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From the Headmaster: 2006-2007 Board of Trustees Ann V. Satterthwaite, Clerk Peter P. Arfaa James B. Bradbeer, Jr. Adrian Castelli Dear Friends, Kenneth Dunn The main theme of this edition of Kaye Edwards George Elser Directions is the environment. Our editor, Jean Farquhar ’70 Rebecca Anderson, provides an excellent Victor Freeman ’80 opening essay and has compiled profiles Christine Gaspar ’70 of Friends’ Central alumni/ae who have Robert Gassel ’69 chosen careers that reflect their interest in Edward Grinspan Irwin Gross doing their part for the environmental Walter Harris ’75 cause. We would like to think that they Sally Harrison and many other graduates have been This issue also includes a photograph Karen N. Horikawa ’77 encouraged by their experiences at of the wonderful class of 2007. It is Deborah Hull Friends’ Central to choose work compati- appropriate that the setting is the Michael Kelly Craig Lord ble with the values inherent in our traditional graduation terrace framed by Hillard Madway Quaker roots. You should know that as I stately, well-cared-for trees and flower Ed Marshall ’68 write this note, the School is exploring beds. Our hope is that our most recent Carol Mongeluzzi several further ways of reducing our use graduates will join their predecessors in Jeffrey Purdy of energy and paper and conserving making our country and the world a Lawrence S. Reichlin Marsha Rothman resources. better place, an aspiration that includes Jonathan Sprogell “developing compassion for fellow James Wright human beings across national borders Barbara M. Cohen, Emerita and valuing the environment.”The stories Joanna Haab Schoff ’51, Emerita within affirm our trust. 2006-2007 Alumni/ae Board Sincerely, Andrew Newcomb ’87, President David M. Felsen Mallory Floyd ’96, Vice President Headmaster Jordan Rubin ’98, Secretary Gail Carter ’97 Anne Dufour Clouser ’50 Bess Collier ’96 Alice Hess Crowell ’46 Andrea Deutsch ’85 David Ellis ’51 Bill Georges ’88 Susan Kelsay ’59 Peter Klein ’87 Patrick Lord ’90 On the cover: Friends’ Central’s arborist, Jane Cubberley Luce ’68 Doug Linton ’68 by Eleftherios Kostans. Latifah McMullin ’99 Donald Reimenschneider ’52 Inside front cover: Commencement 2007 Aaron Selkow ’88 Reception on the Green by Todd Swimmer ’81. Barbara Weinberg ’79 Jessica Zeldin ’88

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From the Editor:

Head of School David M. Felsen

Editor Rebecca H. Anderson Dear Friends, Director of Communications I began putting together this issue of Directions in mid-April, right around the Art Director, Designer time an unseasonal ice-storm rushed Suzanne DeMott Gaadt Gaadt Perspectives, LLC through the area, pulling down trees and Friends’ Central. Finally, the pictures of wires and flooding streets. I dug out the Commencement, Reunion, and the many Development Office Staff boots and mittens I had just packed away Home and School events celebrate the Lydia A. Martin and shoveled the snow off the suddenly strength of the community we create Director of Development incongruously yellow daffodils. By the together. Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 Director of Alumni/ae Affairs end of that very same week, the tempera- Middle School science teacher Doug James P. Brennan ture reached 90 degrees, and I scrambled Ross unwittingly tied these two different Director of Annual Giving through the closets for last summer’s themes together the other day when he Elizabeth H. Finley, Archivist/Assistant shorts and sandals. These extremes were stopped by my office to talk about the Director of Annual Giving an uncanny reminder that the conversa- School’s newly formed Environmental Joel F. W. Price tions I was having about climate change Advisory Committee and its plans for Webmaster/Data Specialist and the environment with alumni/ae and next year. “We could have solar panels, Denise Koehler Morris faculty for this issue were very current! biodiesel buses, and five green roofs, but Development Office Secretary The feature, “Going Green,” high- if we continue to throw trash on the Monica Peterson lights a deep concern we all share for the ground, nothing has been accomplished. Development Office Secretary state of the earth by looking at how sever- Our job is education and community Joshua Wasserman ’02 Development Assistant al alumni/ae are working on behalf of the building.This is a subject that will unite environment. It was important to me that us as a community and become part of Printer this issue of Directions do more than sim- our education process.” Smith-Edwards-Dunlap ply recount the efforts of others. So, for Next year will be full of activities, the first time, the magazine is printed on strategies, conversations, and celebrations We welcome any comments, letters, photographs, and suggestions for future 100% recycled paper that contains a min- focused on improving Friends’ Central’s issues. Please send all imum of 10% post-consumer waste. The environmental friendliness. Hopefully the communications to: manufacturer, Sappi, is committed to sus- articles in this issue will excite you to find Editor, Directions tainable development and does not a way to join us in a community-wide Friends’ Central School source timber from indigenous forests or effort to go green. 1101 City Avenue woodlands, does not use genetically mod- Wynnewood, PA 19096 ified trees, and does not harvest trees in Sincerely, [email protected] ways that compromise the traditional or Rebecca H. Anderson Visit Friends’ Central on the web at civil rights of any people. Director of Communications www.friendscentral.org Alongside its focus on the environment, this issue celebrates the importance Alumni/ae, we want to hear from you! of community here at Friends’ Central. Have you published a book recently? The Campus Log stories focus on cultural Run a marathon? Had a baby? communities and the efforts made by FCS encourages friends to share their Friends’ Central teachers and students to news with Directions. CORRECTIONS: Email your notes and photos to > In the Fall 2006/Winter 2007 issue, we explore the complexity and diversity of [email protected] (preferred incorrectly identified a student on page 7 other cultures. The alumni/ae featured all as Ben Melman instead of Jeffrey Berman. method) or mail information to the emphasize that their concern for the envi- > Christopher Dante Sheldon was incor- Development Office, 1101 City Avenue, ronment is a natural extension of the vital rectly listed as going to the University of Wynnewood, PA 19096. Please mark the Pittsburgh when in fact he is currently back of prints with your name and class sense of community they acquired at enrolled at the University of Rochester. year. Digital images must be of high > On page 75, Kathleen Heller belongs to quality (28” x 21” at 72 dpi, or the class of 1995 not 1999. 4” x 6” at 300 dpi). The editor regrets the errors. We accept photos up to 2MB.

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Contents

Departments 6 Campus Log 6 7 Exploring Other Cultures at Friends’ Central

12 Awards 16 Commencement 40

Feature

18 Going Green Friends’ Central Alumni/ae and the Campaign for the Environment 21 Doug Linton ’68 Rob Crauderueff ’01 Sherry McVickar ’70 17 Rachel Fertik ’91 Jonathan Adler ’87 29 In Support: Home & School, Peter Viola ’02 The Golf Classic, The Class of 49 1957 Sarah Armitage ’77

35 Alumni/ae News:Young alums, distinguished alums, and Reunion 2007

40 Reunion

41 Notes from Friends

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Cultural Explorations (Above) Students from kindergarten in front of their pyramid. Front Left to right: Gavin Sultan, Nina Saligman. A Whirlwind Trip Around the value other cultures, not just the geogra- Second row: Andrew van Buren, Ben World By Michelle Johns phy and basic facts. Klein, Thomas Bradbeer, Ben Wainfran. For many teachers, the Quaker Back row: Mia Bruckner, Amirah Alwyn, A spring walk through our halls is a emphasis on discovering that there is Nayah Moore. whirlwind trip around the world. During “that of God in every person” helps us the later part of the school year, Friends’ organize our social studies curricula (Top left) Kindergarteners Margaret Central Lower School students delve into around a celebration of differences as well Mushi, Jonah Wexler, Gideon Powell, Bradleigh Bell, Ben Schall, Jackson For- a culturally rich social studies curricu- as similarities, and the various activities rest, Henry Shin. lum. Some of the grades have created a each classroom undertakes encourage “tradition”: all first graders, for instance, each child to imagine what it is like to be (Next page, top left and below) Kachina study an Asian culture (Japan, China, or a Japanese, Hopi, or Ugandan child. Sec- dolls made in the third grade class. India); second graders all study Africa; ond graders, for instance, walk five miles third graders study Native Americans; in Valley Green each spring to raise (Next page, top right) Bruno Vogrig and the fourth grade looks at immigra- money for Streams of Life, an organiza- Gassel, Matayia Mapp, Vera Lee, tion and the United Nations. The curricu- tion that builds wells for clean water in Jonathan Adams, and Steven Folwell, lum in pre-k and kindergarten is more Kenya. The five miles is not an arbitrary all '16. flexible and the focus often changes year- distance—it is the same distance that ly. What is most important is that the stu- many school-age children in rural villages dents throughout Lower School learn to in Kenya walk each morning to gather

Eyes Wide Open On Friday, May 25th, Friends’ Central School hosted "Eyes Wide Open Across PA," an exhibit of over 160 pairs of combat boots— tagged with the names of Pennsylvanian soldiers who have died in the Iraq war, along with a display of shoes representing Iraqi civil- ian casualties. The American Friends Service Committee put together the original exhibit, "Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of War," to represent the lives lost in Iraq. This exhibit opened in Chicago in 2004 with 504 pairs of boots. It has been to more than 60 cities across the country and returned to Chicago this past Memorial Day weekend for its final show with 3400 pairs of boots. Friends’ Central was the first high school in the country to host the exhibit, co-sponsored by the Friends’ Central School Quaker Life Group and the Parents of Students of Color.

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in the classroom, in their poetry, and in their belief that the Hopi have much to teach them about relat- ing to the earth. The dolls remain on the classroom wall to remind her students to stay on the spiritual path. This spring, my kindergarten class learned about Egypt. Many of the children were surprised to learn that Egypt is in Africa, and so right away, we fresh drinking water for their families. were able to dispel many of the precon- Joan Raina’s third grade students ceived notions they have about the conti- make their own interpretation of the nent even at this early age. Of course my kachina dolls given to young Hopi chil- decision to study Egypt was also timely dren in the southwestern part of the Unit- since we have the King Tut exhibit right ed States. “Ka” means respect, and “china” in our back yard! In much the same way means spirit. The kachinas are the Hopi’s as with the Fall Project, we incorporated special protectors. They are powerful spir- many different disciplines into our social its who, the Hopi believe, come and live studies. We read stories, learned to write in their villages for six months every year Egyptian numbers, mummified apples, to help them. The Hopi believe that if made jewelry, and even designed a life- they live balanced lives, the kachina spirits size sarcophagus. The learning is hands- will bring much needed rain and a good on, interactive, and meaningful. All of us harvest. Joan loves this project because it here at Lower School believe that as our is filled with reverence for the people the world becomes smaller, it is especially children have studied and whom they important for us to understand and expe- honor in their daily spiritual ceremonies rience other cultures.

On February 27th, 27 Friends’ Ben Daniels ’03 premiered his Upper School Science teacher Min Lee ’96 was the recipient of Central Middle School students new documentary “This is My Melinda Yin’s article, “Evidence a Fulbright fellowship to France and 22 Upper School students Cheesesteak” to a sold-out audi- that a late-emerging population of where she will be working for a traveled to Cabrini College to ence on Saturday April 14th at The trunk neural crest cells forms the research group at the Ecole compete in the Southeastern Bridge (40th and Walnut). plastron bones in the turtle Tra- Nationale d’Architecture in Ver- Pennsylvania Regional Competi- Cheesesteak rivals from Pat’s King chemys scripta,” was published sailles. Min is currently pursuing a tion for the 23rd annual Science of Steaks, Geno’s, Tony Luke’s, this year in Evolution and Devel- dual PhD program in architectural Olympiad. The Middle School team Steve’s Prince of Steaks, and opment (9:3). history at Northwestern University won two medals. Ryan Cassidy John’s Roast Pork were all on and in urban sociology at the ’13 and Claudia Detre ’14 hand. We are looking forward to a DeBreea Dunston ’10 sang the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris came in 4th in Metric Mastery, and special screening here at Friends’ national anthem on March 2nd for where she is researching the histo- Sonjay Singh ’11 and Allegra Central next year! the 76ers game against the Mem- ry of cartography and its relation- Armstrong ’13 came in 2nd in phis Grizzlies, the team for which ship to 18th and 19th century

Meteorology. Overall the Middle FCS graduate Hakim Warrick ’01 French architecture. e Note School placed 19th out of 39 plays. ak

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Friends in Italy: Our Age of own in Rome, during which we serenaded Enlightenment By Joe McCaffrey, Magistra Roberts to the tune of When the parent of Colin ’13 and Kaitlyn ’10 Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie. No, Italy will never be the same for Italy will never be the same. The Italian every one of the Friends’Visit-Goth peninsula has an enormous history of horde. It was our age of enlightenment. culture and diversity developed by various good and not-so-good means including marauders, emperors, margraves, Friends in Italy, March 2007 Guelphs, and Ghibeliines. Cities such as Other Opportunities Florence, Venice, Ravenna, and Rome have been besieged and invaded by Huns, for Travel at Ostrogoths, and Visigoths. This spring Friends’ Central these cities faced an invasion of another sort when Magistra Margaret Roberts led Without a doubt, the trip fulfilled a group of forty-three Friends’ pater- and Friends’ Central’s commitment to offer- materfamilias, accompanied by their ing a diverse, rigorous, and varied educa- Spanish Exchange younger siblings and Friends’ pupilmon- tional experience. Our enormously gers, on a ravenous quest for knowledge. informative guides and rigorous schedule in Seville The March trip originally took shape took us through the country’s rich history in the thoughts of Magistra Roberts, who and modern glory, its triumphs and its French Exchange teaches Middle School Latin and Prima troubles both past and present. Lingua. She explained, “I think it is Almost unanimously, the students in Lyons invaluable for students to see that there is felt that the statue of David was the high- so much beyond our own world.” light of the tour, mainly because of our Spanish Trip Margaret based the trip around visits guide’s informative narration of the stat- to Peru to places the students studied: “There is ue’s history and creator. We learned, for nothing like being able to picture yourself instance, that despite David’s famed per- Insectocology Program standing at a site when you are learning fection, his head and the hands are larger about it, positioning yourself in the histo- than the rest of his body—perhaps in New Mexico ry,” she explains. So the group went to the because Michelangelo intended to Grand Canal, Bridge of Sighs, the Mau- emphasize the value of thought and National Observatory soleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, working with one’s hands, and to lessen in Arizona Ponte Vecchio and the Uffizi Museum in any area of the statue associated with Florence, the Catacombs, and many of pleasure. 7th Grade trip to Echo Hill the ancient and modern sights of Rome Finally, although we did not get to including the solemn Pietá and the deeply Milan to view da Vinci’s The Last Supper, moving and extraordinary Sistine Chapel. we had an inspiring last supper of our

Ian Ramsey-North ’03 placed Friend’ Central School won two Johanna Gelber ’01 is traveling Aurora Wardlaw ’07 was se- 7th in the 3,000-meter steeple- ribbons in the Philadelphia Flower to Otovalo, Ecuador this summer lected as the Seventh Congres- chase and earned his third All- Show. Jason Goodman ’07 and to work with the Village Education sional District Scholar-Athlete American honor. Ian’s first was in members of the Friends’ Central Project, an organization dedicated from Friends’ Central. This pro- 2005 for running on Haverford Horticultural Society came home to empowering rural villages by gram recognizes student athletes College’s Distance Medley Relay with a Third Place prize for a providing their young people with who best exemplify the selfless team. In 2005 he also earned All- Euphorbia Obesa and an Honor- higher education. dedication to academia and sports American honors for being one of able Mention for a Notocactus that help define the leaders of the top 35 cross-country runners. Turecekianus, a species that had Emily Ziffer ’09 placed 3rd in tomorrow. never before been entered in the the 2007 National Bouldering Flower Show. All of the plants were Competition and, once again, David Eisner ’08 organized a purchased with money from the made the 2007 USA Junior Boul- benefit concert featuring Brad- John Singer Memorial Fund for dering Team. She also competed digan (of Dispatch), Penn’s award-

e Note greenhouse plants and were nur- in the open adult category and winning a cappella group Off the tured since the fall by members of placed 11th nationally. Beat, and Drexel singer/ song- ak

T the FCS Horticultural Society. writer, Matt Duke, for WXPN Musi- cians On Call, a nonprofit organi-

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Conversation and Activism in (Top left, bottom right) Posters protesting the violence in Darfur French II/II Advanced made by French II students. By Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg (Bottom left) Front left to right: A French proverb reads: “It is by forging Madelena Rizzo ’10, Alexandra that one learns to forge.”And, so, it is Lizzi ’09, Morgan Gunter ’09, through speaking that one learns to speak Samantha Greenberg and communicate. This has always been ’10. Back left to right: my approach to the teaching of French: Spencer Hewett ’10 and speaking, discussing, debating, reading, Hassan Zaki ’10 discussing the reading.In my view, the courses are conversations that blend chat about our personal opinions on diverse topics with comparisons to opinions from the French-speaking world. “Let’s find out what you believe,” I say to my students. “How do you feel about this sport, music, lifestyle, responsibility, world view? Let’s compare your perspective to that of your classmates. Now let’s explore outside of ourselves in the larger French-speaking but also to express their ideas about the world, not only through readings and greater world; they become empowered to film, but through actual communication ies. In French II / II Advanced this year communicate about their immediate with those who share our common we have moved from talking about our- world, as well as about ways in which ground, the French language.” selves as individuals to creating group they can change the world. Our contacts The Quaker values of tolerance, poems on friendship, from chatting about with French speakers from other schools, peace, and truth lend a crucial focal point everyday interests amongst ourselves and be they in our region or in other coun- to all of our classroom conversations and with our Middle School French friends to tries, and with other governments help activities. Over the course of this year I writing friendship letters to children in them apply their French lessons to com- have developed projects to help students Haiti, from discussing world issues to municate, explore, and take meaningful use French in ways that reflect these val- writing and sending letters to the action. ues and make the communication socially Sudanese ambassador to France demand- Through their French studies my stu- relevant. To me, it is essential that stu- ing an end to the violence in Darfur.The dents learn that their opinions are impor- dents perceive their power to communi- ever-widening circle of our conversations tant, but so are the opinions of others, no cate important ideas—about friendship, helps the students learn about themselves matter what language they speak. We ecology, the search for peace, politics, as they learn another language. share common ground regarding friend- homelessness, poverty, and cultural and Through French they find their ship and peace; let’s collaborate to create religious diversity—in their French stud- voice, not only to talk about themselves, change for a better world.

zation that brings live and record- Eight Friends’ Central students students at Baldwin, Shipley, On February 22nd, Pulitzer-prize ed music to the bedsides of qualified for the America Invita- Agnes Irwin, Haverford, Episcopal, winning journalist and Friends’ patients in healthcare facilities. tional Mathematics Exam (AIME) and Friends’ Central. Central alum Dan Biddle ’71 Eisner raised over $40,000—more based on their performance on the delivered a talk entitled “Investi- than his goal and more than American Mathematics Competi- A classroom discussion about civil gating History: How two Philadel- enough to fund the program for tions 12 exam. The students are rights compelled Friends’ Central phia Inquirer Reporters Uncovered one year. Ben Loughin ’07, Luke Pryor first graders to come up with a an Untold Story of the Civil Rights ’07, Justin Chen ’07, Joshua way they could help “right” injus- Movement” as part of the Film Upper School English teacher Liza Abel ’07, Eric Nisenbaum ’07, tice. They decided to start collect- and Lecture Series. The talk pre- Ewen was awarded a grant from Scott Kunz ’08, and Jennifer ing backpacks, underwear, tooth- viewed Biddle’s forthcoming book, the National Endowment for the Simon ’09. brushes, and stuffed animals for There Must Come a Change: Catto Humanities to study poetry this The Children’s Aid Society to dis- Octavius and the Battle for Civil summer with Harvard professor This year, Friends’ Central took its tribute to children in foster care. Rights in the North in the 1860s

Helen Vendler. turn hosting the 20th Annual Annie Roberts ’08, Elizabeth to be published by Temple Univer- e Note Inter-School Art Exhibition. This Drebin ’08, Mira Kauffman- sity Press in 2008. ak

exhibition celebrates the best in Rosengarten ’08, and Emily T visual art done by Upper School Lorry ’08 led the efforts. >>

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Exploring Vanishing Cultures, Ethnodiversity, and “The Light at the Edge of the World”

This spring, Friends’ Central welcomed Wade Davis, National Geographic Explor- er-in-Residence, as a part of the first annual Distinguished Scientist Program. The new program, which is the brainchild of Upper School science teacher John Gruber and a supportive alum, seeks to (Left) Portrait of Wade Davis. inspire the next generation of scientists, Photo by Tyler Mallory. researchers, and policy makers by bring- Human societies, Davis notes, are ing renowned scientists to Friends’ Cen- disappearing at an unbelievable rate due (Above) Left to right: Sakina Abdus Shakur, tral for courses with the students and a to climate change, global trade, and the Julia Ellis-Kahana, Phyllis Gallagher (teacher), public lecture. The students follow up the spread of industrialized culture and tech- Naomi Crimm, Stephen Nemroff, Tom Ringe, visit with their own field-trip to work nology. He mourns the loss of knowledge Brandon Laing, Wade Davis, Amy Corenswet, with the scientist in his or her laboratory. as much as he does the loss of linguistic, Eric Sorensen. All students are class of ’09. This year’s Distinguished Scientist religious, cultural, and ideological diversi- was Wade Davis, an ethnobotanist and ty. For instance, the Waorani hunters can anthropologist who has spent the past 25 correctly identify an animal from 40 yards with their dreams and prayers, their years studying the ways indigenous peo- away by the smell of its urine, while myths and memories, teach us that there ple live in harmony with the natural native tribes in the Philippines can identi- are indeed other ways of being, alterna- world. He has lived in Borneo, Australia, fy close to 500 more plants than western- tive visions of life, birth, death, and cre- Tibet, Kenya, Haiti, the Arctic, and the educated research botanists. We may ation itself.” Amazon exploring the connection think we have little to learn from small, Davis’s lecture was inspiring, as were between culture and biodiversity. In his self-sustaining cultures that inhabit the his visits to the classrooms where he was lecture, “Light at the Edge of the World: South American rain forests or barren able to talk with the Friends’ Central stu- An Exploration of Diversity in the Bio- mountain tops, but in fact, “these cultures dents much more directly. As Alex Barron logical and Human Worlds,” Davis do not represent failed attempts at ’09 said, “Wade Davis helped us to look at focused on the ethnosphere, the “wonder- modernity, marginal peoples who some- these cultures without being clouded by ful collection of thoughts, dreams, ideas, how missed the technological train to the our own experiences. He opened our eyes beliefs, myths, and intuitions we have cre- future. On the contrary, these peoples, to an unknown world--the vastness of ated since the dawn of consciousness.” human cultures.”

Ready…Set…Go!

On May 12th, Friends’ Central celebrated the opening of its brand new, all-weather track and soccer field. The old dirt and cinder track, built in 1968, was one of the last of its kind. The surface was slow, difficult to maintain, and potentially dangerous in poor weather. Spurred by a leading gift from Barbara and Anthony DeSabato, Friends’ Central commissioned the Stephen Parks & Associates, the leading landscape architecture and planning firm for athletic fields in our area, to design a new, state-of-the-art all-weather track. The old track was removed in the fall, and the work continued through the winter and much of the spring. Finally amidst the sunshine and good cheer of Reunion Weekend, the new track opened. Friends’ Central athletes, families, and alumni/ae all poured through the gates to walk the first lap together.

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Upper School: Campus Log

The Upper School FacultyT Recommends….his summer, Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission is a great one in which to meet him again. The two cities are London to Promote Peace…One School at a and Paris in the time of the French revolution. Two seemingly separate Time by Greg Mortenson plot lines become more and more intertwined until they are one as you This book chronicles the adventures of moun- follow the journey of our main characters. You will witness the heights taineer Greg Mortenson who, between and depths of human nature as you read about the best of times and 1993–2003, built 55 schools—especially for the worst of times. (Jim Rosengarten) girls—in impoverished mountain villages in Pakistan. The book won the 2007 Kiriyama Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Prize for nonfiction, an award for outstanding The purpose of education is to prepare us for the life we will lead in the books that promote greater understanding of and among the nations of world; Hailsham School, where Kathy, Tommy and Ruth, the protago- the Pacific Rim and South Asia. (Carrie Brodsky) nists of Never Let Me Go, first encounter one another attempts to fulfill that purpose for a special group of students. Narrated by Kathy, the Siddhartha by Herman Hesse novel follows their journey as they come to understand themselves, the Siddhartha, a short, 125-page novel by Hermann Hesse, follows the role they were created to play, and the world that would relegate them path of a young Asian man in search of enlightenment. He learns of the to that destiny. (Jim Davis) Buddha and many other spiritual teachers and of the variety of paths they offer: asceticism, self-rejection, indulgence, sexuality. Ultimately, Black Swan Green by David Mitchell he finds self-realization and peace as a ferryboat man living humbly in January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor—covert stammerer and a tiny hut by a river. (Michael Crauderueff) reluctant poet—anticipates a tedious year in his backwater English village. But what come his way are bullies, watching his family fall apart in Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl slow motion, and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting Q: What do you get when The O.C., Alfred Hitchcock, The Catcher in thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, the Rye, and the most influential works of Western literature collide? this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life. A: Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Follow Blue van Meer as she navi- (Matt Murphy) gates her senior year as a new student at St. Gallway, the small, presti- gious prep school where she finds herself drawn into the web of a The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz clique of misfit-intellectuals and the enigmatic teacher they idolize. Who would have imagined? Here we are, in the early years of the twen- Simultaneously naïve and a bit too smart for her own good, Blue dis- ty-first century, being driven bonkers by the staggering array of con- covers that murder, mystery and international intrigue give new mean- sumer goods from which we must choose. Choosing something as ing to adolescent angst and the perils of high school. I was mesmerized, (seemingly) simple as shampoo can force us to wade through dozens, delighted and utterly obsessed with Blue’s story when I read it earlier even hundreds, of brands. We are, the author suggests, overwhelmed by this year, and so were plenty of other folks—it was hailed as one of the choice, and that’s not such a good thing. Schwartz tells us that con- best books of 2006 by critics and readers alike. (Liza Ewen) stantly being asked to make choices, even about the simplest things, forces us to “invest time, energy, and no small amount of self-doubt, The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts Harrey and dread.”There comes a point, he contends, at which choice becomes Milk is one of my heroes. His fascinating life story, as told in this biog- debilitating rather than liberating.Did I make the right choice? Can I raphy by award-winning author Randy Shilts, encompasses both tri- ever make the right choice? Schwartz has plenty of insightful things to umph and tragedy. From his beginnings as a camera shop owner in San say here about the perils of everyday life. (Phyllis Gallagher) Francisco, to his election as the first openly gay City Supervisor, to his assassination in City Hall at the hands of another City Supervisor, to Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas the demonstrations and activism that followed his death, Harvey Milk Firoozeh is a young girl, born in Iran, who moved with her family to changed the world for both straight and l/g/b/t people alike. His story Southern California in the early seventies. Her book is a collection of is one every person should read; it encourages us to live life with delightful essays that “chronicle the American journey of Dumas’s won- courage, optimism, and hope for a better future. (Al Vernacchio) derfully engaging family.” Funny in Farsi is a touching story of family love, the struggle of being your own person and yet respecting family A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens heritage and tradition. Funny in Farsi reminded me of the movie My As a wee college lad, while riding the Indianapolis bus to my summer Big Fat Greek Wedding. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book! (Laura job at the municipal gas plant, I was so taken by the first paragraph of Haimm) this book that I memorized it then and there. (True to Pavlov, when I get on a Septa bus I often start reciting it.) If you’ve never read Dickens, this is a great book to introduce you to him. If you have read him, this

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All School: Awards

2007 Cum Laude FANNIE COX HENDRIE Society inductees STIPEND AWARD RECIPIENTS

Dyann Connor Dyann will take two courses at St. Joseph University: “Science in the Middle CUM LAUDE MATHEMATICS School” and “Reading in Content Areas.” Joshua David Abel The Mathematical Association of America Michael Fedder Joshua Seth Aichenbaum and Friends’ Central School present the Noor Muhammad Raheem Beckwith mathematics award. Selection of the stu- Michael will learn and develop curricula Gabriel Zenon Bloomfield dent receiving the award is based on the around two new technologies: “Alice” and Max David Branzburg scores made on the Annual American “Vex.” Justin Chao-Nien Chen High School Mathematics Examination. Melissa Ashley Hewson The awards are a book and gift certifi- Phyllis Gallagher Julian Somes Kantor cates to: Phyllis will attend the Chautauqua Insti- Natalie Julia Kitroeff Scott Kunz tution for a series of weekly lecture topics Erica Danielle Kivitz Eric Nisenbaum and discussions hosted by experts in vari- Susanna Kurnick ous areas of human interest. Benjamin Joshua Loughin Jonathan Samuel Milestone The POETS & PLAYWRIGHTS PRIZE Deborah Goldader & Sara Callaghan Eric Jeffrey Nisenbaum This award, sponsored by the English Together, Deb and Sara will observe and Luke Christopher Pryor department, recognizes the work of poets document the behavior of plasma in the David Marc Siegel & dramatists in our student community. Emily Jennifer Spooner Jasmine Martin “Northern Lights;” and will design a Laura Kathleen Umbrecht workshop for students of chemistry and Michael Brian Weiss physics alike about plasma. THE RAMSEY AWARD FOR PROSE Given by Mary Ann Ramsey’41, a writer, Mary Gregg LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT editor and public relations director, this Mary will attend the Dana Hall Summer The Foreign Language Department recog- award recognizes a writer for a piece of Math Institute from June 17-22, 2007. nizes juniors and seniors who have exhib- fiction or non-fiction prose. ited exceptional achievement on an Gabriel Bloomfield John Gruber advanced level and enthusiasm in their John will attend an educators’ seminar foreign language studies. and retreat in the Pacific Northwest. Joshua Abel BENJAMIN V. OGDEN AWARD Julian Kantor Given by Mrs. Andrew Joseph Newman, Chris Guides Natalie Kitroeff Jr. and the late Thomas B. Ogden, ’45 in Chris will attend the Environmental Sys- memory of their father Benjamin V. tems Research Institute Education User Ogden, Director of Friends’ Central Sum- Conference in San Diego, CA. HISTORY PRIZE PAPER mer Day Camp for fifteen years and Juniors in their American History classes teacher of physical education in the Gayle Harmer each undertake an independent, primary Philadelphia Public School System. Mr. Gayle will attend three math workshops source-based research project in the sec- Ogden was concerned about developing to be held this spring for all Lower School ond half of the year.They begin the topic future citizens who were aware of their selection process in January, gather and spiritual, mental, and social responsibili- faculty. begin to study their sources in February, ties. A silver bowl has inscribed on it the Julie Plunkett present “work in progress reports” to recipients in the Upper School. Julie will work with Nick Pulos during their peers in March, submit rough drafts Joshua Aichenbaum in April and turn in their completed Sarah Bach the remainder of this school year and in essays in May. The history department Erica Kivitz the summer to work on a body of math takes this opportunity to highlight two of Emily Olson materials of ten broad topics. these works and to recognize the time and energy devoted to all of their projects Doug Ross by the class of 2005. CALVIN RANKIN AWARD Doug will do a presentation on his eighth Julia Feinberg Established for Calvin Rankin ’43, whose grade’s environmental service learning in Laura Umbrecht fine and sensitive spirit displayed itself in Albuquerque, NM. a love of great music, in a gift for dis- criminating writing, and in a character Erik Williams SCIENCE that combined gentleness with integrity. Erik will take The College of the Atlantic’s The faculty of the Science Department A group of friends offers annually a care- summer course for teachers, “Introduc- presents this award to senior students fully selected book to students who are tion to Whales, Porpoises and Seals” from who have demonstrated excellence in sci- worthy representatives of the high ideals entific scholarship and achievement, and for which Calvin Rankin is remembered. July 22-August 4, 2007 in Bar Harbor, who have shown breadth of study across Gabriel Bloomfield Maine. the science disciplines. Melissa Hewson Sarah Bach Emily Spooner Noor Beckwith Laura Umbrecht Melissa Hewson

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All School: Awards

Athletic Award winners: Joshua Aichenbaum, Jacob Fogel, CLAYTON FARRADAY SUMMER Brennan Umsted, Maggie Lile, STIPEND AWARD RECIPIENTS Sarah Friedman, Emily Olson Janet Bowker Janet will travel to Tuscany to study LEOLA ADELAIDE SMITH FLORENCE JACKSON AWARD works of art and literature for use as a MEMORIAL AWARD For twenty-two years, Florence Jackson teaching tool for the Lower School Established in memory of Leola Adelaide was the predominant figure in the area of Renaissance theme. Smith, ’74 by her classmates and friends, girls’ athletics at Friends’ Central School. this award is to be given annually to stu- The Florence Jackson award is given to Sue Clough dents who have an appreciation for cul- that girl who, through her dedication and Sue will travel to Greece and Italy. She tural and intellectual pursuits and at the love of sports, has shown to the coaches will document in photographs the con- same time are sensitive to the beauty in the outstanding qualities of leadership, nection between the ancient cultures and nature as well as in people. Leola set an sportsmanship, and spirit which Mrs. the Renaissance. example for all of us—she possessed dig- Jackson sought to instill. nity, integrity, a desire to learn, a love of Maggie Lile Michael Crauderueff people, and a talent in music and art. Michael will attend a teachers’ conference Noor Beckwith in Berkeley, California. The conference, Samantha Eisenberg DAVID KIRK MEMORIAL AWARD “Creating a Culture of Nonviolence: In Stella Schwartz David Kirk was an instrumental figure in the area of athletics at Friends’ Central. the Classroom, Community and Beyond,” This award is given to boys who, through will help in the Peace Studies course that ART ACQUISITION AWARD their dedication and love of sports, have Michael plans to teach next year. From time to time it is in the interest of shown to their coaches the outstanding the school to acquire an exceptional qualities of leadership, sportsmanship, Alexa Dunnington work of art made by an accomplished and spirit which David Kirk sought to Alexa will travel to Oxford, England to student. This year Friends’ Central is instill. This honor is awarded to two take her final graduate course at Lincoln proud to honor and grateful to accept the young men in the Upper School who are College; Alexa will graduate in Oxford on donation of just such a work made by selected in the spring by all coaches of August 4th. Kate Lindenbaum boys’ sports. Jacob Fogel Emily Pryor Brennan Umsted Emily will travel to Chile this summer to SUSAN DURNFORD SNIPES reconnect with the Chilean culture and to MEMORIAL AWARD Given by the Upper School Faculty, in OUTSTANDING SENIOR keep her linguistic skills sharp. She will memory of Susan Durnford Snipes, in ATHLETE AWARD use photography and video to compile recognition of outstanding contributions The outstanding senior athlete award is scenes of people, scenes and objects that made by seniors to community service in presented to members of the graduating will augment her classroom lessons. the school. This year the faculty would class who have demonstrated outstanding like to honor: skills in athletic competition as members Jim Rosengarten Catherine Adler-Josem of at least two Friends’ Central Varsity Jim will attend a six-day retreat led by Renata Arauz-DeStefano teams during their senior year.The crite- David Mallery at the Westtown School in Gabriel Bloomfield ria for the award include athletic achieve- June. Basil Coutifaris ment, leadership ability and sportsman- Kathleen Fox ship throughout their high school careers. Al Vernacchio Natalie Kitroeff Joshua Aichenbaum Al will attend the workshop “Sources Maxwell Skolnick Sarah Friedman of Spiritual Renewal for Educators” at Emily Olson Pendle Hill in July. JOHN H. MCCOLLUM MEMORIAL AWARD EXECUTIVE AWARD The Home & School Association recog- Awarded to a boy and girl in the Upper nizes graduating senior young women School who, by vote of students and fac- and young men who represent the spirit ulty, represent the highest qualifications John McCollum brought to the commu- of school citizenship. nity of Friends’ Central School. Sam Aronson The deserving students are presented Claire Glass with a book (selected by representatives of the Home & School Association and/or the faculty) that hopes to signify some of the philosophy espoused by John during his tenure. Renata Arauz-DeStefano Julia Feinberg Kathleen Fox Benjamin Loughin Painting by Kate Lindenbaum Amber Sims

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All School: Athletic Awards

2006-2007 Boys’ and Girls’ Swim Teams— Friends League Cham- pions

WINTER ATHLETIC AWARDS 2006-2007 SPORT MOST VALUABLE MOST IMPROVED CAPTAINS Boys’ Basketball Quaran Johnson Arthur Bush Quaran Johnson, Tymiak Hawkins Girls’ Basketball Sarah Friedman Talia East Sarah Friedman, Maggie Lile Erica Bash Wrestling Jacob Fogel Hal Woodin Jacob Fogel Boys’ Indoor Track Patrick DeSabato Brennan Umsted Jon Dellum, Parker Umsted, Parker Umsted Brennan Umsted, Patrick DeSabato Girls’Indoor Track Madelena Rizzo Alexandra Barron Emily Olson, Jordane Blum Boys’ Swimming Michael Weiss Thomas “Max” Bernard Mike Weiss John Armstrong Maxwell Gilbert Girls’ Swimming Mary Stroman Taylor Anderson Mary Stroman

ALL FRIENDS SCHOOLS Boys’ Basketball: 1st team, Quaran Johnson ’07; HM, Arthur Bush ’09 Girls’ Basketball: 1st team, Sarah Friedman ’07; HM, Erica Bash ’09 Wrestling: 1st team, Jacob Fogel ’07, Fernando Jones ’08, Ken Ludwig ’08; HM, Jacob Snider ’09, Nathan Rieder ’07, Bryan Farrar ’08, Hall Woodin ’09 Boys’ Swimming: 1st team, Chris Hall ’08, Michael Weiss ’07, John Armstrong ’09, Justin Chen ’07; HM, Jordan Villars ’08 Girls’ Swimming: 1st team, Mary Stroman ’08, Sarah Shaw ’10, Andie Luongo ’09, Olivia Gillison ’10

FRIENDS SCHOOLS LEAGUE INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS Girls’ Swimming: 200 yd. Medley Relay: Sarah Shaw ’10, Sonja Eisl ’09, Olivia Gillison ’10, Andie Luongo ’09; 500 yd. Freestyle: Sarah Shaw ’10; 400 yd. Freestyle Relay: Olivia Gillison ’10, Sarah Shaw ’10, Andie Luongo ’09, Mary Stroman ’08; 200 yd. Freestyle Relay: Olivia Gillison ’10, Sarah Shaw ’10, Sonja Eisl ’09, Mary Stroman ’08 Boys’ Swimmming: 200 yd. Medley Relay: Michael Weiss ’07, John Armstrong ’09, Chris Hall ’08, Jordan Villars ’08; 200 yd. Freestyle: John Armstrong ’09; 200 yd. IM: Michael Weiss ’07; 50 yd. Freestyle: Chris Hall ’08; 100 yd. Butterfly: Michael Weiss ’07; 500 yd. Freestyle: Jordan Villars ’08; 100 yd. Backstroke: John Armstrong ’09; 100 yd. Breaststroke: Chris Hall ’08; 400 yd. Freestyle Relay: John Armstrong ’09, Justin Chen ’07, Michael Weiss ’07, Chris Hall ’08

FRIENDS SCHOOL LEAGUE TEAM CHAMPIONS Boys’ Swimming and Girls’ Swimming

ALL MAIN LINE Boys’ Basketball: 1st team, Quaran Johnson ’07; 2nd team, Sam Propper ’08, Arthur Bush ’09 Girls’ Basketball: 1st team, Sarah Friedman ’07; 2nd team, Erica Bash ’09, Margaret Lile ’07; HM, Taylor Lee ’08, Talia East ’10 Boys’ Swimming: 1st team, Chris Hall ’08, John Armstrong ’09; 2nd team, Michael Weiss ’07; HM, Justin Chen ’07 Girls’ Swimming: 1st team, Mary Stroman ’08, Sarah Shaw ’10; 2nd team, Olivia Gillison ’10, Andie Luongo ’09 Wrestling: 1st team, Jacob Fogel ’07, Frenando Jones ’08; 2nd team, Ken Ludwig ’08; HM, Hal Woodin ’09, Bryan Farrar ’08 Boys’ Indoor Track: 1st team, Patrick DeSabato ’09, Ivo Milic-Strkalj ’09; 2nd team, Colin Yarnell ’08; HM, Dan Adelson ’09, Jon Dellum ’07 Girls’Indoor Track: 1st team, Madelena Rizzo ’10; 2nd team, Emily Olson ’07

MAIN LINE TIMES ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Quaran Johnson ’07, Chris Hall ’08

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2007 Spring Athletic Award Winners

SPRING ATHLETIC AWARDS 2007 SPORT MOST VALUABLE MOST IMPROVED CAPTAINS Baseball Andrew Roth Thomas Lefevre Joshua Aichenbaum, Max Branzburg Andrew Roth Softball Sarah Bach Elizabeth Deutschman Sarah Bach Boys’ Tennis Joshua Abel Alexander Margolies Joshua Abel Girls’Lacrosse Sarah Friedman Sarah Bradburd Natalie Kitroeff, Margaret Lile Margaret Lile Candice Hardie Natalie Kitroeff Boys’ Lacrosse Noor Beckwith David Thomas Brennan Umsted, Noor Beckwith Kristoffer Jones Girls’ Track Jordane Blum Elisabeth Fifer Jordane Blum, Emily Olson Emily Olson Samantha Greenberg Boys’ Track Patrick DeSabato Michael Dohrmann Jon Dellum, Patrick DeSabato Isiah Hammond Lance Jones, Jr. Bryan Farrar,Sam Propper Golf Benjamin Bersoff Matthew Biron Oliver Backes

ALL FRIENDS SCHOOLS Boys’ Track: 1st team, Patrick DeSabato ’09, Bryan Farrar ’08, Isiah Hammond ’07, Lance Jones, Jr. ’08, Ivo Milic-Strkalj ’09 Girls’ Track: 1st team, Megan Wilson ’09, Elisabeth Fifer ’09, Emily Olson ’07, Jordane Blum ’07 Baseball: 1st team, Andrew Roth ’07, Richard Moses ’09, Thomas Lefevre ’08; HM, Edward Rooney ’10 Boys’ Lacrosse: 1st team, Noor Beckwith ’07, Andrew Fusselbaugh ’09; HM, Henry Lobb ’10 Girls’Lacrosse: 1st team, Sarah Friedman ’07, Natalie Kitroeff ’07, Margaret Lile ’07, Sarah Bradburd ’08, Lindsay Nadkarni ’08 Golf: 1st team, Benjamin Bersoff ’09; Softball: HM, Sarah Bach ’07, Katherine Ivory ’07 Tennis: 1st team, Joshua Abel ’07, Basil Coutifaris ’07, Brendan Kaminsky ’08, Alexander Margolies ’10; HM, Daniel Fedder ’08

FRIENDS SCHOOLS LEAGUE INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS Tennis: 3rd Singles: Brendan Kaminsky ’08; 1st Doubles: Basil Coutifaris ’07, Joshua Abel ’07; 2nd Doubles: Henry Friedman ’08, Daniel Fedder ’08 Boys’ Track: 4x100 (3rd place): Jonathan Dellum ’07, Christian Weber ’10, Tymiak Hawkins ’07, Isiah Hammond ’07; 4x400 (2nd place): Ivo Milic-Strkalj ’09, Jonathan Dellum ’07, Isiah Hammond ’07, Michael Dohrmann ’08; 100 meter: 1st place: Isiah Hammond ’07; 110 High Hurdles (2nd place): Michael Dohrmann ’08; 200 meter (3rd place): Isiah Hammond ’07; 300 Intermediate Hurdles (2nd place): Michael Dohrmann ’08; 1600 meter (3rd place): Ivo Milic-Strkalj ’09; 3200 meter (2nd place): Patrick DeSabato ’09; Discus (2nd place): Sam Propper ’08; Pole Vault (1st place): Bryan Farrar ’08; Javelin (1st place): Lance Jones ’08, (3rd place): Sam Propper ’08; Girls’ Track: 4x100 (1st place): Megan Wilson ’09, Jordane Blum ’07, Michelle Smith ’07, Tracy Weldon ’08; 4x400 (2nd place): Jordane Blum ’07, Michelle Smith ’07, Emily Olson ’07, Samantha Greenberg ’10; 100 meter (1st place): Megan Wilson ’09; 200 meter (1st place): Megan Wilson ’07; 400 meter (1st place): Tracy Weldon ’08; 300 Intermediate Hurdles (3rd place): Jordane Blum ’07; Discus (1st place): Elisabeth Fifer ’09, (2nd place): Jona Shreeves-Taylor ’09, (3rd place): Ashley Beard ’07; Javelin (3rd place): Elisa- beth Fifer ’09; Pole Vault (2nd place): Natalie Willis ’09

ALL MAIN LINE Baseball: 1st team, Andrew Roth ’07; 2nd team, Richard Moses ’09, Thomas Lefevre ’08; HM, Edward Rooney ’10; Boys’ Track: 1st team, Patrick DeSaba- to ’09, Ivo Milic-Strkalj ’09, Isiah Hammond ’07; 2nd team, Michael Dohrmann ’08, Bryan Farrar ’08, Lance Jones ’08; HM, Sam Propper ’08, Peter Chawaga ’09, Jacob Snider ’09; Boys’ Tennis: 1st team, Joshua Abel ’07, Henry Friedman ’08, Daniel Fedder ’08; 2nd team, Basil Coutifaris ’07, Brendan Kaminsky ’08, Alexander Margolies ’10; Boys’ Lacrosse: 1st team, Noor Beckwith ’07, Andrew Fusselbaugh ’09; 2nd team, Henry Lobb ’10; Soft- ball: 2nd team, Katherine Ivory ’07, Sarah Bach ’07; HM, Taylor Lee ’08, Grace Honik ’07; Girls’ Track: 1st team, Emily Olson ’07, Jordane Blum ’07, Elisabeth Fifer ’09; 2nd team, Natalie Willis ’09, Tracy Weldon ’08, Megan Wilson ’09; HM, Samantha Greenberg ’10, Kristen Mann ’10; Girls’Lacrosse: 1st team, Maragret Lile ’07, Natalie Kitroeff ’07, Sarah Friedman ’07; 2nd team, Sarah Bradburd ’08, Lindsay Nadkarni ’08

MAIN LINE TIMES ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Andrew Roth ’07 ALL NORTHEAST LACROSSE LEAGUE: 1st team, Andrew Fusselbaugh ’09, Noor Beckwith ’07; 2nd team, Ahmad Zachary ’10, Henry Lobb ’10; HM, Emmett Culhane ’09, Andrew Mongeluzzi ’10, Brennan Umsted ’07 GIRLS’ LACROSSE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS: Natalie Kitroeff ’07, Erica Kivitz ’07, Margaret Lile ’07, Candice Hardie ’08, Lindsay Nadkarni ’08 BOYS’ LACROSSE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS: Noor Beckwith ’07 7th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT SCHOLAR ATHLETE: Aurora Wardlaw ’07

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Friends’ Central: Commencement

STUDENT COLLEGE CHOICE STUDENT COLLEGE CHOICE Joshua Abel Swarthmore College Melissa Hewson University of Rochester (EMS) Catherine Adler-Josem Sarah Lawrence College Jasmine Hill Alfred University Joshua Aichenbaum Middlebury College Grace Honik University of Michigan Renata Arauz-DeStefano Tufts University Katherine Ivory Tulane University Samuel Aronson University of Pennsylvania Quaran Johnson East Stroudsburg University Earl Atta-Fynn Middlebury College Kristoffer Jones Drexel University Sarah Bach Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jeffrey Kang Penn State University - Del Co Noah Bachow Franklin & Marshall College Julian Kantor Yale University Lara Baidoo studying in Australia Nicole Kirk Pitzer College Ashley Beard Hampton University Natalie Kitroeff Princeton University Noor Beckwith Harvard University Erica Kivitz University of Pennsylvania Lindsay Bedford University of Pittsburgh Mwaputsa Kuretu Drexel University Emily Berger ’08 MIT Susanna Kurnick Dartmouth College Dana Berschler Syracuse University Margaret Lile Wesleyan University Niara Blakney Hampton University Kendra Linton Neumann College Gabriel Bloomfield Yale University Zachary Lobb Temple University Laurie Bludman Penn State University Benjamin Loughin University of Pennsylvania Jordane Blum SUNY Binghampton Laura Matey Penn State University Max Branzburg Princeton University Darryl McDuffie Drexel University Sarah Brodsky Connecticut College Jonathan Milestone Brown University Sarah Brown Howard University Shane Newman Drexel University Amanda Carr Franklin & Marshall College Max Nisen Pomona College Peter Castelli University of Vermont Eric Nisenbaum Dartmouth College Justin Chen Washington University in St. Louis Emily Olson Muhlenberg College Christian Chester undecided Shawn Orr Johns Hopkins University Deanna Connor University of Delaware Elena Pereira University of Pennsylvania Basil Coutifaris Franklin & Marshall College Benjamin Present University of Maryland Matthew Dancis Drexel University Luke Pryor Cornell University Jonathan Dellum LaSalle University Emily Radson Penn State University Andrew Duncan Philadelphia University Sarah Ribner University of Pennsylvania Samuel Dweck George Washington University Nathan Rieder University of Southern California Samantha Eisenberg Goucher College Julie Roberts Muhlenberg College Matthew Elser Clarkson University Brittany Rodriguez University of Maryland Julia Feinberg Stanford University Danielle Rodriguez Goucher College Samuel Feldbaum Lafayette College Holly Rooney Syracuse University Caroline Fenkel University of Delaware Andrew Roth Oberlin College Kathleen Fox Franklin & Marshall College Stella Schwartz Smith College Jacob Fogel Oberlin College David Siegel University of Pennsylvania Sarah Friedman University of Pennsylvania Amber Sims Eastern University Allison Gibson New York University Maxwell Skolnick Syracuse University Julie Gilbert University of Maryland Michelle Smith St. John’s University Claire Glass New York University Kevin Smith Mansfield University Cameron Glen Penn State University- Del Co Emily Spooner Tufts University Jessica Goldstein Ithaca College Laura Umbrecht Georgetown University Jason Goodman Connecticut College Brennan Umsted Penn State University Jeremy Greenbaum Penn State University Parker Umsted Penn State University Isiah Hammond Columbia College in Chicago Aurora Wardlaw University of Pennsylvania Philip Harrison Hampton University Michael Weiss University of Pennsylvania Tymiak Hawkins Eastern University Mark Ziffer Colby College

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Friends’ Central Class of 2007

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1. Commencement speaker, Claire Glass ’07

2. The class of 2007

3. Headmaster David Felsen

4. Jeremy Greenbaum’07 and Michael Weiss ’07

5. Amanda Carr ’07

6. Lara Baidoo ’07 and Noor Beckwith ’07 6. 7. Commencement speaker, Earl Atta-Fynn ’07

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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. Wendell Berry

18 Friends’ Central 20907_FCHS_18-27.qxp 9/11/07 2:08 PM Page 19 Going Green Very few of us will dispute the truth, however inconvenient, that climate change isT a reality. We live in a warmer world, and everywhere schools, cities, politicians, These examples are just a few of the celebrities, and neighborhoods are “going ways in which the Friends’ Central com- green.” The question we all need to ask, as munity of students and teachers is working communities, institutions, and individuals, to make the School more environmentally is what exactly will we do now? How will friendly. We have a long way to go and we use our amazing capacity for progress many changes still to make. But we are tak- and invention to rethink our relation to the ing the small steps that we can. world, the efficiency of our systems of pro- The problem is that in order to make a duction and culture, the difference between significant difference we must spend more our needs and our habits of consumption? time thinking about the roots of the prob- The Friends’ Central community has lem, not just the immediate solutions. For embraced the environmental cause with instance, a large part of our waste on cam- characteristic thoughtfulness and commit- pus happens in the cafeteria. But if we ment, and our students and teachers have could just use plates instead of the dispos- initiated a variety of original ways to “go able cardboard dishes and metal utensils green.” instead of the plastic ones, we would dra- On May 15th, an 8th grade Earth matically improve our eco-friendliness. The Force team installed a green roof outside difficulty is that a plastic container can be Room 25 of the Wood Building; the picked up and the contents eaten anywhere; Friends’ Central cafeteria serves organic, then, the container can be tossed into a fair trade coffee in environmentally friendly trash can as we run across campus to class disposable cups; we have a composting or read through email at our desk. The real project; the campus is an arboretum; Lower changes we need to make are difficult ones, School science teacher Peter Grove has a because the real changes we need to make bird blind, a beehive, a frog pond, and a are lifestyle changes—we need to choose to vegetable garden; Upper School science forego the extra minutes studying or teacher John Gruber and Middle School returning phone calls and instead set aside science teacher Doug Ross have partnered enough time to eat lunch, sitting down, in with neighboring Lankenau Hospital and the cafeteria. That, for too many of us, is the Jewish Community Center to restore very difficult to do. the wetlands around Indian Creek; Upper This issue of Directions profiles a few School science teacher Phyllis Gallagher of the many alumni/ae who have turned and some students have conducted a thor- their interest in and concern for the envi- ough cost analysis and written a proposal ronment into a way of life. They each have to install solar panels on the roof of the lan- their own answer to the question of what guage building; our fields and playgrounds exactly we need to—or can—do now, but are maintained without any chemicals; and all of them would agree with Wendell our technology department has built a Berry: “The care of the Earth is our most remarkable intranet that enables us to ancient and most worthy, and after all our reduce the amount of paper we use to teach most pleasing responsibility. To cherish and communicate. what remains of it and to foster its renewal ostans is our only hope.” Rebecca H. Anderson Eleftherios K

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Going GreenT stepped on garlic Ludwig (Lower School principal) called before with bare and told me that the hawks had used the feet, and within tree for a perch. Neither one of us was ten minutes, I happy about that one coming down.” could taste it in The construction on the City Avenue my mouth. Campus has posed a particular challenge

ostans Children’s feet for Doug.Inevitably, trees have needed to are even more be removed to make way for the Shimada sensitive. What, I Athletic Center, the Fannie Cox Center,

Eleftherios K wondered, was and most recently, the new track. But Cleaner and Greener getting into their Doug is diligent about moving rather systems from the ground?” than removing as many of the trees as he T Doug Linton ’68 has been keeping So the next time Doug had to treat can. Doug had ten trees relocated when Friends’ Central green since 1986 when weeds, he used a granular chemical the the Fannie Cox Center was built and he accepted Clayton Farraday’s request strength of which he could manipulate another six to make way for the expanded for help and returned to campus as staff more easily and which he had been footprint of the new track. In order to horticulturalist and arborist. At that time, assured was safe by the supplier. “Two protect the trees around the site, Doug Linton was in business for himself. He years later,” Doug recalls, “the product buried pipes in the soil; the weight of the had majored in landscape design at was pulled from the market. That’s when construction equipment and the heavy Temple, Ambler and spent a few years as a I decided to go completely natural and piles of building materials compact the resident gardener in Haverford. He was we’ve been that way ever since.” soil and suffocate the root systems of the thrilled to return to the School; “It was Now when weeds crop up,Doug trees. The pipes reach up above the dirt to like coming home!” treats them with a mix of vinegar and fresh air and allow the trees to continue Doug’s work at Friends’ Central has cloves. For grubs, he uses a locally devel- to breathe. been guided by his efforts to maintain the oped mix of cayenne pepper and garlic. Between his chemical-free program fields and playgrounds without using any He feels much better about the safety of and his development and maintenance of chemicals and to develop the campus into the campus and of the students. He also the campus as an arboretum, Doug sin- an arboretum; it has also been guided by likes the way he’s been able to educate the gle-handedly does a lot to keep Friends’ his memory of the beautiful spring days kids about healthy choices and the envi- Central green. “I see the whole campus as on campus when he was a student. “We ronment. When he has to treat weeds, the a living laboratory for generations of stu- used to have Meeting for Worship under whole campus smells sweet with cloves. dents to come.” a magnificent walnut tree that was right “Students always stop and ask me, ‘What outside the Linton Gym, and I always felt is that potpourri?’ When I tell them it is A Sustainable Vision so at one with the world at those meet- vinegar and cloves so that I’m not water- ings.” ing the soil with chemicals, they give me T Rob Crauderueff ’01 believes strongly In 1997 Doug made Friends’ Central the thumbs up.” that our current environmental concerns one of the first pesticide-free schools in In 1995, Doug began identifying the will be solved best from the bottom up. the area. Like almost everyone else, more than 400 trees on both the Lower He spends his days, however, working Friends’ Central had always used chemi- School and City Avenue campuses, and he from the top down, as a project coordina- cals to maintain its athletic fields. But has worked with Middle and Upper tor for the Green and Cool Roof then one year, an infestation of clover, a School students and teachers to create a Demonstration Project for Sustainable new sprayer, and Doug’s innate cautious- computer data base of them. “Our idea South Bronx. ness produced some startling results. “I was to document the trees and create an Sustainable South Bronx (SSB), put on my protective gear, calibrated my arboretum. The collection has become a which began in 2001, is dedicated to new sprayer, and, just to be extra safe, living laboratory for the 12th grade achieving “environmental justice through diluted the chemical twice what the man- botany class, and the mapping of the trees innovative, economically sustainable proj- ufacturer recommended. Overnight the will become a guide for walking tours.” ects that are informed by the needs of the clover was gone.” Doug also works carefully to balance community.” The organization has a wide A clover-free field was Doug’s origi- the safety of the students with the safety variety of projects that range from advo- nal goal, and he should have been of the trees. “I prune the trees inside the cacy for more recycling facilities to mak- thrilled. “But I thought about the differ- campus so that the kids are safe, but I try ing all New York City waters swimmable, ence between the recommended strength to leave the rest of the trees alone. It is a all of them guided by the principle that and the actual, diluted strength I had laid difficult balance sometimes. Once, I took economic development and environmen- down, and I thought about the toxicity out an older larch near the Lower School tal justice cannot be addressed as separate and the children,”Doug explains. “I’ve bus circle. After I took it down, Joe issues.

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Going

Rob started at SSB as an intern while sustainable development program (a working on his senior thesis for course of study that Columbia had never Columbia University on urban heat before offered) combining classes in land island mitigation strategies—especially use planning and environmental plan- cool roofs and green roofs—in the New ning. “For a lot of people,” Rob explains, York City context. He had been studying “sustainable development is just an idea. environmentally friendly and sustainable But when you actually see it functioning, urban planning as part of his urban stud- it is only logical that we set it as a goal for ies major and had spent a year in Ecuador ourselves.”At SSB, Rob is part of an documenting the success of Loja, an eco- organization that shares his vision. While The Tale of the Baby Burr logical city of 160,000. Here Rob saw most of its projects are focused on the By Cynthia B. Harris first-hand the fundamental connection South Bronx, SSB hopes to lead by exam- between social justice and economic ple and inspire other urban areas to look The Lower School thematic project “Into the development, and he was particularly for similar solutions. Woods” inspired a kindergarten fieldtrip to interested in the way Loja had committed Right now, Rob’s focus at SSB is a the Friends’ Central Arboretum on our City Avenue campus. Mrs. Jones, Ms. Lubking, to drawing neighborhood communities campaign to make sure all the water in Mrs. Pepino, and Mr.Williams accompanied into its clean-up efforts. In order to New York City is swimmable through sus- their classes last fall on a guided tour of the achieve its goals, the city allocated consid- tainable solutions. SSB’s campaign trees with Doug Linton ’68, Friends’ Central’s erable resources to educating everyone, emphasizes the connection between pub- arborist. During their visit they were intro- especially the poorest of the poor. As a lic health problems and the built environ- duced to the glorious Burr Oak tree next to result, Rob notes, it has an incredible rate ment and proposes sustainable solutions the Blackburn Library. of public participation that has made the that New York City can realistically man- While some believe the Burr Oak to be a goal of environmental and economic sus- age. Specifically, it proposes the imple- William Penn tree, planted over 300 years ago, tainability possible. For instance, while mentation of wide-spread source control a study of the rings from a fallen branch date the city provided the pipes and a certain strategies such as the installation of green the tree closer to 150-175 years old. In the amount of expertise, neighborhoods, roofs that would curtail polluted run-off 1930s it was considered the largest of its kind in Pennsylvania. Since that time others have inspired by knowledge, worked together and prevent bad water from getting into been identified, as well, but the FCS tree to install the new water lines and then to the system in the first place. remains one of the ten oldest Burr Oaks in the recycle all waste. The result is guaranteed New York City, like so many cities, state. The tree remains healthy through careful clean water for everyone—an anomaly in Rob says, recognizes that climate change monitoring and fertilization. most South American urban areas. and pollution are significant problems, Mr. Linton explained to the children that (Recently Rob put much of his research and but it doesn’t set its expectations high the tree is so old that it produces almost no observations from Loja into an article in a new book enough. “The city leaders are willing to acorns. With the particular enthusiasm of five- State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future, pub- take significant steps within a current set year olds, the children rose to the challenge lished by WorldWatch Institutes.) of boundaries, but they are not willing to and immediately began combing the ground When he returned to Columbia, Rob rethink how they do business. Specifically, for the elusive acorns. To everyone’s delight patched together his own version of a they need to address these problems in they found two. Upon returning to their classrooms, the ways that are more inclusive, children pulled Lower School science teacher to incorporate public input, Mr. Grove into the project of planting the and consider the value of life acorns. And there they sat, on the windowsill in communities.” Rob cites of KA, dormant through the winter as all little the example of New York acorns should be. The children stuck other City’s remarkable recovery seedling treasures into the soil of the same pot from the economic low point and, in early spring, Mrs. Jones began water- of the 1970s, a recovery ing them. One day, amidst the riot of bean founded on the efforts of sprouts, impatiens cuttings, and a wisteria neighborhoods deciding they vine, Mrs. Jones noticed a strange leaf. The needed to change their quali- Burr Oak had sprouted! In May, the children traveled back to the ty of life. “This is a good City Avenue campus to give Mr. Linton the example of the fact that polit- gift of a new tree. The “baby Burr” is now six ical change happens from the inches tall with four leaves and a pot of its bottom up—it starts in very own. It is everyone’s hope that once the schools and neighbor- sprout is strong enough to stand on its own, a hoods—through education suitable location will be found for it to begin first and then action.” making history of its own.

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Teaching Environmental Respect Going Peter Grove’s first garden was a secret garden, Green under a very dense rose bush in the back of T the woods behind his grandfather’s pig farm. trees that are more than 50 years old. Peter and his friend would sneak into the “Industrial almond farming uses the trees woods, crawl under the bush, and spend hours clearing off and smoothing out all of the dirt. only between the ages of three years old Eventually, they planted some seeds, and then to twenty years old because they have day after day they carried buckets of water been genetically modified to produce a into the woods. But in the dark, cool space, crash crop by then. As far as I am con- tucked away from the sun, nothing ever grew. cerned, that is the science of farming in Peter has come quite a long way! This the model of Dr. Frankenstein.” Sherry, year, the Friends’ Central Lower School science on the other hand, works to improve her teacher was awarded the Elizabeth Abernathy trees through a more natural cycle of Hull Award by the Garden Club of America. renewal—honey bees. This national award was established in 1992 to Almond trees, along with sunflowers, recognize outstanding contributions to the alfalfa, cherries, and many other crops early environmental education of children and the efforts of an individual to inspire in chil- depend on honey bees to carry the pollen dren an appreciation for the beauty and from plant to plant. For farmers like fragility of our planet. For the past twenty Sherry, the past decade or so has been years, Peter has been inspiring the children at tough because the bee populations have Lower School. been dwindling. “I had a relationship Peter’s teaching philosophy is simple: with a bee farmer who brought his bees “My students must have their own successes to my almond farm to winter, but I didn’t and failures. There is only one way to learn hear from him this year.The latest word how to build a fire and that is to allow the stu- Farming in a Natural Cycle is that cell phones are threatening the dents to make one—on their own.”It is also bees.” very important to him that his students see T When Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Between the disappearance of the science as a part of their lives, not just a class they go to once or twice a week. So he teaches was published in September of 1962, bees, drought, and the loss of itinerant them about the birds by first having them Sherry McVickar ’70 was in 5th grade. “I workers, it is getting harder and harder build, and maintain, a bird blind (an observa- remember very clearly that we had for Sherry to farm the way she wants. tion hut made out of old Christmas trees). Assembly every Thursday. And in 5th “The first farm I owned was a biodynam- Each class in the School visits the bird blind. grade we had an entire Assembly devoted ic farm. That was a very difficult model to They sit and to Silent Spring and the issue of conserva- sustain and so when I bought the almond watch what tion. When I was in Upper School, I read farm, I was happy just to be organic. But flies by. He The Good Earth catalog, thanks to that was when ’organic’ meant some- teaches them WMMR, which was still an underground thing. Now it is a useless word because it about plant radio station very into the back-to-the- doesn’t account for genetic modifications cycles and land movement. But that Assembly in and the standards are relaxed about how nutrition by having them Lower School stands out. It is pretty close you can be to a farm that uses help him amazing that we were looking at Silent chemicals.” maintain a Spring right when it was published and Sherry spends much of her time now vegetable gar- being asked to think about ecology as back in the Philadelphia area, both to be den. Last young children.” Forty-five years later, near her mother, Alice Penza ’36, and to year, a Sherry knows just how influential that study painting at the Pennsylvania kindergarten Assembly was on her life. Academy of Fine Arts. It probably comes class planted Now Sherry owns an organic almond as no surprise that she specializes in land- potatoes which they harvested, cooked, and farm in Rumsey, California. “There are scapes. She travels back to California ate this fall. Other classes learn about gravity five things necessary to my kind of farm- every other month to meet with her on- and pulleys by pulling Mr. Grove’s car up a ing,” Sherry explains. “A huge amount of site manager Reyna Davis. And she has no hill. They learn about velocity by building— and then flying down—a zip-wire. Science at rain, wind at the right time, bees, sun- intention of bending to the trend and Friends’ Central is never boring, and the chil- shine, and labor. Dry-land farming pre- starting to use chemicals or new, geneti- dren look forward to each new adventure. dates modern technology and the use of cally-enhanced plants. “I learned early on In addition to his work at Friends’ heavy irrigation, so the first two condi- at Friends’ Central to think about the way Central, Peter has served on the board of the tions especially have to be very coordinat- I worked and the choices I made. My Riverbend Environmental Education Center, ed.”In the past ten years, Sherry has pro- mother and grandmother, Alice McIlwee which is located in Gladwyne, PA. He is also duced only two crops, but she has pro- ’07, were taught these same values, and I an active member of the Bridlewild Trail duced her almonds without the help of can’t imagine a life in which my actions Association, and he helps out by organizing chemicals or genetic engineering and on didn’t contribute to the greater good.” groups to clean up local trails.

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Going From Science to Governmental Policy: An Act of Translation

T Rachel Fertik’s ’91 deep-seated inter- that is further up the watershed and work, I buy a lot of my clothes and furni- est in protecting the environment has his- whose relationship to those interstate or ture second hand, and I resole my shoes torical roots. “My mother was a World navigable waters may be less clear legally. rather than buy new ones. I don’t look War II baby in England and everything The recent Supreme Court cases have like a ragamuffin, but I think hard about was used more than once. It is an ethic posed stricter challenges to the govern- what I consume and the resources I use.” she passed on to me along with her ment’s interpretation of the law in these She gets very frustrated at the grocery strong curiosity about the natural world.” grey areas. store with the amount of packaging and Rachel developed her own curiosity and Rachel’s job is to help policymakers processing she sees and with the thought ethics first at Friends’ Central, where she and field staff identify a scientific and of how much energy goes into each was part of the student-run environmen- legal basis for deciding whether waters tripled-wrapped frozen dinner shipped tal club, and then at Connecticut College, such as prairie potholes, vernal pools, from a far-flung location. “It is very hard where she majored in environmental ephemeral streams, and floodplain wet- with our busy lives to make all the right studies focusing on wetland ecology. lands are protected under the CWA. choices, and I am far from perfect, but I “Along the way, I was very fortunate to Much of this involves translating scientif- try to make conscious lifestyle choices have wonderful, engaging teachers who ic information for policy decision makers based on both my economics and a long- openly shared their passion for science who may have less of a technical back- term sense of what I want my world to through their teaching, which inspired ground. “Science speaks clearly about the look like.” and motivated me.” importance of these waters. My job is to Much like Rob Crauderueff ’01, After college, Rachel volunteered for put the best information I can gather in Rachel believes that caring about what The Nature Conservancy and then went front of the decision makers. I am basi- our world looks like is easier to address to work for a small consulting firm in cally translating the law into science, and within a community, and from kinder- Connecticut doing environmental plan- I need to be able to explain the facts and garten through twelfth grade, Friends’ ning. For the most part, Rachel worked arguments to a number of different audi- Central was Rachel’s community. She and on wetland impact studies and Clean ences.” Lower School librarian Jean Taranta are Water Act permitting for large infrastruc- One of the things Rachel finds most still exchanging birthday cards, a tradi- ture projects such as airports, bridges, frustrating about her job is that politics tion that began when Rachel was in sec- roads, and town sewage plants. Following intrude on the policy process. “Politicians ond grade and they discovered they that, she earned a Masters in make their decisions based on short time shared the same birthday. “I’d love to Environmental Management (MEM) frames. But environmental issues have a come back to Friends’ Central, to talk to a from the Yale School of Forestry and long horizon and are very complex,” science class or with students who are Environmental Studies. The degree was Rachel explains. “It is exciting that cli- interested in doing more. Forging con- very multi-disciplinary: “I studied policy, mate change is becoming part of the pop- nections in a community and caring for law, ecology, and management, because ular consciousness, but it needs to be that community is an important part of the sources and solutions of environmen- translated into a commitment by the gov- caring about what happens to the world tal problems are very complicated,” ernment. I think there is hope for this. around you.” Rachel explains. “For instance, you need After all, politicians like to have a legacy. to understand the psychology of what They like to be able to point to what drives people to make decisions. You need they’ve enacted or support- to understand how civil society is struc- ed, especially if it is popular.” tured and at what points you can influ- But Rachel believes that ence outcomes.” the change needs to come Rachel realized that she wanted to from the bottom up as well, work at the national level where she could and that, unfortunately, most affect how policy is developed. So she people are a long way from took a job at the Environmental recognizing the connection Protection Agency in the Office of Water between environmental as a member of the Wetlands Division, threats and their own life. interpreting which waters were consid- “There is a fundamental lack ered jurisdictional under the Clean Water of understanding at the indi- Act and following recent Supreme Court vidual level about the con- decisions. nection between consump- Water is protected under the Clean tion and climate change,” she Water Act when it relates to interstate says. For her part, Rachel commerce or navigation. The challenge tries to lead as low impact a comes when you have a body of water life as she can. “I bike to

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Going GreenT The Complexities of can undermine support for environmen- Environmental Policy: A Q & A tal protection in the long run. with Jonathan Adler ’87 4) You note that “America’s environmen- T Jonathan Adler graduated from tal movement was founded on the idea Friends’ Central in 1987. He went on to that private conservation was the key to Yale University where he majored in history protecting wildlife and natural resources and then to George Mason University for ourselves and our future. Environ- School of Law for his J.D.Currently, he is a mental groups were founded to purchase professor of law and Director of the Center and protect habitat directly.” Yet it seems for Business Law & Regulation at the Case that the demand for governmental regula- Western Reserve University School of Law tion of the environment is growing. When in Cleveland, Ohio.Among the courses he did this change happen? What was it teaches are several in environmental law, caused by? Is it misdirected and why? including an introductory survey course, an The evolution of environmental poli- international environmental law simula- cy is a long and complicated story. Too tion course, and seminars on advanced often we assume that environmental reg- environmental law topics. ulation was a planned response to the failures of free enterprise and economic 1) How does your work participate in the growth. The truth is more complex. ongoing conversation about efforts to depriving local residents of economic First, as society became wealthier, indi- improve the environment and combat opportunity and the promise of a better viduals learned more about environmen- global warming? life. This requires the development of tal problems, and their demand for envi- Much of my research focuses on policies that advance environmental con- ronmental amenities increased. non-regulatory approaches to environ- servation without sacrificing economic Phenomena that were once considered mental protection. Environmental con- development, and it is a particularly acceptable consequences of economic servation is a tremendously important urgent challenge if we are to ensure that activity were now recognized as destruc- goal. Unfortunately, many of the govern- the needs of people are part of the envi- tive pollution that needed to be con- ment regulations that have been adopted ronmental policy equation. trolled. Additionally, many environmen- by the United States are overly prescrip- tal problems that were blamed on the tive, excessively costly, and inefficient. In 3) In a USA Today Op-Ed piece, excesses of capitalism actually have their some cases, well-intended regulatory “Opposing View: It’s not up to the EPA,” roots in governmental failure to protect measures can even frustrate environmen- you wrote, “If current climate policies are people and their property rights. In still tal progress. For this reason, I devote a inadequate and unwise, the place to seek other cases, industrialists saw government significant portion of my time investigat- redress is back in Congress, not the regulation as a means of securing coming and analyzing the potential for non- courts.”Where and how can we affect petitive advantage, and environmental regulatory measures to replace existing change? Are we getting it right or are we regulation became a pretext for special programs. misdirecting our efforts? What type of interest protections. efforts can be regulated and what can’t? In a recent article, “Back to the 2) What, in your opinion, are the most The point in my article (which was Future of Conservation,” I argue that con- important issues facing the environment? in reaction to the efforts of several states servation efforts have been most effective Many of the most important envi- and environmental groups asking the when they have been built upon the prin- ronmental issues receive relatively little Supreme Court to force the EPA to ciples of private stewardship, rather than popular attention. For example, there is impose nationwide regulations on green- seeking to predict and prevent every no serious debate about the dire condi- house gases) is that large questions of potentially negative private action tion of global fish stocks. Overfishing has environmental policy involve significant through regulations. If we are going to depleted wild fish populations, and exist- costs and trade-offs that should be openly be successful at meeting the environmen- ing government regulations have proven debated and discussed in the policy-mak- tal challenges of the 21st Century, we wholly ineffective at conserving marine ing process. If, as a nation, we decide to have to be smarter about how we seek to resources. Global loss of biodiversity, adopt far-reaching regulations, then we advance environmental values, and build driven by habitat destruction, is a partic- should – as a nation – approve such regu- upon the Western market institutions that ularly severe problem as well. lations through our elected representa- provide the foundation for our freedom In developing countries, the biggest tives. Relying too much on the courts to and prosperity. environmental problem is how to con- drive environmental policy risks making serve environmental resources without environmental policy undemocratic, and

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Going

The Moral Center of Toward the end of Peter’s junior year, vitally active organization that is equally Environmental Change a small group of his friends began to committed to change. The Orion Society gather on Sunday nights outside of class began in 1982 with Orion, a bimonthly T “Caring for the environment, the to discuss what they could do about glob- magazine devoted to “re-imagining beauty in and around us, gives a moral al warming.The issues of climate change humanity’s relationship to nature, cul- center to what we do,” says Peter Viola and environmental sustainability were ture, and place.”Its mission “is to inform, ’02 who works as an intern for the Orion only just beginning to return to the fore- inspire, and engage individuals and grass- Grassroots Network, a branch of The front of our cultural consciousness, but roots organizations in becoming a signifi- Orion Society that focuses on connecting this group was determined to start a pub- cant cultural force for healing nature and and empowering organizations commit- lic conversation. They fell upon the name community.” For now, Peter spends most ted to positive social and environmental Sunday Night Group, and over the course of his time attending to administrative change. of Peter’s senior year at Middlebury, the work for the Orion Grassroots Network, “Since I was a kid, even though I group grew from 10 students to over 70. specifically membership, outreach to grew up in suburbia, I’ve always felt a This past winter, Middlebury groups that would fit well with the bond with nature—not just forests, Magazine featured an article on SNG that Network’s mission, and management of a mountains, or the sea, but the neighbor- quoted Bill McKibben, the same Bill job service. The work is rewarding hood trail, the stream, or the backyard,” McKibben whose book Peter came across because the organization’s mission echoes he explains. But for much of his time here in high school, “I’ve spoken on hundreds Peter’s conviction, one developed here at at Friends’ Central and later at of college campuses in the last decade, Friends’ Central, that caring for the envi- Middlebury College, Viola approached and there is no question that SNG repre- ronment is a moral issue inseparable the topic through literature and the arts. sents the most active and engaged college from the way we live. In fact, when asked about his early inter- environmentalists in the country.” As of “For a long time, environmental est in environmental activism, books were this spring, SNG can probably add “most issues have been pushed off to the side, what came to mind first, specifically The effective” to McKibben’s list of adjectives, lumped together, and labeled ’environ- End of Nature, by Bill McKibben (recom- for on May 6th, the Board of Trustees at mentalism.’ But now the effects of global mended by FCS Upper School dean of Middlebury College approved a plan, warming are being felt in the here and faculty Bill Kennedy) and The Unsettling proposed by SNG, to make the school now, and people are starting to see that of America, by Wendell Berry (assigned entirely carbon-neutral by 2016. This is a their decisions and actions add up.It isn’t for economic botany by FCS science bold move for the school and one that always easy to walk the talk, but it’s teacher John Gruber). Both books had a would not have been possible without the important to try,” Peter says. He tries his deep influence on Peter, and when he foundation of enthusiasm and support in best to live by the familiar adage “reduce, went to Middlebury College he started to the community that SNG epitomizes. “It reuse, recycle,” he seeks to minimize his think about how to broaden his interest was exciting to be part of the energy at energy use, and he buys organic, close to in ecology into practical activity. As it SNG,” Peter recalls. “The group really the source food. “In general, I try to lead turned out, he was in the right place at motivated me to make a difference.” a life in which the effect of my actions the right time. In Orion, Peter has found another and choices is as healthy for others as it is for me.” One of Peter’s biggest concerns is that whatever we do now will be viewed as just the next public policy debate. “We need to understand that global warming is not just another ‘issue,’ but fundamen- tally impacts how we relate to the Earth.” “We’re hearing about climate change all the time now because some of the news is that bad—the sense of urgency is real. But our culture is also approaching a tipping point, I believe, when our actions will really begin to guide us toward living more wisely and confronting some of the most entrenched problems we face. My generation is rallying around this challenge, and wherever I can participate and help move that vision forward, that’s where I feel I belong.”

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Going GreenT Views from an Air Geek on With the help of a talented journal- Science, Service, and Hope for ist, the message got out that gas in the the Environment Northwest contains more than twice as By Sarah Armitage ’77 much benzene as the national average because it comes from Alaskan crude oil, T For many years, I have worked at a which naturally contains more of the state agency called the Oregon compound. As a result, vehicles burning Department of Environmental Quality gasoline in Oregon and Washington emit (DEQ). This agency is responsible for about fifty percent more toxic com- protecting and improving the quality of pounds into the air than cars on the East Oregon’s environment. In the field of Coast and in the southern states. This environmental protection, there have means that residents in Portland, Oregon, been recent periods of little progress and encircled by major highways, breathe backsliding. But now awareness is build- more than forty times the amount of ing and changes have begun. This is benzene considered safe over the long rewarding to people like me (aka “air term. But as our research showed, the cost geeks”) who spend their days immersed ronmental improvements take at least a of producing cleaner gasoline is a scant in arcane technical and regulatory materi- decade to see. This is not surprising given fourth of a cent per gallon. als. the many steps required: gathering infor- In February 2007, under escalating Like most environmental jobs, work- mation, defining the problem, building pressure from Northwest lawmakers, the ing in the Air Quality Division at Oregon awareness, creating laws, securing fund- EPA issued tougher limits on refineries to DEQ is a multidisciplinary pursuit. You ing, and finally, launching a strategy. But achieve a significant reduction in benzene need to know the state and federal laws, lately the pace has quickened because the everywhere in the country. Benzene levels the science of estimating, measuring and science about air pollution has reached a in Northwest gas will now fall nearly controlling air pollution, the health critical mass and because all of us are get- threefold by 2015, and the risk of devel- effects of various chemicals, how to com- ting better at explaining it. What’s more, oping cancer from breathing benzene in municate risk about these chemicals, and the sudden rise of global warming as a Oregon and Washington will be cut prac- how to guide the slow process of public hot topic has resulted in an increased tically in half. participation. In this specialized area, it public awareness about all sorts of envi- This policy shift represents the power can take several years to understand the ronmental problems. Those of us work- of the growing partnership between full picture. I began by poring over the ing for clean air feel encouraged. We have knowledgeable, concerned citizens and Clean Air Act (the comprehensive Federal known for years that decreasing our car- state and local governments. Together we law that monitors emissions and estab- bon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel can have been able to step up to fill dangerous lishes national air quality standards). I reduce a host of air pollutants that aggra- gaps in federal protection of our health read through state laws, piles of regula- vate asthma and cause serious health and the environment. I feel very hopeful tions, pages of acronyms, and reams of problems; now it seems that many others about having reached this tipping point. awkward writing that strained to describe are coming to agreement and shifting More and more we can all exercise our our government’s efforts to guarantee attention to air pollution. choices for cleaner, greener products, healthy air. I learned to speak about the An example is the fact that just this transportation, and energy. Our options risks of harmful, everyday chemicals, and year the EPA placed new federal limits on increase almost monthly. If you haven’t eventually I began to work with con- cancer-causing benzene in the done so already, find your local air cerned citizens, businesses, politicians, Northwest’s gasoline supply. From 1999 agency’s website and sign up to get and federal officials. (Looking back, I through 2006 the Oregon Department of notices announcing proposed regulations. realize that my work with multiple stake- Environmental Quality worked tena- If you feel so moved, write a quick e-mail holders has been supported by a Quaker ciously to conduct studies and construct a expressing support for environmentally education that taught the power of con- process to evaluate and reduce high risk protective measures. Collectively, all of sensus, respect, and open communica- air pollutants. Last year, when the EPA our actions add up to make a huge differ- tion.) Finally, after bluffing my way proposed controls that would have ence. through the remaining techno-jargon, I reduced benzene nationally but allowed joined the other air geeks in government, refineries to trade credits, a situation that Sarah went to Williams College after grad- consulting firms, and environmental would leave the Northwest with the dirti- uating from Friends’ Central and majored groups to discuss “plumes,” “exposure est gas (and air) in the country, Oregon in Biology. She later earned her J.D. with a pathways,” and “computer models.” was prepared with enough information to focus in environmental law from Lewis and Recently my work has become push back. Clark University. She has been with the noticeably more exciting. Typically, envi- Oregon DEQ since 1987.

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Going IMPORTANT NEWS FOR ALUMNI/E AND FRIENDS WHO ARE AT LEAST 70½ YEARS OLD!

New legislation allows IRA owners to share the wealth of their retirement savings now by giving directly to charity—without first counting it as income and paying income tax. This provision is only effective for tax years 2006 and 2007. If you are interested in learning more about this wonderful opportunity, call Friends’ Central’s development office today: Lydia Martin, 610-645-5034 or [email protected].

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*John C. Barnard ’48 Joan Lallou Smith ’52 Emma Lapsansky-Werner Andrea G. Cohen ’86 Arnold E. Smolens ’38 Janet and Hillard Madway June Singley Evans ’66 Benjamin Statzell ’37 Sara L. Matthews and Raymond Fabius Francis M. James ’53 Lucy Christman Statzell ’37 Judith and Bernard Newman Susan L. Kaufmann ’56 Margot Newman Stickley ’48 Sally and George L. Pew Andrew T. C. Stifler ’57 William D. Ravdin ’46 ** ALUMNI/AE Leonard Sylk ’59 Lisa Korostoff Rooney ’73 and John Rooney Anonymous ’58 Winifred Jess Tierney ’53 Ann V. Satterthwaite Priscilla Okie Alexander ’41 Rich Ulmer ’60 Lynne and Donald V. Selkow Diana Stambul Burgwyn ’54 Patricia Myers Westine ’57 Lucy Christman Statzell ’37 and Helen Starling Burke ’51 David Wetterholt ’62 Benjamin L. Statzell ’37 Ellen Burr ’46 Marjorie Harris Wolf ’34 Leonard Sylk ’59 Diane Bierman Carson ’67 Ann Hort Wolfe ’63 Barbara A. Willis Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59 Bruce Woodruff ’60 Vera and Murray Wilson Andrea G. Cohen ’86 *Eleanor Jenkins Zendt ’25 ** *Eleanor Jenkins Zendt ’25** Ellen M. Cohen ’88 Alice Hess Crowell ’46 TRUSTEES AND FORMER TRUSTEES FRIENDS Charlotte Pugh Ellithorp ’42 Peter Arfaa Marla Hamilton Peele June Singley Evans ’66 Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59 Kim Shimada Alexander L. Fetter ’54 Barbara M. Cohen Ruth Tanur J.P.Guggenheim ’76 Deborah Hull Beverly Ulmer Elizabeth S. Harper ’51 Gregg Jackson Peter Westine Margaret H. Harper ’36 Emma Lapsansky-Warner Gardner Hendrie ’50 Jean Campbell Lumpkin ’39 FACULTY AND FORMER FACULTY Patricia Hibbs ’60 Hillard Madway Beatrice Barclay Trust Cinda Buswell Hill ’59 *** Bernard Newman William W. Bower Francis M. James ’53 George L. Pew Grant Calder Susan L. Kaufmann ’56 William D. Ravdin ’46 ** Stanley Cherim Stephanie Helen Koenig ’70 Ann V. Satterthwaite Prudence Sprogell Churchill ’59 Henry W. Lavine ’53 Joanna Haab Schoff ’51 David M. Felsen Jean Campbell Lumpkin ’39 Koji Shimada Julia Beyer Houpt Patricia Spotts MacLachlan ’47 *Eleanor Jenkins Zendt ’25** Stephanie Helen Koenig ’70 Pamela J. Melcher ’61 Sara Matthews Margaret G. Mitchell ’35 CURRENT PARENTS AND PARENTS Ann V. Satterthwaite Gladys Baker Monier ’32 *** OF ALUMNI/AE Andrew T. C. Stifler ’57 Deborah Hazzard Nash ’51 Anne and Peter Arfaa Maria Williams Dana Lynne Iverson Neefe ’61 Molly Love and Adrian Castelli Thomas A. Wood Andrew Newcomb ’87 Stanley Cherim *Eleanor Jenkins Zendt ’25 ** Albert Carter Pottash ’66 Barbara M. and Sarle Cohen William D. Ravdin ’46 ** Alice Hess Crowell ’46 * Deceased Lisa Korostoff Rooney ’73 Colette and Michel Guggenheim ** Pooled Income Fund Participants L. Paul Saxer ’38 *** Deborah and T.Reagan Hull *** Charitable Gift Annuitants Joanna Haab Schoff ’51 Gregg Jackson Nicholas Scull ’60 Carolyn Klock and George McCook Thank You! 20907_FCHS_28-34.qxp 9/11/07 2:23 PM Page 28

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(Above) Swing Your Partner!

(Right) Round and Round! From the Co-Presidents (Below right) Adara Cohen '08, of the 2007-2008 Home and Daniel Horowitz '08, David Rosenblatt '08, School Association and Jasmine Martin '08

The Home and School Association (Below left) Jamal Sample '14 and (HSA) supports the School by involving Marcus Vaughn '14 parents in a variety of community-building as well as fund-raising events, from (Bottom right) the annual Pumpkin Fair and Lower and Hoping for a strike! Middle School Book Fairs to the newly inaugurated FCS Fun Run and Family Day. HSA also regularly hosts parent grade gatherings and coffee hours as a way to keep parents connected with each other and with the School. Finally, the HSA provides many opportunities for parents and families to get involved with service projects in the greater community throughout the year.We sponsor collection drives for reading glasses, winter coats, used athletic shoes, and toiletries; we organize Saturdays at the SHARE warehouse; we collect prom dresses; and we put together the Martin Luther King Day of Service. Friends' Central School is a vibrant, creative, and nurturing community because of the strength of its faculty, administration, alumni/ae, students, and their parents. Come join us in our efforts to support the School.We welcome the involvement of all parents and hope to see you on our campuses—as classroom helpers, chaperones on field trips, fans on the athletic field, audience members at our many music and drama performanc- es, members of our Parents of Students of Color or Quaker Life Group, and participants in parent gatherings. Anja Levitties ’86 and Charlotte Schutzman

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Book Fairs

The Lower School and Middle School book fairs featured authors Bruce Coville, Rick Riordan, and lots and lots of books! Bruce Coville, author of the popular series, Moongobble and Me, My Teacher is an Alien, The Unicorn Chronicles, and adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, visited the Lower School to talk about where he gets his stories, the power of dreams, and the cre- ativity of all children. Coville spoke with the children about how dreams are the brain's way of telling stories and told them that everyone can make up a story. To demonstrate his point, Coville made up a tale on the spot about a child who drops his mother's high school yearbook in a mud puddle. The child has a decision, as does the author: should he pick up the book and brush off the mud, or push it down a bit deeper and not admit to his mistake? Coville left the Friends' Central students with that question, perhaps knowing that once excited, their imaginations would come up with a whole range of different endings. Rick Riordan, multi-award-winning author of the Tres Navarre mystery series (Above) David Williams '18 and Dallen Moore '18 for adults and the New York Times best- selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Right) Melanie Chalmus '12, Lindsay Auerbach '12, series for children, talked to Friends' Katherine Andrews '12, Hannah Albertine '12 Central Middle School students about the origin of his Percy Jackson series, which (Top) Back row: John Gallagher, Marissa Gratz, features a twelve-year-old dyslexic boy Hannah Kaminsky, Sophie MacFarlane, who discovers he is the modern-day son Rose Gendelmann, Olivia of a Greek god, and read them an excerpt Backal-Balik. Front row: Billy Koutcher, Kevin from The Titan's Curse, the third book in Bendesky, author Bruce the series that began with The Lightening Coville, Max Sall Thief. The book fairs promote reading and (Bottom) Rebecca Dahle '12, raise funds to purchase additional books Ilan Dreyfuss '12, Samuel for the libraries. Brodfuehrer '12 Thank you to organizers Vicki Gratz, Betty Bard, Beth Dahle, and Janet Bortnick.

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Home & School had two new events this year—a Winter Carnival in January and a Fun Run & Family Day at the end of April. Both events were well attended and generated a wonderful feeling of School spirit, family, and community. At the Winter Carnival Lower School families warmed up a cold winter afternoon by playing games, swimming, and enjoying carnival treats such as face painting, arts and crafts, and a bake sale at the Upper School's Shimada Athletic Center. FCS Puts Its Best Foot Thank you to organizers Michelle Forward! Narin and Lauren Rubin ’83. The inaugural Friends’ Central School Fun Run & Family Day was held on Sunday, April 29th. The City Avenue Campus was bustling with activity and basking in the warmth of a beautiful, sunny day. 112 runners competed in the 5K and One Mile races, including FCS faculty, students, and their families. The Kids’ Relays featured the popular “Tug of Peace,” as well as obstacle courses, and running races. The craft table, clowns, moon bounce, and busy food tent delighted children of all ages, while the Plant Sale offered everyone the chance to celebrate the arrival of spring. Proceeds from the Plant Sale benefit the FCS Arboretum. The Annual Peace Concert featured 22 Lower and Middle School performers, the highest number ever, and a standing-room-only audience. Gently used sports equipment donations were delivered to Nike Reuse-a-Shoe and the Upper Darby Youth Achieving Project, which should make everyone feel good! It looks like the “Fun Run” will be back next year! Thank you to co-chairs Jane Ebby and Cathy Fiebach.

(Top left) Matayia Mapp '16

(Top right) Daniel Nemroff ’15 and Etan Ginsberg ’17

(Middle left) Aiming High!

(Above) Browsing at the Plant Fair

(Left) . . . and they're off!

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service

Friends’ Central honored Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy with a day of service on January 15th. Dozens of students, parents, and teachers from all three division participated in the 11th annual day organized by Melissa Anderson, Lisa Prince, Jessica Coss, Marian Pearlman, and Barbara Matteucci. Lower School students decorated pil- low cases, made t-shirts, and created sen- sory books for children whose fine motor skills are limited. The projects all benefit- ed Ashley’s Angels, an organization that supports the Palliative Care Unit at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Some Middle School students and their parents helped clean the historic Smith playground, located in Fairmount Park, while others visited the Alain Locke Elementary School in West Philadelphia, where the volunteers added some color to the school hallway by painting a mural scene from Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax. Upper School volunteers helped out at the historic Friends’ Neighborhood Guild and the nearby Fishtown Recreation Center, assisting with sorting donated clothing, fixing windows, computer and filing work, cleaning and organizing the kitchen pantry, and paint- Quaker education and how it related to (Top left) Friends' Central Lower Schoolers ing walls. the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Hannah Anderson '16, Alison Bovarnick '16, At the end of the day the volunteers life. The discussion ended with a reflec- and Caroline Fakharzadeh '16 took some time to reflect on Martin tion about what each person would do to Luther King Jr.’s legacy and what the day change the world. The Lower School vol- (Top right and above) Friends' Central Middle of service meant to them. Those who unteers began their day with a speech Schoolers painting at the Alain Locke Elementary School spent their day at the Alain Locke given by Renee Chenault-Fattah, from Elementary School discussed their NBC-10 News. She discussed her experi- (Bottom left) Chelsea Pasahow '10, Grace ence growing up in a predominantly Pearlman '10, and Emma Fox '10 at Fishtown white neighborhood during the time of Recreation Center Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. Chenault- Fattah ended her speech by quoting Martin Luther King Jr., “You will not all be famous, but you can all be great through the service you perform.” Friends’ Central’s community is certainly proving itself to be great and memorable through its tradition of this day of service.

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Driving practice and The Putting Contest

The 18th Annual Golf Classic

On June 18th, Friends’ Central School hosted its 18th Annual Golf Classic at the ACE Club in Lafayette Hills. Alumni/ae, parents, faculty, and friends gathered to play a round of golf, test their touch at a putting contest, and enjoy lunch, dinner, and an auction. The money raised at the event supports the financial aid program at Friends’ Central. This year, the Golf Classic raised over $52,000 to help Friends’ Central open its doors to children with limited financial means.

(Above) Current parents Rodd Bender, Robert Nourian, Brian Benjet, and Steve Nierenberg

(Left) Current parents David Ebby, Walter Schoenborn, Brad Bradbeer, and Jon Harris

(Below) Josh Wasserman '02, Alex Sokolov '02, Tom Hale '75, and Josh Klein '80

Linda Foreman, Judy Lazarus, Audrey Soslow, and Lisa Becker

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The Fabulous ‘57’s lead the way!

The Class of 1957 was determined to do something really special for their alma mater as they celebrated their 50th reunion. In addition to their typical trail-blazing annual giving performance, the class set their sights on a legacy gift. Working closely with David Felsen, the reunion committee, on behalf of the class, decided to honor its FCS teachers, along with current faculty and staff, by creating the Class of 1957 Faculty and Staff Retreat Fund. Committee members, led by Andrew Stifler, worked tire- lessly through the year to raise $150,000 for their Retreat Fund. In addition to this stunning gift to the School, 83% of the class also made an annual giving gift. This close-knit and generous class organized “extra” reunion events, with a golf outing and Sunday Brunch round- ing out the Reunion weekend. Committee member Bert Peterson gathered pictures and reflections from classmates to create a beautiful yearbook they will cherish for years to come.

“These gifts and the incredible loyalty of this class are ostans really special,” said headmaster David Felsen. “We hope other classes will be moved to follow their example. Friends’ Central School is tremendously grateful to the Class of 1957 for their loyalty, generosity, and School spirit!” Photos by Eleftherios K

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Dear Friends, When I graduated from Friends’ Central in 2002, I never thought that I would return four years later to work in the Alumni/ae and Development Office. My experience at the School this year has been a rewarding one: I have been able to work and coach at a place to which I am deeply connected, and I have been able to make a difference. I realized early this school year that I wanted to reach out to younger alums. I have always been enthusiastic about Friends’ Central, but I thought it would take a more organized program to elicit in other graduates of my age the same passion that I possess for my alma mater. So I decid- (Above) Young alums gather ed to start a young alum- for tea at the Bubble House in ni/ae program. Throughout West Philadelphia the year, I hosted several successful young alumni/ae The class of 2002 at Reunion events in the Philadelphia area, such as an exam week break at the Bubble House, and next year we hope to expand these events to other cities. Every time a group of Friends’ Central alums gets together, there is a lot of laughter, along with good memories, and growth in School spirit. This year was also my 5th reunion, I experienced many great things this and five of my classmates had also year, but the most important to me was returned to work at FCS. So we joined being able to reconnect with FCS as an forces, contacted as many of our class- alum. I hope that all alums—young and mates as we could, and brought back over old—will continue to support Friends’ 40 members of the class of 2002—a Central, a school that has given each of us record for any reunion so far. so much.

Josh Wasserman ’02 Development Office Assistant

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ALUMNI/AE CAREER DAY PANELISTS: FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2007

Tony Wood ’77 Professional photographer, Anthony Wood Photography

Gail Janine Carter ’97 Manager, Pattonium, Inc.

Leo Chang ’97 Basketball footware Senior Designer – Nike, Inc.

Zach Leibowitz ’97 Talent producer, ESPN’s Cold Pizza

Chris Wolfe ’87 Producer, Ask This Old House

Beth Clouser Hare ’77 President, Criterion Search Group

David Niles ’82 (Left column, top to bottom) Vice President, Trinity Capital Advisors, LLC Business and Finance panel; Communications panel; Law panel. Jessica Foster ’97 Legislative Aide – Office of Senator Arlen (Right column) Specter Social Services panel; Engineering panel; Jim Wilson ’52 Education panel; Arts panel. Consultant, Forbes

Emil Steiner ’97 Min Lee ’96 Blogger, The Washington Post Fulbright Grant to France, Bourse Eve Del Soldo ’92 Chateaubriand Fellowship, Ecole des Hautes Partner, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis Jeremy Treatman ’83 Etudes en Sciences Sociales LLP President, Scholastic Play-by-Play Network; President, Sports Broadcasting Camps Geoffrey Kerr ’67 Jonathon Adler ’87 Electrical engineering manager, The Haartz Professor of Law and Director of the Center Jill Banks Barad ’57 Corp. for Business Law and Regulation, Case Owner, Jill Barad & Associates Western Reserve University School of Law Mallory Floyd ’96 Contributing editor, National Review Online Lise Funderburg ’77 Aerospace Engineer, Boeing Company Journalist, critic, author: Black, White, Other: Paul Paz y Mino ’87 Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Jonathan Fiebach ’82 Associate Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies; Identity; The Color Purple: A Memory Book; Co-owner and Chief Investment Officer of Research Analyst, Service Employees Pig Candy: A History of My Father, Race, and Duration Capital International Union; Country specialist: Place Colombia, Amnesty International, USA Marcus Alston ’87 Mary Louise Alexander Cole-Wood ’52 Assistant Counsel, United Technologies Nancy Carroll ’92 President and CEO, Bay Point Schools, Inc Corporation Child Advocate Social Work Supervisor, Defenders Association of Philadelphia Curtis Pontz ’57 Richard Klein ’57 Adjunct Professor, Philadelphia University Superior Court Judge, Commonwealth of Kimberly Rothwell ’92 and LeBow College of Business, Drexel Pennsylvania Human Relations Representative, University Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission Adam Welsh ’92 Hank Zoob ’57 Trial Attorney, U.S. Dept. of Labor,Office of Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth David, MA the Solicitor and founding President of the Rashi School, the Boston Area Reform Jewish Day School, Newton, MA

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Friends’ Central School Distinguished Alumni/ae Award May 12, 2007

Mary Louise Alexander Cole-Wood Distinguished Alumna Citation Friends’ Central School ~ Class of 1952 Mary Louise, we are deeply gratified to have you with us today. Your life is a model of professional achievement and community service —a life that has turned tragedy for young boys into triumph and that exemplifies the grace of putting others before self. Teacher, advisor, and advocate of young people, you support education at all levels.

We are proud that your dedication and commitment to education, learning, and community were encouraged at Friends’ Central School. It is with highest regard and great pleasure that we confer upon you the Friends’ Central Distinguished Alumna Award.

Andrew T.C. Stifler Distinguished Alumnus Citation Friends’ Central School ~ Class of 1957 Andy, you are indisputably Friends’ Central’s Volunteer Extraordinaire. From class agent to fund raiser and reunion volunteer, you have distinguished yourself in every role you’ve taken on, and we are confident that you will continue to do so.Wise, loyal, and good-humored, you demonstrate an instinct for what is important, the energy to get the toughest jobs done, and the good will that inspires others to join in the effort. You generously bring these qualities to bear for Friends’ Central’s benefit, and we are the better for it. It is with greatest pride and gratitude that we award you the Friends’ Central Distinguished Alumnus Award.

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Class of 1937 Class of 1942 Class of 1947 Tom Kelly, Mary Ann Cohee Freemann, Standing: Barbara Acomb Elliott, Sally Hooper Farrington Marion Gaskill Livingston, Julie Miller Edgerton, John “Ditty” Jones, Harry Coslett, Barbara Baketel Leonards, Jane Wooster Scott, Larry Johnson, Duke Smith, Charlotte Pugh Ellithorp Doris Lauber Adams, David K. Trumper Seated: Joyce LaRoche Finkbiner, J. R. Relick, Brigitte Solmitz Alexander, Kenny King

Class of 1952 Class of 1957 Back Row: Shirley Sherak (wife of George Harkins), George Back Row: Erik Guthy, Gretchen Young Lerch, Curtis Pontz, Harkins, B.J. Wood (husband of Mary Louise Alexander Lilla Hepworth Bingham, Sarah Staats, Abby Huberman Silverman, Cole-Wood), Eve-Ann Jones (wife of James Wilson), James Roberta Sheen Peterson, Hermann Rosenberger, Bryan Pokras, Barbara Wilson, John Balson. Davis Widmayer, Albert Lilly, Peter Savage, Richard Klein. Front Row: Margery Trescott Kniffen, Front Row: Henry Zoob, Mary Louise Lundgren Wentzel, Andrew Stifler, Mary Louise Alexander Cole-Wood, Joan Lallou Smith, Nancy Gruber Frisbie, Jill Banks Barad, Elizabeth Leiby Hiller, Leslie Donald Reimenschneider, Anita Reimenschneider Miller, Patricia Myers Westine, Ann Tolson Lippe, Gary Fields (wife of Don Reimenschneider)

Class of 1962 Back Row: Michael Cohen, Francis Bradley. Front Row: Kathleen Murray-Allain, Patricia Stanton Cooley, Lee Hillerson

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Class of 1967 Class of 1977 Class of 1982 Brian Kunz, Back Row: Rodney Willis, Morris Kay, Back Row: Eric Larson, Ken Carolyn Hebden Facchiano, Thomas Spencer, Tony Wood, Mark Adams Heckman, Angela Corbisiero Love, Ronald Diment, Richard Front Row: Ellen Shapiro Freeman, Rachel Lee Wesson Odescalchi, Martin Reish, Geoffrey Kerr, Fell McDermott, Denise Willis, Karen Wachs, Erich Schultz Marjorie Hallahan Crawford, Murphy-Cain, Abby Moyerman Renfroe, Front Row: Ed Rehfeld Thomas Woodbury Beth Davis Johnson, Karen Horikawa and Paul Clough

Class of 1987 Class of 1997 Back Row: Stephen Treatman, Seth Lundy, Beryl Brown, Back Row: Brian Jacobs, Ben Shargel, Marcus Alston, John Stein, Melanie Fischer Rubenstein, Claudia Geoff Stevens, Sondra Rosenberg, Melaragni Fitzgerald, Christopher Dick Wolfe, Dawn Skwersky Kristen Hevner, Nick Dent, Rachel Coombs Schakett. Kim Kurtz Lent, Paul Paz y Mino, Rachel Broker Kaplan and Front Row: Leo Chang, Dave Wertime, their children Emil Steiner, Matt Murphy, Zach Leibowitz, Front Row: Pam Reif Phillips, Sara Volkman Shack, Jessica Coplon, Matt Hagarty Samanta Marks Gordon, Danielle Paul Barson, Elizabeth Toborowsky Pollard

Class of 2002 Back Row: Geoff Wertime, Peter Viola, Jerome Mopsik, Josh Wasserman, Jason Polykoff, Todd Schneider, Jeff Pozzuolo, Jeff Meyerson. Front Row: David Glasser, Read DeSabato, David Gershkoff, Willie Day Frank, Sara Kankowski, Tracy Miller, Lindsay Tintenfass

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1. 2. 4.

5. 7.

1. The class of 1992 at Reunion Dinner

2. Roberta Sheen Peterson ’57 and Donald Peterson

3. Representatives for Alumni/ae and Development (RAD) members, Caitlin Louie ’08, Alec Unkovic ’08, and Isabel Friedman ’08 greet returning alumni/ae. 4. Beryl Brown ’87 6. 5. Richard Relik ’47 and Joyce LaRoche Finkbiner ’47

6. The class of 2002 parades to Commencement Terrace

7. Joan Lallou Smith ’52

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research by Drs. Lurie and Dannenberg.The J. Donald Reimenschneider ’52: “I will always book offers a comprehensive resource for cli- have special memories of Clayton Farraday nicians, public health investigators, and labo- and Richard Burgess.” ratory researchers in tuberculosis and immunology.” Arthur is a professor at the Donald J.Ritt ’52:“The academic challenges Center for Tuberculosis Research at Johns were good and the caring teachers superb, but Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of the single memory most appealing was beat- Public Health and School of Medicine. ing Wilmington Friends on the way to becoming the first undefeated football team in the Joan Oberly Haviland ’42 writes: “My best history of FCS.” regards to my 1942 classmates. We will be up north in July and August—near Cortland, NY. In a note from Barbara Stein Sickles ’52, she We are keeping busy with various activities— reports that her daughter Nancy, married to especially playing bridge.” Alan Rothschild, has a son Cole, eight months old, and her daughter Kay Ellen and her hus- Marjorie Brown band Morse have a son Jacob, three, and are Alumni/ae Mahan ’42 was expecting in March. Barbara’s husband, Lewis, very sorry to have who spent 35 years as an electrical engineer, is missed her now doing patent work as an attorney. Reunion, but she Barbara has been selling real estate since 1971. 1930s sent in a picture of herself with her Joan Lallou Smith ’52 writes that she is in Ed Rice ’34 reports: “I am still active at 90 youngest grand- good health and looking forward to Reunion. thanks to daily walks and exercise. Also still son, Robert driving extensively, even at night fortunately Frederick Davis, Francis Markland ’53 has been appointed due to my unimpaired vision. Stopped count- who is going into Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs at the ing grandchildren some years ago. Now am his junior year at Keck School of Medicine at the University of counting greats and great-greats. Proud to be Furman University. Marjorie has four grand- Southern California. an original “Racer”! sons and one granddaughter. Donald Small ’53 retired from teaching at the Jane Armor Terry ’39 writes: “Doing well. Carl E. Reichert, Jr. ’49 writes: “I am fully United States Military Academy at West Point New hip. Back riding my horse.” retired from my orthopedic surgery practice. in May 2007. He had a 50-year career teaching We get together with Ruth and Ivan Gabel ’49 mathematics at the University of Kansas, during the summers and occasionally hear University of Connecticut, Colby College, and from Jack Trautwein ’49.” West Point. 1940s Martha Harper ’54 recently travelled to Louise Goetzenberg Howard ’40 writes: “I Adelaide, Australia where she found and visit- have four great-grandchildren now. The eldest 1950s ed a Quaker Meeting House. is not much older than my youngest grand- Shirley Smith Earle ’51 writes: “I had an arti- child!” cle published in Care Management Journal Middy Minster Larson ’55 writes: “Just a note (February 2006), entitled ’Reflections on to mention that our son Eric ’82, was on cam- Pathogenesis of Human Tuberculosis: Insights Twelve Years of Facilitating Alzheimer’s from the Rabbit Model by Arthur M. Caregiver Support Groups.’This work has Dannenberg, Jr. ’41 was published in 2006 by been the highlight of my geriatric social work the American Society for Microbiology Press . career.” Arthur reports that it is 468 pages long and took him nearly five years to write! According Marilyn Downs Monks ’52: “When I opened the ASM Press, “Pathogenesis of Human my class book, memories came flooding back Pulmonary Tuberculosis updates and revises of classmates, lasting friendships, teachers who the ground-breaking work of Max B.Lurie, encouraged me, of Martha on the switch- summarizing the combined 80 years of board, and, of all things, the gingko tree.”

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pus for his 25th reunion in May along with Park acting as the Managing Director of a brohters Bill ’80 and Jim ’83. Eric graduated resort hotel called The Sagamore.It looks like I exactly 100 years after his great grandfather 1960s am up here for the balance of the year.I John Taylor Wolfenden did in 1882.”The Bruce Woodruff ’60 continues to enjoy the enjoyed reading the names on the email and Minster family has a long tradition here at Florida lifestyle, including time with his fami- would love to hear from any/all of you. News Friends’ Central: John Taylor Wolfenden 1882 ly, grandchildren, and his financial consulting from the Boyd family: My older daughter (Middy’s grandfather), Mildred Wolfenden practice with ING in Winter Park. Melanie Boyd PhD (imagine me having a ’20 and Pemberton Foster Minster ’20 child with a PhD?) has just been hired, as has (Middy’s parents), Pemberton Foster Minster A photographic exhibition by Ann Ginsburgh her husband, at Yale where she will teach Jr., ’44, Elizabeth Minster ’48, Hofkin ’61, “IN SIGHT” was featured at the Women’s Studies. My younger daughter still John Minster ’48, and Emma Minster A.I.R Gallery on West 25th Street in New York resides on Bermuda. Both have two children, Beideman ’52 (Middy’s siblings). Bill ’80 was City for the month of May 2007. Ann’s website 8, 8, 8 & 5 (one set of twins). Susan and I have Friends’ Central’s first fourth-generation is www.aghofkin.com. On it she writes, “When our home on Hilton Head Island, where we graduate. I fell in love with photography, I embarked on moved when leaving Bermuda in 1996. I am a wonderful journey of discovery. there only occasionally it seems as I do most Allan Mackey ’55 writes: “My oldest grandson Photographs are distillations of perception of my work away from home. (I guess I am is heading off to college in September (Guess I and experience, and they frequently make use one of the itinerant workers you read about.) can’t be 39 anymore!) Working on my book, Most people say that I would be divorced if I Prisoner of Rock ’n’ Roll: 50 Years With No stayed home; it would be more than my wife Parole, No Time Off For Bad Behavior and could bear. She is more tolerant of me than looking for a winter retreat (January - April) was Mrs. Herron or Nicky Jenkins. Have a where it is sandy rather than snowy!” wonderful get together.”

George M. Walters ’55 reports that the Class Christopher Clews ’62 writes: “On my shoul- of 1955 remains in close contact through ders is my nearly-2-year-old (1st) grandson, email. “We still care about each other and are Sasha. He’s the adorable (and brilliant) son of happy to send and receive mail!” my oldest daughter, Natasha, who is a Denver architect. Actually, by my younger daughter, Carol Perloff Capper ’56 writes: “Our 50th of metaphor. Imagination and reality operate Pip, I am grandfather to a Great Pyrenees, a reunion in May ’06 was fantastic! Some of us together. It is this union that directs my work. Bernese mountain dog, three pigmy goats, and hadn’t seen each other in a long time and yet What we know–or what we think we ten newly acquired chicks, all living much it felt like we had never been apart. Many of know–will most likely evolve over time in closer to me in Maine – but I suppose we’ll us are staying in touch with each other.” much the same way that a kaleidoscope shifts wait ’till next time for those photos! its design when the eyepiece is rotated. Colors Patricia Pugh Dugan ’56 writes: “Our 50th and shapes may change, positions of pieces reunion last year was a very enjoyable experi- may vary, but the same essential rudiments are ence. We are still enjoying our life here in there all the time. And, since each of us has a South Carolina. In the summer, however, we series of ’holes’ in our respective existences, we do head for the mountains in North Carolina seek to fill these in our own way. How we do and New Hampshire for a change of scene and so is one thing that makes each of us an indi- cooler weather.” vidual.”

Andrew T. C. Stifler ’57 writes: “I had a won- John T.White ’61 writes: “I retired last year at derful conversation with Erik Guthy ’57. He 64 because my wife is very ill. We have three has retired after 40 years of orthopedic surgery daughters and six grandchildren. I am now “I got my student pilot’s license while a senior and moved to the Alps equidistant from nursing my wife full-time, and often taking at FCS, along with my brother, Henry (also Munich, Salzburg, and Innsbrook. care of five of my grandchildren.” FCS ’62). We have both enjoyed flying something ever since – the planes just keep getting Barbara Davis Widmayer ’57 writes: “that she David Boyd ’62 writes: “Dear Class of ’62, I smaller, quieter, and more fuel efficient. (I’d is looking forward to our 50th reunion.” am sorry that I couldn’t make it to Reunion, really like a pedal-powered airplane, but alas, but I am currently stuck in the Adirondack at 62, maybe I’ll have to settle for a solar-pow-

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David A. George ’67 was unable to attend use it for the rest of your life. Well, since my Reunion this year due to commitments in English is not very good any more (I’m totally California. “My best wishes to all of you!” out of practice), I have to stop my philosophi- cal excursions at that point. Please give my Cathy Zahn Jann ’67 sent along this note: “I greetings and best wishes to my former class- would love to attend my 40th Reunion, how- mates (class of ’67). I hope to meet them at ever, after divorcing husband #1 after attend- one of the future reunions and to hear then all ing (a reunion) and having 2 more husbands the news. I hope you have a wonderful and die after going to others, I have decided to interesting day and thank you for keeping in ered model!) This photo (taken from wing- spare husband #4, who has survived 9 years, touch! Best wishes to everyone! PS.If any of mounted camera) is me at the Sun ’n Fun even though he says he is indestructible! Hope you should plan to visit Munich/Germany, just Splash-in at Lakeland, FL in April ’07 aboard all have a great time.” call, and I will show you the Nymphenburger my Air Creation float trike. It’s a 2-seater if Schloss and some other nice bavarian places! anybody would like a ride over Lake Winnipe- Katharine Smith Kosinski ’67: “I look back PS. The picture from Michael Schuster and me saukee this summer. Don’t hesitate to contact with fond memories of some excellent teach- was taken at the last class-reunion we had in me at [email protected] planning now to be ers and wonderful classmates.” our school in Gräfelfing 2 years ago.” there for our 50th! Egads, that’s 2012!” Constanze Raschkowitsch Meile ’67 writes Michael A. Cohen ’62 writes: “I am currently from Germany: “Thank you very much for the Director of the Graduate Program in your invitation to the class reunion this week- 1970s International Affairs at the New School end. I’m very sorry that I could not make it University in New York.” possible to come, I really would have loved to Lise K. Funderburg ’77 writes: “This year my see you and my classmates again after so many second book, The Color Purple: A Memory Margery DeArmond Maconachy ’62 was years! I still remember so well my last visit at Book, was published, and I am really excited unable to make Reunion in the spring. She Friends’ Central School, which must be about that my third book, which is narrative non- and her husband were crewing for friends in ten years ago! My son Alexander was in 8th fiction and called Pig Candy will be published The Atlantic Cup from Tortola, BVI to grade then, and now he is already 24 years old in Spring 2008.” Bermuda then to Annapolis. “I am really sad and studies in Vienna, Austria at an Actors’ to have missed our BIG 45! Can it be ... #45?!” School! It was just a wonderful week-end we Alexandria Richardson Graber ’77 writes: had then and it was so nice to meet you! I still “My husband is the Ambassador to the Czech Clemence Ravacon-Mershon ’63 is semi- have the beautiful blanket which we former Republic. We are living in Prague. One son is retired, doing substitute teaching.In addition, exchange-students received as a gift from the with us, the other a freshman at Wake Forest. she volunteers locally in college theatre and a School. Time just rushes so quickly, but the A true experience! Will be here about two and literacy council, as well as internationally with a half years—until January ’09.” Quaker organizations and Habitat for Humanity. Denise C. Willis ’77 writes: “I am still single. I am a graduate student at Lincoln University. I Jed Z. Callen ’67 writes: “Best to all class- am seeking my second Master’s M.E.D. in mates, and FCS family on our 40th! Sorry I Early Childhood.” am living somewhat far away ... Friends can email me or check on me at Marion Crowell Entwisle ’79 writes: “I am www.nhlandlaw.com .” directing a small, progressive preschool in Takoma Park (Washington, DC area). Ron Diment ’67 is looking forward to the Recently enjoyed returning to my ’home’ in 40th but writes, “You know you have aged older I get, the more I realize, how very Vermont to go skiing! Daughter Amy is 17 when a featured event at your 35th is the important the year as an exchange student at and Laura is 15.” groundbreaking for a new science, math, and FCS was for me and how much the spirit of technology building which will stand where the School influenced my thinking and my the junior high building was that you helped attitude about people—especially children break ground for when you were in 6th (I’m working as a therapist with children). It’s grade!” like a treasure someone gave you and you can

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Gallery in the Hamptons, NY in April–May Bill Weinstein ’94 is a talent agent with 2007. Endeavor Talent Agency in Hollywood, CA. 1980s Bill’s client Michael Arndt won the 2007 Oscar Danielle Waldrop ’87 has graduated from for Original Screenplay for Little Miss Ruth Bramson ’82 “I have a rare liver disease, Southern Illinois University School of Sunshine. primary biliary cirrhosis, with no cause or Medicine and is now an intern in obstetrics cure, only a transplant. I am in the last stage – and gynecology. She lives in Arlington, VA and Brent S. McIvor ’95 is teaching 7th grade stage 4 – and am on the transplant list in is glad to be back on the East Coast after living Social Studies in Philadelphia. Houston at Baylor Hospital. My mom and I in the midwest for six years. live two doors down from my sister who is a Andrew Scharff ’95 emailed recently: “For doctor. Because of these health problems, I Samantha Hauser Ekert ’88 writes: “We are one week every month since March I’ve been will be unable to attend Reunion.” enjoying being back on the East Coast and teaching circus skills and helping put shows reconnecting with old friends. We recently saw together with the National Circus Project in David Arfaa ’84 writes: “I would like to say Ellen Cohen ’88 and Macon Jessop ’88 and NY State. We that I hope all is well with my Class of 1984. their husbands. Our kids are now four and six enter the I’m now working for my dad’s firm as a CAD and a half and doing wonderfully! school on operator while I’m an artist at home.” Monday and perform a few Andrea M. Deutsch ’85 and her canine com- shows for the panion Maddie were recently featured in a 1990s kids. Monday Philadelphia Inquirer article on the pet food Julian Berrian ’92 is assistant professor of through contamination crisis. Andrea owns Spot’s – communications at Worcester State College in Friday we The Place for Paws in Narberth. “I’m having Massachusetts. have work- trouble keeping the shelves stocked,” said shops and Andrea in the article, “There’s definitely been Perri Shaw Borish ’92 writes: “I have a son, teach the kids an upswing in people who are interested in Elijah, who will be two in November, and I circus skills. feeding their pets healthy foods that don’t maintain a psychotherapy practice in center Then on Friday the core group (a class that contain things like wheat gluten as a source of city Philadelphia.” was selected before we showed up) puts on a protein.” show. It’s been interesting having to get the Ruth First Goldstein ’92 writes: “FCS was kids to put together a halfway decent show by Vincent David Feldman ’85 and his wife indeed my home away from home for five the end of only one week. I would have pic- Kaori welcomed son Kai on July 13, 2006. years. It was a place where I felt completely tures of this, too, but during the week, there safe and comfortable to express myself, and isn’t really enough time for that. In April, I Kennedy Behrman ’87 writes from Toronto where I discovered to love the art of learning.I promoted the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and that he has a new daughter, Lydia Itta love the bond that the class of ’92 will forever Bailey Circus before it came to Philadelphia. Behrman. share and look forward to seeing everyone in Then more recently I went to China with 50 May!” other clowns for the Happy Liuzhou Tonya Evans-Walls ’87’s new book, Copyright International Clown Festival.The first week of Companion for Writers, is a Writer’s Digest Meredith J. Keiser-Roddy ’92 writes: “I was May is one big holiday for many Asian coun- Book Club selection. In the spring of 2007, she married last September to Anthony Roddy. tries. The organizers set up five stages in was an adjunct professor at York College, We live in Chestnut Hill, and I am a Sales beautiful Long Tan Park near the center of teaching music licensing, publishing, and Executive at a company called Beadalon - we town and thousands of people showed up to copyright. Tonya maintains a full-time law manufacture jewelry wire and sell all kinds of enjoy nature and clowns. I’ve worked in a lot practice and a wine site www.joyofthetable.com. components for making jewelry.” of places, but I’ve never been part of a clown festival before.” Rachel Broker Kaplan ’87 has joined Kimberly A. Rothwell ’92 writes: “It was a BermanBraun as head of scripted TV.“She’ll wonderful experience to be a part of the first Sandra Bernhard’s one woman show be in charge of developing and overseeing girls track & field team at FCS to win a Everything Bad & Beautiful directed by David production of all scripted comedies and dra- Friends’ School League Championship! I Brind ’96 was in Philadelphia in January after mas for the company.” Variety 4/15/2007 would love to see my ninth grade self-portrait a New York run in 2006. The artwork of Melanie Fischer Rubenstein I drew in art class again.” ’87 was featured at the Sara Nightingale 44 Friends’ Central 20907_FCHS_35-48.qxp 9/11/07 2:40 PM Page 45

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Scott Alberts ’97 writes: “Everything is pro- deprecating, and a little bit dangerous,” Jeremy 4th grade part-time and resource-level autistic ceeding according to plan. I work for a record Gold, scripted programming head, was quoted students, and am loving it!” label by day, and I alternate between playing in Variety in May. music and playing politics by night. My most Bridget Campbell ’03 reports that she and recent projects have been the management of Lauren Pearlman ’00 is working on her Judy Lavi ’03 are traveling this summer, start- Pennsylvania State Representative Greg Vitali’s Master’s in African American Studies at Yale. ing in Turkey. They’ll make their way around reelection campaign and the reunion of my parts of Europe. After returning, Bridget will old band, Super Buick.” Rob Crauderueff ’01 is currently working at move to Mountain View, CA to begin work for an organization called Sustainable South Bronx Google in its Human Resources Department. Brian Jacobs ’97 married Candice Aloisi, a fel- in NYC. It is a grassroots organization focus- She applied on a whim and is delighted with low 2004 graduate of Columbia Law School. ing on environmental issues and sustainability the offer. Judy is unsure about her fall 2007 He is currently a law clerk for the Honorable in urban contexts. Rob’s areas of expertise are plans, but is thinking about applying to Teach Jed S. Rakoff , a United States District Judge green roofs and urban environmental policy. for America. for the Southern District of New York. Rosie Dent ’01 is living in Ecuador teaching Luciana Colapinto ’03 was in an Off- Zach Leibowitz ’97 is doing sideline reporting English and volunteering in a youth organiza- Broadway production of Tape by Stephen on the Major Indoor Soccer League’s National tion. Belber. Assistant Director of Admission Game of the Week. Zach is a producer on Cynthia Harris saw the play and writes: “It was ESPN’s Cold Pizza, and formerly worked side- Johanna Gelber ’01 will be traveling to a fascinating play and Luciana was sublime.” line reporting for that show. Otavolo, Ecuador this summer with coaches and members of the Swarthmore College Mary Crauderueff ’03 will be graduating in Ann Scharff Vernon ’97 writes: “doing well in Women’s Soccer team to participate in a May from Earlham College with a major in NC and enjoying family life.” Village Education Project. They will conduct theatre arts and minors in creative writing and math classes and create an athletic program. religion. She is planning to get her Master’s in Liz Shinn Hulford ’98 is currently living out- Before heading out to Ecuador, Johanna Library Science. She has just finished her final side of Chicago with her husband and two solicited new and gently used classroom and senior work and is looking forward to her last cats. She is employed as a chaplain in the sports equipment donations and arranged for semester with great classes and great friends. Adventist Health System. This summer she the items to be shipped to Otavalo.Johanna is will be ordained as a Presbyterian pastor. an assistant coach with the team. Ben Eisenberg ’03 writes: “I just took a year off from school to live in China, learning Paintings by Lauren Tanzio ’98 were featured READ DeSabato ’02 is teaching Chinese and kung-fu and teaching English. I at the Artistic Endeavors of Longwood gallery in Prekindergarten at FCS Lower School after have three semesters left at the University of May. graduating from Cabrini College. He is Colorado.” actively involved in the Philadelphia Ultimate Elizabeth Hutchin ’99 is in Madrid, Spain, Frisbee League. Joyce Miller ’03 attends NYU/Tisch School of working on her PhD after a year of research at the Arts and writes: “This spring I was in the the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. David Jason Gershkoff ’02 writes: “I graduat- world premier of a new play by Alexandra ed from Yale in May, 2006 and am now work- Gersten-Vassilaros on the Tisch Mainstage. In Greg McIvor ’99 is working on his PhD in ing as a strategy consultant in New York and the fall, I was selected for an acting class physics at the University of Texas. living on the Upper West Side.” taught by Kathleen Turner. She brought in a lot of different guests to talk about the busi- Samantha Taylor ’99 is working in cancer C. Jerome Mopsik ’02 writes: “I am living in ness of acting, including Edward Albee. We are research at Jefferson University. Saratoga Springs, NY after graduating from now putting up a showcase at the Rattlestick Skidmore College in May, 2006. I am working Theater. In the fall, I was also in a production at The AYCO Company LP, a Goldman Sachs called Hellhouse produced by Les Freres Company. I enjoy visiting my family and sis- Corbusier, a young theater company, that 2000s ter, Jennie ’04, and the warmer weather in ended up getting quite a bit of good press.” Doug Mand ’00, a member of Chubby Skinny Philadelphia.” Kids, has been signed to an acting/writing deal Edges, a contemporary musical theater review with Endemol Inc., a Los Angeles production Rachel Shore ’02 writes: “I am teaching in by Benj Pasek ’03, will be produced off- company responsible for Deal or No Deal. Spring-Ford Area School District as a special Broadway next year. “Their brand of comedy is youthful, a bit self- education teacher. I am teaching 2nd through

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Amanda Witts ’03 attended Hampton Madame Ostroff-Weinberg’s French classes in Anna Raff ’05 is busy as a French major with University and is in the process of applying to Fall and Spring 2007. She is also on the Dean’s an art history minor at Vassar College. She is law school. List and is on the dance team at Penn, the producing the Shakespeare troupe show of Quaker Girls, which performs during halftime The Taming of the Shrew and doing field work Jon Aronchick ’05, a sophomore at Brown of basketball games. at the Hudson Valley Psychiatric Center. Her University, is double majoring in religious summer ’07 plans are to intern at the studies and environmental studies. He is also Brad Cohen ’05 is majoring in PPE concen- Cambridge Hospital. Anna hopes to study in pre-med. He is involved in community serv- trating in PSCI, possibly with a minor in eco- Paris next spring. ice, an a cappella group, and theater. He is nomic history, and playing lacrosse on the thinking about going to Paris next spring to club team at Penn. He is planning to study at Alex Abelson ’06 has a pet fish named Neil study. He has been doing research in interna- the University of Sydney in Australia and then and is writing a book of poetry that includes tional environmental energy politics and just travel to New Zealand, Fiji, and Europe. photography for an independent study course spent time in Israel. He plans on going to at Hampshire College entitled writings from Iceland this summer to continue this research. Andrea DeSabato ’05 is currently a sopho- here, there and the third place. more at Temple University, where she is enjoy- Natalie Aronson ’05 is a PPE major at Penn ing a lot of classes in philosophy and journal- Dwight Dunston ’06 is planning on majoring and is enjoying herself greatly. She is hoping ism. She plays Division I Lacrosse, which she in English at Dickinson College and is cur- to travel to Rome with fellow FCS Alumnus says, “basically runs my life.” rently part of an improv comedy group called Sam Eisner ’05 to study abroad in the fall. She Run With It. He is also running indoor track. is also a big sister in West Philadelphia with Samuel A. Eisner ’05 is majoring in philoso- Big Brothers Big Sisters. phy, politics, and economics at Penn. He is Bob Grasberger ’06 is singing in an a cappella coaching a basketball team of 10-13 year olds group called the Hullabahoos that travels the Ami Bagia ’05 is a sophomore at the in West Philly. Sam and fellow FCS alumna country and sings for events such as profes- University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She has Natalie Aronson ’05 hope to study abroad in sional basketball and baseball games. He a double major in the honors program in psy- the fall. He writes, “I am in the process of attends the University of Virginia. chology and international relations. signing a multi-year deal with the Eagles.” Karen Lavi ’06 reports: “I am returning to Rachel Bradburd ’05 recently ran into Deb Michael Grinspan ’05 is an editor at the Guatemala over winter break 2007 (went there Charamella ’01 when Dickinson, where Columbia Comedy Newspaper and is double for my senior project) with my professor from majoring in history and creative writing.He is Haverford College, Anita Isaacs, to present an actor and writer for a sketch comedy information from the surveys that she and group, Chowdah, and got his first writing job students took the past two summers concern- for an online publication entitled ing truth and reconciliation after the civil war IvyLeak.com. that ended in 1996. We are returning to the communities where the surveys were taken Ben Grinspan ’05 sees Kate Fussner ’05, Anna and hope to create a dialogue within the com- Raff ’05, Eli Muhrer ’05, and Sarah Brown ’05 munities. Other Haverford students and alum- at Vassar College all the time. He is a political ni are coming on the trip as well as Natalie science major and has recently learned how to Kitroeff ’07 and Max Branzburg ’07.” Karen make an omelet. Because of his recent move to also plays varsity squash and tennis. Rachel plays, played Bryn Mawr College, center city Philadelphia, he is on the path to where Deb coaches. becoming one of the world’s best parkers. Niambi McDonald ’06 is at Pennsylvania State University and is an avid participant in Geneva Campbell ’05 was inducted in the Dan Lieberman ’05 is working on TV McGill THON, a campus club which raises money to John Marshall Pre-Law Honor Society and the and is writing and producing online series. help kids with cancer. National Society of Collegiate Scholars Honor He is majoring in political science with a Society at the University of Pennsylvania. She minor in history at McGill University. Justin Plummer ’06 is a business major and studied abroad in Tours, France last summer plays basketball for Albright College. and will be studying in London, England in Eli Muhrer ’05 is majoring in psychology at June. She is an English and French major, with Vassar College, with a focus in social psychol- an Africana studies minor. She spoke to ogy.

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Andrew Richardson ’06 is a computer science major at Hamilton College and a varsity lacrosse player. MARRIAGES

Rob Ricketts ’06 is at LaSalle University and Meredith J. Keiser ’92 participating in cross country and track & to field. He also does foster care tutoring. Anthony Roddy on September 3, 2006 Morgan Robinson ’06 is a freshman rep for the Pharmaceutical Marketing and Tanya Johnson ’02 (shown left) Management Club at the University of the to Sciences in Philadelphia and has organized Omar Muse service projects with the BSU. She is also on October 7, 2006 organizing a concert series for the University.

Adam Valen Levinson ’06 is very active at Columbia University. He is participating in the wind ensemble, a jazz sextet, the big band, and NEW ARRIVALS taking lessons with Don Sickler, a well-known producer and trumpet player. He writes for a 1. James Oscar Saltalamacchia (Heidi Pokras satire/humor paper called The Fed, is taking Saltalamacchia ’82 and John Saltalamacchia) Arabic, and is in the surf club. on December 14, 2006. 3.

Aleeza Wachs ’06 was recently on a 10-day trip 2. Kai Feldman (Kaori Ikeuchi Feldman and of community service helping the communi- Vincent David Feldman ’85) on July 13, 2006. ties in northern Israel recover from the war this past summer. She attends the University of 3. Alexa and Amelia Citron (Andrea G. Cohen Rochester. ’86 and Roger Citron) on September 27, 2006. 4. 4. Aarik and Rabee Singh (Ashu Diwan Singh ’89 and Vinayak Singh) on July 22, 2006.

5. Connor Williams (Erin and Matthew Williams ’91) on October 18, 2006.

6. Finnegan Daly (Courtney Papada Daly ’92 and Andrew Daly) on February 7, 2007. 7.

7. Liam Michael Gallaga (Andrea Pedisich Gallaga ’92 and Bill Gallaga) on November 30, 2006.

8. Elijah Kass Glaser (Lisa Cosiol Glaser and Zachary Glaser ’92) on May 10, 2005. 8. 9. Sarah Elizabeth Wellington (Jennifer Briggs ’95 and Carl Wellington) on January 31, 2007.

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IN MEMORIAM

Former Faculty John Burrowes Ethel Sears

Alumni/ae Marion Christman Beyea ’33 Mary Phillips Lauser ’33 Kitty Henry Spaeth ’33 Richard F. Berkes ’36 Margaret Rankin Driver ’37 Hannah Moorshead Turner ’37 Alma Meyer Kennedy-Crocker ’38 Maurie Gieg Rullman ’38 Frances Jones Hastings ’39 Amy McMullin Freemann ’40 Adele Golder Kates ’42 Mary McMullin ’42 Barbara Moore Childs ’43 Katherine Rich Murdoch ’44 Remembrance of a While we were collecting the John C. Barnard ’48 Classmate coconuts, a beach patrol arrested us and Thomas A. Pugh ’55 took us to a station. We were told that Marcia Graham Higgins ’56 The Class of 1952 lost a dear friend in the beach was owned by the govern- James W. Pittinos ’57 2006, Eduardo (Lalo) Hermosillo. Lalo ment, and we could have been shot for Richard A. Niedland ’59 spent six wonderful years with us at stealing federal property. Rolfe Marsh ’66 Friends’ Central, seventh grade through Jim could speak some Spanish twelfth. He was hosted by Emanuel (thanks to the courses he had at Friends’ (Pat) Hudock and his family. Pat is a Central) and told our captors that we Have you ever run for office? classmate and a successful doctor. had a Mexican companion back at a After graduation in 1952, Lalo invit- motel. They released Jim and kept me Helped on someone ed classmates James Wilson and Donald hostage. else’s campaign? Reimenschneider to visit Mexico, his Lalo returned with Jim and began homeland. We had an enjoyable stay bargaining with the patrolmen. I could Do you cover politics for with Lalo—one unusual experience not speak Spanish, but by the tones of a journal or newspaper? stands out above the rest. the voices and by the gestures being At Acupulco, Jim and I got a taste of made, I knew what was happening. Lalo Do you teach political theory or coconut milk, and we liked it. That night had to bribe the patrolmen for our free- lead tours of statehouses? we were boarding at a motel with no air dom. We left Acapulco with almost no conditioning.Jim and I could not sleep. money, and had no choice but to return Are you a consultant, activist, Lalo was resting comfortably. to Mexico City, where Lalo lived. cartoonist, or fundraiser? Jim and I decided to take a walk to Lalo was a gentleman and carried the ocean front and pick coconuts from himself with dignity. The memories of For our next issue, we want to hear the trees that lined the beach. We that summer are forever ingrained in us. from anyone involved with politics and elections. Contact: Rebecca H. planned to take them back to the motel Anderson, editor, at and drink their milk. Donald Reimenschneider ’52 [email protected].

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From the Archives

The Blackburn Bonnet

“Thee must learn what thy bonnet stands for. Thee must learn Quaker ways.”

From Marguerite de Angeli’s Thee, Hannah! which recounts the story of a young Quaker girl named Hannah who struggles to find meaning in her family’s plain customs.

Carefully wrapped in acid-free tissue paper in an archival box lies a simple Quaker bonnet in the Friends’ Central Archives. Fraying in some spots and water-stained in others, the fragile bonnet While the complete story behind the harks back to a time when many Quaker Blackburn bonnet is unknown, the unas- women wore unadorned head coverings suming head covering is a fine illustration on a daily basis. Part of the personal of the Quaker sentiment for moderation effects of Eliza Blackburn ’22, beloved in dress. The American writer Elbert physical education teacher, the bonnet Hubbard (1856-1915) described members belonged to Eliza’s grandmother, Hannah of the Religious Society of Friends as Engles Blackburn (1838-1920). 1. exemplifying “plain living and high think- The Blackburn family’s connection to ing.” Indeed, the bonnet is modest: Friends’ Central is deep-rooted. Eliza super-fine ribbons and eight deep pleats graduated and taught at the School from converging at the brim are the bonnet’s 1926-1967, and her two brothers, Jackson only real ornamentation. And while silk ’18 and Albert, Jr. ’25 also returned to is considered a modern luxury, it was teach. Their father, Albert E. Blackburn, commonly worn by middle-class Quakers was a trustee at Friends’ Central for 25 and was an alternative to cotton, which years. In 1958, the Blackburn family pro- had ties to slavery. Plain and elegant at vided the School with the Blackburn once, the bonnet is a testament to the Library as a memorial for Albert, Jr. who 2. Quaker belief that one’s outer trappings died in 1935. 3. are secondary to one’s spiritual workings. “I think it’s a wedding bonnet,” says Friends’ Central is fortunate to have Friends’ Central’s Quaker Coordinator such a meaningful artifact in its posses- Robyn Richmond, based on research and sion and it seems fitting that the bonnet speaking with plain Friends she knows. is kept in the School’s archives in the While there is no concrete evidence to Blackburn Library. Like the building show that this was the wedding bonnet of where it is housed, the bonnet is part of Hannah Engles Blackburn, who married the Blackburn family’s legacy and enrich- Uriah Blackburn in December 1863, it es the school community. The delicate seems likely. The fact that this bonnet bonnet, silently resting in its archival box, has been preserved and passed down over 4. offers a glimpse of Quaker history and the generations implies that it held some tangibly links Friends’ Central to the kind of distinction for the Blackburn 1. Unidentified photo from the Quaker principles upon which the School family. Images of Quaker wedding bon- personal effects of Eliza Blackburn was founded. possibly showing her grandparents, nets are scarce but have shown that some Hannah Engles Blackburn and Uriah Blackburn. Quaker women have married in white 2. Albert Blackburn, Jr. '25 Elizabeth H. Finley bonnets. And black bonnets seem to be 3. Jackson M. Blackburn '18 Archivist more prevalent which suggests that white 4. Eliza E. Blackburn '22 bonnets were meant for special occasions.

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