Changing the World, One “Horace Mann-er” at a Time magazine Volume 5 Number 1 SPRING 2009 HORACE MANN HORACE SAVE THE DATE Saturday, October 24, 2009 HOMECOMING HOMECOMING • Varsity Athletic Events • Fall Frolic with special activities for families and children AND REUNION • Dan Alexander ’49 Alumni Soccer Game • Maroon Monsoon and Club events CELEBRATION • Campus Tours 2009 • Barbecue Luncheon on Clark Field REUNIONS Reunion luncheons, cocktail receptions and dinners Classes of 1939, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004 For more information visit our website www.horacemannalumni.org or call 718.432.3450. Photos © James Levine Contentscontents 2 LETTERS 4 GREETINGS FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL 5 GREETIN G S F R O M T H E D I R E C T O R O F D EVE L OP M ENT 6 Changing the World, One “Horace Mann-er” at a Time Since its founding 122 years ago Horace Mann School has taught students to think and explore, with an eye toward innovation for the greater good. At a time when the world is focused on those who have embraced this responsibility we offer readers “Hope” in the stories of alumni from HM’s recent history who have pursued grand ideas for the benefit of all. Please join in cel- ebrating cancer research pioneers Dr. Michael Sporn ’49 (p. 7) and Dr. Edward Gelmann ’68 (p. 9); environ- mentalist and wind power developer Peter Mandelstam ’79 (p. 11); Social Entrepreneurship Advocate Jay Coen Gilbert ’85 (p. 13); social and cultural anthropologist David Boris Danielle Boris ’12 Dr. Caitlin Zaloom ’91 (p. 15); Internet law expert and philosopher Prof. James Grimmelmann ’95 (p. 18); Teach-for-America visionary Kira Orange-Jones ’96 horace mann school journal (p. 21); Votegopher.com founder William Ruben ’06 (p. 23), and current student, business-for-a-cause innovator Amanda Loyola ’10 (p. 25). 26 NEWS OF THE SCHOOL Horace Mann School celebrates community in new ways. Athletic teams triumph horace mann alumni journal 28 AlUMNI COUNCIL CORNER A letter from Alumni Council President Justin Lerer ’95; Saul ’46 and Stanley ’49 Zabar are HMAC’s 2008 Distinguished Alumni; Alumni gather at HMAC winter party 33 BOOKSHELF 36 ClASS NOTES 44 MEMORIALS 48 PhILANTHROPY AND YOU Edible Manhattan and Michael Harlan Turkell Stanley ’49 and Saul ’46 Zabar are 2008 HM Distinguished Alumni Giving of themselves so that others can give Inside cover photo © James Levine; Back inside cover photo © Bruce Fuller. Unless otherwise noted all articles and photographs are by Ruth Seligman, Director of Publications, Alumni House and Development Office. Horace Mann Magazine Spring 2009 1 Lettersletters Horace Mann Magazine provides a way for alumni to connect with one another and with their School. The Alumni House and Development Office shares the following letter from Nicolas From Varsity Lions to Professional Soccer Finck ’64, written at the start of school-year 2008-2009. The Fall 2008 issue of the magazine focused on athletics at Your last issue on sports and athletics gave me the chance HM and noted Amie Becker’s ’94 involvement with professional to update you on my involvement with soccer. In October soccer as Director of Operations for the San Diego Sockers 2008 I was appointed General Manager of the San Diego (MISL). Amie updated us with news of her recent appointment SeaLions (WPSL). Prior to that, I served as Director of as the first full-time General Manager of the San Diego SeaLions Operations for the San Diego Sockers (MISL), and worked (Women’s Premier Soccer League) , and shared news of her with the former WUSA’s San Diego Spirit, and with US volunteer work involving soccer—all of which she said stems Soccer’s Youth National Teams. I’ve also coached high from her experience at Horace Mann. We look forward to school soccer in San Diego, and I currently play in local receiving and sharing your letters. indoor and outdoor leagues, and work with Kick for Hope (www.kickforhope.org). Kick for Hope is a non-profit orga- A September Memory nization that hosts youth competitive soccer tournaments to raise money to benefit projects in Africa, while also rais- ing awareness among U.S. youth about world hunger and Today, I am celebrating 50 years to the day that I started at the preventable life and death challenges facing children Horace Mann. I transferred from Brooklyn Ethical Culture in Africa. School, with its emphasis on letting the children express It all started with Randal Castleman. Mr. Castleman themselves and find their way, to the competitive, high- gave me a shot on the varsity soccer team when I was a power atmosphere of an all-boys school with a constant freshman. From that point on he was like a second father focus on success. to me. Great man, brilliant teacher and inspiring coach! It was a difficult transition, and HM was not an easy I wouldn’t be where I am today if it hadn’t been for him. environment, but I made it, and I continue to use things I Thank you Mr. Castleman for your wisdom and support. learned there every day. Thanks for your continued work for the students, past Amie Becker ’94 and present. Nicolas Finck ’64 (originally ’63, till I took out a year to be the exchange student to Berlin ’62-’63) 7th Annual Horace Mann Alumni Council Benefit CASINO NIGHT Great Prizes * Food * Drinks June 3th, 2009 | 6:30-9:00pm Proceeds donated to the Lynn & Lizzie Koch ’05 Endowed Student Assistance Sunshine Fund Help Make a Difference in an Upper Division Student’s Life For tickets or to donate contact Kristen Worrell 718-432-4106 2 Horace Mann Magazine Spring 2009 HORACE MANN SCHOOL Robert Katz ’65 Timothy Brown William Kuhn ’99 Dr. Thomas M. Kelly Alan Locker ’57 SECretarY — NurserY DIVisioN Peter Levine ’93 Head of SChool Michael Loeb ’46 Mark Littmann ’02 AlUMNI COUNCIL Dr. David Schiller Carl Pforzheimer, III ’54 2008-2009 OFFICERS Franklin Lowe ’70 Head of Upper DIVisioN (9-12) Daniel Rose ’47 Justin Lerer ’95 Hayley Friedman Morrison ’92 Robin Ingram TRUSTEES EMERITI PresideNT Daniel Rosenberg ’92 Head of Middle DIVisioN (6-8) William Aaron Sari Mayer ’84 Sara Roby Wiener ’97 Wendy Steinthal Susan Baldwin ViCE-PresideNT magazine Head of Lower DIVisioN (K(U) -5) Tina Bellet Wesley Mittman LePatner ’99 Patricia Zuroski Bruce Brickman ’70 SECretarY PUBLISHED BY THE Head of NurserY DIVisioN (N, K(D)) Kai Chan MEMBERS ALUMNI HoUSE AND Donald Jonas ’47 Glenn Sherratt Michael Barr ’81 DEVELopMENT OFFICE Dayna Langfan, ’79 DireCtor of JohN Dorr Nature Sharon Bazbaz ’92 LaboratorY Bert Lewen Ronald Blum ’79 Horace Mann School Herbert Neuman th ThE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Jeffrey Brosk ’65 231 W. 246 Street Morton L. 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Cogut Cortnee Glasser ’92 © 2009 David Tillinghast ’47 ViCE Chair Cary Sidlett Gunther ’93 Neil Underberg AlUMNI HOUSE AND Carolyn Okin Donald Hillman ’42 DEVELOPMENT OFFICE ViCE Chair PARENTS ASSOCIATION William Irwin ’74 Nurie Hasandjekaj 2008-2009 EXECUTIVE BOARD Lawrence Shelley Samantha Kleier Forbes ’90 DEVelopmeNT AssoCiate AND Andrea Baumann Lustig Database MANager Treasurer Sabrina Kleier Morgenstern ’94 PresideNT Eleni Jiavaras Robert Heidenberg ’76 Mark Langfan ’78 Cindy Scheinfeld DEVelopmeNT AssoCiate, SECretarY Noah Leichtling ’92 1ST ViCE-PresideNT AlumNI RelatioNS Elisabeth Lerner ’86 TRUSTEES Corinne Spurrier Mickey Littmann ’52 Barbara Melamed Frederick Adler 2ND ViCE-PresideNT Ephram Lustgarten ’96 DEVelopmeNT AssoCiate, Gift ProCessiNG Steven Bussey ’85 MANN HORACE Lisa Noble Peter Mandelstam ’79 Nathaniel Christian, III ’79 SECretarY Jeffrey Margolis ’63 Melissa Parento ’90 Michael Colacino ’75 DireCtor of DEVelopmeNT Julie Chen Hosaido Herbert Nass ’77 Jamshid Ehsani Treasurer William Nightingale ’49 Kristen Pietraszek Richard Friedman ’75 Daniel Pianko ’94 DireCtor of ANNual GIVING Catherine Goodstein Wallace ’87 Daryl Eisenberg AssistaNT Treasurer Jason Polevoy ’90 Amy Reinharz Laurence Grafstein Wendy Elias Sassower ’90 AssoCiate DireCtor of Lawrence Otis Graham Barbara Goldman DEVelopmeNT for AlumNI GIVING Andrew Schoenthal ’91 Theresa Havell Linda Winikoff-Kreisler Co-Chairs — Upper DIVisioN Daniel Silvers ’94 Ruth Seligman Mindy Heyer John Sorkin ’86 DireCtor OF PubliCatioNS/EDITOR Elliot Konopko ’71 Cathy Gollub Joelle Tisch ’95 Kristen Worrell Justin Lerer ’95 ViCE-Chair — Upper DIVisioN Daniel Turkewitz ’91 AssistaNT DireCtor of Edward Levy Lynette Federer DEVelopmeNT, alumNI relatioNS Lisa Braunstein Zola ’83 Andrea Baumann Lustig SECretarY — Upper DIVisioN AND speCial EVENts Howard Lutnick Ellen Hefter EMERITI Alli Baron ’89 DESIGN Eric Mindich Farrah Kleiner RE:CREATIVE William Montgomery Co-Chairs — Middle DIVisioN Peter Brown ’53 David Jacoby ’72 David Parker Amy Gibbons PRIMARY PhOTOGRAPHY Robert Judell ’41 Michael Pruzan ’83 SECretarY — Middle DIVisioN James Levine Joseph Rose ’77 Ronald Katter ’78 Ruth Seligman Staci Barber Michael Katz ’56 Richard Ruben ’72 PRINTING Allison Essner Dayna Langfan ’79 Usha Saxena Co-Chairs — Lower DIVisioN Capital Offset Company, Inc. Regina Kulik Scully ’81 Jodi Grossman Nass ’78 Ida Parks Suzanne Sloan ’77 Beth Kobliner Shaw ViCE-Chair — Lower DIVisioN Silda Wall Spitzer FRIENDS Susan Kane Samantha Cooper Brand ’01 Thomas Stern SECretarY — Lower DIVisioN Samona Tait Johnson ’86 Marc Cornstein ’88 Elizabeth Sloan Loren Easton ’97 CHAIR EMERITI Chair — NurserY DIVisioN Richard Eisner ’52 Robin Fisher ’00 Bari Goldmacher ’90 Amy Gold ’98 Peter Gross ’55 ViCE-Chair — NurserY DIVisoN Michael Hess ’58 Blake Indursky ’90 Horace Mann Magazine Spring 2009 3 Headhead of school of School pringtime at Horace Mann School never fails to astound.