Cupola Fall/Winter - Moses Brown School

Fall/Winter
2008-2009
Moses Brown
Talking About Service
Cupola
Julia Fritz ’01, Theodore F. Low ’44, Robert Wilson ’67, A. T. Wall ’71, Don Driscoll ’83,
Greg Baldwin ’87, Pamela Humphreys ’97, Wesley Stevenson ’06, Yolanda González, Ann Banchoff ’83

MB in action: A few highlights from across campus of the many ways that MB faculty and staff serve:
At year’s end, Ruth
Breindel (US) gathers
unclaimed clothes
from MB’s lost+found for
distribution to Providence
agencies. Ruth also
coordinates teachers to
sew pajamas for the
Blackstone Valley
Children’s Shelter.
Top ways MB faculty and staff serve: Committee and board work, service in individual
churches, supporting youth, education, and social service organizations. Popular
organizations: American Friends Service Committee and Habitat for Humanity.
About Our Cover
Last year, upper school ceramics teacher Anni
Barnard pledged to make 100 bowls for a friend
who was raising $20,000 for a Cambodian orphanage.
“All summer long I was throwing on the wheel to
get the bowls done,” says Anni. A yoga teacher
outside of MB, Anni joined the project as part of
the Engage Network, headed by nationally-known
teacher Seane Corn. Anni and another yoga teacher
staged a “soup bowl night” where a $30 ticket bought a night of Cambodian music, choice of homemade soup,
and one of Anni’s beautiful bowls. The evening raised $4,000. This winter, Anni’s “bowl drive” donations are
going to the Cambodian Children’s Fund in Phnom Penh. Anni has taught ceramics at MB since 1991. “I enjoy
facilitating and fostering a sense of community, of exploration, of creative inquiry at MB,” says Anni. “I love
the environment, the students, and the medium, for each day is a learning experience.”
At Your Service: MyMB at www.mosesbrown.org
Look up a classmate • See an update on incoming
head Matt Glendinning’s transitional work with
Joanne Hoffman • Read more about Service with
Providence Journal pieces on profilees Ted Low ’44
to Pam Humphreys ’97 • Visit the blog for this
spring’s MB Dominican Republic service trip • Link
to the Quaker • Make a suggestion for our next
issue, MB People You Don’t Know — But Should
Want to serve with MB again? Contact Alumni/ae Relations Director Karin Morse ’79
(kmorse@mosesbrown.org/401-831-7350) if your local nonprofit might be a place for
MB students to provide community service or pursue a senior project.
Cover photo of Ted Low ’44 by Jesse Burke
Lower school’s Erin
Hazlett volunteers with
her husband at Sky High
Hope Camp, an oncology
camp for children.
Colleague Joanne
Coombs helps stage the
Kingston Chamber Music
Festival each summer.
When not managing
annual fund appeals
for MB’s development
office, Teal Butterworth
serves on the board
at New Urban Arts and
the Women’s Fund of
Rhode Island.
Jared Schott, MS head,
volunteers for Kieve
Education in Maine,
Community Prep in
Providence, and the
city baseball league
in Pawtucket. Debby
Neely, middle school
English, knits for
Amos House.
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, 2007
Moses Brown School
Board of Overseers 2008-2009
Frohman C. Anderson ’80 P ’10 ’12
Christopher P. Baker ’70
John T. Barrett, Jr. ’63 P ’01
Emily Low Boenning ’81
Russell Carpenter ’59
Marc A. Crisafulli P ’12 ’14 ’17
Ted Fischer ’83 P ’12 ’14 ’17
Chair, Development Committee
Habib Y. Gorgi ’74 P ’08 ’10 ’12 ’17
Chair of the Board
Chair, Executive Committee
Emily C. Harrison
Katharine Hazard Flynn P ’12 ’15
Chair, Budget & Finance Committee
Mary Jo Kaplan P ’08 ’11
Bernard LaFayette, Jr.
Thia Lord
Robert D. Mann ’69 P ’08 ’10
Treasurer
Jaymin Patel P ’16 ’17
Patricia A. Perfetto P ’06 ’09
President, Parents’ Association
Dieter Pohl P ’14
Stephanie Ogidan Preston ’97
President, Alumni/ae Association
James Reavis P ’11 ’13 ’16
Chair, Trustee Committee
Cynthia West Reik
Carol Smith
E. Paul Sorensen P ’02
Chair, Buildings & Grounds Committee
Blair D. Stambaugh
Trevor Sutton P ’18
Sheri Sweitzer P ’05
Vice-Chair
Chair, Strategic Planning Committee
Reza Taleghani ’90
Catherine Terry Taylor P ’13 ’15
Chair, Nominating Commitee
Steven Tripp P ’19
Richard N. Wasserman III ’83 P ’06 ’08
Donn Weinholtz
Co-chair, Religious Life Committee
N. Kim Wiegand P ’08 ’10
Secretary
Elizabeth R. B. Zimmerman
Friends Coordinator
Co-chair, Religious Life Committee
Joanne P. Hoffman
Head of School
Andrew H. Davis, Jr. ’55
School Counsel
Linda Jenkins
Clerk of NEYM

Cupola
A bi-annual magazine for
Moses Brown School alumni/ae
Editor
Sandi Seltzer P ’09 ’13
Managing Editor
Kristen A. Curry
Class Notes Editor
Susan Cordina P ’14 ’16
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Departments
View from the Cupola 4
Hope & Lloyd: School News 5
Alumni/ae Events 24
Celebrating Joanne Hoffman’s Service to MB 25
Alumni/ae News and Class Notes 26-47
Leaving a Lasting Legacy 50
How Your Annual Gift Serves MB 51
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Peace Corps to Peacemaking: See Class Notes
for updates on Chris Hill ’70 (center) and
Peter Treut ’01, both MB/Peace Corps alumni.
Kendall Reiss ’02, appearing in the
Krause Gallery’s May Alumni/ae Show
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Photo provided by the Peace Corps
Talking About Service
Guest editor: Ann Banchoff ’83, page 8
9 Julia Fritz ’01
This busy Community Service Award recipient —
and doctor-in-training — still finds time and
cause for service
10 Theodore Low ’44
For freedom: a proud veteran who served in
World War II and Korea describes the call to
service for country
12 Robert Wilson ’67
Healing wounds by telling: he helps war
veterans share their stories, and students
to learn from them
14 A.T. Wall ’71
On guard: Rhode Island’s top “corrections guy”
describes the challenges — and appeal — of
running our state prison
16 Don Driscoll ’83
MB’s resident community organizer describes
his path to becoming a union leader
18 Greg Baldwin ’87
Start the school you want to see: an educational
reformer brings high expectations to New Haven
19 Pamela Humphreys ’97
A newly minted lawyer uses Quaker-influenced
principles for mediation and restorative justice
in Providence
20 Wesley Stevenson ’06
Three years ago, this senior opted out of college
for a service stint in City Year
22 Yolanda González
An MB history teacher, and Friend, describes
her visit to Rwanda to build a peace center
23 Service at MB Today

View from the Cupola
Joanne P. Hoffman
Head of School
Sustaining Our Mission
“Hurry up — let’s get the jackets and coats in boxes so that we can take them to Camp Street Ministries.
How many presents do we have for the children at Amos House this holiday season?
That’s cool — MB has been named a hero school because we donated the most pints of blood in the recent drive.
Isn’t it amazing that the third grade raised $4,200 for UNICEF? I can’t wait to go on the
Dominican Republic trip during spring break and help people gain access to basic health care.”
Moses Brown celebrates the contributions of faculty and staff
with 25-plus years of service to our school, for the many ways
they sustain our mission. From this fall’s Convocation (left to
right): Ransom Griffin, Laurie Center, King Odell, Judi Lewis,
John Quinn, Anne Landis, Connie Raymond, Paul Gazin, Doug
MacLeod, Florence Lambrese, Bruce Shaw, Mary Pollart, Kathy
Ryan, Kristin Street, Elizabeth Archibald, and Randy Street,
with Head of School Joanne Hoffman. (Not available for the
photo, but still serving in our community: Jamie German,
Denise Monk, and Jim Skillings.)
A Window in Time: 15 Years of Transformative Leadership
Join us on Friday, May 8, 2009 to honor Joanne Hoffman’s inspired service to Moses Brown School
during a transformative time, 1994 through 2009 (see page 25 for full details).
THESE ARE SOME OF THE STUDENTS’ VOICES that I have heard on campus in the past
several months — voices that reflect Moses Brown’s clear values in action. These are
the voices of our next generation of leaders, who will be responsible for ensuring that
all people on our planet will be cared for and that there will be effective stewardship
of the earth’s resources. I am so proud of all that they are doing to make a difference
in this world and of the kind of citizens they are becoming.
As a Friends school, MB energetically supports its mission to develop the whole
child by focusing on thoughtful engagement and careful consideration of the
common good. Within a vigorous learning community, everyone is expected to find
meaningful ways to contribute to the overall health of our society both locally and
globally, and all in our school consistently demonstrate a commitment to making
that mission sing through active and energetic dedication to the public good.
Since joining MB almost 15 years ago, I have learned so much about the ways
in which a community vibrantly sustains itself by living its values through its
educational program. With a focus on the welfare of generations to come, MB long has
supported a curricular emphasis on collaboration though service to the community.
As I take the next steps of my journey, I look forward to drawing on my MB education
through volunteering at Beacon Academy, a program for underserved students in the
Boston area.
In this edition of the Cupola, you will read about the experiences of alumni/ae
from the classes of 1944 to 2006 and the ways that they have dedicated part or all of
their lives to serving others. They have made so many contributions to our society
by caring about the future instead of themselves (as Don Driscoll ’83 so eloquently
expressed, p. 16). Through their good work and that of all the generations of MB
graduates whom they represent, our mission continues to be vigorously maintained.
I was so inspired by their stories, and I hope that you will be, too.

News from Moses Brown Today
Welcome, Dr. Glendinning
MB Selects New Head of School
In November, Dr. Matt Glendinning was chosen
to be Moses Brown’s next Head of School. Matt
and his wife Katherine will join MB on July 1.
Dr. Glendinning, upper school director and
teacher of ancient history at Moorestown
Friends School in New Jersey, says, “I believe
strongly that Quaker values will be critical for
the kind of education needed in the twentyfirst
century. Economists and futurists are
probably right in thinking that world affairs in
the next 25 years will be shaped less by those
merely in possession of knowledge and
resources, and more by those who can think
creatively about them. Stewardship of the
planet will require a new generation of thinkers
and doers, young men and women deeply
engaged in their learning, their penchant for
problem-solving and entrepreneurship guided
by a dedication to peace and to the public good.
Judging by the goals set forth in its strategic
plan, Moses Brown is in a strong position to
lead independent schools in this direction.”
Please see the next Cupola for an interview
with Dr. Glendinning.
Tribeca to Tibet: Class of ’48 Funds Independent Study
Welcome, New Board Members
MB welcomes five new members to
the Board of Overseers this year (left
to right): Mary Jo “MJ” Kaplan P ’08
’11, Steve Tripp P ’19, Carol Smith,
and Jaymin Patel P ’16 ’17, as well as
Russell Carpenter ’59 (see page 30).
MB’s Class of 1948 funded independent research projects for four rising seniors last summer,
recognizing individual scholastic initiative. One, Kate Sullivan ’09, participated in a field research
course in Yosemite National Park, where she studied river erosion and bear management. Kate says,
“I learned how fragile an ecosystem like a National Park is, and how difficult it is to balance the
desires of people while preserving the health of the park.” Kate’s classmate Lily Chase-Lubitz donned
angel wings instead of a backpack for her summer study: “Traipsing around the streets of Manhattan
this summer in wings and a frilly pink dress seemed oddly natural,” she says. Lily attended the
New York Film Academy, working with aspiring film students to create a series of one-minute,
black and white “shorts.”
Seniors Gaia Liotta and Ryan Mullins also received Class of ’48 Awards for independent study.
Ryan studied sail performance using data collected with digital imagery and GPS technology. Gaia
(daughter of P. H. Liotta ’74) participated in an Art Refuge art therapy program for children in Tibet.
All students presented their work at MB this winter.
Noted Civil Rights Leader Speaks at MB
The Rev. Samuel “Billy” Kyles, friend of Martin
Luther King., Jr. and longtime pastor of
Monumental Baptist Church in Memphis,
Tennessee, was keynote speaker and honored
guest at MB’s annual Diversity Day in February.
Rev. Kyles is a renowned national speaker and
civil rights leader.
Longest-Serving Coach at MB Today: “Skills”
Following in the fabled footsteps of long-serving Moses Brown coaches
such as Jerry Zeoli and Ted Whitford, the current MB coach with the
most years on the roster is Jim Skillings, who also teaches physical
education in lower and middle school. Jim began coaching at MB in
1982 and is now in his 27th year at MB. Says a middle school colleague
of Jim’s, “Jim embodies all the things we try so hard to model and
instill in our students. Recently, for extra credit, my students made
lists of 100 things that make them happy — Jim is on just about every
list.” Jim coaches middle school baseball, basketball, and soccer.
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News from Moses Brown Today
Further Adventures: Brown Poets
to Speak at MB in April
Moses Brown will welcome acclaimed
poets Forrest Gander and C.D. Wright,
professors at Brown University, to the
Annual Spring Poetry Reading on April 14.
The event is open to the public.
Alumnus Names Language
Chair in Doc’s Honor
At Commencement in June, Betsy Archibald was
named as the inaugural recipient of the King
“Doc” Odell Senior Distinguished Chair in World
Languages. As part of The Campaign for Moses
Brown, MB’s first endowed teaching chair was
established with a gift from Connie and Peter
Lacaillade ’67 and named in honor of Doc Odell.
Their son, Peter, was on hand for the presentation. The chair will be awarded every three years to
a senior faculty member in the World Language Department who sets the standard for scholarship
and teaching and leads and mentors young teachers.
MB Scholar-in-Residence Connects Mind,
Brain, and Learning
Before Dr. Kurt Fischer, professor of human
development and psychology at Harvard, spoke
to a standing room-only crowd at MB in
November, he talked to students about how we
learn. Fischer is director of the mind, brain, and
education program at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education. He is in residence at MB
through April.
Thank You, Mrs. Lambrese
This winter, Moses Brown said thank you to
Mrs. Florence Lambrese P ’84, information
coordinator, who retired in December. Since
she arrived on campus in 1967, Florence has
served MB in many ways: from admissions
secretary to typing teacher, as assistant girls’
softball coach and chaperone. Her newest title
— besides Yankee fan and dedicated grandmother
— is secretary to new Mayor Allan Fung
in her hometown of Cranston. Best wishes,
Florence, and thank you!
Photo by Ciras Photography
One-Fourth of MB Spends Summer in
Professional Development
Forty-one MB faculty and staff — approximately
25% — engaged in professional development
this summer. Several lower school faculty
participated in The Writing Project at Teachers
College at Columbia University, practicing
what they ask their students to do, writing day
and night in notebooks and bringing pieces of
writing through the entire writing process. In
middle school, math faculty Patricia Savage
attended workshops on mathematics and
Asperger’s Syndrome. History teacher Jonathan
Gold (shown above) attended Columbia’s
Klingenstein Summer Institute for young
teachers. “I left the program even more excited
about being a teacher,” he says. Cathy Van
Lancker took painting courses at the Newport
Art Museum. Upper school language teacher
Betsy Archibald took Russian at Middlebury,
while Upper School Head Debbie Phipps
attended a writing program at Brown. Debbie
also attended a seminar on Authentic
Assessment with Ransom Griffin and Laurie
Center. Ruth Breindel ran a workshop for the
American Classical League. History teacher
Tim Bickford transcribed his grandfather’s
diary from the Boer War in South Africa to
share with students.
Artwork by by Steven Subotnick
MB’s upper school chorus participated
in Shining Through Broken Glass, a concert
commemorating Kristallnacht at
Veterans Memorial Auditorium. The
sell-out event, narrated by Leonard
Nimoy, was co-chaired by Elaine and
Barry Fain ’60.

Student Accomplishments Add Up
• The National Merit Scholarship Program has recognized 17 MB students: 4 students
as semifinalists and 13 as commended.
• 3 students were selected for honors by the National Hispanic Recognition program.
• 8 MB students were accepted into the 2008 All New England Band Festival and 25 into
All State Music competition.
• 37 new alumnae and 2 current seniors were recognized by the College Board as
2008 AP Scholars.
• 9 MB students are recipients of 2009 Rhode Island Scholastic Arts Awards.
• The Providence Journal named 31 MB students as all-state or all-division athletes, with
several earning special recognition for outstanding academic records and sportsmanship.
• MB recibió 1 mención en Providence en Espanol en un artículo sobre nuestros
programas de servicio.
In the Commons: Optics to Overseas Needs
College Countdown
Of 91 seniors in this year’s graduating class, 63
letters of acceptance have been received through
early action and early decisions at selective
colleges and universities. At press time, seniors
had received good news from Brown, Harvard,
Yale, Stanford, Tufts, the University of Chicago,
and Northeastern. The Class of 2009 also has
letters from Rutgers, SUNY, Tulane, Fordham,
Georgetown, Dickinson, and the University of
Denver. Three MB scholar-athletes, to date, have
received letters of intent to Division I schools. See
mosesbrown.org and the next Cupola for the full
matriculation list for the Class of ’09.
Go, Quakers!
Girls’ tennis won the Division II North
title this fall and the field hockey team
retained their state title for the third
straight year by defeating Wheeler in
the R.I. Interscholastic League Division II
Field Hockey Championship. Visit
mosesbrown.org>school life>athletics
for sports results and winter/spring
schedules.
The Academic Commons has sponsored a variety of activities since opening this fall, from a third
grade UNICEF museum to a presentation on optics by Dan Gareau ’95. The Commons also hosts a
robust student-to-student tutoring program.
Poet Lucille Clifton Returns to
MB for Commencement
MB community will welcome renowned poet
Lucille Clifton to speak at commencement on June
11. The first author to have two books of poetry
chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, the
recipient of an Emmy Award, multiple literary
awards, and fellowships, and a Chancellor of the
Academy of American poets, Clifton inspires
audiences with her energy and enthusiasm.
Publishers Weekly says she “is among our most
trustworthy and gifted poets.” Clifton first spoke
at MB at Joanne Hoffman’s installation in 1994.
Make MB Your Art Stop
The Krause Gallery is now a part of Gallery Night
Providence, so catch a trolley to see the latest
exhibits at MB and throughout the capitol city this
year. Krause has hosted five exhibits already this
year, including a real Kazakh yurt. Coming up are
the Student Portfolio Show in March and
Alumni/ae Show in May, featuring work by
Kendall Reiss ’02 and others. See
www.gallerynight.info.
Come Back to MB for Summer Camp
Artwork by Jeff Mann
MB offers camps for children ages 3-16 including
RISE day camp and specialty camps for football,
lacrosse, soccer, soccer goalkeeping, tennis, track
and field, and chess — see mosesbrown.org>about
MB>MB Plus>summer camps to register now.
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Talking About Service
By Ann Banchoff ’83
After years of working in San Francisco area community clinics, Ann Banchoff ’83 now trains Stanford students to do the same.
I LAUGHED WHEN THE CUPOLA asked me to
contribute to the service issue — mostly
because, as I had to confess, my “service
project” at MB was to manage the boys’
lacrosse team with my friend Catherine.
That experience, as saintly as it may have
seemed, was more about “enlightened selfinterest.”
Though I would like to think I’ve
cleaned up my motives a bit, I can tell you
that the fellow MB alums I learned about
through this process are in every way more
noble. I saw Don Driscoll at our 25th reunion
and learned about his tireless, career-long
commitment to workers’ rights. Then the
Cupola editor told me about Rob Wilson’s
work in veterans education, Greg Baldwin’s
education revolution, and Wes Stevenson’s
two-year stint mentoring schoolchildren in
inner-city Chicago and D.C. These are the
kind of stories that need to be told, I thought.
So yes, I said, I can help edit the issue. I’ll
learn something, it’ll be fun, and maybe I can
retroactively make this my MB service project.
Still, I secretly thought I might be able to get
out of writing the wise, poignant, and smartly
summative opening letter for which the
Guest Editor is responsible. By the time I got
around to looking at the letters written in
previous issues, I realized that the last Guest
Editor (P. H. Liotta ’74) had won a Nobel Prize
for his work on climate change. OK, I’m pretty
sure that counts as outstanding service;
why couldn’t they just reprint his letter? But
it was too late to back out.
Then I remembered the key lesson — and
the key ingredient — of service: humility, of
course. Readers of this issue should prepare
to be humbled as I have been.
Photo by Steve Fisch, courtesy of Stanford University School of Medicine
What counts as service?
Look up “service” in the dictionary and you’ll
find a wide array of definitions including diningtable
place-settings, court-ordered punishment,
and the euphemisms of animal husbandry.
Where I work, a little truck marked “Community
Service” zips around dispensing parking tickets.
So what are we really talking about here? It
seems appropriate to go back to the wisdom
of the Quakers, who define service as engaging
with the world to better it.
The alumni/ae featured in this issue are
serving at all different levels — individual,
community, organizational, and policy. All are
working to create positive change. Reading
these profiles together is an inspiration and an
invitation. In some way or another each of us,
with the education and the opportunities we
have been given, can make a difference.
With a background in public health, social work, and international human rights, Ann Banchoff, MSW, MPH, co-founded the Office of Community Health at
Stanford University’s School of Medicine. Her post-MB path includes a B.A. in international relations from Stanford, a year in Moscow working for the New
York Times Bureau Chief, several years doing human rights work in Washington, D.C., and a brief stint doing community development work in Ethiopia.
Back in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 17 years, she has worked extensively with local immigrant populations in clinic and hospital settings, taught
courses in patient advocacy and population health, and developed an immersion training program in Mexico for students committed to working with Mexican
immigrants in the U.S. Ann can be reached at banchoff@stanford.edu.
SERVICE THEN AND NOW: WHAT I’VE LEARNED SINCE HIGH SCHOOL
Ann’s High School Service Project Real Life Service
Work environment Team members in same uniforms and colors Diversity and collaboration
Ethos We are # 1 and will rule all local R.I. prep Humility
schools on and off the field
Rules Fouls that count against you Mistakes you learn from
Outcomes Competition, scorekeeping Shared goals = success
Downside Bus rides with stinky post-game players Monetary rewards not always high
(psychic rewards compensate)
Potential benefits Prom date (didn’t happen, BTW) Better world

Julia Fritz ’01
On Service A Former Community Service Award Recipient Reflects
Interview by Ann Banchoff ’83
JULIA “JULIE” FRITZ, CLASS OF 2001, wrote to us from New York City, where she is now in
her second year of medical school at Mount Sinai. In between college and medical school, she
worked as a research assistant at Boston Children’s Hospital. The experience helped to convince
her that a career in medicine would allow her to make the kind of difference she wants to make.
My time at Moses Brown was instrumental in
developing my interest in and commitment
to community service. During sophomore
year, I went on a service trip to South
Carolina during spring break. We helped to
rebuild churches that had been burned. The
experience was amazing — I got to know
teachers and classmates I did not interact
with regularly and, more importantly, I was
able to see the dramatic effect that people
can have when they reach out to those in
need. When I returned, the impact of this
experience was reinforced at MB by the
many service projects offered to us, and by
the teachers who made service a part of their
lives and wanted their students to do the
same. Jamie German, my chemistry teacher,
suggested that I volunteer with her at
Habitat for Humanity, which quickly became
my Saturday activity. Similarly, Lee Clasper-
Torch, who had helped organize the service
trip, was always interested in my getting
involved in the community and provided
a lot of guidance. Having this environment
at school made community service a part of
life for me and I will always be grateful to MB
for that.
Since graduating, I have continued my
service as much as possible. At Mount Sinai,
I’m on the steering committee of — and
frequent volunteer at — our student-run free
“I volunteer with several student organizations, teaching sexual education
at local public schools, helping to organize community health fairs, and
reading to children who are hospitalized and don’t have visitors. These experiences are
what make medical school fun for me. After hours of lecture or nights up late
studying, my volunteer experiences remind
me why I came to medical school in the first place.”
Medical student Julie Fritz ’01 traveled to Peru last
summer for a medical Spanish immersion program,
which helps her serve patients at a free clinic in Harlem.
clinic, which offers primary care to uninsured
residents of East Harlem. I also volunteer
with several student organizations, teaching
sexual education at local public schools,
helping to organize community health fairs,
and reading to children who are hospitalized
and don't have visitors. These experiences
are what make medical school fun for me.
After hours of lecture or nights up late studying,
my volunteer experiences remind me why I
came to medical school in the first place.
One of the main challenges at the free
clinic is getting M.D.s to volunteer. I recently
spoke to a physician about this and he told
me, “There are people who volunteer, and
those who don't.” He didn't think there was
any way to change the situation. I know that
in some ways he is right, but I disagree with
this in principle. Before Moses Brown I never
really considered what volunteering could
mean for me. And, over the past few years,
with the current situation in this country, I
have seen more and more of my friends
rethinking how they spend their time and the
role they play in the larger community. While
I know this is not universal, it is inspiring to
watch my friends realize that they can make
an impact, that with our privilege comes a
responsibility, and that the future is in our
hands.
Julie Fritz (julia.fritz@gmail.com) headed to Oberlin College after MB, before beginning her path to
medical school. At Commencement in 2001, Julie was chosen by upper school faculty to receive the
Marc A. Dwares Service Award.
QUICK Q&A WITH JULIE:
What was your service project at MB?
During the summer between junior and senior
years, a friend, Luned Palmer ’02, and I went
to Guadalupe on a service trip. We worked
there for a month on a variety of community
projects with local teenagers.
If you were to return to Moses Brown
as a teacher, what would you teach?
English or history. I guess I could teach a science
but I loved the English and history programs
at MB, and the way the faculty integrated
different perspectives and disciplines into
their teaching. Those are the classes that
taught me to go beyond the book.
Julie Fritz was the third recipient of the Marc Dwares ’94
Community Service Award, given out at Commencement
each year to recognize a graduating senior who has
shown commitment to MB’s community service program.
Marc Dwares ’94 was loyal, humorous, optimistic, helpful,
and selfless with a great love of family, friends, and life.
The Marc A. Dwares Endowment for Community Service
honors Marc with income supporting MB’s Community
Service program.
Thalia Pascalides ’99 Timothy Savage ’04
Andrew Van Degna ’00 Ashley Silvestri ’05
Julia Fritz ’01 Catherine McConnell ’06
Elizabeth M. Donat ’02 Linden Nash ’07
Vivek Patel ’03 Hannah Fine ’08
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Theodore F. Low ’44
Service to Country
In addition to his military service, Ted Low
served in the Rhode Island legislature for
many years, working to enact laws on child
abuse, the environment, civil rights-fair
housing, abortion reform, and the equal
rights amendment. Ted also was instrumental
in the creation of Providence’s Korean War
Monument. He is shown above with his
daughter, Emily Low Boenning ’81, a member
of MB’s board of overseers. Ted and Emily
are MB’s first father-daughter pair to lead
the MB Alumni/ae Association, in 1966-68
and 2001-04.
WITHIN MONTHS AFTER HIS MOSES BROWN GRADUATION, Ted Low ’44 was called to military
service in World War II. After just one semester at Brown University, Ted enrolled as a Naval Reserve
cadet at Kings Point, the United States Merchant Marine Academy. He spent his sea cadet duty in the
Pacific theatre and later accepted a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army, joining the 43rd
Infantry Division. After completing his Brown degree, Ted was deployed to Korea at the beginning of the
Korean War and served in three major battles as a company commander. He later retired as a colonel. In
addition to his military service, Ted served our state and community in many ways, including five terms
in the Rhode Island House of Representatives. Today, Ted is a Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army
and retains the rank of a three-star general.
Why did you want to join
the service in 1944 at age 17?
We were at war and I was like most young
Americans who felt that to join the service
was the right thing to do. All Americans were
doing their part, whether building Liberty
ships or working at one of our war material
factories. Women became an active part of
the military as members of the WACS and
WAVES. Everybody contributed and I wanted
to be a part of it. I am not sure that I fully
understood, as I do now, what “love of country”
really meant at that young age.
How was joining the military seen at that
time by your peers or faculty at MB?
Many of my classmates went into service
immediately upon graduation. Most of us felt
a responsibility to the war effort and were
anxious to enter into service. It was the right
thing to do. I remember that most of the faculty
shared our need to serve. Those who were
Quakers wanted to volunteer, but in a
different way. Some were conscientious
objectors, but many served in the American
Friends Service Committee, in hospitals, as
farmers, and in other non-violent positions.
Ted Whitford, our French master, went to
Iran to serve in Army communications.
Have you ever felt a tension
between military service and MB’s
foundation as a Quaker school?
I’m not a Quaker, but at Moses Brown, you
start to think like one. It was a part of our
education. My daughters, who attended
Lincoln and MB, feel the same way. No matter
your religious belief, you can find something
here to take with you. Nobody loves war.
Soldiers don’t. But there was a war on and we
had to protect ourselves. We were fighting for
freedom and the very existence of our
American way of life. I do not believe that
there was any specific tension at that time.
How did the wars and your
home-front experiences affect your
interest in public service?
At first it was an adventure. I was an 18-yearold
young man sailing around the world on
the ocean. I had the opportunity to see very
different parts of the world and how different
cultures and people live. When I returned to
Brown, I was part of a group of returning veterans.
We had gone to war as boys and
returned as men, having seen a very raw side
of life: people losing their way of life, their
homes and families. You became more
compassionate and understanding of other
peoples’ plight. When I returned from Korea,

I didn’t really feel like a veteran. I had a business
to run and was not really involved in
veterans’ affairs. But I remained committed
to public service as I now realized how
important it was to protect and foster our
country and our way of life. At that time in
my life, I fully realized that I now had found
a ‘love for my country’ and understood why
and what that meant. I did not seek a public
and political life, but was asked to run for a
seat in the Rhode Island House of
Representatives. I did so with the understanding
that I could, in some small way,
help to improve our way of life and help to
make our state a better place to live.
Why did you feel it important for Providence’s
Korean War Monument to be established?
I felt that it was important for the people of
Rhode Island to recognize that 39,000 of their
fellow citizens had answered the call to fight
for the freedom of a people they did not
know in a different part of the world. That
conflict was a real war where 50,000
Americans were killed and more than half of
the seven to eight thousand prisoners did
not return. I never wanted the people of our
state to forget those who served.
How has military conflict
changed since your time in active duty?
From the Battle of Fredericksburg until the
Korean War, the problems and strategies of
war have been pretty much the same. The
weaponry has changed as have communications
and transportation; our military now
has the most sophisticated and advanced
equipment in the world. The Korean and
“I did not seek a public and political life, but was asked to run
for a seat in the Rhode Island House of Representatives. I did so with
the understanding that I could, in some small way, help to
improve our way of life and help to make our state a better place to live.”
Vietnam Wars were the beginning of the lack
of compliance to the Geneva Convention. The
Vietnam War was the start of a newer kind of
war and today’s global war on terrorism is a
very different world conflict. We are fighting
against an enemy with a culture that has
little or no regard for human life and is using
a false religious belief to eliminate its enemy.
Our military today are all volunteers; our
soldiers are the finest-trained, the best
equipped and have the highest morale; they
are, without doubt, the greatest and strongest
army in the world. I have seen and talked to
many of our returning soldiers. I find them to
be very inspiring, especially those who have
been injured: they still want to fight, to serve
and they fully understand why our freedom
and the American way of life is the best in
the world.
What is your message to today’s MB students
about how they can best serve their country?
There is no reason to believe that everyone is
available and prepared to serve as a member
of the military; however, for those who would
prefer to serve in the military, it is an honorable
profession. I do feel that our MB students
should make every effort possible to continue
with their education. Students at Moses
Brown and similar schools will produce
tomorrow’s leaders. They must take advantage
of that special education and fully understand
and respect our way of life and the freedom
that we enjoy. Whether in the private or public
sector, there are many ways to serve one’s
country. Some are professional and some are
volunteer — select the one you will enjoy, one
where you can and will do the most good, and
give it your best!
What was your service project
when you were a student at Moses Brown?
We really did not have service projects when
I was at MB. The War started in December of
1941 and most of us, when we had any spare
time, worked with some of the local agencies
that supported the war effort (Red Cross,
collecting scrap metal, etc.). I remember that
the school changed from heavy oil to coal for
the heating plant; those of us who were in
the III-IV & V Forms (10-12 grades) were
required to shovel coal to feed the boilers. We
did that at least three times a week. Students
were also responsible for helping to maintain
the school grounds.
If you were to return to Moses Brown
as a teacher, what would you teach?
I am not sure what would be appropriate for
me to teach to today's students. The students
at MB seem to be so much more worldly and
knowledgeable in highly technical subjects;
much more so than when we were students.
Although I now make my living as an environmental
consulting engineer, I do feel that
I would be much better off teaching “World
Interdependence” — the world is so small
these days and so fragile. I think that it is so
very important to make sure that our young
people understand why it is necessary for the
different countries of the world to respect
and rely upon each other for survival (both
economically and physically). We are now
living in a global community and our lives
and welfare are no longer confined to our
own geographical borders.
In addition to his military service, past and present, Ted Low’s working career includes companies in Rhode Island, Switzerland, and Alabama. Ted is a
senior engineering consultant with Theodore F. Low & Associates, Inc. He received MB’s Outstanding Alumnus Award for his 25th Reunion and the Lifetime
Service to Alma Mater Award from Moses Brown in 2004. Over the years, Ted has served on many boards and commissions of schools, hospitals, and other
nonprofit and governmental organizations. He has since returned to visit Korea twice. “Returning to Korea gave me a greater appreciation for the Korean
people,” Ted says, “and why it was so important for us to fight with them for their freedom.”
“Freedom is Not Free” — Visit mosesbrown.org to read Ted’s editorial
published in the Providence Journal on the Korean War monument.
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Robert Wilson ’67
Service to Community
Photos, courtesy of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Rob Wilson (right) is shown at a conference,
sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Fund, for high school history teachers on using
Vietnam veterans’ oral histories in the classroom.
Rob joined a team of historians, educators and
Vietnam veterans to collaborate on a national
curriculum on the Vietnam War that was
distributed to every U.S. high school and middle
school in the U.S. VEP staff and veterans are now
using first-person stories to help students and
public audiences think critically about the current
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the problems
many vets face upon homecoming.
ROBERT WILSON ’67 AND THE NON-PROFIT HE DIRECTS, The Veterans Education Project, have
played key roles in a wide variety of regional and national projects that educate audiences about the realities
and costs of war, from WW2 to the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rob is shown here with
Vietnam’s Ambassador to the U.S., Nguyen Tam Chien, Founder and Executive Director of the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial Fund Jan Scruggs, Veterans Education Project Training Director Stephen Sossaman,
and veterans. After a career in elementary education, 12 years working in public relations, and a lifetime
involvement in progressive causes, Rob joined the Veterans Education Project (VEP) staff in 1992. Started
by Vietnam veterans in 1982, VEP trains military veterans to share their stories in schools with the goal
of helping students to think critically about the realities and costs of war. Rob says that working for VEP
helped to reshape some of his views on education, service, and war.
What inspired you to work for
a veterans’ group after elementary
teaching and public relations?
An original motivation was that I missed
teaching. VEP’s school programs gave me
an opportunity to work with high school
students, something I had always wanted to
do. I soon saw that working with the veterans,
which was totally new to me, was as inspiring
as working with students. It is gratifying to
help these amazing men and women develop
their stories, and to see them healing war’s
emotional wounds through sharing
with appreciative students. This goes for the
veterans of WWII to the present. One of our
vets says, “Pain shared is pain halved.” I’m
really working in both the areas of education
and human services at VEP, and that is
continually inspiring.
What is VEP’s connection
to the U.S.’s current wars?
VEP traditionally held a large majority of
Vietnam vets, but we are working with more
and more veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Regardless of when they served, however,
the lessons and insights of war veterans
often have similarities. All connect to the
issues we are confronting today. Many veterans
feel alienated or isolated from the civilian
world when they return. Those who have
suffered combat trauma and stress have similar
stories about coping with their symptoms
and volatile emotions. Vets of Vietnam and
Iraq feel they were lied to and manipulated
by the government leaders who sent them off
to war. And many of the vets we work with of
both eras — again, regardless of politics and
ideology — are proud of their service and, if
called, would serve again.

In addition to your work, you have decades of
experience volunteering with progressive
causes. Has working with veterans changed
your view of military service?
Many people who choose service careers —
military, government, or non-governmental
(NGO) — hold a desire to do something,
perhaps sacrifice something, for a greater
good. I have come to see that the impetus to
enter national service — military, State
Department, Peace Corps, etc. — often flows
from a deep sense of duty to country. My
work with veterans has opened my eyes to
the sacrifices of those choosing military
careers, and created a respect for their
military service that transcends my politics
and ideology. I hold a special respect for
these men and women who serve in harm’s
way, from military personnel, State
Department, and U.N. staff serving in war
zones to members of humanitarian organizations
volunteering to work in places like
Iraq, Darfur, and Bosnia.
“In many ways my work adopts the central Quaker values of listening to
people with a wide variety of backgrounds and beliefs and of
seeking consensus or at least finding common ground.
Wrapped into my attitude here is the Quaker idea of ‘seeing the light’
in each of us, and that has influenced my leadership at VEP.”
What influence did MB
have in shaping your career choices?
I mark my post-graduate year at MB as beginning
a process of academic and intellectual
growth. I had struggled in public high school
and feel fortunate that MB saw my potential
and accepted me. After a rocky start (which
my classmates and teachers, especially Doc
Odell, would remember), I became engaged in
learning like never before. My grades and
board scores soared, and my mind was open
to new horizons. My ultimate career choices
— education and human services — were
influenced by the idealism and social change
of the Vietnam era. However, MB was square
one on my journey, and I can say that my
undergraduate, graduate, and career paths
would have been very different without my
year there.
In many ways my work adopts the central
Quaker values of listening to people with a
wide variety of backgrounds and beliefs
and of seeking consensus or at least finding
common ground. I work with veterans with
differing personal and political ideologies.
Some community service organizations are
focused on a particular belief or value that
excludes those who are different. I understand
that those groups serve important functions,
and I collaborate with these groups. Wrapped
into my attitude here is the Quaker idea of
“seeing the light” in each of us, and that has
influenced my leadership at VEP. We prefer
to focus on educating young people and on
addressing problems and issues, not on
preaching polarizing politics and debating
the war.
What sort of change do you
hope to inspire through your work?
If I could inspire one thing through my work,
it would be that VEP’s student and public
audiences come away from our speakers’
stories with new understanding about war
and its consequences and new empathy for
veterans and military families. I also wish
they would develop an eagerness to think
critically about policies related to war and
veterans’ issues and act on their conclusions,
whatever they may be. The world would be a
better place.
Rob Wilson lives with his family in North Hatfield, Massachusetts and is director of the Veterans
Education Project in Amherst. Contact Rob at wdwright@crocker.com or visit www.vetsed.org for more.
“I can give something, I hope, by telling you my story.” VEP speakers — men and
women, representing WW II to Iraq, ranging in age from 25 to 90 — delivered more
than 100 hours of programs this year, teaching young people and helping veterans.
See mosesbrown.org for an update on VEP’s recent work.
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A. T. Wall ’71
Service to State
As director of Rhode Island’s Department of
Corrections, A. T. Wall engages with a number of
community service programs, whether working with
staff to launch Project RENEW (Revitalizing and
Engaging Neighborhoods by Empowering Women),
dedicated to curbing prostitution in Pawtucket’s
Barton Street neighborhood, or introducing a successful
service dog training program at the prison.
On an ongoing basis, a dozen dogs live at the ACI,
being trained by inmates to assist injured war
veterans and others with disabilities. “In corrections,
there aren’t many programs that are wins all
around,” says A. T. “This has been one.” The inmates
provide service to community and restitution for
offenses, while recipients gain a beautifully
trained canine that makes their lives easier and
more productive. A. T. says the institution benefits,
too: “Everyone behaves better around them.”
An unexpected career: A.T. Wall ’71 became a full-time probation officer in Connecticut on the way to
his law degree from Yale. Today, he is director of Rhode Island’s Department of Corrections. In this
capacity he is responsible for every aspect of Rhode Island’s adult correctional system. The agency
supervises 3,900 inmates daily and 27,000 offenders on probation, parole, and community confinement.
The department has a budget of $190 million and a staff of 1,400.
ASK A. T. WALL ABOUT HIS CAREER AND HE’LL TELL YOU, “I’m a corrections guy.” But his view of
the corrections system is far from simplistic. After more than 20 years in the Rhode Island Department of
Corrections, including the last nine as its director, A. T.’s passion for his work is still fueled by deep convictions
in the power of redemption. At the same time he has successfully combined his commitment to inmates
with service both to victims of crime and to the greater community. The Cupola caught up with him this
summer to learn about his work and his personal philosophy about the people and the communities that
he serves.
How did you end up working in corrections?
This was not a place I would have imagined
myself working when I was growing up or
attending Moses Brown. When I was young,
we would drive by the ACI (Rhode Island’s
Adult Correctional Institutions) on our way to
the beach. I remember the maximum-security
building as such a forbidding-looking place. I
had no inkling that I would ever be employed
here.
A summer internship after my junior year
at Yale introduced me to the field. I was a
political science major and had the opportunity
to do an internship working in state or local
government. Having done a lot of academic
work during the school year, I wanted to try
something completely different, so I worked
in a probation office for the State of
Connecticut. I supervised people on probation
while the full-time probation officers took
their summer vacations. Within five days, I
said to myself, “This is the coolest thing I’ve
ever done.” I was hooked.
The field of corrections was — and is —
immensely engaging to me. It involves
the intersection of huge challenges on many
levels — organizational, political, ethical,
philosophical — and it’s never, ever dull.
How would you describe the
central purpose of your work?
A common misconception is that corrections
is simply about keeping people in prison.
We’re really a public safety agency and need
to prepare people to be law-abiding, productive
citizens following release. The challenge is
balancing security, which requires a great
deal of money and structure, with programs
and rehabilitation that also require money
and an interpersonal approach. These programs
are essential because they tend to emphasize
skills, sobriety, and good judgment that are
critical to success in life. By the time somebody
arrives at our door, he or she has had at
least 18 years that may include substance
abuse, poor parenting and lack of moral

development, failure in school, poverty, their
own history of victimization, inadequate
health and mental health care, and many
bad choices. An awful lot of water has gone
under the bridge. Those of us in this field are
strong believers in early intervention during
the formative stages of childhood and
adolescence. These investments hold the
promise of avoiding a great deal of lost
money and pain.
The reality of corrections is different
than people think. By definition, so much
of our work is behind walls and fences. It’s
not seen. There’s a tendency to believe that
prisons are dungeons and all offenders
represent the worst — and neither is true.
Recognizing that virtually every inmate
who comes in the door will walk out again,
our responsibility to public safety calls on us
to equip them for their return to society.
When we ask inmates, “What do you need
when you get out?”, most women will say, “I
need a safe place to live,” and that speaks to
the trauma and problems they have suffered.
For male inmates, the answer is, “I need a
job.” So we work with offenders on postrelease
housing and job training among
many other issues.
“I think that the Quaker concept of the Light within every person is at the
core of corrections work. We try not to give up on people. We deal with some of the most
important questions in life and it infuses our work with meaning.”
Of the many hurdles you must face in your
work, what is most challenging for you?
The numbers. On any given day one out of 21
men in the state of Rhode Island is under our
authority — either in custody or on postrelease
supervision in the community. When
you also consider their families and the number
of victims and former offenders, our reach is
quite vast. I live in Providence, where the
impact is even greater: 1 out of 11 men in
Providence is under our jurisdiction every
day. I run into former inmates everywhere. So
do you: you just don’t know it.
We have 20,000 admissions a year into the
ACI with 24 inmates serving life without
parole. Everyone else is discharged. The
community is safe while offenders are in our
prisons. The rubber meets the road in the
days and weeks that follow release.
That sounds overwhelming.
How do you keep perspective?
Corrections can certainly be a negative
environment, fraught with conflict and
disappointment. To be successful in this kind
of work, you have to have an upbeat attitude.
In an increasingly technological society,
corrections remains fundamentally a people
business.
Working in the corrections environment,
it’s important to take the long view and to
savor small wins. I think the ability to be
resilient may be the most important quality
for corrections work. Notwithstanding its
difficulty, this work is very compelling.
As an alumnus of a Quaker school, and the
husband of a minister, how do your spiritual
beliefs play out in a correctional environment?
I think that the Quaker concept of the Light
within every person is at the core of corrections
work. We try not to give up on people.
We deal with some of the most important
questions in life and it infuses our work with
meaning. We don’t have the death penalty in
Rhode Island but there are inmates who will
never get out, who will die behind these
walls. There can still be some value and
meaning in their lives here. Hope is essential.
One of the appealing aspects of corrections
is that it keeps you honest. We work with
individuals, some of whom have done
unspeakable things. That reality keeps us
from becoming too sentimental. Whatever
good feelings we have about our work are
tempered by an awareness that great damage
has been caused by some of those who come
to us. That harm can never be undone.
But the very term “corrections” implies the
possibility of redemption, and that is what
we hope for.
Ashbel T. (“A. T.”) Wall, II attended Moses Brown from the fourth through eighth grades, before heading
to Phillips Exeter Academy. He has served as director of Rhode Island’s Department of Corrections since
2000 and has been with the department since 1987. Director Wall was the first native Rhode Islander
and first employee from within departmental ranks to lead the agency in 22 years. Both of his children,
Lucy ’02 and Ash ’05, are graduates of Moses Brown.
Visit www.doc.ri.gov for more on:
• The ACI’s Prison Pup and Canine for Combat Veterans programs
• A link to a fall Today show piece on former RIDOC inmate Andres Idarraga (MB class of 1995,
featured on page 39) and his inspiring journey from prison to Brown, and now to Yale Law School
• Ways to serve as a volunteer in Rhode Island’s Department of Corrections
Early intervention is key. See Class Notes for more from MB alumni working in early intervention:
Rick Metters ’84 — in his 20th year as director of the Boys & Girls Club in Woburn, Massachusetts — page 35
Eddy Ameen ’99 — director of StandUp For Kids in Miami, helping at-risk and homeless youth get off the street — page 41
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Don Driscoll ’83
Service to Community A lifelong organizer, now a leader in the country’s largest union
Interview by Ann Banchoff ’83
“Organizing is about building relationships
and empowering people to work together and
act,” says Don. In Rhode Island, Don’s union
represents 1,700 members, including nurses at
the IMH and police officers and workers at the
Navy base in Newport. NAGE is part of SEIU,
Service Employees International Union, which
has 2 million members nationally. Don (shown
above top left) returned to his MB community
this spring for his 25th reunion.
A CAREER UNION ORGANIZER, Don Driscoll ’83 is national organizing director for the National
Association of Government Employees (NAGE), which represents public workers, police officers,
firefighters, correctional officers, health care workers, office workers, professional workers, and
allied workers nationwide.
How did you first get involved in
union work and what has motivated
you to continue this work?
As a child, I was always sensitive to injustice,
growing up in a family that cared about and
practiced public service, whether it was the
lettuce boycott for farm workers or the local
schools and fire district. Being involved was
an assumption in our family.
I was politicized by the recession and the
beginning of deindustrialization in the 1980s,
as well as the Reagan administration’s shift to
militarization and intervention as a foreign
policy. Politics is the business of power and if
you want to change things you have to figure
out how to get some. In my family’s fourgeneration
experience in America, unions
were the agency that created the middle class
we joined.
I got involved with young union leaders in
Providence who had been students of my
dad’s at Hope High School. They showed me
how you could empower people and make
their lives better. It was a powerful tonic and
the best anti-poverty program the world has
ever seen. That sensibility remains the work
of my life; I have the privilege of seeing
extraordinary humanity and courage in my
daily work.
After 13 years working in a local
Service Employees International Union,
you have now moved to work at a national
level. How does the work differ?
I fly instead of drive. In Tennessee, I was the
principal officer and grew a union from about
a thousand to about 4,500. In my role at NAGE
(the National Association of Government
Employees), I am working to grow a 40,000member
national local union. Some of the
constituencies are the same, some different.
There are more resources but different challenges.
The work gives me the chance to see
things in very diverse places: Massachusetts,
Los Angeles, Idaho, and Georgia.
My work varies daily. This last year, my
work included contract negotiations, recruiting
and training rank-and-file leaders in communication
and political action, advising groups
on their growth programs, and mobilizing
members around the election. Another major
project this fall was organizing and speaking
at meetings around Massachusetts about
Question 1, the referendum that proposed to
eliminate the state income tax there.

What is the ultimate
change you are working for?
A world free from want and fear in which
each person has the chance to develop all
their potential for good. Simply put: a world
of justice, equity, and humanity. I do not
expect to see that in my lifetime, but I would
like to see another first down.
I draw strength from Dr. King’s observation
that the arc of the moral universe is long but
it bends toward justice. For all the problems
today, the world is a better place than my
great-grandparents experienced. The question
of anyone’s lifetime is: did you move things
along a little bit more?
This issue of the Cupola is dedicated
to service. You are someone who has made a
career in service to those who serve others.
What does service mean to you?
To me, the Biblical notion of loving your
neighbor as yourself, doing justice and being
humble, are central to service and a moral
life. These ideas permeate the teaching of
most religious traditions both in the words of
the famous and, most importantly, the actions
of the humble. I get to see that kind of faith
practiced by nursing aides, school secretaries,
and janitors. I have learned more about life
and faith in cinder block churches, break
rooms and kitchens than anywhere else.
“A world free from want and fear in which each person has the chance to develop
all their potential for good. Simply put: a world of justice, equity, and humanity.
I do not expect to see that in my lifetime, but I would like to see another first down.”
Application is often difficult but fundamentally
service is making the world better,
alleviating suffering and strengthening
people’s capacity for democracy, decency,
and humanity.
The NAGE mission includes working
toward the goal of a “just and humane
society.” What, to you, are the key ingredients
in a just and humane society?
I always found John Rawls’ notion — that a
just society is one in which one is willing to
exchange places with anyone else — very
compelling. In my head, a just and humane
society would be one where we see a fundamental
responsibility for the care of each
other and the planet. It must be one in which
your life chances are not limited by the
circumstances of your birth and where there
is universal, genuinely republican government
with an empowered and informed citizenry.
The other ingredients: an end to poverty and
war, deeper social equality, and a social and
cultural structure that values happiness,
freedom, and human potential over money
and materialism.
What (if anything, no fabrications required)
does your experience as a student at Moses
Brown have to do with your career over the
past 25 years?
My experience arguing with my classmates
and being challenged by teachers (especially
Chuck Gosselink) left me able to hold my own
with the bosses. I write tolerably well thanks
to Everett Leonard and Rex McGuinn. All
these folks and especially Jim Tull, Paul
Graseck, and Charlotte Gosselink pushed me
to self-reflection and moral sensibility. Foster
Ryan ’83 and Peter Economou ’83 taught me
the value of friendship. [See page 48 for
updates from some former faculty.]
What was your service project
when you were a student at Moses Brown?
I did several: I answered the phone at the
Red Cross, tutored at Martin Luther King
Elementary School, worked at Amos House,
and on Julius Michaelson’s Senate campaign.
If you were to return to Moses Brown
as a teacher, what would you teach?
Easy: history and public speaking.
What stories do you hope to tell
when you come back for your 50th
reunion at Moses Brown?
About how my kids and grandkids are happy,
interesting and thoughtful people who are
making a contribution to the world and don’t
have to worry about healthcare, housing, or
schools because we spent the best part of the
next 25 years worrying about the future
instead of ourselves.
Don Driscoll has worked as a union organizer since graduating from Oberlin College in 1987. He is now
the national organizing director for the National Association of Government Employees/SEIU Local 5000
(www.nage.org) and recently moved back to Rhode Island with his family. The Driscolls reside in
Chepachet. Previously, they lived in Nashville, Tennessee where Don was the principal officer of Service
Employees International Union Local 205. Contact Don at ddriscoll@nage.org.
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Greg Baldwin ’87
Service in Education Bringing people together
GREG BALDWIN ’87 IS PRINCIPAL OF NEW HAVEN ACADEMY, a public high school in New Haven, Connecticut
that he designed and founded with his wife, Meredith, in 2003. NHA is a magnet school in the New Haven Public
School system. The school’s mission is to prepare students to succeed in college and to be critical, independent thinkers.
What led you to co-found
and run New Haven Academy?
I certainly wouldn’t have predicted this as a
MB senior in 1987. But in another way, it
makes sense; a lot of my experiences in education
have been informed by my years at
MB. As I look back, a few themes emerge
from my experience at Moses Brown, including
the requirement of affirmative, active
community membership; a commitment to
the service of others; a belief in the power of
reflection as a tool for growth. I have tried to
carry these threads (and others) into my
work at New Haven Academy.
Photo by Kathy Richland/Facing History and Ourselves
Teachers in Facing History and Ourselves
classrooms — at New Haven Academy
and Moses Brown — inspire students to
take responsibility for their world, learning
civic responsibility, tolerance, and social
action. The program “pushes students to
examine the roots of prejudice and discrimination,
and gets them thinking about ways
to be active citizens,” says Greg Baldwin,
who made the program the theme of the
magnet school he co-founded in New Haven.
“A few themes emerge from my experience at Moses Brown,
including the requirement of affirmative, active community
membership; a commitment to the service
of others; a belief in the power of reflection
as a tool for growth.”
My route to NHA included undergraduate
work at Wesleyan University, followed by a
two-year stint as an English teacher at the
McDonogh School in suburban Baltimore, an
M.A.T. from Brown University, then five years
as a humanities teacher at a new public
school in New York City, The Institute for
Collaborative Education (ICE — the school
that became the model for NHA). My time at
Brown and ICE was transformative; I got passionate
about working with both students
and adults on big questions in education. I
was exposed to the work of a national education
reform network, the Coalition of
Essential Schools, which fundamentally
changed my understanding of education. I
learned to re-think how teaching and learning
happen best and how schools can (and
should) be set up to foster learning, growth,
and engagement.
How did you land on NHA’s magnet theme?
Our magnet theme is a citizenship program
called “Facing History and Ourselves,” an
approach to the study of history and human
behavior that pushes students to examine
the roots of prejudice and discrimination,
and gets them thinking about ways to be
active citizens. [See page 22 for more from an
MB teacher who also uses Facing History and
Ourselves in her classroom.]
What kinds of results have you seen?
New Haven Academy is on the right track. In
our first two graduating classes, 2007 and
2008, 100% of our graduates have been
accepted to college. Roughly 70% of those
graduates are the first in their families to
attend college. Still, while many focus on the
college piece, I tend to focus on the sense of
choosing and belonging to a special community,
the sense of high expectations for each
kid as a person and a student, and the sense
of being known well and cared for by the
adult community as parts of the private
school experience I’m trying to replicate.
How do you look back on your MB days having
made your career in high school education?
I spent my last years bristling at the highpressure
college atmosphere that was both in
the air and self-imposed at MB, and now I
spend my time repeating virtually the same
mantra I dreaded as a teenager: “Of course
you’re going to college; you won’t graduate
from New Haven Academy without being
accepted to college.” The difference — and its
origins — is illuminating. At MB, we knew
college was for “us,” and that we could and
would succeed. At NHA and ICE, our students
begin high school not knowing or believing
that college is for them or that they can succeed
there. We have had to instill that belief
in all of our students explicitly.
After MB, Greg Baldwin ’87 attended Wesleyan University, before beginning the path traced above. Greg
was the 1987 recipient of MB’s Dwight Owen, Jr. Award, presented at Commencement each year to honor
Dwight Owen, Jr., class of 1964, who was killed in Vietnam. For his MB service project, Greg coordinated
student panels on diversity and discrimination as part of the NCCJ program (National Conference of
Christians and Jews, now the National Conference for Community and Justice). He now lives in
Connecticut with his family. Greg can be reached at gregory.baldwin@new-haven.k12.ct.us.

Pamela Humphreys ’97
Direct Service Working with individuals
to better their lives in Providence
A LAWYER AND PROFESSIONAL MEDIATOR, Pamela Humphreys ’97 works on the Southside of Providence,
for the Community Mediation Center of Rhode Island (CMCRI). Her agency mediates several types of cases: neighbor
to neighbor, landlord-tenant, small claims, family, parent-teen, and victim-offender. She also has been involved in
the Juvenile Restorative Justice Project, part of a growing national movement embraced by the Quaker community.
Most legal disputes these days
seem to involve litigation and criminal
proceedings. How is mediation different?
The biggest challenge in practicing mediation
is educating the public and others about the
benefits and uses of mediation. Often people
have preconceived ideas about what mediation
is and is not and how it can and cannot
be used. By and large, the mediation process
allows for a wider array of possibilities for
resolution than is often found in adversarial
processes.
What I find gratifying about mediation is
the unique position it puts me in to get to the
heart of a dispute. I can get at both parties’
interests, positions, and concerns in a way
that an attorney or judge is not able to, due
to rules surrounding procedure. At the same
time, my law degree means that I am knowledgeable
about those rules and laws, which
is very useful when it is time for a “reality
test” with parties about their positions in
relation to one another and the legal system.
What kinds of cases do
you deal with most often?
CMCRI’s busiest program involves landlord/
tenant cases. I’ve handled many recent cases
involving families facing homelessness. The
mediation process can teach an individual to
self-advocate and to be empowered in finding
solutions to problems in a way that they did
not know they were capable. Mediation gives
individuals a sense of agency.
Are the kinds of conflicts you deal
with specific to the Southside of Providence?
I work on Broad Street in Providence, which is
really not all that far from Lloyd Avenue. The
kind of work we do here can be done in any
economic climate, geographic location, cultural
context, or social milieu. Everyone has conflict.
Without conflict, there would be no growth,
no change. A professor at my college, The
College of the Atlantic in Maine, often repeated
the truism, “If you are feeling uncomfortable,
pay attention. You are about to learn something.”
I agree. For many people, nothing is
more uncomfortable than conflict, but without
it, there is no indication that something
needs to change. This is true whether one
lives off Lloyd or Broad.
How has your involvement with
the Juvenile Restorative Justice Project
connected with your work in mediation?
My work there is absolutely based in early
intervention. There is strong evidence that
once a young person makes contact with the
justice system, the likelihood that they will
continue to have contact and/or be incarcerated
as an adult increases exponentially. The
more communities can embrace their youth,
the more youth will learn the skills we all
“This concept has been said in so many ways —
‘it takes a village to raise a child,’
‘I learned everything I need to know in kindergarten.’ We
learn how to treat each other, what is acceptable, from day one.”
need to maintain a safe, thriving society.
Youth need to look around their communities
and see what is expected of them. This is
true in all communities. This is not a racial or
a socio-economic phenomenon; it is part of
the human condition. It is up to the adults in
any community not to be afraid of each other
and to get involved. This concept has been
said in so many ways — “it takes a village to
raise a child,” “I learned everything I need to
know in kindergarten.” We learn how to treat
each other, what is acceptable, from day one.
How has your view of
service evolved since your time at MB?
When I was a student at Moses Brown (or in
college or law school, for that matter), fulfilling
a service requirement was a prerequisite
to completion or graduation. It was not one
that I minded. I would choose public service
over an exam any day. Now that I am an
adult and responsible for my bills, housing,
clothing, etc., it is more of a challenge to
retain the value of service and make it a part
of my life. Because it is such an important
value to me, I chose a profession in which I
can make a living, have health insurance,
and further myself professionally in serviceoriented
work. This is not easy and not
always sustainable for people with families
or enormous education debt. These are real
decisions and challenges involved in working
in service.
Over time the concept of service has
become more fluid for me. Service can be an
isolated act such as helping a neighbor or a
stranger on the street, or it can be on a larger
scale, affecting a particular group or community.
I think I used to think that the latter was
more important than the other, more “real.” I
no longer feel that way. Now, I see service in
a ripple or “pay it forward” kind of way. The
isolated act is never really isolated.
After MB, Pamela Humphreys attended the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, earning a degree in human ecology. She then entered the human services
field in Rhode Island, working in residential and outreach programs for youth and families involved with the state Department of Children, Youth and Families.
This led Pam to an interest in legal processes that would help resolve family conflicts in less adversarial ways. Pam graduated from Roger Williams
University’s School of Law this spring. She is a trained mediator with the Community Mediation Center of Rhode Island (www.cmcri.org) on Broad Street in
Providence, hired to start and design a new program for the Center in Juvenile Restorative Justice, in collaboration with the Providence Police. She can be
reached at pamh36@hotmail.com.
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Wesley Stevenson ’06
Bridging the Gap: A Young Alumna Takes Time Out to Serve
Photos, courtesy of City Year
Two years ago, Wesley Stevenson ’06
decided to delay college and, instead, join
City Year in Chicago. After one year with
City Year, Wes was asked to be a team
leader in Washington, D.C., the only
person under 22 to lead a team in the city.
This fall, Wes began her freshman year at
the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
THROUGHOUT MY TIME AT MB, I felt like I
had really found my niche. I worked hard on
academics, taking five AP courses, plus an
elective as a senior, in hopes that I would be
able to go to that dream college that would be
just the perfect place for me. I applied early
decision to Bowdoin College in Maine, and
was deferred, then not accepted. However,
that spring break, I took a trip with a group of
juniors and seniors to the Dominican
Republic to do community service in the
batey (sugar worker) communities there, and
found the experience to be freeing and
awesome in so many senses. I never really
did much extra community service in high
school, opting instead to invest my time in
basketball and lacrosse.
When I decided to take a year off before
college, it was an awkward time for me at MB.
The fact that I was not jumping straight into
college like most of my peers was a little
embarrassing, but college didn’t seem like
the right thing for me. I looked into other
options and found City Year.
City Year is a national non-profit, part of
the Americorps network, that unites a group
of diverse 17-24 year-olds in a year of fulltime
community service. There are currently
sites in 18 cities in the United States, and one
in South Africa. I chose City Year because I
wanted to be independent from my parents
for a year while I did something more meaningful
and valuable for others. I didn’t really
know what the program would entail, but I
hoped the experience would change me for
the better. Before I was even halfway through
my first year, I knew that it was worth it: the
kids I was working with each day made me
realize I had the power to change lives.
I also gained some needed distance and
perspective from the college-search process.
College just wasn’t what I needed at the time.
I needed to get laughed at trying to use my
bus card, to have my grocery bags break in
the street, to be shocked at how fast money
goes when I refused to budget. I had to live
outside another’s expectations in order to
make my own mistakes and, in the process,
create new expectations for myself. For too
long, I lived in the comfortable; during
City Year, I discovered that I am far more
comfortable in its opposite.

“I didn’t really know what the program would entail, but I hoped the experience would change
me for the better. Before I was even halfway through my first year, I knew that it was worth it:
the kids I was working with each day made me realize I had the power to change lives.”
“One of my managers told me that you should always come from a place of caring:
caring about others, yourself, and the world around you, in everything that you do.”
In City Year, I enjoyed being independent
and meeting people I never would have met:
people who came from Chicago or D.C., people
who lived in houses 25 times smaller than
mine, people who were getting married, or
were already parents at my age, and younger.
The experience and conversations that we
had created bonds that really will last a long
time. Both teams on which I served were
composed of people who are very important
to me, and we taught each other as many
lessons as we learned from the service we
performed together.
In Chicago, I spent my days working at an
elementary school on the west side, in an
area overrun by drugs, crime, and lack of
opportunity. I tutored six children in reading,
and, with my ten-member team, designed
and ran an after-school program. We were a
symbol for our students of a way to change
lives and to be a safe haven. Their eyes lit up
in a way I had never seen: they loved and
trusted us instantly. Of the six students I
tutored during the year, one in particular
stood out the most: a first-grader named
Avianna Jones.
Avianna was so far behind in her class
that she was reading at a pre-K level, and
was one of the students who was almost
labeled as a lost cause. She was the smallest
in the class, but one of the brightest students
with so much energy and enthusiasm. She
latched on to me instantly, and I can remember
her begging me to wake up extra early on a
Saturday, one of the rare days I had to
myself, to chaperone her field trip because
she needed “someone to hold my hand.”
Throughout my two years, there were so
many students who flourished through working
with “their City Year,” and I think the effects
of those relationships are lasting.
Some City Year experiences hit very close
to my heart. All my life, I have made powerful
associations between moments and music,
and every morning in Chicago as the national
anthem played to start our day in the classroom,
I would look down at my paint-speckled
uniform boots, rock side to side, and remember
my basketball sneakers and lacrosse cleats,
the importance those teams had in my life for
so long, how I would swell with pride just
before we would tear up the field together.
This same camaraderie also kept my new
team strong. The safety and strength of teams
were what sustained me at MB, and what
sustained me in City Year.
I decided to serve for a second year,
because when you are immersed in the City
Year environment, it seems like you can
always give more. I was able to lead a team of
eight in service, this time in Washington, D.C.,
and it was just as diverse and opinionated a
group as my team in Chicago. Through leading
the team, I learned so much about managing
different work styles, and that motivating
others is based on mutual respect and understanding.
One of my managers told me that
you should always come from a place of caring:
caring about others, yourself, and the world
around you, in everything that you do. My
second team really taught me the importance
of that, as did my entire experience with City
Year in Washington, D.C.
Being a role model is powerful. When kids
see you every day, they change and respond.
You hope that someone else comes in
after you to continue that work. I was really
proud when I graduated City Year, proud of
changing places and changing myself. City
Year taught me that nothing can stop me, or
anyone else, except a lack of education. I
learned that I can effect change. I enjoyed my
time living in those two big, bright cities,
living my life while changing people around
me, in small moments. I hold onto those
seconds and snapshots; they have shaped
my perspective in ways that cannot be
undone or ignored.
QUICK Q&A WITH WESLEY:
What was your service project
when you were a student at Moses Brown?
I coached WIGS (Women Invested in Girls Sports)
basketball for my community service as a
student — one year my mom and I coached
the team together.
If you were to return to Moses Brown
as a teacher, what would you teach?
If I could return to MB as a teacher, I would
teach all the same classes as one of my
favorite teachers ever: Jamie German. The
way she taught me to think in her Evolution
and Chemistry classes has been invaluable,
and I would hope to bring half as much to the
courses as she did.
Wesley Stevenson can be reached at wsteve@umich.edu. See www.cityyear.org
for more information about how you can “give a year, change the world.”
Life Detours
Did you make a unique stop on your post-MB path? Do you have a service story?
Visit www.mosesbrown.org or contact alumni@mosesbrown.org.
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Speaking Up: A Witness to Healing
By Yolanda González, middle school history faculty
THIS SUMMER, MB FACULTY MEMBER YOLANDA GONZALEZ flew to Africa to assist
in a Quaker work camp in Rwanda to build a peace center for the war-torn region.
When I returned from Rwanda, I had
some difficulty processing my experience.
Throughout the five weeks of my trip, I saw
much of the country and had many encounters
with Rwandans involved directly in the 1994
genocide. Upon my return to the U.S., these
encounters left a deep impact on me: just
showing friends pictures and video, I would
start to cry. Visiting the country’s genocide
memorials, witnessing intense poverty,
interviewing genocide survivors and perpetrators
— these had been tough.
I wanted to go to Rwanda for a few reasons.
I wanted to develop my curriculum by providing
my students with up-to-date information
on the current situation in Rwanda and the
impact the genocide has had on the nation. I
wanted to experience what ordinary
Rwandans are doing to get past this terrible
time in their history. I wanted to become a
primary source for my students and now I
am, as I share my own experiences about life
in Rwanda.
While in Gisenyi, I lived in a home that
had no running water or bathing facility; we
had a latrine for a bathroom and sporadic
electricity. I used about 1-½ gallons of water
each day to bath myself — if there was any
water. I lived a quarter-mile from a United
Nations refugee camp in the Democratic
“In spite of the intense poverty in the village I lived in,” says Yolanda,
“the people there offered a richness in heart that has
no price tag. I have never been part of a community that was so
giving, humble in their reality about their situation in life, and so willing
to give me their affection, trust, heart, and compassion.”
Republic of the Congo that was experiencing
unrest and even now has another humanitarian
crisis on its hands, as recent news from international
and national news agencies have
indicated.
For the past several years while teaching
my Africa unit, I have used the 1994 Rwandan
genocide to teach about the atrocities which
have occurred as African nations have dealt
with the challenges brought on by the end of
colonialism. In this unit, I expose my students
to the history of Rwanda’s tribes and cultural
practices, European colonization, and the
effects that gaining independence has had on
the Tutsi and Hutu tribes as they struggled
for power and governance.
This trip gave me the opportunity to study
the continuing effects of the Rwandan genocide
by working one-on-one with victims and
perpetrators of this conflict who have come
back to their villages after years in refugee
camps or prison to rebuild their communities.
I interviewed and photographed Rwandans,
gathering accounts of their experiences
before, during, and after the genocide. This
has formed a unique primary source document
library which I am now using with my
African curriculum unit.
My trip to Rwanda became much more
than a research undertaking or preparation of
a curriculum unit, however. I was sad to leave
the many people who touched my heart during
this trip. In spite of the intense poverty in their
village, they offer a richness in heart that
has no price tag. I have never been part of a
community that was so giving, humble in
their reality about their situation in life, and
so willing to give me their affection, trust,
heart, and compassion. I cried inconsolably
on my last day.
While difficult to witness in pictures or in
person, what I witnessed at the genocide
memorials — the church altar still with blood
on the tablecloth covering it, the skulls out in
the open so that no one forgets what happened,
the box of children’s school books that were
found next to their bodies when they were
massacred, the concrete slab holding thousands
of bones — show what this country is trying
to do to heal from the ugliness of genocide.
Yolanda Gonzalez has taught in MB’s middle school since 2005. She previously taught in Philadelphia
and also worked as a social worker for eight years. Yolanda is a member of MB’s technology, all-school
diversity, LGBT faculty group, and head of school search committees. She coaches girls’ softball and
basketball. Yolanda can be reached at ygonzalez@mosesbrown.org. To see more of Yolanda’s photos,
visit www.mosesbrown.org.

Service at MB Today
• MB Development Associate Melissa Rabinow (above) handles mailing of Cupola and volunteers
with Providence’s Manton Avenue Project. The volunteer-driven project has professional theatre
artists work with Olneyville youth to create original theatre.
• A number of efforts this year have battled breast cancer, from the swim team walking Roger
Williams Park to the kindergarten engaging in a karate demonstration before Waterfire.
• MB’s preprimary students work with Camp Street Ministries, a local organization supporting
Providence families. This year, the 4-year-old students organized a food drive to support
Camp Street’s ambitious goal of making 450 Thanksgiving dinner boxes. The class collected
$5,000 to buy turkeys, filled three cars full of canned and boxed foods, and secured a truck
to deliver enough fresh produce to fill all 450 boxes.
• One hundred and sixty nine alumni/ae served as volunteers this year, hosting or planning
events, donating goods, contributing expertise or knowledge, and volunteering for annual
fund or reunion.
Anne Landis, MB history
faculty, spent last
academic year on
sabbatical to continue
her work as clerk of
the American Friends
Service Committee of
Southeast New England.
To see Ann’s blog, visit aplandis-teachpeace.blogspot.
com/. She also worked with a local peace coalition.
Anne serves on the board of Resources for Human
Development Rhode Island and volunteers with
Special Olympics and Sojourner House.
MB Senior Poll:
how do you serve?
Patthana Symoungkoun volunteers at a recreational
center near her house in Providence, helping
elementary school kids with their homework.
Most Popular Senior Service Activity
• Elementary school
• Youth tutor
• Activity coordinator
“The concept of Quaker service starts with the belief that there is that of God in every person
and that all people in the world are, therefore, members of one extended family of equals. …
I believe that we are most ourselves when we are connecting with others through service.”
— A Quaker Book of Wisdom, Robert Lawrence Smith
MB faculty, staff, and students are serving
our community in a variety of ways:
“Through the Quaker testimonies of Stewardship, Simplicity, and Peace,
we are able to have conversations with students, often centering on
finding peace within themselves, being aware of what they have that
others may not, and thinking about how to give in small and more
substantial ways. As I learn what it means to be a part of a Friends school,
I was interested to learn that historically Quakers did not celebrate
holidays — they believe that every day is special and should be a day for
giving thanks and building relationships with others. It is therefore not
surprising to me that in a school such as ours, the idea of giving to others and living the testimony
of Stewardship is felt year-long and is integrated into students’ learning in meaningful ways.”
— Abby Guinn, head of lower school, in her first year at MB
Students in Service
MB students consistently surpass their 40-hour
service learning graduation requirement and
provide ongoing service to several organizations,
including Amos House, Meeting Street
Center, Rhode Island Blood Center, Rhode
Islanders Sponsoring Education, Rhode Island
Historical Society, and Global Works.
MB Service
“The carrying out of
service for the sake
of service, an attitude
entrenched in a sound
Quaker education, is a way of life rather than
something one thinks of in advance of doing; this
is not a solely abstract approach to service learning.
MB’s community service program attempts to
instill this attitude in the lives of students via
practical means.”
— Elvis Alves, community service coordinator
In 2008, MB’s upper school celebrated its 10th
Annual Service Day, where more than 1,000 hours
of service are committed to the city in a single day.
Over the course of 10 years, that’s 10,000 hours of
service. This year’s Service Day will be held on
May 14: local alumni/ae are invited to join MB, as
a site or in service.
To keep up with community service at MB, visit www.mbcommunityservice.blogspot.com.
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Let Your MB Connections Serve You: Alumni/ae Events 2008-09
Providence Alumni/ae Social, September 2008:
1) Award winners Marshall Cannell ’48 and Scott Brown ’94.
2) 1997’s Stephanie Ogidan Preston, Gina Guiducci, Steve McKinnon,
and John Pariseault. 3) The Gorgi Family. 4) Rick Blackall ’68
and Steele Blackall ’42. 5) 1948’s Marshall Cannell and George
Nazareth with wives. 6) Keith Monchik ’90 and wife Michelle
Lefebvre. 7) Nancy Pasquariello ’91, Larry Tremblay, and Rebecca
Mellion ’91. 8) ’04: John Campopiano and Pam Priestley.
9) 1980s: Jennifer Castellucci, Mindy Penney, and Tim Faulkner.
10) ’81: Phil Zexter, Harley Frank, CJ Lovett, Tina Odessa, Donna
Harley, and David Odessa. 11) Bonnie and Donald Dwares ’55
and Richard and Joanne Hoffman. 12) Karin Morse ’79 with 1994’s
Bambie and Scott Brown.
New York City Young Alumni/ae Gathering, November 2008:
Several young alums — including Keith Andrade ’95, Aidan
Sullivan ’91, Toby King ’90, and Ned Silverman ’92 — joined
Joanne Hoffman at Local West this fall.
Boston Alumni/ae Holiday Celebration, December 2008
Several alumni/ae braved the cold for a night at Locke-Ober
this winter, including Josh Poulton ’07, Luiza Smith ’08, and
Dan Boylan ’88.
Florence Lambrese’s Surprise Retirement Party, December 2008
The Sinclair Room filled with MB alumni/e, colleagues, and
families this December, all saying farewell to Florence Lambrese,
retiring after 41 years at MB. See mosesbrown.org for a copy of
Florence’s college counseling “recommendation.”
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New York Boston Farewell, Florence!
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Friday Evening, May 8, 2009 • Reunion Weekend
A Window in Time
15 Years of Transformative Leadership
Friday evening, May 8, 6:30 p.m.
Each fall at Convocation, and each spring
at Commencement, Joanne Hoffman has
sustained a long-standing tradition:
carrying Moses Brown’s cane as a
reminder of our Quaker founder
and our gratitude to him.
“
Our children come to us as natural questioners
and with an abundance of creative ways of
seeing the world new and whole. All that
remains for us is to keep our vision set firmly
on our goal, to know our limitations as well as
our opportunities, and to maintain our sacred
commitment to children and learning. Our
goal, in the end, the essence of our profession
and this school, is to nourish the human spirit.
With such a destination in our sights and our
Quaker values as a compass, I can say, along
with Chaucer’s clerk, and with every member
of this community, gladly will I learn, and
gladly teach.
”
— from Joanne Petro Hoffman’s
installation address, September 17, 1994
Please join us to celebrate this moment in our
school’s 225-year history as MB honors Joanne
Hoffman’s service from 1994 through 2009. Since
beginning her Moses Brown career with the
carefully selected words and deep commitment to
us all — gladly learn, gladly teach — her leadership
has brought about spectacular advancement in the
academic program, a rich deepening of our school’s
commitment to its traditions and mission as a
Friends school, and an unprecedented $40 million
capital improvement program that ensures
excellence in teaching and learning.
In honor of Joanne’s unwavering focus and
commitment to Moses Brown students, the Board
of Overseers is leading an effort to raise funds that
will support our financial aid program. For more
information, contact Director of Development
Ron Dalgliesh at rdalgliesh@mosesbrown.org or
by phone at 401-831-7350 x111.
Contact Jane Barrett, 401-831-7350 x184,
jbarrett@mosesbrown.org, for event and
reservation details.
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Class Notes
Moses Brown Alumni/ae Association Board 2008-2009
Charles Barrett ’67
John Blacher ’72
F. Steele Blackall III ’42
James Briden ’81
Cara Camacho ’97
Carl DeLuca ’78
Secretary
How Do Your Alumni/ae Dues Serve You — Or MB?
“Happy New Year. I hope that this issue of Cupola finds you and yours doing well in these
challenging times. While you are thinking of new year resolutions and new ways of fiscal
restraint, I ask you to do one thing today that is a small investment that will certainly pay off:
become a dues-paying member of the Moses Brown Alumni/ae Association. Your financial
support allows us to sustain and enhance the programs we provide for all MB alumni/ae. Last
year, with your alumni/ae dues support, the MBAA was able to attract record attendance to
Reunion Weekend, revitalize Homecoming, support our alumni/ae magazine Cupola, help MB
unveil the new MyMB website and online community, publish alumni/ae e-newsletters, and
fund the annual summer internship for a graduating senior.
“Were you inspired by reading about Julie Fritz ’01 and her clinic work in Harlem in this
issue? Did you relate to Ted Low ’44 and his long career of serving our country and state in
myriad ways? Were you inspired, like me, to read about my classmate Pam Humphreys ’97,
who works in Providence to help people mediate their differences? Does your Moses Brown
education make you think about topics like service, or peace, or community in thoughtprovoking
ways?
“In my years since Moses Brown, and in my volunteer work at Moses Brown since then, I
have come to learn and realize that service happens when a community exists. These are
challenging times for many — those in need of service and individuals in all sectors of work.
At a time like this, we value our Moses Brown community even more for reminding ourselves
of what we learned there, realizing the resource we have in the online directory or alumni/ae
events, wonderful sources for both inspiration and networking.
“It is the mission of the Moses Brown Alumni/ae Association to strengthen the bonds that
connect us to each other and to our alma mater. I am grateful for the bond we share and send
you best wishes for year ahead.”
Sincerely,
Stephanie Ogidan Preston ’97
President, Alumni/ae Association
stephanie.preston@yahoo.com
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Hugh Madden ’84
Laura Marasco ’94
Keith Monchik ’90
Vice President
Neal Pandozzi ’91
Stephanie Ogidan Preston ’97
President
The mission of the Moses Brown Alumni/ae Association is to foster
lifelong relationships with the school and fellow alumni/ae.
Timothy Crockett Rhodes ’80
Treasurer
Jonathan Scott ’84
Ted Winston ’74
Phil Zexter ’81
MBAA Board members
Stephanie Ogidan Preston ’97,
Laura Marasco ’94, and Phil
Zexter ’81 catch up with
George Demopulos ’83 at
an MB event this fall.
Visit www.mosesbrown.org to pay your alumni dues online and read more about Service!
Robert Allen, shown recently with his wife Shirley, writes,
“Our 70th reunion is coming up — WOW! Our son and two
granddaughters are all in East Providence so we talk to and
see them often. We are lucky to still be in our home, for
the 61st year. Best wishes to all classmates.”
1943
1940
William Bellows and his
wife Lou have moved to an
independent apartment in
Topsham, Maine. He writes,
“There’s no room for my
drums, but they are nearby in
storage. I’m still broadcasting
jazz on Bowdoin College radio
a few times each year and
swimming at the Bath YMCA
several times a week.”
This summer, Bob Harrington
and Carl Lindblad traveled
from South Carolina and
Massachusetts, respectively, to
enjoy a visit with one another
and a tour of MB with new
Alumni/ae Relations Director
Karin Morse ’79 (see page 33).
Bob says, “The tour brought
back many fond memories of
our time as students. Carl and
I were fascinated to see the
many changes that have
occurred. I was impressed
with the band room, student
lounge, Alumni Hall, and the
playing fields with so much
activity going on, well before
school opening.”
1942
Hap Poole writes, “I heard a
tribute to Steele Blackall at
the Yale Bowl last fall while
watching unbeaten Yale be
trounced by Harvard. Best
regards to Steele and MB
members of the class of 1942.”
1943
1939
Gardner Jacobs still practices
psychoanalysis in Philadelphia.
In fact, with Skype (software
that allows users to make
telephone calls over the
Internet) Gardner has four
clients in China.

In August, Cynthia Howe Brett, daughter of Natalie and F. Warren “Junie” Howe, gathered
in front of the Waughtel-Howe Field House with her children and grandchildren. MB’s
Waughtel-Howe Field House is named for Cynthia’s father, Junie, head track coach and
faculty member from 1925 – 1961. Cynthia, her sister, and the Whitford daughters were
among the few girls on campus during the many years when MB was a single-sex school.
The family came together for a memorial service in August at the Providence Meeting
House for Natalie, who passed away last October.
1944 Reunion 2009
Col. Ted Low reports: see page
10 for more on Ted’s story.
Other alums are welcome to
share similar updates and
reflections as well: contact
alumni@mosesbrown.org.
1947
1948/1994
Marshall, take a bow: Congratulations to Marshall Cannell ’48 (right),
who received the Alumni/ae Association’s Service to Alma Mater Award
at Homecoming. Marshall has been a dedicated volunteer and supporter
of the theatre arts at MB, including combing through the archives and
digitally cataloging drama productions from 1889 to 2008. Marshall has
served as a class agent and correspondent and was instrumental in the
establishment of the Class of ‘48 Award for Independent Study and
Inquiry. He is shown with fellow MBAA award recipient Scott Brown '94,
who received the 2008 Outstanding Young Alumnus Award. See page 39
for more on Scott.
Norval Garnett of East
Greenwich shared the sad
news that his wife Dr. Norma
Ann Bergquist Garnett died in
December 2005. Both he and
his wife were Colby graduates.
Chicago’s Department of
Cultural Affairs named
Charles Staples volunteer of
the year in June. Chuck is the
longest-standing volunteer
with more than 2,040 service
hours as a docent and greeter
in the Chicago Cultural
Center. Chuck was inducted
into the Chicago Senior
Citizens Hall of Fame in 2002.
He is active in political
campaigns, environmental
issues, and preservation of
architectural landmarks.
1948
Class Correspondent
Marshall Cannell
25 Sheridan Road
Wellesley Hills, MA
02481-5418
781-237-0055
mca4nnell@aol.com
William Hoey and wife Anita
tried to find a feasible way
to travel across the U.S. and
back in May, not only for the
Reunion, but also to visit
other acquaintances in
New England. However, after
considering trains, planes,
automobiles, hotels, and
boarding their terrier, they
decided it would be better to
send a gift to the class fund
and stay in California.
Ted Low’s 65 years of service to
country include enlistment in
WWII and the Korean War, five
terms in Rhode Island’s House of
Representatives, and the drive to
build Providence’s Korean War
Monument. In 1994, he received
the Ambassador for Freedom
medal from the Korean government.
Ted, shown at the 60th anniversary
ceremony at Omaha Beach, is
currently a Civilian Aide to the
Secretary of the Army.
After MB, Nathanael Herreshoff attended William and Mary. He
received an M.A. in history from the University of Michigan, then
taught German and history at the high school and college level.
Now retired, he is a self-employed tax consultant. Nat has lived in
South Jersey for 50 years, currently in Westampton. In addition to
yachting and travel, Nat also enjoys genealogy. “Moses Brown was
the brother of my ancestor, the prominent Providence merchant,
John Brown,” he writes. “I was surprised to learn recently that my
great-grandfather, Charles Frederick Herreshoff, graduated from
what became Moses Brown School in 1825. He was the grandnephew
of Moses Brown. Members of my mother’s Quaker family,
the Chases of Prudence Island, have attended the school since at
least 1800.”
1953
Michael Geremia regrets not
being able to attend his 55th
Reunion; his son Jonathan
was married in Tampa,
Florida that weekend.
Michael’s son Mike was
married in Orlando in June. “I
have been married to Shirley
Grace Graham for 43 years
now,” he says. “I have two
other children, Joe and Julie.
I still keep in touch with Dave
Milot ’54 and Connie Almy
McGill, 1957, Lincoln School.”
1944
1949
1954 Reunion 2009
Richard Norton writes, “Where
did the five years go since
our 50th? I hope to see you
all plus some additional
classmates! I became fully
retired this year. I am enjoying
golf and ski outings with my
son and daughter and I still
play tennis. And, of course, I
am enjoying thoroughbred
racing here in Saratoga
Springs.”
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Service
Building Hope: John Sherman ’55
John Sherman, of Clemson, South Carolina, spends
much of his free time with Habitat for Humanity:
“A core group of about a dozen retirees,
mostly ex-professors and business rejects,
serves our county chapter of Habitat for
Humanity. I have belonged to this ‘geezer’
team for about five years! We work two
mornings a week, completing two or three houses per year.
During the school year, we draw from university chapter members
and local church groups. From time to time, the judge even sends
us folks who have been asked to do some community service. I’m
the Habitat coordinator for our church, too, and no one is safe!
“You’d think Habitat work is about houses, but it turns out
that in the end it’s really about people. Of course, it’s great to be
able to provide homes for really needy families. But getting to
know those families and developing friendships with a pretty
diverse volunteer base is what makes it especially worthwhile
for me.”
“The benefit of owning a real home can’t be overstated,
especially for folks who, despite trying, have been unable to
escape truly substandard living. It’s a non-medical anti-depressant
and morale booster without peer. The chance to raise
children in a clean, pleasant environment is a basic goal, but
one that many of us have never really had to think about. I hope
to stay involved as long as I’m able.”
Visit mosesbrown.org to read John’s full thoughts. John can be
reached at johnsherman@bellsouth.net.
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Getting Help to the
Poorest of the Poor:
Frederick Tanner ’55
During his military service, Frederick
Tanner ’55, of East Greenwich, flew a
SAC B-47 bomber. Now Fred is serving
as a volunteer missionary in the Dominican Republic:
“This is not a preaching position!” Fred says. “Rather, it is an
opportunity to help others.” The mission will use Fred’s skills,
acquired through years in manufacturing and management.
He will live in La Romana, serving at the Haitian Baptist Mission,
a medical mission to benefit Haitians living in the Dominican
Republic. The decade-old hospital there, approximately 30%
completed now, treats more than 80,000 needy patients a year.
Fred will be the liaison between weekly mission groups coming
from churches and colleges all over the U.S. to provide construction
labor to the hospital and the hospital’s permanent construction
staff. Mission teams from the U.S. are building the hospital one
week at a time. Fred will help provide continuity from one group to
the next, working in plumbing, electrical, carpentry, and painting.
He has been at the hospital for four months already this year,
getting a donated CT scanner up and running. Fred will return this
winter to stay for 12 months.
Contact him at fredfbceg@verizon.net.
1955
1955
Most recent ’55 reunion in Narragansett.
Jack Houriet
2525 Turner Road
Willow Grove, PA
19090-1625
215-657-3786
jwhour@jwhour.cnc.net
Richard Curtis says that most
of his classmates have been
involved with helping service
organizations in one capacity
or another. Dick retired after
ten years of service as a board
member of the Peace Dale
Estates, a government-funded
elderly housing facility.
Dottie and Jeremy Leon split
the year between Florida and
Pennsylvania. “A former
boarder, I keep close contact
with some classmates, Jack
Houriet (Juan), Richard Curtis
(Buzzy), and Charlie Wilson
(Beat Army). I am working on
my tennis and golf games and
my open invitation still stands
for those who wish to challenge
me to a round of golf in
Pennsylvania, Florida, or
Rhode Island. I tried to get
Bernie Buonanno to play this
year, but his schedule did not
fit. God willing, we have next
year. Just one other item, and
that’s about my brother Dick
Leon ’52. He’s quite ill and
fighting to keep his shoulders
off the mat in order not to be
pinned. For those who don’t
remember, Dick never was
pinned while wrestling for MB.
If anyone would like to cheer
him up, please contact me for
his particulars, 973-390-7786
or jeremyjetpilot@cs.com.”
Charles Wilson recently
attended a mini-reunion
hosted by Caroline and Richard
Curtis in Narragansett. “I was
delighted to spend some time
with Dotty and Jerry Leon, and
Alice and Jack Houriet,” he
says. “Two Marines (Houriet &
Leon), one soldier (Curtis), and
one old Navy (Wilson) made
for lively conversation to say
the least. There were lots of
thoughts about our own
service, and thoughts of
today’s young men and
women serving around the
globe, many in harm’s way
under horrific circumstances.
We must support them all day,
every day.” Charlie lives in
Connecticut.
1957
Jerry Knowles writes, “Our
50th Reunion is ancient
history now, but I enjoyed it
immensely, and think and
hope that all attendees felt
the same. Classmates who
attended were Ron Boss (who
was honored with the
Distinguished Alumnus
Award), Ralph Barton, Dirk
Vanderblue, Marshall Meyers,
Walt McNamara, Stan
Goldberg, Bob Kelly, John
Drew, Moe Mellion, Harry
Towne, Al Feinberg, Bill Albert,
and Ron Smith.”
Jerry also had a special
surprise when he got a call
from a friend whose brotherin-law
is Bill Hill: “Bill looked
great, is retired from pharmaceutical
marketing and living
in Florida. He plays a lot of
golf and finds time to travel,
especially to visit family. It
was great to see him; he says
he plans to make the next
reunion.”
Ron Boss recently returned
to boat ownership. He and
two friends bought a 1924
six-metre boat that they have
restored to mint condition:
“Well, almost mint condition.
The world six metre championships
for old (pre-1965) and

1955
1955
Jack Houriet, Charlie Wilson, Jeremy Leon, and Richard “Buzzy”
Curtis celebrated Moses Brown in Pennsylvania this June, “with a
fine dinner that included the original MB Peppermint Stick Ice
Cream served by three of the best MB waiters shown. Our visit
was full of laughs and a few libations that reviewed many a fond
memory of boarding at MB.”
new boats will be held in
Newport next year. It will be
interesting if I remember how
to get to the weather mark
before the others after so
many years not having to
worry about such details!
Marge and I are well; we have
seven grandchildren.”
Bill Butler writes, “I retired
some ten years ago and
moved to Durango, Colorado.
There is more bio/project
information on my web pages
at www.durangobill.com.
The latest fuddy-duddy
experiment is my attempt to
start a Giant Sequoia grove in
an open field next to my
home. So far, everything is
going fine, but the acid test
will be this winter.”
Former Marine Jack Houriet,
reflecting on the theme of this
issue, says that his primary
service activities have been
military and community. Jack
served in the Marine Corps
from 1957-59 aboard the USS
Valley Forge. His present
service is assisting at the polls
on election days.
Tom Jenckes attended MB for
four years from seventh to the
end of the tenth: “Then I was
plucked out and sent off to
Middletown to the school on
the hill overlooking Second
Beach. I do get back to Rhode
Island once or twice a year to
visit with family and friends.
Sorry I missed the 50th. I
wanted to go, but the timing
didn’t work out.” Last summer,
he returned with his partner
Helen to see the Tall Ships.
Sadly, Tom’s year started in
distress when his son, Stuart,
32, died unexpectedly from
pneumonia. However, this
summer Helen and Tom
were happy to learn that his
daughter was expecting his
first grandchild. Tom loves
his second career teaching
ESL at Hayward Adult School,
part-time. He lives in Alameda,
California.
Assisting Overseas: Don Hysko ’55
Don Hysko ’55 and wife Pat, of Kansas, continue to support three schools in
Zimbabwe. The Hyskos recently donated $500 to support the schools during their
two-month “vacation,” which means no salary or food for 800 children and teachers.
Says Don, “Imagine feeding 800 people for 60 days for less than we might spend at a
fancy restaurant for dinner and wine for four!” The Hyskos also began a chicken
farm project in Chivanhu, helping the 85 villagers living there to obtain a well,
medical help, school, privy, and a viable chicken farm, saying, “don’t give a man a
fish, but show him how to fish.” The Hyskos supplied 150 chickens but report that
the chickens are now all gone, stolen or eaten by starving people. “The village has
shrunk to fewer than 40 villagers,” says Don. “The rest have died of AIDS, disease,
and starvation. Pat and I are trying to provide the entire village with at least some
food (money) to feed the survivors and trust that one day, we can again teach
them to fish.”
Tracing His Path: Richard Seiferheld ’57
Service
After 1957’s Reunion, Moe Mellion ’57 (left) located Richard Seiferheld ’57. In August,
Richard and wife Susan visited with Moe and Irene in Wyoming. Richard shares more on
his post-MB path:
“After graduation from Cornell, I worked in New York City for almost ten years
in commercial banking and corporate management. In 1970, I moved to California
with an offer from Crown Zellerbach, but decided to take some time off to spend a
winter skiing in Utah. While waiting for the snow to begin, my life took some
interesting turns, beginning with a couple of weeks at Esalen Institute in Big Sur.
I began to reexamine my life’s plan and decided to devote more time to exploring
my inner world. I spent much of the next ten years living what was called an
alternative lifestyle.
“I moved around a lot, mostly in California but also spent time doing communal
living in Vermont. I settled in San Francisco, where I devoted time to meditation,
martial arts, bodywork, and teaching. I also did some real estate investing there,
buying, rehabbing, and reselling homes. When I was ready to settle down with my
first wife and have my second child, I opted to get out of the city.
“We settled in St. Helena in the heart of the Napa Valley, where I’ve been
selling real estate ever since. I have been with Susan Davis for nearly 12 years now
(we just married this May). Besides work and being engaged in the lives of my two
children (Matthew, a winemaker here in the Valley, and Kim, a floral designer), I have
stayed physically active. Until two years ago when I had shoulder injuries, I swam
competitively, doing open water swims throughout northern California. Susan and
I are avid hikers and have spent time in many parts of Europe, Patagonia,
New Zealand, and Asia.”
Contact Richard at seiferheld@sbcglobal.net.
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Don Batty ’58 and his wife Priscilla attended Reunion
this spring. The Battys live in Cheshire, Connecticut.
Edward DeSano and his daughter Ali recently helped in a medical clinic
in a Nepalese village. “Ali is an ob-gyn resident at the University of
Washington and I am retired,” says Ed, “teaching gynecology at Idaho
State. Following the clinic, we trekked toward the base camp at Mount
Everest with our spouses Marsha and Monte. I will never forget these
wonderful people and their incredible mountains. Hopefully their recent
change in government will lead them out of their Third World status.”
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1959 Reunion 2009
The Carpenter Gate opens: Russ Carpenter ’59 returned to MB
this fall for dedication of the Carpenter Gate on the north side
of campus (Alumni Avenue). Tom Godfray, Lanny Goff, and
Paul Sydlowski joined Russ at the event, part of The Campaign
for Moses Brown.
1958
William McCabe and his wife
Nancy enjoy traveling, grand-
children, and retirement in
Williamsburg, Virginia.
1960
Robert Marshall writes, “Three
years ago, I hitched up the
wagons and headed west. I
sold all of my worldly possessions
and traded them in for a
new and exciting life with a
wonderful young woman in
L.A. She is fantastic, fun,
1958
1965
and full of life. After getting
married and restarting my
consulting business, Marshall
Consultants, needless to say,
I struck gold ... life is grand!
I work hard with clients
throughout the U.S. and play
hard traveling all over the
world. My five children and 15
grandchildren are healthy and
doing well. We get back East a
couple of times a year to join
in family celebrations. Feel
free to get in touch if you are
in the area at (310) 924-2400
or rjmarshall@marshall
consultants.biz.”
43-year reunion: Last June, Michel Jean-Baptiste ’65 and Doc
Odell met for lunch in New Haven along with Lucy Frost Lewis
’84 and Tammie Worthington-Witczak from MB’s Alumni/ae
Relations team. Michel and his brother, Sylvestre ’64, were
boarders from Haiti. Doc and Michel spent two pleasant hours
remembering MB faculty and students of yore.
1963
Want to reach a classmate?
Visit www.mosesbrown.org to connect with other MB alumni/ae.
MB’s secure website allows alums to look up other MB graduates.
1959 Reunion 2009
Carl Sandler was sorry to have
missed the 45th Reunion, but,
with his youngest daughter’s
college graduation, he couldn’t
do two consecutive trips to the
Northeast. Carl and his wife
Susan celebrated her recent
retirement with a three-week
cruise from Singapore to Dubai.
He still works as a professor
of radiology at the University
of Texas in Houston and
completed work on the
fourth edition of the radiology
textbook he co-authored,
1959 Reunion 2009
1963
Textbook of Uroradiology. Their
son Eric lives and works in
Houston; daughter Adriane
lives in Galveston, Texas,
working on a M.D./Ph.D. Their
daughter Deborah is moving to
San Diego after graduation
from Bucknell.
1964 Reunion 2009
Scott Harker is retired after a
20-year career with Digital
Equipment Corporation. Scott
says that a recent, and unexpected,
health-induced semiretirement
opened the door to
the world of private research.
This, in turn, has led to an informal
collaboration with the
Washington, D.C.-based
Friends Committee for
John Barrett and Phil Kay
catch up at ’63’s last Reunion.
Kendra and Joel Davidsen enjoy traveling and
recently returning from the Arctic Circle and
Iceland. They have four children and seven
grandchildren. They spend winters in Rio Verde,
Arizona and summers on Lake Winnipesaukee,
New Hampshire. Joel retired last November
after selling the family MRI business. He says,
“Unemployment is great! I look forward to seeing
everyone in May. This toast is to all of you!”
National Legislation and its
Interfaith Coalition. “I might
have never entertained this
challenge were it not for my
experience as a student at
MB,” Scott writes, “and memories
of the encouragement
received from my teachers
who were steadfast in
convincing me I could be, and
am, far more than the total
sum of my mortal parts.” Scott
and Paula’s children recently
graduated from Columbia
University and Southern New
Hampshire University.
William Kolb has opened
his own law firm at One
Ship Street in Providence. “I
concentrate primarily in civil
litigation,” he says. “This
spring my oldest son Jeffrey
graduated from Providence
Country Day. He will attend
Emerson College in Boston
where he will study broadcast
journalism and play NCAA
Division III baseball. Regards
to all.”

John Clark and Mia Fulton P ’01 ’03 (manager of the MB school store, 1988-2005) were
married this May. In attendance were Tori and Charlie Means ’69, Mia’s children Halsey ’01,
Reed ’03, and Linnea Fulton ’09, and John’s brothers Tom ’60 and Charlie Clark ’75. John
and Mia have relocated to London where John works as director of advancement at the
American School of London.
1967
Class Correspondent
Kenneth Rosenthal
103 Shore Drive
Middletown, RI 02842
401-846-2812
kenrosenthal@cox.net
In recent years, Rick Bernstingle
has reconnected with his
passion for classical guitar:
“Last September I had the
pleasure of performing a
guitar recital, an all-Spanish
program, for a soirée for the
Spanish International
Marketing Association
convention in Boston. It
could have been a really
tough room. Fortunately,
for all concerned it was met
with great enthusiasm.”
Joe Salvatore is chief of
hematology/oncology at the
VA Medical Center in Phoenix,
Arizona and on the faculty at
the University of Arizona and
Arizona State. Joe writes,
“After medical education and
post-graduate training in
Providence, Baltimore, and
Boston, there was some
adjustment to medical
practice and teaching here.
Being a native of Rhode
Island, it is sometimes
difficult to put into
perspective the level of
growth we are experiencing
in Phoenix and in Arizona.”
Rob Wilson ’67 — a miler on
Doc Odell’s 1966-67 track
team that collectively set
many records, some of which
still stand — was asked by
guest editor Ann Banchoff ’83,
“Do you still find time to
run?”: “That MB team was one
bunch of serious athletes led
by a very serious coach, yet
we always had a lot of fun
together. I went on to run
competitively in college and
after that ran road races and
marathons — including the
legendary Boston Marathon
(best time 2:38) — into my 40s.
Now my knees are pretty
worn, and although I still run,
it’s only a few miles at a time.
These days I am built more for
comfort than speed. I run for
the sheer enjoyment of it.”
1967
1968
1969
Rob Wilson ’67 See page 12
for more on Rob’s path.
Brad Penney was sorry not to
make Reunion this May, but
his spring weekend calendar
in Virginia was crowded with
his sons’ school events and
sports. He expects a busy year
ahead, working on energy
legislation for the Alliance
to Save Energy and assisting
his older son in applying to
colleges. Brad and his sons
visited campus while in
Providence this summer.
Chas Gross ’68 came to Reunion this past spring.
Chas lives in Connecticut.
1969 Reunion 2009
Steven Schneider is a professor
of English and director of new
programs and special projects
for the College of Arts and
Humanities at the University
of Texas-Pan American. He
received a Big Read grant
from the National Endowment
for the Arts to promote
Service
Service to Country and the
World: Chris Hill ’70
Congratulations to Chris Hill, featured
in Time magazine in April for his
imaginative and relentless work in peace
negotiations. Chris is the U.S. Assistant
Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs. “Christopher Hill,” said Time, “the U.S.’s head
envoy to North Korea, is that rare diplomat who did things
differently, stepping out ahead of his talking points and
managing to bring his bosses along with him. As a result, he is
also helping to bring the most dangerous nation in Asia back
into the global embrace.”
Chris began his work with Korea in 2005, when six-party
talks to end North Korea’s efforts to acquire nuclear weapons
stalled. As undersecretary to Condoleeza Rice, Chris has
overseen diplomatic affairs with a host of East Asian and Pacific
countries. Concluded the article, “The New York Philharmonic's
visit to North Korea in February is not a direct result of Hill's
work, but the event would surely have been less likely without
the improved atmospherics he's helped bring about. And a
world that's making music is a whole lot better than one that's
making bombs.”
1968
community literacy in the
Rio Grande Valley of South
Texas. Steven is the author of
several books of poetry and
recently published a new
collection, Unexpected Guests.
He is co-creator with his wife
Reefka of the exhibit “Borderlines:
Drawing Border Lives.”
See www.poetry-art.com. They
have two sons, Aaron, 23, and
Roni, 17.
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Service
Draft Memories: Joe Dziczek ’72
“Attending Moses Brown had a major impact on my life
while performing military, federal and volunteer services.
MB did not choose my life’s path or provide me answers; it
prepared me for the challenges. Moving away from family,
friends and everything comfortably familiar to me for the
first time as a MB boarding student in 1970 was difficult.
Eagerly, I returned to MB in 1971 because of the support and
friendships developed with my MB family. Thoughts of serving in
the military began one evening with friends in the MB Senior
Lounge. I believe Mark Hallett, Bruce Hegyi, Tom Sadler, Fred Drew,
Dickie Kispert, Joe Mendes, possibly Jon Smith, Steve Newell, and
others were present when, over the radio, we heard that males
born on December 15, 1952 (my date of birth) were issued number
3 in the draft for military service. This was the last draft to
‘involuntarily’ require the service of young men. Instead of
thinking of college, I was to experience an unknown change in my
life. Again, the entire MB family was there for me. My MB friends
could not have been more supportive. Every teacher spoke with
me. ‘Doc’ counseled/educated me, as only a concerned parent
could, about options such as the reserves. Coach Zeoli, as always,
was encouraging, focusing on positive results. My military service
began on June 22, 1972, just after graduating from MB.
“Due to drafted persons seeking an alternative to serving in
the military (Canada), we were held several days in a secluded
holding area, surrounded by concertina wire at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
Without notice we were shipped to Fort Polk, Louisiana, in the
middle of the jungle and swamp for training. Mail took over a
month to reach me and was dearly appreciated. After testing
well (nothing like a good private education), I became a military
police officer and sent to Germany at age 19. Serving in Germany
required working with the Polizei and many others. MB was a
large part of who I was in the military. I’m certain how we, as
students, were expected to present ourselves or perform in
dining room, sporting events, teas, and as students/athletes
had an impact on me.
“The military led me to a career in federal civilian service. I
trained and became a federal criminal investigator (special agent),
while still in college, which entailed contact with all sorts of
people. MB certainly influenced my perception and treatment of
people as well — always being courteous, respectful and helpful
— but guarded. I also served more than 20 years on various town
boards, not to mention coaching. MB had no involvement here,
but had a strong influence on how I served. I am going on 30 years
of marriage to a great wife (and mother to our three children),
who believed, because I went to MB, I had class and culture…..
I’m still working on those two qualities.
“Although 34 years has passed, I fondly recall the many people
at MB who made it possible for me to survive boarding school and
prepare me for my challenges. Their support and prayers for my
safe return from military service was important to me. It is my MB
family — my dear friends, classmates, boarders, administrators,
teachers, and coaches — that come to mind whenever I’m asked
about the impact MB had on me. I hope I have had some positive
impact on others, as MB had on me.”
Joe lives now in Medway, Massachusetts. Contact him at
joseph.dziczek@gsa.gov.
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1971
See page 14 for more on A. T. Wall’s work as director of
corrections at Rhode Island’s ACI. Also see page 39 to see the
influence he had on another MB student, Andres Idarraga
’95, who credits A.T. with helping him transition from newly
released inmate to Yale Law School student.
1975
Author/horticulturalist Michel
Marcellot, profiled in our spring
Sustainability issue, had his
first gallery show this summer
at FireHouse 13 in Providence.
Michel’s photographs — Sacred
Gardens: How Ordinary Gardeners
Create Places of Peace and Sanctuary
— were part of August’s Provflux
V Exhibition. See sevenarrows
farm.com for more.
1977
Class Correspondent
Gordon Ondis
43 Duncan Avenue
Providence, RI 02906
401-831-5636
gordonondis@gmail.com
At mosesbrown.org: A Few
Updates for the Class of ’77
Kevin Barcohana is now known
as Doctor Bucky. …
Class Correspondent
Gordon Ondis penned a
comprehensive update on
the entire Class of 1977. Due
to space, Cupola could not
print the whole piece. Visit
www.mosesbrown.org to read
(counter-notes welcome —
email Gordon above).
1978
Tan Paolino writes, “My wife,
Tami, is home-schooling our
daughter, Tana Jordan Trinity,
who turned six in April. She is
reading at a fourth-grade level
and doing third-grade math!
Did I mention that she is only
six years old? There is something
to be said for individual
attention when it comes to
education. MB’s teachers taught
us how to teach ourselves and I
have witnessed Tami doing the
same with Tana.”
1973
Teg Gebhard and David Derbyshire
catch up at their 35th Reunion in May.
Teg lives in Westwood, Massachusetts;
his son Will is a junior at MB. David is
an interior designer in New York City.
1979 Reunion 2009
Peter Kilmarx lives in Atlanta
with sons Benjamin, 15, and
Hunter, 11 and recently
married Nicha, who was
running a program for hill
tribe classrooms in Thailand
before coming to the U.S. Peter
is chief of the epidemiology
branch in the division of
HIV/AIDS prevention at the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. “I’ve enjoyed
keeping in touch through Jim
Myers and hope to make it
back to the shadow of the
elms next May,” he writes.
Sam Zwetchkenbaum recently
played Jessup in Ann Arbor
Civic Theatre’s production
of A Few Good Men (the role
Jack Nicholson had in the
movie) and remembered with
fondness his acting experience
at MB: “Thanks to all past
and present, for keeping this
opportunity available to
students.” Sam is a prosthodontist
at the University of
Michigan, specializing in
rehabilitation for cancer
patients. See www.umich.edu
for more on Sam.
Andrew Kling and his wife
Laurie moved to Michigan last
year after several years in
Montana and one in Alaska.
“We discovered that Alaska

1979
Rolando Campos is food service director
for Housing Works in New York City
and helped develop a program that
provides nutritious meals for clients
with HIV and AIDS. Housing Works
serves 1,000 persons a day. Rolando
writes, “I still reminisce about my days
under the elms. In fact, I found a video
on YouTube about MB. It brought back
so many good memories.”
Former ’78 runners Jamie Magee and David
Penn visit with their coach, Doc Odell, at
Reunion. Visit the 1978 class page to see
more photos from the weekend.
wasn’t for us,” he says. “Going
to work at -50 degrees was not
our idea of fun! But Laurie was
offered a job as director of an
education center with the U.S.
Forest Service, so we trekked
here. We bought a house and
have spent the summer
working on upgrades. I
continue with my freelance
writing for Lucent Books;
my next book, Crime Scene
Investigations: Ballistics, is due
out this fall.” Contact Andy at
roofball2002@yahoo.com.
1978
1981
1979
Melissa Maxwell directed
four plays as part of the
East Village Chronicles, a
short-play festival celebrating
the East Village neighborhood.
The series was hailed by
nytheater.com. Melissa also
Un Nouveau Rôle:
Alumna Leads MB’s Alumni/ae
Relations Efforts
Karin Morse ’79 has added a
new title to her list of MB roles:
director of alumni/ae relations.
Karin continues to teach a section
of French in upper school, advise
students, and coach boys’ varsity
tennis. Karin has been a member
of MB’s faculty since 1984 and
can be reached at kmorse@
mosesbrown.org.
1979
Ally Jones is the
daughter of Andy and
Amy Roebuck Jones ’79,
who recently joined
MB’s Obadiah Brown
Society. See page 50 for
more on Amy’s decision.
The Jones family now
lives in Chesapeake,
Virginia.
directed the American
premiere of Taboos by Carl
Djerassi at the Soho Playhouse
this fall. Taboos explored the
unexpected, and often messy,
results that arise when
emotions and science collide.
Younger MB alums are graduating into a tight job market.
Can you be a resource for a young alum in your field or area?
Moses Brown’s secure alumni website, accessed at www.mosesbrown.org, lets alums search
for one another by city, state, zip, country, and business name; professional information is listed.
Service to Rhode Island:
Nick Gorham ’79
Service
Nicholas Gorham ’79 is concluding ten years
of service in the Rhode Island legislature.
This summer, Nick wrote:
“I’ve been a member of the Rhode
Island House of Representatives for ten
years, representing Foster, Glocester,
and Coventry. This is the area where I
grew up and commuted to Moses Brown
every day with my father and siblings. As House Minority Whip,
I am the second ranking member of the Minority.
“The most gratifying thing for me about public service is
protecting and preserving the most rural part of Rhode Island,
along the Connecticut border. I represent about 30% of western
Rhode Island.
“I acquired an acute appreciation for rural Rhode Island
by commuting to Moses Brown, through downtown Providence,
to the Elms on the East Side every day. In the morning I would
get up and feed the animals (cows and pigs) on my parents’
farm before going to school. By 8:15, I’d be at the front gates
at Moses Brown being dropped off. This contrast gave me a
real perspective on Rhode Island. It made an impression on
me and made me want to do everything I could to keep
Providence a great city, and western Rhode Island a beautiful
rural area. This is the focus of my work today. Recently, I
proposed consolidating five of the most rural towns in the
state — Foster, Glocester, Exeter, West Greenwich, Scituate,
and the western portion of Coventry — into one town,
‘Westconnaug.’ As the cost and size of government expands,
consolidation has to be examined carefully. This is the point
of my legislation. Whenever you propose something with
the potential to change the status quo, there is intense
opposition — perhaps more so in government. ‘Westconnaug,’
as a concept, has been no exception!
“Perhaps the most rewarding experience of my public
service has been as the lead sponsor of the amendments to
the Rhode Island Constitution pertaining to separation of
powers, approved in 2004 by a 70%+ margin. I wrote these
amendments and worked for the first six years I was in the
Assembly to get them to the people for consideration. Bringing
the classic American form of government — ‘three branches
with checks and balances’ — to Rhode Island will stand as the
most significant thing I have done during my tenure as a
representative.
“Finally, one of the best things of all is hearing from your
classmates about the things you do in the General Assembly.
Just like in the old days on the front porch of Friends Hall,
there’s plenty of kidding to go around. There’s no doubt in my
mind, I feel luckier every day that I attended Moses Brown —
all the way from ‘Westconnaug.’”
Nick and his wife Roseanna have two children, Austin
and Alejandra. Contact Nick at nickgorham@gorhamlaw.com.
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34
1982
Sara Ades Goodwin ’82 lives with her
family in Sharon, Massachustts.
1982
1982
Class Correspondent Ashley
Haffenreffer Wagstaff ’82
and family on a recent visit
to family in New Orleans.
Class Correspondent
Ashley Haffenreffer Wagstaff
136 Highland Avenue
Rowayton, CT 06853
203-899-1935
ahwagstaff@mac.com
“Summer is over, and a new
school year is upon us, though
hopefully those summer
memories won’t disappear too
quickly. We’ve been to Michigan
for some lake fishing and to
Montana for golf, horseback
riding, and a float trip. It was
awesome. If Wags could get a
job out there, I’d move in a
New York minute! Then on to
Little Compton to visit my
family, where I got to see and
speak/email with a few MB
friends. I’ve heard from a few
classmates who have been
quiet, and that is what makes
being class agent fun. Facebook
(with all its faults and
downsides) has helped too ...
Read more about ’83’s Don
Driscoll and his work for
the National Association
of Government Employees
on page 16.
“Tim Geremia
(tgeremia@coastlinetrust.com)
has been living the life of many
a banker. Banks being bought
up, changing names and
cities, however, he is still
employed! He is living in
South County and working in
Providence as chief investment
officer for Coastline Trust. For
all of you who are wondering
what to do with your millions,
Tim is your man! Hand it all
over. He’s got a 16-year-old
daughter, Alex, who is learning
to drive which I’m sure is
making Tim a bit nervous.
Beyond work, tennis, biking,
and beach time is what keeps
the family happy. For all of
you near Providence, Tim says
the spinning class at Davol
Square Fitness is good, but
that it’s not looked on well if
you sit listening to music and
not pedaling — so perhaps
Tim isn’t in such good shape!?
“Peter Morse (pmorse@
ferrousnonferrous.com) was
psyched to have his ‘mor-sels’
(a special salt created from his
garden-grown herbs and salt
from France) listed in Rhode
Island Monthly for ‘best local
seasoning.’ If you want to buy
some, email Peter or come to
Ann Banchoff ’83, guest editor of this
Cupola, visited the Monte Albán ruins in
Oaxaca, Mexico this summer with her
husband Chris Grover and daughters
Mariah, Eliza, and Natalie. The family
lives in Menlo Park, California, where
Ann directs the Office of Community
Health at Stanford University’s School of
Medicine. See page 8 for more from Ann.
1983
Little Compton; it’s available
at Wilburs and the fruit
stands. He’s happily living in
Little Compton, driving kids to
Portsmouth for school, working
on art, and tending to his bees.
“Alison Kaplan Sommer
(allisonks@012.net.il) has been
living in Ra’anana, Israel for 15
years with her husband, Hillel,
a law professor, and her three
kids, Eitan, 12, Naomi, 9, and
Tamar, 4. They get back to
Rhode Island once a year for a
visit. Perhaps this can be timed
with our next Reunion? Alison
worked for the Jerusalem Post
for 12 years and is now the Tel
Aviv editor for Pajamas Media.
See Alison’s blog at http://
pajamasmedia.com/
alisonkaplansommer/.
“If anyone is thinking about a
visit to that area, Alison would
love to hear from you. Alison
said her parents spend a
month in Israel each winter,
renting an apartment where
many U.S., French, and English
retirees do. There are many
activities, chances at travel, as
well as musical concerts. Last
January, in the concert hall,
they saw familiar faces —
Phil Blazar’s parents! They had
come to Israel to do some
volunteer work and were
staying in the same town!
“Speaking of small worlds, last
spring I was in New Canaan,
Connecticut watching my
husband’s sister play in the
Husband/Wife Paddle Tennis
Nationals when a woman
entered the building. She
looked familiar, but no bells
went off. When she was telling
someone her name I heard
‘Capone’. Could it be? It was!
Walter Capone’s wife! He’s
been very quiet since he
moved to New Canaan, however,
it seems their kids are happily
in school and Walter is still
enjoying his new job in
Tarrytown, New York. Also, I
went to a friend’s party last
spring and, while talking to
her brother, learned that he
was Andy Morrell’s freshman
year roommate.
“I’ve also just found Sara
Pratter. She is a film writer,
producer, and director, living in
Los Angeles, not that this is
surprising, given her love of
the stage and Mrs. Gunion’s
theatre classes! Sara and I fell
out of touch in the mid-’80s
and she just re-surfaced via
Facebook. She has a five-yearold
son, Walker, and returns
to her East Coast roots each
year, making it back to Boston,
New York, and Maine, to show
him how amazing it is here.
Coincidentally, my brother and
his family also just moved to
L.A. for his wife’s job and his
daughter and Sara’s son
attend the same school. She
sounds awesome and we had
the best, longest talk all about
life and how great and bumpy
it can be.
“A classmate who wishes
1983
never to be mentioned in
this column was a huge
help to my sister. She just put
together a very successful golf
tournament for the Children’s
Museum in Rhode Island and
was surprised to find that he
was on her board. Cheers
to him for helping her look
so good!
“Tracy Shipman Piper is still
running her etiquette classes.
She helped a friend of mine
in Florida, who hasn’t found
anything like what Tracy
offers and was struggling with
teaching her children good
manners. Tracy shared some
cool ideas of how to work in

1980’s
introductions, table setting,
and more. I’m going to solicit
some help soon if my fourand
six-year-olds don’t start
listening! We could all use
some assistance, I am sure.
Maybe for our next reunion,
Tracy can run a session for us!
“Mark Izeman (mark@
izeman.com), whom we
all read about in the last
issue, reached out through
Facebook, too. He’s living in
another very cool spot,
Moscow. I cannot imagine. Is
every winter like the winter of
’78 when we had our blizzard?
We should all take advantage
of our classmates living in
faraway lands!
“I almost got to see Perry
Blossom when he zipped
through Providence, but it
didn’t work out. I’m sure his
mom was delighted to have
more time with him during
his visit from Ohio.
“Lastly, Sara Ades Goodwin
emailed. Her oldest and
youngest were home this
1984
1980s: Eighties graduates Ted
Fischer ’83, AJ Matteo ’84, and
Gary Goldberg ’87 caught up
at the Providence Alumni/ae
Social in September. Ted and
Gary both live in Barrington
and have children at MB. AJ is
in North Providence and
works in real estate.
summer, while the other four
were off enjoying overnight
camp. They spent the first
month researching and
purchasing a car for their
oldest daughter who also is
now dealing with college
applications. Sara’s youngest
son is in a full-day pre-K
program (why can’t they stay
that young?) and another son
starting in high school (“I
could definitely go again,”
she says.) Otherwise, Sara
has started a party planning
business called “Saradipity.”
Contact her by www.linkedin.
com if you are thinking of
throwing any kind of bash.
Sara has a thing for “keeping
the party green” and saving $$.
“I may have found my calling!”
she writes.
“That’s all the news I have
that’s fit to print! Send news
to me if you have some. Let’s
keep this column going….so
far, so good. Be well, enjoy
your winters, and stay in
touch!”
Hugh Madden ’84 accompanied
daughters Arden ’19 and Marin ’22 on
their first day of school at MB this year.
Hugh and his wife Kristen also have
a younger daughter, Lauren. Hugh is
interim director of admissions at MB
and a member of the Alumni/ae
Association board.
1983
Lisa Gordette Preston writes,
“Hey everybody! Reunion
weekend was amazing. It was
awesome to reconnect with all
of you. In many ways, it was
like time has stood still, but
of course over 25 years we’ve
done some great things,
including starting families of
our own. And don’t we all look
fabulous?!” To see the Reunion
photos taken by Alexis, Barbara,
Demo, and Lisa, visit
mosesbrown.org > My Groups
> Links > 25th Reunion photos.
1984 Reunion 2009
Class Correspondent
Jon Scott
18 Mayflower Street
Providence, RI 02906
401-454-4452
jscott357@yahoo.com
Christine and Stephen Griffin
reside in Barrington with
their two sons, Riley and
Chase, and daughter Georgia.
“Life is good!”
A Positive Place for Kids:
Rick Metters ’84
Service
Several profilees in this issue mention early intervention as key.
Rick Metters has been putting young people on the right path for
20 years at the Boys & Girls Club in Woburn, Massachusetts:
“I originally saw a job at the Boys & Girls Club as a two-year
commitment before I would apply to law school. Two decades
later, I’m still here! In some ways, my Boys & Girls Club career
can be traced to my community service project during my senior
year at MB. I volunteered at the East Side YMCA. Some other MB
students and I were featured in a New York Times Magazine article
on schools and community service. Though I never saw working
with young people as a career then, I knew I wanted a job that
made a positive impact on people in a public setting.
“Though it may be tempting to think that young people today
are dramatically different than their predecessors, I think they
face the same challenges that I faced during my days at MB. They
want a life with meaning, purpose, and happiness. They want to
feel connected with something greater than themselves and
make a unique, positive, lasting contribution to their community.
During my 20 years at the Boys & Girls Club, I find that young
people are more willing to give of themselves than ever. Their
energy, compassion, and creativity are inspiring.
“Colin Powell, who serves on the Boys & Girls Clubs of
America’s Board, likes to say that we as a society have a choice,
to invest in our young people or spend our time and treasure on
jails. The cost of prevention pales in comparison to the costs of
intervention and incarceration. We can either build our kids or
build more jails. The choice is stark, but one we need to face.”
“I’ve witnessed thousands of success stories here at the
Club — some great, some small. For some kids, their Boys &
Girls experience can truly change or save their life. One of our
kids won a college scholarship from Oprah Winfrey and now, a
decade later, serves as our development director. Another young
man who spent time in and out of the juvenile justice system,
owns a successful small business. What a privilege it has been to
have an impact, be it ever so small, which can change someone’s
life trajectory.”
Rick Metters can be reached at bgcwoburn@comcast.net.
See www.positive-place.org for more.
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Service
Helping Others to
Overcome & Achieve:
Reid Flamer ’86
Reid Flamer (rflamer@sunrisegroup.org)
says that some of the most important
values that he took away from MB
were ‘truth’ and ‘community service’
and credits MB’s service project with
helping him find the value of giving
and then receiving in return. After MB, Reid attended Emory
University, where his responsibility to the community stayed
with him.
“Looking back to MB, I remember the emphasis by teachers
and coaches to get involved in community service. Since MB
instilled in me the importance of community service,” he says,
“it has always been a priority in my life. I am now handing this
down to my five-year-old son. Jacob is quite a role model and has
been featured on local TV and national press for his work with
the Broward County Humane Society. (See www.cbs4.com,
search Jacob Bloom, and jacobsblankets.org for more.)”
Reid’s focus at Emory was Latin American and Caribbean
studies and economics. He worked at Atlanta’s Carter
Presidential Center, focusing on bringing electoral reforms
and fighting human rights abuses in the Americas. Reid
continued his public service work at Loyola University School
of Law, and later worked for the Army’s Judge Advocate
Generals Office at Fort Clayton in Panama.
While studying and working abroad, he became involved
in charity work and says his best memories include working
for an agency that assisted the poor in rural Mexico with
affordable housing.
Today, Reid is continuing work in service, this time in
Florida. He is the director of risk management for Sunrise
Community, Inc., a nonprofit organization that assists
individuals with disabilities to lead productive and meaningful
lives. The organization operates in Florida, Virginia, Tennessee,
Alabama, Connecticut, and Maryland; its mission is to provide
people with developmental disabilities with assistance and the
support needed to let them live valued lives in the community.
Sunrise does this through residential facilities, day programs,
and assisted/supported living, and supported living for
2,500 disabled and elderly persons. Sunrise is one of the
nation’s largest providers for people with disabilities.
See www.sunrisegroup.org for more or contact Reid at
rflamer@sunrisegroup.org.
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1987
1985
Greg Baldwin (fourth from left) returned for MB’s alumni
lacrosse game recently. Off the field, Greg is principal of
New Haven Academy in Connecticut, which he founded
with his wife in 2003. See page 18 for more from Greg.
Liz Marks Lizotte is a substance
abuse specialist for Gateway
Mental Health in Johnston and
working on a fourth master’s
at Grand Canyon University.
“It’s an online degree this time,
but much more difficult,” she
says. “I just can’t seem to work
on that Ph.D. I am studying
for my chemical dependency
professional license. I live in
Chepachet with my 13-yearold
son and my husband Tim,
a truck driver for Little Rhody
Farms. It’s great to see what
some alumni are up to. I
admit that the only alum I
have kept in contact with is
Cliff Earle ’86, but I’d love to
hear what others are up to.”
Jonathan Silverstein directed
the 25th anniversary production
of A.R. Gurney’s The Dining
Room Off-Broadway for the
Keen Company. The production
won an Outstanding Ensemble
award at this year’s Drama
Desk Awards, as well as
nominations for Outstanding
Director and Outstanding
Revival. The Drama Desk
Awards are the only awards in
New York where Off-Broadway
(and Off-Off-Broadway)
productions are recognized
alongside Broadway shows.
This fall, Jonathan was
directing at Merrimack
Repertory Theatre in
Lowell, Massachusetts.
For information, visit
www.jonnysilver.com.
1988
Inga Sidor writes, “After working
as a pathologist for three years
at the Mystic Aquarium, I’ve
reached the end of our grant
and moved on. I work for the
Veterinary Diagnostic
Laboratory at UNH in Durham,
New Hampshire. My husband
Rich Donovan and I look
forward to exploring the New
Hampshire seacoast and I’d
love to get back in touch with
old friends.” Contact Inga at
inga_sidor@yahoo.com.”
Ted Slafsky lives in Washington,
D.C. with his kids and wife Diane.
He regrets he was not able to make
the alumni lacrosse game in May.
1989 Reunion 2009
David Slepkow is a lawyer
and partner at Slepkow
Slepkow & Associates in East
Providence and lives in a loft
in Providence.” David and
Patrick Schmidt look forward
to helping plan their 20th MB
Reunion.
1990
Class Correspondent
Julie Reitzas
1688 Drift Road
P.O. Box 302
Westport Point, MA
02791-0302
508-636-6928
tnbjr@msn.com
Caryn Levovsky London writes,
“I have my new website up,
www.ejlenterprises.com. I sell
promotional merchandise and
apparel for schools, teams,
and all organizations. Please
do not hesitate to call. All MB
alumni/ae receive a discount!
In addition, because I am
based in Florida, all purchases
are tax-free if sent out of state.
I look forward to connecting
with my old classmates.”
1987

Jaime Alpert Morris announces,
“We had a baby girl!” Sydney
Jade arrived last October, 2007.
They make their home in
Harrison, New York.
Livia Santiago-Rosado shares
the happy news that she had
a baby daughter named
Mariana last August, 2007:
“She is a healthy and happy
kid. We live with my husband,
Mark Stillman, in Baldwin
Harbor, New York. Mark and I
are emergency physicians in
the Queens/Long Island area
and are enjoying raising the
little munchkin.”
1991
Class Correspondent
Hillary Monahan Ramos
289 Main Street
Hampton, CT 06247
401-952-4552
hillaryramos@gmail.com
Following graduation from
the University of Richmond,
Brian Jones moved to
Washington, D.C. and
embarked on a career in a
different type of performance
art — politics. Working in
both the U.S. House of
Representatives and the
Senate, he served as a
legislative aide, committee
counsel, press secretary, and
speechwriter while attending
law school at night. He then
joined a Washington law firm
before accepting a position on
President George W. Bush’s
speechwriting team at the
White House in 2002. Brian
now works for Dell Inc. as a
federal government affairs
lawyer in Washington.
Ellen Sheally has a one-year-
old son, Jackson, and lives in
Pawtucket. Ellen has worked
for Progressive Insurance for
ten years.
Pamela Fishman Cianci had a
mini-MB reunion / New
England-themed BBQ in June
with Jodi Greenberg, Mike
Anders, Peter Sheahan, Todd
Greenbaum, and Alec Glorieux,
and their families. They tried
to bring some Rhode Island
to California!
Phil Ayoub recently spent time
in Nashville checking out the
music scene. He also played
Fenway Park last summer
alongside classmate Adam
Olenn. Adam and his wife have
a two-year-old daughter and
live in Somerville.
Lara Rosenbaum is still in Park
City, Utah with her two dogs
and horse. She continues
freelancing for national
magazines and recently
accepted a position at Ski
Racing magazine as editor-inchief.
Lara will be traveling
to Europe to cover the World
Championships and to
Colorado for the X-Games:
“So, life is good!”
1987
John Torgan ’87, Baykeeper for Save the Bay, was the keynote
speaker at MB’s spring Service Day, which had a sustainability
focus. John met up with faculty Ransom Griffin and Paul Gazin.
Hillary Monahan Ramos and
husband Jon recently moved
from Providence to Connecticut:
“Thought we’d try our hand
at country living for awhile. I
enjoyed spending time with
Kimberly Hurley Birmingham
last summer in Middletown
and also managed to reconnect
with Ellen Sheally and meet
her little boy Jackson, who
couldn’t be cuter! If anyone
is looking to catch up with
classmates, there seems to
be a lot of us on Facebook.
It has been great seeing what
everyone is up to!”
1992
1992
Kelley Ciampi Wigren ’92 is correspondent for the class of 1992 and recently
welcomed a daughter, Ella, with husband Andy ’92.
Class Correspondent
Kelley Ciampi Wigren
1938 Washington Street #16
Newton, MA 02466
617-916-9058
kelleywigren11@yahoo.com
Kelley Ciampi Wigren writes,
“Greetings to everyone! As
usual, the summer has flown
by and fall is upon us. I do
have some exciting news
from classmates to share. Rob
Lancaster and his wife, Devon,
recently moved from Boston to
Hingham, Massachusetts. They
bought an 1870s farmhouse
and are enjoying life closer to
the ocean.
1991
“Karen Dayton Young and her
husband Andy love living in
Denver. They also joined the
class baby boom in May when
their daughter Johanna was
born. Karen reports that
Johanna is a total sweetheart!
Jesse Baker and his family
moved from the South End of
Boston and are now living in
the Back Bay. He would love
visitors anytime! Damon Yip
was married in June in Kuala
Lumpur.
“Dave Dwares was able to
make the trip and spoke on
Damon’s behalf as one of his
oldest friends. Damon and
Dave have known each other
since they were third graders
at MB! Torsten Freund recently
emailed me to send his
regards to the Class of ’92
from Denmark. He recently
found some old pictures from
graduation parties, soccer
games, the “pit,” and a picture
of himself with Ned Silverman,
Davide Dukcevich, and the
national Italian soccer team at
Brown University ... good times
and great memories from MB.
Pamela Fishman Cianci ’91 and
her daughter Beaumont caught
up with Adrienne Schaberg
Filipov ’91, when they met on
the train traveling from NYC to
Providence last summer.
“As for Andy (Wigren) and me,
we welcomed our daughter,
Ella Ciampi Wigren, into the
world in June. Her big brother
Owen turned two in August
and loves his new little sister. I
hope everyone is well, and I
look forward to hearing future
news from the Class of ’92.”
Joshua Golden was recently
listed in the Wall Street Journal
for his work in real estate.
Josh works for Rikeman RE
and represented the buyer in
Boston’s largest single-family
home transaction to date:
$9,500,000. In the first two
quarters of this year, Joshua
closed more than $15 million
in condominium sales.
Congratulations, Josh!
1993
Jonathan Kosterlitz moved to
Australia and works as a
doctor in Queensland. “I enjoy
year-round sun and surf and
exploring the Pacific Rim.”
Josh Rappoport finished his
second year at UCLA
Anderson, and will be joining
Yahoo! in Los Angeles this
summer. Contact Josh at
joshrap@mac.com.
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Service
Chris McGrath says that his journey to improve the
world began at MB. At Skidmore he studied political
science, believing it would help him use political
systems to help people, at home and abroad. He
then moved to Washington, D.C. to get his M.A. in
international affairs from George Washington
University. Chris became involved in several projects
that helped others, from a project to reduce handgun
violence to another that provided mechanisms for
more fair equitable elections in the U.S.
In 2004, Chris quit his job to volunteer full-time
for John Kerry’s bid for the presidency and was
hired by the campaign full-time. After the election,
Chris worked for a time for the first-ever national
Parliamentary elections in Iraq, assisting from
Washington. “While I continue to oppose the war in
Iraq,” he says, “I am a strong supporter of democracy
Empowering Students: Zach Florin ’94
If you visit Moses Brown any school day, you might find Zachary Florin here. Zach
operates a successful tutoring business in the area. “My love of learning, and particularly
the value I place on educational role models, has been a defining theme in my
education and professional life,” he says. “After spending a number of years conducting
research in neuroscience and psychology and teaching high school science, I began
tutoring students individually. The value and importance of one-on-one instruction
as a complement to classroom learning quickly became apparent.”
Zach founded Vantage Point Tutors in 2006 and says, “Our tutors empower
students to realize their fullest academic potential while instilling self-confidence.
We do this by sharing our extensive knowledge of the learning process with
students, modeling our love of learning, and building strong working relationships
with students and families. The result often significantly reduces tension in families
as students’ performance improves.”
See more at www.vantagepointtutors.com.
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Dedication to Service: Chris McGrath ’95
Service
Chris McGrath’s post-MB
path has taken him from the
campaign trail to Cairo. Chris
campaigned for Governor
Jon Corzine in New Jersey
(left) and spent time in the
Middle East, working with
Palestinians.
and believe that the Iraqi people should have the
right to elect their own government.”
Following the Iraqi elections, Chris worked in
New Jersey in election campaigns for Governor Jon
Corzine and U.S. Senator Bob Menendez. He also
moved to the Palestinian Territories to work on a
project funded by the U.S. Agency for International
Development. “Many of the people in the Palestinian
Territories are in need of international assistance,
and it is far too often not provided,” Chris says.
Chris has now returned to GWU in Washington
to pursue his Ph.D. in political science, focusing on
international relations and international security. “I
want to leave this world a better place by working to
ensure that policies are adopted by the United States,
other nations, and international organizations to
reduce the amount of unnecessary violence and
An MB B2B?
MB alumni/ae are using their Moses
Brown connections to connect about
service. After the last issue of Cupola,
Eddy Ameen ’99 (see page 41) connected
with Ethan Ruby ’93 to see if their nonprofits
could work together. Says Ethan,
“I think it is a great idea to let alumni
work with and help fellow MB grads,
almost a B2B within our school. It takes
special people to dedicate their education
and time to improving our planet. MB
seems to produce many like this so it is
essential that we are there for each other
whenever possible.” To make your own
MB connections, visit www.mosesbrown.org.
conflict, hunger and disease, and just to alleviate
suffering and promote progress, understanding, and
peace,” he says. “I owe much — if not all — of my
desire to help others in whatever way I can to my
time at MB, and to the ethics and spirit of Quakerism
that were — and are — instilled in students there.
Most of MB’s students, myself included, have been
fortunate enough to come from families that have
done well for themselves, and instilled a sense that
we should all use our strengths and abilities not
for our own personal achievement, but for the
achievement of a better world.”
Contact Chris at chrismcgrathdc@yahoo.com.
1994 Reunion 2009
Lisa Perlman Harwood lives
outside of Philadelphia where
she is a veterinarian. Lisa and
her husband have a son,
Simon, who was born in 2007.
1995
Domenic Grieco is doing well
and enjoying ownership of
Metro Ford in Raynham,
Massachusetts.
Robin Romanovich graduated
from law school in Boston:
“Now I live in Seattle, where
I work as a public defender,
drink lots of coffee, and
anxiously await those few
rays of sunshine. I am always
happy to hear from the old
gang at defunctsonnet@
yahoo.com.”

Captain Scott Brown ’94 received
the 2008 Outstanding Young
Alumnus Award at Homecoming. In
2004, Scott was deployed to Iraq as
a Blackhawk Maintenance Test Pilot
with the 50th Medical Company of
the 101st Airborne Division in
support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
He performed two tours of duty
in Iraq. Scott is married to MB
classmate Bambie Lee (Plante)
Brown ’94. They live in Louisiana,
where Scott is an engineer for
Shell Oil Co.
Veronica Rotelli Vacca ’97
and Michael Vacca ’96
welcomed their little boy
Linus in June.
1994
1996
1994
John Walsh ’96 returned to MB last
spring for the annual alumni/ae lacrosse
match. John lives in New York City.
Lisa Ciampi Birkett and her
husband Jason had twins,
Chase and Charlize, in July,
joining older sisters Addie
and Grace. Lisa continues as a
special education teacher in
North Providence at Birchwood
Middle School. Her family has a
new home in East Greenwich.
1996
1994
In May, Semia George ’94 married Matthew Dunne ’94 in Newport, with many MB
alumni/ae attending, including (left to right) Lauren Angelone Pelletier ’94, Heather
Tow-Yick ’94, Peter Donatelli ’93, Corey Pelletier ’94, Meagan Roberts ’94, Chafic George ’02,
Justin Opalenski ’02, Christiaan George ’00, Daniel Rampone ’04, and Jenna Rampone ’01.
Steve McKinnon ’97 and Dan
McKinnon ’94 enjoyed talking
with Head of School Joanne
Hoffman at this fall’s Providence
Alumni/ae Social.
Realizing Opportunity: Andres Idarraga ’95
Service
Former MB student Andres Idarraga is in his
first year of law school at Yale University, part
of a path that has included time on both sides
of the law. Only three years after his time at
MB, Andres was convicted for a felony at age 20
and served six years in Rhode Island’s Adult
Correctional Institution. Prison opened his eyes
anew to the value and power of education, and
made him an activist and a committed student.
Andres graduated from Brown University
this spring.
At Brown, Andres became interested in studying law: “I also became
interested in education and how we could bring change there, by effecting
certain issues through law. Over the years, the connection between
education and effecting change has become clear to me. I want to break
down barriers. Education saved my life and I want to bring that transformative
power to others. When I went to Moses Brown and places that
provided a pathway to a better way of life, I didn’t really understand
what you had to do on a daily basis to pursue your education. For me,
education was an abstract ideal. Where I grew up, in Pawtucket, people
had to survive. The path to instant gratification held greater appeal and
it was easy, as a kid, to follow that path.
Andres says realizing the importance of education was a gradual
process for him, one that actually began while at the ACI. “When I was
in prison, I went to the gym every day,” he says, “the stereotypical things
people picture about life, young guys working out every day. But the
prison library was right next to the prison gym and every day people
were also going into the library. I began to go, too. You have a lot of time
in prison and there is only so much working out, playing cards, or chess
you can do.” Andres became a GED tutor and says, “That’s when I became
interested in the educational process for other people and for myself. It
made me think of ways to expand my own education. I felt good helping
other people and began to see that maybe I could help myself, too.”
Five years into his term, Andres began to apply for parole — and
college. He was granted parole and started at URI two-and-a-half months
after his release from the ACI. He transferred to Brown and studied
economics and comparative literature.
Along the way, Andres found a mentor and friend in A. T. Wall ’71
(see page 14), director of Rhode Island’s ACI, who went so far as to write
his Yale law recommendation. The two met three years ago when Andres
was working on a Right to Vote Campaign, to restore voting rights for
previously incarcerated inmates like Andres. After MB and graduation
from high school in Pawtucket, Andres had served 6-1/2 years at the
ACI and was then in his first year of college after being released, at the
University of Rhode Island. Efforts were successful and the right-to-vote
referendum passed by statewide vote.
Andres looks back at MB as an influential step on his path, even if his
time here was short: “Moses Brown really influenced me,” he says. “It
opened up my exposure to what higher education could be. It has taught
me how to navigate where I am today.” Andres says that faculty members
Barry Marshall and Gail Copans took an interest in him and maintained
contact with him after MB: “They encouraged me and provided a good
foundation for me for when I came home. I could believe in myself and
see myself as someone who could continue my education and make a
difference, because they told me that I could.”
Contact Andres at andres.idarraga@yale.edu.
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Photo by John Abromowski, courtesy of Brown University

Service
Hands-On Philanthropy:
Jesse Kurn ’97
Jesse Kurn is a development officer
in Boston for Combined Jewish
Philanthropies (www.cjp.org). CJP
provides funding for more than 200
agencies in Boston, Israel, and the world,
including education for adults and
children, vocational services, people with disabilities, families,
and new mothers. Jesse works with CJP’s health professions
team. Last year, Jesse helped plan an event for 600 people which
welcomed “sex therapist” Dr. Ruth Westheimer as guest speaker.
This year, they are welcoming Dr. Paul Farmer from Partners In
Health. Events such as these provide much of CJP’s funding.
In his free time, Jesse likes to travel to other countries and
volunteer for local organizations. Last year, he traveled to A
Mother's Wish Foundation in the Dominican Republic. The
medical clinic there supports and treats more than 3,000
families. “I don’t have medical experience,” he says, “but I am
good with my hands and was able to build a dentist table for
the clinic. I also built and hung a basketball hoop for the
children. Out of wood, an old bike rim, and some wire, we
were able to construct something very simple to hang in a
tree. You should have seen the smiles on the children’s
faces when they made their first basket.”
Contact Jesse at jesse.kurn@gmail.com.
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1997
Class Correspondent
Cara Camacho
216 Maryland Avenue NE,
Apt. 203
Washington, DC 20002-5749
401-742-4658
cara.camacho@gmail.com
Sheila Dobbyn lives with her
husband Roger and their two
pugs in Warwick. She is an
international student advisor
at the ELS Language Center at
Roger Williams University.
David Onik operates his
own business called Priority
Pet Products, a pet product
wholesale company. He
travels every year to China for
sourcing new manufacturers.
“Otherwise, I am still the same
old cat, just older and I hope
to think a bit wiser,” he says.
David lives in Providence.
Jessica Zuehlke will soon
receive a doctorate of
psychology degree and
married Dan Gilman in
August. A publication for
which she is second author
just came out, describing a
project Jessica worked on at
the Joslin Diabetes Center,
The Impact of Modifiable Family
Factors on Glycemic Control
Among Youth with Type 1
Diabetes, Pediatric Diabetes.
1997
1999 Reunion 2009
Class Correspondent
Kirstin McCarthy
1511 Vermont Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
401-447-5770
kirstinmccarthy@yahoo.com
Kirstin McCarthy writes, “Can
you believe it has been more
than nine years since our class
left MB? I’ve been excited
to see the many different
directions our classmates’
lives have taken them, and
look forward to years of
growth ahead. Mark your
calendars for the Class of
1999’s 10th Reunion on May 8
and 9. It will be an excellent
opportunity to reconnect with
classmates and meet other
MB alums from different
years! Additionally, if you’re
interested in helping to collect
and compile these class notes,
I’d love your help!
1999
Sara Westberg Harrell
welcomed a daughter,
Marilyn, last August.
Sara and her family live
in Wilmington, North
Carolina; she is at home
with her daughter.
“Congratulations to Stuart
Rotblat and wife Darya, who
welcomed son Ty to the family
last June. Stuart is working as
a data systems administrator
at Syracuse University.
“Seth Weitberg lives in
Chicago and tours the globe
performing sketch comedy
with Second City. You can read
his travel blog, “Easy Writer,”
at sctourco.com, and also one
where he pretends to be a
politically savvy blow-hard at
politicoool.blogspot.com (yes
with three “o”s). He hopes you
are all marvelous and wonders
why Rhode Island voted for
Hillary Clinton.
“Alice Gruber, now Alice
Gruber Phinizy, married Sam
last November in Springfield,
Vermont; they now live in
Brighton. Alice is finishing her
MBA at Bentley and hopes to
enter a Ph.D. program in
international relations in the
next year or so.
Mike Jezienicki and Lauren Petitti ’99 were
married in July in the Azores. Mike’s brother
Nick Jezienicki ’00 and sister Krystyna Metcalf ’05
attended, as did 100 family members and
friends. Mike and Lauren live in Washington,
D.C. where they have found a nice network of
MB alumni/ae including Kate Szostak ’00, Matt
Endreny ’96, and, until recently, Lauren’s sister
Margo Petitti ’01.
Missy Landry married Steve Quinn, another
Providence College alum, in May at the PC
Chapel. The reception was at the Providence
Biltmore. On hand were Jessica Kokolski ’99,
Kristen Lorello ’00, and Jaclyn Altieri ’99.
1999
“Jessica Kokolski teaches
eighth grade Spanish in
Portsmouth and is looking
forward to seeing classmates
in May.
“Kate Patterson, who helped
me compile these notes,
married Mike Gilles, whom
she met at Wesleyan, this
May in North Carolina, where
they moved a year ago for
grad school. Kate is halfway
through the master’s program
at the UNC School of Public
Health, and Mike is about to
start his second year at Duke
Law. She says, ‘Still seeing a
lot of friends from MB, and
hoping to see more at the
reunion this year!’
“As for myself, I traveled to
Ireland for two weeks this
summer and just finished
my second year working at the
Business Higher Education
Forum in Washington, D.C.,
where I am assistant director
of programs.”

1999
Sylvia Scharf married Jane Gillette, a math
tutor and artist, in October. They live in
Wakefield, Massachusetts. Sylvia says, “Life
is busy but happy. I’m getting my master’s in
environmental education from Antioch New
England in Keene, New Hampshire in May.
I plan to continue working for the New
England Aquarium, but we shall see.”
Stephanie Ogidan Preston ’97, Keith Andrade ’95,
and Tom Vignali ’93 represented the ’90s at this fall’s
Providence Alumni/ae Social.
1997
1997
Pamela Humphreys is putting
her recent law degree to work
in Providence. See page 19 for
more on Pam’s work.
1990’s
Charlotte Cowen married Ted Kresse in June in Bristol.
MB attendees included Betsy Walsh ’00, Kathy Walsh,
John Walsh ’96, Kurt Gustafson ’00, Caitlin Skiff
Knowles ’97, and Cara Camacho.
Richard Seiferheld ’55 to Susan Davis
John Clark ’69 to Mia Fulton P ’01 ’03
Damon Yip ’92 to Macy Tay
Semia George ’94 to Matthew Dunne ’94
Charlotte Cowen ’97 to Ted Kresse
Pamela Humphreys ’97 to Stephen Muschiano
Jessica Zuehlke ’97 to Dan Gilman
Alice Gruber ’99 to Sam Phinizy
Lauren Petitti ’99 to Mike Jezienicki ’97
Missy Landry ’99 to Steve Quinn
Kate Patterson ’99 to Mike Gilles
Silvia Scharf ’99 to Jane Gillette
Meagan Gibson ’02 to Steve Wheeler
Anna Cerilli ’00 to Doug Zitnay
Elizabeth Silvia ’00 to Vincent Frary
Kristina Rigby ’03 to Toby Shepard ’03
Congrats! MB Weddings
Service
What in the world is
Jeremy Harkey ’99 doing in …
Ecuador?
Jeremy Harkey has been living in Ecuador
for four years, working with the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees. He has spent
the majority of his time in Quito, helping the Ecuadorian government meet the
needs of Colombian refugees. Jeremy also works with former child soldiers and
refugees facing persecution. He will soon move to Santo Domingo to head up a
new field office.
“Ecuador is a great place to live,” says Jeremy. “The culture, geography,
and political situation keep me interested and entertained, as well as the
beaches, rainforest, and Andean peaks. I enjoy returning stateside to see
family and friends, but for now couldn't imagine finding the same professional
and personal satisfaction there. It has been fun to meet with other MB alums
who have travelled through. It’s a small world, indeed!”
Alums can search for other alums by country or state at mosesbrown.org.
Contact Jeremy at jeremy_harkey@yahoo.com.
On Service: Eddy Ameen ’99
Eddy Ameen — executive director of StandUp For Kids Miami —
describes his start in service:
“My work in service began with editing MB’s middle
school newspaper. Truth be told: at the time I think I liked
using the faculty copy machine just as much as I did
assembling stories. However, one article — by a peer who
revealed his underprivileged upbringings — resonated with
me. There were discussions about whether we should run
it; I felt passionate that we needed to share all perspectives in the school
community, and believed our newspaper must stand for free expression. In the
same vein, I fulfilled my roles as co-editor of the upper-school Quaker, member
of the discipline committee, and senior class senator. (Looking back, I see that
in no other egalitarian system could one person serve as the press, police,
and policymaker, but high school was different). I don't identify myself as an
activist, but my actions have been driven by a need to help the disenfranchised
find voice. Those who sat on some judicial hearings with me can confirm the
long hours I dissented.
“After graduation from Northwestern, I moved to Boston to get a master’s in
counseling and practiced for a few years in a town that was about to lose its
counseling agency in vicious budget cuts. We fought the cuts, survived on emergency
funding, and continued providing service to the kids in our community.
“A year ago, I moved to Miami, where I'm again spending more time
working with a nonprofit than I am getting my Ph.D. in psychology. (Luckily,
the school part is coming easy, and I love researching issues pertaining to youth
well-being.) I am the local executive director of StandUp For Kids, a program
in 37 U.S. cities that identifies and stabilizes at-risk and homeless kids and
creates friendships with them that eventually lead them off the street
(www.standupforkids.org). Getting no pay only reinforces how passionate I
am about this group, and what we can accomplish for the estimated 1.5 million
kids who will sleep on the streets tonight. The joy of helping someone who has
nothing is unmistakable.
“Inside of me has long been a conviction for social justice. MB kindled the
early opportunities I had to use it in productive ways.”
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3 Leaf Design
Service
Phoenix Rising: Helping Station
Nightclub Fire Victims
Philip Barr ’00
Phil Barr ’00 was a college student home on break when a
night out put him at Rhode Island’s Station Nightclub Fire on
February 20, 2003. After surviving the evening and recovering
from significant issues, Phil returned to college. He also
helped found the Station Family Fund and has continued his
involvement since. The horrific fire made national news six
years ago as one of the worst nightclub fires in U.S. history,
with 100 killed and 200 injured.
“During the summer of 2003, I was among a group of
survivors involved in founding the Station Family Fund
(www.stationfamilyfund.org). There was a great need at that
time for survivors and families of the deceased to receive
immediate financial support to cover mortgage payments,
car payments, utilities bills, grocery bills, and day-to-day
expenses. Fundraisers were organized, from concerts to
backyard barbeque's and, in 18 months, we raised more
than $700,000. This went directly to survivors and families
struggling to make ends meet. We tried to fulfill as many
requests as we could. We also organized an annual holiday
party for children who lost one or both parents in the fire.
This made the holiday wishes of these children come true,
and also brought survivors and surviving families together
for emotional healing.
“I felt very fortunate to have the support of my family
to help me recover from my injuries (in all respects), and
wanted to help others who had fewer resources to meet their
needs in the fire’s aftermath. Although my involvement with
the Fund has been limited while I have been in New York
these past few years, I try to attend events and pitch in when
I can. When home, I make it a point to see other organization
members and get updated on the progress of what we started
five-plus years ago.
“Service to me is most meaningful when you can find a
cause, or need, that has significance in your own life. Having
the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of other
people, severely affected by the same event that nearly took
my own life, feels wonderful.”
Phil (phil.b.barr@gmail.com) lives in New York City, working for
Lenrock Real Estate Partners and beginning his pursuit of business
school. A successful college swimmer before the fire, Phil rejoined
Bates College’s swim team and completed his senior season despite
having only 87% of normal lung capacity. His leadership and spirit
earned him recognition by Sports Illustrated in 2005 and the NCAA
Male Sportsmanship Award.
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New bride Elizabeth Silvia Frary is pictured at her
recent wedding with Marla Nasser, Jessica Brown,
and Caroline Means. Elizabeth and husband
Vincent live in Flagstaff, Arizona. Lower school
faculty member Carol Entin made Elizabeth’s
wedding dress and also attended. Elizabeth’s
husband just began work with the Arizona
Game and Fish Department; she has her master’s
in elementary education and is looking for a
teaching job.
2000
Joshua Lindell’s company
Aquapoint was featured in
the May issue of Sustainable
Land Development Today.
2002
Class Correspondent
Liz Donat
714 W. Portland Street
Phoenix, AZ 85007
emdonat@gmail.com
401-864-9600
Meagan Gibson Wheeler was
married this April in Newport.
“We had a wonderful weekend
wedding with approximately
75 friends and family,” she
says, “including MB’s Music
Director Steve Toro and
Greg Gale ’00, who flew in to
celebrate. After our wedding,
we enjoyed two weeks in
Ireland and Scotland and are
now back home in Austin,
Texas, where we are building
a new house.” Meg is still a
Former Faculty:
Claude Anderson — shown receiving a recent award from the Secondary
School Admission Test Board — moved with his family this summer
to Mount Hermon, Massachusetts where Claude (MB faculty and
director of admission, 1995-2008) is the new dean of enrollment at
the Northfield Mount Hermon School. “All is going well in Mount
Hermon,” says Claude. “It has been a good transition for us all. Terri
is working for the public school system. Jordan (MB ’10) is enjoying
his new high school experience, playing football and continuing his
inspired music experience created by Steve Toro.” Claude says, “Our
lives here will be fully tested once we have endured some of this
northern Massachusetts cold weather. I am not looking forward to it.”
residential real estate broker
and, despite the current
state of the rest of the country,
reports that her business
seems to keep growing. Her
husband, Steve Wheeler, who
is originally from Austin, has
started his own company, which
creates software programs
to advance environmentally
friendly products.
2003
2000
Peter Asante graduated from
Harvard in 2007 and decided
to take a short break from
academia. He moved to the
Bronx, New York to take a job
at a nonprofit as a Medicaid
service coordinator, working
with children with mental retardation
and developmental
disabilities. “This is a great
interim job for me as I plan
to attend medical school
in fall 2009,” says Peter. He
hopes to specialize in
pediatric medicine.
Julie Fritz, shown with her parents at her
white-coat ceremony, is in her second year
of medical school at Mount Sinai in New York
City (see page 9 for more).
Vivek Patel graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania
with a bachelor of arts in
economics. This summer, he
joined Digitas in New York
City as a marketing strategy
consultant. Vivek reports
that he has continued to be
involved with Project Safe
Haven since graduating MB
(Cupola profiled Vivek in the
2003 issue on his volunteer
work to “let his life speak”).
While at UPenn, Vivek served
as president of Penn AIDS
Awareness and spearheaded
an initiative that brought
speakers from Project Safe
Haven to speak on the
importance of HIV prevention.
Says Vivek, “One of the
speakers was an HIV+ college
student who has lived with
HIV his whole life; he shared
his experience as a HIV
student with the Penn
community with the goal
of raising awareness of the
growing AIDS epidemic that
is raging right here on
America’s college campuses.
I look forward to reading
about Service in the new
issue of Cupola!”
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2000
Hannah Schott ’14 and Anna Cerilli ’00 enjoyed a happy day at Anna’s wedding in Little
Compton this September. Anna was Hannah’s nanny in Maine when she was a baby.
Anna married Doug Zitnay; they now live in West Haven, Connecticut. In attendance
were Abby Adams, Erica Jaffe, Ronak Patel, and Emily Woolverton and Middle School
Head Jared Schott. Anna’s brothers Justin Cerilli ’95 and Wiley Cerilli ’98 escorted her
down the aisle. Anna is a nurse at Yale-New Haven Hospital in the Neurological ICU.
2003
Kristina Rigby and Toby Shepherd were married at the
Biltmore this summer and had their photos taken on
MB’s Front Circle. Lee Clasper-Torch, upper school religion
teacher, officiated at the ceremony and his wife Cathy
Clasper-Torch played the ceremony music with several
MB class members. “It was a blast!”
Welcome! MB Arrivals
2002
Class Correspondent
Liz Donat ’02 catches
up with Alumni/ae
Relations staff
Tammie Worthington-
Witczak and Karin
Morse ’79.
Jaime Alpert Morris ’90 and Brian Morris, a daughter, Sydney Jade, born October 5, 2007.
Livia Santiago-Rosado ’90 and Mark Stillman, a daughter, Mariana, August 15, 2007.
Anthony Rocchio ’92 and Susana Rocchio, a son, Diego Samuel, born July 26, 2008.
Kelley Ciampi Wigren ’92 and Andy Wigren ’92, a daughter, Ella, born June 26, 2008.
Karen Dayton Young ’92 and Andy Young, a daughter, Johanna, born May 15, 2008.
Jameson Goff Ray ’93 and Robert Ray, a daughter, Cortland Avery, born March 28, 2008.
John Baldwin ’94 and Marya Baldwin, a daughter, Margaret, born August 22, 2008.
Lisa Ciampi Birkett ’94 and Jason Birkett, twins, a son, Chase, and a daughter, Charlize, born July 16, 2008.
Lisa Perlman Harwood ’94 and Marc Harwood, a son, Simon, born February, 2007.
Veronica Rotelli Vacca ’97 and Michael Vacca ’96, a son, Linus Michael, born June 23, 2008.
Sara Westberg Harrell ’99 and Neal Harrell, a daughter, Marilyn Anna, born August 27, 2007.
Stuart Rotblat ’99 and Darya Rotblat, a son, Ty Alexander, born June 14, 2007.
Volunteer Life: Peace Corps Edition
By Peter Treut ’01, Senegal
Service
Peter Treut ’01 recently finished three years in the Peace Corps
in Senegal, working in sustainable agriculture. Peter lived in a
village called Kamatane Keur Gori near the Sine-Saloum Delta
that had no running water or electricity. He wrote the following
for the Peace Corps Times, in a special edition dedicated to
volunteers and the global food crisis.
“I arrived in Senegal in 2005, when the price of a 50kilogram
(110-pound) sack of rice was just under 10,000 francs
(about $23). In markets recently, the price hit 19,000 francs
($43). The average rainfall of my area is between 15 and 27
inches of rain. Last year, just 12 inches fell. Leading with facts
and figures isn’t usually the best way to capture an audience,
but what they boil down to, and what people need to know,
is that the late rains resulted in low harvests and, for my
community, for whom the rainy season determines the bulk
of their income, last year just didn’t cut it. Throw in the
higher food prices (and everything else, thanks to oil driving
up transport costs), and my village is a pretty deserted place
right now, as people have flocked to any town offering work.
“It is in this context that I would like to highlight the
hospitality that characterizes the people of Senegal. I
sometimes marvel at the fact that, by all logic, there is no
reason my family should host anyone. There’s just not enough
food; nonetheless, this is never a concern for them. If I were to
contribute nothing, they would still welcome me with open
arms. It is a testament to their spirit that tough times have not
changed this admirable cultural trait, for which I am grateful.
Being a part of the family means my work with farmers goes
beyond mere advice to villagers, and involves collaborating
with true friends whom I want to see succeed because I know
them and care for them as individuals faced with pressures
that cannot be truly understood by mere numbers.”
Peter finished his Peace Corps assignment in November and will
travel West Africa before returning home in 2009. He can be reached
at ptreut@gmail.com.
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2004
Come back to MB! Class of 2004: Make plans to meet at Moses Brown for your first reunion this May. See mosesbrown.org for details.
Alex Egan ’04 and Ben Hughes ’03 caught up at this
year’s Providence Alumni/ae Social in September.
2004
Aaron Tracy ’03 and Anthony Tracy ’04 reminisced
with former hockey coach Anthony Lambrese ’84
at the Providence Social.
Willis Monroe completed his master’s in ancient near eastern archeology and
languages at University College, London, where he received his bachelor’s
degree. He spends summers working on a Neo-Assyrian archeological dig in
Turkey and also has worked at digs in England and Israel. While in London,
Willis interned at the British Museum. He also completed a curatorial internship
this year at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
2004 Reunion 2009
Class Correspondent
Kori Burnham
250 Creek Street
Wrentham, MA 02093
508-954-3981
kburnham@smith.edu
Kyle Anderson, wide receiver
for Springfield College, was
named a member of the
prestigious 2008 National
Football Foundation
Hampshire Honor Society
in April. The recognition
recognizes athletes with
significant academic
achievements.
Skyler Fernandes graduated
from NYU a year early,
majoring in international
business and international
relations. During his year off,
Skyler studied for the GMAT
and worked with the South
African Chamber of Commerce
in America, launching
the African Entrepreneurship
Platform in February at the
Harvard Club in New York.
This was showcased at last
year’s Clinton Global Initiative
to bring together pioneering
African entrepreneurs with
leading firms on Wall Street
and global investors. Skyler is
now an investment banking
analyst at Credit Suisse.
Becky Harrington graduated
from Harvard in June with a
degree in British history and
literature and minors in
Chinese and Italian. She
attends Columbia Journalism
School.
After a winning lacrosse
career at Drexel, Bruce
Bickford is now playing for
the Minnesota Swarm. See
www.mnswarm.com for more.
2005
Class Correspondent
Nick Artenstein
538 East Avenue
Pawtucket, RI 02860
401-413-1265
artenstn@carleton.edu
Jessica Gazin graduated from
CCRI with highest honors and
a degree in early childhood
education. She transferred to
Ithaca College in the fall to
major in sport studies.

2004
2006
Alex Egan ’03 attended his brother Eric Egan’s graduation
from Skidmore College. Eric received a bachelor’s in
neuroscience and is now enrolled in the cognitive
psychology Ph.D. program at Ohio State University.
Still proud of his MB graduation, Eric shows off his MB
colors at his graduation from Skidmore.
Carson Jones graduated from Skidmore College this
May with a double major in business and economics.
He also pursued his interest in ceramics.
Class Correspondent
Nate Silver
310 Olney Street
Providence, RI 02906
401-272-3319
nasilver@vassar.edu
Nate Silver writes, “As most
of us enter our junior year in
college, we continue to be
studying a broad range of
disciplines, traveling across
the globe, and shaping the
world in a variety of ways.
Some places that members of
the class of 2006 are studying
this year are South Africa
(Johnny Shaw and Catherine
McConnell), Denmark
(Erik Duhaime), Spain (Kristin
Rocha, Hillar Schwertner,
and Conal Smith), Australia
(Tom Sherman), and Italy
(Julie O’Neil).”
Julie O’Neil will be studying
in Florence where she will
continue her studies in
political science and art
history, while trying to
improve her Italian. She, like
many members of ’06, was
excited to finally vote in the
presidential election.
Hanna Bratton has moved to Los Angeles to spend the
year working with City Year, following in the footsteps
of Wesley Stevenson. Hanna (front row, yellow jacket)
is working at Hollenbeck Middle School in East L.A.,
where she helped run the Boyle Heights Multicultural
Parade this fall. Hanna is pictured with Will.I.Am. from
the Black Eyed Peas, who attended the event. She is
planning a spring service day for her school with the
theme of nonviolence.
2006
Anne Fallon recently left
Providence for Colorado
Springs, where she attends
Colorado College.
Georgia Hoyler is a psychology
major at Duke and is
interested in pursuing a
Ph.D. after she graduates.
Her research has focused
on the relationship between
traditional and religious
beliefs and the experience
of schizophrenia in Tanzania
and she hopes to continue
working within the global
mental health realm. She
continues to serve as the
2004
music director for Out of the
Blue, the oldest all female a
capella group at Duke; their
latest CD won a variety of
awards at the Contemporary
A Capella Recording Awards.
Kat Perfetto was named to
university’s dean’s list for
the spring semester at Wake
Forest University. She also
currently holds an executive
position in her sorority, Pi Beta
Phi. Kat is pursuing a degree
in English with a minor in
biology, hoping to continue
on to dental school after
graduation.
Wes Stevenson (second from left, profiled
on page 20) touched base in Rhode Island
this summer after her City Year experience
to meet up with MB friends Kristin Rocha,
Hanna Bratton, and Sarah Tonry.
2006
Last, but not least, Nate says,
‘After spending the summer in
London working as a paralegal
and cook, I am back at Vassar
preparing to make my directorial
debut with the drama
department on a production
of Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker.
I also serve on the executive
board of the Vassar Student
Association.”
The theme for our spring issue is 25 MB People You Don’t Know — But Should.
Is there an MB faculty or staff member, parent or volunteer that you think others should hear
about? Let us know.
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Lindy Nash was a camp counselor this summer at MB’s RISE camp.
2007
Class Correspondent
Lindy Nash
1312 Narragansett Blvd
Cranston, RI 02905
401-527-0896
linden.nash@conncoll.edu
Lindy Nash writes, “Hi everyone!
I hope all of your summers
were as great as mine! Besides
being on campus at MB, I
traveled to Nantucket and
2007
Nick Fede ’07 (far right) and his band Perfect Mercury hope to release
their second album this spring. Nick provides the Boston-based band
with lead vocals, guitar, and keyboard. Perfect Mercury released
its first album, Running Through Crossfire, in September 2007.
See www.reverbnation.com/perfectmercury for more.
Martha’s Vineyard and tried to
sleep as much as possible!
Good luck with sophomore
year and keep sending any
notes or updates.”
Eli Cushner reports, “Magic
2007
at Tufts is vibrant. So far, I
have encountered seven other
magicians. There is a fine
balance between collaborative
study and card-wielding duels.
Lots of paper cuts. In addition
to performing for rowdy college
students, I have appeared
with some of the other Tufts’
magicians at Community Day,
Halloween on the Hill, and
Class of 2008: Now that you have
commenced your post-MB journey,
keep in touch! Send photos and
freshman year updates to
alumni@mosesbrown.org.
Joss Poulton ’07 and Luiza Smith '08 attended
the recent Boston Alumni/ae Social. They are
both students at Boston University.
Kids’ Day. I am having fun and
I wish everyone the best. By
the way, the first magic trick
I performed at MB was the
vanishing of a coin for Ethan
Granoff. Good luck with year
two; it is good to have our feet
under us.”
Joe Salemi has joined Phi
Sigma Kappa at George Mason
University. As part of his fra-
ternity’s commitment to serv-
ice, he worked 50 hours at the
school’s recycling plant. Joe
also is the collegiate ambassador
for Monster Energy Drinks
at George Mason. He receives
Are you letting your MB connections serve you?
Moses Brown’s secure alumni website, accessed at www.mosesbrown.org,
lets alums search for one another by city, state, zip, country, and business name;
professional information is listed.
2007
2008
25 cases every three weeks
which he uses for philanthropic
events, such as the
Thanksgiving food drive for
local families. Joe worked for
Cutco this summer.
Kelly Pearson interned
this summer with Mikros
Manufacturing, an engineering
firm in Portsmouth. She is
an active member of Union
College’s Society of Women
Engineers and also plays
varsity tennis.
Dana Weiner writes, “I am
loving Duke! With regard to
service, I was appointed the
spring 2007-fall 2008 director
of philanthropy and community
service for Duke’s National
Panhellenic Conference (there
are ten sororities at Duke
under this council.)”
2008
Class Correspondent
Natalie Triedman
283 Wayland Ave.
Providence, RI 02906
401-575-3142
natalie_triedman@
coloradocollege.edu
Natalie writes, “After a beautiful
graduation ceremony last
spring, the class of 2008 heads
off to their freshman year
of college.
The Class of 2008 looks
forward to their first year as
Moses Brown alumni/ae and
college freshmen! The
matriculation list stretches
across the country. Some
students are staying nearby
such as Rachel Yidana who is
attending URI to major in
textile sciences and fabric
design/printmaking, Nikhil
Malik who is studying
international relations and
philosophy at Tufts, and
Stephanie Mariorenzi at the
University of Vermont. Others
are further from home: Nish
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2008
Shah is experiencing the
Midwest at Purdue University
and Kathryn Arthur is attending
the University of Redlands
outside of Los Angeles.
Some members of ’08 kept
themselves very busy this
summer before college. Sam
Vaughan spent his summer
training in an intensive EMT-B
program from Starr EMS
before he headed off to Tufts
University! Olivia Burnham
also was busy working, but
managed to enjoy Newport’s
cooler summers in anticipation
of college down South. Naomi
Garber worked in upstate
New York as an au pair before
going to Oberlin in Ohio.
Who wouldn’t want to spend
their summer on the water?
Paul McCarthy sailed this
summer at the Buzzards Bay
Regatta before attending
Connecticut College this
fall and Tris Hogben was a lifeguard
at the YMCA before
heading to Carnegie Mellon.
While Keshav Jha spent his
summer living across the
globe in India before his
first semester at George
Washington University, others
stayed close to home, such as
Julia Aparicio who spent the
summer in Rhode Island and
Nantucket, working and
enjoying the sun.
Chloe Schmitz looks forward
to playing lacrosse for Union
College next year and Blake
Toder will play tennis for the
bantams at Trinity.
While many students entering
liberal arts colleges have yet
to discover what they are
most passionate about
studying, this is not the case
2008
2008
Ethan Ruby '93 delivered the Class of 2008's
commencement address in June. His message
of positive attitude and needed reflection
made an impact on many, including Natalie
Triedman '08 (see right).
Legacy graduate Emily Granoff ’08, shown with her father
Evan Granoff ’77, is now in her freshman year at George
Washington University in D.C.
for Scott Levin! In June, Scott
received a scholarship from
the Rhode Island Teachers of
Italian to study at the Sorrento
Lingue Instituto in Italy for
three weeks. He studied
advanced Italian conversation
and discussed politics and pop
culture. Upon his return in
July, he taught Italian as an
assistant teacher at
Dartmouth College and
Kimball Union Academy in
the Rassias Summer
Accelerated Language
Program. Scott plans to major
in Italian literature and
chemistry at Columbia
University this fall and
hopefully get a gig on
Broadway (wishful thinking!).
If anyone finds themselves in
Manhattan, email Scott at
srl2132@columbia.edu.
“Until then, arrivederci!”
Realizing Her MB Connection:
Natalie Triedman ’08
Service
“When I accepted the job as MB’s Alumni/ae
Association intern this June, there was no way
I could have anticipated what a profound
experience it would be for me, or the impact of
the archival work I would engage in as part of
my MB internship.
“I always knew that my father’s side of the family had ties
to Moses Brown but it had never been more than a fun fact that
I could throw out in conversation. While digging around in the
archives, I came across so many artifacts that offered a new
perspective for me as a third-generation MB student. It is a
remarkable feeling to be organizing past issues of The Quaker
and come across articles written about my father as a member
of student senate, or to be consolidating the old athletics files
and find an aged b&w photo of my grandfather as a freshman
in 1943. Finding these artifacts, and countless others that I
could link to a family member, gave me a new appreciation for
our school’s history and preserving it.
“Through my correspondence with reunioning alumni/ae, I
grew to appreciate that the MB ‘community’ stretches past the
front gates. I received many warm email responses from
alumni/ae all over the globe. After expressing my interest in
environmental studies, one encouraged me by explaining his
success in renewable energy. Another could not contain her
excitement, when I mentioned that I would be attending
Colorado College this year, explaining that she lives in Colorado
and I should contact her if I ever need anything. Seeing this
warm embrace of fellow graduates helped me gain perspective
on my eight years at MB as I saw the alumni/ae connection
through a new lens.
“This year’s commencement speaker, Ethan Ruby ’93,
advised my class to take a moment this summer to walk around
campus alone, reflecting on our time at MB. While he spoke, I
listened but had not really taken this suggestion to heart. Days
later, I found myself on day two of my internship, running an
errand from one side of campus to the other and soaking in all
of the sights, smells, and sounds in a way I had never before
observed and I began to understand the deep emotional
attachment I have for Moses Brown, a discovery that took
me eight years to truly understand.”
Send your news, notes, and photos to:
Susan Cordina, Class Notes Editor
Alumni/ae Relations
Moses Brown School
250 Lloyd Avenue
Providence, RI 02906
Email: alumni@mosesbrown.org
Digital photos may be emailed to the address above,
preferably 4x5 inches, 200-300 dpi.
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Still in Service: News from Former Service Faculty
Since leaving MB, Charlotte Gosselink was ordained in the United Church of Christ
and served in Rochester, New York for eight years. Now retired, Charlotte is a
full-time volunteer herself, with recent projects including an immigration study,
work with the League of Women Voters, and planning the lecture series for her
residential community in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. The Gosselinks enjoy long
summers at Lake George. “We look back on our 19 years at MB with gratitude and
fondness,” says Charlotte. She can be reached at RevCPG@aol.com.
Teresa Murano writes, “My work in community service at MB remains the
most valuable in my career, because of the dynamic, energetic and
thoughtful students in the MB community. Since leaving MB, I enjoyed work
at McAuley House in Providence. McAuley House impressed me from the
first time MB students and I worked there in 1999. From then on, whenever
I worked at McAuley, the same ‘family’ of volunteers was there, a great
community that felt like a family welcoming less fortunate people into
their home.” Teresa and her family moved to Milton, Massachusetts in 2004,
where her work has continued at her parish church, St. Agatha, whose
mission includes work with My Brother’s Keeper and Haiti Outreach.
Teresa can be reached at bella.nina@comcast.net.
Galen McNemar Hamann is
now in her second year as a
full-time student pursuing a
master’s of divinity at Harvard
Divinity School. Galen continues
to work in community
service, off the MB campus:
serving as a field worker in
the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, as a student chaplain at
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and a volunteer at Casa
Nueva Vida, a transitional shelter for women and children in
Boston. Galen continues to serve at MB as director of Friends
education. She can be reached at gmcnemar@mosesbrown.org.
See page 23 for more on service learning at MB today.
Following several years as a public school teacher and administrator in southern New England, Paul Graseck is
starting the new upper school at the Paul Cuffee School, a charter school in Providence (opening in 2009). In
Hudson, Massachusetts, Paul was curriculum director in a school district that was recognized nationally as a leader
in service-learning and civic education. His newest undertaking, the upper school at Cuffee, will be an extension of
the K-8 charter school named after the 19th-century Quaker Paul Cuffee, an African-American sea captain and
abolitionist. “We hope to make community engagement and service, in the spirit of Paul Cuffee’s life’s work, a
central part of our college preparatory program,” says Paul. He can be reached at
paulgraseck@hotmail.com/pgraseck@paulcuffee.org.
After MB, Susan Graseck directed a small foundation, focused
on civic engagement, which has since grown into a national
organization in leadership on participatory democracy (Everyday
Democracy). In 1988, Susie came to Brown University to launch
and direct the Choices for the 21st Century Education Program
(www.choices.edu), a national education initiative. Choices
develops teaching resources on historical and current international
issues, provides professional development for teachers, sponsors programs
for students beyond the classroom, and engages students in exploration of
complex international issues from multiple perspectives. The program is now
used in one-third of U.S. high schools (including MB). Contact Susan at
susan_graseck@brown.edu.
After MB, Jim Tull worked at Amos House in Providence for 15
years. He now teaches at Providence College and the Community
College of Rhode Island. “Since MB,” he says, “I have divided
my community engagement energy into three kinds of effort:
service, grassroots peace and justice activism, and community
building. At MB and Amos House, I invested heavily in the first
two. Since then, believing that a local, small-scale network of
people who know each other — a community — is an effective,
authentic, and sustainable path to meeting basic needs, I have largely replaced service and
political activism with community building. Service occupies a critical place in our society —
cushioning the blows of injustice and inequality — but is merely the tool developed to treat
symptoms caused by communities torn apart. If we can creatively rebuild communities, we
will not need service as we’ve come to know it. The prospect of making service obsolete gets
me out of bed every morning.” Jim can be reached at jtull@ccri.edu/jimtull@verizon.net.

In Memoriam
Moses Brown publishes memorial notes based on published obituaries. Please forward to Office of Alumni/ae Relations,
Moses Brown School, 250 Lloyd Avenue, Providence, RI 02906; fax (401) 455-0084; email alumni@mosesbrown.org.
H. Rees Schwarz, Class of 1930, an MIT graduate
in chemical engineering, worked in New York City
on product and market development of industrial
textiles for Wellington Sears Company. He was a
contributing author and editor of the Wellington
Sears Handbook of Industrial Textiles, a highly regarded
reference book. Rees served in the Pacific as a Navy
Lieutenant during World War II. After retirement,
he lived in New York, Virginia, and finally in South
Carolina. (5/26/08)
Richard Henry Webster, Class of 1942, a retired CIA
operations officer, worked with foreign intelligence
services in Madrid, London, Rhodesia, and the
Netherlands. He graduated from Princeton University,
and served in the Army Medical Corps during World
War II. After his retirement, Harry, an independent
voter who emphasized the person rather than the
political party, volunteered for a variety of political
campaigns from both parties, including those of
Republican George H. W. Bush and Democrats Hubert
H. Humphrey, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Paul
Simon. Harry traveled extensively, often with his
family, to Central America, Europe, Turkey, and down
the Danube. Most of his summers for 70 years were
spent in a small, unimproved 1890s cabin on Lake
Webb in the woods of Maine. (11/24/07)
Marsden Earle, Class of 1947, served 21 years in
the Army, commissioned in the Field Artillery after
graduating from West Point. He served in the Korean
and Vietnam Wars, retiring with the rank of Lt.
Colonel. After retirement, Marsden received an MBA
in finance and became a registered representative
and an investment manager at Tucker, Anthony
Management Co. Later, he founded MPE Investserv.
Marsden served in many community organizations,
including the Duxbury Rural & Historical Society
and The Pilgrim Society. He was a long-time member
of the Catboat Association and an enthusiastic
horseman. As a resident of Providence, he was a
member of the Society of Colonial Wars. (8/9/08)
Howard Blake, Class of 1948, attended Brown
University and was an Army veteran of the Korean
war. His first career was in textile machinery sales for
the family-owned Blackstone Webbing of Pawtucket.
Howie also was a substance abuse counselor at the
Good Hope Center in West Greenwich for 15 years
before retiring in 1995. (7/11/08)
Clio Chafee, Class of 1989, studied architectural history
at Brown University after MB, as well as graphic design
at Otis College. Clio was in charge of marketing and
press relations for the Boston architects Albert,
Righter & Tittmann. She had a wide range of interests
and was passionate about the future of our planet.
Clio volunteered in political campaigns, coordinated
the Providence showing of the Darfur/Darfur traveling
exhibit, and raised money for Physicians for Human
Rights. Intelligent, generous, passionate about design,
Clio’s many friends and family members enjoyed her
infectious sense of humor. She lived in Providence,
where trees will generously be planted, through
donations in Clio’s memory to the Mary Elizabeth
Sharpe Street Tree Fund (R.I. Foundation). (1/3/09)
Daniel Wright, Class of 1997, became an independent
consultant in environmental science and resource
management after graduating from Paul Smiths
College. He was active in his community as a member
of the Rotary Club, Godspeed Church, and the Warren
Conservation Commission. (8/15/08)
Former Faculty/Staff
Honor “Nonie” duChatellier (1992-1997) taught
English as a Second Language and French at Moses
Brown. She was most recently the head of foreign
languages and assistant head of school at the
Amnuay Silpa School in Bangkok, Thailand. (7/29/08)
James Hallan (1969-1974) was an organist, music
educator, and choirmaster for more than 60 years.
He taught music and directed the glee club and
handbell ringers at Moses Brown. During his career,
Jim also taught at St. Dunstan's, Lincoln, Wheeler,
and Providence Country Day Schools and served as
an organist and choirmaster at St. Martin's Church
in Providence and at St. Michael’s and Grace Church
in Rumford. (11/20/07)
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a bequest to Moses Brown School
in your will or trust.
• A bequest is the easiest way to make
sure that the things you care about will
be provided for in the future.
• You can make a significant gift without
affecting your current income or cash flow.
• You can direct your bequest to a specific
program or purpose. (Be sure to check
with us to make sure your gift can be used
as intended.)
• You can receive a charitable estate tax
deduction.
• Future generations will benefit from
your generosity.
“‘For the Honor of Truth’
is my core value.”
— Amy Roebuck Jones ’79
Leaving a Lasting Legacy
“I was one of the first boarding females to attend MB when
co-education started again — after an absence of more than 50
years — in 1977. ‘For The Honor of Truth’ is my core value and the
school, my teachers, and classmates have meant the world to me.
“The cross-country summer trips lead by Jack Craig, with members
of the boarding department and fellow students forever changed the
Amy Roebuck Jones ’79
way I saw the world around me. Having the first chance to see beyond
Massachusetts and Rhode Island was monumental. Being a MB student also gave me the
chance to participate on the boys’ cross country team and since then Doc Odell has been an
inspiration for my personal development. One favorite memory occurred on my birthday,
after a long-distance run: all the guys lined the driveway, each holding a flower, a tulip, a
daisy, whatever they could get their hands on. I had the most beautiful bouquet that day —
thanks to many local gardens en route to MB.
“My donations to MB have been inconsistent over the years. Also, being a military family
that has moved regularly all over the country, has made it difficult keeping up with just
about everything, never mind trying to get our mail to the correct address. One day a
mailing came which reviewed estate planning, wills, and trusts as another way to support
MB. For me, it was the golden ticket and a stable option. My husband and I decided to
include Moses Brown in our will.
“Every year when we review our estate plans, it is reassuring to know that Moses Brown
is an important piece of these plans. I’m proud to be a member of the Obadiah Brown
Society, proud to be an alumna, and hope to see many classmates at our reunion this
spring: May 8-9, 2009.”
Amy has joined the Obadiah Brown Society by letting MB know she has left the school a
provision in her will. To learn more about Amy’s decision — including memories of Doc Odell
and members of the boarding department — and to see how her gift will impact MB’s
continued excellence in teaching and learning, visit www.mosesbrown.planyourlegacy.org.
For the Honor of Truth
For more information on planned giving or the school’s
Obadiah Brown Society, contact Ron Dalgliesh in the Alumni/ae and
Development Office at 401-831-7350 x111, rdalgliesh@mosesbrown.org.

Do you know how your annual gift serves MB?
The Power of Annual Giving
Giving to the Annual Fund is the most powerful way for
each member of the school community to directly support
and enhance the day-to-day activities that continue to
allow Moses Brown to inspire the inner promise of each
student and instill the utmost care for learning, people,
and place. Your annual gift is a personal, immediate, and
significant way of supporting MB — from nursery students
to the senior class, from the chemistry lab to the theater,
from the orchestra to the library, from financial aid to
faculty compensation, from field hockey to football.
How to give
To join the more than 750 alumni/ae and friends who have
already made a gift to the 2008-09 Annual Fund, please visit
www.mosesbrown.org < Make a Gift (on bottom left) to make a
secure online gift. Or watch for a letter or email from MB about
this year’s Annual Fund. If you have specific questions, contact
Ron Dalgliesh, director of development and alumni/ae relations,
at 401-831-7350x111, rdalgliesh@mosesbrown.org.
$3,500 could supply the lower school art
curriculum with craypas crayons (remember
them?) for the entire year so that our
youngest MB students can develop and
show off their individual artistic talents.
The diversity of background, interests, and
perspectives in the Moses Brown student
body is at the heart of the outstanding
educational environment that MB fosters.
A gift of $16,000 could fund the average
financial aid award to the 23% of MB
students who received scholarship or
remission aid last year. One in five of these
181 students are likely to be at MB, in part,
because of Annual Fund contributors.
Part of last year’s eighth grade parent gift
provided $13,500 to purchase Labquest
data analysis tools for middle school teachers
to support curricular innovation in math
and science. This summer faculty members
Tony Pirruccello-McClellan and Patricia
Savage were the “students” during a
hands-on training session.
$150 might provide the sheet music for
an upper school string orchestra concert.
At last year’s spring concert, the group
performed Eastburn’s “Blue Tango.”
$76 could provide a game official
for MB’s field hockey team, which
successfully defended consecutive
state titles this fall.

Moses Brown School
250 Lloyd Avenue, Providence, RI 02906
www.mosesbrown.org
401-831-7350
Mark your calendars ’4s and ’9s, because Reunion is just around the corner on May 8 and 9:
Catch up with old friends • Reconnect with a favorite faculty member • Attend class on Friday with current
faculty and students • Reconnect with classmates • Catch the Quakers in action or join an alumni/ae game
• Attend Inspired Achievements with alumni/ae panelists • Enjoy reunion dinner on Saturday night
To join your reunion committee, register online, see who is coming, or get the latest MB updates,
visit mosesbrown.org or contact alumni@mosesbrown.org, 401-831-7350 x288.
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MB Reunion 2009, May 8 and 9
For the Honor of Truth