20907_FCHS_FC-BC.qxp 9/11/07 1:59 PM Page 2 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Friends’ Central School IFYOU PAY corporate net income tax, capital stock franchise tax, bank and trust company shares tax, title insurance company shares tax, insurance premiums tax, or mutual thrift institutions tax, then you could join other generous donors who are supporting Friends’ Central School through Pennsylvania’s EITC program. This year, donors gave over $185,000 in support of Friends’ Central’s financial aid program which helped us open our doors to about 15 talented students with limited financial means. If you have any questions, or think your company would be interested in participating in this program, please call Lydia Martin, Director of Development: 610-645-5034, [email protected] or Jim Brennan, Director of Annual Giving: 610-645-5036, [email protected] Thank You! 20907_FCHS_FC-BC.qxp 9/11/07 1:59 PM Page 3 Going Green 20907_FCHS_2-17.qxp 9/11/07 2:02 PM Page 2 20907_FCHS_2-17.qxp 9/11/07 2:02 PM Page 3 Friends’ Central DirSpring/Summerections ’07 From the Headmaster: 2006-2007 Board of Trustees Ann V. Satterthwaite, Clerk Peter P. Arfaa James B. Bradbeer, Jr. Adrian Castelli Dear Friends, Kenneth Dunn The main theme of this edition of Kaye Edwards George Elser Directions is the environment. Our editor, Jean Farquhar ’70 Rebecca Anderson, provides an excellent Victor Freeman ’80 opening essay and has compiled profiles Christine Gaspar ’70 of Friends’ Central alumni/ae who have Robert Gassel ’69 chosen careers that reflect their interest in Edward Grinspan Irwin Gross doing their part for the environmental Walter Harris ’75 cause. We would like to think that they Sally Harrison and many other graduates have been This issue also includes a photograph Karen N. Horikawa ’77 encouraged by their experiences at of the wonderful class of 2007. It is Deborah Hull Friends’ Central to choose work compati- appropriate that the setting is the Michael Kelly Craig Lord ble with the values inherent in our traditional graduation terrace framed by Hillard Madway Quaker roots. You should know that as I stately, well-cared-for trees and flower Ed Marshall ’68 write this note, the School is exploring beds. Our hope is that our most recent Carol Mongeluzzi several further ways of reducing our use graduates will join their predecessors in Jeffrey Purdy of energy and paper and conserving making our country and the world a Lawrence S. Reichlin Marsha Rothman resources. better place, an aspiration that includes Jonathan Sprogell “developing compassion for fellow James Wright human beings across national borders Barbara M. Cohen, Emerita and valuing the environment.”The stories Joanna Haab Schoff ’51, Emerita within affirm our trust. 2006-2007 Alumni/ae Board Sincerely, Andrew Newcomb ’87, President David M. Felsen Mallory Floyd ’96, Vice President Headmaster Jordan Rubin ’98, Secretary Gail Carter ’97 Anne Dufour Clouser ’50 Bess Collier ’96 Alice Hess Crowell ’46 Andrea Deutsch ’85 David Ellis ’51 Bill Georges ’88 Susan Kelsay ’59 Peter Klein ’87 Patrick Lord ’90 On the cover: Friends’ Central’s arborist, Jane Cubberley Luce ’68 Doug Linton ’68 by Eleftherios Kostans. Latifah McMullin ’99 Donald Reimenschneider ’52 Inside front cover: Commencement 2007 Aaron Selkow ’88 Reception on the Green by Todd Swimmer ’81. Barbara Weinberg ’79 Jessica Zeldin ’88 Printed on recycled paper 3 20907_FCHS_2-17.qxp 9/11/07 2:02 PM Page 4 From the Editor: Head of School David M. Felsen Editor Rebecca H. Anderson Dear Friends, Director of Communications I began putting together this issue of Directions in mid-April, right around the Art Director, Designer time an unseasonal ice-storm rushed Suzanne DeMott Gaadt Gaadt Perspectives, LLC through the area, pulling down trees and Friends’ Central. Finally, the pictures of wires and flooding streets. I dug out the Commencement, Reunion, and the many Development Office Staff boots and mittens I had just packed away Home and School events celebrate the Lydia A. Martin and shoveled the snow off the suddenly strength of the community we create Director of Development incongruously yellow daffodils. By the together. Linda Waxman Wasserman ’75 Director of Alumni/ae Affairs end of that very same week, the tempera- Middle School science teacher Doug James P. Brennan ture reached 90 degrees, and I scrambled Ross unwittingly tied these two different Director of Annual Giving through the closets for last summer’s themes together the other day when he Elizabeth H. Finley, Archivist/Assistant shorts and sandals. These extremes were stopped by my office to talk about the Director of Annual Giving an uncanny reminder that the conversa- School’s newly formed Environmental Joel F. W. Price tions I was having about climate change Advisory Committee and its plans for Webmaster/Data Specialist and the environment with alumni/ae and next year. “We could have solar panels, Denise Koehler Morris faculty for this issue were very current! biodiesel buses, and five green roofs, but Development Office Secretary The feature, “Going Green,” high- if we continue to throw trash on the Monica Peterson lights a deep concern we all share for the ground, nothing has been accomplished. Development Office Secretary state of the earth by looking at how sever- Our job is education and community Joshua Wasserman ’02 Development Assistant al alumni/ae are working on behalf of the building.This is a subject that will unite environment. It was important to me that us as a community and become part of Printer this issue of Directions do more than sim- our education process.” Smith-Edwards-Dunlap ply recount the efforts of others. So, for Next year will be full of activities, the first time, the magazine is printed on strategies, conversations, and celebrations We welcome any comments, letters, photographs, and suggestions for future 100% recycled paper that contains a min- focused on improving Friends’ Central’s issues. Please send all imum of 10% post-consumer waste. The environmental friendliness. Hopefully the communications to: manufacturer, Sappi, is committed to sus- articles in this issue will excite you to find Editor, Directions tainable development and does not a way to join us in a community-wide Friends’ Central School source timber from indigenous forests or effort to go green. 1101 City Avenue woodlands, does not use genetically mod- Wynnewood, PA 19096 ified trees, and does not harvest trees in Sincerely, [email protected] ways that compromise the traditional or Rebecca H. Anderson Visit Friends’ Central on the web at civil rights of any people. Director of Communications www.friendscentral.org Alongside its focus on the environ- ment, this issue celebrates the importance Alumni/ae, we want to hear from you! of community here at Friends’ Central. Have you published a book recently? The Campus Log stories focus on cultural Run a marathon? Had a baby? communities and the efforts made by FCS encourages friends to share their Friends’ Central teachers and students to news with Directions. CORRECTIONS: Email your notes and photos to > In the Fall 2006/Winter 2007 issue, we explore the complexity and diversity of [email protected] (preferred incorrectly identified a student on page 7 other cultures. The alumni/ae featured all as Ben Melman instead of Jeffrey Berman. method) or mail information to the emphasize that their concern for the envi- > Christopher Dante Sheldon was incor- Development Office, 1101 City Avenue, ronment is a natural extension of the vital rectly listed as going to the University of Wynnewood, PA 19096. Please mark the Pittsburgh when in fact he is currently back of prints with your name and class sense of community they acquired at enrolled at the University of Rochester. year. Digital images must be of high > On page 75, Kathleen Heller belongs to quality (28” x 21” at 72 dpi, or the class of 1995 not 1999. 4” x 6” at 300 dpi). The editor regrets the errors. We accept photos up to 2MB. 4 Friends’ Central 20907_FCHS_2-17.qxp 9/11/07 2:02 PM Page 5 Contents Departments 6 Campus Log 6 7 Exploring Other Cultures at Friends’ Central 12 Awards 16 Commencement 40 Feature 18 Going Green Friends’ Central Alumni/ae and the Campaign for the Environment 21 Doug Linton ’68 Rob Crauderueff ’01 Sherry McVickar ’70 17 Rachel Fertik ’91 Jonathan Adler ’87 29 In Support: Home & School, Peter Viola ’02 The Golf Classic, The Class of 49 1957 Sarah Armitage ’77 35 Alumni/ae News:Young alums, distinguished alums, and Reunion 2007 40 Reunion 41 Notes from Friends 49 From the Archives : The Blackburn Bonnet 18 Directions Spring/Summer 2007 5 20907_FCHS_2-17.qxp 9/11/07 2:02 PM Page 6 ostans Eleftherios K Cultural Explorations (Above) Students from kindergarten in front of their pyramid. Front Left to right: Gavin Sultan, Nina Saligman. A Whirlwind Trip Around the value other cultures, not just the geogra- Second row: Andrew van Buren, Ben World By Michelle Johns phy and basic facts. Klein, Thomas Bradbeer, Ben Wainfran. For many teachers, the Quaker Back row: Mia Bruckner, Amirah Alwyn, A spring walk through our halls is a emphasis on discovering that there is Nayah Moore. whirlwind trip around the world. During “that of God in every person” helps us the later part of the school year, Friends’ organize our social studies curricula (Top left) Kindergarteners Margaret Central Lower School students delve into around a celebration of differences as well Mushi, Jonah Wexler, Gideon Powell, Bradleigh Bell, Ben Schall, Jackson For- a culturally rich social studies curricu- as similarities, and the various activities rest, Henry Shin. lum. Some of the grades have created a each classroom undertakes encourage “tradition”: all first graders, for instance, each child to imagine what it is like to be (Next page, top left and below) Kachina study an Asian culture (Japan, China, or a Japanese, Hopi, or Ugandan child.