,” BUT FINDS THAT ter memory for places than people sometimes. Berkeley Carroll’s “unbe- (left) Heather E. Cunningham lievable” staircase and “spectacular” as Jessica Collins in Retro “I’M MORE AT PEACE WITH original brick building represent the Productions 2008 production of The Tender Trap by Max Shulman school to her as much as her favorite and Robert Paul Smith, pictured MYSELF AS AN teachers and classmates. These set- with Ric Sechrest. tings influenced her adolescence, (right) Heather E. Cunningham as ARTIST…BECAUSE opened up her understanding of the- Angel in Retro Productions 2009 ater, and contributed to her classic production of When You Comin’ aesthetic sense. In a rare look forward Back, Red Ryder? by Mark Medoff, I’M DOING WHAT I pictured with Christopher for a woman constantly exploring the Patrick Mullen. past, Heather only desires that her WANT TO DO.” own settings and performances with Retro Productions accomplish the Photo By Kristen Vaughan Kristen By Photo

same for others. Vaughan Kristen By Photo

18 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 19 Heather E. Cunningham as Peg Costello in Retro Productions 2010 (6 time New York Photo By Jordana Zeldin Jordana By Photo In contrast to her seemingly con- Innovative Theatre Award nominated) production of The Desk Set by William Marchant. genital will to perform, Heather’s taste in what to perform developed slowly. update her website herself does not Marlene Clary’s class “Drama and seem to bother her. Heather admits, “I Society” played an early role in this certainly never thought I’d end up process. “We studied four plays and producing my own work,” but finds their context within social history,” that “I’m more at peace with myself as she says. “Wonderful. In many ways, an artist…because I’m doing what I it’s what I still do today.” But perhaps want to do.” more influential was her mother’s old Retro Productions’s mission state- college professor and dear family ment declares their intent to perform friend who instilled in Heather “an “20th-century period pieces that tell appreciation for old things.” She con- THAT SHE OFTEN us something about their time peri- fesses this appreciation has formed ods,” and era-accurate décor, precise both her personal and theatrical aes- HAS TO DESIGN PROPS, settings, and time-specific social issues thetic. Heather’s apartment is fes- characterize all Retro Productions tooned with Nancy Drew books, plays, including the most recent, 1950s glasses, and vintage kitchen CLEAN THEATERS, OR Michael Frayn’s Benefactors. Heather tools; she refuses to put on shows set spends hours researching the histori- after 1985. UPDATE HER WEBSITE cal context of each play, and, as if to Combining her passions for prove it, now excitedly recites whole theater and history, in 2005 Heather HERSELF DOES NOT swaths of late-1960s London social founded—and performs in—Retro and housing history vis-à-vis Productions (www.retroproductions.org). SEEM TO BOTHER HER. Benefactors. She says that such atten- The productions benefit from her par- tion to detail serves to “transport [one] ents’ experience—her mother now HEATHER ADMITS, to the time of the story…and the story designs sets and her father now writes is why we are all here,” while ruefully plays—and Heather’s apparently inex- acknowledging the irony in this adult haustible dedication. That she often “I CERTAINLY NEVER hobby, since at BC she “had horrible has to design props, clean theaters, or grades” in and far less enthusiasm for THOUGHT I’D END UP History. As setting serves a great role in her PRODUCING MY OWN productions, so it plays a great role in her life. Heather seems to have a bet- WORK,” BUT FINDS THAT ter memory for places than people sometimes. Berkeley Carroll’s “unbe- (left) Heather E. Cunningham lievable” staircase and “spectacular” as Jessica Collins in Retro “I’M MORE AT PEACE WITH original brick building represent the Productions 2008 production of The Tender Trap by Max Shulman school to her as much as her favorite and Robert Paul Smith, pictured MYSELF AS AN teachers and classmates. These set- with Ric Sechrest. tings influenced her adolescence, (right) Heather E. Cunningham as ARTIST…BECAUSE opened up her understanding of the- Angel in Retro Productions 2009 ater, and contributed to her classic production of When You Comin’ aesthetic sense. In a rare look forward Back, Red Ryder? by Mark Medoff, I’M DOING WHAT I pictured with Christopher for a woman constantly exploring the Patrick Mullen. past, Heather only desires that her WANT TO DO.” own settings and performances with Retro Productions accomplish the Photo By Kristen Vaughan Kristen By Photo

same for others. Vaughan Kristen By Photo

18 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 19 ADRAMATICCAREER

ergei Burbank ’98 speaks intelligently but playfully, every now and then dropping a startling curveball into the conversation. He prefers his theater to do so as well. For S Sergei, drama puts “a narrative frame on S[our] lives…an attempt to contextualize our lives within a larger story.” But his productions and he himself revel in disrupting these comfortable narratives. For instance, Sergei is obviously of color, but it is not clear which specifically. His heritage remains difficult to pin down, and guessing it turns into a first curious, then slightly torturous kind of Rorschach test that eventually convinces his audience to just let it go; some things deserve more than labels. Sergei refers to himself as “inconclusively brown,” which serves him well; in many ways the difficulty of drawing conclusions has become the work of his lifetime. One conclusion is clear to Sergei, though: “I would not have ever done theater,” he says, “had it not been for the late, great [BC Drama teacher] Marlene Clary. SERGEI She dragged me into auditions and the rehearsal room.” Sergei’s nine years at Berkeley Carroll were studded with theatrical triumphs—chief among them a senior-year production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona in which Sergei and his best friend Danny Isquith ’98 played the BURBANK’98 title roles.

BY JONATHAN DAVENPORT

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BY JONATHAN DAVENPORT

20 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 21 Sergei recalls that “we’d been ing from Kenyon, Sergei decided to developing comic bits for four years— produce his own work. In 2007, he we didn’t even realize what we’d been co-founded the Conflict of Interest working on them for until we brought Theater Company with film and stage it all onstage.” By the end of his time director Adam Karsten. COI plays are at BC, Sergei—who was also involved “intimate,” says Sergei, adding, “We in the Creative Arts Program, where mount our shows so that our actors he worked with Marlene—was work- and our audience have a sort of coming with Marlene Clary “continuously, munion” each evening. “We go right for almost eleven months a year.” He up to that final conclusion and avoid planned to abandon acting, though, in making it, and that’s what divides order to study history. Sergei’s Two good theater from propaganda.” Gentlemen program bio read, “This is In March 1998, Marlene Clary the last time he shall take any stage, wrote a note to Sergei on the eve of and [he] wishes to thank all the real “MY ASSUMPTIONS Two Gentlemen’s opening; in it, she actors.” Sergei remembers being con- said, “This may be our last exploration fronted backstage by Ms. Clary, who, ABOUT THEATER— of theatre together, but certainly not he says, “asked me point-blank if I our last collaboration.” Her statement was serious. I told her I was.” THAT IT WAS PLAYFUL, proved prophetic. Exactly ten years Upon matriculating at Kenyon later, in Conflict of Interest’s second College, however, it became clear to FOR FUN, AND NOT AT season, Sergei convinced Marlene and Sergei that a career in history “was not her husband, Roy Clary, to join the going to work out,” in part because, company. Marlene was named he says, “I’m more interested in whose ALL SERIOUS— Director of Readings and Young Artist story is being told [than trying to find] Development, and in 2009 she direct- the truth with a capital T.” Feeling WERE BEING CHALLENGED ed Sergei and Roy in a production of adrift in Kenyon’s “middle of nowhere James O’Connor’s Timor Mortis that Ohio” campus, Sergei enrolled in an ON A DAILY BASIS… Sergei says was “incredibly challeng- introductory drama course in hopes ing” but ultimately rewarding. Sergei that it would provide “something MY PERCEPTION OF takes pride in the symmetry of having familiar in an otherwise very unfamil- “pulled them back into professional iar place.” THEATER SHIFTED FROM theater” when Marlene was the one The course, known colloquially as who had pulled him into the theater “Baby Drama,” turned out to be one AN ETHEREAL, EMOTIVE world in the first place. He even keeps “of the most brutal, academic, jargon- her name on the COI letterhead, “as a filled, joy-killing studies known on EXPERIENCE TO A reminder to ourselves that the work campus.” But unlike history, it excited she started with us will continue.” him; “my assumptions about theater— VOCATION AND CRAFT.” Interestingly, what Sergei values in that it was playful, for fun, and not at drama, he also valued in Berkeley all serious—were being challenged on Carroll. “What was so precious about a daily basis…my perception of the- PRODUCING, DIRECTING, BC for me,” he says, “is that it was ater shifted from an ethereal, emotive such an intimate setting. I was lucky experience to a vocation and craft.” ACTING, AND WRITING enough to feel very free, and so I Producing, directing, acting, and writ- could take risks with who I was and ing have been his “home” ever since. HAVE BEEN SERGEI’S how I presented myself. Having that Unsatisfied with many historically feeling at an early age definitely Sergei and Danny Isquith in the definitive and politically didactic plays “HOME” EVER SINCE. translated into theater.” 1998 production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. he found in playhouses after graduat-

22 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 23 Sergei recalls that “we’d been ing from Kenyon, Sergei decided to developing comic bits for four years— produce his own work. In 2007, he we didn’t even realize what we’d been co-founded the Conflict of Interest working on them for until we brought Theater Company with film and stage it all onstage.” By the end of his time director Adam Karsten. COI plays are at BC, Sergei—who was also involved “intimate,” says Sergei, adding, “We in the Creative Arts Program, where mount our shows so that our actors he worked with Marlene—was work- and our audience have a sort of coming with Marlene Clary “continuously, munion” each evening. “We go right for almost eleven months a year.” He up to that final conclusion and avoid planned to abandon acting, though, in making it, and that’s what divides order to study history. Sergei’s Two good theater from propaganda.” Gentlemen program bio read, “This is In March 1998, Marlene Clary the last time he shall take any stage, wrote a note to Sergei on the eve of and [he] wishes to thank all the real “MY ASSUMPTIONS Two Gentlemen’s opening; in it, she actors.” Sergei remembers being con- said, “This may be our last exploration fronted backstage by Ms. Clary, who, ABOUT THEATER— of theatre together, but certainly not he says, “asked me point-blank if I our last collaboration.” Her statement was serious. I told her I was.” THAT IT WAS PLAYFUL, proved prophetic. Exactly ten years Upon matriculating at Kenyon later, in Conflict of Interest’s second College, however, it became clear to FOR FUN, AND NOT AT season, Sergei convinced Marlene and Sergei that a career in history “was not her husband, Roy Clary, to join the going to work out,” in part because, company. Marlene was named he says, “I’m more interested in whose ALL SERIOUS— Director of Readings and Young Artist story is being told [than trying to find] Development, and in 2009 she direct- the truth with a capital T.” Feeling WERE BEING CHALLENGED ed Sergei and Roy in a production of adrift in Kenyon’s “middle of nowhere James O’Connor’s Timor Mortis that Ohio” campus, Sergei enrolled in an ON A DAILY BASIS… Sergei says was “incredibly challeng- introductory drama course in hopes ing” but ultimately rewarding. Sergei that it would provide “something MY PERCEPTION OF takes pride in the symmetry of having familiar in an otherwise very unfamil- “pulled them back into professional iar place.” THEATER SHIFTED FROM theater” when Marlene was the one The course, known colloquially as who had pulled him into the theater “Baby Drama,” turned out to be one AN ETHEREAL, EMOTIVE world in the first place. He even keeps “of the most brutal, academic, jargon- her name on the COI letterhead, “as a filled, joy-killing studies known on EXPERIENCE TO A reminder to ourselves that the work campus.” But unlike history, it excited she started with us will continue.” him; “my assumptions about theater— VOCATION AND CRAFT.” Interestingly, what Sergei values in that it was playful, for fun, and not at drama, he also valued in Berkeley all serious—were being challenged on Carroll. “What was so precious about a daily basis…my perception of the- PRODUCING, DIRECTING, BC for me,” he says, “is that it was ater shifted from an ethereal, emotive such an intimate setting. I was lucky experience to a vocation and craft.” ACTING, AND WRITING enough to feel very free, and so I Producing, directing, acting, and writ- could take risks with who I was and ing have been his “home” ever since. HAVE BEEN SERGEI’S how I presented myself. Having that Unsatisfied with many historically feeling at an early age definitely Sergei and Danny Isquith in the definitive and politically didactic plays “HOME” EVER SINCE. translated into theater.” 1998 production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. he found in playhouses after graduat-

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ooking ruminatively into the empty space about fifteen inches above her coffee table, Lynda Rodolitz sits on a cushioned armchair, her back to a large window and the waning sunlight. She L reflects upon her past without sounding Lexceedingly self-involved or prideful, but rather with an informed distance available to only those well over a certain age and its paired psychological hang-ups. Raising her eyes, she interrupts a story to remark, “People like talking about themselves.” She is perhaps realizing the platitude’s simple truth herself in this expanding moment of multi-layered reflection, more than submitting it as an apologetic defense. But she picks up where she left off easily, waiting for neither response nor encouragement. So Lynda continues, “I came to living as an artist much later than maybe what you are looking for,” a warning she repeats several times throughout the evening. She has reason to be cautious; preconceived expectations played a large role in her adolescence. Throughout her 1950s childhood, Lynda’s parents emphasized “social graces,” pressured her to become a teacher, and hoped she would marry someone wealthy. LINDALINDA “I grew up,” she says, “in a time when young women were expected to be artistic but not artists.” Such traditional assumptions shadowed her from an early age and by high school she felt eclipsed, hidden. “I was literally told, ‘Never let a man know you’re too intelligent,’” Lynda explains, and RODOLITZRODOLITZ ’60’60 public school only reinforced this “definite model of what BY JONATHAN DAVENPORT

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24 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 25 4 women should be like.” There is not ... LYNDA REALIZED SHE years, and felt the need to change. She rage in her voice so much as irritation; left show business. She worked as an 4 she admits later to protesting for HAD LEFT HER HEART IN activist. She moved to Santa Fe. She 4 women’s rights throughout adulthood. became a photographer. Her junior year, as she sees it, was NEW YORK, ON THE STAGE. But with her friends’ encourage- 4 her first big break: she transferred ment and some time to think, Lynda from public school to The Berkeley “SO I CAME BACK,” realized she had left her heart in New 4 Institute. The new environment trans- York, on the stage. “So I came back,” 4 formed Lynda; “Being smart and funny SHE SAYS. “IT WAS NOT she says. “It was not easy, but I have was what made you popular,” she been studying and auditioning…It’s 4 says, adding that “none of the girls EASY, BUT I HAVE like starting from scratch at 60, not a had to cover up what they are to be time when most women actresses are 4 attractive to boys … you were there to BEEN STUDYING AND most welcomed.” She’s used to it. 4 shine.” Having had her dreams challenged her She leans a bit forward in her AUDITIONING… whole life prepared her well for life as 4 chair. Classmates, she says, “would sit an auditioning performer. in a big circle in her [French teacher’s] IT’S LIKE STARTING FROM Despite living in the constant shad- 4 room and people would do funny ow of such preconceived expectations, sketches about F. Scott and Zelda Lynda is grateful. Catching the 4 SCRATCH AT 60, NOT A SENDUSYOUR Fitzgerald,” tell stories, and entertain women’s movement in the 1970s, 4 each other. As she discusses these two TIME WHEN MOST WOMEN falling in with accepting, supportive brief but formative years at BI, her artists, and attending the Berkeley 4 eyes light up and her gaze becomes ACTRESSES ARE MOST Institute: these are her fortunes. more intent, as if these sketches were Lynda’s realization that “the only 4 being performed there again, inches WELCOMED.” real way to any kind of success in 4 BLOTTERS!BLOTTERS! above her coffee table. your life is to follow your passions From Lynda’s Boston University and to trust what you love and not lis- 4 matriculation through her graduation, Instead she spent the next few years ten to the song and dance that the ERKELEY CARROLL’s student newspaper, the Blotter, was first theater was not part of her plan. Her teaching high-school biology back in culture tells you” stems from and 4 published in May 1929. The paper—then called the Inkwell—was just parents remained insistent that she New York City. It’s clear at this point returns her to those adolescent four pages long (Funny about the name change. We would have liked to become a teacher, so, to avoid con- that she still wonders about alternative moments in “that little circle of girls— have been privy to that conversation….) frontation, Lynda, a pre-med Biology paths her life could have taken—day- it was like Hogwarts—it was this We’re fortunate to have a mint-condition copy of the Blotter’s debut major, lied to them. “I think I was so dreams about a minute in the life of wonderful atmosphere… to show issue, but as the school newspaper ballooned in both size and ambition, frustrated I decided to major in the Lynda Rodolitz, MD—but not for too yourself.” Lynda sits reflecting; the sun our archives grew patchier. (We’re in particular need of issues from the hardest thing I could,” she says. “It long or too wistfully; though she has fallen and the window behind her BB 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s). As part of a continuing effort to preserve was interesting, but I had shown no might have enjoyed biology, she glitters with lights. Berkeley Carroll’s history, we’re asking BC alumni, family, and faculty to indication up until then that I was doesn’t seem to miss it much. It should be noted that not only donate any back issues of the Blotter you may have tucked away. In the interested in science. I wanted to be a In 1970 both her parents passed does Lynda credit Barbra Streisand fashion designer; my parents thought I away, and so, emerging from the with breaking the mold of “that per- long term, our goal is to digitize and make searchable the entire Blotter was studying elementary education up expectations they represented, Lynda fect American look” for leading collection, in what we hope will be a kind of trove or Hit Parade repre- until the day I graduated.” She falls finally dared to live the life she want- actresses, but that Lynda also resem- senting 82 years of BC news, opinions, and culture. back in her chair. When speaking of ed: “I became a video artist through bles Streisand to a frightening extent, her parents, her tone changes slightly; some major coincidences, and through specifically as she, Streisand, appears Please send issues to: it remains informative, but with a hint video I became interested in acting.” in the 1976 hit rock musical, A Star is 4The Berkeley Carroll School of regret, of sadness. Their relation- She started auditioning, joined the Born. That Lynda could have found 808 Union Street ship was complicated. Medicine Show Theater, and eventual- steady employment as a dead-ringing 4 Brooklyn, NY 11215 Though accepted to medical ly got into performing cabaret and double, if not in the pictures then 4Attn: Jodie Corngold school, Lynda declined, explaining, comedy. By the mid-1980s Lynda had with plain identity theft, should be “my parents wouldn’t let me go.” been performing for 12 consecutive taken as given. 4

26 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Spring 2011 27 4 women should be like.” There is not ... LYNDA REALIZED SHE years, and felt the need to change. She rage in her voice so much as irritation; left show business. She worked as an 4 she admits later to protesting for HAD LEFT HER HEART IN activist. She moved to Santa Fe. She 4 women’s rights throughout adulthood. became a photographer. Her junior year, as she sees it, was NEW YORK, ON THE STAGE. But with her friends’ encourage- 4 her first big break: she transferred ment and some time to think, Lynda from public school to The Berkeley “SO I CAME BACK,” realized she had left her heart in New 4 Institute. The new environment trans- York, on the stage. “So I came back,” 4 formed Lynda; “Being smart and funny SHE SAYS. “IT WAS NOT she says. “It was not easy, but I have was what made you popular,” she been studying and auditioning…It’s 4 says, adding that “none of the girls EASY, BUT I HAVE like starting from scratch at 60, not a had to cover up what they are to be time when most women actresses are 4 attractive to boys … you were there to BEEN STUDYING AND most welcomed.” She’s used to it. 4 shine.” Having had her dreams challenged her She leans a bit forward in her AUDITIONING… whole life prepared her well for life as 4 chair. Classmates, she says, “would sit an auditioning performer. in a big circle in her [French teacher’s] IT’S LIKE STARTING FROM Despite living in the constant shad- 4 room and people would do funny ow of such preconceived expectations, sketches about F. Scott and Zelda Lynda is grateful. Catching the 4 SCRATCH AT 60, NOT A SENDUSYOUR Fitzgerald,” tell stories, and entertain women’s movement in the 1970s, 4 each other. As she discusses these two TIME WHEN MOST WOMEN falling in with accepting, supportive brief but formative years at BI, her artists, and attending the Berkeley 4 eyes light up and her gaze becomes ACTRESSES ARE MOST Institute: these are her fortunes. more intent, as if these sketches were Lynda’s realization that “the only 4 being performed there again, inches WELCOMED.” real way to any kind of success in 4 BLOTTERS!BLOTTERS! above her coffee table. your life is to follow your passions From Lynda’s Boston University and to trust what you love and not lis- 4 matriculation through her graduation, Instead she spent the next few years ten to the song and dance that the ERKELEY CARROLL’s student newspaper, the Blotter, was first theater was not part of her plan. Her teaching high-school biology back in culture tells you” stems from and 4 published in May 1929. The paper—then called the Inkwell—was just parents remained insistent that she New York City. It’s clear at this point returns her to those adolescent four pages long (Funny about the name change. We would have liked to become a teacher, so, to avoid con- that she still wonders about alternative moments in “that little circle of girls— have been privy to that conversation….) frontation, Lynda, a pre-med Biology paths her life could have taken—day- it was like Hogwarts—it was this We’re fortunate to have a mint-condition copy of the Blotter’s debut major, lied to them. “I think I was so dreams about a minute in the life of wonderful atmosphere… to show issue, but as the school newspaper ballooned in both size and ambition, frustrated I decided to major in the Lynda Rodolitz, MD—but not for too yourself.” Lynda sits reflecting; the sun our archives grew patchier. (We’re in particular need of issues from the hardest thing I could,” she says. “It long or too wistfully; though she has fallen and the window behind her BB 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s). As part of a continuing effort to preserve was interesting, but I had shown no might have enjoyed biology, she glitters with lights. Berkeley Carroll’s history, we’re asking BC alumni, family, and faculty to indication up until then that I was doesn’t seem to miss it much. It should be noted that not only donate any back issues of the Blotter you may have tucked away. In the interested in science. I wanted to be a In 1970 both her parents passed does Lynda credit Barbra Streisand fashion designer; my parents thought I away, and so, emerging from the with breaking the mold of “that per- long term, our goal is to digitize and make searchable the entire Blotter was studying elementary education up expectations they represented, Lynda fect American look” for leading collection, in what we hope will be a kind of trove or Hit Parade repre- until the day I graduated.” She falls finally dared to live the life she want- actresses, but that Lynda also resem- senting 82 years of BC news, opinions, and culture. back in her chair. When speaking of ed: “I became a video artist through bles Streisand to a frightening extent, her parents, her tone changes slightly; some major coincidences, and through specifically as she, Streisand, appears Please send issues to: it remains informative, but with a hint video I became interested in acting.” in the 1976 hit rock musical, A Star is 4The Berkeley Carroll School of regret, of sadness. Their relation- She started auditioning, joined the Born. That Lynda could have found 808 Union Street ship was complicated. Medicine Show Theater, and eventual- steady employment as a dead-ringing 4 Brooklyn, NY 11215 Though accepted to medical ly got into performing cabaret and double, if not in the pictures then 4Attn: Jodie Corngold school, Lynda declined, explaining, comedy. By the mid-1980s Lynda had with plain identity theft, should be “my parents wouldn’t let me go.” been performing for 12 consecutive taken as given. 4

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International Polar Year, our 45th), I thought you I Susan Rabinowitz Davis ’60 that I may have missed my I Dawn Ericsson Provine ’88, 8 1882-1883. The IPY was the might want to include this.” writes: “It just occurred to me 50th high school reunion an obstetrician and gynecol- In addition to the MAGAZINE, class notes are published in our email 1940s first time that the United (class of 1960), and would ogist in Tampa, FL, just newsletter. At the beginning of the month during the school year, we email the newsletter to all alumni with email addresses on file. If I States participated in a coop- love to make contact with appeared in an episode of On the occasion of their you aren’t receiving the newsletter and would like to, please contact erative international scientif- ‘old’ classmates. Can you MTV’s “16 & Pregnant” with 70th Reunion, the nine Jessica Langbein, Alumni Relations Coordinator, at jlangbein@berke- remaining members of the ic research program. help?” To contact Susan, her patient, Markai. The leycarroll.org with your current email information. Class of ’41 sent greetings to Led by Adolphus W. please email alums@berkeley- episode originally aired on You can also submit class notes online at Berkeley Carroll with fond Greely, the expedition had carroll.org November 16th. www.berkeleycarroll.org/alumni or by mail to memories of their halcyon many accomplishments, Jessica Langbein, Berkeley Carroll School I Colette Berkeley Bronstein ’68 I Congratulations to Jeanine days here. including a new record for 808 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Walton ’88 farthest north, upsetting 300 writes: “As much as I hate to on her marriage to share this, I have been diag- Kevin Britt on October 2nd. I Susan Siris Wexler ’46 had a years of British records in the nosed with multiple myelo- Two BC classmates were in I Sarah Murphy ’01 writes: “I I Joanna Guest ’06 wrote: “In drawing accepted in the polar regions. Unfortunately, ma. This isn’t a great diagno- attendance at the wedding - finally got engaged in May to November, I finished up Cambridge Art Association because of bureaucratic mis- Annual Member’s Show, sis, but when is cancer ever Dawn Ericsson Provine ’88 and my very long-time boyfriend working on Senate Majority management and the failure juried by Arthur Dion, a good diagnosis? Anyway, we Robyn Evans ’87. (of more than 10 years!), Leader Harry Reid’s re-elec- of relief ships to deliver pro- Director of the Naga Gallery are fighting it with radiation Elliott Gersowitz. I’m pretty tion campaign in Reno. I was visions for the expedition, on Newbury Street. The treatments, chemotherapy and sure we’re going to get mar- a field organizer for the drawing, Portrait of Yani, is in most of the men starved to then stem cell transplantation. 1990s8 ried next September in Nevada State Democratic colored pencil. death in a camp on Pim I will win this one. Brooklyn, after I’ve sat for the Party and was responsible Island in the area now called The bright side of our I Terry Sacchi ’96, a documen- Bar this summer.” for turning out 2.6% of I I Elizabeth H. Keely ’49 writes: Nunavut. At least six of the The Class of 1961 is gearing up for their 50th reunion! lives is our daughter, Caitlin. tary filmmaker, had his film Senator Reid’s ultimate vote “Just to let you know, I have men, including Whistler, Jean Martinson Davio ’61 writes: “Early in October, eight class- She is currently attending Facing Trauma aired on The I Helen O. Ogbara ’01 was goal in Nevada. Basically that’s been living in Dublin for were cannibalized. mates met at the home of Ken and Bunny Wagener Libby Hofstra University Law Discovery Health Channel in elected to Prep for Prep’s a lot of calling voters, knock- ’61 February. ing on doors, and recruiting many years now, completely Phyllis’ article draws on in Stowe, VT for a week-long mini-reunion. Along with School in Hempstead, NY. Associates Council. Bunny and I, the classmates were Carol Atiyeh ’61, Genevieve and maintaining a volunteer on my own with no relations information published by We are so proud of her, and Twohig Hamway ’61, Nancy Winkler Naftulin ’61, Claire Ghattas I Zoe Klein ’97 is now living here, there or anywhere, but Greely, on secondary sources, know she will be an awe- Pitzer ’61, Gwen Skelton ’61, and Carole Forster Swan ’61. What in San Francisco, CA and fortunately many good friends including material held by the some attorney. It would be made here over the years. a great time we had. We went for walks down country attending “circus school”—a Carroll County Historical nice to see some news from What spurred me into action roads, shopped in town and at a Craft Fair, had a picnic 10-month professional train- Society in Delphi, Indiana, my class.” about looking up the Berkeley lunch at Derek’s hunting camp, had more bridge lessons ing program at the San and on her travels to the High Institute (as it was then) was from Carol Atiyeh ’61, sipped some wine, ate heartily, laughed Francisco Circus Center. that all my friends here, no Arctic in 2006. a lot, studied old yearbooks, made some plans for matter what age, seem to The Greely expedition Reunion 2011, and stopped talking only long enough to 1970s8 I Congratulations to Eric still be in touch with school was featured on PBS’ eat and sleep. It might have been raining outside, and how Naison-Phillips ’99 on his mar- I friends, so I thought I’d take “American Experiences” on those winds did blow! But inside, it was warm and fuzzy Zelda R. Tetenbaum Yoder ’75 riage to Laura Halzack, which a chance and see who was left January 31st. as we shared memories of years past. It seems like just writes: “I am currently the took place on November 27, in my class.” last year we were walking the halls of BI, but so much Coordinator of Pre- 2010 in New York. Eric and has happened since then, and we never seem to tire of Developmental Education at Laura met in 2007 in the talking about it. Reading Area Community restaurant Barna at the Giraffe 1960s8 “We are ALL anxious for our big reunion next year, to College. Work, husband, kids, Hotel in Manhattan. Their 1950s8 see classmates we haven’t seen for 50 years! There is so dog...all good! Regards from wedding was profiled in the I Carol Sawade Mastro michalis PA!” New York Times. I Phyllis J. Marsteller ’59 ’64 writes: “I just reunited much catching up to do. We have been in touch with I Eric Chapman ’92, member of the Board of Trustees, recently sent in “William H. with a former Berkeley stu- most of the class but are asking the help of other BI and his wife Karine Blemur Chapman welcomed a Whistler, IPY 1882-1883,” dent on Facebook who had grads to locate Louise (Kirsten) Foy ’61, Naomi Arenstein ’61 healthy and happy addition to their family on June 30, an article published in moved away and did not and Ellen Blank Ehrlich ’61. If you can help us, please 8 8 1980s 2000s 2010. Malcolm Isaiah Pierre Chapman was born, September by the American graduate with us. She sadly contact Jessica in the Alumni Office or Jean at I Sandra D. Clarke ’81 I weighing 4-lbs 15oz and measuring 17 inches. Eric looks Littoral Society. The article is informed me that her sister, [email protected]. Berkeley—here we come! writes: Elliot Tucker-Drob, ’00, a psy- forward to connecting to any former classmates at about her distant relative who Carmen Maluvius ’60, passed “Hello: I graduated some time chology professor at the We can’t wait to walk your halls, see the changes, recall [email protected]—just be ready to see a lot of baby served with the Greely expe- away in 2002 from cancer. ago but, would like to get University of Texas, was inter- our teachers and remember the good friends and times pictures and hear stories about the first time Malcolm dition in the High Arctic Having re-met some of back in touch.” To contact viewed on Good Day Austin: we had 50 years ago.” found his feet! from 1881 until May 1884, Carmen’s classmates at last Sandra, please email www.myfoxaustin.com. encompassing the first year’s reunion (their 50th and [email protected]

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force of about 120 people tion of WHO Guidelines in who I could count on to help Johannesburg, South Africa. me out. Good times all Back in Washington, I am around (and by that I mean coordinating the Foundation’s 18 to 20-hour days for two presence at the International months). Now that that’s all AIDS Society conference in said and done, I’m moving to July and work with our coun- Washington D.C. where I try teams on technical will be working for The abstracts and presentations Mellman Group doing to present at the meeting in research and polling for var- Rome, Italy. It has been a ious foundations, politicians, truly enriching experience labor unions, nonprofits, and I look forward to contin- causes, and other organiza- ued work with the tions. Once the research and Foundation on the elimina- polling is done, we will work tion of pediatric HIV/AIDS.” with those clients to develop a communications and mar- I Max Goldberg Liu ’07, a sen- keting strategy to help them ior at Bowdoin College, has reach their desired.” been selected by Bowdoin’s French Department as one of I Jacob Levi ’06 graduated four French majors to teach from Pomona College in English at the college level in spring 2010 with double France from September 2011 major, in French and through June 2012. Philosophy. He is currently I Izzy Corngold ’08 spent the summer working on Andrew teaching English in a public I Isaac Block ’08 is in Bolivia Cuomo’s (as it turned out very successful) campaign for middle school in Paris and where he is matriculating in governor. plans to stay there for grad- their State University for the uate studies in philosophy spring semester. He’ll be a next year. member of the Literature uate in 2012 with a major in I Chandler Rosenthal ’10 had I Department taking classes in Max Hardy ’08 (pictured above and right) wrote to us about art history. her Yale theatrical debut, I Chloe Lew ’06 wrote, “Since Spanish, living in a shared his experiences fall semester in South Africa: “I spent most of playing the role of Veta Louise graduating from George apartment with two other my time living with Zulu families and learning about what a I Several other members of Simmons in the Yale Washington University in people in Le Paz, 13,000 feet recent transition to democracy looks like on the local level. the class of 2008 are study- Freshman production of May, I have been working above sea level! Questions South Africans ask are whether their needs are being ing abroad this semester, Harvey. with the Elizabeth Glaser represented in the government, and whether the right programs including Robin Riskin, study- Pediatric AIDS Foundation I Elena Levi ’08, currently a are in place to help the country climb out of the grave that is ing in Germany; Lizzy Spain, with Global Technical Policy Carleton junior, spent the studying in London, and in Washington, DC. Within its violent past. Sixteen years after their first free elections, the fall semester abroad in Peru Emma Considine, studying in the Programs, Innovation, income gap between the richest and poorest is one of the most through SIT (School for Paris. and Policy Department, my International Training) unequal in the world. That said, there is remarkable progress unit helps the Foundation studying Spanish and being made, and South Africans are an exceptional bunch. I Emma Goldberg Liu ’10 is a achieve its mission of elimi- anthropology. She did her “I was honored to intern with the African Centre for the member of Skidmore College’s nation of pediatric HIV/AIDS month-long research project Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)—an NGO con- Vocal Chamber Ensemble, through the development, on Andean understanding tracted by, among other entities, the African Union and the Skidmore’s Community dissemination, and imple- of hanaqpacha, kaypacha United Nations to run workshops with peacekeepers. I worked Chorus, a co-ed a cappella mentation of global technical and ukupacha (three differ- group, The Dynamics, and is policies and standards. ent layers of the universe) in in their Knowledge Production Department, conducting performing in Stephen Working with our programs the tiny town of Patabamba, research on environmentally motivated conflict in countries Sondheim’s musical Assassins, and partners in 16 countries, in the region of Cusco, bordering the Nile River.” in the role of the Proprietress. I recently coordinated a con- where the basic language ference on the implementa- was Quechua. She will grad-

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DEATHS IN THE BERKELEY CARROLL FAMILY DonaChumasero is grateful to Berkeley Carroll I Mary Noaks Myers ’35, born on March I Mary Ellis died on March 31, Everson’41 15, 1916, died on July 23, 2010. She 2011, of brain cancer. Mary began for the impetus it gave to her was 94 years old. Her son Gordon F. her teaching career at Berkeley Myers says, “She always remembered Carroll in 1988. Originally from chosen career. Starting in her days at the school with great affec- Nebraska and the third of nine elementary school, then on to the tion, and of course kept her year- children, Mary received her BA in books.” French from St. Mary’s College in Blotter, with encouragement from Indiana and her Master’s degree her mentor, English teacher I Lucy Estrin Kavaler ’41 died on from Hunter College in New York October 30, 2010 at Lenox Hill City. During her long career at Margaret W. Arnold, she became a Hospital. She was 87. An author of 17 Berkeley Carroll, Mary was a pos- journalist. One of her gifts enabled books, Lucy’s best-known work was itive force in the lives of genera- The Astors: A Family Chronicle of Pomp tions of our students. In addition the Berkeley Carroll library to and Power. In addition to her writing, to her siblings, Mary leaves her two choose 31 books related to writing she worked for human rights and was children—Peter and Eve. particularly passionate about free speech At an assembly honoring this to guide others along that path. issues. Lucy was a lover of the arts, par- beloved longtime French teacher, Today’s remarkable students and ticularly opera, and travel. She leaves Middle School director Jim Shapiro praised her egalitarian spirit, patience, behind her husband of 62 years, Arthur, and sense of fun. He explained that when he visited her at home, “Mary alumni make her proud to be in a daughter, Andrea, and a son, Roger. and I talked about students, past and present. She was the one who was their number and inspire her to sick and struggling with memory and eyesight, but every time I faltered on keep on giving. I Carol Chiarello Paolicelli ’56 passed a name from 20 years ago, she nailed it.” away on February 23, 2010 from Alzheimer’s disease. Her family wrote: “Your school was always a great mem- I George Desdunes ’09 died on How can you remember ory and comfort to Carol in the last February 25, 2011. Supported by Berkeley Carroll few years of her life. I read your mag- loving family—particularly his azine to her, which always brought a mother Marie Andre—friends and forever? smile to her face.” neighbors, George lived his life with energy and joy, entering into I I Naeem Webster ’00 died in a traffic it with a spirit of enthusiasm and A gift of a bequest accident on November 24, 2010 in adventure. He was a talented and I Massachusetts. A memorial service dedicated student at Berkeley A gift of life insurance for Naeem was held on Saturday, Carroll, ultimately winning a schol- I A gift of real estate December 4 at the Trinity-St. John’s arship to Cornell University where Episcopal Church in Hewlett, New he was a sophomore in the school I A gift from which you York. Naaem came to Berkeley Carroll of Human Ecology. George loved through the Prep for Prep program sports—he played soccer and swam receive income such as a and was involved with them profes- for Berkeley Carroll—and music, Charitable Remainder Trust, sionally. His relationship with Berkeley playing trumpet for the Berkeley Pooled Income Fund or an Carroll extended beyond his gradua- Carroll jazz band. Even as a born tion, as he also worked as an assistant and bred city kid, George spent Annuity in the Lower School Admissions office seven summers as an enthusiastic I in 2006. Naeem had recently begun camper at Keewaydin in Vermont where he learned to swim, canoe, kayak. A Charitable Lead Trust attending business school. Donations After his camping days, he returned to Keewaydin as a staff member. in Naaem’s name can be made to the George will be sorely missed by his very large circle of family and friends. Prep for Prep program (www.prepfor- A Berkeley Carroll memorial will be planned for later this spring. For more information contact: prep.org). [email protected]

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