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8 SCIENCE AT BC THROUGH THE EYES OF ALUMS, TEACHERS & STUDENTS 8
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CONTENTS
1Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 2008
Board of TrusteesBarbara GrossmanPresidentLydia DenworthExecutive Vice PresidentChris Bockelmann NorrisVice PresidentJamie BowenVice PresidentDominick GuarnaVice PresidentPaul MourningTreasurerStephanie HolmesSecretaryRobert D. VitaloHead of School, ex-officio member
MembersMark Cheffo
Lisa Craig
Mark Friedman
Martin GoldinGrant HanessianColin HarrisonShirley HeddenMartha HirstMitchell KingDavid KochmanCynthia SachsChristina ShaneMarcia Skyers-JamesCatherine Witherwax ‘94Scott Brewster ’90, Alumni Council President, ex-officio memberCandace Carponter, PA President, ex-officio member
The Berkeley Carroll School Magazineis published by the InstitutionalAdvancement Office for parents,alumni, grandparents, faculty, andfriends of the school. The viewsexpressed in this publication are solelythose of the authors.
EditorJodie Corngold
Publication DesignStudio Lane, Inc.
PrintingLiverpool Litho
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.berkeleycarroll.org
Telephone: 718-789-6060
MYWORDAn introduction to thisissue from the editor
HEADLINESInsights from the Head of School
CONNECTIONSNews and views frominside and outside thehalls of Berkeley Carroll
CLASSNOTESProfiles, reviews, andpersonal alumni updates
INPASSINGDeaths in the Berkeley Carroll family
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t the risk of being accused of—at best—missing the point and—at worst— having no soul, I must admit that I’ve never liked theSam Cooke classic “Wonderful World.” You know the song, it’sthe one that starts, “Don't know much about history. Don't
know much biology. Don't know much about a science book. Don'tknow much about the French I took.…” I’ve heard this song all my life,and I’ve always had the same reaction to it: why would someone bragabout not being knowledgeable (and the corollary: why would someonethink professing ignorance would be a sure-fire way into another’sheart)?
Clearly, I’m missing the song’s point, but I think my point is clear: oneought to know much about biology and, for goodness sakes, one really
ought to know what a science book is for.Fortunately, Berkeley Carroll students know both.
In the Lower School, children learn science throughhands-on projects directed by excellent teachers, in awell-equipped science classroom. During MiddleSchool, students are exposed to the life sciences,physical sciences, and earth science through a succes-sion of year-long courses. Science education culmi-nates in the Upper School’s emphasis on analyticaland experimental research, a demanding curriculum
that enables students to refine the skills of observation, record keeping,hypothesizing, interpreting, and concluding.
As you’ll read in this issue of the Magazine, Berkeley Carroll students,teachers, and alumni know quite a bit about biology, and they certainlyknow what a science book is for. At the risk of looking like I missed SamCooke’s point altogether, let me say what a wonderful world that is.
Enjoy the issue.
Jodie [email protected]
(Cover photo) Lower School science teacher Becky Blumenthal coordinates anUpper School/3rd grade dissection project.
myword))
The Issue is Science
Ayana Johnson ’98Building a Better Fish TrapAs a graduate student in marine conservation ecology,Ayana works with the local fisheries department inCuraçao to promote fishing sustainability.
Jocelyn Andrews Mitchell ’51Assessing the “What Ifs” of Nuclear Power PlantsJocelyn Andrews Mitchell wrote the book on risk
assessment.
Nick Hayman ’90Going to Great DepthsA geologist shifts from city to the shifting plates on theocean’s floor.
Science at Berkeley Carroll, from thePerspective of a Science Studentby Emily Cunningham ’08
The Upper School science curriculum turned Emily Cunningham into a science student.
Teaching Science at Berkeley Carroll: What a Ride!Middle School teacher Vanessa Prescott shares herenthusiasm for the discipline.
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CONTENTS
1Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 2008
Board of TrusteesBarbara GrossmanPresidentLydia DenworthExecutive Vice PresidentChris Bockelmann NorrisVice PresidentJamie BowenVice PresidentDominick GuarnaVice PresidentPaul MourningTreasurerStephanie HolmesSecretaryRobert D. VitaloHead of School, ex-officio member
MembersMark Cheffo
Lisa Craig
Mark Friedman
Martin GoldinGrant HanessianColin HarrisonShirley HeddenMartha HirstMitchell KingDavid KochmanCynthia SachsChristina ShaneMarcia Skyers-JamesCatherine Witherwax ‘94Scott Brewster ’90, Alumni Council President, ex-officio memberCandace Carponter, PA President, ex-officio member
The Berkeley Carroll School Magazineis published by the InstitutionalAdvancement Office for parents,alumni, grandparents, faculty, andfriends of the school. The viewsexpressed in this publication are solelythose of the authors.
EditorJodie Corngold
Publication DesignStudio Lane, Inc.
PrintingLiverpool Litho
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.berkeleycarroll.org
Telephone: 718-789-6060
MYWORDAn introduction to thisissue from the editor
HEADLINESInsights from the Head of School
CONNECTIONSNews and views frominside and outside thehalls of Berkeley Carroll
CLASSNOTESProfiles, reviews, andpersonal alumni updates
INPASSINGDeaths in the Berkeley Carroll family
<
2
3
28
36
t the risk of being accused of—at best—missing the point and—at worst— having no soul, I must admit that I’ve never liked theSam Cooke classic “Wonderful World.” You know the song, it’sthe one that starts, “Don't know much about history. Don't
know much biology. Don't know much about a science book. Don'tknow much about the French I took.…” I’ve heard this song all my life,and I’ve always had the same reaction to it: why would someone bragabout not being knowledgeable (and the corollary: why would someonethink professing ignorance would be a sure-fire way into another’sheart)?
Clearly, I’m missing the song’s point, but I think my point is clear: oneought to know much about biology and, for goodness sakes, one really
ought to know what a science book is for.Fortunately, Berkeley Carroll students know both.
In the Lower School, children learn science throughhands-on projects directed by excellent teachers, in awell-equipped science classroom. During MiddleSchool, students are exposed to the life sciences,physical sciences, and earth science through a succes-sion of year-long courses. Science education culmi-nates in the Upper School’s emphasis on analyticaland experimental research, a demanding curriculum
that enables students to refine the skills of observation, record keeping,hypothesizing, interpreting, and concluding.
As you’ll read in this issue of the Magazine, Berkeley Carroll students,teachers, and alumni know quite a bit about biology, and they certainlyknow what a science book is for. At the risk of looking like I missed SamCooke’s point altogether, let me say what a wonderful world that is.
Enjoy the issue.
Jodie [email protected]
(Cover photo) Lower School science teacher Becky Blumenthal coordinates anUpper School/3rd grade dissection project.
myword))
The Issue is Science
Ayana Johnson ’98Building a Better Fish TrapAs a graduate student in marine conservation ecology,Ayana works with the local fisheries department inCuraçao to promote fishing sustainability.
Jocelyn Andrews Mitchell ’51Assessing the “What Ifs” of Nuclear Power PlantsJocelyn Andrews Mitchell wrote the book on risk
assessment.
Nick Hayman ’90Going to Great DepthsA geologist shifts from city to the shifting plates on theocean’s floor.
Science at Berkeley Carroll, from thePerspective of a Science Studentby Emily Cunningham ’08
The Upper School science curriculum turned Emily Cunningham into a science student.
Teaching Science at Berkeley Carroll: What a Ride!Middle School teacher Vanessa Prescott shares herenthusiasm for the discipline.
A T H E
12
15
17
20
22
Jodie Corngold
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12 17
22
In the spring of 2008, the Upper School newspaper, The Blotter, won First Place with Special Merit recognitionfrom the American Scholastic Press Association in its annual review andcontest (the designation of “first place with special merit” is Scholastic’shighest level of recognition). The Blotter earned perfect scores in the categoriesof content coverage, editing, and creativity. Faculty advisors for The Blotter
are Liz Perry and Will Wilmot; Co-Editors-in-Chief for 2007-2008 wereRobin Riskin ’08, Abigail Hopper ’09, and Rebecca Ballhaus ’09.
headlines))
he award-winning writerIshmael Beah, author of
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of aBoy Soldier, visited BerkeleyCarroll on April 9, 2008. It
was also Awareness Day at the UpperSchool, and the day revolved around a few hours with Mr. Beah togetherwith workshops organized and led bystudents.
Mr. Beah addressed the 8th through12th graders, speaking about hisexperience of being a boy who hadbeen forced to fightduring SierraLeone’s civil war.
He also talked about the resiliency ofthe human spirit and the importance ofgetting a good education. “Educateyourself,” he told the students, “thenfind our what you can do to help oth-ers.” Education is so much more than ameans to an end, he told them. “I criedwhen I graduated from college, becauseI knew I’d received something that noone could take away from me.”
After Mr. Beah addressed the stu-dents, he spent an hour with
Liz Perry’s 12th grade Reading Warclass. “Revenge doesn’t bring satisfac-tion,” he told them, adding that he wantsnothing more to do with violence.
Earlier during this remarkable day,the student-led Awareness Day work-shops discussed the question, “how canwe use our voice,” asked by the UpperSchool Student Council. StudentCouncil President, Max Hardy ’08,said, “The goal of the student-led work-shops was found in its title: to haveissues discussed in groups organized bystudents, designed specifically forstudents. If we accomplish this, wepromote student activism by exhibitingits viability.
“Over one quarter of the UpperSchool student body led 45 differentworkshops —a remarkable accomplish-ment. In them, we investigated theneed to recycle, conflicts in Iraq,genocide in Africa, turmoil in Israel,health epidemics, and nonexistent childlabor laws. It is important to highlightthat our generation has a unique powerbecause it commands active participa-tion in altering our world’s future. It’sour world, after all, and it’s our job toprotect it.”
3Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 20082 Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 2008
ne of the popularacronyms in use today,STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics),
describes a growing movement in theworld of schools. The push for STEMis seen on the web, is at the center ofconferences, and is written extensivelyabout in journals. STEM emphasizesthe necessity for all students to be wellversed in all four subjects and stressesthe importance of integrating all fourprogram areas at all grade levels. AddSTEM to the continuing conversationsabout green concerns and climatechange and it all becomes a veryheady mix for those of us working andstudying in schools.
Along with having to master moreinformation and striving to achieve athigher and higher levels, the studentof today is increasingly expected to bemore responsible for the environment,be well versed about energy sources,and be knowledgeable about thenotion of sustainability. It is a daunt-ing task but, thankfully, it is beingenthusiastically and energeticallyembraced by this generation.
We are dedicating this issue of themagazine to the topic of science inorder to bring home to our communi-ty the importance of preparing ourstudents to address the challenges thatwill face them after their education iscompleted. Profiles of accomplishedalums from several decades and theinspiring comments of one our MiddleSchool teachers are included in thisissue of our magazine.
Berkeley Carroll is often recognizedas a leader in arts education. Theefforts of our students in writing and
strength of our science and math pro-grams. Our Lower School has two gift-ed science teachers who expose ourstudents to cutting edge robotics andengage all grades in an experiment-based program where students “do”real work. To gain insight into the in-depth thinking that goes into planningour curriculum we encourage you tovisit the web page of our MiddleSchool science program (www.berkel-eycarroll.org/bcsprogram/academi_sci-ence.asp) where our newly redesignedintegrated science sequence isexplained. This explanation is a won-derful example of the creative, rich,and expert thinking that our teachersemploy in creating our course work.In our Upper School we offer collegelevel calculus, physics, and chemistryand we have large numbers of stu-dents who take on those challengingcourses each year. It is illustrative ofthe interests and values of our stu-dents that the Upper School coursethat had the stiffest competition inwhich to gain admission wasEnvironmental Biology.
The uniqueness of Berkeley Carrollis our ability to provide a program ofdepth and breadth and still providemeaningful personal interactions. Weare committed to making sure that ourstudents are exposed to significantcontent in all subjects. As you can seefrom the articles and updates in thismagazine our students have strengthsand talents to share that will benefitour world. Enjoy!
Sincerely,Robert D. VitaloHead of School
<
DEAR FRIENDS,
connections))
We are dedicating this issue of themagazine to the
topic of science inorder to bring hometo our communitythe importance of
preparing ourstudents to addressthe challenges thatwill face them aftertheir education is
completed.
‘‘
’’
BOB VITALO
the visual arts have been recognizedfor years at the national level.Somewhat of a well-kept secret is the
A u t h o r I s h m a e l B e a h v i s i t s B e r k e l e y C a r r o l l o n A w a r e n e s s D a y
TheUpperSchoolPaperWins Scholastic Prize
TO
In the spring of 2008, the Upper School newspaper, The Blotter, won First Place with Special Merit recognitionfrom the American Scholastic Press Association in its annual review andcontest (the designation of “first place with special merit” is Scholastic’shighest level of recognition). The Blotter earned perfect scores in the categoriesof content coverage, editing, and creativity. Faculty advisors for The Blotter
are Liz Perry and Will Wilmot; Co-Editors-in-Chief for 2007-2008 wereRobin Riskin ’08, Abigail Hopper ’09, and Rebecca Ballhaus ’09.
headlines))
he award-winning writerIshmael Beah, author of
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of aBoy Soldier, visited BerkeleyCarroll on April 9, 2008. It
was also Awareness Day at the UpperSchool, and the day revolved around a few hours with Mr. Beah togetherwith workshops organized and led bystudents.
Mr. Beah addressed the 8th through12th graders, speaking about hisexperience of being a boy who hadbeen forced to fightduring SierraLeone’s civil war.
He also talked about the resiliency ofthe human spirit and the importance ofgetting a good education. “Educateyourself,” he told the students, “thenfind our what you can do to help oth-ers.” Education is so much more than ameans to an end, he told them. “I criedwhen I graduated from college, becauseI knew I’d received something that noone could take away from me.”
After Mr. Beah addressed the stu-dents, he spent an hour with
Liz Perry’s 12th grade Reading Warclass. “Revenge doesn’t bring satisfac-tion,” he told them, adding that he wantsnothing more to do with violence.
Earlier during this remarkable day,the student-led Awareness Day work-shops discussed the question, “how canwe use our voice,” asked by the UpperSchool Student Council. StudentCouncil President, Max Hardy ’08,said, “The goal of the student-led work-shops was found in its title: to haveissues discussed in groups organized bystudents, designed specifically forstudents. If we accomplish this, wepromote student activism by exhibitingits viability.
“Over one quarter of the UpperSchool student body led 45 differentworkshops —a remarkable accomplish-ment. In them, we investigated theneed to recycle, conflicts in Iraq,genocide in Africa, turmoil in Israel,health epidemics, and nonexistent childlabor laws. It is important to highlightthat our generation has a unique powerbecause it commands active participa-tion in altering our world’s future. It’sour world, after all, and it’s our job toprotect it.”
3Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 20082 Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 2008
ne of the popularacronyms in use today,STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics),
describes a growing movement in theworld of schools. The push for STEMis seen on the web, is at the center ofconferences, and is written extensivelyabout in journals. STEM emphasizesthe necessity for all students to be wellversed in all four subjects and stressesthe importance of integrating all fourprogram areas at all grade levels. AddSTEM to the continuing conversationsabout green concerns and climatechange and it all becomes a veryheady mix for those of us working andstudying in schools.
Along with having to master moreinformation and striving to achieve athigher and higher levels, the studentof today is increasingly expected to bemore responsible for the environment,be well versed about energy sources,and be knowledgeable about thenotion of sustainability. It is a daunt-ing task but, thankfully, it is beingenthusiastically and energeticallyembraced by this generation.
We are dedicating this issue of themagazine to the topic of science inorder to bring home to our communi-ty the importance of preparing ourstudents to address the challenges thatwill face them after their education iscompleted. Profiles of accomplishedalums from several decades and theinspiring comments of one our MiddleSchool teachers are included in thisissue of our magazine.
Berkeley Carroll is often recognizedas a leader in arts education. Theefforts of our students in writing and
strength of our science and math pro-grams. Our Lower School has two gift-ed science teachers who expose ourstudents to cutting edge robotics andengage all grades in an experiment-based program where students “do”real work. To gain insight into the in-depth thinking that goes into planningour curriculum we encourage you tovisit the web page of our MiddleSchool science program (www.berkel-eycarroll.org/bcsprogram/academi_sci-ence.asp) where our newly redesignedintegrated science sequence isexplained. This explanation is a won-derful example of the creative, rich,and expert thinking that our teachersemploy in creating our course work.In our Upper School we offer collegelevel calculus, physics, and chemistryand we have large numbers of stu-dents who take on those challengingcourses each year. It is illustrative ofthe interests and values of our stu-dents that the Upper School coursethat had the stiffest competition inwhich to gain admission wasEnvironmental Biology.
The uniqueness of Berkeley Carrollis our ability to provide a program ofdepth and breadth and still providemeaningful personal interactions. Weare committed to making sure that ourstudents are exposed to significantcontent in all subjects. As you can seefrom the articles and updates in thismagazine our students have strengthsand talents to share that will benefitour world. Enjoy!
Sincerely,Robert D. VitaloHead of School
<
DEAR FRIENDS,
connections))
We are dedicating this issue of themagazine to the
topic of science inorder to bring hometo our communitythe importance of
preparing ourstudents to addressthe challenges thatwill face them aftertheir education is
completed.
‘‘
’’
BOB VITALO
the visual arts have been recognizedfor years at the national level.Somewhat of a well-kept secret is the
A u t h o r I s h m a e l B e a h v i s i t s B e r k e l e y C a r r o l l o n A w a r e n e s s D a y
TheUpperSchoolPaperWins Scholastic Prize
TO
connections))5Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 20084 Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 2008
It’s not often that the entire schoolcomes together, but when it does it’san opportunity for celebration. Andthat’s exactly what happened on May30, 2008, when the entire school con-vened at the Old First Church for thepresentation of the 2008 Dexter Earleand John Reidy Awards.
Upon receiving the John ReidyAward for Excellence in Teaching, 2ndgrade teacher Maura Finn shared withthe audience that she came from afamily of teachers. If there were tearsin her eye, who could blame her? It’s
quite an honor to receive an awardchosen by one’s peers. “Every day I getto learn from my students,” she saidby way of thanks.
When Upper School EnglishTeacher Liz Perry received her ReidyAward for teaching excellence, shetold the nearly one thousand peoplesitting in the pews, “When you workat a school like Berkeley Carroll, youget to have it both ways. You don’thave to choose between scholarshipand community. You get both.” Evergenerous, Liz saluted her colleagues bysaying, “It’s a tremendous gift to lovewhat you do and to find a place wherecan do it with your whole heart.”
The recipient of the 16th annualDexter D. Earle Award for TeachingExcellence was Upper School scienceteacher Cindy Molk. “I don’t feel like Ishould be rewarded for doing my job,”Cindy told Bob Vitalo. “It feels awk-ward.”
Cindy has taught at BerkeleyCarroll since 1988. During a 2006interview, Cindy said, “I love teachingat Berkeley Carroll,” she says. “Theconnections between people here areunlike those I’ve seen anywhere elseI’ve taught, and even though I’ve beenhere for almost 20 years, the schoolmotivates me, personally and profes-sionally. I’m very lucky.”
Named in memory of a formerUpper School teacher, the Reidy Awardsfor Excellence in Teaching are givenannually to a Carroll Street and LincolnPlace teacher—whose tenure is betweenthree and five years—with a proventrack record of talent, commitment, andenthusiasm. The Dexter Earle Award ispresented annually to a Berkeley Carrollteacher with over 10 years’ teachingexperience in recognition of excellencein teaching, dedication, involvement,passion, and the promotion of an intel-lectual community.
First InterschoolStudent Film Festival
On April 24, 2008, Berkeley Carroll hosted its first high school student
film festival, featuring student films submitted by students from all over
New York City. Prior to the juried festival, a panel of professional film
makers, which also judged the student entries, imparted industry insights
that the students might otherwise not have learned until they were well
into their careers. The festival provided that rare opportunity of bridging
the practical with the theoretical.
Twenty-one student films were chosen for the competition,
representing students from seven schools in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The winning submissions included Laurel & Hardy: The Forgotten Movie
by Adam Coren ’08 from Berkeley Carroll (for best editing). The winner
of “best film” went to Berkeley Carroll’s Ali Rossiter ’08 for her film The
Importance of Time.
Upper School video and art teacher Charley Friedman moderated the
panel. Arts Director David Egolf said, “Our first evening like this, bringing
these artists out to share a dialogue with our community and getting
entries from high school students all over the city, was quite an undertak-
ing. We are very excited about the outcome. The caliber of the student
work was exceptional, and the panelists left the crowd— teens and
adults—with a lot to think about. We have definitely tapped into a
really powerful format, and look forward to continuing this as an
annual event.”
Liz Perry
Cindy Molk
Maura Finn
The world-renowned contemporary classical quartet, ETHEL, in the
midst of their Truckstop tour (wherein they “shine a spotlight on the
melting pot of American music through a series of community-
based residencies”), made Berkeley Carroll one of their stops. To
that end, they spent much of February 27, 28, and 29 playing with
and performing for Berkeley Carroll students. On March 8, 2008,
ETHEL returned to Berkeley Carroll for a Family Concert. ETHEL per-
formed with Berkeley Carroll students and staff, capping off the
concert with a family jam session. The music was magical.
Three teachersreceive teachingexcellence awards
ETHELFAMILYETHELFAMILYConcert
connections))5Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 20084 Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 2008
It’s not often that the entire schoolcomes together, but when it does it’san opportunity for celebration. Andthat’s exactly what happened on May30, 2008, when the entire school con-vened at the Old First Church for thepresentation of the 2008 Dexter Earleand John Reidy Awards.
Upon receiving the John ReidyAward for Excellence in Teaching, 2ndgrade teacher Maura Finn shared withthe audience that she came from afamily of teachers. If there were tearsin her eye, who could blame her? It’s
quite an honor to receive an awardchosen by one’s peers. “Every day I getto learn from my students,” she saidby way of thanks.
When Upper School EnglishTeacher Liz Perry received her ReidyAward for teaching excellence, shetold the nearly one thousand peoplesitting in the pews, “When you workat a school like Berkeley Carroll, youget to have it both ways. You don’thave to choose between scholarshipand community. You get both.” Evergenerous, Liz saluted her colleagues bysaying, “It’s a tremendous gift to lovewhat you do and to find a place wherecan do it with your whole heart.”
The recipient of the 16th annualDexter D. Earle Award for TeachingExcellence was Upper School scienceteacher Cindy Molk. “I don’t feel like Ishould be rewarded for doing my job,”Cindy told Bob Vitalo. “It feels awk-ward.”
Cindy has taught at BerkeleyCarroll since 1988. During a 2006interview, Cindy said, “I love teachingat Berkeley Carroll,” she says. “Theconnections between people here areunlike those I’ve seen anywhere elseI’ve taught, and even though I’ve beenhere for almost 20 years, the schoolmotivates me, personally and profes-sionally. I’m very lucky.”
Named in memory of a formerUpper School teacher, the Reidy Awardsfor Excellence in Teaching are givenannually to a Carroll Street and LincolnPlace teacher—whose tenure is betweenthree and five years—with a proventrack record of talent, commitment, andenthusiasm. The Dexter Earle Award ispresented annually to a Berkeley Carrollteacher with over 10 years’ teachingexperience in recognition of excellencein teaching, dedication, involvement,passion, and the promotion of an intel-lectual community.
First InterschoolStudent Film Festival
On April 24, 2008, Berkeley Carroll hosted its first high school student
film festival, featuring student films submitted by students from all over
New York City. Prior to the juried festival, a panel of professional film
makers, which also judged the student entries, imparted industry insights
that the students might otherwise not have learned until they were well
into their careers. The festival provided that rare opportunity of bridging
the practical with the theoretical.
Twenty-one student films were chosen for the competition,
representing students from seven schools in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The winning submissions included Laurel & Hardy: The Forgotten Movie
by Adam Coren ’08 from Berkeley Carroll (for best editing). The winner
of “best film” went to Berkeley Carroll’s Ali Rossiter ’08 for her film The
Importance of Time.
Upper School video and art teacher Charley Friedman moderated the
panel. Arts Director David Egolf said, “Our first evening like this, bringing
these artists out to share a dialogue with our community and getting
entries from high school students all over the city, was quite an undertak-
ing. We are very excited about the outcome. The caliber of the student
work was exceptional, and the panelists left the crowd— teens and
adults—with a lot to think about. We have definitely tapped into a
really powerful format, and look forward to continuing this as an
annual event.”
Liz Perry
Cindy Molk
Maura Finn
The world-renowned contemporary classical quartet, ETHEL, in the
midst of their Truckstop tour (wherein they “shine a spotlight on the
melting pot of American music through a series of community-
based residencies”), made Berkeley Carroll one of their stops. To
that end, they spent much of February 27, 28, and 29 playing with
and performing for Berkeley Carroll students. On March 8, 2008,
ETHEL returned to Berkeley Carroll for a Family Concert. ETHEL per-
formed with Berkeley Carroll students and staff, capping off the
concert with a family jam session. The music was magical.
Three teachersreceive teachingexcellence awards
ETHELFAMILYETHELFAMILYConcert
connections))7Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 20086 Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 2008
On June 6, 2008, Head of School Bob Vitalo toldthe 54 members of the Class of 2008, “I’m notworried about the future, because every day I seeour seniors in action. I know how talented andvisionary you are. I thank you for what you’ve givento Berkeley Carroll and also for your future work.”
Upper School Director Suzanne Fogarty advisedthe graduates to “spread your enthusiasm for learn-ing and living because we need you to be globallythinking citizens and trustworthy leaders — andtrust comes from living by your own standards, byyour own values, and by your own practice of com-posing your character.”
The commencement speaker for the 121stcommencement exercises of the Berkeley Carroll Schoolwas the novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, who began bytelling the graduates, their families, and their teachers, “Itoccurs to me that the real world will come as a tremen-dous shock to you—and not the pleasant kind of shock.”
But he tempered his ironic prelude by sharing with thegraduates his notions of knowledge, ultimately presentingthem with 21 examples of it, including his parting words,“Live as deliberately as you can, but come to terms withseasonality” and, finally, “Don’t believe in luck.”
During the Middle School closing ceremonies onJune 12, 2008, Middle School Director Jim Shapirotold the students, “I hope that in your calmer andmore thoughtful moments, that you will dedicateyourselves, each in your unique way, to a pilgrimagethat leads all of us back towards a city on a hill, acity that shines as brightly as can be.”
The closing ceremonies were highlighted by stu-dent speeches. One student from each gradeaddressed the audience of parents, teachers, and peers.Julia Pike, the 5th grade speaker, talked about leavingCarroll Street after a lifetime there, then coming toLincoln Place to be joined by new members of the class.“The new kids who joined our grade this year,” she said,“were cool, quirky people.”
The topics of newness and friendship ran through 6thgrader Ethan Schwab and 8th grader Sophia Deverell’sspeeches as well. New to the school in the fall of 2007,Ethan said, “Giving this talk felt like my official entree to
the school.” Sophia said, “I wouldn’t, for the life of me,change anything about our grade.” Speaking on behalf ofthe 7th grade, August Rosenthal broke up the crowd bytalking about health class with Nurse Nancy. “In healthclass, kids have the opportunity to talk about things theymight not want to talk about with their parents,” he said.“As you can imagine, this hasn’t worked out so well forme.” (Nurse Nancy happens to be August’s mother)
performance on the exam.What was particularlynoteworthy was that in2008 four Berkeley Carrollstudents received TheMaureen O’DonnellOxford ClassicalDictionary Award, present-ed by the National LatinExamination Organizationto students who have wongold medals four years running. Thatyear, out of the entire country, only537 students received this honor. Thefour students were Jesse Mirotznik ’08,Robin Riskin ’08, Abigail Hopper ’09,and Deborah Shapiro ’09.
Named in honor of a Virginia Latin
teacher credited for bringing Latinback to the masses in the 1970s (andwho, for her efforts, was namedTeacher of the Year in 1983 andreceived an honorary degree fromYale), the O’Donnell award recognizesoutstanding achievement.
Commencement speaker Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything IsIlluminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Eighth graders posing for their parents' photos following the Middle SchoolClosing Ceremonies.
Juniors Deborah Shapiro and Abigail Hopperreceived the Latin prize for superior achievement.
ARCH DAYLowerSchool
Lower School Director Ben Chant kicked off the
grades 2-4 Arch Day ceremony bytelling the children, “Maybe two or three
weeks ago you wanted the end of the yearto come faster and faster, but now that it’shere maybe you wish you had another twoor three days.” Following these resonant
words, the first of the 4th grader speakers,Jessica Pees, addressed the audience. “Inkindergarten,” she told her peers, “I learned thetruth about vanilla.”
The next 4th grade speaker, Brandon Woo,
told the crowded Athletic Center,“As we prepare to enter Middle School,we are confident that we can do anything.My dream is to be a major league baseball play-
er, or better yet, an agent.”The third 4th grade speaker, Grace Moore,
mentioned that while playing a game with afriend, she had been given the (theoretical)option of going back to the past to fix a mistakeor going to the future to see what was in store.“I chose the future,” she told the Arch Day audi-ence. “If I could get a head start on MiddleSchool, I would!”
Latin StudentsRecognized for OutstandingAchievementEach year, Berkeley Carroll Latin stu-dents take the National Latin Exam-ination; during the spring of 2008,over 40 students, ranging from 8th to12th grade, received awards for their
Middle SchoolClosing Ceremonies
CommencementExercises
“In kindergarten, I learned the truth about vanilla.” Jessica Pees
(from l to r) Latin teachers Alex Durham and Will Wilmotpresented the Latin prize for superior achievement to graduatingseniors Jesse Mirotznik and Robin Riskin.
“ .... My dream is to be a major leaguebaseball player, or better yet, an agent.” Brandon Woo
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On June 6, 2008, Head of School Bob Vitalo toldthe 54 members of the Class of 2008, “I’m notworried about the future, because every day I seeour seniors in action. I know how talented andvisionary you are. I thank you for what you’ve givento Berkeley Carroll and also for your future work.”
Upper School Director Suzanne Fogarty advisedthe graduates to “spread your enthusiasm for learn-ing and living because we need you to be globallythinking citizens and trustworthy leaders — andtrust comes from living by your own standards, byyour own values, and by your own practice of com-posing your character.”
The commencement speaker for the 121stcommencement exercises of the Berkeley Carroll Schoolwas the novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, who began bytelling the graduates, their families, and their teachers, “Itoccurs to me that the real world will come as a tremen-dous shock to you—and not the pleasant kind of shock.”
But he tempered his ironic prelude by sharing with thegraduates his notions of knowledge, ultimately presentingthem with 21 examples of it, including his parting words,“Live as deliberately as you can, but come to terms withseasonality” and, finally, “Don’t believe in luck.”
During the Middle School closing ceremonies onJune 12, 2008, Middle School Director Jim Shapirotold the students, “I hope that in your calmer andmore thoughtful moments, that you will dedicateyourselves, each in your unique way, to a pilgrimagethat leads all of us back towards a city on a hill, acity that shines as brightly as can be.”
The closing ceremonies were highlighted by stu-dent speeches. One student from each gradeaddressed the audience of parents, teachers, and peers.Julia Pike, the 5th grade speaker, talked about leavingCarroll Street after a lifetime there, then coming toLincoln Place to be joined by new members of the class.“The new kids who joined our grade this year,” she said,“were cool, quirky people.”
The topics of newness and friendship ran through 6thgrader Ethan Schwab and 8th grader Sophia Deverell’sspeeches as well. New to the school in the fall of 2007,Ethan said, “Giving this talk felt like my official entree to
the school.” Sophia said, “I wouldn’t, for the life of me,change anything about our grade.” Speaking on behalf ofthe 7th grade, August Rosenthal broke up the crowd bytalking about health class with Nurse Nancy. “In healthclass, kids have the opportunity to talk about things theymight not want to talk about with their parents,” he said.“As you can imagine, this hasn’t worked out so well forme.” (Nurse Nancy happens to be August’s mother)
performance on the exam.What was particularlynoteworthy was that in2008 four Berkeley Carrollstudents received TheMaureen O’DonnellOxford ClassicalDictionary Award, present-ed by the National LatinExamination Organizationto students who have wongold medals four years running. Thatyear, out of the entire country, only537 students received this honor. Thefour students were Jesse Mirotznik ’08,Robin Riskin ’08, Abigail Hopper ’09,and Deborah Shapiro ’09.
Named in honor of a Virginia Latin
teacher credited for bringing Latinback to the masses in the 1970s (andwho, for her efforts, was namedTeacher of the Year in 1983 andreceived an honorary degree fromYale), the O’Donnell award recognizesoutstanding achievement.
Commencement speaker Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything IsIlluminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Eighth graders posing for their parents' photos following the Middle SchoolClosing Ceremonies.
Juniors Deborah Shapiro and Abigail Hopperreceived the Latin prize for superior achievement.
ARCH DAYLowerSchool
Lower School Director Ben Chant kicked off the
grades 2-4 Arch Day ceremony bytelling the children, “Maybe two or three
weeks ago you wanted the end of the yearto come faster and faster, but now that it’shere maybe you wish you had another twoor three days.” Following these resonant
words, the first of the 4th grader speakers,Jessica Pees, addressed the audience. “Inkindergarten,” she told her peers, “I learned thetruth about vanilla.”
The next 4th grade speaker, Brandon Woo,
told the crowded Athletic Center,“As we prepare to enter Middle School,we are confident that we can do anything.My dream is to be a major league baseball play-
er, or better yet, an agent.”The third 4th grade speaker, Grace Moore,
mentioned that while playing a game with afriend, she had been given the (theoretical)option of going back to the past to fix a mistakeor going to the future to see what was in store.“I chose the future,” she told the Arch Day audi-ence. “If I could get a head start on MiddleSchool, I would!”
Latin StudentsRecognized for OutstandingAchievementEach year, Berkeley Carroll Latin stu-dents take the National Latin Exam-ination; during the spring of 2008,over 40 students, ranging from 8th to12th grade, received awards for their
Middle SchoolClosing Ceremonies
CommencementExercises
“In kindergarten, I learned the truth about vanilla.” Jessica Pees
(from l to r) Latin teachers Alex Durham and Will Wilmotpresented the Latin prize for superior achievement to graduatingseniors Jesse Mirotznik and Robin Riskin.
“ .... My dream is to be a major leaguebaseball player, or better yet, an agent.” Brandon Woo
With a young and gifted team returning, don’t be sur-prised if the team wins bothtitles next year.
The varsity coed tennisteam had one of the bestseasons in its short exis-
tence. The team was led by its twoveterans, Daniel Halper ’08 andMatthew Fong ’08. The team had afew strong wins, beating the likes oflongtime rival Packer. Daniel andMatthew played a huge role in thesuccess of the team and their presencewill be missed.
Not to be forgotten, varsity girlsand boys volleyball carried out theirseasons during the fall and spring,respectively. Both teams are anchoredby Coach Vanissa Piselli. The girls fin-ished with 7 wins and 13 losses, butonce again, despite the record, thegirls are still a fairly young team andshould expect more success next year.The varsity boys were quite an inter-esting story. They scrambled to evenget enough players to have a team andthey wound up finding six guys tocompete. In an outcome of improba-ble 300-like proportions, those sixguys wound up taking second place inthe league playoffs after losing only toan 18-man team which went undefeat-ed for the season. Job well-done guys!
If you managed to survive thecountless number of unbearable punsand catch phrases scattered through-out the article, then chances are youhave come away from this brutal expe-rience pretty impressed with BerkeleyCarroll Athletics. And, I am certainthat with the support of teachers, par-ents, alumni, students, and othermembers of the Berkeley Carroll fami-ly, the 2008-2009 season and seasonsbeyond will be extraordinary.
’08. Despite the fact that the girlscame up short in both the PSAA andthe ACIS playoffs, their efforts shouldnot go overlooked and it should beacknowledged that the team is losing agreat player in Zoe Cohen who wasthe heart and soul of the team.
The swim team, led by CoachRoberto Welch, kicked and splashedits way through the season. While theswim team finished with only a 1 win,8 loss season, look for future swimteams to only get better and better asour young swimmers move up to thevarsity ranks equipped with the excel-lent skills that they have developedfrom Berkeley Carroll’s ever improvingaquatics program.
The softball team coached, by JoeWood, had a solid season with a veryyoung but talented roster. The teamfinished with 7 wins and 6 losses. Theteam had two tough losses in the ACISand State tournaments, but with abevy of young talent bolstering theteam, look for the girls to make somenoise next year.
Varsity boys’ baseball, one of thestrongest teams year in and year out,had yet another strong showing this sea-son. Without any seniors on the squad,the team achieved a 13-10 record on thebacks of Philip Seay ’09, GiancarloHirsch ’09, Theo Guest ’09, and JamesMcDonough ’09. The boys won thePSAA regular season but were upset inthe playoffs by Lawrence Woodmere.They eventually went on to lose to RyeCountry Day in the State tournament.
The highlight of Berkeley CarrollAthletics this year was easily the varsitygirls’ soccer team. The ladies’ squad,led by Coach Colm MacMahon, andcaptains Aarian Marshall ’08 and ElenaLevi ’08, finished with a very impres-sive 13 wins and 4 losses. The crown-ing moment of the season came whenthe girls defeated Staten IslandAcademy in the ACIS championshipgame, after a nail biting finish thatcame down to a shootout. The ladyLions roared their way to one of thegreatest victories in Berkeley Carrollhistory.
While the temperature outsidebegan to chill, varsity boys’ basketballand varsity girls’ basketball heated upthe hardwood inside the gym. Withthe loss of the seven key players whograduated in 2007, the 2007-2008boasted a new, less experienced, butenergetic roster. Led by Coach BobDeMerell, captain Jason Lewis ’08,Daniel Halper ’08, Giancarlo Hirsch’09 and Phillip Seay ’09, the boys’team earned a respectable 13-12record. Despite the team’s lack ofdepth, the boys poured every outounce of their sweat on the floor eachnight, and came just short of makingit to the ACIS championship beforefalling to the eventual championDwight in the playoff semifinal game.
The varsity girls’ basketball teamhad yet another successful season fin-ishing 14-9 for the year. The team wasled by Coach Walter Paller and veryimpressive floor general Zoe Cohen
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B Y J A S O N L E W I S ’ 0 8
If you were too wrapped up in checking out the latest gossip on BritneySpears, too busy catching the latest episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, captivated atjust how bad late night comedy show hosts could be without their writers, oryou simply concentrated on the small things in life like school, work, family,and politics, then you, my friend, missed out on an excellent year for BerkeleyCarroll Athletics. The 2007-20008 Berkeley sports season was certainly oneto remember.
The year kicked off with dazzling play on the soccer field. The varsity boys’soccer team, led by Coach Joe Wood, did not necessarily have a great seasonif success is measured strictly by wins and losses, as they finished with a 4wins and 10 losses. Fortunately, success can also be measured by things likethe energy and leadership provided by players including Oliver Jacob ’08,Alex Greenberg ’08, Matthew Fong ’08, and Tim Barz ’08. The boys’ soccerteam displayed a true Lion’s spirit each time they stepped on the field.
S P O R T SS P O R T SThe year in
With a young and gifted team returning, don’t be sur-prised if the team wins bothtitles next year.
The varsity coed tennisteam had one of the bestseasons in its short exis-
tence. The team was led by its twoveterans, Daniel Halper ’08 andMatthew Fong ’08. The team had afew strong wins, beating the likes oflongtime rival Packer. Daniel andMatthew played a huge role in thesuccess of the team and their presencewill be missed.
Not to be forgotten, varsity girlsand boys volleyball carried out theirseasons during the fall and spring,respectively. Both teams are anchoredby Coach Vanissa Piselli. The girls fin-ished with 7 wins and 13 losses, butonce again, despite the record, thegirls are still a fairly young team andshould expect more success next year.The varsity boys were quite an inter-esting story. They scrambled to evenget enough players to have a team andthey wound up finding six guys tocompete. In an outcome of improba-ble 300-like proportions, those sixguys wound up taking second place inthe league playoffs after losing only toan 18-man team which went undefeat-ed for the season. Job well-done guys!
If you managed to survive thecountless number of unbearable punsand catch phrases scattered through-out the article, then chances are youhave come away from this brutal expe-rience pretty impressed with BerkeleyCarroll Athletics. And, I am certainthat with the support of teachers, par-ents, alumni, students, and othermembers of the Berkeley Carroll fami-ly, the 2008-2009 season and seasonsbeyond will be extraordinary.
’08. Despite the fact that the girlscame up short in both the PSAA andthe ACIS playoffs, their efforts shouldnot go overlooked and it should beacknowledged that the team is losing agreat player in Zoe Cohen who wasthe heart and soul of the team.
The swim team, led by CoachRoberto Welch, kicked and splashedits way through the season. While theswim team finished with only a 1 win,8 loss season, look for future swimteams to only get better and better asour young swimmers move up to thevarsity ranks equipped with the excel-lent skills that they have developedfrom Berkeley Carroll’s ever improvingaquatics program.
The softball team coached, by JoeWood, had a solid season with a veryyoung but talented roster. The teamfinished with 7 wins and 6 losses. Theteam had two tough losses in the ACISand State tournaments, but with abevy of young talent bolstering theteam, look for the girls to make somenoise next year.
Varsity boys’ baseball, one of thestrongest teams year in and year out,had yet another strong showing this sea-son. Without any seniors on the squad,the team achieved a 13-10 record on thebacks of Philip Seay ’09, GiancarloHirsch ’09, Theo Guest ’09, and JamesMcDonough ’09. The boys won thePSAA regular season but were upset inthe playoffs by Lawrence Woodmere.They eventually went on to lose to RyeCountry Day in the State tournament.
The highlight of Berkeley CarrollAthletics this year was easily the varsitygirls’ soccer team. The ladies’ squad,led by Coach Colm MacMahon, andcaptains Aarian Marshall ’08 and ElenaLevi ’08, finished with a very impres-sive 13 wins and 4 losses. The crown-ing moment of the season came whenthe girls defeated Staten IslandAcademy in the ACIS championshipgame, after a nail biting finish thatcame down to a shootout. The ladyLions roared their way to one of thegreatest victories in Berkeley Carrollhistory.
While the temperature outsidebegan to chill, varsity boys’ basketballand varsity girls’ basketball heated upthe hardwood inside the gym. Withthe loss of the seven key players whograduated in 2007, the 2007-2008boasted a new, less experienced, butenergetic roster. Led by Coach BobDeMerell, captain Jason Lewis ’08,Daniel Halper ’08, Giancarlo Hirsch’09 and Phillip Seay ’09, the boys’team earned a respectable 13-12record. Despite the team’s lack ofdepth, the boys poured every outounce of their sweat on the floor eachnight, and came just short of makingit to the ACIS championship beforefalling to the eventual championDwight in the playoff semifinal game.
The varsity girls’ basketball teamhad yet another successful season fin-ishing 14-9 for the year. The team wasled by Coach Walter Paller and veryimpressive floor general Zoe Cohen
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B Y J A S O N L E W I S ’ 0 8
If you were too wrapped up in checking out the latest gossip on BritneySpears, too busy catching the latest episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, captivated atjust how bad late night comedy show hosts could be without their writers, oryou simply concentrated on the small things in life like school, work, family,and politics, then you, my friend, missed out on an excellent year for BerkeleyCarroll Athletics. The 2007-20008 Berkeley sports season was certainly oneto remember.
The year kicked off with dazzling play on the soccer field. The varsity boys’soccer team, led by Coach Joe Wood, did not necessarily have a great seasonif success is measured strictly by wins and losses, as they finished with a 4wins and 10 losses. Fortunately, success can also be measured by things likethe energy and leadership provided by players including Oliver Jacob ’08,Alex Greenberg ’08, Matthew Fong ’08, and Tim Barz ’08. The boys’ soccerteam displayed a true Lion’s spirit each time they stepped on the field.
S P O R T SS P O R T SThe year in
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Berkeley Carroll hosted its first career evening this past May. The theme of the eveningwas Entrepreneurship and featured a panel ofsuccessful BC alumni entrepreneurs.Panelists Deni Davis ’87, DavidSchnurman ’95, Amy MoskowitzSchoenfeld ’66, and Brad Sinrod ’88,shared their insights and tips aboutthe paths they took to becomingsuccessful business owners.
Alumni CareerEveningn May 28, 2008
On June 3, 2008, alumni, parents, andfriends of the Berkeley Carroll communityenjoyed a private screening of DiminishedCapacity, directed by BC parent TerryKinney. After the movie, it was particularlyexciting to hear firsthand from the director,one of the writers, and members of the cast— including Matthew Broderick. <
BC alumni from the classes of 2003-2007returned to school for an afternoon of sportsand arts. Girls’ varsity swim and basketballteams defeated Marymount and boys’ varsitybasketball slammed perennial opponent,Packer. Art alumni returned for the artsquad’s annual holiday art show with featuredworks by Kenan Juska ’95. A trio of jazzalums played at 181 Lincoln Place.
1. (l tor) Enrique Naudon ’07, Matthew Cunningham NG ’07,
Andrew O’Shaughnessy ’07, Emi Wang ’07 bottom, Roberto Welch
2. (l tor) Kenan Juska ’95 with his fiancé speaking with Susan Haber
3. (l tor) Peter LaRosa ’07, Sheryl Comet ’04
1. Presenter Amy Moskowitz Schoenfeld ’67 with Adam Halper ’03
2. Mike Singer ’05 with presenter, Deni Davis ’87
3. Presenters David Schnurman ’95 and Brad Sinrod ’88
2ndAnnual College AlumReunion/Homecomingn December 19, 2007
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2
3
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2
3
1. (Top l tor) Willa Gross ’04, Kathleen Murphy ’04, Mauricio Albrizzio
2. (Middle l tor) Dalienne Majors, Jim Kent, Brian Ezra ’99, Rachel Lew ’04
3. (Bottom l to r) Scott Brewster ’90 with his wife, Amelie, and Radley Horton ’90
with wife, Danielle Martinelli
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Film screening,“Diminished Capacity”n June 3, 2008
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Berkeley Carroll hosted its first career evening this past May. The theme of the eveningwas Entrepreneurship and featured a panel ofsuccessful BC alumni entrepreneurs.Panelists Deni Davis ’87, DavidSchnurman ’95, Amy MoskowitzSchoenfeld ’66, and Brad Sinrod ’88,shared their insights and tips aboutthe paths they took to becomingsuccessful business owners.
Alumni CareerEveningn May 28, 2008
On June 3, 2008, alumni, parents, andfriends of the Berkeley Carroll communityenjoyed a private screening of DiminishedCapacity, directed by BC parent TerryKinney. After the movie, it was particularlyexciting to hear firsthand from the director,one of the writers, and members of the cast— including Matthew Broderick. <
BC alumni from the classes of 2003-2007returned to school for an afternoon of sportsand arts. Girls’ varsity swim and basketballteams defeated Marymount and boys’ varsitybasketball slammed perennial opponent,Packer. Art alumni returned for the artsquad’s annual holiday art show with featuredworks by Kenan Juska ’95. A trio of jazzalums played at 181 Lincoln Place.
1. (l tor) Enrique Naudon ’07, Matthew Cunningham NG ’07,
Andrew O’Shaughnessy ’07, Emi Wang ’07 bottom, Roberto Welch
2. (l tor) Kenan Juska ’95 with his fiancé speaking with Susan Haber
3. (l tor) Peter LaRosa ’07, Sheryl Comet ’04
1. Presenter Amy Moskowitz Schoenfeld ’67 with Adam Halper ’03
2. Mike Singer ’05 with presenter, Deni Davis ’87
3. Presenters David Schnurman ’95 and Brad Sinrod ’88
2ndAnnual College AlumReunion/Homecomingn December 19, 2007
1
2
3
1
2
3
1. (Top l tor) Willa Gross ’04, Kathleen Murphy ’04, Mauricio Albrizzio
2. (Middle l tor) Dalienne Majors, Jim Kent, Brian Ezra ’99, Rachel Lew ’04
3. (Bottom l to r) Scott Brewster ’90 with his wife, Amelie, and Radley Horton ’90
with wife, Danielle Martinelli
1
2
3
Film screening,“Diminished Capacity”n June 3, 2008
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hen one hears“Build a bettermousetrap and theworld will beat a
path to your door,” one might think ofRalph Waldo Emerson…or not, sincescholars debate whether or not heactually wrote that profound thought.What’s not debatable, however, is thathad Emerson been concerned withfishtraps and aware of Ayana Johnson’sgraduate research, he would have defi-nitely made reference to her.
As a graduate student at theScripps Institute of Oceanography spe-cializing in marine conservation ecolo-gy, Ayana (Berkeley Carroll class of1998) is spending four months inCuraçao, a Caribbean island off thenorth coast of Venezuela. Her area ofexpertise concerns fisheries manage-ment.
Let’s get something out of the wayright from the getgo: everyone wantsto be Ayana Johnson. She’s bright, cre-ative, a joy to speak to, and one of thefew people who actually looks good ina wetsuit. She also feels passionatelyabout her work.
“My ultimate goal is to have a posi-tive impact on marine conservation,”she said. To that end, she majored inenvironmental science and public poli-cy at Harvard. After college she wentdirectly to Washington, DC, to workin the policy offices of the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency.Authority and experience came withthat tenure, but so did the realizationthat to really affect the level of changethat motivated her, she would need agraduate degree.
If one wants to study the oceanfrom dry land, there’s surely no betterplace than the Scripps Institute ofOceanography in La Jolla, California,home also to UC San Diego. If onewants to study the ocean while within
its depths, then surely there’s no betterplace than off the shores of Curaçao.Ayana works directly with island’slocal fisheries department and withlocal fishermen. Traditionally,Curaçao’s fishermen use arrowhead-shaped fishtraps, an indiscriminantappliance that catches—and traps—every fish that swims in, includingjuvenile fish too young to eat andornamental fish that would never bedestined for the table. Ideally, onlycertain fish (like snappers andgroupers) that have grown to maturity
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WAyana JohnsonAyana Johnson ’98BUILDING A BETTER FISH TRAP
Ayana working on a fish trap in Curaçao.
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hen one hears“Build a bettermousetrap and theworld will beat a
path to your door,” one might think ofRalph Waldo Emerson…or not, sincescholars debate whether or not heactually wrote that profound thought.What’s not debatable, however, is thathad Emerson been concerned withfishtraps and aware of Ayana Johnson’sgraduate research, he would have defi-nitely made reference to her.
As a graduate student at theScripps Institute of Oceanography spe-cializing in marine conservation ecolo-gy, Ayana (Berkeley Carroll class of1998) is spending four months inCuraçao, a Caribbean island off thenorth coast of Venezuela. Her area ofexpertise concerns fisheries manage-ment.
Let’s get something out of the wayright from the getgo: everyone wantsto be Ayana Johnson. She’s bright, cre-ative, a joy to speak to, and one of thefew people who actually looks good ina wetsuit. She also feels passionatelyabout her work.
“My ultimate goal is to have a posi-tive impact on marine conservation,”she said. To that end, she majored inenvironmental science and public poli-cy at Harvard. After college she wentdirectly to Washington, DC, to workin the policy offices of the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency.Authority and experience came withthat tenure, but so did the realizationthat to really affect the level of changethat motivated her, she would need agraduate degree.
If one wants to study the oceanfrom dry land, there’s surely no betterplace than the Scripps Institute ofOceanography in La Jolla, California,home also to UC San Diego. If onewants to study the ocean while within
its depths, then surely there’s no betterplace than off the shores of Curaçao.Ayana works directly with island’slocal fisheries department and withlocal fishermen. Traditionally,Curaçao’s fishermen use arrowhead-shaped fishtraps, an indiscriminantappliance that catches—and traps—every fish that swims in, includingjuvenile fish too young to eat andornamental fish that would never bedestined for the table. Ideally, onlycertain fish (like snappers andgroupers) that have grown to maturity
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WAyana JohnsonAyana Johnson ’98BUILDING A BETTER FISH TRAP
Ayana working on a fish trap in Curaçao.
JocelynAndrews Mitchell
JocelynAndrews Mitchell ’51ASSESSING THE
“WHAT IFS” OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
lot of people go through life focusing on the“what if.” What if “this” happens? What if“that”? It’s almost as though they don’t livein the here and now, living instead in thetheoretical. They try to make calculations
based on “if X happens then Y willresult. If Y happens, then X will occur.”But life is uncertain, and it contains alot of “X’s and Y’s.” For many people,that may be too much uncertainty: if itmight rain, you bring your umbrella. Ifit might not, do you leave it at home?Do you carry it just in case?
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would be caught in the fishermen’straps. Those that were too young or ofthe wrong species would not betrapped. This the idea behind fishingsustainability.
Further complicating the pictureare the coral reefs surroundingCuraçao. The reefs are home to some-thing in the neighborhood of a hun-dred different species of fish, the vastmajority of which are not meant to befished. Ayana’s immediate goal, then, isto work with the local fishery authori-ties to design a better fishtrap. She isthrilled that the results of her research
will be immediately incorporated inthe new fishery regulations for theisland. And if the new traps are effec-tive in Curaçao, she hopes they will beadopted elsewhere, as trap fishingoccurs daily on coral reefs all over theworld.
Coral reefs are in short supply inAyana’s native Brooklyn. Raised in FortGreene, she came to Berkeley Carrollin the middle of third grade. Contraryto what one might think, she was notknown as a science student. “I alwaysloved science,” said Ayana, “but it wasnot my strongest suit. I was much
more inclined toward the humanities,and ultimately, the strong foundation Igot my English classes helped meimmensely in the sciences.”
Marlene Clary’s Humanities classwas the most influential course Ayanatook during her Upper School years.“That class has really stayed with me,”she said. “It helped me in college andwhenever I travel, I draw on whatMarlene taught us. Take herHumanities class then go to a muse-um—you’ll see what I mean!”
Berkeley Carroll’s science curricu-lum was challenging, too, and Ayana’steachers—Robert Busch and CindyMolk—were, as she says, amazing. ForAyana, it was a winning combination.“Humanities contributed dramaticallyto my intellectual growth. AP Physics,on the other hand, was the most diffi-cult class I took in four years of highschool. As a science student atHarvard—actually, throughout mycareer—I’ve been told that my writingis very clear. For a scientist, that’s agreat compliment!”
Ayana’s background in the humani-ties has led her to understand that sci-ence, especially conservation science,cannot be separated from people.“When you manage a fishery, you aremanaging the behavior of the people,not the fish,” she says. Hence, herresearch also incorporates an econom-ic assessment of the fishery so that shecan understand the motivations of thefishermen and the impact that regula-tory change will have on them.
This is just the first part of her PhDresearch. She hopes that over the nextfew years she will be able to helpCuraçao to turn all its fisheries in amore sustainable direction. <
The coral reefs off the coast of
Curaçao make room for a fish trap.
Jocelyn with fellow speakers
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JocelynAndrews Mitchell
JocelynAndrews Mitchell ’51ASSESSING THE
“WHAT IFS” OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
lot of people go through life focusing on the“what if.” What if “this” happens? What if“that”? It’s almost as though they don’t livein the here and now, living instead in thetheoretical. They try to make calculations
based on “if X happens then Y willresult. If Y happens, then X will occur.”But life is uncertain, and it contains alot of “X’s and Y’s.” For many people,that may be too much uncertainty: if itmight rain, you bring your umbrella. Ifit might not, do you leave it at home?Do you carry it just in case?
A
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would be caught in the fishermen’straps. Those that were too young or ofthe wrong species would not betrapped. This the idea behind fishingsustainability.
Further complicating the pictureare the coral reefs surroundingCuraçao. The reefs are home to some-thing in the neighborhood of a hun-dred different species of fish, the vastmajority of which are not meant to befished. Ayana’s immediate goal, then, isto work with the local fishery authori-ties to design a better fishtrap. She isthrilled that the results of her research
will be immediately incorporated inthe new fishery regulations for theisland. And if the new traps are effec-tive in Curaçao, she hopes they will beadopted elsewhere, as trap fishingoccurs daily on coral reefs all over theworld.
Coral reefs are in short supply inAyana’s native Brooklyn. Raised in FortGreene, she came to Berkeley Carrollin the middle of third grade. Contraryto what one might think, she was notknown as a science student. “I alwaysloved science,” said Ayana, “but it wasnot my strongest suit. I was much
more inclined toward the humanities,and ultimately, the strong foundation Igot my English classes helped meimmensely in the sciences.”
Marlene Clary’s Humanities classwas the most influential course Ayanatook during her Upper School years.“That class has really stayed with me,”she said. “It helped me in college andwhenever I travel, I draw on whatMarlene taught us. Take herHumanities class then go to a muse-um—you’ll see what I mean!”
Berkeley Carroll’s science curricu-lum was challenging, too, and Ayana’steachers—Robert Busch and CindyMolk—were, as she says, amazing. ForAyana, it was a winning combination.“Humanities contributed dramaticallyto my intellectual growth. AP Physics,on the other hand, was the most diffi-cult class I took in four years of highschool. As a science student atHarvard—actually, throughout mycareer—I’ve been told that my writingis very clear. For a scientist, that’s agreat compliment!”
Ayana’s background in the humani-ties has led her to understand that sci-ence, especially conservation science,cannot be separated from people.“When you manage a fishery, you aremanaging the behavior of the people,not the fish,” she says. Hence, herresearch also incorporates an econom-ic assessment of the fishery so that shecan understand the motivations of thefishermen and the impact that regula-tory change will have on them.
This is just the first part of her PhDresearch. She hopes that over the nextfew years she will be able to helpCuraçao to turn all its fisheries in amore sustainable direction. <
The coral reefs off the coast of
Curaçao make room for a fish trap.
Jocelyn with fellow speakers
at the NRC’s meeting reviewing
Chernobyl 20 years after.
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What if these calculations, ratherthan prognosticating about the weath-er, focused on the “what if’s” ofnuclear plant disasters, where the“what if’s” could have potentially cata-strophic results? Those “what if’s” canonly be assessed by someone highlytrained in probabilistic risk assessmentat the Nuclear Regulatory Commission(NRC). Those “what if’s” are asked byJocelyn Andrews Mitchell ’51.
If one were to apply Jocelyn’s pro-fessional rubric to Jocelyn’s career tra-jectory, one gets an idea of how thismight work:
Q: If a girl loved biology andchemistry in high school, whatmight happen? A: There would be a high probabili-ty that she’d continue along thoselines in college. Consequence? As astudent at the Berkeley Institute,Jocelyn loved biology and chemistry.She went on to major in chemistry atConnecticut College.
Q: Given a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, what might happen?A: There would be a high probabili-ty that she would ultimately earn agraduate degree in chemistry and/orbecome a chemist.
Yet that’s exactly what did nothappen.
In 1955, following her graduationfrom Connecticut College (thenConnecticut College for Women), andarmed with a bachelor’s degree inchemistry, Jocelyn went to work in thereactive physics department at theBettis Atomic Power Lab inPennsylvania. Bettis is now operatedby the United States Department ofEnergy; its focus is nuclear-poweredwarships and it is one of the oldestnuclear power facilities in the country.She worked at Bettis for 25 years.
Jocelyn and her husband David
moved to the Washington DC area in1980 at which time she began hertenure with the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission. The NRC is solely con-cerned with regulating the nation’s104 nuclear power plants, andJocelyn’s expertise—what are the con-sequences of possible actions orevents—helps establish the agency’spre-emergency plans.
She has seen the world of nuclearpower grow from its infancy, and shehas grown along with it. No universityconfers advanced degrees in the areaof probabilistic risk assessment so, forJocelyn, it’s been all on-the-job train-ing. The other lesson she’s had to learnin the trenches has been how to notonly survive, but to excel in a tradi-tionally male-dominated arena.
The Berkeley Institute, of course,was all female when Jocelyn was inhigh school as was her college almamater, the Connecticut College forWomen. When her career catapultedher into a world run by men—sciencein general and nuclear power in spe-cific, at least in the 1950s and 60s—she suffered both covert and overt dis-crimination. Despite being told duringthose decades that she needed to pre-pare reports that would be presentedby male colleagues and being passedup for positions that were only con-
ferred on men at her agencies, she hasno regrets about her career choice.“Science is a wonderful career choicefor young women,” she says. “So manygirls grow up being told that math ishard, but they shouldn’t listen to that.A career in science provides optionsand variability, and it can pay well,too.”
Jocelyn traces her career choiceback to her years at BI. Her older sis-ter Magdalen Andrews (BI class of1950) had been a student atBrooklyn’s Erasmus Hall High Schoolwhen their mother was approached byIna Clayton Atwood, Berkeley InstituteHeadmistress. BI was conferring fullscholarships on worthy students, MissAtwood told her. The Andrews house-hold, headed by a single mother, andoften living off the money the girlsmade babysitting, never looked back.
Following her graduation in 1951,Jocelyn received a full scholarship toConnecticut College. “I really oweeverything to Berkeley,” she says. “I’vebeen very lucky over the years to be inthe right place at the right time, andit’s been quite a ride.” <
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Nick HaymanNick HaymanGOING TO
GREAT DEPTHSGrowing up in New York City,”
says Nick Hayman who graduat-
ed from Berkeley Carroll in 1990,
“one can get rather divorced from
the natural world.” Funny that this Brooklyn
native, who, by his own admission, had no feel
for nature, ended up as a geophysicist. Maybe not
so funny. After all, Nick is a deep guy who goes to
great depths to prove it—literally. His latest
research has taken him to some of the deeper
parts of the Pacific Ocean, in places more than
13,000 feet.
At SUNY Albany, where he received a bachelor
of science degree in geological sciences, Nick
started mapping rocks that formed millions of
years ago. The earth, after all, is composed of
rocks—granted, some of them are molten. The
rocks that make up the earth’s crust are subjected
to forces imposed by the deeper earth below and
gravity above. These rocks—or, more accurately,
< B Y J O D I E C O R N G O L D
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Mitchell, boating on the Chesapeake
Bay during the summer of 1992.
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What if these calculations, ratherthan prognosticating about the weath-er, focused on the “what if’s” ofnuclear plant disasters, where the“what if’s” could have potentially cata-strophic results? Those “what if’s” canonly be assessed by someone highlytrained in probabilistic risk assessmentat the Nuclear Regulatory Commission(NRC). Those “what if’s” are asked byJocelyn Andrews Mitchell ’51.
If one were to apply Jocelyn’s pro-fessional rubric to Jocelyn’s career tra-jectory, one gets an idea of how thismight work:
Q: If a girl loved biology andchemistry in high school, whatmight happen? A: There would be a high probabili-ty that she’d continue along thoselines in college. Consequence? As astudent at the Berkeley Institute,Jocelyn loved biology and chemistry.She went on to major in chemistry atConnecticut College.
Q: Given a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, what might happen?A: There would be a high probabili-ty that she would ultimately earn agraduate degree in chemistry and/orbecome a chemist.
Yet that’s exactly what did nothappen.
In 1955, following her graduationfrom Connecticut College (thenConnecticut College for Women), andarmed with a bachelor’s degree inchemistry, Jocelyn went to work in thereactive physics department at theBettis Atomic Power Lab inPennsylvania. Bettis is now operatedby the United States Department ofEnergy; its focus is nuclear-poweredwarships and it is one of the oldestnuclear power facilities in the country.She worked at Bettis for 25 years.
Jocelyn and her husband David
moved to the Washington DC area in1980 at which time she began hertenure with the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission. The NRC is solely con-cerned with regulating the nation’s104 nuclear power plants, andJocelyn’s expertise—what are the con-sequences of possible actions orevents—helps establish the agency’spre-emergency plans.
She has seen the world of nuclearpower grow from its infancy, and shehas grown along with it. No universityconfers advanced degrees in the areaof probabilistic risk assessment so, forJocelyn, it’s been all on-the-job train-ing. The other lesson she’s had to learnin the trenches has been how to notonly survive, but to excel in a tradi-tionally male-dominated arena.
The Berkeley Institute, of course,was all female when Jocelyn was inhigh school as was her college almamater, the Connecticut College forWomen. When her career catapultedher into a world run by men—sciencein general and nuclear power in spe-cific, at least in the 1950s and 60s—she suffered both covert and overt dis-crimination. Despite being told duringthose decades that she needed to pre-pare reports that would be presentedby male colleagues and being passedup for positions that were only con-
ferred on men at her agencies, she hasno regrets about her career choice.“Science is a wonderful career choicefor young women,” she says. “So manygirls grow up being told that math ishard, but they shouldn’t listen to that.A career in science provides optionsand variability, and it can pay well,too.”
Jocelyn traces her career choiceback to her years at BI. Her older sis-ter Magdalen Andrews (BI class of1950) had been a student atBrooklyn’s Erasmus Hall High Schoolwhen their mother was approached byIna Clayton Atwood, Berkeley InstituteHeadmistress. BI was conferring fullscholarships on worthy students, MissAtwood told her. The Andrews house-hold, headed by a single mother, andoften living off the money the girlsmade babysitting, never looked back.
Following her graduation in 1951,Jocelyn received a full scholarship toConnecticut College. “I really oweeverything to Berkeley,” she says. “I’vebeen very lucky over the years to be inthe right place at the right time, andit’s been quite a ride.” <
16 Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 2008 17Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 2008
Nick HaymanNick HaymanGOING TO
GREAT DEPTHSGrowing up in New York City,”
says Nick Hayman who graduat-
ed from Berkeley Carroll in 1990,
“one can get rather divorced from
the natural world.” Funny that this Brooklyn
native, who, by his own admission, had no feel
for nature, ended up as a geophysicist. Maybe not
so funny. After all, Nick is a deep guy who goes to
great depths to prove it—literally. His latest
research has taken him to some of the deeper
parts of the Pacific Ocean, in places more than
13,000 feet.
At SUNY Albany, where he received a bachelor
of science degree in geological sciences, Nick
started mapping rocks that formed millions of
years ago. The earth, after all, is composed of
rocks—granted, some of them are molten. The
rocks that make up the earth’s crust are subjected
to forces imposed by the deeper earth below and
gravity above. These rocks—or, more accurately,
< B Y J O D I E C O R N G O L D
‘‘
Jocelyn with her husband, David
Mitchell, boating on the Chesapeake
Bay during the summer of 1992.
PH
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OF TH
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gigantic tectonic plates formed from
these rocks—shift around in response
to these forces. The shifting can occur
along well documented lines called
faults, of which the San Andreas
might be the best well known. Energy
released by a fault from a very rapid
slip can result in an earthquake such
as the recent devastating earthquake
in China.
In 2003, Nick earned his PhD in
geological sciences from the University
of Washington. The timing was fortu-
itous—Seattle experienced a 6.8 mag-
nitude earthquake in February of
2001. “Nothing like on the job train-
ing,” says Nick. He also trained on the
job in California where, as far as the
plates that cover the surface of the
earth are concerned, east meets west.
The junction of the Pacific Plate (from
the west) and the North American
plate (from the east) is better known
as the aforementioned San Andreas
Fault. Nick is quick to point out that
the west coast hardly has the lock on
geological activity. “We all live on the
same planet,” he says, “and we’re all
subjected to the same forces.” In fact,
the largest historical earthquake in the
continental United States was in
Missouri. Be that as it may, in the U.S.,
the most frequent earthquakes happen
in California, and the Pacific
Northwest potentially faces rarer, but
more devastating, earthquakes.
But all that’s on earth’s dry land. After
college, Nick departed from the classical
geological approach—“geo,” after all, is
Greek for “earth”—and looked to the
oceans. The fact that earthquakes occur
under the ocean is not exactly news, but
the fact of these earthquakes—which
manifest themselves as tsunamis, a phe-
nomenon that’s all too well known—is.
Perhaps the most notorious tsunami
occurred off the shores of Thailand in
December 2004; it is responsible for the
death of somewhere in the neighborhood
of 350,000 people. “The earth’s continen-
tal crust is volatile,” says Nick. “No ques-
tion. But it’s the ocean’s crust where the
rubber really hits the road.” And the
ocean’s crust is where Nick’s research
brought him next.
As any geologist worth his magne-
sium can tell you, the ocean’s floor is
also subjected to the vicissitudes of
shifting plates, which move across the
earth’s mantle at approximately one
centimeter a year. As they shift, they
create gaps. As volcanic lavas move up
through those gaps and ocean water
passes downward, a chemical
exchange between seawater and rocks
leaves behind many elements, includ-
ing magnesium, one of the most abun-
dant cations found in seawater. Nick is
interested in how such a fundamental
chemical exchange may be related to
faulting in the ocean crust.
The bottom of the ocean is far
away and unattainable—at least for
most of us—so how does Nick know
all this? The answer is Alvin, a deep-
sea submersible vehicle capable of car-
rying a three-passenger payload to
depths of almost 15,000 feet below
sea level. Thanks to Alvin, Nick has
had the opportunity to make three
trips to the ocean floor.
When he’s not rubbing elbows with
the hydrothermal animals living in the
near darkness of the ocean floor, far
beneath the Galapagos Islands, Nick
lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife
Marianne and their baby daughter
Antonia. He is a member of the
research staff at the Institute for
Geophysics at the University of Texas
at Austin. “I like supervising students
and I really like working in an educa-
tional institute,” says Nick. “I’m pretty
lucky: this is one of the few places
that affords me with the opportunity
to do both.” <
‘‘The earth’scontinental
crust is volatile, no question, but it’s the
ocean’s crust wherethe rubber really hits the road.”
NICK HAYMANNick explores the ocean floor by hitching a ride
in Alvin, a deep sea submersible vehicle.
In California, everyone knows that earthquakes
are San Andreas's fault.
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gigantic tectonic plates formed from
these rocks—shift around in response
to these forces. The shifting can occur
along well documented lines called
faults, of which the San Andreas
might be the best well known. Energy
released by a fault from a very rapid
slip can result in an earthquake such
as the recent devastating earthquake
in China.
In 2003, Nick earned his PhD in
geological sciences from the University
of Washington. The timing was fortu-
itous—Seattle experienced a 6.8 mag-
nitude earthquake in February of
2001. “Nothing like on the job train-
ing,” says Nick. He also trained on the
job in California where, as far as the
plates that cover the surface of the
earth are concerned, east meets west.
The junction of the Pacific Plate (from
the west) and the North American
plate (from the east) is better known
as the aforementioned San Andreas
Fault. Nick is quick to point out that
the west coast hardly has the lock on
geological activity. “We all live on the
same planet,” he says, “and we’re all
subjected to the same forces.” In fact,
the largest historical earthquake in the
continental United States was in
Missouri. Be that as it may, in the U.S.,
the most frequent earthquakes happen
in California, and the Pacific
Northwest potentially faces rarer, but
more devastating, earthquakes.
But all that’s on earth’s dry land. After
college, Nick departed from the classical
geological approach—“geo,” after all, is
Greek for “earth”—and looked to the
oceans. The fact that earthquakes occur
under the ocean is not exactly news, but
the fact of these earthquakes—which
manifest themselves as tsunamis, a phe-
nomenon that’s all too well known—is.
Perhaps the most notorious tsunami
occurred off the shores of Thailand in
December 2004; it is responsible for the
death of somewhere in the neighborhood
of 350,000 people. “The earth’s continen-
tal crust is volatile,” says Nick. “No ques-
tion. But it’s the ocean’s crust where the
rubber really hits the road.” And the
ocean’s crust is where Nick’s research
brought him next.
As any geologist worth his magne-
sium can tell you, the ocean’s floor is
also subjected to the vicissitudes of
shifting plates, which move across the
earth’s mantle at approximately one
centimeter a year. As they shift, they
create gaps. As volcanic lavas move up
through those gaps and ocean water
passes downward, a chemical
exchange between seawater and rocks
leaves behind many elements, includ-
ing magnesium, one of the most abun-
dant cations found in seawater. Nick is
interested in how such a fundamental
chemical exchange may be related to
faulting in the ocean crust.
The bottom of the ocean is far
away and unattainable—at least for
most of us—so how does Nick know
all this? The answer is Alvin, a deep-
sea submersible vehicle capable of car-
rying a three-passenger payload to
depths of almost 15,000 feet below
sea level. Thanks to Alvin, Nick has
had the opportunity to make three
trips to the ocean floor.
When he’s not rubbing elbows with
the hydrothermal animals living in the
near darkness of the ocean floor, far
beneath the Galapagos Islands, Nick
lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife
Marianne and their baby daughter
Antonia. He is a member of the
research staff at the Institute for
Geophysics at the University of Texas
at Austin. “I like supervising students
and I really like working in an educa-
tional institute,” says Nick. “I’m pretty
lucky: this is one of the few places
that affords me with the opportunity
to do both.” <
‘‘The earth’scontinental
crust is volatile, no question, but it’s the
ocean’s crust wherethe rubber really hits the road.”
NICK HAYMANNick explores the ocean floor by hitching a ride
in Alvin, a deep sea submersible vehicle.
In California, everyone knows that earthquakes
are San Andreas's fault.
PH
OTO
US
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BY
PE
RM
ISS
ION
OF
THE
WO
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S H
OLE
OC
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NO
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.
hen I was young, I was convinced that I
hated science. Nothing I learned mattered
to me because I couldn’t see how any of it
related to my life. And then I took physics,
and I fell in love. It had never occurred to me to
wonder where sounds come from, why people
don’t fall out of roller coasters, or how eyeglasses
work. During class, my teacher would constantly
be digging through drawers to pull out gadgets to
show us an example of the concept we had just
learned. Physics isn’t a science you have to memo-
rize and take on faith: physics is a science that you
can see is true. Physics was a class that taught me
FROM THE PERSPECTIVE
OF A SCIENCE STUDENT
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biology or any of the fun electivesoffered to seniors, such as Science andEthics or Oceanography.
After my science education atBerkeley Carroll, I feel very preparedfor science courses in college. I lookforward to exploring other types ofscience, and am sure my chemistryand physics instruction at BerkeleyCarroll will serve as a solid founda-tion. Though I may not rememberevery fact that I learned, I certainlylearned hard work and self-disciplinefrom my science teachers, which willsurely help me to succeed in college.Though I’m not certain I will have acareer in science, I have no doubt thatscience will continue to affect my dailylife. Whether I’m reading nutritionfacts (remembering Mr. Albrizzio’s les-son on why trans fats are worse thansaturated fats) or driving my car(knowing exactly why my friends allslide to one side if I take a turn tooquickly), science is always at the frontof my mind. I’m thankful to theBerkeley Carroll Science Departmentfor all that they’ve taught me and forhelping me to discover and foster mylove of science. <
how the world works, and I finally felt
as though I was learning something
exciting and important. From that
point on, I realized that I loved sci-
ence; that love for science would only
grow over my four years of high
school at Berkeley Carroll. The personal attention that stu-
dents receive in the advanced scienceclasses at Berkeley Carroll makes foran incredible educational experience.In AP Physics I was one of nine stu-dents; in AP Chemistry I was one ofsix. Though these classes wereundoubtedly two of the most chal-lenging courses I took in my fouryears, they were also two of the mostrewarding. My teachers, Mr. Busch forAP Physics and Mr. Albrizzio for APChemistry, were always available out-side the classroom for additional help,making sure that they were in thelibrary the periods before a largeassignment was due, supplying uswith bagels and orange juice when wecame in on Saturday mornings andpizzas for evening sessions. Mr.Albrizzio would bring us cookies fromfaculty meetings to ensure that wecould have a little sugar boost duringan early morning double period. Mr.Busch even called my home when Iwas sick to see how I was feeling andto tell me not to worry about theupcoming test. My science teachershave made an extraordinary effort toget to know their students and workclosely with them, I am forever grate-ful for all their time and attention.
My only regrets as to my curricularchoices are that I couldn’t take moreclasses in the science department. Itook two years of physics and twoyears of chemistry, and though I reallyenjoyed those courses, I never took
Whether I’m reading
nutrition facts(remembering Mr. Albrizzio’s
lesson on why transfats are worse than
saturated fats) or driving my car(knowing exactlywhy my friends
all slide to one side if I take aturn too quickly),science is always at the front of
my mind.
EMILY CUNNINGHAM
Emily Cunningham '08 is now a
freshman at Haverford College
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Science ATBerkeley Carroll
hen I was young, I was convinced that I
hated science. Nothing I learned mattered
to me because I couldn’t see how any of it
related to my life. And then I took physics,
and I fell in love. It had never occurred to me to
wonder where sounds come from, why people
don’t fall out of roller coasters, or how eyeglasses
work. During class, my teacher would constantly
be digging through drawers to pull out gadgets to
show us an example of the concept we had just
learned. Physics isn’t a science you have to memo-
rize and take on faith: physics is a science that you
can see is true. Physics was a class that taught me
FROM THE PERSPECTIVE
OF A SCIENCE STUDENT
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biology or any of the fun electivesoffered to seniors, such as Science andEthics or Oceanography.
After my science education atBerkeley Carroll, I feel very preparedfor science courses in college. I lookforward to exploring other types ofscience, and am sure my chemistryand physics instruction at BerkeleyCarroll will serve as a solid founda-tion. Though I may not rememberevery fact that I learned, I certainlylearned hard work and self-disciplinefrom my science teachers, which willsurely help me to succeed in college.Though I’m not certain I will have acareer in science, I have no doubt thatscience will continue to affect my dailylife. Whether I’m reading nutritionfacts (remembering Mr. Albrizzio’s les-son on why trans fats are worse thansaturated fats) or driving my car(knowing exactly why my friends allslide to one side if I take a turn tooquickly), science is always at the frontof my mind. I’m thankful to theBerkeley Carroll Science Departmentfor all that they’ve taught me and forhelping me to discover and foster mylove of science. <
how the world works, and I finally felt
as though I was learning something
exciting and important. From that
point on, I realized that I loved sci-
ence; that love for science would only
grow over my four years of high
school at Berkeley Carroll. The personal attention that stu-
dents receive in the advanced scienceclasses at Berkeley Carroll makes foran incredible educational experience.In AP Physics I was one of nine stu-dents; in AP Chemistry I was one ofsix. Though these classes wereundoubtedly two of the most chal-lenging courses I took in my fouryears, they were also two of the mostrewarding. My teachers, Mr. Busch forAP Physics and Mr. Albrizzio for APChemistry, were always available out-side the classroom for additional help,making sure that they were in thelibrary the periods before a largeassignment was due, supplying uswith bagels and orange juice when wecame in on Saturday mornings andpizzas for evening sessions. Mr.Albrizzio would bring us cookies fromfaculty meetings to ensure that wecould have a little sugar boost duringan early morning double period. Mr.Busch even called my home when Iwas sick to see how I was feeling andto tell me not to worry about theupcoming test. My science teachershave made an extraordinary effort toget to know their students and workclosely with them, I am forever grate-ful for all their time and attention.
My only regrets as to my curricularchoices are that I couldn’t take moreclasses in the science department. Itook two years of physics and twoyears of chemistry, and though I reallyenjoyed those courses, I never took
Whether I’m reading
nutrition facts(remembering Mr. Albrizzio’s
lesson on why transfats are worse than
saturated fats) or driving my car(knowing exactlywhy my friends
all slide to one side if I take aturn too quickly),science is always at the front of
my mind.
EMILY CUNNINGHAM
Emily Cunningham '08 is now a
freshman at Haverford College
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’ve cast my mind back to February 1997where I am working in Afterschool at the701 Carroll Street campus. Jaclyn Lee ’03,who was then in Middle School, burstsin saying, “Vanessa, my science teacher is
pregnant! You have to come right over to LincolnPlace, and be my teacher!” I was engaged in anintense game of “Uno” with Peter Damrosch’08,Jason Lewis ’08, and Daniel Garcia-McGuire ’06.With my hot “draw four” card in hand I say, “What?Wait, there is a position open at Lincoln Place?” Ihave two choices: play my draw four card—there-by demolishing Peter’s hopes of winning—or
< B Y V A N E S S A P R E S C O T T
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stop and listen to this exciting newprospect. I’ve now been teaching sci-ence at Lincoln Place for ten years. Iguess you can guess which one Ichose!
My role at Berkeley Carroll hasevolved a great deal over the years,and I have grown up with the school.I started as a junior counselor in theChildren’s Day Camp at the LowerSchool, worked in the Afterschoolprogram in the Lower School duringcollege, substituted, taught science,and served as a dean, coach, and advi-sor. I have worn so many BerkeleyCarroll “hats” that I could publish myown version of Caps For Sale. The oneconstant during this entire time hasbeen my love for science.
Whether it was distributing mixedKool-Aid flavors to friends (dubbingthem ‘elixirs’), always opting to play“Operation,” being fascinated by thepossibilities of genetic mutations ofmy favorite X-Men characters, or set-ting my sights on being a surgeonupon entering college, I was always ascience geek at heart.
I have made it a point to share thisardor with my students, although theyalready know that I love science. It issomething that I can’t hide (my
shameless requests for them to bringback rocks from vacations for me toadd to my United States and interna-tional collections may have tippedthem off.) Every year, I always startmy first class telling my students, “Idon’t expect you to love science, but Iwant you to leave my classroom at theend of the year with at least an appre-ciation for it.”
As a New Yorker, my early schoolexperiences with science centeredaround content in order to take aRegents exam. Things got progressive-ly better in high school, but at first,science seemed to be only in a bookinstead of what it really is, a subjectyou digest through sight (seeing sodi-um on fire in water), sound (hearingthe remnants of the Big Bang), andtouch (feeling the jagged fracture of ageode’s core). (And, in the case of my7th graders building DNA modelsusing Gummy Bears and Twizzlers,taste.) That is how you learn science,you have to physically dive into it. Ifeel fortunate to be in an environmentwhere this type of experience can be areality for my students.
As clichéd as this may sound,learning and teaching science is likeriding a roller coaster. There are
Whether itwas distributingmixed Kool-Aidflavors to friends
(dubbing them ‘elixirs’),
always opting to play“Operation,”
being fascinated bythe possibilities
of genetic mutationsof my favorite
X-Men characters, or setting my
sights on being a surgeon upon
entering college, Iwas always a science
geek at heart.
VANESSA PRESCOTT
Vanessa Prescott
‘‘
’ve cast my mind back to February 1997where I am working in Afterschool at the701 Carroll Street campus. Jaclyn Lee ’03,who was then in Middle School, burstsin saying, “Vanessa, my science teacher is
pregnant! You have to come right over to LincolnPlace, and be my teacher!” I was engaged in anintense game of “Uno” with Peter Damrosch’08,Jason Lewis ’08, and Daniel Garcia-McGuire ’06.With my hot “draw four” card in hand I say, “What?Wait, there is a position open at Lincoln Place?” Ihave two choices: play my draw four card—there-by demolishing Peter’s hopes of winning—or
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WHAT A RIDE!
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BerkeleyCarroll
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stop and listen to this exciting newprospect. I’ve now been teaching sci-ence at Lincoln Place for ten years. Iguess you can guess which one Ichose!
My role at Berkeley Carroll hasevolved a great deal over the years,and I have grown up with the school.I started as a junior counselor in theChildren’s Day Camp at the LowerSchool, worked in the Afterschoolprogram in the Lower School duringcollege, substituted, taught science,and served as a dean, coach, and advi-sor. I have worn so many BerkeleyCarroll “hats” that I could publish myown version of Caps For Sale. The oneconstant during this entire time hasbeen my love for science.
Whether it was distributing mixedKool-Aid flavors to friends (dubbingthem ‘elixirs’), always opting to play“Operation,” being fascinated by thepossibilities of genetic mutations ofmy favorite X-Men characters, or set-ting my sights on being a surgeonupon entering college, I was always ascience geek at heart.
I have made it a point to share thisardor with my students, although theyalready know that I love science. It issomething that I can’t hide (my
shameless requests for them to bringback rocks from vacations for me toadd to my United States and interna-tional collections may have tippedthem off.) Every year, I always startmy first class telling my students, “Idon’t expect you to love science, but Iwant you to leave my classroom at theend of the year with at least an appre-ciation for it.”
As a New Yorker, my early schoolexperiences with science centeredaround content in order to take aRegents exam. Things got progressive-ly better in high school, but at first,science seemed to be only in a bookinstead of what it really is, a subjectyou digest through sight (seeing sodi-um on fire in water), sound (hearingthe remnants of the Big Bang), andtouch (feeling the jagged fracture of ageode’s core). (And, in the case of my7th graders building DNA modelsusing Gummy Bears and Twizzlers,taste.) That is how you learn science,you have to physically dive into it. Ifeel fortunate to be in an environmentwhere this type of experience can be areality for my students.
As clichéd as this may sound,learning and teaching science is likeriding a roller coaster. There are
Whether itwas distributingmixed Kool-Aidflavors to friends
(dubbing them ‘elixirs’),
always opting to play“Operation,”
being fascinated bythe possibilities
of genetic mutationsof my favorite
X-Men characters, or setting my
sights on being a surgeon upon
entering college, Iwas always a science
geek at heart.
VANESSA PRESCOTT
Vanessa Prescott
‘‘
moments when you’re climbing to thetop of that first drop while you teachhow to balance chemical equations.Next thing you know, your studentsare plummeting down screaming (intheir heads) during the first unit exam,only to arise unscathed (to their pleas-ant surprise!). But wait, here comes aseries of twists and turns, shaking thechange out your pockets as youexplain Newton’s Laws, which is fol-lowed by their feelings of dizzinessand nausea as they try to implementthe formula F = ma. Before you knowit, the ride is over and you all want toget on again, because you’re not evenclose to finishing the curriculum andthe students are hungry for morethrills and chills. (When responding tothe question of why people like ridingroller coasters, Robert Moyzis, a bio-chemist at the University of California,Irvine, pointed to genes. Moyzis said,“…the tendency to pursue adventureand adapt to new challenges…a traitthat was probably helpful when ourancestors first left Africa and startedexploring the globe….” Isn’t that whatscience is all about: adventure? Thescience teacher’s desire is to generatedesirable, cognitive, metacognitive,and affective outcomes in his or herstudents.)
Now that I have passed my ten-year mark as a Berkeley Carrollteacher, it is quite evident in today’sworld how important it is to teach sci-ence. My only hope is that my stu-dents realize how important it shouldbe to them. A favorite response fromstudents, when learning any topic inschool is, “When am I ever going touse/need this again?” I always confi-dently tell them that science is onetopic that they will always need anduse for the rest of their lives. The factis, they will more likely get into a con-versation concerning the crisis in theatmosphere than a crisis in Hamlet.
Of course, this is not always clear. I don’t always expect to evoke someextreme emotional reaction when astudent conducts mineral tests on asample to correctly identify it, butwhen I can relate this specimen tohow our natural resources are beingdepleted and how their daily activitiesmay be compromising the situation,all of a sudden the fire ignites in theirfaces and I know they have made theconnection. It is now personal and isactually meaningful to them. Suddenly
something seemingly as boring as arock becomes vital. It’s all about mak-ing sure they realize that science is notmerely for the classroom. It is allaround them.
Having held so many different rolesbesides a science teacher has affordedme the opportunity to stay in tunewith my students during their years atBerkeley Carroll and beyond. I havenot only seen them in class, but dur-ing performances, on the field, tellingpersonal stories in advising, or just fora quick tête-à-tête in the hallwaybefore they (or I) run off to class.
Our department is full of dynamiceducators. Through the years, somehave come and gone, but the energystays the same. I felt this energy thefirst time I stepped into Room 35 andsaw Robert Busch making sciencecome alive to a class of 10th graders.Watching his (seemingly effortless)ability to make them laugh and learnat the same time, I knew I was in theright place.
My colleagues and I all love teach-ing science and our students take thatmemory with them to college. Ibeamed with pride when RobertMadison ’04 told me his love for rollercoasters led to an engineering major,when Matt Nielsen ’02 said he wasstudying forestry, when Shahna-LeeJames ’05 interned at Methodist hospi-tal and declared a bio major, whenBrett Chalfin ’06 told me about attend-ing a summer geology intensive in thedepths of Wyoming, and when KarenGoldfarb ’04 came back to BerkeleyCarroll as a guest speaker on animaltesting. Those are the moments when Iam proud to be part of the history ofteaching science at Berkeley Carroll. Itis the moment I’m at the top of anoth-er drop with my eyes shut tight, armsflailing, stomach fluttering, and I amlaughing out loud with anticipatedjoy; what a ride! <
24 Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 2008
Childhood ambitionProbably to be the President of the United States. We had great role models back then, for instance Ronald Reagan.
Current jobMy first job was assistant to a money manager at a small,boutique investment firm, but my dream was to be the one incharge. My dream came true about five years ago when I startedmy own firm, Brewster Financial Planning.
Run-in with the administrationWhen I was a peer leader, I told Sue Ely that I thought she picked on certain students.
High school prank One of my buddies and I left a smoke bomb on Liz Rosan’sstoop. Unfortunately, it rolled off the stoop and landed in herfront yard, setting a plant on fire (which our parents made uspay for). It was thereafter referred to as “the burning bush”incident.
Most memorable teachersMarlene Clary and Marvin Pollock. I took Marlene’s Humanitiesclass, which she also taught with Ed Martin, and learned aboutmusic, art, and literature. I’ve never had a more culturallyexpansive class—the fundamentals they taught me in that classhave stayed with me to this day. And Mr. Pollock? Let’s just saythat because of him I went from a person who loved math to aperson who also learned to love history and current events.
Reasons for supporting Berkeley CarrollThis school was very inspirational and nurturing. When I camehere, I had a below-class average, but by the time I graduated, Ifelt I could rely on my own personal abilities (in fact, a pleasantsurprise after Berkeley Carroll was how easy things were for meat Vassar). I’ve kept in touch with a large percentage of myclassmates, and I’m grateful for what Berkeley Carroll gave me.
MY SCHOOL
ScottBrewster ’90
Berkeley Carroll: MY SCHOOL
“…the tendency to pursue adventure
and adapt to new challenges…a trait that wasprobably helpful
when our ancestorsfirst left Africa
and startedexploring the globe….”
Isn’t that whatscience is all about:
adventure?
VANESSA PRESCOTT
‘‘
moments when you’re climbing to thetop of that first drop while you teachhow to balance chemical equations.Next thing you know, your studentsare plummeting down screaming (intheir heads) during the first unit exam,only to arise unscathed (to their pleas-ant surprise!). But wait, here comes aseries of twists and turns, shaking thechange out your pockets as youexplain Newton’s Laws, which is fol-lowed by their feelings of dizzinessand nausea as they try to implementthe formula F = ma. Before you knowit, the ride is over and you all want toget on again, because you’re not evenclose to finishing the curriculum andthe students are hungry for morethrills and chills. (When responding tothe question of why people like ridingroller coasters, Robert Moyzis, a bio-chemist at the University of California,Irvine, pointed to genes. Moyzis said,“…the tendency to pursue adventureand adapt to new challenges…a traitthat was probably helpful when ourancestors first left Africa and startedexploring the globe….” Isn’t that whatscience is all about: adventure? Thescience teacher’s desire is to generatedesirable, cognitive, metacognitive,and affective outcomes in his or herstudents.)
Now that I have passed my ten-year mark as a Berkeley Carrollteacher, it is quite evident in today’sworld how important it is to teach sci-ence. My only hope is that my stu-dents realize how important it shouldbe to them. A favorite response fromstudents, when learning any topic inschool is, “When am I ever going touse/need this again?” I always confi-dently tell them that science is onetopic that they will always need anduse for the rest of their lives. The factis, they will more likely get into a con-versation concerning the crisis in theatmosphere than a crisis in Hamlet.
Of course, this is not always clear. I don’t always expect to evoke someextreme emotional reaction when astudent conducts mineral tests on asample to correctly identify it, butwhen I can relate this specimen tohow our natural resources are beingdepleted and how their daily activitiesmay be compromising the situation,all of a sudden the fire ignites in theirfaces and I know they have made theconnection. It is now personal and isactually meaningful to them. Suddenly
something seemingly as boring as arock becomes vital. It’s all about mak-ing sure they realize that science is notmerely for the classroom. It is allaround them.
Having held so many different rolesbesides a science teacher has affordedme the opportunity to stay in tunewith my students during their years atBerkeley Carroll and beyond. I havenot only seen them in class, but dur-ing performances, on the field, tellingpersonal stories in advising, or just fora quick tête-à-tête in the hallwaybefore they (or I) run off to class.
Our department is full of dynamiceducators. Through the years, somehave come and gone, but the energystays the same. I felt this energy thefirst time I stepped into Room 35 andsaw Robert Busch making sciencecome alive to a class of 10th graders.Watching his (seemingly effortless)ability to make them laugh and learnat the same time, I knew I was in theright place.
My colleagues and I all love teach-ing science and our students take thatmemory with them to college. Ibeamed with pride when RobertMadison ’04 told me his love for rollercoasters led to an engineering major,when Matt Nielsen ’02 said he wasstudying forestry, when Shahna-LeeJames ’05 interned at Methodist hospi-tal and declared a bio major, whenBrett Chalfin ’06 told me about attend-ing a summer geology intensive in thedepths of Wyoming, and when KarenGoldfarb ’04 came back to BerkeleyCarroll as a guest speaker on animaltesting. Those are the moments when Iam proud to be part of the history ofteaching science at Berkeley Carroll. Itis the moment I’m at the top of anoth-er drop with my eyes shut tight, armsflailing, stomach fluttering, and I amlaughing out loud with anticipatedjoy; what a ride! <
24 Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 2008
Childhood ambitionProbably to be the President of the United States. We had great role models back then, for instance Ronald Reagan.
Current jobMy first job was assistant to a money manager at a small,boutique investment firm, but my dream was to be the one incharge. My dream came true about five years ago when I startedmy own firm, Brewster Financial Planning.
Run-in with the administrationWhen I was a peer leader, I told Sue Ely that I thought she picked on certain students.
High school prank One of my buddies and I left a smoke bomb on Liz Rosan’sstoop. Unfortunately, it rolled off the stoop and landed in herfront yard, setting a plant on fire (which our parents made uspay for). It was thereafter referred to as “the burning bush”incident.
Most memorable teachersMarlene Clary and Marvin Pollock. I took Marlene’s Humanitiesclass, which she also taught with Ed Martin, and learned aboutmusic, art, and literature. I’ve never had a more culturallyexpansive class—the fundamentals they taught me in that classhave stayed with me to this day. And Mr. Pollock? Let’s just saythat because of him I went from a person who loved math to aperson who also learned to love history and current events.
Reasons for supporting Berkeley CarrollThis school was very inspirational and nurturing. When I camehere, I had a below-class average, but by the time I graduated, Ifelt I could rely on my own personal abilities (in fact, a pleasantsurprise after Berkeley Carroll was how easy things were for meat Vassar). I’ve kept in touch with a large percentage of myclassmates, and I’m grateful for what Berkeley Carroll gave me.
MY SCHOOL
ScottBrewster ’90
Berkeley Carroll: MY SCHOOL
“…the tendency to pursue adventure
and adapt to new challenges…a trait that wasprobably helpful
when our ancestorsfirst left Africa
and startedexploring the globe….”
Isn’t that whatscience is all about:
adventure?
VANESSA PRESCOTT
‘‘
classnotes))
with her classmates andwould love to hear from themeither by mail or by phone.
n Jane Bennett Smith ’47, “I amst i l l ‘ t rucking ’ in NewHampshire after a ‘loooong’winter. I would love to hearfrom my classmates!”
1950s8
n Lane Gorham Bolton ’57, “Imade a very tough decisionto leave New York City andto move back to Connecticutto spend more time with myadorable grandchildren, fiveof whom live in Connecticut.I’m glad I made the decision,but it was, and still is, verytough to leave New York. Ibought a condo and movedin February 2008. Since thenI’ve been getting settled andacclimated to my new way oflife. I’m way up in Clinton,which is about 30 minutes
east of New Haven. It’s a nicequiet area, on the water, withgreat people, and I’m lookingforward to the beach whichis so close. I certainly plan tomake regular trips to NewYork.” Holly’s note: Lane hasvolunteered to be the class repfor the class of 1957.
n Linda Siegel Anstendig ’58, “Ienjoyed catching up with 12of my wonderful, accom-plished classmates at our 50threunion this past June, host-ed at the home of Pat BorakHockler. I am currentlyAssoc ia te Dean o f theHumanities and English pro-fessor at Pace University inNew York.”
n Janet Ghattas ’59, a languageinstructor for 25 years, hastrained and led groups over-seas since 1978. Her previ-ous experience includesorganizing and leading edu-cational programs to Europeand Africa and ski and back-
packing trips for the Appalachi-an Mountain Club. Sheworked in Senegal as a PeaceCorps volunteer and in 1993founded Intercultural Dimen-sions (ID), a nonprofit edu-cational organization thatprovides programs of cross-cultural awareness throughtravel, community service,workshops, and seminars.
Since then, Janet has organ-ized and co-led education-al programs to Burkina Fasoand Senegal. She facilitatesthe cross-cultural trainingfor all the programs, and IDhas been operating its Cross-ing Cultures Senegal programonce or twice a year since1994. As a member of World-Boston, she hosts visiting
dignitaries from differentcountries. Her husband, JohnT. Hand, is a human rightsand poverty law attorney,who has co-led ID trips toSenegal where he was alsoa Peace Corps volunteer.John is interested in eco-nomic development issuesin West Africa and has assist-ed the establishment of a
computer/internet programat a school in Senegal. Findout more at Janet’s website:www.interculturaldimen-sions.org.
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1930s8
n Bettina VanderWoude Garber’32 now lives in a seasideretirement community inScarborough, Maine and says;“I regret that I am old enoughto live in assisted living!”She enjoys the view of theAtlantic Ocean and has mademany friends there. Bettina isexcited about being a great-grandmother. Her husband,Mortimer, passed away inNovember 2007 after a longillness. Bettina said, “He wasjust tired, and his participa-tion in some of the hardestbattles of WWII took theirtoll on his health.”
1940s8
n Grace Crane Schworer ’40lives in an adult communityin New Jersey and enjoysthe activities there. She is amember of the Arts andCrafts club and goes to meet-ings at the center. Grace findsit all interesting and stimulat-ing.
n Elizabeth Catlin Whitehouse’40, “I hope to have fourmore children’s books thatfocus on astronomy pub-lished soon.”
n Lucy Estrin Kavaler ’41, “Myhusband, Arthur, takes cours-es at Columbia University;my son, Roger, teaches in aSan Francisco high school;and my daughter, Andrea,heads the North Americandivision of a British firm.The re-release of my bookMushrooms, Molds and Miraclesis getting a lot of online pub-
licity, and I am continuingwith the writing of my novel.”
n Helene Crane ’44 got intouch and told us that shehas a great-grandson who isfour years old. Helene hasthree sons, Frank, Jimmywho lives in Knoxville,Tennessee, and Matthew, apoliceman in Yonkers, NewYork. Helene lives near heroldest son, Frank, in ruralNorth Carolina near theSouth Carolina border andloves the peace and tranquil-ity of her small town. Sheremembers her days atBerkeley with great fondness.Miss Musgrave, Helene’s fifthgrade teacher, was her favoriteand remembers Miss Atwood(Berkeley Institute head-mistress for many years) com-ing to her home to discussBerkeley school admissionwith her father. Helene’s sis-ter, Virigina Crane Harper, is amember of the class as well.Helene tries to stay in touch
Traveling from California, upstate New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and the NYC metropolitan area,
twelve graduates of the class of 1958 gathered in New
York City on the weekend of June 20-21, 2008 to cele-
brate their 50th reunion. A great time was had by all
including spouses and significant others. On Friday,
Georgina Johnson Anderson and her husband Larry
Anderson, Marjorie Schiff Jasper and her husband
Baron Jasper and Frances Blakeslee Cort toured the
Middle and Upper School facilities at 181 Lincoln Place
and were impressed with all the changes since they
were at Berkeley (Advanced Placement science!) The
next day the full group gathered for a luncheon in the
Manhattan home of a classmate, and Frances Cort said,
“The talk began at 1:00 in the afternoon and didn’t stop
until 5:30 pm when everyone headed for dinner with
spouses and significant others! Most of us had lost con-
tact with one another after graduation.” Marjorie Jasper,
class rep and one of the principal organizers of the
day, said, “Hopefully the next time we get
together more of the class will join us. We
had fun talking about the good old days,
and we remembered our two classmates
who are no longer with us, Gail Coates and
Linda Davis Cirino.”
JANET GHATTAS (center) in Senegal.
BIG5OThe
(Back rowl to r) Georgina Johnson Anderson, Maureen Cochrane Zerilli, Corneilla McCreery,
Linda Siegel Anstendig, Frances Blakeslee Cort, Francine Duber Lederman, Pat Borak Hockler
(Second row l to r), Cynthia De Heyman Spry, Katherine Sottnek Ohiso, Susan Perlman Berson
(Third row l to r): Marjorie Schiff Jasper, Marie O'Connor Pitt
(From l to r) Frances Cort, Marjorie Jasper, Larry
Anderson, Gina Anderson,
Baron Jasper in a middle
school classroom, formerly part of theoffices of theheadmistress.
classnotes))
with her classmates andwould love to hear from themeither by mail or by phone.
n Jane Bennett Smith ’47, “I amst i l l ‘ t rucking ’ in NewHampshire after a ‘loooong’winter. I would love to hearfrom my classmates!”
1950s8
n Lane Gorham Bolton ’57, “Imade a very tough decisionto leave New York City andto move back to Connecticutto spend more time with myadorable grandchildren, fiveof whom live in Connecticut.I’m glad I made the decision,but it was, and still is, verytough to leave New York. Ibought a condo and movedin February 2008. Since thenI’ve been getting settled andacclimated to my new way oflife. I’m way up in Clinton,which is about 30 minutes
east of New Haven. It’s a nicequiet area, on the water, withgreat people, and I’m lookingforward to the beach whichis so close. I certainly plan tomake regular trips to NewYork.” Holly’s note: Lane hasvolunteered to be the class repfor the class of 1957.
n Linda Siegel Anstendig ’58, “Ienjoyed catching up with 12of my wonderful, accom-plished classmates at our 50threunion this past June, host-ed at the home of Pat BorakHockler. I am currentlyAssoc ia te Dean o f theHumanities and English pro-fessor at Pace University inNew York.”
n Janet Ghattas ’59, a languageinstructor for 25 years, hastrained and led groups over-seas since 1978. Her previ-ous experience includesorganizing and leading edu-cational programs to Europeand Africa and ski and back-
packing trips for the Appalachi-an Mountain Club. Sheworked in Senegal as a PeaceCorps volunteer and in 1993founded Intercultural Dimen-sions (ID), a nonprofit edu-cational organization thatprovides programs of cross-cultural awareness throughtravel, community service,workshops, and seminars.
Since then, Janet has organ-ized and co-led education-al programs to Burkina Fasoand Senegal. She facilitatesthe cross-cultural trainingfor all the programs, and IDhas been operating its Cross-ing Cultures Senegal programonce or twice a year since1994. As a member of World-Boston, she hosts visiting
dignitaries from differentcountries. Her husband, JohnT. Hand, is a human rightsand poverty law attorney,who has co-led ID trips toSenegal where he was alsoa Peace Corps volunteer.John is interested in eco-nomic development issuesin West Africa and has assist-ed the establishment of a
computer/internet programat a school in Senegal. Findout more at Janet’s website:www.interculturaldimen-sions.org.
27Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 200826 Berkeley Carrol l • MAGAZINE • Fal l 2008
1930s8
n Bettina VanderWoude Garber’32 now lives in a seasideretirement community inScarborough, Maine and says;“I regret that I am old enoughto live in assisted living!”She enjoys the view of theAtlantic Ocean and has mademany friends there. Bettina isexcited about being a great-grandmother. Her husband,Mortimer, passed away inNovember 2007 after a longillness. Bettina said, “He wasjust tired, and his participa-tion in some of the hardestbattles of WWII took theirtoll on his health.”
1940s8
n Grace Crane Schworer ’40lives in an adult communityin New Jersey and enjoysthe activities there. She is amember of the Arts andCrafts club and goes to meet-ings at the center. Grace findsit all interesting and stimulat-ing.
n Elizabeth Catlin Whitehouse’40, “I hope to have fourmore children’s books thatfocus on astronomy pub-lished soon.”
n Lucy Estrin Kavaler ’41, “Myhusband, Arthur, takes cours-es at Columbia University;my son, Roger, teaches in aSan Francisco high school;and my daughter, Andrea,heads the North Americandivision of a British firm.The re-release of my bookMushrooms, Molds and Miraclesis getting a lot of online pub-
licity, and I am continuingwith the writing of my novel.”
n Helene Crane ’44 got intouch and told us that shehas a great-grandson who isfour years old. Helene hasthree sons, Frank, Jimmywho lives in Knoxville,Tennessee, and Matthew, apoliceman in Yonkers, NewYork. Helene lives near heroldest son, Frank, in ruralNorth Carolina near theSouth Carolina border andloves the peace and tranquil-ity of her small town. Sheremembers her days atBerkeley with great fondness.Miss Musgrave, Helene’s fifthgrade teacher, was her favoriteand remembers Miss Atwood(Berkeley Institute head-mistress for many years) com-ing to her home to discussBerkeley school admissionwith her father. Helene’s sis-ter, Virigina Crane Harper, is amember of the class as well.Helene tries to stay in touch
Traveling from California, upstate New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and the NYC metropolitan area,
twelve graduates of the class of 1958 gathered in New
York City on the weekend of June 20-21, 2008 to cele-
brate their 50th reunion. A great time was had by all
including spouses and significant others. On Friday,
Georgina Johnson Anderson and her husband Larry
Anderson, Marjorie Schiff Jasper and her husband
Baron Jasper and Frances Blakeslee Cort toured the
Middle and Upper School facilities at 181 Lincoln Place
and were impressed with all the changes since they
were at Berkeley (Advanced Placement science!) The
next day the full group gathered for a luncheon in the
Manhattan home of a classmate, and Frances Cort said,
“The talk began at 1:00 in the afternoon and didn’t stop
until 5:30 pm when everyone headed for dinner with
spouses and significant others! Most of us had lost con-
tact with one another after graduation.” Marjorie Jasper,
class rep and one of the principal organizers of the
day, said, “Hopefully the next time we get
together more of the class will join us. We
had fun talking about the good old days,
and we remembered our two classmates
who are no longer with us, Gail Coates and
Linda Davis Cirino.”
JANET GHATTAS (center) in Senegal.
BIG5OThe
(Back rowl to r) Georgina Johnson Anderson, Maureen Cochrane Zerilli, Corneilla McCreery,
Linda Siegel Anstendig, Frances Blakeslee Cort, Francine Duber Lederman, Pat Borak Hockler
(Second row l to r), Cynthia De Heyman Spry, Katherine Sottnek Ohiso, Susan Perlman Berson
(Third row l to r): Marjorie Schiff Jasper, Marie O'Connor Pitt
(From l to r) Frances Cort, Marjorie Jasper, Larry
Anderson, Gina Anderson,
Baron Jasper in a middle
school classroom, formerly part of theoffices of theheadmistress.
classnotes))
n Melissa Guerzon ’89 is livingin Cape Cod and was marriedthere this past June 2008.
n Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt’89 lives in Brooklyn, manag-ing the video archives forSonyBMG, which Jason says“mostly amounts to watchingmusic videos and concerts allday.” Jason also recentlyworked on a documentaryabout the neighborhoodimpact of the June 2008opening of Ikea in Red Hook,Brooklyn. The film screenedaround Brooklyn and at var-ious festivals across the coun-try this past summer.
n Colm McCormack ’89 worksin the real estate industry inColorado Springs, Colorado,where he has lived since1996. He married his wife,Arlene, in 2000. Arlene andhe are thrilled to announcethe birth of their son, Liam,born on June 7, 2008. Hehopes to hear from his class-mates!
n Denise Kenny Touchet ’89cont inues to res ide inBrooklyn with her husbandWil l i am and two sonsJackson, four, and Hugo, one,and works part time fromhome for the Grey HealthcareGroup.
n Kieran Juska DiTullio ’91,“Stephane DiTullio and I gotmarried on September 29,2007 at our weekend farm-house in the Catskills. BCalums Salima Mathews Millot’91 and her husband Dave,Matthew Strozier ’91 and his
wife Shola who despite beingeight months pregnant wasboogeying on the dancefloor—she got MVP for thenight!—and Dr. BongsoonZubay were all in attendance!Along with my lovely newhusband, I have been luckyenough to acquire two won-derful stepsons, Charly andBenjamin, ages 8 and 10.”
n Douglas George ’91, “All iswell with me. I am still liv-ing in New Jersey and teach-ing in NYC. The only newssince the last reunion Iattended has been the birth ofmy daughter Cassandra MariaGeorge. From all of the babies
being produced from the classof ’91 it seems like we willneed to have our nextreunion at Chuck E Cheeseor The Little Gym!”
n Katherine Hunter ’91, “I justhad a baby (this seems to bea trend in our class), Graham,who was born October 22,2007. My husband Erik andI are celebrating our fifthwedding anniversary, andwe’ve been in Atlanta forover ten years now. I work forGeorgia CASA, coordinatingevents and raising money.CASA, Court AppointedSpecial Advocates, is a net-work of volunteers that advo-
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n Gloria Smith ’72, “I havebeen living in Marblehead,Massachusetts, for eight yearsand love it! I graduated fromthe University of Miami in1976 with a BA in psychol-ogy and communications. Imanaged a hospital lab inMiami for a few years thenwas a stay at home mom—Ihave four kids—until theyoungest went to school. Ihave worked as a school spe-cial education tutor amongother jobs. Currently, I amdivorced and have a 13-year-old son still at home. Ihaven’t been back to NewYork for many years, but Ihear Park Slope has changedfor the better. I hope to getback in touch with my class-mates.”
1980s8
n Jennifer Fox Yaffar ’81, “Afterten years in church admin-istration, I have returned tomarketing. I am currently asales assistant at Tri-MediaMarketing. Our company isinvolved in promotionalmarketing and advertisingspecialties. I am buildingup my own client base andam involved in all aspects ofthe business. It has beenvery rewarding getting backto full time employment thatuses my background in pro-motional work. My threesons are nearly grown:Christian, 20 years old, isworking full time as anexpediter. Stephen, 17, is ahigh school senior, and myyoungest, at 15, is excelling
in his interests of mathemat-ics, choral music, and track.I welcome correspondencefrom all my classmates!”
n Jennifer Sherman ’85, “Somehappy news! We had a babygirl Bridget Taylor in June2007. I am on a maternityleave from work and enjoy-ing every precious minutewith her!”
n Catherine Pegram Blanquet’86 and her husband, Pascal,have two children: Julia, threeand a half, and Quentin, 15months. They live in Paris,France in the 12th arrondiss-ment near the Bois deVincennes, which is one ofthe two great parks of the city.The family likes to spendtheir free time at the zoo, theParc Floral, or the Chateau deVincennes. During the week,Pascal is busy painting andCatherine is working atStarbucks, a job that hasturned out to be great fun.
n Chr i s t ine C rockenbergEdwards ’87, “I have beenthe principal court attorney toa Brooklyn Supreme Courtjustice since October 2004. Ireturned back to work inJanuary 2008 after havingmy second set of twins:Nathan and Selah were threeyears old in April, and Mayahand Elijah turned one inMay. Needless to say, myhusband, Bill, and I are quitebusy!”
n Kristin Juska Mulvaney NG’87, “I am currently workingpart time in the lower schooladmissions office at BerkeleyCarroll.”
1960s8
n Dorothy Eldredge Sparling ’62Correction-Dorothy’s correctphone number is (301) 884-4491. Members of the class of1962 please make note of this!
n Isabel Slotnick Dresdale ’64sends this note to her class-mates. “Dear Berkeley alums,I haven’t updated my info ina long time. My first order ofbusiness is to volunteer to bethe contact for the class of’64. I don’t think we have oneand with important reunionsin the future I believe weneed someone to help co-ordinate the process. My joy-ous news is that I married myhigh school sweet heart,R o b e r t D re sda l e , i nNovember of 2006! We livein Roslyn, New York whereBob is a cardiologist and Iwork for Ralph Lauren. Wehave four children and fourgrandchildren between us. Iwould love to hear from myclassmates. Please contact theschool for my email. Nextyear is our 45th reunion,and I hope we will be wellrepresented! I look forward toresponses.”
n Leta Farb Pius ’66 has retiredand moved to North Carolinaafter a life of long winters inNew Jersey and 35 yearsteaching 7th and 8th grades.Leta stays in touch with class-ma t e , Amy Moskowi tzSchoenfeld.
n Carol Fritz ’67 was honoredin April 2008 by the Women’sAthletic Association of CornellUniversity for being a femaleathlete before Title IX. Shewent to the Ivy champi-onships in women’s sailing in1968.
n As a former editor of TheBlotter, the Upper Schoolnewspaper, Ellyn Baum Laub’67 was proud to see that thepaper won First Place withSpecial Merit recognition fromthe American Scholastic PressAssociation in its 2008 annu-al review and contest (thedesignation of “first placewi th spec i a l mer i t ” i sScholastic’s highest level ofrecognition). Ellyn was editorof The Blotter in 1967.“Congratulations to the edi-tors and advisors.”
In addition to the magazine, class notes are published on a monthly basis in our
alumni newsletter. On the first of the month during the school year, we email the
newsletter to all alumni whose email addresses are on file in our office. If you
aren’t receiving the newsletter and would like to, please contact Holly Kempner
at [email protected] with your current email information. You can
also submit class notes online at www.berkeleycarroll.org/alumni/
alumnin_classnotes.asp or by mail to Holly Kempner, Berkeley Carroll School,
808 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215.
N o te f r o m th e e d i to r : 1990s8
n Marco Gonzalez ’91, “I’m aSergeant with the NYPD sta-tioned in the Bronx. As ofApril 9, 2008 I have been onthe force for 11 years andhave nine to go before retire-ment. I’m living north of thecity in Carmel, New York.”
n On April 2, 2008 Radley Horton ’90 gave a presentation on global warming to the
BC Upper School World Affairs Breakfast Club, hosted each week by history teacher
Lorne Swarthout. Radley, who recently earned his PhD from Columbia University’s
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, spends his days researching mod-
els of climate variability, impact, and mitigation. He also does public presentations.
Radley explained to a rapt WABC audience that last summer’s unprecedented arctic
ice melt could mean that the best climate models are underestimating the impact of
global warming. Faculty members, Marlene Clary and Marvin Pollock attended as did
about 20 students.
classnotes))
n Melissa Guerzon ’89 is livingin Cape Cod and was marriedthere this past June 2008.
n Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt’89 lives in Brooklyn, manag-ing the video archives forSonyBMG, which Jason says“mostly amounts to watchingmusic videos and concerts allday.” Jason also recentlyworked on a documentaryabout the neighborhoodimpact of the June 2008opening of Ikea in Red Hook,Brooklyn. The film screenedaround Brooklyn and at var-ious festivals across the coun-try this past summer.
n Colm McCormack ’89 worksin the real estate industry inColorado Springs, Colorado,where he has lived since1996. He married his wife,Arlene, in 2000. Arlene andhe are thrilled to announcethe birth of their son, Liam,born on June 7, 2008. Hehopes to hear from his class-mates!
n Denise Kenny Touchet ’89cont inues to res ide inBrooklyn with her husbandWil l i am and two sonsJackson, four, and Hugo, one,and works part time fromhome for the Grey HealthcareGroup.
n Kieran Juska DiTullio ’91,“Stephane DiTullio and I gotmarried on September 29,2007 at our weekend farm-house in the Catskills. BCalums Salima Mathews Millot’91 and her husband Dave,Matthew Strozier ’91 and his
wife Shola who despite beingeight months pregnant wasboogeying on the dancefloor—she got MVP for thenight!—and Dr. BongsoonZubay were all in attendance!Along with my lovely newhusband, I have been luckyenough to acquire two won-derful stepsons, Charly andBenjamin, ages 8 and 10.”
n Douglas George ’91, “All iswell with me. I am still liv-ing in New Jersey and teach-ing in NYC. The only newssince the last reunion Iattended has been the birth ofmy daughter Cassandra MariaGeorge. From all of the babies
being produced from the classof ’91 it seems like we willneed to have our nextreunion at Chuck E Cheeseor The Little Gym!”
n Katherine Hunter ’91, “I justhad a baby (this seems to bea trend in our class), Graham,who was born October 22,2007. My husband Erik andI are celebrating our fifthwedding anniversary, andwe’ve been in Atlanta forover ten years now. I work forGeorgia CASA, coordinatingevents and raising money.CASA, Court AppointedSpecial Advocates, is a net-work of volunteers that advo-
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n Gloria Smith ’72, “I havebeen living in Marblehead,Massachusetts, for eight yearsand love it! I graduated fromthe University of Miami in1976 with a BA in psychol-ogy and communications. Imanaged a hospital lab inMiami for a few years thenwas a stay at home mom—Ihave four kids—until theyoungest went to school. Ihave worked as a school spe-cial education tutor amongother jobs. Currently, I amdivorced and have a 13-year-old son still at home. Ihaven’t been back to NewYork for many years, but Ihear Park Slope has changedfor the better. I hope to getback in touch with my class-mates.”
1980s8
n Jennifer Fox Yaffar ’81, “Afterten years in church admin-istration, I have returned tomarketing. I am currently asales assistant at Tri-MediaMarketing. Our company isinvolved in promotionalmarketing and advertisingspecialties. I am buildingup my own client base andam involved in all aspects ofthe business. It has beenvery rewarding getting backto full time employment thatuses my background in pro-motional work. My threesons are nearly grown:Christian, 20 years old, isworking full time as anexpediter. Stephen, 17, is ahigh school senior, and myyoungest, at 15, is excelling
in his interests of mathemat-ics, choral music, and track.I welcome correspondencefrom all my classmates!”
n Jennifer Sherman ’85, “Somehappy news! We had a babygirl Bridget Taylor in June2007. I am on a maternityleave from work and enjoy-ing every precious minutewith her!”
n Catherine Pegram Blanquet’86 and her husband, Pascal,have two children: Julia, threeand a half, and Quentin, 15months. They live in Paris,France in the 12th arrondiss-ment near the Bois deVincennes, which is one ofthe two great parks of the city.The family likes to spendtheir free time at the zoo, theParc Floral, or the Chateau deVincennes. During the week,Pascal is busy painting andCatherine is working atStarbucks, a job that hasturned out to be great fun.
n Chr i s t ine C rockenbergEdwards ’87, “I have beenthe principal court attorney toa Brooklyn Supreme Courtjustice since October 2004. Ireturned back to work inJanuary 2008 after havingmy second set of twins:Nathan and Selah were threeyears old in April, and Mayahand Elijah turned one inMay. Needless to say, myhusband, Bill, and I are quitebusy!”
n Kristin Juska Mulvaney NG’87, “I am currently workingpart time in the lower schooladmissions office at BerkeleyCarroll.”
1960s8
n Dorothy Eldredge Sparling ’62Correction-Dorothy’s correctphone number is (301) 884-4491. Members of the class of1962 please make note of this!
n Isabel Slotnick Dresdale ’64sends this note to her class-mates. “Dear Berkeley alums,I haven’t updated my info ina long time. My first order ofbusiness is to volunteer to bethe contact for the class of’64. I don’t think we have oneand with important reunionsin the future I believe weneed someone to help co-ordinate the process. My joy-ous news is that I married myhigh school sweet heart,R o b e r t D re sda l e , i nNovember of 2006! We livein Roslyn, New York whereBob is a cardiologist and Iwork for Ralph Lauren. Wehave four children and fourgrandchildren between us. Iwould love to hear from myclassmates. Please contact theschool for my email. Nextyear is our 45th reunion,and I hope we will be wellrepresented! I look forward toresponses.”
n Leta Farb Pius ’66 has retiredand moved to North Carolinaafter a life of long winters inNew Jersey and 35 yearsteaching 7th and 8th grades.Leta stays in touch with class-ma t e , Amy Moskowi tzSchoenfeld.
n Carol Fritz ’67 was honoredin April 2008 by the Women’sAthletic Association of CornellUniversity for being a femaleathlete before Title IX. Shewent to the Ivy champi-onships in women’s sailing in1968.
n As a former editor of TheBlotter, the Upper Schoolnewspaper, Ellyn Baum Laub’67 was proud to see that thepaper won First Place withSpecial Merit recognition fromthe American Scholastic PressAssociation in its 2008 annu-al review and contest (thedesignation of “first placewi th spec i a l mer i t ” i sScholastic’s highest level ofrecognition). Ellyn was editorof The Blotter in 1967.“Congratulations to the edi-tors and advisors.”
In addition to the magazine, class notes are published on a monthly basis in our
alumni newsletter. On the first of the month during the school year, we email the
newsletter to all alumni whose email addresses are on file in our office. If you
aren’t receiving the newsletter and would like to, please contact Holly Kempner
at [email protected] with your current email information. You can
also submit class notes online at www.berkeleycarroll.org/alumni/
alumnin_classnotes.asp or by mail to Holly Kempner, Berkeley Carroll School,
808 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215.
N o te f r o m th e e d i to r : 1990s8
n Marco Gonzalez ’91, “I’m aSergeant with the NYPD sta-tioned in the Bronx. As ofApril 9, 2008 I have been onthe force for 11 years andhave nine to go before retire-ment. I’m living north of thecity in Carmel, New York.”
n On April 2, 2008 Radley Horton ’90 gave a presentation on global warming to the
BC Upper School World Affairs Breakfast Club, hosted each week by history teacher
Lorne Swarthout. Radley, who recently earned his PhD from Columbia University’s
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, spends his days researching mod-
els of climate variability, impact, and mitigation. He also does public presentations.
Radley explained to a rapt WABC audience that last summer’s unprecedented arctic
ice melt could mean that the best climate models are underestimating the impact of
global warming. Faculty members, Marlene Clary and Marvin Pollock attended as did
about 20 students.
classnotes))
2000s8
n Karen Keltner ’00, “I havebeen incredibly busy travel-ing around the world, run-ning the Ambassadors of theEnvironment education pro-grams fo r J ean-Miche lCousteau’s Ocean FuturesSociety. Over the past year Ihave been in Maui divingwith white reef tip sharks, in
teaches history to 9th and10th graders. Mr. Corfieldwrote about his visit, “Lauraappears confident and isclearly enjoying her job. Classsize is typically 27 but withso many students on individ-ual learning plans, some ofher classes are team-taught
which puts an extra person inthe room. One lad was aboutto protest something shewanted him to do saying‘This isn’t a dictatorship.’Laura replied ‘Yes it is!’though I think she makes ita benevolent one. She seemswell and happy.”
Carol ine ’s grandmotherElizabeth Caitlin Whitehousegraduated from Berkeley in1941.) I stayed in WashingtonDC after graduation andspent two years as a health-care lobbyist on Capitol Hill.I am now working in thedevelopment department atthe Georgetown UniversityMedical Center. I quite like itbut am hoping to look intobusiness school in the nearfuture. I’m glad to hear all iswell at Berkeley. One daysoon I’ll really have to comeback and see all of theimprovements I’ve been read-ing about!”
n David Singer ’01 is enrolledin the Yeshiva Universitygraduate school of psycholo-gy.
n Samuel Nathan ’02 returnedto Berkeley Carroll on April30, 2008 to speak with stu-
Greece snorkeling in theMediterranean, and over thesummer I visited FrenchPolynesia, Hawaii, China, andBrazil. I am currently living inSanta Barbara, California. Lessthan a year ago my mom andbrother followed me andmade the move out here toparadise. I still enjoy playing
beach volleyball, kayaking,diving, mountain biking, hik-ing, and rock climbing on myoff time, and always lookforward to staying in touchwith old friends.”
n Patrick Lindie ’01 is a 1stLieutenant in the Marines,just back from a year’s serv-ice in Al Anbar Province inIraq. Jim Shapiro, Director ofthe Middle School, sawPatrick in the neighborhoodbefore he went to CampLejeune. Patrick plans onleaving the military in theautumn of 2009, life destina-tion undecided. Mr. Shapironoted, “It was good to seehim.”
n Caroline Mayhew ’01, I wassad to miss the young alum-ni reception last year, but Iwas at my grandmother’shouse listening to her won-derful stories! (Holly’s note:
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cate for abused and neglect-ed children in court.”
n Lisa Miller ’91, “I just movedin with my boyfriend, and welive in Jamesburg, New Jersey.I am still working part-timeas a massage therapist while
also working on my master’sdegree in counseling psy-chology. I have an amazinginternship where I am work-ing in a high school and alsoin an agency with adults andchildren. I love it!”
n Salima Mathews Millott ’91(written January 2008), “Iam preggers again myself andmy daughter, Nala is twoand a half. Congratulations toour classmate, Michelle ‘Micki’Bailey-Chalme who just hadher fourth baby! Go Micki!!!”
n Christine Smirk ’91 is aliveand well living in NYC withher husband Tony and teach-ing in Brooklyn.
n Matthew Strozier ’91, “Here’sour headline: Make TwoBabies! We just had our sec-ond boy Rowan OyelekanStrozier born November 6,2008. He’s doing wonderful-
ly and getting to know hisolder brother Alexander. I’mdoing well working as anassistant city editor at theSouth Florida Sun-Sentinelnewspaper. I’m based in thePalm Beach County office,and we live in Ft. Lauderdale.We miss NYC, but the beachis a nice consolation.”
n Janelle Welch ’92, “Werecently moved back to ParkSlope and are thrilled toannounce the birth of our sonLuca Welch Farkash onNovember 19, 2007. Lucasmiles all the time and wejust can’t get enough!”
Benjamin and Lauren Weisberg
n Congratulations to formerBerkeley Carroll English andhistory teacher Sarah Shun-lienBynum on the publication of hersecond novel, Ms. HempelChronicles, publ ished inSeptember 2008. Exerpts ofthe novel appeared in the July21, 2008, issue of The NewYorker magazine. Sarah taught
7th and 8th grade English and 7th grade history atBerkeley Carroll from 1995 to 1998 prior to earning herMFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first novel,Madeleine Is Sleeping, was a finalist for the National BookAward in 2004. She now teaches writing and literatureat the University of California, San Diego.
n Joshua Prinsky ’92 and his wife Julie welcomed JosephMichael Prinsky, born October 28, 2007. Joey and Luca,son of Josh’s classmate Janelle Welch, have play dates witheach other. Josh wants to know, “How do I get Joey onthe waiting list at BC??”
Henry Kenna Coleman Dozier
n Janine Kenna Dozier ’91, “My husband John and I are
delighted to announce the birth of Henry Kenna Coleman
Dozier on Saturday February 2, 2008—a Groundhog Day
baby! Henry weighed in at 8.3 lbs and is 21.5 inches.
Jack is delighted to be a big brother but still partial to
the name Apricot. Henry can’t wait to meet everyone.”
n Jason Claude ’98 has recent-ly completed his PhD inmaterials science and engi-neering at Penn State. He isleaning towards continuing ina post-doctoral program or aprofessorship after gradua-tion.
n Rebecca Grossman-Cohen ’99is studying for her MBA at
the Ke l logg Schoo l o fManagement at NorthwesternUniversity and hopes to attainher degree in 2009.
n Laura Rubin ’99 came tovisit BC in the spring andinvited Ken Corfield, UpperSchool history teacher, to seethe New Design High Schoolin Manhattan where Laura
n Benjamin Weisberg ’00, “I started at Google a couple of monthsout of college, spending two years in San Francisco. I cameback to New York in September of 2006 and have been work-ing at the Google offices in Chelsea since then. I currently workon their sales team as an account manager, working with polit-ical clients. What that actually means is that the presidentialcampaigns have been running advertising campaigns with us,and I’m their main point of contact at Google. I’m living inPark Slope and just got married to Lauren on August 2, 2008.Greg Covey, also class of 2000, was the best man.”
n Rebecca Jones ’99 had her Broadway debut in the crit-ically acclaimed Passing Strange. Rebecca plays multiplecharacters in the show which has received glowing reviewsin the New York Times. Rebecca, who has performed innumerous other productions and is also working on herdebut album, graduated from the North Carolina Schoolof the Arts with a B.F.A. in Drama.
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2000s8
n Karen Keltner ’00, “I havebeen incredibly busy travel-ing around the world, run-ning the Ambassadors of theEnvironment education pro-grams fo r J ean-Miche lCousteau’s Ocean FuturesSociety. Over the past year Ihave been in Maui divingwith white reef tip sharks, in
teaches history to 9th and10th graders. Mr. Corfieldwrote about his visit, “Lauraappears confident and isclearly enjoying her job. Classsize is typically 27 but withso many students on individ-ual learning plans, some ofher classes are team-taught
which puts an extra person inthe room. One lad was aboutto protest something shewanted him to do saying‘This isn’t a dictatorship.’Laura replied ‘Yes it is!’though I think she makes ita benevolent one. She seemswell and happy.”
Carol ine ’s grandmotherElizabeth Caitlin Whitehousegraduated from Berkeley in1941.) I stayed in WashingtonDC after graduation andspent two years as a health-care lobbyist on Capitol Hill.I am now working in thedevelopment department atthe Georgetown UniversityMedical Center. I quite like itbut am hoping to look intobusiness school in the nearfuture. I’m glad to hear all iswell at Berkeley. One daysoon I’ll really have to comeback and see all of theimprovements I’ve been read-ing about!”
n David Singer ’01 is enrolledin the Yeshiva Universitygraduate school of psycholo-gy.
n Samuel Nathan ’02 returnedto Berkeley Carroll on April30, 2008 to speak with stu-
Greece snorkeling in theMediterranean, and over thesummer I visited FrenchPolynesia, Hawaii, China, andBrazil. I am currently living inSanta Barbara, California. Lessthan a year ago my mom andbrother followed me andmade the move out here toparadise. I still enjoy playing
beach volleyball, kayaking,diving, mountain biking, hik-ing, and rock climbing on myoff time, and always lookforward to staying in touchwith old friends.”
n Patrick Lindie ’01 is a 1stLieutenant in the Marines,just back from a year’s serv-ice in Al Anbar Province inIraq. Jim Shapiro, Director ofthe Middle School, sawPatrick in the neighborhoodbefore he went to CampLejeune. Patrick plans onleaving the military in theautumn of 2009, life destina-tion undecided. Mr. Shapironoted, “It was good to seehim.”
n Caroline Mayhew ’01, I wassad to miss the young alum-ni reception last year, but Iwas at my grandmother’shouse listening to her won-derful stories! (Holly’s note:
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cate for abused and neglect-ed children in court.”
n Lisa Miller ’91, “I just movedin with my boyfriend, and welive in Jamesburg, New Jersey.I am still working part-timeas a massage therapist while
also working on my master’sdegree in counseling psy-chology. I have an amazinginternship where I am work-ing in a high school and alsoin an agency with adults andchildren. I love it!”
n Salima Mathews Millott ’91(written January 2008), “Iam preggers again myself andmy daughter, Nala is twoand a half. Congratulations toour classmate, Michelle ‘Micki’Bailey-Chalme who just hadher fourth baby! Go Micki!!!”
n Christine Smirk ’91 is aliveand well living in NYC withher husband Tony and teach-ing in Brooklyn.
n Matthew Strozier ’91, “Here’sour headline: Make TwoBabies! We just had our sec-ond boy Rowan OyelekanStrozier born November 6,2008. He’s doing wonderful-
ly and getting to know hisolder brother Alexander. I’mdoing well working as anassistant city editor at theSouth Florida Sun-Sentinelnewspaper. I’m based in thePalm Beach County office,and we live in Ft. Lauderdale.We miss NYC, but the beachis a nice consolation.”
n Janelle Welch ’92, “Werecently moved back to ParkSlope and are thrilled toannounce the birth of our sonLuca Welch Farkash onNovember 19, 2007. Lucasmiles all the time and wejust can’t get enough!”
Benjamin and Lauren Weisberg
n Congratulations to formerBerkeley Carroll English andhistory teacher Sarah Shun-lienBynum on the publication of hersecond novel, Ms. HempelChronicles, publ ished inSeptember 2008. Exerpts ofthe novel appeared in the July21, 2008, issue of The NewYorker magazine. Sarah taught
7th and 8th grade English and 7th grade history atBerkeley Carroll from 1995 to 1998 prior to earning herMFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first novel,Madeleine Is Sleeping, was a finalist for the National BookAward in 2004. She now teaches writing and literatureat the University of California, San Diego.
n Joshua Prinsky ’92 and his wife Julie welcomed JosephMichael Prinsky, born October 28, 2007. Joey and Luca,son of Josh’s classmate Janelle Welch, have play dates witheach other. Josh wants to know, “How do I get Joey onthe waiting list at BC??”
Henry Kenna Coleman Dozier
n Janine Kenna Dozier ’91, “My husband John and I are
delighted to announce the birth of Henry Kenna Coleman
Dozier on Saturday February 2, 2008—a Groundhog Day
baby! Henry weighed in at 8.3 lbs and is 21.5 inches.
Jack is delighted to be a big brother but still partial to
the name Apricot. Henry can’t wait to meet everyone.”
n Jason Claude ’98 has recent-ly completed his PhD inmaterials science and engi-neering at Penn State. He isleaning towards continuing ina post-doctoral program or aprofessorship after gradua-tion.
n Rebecca Grossman-Cohen ’99is studying for her MBA at
the Ke l logg Schoo l o fManagement at NorthwesternUniversity and hopes to attainher degree in 2009.
n Laura Rubin ’99 came tovisit BC in the spring andinvited Ken Corfield, UpperSchool history teacher, to seethe New Design High Schoolin Manhattan where Laura
n Benjamin Weisberg ’00, “I started at Google a couple of monthsout of college, spending two years in San Francisco. I cameback to New York in September of 2006 and have been work-ing at the Google offices in Chelsea since then. I currently workon their sales team as an account manager, working with polit-ical clients. What that actually means is that the presidentialcampaigns have been running advertising campaigns with us,and I’m their main point of contact at Google. I’m living inPark Slope and just got married to Lauren on August 2, 2008.Greg Covey, also class of 2000, was the best man.”
n Rebecca Jones ’99 had her Broadway debut in the crit-ically acclaimed Passing Strange. Rebecca plays multiplecharacters in the show which has received glowing reviewsin the New York Times. Rebecca, who has performed innumerous other productions and is also working on herdebut album, graduated from the North Carolina Schoolof the Arts with a B.F.A. in Drama.
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foreign sovereigns in US fed-eral courts.
n Karen Goldfarb ’04, “I grad-uated from BinghamtonUniversity in December 2007with two bachelors of science,one in psychobiology andanother in anthropology. Myplan is to go on to graduateschool and study neuro-science. Over the summer of2008 I took a two-monthroad trip visiting every statein the continental U.S.”
n Chloe Kroeter ’04 graduatedfrom Columbia University inthe spring of 2008 with amajor in art history and am i n o r i n E n g l i s h . A tColumbia Chloe was presi-dent of their American SignLanguage club and participat-ed in the ballet. As of fall2008 she will be attendingthe University of Cambridge
in England and will study arthistory with the goal of amaster’s degree in philosophy.Chloe told us, “I will beworking on a thesis aboutpuzzles and codes in mid-Victorian painting and livingat King’s College. I didn’tstudy abroad in college, soI’m really looking forward tohaving an international expe-rience for grad school.”
n Jon Scieszka, father of Casey’02 and Jake ’04, has beennamed the country’s firstnational ambassador foryoung people’s literature bythe librarian of Congress. Hewill travel and speak togroups of children, parents,and teachers to increase expo-sure to the importance andjoy of reading. This new posi-tion has been created torespond to declining readingparticipation and test scores
for children. Jon was nomi-nated to the position notonly for the books that he hasauthored, including TheStinky Cheese Man and OtherFairly Stupid Tales, but also forhis ability to speak and createconnections with his audi-ence. For more information,p lease go to www.ny-times.com/200.
n In 2007 Bryan Roberts ’05moved from NortheasternU n i v e r s i t y t o S U N Y,Binghamton. He played var-sity baseball at Northeasternand continues to do so atBinghamton. He is an eco-nomics major and expects tograduate in 2010.
n David Shapiro ’05 attendsWashington University and isin its four-year combinedBA/MA program. He expectsto get his degrees in 2009.David attended OxfordUniversity in the UK for hisjunior year abroad.
n Michael Singer ’05 is a sen-ior at Emory University andis attending the Emory Schoolof Business.
n In the fall of 2007 JustinBogart ’06 was quoted in aBoston Globe article aboutcollege students playing inQuidditch matches, the com-petitions featured in the HarryPotter books. The article stat-ed, “Justin Bogart, a 20-year-old Middlebury College soph-omore chemistry major fromBrooklyn, New York, whoplays the chaser, was drawnto Quidditch because of hislove for the Harry Potterseries. But he’s been sur-prised at how athletic thegame can be. ‘It’s pretty phys-
ical and competitive,’ he said.”Go to this web address formore info www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/arti-cles/2008/03/29/seven_game_sweep/?page=1
n Chloe Lew ’06 is a junior atGeorge Washington Uni-versity majoring in interna-tional affairs and anthropol-ogy. Chloe is very active atschool and is overseeing aprogram called “GW Votes,”www.gwvotes.com, whichaims to register every under-graduate student on campusto vote and assist them withabsentee ballots for the 2008presidential election. Chloestayed at GWU this past sum-mer where she was an orien-tation leader in the school’sCo lon i a l I n augura t i onProgram for incoming fresh-men. Editors note: Chloe is oneof our newest members to theBerkeley Carroll AlumniCouncil.
n Isabelle McTwigan ’06 wasplaced on the spring 2008Faculty Honors List at TrinityCollege. Students who havedemonstrated superior schol-arship during the academicyear are nominated for thisdistinction.
n Shereen Bar-Or ’07 spent thispast July in Malawi doinghumanitarian aid as well asworking at an orphanage.
n During the past schoolyear Max Goldberg Liu ’07 spentten days traveling throughGreece with his professor ando the r member s o f h i sBowdoin College Greek classand visited a variety ofarchaeological sites.
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dents and staff at the WorldAffairs Breakfast Club abouthis work at Google. Sam kepthis audience engaged by dis-cussing Google’s businessmodel and how it deals withthe political realities of doingbusiness in China where thecompany has to accommo-date its host’s wishes in orderto provide any search capabil-ity. The audience was espe-cially intrigued by Sam’sdescription of Google’s mas-sive server ‘farms’ across thecountry that store virtually allthe information that is con-tained on the internet so thatGoogle can sort it and pro-vide the fast and accuratesearches for which it isfamous. Google gathers thisinformation with its own ‘spi-der’ computers that troll theinternet looking for the mostup-to-date information.Teachers in attendanceincluded Cindy Molk, KathleenEllis and Suzanne Fogarty.
n Pat Herold Nielsen, mother ofMatthew Nielsen ’02 and JuddNielsen NG ’04 passed away inFebruary of this year after anillness.
n Anthony Pardo ’02 hasmoved from the Long Islandbased dai ly newspaperNewsday where he was a
reporter and is now workingfor Major League Baseball intheir advertising department.
n Michelle Dushi ’03, “Aftergraduating from VassarCollege in May 2007 with aBA in psychology and Jewishstudies, I now live and workin NYC. I worked for sixmonths as the marketingassistant for the eastern regionof DIRECTV and am nowworking for a small strategicresearch company in theUnion Square area. I love it!”
n Julia Loonin ’03, “I’m cur-rently working at a youthdevelopment non profit in theBoston area called Tenacity.We focus on building resilien-cy and life-skills in inner cityyouth through literacy, read-ing, and free tennis instruc-tion.”
n Maxim Popov ’03, “I amback, living, studying, andworking in Bulgaria. I’m actu-ally thinking about comingback to the US to get a mas-ter’s degree.”
n Nicholas Renzler ’03 is nowliving in Washington DCwhere he is a paralegal at thelaw firm of Foley Hoag LLP.Nick graduated from Brownin 2007. He works in thefirm’s litigation department,working primarily within theinternational litigation andinternational practices. Hefocuses on state-state dis-putes in the InternationalCourt of Justice, state-investordisputes in various invest-ment dispute arbitrations,and actions brought against
n Jane Gambill Brown '01 was married onJune 21, 2008 in Ogunquit, Maine toBenjamin Brown, a member of the UnitesStates Coast Guard. Jane and Ben current-ly live in Newport, Rhode Island butmove around frequently as Ben's basechanges. They met through a mutual col-lege friend and had lived in Maine (Ben’s
home state) for the past few years beforemoving to Newport. Mary Ellis, MiddleSchool French teacher, was in attendanceand Athalie Laguerre ’01 was the maid ofhonor. The rehearsal dinner was held ona sailboat, and Jane said that the day of thewedding, which was outdoors, was the firstday in a week that it did not rain! Jane isa professional baker, making weddingcakes and other treats, which enables herto stay home and maintain a stable house-hold--and take care of their dog--while Benis stationed around the country.
(From l to r) Jane, Ben and Athalie Laguerre '01,maid of honor
Samuel Nathan
(From l to r) Mary Ellis, Aaron (Jane's fosterbrother), Jane and Athalie on the sailboat
n Maxim Pinkovskiy ’04 was elected to PhiBeta Kappa and made valedictorian of theColumbia College class of 2008. He wroteus, “It goes without saying what a great andunexpected honor this is, particularlygiven the exceptional individuals whowere considered for it. I am greatly movedthat the college has thought of my actions at Columbia asaccomplishments not only in economics but also in the gen-eral sphere of human activity. For being able to exercise sucha broad and ecumenical outlook, I will be forever indebtedto the training that I received at Berkeley Carroll.” After apply-ing to multiple graduate schools and being admitted to themall, Maxim will attend MIT. He states, “MIT has a remark-able and extremely productive professor whose interests arevery similar to mine, their graduate program in economicsis one of the best, if not the best, program in the countryand my close friend from Columbia is there. I was success-ful in my applications for external fellowships as well. Aftera particularly challenging but satisfying interview process, Ihave been awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship forNew Americans and have also been awarded a NationalScience Foundation grant for graduate study.”
foreign sovereigns in US fed-eral courts.
n Karen Goldfarb ’04, “I grad-uated from BinghamtonUniversity in December 2007with two bachelors of science,one in psychobiology andanother in anthropology. Myplan is to go on to graduateschool and study neuro-science. Over the summer of2008 I took a two-monthroad trip visiting every statein the continental U.S.”
n Chloe Kroeter ’04 graduatedfrom Columbia University inthe spring of 2008 with amajor in art history and am i n o r i n E n g l i s h . A tColumbia Chloe was presi-dent of their American SignLanguage club and participat-ed in the ballet. As of fall2008 she will be attendingthe University of Cambridge
in England and will study arthistory with the goal of amaster’s degree in philosophy.Chloe told us, “I will beworking on a thesis aboutpuzzles and codes in mid-Victorian painting and livingat King’s College. I didn’tstudy abroad in college, soI’m really looking forward tohaving an international expe-rience for grad school.”
n Jon Scieszka, father of Casey’02 and Jake ’04, has beennamed the country’s firstnational ambassador foryoung people’s literature bythe librarian of Congress. Hewill travel and speak togroups of children, parents,and teachers to increase expo-sure to the importance andjoy of reading. This new posi-tion has been created torespond to declining readingparticipation and test scores
for children. Jon was nomi-nated to the position notonly for the books that he hasauthored, including TheStinky Cheese Man and OtherFairly Stupid Tales, but also forhis ability to speak and createconnections with his audi-ence. For more information,p lease go to www.ny-times.com/200.
n In 2007 Bryan Roberts ’05moved from NortheasternU n i v e r s i t y t o S U N Y,Binghamton. He played var-sity baseball at Northeasternand continues to do so atBinghamton. He is an eco-nomics major and expects tograduate in 2010.
n David Shapiro ’05 attendsWashington University and isin its four-year combinedBA/MA program. He expectsto get his degrees in 2009.David attended OxfordUniversity in the UK for hisjunior year abroad.
n Michael Singer ’05 is a sen-ior at Emory University andis attending the Emory Schoolof Business.
n In the fall of 2007 JustinBogart ’06 was quoted in aBoston Globe article aboutcollege students playing inQuidditch matches, the com-petitions featured in the HarryPotter books. The article stat-ed, “Justin Bogart, a 20-year-old Middlebury College soph-omore chemistry major fromBrooklyn, New York, whoplays the chaser, was drawnto Quidditch because of hislove for the Harry Potterseries. But he’s been sur-prised at how athletic thegame can be. ‘It’s pretty phys-
ical and competitive,’ he said.”Go to this web address formore info www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/arti-cles/2008/03/29/seven_game_sweep/?page=1
n Chloe Lew ’06 is a junior atGeorge Washington Uni-versity majoring in interna-tional affairs and anthropol-ogy. Chloe is very active atschool and is overseeing aprogram called “GW Votes,”www.gwvotes.com, whichaims to register every under-graduate student on campusto vote and assist them withabsentee ballots for the 2008presidential election. Chloestayed at GWU this past sum-mer where she was an orien-tation leader in the school’sCo lon i a l I n augura t i onProgram for incoming fresh-men. Editors note: Chloe is oneof our newest members to theBerkeley Carroll AlumniCouncil.
n Isabelle McTwigan ’06 wasplaced on the spring 2008Faculty Honors List at TrinityCollege. Students who havedemonstrated superior schol-arship during the academicyear are nominated for thisdistinction.
n Shereen Bar-Or ’07 spent thispast July in Malawi doinghumanitarian aid as well asworking at an orphanage.
n During the past schoolyear Max Goldberg Liu ’07 spentten days traveling throughGreece with his professor ando the r member s o f h i sBowdoin College Greek classand visited a variety ofarchaeological sites.
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dents and staff at the WorldAffairs Breakfast Club abouthis work at Google. Sam kepthis audience engaged by dis-cussing Google’s businessmodel and how it deals withthe political realities of doingbusiness in China where thecompany has to accommo-date its host’s wishes in orderto provide any search capabil-ity. The audience was espe-cially intrigued by Sam’sdescription of Google’s mas-sive server ‘farms’ across thecountry that store virtually allthe information that is con-tained on the internet so thatGoogle can sort it and pro-vide the fast and accuratesearches for which it isfamous. Google gathers thisinformation with its own ‘spi-der’ computers that troll theinternet looking for the mostup-to-date information.Teachers in attendanceincluded Cindy Molk, KathleenEllis and Suzanne Fogarty.
n Pat Herold Nielsen, mother ofMatthew Nielsen ’02 and JuddNielsen NG ’04 passed away inFebruary of this year after anillness.
n Anthony Pardo ’02 hasmoved from the Long Islandbased dai ly newspaperNewsday where he was a
reporter and is now workingfor Major League Baseball intheir advertising department.
n Michelle Dushi ’03, “Aftergraduating from VassarCollege in May 2007 with aBA in psychology and Jewishstudies, I now live and workin NYC. I worked for sixmonths as the marketingassistant for the eastern regionof DIRECTV and am nowworking for a small strategicresearch company in theUnion Square area. I love it!”
n Julia Loonin ’03, “I’m cur-rently working at a youthdevelopment non profit in theBoston area called Tenacity.We focus on building resilien-cy and life-skills in inner cityyouth through literacy, read-ing, and free tennis instruc-tion.”
n Maxim Popov ’03, “I amback, living, studying, andworking in Bulgaria. I’m actu-ally thinking about comingback to the US to get a mas-ter’s degree.”
n Nicholas Renzler ’03 is nowliving in Washington DCwhere he is a paralegal at thelaw firm of Foley Hoag LLP.Nick graduated from Brownin 2007. He works in thefirm’s litigation department,working primarily within theinternational litigation andinternational practices. Hefocuses on state-state dis-putes in the InternationalCourt of Justice, state-investordisputes in various invest-ment dispute arbitrations,and actions brought against
n Jane Gambill Brown '01 was married onJune 21, 2008 in Ogunquit, Maine toBenjamin Brown, a member of the UnitesStates Coast Guard. Jane and Ben current-ly live in Newport, Rhode Island butmove around frequently as Ben's basechanges. They met through a mutual col-lege friend and had lived in Maine (Ben’s
home state) for the past few years beforemoving to Newport. Mary Ellis, MiddleSchool French teacher, was in attendanceand Athalie Laguerre ’01 was the maid ofhonor. The rehearsal dinner was held ona sailboat, and Jane said that the day of thewedding, which was outdoors, was the firstday in a week that it did not rain! Jane isa professional baker, making weddingcakes and other treats, which enables herto stay home and maintain a stable house-hold--and take care of their dog--while Benis stationed around the country.
(From l to r) Jane, Ben and Athalie Laguerre '01,maid of honor
Samuel Nathan
(From l to r) Mary Ellis, Aaron (Jane's fosterbrother), Jane and Athalie on the sailboat
n Maxim Pinkovskiy ’04 was elected to PhiBeta Kappa and made valedictorian of theColumbia College class of 2008. He wroteus, “It goes without saying what a great andunexpected honor this is, particularlygiven the exceptional individuals whowere considered for it. I am greatly movedthat the college has thought of my actions at Columbia asaccomplishments not only in economics but also in the gen-eral sphere of human activity. For being able to exercise sucha broad and ecumenical outlook, I will be forever indebtedto the training that I received at Berkeley Carroll.” After apply-ing to multiple graduate schools and being admitted to themall, Maxim will attend MIT. He states, “MIT has a remark-able and extremely productive professor whose interests arevery similar to mine, their graduate program in economicsis one of the best, if not the best, program in the countryand my close friend from Columbia is there. I was success-ful in my applications for external fellowships as well. Aftera particularly challenging but satisfying interview process, Ihave been awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship forNew Americans and have also been awarded a NationalScience Foundation grant for graduate study.”
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n Gladys Linton Brock ’35 passed away on January8, 2003 in East Montpelier, Vermont where shehad lived for many years.
n Marilyn Sugden Sturgis ’39 of North Chatham,Massachusetts, died after a brief illness on January23, 2008 at her daughter’s home in Duxbury,Massachusetts. She was 87 years old. Marilyn will
be most fondly remem-bered by family andfriends for her kind-ness, grace, devotion,and generous spirit. Shewas the cornerstone ofthe family and provid-ed a warm and wel-come haven to all thoseshe held dear. She hada gift to adopt andembrace new friends inher community. The
motto she lived by was “carpe diem.” Born on Aug.11, 1921, she was raised by her aunt and uncleIda and Arthur Robinson in Forest Hills, NewYork. She graduated from Bradford Junior Collegeand Oberlin College, class of 1943. Marilyntaught kindergarten and coached sports at St.Agnes School in Albany, New York and Green ValeSchool in Glen Head, New York. She was mar-ried for 32 years and she and husband Robertraised their family in Woodbury, New Jersey, andGreenwich, Connecticut. In 1982, she retired tothe family’s summer home in North Chatham,Massachusetts, where she lived for the remainderof her life. She is survived by her son and daugh-ter-in-law, Robert and Susan Sturgis, of Sugarland,Texas and grandchildren Roman, Lindsley, Trevorand Callum, her daughter Kate Sturgis and herhusband Robert Mustard, Jr. and granddaughterCameron Burnham, and her daughter and son-in-law Joan and Paul Parsons and grandchildren Sarahand Tyler.
n Constance “Connie” KellnerLivingston ’40 died in January2008 o f cancer in NewRochelle, New York. Constancewas a nationally recognizedartist whose work was shown inover 100 group and one-personexhibitions around the US andoverseas. She also was award-ed over 50 prizes for her work, and her work hangsin many private and corporate art collections.Connie was a woman of great energy, humor, andintelligence.
n Virginia Chardavoyne Corwin ’41 passed away at herhome in Williamsburg, Virginia, on April 14, 2008.She is survived by her two sons, a daughter, andtwo step-daughters. Hers was a life of service andaccomplishment. She was a pioneer in the advo-cacy movement for learning disabled students andis credited with introducing the word ‘dyslexia’ tothe Arlington, Virginia County Public Schools. Onceher youngest child graduated from high school,Virginia and her husband, Gilbert (deceased),became interested in genealogy, spending numer-ous hours volunteering at the National GenealogicalSociety’s library. With a family friend, they wereinstrumental in establishing one of the first usersgroups specializing in computer-based genealogyresearch. She was also an active member of the DARand held a number of offices in her Falls Church,Virginia, chapter.
n Hazel Walls Nowak ’44 passed away in July 2007after a long illness. She is survived by her son,Donald.
n Caroline Moody Roberts ’49 of Sewickley,Pennsylvania died on March 21, 2008, fromemphysema. After leaving Berkeley where shewas president of the Student Association, Carolineattended Sweet Briar College in Virginia, where shewas president of the Aints and Asses, the college’shumor society. Caroline was known for her laugh,
sense of humor, and outspokeness. She was an avidbridge player and devoted wife, mother, and friend,who used to enjoy travel, tennis, and skiing. She issurvived by her husband, Bill, of 53 years; her twochildren, W. Drake Roberts Jr. of Sewickley, andCaroline Roberts Wentling and her husband, Tom,of Pittsburgh; her grandchildren, Caroline GilmanWentling, Margaret Graham Roberts,and Thomas Lynch Wentling III.
n Sue Mirkin Gray ’50 passed away onApril 23, 2008 in Santa Fe, NewMexico, after battling ovarian cancer forseven years. After graduating fromBerkeley, Sue studied art at SkidmoreCollege and New York University. Withher life partner and fellow artist, StevenBaumann, Sue lived in a remote fish-ing village in southern Spain for 15years painting and learning about thenative culture and landscape. HerSpanish home had an inescapable influ-ence on her work and her images. Susan and Stevenfrequently exhibited in two person shows andpainted together on a single canvas. Susan ismourned by her partner Steven, mother ClaraMirkin, son Jonathan, daughter Melissa and her sis-ter Naomi.
n Linda Davis Cirino ’58 passed away on June 27, 2007after battling with cancer. Linda was a writer andcommunity leader and was married to AntonioCirino. She is survived by her children Paul, Mark,Donna and Kristen, her sisters Donna and Jessica,and by her grandson Alexander Harold Cirino.
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n Gladys Linton Brock ’35 passed away on January8, 2003 in East Montpelier, Vermont where shehad lived for many years.
n Marilyn Sugden Sturgis ’39 of North Chatham,Massachusetts, died after a brief illness on January23, 2008 at her daughter’s home in Duxbury,Massachusetts. She was 87 years old. Marilyn will
be most fondly remem-bered by family andfriends for her kind-ness, grace, devotion,and generous spirit. Shewas the cornerstone ofthe family and provid-ed a warm and wel-come haven to all thoseshe held dear. She hada gift to adopt andembrace new friends inher community. The
motto she lived by was “carpe diem.” Born on Aug.11, 1921, she was raised by her aunt and uncleIda and Arthur Robinson in Forest Hills, NewYork. She graduated from Bradford Junior Collegeand Oberlin College, class of 1943. Marilyntaught kindergarten and coached sports at St.Agnes School in Albany, New York and Green ValeSchool in Glen Head, New York. She was mar-ried for 32 years and she and husband Robertraised their family in Woodbury, New Jersey, andGreenwich, Connecticut. In 1982, she retired tothe family’s summer home in North Chatham,Massachusetts, where she lived for the remainderof her life. She is survived by her son and daugh-ter-in-law, Robert and Susan Sturgis, of Sugarland,Texas and grandchildren Roman, Lindsley, Trevorand Callum, her daughter Kate Sturgis and herhusband Robert Mustard, Jr. and granddaughterCameron Burnham, and her daughter and son-in-law Joan and Paul Parsons and grandchildren Sarahand Tyler.
n Constance “Connie” KellnerLivingston ’40 died in January2008 o f cancer in NewRochelle, New York. Constancewas a nationally recognizedartist whose work was shown inover 100 group and one-personexhibitions around the US andoverseas. She also was award-ed over 50 prizes for her work, and her work hangsin many private and corporate art collections.Connie was a woman of great energy, humor, andintelligence.
n Virginia Chardavoyne Corwin ’41 passed away at herhome in Williamsburg, Virginia, on April 14, 2008.She is survived by her two sons, a daughter, andtwo step-daughters. Hers was a life of service andaccomplishment. She was a pioneer in the advo-cacy movement for learning disabled students andis credited with introducing the word ‘dyslexia’ tothe Arlington, Virginia County Public Schools. Onceher youngest child graduated from high school,Virginia and her husband, Gilbert (deceased),became interested in genealogy, spending numer-ous hours volunteering at the National GenealogicalSociety’s library. With a family friend, they wereinstrumental in establishing one of the first usersgroups specializing in computer-based genealogyresearch. She was also an active member of the DARand held a number of offices in her Falls Church,Virginia, chapter.
n Hazel Walls Nowak ’44 passed away in July 2007after a long illness. She is survived by her son,Donald.
n Caroline Moody Roberts ’49 of Sewickley,Pennsylvania died on March 21, 2008, fromemphysema. After leaving Berkeley where shewas president of the Student Association, Carolineattended Sweet Briar College in Virginia, where shewas president of the Aints and Asses, the college’shumor society. Caroline was known for her laugh,
sense of humor, and outspokeness. She was an avidbridge player and devoted wife, mother, and friend,who used to enjoy travel, tennis, and skiing. She issurvived by her husband, Bill, of 53 years; her twochildren, W. Drake Roberts Jr. of Sewickley, andCaroline Roberts Wentling and her husband, Tom,of Pittsburgh; her grandchildren, Caroline GilmanWentling, Margaret Graham Roberts,and Thomas Lynch Wentling III.
n Sue Mirkin Gray ’50 passed away onApril 23, 2008 in Santa Fe, NewMexico, after battling ovarian cancer forseven years. After graduating fromBerkeley, Sue studied art at SkidmoreCollege and New York University. Withher life partner and fellow artist, StevenBaumann, Sue lived in a remote fish-ing village in southern Spain for 15years painting and learning about thenative culture and landscape. HerSpanish home had an inescapable influ-ence on her work and her images. Susan and Stevenfrequently exhibited in two person shows andpainted together on a single canvas. Susan ismourned by her partner Steven, mother ClaraMirkin, son Jonathan, daughter Melissa and her sis-ter Naomi.
n Linda Davis Cirino ’58 passed away on June 27, 2007after battling with cancer. Linda was a writer andcommunity leader and was married to AntonioCirino. She is survived by her children Paul, Mark,Donna and Kristen, her sisters Donna and Jessica,and by her grandson Alexander Harold Cirino.
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DEATHS IN THE BERKELEY CARROLL FAMILY
inpassing))
Returning to 181 Lincoln Place always stirsup fond memories of days at Berkeley: child-hood friends, teachers, field hockey inProspect Park, running up and down the“Grand Staircase" between classes as well as“gobs" of homework each night. This past
April I was able to attend reunion and to see for myself somevery exciting things that are happening at BC today since Igraduated in 1950. What are the earmarks of a successfulschool? A dedicated faculty, quality programs, successfulalumni, and a fine reputation among private schools. Berkeleyseems to excel in these areas very well.
I was pleased to have the opportunity to spend time chat-ting with several administrators and teachers. Head of SchoolRobert Vitalo’s energy and enthusiasm for Berkeley is appar-ent. His determination and obvious success in providingquality education for all students is reflected in the long wait-ing list for acceptance.
Jim Shapiro, Director of the Middle School, offered aworkshop on Philip Zimbardo’s book, The Lucifer Effect. Thegroup had a lively discussion that was most thought provok-ing. Incidentally, Mr. Shapiro mentioned that one of his goals
is to train students in the art of public speaking. A skill eachof us could benefit from.
We also heard from the new Development Director whois responsible for keeping BC’s scholarship programs andfaculty compensations ahead of the game. As he stated,alumni participation in the Annual Fund is critical for main-taining effective school programs. Alumni Council President,Scott Brewster ’90, agreed with the importance of Alumniinvolvement and urged Alums to keep engaged in Berkeley’sgrowth. It was a treat to see former Headmistress BongsoonZubay receive the honor of having the new Athletic Centeron President Street named for her. She must feel very grati-fied in Berkeley Carroll’s progress as she was responsible inpart for the merger with the Carroll Street School.
Reunions are really about the past so what makes so manyof us feel drawn to return to our alma mater? In addition tocatching up with classmates, reunions give us a chance tohear about the accomplishments of Berkeley’s graduates. Thisyear’s recipient of the Outstanding Alumni Service Awardwent to Janet Rubensohn Lieberman, Class of ’39. Hercreative and successful efforts to provide high schoolprograms for at-risk teens to encourage them to graduate andmove on to college has won her much public acclaim. Janetattributed her dedication to young people’s education waspartly a result of what Berkeley instilled in her.
This year we were also privileged to view outstanding artwork done by the students, attend a rehearsal of Once Upona Mattress, and watch a spectacular dance program. DancerZoe Klein ’97 and her partner Dave Paris were graceful,acrobatic performers and left all of us amazed at their agility.Choreographer Pia Murray ’01 presented dances she adaptedfrom Africa. Her credentials in the dance world are out-standing.
I’ve been out of Berkeley for over 50 years but still have agreat deal of admiration and respect for the school as well asmany fond memories of my student years. 181 Lincoln Placeopened its doors in 1886 — 122 years ago. And, for thepast 25 years as the Berkeley Carroll School, it remains avital and caring institution. It is satisfying to know how ouronce small school for girls has evolved, expanded and adapt-ed its curriculum to meet the needs of our more complicat-ed world today.
It was a lovely day. I am so glad I went to Reunion 2008.Hope to see you next year. <
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’08reunion
weekend
n Life-long friendshipsn An extraordinary educationn Exceptional teachers n Wonderful memoriesn The desire to make all of this possible
for the next generation
n A gift of a bequestn A gift of life insurancen A gift of real estaten A gift from which you receive income
such as a Charitable Remainder Trust, Pooled Income Fund, or an Annuity
n A Charitable Lead Trust
Why did I remember Berkeley Carroll forever
in my will?
For more information:
How can you remember
Berkeley Carroll forever?
H ’62Deborah Smith Host’62has discovered the
benefits of giving wisely to BerkeleyCarroll.
Returning to 181 Lincoln Place always stirsup fond memories of days at Berkeley: child-hood friends, teachers, field hockey inProspect Park, running up and down the“Grand Staircase" between classes as well as“gobs" of homework each night. This past
April I was able to attend reunion and to see for myself somevery exciting things that are happening at BC today since Igraduated in 1950. What are the earmarks of a successfulschool? A dedicated faculty, quality programs, successfulalumni, and a fine reputation among private schools. Berkeleyseems to excel in these areas very well.
I was pleased to have the opportunity to spend time chat-ting with several administrators and teachers. Head of SchoolRobert Vitalo’s energy and enthusiasm for Berkeley is appar-ent. His determination and obvious success in providingquality education for all students is reflected in the long wait-ing list for acceptance.
Jim Shapiro, Director of the Middle School, offered aworkshop on Philip Zimbardo’s book, The Lucifer Effect. Thegroup had a lively discussion that was most thought provok-ing. Incidentally, Mr. Shapiro mentioned that one of his goals
is to train students in the art of public speaking. A skill eachof us could benefit from.
We also heard from the new Development Director whois responsible for keeping BC’s scholarship programs andfaculty compensations ahead of the game. As he stated,alumni participation in the Annual Fund is critical for main-taining effective school programs. Alumni Council President,Scott Brewster ’90, agreed with the importance of Alumniinvolvement and urged Alums to keep engaged in Berkeley’sgrowth. It was a treat to see former Headmistress BongsoonZubay receive the honor of having the new Athletic Centeron President Street named for her. She must feel very grati-fied in Berkeley Carroll’s progress as she was responsible inpart for the merger with the Carroll Street School.
Reunions are really about the past so what makes so manyof us feel drawn to return to our alma mater? In addition tocatching up with classmates, reunions give us a chance tohear about the accomplishments of Berkeley’s graduates. Thisyear’s recipient of the Outstanding Alumni Service Awardwent to Janet Rubensohn Lieberman, Class of ’39. Hercreative and successful efforts to provide high schoolprograms for at-risk teens to encourage them to graduate andmove on to college has won her much public acclaim. Janetattributed her dedication to young people’s education waspartly a result of what Berkeley instilled in her.
This year we were also privileged to view outstanding artwork done by the students, attend a rehearsal of Once Upona Mattress, and watch a spectacular dance program. DancerZoe Klein ’97 and her partner Dave Paris were graceful,acrobatic performers and left all of us amazed at their agility.Choreographer Pia Murray ’01 presented dances she adaptedfrom Africa. Her credentials in the dance world are out-standing.
I’ve been out of Berkeley for over 50 years but still have agreat deal of admiration and respect for the school as well asmany fond memories of my student years. 181 Lincoln Placeopened its doors in 1886 — 122 years ago. And, for thepast 25 years as the Berkeley Carroll School, it remains avital and caring institution. It is satisfying to know how ouronce small school for girls has evolved, expanded and adapt-ed its curriculum to meet the needs of our more complicat-ed world today.
It was a lovely day. I am so glad I went to Reunion 2008.Hope to see you next year. <
BerkeleyCarroll Reunion April 2008
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’08reunion
weekend
n Life-long friendshipsn An extraordinary educationn Exceptional teachers n Wonderful memoriesn The desire to make all of this possible
for the next generation
n A gift of a bequestn A gift of life insurancen A gift of real estaten A gift from which you receive income
such as a Charitable Remainder Trust, Pooled Income Fund, or an Annuity
n A Charitable Lead Trust
Why did I remember Berkeley Carroll forever
in my will?
For more information:
How can you remember
Berkeley Carroll forever?
H ’62Deborah Smith Host’62has discovered the
benefits of giving wisely to BerkeleyCarroll.
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The 2007 – 2008 Varsity Swim Team
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