Moses BrownCupola

Summer2011

Global Possibilities

Frohman C. Anderson ’80 P ’10 ’12John T. Barrett, Jr. ’63 P ’01Neil S. Beranbaum ’86 P ’22 ’24 Emily Low Boenning ’81Russell Carpenter ’59David Costantino P ’12 Clerk, Buildings & Grounds Committee

Marc A. Crisafulli P ’12 ’14 ’17Dana Falk P ’11 ’14 ’14 Clerk, Parents’ Association

Ted Fischer ’83 P ’12 ’14 ’17 Clerk, Development Committee

Katharine Hazard Flynn P ’12 ’15 Treasurer

Clerk, Budget & Finance Committee

Gary Goldberg ’87 P ’17 ’19 ’20 Brian Goldner P ’14 Habib Y. Gorgi ’74 P ’08 ’10 ’12 ’17 Clerk of the Board

Clerk, Executive Committee

Melissa Crouchley Hem ’85David HoldtLee Jaspers P ’11 ’14Mary Jo Kaplan P ’08 ’11Kathleen Levesque P’ 12 ’14 ’17 Frederick MartinM. Willis Monroe ’04Elizabeth Morse Neal Pandozzi ’91Jaymin Patel P ’16 ’17Dieter Pohl P ’14Stephanie Ogidan Preston ’97 Clerk, Alumni Association

James Reavis P ’11 ’13 ’16 Clerk, Trustees Committee

Cynthia West ReikLisa Rocchio ’85 P ’14 ’15 ’21Martha Schwope Friends Coordinator

Carol Smith Recording Clerk

E. Paul Sorensen P ’02Blair D. StambaughSheri Sweitzer P ’05 Assistant Clerk

Clerk, Strategic Planning Committee

Reza Taleghani ’90Catherine Terry Taylor P ’15 Clerk, Nominating Committee

Steven Tripp P ’19 ’24Carl Weinberg P ’90 ’94 ’16 ’24 Elizabeth R. B. Zimmerman Clerk, Nurturing Friends Education

Matt Glendinning Head of School

Jackie Stillwell Clerk of NEYM

Moses Brown School Board of Trustees 2011-2012

Moses Brown, a Friends school, exists to inspire the inner promise of each student and instill the utmost care for learning, people, and place. — Moses Brown School mission statement

College Counseling Director Helen Scotte Gordon

captured our cover image in Costa Rica.

This summer, Chris Jenkins, Betsy Archibald,

Debbie Phipps and Scotte (shown second from right)

headed to Costa Rica to utilize The Edward E. Ford

Foundation grant, established to support faculty

professional development. Chris, Scotte and Debbie

studied Spanish intensively, while Betsy explored

Costa Rican literature and conversation. “The two

weeks were a wonderful window on the people and

their issues,” says Betsy.

At the end of each day of study, they toured their

surroundings on foot or bike, visited wildlife refuges,

explored local arts and music, cooked and sampled

native foods and fruits — and tested their language

skills wherever they went.

The estudiantes also enjoyed learning about Costa

Rican wildlife. En route to the coastal village of

Puerto Viejo, they had the opportunity to experience

the jungle in the remote village of Tortuguero,

accessible only by boat through a dense system of

canals. There, they saw — and heard — crocodile,

toucan, macaw, sloth, and howler monkeys.

Scotte has led College Counseling at MB for 24

years. “Helping to guide seniors to the next phase

of their lives is very satisfying to me,” says Scotte.

“It is truly a gift to read their college essays. I love to

watch students take risks and assume responsibility

for their paths and decisions. I am proud to represent

a school with such a fine national reputation.”

Catch up with Scotte and other MB faculty and staff at

Homecoming weekend this fall.

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CupolaSummer 2011

8 Marie Ewens Brown ’95

10 Robert Gosselink ’82

12 Charlie Paull ’70

14 Sarah Rogers ’78

15 Omar Siddiqi ’91

16 Thomas Frater ’82

17 Global Alumni

20 Carolyn Garth

21 Global Education at MB

A Letter from Head of School Matt Glendinning 4

Hope & Lloyd: School News 5

Alumni Events & Connections 22

Reunion 2011 24

Class Notes 26

The Moses Brown Fund 27

Welcome, Class of 2011 39

In Memoriam 40

Amazing Race? MB Around the World 42

Former Faculty & Staff 42

Sustaining the Academic Environment 43

Global Challenges, Global Possibilities

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THIS quOTE FROM ONE OF OuR YOuNGER

STuDENTS serves as a fitting introduction

to this edition of Cupola. This issue is

devoted to globalism, and the many ways

that Moses Brown teachers, students and

alumni are responding to and impacting

an increasingly interconnected world.

This is a timely and critical issue. While

globalization certainly has benefitted many

people and regions of the world, it also has

brought about unintended consequences

such as corruption, vast disparities in

wealth, and the erosion of indigenous

cultures. Graduates today are entering a

world very different from the 20th century,

and as both Marie Ewens Brown ’95 and

Tom Frater ’82 note on the pages within,

it is clear that new skills, approaches

and mindsets are needed for success

and leadership in the 21st century.

I first became interested in “global”

forms of education in college. As a

sophomore at Dartmouth, I participated

in a program in Greece that transformed

my understanding both of the world and

of myself as a student. (On page 7, Guest

Editor John Silva ’75 describes a similar

experience in Mexico). As a result, I changed

my major from engineering to classical

archaeology, I began studying foreign

languages seriously, and I went on to a

career in education that involved living

and working in England, Spain, Greece

and Turkey.

One of the things that attracted me to

Moses Brown was the school’s clear desire

to bring a more global emphasis to its

programs and the experience of its

students. Consequently, in the fall of 2009

we convened a research team called the

Global Stewardship Task Force, charged

A letter from Matt Glendinning, Head of School

with investigating and recommending the

best forms of “global education” for MB.

(Please see page 21 for recommendations

from the Global Stewardship Task Force.)

Following the recommendations of that

team, Moses Brown seeks to produce “global

stewards,” a rising generation of leaders

with the skills, values and desire to solve

emerging local and global challenges. To do

so, the school is committed to offering a

“global education.”

Over the next several years, MB will

introduce new forms of professional

development for faculty; expand the scope,

frequency and destinations of language

and service trips; strengthen local and

global service learning; and augment the

curriculum with offerings such as Ethics and

Conflict Resolution. In these ways we aim to

produce leaders motivated less by status

and power and more by a sense of kinship

with and responsibility for others.

The alumni featured in this issue of

Cupola seem to share several things in

common. Each has found a passion that

touches on a global issue or problem (e.g.,

shifting demographics and immigration;

world trade; climatology; energy supply;

global health; international security). Each

has developed relevant expertise. And all

are putting their skills to work in service of

larger communities. We are honored to

count them among the ranks of Moses

Brown alumni, and we hope you will find

their stories inspiring and thought-

provoking.

As always, I invite you to keep the

conversation going. Please email me at

mglendinning@mosesbrown.org if you

would like to respond to anything you

see here.

“Some of our Kenyan buddies say they argue with their siblings over clothes, chores, and toys, like some of us do. Our buddies can use peace to resolve these conflicts, and we can too.”

From the fourth grade’s partnership with Kenya, a MB student reflection.

See faculty member Carolyn Garth’s essay on page 20 in this issue of Cupola.

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News from Moses Brown Today

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Welcome, new faculty!The MB community welcomes the arrival of new faculty members this fall who represent decades of public and private school experience. Among the new faculty are three MB graduates: Allie Weitberg Jones ’96 teaching in the preprimary class, Katie Evans ’06 in middle school science, and Jim Dickson ’05 in upper school math.

Presidential Scholar awardsSenior Dylan Neel ’11 and history teacher Jennifer Stewart were honored at the Presidential Scholar awards weekend in Washington D.C. in June. Dylan, named Presidential Scholar of Rhode Island, was one of 141 high school seniors from across the country to receive the award and was selected out of 3,000 candidates. Jennifer received an award from the u.S. Department of Education based on Dylan’s application essay on how she inspired him in his time at MB.

Foo DogsOn April 21, 2011 the Yat K. Tow Family, including former Trustee C. June Tow and daughter Heather Tow-Yick ’94, came to campus for the Foo Dogs dedication. The magnificent dogs, a gift from the family, have been located at the entrance to Lower School for the last decade, guarding and protecting the children.

MB contributes to Special OlympicsThroughout campus last spring, many fine and generous knitters gathered to work for the Scarves For Special Olympics collection. The MB knitters contributed a total of 43 scarves to the effort. Some of the scarves were given to athletes, coaches, and families of Rhode Island Special Olympians this year at the Rhode Island Winter Games. MB also hosted a Special Olympics Basketball game on campus, with warm support for the visiting athletes.

What’s race got to do with it?This was just one question asked this year at AISNE’s 2011 High School Students of Color Conference, held in Holyoke, Mass. MB sent nine students to the conference, which was created in recognition of the unique needs, experiences, and challenges of students of color in independent schools. upper School Diversity Coordinator / language teacher Chandra Harris accompanied the students, along with Jill Stockman, College Counseling office. The conference featured speakers, performances, affinity groups, group sharing, and a variety of workshops, including: The Northern Civil Rights Struggle, Islam, The Melting Pot, Mirage: Media and Race, and Introduction to Salsa Dancing.

Third grade teacher Joanne Coombs retired in June, capping a 19-year career where she was known for her warmth and student-centered approach to teaching. Joanne taught first and third grades and also worked with the lower school chorus. In her time at MB Joanne participated in the Fulbright Memorial Teacher Fund Program, visiting schools in Japan and used a Leonard Miller Travel Grant, traveling to Peru to research Incan culture.

Joanne describes MB students as “problem solvers, deep thinkers, well-rounded, passionate, eager, and cooperative.” “Watching students move on to the next levels, where they have choices and take ownership of learning, has been extremely rewarding,” Joanne says. “The most special moments are those when, by choice, former students would seek me out to reminisce about their third grade hopes, dreams, and experiences.”

Joanne Coombs retires from MB

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CongratulationsThe Class of 2011 received a number of significant awards. Four seniors received coveted National Merit

Scholarship Awards and seven were honored within the National Merit program as Commended students.

Kevin Matson has been named interim Dean of Students for the 2011-12 school year.

Nine MB upper school students took part in the Rhode Island Science Olympiad, winning gold medals

in the Forensics contest and in a team Science Bowl (quiz game) competition. They also won a silver medal in an event called Mission Possible, for which two students built a Rube Goldberg machine.

The R.I. Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association named Jeff Maidment as Athletic Director of the Year.

Middle school math teacher Dan Ohl will participate in the next cohort of the Friends Council on Education’s Institute for Engaging Leadership in Friends Schools.

Lacrosse player Hannah Saris ’12 competed in the Women’s Division National Tournament and in the Champion All-American Showcase at the ESPN RISE Games this summer, where she gained national press coverage for her incredible performance.

Superior: The rating received by MB ensembles this year in competition — middle school jazz, upper school string, and upper school wind. Members of MB’s upper school chorus also took first place at New York’s Heritage Festival.

36 upper school students were recognized for outstanding performance on the National Latin Exam, twenty four attained top scores on the National Spanish Exam, and seven received honors for their achievement on the National French Contest.

Four MB seniors signed onto Division 1 collegiate teams: field hockey’s Liza Green to play at Brown and football players Daril Geisser, Sonny Porcaro, and CJ Handley to play at uRI, Marist College, and Presbyterian College.

The school year began on September 7, 2011, fully enrolled with 779 students.

Earth Week 2011Among many new activities designed by students and faculty this year, several hundred Random Acts of Greenness (RAGS) were collected, linked together, and displayed in the school library. From recycling their #5s to commuting via bicycle, MB community members found countless ways to be green. Members of the Environmental Club shared games and workshops with lower school students. Students and faculty also lit up the library by riding an Energy Cycle. The school year ended with Friends Garden celebrating its second growing season on the Moses Brown campus: by the end of the summer the garden contributed 375 pounds of fresh produce for the food pantry at Camp Street Ministries.

Creative ways toward understanding diversityLower and middle school students utilized interesting means of exploring diversity this past year. In lower school, students participated in a series of diversity workshops, each class-room hosting a different experience. During these, students were guided to explore issues and viewpoints that might be out of their normal everyday experience. Middle school students explored Colombian culture both through art and language studies. In studio art, they created their own versions of El sombrero alto del (the top hat of the) Congo Grande, which is part of the annual Carnaval de Barranquilla.

Wind Ensemble ReceptionMatt Glendinning, Steve Toro and composer George Masso pictured at the Brown university-Moses Brown Combined Wind Ensemble Reception. The performance took place on March 11 at Sayles Hall at Brown university.

photo: Scott McCall/LaxMagazine.com

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I APPRECIATE THIS OPPORTuNITY TO

SHARE with MB’s alumni community after

so many years and miles away. Since

graduating in 1975, my career has for the

most part been forged in the agricultural

community of Salinas, California. I have

been practicing family medicine for a

largely first-generation group of Mexican

immigrants on essentially the same

block since 1987. This has been both

revealing and satisfying and I would not

have changed these many gratifying

learning opportunities for anything else

professionally. Perhaps the most useful

preparation was the many years of Latin

and French at MB which allowed me the

confidence to travel to California’s closest

international neighbor, Mexico, in 1986,

after my residency, to take an immersion

conversational Spanish course.

That eye-opening introduction to

language and culture intertwined led to a

depth of understanding of Latin America

that I use and teach to young physicians-

in-training daily. That exposure was

instrumental to fulfilling my end-of -the-

20th-century American career, begun before

people really talked about “globalism.”

Nowadays the opportunities are different

and, in many ways, more challenging as

it’s very clear the globe is getting smaller;

neighbors are getting closer and more

densely fitted, and we are all less resourced.

Grand changes are afoot and hopefully

Moses Brown is actively educating for them

by way of its quaker advices, including those

on Stewardship and the newest testimony on

Sustainability/Unity with Nature. With well-

founded and intentionally-based instruction,

the school will continue to teach for those

jobs that do not even exist yet, to paraphrase

1973 alumnus Peter Zimmerman in a

previous issue of this magazine.

In my study about Stewardship,

quaker writings often link this advice to

Vocation. A friend from Westerly Meeting,

Dan Campbell, introduced me to quaker

businessman John Woolman’s writings

more than a decade ago. Woolman says that

“to turn all the treasures we possess into

the channel of universal Love becomes the

business of our lives.” Certainly a difficult

admonition in the complete, as Woolman

was able to achieve, but a worthy course

of action for which we can and do strive

in our vocational lives.

With regard to the testimony on

Sustainability/Unity with Nature, it is clear

that with the changing and, perhaps,

diminishing physical world, traditional

social justice must now include the impact

of the precarious environmental situations

that many of the world’s most vulnerable

inhabit or reside in. In the last decade, this

concept of environmental justice has been

made very clear to the entire globe by the

circumstances seen in the wake of the

Hurricane Katrina disaster in the historically

bustling city of New Orleans in 2005. This

came to mind after reading 1978 alumna

Sarah Rogers’ profile about her important

proactive work for the citizens of Florida.

I believe the following exciting and

encouraging profiles display how a milieu

where quaker principles are quietly and

spiritually guarded on campus, has clearly

made a difference in the final product. I was

reminded of this as I read 1982 alumnus

Tom Frater’s profile. The notion of “global”

really is more of a mindset barrier today

than a physical or financial one for many

families. I was recruited to MB from a

similar three-block distance from campus

as Tom, and my parents both graduated

from Hope High at the time Tom’s parents

were emigrating from Hungary. At my first

job, I worked side by side in a black-owned

business with an Eastern Block immigrant

woman. This was a decade before Hispanic

was a racial designation for the Colombian

factory workers in Pawtucket and Central

Falls. Today there are numerous Latino

cultures thriving within city limits. And

with the power of the worldwide web, all

students today have the option of global

exchange and collaboration, interface and

even enterprise. (At least the beginning of

such, under encouraging guidance.) The

world community is truly smaller now

and by way of its foundational quaker

testimonies, as evidenced here, Moses

Brown School should be well positioned to

lead in developing more inclusive methods

of global interaction and stewardship.

John Silva is a physician in California. “I was

the only black kid in my class when I started

at MB,” he says, “but little by little, I saw that

change over time as the school became more

diverse.” He recalls Mr. Ward advocating for him

to attend MB. “I had a great experience there,”

John says, “warmly welcomed by supportive

classmates, many of whom were 13-year vets of

the school. There was a lot of change happening

at MB and in the country at the time. I value

the friendships I made there.” After MB, John

graduated from Tufts, attended medical school at

Brown, and served on staff at Memorial Hospital

in Pawtucket. John has been practicing family

medicine in the barrio of East Salinas, California

since 1987 and is presently a full-time clinical

faculty member at UCSF’s affiliate hospital in

Salinas, Natividad Medical Center. John and

his wife Natalie have three children — Martin,

Matisse, and Alejandra — and belong to the

Monterey Peninsula Friends Meeting in Carmel.

Connect to John via facebook, Twitter.com/

roycamp, or native_books@yahoo.com.

By Guest Editor John Silva ’75

Global Challenges, Global Possibilities

“The notion of ‘global’ really is more of a mindset barrier today than a physical or financial one for many families.”

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What led to your specific interest in security/

African affairs?

I would define the focus of my work since

graduate school as economic development

more than security interests, although the

two are clearly connected. I joined the

International Affairs Department at the

u.S. Treasury in 2004 and was put to work

immediately on what ultimately became

known as the Multilateral Debt Relief

Initiative, which financed $60 billion in debt

relief from the poorest countries to the IMF

and World Bank. I started out just looking at

ways that the IMF might be able to finance

the debt write-off with their own internal

resources, since donors were unlikely to be

able to contribute anything close to the

amounts needed. Once we got the sign-off

of the Treasury Secretary, we coordinated

with other governments, the G-7 and the

Boards of the IMF and World Bank. It was a

fascinating first job and made me realize

how exciting public policy can be. I had a

great boss who had a lot of confidence in

me and let me run with the issue. After 3 ½

years at Treasury, I moved to the White

House to work with a former Treasury

colleague who had been named Special

Assistant to the President for African

Affairs; he wanted someone from Treasury

that understood economic issues and could

complement the existing staff that was

focused on security issues. I was present for

the transition from the Bush Administration

to the incoming Obama Administration, and

it was a privilege to work for both. Following

my stint at NSC, I joined the staff of the

U.S. Executive Director’s Office at the World

Bank, where I continue to look at economic

development issues in Africa as an advisor

to the u.S. representative on the World Bank

Executive Board.

What has been the most gratifying, or

challenging, to you about your work?

The most gratifying has certainly been the

power for the united States to do good in

the world when we are humble, focus on

discrete problems, and work with the

international community to generate

support for our initiatives. The most

challenging part of my work is certainly

working in large, sometimes dysfunctional

bureaucracies.

What are key traits or competencies that

students wishing to pursue a career path

similar to yours would need?

An ability to distill complicated issues into

short oral briefings or 1-2 page memos is

probably the most important skill for my

work. People don’t have a lot of time, but

they need to know the risks and the

opportunities of various policy options. You

often hear the phrase: “Don’t let the perfect

be the enemy of the good.” It’s a bit of a

cliché but it also is the reality of getting

things done in a democracy. You have to be

able to compromise to move things through

our system.

Global topics are covered frequently in MB

classrooms today and other alumni in this

issue share updates on work in the East,

Uganda, etc. What can you share with readers

about situations and/or experiences in Africa?

Africa is a pretty diverse continent so it’s

hard to generalize. That said, there are some

common shared issues. There’s a great spirit

of entrepreneurship and desire to improve

one’s quality of life across the region. There

have been some enormously successful

African-run businesses, and increasingly

African entrepreneurs are sharing their

knowledge with others around the world.

At the same time, there are huge logistical

obstacles such as lack of electricity (only

about 30% of all African households have

access to even sporadic electricity), weak

infrastructure, onerous regulations, and,

of course, corruption. President Obama’s

speech in Ghana addressed many of these

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Marie Brown ’95 worked at the White House in the Office of African Affairs at the National Security Council. Marie was there for the last six months of

the Bush administration and the first ten months of the Obama administration. Now she is at the World Bank working in the U.S. Executive Director’s

office, covering Africa and a number of other issues. Both the NSC and World Bank jobs came about through Marie’s work in International Affairs for

the U.S. Treasury Department. “Both the World Bank job and NSC job have been fascinating windows into policy making on a global scale,” she says.

Marie Ewens Brown ’95

Economic DevelopmentMarie Brown came to MB in ninth grade, from Gordon. “I remember thinking MB was really big, which

is funny now that I think about it.” Marie says. “I was probably a typical freshman, wanting to make

friends and not stick out too much.”

photo: White House

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them in a meaningful way is challenging

and ultimately is up to African citizens and

governments. I think “global understanding”

in my work involves both listening to what

Africans have to say about their own

development challenges while creating

incentives for African governments to raise

the bar in terms of how they serve their

own citizens. Finally, whenever we talk

about development, there’s a healthy fear

of being patronizing. But the flip side of the

coin is that so many countries look to the

u.S. to offer the vision of how to do things

right — whether it’s empowering women,

minimizing corruption in government,

putting in place regulations that stimulate

growth and protect consumers — and if we

can offer this advice in a constructive

manner, we all benefit.

MB stats: At MB, Marie was vice president

of Student Council, captain of the varsity

soccer and lacrosse teams, and served

on the Discipline Committee, which she

recollects was “an interesting way to

see how consensus works in practice.”

Security briefing: While working for the

National Security Council, primarily on

national security and economic issues in

southern Africa, Marie focused on the

political process in Zimbabwe and arranged

for an Oval Office meeting between Prime

Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the

Zimbabwean “opposition,” and President

Obama. She also worked to engage with the

new South African government following

Jacob Zuma’s election.

Working for the World Bank: The World

Bank is a multilateral organization that

provides financial and technical assistance

to developing countries around the

world, with the goal of fighting poverty

and creating sustainable economic growth.

The World Bank has 187 member countries

and works to advance a vision of inclusive

and sustainable globalization, eradicate

global poverty, and create sustainable

development.

Marie Brown graduated from Columbia and

received a master’s degree in international relations

from Johns Hopkins (SAIS). She previously worked

as an economist focusing on Andean countries in

the office of international affairs at the Treasury

Department, then as a director for African affairs

for the National Security Council. Today, Marie

works for the World Bank. She is the sister of

Damian Ewens ’94, Lara ’92, and Anne Ewens

Gantt (Wheeler ’94). She can be reached at marie.

ewens@gmail.com.

“I joined the International Affairs Department at the U.S. Treasury after graduate school and was put to work immediately on what became known as the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative, coordinating the Treasury Secretary, other governments, the G-7 and the Boards of the IMF and World Bank. It was a fascinating first job and made me realize how exciting public policy can be.”

Last year, the World Bank provided $46.9 billion for 303

projects in developing countries worldwide, offering

financial and technical expertise to help reduce poverty

around the world. The Bank is currently involved in more

than 1,800 projects, as diverse as providing microcredit

in Bosnia and Herzegovina, raising AIDS-prevention

awareness in Guinea, supporting education of girls in

Bangladesh, improving health care delivery in Mexico,

and helping East Timor rebuild upon independence and

India rebuild Gujarat after a devastating earthquake.

Visit www.worldbank.org to learn more.

photos: Curt Carnemark and Thomas Sennett/World Bank

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TWO WEEKS IN A DAMP, uNHEATED BACK

ROOM of a Chinese brake rotor casting

factory is enough to cure anyone of the

notion that the life of an international trade

lawyer is glamorous. It’s hard to feel

sophisticated and cool when you are

checking out accounting entries in a dreary,

cold, smoke-filled room in the middle of

nowhere, especially when you can’t even feel

your toes. But 18 years after my first foray

into representing foreign producers in unfair

trade proceedings, and after butting heads

with hundreds of zany accountants, I can’t

think of what I’d prefer to be doing for a

living than roaming mushroom collectives in

Szechuan, rubber plantations in Malaysia,

steel mills in Shanghai, shrimp farms in

Thailand, fish ponds on the Mekong River,

pipe plants in Mexico, or any of the dozens

of factories and farms where I’ve hung my

hat over the years.

As with all things, it started long ago. I

was born in Syria, my brother James in

Washington, DC, and my sister Rebecca in

Ethiopia. As children of Foreign Service

officers, we spent our younger years in a

variety of distant places, mostly in Asia and

the Middle East. In the early 1970s, my

parents returned stateside, where Dad

accepted a teaching position at Moses Brown;

eventually, Mom did, as well. I entered Moses

Brown in the lower school and gradually

became rooted in a community of good

friends and dedicated faculty members.

Providence, RI, became our family hometown

for the next twenty years.

Even at Moses Brown, however, a

yearning for travel was never far away. I

absorbed the quaker values of tolerance and

openness, the concepts of “God in everyone,”

the need to remain connected to what is

happening around us, and therefore an

appreciation and respect for diversity — of

people, of thoughts, of beliefs. These

principles emphasize the benefits of world

community and the equality of all people,

and provide a strong foundation for a life

lived at home or abroad. They underscore

what humans have in common, not what

divides us. At Oberlin College, I majored in

Chinese language, eventually spending

several years in Taiwan, and thereafter (and

now) practicing law in mainland China,

Malaysia, Mexico, Thailand, and Vietnam.

While foreign language skills have been an

invaluable element of my work and travel,

personal interaction has been the critical

element. A willingness to explore and

embrace the unfamiliar has led me to strange

cases, good clients, and the best of friends.

And what about the simple and peaceful

quaker life? Mine is anything but, I

suppose. My days begin with lists of things

that cannot possibly be completed. My

constant travel has given me a size 25 EEE

carbon footprint, and I cannot seem to

disconnect from technology. The last thing I

am achieving is a life of simplicity. Nor is a

litigator’s life a peaceful one. Conflict reigns

in Washington and Beijing and all time

zones in between. But one can still work for

peace in one’s life even if one’s life is not

peaceful. In the midst of uncertainty in

Chiang Mai, Nha Trang, or Kuala Lumpur,

my quaker roots remind me to stop, pause,

and experience moments of quiet reflection.

Mindful contemplation is precious,

deliberate work, and when successful,

reminds you to live life on your own

terms while simultaneously remaining

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Rob Gosselink calls Washington, D.C. home, although his work in Asia finds him frequently shuttling from D.C. to Thailand. Rob is a trade lawyer.

With more than 15 years of experience in antidumping and international trade law, Rob has represented steel, fertilizer, agriculture, and food processing

companies in China, the Ukraine, Vietnam, Mexico and beyond. He is managing partner of Trade Pacific’s Washington, D.C. operations:

Moses Brown to Bangkok: Robert Gosselink ’82

International Trade LawWhat’s the top way your work will leave an impact on the world inhabited by future generations?

“International trade allows countries to get new ideas, to obtain the resources that they need, and

(by relying on each other) to reduce the risk of economic collapses. Most importantly, trade raises

the overall income of a country and can be a powerful force to counteract poverty.”

At the end of the day, the best part of

my work has not been the successful case

resolutions. Rather, it has been spending

time with friends after the labor is done:

enjoying fresh-picked oranges on a

moonlit evening in the suburbs outside

Monterrey; steeping in sulfur baths

outside Chengdu; fishing for barramundi

in the ponds of Bangpakong. These are

the memories I cherish most. As in all

aspects of life, getting to know people

individually has been most interesting

and rewarding. New interactions and

perspectives provide learning and

opportunities for growth. And when

you comprehend the difficulties and

obstacles faced by others, it also lets

you view your own challenges from a

different perspective.

All this from an early appreciation for

community, a little acceptance of the

unknown, and an openness to change.

While Moses Brown is a small school in

the smallest state, it provided me with a

world view that has served me well in all

my travels.

Pacific trade: Rob’s firm, Trade Pacific PLLC,

is based in Washington, D.C. and helps

manufacturers and exporters in Asian

countries comply with the complex and

evolving U.S. trade law. Rob is fluent in

Mandarin Chinese, and formed the company

in 2004 after many years of experience in

the field. Trade Pacific has earned

widespread recognition for significant

victories in a variety of cases affecting

exporters in China, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Rob is a graduate of Oberlin College, Tufts

University, and Boston College School of Law.

When not flying around the world, Rob lives on

Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. with his wife

Mary Beth and — when laundry needs arise —

their three children. Rob is the son of former

faculty members Charles (Chuck) and Charlotte

Gosselink who led the history department and

service program at MB, respectively, in the

1970s and ’80s. Rob also ran cross-country for

King “Doc” Odell, served on the Discipline

Committee, and was a member of the Outing

Club. He was co-editor in chief of the yearbook.

Contact Rob at rgosselink@tradepacificlaw.com.

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“I absorbed the Quaker values of tolerance and openness, the concepts of ‘God in everyone,’ the need to remain connected to what is happening around us, and therefore an appreciation and respect for diversity — of people, of thoughts, of beliefs. These principles emphasize the benefits of world community and the equality of all people, and provide a strong foundation for a life lived at home or abroad. They underscore what humans have in common, not what divides us.”

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“I HAVE SPENT SPENT MY CAREER working

as a marine geologist/oceanographer

exploring the ocean floor,” says Charlie Paull

’70. “Although these marine environments

comprise the majority of the Earth’s surface,

only a tiny fraction of it has been explored.”

Charlie’s career has taken him from the

waters off Antarctic into the ice-bound

portions of the Arctic Ocean and through

six of the major ocean basins.

After stints as a government scientist

and as a professor at the university of

North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Charlie moved

to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research

Institute (MBARI) in Moss Landing,

California where he is now the chair of the

research department. MBARI is a think-tank

supported by the David and Lucile Packard

Foundation dedicated to developing new

instruments, techniques, and technology to

study the oceans. Charlie now enjoys using

state-of-the-art robotic vehicles including

Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and

Autonomous underwater Vehicles (AuVs)

to explore sections of the deep-sea floor.

These are technologies that did not

exist when Charlie graduated from MB.

Now these tools are enabling us to study

the seafloor much the way scientists

studied the landscape in previous centuries.

Charlie is focused on documenting

the physical environment within parts

of the seafloor where the conditions are

changing, both through natural events and

anthropogenic forcing. He is quick to point

out that the oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s

surface, water mass within the oceans

themselves are the largest habitat for life on

Earth, and only a tiny part of the ocean floor

has been explored, let alone mapped, at any

level of detail. “One of my goals,” he says,

“is to try to obtain a basic understanding of

what conditions are like over the majority of

the Earth’s surface before it gets disturbed

by man. Society can neither manage nor

appreciate the inherent value of areas we

have yet to explore.”

Charlie also comments that the

academic environment at MB fostered the

pursuit of individual interests while focusing

on developing concrete skills. “Although I

did not realize it at the time,” Charlie says,

“I now acknowledge that the educational

imprint of my four years at MB dwarfed

the impact of similar periods of time as an

undergraduate at Harvard and as a Ph.D.

candidate at the Scripps Institution of

Oceanography.”

Recent research: Charlie has recently

conducted expeditions to explore sites of

seafloor methane leakage on the Canadian

Arctic shelf, associated with submarine

landslides off of Norway in the deep-waters

of the Gulf of Mexico. He has also been

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Marine Geology & Climate Change

Charlie Paull ’70 is a senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California. He previously taught at UNC-Chapel Hill and

performed research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Charlie’s first job after college was as a marine geologist for the U. S. Geological Survey

at Woods Hole. A central theme of Charlie’s work involves investigation of the fluxes of fluids and gases through continental margins. Through this effort

he became an expert on the geology associated with sea floor fluid seepage sites and methane gas deposits within marine sediments. Variations in the

fluxes of methane from the marine sediment into the overlying ocean water and atmosphere is believed to be controlled by the Earth’s climate state and

changes in the fluxes of this potent greenhouse gas may provide a feedback to the Earth’s climate. Charlie’s other ongoing work focuses on the geology of

submarine canyons. Many of these submarine canyons are as large or larger than the Grand Canyon of Arizona. While submarine canyons are known to

be conduits though which huge volumes of material move from the continental land masses onto the deep-seafloor, remarkably little is known about how

sediments move through these canyons and how the canyons were carved. Charlie has done basic work in documenting the processes that occur within

the submarine channels that run through submarine canyons.

photo: MBARI

the 16 submarine canyons offshore of

California.

Class stats: While at MB, Charlie was a

member of the track team and captain of the

cross-country team. Recognized by his peers

for his perseverance both on and off the track,

Charlie was known for always finding a way

to accomplish the tasks he set his mind to.

After MB, Charlie Paull headed to Harvard to study

geology, then to the University of Miami for his

M.S. and to Scripps Institution of Oceanography

in La Jolla for his Ph.D. in oceanography. Today,

Charlie is both working as a marine geologist /

geochemical stratigrapher and serving within the

management team at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Research Institute. He and guest editor John Silva

actually met in California while working together

on a classroom beautification project for their

children’s elementary school. Contact Charlie at

paull@mbari.org.

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“One of my goals is to try to obtain a basic understanding of what conditions are like over the majority of the Earth’s surface before it gets disturbed by man. Society can neither manage nor appreciate the inherent value of areas we have yet to explore.”

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is a center for advanced research and education in ocean

science and technology. The institute was founded by David Packard, an engineer and co-founder (with

William Hewlett) of Hewlett-Packard Company. MBARI was established as a private, not-for-profit

oceanographic research center. Today, its projects span the interdisciplinary ocean science fields and

develop new research tools and techniques, as well as technology related to ocean observatories.

What can readers do?

“When asked, ‘What can be done to make the Earth more environmentally sustaining and/or lessen the burdens on future generation?’, I cannot help

but be honest — the largest problem facing the Earth is its rapidly expanding human population. I am regularly finding indications of the impact of man

in what I once thought of as relatively pristine frontiers. However, these observations only emphasize that finding the resources to support the growing

human population and maintaining a reasonable quality of life will be increasingly difficult. Thus, my advice is to encourage birth control globally.”

Marine geologist Charlie Paull ’70 is shown working on a sea-floor sediment core while studying waters in the huge underwater Storegga Slide, located off

the coast of Norway.

MBARI’s flagship research vessel is the Western Flyer, built to navigate rough seas and explore the Eastern Pacific Ocean, from Vancouver to

Hawaii and Baja, California.

Charlie is based at MBARI’s facilities in Moss Landing, California, on the shoreline of Monterey Bay.

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I CHOOSE TO WORK IN THE ELECTRIC

uTILITY INDuSTRY because it was a good

fit for an electrical engineer and I figured

electricity was going to be around for a

while. I also like the idea of providing a

needed service to people. In my early career,

I primarily performed engineering work, but

found that once I had a good understanding

of the specialty I was in, I wanted to learn

another specialty. I soon came to realize

that I was more interested in management

and enrolled in an evening MBA program. I

really like the challenging aspect of

managing and leading people and have been

lucky to have been doing so for the last 20

years or so. People are not always

predictable or rational and thus the

problems and issues that I face are often

new and surprising.

Electric utility work is not terribly

glamorous and most people only want to

know that the lights will come on when

they flip the switch. Americans are

particularly spoiled by the very high

reliability of our electric system. I was in

Zanzibar on vacation last year and there

had not been electricity to the island for

three months. I don’t think most Americans

can imagine being without electricity for

three months! In other parts of Tanzania,

electricity is only available for a few hours

in the morning and in the evening, at least

for those lucky people who have electricity

— only 11%.

At FRCC, we coordinate the grid

operations for the state of Florida and the

long-range plans for generator additions

and grid expansion amongst the various

utility owners. If we do our jobs well,

most people will never know about us.

For example, in January of 2010, Florida

experienced prolonged extreme cold

temperatures and the electric load exceeded

what was predicted for the year 2017. My

team worked very closely with the electric

utilities in the state to coordinate scarce fuel

supplies, air emission limitations, and grid

operations. We were successful because no

one lost power and the general public never

knew how close to the edge we were

operating.

It appears that the electricity business is

still going to be around for a while. The

challenges we face change rapidly; cyber

security threats, geomagnetic disturbances,

integrating wind and solar into the grid,

hurricanes and extreme temperatures. But

that’s what makes it interesting to me.

Sarah Rogers started her career working for an

electric utility. When she left, she had 800 people

in her department and was responsible for the

planning, engineering, construction, maintenance

and operation of the electricity grid in three states.

Today, Sarah is president and CEO of the Florida

Reliability Coordinating Council (FRCC), a not-for-

profit company that ensures and enhances the

reliability and adequacy of the bulk electricity

supply in Florida. Sarah was formerly with

Progress Energy for more than 22 years. When

she came to Florida in 2000, she improved the

state’s transmission reliability by 25% and safety

performance by 900%. Sarah also led restoration

efforts for electric transmission following the four

hurricanes in 2004 in which more than 680

transmission structures were severely damaged.

Contact Sally at srogers@frcc.com.

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Sarah “Sally” Rogers ’78President and CEO, Florida Reliability Coordinating Council, Inc., Tampa, Florida

Ensuring Energy for All

Sally Rogers started at Moses Brown as a junior in 1976, the first year Moses Brown accepted female students. “There were only about a dozen or

so girls that first year,” she recalls. “As it turned out, being in a small group was actually great preparation for me,” says Sally. “When I attended

my college engineering classes and when I started my career, the ratio of males to females was not much different than it was in those early years

of co-education at Moses Brown.”

What’s the top way your work will leave an impact on the world inhabited by future generations?

“At FRCC we work to ensure that the transmission grid is built to be reliable and resilient now and in

the future. We integrate traditional sources of power and renewable sources into the grid to ensure

that there is sufficient and reliable energy available. Conserving energy is not only cost effective, but

also environmentally sound. Conserving energy is easy when temperatures are mild, but it matters

most when temperatures are extremely hot or cold.”

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I COME FROM A MEDICAL FAMILY where

there was always some silent expectation to

pursue medicine as a career. I was initially

resistant to the idea of medical school even

though there were many things about

medicine I found appealing. I didn’t even

come close to completing the premedical

requirements in college. I really wanted to

make a decision that was mine and for the

right reasons. After living abroad, most

notably in South Africa, I realized that global

health was an area of medicine that I could

make my own, distinct from other medical

professionals in my family. As a result, I

attended medical school a bit later than most.

During college, I spent a semester

studying at the university of New South

Wales in Sydney, Australia. This experience

fundamentally changed who I was as a

person. I started to look at myself as an

individual within the world rather than an

individual within the u.S. It encouraged me

to live in places such as Finland, South

Africa, and now Zambia.

The primary aim of global education is to

provide individuals with a perspective that

there are many ways to look at one’s place in

the world. This is not something that can

necessarily be taught in the classroom as it

has much more meaning when it is applied.

Global education must also empower

individuals to believe that through passion

for a cause, some of our greatest challenges

around the world related to health,

environment, economics, etc., can be solved.

It is a privilege to work in the field of

global health, particularly in a country like

Zambia. There are so many healthcare

needs that the decisions physicians deal with

every day can have impact not just on an

individual but the entire country. I am

currently engaged in a research project

performing molecular tests on the spinal

fluid of HIV patients. Shortly after arriving, I

realized that the hospital was using the

wrong test tubes to collect the spinal fluid

which could adversely affect the results.

After working with suppliers and donors, the

hospital now has the correct collection tubes

and hopefully so will other health facilities in

the country. It is gratifying to be on the

frontlines of the HIV epidemic and feel as

though I have something to contribute. It is

difficult to see so many young people dying.

At times, the emergency ward can look like a

war zone with all of the complications of HIV

infection. However, I am an eternal optimist.

It is amazing to see how far we have come in

three decades of battling this disease.

The skill set that is needed in this

setting is obviously different than what is

traditionally taught in the u.S. There are a lot

of systems-based problems that can be very

challenging especially when you are not of

this system. In a resource-limited setting,

there are always issues of equipment

breakdown or shortage of supplies. There is

also a lot of unknown. There are many

interesting patients for whom an underlying

cause is never identified. You often find

victories in less traditional ways. I was able

to get a wheelchair donated for a patient

who lost use of his legs and whose wife used

to carry him on her back to appointments.

Some of the keys to working in this setting

are knowing the limitations, working within

them, and having patience.

MB stats: While at MB, Omar served on the

school’s Discipline Committee and created an

admirable record of academic achievement,

excelling in math and science. He also was a

three-sport athlete at MB — competing in

soccer, lacrosse, and basketball — and

enjoyed contributing to MB publications.

Omar began at MB in second grade.

Global studies: While in college, Omar

did a semester abroad in Sydney, Australia

(university of New South Wales), then a

post-graduate year at the university of Cape

Town. While in South Africa, he lived across

the street from the residence of Nelson

Mandela. Omar graduated from medical

school at the university of Rochester and

served his residence at Beth Israel/Deaconess

Medical Center in Boston. He also did a

rotation in India and spent time doing

research and providing care in the island

villages of Madagascar.

Clinical focus: Omar’s work focuses on risk

factors for the development of epilepsy in

the HIV-affected population of Zambia.

Omar is studying first-onset seizures in the

country’s HIV population because there are no

guidelines on how to manage these patients.

“The rotation I did in India helped me realize

that neurological problems are not just

problems of the developed world,” he says.

Omar Siddiqi received a diploma in African

studies from the University of Cape Town and his

medical degree from the University of Rochester.

He has worked in Boston, India, and Madagascar.

Today, Omar is a clinical research training fellow,

one of 14 selected by the American Academy of

Neurology, now working in Zambia. He can be

reached at o_siddiqi@hotmail.com.

Omar Siddiqi ’91

Global Healthcare

Omar Siddiqi and his family moved to Zambia last summer for his work in neurology research. “Zambia has to be one of the most beautiful countries in

the world and a great place to raise children,” he says. Omar and Liz have two children, Akayla and Zain.

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WE ARE LEVERAGING GLOBAL CONTACTS

to introduce our Swedish client to corporate

clients we know in China, and other

markets like Greece, where smaller-scale

renewable energy plants could be built for

companies looking to go green, get off the

traditional power grid, and generate cost

savings to their operations. From where we

stand, all parties win when such game

changing technologies can be introduced

into the mix.

Looking back, perhaps the most

important aspects that developed my focus

on global markets stemmed from the age-old

concept by the English Victorian polymath

Francis Galton of “nature verses nurture.”

On the nature side, my folks emigrated

from Hungary in 1956 and settled about

three blocks from Moses Brown. There was

a can-do attitude as part of my upbringing

and perhaps a sense that one can go into a

foreign environment, work hard and make

some progress, regardless of the obstacles.

Foreign language and a respect for other

cultures were also important aspects that

were stressed as part of my natural habitat.

On the nurture side of the ledger, I was

encouraged by my parents to learn German

(perhaps not so much Hungarian) and took

this to task at Moses Brown. I was really

terrible at German and required extra help

from German-speaking wunderkind

classmates like Karin Morse ’79 (Director of

Alumni Relations). I kept with it and in the

end, I went on to study German at Penn

(still struggling, but needed to complete my

liberal arts requirements). Perhaps learning

German at MB was one of the keys to

opening the door to my overseas work,

and life…

After college and a two-year stint in New

York, I moved to Budapest. From Budapest, I

moved to Vienna, where I met and later

married my wife Daniela, further expanding

my German-speaking roots. I met my wife

speaking German, although her English is

perhaps better than mine.

After five years in Central Europe, I

caught the overseas bug and moved to

Shanghai where I spent nearly five years

investing in industry in the mid-1990s. Even

then, I was working with German companies,

technology partners and employees, which

keep the language skills active.

I came back to Providence to start a

family in 1998 after ten years abroad. Four

great children later (all German-speaking for

that matter), I still focus my energies on

bringing u.S. capital and technology to

global markets. I largely concentrate on

investing in emerging markets, where the

growth and need seems to be greatest and

remain in constant contact with colleagues

in markets in Europe, Asia, South America

and, most recently, the Middle East.

I have experienced some success, and

also lived through some crushing defeats in

business, but I guess that is part of being

more entrepreneurial in approach. Perhaps

the most important lesson I have learned is

that nothing worthwhile ever comes easy.

Also, despite the challenges, hard work,

integrity and true friendship will also pay

dividends, all qualities taught to me in the

Shadows of the Elms.

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Renewable Energy In Global Markets

Tom Frater ’82 is managing director of Nova Capital Partners, LLC, an emerging markets investment bank serving companies throughout Europe, Africa,

Asia and parts of Latin America. Nova is headquartered in New York with additional offices in Johannesburg, South Africa. Among an international client

list, Tom represents a Swedish investment fund that has interests in the development, building and management of leading biomass and waste-to-energy

plants through Europe and Asia. Tom focuses his time on bringing U.S capital and technology to developing markets overseas, typically where energy

needs are at a premium and carbon footprints are afterthoughts. Among the challenges, he has mandates from the Ukrainian and Chinese governments to

build large biomass plants to allow municipal governments to burn less coal, or conventional fossil fuels, in order to generate energy:

Tom Frater came to MB in the fifth grade in 1976. After MB, Tom did a post-graduate year at

Lawrenceville. He graduated from the university of Pennsylvania, then moved to Eastern Europe to

work with his brother. Today, Tom works in global business, with his home base in Connecticut.

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Grant Fraze ’01Peace Corps Path

Having his fill of city life and cubicle work, Grant Fraze ’01 decided to join

the Peace Corps. With a community service background and ability for

languages, Grant figured he stood a chance, despite learning that less

than 50% of volunteers make it through two years of service.

An AP Spanish student, Grant wanted to go to Latin America — but

was placed in uganda. “I don’t think that anything fully prepares you for

doing something like the Peace Corps unless you grew up off the grid in

Vermont or something,” he comments. “A lot of it is mental, adapting to

the absence of things that have been there your entire life: family,

refrigeration, plumbing, electricity, TV, clean water. It’s a shock just

getting to your site, observing how people around you live, and seeing

firsthand the hardship they endure daily. Adopting their attitude makes

the transition easier; you realize that whatever you had at home was a

privilege you took for granted.”

Grant says his time in uganda taught him the importance of diversity

and how it enhances community. uganda is the size of Oregon yet home

to more than 30 languages and a handful of ancient kingdoms whose

descendants still hold great influence in regional affairs.

Grant worked for a nonprofit in Lugazi. As an economic development

volunteer, he helped small businesses and encouraged entrepreneurship.

Grant helped 25 women form a business making paper bead jewelry —

they raised more than $25,000 to put their kids in school and make home

and lifestyle improvements; more importantly, they invested in local

income-generating activities and were role models for their community.

“I’m happy to have contributed to some small change,” Grant says.

Coming home: After uganda, Grant did get to Latin America, working for

a biotech company in Brazil, teaching English to employees. He loved

working there and grew an appreciation for the country and its people.

He welcomes MB’s emphasis on “global education,” favoring exchange

and immersion, not just classroom instruction: “American culture is

spread all around the world,” Grant says, “but it’s amazing the lack of

knowledge and curiosity we have for other cultures. The most important

thing the youth can do today is learn new languages and become aware

of America’s role in a new world where other countries will be leading

the way and driving change.”

Joel Altman ’56Seeing the World

“In the mid-fifties,” says Joel Altman ’56, of Foxboro, “my sense of global

understanding was pretty much confined to Thayer Street, Lincoln

School, and the wonders of ancient civilizations and the ‘modern world’

described by Everett Raines and Ted Whitford, respectively.”

After graduating from optometry school, with the draft and Vietnam

War taking place, Joel entered the Air Force as an optometry officer. The

recruiter asked him what other language he could speak and he replied,

“Why, French, of course. Send me to Paris or Cannes.” He was promptly

assigned to the Panama Canal Zone. The recruiter bid him adieu saying,

“French, Spanish, it’s all the same. Have a good trip.”

Joel says, “That was the door to my visiting, exploring, and

immersing myself in most of the countries of South and Central

America, including a never-to-be-forgotten automobile trip from Panama

to New England. The point of all this: allow yourself to immerse yourselves

in other cultures and languages, and the rewards of global understanding

will be yours forever. Moreover, I learned some Spanish!”

Dick Meystre ’61The World on Film

Dick Meystre’s career as a filmmaker has taken him around the world,

covering the topic of global education. Dick and his wife June enjoy

traveling the world and Dick even made films about two significant

global programs: Amigos de las Americas and Semester at Sea:

“Experience in foreign cultures shows you how the game is played

with different rules. When you see how people do things differently

you’re forced to consider which is the best way.”

Here, we offer a snapshot of the lives and globe-circling paths of several

MB alumni. See Class Notes, pages 26-42, for more on MB alumni and

their varied paths.

Global Alumni

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Mike Gannett ’61 Peace Corps Pioneer

Mike Gannett ’61 lives in Burlington, Vermont. Post-MB, Mike served in

the Peace Corps in India. He says, “My vision of the planet at MB was like

the New Yorker cover of a New Yorker’s view of California: 80% canyons

of NYC, l0% Midwest plains, 5% Rocky Mountains and 5% California.

Mine was similar but extended only to Italy, where my Dad served as a

foreign service officer in Trieste and Rome. Flat tunnel vision warped

into a rounded planet post-college, however.” In his junior year, Mike

applied to the Peace Corps and was sent to India to work in rural villages

promoting the efficacies of eggs. He says the two years there expanded

his global awareness and shifted his world vision. “Peace Corps, India

altered my compass,” says Mike. He spent the next 20 years vested

in things India... including marriage, employment with a big bank,

welcoming two daughters there, and working as an exporter/importer of

Indian specialties. He returned to New England in 1985 and continues to

travel widely with his wife (“and will continue as long as health and

money hold out”). “I recommend a serious international component to

the lives of MB graduates,” says Mike. “Yes, Meserve, Paxton, Raines,

Whitford et al (our MB pillars) gave us firm footings, but that’s only the

start! ‘Leap out into the world ... and keep leaping’ is my impassioned

exhortation.” See what Mike did with his dusty Peace Corps slides at:

http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/ebooks/india_village/

Nick Salmons ’03 Building for Change

After spending a year working for Obama’s campaign, Nick Salmons

was accepted to attend the Natural Building Intensive, a four-month

sustainable building program at the Yestermorrow Design/Build school,

in Vermont’s idyllic Mad River Valley. Turning down job offers in

Washington, Nick packed up a few belongings, some grungy work

clothes, drum set, and an odd assortment of tools, and headed north. At

Yestermorrow, Nick was immersed in a totally new world — using his

hands to build with straw bale, cob, clay, stone, and wood. At summer’s

end, he had landed a job with the New Frameworks Natural Building

company and was putting his new skills to work constructing sustainable

homes for families all over New England.

Fifteen months later came a call from the International Lifeline Fund,

an NGO working on sustainable development projects in Africa and Haiti.

This time, Nick headed to the Oregon coast for “Stove Camp” — a two-

week bootcamp to make cooking in the developing world safer, more

efficient, and healthier for under $10 a stove.

“It was the wildest assortment of people I’d ever seen,” says Nick, “a

wonderful mix of mad scientists, engineers, everyday tinkerers, and

humanitarians fresh from the field — all gathered for a single purpose. I

felt instantly at home!” Nick’s charcoal stove — created specifically for

Haiti — was voted “best in class” by his peers. It used significantly less

fuel and produced less carbon monoxide than traditional stoves.

Nick’s experiences taught him what it means to use materials that are

abundant in the natural environment to create shelter or products that are

lasting, beautiful and sustainable. Now he brings those lessons to bear as

he changes how ugandans cook. Completing a four-month stint

distributing fuel-efficient stoves to rural villages in the war-ravaged and

environmentally degraded North, this year Nick embarks on the second

phase of his assignment, setting up a factory in the capital city of

Kampala. The ugandan-run factory will start producing charcoal stoves

that consume 50-60% less charcoal and significantly reduce harmful

emissions given off by their traditional counterparts. In Uganda — a

country where indoor air pollution from cooking is ranked fourth in the list of

serious threats to health — a good stove doesn’t just save fuel: it saves lives.

Learn more: See Nick’s blog at http://muzunguMeansWhiteboy.

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Peter Dwares ’62Adapting in a Changing World

“Moses Brown introduced me to the Model united Nations in 1960. We

were banging desks with shoes, mirroring Nikita Kruschev. Since then

I’ve traveled with ambassadors and others to Europe, Mongolia, Tibet,

South America, China, India, Syria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Japan etc. It’s

enriching mentally and spiritually to see how people live outside of the

u.S. and to meet people who make geopolitical policy. It’s also fun to see

different cultures, sipping espresso in a Cuban café talking politics, for

example. The world has changed. Fifteen years ago, the United States was

hegemonic. Now there is a Chinese block, a European block, there is the

U.S.-Canada block and others like Brazil, Argentina, India rising.”

Mike Gannett center

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Rob Owen ’71 Service Overseas

Rob Owen ’71 works as an international security consultant. This takes

him far from Virginia, from Panama to Colombia and the Middle East.

“Even my dogs wonder who I am when I return home,” he says. Rob

recently founded a Washington-based NGO called Light of the Lord Global

Missions (www.lolgm.com). His group has planted two churches in uganda

as well as a small business. One of the programs they support resulted in

the founding of the The Kathryn and Dwight Owen Education Centre in

Nyeihanga, Uganda, about five hours from Kampala (shown). Rob also is

involved with an effort in Africa that helps with milk distribution.

Julia Shaw ’02Global Health Scholar

As an NYu undergraduate, Julia Shaw lived in Florence and Istanbul,

studied art history and politics, and traveled throughout Europe and the

Middle East. Her travel experiences fueled an interest in international

human services work, but Julia’s first real encounter with public health

came through an internship at New York’s Legal Aid Society during her

senior year — where she learned about the high prevalence of HIV

among inmates and decided to write her senior research paper on HIV/

AIDS in New York prisons. This research gave Julia her first real insight

into health disparities in the u.S.

After graduation, Julia traveled to Geneva to participate in the quaker

United Nations Office (QUNO) Summer School, a two-week program for

young Friends. This let her talk to public health professionals with

experiences ranging from vaccine administration to negotiation with

world leaders on health policy. “One of the common themes was the shift

from thinking internationally to thinking globally, recognizing that human

issues transcend national borders,” Julia says.

While working toward her graduate degree in public health at Brown,

she has focused on global maternal child health. Specifically, she looked

at the interactions between infectious diseases and micronutrient

deficiencies in pregnancy in developing regions of the world. Last

summer, she did field research in the Philippines as part of a clinical trial

on treatment of schistosomiasis (a parasitic infection transmitted

through contact with contaminated water) in pregnancy. Now that she

has completed her MPH, Julia hopes to begin a career in global health

research, to help improve reproductive healthcare among populations in

the greatest need.

Here and abroad: “In considering global health and understanding, it

is essential to keep in mind that the majority of challenges that people

face transcend national borders,” says Julia. “While disparities between

developed and developing regions may be easier to identify, these

disparities also exist within each country and community including

our own communities here in Rhode Island.”

Photo shows her fieldwork in Macanip, the Philippines.

Charles Gross ’68Point de vue français

In the 1960s, language teacher Ted Whitford established a foreign

student exchange program through the American Friends Service in

Philadelphia with a public high school in Menton, a small city in

southern France. Each year, a boy from MB and a boy from Menton

would swap families.

Charles “Chas” Gross was selected to go to France for the academic

year 1966-67, and Dan Smets came to MB.

“The world seemed like a much bigger place back then,” recalls Chas.

“Aside from regular letters, I spoke to my parents only once on the

telephone during the whole year. As good as the language programs at

MB were at the time, nothing could really prepare me for the reality of

those first few weeks in a foreign school where I knew no one,

understood nothing and no one seemed to understand me.

“As the months passed by, I made good progress. By the end of the

school year, I was just another one of the guys, albeit with a funny

accent. To this day, I still correspond with my French host family, and I

remain grateful to MB for providing the opportunity to immerse myself

in different language and culture at such a young age.”

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STUDENTS HUDDLE IN GROUPS of four, looking at pictures

from their new friends, who live in villages near Kakamega,

Kenya. Some pictures are glued to paper, with queries

connecting to Quaker testimonies written on the borders.

Each student has a marker and is writing, responding to

what they’ve seen in the images, which were captured on

disposable cameras.

The room is silent, but the markers are flying in a written

conversation. Later, the students reread and reflect as they

work together writing paragraphs that they will use to share

their learning with the broader MB community. Before they

finish, they will create posters that highlight Quaker testimonies

and describe how the testimonies are reflected in the lives of

their Kenyan friends.

My co-teacher, Elizabeth, and I think about Global

Studies as having three goals: to emphasize process as

much as content, to impart global competency, and to

impart an ethical mindset. At a Friends school, we

endeavor to teach through the lens of the quaker

testimonies with time for meaningful reflection and a

focus on respect for others as well as on service.

The connection between Friends education and

global education is striking to me in its indication of

good pedagogy. As a teacher, I have always wanted to

bring my curriculum to life, moving beyond engaging

my students to making learning real for them. Over the

last six years, I have learned to take advantage of the

reflective, collaborative, and respectful foundation of

teaching at a Friends’ school to do so.

Over the last two years, I have studied the relevance

of global education and teaching for the 21st century

as another basis of my teaching. The ability of our

fourth graders to think critically about and apply their

knowledge of the Quaker testimonies as they reflect

thoughtfully on stereotypes, commonalities, and the

value in having a “buddy” in another country is nothing

less than inspiring. I am grateful to have the opportunity

to teach children in ways that I value and that I see

fostering global, communicative, reflective, analytical,

and ethical competence.

Carolyn Garth (shown top left, on right) joined MB in 2005.

Carolyn earned her B.A. from Tufts University, a Diploma of

French Studies from the Universite Lumiere Lyon II, and a M.Ed.

from the University of Massachusetts. She previously taught in

Amherst and Dartmouth, Massachusetts and at the Lexington

Montessori School. Carolyn served on MB’s global stewardship

task force. For more information on the project, or to purchase a

copy of the book produced by the class, contact Carolyn at

cgarth@mosesbrown.org.

Speaking Up: Marafiki na Kenya (Friends with Kenya)By Carolyn Garth, lower school faculty

Community (jamii)“On the outside, we may be different — with few similarities — but on the inside, we are much alike.” — Moses Brown Student

Fourth grade teachers Carolyn Garth and Elizabeth Grumbach partnered with several

Quaker schools in western Kenya for the past two years. Through the exchange of

disposable cameras and letters, students on both sides of the project have learned

about the lifestyle and culture of people on a different continent.

Fourth grade teacher Carolyn Garth describes her classroom’s

relationship with Quaker students in Kenya:

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A Vision for Strengthening Global Education at Moses Brown

This year, by means of personal reflection and departmental and divisional self-examination, faculty and staff will thresh these recommendations and

envision ways to integrate Global Education more purposefully into our programs.

Moses Brown seeks to produce “global stewards,” a rising generation

of leaders with the skills, values and desire to solve emerging local

and global challenges. To that end, the school is committed to

offering a “global education,” one that:

• Emphasizes the process of learning (critical thinking, creativity,

problem-solving, analysis and teamwork) as much as content;

What are the most pressing local or global issues that current MB

students will face in their lifetimes?

What knowledge, skills and values will MB graduates need to help

solve those problems?

What can we do to ensure that MB students are developing those attri-

butes, and the ability to use them wisely, compassionately and ethically?

• A robust program of student travel and immersion experiences;

• New curriculum, units of study and models of teaching that foster

global knowledge, skills and values;

• The regular presence of international students, scholars and

visitors at MB;

• A collaborative/coordinated program in Service Learning, Multi-

Cultural/Diversity Education, and Civic Engagement;

• Create expertise and engagement among faculty/staff through

professional development at the individual, departmental and

divisional levels.

• Enhance curriculum and pedagogy to support MB’s definition of

Global Education.

• Help MB students to connect with people, issues and places

• Imparts global competency (knowledge of other world regions,

cultures and issues, and the ability to communicate across

cultures by using other languages); and

• Develops an actively ethical mindset (basic values such as respect

for differences, coupled with a willingness to confront injustice

and make a positive difference in the world).

external to Moses Brown — local, regional, national and

international — in regular, meaningful ways.

• Explore ways to bring international visitors and global

perspectives more regularly to MB.

• Provide financial and human resources, incentives and recognition

to advance the goals of Global Education at MB.

• The adoption of new technologies, particularly online experiences

and teleconferencing;

• A substantial increase in professional development opportunities,

funding and staff;

• A series of promotion and recognition events and awards, for

students, faculty and the broader community.

For the past two years, these questions have guided the work of a

research team called the Global Stewardship Task Force. Their report

and recommendations, compiled by Matt this summer, answer these

questions and recommend ways to implement a program of Global

Education at Moses Brown.

During Opening Meetings with faculty and staff in August of 2009, the new head of school, Matt Glendinning, began to articulate his vision for the school,

building on MB’s traditions of academic excellence and Friends education. Matt challenged all faculty and staff to answer three fundamental queries:

After considerable research and discussion, the Global Stewardship Task Force endorsed the following definition.

As this vision resonates well with MB’s Quaker mission and identity, the team found many examples of “global” initiatives already underway at the

school. To implement a vision of Global Education even more systematically, and thereby prepare all MB graduates for success and leadership in the

21st century, the task force recommends that Moses Brown:

A period of targeted investment and growth will achieve:

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Alumni Connections Coast to Coast

D.C. Reception — February 2011

Ash Wall ’05, Rob Lavoie ‘05, Andrew Read ’05, Brad Engle

’05, Krystyna Metcalf ’05 and Ben Freedman ’05 caught up at

this annual event. Forty-two guests attended, including 28

alumni, four parents, and faculty/staff.

Head of School Matt Glendinning chatted with Chuck

Stuart ’56, Emily Schaefer ’03 and other guests.

Florida Receptions — January/February 2011

In Vero Beach, 14 past parents, alumni and

guests enjoyed breakfast at the Vero Beach

Hotel and Spa in January. A group of 25 peo-

ple comprised of alumni, parents of alumni

and past and current faculty members and

guests also attended the MBAA reception in

Palm Beach in February. They were lucky to

escape the especially snowy winter here in

Rhode Island. Former faculty members Jerry

Zeoli, Louise Heckman and Adele Espo came

to enjoy the reception. MBAA Save the Bay Shore Clean-Up at Easton’s Beach — April 2011

The Alumni Association joined Save the Bay for a spring clean-up.

Jon Pariseault ’97, John Baldwin ‘94 and Max Ricci ’94 (and their sons)

attended the clean-up at Easton’s Beach.

Melina Panichas ’18, Sia and George Panichas ’83, and George Panichas ’15

came as a family to help with the MBAA clean-up.

George Panichas ’83 and Dave Keyser ’89 celebrate their pickings.

The MB Alumni Association and Moses Brown School have partnered to provide oppor-

tunities for alumni to engage with each other and the school, locally, and from coast to

coast. If you would like to host an alumni event in your area or get involved with the

MB Alumni Association, please contact Director of Alumni Relations Karin Morse ’79 at

(401) 831-7350 x191 or kmorse@mosesbrown.org.

Washington D.C.

Florida

Rhode Island

Moses Brown Alumni Association

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San Francisco Reception — March 2011

Clockwise from upper left: Matt Glendinning and Jeb Barrett ‘01 catch up in

San Francisco.

Matt Glendinning makes a presentation at the home of Peter Dwares ’62.

Joe Ladd ’60 and Dan Young ‘54 at the San Francisco Alumni & Friends

Reception held at the home of Peter Dwares ‘62.

California

Join Us — MBAA events throughout the year, near and far.

MB Cupola: Class of 2011 join MBAA

www.mosesbrown.org/alumni

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215 alumni enjoyed the transformation of the Field House with fine food and lively music.

Top left: Alumni gathered in the Front Circle

for the All-Classes Reunion Reception on a

spectacular spring evening. Top right: Dick

Nourie ’51 and his wife Reenie enjoy his

yearbook. Left: Jesse Eschenheimer ’71,

Margaret Crotty, Rory Riggs ’71 and Rob Owen ’71.

First Reunion: Class of 2006

Reunion 2011 This May, alumni came together once again in the shadow of the elms to celebrate Reunion 2011. Drawing alumni from

near and far, MB connections and common bonds were strengthened as classes celebrated their 5th to 65th reunions.

Matt Paik ’91 travelled the furthest to attend Reunion 2011, all the way from South Korea.

Moses Brown Alumni Association

Class of 1986

Nine committee members successfully brought together 29

of their classmates — 37% of the class. At a special cocktail

party earlier on Saturday evening, the 25th Reunion Alumnus

Award was presented to Jeff Barry.

Class of 2001

Class of 1981

Class of 1991

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Ted Moran ’87, Terry Moran ’76 and Terry Moran ’06.

Three Morans came together to celebrate their reunions.

Class of 1946 met for dinner at

the Hope Club (l-r): John Dean,

Stanley Sorrentino, Bill Maguire,

Bill McCormick, Ed Cook, Bruce

Derbyshire and Bill Claflin.

Class of 1981: A core group of

1981 alumni caught up in the

Front Circle at sunset.

Tom Chappell is a true innovator. Few people were talking about the importance of natural products and

sustainable business practices in 1970 when Tom and his wife Kate founded Tom’s of Maine. But Tom’s of Maine

became an industry leader in natural care products while showing that good business and the common good don’t

have to be mutually exclusive. At times, Tom has also taken a different path in his personal life. In the late ‘80’s with

Tom’s of Maine flying high, he enrolled in the Harvard Divinity School, earning a Masters in Theology in 1991. He has

authored two books on his unique management style, promoting the concept of managing for the common good as

well as for profit. In 1999, Tom founded the Saltwater Institute, a nonprofit organization offering innovative

leadership development programs. A serial entrepreneur, in 2009 Tom and his wife again launched a new,

innovative business venture, Ramblers Way Farm. With ethical and sustainable standards at the forefront of its

practice, Ramblers Way is dedicated to creating superfine wool garments for everyday use. The company pays

homage to America’s rich history as a textile producer while breathing new life into the domestic wool industry

through collaboration with farmers and producers around the country.

Tom Chappell ’61, Founder & Former CEO, Tom’s of Maine, Founder, Ramblers Way Farm

Following his graduation from Skidmore College in 1990, Jeff served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer and English teacher in

the Comoros Islands off the coast of East Africa. He also initiated a project to raise funds to build a central marketplace in the village

for local growers, artisans, and fishermen. Jeff returned to the US and earned a Masters Degree in Environmental Economics and

International Business in 1995 from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. From 1997-2000, he served as a Research Analyst for

VentureOne in San Francisco, now a division of Dow Jones and Company, tracking the venture capital industry and interviewing

owners and founders of start-ups and venture backed companies. In 2002, Jeff and his wife returned to the East Coast and founded

Boston Organics, establishing a service that delivers fresh organic produce directly to consumers in the Boston area while supporting

local and regional agriculture. The company has a strong philanthropic corporate culture, donating all surplus produce to Food for Free.

Boston Organics also focuses its corporate giving in support of organizations that promote environmental sustainability, access to

healthy food and lifestyles, and local agriculture. Any free time Jeff has outside of his work is joyfully spent with his wife and three

boys cooking, eating, and building elaborate Thomas the Tank Engine sets.

Jeff Barry ’86, Founder & President, Boston Organics

Congratulations to the MBAA’s spring award recipients, recognized at Reunion.

Class of 1981 In the Waughtel-Howe Field House, the Class of 1971 was well represented with 31% of

their graduating class attending a Reunion function. Pictured here are 14 members of the

graduating class.

Matt Glendinning, Tom Chappell ’61, and

Habib Gorgi ’74.

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1940Robert Peck writes, “I was

touched by having my

comments lead off the alumni

portion of the last Cupola.

The photo of the MB faculty

brought back many memories

of such outstanding men —

many of whom I had classes

with.”

1945John Townsend writes, “My

younger son died in June. I

broke my collarbone and I

retired from Harvard Divinity

School, where I taught Jewish

studies. I am active writing

and attending seminars and

conferences.”

1946Bill Claflin lives at the foot of

Blackstone Boulevard about

one mile from MB, following

residence in Panama Canal,

Pawtucket, New York and

Wisconsin.

Bill McCormick has had a few

health issues, but he writes,

“They are under control,

thanks to good physicians and

modern technology. I am also

active in my church, which

helps, too!”

The Providence Rotary Club

announced at their centennial

celebration in May that the

Rotarian of the Century for

the Providence Club is

Stanley Sorrentino. Stanley

adds, “While a student at

Colby, I was doing magic

shows throughout the State

of Maine. The Rotary Club

of Waterville hired me and a

group of other entertainers to

perform at The Opera House to

raise money for a family whose

father was killed in an auto-

mobile accident. Over 3,000

people attended this fund-

raiser. That gesture of goodwill

made a lasting impression on

me and led me to later become

a Rotarian.”

1947Joan and Chuck Staples remain

very active in their volunteer

and community involvements.

He writes, “We attend many

cultural events: symphony,

opera, chamber music, ballets,

etc. Our travel had us in Croa-

tia and the Dalmatian Coast

last November. On our cruise

we saw historic cities, also

nature preserves, and took side

trips into Bosnia and Monte-

negro. In January we spent ten

days in Hawaii, initially three

days on Oahu, then a week in

Kauai with splendid ocean and

mountain views. In March we

spent 12 days in California, in

the Bay area and in Sonoma

County. I am hoping to make it

to my 65th reunion in 2012.”

1948 Class Correspondent

Marshall Cannell

25 Sheridan Road

Wellesley Hills, MA 02481-5418

781-237-0055

mca4nnell@aol.com

Stephanie Ogidan Preston ’97, Clerk

Keith Monchik ’90, Assistant Clerk

Timothy Rhodes ’80, Treasurer

Adrian Hendricks ’58, Recording Clerk

John Baldwin ’94

Angelo Bianco ’86

James Briden ’81

Cara Camacho ’97

Joyce Chang ’94

Pamela Fishman Cianci ’91

Albie Dahlberg ’87

Jason Engle ’98

Bay Hudner ’04

Hugh Hysell ’83

David Keyser ’89

Jonathan Tobias King ’90

Todd Machtley ’00

Laura Marasco ’94

Neal Pandozzi ’91

George Panichas ’83

Brian Panoff ’94

John Pariseault ’97

Joss Poulton ’07

Brad Shipp ’83

Ashley Haffenreffer Wagstaff ’82

Dawn West ’79

Richard White ’84

Thomas Wynn ’87

Katie Karpowicz Young ’99

Philip Zexter ’81

The mission of the Moses Brown Alumni Association is to foster lifelong relationships with the school and fellow alumni.

The Moses Brown Alumni Association Board 2010-11

Global reach: Several members of the Class of ’46 enjoyed themselves

at Reunion this May. Seven members of the class came to Reunion.

Due to the generosity of the class of 1948, four students pursued independent study last

summer, on projects ranging from climate change in the Arctic to the business of profes-

sional sports. Pictured (l-r) are Fran Sargent, Ray Mountain, Zach Leman ’11, Joe Picozzi ’11,

Arianna Riva ’11, Austin Jaspers ’11, George Nazareth and Marshall Cannell.

Bill Myers 48, an auxiliary

member of Flotilla 82’s U.S. Coast

Guard, along with Headmaster

Colonel Daniel Kennedy, awarded

76 graduates with their Florida

boating licenses at the Sarasota

Military Academy last January.

1948

1948

1946

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1949Tom Breslin writes, “First me,

then my daughter and son,

and now my grandson at MB.

Must be a pretty good place. I

saw Bill Considine recently and

he looks well.”

Robert Kellar lost his wife

Loretta last July. He shares, “I

am doing okay. I am now living

near my youngest son Barry in

Clarksville, Tennessee.”

1951Martin Cassidy is still active in

research of petroleum geology

and carbon dioxide seques-

tration. He writes, “These

are interesting times with so

much to accomplish. With

the education from MB, there

are few limits to what can be

accomplished. I wish I were

18 and setting out again. That

assumes that I know what I

know now!”

While Martin was looking

forward to Reunion, a back

injury prevented him from

travelling. He writes, “Having

lived four years in Libya and

traveled in the Middle East for

many years, I see how inno-

cent our U.S. leaders are when

they chose to attack one side

or another in tribal societies.

We will not win by violence,

no matter how well-meaning

the attack may be. Supporting

education, especially in sci-

ences, gains all people more

than expressing our opinions

with bullets.”

Fred Goodrich was still working

as of December. Home is the

farm that his parents bought

in 1937 in Barnstead, New

Hampshire. On the current

issue, Fred commented, “We

were pretty well insulated

from current global affairs in

the late 1940s/early 1950s at

MB. We were, however, re-

quired to take a “world affairs”

test every year. I believe it was

sponsored by Time magazine.

The test served to remind most

of us, with the exception of

Dick Chadwell who, I believe,

always scored well, that we

knew little about anything

going on beyond the East Side

of Providence. After 29 trips to

China, I now realize that there

is a lot going on in that part

of the world that requires an

Asian perspective to facilitate

commerce. As many American

companies have learned the

hard way, doing business is

difficult even when you think

that you understand the cul-

ture.”

Roy McKechnie’s oldest friend,

Charlie Kenyon — met at MB

in 1950 — died last October.

He writes, “We were one-year

post-graduate types. We at-

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Members of the Class of 1961 at Reunion 2011.

Fred Goodrich ’51 is shown at a wire-

less telecom trade show in Beijing a

few years ago. He attended the show

every fall for 11 years.

Thanks: Dick Burton ’54

After the last Cupola, Richard Burton ’54 wrote in, prompted

by the photo of the 1949 MB faculty. “Almost everyone was

instantly recognized and named, and all brought back a

flood of such positive memories — what a profound impact

each had!” Dick writes. “Each has since died — one true

regret is their passing has deprived me of the privilege of

thanking each one of them, not for the imparted facts of the

subject matter or the skills of the sport, but rather attributes

far more important. The crucible of life crystallizes the

awareness and appreciation of those individuals who’ve been

of positive influence, and of the nature and scope of that

influence.”

“The true value and core substance of the MB education

these faculty imparted to me was not just the subject

matter, but something far more essential to whatever

successes I’ve enjoyed. Each by the personal example/

role model of integrity and dignity instilled core values: the

awe and awareness of ‘the Greater Being/Presence,’ ethics,

commitment, hard work, discipline, curiosity, organizational

skills, priority setting, humanism, love of learning, self-

respect and self-responsibility, the joy of success by the

underdog — and, yes, sense of humor! These have stood the

test of time, and have been applicable across a great variety

of life’s unexpected turns.

“For Headmaster Mr. Thomas, Coach Howe, Coach

Waughtel, Mr. Henderson, Army Armstrong, Charlie Hutton,

Arthur Cate, Mr. Paxton, Everett Raines, Babe Herman, Frank

Fuller, Miss Chappell, Miss Cullen, and so many others — my

profound thanks and gratitude!”

A nationally renowned hand surgeon, Dick is senior associate dean

for academic affairs at the University of Rochester Medical Center

in New York. He lives in Pittsford with his wife Peggy.

Bud Brooks ’51 and his wife Isabel live

in Dallas. Some may remember Bud as

a teacher and “dorm parent” at MB; he

taught at MB after graduating from Brown

and has continued his career in teaching,

most recently at Brookhaven Community

College in Texas.

MB faculty circa 1949.

1961

1951

1951

tended Brown together, experi-

enced military service virtually

simultaneously. (Charlie

— Army, me — Air Force). I

stayed more or less in touch

over the decades. I miss him.”

Arthur Milot lives in James-

town full-time. Now retired, he

and his family are there most

of the time. The legacy contin-

ues: his son Charlie was Class

of 1976 and grandson Bret

Milot is in the Class of 2015.

Bud Brooks writes, “Extend

my thanks to the members of

my class who returned for the

reunion: Fred Barrows, Buzz

Halladay, Roy McKechnie, Dick

Nourie and Parker Scott. I am

with them in spirit if not in

body. I would like to be there

with them to share the events

and activities on Saturday and

the dinner in the evening, and

join with them in a toast to the

wonderful memories of Moses

Brown and our graduation 60

years ago. I’ve been looking at

our 1951 Mosaic, looking at our

pictures, the formal ones and

the snapshots, and reading the

comments. Such memories!

And, sad to say, we lost Charlie

Kenyon this year. I hope the

class has a great reunion.”

Dick Nourie is still married

after 54 years, five children,

15 grandchildren. “My son

Rich who taught at MB for ten

years, is now the head of the

Abington Friends School.”

1955 Class Correspondent

Jack Houriet

2525 Turner Road

Willow Grove, PA 19090-1625

215-657-3786

jwhour@jwhour.cnc.net

George Chappell became a

convinced Quaker. He writes,

“I’ve joined the Midcoast

Friends Meeting in Damar-

iscotta, Maine. They are a nice

group and I am happy with

my decision. I always skirted

Friends meetings in other

places I lived by attending, but

never made a commitment. So

this is something new for me.”

At press time, George was on

track to graduate from God-

dard College with his M.F.A.

in creative writing in June. He

has submitted the first draft of

a book of poems and hopes to

get a job as a writing teacher.

“I owe it all — learning to write

— to Meserve, Paxton and

Smith,” he says.

1956Steve Dretler writes, “Although

my 60-hour work week as a

urologic surgeon at Massa-

chusetts General Hospital has

trickled down to 16, I am very

busy with seven grandchildren,

Torah study, chess lessons and

ice skating lessons (my family

thinks I’m crazy). Despite the

problems that occur with

living, life is good. I miss my

dear friends Dan Cohen and

Fred DeCesaris.”

1957 Class Correspondent

Jerry Knowles

60 Blackstone Boulevard

Providence, RI 02906

401-421-9788

bigthundur1@yahoo.com

1961After several satisfying careers:

advertising copy writer/creative

director; film and video writer/

producer; real estate broker,

Victor Goodman has returned

to teaching English which was

his first real job back in 1967

at the University of Cincinnati.

He is an adjunct instructor at

Fordham University.

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Class Notes

Art’s Global Impact: Frank Robinson ‘57

After 35 years as a museum director (at Williams College,

RISD, and now Cornell), Frank Robinson ’57 recently decided

to retire, or at least go part-time. “It has been wonderful to

work in museums and before that as a college teacher in

art history,” he says. “A work of art is the meeting point of

so many different aspects of culture and society; I’ve had

to study European blowfish, the rural economy of the 17th

century, the effects of climate change on the arts, and much

else. As a museum person, I go from a leak in the roof one

moment to talking to an architect about a new wing the next,

and then on to a curator who wants to buy a Tang dynasty

bowl, and so on. The variety of a public organization like

a museum is endless; the visitors range from pre-K kids

learning about shapes and colors to Alzheimer’s patients

and their caregivers, learning about, well, shapes and colors,

and everything in between, from teenagers in sneakers to

scholars in various fields to major donors with hair as white

as mine. It has been a privilege to spend a life this way.”

Although Frank retired this summer from the Johnson Museum at

Cornell, he will continue working at Cornell part-time, doing what

he does now — seeing alumni and leading tours of museums here

and abroad.

Sunset at Carlsbad, Bob Krause ’63

presented work on the Moses Brown

campus earlier this spring.

1956

1963

Members of the Class of ‘56 enjoyed

catching up at Reunion.

Rembrandt van RijnDutch, 1606–1669Self Portrait Leaning on a Stone Still, 1639

African, Kota (Bakota), late 19th–early 20th centuryReliquary guardian figure

Chinese, Zhejiang provinceWestern Jin period (265–316)Funerary Jar

These images — some of Frank’s favorites — are provided courtesy of the Johnson Museum.

Bill Lynch writes, “A highlight

this year was competing in

the World Age Group Olympic

Distance Triathlon in Buda-

pest last September. It was

inspiring to compete with 47

men in my age group, 65-69.

I was very pleased to place in

my division’s top half and be

ninth of the 14 Americans. Ted

Whitford’s swim coaching got

me started.”

1963 Class Correspondent

Stephen Carney

191 Spring Road

North Kingstown, RI 02852

401-885-1753

ncb3@cox.net

1966Curtis Mays is now retired in

Sun Valley, Idaho and busy

relaxing, skiing, and hiking.

Stephen Morris writes, “I am

still churning out books and

articles as well as publishing

Green Living Journal. If you want

to see how we live in Vermont,

check out my novel, Stories and

Tunes, on Amazon.”

Al Hunt wrote to say that he

would be racing in Antigua

in April and would not be

able to make the reunion. He

says, “Let it be known to my

1966 classmates that Mike

Sweetser and I see each other

all the time between South

Dartmouth, Massachusetts,

Annapolis, Maryland and Port

St. Lucie, Florida.” Al can be

reached at taghu@aol.com.

1968Dave Hall writes, “I am a self-

taught artist and have been

painting full-time since 2003.

I am moved by the half-light

of dawn and dusk, and most

of my paintings are inspired

by the southwest Montana

and Yellowstone Park areas.

A piece of my heart resides

there, due in large part to the

poetry associated with the

convergence of family and

friends, moving water and

mayfly hatches. I live in Salt

Lake City and on Blaine Spring

Creek near Ennis, Montana.”

1969Winthrop Sanford is proud

to announce that his grand-

daughter Grace Louise

Goodwin was born last

September to his daughter

Heather Sanford Goodwin ’96

and her husband Dan

Goodwin.

1970Neil Brier coaches the Dwight

School’s middle school soccer

team which went 15-0 last fall.

Neil writes, “I am the associate

dean for student affairs and

CAS (Creativity, Action and

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Full On Winter: David Hall ’68 exhibited

at Tierney Fine Art in Bozeman, Montana.

Paul Sorrentino ’70 recently published Transforming

Vision, which describes multiethnic Christian

communities. The book offers a guide to multiethnic

ministry for church and campus leaders. Paul is

director of religious life at Amherst College and on

the faculty at Bethel Seminary of the East.

Paul Warburton ’71 wrote a book about baseball published by

McFarland in 2010 entitled Signature Seasons: 15 Baseball Legends

at Their Most Memorable, 1908-1949.

“My career as a documentary filmmaker has kept me learning with every topic I cover. Travel is certainly the

greatest educator. One of my most interesting experiences abroad was doing a film for Save the Children on the

rehabilitation of child soldiers in a refugee camp in Guinea. There, young men and women who were forcibly

taken as children and forced to commit the most atrocious acts were given education and counseling so that

they could return to society. Their stories were heartbreaking, but their courage was inspiring.”

— Award-winning TV producer Joe Lovett ’62 produced the first in-depth AIDS investigations for national television, airing

on 20/20. He also has produced national documentaries for PBS and HBO on AIDS in South Africa, global warming, and the

methamphetamine epidemic.

Working for Global Rights: Russ Carpenter ‘59

Russ Carpenter ’59 spent some time in December in Kabul,

Afghanistan. He went there as a member of the board and

executive committee of Global Rights — an international

human rights organization that works with local human

rights partners in difficult third-world countries — to assess

the Global Rights program in Afghanistan. That program

was established in 2000 to assist Afghan women refugees in

Pakistan who had fled from the Taliban, and has operated

in post-Taliban Afghanistan to promote women’s rights, the

rule of law, and access to justice.

Russ was powerfully impressed by the dedicated young

Afghan lawyers who have made the Global Rights organi-

zation the respected leader in training a new generation

of younger Afghans in Western legal and human rights

values. They have pioneered and taught law courses at

Kabul University in legal representation, Afghan rights, and

family law. They have placed and mentored their best law

graduates in Afghan human rights and governmental orga-

nizations. And they have established street-front legal aid

bureaus for victims of spousal abuse and denials of family

rights. Among other accomplishments, their courses have

integrated men and women in the same classes for the first

time ever in Afghan Sharia (Islamic) law schools. These

Global Rights programs will now expand to universities and

provincial capitals elsewhere in Afghanistan.

Russ comments, “Kabul was not otherwise a good

place to visit. The city has grown from 500,000 residents to

5,000,000 during the present war and is overwhelmed by

traffic, squatters, air pollution, trash and sewage, and cor-

ruption. Large areas of the city — controlled by the U.S. and

its coalition, the U.N., major western embassies, and Afghan

warlords — are cordoned off and inaccessible. In general,

the many Westerners who work there do not walk in the

streets and outside of work, there is little for them to do.

There are better places in the world to work and play.”

1970

1971

1968alumni poll

Service) coordinator at Dwight

and co-chair of the Brooklyn

Community Board 14’s youth

committee.”

Stanley Wachtenheim works

in the global markets, right

from downtown Providence

at Merchants Overseas, Inc.

on Bassett Street. Stanley

is president and CEO of

Merchants Overseas, the

largest 5-star U.S. distribu-

tion partner of Swarovski

Crystal and one of the last

jewelry companies located in

Providence’s Historic Jewelry

District.

1971Burr Stewart started his own

consulting practice last year

after almost 30 years at the

Port of Seattle, Washington.

1977 Class Correspondent

Gordon Ondis

43 Duncan Avenue

Providence, RI 02906

401-831-5636

gordonondis@gmail.com

1978Parker Ramspott has owned

and operated a bicycle store

in Amherst, Massachusetts for

more than 20 years. See www.

laughingdogbicycles to learn

more.

1979Roger Goodman was re-elected

to a third term in the Washing-

ton State legislature as the vice

chair of the house judiciary

committee. He is busy also

with his young children Vivian,

8, and Felix, 4. He and his

family live in Kirkland, a

suburb of Seattle.

1982 Class Correspondent

Ashley Haffenreffer

Wagstaff

136 Highland Avenue

Rowayton, CT 06853

203-899-1935

ahwagstaff@mac.com

Bill Baker and his wife, Meg

Filoon, and their two boys

have been in Charlotte, North

Carolina for ten years now,

but their kids’ ice hockey and

lacrosse passion has given

them a Southern geography

lesson, bringing them to

Atlanta, Annapolis, and

Cleveland (where they were

hosted by Perry Blossom).

They were in Rhode Island

for a tournament in January.

Bill sees Mark Melaragno ’81

in Charlotte and welcomes

other visitors. He also got to

see Peter Ramsden on business

trips to the area (supplying

the South with quality New

England seafood) and saw Les-

lie and Owen O’Neil, Nell and

Tim O’Neil ’80 and Christine

and John Gregg ’81 on Cape

Cod last summer. He says: “I

keep returning to Rhode Island

every summer in hopes that

I will get an invitation from

Ashley H. in Little Compton so

I can show off my beer belly!”

1984Stephen Griffin’s sons Riley,

class of 2016, and Chase, class

of 2018, are now together in

the middle school at MB. “It’s

great to be back in the MB

community.”

1986 Lawrence Knowles has been

living in San Diego since

2004. “These days, I write for

AOL News and teach ESL at

San Diego State University.”

Lawrence “Jerry” Knowles II

’57 joined his son Larry’s 25th

Reunion dinner in the field

house.

Michelle Smith-Gonsalves

lives in Barrington with her

husband Manny and children,

Lindy, 10, Sabrina, 8, and

Joseph, 5. She writes, “I’m

still good friends with Jeff

Durso-Finley and we get to-

gether many times over the

year. Also, I see Devin Kelly

and Tim Faulkner as they are

both in Barrington and have

children friendly with mine.”

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Class Notes

Class of 1976 met at Reunion this spring.

Henning Fenzell, George Fenzell’s ’77 son, shows

MB pride by wearing Blue and White. He was

born last October and is pictured here with mom

Jennifer Lefevre and dad George.

Harriet Dashoff Lockshine’s ’80 son Louis

Lockshine, 11, made the All-A Honor Roll

this past year at his school, Hans Christian

Andersen Elementary, in Rockledge, Florida.

Maurice Etheredge ’81 shares, “It’s great to

reconnect with the institution, which helped shape

who I am as a person. The curriculum challenged

me academically. The boarding department shaped

my independence and leadership skills. The friends I

made here at MB are for life.”

West Coast / East Coast: Christian Davis

‘86 and dad Joe Davis ‘61 enjoyed

celebrating Reunion together this

spring. Christian lives in California,

while Joe is in Newport.

1976

1980

1977

1986

1981

1988Inga Sidor is a veterinary

pathologist and assistant

clinical professor at the

University of New Hampshire.

She has been working

regionally (New England) with

a variety of wildlife disease

issues, including marine

mammals and birds. Most

recently, Inga was part of

a multi-agency group that

confirmed spread of virulent

strains of Newcastle Disease in

cormorants to the East Coast.

“This is certainly a global

pathogen,” she says, “with

potentially dire consequences

for wild and domestic birds,

and the New England

economy. We’re working to

create a Northeast Wildlife

Disease Cooperative to

assist state and federal wildlife

agencies to better detect and

track wildlife diseases.” Inga

previously worked at Mystic

Aquarium.

1989Dave Keyser writes, “On

December 29, Elizabeth Quinn

Keyser officially arrived on the

scene at 7 lbs. 14 oz., 21 inches

long. She met her big sister

Charlotte and everyone was

home just in time to celebrate

the New Year together.”

1990 Class Correspondent

Julie Reitzas

1688 Drift Road

P.O. Box 302

Westport Point,

MA 02791-0302

508-636-6928

tnbjr@msn.com

Adrian Hurditch just moved

to a new house in Seattle.

Contact Adrian at ahurditch@

yahoo.com.

1991Paul Dahlberg writes, “After 26

years of school, I am finally en-

tering the ‘real world’. It takes

some getting used to.” Paul

lives in York, Pennsylvania.

Lara Rosenbaum writes, “Hello

everyone! Nothing too huge to

report, yet, but I’m embark-

ing on my first book project!

I’m still a freelance writer for

magazines and websites. I still

live in Salt Lake City, but plan

to move by early spring/

summer of 2011.”

1992 Class Correspondent

Kelley Ciampi Wigren

8 Juniper Road

Wellesley, MA 02482

781-235-4512

kelleywigren11@yahoo.com

Last winter, David Dwares mar-

ried Catherine Novosel in Palm

Beach, Florida. Ned Silverman

was best man. The wedding

was beautiful and overlooked

the ocean, says Kelley Wigren:

“It was a truly fantastic week-

end, and we all had a great

time catching up! I look for-

ward to hearing more exciting

news from classmates soon!”

On hand at Dave’s wedding

(l-r above) were: Richard Was-

serman ’83, Eric Wasserman ’06,

Donald Dwares ’55, David Was-

serman, Aaron Simon, David

Dukcevich, Damon Yip, Kelley

Wigren, David Dwares, Peter

Dwares ’62, Andy Wigren, Josh

Holland, Rob Lancaster, Ned

Silverman, Eric King, and Patrick

Wasserman ’08.

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Save the date! MB Golf Tourney Returns

The Quaker Golf Classic will take place on Monday, October 3, at

Wannamoisett Country Club in Rumford, sponsored by the

MB Alumni Association. Space is limited to 120 golfers, with

registrations being taken now. Tournament proceeds will

support the MBAA Bliss Scholarship Fund and help MBAA

expand alumni programs. Cost is $225 per golfer, $900 per

foursome, and $25 for the 5:30 cocktail reception. The MBAA

also welcomes sponsors at a variety of levels. For more,

contact MB Alumni Relations at scordina@mosesbrown.org,

831-7350 x288.

Wannamoisett is regularly heralded as one of the top

100 courses in America and annually hosts the prestigious

Northeast Amateur. This Donald Ross-designed par 69

masterpiece has been ranked as one of the top 50 courses in

the nation by Golf Magazine, GolfWeek and Golf Digest.

At MB’s last golf tournament (2006), John Gower ’78 came

closest to pin and David DiSanto ’00 had the longest drive.

The winning team included Paul Ardente ’81.

Joel Volterra ’89 is living and working in

NYC as a geotechnical/civil engineer and

competing in triathlon and marathon

endurance events to raise money for

cancer research. Here, Joel is shown

getting his medal from Chrissie

Wellington at the Timberman Ironman

70.3 mile finish last August in New

Hampshire. To see more about Joel’s

efforts, visit http://pages.teamintraining.

org/nyc/lavatri11/jvolterra.

Adrienne Schaberg Filipov ’91

welcomed her first baby, a son,

Maximilian Alexander, with her

husband of four years, Sergei. She

writes, “Everyone is doing great

and still living in NYC. We enjoyed

coming to the 20th reunion in April

and introducing Max to all the

other class of 1991 MB babies.”

In February, Dave Dwares ’92 married Catherine Novosel in Florida, with Ned Silverman as best man

and several MB alumni in attendance.

1992

1989

1991

Last May, Kirsten Hall became

the U.S. Agent for the Bright

Group International, a London-

based children’s illustration

agency. She spent two weeks

in Thailand this February

researching, writing, and pho-

tographing a feature story on

elephants to run in the March

issue of Time For Kids Magazine.

Kris Photopoulos writes,”After

15 years living in NYC and

New Jersey, we moved back to

Saunderstown last May. We

had our third child on Labor

Day, little boy Carter Michael

who joins our son Kaiden,

5, and our daughter Chloe,

almost 3. My former com-

pany Wimba was acquired by

Blackboard in July so I am now

working for them.”

1993Christine Murphy Costello and

her husband Kevin Costello

became parents in April to

a boy, Charles. “Charlie, our

bruiser, weighed in at 9.2 lbs

and was 21 inches long.

Everyone is doing well.”

1994More ’94!

We received a request in a

recent Cupola survey: “More

class notes from the Class of

’94, please.” 1994 alumni —

can you send a note or photo?

Last MB knew, Mishaal Al-

Sulaiman had returned to his

home country of Saudia Arabia

and was involved in promot-

ing motor sports in the region.

Mishaal had formed United

Racing Company and launched

the Jeddah Raceway, the first

and largest project of its kind

in Saudi Arabia. Mishaal was

vice-chairman and executive

director of the project and

hoping to bring international

competition to the raceway.

Updates from Mishaal or other

classmates welcome.

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Class Notes

Global Perspective: Abby Demopulos ‘90

Abby Demopulos ’90 has been working in London these past

few years, posted on assignment at the European Bank for

Reconstruction and Development. Abby works for the U.S.

Treasury Department (International Affairs), which oversees

the EBRD for the U.S. The European Bank is an internationally-

owned institution which invests in Central and Eastern Europe

to promote transition to market economies.

Abby spent a year in Italy during college and a year

teaching English in Poland.

“I was fortunate that Mrs. Heckman and Mrs. Breindel

pounded Latin grammar into my head for six years,” Abby

says. “Later, when I had the opportunity to live overseas, I had

a leg up on Italian and some idea how to decode the cases and

verb tenses of Polish.”

“Latin was my favorite class at MB because it was a

mix of language and ancient history,” she says. “Languages

play a large part in global education, but a good background

in history, writing and mathematical skills are critical to

developing necessary analytical skills. The best way to develop

global understanding is to live outside the U.S. for awhile.”

In December, Jayma and Jay Sitton ’92

welcomed Henri to their family.

Doc for president!

Members of the Doc Odell Fan Club should get

on Facebook to get the latest updates on Doc

Odell’s doings. Why wait for the next Cupola to

get your MB news? The MB Facebook page has

updates on recent events, such as the spring mu-

sical Grease, Krause Gallery exhibits, Reunion

photo albums, and videos from SPAF this spring.

On April 1, many MB fans witnessed King “Doc”

Odell announce his candidacy for president in

2012 via video. See www.facebook.com/

mosesbrownschool.

Former faculty update: Paul Graseck

Former faculty member Paul Graseck can now be found in

Kentucky. Paul is director of cultural studies in Louisville,

a district with 100,000 students and 130 schools. “A new

experience for me!” he says. “It is a fascinating job. I really

like Louisville.” Paul oversees curriculum (K-12) in five areas

for the district’s 100,000 students: Social Studies, Arts &

Humanities, World Languages, Practical Living, and Music.

After leaving MB in 1987, Paul taught public high school social

studies for 14 years in Woodstock, Connecticut. While at

Woodstock, he earned his Ph.D. in educational studies from

the University of Connecticut.

Since leaving classroom teaching, Paul has been an

administrator, including curriculum director and principal,

in three different school districts. He also served as a high

school planning consultant for the Paul Cuffee School in

Providence.

1992

Welcome, Charlie! Proud

parents are Christine

Murphy Costello ‘93 and

her husband Kevin.

Elisa Magendantz Barton

shares an update from London.

Elisa says, “I’m married to Sam

Barton, a Brit I met back at

UPenn. I’ve been based in

London since 2001. I’ve been

working at The Wallace

Collection, an art museum in

the West End of London since

2006. I’m the head of events,

responsible for generating in-

come for the museum through

corporate and private hire.

Sam and I have two kids,

Robbie who is 3 and Nina who

is 1 so life is very busy!”

1996Margaret Symonds Hancock

and her husband have moved

back to Colorado from North

Carolina. Her husband Adam

teaches fourth grade at the

Aspen Elementary School and

previously taught at the Caro-

lina Friends School in Durham.

“It was so wonderful to see

him grow to understand and

love the Quaker philosophy

of the school,” says Margaret.

“Three moves in three years,”

she says. “I think we’ll be stay-

ing here for a little while!”

1997 Class Correspondent

Cara Camacho

216 Maryland Avenue NE,

#203

Washington, DC 20002-5749

401-742-4658

cara.camacho@gmail.com

Welcome, Parker! Zoe Street

Anderson ’97 and family

welcomed Parker Lily

Anderson in December. They

live in Clearwater, Florida.

1998 Class Correspondent

Jason Engle

114 Marbury Avenue

Pawtucket, RI 02860

401-475-4342

jasonengle@littlekidsinc.com

1999 Class Correspondent

Kirstin McCarthy

1511 Vermont Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20005

401-447-5770

kirstinmccarthy@yahoo.com

After State Department

assignments in Iraq and Italy,

Chris Curran has finished his

term as vice consul in the

Rome Embassy. Chris’ next

assignment, starting this July,

is assistant to the ambassador

to the United Nations. He will

be in New York for two years.

Brian Lehrman and his wife

April live with their family in

Marlborough, Massachusetts.

Brian continues to work at

Raytheon and travels to Asia

on a regular basis.

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Nancy Johnston Boissonet ’96 and family

happily welcomed Max, born last October.

They live in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.Becky Shaw O’Hara ’99 lives in Guangzhou, China. She works for

Rawlings designing and overseeing the manufacture of baseball and

softball bats in China. She’s a mechanical engineer (McGill U. ‘04)

working with aluminum, fiberglass and composite bats (wooden bats

are made in the U.S.).

Caroline Means ’00 married Sebastien Laye last year in Nonquitt, Massachusetts. Shown at her wedding are (l-r): Marla Nasser, Liz Silvia Frary with son Emmett, Jessica Brown,

Kai Schwertner ’02, Charlie Means ’69, Caroline Means, Sara Farley ’02, Maddie Means ’02, Howard Means ’63, Laura Gruber ’02, Chip Baker, and Bob Sheridan ’68. Theodore

Sedgwick Watson ’65 also attended.

2000

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1999

Become a FAN of Moses Brown at

facebook.com/mosesbrownschool

2000Elspeth Beauchamp received

her Ph.D. in tumor biology

from Georgetown University

last May. She has received

several awards and honors

while at Georgetown. Her

dissertation was related to

the treatment of pediatric

cancer and is expected to enter

FDA trials soon. She is doing

research at Georgetown, and

looking for a post-doctoral

position. She will likely do

her post-doc at Philadelphia

Children’s hospital in February.

2001Andrew Silver married Jenna

Adelberg at the Please Touch

Museum in Philadelphia last

October. In attendance were

Andrew’s dad Paul ’68 and

Andrew’s brother Nate ’06,

who was best man, along with

several 2001 classmates: Matt

Archibald, Noah Davis, Adam

Drobnis, Jeremy Forsythe,

Geoff Nelson, Jason Pappas,

Chris Savage, Peter Treut, Julie

Fritz and Erica Teverow.

Ari Heckman writes, “I live

in the West Village of Manhat-

tan and run three real estate

related companies based in

Brooklyn. MB friends remain

a large part of my life.” Ari re-

turned to MB for Reunion this

spring and hosted an ’01 event

at The Salon in Downcity Prov-

idence. Ari previously worked

for Cornish Associates and

played a role in the revitaliza-

tion of downtown Providence.

Ari’s newest company, ash,

offers loft living to city dwell-

ers. One of the most popular is

“World Village.”

Rebecca Tanguay finished her

last year at the Silver School

of Social Work at NYU. She

graduated with her master’s

and plans to work in addiction

treatment and become certi-

fied as an addiction specialist:

“I currently intern at the NYC

Department of Probation and

have developed the first wom-

en’s group and plan to create

training for probation officers

to better serve their clients.”

2002 Class Correspondent

Liz Donat

1285 Clarkson St. Apt #11

Denver, CO 80218

401-864-9600

emdonat@gmail.com

Another MB alumnus in

education: Matthew Fishbein

is the assistant director of

annual giving and coaches the

varsity football team at Thayer

Academy in Braintree, Massa-

chusetts. After getting his B.A.

at Wesleyan, Matt received

his master’s at the University

of East Anglia in England. He

lives in Boston and connected

with Cupola recently on Face-

book and attended the Boston

event in June.

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Class Notes

Survey Says: comments received after the last Cupola on MB Teachers

“As his first group of students in middle school, we

initially gave DAVID FLAXMAN a run for his money but

he quickly became a well-respected teacher, mentor,

and friend. Señor’s enthusiasm, passion for teaching,

and motivation to help students grow and succeed

academically and personally was unparalleled. RUTH

BREINDEL was also a wonderful educator; she was tough

but fair, and taught us more than just Latin — she helped

us learn how to learn.”

—Lauren Wier Guilhardi ’00

Andrew Silver ’01 married Jenna Adelberg in Philadelphia last October.

Pictured with Connor Hartley ’02

at his Nantucket wedding last

October are Scott Robbin ’02 and

Adam Freedman ’02.

Jenny Moniz ’02, Matt Glendinning,

Karin Morse ’79, Matt Fishbein ’02 and

Jackie Asadorian enjoyed the Boston

alumni gathering in June at Boston

University’s Castle.

MB-PC?Are you a Peace Corps alumnus, too? Cupola is looking for stories/

updates/photos from alumni who celebrated the 50th anniversary

of the Peace Corps this year. To date, MB records indicate a number

of MB alumni with Peace Corps connections:

Mike Gannett ’61 India

Chris Hill ’70 Cameroon

Richard Gittleman ’73 Africa

Peter Kilmarx ’79 Zaire

Jeff Barry ’86 Cormoros Islands

David Morsilli ’87 Albania

Elizabeth Drew ’88 South Africa

Elizabeth Lefebvre Winangun ’90 Africa

Chris Curran ’99 Morocco

Amanda Harter Fogle-Donmoyer ’99 Benin

Grant Fraze ’01 Uganda

Peter Treut ’01 Senegal

If you have also served in the Peace Corps, let us know:

email alumni@mosesbrown.org. Photos welcome.

survey says

2001

2002

2002

photo: PeaceCorps

Amy Ostroff has been living

in Yokohama, Japan for the

past five years working as an

educational trainer at a pub-

lishing company in Tokyo. She

emailed, “When I saw the topic

of your next Cupola, I thought

you might be interested to

hear about the earthquake/

radiation situation and relief

efforts from someone who

lives here and experienced the

earthquakes. I was working

about two hours away from

the Fukushima plant, in Chiba,

when the initial earthquake

happened. I am also in contact

with a bunch of the former

Japanese exchange students

who attended MB from Toyo

High School in Shizuoka, and I

am sure they would be happy

to contribute thoughts or

opinions as well. Over the

course of the past few weeks I

was reminded of some of the

Quaker values and lessons we

were taught growing up, and

now I clearly see the benefits.”

Amy can be contacted at

amyostroff77@gmail.com.

2003Jake Duhaime is now social

media manager for the Detroit

Red Wings. Last winter would

have been his fifth season as a

hockey reporter, but Jake says,

“Things change when the

premier franchise in U.S.

hockey comes calling.”

Adam Mignanelli’s new

photography book studies the

relationship of typography

and signage with the land and

people of Sicily. Adam writes,

“While working full-time at

Vice Media here in New York,

I plan to have an exhibition

and a book launch event for

Tipografia di Sicilia. More infor-

mation can be seen at http://

tipografiadisicilia.com. I also

have been running an art and

design media blog called The

Ballast with my brother Matt

’01. I often spend time with

Alexander Egan, Greg Katzen

and Caitlin Miller in NYC.”

Aaron Tracy finished his

master’s in healthcare

management at Duquesne

University in June. He will

start medical school at Sackler

School of Medicine in Tel Aviv,

Israel in August.

2004 Class Correspondent

Kori Burnham

250 Creek Street

Wrentham, MA 02093

508-954-3981

kori.burnham@gmail.com

Since graduating from

Wheaton in 2008, John

Campopiano has been

working as an administrative

assistant, multimedia archivist

and graphic designer for Ran

Blake and the contemporary

improvisation department at

New England Conservatory of

Music. This fall, John will begin

a master’s in library and

information science program

at Simmons, specializing in

archival education and music

history. He continues to

research and play in the 19th-

century American minstrel

banjo tradition in the North-

east and South. He is planning

to return to Iceland in July to

trek the infamous Ring Road,

and continue a photography

project documenting the

churches found in the rural

areas of the country.

Arian Rotondi Solomon

graduated from Connecticut

College with a degree in

women’s health and dance.

She took two years off from

school, working as a health

screening technician and a

personal fitness trainer. She

married Matthew Solomon in

2009. Arian writes, “He is from

Houston and received his MFA

from RISD in graphic design.

We now live in New Haven.

I am in the master’s nursing

program at Yale to receive my

women’s health nurse prac-

titioner degree. My husband

works as a senior graphic

designer and teaches at the

University of New Haven. My

program lasts three years and

then we’re planning on moving

back to Rhode Island!”

2005Jessica Gazin lives in Sunder-

land, Massachusetts where

she is a preschool teacher. She

volunteers with the Special

Olympics and Horizons for

Homeless Children. She writes,

“It gives me an opportunity to

work with homeless children.

I’m looking to go to grad

school in the next year or two

for early childhood special

education.”

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Adam Mignanelli ’03 self-published a photography book on Sicilian typography

and signs after spending time there in 2007.

Kristina Rigby Shepherd ’03 and Toby Shepherd welcomed their first baby

boy, Elijah, last March. Kristina writes, “Toby is in his last year of public

policy graduate school at Harvard and I am in my final year of my master’s

degree in nurse-midwifery.”

2006 classmates Jon Boc and Adam Tracy caught up with Alumni Relations

Director Karin Morse ‘79 at the Boston Alumni Reception in June.

2003

2003

2006

Become a FAN of Moses Brown at

facebook.com/mosesbrownschool

Gabe Amo is in England. Gabe

was awarded a Marshall Schol-

arship and began studying at

Oxford this past October for a

degree in comparative social

policy. “Moses Brown helped

me lay the foundation to this

huge opportunity,” says Gabe.

Gabe graduated from Wheaton

last year where he served as

president of the Student

Government Association.

2006 Class Correspondent

Nate Silver

2046 W. Cortez #2

Chicago, IL 60622

401-272-3319

silver.nate@gmail.com

Jacob Chase-Lubitz recently

worked in communications

at the Israel Palestine Center

for Research and Information

in East Jerusalem. He lives in

Bethlehem, West Bank, and

is working on improving his

Arabic. He studied interna-

tional business and manage-

ment at Dickinson College,

concentrating on the Middle

East. Jake also worked for the

U.S. Department of State as an

intern at the Foreign Service

Institute and attended the

American University in Cairo.

At the Israel Palestine Center

(www.ipcri.org), Jake directed

the Center for Public Media

and was director of strategic

affairs.

Tegan Mortimer writes, “After

spending four grey and rainy

years in Scotland, I finally

graduated from the University

of St. Andrews with a degree

in environmental biology and

geography last June. I’m now

located on the beautiful Isle

of Anglesey in North Wales

pursuing a master’s degree

in marine environmental

protection with Bangor

University. My summer will be

spent in Wales working on my

master’s dissertation, model-

ing historical sea-level changes

around the Isles of Scilly. So,

unfortunately I’ll have to miss

out on seeing my MB friends

this time!”

Carlos Avila writes, “Moses

Brown helped make me who I

am today in a very large way. I

hope my children can receive

the same kind of well-rounded

education that I did.”

Hanna Bratton returned to

college at The New School in

Manhattan after an incredible

three months in Central America

working on organic farms.

Monica Carvalho completed her

first semester at Teachers

College at Columbia University.

She will finish her program

in December with a master’s

degree in teaching (secondary

English education) and New

York State Teaching Certifica-

tion. She plans on teaching

high school English.

Kara Elliott-Ortega writes,

“Interested in the built

environment and cultural

studies, I examined the

potential of population growth

in Detroit and design-led

solutions to the problem of

“shrinking cities” in my senior

thesis at the University of

Chicago. That experience led

me to my current job running

media and communications

for the Society of Architectural

Historians. I’m still living in

Chicago, and in my spare time

I rabble-rouse and write for

gapersblock.com, a Chicago-

centric website.”

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Class Notes

The Class of 2006 enjoying their

first MB Reunion.

Alumni depicted varying locales in the Spring Alumni Exhibit:

Clockwise from top left: Somewhere Else in Maine, David Everett

’81, Comet, Reva Street ’05, Boston Public Gardens, Marc Mazzarelli

’81, Wind-sculpted icicle, Haines, Alaska, L. B. Chase ’58, and Water

Lilies, Robert Krause ’63.

The Class of 2006 has the largest facebook page: 89 members

Countries:

798 U.S.

10 Canada

7 Japan

3 each – United Kingdom, Italy

2 each – Spain, Pakistan

Cities

274 Providence

43 Boston

32 West Warwick

30 New York

26 Chicago

20 Seattle

Languages

805 English (U.S.)

26 English (U.K.)

5 Japanese

4 Spanish

1 German

1 Leet Speak

A global community — countries and languages represented by MB’s facebook fans:

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2007 Class Correspondent

Lindy Nash

1312 Narragansett Blvd.

Cranston, RI 02905

401-527-0896

linden.nash@conncoll.edu

Last September at UC Berkeley,

before the start of the lacrosse

season, Emily Abbood learned

the university was dropping

women’s lacrosse due to cost-

cutting. Emily’s school gave

the teams a choice to play this

season’s schedule or not. For

Emily, there was no choice.

Cal won three games and lost

one. She said that a sustaining

goal this season is to prove

to the country that women’s

lacrosse at Cal should not

have been cut. A public health

major, she cites the innovative

work being done to allow for

self-directed intervention for

obesity where patients choose

to join an online program to

address the issue. Emily wants

to be part of the change that

can better facilitate relation-

ships between doctors and

patients. With medical school

in her future, she would also

like to earn a master’s degree

in public health.

Eli Cushner writes, “Hey,

everyone! I hope you all have

a magical graduation!” Eli

Cushner was a Class of 1948

Independent Study Award

winner and attended the

McBride Magic School in Las

Vegas in 2006.

2008 Class Correspondent

Natalie Triedman

283 Wayland Ave.

Providence, RI 02906

401-575-3142

natalie_triedman@

coloradocollege.edu

2009 Class Correspondent

Betsy Tammaro

69 Londonderry Way

Uxbridge, MA 01569

401-477-6545

betsy.tammaro@gmail.com

Alexander Bloom writes, “I

finished my sophomore year

at Wheaton College. I love it

here! I declared my major,

psychology, with a minor in

education. Maybe I will be back

at MB to teach some day!”

Egyptian Odyssey: Dana Weiner ‘07

Duke student Dana Weiner ’07 spent a semester studying

in Egypt last year. Dana attended the American University

in Cairo and lived in Zamalek. Dana took classes on

management and media ethics, ancient Egyptian technology,

museum management, and a colloquial Arabic class. She

also got to experience Egypt winning the African Cup in

soccer, which she calls “amazing. Soccer is the biggest, most

popular sport in the country, and people flooded the streets

waving Egyptian flags (myself included) to show pride for the

country and excitement about the win. I saw families packed

into small cars, buses crowded over capacity, and people

walking in the middle of highways. It was an incredible

display of Egyptian pride.”

“Egypt is a beautiful country with diverse terrain,”

she says. “Cairo is a big, busy, city, New Cairo is a sandy

desert, and Gouna is a beach paradise. The versatility in

environments is impressive.” While in Egypt, Dana also got

to go sandboarding (like snowboarding on sand dunes) in

the Sahara desert. She also went on a Nile cruise and even

visited with the extended family of Habib Gorgi ’74 in Giza.

Dana graduated from Duke this June and plans to attend law school.

King “Doc” Odell has taught world languages to countless MB

students over the years. This summer, he caught up with 1997

alumni Sarah Chiappetta and Katie Howard Hart at the Boston

Alumni Reception.

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in to CAMPUSLINK, MB’s online directory, at www.mosesbrown.org | SEE

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special events and regional gatherings near you.

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Class Notes

Welcome, Class of 2011MB and Away: Class of 2011 heads off to destinations far and wide

2011 DestinationsThe most popular colleges to which our students applied included

Boston University, Northeastern, Brown, Syracuse and Tufts. Our

Ivy acceptances were strong: seniors were offered enrollment

at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, and Princeton. Boston

University and Tufts have the highest rates of MB attendance,

each enrolling six graduates, while five went to Brown.

The following institutions admitted the highest numbers of

MB students: Boston University, Northeastern, the University of

Rhode Island, and the University of Vermont.

We are extremely proud of the Class of 2011 for expanding

their thinking and choices beyond colleges that are traditionally

popular among New England students. Many seniors actively

researched a range of powerful schools, using consortiums such

as Colleges that Change Lives (CTCL). Students were accepted at

many schools outside of New England, such as the University of

Michigan, Northwestern, Stanford and Occidental.

Moses Brown seniors were also drawn to the southern states,

with graduates applying to the University of Mississippi, the

University of South Carolina, the University of Texas/ Austin, the

University of Miami, and Tulane; some adventuresome seniors

decided to venture abroad, looking at the University of Edinburgh

and McGill.

Student Senate President Joe Picozzi ’11 took the wide view at

Commencement this June, asking classmate Austin Jaspers to

capture the moment on his camera. “Graduation means the

end of an era for a lot of us,” he said. “We have to start over.

Everyone’s going to be the new kid again. We’re going to have

to find our way around new buildings, get used to new teachers,

find new friends. Personally, I’m pumped. Moses Brown is the

type of school that encourages its students to get out there and

try new things. At MB, we participated in Harkness discussions

instead of lectures. We played sports we never would have

otherwise, and we all performed hours of community service.

Through these experiences, we learned new ways to think; we

met new people, and we grew as people. Moses Brown taught us

to be comfortable outside of our comfort zone.”

Stay in touchFan Moses Brown School on facebook.com/mosesbrown

school to see recent videos and campus news.

Visit www.mosesbrown.org/alumni or contact

alumni@mosesbrown.org.

“Do what you’re good at. Do what your special abilities call you to

do. Working together in this way, we can all make a better world.

… Never before have we lived in a time where we need more

ethical examples. Those who go out into the world to take will

ultimately be shortchanged. Those who go out into the world to

give will find their lives and the world transformed.”

Tom’s of Maine founder and former CEO, Tom Chappell ’61,

delivered MB’s Commencement address.

Congratulations to all of this year’s MB “Lifers” — their careers truly spanned the MB experience.

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Robert Whitaker, Class of 1929, a Phi Beta Kappa

graduate of Williams College, was a lieutenant

commander in the Navy in World War II. He worked

for 36 years at the William Haskell Manufacturing

Company in Pawtucket as director, vice president and

general manager. He later was business and

development manager for Central Congregational

Church in Providence, where he was instrumental in

purchasing and creating Hamilton House as a senior

community center. Robert enjoyed summers at his

home in Westport Harbor sailing his Beetle Cat.

(2/2/11)

Philip Kelsey, Class of 1934, spent his first 12 years

on the West Bank in Ramallah, Palestine, where his

father served as principal of the Friends Boarding

School and minister of the Quaker Meeting. He

graduated from Guildford College, then received a

divinity degree at Boston University and a master’s of

divinity at Hartford Seminary. He served as a

congregational minister in numerous churches in

New England and New York and as interim pastor of

the Frankfort Church in Philadelphia. He was an

English teacher at Atlantic City Friends School and

Atlantic City High School. Because of his Quaker

beliefs, Philip was always involved in anti-war and

peace activities and registered as a conscientious

objector, refusing to take up arms in World War II.

(2/15/11)

Robert Thomas, Class of 1934, a Brown graduate,

served in the Army in the ETO during World War II.

He worked as an insurance underwriting executive of

the AMICA Insurance Company for 35 years and was

a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, the

Yankee Trailers Hiking Club, the Newman YMCA, and

the First Baptist Church in America. After retiring,

Robert finished climbing all of New England’s 4000 ft.

mountains and traveling to all of the 50 states.

(3/1/11)

H. Gordon Fraser, Class of 1937, a graduate of

Amherst College, was a veteran of World War II where

he served as a PT boat captain in both the Atlantic

and Pacific. He worked for the A.T. Wall Company,

where he retired as vice president. (8/2/10)

In Memoriam

Moses Brown publishes memorial notes based on published obituaries. Please forward to Office of Alumni Relations,

Moses Brown School, 250 Lloyd Avenue, Providence, RI 02906; fax (401) 455-0084; email alumni@mosesbrown.org.

R. Clinton Fuller, Class of 1943, professor emeritus of

biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts,

graduated from Brown and earned his Ph.D. at

Stanford in microbiology. Clint believed in an

international scientific community without political

boundaries, and produced hundreds of published

journal articles. He was a recipient of the Alexander

von Humboldt fellowship at the University of

Freiburg, and was awarded an honorary doctoral

degree at Moscow State University. Clint’s scientific

research, especially into the biochemical mechanisms

of photosynthesis, remains pivotal to the

understanding of how plants turn sunlight into

energy. (10/18/10)

Henry Fales, Class of 1944, was drafted into the Army

Air Corps, where he was trained as a ball turret

gunner on B-17s, then attended Colby College on the

GI Bill. After leaving his position as an engineer/

programmer at General Electric, he worked as a

handyman for senior citizens and as a computer

operator for the Nauset Regional School system. In

retirement, Henry became interested in ham radio,

achieving the highest amateur radio license, Extra. He

was a member of the board of the Orleans Council on

Aging where he also taught computer classes and

helped many seniors set up their home computers. He

was designated Volunteer of the Year in Orleans in

2002 and was honored by Elder Services of Cape Cod.

(2/15/10)

J. William Nutter, Class of 1944, an Eagle Scout,

graduated from Yale, George Washington Law

School, and the Naval Justice School. He served as

a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and was called back

into service during the Korean War. He was

employed by the federal government, serving as chief

majority counsel for the Indians Claims Commission.

He devoted 18 years to coaching his daughters in

softball, basketball, and soccer and was active at

their schools, serving several years as PTO president.

(11/3/10)

Peter Arnold, Class of 1946, served in the U.S. Army

after MB and was employed by the Coats and Clark

Company for 43 years. He was an active member of

St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church in Olathe, Kansas and

also achieved the rank of 32nd Degree Mason. Peter’s

favorite lifelong hobby was ham radio. (4/3/11)

Clarence Smith, Class of 1946, served as a U.S.

Marine during the Korean Conflict as 2nd Lieutenant

and received many citations including Service Medal

with two stars and the United Nations Service Medal.

Employed as a salesman, he was also a member of

Medina VFW Post 5137 and enjoyed making jewelry

and telling jokes. (12/5/10)

John Paulson, Class of 1947, a research chemist who

worked at the Air Force Geophysics Lab at Hanscom

Field, Bedford, graduated from Haverford College and

earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of

Rochester. He was the recipient of two prestigious Air

Force awards and was internationally recognized for

his research on atmospheric chemistry. John served

as president of the Hanscom chapter of Sigma Xi.

(8/3/10)

Francis Beckett, Class of 1948, attended Brown until

his schooling was interrupted to serve in the Navy

during the Korean War, after which he received his

bachelor’s degree from UCLA. Frank settled in Los

Angeles and joined the Hughes Aircraft Company as a

beginning engineer and retired as a top executive in

the Missile Systems Group. A frequent visitor to the

Pacific Northwest, with a keen water-lover’s interest

in the Columbia River, Frank chose to relocate to

Washington upon retirement. (4/28/11)

David Lubrano, Class of 1948, a graduate of Brown

University, received his M.B.A. from the Tuck School

of Business at Dartmouth College. During the Korean

conflict, he was stationed in Seoul serving with the

U.S. Army Military Police and received his combat

infantry badge. After starting as a certified public

accountant for Arthur Anderson, Dave co-founded

National Medical Care. He was chief financial officer

of Apollo Computer Inc., helping to establish Route

128 as the east coast challenger to California’s Silicon

Valley, and later founded his own venture capital

firm, 21st Century Ventures, Inc. Dave served on the

board of trustees of MB and many other schools and

organizations. For a time, he was co-owner of the

Pleasant Mountain Ski Resort and helped install the

mountain’s first triple chair. Dave enjoyed piloting his

boat, The Satin Doll, on the waters of Moose Pond in

Maine. (2/23/11)

Frederick Gleason, Class of 1949, spent two years in

the Navy before attending Brown, graduating with a

degree in history while playing football and baseball.

He worked in marketing for Mobil Oil and retired as

president of one of its operating subsidiaries. He and

his wife lived in Beaufort, South Carolina before

settling in Richmond, Virginia. (5/22/10)

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John Dauray, Class of 1950, graduated from Boston

University with a degree in business. He worked for

his father at Electric Maintenance in Woonsocket for

several years before opening Dauray Furniture in

Linwood, Massachusetts. Later he worked for several

furniture stores and went on the road as a furniture

and rug salesman. John enjoyed genealogy, coin

collecting, antique cars and archeology, and was

proud of a quartz quarry he found that was published

in a national magazine. He was a member of the

Pomfret Lion’s Club and the Unitarian Church in

Uxbridge, Massachusetts. (11/26/10)

Robert Larson, Class of 1953, graduated from

Wesleyan University and received an M.S. from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked for

Exxon and then as a consultant. While living in New

Jersey, Bob was an avid volunteer. He tutored children

and spearheaded a $200,000 renovation of a home for

boys. Most recently, he lived in Fairport, New York.

(5/6/10)

Craig Watjen, Class of 1953, graduated from

Harvard, then received his B.S. in music from the

Julliard School, a master of music in clarinet from the

New England Conservatory of Music, and an M.B.A.

from the Stanford University Graduate Business

School. After spending ten years at Microsoft, he co-

founded Light Sciences Oncology, Inc., a leading-edge

cancer research group. Craig served on several boards

including the Seattle Symphony, where his

contribution made possible the purchase of the

Watjen Concert Organ. Craig played clarinet with the

Boston Symphony, the Boston Pops, and the North

Carolina Symphony. (8/13/10)

Cyrus Hamlin, Class of 1954, professor emeritus of

German and comparative literature at Yale University,

received his B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Yale.

He was professor of English and comparative

literature at the University of Toronto and co-founded

the undergraduate program in literary studies. At

Yale, he served as chair of the departments of

German and comparative literature and served as

chair of theater studies and president of the

Elizabethan Club and Manuscript Society. He was

visiting professor at many schools, in the U.S and

abroad; his published work focused on the poetry of

Friedrich Hölderlin, Goethe’s Faust, and the poetics of

European Romanticism. (1/9/11)

K. Dun Gifford, Class of 1956, a graduate of Harvard

College, Harvard Law School, and the U.S. Navy

Officers Candidate School, served in the U.S. Navy,

specializing in navigation, reaching the level of

lieutenant, junior grade. He received an honorary

doctorate in humane letters from Cambridge College.

Dun began his career at the Department of Housing

and Urban Development, researching policy proposals

for the White House, and later worked as a legislative

assistant to Sen. Edward Kennedy, and became a

national campaign coordinator during the presidential

bid of Sen. Robert Kennedy. He witnessed Senator

Kennedy’s assassination and helped subdue the

assailant, Sirhan Sirhan. In Boston, he became vice

president of Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, and then founded

the Great Bay company, which played a role in

construction projects such as Copley Place and

Fanueil Hall Marketplace. Dun was named chairman

of the national American Institute of Wine and Food,

and subsequently founded Oldways Preservation

Trust, a nonprofit organization which promotes

healthy and sustainable diets around the world. He

was active in land conservation, helping shape the

Islands Trust Bill and co-founding the Nantucket Land

Council. An avid, competitive sailor, Dun served as

the navigator for the successful defense of America’s

Cup aboard the Constellation. He also survived the

sinking of the Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria while

travelling home from a family vacation. (5/9/10)

Edward Baram, Class of 1957, was a graduate of the

New York Military Academy. He loved tennis and golf

and was an avid gardener. Ed lived in Narragansett.

(3/4/11)

R. Gregory Green, Class of 1963, a resident of Santa

Fe, graduated from Brown and RISD and attended

Harvard University Special Courses. He was a U.S.

Army Engineer Officer Candidate School graduate at

the end of his service at the Pentagon in Washington,

D.C. where he was awarded a Joint Commission

Medal. Greg was owner and Chief HR Officer at North

Star Human Resources and was senior advisor at

Strategic Development Worldwide in San Diego. He

was also proud to be a member of the Society of

Cincinnati and the Native American All Nations

Stronghold. (3/29/11)

Ralph Richardson, Class of 1965, graduated from the

University of Pennsylvania where he studied

architecture with Louis Kahn. His musical career

began with local bands which he managed and played

in, including the Mamas and the Papas. A talented

architect and designer, he designed several residences

in Hollywood, California. As an entrepreneur, Dick

created several design-based enterprises including the

Coach Corporation in Arizona, and most recently, the

Great Orb Corporation. (2/11/11)

Lawrence Carrera, Class of 1984, was an analyst at

Advantage Technical Resources. He was a former

Providence resident and had lived in Cranston for the

past year with his family. His memorial service was

held at the Providence Friends Meeting House.

(3/10/11)

Justin Linton, Class of 1993, an avid sports fan,

attended the University of Rhode Island. He worked

for Blackstone Catering and previously was a

bartender for TGIFridays. Justin lived in East

Providence. (5/19/11)

Former Faculty/Staff

Hilda DeLisi worked at MB from 1976-2004. She was

the girls’ equipment and locker room manager and

later worked in food services. Hilda lived in Orlando,

Florida. (12/18/10)

Charles Hutton taught in the science department

from 1942-1956. He was also on the faculty of

Westtown Friends School, headmaster of Oakwood

School, headmaster of Wilmington Friends School,

and head of the School Consortium of New Jersey.

Charles worked as a fundraiser and development

consultant for Marts and Lundy, Hutton Associates

and the Appalachian College Association. (2/12/11)

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Looking Forward

Do you know of a classmate doing

work of a forward-looking nature?

The next issue of Cupola will have a

futuristic feel. We are looking for

stories about alumni doing work that

is forward-thinking. Send comments/

suggestions/stories to Managing

Editor Kristen Curry at kcurry@

mosesbrown.org

Send news/notes/photos/

feedback to: Susan Cordina,

Class Notes Editor, Alumni Relations,

Moses Brown School alumni@

mosesbrown.org

Share comments on Cupola at our

online survey: www.mosesbrown.org

Former Faculty & StaffGeorge Sipp, former middle school head, visits New England

periodically to see family. His wife Jan passed away three years

ago. They lived in Florida for almost 30 years. George now lives

near his son in Kansas City. He writes, “I am comfortable here in

Kansas City (where I never in my wildest dreams expected to

live!); I found that it’s a modern, cosmopolitan city, not the

frontier town I somehow pictured in my mind. Despite a few

physical setbacks, I can say with reasonable conviction that I’m

doing quite well for an old guy of 83.”

Former middle school science teacher

Ellie Wickes is now working in real

estate, showing and selling properties

in the coastal towns of southeastern

Massachusetts and Rhode Island. She

recently joined William Raveis

Chapman Enstone Real Estate. “I like it

because I use many of the skills I used

teaching,” says Ellie, “which are

problem solving, communication and

networking. I’ve sold some houses to teachers and students and

would love to work with more!” Ellie also has continued working

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Providence, R.I. • Fred Blackall ’68, 20 Stimson Ave. (less than a mile away)

Pennyslvania • Mark Castro ’01, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Missouri • Howard Caldwell ’41, Lee’s Summit, member of the MB Athletic Hall of Fame

Utah • Stephen Brown ’79, Sandy, president of a cross-continent trucking company

California • James Allen ’54, Northridge, geography professor at Cal State

Alaska • Ralph Lynch ’68, Anchorage, cold fusion/data research

Hong Kong • Isabella Cha-Yang Lo ’84, Kowloon, textile designer

Korea • Wonki Park ’98, Seoul, co-founder, Korea Lacrosse Association; bicycle

importer/distributor

Nepal • Stan Armington ’60, Kathmandu, director of Malla Treks

Last fall, George visited MB and met Head Matt

Glendinning, with his sister-in-law Conkie Howland: “My

recollection of the school in the 1960s is of a creaking, drafty,

slightly shabby old building, housing a dynamic faculty and

hundreds of happy boys. My observation of today’s school

strongly suggests a similar dynamic faculty and hundreds of

happy boys and girls housed in a very welcoming

environment. I could hardly believe the changes!”

with young people. She helped teach the fifth grade boat

building unit at the Paul Cuffee School for several years, and has

also done some math tutoring. This past year, she did some

educational coaching at MB with middle and upper school

students to help them with organization, study skills, and

resource management. “I really enjoy the interaction,” says Ellie.

“I run into past students often and it is very rewarding. They are

all thriving and making their way in the world. I feel very lucky

to have been part of the process. For fun, I have taken up golf. I

say that with tongue in cheek because it is fairly difficult but I

am enjoying it and playing some beautiful courses. Life is good.”

Say hello to Ellie at ewickes@gmail.com.

Amazing Race

If you start at MB, can you make it around

the world on your MB connections? A

recent scan of MB’s records shows several

alumni living around the world — not a

comprehensive list by any means, but a

sampling. Have you moved and wish to

update MB? Email alumni@mosesbrown.org.

Israel • Sari Ryvicker Mansheim ’89, Yad Binyamin, physician

Belgium • Laraine Laudati ’71, Brussels, attorney

Netherlands • Peter Silverstein ’81, PR Onnen, founder/teacher, Art Academy

of Utrecht

United Kingdom • John Horrell ’45, retired (Blitz to MB: John came to MB

during WWII to escape the bombing of London)

Aruba • Louis Posner ’81, Oranjestad, exporter, Aruba Aloe Balm

South Africa • Thuli Madi ’95, Natal, website project coordinator

Haiti • George Roumain ’67, Port-au-Prince

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LIFE INCOME GIFTS Immediate Tax Benefits…Lifetime Income Stream…Gift to Moses Brown. Life income gifts pay income to you or to others you designate for a specific term of years, or for your life. If you fund the giving vehicle with a gift annuity or one of several kinds of trusts, with long-term appreciated securities, you may increase your income, gain an immediate tax benefit and make a more significant contribution than would be possible with an outright gift of cash. These gift types include: gift annuities, remainder trusts, and lead trusts.

BEQUESTS Make a Major Gift to MB…No Impact on Current Income or Lifestyle. How can you make a meaningful gift to Moses Brown while keeping your assets intact? A bequest — made through a will, a testamentary trust, or a codicil to either — allows you to make a gift without impacting your assets, income or lifestyle. Bequests can include cash, stock, real or tangible property. If you would like to know more about the details and possibilities of creating a gift by bequest, call the Development Office or consult your attorney.

REAL ESTATE Give your Home to MB Today…Stay for Life…Get an Immediate Tax Deduction. You may give a home, farm, or other real estate to Moses Brown School. You will receive an immediate income tax deduction based on the full fair market value of the property — determined by a qualified appraiser — at the time of the gift. Retaining lifetime occupancy is possible.

You can set up a named, endowed scholarship or faculty chair, or provide endowed support for your favorite program (athletic team, theater, music, service, etc.) via a bequest or life income instrument. In recognition of that intention, the school wants to celebrate your gift today!

PRESERVING OUR FUTURE, THE OBADIAH BROWN SOCIETY

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Mark Richard Alperin ‘76

Frohman Anderson ‘80 P’10 ‘12

Peter Hoyle Armstrong ‘52

Barbara and James Bachand P’84

Robert Gifford Berry ‘40

Zenas W. Bliss ‘44

Russell A. Boss ‘57

Jeffrey G. Brier ‘71

Anne and David Burnham

Richard H. W. Chadwell ‘51

Thomas Chappell ‘61 and Katherine Chappell

William Howard Claflin ‘46

Americo W. and Judith L. Colaluca P’92 ‘97

Ellen and Charles Collis P’80 ‘81 ‘87

Sarah E. Crane ‘91

Melissa MacGillivray Dane ‘87

Donald Dwares ‘55 P’92 ‘94

Peter Lance Dwares ‘62

Harley A. Frank ‘81

Mary Jo Griffin GP’96 ‘98

Gordon Holmes ‘56

Charles P. Isherwood ‘40

E. Gardner Jacobs, Jr. ‘43

Amy Roebuck Jones ‘79

Richard H. Jones ‘42

Peter E. Lacaillade ‘67

Theodore Low ‘44 P’81

Will Mackenzie ‘56

Stanley Markowitz ‘46

Douglas P. Marquis ‘58

William C. McClaskey ‘57

James R. McCulloch ‘70 P’08

Bruce G. McInnes ‘55

Terrence Moran ‘76 P’06 ‘08

Bill Myers ‘48 P’77 ‘79

C. Rodney O’Connor ‘50

Lester N. Odams ‘47

King B. Odell

Harmon A. Poole, Jr. ‘42

Beth Prairie ‘89

John and Marianne Renza P’90 ‘94

Ann and Robert Rheault P’09 ‘11

Donna and Stuart Robinson P’87 ‘89

Gail S. Samdperil ‘81

Bob Samors ‘77

Francis B. Sargent ‘48 P’73

Turner C. Scott ‘66

Craig S. C. Shaw ‘48 P’78 ‘82

A. Homer Skinner, Jr. ‘38

Reza Taleghani ‘90

Stephen Toro

Leonard J. Triedman ‘46 P’75 ‘78 ‘81

Paul H. Welch ‘53

Wade M. Wilks ‘66

Dean Stuart Woodman ‘46 P’78

To learn how your name can forever be associated with Moses Brown in support of a priority at the school that is most important to you, contact Ron Dalgliesh, director of development and alumni relations, at 401-831-7350 x111 or rdalgliesh@mosesbrown.org.

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Go local and come back to MB this fall!Quaker Golf Classic & Moses Brown Homecoming 2011

MB Alumni: Global Scope / Local Connections

Watch for more events in the coming year in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., California, and Providence.

Homecoming Reception: October 14 at The Squantum Club, East ProvidenceOctober 15-16: Homecoming on the MB Campus

Homecoming: Homecoming Reception | MB teams in action | Family fun activities | Alumni panel: Moses Brown Stories | Pancake breakfast | Alumni / alumna soccer games | Presentation of the Young Alumnus and Service to Alma Mater awards.

See details and photos at www.mosesbrown.org/homecoming. • Sponsored by the Moses Brown Alumni Association

Quaker Golf Classic: October 3 at Wannamoisett Country Club, RumfordGolf: 1:00 start | 5:30 reception