Volume 33 2013 Making New Memories Reunion photos -- p. 14 Liz Claman and Josh Berger Joel Pressman, to be inducted choir director, into Beverly Hills retiring after High School 38 years Hall of Fame -- page 39 -- pages 5-6 2 Alumni Highlights 2013 On Highlights’ masthead is the phrase “Today Well Lived.” It is excerpted Inside this Issue from the following poem: Hall of Fame List of Salutation of the Dawn Look to this day, pages 4-6 Contributors For it is the very life of life. pages 10-13 In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of Upcoming your existence; The glory of action, Reunions Class Notes The bliss of growth, page 5 pages 20-38 The splendor of beauty, For yesterday is but a dream and Athletic Hall Alumni Tomorrow is only a vision; But today well lived makes of Fame Snapshots every yesterday a dream of happiness, pages 7-8 pages 49-54 And every tomorrow a vision of hope, Look well, therefore, to this Spring Musical Obituaries day. page 9 pages 55-62 Corrections, 2012 Alumni Assoc. Board of Directors Nora Ephron’s obituary on page 15 mentioned her sister Delia as a survivor but did not identify her sisters Hailey and Amy. Alumni Highlights Staff Melanie Anderson Editor and Production Manager Josh Gross ’91 Editorial Contributor Joanna Stingray ’78 Editorial Contributor Barbara Lee Kozberg ’53 Proofreader BHHS Alumni Association 241 Moreno Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (310) 551-5100 ext. 8219 BHHSALUMNI@ yahoo.com Front row, left to right: Candace Chen ’87, Fred Nason S’48, Josh Gross ’91, Betsy Ulf Contributions are deductible under S’49. Back row: Lilly Lewis ’74, Elyse Beardsley ’76, Joanna Stingray ’78, Noah Furie ’77. Sec. 501(c)3 of the Internal Reve- Not pictured: Barry Brucker ’75, Ronit Stone ’79 nue Code. 2013 Alumni Highlights 3 President’s Message - Josh Gross ’91 Hello fellow Normans: performance of Beverly’s fi ght Furie ’77 world. The fi nancial support I’m proud to report that song! is a former of graduates like yourself things are better than ever This Oct. 10 we will hold our chair of the has allowed us to become the here in the Norman Nation. next event, and we urge you to B e v e r l y biggest contributor of alumni Our popular principal, Carter attend. Our nominees include H i l l s scholarships. This year, as in Paysinger ’74, continues to Josh Berger ’84 and Liz Claman P l a n n i n g years past, we awarded $12,000 lead our alma mater to further ’81 (see stories on pages 5–7). Commission to deserving graduating seniors. academic and extracurricular Please call (310) 385-0679 for who now In closing, don’t forget that success. tickets. This year’s dinner is chairs the you graduated from the most This year was an exciting sure to be better than ever. city’s brand Josh Gross ’91 famous high school in the one for the Alumni Association. This year our Alumni new Cultural country—probably the world. In October, we held our fi rst- Highlights has a new editor. Heritage Commission. Ronit We greatly need your fi nancial ever joint dinner with the Melanie Anderson, who Stone ’79 recently completed support as we help take our Beverly Hills Athletic Alumni previously served as editor of several years as co-president alma mater to even higher Association, which raised Beverly Hills Weekly , has taken of Beverly High’s PTSA. We places. So if you enjoy reading over $16,000 to support our over editorial duties and, as welcome Noah and Ronit to our your A lumni Highlights , please organization. Television you can see in this publication, board. consider making a contribution personality Leeza Gibbons she does excellent work. We The Alumni Association and sending in a class note hosted the event, along with welcome your photos and was founded in December today. her husband, former Board submissions for future editions 1977. Our organization has Until next time my friends, of Education member Steven of Alumni Highlights . grown signifi cantly since that Go Normans! Fenton ’88. Legendary actress Two new board members time. We now mail this Alumni Josh Gross ’91 Betty White W’39 even closed have joined our board, to replace Highlights to over 19,000 President the show with a very energetic two members who retired. Noah graduates living all over the Alumni Association Normans excel in academics, athletics and arts T h i s to School Celebration.” The participating in athletics. Our competition and fi nished fi fth has been “Back to School Celebration” boys’ basketball team had some in the state. Their score turned a fantastic was a school-wide pep rally tremendous wins including a out to also be the fi fth highest year for celebrating the opening of last-second shot to beat Santa score in the country. the Beverly school. The pep rally was led Monica High School. Both Our Robotics team won Hills High by the staff and it turned out our girls’ and boys’ cross the Los Angeles Regional S c h o o l to be a wonderful way for our country teams won the league competition and qualifi ed for N o r m a n s . students to begin the school championship. One of our the National competition in St. T h e year. girls, Sydney Segal, won the Louis, Mo. Our Robotics team N o r m a n s Our Performing Arts state meet and set the school has had tremendous success Carter began the Department produced a record. She will be attending over the years and this year has Paysinger ’74 year with riveting fall play entitled No Columbia in the fall. Our track proven to be one of their best. a new Child, a play about how a team, led by Alex Rohani who The Normans went through “Link Crew” transition teacher successfully turned won the state track meet a the Accreditation process program designed to help our around an inner city New year ago in the 400 meters, is this year, which resulted freshmen acclimate to the high York high school. They also primed to compete for a league in an outstanding report. school. The program allows produced a very successful championship this year. Alex Beverly was considered by the each freshman to connect Spring Musical entitled The will be attending USC in the WASC (Western Association and develop a relationship Secret Garden. Lina Hibert, fall on a track scholarship. of Schools and Colleges) with upperclassmen prior to Anthony Lofaso, Deven Martin Our Academic Decathlon Accreditation team as an the fi rst day of school. The and Leah Weissbuch were team won this year’s county excellent high school. program was a huge success some of the top performers in competition. Jenny Chieu, This has truly been an and our freshmen have had the department. David Mnista and Heidi Hart exciting year for the Norman an excellent year. The fi rst Our Athletics program are some of our students that Nation! day of school was also a little continues to be considered had the top individual scores Carter Paysinger ’74 different with the advent of one of the best in the area. in the county. Our team went Principal another new program, “Back We have nearly 900 students on to compete in the state Beverly Hills High School 4 Hall of Fame 2013 Beverly Hills High School Avant, Brien honored in 2012 Hall of Fame Edwin L. Artzt S’47 Mel Levine ’60 Nicole Avant ’86 Stanley W. Levy ’59 Robert E. Badham S’47 Michael Lloyd ’66 Lloyd Braun ’76 E. Ellsworth Lohn S’43 Willie Brien, M.D. ’75 Major Gen. William Lyon S’41 Jacqueline Orgell Briskin W’45 Justin T. McCarthy Jr. W’41 Albert Brooks ’65 Frank Mankiewicz S’41 Joe L. Brown S’35 Alejandro N. Mayorkas ’77 Barry Brucker ’75 David Mellinkoff W’32 Richard Chamberlain ’52 Dr. Sherman Mellinkoff W’37 Molly Cosgrave Chappellet S’49 C. Robert Moore W’38 Laura Newman Chick ’62 Frank Morriss W’46 Louise Brough Clapp W’40 Terrence O’Flaherty W’35 Gene Corman S’44 Charles H. Older S’35 Bob Osgood W’37 Roger Corman S’43 Tony Sarandos ’15, Sarah Sarandos ’12, Nicole Avant ’86, George Cotliar ’50 Elinor Awan Ostrom ’51 Ted Sarandos Donald W. Crowell ’52 William R. Pagen S’39 Cally Curtis S’41 David A. Paige ’77 Dr. Willie Brien ’75, Avant ’86, who served in the Don Davies S’44 George M. Pardee S’33 who is director of Cedars- Bahamas, were inducted into the Ian Dawson ’85 Hoyt S. Pardee S’36 Sinai Orthopaedic Center Beverly Hills High School Hall Jerry Paris W’44 Walt Dougher ’53 and served as Beverly Hills of Fame in 2012. Robert L. Patten ’56 Brig. Gen. Frank M. Drew S’48 mayor from 2012-13, and For more on the awards Richard Dreyfuss ’65 Major Gen. Carl D. Peterson S’41 Walter H. Dunn S’40 Joel Pressman ’67 U.S. Ambassador (ret.) Nicole dinner, see page 8. Ed Edelman S’48 André Previn W’46 Blake Edwards W’41 John E. “Jack” Randall W’42 Mark Egerman ’60 Peggy Rea S’38 Delia Ephron ’62 Rob Reiner ’64 Nora Ephron ’58 William Reppy W’30 Mike Fenton ’52 Vicki Behrstock Reynolds ’53 Betty Hughes Fladager S’41 Robert Gore Rifkind S’46 Joyce Marcus Flannery ’66 Will Rogers Jr. W’31 Michele Flournoy ’79 Jay Sandrich S’49 William F.