PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL JOURNAL Summer 1979 PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL JOURNAL Summer, 1979 Vol. 1 1. No. 2 Editors David C. Bogle Contents Virginia H. Taylor lillen R. Kerney ’53 1. From the 1 leadmaster Douglas (). McClure 2. Elizabeth Bunting Fine 7. GM Names Princeton Native to VP Post by Daisy Fitch ’52 8. Goodbye Mr. Jones 10. ‘‘Carnival" al Circle by David Edelman ’79 12. "Carnival” Makes Big Broadway Debut by Kristen Garver ’7 1 14. Alumni Day 16. Sports 18. Alumni Notes Photo Credits: Robert Denby, Front cover, p*>. 2 (bottom Front Cover: “Carnival" p». (>. right pj>. 17): Ben Dubrovsky '79. p<>. 1: |eff Rodney ’HI, pj>s. 10,11,12,16: Jane Crigger, PH-S- 14,15,16; John Back cover: "Godspell" Denny HI, p*>. 17. back cover; John Marshall '81. p>>. 17. Notice of Non-Discriminatory Policy as to Students. Princeton Day School admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. From The Headmaster. During my thirteen years at Princeton Day School even putting on a faculty review if one is allowed to one of the most exciting developments in what has call that a proper way of making music. When one been and continues to be a uniquely rewarding experi­ adds to this already impressive list the students who ence is the way music has become such a vital and study guitar, play in a recently organized stage band, significant part of what goes on in the school. The or simply play instruments and sing on their own it is Carnival production this winter, while perhaps the obvious that music is one of the major activities in most publicized example of some of the variety of Princeton Day School, and the Music Department musical activities that take place, is actually a rather deserves special recognition for its efforts in making modest segment of the entire spectrum. In many ways this possible. this year’s graduating class provided an excellent As an enthusiastic, if very much an amateur singer, demonstration of the role music plays. Almost a third and a lover of music of almost every sort, t he fact I hat of the class participated in at least one major musical this is the case is to me one of the best things about activity, contributing to the success of the Madrigals, Princeton Day School. To paraphrase Dr. Lewis the Glee Club, the Orchestra, and the winter musicals. Thomas somewhat, I subscribe wholeheartedly to the Three seniors won awards in musical competitions statement he makes in his new collection of essays, during the year. In addition this spring six senior The Medusa and the Snail, "any species capable of projects involved musical performances — four re­ producing the music of Bach (to which I would add: or citals plus productions of Trouble in Tahiti and any other composer who has enriched our lives) Gods pel I. cannot be all bad." There is actually something even The Upper School is not the only place where music more important involved, nonetheless. The musical flourishes. The Lower School operettas, thanks to the talent that so many Princeton Day School students genius of Mag Gilbert, are annual miracles, and her possess actually represents only a part of the aston­ ability to turn the entire Lower School into an extra­ ishing range of the artistic and creative ability that is ordinary musical ensemble is dramatically demon­ evident throughout the school. Art,. architecture, strated each year in the Christmas and Final Assem­ photography, and drama, all add as well to the special blies. The Suzuki program, which includes both Lower mix that comprises Princeton Day School. The school and Middle School students, is developing more and is committed to a high level of academic achievement more dedicated and skilled string players each year. and can be proud of the intellectual accomplishments Almost every Middle School student participates in of its students. Without the extra dimension its some musical activity as well. Each grade has its own performing and creative arts programs provide, how­ chorus, and the Middle School Orchestra is an active ever, it would not be the school it is. They are intrinsic, and steadily improving organization. Even faculty are necessary, and very important parts of all that makes involved in the music program, playing in the orches­ Princeton Day School a very special and exciting tra and helping with the musicals — and occassionally place. 1 Elizabeth Bunting Fine Wins “Distinguished Teacher’ There are four 1979 Princeton University outstanding of a superior group." She retires prizes for Distinguished Secondary School this year after 25 years of teaching Latin and Teaching in the State of New Jersey, and “ in Cjreek at Miss Fine's School and Princeton competition Mrs. Fine was singled out Day School. because she appears as one of the most 2 Prize schools to see if some asepct can be applied here. Her Present Colleagues Mrs. Fine staying up all night to type reports with one hand ...she had broken her right arm and couldn’t In all my years as a student, a teacher, and a hold a pen. headmaster I have never known a teacher who is as As a colleague, Mrs. Fine has been my role model for willing to give unstintingly of her time to individual ten years. Her modest way belies her ability to cut students as well as to faculty colleagues who turn to tactfully to the heart of a problem in department her for advice and help. One personal example is the meetings. She always has a reasonable solution. In ten assistance she gave me during the three years that I years, I have never seen her show irritation in dealing taught a course on the Historyof the City.I learned with students or colleagues. A small bundle of more about ancient cities, thanks to her knowledge international mystery novels on my desk on a Friday and the profusion of articles and monographs she morning is her way of telling me I’ve been rather made available,than I can possibly begin to describe. I brusque that week and need to unwind. can only hope that the excitement that she generated in me in the process was conveyed to my own Pierre Mali students. Chairman It is obvious that Elizabeth Fine combines an Language Department understanding of people, the skills of a scholar, and the commitment of a truly concerned human being in a I have been a colleague of Elizabeth Fine’s for unique way which makes her the outstanding teacher twenty-two years, in Miss Fine’s School and Prince­ she is. Some years ago William Arrowsmith wrote, ton Day School, and I admire her more than any other “The dignity of the classics does not lie, as our teacher I have every known. Elizabeth is a great humanities courses sometimes imply, in explaining humanist, a distinguished scholar, a dedicated and how we came to ourselves,but in telling us what we inspiring teacher, a sensitive advisor, a public- might be, how we might surpass ourselves. They are spirited citizen, a compassionate friend, an ideal wife not only history, but challenge too. And the essential and mother. part of their likeness to us and their difference — they Professionally, Elizabeth is a teacher of both Latin instruct us in the range of our humanity, and remind and Greek, and she is just as interested in her eighth us of what we might otherwise choose to forget, or graders who are beginning Latin as in her Seniors who have already forgotton.” Elizabeth Fine not only are reading the Greek tragedians. She literally has no understands completely what this means, but exem­ “free” periods in her teaching day, for, in addition to plifies it in every aspect of her life, and more success­ the many levels of Latin and Greek, she takes on fully than any teacher I have met. She knows how to individual students in special programs. To all these translate it into the kind of teaching that benefits courses, Elizabeth brings the most extraordinary everyone who is a part of her life. scholarship, for her knowledge is truly encyclopedic. I Douglas O. McClure have heard many a student say, “To take any course with Mrs. Fine is to have a complete education.” In her undergraduate years at the University of Wisconsin, As her department chairman, I have watched Eliza­ she was a biology major, and she has kept up with the beth Fine in and out of the classroom for ten years. research in that field. She got her Ph.D. in classics There are teachers and scholars. Mrs. Fine combines from Yale. Elizabeth also knows French and German the best qualities of both. By stimulating her students’ very well indeed and is expert in archeology, anthro­ curiosity while maintaining the highest standards of pology, philology, history. An omnivorous reader, she scholarship she has fostered a real love of learning has a rich background in English and American and made academic discipline a positive, integral fact literature and is always interested in what her stu­ of life for a long line of PDS graduates. To most of us, dents are doing in their English courses. We in the Classics are alive and well because of Mrs. Fine. English Department have been grateful to her, over I am overwhelmed by a kaleidoscope of the years, for her enrichment of our courses. She has impressions: often lectured to tenth grade students, during their Mrs. Fine with six preparations a day preparing study of the Odyssey, on Homer’s world, illustrating every line each day.