PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL JOURNAL SPRING 1973 PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL JOURNAL

Sprin g, 1973 Vol. 5, No. 2

1 A FAMILY AFFAIR Editors: Douglas O. McClure and Kathy McClure ’71 Phillips B. vanDusen 3 ALUMNI DAY Virginia H. Taylor by Markell M. Shriver ’46, Alumni Secretary Markell M. Shriver '46 7 HE’S THE MAN WHO RUNS THE SHOW by John Dorsey 10 MEDIEVAL DAY 12 THE GREAT OUTDOORS by Phillips B. vanDusen 14 SPRING SPORTS 16 SCHOOL NEWS 17 ALUMNI NOTES

Cover: Pretty Brook Farm Photo Credits: Leslie Rodriguez, front and back cover, top right Now Headmaster’s house page 5; Harvy Wiener ’75, page 1, top left page 4; Susi Vaughn ’75, page 3, top right and bottom page 4, pages 5, 13; Doug Robinson ’75, Back Cover: middle and bottom left page 4, page 15; Baltimore Sun, page 7; Another View of Edward A. Dowey, Jr., pages 10, 11; Lars Andersen ’75, page 12; Pretty Brook Farm John A. Pietras, Trenton Times, page 14. Mark Twain is reported to have made the oft-quoted comment about how much his father learned between young Sam’s fourteenth and twenty-first birthdays. Kathy McClure ’71, is just 19 and a sophomore at Connecticut College, but in the following letter, with marginal notes by the recipient, her father, she indicates that perhaps Twain was right all along. The exchange also shows that with the McClures, education is

A FAMILY AFFAIR

February 6, 1973 Dear Dad, I saw a film today in my course “Approaches to Early Childhood Education” which inspired me to sit down at my typewriter and let you in on some of the thoughts running through my head lately as a result I’m still not convinced we really know of this course. I’ve found myself remembering various dinner conversa­ how to evaluate this completely — it tions about the purpose of my education, and the aim of a PDS educa­ is one of the most important and com­ tion, and whether Douglas and Peter are being properly educated — or plex issues we must face. missing some of the essentials by being part of a different sort of class­ room. Hope you are now on to mv train of thought. . . . The film was titled “What They Want to Produce, Not What We Want to Become”, and was produced in 1962. Basically, it deals with education in public schools .... First of all, thank goodness I did not go through a school experience such as the one depicted in the film. And secondly, I’m realizing more and more how valuable some of the experiences I had at PDS, which seemed so trivial and thus frustrating at the time, actually were. One of the greatest things about PDS was that I learned outside of the classroom as well as in, vet still within the confines of the school build­ ing. I’m thinking now of Community Council — the process of making decisions which had to be backed up by those of us who made them and, thus, discovering on our own whether our decisions were the right ones. Would that this always occurred! And remember when we went through the stage of asking for strict discipline because the Honor Code seemed to be such a farce? The students were so concerned with the fact that rules were being broken. We wanted to take away our freedom, admitting that we couldn’t handle it, and teach the misbehavors a lesson. Yet, all the while, during all that time we spent listening to the same arguments — and some of them were 1 so ridiculous — we were learning how to cope with ourselves, how to handle (or not to for that matter) responsibility, and how to successfully deal with other people in the community. Three cheers for the Community Council. (I never thought I’d say that. I was so sick and tired of having Here, of course, is the important point things go wrong that I remember insisting the Headmaster should exercise — the educational experience involved his authority. And you would just sit there and smile and not change your is of greater significance than the acttial ways at all.) I think I’ve discovered a new purpose for having a Com­ definition of the system itself. This is munity Council. It’s not just a way in which students are allowed to have hard to remember, however, when we power in the governing of their school experience: it’s quite a tool in arc caught up in the process of debat­ learning how to deal with others, how to think about who you are and ing about specifics. what you believe! And three cheers for free study halls! — the chance to find one’s self a private place, or the ability to be with others in a relaxed situation if one wasn’t in the proper mood for books, and the necessity of making the Someone has said “The value of school decision between the two. is its sense of community, in mixing it It’s also great that the halls are always populated. In the film were up in the halls, so we need school as depicted desolate halls or lines of solemn people walking in single file. a place.” Win/ is it so difficult to re­ The visual sensation was that such a scene was not normal. No person member this at times and, as adults, I know ever walks in single file and solemnly silent when together with to accept it? friends. Some bedlam is healthy! (Another of Kathy’s memorable disagreements was the “opening” of the second grade. Ed.) Now for thoughts on the second grade. Is it more important to learn the traditional rules of the English language and mathematics, or to learn that learning is exciting at the ages of five through ten? Isn’t it more important to revolve learning experiences around concepts that are relevant to the daily lives of children? It’s not important that a child know all I agree up to a point. the right spelling or all the right answers at an early age. It’s more The basic skills are still basic, however, important that he tries to find answers, that he allows his curiositv to and the one goal cannot be allowed to lead him to discover. Don’t let the traditional academics stifle the obscure the other. young child’s natural willingness to ask questions. Dad, what is learning? How long can one let a child use his own abilities to set his own expectations? What is the role of a teacher? How often do we put too much emphasis on the final product rather 1 suspect that if we could actually than on the experience involved in the creation of that product? Is the answer all these questions with any child who is able to “get the grades’’ really smart in the sense that lie’s degree of certainty teaching would not learning because he’s excited, or is he just cleverer at adapting to a system? b e as exciting as it is. Is it fair that a person who cannot write properly should be considered not as intelligent as someone who can? Why do schools have to force children to learn? Perhaps these ramblings don’t make much sense. I just wanted to write down some of the thoughts that strike me during these classes, and also let you know that I think you’re doing one hell of a good job. Keep standing up for students. Our minds are so easily molded and closed. Learning is exciting but learning must also be relevant. I learned quite a lot at PDS, and quite a bit of my education took place outside the classroom. In fact, I think it’s what I experienced out­ side the traditional classroom that plaved the main role in making me want to learn inside the classroom. And it was a great experience to learn about subjects with teachers who were interested in me as well as in their fields. I'm sure this is all old hat to you.

Kathy P.S. I really do ramble on. Basically, I just wanted to comment on the idea that children should be allowed to express themselves in ways that are comfortable and meaningful to them. Each child is an unique in­ dividual, and thus isn’t it to be expected that each child shall express himself in his own way? Our generation stresses the freedom of the A point that demands a lot of dis­ individual, yet we expect everyone to conform to a basic model. (I sense cussion! a super paradox.) Class again tomorrow. Can’t wait to see what I think about next. 2 ALUMNI DAY

If there was ever any doubt about it, PDS alumni proved their loyalty and stamina on Alumni Day. Saturday, April 28th began with a cold, insistent rain. It was the kind of morning when it would have been very easy to roll over and go back to sleep. But such is not the stuff of which PDS alumni are made, and besides they love a good party. So they rose and, with their husbands, wives and guests, thronged the halls of PDS where they finally found spring. It was there, everywhere — in the colors and forms Gail Cotton Perna ’62, Norman of the students’ Arts Festival, in the hanging baskets Dorf ’53 and Dean W. Mathey ’43 of verbena and fuschia and clusters of dogwood blos­ being welcomed at the registration soms, and in the special, warm lighting throughout table. the school. Its freshness was felt in the enthusiasm of the stu­ dents: panelists, madrigal singers, tour guides, com­ puter programmers, artists and scientists and the much- applauded cast of ‘‘Bye, Bye, Birdie” whose sparkling lunchtime performance climaxed the day. Its flowering was seen in the renewal of old friendships during the cocktail hour and later at lunch. And, although it was purely a figment of everyone’s imagination, the spirit of spring sustained a somewhat impromptu tennis match between two stalwart alumni and their equally stalwart student opponents. Kudos to contenders Sally Gardner Tiers '33, Norman Dorf ’53, Patti Seale XII, Steven Norris XI and Shelley Gordon X for so gamely ignor­ ing the wind-chill factor. Highlights for those few of you who rolled over and Coffee in the theater lobby before went back to sleep: the panel program. . . . (You missed a good party.) . . . The Class of 1951, PCD, scored the highest per­ centage (59) of gifts to the 1971-72 Annual Fund. Second place was shared by PCD ’31 and ’45 (36%) and third place went to MFS 1942 with 35%. Class Secretaries responsible were Ed Metcalf ’51 who, as Parent children combinations we noticed were Eleanor Alumni Fund chairman, made the announcement, Marquand Delanoy ’15 and her daughter Eleanor Forsyth Sandy Maxwell ’32, Jack Heher ’45 and Polly Roberts ’46; Christine Gibbons -Mason ’26 and Louise Mason Woodbridge '42. Bachelder .’54; Richard W. Baker, Jr. ’31 and son John . . . Herbert McAneny read the wording of a new ’63; Jean Osgood Smyth ’31 and son Robert ’57; Kath­ plaque commemorating Richard Shepherd ’55 and Wil­ erine Mitchell Osbome '27 and Lydia Osbome Sferra ’65. liam Smoyer ’60 who died in Vietnam. The plaque, The New York and Pennsylvania contingents included sponsored by their PDS friends, will be mounted on sisters Katherine Blackwell Gaines ’23 and Elizabeth the wall in the theater entrance next to the World War Blackwell Twveffort ’27 and the Dinsmore family — II memorial. Martha Dinsmore Gray ’34, Elizabeth Dinsmore Bath­ . . . Nominating Committee Chairman Peter R. Knipe gate ’28 and Francis W. Dinsmore ’27. ’53 presented the slate of officers and new representa­ And, lastly, we must mention other long distance tives to the Alumni Council (see back of magazine). runners: Elizabeth Bissell Northcross ’30, Lucy Maxwell ... In recognition of his retirement, the Alumni Kleinhans ’28 and Adelaide Banks Evers ’28 from Con­ Association gave J. H. Thomas a token of its apprecia­ necticut; Fred Dalrvmple ’72 from Maynard, Mass.; tion for his many years of service to Miss Fine’s School Katherine Mitchell Osbome ’27 from Savannah; Gail and PDS. The presentation was followed by a spon­ Cotton Penia ’62 from Fort Collins, Colo, and Joan taneous and heartfelt standing ovation which, we think, Budny Jenkins ’49 from England. brought a tear to many an eye besides our own. Next year, Asia and the Middle East? Who knows? 3 ALUMNI DAY

Eleventh grade panelists Elizabeth The Dinsmore family: Martha Farr, David Straut, Laura Mali Dinsmore Gray '34, Francis W. and John Leyzorek. Dinsmore ’27 and Elizabeth Dins­ more Bathgate ’28.

On tour with student guide Tim Fabian ’75: Sylvia Taylor Healy ’45; Jean Shaw Byrne ’61; Dorothy Shannon, wife of A. Vernon Shan­ non, Jr. ’52; Nancy Metcalf and husband Edwin H. Metcalf ’51 and, behind them, Joan Budny Jenkins ’49.

The Metcalfs, Norman Dorf, Donald From Huntington, Long Island: C. Stuart, III ’56 and his wife Judy Schluter, wife of John Schluter Sheila inspect student work in the ’43, with Headmaster Douglas 0. Industrial Arts Department. McClure.

4 ALUMNI DAY

Happiness is Alumni Day for Asso­ “Have you heard about Hugo and ciation President Rosalie Richard­ Kim?” Telephone Hour scene from son Willson ’52. “Bye, Bye, Birdie.”

’34’s Elizabeth Gummere Peplow, Augusta Katzenbach Gardner and Martha Dinsmore Gray chat with Edward M. Yard ’29.

Herbert McAneny and Eleanor Forsyth '46 enjoying the madrigal singers’ performance.

Council members C. R. Perry Rodgers, Jr. ’58 and Jean Shaw Byrne ’61.

5 Who Was There . . plus many husbands and wives

1915 Eleanor Marquand Delanoy 193S Lily Buchanan Agar 1954 Louise Mason Bachelder 1916 John H. Heher Helen M. Crossley Alice Bedford Garman (?) 1918 Priscilla Capps Hill Eleanor Este Johnstone (?) 1955 Frederick S. Osborne, Jr. (?) 1923 Katherine Blackwell Gaines Margery Munn Knapp Clark G. Travers 1926 Nancy Goheen Finch Louise Fenninger Sayen J. Taylor Woodward, III Lawrence Norris Kerr 1941 Mary Longstreth Bayer 1956 Daniel E. Quick Margaret B. Manning Mary Pettit Funk Pamela Thompson Sinkler (?) Christine Gibbons Mason Mathilde Wood Nanni Donald C. Stuart, III Joan Prentice von Erdberg Thomas C. W. Roberts 1957 Helen Wilmerding Heap 1927 Elizabeth Maddock Clissold 1942 Mary Roberts Woodbridge Susan Smith Ilillier Francis W. Dinsmore 1943 Robert E. Dougherty Bettina Burbidge Hummerstone (?) Katherine Mitchell Osborne Dean W. Mathev Robert O. Smyth Elizabeth Blackwell Twyeffort David H. McAlpin, Jr. Alissa Kramer Sutphin 1928 Elizabeth Dinsmore Bathgate John A. Schluter 1958 C. R. Perrv Rodgers, Jr. Adelaide Banks Evers 1945 Sylvia Taylor Healy 1959 Marion Dean Hall Lucy Maxwell Kleinhans 1946 Eleanor Forsyth Nixon W. Hare Elizabeth G. MacLaren Diana Morgan Olcott 1960 Susan Behr Travers Elizabeth McClenahan Stevens Markell Meyers Shriver 1961 Jean Shaw Byrne 1929 Edward M. Yard 1948 David C. Harrop Thomas D. Chubet 1930 Margaretta R. Cowenhoven 1949 Joan Budnv Jenkins Julia Fulper Hardt Elizabeth Bissell Northcross Patricia Tighe Walden Julia Cornforth Holofcener Chloe Shear Smith 1950 Alice Elgin Bishop (?) 1962 Gail Cotton Perna Theresa DeLong Upjohn 1951 Edwin H. Metcalf David Tibbals 1931 Richard W. Baker, Jr. 1952 A. Vernon Shannon, Jr. 1963 John C. Baker John G. H. Scoon Jean Samuels Stephens Polly Miller Miller (?) Jean Osgood Smyth Rosalie Richardson Willson 1964 Barbara Rose Hare 1932 L. Blair Clark (?) 1953 Norman Dorf 1965 George C. Bush, III (?) Sanders Maxwell Carol Frothingham Forsbeck Sally Stewart Gilbert 1933 Cornelia Duffield Dielhenn Elaine Polhemus Frost Lydia Osborne Sferra Sarah Gardner Tiers Barbara Yeatman Gregory 1968 Helen Behr (?) Mary Howell Yard Peter R. Knipe 1971 Francine Barlow Bryant 3934 Augusta Katzenbach Gardner EJof M. Rosenblad Michal Keelev Martha Dinsmore Gray Susan McAllen Sachs 1972 Frederick Dalrymple Elizabeth Gummere Peplow Kenneth C. Scasserra Cynthia Morgan (?) 1935 Marion Rogers Walton (?) (?) denotes failure to register. Next year, please sign in. 6 R. Tyler Gatchell PCD ’57 and his partner are general managers for “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “No, No, Nanette.” The sign behind his desk says “Tyler is 30.”

He’s the man who runs the show

By JOHN DORSEY Reprinted from The Sunday Sun, Baltimore, Md., May 20, 1973

New York. If there is one thing von know about R. Tyler Gatchell, $70,000, but that is only one production and Gatchell, after waiting for him for 35 minutes with no one to Neufeld are general managers for productions all over talk to except a secretary who is pretty but barks, it the world. There is a little New Yorker cartoon, also is that he is 30. You know it because the most con­ tacked upon the bulletin board, which gives an idea spicuous thing in his office is a multi-colored sign, of how successful “Superstar” has been. It shows two framed, that sits on a table behind his desk and savs clergymen, and one is saying to the other, “ ‘Jesus Christ “TYLER IS 30.” Superstar,’ has already grossed thirtv million dollars. You also know (if you’ve wandered around the office Where did we go wrong?” to avoid explaining to the photographer why you in­ That, along with the knowledge that Gatchell, Neu­ sisted that he get here at 10 when it’s now after 10:30 feld are also general managers for that other fabulouslv and he hasn’t done anything but sit) that “Jesus Christ successful musical, “No, No, Nanette,” and you know Superstar” is still grossing over $70,000 a week in New they’re not doing badly. Not that you would know it York — this from a sheet of figures tacked up on the from their offices, in an undistinguished building at bulletin board. You can only guess how much Mr. Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street, just around the comer Gatchell and his partner, Peter Neufeld, get of that from Times Square. The offices consist of one largish 7 I

room with three desks in it and one smaller room with the little room next door and talk about how he got here. one desk in it. The larger room you have had time to inspect from the dirty windows to the coffee maker by the time Mr. Gatchell arrives, resplendent in wide-lapel plaid jacket and striking tie (just the fashion this Family in Baltimore spring), and sits down at his desk. And there is more time, too, while he takes three telephone calls, time to notice an evenness of voice that would add to the bedside manner of a lot of doctors. It is so smooth, so totally calm that it seems to come “But of course,” he says, hanging up. And taking from a tranquilized computer. And when its owner coffee cup and ashtray, he moves, settles and begins. turns to you at last and begins to explain what it is like “I was born in Princeton, but all of my family live in to be a general manager for plays he seems to speak Baltimore, and when I was quite young we moved with all the emotion of a teletype machine. there. I went to Roland Park Country School, and then “It’s a fairly new phenomenon,” he says. “The gen­ in ’48 or ’49 we moved back to Princeton. My parents eral manager is really the representative of the pro­ were divorced, and I lived with my father. I joined the ducer. He negotiates contracts, books theaters, hires Columbia Boy Choir and went to their school. technical personnel and advises the producer on financial “It was a wonderful time for me. The choir was on matters. ‘Omnibus,’ and made a number of opera and operetta “If you're going over your budget on costumes, for recordings, including a ‘Boheme’ with Victoria de Los instance, but the costumes are important, you might Angeles. Princeton was a great town for anyone inter­ have to find out where else you can cut back. Then ested in the theater. There was the McCarter Theatre, once the show opens, and if it’s successful, you take and there was summer stock, and we had the opportunity care of the problems that come up — with cast members, to see people like Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart stars, wardrobe and so on. And handle the advertising, and Eva La Gallienne. At 18 I was assistant manager including decisions as to where what media will be of the local theater, and I decided to quit school — best for this particular show. my family didn’t like that much — when the chance “Essentially, the general manager takes care of the came to be house manager for a production of Shaw’s show so the producer can spend his time on the business. ‘Misalliance’ here. It opened on September 25, 1961 and Most people think of a play in terms of the writer, but closed on March 11, 1962. I remember it well. I was I think of it just as much in terms of the producer. He’s paid $45 a week. the one who sees its possibilities, believes in it, takes “Well, I was in the theater, but after the Shaw play a chance on it. closed I was out of a job and for the next few years “Did you see my ‘TYLER IS 30’ sign? That was earlier I did anything I could, just to keep alive and stay in in the year. They gave me a surprise party at Sardi’s, New York. I ushered. I did script tvping. I worked in the David Belasco room. You know what they did? for Reader's Digest, McGraw-Hill, Life. At L ife I was They stole my address book to find out who to invite.” tvping letters. I onlv took the job so I could take three- Another phone call. Time to look again at the posters hour lunch hours and use their telephone. Did vou from the shows Gatchell and Neufeld have been asso­ know that L ife answered every single letter they got ciated with — everything from “Nanette” to Clifford individually? If it came in on toilet paper they Odets’s “Awake and Sing” to such now-forgotten enter­ answered it. prises as “The Local Stigmatic,” a plav that starred, “Eventually I got a job as casting director for the briefly, A1 Pacino before he made “The Godfather” and ‘Tarzan’ TV series. The casting director brings to the got famous. attention of the director people he might never have Time to wish you could have met Mr. Gatchell at seen. What it means is that you have to see plays his Upper West Side apartment and maybe avoided all constantly. I was seeing 14 plays a week at one point. these phone calls (but it’s being redecorated, Mr. Gat- I know it sounds impossible, but it’s true. It was good chell protested). Time to notice that the cigarettes he experience. smokes almost constantly have given him a deep, deep "Then I applied for a Ford Foundation grant, to go cough. Time to wonder whether we couldn’t go into to Carnegie Tech. I didn’t get the grant, and it wasn’t

8 long after that that I went to work for Eugene Wallace, the sleazy Broadway area, and they think they’ll get who had a general manager’s office, which is what this mugged or shot or robbed. I really don’t think it’s is. I worked with him on such shows as ‘Lion in Winter,’ any worse than downtown Chicago, or Boston or Balti­ ‘The Impossible Years’ and ‘George M.’, and it was more for that matter, but it has such a bad reputation. on that show that I met by present partner, Peter Neu­ That’s due in part to Johnny Carson’s humor, I think. feld. He was a company manager, the person who takes He’d come on every night and do a routine in which care of the day-to-day business of dealing with people, he badmouthed the place for 10 minutes, and it was payroll, boxoffice, the unions, pensions and so on. funny but it didn’t do New York any good.

Set up office A $100 evening

“He and I agreed that we wanted to go into general managing, and so we set up a little office, and did some off-Broadway stuff, and gradually people began to know “And there’s the cost. If a couple want to come to who we were. But actually we got into ‘Nanette’ be­ town to the theater, and they have to get a sitter and cause we knew the daughter of the producer, Cyma park the car when they get here and they want to Rubin. And once that show happened we were at last have a nice dinner, it’s going to cost them $100 by earning a living. Then when Robert Stigwood and the time they’re through. ‘Superstar’ came along we had two successes at once. “The theater doesn’t pay as well, for all that, as We now have productions of ‘Superstar’ in New York, movies and television, so if an actor’s any good lie’s Los Angeles, England and Australia, and in June the going to be grabbed up by them, and as a result it’s movie, filmed in Israel by Norman Jewison, will be harder to keep good actors in the theater. And then released. It’s nice now, but you know we might not it’s so expensive to put on a Broadway show. A musical have another success for five years. Or ten. Or ever. costs three quarters of a million dollars, at least. It used “What we really want to do now, if we can, is to to be that rich people would put up $20,000 or $30,000 become producers. But I think sometimes we re crazy, to back a play, just for the experience of being around because the Broadway theater these days is practically the theater, and if they lost it they lost it. But you impossible. Not long ago I was in London, and there don’t go throwing three quarters of a million dollars there is never an empty theater. London theater is like away, no matter how rich you are. It takes nine or ten the Broadway theater was 30 or 40 years ago. months just to get your money back with full houses, ‘‘One reason for this, I think, is that there people will and some shows run two years and don’t break even. go to the kind of light fare that they won’t go to in this “And there is all the bickering, the fights. That busi­ country any more. Television has destroyed that kind ness about Harry Rigbv and Cyma Rubin and all the of play, I think. Look at ‘Finishing Touches,’ the new fighting that went on before ‘Nanette’ opened, that got jean Kerr play. It’s not doing well. Five or ten years reported in the magazines — there wasn’t anything un­ ago, a Jean Kerr play would have been sure-fire. But usual about that. It happens before every show. now people get an approximation of that at home, and “In fact, ‘Nanette’ fared better than a lot of shows. they don’t have to go out and pay all that money for it. Look at Irene.’ They lost their director. Do I make If you look at the* kind of thing that was being done everthing look bleak? Well, maybe I do, but at the in the Thirties, it wasn’t that those plays were so great — same time we're in the business because we love it. we’re getting much the same thing, but on television now. And then you can see one play like The Changing ‘‘Then on the other hand, people these days don’t Room’ and it’s so good it makes up for everything else. want to think either, when they go to the theater. It’s And producing is a wonderful thing. sort of like the Depression days, people want to forget. “It’s like having a baby. With a movie, you don’t So it’s difficult to do serious plays, too. It doesn’t en­ shoot it in sequence, and you’re so far away from the courage young writers to write, when they realize that finished product. But with a play, everything is building, what they write nobodv’s going to go and see. like a crescendo, toward that opening night. And you “Part of the problem, of course, is that people are never know whether the baby’s going to be stillborn genuinely afraid to come here. They’ve all heard about or alive and kicking.”

9 It’s May, it’s May, the merrie month of May

Each spring the sixth grade English-history classes climax their study of medieval times with Medieval Day. This year, Ms. Lois Dowey asked her class to write modern newspaper reports on the event. Here­ with, interspersed with songs composed for the occasion, generous excerpts from some of the news stories.

GYPSIES FOUND LURKING IN PDS WOODS by Nicky Donath Princeton, May 16 — Tricky gypsies almost got caught today by an angry pardoner. They pick-pocketed his purse, and sent their horse west — and went south to their camp. When they ran out of money they told fortunes and robbed passers-by. One gypsy was caught yelling “Foul!” when dancing with an­ other gypsy. This all took place on a beautiful day on the Princeton Day School grounds. The sixth grade teachers and classes all organized a "Medieval Day”, because that is what the classes (English- History) have been studying all year ’round.

THOUGHTS BEFORE RATTLE by Anne Gillespie The men made camp upon a hill In darkness of the night. They thought of home and happy days. Was it worth a bloody fight? PRINCESS HELD HOSTAGE by Gay Barnett As the sky began to turn to pink The spears began to fly. Princeton, N. J., May 17 — Yesterday, King Alamoor's daughter The foe charged up on mighty horse. was held hostage by a dragon at Princeton Day School. Her rescuer Who would be first to die? was St. George. After killing the dragon, they rode down to the local inn for some chicken and cake. Yesterday the PDS sixth grade celebrated Medieval Day. First It would not be so bad to fall there was a joust in which Sir Reginald the Tall was victor. On If hile serving God and king. the way to the banquet the group of travelers came upon a band A greater honor could not come of thieving, roaming gypsies. After fooling a number of people To any man or thing. they had a dance and left. Around the corner was a play on the Seven Deadly Sins. After the pilgrim had been carried off to hell there was a bout of cudgel fighting and wrestling. After this everyone had a cup of birch beer which is the most medieval soft drink you can get. They went merrily on their way to see St. George slay the dragon. Then they marched on to the Wild Boar Inn where they had a feast. ST. GEORGE RIDES AGAIN by Betsy Mayer Princeton. N. J.. May 16 — St. George lived again to ride to the rescue of a fair damsel in distress. The maiden was being HEROES sacrificed to the fearsome dragon, Googalesh, in the fair town by Scott Green of Sylene, located on the fields of Princeton Day School. Let’s sing about our heroes, St. George arrived on the scene just in time to prevent the So big and strong and bold. murder of the beautiful Princess Alamoor and to slay the dragon. Let’s tell about the things they did It was a bloody fight, but St. George finally won and the dragon In the days of old. was overcome. All this took place during Medieval Day at Princeton Day School. It was put on by the sixth graders at PDS and was quite The first one's name tvas Michael a large production. There were jousting, archery, swordplay, and The second one’s name tvas John. bouts of stout yeomen playing at quarterstaff. In addition to this, The third one's name was Marvin. wrestling and numerous plays took place .... The fourth one’s name was Don. ... At the end of Medieval Day there was a huge feast at the Wild Boar Inn, which was delicious cornish hen. succotash and Michael’s fame was with his sword, salad. For dessert there was an interesting variety of fanciful While John’s was with his horse. cakes baked by the sixth graders. After the banquet, the people Marvin’s skill was his great strength, were entertained by minstrels and troubadours singing songs that While Don’s was in his voice. were written by the sixth graders.

10 LITTLE BOV IS CARRIED OFF BY GYPSIES SEVEN DEADLY SINS INVADE PRINCETON by Diane Barry by Sarah Woodworth Princeton, N. J., May 16 — At PDS today a boy was carried Princeton. May 16 — The Seven Deadly Sins accosted a pilgrim off by some gypsies. This was part of a play done for Medieval today on the bed of a wagon. It was a rare sight, but nobody Day. It portrayed gypsies as the medieval people saw them. seemed to care! They swarmed about the poor pilgrim who was It started with them pickpocketing a pardoner. In the middle trying to get to heaven. . . . they stole a boy and scared the daylights out of him by sending The play was about the Seven Deadly Sins trying to make an a “devil” after him. Near the end, fortunes were told. It was innocent pilgrim go to hell. The deadly sins with masks of all finished off by a dance. colors stunned the pilgrim with their meanness. The pilgrim was Medieval Day has been traditionally done by the sixth grade. The fighting them off. being of great courage. classes take turns doing the joust. His friend — 1 can't say lie was the most courageous person — fell into Gluttony's tricks. The pilgrim was trying to have courage without his friend, but finally he fell into hell as a captive of Greed .... SPRING It wasn't all medieval because in the joust a girl won! by Jim Bennett The sun is shining o’er the land The trees are cool and green. The blades of grass dance hand in hand. The flowers are brightest ever seen. DEVIL TAKES PILGRIM DOWN TO HELL by Betsy Stephens At night the moon glous happily. Princeton. May 16 — Today, in the peaceful town of Princeton, The air is cool and clear. on the PDS campus, the Devil appeared to take a pilgrim down The owl is out, and stealthily to hell. To help the Devil there were the Seven Deadly Sins, He pounces, like a knife obscure. who tried to get the pilgrim to go with them. The deadly sins were wearing masks. For instance. Envy had Alas, the end of spring is here. Summer to winter white. on a green mask. Pride had on a purple mask and Anger had Hut, lo, again the green appears on red. With music gav and sun so bright. SIR REGINALD THE TALL UNHORSES SIR ARTHUR OF THE BLADE ARCHERY SUCCESS AT MEDIEVAL DAY by Cynthia Trego by Jim Billington Princeton, N. J., May 16 — Sir Reginald beat Sir Arthur in a Princeton, May 16 — A show of the archer s skill was a feature medieval joust today under the eyes of King Richard the First. at the sixth grade Medieval Day. The announcer called out the The fight was just one of the many events that took place at contestants: Michael Blue Shanks. Evan the Quick, and Harold PDS. The sixth graders were accompanied by teachers, parents and Strong Bow. The winner would get 50 gold pennies, proclaimed some younger and some older children. the announcer. The procession began at the pagoda near the PDS baseball field. They asked if there be any challengers. Two men stepped Medieval Day started out with a smack and a bang while everyone forward. They said their names be Pyne of the Forest and Lehigh watched the exciting joust. After Sir Reginald received King of the Valley. Richard’s royal sceptre, everyone started out on an event-filled Each contestant would shoot three arrows. They shot. Pyne afternoon along a winding path to Wild Boar’s Inn. of the Forest and Harold Strong Bow were eliminated. They shot The next event was the gypsies. They included everything from three more and now only Evan the Quick and Michael Blue Shanks a big gypsy mama to a little blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy. They remained. They shot three more. Michael won the match clearly started off by pickpocketing a pardoner and finished up with an with one arrow in the clout and two in the outer rim. authentic gypsy dance complete with tambourines .... King Richard stepped forward, proclaimed Michael the best After the troubadours were finished after dinner there were archer in the land and gave him 50 pennies. tumblers, minstrels, then a magic show. Then dessert. 11 Not rain, nor snow, nor sleet nor dark of night — nor age — Can slow the school’s move to the great outdoors.

The campus, the shore, the Pine Barrens and the Kittatiny Mountains become classrooms for students and faculty

Even if someone wanted to, there’s no stopping it. Faculty weekends at Wildcat Mountain There's practically no slowing it down. Every year it seems the school makes greater use of the outdoors: As the faculty mulled over the effect of those first more sophisticated use at that. There have always been two days with Project USE, seeking other ways to intro­ field trips, even if just to the ponds in back of school, duce the program to the curriculum, they identified but today increasing numbers of students of every other needs. First was their own: if USE could bring age and more faculty members, too, use the whole out new confidence and open communication between state — from shore to wilderness areas — as an extension students, what might it do for a group of faculty? of the classroom. The campus itself has expanded from Second, they felt they should experience a more sub- 75 to 150 acres, and the classroom horizon keeps mersive program, to see if that, too, might benefit stu­ expanding farther and farther. dents. So ten teachers spent a May weekend at the Project USE outpost on Wildcat Mountain in north Jersey, living in tents, cooking out, and participating in a fairly intensive mountain-oriented Outward Bound experience of rapelling, rock climbing, building and Project USE: where will it all end? crossing rope bridges, and camping. Indications are Project USE began as a hopeful glint in Upper School 1) that the faculty members found it a revealing and Head Sandy Bing’s eye last fall and has since become valuable experience and 2) that future use of the Wild­ a functional and growing part of the curriculum. The cat Mountain camp and facilities will be considered program, developed bv a group of Outward Bound for student groups, too. and NOLS graduates and instructors, is designed to introduce urban and suburban students to the Outward Bound experience. In early March — on two of the wettest, rawest, muddiest days in earlv March — USE created on the campus a series of Outward Bound challenges. There was a double-rope bridge over a small gulch, a single rope commando bridge over a stream, simulated chasms and rivers to cross, high walls to surmount: all very physical, many thoroughly challenging to individuals and to whole groups of i0-13 students. The sophomore class got first crack at the program, and spent one entire day double-timing from one new project to another. They did things they’d never dreamed of doing alone (“if I’d known what I’d be doing, I might have stayed home, but I’m glad I didn’t”), learned quickly to work with people and to know people they’d unconsciously avoided before (“I thought Mr. Jones was just another teacher, but he was part of our group and he was just great!”), and, withal, found genuine excitement in what many had thought was “just the campus.” Next day belonged to the eighth grade, who got a little wetter, but had the same expe­ rience of achievement, learning how to become a group to overcome problems, learning that everyone has some­ thing to offer in difficult situations. Project USE

12 The Pine Barrens: old haunts, new teacher The school has used the Pine Barrens as an outdoor science laboratory for lo! these many years. No group enjoys it more than the ninth and tenth grade biology classes when they are accompanied by Business Man­ ager Carl Storey. An inveterate camper (he spends two of every three weekends going further and further into this unique wilderness) and a thorough explorer and historian of the area, his knowledge of the Barrens makes him a teacher non pareil for the day.

Second graders at the Jersey shore Probably the youngest group ever to take an over­ night field trip was this year’s second grade, and they worked for months on the highly-detailed event. Con­ ceived in mid-winter by Mrs. Houston and Miss Miller as a long term science project, the excursion climaxed almost three months of research and planning of in­ dividual and group projects and experiments: all re­ The Pine Barrens with Business Manager Carl Storey lated to the shore environment. The tykes did a remarkable amount of research in Blairstown: always something new developing their projects, which involved biology, It has become tradition for the Junior Class to spend ornithology, ecology and geology. Early one May morn­ three days at the Princeton Summer Camp near Blairs­ ing they boarded their bus, chaperoned by their teach­ town to discuss problems of and objectives for their ers, some parents and an enthusiastic crew of Upper Senior year. Blairstown, nestled in the shadow of Kit- School teacher assistants. They spent two days at Bay tatiny Bidge, provides an ideal setting for an expanded Head bringing all the academic research together with outdoor program like Project USE. practical field studies. In late May, two out of three days spent in the pour­ They returned exhilarated and exhausted (a not im­ ing rain, the Class of 1974 took canoe trips down the possible combination at their age) with no more prob­ Delaware, rapelled up and down thirtv-foot rock faces, lems than sand in their shoes. slid across deep gorges on ropes, and built and crossed double rope bridges in dark of night: USE had become part of the expanding Blairstown program, and an enthusiastically received addition it was. It seems to be just a beginning: the more we dis­ cover outside the classroom, the farther we reach to discover more directions to travel, more ways to use the land outside.

13 Spring Sports

Kimberley Trophy returns . . . The girls’ tennis interscholastic schedule was a soggy 3-3-5 (not ties — rained out matches!), but PDS cleaned up on the tournament circuit. Captain Robin Kraut ’73 led the ladies to victory in the Kimberley Tournament, winning the 18-year-old singles title. Shelley Gordon 75 was runner-up in the 16’s, and Libby Hicks ’77 captured the 14-year-old crown to assure the win. The girls’ division of the Mercer County Indoor Tournament was all PDS. Robin defeated teammate Patti Seale ’73 for the singles title, and Shelley teamed with Glenna Weis- berg ’73 to take the doubles championship from Ellen Albert ’75 and Susie Pratt ’76. The team took inter­ scholastic matches from George School, Princeton High School and Hun. One of their losses was to the Law- renceville junior team — a precursor for the Riggs-Court match, and with the same results.

Robin Kraut with brother Jon Softball: lots of runs, errors and injuries . . . Girls' lacrosse, winners all . . . “The biggest problem in girls’ softball is errors,” said Rain may have halved the tennis schedule, but it Coach Barbara Blama after the first season, “there’s cancelled only one girls’ lacrosse game all spring. The at least one on every play.” The second biggest problem, varsity won four and lost three, while the junior varsity strangely, was injuries: there seemed to be one a day. and the thirds were undefeated. High-scorer Alissa The girls played five games, finished 2-3 for the season, Oxley ’76, led the varsity to wins over Kent Place, and the manager needed an adding machine to score. Stuart, Morristown High and Germantown Academy, Led by Captain and top hitter Robin Maltese ’73, the with considerable assistance from Martha Sullivan, girls beat Hun 20-13 and romped over Peddie 33-18. Sandy Gordon, and Ellen Fisher, all ’73’s. High scorers They lost 25-14 to Rutgers Prep, and dropped a couple for the jayvees and third teams were Kip Herrick ’75 of tight ones to Purnell 18-16 and Vail-Deane 26-20. and Cassilda Huber ’76, respectively. 14 and all tied up at 1-1 when a Hun hitter drilled a hot Boys' Lacrosse: David 11 - Goliath 3 liner. Runner on third assumed it was a hit and broke Start with a squad of 13 freshmen, seven sophomores, for the plate. Pint-size second baseman Lee Martin four juniors and just two seniors. Give them lacrosse grabbed the ball, flipped it to third for the force — only sticks and put them on the field against 14 opponents, to find that since each ump thought the other was look­ each of which tower over them and outweigh them two ing at third, there was no call, and the run scored. to one. Then cheer as they accumulate an 11-3 regular Freshman Frank Konstantynowicz, who hit in every season record (the best in history), outscore their op­ game, was named to the first All Penn-Jersey league ponents 114-47, and make their way to the Class “B” team. Sophomore Glen Russo, who pitches, hits and state championships only to lose 9-5 in the finals to a fields with equal dexterity, and Most Valuable Player fine Summit H. S. Lacrosse Club. That was the bovs’ and Co-Captain Mark Ellsworth, who pitched and played varsity lacrosse team. They lost in the regular season first base, were picked for the second team. only to Hunterdon Central H. S. and, alas!, twice — by a total of three goals — to George School. The tiny stickers overpowered Hun twice, 10-1 and 9-7, took PHS 7-3, squeaked by Lawrenceville “B” 3-2, and looked great in the process. Onlv Co-captains Peter Boys* tennis, another big season . . . Moore and David Barach graduate. The latter earned The bovs’ tennis team lost just one set in their first MVP honors in the goal — after switching from the five matches, but ran into a little difficulty in the last attack as the season began. High scorer Cam Fcrrante, half of the season. In the end, they lost only two of lame for one-third of the season, racked up 24 regular twelve interscholastic matches: one to Pingry 3-2, the season goals and half as many assists. other to the perennially tough Princeton High School 4-1. Captain Buzz Woodworth ’73, hampered by a hockey injury, moved from third singles to first doubles midway in the season, and he and Steve Norris ’74, Baseball: late season blues . . . lost in the finals of the Mercer County Indoor tourn­ The baseball team was 4-5-1 with just three games ament. Another MC finalist was first singles player to go, but hopes for a winning season — even a .500 Evan Bash ’74, who lost only twice all season. Second season — eluded them as they dropped all three to wind singles was handled by Greg Bash ’75, and Chris Miller up 4-8-1 for the year. Unkindest cut of all was a 2-1 ’75, whose penchant for long matches is unequalled, loss to Hun in the seventh inning of their second game, moved in to the third singles slot. Second doubles team when both umpires, playing Alphonse and Gaston, were was Jamie Paterson and David Straut, both ’74, who looking the other way on a key play. It was two down lost just once in regular season play. 15 better every day. She (like all of us) merger will be finalized with them in York City where the couple will was eagerly awaiting spring to start September.) In my widowed state my make their home. Olga, the long­ working in the garden. classification is ‘Single,’ and I will time headmistress of Chapin School, JOAN WOOLWORTH Smith says reach the horrendous age of 65 in now retired, still lives in Princeton. she had hoped to be visiting in the August, which has a certain ring of N.Y.-N.J. area (including Princeton) finality somehow! I have loved 1931 but her “bones have gotten old” and, Abbot, but now I’m going to look Class Secretary while not really laid low, she is not for a part-time job in Connecticut, Mrs. Robert N. Smyth in travelling shape right now. Maybe to keep my finances perking and to (Jean Osgood) spring will help you, Joan, and the escape the doldrums!” Hopefully, 321. Nassau Street rest of us, too. we’ll be able to see more of you in Princeton, New Jersey 08540 HELEN FOSTER Highberger seems the future, Buzz. My constant bomb-setting under to spend most of her time on her ELIZABETH BLACKWELL Twyef- JANET WICKS Grindley has at last duties as president of the Woman’s fort spent last summer at her house brought results and I quote: “I mar­ Auxiliary of the Presbyterian Homes in Nantucket and then went to Hol­ ried Bob Grindley in 1970 and we of the Synod of New Jersey. This has land to visit her daughter and her live at Westport Point, Mass. in a her roaming around the state and two grandsons, who are ages three dream house we concocted out of an also puts her ex officio on the Board and one. From Holland she joined old barn—cum summer cottage. We of Trustees of the Homes, which a group for a trip to “The Border­ have seven children between us and means more meetings. lands of Tibet.” Lib wrote on her 13 grandchildren (three of them postcard of “News for the PDS mine).” Jan’s four children and their 1926 Journal:” “have been giving slide whereabouts are as follows: Helen is Class Secretary lectures to various groups, and have married to Henrik van Loon, has 3 Mrs. James A. Kerr had several poems published in the children and is in the process of (Lawrence Norris) Nantucket paper. Also exhibited a moving to New Fane, Vt. where her 16 College Road West few pen sketches in Nantucket art husband will be teaching at Marlboro Princeton, New Jersey 08540 exhibitions.” Having read her poems College. Christopher is married and LADY LOVE Glenn and her husband and seen her sketches (and paintings) is in Seattle, Wash, where he is Woodie live in a charming house on because we, too, have a house in studying for his degree in architec­ Yacht Club Road on Center Island Nantucket, I can add that Lib is very ture. Peggy is working in zoos and very near the Sewanika Yacht Club. versatile and talented. Your brand- has had the honor of being a Leopard There they do all things nautical. new secretary is ashamed to confess Mother—twin black ones. Tim is They have four married children. that I never have sent in any news married and is doing his Service stint Woodie, Jr. works at Brookhaven items for the PDS Journal, but real­ in the Coast Guard. Bob and Jan Lab., has 2 children; Larry works at izing how much it means to the went to Florida this winter and on First National Bank, New York and secretary, will try to do better for the way visited Pat Herring Stratton has 2 children; Sarah teaches re­ my successor and will bring things ’32 and her husband in Southern medial reading at East Woods School, up-to-date now. Our eldest son, Pines, and in Florida they saw Oyster Bay and has 2 children; Will John D. Wallace ’48, his wife and CLARE RAYMOND Durant in Stuart. works at Chemical Bank and has 1 their three children live in Princeton. Both gals were fine and gave the child. Their oldest boy will be in the eighth Grindleys a wonderful time. Jan, of KINGSLEY KAHLER Hubby and her grade at PDS this fall, and their course, is also an author and we have husband Frank live in Princeton. second son is entering the sixth grade. 2 of her 4 books in the PDS library. They spent two weeks in London in The youngest, a daughter, is still at JAB JOHNSTON Trafford sent in December and your secretary and her Johnson Park School. We have just one big piece of news from her husband Arch Kerr, who were also attended the christening, in Short family. Grandson, Eric Bernard Traf­ there, had a lot of good times together. Hills, N.J., of our youngest grand­ ford, put in his appearance on New JANE EDSON Parker died in Carmel, child, William Stewart Wallace, the Year’s Eve, 1972. California, where she had been liv­ son of William C. Wallace ’50 (class GERTRUDE DALE is now retired ing, in January, 1973. She is sur­ secretary). Bill and his wife also after having worked in New York vived by two sons, William Dudley have a daughter, almost three years City for various companies in the Livingston, Jr. and Gordon Parker, old. Come April 9th husband Jack PR field, the last one having been Jr. and I, accompanied by my brother, Young and Rubicam. She is now Ed Cook, and his wife (Louise Mc- living in Princeton and enjoying it. 1927 Niece ’30) will have flown to Vienna, She’s off for Paris and Cap Ferrat to Class Secretary and from there to Dubrovnik and visit friends for Easter. Mrs. John H. Wallace then to Athens. We do not plan to I am in hopes that I will see some (Margaret Cook) return until May 2nd, so I will not classmates at Alumni Day and in 186 Library Place be able to attend Alumni Day this that way may pick up some more Princeton, New Jersev 08540 year. I do hope some of our class­ tidbits. Otherwise, I’m going to have KATHERINE MITCHELL Osborne mates will be there. The luncheon to set off some more bombs, so watch and her husband, Frederick S. Os­ last year was such fun. out! borne, have moved into their new home at 210 Liberty St., E., Savan­ 1928 Class Secretary 1932 nah, Georgia. She writes: “How Elizabeth G. MacLaren Class Secretary about a regional reunion in Savan­ Mrs. William J. Stratton nah? How many (alumni) are there 1929 (Patricia Herring) here ? I would love to organize in No Secretary Box 1095 the Deep South!” Sounds like a Southern Pines, North Carolina great idea and if they’ll accept 1930 2^387 Yankee visitors your Secretary would Class Secretary ALICE: VAN HOESEN Booth is liv­ love to attend the reunion. Mrs. Lincoln G. Smith ing in Highland, Maryland, and ISABELLE (Buzz) HAWKE Tren- (Chloe Shear) writes: “I’m back teaching French— bath writes as follows: “As of June, 75 Crestview Drive part-time after a year’s leave of 1973, I plan to use my home address Princeton, New Jersev 08540 absence. Our youngest, Richard, is exclusively. P.O. Box 191, Old Lyme, The son of OLGA TOMEC Smith, in college this year—Carnegie-Mellon Conn. 06371. After all, I have been Tomec Colburn Smith, is to be mar­ in Pittsburgh. Mare-ot is working in at Abbot Academy eight years, start­ ried on April 28 in Key Largo, Flor­ an art studio in Baltimore. Sally and ing as ‘Housemother’ to 59 upper­ ida to Miss Jean Ellen Mason. The husband are in the Peace Corps in classmen in a laree Dorm, and ending groom, a graduate of Columbia Uni- the Caribbean. She’s exnecting in as ‘Resident Advisor’ (same differ­ versitv, is a product manager with Mnrrh—our first grandchild!” ence!) to 20 underclassmen in a the Bloek Druo- Company of Jersey GRAY JFVPVOTX) writes from his House. I say ‘ending’, alt.houeh as Citv. The bride, an al"mna of home in Morrisville. Vermont, “We yet I have not heard offieial notifica­ Doiurlass College and Katharine live in the mountains near Stowe tion from Phillips Academy. (Our Gibbs School, is employed in New and ski some. Would be pleased to

18 hear from any other ‘girls’—or boys— who might pass nearby, (tel: 802/ 888-3501—and suggest not trying to find us without prior directions!) Have lived here for over 25 years; am retired but still hold commercial pilot license, i.e. I passed the physical and am proud of that! All our chil­ dren are ‘out’ and we are enjoying just us.” HELEN WATKINS divides her time between her farm in Poughquag, N.Y., her studio apartment in New York City, and travel abroad when­ ever possible. When we were kids at MFS I visited her at the farm and remember picking quarts of wild strawberries and walking through fields of wild flowers. I see Helen whenever I’m in New York. She designs windows for the great New York stores. She is so modest she hardly mentions her extraordinary, original work; but I’ve seen some of it and it is astoundingly beautiful. A current design, for Bonwit’s, of Greek flowers, is all in macaroni— natural color on black net. Those big stores are indeed fortunate to have an artist of Helen’s caliber working with them. It was great seeing Janet Wicks Grindley ’31 and her husband, Bob, just after Christmas. They stayed with us on their way down to Sanibel, “Meet” of the Stony Brook Hunt Florida. They live at Westport Point, at Pretty Brook Farm by PATRI­ Mass., and love to sail. Jan knows CIA HERRING Stratton ’32. (See an incredible amount about organic front and back covers.) gardening and birds. My husband, environmental matters, and she is LILLY LAMBERT McCarthy and Will, and I camped out in the moun­ continuing her work on her book husband Jack returned to their home tains—the S m okies—in October, New Jersey’s Early Scottish Ties. in London, England after spending when the foliage was at its peak of MOLLY MEREDITH Beerkle’s news a few months Stateside and mostly color; and we walked in the Joyce from California is that son Tom in Palm Beach, Fla. While in P.B. Kilmer Memorial Forest. Our Bill, Goodridge (PCD ’60) is engaged to they bought a condominium so they who is with Rocky Mountain Heli­ Anna Perrin of Corona Del Mar, will be returning to our shores come copters, is on a microwave tower Calif. Molly says, “only one left for the next snows. For her generous survey—from Los Angeles, Calif, to the altar and he’s biding his time.” gift made to the Portsmouth Museum, Houston, Texas. Molly plans to spend the summer at England, a year ago, of Lord Nelson home in Rancho Santa Fe then go memorabilia, Lilly was made C.B.E. 1933 to the family ranch in Jackson Hole, (Commander of the British Empire). Class Secretary Wyoming in the autumn. Before that, she had conferred on Mrs. Lindley W. Tiers A great newsv letter from MARY her the O.B.E. (Order of the British (Sarah Gardner) EMMA HOWELL Yard deserves Empire) for outstanding work. 50 Pardoe Road transcription in full: “The last eight Your secretary’s near neighbor, NINI Princeton, New Jersey 08540 months seem to have been among the DUFFIELD Dielhenn writes that her We regret to announce the death in most pleasantly eventful of my life. step-son Bruner Dielhenn (PCD ’62) Princeton of our classmate HOPE Last August and September I spent has been living in Denver, Colo, for GIBBONS, on May 4th after a brief 6 weeks in Germany, Austria and the past few years. Called Art by illness. Hope was the head cataloguer Switzerland with our youngest daugh­ his friends in the West, Brune is at the Historical Studies Library of ter, Sally, who had just completed making himself known in TV circles the Institute for Advanced Study a 6-weeks art course in Southern by being a producer-director with with which she had been associated France sponsored by Sarah Lawrence Denver’s educational channel #6. since 1951. At the time of her death College. Sally is a senior at Rad- On your Secretary’s annual ski-safari she was devising a new system of cliffe and has been elected to mem­ to God’s Country, Colorado, last classification for Roman and canon bership in Phi Beta Kappa. Our March, I visited my sister Mary Jo law. In addition to her position at second daughter, Louise, was married Gardner Gregg (MFS ’45) in Aspen, the Institute, she was Associate February 19, 1973 to Terry T. where she has become a permanent Director, with her sister, Mila Gib­ Tucker of Norwalk, Ohio in a beauti­ resident. While there I saw Pat Wil­ bons, of the Aparri School of Dance. ful garden in Christiansted, St. Croix, liams Card (MFS ’48) and attended A very moving memorial service was U.S. Virgin Islands. As a result my her birthday picnic held on Ajax held on May 11th at All Saints’ husband Ed (PCD ’29) and I had a Mountain in glistening sun and snow. Church in Princeton. To her sisters, marvelous three weeks on Saint Croix On the picnic, uninvited guests ap­ Christine Gibbons Mason ’26 and Mila and St. Thomas. Our oldest daughter, peared immediately—Camp Robbers!!! Gibbons Gardner ’31, two nieces, a Barbara (PDS ’66) who graduated “disposal” birds that practically nephew and three great-nieces, the from the College of Wooster, Wooster, snatched eatables right out of one’s class extends its sincerest svmpathv. Ohio in 1970. is Program and Public hands!!! I also visited my brother BETTY MENZIES is very busy Relations Director of Rochester Alfred Gardner (PCD ’44), wife these days! She is working with Manor, a new and fine nursing home Sandra Hebard Gardner and their 4 those who want the New Jersey hunt­ in Rochester, New Hampshire. She children. Moving from Princeton in ing laws improved to make it safe loves her work.” Mary Emma and March, 1972, the Gardner family live for both the hunter and the non­ Ed attended our Alumni Day celebra­ in Denver and also on a ranch near hunter. She has been to Trenton to tion. (Your class secretary is taking Basalt, Colo. (Half hour drive from discuss this with New .Tersev’s note of the fine new nursing home Aspen). Alfred is a partner in the Senator William Schluter (PCD ’42). in Rochester, N.H. for possible future prestigious real estate firm of Harry Betty is very much involved in reference!!!) Kelly in Denver. Sandra was architect

19 located area. I left for boarding Bill and I went to Italy for Christmas school before we moved down to the with Margi and family, preceded assembly room. Please some one take by a cruise down the west coast of it from there and write me your Africa. The Mazzantis (Margi’s recollections and fill in on so much name) have bought an old farmhouse I undoubtedly left out. in the country outside of Florence, So many life-long friendships started where they live, and her husband at Miss Fine’s. Maurizio plans to cultivate the olive For those who haven’t been in groves for oil and the vineyai’ds for Princeton for many years, the Miss wine. They live in Florence, not the Fine’s School building was razed. farmhouse—that is for weekends and In its place, Borough Hall, (formerly holidays.” located in Thompson Hall) moved BETTY TOBIN Stickel has only seen into a modern structure. PDS is MARGE TITUS Lawton a couple of truly a handsome complex of build­ times in the last few years, but they ings with two gyms, many playing keep in touch at Christmas and birth­ fields, a covered skating rink, and days. Betty has never been back to everything is up-to-date. To continue school since she was married, but MARY HOWELL Yard ’33 and her the all around excellence that has would love to see her classmates. daughter Sally, aboard the Queen marked both schools over the years, Betty has five children, Fred IV, the Elizabeth II, returning from a alumni support is so important. oldest, and four daughters, Ginny, tour of Europe following Sally’s PLEASE!!! Thank you for your news! Jane, Bette Lou and Kathie. Rick, 1972 summer studies in France. Keep it coming and with snapshots her son’s nickname, has two daugh­ too!! Have a happy summer!!! ters. Ginny has two sons, and Jane of the fine family house on their has two daughters. So she has six ranch that commands a superb view 1934 grandchildren. Bette Lou was mar­ up the Frying Pan River Valley. Class Secretary ried on Jan. 27, so she just has one It might be apropos on this our Mrs. Heni’y E. Griffith child at home. Kathie is training to Fabulous Fortieth to reminisce a bit!! (Ethel I). Meredith) become a medical assistant. All her To think forward 40-odd years from 326 Cantitoe Street children are nearby, excepting Jane the viewpoint of our school days at Bedford Hills, New York 10507 who lives in Aurora, Colorado. In MFS was inconceivable. “Obsolete At last a card from MARGE TITUS fact, Betty just got back from two Antiquity” must have been in our Lawton—“As you know, we have weeks with her new two-month-old subconscious about people of our lived in West Hartford for 20 years, granddaughter and her seventeen- present age!!! (Of course that’s not and I teach crewel embroidery for month-old sister. Jane really has so!!!) However, looking back four the West Hartford Adult School so her hands full. Needless to say, Fred decades plus, I reflect on mostly fun, I keep busy during the winter. I and Betty keep busy with their big happy and crazy doings. (*** I’m not play tennis all seasons. Our daugh­ family, but they do manage to get thinking of studies—ugh!!!) Of ter, Bebe, is going to be married away once in a while. March 22nd course, we were the bane of Miss in June so I have some planning to they are going back for the fourth Fine’s existence because of our do, as you well know! Love to anyone time to their favorite unspoiled island pranks, noise and stifled giggles- in our class who may remember me in the West Indies, Montserrat. especially in assembly. Remember after all these vears!” Betty’s husband is fine, still playing when a great many of the class was MARGARET (Miggie) MYERS Mc­ tennis and swimming, besides being suspended for a week? It was a Lean sends this news—“First of all, a very busy and fine attorney, and winter day and a group of us lined it was wonderful to read class news an active Princeton alumnus. up on Flexible Flyers being pulled by in the last PDS Journal; JANE WILHELMINA FOSTER Reynolds a mother-driven (long suffering LEWIS Dusenberry, thanks for the and Bill have recently become grand­ mother) car. We were momentarily hello! We keep busy with civic activ­ parents for the first time. Christopher halted and one of us threw a snow­ ities and our two sons and their Peter Rovetti was born on March ball into a chauffeur-driven limosine wives (one each!). Betty and Hull 25th to their elder daughter Kathie containing a prominent Princeton are planning a three-week trip to and her husband Peter. dowager. The snowball made its Europe in May while Cathy and Bill My husband, Hank, and I went on a mark!! The auto stopped, we were are awaiting the arrival of an addi­ most interesting business trip this reprimanded and we were contrite. tion to the family the first part of winter to England, Spain and Italy. The car moved on. Another snowball May (our first grandchild—I know I was “taken along” and felt very was released by this female Steve I’ll be the worst grandmother). Mac fortunate. Of course, I adored Rome Carlton and again landed in the lady’s and I will take a 16-day trip to and found I could still speak Italian lap!!! The car continued—we felt Greece and a cruise on the Aegean after all these years. I am sorry I we had gotten away with the prank, in April.” can’t be at Alumni Day, but feel I but later we learned that we were BETTY GUMMERE Peplow writes, must go to an old friend’s daughter’s grounded at home for a week after “I am now living in an apartment wedding. There are far too many a public chastisement in school by in Trenton, N.J., 777 West State demands in life, aren’t there? Please MissFine!!—Remember the giant Street. I have 5 grandchildren, Liz keep the news coming in. It was stride, the swings, the May Pole has 2 girls and one boy, and Maggie wonderful hearing1 from Marge, dance, hop-scotch, skipping rope, Miss has 2 boys. I am kept busy serving Miggie, Betty G., Getty and Betty S. Barker, Miss Howes, Mademoiselle on the boards of: Florence Crittenton Zaepffel, Miss Purvis, young Miss Home, Old Barracks Assoc, and 1935 Fine, Mrs. Albion. And above all, Trent House Assoc. I also do volun­ Class Secretary regal Miss Fine. She was truly a teer work at the thrift shop and the Mrs. F. W. Harper, Jr. lovely person and certainly must Womens Aux. of Mercer Hospital, (Louise Murray) have had great patience to cope with which was the Mercer Mart.” 1319 Moon Drive the likes of some of us. Remember the GERTRUDE (Getty) RIGHTER Yardley, Pennsylvania 19067 hard time we gave the boys until Snow writes, “I thought I sent some Sorry I haven’t been successful in they moved to the Jr. School (next news in, but maybe that was to the prying any news out of anyone, ex­ door at 10 Bayard Lane) ? Remember other scholastic venture in my life. cept that ANNE PETTIT Bittel tells getting the boys at the PJS during Anyhow, this summer son Tom was us that she has moved to Englewood, their recess to shout questionable married at our house in Vineyard New Jersey - 77 Dwight Place. We phrases and names while we were Haven to a darling gal and thereby wish her good luck in her new home. having “quiet” study period in our acquiring an instant family, a 9-year- I trust that we have done better upstairs 8th prade room (presided old little girl. They live in Beverly with our annual giving than we have over bv Miss Fenn) facing the bovs Hills where he is struggling to with our news stories, and that this school ? As I recall, because of this succeed in the music world. He has will serve as a reminder so that we type of constant disruption, our class had one record published and another will have 1009r Fund participation was moved to a less strategically on its way, but it’s a tough world. for the Class of ’35. 20 1936 and I let them put an extra line out. 1938 Class Secretary If you’ve ever been out there when Class Secretary Mrs. C. William Newbury they’re really biting—this is pretty Mrs. Albridge C. Smith, 3rd (Joan Field) wild—all you do is throw the line (Jan Ashley) 114 Broad Street over the side and the fish bite. So 62 Hodge Road Groton, Connecticut 06340 you have the tide running, you have Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Classmates: I realize now why the boat running, and you have all PRISCILLA DUGAN Collins led our you can handle. 1939 graduation march thirty-three years ‘Well, there were six people—I Class Secretary ago! She’s the one who has what it don’t usually take six and I looked Mrs. William A. Blackwell takes! She’s the only person who down in the cockpit once—and I re­ (Louise Dolton) returned my news postcard this membered my promise to myself— 1962 North Olden Avenue spring telling of a wonderful winter I was not going to yell at the cus­ Trenton, New Jersey 08618 just past “open and quite mild.” She’s tomers. So I called Ben on the radio­ used her glassed-in front porch for telephone and said, ‘Benjamin, do me 1910 a greenhouse for fuchsias, geraniums, a favor and look down in the cock­ Class Secretary begonias and cacti, and she invites pit and see if anyone’s dead yet. I Mrs. Edward C. Rose, Jr. anyone coming Maine-way to stop don’t dare turn around because the (Ann Tomlinson) by. I’m hoping to get there some­ last time I checked all I could see 644 Pretty Brook Road time this summer with my two girls. was hands, legs, arms and fish.’ Princeton, New Jersey 08540 My husband’s marina and charter “In his best philosophical fashion he JOANNE SLY Hicks writes from boat season is just getting underway. sums up the kids today: ‘It’s popular Wilmington, Delaware. She wel­ I’m up to my eyebrows in Munchkins, to undermine authority—you take a comed a grandson, Bradley Campbell as we get ready to put on The Wizard shot at it because it’s the target Hicks, born in July, 1972, to her of Oz for the Williams School spring that’s up. I think it all has to do son and his wife. Her daughter is Arts Festival. Next year, my 12- with a lack of desire for competition. expecting a baby this June. year-old Maryan will be coming to Yes, I think that’s what’s behind ANN TOMLINSON Rose reports that school with the 14-year-old Penny tho whole unisex business. It’s easier daughters Gay and Becky are work­ and me. not to have to prove yourself as a ing in New York, at the City Uni­ Below are excerpts from an article man, if being a man is made less versity and Columbia respectively. about my husband which appeared desirable.’ . . . On the Old Man of Posy transferred from Pratt Institute in The Groton News and might be the Sea, Bill simply says, ‘Bah!’ to Syracuse where she is on the of interest to any alumni who like “Although from New York, Newbury Dean’s List and is enjoying the to fish. I think he qualifies for one spent most of his life here in Gro­ greener pastures of upper New York of those Reader’s Digest articles ton—the time he wras not at sea, that state. Son Sam is a fourth former about most interesting characters one is. He was with the Maritime Serv­ at Lawrrenceville, where between has met! ice during World War II, and before guitar lessons he has managed an that he was a ‘soldier of fortune’ in honors average and is captain of next the best adventure story tradition. year’s hockey team. Stepdaughter He’s also an actor, having done some Hope Rose Angier ’66 and her hus­ work around the stages in Newr York. band have become expert mountain This latter stands him in good stead climbers and now writh their new in the charter business, believe it boat will next conquer the sea. or not. Barbara Rose Hare ’64 lets Ann “He admits that some of his display babysit occasionally for Elizabeth, of bravado and bad temper is pretty who at 2V& shows signs of carrying much of a put on. ‘Some of them on in the family athletic tradition. expect yelling and hollering. In fact, one party I take out quite regularly 1941 is sponsored by their boss and he Class Secretary instructed me to give them ‘what for’ Mrs. Peter V. K. Funk every chance I got. Considers it good (Mary Pettit) therapy.’ At any rate, Bill is good Amity Farm conversation. If you get the chance, Lambertville, New Jersey 08530 stop by and say hello. If he’s not Our class is on the move! MATILDE busy, he’ll be glad to pass the time WOOD Nanni and husband spent a of day. If you feel guilty about tak­ euphoric vacation in Puerto Rico ing up his time—pretend you’re with three of their four children. C. William Newbury, captain of buying a reel.” GAIL MURRAY Putziger is off for Yankee Girl III and husband of Africa on a sojourn this spring. JOAN FIELD Newbury ’36. 1937 BETTY LEE ANDERSON Jessup is Class Secretary planning a trip east from California, Mrs. Sumner Rulon-Miller, Jr. and DOSSI KISSAM is a frequent (Barbara Anderson) visitor to Princeton from Mass. Pour “Bill Newbury holds court over at 240 East 48th Street moi? Peter and I had a most re­ Spicer’s Marina on Marsh Road in New York, New York 10017 freshing trip to England to visit Noank. Why he’s in the phone book Mary, Jr. Mary was taking her under the awesome title of “C. Wm. junior year at Briarcliff in London. Newbury, is anybody's guess. He’s We are moving in another way, as more down to earth than that! wrell. We are leaving our beloved “. . . He freely admits he likes to farm for the different charm of fish and chartering to him is the Princeton—our new residence is not enviable combination of hobby and far from PDS! Down to earth news? business .... ‘Problem is,’ he says, PEGGY LONGSTRETH Bayer re­ ‘I love to see people catch fish, and ports she is in her 25th year teaching I’m so interested in having them ballroom, tap dancing and tennis. catch fish, which is w-hat they’re She is a constitutional conservative there for, that I do have a tendency trying to save the U.S. constitution to call somebody a bonehead once from collectivism; working to get in a while. the U.S. out of the U.N. and the ‘I just get carried away sometimes, U.N. out of the U.S.; trying to stop and each trip I make an effort to The Class of 1937 in front of executive dictatorial powers in Wash­ be kinder to my customers. I hap­ HELEN WARREN Carroll’s house ington and abolish the Occupational pened on Ben Rathbun in the Ann R. (which is still her home) on her Safety and Health Act. That’s a big one day .... This was a good party tenth birthday, May 21, 1930. order and is bound to keep her busy! 21 I find everyone in the class is busy, ly, the Matthews will be absent since, 1945 extremely busy with one respon­ if all goes as planned, we shall be Class Secretary sibility or another. en route home from England after Mrs. Maurice F. Healy, Jr. SUZANNE GLOVER Cottingham is a two-week Easter visit to our elder (Sylvia Taylor) creating atmosphere and beauty for daughter, Marna, who is taking a 191 Library Place all in her garden and looking for year off from college to do some Princeton, New Jersey 08540 interesting LARGE rocks to put practice teaching at an interesting there. Have any you can haul over? “open classroom” school in Leicester. MARION MILLER Mayer is another As of this writing, we plan to spend 1946 active gal with two boys away (one our first weekend in England with Class Secretary at college, the other in the Navy) VALERIE WINANT Goodhart at Mrs. Robert G. Lorndale who still want to see the light in her family’s country house outside (Barbara Quick) the window and have a warm wel­ of Oxford where Marna has been 311 Kent Road come when they get home—a happy a guest several times of late. When Wynewood, Pennsylvania 19096 responsibility. Can you believe in JULIE LEE last visited us in Wash­ Our thanks to HEDL DRESDNER spite of all this rushing around we ington in mid-February, we tried to Kostenbader who kept us informed expect more than six members of our persuade her to join us, but to date for several years through this class to be back for reunion. Marvel­ we have heard nothing from her column. She must have had psychic ous considering we only have 17 regarding British travel plans. Per­ powers to do such a great job because listed members! haps her recent travels to Russia, I don’t seem to have much news about France, Chicago and elsewhere have your activities. Please let me hear left her exhausted. what you are doing. 1942 LORNA McALPIN Hauslohner has We were glad to learn that JEAN Class Secretary also been in England to visit an off­ GEISENBERGER Cranstoun is back Mrs. Dudley Woodbridge spring, her 19-year-old son, David, East writing and doing secretarial (Polly Roberts) who is at junior college in Essex. work. New York City is her home Carter Road Lorna, her husband, and their two Princeton, New Jersey 08540 daughters, Emily (a 17-year-old senior FIFI LOCKE Richards reports that Some of our classmates have man­ at Foxhollow, where she is editor of her oldest, Lee, is a sophomore at aged to do some traveling within the school paper) and Sarah (a 14^- Skidmore School of Nursing. Her the last year. ROXY NEVIN Wads­ year-old contented freshman at Dana other daughters, Karin and Pam, are worth spent a whole month in Greece Hall), spent Christmas in Britain, junior and freshman respectively at last summer topped by a week in where they had good weather and Glastonbury High School. The Rich­ Ireland, and her latest address is a marvelous time. Elder son David, ards still have two horses and two Bailiwick Rd., Greenwich, Conn. who is 22, has just returned from dogs, and Fifi keeps very busy with CAROL MUNRO Monas has recently studies at the University of Lenin­ the Glastonbury Pony Club. been all through Mexico, and PEGGY grad and is trying to decide what When you receive this issue of the FRANTZ Wellington is soon to be to do next. PDS Journal, Alumni Day will off on a visit to England. ELLEN MARY CHYNOWETH Soule have come and gone. I’m sure it will JOAN THOMAS Purnell has finally is now a four-year resident of have been an exciting day for all, been heard from and appears to be Hawaii, where her husband, Richard, and as you well know it’s through the enjoying life in Prescott, Arizona, works for Naval Underseas Research efforts of 46’s MARKELL MEYERS especially with her Taylor and Sandy training marine mammals. Roland, 18, Shriver who is Alumni Secretary of each only 100 miles away—“nearby”, is a freshman at college in San PDS, that Alumni Day has become says Johnnie. Diego; Deborah, 17, is still at such a spectacular event. Many home where she is a senior at plaudits to Mickey. 1943 Punahou, the school which her young­ Class Secretary er brother, Roderick, 14, also attends. 1947 Mrs. Leslie Brown, Jr. Deborah hopes to enter the Univer­ Class Secretary (Olive Schulte) sity of Colorado after graduation. Mrs. David S. Finch 229 Cold Soil Road Speaking of Colorado, we have news (Barbara Pettit) Princeton, New Jersey 08540 of our three Colorado-based class­ The Chalet ASA BUSHNELL reports that “After mates: ELEANOR VANDEWATER Monmouth Hills. New Jersev 07732 covering local and state politics Leonard reports that she skis in EUGENIA WARREN Herbert has through a busy and exciting presi­ winter and hikes and fishes in sum­ been teaching African history at Yale dential election, I have been pro­ mer, often with JANE JOLLIFFE during the past year. moted from political writer to assist­ Clemen, and, in between, works part- ant managing editor of the Tucson time as a lay assistant at a junior 1948 Daily Citizen.” high school—everything from typing Class Secretary We hear that JOHN KUSER “ran to putting butcher paper on panels; Mrs. Robert Kroesen (Joan Smith) for Princeton Township Committee when she is “lucky,” she gets to help New Road, R. D. 1, Box 198 last fall but lost by 177 votes. Am the kids with their math! Vandy is Lambertville, New Jersey 08530 now Princeton Twp. Municipal Chair­ also chairing the local Cancer Cru­ man of the Republican County Com­ sade. Husband Ben still works for mittee. Have been taking a course in the U. S. Geological Survey, daugh­ 1949 forestry at Rutgers this winter and ter Ruth is a freshman at the Uni­ Class Secretary writing a paper on redwood trees versity of Wyoming and son Bill is Mrs. Kirby T. Hall growing all around the world. Am now a junior at Golden High School. (Kirby Thompson) playing a lot of paddle-tennis this CONSUELO KUHN Wassink, her 12 Geddes Heights winter and also enjoying skiing at husband and 12-year-old daughter, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 Belle Mountain.” Melody, journeyed in late August from Boulder via Banff, Lake Louise, the “very exciting” Fraser River 1950 1944 Valley of British Columbia, Prince Class Secretary Class Secretary Rupert and the Alaska Marine High­ Mrs. G. Reginald Bishop Mrs. Joseph O. Matthews way to visit friends in Juneau. There­ (Alice Elgin) (Rosamond Earle) after, the Wassinks and four others 166 Wilson Road 6726 Benjamin Street piled into one station wagon for a Princeton, New Jersey 08540 McLean, Virginia 22101 blessedly mosquito-free camping trip I shall be thinking of you all on in the Yukon and in central and 1951 Alumni Day and hoping that some south-central Alaska. Currently, Con­ Class Secretary or all of the Miss Fine’s contingent nie is busy at the Environmental Mrs. Stuart Duncan, II from Princeton and environs will Protection Agency, holding down two (Nellie May Oliphant) have been on hand to swell the ranks jobs as writer/editor and EEO 114 Elm Road of returning alumnae. Unfortunate­ counselor. Princeton, New Jersey 08540 22 1952 It was great to talk to some of you That’s all for now. By the time you Class Secretary recently at the time of the PDS read this, I hope to have seen many Mrs. Wade C. Stephens telethon. For those of you who live of you at Alumni Day. (Jean Samuels) too far away, this was an effort to Humphreys Drive contact every MFS, PCD and PDS 1954 Lawrenceville, New Jersey 08648 alumnus(a) in the area between New Class Secretary BEVERLY STEWART Almgren now York and Philadelphia to encourage Mrs. William A. Leppert lives on Jefferson Road in Princeton them to come to Alumni Day, to get (Judith Gihon) and teaches history at Moore College information for Class Notes, and, of 319 East Franklin Street of Art in Philadelphia. Her daughter course, to remind them of the Annual Wheaton, Illinois 60187 Ann is in 3rd grade and her son Fund. It was a most successful eve­ Rob is in 5th, both at Riverside ning. Among those talked to: 1955 school. JULIANA CUYLER McIntyre says Class Secretary ROSALIE RICHARDSON Willson is she is a housewife and keeps busy Chloe King president of the PDS Alumni Asso­ with a daughter 4Vz and a son 3, 64 Carey Road ciation and has taken a full time job as well as working in the Christian Needham, Massachusetts 02194 as secretary to John Gwynn, former Education department at Trinity UTE SAUTER Goller sent news of assistant minister at Trinity Church. Church in Princeton. Her husband Alice Marie Nelson! “AMN was with Wylie is a junior at PDS and Stuart is in charge of Latin American activ­ us from October to December com­ is in the 9th grade. ities for Dillon Reed and does a fair ing from and going to auditions in BARBARA GARTNER Parker is amount of travelling. Germany, Austria and Switzerland. living in Philadelphia and her eldest DIANE BAKER Wagner lives in We had a good time together and son Jessie is a senior at Lawrence­ Mendham, N.J., has two boys, 4 and 2, we are happy that she will be back ville. and works with the League of Women in Germany in August to start her MARINA VON NEUMANN Whit­ Voters as well as doing free lance engagement at an opera house not man continues to be our ’52 repre­ editorial work. too far from us . . . .” sentative in Washington! For lack KAREN COOPER Baker is very busy CHLOE KING had a superb trip to of any other news of classmates, I with a Junior League project: a Switzerland, Germany, Austria and will fill in with a few things about large house, built in 1898, which is England last summer. The Munich the Stephens! Carroll will complete being decorated, room by room, by Olympics were thrilling although her freshman year at Duke Univer­ interior decorators from all around, tragic. Since October, teaching at sity in May and will be 18 shortly including one from Princeton—Craig Winsor has kept me busy! Skiing thereafter (how’s that for making Miller—and will be open to the in New England has been miserable you all feel old!!). David will enter public from April 29th to May 19th. this winter—so have just returned Lawrenceville in the fall and has She also reports that her first child from vacation in the sun and sand been the Bantam all-star goalie in will be going to college in the fall. of St. Croix! the Lawrence Township league this CAROL FROTHINGHAM Forsbeck THEODORA STILLWELL Mackey past winter. Betsy is in the 6th grade is working in the Trenton State sends the good news of a second at PDS which she loves. It truly is College bookstore, and helps her hus­ child, Alexandra, who arrived July a fine school and Doug McClure is band here in Princeton with a model 20, 1972. Since then Theo has been doing an outstanding job as head­ train store which he and a friend very busy “with this and that, one master. opened just before Christmas. course at the University of Wash­ Please send us some news. It is most ELAINE POLHEMUS Frost writes ington in Livy, Cicero, etc., and discouraging to hear nothing from that she had a delightful visit in walking the dog and looking at rain.” most of you year after year. We February with Miss Davis, who lives TERRY BECK Morse is still teach­ really are interested in what you and in Westwood, N.J. ing at Moorestown Friends School as your families are doing! WENDY HALL Alden and family well as continuing her own education will be at Oxford for a year, starting at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine in September ’73, as John has a Arts. Terry’s husband, Dryden, is sabbatical year off from teaching at doing cardiac surgery at Deborah Acadia University in Nova Scotia. Hosnital in Browns Mills—“A re­ HILARY THOMPSON Demarest will markable FREE heart and lung be working next fall as the office hospital.” manager of an indoor tennis club, and is currently doing art work and drafting for a map maker, and mak­ ing tennis dresses. BARBARA YEATMAN Gregory was Co-Chairman of the annual Smith Club Auction, which was the most successful ever—netting over $11,000 for their scholarship program. ANNE CARPLES Denny writes that she has a friend in Richmond (fe­ male) who lived in the same apart­ ment in Athens as Nat Smith (PCD ’50, male). She did not say if the residence were concurrent . . . As for myself, it’s been a long, wet winter, highlighted by the PDS- Lawrenceville hockey game in Feb­ MFS 1953 as seniors in the fall ruary, during which I managed to of ’52. Remember the front porch ? get hit by a stick, ending up with five stitches and a nicely broken nose! ! I’m still awaiting the doc­ tor’s final decision on whether he TERRY BECK Morse’s (’55) chil­ will have to re-break it or what, to dren: Martin 15, Samuel 11, Thomas get it back to where it’s supposed 13 and Michael 9. to be. The girls and I had a lovely 1953 vacation in Bermuda in March, which Class Secretary certainly helped with my recupera­ Mrs. S. McAllen Sachs tion. Incidentally, I’ve had a hard ALICE MARIE NELSON has landed (Susan McAllen) time convincing some people that I a contract for the 1973-74 season 293 Snowden Lane was not participating in the hockey in Germany. She had a marvelous Princeton, New Jersey 08540 game, but only a spectator! ! time staying with UTE SAUTER 23 Institute, while I studied art and CARY ARMSTRONG Tall and T con­ TURID HELLAND was married in music. We are now able to speak two tinue to work on their “new” (built 1970. Turid just had her first child, languages at home. Following the 1800, rebuilt 1973) house just outside a boy, last December. Sally plans to Olympics we returned to Bethesda Middlebury, Vermont. They hope to see her in Norway this summer. and my husband’s old bachelor apart­ bo in it about 2 months more, and Turid and family plan to spend next ment where we are living until we are enjoying the “incredible land year at Stanford where they will are able to find a suitable house. I (How many acres??), incredible have a reunion with GINNY ELMER am slowly getting accustomed to the work.” She continues with her cura- Stafford. area and finding things to do here. ator’s job at Middlebury’s art gallery, ELLEN LEVY wants to know Just recently I became a member and is also enjoying a photography what we should do about our tenth of the Washington Recorder Society course. reunion. It’s in June! Anybody want as well as the Swiss-American Club.” I was delighted to read that CHERRY to come to New York for a celebra­ LOUISE SCHEIDE Marshall sug- RAYMOND is getting back into tion? If so, write me the dates which guests we “Free the Press!” Could poetry writing, while job hunting in are good for you. we use this space as a place for Cambridge. She sounds as pleased to PAM SIDFORD Schaefer was sup­ sharing our thoughts and concerns, be there as Cynthia and David, and posed in be in NYC in March, but as well as our achievements? For her activities include working with I never heard from her. Wha happen, openers, I have been getting “in­ a Task Force in Secondary Arts Pam ? volved” as both a feminist and a city- Education and tutoring, after three POLLY MILLER Miller reported dweller. I spend a lot of time work­ years at P.U. in admissions and she’d seen CINDY BULL and ing on ways to make the city a more financial aid. SHARON STEVENSON Griffith. She viable place to live—like proselytiz­ LINDA SCASSERRA is living at also sees PRUE MORGAN. Polly ing in the real estate market, storm­ 2207% S. Fairfield, Fort Wayne, runs a sports group for Miss Mason’s ing public schools, activating for city Indiana 46804 until the end of the School. recreation programs. The Women’s year at her Montessori job. She plans I’m alive, and well and living in New Lib thing started as a kind of per­ to move back east then, and has given York. I’ve just returned from a week sonal politics and is expanding into “more than a passing thought” to in Venezuela. I recommend it highly. getting a Women’s Center going in opening her own Montessori School In January, I became Educational Hartford, coaxing the E.R.A. through at Fairacres. Director of Positive Learning Sys­ the state legislature and such like. We send our sympathy to TRIKA tems, a high school equivalency pro­ Any thoughts from the rest of you SMITH Burke on the recent death gram. It’s a combination of principal on the Women’s Movement, ecology, of her father, well known to many and janitor, but I defy anyone to call Nixon’s monarchy, the “crisis in the of us. Trika and Kenneth have moved me “headmistress”! cities,” public vs. private schools, or from Brooklyn to 81 Stelfox Street, whatever else is on your mind ? Demarest, N.J. 07627. 1964 Class Secretary 1961 1962 (1972-73) Class Secretary Class Secretary Fran (Wolff) Rolfe Ms. Peggy Wilber Mrs. John O. Robertson 380 Riverside Drive 21186 Manchester (Sonia Bill) New York, New York 10025 Harper Woods, Michigan 48225 West Gray Road NANCY DAVISON Johnson has Let me begin with apologies to Gray, Maine 04039 probably had her baby by now. She NANCY SMOYER, whose news, ex­ 1963 writes that she still plans to conduct citing as ever, got a bit garbled in Class Secretary a summer tennis session in Farming­ the last issue. Nancy has been in Alice Jacobson ton, Michigan. Fairbanks, Alaska, working for the 355 West 85th Street, Apt. 48 BEIRNE DONALDSON Patton re­ USO and enjoying it greatly, “espe­ New York, New York 10024 ports that she still enjoys teaching cially now that spring break-up is SUSAN LITTLE reports she and 22 in New York City. here.” She was home for a week in others took a ski house in Vermont KATHLEEN KINGSFORD Davis is January, and looks forward to a visit this winter. In January, she spent planning to enter George Washington from her family and anyone else who a week in Zermatt, Switzerland, Medical School this fall. She and yearns to get awav from the hassles following the sun and snow. Sue her husband are living outside Wash­ of the “Lower 48.” plans to spend the summer on Fire ington, D.C. TUCKY RAMUS Ackley is overly Island. BARBARA KNEUBUHL is in her modest; her Sara, “a red-headed de­ Both of KATHY SITTIG Dunlop’s third year at the University of light,” is now 16 months old. children, Robbie aged 5 and Allison, Massachusetts in Amherst and plans A reliable source in Bryn Mawr re­ 1-year-old, are swimming like fish. to complete an M.A. in comparative ports the birth of a second child to Other than her favorite role as Mom, literature this summer and be through TRUDI GOHEEN Swain and Bill. Kathy is busy with church activities the doctoral comprehensives in JULIE CORNFORTH Holofcener is and the Junior League Outgrown French some time next year. Kneubs living at 58 Battle Road in Princeton, Shop. They had a ski vacation in writes that she enjoys “gracious liv­ in a “big, marvelous house, great for Canada this winter. ing in a large and comfortable apart­ foxir kids.” She plans to be there JANE ARESTY Silverman is now ment above the local funeral parlour.” until September, and then we’ll hope associate managing editor of a new She sends greetines to all. for more news. publication, The Housing and Devel­ PRISCILLA MARK Luce was pro­ JOAN YEATON Seamon moved to opment Reporter. Jane’s husband. moted to vice president of her firm Springfield, Illinois at the end of Ira, built them a harpsichord. Jane (specializing in development consult­ April where Hal has been appointed takes lessons and plays for their son, ing for schools, colleges and cultural Executive Director of the Illinois Jacob. organizations). She is also on the School Boards Association. LIZA MAUGHAM Cook, husband Board of Directors of the Philadel­ Not exactly a new location for Steve, and their children—Stevie, 2V2 , phia League of Women Voters which CYNTHIA WEINRICH Muir and and Jennifer, 5—live in New Bruns­ is currently trying to establish a re­ David—they’ve returned to their be­ wick. Liza is working for Princeton cycling center for center city Phila­ loved Cambridge where Cynthia is University’s new Sex Education delphia. teaching voice at Radcliffe and sing­ Council and Health Program. She GAIL PETTY Riepe joined the ranks ing concerts. David has taken a is also working on her B.A. at Liv­ of mothers last September with a break from the parish ministry; in ingston Colleere. Liza reports she’s new danfhtpr nam^d Christina. the course of looking around for a seen Jane Silverman and JOAN I think BARBARA ROSE Hare is our “peaceful job,” he found himself KNAPP. most prolific class member so far. teaching sixth grade at a parochial Farm life keeps GRETCHEN Uer second child was due in Mav. school in Roxbury. C. and D. spent SOUTHARD Sachse busy. She and Rarhnra. writes that she saw JANE three marvelous weeks in England in Wolfgang had a son, Friedrich-Wil- BTJDNY Conrad recently “and she September, and can’t wait to return, helm, on January 26, 1973. Gretchen hasn’t changed a bit.” Barbara’s hns- preferably to retirement in a Devon­ is a director of architectural preser­ hand. Nick, plays hockev with the shire village where they will get fat vation for Historic Ithaca. Princeton Hnelgolf when we begin our tour we’ll be per­ PAT LILJELUND broke radio silence and tennis. He says that LULIE forming in the P’ton area. Truth is to relate that she is at McGill Uni­ PETERS is there also and sends her the consciousness of Bliss!” versity in Montreal after having reeards. BETH BORGERHOFF will graduate graduated first in her class from an T.AURTE BRYANT was accepted on from Yale in June. Beth spent last international high school in Switzer­ “12-College Exchange” to go to summer in the Soviet Union—6 weeks land and having spent an interim Dartmouth for her junior year. She at Leningrad University studying year in Alaska with her family. She’s writes that things are going well, Russian and then Moscow, Kiev and presently working toward med school, despite heavy school work, singing Sochi. among other activities, and would and extra-curricular commitments; POLLY GITHLER is engaged to like to hear from old classmates. Her “r)psperation is the spice of life.” Michael Shea. Mike is presently address at school is 305 Molson Hall, NATALIE HUSTON has “finally attending graduate school at the 3915 University St., Montreal, Quebec, decided on a maior, which will in­ University of Oregon and Polly is Canada. variably change: fine arts and psych. 31 Two days before this semester began, PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL she messed up her ankle in a ballet class, and was in a cast for 7 weeks. All is not grim, however; she’s en­ ALUMNI COUNCIL joying Penn a great deal, living in the same dorm as ROBIN FREY and LARRY LEVENSON. Natalie plans 1973-1974 to spend the summer in Princeton. ANNE HEALY is in her second semester at Parsons School of Design in New York. When she’s not work­ President and ing, her time is divided between picking lint off her rug and eating Alumni Trustee chicken livers which she doesn’t even really eat. (what?!) Mrs. Stuart van V. Willson, }r. BEN REEVE is attending Princeton CHERYL HOLCOMBE ’72, bride of University, and more than that he Thomas M. Cheesbrough. (Rosalie Richardson ’52) won’t say. TANIA LAWSON - JOHNSTON is ANDY SCASSERRA and BRIGID taking classes at Princeton and Rider. MOYNAHAN. Apparently Ginny is Vice President KIM CHAMBERS has been in many taking a Chinese history course: “The musical activities this year at Middle­ Social, Political and Intellectual bury, including a tour of the Middle­ History of China during the Ming Mrs. Lawrence Ilolofcener bury Choir and a production of Period”! (Julia Comforth ’61) “Patience.” This summer, she’ll be I heard from MARK “MAU-MAU” working at a riding stable in Ireland, HARROP. He is happy at Vassar, hopefully as a pony-trekking guide, studying hard while enjoying the which is what she wants to do. girls. He played on the “Big Pink” Vice President I continue to attend the Univ. of (Vassar) soccer team and now plays Wisconsin, and am finding it gradual­ street hockey. He plans to work con­ ly more interesting. Next year I’ll struction in D. C. this summer and Robert E. Dougherty '43 be liberated from life in the dormi­ says ‘hi’ to all. tories and living in the apartment DICKIE HUBER’s mother wrote me that JOAN LEWIS had this year. and said that Dickie loves Hampshire. I look forward to a summer of horti­ During January he was on an ‘ecolog­ Secretary culture and music in Princeton. ical exploration’ in Florida. I think I’d like Hampshire too if I could lie Mrs. A. Van Santvoord Olcott, Jr. 1972 on a beach in Florida! Class Secretary CHERIE HOLCOMBE deserves con­ (Diana Morgan ’46) John L. Moore, III gratulations on her marriage to 21 Hun Road Thomas M. Cheesbrough. Princeton, New Jersey 08540 JANE LEE’s mother wrote and said STEVE BASH has continued his that Jane goes to Randolph Macon Treasurer sports career at Bowdoin. He was College and she spent her January co-captain of the freshman soccer term studying drama in London. Over J. Taylor W oodward, III ’55 team and had an undefeated season. Christmas she was presented at the This spring he is among the top Infirmary Ball in New York. three on the varsity tennis team. LIT LYNESS informed me that she The news from Pine Manor is that is in love with a football player. He Representatives KENZIE CARPENTER has turned takes her to the malt shop on Friday intellectual! She is also still looking nights before the big game. This for her knight in white shining summer, lucky Lit will be a tour Mrs. John C. C. Byrne, Jr. (’75) armor. guide in the Swiss Alps. If any of (Jean Shaw ’61) HOWE CONSTABLE is attending you are around Interlocken, look her Northeastern University which “is up. basically a trade school.” He does TOM REYNOLDS enjoys Berklee, Mrs. William Hardt (’76) not like it since it is in a city; I but does not enjoy living in the city, (Julia Fulper ’61) guess he wants to live in a tree fort so he escapes to the country, such as again, so he is working hard in order Vermont, on the weekends. He is to transfer. studying classical and jazz guitar as Peter R. Knipe ’53 (’75) JANE GAMAN writes, “Life is flow­ well as playing the piano. ing with me . . . amidst the trees JOHN MOORE and LUCIEN YOK- and waterfalls; the mountains that ANA are still at Lake Forest. We Edwin H. Metcalf ’51 ( ’74) rise above the laughing ocean waves played J.V. hockey this year and are standing silent in a golden morn­ were among the top scorers on the Mrs. C. Nicholas Miller (’76) ing’s rays . . . listening to these team. Jeff Griggs (PCD) was our songs of nature, i am guided . . . coach and Bumper White (PCD) (Polly Miller ’63) to melt and merge with the All, as was on the team. I am now playing the river moves into the sea, to varsity lacrosse against ‘Big Ten’ C. R. Perry Rodgers, Jr. ’58 (’76) dance upon the shore line as do schools and Lucien is playing pinball shimmering waves throughout the for money, against anybody foolish moons to follow the lap of this enough to play him (he is good). Peter R. Rossmassler ’47 (’74) valley on a quiet Hawaiian island is This summer I will be serving food a beautiful place to BE.” Please eat at the Rusty Scupper Restaurant so Mrs. Susan M. Sachs (’75) at the Rusty Scupper Restaurant. come and buy from me. A few auick STEVE GORMAN told me that he notes; one from PIETER FISHER (Susan McAllen ’53) pledged over $200 to annual giving who says. “To be free is to be;” from even though he only went to PDS ARTIE MITTNACHT, “I’m finally in A. Vernon Shannon, Jr. ’52 (’76) for a couple of years. Very generous love, with mvself:” and from ROB of you, Steve, thanks a lot. GIPS who writes, “Have finallv found I received a nice note from KARIN political Nirvana here at Harvard Donald C. Stuart, III ’56 (’74) GROSZ saying that she is now at­ and have shaved mv hair off in order tending the University of Wisconsin to be one of them.” T wish Rob luck, amidst 36,000 other students. She but who are “them?”. See you this Clark G. Travers ’55 (’75) hangs out with GINNY MYER, summer. 32 IN MEMORIAM

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