WINTER/SPRING 2014

BEXLEY HIGH SCHOOL Alumni Association Newsletter

(This article, reprinted with permission, featuring Gordon Zacks, class of 1951, appeared in on February 3, 2014) What would Compassionate businessman you like to was friend to Israel see in this By Collin Binkley told The Dispatch in 1995. newsletter? His strength, he later The small company that learned, would be in If there is something you would Gordon Zacks inherited organization –– he could like to see included in this newsletter, in 1965 had become a shape an atmosphere where please submit your suggestion(s) to the titan in the footwear others thrived creatively. editor, using any of the contact means industry before he left He went on to become a listed at the bottom of this page. Better its daily management in sought-after speaker on yet, if you’d like to write an article for 2004. the qualities of leadership consideration in the newsletter, send it Zacks, the longtime at universities around the along as well. president and CEO of world. Pickerington-based At R.G. Barry, Zacks led R.G. Barry, maker of the company to enormous Dearfoams slippers, died growth. Sales topped $116 in his Bexley home on million in 1994, driven by Saturday. He was 80. Gordon Zacks | 1933-2014: the company’s core slipper LOOKING He had been a major sales. But by 2004, sales had proponent of U.S.-Israeli dropped, spurring Zacks to for Class relations and an adviser to the White House. turn the top job over to Greg Tunney. Zacks Notes But his compassion and humanitarianism remained chairman of the board of directors outside boardrooms made its mark, too, until his death. family members said. “Gordon lived an amazing life and faced They recalled a visit to New York City each day and every challenge with a passion Many of our alumni have written, when Zacks met a man who was begging and joy that infected all those around him,” saying they would like to see more on the streets, trying to return to his Tunney said in a statement. “He was a news submitted by their classmates. hometown. Zacks bought him a Greyhound sharing mentor to many, including me.” Won’t you consider sending us news of bus ticket home. Zacks was a vocal supporter of Israel, and what’s going on in your lives? Born in Indiana but raised in Bexley, his political activism took him to the Middle You may use either the “We want to Zacks was 32 when his father died, leaving East more than 100 times. He worked with hear from you!” form found elsewhere him at the helm of the company that his three U.S. presidents and five Israeli prime in this newsletter, or the Bio Form mother founded in the 1940s. ministers, and was an adviser to President link on the home page of the alumni Zacks had worked at R.G. Barry for George H.W. Bush, who became his close website. Remember, however, that we a decade when he took over, joining the friend. will not be able to publish your news, company after graduation from Ohio In a tribute yesterday, the Jewish either in our newsletter or on the State University. But his experience hadn’t Federations of North America said Zacks website, if your dues are not paid and prepared him to head a business that at the was an ardent Zionist who helped finance current. time totaled $10 million in annual sales, he Businessman - con’t.on page 3

Bexley High School Alumni Association • P.O. Box 457 • Lithopolis, Ohio 43136-0457 Voice Mail: 614.920.4937 • Email: [email protected] • Website: http://www.bexleyalumni.org 1 Winter/Spring 2014 • Bexley High School Alumni Association

(This article, reprinted with permission featuring R. L. (Bob) Stine, class of 1961, appeared in The Columbus Dispatch on December 9, 2013) MESSAGE R.L. Stine still scaring from the CO-CHAIR up kids’ stories The Bexley Education Foundation Dear fellow alumni and friends of Bexley High School, hosted a discussion and book-signing with R.L. Stine on December 13 in Bexley As I write these words, I am excitedly looking forward to my own high school class reunion (has it really been 30 High School’s Schottenstein Theatre.

years!?) which is scheduled (in traditional Bexley fashion) for the Fourth of July weekend this summer. It is appropriate, R.L. Stine is not resting on his I think, to step back and reflect for a moment not just on frighteningly impressive laurels. our own personal journeys, but also on how far our beloved The Bexley native, 70, has school has come over the years. written more than 300 books The facilities -- while retaining their classic appearance, and sold more than 350 million have been updated and improved. The teachers and copies. But the author of the administrators -- while many faces have changed, have kept tween and teen horror series up their commitment to the students and the integrity and “Goosebumps” and “Fear high standards of the educational process at Bexley. The Street” is looking ahead. curriculum -- of course there is still reading, writing and In June, the TV series he arithmetic, but now there are computer labs, smart boards created, The Haunting Hour and Wi-Fi access throughout the school building. (on the Hub network), won Yes, friends, there have been many changes over the years. three Daytime Emmy awards. And today I share with you one more significant change that He keeps cranking out new is coming. I am happy to announce that recently your Bexley “Goosebumps” books; the first High School Alumni Association (BHSAA) Board of Trustees one was published in 1986 and R.L. Stine voted unanimously to move forward with a formal affiliation the most recent, the 176th, in with the Bexley Education Foundation (BEF). For those September. And, in 2014, the can’t change, can it? There’s no who may not know, the BEF exists to promote and enhance “Fear Street” series will resume way for it to expand. excellence in the Bexley City Schools. The BEF makes grants after a 19-year hiatus. It looks much smaller than to support initiatives that create new learning opportunities Stine will return to his roots when I was a kid, but it’s kind of for students throughout the district -- projects that would not this weekend. On Friday, he will nice to have a place that hasn’t be possible within the regular school budget. For years, the speak to Bexley elementary- changed. The little stone library BHSAA and BEF have operated in parallel, with common school students and then will is still there, and Rubino’s Pizza connections to our school and to the community. These take part in a discussion and on Main Street. Even my old connections have grown stronger over time and we believe book-signing for the Bexley house on N. Columbia (Avenue) that our groups will be better together, marshaling financial Education Foundation’s 30th is still there. and personnel resources, with a shared passion to make the anniversary celebration. combined organization the preeminent private education and On Saturday, he will give Q: What are your memories of alumni foundation in the country. Stay tuned, as our work the autumn commencement Bexley? has just begun. And so, just like my upcoming class reunion, address at , A: We lived in a tiny house, let’s remember the good times from the past, celebrate where his alma mater. three doors down from the we are today and look forward with great anticipation to what Stine (everyone calls him railroad tracks. Bexley is a very the future holds for the BHSAA. “Bob”) recently spoke by phone wealthy community, but we Thanks again to all of our board members for their hard with The Dispatch from New were very poor. So I think I work in moving forward this proposed affiliation with the York. grew up feeling like an outsider BEF. Until next time . . . Go Lions! and not really belonging that Q: How has central Ohio much. Larry Pliskin changed since you grew up? That’s one reason I stayed in Co-chair, Bexley High School Alumni Association A: Columbus is a lot bigger, a lot my room typing stories. I was a BHS Class of 1984 livelier and a lot nicer-looking. very weird kid. But Bexley hasn’t changed — it Stine - con’t.on page 7 2 Bexley High School Alumni Association • Winter/Spring 2014

(This article, reprinted with permission and featuring future alumni, appeared in Bexley News on February 4, 2014) Future alumni in the news

Simon Horn, a senior at Bexley High School, has been named as one of more than 3,000 candidates in the 2014 Presidential Scholars Program. Scholars are selected on the basis of superior academic and artistic achievements, leadership qualities and involvement in community and school activities. The Commission on Presidential Scholars will select one man and one woman from each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and from U.S. students living abroad for recognition as Presidential Scholars, along with 15 students at large and up to 20 students from the creative and performing arts. The official announcement of scholars will take place in May.

Addison Torrence, a freshman at Bexley High School, was elected co-president of Children’s International Summer Village of Columbus’ Junior Board on Jan. 12. Quebec 2014, playing teams from North Bexley High School International For more information on CISV go to America and around the world. Business students, David Bishoff, Sam www.cisvcolumbus.com. Dolen and Jackson Katz, recently earned Three Bexley High School musicians are first place among 243 teams in a regional Marco Giambrone, a Cassingham going to All State groups in early February. competition of the Stock Market Game, Elementary School sixth-grader, and Nick They are James Seymour, All State Band; produced by the Economics Center of the Hall, a Bexley Middle School seventh- Edmund Strominger, All State Orchestra; University of Cincinnati. grader, will travel to Quebec Feb. 12- and Tim Veneziano, All State Orchestra. Students build a stock portfolio and 23, to play on the Columbus Ohio AAA make decisions buying and selling. Bexley’s Bluejackets Pee Wee Major Hockey team. Bexley Middle School seventh-grader team had a 26.4 percent return in 10 weeks, Their team, comprised of 12-year-olds all Lee Cook took top honors at the school’s according to teacher Chris Maisenbacher. from around central Ohio and the Dayton annual Spelling Bee by correctly spelling area, will compete in the 55th Annual the championship word “ventriloquy.” The Tournoi International de Pee-Wee de runner-up was Peter Morton.

Nominations Needed BUSINESSMAN - continued from page 1 The alumni board would appreciate the resettlement of 2 million Jews from since mid-December, when doctors found your input with suggestions for nearly 100 countries to Israel and around that the prostate cancer he had had for five recipients of the Distinguished, the world, and helped lead the historic years had spread to his liver, Kim Zacks Honorary and Honored alumni awards. Operation Exodus to free Soviet Jewry. said. Please send any names, together with His compassion went beyond his public He is survived by his daughters, Cathy the nominee’s qualifications and class life, as he tried to help those in need, said Gildenhorn and Kim Zacks, and three year, as well as your name and contact Kim Zacks, one of his two daughters. grandchildren. His wife, Carol Sue Zacks, information to us by mail to the Bexley “It was just the power of care, and my died in 2012. High School Alumni Association, P. O. dad did that with anyone,” she said. A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. today at Box 457, Lithopolis, Ohio 43136-0457; Zacks hosted a series of gatherings in Congregation Tifereth Israel, 1354 E. Broad via e-mail to [email protected] recent weeks to say goodbye to those he St., followed by interment at New Tifereth or by using our online nomination knew. His health had deteriorated quickly Israel Cemetery. form. Thank you. 3 Winter/Spring 2014 • Bexley High School Alumni Association Take Note! Board meetings We receive the above percentage only if We are working really hard to be able Any alumnus is welcome to attend and items are purchased through our alumni to keep our website free and available to participate in association board meetings. website listed above. Similar merchandise everyone. 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(The following was found on the Bexley Schools website at www.bexleyschools.org) IB at a Glance The International Baccalaureate® (IB) is a non-profit educational Middle School was authorized as Ohio’s first IB Middle Years foundation, focused on the student and motivated by a mission to Program World School, also in 2007. create a better world through education. Its four programs for students The IB helps these two Bexley schools in the following four aged 3 to 19 “help develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and areas. social skills to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world,” • Development of curriculum according to ibo.org. Founded in 1968, IB currently works with • Assessment of students 3,563 schools in 145 countries to develop and offer four challenging programs to over 1,095,000 students. Cassingham Elementary • Training and professional development of teachers School adopted the IB Primary Years Program (PYP) as its best • Authorization and evaluation of schools practice and became Ohio’s first authorized IB/PYP in 2007. Bexley 4 Bexley High School Alumni Association • Winter/Spring 2014

(The following two articles, reprinted with permission and featuring Jake Heggie, class of 1979, appeared in The Columbus Dispatch and the San Francisco Chronicle on November 1, 2013) Composer benefited from arts in Bexley school By Michael Grossberg doctor and musician — committed suicide. in high school,” said Pfaff, a Bexley resident. “I started writing music right after my “ Jake always had a different way of looking The acclaimed composer of Moby-Dick, dad died,” said Heggie, the third of four at life and interpreting literature.” Dead Man Walking and other ambitious children. “ Music was a very safe place In addition to his work on Moby-Dick operas credits his childhood at a very vulnerable time in my life. I felt and Dead Man Walking (2000), Heggie in Bexley with setting him empowered and successful when making composed the operas The End of the Affair on his career path. music.” (2004), At the Statue of Venus (2005) and “I got a great education He used the money he earned delivering To Hell and Back (2006). in Bexley, in all subjects; The Dispatch from 1973 to ’77 to buy A passion for the genre, he said, is that gave me a really solid scores. important. foundation,” said Jake Sara Pfaff, his English teacher at Bexley “Opera can take three to five years to Heggie, a San Francisco High School, isn’t surprised by his success. write from the first idea to opening night,” resident. “It was so obvious that he was creative, even he said, “so you’d better care about it a lot.” “There was a great emphasis on the arts, so I didn’t feel like a freak for loving piano, music and musical theater.” A San Francisco Opera performance of his latest work, Moby-Dick, will air tonight on PBS stations — a rare broadcast of a new opera, especially one staged outside New York. “It’s an American story that strikes an Moby-Dick: Opera loses international chord,” said the 52-year-old, who acknowledged his excitement about nothing in move to video the Great Performances presentation. By Joshua Kosman Video director Frank Zamacona adopts Opera has been unfairly marginalized by a varied camera strategy, moving into tight pop culture, he said. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE close-ups for the more emotional moments, “It’s actually an amazing world of music November 1, 2013 then pulling back to capture the piece’s and theater that’s alive and well.” broad vistas of sea and shipboard. Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer The next theatrical mounting of the Jake Ocasional video snippets of water and adapted Moby-Dick — which premiered in Heggie operatic masterpiece Moby-Dick is waves establish the setting, and a few helpful 2010 at the Dallas Opera — from the classic scheduled for February at the Washington titles mark the passage of time between 1851 Herman Melville novel about Captain National Opera. scenes, but, otherwise, this is a faithful Ahab’s obsessive pursuit of a white whale. For anyone who can’t get there, Moby- rendering of the original performance. “I knew we needed something very bold, Dick is coming to a TV screen. By keeping the cameras just within the American and splashy,” said Heggie, who The superb 2012 production by the San boundaries of the proscenium, Zamacona was born in Florida and lived in Bexley Francisco Opera will air tonight on PBS as maintains a cinematic level of illusion; the with his family from 1966 to 1977. part of the Great Performances series. effect is vivid but never stagy. (Until the “Melville created a microcosm of the It is a big success on every level. final curtain calls, in fact, the only hint world with various cultures, ethnicities and The opera itself, with a tender and that an audience is present comes when beliefs, all floating on the ocean very much ingenious libretto by Gene Scheer, is Queequeg’s mention of the mood-altering the way the Earth floats through space. Heggie’s finest achievement to date, power of his pipe elicits a laugh.) I saw great drama, beautiful language transforming the towering Herman The performance of tenor Jay Hunter and the possibility for beautiful solos and Melville novel into a musical version true Morris as Ahab boasts a manic intensity that ensembles.” to the spirit of its source while forging a wasn’t always apparent in the theater. The Opera singer Peggy Kriha Dye, general distinctive theatrical path. rest of the cast — including tenor Stephen manager of Opera Columbus, raves about And the San Francisco production, Costello as Greenhorn (later Ishmael), the composer. dexterously staged by director Leonard baritone Morgan Smith as Starbuck and “His music is very lyrical and melodic, Foglia with a first-rate cast under the bass Jonathan Lemalu as Queequeg — with lots of new ideas and yet extremely leadership of conductor Patrick Summers, perform admirably. beautiful,” said Kriha Dye, who has known gave the piece everything it needed to With its infectious melodic beauty and Heggie since the 1990s. succeed. unerring formal command, Moby-Dick Heggie credits three “extremely The fact that the video version plays seems bound to become an operatic staple. nurturing” piano teachers — Anna Mae so well on the small screen, capturing the And, although nothing quite substitutes for Millard, Ann Swesty and Joe Weissberg original experience in all its theatrical a live performance of the work, the video — for guiding him toward the arts after a intensity while adding a layer of expressive version certainly comes close. tragedy. intimacy, is cause for celebration. In 1972, when he was 10, his father — a 5 Winter/Spring 2014 • Bexley High School Alumni Association

(The following two related articles with good and bad news appeared in The Columbus Dispatch on January 30, 2013 (the bad news) and December 13, 2013 (the good news)) The Lazarus Chintz Room closed 15 years ago today By: Linda Deitch There was also a “Hidden Sandwich” that The Columbus Dispatch - January 30, 2013 featured chicken or turkey, ham, bacon, and Swiss cheese, smothered in shredded Fifteen years ago today, on Jan. 30, 1998, lettuce and Russian dressing. Downtown Columbus It had been called “The Chintz Room” lost a classic when the only since 1953, reported The Grumpy landmark Chintz Room Gourmet in The Dispatch at the time of the restaurant at Lazarus closing. From World War I until then, it

closed. Management had JEFF HINCKLEY / DISPATCH was just the Fifth Floor Tea Room. realized that business The Chintz Room on Lazarus’ fifth floor, as it In its heyday, the elegant dining spot was was declining, possibly looked at the end. a destination where women wore hats and Liinda Deitch because of the variety white gloves. Lunch was a social event. of lunch spots in the fondly remembered. Many area residents Access the following link to see a 1950s adjoining Columbus City Center mall. can recall the restaurant’s bread pudding menu cover and menu from the Columbus Lazarus had restaurants and quick food with bourbon sauce; its wilted lettuce salad Metropolitan Library collection: venues throughout its big store on High with hot bacon dressing; the chicken salad http://digital-collections.columbuslibrary. Street, but the Chintz Room was the most with pecans; and the celery dressing (recipe org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/ formal one. It was there for decades and is for the dressing at the bottom of this post). memory/id/15431

Here’s a recipe for Lazarus’ popular celery dressing, published previously in The Dispatch: LAZARUS’ STEAMED CELERY DRESSING Makes 6 servings The dressing does not pack together so it is not suitable for stuffing. Use it in place of potatoes.

1 pound fresh bread 2 small onions, chopped 1/3 cup finely chopped celery COLUMBUS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORP. DEVELOPMENT DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS The new Chintz Room will fifll several storefronts on the fifrst floor of the Lazarus building facing 1/3 teaspoon sage S. High Street. 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons chicken fat (see Note) Lessner’s next restaurant project: Reprising Chintz Room 1 egg 1/2 cup milk Restaurateur reimagining fabled Lazarus dining experience Grind or tear the bread coarsely. Combine bread The Columbus Dispatch At Christmas, most of the visitors with onions and celery, sage and salt. Melt the Friday December 13, 2013 oohed and aahed over the store’s window fat and add it to the bread mixture. Beat the egg, decorations, had photos taken with Santa add milk, and combine with the bread mixture. Elizabeth Lessner’s plans for the Claus or stopped at the Secret Gift Shop, Chintz Room, where she dined as a but a young Elizabeth Lessner was drawn Pile mixture lightly in a pan. Steam in a pressure teenager, include new versions of some to the store’s restaurants. cooker 10 minutes or cover and steam it in a 350 of its most-popular menu items. Lessner was a teenager when Lazarus’ oven 30 minutes. Many Columbus residents of a certain Chintz Room closed in 1998. Now, the age remember hopping a bus to visit the local restaurant entrepreneur is working Note: You can use olive oil or butter in place of the Lazarus department store Downtown. CHINTZ- con’t.on page 7 chicken fat. 6 Bexley High School Alumni Association • Winter/Spring 2014

CHINTZ - continued from page 6 with the Columbus Downtown Development Corp. to recreate the beloved restaurant in the redeveloped department store building. The opening is planned for July, if not earlier, she said. “My goal is to reclaim it, to rekindle memories,” she said. Lessner says she initially wasn’t interested in running the proposed restaurant for the building, which now houses mostly offices. Then she learned that there’s a storeroom in which many of the Chintz Room’s fixtures were tucked away. “I got really excited at that point,” she said. “I think people look at that building and feel a sense of sadness because they miss Lazarus so much.” Reopening the Chintz Room will be Lessner’s way of bringing back some of the Lazarus magic. She remembers visiting the original restaurant for graduation from the etiquette class she took at Lazarus. Over the years, Lessner has connected with other women who took the same class. “We were probably the last in our generation

to do that,” she said. SOCIETY. OHIO HISTORICAL The Chintz Room was one of nearly a dozen restaurants in The new restaurant will incorporate some fifxtures from the original Chintz the Lazarus department store during its heyday in the 1950s and Room. 1960s. The department store that was opened in 1851 by German immigrant Simon Lazarus closed in 2004. Room. Hermick makes artisan pasta and gourmet sauces based on Guy Worley remembers being awed by the influential people he the recipes of his grandmother, Josephine Zapico. The sauces are saw eating at the Chintz Room during the 1980s. sold at local stores, including Hills Market, Greener Grocer and He is CEO of the development group that owns the Lazarus Whole Foods. building and also leads Capitol South Community Urban “We’re looking to bring back several of the menu items with a Redevelopment Corp., which owns . modern twist,” Hermick said. “We found recipes of some of the “We are excited about (the restaurant) because of all the new more popular items on the menu.” investment that’s occurring in the River South District,” Worley For example, the two plan to reprise the Chintz Room’s celery said. “That entire district is exploding. Adding a restaurant of this dressing and chicken salad, he said. nature adds to the momentum.” Although Hermick, a Pittsburgh native, never visited the Chintz The Chintz Room likely will take up two or three of the vacant Room, he has fond memories of visiting his hometown’s equivalent first-floor storefronts on the northeast side of the office building — the Tic Toc Cafe at Kaufmann’s Department Store (now Macy’s ). facing S. High Street. The original restaurant was on the fifth floor “We had a rich aunt who took us shopping and then would take of the department store. us to the restaurant in Kaufmann’s for dinner,” said Hermick, who Lessner is working with Michael Hermick, owner of Zapico moved to Columbus in 2000. Foods, as co-owner and executive chef of the reimagined Chintz

STINE - continued from page 2 My mother (Anne) would tell me to go bottom “ Bob doesn’t try to the best of his series? Are kids any different now? outside and play, but I would tell her it was ability.” A: Not much. I don’t think our basic fears boring out there. And then all I did in college was work have changed over the years. We are all still I was just typing up funny little magazines on the Sundial (an OSU humor magazine). afraid of the dark and if someone is under and stapling them together. I wanted to be a I never went to class. A lot of people in the our bed or in our closet. comic artist, but I couldn’t draw a thing. So administration hated the Sundial because I tried to write funny stories. we made fun of Woody Hayes and made Q: What do you plan to talk about in the Q: What sort of student were you? fun of the deans. commencement speech? A: I didn’t pay attention much in school. I But we got it up to selling really well. A: I’m not going to tell them to follow their was interested in writing and being funny. It was a paying job, and it paid my way to passion. I’ve been to a lot of graduations, and School was an impediment; I never took it New York. I can’t remember a single thing ever said at seriously. any of them. So I’m going to do something I was a solid “B” student. I don’t think I Q: Have you changed the way you write for a little different, maybe something they will ever got a report card that didn’t say at the kids since you started the “Goosebumps” remember. But it will be dignified enough. 7 Winter/Spring 2014 • Bexley High School Alumni Association CLASS NOTES

Class of 1934 Class of 1950 job on Wall Street like his dad. Jeremy, our younger grandson, is a Senior at Milburn February 2014 December 2013 High School in New Jersey. He also hopes Arnold Gardner – Goleta CA Marilyn Van Meter Miller – Pisgah Forest/ to go to Colgate. Enjoy reading about all I am still living here in Goleta and am Brevard, NC the news. fortunate to be surrounded by my children I am still quite active. In January 2013 I spent and grandchildren. I still miss living in two days hiking in Joshua Tree National Park Class of 1959 Bexley. I think often of my Bexley High CA with my son David. Time was spent School days and of the great teachers there, biking in May in Greenbriar Forest WV with October 2013 even so long ago. five friends. That same month I was out in Joe Schofer – Wilmette IL Arizona tenting and surviving a dust storm (News provided by brother, Ralph Schofer) Class of 1935 near Canyon De Chelly National Monument. Joe is currently associate dean for faculty And in October my husband Lem and I affairs at the Robert R. McCormick School October 2013 climbed the 100+ steps up Old Baldy – the of Engineering and Applied Science at Mary Schuh Stauffer – Downey, CA oldest lighthouse on the Eastern seaboard. Northwestern University, where he has been Over 1,000 people came to my 95th on the faculty since 1970, and has served birthday party at the Columbia Memorial Class of 1952 as chair of the Department of Civil and Space Center. 90 people came to my Environmental Engineering. He is a long 96th birthday party, a sit-down dinner October 2013 time volunteer researcher and committee celebrating my birthday and 22 years of the Harriet Shusterman Maitin – Los Angeles, chairman for the Transportation Research Mary R. Stauffer Foundation. CA Board and last year received its highest My husband Richard and I moved into a honor, the Roy Crum Achievement Award. Class of 1949 condo in Brentwood over 6 yrs. ago and love the full service we get here. I still enjoy my Class of 1960 October 2013 book club and bridge games although my Ralph Schofer – Bethesda, MD muscular and skeletal system is hindered by October 2013 I was reelected as a director of the Harvard arthritis. Still drive and walk with a walker. Jessie Wile Stern – Silver Spring ,MD Business School Club of Washington. I Dick teaches 2 days a week at UCLA dental Since I retired from a 35-year career previously served as president and board school and practices in his old office 1 day a in medical photojournalism, I have chairman, each for two year terms. week. We were happy to have the privilege pursued my hobby-turned-business of seeing our grandson Adam graduate in jewelry design and teaching (www. magna cum laude from Colgate. He has a basicallybuttonsandbeads.com). I still

Class of 1950 October 2013 Bill Creager – Kilmarnock, VA For the past twenty years, a number of old friends from the class of 1950 have been meeting annually at various locations. This past September, they returned to Bexley for their meeting. Those members of the class of ’50 that met were: Bob Clark, Nancy Weiffenbach Clark, Halliday Hayes, John Bowman, Scott Inboden, Bill Creager, Charlie Rodgers, Joel Poorman and Jane Wheeler Pryor. The visit included a tour of Bexley High, recently named the second best public high school in Ohio. The tour was conducted by the Principal Harley Williams and it reinforced everyone’s awareness that we were indeed fortunate to have gone to school there. Pictured: Bill Creager, Joel Poorman, Charlie Rodgers, Scott Inboden and Halliday Hayes 8 Bexley High School Alumni Association • Winter/Spring 2014 CLASS NOTES

Jazzercise four days a week, as I have for Class of 1973 the past 38 years. My husband Marc and I have been married since 1962 and we September 2013 have three grown children and five teenage Karen Bishoff vanAssenderp – grandchildren. Travel is a highlight of Tallassee, FL our lives. In 2013 I visited friends and The Class of 1973 held its reunion relatives in Palm Springs, San Francisco, over the July 4th weekend. San Antonio and the Canadian Rockies of Classmates rode on a flatbed in Alberta. With Marc I explored the New the parade, went on a tour of England states looking for designer beads the high school led by current and photographing fall foliage. students, played golf, gathered at the Old Bag of Nails and attended Class of 1964 the main event on Saturday night at the October 2013 Hollywood Casino Chuck Smith – Woodbridge, VA in Hilliard. It was a My one act comedy, Poltergeist, was wonderful time to produced by three theater companies this reconnect with old summer. The Old Dark Foreclosed House friends and to make was produced in September. new ones. It was so much fun to be all together again. There was a very touching tribute to our classmates who are no longer with us as well as a heart warming video of all of there were missed. We hope to have a get the yearbook and torch photos from our together for the 45th. 10 years is too long to years together at Bexley High School. We wait to have that much fun again! had about half of the class attending one or more of these events. Those who weren’t

(The following, featuring Ross Friedman, class of 2010, was found on the Bexley Schools website at www.bexleyschools.org) Alum Signs The professional soccer team announced on January 8, 2014 that it has signed defender Ross Friedman, a 2010 Bexley High School graduate and Harvard University senior, to a Homegrown player contract. Midfielder Matt Walker from Xavier University signed as well. Mr. Friedman was a co-captain of the Bexley boys’ soccer team that reached the Thank you to the state tournament final four in 2009. He trained with the Crew Soccer Academy following alumni who made throughout his school years in central Ohio and played on the Crew Juniors Super-20 donations to the Alumni squad that won the 2011 national title. According to the Crew, Mr. Friedman made 56 Association since our Summer/ career appearances in four seasons at Harvard, recording two goals and 17 assists. As a Fall 2013 newsletter: sophomore, he was All-Ivy League honorable mention. “He dished-out 10 assists and scored one goal in 17 appearances – all of which were starts,” said a press release. Name of Donor “Ross Friedman is a versatile player who can play a number of positions and has a Sherry Christie Fish ’64 tremendous work rate,” said Crew sporting director and head coach Gregg Berhalter in a statement. He also described Mr. Friedman as having a “good soccer mind” and In Memory Of being a “strong addition to the first team.” Ric Klass ‘64 9 Winter/Spring 2014 • Bexley High School Alumni Association

(This article, reprinted with permission, written by Caleb Fechtor, class of 2011 and currently a junior at Boston University, appeared in Bexley News on August 13, 2013 Teachers’ challenges can change students’ minds By Caleb Fechtor debate, deliberation, compromise, and most importantly, discussion. He encouraged conversation and tastefully advocated I remember being told, “He’s one of the hardest teachers in the disagreement, and often demanded it, calling on random class school, but he’s the man.” To me, a prepubescent, shaggy-haired, members to give answers, putting them in the hot seat. scrawny freshman, there could be no such Never before had I found myself yearning for more information teacher, “hardest in the school” and “the man.” and wanting to do the homework. Never before had I actually Wasn’t the easiest teacher always the coolest? studied in advance for tests, rather than the night before. Never I walked in to Mr. Featherstone’s honors before had I felt so competent, efficient and excited about my history class on my first day of high school and studies. sat down closest to the door. I remember thinking, if this is what college is like, can I go there After taking attendance, doing introductions now? Is it healthy to enjoy school this much? and handing out a syllabus, he confidently At the time, this was a new sensation: wanting to learn. Mr. stated something along the lines of, “This class Featherstone set my brain in motion, but it didn’t stop with him. will be the hardest class you have taken up to this point in your Looking back now, from the perspective of a college student, there schooling career and most of you will fail our first test.” Naturally, were various teachers in my four years at Bexley High School this terrified me. who pushed my limits, broadened my lens and perhaps most Twenty-five glassy eyed, motionless freshmen, all drained importantly, humbled me. of their color, stared back at him in awe and began to seriously These were the teachers like Mr. Tatman, Dr. Romanczuk, Dr. reconsider their decisions to join his class. Was this a sick joke? McMahon and Mrs. Horger, who held their students to the highest “But!” he said, “If you work hard, I will work equally as hard standards, and prepared them (and me) for success. and you will learn more than you ever have in any class; I promise Teachers such as these gave me a thrust toward thinking, you that.” acting and performing like a scholar, something that would prove And man, oh, man was Mr. Featherstone right. important to my college preparation. For those students motivated Every day brought something new. His classes went beyond enough to accept the challenge, the reward was staggering. lectures, notes, slide shows and busy work. His classes were Although I did fail my first honors history test, I came out of that performances — musical, and more often than not, theatrical. class in June illuminated with a radiant sense of knowledge and He advocated a college-like atmosphere in his class, one in which confidence. I felt enlightened. students wanted to learn. He pushed us to study, to read, to think, rather Contrary to my belief, what Mr. Featherstone’s former student than regurgitate or merely memorize. He stressed the importance of had said was true.

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