PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL JOURNAL B o a r d o f T r u s t e e s

Marilyn W. Grounds Chairm an ' PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL

Richard F. Ober, Jr. Vice Chairman, Parliamentarian JOURNAL

Thomas E. Gardner Vice Chairman Vol. 27 No. 1 Fall 1991 Clifford A. Goldman Treasurer

Judith E. Feldman Contents Secretary From the Headmaster, Duncan W. Ailing ...... 1 Duncan W. Ailing H eadm aster Alumni Abroad ...... 2-6

Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth International Harmony: Promoting Peace Through M usic ...... 7 Honorary Trustee Fair Exchange, Daniel J. S k v ir...... 8 Henry P. Bristol II '72 Robert E. Dougherty '43 Exchange Students at Princeton Day School...... 9 Marlene G. Doyle Geographical Awareness, William A. Stoltzfus...... 10 Prabhavathi Fernandes Peter G. Gerry Do You Have Memories of Pretty Brook Farm?...... 10 Betty W. Greenberg Latin Lives On, Todd Gudgel...... 11 Peter W. Hegener Cymbals Too ...... 13 J. Parry Jones

Stephen F. Jusick On C a m p u s...... 14-15

Jane Henderson Kenyon '79 S p o rts ...... 16-17 Winton H. Manning Twenty Years of Architecture Career Day, Adam Bromwich '9 2 ...... 18 John T. McLoughlin Randolph W. Melville '77 Parade Highlights PDS's 25th Anniversary, Joshua Ticktin '92 ...... 20 Barbara M. Ostfeld Founders Day Celebration ...... 21 Cathi Ragsdale Edward W. Scudder III Panther's Party ...... 22

Mitchell L. Sussman '71 Alumni Reunions...... 23-24 Howard F. Taylor Lower School Final Assembly ...... 25 Kilin To Ann B. Vehslage Middle School Final Assembly ...... 25 L. Thomas Welsh, Jr. Commencement '91 ...... 26 Mary Strunsky Wisnovsky '57 Commencement Speech, Campbell Levy '91 ...... 27

1991 College Choices ...... 28

A l u m n i C o u n c il Board of Trustees Report...... 29 Jane Henderson Kenyon '79 President Welcome Back ...... 30-31

Anne A. Williams '74 Alumni Association Report...... 32 Vice P resident Parents Association Report, Cathi Ragsdale, President...... 32 Linda Staniar Bergh '66 Katharine Burks Hackett '75 Alumni News ...... 33 James Y. Laughlin '80

Kirk W. Moore '72 Contributing photographers: Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick, Won Kim '90, Marie Matthews, Ruta Smithson, Liz Terrell '92, Joe To '91, Wendy Varga. Craig C. Stuart '87 Susan Barclay Walcott '57 On the cover: adapted from a design by I’DS parent Karen Lynam, the cover depicts the school's global awareness and focuses on the US flag and those of the countries with which Dorothea Shipway Webster '62 we have exchange programs: France, Spain and the Soviet Union.

Back cover: design by PDS parent Karen Cotton was used to promote the lower school Science Series.

Editor: Linda Maxwell Stefanelli '62 It is the policy of Princeton Day School to admit boys and girls of any race, color, religion, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded and made available to students at the school. The school does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national and ethnic origin in employment or in Contributing Editors: Duncan W. Ailing administration of its educational policies, scholarship programs, athletic and other school-administered programs. David C. Bogle FROM THE HEADMASTER _

by D uncan W. A iling

Senior year in high school: a phrase filled with a rich range of expectations, whether you are student, teacher or par­ ent. Most adults probably view the year asonethatbuildssteadily toa wonderful conclusion to secondary school. To be sure senior privileges, college admission, class activities (including at PDS the now-traditional prank), athletic and ex­ tracurricular endeavors, the prom, completing challenging classwork suc­ cessfully, prize day and other traditional activities distinguish the course of the year for seniors. However, teachers and administrators in a number of indepen­ dent schools are questioning the overall quality of the current experience. PDS is among those schools. Because of our growing concern, I formed an ad hoc committee last fall to Duncan Ailing leads a discussion of school spirit during a senior seminar. examine the issue. The Senior Year Com­ mittee, which included faculty members dinary energy, concentration and com­ Headmaster's Seminar. We hatched and administrators Jamie Atkeson, Seth mitment. ideas. Last June we acknowledged that Baranoff, Anne Shepherd, Markell On the one hand this sem ester is a good our work will address these three points: Shriver, Nancy Young and Jim Walker, challenge, and has value. But once the • Promoting stronger senior class and seniors Joel Totten and Lahn You, semester ends, we begin to see "senioritis" unity. started its work by describing what, if sooner in more students and expressed • Reducing the pressure of the first anything, has happened to the traditional more intensely than we did in the past. A semester. events of the senior year. This endeavor greater emotional letdown occurs due to • Developing a new academic program confirmed what we had suspected: that the greater intensity of the first semester. for all seniors in the second semester that the year was no longer building steadily Although "senioritis" will never go away, contains transitional features for college. toward a wonderful conclusion, but ap­ its volume, intensity and earlier emer­ Our enthusiasm over our work to date, peared to be divided into two gence makes it more difficult to build particularly in addressing the third point, experiences. steadily toward a more complete, posi­ has been exhilarating. We look forward The first semester comprises all the tive ending of the year. to sharing our endeavors with faculty features that previous PDS seniors con­ This reality has also had an impact on and appropriate committees for construc­ fronted. However, the college admission other areas of the school. It especially tive commentary and guidance, and to process has come to demand more, ear­ affects teaching when juniors and sopho­ sharing the results with alumni, parents lier in the year, from seniors. As an mores share classes with disaffected and friends. example, the concept of early decision seniors. We have athletic teams and ex­ In closing, let me refer to a quote by and early action, whereby students must tracurricular activities which lose seniors William Mayner, college placement offi­ complete their college search in the sum­ who opt out. Other school endeavors cer at Noble and Greenough, from his mer in order to submit applications by which count on seniors who should be 1989 paper on the senior year which was October or November for December or reaching the zenith of their commitment prepared while he was a Fred January decisions, has recently become and experience are also hurt. Klingenstein Fellow at Columbia Uni­ more popular with students and colleges. Following general discussions about versity: Another phenomenon is the possibility observed changes in seniors and the pat­ Instead of making seniors spend of some seniors applying to ten to fifteen tern of events during the year, the their last months in school rico­ colleges rather than five to seven (once committee recognized that the school had cheting off what they feel are upon a time it was three or four!). This an opportunity to address the bother­ increasingly arbitrary and oppres­ development is a significant multiplica­ some aspects of the changes and shape sive regulations while just going tion factor in terms of student time and new endeavors to help seniors under­ through the motions in the class­ effort. stand that education never ends. room, we should nurture the This general development in the col­ In late spring we broke up into sub­ creativity which they can discover lege process has heightened the daily committees to examine possibilities which at the edge of their lives. pace of life for too m any seniors. Frustra­ would help us make the year more dis­ That is our opportunity. We are re­ tion and anxiety are more evident as they tinctive, meaningful and useful to seniors. sponding with what we believe are meet their varied responsibilities. Thus, We sought information from other exciting possibilities for the entire school the first semester for seniors is devoted schools. We asked the class of 1991 for community. Comments from Journal to a set of activities that demand extraor­ insight and ideas through the readers are welcomed. 1 ALUMNI ABROAD

While modern technology has made the world seem smaller, traveling abroad, not to mention living in a foreign country, is still an adventure for most of us. We dedicate this issue of the Journal to our 81 alumni who live in 28 countries around the world. By sharing their experiences, they color our perceptions of other peoples and prompt us to travel as well.

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Arab Republic of Egypt France Kuwait Philip Benson '75 George Bush '65 Al-Shatti Qusay '85 Elsa Johnson Millward '55 Martha Strunsky Ilic '59 England Mexico John McLoughlin '63 Australia Norman Armour III '62 Laura Rogers Camps '63 Ariane Mulsant '74 Mary Mills Barrow '72 Douglas Bailey '81 Peter Howland '70 Anna Rosenblad '54 R.E. Lee Maxwell '62 Margaret Bailey '78 Puerto Rico Thomas Berger '70 Germany Belgium Janet Butler Haugaard '50 Faith Wing Bieler '58 Lucinda Herrick '72 Ethan Johnson '76 James Strasenburgh '65 Polly Dickey Cockburn '66 Julia Johnson '76 Greece Katharine Davidson '81 Scotland Kevin Considine '70 Berm uda Harriett Gaston Davison '60 Stephanie Ewing Blunn '65 Phoebe Vaughn Outerbridge '84 Timothy Digby '80 Hong Kong Nicholas Hopkinson '46 Valerie Winant Goodhart '44 Steven Bash '72 Bolivia South Africa Gregory Haddock '84 Simon Mok '75 Wendy Yeaton Smith '59 Helen Keegin Hetherington '54 Joan Budny Jenkins '49 India Alexander Matthews '57 Canada Nan Karwan '71 Laurie Bryant Young '71 Margaret Pascu Campbell '56 David Kitchen '89 Spain John 1 lemphill, Jr. '40 Sarah Frantz Latimer '49 Indonesia Teresa Bresnan '82 David Macleod '69 Anne Gulick MacCurdy '73 Anne Russell '75 Martha Feltenstein '71 Hilary Martin '70 Judith Taylor Murray '60 David Hart '41 Ireland George Piper '43 Eric Phinney '37 Alison Hughes '82 Mary Grover Shallow '41 John Sheehan '61 Caroline Bundy Stogdon '76 Sri Lanka Michael Shenstone '43 Robert Stoner '78 Italy Donald Quigley '77 Viola Guiness Stephens '55 Eileen Baker Strathnaver '60 Theodore Brown '71 Christopher Stewart Morin '89 Dawne Taylor '79 Amy Stover Garofalo '75 Switzerland Katharine Foster Watts '24 Patricia Metzger Thomas '78 Jane Rose Spicer '61 Christian Aall '74 William Thompson '48 Columbia Jamaica Taiwan John Wellemeyer '52 Critchton Adams '71 Felicity Brock Kelcourse '71 Carl W egner '81 Treby McLaughlin Williams '80 Costa Rica Philip Winder '69 USSR Jake Nunes '79 Robert Wisnovskv '82 Elizabeth Tucker '74 2 ALUMNI ABROAD

So many of our alumni live overseas that zee thought it would be fun to hear about their lives and the places they live. The replies come from England, Senegal, India and Australia. Our deepest appreciation to Eileen, Peggy, Laurie and Lee for their time and effort.

Eileen Baker Strathnaver MFS '60 the British spelling! - Ed.) of London with After graduating from Vassar College, all the city has to offer in easy reach yet Eileen went to England to study at Ox­ the countryside is only 45 minutes away. ford University. She married (and later London is a series of neighborhoods, each divorced) an Englishman and raised her with itsown village feeling, and my neigh­ two daughters there. She says that "all bors and 1 have all raised our children those history classes at MFS certainly together with a wonderful sense of conti­ meant that it all seemed rather familiar nuity over many years. Yet all the from the start!" excitement of the big city is just around Eileen is the political advisor to a cabi­ the corner and the m ixture of people and net minister (one who came close to being nationalities is terrific. named prime minister after Margaret "1 love the countryside-infinitely var­ Thatcher's fall from power) and works to ied and ravishingly beautiful. And 1 love communicate the government position the sense of history - centuries of history to the public. "1 have a watching brief on - all around. And I love the tolerance, political and party implications of de­ partmental policy." practicality and humour of the British - "I suppose Princeton was quite 'En­ they are very funny, contrary to popular glish/British' in a lot of its traditions and opinion." Asked the advantages of raising chil­ dren there, Eileen notes, "The m ost beautiful countryside and the excellent (traditional?!) schools, at least in the pri­ vate sector. And with the European Community, they're citizens of - and en­ titled to work and live in-m ost of western Europe as well as the US." Asked what characteristics are impor­ tant in living abroad, Eileen cites patience. "It takes time to fit in and be accepted as Peggy Wilber and a Senegalese friend model the more than just a guest. And don't keep cloth that Peggy now sells in the US. making comparisons with the way things are done back home, whether out loud or sary of the Peace Corps, a time of much silently. When things are done differ­ reevaluation and reflection on its past, its ently, there's usually a perfectly good purpose and where it is headed. Yet for reason." most RPCVs (Returned Peace Corps Vol­ unteers — let this be your introduction to Margaret N. Wilber MFS '61 the alphabet soup of Peacecorpsese) the history so Britain never really felt foreign Peggy found herself entering the Peace most compelling and affecting memories to me - just a few adjustments in vocabu­ Corps in her 40s after working for many are the personal, individual, less cosmic lary and spelling required! (Yes, I do now but perhaps just as universal. I prefer to spell color, colour.) The only disadvan­ years as a lawyer in Trenton. These days consider myself an ancien combattant or tages were that no one told me that Suez she is based in Washington, DC and some­ veteran, the term used in Senegal and was a dirty word to the Brits and the US how finds the time to practice law, while much of the rest of the formerly French still hadn't been forgiven for that when I working part-time with the American West Africa, for those Senegalese who first arrived. Also, having been taught Bar Association on projects concerning fought in the French army until Indepen­ that Britain was the US's oldest ally at homelessness, the drug crisis and on the dence in I960. Recent reflections on US school, I assumed the reverse was true. Association's AIDS Coordinating Com­ Not so. We're arrivistes; the Portugese mittee. In addition, she teaches English military adventures abroad make me feel are Britain's oldest ally since they some­ and manages her Senegalese company just as much a soldier; one of the most how never managed to have a war with which requires periodic trips to Africa. popular Peace Corps sou venir items bears them for 500 years or so! There was, and the quote: "Peace Corps - Veterans of is, quite a lot of anti-American feeling in Healing - Teaching - Tailoring for Peace Foreign Peace." Doubtless this will of­ Great Britain which 1 wasn't prepared by Margaret N. Wilber fend many military men and women for. The request from PDS to write some­ whose com m itm ent is no less sincere, but "I live in a Victorian terrace house vir­ thing of my experiences in Africa for the it does sum up a great deal of what Peace tually in the centre (there she goes with Journal coincides with the 30th anniver- Corps at its best can accomplish.

3 How we contributed to peacebuilding care. For many living farther out in the the hope for what someday might be in small, often unmeasurable ways, could bush (Sagatta was on a paved road) walk­ d one w i t h a su f ficiency of resou rces— all fill volumes, and how we made it through ing was the only means of locomotion. these helped. None, however, can ex­ almost four months of arduous training Even for those in the best of health, a plain completely why Africa, perhaps before arriving at our often remote vil­ walk in the Senegalese sun, and not just the most disfavored of continents, made lages was a test, I think, of our at noonday, can be a truly punishing me moreofan optimist than I'd everbeen commitment to do just that. It meant experience. I attempted, however, to before. Perhaps it had something to do overcoming a lengthy and difficult selec­ show up faithfully for "work," feeling with the ability of so many to persevere tion process. During training, we lost entirely useless, but as the months wore against great odds in this land with few two of our 25 members; we gathered on, and my Wolof improved only mar­ extras, perhaps the need to do more, daily in the thatched "disco hut," — yes, ginally, I looked elsewhere for activity. often successfully, almost incredibly, with disco culture has, sadly, permeated much I became — informally of course, a so much less. of West Africa — even in small villages teacher's aide in the village school — My optimism was fueled further by there are cadres of often aimless disco teaching the younger children, most of my desire to generate some income-pro­ boys and disquettes, their female coun­ whom came from homes where only ducing capacity forSagatta. Being neither terparts. During these sessions the Wolof was spoken, French grammar and an agriculturalist nor possessed of the preferred form of address was "you health topics. The teachers were a varied capital to significantly effect agricultural guys," and a great deal of irrelevant in­ lot who did their best despite very tough production in an area where the ex­ formation was imparted. I was the oldest conditions. The manque des moyens, or hausted land may have produced as much trainee to survive the process, and left lack of means, a term one hears con­ as it ever could, I harkened back to my happily and very relieved for my village stantly in Senegal and throughout West earliest memories of Senegal — the won­ in the hot, dry desert north, yet only 62 Africa, could describe the school as well derful, wonderful cotton cloth in a variety sandy kilometers from the Atlantic, where as the health post and much of the rest of of often blinding hues and dazzling pat­ pea n u t a n d m i 11 e t f a r m i n g we r e t h e m a i n - the village. The teachers had few books, terns. It was relatively inexpensive in a stays of a fragile economy. and the students had none, only the ubiq­ land where most goods, particularly Sagatta, my new home, had about 1200 uitous cahier or notebook, which served manufactured ones, are often very costly. inhabitants, a post office with a tempera­ as a copybook and thus enforced the I bought a few rem nants, and in a coun­ mental telephone for domestic phonecalls system of French-influenced rote learn­ try where no one in their right mind only, an extensive market area which ing. Six children would often share a would ever wear a necktie, ordered a hosted a significant amount of trading bench built for two or three, and rats had dozen cravates from the wonderfully every Wednesday, several wells, no elec­ chewed large holes in the poured con­ skilled tailors. I bargained (but not too tricity, and a health center or dispetisaire crete floors. Shutters, a necessity against fiercely) for bracelets at the Wednesday which was to serve as my post. Home fiercely blowing desert sand, often hung market, and made the rounds of shops was a mud hut with a thatch roof in a limply on their decaying hinges. and suppliers upon returning to the US. compound inhabited by a warm and How does one keep up one's spirits in Two years later I function as a non-profit lively extended family. Meals were eaten all of this? The eagerness of the students, corporation in the District of Columbia from a large enamel bowl with the right the gratitude of Monsieur le Directeur and doubtless have alienated some hand and consisted almost entirely of (who had been there 30 years), the en­ friends and colleagues by my need to rice and millet. I had chosen the village couragement of my tall, distinguished raise funds for the development of the because of the presence of a highly com­ hotnologue or counterpart, the pride that village. But I fail to see how anyone wish­ petent and dedicated docteur (actually a the numerous children in my family ing to continue work in what must nurse) who left shortly before my arrival. (which numbered three wives) had at essentially be a beggar nation can fail to He was replaced by an extremely pleas­ seeing notre am cricaine at the school, and be a supplicant herself. ant younger nurse who was, however, as much a newcomer as me in some ways. This illustrates the difficulty of planning on — or perhaps relying on anything — in Peace Corps. Aboulaye, born and edu­ cated in Senegal, spoke Wolof, the dominant ethnic language and wasa Mos­ lem who sported regal flowing embroidered robes on fete days, but his unfamiliarity with the village only served to underscore my language difficulties and lack of in-depth health training. (Why the Peace Corps saw fit to assign me to a rural prim ary health program is a topic that could fill a separate chapter on their selection process— which has something to do with filling quotas and keeping host country officials happy, I think.) The difficulties of working at the dispetisaire were exacerbated by the fre­ quent shortage or lack of vital medicines, and the inability of many of the sickest persons to actually get to the post for 4 Our items, which have now expanded allowed to do is limited, but she has to include many types of clothing, purses found some freelance editing and pick­ and tablecloths, are currently featured in up jobs at the various embassies. In three catalogs and various boutiques and Dhahran she worked in the consular sec­ museum shops and, capital permitting, 1 tion on visas, doing some interviews could handleseveral more. It isextremely (even one in French, "Mme. Whipple lonely, exacting and exhausting work, would be proud!") and doing all the back­ but it has provided me with many exhila­ ground checks. rating m om ents as well. It is an enterprise Laurie, her husband, Bill, and their which has engendered pride on both sides two young children live in a large apart­ of I'Atlantique, and I feel that in some ment on a hill overlooking the city. She small ways I have been able to fulfill the reports that the housing consists of either Third Goal of The Peace Corps Act — to apartments or mud slums and the Indian foster understanding of our adopted private schools are very "intensely aca­ countries and the peoples with whom we demic" while the public schools can have served here in the US. It has also enabled 90 students in a class. "At PDS we had me, ironically, to continue to purchase several 'snow days.' One hot June we medical and educational supplies for the even had some 'heat days' because the Focus on the different, the exciting as village— something that I could not do if temperature in school was so high. But in well as the familiar but never dwell long I had remained there. Islamabad they had 'snake days.' They on negative things. Inefficient telephones, Already I am consumed by an intense found cobras in a classroom and had to for instance, are simply a fact of life most longing to be there again. I recently re­ close the school while they checked for places in the world, as are dirty streets. ceived a letter from the master tailor who, more. Ah, life at the edge." Live around them. Meet both Americans although not literate himself, transmits Asked the advantages and disadvan­ and foreigners. Learn a few words of the his considerable dignity and gift of speech tages of life abroad, Laurie replied, language, even a little will bring lots of through the village scribe. "Ma chore "Low-cost infant care (live-in, six days a good will. Go prepared to enjoy it and Valentine," (my Peace Corps name), week for $50 a month) is hard to hate. you will. Be flexible and easy to please." "Vous avez le bonjour de tout le village. Friends come from many countries, races, My dear Valentine, you have the bonjour religions (so the children) grow up un­ Laurie continues: of the entire village." I ask no higher derstanding that they are part of a big Everyone should live overseas at least praise nor greeting. world. Disadvantages (include the fact once to get a perspective on — and an that) we move often and the terrorist appreciation of — American society. Laurie Bryant Young PDS '71 threat is a serious concern. W e were Actually, it's strange that I ended up Laurie's overseas adventures began evacuated from Bombay this summer overseas. I always put roots down in a when she married her diplomat husband. because of threatening activities." The place. My new apartments were rarely She says PDS didn't prepare her in any pros and cons of being a foreigner were more than a mile from my old one. specific way for life abroad, "but having also addressed. "Being a foreigner in But when I married a diplomat, a new a good education from a place where a lot Bombay presents little problem. Our fair life started. Every two years, we change was expected of me has given me more coloring makes us a little interesting to not just houses, but countries. And not to flexibility than I might otherwise have some. But in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia the vaguely familiar countries of Europe, had. I learned I could rise to thechallenge (and to a lesser extent in Bangladesh) but to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Saudi of something new - as long as it wasn't which are fairly conservative Muslim Arabia and now India. These are the trigonometry!" countries, we found many people were kinds of moves that either open your The Young's postings reflect the way very suspicious of foreigners who might mind or kill it. one can become a part of history: bring in foreign, 'unkoranic' ways of The first move to an overseas post is 1984-1986: Islamabad, Pakistan thinking. In both Pakistan and Saudi always the hardest. How do you cope ("Shortly after we left, President Zia Arabia foreign women in particular are when nothing — absolutely nothing — is was assassinated.") subject to harassment and, in some cases, familiar? In Pakistan, my first post, the 1986-1888: Dhaka, Bangladesh physical abuse, particularly if they show people looked, dressed and talked dif­ ("We left in the country's worst flood too much leg or arm when they go out. In ferently. The trees were short, the in 40 years.") Saudi Arabia the m utaw iva, the religious landscape brown. The houses were huge 1988-1990: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia police, whip or use black spray paint on concrete structures instead of comfort­ ("W e left four days before Iraq invaded the legs of wom en whose skirts they con­ able wood and brick homes. Every house Kuwait.") sider too short. One European woman in had an 8-foot wall around it — there 1990-1992: Bombay, India Islamabad went out with a halter top on were no open, friendly-looking yards. ("We return to DC for a tour of one to and ended up being severely beaten by a Driving was on the left. Even the pro­ two years in 1992. My Indian friends are crowd of young men when she protested duce was unfamiliar. And the phones afraid something terrible will happen against their catcalls. In Saudi Arabia barely worked. Individually, these are when I leave - my track record's not too stores have been reported to cross out the small things, but added together, they good.") word 'breast' on the chicken packages. made me feel isolated. Then I began to Although not working at their present That kind of conservatism can be hard to figure some things. posting, Laurie has held jobs in other live around." Laurie's advice to those First, I was living much better overseas countries. The type of work a foreigner is who are considering life abroad: "Do it! than was possible at home. The houses

5 and yards were big, private clubs were As South Asian children grow, they then off to Europe for a couple of years both affordable and necessary. Services are generally given less independence before heading home. I never made it to were cheap. In Bangladesh, for instance, than are American children. Many m arry Europe. a tailor made me a shirt for $1.50, and a spouses selected by the parents, and all "The first few years were spent selling live-in 6-day-a-week nanny was $50 per but the wealthiest live permanently with for Johnson & Johnson's Hospital Divi­ month — a good wage in Bangladesh. So the groom's parents who continue to sion. This is when I learned about cricket, overnight we left the middle class and govern the children's lives. In Pakistan, rugby and Vegemite. NEVER spread joined the very top of society. And I had the parents even choose the names of Vegemite on toast like peanut butter!! diplomatic immunity to boot. their grandchildren. "The thrill of travel called and I joined Second, awkward as it felt to be a All this is so different from our way, QUANTAS as a flight steward. Still single m em sahib, it was nice to have servants to but South Asians manage to grow into and fancy free, I flew around the world do my cooking and cleaning. reasonable, balanced adults just the same. for four years. The third year was with And third, I should have taken Parry They have been well groomed for the my new bride, Bronwyn. She spent the Jones' Asian history course in twelfth society they live in, as we have been next 15 years teaching me to be an Aussie, grade. groomed for ours. In South Asia there is to no avail. I still cannot get used to a 95- I've now been overseas for seven years. no social security and, for most, no insur­ degree Christmas at the beach, singing, We've travelled so much that my 6-year- ance. Children are needed at home to I'm Dreaming of A White Christmas. old asks for the stewardess instead of the support their parents in their old age, "Christopher's first twelve months of waitress. As a result of all this foreign and they are brought up to do that. childhood were during my last year of living, I have the following observations flying. We then gambled on finding a to make: new career for me back in the States. The 1. I can live almost anywhere, as long R.E. Lee Maxwell PCD '62 greatest success I had there was father­ as I have a home and a few people — of Lee has made Australia his home and ing Ashley in San Francisco. any nationality — I like. (Having access reports little trouble fitting in. Part of the "In three years we were back in Aus­ to American food brands also helps, I ease in adjusting may be the fact that his tralia and I was again in the healthcare should add.) wife is Australian. "Being a foreigner industry; this time in Melbourne with 2. Much as we love learning about our here was more of a novelty in the early Baxter Travenol. Chris started school host countries, there are things we must while I avoided kangaroos in "the isolate ourselves from. In South Asia, I outback" of Victoria en route to have to overlook the largest part of soci­ Warracknabeal and Numurkah Public ety — the poor. Their condition is Hospitals. Looking back on our travels, genuinely so dreadful — the smells alone Bron and I are very fond of our stay in can knock you over — and the numbers Melbourne. It's more cosmopolitan than of indigents so vast, it is simply impos­ Sydney (second largest Greek popula­ sible to cope with if you don't steel tion in the world), as well as being the yourself to it. So I had to find a few outlets finance and fashion capitols of Australia. for aid — supporting a street child in a "I accepted a posting in New Zealand school, donating to a few organizations from Baxter and six weeks before we — and leave the rest to someone else. In transferred, Betsy was born. She learned Saudi Arabia, the isolation from the cul­ to speak Kiwi in Auckland. W hat a great ture was more or less forced on me. place to raise kids! Outdoor sports pre­ Society is very closed there, and I was a vail (as they do in Australia), w atersports foreigner and a woman. in particular. Swimming, surfing, sail­ 3. By far the most im portant lesson I've ing, fishing; all on your doorstep! There learned overseas is that our most cher­ is a strong British heritage but a stronger ished cultural and ideological "truths" sense of independence. Fora nation of 3.5 are not universal. For instance, we in the million people, they have made a name West do everything we can to teach our for themselves; sailing (America's Cup), children independence. When they're rugby (All Blacks), nuclear-free (Rain­ infants, we teach them to dress and feed bow Warrior), horse breeding, etc. And themselves. As they grow, we let them the scenery, especially on the South Is­ make their own decisions where pos­ days but an effort to acclimate ('when in land, is breath-taking! sible. And once they're out of school, we Rome...') helps overcome nationality bar­ "Still, Australia was home for my fam­ expect them to start out on their own riers." Indeed, he's even managed to ily, so back we came, to Sydney again, for separate lives, prepared for the wide adopt that great Aussie accent! the first time in nine years. world. We do nil this without even think­ "My job has changed from sales to ing there might be another way. "When the alumni director begs and marketing, back to sales. I'm now na­ But in South Asia, children are raised pleads for a "short piece" relating 19 tional sales manager for Kendall to be dependent. Children aren't given the years of your life abroad ("in two double Healthcare and, as I write this, I'm on my chance to feed themselves until they are spaced pages"), you'd better comply. Es­ way to Perth, a five-hour flight from four-years old. In Bangladesh a friend pecially if she's your older sister! So here Sydney. watched my 2-year-old help himself to goes... "Returning to the States to live is not rice and then eat all his dinner unaided "A Sydney girl attracted me back to planned for the near future, but...who and was am azed — he didn't know it was Australia after R&R from Viet Nam. It knows? In the mean time, I'm content physically possible for someone younger was only going to be a tw o-year stint and planning my next visit." than four to do that. 6 INTERNATIONAL HARMONY: PROMOTING PEACE THROUGH MUSIC

Middle school music teacher Regina Spiegel directed the Peace Child Choir this summer. She took on the project because she was excited by the way the group uses music as a vehicle to enable children from all over the world to come to grips with the issues of their day and become involved in finding solutions. In 1981 David Gordon founded Peace Child in England as a nonprofit organi­ zation to promote intercultural understanding by bringing together young people whose nations are in con­ flict. His goal is to move two nations or groups toward peace by giving children a platform to speak about issues that concern them. There are now chapters in Europe, Israel, Australia, Nigeria, Japan and Canada. Twenty-five chapters are active throughout the United States in­ cluding one recently opened in Princeton. Since its founding ten years ago, there The Peace Child Choir performing with the Yugoslav troupe at Great Adventure. have been 3,000 Peace Child productions all over the world involving over 150,000 duce a unified choral sound. "I worked with a group of Japanese people. Palestinian and Israeli children "We found we had a good section of students in the same way. We had the performed together in the Middle East, changed voices (my own son, Matthew, words to a song faxed from Japan and Catholic and Protestant youngsters joined), a bass player cam e forward (Ellis they prepared I nochi no (1 Want to Live). shared a stage in Ireland and Am erican Abram from a family of musical broth­ Their director had talked to them about and Soviet teenagers have done the same ers) and a flute player (Awoye Timpo performing at the Hiroshima/Nagasaki in Russia. All have sung Mr. Gordon's whose brother also sang). Alison Cho, a commemoration at the Institute for Ad­ compositions and created their own dia­ PDS senior, and Lemington Ridley PDS vanced Study where the atomic bomb logue to personalize a play originally '91 met Denise Berardinelli from West was conceived. The students felt they based on The Peace Book by British author Windsor-Plainsboro High School should represent Japan and soon August Bernard Benson. (through that school's drama director, 6th, Miho and Makiko, Atiko and Reri Mrs. Spiegel became involved at the Don Gilpin, who formerly taught at PDS) touched the audience, singing their verse urging of PDS past parent Irene Goldman and discovered a mutual dance interest in Japanese, representing the people who who works with theCoalition for Nuclear and created imaginative choreography. bore the brunt of the bomb. Disarmament. She knew the local Peace "David Gordon fascinated the group "On August 7th, from the rear of the Child organization was looking for a with tales of the organization's origin, West Windsor-Plainsboro auditorium, music director and had been impressed descriptions of creating different scripts our choir poured in toward the stage with the way Mrs. Spiegel instills confi­ based on world problems, on city prob­ singing in RussianM w eeZ helayem Shastya dence in her students, helping them lems in Miami. He stressed the Vam (We Wish You Happiness). Visiting discover their ability and understand importance of the process: that the learn­ Georgian dancers, in full costume, their voice. The prospect of working with ing and growth happen in talking about marched up with us and added their an “inter-community, inter-age and in­ the ideas, in developing a script, in pre­ verse in Georgian to / Want to Live. We ternational group" from diverse paring the performance. That philosophy featured some beautiful vocal soloists, a socio-economic backgrounds appealed meshes with mine. flute soloist and Lem and Denise's dance. to Mrs. Spiegel and she began work in "Lois Nicolai of the Peace Child chap­ Over 400 people were in the audience. July. She recounts her experiences be­ ter contacted a Yugoslavian exchange "After the intermission (and a false fire low. group meeting at the Nassau Presbyte­ alarm) the Georgians danced a program rian Church. I taught two Peace Child of folk dances from their collective in "The Peace Child Choir rehearsed two songs in English and helped them work Georgia. They were dynamic and excit­ evenings a week. It drew together 35 out a translation in Serbo-Croatian. A ing. The star was a charismatic young people, aged eight to tw enty, from boy in the group, Davor, accompanied eight-year-old boy dance soloist. (He also Princeton Day School, West Windsor- on guitar. I asked for a song from Yugo­ sang for us in rehearsal. I predict an Plainsboro High School, and from various slavia with similar ideas about peace or exciting future for him!) groups in Pennington, Hopewell, Tren­ youth or hope for the future. They taught "I loved helping these students from ton and New Brunswick. The singers me Racunaite na nas (Believe in Us). They so many backgrounds develop musically represented varying levels of experience sang both translations in our performance and work as one, while gaining respect and worked on vocal technique to pro­ at Great Adventure on August 3rd. for each other's talents."

7 Sadly, there is no lack of issues for Peace Child choirs to sing about. Mr. Gordon is looking for ways of address­ ing such problems as environmental destruction, greed, ignorance and pov­ erty as well as global unrest. Peace Child works to teach appreciation and under­ standing of our differences, as well as our similarities, in an effort to make the world a better place to live. Mr. Gordon — and those who work with him, such as Mrs. Spiegel — believe that's not an impos­ sible dream.

Regina Spiegel and a neiv friend front the Peace Child Choir. FAIR EXCHANGE

by Daniel J. Skvir Director of Exchange Programs & Russian Teacher

The familiar and verdant campus of student from Germany.) Almost as im­ events unfolding in the Russian capital. Princeton Day School is certainly a spa­ pressive as the list of exchange visitors is Similar exchanges have been arranged cious one compared to those of other the number of PDS students who have with a school in Meaux, France and also schools and the student body reflects a gone abroad for a sum m er or a full aca­ one in Spain. wonderful and praiseworthy diversity demic year under the auspices of these But our students also take advantage of national backgrounds. In a word, it programs, specifically the AFS and E-SU of other travel/exchange programs on represents a microcosm of that "real" exchanges. an individual basis, spending a semester world for which we prepare our stu­ Every student who takes the time to in the Maine Coast Semester, the Swiss dents. Part of any true education is the befriend exchange students gains valu­ Semester in Zermatt and at 10 schools effort to expand our horizons, shifting able lessons. But those who benefit the throughout the United States in a dom es­ from the microcosm to the macrocosm in most are the host families, for very often tic exchange arranged originally by every sphere of academic (and life's) ac­ they gain a new family member in a former Upper School Head Sandy Bing. tivity. An integral part of this preparation relationship which can last fora lifetime, Several faculty members deserve men­ has been an impressive and growing and even through generations as at least tion for their many contributions to the number of travel and exchange opportu­ one PDS family has experienced. While development and support of this aspect nities available to both students and finding host families has become more of a PDS education. Anne Shepherd, faculty at PDS. difficult in our increasingly hectic world, Bunny Webb, Joan Baker and Quinn Credit for several of these programs the rewards to these volunteers are usu­ McCord have worked with a generation m ust be given to both Princeton Country ally well worth the efforts of hospitality. of our exchange students. The AFS/Ex- Day and Miss Fine's School which initi­ In the 70s and 80s an impressive num­ changeClub within the school helps with ated the direction in the early 50s. ber of PDS students took advantage of fundraising efforts for the support of our Teachers Bob Whitlock, Stu Robson, Dick foreign travel opportunities offered by guests in financial as well as personal Griggs and Wes McCaughan spent sev­ the PDS language department. Quinn terms. The Parents Association and sev­ eral summers taking groups of PCD boys McCord has led regular trips to Rome eral individual parents have been most on excursions to the American West. Miss and environs for his Latin students, my generous sponsors as well. The faculty Fine's was one of the first schools to join wife, Russian teacher Tamara Turkevich members have likewise gone out of their the American Field Service (AFS) ex­ Skvir '62 and I have organized a half- way in the classroom or in special ses­ change program. dozen trips to Russia and the French and sions to familiarize guests with America The accompanying list of exchange stu­ Spanish departments have taken several and the English language. The list is real­ dents and their hosts in the various trips abroad. Even the music department ly endless, pointing out the school's year-long programs attests to the great journeys yearly to Canada for a group commitment to its philosophy: to broaden scope of international culture and expe­ competition. students' outlook and to deepen their rience at PDS. Every continent is What started as tours during spring knowledge of the world around them. represented and PDS can be proud that it break has developed in several cases into An informative brochure has been pre­ has hosted some of the first student rep­ full-fledged exchange programs. In 1988 pared describing in greater detail the resentatives from Eastern Europe (thanks PDS became one of the first American various off-campus educational experi­ to perestroika) and even China. The suc­ schools to be selected as a participant in ences available to PDS students. Anyone cess of the AFS exchange led to expansion the US/USSR High School Academic interested in learning more about these into the English-Speaking Union, the Exchange, paired with Moscow School programs and their history can write to ASSIST and, this year, to the Charta 77 #84, with PDS and Russian students the d irector of exchanges at the school for program which brings Lenka Peniskova spending a month in each other's homes a copy. to the campus from Czechoslovakia. and school. Naturally, many PDS fami­ (Thorsten Kollmar is this year's ASSIST lies now have personal interests in the

8 EXCHANGE STUDENTS AT PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL

AFS Year Student Country Host 1965-66 Sally Harries England Deborah Hobler 1966-67 Francoise Foassier France Mary Young 1967-68 Eliana Umbelino de Souza Brazil Connie Sayen 1968-69 Reiko Tokura Japan Helen Bushnell 1969-70 Anne Kolsrud Norway Jane Cross 1970-71 Karin Lackner Austria Jan Hall 1971-72 1972-73 Mikael Walivaara Sweden Laura Mali Feliciand de Azevedo Brazil Jean Metzger 1973-74 Werner Leu Switzerland Caron Cadle 1974-75 Ken Yamamoto Japan Gay Wilmerding 1975-76 Sonya Merlano Columbia Andrea Avery Isabelle Richirt France Julia Penick 1976-77 Anne Nesbakken Norway Hope Blackburn 1977-78 Ietje Elich Netherlands Gabriella Barnett Humberto Desiderio Venezuela Katrina Jannen 1978-79 1979-80 Jean-Luc Ballongue France Sara Cooper 1980-81 Hans Josefsson Sweden Lindsay McCord 1981-82 Jaakko Tapaninen Finland Lawrence Miller 1982-83 Alexis Avila Paraguay Eric Ott 1983-84 1984-85 Till Illert Belgium Claire Riccardi/McCords 1985-86 Laila Aly El Nofely Egypt Alix Ufford/Catherine Suter 1986-87 Kika Gleiser Chile Andrea Hall 1987-88 Christian Friese Germany Michael Lingle 1988-89 Alexandra Maranhao Brazil Sarah Beatty Carina Jagetun '91, ASSIST student from Sweden. 1989-90 Kristina Buie Yugoslavia Fanya Stansbury 1990-91 Alejandro Ossandon Chile Brendan Lucey

ENGLISH- SPEAKING UNION Vear Student Host 1977-78 Louise Southcott Susan Blaxill 1978-79 Dawn Taylor Kate Jeffers 1979-80 Tim Digby Wade Speir 1980-81 Kate Davidson Hatfields 1981-82 Davydd Wynne Lucy James 1982-83 Marcus Herbert Marjorie Wallace 1983-84 Gregg Haddock Lawrence Miller 1984-85 Joelle Christopher Melissa Baron 1985-86 Charmian Stephenson 1986-87 Giles Lever McCords 1987-88 Chris Moody Tim Howard 1988-89 Sarah Phillemore Heather Hunter 1989-90 Emma Purchase Julia Tatsch/Hilary Kahn 1990-91 Ashley Prebble Jud Henderson

ASSIST Year Student Country Host 1987-88 Wei Chen China Rachel Mannino 1988-89 Berta Alsina Spain Karen Fredericks 1989-90 Sae-Joon Kim Germany Marquis/Franz/Levy 1990-91 Carina Jagetun Sweden Bente Ott/Laura Howard

YOUTH FOR UNDERSTANDING 1983-84 Akiko Fukaya Japan Alana Firester

Tamara Turkevich Skvir MFS '62 (left) and husband Daniel Skvir coordi­ nate PDS Soviet exchanges and pose in Colross with the principal of Moscozv School #84 (seated) and a Soviet teacher. 9 GEOGRAPHICAL AWARENESS__

by William A. Stoltzfus Upper School History & Religion Teacher

"W here is it? W hy is it there? What difference does it make?" These are three critical questions which geography an­ swers, according to the National Geographic Society. Sadly, we are not as geographically literate as we once were. Geography, whichasa distinct discipline was a staple of American secondary school education in the early part of this century, declined in importance over the next fifty years as it became integrated into other fields of study and as the United States turned inward-thinking following the end of World War II. The space race of the 50s and 60s revived interest in the Duncan Ailing (media) probes for the inside story on Africa's (Tom Griffith and Scott Spence) dealings world around us yet, the Geographic with the World Bank (Bill Stoltzfus). Society notes, by the mid 1970s only nine percent of American students in grades geography courses. bal cultures course. Global awareness in seven through twelve were enrolled in The past decade has seen a dramatic upper school is rooted firmly in the his­ improvement in geographical awareness, tory curriculum (a minor course in thanks, in part, to sheer necessity. The geography is offered, in addition, for true spectacular collapse of the Berlin Wall in devotees) and extends into several extra­ particular, the Eastern Bloc in general, curricular organizations such as Current and now the Gorbachev-Yeltsin drama World Issues Club, Environmental Ac­ have turned our eyes to Europe and the tion Club, Amnesty International and Soviet Union. Almost twenty years ago Model U.N. We haveexchange programs when OPEC embargoed oil, few Ameri­ with England,the Soviet Union, France cans had any idea where Kuwait lay and and Spain. And over the past several what significance it played in our lives. years we have sponsored half-day teach- Since Operation Desert Shield-turned- ins on the Soviet Union, the Middle East Storm, Kuwait has seared itself into our and the environment. The editors of N a­ collective geographic consciousness. Re­ tional Geographic Magazine can take cently Jeffrey Dahmer has shattered the comfort in the knowledge that at least image of sleepy mid-western Milwau­ one American school cares about the kee, Wisconsin; if there, why not here? world around us. That horror is too close for comfort. Geographic ignorance is uncon­ Before the start of school, faculty, staff, adminis­ In fact, geography is alive and well at trators, parents and trustees participated in the scionable these days. We are our global World Came Workshop. They took off their shoes PDS. M apwork is a central part of lower brothers' and sisters' keepers, willing or to walk over a large world map and tried to school social studies. Geography is inte­ not. Our welfare — and posterity's — experience the problems of global society through grated into middle school history classes depends upon knowing where it is, why role playing. and highlighted in the eighth grade glo­ it is there, and what difference it makes.

DO YOU HAVE MEMORIES OF PRETTY BROOK FARM?

Marie Matthews, past parent and trustee, is spear-heading a project to restore Pretty Brook Farm. If you have any anecdotes or memories you would like to share about the house or its inhabitants, please send them to the development office, atten­ tion of Marie Matthews or call Marie at 609-921-8694. Thanks.

The Stony Brook Hunt forms up at Pretty Brook Farm in the late 2Q's.

(Photo donated by Sarah Gardner Tiers ’33.)

10 LATIN LIVES ON

by Todd Gudgel Middle School Latin Teacher

This fall the middle school language department modified the existing curriculum for the fifth grade. Students now study French or Spanish three days a week and study Latin and Ancient Greek and Roman culture for two days. Latin classes, taught by Todd Gudgel, Idelette Baker and Yves Marcuard, are using the text, Phenomenon of Language, by David ]. Florian. The benefits of studying Latin are many: to assist students in understanding French, Spatiish and other languages; to improve their English syntax, grammar and vocabulary; to broaden their historical and cultural knowledge and perspective; to help them think in a logical and sequential order. We hope to continue this program in subsequent years, having students study Latin for one or two days a week along with French or Spanish.

Denise Bencivengo Head of Middle School Language Department

As a teacher and student of classical languages I would like to take the time to elaborate an explanation, or what the ancient rhetoricians would call an apolo­ gia, as to why the study of Latin is a useful supplement to a young person's foreign language and English studies. I should say from the outset that much of what 1 write may represent what other teachers at PDS believe, but then again, much of what I say may not. Obviously, there is a tacit agreement that the new curriculum is worth a try; how ever, one need only eavesdrop on a lunch table conversation or a coffee-break in the teacher's lounge to realize that friendly disputation is de rigueur at PDS. Of course, many alumni who are sym­ pathetic to the classics may find a justification for introducing fifth-grad­ Idelette Baker teaching a middle school French class. ers to Latin somewhat superfluous. Why would anyone need to be convinced of (remember Caesar's Gallic Wars?) and rian Herodotus describes how the Egyp­ the usefulness of classical study? Aren't abuses of power. I, least of all, want to tian king Psammetichus I, who ruled in the reasons patent? But, I must digress question the worth of studying the Greeks the seventh century B.C.E., gave new­ for a moment and say that one reason for and Romans, and I don't imagine for a borns to a shepherd. The shepherd was writing this article is to question and minute that any people, ancient or mod­ instructed to allow no human being to elucidate some of the platitudes usually ern, have only morally uplifting customs utter any speech before them. Once they cited about the classics. and institutions to transmit to posterity. grew beyond infancy (the Latin word The first one that springs to mind is, I must, though, take exception with those infans, by the way, means "incapable of "The study of ancient Greece and Rome who are so enamored with the Ancients speech"), he would discover what tongue is important for understanding our cul­ that they fail to assess them critically. they would utter first, and thus by some tural heritage." This statement seems H ow ever, all of this is som ew hat off the twisted version of the phylogeny reca­ innocuous enough, but I do wonder who point. pitulates ontogeny principle, discover the this "our" refers to. My language courses Another platitude, which 1 like, (not all oldest language of the oldest race. are filled with kids whose parents are platitudes are bad) is that "Latin teaches Of course, experiments today are much first generation Phillipine, Chinese, Afri­ kids to think." I would like to explore more sophisticated and theories about can and Japanese, as well as European. that idea a little further, and at the same language acquisition are much more com­ My own maternal side of the family is time I would like to meet the critics of plex. Yet our conclusions about such half Cherokee. Who is to say that a study Latin study (even if they are imaginary) matters are often as speculative as that of Sequoyah's syllabary, for the sake of on their own ground and argue that, eccentric Egyptian king's. Most of us have argument, wouldn't yield as many edu­ contrary to the popular objection (as one our own pet theories, usually based on cational fruits as the study of Latin, not to of my students bluntly put it, "Give it up, our own experience, and even experts in mention a better understanding of my Mr. Gudgel, it's a dead language!"), there the field of brain science, linguistics and heritage? Furthermore, like the Victori­ is a utility to the learning of Latin that child psychology advocate widely dif­ ans before us, we Americans have a makes it a subject worthy of study even fering schemes of language acquisition. misguided notion that the lessons the in our "global village" where the practi­ To complicate matters, most theories are Ancients teach are always beneficial. But cal advantages of learning a spoken usually applied to a child's primary lan­ the Romans have left us not only their language are obvious. guage, and research into how children, legal system, architecture and poetry, but How children learn language has held much less adolescents, learn a second their imperialism, manuals of genocide perennial fascination. The Greek histo­ language is even more speculative. 11 Teachers at PDS tend not to ascribe to will allow the reader to agree or disagree tery of human thought. What precisely any one theory but employ various teach­ accordingly. I would like to comment on goes on inside of that corrugated gray ing methods in their classroom. However, #3 and #4. m atter between our ears is hard to say. To amidst all thecom peting techniques, both In Plato's Theaetetus, Socrates remarks invert Socrates' dictum — it's strange the middle and upper school teachers how peculiar it is that the only way we that the only way we can think about have reached something like a concensus can talk about language is by means of thinking is by means of thinking. But let about our shared experiences with language. This "by means of language" me risk the oversimplification and de­ today's students. There seem to be more is what I mean by meta-language. In scribe some of the logical operations and more students who show a sufficient language study, as in any field of en­ involved in learning Latin. knowledge of a foreign language but not deavor, there is an elaborate terminology Most eleven and twelve-year-olds af­ a mastery of a language's structure. To used to explain how things work. Latin is ter a year of Latin study can translate a use a distinction of Chomsky's, they are especially rich in such terminology be­ sentence like,filia agricolae in villa tnagna performing acceptably, but their linguis­ cause it is no longer spoken. Presumably habitat, which means, "The daughter of tic competency is questionable. They a French teacher can teach a beginner, “je the farmer lives in a large farm house." exploit the functional strategies of French, tn'appelle" without reference to the use of Many parents may seem unimpressed. Spanish or Russian, but they do not ana­ a reflexive pronoun but the Latin teacher One entire year of Latin study and all you lyze grammar in a conscious way. is usually not afforded the luxury. I have have to show for it are banal utterances What precisely do I mean by contrast­ to plunge right into explanations of parts like, the daughter of the farmer!? But I ing sufficient fluency with structure? Take of speech, declensions, conjugations, would argue that even a simple sentence for example, the German sentence, "Ich number, tense, voice and mood because like the above employs some sophisti­ gehe jetzt nach Hause." Every beginning I do not utilize the conversational ap- cated thinking. It is impossible to German student will translate that sen­ distinguish when a person is com paring tence something like, "I am going home or recalling or synthesizing or deducing. now." All performative criteria are met Mentation does not occur in distinct and whenever a student says or hears phases but is jumbled together in strange that phrase, she will know what it means. complexes that are hard to separate. Yet, Ask the same beginning student what I will try to disentangle a few of the person, number and tense the verb threads that make up the bright tapestry "gehen" is in and what case the preposi­ of thought. tion "nach" governs, and why the verb is Analysis means literally to "loosen up" in the second position in the sentence, or even "break apart," whereas its ant­ and you may not receive such a quick onym synthesis means a "putting answer. The latter questions have to do together." At the sentence level, analysis with grammatical structure, and all too happens as soon as a student distin­ often beginning students are in the dark guishes parts of speech. There is a about such matters . "breaking apart" or separating of words One may reasonably object that mil­ into the categories of noun, verb, adjec­ lions of people everyday communicate tive, etc. At the level of the individual effectively without knowing the person word, analysis is used to determine fur­ or number of the verb they choose. In ther properties of a word — it's gender, fact, some language programs suffer from number and case for instance. Thus the the opposite problem: kids know all about "a"ending of "villa" means the gender of the subjunctive mood, but when they get the noun is feminine. Moreover, the final to Paris they can't order a cafe an lait "a" in "villa" is long, usually marked Todd G ltd gel introduces Roman numerals to Latin without being hassled by the garqon. A with a m acron which must mean it is in students. good teacher will avoid the Scylla of pure the ablative case and is singular in num­ grammar and Charybdis of patternless proach to the extent of the French teacher. ber. conversation. However, I would like to My contention is that the student can Synthesis is also implemented. If the make an especial plea for emphasizing profit from this conversational absence student wants to derive the meaning of grammar in a beginning foreign language because she is forced to grapple directly habitat, he will recall the infinitive form program and in a roundabout way jus­ with the grammar and syntax in order to (hence the use of mnemonics) habitare, tify the recent change of curriculum in understand even the simplest of Latin drop the -re and combine or synthesize the middle school. sentences. Thus, in a short time a student the verb endings -o -s -t; -mus -tis -nt to Let me be explicit. I think the study of is really working with three languages: the verb stem. Once he comes to the third Latin is important because 1.) Latin im­ English, Latin and this meta-language person singular habitat he knows the form parts a systematic understanding of which combines vocabulary from both. duplicates the one in the sample sen­ grammar and syntax. 2.) Latin aids in the I think the educational advantages of tence. M oreover, in our sample sentence, study of Romance languages and in­ Latin also include the repeated mental to recognize the agreement of the adjec­ creases English vocabulary. 3.) Latin operations and rhetorical strategies a stu­ tive magna with the noun villa is to use promotes use of a meta-language which dent employs when translating a Latin synthetic reasoning. can be applied to any area of the humani- sentence. In order to correctly translate a John Locke in the eighteenth century tiesand social sciences. 4.) Latin reinforces Latin sentence a student puts to use think- saw the imaginative faculty, what he what Aristotle would call operations of ing procedures such as analysis, called wit, as the mind's capacity to see logic and rhetorical strategies, i.e. "it synthesis, comparison, mnemonics, in­ resemblance between things. He defined teaches kids to think." Since proposition duction and deduction. I realize I am the rational faculty or judgment as the #1 and #2 are the more popular tenets, I oversimplifying the complexity and mys­ ability to see differences between things. 12 I would suggest that analysis and syn­ and porta all abide by the same pattern all three subjects fair game for a foreign thesis are essential componentsof Locke's and thus successfully complete the task language teacher or grammaticus? By terms. Is it too implausible to claim that 1 of induction. A more complicated feat is doing so, 1 think a student can gain valu­ am trying to produce "witty" students reading a general rule of grammar like, able strategies of thought that will serve with good "judgment"? "all active verbs have direct objects" and her for the rest of her life. Induction is defined by Aristotle, who deducing this rule every time it is opera­ 1 have drawn out some of these expla­ credited Socrates for its discovery, as the tive. nations to try to show more precisely progress from the particular to the uni­ The great Roman linguist Quintillian what I believe the platitude, "Latin versal. The Greek word is epagoge which would have some objections with my teaches kids to think" means. I realize all means to lead on. During inductive rea­ claims for Latin. He would agree that the of the preceding discussion is a far cry soning the mind is led on from the teacher of grammar — grammaticus — is from the daily routine of teaching kids observation or recognition of particular indispensable to the educational curricu­ amo, amas, amat, but 1 think some theo­ instances to grasp a general characteris­ lum. A grammaticus concerns himself rizing might enhance our practice. Before tic shared by all members of a class. with correct expression — recte loquendi I end, I must make one important quali­ Deduction would be just the opposite. scientia — and interpretation of the poets fication to my assertion that "Latin The mind is given a general definition or — poetarum enarratio. But as for these teaches kids to think." It's patronizing to description and then recognizes how this rhetorical strategies and logical opera­ maintain that I am imparting lessons on general principle applies in individual tions like induction, comparison and how to think. Everyone knows how to do cases. It is great fun to watch both logical synthesis, these are matters, strictly that long before they enter school. As operations at work. For instance, every speaking, for the rhetorician or rhetor Plato puts it, "We must reject the concep­ year beginning students will memorize whose specialty tops the three-level hier­ tion of education professed by those who their first declension noun endings with­ archy, rhetoric/grammar/reading and say that they can put into the mind knowl­ out realizing that the terminations can be writing. I think this hierarchy can be seen edge that was not there before — rather extended to a large class of feminine as a response to the pressures of a profes­ as if they could put sight into blind eyes." nouns, (i.e. their minds have not been sional class of educators — rhetores — To extend his metaphor, my task is not to induced to a full understanding) then who flourished in the Graeco-Roman grant sight to the blind, but to increase a oneday they realize that puella and fem ina world of the first century. Why not make student's power of vision.

CYMBALS TOO

These two fine photographs by Betsy Hall Hutz '56 were inadvertantly omitted from the recently published alumni magazine, Cymbals Too. Since we wanted to ensure they were enjoyed by our readers, Betsy has graciously agreed to let us reproduce them here. W e hope the quality of these photographs will prom pt interest in Cymbals Too, copies of which may be ordered from the alumni office free of charge.

John Marcus, a Taos Plains Indian. Michael Maranjo, a well-known sculptor who was blinded in Vietnam. His work in bronze has been exhibited throughout the United States. 13 ON CAMPUS

New Faculty education from Indiana University. Tom spent several years as a coach at Princeton U.S. Spanish/Peer Group - Erica University; in 1989 he was voted North­ Caldwell spent the last several years as a east Region Coach of the Year and New teacher of Spanish and United States and Jersey Coach of the Year. Tom's daugh­ Latin American history at Choate Rose­ ter, Katherine, is entering seventh grade mary Hall. She was a dorm advisor, in our middle school. involved with thestudent council, Model United Nations and the Commission for Re-assignments Women in the Independent Schools. She was also an ad missions officer and coach. Returning from sabbatical leave are Erica graduated from the University of Mimi Danson, who will continue her North Carolina. good work as skills specialist for the U.S. Math - David First taught math middle and upper schools, and Nina at The Albany Academy and coached the Rulon-Miller who returns to the lower Susan Reichlin (far right) joins her Mini Course soccer, basketball and track teams. He Week class in front of the tile mural they designed school for one year to teach third grade. received his undergraduate and gradu­ and glazed for the middle school hallway. Gayle Henkin returns to the middle ate degrees from Union College. school science department and Denise U.S. History - Wendy Leigh Norris director at Sunny Day Care, Nursery and Bencivengo, who took a year's leave to will teach modern civilization for one Pre-School. She also worked on a mural pursue graduate studies, resumes her semester while Seth Baranoff teaches in involving 120 students, grades K-12, duties as chair of the middle school for­ the Swiss Semester Program in Switzer­ teachers and local artists for the National eign language department and is also land. She is a graduate of W ellesley Endowment for the Arts. chairing the upper school foreign lan- College. L.S. Music - Joanne Tyne received a guagedepartment while Marilene Edrei M.S. English - Irene M ortensen has B.A. from Douglass College and has been is on sabbatical leave. taught at Indian Mountain School where a music teacher for young children since Jamie Atkeson foregoes his middle she chaired the English department, 1970. She will teach our junior kindergar­ school classroom teaching to assist the Ichabod Crane High School, St. Croix ten and kindergarten students on a admission office. Doug Lemov and Jamie Country Day School and Northfield part-time basis. are sharing for one year the responsibili­ Mount Hermon Summer School. She is a L.S. Intern - Jim Laughlin '80 spent ties that Diane Rosenberg had before graduate of Vassar College. last year working as an assistant for jun­ her departure to the Park School. M.S. History - Kristin Ott is a gradu­ ior kindergarten. He returns to PDS this Bennett Siems returns after his suc­ ate of Wellesley College. She received year as an intern for the lower school. cessful intern year to replace Alison her M. A.T. degree from Tufts University. P.E. - Tom G riffith is a graduate of Shehadi during her leave of absence. She taught seventh and eighth grades at the University of North Carolina. He re­ Jim Walker now heads the math depart­ The Shady Hill School. Kristin has a one- ceived his M.S. degree in physical ment. year assignment at PDS. M.S. Administrative Assistant - Elizabeth O'Brien Prager comes to PDS from an international broadcasting con­ sulting company where she was executive assistant to the president and partner. She has previous school experience, hav­ ing worked as assistant to the director of public information at Princeton Theo­ logical Seminary and as assistant to the director of admissions at Cranwell Pre­ paratory School. Elizabeth is replacing Darlene Byrne who is the new registrar and administrative assistant to Director of Operations Tom Stadulis (Barbara Brent continues to assist Tom as well). L.S. Art - Tina W olfer D adian re­ ceived a B.F.A. in painting with highest honors from the University of Illinois and an M.A. from the University of Wis­ The Stoltzfus family enjoyed a wonderful vacation in Italy last summer. Their names read like the PDS consin. She has been project coordinator mailing list: (standing, I. to r.) former middle school math teacher Alison Baxter and her husband, upper school history and religion teacher Bill Stoltzfus, (see his article on page 10), Becky Stoltzfus '85, Susan of "Artists & Children, Working To­ Stoltzfus '82, Philip Stoltzfus and wife, Terrie Alafat; (sitting) upper school religion teacher Janet gether" in Lambertville, cultural arts Stoltzfus and her husband, Bill, with granddaughters Amelia (Bill and Alison's daughter) and Eleanor coordinator at Lambertville Public (Philip and Terrie's daughter). The PDS connection doesn't end here, however: both Bill, Sr. and Philip School, project coordinator at Elvin K. have taught as substitutes at PDS and alumna Winnie Stoltzfus '80 and her husband, former PDS Smith Community Center, art program upper school teacher Chris Host, although missing from the picture, also share ties to the school.

14 ON CAMPUS 4th Grade Chorus Travels to Festival Last May the fourth grade chorus trav­ elled to Chatham, NJ to participate in a choral festival sponsored by the New Jersey Music Education Association. The PDS chorus is composed of 48 students, the entire class. Seven school choruses, including one from Rutgers Preparatory School, were represented. The PDS cho­ rus sang The Ash Grove, Orpheus with his Lute and That's What the Devil Said. The latter received a rousing ovation from all the other choruses. The fourth grade benefitted not only from performing in The fourth grade chorus rehearsing for their performance at the NjMEA Choral Festival. front of a large audience, but also from listening to similar groups.

SHOP OUTGROWS NAME

The Nearly New Shop has been lo­ cated in Princeton for nearly 50 years, evolving from a uniform exchange in a closet at Miss Fine's School to a clothing store serving the entire community. Known for most of its existence as The Outgrown Shop, today's Nearly New Shop is located in spacious quarters up­ stairs behind Redding's Plumbing at 234 Nassau Street. A small number of paid employees, assisted by volunteers, are neark, i^LUE tyW responsible for the thousands of con­ rt-eiv rpK’/Vf. signed and donated garments, accessories sh e jp V \ and bric-a-brac the shop handles during • * * * v«* . * . • Am * • the ten months it is open each year. l * .• . * r • Sensing that the shop had "outgrown" * v . its old name, the school held a contest to rename it last winter. The Nearly New Shop was the winning entry of some 25 suggestions offered by faculty, students and parents. The next step was to create a logo to match. Suzanne Utaski, a gradu­ ate of PDS in 1983, offered to take on the job as a volunteer assignment. She cur­ rently lives in California and works as a graphic designer for Nuvo Design in San Jose. The new logo is a simplistic presen­ The styles — and even the name — may change tation of a hanger — a fitting image for a but the volunteers remain the same. The Out­ used clothing store. Her mother, Nancy grown Shop changed its name to the Nearly New Utaski, is an ardent supporter of the Shop last spring in an effort to alert potential Nearly New Shop and has worked dili­ customers to the fact it offers clothes for adults as well as children. Suzanne Utaski '83 designed the gently as a volunteer for many years. new logo which her sister, Samantha '95, is This year her daughter, Samantha, will holding in the picture above. Her mother, Nancy enter the 9th grade at PDS. The shop is (center) is a longtime volunteer at the shop and is open six days a week from 10-5. For shown with store manager Maylis Kreuger, ivife more information, please call manager of former PDS teacher and coach Bob Krueger. Maylis Kreuger at 609-924-5720. The Utaski family also appeared in a publicity photo in 1980 by the old sign: (left) Samantha, then 2, is perched on the shoulders of her brother, Steve '86, next to Suzanne, aged 14.

15 SPORTS

GIRLS

WON LOST TIED FALL Field Hockey Varsity 9 7 0 JV 1 3 3 Junior A 8 1 . 1 Junior B 0 2 5

Soccer Varsity 5 10 0 Junior 6 1 0

Tennis Varsity JV 3 9 0 Junior 0 7 0

WINTER Basketball Varsity 7 11 0 JV 1 7 0 Junior A 9 1 0 Junior B 5 3 0

Volleyball Varsity 4 10 0 JV 1 9 0

Ice Hockey Varsity 6 6 0

SPRING Lacrosse Varsity 7 6 0 JV 3 4 0 Freshman 4 3 1 Junior A 8 1 0 Junior B 4 5 0

Softball Varsity 3 9 0 JV 6 3 0

Fencing Varsity 5 4 0 JV 4 1 0

In November the girls field hockey team will travel to England to compete against Brit­ Gold P Award - Beth Kahora ish schools. This T- shirt design was cre­ Silver P Award Jennifer Mitchell ated by PDS parent Heather Payne Karen Lynam. Lindsay Sternberg SPORTS

BOYS

WON LOST TIED FALL Soccer Varsity 11 5 2 JV 8 3 2 Junior 4 4 1

Football Varsity 4 4 0 JV 4 2 1 Junior 5 0 1

Cross Country Varsity 1 8 0 JV (Coed) 6 3 0

WINTER Basketball Varsity 19 9 0 JV 8 7 0 Freshman 1 1 0 Junior A 8 4 0 Junior B 4 5 0

Ice Hockey Varsity 13 7 0 JV 1 9 Junior 6 1 1

Fencing Varsity 2 8 1 JV 2 5 1

Squash Varsity 2 9 0

SPRING Baseball Varsity 11 6 0 JV 3 3 0 Junior 4 5 0

Lacrosse Varsity 13 4 0 JV 7 2 0 Junior 10 0 0

Tennis Varsity 11 4 0 JV 3 7 0 Junior 8 2 1

Golf Varsity 7 5 0

Varsity Baseball — Prep B State Champions Varsity Lacrosse— Bianchi Division Co-Champions

Gold P Award — Chris Jones & Joel Totten Congratulations arc in order for the 1900-1991 boys athletic teams which Silver P Award — Hayden Aaronson, Daniel Knipe, gained the highest standing in a tally of fall, winter and spring sports Joel Melendez played in competition with eight schools in the N/ Prep League. Headmaster Duncan Ailing is shown presenting the NJ Prep Conference Trophy to Athletic Director Janet Baker. 17 TWENTY YEARS OF ARCHITECTURE CAREER DAY

by Adam Bromwich '92

For the last twenty years, Princeton Day School has served as host to the annual Mercer County Architecture Ca­ reer Day. Each year, area schools come together at PDS to attend workshops, listen to guest speakers and compare ideas on the year's project. This year the 20th annual Architecture Career Day was once again a great success, as veterans and new professionals in the field of ar­ chitecture came to educate students from all over Mercer County. The first Career Day, Saturday, March 11,1972, was the result of the combined effort of PDS's Robert C. Whitlock, head of industrial arts at PDS, Melvin Jones of Princeton High School and J. Robert Hillier PCD '52 and principal member of The Hillier Group. Based on the concept of bri ngi ng stu d en ts together to com pa re problem-solving techniques, Mercer The founders of Architecture Career Day: Bob Hillier PCD '52, Bob Whitlock and Melvin Jones. County Architecture Career Day was founded. Six schools and five architects edge of the many facets of the profession of The Hillier Group, a local architecture attended the first event. The first career to the students. Workshops are designed firm which is one of the largest in America. day challenge, developed by Mr. Hillier, with hands-on approach. Students at­ Mr. Hillier presented a slide show cover­ was to design a service station. tending the interior design workshop ing famous and interesting structures Since then, the program has evolved to construct a room and present it to the rest from around the world. In addition, include guest speakers and specific work­ of the group. The structures workshop awards were presented to the many vet­ shops. Current architectural concerns involves building a bridge with ordinary erans and the founders of Architecture have affected the program with work­ drinking straws. Career Day. shops on handicapped access and Marking the 20th anniversary of Mer­ Currently seven teachers help orga­ computer assisted drafting. Architects cer County Architecture Career Day was nize Career Day. Richard Anthony and from various fields bring their knowl­ an intermission talk by J. Robert Hillier Robert Whitlock are 20-year veterans, Paul Clayton and Nick Chonicki have participated for 19 years. Melvin Jones has helped for 17 years and Mark Niederer for nine. PDS graduate Robin Murray '70 also participated in this year's event. A total of 113 students attended the program this year. Students came from Ewing, Princeton, Hightstown, Hopewell Valley, West Windsor Plainsboro and Lawrence High Schools, the Hun School and Princeton Day School. (Each year the numbers vary, but altogether 2,000 stu­ dents and 100 professionals have attended Architecture Career Day.) The annual project is taken very seri­ ously at PDS and usually takes one month to complete. The amount of detail of pre­ sentation drawings is scaled according to the level of each class. Originally con­ ceived as a competition where architects could share their ideas with students, the yearly project has evolved into a prob­ Several architect alumni who first became interested in their profession in Bob Whitlock's classes returned for the 20 th anniversary of Architecture Career Day. Pictured here are (first row, I. to r.) Doug lem-solving exercise. Architects critique McClure, ]r. '82, Robin Murray '70, Use Roberts '78; (middle rozc) Chip Place '73, Wade Speir '81; the finished projects and point out the (back rou') Jason Winstanley '86, Rob Whitlock ’78 and Ward Kuser '61. Missing from picture are Steve steps that a professional would take. Foss '72, Bob Hillier '52, John Kalpin '72 and Fran Treves '74. This year's project was the conversion

18 of a small vacation home in Canada into the years. Short & Ford (17 years), John­ a more permanent residence. More ad­ son Jones (8 years), The Vaughn vanced students were required to supply Organization (8 years), The Hillier Group a small area for guests. The problem was (20 years), Kerhirt Shatken Sharon (8 especially challenging; many of the "cli­ years), CUH2A (13 years), Holt & Mor­ ents" requests were difficult to achieve. gan (13 years), Michael Graves (3 years), In the past the projects have been just Fulmer & Wolfe (14 years), E. Harvey as challenging. Over the years, students Myers (9 years) and Andrew Sheldon (4 have designed an ice cream parlor, an years) are all area firms which returned apartment complex, a space-age pioneers once again to help with Career Day. cottage (for the newly founded "second Special certificates were awarded after earth" in 1996), bus station and many lunch at Career Day, honoring the firms other varying projects. and individuals who have been with One of the most unusual things about Mercer County Architecture Career Day Architecture Career Day is the wealth of for many years. Their contributions and talent that the students are exposed to. spirit over the years were recognized at Many prominent architects in the area the 20th annual Career Day. The success have been coming to PDS for years. Jim of the program and the dedication of its Greenberg (13 years) and J. Robert Hillier organizers certainly ensure that the Mer­ r S£X!- (10 years), Steve Foss '72 (5 years), John cer County Architecture Career Day will Kalpin '72 (6 years), Robin Murray (12 always be a valuable way for students to years) and John Rhoads (12 years) have learn about architecture. all participated in Career Day for five or Reprinted with permission from The more years. In addition, various archi­ Spokesman, June 1991. Jason Bilanin '92 and Chuck Potassi confcr with tecture firms have sent professionals over a local architect.

Students involved in the first Architecture Career Day were (first row, I. to r.) Jeff Field '74, Chip Place '73*, John Kalpin '72*, Davis Sherman '75, (back roiv) Cynthia Bishop '73, Steve Foss '72*, Ted Dowey '74, Ted Brown '74 and Fran Treves '74*. The four alumni with asterisks after their names participated in last year’s Career Day as working architects.

" I'm very glad that PDS has an architecture program which is rare enough in a high school, and to have such a sensitive, four-year curriculum gave me a unique opportunity to explore the field before college." Jamie Francomano '92

19 PARADE HIGHLIGHTS PDS's 25th ANNIVERSARY

by Joshua Ticktin '92

Mr. Bogle also praised the job done by burgers throughout the day. N. Harrison Jimmy Duffy caterers, calling it "superb." "Pete" Buck '77, associate director of de­ Sanders Maxwell '32's band played velopment, was impressed by the music throughout the evening. Follow­ volunteer efforts which he thought, "just ing dinner, Board Chairman Marilyn W. seemed to flow into place." Grounds welcomed theguestsand intro­ While the clean-up for that event com­ duced Elizabeth C. "Bunny" Dilworth, menced at 3:30, other hands were at the the board chairman during the merger. rink to prepare for the alumni evening, She reminded everybody of the events completing the transfer from a gala to an surrounding the merger and recalled alumni affair. Major class reunion tables many of the people without whom were set and music was provided by a Princeton Day School's creation would D.J. Following a dinner catered by the not have been possible. She further com­ school, the 1991 Alumni Award was pre­ mented on how far the school has sented to Jean Osgood Smyth '31 who, in advanced. Headmaster Duncan W. Ailing addition to her extraordinary volunteer then expressed his gratitude for all that work at Princeton Hospital, has the dis­ everyone has done to make PDS the tinction of being the only person to have school that it is, and introduced the en­ taught at Miss Fine's, Princeton Country tertainment for the evening: the lower Day and Princeton Day School. school performed excerpts from the Mr. Bogle noted that planning will be­ fourth grade operetta, the middle school gin in the next few years for "the Big sang selections from the eighth grade Bang in 1999" which will mark Miss Fine's Community Council president Josh Ticktin '92 musical, Guys and Dolls, and the upper School's 100th anniversary, Princeton leads the Panther Parade down the PDS drive- school performed selections from the Country Day School's 75th anniversary icay and onto the playing fields. winter musical, Take Me Along. Dancing and, as if that were not enough, Colross' followed to round out the evening. bicentennial. In several events which took place this Celebrations continued with the tradi­ Reprinted loith permission from The May, PDS celebrated the 25th anniver­ tional Blue/White Field Day for the lower Spokesman, June 1991. sary of the merger of Princeton Country and middle schools that Friday and a Day School and Miss Fine's School to Panther Celebration began Saturday form 'The Princeton Day Schools,' a title morning with a parade from Colross to changed in a few months to Princeton the pagoda fields. There, entertainment Day School. included a thirty-drum, twelve-piece steel The celebration's organization began band, a mime, a clown, pony rides, a two years ago. At that time, the develop­ dunking booth and Frisbee and softball ment office decided to acknowledge the games. Parents served hot dogs and ham­ anniversary with a written history of the three schools to be published in 1991. William K. Selden, a local historian, vol­ unteered to do research and to write a history of the merger. From These Roots appeared, to great acclaim, during the week of all the festivities. In conjunction with the final year of PDS's campaign and the 25th anniver­ sary, the school held a Founder's Day Dinner on Thursday, May 16. Five hun­ dred people, including former and present trustees, veteran faculty mem­ bers and major financial supporters were invited to the event in the ice rink; ap­ proximately 235 attended. The rink was transformed to a garden atmosphere, courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Makrancy, own­ ers of Makrancy's Garden Center and parents of first-grader Jenna. Latticework archways, statues, blooming shrubs, and well over 200 trees were brought in, and that, according to Director of Develop­ ment David Bogle, "created quite a sight."

20 FOUNDERS DAY CELEBRATION

Yuki Moore Laurenti '75 greets upper school math department head Alison Shehadi (right) and Marie Matthews (left).

From These Roots author Bill Selden and his wife, Ginny (center), talk with Sylvia Taylor Healy ’45 and her husband, Mo. Former history teachers Wi’S McCaughan and Bud Tibbals.

Middle School Head Mary Williams, former Upper School Christopher Westcott '99 watches the entertainment while Head Sandy Bing and his wife, Iris. waiting his turn to perform in the fourth grade operetta. 21 PANTHER'S PARTY

22 ALUMNI REUNIONS

The class of '31 — 60th reunion The class of '41— 50th reunion

The class of '71 — 20th reunion. The class of '76 — 15th reunion.

The class of '81 — 10th reunion The class of '86 — 5th reunion

23 ALUMNI REUNIONS

Headmaster Duncan Ailing presents the 1991 Alumni Aivard to Jean Osgood Smyth '31 who entertained alumni with her reminiscences.

Save the date!

Alumni Reunions '92 Jean Smyth prepares to cut the huge 25th birthday cake as former registrar Joan Baker and Alumni Council representative Saturday, May 16 Kathy Hackett '75 and son look on.

MISS FINE'S CLASS OF 1941 CELEBRATES 50th REUNION

The 25th birthday weekend was spe­ cial for the entire PDS family but for seven members of the Miss Fine's School class of 1941, it was the first time since their graduation that they had gathered as a class. Some had not seen each other since leaving Miss Fine's to go to board­ ing school more than fifty years ago. The ladies had a full day leading the alumni in the Panther Parade, eating lunch in Colross with special greetings from Head­ master Duncan Ailing and his wife, Cynthia, touring the PDS campus and partying with other alumni in the rink. At dinner, Dorothea Kissam gave a lovely tribute to former Miss Fine's School art teacher, Miss Stratton. Special thanks to Anne Reynolds Kittredge and Mary Petit Funk for get­ ting the class together. All agreed that Commencement, June 1941: (seated, I. to r.) Suzanne Glover Cottingham, Anne Reynolds they had a great time and they encourage Kittredge, Patricia Cook Crady, Lavinia Wicoff, Alice Huntington; (standing) Grace Clark, the class of 1942 to begin organizing for Mathilde Wood Nanni, Natalie Runyon Obaidy, Mary Grover Shallow, Marion Miller their 50th reunion next spring. Mayer, Mildred Finegold Adelson, Mary Greey Woody, Anna Condit.

24 LOWER SCHOOL FINAL ASSEMBLY

MIDDLE SCHOOL FINAL ASSEMBLY

25 COMMENCEMENT 1991

Peter R. Katin delivered the commencement address. He is the chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Publisher of the Wall Street Journal and the father of '91 graduate Hilary Kann.

A 1991 legacy, Charlie Baker is congratulated after graduation by his father, E. Bloxom Baker PCD '60. Charlie played varsity ice hockey and was a member of the varsity lacrosse teams that won the Bianchi Division Championships in '90 and '91. He is now a freshman at Lake Forest College.

26 COMMENCEMENT SPEECH

by Campbell Levy '91

Standing in front of you, I realize I would rather be back in my seat. Now that yards and feet separate me from our class, I see it from an unfamiliar perspec­ tive. I am used to being a part of the whole, not an objective observer charged with commenting on the diverse and tal­ ented bunch that comprises the PDS class of 1991. As the detached observer, 1 see a typi­ cal graduating class. There are the athletes, the mathletes, the actors, the musicians, the clowns, the eccentrics and the silent majority or, perhaps in the case of our class, the silent minority. It is a class that seems representative of the twenty-four classes before us at PDS. We are reminded by the banners on the gym walls, by the plaques in the music and art departments and by the more experi­ enced teachers in our classrooms that many classes before us reveled in the same successes that this class has. It is frightening to realize that when this class' photo hangs in the front hall it will not be distinguished from the numerous other blue-blazered, white-gowned graduates. Needless to say, this outsider's perspec­ tive has alienated our entire class from me and I still think I would feel much more comfortable in my seat among my classmates. Being one of our class' eighty students, I view it in the most meaningful perspec­ tive, from the inside. If, in years to come, I am strolling past Mr. Bailey's computer room in the front hall, I know I will stop dodgeball, threw plates of spaghetti and create yet another perspective from which and take notice of the photograph la­ meatballs at me in the lunchroom, tried we can view our class. At college we will beled “1991I will appreciate the people to teach me that timing is everything have new responsibilities. There will be standing shoulder to shoulder and rec­ when you're asking a girl out and let me no sign-ins, no eight o'clock morning ognize the National Merit Scholars, the know when to shut up. Only our class assemblies nor curfews. When parents Gold P athletes and the award winning understands how much fun it is to lose a call they will find that roommates will photographers. Despite the myriad Halloween Challenge. Only we will con­ without fail say that their child is busy achievements of our class' talented mem­ tinue to feel the awkward sense of loss studying in the library. Amidst colle­ bers, my appreciation for this particular that accompanies the sudden void in our giate endeavors I hope none of us loses picture will stem from the simple fact class left by Jonathan. The eighth grade his unique perspective he has enjoyed as that the faces on the photo are the ones I sit-in clogging Ms. Williams' doorway, a member of this enthusiastic class. I had seen each morning in homeroom for our infamous freshman lounge and this know I want to try to keep my insider's nine years. The same faces that in lower graduation are scenes that we will relate perspective — to try and remember first school pretended to sleep during nap to specifically simply because it was us. the laughing faces in the lounge and the time, and in middle school pretended to Even the trivial daily tasks, such as classes, hungry faces at the "Haven" and then the read while they slept during reading pe­ gain a place in my memory because my state banners and scholastic award win­ riod. The same faces that despite classmates had to listen to the fifty-minute ners. Our graduating class is unique and pretensions have learned to read and lectures and then struggle through the celebrated by its members. have mastered sleeping and have now two-hour exams with me. I have not done After standing in front of you today, I made the necessary steps to graduate. it all, but what I have done, I've done can assure you that it is a lot more fun to I feel a unique quality of acceptance with this class. From the inside this is no be a subjective participant than an objec­ and inclusion because we have shared typical high school graduating class. It is tive observer. And now, I think I'd like to growing up together. After all, you are ours. return to my seat. my friends who "pegged" me during After this afternoon, our dispersal will Thank you. 27 1991 COLLEGE CHOICES

Nyier Abdou ...... Cornell Amy Livingston ...... H averford Mark Abramovich...... New York University Brendan Lucey ...... Carleton '92 Navrose Alphonse...... University of Vermont Anthony M ack ...... Washington and Jefferson Tim Babbitt...... Hobart Julie M arcus ...... University of Nevada Charlie Baker...... Lake Forest David Maziarz ...... Duke Christian Batcha ...... Lehigh Gregor Menasian ...... Evergreen State Sarah Beatty ...... Depauw Aliza Mezrich ...... M.I.T. John Belanger...... University of Rochester Paulash Mohsen ...... Brow n Rachel Bridgeman...... Lehigh Michael Moyer...... Franklin and Marshall Dany Cheij...... M.I.T Kathryn Muccino ...... Rutgers Michael Chen ...... Duke Peter N leckelm ann...... C onnecticu t C ollege Alyse Cohen ...... University of Pennsylvania Anca Novacovici...... G eorgetow n Melissa Collins...... Hamilton Colleen Priory ...... Saint Lawrence Kristine Considine...... Lehigh Matthew Riccardi...... Yale Christina deGoma...... University of Pennsylvania Graham Richmond ...... Sw arthm ore Jason DellaVecchia...... Bates Lemington Ridley ...... Parsons Alyssa Denzer...... Duke Rosalvn Riley ...... H ow ard Ronald deVilla...... Columbia Sean Rishko ...... West Virginia University Steve Eaton ...... University of Vermont Julie Roginsky ...... Boston University Robert Franz...... Elizabethtown John R o m an o ...... G eorgetow n Thomas Galli...... Rutgers Melissa Rosendorf...... H am ilton John Grothendieck...... Harvard Elizabeth Ross ...... Yale Justin Grow ...... Savanna Art and Design Paul R o w ...... Rutgers David H ank...... Dickinson Jennifer Santiago ...... Bryn M aw r James Hearney...... Rutgers Fanya Stansbury ...... Bennett Carolyn Hendler...... University of Vermont Jason Steinfeld ...... D ickinson Joshua Hill...... Stevens Institute of Technology David Suom i...... University of Michigan Sherri James...... Oral Roberts University Joseph T o ...... Princeton Chris Jones...... Georgetown Joel Totten ...... G ettysbu rg Tina Jo n e s...... Smith Christopher Trend ...... Bow doin Elizabeth Kahora...... Vanderbilt Jonathan Trend ...... Bow doin Hilary Kann...... Wake Forest Christopher Varone ...... Virginia Tech Stuart Katzoff...... Tulane Ericka V e re e n ...... H am pton U niversity Irene K im ...... Johns Hopkins Jason W asserman ...... Franklin and Marshall Jennifer Kim ...... Duke Robert W irstrom ...... University of Rochester '92 Jeremv Kuris...... University of Pennsylvania C ynthia W u ...... Bryn M aw r Jennifer Leach ...... University of Rochester-Easton L a h n ie Y o u ...... W ellesley Campbell Levy...... Yale Carrie Zublatt...... Em ory 28 BOARD OF TRUSTEES REPORT

Elected to serve three-year terms at the for outstanding service to the commu­ ated from Tufts University, received a June 18th annual meeting of the Princeton nity. Randy is sales manager for soap master's degree from the University of Day School Board of Trustees were Rob­ sector products for the Proctor and California at Berkeley and received the ert Dougherty, Prabhavathi Fernandes, Gamble Distributing Company. He Ed.D. in educational psychology from Randolph Melville, Barbara Ostfeld, serves on the Sociology Council at Rutgers University. Cathi is the learning Mitchell Sussman and Thomas Welsh. Princeton University. Randy and his wife, consultant and child study team coordi­ R O B ER T D O U G H ER T Y is a 1943 Lael, have two young children. nator at Princeton High School. She and graduate of PCD and continued at Exeter TH O M A S W ELSH received his B.S. her husband, Dick, are the parents of two Academy and Princeton University. from the University of Southern Califor­ sons. David graduated from PDS in 1990 President of Stewardson Dougherty Real nia in 1973 and theM.B.A. from Wharton and is a sophomore at the University of Estate, Bob is a board m em ber of the Business School of the Uni versity of Penn­ Pennsylvania. Daniel is a junior at PDS. American Boychoir School and an elder sylvania. He is senior manager and head Officers re-elected were Marilyn W. at Nassau Presbyterian Church. His wife of securities trading at Brown Brothers Grounds, chairman; Richard F. Ober, Jr., Pat, is the m other of PDS alumni Rodney Harriman & Co. in New York City. Tom vice chairman/ parliamentarian; Thomas Paine '11, John Paine '71 and Thomas is a director of the New Jersey Polled E. Gardner, vice-chairman; Clifford A. Paine '69. Thomas' twin daughters will Hereford Association and the Welsh Goldman, treasurer, and Judith E. enter kindergarten at PDS this fall. Sporting Goods Corp. He and his wife, Feldman, secretary. Trustees re-elected BABARA OSTFELD graduated from Ginger, have three daughters: Lauren, were: Judith E. Feldman, Marilyn New York University in 1965 and re­ Allison and Betsy. Lauren and Allison Grounds, Winton H. Manning and Ann ceived her master's degree and Ph.D. will be in the fifth and third grades at B. Vehslage. The following continue to from Rutgers University. She is director PDS. serve: Duncan W. Ailing, headmaster; of pediatric psychology at St. Peter's The Alumni Association president Henry P. Bristol II '72; Marlene G.Doyle; Medical Center, associate director of the serves for two years and the Parents As­ Peter G. Gerry; Tina Greenberg; Peter NJ Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Re­ sociation president serves for one. W. Hegener; J Parry Jones; Stephen F. source Center and clinical associate Appointed at the June meeting were Jane Jusick; John T. McLoughlin; Timothy professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at Henderson Kenyon and Cathi Ragsdale. D. Proctor; Edward W. Scudder III; UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical JANE HENDERSON KENYON was Howard F. Taylor; Kilin To; Mary School. Barbara and her husband, elected recently as the president of the Strunsky Wisnovsky '57; Mrs. J. Leonard, have two sons: Rob, PDS '88, is PDS Alumni Association. She is a 1979 Richardson Dilworth, honorary trustee. a senior at the University of Pennsylva­ graduate of PDS and received a bachelor's The responsibilities of the board of nia and Scott is a sophomore at PDS. degree in studio art from Hamilton Col­ trustees are essentially to set school PRABHAVATHI FERNANDES lege. She is the relocation and advertising policy, raise funds and oversee the finan­ graduated from Madras University in director at John T. Henderson Inc. Jane cial management of the institution. The India, received a master's degree from has served as secretary of the NY Metro board meets at least nine times during Bangalore University and her Ph.D. from RELO Group, a network of independent the academic year, receiving reports from Thomas Jefferson University. Prabha is real estate brokers. She is a founding the various committees as well as from the executive director of microbial mo­ member of Christmas In April*Trenton. school division or department heads. lecular biology & natural products Jane and her husband, Kevin, have two Committees are comprised of trustees research at Bristol-Myers Squibb Phar­ small children. and non-trustees including faculty, par­ maceutical Research Institute. She and CATHI RAGSDALE was elected ents, alumni and other individuals with her husband, Michael, have two daugh­ president of the Parents Association at specific knowledge relating to school and ters: Meena in fifth grade and Sheila in their annual meeting in April. Shegradu- board affairs. kindergarten. MITCHELL SUSSMAN graduated from Princeton Day School in 1971 and from George Washington University in 1975. He is president of Starr Tours/ Princeton Airporter. Mitch is a mem ber of the executive board of the Princeton Convention & Visitors Bureau and of the Am erican Bus Association. He is a m em ­ ber of the board of Greenacres Country Club, the Jewish Community Center of the Delaware Valley and the Mercer County Chamber of Commerce. Mitch and his wife, Lynne, have two children at PDS: Garrett in grade four and Corey in grade one. RANDOLPH MELVILLE graduated from Princeton Day School in 1977 and New trustees gather in front of Colross: (I. to r.) Robert Dougherty '43, Barbara Ostfeld, Cathi Ragsdale, Princeton University in 1981. He is the Thomas Welsh, Prabhavathi Fernandes, lane Henderson Kenyon '79, Randolph Melville '77 and 1989 recipient of the PDS Alumni Award Mitchell Sussman '72.

29 Photo by Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick. Excited to start a new school year, the whole PDS faculty gathered before participating in the World Game (see page 10). 47 Phillis Finn 96 Dede Bannon 48 Dail Forsyth 97 John Baldwin 49 Elizabeth O'Brien Prager 98 Kate Burns 50 Sara Schwiebert 99 Paul Bernstein 51 Paul Epply-Schmidt 100 Ann Wiley '70 52 Bennett Siems 101 Pat McStravick 53 John "Doc" Ross 102 Liz Cutler 54 Gary Lott 103 Ana Sauthoff 55 Rome Campbell 104 Mimi Danson 56 Helene Davies 105 Betsy Rizza 57 Regina Spiegel 106 Tom Griffith 58 Janet Stoltzfus 107 Paul Brown 59 Cindy Shapiro 108 Tom Wilson 60 Frank Jacobson 109 Rick Lenz 61 Scott Spence 110 Steve Storey 62 Jim Laughlin '80 111 Jane Grigger 63 Idelette Baker 112 Tom Banks 64 Leslee Atiram 113 Steve Bailey 65 Judy Michaels 114 Willie Wade 66 Rhonda Davis 115 Wendy Norris 67Dan Skvir 116 Jan Noonan 68 Steven Rowland 117 Pete Buck '77 69 Mitchell Smith 118 Phyllis Bailey 70 Quinn McCord 119 Duncan Ailing 71 Tom Stadulis 120 Denise Bencivengo 72 Bill Stoltzfus 121 M aryann Forcina 1 Louise McClure 24 Gloria Morris 73 Dawn Sharapoff 122 John How e 2 Harry Rulon-Miller '51 25 Kathy Jamieson 74 Pat McCord 123 Karin Sconzert 3 Krista Atkeson 26 Paula Siegel 75 Art Aaronson 124 Tassie Turkevich Skvir '62 4 Esther Nichol 27 Irene Mortensen 76 Sue Carty 125 Carlos Cara 5 Anne Shepherd 28 Sue Petrick 77 Kim Bedesem 126 Bethanne Byrne 6 Carol Zielinski 29 Kristen Ott 78 Jill Thom as 127 Mary Williams 7 Alberto Petrella 30 Keith Geisel 79 Marge Whalen 128 David Bogle 8 Wendy Varga 31 Jan Baker 80 Nina Rulon-Miller 129 Chris Hart 9 Bonnie Howarth 32 Dottie Finnerty 81 Erica Caldwell 130 Arlene Smith 10 Tina Dadian 33 Jan Westrick 82 Jim W alker 131 Ernie Garcia 11 Cathy Miller 34 Darlene Byrne 83 Pat Osander 132 Janice Osborne 12 Betsy Trapp 35 Sharon Wheeden 84 Eamon Downey 133 Matilde Yorkshire 13 Bunny Webb 36 Donna Zarzecki 85 David First 134 Beth Carroll 14 Susan Rouse 37 Anne Rothrock 86 Bob Whitlock 135 Charlene Elmore 15 Bill Minter 38 Pat Cross 87 Marlene Kurtz 136 Mickey Meyers Shriver '46 16 Bev Williams 39 Daria Lippmann 88 Tom Drake 137 Barbara vonMayrhauser 17 Susan Ferguson 40 Judy Williams 89 Nancy Young 138 Steve Lawrence 18 Linda Maxwell Stefanelli '62 41 Gwen Reed 90 Bente Ott 139 Anna Olecka 19 Gail Jackson 42 Karen Pike 91 Yves M arcuard 140 H arvey Lee 20 Bette Soloway 43 Ruta Smithson 92 Gayle Henkin 141 Dave Reeve 21 N ancy Miller '57 44 Pat Venable 93 Sam Finnell 142 Jamie Atkeson 22 Susan Reichlin 45 Marte Pierson 94 Mark Adam s 143 Todd Gudgel 23 Molly Houston 46 Barbara Brent 95 Tom Quigley ALUMNI ASSOCIATION REPORT

The Alumni Council slate for 1991- grateful to Jane for taking on this added efforts of the Alumni Council and their 1992 was approved by alumni vote on responsibility and look forward to a pro­ volunteers. In October they brought May 18th. Molly Sword McDonough '75 ductive two years under her leadership. Mary-Chapin Carpenter '76 back to was looking forward to her term as newly- We also welcome new Council repre­ Princeton for a benefit performance to elected president when she learned that sentatives Regan Kerney'61, Jim Laughlin augment faculty endowment. In May they her husband, Peter, had been offered a '80, Kirk Moore '72 and Susan Barclay assisted Parents Association volunteers job in Washington, DC for the coming Walcott '57. Our thanks to retirees Laurie with the Panther Party and planned an year. Torn between obligations, Molly LaPlaca '76, Archie Reid '65 and Cecelia expanded Alumni Evening at the rink. nevertheless packed her bags and re­ Manning Tazelaar '78 for their loyalty, Through the Alumni Association, signed from the Alumni Council. We will imaginative ideas and support. alumni continue to be actively involved miss her enthusiasm and commitment to A very special thanks to Shawn in the life of the school and its students. PDS. She has been involved with all fac­ Ellsworth, retiring Council president, At the June prize day Sarah Beatty '91 ets of the Council's work and done a who was so generous with his time and was honored with the Alumni Associa­ great job of chairing the Alumni Award resources. His sincere concern for the tion Award for her commitment to Committee for several years. We look school was apparent in all he did. Fortu­ community service. In addition, proceeds forward to her return and hope to have nately, his expertise is still available to us from the sale of Christmas trees contrib­ her back on Council again. as he continues to serve on the Buildings ute to a need-based scholarship for an An executive meeting was called and and Grounds Committee of the Board. upper school student. vice president Jane Henderson Kenyon Last year the Alumni Association spon­ '79 was appointed president. We are sored two special events through the

PARENTS ASSOCIATION REPORT

by Cathi Ragsdale, President

I am delighted to have the opportunity Association. In the tradition of past speak­ Another major and highly successful to write about the efforts and accom­ ers such as Dr. David Elkind and Dr. innovation of the Parents Association this plishments of the Princeton Day School Ralph Lopez, we presented the dynamic past year was the adoption of a dues- Parents Association during the 1990-1991 Andree Brooks as our fall speaker. She based operational budget which does not academic year. Under the outstanding provided parents with an insightful and rely upon fundraising. Programs sup­ direction of Ellen Kuris, the Parents As­ thought-provoking view of child rearing ported by this budget included student sociation focused on defining parenting in the nineties. This wonderful program class funds, hospitality expenses, enrich­ issues, creating new programs and revis­ was provided free of charge to PDS and ment programs, publishing and publicity ing old programs relevant to the diverse to the Princeton-area community at large. expenses, student exchange programs parent population at PDS. Special recognition must also be given and parent education programs. Underlying all of the activities of the to the Outgrown Shop, recently renamed The Parents Association's involvement Parents Association is the goal to be more the Nearly New Shop, for its outstanding in and commitment to strengthening accessible to the parent community and success in providing proceeds to benefit communications between parents, fac­ to involve more parents in leadership the PDS Scholarship Fund. The Nearly ulty and administration was a major roles. The Executive Council of the PDS New Shop's importance cannot be over­ priority this past year and will continue Parents Association provides an impor­ stated because it provides approximately to be so in the future. One of our principal tant avenue of communication for $50,000 for scholarships each year. goals in the com ing academ ic year is to parents, faculty and students. While all In other activities related to be increasingly responsive to the needs parents in the Princeton Day School fundraising, a steering committee, of the school as they impact on the educa­ community are members of the Parents headed by Gloria Gardner, worked all tion of our children. We urge all parents Association, it is the elected volunteers of year with the development office to bet­ to participate in this venture and we the Executive Council who organize and ter identify our mission and to evaluate welcome all of the varied special talents steer projects and events designed to en­ our current and future fundraising ac­ that they bring to the school. This is an rich academic life for both students and tivities. Meanwhile, each of our dedicated important link, a partnership, which en­ staff at PDS. fundraising events surpassed our expec­ hances the PDS experience for our It was an exciting year for the Parents tations. children.

32 ALUMNI NEWS

Then, joined by my daughter, we took off on a Needs Secretary fabulous Caribbean cruise on the Renaissance II. MISS FINE S Only 37 passengers. We each had a spacious 31-32 SCHOOL cabin. The food and islands were unforgettable. Class Secretary Everything a pleasure. On my return to Concord, 33 Sarah Gardner Tiers MA, I found the thermostat had shut off. The 50 Pardoe Road Needs Secretary house was a refrigerator. Another day and the Princeton, N) 08540 pipes would have frozen and burst. Soon after, I 22-25 came down with double pneumonia. Spent 12 Sally Gardner Tiers has been battling Parkinson's Disease and we send her our best wishes. This A welcome note from Alice Olden Wright days in the hospital, then 12 more in my daughter's 22 column will certainly suffer without her unique gives the following news: "I have just returned house in Winchester. Now I write from my place touch but she's been good enough to pass along (July 31) from a trip to Aspen, CO with my eldest on the Vineyard. My 47th summer here where the following news. Betty Menzies says, "M y son, Mark, and his wife, Nancy. We had a great most of the changes on this island have been for battle against the heat, weeds and pests begins in time with my granddaughter who is an architect the worst. The first book I wrote, The Crimson the garden at dawn when it is a little cooler. As there. I didn't do any skiing but did do some easy Cage, has been published in Dutch and is in the the day grows hotter, I retire to the air condition­ hiking and had a beautiful trip. In August will process of coming out in German. (Neither of ing and consume my crop of Kentucky Wonder probably be in Seaside Park, NJ with son Walter which I can read!) This next week, here in West Beans and tomatoes while I look out of the and his wife, Barbara. While there I'll celebrate Chop, I've been asked to read aloud one of my window at assorted flowers and note that the my 88th birthday. I can't believe it! (Neither can recently written short stories at our local arts Japanese beetles are dining on the roses and we, especially with that active agenda. Con­ 'happening.'" hibiscus. Mind you, I pay two dozen house gratulations!) My bachelor son, Jim, lives with finches and other birds pounds and pounds of me in Rossmoor." Class Secretary expensive bird seed to demolish such pests, but Elizabeth Dinsmore Chick 28 I suspect these greedy, feathered creatures are Susanne Blackwell Posey suggests that the 3033 N.E. 34th Street, #20b 25 slacking. I also observe that the deer don't eat the oldest classes have a special secretary. A good Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 begonias as enthusiastically as they devour the idea which we'll look into. Meanwhile, this impatiens. As to moth balls for a deer deterrent, alum ni director is happy to pass on whatever Needs Secretary they seem only to last for a few days. Actually, I news comes in to the office. Susanne writes, "I 29 like deer. They are beautiful creatures but their have had a seige with shingles but am on the Sadly, Jean Herring Rowe has been forced by ill problem is too many people!" The editors apolo­ mend and worn out tired. My Mitch has grown health to resign as class secretary. Her troubles gize profusely to Edythe Miers Woodhouse who angel wings taking care of me but I'm over the started with the infamous deer tick and Lyme's was described as "the late Edie Miers hump and hoping to be swimming soon." Disease which hospitalized her for a while. On Woodhouse" in the caption under her picture in behalf of the class, we wish her a speedy recov­ the last journal. Edythe is very much alive and, Class Secretary ery and send our thanks for the incredible job we trust, getting a chuckle out of our misunder­ C. Lawrence Norris Kerr 26 she's done as class secretary for so long. We standing. Sorry! 43-02 Meadow Lakes hope a classmate w ill offer to carry on in the job. Hightstown, NJ 08520 Jean writes that, "My husband, Rev. Roy Rowe, Class Secretary and I still run the New Age Mission which is a Wilhelmina Foster Reynolds Needs Secretary 34 psychic center, healing metaphysical think tank, 508 Ott Road 27 environmentalist, Save the Planet Center. It has Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 W e are terribly sorry to report that Elizabeth kept me alive when the hospital almost snuffed Margaret Myers M cLean sent in her news too Noyes Stockman has been diagnosed as having me out. Being unable to run around enables one late for the last journal so it is a bit dated but she non-operable cancer. She has moved to Colo­ to meditate, think deeply, figure, create and use had a hard six months, including breaking the rado where her daughter, Barbara Hodel, lives. mind and spirit for positive purposes." same ankle twice. In spite of this she and Mac Her address is The Lakewood Meridian, 1805 Margaret Lowry Butler is moving to Bryn M awr had a great trip to the Cloisters in Georgia with South Balsam #334, Lakewood, CO 80232 and permanently but w ill continue to visit Asheville, two other couples. This summer they planned to she would enjoy hearing from classmates. In her NC where she lived for six years and where her take two twelve-year-old grandsons out west and typically generous way, she sent the school an daughter and son-in-law still live. also visit the Outer Banks of North Carolina. anniversary edition of the Miss Fine's Inklet and Next February they expect to move to the Carol Alum ni Bulletin for our archives. She has, under­ Class Secretary West Retirement Center. Martha Dinsmore G ray standably, retired as class secretary so we would Margaretta Cowenhoven and her husband, Sam, moved June 1st to appreciate an offer to fill that position from 30 442 Heron Point Pennwood Village, J202, Newtown, PA, 18940. another member of the class of '27. On behalf of Chestertown, MD 21620 It is near their former home, many of their friends the class we wish Susanne all the best and extend are there and it is surrounded by the George our thanks for her enthusiasm and diligence as Margaretta Cowenhoven has been kind enough School grounds. Martha says that she always secretary. to take on the job o f'30 class secretary so be sure loves to read the journal but she w ill read it with Margaret Wheaton Tuttle wrote the following to send her something to write about for the next renewed interest as one of her grandsons, the son note. "In January '91 I spent a few days visiting an issue. She's moved to Chestertown, Maryland of her youngest daughter, Susan Gray Moll, will old friend in her lovely home in St. Thomas. where her sister, Mary Cowenhoven Coyle '35 also lives. The obituaries in the last Journal listed be entering first grade. Martha and Sam have the death of Elizabeth Bissell Northcross but the eight grandchildren ages 3 1/2 to 23. Their oldest timing prevented us extending our sympathy to granddaughter was graduated from Ohio Uni­ her family and friends through this column. We versity in Athens in June. send our best wishes to them on behalf of the As for Bill and me, our oldest grandson, Chris­ class. topher Rovetti, is entering The University of Connecticut in September which he finds excit­ ing. His brother, Marc, will be in eighth grade at theTalcott Mountain Science Academy, in Avon, CT and he continues to make great progress on the violin. Our youngest daughter, Sue, is now president of the Rotary Club in Malibu, CA and she takes over in October as president of Women in Emergency M edicine, a national organization. Last February we began converting our basement "Summertime," Margaret Wheaton Tuttle's '27 into an office for Bill and he has been practicing house on the Vineyard. 60th REUNION

33 law there since late March which he loves. We Thanks to Dorothea Kissam who volunteered to are about to go to New O rleans and Atlanta. take over as class secretary. We look forward to Please let me hear from more of you. her first column in the next issue. For now, she writes, "I retired in August 1990 from the Los Needs Secretary Angeles County Health Department to return to 35-36 my home in Amherst, MA. This past year I have literally put my house back in order and caught Class Secretary up with old friends. The 50th reunion at PDS for 37 Cornelia Sloane McConnell our class in M ay was a treat to see classmates 279 Elm Road again. Also this year I have enjoyed going to Princeton, NJ 08540 Elder Hostels: one in Deerfield, MA and another planned for November in Baltimore. At this time Class Secretary Marion Este Hand 38 Leading the parade on Alumni Day were mem­ 311 Edson H ill bers o f the 50th reunion class. Show n here are (I. Stowe, VT 05672 to r.) Alice Huntington Allen, Mary Acuff Greey Kay Eisenhart Brown broke her hip in February Woody, Anne Reynolds Kittredge and Dorothy so Marion Este Hand has kindly stayed on as Kissam. class secretary and sends the following news items. Nan Buchanan Agar has been west on a I am the chairperson for a national Kissam family Smith trip with Cary Kennedy Bremer and Cary's reunion scheduled to take place August 24th in grandchildren. I have finally become a grand­ Huntington, Long Island with cousins coming mother to Lydia Richmond Hand, named after from California, Texas and other points."Agnes her great-grandmother, Lydia Richmond Taber Critchlow continues to perform on the piano and Poe '1 5. Nan, Eleanor Este Johnstone and I had took a cruise from Montreal to New York in )une. lunch in Greensboro, VT with Kay Eisenhart Pinky Peterson Ager writes, "After two years of Brown who spends the month of August there. illness (nobody told me old age was like this!) I'm Kay is having an exhibition of works on paper at back in the figure skating world. Going with the Caspian Lake Grange. The class sends its press to Nationals in Orlando and Worlds in San deepest sympathy to the family (including her Francisco. Nine grandchildren (21 to 3) keep me sisters, Elizabeth Flemer '43 and Alice Schwartz hopping with a variety of activities!" The local '33) and friends of Doris Sinclair M cAnerney papers have announced the engagement of Anne who died in March. Doris retired from her job as Guthrie Yokana's daughter, Alice. A September assistant head nurse at Concord (NH) Hospital in wedding is planned. Anne Reynolds Kittredge 1982 and was a strong advocate of conservation sent a nice note about reunions, "The 50th re­ and recycling. She also worked with the adult union was fantastic! Counting husbands, we literacy project and the Hopkinton Outreach were 1 2 and the school went all out to make us Program. Tribute to Miss Stratton feel special and appreciated and loved. Many Dorothea Kissam '4 7 delivered this tribute at thanks to those of you who braved the years and the Alumni Reunion Dinner on May IB, 1991. came and to those who couldn't, we missed you Passion, commitment, conviction, enthu­ very much but hope you'll write us your news siasm and joy — words to describe a special anyw ay. Nine weeks ago, the next to last day teacher who made the difference; the differ­ before the end of vacation in northern Canada, ence to last a lifetime. mountain climbing, I fell and broke my ankle. First grade: newsprint tacked to the wall — Reunion was more fun!" poster paints in primary colors: red, yellow and blue — then color became a rainbow — 4 ° % blue was green and purple was lavender. Was it fourth grade? We were studying dinosaurs. Mary drew a diplodocus. She '■ts- painted it gray — gray made of rainbow hues of blue and rose and purple. Color was e xcit­ ing. We used pastel chalks now. Each one had 50th REUNION their own box. The Impressionists came to us through the Meric and Roberta Harper Lawrence '38 pose eyes of our instructor. W e sat with her one by Class Secretary with the trophies they won in a half-mile swim off one. mm Polly Roberts Woodbridge Grand Cayman Island last April. Renoir: a blue picture — a little girl mixing 233 Carter Road batter in a bowl. "Look at the rosy flesh of the Princeton, N) 08540 From other sources we learn that Roberta cheek against the dark of the background," Sometime during the summer of '90 four of us Harper Lawrence and her husband, Merle, sur­ she said. (Put contrast in your picture.) from the class of '42 — Isabelle Guthrie Sayen, prised Caym an Islanders (but not those who Cezanne: color on color — rosy beige was Lonie Schulte Haulenbeck, Polly Roberts know them!) by winning the annual Cable and orange brick and green. Form made out of Woodbridge and Sally Kuser Lane had lunch Wireless Half Mile Swim in the waters off the color. (Make your shapes out of color, was together in Princeton. Sally took the snapshot Cayman Islands where the Lawrences have owned the teaching.) nearby and there was not enough time to get very a condo for 22 years. There were 79 swimmers Van Gogh was our instructor too, in free far into reminiscing so — this is to remind you all competing and the Lawrences were victors in the form and brilliant hue. "Look at the yellow of that next spring w ill be the big five-0 for our small male and female 50 and older categories. Con­ the sunflower." Yellow that was orange and class. Flow could 50 years go by so fast? Please, gratulations! brown and gold. "See the green against the please save the date of May 16th next year and blue," she said. plan to come to Princeton for what will be a Class Secretary Art class was a moveable feast. We pro­ once-in-a-lifetime gathering. Johnnie Thomas 39 Therese Critchlow gressed with our teacher through time. Yet Purnell travels frequently to everywhere so she 1 1 Westcott Road we really did not know what happened to us- should have no problem coming back to Princeton, NJ 08540 and something did happen. She gave us her Princeton. Her latest card mentions visiting In­ joy in art, in appreciating it, in loving it and, dian ruins in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Class Secretary for some, in creating it. Though she has a severe vision problem, Isabelle 40-41 Dorothea Kissam '41 This passionate, committed, enthusiastic puts us all to shame by still looking exactly as she 26 Taylor Street teacher: Miss Stratton. Amherst, MA 01002 did 50 years ago.

34 are still pursuing their suit against the govern­ Felicity Cope Roberts sent a lovely note regret­ ment in regard to their dairy farm. They are again ting that she was unable to attend her 40th pleading their case against the State of Alaska reunion last May. The editor would have re­ before the State Supreme Court with a new printed it here but somehow took it home in a lawyer and a new expert witness. In an up-date skirt pocket. After it went through the washing this July, Connie reports that she was in Princeton machine and dryer, it became clean, but illeg­ again in April, staying at Betsey and J.B.'s and ible. Sorry! having dinner with Mona and Burr. She also stopped by to see Helen Cannon who is living at Honeystone, the farm in Pennington where she lived while at MFS. This summer Connie will be responsible for some Fish and Wildlife exhibits to be shown in conjunction with a travelling museum, "Wolves & Humans." Connie's daugh­ ter, M elody, is "working to clean up Am erica — 50th REUNION on superfund stuff — via a position at Dames and Moore." E" O Class Secretary Still enjoying lunch together are '42 classmates I, Vandy Vandewater Leonard spent two weeks Jam Jean Samuels Stephens Isabelle Guthrie Sayen, Lonie Schulte Haulenbeck this winter visiting my daughter who lives on a 16 Stonerise Drive and Polly Roberts Woodbridge. 37-foot sailboat anchored off St. Thomas in the Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 Virgin Islands. H" O Class Secretary Class Secretary /\ Class Secretary Anne Carples Denny Marjorie Libby Moore k J Sylvia Taylor FHealy I 230 M illers Lane 1 7 Forest Lane P.O. Box 1535 Manakin Sabot, VA 23103 Princeton, NJ 08542 Trenton, N) 08628 A note from Hilary Thompson Kenyon said that I received a note from Marie Frohling Rawlings A most welcome note came from Janet Hill she and her sister, Hope Thompson Kerr, went to a few months ago. She has participated in some Hurst, the first from our president since we gradu­ visit Hilary's daughter, Lea, in Minneapolis in musical events up in Andover, playing the violin, ated! Janet and Ray are both fine, living in August. Then Hope continued on to D allas to see singing and narrating children's stories. She also Titusville, NJ and wintering in Boca Raton. Her her daughter, Linda. Hilary and her husband, entered folk dance fiddling events, playing Greek, two children live nearby: son Richard Piskell, Webb, traveled to New Zealand and Australia Scandinavian and American songs for dancing wife Jackie and their five-year-old daughter, this fall. In February they will return again to and played with the Scottish Fiddle Club of Gillian, are in Titusville, while daughter Pam Europe for a month of skiing. Hilary is playing a Boston for Boston's First Night Celebration. She Lafferty, husband Richard and two-year-old lot of tennis, golf, and is also working on her planned to see her French cousins w hile in Paris daughter, Lisa, live in Pennington. Janet is anxious computer. for two weeks on her first Elder Hostel Program. to have news of the rest of you. Please! Mary Jo A card (written in French!) has reached me She is proof that you don't dry up and blow away Gardner Fenton phoned recently while on a trip from San Francisco from Madame Caroline after 60-years-old. I have sent along a picture of east. Her big news was that hereldest child, John Savage Langon who was visiting her youngest Julie Sturges O 'Connor obviously showing great Cummings, was being married in Aspen in )une. child, Mary, who works for J. Crew. Mary's joy on graduation day — over at last! Please send All her others are also flourishing. The hopper is roommate happens to be a high school classmate some news for the next issue. now bare! But I keep hoping! of my daughter, Katharine. A wonderful small- world story. She said, "Comme le monde est Class Secretary petit!" I am working on Caroline to come to m1 v# Joan Daniels Grimley Virginia for Historic Garden Week in April not 221 Beechwood Road only to tour the homes but to be a hostess for half Ridgewood,NJ 07450 a day in one of the plantations on the James. W ould anyone else like to join us? Joan Mark, daughter of Jeanne Levine Rothar I went to France alone this spring to study sent this note: "I am sad to write that my mother French in a "teaching home." The scary part was passed away on July 18, 1991 after an eight-year traveling alone by plane and train, making all the fight against cancer. In the past few years, she necessary connections and praying that not only divided her time between Princeton and Florida would I be able to make myself understood in and enjoyed seeing her friends from Miss Fine's." French but that I could understand the answer. Our sincerest sympathies to Jeanne's family and The program is called Language Homestay For friends. Adults. I saw the ad for this program in a travel magazine and was intrigued. I was assigned to a Class Secretary family in Nice, an area new to me. The experi­ Barbara Pettit Finch 47 ence turned out to be very rewarding, the area Pour les Oiseaux interesting and the host family extremely friendly, Julie Sturges O'Connor '43 shows her pleasure Monmouth Hills patient and good natured. Perhaps I will do this on her graduation from Miss Fine's. Highlands, NJ 07732 again in a few years. I assume that no news is good news for all those who did not send me a Class Secretary postcard. Please put me on your Christmas card Class Secretary Joan Smith Kroesen 48 list! Eleanor Vandewater Leonard 54 New Road 2907 Sunset Drive Box 198 t™ ^ Class Secretary Golden, CO 80401 Lambertville, NJ 08530 Katherine Webster Dwight W ere it not for Connie Kuhn Wassink reporting II 5 Windsor Road Class Secretary from Alaska, we wouldn't have a column. Her Tenafly, NJ 07670 last request for news got there late, but she has 49 Kirby Thompson Hall plenty to report anyway. Late last May (1990) 1 2 Geddes Heights Just after writing the last colum n I had a card from Connie went to Bryn Mawr for a meeting and Ann Arbor, Ml 48104 Susan Creasey Gertler who is still living in An­ then took a day to go to Princeton. She had a chorage, Alaska. In fact, Susan says she is build­ good visit with Mona Hall and Burr Fisher and Needs Secretary ing a retirement home in Thomas, AK, and would Betsey Howe and |.B. Smith before driving back 50 welcome any visitors. (The thought of a retire­ to Philadelphia to return to Alaska. Then in June, ment home at the age of 55 seems a bit jarring.) Mona and Burr visited the W assinks for two days Class Secretary She has been teaching at the University of Alaska during a tour in AK. Connie and Harry were able 51 Petie Oliphant Duncan at Anchorage for eight years and is also the chair to show them some of the better places in the 879 Lawrence Road of the business computer information systems area. When not being social, Harry and Connie Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 department. She plans to give up the teaching

35 soon, however, in order to do full-time consult­ Public Health, her son, Jay, joined the family to relations at Princeton University. Congratula­ ing. Subsequently I found out that Susan did have celebrate his sister's graduation and Fathers' tions, Mary. a visitor a few years ago in the person of Audrey Day. (See photo.) Jean Crawford Sprague has My daughter, Ann Barclay Walcott PDS '77, Kramer Spowart. While I was in Kennebunk, had two daughters married in the last year AND became the bride of Keith Andrew Douglas last Maine last summer I had a phone conversation her first grandchild! Jean's husband, Webb, ex­ August in Richmond, Virginia with a hearty PCD, with Audrey who lives in nearby Brunswick and pects to complete his master's degree in adult MFS and PDS contingent in attendance. (See she reported that she had gone to see Susan and education this summer at which time they "hope photo near PDS '77 column.) The ceremony was had a wonderful time exploring the beautiful to do something different." M ary Tyson performed by the Rev. Hill Brown whom some of Alaskan landscape. Audrey asked about reunion Goodridge Tice has left Phoenix and returned to you may remember when he roomed with Dexter plans for our class, which reminded me that our Jackson Hole as of March '90. She has a special at Princeton. Ann and Keith are making Rich­ 40th is only two and a half years away! I hope two-year-old granddaughter who really lured mond their home. you will all mark your calendars so that we can her back to Wyoming and the Tetons. Ty spent a have a good turnout for this occasion in 1994. I weekend with Nicky Knox Watts and her hus­ Class Secretary also heard from )oan Kennan who sent the news band, David, in Jackson Hole — skiing and 58 Linda Ewing Peters that she had married Kevin Delany in February chatting! All are doing well in the wild west. 2 Mary Street 199. Joan is working for a charitable foundation Anne Belford Ulanov wrote that her youngest, Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852 in Washington, DC. Son Brandon is a journalist Alexander, is a junior at Princeton enjoying the in DC and Barklie is in the movie business in Los use of Greek, Latin, French and Italian in his Class Secretary Angeles. Louise Mason Bachelder's third grand­ comparative literature major. Nicholas is getting 59 Sasha Robbins Cavander child arrived in June 1991, a girl born to daughter a Ph.D. at Oxford. Barry and Annie have a new 6 G ull Island Lane Cary Bachelder Dufresne PDS '77 and named — book coming out in August: The Flea ling Imagi­ Nantucket, MA 02554 Louise. nation. Next fall Annie will receive an award from Loyola University for her work in depth E! ET Class Secretary psychology and religion. Congratulations, Annie! Louise Chloe King Secretary's note: Please, the rest of you members 64 Carey Road of '55, do send some news! Needham, MA 02194 Class Secretary Ellen Jamieson Franck sent exciting news! She Ann A. Smith has decided to return to school for another de­ 56 1180 Midland Avenue gree. She is entering a doctoral program in social Bronxville, NY 10708 work at Adelphi University in September. As­ suming all goes well, she will complete her Betsy Hall Hutz writes that she broke her back in degree "shortly before becoming eligible for July of 1990. "Have spent eight months in physi­ social security and/or senility." Chloe King has cal therapy...Although I'm in pain I manage to had a miserable year! October 2 — major sur­ enjoy my two grandchildren, concerts with Ma­ gery which was not well done; February 25 — rina in Philadelphia and more recently a barge more surgery to repair the damage caused by trip through Burgundy followed by 2 1/2 weeks post-operative problems ignored by the first sur­ in Germany with Rudy. I am preparing for a geon; May 28 — biopsy performed for suspected group show in Kennebunkport, New Zealand Ann Kinczel Clapp '59 visits son David at melanoma; June 7 — surgery for melonoma and Australia. Kristin Naumann PDS '82 will Princeton University lacrosse practice. The (thigh). I have missed an entire year of school — come to visit me here in M aine." Princeton team has been doing very well lately. w hich has been a nightmare (I am not ready to This season they advanced to the quarter-finals retire yet!). Am spending the summer regaining Class Secretary of the NCAA tournament, losing in triple over­ strength and endurance in order to return to 57 Susan Barclay Walcott time. W i ndsor i n September. Keep your fi ngers crossed! 41 Brookstone Drive Ann Freedman M izgerd wrote that her daughter, Princeton, NJ 08540 Class Secretary Cathy, received her bachelor's degree with gen­ When class secretaries receive no news via the Joan Nadler Davidson eral honors (sociology) on June 1 5 ,1 991 from the 60 mail they are forced to rely on phone conversa­ University of Chicago. After completing his third 329 Hawthorne Road tions, visits with classmates and the local press. year in the division of biological sciences, where Baltimore, MD 21210 Also they tell of events in their own lives. Please he is earning his Sc.D. at the Harvard School of read on in spite of this and then respond to our Class Secretary next plea. Nancy Hagen Spaulding has passed 61 Fiona Morgan Fein through town twice since our last column while 5 Riverside Drive #16B promoting Hawaii Loa at college fairs in the east. New York, NY 10023 Helen Wilmerding hosted a lovely dinner at her It is with great sorrow that I report the deaths of house in Griggstown where Susie Baldwin, Bill and Alissa Kramer Sutphin and Nancy and I Lucia Norton Woodruff and Cynthia Weinrich's fathers this spring. I know I speak for all of us in enjoyed a grand visit. On another occasion Nancy extending heartfelt sympathies to them and their and husband Vern and several of us dined under fam ilies. pages from our yearbook at C lancy's Place in the Princeton Shopping Center. We were able to We had a wonderful reunion in June, as you can see from the pictures sent around (one of snag Nancy Miller for this evening. Are you which appears here). There was an informal curious about C lancy's and our Link? Let us show beginning at the Smoyers' on Friday night for you. Nancy (Spaulding) is serving now as interim director of enrollment management on the cam­ pus. Her father has settled happily into a retire- mentvillageinCarmel. BonnieCampbell Perkins called to tell of her recent trip to England and a marvelous stay with Thayer Clark Paine at her lovely home in Hampshire. Thayer is a superb hostessand tourguidesays Bonnie. Mary Strunsky Wisnovsky has been named manager of corpo­ rate com m unications at the H illier Group re- sponsibleforall media relations, print communi­ cations and special events coordination. Mary has served as assistant to the director of the Ann Freedman Mizgerd '55 and her family gather Instituteof Advanced Study for 11 years and most to celebrate Father's Day and daughter Cathy's Carol Armstrong Tall, Fiona Morgan Fein and recently as assistant director of development graduation from the University of Chicago. lulie Fulper Hardt celebrating their 30th reunion.

36 those who were in town early and the rest of us Cynthia called just before she left to spend although I had hoped we would have even better joined in on Saturday. The Princeton contingent, some time in New Hampshire to say that her results. This year my teacher leaders did a great led by Julie Fulper Hardt, provided a delicious summer had been relaxing and that she was job and our overall rate for our sites...was 77% lunch. In attendance were Polly Busselle Bishop, getting around to painting her apartment. Sheila success. We still have room for improvement — Tibby Chase Dennis, Tucky Ramus G ray, julie Long's spring letter from Abbaye Ste. Marie de especially in NYC where the problems are in­ Fulper Hardt, Julia Cornforth Holofcener, Debbie Maumont contains lots of news. "There's an­ credible to implement a program of this Moore Krulewitch, Cherry Raymond, Nancy other Am erican here at the moment, the big sister co m p lexity...W e got a lot of good publicity Smoyer, Cary Armstrong Tall, Cynthia Weinrich, of one of my former first grade students from ...W ith all these budget cuts though, I wonder Janet Wilson, Anne Davidson Zweede, and me. Moscow. She's spending her college spring term sometimes how long we will be able to sustain Now for the big question: can you put names to here, perfecting her French and doing an inde­ the program. It would be such a shame to have to all the faces??? (No peeking at the caption.) pendent study project, also in French, on early close down a program for which we document a A number of us went up to the PDS rink for Christian monasticism, under my direction, and positive, successful start for children in reading working au pair at the guest house. W e meet and writing. O ne fun aspect of the program is that twice a week for an hour. I enjoy her company, I am now serving on a committee that is planning her conversation, and also the opportunity to an International Reading Recovery Institute to be speak and hear English." Sheila gives the good held in M aui, H awaii next summer. The idea is to news that the Maumont community voted to provide an opportunity for people from New change the terms of the commitment she makes Zealand, Australia, England, Canada, and the US on September 7th to join the Abbey perma­ to share information. Plans are still tentative, but nently. "The change amounts to an upgrading of I think I'll be going to Maui next summer." Trika my 'second-class citizen' status, based on the says that on the personal front, life has had its ups Abbess' research into the way things are done at and downs. She and Don Booth are still together a couple of other French Benedictine monaster­ but he's had to take a job in Pickens, SC, in the ies. My vows will still be slightly different from western part of the state. The commuting is the ones everyone else makes w hich ensures that getting difficult and "it looks like US Air and MFS '6 1 began their 30th reunion celebration at there w ill be no problem about my continuing to AT&T are the only ones completely satisfied with the Smoyer's house: (back row, I. to r.) Anne go to the States once a year. The changes are that the move." They did spend 10 days in Martha's Davidson Zweede, Cynthia Weinrich, Debbie I'll be able to vote, although I won't be eligible Vineyard; fishing for stripped bass off the beach Moore Krulewitch, Cherry Raymond, Nancy for any elected roles and I'll be able to lead the (3 over 36" in length) and for bluefish from a boat Smoyer, Julie Fulper Flardt and Fiona Morgan liturgy like everyone else...Last week the entire (50 caught). "My sister, Cary '64, and her hus­ Fein; (middle row) Tibby Chase Dennis and Janet community started a basic philosophy course, band (Gary Hart - the real one from California Wilson; (front row) Tucky Ramus Cray, Polly led by the Abbess, seconded by two sisters who who didn't change his name) and their three girls Busselle Bishop, Cary Armstrong Tall and Julia are philosophy majors, and based on two phi­ [Elissa, 15, Katherine, 1 2, and Laura, 9] traveled Cornforth Flolofcener. losophy courses taught by an actual philosophy across the country in their new van and stopped professor from Bordeaux, who will be coming for a visit in Gaylordsville to see my house and dinner that evening where we saw few people we here every few months to give a lecture or two in the new addition [more later] I added." Trika is knew, but unashamedly made a spectacle of person. Monks and men studying for the priest­ going to visit everyone in the Vineyard. Everyone ourselves dancing to music provided by a D.J. hood typically begin their studies with a good means the Harts; the entire Mazzanti family who had the good taste to play a few numbers grounding in philosophy without which it's ap­ consisting of her cousin, Margi Snow '59, hus­ dating from "our days." Then it was back to the parently difficult to go very far in theology, but band Maurizio, daughter Daphne, sons Simone Smoyers for more talk and laughter until we until recently nuns weren't expected to bother and Ducio, as well as assorted friends, all on a couldn't hold our eyes open any more. I can their pretty little coiffed heads about that. Fortu­ visit from Italy; brotherTom Snow,the songwriter hardly think of a topic we didn't cover from nately, times are changing...When I returned from L.A. and his wife; and Trika's aunt and world ecology to menopause. We laughed and here [from my annual visit to the States] toward uncle, Bill and Getty Righter Snow '34. "The last cried and reminisced and fantasized about the the end of March, everything was green and all bit of news — yes, I put an addition on the future. Almost half of those who came to the the fruit trees and vines were in flower. Then last house... It is a post and beam structure w hich was reunion went to a lot of trouble to make the trip. week [mid-April] was the Big Freeze, and all the built over the existing garage and connected to I think you're all glad you did and those of us for flowers froze and withered, which means there the old house. We actually had an addition whom travel was easier are very, very grateful for won't be any fresh fruit this year....It's cata­ raising with friends and people coming by to your efforts. And we're all grateful as well to strophic for the wine growers. In Switzerland help raise the wooden frame. Lots of fun! We those who were only there in spirit because they were more organized. They had anticipated finished this phase of the construction in May, you're all part of the reason we keep having the freeze, and had sprayed orchards and vine­ eight months longer than planned, and now are reunions and staying in touch. yards with a kind of anti-freeze, so that ice about to start the second phase of finishing the Lucia had hoped to be with us and remarked formed in bubbles around the flowers, but left attic. I hope by the end that I never will have to that she hadn't seen some of us since she was 14. the flowers intact." do construction again!! I'm in the house about She asked that I let everyone know that she wants Trika Smith-Burke wrote a long letter in re­ three weekends a month and would love to have to keep in touch. Peggy Wilber wrote that she is sponse to my plea for news. She asked that I visitors if people are planning to be in the area hoping to go back to Africa in September, or shorten and edit it, but I'll give most of it as she (about 45 minutes north of Danbury CT)." sooner. She's working part-time for the Ameri­ wrote it. "I feel as though Reading Recovery (the Polly wrote too, saying what a wonderful time can Bar Association on projects affecting the early intervention program for six-year olds who she had at the reunion and that it was w ell worth homeless, the drug crisis and AIDS. She "admires are having difficulty learning to read) took over it even though it was a bit of a whirlwind trip. She the association's dedication to these issues of the my life this year. Because I was the only person mentioned again how much she'd like to have a moment. Also teaching English as well as manag­ trained to teach and supervise I was on call. I am reunion in herterritory. I'm all for it, Polly, just let ing my Senegalese company." (See article in happy to report that I w ill not be training a class me know when and I'll be happy to help set it up! front of magazine.) Sandy Sidford Cornelius of teacher leaders (i.e. teacher trainers) this year She continued "I have no major news whatso­ couldn't be there due to the com plications of her — just supporting and providing supervision for ever and have my postcard in the bag I carry back new job but sent a note which we all read and the people already trained AND we hired a and forth to work. (This technique, along with which I share with you here. "Grace is a fresh­ wonderful professional...She will spend thisyear having your postcard in a pile on your desk, have man — or has just about finished her freshman at Ohio State University being trained as a trainer been proven, over years of careful testing, to be year — at Princeton. Her depiction of House of teacher leaders, as I was three years ago, and very inefficient meansofcommunication! F.M.F.) Parties '91 is far different than those of her father, then come back to NYC to help me with the I really just work all the time during the summer, class of '60. Sara is finishing up the 10th grade. program at NYU. As you may remember, we the B&B is full with all these interesting (mostly Both girls are much taller than their mother. work with the bottom 20% of first grade classes women) psychologists who come for the week- Chum continues to practice medicine and pur­ in the schools adopting Reading Recovery. Last long seminars and learn about strange psych, sue a long list of hobbies. W e're trying to fight off year, our pilot, working in one NYC district...we disorders or how to keep peoples' marriages old age with exercise — moving very slowly successfully helped 50% of the children with together or how to solve eating problems — it's from one type to another as the boredom factor whom we worked. Since these children were the all quite fascinating to me and often makes me sets in." She said that her memories of the class lowest in reading achievement, and probably think I should go back to school for social work. are vivid and were recently "re-colorized" on destined for retention, or special education, we Anyw ay, that probably won't happen, but in the trips to and from Princeton with Grace. felt pretty good about our results for our first year, meantime I've met many fascinating people. And

37 my business goes along in a rather unsettling up and for its indigenas known throughout South and down sort of way — this summer is quite America for their weaving skills. The hacienda confusing here. Lots of people on the Cape sits at the base of Imbabura, an extinct volcano rushing around but without lots of 'discretionary know in legend as Father Imbabura. In February funds,' according to some. So pottery is not a friend from San Francisco came for a week's essential usually. But this summer I have a won­ visit, during which we made an attempt to climb derful basketmaker with a huge variety of work in the volcano Cotapaxi. This involved spending the shop, all of which is hanging on these convo­ the night in a mountain refugio at 1 5,000 feet and luted driftwood hooks that we beachcombed for beginning our ascent to the summit (19,300 feet) on Nevis this winter (and our hostess was sure we at midnight. However, when midnight rolled were crazy to stuff into every corner of our around, so did the discomforts of altitude sick­ packs.) So the baskets look great and my hus­ ness and the ascent was cancelled. So much for band, Don, has begun making beautiful ma­ my mountain climbing experience. In March I hogany trays and trivets with my tiles inlaid in visited the charming city of Cuenca in southern them — quite spectacular. My major interest this Ecuador, saw the Inca ruins at Ingapirca, visited summer has been the use of beach sand in the the cloud forest and went again to the rain forest, porcelain — either rolled in, for the tiles, or this time to La Selva, a thatched-roof lodge on a dribbled on the clay while still on the wheel — lake near the Napo River. Here I spent four days, it makes a neat texture and reacts very interest­ binoculars in hand, seeking the exotic birds, Annie Clay Lipmann '63 and her daughter, Julia. ingly with this lovely glaze 1 discovered...Don's plants and animals of the rain forest. Near the youngest daughter had a daughter, Miranda, just lodge a tower has been erected, allowing the teer work are just a few. Kathy sent a great picture about 3 months-old now — a knockout; imagine guests to ascend to the forest canopy for a more of her family which was taken at Rob's wedding. Pol a grandmother. Scary." complete view of the brightly plumed bird world. Kathy introduced her new daughter-in-law, I spoke to Melissa Dilworth Anderson who Birdwatching in Ecuador is contagious, inevi­ Wendy Burgess, to Rob. called from Kennedy Airport on her way to Israel. table and fascinating. My interest in Ecuador Kleia Raubitscheck Luckner sent word that she She's well and very involved in educational continues and this fall I will be working with a has passed the Ohio Bar exam. She is planning to issues in the state of California. Julie C. left a friend whose travel company books tours prima­ combine her careers in law and medicine. Kleia hurried message on my answering machine say­ rily to the Galapagos, although to the Andes of studied law in night school while holding down ing that she was frantically busy and had several Ecuador as well. I look forward to returning to a full-time job! Her son is a high school senior irons in several fires; that Larry was in London South Am erica in the not too distant future. and he is involved in varsity sports and consider­ pursuing his dramatic projects and that she would We extend our deepest sympathy to Susan ing small northeastern schools. Kleia's daughter join him in October. Mathews Heard, whose father died in June after is in seventh grade and involved in champion­ Cary Armstrong Tall writes that she's the di­ a lengthy illness. Susie remains busy with the ship softball, baby sitting and boys. Her hus­ rector of the Valley Health Care Coalition. Her Secretary of Energy Advisory Board at the U.S. band, Kurt, is a museum curator involved in twins, Jamie and Christopher, are in eighth grade Department of Energy, stealing away with Bruce acquisitions and organizing exhibits. He serves and she enjoyed the 30th reunion greatly. to their New Hampshire vacation home when­ as a consultant for museums in Chicago and The Mozart Bicentennial at Lincoln Center ever time permits. Louisville. Kleia says, "We are only just off the will be about half completed when this is pub­ Ohio Turnpike (in Toledo) and it's not hard to lished. So far we've been pleased with the results O Class Secretary find. Do drop in." and the coverage. I'm beginning to think about Alice Jacobson Valerie Wicks M iller says that there have been what comes next. I've decided not to go back to 431 1 N .E. Hoyt Street many positive changes in her life since she last school, but to continue in concert management. Portland, OR 97213 wrote. She has remarried and gained "a delight- I enjoyed and learned a lot from trying on the I heard from many of our classmates who were idea of becoming a social worker/therapist. In saddened by the death of Ira Silverman, husband retrospect the inquiry seems to have been more of Jane Aresty Silverman. Bobbie Schiede Breger about resolving certain life/work issues for my­ and Sally Campbell Haas both wrote about it as self than about the kind of work I do. Harvey's did Kathy Sittig Dunlop. All of us have been well and enjoying the ever-changing challenges thinking about Jane and her family. Sally re­ of his business. ported that she, Colleen Coffee H all, and Cindy One last thing, during the reunion a desire was Bull Tyler attended the funeral (as did Liza expressed to have an address list with birthdays Maugham Davenport, Bonnie Grad Gros and on it. Those of us who were there filled in our Andy Updike Burt from Washington, DC, Boston own and any others we knew. If those who and M aine respectively. — Ed.). Sally did not get weren't there will send me their birth dates, I'll to visit with Jane, but she hopes to when she be glad to send out a new list. returns to Princeton in the fall. Kathy wrote news of her busy family. Her son, Rob, graduates from Trinity College in May and got married in June. W e don't know the name of the young man on Her daughter, Allison, spent one term of her the left, but aren't surprised that there's a gentle­ sophomore year at Dartmouth in Germ any and man hanging out with Wendy Fruland Hopper's plans to spend a term in France next year. Kathy 63 three daughters: Allison, Emily and Hilary. and Richard are busy with many activities in Salt Lake City — Thunderbird Club, athletics, volun-

/ l ^ Class Secretary v J jL* Jane Cormack 31 Corte Ortega, #14 Greenbrae, CA 94904 As I sit here, fingers poised above the keyboard, it is August 1, "deadline date" to receive news from you, my fellow classmates. Where are you? I returned at the end of March from a wonderful three months in Ecuador where I studied Spanish at the Experiment for International Living in Quito (for one month), met many lovely and interesting people and enjoyed the variety of Kathy Sittig Dunlop '63 seems pleased at the visual delights this country has to offer. Most of result of having introduced her son, Rob, to In 1989 '63 classmates got together: (I. to r.) Gail my time was spent at the Hacienda Cusin near Wendy Hurgess (center). Her daughter, Allison, Petty Riepe, Susan Moulton Snyder and Priscilla Otavalo, a town famous for its Saturday market and husband, Richard, help celebrate. M ark Luce.

38 ful step-child" named Sarah Kate (age 12). Her a new job as a social worker for Head Start in the is still in the decorating business w hile her hubby husband, Doug, is a carpenter, "fellow Ver­ Montgomery County Public Schools in Mary­ is in the museum shop gift business, selling to monter and kindred spirit." Val's elder daughter land. Her son, Steve, is a senior at Lake Forest museums all over the county. Museum shops are is entering W heaton in the fall and her younger College and president of his fraternity. Her daugh­ one of my favorite places. What fun. Had a girl is involved in a busy adolescent world. In ter, Jennie Cook, coached the PDS girls ice glim pseof Liz Aall Kaemmerlen during Princeton addition, Val has a twelve-year-old son with lots hockey team last year and will return this season. reunion weekend. She and her new husband of energy. (I'm amazed at how many athletes we Cindy Bull Tyler has joined the real estate firm of have moved into town from Liz's rather unique have produced and I am amused that so many Audrey Short in Princeton. home in Belle Mead. As always, she looked people comment about how surprised they are great. that their kids are athletic!) Val teaches music, Wendy Fruland Hopper managed to get my drama and dance and conducts a community Class Secretary husband, Pete, and me out on the paddle tennis group as well. I received a wonderful packet of 64 Barbara Rose Callaway court last winter. Our athletic efforts were re­ information from Ellen Levy. She writes, "After 149 Hodge Road warded with a lovely Sunday luncheon back at many years and art forms I've finally come to Princeton, N) 08540 Wendy and Art's house. They have recently realize that there must be meaning in one's work completed some renovations to their wonderful, Hi, everyone! Hope this fall finds you all well — not just making money or making something old farm house In Pennington. The Hoppers love and happily involved in your various lives. This decorative but giving back, so my 'social service' to work on their property and the results are well will be known as our "picture issue." Thank you is making something useful, functional and, above worth their labors. You all should visit next time to those who sent news and a special thanks for all else, environmentally correct." Ellen goes on you come to Princeton. O ne of our photos is that the pictures. to explain that she is making a group of textile of Wendy's three daughters taken over a year Fran Wolff wrote to tell me of a trip she made products to replace the use of paper and plastic. ago. Currently, her oldest, Allison, 20, is at last fall to Santa Fe where she visited |udy Her products include cloths which can be used Hobart-William Smith but will be spending this Scasserra C incirip ini. Judy and Fran got out old for hankies, scarfs and in place of paper towels. coming year studying in Vienna. Em ily, 18, is off photos and laughed remembering a trip to Maine She also makes tote bags in a variety of shapes to Kenyon College, having graduated from the they made after graduation with Penny Pettit and sizes. Ellen began the project by making art Taft School last June. Hilary, 11, enters the sixth Kreinberg and Sue Jamieson Creighton. Fran works from the plastic she picked up on her grade at Stuart School. nicely sent along a photo of Judy's twin daugh­ beach on Long Island. Ellen's promotional mate­ One of the biggest surprises this year was a ters, who must be about 13-years-old now (how rial comes with a wonderful description of our telephone call from Annie Clay Harris Lipm ann. about it, Judy?) and one of herself with Judy. Fran natural resources written in 1885 byChief Seattle. O ne Saturday last spring Annie called to say she continues to work for Bear Stearns in Dallas. I am sure Ellen would send any uf us ordering and her daughter, Julia, were in Princeton visit­ Beirne Donaldson has written to tell us that she information. She can be reached at PO Box 1 78, ing Annie's mother and suggested we meet. lives in Mendham, NJ with her daughter, Margo, Orient, NY 1 1957. What fun, after all these years! Annie looks who is 9 1/2-years-old and her husband. Beirne I have an exciting new job. In May I moved exactly the same, as you can see from the picture from a central service vice president at Portland taken of her and Julia last Christmas and Julia is Community College to become the chief execu­ a bright and interesting person. Annie has been tive officer (called executive dean) of one of our busy these past twenty-some odd years. She is an four campuses. I enjoy being closer to the teach­ architect, living in Salem, Mass. She and her ing/learning enterprises and I particularly like partner own real estate in Rowley, Mass. which working with faculty — only a tangential part of they are developing. Annie's husband is a re­ my old job. This campus has over 25,000 stu­ searcher with MIT in electronic communica­ dents and I am dealing with issues as diverse as tions. I hope to see Annie next time she is down how much general education we should require in our area. In two weeks I w ill be an "empty in technical degrees to decisions about spending nester." The prospect is a bit shocking. W here meager resources on keeping the soccer field in have the years gone ? My oldest, Elizabeth PDS shape for intercollegiate athletics. Many thanks '88, 21, is studying graphic design at Rhode to all who wrote. Island School of Design. Katherine, 18, has just From other sources we can report that Liza graduated from Stuart School and is on her way Maugham Davenport took a break from social to Denison University. Hoby, 16, is about to work to teach nursery school last year and en­ There's a definite family resemblance between leave for Avon O ld Farms School in Connecticut. joyed it tremenously. This fall,however, she starts ludy Scasserra Cinciripini '64 and her twin My step-daughter, Karen Callaway PDS '85, 24, daughters. is a landscape architect and happily lives in the area, while my step-son, Norman PDS '83, 27, is in Princeton too, working in the com m ercial real estate department of N.T. Callaway Real Estate. For those of you, and you know who you are, who deign to fill out those little postcards, send me a letter (now that we are all computer literate) telling me what you are doing with your lives. It would only take a few minutes and my address is clearly printed at the top of this article. The local papers have reported that Sheila Hanan Pastore plans to be remarried in Septem­ ber on Nantucket.

Class Secretary Alison Hubby Hoversten Liza Maugham Davenport '63 and Liz Zenzie 65 1183 Cabin Circle PDS '86 met for the first time as fellow teachers Fran Wolff '64 (right) visits Judy Scasserra Vail, CO 81657 last year at St. Patrick's School in Washington. Cinciripini '64 in Santa Fe.

Class Secretary Sandy Maxwell continues to w ow them at Stephen B. Dewing 32 25-36 weddings, reunions, birthdays and various bars RR 2, Box 440 with his piano music. He writes that he thinks he Harrison, ME 04040-9405 PRINCETON was "the oldest living graduate in the Alumni 28 W e extend our sympathy to Joseph Day Parade. Walked with some kids who gradu­ COUNTRY Warren on the death in January of his brother, ated from Miss Fine's in 1946." W illiam, known as Jake. Jake was an alumnus of DAY SCHOOL Princeton Junior School but his class year is not 35 The editors are delighted to welcome known. Stephen Dewing as the new secretary for the

39 early years of PCD. Please reward his volunteer 1953 as assistant director of the Bureau of Stu­ efforts by sending him some news to print for the dent Aid. According to the local papers, he'd next issue. John Bender passed on the news that intended to become a geologist but after serving John Brooks suffered a stroke last year and has in the Korean W ar, he returned to his alma mater moved to the Southampton Nursing Home, 330 instead. He became assistant dean of the faculty Meeting House Lane, Southampton, NY 1 1937. and in 1970 took over as associate director of Reportedly, he would enjoy hearing from class­ athletics for general administration. During re­ 40th REUNION mates. tirement he hopes to travel with wife Joan to Europe and to New Orleans, San Francisco and Needs Secretary 36 The papers have announced that Nicholas Washington, DC to visit their three sons and two Katzenbach will take over the leadership of First infant granddaughters. He'd also like to finish 52 American Bankshares, the Washington-based hiking the Appalachian Trail. FJe's already com­ Bob Hillier writes, "Finally completed my dream bank holding company of the scandal-ridden pleted 1,200 miles of the 2,000 mile trek. house on the Delaware River in New Hope, PA. Bank of Credit and Commerce International. He Architectural practice expanded overseas to Tur­ will replaceClarkClifford inthe job and hopesto Needs Secretary key, Czechoslovakia, Russia, England and Ko­ insulate First American from the fall-out from the 44 rea." The Hillier Group has become the fourth BCCI controversy. Markley Roberts writes that he and his wife, largest in the nation. Jeanne, celebrated their 25th wedding anniver­ O ^ O Class Secretary Class Secretary sary with a two-week visit to Venice and Flo­ <3 / Harold B. Erdman rence. Sounds great — congratulations! 53 Kenneth C. Scasserra 47 Winfield Drive 8 Pine Knoll Drive Princeton, NJ 08540 Class Secretary Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 John R. Heher According to team historian and statistician Bob Class Secretary 45 Rosedale Lane Smyth '57, 130 years of ice hockey experience James K. Meritt 40 Princeton, NJ 08540 were put into play when the Central Jersey Hockey 809 Saratoga Terrace Club produced its first all-Cook line last M arch. Turnersville, NJ 08012 Class Secretary Pete Cook, visiting from Boston, centered the I would appreciate hearing from classmates from 46 David Erdman line with brothers John '56 and Steve '59 balanc­ time to time. For now I can only report on my 4259 Province Line Road ing the talent at wing. own activities, which are not too exciting. I Princeton, NJ 08540 continue to enjoy retired life, making several We send our deepest sympathies to Bob Patterson Class Secretary trips a year in pursuit of my bird watching hobby. whose wife, Marilyn, died in June. They were 54 Fred M. Blaicher, Jr. My grandchild count is now eight. My wife and married 31 years and spent 30 years in the same I 8 Rolling Hill Road I are fortunate to have three living not too far from house so Bob has been busy reorganizing things Skillm an, NJ 08558 us and we see them frequently. this summer. Although technically retired, Bob will be teaching "pretty much full-time in au­ Class Secretary Needs Secretary tumn by previous arrangement." 55 G uy K. Dean III 41 II Lemore Circle Class Secretary Rocky H ill, NJ 08553 47 Peter R. Rossmassler 149 Mountain View Road Princeton, NJ 08540

Class Secretary 48 John D. Wallace 90 Audubon Lane 50th REUNION Princeton, NJ 08540

Class Secretary Class Secretary Bruce P. Dennen Detlev P. Vagts 49 42 10 Dearfield Lane 29 Follen Street Greenwich, CT 06830 Cambridge, MA 021 38 At last, a piece of news from the class of 1942. Class Secretary This is from Marty Benham (who lives in) C olo­ 50 William C. Wallace rado. "In )une and July of 1990 my wife, Bertie, 25 Barnsdale Road and I traveled in our RV from Fort Collins, Colo­ Short Hills, NJ 07078 rado through British Columbia toCanada's Yukon Despite rumors to the contrary, the Class of 1950 and Northwest Territories. Major focus of the trip is alive and w ell. Mike Erdman reports from (made with two other parties, each with RVs) was Haverford, Pennsylvania that his daughter, Lea- twofold. First, we relived the Klondike gold rush Lea '82, will be married this September to Tom days of '98 with visits to Skagway, Alaska then on Marshall alsooftheclassof 1982. Both brideand to Whitehorse and Dawson in the Yukon. We groom live in Princeton and w ill continue to do then drove Canada's Dempster Highway on above so after the wedding. News from the Wallace the Arctic Circle to Inuvik on the Mackenzie family. This fall Melinda will be a senior at River Delta and, finally, a plane ride with 'bush Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio after spending pilot' over the Arctic tundra to Tuktoyaktuk on six months of her junior year studying at the the Beaufort Sea, now a marshalling area for University of Strasbourg in France. Oldest son oil exploration off the coast. We continue to Stewart isentering his freshman yearat Vanderbilt spend summers at our cabin in Jackson Hole, University in Nashville, Tennessee while young­ W yom ing." est son Cartwright is a junior at the Morristown- Frederick Osborne '55 and his mother, Katherine Beard School. Both Hannah and I are doing fine. Mitchell Osborne MFS ’27, join Headmaster Class Secretary It would be fun to hear from the rest of you. Duncan Ailing to inspect Fred's sculpture of Peter E.B. Erdman 43 dancing children which enlivens the Senior Court­ 219 Russell Road Class Secretary yard. There are plans to relocate the sculpture to Princeton, N) 08540 51 Edwin H. Metcalf make it more accessible to all students. At that Sam Howell retired this spring after 38 years with 23 Toth Lane time, it will be dedicated to the memory of lane Princeton University. He joined the University in Rocky Hill, NJ 08553 Mitchell MFS '31 and in honor of Miss Fine.

40 and loved it. The entire experience has been terrific. My wife, Debbie, has been great!" A January letter from John Sheehan failed to make the spring Journal so w e'll try to redeem our­ selves by printing it here. "W ell, I've been in the Jesuits since 1980 and I have just formally been approved for ordina­ tion. So this May I will be ordained a deacon up here in Toronto — that means I can perform weddings, baptize, officiate at funerals and preach. In June of '92 I w ill be ordained to the priesthood, up at Fordham. THAT should be a good party all around. "Before that I have to finish a couple of degrees — the master of divinity this year, and the licen­ tiate and Th.M. (master of theology) next year. I still am singing regularly at an Italian parish and I was just elected president of the Toronto Atari Federation. (Yes, the Atari IS a real computer, not just a games machine.) We have around 450 members, publish a very slick monthly newslet­ ter, run our own electronic bulletin board sys­ Rob and Lee Maxwell, both PCD '62, anticipate tem, and last year had revenues of over $45,000. some of their mom's home cooking last Christ­ That should keep me off the streets late at night. mas. "I had a grand series of visits with Rob French last August and his two sons. W e even went out one day and visited the Franklin Institute — Class Secretary shades of my own boyhood. I was staying with ■* William Ring Martha Gorman Nielson MFS '65. Anyway I 161 26 Alcima Avenue A photograph from the archives of Sally Gardner discovered that by walking through the hedge in Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 Tiers MFS '33 shows son Patrick Rulon-Miller their back yard, one arrives at Robert Leventhal's '55 with a prize catch. — so I got a chance to catch up with him and his /T E" Class Secretary family. Greetings to all." 13 Nathaniel C. Hutner 205 W arren Street Class Secretary Brooklyn, NY 11201 Donald C . Stuart III 56 Buzz Laughlin has become the class comedian. Town Topics He writes, "I am no longer in the polliwog Box 664 farming business after last year's early killing Princeton, N) 08542 frost wiped out my entire inventory. Certain international sushi markets dried up after the Class Secretary eighties anyway. I am now selling patriotic toys James Carey, Jr. 57 and military history books to grammar schools 545 Washington Street throughout New England..." Bob Spears keeps Dedham, MA 02026 himself more than occupied in California where Bob Smyth reports on sports: Steve Ficarro's he is an assistant principal in Watts. This after a Auto Body Women's Softball Team, which Bob sprint through Occidental College. He is learn­ coaches and on which his wife plays, won the ing to live with danger, as he makes his home in 1991 NJ State Softball Cham pionship, its seventh the Sierra Madre earthquake zone. He is also a title in eight years! The Smyth's son, Robbie, captain in the local fire department. Fie is mar­ proved his competitive spirit by winning the ried, without children, which probably explains "Petit Prix" car race for three-year-olds at the why he has time for all these responsibilities. He Princeton M edical Center's Hospital Fete in June. is particularly interested in the yin-yang possi­ The prizes were a $25 gift certificate and a $ 100 bilities of the fire department (fast) and teaching savings bond. Robbie won both a qualifying heat (slow). He is also restoring a 100-year-old house and the main event by six car lengths. w hile living in it. I have talked to Hugh Samson by phone and he promises a missive in the not Class Secretary too distant future. Meanwhile I can say that he is 58 C.R. Perry Rodgers, Jr. John Sheehan '61 looks pensive in this shot. living in the Nahant peninsula/island north of 74 Sycamore Court Perhaps he's considering whether his 44th birth­ Boston and on the water. He is distressed more of Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 day is really cause for celebration. his old school friends don't come visit. So if any of you out there find yourself in the neighbor­ Class Secretary hood, look Hugh up. H e'll be tickled to see you. 59 Stephen S. Cook He is working in a small law firm and his wife 566 River Road works for Skadden Arps. Belle Mead, NJ 08502 Charlie Simmons recounts that he was thrown out of MIT in the late sixties for left-wing activi­ Class Secretary ties and that he has never been overly fond of 60 G . Thomas Reynolds, Jr. educational institutionsanyway. He recently has Pin Oak Drive 30th REUNION been climbing around the Cascades. He has Skillman, N| 08558 bought a funeral parlor and fixed it up with his companion of twenty years, Peggy Hopper. He Class Secretary Class Secretary did get a Ph.D . — in m icrobiology — and has 61 Peter H. Raymond 62 W illiam H. W alker III been doing AID S research. He is also fast on the 54 Creighton Street P.O. Box 346, 48 Hawk Pine Hill trail of the Oregon Junko. He likes to go birding. Cambridge, MA 02140 Norwich, VT 05055 He writes computer programs for medical re­ search which, unfortunately, requires the use of Ward Kuser's first child was born on June 20 and Class Secretary anim als. I would have more to say, except that weighed in at 7 pounds, 6 ounces. Her name is Kevin Kennedy we had a very bad connection, and a good half Juliana Kelly Kuser and Dad reports that she has 63 280 Greenway Road of what Charlie said was lost to the heavens. Let 'lots of hair and had been in the ocean already Ridgewood, NJ 07450 us hope it made a favorable impression.

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/ I/ I Class Secretary U U Lynn Wiley Ludwig 33 Cold Soil Road Lawrenceville, N) 08648 Christine Clark Kerr writes that she is beginning her 19th year as head coach of wom en's tennis at The class of '67 got together over July 4th week­ Dartmouth and just recently reached her 200th end to welcome AFS student Francoise Foassier career win. Congratulations! She is also working back to the US: (I. to r.) Chris Otis, Mary as a consultant for teaching at Lochearn Camp in Woodbridge Lott, Frannie Gorman, Francoise, Post Mills, VT during the summer months. Debbie Susie Fritsch Faber and Ruth Conover. Hobler Kahane reports that she was sorry not to be able to come to the 25th reunion of the class. She has moved to London from Tokyo and hopes to be there for three years or so. She's spent the last year promoting her book and giving presen­ tations on breast cancer. In Tokyo she was able to hook up with cancer support groups and gave speeches to the expatriate women living there. Speaking of the reunion — where was every­ body???? For a change I wasn't the only member of the class of '66 at Alumni Day. Andrea Hicks came in from Brooklyn and Sally Harries C auldie Mai in Baker Bogue was 16-months-old last Christ­ came down from her home in Canada. It was mas. She's the daughter (as if you couldn't tell!) very good to see them. I have been very busy this The same line-up, in close-up, but without Susie of Linda Baker Bogue '68 and the granddaughter past year and a bit out of touch. My thanks to the Fritsch Faber. of former registrar loan Baker. alum ni office fordoing the class notes form e. My son, Christopher, 14, was diagnosed with bone cancer in June, 1990 and we have spent most of /1 C ) Class Secretary the last year in New York where he was in v F C J Mary Hobler (Tyson treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer 1067 Wolf Hill Road Center. He finished treatment this past May and Cheshire, CT 06410 is in remission and tumor-free. He w ill be enter­ Hopefully by the time this news is printed, my ing Lawrence High this September. My 16-year daughter, Katie, and J will have visited with daughter, Becky, is dong very well and will be a Ingrid Selberg and perhaps Gillian Gordon in Junior at LHS. That's all for now, folks. London. We are due to visit my sister (Debbie Hobler Kahane '66) in London in late August where she and her husband are planted for a w hile. Linda Baker Bogue wrote in M arch about the arrival of Malin Baker Bogue who was born on August 25,1989. "After 1 7 years of marriage, she has been a BIG, lovely, delightful change. She's very affectionate, funny, extremely observant 25th REUNION and sharp, sweet, and, as Don says, 'a keeper.' W e'll give you an update on that assessment after the twos and teens! Somewhat to my surprise, I /T Class Secretary Former AFS student Francoise Foassier and class­ decided not to go back to work for a w hile. And \ 3 i Julia D. Lockwood mate )o Schlossberg McConaghy '67. so far, Malin more than returns the investment." P.O. Box 143 Katie Ecroyd has brought us up to day on her South Freeport, ME 04078 I enjoyed my Radcliffe twentieth reunion this family, too. "My oldest daughterwill be in middle Greetings! I was delighted to receive three pho­ spring. I saw quite a bit of Martha Miller R icci, school next year...how can that be? My youngest tographs this spring, all in celebration of Francoise her husband, Steve, and two daughters, Elliza daughter will be in second grade. We're busy Foassier's visit to the U.S. with her daughter, and May. This reminded me of our upcoming with swim team, soccer, basketball, dance — all Peggy, 1 7, and son Julien, 12. Francoise was in reunion this next spring. If anyone has any those sports for w hich the parents cheer from the Princeton for a few days in early July before thoughts on how we might all get together let me sidelines. I had quite a few articles published in visiting New Orleans, Arizona, Boston and Con­ know. the past few years in English Journal, Alan louran, necticut. In Princeton she was the guest star at a From other sources w e've learned that Lucinda and Ideas Plus; and I gave my first workshop this mini-reunion including Chris Otis, Mary Zeising was married in May to Desmond spring in KansasCity. I just completed my second Woodbridge I ott, Franny Gorman, Susie Fritsch Fitzgerald, founder and president of Ducktrap term as bulletin editor for Kansas Division A A U W Faber and Ruth Conover. In W ellesley she stayed River Fish Farm in Lincolnville, ME. Lucinda but will be president-elect for our local associa­ with Jo Schlossberg McConaghy for a week, teaches acting at Sarah Lawrence College and tion next year. I seem to have merely traded touring with her two children Laura, 8, and Max, founded the Landing Zone, Inc., a stage and film duties. A ll in all, life seems to be treating me 3. She then went to New Hampshire for a week­ production company in New York City. Karen well." The Connecticut PDS '68ers contingent end of fishing, canoeing and mountain climbing. Meyers played the hurdy-gurdy in a Chamber had a brief mini-reunion at Sia Godrey Bauer's She also visited with Susie Fritsch Faber in Con­ Symphony of Princeton concert in March. She home in Burlington, CT this spring. Punky necticut before flying home. Francoise showed performed Leopold Morantes Peasant Wedding Brewster Rutledge (and 5-year-old son, Luke) Susie a picture of Mary Young Bradago-Oarman conducted by Mark Laycock. She explained the and I had a tour of Sia's house w hich is undergo­ and her two sons. Mary lives in Spain where her instrument and demonstrated its tone and scope, ing a facelift and an addition. Quite a job! The husband conducts an orchestra. Susie writes that then performed another piececalled Pan's Fancy house is set on a lovely wooded lot with a brook she is a newspaper reporter for the W atertown with her professional partner, Edwin George, running through. Hopefully, by the time this goes Town Times and is enjoying her new career. who played the bagpipes. They concentrate on to press, Sia will not be tripping over sheets of Lauren, her daughter, starts kindergarten this fall. Renaissance music. wallboard, tools, plumbing fixture and contrac­

42 tors — instead she w ill be enjoying the finished consulting business. Children, Charles, 7, and product! Hoping you all the best for the upcom­ Rebecca, 3, are having loads of fun, enjoying our ing months. Don't hesitate to drop me a line for brief summer. the next issue. SEE YOURSELF IN PRINT! Wanted: Enthusias­ Fromother sources we've learned that Richard tic person for very part-time position. Applicants Ross has joined a law firm in Lyndhurst, N): must be able to read all types of handwriting, Carella, Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan, Cecchi & Stewart. have a mailing address (post office box accept­ able) and enjoy dealing with a wonderful group of individuals on a very irregular basis. Must r Q Class Secretary have no qualms about using threats, coercion or Susan Denise Harris fiction to produce satisfactory results. Typing is a 324 South Bald Hill Road plus; imagination a must. Rewards for this posi­ New Canaan, CT 06840 tion are not the financial type. Please direct your The local papers are responsible for the '69 news inquiries to the worn-out, washed-up secretary report. Brent Vine has been appointed an assis­ The class of '71 turned out in force for the of your class (address at the top of this column) or tant professor at Princeton University. He was Panther Party on the pagoda fields. the PDS alumni office. Laurie Bryant Young sent previously a member of Yale's classics depart­ a note from Bombay (so you local non-corre­ ment and a classics instructor at Phillips Acad­ anyway! Checkout thephoto nearthiscolumn to spondents have no excuse) to bring us up to date. emy. He's published more than 30 articles, re­ see who was there. I would like to thank every­ Also see her article in the front of the journal. views and translations of articles from German body who did come; so many of you made the "I'm back in Bombay after a five-month evacua­ and Russian. He's now preparing monographs extra effort to travel a great distance or make tion caused by the terrorist threat during the Iraq on archaic Latin inscriptions and on Greek, Vedic specia! arrangements to spend the time with us. war. (Thanks to Saddam, I was home for those and Indo-European m etrics. In addition to all And to the people that helped me make phone great reunions.) It's monsoon season — rain, this, his daughter, Vera, is a new student at PDS calls, searching out class members in all corners rain, rain, rain. The street in front of the US in the third grade. Derry Light Wills had a of the country, many thanks. There were 11 consulate where my husband works flood to daughter in February to keep her son, Caleb, states represented with the breakdown as fol­ waist-deep on the worst days. One of his col­ company. That hasn't kept her at home, how­ lows: 11 from New Jersey; 5 from New York; 3 leagues took an inflatable boat to work one day. ever. She appeared with her father, Karl Light, in from Connecticut, North Carolina and The hardship is great for the millions of Indians A.R. Gurney's comedy, The Cocktail Hour, the Massachussetts; 2 from Pennsylvania and Cali­ with inadequate shelter. The rains will last until final offering of Stage One's summer season at fornia; and 1 from Florida, Texas, New Hamp­ about September." the Studio Theater of Fine Arts at Rider College. shire and Virginia. And as far as the outcome of my informal poll — there were so many different ^ Class Secretary opinions that it would be impossible to come up / Vr Ann M. Wiley with any clear cut winners. Just about every 33 Cold Soil Road person there was named as the the "most Law renceville, N) 08648 changed" or the "least changed" by some one else. I will leave to your imagination which list Bill Power wrote that he and his wife had a son, you might have been on. Even I was on a list! lames Henry Power, on December 1 2, 1 990. He Before the reunion many of you were contacted 20th REUNION joins brother Billy, 4 1/2, and sister, Kristin, by phone/answering machine in the general quest 5 1/2. Cintra Huber M cG auley reports that she, to drum up attendees. Hopefully, we will see Larry, little Cintra (age 3) and Gillan (almost age Class Secretary those of you who couldn't come this time around 1) spent the summer in Montana horseback riding / Andrea Scasserra at our next big one. In the meantime, please drop and fly-fishing. Robin Murray just celebrated her 6395 Highway 346 a line (or more) to bring us up-to-date. Now for first year of self-employment. The office is going Archer, FL 32618 the apres reunion news, of which there isn't very well. She taught architectural design at m uch. Diane Jass Ketelhut and her husband have Once again I find that I owe you all an apology Mercer County Community College this past done a bit of travelling since we saw them. They for missing an issue of the Journal: however, I do spring which was great fun. She is still living in have been to Bill's 20th high school reunion and hang on to all the news I receive so do not fret Trenton though she's about ready for a move. to Paris. Back on familiar ground, they have that I w ill forget you! Some of this w ill be old She may work with Calvin Johnson on a project extended an invitation to all who visit the news for a number of you but I think that I may in Tanzania. Diane Erickson Seagle writes, "Re­ Charlottsvilie, VA area. Diane promises a little have some interesting news for you all nonethe­ tirement is G REAT! I no longer have to drag buns bit of southern hospitality and a guided tour of less. I heard from James A. Figg III who writes downtown everyday to an office. Instead I stay at the area's hot spots. Mim Sawyer Robinson had that he has a new job as senior V .P. of marketing home (or really in the car most of the time) with one of her watercolor paintings accepted to hang for Wertheim Schroder Investment Management our 4-year-old daughter, Jessica. I manage our in the 17th Annual Alaska Juried Watercolor in NYC working for former House of Representa­ stock portfolio on the PC at home and invest in Exhibition in Anchorage. By the time we read tives Majority Whip, Hon. Tony Coelbo. (I hope real estate when Jessica is in pre-school (3-4 this, the judging should be over. Keep up the I got that right, James!) He is living in Piedmont- hours a week). W hen she is not in school, we good work M im, and let us know how it turned on-Hudson (near Nyack) and he is involved in travel. We went on a 4,198 mile trip together in out. Ellen Stern Smith wrote, "What a wonderful restoring an old Victorian house which over­ May in the car. Thank heavens she's a good time our 20th reunion turned out to b e ....N o real looks the Tappan Zee. He is also active in traveler. Sure would love to see any PDS'ers news but do want to know what happened to fundraising for the Helen Hayes Performing Arts going through Kentucky." Chris Reeve is in the Joan Lewis — I had heard that she was coming. Center and the Hudson River Museum in Yon­ movie, Noises Off, a comedy by Michael Frayn I'm still in Trenton and at the same job for eight kers, as well as Historic Hudson Valley of the that was recently produced at PDS. The movie is years in Hatboro, PA — enjoying it. I'd love to Preservation League of NY State. He has two due out in Decem ber. Chris has become an hear from Joan and all the other old friends who children, Ginevra (6 years) and Letizia (3 years). "enthusiastic equestrian, competing in dressage, didn't make it to this reunion." So would we, Good luck with the renovations, James! And stadium and cross country events." Our condo­ Ellen. This past summer, I had another chance to news from our former class secretary John Moore. lences to Lucy Stover Ashton whose sister, Susie, visit Robin Frey Steigman. We had a nice quiet I know that John can relate to my occasional died recently in Florida of injuries sustained in a dinner in Princeton and did some more catching lateness in submitting news, right? He tells me bicycling accident. up. Robin's son, A.J., is the Florida State Chess that things are going well for the Moore family in Champion for Kindergarten. He beat third-grad­ Massachusetts despite the severe and intensify­ Class Secretary ^7 ers to gain this title and helped his school's team ing recession. "We waited for a softening real £ I Jean Schluter Yoder place number one in the primary section in the estate market and bought a neat house in 39 Ridge Road state for the K-3 level. Robin told me that her Marblehead last summer. It is not far from the Summit, NJ 07901 husband, Don, is responsible for A .).'s success in beach where we can walk at low tide. My wife, How many '71ers does it take to have a good chess. Tom Worthington sent this news from Dot, and I are expecting our second child in time? 33 is just about perfect. That is how many Minneapolis: "I continue to work for the US Fish August. I ran into Chris Smith '71 skiing at Alta, of our class attended all or some of the festivities and Wildlife Service where I oversee public use Utah this February. She hasn't changed a bit!" So for our 20th reunion. We missed those of you programs of National Wildlife Refuges in eight by the time this is published in the Journal, John who couldn't be there but we had a great time states. Melissa runs her own computer software should have a newborn in his household. Con­

43 gratulations! And from other proud parents comes numerous places. W ell, I had a pleasant surprise news. I hope that I received all mail from you all news from Henry P. Bristol. Hank and his wife, when I returned to my home in Gainesville as I out there. If not, I do apologize. In the future, Susan, had their second child, Rachel Louise found notes from Anne Robinson, Karin Grosz please use the address I mentioned earlier and I Bristol, on January 11, 1991. "Susan is on leave and Mark (Mau-Mau)_ Harrop. How did you should get my mail in plenty of time to get it into from our architecture practice for a few months. ever get that nicknam e Mark? I distinctly remem­ the Journal. Bye again! I am still on the board at PDS and I hope to be ber sitting in Artie Mittnacht's house when your The class w ill be saddened to learn of the involved as the school plans its lower school nickname became known, but I can not remem­ death of Judith Kleinberg last M arch. She had a addition in the near future." I suspect that Rachel ber why it was chosen for you. Please enlighten brain tumor but had been eager to meet head­ and her sibling may well be future PDSers! Hank's me if possible. At any rate, Mark has "recently master Duncan Ailing when he visited St. Louis address is 1402 Great Road, Princeton 08540 changed employers to become a principal at the last winter. He stopped by her home and had a and his number at work is 609-497-1464. More public and financial relations firm of Adams and good visit with her. We wish to send our very baby news comes from Susan Stix Fisher who Rinehart, a division of Ogilvy and Mather Adver­ deepest sympathy to her family, including her had a baby boy, Matthew, on January 15, 1991. tising Group. "I work on a variety of accounts, sister, Sue Kleinberg MacConchie '68, and her She writes that "we are quickly adjusting to being including the Hong Kong Economic and Trade many friends a two-child fam ily, first of all by going to sleep at Office, Marks and Spencer (owners of Brooks 9:30 p.m.! And despite New York City's bad Brothers, R.R. Donnelley and Sons, and Morgan "7 O Class Secretary press, we continue to enjoy living in New York, Stanley Realty Group." Mark and his wife have / Anne MacLeod Weeks it's still great!" If anyone would like to find Susan recently returned from a nine-day trip to Switzer­ P.O. Box 697 in the Big Apple her address is 40 E. 94th St. 26A, land (Lakes Lugano and Lucerne) and France Glencoe, MD 21152 NYC, NY 10128. I got a nice note from Karin (Provence/Cote d'Azur). Mark is also wondering I'll begin by congratulating Ginna Vogt on her Grosz. She was living in Lewes, Delaware at the if there has been any news of Artie Mittnacht. April '90 marriage to Bob Hernandez. Helena time although she was getting the urge to move, Now that Artie has been mentioned three times Brett-Smith and Andrew Bonner were at the possibly to W ashington, D C . She is still very in this column I hope he w ill make sure to let us wedding. Bob and Ginna live in Newton, MA involved in the art field and recently displayed know his whereabouts. Mark's address is 1435 with his fifteen-year-old daughter, Camille, and some of her work in a show titled "All In Line." Lexington Ave. #5A, NYC, NY 10128. Anne their golden retriever, Sunny. Bob is a lawyer The focus was "prints and drawings representing Robinson is also living in New York City and who specializes in civil rights. Ginna is a social some close relations." Karin and her grandfather, recently "met up with Giaff Ferrante and Rob worker and loves working as an outpatient thera­ George Grosz, were featured as well as Margaret Gips on a scorching day in Cambridge at our pist in a nearby town. John Bushnell and his wife, Johnson and daughter, Lonnie Sue Johnson, and 15th college reunion. Giaff has his own surgical Laurie, have added to their family. A son, Jesse, Rube Goldberg and son, Tom George. Karin has practice in Hingham, Mass. south of Boston and was born in June '90. Their daughter, Kendall, is joined The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators has his fourth child on the way. Rob Gips is 4 1/2. Cynthia Bishop-Webster writes that she and as she put it, "Imagine, I've been illustrating esquire extraordinaire in Portland, Maine doing enjoyed her visit with Liza Keyser Evans and seriously for seven years and have only just great work for Indian tribes, trying to reclaim lost family in late June. Liza's husband, John, and heard of this guild! Greenpeace has asked me to territory and land rights. I live and work in New four oldest children, Thomas, Phoebe, Anne and do a first cut survey of the status of birds on the York, consulting and doing marketing for small Margaret are doing well. Cynthia says Liza looks East Coast." At the time of Karin's letter she was companies in financial trouble (the only growth terrific and it was fun to see each other after 15 undecided on the Greenpeace offer but it seems market I know of in this recession). I'm still single or so years. Michael Felder's fam ily is expanding as if she has plenty to keep her busy! I also heard — Giaff suggests I eat lunch in hospital cafeterias with Sophie, 10 months, and Jacob Baruch, born from Mardi Considine who writes "enjoyed see­ to meet intelligent men. Our 20th reunion is June 2. Michael is a doctor in Poughkeepsie, NY. ing so many friends at the M cLoughlin's and Jean T. C . Wayne Roberts is employed by the I. and Paul Funk's party to introduce Kenzie Brewster Gallery, Sansom Street, Philadelphia Carpenter's husband. Business going well with which specializes in print sales. He sells his own advertising and promotion work for Schering- laser prints through the gallery. This summer Plough, Johnson and Johnson, etc. Jean Beckwith Wayne sailed and hiked on the islands of Ber­ Funk has pictures I took and names of all attend­ muda and Nantucket. His wife teaches the short ees." So we look to Jean to send us a picture for story at Villanova and lectures for the Philadel­ the next issue of the Journal. I had a nice conver­ phia Museum of Art. Wayne's photos were in a sation with Alex Laughlin and he has graciously corporate show at NJR Nabiscothisspring. Titled offered to have our next reunion at his spread in Down the Garden Path, they depicted the Thuya Hopewell. We discussed a few details and when Gardens, Mt. Desert, Maine and Monet's Gar­ last we talked he mentioned planning it for late den, Giverney, France. Laura Schleyer w ill for­ May or the first or second week in June '92. This mally start the master's in environmental studies w ill be our 20th, as hard as that is to believe, so These '72 classmates got together at their 15th program this fall at Evergreen State after attend­ I hope that many of you will keep this in mind Harvard reunion: Giaff Ferrante, Rob Gips and ing graduate school this summer. In the mean­ and plan to attend. As Mardi wrote, "I plan to Anne Robinson. time, she has been hiking to her heart's content. hold Alex to his promise for a class party for the coming up next year. I hope a lot of people come She says it's nice to have free time again after 20th reunion!" Well Mardi, now that his promise back for the day. I went to a cocktail celebration having worked. She was planning to see Liz has been made public he has to come through! of 25 years of PDS in New York in M ay. I saw lots Hutner in August while attending her sister's And to finish off here I want to run some names of faculty members — Parry Jones, Dan Skvir, Jan wedding back in the East. Erica Klein and hus­ by you of long-lost classmates (or so it appears). Baker and more. They all look the same to me but band/ co-author Ken Kroll will be on a 10-city So if any of you know where these people may be I'm sure I look a bit older after 20 years." Thanks national publicity tour sponsored by Random found or if one of these people reads this, why Anne for the news as well as the photo! Karin House when their book Enabling Romance: A don't you take the time to sit down and let us Grosz writes that she "visited North Carolina guide to love, sex, and relationships for the know how you are and what you've been up to. State Veterinary School in June and was wildly disabled (and the people who care about them) Here goes: Karen Turner, Susan Linowitz (are impressed. It was an optional tour at the Guild of is published this Valentine's Day. Erica says that you still in Tavernier? I passed through there on Natural Science Illustrators 11 th Annual Confer­ they're eating their Wheaties in anticipation! my way to Marathon a few weeks back), John ence at Duke University which I attended from Not much has happened on our homefront. We Lockette, Michael Cagan, Michael Englander, June 3-June 8. I was accepted to the GNSI Sum­ spent another delightful summer frolicking at the Lydia Lennihan, Kirk Moore, Artie Mittnacht, mer Workshop at the Eagle Hill Wildlife Re­ shore. Our son, Jed, has learned to ride a two­ Michael Savage, Andy Houston, Ayres Browne, search Station for two weeks of intensive tutelage wheeler and is entering first grade. Daryl Janick just to name a few. By the way, I am in the of technique August 18-31 so I'll be driving north and long-time companion Bruce Kent are en­ process of relocating so for the time being send with a stop in NYC and Boston. Things are well gaged and planning a wedding in the w ine coun­ all info to: Dr. A.E. Scasserra, Monument Road in Lewes. I'm working for the fourth year on the try of northern California with a honeymoon in Animal Clinic,1 238 Monument Road, organic vegetable and herb farm. We've been Thailand, Tahiti or Bali. Daryl jokes they may get Jacksonvile, FL 3221 1 phone #904-721-2119. trying new things like heirloom seeds (non­ married in a hot air balloon! I'd love to hear from Hope to hear from a lot more of you and hope to hybridized) with great success. It's no wonder Hilary, Tucky, Liz and Susan. Where are you, see everyone at our 20th! those seeds are still around. Still birding and Jeff Schuss? Anyone in the Princeton area who Here's an addition to the class of '72 news: studying the natural world and spending a lot of would be willing to coordinate our twentieth!1 As I mentioned, I am in the midst of relocating time in Washington, DC, especially at the Please keep in touch everyone. and as a result it seems as if my mail ends up in Smithsonian." So that wraps up the remaining Michael Felder sent a welcom e up-date on his

44 activities. "Completed medical residency in fam­ also works as a construction manager and realtor the last issue. Amy Hopfield Lifland was born to ily practiceat Georgetown University/Providence and invites all readers to look him up when in the Alison Hopfield I ifland and Charlie Lifland on 4 Hospital. Now a board certified family physi­ area. September 1990. Their first child, Peter, isalm ost cian. W orked in fam ily practice and geriatrics for Moving to the other coast. (Some people must 4. "They are wonderful kids and keep us very 2 1/2 years in the Washington area. Was also a live out in the heartland, though I haven't heard busy." Leanna Rose Fabian was born on 1 1 May faculty member at Georgetown University's from any of them. - Write!) Fran Treves lives in 1991. She is now a joyous part of Karen and Tim Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. Completed Kingston, New Jersey and works as an architect Fabian's life. Leanna weighed in at 5 lbs. 1 3 oz. master's degree with distinction in philosophy/ on various projects in the area. Fran remains Another birth occurred on 30 June 1991. Robert bioethics (medical ethics) from Georgetown Uni­ involved with PDS serving on the Buildings and and Suzanne Bishop Willis welcomed Sarah versity and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Left Grounds Committee last year. Fran also will visit Byrd W illis into the world. "The three of us are Washington, DC and moved to Poughkeepsie, Ted Brown this fall during a planned trip to Italy. very happy and doing well." October is the due NY in jan. 1991. W ork in Rhinebeck, NY for Fran writes that Ted is currently teaching in date for Caroline Erdman Hare. She is enjoying Community Health Plan, a regional Health Main­ Florence. life as a parent and eagerly awaits number two. tenance Organization (HMO). Hired as a family Melinda Cragg ChaI lener writes from Providence Molly Moynahan is still teaching creative w rit­ physician and as the organization's medical ethi- where she teaches second grade and recently ing at Rutgers and Drew University. Her second cist. Had one son, Sam, born in June 1989, who gave birth to Brandon Delo Challener, the first novel will be published by Bantam in England. tragically died in October 1989. Have one daugh­ Cragg grandchild. Congratulations, Melinda. She continues to look for a US publisher. Molly ter, Sophie Leah, born in O ctober 1990. Now M elinda's husband is working towards a Ph.D . at also has a movie project in the works and has expecting another child. My wife, Elissa, is a Brown. Melinda keeps in touch with Diana Rob­ won a number of writing awards, including an nurse with special interests/training in obstetrics erts (see below) and Liz Penick, who has two invitation to the MacDonell colony. In January and infertility." We send our very deepest sym­ adorable boys. Diana Roberts writes from 1992 she will be going to London to write. "All pathy to Michael and thank him for writing. Martha's Vineyard where she teaches fifth through I need is a second husband and a few self- Other sources report that Pamela Tegarden Allen's eighth grade special needs kids in the winter. sufficient children!" Anne Russell continues to husband, Mark, was best man at his brother's Diana goes up to Maine during the summer. work in Indonesia. However, next year she is marriage to Kara Kennedy, Ted Kennedy's daugh­ Diana had remained close to Philip Shehadi over going to become a part of the (oh dread!?) adm in­ ter, last September on Cape Cod. The Allen's the years and was shattered by news of his death istration. Anne's job title will change to director oldest son, Matthew, was ring bearer. Pam is a earlier this year. I especially remember Philip of activities. "M y heart is in the classroom but physical education teacherat Jamestown School. from my early days at PDS, he was one of my first this will be a great experience." As of 1 July 1991, Russell Pyne writes, "My wife, Helen, and I are good friends at school, particularly in sixth grade. Rail and Caron Cadle Remshardt left the West thrilled to announce the arrival of Nicholas and News of his death saddened me greatly and I Coast for Granville, Ohio where Ralf will Eliza, both born on May 8, 1991. They join their send my condolences to his family. be assistant professor of theater at Denison older brothers, Tucker, 5, and Stuyvie, 2. Need­ I write these notes from Boston, where my wife University. less to say, life at our house has become some­ and I work and live. I work for The Putnam Tidbits: |anet Rassweiler is still at the South what crazy." Congratulations to you all! Companies, a mutual fund and institutional in­ Street Seaport Museum tackling the challenges vestment manager. My wife and I have Kate, 5, of museum life...Hilary Winters' son w ill be /k Class Secretary and Sam, almost 3, and very little time for any­ attending junior K at PDS this fall. She may be the / H r Keith D. Plapinger thing else. See you next time. first classmate to send a child to our alma mater! 22 Auburn Street Thanks to Keith on a great first colum n. A Let's hope for an onslaught of cooler weather. Charlestown, MA 021 29 couple of other tidbits came into the alumni Till we meet again. office. Henry Lane and Cecily Glavin were mar­ Greetings. The profuse thanks I received from ried in May in Massachusetts. Benjamin Reeve is Class Secretary Meriel Burtle Lind ley on my assumption of "class also in Massachusetts where he passed the bar / J. Creigh Duncan secretaryship" concerns me. Meriel writes that exams after receiving his law degree from North­ 879 Lawrence Road she has dealt with "approaching middle age" eastern University in 1990. Congratulations to Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 (I'm afraid we're already there, Mer) by purchas­ all! This group seems to be pretty quiet this time ing a house and a sports car and starting a law around but, thankfully, their mothers are not as firm. Terms Meriel uses to discuss herself "T Class Secretary reticent. W e've learned that Emily Rothrock and include "gentle," "fussy" and "obsessive." Sounds / kJ Yuki Moore Laurenti her husband Scott Kastler, are the proud parents more like old age to me. Anyway, Meriel enjoys 464 Hamilton Avenue of their first child (and PDS history teacher Anne her house and her garden and her law practice, Trenton, NJ 08609 Rothrock's first grandchild!). Matthew Clark which centers on real estate litigation. Meriel Kastler was born July 27th. Emily will return to had a great time with Sandy and Iris Bing while The dog days of summer have come and with it only a few pieces of news. Nonetheless, every work as the associate director of government they were visiting San Francisco last year. Nancy communication is always full of something spe­ affairs for the American International Group in Kendall McCabe sent a great card announcing cial. Apologies for failing to include this item in Washington, DC. Jonathan Stein has become the birth of her second child, a girl named Katie, publishing director for Automobile Quarterly. in April 1991. Nancy states that her son, W ill, has On May 9, 1991 he and his wife, Bela, became not discovered sibling rivalry. I wonder if he'd be the parents of Emelie, making former consulting interested in coming east and giving our two kids psychologist Ginny Stein and her husband, Jerry, some pointers on avoiding jealousy. Nancy's very proud grandparents. television career is in temporary limbo, some­ thing she's making the most of right now. Nancy recently double-dated with Amy Stanley and their new babies. Amy's new son's name is Tom. Nancy and her husband are building a house in Santa Monica which they expect to complete by Christmas. Nancy would love to see any PDSers who venture out to Los Angeles. 15th REUNION We started on the west coast so we'll move east from there. Jim Wittke writes from Flagstaff, Class Secretary Arizona where he lives with his wife, Anne, and / / Alice Graff Looney threechildren, Tom, Kathy and Rebecca. )im is in 19010 Gallop Drive charge of the electron microprobe lab at North­ Germantown, MD 20874 ern Arizona University. He and his family take advantage of the great surroundings to picnic, Libby Hicks Blount wrote an apology for missing camp and learn about the native culture. I re­ Alumni Day this year. She writes, "It's too long a ceived a note from Jim Jennings (I remember him trip for us at the beginning of our busy ice cream/ as Trip), living in Telluride, Colorado. An article restaurant season. We own and operate an ice in the local paper describes Jim's work as an cream shop in Blue Hill, ME. We make our ice alpine climbing guide, specializing in expedi­ Tim Fabian '75 and his daughter admire new­ cream at the shop and it's great fun. I'll be tions to 7,000 meter peaks in the Him alayas. Jim born Leanna. thinking of you all and hope you have a good

45 should all visit at the same time, sort of a mini reunion in say, February? Andy and Donna Sanford have a very polite dog. We recommend them as houseguests to anyone. Will Kain has completed his M .B .A . and is thrilled to be living a more normal life these days. He and Kathy are completing a neat addition to their home in Warren, Rl. Pete Buck '77 and I found ourselves leaping off a platform 50 feet in the air towards a trapeze in early August in Maine. This may represent the beginnings of a Rob McLellan- esque '77 ropes course at PDS in the future. I wish I could relate to you all the sound of Pete's Ann Walcott '77 married Keith Andrew Douglas voice as he prepared to leap. If only I had a last August and corraled a tine sampling of MFS, handycam....Tracey and I are expecting our sec­ PCD and PDS alum ni: (back row, I. to r.) Bo Scott ond child in January. We are contemplating '80, Elinor Barclay (grandmother of the bride and relocation back to New Jersey. Any leads for former MFS and PDS faculty), Susan Barclay sales or marketing are most welcomel We've Walcott MFS '57, Ann, Alissa Kramer Sutphin & seen Cathy White Mertz '79 and Oscar a few MFS '57, matron of honor Martha Tattersall Nora Cuesta '78 and her husband, Terry Giffen. times. Cathy is in law school and Oscar is an Giancola '77, Ned Barclay PCD '57 (uncle of the architect. Keep the cards coming, this job ain't bride), Cary Bachelder Dufresne ’77, Paul was enjoying a long weekend on a lake in north­ really so bad, despite the method of "election." Giancola '72, John David '80 and Stowe Tatter­ ern Vermont in July, thumbing through the sports Until next time. sall PCD '65; (kneeling) bridesmaid Annette section of The Burlington Free Press when I Compton ’77 and brother of the bride Jim Walcott started reading an article about fishing licenses. (I didn't have one, so I figured I better.) When I '80. ^ Class Secretaries got to the third column I bumped into a picture turnout. Sam Fussell has been getting great press of the outdoors recreation editor, none other / Nicholas R. Donath on the publication of his book, Muscle: Confes­ than our own Lawrence Shefflin (Lucky) Pyne. 1456 South Wooster Street #5 sions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder, with articles (Remember that incident at The Cummins Shop, Los Angeles, CA 90035 (and pretty impressive photos) in various papers Lucky?) Congratulations to Lise Ann Roberts and and magazines, including a feature in Vogue. who was married on September 1st to Chuck Evan R. Press The book details Sam's odyssey through the Ziga. They just bought a house in Rowayton, CT. 1456 South W ooster Street #5 world of bodybuilding and sounds fascinating. Lise Anne is a freelance architect and Chuck is a Los Angeles, CA 90035 It's published by Poseidon Press for those who'd freelance designer. Sounds like a couple of The news is from the papers and it's all about like a copy. Anne Dennison was married to freelance kind of people! Anne Hunter Greene engagements! Martha Hicks plans a November Steven Fleming last spring. He's director of mar­ was married on May 18th to Michael Greene. marriage to Louis Leta who's employed by Sta­ keting fora British-based tour operator in Boston Elizabeth Schluter Cleveland (who hasn't writ­ tion W LVI 56 in Boston. Martha works at Station where they are living. Christina Black plans a ten or called the editor lately, despite being only W C V X -TV in Hyannis so I'm sure they have a lot September wedding with Francis Carling, a part­ 10 minutes away) was the matron of honor. They in common. John Pyne is engaged to Sandra ner in the law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam are now in Chicago where Anne is editor of a W ilson. John's in his third year of residency in & Roberts in New York. Christina is a senior visitor's paper called W here. Anne is also an orthopaedic surgery at Vermont Medical Center associate in the New York office of Banque artist, hobie-catter and gardener in her spare in Burlington. A September wedding is planned Indosuez. Congratulations, Anne and Christina! time. Elizabeth Mason Cousins is a serious stu­ by Henry Zenzie and Kathleen Wetherby, a September 5th marked a milestone for Pete Buck dent in-between daughter Molly's waking mo­ biomedical engineer. Henry is a laser physicist in as his younger son, Henry, turned 2 and his ments. She received a master's degree in hu- Concord, MA. Congratulations, everyone! oldest, Harrison, entered PDS kindergarten. manitiesfrom ManhattanvilleCollege last spring. Her thesis was composed during naptime last ^ O Class Secretary winter! Congratulations to Nancy Hollendonner 80 Needs Secretary / Thomas R. Gates Turner's husband, Dave. The lucky guy is no 56 Butler Avenue There are a slew of engagements to announce for Stoneham, MA 02180 longer outnumbered as they welcomed David Stephen Turner to the world on March 10th. the class so we'll pass on the names of the players Hi all. It was a pleasure hearing from a bunch of "Two-year-old Beth was just beginning to get and the proposed wedding date and leave the you this time around. I hope that you are having into a routine.../'Nancy said. Barry Smith is details for after the event. We know you're all as great a summer as we are in Boston. Got a finishing a master's in natural resources at Cornell. busy now, but please write in after the wedding great letter from Nora Cuesta Giffen who is still He is starting at Yale this fall on another master's, and send us pictures of the celebration. Liza at The Miami FHerald Publishing Co. She has then a Ph.D . in sociology. His work concerns the Stewardson to Kevin Connolly this summer, James been married a year to the gentleman in the effect of modernization on our land and culture. Groom e to Anita Karam in August, Leslie nearby picture whose name is Terry. Nora en­ We haven't heard a peep from Robyn Ultan Stuart to Grant W ard in September, Suzanne joyed the picture of Sue Feinman Keitelman and lately...until now. Robyn is now a guidance Albahary to Dante D'Am ato in M ay 1992, Holly asks Sue to give her a call at 305/279-7792. Also, counselor at an elementary school in Lichtenstein to Daniel Goldberg. Best wishes to Nora sends her love to Allison Shehadi and Mountainside, N). She said she just couldn't give you all! Sandy Bing, who have remained her good pals. up the benefits of the school year calendar. She Sophie Carpenter Speidel writes, "I really e n- (Note: Nora and any classmate can get addresses sends her best to all of our class. Jenny Chandler joyed seeing old friends in Princeton at Mary and phone numbers from Linda Maxwell Hauge has purchased a house and an environ­ Chapin's '76 concert in O cto b er'91. In February Stefanelli at the alumni office, 609/924-6700) I mentally friendly lawn mower. She added that my husband, Rusty, and I joined Amy Stackpole "Cam got a bunny for a third birthday present, Bingham, Tim Bingham, Leslie Straut and her Michael is crawling and my lax team did fine. fiance, Grant, for a fun, raucous visit. Also have The PDS game was rained out." Suzanne Vine had dinner with Kara Swisher who wrote a neat was married this spring to Peter Drucker. Mr. article on Mary Chapin in The Washington Post. Drucker is a deputy district attorney in Newark Kara's a writer for the business section! (I'm) still and Zanne is a Legal Aid Society lawyer in directorof guidance at Madeira School." Karolyn Brooklyn. Guess where they met? Michael Carr also sent a note saying, "I'm working at Walters has made his move to Tampa, Florida Crawford Long of Emory University as the charge where he hopes to find a teaching/coaching job. nurse on the cardiology floor. I'm also active Apparently, he has a large place and he has with the Junior League. In the future I hope to Lawrence Pyne as he appears in The Burlington invited all of us to come down and stay as long be a part of the medical team for the 1996 Free Press as outdoors/recreation editor. as we want this winter. Personally, I think we O lym pics."

46 O 't Class Secretaries ing as an orthopaedic nurse. She is also record­ come visit. The 10th was great, despite the lack C# I Kristine E. Anastasio ing for the blind weekly on a volunteer basis. She of attendance, and hope the 15th w ill be the 2401 West Club Boulevard is "enjoying the 100-degree, hazy, hot and hu­ event to bring everyone back. P.S.: Eva Mantell Durham, NC 27705 mid DC weather." tells great love stories." and Rosalind Waskow Corper is a teacher and John Drezner is on the verge of becoming a Cameon Carrington Levy coach at the RippowahCisque School in Bedford, full-fledged architect with Frank O. Gehry & 404 N. Jefferson, #2 New York. She writes, "Life is good! Great 10th! Associates in Los Angeles. If you're in L.A., call Moscow, ID 83843 If you weren't there you missed a great time!" him at (21 3) 475-7783. Also in L.A ., Linda Yuan Sarah Sword is "living in Brookline, M A, still Tookey is a marketing systems manager for Four From Kristy: As your ever-elusive class secre­ working in Rhode Island in marketing fora photo Seasons Hotels and Resorts "by day, Artist by tary, I apologize for losing touch over the past album manufacturer. Life's good and the 10th Night. So happy to see everyone for the first time year. I've been averaging a move a year and PDS was great." Tim Rahrisa home building contrac­ since leaving after 10th grade. You all are great! must have gotten lost in the constant shuffle of tor in Vermont, near Burlington and Andy Ross is Please call me if you are ever in L.A. or if you change-of-address cards. in law school in W ilm ington, Delaware. want some artwork done. (Debby Southwick is I'm currently living in Durham, North Caro­ Charlotte Erdman writes: "Life goes on...in my art agent.) See you at the 1 5th reunion." lina, entering my second year of a three-year, N YC . W orking, living in my tiny apartment — Marcus Maryk is a Navy helicopter pilot based joint master's program in environmental studies but it's m ine — going on dates from HELL! (and in San Diego. "Psycho" and/or "Popeye" are his and public policy at Duke University. This sum­ a few good ones), staying out way too late — and call signs. And Philip Ferrante is a sales research mer I made a quick transition from southern pretending to be a jock. Do a lot of running and analyst at Pharmaceutical Data Services, Inc. in student to urban intern/suburban commuter. I w ill attempt a triathlon June 8th. I'm also trying Scottsdale, Arizona. (Yes, that's right: Philip trav­ spent most of my summer on NJ Transit, traveling to get a group together to take a trip to Kenya: an eled all the way across the country in order to between Princeton Junction and an internship at eight-day tour through the parks on horseback. affiliate himself with an institution with the same NRDC in New York. One of the many benefits of Lions/elephants/water buffalo — you name it. If initials as his dear old high school. Once a living in Princeton was the convenient jaunt over anyone's interested, please call me at (212) 223- PDSer, always a PDSer.) Philip was the first to to the PDS rink for the 10th reunion. The festivi­ 1820." whip out pictures of offspring: photos of his little ties began on Friday night with a party at Colross, girl rivaled those of Julie's children but only hosted by Mike and Debby Burks Southwick. On Debby and Mike entertained us with the real Saturday, we reconvened at the rink for a more thing. formal banquet and an impromptu (though hardly Those who managed to avoid the reunion unexpected) exodus to the Annex. The following were not exempt from the information base. reports were for the most part gleaned from a pad Here's what we managed to dig up: Mike Leahy of paper that circulated around the table at the is in business school at Rutgers. He lives in Annex. As a result, some notes are sketchy at best Princeton with his wife, Jenny Paine Leahy '82, — please excuse the lack of detail, especially and has three children. John Brush is working at regarding the identities of spouses and employ­ Iceland, an ice rink in Mercer County Park. Jeff ers. Olsson works at Princeton Land Design. Sean Debby Burks Southwick writes: "Life treats us Clancy owns Clancy's Place at the Princeton very well. We are living in Rye with the possibil­ Shopping Center. He is married and lives in ity of a move in the near future. Kaitlin is 15- Princeton. Scott Egner is co-manager (with Carl Class of '81 celebrants include Julie Rodgers, months-old — a constant source of joy to us. W e Taggart '82 — and Kip Thomas '82) of The Roz Waskow Corper, Kristi Anastasio, Sarah missed everyone who didn't make it to the 10th. Invisible Fence Co. in Hopewell. They live in Sword and friend. What fun we had catching up with old friends Lambertville. and making bonds with new. People who came Also from New York, Eva Mantell showed up Eric Sanders lives in Redondo Beach, CA where Friday night who aren't here now: Lawrence on Saturday with her husband, Merrill Noden. he manages his father's tire company. Tara Shannon is living in a pink house in Hopewell. She is a sculptor. Jane Gerb has graduated from Lynch also lives in California. Kate Kilbourne He is still working at Paeon and being his incred­ Columbia Business School and is a production works for the Four Seasons Hotel in San Fran­ ibly sincere, thoughtful, considerate self!!! Andy engineer at a General Motors assembly plant. cisco. Mark Sweeney is engaged to Catherine Charen is a second-year business student in She lives in New York City and makes the sunrise Wolf, his girlfriend from college. They will be Louis-iana. Karin Lichtenstein is providing full­ reverse commute to Tarrytown every day. (Jane married this spring. Mark is working as a com­ time care to her grandmother. She is writing a and I also attended a Phish concert in New York puter graphics designer for MacUser Magazine book called Wizards and Lore and riding her City this summer along with Mark Goodman. W e in San Francisco. Kevin Groome is moving back horse. Chris Pey is a law clerk for an interna­ ran into Tom Marshall '82, Phish lyricist, and to New York City from San Francisco where he is tional trade judge." Whitney Lake '82. Other Phish lyricists include a freelance writer. He recently married Lisa Mandy Katz is in her third year in W ashington, Aaron Wolf, '82, whom I encountered at another Banner. DC with her husband, Jonathan Massey, a law­ show last winter; Susannah Goodman, '82; Bob Sue Prockop is a doctor in New York City. yer. She works two-thirds-time as a consultant/ Szuter, '82, whether he knows it or not; and Trey James Burrows is working as an economic fore­ Anastasio, '82, lead guitarist. Catch Phish on its caster for Exxon, also in New York C ity. Amanda lobbyist in international trade policy and one- next nationwide tour and keep an eye out for Crandall is living in Brooklyn with her husband. third-time as a freelance magazine writer, "hop­ their upcoming CD, A Picture of Nectar.) She is an artist and art teacher. And Ellen Gips is ing to expand to the latter. The big event of '91 Hilary Bing Butera reminds us that contrary to studying art restoration at Columbia University. will beourSCUBAcertification. Alsodabbling in recent reports in this publication, she has not Ellen missed the reunion due to a previous com­ watercolor painting and tutoring recovered ad­ worked for a bank for years but does reliability mitment to work with Mark Goodman on his dicts." M andy writes that "Laura jacobus was testing at a psychology research center and just band's first CD, Foggy Notion. You can catch recently appointed director of the Ryan White bought a house in Law renceville. Also in the Mark and his band of the same name (Foggy Foundation Program for New York City, in charge neighborhood is Stephen Thomas who lives above Notion) at McGovern's and other clubs in New of coordinating disbursement of $34 million in Chuck's and is attending Rutgers University. York. (Mark also attends Columbia Business funding for AIDS care. She also does gardening Wade Speir is a market researcher and lives with School, full-time, on the side.) and landscaping on the side for clients including John Marshall in Kingston where John runs Main Liz Tregoe is taking the Bar in Minnesota this former boss Ed Koch. (Rumored phrase of David Street D eli. And Julie Rodgers is "happy being a summer. Amy Lonergan is also a lawyer. She Dinkins: 'Put Jacobus on it.') Kit Ager continues mom. David, my son, is three. My daughter lives in New O rleans. Pixy Kohli Kauble is mar­ training for triathlons. (She's run in the Iron Man Morgan is one. I'm enjoying my freedom — life ried and living in Florida. She works as a com­ twice.) She also works full-time for a Trenton on my own. There are no excuses for not calling puter programmer for FMC. firm, marketing and selling swimming and sports me when any of you guys are in town. P.S.: Bring Kristin Metzger Dodge is the mother of a equipment. Wendi Rottweiler is marrying long­ your tennis racquet." daughter born in December. She lives in time (since 12th grade) boyfriend Lee in June. Each of those named above joined the party at Malden, MA. Barbara Zeitler Kendall recently They live in a house they bought last year some point during the weekend. In addition, gave birth to her second child. She is living in [nearby in NJ], where W endi is a public librarian some particularly devoted classmates made the Boston with her husband and just bought a and Lee runs the local cable station and video trip from the West Coast: Sarah Burchfield Carey house. Kirsten Elmore is living in M arblehead, operations." is "loving San Francisco and married life — hope M A. She is working at LO TU S in the human Suzanne Spiegel also lives in DC and is w ork­ everyone will find themselves in San Fran and resources department.

47 long hair and concert T-shirts, have taken a long, From Liz: As most of us approach the start of our hard look at how they've sold out to the materi­ senior term, I open my largely-overdue Journal alistic world and have sold all their belongings installment with a timely quote from Fitzgerald: and joined the Peace Corps. They are stationed "I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the in Nepal and are helping to build a village and pleasure of losing it again." I suspect that as the teach basic hygiene. As for me, I'm still living in next nine months go by, the nagging theme song the deep woods of Oregon although I am now of "Welcome To Reality" will undermine the working at Oregon State University in the School cheery din of REM and snappy beer tabs. Things of Pharmacy. I will hopefully be entering the that make you go hmmm...l apologize for my grad program to get my master's in pharmacol­ absent secretarial tendencies of late but must ogy, but until I get bogged down in the life of a acknowledge in my defense a substantial lack of correspondence in my mailbox. Well, onward grad student, I am still spending my time discov­ with what I know. My transfer last year to RISD ering all that Oregon has to offer. The latest thing pulled me out of my Syracuse locality and con­ is white-water rafting and I will hopefully be sequently away from lunches with Elisa DeRochi getting on a trip down the Colorado in the com ­ (boo-hoo).l have since infiltrated Providence and ing year. Please note my (hopefully) last address the open arms of locals Kit Greenberg and Jer­ change and get in touch. I take no responsibility emy Rothfleisch, both of whom have been good for the accuracy of the news reported here. for an impromptu dinner or semi-formal date. Kit Another source reports that Susan Hockings has been flip-flopping from the U.S. to France in graduated from Carleton and was accepted at all an attempt to finish writing her upcoming auto­ the graduate schools to which she applied. She's biography, T.C.B.Y. (This Chick Buys Yogurt): going to Yale and specializing in biochem istry. Confessions of a Soft-serve lunkie (due for an October release). Jeremy has been involved this summer in a top secret research project with a maniacal mentor at Brown. Word is his covert appointments at late hours have placed him "on Scott West '86 tries his hand at urban renewal at vacation" in Israel...Keep a watch on CNN. Also the Volcano Bar and Restaurant. no strangers to R.I.'s capital, Christine Grounds and Landis Greathouse recently chose the East Year's Eve. Tom is pursuing a master's degree in 5th REUNION Side as a temporary refuge — both are doing That English and Andy is working for Price Waterhouse New York Thing and sought to trade tiresome in L.A . and Phoenix. I had no idea he was in commutes and dresses with running shoes for a Arizona when I cruised through Phoenix at 85 O "7 Class Secretaries weekend of dance lessons and snooker. Appar­ mph in my rusty Saab two months later. I left C f l Craig Stuart ently Ben Travers and Ashley Thompson '87 Troy, never to return, with my prep cook and 32 Nelson Ridge Road have been glimpsed riding the Dinky this sum­ good friend, Jim Parks, after a morning of mop­ Princeton, NJ 08540 mer, as well as John Totaro '86. Finally, some­ ping up beer cups and dodging angry girls wear­ and one for our dads to talk to in the m orning. In June ing boots. W e made it as far as Florida when the Sofia Xethalis I visited a sore Scottie King in the hospital as she brakes went and spent the next few weeks work­ 182 Stockton Street recovered from painful back surgery. Remember ing on the boardwalk before taking off for Tuc­ Hightstown, NJ 08520 Scottie, bungie jumpingand rollerblades DON'T son. We spent a lot of time hiking the national m ix; w hy not try Yahtzee? A 1956 graduate, Sally Sikes Prescott, who is the Between holiday breaks, reunions and word- parks and sleeping in rest stops. W e were in associate director of alumni affairs at Dartmouth of-mouth, I receive dubious gab about you guys, Montana when we spent our last nickel but was kind enough to send us the Dartmouth most of w hich I hesitate to mention lest they be managed to make it back home and start working newspaper which featured Rachel Stark in their our w ay out of debt. This meant returning to the untruths. C'mon you posers — inquiring minds student profile. The piece mentions her squash Rocky Hill Inn for me where I am once again want to know (surely there is life after PDS). career, that she was captain of the wom en's team happily employed. Next time you're there check W rite to me at RISD , Box 1914, Providence, Rl and All-Ivy in 1990-1991, and her exciting dis­ out the renovations I did in the bar room trying to 02903. Send photos! covery of a Bronze Age silver and bronze calf live down the reputation I gained at the Volcano On behalf of the class we send our deepest and the ensuing publicity. Mark Fedorov stopped sympathy to Felicity Wood and her sister, as a cobb master painter. During the day I work by PDS this spring. He graduated from Lafayette with Matt Kohut '83 for Princeton Survey Re­ Penelope '89, whose father died this summer. and is working for Fuller Corporation in field search Associates. I am hoping to return to the services in Easton, PA. Becca Royal is working at Grand Canyon in the fall for an internship with Abraham & Strauss in New York and was ru­ the National Park Service but at this point, any­ mored to be trying out for the national lacrosse thing could happen. I look forward to hearing team Andy Blechman graduated from Vassar from you all. Take care. with a B.S. in political science. Amy Shaw is off From Mollie: There hasn't been much news of to Cal Tech for graduate studies after graduating people lately. The big one is a hearty congratu­ magna cum laudefrom Bryn M awr. In addition to lations to Mark "Pip" Venable on his recent being courted by every graduate school to w hich marriage in Denver. That's #2 and counting. she applied, she won the GE Foundation Kather­ Congratulations also to Kathy Song who was ine Blodgett Fellowship which pays her tuition This picture was taken in June of '88 and looks recently wed to a Taiwanese business tycoon. and a stipend for her first year. The fellowship suspiciously like the seniors' way of cramming They've moved to Thailand where Kathy is teach­ also provides $5000 to the Bryn Mawr chemistry ing classes on pregnancy prevention. Heather for exams while staying cool: (I. to r.) Steve department and $2000 to Cal Tech. Quite an D'Adamo graduated from Barnard this past June Cohen, Stephanie Katz, Vince Totaro, Christine honor! Ashley Thompson writes, "I graduated with a degree in anthro which she says makes Grounds, Julia Herr, Kit Greenberg, Becca Tilden, from Denison in May as an art history major. I'm Erica Palsho, Arianna Rosati and Peter Dykstra. her a social scientist. She had started designing a now living at home and working in N YC for line of educational clothes for children when she Conde Nast publications as the assistant art di­ was discovered by the Ford modeling agency Q d Class Secretaries rector for Bride's Magazine. I w ill be moving into while on a buying trip in NYC's garment district. € 3 3 / Christina Frank NYC in the fall to live with Denison friends and I am told she is currently in Switzerland shooting 8 Lafayette Road also to join PDS alums in the city!" a cover for Vogue. Eric Tamm finally left Mr. Princeton, NJ 08540 and Buffalo's in Princeton to attend grad school in O O Class Secretaries Hawaii. However, he slept through so many Lauren B. French OO Elizabeth B. Hare Asian culture classes he was forced to start his 631-B Copperm ine Road 149 Hodge Road own wake-up phone service which took off like Princeton, NJ 08540 Princeton, NJ 08540 wildfire. He now has four locations on the main and and island and is said to be up at 4 am every morning L. Doria Roberts Amy L. Venable to start the first round of calls. Dave Kaiser and P.O. Box 3559 10 Monroe Avenue his new bride, Jamie, mourning the loss of his Trenton, NJ 08629 Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

50 From Chris: W ell, two years down and two years turning 21 sometime next year. it as a resident of Syracuse, New York. to go. Not so bad. The summer is quickly coming From Lauren: The following Journal entry was That is all the first-hand news I received (shame to an end and from what I hear no one is alto­ made possible by Alexandra lAllie) Maranhao's on you unheard-froms) so it is now on to the gether disappointed about returning to school visit to Princeton during the month of July. She "Rumor has it..." section. Paul Shin is really since Princeton is about as exciting as profes­ helped me push people to write down some kind happy at Columbia. He is a history major, med. sional bowling. Deidre Griesinger writes that of blurb on the highlights of their lives. A good school bound. He finally got his driver's license everything is going w ell with Vince Peterson, deal of the information was copied directly from but, unfortunately, he got into an accident a Dave Gray, Peter Guzik and herself after their notes on a P.I.'s napkin, taken during Allie's month ago. Luckily, he is fine. Good luck in the second year at Boulder. Chris Overman was, farewell brunch. W ithout further ado: A llie is in future, Paul! unfortunately, in a motorcycle accident which college in Sao Paulo, Brazil, majoring in interna­ Berta Alsina is happy at school in Spain, study­ took him home early. We wish him well and tional business. Although she could not make it ing biology. This summer she is taking a theatre hope he is feeling better. Will Fisher joined them to Princeton in time to see her "sister" Sarah class, travelling and sailing. She hopes to come second semester and will continue next fall. Beatty '91 graduate, she did manage to spend to the US for graduate school. Elka Bassenberg Deirdre invites everyone to come out and visit from July 1st until the 31st here with her family (from Germany) is spending her summer biking the crowd. Emil Casteneda writes that he is very and friends. Although she is quite happy in around Europe and then sailing with her parents busy and if he keeps up at this rate, he'll either be Brazil, she really enjoyed being back and she in the south of France. A little more international famous or dead. He is designing and illustrating hopes to hear from everyone! She still cannot be student info.: Sarah Phillimore is enjoying life as for the Big Three auto companies, and some seen without that ear to ear sm ile, her precious a law student in London. This summer she is other corporation he can't reveal, "real hush- appointment book and her ever-ready camera! working at a law firm in the city and then this hush, top secret, ssshhh!" he says. He recently How about me next (Lauren French: previ­ school year she will spend in Aix-en-Provence, bought a motorcycle and challenges Rev to a ously lost class secretary). I am absolutely loving France where she hopes to "catch a hunky French race. Scott Kelberg seems to be doing great. He Oberlin and am majoring in biopsychology Vicomte with a chateau or two." is a political science major at Syracuse with the (what?). Right now I am pre-med but I'm not sure Emil Castenada will be graduating early from hopes that his journeys w ill take him to Am erican whether I want to be a doctor or perhaps a high U. of Michigan School of Design, as will (maybe) University in january to work in the justice pro­ school science teacher. I am also studying Rus­ Bryan Stone from Harvard. Stoner is spending gram there and have an internship on Capital sian and I hope to go to M oscow next summer. his second summer in Israel on an archealogical Hill. He spent the first part of his summer taking Athletically, I have traded in my running shoes dig. The grapevine says that a Woman may have a few criminal justice classes and then went to for a swim suit and goggles. Music is still a big something to do with his early graduation plans. San Diego for his fraternity's (SAE) national con­ part of my life as I continue to play the flute, Is what we hear true, Bryan? W ord has it that vention. While out there he stayed with the classical and jazz, and I hope to do some singing Nikki Dunn has been quite the traveller: Great Sagebiens who were there working and they all next year as well. So, I am still pretty spread out. Britain last summer, Paris this summer and Prague had a great time. In August he was at the jersey Geoff Maletta spent this summer working for a next summer. Around the world in one college shore with Jim Aversano, working at a m arina. carpenter and playing ultimate frisbee (sorry, career! Other news from far away — Ingrid He ended with, "Take care, and by the way the Geoff, I couldn't get the computer to make the Hoover w ill be studying in Paris next year (so I Eagles look like the team to beat! Some things subscript "TM" on frisbee). He is an English hear) and Doria Roberts is said to be in France never change!" Well, those were the only three major and is planning on writing a creative this summer. One final tidbit; rumor has it that postcards I got, so the rest is all things I know or thesis. Maybe it will be a great novel (says he: Laura Bennett w ill be getting married in Israel! have heard through the grapevine. I saw Laurie yeah right, but I'm sure we have more hope than (Laura's mother reports that she was married Stuart's mom in Princeton and she informed that that as a class). He hopes to spend summer '92 in August 26 in Israel to Philip DeYoung. She's Laurie is in Alaska in a N OLS course. I saw Sarah Europe. converted to Judaism and taken the Hebrew Ackley this summer working in Theresa's Pizza In asking Peter Guzik about him self I got name, Hadassah. Laura and her husband work in town. Amy Warren spent her summer working mostly a report on Greg "Beave" Eckelman. on a collective farm in the Gaza Strip. -Ed.) two jobs at the beach with Lindsay Berkman '90 Anyway, Guze has spent his summer playing O ur class certainly gets around. and is doing aerobics in her spare time. Megan frisbee and following Beave's band, "Sam the The frisbee dudes tell me that even with Vince Shaffer bartended and waitressed at Wildflower's Butcher," around the east coast and he is now Peterson injured they have won their second in Pennington and is going to be a resident's officially a "Meathead." The band is playing DC game in the play-offs and are well on their way assistant on her hall next year. I heard that and New York, includingCBGB'sandCafeWha? to the championship. Vince, I hope you recover Heather Roberts and Libby Griffith are going where Dylan and Hendrix played. Guze is loving in time to claim victory and go for it, guys! I think away together to Australia next semester. Andy Colorado and was extremely anxious to get back that about does it for my first report. I promise Dykstra came to Princeton from Indiana this there on the first of August. Alex Brent is still that if people send me dirt about themselves, I'll summer only to have an unfortunate encounter doing architecture and theatre, and still loving it take the time to type it up and send it in, other­ with a very large lawnmower. His accident led to too. He has had an eventful summer lifeguarding wise I might be forced to get creative. My best 10 stitches, lots of pain killers and a return trip to at the Quarry in Hopewell and he also has been wishes to everyone! Indiana. Hardy Royal spent the first half of his playing ultimate. Howard Katz has decided he Laura Chapot and her sister, Wendy '88, summer in Brussels on a Lehigh program and had wants to become a doctor of physics. He says were written up in the US Equestrian Team a great time w hile getting two classes out of the that perhaps he w ill get a job to speak of when he publication. They both won gold medals in USET way. The second half of this summer will be stops his career as a student and gets a taste of the events. On behalf of the class, we send our very spent writing a 30-page paper for one of the real world (his words, not mine). He is still deepest sympathy to Jacob Silverman whose classes along with frequent trips to the beach. following his love of madrigals as a member of father died in June. Included in our thoughts are Susan Lebovitz has been accepted to Brown Colby's Chorale and he is training for an audition his sisters, Sarah '92 and Rachel, and his mother, starting in September. Congratulations and the for an eight-member all-male a cappella singing Jane Aresty Silverman MFS '63. best of luck! I recently thought I spotted Jamie group, the prestigious Colby 8. Wish him luck! Simpson at a Spin Doctors concert in NYC but I Debby Jones has only to say that she is an Class Secretaries can't quite be sure, the place was packed. I hear economics major and that she loves Carleton. V / Deborah A. Bushell that Matt Henderson has a great job with his own Karen Fredericks will be graduating from WeiIsley 2 Rich Court personal secretary. Carrie Regan is going to next year with a Spanish major. She plans on Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 spend the fall semester in China. Erinn Batcha going on to either law school or pursuing a Ph.D . and spent the first half of her summer taking a course Karen reports that W ei Chen '88 is now in the US Jonathan P. C lancy at Rutgers and is now at the beach working for studying chemistry at Smith and is spending the 48 Carson Road her dad. Erinn and I are going to be roommates summer working in the chemistry department Princeton, NJ 08540 again next year. I spent the summer at Lehigh there. Adam Lang has been enjoying Reed Col­ From Debby: Greetings from Ithaca! Hope ev­ taking two classes and then traveled a lot, visiting lege but after a tough year he is going to take eryone had a great freshman year and a good friends and listening to bands. I'm working for some time off to work, perhaps in Oregon. Next summer. I'm happy to report that I actually Habitat for Hum anities in Trenton for five days at year he hopes to transfer to a place with a received a few postcards from our class for this the end of August — the highlight of my month. computer science program and continue on from edition. Won Kim writes that he and Paul Shah A nyw ay, thanks a lot to those who wrote to me — there, wherever that may be. Good luck in the recently drove W on's '81 Volvo to Chicago to it was great to hear what's going with you all. For (gasp) real world, Adam. Heather Hunter is visit Robbie Biro. He says that even with 1 80,000 those who wrote nothing, I hope what I added is having a blast at Syracuse, majoring in creative miles on the car and four flat tires, they made it all true — if not, it is your own fault! Good luck writing. She, too, w ill be taking a year off to join and had a great time. Stephanie Gendler spent to everyone and congratulations on all of us the world of the money-earning and she will do the summer in her new Montana surroundings

51 Princeton for a surprise visit with me, David and quietly. The summer seems to have proved Ragsdale, Andrea Begel, Claire Brown, Jay uneventful and fast, as the departure for univer­ Espaillat, and Ramsay Vehslage. Julie Totaro sities, colleges, technical schools, textile schools, and Jeni Thompson spent their summer working etc. is now upon us. At least we assume the at an environmental day camp. After spending summer went quickly as few found time to en­ one semester at Northwestern, jeni decided that lighten us of their summer adventures. wasn't the school for her and will be attending U. However, by word of mouth we have learned of Vermont this fall. She also has moved to that adventurous is a word that describes none of Skillman. Her new address is: 48 Bedens Brook our summers. Most of us dragged through the Road, Skillman, N) 08558 Randy Zagorin writes summer trying to earn the ever-evasive dollar; about his success in student government at Ithaca some of us quit looking on June 16. Among part- College last semester. He was recently elected time and "temporary" workers were Charlie president of the Ithaca College resident hall Baker, Tim Babbit, Steve Eaton, Hillary Kann, association and has been inducted into the Na­ Julie Marcus, Colleen Priory, Stuart Katzoff, and tional Residence Hall Honorary Society. I spent Jason Wasserman. The latter two took some of my summer working in the hospitality industry their time off to attend the British Open where and spent some time at my beach house on they were seen carousing with several pros. Hilton Head Island, SC. Hope everyone has a Christian Batcha, Missy Collins and others spent the summer at the scenic Jersey shore, while still great semester and I look forward to receiving others found somewhat steady jobs in Princeton. more postcards in the future! Jon Trend, Jason DellaVeccia, Chris Varone, Lylah Alphonse spent the summer I ifeguarding and Rob Franz even found work at PDS, while and working as a writer and researcher at the Beth Kahora and Navroze Alphonse were among Princeton Packet. the steady work force as lifeguards. Jobs seemed to be the popular way to prepare us for college. Q "| Class Secretaries However, a couple of us have found exciting I Sarah E. Beatty methods to put off school, even if it is only 104 Bouvant Drive temporary. Rumor has it Matt Riccardi w ill be Princeton, NJ 08540 studying the rainforests in South America and and Brendan Lucey will be close by honing his Span­ PDS '90 in Chicago: Won Kim (center) and Paul Irene L. Kim ish. Brendan (the only class member to send us a Shah (right) drove out to visit Rob Biro last 10 Stockton Court response) would love to hear from everyone. His summer. East Brunsw ick, NJ 08816 address: Av. Circunvalacion Del Sol, Santa Paula, and and worked at a well-known upscale restaurant, Res. 18 Piso 6, #B. Elcafetal Caracas 1061, L. Campbell Levy The Coyote Riverhouse. She and Robert Powell Miranda, Venezuela. 2 Morven Place shared a few Kodak moments together when For all those who could not find a pen and lost Princeton, NJ 08540 Robert joined her for a short vacation. Isheeta your card this summer, we hope the past three Ganguly spent part of her summer traveling From Sarah and Campbell: Recently dispersed, months have been glorious. Good luck next year. through Europe with a friend after arriving in class members have tried living independently Hope to hear from you!

IN MEMORIAM We wish to extend our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of the following alumni and friends.

Doris Sinclair McAnerney MFS '38 Jeanne Levine Rothar MFS '46 Thomas Farley PCD '63 Judith Kelinberg PDS '72 Ira Silverman — former trustee, husband of Jane Aresty Silverman MFS '63, father of Jacob PDS '89, Sarah PDS '91 and Rachel Anthony (Chick) Sculerati — former member of maintenance department

Religion teacher Janet Stoltzfus ami librarian Bunny Webb enjoy a peaceful moment near the carriage house on the wooden bench donated by the class of 2991 in memory of their classmate, Jonathan Pope.

52 Cymbals Too is the brainchild of Sue Fineman Keitelman '78 who came to the alumni office with the suggestion we publish an alumni magazine modeled on Cymbals, the upper school student publication. Editied by English department chairman Stephen Lawrence, Cymbals Too contains prose, poetry, photography and art work by Miss Fine’s, Princeton Country Day and Princeton Day School alumni. It showcases an impressive spectrum of talent and is offered without charge through the alumni office.

From These Roots: The Creation of Princeton Day School is a fascinating history of Miss Fine's School and Princeton Country Day School and the events surrounding the merger that produced Princeton Day School. Written by local historian William K. Selden, the book comes alive with personal recollections and over a hundred photographs dating from 1899 to the present. The book sells for $19.95 plus tax and shipping and may be ordered by calling the development office.

The PDS Catalog has been totally redesigned and will be sent to present parents soon. Alumni and past parents also may wish to have a copy to learn about the courses and personalities that are enriching PDS today. Copies may be ordered through the admission office. NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 270 Princeton, NJ