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Sun Jie of China with classmates in Graduate School's International Studies Class.

INSIDE . .. • Teacher Education • Multicultural Perspectives • $1,000,000 NSF Grant • 25th Kindergarten Conference • College Provost Named • And More ... The Lesley College

Spring 1987 Current Volume XII, No. 3

Teacher Education for the 21st Century LesleyReceives National Science Margaret A. McKenna r-oundationAward

Task Force on Teaching as a Profes ­ tion's response is fragmented and Lesley is the proud recipient of a sion. Even for the seasoned veteran uncoordinated. $999,561 grant from the National who has pored over countless educa­ Federal programs like Head Start Science Foundation (NSF), a U.S. tional reform reports since Sputnik, the have been level funded or cut, and government agency that promotes current output of proposals seems over 2½ million children who are eligi­ research and education in science at unprecedented. ble for such programs are denied ac­ all levels of schooling. The award from What I would like to do is to step cess. And in many communities the influential agency will support back from the barrage of recommen­ schools are being asked to fill the void development of a model curriculum dations and take a look at the need by expanding their after-school pro­ for future middle school science and and prospects for change in how we grams and extending the school day mathematics teachers at Lesley. The educate the professionals who teach for kindergarten and nursery schools. program will be available for entering our children and in whose competence It doesn't take a prophet to recognize students in September. and success reside the future of our that these changes create new Nationwide a total of eight institu­ nation. Who are the children entering pressures on teachers, administrators, tions were selected (from an original our schools? What kinds of skills do and school boards. pool of 70) for NSF funding. The Student teacher supervised at placement site. their teachers need to have? How do One Massachusetts community we Lesley grant addresses that agency's we prepare teachers to face the surveyed listed almost 50 "desired "special concern" about the pivotal President McKenna gave the follow­ challenges of education for the 21st characteristics" for a superintendent. middle-school grades , a period when ing keynote address last fall on Cape century? They included such descriptions as lasting attitudes towards science and Cod at the 21st Annual Conference of All of these reports have a similar flexible, decisive, moderate, risk­ mathematics are formed in children. the Massachusetts Associations of point of departure: that our more oriented, tactful, and straightforward . Typically, educators agree, the migra­ School Committees and School technologically, politically, and In short, we're looking for someone tion of students away from science and Superintendents. economically complex world is produc­ who has the talents of "God on a mathematics begins in these early In April she was appointed to serve ing new demands on all levels of good day:' years. on the Massachusetts Boards of education. We have seen dramatic I'd add an additional qualification : Regents' and Education's Joint Task changes in our society. Our institutions Superintendents also need to be magi­ Force on Teacher Preparation . and their roles have changed. We look cians, able to produce new teachers different as a people. out of thin air. Nineteen eighty-four For the past four years education at The influx of women into the was the last year the supply of new all levels in the United States has workforce in the last decade has been teacher graduates met the nation's de­ come under intense scrutiny. Public dramatic . Over 52 percent of women mand . If present interest in teaching concern has been highly vocal, and are working full time, including over remains constant, in 1990 when the calls for reform have reached a fever­ half, or 20 million, mothers with country will be looking for one million pitch. We have been told we are a children under age six. We also are new elementary teachers, there will be "Nation at Risk;' and we have learned now beginning to see and will con­ a shortage of almost 350,000. to question the "Integrity of the Col­ tinue to be affected by a mini-boomlet Yet the current crop of reform lege Curriculum:' in pre -school and early primary studies provides little comfort to our More recently we have been grades. superintendents/magicians. The prob­ presented with three major national The number of families where both lem with the reports lies not with their studies on teachers: "A Call for parents work is increasing. In less than goals, which are laudable, but with the Change in Teacher Education;' a four years, 18 million more children gap between their rhetoric and the im­ manifesto by the National Commission will live in households where both mediate realities of the crisis at hand. for Excellence in Teacher Education; parents work full time. Over half the We all know that our current "Tomorrow's Teachers;' a report from children born this year will live in a teaching corps is aging - over 50 per­ the Holmes Group; and "A Nation single parent home before reaching cent of American teachers have 15 Linda Schulman, UG Division Head for Prepared: Teaching for the 21st Cen­ 18. Availability and quality of day care years of service or more. And almost Science. tury;' the report of the Carnegie Forum should be a top priority, yet the na- (Continued on page 2) President McKenna, when making the announcement, noted that the project "will create a model certification program for the College's Under­ Pamela Menke, Lesley'sFirst Provost graduate School." She added that "as a replicable national model, the project also addresses the critical demand for In January, Lesley appointed which we seek will be found at cam­ improved pre-high school science/ Pamela Glenn Menke as its first Pro­ puses like Lesley which have shown a math instruction." vost. Before taking the position, Dr. willingness to innovate, to blend theory Growing concern over current Menke was Director, Division of with practice, and to be responsive to school programs has recently Education Programs, National Endow­ the needs of students in society." prompted U.S. Education Secretary ment for the Humanities (NEH) in Prior to her tenure at NEH, Dr. William Bennett to call for a "revolu­ Washington, D.C. At NEH she was Menke served for five years as Provost tion" in such instruction. 'The Lesley responsible for nearly 15 million and Dean of Faculty and Professor of project," the President said, "is an affir­ dollars of grants to education, influenc­ Humanities at Colby-Sawyer College mation of the vibrancy of academic life ing that agency's contribution to the in New Hampshire. As Lesley's Pro­ in our nation's leading undergraduate educational reform agenda nationwide. vost, she will serve as chief academic departments of education:' She In welcoming her to campus Presi­ officer, overseeing its three schools - observed that national reports (by the dent McKenna noted that, "Dr. Menke the Undergraduate, the Graduate, and Holmes and Carnegie groups) which brings both academic breadth and Programs in Management for Business ignore the value of such programs are depth to her new assignments. She is and Industry - as well as other offices. "misguided:' Dr. Menke holds the M.A. and a seasoned administrator who has The major goal of the Lesley project Ph.D. in English from the University of championed educational excellence at is to develop a national model for both the institutional and the national North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her teacher preparation that gives signifi­ level:' academic research interests include cant attention to both content, For her own part Dr. Menke is en­ Nineteenth Century American thusiastic about her return to campus Literature and Southern American (Continued on page 2) life. "As we approach the year 2000 ;' Literature . She has been a consultant she observed, "the great challenge for to a variety of colleges and has lec­ America's colleges and universities is to tured widely on higher education find new paradigms for higher educa­ issues including curricular reform, tion in America ." She added , "Beyond personnel , management, and the role the reformer's rhetoric, the models of women in academe . Teacher Education for the 21st Century

Teacher Education meet these difficult challenges . There the major reform reports provide a suf­ has been far too little discussion in the ficient framework for change . (Continued from page 1) reports concerning the different means However , we need to create the necessary to educate secondary school magnets which will draw talented one-half (45 percent) of our teachers teachers and elementar y school students into the field and keep our say they probably (32 percent) or teachers or between preparing best teachers in the classroom . More definitely (13 percent) would not traditional-age students and returning scholarship aid, better salaries , better become a teacher if they could start adult -learners interested in the profes­ working conditions are needed . The again . sion . We should acknowledge that the nub of the problem comes down to Teachers are leaving the profession substantive knowledge and the allocation of sufficient resources : in droves ; and many of the ablest are pedagogical skills necessary to be a bodies and bucks . The reform reports the first out the door. One study of successful High School History teacher all tiptoe around the price tag, but we 437 Wisconsin high school graduates differ from those required of a suc­ all know excellence has its cost. Where who became teachers revealed that cessful Kindergarten teacher . Never­ will the money come from? over 40 percent had left teaching after theless , I do think that the current All of us are familiar with the declin­ five years . round of reports provides a catalyst for ing percentages of taxpayers directly In short , we face a serious teacher action that can benefit both schools involved with schools. In Massa­ shortage . Yet the weight of recent and colleges, and ultimately students . chusetts , only 17-20 percent have reform reports has been to devise new At the collegiate level, we've already school-age children . Nationally, I've screens to career entrance - without begun to rethink our objectives and seen statistics as low as 12 percent. sufficient attention to the magnets goals . At Lesley, these focus on Such statistics make successful new which will draw the best and brightest preparing students for a lifetime that bond issues unlikely. A century ago, Horace Mann , a into the profession . includes work and leisure, civic and State legislatures have come up with Massachusetts school superintendent , The reform reports offer much personal responsibilities, change and some new funds , but seem more in­ put the problem squarely : "In our useful data and valuable recommenda ­ growth . We believe students should terested in mandating minimal com­ country and in our times no man is tions. However , taken at face value, graduate possessing the skills and in­ petency measures which raise floors worthy of the honored name of the Holmes and Carnegie recommen ­ terest to continue learning, a sense of rather than ceilings. We know from the statesman who does not include the dations would either radically reduce civic responsibility, and a feeling of new corporate studies such as In highest practicable education of the the number of qualified new teachers , empowerment. Search of Excellence and people in all his [sic) plans of ad ­ or dramatically increase the number of Changemasters that excellence comes ministration ." "emergency certifications;' a situation through collective and collaborative ef­ In this election year, and in the we are already witnessing in high de­ " . . . no man is worthy of the fort fostered by creative and com­ presidential elections of 1988 , Horace mand areas such as science and math . mitted leadership . Prescriptive state Mann's yardstick provides a measure Reforming teacher education, in­ honored name of statesman who mandates which ignore these for the kind of leadership we need to creasing teacher salaries, establishing does not include the highest prac­ dynamics are at odds with the spirit of provide teachers and schools for the career ladders, these are all important excellence . 21st century . steps - long overdue . But if you ask ticable education of the people in At the federal level, the current na­ teachers who have left the profession tional administration has said that the or who are currently dissatisfied with all his [sic] plans of administration ." Science Award solution to our nation 's teacher crisis (Continued from page 1) their jobs what is wrong, these are not - Horace Mann will not be found by throwing money the primary factors to which they at the problem. Its favorite weapon is knowledge, and professional skills. The point . Rather , they talk about their lack rhetoric : Education Secretary William five-year project will develop : of autonomy in decision making , their We believe all graduates of Bennett has used his bully pulpit to • Content courses for pre-service isolation in the classroom , the be­ undergraduate teacher programs preach the gospel of self-reliance and middle school science and numbing and belittling bureaucratic should possess the following to take potshots at easy targets in the mathematics teachers which stress both what is taught and the ways in tasks that take up too much of the competencies: field. For over five years the blaming school day, reducing time spent on in­ • a high degree of literacy: reading, brigades have been out in force and all which it is taught and which em­ phasize applications , computers , and struction . The reformers want to writing, oral communication ; of us - schools , colleges, teachers , upgrade teacher quality, but what in­ • numerical literacy; faculty, and administrators - have problem solving; centives do they provide for keeping • understanding of methods and been taking it on the chin. • Interdisciplinary courses that ex­ amine the structure of knowledge highly able teachers in environments role of scientific inquiry; We have problems . There's room for and that emphasize interactions be­ that our best teachers feel are • critical thinking including problem­ significant improvement. But we've tween science , technology , and restrictive? solving and analysis; had enough of reports and "viewing culture ; What's at stake is not just the educa­ • intercultural and historical with alarm:' What we need now are tion of the current generation , for the understanding ; adequate resources. We must all work • Methodology courses that emphasize teachers we train today - if we can • knowledge and appreciation of to reverse the scandalous underfund ­ the unique social, psychological , physical, and cognitive needs of the retain them - are likely to be on the the creative arts; ing of education at the federal level. job in the years 2000 , 2010 , and • a concern for an ability to apply Instead of reducing student loan middle school student ; and • Collaborative relationships with beyond . In a very real sense our na­ ethics and values ; programs we must institute new and public school systems and scientific tion's future is at stake. • practical and extensive field ex­ expanded programs for those in­ The demand is not just one of raw periences in classroom and other terested in the profession with provi­ resources beyond the campus . numbers , but requires that we prepare school environments ; and sions for debt forgiveness dependent According to Dr. Linda Schulman , Division Head for Science , and project future teachers to educate successfully • a thorough grounding in on years of teaching . It will continue to an increasingly diverse student pedagogy and cognitive be difficult to attract people to the pro ­ director oh the grant , "the model cur­ riculum will result in better-qualified population . development. fession who, while preparing school teachers in these critical fields." For example , today , minorities make In our changing world, future themselves academically , can ac­ She cited a recent national survey up 26 percent of our student popula­ teachers will be faced with significant cumulate debts up to $25 ,000 while showing that principals now estimate tion , but only 12 percent of the minority group constituencies in the beginning their careers at less than that more than 50 percent of newly teaching force. In the 1990 's minorities classroom . lntercultural perspectives $15,000 annually and , in the case of hired mathematics and science will account for 30 percent of the and integration of women and preschool teachers , at less than teachers are under-qualified . school-age population , whereas the minorities must exist throughout the $10 ,000. "It is particularly significant that percentage of minority teachers will college curriculum . At the beginning of this nation's first Lesley's Undergraduate School was have dwindled to 5 percent. The Many critics say that this agenda baby boom, back in 1950, the poet awarded a grant of this size," she school-age population is comprised of cannot be accomplished in the four Archibald MacLeish expressed the observed . Historically, women have growing numbers of poor (24 percent) , years of undergraduate education. But view that "to educate at all is to pro­ been under-represented in science and non-English speaking children (28 given the economic and demographic fess a faith in the future of the world technical professions . "Equally impor­ percent) , and of physically challenged realities of schooling in America , it of the most explicit kind: education, by tant;' she added, "the current NSF students whose numbers have in­ simply must be. And overall, I'm op­ its nature, assumes a future:' grant underscores Lesley's position as a creased through mainstreaming . timistic that it will be. But it will take more than the com­ leader in educational applications of Contrary to some recommendations, The current reports have aroused mon optimism of educators to create computers ." Other NSF funded ac­ I believe that there is no single "best public awareness to the need for ac­ the kind of teachers and educators and way" to prepare a teaching force suffi­ schools we need . It will take political tivities at the College include LOGO tion. While at times conceptually Tools for Teaching Algebra (to sixth­ ciently large and sufficiently talented to muscle and wise leadership. flawed, and in some cases Utopian, graders); Problem-Soluing Tools for High School Science Teaching; and Using Numbers, a math curriculum for students K-6. 3 Lesley~in-Focus

Multicultural Perspectives

Lesley has a variety of international Graduate School and PMBI's January students from multicultural and Hull, England (Winter, 1982) and and multi-cultural programs in all three Commencement Address on backgrounds . Lesley's International Students and Schools that reflect its desire to give its "American Management in the Global Lesley, however , has incorporated Programs (Fall/ Winter 1983-84), students a deeper insight into inter­ Society :' Also described are some of multicultural perspectives in many of which described the international pro­ cultural relations and the broadest the Kindergarten Conference sessions its education programs . Some of these grams in all three Schools . possible understanding of the peoples that dealt with multicultural issues . In have been featured in past issues Upcoming issues of The Current will of the world . addition, last fall Lesley's Special of The Current, such as the highlight further this important dimen­ Highlighted in this issue are the In­ Education Resource Teaching Con­ Undergraduate School's Student Ex­ sion of education at the College . ternational Studies Department of the ference focused on assessment of change Program (STEP) with Bradford

Focus: The Intercultural Relations Program by Barbara Baig

Kathy Blackwell is a teacher and a In Japan , an executive of a poet , who has always wanted to do Japanese company discusses a poten­ something to make the world a better tial sale with clients from the U.S. place . When she considered going At a Boston hospital , a Black intake back to school , she looked for a supervisor interviews a Chinese graduate program that would let her patient. combine her interests in writing, In countries all over the world education , and other cultures . travelers seek lodging, food , informa­ Dawn Jabari had a career in human tion, and friendship from people resources management. She knew she whose language and customs are not wanted to move into an international their own . field and thought she'd need an MBA. In Cambridge , a New York-born, She spent nine months researching Catholic woman discusses the family every MBA program in the Boston finances with her husband, a Protes­ area without finding one that had an Student Elizabeth Morrish of England discussing Southeast Asia at the February International tant raised in the Midwest. international component. Student Reception. The last example may puzzle those Dan Petrowski spent three years in who believe that two people from the the Fiji Islands as a Peace Corps same country necessarily share the Volunteer . Working in engineering These four people - and a growing ment, and intercultural training and same culture . "But culture ," Dr. Lam management, he needed a program number of other men and women - consulting . maintains, "is far more than just na­ that would help him prepare to have found a program that gives them Until recently, students who wanted tionality. It has many dimensions that manage large technical projects the intercu/tura/ education and profes­ an intercultural education had few op­ include age, sex, ethnicity, one's whole overseas which is what he is doing sional training they want at the tions . They could travel or work background. In fact, in this program right now in Egypt. Graduate School's International abroad, and learn from their ex­ we believe that even people who have Adrienne Nussbaum has always Studies Division. The new Master's periences but rarely were able to incor­ grown up in the same community, been interested in people and culture . degree program in lntercultural Rela­ porate that learning into formal even those from the same family, can She works at the Harvard University tions helps students acquire the graduate study. Or they could enroll in have different individual cultural International Office, and wanted knowledge, skills, and experience they a graduate program in international perspectives." graduate-level training in international need to pursue careers as intercultural relations; such programs, however, The program , she adds, looks at education and foreign student specialists in such fields as education, tend to focus almost exclusively on the every situation in which two people in­ advising . management, international develop- political and economic aspects of na­ teract as an intercultural one . "Each tions and on relationships between person brings to the situation his or organizations and governments. her own cultural filter:' But the Intercultural Relations Pro­ Given this multitude of perspectives, gram focuses on the human dimension the opportunities for misunderstanding of culture - on what happens when both at home and abroad are enor­ individuals from different cultures in­ mous. Outsiders are frequently teract in various work and social situa­ unaware of how their behavior is seen tions. At the same time, the program by the host culture. And an American places equal value on field experience businessman abroad, Dr. Lam points and academics, and it helps students out , may "totally blunder" by misinter­ to integrate the two. preting the way his clients dress or the "People have always needed the formality ·with which they speak. Even skills we teach," explains Dr. Zareen a seemingly simple remark like "I'll let Karani Lam , Director of the Program . you know" may be misinterpreted - "But today , as the world gets smaller, in some cultures it means , "Get lost, I the need is more pressing . People don't want to see you again ." from all professions , from many dif­ In today's increasingly interdepen ­ ferent cultures , are forced to interact , dent world such misunderstandings more so than in the old homogeneous can be costly, even dangerous . They societies that were not so mobile. To­ can , however , be prevented by those day, whether you're a manager, a who have intercultural skills which Dr. teacher , or a counselor , you will have Lam defines as "The ability to see to deal with diversity and a broad things from different people 's point of spectrum of value orientations." view, to understand and respect their With cultural diversity a fact of daily values , and to interact with them in life, interactions between people from non-exploitative , respectful , and pro­ different cultures takes place ductive ways:' everywhere : As the number of professional situa­ At a local college, a female student tions requiring such skills increases , the from Japan listens, head bowed , as field of intercultural relations is growing the foreign student advisor , an rapidly. Practitioners are finding jobs in American male, talks to her about course requirements . Dawn Jabari, a GS International Studies student. 4 Lesley-in-Focus

Multicultural Perspectives international organizations, and other then visited Ethiopia . The meeting settings . Dr. Lam expects this trend to with Huma was, she says, "a very continue . "Intercultural relations" she moving experience - really a spiritual says, "have been called the sur~ival one." skills for the twenty-first century - in Like Kathy, other students in the In­ all professions ." tercultural Relations program find that She speaks firsthand about inter­ it changes not only their careers but cultural experience, having been born their entire lives. and brought up in India, where she "What you learn becomes an in­ earned several degrees in languages , tegral part of your life;' says Adrienne law, and education. In 1978 she came Nussbaum . "It affects how you deal to the U.S. to enter a Ph.D. program in with your family, with people on the Counseling and Psychology at the street. It has to do with life, not just University of Denver. Since then she school:' has worked as a crosscultural consul­ Most of all, the program is a catalyst tant and trainer at a number of univer­ for new experiences and ideas. sities and corporations in India, "I wouldn't have had the confidence Sweden , and the U.S. to go to Africa without the support of When she arrived at the Graduate the program; ' says Kathy Blackwell. "It School in 1985 to take over the ex­ opened up all kinds of possibilities for isting program in International Educa­ me." tion and Service, she brought together Adds Dawn Jabar i, "I came in with a "a real multi-cultural team " of faculty Zareen Lam , Director of the International Studies Department , GS, chats with Gerardo Esposito specific plan, but the program helped and consultants to consider the ques­ of Switzerland at the October Opening Reception for Graduate School International students . me broaden my focus . Now there's no tion , "What does the field of inter­ telling where I'll be in five years . I've cultural relations really need?" The the desire to use their skills to help im­ core course in cultural specialization thrown all the doors open ." result of their yearlong series of discus­ prove relations between cultures and says, "A student interested in China sions is a unique, interdisciplinary pro­ contribute to world peace. for instance , might look at the needs gram whose faculty come from diverse "We feel that we want only those in and problems a group of American An Alumna in China cultures and academic disciplines and the program who are committed . .. to ESL (English as a Second Language) whose Advisory Committee consists of making a difference in the world;' says teachers in China might have and then Jane L. Bode , who received a five highly influential practitioners in Dr. Lam. offer recommendations." Master's degree in Management from the Graduate School in 1980, sent the the intercultural relations field. Students take a core curriculum of 'The faculty in this program have following hurried note on February 8 eight courses , which introduces them real interest in my development and to Deborah Hawkins, Alumni Director: my career goals;' says Dawn Jabari, to basic concepts in the field; gives "In a few minutes I leave for Logan who wants eventually to help business them an understanding of the political, Airport where I will be taking a flight economic, and social context in which people work more effectively in inter­ national situations~ Her special inierest­ to Beijing, China. I'll be-teaching _from cultural interaction occurs ; shows them February to July in the Peking Union how to find out about a culture and its is China . Last summer she taught English to visiting Chinese scholars , Medical College and the Chinese values ; and helps them develop skills Academy of Medical Sciences, in Beij­ and in turn she plans to spend two in intercultural communication, training ing, China. My husband, Hans , and I and consulting, and the writing of semesters in China studying the language and culture . spent a month in China last summer grants and proposals . They then as he was lecturing at several of the ' Kathy Blackwell wants to implement choose a field of specialization (such medical schools. Kai, 14, the youngest educational programs in Third World as multicultural education, foreign stu­ of our four children will join me in countries. Last winter, when she read dent advising, intercultural health and Beijing in June . After Hans arrives in about three people in Ethiopia who human services, or intercultural conflict July, we will travel through China and had survived the famine, she sent a management) in which they take addi­ the Soviet Union . poem and a letter to one of them - tional courses and which provide a "In the summer of 1985 I spent two Huma, the headman of a tribe and focus for a three-month internship and months traveling through Tanzania a thesis. also a poet - explaining that she's in school developing skills to help people. after studying Swahili intensively for a Adrienne Nussbaum, for instance, is year at Boston University. At that time He wrote back, thanking her, and they specializing in intercultural education I visited Mary Mungai, who also exchanged a few more letters (via a and foreign student advising. For her graduated from Lesley with a Master's internship she designed and conducted translator). Then she decided to go to Africa. With benefits and donations in 1980. It was thrilling to spend time a workshop at Tufts University which with her and her family in Mafinga. brought together, for the first time, she raised money for the trip, plus $300 for Huma's tribe. She spent a Traveling alone in Tanzania was very undergraduates planning to study sqfe and thrilling. It is a beautiful coun­ month with Earthwatch in Zimbabwe abroad and foreign students studying try with wonderful people." at Tufts. working as a research assistant on a ' The International Studies Depart­ nutrition study of pregnant women, ment is also the International Student Office and provides support and Adrienne Nussbaum, a GS International Studies counseling, including immigration ad­ student . vising, for foreign students at Lesley. Joanna Bertsekas is the Foreign Stu­ Currently, the fifty students in the dent Counselor . Program represent a variety of ex­ At all stages of the curriculum , the periences and educational back­ program emphasizes the integration of grounds . Many working professionals thepry and practice . In addition to in management or law, for example , guest lectures on career possibilities in want to learn intercultural skills for intercultural relations , students must careers in the U.S. or abroad . Other also interview professionals in a field students have traveled or worked in they 'd like to enter . Students research ­ other countries , perhaps with the ing a particular culture do more than Peace Corps , and want to go into library research ; they also talk with some kind of intercultural work. natives of the culture in Boston . More­ Despite their diverse qualifications , over their final paper must have a all students who are admitted to the specific practical focus. Assistant Pro­ program have one thing in common : fessor Jay Jones , who teaches the

Provost Pamela Menke welcomes English students Lorna McCalla, of Bradford , and Angela Gold, of Birmingham , at the February Reception for the UG School's STEP (Student Exchange Program) students . · 5 Lesley~in-Focus

Multicultural Perspectives American Management in The Global Society At PMBI's Commencement on January 23, Stephen Cory, a "During the Cultural Revolution;' she Marketing Manager at GenRad said, "we heard some bad things about (manufacturers of automated testing America but some I think are not true equipment) and a PMBI alumnus, so I wanted to see the real face of gave the main Address to the 27 America, beyond the fables. I think ,, Bachelor's degree and 6 7 Master's Americans are very nice and friendly. degree graduates. Her first semester Sun Jie is taking The following are excerpts from his only two courses, because, she said, "I speech: want to improve my English. Next '1\merican management is being semester I'll take more." challenged by foreign competition in a Her "Introduction to Intercultural shrinking world, as a result of the new Relations" course provides an overview industrial revolution . This transition is of the subject plus an introduction to as difficult today as it was when we the basic concepts and issues in inter­ moved from an agricultural to an in­ cultural theory and practice. Her dustrialized economy. Today the transi­ second course , "Intercultural Com­ tion is from the industrial to the 'infor­ munication" helps students develop mation age : communication skills to deal effectively 'This revolution has caused the with ethnic and cultural diversity. world to change from being one of "In my first class," she continued, "I small, localized markets to a global, in­ was surprised to see that so many terdependent economy. Today, the people drank and ate. In China the change in the monetary, fiscal, or only thing the students can do is take foreign policies of countries can rapidly the teacher's notes and not speak. If cause changes in the world economic they have questions, they raise their system. For example, the Japanese hand, and the teacher says, 'Wait till Economic Planning Agency recently the class is over. I'll explain it to you published its plan for the year 2000 . then: " The theme of that plan was 'interna­ When she first arrived, Sun Jei lived tionalization; the purchase of foreign with a·Chinese family for a week, but assets in every sector of industry since, has moved in with an American throughout the world in their move family in Wakefield. "I really like them;' toward becoming a global economic she said, "but I would like to live closer power . More recently, it was an­ to Lesley so I can study more at the nounced that 80 percent of the 1986 library. I have classes from four to U.S. budget deficit was financed by seven in the evening." foreign interests. These two related ex­ She has already made her American amples are an indication of what is family a Chinese dinner and eaten in happening to this generation of Chinatown, where she was taken by management - a generation faced classmates after an International with global competition. And no Studies Reception at Lesley on the longer is the competition abroad . It is Traditional Arts of Southeast Asia. "I right here in this country . don't think the food is traditional '1\s a result, ... your skills to Chinese," she said, "because the ingre­ manage and lead the world in this dients are different from China. Most revolution will demand your very best. of the Chinese who live in the United In many ways, management in the in­ States are Cantonese , but Cantonese ternational environment constitutes the food is very famous in China. It's fine:' Sun Jie, a GS student from Beijing, China. supreme test of management skills - It's also just fine that Sun Jei has interaction with foreign nationals, chosen Lesley for her education in the foreign laws and customs, different U.S. Her being here is mutually five years. Her teacher taught gram­ languages and, quite often, consumer Sun Jie of China beneficial. mar in English, she said, but she didn't needs ... The current concern of "When I came here;' she said, "I felt Lesley's first student from China is have much opportunity to speak or American business with quality and my dream had come true. I will do my Sun Jie of Beijing. Dressed in an write papers in English. She perfected productivity is clearly the result ~f. the best and study hard. I must learn emerald green jacket and matching her accent by listening every evening new economics of world competition, everything from the beginning, even sweater (products of China, she said to the "Voice of America" broadcast. a competition led only in part by the the food." Lesley, too, has much to proudly), jeans, and running shoes, Sun Jie today speaks English very Japanese and being eagerly adopted learn, from Sun Jie. Sun Jie is tall with long black hair, a fluently, in the vernacular, with only by the developing industrial nations of broad smile, and an exuberant nature. traces of an accent. South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong Her appearance is decidedly not that "I first heard of Lesley," she said, as well as the twelve members of the of the gray-cadre stereotype popular­ "two years ago from a friend who had European Economic Community. ized by the Western media. On her studied at UMass. He recommended "What then can American manage­ first day in her International Studies Lesley College to me. Because I had ment do in the face of this challenge? class, this engaging young woman was studied international law in China, I To begin, I can confirm that there is no warmly greeted with a round of ap­ asked him to find a college with sub­ nation in the world more highly plause by her fellow students , accord­ jects close to my major. He sent. me regarded for its management skills ing to Joanna Bertsekas, Program the Lesley application and descnbed than the United States. But, you can­ Advisor. the prosram. So I thought, between not always assume supremacy in any Sun Jie will spend two years at international law and intercultural rela­ field of endeavor, particularly the Lesley working toward her Master of tions, that sounds fine:' human art of management. Like Arts degree in the International Her father, a Professor in the technology, the skills of management Studies Department at the Graduate Chinese Academy Institution of Social can and have been learned by other School. Her future plans include fur­ Science, came to the United States in nations. ther study in the United States for her 1984 as an economist. He visited Har­ "Now is the time for American Ph.D. "Eventually;' she said, "I would vard and worked in the United Nations management to once again assert its like to work in the foreign ministry of for a year. leadership position in the world. Win­ China, perhaps in the diplomatic ser- After he returned he told her, "You ning calls for highly creative manage­ . " vice. should go to America to study. Lesley ment practices and skills, and a She is well-equipped in every way. is very good with high educational management style that elicits high Not only is she personable, she is also levels and the teachers have a high­ quality and productivity. well-prepared academically. She . level background:' He also said, "You (continued on next page} studied international law at the Univer­ will find that almost everything is new Stephen Cory, a PMBI alumnus and a sity of Peking as well as English for marketing manager at GenRad Corp., gave the in America." January PMBI Commencement address. 6

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Multicultural Perspectives The 25th Kindergarten Conference (Contin ued from page 5) This year marked the 25th anniversary "Leadership requires you to take a of the Lesley-sponsored New England long, hard look at the external world. Kindergarten Conference . Massachusetts Failure to do so, can result in an Governor Michael Dukakis proclaimed unrealistic attitude, one that could November 20, 1986, as New England result not in a leadership position, but Kindergarten Day in the Commonwealth in that of a follower. Leadership requires honor of the conference and its founder followers and following is an act of and coordinator Mary Mindess . The trust, faith in the course of the leader. Governor's Proclamation noted That trust can only be generated if Whereas: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts leaders act with integrity. It requires is world renowned as a center of education; and you to be broad-minded, receptive to Whereas: The early education of young children the ideas of others, flexible, thoughtful is instrumental to their development and success and inspiring:' as learners and later, as citizens; and Whereas : The New England Kindergarten Con­ Dr. Pamela Menke, Provost, and Dr. ference , sponsored by Lesley College, has Stephen Brown, Acting Dean of PMBI, fostered excellence in early childhood education also addressed the graduates, among Maria Serpa, Director of the Moderate Special for twenty-five years; and them, PMBI's thousandth graduate , Needs Program, GS, at the Special Education Whereas: Professor of Education Mary Mindess, Robert Bureau , Maynard Master's Resource Teaching Conference. founder and coordinator of the Conference, has inspired and encouraged countless early (September 1985) class. childhood educators throughout the years; As a senior manager at Digital Now, Therefore , I, Michael S. Dukakis, Gover­ Equipment Corporation in Marlboro, The American population is nor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , do he is responsible for managing a dramatically changing, becoming in­ hereby proclaim Thursday November 20th, 1986 systems and programming group (MIS creasingly diverse both racially and as ethnically. This growing pluralism is NEW ENGLAND KINDERGARTEN function) that supports operations in CONFERENCE DAY Hong Kong, Singapore , Taiwan, Mex­ reflected in the nation's schools. More in Massachusetts in recognition of its founder , ico, Canada, and Puerto Rico. He than 25 percent of all public school Mary Mindess, and of the contribution to early completed his thesis on the topic of students are now of minority childhood education that she, Lesley College , backgrounds . Critics of current assess­ and the New England Kindergarten Conference "Matrix Management in an Interna ­ have made to the Commonwealth of Mary Mindess "has inspired and encouraged tional Multicultural MIS Organization :' ment tools and procedures have Massachusetts. countless early childhood educators throughout charged that they are unfairly biased the years." - Governor Michael Dukakis. along race and class lines and focus At a reception held in her honor , Pro­ fes'sor Mindess took note of the recogni­ only on the logical and linguistic Stress in the Day Care Setting dimensions of intelligence. The con ­ tion, saying "We always dreamed of this!' Sondra Langer , Associate Professo r of ference provided a non-discriminatory, She accepted the proclamation, and a Multicultural and Multiple plaque from the Elementary School Prin­ Education , GS, Sandra Herskowitz, Coor­ multidimensional approach for educa­ cipals Association, "on behalf of co­ dinator of the Judge Baker Clinical Ser­ Intelligence Perspectives tional evaluation and planning in order coordinator Moyra Traupe and of all who vices Program, and Geraldine Pedrini '63 More than 100 special educators to maximize the fair assessment of all attended the Conference over the past Director of the Sunshine Nursery Sch,ool in Arlington , talked about "Planning Effective and administrators from New England students , particularly those with special twenty-five years." A Professor of Educa ­ needs . tion in the Undergraduate School, Mary Staff Development and Curriculum participated last fa\\ in the Second An­ Strategies for Coping With Stress in the nual Special Education Resource Mindess exemplifies the "Lesley spirit," through her commitment to caring and her Day Care Environment:' Teaching Conference, "What's New in integration of theory with practice in the Teachers must be alert to signs of stress Assessment: A Non-discriminatory courses she teaches and the Kindergarten in children which include being unfriendly, Perspective" at Lesley. The conference Conference , itself. day dreaming , having tantrums , or highlighted trends in assessing student Because of the steadily growing atten­ punishing themselves . performance which better reflect diver­ dance and numbers of panels and par­ Teachers themselves have stress in day sities in backgrounds and learning ticipants, the Conference was expanded to care settings and often have more concern abilities. three days and will be again in 1987 , from for the parents and children than for Keynote presenters were Dr. Jane November 19-21. themselves. To survive, they need the en­ Some of the sessions attended by the couragement and support of their directors . Mercer, University of Southern Califor­ Some of the signs of burnout are clock nia, and Dr. Joseph Walters of Har­ more than 2500 Early Childhood educators are described below : watching, lack of enthusiasm, crying jags, vard University. A national figure in psychosomatic headaches , and insomnia. the evolution of a non-biased ap­ The solution is to change jobs or change proach to assessment, Dr. Mercer has their feelings or viewpoints . developed a new approach to assess­ ment incorporating socio-cultural variables. Maria Serpa , Director of Moderate Special Needs Programs at the Graduate School , was quoted by The Boston Globe (October 26 , 1986) as saying, "Special education today ap­ pears on the verge of yet another ma­ jor change . Traditional ideas, concern­ ing the nature of intelligence , learning and creativity are being challenged and modified, as is our appreciation of the meaning of such factors as culture, language and gender." Dr. Joseph Walters, a research associate at Harvard's Project Zero, has been researching theories of multiple intelligence. "Multiple intelligence" views individuals as being born with the potential to develop a multiplicity of intelligences, most of which have been overlooked in our conventional test instruments. The standard I.Q. test focuses only on reasoning and linguistic abilities. Dr. Walters also discussed the assessment of other in­ telligences such as musical, spacial reasoning, kinesthetics and interper­ sonal potentials .

Linda Brion-Miesels , UG faculty , and her husband sing folk songs at the Reception honoring Mary Mindess. 7

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Childhood in Japan Cross-Cultural Practices Educating The Imagination Merry White, Director of International Leading the program on "Cross-Cultural Shaun McNiff, Dean of Lesley's Arts In­ Education at Harvard Graduate School of Child-Rearing Practices as They Affect stitute, talked about the often neglected Education and Administrator of East Asian School Entry" were Zareen Lam, Director, creative instincts of children. Studies at Harvard, gave an in-depth ac­ and Joanna Bertsekas, Foreign Student "Kindergarten;' he said, "is a place where count of child rearing and schooling in Counselor, of the International Studies there is a celebration of the imagination. Japan. Teaching in this homogeneous Department of the Graduate School. Their Imagination has to do with vitality and the country is not a way station to other sensitive role playing of teachers or soul. It is fundamental, a basic of mental careers. The teacher is responsible for the counselors dealing with the fears and health. Imagination takes stress and con­ discipline of her forty students as well as diverse values of mothers from different verts it to power'.' their social development and morality. cultures reflected the Conference's theme He said that because Europe has a sense Literacy begins early. Mothers read two to of Commitment, Caring, and of art being part of the interdependent three books a month to their very small Collaboration. whole curriculum, it is not put in a half­ children who often can read and write They described a few general findings hour time slot. All children's art has many before entering school. from various studies of the international meanings and is full of drama, he said. All The Japanese consider that all children differences in child rearing: the Mexican­ research confirms the consistent validity of are born equal. They "pull up" the slow American mother is often considered to be how young children interpret art. They are learners in class rather than "push ahead" highest in nurturance and responsiveness closer to symbols than adults are and their the brighter students. The schools do, to the child, more than other Hispanic and drawings have many meanings. Adults however, foster intense competition in the even Japanese mothers; the American need to go back to childhood to regenerate Edward Zigler, well-known Yale psychologist, classroom. One-third of Japan's primary mother tends to encourage the child's in­ their imagination. discusses day care policy issues. school students and 86 percent of all dependence; the Japanese mother, who Tokyo students take after-school class pro­ sees the newborn baby as too indepen­ grams. Homework from first-grade on is dent, encourages the child's dependency Early Childhood and Current considered a means to develop respon­ on herself and on groups. (Her child is Social Policy issues sibility and character in a child. A good rarely left alone and is taught the value of Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of group harmony and esteem.); and the child is cooperative and obedient as well as Psychology at Yale University, Director of religious Hindu mother encourages the alert and spirited. Cooperation does not Bush Center in Child Development and child to forget the self and to concentrate imply giving up the self but rather working Social Policy, and head of the psychology on spirituality. with others. section of Yale's Child Study Center, Today's teachers need to be sensitive to described the flaws in current day care cultural diversity, a concept formerly con­ policy in the United States and suggested strued (narrowly) as nationality but which changes which he felt were both necessary now includes age, sex, socio-economic and inevitable. status, religion, and even family There are two kinds of day care, one for background. parents who have the money and the Today the shape of the American family wisdom to find quality day care, and a se­ is in transition. Even within the two­ cond for those who do not. All parents, provider family there are many sub-groups: however, share the frustration of finding shared earning and parent child-rearing any day care at all in their communities. parents, mother or father dominated child Only Massachusetts, Kansas, and care, or divorced parents with stepparents Wisconsin require minimum standards for and stepsiblings. The single mother may be day care centers and workers, such as a alone, live with a lover, or be remarried specific ratio of workers to infants (but handling child rearing independently). (Massachusetts, for example, requires one Teachers and counselors must be sensitive worker to three infants and one worker to to these changes: their understanding and four toddlers) and a background in early characterization of cultural and family dif­ childhood development. In California, the ferences are major factors in the self­ Shaun McNiff, Dean of the Institute for the Arts ratio is one to twelve. High ratio situations esteem of children and parents. and Human Development. are problematic, both developmentally and in terms of a fire or other physical disasters. Because of the United States' Using Puppets to Help Children radically changing family structure there is Cope with Difficult Feelings an increasing dependence on day care. Susan Linn, nationally known pup­ However, the future effect on our children peteer/ventriloquist and doctoral candidate has yet to be determined. Of particular in psychology at Harvard, described how concern to Dr. Zigler are those children she uses puppets when helping children who are already under stress at home and deal with various crises in their lives, such are put in even greater risk by being placed Geraldine Pedrini, '63, Director of the Sunshine in a stressful day care setting. Nursery School in Arlington. as death, divorce, illness, and abuse. Because children often find it difficult to The solution to the day care problem, he express their feelings when in overwhelm­ said, must come from broad social reform. ing situations, the puppet becomes a good Just as policy makers debated about tool for the child and adult to create a universal education one-hundred years world together. When children can become ago, today they must respond to the need adults through the puppet, they can say for quality day care and make child care a what they may otherwise be afraid to say. priority. The government spends 25 million They, as puppet/adults, can make deci­ dollars for the wing of one airplane but sions and be in temporary control of the only five million for day care. situation. Secondly, the role and income of day care workers must be upgraded. Currently, 75 per cent of all day care workers, he said, earn less than the minimum wage. Finally, Dr. Zigler predicted that by the turn of the century the nation would follow Arizona's lead by providing day care in the Joanna Bertsekas, Foreign Student Counselor public schools from early morning through in the International Studies Department. the evening hours. Two-career families and the growing number of single-head households will make extended public day care a necessity. Dr. Zigler encouraged those working in day care to become social activists to encourage policy makers in · directions that make sense for children and their families.

Susan Linn, puppeteer, helps children deal with their stress.

Moyra Traupe, Co-Coordinator of the Kindergarten Conference. 8 Notes of Current Interest

Crocker Teaching Fellows Lesley's 1987 Summer Offerings In November Lesley became the first col­ just attended. She then introduced the lege to invite Massachusetts ' fifteen Mass. Commissioner of Education Harold Lucretia Crocker Fellows to share their ex­ Raynolds , who in turn presented the pertise with a college community . Like the Fellows who gave brief overviews of their The Undergraduate International Courses and 19th century educational reformer for innovative programs. School Conferences whom the program was named , these Some of the ideas the teachers shared creative and innovative teachers have were : Lessening the isolation of special The Undergraduate School is offering, Brasilia, Brazil - June made important contributions to their needs children and their chances of failure for the first time, three "Early Bird Research and Evaluation Methodology. schools and school districts. by interchanging regular education and Courses ;• June 2-26 , Tuesdays through Special Education in the Classroom . Con ­ "They were chosen after a vigorous special needs teachers; immersing the Fridays, 9 a.m.-12 noon . tact Donna Roux, x419 . screening process ;' said Clare Corcoran , students and staff of a school in a theme ENG 120 - American Literature Guadalajara, Mexico - August Assistant Dean for GS Administration , "and like the Renaissance through the arts, HIST 115 - Introduction to American Research and Evaluation Methodology . are being given a year off from their classes history, and science; transforming ordinary History Special Education in the Classroom. Con­ to spread the information that made their playgrounds into creative outdoor ED 305 - Early Childhood Education tact Donna Roux, x419. teaching outstanding. The state is under­ classrooms and nature centers with the writing the salaries for the towns to hire help of students, parents , local artists and Monterrey, Mexico - August their replacements:' businesses ; establishing an exchange pro­ The Graduate School Leadership in School Administration : On November 13, the Fellows were gram between two culturally different com­ Research and Evaluation Methodology ; welcomed by June Fox, Dean of the GS munities such as rural-urban, island­ The Graduate School is offering 173 Selection and Utilization of Instructional different courses on campus , June 1 - Education Division and a member of the mainland , or American-foreign schools that Resources; Teaching English as a Second Crocker Advisory Group , and by President would foster cultural awareness. August 21. A complete list is available at Language . Contact Donna Roux , x419 . the Graduate Center as well as in each McKenna. The President said that the im­ The Lesley Community had a chance to Division office. The 5000 level courses will Lake of Constance, Switzerland portance of interchanging ideas and col­ meet these outstanding teachers at a be available to Lesley undergraduate May 27-30 Music and Art in Therapy laborating with the schools was stressed at Reception and at the seminars. students. If credit is desired, the Registrar Intensive the Carnegie Harvard Conference on should be contacted. May 31-June 3 Art Therapy and Dreams Undergraduate Education which she had Intensive May 25, 26, June 4, 5 Core Seminar Special Summer Events Training \n Expressive Therapy and Dance . June 5-6 Threshold Conference , "Toward Contact Paolo Knill, x490. Independence : Issues for Parents of Adults Lisbon, Portugal with Learning Disabilities:' Contact Shirley June 24-30 Introduction to Computers: Simmons , 491-3739 . Learners with Special Needs June 8-12 Summer Computer Conference . July 1-14 Creating an Educational Environ­ Contact Maureen Brown, x428. ment with Logo June 21-24 Institute for Managers of July 15-21 Comparative Education . Con­ Substance Abuse Services . On campus. tact Zareen Lam, x420. Contact Barry Sugarman, x466. June 22-26 Creative Arts in Learning Sym­ Athens, Greece posium on Multicultural Arts Education. June 26-July 4 Multicultural Methods for On campus . Contact Nancy Langstaff, Educators x488. June 26-July 4 Intercultural Helping Skills June 28-July 12 School Failure: Address­ Time Arranged with Instructor. Elective ing Classroom Behavior and Learning. Field Experience Contact Virginia Chalmers. June 17-25 Early Intervention for Cultural­ June 28-August 1 "Life at Sea; Math, ly Diverse Families Science, Technology, and The Voyage of June 17-25 Skills in Counseling Adolescents with Special Needs. Contact the Mimi." An actual voyage on the Mass. Commissioner of Education Harold Raynolds introduces the Crocker Fellows. Schooner Harvey Gamage out of Boston Zareen Lam, x420. Harbor. Contact Angeline Ferris, x382. Two further sites for Lesley courses in June 29-July 2 Institute on Substance Rome and Costa Rica are pending. Abuse Prevention. Off campus. Contact Individually guided study courses under Barry Sugarman, x466. the Adult Degree Option program are be­ BAEYC Moves to Lesley Children,s Literature July 13-15 Regional Summer Institute on ing offered in Lisbon, Portugal, and Autism. Contact Susan Gurry, x366 . Geneva , Switzerland. The Boston Association for the Educa­ Conference tion of Young Children (BAEYC) has July 20-24 Conference on Interactive In April more than one hundred elemen ­ Videodisks Applications for Classroom recently moved its offices to Lesley at 37 Additional Summer Mellen Street , 3rd floor. The current Presi­ tary and middle school educators from Teachers. Contact Susan Gurry, x366 . throughout New England participated in July 20-August 4 Conference on Effective dent of BAEYC is Gwen Hooper, a Lesley Institutes alumna and Director of an innovative the Spring Children 's Literature Con ­ Literacy Learning: Models and Methods . ference , "The Child, the Teacher, and the August 12-16 : A "Leadership Training In­ children's center in Arlington. Contact Mary Snow, x381. Book." stitute" sponsored by the National Coalition With a membership of approximately Building Institute, at Lesley. Training to 700 , BAEYC is the largest professional Brookline teacher Joan Tieman , a National Courses and identify and resolve intergroup conflicts. organization for early childhood profes ­ Lucretia Crocker Fellow, spoke on "A Journey Into Literature ." She has been in­ August 17-19 : A "Prejudice Reduction sionals in Massachusetts. Lesley's early strumental in developing the Children's Conferences Leaders Institute" sponsored by the Na­ childhood faculty have long been active in Literature Project, a model curriculum tional Coalition Building Institute, at Lesley. BAEYC, serving on the Board as well as Colorado Springs, Colorado designed to put literature at the center of Participants learn to develop and conduct organizing and presenting professional July 27-31 Advanced Symposium in study in the elementary school and to prejudice reduction programs in their com­ development activities. BAEYC offers a Creative Arts in Learning . Contact Vivien refine the quality literary experiences at munities and workplaces. yearly conference and a lecture series on Marcow, x485. home . For both institutes, contact Jay Jones, issues concerning young children to the Also speaking was Associate Professor Breckenridge, Colorado International Studies Dept., x459 or 163. early childhood community as well as ad­ May Reinhardt of the Graduate School, June 29-July 2 vocates at the state level. who discussed "The Teacher and the Conference : "Computers in Education : As an affiliate group of the National Book:' Dr. Reinhardt is Director of the Challenge and Opportunity." Contact Assoc. for the Education of Young Lesley/Curtis Guild School Language Arts Maureen Brown, x428. Children (NAEYC), BAEYC is part of a Program. large national network of state and city Six workshops, led by teachers from the associations for the education of young Greater Boston schools, addressed : "In­ children. NAEYC, with a total membership troducing Children to Literature: A Bear of 55,000 early childhood educators in the Necessity" for grades K-1; "Folktales U.S., Canada, and Europe, has initiated an Children Love" grades 1-3; "Picture Book accreditation program for early childhood Potentials"grades 3-6; "Bringing Books to programs as well as an information and Life"grades 3-5; "Reading and Writing resource bank. Through its books and two Tomie De Paola Style" grades 3-5; and professional journals, NAEYC provides a "The Black Experience in Children's Books" forum in which early childhood educators for grades 6-8. may share their work. Winifred Skolnikoff, Assistant Professor With strong connections to NAEYC and of Education and Director of the Graduate a broad-based support at the local level, BAEYC is an organization which makes a School Writing Center, was a Coordinator of the Conference. positive impact on the lives of children, and is a welcome new addition to the Lesley community. 9

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Christa McAuliffe Teacher­ Undergraduate Curriculum National Women,s History Week Celebrated At Lesley Incentive Grant Reform Lesley observed National Women's City Council; and Lesley President Seven Lesley undergraduates were In the last issue of the Current Lesley In History Week in March with films, lectures, Margaret McKenna and Mary Huegel, recently awarded the Christa McAuliffe Focus presented views on Undergraduate panels , discussions , and entertainment Dean of the Outreach and Alternative Teacher Incentive Grant. Previously known curriculum reform by Dean of Students designed to celebrate the contributions of Education Division . as the Teacher Incentive Grant, the nation ­ Linda Vaughan and President Margaret women in business , education , politics, and Linda Hill, a Lesley corporator and assis­ wide award program was established by the McKenna . Subsequently , there's been a the arts. tant professor , Organizational Behavior / National Education Association , and is ad­ great deal of activity on this issue. Spring Festivities included talks by anthro ­ Human Resource Management , Harvard ministered locally through the semester began with undergraduate faculty pologist and Lesley College corporator Business School , spoke on "Creating Con­ Massachusetts State Scholarship Office. from the three schools attending a day­ Mary Catherine Bateson , author of With a ditions for Success: Building Relationships The $2,000 Grant is awarded to long faculty workshop on curriculum plan­ Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret at Work!' Massachusetts residents who are preparing ning . Throughout the year, faculty commit ­ Mead and Gregory Bateson and by the Lesley artists Judith Campbell-Reed , to teach on a full-time basis in a public tees have been examining the context and authors of Women's Ways of Knowing , an Bonnie Dann , Naomi Congalton , school in the Commonwealth. "These the structure of undergraduate curricula at acclaimed study of epistemological Mariagnese Cattaneo, Patricia Cobb, and aspiring teachers," said President McKenna, the College. The process has addressed the development in women (co-authored by Brenda Engel talked about their personal "exemplify those characteristics that Christa relationship between liberal and profes­ Dr. Jill Tarule, Associate Provost). experiences as artists in "On Art Making McAuliffe represented for our nation: sional education, examined the delivery A panel discussion, "Influential Women: and Women Being!' An exhibit of their dedication to children, commitment to ser­ and assessment of instruction, explored Connecting Cambridge Communities," work "Womanifestations" was on display vice, belief in the future, and a willingness developmental approaches to student featured Renae Scott and Dorothy Jones , during the entire week. Also included was to lead. learning, and examined the role of faculty Cambridge YWCA Board of Directors; the work of Shushi Pahigian. "As teachers-to-be;' she said, "our in all phases of undergraduate education Alice Wolf and Sheila Russell, Cambridge students look with pride to the woman and campus life. who chose a life of service to others. The result is a statement on the goals of Christa McAuliffe has become a leader for undergraduate education that was ap­ all who work in education and particularly proved by the faculty this April. The state­ for those who teach." ment recommends intellectual and The award winners were: Theresa Bard­ pedagogical goals and principles as the zilowski, '88, Donna Cesary , '87, JoAnn foundation for a new conceptual model to Craig, '87, Kathleen O'Connell, '87, guide future curriculum development at Mic1'elle Patti, '88, Kristen Robinson, '88, Lesley. These recommendations are being and Jennifer Spencer, '88. forwarded to the President as the Current goes to press. Following the President's ac­ tion, the Provost will establish an eighteen­ month program (June, 1987, through May, The Future of Teaching 1988) of further curriculum development. Colloquium Series Future issues of the Current will contain updates on progress and issues. This spring the Graduate School spon­ sored a colloquium series on the future of teaching designed for teachers, teacher educators, and interested citizens. The speakers were: Dr. Seymour Sarason , author of The Culture of the School and The Problem of Change and Professor of Psychology at Yale University; John Saphier, principal for Research for Cambridge Influential Women Panel : Alice Wolf, City Councillor; Dorothy Jones, YWCA Direc­ Better Teaching ; Lewis Branscomb , a tor; Sheila Russell, City Councillor ; Mary Huegel , Dean of Outreach , GS; President McKenna; member of the Carnegie Forum on educa ­ and Renae Scott , YWCA Director. tion and the economy , and Chief Scientist and former vice president at IBM; Harold Raynolds , Massachusetts Commissioner of Excerpts from Listening to Women,s Voices Education; Adelaide Sanford, a member of the New York Board of Regents ; and many Mary Catherine Bateson really important man who will make her others . Listening to women means finding ways happy? Husband? Lover? Be serious. No They explored the educational reform to value difference and to value relation­ way. In many Middle Eastern cultures , it's reports, the knowledge base of the ships that are complementary rather than her son . teaching profession , professionalizing the symmetrical. One of the striking things "That's when you really have a satisfying role of teachers, the future of the about American culture is that we have relationship with a man - when you have undergraduate education major, women 's great difficulty acknowledging difference a son who is 30 years old or so, and every issues and the teaching profession , minori­ without saying, If A and B are different, is day when he leaves work he comes and ty issues and the teaching profession, new Corporator, author, and anthropologist Mary A better or is B better? The only solution visits you, and sits and drinks tea , and educational initiatives in Massachusetts, Catherine Bateson and President McKenna. that seems to work is to say A and B are brings you flowers while his wife is looking assessment of teaching and learning, and really more or less the same. Americans after the kids and cooking dinner. As far as private sector perspectives on public assume that if they are different one of his wife is concerned, he's dominant, education. them is probably better, and one of them is bossy, inconsiderate, takes her for granted, going to be on top. This is really the fun­ pushes her around, but as far as his damental problem that is still, I think, un­ mother is concerned, he courts her. solved in the women's movement. We still "I did a lot of work with American go back and forth between proposing women who had married Iranian men . equality and similarity, and then discover­ They had met them in the United States ing certain things that are valuable about when they were autonomous and indepen­ being women, and valuable about the par­ dent and had a wonderful time with them . ticipation of women in society, and ways in Then they went back to Iran together, and which women are different .... all of a sudden the women were appalled "When we rediscover difference , we get to discover that their husbands, until well very excited about it. We're inclined to into their forties, were "mommy's boys" think maybe women are better than men, who had close, intense relationships with and then we slip into that same business their mothers , and with their fathers, to a of, If there is difference, there must be lesser degree, taking their advice, and superiority . Then we go fleeing back depending on their opinions, when as because somebody finds in the difference Americans, of course , they would have discovered a reason for further oppression . rebelled and cut some of those ties ... . We go ... back and forth between these "The male-female relationship or the polar ways of organizing relationships - child-mother relationship is going to have symmetry and complementarity ... We one meaning for American males , and need new models for thinking about com­ another for Iranian males, and still another plementarity, because it can easily become for American females, while yet another a basis for oppression. for Iranian females . .. .The process of "The way to discover the range of moving from the very dependent relation­ Distinguished researcher and author Seymour Sarason discusses the future of teaching. human possibility is to go outside your ship of an infant into a relationship of own culture . Relationships across dif­ friendship with a parent ... is a discovery ference, say, female-male or parent-child, of symmetry within complementarity . ... can be organized in many different ways. and that the idea of symmetry within com­ "In Iran, I started asking the question - plementarity can basically change our from the woman's point of view - who is sense of who we are on the planet." the important man in a woman's life? The 10 Notes of Current Interest

Trustees The Two Catherine Strattons Honored

Following the Trustees' Meeting on December 10, a Reception was held in the Mezzanine in honor of Catherine N. Stratton (Kay). Mrs. Stratton , stepping down as chair of the Board of Trustees, will continue to serve as a trustee . In gratitude for her outstanding contributions to Lesley which she has served since 1974, she was New Trustees presented with a tile plaque of the Ad­ and Corporators ministration Building and the following Citation: The following new Trustees and Cor­ "As chair of the Board of Trustees for the porators were elected on October 23 at the last four years, you have guided Lesley Annual Corporation Meeting. College through growth and transition with dedication , diplomacy , and devotion . Trustees: "Your vision, leadership , and deep com­ Robie Harris, author of children's books ; mitment to the College have lent strength Merle Hoyte Nelson , '57 , State Represen ­ and vibrancy to the entire Lesley tative, Maine House of Representatives; Community . Chris Pratt, Director of Financial Services "You have served Lesley since 1974 as a for the Office. of Sponsored Research , Har­ model trustee , instituting Board Visiting vard University. Committees and working tirelessly to en­ sure the integrity and enhance the vitality Corpora tors: of the College'.' Geraldine Bloomberg , '61, President of The new chair of the Board of Trustees Workplace Solutions, Burlington , Vermont, is Elsa G. Sonnabend, '74H (Honorary and President of the Lesley Alumni Alumna). Ms. Sonnabend has served on On September 15, Trustee Catherine N. Association ; the Board since 1962 . Stratton (Cay), Mass. Assistant Secretary Peggy Charren, President of Action for of Economic Affairs, was given the Na­ Children's Television; tional Alliance of Business' Distinguished Sheldon Cohen , President of Out of Town Performance Award for her outstanding News; leadership as a job training professional at Sunny Seiler Dupree, an attorney and an its national conference in Chicago. In active supporter of arts-related recognition of her invaluable contributions organizations; to Massachusetts, Governor Michael Gail Roberts Dusseault , '60, Vice Presi­ Dukakis declared September 15 as dent of the Mount Auburn Hospital Aux­ Catherine N. Stratton Day. iliary Board; Jay W. Forrester, Professor of Manage ­ ment, MIT; Lee Freemont-Smith , President of Tee, Inc., and author ; Trustee Adeline Naiman was appointed Edes Gilbert, '70G , Head of the Spence in June by Governor Michael Dukakis to School, New York; the Mass. Educational Technology Council. Michael Holmes , President , CEO, and It will advise the State Board of Education Director of Baybank / Harvard Trust; on the use of educational technology in Elaine Kritz Jacobs, '59 , Docent, DeCor ­ the public schools of Massachusetts . Its in­ dova Museum ; itial focus is on computers in the schools . Maxine Kates, '67, Owner of Nutmeg Bed and Breakfast; Jacqueline Hart Leach, '67, Board member of the Scituate League of Women Voters and active in Scituate community affairs; Elsa Sonnabend , Chair of the Board of Betsy Pappas, '82 , Director of the Thomas Trustees. Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation; Robert Peterkin, Superintendent of the Cambridge Public Schools ; Wendy Puriefoy, Assistant Director of the Boston Foundation ; The Future First Family? Lewis Spence, Project Director of HBC Associates and writer; Governor Michael Dukakis of Rina Spence, President and CEO of Massachusetts has announced his can­ Emerson Hospital; didacy for President of the United States. Patricia Squire , Trustee of New England No stranger to Lesley, he has addressed Aquarium and Director; the Lesley community many times, the Deanne Silk Rosenberg , '74 , attorney ; most recent being on October 3 when he Margie Tanzer-Glou, '64, Director of the spoke on the Commonwealth Opportunity School Business Partnership Programs, a Fund. Laura Rotondo , SGA President, part of the Education Cooperative of then presented him with a Lesley sweat­ Wellesley; shirt for himself and a large get-well card Michael Velsmid, Jr. President of Lenox covered with students ' signatures for his Merchandising Division for Lenox, Inc., wife Kitty, who had been recently manufacturer of fine china and crystal. Mr. hospitalized. Velsmid has a Master of Science degree in His wife Kitty is a Lesley graduate , a Management from PMBI; former faculty member of the Joan Wallace-Benjamin , Director of Pro­ Undergraduate School , and a Trustee of gram Services , Boys and Girls Clubs of the College. Boston. Her sister Janet Peters also attended Lesley, and their father Harry Ellis Dickson was given an honorary Doctor of Humane Letter degree at the May 1986 Commencement. To lop ii off, son John Dukakis is en­ gaged to a Lesley alumna .

The Gorvernor shows off his new sweatshirt presented by Laura Rotondo, '87 . 11

Notes of Current,,,. Interest

Patricia Squire and Barbara Aschheim, Corpora/ors.

Robie Harris, Trustee. Michael Holmes, Corporator.

Merle Royte Nelson, Trustee. Jacqueline Hart Leach, '67, Corpora/or, and Chris Pratt, Trustee . Robert Peterkin , Corpora/or .

Deanne Silk Rosenberg, '74, Corporator.

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a. Student panel discusses Lesley 's educational philosophy of praxis, combining theory with practice : (I to r) Charles Wheeler , PMBI ; Kim Wexler , UG; Laura Rotondo , UG; Andrea Gordon , Arts Institute , GS ; and President McKenna .

b. Margie Tanzer-Glou , '64, Corpora/or .

c. Maxine Kates , '67, Corpora/or .

d. Joan Wal/ace-Benjamin, Corpora/or.

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Businesses, Colleges, Join The Lesley Bookshelf City Schools in a New Brenda Engel, Associate Professor of Advanced Graduate Study and Research Partnership Division, GS, has had her paper, "Educa­ tion: A Universe of Discourse;' published in The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, Teaching and Learning: The Journal of its member businesses and industries, and Natural Inquiry, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter the three major institutions of higher 1986. education in Cambridge - Lesley, Har­ Woman 's Way of Knowing: The vard, and MIT - joined with the Cam­ Development of Self , Voice, and Mind by bridge School Department to announce the Dr. Jill Tamie , Associate Provost for Facul­ formation of the Cambridge Partnership for ty Development, was favorably reviewed by Public Education. The New York Times of October 5. Dr. In early November, President McKenna Tarule was co-author of the book with attended the Founder's luncheon and Mary Belenky, Blythe Clinchy, and Nancy represented the City's institutions of higher Goldberger. education at a press conference announc­ On Sept. 2, The Boston Phoenix gave a ing the Partnership. favorable review to How to Get a Job in In addition to the many joint Boston by Renee Levine, Assistant Director Lesley/Cambridge School programs Lesley Hal O'Day, representative of the Seiler Corporation, and President McKenna cut the ribbon to of the GS Independent Study Degree Pro­ will contribute four scholarships in teacher open a_refurbished Charlie's Snack Bar. gram. The book not only provides informa­ education to deserving Cantabrigians. tion on resumes, etc., but also lists occupa­ President McKenna notes that, "Lesley's tional fields in Boston. involvement with the Cambridge Partner­ George Hein, Dean of the Division of ship will strengthen and extend the Col­ Lesley College Receives Several Corporate Grants Advanced Graduate Study and Research, lege's already deep commitment to the had his article, "The North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation," in the latest issue of education of our City's students. By for­ During the winter months, Lesley Col­ puters are integrated into the curriculum. The Radical Teacher. It traces the history of mally linking our institution's expertise and lege received several major corporate In addition, a joint Apple/Lesley educa­ this group and its importance in the conti­ resources to those of the business/cor­ grants. tional conference will be held on campus nuing effort to provide quality education porate community and other institutions of The Boston Edison Foundation has this coming fall. for all children. higher education, we can create a truly ex­ made a $30,000 grant, payable over three The Seiler Corporation, the College's Dan Bivona , Lecturer in Humanities ceptional model for educational excellence years, to support the work of the new food service vendor, awarded a grant of (UG), who received his Ph.D. in English in Cambridge:' Science Laboratory Resource Center. The $6,500 to make physical improvements to Literature from Brown University, wrote an Bob Lewis, Vice President for External grant will strengthen the College's initiatives Charlie's Snack Bar and to diversify its article on Alice in Wonderland, "Alice the Affairs and Treasurer of the Partnership, in science and mathematics education, and menu. The renovations were completed in Child-Imperialist and the Games of adds, "The Partnership is a natural for give science and math teachers at Boston's January. Wonderland, " which appeared in the Lesley. It benefits our students and our public schools an opportunity to study at Finally: the New England Telephone September issue of Nineteenth-Century programs:' Lesley'. Company has made a pledge of $24,000, Literature. Another article, "Disraeli's Apple Computer has agreed to give payable over three years from its Presi­ Political Trilogy and the Antinomic Struc­ Lesley twenty II GS's and related equip­ dent's Special Academic Support Fund. ture of Imperial Desire;' is due to be ment, with a total value of approximately Lesley College was one of only 21 colleges published in Novel next year. $55,000. Apple's support will enhance the in New England to receive such funding. An article by Dr. William Evans , PMBl's value of our educational programs as com- Research Curriculum Coordinator , was published in the Summer 1986 issue of Education. Entitled, 'The Investigation of Sharing and Caring Across the Generations Curriculum Implementation Factors;' the More than 100 Foster Grandparents article discusses strategy for scaling cur­ from the Boston area last fall participated riculum implementation levels and for in a seminar, "Communication Across classifying those levels from a set of predic­ Roles and Generations," with Lesley tor variables using multiple discriminate sophomores as part of the core curriculum. analysis. Administrator of the Foster Grandparents Barry Sugarman, Professor of Manage­ Edith Stein joined Dr. Lenore Parker and ment, GS, co-authored a case study with Dr. Carol Jenkins, of the UG core faculty, two Lesley management graduate students, to develop strategies for communicating Suzanne P. Bassett and Johnna D. across the generations. Ferderber, which has been adopted for The Grandparents interacted with publication by Lord Publishing, Dover, MA. undergraduate students and core teaching The study is entitled "A Friendly Merger assistants Faith Bader, Mitzi Hagen, Debbie Between Health and Human Service Ormsby, Linda Stansfield, and Mary Agencies: A Case Study Concerning Pro­ Sullivan in small group discussions and role ject COPE , North Shore Children's playing to highlight approaches to im­ Hospital , and HEALTHNET". proved communication in educational Dr. Sugarman's article on therapeutic settings . communities entitled "Structure, Variations, President Margaret McKenna greeted the and Context: A Sociological View of the students and Foster Grandparents and T.C:' has appeared in an international sym­ stressed the importance of professional posium edited by George De Leon and roles and of community service in the James T. Zie·genfuss, Jr. Therapeutic Com­ educational settings that will now be ac­ munities for Addictions, Springfield, IL: commodating large numbers of children in Chas. C. Thomas, 1986 , pp. 65-82. this "baby boomlet" era . The seminar concluded with a presenta­ tion by Beth Sanders-Hines of the Lesley faculty, showing the power of puppetry, music, and song as ways to help people a. get to know and understand each other. The Foster Grandparents Program is a national organization of 18,000 members a. Lenore Parker, UG faculty, chats with members of the Foster Grandparents Program. administered locally through Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD). b. A selection of books by Lesley authors. Last year the program was honored with UNICEF's "Gift of Love" Award which helped mark the twentieth anniversary of the program.

b. 13 ,. Notes of Current,. Interest

New Appointments

Pamela Glenn Menke as Lesley's first Provost. (Please see story on page 1.)

Dr. Susan Friel, as Director of a Mathematics , Science , and Technology Steven Brown, PMBl's Assistant Dean Center at Lesley. She will have primary for Academic and Student Services , as Ac­ responsibility for developing activities and ting Dean of PMBI. Linda Escobedo cur­ funding for a new center that will serve as rent Vice President and Dean, is taking a a focus and catalyst for advances in cur­ sabbatical and will leave Lesley as of June riculum development , research and 30. teaching about science, mathematics , and technology. Since 1984, Susan has served as Vice Deborah Hawkins as Director of Alum­ Jill Mattuck Tamie, as Associate Pro­ President and Dean of the Undergraduate ni Relations. Previous to coming to Lesley, vost for Faculty Development. She was School. She has also served as Division she was Chief of Staff to Massachusetts formerly Assistant to the President for Head of Science, has been co-coordinator State Senator Richard A. Kraus and has Academic Affairs and Director of the Lesley of Lesley's annual Computer Conference, had extensive community and state Weekend Learning Community in the has directed staff training for an NSF pro­ organizational experience. Deborah is a Outreach and Alternative Education Divi­ ject at Bank Street College, and is a prin­ graduate of Newcomb College of Tulane sion of the Graduate School. cipal investigator on a Technical Education University, New Orleans , LA, where she Research Center (TERC)-Lesley NSF grant. majored in French Literature. The Center she will head is designed to pull together Lesley's programmatic strengths in these areas and increase the College's impact on the local, regional and national scene. Susan will continue as Associate Pro­ fessor of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Dr. Karen Robinson, as Acting Dean of the Undergraduate School. She will assist the Provost with undergraduate curriculum development and will continue as Dean of Education and as Associate Professor of Education in the Undergraduate School.

Sally Lenhardt, as Assistant to the Pro­ vost for Enrollment Management. Sally had been Assistant Dean of Graduate School Student Services.

Elizabeth (Betty) Little, as Registrar. She has been a special consultant in the Registrar's Office since September , 1985. Me_lissa Kogut, as Assistant Director of She was formerly Registrar and Senior Ad­ Alumni Relations . Melissa last worked at ministrator at Fisher Junior College and the Charles Hotel and for MASS Choice . Clara Thurber, former Dean of the College , Grahm Junior College. Betty has a She has a B.A. in French from the Univ. of shows President McKenna an early yearbook, Southern California. master's in Educational Administration from after lunch in the Dean 's Rockport home . Suffolk University and recently completed the graduate program for Women in Politics and Government at Boston College .

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The Tab Boston Sunday Globe Boston Sunday Globe The Patriot Ledger September 2, 1986 November 2, 1986 December 7, 1987 February 5, 1987 Viewpoint: A Good Start A Lesson in U.S.-Soviet Understanding Early Childhood is the Time to Prevent Educators, Students Concerned About Adult Illiteracy Teacher Testing Implications This opinion piece , authored by Pro­ Soviet educators Gregory D. Dmitriyev fessor of Education Mary Mindess , offered and Valentina S. Mitina spoke with Presi­ In this Perspective article by the Globe's This article on teacher testing issued a insight and valuable suggestions to parents dent McKenna , Lesley faculty and ad­ Education Editor Muriel Cohen , she argues cautionary warning that competency testing for preparing their child for the first day at ministrators, and colleagues from Boston­ that it will be cheaper in the long run to in­ be careful not to lock qualified people out school. area colleges about teacher training in the vest in literacy programs for children today of their chosen profession . Dean of U.S. and the Soviet Union at a Lesley Col­ rather than face the costs of supporting il­ Undergraduate Education Karen Robinson Boston Sunday Globe Magazine lege round table discussion . This visit, literate adults tomorrow . One of the two discussed the pitfalls of testing , ''A com ­ September 28, 1986 organized by Lesley College and Educators strategies descr ibed to combat illiteracy was petency test , if chosen properly - and I The View From Here - South Africans for Social Responsibility (ESR), was part of the Cambridge -Lesley Literacy Project emphasize that - could function as a gate ­ Look Homeward a five-city tour of the United States by the headquartered at Lesley College . "There is keeping measure . But it could be a Soviet educators . "We have different social a new body of research and insight, a dangerous me,asure if it is the sole way to In this feature -length article about South systems , but we should work together to developmental understanding of what keep people out of the profession :' Lesley African emigres, Vivian Marcow, Assistant overcome stereotypes and suspicions in children know, in print." said Mary Snow , College seniors Dorothy Arndt and Laura Dean of the Lesley College Graduate our thinking ;' Dmitriyev said . co-director of the Project. Professor Snow Rotondo gave the student perspective on School Arts Institute, was profiled . Dean is further quoted as saying that the schools teacher testing. "It's important to see how Marcow described the internal conflict she The Wall Street Journal should be restructured to create an en­ you do in the classroom. You could be felt growing up under South Africa's system November 11, 1987 vironment that encourages children to great on an exam , but if you can't get in of apartheid . "From the age of 6 or 7 or 8 Teaching Teaching read. front of those kids and communicate on I knew there was no way I could come to their level . . . you're not very good;' Arndt terms with living in South Africa;' she said. In this front-page article the debate over Channel 4 WBZ-TV said. teacher training is examined . President December 18, 1986 Industry Magazine McKenna warns that, "Lopping off tradi­ Live on 4 Boston Woman Magazine October 1986 tional education courses on psychology March, 1987 Learning by Swapping Experiences and child development would be a big The focus of Channel 4 WBZ-TV's lead­ mistake ." She is further quoted , ''A lot of in news program was a look at the President McKenna was named one of This article in the official monthly people think that all we need to do is to teaching profession. Chris Conangla inter­ Boston's "One Hundred Interesting magazine of associated industries of get smart college graduates who like kids viewed Dean of Undergraduate Education Women" in honor of International Women's Massachusetts provided an in-depth look at and put them in the classrooms. But not Karen Robinson as well as Lesley Day. "In their own unique ways, the 100 Lesley College's Programs in Management with my first-grader you don't. I would Undergraduates Elaine Ostroskey and Lin­ individuals honored in this special portfolio for Business and Industry (PMBI). A rather my child learn little in first grade and da Rocco. have made meaningful contributions to number of the factors that make this pro­ have his self-esteem protected :' Boston life. Call them dynamic . Their fields gram desirable include location , the multi­ The Christian Science Monitor of expertise are diverse, yet each of these ple models for solving management prob ­ Education Week December 22, 1986 women share several attributes : commit­ lems brought to the classroom by the November 11, 1986 Nurturing Peacemakers in Preschool ment , perseverance , and high standards of students , customized core curricula , and Grants to Help Train Middle School Classrooms personal performance ." study groups . The article pointed out that Teachers enthusiasm for the program was not limited Sparked by research in the early 1980's Boston Sunday Globe to students . Judging by the high proportion Dr. Linda Schulman, head of the on youth's reaction to nuclear issues, the March 7, 1987 (75 percent) of students who receive tui­ Science Division of the Lesley College idea of teaching peacemaking has now When Courts Dictate the Reading List tion reimbursement from their companies, Undergraduate School, discussed the im­ filtered down to the youngest levels. For "the companies must agree that the PMBI portance of the million dollar National young children, the curriculum tends to This opinion piece written by President program is a good investment'.' Science Foundation Middle School Science revolve around three issues: conflict resolu ­ McKenna appeared in a special Learning and Mathematics Curriculum Grant recent­ tion ; sensitivity to the differences among Pages section dedicated to the teaching of United Press International (UPI) ly awarded to Lesley College. The middle people; and techniques to cope with the literature. President McKenna looked at the October 2, 1986 school years, she said, are where students vast array of war and violent toys, as well literacy' issue from the perspective of a Dukakis Praises Teachers form lasting impressions about science and as TV shows and the aggressive play they series of recent court decisions which have mathematics . The development and im­ may spawn. Lesley College early childhood cast an inhibiting shadow over the range of Governor Michael Dukakis urged the plementation of the math and science cur­ specialist Nancy Carlsson-Paige's work in discourse permissible in the classroom. She Commonwealth's young people to consider riculum for prospective teachers is also this area is highlighted . noted that , ''As we consider new magnets teaching careers, saying "Teachers are our aimed at increasing women's interest in to attract and retain the best teachers, we most important link to ensuring a bright those fields as well as emphasizing the rela­ The New York Times must consider the effect produced in the and prosperous future :' tionship between science and society, she December 28, 1986 classroom when curricula and teaching The article noted that Dukakis addressed added. Working 40 Hours a Week, But Not for a styles are determined by the courts ." 100 students, faculty, and administrators at Salary Lesley College , a leading teachers college, Boston Sunday Globe The Boston Globe as part of a week-long focus on education . November 23, 1986 Lesley alumna and corporation member March 27, 1987 The Governor called for measures that Going to Graduate School on Home Deborah Raizes was the focus of this article Asian Youths Feel Pressure of Two would increase opportunities for those who Ground on the intellectual stimulation, satisfaction , Cultures want to attend college, attract the best and and freedom of volunteer work. Mrs. brightest teachers to Massachusetts , prevent One of the many off-campus Lesley Col­ Raizes said that she finds working with In a front page story, Lesley College dropouts , and create an adult literacy lege programs was highlighted in this article other volunteers challenging and complex , freshman Leakhena Chan discussed the corps. about advantages of degree programs of­ "You can't have an 'it's the least you can do' difficulties and pressures of adjusting to a fered at local sites. Five Duxbury teachers , or 'how can you not?' attitude ... If some ­ different culture . Leakhena , a Cambodian Boston Sunday Globe enrolled in the Master's in Education in one can give only an hour and you have refugee , came to America in 1981. She October 26, 1986 Computers Program , will receive their given 50 hours , you sti'll have to make that and her family survived war, concentration Educators Challenge IQ Tests as Ac­ Lesley College degree without leaving the person feel appreciated and let her know camps, near starvation, the death of her curate Measurement South Shore . she's doing a really marvelous job, because father , and six years of no schooling . Since she is." coming to America , Leakhena graduated The controversy surrounding standard IQ Boston Sunday Globe from South Boston High where she was a testing was addressed in an article describ­ November 30, 1986 Attleboro Sun Chronicle National Honor Society Student. Leakhena ing the Lesley College Conference on Educators Seek to Improve Preschool January 8, 1987 said that despite academic achievement , Assessment. The day-long conference ex­ Care Outside Home Learning Disabled Develop Skills, Win she feels the pressure of living in "two amined the growing number of non ­ Jobs Through Unique Program worlds ." As a Cambodian woman , she is English speak ing and multicultural students The impact of day care and early supposed to be reserved . As an American , entering the classroom , which has childhood education on the social, political, Threshold graduate Margaret Birch she said, "I have to be independent , out ­ necessitated a new era in student testing . and economic issues facing America today discussed how the Threshold program going , I can't be shy." "Special education today appears on the was the subject of this article describing helped her gain work, social skills and in­ verge of yet another major change ;' said Lesley C~llege's 25th Annual Kindergarten dependence . The advantage of Threshold , Maria Serpa , Director of Lesley's Moderate Conference. The historical role of early she said , is that it takes people who have Special Needs Programs . "Traditional ideas childhood education in Massachusetts was traditionally been given limitations because concern ing the nature of intelligence , learn ­ also described by Professor of Education of a disability and tries to tear down the ing, and creativity are being challenged Mary Mindess , who was honored at the boundaries . and modified , as is our appreciation of the conference as founder of the 25-year-old meaning of such factors as culture , event , which is attended by over 2,000 language , and gender :' New England early childhood educators . 15 Alumni News

Eleanor DeWolfe Ludeke 'These days , nobody takes the time to listen to children . I think you have to like Ask Eleanor DeWolfe Ludeke about her to have fun to really like children, and peo­ Lesley College years and she conjures up ple today take themselves too seriously:' images of a world governed by a different Through her years at Lesley, and later in time clock. The 1929 graduate of the then­ her work for the AFS, as a mother , and a Lesley School's 2-year kindergarten teacher civic leader in Belmont , and now as a busy preparation program remembers a time grandmother , Eleanor DeWolfe Ludeke has when tea dances and formal balls at the known how to have fun. She 's retained Copley Plaza and the Ritz were almost memberships in a variety of organizations , weekly extra curricula events; and the Harvard Club, Women's City Club in residence halls had hostesses and Boston , and B.U. Women 's Council among housemothers to make sure that Lesley them . And when her social schedule brings girls got in at a respectable hour after the her into town for luncheon at the Copley Harvard / Dartmouth game. or the Ritz, she can't help but recall the In those days , Lesley College was yet to days when the ballrooms of Boston were be. Rather , the Lesley School operated out filled with elegant and exuberant men and of the home of Edith Lesley Wolfard, while women revellers - a carefree time that's the school 's students lived in three large part of Lesley's history and a cherished residences adjoining 29 Everett Street. time in her memory . After graduation , Mrs. Ludeke decided not to pursue a professional career in early Postscript: A young woman (in her twen­ childhood education. Nonetheless , she ties) listening to Mrs. Ludcke 's recollections cherishes her years at Lesley. She believes of high life at Lesley College commented , that "every school you attend becomes a "You have a great attitude: ' Eleanor Leakhana Chan of Cambodia (2nd from right) with friends and family on Opening Day in part of your life and Lesley was a very im­ DeWolfe Ludeke said, "I hope I retain it." September 1986. (See "Lesley in the News" article, •~sian Youths Feel Pressure of Two portant part (of mine) . I met my husband Judging by the spark of life animating her Cultures ," on page 14.) while I was at Lesley and I enjoyed every thoughts and recollections, she's in no minute of my two years there ." danger , whatsoever , of losing it. Mrs. Ludeke is also clearly someone who doesn't believe in dwelling in the past. Asked about her philosophy of life, she's likely to quote Gail Sheehey , author of The Lesley Telefund Passages , about the need to experience In less than four months of actual call­ have given me input as to what Lesley has fully each of the transitions the stream of ing, according to Jed Rardin, Project done for them - which I found to be very life places before us. In the years after Manager, the new Lesley College Telefund helpful." - Becky Schwartz '90 Lesley, her natural empathy with children has already raised over $80,000 in pledges Callers must go through a training period and youth combined with her curiosity from alumni and parents toward this year's designed to strengthen their verbal com­ about other people and other cultures led Annual Fund. The goal is to raise munications skills, their confidence, and her to found the Boston Chapter of the $110,000 by June 30. their ability to remain persistent in a variety American Field Service (AFS), and to chair Operating out of the commuter lounge of situations. A good caller is someone the chapter from 1952-1970 . The in the Raizes Student Center , Telefund puts who listens well, is aware of developments American Field Service is an international Lesley students in touch with Lesley alumni at Lesley, and has the ability to formulate a exchange program that places high-school­ ' across the country. Telefund is more than strong case for giving. Most important, age youth with host families for a year of I just a component of the Annual Fund, it is however, is a strong desire to help Lesley "international living." Over the years, she I an ongoing effort to reach out personally maintain its leadership role and its and her husband regularly hosted ex­ to alumni and parents and inform them of academic excellence. change students from around the world. the exciting developments taking place Thanks to the talents and dedication of International understanding remains an im­ right here on campus. It likewise allows over 40 undergraduate and graduate portant interest to her. alumni and parents the chance to ask callers, 1,757 of the 2,856 people we have Retired from "active duty" in the AFS, questions, to voice their opinions about contacted to date have pledged their sup­ she still retains an interest in young people. these developments, and to keep us in­ port. The success of Telefund would not be And her concern for the future has led her formed of what they are doing now. possible without their hard work or without to endow scholarships at institutions as For student callers, Telefund is more the generosity of Lesley's contributing diverse as Westbrook College in Maine, than just another campus job, it is a alumni and parents. To those of you who Boston University, and Lesley College. chance to earn money while developing have made a gift to Lesley this year, thank At Lesley College, Mrs. Ludeke has skills that can last a lifetime. you - your support is greatly appreciated established a bequest of $500,000 to the "Telefund has been a very rewarding ex­ and will help assure that Lesley remains College: $150,000 of the gift has been perience for me. I've had the chance to the leader in education that it is. dedicated to the Raizes Student Center, speak with Lesley Alumni from all over To those of you who have yet to be con­ where the Eleanor DeWolfe Ludeke and my speaking confidence has improved tacted by a caller, please consider the real lounge, cafe, and mezzanine have already a great deal." - Lisa Coolican, '89. value of your Lesley education. Your gift to become important focal points of campus Eleanor DeWolfe Ludeke, '29. "Telefund has helped me to be more this year's Annual Fund is critical and will life; and $350,000 of the gift has estab­ confident when dealing with people. Some ensure that the College will continue to lished the Eleanor DeWolfe Ludeke En­ of the people I've come in contact with thrive in the decades ahead. dowed Scholarship Fund. She explains the reasons for her gift this way: "All of us, throughout life, go through phases. For Bequests years I wasn't at all interested (in my alma mater) . But now I am interested in helping Through your will you can improve the people who are really struggling." quality of education for future Lesley Col­ Today, Mrs. Ludeke lives in Needham lege students and enrich the lives of with her husband "Gip;' one of the original generations to come . A bequest is a way of principals in the Putnam Investment firm. ensuring that the support you have always One daughter , Constance , lives in Califor­ given to Lesley College will continue . Be­ nia, pursuing a highly successful real estate quests can be made in cash , securities , career. A second daughter , Martha, is a works of art, or other types of property . To vice president at Boston 's State Street confidentially explore a bequest to Lesley Bank. Like her father, Martha is involved College or to receive sample bequest in mutual fund investments . Eleanor is language for review by you and your proud of both her daughters , and equally attorney please contact: proud of her three grandchildren , whom she describes as having , since childhood , Leslie A. Mattson an open and confiding relationship with Director of Development their grandmother. She says that the secret Lesley College to that relationship is mutual respect: "I 29 Everett Street never treat children as children . I hate to Cambridge , MA 02138 hear people talk down to young ones . (617) 868 -9600 ext. 134 They have their own needs , opinions , ideas . When my grandson Jimmy was no more than three , he'd come into my room on visits and say, 'Grandma , let's talk:

Telefund callers Ann-Marie Cunningham, '89, and Susan Nealon, '89, with Project Manager Jed Rardin. 16

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A Letter from Lesley,s New On the Road Again A Report to Lesley Alumni 1927 The mountains were like a beautiful by Gerri Milhender Bloomberg, '61 Alumni Director Constance Tenney has been livingin St. snow-topped theatrical backdrop made President of the Alumni Association After seven months at Lesley as Director Petersburg,FL, since 1941 and welcomesalum­ even more unreal by the 73-degree sunny ni in the area to drop in. of Alumni Relations, I must say, I'm proud weather. Such was the setting for the Lesley is ,very exciting these days. As to be a part of the dynamic Lesley family. Lesley staff and faculty trip to Colorado, I returned to Vermont from an alumni Everyone has welcomed me with open home of 300 alumni and 700 Lesley council meeting on campus, I was im­ 1931 arms and has energetically greeted my ef­ students. pressed and energized by my visit. Helen Clark Dinjian, of Arlington, winters in forts to provide a focused program and On March 5 and 6, Denver was also realistic goals for the Association . Hearing the reports of the region Boca Raton, FL, and says "Hello" to her hosting the National Association of classmates. In my former life I ran a number of Psychologists Annual Conference where Jill representatives from across the United political campaigns and then served as States about focused alumni programs Beatrice Grant Gellerson and her husband, Tarule, Associate Provost, Carol Streit, Arnold, celebrated their 50th wedding anniver­ chief of staff to a state senator in the Director of the Human Services Program, from our Alumni Director and about sary at their winter residence in Florida this past Massachusetts state legislature. I've worked UG, and Mary Ann Gawelek, Acting Dean campus changes and increased giving December. She retired from teaching to raise her with volunteers for many years and con­ of the Counseling / Psychology Division, showed me my alma mater was "on family and later founded a class for retarded sider volunteer leadership development to GS, made a presentation on Women and the move," and that prospect is ex­ children called "The Dale Evans Room." Soon be one of the most important goals for an after it was renamed "The LittleRed Learning. On Thursday night they gave a citing. Throughout the country, region organization. mini-presentation to 100 area alumni, staff, Schoolhouse~Over the years Beatrice served as I expect my job in helping to build and representatives are now organizing a teacher, school director, and president of the and students, followed by a reception. events with great style and aplomb. board. The school is now in its 27th year. support Lesley volunteer leadership will ''A very merry group and all so high on Deborah Hawkins, our new Alumni Beatrice was honored with a plaque from the continue to be enjoyable and rewarding. Lesley;' says Deborah Hawkins, Director of Director, has provided the council and Maine American Legionfor being an outstan­ That Lesley dedication, pride, and energy Alumni Relations, on her first visit to meet ding Maine citizen. seem to pervade every meeting and every Colorado alumni. Deborah described the the association with well-defined and Bernice Stone Kaplan, of Carbondale, IL, alumni encounter. new Denver Chapter President Ozzie realistic goals. has three married children. Daughter Elaine lives The only way to develop leadership is to Carter as energetic, saying, "l predict the More welcome news: A campus in Heston, VA; Joyce in Oklahoma City; and provide opportunities for participation. Denver chapter will soon be one of our bookstore will open in August that will Lee Allan, a physician,in La Jolla, CA. Your region and chapter structure provides most active chapters." stock texts and Lesley memorabilia, the perfect vehicle. I invite you to join While the Cambridge faculty were and the gym will be turned into a 1932 other alumns in the strengthening of your presenting their seminar, Mary Huegel, local chapter in the recruitment of prospec­ health-fitness room with new and Dean of the GS Outreach and Alternative modern exercise machines . These are Marion Mee McKeever teaches art on Mon­ tive students, and in the planning of your Education Division, and Janet Cromie day afternoons at the Catherine McGowan only some of the changes coming to next reunion. Kelly, Director of UG Admissions, met with Senior Center in Scituate, where she and her Lesley and her students. Lesley's alumni are her most valuable local site coordinators and with Frank and husband Raymond live. asset. I look forward to exploring oppor­ Louise Cordell of the National Outreach Speaking about students , at the tunities and to my ongoing work with you. Office in Greeley, Colorado. Jan was council meeting we shared thoughts 1935 especially impressed by their enthusiasm over lunch with two sophomores. The and eagerness to help in undergraduate council wanted to know how current Eleanor Tintchell Gustapson, her husband, admission recruitment work. "Because of students felt. Did they feel good about and two children are busy with recyclingprojects the energy represented in that room;' Jan their educations? Was Lesley preparing to raise money for the Gustapson Scholarshipat Alumni Regional Structure Kansas University. said, "I expect to see more inquiries and them well? The answers were loud af­ Many alumni have asked for a descrip­ students from Colorado in coming years." firmatives. Of course, they were too tion of the regional structure of the Alumni "All in all, Colorado was a highly suc­ busy with coursework, placements, Association. The country is divided into cessful trip," said Mary Huegel. But it wasn't and extracurricular organization work. five alumni regions (see map). Each region over yet. Carol, Jill, Mary Ann, and Mary has two representatives who are responsi ­ were off to Cheyenne , Wyoming, for a We remember those problems. Some Join Alumni Weekend student-alumni reception. Deborah at­ things never change. ble for informing regional alumni about Did you graduate in a year ending in a Lesley activities in their region. The Region tended an Illinois alumni reception organ­ They spoke of great new oppor­ three or eight? If so, you'll want to reserve Representatives serve two-year terms on ized by Joselyn Kirkegaard, and Jan re­ tunities, such as being able to take June 5-7, 1988, for your reunion at turned to Cambridge for Saturday admis­ courses in the Graduate School and to the Alumni Council. Of the Lesley active Lesley. Would you enjoy contacting alumni 58 percent live in Region I sions interviews. study for a semester in any of the classmates and planning your reunion? (Massachusetts), 74 percent in Regions I There go those Lesley staff and faculty, many countries where Lesley has The Alumni Office needs class reunion on the road again. and II (New England). outreach programs. They spoke en­ representatives for the five-year reunion thusiastically about the values and sup­ classes. Join in. Get back in touch. Make III portive atmosphere of an all-women's your reunion special. Organizing efforts for school and about their confidence in Reunion '88 will begin in late summer. their Lesley preparation. Contact Deborah Hawkins now at (617) I truly was impressed with these 868-9600. young women, their poise, their sense of direction, and their confidence. I could go on, but I think it would be Teachers in Transition better for you to see for yourself. And Teachers in Transition is an independent you can. Come join us next year for study that will examine the reasons Reunion Weekend, June 5-7, 1988. teachers leave the profession. The study Get in touch with your regional will attempt to go beyond the popular representative or the alumni associa­ issues of salary and merit pay by examin ­ tion. Let the excitement carry you back ing other factors of importance to teachers, to your Lesley days and forward to including daily schedules, class size, peer Lesley's dynamic future. interaction, and administrative support. Participant qualifications include former teachers who have taught within the last Alumnae Admissions 15 years and current teachers who are seriously considering a career change. If Representatives Assist in you are interested in participating in the study and completing a questionnaire, Recruiting please write TEACHERS IN TRANSITION, V The Alumnae Admissions Committee P.O. Box 8127, E. Lynn, MA 01940. continued in 1986 to assist the Undergraduate School Admissions Office with recruiting. Last fall, Alumnae from Region 1 Region 2 Region 3 Region 4 Region 5 New England and Florida attended local Our thanks to these and other Alumnae Eastern Mass. Western Mass. DE AL MS AR KS NM College Fairs and College Night Programs Admissions Committee Represen -tatives (Pointseast of CT D.C. FL NC AK LA OK and met with high school students and who have participated in the Letter Writing Pepperell, ME MD GA OH AZ MN OR Campaign, telephoned prospective IL SC CA MO SD their families to spread the Lesley word. Ayer, NH NJ students, and attended prospective student Marlboro, RI NY IN TN co MT TX Alumnae Admissions Committee Milford,and VT PA KY WV HI NB UT Chairperson, Susan L. Massicotte, and days on campus. Blackstone) VA Ml WI ID ND WA Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admis­ Those interested in becoming an Alum­ IA NV WY sions, Judith A. Pearson, recognize the nae Admissions Representative, may call ForeignCountries following Alumnae for their participation in Judith Pearson in the Undergraduate Ad­ these College Fair Programs. missions Office at (617) 868-9600, xl 76. Local chapters exist within each Region. Relations will attend chapter events. A A chapter is formed when a group of chapter can consist of from ten to one Sue Martucci '86 Newington, CT Concord HS CN alumni wish to participate regularly at their hundred alumni. If you are interested in Georgiana Wilson '60 Rocky Hill, CT Glastonbury HS CN local level. Chapter activities can range forming a Lesley chapter, please contact Marcia Chauncey '59 Lake Worth, FL Benjamin School CF from social receptions and gatherings to Deborah Hawkins in the Alumni Relations Carol Cook '75 Sarasota, FL Sarasota County CN professional-related presentations. Often office, at (617) 868-9600. Julia Cory King '80 Boca Raton, FL Pope John Paul II HS CN the President or the Director of Alumni Donna Buonopane '78 Randolph, MA Quincy High School CN Judith Field '81 Scituate, MA Scituate HS CN Betsy Weisse! '64 Natick, MA Wayland HS CN 17

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1936 1960 1969 1976 Jean Taylor and husband William recently Linda Cooley Levene is a travel consultant. Janice Sarno Doran and her husband are Joni Bass Brown, '80G, tutors special needs celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Paula Rozomofsky Ungar and her husband , professional parents for Integrated Foster Care of children in her home and has become especially Michael, recently hosted a reception for Presi­ Cambridge. They have two children of their involved in Jewish education. She has written dent McKenna in their home in Palos Verdes, own, Joshua (5) and Jimmy (10). They also magazine articles on Jewish special education 1938 California. have 5 foster, special-needs children ranging in and wrote a chapter on the subject for a prin­ age from 1½ to 18 years. cipal's handbook. She and husband Chuck live Yvonne Hayes Young, retired after 42 years Barbara Granetz Koval has retired from in Framingham with Jeffrey (5) and Scott (2). of teaching, is now active in a retired teachers 1962 teaching behaviorally disordered students in an Pamela H. Bush is engaged to Seth organization and does volunteer hospital work. alternative Anchorage , Alaska, high school. She Denenberg. A July wedding is planned . Pam is She enjoys visiting her two grandchildren, Lind­ Faith Bowker, a grade 1 teacher at the has three children: Daniel (2), Kate (8), and attending St. John's Law School and her fiance say (4) and Bradford (7). Joseph Osgood School was awarded a citation Jennifer (9). Husband Paul opened his own law is an attorney for the Legal Aid Society. in recognition of her outstanding service to office last summer. Christine Discenza married Scott Franklin of children by the Plymouth County Education Joanne D'Amato Spencer , husband David, West Hartford, CT. She is a special reading 1939 Association Annual Awards Banquet in April. and son Eric moved five years ago to Naples , teacher in Tolland, CT. Scott is an attorney with Faith is president of the North Scituate Beach FL, to escape the cold winters. "Naples is a love­ Mason and Drew, P.C. Dorothy Pfeiffer Marshall recently moved to Improvement Association and disaster chairman ly beach community;' writes Joanne. She aRd Judith Murray Homer gave birth to Lauren Florida and is enjoying her new area and for Scituate-Norwell Red Cross. She has been her husband work in the same real estate office. Ann on November 21, 1985. neighbors. active in many volunteer efforts in Scituate. Carol Hurley has been appointed special Mary Elizabeth King Stevens , of North Ann Kazer is activities coordinator for needs tutor at the North Andover Middle Caldwell, NJ, has 3 grown children and 8 grand­ B.A.D.D.D. (Business Against Drunk and 1970 School. · children. She summers on Cape Cod and sees Drugged Drivers). Deborah Littell is a reading specialist at E. Virginia Carter Worneck, '39, who lives in Ada Price Allen is a recipient of the Lucretia Barbara Smidt teaches grade 4 at the Center Falmouth Elementary School. Chatham, and Barbara Mitchell Howard, and Crocker Award. Ada currently serves the Alumni School in Peabody . Kathleen Kelley Lynch is director of pupil Dori Dewey Delaney , both '40. Association as class reunion representative for personnel services for Littleton public schools the 25th reunion class and lives with her husband , Peter, in 1971 Chelmsford. She recently earned a Ph.D. from 1943 the Univ. of Pennsylvania . 1963 Marjorie Burrows Feldman has been living in Lourdes Marie Correia sends a warm hello Anchorage, Alaska, since 1975 . She authored Lynn Selover Massa and husband , Bob, had a baby boy, Anthony Robert , on July 27, 1986 . to former classmates, especially Betty Kelly Marilyn Saltz Bernheimer , of Wellesley Hills, "The Winter Hearts" and has another book soon Cook, Elaine Callahan Cavanaugh, Jean to be published by Avon Press. Marjorie has two They also have two daughters , Maria (6) and is an interior designer. Her husband , Lenny, is in Amy (4). Fothergill Hahn , and Marilyn Cummings the printing business and has been the National sons, Peter (6) and James (2). Jill Miller and Louis Broccoletti were married Hart. Squash Racquet Champion in the over-40 divi­ Mary Retcalf Pahm gave birth to a baby girl on April 10, 1987 . sion for the past few years. Daughter Beth is a named Susan. Susan Hidman Waldman and husband Den­ junior at Williams, majoring in art history. Jon is nis announce the arrival of Devin Ashley on 1952 a freshman at Harvard and is also a top-ranking September 25, 1986 , exactly one month after squash player. 1972 their move to their Victorian dream house in Lois Berk Grayson is an artist and poet. She Susan Etelman was elected president of Waban . has had numerous shows and has published a Abacus Consulting Group in Bedford . She is Karyl Heifetz Chalfin gave birth to Gregory book. Lois is a proud grandmother of seven . also second vice president of the Women 's City Max on August 19, 1985. Jo Ellen McCoy recently joined the Jack Club of Boston . Patti Gordon Coam is a psychoeducational Conway Company in Needham as a real estate Lisa McCarthy is an account representative specialist at the Diagnostic Center affiliated with 1977 sales associate. with SAS Institute in Cary, NC. She is engaged the Univ. of Louisville School of Medicine. Hus­ Dorothy Miller Newton, elementary principal Lisa Bodge , a grade 4 teacher at the Studley to marry Craig C. Ostrander , a tax manager, in band Marvin, an attorney, has offices in in Raynham for 3 years, is looking forward to Louisville (KY) and Florida. They have two School in Attleboro, married Stephen Hopkins May, 1987. on April 20. Stephen owns and operates N.G. retirement. Martha Sauntry McLaughlin teaches grade 6 sons, Brandon (6) and Spencer (3). Judith Gould married Rudolph Kuehn last Rowing and works for a construction company. in St. Charles, IL. Her husband is a lawyer in a Lea F. Schuster married Peter Foti, Jr., on Chicago firm. fall. Judith is a teacher in the Houston (TX) 1953 public schools, where she and her husband live. October 4, 1986. She is studying !or a Christian Joyce Sokolove Wiseman is teacher/director education master's degree at Gordon Conwell of the Children 's Garden School in Canton. Wendy Carton Scheinberg teaches grade 3 Esther Henken is a teacher at the Hood in West Hartford, CT, and has two children: Theological Seminary in S. Hamilton. School in North Reading. Adam (11) and Robin (7). Ellen Sears Sansone visited Finland for the fourth time. She is taking writing courses and 1965 1978 hopes to write children's books . Carole Einstein's innovative art of the sea 1973 Ginny Malakie King had a baby boy named was shown in an exhibition-"Sea Spells" in Lex­ Leslie J. Aitken and her husband , Jonathan Peter Malachi King on July 15, 1985. ington last fall. 1958 Treate, had their first baby, Hilary Thompson, on Stacey Lubin recently married Richard May 14, 1986. Jacobs, a credit manager for Arthur Blank and Barbara Young Copking's grandson Michael Co. Stacey is a customer service representative A. Coplin is 4 years old. Her brother, Richard 1966 for Blue Cross/ Blue Shield. Sally Malloy and William P. Smith were mar­ Young, president and owner of Richmark Hand­ Eileen Cutler has been appointed assistant 1974 ried on August 2, 1986. Sally is director of Pro­ bags died in December 1985. Barbara lives in director of development in charge of alumni af­ Annette Silverstein Bohmstein , husband ject Co-Step for the Maine Board of Education. Brockton. fairs at Thayer Academy in Braintree . Her husband is the owner of Ridgeview Knoll in Mary Jane Rawlings Finethy has lived in Karen Gold Gray teaches math and social Alan, and son Jeremy (2) live in East Madison, NH. They live in Portland , Maine. N.H. for the past 8 years. Her daughter and son studies at Township High School in Freehold, Brunswick, NJ. Annette is employed by Perth Kathryn Salem-Taylor is a resource room are seniors in college. Mary Jane is an apart­ NJ, where her children, David and Jennifer, at­ Amboy High School. Jan Fogel, of Washington, DC, is a teaching teacher, grades K-5, and is vice president of the ment manager in a self-owned building in tend. She has received certification as Teacher of teacher's association in Scituate. Wolfboro, NH. She enjoys reading about Lesley the Handicapped from Georgian Court College assistant in a classroom of 10 handicapped children ages 2-4 at the Easter Seal Society. in The Current. in Lakewood, NJ. Phyllis Chepoosky recently exhibited her Jane Meyer Heard runs the Sandwich Library Thelma Goldberg operates her own dance studio, The Dance Inn, in Lexington. Formerly 1979 photography at the Community Action Agency used book sale. She and her husband live in in New Haven, CT. She has studied Thelma was a special needs teacher in the Sandwich with daughter Jennifer (16) and foster Stephanie Chalas married Gary Stafford last photography at Albertus Magnus College and daughter, Elizabeth (15). Boston schools for eight years, where she was Paier College of Art. named "Teacher of The Year". She is interested fall. She is a systems engineer for Hewlett­ in starting a dancing school for special needs Packard. Gary is an exploration geophysicist 1967 children and would love to hear from interested with Shell Oil. They reside in Austin, TX. 1959 alumni. Yvonne Gittens was recently promoted to associate director of student financial aid at MIT. Rosemary Ilvento Penta is a real estate Carol Lariviere has been named director of Faith Jarest teaches grades 2 and 3 in Janet Dickson Peters and her husband Alfred representative with Alan Chohov Agency in the Appleton School in Maine. The school has Francestown, NH. Previously, she had been a represented her sister Kitty Dukakis, '63, at a Shrewsbury, NJ . She and her husband live in 130 students grades K-8. reading specialist for Francestown and Green­ Falmouth Boat Parade. West Long Branch with their children: Kristin Nancy Newman Pearlstein gave birth to field for two years. (16), Michael (11), and Jonathan (8). triplets on December 20, 1985! They are named Shawn Latrice Mention was nominated as Linda Graham Ridge and husband Martin Ethan, Jed, and Zachary. Teacher of The Year in the independent school live in Phoenix , AZ, with their children , Deborah Greenberg Samuels runs her own district of Houston , TX, where she teaches Christopher (10) and Stephanie (8). Lynda catering business and lives in Lexington with her gifted grade 3 students. teaches reading by the "whole language " ap­ husband and 2 children. April Myra Pearce married Keith Lowe of proach ,at Sunrise Elementary School. Deidre Pangao Smith is enjoying her time at home with Joshua (5) and Andrew (3). She New York on December 13, 1986. They both Susanne Lelyveld Wittenberg and her hus­ teach in the Patchogue-Medford School System band, Paul, run a software company specializing teaches part time for a YMCA children's swim­ ming program. on Long Island. in teacher-designed programs for Chapter I and Diane Shulklapper Rubenstein and her hus­ 766 children. Susanne has taught reading in band, Rick, had a baby girl, Elizabeth Michelle, Rockland for 10 years since returning from 1975 on July 18, 1986. South Africa. Cynthia Vita married Peter A. Clarke on Charlene M. Dixon is a special education December 27 and they honeymooned in St. 1968 teacher in Prince George's County, MD, and is Thomas. They now live in Litchfield, NH, where very active in the Maryland State Teachers Peter is a manufacturer's representative. Vivian Nelson was a speaker at last year's Association. Virgin.ia Arbuckle, a counselor in private alumni reunion weekend. She is a real estate Judy Katz Solomon , husband Bob, and practice was a delegate last May to the Maine broker at The Lovely Agency. She and husband daughter Jessica (3) happily announce the birth State Democratic Convention. Her son George Bill and three children live in Foxboro. of Alyssa Faith, born July 11, 1986 . Judy has is a student at Brown Univ. and son Chris works been a preschool teacher in Chestnut Hill. in the restaurant business. Virginia lives in York, Maine. · Doris Granger , '35, chats with Alumni Director Deborah Hawkins at a Durham , NH, Alumni Reception in October at which Richard Wylie spoke . Graduate Class Notes

Toni-Jo Quinto Guardabascio is director of Robyn Mosley and Allen Keffer were married C.A.G.S. 1980 inservice education in a local long-term-care on July 12, 1986 . Robyn is working toward a Judith Williams , '81, recently joined the staff facility. She develops curriculum and provides master's degree in special education from Col­ of Strafford Guidance Center as manager of Amy Cole is engaged to Mark V. Buehler. on-the-job training and skill remediation. umbia Univ. and is teaching in the Greenwich youth and family services. She is a systems officer with Western Bank Marybeth James and Brian E. O'Connor (CT) public schools. Francis P. Manzelli, '83, is assistant Westheimer in Houston. He is a senior sales ser­ were recently married. Following a trip to Caneel Susan J. Pratt is a special education teacher superintendent of schools in Maynard. vice rep with IMCO Services in Corpus Christi, Bay, Virgin Islands, the couple moved to at the New England Home for Little Wanderers, Nola Sheffer, '84, teaches general and logo TX. A late May wedding is planned. Chestnut Hill. Marybeth has received a master's and is engaged to Brent Douglas Foy. Brent is a programming in algebra in a pilot program for Julia Corey King gave birth to Arthur Ber­ degree in social work from Boston University. student in medical physics at MIT-Harvard grade 6 at the Hanscom Middle School. nard in May, 1986. Erin Kund Meuller gave birth to a baby boy, Medical School. A July 18 wedding is planned. Christa Shearer is head teacher at the Chur­ Mark Gallagher, on February 21, 1986. Sherri Lynne Simons is engaged to Richard chill School in Manhattan and a reading clinician Counseling/Psychology Linda Zan Montana gave birth to Rachel Ann O'Brien and is employed by the Winthrop school Mary Dubois , '77, retired from the Hudson at Hofstra Univ. Her fiance, Dwight J. Relyea, is on April 15, 1986. system. school deparment as school adjustment general manager of Frank M. Flower and Sons Maureen Tierney is a teacher in the Pro­ counselor. She is now part owner of Windward Oyster Company of Bayville and Oyster Bay, vidence (RI) schools and special projects coor­ Associates, a private mental health group. NY. A summer wedding is planned. 1983 dinator for Adams Services. Last fall she married Joan Driscoll , '85, a certified nurse and Sheila Skahan has been appointed day care Stephen M. Bracewell, Manager of B&B Cycle alcohol counselor, participated in a public co­ Lynne McCarron Arnold had a baby boy, director of the YMCA of Southeastern Connec­ and Sports. caine and "crack" education program at Peabody Matthew Jonathan, on October 2, 1985. ticut. She will be responsible for the infant/tod­ Lisa Yates and Duncan MacKay were married District Courthouse last fall. dler, preschool, kindergarten, and after-school Joan Bullock and Richard Miller were mar­ on October 18,-1986. Lisa teaches special Susan Mead, '85, is a case manager at the programs which are all being expanded. ried last fall and honeymooned in Virgin Gorda, education in the Nantucket Elementary School. Community Council of Nashua, NH, which pro­ British West Indies. The now live in Creskill, NJ. vides mental health services. She is a former Ann Marie Costanza is employed by the Ir­ tennis pro and tournament director. vine (CA) public schools and is enrolled in a 1981 1985 Lisa Weaver is engaged to marry David master of psychology program at California Amedeo next September. She is employed by Deborah Aylaian is a teacher at the Cunniff State College at Fullerton. Ann Marie and Paul Carole Andrews has been named news editor This End Up Furniture Co. of Danvers. School in Watertown. She recently married L. DeAngelis, Jr. were married last fall. Paul is of the Southwest Quarterly Review, a business Christopher Munger, a Watertown Police Officer. enrolled in a doctoral program in biochemistry at publication serving the Attleboro area. Sheila Casey and John F. Christensen got the Univ. of California at Irvine, where the Susan Bergoudian directs a mini-camp day C.C.D.A. married in November, 1986. Sheila is a mer­ couple reside. care for 18-month to 5-year-olds at Camp Regina J. Ratsy, '86, has been named chandise manager for Calvin Klein Menswear in Nancy Fennessey married Timothy J. Cedar Hill in Waltham. She is still a brownie manager of Falmouth Hospital's central supply New York. John is assistant vice president in the Waldron of Quincy. She is employed at Buck­ leader and recently moved to Belmont. department. Regina enjoys singing and dancing real estate division of Manufacturer's Hanover ingham Brown & Nichols School in Cambridge. Pamela Blanchard attended the Boston Univ. in community theater productions and has pro­ Trust Co. in New York. Tim is a sales representative for Dunes Summer Visual Arts Institute last summer for a duced shows at the hospital. Katherine Higgins married Christopher Marketing, Hilton Head Island, SC. 6-week program of studio art training. Wraight in November, 1985. She is employed by Loreen Fournier married Jeffrey T. Carr on Laura Cannon recently married James J. Or­ Cigna Corp. of Boston and Chris works Jor November 1, 1986. dile. She is a paralegal with Foster and Foster in Independent Studies AT&T Information Systems. Pam Horner, of Austin, TX, is taking art Waltham and also attends Boston College Law Jeffrey Kelly, '76, teaches fiction writing to Maura Lynch, an employee of Delta Airlines, classes and looking into teaching art and drama School. James is a machinist with Locke Mfg. in grades 6-8 as part of a new writ;rs-in-residence 1 married Mark McMahon. They took a wedding to children outside the classroom. Woburn. program in Danvers. ' trip to Aruba and now live in Swampscott. Mark Christina Klinkon Hucks, of Goleta, CA, is Linda Grace Costellese is regional manager Dan Tishman , '81, recently bought a is the general manager of Tedesco Country employed at Trinity Baptist Child Care Center in the branch administration dept. of the Rhode 200-acre farm, Sleepy Hollow, in Jefferson, ME. Club. and husband, Joe, is working toward a Ph.D. Island"banking group at Hospital Trust National Dan works for the Maine Dept. of Conservation's Dale Morganstein is a human service profes­ They had a visit from Jennifer Dubrowolski and Bank. Forest for Future Program and also for the sional. She married Bradley Kohl last June. He Terry Balberchak, both '83 and living in Lorraine Coviello and Thomas F. Rossi were Natural Resource Council of Maine on a is enrolled in the Graduate School of Social Massachusetts. married this past February. pesticide-use study. In addition, he runs travel Work at Simmons College. They took a wedding Tara Keefe is a sales assistant for the North­ Kathryn Dellert was married to John M. programs for students in environmental study for trip to Nantucket and now live in Somerville. east Foodservice and Lodging Exposition. Kothlow on April 25. She is a grade 1 teacher the National Audubon Society. Kristina Nowak has been an account Kathleen Knodel began teaching at the and her husband is a production manager for Leslie Korn, '82, a health psychologist and representative with Business Interiors for five Center School in Rowley last fall. With 65 Aurora Modular Industries. medical anthropologist, was an interpreter and years. She and Jeffrey Bunce planned to be kindergarteners, she will have 2 part-time Kristi Maxwell married George B. Fields in co-teacher for the hearing impaired at the Eighth married on April 25 and honeymoon in Italy. assistants. Previously she taught in Winchester, August 1986 . She teaches at East Mountain Annual Healing Seminar of the Center for Tradi­ They will reside in Medfield. NH. Center in Springfield and he is an aerospace tional Medicine, held in Vallarta, Mexico, in Anna Murray Scovell was named "Teacher of Ann Curry Kurouac gave birth to Christopher mechanic in the U.S. Air Force. January. Leslie was one of the founders of the The Year" at the Phillip C. Showell Elementary George on April 24, 1986. Kim Sablock is engaged to marry Kevin J. Center in Cambridge in 1975. School in Delmar , Delaware. Her husband, Paul, Lillian Larocque received an M.B.A. from Doherty in June. Kim is a draftperson at Charles Pamela C. Borg, '83, and Robert Sevigny is a Salisbury State College instructor. Simmons College and is working at Proctor and A. Perkins Co. in Lancaster and Kevin is a field were married on June 21, 1986, at the home of Karen Smith is a learning disabilities teacher Gamble, in NJ, in the patient care products service technician at Northern Business friends in Vermont. in the Tazewell (VA) County Schools . She and division. Machines, Burlington. Thomas Newcomb, '83, had his paper, "A Keith A. Franklin married last summer and took Brenda Uhlman Malone teaches grade 1 in Study of Amish and Conservative Mennonite a wedding trip to Paris. Karen and Keith live in Marlboro. Schooling in Ohio, 1982 through 1985" read at Tazewell County , VA. Catherine Rafferty is engaged to Craig D. 1986 an international symposium held in July 1986, Sherrie Wong is a supervisor in automobile Carey and an August wedding is planned. at the Univ. of Essen, Essen, West Germany. assigned risk insurance for Aetna Life and Catherine is a special ed. teacher in the Lynn Ellen Auger of Rumford, RI, is a cognitive Debbie O'Carroll, '84, who has been per­ Casualty Insurance Company. public schools. therapist at Bradley Hospital in East Providence. forming and teaching in the New England area Jennie Thrash , a personnel coordinator for Cheryl D. Blair, a resource teacher in the In­ since 1981 as "Dollee the Clown", recently used Bradlees Department Store, is engaged to marry terlakes (NH) School District, married Gregory mime, dance, clowning, and puppetry to 1982 Robert E. Crichlow in July. He is an architect B. Widman on September 13, 1986. He is demonstrate to children proper ways of handling with the Boston Housing Authority. foreman at The Energy Shop Builders of Bed­ emergencies. Christina Chase married Chris Simonds in ford, NH. Mary Tess Crotty, '86, is director of the August 1986. She recently earned a master's Susan J. Carroll, a department head in a Boston YWCA West Suburban Program Center degree in counseling from Gallaudet University 1984 learning center for the multiply handicapped in in Natick. in Washington, DC. The Simonds live in Belmont, is engaged to Douglas M. Chmura. He Charlottesville, Virginia, where Chris is studying Sherry Egan and Mark K. Chitester were is employed as a field service representative for for an M.B.A. married on June 21, 1986. Sherry is assistant Computer Consoles, Inc. in Boston. Cathleen Cosgrove teaches special education director of Wee Whalers, Inc, in Nantucket. Paula Ciaraidi married Gary J. Uzdavinis in in the Houston school district. She is engaged lo Pamela Grahan and John C. Bryant, Jr., January. Paula works at Wang Laboratories Dr. Marc B. Gold. A spring wedding was were married recently and now live in Wayland. Child Care Center. Gary is a student at North­ planned. Pam is a travel consultant with Case Travel eastern University. Kathryn Dobens and Keith McLaren were Service. Leila Gilliam is administrative assistant to the married in June 1986. Kathryn is a special Amy Hall and James K. Supple planned to meetings manager at the American Society for needs preschool teacher in Manchester, NH. be married this spring. She is a special educa­ Microbiology in Washington, DC. Keith is an engineering supervisor with Digital tion !reacher with the Needham public schools. Nanette Heilbrun is engaged to marry Robert Equipment Corp. After a wedding trip to Ber­ James is a manufacturing engineer with the Saroga in June. He is a lawyer for Bank Leumi muda, they settled in Litchfield, NH. Donnelly Corp. in Michigan. in New York. Linda Werninger Dumais, works at Boston's Laurie Haney, of Brunswick, is teaching grade Christine M. Howell and David Sousa were Museum of Science in the Science Kit Depart­ 7 math at Wiscasset (ME) Middle School and married on June 29, 1986. After a wedding trip ment and lives in Beverly. She helps to develop completing a master's degree at Univ. of Maine. to the White Mountains, they now live in and distribute the kits to elementary classrooms Josephine Converse Hetzeck, of Marion, is Rockport. Christine teaches at the Bancroft nationwide. She'd love to hear from interested pursuing a master's degree in "Childlife" at School in Andover and David is manager of the alumns. Whee1ock College. printing division of Charrette Corp. Beth Ann Flieger and Daniel McAlpine mar­ Mary Elizabeth James married Steven J. Jeannine Jodion is a special needs teacher in ried on April 5, 1986. Beth is a supervisor with Aiello on June 28, 1986. She is a special needs New Hampshire and is engaged to marry Gregg Mellon Financial Mutual Fund Services. Dan is a teacher in Medford. A. Wilson in June. He is a circuit board systems supervisor with Pioneering Services Susan Beth Marder and David S. Zelouf designer. Corp. of Boston. Following a wedding trip to St. were married on November 16, 1986. Linda McMenimen is teaching grade 2 at the Maarten, the couple are residing in Malden. Donna Mcfarlane teaches kindergarten at Northwood School in Pittsfield, NH. Karen Capraro Gentuso is program assistant the Fiske School in Natick. Elizabeth Schultz married Thomas A. Russell in student activities at Middlesex Community Mary Jane Roullard MacKay teaches grade on September 27, 1986. They took a wedding College. On May 17, 1985, her daughter, 1 in Newtown, CT. trip to Quebec and now live in Burlington. Lauren, was born. Karen Miller teaches developmental Elizabeth is enrolled in a master's program in kindergarten in Danbury, CT. counseling at Boston College. Tom is a senior hardware engineer at Prime Computer. The Lesley Softball Team. 19 PMBIClass Notes

Education Arts/Expressive Therapies Frances Silbert, '78, married Robert F. Hewitt 1984 Joy Curtis, '74, a technical writer for Apollo Bettina Berg , '85, teaches language arts, in November, 1986 . Frances is the art specialist John P. Cahill , of East Falmouth , has been Computer , was the featured soprano in "Hansel math, social studies, science, art, and physical for the northern administrative unit of the Con­ promoted to plant manager at Cape Cod Print­ and Gretel", a fairy tale opera at the Follen skills development to grades 3 and 4 at the toocook Valley (NH) Scbool District. The ing Inc. of Falmouth . He has coached football Community Church in Lexington in January . Putney School in Vermont. Hewitts live in Henniker , NH . for Falmouth High School for the past two years Joy is a member of many choral groups in­ Richard Day, '85 , an educational therapist , Susannah Fiering, '80 , a registered art and has been active with Falmouth Youth cluding the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. spoke on dyslexia at the Silas Deane Middle therapist , taught a weekend course in the holistic Hockey . Tom Snyder, '74, an educational software School in Wethersfield, CT, last January. counseling graduate program at Salve Regina Adele Cappucci married Dr. Paul Martin designer , has co-authored In Search of the Most College in Newport , RI. She has a private prac­ Barbara Mullen Keenan, '85 , has had her Booth on August 7, 1986 , in Yorkshire, Amazing Thing with Jane Palmer. The book ex­ tice with the New World Holistic Medical Center book Every Effort published. It tells the story of England. plores the pros and cons of the technological in Seekonk . her search for her husband who is missing in Jane Marquis Peterson was recently selected revolution in the classroom. Judith Ann Wood, '80 , married Richard T. action. as the Dukes County Land Bank Administrator . Eva J. Paddock , '75, '78 CAGS, was recently Howe on September 20, 1986 . Judith is director Julieann Macauda , '85 , is engaged to marry Jane is pleased that the position will make use appointed principal of the Steward School in of the therapeutic arts program in the depart­ Henry J. Hoell in September , 1987 . Julieann is of her experience in public relations , inland Topsfield. "It is an exciting and challenging job a special needs teacher at Brewster Elementary ment of psychiatry at both the Children's management, and land use. - 194 children , grade K-2!" School on Cape Cod . Henry is a sales represen­ Hospital and the Judge Baker Children's Center . Michael J. Velsmid is President of Lenox Sarah Gregory Smith, '75 , lost her sight 8 The Howes live in Easton . tative for Phillip Morris USA in Dedham. China Merchandising Division in New Jersey years ago but is able to teach music twice a Joanne Martignette, '85 , married Theodore Elaine Parker Hawkes , '82 , has been ap­ and a Corporator of Lesley. week to grades K-8. One of Salem's best known A. Benton last August. Joanne is an instruction pointed an associate in psychiatry at Harvard folk musicians, she also calls square dances. specialist at Lincoln Elementary School in Win­ University. Mary Kroboth Berends , '78, gave birth to chester. Theodore is also employed by the Win­ Janet Kierstead , '82 , divides her time be­ 1985 Andrea on February 18, 1986 . chester schools as an English Teacher and is an tween art therapy and maintaining a gallery in L. Norrine Simpson, '79 , has been promoted adjunct faculty member of Lesley's Graduate Rockport . She has taught at the Museum of Carol Andrews was recently appointed direc­ to senior editor in marketing communications at School , Management Division. Fine Arts in Boston and has been involved with tor of the Marketing Assistance Program of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. Jane Steinman, '85, a professional storyteller the Cultural Education Collaborative. North Attleboro-Plainville area Chamber of Norrine recently married Larry D. Simpson. since 1977 , performed a multi-cultural story­ Ellen S. Seibel , '82 , an art therapist for the Commerce. Deborah A. Curtis, '80 , formerly a legislative telling show for the Durham , NY, Elementary Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service at Yale Linda Donatini married Dr. Robert R. White aide to Senator Edward Kennedy , recently mar­ PTA last Halloween . Jane teaches at the New Haven Hospital , is engaged to Richard S. last summer. Robert is Director of ried Donald B. Laird. After a wedding trip to Windham-Ashland (NY) Jewett School. Erlich, a realtor. Undergraduate Endodontics at Tufts University Nantucket the couple moved to California, Patricia A. Bergeron , '86, is enrolled at Har­ Wendy Sue Baren , '83, married Alan Dental School and Linda is a human resources where Donald is employed by Rockwell vard Graduate School of Education pursuing a Gonsenhauser in November, 1986. officer for Shawmut Bank of Boston . International. CAS in Human Development with a concentra­ Rachel F. Day, '84, is a consultant at Richard Fitzgerald , a candidate for the Susan Klein's, '80, storytelling talents have tion in Interactive Technology. Telesearch, an executive search firm with offices priesthood , was ordained a deacon by Cardinal been featured on a "Spider's Web" broadcast on Lynn Migliozzi, '86, began teaching at the in Chicago , New York, and Washington, DC. Bernard Law on January 17, 1987 . He will National Public Radio. Noah Wallace school in Farmington , CT, this Sarah Eames, '84 , of Newburyport , has a serve the Diocese of Boston. Diane J. Munini, '80 , is program coordinator past fall. polarity therapy practice at Holistic Family of the LAWW Partnership-in-Education program Judith Ann Oberstein , '86, married Gavin A. Practice. in Lexington , Arlington, Winchester, and Finn last summer. They went on a wedding trip Charlotte Harmon , '84 , is director of human 1986 Woburn. to Bermuda and now live in Framingham . Gavin resources for Sandwich Co-operative Bank. Duncan Slade , '80, recently gave a speech at is a systems analyst with Stone and Webster Janette Rice, '84, an expressive arts therapist Stephen Cory married Wendy E. Nelson in the Paris Cape Historical Society in Paris, ME, Engineering Corporation. at Boston City Hospital, married Richard Gustaf­ August, 1986. Stephen is employed by GenRad on "How Did Everyone Get Where They Are?" Steven T. Yavarow, '86, married Janet E. son , pastor of The First Baptist Church in Punx­ Inc., of Waltham . Duncan, a former instructor of art therapeutics Easland on July 19, 1986. Steven is an in­ sutawney, PA, in January. Daniel Fabrizio married Leslie A. Turner in at Thomaston State Prison, had come to ask strumental music teacher in Hopkinton. Janet is Jonakarina Freedman , '85 , is a dance October, 1986 . Daniel is a new product planner himself that question. Duncan has opened an a personnel recruiter for Scandinavian Design . therapist in Belmont and a consultant in Boston . at Teradyne, Inc., of Boston. Leslie also works at art center in Paris for artists, art teachers, and The couple lives in Millis. Jennifer Johnston , '85, has enjoyed Teradyne as a technical editor. They live in children . photography as a hobby for 15 years and Braintree . l.uc\nda Davis, '81, taught an introductory Special Education recently exhibited her work, "The Quiet Side of Karen Schiff is a special education teacher at course in acting at Children's Theater Workshop Pamela Parker, '75, was honored as "outstan­ Harvard Square;' in the Watertown Public the Bruce School in Lawrence. in Billerica this past summer. Lucinda applied ding elementary school teacher" at a reception Library. for and received a grant to create the one­ sponsored by the Univ. of Vermont last fall. She Lisa M. Levin, '85, and John Taylor were month program . is learning specialist and special education super­ married June 1. Lisa works for the Longmont Maude Hunnewell , '81, married Thomas D. visor at Caledonia (VT) North School. Coalition for Women in Crisis. The couple live Wood on August 23, 1986. Both teach at the Sally Malloy, '78 , and William P. Smith were in Boulder , CO. Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania . married on August 2, 1986 . Sally is director of Kristina A. Novotny, '86 , and John P. Maude is a tennis and basketball coach as well Project Co-Step , a program of the Maine Board Shreenhan , Jr., were married on September 6, as a grade 4 teacher. Tom is the squash coach of Education . William is builder/ owner of 1986. Kristina works for the law firm Peabody and classics teacher . Ridgeview Knoll Condominiums in Madison , and Brown in Boston . John is an account ex­ Linda Mayo, '81, is the director of the Flatley NH. After a wedding trip to Bermuda , the cou ­ ecutive at Smith , Barney, Harris, Upham in Company's Child Development Center in ple now live in Portland, ME. Boston . They took a wedding trip to England Nashua , NH . Linda's two children are also Joanne M. Harder, '79 , is head of the and Wales. enrolled in the center. English Department at Shore Country Day Linda Woolford, '81, is Arts On The Line pro­ School in Beverly. Joanne , husband Paul, and gram administrator for Station Modernization two children , Adam and Bryan, live in South Management Temporary Projects , a program known as "Art­ Hamilton . William A. Genre, '84, is executive director stops." Artists of all disciplines - dancers , musi­ Linda Rudnick, '79, is executive director of of Monadnock Region Substance Abuse Ser­ cians, poets, painters, sculptors - will perform the South Shore Women's Center , a service vices, Inc., a community-based counseling pro­ at 7 Boston subway stations. Linda's job is to agency for victims of rape and domestic gram of alcohol crisis intervention and outpatient conduct a competition for the selection of 20 violence . With a staff of 4 full-time and 2 part ­ substance abuse. artists. time employees and 35 volunteers , the center Jane Harker, '84, is assistant director of Daniel J. Ferreira, '83, is principal of Car­ provides a 24-hour hot line, court and welfare critical care nursing at AtlantiCare Medical dinal Cushing School and Training Center in advocacy programs, crisis intervention , and Center in Lynn. Hanover . shelter. Shirley A. Gallerani, '85 , is director of Sasa Aquino Lichauco , '83 , niece of Philip­ Liza Dundes, '80 , and Edward Schaeffer were Rockwell Child Study Center at Lasell Junior pines ' President Corazon Aquino, decided to re­ married December 14, 1986. Edward is the College. main in Boston and continue her training to coordinator of therapy services at Harvard Com­ Deane B. Sawyer, '85 , of S. Yarmouth , has become a teacher. munity Health Plan in Boston. been promoted to assistant vice president of the Donna R. Lynch, '83, married Paul E. Fischer Deborah Plumer, '81, and Vicki Perocchi, human resource dept. at Sentry Federal Savings last August. She was, until recently, a teacher in '78 , received an award from Friends of WORK Bank. Armonk , NY. Paul is a certified public Inc. of Quincy, for their training program for Judith Francis , '86 , has been awarded a accountant. handicapped youths . The award was presented grant for her work on the arts magazine televi­ Joan M. Menici, '83 , married Michael Kat­ by television newscasters Natalie Jacobs and sion show "PRISM;' seen locally in Marblehead. soulakos last August. She is a special needs Chet Curtis, and star of "Spenser : For Hire," Brian D. Mundt, '86 , assistant professor of teacher in Peabody. Michael works for GTE Robert Urich. The three celebrities visited with aerospace studies , will serve with the detach­ Laboratories as a research engineer. the 9 students , aged 17 to 21, and their parents. ment 410 , Air Force ROTC, College of St. Allene Russell , '83 , is a math and science The vocational skills training program is in the Thomas , St. Paul, Minnesota. teacher at the Park School in Brookline and is Penn Brook School in Georgetown . Daniel J. Ryan, '86, has completed the Of­ engaged to marry Dr. Richard Pierson II. ficer Indoctrination School at the Naval Educa­ Joanne Wiggin, '83, is one of two teachers tion and Training Center in Newport , RI. He Ann Foster, South Shore B 4 / 85 . heading "CITY" (Creative, Intelligent, and joined the Navy Reserve in March 1986 . Talented Youth), a program in Marlboro for Outreach/ Alternative Education gifted children . Carol Ann Burgess, '75, is director of Magic Marianne Currie, '84, married Jose A. Garden Child Care Center in Lincoln. She also Milaned on November 8, 1986. She is a com­ leads "discipline, values, and standards" puter trainer and he is employed by Liberty workshops for the Dept. of Social Services, Mutual Insurance Company . Registered Family Day Care, and "responsive Deaths Lea Foley, '84, teaches art classes for children parenting" workshops for day care parents. Helen Colley Lagrenade '18, September 12 Christine Moore Malloy '31, December 18, 1986 aged 9-12 in Pawtucket. 1986 Barbara Bullens McCrae '32, July 28, 1986 Wendy Benkowski, '85, is an expressive Helen Cady Fletcher '22, July 24, 1986 Kathleen McSweeney Maguire '34, August 1, therapist on the staff at Freespace, a continuing Katherine Strong Higgins '23, July 18, 1986 1986 . care and treatment program for adults with Nora Sullivan Clancy '24, September 7, 1986 Berta Wood Franklin '36, January 3, 1987 serious emotional problems in Orleans. Dorothy Cohen Winograd '24, March 18, 1986 Ruth Pearlswig Leffler '36, February 1987 Evelyn McAllister Macdonald '26, January 9, Eleanor Whiting Pitt '39, October 1986 1987 Zoe Pettengill Alexander '40, February 1, 1987 Mildred E. Healey '28, January 6, 1986 Kathleen Mahoney Marbach '41 Bertha Hagerthy Powers '29, May 19, 1986 Jean MacKinnon Anagnostis '49, April 7, 1986 Ruth McDonald Donovan '30, September 1986 Jeannette Hobbs Valence '61, September 13, Anna P. Edwards '30, July 12, 1986 1986 Elizabeth Thiessen '30, July 5, 1986 Kristen Lee Abrahamson '77, May 7, 1986 Jeannette Horne George '31, November 1986 Viola Albertson Tech '78G, November 6, 1986 4

Governor Michael Dukakis addressing Lesley last October about the future of teaching

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