PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL JOURNAL Fall 1978 PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL JOURNAL Fall, 1978 Vol. 11, No. 1 Editors David C. Bogle Contents Virginia H. Taylor Ellen R. Kerney ’53 i . From the Headmaster Douglas O. McClure 2. Com men cement 5. Faculty... on and off campus 10. School News 11. The Industrial Arts Program Kathryn Rhett ’80 14. Basket Making, Judaism 16. Sports 18. Alumni Children 19. Alumni Notes Photo Credits: Robert Denby, front and back covers, pages 2. 3, -4. (>, 7, top left 8. bottom left 9; David Mantell '79, page 8 center: Orren Jack Turner, bottom right page9; Katrina Jannen '79. page 10; Steve Mervish, page 14; Douglas Bailey '81 and Melanie von der Schlulenburg '79 pages 16 and 17; The Link, page 18. Front Cover: Robert C. Whitlock, Head of Industrial Arts Department Notice of Non-Discriminatory Policy as to Students Princeton Day School admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin From The Headmaster.. Every few years a particular word tends to become is that this is not recognized) and the school responds a kind of catch word in our conversational lexicon. to it, demonstrating its own energy in the process, Currently energy appears to be such a word, whether then there can be little question about its success. the discussion is concerned with the use and abuse of Educational efforts could well afford to be evaluated, the world's fuel supplies or something as removed more often than tends to be the case, on a scale that from this as the aesthetic qualities of a work of art. measures not only the energy going into these efforts, The word lends itself remarkably well to a variety of but also how much is produced as a result. applications based on legitimate definitions, whether This issue of the Journal pays tribute to some of the it is used specifically, in a very general sense or even ways that Princton Day School reflects the energy of as a metaphor. those who make it the school it is. At the risk of One place where the word appears frequently is in stretching an already over extended metaphor, the any discussion dealing with the topic of education. On school as it exists today is clearly the result of the occasion this may serve no other purpose than to energy of individuals—of students, faculty, alumni— augment the unfortunate amount of jargon that this like those whose efforts are described in the pages subject inevitaby generates. Often, however, it results that follow. In one sense energy can be defined as in something being said that makes a reasonable excitement—and so, I submit, can Princeton Day amount of sense. Consider, for example, descriptions School. To do so, however, should not obscure a very of schools which emphasize the energy of their important fact: the need to learn more about how students. I can think of few better ways to describe a better to concentrate that energy and how to avoid school, especially when it is one that has the variety of using it wastefully is as important for the school as it ages, interests, and purposes as Princeton Day School. is for our contemporary world to understand the The word also can serve to provide an important realities and problems inherent in the use of our insight about the learning on the part of both students energy resources. While it is not always apparent, I and teachers. Energy—intellectual, creative, physical, believe that we are accomplishing that kind of ultimately in a slightly different sense, personal — is learning. The energy that we have derived from our one of the qualities which makes a school special. If it unique tradition, as well as that which is evident is is lacking, the school fails; if it is there (of course, it what is presently taking place, is being used in an always is—what unfortunately happens on occasion increasingly more productive manner. 1 COMMENCEMENT DAY 1978 2 3 ».T , Class of 1978 College Choices Karen Baicker Grinnell Alice Lee Skidmore Keith Baicker Drew Lee Lichtenstein Hampshire Margaret Bailey Dartmouth Cecelia Manning Yale Beverly Banks U. of Pennsylvania Elizabeth Mason Colby David Barondess Rutgers Scott McClelland Princeton Sabrina Barton Oberlin Adria McCuaig U. of Vermont Susan Blaxill Princeton Patricia Metzger Bucknell John Brett-Smith Johns Hopkins Todd Miller U. of Michigan Christopher Bundy Hamilton (Ann Arbor) Dara Burrows Bennington Gregory Morea Colu mbia Jennifer Chandler Dartmouth Elizabeth Murdoch U. of Vermont Nancy Chen Brown Sarah Nelson Trinity Andrew Cheng Drexel Robert Olsson Dartmouth Bradley Clippinger Ohio Wesleyan Lindsay Osborne U. of Colorado Wells Coalfleet Denison Susan Packard Skidmore Robert Cottone Bucknell Jeffrey Patterson Duke Steven Cragg Pratt Frank Piccolella Gettysburg Nora Cuesta Upsala Michele Plante Middlebury (in Feb. ’79) Patrick deMaynadier Vanderbilt Lawrence Pyne Middlebury Humberto Desiderio Home (AFS) Gail Reeder U. of Georgia Timothy Dill Rider Jeffrey Ritter Hampshire Ietje Elich Home (AFS) Michelle Rizzo Mt. Holyoke (in Feb. ’79) Lucy Englander Ithaca Lise Roberts Cornell Jonathan Fabian Washington U. (St. Louis) John Rodgers U. of Vermont Kerry Faden Middlebury (in Feb. ’79) Steven Rowland Pomona Catherine Ferrante Harvard (Radcliffe) Jordan Sand Colu mbia Sue Fineman Bennington John Sanford Dartmouth Douglas Fitton Dartmouth Elizabeth Schluter U. of Vermont Roger Fried Yale Carol Schoenberg Emory Thomas Gates U. of Vermont Gwendolyn Scott Boston IJ. Terrie Gilman Ithaca Barry Smith Hampshire Donald Gips Harvard Louise Southcott U. of London (ESU) Margaret Gordon Middlebury (in Feb. ’79) Jon Spiegel Harvard (1979) Kimberly Groome U. of Michigan Robert Stoner PG at Hotchkiss (Ann Arbor) Jeffrey Swishei Stanford David Hamel Hampshire Laura Tate Georgetown Nancy Hollendonner Lafayette Bethlin Thompson St. Lawrence Ann Hunter Wheaton Lydia Thompson U. of Vermont Siri Huntoon Cornell Melanie Thompson Williams Allison Ijams Connecticut College Kenneth Trock Muhlenberg (in Feb. ’79) Robyn Ultan Smith Jay Itzkowitz Harvard Suzanne Vine Harvard (Radcliffe) Claire Jacobus Bryn Mawr John Wallace Yale James Jeffers Vassar Michael Walters U. of Delaware Timothy Johnston Duke Elizabeth Westergaard Duke William Kain St. Lawrence Robert Whitlock U. of Virginia William Klun Georgetown Christopher Winham Brandeis Sheila Mehta Brown Frederick Woodbridge Princeton FACULTY. on and off campus P rinceton l)ny School, proud of its faculty, would operations on her vocal cords four years ago and like to share with you some of their recent activities. retiring from professional performing though They travel a lot... they win things, as well as awards. continuing to conduct, she has been hired as the There are new babies — four of them: Peter, son of Cantor of a temple in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She Cathy and Bob (Photography) Denby; Dareth Maria, sings the regular service and holidays. Louise Topp daughter of Pat and Tom (Physical Education) De was awarded a certificate from Kodaly Musical Vito: Sara, born to Mary and Gary (History) Lott; and Training Institute in Wellesley, Massachusetts. a daughter, Fiona Gibson for Ruth and Bob (English) Summer travels included Great Britain, Ithaca Suzuki Miller. Institute, Gasp6 Peninsula, Quebec, woodcarving in History teacher Lois Dowey reports, "This summer the North Carolina mountains, Washington, D.C. and completed course work at Boston University for Delaware. Louise has been asked to play in fall and second M. A. (first was in philosophy) to be granted at spring dance festivals in the J.C. Campbell Folk Rutgers University. All that remains to be completed School in Crosstown, North Carolina. is a comprehensive exam. The bulk of the work was Upper School Head Sandy Bing had a busy time completed while on leave from PDS in 1976-77, and in running the Summer School at PDS, after which he independent study at the African Study Institute of and wife. Iris, vacationed in Canada... and Tassie and the University of Ghana, West Africa, during two Dan Skvir (Admissions, Russian, Religion) spent terms in 1977. Study supplemented by travel through three weeks in Paris just after commencement. Nigeria, Niger, Mali and Senegal." F’irst grade teacher Nina Francomano feels great News from I Ik; English Department — In October excitement in being a published author. Her article, Anne Shepherd, who is also a college counsellor, "Mothers, Kids and Lovers" appeared in the Princ,cton participated in an institute for beginning teachers Spectrum in October. She's also proud of an A sponsored by the Connecticut Association of achieved in Intermediate Algebra at Mercer County Independent Schools as one of the "master teachers" Community College, and in her spare time she tutored who led discussions and acted as consultants. five young children in reading, reading readiness and Barbara Hovvarth toured New England and Quebec, mathematics. climbed Katahdin, Monadnock (up and down), With the guvs and dolls in the Physical Education descent of Mt. Washington. Nancy Wilson was Department, Mary Jo Blewett was elected to the awarded an M.A.T. in secondary English and is also National Education Honor Society, had an article working on a project with Lucy Haagen designing a published in Reporter Magazine and won an award for writing program for the Middle School at PDS. Last outstanding contribution to recreational sports given summer Lucy took a two week craft course in North by Douglass College. Kim Tumilty made the U.S. Carolina, a drama course at Trenton State College, Women’s Lacrosse Team and taught at basketball and her review of “Time and Again”, a novel she uses camp, while Tom De Vito was supervisor of the Ewing in eighth grade English, will be published in the Township Recreational Summer Program. Tom February issue of The English Journal. Bob Miller Malsbury worked as a carpenter in partnership with headed a summer work crew of volunteer students at Jim Walker of the Mathematics Department.