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Alumni News
Issue No. 13 Fall 2009
Richard Beck,
Harvey teacher 1969 to 1993
THE HARVEY SCHOOL

Alumni News
THE HARVEY SCHOOL
Barry W. Fenstermacher
Headmaster
Sally Breckenridge
Director of Alumni Relations
Laura Prichard
Director of Development and
Capital Campaign
Producers
Daniel K. Chapman ’73
Alumni Association President
Sally Breckenridge
Senior Editor
Rachel Lanser
Design and Layout
Jeanne Puchir
Photography
Vincent Alexander
Philip Baldwin ’62
Julia Beck
Richard Beck
Dan Chapman ’73
Edward P. Connors
Tom Dodd, 1965-75
Marcelle R. Johnson
Alumni Executive Council
Contributors, Editors and Advisors
Wylie Smith Blake ’88
Daniel K. Chapman ’73
Dennis A. Dilmaghani ’62
Tom Dodd, 1965-75
Philip A. Eifert ’73
Stephanie Glickman ’02
Alexander P. McKown ’57
Seth Morton ’57
Geoffrey R. Wiener ’32 emeritus
Sally Breckenridge
Alden Mauck '72
Bruce C. Osborne
Arthur Patterson '58
Mary D. Power
Charmaine Stark
Timothy B. Stark
Richard Wyland
260 Jay St Katonah, NY 10536 (914) 232-3161 ext. 123 (914) 767-9106 (fax) http://alumni.harveyschool.org

THE HARVEY SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
260 Jay Street Katonah, NY 10536 (914) 232-3161 ext 123 http:alumni.harveyschool.org
September 2009
Dear Harvey Alumni,
During the school year just ended, the Harvey School Alumni Association touched more constituents
than ever before. We had many well-attended events and reinstituted the Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame,
a popular addition to the alumni roster. At the April reunion we honored Richard Beck for his coaching
and teaching prowess. And our reunion tribute to Rose Baldwin captured the essence of Harvey:
adulation for a dedicated and wonderful teacher who served the school for so many years.
In the spirit of achievement, I am pleased to report that Harvey passed its ten-year NYSAIS (New York
State Association of Independent Schools) evaluation with flying colors. The review board cited Harvey
as having unique educational qualities which other schools would do well to emulate, something they
called “the Harvey way.” This is nothing new for Harvey alumni, but it’s nice to receive external
recognition for the excellence we all know so well.
In these times of economic challenge, the Harvey alumni community takes on added importance as
a resource for its members. The Alumni web site (http://alumni.harveyschool.org) is an excellent
medium for networking with generations of alumni and former teachers. We are now exploring an
“Alumni Career Day” at Harvey to bring alumni and students together to learn about career options.
Alumni are encouraged to visit the school anytime to share their professions with the Harvey community.
Last May, for example, Richard Ledes ’71 spoke to combined English and arts classes about his journey
from Harvey to becoming a film director. It was very well received, and he offered to return to critique
student films in the Fall. We are also developing a “Young Alumni” group with the help of Stephanie
Glickman ’02 in an effort to engage more recent Harvey graduates.
Looking ahead, we are planning another full schedule of events for the 2009-10 school year, beginning
with an alumni golf outing on September 23 at the Canyon Club in Armonk, NY. We encourage alumni
to bring along friends as a fun way to support the faculty endowment. Meanwhile, thanks to all who
have supported Harvey in some way this year, and here’s to the continuing success of our alma mater.
Best regards,
Daniel K. Chapman ’73
Alumni Association President
Hawthorne Circle circa 1938
Hawthorne Circle, circa 1938
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ALUMNI CLASS AND REUNION
AGENTS
Geoffrey R. Wiener ’32
(914) 834-0175
marggeof@aol.com
William D. Hay ’38
(914) 739-1892
John G. Davis ’50
(843) 722-7212
johnd2000@aol.com
Michael Adair ’51
(860) 536-9099
madair412@aol.com
John W. Crawford ’56
(540) 247-8810
sumner@ntelos.net
Alexander P. McKown ’57
(212) 250-1933 (w)
Alexander.mckown@db.com
Richard O. Willard ’60
(207) 596-7968
twittler@msn.com
Robert J. Hard ’66
(203) 846-0118
rhard@nukeminc.com
David R. Robertson ’67
(908) 719-1339
robertson987@aol.com
Alex Edwards-Bourdrez ’68
(631) 327-3301 (c)
alexb1@verizon.net
Philip A. Eifert ’73
(914) 232-6489
peifert@yahoo.com
David T. Clutter ’78
(404) 606-8239
Patrick O. Peterkin ’78
(203) 655-9917 (c)
p_peterkin@yahoo.com
Melinda M. Frey ’83
(914) 241-2134
Joshua Rosenthal ’83
(970) 385-4723
weplay@frontier.net
Herbert L. Sloan ’84
(203) 438-0051
hjs1988@yahoo.com
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Thomas A. Jaffe ’85
(408) 885-1281
thomas.jaffe@sbcglobal.net
Conrad Wells ’85
(520) 907-4795
Conradoptics@netzero.com
Lisa M. Cantrell ’86
(813) 672-3642
lmc246@tampabay.rr.com
Susan Kennedy McKeever ’87
psmckeever@sbcglobal.net
Wylie Smith Blake ’88
(203) 526-4089 (c)
wyliesmithblake@yahoo.com
Charles A. Collin ’88
(718) 431-0829
collin_charles@hotmail.com
Peter E. Hall ’90
(518) 369-1991 (c)
Emily C. Keily ’91
(781) 768-7061 (w)
classicsteele@yahoo.com
Jarrod I. Brown ’93
jbrown21@ aol.com
Russell C. Stamm ’94
(781) 329-3004
rcstamm@rcstammco.com
Lara W. Casano-Gilligan ’95
(347) 539-7301
lcasano38@aol.com
Alice M. Pinheiro-Fontana ’95
(914) 263-9834
alicefontana@optonline.net
Kevin P. Harrigan ’96
(412) 853-9392
kh1843@hotmail.com
David and Jeanette Stark ’96
(336) 771-5303
jmarib@aol.com
C. Blayre Farkas ’97
blayre_farkas@yahoo.com
Max Weinstein ’98
(917) 515-8531
maxdanielweinstein@gmail.com
Amy B. Albert ’99
(845) 621-2120
papillia@hotmail.com
Tara L. McGarvey ’01
(845) 462-1275 (p)
Tara8111@aol.com
Tiffany E. Franqui ’02
(845) 612-9858 (c)
travelsize84@gmail.com
Jaclyn Klein ’03
(914) 319-1699 (c)
jmk225@cornell.edu
Melissa Offenberg ’03
(914) 772-0209
moffenbe@gmail.com
Sierra Pepi ’03
(845) 278-4751 (p)
pepigirl14@aol.com
Evan Walker ’03
(203) 438-5225 (p)
evanw124@aol.com
Andrew I. Pape ’04
(914) 428-5475 (p)
kilik9@aol.com
Sara R. Fleisher ’05
(914) 584-7048
fleishsr@wharton.upenn.edu
Laura E. Heumann ’05
(914) 234-2093 (p)
lheums@gmail.com
Brian T. Ryerson ’05
(914) 232-8945 (p)
brianryerson@kings.edu
Erica Zlatsin ’05
(914) 245-3895
ezlatsin@gmail.com
Elizabeth S. Katz ’05
(914) 939-6168
esp2@unh.edu
Greg Jurshak ’06
(914) 260-8155 (c)
gjjurs10@holycross.edu
Teresa Neri ’06
(914) 400-8646 (p)
neri@fordham.edu
Allison Shuchat ’06
(914) 384-4134 (p)
aes009@mcdaniel.edu
Jackson Adolph ’07
(914) 533-6408 (p)
adolphjp@jmu.edu
Brandon Brooks ’07
(203) 524-5800 (c)
bfb34@cornell.edu
Doniella McKoy ’07
(914) 960-9375 (c)
lovelife1luv@yahoo.com
Gretel Coleman ’08
(203) 523-2498 (c)
sgccoleman@aol.com
Dylan Hackley ’08
(914) 482-5318 (c)
dhack@me.com
Lauren Judisky ’08
(914) 582-1828 (c)
lbjudisky@loyola.edu
Scott Oltman ’08
(914) 232-4632
sdoltman@email.msmary.edu
Andrew Jamieson ’09
ajamiesonct@aol.com
Erika Osborne ’09
ozzygirl684@hotmail.com
Pete Sorenson ’09
psorenson68@gmail.com
Megan Taylor ’09
mktaylor18@aol.com
Daniel K. Chapman ’73
President
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
(914) 769-0674
dkchapman@earthlink.net
(c) is cell phone
(p) is parents’ phone
(w) is work phone
Shading - reunion classes

THE HARVEY SCHOOL
ALUMNI
NEWS
FALL 2009
Table of
Contents
News from Alumni pg. 4
Alumni Events pg. 17
Athletic Hall of Fame pg. 17
2009 Graduation pg. 24
2009 Reunion pg. 26
Alumni Spotlight pg. 32
Richard Beck
Alumni Visit pg. 35
Richard Ledes ’71
Honoring Rose Baldwin pg. 36
News from Faculty, Staff
& Friends pg. 44
Life Event, In Memorium pg. 46
Upcoming Events pg. 50
Alumni Association pg. 50
Lost pg. 52
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News from
Alumni
The following are notes from
alumni and former students of The
Harvey School.
The symbol ‘†’ placed after the name
of a person indicates that we have confirmed
that the individual is deceased.
1920s - 1940s
Class Agents
Geoffrey R. Wiener ’32
William D. Hay ’38
Alan Carter ’23†
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1905 Mabel Carter with her children
Alida, Herbert and Alan
1932 Alan’s children Peter and
Joan Carter
1936 Alan Carter ’23
Daughter Joan Carter Chevalier
sent in a photo of her father, Alan
Carter, taken at their farmhouse in
North Pomfret, VT, where he lived
in the 1930s. “At this time, he was
busy gathering together musicians
from all walks of life living in the
state of Vermont, ie, the elevator
operator at the department store,
RH Stearne in Rutland; the tuba
player-engineer on the Rutland
Railroad, the double bass player a
lawyer in Woodstock to form the
first rural statewide symphony in
this country, the Vermont State
Symphony Orchestra. He also
organized and played in a string
quartet mostly in the warmer
months all over the state, in remodeled
barns,etc. He finally moved to
Middlebury, where he was made a
full professor and headed up the
music dept. there. He was a musician
all his life in various capacities.”
The Harvey Monthly 1923: Playing
at the third vesper service on Nov.
25 were Mr. Wilde, cello, and Alan
Carter violin, accompanied by Mrs.
Carter on piano.
The Harvey Monthly May 1924:
The Westchester String Quartet
was founded by Alan Carter in the
fall of 1923. Alan Carter was a
member of the Harvey School for
many years and having completed
his course of study has taken up
music as a career. The quartet is
composed of members of the David
Mannes School of Music in New
York City. Their entertainment at
The Harvey School on Saturday
evening, the tenth of May [1924] is
their second public recital.
Members were: Alan Carter, first
violin; Fay Bricken, second violin;
Gilbert Moreaux, viola; and Carlo
Piscitello, cello. Carl Bricken, at the
piano, made the fifth member for
the first piece on the program.
The Harvey Monthly October
1924: Alan Carter sailed to
Germany on the S.S. George
Washington to continue his study
of music on Oct. 1, 1924.
William B. Eddison, Jr. ’37
“I am an alumnus of the Harvey
Class of 1937 making a long overdue
contact with The School and
wishing to commend and thank the
Alumni Association for keeping up
with my many changes of address,
and keeping me informed about the
School and the extra-ordinary transition
of the curriculum to a college
preparatory school. I am tremendously
impressed with the vision
and vigor of Mr. Fenstermacher.
“Amongst the faculty I remember
with pleasure are especially Leverett
Smith, with whom I learned algebra,
and David McNall, under
whose tutelage I was able to walk

away with the Latin Prize. After a
not particularly distinguished
career in Town and City planning, I
am fortunate to be spending the
years since my wife died (2001) in a
very fine home for the elderly by the
name of Broadmead located in the
northern suburbs of Baltimore.”
Mr. Eddison graduated from St.
Paul's School in 1942 and attended
Harvard for a year before joining
the Army Air Force in 1943 and
upon his discharge in 1945
returned to that university. Bill was
awarded the Air Medal for his services
as s Staff Sergeant in the 15th
Air Force. Bill spent more than a
year as a P.O.W. after his plane had
been shot down over Germany
1940 Master Thomas Graham and
Francis Murray ’42
1940s Mr. O’Malley
Richard H. Sheldon ’49
“After sixteen months, my double
knee replacement surgery continues
to be successful. I do floor exercises
and occasionally indoor swimming
in winter.”
1950s
1940s teacher
1949 John Shea
Class Agents
John G. Davis ’50
Michael Adair ’51
John C. Crawford ’56
Alexander P. McKown ’57
Michael W. Hard ’51
Mr. Hard contacted the school for
help in identifying the Latin text
used when he was at Harvey:
“There was a plate just inside showing
a painting of the Roman forum
where a gladiator was asking
thumbs up or thumbs down for
killing his opponent. I think there
was a quote to the effect ‘Hail,
Caesar; those who are about to die
salute you.’ There, and at the beginning
of each chapter, was a famous
Latin quotation, both in Latin and
English: such things as carpe diem;
‘the beaten path is the safe one,’
‘birds of a feather flock together,’
etc.. If someone could give me the
name and publisher, I then might
be able to locate a copy at one of the
antique booksellers.”
Harvey Latin teacher, Tim Stark,
recognized the description. He said
it is Jenney's Latin., and that it has
been revised many times.
2009 Dick Ahlborn ’55
with grandchildren
Bruce W. Moss ’55
“I was much taken with your latest
bulletin featuring (for me she will
always be) Mrs. Baldwin, that lovely,
austere personage who ruled the
library during my years at
Hawthorne Circle Harvey School,
1952-55. Among the many books
she suggested, the one I best
remember is Biography of a Grizzly.
It was a cautionary tale for those of
us now getting up in years as,
toward the end of his life, Mr.
Grizzly tried to keep younger,
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stronger grizzlies from chasing him
away from his arthritis-easing sulphur
pools by standing on a stump
and leaving claw-marks high on a
tree to intimidate his competitors…which
was of course futile in
the end.
“I do recall the many afternoons
that the fearsome (to me) Mr.
Stafford would while away considerable
time in the library with Mrs.
Baldwin, talking about this and
that. They seemed to get on very
well. Looking back, of course, Rose
Baldwin and Dick Stafford were
kindred spirits and simply enjoyed
chatting.
“I was touched that Rose mentioned
Cecile Clark (to me, Mrs.
Clark), among those she doubted
anyone alive would remember.
Well, yes, it does seem centuries
ago. But I will never forget those
steep rickety stairs leading from the
3rd to 4th piano floor, the practice
rooms to the right and to the
left…the left one leading past the
famous reproduction of Brahms
(cigar clenched in teeth, leaning
back as he played) to the whitehaired
Mrs. Clark's inner sanctum
with its side-by-side upright pianos.
Ever ready with her nail clippers to
correct the offensive tap-tap of nails
on ivory, she had a little recess at the
end of the room which housed a
light blue dresser where she kept
her purse, hat, a box of Kleenex,
and a bottle of wood alcohol she
used to assiduously clean the ivory
(in those days) keys soiled by our
dirty little fingers. Well, Mrs. Clark
was a wonderful instiller of a love
for music in small boys. She would
play a succulent little piece by Grieg
or Chopin or Mozart, then turn
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and ask: ‘Would you like to learn
that one?’ Usually it was instant
love, and on it went, until one had
quite a little repertoire. Toy
Symphony time was special, as
Rose Baldwin memorably noted (in
those days it was thought Haydn
composed it.) The crowning
moment for me was playing First
Piano (there were always two
pianos for the Toy Symphony performance).
“The piano has been a part of my
life ever since. After Harvey I studied
piano with Charles Demarest at
Hotchkiss, which I represented in
inter-school competitions. My second
wife was a cellist and during
the time we played the Brahms E
minor Cello Sonata, I studied in
New York with Daniel Epstein of
the Raphael Trio. Here in Santa Fe,
I occasionally study with the Polish
pianist Jan Pytel-Zak when I'm not
writing fiction (piano-playing
always works its way, one way or
another, into my novels, one of
which is actually dangerously close,
my agent tells me, to being published.)
Sorry to run on like thisbut
Rose Baldwin's memory has
evoked yet more debts I owe to
Harvey-and which I'm afraid will
never be repaid. ”
James J. Lowe, Jr. ’56
[This should have appeared in the Spring
2009 edition, but somehow was omitted. It
was submitted last Fall.]
“Seth Morton '57 called [last Fall]
and was kind to ask for something
about the school, going back 50
years, so that only a very little of
what I'm thinking now may be factual
with names misspelled; if
skewed, it's out of fondness.
“Of course, there was the drive from
Bedford through Mount Kisco, past
the large bronzed statue of Horace
Greeley in Chappaqua and past
Pleasantville, along the parkway willows
looping slender trunks low of
the then wetland and then up in odd
arcings on the way to the traffic circle,
where to the right in a depression
of flat land below the level of
the parkway lay our soccer field. Yet
in my four years, never a ball booted
onto the road, Howdy Baldwin's
strong foot notwithstanding. There
Mouse (Charlie) Titterton ’55,
freckled Phil Sayres ’55, Tim
Rodd ’56, his jersey inches longer
than his fingertips flapping as he
sped, lefty Mike Sanger ’56 on the
wing nodding his head side-to-side
as he ran, Mike Patterson ’55 at his
halfback position, Kirk Waldron ’56
in goal, all of us coached by Mr.
(Gus) Stewart, pulled off an undefeated
season my Third Form year.
“Bearing right at the circle and then
another right onto the school
grounds where the Headmaster's
(Mr. Leverett Smith's) large white
clapboard house greeted us on the
left, then along the graveled drive
with the dining hall and infirmary
building, its rectangular and round
wooden tables and creamed
chipped beef-on-toast and upstairs,
we were sure, enemas readied as the
preferred treatment for most any
ailment we came down with
ensured we were an uncommonly
uncomplaining, lot. The building
partly blocking our view of the
playing fields spreading out left, at
the base of the hill, the pasture on
its slope where the great white
horse, Billy, grazed and expounded
a maleness at times alarming us
fledging boys; and on past a tennis

court on the right and the gym with
classrooms on the far side as one
entered the loop leading to the
main school building. Through the
entrance, the Headmaster's office,
to the right lay the reading room
and classrooms; to the left, the
stairs up to the boarders' dorm,
beds tightly made, rooms neat, Mr.
Shea's station; back downstairs and
next, a short hallway where the
honors list was posted; beyond, the
study hall and assembly room in
one, with two classrooms further
on, several steps up, left and right,
an older building with wooden
floors throughout, all the buildings
very well kept by Mr. Tweiten,
whose son Norman ’53 and Spike
Billings ’53 were the two best athletes
I remember at school, Norman
strong and solid, Spike slight but
durable and very fast. Left of the
main building and set back, a large
barn, the Walk List circle and a
metal chair not uncomfortable
enough to keep Mr. Howes from
dozing off on a warm afternoon
while overseeing Paul Burrows ’56
and Mike Sierstorpff ’56 and me,
sometimes; to the right, on the
other side of the main building, also
set back, the shop building where
Mr.(Mitchell) Lyons reminded us,
a job worth doing is worth doing
well, with other classrooms above.
Behind and over all, the great hill, at
its foot, to the right of the shop, a
meadow stretched toward the parkway,
our battlefield, its long grass in
fall perfect cover for capture-theflag
and grounds in winter for
tumultuous snowball fights. Dary
Dunham ’56 and Rodd ’56 leading
the Pocanticos and (Dick)
Spppoings (Springs) ’56 and
( Jimmy) Robbins ’56, the Neperans.
“Mornings began in the assembly,
Mr. Smith reading announcements
and demerits (Burrows and
Sierstorpff flat-out extraordinary in
this department), Mr. (Spencer)
Welsh at the piano in the near corner
right leading us in song, college
fight songs, Broadway hits, inspirational
tunes. Then to class, Mr.
Shea beginning our Latin study by
having us give him words in English
-book and bird, girl, exam - which
he translated into Latin, but the
later challenge of Pinocchio is too
much for me, Jock ( John) Burbank
’56 our scholar here, thought
( John) Scoll ’56 managed an 88 on
a hard test that Jock just passed and
the rest of us didn't, maybe
Patterson ’55 usually at the top of
the Headmaster's list and (Henry)
Smith-Miller ’56, whose lecture on
the grammar (syntax) of architecture
I attended years later in New
York. English class with Mr.
Howes, whose badly impaired hearing
tempted us to have fun by
mouthing our words, not uttering
them, him assigning us 150 lines of
poetry to memorize, The Ancient
Mariner, my choice, poor
Coleridge; another with Mr. (Bill)
Magnan, 20 pushups in class for
something I should have answered
correctly, and in Mr. Welch's algebra,
my ‘I don't dig that, Sir,’ was
trounced with his, ‘and what don't
you dig, Lowe?’
“There were those boys in the thick
of things at Harvey, Springs and
Robbins, Nat Norton ’56, Perry
Trafford ’56, the twins Alec and
David McKown ’57, big Bruce
Mygatt ’57 and there were other
boys, maybe more on the sidelines,
nonetheless bright, Freddy
Steinhardt ’56, quiet John Davis ’56,
NEWS FROM ALUMNI
good natured and strong Sherry
Day ’57. Sherry, surprising big
Bruce in an intramural wrestling
match, outlasting him though
Bruce had piled up the early points.
And still other boys we played
against, though many were from
schools such as ours, these others
from Children's Village, most of
them black with hard lives, fearless
athletes, unlike me who was ready
to give-in even before I was hit,
causing me and some others, down
30 or 40 to nothing to them in a
football game, to agree to grab their
kickoff to us and punt it back to
them, poor Mr. (Mac) Jacoby,
our Second Team coach, while
Springs and Burbank and Doug
Ahlborne ’56 on the First Team
were fighting off opposing lineman,
tackling strapping backs.
“I boarded some, and on Fall afternoons
we might be invited to the
Headmaster's house to watch the
World Series, Dusty Rhodes hitting
a homer for the Giants, but not
enough, I'm remembering, to beat
the Yankees; winter evenings, for
readings, Mr. Smith settled in an
armchair, yellow stained finger tips
turning the pages of a Jack London
story, Robert Service his ‘strange
things done in the midnight sun,’
Damon Runyon's Harry the Horse;
Sunday evenings, in the reading
room, in itchy blue wool suits, we
gathered for evening song and after,
maybe some folk songs Mr. Welch
favored, ‘hey down, ho down, derry
derry down, among the leaves
green o,’ me wondering how
Dunham managed to make his way
into an old ballad. And I should
stop now.”
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1960s
Class Agents
Richard O. Willard ’60
David R. Robertson ’67
Jerome DuVivier Gary ’61
“It was 1958. Eisenhower was
president. The Dodgers were still at
Ebbetts Field. My name then was
Jerry DuVivier. The Harvey School
for Boys was more than half boarding
students and was still at
Hawthorne Circle; Mrs. Baldwin
was my fifth grade English teacher,
and her son, Phillip, was one of my
best friends and a fellow hockey
player. She taught us the Odyssey
which was very resonant as
Odysseus (Odissseeoooss, as she
pronounced it) was trying to get
home and many of us, particularly
the boarding students, felt abandoned
and lost, and in our way, we
were also just trying to get home. I
remember asking myself who were
my Cyclops and my Scylla and
Charybdis, and there were plenty of
choices around Harvey at that time.
I had not met my Circe yet. She
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1961 Fourth Form (class of 1962)
was also the librarian for all of the
four years that I was at Harvey.
Every day after lunch we had reading
period for 40 minutes, and she
encouraged us to read what we
liked. Seems emminently normal,
but in that era when knowledge was
being crammed down our throats, it
was highly unusual. Every morning
Mr. Smith droned on from the
Book of Exodus ( Joseph begat Sam
who begat Joe etc etc etc) and Mr.
Shea had us conjugating countless
Latin verbs. In short, no one except
Mrs. Baldwin gave a damn about
what we liked.
“As a result of her encouragement, I
read every book about World War
II. I remember them as if it were
yesterday: God is My Copilot,
Damned to Glory, The Battle is the
Payoff, Combined Operations, 30
Seconds over Tokyo… It considerably
contributed to the birth of my
enthusiasms, and without them, life
is hardly worth living. And then
there was the pure inspiration of
her being: she worked hard; she was
neat and well organized; she was a
mother and a teacher; she was my
first exposure to the consummate
New England woman, and she was
the manifestation of 'tough love'
years before the term existed. I am
blessed to have had many great
teachers in my life and Mrs.
Baldwin is high on my list. God
Bless her.”
Dennis A. Dilmaghani ’62
Dennis generously offered to sponsor
a sale of his company’s oriental
rugs, at which time each rug would
be sold at half price with the other
half going to the Harvey endowment.
The sale was held in
February, with a turnout from
Harvey parents, faculty and
trustees. We thank Dennis for this
creative way to add to Harvey’s
endowment!
Walter H. (Hank) Johnson III
’63
In a note to Rose Baldwin, Hank
said that Rose’s husband, Mike, and
Hank’s father served together in the
Pacific during World War II in
Marines. He also remarked that his
mother, Marcelle Johnson, former
nurse at Harvey is well and living in
New Canaan, and had recently celebrated
her 91st birthday.
David M. Coburn ’64
David wrote after seeing the Spring
Alumni News, adding identification
for some of the photos. He also
added comments “to help capture
School history. Looking at the
1960s main building photo (Sylvan
Hall), the downstairs window in
the center is the reception room;
the arched window to the right is
the office; upstairs held faculty
apartments for the likes of John
Shea, Everett Howe, Mitch and
Mona Lyons and others.

“I recognize neither of the two boys
in ‘1960s boys entering school,’ but
they are not entering through the
Day Boy Entrance. It looks like it
could be the front door to Sylvan
Hall, which boys were generally not
allowed to use except by Fifth
Formers or on special occasions.
This photo may have been posed.
“In the ‘teaching at Harvey’ photo
on the left, the boy in profile standing
at the book shelf might be my
brother Gordy Coburn ’63.
And I certainly remember the faces
of the other two but names are not
forthcoming. Perhaps with time
and some help from other Harvey
boys of that era, they will be identified.
Stay tuned.
“The photo on the right, ‘1970s
lunch table,’ has got to be older than
1970s. The boy to Mrs. Baldwin's
left, I believe, is one of the Hard
twins, who were two classes behind
me (’66). That would make this a
1960s photo. Again, I'm hoping my
memory will become clearer and
names of the other boys here will be
revealed.
“My mother, Martha Coburn, was
head of the library from the fall of
1964 until spring 1973. Always a
lover of books and an avid reader,
she expanded the book fair and was
instrumental in getting the new
library funded and built. She and
Rose Baldwin were life-long
friends. Indeed it was because of
Rose Baldwin that my brother,
Gordy, and I came to Harvey.
Wisely, my mother waited until the
fall after my graduation to become
part of the faculty. My father, Pat
Coburn, was a Harvey trustee for
many years, circa 1960 to 1970, and
was instrumental in the fund-raising
to build the McConnell
Gymnasium, the Evarts Hockey
Rink and the new library.”
George G. Dallas ’64
In a note to Gary Meller ’64: “It's
been an awfully long time since I
remember you and your brother
climbing on board the Harvey
School van at the end of your driveway
in Mt. Kisco (or was it
Chappaqua?) as we commuted our
way to school. I remember at least
two years of that -I was a boarding
student the last 2 years at Harvey. I
graduated Harvey and went to
Berkshire, where I was a 4.0 student
with 4 years of varsity sports -
soccer, skiing, and track. Even so, I
recall being terrified at graduating
Berkshire and going to college.
After the protective womb of
Harvey and Berkshire, where every
minute of every day was pre-determined
by curriculum, the freedom
of college life was somewhat daunting.
I went to Muhlenberg, and
used that freedom and goofed off
and flunked out. I went into the ski
business for 2 years and then was
ready to go to college. I earned back
my freshman credits at Pace in
Pleasantville, and then went to
Loretto Heights College in Denver,
a Catholic women's college that had
just decided to go non-sectarian
and co-ed, 850 girls and 45 guys. It
was fun. I actually earned my way
to a B.A. as a ski instructor, and
completed 3 years of college in 2
years, and then went to Aspen as a
ski instructor, hung out with John
Denver and a bunch of other Aspen
notables, and then decided it was
time to get a real job.
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“Since 1973, I have had a number of
jobs on the media side of the advertising
business (not as glamorous as
the creative side as portrayed on the
A&E series "Mad Men"), but challenging
because of the mathematics
of media, and the need for systems
to handle the incredible number
gymnastics of the media business. I
work from home full time for The
Nielsen Company - yup: the folks
who measure TV ratings. But I
actually run a very small piece of
Nielsen where I design and manage
custom media planning and media
buying systems for ‘small’ advertisers
like General Motors, Coca-
Cola, Yum Brands (Taco Bell),
Toyota-Lexus, Sears/K-Mart,
Johnson & Johnson, and others.
“I had married very early (big mistake)
and divorced 9 years later. I
re-married in 1984, and my wife
and I have two daughters - Lizzie
(23), and Georgiana (20). Lizzie
has her Master’s and is a teacher in
Stamford, CT, and Georgiana is a
Junior at UCONN (Go Huskies!),
majoring in Art. She will graduate
to be the next Dr. Seuss because she
can write and draw these incredible
characters all at the same time.”
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Thomas D. Cocks ’65
Tom was inducted into the Alumni
Athletic Hall of Fame on April 18.
Afterwards, he wrote:
“I was thankful for Starring to
come all that way just to say a few
words. I was happy to see Duncan
and Caswell and also to see Rich
Beck be honored. Even though I
was pleased by the award, it tickled
me for two reasons that I was noted
for athleticism. One, because I am
not so agile or trim and fit any
more, another because it brought
back amusement by remembering
certain funny events that shaped
my development. While they also
might occur in other institutions, I
was struck by what Barry
[Fenstermacher] called ‘the Harvey
way,’ something we do but indescribable
as to how it leads to success.
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Tom with Sally Breckenridge and wife
Adriana DiNardo
Mac Starring ’65 and Tom Cocks
Here's what I was remembering:
“My eighth grade (senior) year, I
scored all our points in the big football
game down the road at our
rivals Rippowam. We lost by three
points. But I ran two touchdowns
and two conversions for 18 points
and they ran three touchdowns
and, snooty preppies we thought
they were, kicked 3 extra points: 21.
None of the other teams we played
kicked extra points.
“There's a back story. The morning
of the Big Game, I bragged to my
roommate Steve Bontecou ’65 in a
booming voice that because of the
game Coach Bob Shattuck would
never put us on special make-up.
(Steve was quarterback and running
back and co-recipient of the
Aspinwall Cup that year.) Of
course a student on special meant
he had to stay behind and not play
in away games because it took
precedence to sports. In algebra that
morning, Bob grilled me on my
knowledge of the assignment, and I
was sweating but doing OK until he
said, ‘Now turn the page.’ I did so
and saw with horror another section
that I was supposed to have
read and a group of questions. Bob
asked me for the answers, and I
froze up. ‘Special make-up!’ he
yelled. He told the class he had
heard me brag, too, in the dorm.
So, I spent the next hours feeling
like the failure of the century. There
was a girl I liked at Rippowam,
and I had wanted to make a show
of myself.
“After lunch, I noticed that the sky
was grey. By the time sports came
around, it had started to rain. The
announcement: game postponed.
So I did special make-up and got
my chance the following week, even
tackling my beloved's boyfriend on
the first play of the game. It later
occurred to me that Bob Shattuck
knew it was going to rain, but
played up my poor preparation and
cockiness to teach me a lesson.
“Fast forward many years. Bob
came back to Harvey again and was
honored along with Rich Beck and
Artie Deeks as teachers with long
records who were moving on. I
asked Bob at the ceremony if he
remembered how he caught my
braggadocio and taught me a lesson.
He had no recollection of it at
all. Maybe it was that Harvey
‘way’ Barry talked about.
“So, thanks again. You made it wonderful
to travel up there and have
some fun.”
Bruce R. Kraus ’68
A folder of photos was found in the
Harvey files which had been sent in
by Bruce in 1991. We contacted
him, and he was interested in having
the photos returned. But not
before we made copies, some of
which are shown below and on the
next page. They were taken
between 1963 and 1968. Can anyone
help to identify the people
shown?
John McMahon

1968 teachers
Paul D. Marchiano ’68
Paul reported that his mother lives
in Las Vegas along with his sister
and one brother, leaving himself
and one brother in NY. His dad
died in 1980. He said his 2 years at
Harvey were the best education of
his life, and he remembers everyone
from Harvey fondly.
1970s
Class Agents
Philip A. Eifert ’73
David T. Clutter ’78
Patrick Peterkin ’78
Philip A. Eifert ’73
Phil participated in the Make-a-
Wish Foundation Walk on May 2,
2009. He matched all pledges from
Harvey constitutiencies with a contribution
to the school. He presented
his check at the May Alumni
Excecutive Council meeting.
from 1963 to 1968
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Paul J. Gorman ‘’73
Paul sent in black/white photos
from 1969 and 1970 shown on the
next page. “My fondest memories
of Harvey are [Mrs. Baldwin] and
also of Mr. Coe, and my two years
there (1968-70) were the best. I am
an architect in Maryland, where I
reside with my wife Christina.”
2009 photo of Paul
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1969 Fourth team soccer
1969 First Form 1970 Second Form
1970 Fourth team baseball
Frederick B. (Fritz)
Mitchell ’73
A short piece appeared in USA
Today about Fritz’s video on
Jimmy the Greek. Phil Eifert ’73
wrote Fritz asking about it.
“I was going to try and make it
to Rose Baldwin's celebration
but was in an edit room working
on that story. The [ Jimmy the
Greek] piece will air sometime
between November '09 and
February '10. Look's like you
and Dan Chapman have been
doing a great job carrying the
banner for those who attended
Harvey in the '70's.
Hope all is well with
you. Vermont remains
a fun place to live. Wife
and kids are great.
Stay in touch.”
Sanford B. Scott ’75
Sanford wrote that he
is in banking, and that
he and his wife, Sally,
have two daughters:
Amanda, 18, and
Molly, 15.
1980 - 1984
Class Agents
Melinda M. Frey ’83
Joshua Rosenthal ’83
Herbert L. Sloan ’84
Aaron A. Tomory ’83
Aaron came by, bought some sweatshirts
for his nieces, and asked if we
had any of the school photos from
1977-78 and 1978-79. He took
them to be copied and will provide
us a digital version. He got his law
degree from Univ. of Michigan. He
asked about Sallick, Neligan, and
Van Loon. They all live locally but
have not been in touch with the
alumni office.
Send in your
current email address!

Mark S. Dolan ’84
2009 Mark with wife and children
Mark worked for many months to
connect with the class of 1984 for
their reunion. Many turned out to
see Mark inducted into the
Althletic Hall of Fame, with an
introduction given by classmate
Frank Barata ’84. Mark played varsity
soccer with coach John Gobel
for 3 years, varsity baseball for 3
years, and jv basketball for 2 years.
Currently he runs to keep up with
his wife and children.
Sean M. O'Hare ’84
“Sorry to be lost for so long, but I
have moved quite a few times since
graduating from Harvey. After
Harvey, I further pursued my education
in California and then transferred
to Syracuse University. I
graduated with a degree in Speech
Communications, went on to live in
Los Angeles and started working in
the television and film industry. I
have worked on several major
motion pictures as well as on a couple
of television shows (no, I am
not an actor, though you can see me
on screen in the final sequence of
the film Great Balls of Fire (the
story of Jerry Lee Lewis)).
“After having done all the things
one should do in LA, I moved to
the midwest, where I was married
and had a beautiful baby girl (simply
put, the light of my life). During
this time, I went back to my writing
roots. While the marriage may not
have proven to be successful, I have
maintained the parental rights to
my daughter and have been working
as a writer and a father ever
since. As a result, I can honestly say
that I have indeed found some semblance
of peace in this life. What
more could one ask for? I currently
reside in Ohio.”
1985 - 1989
Class Agents
Thomas A. Jaffe ’85
Conrad Wells ’85
Lisa Cantrell Rogers ’86
Joseph Comunale ’85
Joseph is a policeman in the
Katonah/Bedford Police Dept. He
came by to talk to students at
Harvey in the spring.
Joe D. Broadhurst ’86
“Joe, his wife Elisabeth, and their
son and daughter Julien and Solene,
were able to visit with Harvey
Alumni in Spring 2009. Joe and
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Elisabeth have spent the past 4
years in Montreal where she works
in finance, and he is a real estate
agent. Before Montreal, they spent
3 and a half years in Paris, living in
the 20th arrondissement where Joe
spent 2 years renovating a small
glass-making factory into a Maison
du Ville. They met in New York
City through mutual friends and
were married in December of 2001.
They are currently en route to
Lyon, France, where Elisabeth has
taken a new position in the
Pharmaceutical company she has
worked with for the past 16 years.
They are looking forward to plenty
of weekend trips to the
Mediterranean Sea in the summer
and lots of skiing in the Alps during
the winter. Joe is an avid telemark
skier, a big soccer fan and still plays
men's hockey as a defenseman. Joe
can be found with other Harvey
alumni on Facebook."
Student Photos
Lev Smith's
individual student
photos by school
year, 1946 - 1962.
See them on the
alumni website,
under Links.
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Gillian M. Holt Bailey ’87
When Gillian attended Harvey,
there were not many girls, so playing
in girls sports was not the norm.
She played basketball and softball
with coach Charlie Peluso, who was
a "jack of all trades" at the school.
She was recognized for her athletic
ability in newspaper articles, but
was very reticent to talk about herself
to others, as was noted by
Susan Moore McKeever ’87, who
introduced Gillian at the Athletic
Hall of Fame ceremony in April.
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from 1987
Gillian in 2009
Gillian and husband Tony at
Hall of Fame awards
1990-94
Class Agents
Peter E. Hall ’90
Emily Keily ’91
Jarrod I. Brown ’93
Russell Stamm ’94
Peter M. Mason ’90
Pete started at Playmakers Media
in Sept. 2008, sports media, marketing
and promotions company.
Playmakers Media is the exclusive
media sales agent for all New York
Yankees official team publications.
“I work closely with Brand
Managers, Category Managers and
other consumer marketing executives
to develop creative campaigns
that effectively leverage the fan
experience into an emotional connection
with their products and/or
services.”
Robin K. Appel ’91
Robin is registered as an ERYT-
500 with Yoga Alliance and has
been a Yoga Ed. Instructor/
Trainer since 2004. She is the
founder of Always-At-Aum, an
organization dedicated to empowering
students to make healthier
decisions by
becoming yoga educated.
She holds
teaching certifications
for restorative
yoga, Pilates, youth
fitness training and
is a Reiki master/teacher.
In
2006, Integral Yoga
Institute honored
Robin by giving her
the spiritual name,
Arula, which has two translations.
In Indian it means, "filled with
grace," and in Sanskrit it means,
"shining as the sun." Robin added
Mukti as her last name, which
means freedom.
Luke D. Miller ’91
Luke reported that he is no longer
in Hong Kong, but back in New
York City.
Philip M. Nimphius ’93
2008 Phil in Iraq
“While at Harvey, I received nine
varsity letters: in football (3),
lacrosse(3), wrestling(2) and skiing(1).
After Harvey, I attended
Johnson State College in Vermont,
where I studied Sports Medicine
and played Division III lacrosse and
rugby from 1993-1994. I joined the
New York Army National Guard in
1996 and was assigned to the
2009 Phil's mother, Headmaster Fenstermacher, Phil,
and girlfriend Jennifer

1/156 Field Artillery Battalion in
Kingston, NY as an Intelligence
Analyst. I've served on several
Homeland Security missions assisting
local, state and federal law
enforcement agencies as an analyst.
“In June 2002, I attended John Jay
College of Criminal Justice in
NYC, where I received my B.A. in
forensic psychology and a double
minor in criminology and dispute
resolution. In June 2004, I attended
and graduated from the New York
State Police Academy. I was
assigned to the Dover Plains barracks
in Dutchess County for 3
years before transfering to the
Somers barracks in Westechester
County where I now serve. Still
serving in the NY Army National
Guard, in 2007 I was assigned to
and deployed with the 104th
Military Police Battalion from
Kingston, NY as an Intelligence
Non-Commissioned Officer
(NCO). We were deployed to
Camp Bucca in the Basra Province
of Iraq, where I worked closely
with US, coalition forces and civilian
civil affairs to determine the
enemy capabilties and vulnerablities
to coordinate operations in order to
bring stability and order to the
region. I successfully completed my
tour as the Intelligence Sergeant for
the 104th Military Police Battalion
and returned home in September
2008. I returned to work at the
NYSP Somers Barracks shortly
after returning home.
“During my time away, I had the
strength and comfort of friends and
family at home, but most important
was the support I received from my
girlfriend, Jennifer Andaloro, and
my mother, Joyce Ann Frace.”
Erik A. Wehnes ’94
from Phil Nimphius: Phil went
to San Diego to see Erik, who was
being deployed for his third tour to
Iraq.
1995-2000
Class Agents
Lara Casano-Gilligan ’95
Alice Pinheiro-Fontana ’95
Kevin P. Harrigan ’96
David and Jeanette Stark ’96
C. Blayre Farkas ’97
Max Weinstein ’98
Amy Albert ’99
Raphael Miranda ’95
Raphael has been seen on television
in the morning on the NBC
Today Show doing the weather
for Chris Cimino. Headmaster
Fenstermacher noted that Raphael
gave the temperature at what he
thought was Raphael’s home town
(in Putnam Valley).
Steve Masiello ’96
The Journal News: March 26, 2009,
by Jake Thomases
Every game won by Louisville in the
NCAA men's basketball tournament
pushes Steve Masiello a little farther
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out the door, because every game
won by the Cardinals reflects better
on its top assistant coach. The better
Masiello looks, the more enticing the
job offers he'll get, and the harder it
will be to turn them down.
Two years ago, the White Plains
native was named one of the top 25
basketball recruiters in the nation
by Rivals.com, and it's only gotten
better from there. He's become
the right-hand man to Louisville
coach Rick Pitino and is poised to
become a head coach himself. The
Cardinals are the No. 1 overall seed
in the tournament and among
the favorites to win the national
championship.
“The great part about it is being
here from the beginning," said the
31-year-old Masiello. "Four years
ago when I took the job we were an
NIT team. To be here from, I'm not
going to call it rebuilding, but from
the ground up is special for me."
“I've been contacted by schools over
the last couple years," he said. "My
situation is I feel like I have the
greatest job in the world. I work for
one of the top programs in the
country, in the best conference in
basketball, in a great city.”
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Sean Daily ’98
Sean accompanied mother, Susan
Daily, music teacher at Harvey, and
the Harvey Early Music Ensemble
to Austria over spring break. Sean
played the bass viol for concerts in
churches and halls over the weeklong
trip.
Germane Williams ’00
Germane stopped by Harvey in
the spring and caught up with
Headmaster Fenstermacher.
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Sean on bass viol
Germane with Headmaster
Fenstermacher
2001-02
Class Agents
Tara L. McGarvey ’01
Tiffany E. Franqui ’02
Zalika J. Green '01
Zalika with Harvey teacher Chris Kelly
Zalika was inducted into the
Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame in
February, and was joined by Erin
Klarsfeld ’02 and Diana Weisholz
’01. “It's nice to go back and see all
the teachers who have helped shape
me into the person I am today.
Special regards to Lee for a great
meal and all the staff who helped
put the event together. I was the
assistant coach for the boys JV at
Trinity in Manhattan until the end
of February. I no longer intern for
Sky Blue Soccer, even though I
occasionally write articles for them.”
Zalika with Headmaster Fenstermacher and her parents
Jeremy Kosbob ’01
“I am currently playing for the
New Haven Warriors in the
American National Rugby League
(AMNRL). The league is composed
of players from around the
world, some born from American
football and others former professionals
and current professionals.
We have players from New
Zealand, Australia, Samoa,
American Samoa and Europe. I
am starting at the Wing position.
You can go to www.amnrl.com to
see all of the teams.” ( Jeremy played
for the NY Knights through last
season.)
Charles (CJ) Heitner ’02
“I am working in LA for ICM, a
powerful talent agency, and there is
very little time when I can get off, as
I am training over these years to
become an agent. ”
Christopher M. Langer ’02
Chris received a B.A. degree from
the School of Public Affairs,
American University in 2006, and
enlisted in the United States
Marine Corps. Currently Chris is a
Resource Manager with The
Experts, Inc., Government
Solutions Division in Arlington,
VA. He oversees projects with the
News from Alumni cont on page 33

Alumni
Events By Sally Breckenridge
Dan Chapman ’73,
Pres. Alumni Association
Recent Events
Founders’ Day
Harvey celebrated Founders’ Day
once again in February with an allschool
assembly, during which the
youngest boy and youngest girl cut
the first piece of cake from a specially-baked
birthday cake.
Also in February, a dinner was held
for local alumni. This was the second
year that the alumni have provided
this event and will be continued
in upcoming years.
Headmaster Barry Fenstermacher
provided a brief summary of the
‘state of the school,’ followed by the
Brent Feldman ’13
Middle School speech contest winner,
Brent Feldman ’13 giving his
winning speech. This was followed
by inductions into the Alumni
Athletic Hall of Fame.
Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame
The alumni athletic Hall of Fame
was revitalized in February with the
induction of 7 new members: current
teacher and coach Chris Kelly,
and alumni David Robertson ’67,
Andrew LaSala ’83, Phil Nimphius
’93, Jarrod Brown ’93, Zalika Green
’01, and Nic Grala ’04.
Nominees to the Hall of Fame
must combine great athleticism, as
well as good sportsmanship, good
citizenship, and demonstrate qualities
of a model Harvey representative.
See the following pages for
more photos from the events.
Inductees in February were: Jarrod Brown ’93, Andrew LaSala ’83, David Robertson ’67,
Phil Nimphius ’93, Nic Grala ’04, Zalika Green ’01, and current Harvey coach
and teacher Chris Kelly
Submit nominations
Submit your nominees for new members by email to
alumni@harveyschool.org.
Include your name and class, the nominee, nominee’s
class year, sports played at Harvey and after, current
postion, as well as any details known about activities
since Harvey.
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current teacher and coach Chris Kelly and
Headmaster Fenstermacher
Classics Chair Tim Stark,
Phil Nimphius '93
Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame
plaque for each inductee
Andrew LaSala ’83, Dan Chapman ’73
Trustee Tom Dodd, David Robertson '67
Zalika Green ’01, coach and teacher John Wahlers Jarrod Brown ’93, Dan Chapman ’73

Andrew LaSala ’83 with wife Jennifer
Alumni Exec Council member Phil Eifert ’73 and
trustee Philip Bowers ’70
Nic Grala ’04 with coach and teacher Mark Brandon
Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame
Zalika Green ’01, Diana Weisholz ’01, Erin Klarsfeld ’02
Alumni Executive Council members Seth Morton ’57
and Alex McKown ’57
Nic Grala, Kyle Delaney, Nick Duncan all ’04
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This tradition continued in April with the induction of
coach and former teacher Richard Beck, and alumni Tom
Cocks ’65, Mark Dolan ’84, Gillian Bailey ’87, Chris
Abrenica ’89, Russell Stamm ’94, Lara Casano-Gilligan
’95, Greg Presseau ’98, and Ward Meehan ’98. See the
Spotlight article on page 32 for the talk given by coach
and former teacher Richard Beck.
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Greg Presseau ’98,
current teacher and coach Phil Lazzaro
Dan Chapman ’73 and Tom Cocks ’65
Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame
Gillian Bailey ’87, Susan Moore McKeever ’87
Dan Chapman ’73, Richard Ledes ‘71 and Richard Beck
‘Turbo’ Piccoli introducing
Stamm
Director of College Guidance and
teacher Phil Lazzaro and daughter
introducing Presseau

Frank Baratta ’84, and Mark Dolan ’84
Lara Casano-Gillian ’95, Dan Chapman ’73
Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame
Dan Chapman ’73, Chris Abrenica ’89
Ward Meehan ’98 and Greg Presseau ’98
Nominations - Athletic Hall of Fame
Mac Starring ’65
introducing Cocks ’65
Nominations are urged from our alumni and former teachers so this tradition can continue. A nomination
needs to include a brief statement on why this person is being nominated, a list of the sports they played, any
athletic achievements attained during the Harvey years or afterwards, any other notable achievements
attained during or after Harvey. Nominations can include students as well as coaches and can be submitted
via email to alumni@harveyschool.org or to the Alumni Office, at (914) 232-3161, x123.
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Neperan – Pocantico Contest
Led by Assistant Middle School Head and
science teacher Marci McGowan Hajem,
last year Harvey brought back the competition
in the Middle School between the
Neperans and the Pocanticos. This continued
with a field day in May with friendly
competition between the two clubs.
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Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame
former coach ‘Turbo’ Piccoli, Russell Stamm ’94 Dan Chapman ’73, Ward Meehan ’98
Neperan Pocantico Contests

Richard Ledes ’71 Talks to
Students
In May, Richard Ledes spent the
morning with students in English
and arts classes. See the Spotlight
article on page 35. He has offered to
come back to help with the film
class as the students decide upon
and then develop a short film.
Alumni Mothers Luncheon
A new event occurred in the spring
– a luncheon for the mothers of
alumni in the last eight years of
classes. Organized by trustee and
past parent Maria Roach (Harrison
’07) and past parent Sheryl
Bernhard (Matt ’08), the luncheon
was held at Bistro 22 in April.
Billed as a social event to allow
mothers to reconnect and share
news about their Harvey grads, the
luncheon attracted more than 40
moms. Booklets with alumni
updates for the classes of 2002
through 2008 were presented to all
attendees and then later sent to all
moms in those classes. Everyone
was thrilled for the chance to reconnect
and share their news and is
looking forward to this as the first
of many annual events.
2009 Commencement Dinner
The evening before graduation, the
senior dinner is held. The seniors
are welcomed into the Alumni
Association by Alumni Association
President, Dan Chapman ’73, and
the new class agents are recognized.
This year, the four new class agents
are Andy Jamieson, Erika Osborne,
Peter Sorenson, and Megan Taylor.
Awards were given to Andy and
Megan for their large number of
registrants to the alumni website.
new class agents with Alumni Association President Dan Chapman ’73
prizes to Megan Taylor and Andy Jamieson
Out of a total of 53 members, the
class has 41 members registered.
Fourteen of the seniors entered
Harvey in the sixth grade, and were
awarded ‘I survived 7 years at
I Survived 7 Years at Harvey
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Bob Sullivan ’77
Harvey’ tee-shirts. Alumnus Bob
Sullivan ’77 was recognized for his
contribution to the Senior Class
Gift, a greatly improved parking
area and patio that his firm
Belmont Design created.
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The next day, graduation, brought
many recent alumni back to watch
their friends make the walk across
the stage. This year we captured the
following:
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Ali Taylor ’03
Allison Zakre ’08
Lauren Judisky ’08, Clara Lefton ’08
2009 Graduation
Paige Singer ’08, Lauren Judisky ’08
Tom Theurkauf ’07, Alex Veit ’07, Alex Gardner ’07
Matt Bernhard ’08, Josh Urbach ’07, Harvey nurse Jeanne Puchir
John DePalma ’01, current parent
Bob Sullivan ’77
Greg Haas ’04
Maria and Teresa Neri, ‘04 and ’06
Jon Stark ’07, Justin Edelstein ’08, Amanda Rubiano ’08, Matt Bernhard ‘’08

Jon Stark ’07, Bradley Osborne ’07
Franny Visintainer ’07,
Katie LaVacca ’07
Greg Sorenson ’06,
Dani Sauro ’06
Andrew Hernandez ’08, Joe Lombardi ’08,
Amanda Rubiano ’08
Sam Lavin ’08
Harrison Roach ’07,
Alisa Langer ’09
2009 Graduation
Miranda Larson ’08
Garrett Rittenberg ’03
Porter Williams ’08, Jon Stark ‘’07
ALUMNI EVENTS
Sari Zubatkin ’06
Noelle McKoy ’09 and Doni McKoy ’07
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2009
Reunion by Sally Breckenridge
The annual alumni reunion was
held on April 18, 2009 at The
Harvey School. Classes whose
graduation year ended in ‘4’ and ‘9’
were honored this year. Included in
celebrations during the day were
the Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame,
a program honoring Rose Baldwin,
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Director of Alumni Relations,
Sally Breckenridge
Current and former faculty attending Alumni Day
Back: Admissions Director Bill Porter, Tony Hayden, Eugene Leithiser, Bob Schmidt, Classics
Chair Tim Stark, Turbo Piccoli, Science Chair Bruce Osborne; Front: Trustee
Tom Dodd, Tom Cocks '65, Hoge Caswell, Richard Beck, Peter Duncan '65
varsity lacrosse games, two alumni
classes, and an alumni reception.
The day started with registration
and provided an opportunity for
Distance Learning and Japanese Classes
alumni to catch up with other classmates.
This was followed by a class
on long-distance learning taught by
current Harvey teacher Michelle

Bruce with Headmaster Fenstermacher
Christie and a Japanese class taught
by Harvey teacher Tim Cornell.
Alumni and friends reconnected
over a buffet lunch. Bruce Johnson
’68 presented a framed photo of the
Anita Pomerantz ’84, Pam Henderson ’84
Leslie Weissman ’84, Allen Rohe ’84
school to Headmaster Fenstermacher
signed by all the Masters at
Harvey in 1968.
Class of 1984 and friends
Bruce Johnson ’68 with signed framed photo
of Harvey Main building
Ann Varnberg Coyle ’85, former teacher
Bob Schmidt, Lisa Varnberg ’86
class of 1984 and friends
Reception for
Classes ending
in ‘4’ and ‘9’
Reunion classes gathered in
the Art Center to reconnect.
Spear-headed by Mark
Dolan ’84, Kelly Ann
Wheeler ’85, Herb Sloan
’84, and Chris Abrenica ’89,
the classes of 1984 and 1989
were joined by alumni in
nearby classes for an afternoon
and evening of reconnecting.
An evening celebration
followed, as friends
provided a sendoff for Joe
Broadhurst ’86, who left for
France shortly thereafter.
Matt Tractenburg ’89 garnered
the ‘traveled the farthest’
distinction for his trip
from California. Classmates
from 1990s joined Russell
Stamm ’94 for a get-together
marked by spouses and
small children.
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Class of 1984 and friends
Kelly Wheeler Olsen ’85, Lisa Varnberg ’86, Ann Varnberg Coyle ’85
Science Chair Bruce Osborne,
Lindsay Cameron ’86
Lisa Varnberg ’86 and family
Classics Chair Tim Stark, Chris Clifford ’84, Doug Knafel ’84
Mark Dolan, Herb Sloan, Allen Rohe – all ’84
Class of 1989 and friends
Carolyn Bator ’89 and David Glickman ’90
and Matt Tractenberg ’89
Christine O’Grady
Putek ’89
Rob Schneck, Victor Rivera ’98
Science Chair and current teacher Bruce Osborne,
Chris Abrenica ’89, Charmaine Stark

Class of 1989
Chris Abrenica ’89,
Susan Moore McKeever ’87
Laura Wilson ’89 Sheri Colontonio ’89
Heather Donohue’89 and Kris Durst ’90
Russell ’94, Megan Stamm
and family
Class of 1989 and friends
Class of 1994 and friends
ALUMNI REUNION
Alex Carmichael ’94, Jolanta and family Peter ’94 and Susan Goldstein
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Class of 1994 and friends Class of 1999
Jordan ’94 and Jodi Harris, Erik ’95 and Janine Rosner
Stamm, Rosner, Rowan, Harris, Goldstein
Mark Violette, Erik Rosner ’95
wives Rosner, Harris, Goldstein
Liz Willingham ’99, current teacher Dianne Mahony
and Rachel Margolin ’99
Other alumni
former teachers Bob Schmidt, Hoge Caswell, Richard Beck,
and Richard Ledes ’71
Adriana Dinardo, Harvey Japanese
teacher Tim Cornell
Headmaster Fenstermacher,
Otis Glazebrook ’63

Headmster Fenstermacher, Richard Ledes ’71,
trustee Philip Bowers ’70
Other alumni
Mac Starring ’65, Tom Cocks ’65 Palen Conway ’74 and daughter
Carey Rodd ’62, Mac Starring ’65 Music by Colin Rose ’10
Joanna Schiff ’02, Harvey nurse Jeanne
Puchir
Nominations Sought - Distinguished Alumnus / Athletic Hall of Fame
The Harvey Alumni Association is once again
inviting nominations for the special recognition
award presented by the Alumni Association to
recognize outstanding achievement, service,
character and athletics. Nominations may be
submitted before Nov. 15 by any member of the
school community via email to:
alumni@harveyschool.org
Each nomination should include a brief
description of the qualifications/distinctive record
of the intended recipient, as evidence of their
outstanding contribution to their career field, or
their service to community or to school. The
presentation of the Alumni Association
Distinguished Alumnus Award will be a highlight
of the Reunion Weekend. Athletic Awards will be
made on Feb. 22 and on Saturday, April 17, 2010
Nominations may also be submitted by mail to:
Harvey Alumni Association, 260 Jay Street, Katonah, NY 10536
ALUMNI REUNION
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Alumni
Spotlight by Sally Breckenridge
Richard S. Beck
Harvey coach and teacher
from 1969 to 1993
The Alumni Association honored
former teacher and coach Richard
Beck in April by selecting him as a
new member of the Alumni
Athletic Hall of Fame. He was
introduced by alumnus and good
friend Richard Ledes ’71. During
his 24 years at Harvey, he served as
Middle School director, assistant
athletic director, wrestling coach,
science teacher, dorm master and
mentor to many. Never one to fit
into a mold, he sometimes provided
color and the unexpected to both
faculty and students. After leaving
Harvey, he taught at Asheville
School and then Wyoming
Seminary, where he remained until
he retired last year. He still has
strong ties with current Harvey
staff (Osbornes and Starks), as well
as many former faculty (Ron
Wilson, Bob Schmidt,...). Below
are excerpts from the acceptance
speech he delivered.
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Dan Chapman ’73, Richard Ledes ’71,
Richard Beck
"Today is a good day to go to battle."
I want you all to know how honored
I am to receive this athletic
award. Sports have always
been and always will be a
significant and important
part of my life, and that tradition
continues in the lives
of my son, his family, and
my daughter's life as well. In
fact, in just a few weeks my
son and his wife will be
running in a marathon and
half-marathon respectively.
If you get a chance, wish
them much luck. I, on the
other hand, will be
on the sidelines
watching and playing
with my grandchildren.
What more can a man ask
for in this life?
Since I may never get
another chance at standing
behind a lectern and in
front of a captive audience,
I would like to take advantage
of and take the time to
tell a few stories about
Eric Beck ’92, Lauren and family
working and coaching at The
Harvey School. First, a short snippet
about how it all started.
In May of 1969, I was called for an
interview. My wife, Maureen, and I
arrived at Harvey around 11:00 am
and were introduced to several
of the current faculty and
eventually the Headmaster, Mr.
Bradley Richardson. He greeted us,
“good morning-good morning,”
“nice day-nice day,” “nice to meet
you, nice to meet you,” “yes, yes, yes.”
He repeated everything two or
three times, though he obviously
Richard Ledes ’71, Rich Beck,
Hetzl Moezinia ’79

was a very bright man. He then
continued with the interview,
exchanging questions and answers
etc. until he got a phone call. He
said over the phone, “great, great,
that's great” and hung up. He then
slapped his hands down on the
desk, rose, said, “nice to meet younice
to meet you,” “goodby, goodby,”
“got to go, got to go,” and then he
left with no explanation. My wife
and I sat there for the next five to
ten minutes in silence not knowing
quite what happened, what it
meant, or what to do. At that point,
I knew for certain that we just
might be in a very strange place,
bringing to mind Alice in
Wonderland.
Suddenly a door slammed outside
the Headmaster's office and in
walked a large rotund fellow who
looked like a football player from
the early thirties. He introduced
Tom Dodd, Rich Beck
himself as Mr. Shattuck, he apologized
for Richardson's sudden
departure and briefly continued the
interview with another question -
and-answer session. He then
excused himself, and we were again
alone in silence. Shortly, we were
joined by another even larger man
Rose Baldwin, Rich Beck
with a stomach of enormous girth
and puffing on a Sherlock Holmes
pipe. With a guffaw here and a
guffaw there and these tiny little
hands sticking out from beneath his
coat sleeves, he finished the interview
and sent us on a guided tour of
the campus. That man was none
other than the illustrious John P.
McMahon. I thought, “My God,
now we have these two men who
looked like Tweedle Dum and
Tweedle Dee joining in the fairy tale.
What could possibly happen next?
So, we were off to the lab, which
was very different back then than it
appears today. It was a good facility
for a school with grades four
through eight (then called Forms 1
through 5.) Then it was up to the
former art room, which was housed
in the bottom of the red barn. Mr.
Coe was the art teacher. When we
entered, we were greeted by sheer
mayhem. Mr. Coe was tied to one of
the interior pillars and was surrounded
by four or five students
clad as Vikings who were throwing
sticks and branches around Coe's
feet as if preparing to burn him at
the stake. Next to him was what
looked like a torture device called
the rack. On it was a student of
short stature who was tied, hands
and feet, while two other young
men were turning the ratchet
-stretching the tied one until
he would screech. Concerned,
I asked him if he were OK.
He replied that he certainly
was, and then explained that
since he was the shortest
member of his class, he was
trying to get taller by stretching.
He said he thought it was
working. But, that's not all.
Next to the rack lay a coffin.
Suddenly the top of the coffin
opened and up sat a young man
who shouted out, “I'm alive, I'm
alive,” and then cackled. Just as suddenly,
he shouted out, “I'm dead,
I'm dead,” and the door of the coffin
flew shut. This routine occurred
over and over the entire time we
were in the room. (That person is
now in this room, but my lips are
sealed.) All the while, Mr. Coe kept
shouting out, “Wonderful boys,
very creative. Yes, Richard, good job
on the coffin.” Backing out with
some trepidation, we closed the art
room door and continued our tour.
Maureen and I were more than a
little concerned about coming to
this seemingly strange place to work
and live. It was indeed like being in
some kind of strange fairy tale.
When we returned to the
Headmaster's office, we were again
Rich Beck, George Savits ’76
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greeted by Mr. Shattuck, who eventually
handed us a contract. We
were to take it back home, think
about the offer, and sign it if we
wanted to join the Harvey faculty.
We drove the entire way in silence.
Needless to say we both agreed that
despite the strange interview, there
was some thing very very special
about this place, The Harvey
School. We signed the contract for
less than $6,000 per year, and that
was before taxes. Thus began my
teaching and coaching career in
earnest.
Throughout my tenure here, I tried
to teach valuable lessons that
applied not only on the playing
fields, on the wrestling mat, or in
the classroom, but throughout life
as well. Things like "Aspire to
Excellence." Though you may not
always achieve excellence, the
process, the attempt, will fill your
soul and enrich your life. You will
be more than just a hollow person;
you will be a person of substance,
one who just might change the
world. For my wrestling teams, I
often said, "The third period is a
microcosm of life." In wrestling,
when you are in that last period and
you are so tired that you can't possi-
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Samantha Conway, Rich Beck, Palen Conway ’74
bly lift your arms
above your head, you
learn to reach down
deep in yourself for
that something special,
and when you
find it there, you can
indeed snatch victory
from the jaws of
defeat. In life, finding
it and knowing that
it is there for you to
reach for and grasp a
hold of can carry you
through those rough moments that
we all face at one time or another. I
know, for I have recently faced a few
difficult times of my own. I can tell
you this, "There will never
be a white flag above my
door." Another saying I
often used: "Today is a
good day to go to battle.
Today is a good day to
die." This is an old saying
used by many Native
American tribes when
they knew they were
going to go into battle. It
does not mean that they
wanted to die. It means
that they understood that if
they went into battle as if it were
their last, they would fight their
best and would have a much greater
chance of surviving the fight and
gaining a victory. It was their Carpe
Diem, if you will. Isn't that what we
all should be doing each day, to give
our best to our families, our friends,
our colleagues, our jobs, and to ourselves?
To give as if it were our last
chance.
Yes, I have taught and coached here
for twenty plus years and now I am
being given some wonderful recognition.
I am truly grateful. But to
borrow the essence of phrase from
science literature, if I was successful
during those twenty plus years, it
was because I stood on the shoulders
of a group of little giants. Little
giants who were willing to work
very hard, willing to be coached, to
learn, to develop and willing to give
of themselves for the good of their
teams. No coach can do it alone or
accomplish anything without dedicated
athletes. An old saying goes
something like this, "You can't make
chicken salad out of chicken stuffing."
Though we don't like to admit
it, it really is true. So this award
belongs as much to all the athletes
that I worked with over those many
Bruce Johnson ’68, Rich Beck
years as it does to me. In return,
they have added much joy and
laughter to my life and given me so
very many wonderful memories.
I carry these with me everywhere I
go. I am a happy man, and I hope
that I have given my best to my
family, my students, my friends,
and my colleagues. Again, I thank
you, I am humbled, and I am honored.
"Today is a good day to go to
battle."

Alumnus Visits and Shares by Vincent Alexander, Harvey Performing Arts Chair
Richard Ledes ’71 talking to
Harvey students
Performing arts and English classes
received a visit from Harvey alumnus
Richard Ledes (Class of ’71) at
the end of the 2008/2009 academic
year. Mr. Ledes shared his journey
to becoming a filmmaker on a
‘circuitous route’ that included work
as an art critic, performance artist,
teacher and actor. His experiences
made it clear that there are many
opportunities available to graduates
who keep an open mind and pursue
work in creative fields.
In addition to receiving a doctorate
in comparative literature, Mr. Ledes
launched a career as filmmaker. In
2004 he released “A Hole in One”
staring Michelle Williams and
Meat Loaf. After the success of that
film, he wrote and directed “The
Caller” last year’s hit thriller starring
Frank Langella and Elliott Gould.
Mr. Ledes also shared the premise
of his upcoming movie to the
delight of the student audience,
explaining the details of pre-production
and planning a film. There
were also some wonderful anecdotes
involving famous actors and
personalities.
Probably the most important
aspect of his visit was the fact that
Mr. Ledes emphasized so many of
the things that classroom teachers
try to stress to secure student success.
One English teacher asked
him how important reading was in
relationship to working in a creative
field. This question seemed to
stump the visiting artist because he
was quiet for quite some time
before saying, “I am not sure how to
answer that question because reading
is the air that I breathe.”
The Harvey School is grateful that
Mr. Ledes was so generous with his
time, taking a day to give back to his
academic community and helping
lay the foundation for future writers,
artists and thinkers.
ad for the movie “The Caller”
Richard Ledes and Harvey teacher Vincent Alexander
SPOTLIGHT
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Honoring Rose
Baldwin, Harvey
1951 to 1973
Alumni and friends reconnected
with Rose Baldwin over a buffet
lunch, with stories from former
teachers and students. Some of the
many tributes and stories sent in
for Rose were read by Alumni
Association President Dan
Chapman ’73 and former teacher
and current Harvey trustee Tom
Dodd. Son Howard ’56 and his
wife Karen attended the celebration,
with Howard providing her
introduction and anecdotes about
his ‘ma.’
A booklet containing the many
anecdotes and tributes from former
teachers and students was presented
to Rose, which she accepted with
warm words and grace. Four tributes
from the collection are included
on the next pages.
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catching up with former students
Karen Baldwin, Rose and son Howard ’56
at the podium with Dan Chapman ’73
with Peter Duncan
with Tom Dodd

Reflections on my mother
at Harvey while I was
there (1956 - 1961) –
Philip Baldwin ’62
By the time I got to Harvey in the
Fall of 1956 as a young First
Former, a certain amount of legend
had built up around the family.
Three brothers preceded me, my
father was a school trustee, and my
mother firmly established as the
school librarian and reading
teacher, assisting the enthusiastic
and recalcitrant alike to embrace
the joys of the written word and the
arcane mysteries of its attendant
grammatical labyrinth.
Make no mistake and let us mince
no words. Harvey in the mid-fifties
was straight out of Dickens. A little
boys' pre-preparatory school with
white shirts and coats and ties and a
discipline which brooked no feral
tendencies. The Walk List hovered
over us all, and none so more than
myself, who was in perpetual trouble,
rowdy, obstreperous and illbehaved,
right from the get-go.
Many an hour I "wasted" away
walking in that circle, with the
caretaker Gudmund's white work
horse gazing from the stalls in
bemusement.
In the midst of this dangerous new
world stood my dear Ma, a force of
clear balance, unswerving steadiness
and plain good intentions. The
oddity of having one's mother as a
teacher was dealt with with little
discussion and few words: "Any
wayward conduct will be swiftly cut
down. I cannot be seen to show any
favoritism." Just the right words for
my wicked self, and the upshot was
that she almost never had to discipline
me. But if the occasion arose, I
was the first to get the strike!
And thus I entered into the mysteries
of Mark Twain (The Prince and
the Pauper) and the fabulous
extravagance of the Greek myths
(The Golden Fleece) which my
mother adored and through which
she managed to instill in all of us an
authentic interest. But the real
achievement of my mother was the
Library and the Reading Room.
Forty-five minutes, each and every
day, the entire school sprawled on
the floor, in chairs, in groups,
spread around the room in apparent
disarray in the amazing confines
of a single space, a hundred or more
youngsters - boys no less, aged ten
to fourteen - all quietly reading and
absorbed, with very few exceptions.
Can you believe it? I'm not making
it up. It happened. It worked. And
some of us loved those forty-five
minutes more than anything else
the school had to offer. Her "office"
was a little alcove to the side of the
big room (at both schools) and she
guided the reading of each and
every student in the school. There
were old chestnuts, to be sure, The
Hardy Boys, The Wizard of Oz,
E.B. White's Stuart Little and
Charlotte's Web, among many others,
but as we grew, they got ever
more interesting and challenging. I
remember being enthralled with
another White, The Once and
Future King, probably the first really
challenging adult book I read. And
Ma gauged the capacity of each of
us and guided us accordingly.
Today, I am surrounded by books,
with a deep love of reading, and as I
write these words I am reminded
that my mother was a prime mover
in all of this. In the last few years,
we have had two visitors through
which my awareness of Ma's role
deepened. One, a highly successful
and brilliant businessman, now in
his mid-sixties, recounted how my
mother had taught him to read, rescuing
him from a terrible struggle
with the written word, and that he
was ever grateful for her teaching.
He meant it. The other, one of my
oldest friends, explained to me that
Rose Baldwin opened up to him a
love of Greece and Rome through
those myths, and he kept that love,
going on to become a classics major
at Harvard and even giving the
Latin oration at his graduation.
None of this would be known from
my mother. Utterly self-effacing,
she did her job, she was privileged
to enjoy her work, and grateful for
it. She loved the boys - or at least
many of them! She was the same
kind of force in the school that she
has always been outside as well, discreet,
steady, deeply enthusiastic,
and an ever-reliable source for all
our betterment.
Arthur C. Patterson ’58
SPOTLIGHT
Rose Baldwin, through her
indomitable persistence and infinite
patience, gave me the skill of reading
- the portal to all learning.
Dyslexia must have been unknown
in '58, as I was voted by my class
upon graduation as the "laziest" in
the Class of '58. Thank goodness
she didn't know about this excuse,
and insisted I learn to read. To
Rose, I am forever grateful.
PS. Even today she is an inspiration:
when visiting to celebrate my
mother's '90th birthday last year
she chided my mother on letting
her golf slip as Rose had won
another tournament that Spring.
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Tom Dodd, Harvey 1965- 1975
It is rare that one person combines
so many gifts and excels in so many
areas. A dynamo of energy, Rose
Baldwin was warm, magnetic, and
forceful. She sent out sparks of
enthusiasm that both inspired her
students and endeared her to all
who knew her. During our time
together at Harvey, I recall her to be
questioning and tolerant, compassionate
and giving, sure and tentative;
I never knew her to be confused,
unkind, or unfair. Rosie was
a talented teacher because she possessed
that special ability to read
her students truly as the stuff that
dreams are made of. She always had
the capacity to see her students in
their littleness, their weakness, and
their hopeless fright. She was able
to put boys at ease while preparing
a solid academic foundation.
Rosie was never a passive presence
during her years at Harvey. I will
always remember her as a wonderful
role model. I recall fondly her
creativity and the endless hours she
would devote to school projects and
beginning teachers.
Harvey rejoiced in Rosie Baldwin's
enthusiasm, humor, compassion,
sincerity, and fairness. All who
worked with her were able to share
her sure grasp of how people should
work together to learn and help.
She was always a gentle and unassuming
woman, quiet, kind and
filled with the simple dignity of
someone who knew what had to be
done. Rosie always seemed to have
the signs of understanding and
compassion on her face, the deep
warm smile drawn from years of
caring and helping students. She
seemed to understand people, adults
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and children alike, because she
always had the ability to look at life
from their viewpoint. Rosie had that
special ability to communicate with
all ages easily and frankly. Our distinguished
educator was the person
who could speak with a sign of hope.
She refused to give up on people -
always gracious to everyone - full of
good humor, kindness, and understanding.
Rosie was uncompromisingly
strong in matters of principle.
She led by a fine example and she
had the respect of everyone. Rosie
enjoyed not only the highest respect
for her students and faculty, but
also their liking and affection. One
does not envy Rosie Baldwin, one
rejoices in her.
Alden W. Mauck ’72
When I think back to my earliest
memories of Harvey, I remember
Frank Perrine coming to our class
of geography, Jack and his Good
Humor truck, skating on the pond
behind the Headmaster's House,
and a play featuring "Mouse
Mauck." Most importantly, I
remember our classroom at the end
of the hall and a small number of us
boys, nervous in September, but
then growing in confidence and
ability because of your patience,
your energy, your standards, and
your affection. Little did I know
how much I would learn in that
room, and how much time I would
spend in similar rooms throughout
my life.
Harvey was the school where I first
realized that teaching was a "relationship
business." I may have not
been able to articulate that understanding
then, but I know now,
after twenty five years of teaching
English, that I first absorbed the
early lessons of how to teach from
you more than forty years ago. After
teaching briefly at Harvey, I moved
to Boston where I taught English,
first at St. Sebastian's School and
currently at the Noble &
Greenough School in Dedham, a
town that you know well. While I
have taken on other tasks for each
school - admissions, administration,
Dept. Chair etc. - I consider
myself a teacher first and foremost.
My first Head of School at Nobles
once stated that teaching requires
"relationship before task." His
words resonated with me because I
knew what a close and appropriate
relationship between a teacher and
a student looked like and felt like; I
experienced it firsthand at Harvey
with you. It is true when they say
that students remember the teacher
more that they remember the lesson.
I may not be able to remember
all of what we did in that classroom
at Harvey forty years ago - the
homework and the quizzes, the stories
and the tasks, but I surely
remember you and the attention
and care that you provided me and
my classmates. I felt good in your
classroom; smart, appreciated,
capable, valued, comfortable. That
is what I remember now; I can only
hope that some students of mine
will feel likewise forty years from
now. When I think back to those
early days of Harvey and all that
you did for me, and so many other
Harvey boys, I marvel at how much
you immediately provided us when
we were young, and how much you
eventually contributed towards
who we would become as men.

(News from Alumni con’t)
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listed on the INC 500 as one of the
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on a subcontract basis to defense
agencies.
2003
Class Agents
Jaclyn Klein
Melissa Offenberg
Sierra Pepi
Evan Walker
Michael B. Gallagher ’03
Michael found a job near his
home after college and lives in
Westchester County.
Donna R. Kaplan ’03
Donna graduated from Colby-
Sawyer College in 2007 and works
on Cape Cod in marketing.
Benjamin Rosen ’03
From mom, Patti: Ben is doing very
well. He is teaching English in
Taipei and traveling whenever time
permits to see the rest of Taiwan.
He is learning Mandarin and was
fluent enough to help us to get
around when we met him in China.
We traveled together from
Shanghai to Beijing. We found the
local people to be very friendly and
helpful, the accommodations to be
clean and the transportation to be
easily managed with Ben's help and
a phrase book. Ben has a blog,
Rants from Purgatory: http://rantsfrompurgatory.blogspot.com.
He has a section on our trip with
photos, but also has musings about
life in Taipei and political writings.
I hope this note finds you and the
Harvey community doing well. We
passed by on the way to Caramoor
Friday night, and the memories
flooded in!
2004
Class Agents
Andrew Pape
Kyle C. Delaney ’04
Kyle graduated from Indiana
University in 2008 with a secondary
education degree in history
after completing of a semester of
student teaching at Martinsville
Middle School in Indiana. He
substituted at the Harvey Middle
School helping to coach varsity
football, jv ice hockey, and varsity
lacrosse.
Nicholas Duncan ’04
Nick with Harvey business manager
Mike Drude
Nick performed in a comedy club in
Manhattan. He hopes to join the
Peace Corps for a 2-year stint in
NEWS FROM ALUMNI
West Africa. He joined the Alumni
Athletic Hall of Fame awards to
honor Nic Grala.
Gregory A. Haas ’04
Greg’s mom: “Gregory has finally
completed his college requirements
at Lawrence University and is there
this term to take a few more courses
and to run track, although he
could have had his diploma in
December. He is specializing at the
400 m hurdles and taking more
philosophy, ethics and history. He is
still waiting to hear from various
groups with whom he interviewed.
I had hoped to have some information
about what he might be doing
next by now, but in this complex
economy, young people are not all
moving easily into the job force. I
expect something will work out for
him soon, but so far, no news.”
Lauren E. Spatz ’04
from mother: Lauren is in her first
year of grad school, working on her
M. SW and getting “A”s.
Kimberly Fiedler-Zinaman ’04
from mother: Kim graduated
Manhattanville in 2008 and began
New York Medical College School
of Public Health in September
2008. In January 2009, she went to
Costa Rica for three months to
work with HIV patients and with
the elderly. She will resume her
education and begin working in the
NY area upon her return in April.
Send in your current
email address!
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2005
Class Agents
Sara R. Fleisher
Laura E. Heumann
Brian Ryerson
Diana L. Bondy ’05
“Hello all! It has been a while and I
wanted to update you. I cannot
believe that I am graduating from
Wheaton. I will be graduating with
a B.A. in psychology and a minor in
education. I got a job working at
The Chestnut Hill School in
Chestnut Hill, MA, working as one
of their paid teacher-interns beginning
in the fall. My focus will be in
language arts and I will be placed in
either a k-, first- or second grade
classroom. I am not sure which one
and will find out next month. Once
the program ends in June 2010, I
may be hired full time if there are
openings. If not, I am going to
either be looking for other teaching
jobs in Boston or applying to graduate
school for my Master's in child
psychology.
“Eventually I want to earn my
PSYD in child psychology and pursue
a career in neurodiagnostics,
evaluating children for social, emotional
and learning challenges.
Following graduation, I am going to
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Paris with my family as a commencement
gift. Once I get back, I
will move up to Massachusetts and
begin working as a lead camp
counselor at the Chestnut Hill
School’s lower camp, with a focus in
language arts.
“These past four years have been
the best four years of my life.
Although the academics are challenging
and I have to work really
hard, I have had a blast. I was elected
Captain of the equestrian team
my sophomore year and have been
the captain ever since. I am going to
miss Wheaton a great deal, but I am
ready to graduate and work and am
excited to live in Boston. I think of
Harvey every time I see Sky Sabin
'06, Meredith Hanson '07, and
Sarah Salice '07. If you know of
anyone coming to Wheaton, I
would be more then happy to welcome
them.”
Maxwell D. Farinato ’05
Max stopped by Harvey before
completing his last two finals at
Fairfield University. He will receive
a Bachelor's degree in studio art in
May, and has a film entered in the
Fairfield University film festival. He
wants to work as an animator and
has spoken to someone at Blue Sky
Studios. He has been working at
Hallmark for the last 2 years, where
he will continue after graduation,
while he continues to build his
portfolio.
Lindsay A. Forth ’05
Lindsay is finishing her senior year
at Lynchburg College in Virginia.
She is majoring in special education,
enjoying student teaching and
looking forward to graduation in
May.
Katherine E. Keerdoja ’05
from mom: Katherine attended
Western New England College, but
left in her junior year to study massage
therapy. She is currently
attending the Swedish Institute in
Manhattan and has an apartment
in Brooklyn.
Brian T. Ryerson ’05
Brian with Larry the Cable Guy,
March 2009
These past four years since The
Harvey School's Class of 2005
Commencement have flown by so
quickly! We are happy to report
that Brian has had an excellent college
experience at King's College in
Wilkes-Barre, PA. Brian is on the
Dean's List at King's and will graduate
on May 17, 2009, with dual
B.S. degrees in business administration
and marketing from the

McGowan School of Business.
Brian is currently enjoying a marketing
internship for credit at the
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Wachovia
Arena, a 10,000 seat venue managed
by SMG World, Inc. In addition,
Brian was fortunate enough to
work closely with both the Wilkes-
Barre/Scranton Penguins (AHL)
and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
Pioneers (AF2). Brian feels he is
gaining invaluable experience in the
sports and entertainment marketing
field and hopes to direct his
career in that direction. Each time
Brian calls home, he has another
exciting event to tell us about!
2006
Class Agents
Gregory Jurschak
Theresa Neri
Allie Shuchat
Alexander I. Carson ’06
Development Director Laura
Prichard spotted Alex waiting
tables at Lucs restaurant in
Ridgefield, CT. Alex said he has
been accepted at Johnson & Wales
and will be attending their culinary
arts school.
Schuyler Eldridge ’06
Schuyler will be a senior at Boston
University where he is studying
electrical engineering. He is an
undergraduate assistant in the engineering
department and was
inducted into Tau Beta Pi - the
Engineering Honor Society. The
organization recognizes distinguished
scholarship and exemplary
character. Schuyler continues to ice
skate competitively for the Skating
Club of Boston and for Boston
University. This past year he
competed at the senior level at
Easterns in Boston, MA. For
Boston University, he recently won
the mens' short and long programs
and the dance competition at the
University of Pennsylvania. Boston
University Skating Club earned
rights to compete at Collegiate
Nationals this year (April,
Colorado Springs, CO), where
they took home the National
Champ-ionship for the first time.
Gregory Jurschak ’06
Greg will be a senior at Holy Cross
majoring in philosophy. Last summer,
he worked at a ranch in
Nevada herding cattle and horses.
This summer, he enrolled in an
officer training course at Quantico,
in preparation for entering the
Marine Corps as a lieutenant when
he graduates in 2010. Greg continues
as a volunteer fireman in the
Katonah fire department when he
is home.
Elyssa Respaut ’06
from mother: Elyssa is a junior/senior
at RIT (Rochester
Institute of Technology) with a
double major in ad photography
and marketing.
Register on
Alumni website
Sean D. Zackrison ’06
Sean is continuing his passion for
the stage at WCSU majoring in
theatre and stage production. This
past summer he played Oberon in
Mid-Summer Night's Dream at the
Ives Concert Hall. He has been in a
number of WCSU Main Stage productions:
"The Cherry Orchard"
(Simeuof-Pistchik), "Tommy, The
Who" (Hawker), "Cabaret" (Cliff )
and most recently, "The Tempest"
(Caliban). Presently he is directing
"Boy's Life." He hopes that everyone
is doing well and sends invitation to
come and watch a WCSU production.
The photo is from the latest
production, The Tempest (Caliban)
photo taken by Melinda Battle.
2007
Class Agents
Jackson Adolph
Brandon Brooks
Doniella McCoy
NEWS FROM ALUMNI
Sean in The Tempest
Brittany Bennett ’07
from Brittany's mom: Brittany is a
sophomore at The New School
(Eugene Lang, the liberal arts division)
in New York City. She has
contined her involvement in acting
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and writing and one of her one-act
plays was just performed in an off-
Broadway venue. She was also cast
as an extra in an Ang Lee movie
about Woodstock that will be opeing
this summer and had the
opportunity to work with Ang Lee
on a scene. In addition to her studies
at school, she is interning at
the well-known Abrams Artist
Talent Agency in NYC. She is also
beginning to audition for some
broadway and off-broadway shows.
I hope that all is well with you.
“My friend started a theatre company
called The Mekka Collective
with the purpose of getting young
artists' voices out there. They put
on a five-day-anti-Valentines-Day
show called ‘Singles Awareness
Day’. He asked me to write a 10
minute piece for it and it got accepted!
So for 5 days at The Producer's
Club in NYC my little play ‘Get
Out of Jail Free Card’ was put on in
a 99 seat theatre. And it was AWE-
SOME! It's not still on, but I hope
to submit in the future. I also stage
managed the show. Right now, I'm
interning at Abrams Artists Agency
in New York for the spring semester.
Interning at his company seems
like it could be a tremendous
opportunity and definitely the field
I want to learn more about and
become a proficient part of. “
Samuel T. Powers ’07
“Sam is thriving at Occidental,
majoring in diplomacy and world
affairs. Mr. Lazarro, he is still playing
Rugby. Mr. Riley, this summer
he will be helping an NGO in
Oaxaca as his Spanish is now fluent.
Occidental is proud to have
been where President Obama spent
his first two years of college!”
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Harrison Roach ’07
Harrison is a sophomore at Berklee
College of Music. He has started
writing and recording his own
songs at a professional studio. He is
in the process of copywriting them.
Harrison hopes to start performing
this summer.
Jonathan R. Stark ’07
from mom: Jon is in his sophomore
year at New England College in
New Hampshire. He has been a
member of the cross country team
where he enjoys running. He also
enjoys all sports, particularly football
and basketball, has a great
interest in music, and keeps in
touch with his Harvey buddies. Jon
interned at the local John Stark
(yes!)High School working with
student athletes. He plays the guitar
in his spare time and works at
the Harvey Rink in the summer.
Kate W. Walden ’07
Kate is in her second year at St.
John's College in Annapolis, MD.
Her decision to attend St. John's
has proven to be the best decision
she could have made - she loves it
and is thriving there. St. John's
College has a fantastic program,
albeit not a typical one. Kate had an
internship with a research scientist
at NY Medical College last summer,
and hopes to be attending a
Greek language program at CUNY
this summer.
2008
Class Agents
Gretel Coleman
Dylan Hackley
Lauren Judisky
Scott Oltman
Matthew R. Bernhard ’08
from mother: Matthew is attending
Lafayette College in Easton, PA.
He is enrolled in the engineering
program which is quite demanding,
but he loves college and really
enjoyed participating on the ski
team this winter! His email address
is bernharm@lafayette.edu.
Yulia Josiger ’08
Yulia is completing her freshman
year at SUNY Cobleskill, majoring
in early childhood education. She
has maintained a 3.0 average and
was recently nominated by the faculty
to be an Orange Key ambassador
for the college. Ambassadors
act as hosts for prospective students
and their families and assist in other
events such as homecoming, commencement
and alumni weekends.
Student Photos
Lev Smith's individual
student photos by school
year, 1946 - 1962.
See them on the
alumni website,
under Links.

Miranda R. Larsen ’08
from mother: Miranda enjoyed her
first Mardi Gras in New Orleans,
where she is a freshman at Tulane
University.
Joseph F. Lombardi ’08
Joe is a freshman at East Stroudsburg
University in Pennsylvania.
He is in enrolled in the sports management
program, is playing
lacrosse and has made many new
Yearbook Available!
If you've lost your yearbook and
would like to replace it,please
send $20 each plus postage to
the Alumni Office.
friends. He really enjoyed his first
year in college.
Brooke A. Stager ’08
Brooke is doing fabulously in Iona
College and made the Dean’s list
last semester, majoring in science.
Thank you, Harvey!
Nina E. Wise ’08
from mom: Nina is happily
ensconced at Roanoke College and
is continuing to major in history.
Newest alumni - Class of 2009
2009
Class Agents
Andrew Jamieson
Erika Osborne
Pete Sorenson
Megan Taylor
NEWS FROM ALUMNI
Years Available:
1985-88, 90-95,1999-00, 2003- 04, 2006- 07
1950-55, 58, 59, 61, 63, 65, 69, 72, 74, 76, 78- 81
Contact Alumni Office, (914) 232-3161, x123
or alumni@harveyschool.org
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News from
Faculty, Staff, Friends
Irene A. Anderson,
Harvey 1956- 1983
Ms. Anderson noted that Madame
Bacher was a clever little lady who
was devoted to her position. She
delighted also in decorating, especially
at Christmas where every
table had its own Christmas tree.
And, Gudmund (Twieten), faithful
to the end of his stay, was always
ready to help and serve in any way.
As for Kay, my dear friend, and
myself, as well, we were so thrilled
to be included and remembered in
such a descriptive way. I was always
happy to have the boys join me.
They were a delight and were
happy to receive a goody I had
tucked away in anticipation. Lastly,
the old school. Yes, it had charm
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Jeremy Ed Kelley ’05
Scott Oltman ’08
Seen around Harvey
Justin Edelstein ’08
Alex Castleton ’06 and
Miranda Larsen ’08
and warmth, it also had the handworked
ditto machinne! I did manage
to get it down pat. My arm did
ache a little but it did not take long
to master it. The memories are
great with the walk list and Good
Humor man.
Edward P. Connors,
Harvey 1959- 1961
“We, my new wife Hope and I, first
came to Harvey in 1959, the first
year of the school in Katonah, after
the move from Hawthorne Circle. I
was a rookie teacher, rather wet
behind the ears, but full of idealistic
hope. We knew no one, but quickly
found our friendliest greeter to be
one Rosie Baldwin, the ace librarian
at the time. She was so warm and
Joe Gattuso ‘08
Abigail Hunt ’08
helped us so much. I was a dorm
master on the ground floor, in the
new dormitories. The library at the
time was in the former living room
in the delightful house the school
had bought along Pocanticoe Road
(Route 22). Rosie was well named
and simply Rosy, for the air became
lighter as she'd drive up for work in
the library, always cheery and sunny
and willing to listen to all student
and faculty problems, besides having
four boys of her own. She was
the helpful one to steer this new
teacher right on the way things
were done at the school. She
brought a true aura of grace to the
school.
“I was fortunate to have had her last
son, cheery Philip, in my history
class. Philip became the unwitting
contributor to what turned out to
be a book of student bloopers that I
wrote down from their papers over
34 years of teaching history. (He
contributed a total of four). You
knew what they were trying to say,
but it just didn't come out correctly.
Philip's "Towns of the Middle Ages
were alright mentally, but physically
they were messy" led the parade of
what turned out to be some 545
student 'contributors.' Those were
the days when Harvey had such
students as Loudon Wainwright
(still a good hippy folk guitarist),
and whose father covered all the
articles on our first astronauts for
LIFE Magazine), Pal Maleter (his
father the leader in the 1956
Hungarian Revolution), Gary
Trudeau (2 contributions, no hint
at Harvey that I remember that he
would become (and still is) one of
our sharpest and best cartoonists),

John Coster, Sandy Gable (9 contributions),
and Jose Macia (who was
asked to step outside my classroom
one day in May by Headmaster Lev
Smith to be told that his Cuban
father had been killed that morning
by an unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion
in 1961.
“The campus was and still is lovely
and bucolic, and it was made all the
more pleasant for us by Rosie, one
upbeat, most agreeable Mrs. Philip
Baldwin. The Connors left for
another teaching job in Illinois after
only two years, but Rosie's élan and
positive cheer have been unforgettable
to me over the last 49 years.”
Marcelle R. Johnson R.N,
at Harvey 1963- 1975, 1980- 1990
Marcie called and said that her husband
and Mike Baldwin were in the
Marines together, were both on
Harvey's board, and were good
friends. Marcie lives in New
Canaan and sees Mary Power every
so often, when she comes to visit
over lunch hour. Marcie reported
on her three sons, Walter (Hank)
’63, Kevin ’66 and Bruce ’68, all
Harvey boys, then a grandson
Dustin Johnson ’89, all of whom
the alumni office had lost track of.
“I arrived as the nurse at Harvey
the morning after Leverett Smith
died. I received a call from John
McMahon that he found a reference
on Hank's file that I was an
R.N. and could I help out. The
nurse at the time was Lev Smith's
niece, and she didn't want to stay on.
“It was not until Karen O'Connor
came onboard with husband Ted
and took the 3 pm slot that I
became the 3-7 pm nurse up until
my sons left for Canterbury. I got
the great idea that the boys needed
a little snack after study hall, so I
started making rice krispy treats.
One tray got to be six trays, ‘til one
night John McMahon came up to
check on what attraction the boys
had for the infirmary (he enjoyed
the rice krispy treats too!). By this
time, my poor husband was waiting
for dinner (Walter was then
Chairman of the Board), and dinner
was not at 7:30 pm but at
8:30pm. Then Walter went into
semi-retirement from his very
demanding job, and we took off
for Halifax, Nova Scotia for 5
delightful years on St. Margaret
Bay.”
Eugene C. Leithiser,
Harvey 1956-1958
Mr. Leithiser contributed a box of
slides, black and white photos,
grade books, and memorabilia from
his two years at Harvey. They provide
priceless documentation for
our archives of the final years at the
Hawthorne campus.
Sue G. Shugg,
Harvey 1966- 1967
Sue Shugg called to say she has had
2 hip replacements and recently fell
and broke a leg. She asked about
Kay DeVinney, Marcelle Johnson,
and Irene Anderson.
G. Chris Kelly,
Harvey 1993- present
Chris was honored by the Alumni
Association in February by being
selected for the Alumni Athletic
Hall of Fame.
Headmaster Fenstermacher with Chris Kelly and family
Director of Distance Learning Michelle
Christie Kelly and girls
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Life
Events
Births
Conrad Wells ’85
Oliver Benjamin Wells, 8 lb 14 oz,
was born on Tuesday April 28.
Baby, mother and father are all
well. Conrad and his family still
reside in Rochester, NY.
In Memoriam
In our ongoing efforts to locate lost
alumni, faculty, staff, and trustees, the
Alumni Office has found some that
were deceased. Although they may
have died a long time ago, this is the
first time that their deaths have been
reported in the Alumni News
Correction: In the last Alumni
News, photos of two alumni were
interchanged on pages 31 and 32.
Below are the correct names with
photos of David Middleton ’34
and John B. McKeon ’62. We sincerely
apologize for this error.
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David Middleton ’34
John B. McKeon ’62
Ralph H. Brown ’39,
Dec. 18, 2008
Thomas F. Dorsey III ’45,
July 24, 2008
Thomas F. Dorsey III class of '45
passed away on July 24, 2008, after
a short illness. His wife, Barbara
Dorsey, survives him.
Luis E. Gomez-Ruiz ’58, 1959
Former teacher Eugene Leithiser
reported that Luis was killed in an
auto accident. He was listed in Dec
1956 Rambler as a new boarder
from Caracas, Venezuela.
Richard A. Herrle, Jr. ’67,
Nov. 22, 2008
David Howland ’26, 2006
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Alfred L. (Pat) Knopf, Jr. ’33,
Feb. 16, 2009
Alfred Knopf in 1978
Alfred A. Knopf Jr., who left the
noted publishing house run by his
parents to become one of the
founders of Atheneum Publishers
in 1959, died on Saturday. He was
90, the last of the surviving
founders and lived in New York
City. The cause of death was complications
following a fall, his wife,
Alice, said. The only child of the
publishing giants Alfred A. and
Blanche Wolf Knopf, Pat Knopf, as
he was called, worked at his parents'
company, concentrating mainly on
sales and marketing, when he
approached his father about hiring
the editor Simon Michael Bessie as
the Knopfs' eventual successor. Mr.
Bessie had recently been passed
over for the position of editor in
chief at Harper & Row in favor of
Evan Thomas. When his father
refused, blaming his mother's
resistance (she apparently didn't
like Mr. Bessie), Mr. Knopf said in
an interview in 2005, Mr. Knopf
(pronounced with a hard "k") decided
to join Mr. Bessie and Hiram
Haydn, an editor at Bobbs-Merrill,
in founding Atheneum. They lined

up four backers, each willing to put
up $250,000, and established their
offices in a four-story brownstone
on East 38th Street. Cornelia
Schaeffer, who would later become
Mr. Bessie's wife, joined the house
as an editor about a year after its
founding.
Atheneum got lucky fast. Its first
three lists produced three No. 1
best sellers: "The Last of the Just"
(1960), a novel about the
Holocaust by André Schwarz-Bart;
"The Making of the President,
1960" (1961), the first in Theodore
H. White's series on presidential
campaigns; and "The Rothschilds:
A Family Portrait" (1962) by
Frederic Morton. These books were
acquired by Mr. Bessie, although by
informal understanding each of the
founders had to agree on every
book the house published. Other
projects, if not best sellers, also did
well for the house. The first list
included Jan de Hartog's crime
novel "The Inspector," Wright
Morris's "Ceremony in Lone Tree"
and William Goldman's "Soldier in
the Rain." Atheneum later published
Edward Albee's play "Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf " (1962),
which sold more than 70,000
copies in hard- and softcover editions.
On the other hand, having
published Mario Puzo's second
novel, "The Fortunate Pilgrim"
(1965), the house turned down
"The Godfather" (published by
G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1969).
Mr. Haydn thought it "junk," Mr.
Knopf said.
Although the founders called on
their backers for what Mr. Knopf
said was almost a second million, in
part to start up a children's book
division in 1964, Atheneum pros-
pered, and the three founders were
able to exercise options to buy the
company's stock. "We had good
lawyers," Mr. Knopf later commented
in an interview. "Everybody,
including the original backers, was
very happy." In the 1970s, economic
conditions began to make it
harder for independent publishers
to stay afloat. After selling 10
percent of the company to
Raytheon, the electronics conglomerate,
Atheneum in 1978 merged
with Charles Scribner's Sons,
another independent house, to
form a third entity, Scribner Book
Companies, of which Charles
Scribner Jr. became chairman and
Mr. Knopf vice chairman, although
both houses continued to operate
independently. Mr. Haydn and Mr.
Bessie had both left Atheneum by
then. In 1984, Scribner Book
Companies was acquired by
Macmillan Inc., and Mr. Knopf
assumed responsibility for all adult
books put out by Scribner's houses.
He continued as a senior vice president
of Macmillan until his retirement
in 1988.
Mr. Knopf was born in White
Plains, N.Y., on June 17, 1918. At
age 7, he was sent to boarding
school, first at the Riverdale
Country Day School in the Bronx,
then to The Harvey School, and
from 1933 until 1937 to Phillips
Exeter Academy. The summer after
he graduated from Exeter, according
to a 1959 story in Time magazine,
he ran away from home,
despondent over being turned
down by Princeton and determined
(he said in a note) not to return
until he made good. Following a
police search, he was found in Salt
Lake City, "barefoot, hungry and
broke." After attending Union
College for three years, he was
inspired by the Veronica Lake film
"I Wanted Wings" to join the
United States Army Air Force,
which called him up in December
1941. He was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross for his
work in the 446th Bomb Group in
the Eighth Air Force, rising to the
rank of captain. (Union awarded
him a B.A. in 1945.) When he was
discharged, he telephoned his
father, who asked what he planned
to do for a career. "I guess I'm going
to work for you," he said, and did. In
1952, he married Alice Laine. They
had three children, Alison Insinger
and Susan Knopf of New York and
David A. Knopf of San Francisco.
Kevin R. Ryan ’83,
June 28, 2009
Journal News CATSKILL, N.Y. -
Two decades ago, Kevin Ryan saved
a woman and her babies from a
burning car. On Sunday night, the
Yonkers man died in a similar
attempt.
Ryan, 44, and his girlfriend of 13
years were in the town of Catskill
on their way home from their weekend
cabin in Schoharie County
when Ryan ran across a bridge in
the dark to help a motorist and fell
50 feet to his death. The couple had
been traveling on Route 23 in
Catskill, about 30 miles south of
Albany, shortly before 11 p.m.
when Ryan stopped the car to help
a motorist in an overturned car on
the other side of the highway, state
police said.
But the eastbound and westbound
sections of the bridge were separated
by a 17-foot gap that Ryan did
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not see as he rushed over a concrete
divider and fell onto the rocks of
the Catskill Creek, police said.
Ryan's girlfriend, Carolyn Hatfield,
said Ryan actually fell in an area
where the gap had narrowed. Ryan
was taken to a hospital, where he
was pronounced dead.
"Being a nice guy, he saw what happened
and tried to do what he had
to do to help and didn't realize it,"
said Michael Ross, superintendent
of Ridgecrest Gardens co-ops on
Carpenter Avenue in Mount Kisco,
where Ryan had lived until he
moved to Yonkers five years ago
with his girlfriend. "It was just one
of those things." The driver of the
other vehicle suffered minor
injuries, police said.
Ryan, a former volunteer with the
Mount Kisco Fire Department,
loved to hunt and fish, Ross said.
John Boddie, Ryan's captain at the
Fire Department, said Ryan was
still a member of the company
when he died, but he hadn't been
active since his move to Yonkers.
When he was an active member,
Ryan worked as an engineer, maintaining
apparatus, and was the
department secretary. Professionally,
he performed safety checks for
an insurance company.
"He was a fantastic guy - fantastic,"
Boddie said, adding that the two
had graduated from Peekskill High
School together in 1983. "We grew
up together," he said. "He was the
same guy; he'd always help people
out all the time."
Long Island resident Matt Raver,
Ryan's best friend since kindergarten,
was devastated. "He was the
best man at my wedding, the godfa-
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ther of my child," he said. The two
were going to buy a boat together
this week. As kids, they had a boat
and always said they would buy
another one someday. "He called
about four days ago," Raver said,
"and asked if we wanted a new or
used boat to see if we could all go
fishing together." Raver said everyone
who met his best friend loved
him.
Ryan has been saving people since
he was in his 20s. The two were
together when they saw a car go off
the edge of a road near Croton
Reservoir in Mount Kisco. The car
was smoking and burning up, and
Raver and Ryan rushed to bring the
injured driver, a woman, to safety at
the top of the hill. "She said, 'My
babies are in the car,' so we ran
down the hill, I snuck around the
side, we jammed open the window,
I handed the babies to Kevin, ran
out of the car, and we ran up the hill
together," Raver recalled of Ryan's
calling to save others. "He kept
doing it. He just loved it - putting
that light on and going to help people."
He said Ryan was an only child
raised by his mother, who now lives
in Cape Cod. "He's just always been
there for my family," Raver said.
When asked if he's been to the
cabin in the Catskills, Raver first
had trouble talking about the subject
because he planned to but never
made it. "He kept begging, and
Carolyn just kept asking, because I
wanted to take my son up for a
weekend," he said. "But I was waiting
until he got a little older."
Ord Preston, Jr. ’32, Jan. 2, 2009
San Diego Union Tribune, Jan. 22,
2009: He danced at the White
House, fought in the Marshall
Islands and found his life's partner
during a visit to La Jolla. Ord
Preston Jr., following a family tradition
of service to country and community,
earned a Silver Star during
World War II, played a role in
bringing the Chargers to San Diego
and was a founding director of the
Bank of La Jolla. Known as a master
storyteller with a flair for limericks,
Mr. Preston enjoyed sharing
tales of his storied family, his time
in the Marines and his days of playing
college baseball.
Mr. Preston died of natural causes
Jan. 2 at his La Jolla home, He was
91.
Friends and family said Mr. Preston
was able to enthrall an audience
with his stories of bygone eras,
whether it was family history going
back to King George IV or the early
days of La Jolla, when cows grazed
on the hillsides. "He was witty and
fun and always had interesting stories
to tell," longtime friend Poo
Wyer said. "I've never heard anything
negative about him. He
always had a smile on his face." Mr.
Preston's stories got better as he got
older, according to his grandson

Michael Burton. "No matter what
the story was, he had a way of
telling it that would captivate his
audience," he said.
In spite of going through the ugliness
of war, Mr. Preston was a
happy person in life, his grandson
said. Mr. Preston's father was a
major in the US Army during
World War I and later was president
and chairman of the Union
Trust Co., a Washington DC based
banking firm.
During a 1939 visit to La Jolla, Mr.
Preston met his future wife,
Marjorie "Midge" Ellis, a New
England native who also was vacationing
with her family.
Mr. Preston graduated from the
U.S. Marine Corps Officer
Candidates Class in Quantico, VA,
and was sent to the Pacific theater
during World War II. He served
from 1941 to 1945 and was awarded
the Silver Star for "conspicuous
gallantry as a communications officer
of the 22nd Marines during an
assault against enemy forces," said
his daughter, Sarah Burton. As an
independent investor and entrepreneur,
Mr. Preston was involved in a
variety of businesses after the war,
including building homes and
apartments, the oil industry and an
early pager company in the 1960s.
He was also among a group of
investors instrumental in bringing
the Los Angeles Chargers to San
Diego.
Mr. Preston enjoyed traveling and
helping his wife with charity activities.
The late Mrs. Preston was a
founding member of Las Patronas,
which stages the annual Jewel Ball to
benefit a variety of charities. Mr.
Preston is survived by his three
daughters, Carolyn Preston Hooper
of Del Mar, Diana Preston
Gonzalez of New York City and
Sarah Preston Burton of La Jolla; six
grandchildren; and three great
grandchildren. He was predeceased
by one grandchild, Brook Gonzalez.
Sing-Si Kan M. Schwartz ’69,
2007
from Will Morrison '69: Sing-Si
Schwartz passed away sometime in
2007. His death was announced at
Berkshire School's Alumni Day
back in May of 2008.
Norman C. Williams ’45, 1985
Robert Stone ’36, Jan. 28, 2009
Robert Stone attended Harvey
from fall 1932 to May 1936 (his
Fifth Form or 8th grade year). He
was not in the yearbook for his
graduation year (1936) but was on
the 2nd Team Baseball and was also
the sports editor for the publications.
His club was Pocantico.
Kathleen M. DeVinney,
Harvey 1954- 1985,
May 10, 2009
Kay DeVinney started with the
school as secretary at Hawthorne.
She remembered Mrs. Smith read-
LIFE EVENTS
ing (at 4 PM) to the boys who were
sitting on the floor around her, and
felt that the Hawthorne campus
was ‘more homey.’ Kay became the
Business Manager, a position which
she held for more than 12 years
until she left. Irene Anderson said
Kay had been living in a senior citizens
complex and was hospitalized
a month prior to her death. When
Kay left Harvey in 1985, she gave
the pencil sharpener that her husband
had had in his office, and then
she used, to Julia Beck, the
Headmaster’s secretary. Mrs. Beck
still has that pencil sharpener. The
yearbook was dedicated to Kay in
1985, the year she left Harvey.
Student Photos
Lev Smith's individual
student photos by school
year, 1946 - 1962.
See them on the
alumni website,
under Links.
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Upcoming Events
The Alumni Association is continuing
with events started in previous
years, as well as some new ones.
Fourth Annual
Alumni Golf Outing
Wednesday Sept. 23, 2009
The Canyon Club welcomes
Harvey alumni for a golf outing.
Tee off is at 11 am, with prizes and
food afterwards. For the latest
details and to make your reservations,
check the alumni website or
contact alumni@harveyschool.org.
Fourth Annual
New York City Reception
Thursday October 22, 2009
Unwind at the end of the day, catch
up with Harvey alumni and teachers,
enjoy good food and music.
What better way to end the day
than relaxing and visiting! For all
those who attended last year, bring
an alum or two who weren’t there.
Spread the word.
Fall Activities Day
Saturday October 31, 2009
Alumni are invited to Harvey to
enjoy varsity football and soccer
games, a cookout on the field,
Harvey items from the Spirit Store,
and hopefully a lovely fall day.
November 2009
In November, we will conduct a
friend-a-thon/phon-a-thon.
Anyone willing to make calls to
alumni should contact the Alumni
Office. If you are on the receiving
end of a call, please share some of
your recent travels, family events,
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work activities or even some
Harvey stories with the caller. We
hope to reconnect with many more
of you.
Regional Receptions 2010
We are exploring other areas which
have a large concentration of alumni
for receptions. Possible locations
are the Boston or Washington areas,
and California. Please contact the
Alumni Office if you are interested
or willing to help with a reception.
Alumni Reunion
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Classes with graduation years ending
in ‘0’ and ‘5’ will celebrate their
class reunions. More Hall of Fame
nominees will be honored. Come
remember, reminisce and relive
Harvey days.
Alumni Association
Young Alumni Group
Stephanie Glickman ’02 has agreed
to work with the classes from the
late 1990s through the out-of-college
alumni. Anyone with ideas for
activities for these recent alumni
should contact Stephanie at
sglickman06@yahoo.com.
The Alumni Executive Council
Anyone who wishes to participate in
four annual meetings to help plan
alumni activities, please contact Dan
Chapman ’73 or the Alumni Office
(dkchapman@earthlink.net or
alumni@harveyschool.org)
Alumni Website
http://alumni.harveyschool.org
The alumni website has nearly 800
alumni registered. This is the easiest
and fastest way to find out about
school or alumni events and to contact
classmates. The information
you enter here is not your official
alumni record; these are maintained
in a database on servers at Harvey.
The Alumni Office tries to keep
changes you make to the website
updated in our official records, but
your help is appreciated in sending
us changes as well.
Some of the benefits of using the
website include:
Online Donations and
Payments!
Receive notification whenever
someone in your group posts
changes.
Update your contact
information
Register for Events
Post Notes to Your Class Page
Read the latest edition of the
Alumni News
Select LINKS from the web site
home page and then click on the
edition of the Alumni News that
you wish to see.
Alumni Groups on Facebook
and LinkedIn
For those alumni using the social
networking websites, take a look at
Facebook and LinkedIn. Both have
Harvey Alumni groups which you
can join. These provide another way
to find lost classmates and reconnect
with them or the school.

Harvey is not responsible for the
content on either of these. On
Facebook, there are also groups for
some of the individual classes.
Discussion resulted after our last
publication of the use of any information
coming from Facebook
pages or any of the other social networking
sites. We always try to
ensure that all information is
appropriate and accurate, and never
intend to include anything that
� Alumni Reunion Day
Help plan and coordinate the
Alumni Reunion in the spring.
� New class agents
Find new class agents for each
year or group of years.
� Communication with
class agents
Follow up with class agents,
identifying problems they may
have in contacting classmates;
get them to send in updates for
the Alumni News, etc.
� Young alumni interests
Determine what would attract
and interest the young alumni.
Possibilities include off-site
gather ings, more athletic
would be objectionable to the individual
or the reader. If this does
occur, we sincerely apologize. Every
effort is made to offer interesting
information about our alumni.
Alumni Help Needed!
In future editions of the Alumni
News, we would like to have features
about alumni in various fields
– entertainment, education, environment,
whatever. In order to do
Volunteers Needed
events, and activities other than
the spring Reunion, which
alumni in college would miss.
� Regional gatherings
Help plan selected regional
gatherings or host one in your
area.
� Alumni guest speakers
Find alumni to speak at
School assemblies or for particular
subject-matter groups.
� Career Day
Determine fields of interest
and contact alumni about
speaking.
this, we need better information
about the fields in which our alumni
are involved. Please help us
update our records.
Send current employment information
and email address to the alumni
office, either using the postagepaid
business reply envelope
attached to the Alumni News, or
email to alumni@harveyschool.org.
� Mentoring program
Match alumni with students
having interests in a particular
field.
� Founders’ Day participation
Speak about early years of the
School at Founders’ Day held
in February.
� Alumni feature articles
Find alumni willing to contribute
articles of interest for
the Alumni News or contribute
one yourself.
� Alumni fundraising
Participate in a phonathon for
the alumni or help with other
fundraising events.
If you are willing to help with any of the above activities, or have ideas of other ways alumni may participate with
the School, please contact Dan Chapman or Sally Breckenridge: dkchapman@earthlink.net, alumni@harveyschool.org
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Updates from the Spring
2009 Alumni News.
Several alumni contacted us to
identify the people in the photos on
page 8.
Jerome DuVivier Gary ’61 is shown
with Lev Smith in the second and
fourth photos.
Teachers in the photo, from left to
right: John Shea, Mitchell Lyon,
Ruth Howes, Lev Smith, Eleanor
Smith, unknown woman in the
front.
Boys on bench: David and Gordy
Coburn tentatively identified, from
left to right: Colin Case ’63, Otis
Glazebrook ’63, Tony Madigan ’62
or John Detweiler ’64.
The first two were alternatively
identified as Theodore Congdon
’65, then Marty Williams ’65.
Photos on pages 31 and 32 were
incorrectly labeled.
Page 31 was David Middleton ’34,
and page 32 was John B. McKeon ’62.
LOST Alumni and
Former Students
1930
George D. Lawrence
David E. Sanderson (1927)
Bennett E. Tousley, Jr. (1926)
Charles K. Waldron, (1928)
Louis F. Washburne, Jr. (1928)
Edward Y. Woodward (1926)
1935
George M. Baekeland
Alfred L. Gregory
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William M. Mansbach
Joseph D. O’Sullivan
1940
John V. Brown (1937)
Douglas A. Dewar (1939)
Peter L. Hays (1939)
Kellogg Roth (1937)
John N. Snider, Jr.
1945
Julian H. A. MacKintosh (1944)
Erick G. Matthews (1943)
Alisdair Murray (1941)
Philip Pestalozzi (1942)
1950
Jean-Louis R. de Gunzburg (1948)
Joseph N. Fabrizio, Jr.
Michael Owens (1949)
1955
Carlos E. Cardenas y Janinet
John C. Carney, Jr. (1954)
1960
Antonio P. Benitoa (1959)
Colin Campbell (1954)
John D. Charlesworth
Edward R. Kattaneh (1958)
Robert J. Parker
1965
Gustavo Gomez-Ruiz (1964)
R. S. Mueller, Jr.
John R. Wallace, Jr. (1964)
1970
Robert B. Firestone
Peter C. Hodgins
Thomas M. Hughes
William P. Hutchings
Nicholas W. Landa
William M. Richmond
1975
John B. Day
William R. Johnson III
Jon M. McBride (1973)
Stephen G. Young
1980
Benjamin Khoudari (1977)
Jonathan A. W. Raven (1978)
1985
Roland A. Asp
Mark S. H. Drewery (1981)
Anthony D. Green (1981)
Kenneth C. Hadad
Michah N. Mites (1981)
Nina Montgomery
Daniel Nehorai (1982)
Michael W. Park (1979)
John P. White III (1981)
Michael G. Wilson (1981)
1990
Matthias Bierbrauer (1988)
Scarp M. Home (1987)
Jessica H. McAllister
Ari B. Schenker
Joel V. Thomas (1987)
Daryl L. Young
1995
James P. Palamara
2000
Misha Ryklin
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