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Admissions Open Houses Friday & Saturday, February 28 & March 1 Come for a tour of the Granby Campus. Performances at 7:30 p.m. Meet current students and faculty. Sunday, March 2 Sundays 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Admissions & Alumni Reception at 2:00 p.m. January 12, February 9 Matinee Performance at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Contact us to reserve complimentary matinee tickets. Speaker Series “Pig Latin, Ubbi-Dubbi, & the Cat’s Elbow: Secret Saturday, April 26 Languages as a Window on the Human Mind” MacDuffie’s John McCarthy, Professor, UMass Amherst 3rd Annual 5K Run Thursday, November 21, 7:00 p.m. International Student Festival “On Studying Film” Alumni Reunion Robin Blaetz, Professor, Mount Holyoke College and Tuesday, December 10, 7:00 p.m. Spring Music Concert “The Future of Healthcare & the Evolving Roles Contact us or visit our website for details. of Nurse Practitioners & Physicians Assistants” Robert Russell, Tufts University School of Medicine Tuesday, January 21, 7:00 p.m. Visit www.macduffie.org for the current season’s athletic schedule. The MacDuffie School The MacDuffie School magazine for alumni and friends Save the date! Reunion 2014 Saturday, April 26 Alumni News Watch for details coming soon on our website, Facebook page and in the mail. Faculty Feature Facilities Improvements Nominations are open for 2014 Distinguished Alumni and Young Alumni Awards. Student Spotlight Please contact Valerie Fontaine ([email protected]) or Dina Lyman (dlyman@ macduffie.org) with names of alums you would like to nominate. Commencement 2013 Traditions We look forward to seeing you at Reunion 2014! 00 Volume 5 Issue 1 Fall 2013 Athletics Update 00 Advisory Board The MacDuffie School In Memoriam: Dr. Harold F. Sheets

Wayne Brewer Magazine for alumni and friends Two years ago, after my mother’s funeral, I found out that Dr. Sheets had passed away Managing Director Fall 2013 around Halloween, 2010. I found out because I finally decided to search him out via the Internet, with a desire to contact him and finally let him know what an important Craig Brewer Steven Griffin, Head of School teacher and mentor he had been to me during my years at MacDuffie in the mid-1980s. Director Unfortunately I was too late. Diana Lyman ’66, Dean of Boarding Life and Dal Swain Alumni Relations For me, he was a non-traditional teacher of Spanish and U.S. History, who encouraged Director students go out on extensive limbs in the tree canopy of ideas that exists in any Valerie Fontaine, Administrative Assistant, Deans’ Offices Steven Griffin discipline, and yes—he taught rigorous courses. There are times when I am reminded Head of School EDITOR of certain “ah-ha” moments I had in his classes at MacDuffie. Perhaps the strongest Linda Keating ’65, Editor of these occurred when the issues of slavery and civil rights came up in U.S. History. Thomas Addicks former Director of Admissions Among other things, he had gone south during college in the 1960s and participated Assistant Head of School in peaceful aspects of the civil rights movement. But what had the most impact on PHOTOGRAPHY Carole Bielizna me was that he presented some basic ideas of cross-cultural misunderstanding and Gabriel Cooney Business Manager miscommunication, including what is now understood to be psychological phenomena Beth Reynolds like bullying, oppression and post-traumatic stress disorder, which played roles in the David Denno Chi Huang ’14 centuries of this difficult theme in our history. This hit me like a ton of bricks. It made History and English Teacher Linda Keating ’65 so much sense to me then (and now), but I am continually surprised by how this is not Timothy Duff PLEASE CONTACT US realized or understood by some folks, even today. Headmaster, Pioneer Valley Christian The MacDuffie School Magazine School, Springfield MA Attn: Valerie Fontaine Beyond the sphere of teaching, I felt a trusting, supportive bond—and friendship—with The MacDuffie School Dr. Sheets. When hearing of his passing, I also found an article in The New York Times Danielle Williams 66 School Street that was written for him by a high school student of his before he came to MacDuffie, Dr. Class of 1994 Granby, MA 01033 Mark Dow. His words were so deep that I practically lost my balance; and it was clear 413-255-0000 Leslie Pitt Chehade that Dr. Sheets had been a mentor to him, as well. I could not believe how similar were Class of 1987 Or e-mail: [email protected] some of the memories we both had of Dr. Sheets as an inspiring high school teacher, but in different places. For example, “…Sheets loved to imitate in the air the gesture he Gina Placek The MacDuffie School is a coeducational college imagined an abstract expressionist painter was making on a canvas. He would enact Past Parent preparatory school for grades 6 – 12. it to inhabit it, an actor’s grimace on his face as he stilled himself for precision of the Nina Metz brushstroke, hand raised, standing on his tip-toes.” (You can see the rest at: http:// Contact Alex Seymour, Director of Day Admissions, Current Parent and Past Co-President of opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/span-a-remembrance/) Parents’ Association at [email protected] for more information. I was very saddened to hear of his passing, and I hope that he is at peace.

Maria Aliberti Lubertazzi, Ph.D. ’88

To see the complete text of this Memoriam to Dr. Sheets, please visit the MacDuffie Alumni Facebook page.

In Memoriam…..

We fondly recall members of our community who have passed on. Pamela Pinckney DeFore McArthur ’55 of Spartansburg, South Carolina on July 31, 2013

Ann Colton Nussbaum ’59 MISSION of Essex, Connecticut on December 20, 2012 Patricia O’Koon Ernenwein ’61 of Newburgh, New York on August 12, 2013

The MacDuffie School is a rigorous college preparatory school Alison Brunell ’62 whose mission is to foster in all students the intellectual habits of Brooklyn, New York on July 24, 2013 of mind, high ethical standards and respect for diversity Gay Walsh Matteson ’63 required for becoming effective individuals in their personal of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts on June 5, 2013 and work lives and moral and responsible participants in the world beyond. Skyler Anderson-Coughlin ’15 of Springfield, MA on November 10, 2013 15 Amity Murray Spiegel University) and Ho Wing (Maggie) Wang Currently living in Fort Greene Brooklyn with ’07 (back to work in Hong Kong), Sai Ka Greetings from the Head of School husband Mike (just celebrating our eighth (Kathy) Lam ’05 and Sze Hau (Shelly) anniversary) and son Cole (3) who keeps me Tso ’05 (currently working in Hong Kong). Last year’s magazine focused on introducing alumni to the new MacDuffie campus in busy and active! I work as an esthetician at Granby. There have been myriad changes to the physical plant this year, including new Soho Sanctuary which I love, as well as doing ’07 roofs, two new ramps for accessibility, a new chemistry lab, and renovated and enlarged some mom blogging at New York Family.com. Amanda Keating spaces for art, music, dance and theatre. All told, we have spent $1.725 million on Latest blog took me to New York Fashion Week! 6 years (what?!) out of MacDuffie, and I’m capital improvements to the property since we moved here in July, 2011. I would love to hear from anyone from class of currently living in New York City with two close 1995 and hope we can see each other soon! friends and a cat named Maggie. I’ve been What are the results of these changes? You might say that “the more things change, the http://www.newyorkfamily.com/glam-mom-hair/ focusing on my playwriting career and have more they stay the same.” We have expanded opportunities for our students, and they produced a couple of my plays in Manhattan ’96 still receive the same excellent educational experience, within a caring community, for (“Roast” in photo) and Brooklyn. I also work which MacDuffie is renowned. Tasha Thompson Hillery for an arts non-profit, Fractured Atlas, helping Amanda Keating I’m currently living in West Chester, PA with artists with the logistical burdens of producing Orlando on vacation. Hope everyone is doing We have also instituted the “Head’s CIRCLE awards”. We use the acronym CIRCLE to my husband Tony, son TJ (5) and daughter their work. The major defining feature of my well and staying safe. capture and communicate the values that we seek to instill in our students: Community, new-found urban pseudo-adulthood? How Samantha (2). Integrity, Respect, Creativity, Leadership, and Excellence. The awards recognize Junior much time (and money) I spend on finding ’10 students who exemplify these values, and their names are engraved on plaques that ’03 (and probably not cooking) food. Cheers! Nina Lassonnier Hope my fellow alums are all well. hang outside my office. Tadd Lyman Some great news! I will be graduating from Tadd is a Captain in the 82nd Airborne college in May 2014 and already have a job This year, when we climbed Mount Holyoke as a community and returned to MacDuffie Benjamin Rosen stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC. He will begin lined up to work as an engineer at Cummins Inc. I’m currently living in Los Angeles, and after to engage in the tradition of Candlelight, our student leaders focused on the theme of his second deployment to Afghanistan in in Columbus, Indiana. [email protected] working successfully for a talent management “Difference”. We are a School that embraces diversity and respects differences. At the December, and on November 2nd Tadd company here, I’m leaving to shoot an original end of the ceremony, when we are standing in a single circle, each holding a lit candle, celebrated his marriage to his wife Lauren in a ’11 short film and web series pilot. With four close ceremony in the Cadet Chapel at West Point. we form one indivisible unit, with tighter bonds because of our differences. friends I’ve also just started a sketch comedy Brian Magnier group called “Love Ronny” releasing new I’m a junior at Cornell, studying “Ecology and I hope that you still feel as much a part of the MacDuffie circle today as ever. It is my online material weekly. Evolutionary Biology” and doing lab work true hope that this Alumni Magazine will help in a small way to rekindle the flame of the for a post doc researching thermoregulatory great memories, friends and education you received at The MacDuffie School. Heather Wilson adaptations of Red Squirrels. I hope to do Hello everyone! I can’t believe it’s been some of my own research soon, and to over five years since I graduated from go to Alaska for six weeks this summer. Sincerely, MacDuffie. Now I have a degree in Hospitality Last summer I was an intern working at the Management: Theme Park Management Southwestern Research Station in Portal, AZ. from the University of Central Florida and am In my spare time, two friends, also there from Steven Griffin living in Orlando, working as a Team Leader Cornell, and I took video of all kinds of wildlife at Universal Orlando. On a trip to California for a possible nature documentary we’re in May with my family, my fiancé Michael putting together this year. After AZ, I took a proposed to me in Disneyland! We’re planning course on Marine Invertebrates at Shoals a January 2015 wedding at Walt Disney World. Marine Laboratory in Maine, an island run by From time to time I see alumni who travel to Cornell and UNH.

Che (Frank) Kuo ’06

Che (Frank) Kuo My hobby in oil painting still remains, as I paint to relax every summer in Taiwan. Here is a piece I did this summer; hope you like it. “The new school is beautiful. I was there in October and toured all over. If you are in the area, make a point of I still talk to some Ames Hill friends, Jung-Il going there. It is a new home for MacDuffie, but the values are the same as always.” Carole Rund Robinson ’58 (Jack) Lee ’07 (formerly of Castle House and currently attending NYU), Yuen Ling (Elaine) Ng ’06 (currently working for Goldman Sachs in Utah), Ho Yip (Sunny) Wang ’08 (Senior year in Penn State Heather Wilson Cover, L to R: Seniors Magdalene Taylor, Naomi Phelps, Kimberly Jones, Jessica Schwartz and Kitty Carbon.

14 3 Heroine of 2012. The award was presented at Alumni News the State House in Boston on May 16, 2012. Unsung Heroines are “women who don’t make 2013 Alumni Awards the news, but they make the difference. They are the women who use their time, talent and Kay Simpson ’76, Vice President of the Springfield Museums, was the recipient of the 2013 MacDuffie Distinguished enthusiasm to enrich the lives of others and Alumni Award. Kay holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M. Ed. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. make a difference in their neighborhoods, During more than 25 years with the Springfield Museums, Kay has served as Director of Museum Education and cities and towns.” My nomination was for my Institutional Advancement, supervised the Museums’ adult, school, and family programs, overseen the Development Office work in Massachusetts with the American and spearheaded innovative exhibitions. We were proud to present Kay with the Distinguished Alumni Award and have her Cancer Society where I serve as the State as guest speaker at an all school assembly last spring. Vice President for Development. I also want to say that it has been wonderful connecting with old MacDuffie friends on Facebook, and I look forward to coming out to see the new Marta Maleck ’06 skyped in to a May assembly to speak to the MacDuffie community and to receive campus soon. the 2013 Young Alumni Award. Marta works for AmeriCorp in New Orleans helping to rebuild housing ’93 and infrastructure after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Starting out in prestigious NYC fashion Tracie Gardner houses after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Marta changed course to pursue a life Amy Royal of service. advocate on health access and social justice ’87 I was recently featured as the cover story in issues. Work at a great public interest law Lioness Magazine, a national magazine for Her message to students is not to be afraid to change their path along the way. Doing well personally Tracy Rau and advocacy organization for which I happily female entrepreneurs. Still heading up Royal LLP, and in the community merits consideration as much as being successful professionally. Graduated from UMASS Boston in 1994 and don’t need a law degree! Got married, got Suffolk University Law School in 1999 and a boutique, management-side labor and divorced. Had 2 fantastic boys, Caleb and married Christopher D’Errico the same year. employment law firm in Northampton, MA, rep- Elijah now age 17 and 12. I am in touch with We moved to Las Vegas in 2000 and have lived resenting businesses throughout the Northeast. MANY MacDuffie alums: it is the best thing Torrey Joyner ’07 here ever since, but reckon I’ll always think of [email protected], www.royalllp.com about Facebook. Picture is my original crew Boston as “home”. I was a partner at a large Inspiring Assembly Speaker at MacDuffie: me, Lisa Casey Joyner, Dawn litigation firm for almost 10 years, and in May of ’95 Marshall Williams, Donna Grandison and 2012, with a dear friend, I opened my own firm, Torrey Joyner ’07 returned as the guest Torrey posed a fourth question. “What are you doing to get there?” Debbie Duncan – all ’83 alums. Kerrie McKinstry-Jett speaker for a Friday morning assembly He shared that he wants to be a school superintendent, and talked Karris Rau, LLPC, which involves all aspects of I’m currently teaching at Westfield State litigation with a focus on domestic relations law. last March. A star on the basketball court of the character and drive he’ll need to be successful. “What is your Ann Jim University & Manchester Community College I appreciate the freedom that comes with my and tutoring. My wonderful guy, Christopher and a respected and well-liked citizen both handicap?” he asked. Still in a wheelchair, Torrey asked what people In June I became a Certified Government own practice but am still working on perfecting Jett, and I got married at the Log Cabin in in and out of the classroom at MacDuffie, thought his handicap is. To Torrey his wheelchair is not a barrier Accountant (CGA) for Merrimac, MA. where the administrative tasks. Still married, no kids. Holyoke August 4, 2013. The day was beautiful, Torrey graduated from Emmanuel College preventing him from what he wants to achieve, and therefore is not a I’ve been the town’s accountant and IT I stay in touch with some of my MacD friends and everyone had a great time. Elena and planned to pursue a Master’s degree at handicap to meeting his goals. He asked students to look deep into coordinator since 2007. In September I spent on facebook and had the pleasure of visiting (Hovagimian) Shannon ’95 was one of my Columbia University. themselves to discover what prevents them from meeting their goals. two weeks traveling in Hong Kong, Malaysia with Sarah Wilkins Bagley ’87 and Liz bridesmaids. Chris and I are living in our condo and Singapore. Last spring my son, Thomas A serious illness struck Torrey in 2012, and he was hospitalized for Torrey later followed up with advisee groups to reflect on his five Goodnow ’87 during an east coast trip in in Agawam with our cat, Merrill, and we could Wing Ho Mitchell, graduated from St. John’s several months. He’s made great strides on his road to recovery, questions as an important component in our Advising Program’s Path June, and with Leslie Chehade Pitt ’87 in not be happier. Well, OK, I’d be happier if these Preparatory in Danvers, MA, and he started at and we were honored to have him visit MacDuffie and to share his September. [email protected] stacks of labs would grade themselves. to Excellence. Georgetown University in September. experience with the community. Many thanks to Torrey and our best wishes for a full and speedy Caris “Katie” Thornton Drury Torrey first asked three questions, urging us to look deep inside ’86 recovery as well as success in achieving his personal goals. Come After years of commuting back and forth, ourselves for answers. “Who do you think you are?” “Who are you?” back soon! Judy McComb we have decided to move to Bermuda on a “Who do you want to be?” He challenged and encouraged us to set 2012 was a tremendous year of growth for full time basis. My son Will started college at personal goals. me – I lost a job I loved when the company Mitchell College in New London, CT, and my closed, I started over in a new industry, daughter started year 11 at Bermuda High lost my brother, my relationship of 15 years School for Girls. It’s been an adjustment, 2012 Alumni Cheer on Mustangs disintegrated, and my wonderful greyhound but we’re settling in. Would love to host Among the fans cheering on the MacDuffie Mustangs at an October died from cancer. I really didn’t think I could an alumnae gathering or help recruit new students! 45 Lolly’s Well Rd Smith FL06 Varsity Soccer match at Watkinson School this season were go on, but I picked myself up, dusted myself off, and found more inner strength than I knew Bermuda 441.533.7390 Vitor Campos ’12 and Robin Chen ’12. Vitor is from Brazil and is I had. Reconnecting with old friends from currently a sophomore at the University of Hartford, and Robin hails MacDuffie on Facebook has been a wonderful ’88 from China and is attending Trinity College nearby. Their former blessing, and there are many little things to classmates’ enthusiastic support spurred the Mustangs on to a Kelli Barry celebrate every day. 10 – 0 victory over Watkinson and meant a great deal not only to the I wanted to share that I was selected as a team, but also to coach, Meirion George. Go Mustangs! Commission in the Status of Women, Unsung Kerrie McKinstry-Jett

4 13 ’69 Nohra Haime Gallery in NYC and the NH Graham (age 2), who will be joined by another Gallery in Cartagena, Colombia, as well as at in March. I love being Granny! Son Nick lives Ruth Sanderson Faculty Feature the Lucky Street Gallery in Key West, Florida. in Rochester, MI, and is a web/video game I’ve illustrated over 80 books during my I’ll be teaching at the Art Student’s League, designer working in the automotive industry career as a children’s book illustrator and NYC next summer and giving a lecture about and involved with volunteers reclaiming have an upcoming solo exhibition of fairy Jan Hill Jenn Blackburn my travels with nomadic tribes for the Key abandoned Detroit parks for inner city families tale paintings from The Twelve Dancing West Library next February 24th. My next and kids. Daughter Lydia (in the Coast Guard, “Starting in a new environment can be exciting Princesses, Cinderella, and others at the exhibition, The Maiden Voyages Project is at stationed in St. Petersburg, FL) is married to and invigorating,” says Jenn Blackburn about Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA the Center For Book Arts in NYC October 4 – Austin Clary (also in Coast Guard, stationed At the end1 of last school year, Jan Hill retired after 27 years teaching her first2 year teaching English at MacDuffie, her from Nov. 23, 2013 - Feb. 23, 2014 (opening on December 13. Visit my website at valeriehird. in Seattle, WA). I look forward to seeing what English to untold numbers of MacDuffie students, almost all of them first private school experience, too. She’s taught Dec. 7th, 4-6pm). My newest book is “Golden com for more information. my classmates are up to! Don’t get back to now alumni, and certainly all of them enriched by the experience. at a number of public schools, most recently at Dreams, the Art of Ruth Sanderson”. Visit my Western MA very often, and miss seeing old Throughout her years at MacDuffie as teacher, advisor, Middle School Granby High School, and is originally from website www.ruthsanderson.com for more ’74 friends. Photo: (L to R) Nick, me, Ezra, Chris, Head, and Academic Dean Jan has always been a leader in developing Long Island. information. Sara & Lawrie multicultural, multidisciplinary and innovative curriculum to prepare our Midge Kruger Kra Jenn’s father was also an English teacher, and she remembers that students to participate as informed members of the world community. I never write these blurbs, but nearly forty ’72 ’78 every evening he shared a story about his day teaching. It was clear to years later it’s probably time to catch up. I In recent years, with the growth of MacDuffie’s international population, her that he was happy in his work. He loved books and discussing them. Leslie Bozigian Curtin graduated from Penn in ’77, got married two Tabi Freedman particularly from East Asian countries, Jan recognized that studying She’s glad she decided to become an English teacher, too, and loves I’m the Director of Nursing Services at weeks later and had three children in five I live in NYC and VT, and recently formed Asian literature would help both American and international students discussing books and writing with her students just as her father did. Southpointe Rehabilitation and Care Center in years. They are all grown and live in Israel. my own IT Consulting firm after spending 13 develop an appreciation and respect for each other’s cultures. So, she Fall River MA, and love keeping in touch with After attending Skidmore College for two years Jenn transferred Abby, 35, is married with four children; Yoni, years on Wall Street. Still have Weimaraners, decided to study the literature and the cultures that produce it far more classmates on Facebook. to SUNY Binghamton, but says she really missed the small school 32 is married with two sons; Daniel, 30, is a currently Remy (Remington Steele) who has extensively3 to learn how to integrate it into MacDuffie curriculum. She 4 community at Skidmore. “As a student,” she says, “it’s special to be able swinging single. David hopes to retire next done a few photo shoots and likes to open asked questions, researched, attended both the Indiana University ’73 to talk with and get to know teachers.” Having taught classes with up to year, and we’re planning a move to Jerusalem the refrigerator by himself. I’m still skiing, and program on “Teaching East Asia Literature in the High School” and thirty students in public schools, Jenn really enjoys the small size of her Joan Barnes Flynn where we’ve already found an apartment. teaching skiing in Southern Vermont, but have the Korean Academy for Educators in Los Angeles, participated in With three children and 6 grandchildren there, crossed over to Telemark Skiing, and have English classes here, and is already getting to know her students well. My creative writing workshop – Dune Hollow programs at the East Rock Institute affiliated with Yale University, Writers – is having an E-book published in where else would we go? I’d love to talk to old just become a member of the United States joined the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, and read a Jenn is also the Volunteer Coordinator and is “overwhelmed by how October by the Provincetown Public Press, friends. I’m on Facebook as Midge Kruger Kra. Telemark Ski Team, Eastern Region. great deal of Asian literature. She brought all that she learned directly much students want to get involved” at MacDuffie – in community titled “Shadow & Light: An Anthology of [email protected]. back to MacDuffie to inform and enrich World Literature curriculum, service organizations, clubs and other school activities. She also loves Poetry and Prose by the Women of Dune ’80 to share with teachers of other classes, and to make courses more the technology available to students and faculty here. “It is so easy to Hollow Writers”. It will be available on ’77 Susanna Betzel relevant to the international and American students in our classrooms. communicate with students via google e-mail!” Amazon, iBook and KoBo. We are very Clara Hayden Pinkham Just had my sixth historical novel published, Quite an undertaking. excited and hope everybody will check it out! Jenn “couldn’t wait for Candlelight and Mountain Day,” and now that Still living in Rochester, MI with husband, “The Executioner’s Heir: A Novel of [email protected] Jan imagines that “world literature is like a confectioner’s shop.” What Lawrie (Belmont Hill School, class of ’79). Eighteenth-Century France” which is the true she’s participated in both, we’re sure she’s had a proper MacDuffie a great image, and how like Jan to find the key that opens the door so Working for a local veterinarian, and at a story of a pair of tragic, converging lives in 5 welcome6 to our community. Valerie Hird weaving/knitting store (retail and teaching). prerevolutionary France. http://www.amazon. our students can enter and sample the sweets! And open their minds I’ve been an adjunct professor of art at Saint Kids are great! Oldest daughter Sara, married com/dp/B00EXPZQBG and hearts to new perspectives, to cultural understanding – to the Michael’s College in Colchester, VT for 13 to Chris Jones, living in Grand Prairie, TX world. years. As a fine artist I’m represented by the Peter Shelburne with the most perfect grandchild ever, Ezra ’81 “I’m glad I caught that last train” remarked a senior student on the last Peter Shelburne teaches Math at MacDuffie, Laura Bray Parent day of Jan’s Honors World Literature class. We are glad, too, that so coaches our championship Math Team, is the I enjoy living in central New York near my many MacDuffie students had the opportunity of having Jan Hill for parent of three MacDuffie students, and is also a mother. I’m employed at Upstate Cerebral their English teacher. We will all miss her and wish her well. playwright! and use my college degree dealing with autistic and handicapped children. I also work Recently, Peter wrote “Red State of Marriage”, in daycare teaching preschool children in which was performed last May in Northampton preparation for Kindergarten. I miss my father and Greenfield. from time to time as do my brothers and sister. 7 8 He spent most of the summer of 2012 writing and then editing the play ’83 in the fall, and said that “as a mathematician he was interested in the structure of the play.” It is written for just two actors playing multiple Tracie Gardner roles, with lightning-quick shifts of character, voice and costume. In the I graduated from Mount Holyoke as an first act, one actor plays a single character while the other actor plays English Major where I took a class from all of the others, and then in the second act, the actors switch. James Baldwin, was directed in a play by Suzan Lori Parks, and Maya Angelou was my Keeping his creative ideas flowing, Peter penned another original play, commencement speaker! I lost a childhood “Stealing the Packard”, performed in the summer of 2013 in upstate friend to HIV/AIDS in 1985 which became the New York. “Stealing the Packard” will also have a staged reading in Clara Hayden Pinkham catalyst for more than 20 years work as an Somerville, MA next summer.

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Mary Mallis Greendale Sandra Volanakis Hanson Still in Holliston and very active in the I have retired and been living in Sun City community, now producing two television Hilton Head, South Carolina for 5 years. shows on local access. Professionally I do My son Peter, his wife and my beautiful some freelance writing and also grant writing granddaughter, Alexa, now 22 months were for farmers and agricultural organizations in just here visiting from Colorado. Life is good! state. My grand-kids all live nearby except one who just started at UMass Amherst at ’65 the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. I think Andrea Pickett Brode he caught my passion for ag. The others are Dr. Andrea Brode is now Director of Student 14, 13, two are 12, and one 7. I see them Success and Career Development at often and enjoy having them as a big part of Beacon College in Leesburg, Florida. www. my life. I am happy, content and really just beaconcollege.edu. enjoying life. Hope all is well with my former classmates. Any word from Jane Thomee ’66 ’62 or Nancy Dion ’62? Nancy “Nan” Lewis Daughter of Nancy “Nan” Lewis Susan Aylward Brown Since 1966 I’ve lived from Cape Cod to Recently, Simone Bergeron McCarthy ’61 Jacksonville Beach, Florida. My career Alexandra Lewis, 44 and happily married, now and I met at the Tivoli Day Pancake Breakfast; began in marketing and PR in NYC, first in in her second career as a registered dietician. she recognized me first! Simone was with home furnishings/interior design, then in the “Lexy” had a mild heart attack in 2007 (age husband, Terry, and we shared quite a few entertainment industry, where I enjoyed many 38) and left a stressful job to get a second memories. She and her husband winter in years working with celebrities and touring bachelor’s degree and master’s in Nutrition. Florida, summer on Martha’s Vineyard where Broadway shows. After leaving Manhattan, She is lovely, and I am very proud of her (see Simone grew up and have nine grandchildren. I started Nancy Lewis Public Relations, now photo). I would love to connect with my two Last spring I studied for and passed the Entertainment Works, was PR Director of best friends at MacDuffie,Shari (Shelby) ServSafe Examination, required by our Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide (“RAW”), Horn Burnett ’66 and Janice Randall ’69. church’s certified kitchen for preparing and an international non profit, and rejoined the (904) 249-2523 [email protected] servng food to the public. The study skills that corporate world in Florida. were finely honed in Howard Hall were called ’68 forth from the depths of memory! In winter My heart “adventures” (3 heart attacks and the church hosts a weekly Community Supper 24 cardiac surgeries since 2008) prompted Hannah Gutfarb Mazer open to all on Martha’s Vineyard at no cost early retirement, but not giving up. I reopened Mike and I are still in DC; Annie lives in as part of our outreach ministry. Usually a Entertainment Works in 2012, and recently Boston and Bob, in San Francisco. MacDuffie celebrated the achievements of its one hundred twenty third graduating homebody, I’ve recently cruised with friends expanded to include an office in Belgium. Here’s a picture of my family: l-r Annie, class on Sunday, June 16, 2013. Though only the second year MacDuffie has held the in Maine – lobster was delicious, visited Single since 1989, I have one daughter, Hannah, Mike and Bob. grandsons in Connecticut, went to a reunion ceremony at Abbey Chapel on the campus of Mount Holyoke College, the site blends in Baltimore, MD, heading to Ft. Lauderdale beautifully with our long-standing commencement tradition. in November, and then plan to be back to the Florida Keys for my regular three months In honoring the diverse group of fifty four graduating seniors, Steve Griffin, Head of starting in January. Best to all. School, commented that “the Class of 2013 is well and truly on the path to excellence. This is an accomplished group, with a diverse set of interests – the fact that they share ’63

one thing first and foremost – a MacDuffie education, is an honor for our institution.” Stephanie Murray O’Shaughnessy “Some are returning home to complete their studies; some will travel the world. Some I would love to be in contact with old will study in select colleges across the country.” classmates again. I’m a full-time potter with 10 others at The Pottery in Galena, IL. Please go Graduating classmates chose Nikai Fondon and Shangzhe Dai, Student Body Vice to our website http://www.twentydirtyhands. President and President, to speak, and fellow seniors Eva Snyder and Joseph Lupa com for photos and information about our shared vocal performances. The Faculty Speaker Joan O’Brien, History Department Chair, work and Art Shows. I also teach occasional pottery workshops at Adamah Clay Studios and Guest Speaker Martin Miller, CEO and General Manager of New England Public in Adamah, WI, have two daughters and Radio, addressed the audience of assembled students, families and guests as well. am a grandmother of five AWESOME grandchildren! [email protected] Congratulations to the class of 2013!

Hannah Gutfarb Mazer

86 11 Class Notes Traditions Diversity Day Mountain Day and Candlelight ’45 ’53 three children, Shaun, Jessica and Danny, are all grown. Daughter Leanne, who went Nancy Bowman Blomquist Cynthia Crane Story to MacD, just finished a master’s in special Hi Classmates: The family has expanded from Still waiting for the Irving Picard/Madoff education, works in Amherst schools and 3 children (I lost one son) to 5 grandchildren to Claw-Back ax to fall, but mercifully they keep lives in Belchertown with husband Michael 5 great grandchildren, and they are! I’m doing postponing the trial. I still kayak on the Bay, and daughters Bridgette (12) and Morgan (3). okay as I live through the aging process as but no more getting tan and now wear an Daughter Debby lives in Amherst and works we all do. I’m 85 now. I have some very fond SPF suit. Husband, girls and grandsons all in sales at Hazen Paper in Holyoke. Jenny, memories of my 8 years at The MacDuffie well. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ Deb’s twin, lives in NH with husband Dave and School for Girls – yes, through the war years. CynthiaCabaretCrane keeps me in touch with children Savannah (16) and Shea (6). I graduated from UMass Amherst in 1949. I all so say hello! [email protected] married a senior co-student, Donald Blomquist We’re finishing up our Greenleaves project, in 1949, and my graduation gift to him was ’55 independent living for seniors. I keep busy Christina Louise now 63 and a Nana! It is Barbara Lennon Fleming with volunteer work, and our home overflows quite an adjustment when your “kids” become I was so lucky to be a recipient of such a all the time with family and friends. I would grandparents! My address is The Willows great education for three years at MacDuffie. love to hear from you. FYI… The new school Health Center, 101 Barry Rd #204, Worcester, I treasure those years, maybe more as I is beautiful. I was there in October and toured MA if you would like to reconnect. grow older. Dave and I celebrated our 50th all over. If you are in the area, make a point Mountain Day and Candlelight continue to be time-honored occasions to anniversary this past August and traveled of going there. It is a new home for MacDuffie ’46 welcome new students, faculty and staff into the MacDuffie fold, and as each to Maine for some time in Ogunquit at the BUT the values are the same as always. new year begins in the fall, they are etched anew in our collective memory. Priscilla Perkins Wilson Beachmere. Just loved it there! Ate out, [email protected] I am living in a cozy little house in VT my relaxed, read some books, walked the Music, dance, origami, world languages, guest speakers and international husband and I built as a vacation home. I have Marginal Way many times and visited friends. ’61 culinary delights. Diversity Day not only celebrates our differences, but We’re both retired, Dave from banking and three children and eight grandchildren. Prior Lonsdale “Lonnie” Torrey Snyder encourages us to share them with each other, so once again, our sense of to VT, we lived in Knoxville, TN where George I from teaching. Enjoyed those productive In May of 2013 I graduated from Phillips belonging in the MacDuffie community is reinforced each spring. was head of the science department at Webb years, but boy, it’s nice to retire, too! We were Theological Seminary with a Masters of A day without classes, fabulous. Sharing it together, priceless! School, and I taught in the Oak Ridge schools. blessed with four boys, seven grandchildren, Divinity Degree (MDiv). For several years I was a graduate teaching two great daughters-in-law. We’re busy doing assistant at the University of TN. We were charity work, gardening, exercising daily and Carla Rueckert McCarty pleased to have a visit there from Joanne traveling to see children and grandchildren. Teaching, counseling, channeling and doing Athletics Update Albrecht ’46 who was touring as the Mother research for L/L Research on paranormal Abbess with the Sound of Music. Genealogy ’56 subjects, especially ET channeling. Living in and gardening are favorite pastimes. I find Carolyn Bjorn Stringham Anchorage, KY with husband Jim McCarty George is probably a distant cousin of Ann Married Chuck Stringham on 9/28/11 in Ocean and three cats who are much beloved. Most Lansing ’46. Park, Maine and currently living in Salem, recent publications: Collected Poetry. Oregon, where Chuck is an ER doctor. Chuck ’49 took me to my senior prom at MacDuffie, Helen Cochran Dicke Jennifer Mead Hatcher and we were engaged to be married in 1960. Living in Hartland, VT with husband, Eric. I am living in Denver Colorado, a 3 minute Fifty one years later, the wedding took place. Teaching yoga; traveling most recently to walk from my youngest son Patrick, wife Between us we have 2 daughters, 7 sons, 6 Europe where we did some hiking. Congratulations to the 2012/2013 MacDuffie Pamela and 2 grandchildren, Wells, 8, and daughters/sons-in-law, and 12 grandchildren Boys Varsity Soccer and Basketball Teams! Barrett, 5. Two years ago I left Washington (counting steps) and another on the way... Life Ann Partlow The Mustangs created MacDuffie soccer history by finishing the season as New DC where my oldest son Christopher lives is a constant surprise! Living in New York, NY, in “green” stock England Class D Finalists, Western New England Class D Runners-up and winners with wife Jennifer and daughters, Caroline ventures and consultant to others in the same of the Western New England Class D Excellence and Sportsmanship Award! This and Courtney, both in their teens. I am very ’58 area. Traveled recently to Eastern Europe to lucky to be able to work painting in my studio follow interest in native folk dancing. was the second year running that the team has made it through to the post season, Carole Rund Robinson in downtown Denver. I work in oils within and they’re off to a another strong start this fall. All is well in our family. In December Dave abstraction yet always with a suggestion of Elizabeth Helsinger and I celebrate our 55th wedding anniversary. The MacDuffie Basketball team’s talent “out classed” their opponents in NEPSAC nature. Have a yellow Labrador who keeps me Professor and writer living in Chicago with Where has the time gone? Our children all Class D and had the opportunity to play “up” to Class AA last year. This affords the walking. Wish I lived closer to MacDuffie. husband, Howard. live within two hours of us. Son Jonathan Mustangs the chance to play more competitive Class AA teams and to attend some and wife Wendy are in Vermont, busy with his popular tournaments throughout New England as well. An exciting move up for the historical archiving and her travel agency; her Mustangs!

Best of luck to all of our Mustang teams in their 2013/2014 season! 10 7 New Science, Arts, and Athletic Facilities Students in the Spotlight

Madison (Maddie) Jung ’14 Daniil Kim ’14 Maddie is a six year senior from Stafford Springs, Daniil, whose family is originally from Korea, came CT. Her sister, Mimi, is also at MacDuffie in 8th to MacDuffie from his home in Moscow, Russia in grade. tenth grade. As a senior he’s taken on a leadership role as boarding prefect. He enjoys participating in Maddie plays soccer, loves Ms. Tomkiel’s AP Cross Country and Ultimate Frisbee, and is enjoying English class, wants to pursue nursing in college AP Physics, but says “it’s a really hard class”. and hopes to spend at least a semester studying abroad. While it was Daniil’s mother’s decision for him to leave Russia to She has already been recruited to play soccer and been accepted come to the United States for high school, he “goes with the flow”, by Converse College in North Carolina, but she still plans to apply to so he kept an open mind about what to expect. It was easy for him colleges closer to home. to adapt to MacDuffie, but he thinks that sometimes students arrive She was named Female Youth Soccer Referee of the year in 2012 by full of expectations that make it harder for them to adjust to a new the Northeast District of the CT Junior Soccer Association and refs for environment. soccer associations and tournaments in Enfield, Stafford Springs and Daniil will visit NYU with his mother over Thanksgiving break, and he’s Tolland, CT and in Burlington, VT. thinking of exploring agriculture and IT security in college. After 5 years as a day student, Maddie moved on campus to be a part “A really good experience” is Daniil’s description of MacDuffie’s of the boarding program for her senior year. She’s enjoying it so much boarding program. He enjoys being part of it and feels well prepared she “wishes she’d done it sooner.” Thanks to living on campus she’s for his next challenge – exploring the college experience. become closer friends with international boarding students and has encouraged other day students to make new friends and participate more in boarding life, too. Not only has Maddie enriched her own MacDuffie experience, but she has also taken a leadership role in CIRCLE Awards expanding the experience of her fellow MacDuffie students. CIRCLE Awards were made to rising seniors at Academic Convocation in June for the very first time last year. Students earn these awards by exemplifying MacDuffie’s core values of Community, Integrity, Respect, Creativity and Excellence. Kitwanie (Kitty) Carbon ’14 The 2013 CIRCLE recipients are: Community, Marianne Magnier; Kitty is the youngest of five siblings, all living in Integrity, Jiaching Liu; Respect, Yuguang Lin; Creativity, Chi Huang and the U.S., and she came to MacDuffie last year from Excellence, Caleb Shelburne. Dominica, a small island in the Caribbean. She Each year student award winners’ names will be added to knew her high school there would not provide the commemorative plaques hung in the main hallway at MacDuffie. opportunities she needed to attend a competitive Congratulations to our student 2013 CIRCLE winners! U.S. university. She expected MacDuffie to be bigger and to find it more difficult to make friends, especially starting in her junior year. She was pleasantly Math Team Has Winning Season! surprised, however, when on the first day of school a large group of students were “all in my room introducing themselves, asking questions and wanting to get to know me”. She felt welcome at MacDuffie from that first moment on. Kitty has excelled academically and embraced the life of the MacDuffie MacDuffie students, faculty and coaches are wasting no time this fall taking advantage of our brand new Chemistry Lab, Arts Wing community participating in volleyball and crew, working on tech for (spacious Dance, Music and Art Studios), expanded Little Theater, and outdoor Tennis and Basketball courts. New and enhanced dance concerts and plays, and volunteering for our Annual Run for classroom, arts and athletic facilities are vital to support the enriched educational and extracurricular programs that MacDuffie Hope. Kitty led a workshop on Caribbean music for Diversity Day takes pride in providing to students. last year, using the skills she developed studying both classical and Honored at a banquet sponsored by MassMutual in May, MacDuffie’s Caribbean flute music in Dominica, and this year she’s thinking about Math Team celebrated being the first place team in the Western Shop School Store! a workshop in Caribbean cooking. She is looking forward to taking Massachusetts Mathematics League for 2012/2013. The team received on more leadership roles this year, perhaps at the Run for Hope and a trophy and plaque with the names of previous winning schools, but Men’s silk club neckties and women’s large square silk scarves in maroon and white with the MacDuffie logo are available through School managing the basketball team. Deerfield Academy is the only other school to have achieved first place Store for $50 each, both of very fine quality. Holiday 3" ornaments, maroon with our logo in white, are $10. Tulane, Stanford and Lafayette are schools Kitty is considering since 2001. A real accomplishment for MacDuffie! Inventory also includes fleece scarves, flannel pajama pants, T and sweatshirts, pencils, lanyards, mugs…the list goes on! All feature the applying to, and she is thinking about a double major because she has “We had an experienced team with great kids, and everything went our MacDuffie logo proudly and most have a choice of maroon or white background. Great for children, grandchildren and alums! such varied interests – biochemistry, history, international relations, way. We just had an amazing year,” said Peter Shelburne, Math Team literature, traveling and volunteering among them. Most important to The Parents’ Association operates the store – a volunteer activity, and sells at School events throughout the year. To purchase an item, or for advisor. Congratulations to team members Ling (Kelly) He, Fan (Helen) her is not being isolated, but connecting to the world and making it a information, e-mail [email protected]. Proceeds benefit Parents’ Association fundraising. Zhou, Xinyi (Dela) Lin, Jiachang (Harry) Liu, Kehan (Thomas) Chen better place. and Bingyan (James) Ren and alternate Shangzhe (Jason) Dai.

008 009 New Science, Arts, and Athletic Facilities Students in the Spotlight

Madison (Maddie) Jung ’14 Daniil Kim ’14 Maddie is a six year senior from Stafford Springs, Daniil, whose family is originally from Korea, came CT. Her sister, Mimi, is also at MacDuffie in 8th to MacDuffie from his home in Moscow, Russia in grade. tenth grade. As a senior he’s taken on a leadership role as boarding prefect. He enjoys participating in Maddie plays soccer, loves Ms. Tomkiel’s AP Cross Country and Ultimate Frisbee, and is enjoying English class, wants to pursue nursing in college AP Physics, but says “it’s a really hard class”. and hopes to spend at least a semester studying abroad. While it was Daniil’s mother’s decision for him to leave Russia to She has already been recruited to play soccer and been accepted come to the United States for high school, he “goes with the flow”, by Converse College in North Carolina, but she still plans to apply to so he kept an open mind about what to expect. It was easy for him colleges closer to home. to adapt to MacDuffie, but he thinks that sometimes students arrive She was named Female Youth Soccer Referee of the year in 2012 by full of expectations that make it harder for them to adjust to a new the Northeast District of the CT Junior Soccer Association and refs for environment. soccer associations and tournaments in Enfield, Stafford Springs and Daniil will visit NYU with his mother over Thanksgiving break, and he’s Tolland, CT and in Burlington, VT. thinking of exploring agriculture and IT security in college. After 5 years as a day student, Maddie moved on campus to be a part “A really good experience” is Daniil’s description of MacDuffie’s of the boarding program for her senior year. She’s enjoying it so much boarding program. He enjoys being part of it and feels well prepared she “wishes she’d done it sooner.” Thanks to living on campus she’s for his next challenge – exploring the college experience. become closer friends with international boarding students and has encouraged other day students to make new friends and participate more in boarding life, too. Not only has Maddie enriched her own MacDuffie experience, but she has also taken a leadership role in CIRCLE Awards expanding the experience of her fellow MacDuffie students. CIRCLE Awards were made to rising seniors at Academic Convocation in June for the very first time last year. Students earn these awards by exemplifying MacDuffie’s core values of Community, Integrity, Respect, Creativity and Excellence. Kitwanie (Kitty) Carbon ’14 The 2013 CIRCLE recipients are: Community, Marianne Magnier; Kitty is the youngest of five siblings, all living in Integrity, Jiaching Liu; Respect, Yuguang Lin; Creativity, Chi Huang and the U.S., and she came to MacDuffie last year from Excellence, Caleb Shelburne. Dominica, a small island in the Caribbean. She Each year student award winners’ names will be added to knew her high school there would not provide the commemorative plaques hung in the main hallway at MacDuffie. opportunities she needed to attend a competitive Congratulations to our student 2013 CIRCLE winners! U.S. university. She expected MacDuffie to be bigger and to find it more difficult to make friends, especially starting in her junior year. She was pleasantly Math Team Has Winning Season! surprised, however, when on the first day of school a large group of students were “all in my room introducing themselves, asking questions and wanting to get to know me”. She felt welcome at MacDuffie from that first moment on. Kitty has excelled academically and embraced the life of the MacDuffie MacDuffie students, faculty and coaches are wasting no time this fall taking advantage of our brand new Chemistry Lab, Arts Wing community participating in volleyball and crew, working on tech for (spacious Dance, Music and Art Studios), expanded Little Theater, and outdoor Tennis and Basketball courts. New and enhanced dance concerts and plays, and volunteering for our Annual Run for classroom, arts and athletic facilities are vital to support the enriched educational and extracurricular programs that MacDuffie Hope. Kitty led a workshop on Caribbean music for Diversity Day takes pride in providing to students. last year, using the skills she developed studying both classical and Honored at a banquet sponsored by MassMutual in May, MacDuffie’s Caribbean flute music in Dominica, and this year she’s thinking about Math Team celebrated being the first place team in the Western Shop School Store! a workshop in Caribbean cooking. She is looking forward to taking Massachusetts Mathematics League for 2012/2013. The team received on more leadership roles this year, perhaps at the Run for Hope and a trophy and plaque with the names of previous winning schools, but Men’s silk club neckties and women’s large square silk scarves in maroon and white with the MacDuffie logo are available through School managing the basketball team. Deerfield Academy is the only other school to have achieved first place Store for $50 each, both of very fine quality. Holiday 3" ornaments, maroon with our logo in white, are $10. Tulane, Stanford and Lafayette are schools Kitty is considering since 2001. A real accomplishment for MacDuffie! Inventory also includes fleece scarves, flannel pajama pants, T and sweatshirts, pencils, lanyards, mugs…the list goes on! All feature the applying to, and she is thinking about a double major because she has “We had an experienced team with great kids, and everything went our MacDuffie logo proudly and most have a choice of maroon or white background. Great for children, grandchildren and alums! such varied interests – biochemistry, history, international relations, way. We just had an amazing year,” said Peter Shelburne, Math Team literature, traveling and volunteering among them. Most important to The Parents’ Association operates the store – a volunteer activity, and sells at School events throughout the year. To purchase an item, or for advisor. Congratulations to team members Ling (Kelly) He, Fan (Helen) her is not being isolated, but connecting to the world and making it a information, e-mail [email protected]. Proceeds benefit Parents’ Association fundraising. Zhou, Xinyi (Dela) Lin, Jiachang (Harry) Liu, Kehan (Thomas) Chen better place. and Bingyan (James) Ren and alternate Shangzhe (Jason) Dai.

008 009 Class Notes Traditions Diversity Day Mountain Day and Candlelight ’45 ’53 three children, Shaun, Jessica and Danny, are all grown. Daughter Leanne, who went Nancy Bowman Blomquist Cynthia Crane Story to MacD, just finished a master’s in special Hi Classmates: The family has expanded from Still waiting for the Irving Picard/Madoff education, works in Amherst schools and 3 children (I lost one son) to 5 grandchildren to Claw-Back ax to fall, but mercifully they keep lives in Belchertown with husband Michael 5 great grandchildren, and they are! I’m doing postponing the trial. I still kayak on the Bay, and daughters Bridgette (12) and Morgan (3). okay as I live through the aging process as but no more getting tan and now wear an Daughter Debby lives in Amherst and works we all do. I’m 85 now. I have some very fond SPF suit. Husband, girls and grandsons all in sales at Hazen Paper in Holyoke. Jenny, memories of my 8 years at The MacDuffie well. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ Deb’s twin, lives in NH with husband Dave and School for Girls – yes, through the war years. CynthiaCabaretCrane keeps me in touch with children Savannah (16) and Shea (6). I graduated from UMass Amherst in 1949. I all so say hello! [email protected] married a senior co-student, Donald Blomquist We’re finishing up our Greenleaves project, in 1949, and my graduation gift to him was ’55 independent living for seniors. I keep busy Christina Louise now 63 and a Nana! It is Barbara Lennon Fleming with volunteer work, and our home overflows quite an adjustment when your “kids” become I was so lucky to be a recipient of such a all the time with family and friends. I would grandparents! My address is The Willows great education for three years at MacDuffie. love to hear from you. FYI… The new school Health Center, 101 Barry Rd #204, Worcester, I treasure those years, maybe more as I is beautiful. I was there in October and toured MA if you would like to reconnect. grow older. Dave and I celebrated our 50th all over. If you are in the area, make a point Mountain Day and Candlelight continue to be time-honored occasions to anniversary this past August and traveled of going there. It is a new home for MacDuffie ’46 welcome new students, faculty and staff into the MacDuffie fold, and as each to Maine for some time in Ogunquit at the BUT the values are the same as always. new year begins in the fall, they are etched anew in our collective memory. Priscilla Perkins Wilson Beachmere. Just loved it there! Ate out, [email protected] I am living in a cozy little house in VT my relaxed, read some books, walked the Music, dance, origami, world languages, guest speakers and international husband and I built as a vacation home. I have Marginal Way many times and visited friends. ’61 culinary delights. Diversity Day not only celebrates our differences, but We’re both retired, Dave from banking and three children and eight grandchildren. Prior Lonsdale “Lonnie” Torrey Snyder encourages us to share them with each other, so once again, our sense of to VT, we lived in Knoxville, TN where George I from teaching. Enjoyed those productive In May of 2013 I graduated from Phillips belonging in the MacDuffie community is reinforced each spring. was head of the science department at Webb years, but boy, it’s nice to retire, too! We were Theological Seminary with a Masters of A day without classes, fabulous. Sharing it together, priceless! School, and I taught in the Oak Ridge schools. blessed with four boys, seven grandchildren, Divinity Degree (MDiv). For several years I was a graduate teaching two great daughters-in-law. We’re busy doing assistant at the University of TN. We were charity work, gardening, exercising daily and Carla Rueckert McCarty pleased to have a visit there from Joanne traveling to see children and grandchildren. Teaching, counseling, channeling and doing Athletics Update Albrecht ’46 who was touring as the Mother research for L/L Research on paranormal Abbess with the Sound of Music. Genealogy ’56 subjects, especially ET channeling. Living in and gardening are favorite pastimes. I find Carolyn Bjorn Stringham Anchorage, KY with husband Jim McCarty George is probably a distant cousin of Ann Married Chuck Stringham on 9/28/11 in Ocean and three cats who are much beloved. Most Lansing ’46. Park, Maine and currently living in Salem, recent publications: Collected Poetry. Oregon, where Chuck is an ER doctor. Chuck ’49 took me to my senior prom at MacDuffie, Helen Cochran Dicke Jennifer Mead Hatcher and we were engaged to be married in 1960. Living in Hartland, VT with husband, Eric. I am living in Denver Colorado, a 3 minute Fifty one years later, the wedding took place. Teaching yoga; traveling most recently to walk from my youngest son Patrick, wife Between us we have 2 daughters, 7 sons, 6 Europe where we did some hiking. Congratulations to the 2012/2013 MacDuffie Pamela and 2 grandchildren, Wells, 8, and daughters/sons-in-law, and 12 grandchildren Boys Varsity Soccer and Basketball Teams! Barrett, 5. Two years ago I left Washington (counting steps) and another on the way... Life Ann Partlow The Mustangs created MacDuffie soccer history by finishing the season as New DC where my oldest son Christopher lives is a constant surprise! Living in New York, NY, in “green” stock England Class D Finalists, Western New England Class D Runners-up and winners with wife Jennifer and daughters, Caroline ventures and consultant to others in the same of the Western New England Class D Excellence and Sportsmanship Award! This and Courtney, both in their teens. I am very ’58 area. Traveled recently to Eastern Europe to lucky to be able to work painting in my studio follow interest in native folk dancing. was the second year running that the team has made it through to the post season, Carole Rund Robinson in downtown Denver. I work in oils within and they’re off to a another strong start this fall. All is well in our family. In December Dave abstraction yet always with a suggestion of Elizabeth Helsinger and I celebrate our 55th wedding anniversary. The MacDuffie Basketball team’s talent “out classed” their opponents in NEPSAC nature. Have a yellow Labrador who keeps me Professor and writer living in Chicago with Where has the time gone? Our children all Class D and had the opportunity to play “up” to Class AA last year. This affords the walking. Wish I lived closer to MacDuffie. husband, Howard. live within two hours of us. Son Jonathan Mustangs the chance to play more competitive Class AA teams and to attend some and wife Wendy are in Vermont, busy with his popular tournaments throughout New England as well. An exciting move up for the historical archiving and her travel agency; her Mustangs!

Best of luck to all of our Mustang teams in their 2013/2014 season! 10 7 Commencement 2013 ’62 ’64

Mary Mallis Greendale Sandra Volanakis Hanson Still in Holliston and very active in the I have retired and been living in Sun City community, now producing two television Hilton Head, South Carolina for 5 years. shows on local access. Professionally I do My son Peter, his wife and my beautiful some freelance writing and also grant writing granddaughter, Alexa, now 22 months were for farmers and agricultural organizations in just here visiting from Colorado. Life is good! state. My grand-kids all live nearby except one who just started at UMass Amherst at ’65 the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. I think Andrea Pickett Brode he caught my passion for ag. The others are Dr. Andrea Brode is now Director of Student 14, 13, two are 12, and one 7. I see them Success and Career Development at often and enjoy having them as a big part of Beacon College in Leesburg, Florida. www. my life. I am happy, content and really just beaconcollege.edu. enjoying life. Hope all is well with my former classmates. Any word from Jane Thomee ’66 ’62 or Nancy Dion ’62? Nancy “Nan” Lewis Daughter of Nancy “Nan” Lewis Susan Aylward Brown Since 1966 I’ve lived from Cape Cod to Recently, Simone Bergeron McCarthy ’61 Jacksonville Beach, Florida. My career Alexandra Lewis, 44 and happily married, now and I met at the Tivoli Day Pancake Breakfast; began in marketing and PR in NYC, first in in her second career as a registered dietician. she recognized me first! Simone was with home furnishings/interior design, then in the “Lexy” had a mild heart attack in 2007 (age husband, Terry, and we shared quite a few entertainment industry, where I enjoyed many 38) and left a stressful job to get a second memories. She and her husband winter in years working with celebrities and touring bachelor’s degree and master’s in Nutrition. Florida, summer on Martha’s Vineyard where Broadway shows. After leaving Manhattan, She is lovely, and I am very proud of her (see Simone grew up and have nine grandchildren. I started Nancy Lewis Public Relations, now photo). I would love to connect with my two Last spring I studied for and passed the Entertainment Works, was PR Director of best friends at MacDuffie,Shari (Shelby) ServSafe Examination, required by our Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide (“RAW”), Horn Burnett ’66 and Janice Randall ’69. church’s certified kitchen for preparing and an international non profit, and rejoined the (904) 249-2523 [email protected] servng food to the public. The study skills that corporate world in Florida. were finely honed in Howard Hall were called ’68 forth from the depths of memory! In winter My heart “adventures” (3 heart attacks and the church hosts a weekly Community Supper 24 cardiac surgeries since 2008) prompted Hannah Gutfarb Mazer open to all on Martha’s Vineyard at no cost early retirement, but not giving up. I reopened Mike and I are still in DC; Annie lives in as part of our outreach ministry. Usually a Entertainment Works in 2012, and recently Boston and Bob, in San Francisco. MacDuffie celebrated the achievements of its one hundred twenty third graduating homebody, I’ve recently cruised with friends expanded to include an office in Belgium. Here’s a picture of my family: l-r Annie, class on Sunday, June 16, 2013. Though only the second year MacDuffie has held the in Maine – lobster was delicious, visited Single since 1989, I have one daughter, Hannah, Mike and Bob. grandsons in Connecticut, went to a reunion ceremony at Abbey Chapel on the campus of Mount Holyoke College, the site blends in Baltimore, MD, heading to Ft. Lauderdale beautifully with our long-standing commencement tradition. in November, and then plan to be back to the Florida Keys for my regular three months In honoring the diverse group of fifty four graduating seniors, Steve Griffin, Head of starting in January. Best to all. School, commented that “the Class of 2013 is well and truly on the path to excellence. This is an accomplished group, with a diverse set of interests – the fact that they share ’63

one thing first and foremost – a MacDuffie education, is an honor for our institution.” Stephanie Murray O’Shaughnessy “Some are returning home to complete their studies; some will travel the world. Some I would love to be in contact with old will study in select colleges across the country.” classmates again. I’m a full-time potter with 10 others at The Pottery in Galena, IL. Please go Graduating classmates chose Nikai Fondon and Shangzhe Dai, Student Body Vice to our website http://www.twentydirtyhands. President and President, to speak, and fellow seniors Eva Snyder and Joseph Lupa com for photos and information about our shared vocal performances. The Faculty Speaker Joan O’Brien, History Department Chair, work and Art Shows. I also teach occasional pottery workshops at Adamah Clay Studios and Guest Speaker Martin Miller, CEO and General Manager of New England Public in Adamah, WI, have two daughters and Radio, addressed the audience of assembled students, families and guests as well. am a grandmother of five AWESOME grandchildren! [email protected] Congratulations to the class of 2013!

Hannah Gutfarb Mazer

86 11 ’69 Nohra Haime Gallery in NYC and the NH Graham (age 2), who will be joined by another Gallery in Cartagena, Colombia, as well as at in March. I love being Granny! Son Nick lives Ruth Sanderson Faculty Feature the Lucky Street Gallery in Key West, Florida. in Rochester, MI, and is a web/video game I’ve illustrated over 80 books during my I’ll be teaching at the Art Student’s League, designer working in the automotive industry career as a children’s book illustrator and NYC next summer and giving a lecture about and involved with volunteers reclaiming have an upcoming solo exhibition of fairy Jan Hill Jenn Blackburn my travels with nomadic tribes for the Key abandoned Detroit parks for inner city families tale paintings from The Twelve Dancing West Library next February 24th. My next and kids. Daughter Lydia (in the Coast Guard, “Starting in a new environment can be exciting Princesses, Cinderella, and others at the exhibition, The Maiden Voyages Project is at stationed in St. Petersburg, FL) is married to and invigorating,” says Jenn Blackburn about Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA the Center For Book Arts in NYC October 4 – Austin Clary (also in Coast Guard, stationed At the end1 of last school year, Jan Hill retired after 27 years teaching her first2 year teaching English at MacDuffie, her from Nov. 23, 2013 - Feb. 23, 2014 (opening on December 13. Visit my website at valeriehird. in Seattle, WA). I look forward to seeing what English to untold numbers of MacDuffie students, almost all of them first private school experience, too. She’s taught Dec. 7th, 4-6pm). My newest book is “Golden com for more information. my classmates are up to! Don’t get back to now alumni, and certainly all of them enriched by the experience. at a number of public schools, most recently at Dreams, the Art of Ruth Sanderson”. Visit my Western MA very often, and miss seeing old Throughout her years at MacDuffie as teacher, advisor, Middle School Granby High School, and is originally from website www.ruthsanderson.com for more ’74 friends. Photo: (L to R) Nick, me, Ezra, Chris, Head, and Academic Dean Jan has always been a leader in developing Long Island. information. Sara & Lawrie multicultural, multidisciplinary and innovative curriculum to prepare our Midge Kruger Kra Jenn’s father was also an English teacher, and she remembers that students to participate as informed members of the world community. I never write these blurbs, but nearly forty ’72 ’78 every evening he shared a story about his day teaching. It was clear to years later it’s probably time to catch up. I In recent years, with the growth of MacDuffie’s international population, her that he was happy in his work. He loved books and discussing them. Leslie Bozigian Curtin graduated from Penn in ’77, got married two Tabi Freedman particularly from East Asian countries, Jan recognized that studying She’s glad she decided to become an English teacher, too, and loves I’m the Director of Nursing Services at weeks later and had three children in five I live in NYC and VT, and recently formed Asian literature would help both American and international students discussing books and writing with her students just as her father did. Southpointe Rehabilitation and Care Center in years. They are all grown and live in Israel. my own IT Consulting firm after spending 13 develop an appreciation and respect for each other’s cultures. So, she Fall River MA, and love keeping in touch with After attending Skidmore College for two years Jenn transferred Abby, 35, is married with four children; Yoni, years on Wall Street. Still have Weimaraners, decided to study the literature and the cultures that produce it far more classmates on Facebook. to SUNY Binghamton, but says she really missed the small school 32 is married with two sons; Daniel, 30, is a currently Remy (Remington Steele) who has extensively3 to learn how to integrate it into MacDuffie curriculum. She 4 community at Skidmore. “As a student,” she says, “it’s special to be able swinging single. David hopes to retire next done a few photo shoots and likes to open asked questions, researched, attended both the Indiana University ’73 to talk with and get to know teachers.” Having taught classes with up to year, and we’re planning a move to Jerusalem the refrigerator by himself. I’m still skiing, and program on “Teaching East Asia Literature in the High School” and thirty students in public schools, Jenn really enjoys the small size of her Joan Barnes Flynn where we’ve already found an apartment. teaching skiing in Southern Vermont, but have the Korean Academy for Educators in Los Angeles, participated in With three children and 6 grandchildren there, crossed over to Telemark Skiing, and have English classes here, and is already getting to know her students well. My creative writing workshop – Dune Hollow programs at the East Rock Institute affiliated with Yale University, Writers – is having an E-book published in where else would we go? I’d love to talk to old just become a member of the United States joined the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, and read a Jenn is also the Volunteer Coordinator and is “overwhelmed by how October by the Provincetown Public Press, friends. I’m on Facebook as Midge Kruger Kra. Telemark Ski Team, Eastern Region. great deal of Asian literature. She brought all that she learned directly much students want to get involved” at MacDuffie – in community titled “Shadow & Light: An Anthology of [email protected]. back to MacDuffie to inform and enrich World Literature curriculum, service organizations, clubs and other school activities. She also loves Poetry and Prose by the Women of Dune ’80 to share with teachers of other classes, and to make courses more the technology available to students and faculty here. “It is so easy to Hollow Writers”. It will be available on ’77 Susanna Betzel relevant to the international and American students in our classrooms. communicate with students via google e-mail!” Amazon, iBook and KoBo. We are very Clara Hayden Pinkham Just had my sixth historical novel published, Quite an undertaking. excited and hope everybody will check it out! Jenn “couldn’t wait for Candlelight and Mountain Day,” and now that Still living in Rochester, MI with husband, “The Executioner’s Heir: A Novel of [email protected] Jan imagines that “world literature is like a confectioner’s shop.” What Lawrie (Belmont Hill School, class of ’79). Eighteenth-Century France” which is the true she’s participated in both, we’re sure she’s had a proper MacDuffie a great image, and how like Jan to find the key that opens the door so Working for a local veterinarian, and at a story of a pair of tragic, converging lives in 5 welcome6 to our community. Valerie Hird weaving/knitting store (retail and teaching). prerevolutionary France. http://www.amazon. our students can enter and sample the sweets! And open their minds I’ve been an adjunct professor of art at Saint Kids are great! Oldest daughter Sara, married com/dp/B00EXPZQBG and hearts to new perspectives, to cultural understanding – to the Michael’s College in Colchester, VT for 13 to Chris Jones, living in Grand Prairie, TX world. years. As a fine artist I’m represented by the Peter Shelburne with the most perfect grandchild ever, Ezra ’81 “I’m glad I caught that last train” remarked a senior student on the last Peter Shelburne teaches Math at MacDuffie, Laura Bray Parent day of Jan’s Honors World Literature class. We are glad, too, that so coaches our championship Math Team, is the I enjoy living in central New York near my many MacDuffie students had the opportunity of having Jan Hill for parent of three MacDuffie students, and is also a mother. I’m employed at Upstate Cerebral their English teacher. We will all miss her and wish her well. playwright! and use my college degree dealing with autistic and handicapped children. I also work Recently, Peter wrote “Red State of Marriage”, in daycare teaching preschool children in which was performed last May in Northampton preparation for Kindergarten. I miss my father and Greenfield. from time to time as do my brothers and sister. 7 8 He spent most of the summer of 2012 writing and then editing the play ’83 in the fall, and said that “as a mathematician he was interested in the structure of the play.” It is written for just two actors playing multiple Tracie Gardner roles, with lightning-quick shifts of character, voice and costume. In the I graduated from Mount Holyoke as an first act, one actor plays a single character while the other actor plays English Major where I took a class from all of the others, and then in the second act, the actors switch. James Baldwin, was directed in a play by Suzan Lori Parks, and Maya Angelou was my Keeping his creative ideas flowing, Peter penned another original play, commencement speaker! I lost a childhood “Stealing the Packard”, performed in the summer of 2013 in upstate friend to HIV/AIDS in 1985 which became the New York. “Stealing the Packard” will also have a staged reading in Clara Hayden Pinkham catalyst for more than 20 years work as an Somerville, MA next summer.

12 5 9 10 Heroine of 2012. The award was presented at Alumni News the State House in Boston on May 16, 2012. Unsung Heroines are “women who don’t make 2013 Alumni Awards the news, but they make the difference. They are the women who use their time, talent and Kay Simpson ’76, Vice President of the Springfield Museums, was the recipient of the 2013 MacDuffie Distinguished enthusiasm to enrich the lives of others and Alumni Award. Kay holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M. Ed. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. make a difference in their neighborhoods, During more than 25 years with the Springfield Museums, Kay has served as Director of Museum Education and cities and towns.” My nomination was for my Institutional Advancement, supervised the Museums’ adult, school, and family programs, overseen the Development Office work in Massachusetts with the American and spearheaded innovative exhibitions. We were proud to present Kay with the Distinguished Alumni Award and have her Cancer Society where I serve as the State as guest speaker at an all school assembly last spring. Vice President for Development. I also want to say that it has been wonderful connecting with old MacDuffie friends on Facebook, and I look forward to coming out to see the new Marta Maleck ’06 skyped in to a May assembly to speak to the MacDuffie community and to receive campus soon. the 2013 Young Alumni Award. Marta works for AmeriCorp in New Orleans helping to rebuild housing ’93 and infrastructure after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Starting out in prestigious NYC fashion Tracie Gardner houses after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Marta changed course to pursue a life Amy Royal of service. advocate on health access and social justice ’87 I was recently featured as the cover story in issues. Work at a great public interest law Lioness Magazine, a national magazine for Her message to students is not to be afraid to change their path along the way. Doing well personally Tracy Rau and advocacy organization for which I happily female entrepreneurs. Still heading up Royal LLP, and in the community merits consideration as much as being successful professionally. Graduated from UMASS Boston in 1994 and don’t need a law degree! Got married, got Suffolk University Law School in 1999 and a boutique, management-side labor and divorced. Had 2 fantastic boys, Caleb and married Christopher D’Errico the same year. employment law firm in Northampton, MA, rep- Elijah now age 17 and 12. I am in touch with We moved to Las Vegas in 2000 and have lived resenting businesses throughout the Northeast. MANY MacDuffie alums: it is the best thing Torrey Joyner ’07 here ever since, but reckon I’ll always think of [email protected], www.royalllp.com about Facebook. Picture is my original crew Boston as “home”. I was a partner at a large Inspiring Assembly Speaker at MacDuffie: me, Lisa Casey Joyner, Dawn litigation firm for almost 10 years, and in May of ’95 Marshall Williams, Donna Grandison and 2012, with a dear friend, I opened my own firm, Torrey Joyner ’07 returned as the guest Torrey posed a fourth question. “What are you doing to get there?” Debbie Duncan – all ’83 alums. Kerrie McKinstry-Jett speaker for a Friday morning assembly He shared that he wants to be a school superintendent, and talked Karris Rau, LLPC, which involves all aspects of I’m currently teaching at Westfield State litigation with a focus on domestic relations law. last March. A star on the basketball court of the character and drive he’ll need to be successful. “What is your Ann Jim University & Manchester Community College I appreciate the freedom that comes with my and tutoring. My wonderful guy, Christopher and a respected and well-liked citizen both handicap?” he asked. Still in a wheelchair, Torrey asked what people In June I became a Certified Government own practice but am still working on perfecting Jett, and I got married at the Log Cabin in in and out of the classroom at MacDuffie, thought his handicap is. To Torrey his wheelchair is not a barrier Accountant (CGA) for Merrimac, MA. where the administrative tasks. Still married, no kids. Holyoke August 4, 2013. The day was beautiful, Torrey graduated from Emmanuel College preventing him from what he wants to achieve, and therefore is not a I’ve been the town’s accountant and IT I stay in touch with some of my MacD friends and everyone had a great time. Elena and planned to pursue a Master’s degree at handicap to meeting his goals. He asked students to look deep into coordinator since 2007. In September I spent on facebook and had the pleasure of visiting (Hovagimian) Shannon ’95 was one of my Columbia University. themselves to discover what prevents them from meeting their goals. two weeks traveling in Hong Kong, Malaysia with Sarah Wilkins Bagley ’87 and Liz bridesmaids. Chris and I are living in our condo and Singapore. Last spring my son, Thomas A serious illness struck Torrey in 2012, and he was hospitalized for Torrey later followed up with advisee groups to reflect on his five Goodnow ’87 during an east coast trip in in Agawam with our cat, Merrill, and we could Wing Ho Mitchell, graduated from St. John’s several months. He’s made great strides on his road to recovery, questions as an important component in our Advising Program’s Path June, and with Leslie Chehade Pitt ’87 in not be happier. Well, OK, I’d be happier if these Preparatory in Danvers, MA, and he started at and we were honored to have him visit MacDuffie and to share his September. [email protected] stacks of labs would grade themselves. to Excellence. Georgetown University in September. experience with the community. Many thanks to Torrey and our best wishes for a full and speedy Caris “Katie” Thornton Drury Torrey first asked three questions, urging us to look deep inside ’86 recovery as well as success in achieving his personal goals. Come After years of commuting back and forth, ourselves for answers. “Who do you think you are?” “Who are you?” back soon! Judy McComb we have decided to move to Bermuda on a “Who do you want to be?” He challenged and encouraged us to set 2012 was a tremendous year of growth for full time basis. My son Will started college at personal goals. me – I lost a job I loved when the company Mitchell College in New London, CT, and my closed, I started over in a new industry, daughter started year 11 at Bermuda High lost my brother, my relationship of 15 years School for Girls. It’s been an adjustment, 2012 Alumni Cheer on Mustangs disintegrated, and my wonderful greyhound but we’re settling in. Would love to host Among the fans cheering on the MacDuffie Mustangs at an October died from cancer. I really didn’t think I could an alumnae gathering or help recruit new students! 45 Lolly’s Well Rd Smith FL06 Varsity Soccer match at Watkinson School this season were go on, but I picked myself up, dusted myself off, and found more inner strength than I knew Bermuda 441.533.7390 Vitor Campos ’12 and Robin Chen ’12. Vitor is from Brazil and is I had. Reconnecting with old friends from currently a sophomore at the University of Hartford, and Robin hails MacDuffie on Facebook has been a wonderful ’88 from China and is attending Trinity College nearby. Their former blessing, and there are many little things to classmates’ enthusiastic support spurred the Mustangs on to a Kelli Barry celebrate every day. 10 – 0 victory over Watkinson and meant a great deal not only to the I wanted to share that I was selected as a team, but also to coach, Meirion George. Go Mustangs! Commission in the Status of Women, Unsung Kerrie McKinstry-Jett

4 13 Amity Murray Spiegel University) and Ho Wing (Maggie) Wang Currently living in Fort Greene Brooklyn with ’07 (back to work in Hong Kong), Sai Ka Greetings from the Head of School husband Mike (just celebrating our eighth (Kathy) Lam ’05 and Sze Hau (Shelly) anniversary) and son Cole (3) who keeps me Tso ’05 (currently working in Hong Kong). Last year’s magazine focused on introducing alumni to the new MacDuffie campus in busy and active! I work as an esthetician at Granby. There have been myriad changes to the physical plant this year, including new Soho Sanctuary which I love, as well as doing ’07 roofs, two new ramps for accessibility, a new chemistry lab, and renovated and enlarged some mom blogging at New York Family.com. Amanda Keating spaces for art, music, dance and theatre. All told, we have spent $1.725 million on Latest blog took me to New York Fashion Week! 6 years (what?!) out of MacDuffie, and I’m capital improvements to the property since we moved here in July, 2011. I would love to hear from anyone from class of currently living in New York City with two close 1995 and hope we can see each other soon! friends and a cat named Maggie. I’ve been What are the results of these changes? You might say that “the more things change, the http://www.newyorkfamily.com/glam-mom-hair/ focusing on my playwriting career and have more they stay the same.” We have expanded opportunities for our students, and they produced a couple of my plays in Manhattan ’96 still receive the same excellent educational experience, within a caring community, for (“Roast” in photo) and Brooklyn. I also work which MacDuffie is renowned. Tasha Thompson Hillery for an arts non-profit, Fractured Atlas, helping Amanda Keating I’m currently living in West Chester, PA with artists with the logistical burdens of producing Orlando on vacation. Hope everyone is doing We have also instituted the “Head’s CIRCLE awards”. We use the acronym CIRCLE to my husband Tony, son TJ (5) and daughter their work. The major defining feature of my well and staying safe. capture and communicate the values that we seek to instill in our students: Community, new-found urban pseudo-adulthood? How Samantha (2). Integrity, Respect, Creativity, Leadership, and Excellence. The awards recognize Junior much time (and money) I spend on finding ’10 students who exemplify these values, and their names are engraved on plaques that ’03 (and probably not cooking) food. Cheers! Nina Lassonnier Hope my fellow alums are all well. hang outside my office. Tadd Lyman Some great news! I will be graduating from Tadd is a Captain in the 82nd Airborne college in May 2014 and already have a job This year, when we climbed Mount Holyoke as a community and returned to MacDuffie Benjamin Rosen stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC. He will begin lined up to work as an engineer at Cummins Inc. I’m currently living in Los Angeles, and after to engage in the tradition of Candlelight, our student leaders focused on the theme of his second deployment to Afghanistan in in Columbus, Indiana. [email protected] working successfully for a talent management “Difference”. We are a School that embraces diversity and respects differences. At the December, and on November 2nd Tadd company here, I’m leaving to shoot an original end of the ceremony, when we are standing in a single circle, each holding a lit candle, celebrated his marriage to his wife Lauren in a ’11 short film and web series pilot. With four close ceremony in the Cadet Chapel at West Point. we form one indivisible unit, with tighter bonds because of our differences. friends I’ve also just started a sketch comedy Brian Magnier group called “Love Ronny” releasing new I’m a junior at Cornell, studying “Ecology and I hope that you still feel as much a part of the MacDuffie circle today as ever. It is my online material weekly. Evolutionary Biology” and doing lab work true hope that this Alumni Magazine will help in a small way to rekindle the flame of the for a post doc researching thermoregulatory great memories, friends and education you received at The MacDuffie School. Heather Wilson adaptations of Red Squirrels. I hope to do Hello everyone! I can’t believe it’s been some of my own research soon, and to over five years since I graduated from go to Alaska for six weeks this summer. Sincerely, MacDuffie. Now I have a degree in Hospitality Last summer I was an intern working at the Management: Theme Park Management Southwestern Research Station in Portal, AZ. from the University of Central Florida and am In my spare time, two friends, also there from Steven Griffin living in Orlando, working as a Team Leader Cornell, and I took video of all kinds of wildlife at Universal Orlando. On a trip to California for a possible nature documentary we’re in May with my family, my fiancé Michael putting together this year. After AZ, I took a proposed to me in Disneyland! We’re planning course on Marine Invertebrates at Shoals a January 2015 wedding at Walt Disney World. Marine Laboratory in Maine, an island run by From time to time I see alumni who travel to Cornell and UNH.

Che (Frank) Kuo ’06

Che (Frank) Kuo My hobby in oil painting still remains, as I paint to relax every summer in Taiwan. Here is a piece I did this summer; hope you like it. “The new school is beautiful. I was there in October and toured all over. If you are in the area, make a point of I still talk to some Ames Hill friends, Jung-Il going there. It is a new home for MacDuffie, but the values are the same as always.” Carole Rund Robinson ’58 (Jack) Lee ’07 (formerly of Castle House and currently attending NYU), Yuen Ling (Elaine) Ng ’06 (currently working for Goldman Sachs in Utah), Ho Yip (Sunny) Wang ’08 (Senior year in Penn State Heather Wilson Cover, L to R: Seniors Magdalene Taylor, Naomi Phelps, Kimberly Jones, Jessica Schwartz and Kitty Carbon.

14 3 Advisory Board The MacDuffie School In Memoriam: Dr. Harold F. Sheets

Wayne Brewer Magazine for alumni and friends Two years ago, after my mother’s funeral, I found out that Dr. Sheets had passed away Managing Director Fall 2013 around Halloween, 2010. I found out because I finally decided to search him out via the Internet, with a desire to contact him and finally let him know what an important Craig Brewer Steven Griffin, Head of School teacher and mentor he had been to me during my years at MacDuffie in the mid-1980s. Director Unfortunately I was too late. Diana Lyman ’66, Dean of Boarding Life and Dal Swain Alumni Relations For me, he was a non-traditional teacher of Spanish and U.S. History, who encouraged Director students go out on extensive limbs in the tree canopy of ideas that exists in any Valerie Fontaine, Administrative Assistant, Deans’ Offices Steven Griffin discipline, and yes—he taught rigorous courses. There are times when I am reminded Head of School EDITOR of certain “ah-ha” moments I had in his classes at MacDuffie. Perhaps the strongest Linda Keating ’65, Editor of these occurred when the issues of slavery and civil rights came up in U.S. History. Thomas Addicks former Director of Admissions Among other things, he had gone south during college in the 1960s and participated Assistant Head of School in peaceful aspects of the civil rights movement. But what had the most impact on PHOTOGRAPHY Carole Bielizna me was that he presented some basic ideas of cross-cultural misunderstanding and Gabriel Cooney Business Manager miscommunication, including what is now understood to be psychological phenomena Beth Reynolds like bullying, oppression and post-traumatic stress disorder, which played roles in the David Denno Chi Huang ’14 centuries of this difficult theme in our history. This hit me like a ton of bricks. It made History and English Teacher Linda Keating ’65 so much sense to me then (and now), but I am continually surprised by how this is not Timothy Duff PLEASE CONTACT US realized or understood by some folks, even today. Headmaster, Pioneer Valley Christian The MacDuffie School Magazine School, Springfield MA Attn: Valerie Fontaine Beyond the sphere of teaching, I felt a trusting, supportive bond—and friendship—with The MacDuffie School Dr. Sheets. When hearing of his passing, I also found an article in The New York Times Danielle Williams 66 School Street that was written for him by a high school student of his before he came to MacDuffie, Dr. Class of 1994 Granby, MA 01033 Mark Dow. His words were so deep that I practically lost my balance; and it was clear 413-255-0000 Leslie Pitt Chehade that Dr. Sheets had been a mentor to him, as well. I could not believe how similar were Class of 1987 Or e-mail: [email protected] some of the memories we both had of Dr. Sheets as an inspiring high school teacher, but in different places. For example, “…Sheets loved to imitate in the air the gesture he Gina Placek The MacDuffie School is a coeducational college imagined an abstract expressionist painter was making on a canvas. He would enact Past Parent preparatory school for grades 6 – 12. it to inhabit it, an actor’s grimace on his face as he stilled himself for precision of the Nina Metz brushstroke, hand raised, standing on his tip-toes.” (You can see the rest at: http:// Contact Alex Seymour, Director of Day Admissions, Current Parent and Past Co-President of opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/span-a-remembrance/) Parents’ Association at [email protected] for more information. I was very saddened to hear of his passing, and I hope that he is at peace.

Maria Aliberti Lubertazzi, Ph.D. ’88

To see the complete text of this Memoriam to Dr. Sheets, please visit the MacDuffie Alumni Facebook page.

In Memoriam…..

We fondly recall members of our community who have passed on. Pamela Pinckney DeFore McArthur ’55 of Spartansburg, South Carolina on July 31, 2013

Ann Colton Nussbaum ’59 MISSION of Essex, Connecticut on December 20, 2012 Patricia O’Koon Ernenwein ’61 of Newburgh, New York on August 12, 2013

The MacDuffie School is a rigorous college preparatory school Alison Brunell ’62 whose mission is to foster in all students the intellectual habits of Brooklyn, New York on July 24, 2013 of mind, high ethical standards and respect for diversity Gay Walsh Matteson ’63 required for becoming effective individuals in their personal of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts on June 5, 2013 and work lives and moral and responsible participants in the world beyond. Skyler Anderson-Coughlin ’15 of Springfield, MA on November 10, 2013 15 Prsrt Stnd The MacDuffie School U.S. Postage 66 School Street PAID Granby, MA 01033 Hartford CT Permit #2346

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MacDuffie Student Performers present The MacDuffie Theater presents Winter Music & Dance Concert Spring Musical Play Friday, December 13 at 7:00 p.m. TBA

Admissions Open Houses Friday & Saturday, February 28 & March 1 Come for a tour of the Granby Campus. Performances at 7:30 p.m. Meet current students and faculty. Sunday, March 2 Sundays 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Admissions & Alumni Reception at 2:00 p.m. January 12, February 9 Matinee Performance at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Contact us to reserve complimentary matinee tickets. Speaker Series “Pig Latin, Ubbi-Dubbi, & the Cat’s Elbow: Secret Saturday, April 26 Languages as a Window on the Human Mind” MacDuffie’s John McCarthy, Professor, UMass Amherst 3rd Annual 5K Run Thursday, November 21, 7:00 p.m. International Student Festival “On Studying Film” Alumni Reunion Robin Blaetz, Professor, Mount Holyoke College and Tuesday, December 10, 7:00 p.m. Spring Music Concert “The Future of Healthcare & the Evolving Roles Contact us or visit our website for details. of Nurse Practitioners & Physicians Assistants” Robert Russell, Tufts University School of Medicine Tuesday, January 21, 7:00 p.m. Visit www.macduffie.org for the current season’s athletic schedule. The MacDuffie School The MacDuffie School magazine for alumni and friends Save the date! Reunion 2014 Saturday, April 26 Alumni News Watch for details coming soon on our website, Facebook page and in the mail. Faculty Feature Facilities Improvements Nominations are open for 2014 Distinguished Alumni and Young Alumni Awards. Student Spotlight Please contact Valerie Fontaine ([email protected]) or Dina Lyman (dlyman@ macduffie.org) with names of alums you would like to nominate. Commencement 2013 Traditions We look forward to seeing you at Reunion 2014! 00 Volume 5 Issue 1 Fall 2013 Athletics Update 00 www.macduffie.org (413) 255-0000 The MacDuffie School (413) 467-1607 fax Excellence in Education Since 1890 66 School Street Head of School Granby, MA 01033

친애하는 맥더피 동문 및 학부모 님 귀하, 친애하는 맥더피 동문 및 학부모 님 귀하, 저의 임기 3년 동안 처음으로 학교발전을 위한 기부를 청원합니다. 저의 임기 3년 동안 처음으로 학교발전을 위한 기부를 청원합니다. 저는 동문 및 학부모님들께서 맥더피 스쿨이 새로운 장소로 이전해서도 학교의 설립목적 저는과 전통을 동문 및여전히 학부모님들께서 계승할 것인지를 맥더피 확인할 스쿨이 수 새로운 있는 시간이 장소로 필요하시다고이전해서도 학교의 믿었기 설립목적 때문에 과여태까지 전통을 기부요청을 여전히 계승할 미루어 것인지를 왔습니다. 확인할 수 있는 시간이 필요하시다고 믿었기 때문에 여태까지 기부요청을 미루어 왔습니다. 맥더피 스쿨은 비 영리 단체가 아니므로 여러분의 기부금에 대한 세금공제 혜택은 없습 맥더피니다. 그러나, 스쿨은 여러분의 비 영리 단체가기부금은 아니므로 궁극적으로 여러분의 맥더피 기부금에 동문들에게 대한 혜택을 세금공제 가져다 혜택은 주게 없습 될 니다.것입니다. 그러나, 즉, 자랑할만한여러분의 기부금은 수준의 학교 궁극적으로 수업 제공, 맥더피 현재의 동문들에게 학교 위상을 혜택을 보다 가져다 더 향상시키 주게 될 것입니다.고자 하는 즉, 노력, 자랑할만한 여러분들의 수준의 삶에 학교 차이점을 수업 가져온 제공, 현재의 사람들에 학교 대한 위상을 더 나은 보다 대우, 더 향상시키 그리고, 고자젊은이들을 하는 노력, 위한 여러분들의 발전적인 맥더피 삶에 차이점을 교육을 가능하게 가져온 사람들에 하는 모든 대한 곳에 더 요긴하게 나은 대우, 사용될 그리고, 것 젊은이들을입니다. 위한 발전적인 맥더피 교육을 가능하게 하는 모든 곳에 요긴하게 사용될 것 입니다. 지난 2년간, 맥더피의 재학생은 35%가 증가되었으며, 맥더피의 신규 캠퍼스에는 $1.725 지난million(약 2년간, 18.3억 맥더피의 원)의 재학생은 자금 개선이 35%가 있었습니다. 증가되었으며, 특히 맥더피의 예술, 음악, 신규 댄스 캠퍼스에는 및 드라마 $1.725 시설 million(약과, 테니스, 18.3억 농구 코트원)의 및 자금 화학실험실 개선이 있었습니다. 등 교육기반시설에 특히 예술, 집중적인 음악, 댄스 투자가 및 이루어졌습니 드라마 시설 과,다. 여러분의테니스, 농구 기부금은 코트 및 맥더피학교가 화학실험실 이런 등 교육기반시설에 긍정적인 변화를 집중적인 지속할 수투자가 있도록 이루어졌습니 도와 주게 다.될 것입니다. 여러분의 기부금은 맥더피학교가 이런 긍정적인 변화를 지속할 수 있도록 도와 주게 될 것입니다. 앞으로 기부금의 가장 큰 쓰임새는 새로운 강당과 예술회관 건립에 있습니다. 한편으로 앞으로는 수도와 기부금의 배수 기반시설도 가장 큰 쓰임새는 우선적으로 새로운 필요한 강당과 상황입니다. 예술회관 건립에 수도와 있습니다. 배수 기반시설에 한편으로 대 는한 학교수도와 재단의 배수 단기 기반시설도 투자약정금액 우선적으로 최소 필요한 $2million 상황입니다. (약 22억 원)은 수도와 여전히 배수 기반시설에투자가 이루어 대 한질 학교예정입니다만, 재단의 단기 여러분의 투자약정금액 기부금은 최소 강당 $2million 신축 프로젝트를 (약 22억 원)은 진척시키는데 여전히 투자가 큰 도움이 이루어 될 질것입니다. 예정입니다만, 강당 및 여러분의 예술회관이 기부금은 건립될 강당 이 복합건물단지는 신축 프로젝트를 현재 진척시키는데 설계단계에 큰 있으며 도움이 설계 될 것입니다.도면은 12월경에 강당 및 확정될 예술회관이 것으로 건립될 기대하고 이 있습니다. 복합건물단지는 현재 설계단계에 있으며 설계 도면은 12월경에 확정될 것으로 기대하고 있습니다. 이번 기회에 동문 및 학부모님들께서 맥더피 학교에 연례 기부 전통을 만들어 주시기를 이번앙망합니다. 기회에 동문 및 학부모님들께서 맥더피 학교에 연례 기부 전통을 만들어 주시기를 앙망합니다. 감사합니다. 감사합니다. 스티븐 그리핀 교장 스티븐 그리핀 교장

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아래 난에 동문님의 소식을 적고 사진을 함께 보내주세요. 맥더피 동문회 소식난에 올릴 예정입니다. 아니면, 교무주임 Valerie Fontaine의 이메일 주소, [email protected] 로 보내주시기 바랍니다. ______

＊저는 올해 맥더피에 $______를 기부하겠습니다. ＊앞으로 저의 기부일자를 매년 __월__일에 미리 알려주세요 ＊저의 기부는 아래 대상(V혹은 분할금액 표기)에 사용하여 ＊맥더피예술복합단지 설립 정보를 보내주세요(Yes__/No__) 주시기 바랍니다. ＊이 기부금은 세금공제 대상이 아닙니다 ______맥더피 예술회관 ______연례기부 ______기타(상세 기술바랍니 다)______＊동문 성명 ______＊기부금/약정금액 합계 $______＊졸업 년도 ＊이번에 동봉한 금액 $______＊기부금 전달 방법 ＊현 주 소 ① Money Order: 수신자를 MacDuffie School로 명기한 ______Money Order를 은행에서 구입하여 본 기부확인서와 함 ______께 동봉한 봉투에 넣어 보내주시기 바랍니다. _____ ② 신용카드결제(Visa/Mastercard) 시/군 - 신용카드번호: ______도/우편번호 ______