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Address Service Requested ONEWSLETTER FROMa OAKWOODk FRIENDS SCHOOL • CELEBRATINLG OVER e220 YEARS OaF FRIENDS EveDUCATION IN THE HUDSOsN VALLEY We have completed several important proj- 2020 Spring School Calendar Michael J. Steinberg to Present: ects impacting academics, athletics and resi- dential life. We have transformed the student living spaces with new bathrooms, kitchens, April 21 Breakfast with the Head Dash Davis Gleiter Lecture on Social Justice common spaces and patios. The Main Build- Earthshare Day education and debate at the school and in the ing renovation projects upgraded electri- cal and HVAC and provided spacious and May 15 Dash Davis Gleiter Lecture community, Oakwood became the first high school in the country to declare itself a “nuclear well-lit arts, media, ceramics, studio, and Michael Steinberg free zone.” He also remembers driving vans of classroom spaces. Renovations to Lane Au- May 15-17 Alumni Weekend students to Washington D.C. for demonstrations ditorium’s three-story west entrance have May 16 Spring Production and leading a student trip to the Soviet Union. transformed storage spaces into a modern music classroom, a practice space and a gra- May 20 Spring Concert Upon accepting his current job at Michigan Law, Mike told us: “I loved teaching at Oakwood cious theater lobby entrance. Even the gym June 10 Middle School Moving Up in the 80s so much that I’ve decided to return and locker rooms received much needed June 11 Senior Dinner to my teaching roots. I will join the faculty at upgrades to lighting, plumbing and layout. June 12 Commencement Michigan Law where I will teach a civil rights litigation course and start a civil rights clinic.” Now we are turning our attention to the interior performance space of Lane Theater. Housed Oakwood is honored to welcome Michael Steinberg within the very first building constructed for back to campus to present "Working for Civil Rights Oakwood’s campus in 1921, this space has Visit us at www.oakwoodfriends.org and Civil Liberties in 2020." All are welcome. hosted countless student plays and presen- tations, and appearances by Pete Seeger, El- eanor Roosevelt, Poet Laureate Mark Strand ’52, Bonnie Raitt ’67, and Juan Williams ’72. Former Oakwood history teacher and coach, Mi- Work is underway to transform this important 16 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY chael J. Steinberg, will open Alumni Weekend space into a modern, energy-efficient theater, 2020 on Friday afternoon, May 15th, with the Lighting the Way useable year-round. Upgrades will include presentation of the Caroline “Dash” Davis Gleiter new seating, enhancements to the lighting Lecture on Social Justice. Now in its 16th year, and sound systems and booths, a new scene Sledding this lecture series was established by classmates Matching Gift shop and set-design workspace, new heat- in memory of Dash Davis Gleiter ’51 in recogni- ing, ventilation and air conditioning systems tion of her work in civil rights and her lifetime Opportunity to overlap with our green campus initiative. of volunteer activities to promote social justice. Lighting the Way, Oakwood’s comprehen- We are excited to announce an opportunity After 22 years as the legal director of the Ameri- sive fundraising campaign, has been se- to broaden participation in Lighting the Way. can Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, Michael curing financial support for our historic Rob Blackman ’61 has joined with board has joined the faculty of the University of Michi- campus’s long-term revitalization. Now in president Don Spencer to create a match- gan Law School as the Director of the Civil Rights 2020, our 100th anniversary year in Pough- ing gift fund up to a total of $100,000. This Litigation Initiative where he will teach civil keepsie, we’re on our way to completing means gifts and pledges made to Lighting rights litigation and mentor the next generation the campaign’s capstone project, the reno- the Way by June 30, 2020 will be matched of public interest lawyers. At the ACLU, Michael vation of Lane Auditorium. We are deeply 2 to 1! We invite all members of the Oak- litigated dozens of high-impact, high-profile cas- grateful to a select group of lead donors wood family to help advance our School’s es on a wide range of civil rights issues including: who have made this work possible through mission with a gift at any level. We’re on our racial justice, LGBT rights, police misconduct, their vision and generous philanthropy. way! With your generous contribution, we’ll freedom of speech and expression, immigrant make it over the finish line! Thank you. rights, voting rights, women’s rights, post 9/11 issues, reproductive freedom, criminal justice reform, religious freedom, right to counsel, en- vironmental justice, prisoner rights, economic justice, and disability rights. Six cases on which he worked have reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

Michael earned his B.A. with honors from Wes- leyan University in 1983 and graduated cum laude from Wayne State Law School in 1989.

Michael’s first job after college was at Oakwood where his father, Fred Steinberg, was also on the faculty. In addition to teaching history and coaching, Mike was active in student activities and served as advisor to Oakwood’s “Disarma- Oakwood campus circa 1965 ment Committee.” He recalls that after much Seniors Willow Bennison and Malcolm Condon in "These Shining Lives" 2 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 220 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY WinterWinter 2019-2020 2016-17 15

IN MEMORY Connections My Brother – Deionte Davis Gloria Garlick Bogle ’43 By: Chad Cianfrani, Head of School Timothy A. Wohlforth 5/18/96 – 10/27/19 December 30, 2019 Jane K. Ecker ’46 Several years April 2019 ago, a science Class of 1951 Oakwood mourns the loss of our young historian, James By Eric Wohlforth ’50 alumnus Deionte Davis, class of 2015, Margaret "Peggy" Mertz ’49 Burke, wrote a who died suddenly on October 27, 2019 in September 13, 2019 series of pieces Eric shared this Atlanta, Georgia. We are holding his fam- on connections. message at his ily in the Light. He will be sorely missed. Herbert Day ’50 Seemingly dis- brother’s fu- March 22, 2019 neral at South parate thoughts, Lew Resseguie ’50 inventions, and M o u n t a i n June 30, 2019 ideas build upon Friends Meet- each other, con- ing in Ashland, Mary Berry Bowron ’51 necting across Oregon. Tim September 17, 2017 time and expe- passed away on rience. Within August 23, 2019. Tim Wohlforth ’51 our Oakwood August 23, 2019 community, I see these connections inform It is hard to believe that Tim and I knew David Harkness ’55 and strengthen our program from the ar- each other as brothers for all of 83 years. October 2, 2019 rival of the newest 6th graders through Ages 3 to 17 were the most intense part of graduation and the decades beyond. that brotherly relationship. We lived with John Ross ’55 our writer parents in a 200-year-old house January 18, 2011 During a recent phone conversation with an Meeting for Worship in Lane in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Until we went to alumnus from the early 1960s, I was struck Oakwood School, a Friends Boarding School Richard K. Wood '55 by a lasting connection he made between home in 1920, Lane embodies the mission of when I was 14, and Tim was 13, we shared November 1, 2019 his brief experiences on the Oakwood stage Oakwood, supporting the spirit, the scholar, Powell Fund a bedroom and talked long into the night. and a career spanning over five decades in the artist, and the athlete. Under the trussed Bain Davis ’58 November 24, 2019 medicine. Shy by nature and adverse to pub- beams and slate roof of Lane, students who Tim’s independent political proclivi- Lights up the Courts ties emerged when he was 15 in 1948 lic speaking, he pointed to the support and drew spiritual connections through wor- Barbara Hannum Herrmann ’58 encouragement he received at Oakwood to ship on Sunday mornings also gained social at Oakwood. That was the presidential May 27, 2015 reach beyond his comfort zone. Skills gained connection while on skates Friday nights. The Powell Endowment Fund, established election year when Henry Wallace was memorizing lines and performing before his with an inspirational gift from Richard M. a strong, left-wing candidate with Dew- David Thomson ’58 peers helped build confidence and hone his This September we will celebrate Oak- Powell ’68 in 2010, continues to positively ey and President Truman on the ballot. September 13, 2019 focus. He fondly looks back on these ex- wood’s 100th year on the Poughkeepsie impact the daily experience of both students periences as ones that helped prepare him campus, and our 224th year of Friends Edu- and faculty. The Fund at a current value Tim at Oakwood that election year of 1948 Edward Brown Reid ’61 navigate medical school, ultimately trading cation. Over the decades there have been of over $700,000 strengthens Oakwood’s was an outspoken leader of the pro-Henry October 5, 2019 theater scripts for those more medical in nature. several visible and impactful transformations finances for the future while it provides Wallace camp, beginning then a lifetime Jeanne Overman Trankle ’64 made to the physical space: new dorms, annual income for special projects. of political activism. This political activ- January 7, 2020 Another unlikely connection involves the re- new buildings, technology, solar energy. ism was not discouraged at the school, flective silence of Quaker Meeting and social At the core of our community, mission re- This winter, the first thing you might notice now called Oakwood Friends School, Karen Rosenthal Akin ’87 engagement of roller skating. Over the de- mains constant. Whether students are roller walking into Connor Gymnasium during located in Poughkeepsie, New York. October 9, 2019 cades Lane Auditorium has served as home skating in Lane in the 1940s or performing an afternoon basketball game (besides to both. The first building constructed on on stage under LED lights in 2020, they are the exciting play) is sunshine! Funded It continued at Oberlin where he went to Deionte Davis ’15 site when we moved to our Poughkeepsie challenged to think critically, reflect with by an annual release of the Powell Fund, college and during his New York City years. October 27, 2019 purpose, and act decisively. I look for- Connor Gymnasium received a beautiful By “outspoken leader”, I mean that Tim nev- ward to beginning our next century in the upgrade in the form of new paint, a new er left you in doubt what his views were. Jack Hunter December 8, 2019 Hudson Valley and the connections just scoreboard, and energy-efficient glass They included an outsized regard for fellow Come Back to Campus! over the horizon. See you on campus this windows. While providing a beautiful citizens struggling in poverty or denied a Former Faculty view of the sky and sun, the windows also proper place at the table of our capitalist so- September for our centennial celebration! Alumni Weekend 2020 Subhash Jhanji increase heat-retention and provide utility ciety. His life was congruent with the view October 4, 2019 cost savings; a win-win both on and off the of the Society of Friends that the unpopular- May 15-17 Former Faculty court. Thank you, Dick, and Go Lions! ity of a cause was no reason not to embrace it. I remember Oakwood being the very Richard Hathaway first to admit African American students. I Weekend begins Friday with Dash January 29, 2020 remember the Oakwood teachers who had Former Board Member been conscientious objectors during the just Davis Gleiter Social Justice Lecture over World War II. I also remember when presented by Michael J. Steinberg Bayard Rustin addressed us in 1948 embrac- “I was fortunate enough to attend Oakwood ing the cause of the displaced Palestinians Oak Leaves in the 60’s and I look back fondly on those just after the creation of the Jewish State. Help us create a video by Winter 2019-20 experiences.I was very happy to read about the restoration and upgrades being made to Tim’s years of retirement as a writer in this adding your testimonial about ELAINE MILES the Lane building as well as the solar array intellectual hotbed of Ashland were happy Director of Development & Alumni Affairs recently installed. Oakwood has always in- ones, especially after meeting up with the your Oakwood experience! vested in its students. I hope that my small wonderful Patricia. She showed an ex- Julie Okoniewski gift to the “Lighting the Way” campaign will tremely loving regard and care for Tim as Associate Director of Development & help the Lane building and Oakwood go for he struggled with his very difficult final ill- All welcome! Alumni Affairs another 100 years.” ness. I will be everlastingly grateful to her and Tim’s caregivers for their steadfast lov- WENDY GIANGRASSO – Peter Clarke ’63 Assistant Director of Development & Roller skating in Lane in the 40s ing care for brother Tim in his last days. Alumni Affairs 14 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 220 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY WinterWinter 2019-2020 2016-17 3

2006 Kudos to Najah Muhammad on her role as Mama 2015 Congratulations to Oakwood English teacher Jesse in The Heights Players' production of A Raisin in the Jinran Chloe Liu of Changchun, China, graduated Oakwood Honors Bill and Nancy Doolittle Doherty-Vinicor ’06 and his wife Andrea Onstot Sun in Brooklyn, NY, in November. Najah received from the University of Iowa in December, earning a on the birth of their baby girl Esther Lena Onstot, her B.A. in Theater Education and Acting from BA in Economics. The Oakwood community honored long-time born on December 29, 2019. Emerson College in Boston, MA. Najah says in all faculty members Bill and Nancy Doolittle at of her varied projects on and off the stage, her goal 2016 this year’s Annual Wine Dinner & Auction. is to use the arts as a communicative tool to bring Beau Duval, University of Vermont Class of Surrounded by members of their family, people together, and start a conversation. Najah is 2020, has been named to the dean's list for the fall including their newest grandchild Hannah, president of Oakwood Friends School's Alumni 2019 semester. Beau is a Data Science major in the Bill and Nancy received a standing ovation Association and serves as an ex-officio member of College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. from the crowd for their 36 years of devoted the board of managers. service to Oakwood. They will be retiring in 2017 June and moving to Maine but will always Owen Sullivan spent his summer working as a be important members of the Oakwood producing intern for the Williamstown Theater family. Head of School Chad Cianfrani Festival in Massachusetts. This year he was brought spoke about their work, and colleagues on as a Company Manager for the Purchase College Simon Culley and Susan Masciale-Lynch Performing Arts Center. spoke about their many years of working together, relying on one another, and 2009 Faculty & Friends friendship. Bill and Nancy were presented Mariah Lewis Purcell - This past fall I accepted a Oakwood’s Humanities Chair Stephen Miller with a photo album of their Oakwood The Doolittle Family at the Parent Dinner & Auction position teaching 8th grade English at Corvallis and Professor Wendy Turgeon, PhD, from St. years, prepared by Matthew Voorhees ’17. Middle School here in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley. Joseph’s College received a grant of $4,500 from I have 135 students and am absolutely loving it! I’ve the American Philosophical Association to serve as Now in its 15th year, the wine dinner Cosimo’s. Amy Solis, parent of Siena ’24, Alysa Wishingrad, Malcolm Condon ’20, De's also had the opportunity to begin an Outdoors Club project coordinators for the American Society of was initiated by Tim and Laurel Sweeney, served as clerk for the event and joined with Jewelers, Hudson Valley Renegades, Richard after school program and we head off on our first Philosophy Teachers Summer Seminar on Teaching parents of Sean ’09, and owners of Stone Franco Giangrasso as auctioneers. Student and Susanrachel Condon ’80, Buffalo Wild snowshoeing trip of the season next week. I can’t wait! and Learning Philosophy. Ridge Wine & Spirits. With 25 years in musicians started the festivities with their Wings, Michael & Sarah Daubman, Hudson business, they continue to share their performances: Stefanie Quintanilla ’20, Alex Beach Glass, County Players, Antonellas Congratulations to former board member Joseph wonderful wines and extensive knowledge Turk ’21 and Luisa Capetillo ’22. Thank you Restaurants, Laurie & Dave Craft, Heidi Gosler who completed his memoir: "Searching with our attendees. The event was held to our four generous sponsors: Berg-Moss Kronenberg, Orpheum Theater, Num Pang for Home: The Impact of WW11 on a Hidden on January 25th at Locust Grove, catered by Architects (Chris and Erin Berg, parents of Kitchen, Peter & Debbie Guy-Christiansen, Child." The book will be published this spring by Milla ’23), Bottini Fuel, Cleveland Plumbing Matthew Voorhees ’17, Crew Restaurant, Amsterdam Publishers in the Netherlands in soft- and Heating, and Rondack Construction. Linda Doherty, Elizabeth Meyer, Patience cover and ebook form. Killen ’67 , Mohonk Mountain House, Omega Quakerism Workshop Through the generosity of all our auction Institute, Atlantic Theater Company, Majed Congratulations to Anne-Marie Uebbing (parent item donors and dinner attendees, we raised Nesheiwat Conference Center, Chad and Sue Cyril '20 and Jane ‘22), a nursing professor at Mount over $16,000 for the Annual Fund. Thank Cianfrani, Mary Redmond, Amy Solis, Brandi Saint Mary College, who was named a fellow of the for Parents you: Go A2B Transportation, Camp Cody, Ascione, Ann-Marie Uebbing, Emmy Gay, Sarah Powers celebrated her marriage to Kevin New York Academy of Medicine on November Drew Smith, Executive Director of Friends Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Bonnie Raitt Michelle Alumkai, Amy Cook, Eve Gendron, Curtis Roberson Congratulations to on his Sullivan on October 20, 2019 with family and fellow 7th. The Academy addresses the health challenges Council on Education, came to campus ’67, Boscobel, The Center for Performing Danah Chaifetz, Yvette Brockington, graduation from the Great Lakes Naval Boot Camp! Oakwood alumnae. Congratulations! facing the world's urban populations through in October to lead a “Quakerism 101” Arts at Rhinebeck, Bread Alone Bakery, Maria Otte and Patricia Stewart. Go Curtis! interdisciplinary approaches to policy leadership, workshop for parents during our annual innovative research, evaluation, education, and Parents Weekend. Parents enjoyed this community engagement. engaging, hands-on workshop which addressed Quaker history, Quakerism, Congratulations to former faculty Art and Parker Christmas Break with Shao (Patrick) Deng ’12 and allowed for meaningful conversations By: Debbie Wilsey, School Nurse Washburn who celebrated their 50th wedding about the values within Quaker education anniversary with family last summer. that connects our children and families. As a freshman at Oakwood, Shao Deng It was wonderful to come full circle with him Through small group work and full group ‘12, known as Maverick, had his Christmas and see how far he has come. He is now discussions, parents learned and shared break plans fall through. I offered to take pursuing his Juris Doctorate degree at Wake about the Quaker testimonies of simplicity, him to my house for break which meant he Forest University where he is in his first year peace, integrity, community, equality and would spend his first American Christmas of law school. He has also applied to become stewardship. Both new and returning parents with me! My family welcomed him with a US citizen and has taken the name Patrick. had the opportunity to delve deeper into open arms. He was included in all the family (l-r) Tim Walther, Curtis, Raphael Nash Sarah with her brother the philosophy behind the education their events which included a family football We look forward to seeing what the next 10 Thompson and Kimberly Roberson ’10. Jonathan (JP) Powers ’09 and Kevin. children experience each day in what we hope game, meeting all my nieces and nephews years hold for him! is the first of several workshops to come. (13 in total!), seeing Santa Claus, playing 2010 his violin for us and ringing in the New Congratulations to Caroline Pitner on her Photo with their 2 daughters and their families: Year! We all had a truly wonderful time! marriage to William Ziomek at Stable Gate Farm Clay and Sarah Washburn Davies with their and Winery in Castleton-on-Hudson on January son Logan, 15; Parker,holding Irie Bocchino, During the summer of 2012 I had the 19, 2020. Oakwood alumni in attendance included 6, and Art; Phoebe, holding Thais Bocchino, 6 unique opportunity to travel to China, in her siblings Christine Pitner Surette ’07, Greg months, and A.J. Bocchino, holding Mika, 4. particular Hangzhou, Shao’s hometown. Pitner ’08 and Lindsey Havranek ’10. I had the chance to see a tea plantation and a monastery where Shao accompanied me on tours. I even got to meet his parents and have a home cooked meal!

Fast forward 10 years to December 2019 and (l-r) Bridget McCabe ’12, Sarah, Jennifer Shao reached out to me asking if he could Kennett Powers ’08 and Katherine Nemlich ’10. come up to visit. I invited him up during Send us your class notes & photos Christmas break and my family picked up right where we left off 10 years before. Shao Drew Smith, Executive Director of Debbie Wilsey and Shao Deng [email protected] was again included in all the family traditions. Friends Council on Education 4 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 220 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY WinterWinter 2019-2020 2016-17 13

1962 1992 Peter Longini - Working half-time for a PR agency Dorothy Glusker is now a literary coach in the Oakwood Mourns the Loss of Charlie Butts: in San Jose ghostwriting for Silicon Valley execs. Still San Bruno, CA school district where she is helping based in the Pittsburgh area. teachers to implement a program that more Teacher, Coach, Mentor and Friend effectively teaches children whose first language is 1963 not English how to read. Charlie Butts passed away unexpectedly on August 10, 2019, in Danbury, CT. Linda Connor - This is my 50th year of teaching while recuperating from surgery. A lifelong Poughkeepsie resident, he attended photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. Kelly Gonzalez - I am an attorney and the deputy Poughkeepsie High School and Blair Academy, then Colgate University, director at the Center for Community Alternatives, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1976 and M.A. in teaching in 1982. Judith Chapman Purvis - Happily (re)married and a nonprofit with a mission to promote reintegrative living in Greensboro, NC. I’ve newly taken up the justice and a reduced reliance on incarceration Following graduation, Charlie started teaching at Oakwood, where he stayed for nearly four hammered dulcimer! through advocacy, services and public policy decades, teaching anthropology, world history, English and many other subjects. He served Barbara and I making a traditional drink in development in pursuit of civil and human rights. I as Athletic Director and coached the women’s softball and basketball teams through much Martha Richdale - I’m wishing you all a healthy the home of a family in the Amazon. owe my career path directly to the influence of the of his tenure, leading his softball team to a championship last spring. He is recognized in and happy 2020. Let’s all get out there and spread wonderful community at Oakwood. the Oakwood community as a mentor, a teacher not only of subjects but also of values peace and joy. Let’s turn the negative into positive 1975 of kindness, patience, sportsmanship and resilience, and a friend who could always be here and around the world and throughout the 1993 relied on to brighten one’s day with warmth, humor, and a good Jimmy Buffett song. universe. Perhaps, most importantly, let’s all vote!!! Sarah Braun Hamilton - I am grateful to Oakwood for helping me learn how to be part of a Charlie spent his summers and time away from Oakwood at Candlewood Lake Club in 1967 community and listen deeply. New Milford, Connecticut. His parents had a summer cottage there and introduced Carl Tannenbaum - Second try at retirement him to golf at an early age. Charlie won his first golf tournament there, a two-hole seems to be working. 1998 junior event, at age 5. He was a perennial golf enthusiast at Candlewood, winning the Mike Peters visited campus and caught up with Bill club championship 18 times. He was also twice club champion at Dutchess Golf Club in Barbara Bohm-Becker - Still the oldest bike Doolittle while in NY to run the NYC marathon. “To my good friend Charlie and our Poughkeepsie, and returned to Colgate each year for its alumni golf tourney. He will be mechanic in Central Oregon. Enjoying the Mike still holds the cross country course record at dearly missed by his many friends - in the Oakwood community, at Candlewood, at Colgate, grandkids and looking toward our country’s next Oakwood. He graduated from Brandeis, where he many years as fellow athletic directors. in the regional athletic community, by his dart league buddies, and of course, his family. election with hope. also ran cross country, and is teaching English at the I shall miss you my friend.” University of Shizuoka in Shizuoka, Japan. Mike is Rick McWilliams – Millbrook School Oakwood held a memorial service for Don Badgley - I am still working full-time by Randy Detwiler on a visit to campus in October. in a PhD program at the University of Amsterdam. Charlie on September 28, 2019. Surrounded choice. Wife Tracy continues as a partner in a large His dissertation is about Kenyan distance runners by his family, college roommates, former and CPA firm. My daughters Marissa and Alanna are 1982 based in Japan and focuses on the meaning of “Charlie, you made me who I am today. present students and colleagues and friends, thriving and successful! Blessings abound! Levan Johnson and Eva (Buckner) Valentine ’86 friendship, respect, and success in their culture. You will always be a part of my heart we celebrated the life of our wonderful stopped by Levan’s old Newlin dorm room on a 1970 recent visit to campus. and your legacy will be carried on by mentor, coach, teacher and friend. Heartfelt words and funny stories were shared and Helen Claxton - I’m looking forward to my 50th. those of us impacted with your wisdom the softball field where Charlie spent so Daily think of my time at Oakwood. Delightfully much of his time was dedicated in his honor. pleasant recollections. Thank you Oakwood. Thank and humility.” you class of ’70. Annette (Ruswick) Engler ’87 “We are immensely grateful for the time we were given with Charlie and for 1972 all he gave to Oakwood. We are also Happy 35th anniversary to Laura and Jody Mindell! immensely saddened by his passing. “Thank you for the warmth of your It is impossible to quantify the impact silence. Thank you for being a resting Charlie Butts had on our community; as place and allowing me to just be.” he was our teacher, our dorm parent, 2004 our coach, our mentor and our friend. Bela Baez - When the Oakwood Bubble Kachina Akua Randall ’97 expands!! In November I attended a training for Over the last four decades Charlie called Shown here with Chris Galschjodt Oakwood home. He shared his warmth, his intelligence, his humor, and his calm City Employees. I often take these professional development courses and today was focused on demeanor with hundreds and hundreds of students and faculty. Whether it was by delving 1987 into the glyph of the Mayans as a senior, arguing the Hammurabi Law code in front of Collaborative Negotiations. What better way to a panel of peers as a freshman, learning the true meaning of teamwork in basketball learn how to negotiate collaboratively then with a and softball, or perhaps (faculty) throwing the occasional after-work dart or two with fellow Oakwood Alum! :) Here’s me and Zachary him down the road; the entire Oakwood community was elevated by Charlie’s light. Metz ’89 living our best professional lives! Zach 1973 was an exceptional trainer who shared such valuable We will miss you Charlie. We thank you for what you have given us, and we look forward Mary Lowery Rose - 2019 had its “ups” and information/tools for the best ways to negotiate; to carrying on your work. We are holding you, your family, your friends, and the entire “downs”. One big “down” was when my husband specifically in spaces where we think there’s no Oakwood community in the Light. Thank you, Coach. Thank you for everything.” David broke his leg in Northern Ireland. The good room for negotiation. Thank you for that! news is that after months of rehab and recuperation, Chad Cianfrani he is getting about independently. We are ending Head of School the year on an “up” – our 5th grandchild (3rd grandson) is due April 2020! If you find yourself in Connecticut, come and visit! “Working with Charlie meant learning (l-r) Steve Brentari, Nancy Doolittle, Annette what it means to be unflappable, kind, “Dear Charlie, It was great to see you last Julie Bogle Kratchman - My sister, Barbara Ruswick Engler, Laura Fast Smith and Bill and dedicated. He helped me as a young year. I am happy I got to tell you what a Bogle Feingold ’70, her husband Richard, my Doolittle at Oakwood’s 15th Annual Wine Dinner teacher understand that things that felt great influence you were to me. You were a husband Bob and I traveled together this past fall and Auction honoring the Doolittles. mentor, a support and more than a coach. to Ecuador. We visited Quito right after the riots like big deals often didn’t have to be. He 1988 also was the only person I know who made Thank you for being a father figure. You took place regarding fuel costs. We experienced the Amazon and its amazing wildlife and flora. After Jennifer Elizabeth Brunton - I’m still blogging being called “coach” feel like an act of will be in my heart forever. “ that we flew to the Galapagos where we visited at Full Spectrum Mama, but the bulk of my effort love. I struggle imagining an Oakwood many islands on a small ship. The sea lions, iguana, now goes into writing for Forbes freelance editing Romy Bustamante ’91 and editing the Americans of Conscience Action without him. Here’s to you, Charlie.” flamingos and other birds were incredible. Great Checklist. I see Lucas Thorpe almost every summer! Bella Baez with Zach Metz ’89 Nora Landon – former Oakwood faculty trip and time spent together! 12 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 220 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY WinterWinter 2019-2020 2016-17 5 Class Notes

“Where do I start? Charlie and I met “Grateful to have had Charlie as a as junior golfers at Dutchess G & colleague and for his wonderful and CC when I was 12 and played in my unending support for my Varsity Parks first away tournament. Charlie went team. I was nervous about my first-ever to Colgate University before me and coaching experience, but he was there played on the golf team with many of 1943 wonderful paintings. I consider myself lucky to have shaped and ready! Congratulations to Dan and Molly every step of the way. He represented the my fellow teammates. Charlie came Marjorie Wilder Ross - The wonderful picture spent 5 years at Oakwood. on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary! best of Oakwood Friends School.” back to Colgate when I was there to of the class of 1922 made me very happy. The Michael Sklaroff – former Oakwood faculty get his master's degree. When he came person shown on the lower right front is my mother Martha Ullman West - Still working, still traveling, back to Poughkeepsie to teach he asked Ernestine Young. Also in Oakwood – Bud Young still here. I hope all Oakwood alumni will exercise (cousin) in my class, Benjamin Ross who became my their right to vote in 2020 and work to save the my Mom if there were any openings at husband, my sister Phyllis and brother Alan Wilder. planet before it’s too late. “You were the best supervisor I ever had.” Oakwood. My Mom was retiring that Cousins from Union Springs also attended. Deb Wood – former Oakwood faculty year, and she recommended Charlie to 1957 Oakwood. I played countless rounds Josef John Burton - I have retired after 47 years from the practice of pediatric medicine. During of golf with Charlie at Dutchess where this time I have taken care of some children of “Charlie, I can’t thank you enough he was the club champion twice and Oakwood graduates. I live in Portland, Oregon and for getting me involved in athletics at played with my Dad in the Anderson my 2 children and 2 grandchildren also live here. Memorial. We played in the Colgate After 79 years of life and 4 college degrees I still Oakwood. Whether I’m in the gym or remember with fondness my 2 years at Oakwood. the softball field, I think of you. Peace Alumni golf tournament every summer and Deb Wood ’56 met Suzanne Litner If anyone knows where Jean Fagans Richardson is be with you. My brother. My friend.” for years, and Charlie still went head of school Chad Cianfrani for lunch please let me know at 203-417-2426. at Kendal-on-Hudson Chris Galschjodt back long after we stopped. I also 1958 – Coach and Facilities Team had the joy of having Charlie teach 1955 Michael Bradbury - Having just passed my 80th our children at Oakwood. He was 1945 My dad, Richard K. Wood, passed on November birthday I am still wondering where the past 61 one of the best athletes you ever saw, Susan Davis Doderer - Still hanging in there! 1, 2019 at his home in Gettysburg surrounded by years have gone since graduation from Oakwood. from golf to squash to darts. He was his family. Dad spent his junior and senior years at As I am finally "growing up" I have come to realize 1946 Oakwood, graduating in 1955. He spoke often of that Oakwood meant more to me than I realized at a competitor, but a gracious fellow Betty Nunn Kramer and her daughter attended a how the mentoring he received from Oakwood the time. I have enjoyed a very satisfactory life with competitor. This is going to leave a photography exhibit in Connecticut by Oakwood faculty and the friendships of Oakwood students success that is not measured in wealth or notoriety “I think my favorite memory of hole in so many ways.” alumna Katie Settel ’84. strengthened his Quaker upbringing. We laughed at but in the fact that I married a woman that I am still Charlie is from a visit perhaps 10 some of the tales of his days at Oakwood such as Bill Bogle Jr. ’76 in love with, that we raised a son who has given us or 15 years after graduation. We sat when they returned on a cold night after winning two wonderful grandchildren. I had a career that – former Board President and the county soccer championship to a dinner of provided me with the opportunity to work and help and chatted and Charlie was just “Both my girls had Charlie for history Parent ’07 and ’11 mashed potatoes and prune whip. We also came others without the need for a return accommodation. himself: Authentic, thoughtful, stable, and as a sports coach. His gentle spirit to admire as deeply as my father, the humanity and Without realizing it at the time, much of what I have compassionate... all the things that dignity of his faculty mentor, Yoshiro Sanbonmatsu, will be sorely missed at Oakwood.” done has been a result of Quaker influence. I feel you need when you’re a kid, but may a Japanese American who had been interned fortunate that I have been able to volunteer in order Natalie Wilkinson – Parent ’11 and ’15 during World War II, and was one of his English to enrich the lives of others without the need for not have the language to ask for yet. I teachers. Yosh's dignity, despite the mistreatment of reward other than the thought that I have been able realized then how effective he had been Japanese American citizens, taught him that offering to give something of myself. It pleases me that over at mentoring me during my time at compassion and respect to an oppressor was one the decades Oakwood has continued to exist and of the most powerful ways to be a testament to produce graduates who are making their own way Oakwood without my even realizing Katie Settel ’84 and Betty Kramer social justice. His appreciation and love of music in this world as chaotic as it seems to be at times. it was happening, just by being an deepened with the visits of Pete Seeger for drop-in Thank you, Oakwood! example of the kind of man I aspire to 1947 playing sessions, and Pete's music was a common be: A rock that everyone else can count Barbara Tresler Zarchen - Am well at 90, still soundtrack on long car trips and in the house. Dad 1959 grateful for Oakwood experience. was humble and so it was decades later my sisters Susan Stein Stephens - Missed you all at reunion. on. Thanks for that Charlie. It’s a great and I learned he was senior class president! Dad You missed a chance to meet my lovely roommate gift and many of us will pay it forward 1953 remained active in education, Quaker, and social David Nicholson. Your loss! Miss you all of course. Taffy Thunick Hoffman - I’m staying in reasonably justice circles throughout his life. He served as on your behalf.” good health. Able to go on three Road Scholar trips. school board president for over a decade, helped 1961 Pete Ward ’93 Eight beautiful grandchildren. Have not got any found the Gettysburg Friends Meeting, and the Classmates David Thompson and Leslie English “greats” yet. Interfaith Center for Peace and Justice. on a visit to campus earlier this year.

1954 Deborah Wood, former faculty Lee Munroe - Recently added grandson – now 3 grandchildren. Into 8th year of stroke, but still 1956 above ground! Molly Lynn Watt - Slowing down as the planet “Charlie, thank you from the bottom of spins out of control. Co-taught with my husband my heart. I will always remember you. Coaches Charlie Butts and Chris Galschjodt with 2019 Softball Champions Linda Gita Rahl Nadas - Somehow I have gotten Dan Lynn Watt a course – Which Side Are You On, Rest in peace…” to 82 years old. Besides being unsteady on my feet I Protest Songs of the Past 100 years in American Chi Hoon Shin ’05 “Thank you Charlie for all the lessons, memories, stress and pizza. We didn’t have the seem to be okay. I have been winning some awards Social Movements at Harvard Institute for Learn- best team, but girls varsity was one of the best learning experiences of my life. for my sculpture and I am still making all kinds of ing in Retirement. Still camping at Nickerson for 2 stone ware. My daughter’s son Jakob and I are both weeks every August. Still co-leading a ukulele band Thank you for everything.” –Nai’lah Taariq ’17 adjusting to life without Ruth Gita. We enjoy her with Dan and struggling to get a poetry manuscript

6 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 220 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY WinterWinter 2019-2020 2016-17 11 Sports Center Remembering Gloria Garlick Bogle ’43 By Simon Culley, Interim Athletic Director

As Charlie’s assistant for the last three F. Bogle, Sr.in 1949. They built their home years, I never thought I would be writ- in Poughkeepsie in 1952 and raised three ing a piece this soon or without his pres- children who also attended Oakwood: Bar- ence in some form or another for Oak bara, class of 1970, Julie, class of 1973, and Leaves. It is also particularly challenging Bill, class of 1976. After several jobs in the as we spent a lot of our free time togeth- community, Gloria returned to Oakwood as er since I was hired in 2005, whether it a member of the faculty in 1966. At Gloria’s be the thousands of times we played to- retirement dinner at Vassar Alumnae House in 1982, it was noted that Gloria’s presence gether in the Poughkeepsie dart league, Gloria Bogle and family in 2007. talking sports, playing golf, or any num- had been felt throughout the school during ber of other things. The words I have her tenure. She did everything! At various clung to these past few months have times, she was Alumni Coordinator, Admis- simply been, “What would Charlie do?” sions Director, Director of Studies, Public Relations Director, College Counselor, teach- The boys’ Cross Country team came to- er, and head of the Mathematics Depart- Gloria and Bill Bogle, Sr. at Gloria's gether quickly this season despite hav- ment. For her next adventure, she joined her ing toreplace the 1st, 3rd, and 5th scor- Brandon Christiansen ’21 Adele Fredericks ’21 retirement party in 1982. husband Bill as co-Executive Director of the ers from last year. Returnees Aidan Cook Westchester Golf Association – a true pas- and Brandon Christiansen stepped up, Cullen, stuck out as our MVP. He was able collective team. Numerically, our record was Oakwood Friends School mourns the loss sion for them both. Later, Gloria took great and newcomers Max Hopkins and Jimmy to hold down our defensive line and he was 1-12-1 and our HVAL league record was 0-9- of an important member of our school fam- pleasure in seeing her grandchildren, Em- Lin joined the team. Elias Fredericks and always there when we needed him. He had 1. Newcomers Ila Kumar, Lila Ressler, Bea- ily, Gloria Garlick Bogle, who passed away ily ’07 and Justin ’11 follow in her footsteps Jayden Brockington provided leadership the self-discipline to man mark any player trice Corio, and Magdalena Teisler, and re- on December 30, 2019. Oakwood alumna, as Oakwood alums. She remained a lively as captains and contributed to the scoring. that he was assigned and functioned as a turning player Ruby Schloss, all scored their parent, grandparent, and faculty member presence on the Oakwood campus, attend- The boys’ team moved into 2nd place and key player on the team. In addition, two first Varsity Goals. Sports Awards recipients for 16 years, Gloria knew the school from ing special presentations, alumni weekend, held that position for more than half the students received Coach's Awards for their were seniors and co-captains Stefanie Quint- every angle and retained a deep affection Ten Year Honor Roll luncheons, and our Gloria at Emily's wedding in 2017. season. Though the team was at less than dedication to the team. The first student anilla and Willow Bennison (Coach's Awards) for her alma mater throughout her life. annual wine dinner and auction at Locust full strength for the League Championship, to be awarded a Coach's Award was Liam and sophomore Sadia Rashid (MVP). Grove. She continued to stay in touch even Max Hopkins ran a masterful race to climb Olivieri. Liam was the only goalie that the Gloria was born in Wappingers Falls in 1926 after her move to Savannah, GA, in 2017. to 4th place in the league individual stand- team had and was therefore an extremely The Boys Varsity soccer season was chal- and attended Oakwood as a day student, To honor their mother, the Bogle fam- ings; this was our first top 5 finish in sev- valuable player. He always showed up to lenging. It began with rather lopsided results graduating in 1943. She went on to earn her We are grateful to Gloria for all she did for ily is establishing the Gloria G. Bogle eral years. Adele Fredericks also medaled practice with a positive attitude and always with us conceding double figures in a few B.A. in Mathematics from Wellesley in 1947, Oakwood and for her warm friendship. She Scholarship Fund for day students. in the girls’ race while finishing 7th. Elias put all of his efforts into training for his po- matches and failing to score in the first seven then married her childhood friend, William will be missed. Fredericks earned the Coaches’ Award sition. Our second Coach's Award went to games. In the eighth game, however, we ex- for rallying the team and leading by ex- Xilin “Joe” Cao. Joe did not miss a single ploded with seven goals and were victorious ample. The Most Improved Runner went practice all season, which showed his dedi- for the first and only time. The team clung to Jayden Brockington as he medaled in cation to the sport and his team. Joe was together and there was never a feeling of half of the invitational meets. Most Valu- an extremely solid defensive player and capitulation. Our skills, understanding of Ukranian Exchange able Runner awards went to Adele Fred- made large strides throughout the season. strategy, and fitness gradually improved and ericks and Max Hopkins as they medaled allowed us to be more competitive for the Continues in each of the invitational meets through The Girls Varsity Soccer team had a fun and better part of each game than we had earlier Building on the relationship started last the season. They also earned HVAL All- successful 2019 season. While the win-loss in the season. The team managed this in front spring with Alekom-Tour: Education Can Star status. More and more teams say the percentages do not reflect typical markers of of a backdrop of impeccable sportsmanship, Be Fun, we welcomed another group of Oakwood meets are their favorite of the success, small improvements made by many receiving no yellow or red cards in the fifteen wonderful students from Ukraine who season. With the helping hands, support, players across the season are evidence to the games played. Huicheng Huang finished spent two weeks in October with our com- and cheering from the Sustainable Gar- growth and development displayed by the the season as top scorer with 9 goals and munity engaging in classes, experienc- dening team, former XC coaches, many was inducted into the Western New England ing the season of fall in New York State, individual spectators, Nancy D., and the Preparatory School Soccer Association Se- sharing stories, culture, laughs, and even Athletic Office provide, Oakwood has the lect Team of 2019. Despite the low win per- some trick or treating! Programs like this loudest and most encouraging spectators. centage, the team really impressed me with prove to be a valuable and unique learn- In the last meet of the season versus South their poise, team spirit, and energy. Team ing experience for both Oakwood students Kent School, long time friend and rival Captain and defensive stalwart, Matt Stew- and our visiting friends and help to make coach, Steve Klots, honored our very own art won the MVP sports award. Newcomer the world a smaller and warmer place. Bill Doolittle at the end of the race for his Alper Sayin picked up a Coach's Award for dedicated service of 36 years, spanning his uncompromising and energetic play in four decades to the league, colleagues, the middle of the park. Embattled and ever and hundreds of athletes he has coached. positive freshman goalkeeper Arjun Yang collected the final Coaches’ Award for his The Thirds soccer team was back out on the numerous heroic efforts between the sticks. field this fall, consisting of a mix of Middle and Upper School players. The coed team In summary, the season went as smoothly Graduating seniors who have been at Oakwood since Middle School (l-r): Diamond Tulloch, Elias was a diverse group of students. Although as possible without Charlie’s guidance and Fredericks, Cyril Uebbing and Zac Craft. our team was not victorious this season, we mentorship. He will be forever missed and learned to work together and gain the nec- we were lucky to have had such a skilled, essary skills to play soccer. Having students professional, and knowledgeable teacher, "When I first started at Oakwood in 6th a great education. I am thankful for the with many years of experience, as well as mentor, coach, and friend for such a sus- grade I was a little seedling. As the years wonderful teachers and memories over my students that have never played, the differ- tained and enduring period of time. Rest went by I was transformed into a big oak seven years here. I feel ready to continue ence in skill ability was a continuous chal- in peace, Charlie Butts, 1954-2019. tree. My time spent at Oakwood was very my Quaker studies at Guilford College and Ukranian students at Oakwood. lenge that we faced throughout the season. enlightening because Oakwood provid- to tackle the challenges that lie ahead." At the end of the season, one player, ed me with leadership opportunities and – Cyril Uebbing '20 Daniel Sadia Rashid ’22 10 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 220 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY WinterWinter 2019-2020 2016-17 7 Chapters of Oakwood’s History Musical Notes By: Matthew Voorhees ’17, School Archivist The past few months have been a busy ’21) and the singer-songwriter duo of Willow Minor. Willow Bennison ’20 was unable and exciting time in the music department. Bennison ’20 and Stefanie Quintanilla ’20. to attend, because she was in Muscle In November, violinist Elias Fredericks The concert concluded with the annual Shoals, Alabama standing in for Big Mama ’20 and violist Stefanie Quintanilla ’20 holiday sing-along led by Music Director Ted Thornton, who was posthumously inducted performed with the best student musicians Messerschmidt and the Oakwood Singers. into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. in the region at the NYSSMA Zone 10 Area All-State Music Festival in Hudson, NY. The In January, several students performed In February, students will enjoy the following month in Rochester, NY, Elias at the Oakwood Wine Dinner. A lex Turk opportunity to perform at an open mic was selected as concertmaster (first chair ’21 performed a song by the Indie group night, and members of the Community violin) of the NYSSMA Conference All-State The National, while Stefanie Quintanilla Service through the Arts class will be String Orchestra, which included the best ’20 and Luisa Capetillo ’22 performed an performing at a local retirement home. music students from both public and private arrangement of Albinoni’s Adagio in G schools in the entire state. Also in December, Elias, Stefanie, and Luisa Capetillo ’22 gave performances with Stringendo, a prestigious local orchestra program, Visual Arts – Visiting and Magdalena Teisler ’21 performed at the Winter Song Fest at Bard College. MASS MoCA Students capped off the busy holiday season with two performances before the break. On November 7, art students in Portfolio The first was a performance at the Cardinal Preparation and Color class visited MASS Hayes School for Special Children led by MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contem- students in Oakwood’s Community Service porary Art) in North Adams, MA. Students through the Arts class, and the second was experienced the immersive color and light the annual Winter Festival Concert, which installations of Quaker-raised artist James included performances by the Oakwood Turrell, as well as other current exhibitions. Orchestra, several soloists (Elias Fredericks ’20; Magdalena Teisler ’21; and A lex Turk

Lessons from Oakwood By: Bianca Luna-Lupercio ’17

I recently interned at Cedars-Sinai Hospital was the tolerance of failure. Being human being at a place like Oakwood supported at their Research Center for Health means making mistakes, and especially that growth. I cannot recall an experience (l-r) Malcolm Condon ’20, Valentina Equity while studying at the University of as a teenager trying to understand who that has benefited me greater than Seniors Elias Fredericks, Willow Bennison Stefanie Quintanilla ’20, Luisa Capetillo ’22 Hernandez ‘21, Thistle Prendergast ‘22, Southern California. The center aims to I was, I made plenty. My most vulnerable attending Oakwood Friends School. and Stefanie Quintanilla at Cardinal Hayes and Alex Turk ’21 perform Anisa Gilmour ’20, Aurora Stokum ’22 meet the needs of underserved populations times led to my greatest progression, and School for Special Children at the Parent Dinner. and Alex Turk ’21 (Latino, Black, LGBTQIA+, and Asian) on both a community and state-wide level based on research, service and policy. Supporting Oakwood’s It's hard to imagine who I'd be if I didn't attend Oakwood. Perhaps I'd be obsessed with finding the materialistic value in Performing Arts everything I encountered, instead of Alysa Sullivan (parent Owen ’17 and Oona appreciating its spiritual essence. Or, I ’21) initiated a fundraising project to support wouldn't be civically engaged, and accept performing arts at Oakwood. Many thanks to being unaware of the dynamic world I live Alysa, Mary Redmond and Eli Schloss (Lulu in. Through the course of my three years ’24 and Ruby ’21) and Susanrachel Condon at Oakwood, I was welcomed by a family ’80 (Malcolm ’20 and Hannah ’11) for their of diverse individuals - people from Ghana, efforts which made a significant impact to Vietnam, Rwanda, China, Afghanistan, Japan the theatre program! Donations from Her- - that shattered my previous ignorance. zog's Home and Paint Center of Poughkeep- Being exposed to these different cultures sie, Williams Lumber and Home Centers, contributed to my passion in clubs such as Majestic's Hardware in Gardiner and True Model United Nations, Ethics Bowl, Academic Value of New Paltz were much appreciated! World Quest, and Diversity Committee. Congratulations to Music Director Ted Messerschmidt who was selected last year as a semi- If you’d like to help support these ef- Including these unique characteristics about finalist in the 2018-2019 American Prize Conducting Competition (College/University Orchestra Division) for a performance he gave with the Marist College Orchestra! forts, please reach out to Alysa Sullivan at Oakwood, one thing I appreciated most Bianca (pictured center) at an HPV awareness event in East LA [email protected]. 8 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 220 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY WinterWinter 2019-2020 2016-17 9 Model UN Montreal Celebrating Lunar New Year – the Year of the Rat

Support With international boarding students from Oakwood's Annual Fund around the world, celebrating festivals and holidays is an important part of life at Oak- www.oakwoodfriends.org/donate/ wood. This year we were fortunate to have ways-to-donate/ a special, multi-day celebration for the Lu- nar New Year – the Year of the Rat. To Quynh Nguyen '20 with classmate Ruby Schloss '21; Aidan Cook (left) at Model UN conference kick off the festivities, alumnus John Far- gis ’84 and his wife Vida and daughter Siena ’22 hosted a group of students for Winter Reunion a dumpling making party at their home. Students from China taught their class- John Fargis with students at his home. Alumni Career Panel mates from Afghanistan and Turkey how to make dumplings and enjoyed spend- This year’s Winter Reunion began with an ing time off campus celebrating the New engaging panel discussion with four area Year. Festivities continued on campus the alumni working in a diverse array of fields. next day with another round of dumpling Sakima McClinton ’93 shared about her making for the whole community in the work with migrant farmworkers with Ru- dining hall, including decorations and live ral & Migrant Ministry, Inc., as well as her streaming festivities from abroad, followed service in elected office. Caroline Brevetti by some fun games in the gym. Sharing one ’07 described her recent transition from another’s cultures, food and celebrations working as a paralegal in NYC to open- provides Oakwood students with a unique ing her own ethical and sustainable mar- and important lens into other worlds. ketplace for men, women and children, Conscious Co. Boutique. Adam Benziger, also from the class of 2007 explained his onstrate a return on the investment in ap- ing initiatives on campus, such as pur- journey opening Laughing Gut Kombucha, Greening Oakwood proximately 7 years. Our goal is for the class chasing reusable supplies for the dining a local business with a retail store and tast- Though the panelists work in very differ- By Susanrachel Condon ’80 (parent ’20) of 1980 and our friends, alumni, and current hall. You can help this effort, by visiting ing room coming soon to Poughkeepsie’s ent work environments, they each spoke Supporting Oakwood families to make this possible. my Go Fund Me site at: gf.me/u/vxmxzc Main Street. Former student clerk from the of the foundation Oakwood gave them to class of 2011, Zach Missen-Jones spoke of explore their passions and pursue their Australian Wildlife Why is this so important? In 2016, world his work as an educator with Wild Earth, a dreams in sometimes non-traditional paths. plastics production totaled around 335 mil- Climate Strike Action! Hudson Valley nonprofit that leads transfor- – A Middle School lion metric tons, roughly half of which is In keeping with our community’s commit- mative experiences in nature for all ages. He Following the panel was our Annual Student- destined for a single-use product. A full 32% ment to environmental stewardship and sus- also shared the work of Keep It Moving, a Alumni basketball game, dinner and the winter of the 78 million tons of plastic packaging tainability, students organized activities for non-profit founded by his family in memory play “These Shining Lives” by Melanie Marnich. Project produced annually is left to flow into our the world wide climate strike held on Sep- of his cousin Zane Mandel-Michalak ’13. oceans; the equivalent of pouring one gar- tember 20th. Our community walked out In the wake of the devastating wildfires in bage truck of plastic into the ocean every of classes at 10AM and met in the Meeting Australia, the Middle School science class minute. By 2050, there could be more plastic Room for student readings on the impor- has joined volunteers around the world in than fish in the world’s oceans. Humans buy tance of fighting climate change. Following making Joey Pouches to aid the animals about 1,000,000 plastic bottles per minute in John Scardina and Susanrachel Condon ’80 the readings we gathered at our Solar Array that were displaced or injured by fire. The total, with Americans purchasing about 50 for 10 minutes of silent contemplation. We students collected towels, sheets, blankets For the last four years, my son Malcolm billion per year, averaging about 13 bottles then created messages for action with chalk and first aid materials, held bake sales to Condon '20 has been working to raise per month for every person in the U.S.! By on the driveway and celebrated the power raise money and sewed Joey Pouches to awareness about the environmental impact using a reusable water bottle, you could save of the wind by flying kites in our fields. be donated. This unique, hands on project of plastic waste. He helped Ulster County an average of 156 plastic bottles annually. Throughout the rest of the day drop-in ac- gave students the opportunity to learn more pass its polystyrene ban and went door to tivities were held on campus including writ- about climate change while doing some- door to local restaurants providing infor- What can you do? The best way to curb ing letters to elected officials, researching thing tangible to aid animals in need. mation about corn-based "plastic" packag- single-use plastic pollution is to reduce EPA rollbacks, learning about Ecobricks, a ing and straws. Malcolm's goal at Oakwood your personal plastic consumption! Choos- sustainable building product made of plas- is to reduce and eventually eliminate sin- ing to buy products with less packaging or tic bottles, and making posters, followed by gle use plastic consumption as part of an no packaging altogether makes a big dif- a screening of An Inconvenient Truth. overall greening of the Oakwood campus. ference. Many innovative companies are producing and selling these products to- This spring will mark my 40th reunion and day and they are easy to find online. These we will also celebrate Malcolm's graduation. products include shampoo bars, seaweed In partnership with Chuck Wilde, the Food laundry detergent pods, and toothpaste in Service Director, we aspire to raise enough glass jars. Companies who make and sell money to buy sustainable materials for large these products ship without plastic pack- campus events. Chuck reports the school aging. You can also bring your own con- spends $2000-2500 annually on disposable tainers to stores that sell food in bulk. supplies for open houses, alumni weekends, and graduations. He estimates that enabling To address the plastic consumption issue, Oakwood to purchase reusable wine glass- Oakwood has installed water bottle refill- es, water goblets, china, silverware, and ing stations in the dorms and main building (l-r) Sakima McClinton ’93, Caroline Brevetti ’07, Chad Cianfrani, Adam Benziger ’07 Ryann Williams-Pregnon ’25 with the cream/sugar sets for 160 people will dem- and will continue to pursue other green- Senior Anh Ho who helped to organize the day and Zach Missen-Jones ’11. classroom guinea pig trying out a Joey Pouch 8 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 220 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY WinterWinter 2019-2020 2016-17 9 Model UN Montreal Celebrating Lunar New Year – the Year of the Rat

Support With international boarding students from Oakwood's Annual Fund around the world, celebrating festivals and holidays is an important part of life at Oak- www.oakwoodfriends.org/donate/ wood. This year we were fortunate to have ways-to-donate/ a special, multi-day celebration for the Lu- nar New Year – the Year of the Rat. To Quynh Nguyen '20 with classmate Ruby Schloss '21; Aidan Cook (left) at Model UN conference kick off the festivities, alumnus John Far- gis ’84 and his wife Vida and daughter Siena ’22 hosted a group of students for Winter Reunion a dumpling making party at their home. Students from China taught their class- John Fargis with students at his home. Alumni Career Panel mates from Afghanistan and Turkey how to make dumplings and enjoyed spend- This year’s Winter Reunion began with an ing time off campus celebrating the New engaging panel discussion with four area Year. Festivities continued on campus the alumni working in a diverse array of fields. next day with another round of dumpling Sakima McClinton ’93 shared about her making for the whole community in the work with migrant farmworkers with Ru- dining hall, including decorations and live ral & Migrant Ministry, Inc., as well as her streaming festivities from abroad, followed service in elected office. Caroline Brevetti by some fun games in the gym. Sharing one ’07 described her recent transition from another’s cultures, food and celebrations working as a paralegal in NYC to open- provides Oakwood students with a unique ing her own ethical and sustainable mar- and important lens into other worlds. ketplace for men, women and children, Conscious Co. Boutique. Adam Benziger, also from the class of 2007 explained his onstrate a return on the investment in ap- ing initiatives on campus, such as pur- journey opening Laughing Gut Kombucha, Greening Oakwood proximately 7 years. Our goal is for the class chasing reusable supplies for the dining a local business with a retail store and tast- Though the panelists work in very differ- By Susanrachel Condon ’80 (parent ’20) of 1980 and our friends, alumni, and current hall. You can help this effort, by visiting ing room coming soon to Poughkeepsie’s ent work environments, they each spoke Supporting Oakwood families to make this possible. my Go Fund Me site at: gf.me/u/vxmxzc Main Street. Former student clerk from the of the foundation Oakwood gave them to class of 2011, Zach Missen-Jones spoke of explore their passions and pursue their Australian Wildlife Why is this so important? In 2016, world his work as an educator with Wild Earth, a dreams in sometimes non-traditional paths. plastics production totaled around 335 mil- Climate Strike Action! Hudson Valley nonprofit that leads transfor- – A Middle School lion metric tons, roughly half of which is In keeping with our community’s commit- mative experiences in nature for all ages. He Following the panel was our Annual Student- destined for a single-use product. A full 32% ment to environmental stewardship and sus- also shared the work of Keep It Moving, a Alumni basketball game, dinner and the winter of the 78 million tons of plastic packaging tainability, students organized activities for non-profit founded by his family in memory play “These Shining Lives” by Melanie Marnich. Project produced annually is left to flow into our the world wide climate strike held on Sep- of his cousin Zane Mandel-Michalak ’13. oceans; the equivalent of pouring one gar- tember 20th. Our community walked out In the wake of the devastating wildfires in bage truck of plastic into the ocean every of classes at 10AM and met in the Meeting Australia, the Middle School science class minute. By 2050, there could be more plastic Room for student readings on the impor- has joined volunteers around the world in than fish in the world’s oceans. Humans buy tance of fighting climate change. Following making Joey Pouches to aid the animals about 1,000,000 plastic bottles per minute in John Scardina and Susanrachel Condon ’80 the readings we gathered at our Solar Array that were displaced or injured by fire. The total, with Americans purchasing about 50 for 10 minutes of silent contemplation. We students collected towels, sheets, blankets For the last four years, my son Malcolm billion per year, averaging about 13 bottles then created messages for action with chalk and first aid materials, held bake sales to Condon '20 has been working to raise per month for every person in the U.S.! By on the driveway and celebrated the power raise money and sewed Joey Pouches to awareness about the environmental impact using a reusable water bottle, you could save of the wind by flying kites in our fields. be donated. This unique, hands on project of plastic waste. He helped Ulster County an average of 156 plastic bottles annually. Throughout the rest of the day drop-in ac- gave students the opportunity to learn more pass its polystyrene ban and went door to tivities were held on campus including writ- about climate change while doing some- door to local restaurants providing infor- What can you do? The best way to curb ing letters to elected officials, researching thing tangible to aid animals in need. mation about corn-based "plastic" packag- single-use plastic pollution is to reduce EPA rollbacks, learning about Ecobricks, a ing and straws. Malcolm's goal at Oakwood your personal plastic consumption! Choos- sustainable building product made of plas- is to reduce and eventually eliminate sin- ing to buy products with less packaging or tic bottles, and making posters, followed by gle use plastic consumption as part of an no packaging altogether makes a big dif- a screening of An Inconvenient Truth. overall greening of the Oakwood campus. ference. Many innovative companies are producing and selling these products to- This spring will mark my 40th reunion and day and they are easy to find online. These we will also celebrate Malcolm's graduation. products include shampoo bars, seaweed In partnership with Chuck Wilde, the Food laundry detergent pods, and toothpaste in Service Director, we aspire to raise enough glass jars. Companies who make and sell money to buy sustainable materials for large these products ship without plastic pack- campus events. Chuck reports the school aging. You can also bring your own con- spends $2000-2500 annually on disposable tainers to stores that sell food in bulk. supplies for open houses, alumni weekends, and graduations. He estimates that enabling To address the plastic consumption issue, Oakwood to purchase reusable wine glass- Oakwood has installed water bottle refill- es, water goblets, china, silverware, and ing stations in the dorms and main building (l-r) Sakima McClinton ’93, Caroline Brevetti ’07, Chad Cianfrani, Adam Benziger ’07 Ryann Williams-Pregnon ’25 with the cream/sugar sets for 160 people will dem- and will continue to pursue other green- Senior Anh Ho who helped to organize the day and Zach Missen-Jones ’11. classroom guinea pig trying out a Joey Pouch 10 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 220 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY WinterWinter 2019-2020 2016-17 7 Chapters of Oakwood’s History Musical Notes By: Matthew Voorhees ’17, School Archivist The past few months have been a busy ’21) and the singer-songwriter duo of Willow Minor. Willow Bennison ’20 was unable and exciting time in the music department. Bennison ’20 and Stefanie Quintanilla ’20. to attend, because she was in Muscle In November, violinist Elias Fredericks The concert concluded with the annual Shoals, Alabama standing in for Big Mama ’20 and violist Stefanie Quintanilla ’20 holiday sing-along led by Music Director Ted Thornton, who was posthumously inducted performed with the best student musicians Messerschmidt and the Oakwood Singers. into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. in the region at the NYSSMA Zone 10 Area All-State Music Festival in Hudson, NY. The In January, several students performed In February, students will enjoy the following month in Rochester, NY, Elias at the Oakwood Wine Dinner. A lex Turk opportunity to perform at an open mic was selected as concertmaster (first chair ’21 performed a song by the Indie group night, and members of the Community violin) of the NYSSMA Conference All-State The National, while Stefanie Quintanilla Service through the Arts class will be String Orchestra, which included the best ’20 and Luisa Capetillo ’22 performed an performing at a local retirement home. music students from both public and private arrangement of Albinoni’s Adagio in G schools in the entire state. Also in December, Elias, Stefanie, and Luisa Capetillo ’22 gave performances with Stringendo, a prestigious local orchestra program, Visual Arts – Visiting and Magdalena Teisler ’21 performed at the Winter Song Fest at Bard College. MASS MoCA Students capped off the busy holiday season with two performances before the break. On November 7, art students in Portfolio The first was a performance at the Cardinal Preparation and Color class visited MASS Hayes School for Special Children led by MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contem- students in Oakwood’s Community Service porary Art) in North Adams, MA. Students through the Arts class, and the second was experienced the immersive color and light the annual Winter Festival Concert, which installations of Quaker-raised artist James included performances by the Oakwood Turrell, as well as other current exhibitions. Orchestra, several soloists (Elias Fredericks ’20; Magdalena Teisler ’21; and A lex Turk

Lessons from Oakwood By: Bianca Luna-Lupercio ’17

I recently interned at Cedars-Sinai Hospital was the tolerance of failure. Being human being at a place like Oakwood supported at their Research Center for Health means making mistakes, and especially that growth. I cannot recall an experience (l-r) Malcolm Condon ’20, Valentina Equity while studying at the University of as a teenager trying to understand who that has benefited me greater than Seniors Elias Fredericks, Willow Bennison Stefanie Quintanilla ’20, Luisa Capetillo ’22 Hernandez ‘21, Thistle Prendergast ‘22, Southern California. The center aims to I was, I made plenty. My most vulnerable attending Oakwood Friends School. and Stefanie Quintanilla at Cardinal Hayes and Alex Turk ’21 perform Anisa Gilmour ’20, Aurora Stokum ’22 meet the needs of underserved populations times led to my greatest progression, and School for Special Children at the Parent Dinner. and Alex Turk ’21 (Latino, Black, LGBTQIA+, and Asian) on both a community and state-wide level based on research, service and policy. Supporting Oakwood’s It's hard to imagine who I'd be if I didn't attend Oakwood. Perhaps I'd be obsessed with finding the materialistic value in Performing Arts everything I encountered, instead of Alysa Sullivan (parent Owen ’17 and Oona appreciating its spiritual essence. Or, I ’21) initiated a fundraising project to support wouldn't be civically engaged, and accept performing arts at Oakwood. Many thanks to being unaware of the dynamic world I live Alysa, Mary Redmond and Eli Schloss (Lulu in. Through the course of my three years ’24 and Ruby ’21) and Susanrachel Condon at Oakwood, I was welcomed by a family ’80 (Malcolm ’20 and Hannah ’11) for their of diverse individuals - people from Ghana, efforts which made a significant impact to Vietnam, Rwanda, China, Afghanistan, Japan the theatre program! Donations from Her- - that shattered my previous ignorance. zog's Home and Paint Center of Poughkeep- Being exposed to these different cultures sie, Williams Lumber and Home Centers, contributed to my passion in clubs such as Majestic's Hardware in Gardiner and True Model United Nations, Ethics Bowl, Academic Value of New Paltz were much appreciated! World Quest, and Diversity Committee. Congratulations to Music Director Ted Messerschmidt who was selected last year as a semi- If you’d like to help support these ef- Including these unique characteristics about finalist in the 2018-2019 American Prize Conducting Competition (College/University Orchestra Division) for a performance he gave with the Marist College Orchestra! forts, please reach out to Alysa Sullivan at Oakwood, one thing I appreciated most Bianca (pictured center) at an HPV awareness event in East LA [email protected]. 6 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 220 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY WinterWinter 2019-2020 2016-17 11 Sports Center Remembering Gloria Garlick Bogle ’43 By Simon Culley, Interim Athletic Director

As Charlie’s assistant for the last three F. Bogle, Sr.in 1949. They built their home years, I never thought I would be writ- in Poughkeepsie in 1952 and raised three ing a piece this soon or without his pres- children who also attended Oakwood: Bar- ence in some form or another for Oak bara, class of 1970, Julie, class of 1973, and Leaves. It is also particularly challenging Bill, class of 1976. After several jobs in the as we spent a lot of our free time togeth- community, Gloria returned to Oakwood as er since I was hired in 2005, whether it a member of the faculty in 1966. At Gloria’s be the thousands of times we played to- retirement dinner at Vassar Alumnae House in 1982, it was noted that Gloria’s presence gether in the Poughkeepsie dart league, Gloria Bogle and family in 2007. talking sports, playing golf, or any num- had been felt throughout the school during ber of other things. The words I have her tenure. She did everything! At various clung to these past few months have times, she was Alumni Coordinator, Admis- simply been, “What would Charlie do?” sions Director, Director of Studies, Public Relations Director, College Counselor, teach- The boys’ Cross Country team came to- er, and head of the Mathematics Depart- Gloria and Bill Bogle, Sr. at Gloria's gether quickly this season despite hav- ment. For her next adventure, she joined her ing toreplace the 1st, 3rd, and 5th scor- Brandon Christiansen ’21 Adele Fredericks ’21 retirement party in 1982. husband Bill as co-Executive Director of the ers from last year. Returnees Aidan Cook Westchester Golf Association – a true pas- and Brandon Christiansen stepped up, Cullen, stuck out as our MVP. He was able collective team. Numerically, our record was Oakwood Friends School mourns the loss sion for them both. Later, Gloria took great and newcomers Max Hopkins and Jimmy to hold down our defensive line and he was 1-12-1 and our HVAL league record was 0-9- of an important member of our school fam- pleasure in seeing her grandchildren, Em- Lin joined the team. Elias Fredericks and always there when we needed him. He had 1. Newcomers Ila Kumar, Lila Ressler, Bea- ily, Gloria Garlick Bogle, who passed away ily ’07 and Justin ’11 follow in her footsteps Jayden Brockington provided leadership the self-discipline to man mark any player trice Corio, and Magdalena Teisler, and re- on December 30, 2019. Oakwood alumna, as Oakwood alums. She remained a lively as captains and contributed to the scoring. that he was assigned and functioned as a turning player Ruby Schloss, all scored their parent, grandparent, and faculty member presence on the Oakwood campus, attend- The boys’ team moved into 2nd place and key player on the team. In addition, two first Varsity Goals. Sports Awards recipients for 16 years, Gloria knew the school from ing special presentations, alumni weekend, held that position for more than half the students received Coach's Awards for their were seniors and co-captains Stefanie Quint- every angle and retained a deep affection Ten Year Honor Roll luncheons, and our Gloria at Emily's wedding in 2017. season. Though the team was at less than dedication to the team. The first student anilla and Willow Bennison (Coach's Awards) for her alma mater throughout her life. annual wine dinner and auction at Locust full strength for the League Championship, to be awarded a Coach's Award was Liam and sophomore Sadia Rashid (MVP). Grove. She continued to stay in touch even Max Hopkins ran a masterful race to climb Olivieri. Liam was the only goalie that the Gloria was born in Wappingers Falls in 1926 after her move to Savannah, GA, in 2017. to 4th place in the league individual stand- team had and was therefore an extremely The Boys Varsity soccer season was chal- and attended Oakwood as a day student, To honor their mother, the Bogle fam- ings; this was our first top 5 finish in sev- valuable player. He always showed up to lenging. It began with rather lopsided results graduating in 1943. She went on to earn her We are grateful to Gloria for all she did for ily is establishing the Gloria G. Bogle eral years. Adele Fredericks also medaled practice with a positive attitude and always with us conceding double figures in a few B.A. in Mathematics from Wellesley in 1947, Oakwood and for her warm friendship. She Scholarship Fund for day students. in the girls’ race while finishing 7th. Elias put all of his efforts into training for his po- matches and failing to score in the first seven then married her childhood friend, William will be missed. Fredericks earned the Coaches’ Award sition. Our second Coach's Award went to games. In the eighth game, however, we ex- for rallying the team and leading by ex- Xilin “Joe” Cao. Joe did not miss a single ploded with seven goals and were victorious ample. The Most Improved Runner went practice all season, which showed his dedi- for the first and only time. The team clung to Jayden Brockington as he medaled in cation to the sport and his team. Joe was together and there was never a feeling of half of the invitational meets. Most Valu- an extremely solid defensive player and capitulation. Our skills, understanding of Ukranian Exchange able Runner awards went to Adele Fred- made large strides throughout the season. strategy, and fitness gradually improved and ericks and Max Hopkins as they medaled allowed us to be more competitive for the Continues in each of the invitational meets through The Girls Varsity Soccer team had a fun and better part of each game than we had earlier Building on the relationship started last the season. They also earned HVAL All- successful 2019 season. While the win-loss in the season. The team managed this in front spring with Alekom-Tour: Education Can Star status. More and more teams say the percentages do not reflect typical markers of of a backdrop of impeccable sportsmanship, Be Fun, we welcomed another group of Oakwood meets are their favorite of the success, small improvements made by many receiving no yellow or red cards in the fifteen wonderful students from Ukraine who season. With the helping hands, support, players across the season are evidence to the games played. Huicheng Huang finished spent two weeks in October with our com- and cheering from the Sustainable Gar- growth and development displayed by the the season as top scorer with 9 goals and munity engaging in classes, experienc- dening team, former XC coaches, many was inducted into the Western New England ing the season of fall in New York State, individual spectators, Nancy D., and the Preparatory School Soccer Association Se- sharing stories, culture, laughs, and even Athletic Office provide, Oakwood has the lect Team of 2019. Despite the low win per- some trick or treating! Programs like this loudest and most encouraging spectators. centage, the team really impressed me with prove to be a valuable and unique learn- In the last meet of the season versus South their poise, team spirit, and energy. Team ing experience for both Oakwood students Kent School, long time friend and rival Captain and defensive stalwart, Matt Stew- and our visiting friends and help to make coach, Steve Klots, honored our very own art won the MVP sports award. Newcomer the world a smaller and warmer place. Bill Doolittle at the end of the race for his Alper Sayin picked up a Coach's Award for dedicated service of 36 years, spanning his uncompromising and energetic play in four decades to the league, colleagues, the middle of the park. Embattled and ever and hundreds of athletes he has coached. positive freshman goalkeeper Arjun Yang collected the final Coaches’ Award for his The Thirds soccer team was back out on the numerous heroic efforts between the sticks. field this fall, consisting of a mix of Middle and Upper School players. The coed team In summary, the season went as smoothly Graduating seniors who have been at Oakwood since Middle School (l-r): Diamond Tulloch, Elias was a diverse group of students. Although as possible without Charlie’s guidance and Fredericks, Cyril Uebbing and Zac Craft. our team was not victorious this season, we mentorship. He will be forever missed and learned to work together and gain the nec- we were lucky to have had such a skilled, essary skills to play soccer. Having students professional, and knowledgeable teacher, "When I first started at Oakwood in 6th a great education. I am thankful for the with many years of experience, as well as mentor, coach, and friend for such a sus- grade I was a little seedling. As the years wonderful teachers and memories over my students that have never played, the differ- tained and enduring period of time. Rest went by I was transformed into a big oak seven years here. I feel ready to continue ence in skill ability was a continuous chal- in peace, Charlie Butts, 1954-2019. tree. My time spent at Oakwood was very my Quaker studies at Guilford College and Ukranian students at Oakwood. lenge that we faced throughout the season. enlightening because Oakwood provid- to tackle the challenges that lie ahead." At the end of the season, one player, ed me with leadership opportunities and – Cyril Uebbing '20 Daniel Sadia Rashid ’22 12 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 220 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY WinterWinter 2019-2020 2016-17 5 Class Notes

“Where do I start? Charlie and I met “Grateful to have had Charlie as a as junior golfers at Dutchess G & colleague and for his wonderful and CC when I was 12 and played in my unending support for my Varsity Parks first away tournament. Charlie went team. I was nervous about my first-ever to Colgate University before me and coaching experience, but he was there played on the golf team with many of 1943 wonderful paintings. I consider myself lucky to have shaped and ready! Congratulations to Dan and Molly every step of the way. He represented the my fellow teammates. Charlie came Marjorie Wilder Ross - The wonderful picture spent 5 years at Oakwood. on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary! best of Oakwood Friends School.” back to Colgate when I was there to of the class of 1922 made me very happy. The Michael Sklaroff – former Oakwood faculty get his master's degree. When he came person shown on the lower right front is my mother Martha Ullman West - Still working, still traveling, back to Poughkeepsie to teach he asked Ernestine Young. Also in Oakwood – Bud Young still here. I hope all Oakwood alumni will exercise (cousin) in my class, Benjamin Ross who became my their right to vote in 2020 and work to save the my Mom if there were any openings at husband, my sister Phyllis and brother Alan Wilder. planet before it’s too late. “You were the best supervisor I ever had.” Oakwood. My Mom was retiring that Cousins from Union Springs also attended. Deb Wood – former Oakwood faculty year, and she recommended Charlie to 1957 Oakwood. I played countless rounds Josef John Burton - I have retired after 47 years from the practice of pediatric medicine. During of golf with Charlie at Dutchess where this time I have taken care of some children of “Charlie, I can’t thank you enough he was the club champion twice and Oakwood graduates. I live in Portland, Oregon and for getting me involved in athletics at played with my Dad in the Anderson my 2 children and 2 grandchildren also live here. Memorial. We played in the Colgate After 79 years of life and 4 college degrees I still Oakwood. Whether I’m in the gym or remember with fondness my 2 years at Oakwood. the softball field, I think of you. Peace Alumni golf tournament every summer and Deb Wood ’56 met Suzanne Litner If anyone knows where Jean Fagans Richardson is be with you. My brother. My friend.” for years, and Charlie still went head of school Chad Cianfrani for lunch please let me know at 203-417-2426. at Kendal-on-Hudson Chris Galschjodt back long after we stopped. I also 1958 – Coach and Facilities Team had the joy of having Charlie teach 1955 Michael Bradbury - Having just passed my 80th our children at Oakwood. He was 1945 My dad, Richard K. Wood, passed on November birthday I am still wondering where the past 61 one of the best athletes you ever saw, Susan Davis Doderer - Still hanging in there! 1, 2019 at his home in Gettysburg surrounded by years have gone since graduation from Oakwood. from golf to squash to darts. He was his family. Dad spent his junior and senior years at As I am finally "growing up" I have come to realize 1946 Oakwood, graduating in 1955. He spoke often of that Oakwood meant more to me than I realized at a competitor, but a gracious fellow Betty Nunn Kramer and her daughter attended a how the mentoring he received from Oakwood the time. I have enjoyed a very satisfactory life with competitor. This is going to leave a photography exhibit in Connecticut by Oakwood faculty and the friendships of Oakwood students success that is not measured in wealth or notoriety “I think my favorite memory of hole in so many ways.” alumna Katie Settel ’84. strengthened his Quaker upbringing. We laughed at but in the fact that I married a woman that I am still Charlie is from a visit perhaps 10 some of the tales of his days at Oakwood such as Bill Bogle Jr. ’76 in love with, that we raised a son who has given us or 15 years after graduation. We sat when they returned on a cold night after winning two wonderful grandchildren. I had a career that – former Board President and the county soccer championship to a dinner of provided me with the opportunity to work and help and chatted and Charlie was just “Both my girls had Charlie for history Parent ’07 and ’11 mashed potatoes and prune whip. We also came others without the need for a return accommodation. himself: Authentic, thoughtful, stable, and as a sports coach. His gentle spirit to admire as deeply as my father, the humanity and Without realizing it at the time, much of what I have compassionate... all the things that dignity of his faculty mentor, Yoshiro Sanbonmatsu, will be sorely missed at Oakwood.” done has been a result of Quaker influence. I feel you need when you’re a kid, but may a Japanese American who had been interned fortunate that I have been able to volunteer in order Natalie Wilkinson – Parent ’11 and ’15 during World War II, and was one of his English to enrich the lives of others without the need for not have the language to ask for yet. I teachers. Yosh's dignity, despite the mistreatment of reward other than the thought that I have been able realized then how effective he had been Japanese American citizens, taught him that offering to give something of myself. It pleases me that over at mentoring me during my time at compassion and respect to an oppressor was one the decades Oakwood has continued to exist and of the most powerful ways to be a testament to produce graduates who are making their own way Oakwood without my even realizing Katie Settel ’84 and Betty Kramer social justice. His appreciation and love of music in this world as chaotic as it seems to be at times. it was happening, just by being an deepened with the visits of Pete Seeger for drop-in Thank you, Oakwood! example of the kind of man I aspire to 1947 playing sessions, and Pete's music was a common be: A rock that everyone else can count Barbara Tresler Zarchen - Am well at 90, still soundtrack on long car trips and in the house. Dad 1959 grateful for Oakwood experience. was humble and so it was decades later my sisters Susan Stein Stephens - Missed you all at reunion. on. Thanks for that Charlie. It’s a great and I learned he was senior class president! Dad You missed a chance to meet my lovely roommate gift and many of us will pay it forward 1953 remained active in education, Quaker, and social David Nicholson. Your loss! Miss you all of course. Taffy Thunick Hoffman - I’m staying in reasonably justice circles throughout his life. He served as on your behalf.” good health. Able to go on three Road Scholar trips. school board president for over a decade, helped 1961 Pete Ward ’93 Eight beautiful grandchildren. Have not got any found the Gettysburg Friends Meeting, and the Classmates David Thompson and Leslie English “greats” yet. Interfaith Center for Peace and Justice. on a visit to campus earlier this year.

1954 Deborah Wood, former faculty Lee Munroe - Recently added grandson – now 3 grandchildren. Into 8th year of stroke, but still 1956 above ground! Molly Lynn Watt - Slowing down as the planet “Charlie, thank you from the bottom of spins out of control. Co-taught with my husband my heart. I will always remember you. Coaches Charlie Butts and Chris Galschjodt with 2019 Softball Champions Linda Gita Rahl Nadas - Somehow I have gotten Dan Lynn Watt a course – Which Side Are You On, Rest in peace…” to 82 years old. Besides being unsteady on my feet I Protest Songs of the Past 100 years in American Chi Hoon Shin ’05 “Thank you Charlie for all the lessons, memories, stress and pizza. We didn’t have the seem to be okay. I have been winning some awards Social Movements at Harvard Institute for Learn- best team, but girls varsity was one of the best learning experiences of my life. for my sculpture and I am still making all kinds of ing in Retirement. Still camping at Nickerson for 2 stone ware. My daughter’s son Jakob and I are both weeks every August. Still co-leading a ukulele band Thank you for everything.” –Nai’lah Taariq ’17 adjusting to life without Ruth Gita. We enjoy her with Dan and struggling to get a poetry manuscript

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1962 1992 Peter Longini - Working half-time for a PR agency Dorothy Glusker is now a literary coach in the Oakwood Mourns the Loss of Charlie Butts: in San Jose ghostwriting for Silicon Valley execs. Still San Bruno, CA school district where she is helping based in the Pittsburgh area. teachers to implement a program that more Teacher, Coach, Mentor and Friend effectively teaches children whose first language is 1963 not English how to read. Charlie Butts passed away unexpectedly on August 10, 2019, in Danbury, CT. Linda Connor - This is my 50th year of teaching while recuperating from surgery. A lifelong Poughkeepsie resident, he attended photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. Kelly Gonzalez - I am an attorney and the deputy Poughkeepsie High School and Blair Academy, then Colgate University, director at the Center for Community Alternatives, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1976 and M.A. in teaching in 1982. Judith Chapman Purvis - Happily (re)married and a nonprofit with a mission to promote reintegrative living in Greensboro, NC. I’ve newly taken up the justice and a reduced reliance on incarceration Following graduation, Charlie started teaching at Oakwood, where he stayed for nearly four hammered dulcimer! through advocacy, services and public policy decades, teaching anthropology, world history, English and many other subjects. He served Barbara and I making a traditional drink in development in pursuit of civil and human rights. I as Athletic Director and coached the women’s softball and basketball teams through much Martha Richdale - I’m wishing you all a healthy the home of a family in the Amazon. owe my career path directly to the influence of the of his tenure, leading his softball team to a championship last spring. He is recognized in and happy 2020. Let’s all get out there and spread wonderful community at Oakwood. the Oakwood community as a mentor, a teacher not only of subjects but also of values peace and joy. Let’s turn the negative into positive 1975 of kindness, patience, sportsmanship and resilience, and a friend who could always be here and around the world and throughout the 1993 relied on to brighten one’s day with warmth, humor, and a good Jimmy Buffett song. universe. Perhaps, most importantly, let’s all vote!!! Sarah Braun Hamilton - I am grateful to Oakwood for helping me learn how to be part of a Charlie spent his summers and time away from Oakwood at Candlewood Lake Club in 1967 community and listen deeply. New Milford, Connecticut. His parents had a summer cottage there and introduced Carl Tannenbaum - Second try at retirement him to golf at an early age. Charlie won his first golf tournament there, a two-hole seems to be working. 1998 junior event, at age 5. He was a perennial golf enthusiast at Candlewood, winning the Mike Peters visited campus and caught up with Bill club championship 18 times. He was also twice club champion at Dutchess Golf Club in Barbara Bohm-Becker - Still the oldest bike Doolittle while in NY to run the NYC marathon. “To my good friend Charlie and our Poughkeepsie, and returned to Colgate each year for its alumni golf tourney. He will be mechanic in Central Oregon. Enjoying the Mike still holds the cross country course record at dearly missed by his many friends - in the Oakwood community, at Candlewood, at Colgate, grandkids and looking toward our country’s next Oakwood. He graduated from Brandeis, where he many years as fellow athletic directors. in the regional athletic community, by his dart league buddies, and of course, his family. election with hope. also ran cross country, and is teaching English at the I shall miss you my friend.” University of Shizuoka in Shizuoka, Japan. Mike is Rick McWilliams – Millbrook School Oakwood held a memorial service for Don Badgley - I am still working full-time by Randy Detwiler on a visit to campus in October. in a PhD program at the University of Amsterdam. Charlie on September 28, 2019. Surrounded choice. Wife Tracy continues as a partner in a large His dissertation is about Kenyan distance runners by his family, college roommates, former and CPA firm. My daughters Marissa and Alanna are 1982 based in Japan and focuses on the meaning of “Charlie, you made me who I am today. present students and colleagues and friends, thriving and successful! Blessings abound! Levan Johnson and Eva (Buckner) Valentine ’86 friendship, respect, and success in their culture. You will always be a part of my heart we celebrated the life of our wonderful stopped by Levan’s old Newlin dorm room on a 1970 recent visit to campus. and your legacy will be carried on by mentor, coach, teacher and friend. Heartfelt words and funny stories were shared and Helen Claxton - I’m looking forward to my 50th. those of us impacted with your wisdom the softball field where Charlie spent so Daily think of my time at Oakwood. Delightfully much of his time was dedicated in his honor. pleasant recollections. Thank you Oakwood. Thank and humility.” you class of ’70. Annette (Ruswick) Engler ’87 “We are immensely grateful for the time we were given with Charlie and for 1972 all he gave to Oakwood. We are also Happy 35th anniversary to Laura and Jody Mindell! immensely saddened by his passing. “Thank you for the warmth of your It is impossible to quantify the impact silence. Thank you for being a resting Charlie Butts had on our community; as place and allowing me to just be.” he was our teacher, our dorm parent, 2004 our coach, our mentor and our friend. Bela Baez - When the Oakwood Bubble Kachina Akua Randall ’97 expands!! In November I attended a training for Over the last four decades Charlie called Shown here with Chris Galschjodt Oakwood home. He shared his warmth, his intelligence, his humor, and his calm City Employees. I often take these professional development courses and today was focused on demeanor with hundreds and hundreds of students and faculty. Whether it was by delving 1987 into the glyph of the Mayans as a senior, arguing the Hammurabi Law code in front of Collaborative Negotiations. What better way to a panel of peers as a freshman, learning the true meaning of teamwork in basketball learn how to negotiate collaboratively then with a and softball, or perhaps (faculty) throwing the occasional after-work dart or two with fellow Oakwood Alum! :) Here’s me and Zachary him down the road; the entire Oakwood community was elevated by Charlie’s light. Metz ’89 living our best professional lives! Zach 1973 was an exceptional trainer who shared such valuable We will miss you Charlie. We thank you for what you have given us, and we look forward Mary Lowery Rose - 2019 had its “ups” and information/tools for the best ways to negotiate; to carrying on your work. We are holding you, your family, your friends, and the entire “downs”. One big “down” was when my husband specifically in spaces where we think there’s no Oakwood community in the Light. Thank you, Coach. Thank you for everything.” David broke his leg in Northern Ireland. The good room for negotiation. Thank you for that! news is that after months of rehab and recuperation, Chad Cianfrani he is getting about independently. We are ending Head of School the year on an “up” – our 5th grandchild (3rd grandson) is due April 2020! If you find yourself in Connecticut, come and visit! “Working with Charlie meant learning (l-r) Steve Brentari, Nancy Doolittle, Annette what it means to be unflappable, kind, “Dear Charlie, It was great to see you last Julie Bogle Kratchman - My sister, Barbara Ruswick Engler, Laura Fast Smith and Bill and dedicated. He helped me as a young year. I am happy I got to tell you what a Bogle Feingold ’70, her husband Richard, my Doolittle at Oakwood’s 15th Annual Wine Dinner teacher understand that things that felt great influence you were to me. You were a husband Bob and I traveled together this past fall and Auction honoring the Doolittles. mentor, a support and more than a coach. to Ecuador. We visited Quito right after the riots like big deals often didn’t have to be. He 1988 also was the only person I know who made Thank you for being a father figure. You took place regarding fuel costs. We experienced the Amazon and its amazing wildlife and flora. After Jennifer Elizabeth Brunton - I’m still blogging being called “coach” feel like an act of will be in my heart forever. “ that we flew to the Galapagos where we visited at Full Spectrum Mama, but the bulk of my effort love. I struggle imagining an Oakwood many islands on a small ship. The sea lions, iguana, now goes into writing for Forbes freelance editing Romy Bustamante ’91 and editing the Americans of Conscience Action without him. Here’s to you, Charlie.” flamingos and other birds were incredible. Great Checklist. I see Lucas Thorpe almost every summer! Bella Baez with Zach Metz ’89 Nora Landon – former Oakwood faculty trip and time spent together! 14 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 220 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY WinterWinter 2019-2020 2016-17 3

2006 Kudos to Najah Muhammad on her role as Mama 2015 Congratulations to Oakwood English teacher Jesse in The Heights Players' production of A Raisin in the Jinran Chloe Liu of Changchun, China, graduated Oakwood Honors Bill and Nancy Doolittle Doherty-Vinicor ’06 and his wife Andrea Onstot Sun in Brooklyn, NY, in November. Najah received from the University of Iowa in December, earning a on the birth of their baby girl Esther Lena Onstot, her B.A. in Theater Education and Acting from BA in Economics. The Oakwood community honored long-time born on December 29, 2019. Emerson College in Boston, MA. Najah says in all faculty members Bill and Nancy Doolittle at of her varied projects on and off the stage, her goal 2016 this year’s Annual Wine Dinner & Auction. is to use the arts as a communicative tool to bring Beau Duval, University of Vermont Class of Surrounded by members of their family, people together, and start a conversation. Najah is 2020, has been named to the dean's list for the fall including their newest grandchild Hannah, president of Oakwood Friends School's Alumni 2019 semester. Beau is a Data Science major in the Bill and Nancy received a standing ovation Association and serves as an ex-officio member of College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. from the crowd for their 36 years of devoted the board of managers. service to Oakwood. They will be retiring in 2017 June and moving to Maine but will always Owen Sullivan spent his summer working as a be important members of the Oakwood producing intern for the Williamstown Theater family. Head of School Chad Cianfrani Festival in Massachusetts. This year he was brought spoke about their work, and colleagues on as a Company Manager for the Purchase College Simon Culley and Susan Masciale-Lynch Performing Arts Center. spoke about their many years of working together, relying on one another, and 2009 Faculty & Friends friendship. Bill and Nancy were presented Mariah Lewis Purcell - This past fall I accepted a Oakwood’s Humanities Chair Stephen Miller with a photo album of their Oakwood The Doolittle Family at the Parent Dinner & Auction position teaching 8th grade English at Corvallis and Professor Wendy Turgeon, PhD, from St. years, prepared by Matthew Voorhees ’17. Middle School here in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley. Joseph’s College received a grant of $4,500 from I have 135 students and am absolutely loving it! I’ve the American Philosophical Association to serve as Now in its 15th year, the wine dinner Cosimo’s. Amy Solis, parent of Siena ’24, Alysa Wishingrad, Malcolm Condon ’20, De's also had the opportunity to begin an Outdoors Club project coordinators for the American Society of was initiated by Tim and Laurel Sweeney, served as clerk for the event and joined with Jewelers, Hudson Valley Renegades, Richard after school program and we head off on our first Philosophy Teachers Summer Seminar on Teaching parents of Sean ’09, and owners of Stone Franco Giangrasso as auctioneers. Student and Susanrachel Condon ’80, Buffalo Wild snowshoeing trip of the season next week. I can’t wait! and Learning Philosophy. Ridge Wine & Spirits. With 25 years in musicians started the festivities with their Wings, Michael & Sarah Daubman, Hudson business, they continue to share their performances: Stefanie Quintanilla ’20, Alex Beach Glass, County Players, Antonellas Congratulations to former board member Joseph wonderful wines and extensive knowledge Turk ’21 and Luisa Capetillo ’22. Thank you Restaurants, Laurie & Dave Craft, Heidi Gosler who completed his memoir: "Searching with our attendees. The event was held to our four generous sponsors: Berg-Moss Kronenberg, Orpheum Theater, Num Pang for Home: The Impact of WW11 on a Hidden on January 25th at Locust Grove, catered by Architects (Chris and Erin Berg, parents of Kitchen, Peter & Debbie Guy-Christiansen, Child." The book will be published this spring by Milla ’23), Bottini Fuel, Cleveland Plumbing Matthew Voorhees ’17, Crew Restaurant, Amsterdam Publishers in the Netherlands in soft- and Heating, and Rondack Construction. Linda Doherty, Elizabeth Meyer, Patience cover and ebook form. Killen ’67 , Mohonk Mountain House, Omega Quakerism Workshop Through the generosity of all our auction Institute, Atlantic Theater Company, Majed Congratulations to Anne-Marie Uebbing (parent item donors and dinner attendees, we raised Nesheiwat Conference Center, Chad and Sue Cyril '20 and Jane ‘22), a nursing professor at Mount over $16,000 for the Annual Fund. Thank Cianfrani, Mary Redmond, Amy Solis, Brandi Saint Mary College, who was named a fellow of the for Parents you: Go A2B Transportation, Camp Cody, Ascione, Ann-Marie Uebbing, Emmy Gay, Sarah Powers celebrated her marriage to Kevin New York Academy of Medicine on November Drew Smith, Executive Director of Friends Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Bonnie Raitt Michelle Alumkai, Amy Cook, Eve Gendron, Curtis Roberson Congratulations to on his Sullivan on October 20, 2019 with family and fellow 7th. The Academy addresses the health challenges Council on Education, came to campus ’67, Boscobel, The Center for Performing Danah Chaifetz, Yvette Brockington, graduation from the Great Lakes Naval Boot Camp! Oakwood alumnae. Congratulations! facing the world's urban populations through in October to lead a “Quakerism 101” Arts at Rhinebeck, Bread Alone Bakery, Maria Otte and Patricia Stewart. Go Curtis! interdisciplinary approaches to policy leadership, workshop for parents during our annual innovative research, evaluation, education, and Parents Weekend. Parents enjoyed this community engagement. engaging, hands-on workshop which addressed Quaker history, Quakerism, Congratulations to former faculty Art and Parker Christmas Break with Shao (Patrick) Deng ’12 and allowed for meaningful conversations By: Debbie Wilsey, School Nurse Washburn who celebrated their 50th wedding about the values within Quaker education anniversary with family last summer. that connects our children and families. As a freshman at Oakwood, Shao Deng It was wonderful to come full circle with him Through small group work and full group ‘12, known as Maverick, had his Christmas and see how far he has come. He is now discussions, parents learned and shared break plans fall through. I offered to take pursuing his Juris Doctorate degree at Wake about the Quaker testimonies of simplicity, him to my house for break which meant he Forest University where he is in his first year peace, integrity, community, equality and would spend his first American Christmas of law school. He has also applied to become stewardship. Both new and returning parents with me! My family welcomed him with a US citizen and has taken the name Patrick. had the opportunity to delve deeper into open arms. He was included in all the family (l-r) Tim Walther, Curtis, Raphael Nash Sarah with her brother the philosophy behind the education their events which included a family football We look forward to seeing what the next 10 Thompson and Kimberly Roberson ’10. Jonathan (JP) Powers ’09 and Kevin. children experience each day in what we hope game, meeting all my nieces and nephews years hold for him! is the first of several workshops to come. (13 in total!), seeing Santa Claus, playing 2010 his violin for us and ringing in the New Congratulations to Caroline Pitner on her Photo with their 2 daughters and their families: Year! We all had a truly wonderful time! marriage to William Ziomek at Stable Gate Farm Clay and Sarah Washburn Davies with their and Winery in Castleton-on-Hudson on January son Logan, 15; Parker,holding Irie Bocchino, During the summer of 2012 I had the 19, 2020. Oakwood alumni in attendance included 6, and Art; Phoebe, holding Thais Bocchino, 6 unique opportunity to travel to China, in her siblings Christine Pitner Surette ’07, Greg months, and A.J. Bocchino, holding Mika, 4. particular Hangzhou, Shao’s hometown. Pitner ’08 and Lindsey Havranek ’10. I had the chance to see a tea plantation and a monastery where Shao accompanied me on tours. I even got to meet his parents and have a home cooked meal!

Fast forward 10 years to December 2019 and (l-r) Bridget McCabe ’12, Sarah, Jennifer Shao reached out to me asking if he could Kennett Powers ’08 and Katherine Nemlich ’10. come up to visit. I invited him up during Send us your class notes & photos Christmas break and my family picked up right where we left off 10 years before. Shao Drew Smith, Executive Director of Debbie Wilsey and Shao Deng [email protected] was again included in all the family traditions. Friends Council on Education 2 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 220 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY WinterWinter 2019-2020 2016-17 15

IN MEMORY Connections My Brother – Deionte Davis Gloria Garlick Bogle ’43 By: Chad Cianfrani, Head of School Timothy A. Wohlforth 5/18/96 – 10/27/19 December 30, 2019 Jane K. Ecker ’46 Several years April 2019 ago, a science Class of 1951 Oakwood mourns the loss of our young historian, James By Eric Wohlforth ’50 alumnus Deionte Davis, class of 2015, Margaret "Peggy" Mertz ’49 Burke, wrote a who died suddenly on October 27, 2019 in September 13, 2019 series of pieces Eric shared this Atlanta, Georgia. We are holding his fam- on connections. message at his ily in the Light. He will be sorely missed. Herbert Day ’50 Seemingly dis- brother’s fu- March 22, 2019 neral at South parate thoughts, Lew Resseguie ’50 inventions, and M o u n t a i n June 30, 2019 ideas build upon Friends Meet- each other, con- ing in Ashland, Mary Berry Bowron ’51 necting across Oregon. Tim September 17, 2017 time and expe- passed away on rience. Within August 23, 2019. Tim Wohlforth ’51 our Oakwood August 23, 2019 community, I see these connections inform It is hard to believe that Tim and I knew David Harkness ’55 and strengthen our program from the ar- each other as brothers for all of 83 years. October 2, 2019 rival of the newest 6th graders through Ages 3 to 17 were the most intense part of graduation and the decades beyond. that brotherly relationship. We lived with John Ross ’55 our writer parents in a 200-year-old house January 18, 2011 During a recent phone conversation with an Meeting for Worship in Lane in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Until we went to alumnus from the early 1960s, I was struck Oakwood School, a Friends Boarding School Richard K. Wood '55 by a lasting connection he made between home in 1920, Lane embodies the mission of when I was 14, and Tim was 13, we shared November 1, 2019 his brief experiences on the Oakwood stage Oakwood, supporting the spirit, the scholar, Powell Fund a bedroom and talked long into the night. and a career spanning over five decades in the artist, and the athlete. Under the trussed Bain Davis ’58 November 24, 2019 medicine. Shy by nature and adverse to pub- beams and slate roof of Lane, students who Tim’s independent political proclivi- Lights up the Courts ties emerged when he was 15 in 1948 lic speaking, he pointed to the support and drew spiritual connections through wor- Barbara Hannum Herrmann ’58 encouragement he received at Oakwood to ship on Sunday mornings also gained social at Oakwood. That was the presidential May 27, 2015 reach beyond his comfort zone. Skills gained connection while on skates Friday nights. The Powell Endowment Fund, established election year when Henry Wallace was memorizing lines and performing before his with an inspirational gift from Richard M. a strong, left-wing candidate with Dew- David Thomson ’58 peers helped build confidence and hone his This September we will celebrate Oak- Powell ’68 in 2010, continues to positively ey and President Truman on the ballot. September 13, 2019 focus. He fondly looks back on these ex- wood’s 100th year on the Poughkeepsie impact the daily experience of both students periences as ones that helped prepare him campus, and our 224th year of Friends Edu- and faculty. The Fund at a current value Tim at Oakwood that election year of 1948 Edward Brown Reid ’61 navigate medical school, ultimately trading cation. Over the decades there have been of over $700,000 strengthens Oakwood’s was an outspoken leader of the pro-Henry October 5, 2019 theater scripts for those more medical in nature. several visible and impactful transformations finances for the future while it provides Wallace camp, beginning then a lifetime Jeanne Overman Trankle ’64 made to the physical space: new dorms, annual income for special projects. of political activism. This political activ- January 7, 2020 Another unlikely connection involves the re- new buildings, technology, solar energy. ism was not discouraged at the school, flective silence of Quaker Meeting and social At the core of our community, mission re- This winter, the first thing you might notice now called Oakwood Friends School, Karen Rosenthal Akin ’87 engagement of roller skating. Over the de- mains constant. Whether students are roller walking into Connor Gymnasium during located in Poughkeepsie, New York. October 9, 2019 cades Lane Auditorium has served as home skating in Lane in the 1940s or performing an afternoon basketball game (besides to both. The first building constructed on on stage under LED lights in 2020, they are the exciting play) is sunshine! Funded It continued at Oberlin where he went to Deionte Davis ’15 site when we moved to our Poughkeepsie challenged to think critically, reflect with by an annual release of the Powell Fund, college and during his New York City years. October 27, 2019 purpose, and act decisively. I look for- Connor Gymnasium received a beautiful By “outspoken leader”, I mean that Tim nev- ward to beginning our next century in the upgrade in the form of new paint, a new er left you in doubt what his views were. Jack Hunter December 8, 2019 Hudson Valley and the connections just scoreboard, and energy-efficient glass They included an outsized regard for fellow Come Back to Campus! over the horizon. See you on campus this windows. While providing a beautiful citizens struggling in poverty or denied a Former Faculty view of the sky and sun, the windows also proper place at the table of our capitalist so- September for our centennial celebration! Alumni Weekend 2020 Subhash Jhanji increase heat-retention and provide utility ciety. His life was congruent with the view October 4, 2019 cost savings; a win-win both on and off the of the Society of Friends that the unpopular- May 15-17 Former Faculty court. Thank you, Dick, and Go Lions! ity of a cause was no reason not to embrace it. I remember Oakwood being the very Richard Hathaway first to admit African American students. I Weekend begins Friday with Dash January 29, 2020 remember the Oakwood teachers who had Former Board Member been conscientious objectors during the just Davis Gleiter Social Justice Lecture over World War II. I also remember when presented by Michael J. Steinberg Bayard Rustin addressed us in 1948 embrac- “I was fortunate enough to attend Oakwood ing the cause of the displaced Palestinians Oak Leaves in the 60’s and I look back fondly on those just after the creation of the Jewish State. Help us create a video by Winter 2019-20 experiences.I was very happy to read about the restoration and upgrades being made to Tim’s years of retirement as a writer in this adding your testimonial about ELAINE MILES the Lane building as well as the solar array intellectual hotbed of Ashland were happy Director of Development & Alumni Affairs recently installed. Oakwood has always in- ones, especially after meeting up with the your Oakwood experience! vested in its students. I hope that my small wonderful Patricia. She showed an ex- Julie Okoniewski gift to the “Lighting the Way” campaign will tremely loving regard and care for Tim as Associate Director of Development & help the Lane building and Oakwood go for he struggled with his very difficult final ill- All welcome! Alumni Affairs another 100 years.” ness. I will be everlastingly grateful to her and Tim’s caregivers for their steadfast lov- WENDY GIANGRASSO – Peter Clarke ’63 Assistant Director of Development & Roller skating in Lane in the 40s ing care for brother Tim in his last days. Alumni Affairs Nonprofit Org. US POSTAGE PAID Winter 2019-2020 Permit No. 259 Newburgh, NY

Address Service Requested ONEWSLETTER FROMa OAKWOODk FRIENDS SCHOOL • CELEBRATINLG OVER e220 YEARS OaF FRIENDS EveDUCATION IN THE HUDSOsN VALLEY We have completed several important proj- 2020 Spring School Calendar Michael J. Steinberg to Present: ects impacting academics, athletics and resi- dential life. We have transformed the student living spaces with new bathrooms, kitchens, April 21 Breakfast with the Head Dash Davis Gleiter Lecture on Social Justice common spaces and patios. The Main Build- Earthshare Day education and debate at the school and in the ing renovation projects upgraded electri- cal and HVAC and provided spacious and May 15 Dash Davis Gleiter Lecture community, Oakwood became the first high school in the country to declare itself a “nuclear well-lit arts, media, ceramics, studio, and Michael Steinberg free zone.” He also remembers driving vans of classroom spaces. Renovations to Lane Au- May 15-17 Alumni Weekend students to Washington D.C. for demonstrations ditorium’s three-story west entrance have May 16 Spring Production and leading a student trip to the Soviet Union. transformed storage spaces into a modern music classroom, a practice space and a gra- May 20 Spring Concert Upon accepting his current job at Michigan Law, Mike told us: “I loved teaching at Oakwood cious theater lobby entrance. Even the gym June 10 Middle School Moving Up in the 80s so much that I’ve decided to return and locker rooms received much needed June 11 Senior Dinner to my teaching roots. I will join the faculty at upgrades to lighting, plumbing and layout. June 12 Commencement Michigan Law where I will teach a civil rights litigation course and start a civil rights clinic.” Now we are turning our attention to the interior performance space of Lane Theater. Housed Oakwood is honored to welcome Michael Steinberg within the very first building constructed for back to campus to present "Working for Civil Rights Oakwood’s campus in 1921, this space has Visit us at www.oakwoodfriends.org and Civil Liberties in 2020." All are welcome. hosted countless student plays and presen- tations, and appearances by Pete Seeger, El- eanor Roosevelt, Poet Laureate Mark Strand ’52, Bonnie Raitt ’67, and Juan Williams ’72. Former Oakwood history teacher and coach, Mi- Work is underway to transform this important 16 Winter 2012019-20206-17 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY chael J. Steinberg, will open Alumni Weekend space into a modern, energy-efficient theater, 2020 on Friday afternoon, May 15th, with the Lighting the Way useable year-round. Upgrades will include presentation of the Caroline “Dash” Davis Gleiter new seating, enhancements to the lighting Lecture on Social Justice. Now in its 16th year, and sound systems and booths, a new scene Sledding this lecture series was established by classmates Matching Gift shop and set-design workspace, new heat- in memory of Dash Davis Gleiter ’51 in recogni- ing, ventilation and air conditioning systems tion of her work in civil rights and her lifetime Opportunity to overlap with our green campus initiative. of volunteer activities to promote social justice. Lighting the Way, Oakwood’s comprehen- We are excited to announce an opportunity After 22 years as the legal director of the Ameri- sive fundraising campaign, has been se- to broaden participation in Lighting the Way. can Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, Michael curing financial support for our historic Rob Blackman ’61 has joined with board has joined the faculty of the University of Michi- campus’s long-term revitalization. Now in president Don Spencer to create a match- gan Law School as the Director of the Civil Rights 2020, our 100th anniversary year in Pough- ing gift fund up to a total of $100,000. This Litigation Initiative where he will teach civil keepsie, we’re on our way to completing means gifts and pledges made to Lighting rights litigation and mentor the next generation the campaign’s capstone project, the reno- the Way by June 30, 2020 will be matched of public interest lawyers. At the ACLU, Michael vation of Lane Auditorium. We are deeply 2 to 1! We invite all members of the Oak- litigated dozens of high-impact, high-profile cas- grateful to a select group of lead donors wood family to help advance our School’s es on a wide range of civil rights issues including: who have made this work possible through mission with a gift at any level. We’re on our racial justice, LGBT rights, police misconduct, their vision and generous philanthropy. way! With your generous contribution, we’ll freedom of speech and expression, immigrant make it over the finish line! Thank you. rights, voting rights, women’s rights, post 9/11 issues, reproductive freedom, criminal justice reform, religious freedom, right to counsel, en- vironmental justice, prisoner rights, economic justice, and disability rights. Six cases on which he worked have reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

Michael earned his B.A. with honors from Wes- leyan University in 1983 and graduated cum laude from Wayne State Law School in 1989.

Michael’s first job after college was at Oakwood where his father, Fred Steinberg, was also on the faculty. In addition to teaching history and coaching, Mike was active in student activities and served as advisor to Oakwood’s “Disarma- Oakwood campus circa 1965 ment Committee.” He recalls that after much Seniors Willow Bennison and Malcolm Condon in "These Shining Lives"