Science Studies at Horace Mann School A look at an educational experience that evokes exploration for a lifetime: students, faculty, and alumni reflect magazine Volume 4 Number 1 SPRING 2008 HORACE MANN HORACE SAVE THE DATE Saturday, September 20, 2008 HOMECOMING HOMECOMING • Alumni Association of Color Reception, Friday, September 19 • Varsity Athletic Events AND REUNION • Fall Frolic with special activities for families and children • Pep Rally Club Events CELEBRATION • Dan Alexander Alumni Soccer Game 2008 • Barbeque Luncheon on Clark Field and Campus Tours REUNIONS Reunion luncheons, cocktail receptions and dinners Classes of 1933, 1938, 1943, 1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003 For more information visit our website www.horacemannalumni.org or call 718.432.3450. Contentscontents 2 LETTERS 4 GREETINGS FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL 5 GREETIN G S F R O M T H E D I R E C T O R O F D EVE L OP M ENT 6 Science studies at Horace Mann School, from the Nursery Division through the Upper, encourage exploration. At Horace Mann School science is a vital part of the curriculum, as it has always been. Students in the youngest grades get their first sense of scientific exploration by investigating the world around them, learning to make hypotheses, and by performing The John Dorr Nature Laboratory provides students an outside-the-classroom basic experiments. As students travel through the opportunity for scientific exploration. (Photo John Dorr Nature Laboratory) Lower and Middle Divisions, scientific methods and procedures are added to their work, while projects and horace mann school journal experiments in the Science Center and at the John Dorr Nature Laboratory enhance the learning experience. In the Upper Division students become proficient in 30 NEWS OF THE SCHOOL lab work and scientific thinking, and scores undertake Center for Community Values and Action (CCVA) takes independent research and participate in research in action. HM’s Upper Division wins Blackboard Award. labs at hospitals and universities throughout New York Horace Mann School’s sports teams and publications City. Alumni from the Classes of 1935 through 2007 score wins. recall their experiences studying science, and prepar- ing through all of their HM courses to make significant contributions in medicine, space exploration, public horace mann alumni journal health, teaching, and scientific thought. 33 AlUMNI COUNCIL CORNER Alumni Council President Alli Baron ’89 reviews events of the year, and invites alums to participate in HMAC’s sixth-annual spring benefit on June 4, 2008, and more. Kristen Worrell joins Alumni House and Development Office as Assistant Director of Development, Alumni Relations and Special Events. 43 BOOKSHELF 46 ClASS NOTES 55 MEMORIALS 64 PhILANTHROPY AND YOU Class of 1988 alumni Joe Jacobson, Kendall Hines Rudy Reiblein, veteran HM science teacher and Upper and Middle Division Labora- Mallette, Robert Odell and Jordan Turkewitz join in tory Technician, observes the lab technique of Upper Division chemistry students. supporting HM’s Annual Fund. Cover photo by Ruth Seligman Horace Mann Magazine Spring 2008 1 Lettersletters Many thanks for the copy of the latest Horace Mann I hope the Chair in Foreign Language will generate Magazine, with the brief (but well-written!) book review of renewed interest and recognition of the essential role of Building the World. not just studying, but mastering a foreign language in the 21st century. My co-author, Dr. Kathleen Lusk Brooke, is equally ap- preciative of the review. Ken Browne ’68 Now in my 90th (!) year, I am pleased that the circum- stance of helping launch a book has put me back in touch And the Beat Goes on… as Horace Mann with a much-admired Alma Mater. Magazine discovers another alumnus in music Did you happen to come across books by Horace Mann alumnus Peter L. Bernstein ’36? His Wedding of the Waters and Against the Gods are true classics! An up-to-date list of Joshua Stedman ’94 books by HM alumni would be of very wide interest, and if it has already been compiled, I would like to be on the If you asked the DJ at the bar to mix up a glass of Stevie mailing list! Wonder, Sting, Seal and Jamiroquai you would be poured a sound-cocktail of Joshua Stedman. These four classic With grateful memories of my years at Horace Mann and influential artists are the recipe for the music-melting (in the Lower School too), and with best wishes for the sustenance of Joshua’s aura. His writing inspirations root impending Holiday season, from siren-laden Manhattan midnights and crisp, foggy Sincerely, San Fran mornings… a bi-coastal presence that enriches a set list of musical sculptings playing out the introspective Frank P. Davidson ’33 realities of life, the opposite sex, and society’s turbulent influences. A Martin acoustic guitar and classic soul Editor’s note: Wedding of the Waters by Peter L. Bernstein ’36 nuances unleash an elusive, deep, open-ended funky was noted in the Spring 2005 issue of Horace Mann Magazine. feel that underscores catchy melodic overlays. Joshua A listing of Horace Mann authors is updated periodically, and pulls influences from the beat-beds of James Brown to can be obtained from the Alumni House and Development Groove Collective, the soul-jazz riffs of Herbie Hancock to Office at [email protected]. Please notify the Alumni Jamiroquai and the vocal styles of Stevie Wonder to Sting. House if your book has not been noted. Joshua’s sound is woven from these jazz/pop/soul roots, merged with modern aural synergies, and accented by an assembly of chord arrangements with percussive right- I was pleased to read in Horace Mann Magazine that hand scratch guitar riffs and clav and Wurlitzer keys. Soul a Chair in Foreign Language was endowed in honor of Mr. inspired climbing melodies fuel bright, husky, story-telling Tom Reilly. I want my gift to Annual Fund this year to honor vocals that capture your ear from fade-in to fade-out. Mr. Reilly and the recent Chair dedicated in his name. Stedman recently released “The Gift”. His music can be Though I never had Mr. Reilly as a teacher, he was found at www.myspace.com/joshuastedman. always a friendly and encouraging presence to a student drawn to foreign languages as I was, beginning in First Form with the wonderful General Language course taught by John Oliver. That course was really an introduction Correction: to the whole world through the lens of language, and I was lucky to have Dr. Cuenca when I began Spanish the next year—one of many outstanding language teachers hired by Mr. Reilly. Today I can say I speak Spanish almost fluently, and feel like I live in two worlds here in bilingual NYC. I have even ordered sushi speaking Spanish! As a resident of Riverdale after graduating in 1968, it was always a pleasure to run into Mr. Reilly in a restaurant, a reunion, or elsewhere. He always remembered me and my The beautiful black and white etching entitled “The Life of the language studies. His dedication to Horace Mann has al- Mind” that was featured on the Contents page of the last issue ways impressed me, and while I admire all the “bricks and of Horace Mann Magazine was incorrectly described as the mortar” changes recently, I can’t help but think Tom Reilly work of Eric Sinclair ’07. The etching was done by Eric Salinger is one of the true “builders” of the preeminent institution ’07 as a gift to Horace Mann. It now hangs in the entranceway HM has become. to the Head of School’s office in Spence Cottage. 2 Horace Mann Magazine Spring 2008 HORACE MANN SCHOOL ChAIR EmERITI Stephanie Sladkus Peter Levine ’93 Dr. Thomas M. 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